THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1920.
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE
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NO HOPE
When grandma's minister decreed
The minuet a revel,
Which, if persisted in, would lead
Directly to the devil,
ethougrh sh hastened to obey,
Her" feet she didn't fetter;
She knew that waltzing would display
Her ankles better.
When mother's parson aired the view
That hugging and embracing,
Which those who waltz are prone to do,
Is utterly debasing,
She vowed that she would dance no more
A measure so besotting;
And, her decorum to restore,
She took to trotting.
When dominies of yesterday.
In phrases tense and torrid,
Denounced the trot as too risque,
And trotting folk so horrid,
And solemn resolutions drew
; With horrified whereasing,
Girls saw that trotting wouldn't do,
And fell to jazzing.
And though the jazz may be a crime
(As moral persons view it),
We know until the end of time
The modern maid will do it.
For while we look on her askance,
We know no way to stop 'er,
Because we cannot find a dance
That's more improper.
) LISTEN TO IT
If money talks, this is going to be a garrulous campaign.
AS LENIN HAS DISCOVERED
Poland appears to be a buffer state in a rebuffer state.
PROUD ACHIEVEMENT
Our merchant rnarine is developing. It can now carry about a
quarter of our own freight tonnage. - t
(Copyright, 1929, By The Bill Syndicate, Inc.) I
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CHAPTER VII. ;
A Neat Houaekeeper.
Rusty Wren's wife was a very
neat housekeeper. Every day she
carefully cleaned her house, chirping
ivhile she worked. Sometimes her
voice was sweet and pleasant But
at other times though it was still
sweet it was not pleasant at all.
And whenever Rusty heard that
second kind of chirp he was always
careful to find some errand that
took him away from home.
You "see, Rusty W ren was not so
orderly as his wife. Often he scat
tered things about the house in a
very careless fashion. For instance,
if he happened to notice a bit of
moss or a burr-clinging to his
coat, just as likely as not, he would
brush it off and let it fall upon the
"I declare," she said. "I believe
you've been smoking."
floor. And when Mrs. Kusty found
anything like thai in her cottage,
she always knew how it came there.
Rusty sometimes remarked that it
was a good thing he didn't smoke.
"How would you like, it if I
dropped bits of tobacco, or ashes,
and maybe burnt matches for you
to pick up?" he asked his wife.
"You couldn't come inside my
house if you used tobacco," she al
ways replied. ; And she would get
quite excited at the mere thought of
such an untidy habit.
And then Rusty would smile but
he always took good care not to let
his wife see him.
"Don't worry!" he would say, if
she became too stirred up. "I've
never smoked yet and I never ex
pect to."
One can see that Rusty Wren was
somewhat of a tease. And as it us
. ually happens with people who
amuse themselves at the expense of
others, there came a time- when
Rusty's teasing landed htm in trou
ble. One day after he had come home
from an excursion to the pasture
(he seldom strayed so far from
home as that!), Mrs. Rusty began
sniffing the air. Her nose would
have wrinkled only 'it couldn't, be
cause it was so hard. She looked at
her husband suspiciously. And it
seemed to her that he had a guilty
manner. ......
"I declare," she said, I believe
you've been smoking." And she
started to scold so angrily that
Rusty Wren knew she must be in a
Cini, ctcni nf trouble. Rustv De
em to fidget. And he moved about
' so uneasily that his wife was all the
surer of his aruilt. She stopped right
idrlle of her scolding: to
say. "I smell smoke!" .
, perhaps you do Rusty, admit
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ALREADY
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ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
ted. "But it's certainly not tobacco
smoke."
"Ah!" she exclaimed. "Then
you've been smoking corn-silk, or
hayseed and that's almost as bad."
But Rusty said that it must be
the smoke of a pine stump that she
noticed.
"Farmer Green is burning some
old stumps in the pasture," he ex
plained. "And I flew through a
cloud of it."
Just then he happened to notice a
bit of something or other clinging
to one of his tail feathers. And
though his wife was looking straight
at him. he flicked the tiny scrap
upon the floor, without thinking
what he was doing.
"There you go again!" Mrs.
Rusty When cried. "Here I've just
finished cleaning the house and
you're littering it all up! You don't
care how much work you make for
me." And she pounced upon ' the
brownish bit, intending to pick it
up and throw it out of the house.
Rusty had already decided that he
had better go away from home for
a little while, until things were
pleasanter, when his wife suddenly
faced about and fixed him with her
glittering eyes.
"Ha!" she cried, holding up the
scrap in her bill for him to see. "To
bacco!" she screamed. "And what,
pray, have you to say to me now?"
(Copyright, drosset & Dunlap.)
WHY?-
Why Do Objects at a Distance
Appear Smaller?
(Copyright, 1 920. by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
Examination of the structure
of the eye shows that the lens
the part through which we see
is convex in shape,, thus bend
ng the rays of light from all sides
inward toward a central point.
As a result, the lines of sight
which start Irom the small image
of the object made by tht eye
lines of the retina, passing through
the setral or "nodal" point, must
continuously diverge as they ap
proach the real object, and this
diversion naturally becomes
greater with increased distances.
If our eyes were constructed
without these convex lenses, and
the rays of light touched the ret
ina in parallel instead of converg
ig or diverging lines, the appar
ent size of an object would not
be altered by distance and we
could not see all of any object
which was larger than the di
ameter of the pupil of the eye.
Our eyes would furnish us with
no basis for judging distance,
and we would be conscious of
nothing about us except circular
patches of varying colors and
Drightncss. which v ' would have
to join together in order to un
derstand the color and form of
the world.
With our convex lenses, how
fver, a small circle, held some
two feet from the eye, appears
to be of the same size as the
moon, which is 2,160 miles in
iameter, and our forefinger, when
held close to the face, is appar
ently as tall as the Washigton
monument.
Tomorrow Why is a portion of
the fall known as lidian summer?
A species of spider in Ceylon
spins webs five feet in diameter and
with supporting lines 10 or more
I feet long, strotg enough to -trap
Service
First !
' at the
Union Stock
Yards Co.
of Omaha
The Live Stock
Market of
Good Results.
10 years.
put !. M4t'i amaie
Swartz Light
Guaranteed 5 years.
Thew & Carley, Inc.
OMAHA, U. S. A.
"Service and Satisfaction"
HARD COAL
ALL SIZES
GENUINE BERMCE
OZARK LUMP
; ( Semi-Anthracite). :
BOYER-lfAN If U RAN
LUMBER i "COAL CO
v,
CALL COLFAX 80 FOR PRICES
ORTMAN'S
New England Bakery
214 No. 16th
Branches at Central Market, Hayden
Bros, and - Table Supply. ' '
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THE AUTO TOP AND
TRIMMING CO., lac.
"Better Work"
Perfect Tailored Seat Cover and
v "Topi.' ,
420-22 So. 13th St Omaha, Neb.
Douglas 7114.
BEMIS BRO.
BAG CO.
of Omaha
"motor"
TRUCKS
""ejBBlO
'TWERE ' is not a drop ' of water m
International Harvester common and
preferred stock. Financial authorities
will tell you there is mere thati a dol
lar of value in International Harvester
properties for e"ery dollar of1 capital
ization, i
rpHAT means that the products nf
International Harvester factories do
not have- to provide a single dollar of
excess revenue. It means that in the
priae of International Motor Trucks
there is not one penny of inflated
value.
The International
Harvester Company of
' America
Omaha Branch: , 714-718 So. 10th St.
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WELDED
OIL STORAGE TANKS
HORIZONTAL er VERTICAL
Capacities 2,000 to 20,000 Gallons
Shipment 10 Dsya,
Writs er Wire Ut Your Orseri.
NEBRASKA end IOWA STEEL
TANK CO.
I3N Wlllli Ave.. Omtha.
Everything for the Office
We engrave visiting cards, wedding
invitations and announcements
The Ojnaha Stationery Co.
;'. 307-309 So. 17th St.
Phena Douglas SOS.
Higgins Packing
Co., Inc. ,
36th and L Streets
Beef and Pork Products, Butter,
Eggs, Poultry and Cheese
Sausage of 4.11 Kinds.
Our Motto
' "Quality and Service"
U. S. Gov. Imp. Abbt. 64J.
Phones: So. 4995 Tyler 4467 ,
Chiropractic
Makes You
Well
Keeps You
Well
LEE W.
EDWARDS
CHIROPRACTOR
24th and Farnam Sts.
... . Douglas 3445.
Omaha Printing Co.
: OMAHA, U. S. A.
GLASS,
MIRRORS,
PAINT
; PITTSBURGH
PLATE ' GLASS CO.
11th and Howard Sts.
BUEHLER BROS.
. , , MARKETS
Special oa Quality Meats and Provision
-. t FOUR (STORES:
32 No',. 16th St. 4903 So. 24tb
i-vQ - '2408 Cuming St.
' V 634 Broadway, Council Bluffs
Carter She Metal Co.
J 3 th and Grace.
THJE HANDY PIG TROUGH
Wm. F. Roesigg
OMAHA'S RELIABLE AUTOMOBILE
PAINTER.
CADILLAC BUILDING
2S70 Farnam St. Harney 1448.
I
Carbon Coal & Supply Co.
WHOLESALE COAL
190S HARNEY ST.,
Grain' Exchange Bldg.
'- OMAHANEB.
PAXTON - MITCHELL
f COMPANY
l' Manufacturers of Brass, Bronte and
Aluminum Castings.
A specialty made of soft Gray Iron
Castings.
I -,
Carpenter Paper Co.
Wholesale Distributors
PRINTING PAPER, WRAPPING
PAPER, PAPER BAGS, BUILD.
ING PAPER,. FANCY
STATIONERY.
Wear Kryptok Qmlmsk the perfect tnrHlble U-focaL
DR. L. i, LARSEN, Reilitersd Oetlclss.
Thlrjeea Xrars' Experience.
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What "Made in Omaha" Means
' By PAUL GREER.
Time was when a traveling salesman could come
into a Nebraska town, say "I'm representing an eastern
firm," and be sure of a profitable sale. ,
That has changed is changing more every year.
Omaha is developing factories of its own to supply
the mddile west. Their output this year will reach a
total value of half a billion dollars. In five years
Omaha's manufactures have doubled. '
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Western-made goods signify good workmanship
and solid quality that too often is lacking in the products
of the eastern factory districts. Business men explain
it in this way :
Sweatshop goods are almost invariably bound to
,vi shoddy. Made in poorly lighted, crowded loft
buildings, good workmanship is scarcely to be expected.
Where men and women are ill paid, discontented
and go their daily round from dingy workshops to
barracks-like tenements, with nothing to lighten their
lives, they cannot put their best into their work.
"You can't get efficient work out of people that
are not efficiently housed," is the way one of the big
gest manufacturers in Omaha views, this situation. "The
incentive is lacking, and they haven't even the energy,
let alone the will, for first class craftsmanship."
Here in Omaha the welfare of the men and women
who do the work is one of the first considerations. That
is one big reason why western-made goods are quoted
better than those of the east. Therein, too, may be
found the explanation why Omaha-made shirts are sold
in Chicago and New York, and Omaha working clothes
throughout the east. Did you know that one of the big
packing houses has given the contract for working
clothes used in its plants all over the world to an Omaha
factory?
Workers in Omaha manufacturing plants as a rule
are better paid than those in similar occupations of the
east. Their surroundings, both at work and at homp
are higher class. There are no sweatshops, the hours
are short, and the output has that moral force behind it
that can be obtained in no other way. '
There are other advantages that serve for the up
building of the manufacturing business in Omaha. Out
here we understand the western needs. The man who
tried to sell Palm Beach suits to Eskimos was not more
misguided than some easterners who try to produce for
the markets of the middle west without the closeup
view of our requirements. Taking it by and large, the
east makes goods to meet prices to see how cheap an
article can be turned out. Invthe west the question is
one of quality we see how good it can be made.
One of the things that makes for the excellence of
Omaha-made products comes through the tendencyof
jobbers to turn to manufacturing articles of their own.
One of these wholesale houses will start selling some
thing made elsewhere, learns the demand for it, and
then perceives that it can turn out the article itself and
be assured of standard quality and prompt delivery.
This is the beginning of many a local factory. We see
this in the grocery jobbing warehouses that now put up
their own spices, pickles, flavoring extracts, blueing,
and are considering refining their ori syrups, from Ne
braska corn. Several thousand girls and women are
employed in the needle trades at, good wages by dry
goods jobbing houses and other plants making such
things as overalls jackets, work pants, shirts, bags,
tents and awnings.
Omaha is unquestionably destined to become a
great manufacting district. Our people are more effi
cient, for one thing. Then, also, wTe have surrounding
. us the great areas of production. The raw material is
at our doors. Already one alfalfa mill here is doing
$5,000,000 worth of business a year selling its feed all
over America. Starch, Ibreakfast food, flour, syrup,
butter, meat, macaroni these are only a few of the
multitude of products that naturally will center, here.
y. h. AHMANSON, Pres.
W. I- Wilcox. V. Pres. i WJ James E. Foster. SeoTress.
W. A. Smith, V. Pres.
Flue Ym
Tyler 5188
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IIIIMIA
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-'Mill ,
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Omaha .
Council Bluffs
Street Railway
Company
If , Merrick E. Lease, Agey. Supt.
MSSH
Co.
Barker Block
MADE
IN
OMAHA
wmsam
6,000
:) MILES
Guarantee
tlllllfllSD'
Cornhusker Tires
NEBRASKA TIRE &
RUBBER CO.
3167 SPAULD1NG
Eat
Purity
Sausage
Purity Provision Co.
2424 Q St. South 2404
GASOLINE SAVER
All kinds of flavoring extracts.
HOLCOMB FOOD CHEMICAL
PRODUCTS CO.
91S No. 16th Tyler 4964
PHONE TYLER 44
WALNUT 326
Geo. A. Roberts
Grain Co.
Receiver and Shippers
GRAIN HAY
( SEDS
Consignments a Specialty '
230-31-32-33-34 Grain Exchange
, Omaha, Neb.
'ftfjfta Agra,
f&" fi
EFFECTVE EFFICIENT
OIL AND COMPRESSION TIGHT
GILL PISTON RING CO.,
1923 Farnam St.
American State Bank
18th and Farnam
SOLICITS YOUR BANKING
BUSINESS
Phone Tyler 80
Whistle Bottling Co.
Tel. Web. 2131
RADIATORS
and Radiator Cores for Automobiles,
Trucks and Tractors
MADE AND REPAIRED
Send your radiator by express. Guar
anteed work, prompt service and rea
sonable charges.
OMAHA AUTO RADIATOR MFG. CO.,
1619-21 Cumins St. OMAHA.
SCREENS 'AND CABINET
WORK
Residence- Phone Walnut 4633.
Business Phone Tyler 1632.
A. C. LESSARD & SON
Remodeling and Building
Contractora.
2021 Cuming St.
JOHN DEERE PLOW CO.
Agricultural Implement
Jobbers
Sioux Falls Sidney Omaha
RALPH DeLONG
Common Brick
Yard on C. B. & Q. R. R
312 KARBACH BLOCK
Tyler 4348.
Attention Mr. Aufomobile Owner
We overhaul your car, rebore the cylinders, make piston and rings tr any
parts you might need.
P. Melchiors & Son Machine Works
417 South 13th St. ,
General Automobile, Machine sad Blacksmith Repair Work.
TRADE mV'
MARK f
"BUSINESS IS COOP THANK
Nicholas Gasolenes
Give
POWER
LV. Nicholas Oil Company
UI-!l-144:nilh4.!:.llJI'jmilJJ
W-VHiWIJa-lnanK-
"Little Red Wagons"
Grading Contractors' Equipment
TRACTORS
STROUD & CO.
Colfax 2996.
20:h and Ames Ave.
KOPAC BROTHERS
Automotive and Shop Equipment
Holt Caterpillar Tractors
Tires and Trucks
Wholesale Branch Norfolk. Neb.
Main Office Omaha. Neb.
Norfolk David City Columbus
Schuyler, Neb.
Not only Lumber, but Millwork, Hard
ware and Paint.
WE PAY THE FREIGHT.
C. Hafer Lumber
Company
135 W. Broadway
Council Bluffs, la.
Distributors of Quality.
ELECTRICAL
MERCHANDISE
and Supplies. J
Omaha Sioux City
"Omaha Liberty Fire
the Height of
Perfection"
"You SHARE IN THE PROFITS
while having PROTECTION."
OLD LINE STOCK COMPANY
Paid In Cash Capital. .$200,000
Surplus Paid in Cash.. 200,000
Remember it costs no more
to insure your property in
OMAHA LIBERTY than in any
other responsible company and
you share in the profits.
Insurance against lost by rtre,
lightning and tornado. Auto
mobile and hail insurance.
Home Office: 1817 Douglas St.
Phone Tyler 2621.
FAIRBANKS MORSE
&CO.
OIL ELECTRICAL
ENGINES MACHINERY
FARM ENGINES SUPPLIES
WIND MILLS
FAIRBANKS SCALES
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The
HUGH MURPHY
Construction Co.
PAVING CONTRACTORS
D. 834. 206 Karbach Bid.
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