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AUTOMOBILE AND
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VOL. XLIX NO. 46.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 2, . 1920.
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GETTING CASH
OH CHECK IN
BERLIN SOME
100 now DAYS
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Yards and Yards of Red Tape
Must Be Untangled Before
' Securing Money, Due
. To Exchange.
t By PARKE BROWN. '
Chiracs Tribuns Forelfa News fiervlcs.
Berlin,. My 1. An American
with money in his pocket can find all
sorts of amusement high, low or
very low in Berlin. But even if
he hasn't a coin or a bit ofaper
currency in his jeans hc.Il have
plenty of amusement if lie has on him
a check on a bank in, say, Paris for
example, which he wishes to cash.
.' That little strip of . paper entitles
fm to a seat if they aren't all oc
cupied, as they usually are in the
"Haupt Kasse at one of the city's
immense financial restitutions. Prob
ably it sends him to the Deutsche
hank, which is scattered in three or
fcur story buildings in three differ
ent blocks. So the first part of his
amusement conies In finding the
right address and then the right
room. -
j$y- Much Red Tape.
I'lBut' once, there it seems that his
check ought to give him a chance
r. something more than a place on
bench. Ordinary courtesy to a
visitor Who has come for a stay such
as his'ccms to call for his being
given ah opportunity to take a nap
or" cai a bite of lunch. Certainly some
of the old deck ' chairs from the
former German liners could be rented
easi'y liere and a restaurant would
make a fortune. V
If one has the entree to (teTtain
Berlin offices he can obtain an "aus
weis" that will entitle him to ride
on the "fast train" to Paris. He will
reach the French capital within
thirty-six hours. But can bank com
munications travel that fast? Not
by a long shot. ,'
' Get Quick Return. -'
An 'American serving an indeter
minate, sentence of residence in Ber
tih knew that a check dated March
1 shouldn't be presented for payment
before March IS. But allowing even
a few more days as a margin of
safety, his visit to the bank was a
fcpieedy disillusionment. In a few
minutes less than an hour and a half
he was notified that the "avis" had
hot arrived from Paris.
Two 'days later he had a similar
experience. 'and so on March 27 he
decided to reach the bank with the
clerks tn the morning in an effort
to beat the record. He did. With
the reverse English. For one hour
his amusement consisted in watch
ing the arrival of Japs. Poles, Dutch,
Tchecbs, Chinese, Russians, Rou
manians with a German now or
then and their efforts to fathom the
mystery of what had become of the
cheeks in exchange for which they
had been given numbered slips of
paper. . - s
77 Slow On Work!
. Ftr the second hour he watched
daschund trying to capture the
rftriif head on the fox fur lying in
tM lip of an old lady who occasion
ally aaeoied. But that grew tire
otm and he came to the chief num
ber OB the program arranged for
ltta, nrasement This consisted of
Stationing bank 'employes about
at ? anrthological creature, "Ger
Ma efficiency."
''What does this big bank do with
eheckr
. "Ach, it passes through many
funds. All examine it closely."
"Do they use a microscope?"
. "Certainly, when there is some
IMng different about the check."
"Is my check down here in this
toon now?"
- "Probably not. Probably it is up
stairs. When the avis isn't down
here, then the check goes upstairs.
Upstairs' lasts maybe five-quarters
of an hour.".
"But what about these clerks on
the other side of the room. They
don't seem to be busy."
f . , Exchange Is "Shot"
"They don't work. They're put
there because there isn't much work
there. Then they don't make the
others go slower. They re threaten
ing tv strike.
And so on. until 12.50 10 min
utes before closing time and then,
with just about his fill of this sort
of amusement, the American heard
his name called. The clerk told him
the rate of exchange was 680.20, or
620.80, or something like that, marks
for each 100 francs.
"Now, how much have you coming
to you?"
' The American said he couldn't
figure it out in his head, that he
was too hungry to multiply it out
with paper and pencil, and anyway
he had such confidence in the
thoroughness displayed by the bank
that he would accept its figures.
r This immediately aroused suspicion.
But after a conference he was hand
ed several bales of wallpaper
samples and allowed to depart with
a feeling that he would be called
back before he escaped to the street.
Shark Skin Shoes May .
Cut Footwear Prices
St Louis, Mo.,"May 1. Shoes of
shark skin may be the long-sought
or panacea for the high cost of
footwear evil, according to papers
) read at the national convention of
tne American mcmicai society nere.
The papers revealed the results of
expenmens by various expert cheflti-
ists to nna suDsmur.es ior leayier.
Shark skin was one of many fish
skins experimented with, according
to the scientists, it was found that
a leather similar to hides ofeattle
and other animals could be produced
through certain chemical processes.
Pacifiq School Leads in Cosmopolitanism in Omaha, Melting
Pot of West; Children of Fourteen Countries Erase Hyphens
Pupils of Foreign Born
Parentage Total 85
Per Cent.
When teachers of Pacific school,
Eleventh and Pacific streets, look
over their enrollment lists of pupils
they have difficulty in finding a
purely American name of the "old
stock."
There are long columns of Abiaz
zia, Bonitellos, Erkowitzas, Ghinel
lis, Straubs, Roscovitzes, Diazes and
Yantus, but the old familiar Brown,
Smith, Jones, etc., fail to appear.
The tide of immigrants flowing
westward within recent years has
made Omaha one of the nation's big
gest and busies'f-"melting pots."
Erasing the Hyphen.
Upon the city's public schools has
developed the duty of erasing the
hyphen for thousands of children of
foreign born parents and turning
them into full fledged Americans of
the second generation.
Varied nationalities and European
and Eurasian types are heavily rep
resented in a dozen Omaha schools,
but Pacific school has a percentage
that makes it the leader in cosmo
politanism., ' j
A recent check of the school's to
tal enrollment of 460 showed Mrs.
Martha Campbell, principal, that 390,
or 85 per cent of her pupils were of
foreign born parentage.
Fourteen Different'Nations.
At present these pupils represent
14 different nationalities. There are
Bohemians, Poles, French, Rouman
ians, Italians, Greeks, Syrians, Ger
mans, Russians, Danes, Irish, Scotch,
Mexicans and Czecho-SIovaks.
At times the school enrollment has
included also children of Chinese,
Spanish, Gypsy and ' Brazilian par
ents. "But don't think for a minute our
school is anything but a real Ameri
can school," Mrs. Campbell warns.
Children Thorough Americans.
"The children come from homes
representing a Babel of tongues, but
English is the only language heard
inside the school building. The
children take care of that. ,
"They want the world to know
they are Americans. They play
American vames. .insist on wearing
thorouehlv American clothes and
from their general appearance and
actions you'd never guess their for
eign bom parentage."
To most of these boys and girls
the scattered nations from which
their parents came mean only an
indefinite 'somewhere, Mrs.' Camp
bell says. The yourfger pupils re
fer to it vaguely as "the old coun-
try." . . .. ,
Are More u.ntnusea. 1
"The'y are ambitious and ' hard
workers." Mrs. Campbell reports.
"The general average of their work
is often higher than that in scnoois
composed largely of children of
American born parents."
"They are better spellers than the
average child of American parents,"
asserts Miss Irene , Underwood,
seventh grade teacher at the school,
who has worked with both classes
of children.
"I find them more artistic and in
a general way more enthused with
school work."
Diamond Too Big to
Sell Shown In London
London", May 1. The Tiger's Eye,
the largest of diamonds except the
Kohinoor, is on exhibition here. It
weighs 615-j carats and is worth
$150,000. It is of golden amber
hue. Experts declare it to be a per
fect specimen. v .:
It was found by Captain Thomas
Leach, a British army officer, in
South Africa. It is so large that
the owner has found it to be un
salable. He derives reveliue from it
by placing it on exhibition. -
Child Finds Skeleton .
On Randall's Bay Shore
Freeport, L. I., May 1. A small
skull, with parts of a spine and thigh,
were discovered in the sand on the
shore of Randall's bay, near here, by
a child of Henry Bortkamp, of No.
24 West Side avenue. He buried the
bones nearby, but decided he had
better notify the police; The bones
were later dug up. It is believed
the bones may be those of a body
washed up by tlie waves.
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Refugees Flock to
and Food
Is Becoming Scarce
Lnmea
'Theodosia, Crimea, May 1. With
thousands of Russian refugees
crowding into the Crimea, the little
town of Theodosia, where the
American Red Cross has established
its relief headquarters for South
Russia, has become The busiest port
on the Black Sea."
Concentrating on the task of get
ting the fleeing Russians, many of
whom have travelled on foot from
points as far away as Petrograd. to
places of safety, the United States
Near East squadron has made Theo
dosia a regular port of call and is
sending every available cargo boat
and war vessel here -to transport the
distracted refugees to Constantino
ple, whence they are routed to va
rious refuge points established by
the Red Cross in Asia Minor and
the Balkan Peninsular.
y The situation in the,, Crimea is
fast growing desperate. The hordes
of refugees have reached here utter
ly destitute. Hundreds are infected
with spotted typhus. All are half
starved and the- food supplies short
ly will be inadequate unless thou
sands seeking relief can be taken to
places nearer the base of supply. It
is hoped that the efforts of the
United States naval authorities, as
sisted by the French and British,
will succeed in' averting the im
pending famine which threatens the
jives of the multitude of exiles seek
ing escape through the only outlet
now left in South Russia. -
Appendicitis Attacks
Sisters On Same Day
Corning, N. Y., May .1. Two at-
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Complete Stock of Quality Accessories
Now in Our New Location
Dillon Lens, per pair. . . $3.75
Blue Books ..... . ......... .-. -..$3.00
A. C. Titan Spark Plug t .......... ..90
Hassler Shock Absorbers, installed. . . . . . . . . .$20.00
Sedan Flower Vase .$2.75
Kimball Ball Bearing Jack . . .$5.50
Tire Covers (heavy duck with double white stripe),
at $2.75, $3.15
Spotlights $4.25, $9.00
Goodyear Tires Marathon Cord Tires
VeedolOil
Troup Auto Supply Co.
2027-29 FARNAM ST.
Sl. Anne Prenosil. daughter Mr. and Mrs. Tohn Prenosil. 1242 1-2 South Twelfth street (Bohemians:) -
2. Israel Bercovici, son of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Bercovici, 1103 Farnam street (Roumanians.) .,
3. Frank Parmenter, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Parmenter, 1109 South Tenth street. His . father is of
French birth and his mother from Ireland. - - -, : , '
4. Julia Bogdon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Bogdon, 9 12 Pierce street (Poles.)
5. William Cotch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Cotch, ",1413 William street (Cecho-Slovaks.)
6. Helen Dopita, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Redmand, 1117 South Tenth, street. Her father was an Aus-
tro-Hungaria.n '
7. Paublo Dias, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dias, 1112 South Eighth street (Mexicans.)
8. Esther Ring, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ring, 1 126 South Fourteenth street. (Ail-American.)
9. Clayton Carlson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Carlson, 1217 South Fourth street. (Danes.)
10. Marie Straub, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Straub, 517 Pierce street. Her father hails from Ger
many. Her mother was born in Ireland.
11. Chester Bozak, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bozak, 611 Martha street. His father is a Pole, his mother
German. , , .
12. Josephine Ferris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ferris, 1203 Pierce street. (Syrians.)
13. Manuel H. Jacko, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Jacko, 1117 South Fourteenth street. (Negroes.)
14. Charles Dinan,(son of Mrs. Marie Dinan, 825 Forest avenue. His father was from the Duld Sod.
15. Clarice Ghinille, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ghinille, 911 South Pierce street (French.) -
16. Jack Spencer, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Spencer, 1103 Pacific street. His father is Irish, his mother
Scotch.
17. Sam Bailen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bailen, 607 South Tenth street. His fathre is German, his
mother Kussian.
Girls Expelled from
" . ; School for Smoking
Aurora, III., May 1. Cigaret
smoking among girls of private
schools is getting to be quite a fad,
or, maybe, it is the sensation of the
news from the disclosures. Anyway,
one of four girls expelled from the
Jennings seminary,; a Methodist
deaconess school for young womert
here, for indulging in the weed habit,
in being the first to tell of the ex
pellings, said she wanted to see "a
snappy item" written of the inci
dent. She got it. School faculty
members said the girls were inspired
by colorful reports of the recent
smoking episode at Kemper Hall,
near Chicago.
ARAB MOVIE
FANS FAVOR
LOVE SCENES
TO BILL HART
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Although They Are Pictured
-As Roaming Nomads, Never
theless They Appreciate
Drawing Room Films.
By LARRY RUE.
Damascus. May 1. Believers h
Emerson's theory that the world is
a fifty-fifty proposition may picture
the Arab's idea of amusement as di
rectly converse to that of his anti
thesis, the male soda, bank, and dry
goods clerk. The orthodox will
learn that they are imagining reali
ties, a'
Movies testify that men whos
souls and lifework are wrapped up
in bolts of cloth yearn for the free
dom of the plains, the wide, un
trammelcd, stern and open life ol
the horse and rifle, where gunpow
der takes the place of police courts
and a bullet hole is proof of natural
death. Followers of the sedentary
professions go to the cinema to get
into action, and there ride at a dead
gallop with Hill Bart through five
reels of breathless excitement, shoot
ing. bad men, Indians, bears, train
robbers, roping cows, and, inci
dentally, saving Little Nell from the
bandits of Killing Gulch.
Like Love Films.
From this premise it is almost
tautology to continue in considering
the Arab and his choice in films.
Horn in the desert, brought up in
the saddle, fighting for a living, or
perhaps to .prevent some one else
this misery; regarding all conquered
persons as properly acquired slaves,
or at least a meal ticket that can be
'punched any time considering all
this, it is surprising how he reac'.s
to a theory evolved by a man who
never saw cu Arab. For, as any one
might guess, the Arab's idea of a"
riproaring film, full of heart throbs
and excitement shooting folks
bores him to death is one of those
glad institutions where blonde vir
tue skipping care-free over meadows
triumphs over drawing room in
trigues carried on by movements of
the eyebrows.
Damascus, being the oldest city in
the world, of course, has the oldest
cinema theater in the world and it
looks even older than that. Like
movie shows the world over, this
one runs true to form in being an
ideal olace for the census taker. No
matter if it hasn't " got stationary
chairs, it has virtues which shows
in America don't dream of having
fdr example, absolutely no fresh air
to endanger delicate health,' an at
mosphere so full of smoke -it isn't
at all necessary to light a cigaret to
get tne ettects; lurkish water pipes
served on request. Even the best
American movies haven't got Turk
ish water pipes. '
All Rub Elbows.
And in this theater sit publicans
and sinners, Bedouin chiefs, dignified
in golden splendor; just plain Arabs,
spitting on the floors; high govern
ment officials and men government
officials would like to know were
within reach of the police.
tacks of appendicitis and two opera
tions on two persons in one family
on the same day is extraordinary.
It happenedin this city when Mrs.
Stanley Gruver and her sister, Mrs.
Temple, were seized with' attacks of
appendicitis at about the same time.
They were taken to the hospital in
the same ambulance, where the Same
doctor performed the operations.
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Returns Home for Tobacco;
Finds Man There- Divorce
Springfield, 111., May 1. Louis
Solomon, at Springfield, forgot his
tobacco one night when he went to
work and came back home for it.
He found another man with his wife.
Now he has been granted a divorce.
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