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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1920)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 18, 1920. T D OPEN 'HOME FUND' CAMPAIGN WITH THRIFT PROGRAM Novel Savings Accounts to Be i Inaugurated in Omaha by Banks and Building Associations. ( At the suggestion of tne Omahai Thrift week committee, Omaha building and loan -associations and banks have agreed to open and main tain savings accounts to be known as "Home Fund", accounts. The intention is to have owners flf these accounts operate them spe cially for buying or building homes. "Home Fund" accounts may be opened Tuesday,' January 20, or any day thereafter. They will be inter est bearing, and will be maintained and operated just as any other savings account. ' "'Home' Fund' accounts will be the means through which hundreds of persons in Omaha will become home owners," says Dexter Buell, chairman of the Omaha Thrift com .mittee. "It is impossible to get J 'a home without an initial payment fund. The 'Home Fund' account will create this fund." Many Already Preparing. Members of the Thrift commit tee already know many persons who are preparing to open "Home Fund" accounts. , "Home Fund" accounts can be withdrawn under the same condi tions that govern any other savings account. There will be no rule requiriifg that the fund be used specifically for home buying or building, but it is believed that practically every person starting such an account, will Keep it going for the one purpose of building or buying a home. It's growth will be like the growth of a home, members-of the committee say. Home Fund" accounts may be i started with any sum from $1 up. Persons opening these accounts will receive pass books with the words "Home Fund" written on them. The accounts willbe carried on books of financial institutions as "Home Fund" accounts. Special Attention to Home Funds. In the financial institutions there will be special windows for "Home Fund" depositors. Printed cards and other notices will be put up, calling attention to this new form of , savings account. There will be a 6ount made of the number of "Home Fund" ac counts opened each week. No fig ures or names will be made public. The "Home Fund" account pro gram is entirely new. It has never been undertaken in any city in the United States. However, Byron R., Hasting., a member of the thrift committee, last week showed the plan to a group of business men meeting in Chicago. Several of them said they would in augurate it in their cities. Advertising for the "Home Fund" program will be done by varied in- "She's Forever Blowing Bubbles" V 2Zmmm limp - In these days of prohibition, new uses for water are being discovered every day. Dorothy Gish is shown above demonstrating an indoor sport that, it is said, has taken the place of cocktail-sipping in society circles this season. It is called "blowing bubbles," a handsome prize usually being awarded to the, person producing the largest and finest colored glo bule. The Astorbilts and Van Morgans are all "hitting the pipe" this year. Being the 'champion lady "bubble blower" of the Pacific coast, it's no wonder that Miss Gish is just bubbling over with pep in her new Para-mount-Artcraft picture, "Mary Ellen Comes to Town." "infests of Omaha interested in the project of getting more home own ers in Omaha. Names of those pay ing far the advertising will not be used because they want all the bene fit to go to the "Home Fund" idea. Would Make Statuettes From Ashes of Great Men London, Jan. 17. "The ashes of tHe great men ofi every nation shouldr after cremation, be used for making tiny statuettes of these men and they should be used in the na tional museum of the great dead." Such is the startling proposal of Dr. P. S. G. Dubash. By such a method every nation would come to have its Westminster Abbey and its Hall of Fame. Returns From Wedding to Find New Home in Ruins Boomer, W. Va., Jan. 17. Mr. and Mrs. . George Hemtnings, returning home from the church after their wedding, found only smoldering ruins. A gas explosion had occurred while they were in church, and the house, which had been fitted up by the groonj, and its contents were completely destroyed. , Pays $3,000 for Nine Kegs Of Missouri River Water St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 17. Al T. Hussar, a local saloonkeeper, paid $3,000 here the other day for nnie kegs of Missouri river water. According . to Hussar's story to the police, he bought the liquid from a stranger, but not until he had tested it and found it worth the money. However. Hussar "sampled" the "wet" goods through a rubber tube, one end of which was supposed to extend into each of the kegs in turn, and the "sampling" occurred in a dark, secret cellar. Hussar now holds the belief that the tube led to a flask in the stranger's pocket. No trace of the river water sales man has been found by the police. 837 Distinct Ballotings in Paterson Remain Deadlock Paterson, N. J., Jan. 17. Despite the fact that 837 ballots have been taken to elect a president of the board of fire and police commission ers here, the office is still vacant. Every sef of votes since the first of the year have been equally divided. NEWSPAPER MAN TELLS OF ONE DAY WITH IDLE RICH But Fails to See Any Time of The Day When His Wealthy Friend Has Nothing to Do. By G. GILBEY, Special Correopondrnt International ew Service and London Daily Express. London, Jan. 17. My short life has been spetit in searching for the "idle rich," but I have so far failed in my search. I thought I had dis covered a specimen the other day, and was delighted when he invited me to stay with him in the country. I studied his every movement, and, alas, discovered that, although he was rich, he was not idle. His day was made tip as follows: 8:30 A. M. Breakfast. 9- 10 A. M. Going into the ques tion of his income tax. 10- 11 A. M. Hearing why the butler can no longer remain in the same house as the cook. 11- 12 Midday Hearing why the cook can no longer remain in the same house as the butler. 12- 1 P. M. Further work on in come tax. 1- 2 P. M. Lunch. ' 2- 3 P. M. Settles the garden boys' strike. 3- 4 P. M. Is interviewed by a deputation from the stable boys, who are striking out of sympathy with the garden boys. 4- 5:30 Vicar comes to tea to dis cuss the organ fund. 5:30, P. M. Writes the vicar a check. ' 5:30J4 p. m. Vicar departs. 5:31 p. m. Telephone rings and he is told to hold on for London. 6:30 p. m. Gives up holding on and rings off. 6:31 p. m. Telephone rings. He is asked: "Did you ring?" 6:32 p. m. Returns to income tax. 6:33-7 p. m. Butler gives notice, explaining reasons for so doing. 7- 7:30 p. m. Cook gives notice, explaining no reason for so doing. 7:30-8 p. m. Dresses for dinner. 8- 9 p. m. Dinner. 9- 10 p. m. Income tax. 10- 11 p. m. Cook and butler re turn together to announce that they have made up their little difference of opinion and will remain on in his service. lip. m. Goes to bed. 11:30 p. m. Butler visits him to say that he and cook have decided to get married and they both give notice. 12 midnight-7:30 a. tn. Dreams of income tax, butler and cook. I returned to London on my motor-cycle. On the way I had a punc ture ... a crowd collected and watched my struggle for an hour . .' . but that, as Mr. Kipling say:, is another story. 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