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THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1920.
II V
Demo Committee
Til Stnto Vina UnA
J Taste in Mouth
Announcement by National
Headquarters That Party
Has Lost Nebraska Makes
Fund Raising Difficult.
Lincoln, Oct. 3. (Special.) The
niinouncement that the national dem
l ooratic committee has abandoned all
4 hopes of carrying Nebraska for the
presidential candidate of that party,
has not left a good taste in the po
litical mouth of the democratic state
committee which needs some funds
to help it keep up the semblance of
a light which it never had much
hopes of winning.
It is said that the "dope" put out
by the national committee will keep
a lot of dollars from coming into
the coffers of the state committee
because no man cared to contribute
to what in advance is acknowledged
to be a losing fight.
Scores Attempt to Mislead.
The attempt of the state commit
tee to mislead the voters of Nebras
ka by statements that the present
state administration is spending a lot
more money than did the previous
democratic administrations is pro
nounced by Chairman C A. Mc
t'ioud of the republican state com
mittee as unfair and misleading.
Mr. McCloud calls attention to the
fact that when the democrats were
in power in the state there was no
call for appropriations for the ex-
'j tensive road building program put
V-flr force by the present administra
tion. Neither was there an appro
priatiou for the building of a new
statehouse, nor was there a call for
many, more of needed activities
which democratic legislatures had
failed to put in force and which a
republican legislature had to assume
to meet the rapid advancement of
the slate.
Taxpayers Not, Fooled.
Attempts of the democratic "spell
binders" to make the people be-
jliove that it is costing the taxpayers
? of the state much more to conduct
affairs than it did two vears ago, are
not getting very far, tor the simple
t reason that every taxpayer knows
that it is costing him personally
twice as much to live as it did two
years ago. Under those conditions
he knows that it is costing the state
more to live. .
The hopes of the democrats that
the visit of Governor Cox would add
h Aest to the democratic campaign and
jfA'ii courage the faithful to renewed
jf iffort has not come to pass. In fact
it is apparent that the visit of the
democratic candidate to Nebraska
has not been an asset to the cam-v
paign of the state committee, but has
had a discouraging effect.
Financial
t hirago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
XT... Vm.1. nt tAc it is im-
possible to think of a prosperous
A f 4 Via rallrftlfl W it limit
lUUUiituil v ...... w
activity of industry, last week's
Tjf-. o rltri n r A ri railwaV Stacks
seemingly reiicctea a iorwaru-ioun-ing'
tendency of the markets, ex
tending into the period when busi
ness will be completely readjusted
to new influences. The factors hav
ing immediate application to manu
facturing company shares have now
become so well-defined that their
products in quotations stand fully
explained.
The speculators who were unwill
ing to accept the signs supplied in
the credit market last November
and in the merchandise market last
May, are witnessing the fulfillment
of indications then made apparent.
1 .'Industry has merely made more
speed during the last fortnight to
ward a normal situation of turnover
and profits than in the preceding
five months.
The price-cutting movements, the
reports of slackened output in va
rious directions, while exciting a
greater popular attention now than
earlier in the year, are, nevertheless,
only a phase of a broad develop-
" nient instituted long ago by overbur-
dened consumers.
Watch Price Cuts.
Whll the shrinkage of business and
--Vice. ha" sppsrently much of I ts course
7llll to run. yet It la primarily of import-,
Tmce in terms of the past. At e". t
Is the way the security markets label It.
The quotations of many to,c.ks,(halJ
rone far In thrtr declines of 20, 3", TO
joints or more from last year s maximum
figures In carrying market appraisals of
property below the Intrinsic value of the
roperty. While the outlook remains un
ertaln.lt Is uncertain to see how -,
Um : directly representing busln PnJ
. ft . i f 1 i 1
an appeal 10 purrnaa". , ,
rkon profit, and a . ""a'
return in icrniB wi 7 -
u ?Uon of the. today and va
riety has received a hard How In the
.l.cilne of the last six months, and the
b story of other markets has been that
Kntlment. thus smitten. 1. of recov
ery. But the railroad securities, although
closely related to the Industrials, stand
p aced In a setting quite MtML MH..
Containing potential power, of JJ""'
lrg improvement of Income, which means
an improvement of business and the traf
fic it supplies, the market has Jong been
referring to liquidation which carried
these Issues during the war. and later to
low level unknown In many years.
Greater Efficiency Shown.
Also 'it ha. become evident that rail
road managements have produced grea iter
efficiency in handling their p'0Dri'tJ
since March 1. last. The ftemen,wy
days ago by the Association of Ka"way
ftaJutWes that Improved car loading,
more rapid car movement, and a ""
Installation of "pep" In JSrd'f on
had brought result, equal to the
f 160.000 new cars since government con
trol ended, told a story of be""'
which should be translated oonr.I
later In economies of manufacturing and
distributing goods. The reawakened buy
ing of railroad stocks may be conslderea
is a harbinger of Improved business by
nN-obone may attempt to predict that a
rew "bull" market has been ;
The roads have yet to P'ov thV.?V2r
efficiency, higher freight and ?aent'
rates and a broadened market for their
ieVuHtfe. mean profit, applicable to sub
stantial dividend Payments, or a period
of new dividend. fo those "Jocks that
hnve long returned nothing. The market
has yet to decide what appraisal to put
5"nyraIlro.d stock, a. reflective of pro
spectlve earning, and speculative effort to
discount" events a year or two year,
ahead seem, likely to run afoul 1 of a credit
i situation that is not partial to specuations.
I Sharp Price Decline.
r What ar. "fair" PrIcT The public
f ci,t.d aome time ago that the going prices.
reV bP
m.deP hive not set the market going for-
Com
' The" pGbllo is lew ""V'lnod" I
p.oductlon than In the need f r "
s human to believe w en, J. nrt thift
that they will recede further end that
rnyln may profitably be put oft a
longer. Thle attitude U ,n
lng um-ertain the time when
t'landlee line which have been offered
down will reach, a paint ot stability. ,
Chicago Hotels
Make Price Cut
Secretary of City , Council
Committee on Living Costs
Satisfied With Meal.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Chicago, Oct. 3. When Russell
I. Poole, gpcretarv.nf the ritv mini.
cil II. C. of L. committee, dined at
tne Hotel i,a alle 10 days ago he
came away with a satisfied palate,
but there was a fcain in the vicinity
of his pocketbook.
Today Mr.' Poole lunched at the
hotel a?ain. Then he cmhhed a
menu card and hastened to the city
nan omce, where He compared it
with the card from ulii.li h hiA
ordered 10 days before.
"I thought that bill looked pecu
liar," he said. "I'm both financially
and castronomirallv sattcf iA with
that meal." "
A nersnal nf the two Killc ilmw.
ed numerous orice- nil nf from lfl
to 50 ner cent. Samnlec fr,llrtw
- -orn on tne cob, trom 40 to 20
cents.
New corn saute, from 60 to 20
cents.
Cucumber salad, from 60 to 35
cents.
Lobster salad, from $2 to $1.50.
Waxed beans, 30 to 15 cents.
Potatoes, haeheil
cents; baked, 30 to 20 cents; broiled,
ju to :u "cents; mashed, oO to 20
cents.
Milk, per glass, 30 to 20 cents.
Similar reductions wfre annarent
among the desserts, but no changes
were made in meat nriree Vrrj-
slashes have also been made in the
menu ot the Blackstone.
Kearney Power Co. Boosts
Rates on Own Authority
Kearney. Neb.. Oct. 3. fSoeciaU
The CentraV Power company, hav
ing failed two weeks asro to induce
the city commissioners to authorize
a 20 per cent increase in rates on
electricity, took the initiative by an
nouncing the new rate effective, re
troactive from September 1. Power
company officials expla'n their ac
tion by statins that the railway com
mission refused to act. The city
ommission contended it was power
less to alter rates and that litigation
through the supreme court would
involve loss of too much time. The
company decided to put the rate into
force and await results.
John P. Brcen Joins Staff
Of University of Omaha
The law department of the Uni
versity of Omaha announces the ac
quisition of a new instructor, John
1'. Breen, Omaha lawyer. Mr.
Breen has been obtained by the
school to teach constitutional law,
announces Arthur C. Thomsen, sec
retary of the law department.
In obtaining the services, of Mr.
Breen, the law school will aid to its
faculty a man of wide legal experi
ence and reputation. He is recog
nized in this state as one of the
leading authorities on constitutional
law, having been employed by the
city years ago as special railroad
councilor-. - - - -.
L i
On the orinciole of the hydraulic
press is a portable machine for
mounting and dismounting heavy
motor truck tires.
ESCAPED AN
OPERATION
By Taking Lydia E. Pink.
ham s Vegetable Com
pound. Many Such Cases.
Cairo, 111. "Sometime ago I got
so bad with female trouble that I
thought I would
have to be oper
ated on. I had a
bad displacement.
My right aide
would pain me.
I was so nervous
I could not hold a
flass of water.
I any times I
would have to
atop my work and
sit down or I
would fall on the
Soor in a faint. I consulted several
doctors and every one told me the
same but I kept fighting to keep from
having the 'operation. I had read so
many times of Lydia . Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and it helped
my sister so I began taking it. I
have never felt better than I have
since then and I kegp. house and am '
able to do all my work. The Vege
table Compound i certainly one grand
medicine.' Mrs. J. K. Matthews,
3311 Sycamore Street, Cairo, 111.'
Of course there are many serious
cases that only a surgical operation
will relieve. VVe fi ly acknowledge
this but the above letter, and many
others like it, amply prove tbt many
operations are recommended when
medicine in many cases is all that is
needed.
Cuticura Soap
The Velvet Touch
For the Skin
.CTBt.TIc.e2mgs
wldraw CUP UUralirlM Jyt. X. M14ei. KM
Honey back without qocsOea
II HUKTe BBive nut id ne
neatmentof ITCH. ECZHMA.
RINGWORM, TBTTKRor
ether ttchtnf akia dlasaaee. Try
IS cent boa at our risk.
Sherman McConaaU Drug Co.
It's Your Liver
And Stomach that give you that despon
dent, irritable and dreary feeling. Why
not write Dr. Burkhart, Cincinnati. O.,
today? He wil1, send you a trial treat
ment of Dr. Burkhart'a Vegetable Com
pound. It will put your Liver, Stomach
and Bowels in perfect order. 80 days'
treatment. 25c 70 days, 60c. AU drug
gists. Adv.
Stop Your Coughing
No need to let that coach persist. Stop the
Irritation, and remove tickling and hoarse
nets by soothing tha inflamed throat with
Jfta
PQS'S
Service
First !
at the '
Union Stock
Yards Co.
of Omaha
The Live Stock
Market of
Good Results.
flMifttiT.
iatiD :E2 HE 'SGHft'tS
10 yeara.
Swartz Light
Guaranteed S yeara.
Thew & Carley, Inc.
OMAHA, U. Si A.
"Service and Satisfaction"
HARD COAL
ALL SIZES
OZARK LUMP
(Semi-Anthracite) '
CORD WOOD
(All Lengths)
B OVER-WAN FfURAN
LUMBER A - COAL CO
CALL COLFAX 80 FOR PRICES
ORTMAN'S
New England Bakery
214 No. 16th I
Branches at Central Market, Hayden
Bros, and Table Supply.
' THE AUTO TOP AND
TRIMMING CO., Inc.
"Better Work"
Perfect Tailored Seat Cover and
Topi.
420-22 So. 13th St, Omaha, Neb.
Douglaa 7114.
BEMIS BRO.
BAG CO.
of Omaha
MOTOR t
TRUCKS
ssaasajsgctnasBsj .
rpHERE is not a drop of water in
International Harvester common and
preferred stock. Financial authorities
will tell you there is more than a dol
lar of value in International Harvester
properties for every dollar of capital
ization. ,
rpHAT means that the products of
International Harvester factories do
not have to provide a single dollar of
excess revenue. It means that in the
price of International Motor Trucks
there is not one penny of inflated'
value.
The International
Harvester Company of
America
Omaha Branch: 714-716 So. 10th St.
WELDED
OIL STORAGE TANKS
HORIZONTAL or VERTICAL'
Capacities 2,000 to 20,000 Gallons
Shlsmtnt (0 Dayi.
Writs or Win Ui Your Ordm.
NEBRASKA and IOWA STEEL
TANK CO.
1300 Willis Ave.. Onaha.
Everything for the Office
We enerave vialting cards, wedding
invitations and announcements
The Omaha Stationery Co.
307-309 So. 17th St.
Phone Douglaa 805.
Iliggins Packing
Co., Inc.
36th and L Street
Beef and Pork Products, Butter,
Eggs, Poultry and Cheese
Sausage of All Kinds.
Our Motto
"Quality and Service"
U. S. Gov. lnsp. Abbt. 643.
Phones: So. 4995 Tyler 4467
Chiropractic
Makes You
Well
Keeps You
Well
LEE W.
EDWARDS
CHIROPRACTOR
24th and Farnam St.
Dougla 3445.
Omaha Printing Co.
OMAHA, U.S. A.
GLASS,
MIRRORS,
PAINT
PITTSBURGH
PLATE 'GLASS CO.
11th and Howard Sts.
sl3
BUEHLER BROS.
MARKETS
Special on Quality Meats and Provision
FOUR STORES:
212 No. 16th St. 4903 So. 24th
2408 Cuming St.
. 634 Broadway, Council Bluff
inn
im. F. Eoesigg
OMAHA'S RELIABLE AUTOMOBILE
PAINTER.
CADILLAC BUILDING
2570 Farnam St. Harney 1448.
Carbon Coal S Supply Co.
WHOLESALE COAL
1905 HARNEY ST.,
Grain Exchange Bldg.
OMAHA, NEB.
PAXTON - MITCHELL
COMPANY
Manufacturera ot Brass, Bronze and
Aluminum Castings.
A specialty made of soft Gray Iron
Castings.
Carpenter Paper Co.
- Wholesale Distributor
PRINTING PAPER, WRAPPING
PAPER, PAPER BAGS, BUILD.
ING PAPER, FANCY
STATIONERY.
With our nrw Elwtric Tejtlns Cabinet there Is 00
ehinre for nilfttaHM.
DR. L. C. LAR8EN. RMlit,ril Optician.
. ZUirlten lean' Uiwueute
Esl D Y pT'aT BOUGH
KB
i i A. -
"Always Good and Sometimes
Better"
BY PAUL GREER.
The first tingle of autumn in the air has had a wonderfully
bracing effect on business in Omaha. These days people are buy
ing for their needs, and not for the mere pleasure of spending
money. The touch of frost created new demands overnight.
Cooler weather is driving people off their front porches
iven Mr. Harding has responded to the call and left Marion on a
speaking tour. We are coming in off the boulevards and redis
covering our homes, and find many things needful to make them
more livable.
Everything that's heavy is in demand, from red flannel to
blankets and warmer, clothes. The stores are crowded with a trade
that will keep up a rapid pace until after the Christmas season.
Omaha and the whole middle west is well heeled for a period
of solid comfort and well-being. Here's the way Tom Quinlan,
one of the busiest business men in Omaha looks at it:
"In Nebraska we have the finest corn crop in many years.
Everybody is working. Everybody is getting good pay. That all
makes for a tremendous buying power.
"Prices are more normal, and while there have been no great
reductions, they have been gradually working down. Some goods
are still high because the manufacturers quit making them. Now
that they have resumed, every merchant is trying to buy at the
same time, and this has kept some prices up."
The surge of new life in business is felt in almost all lines.
The Omaha Chamber of Commerce, in its weekly report to Dun's
Market Review, telegraphed this week as follows: '
"There has been a sharp revival of business over the retail
counters with the first frosty weather. Retailers report the public
buying liberally but inclined to look for price concessions.
"Merchants are more ready to listen to traveling salesmen aa
the markets settle to a basis on which goods can be sold to the
public." -
Wholesalers, jobbers, manufacturers and retailers are all
sharing in this revival. The only shadow is cast by the reported
slowness of liquidations due to the shortage of freight cars for
rapid movement of the crops. This has affected some of the rural
communities, and in a few small towns out in the state a situa
tion approaching stagnation has been threatened by the inability
to eet the harvest to market and cash the result of the farmers'
year of toil.
The situation is eased by the knowledge that the wealth is
there, and before long will be forthcoming. The railroads are, as
Carl Gray says, "'running the wheels off their cars' to move the
agricultural products to market. The increased efficiency of trans
portation will soon begin to tell. - ,
Crop marketing, somewhat reduced from' theabnomially heavy
movement at this time last year, is reported to have been suf
ficient in August for trade requirements. At the same time the
proceeds exerted an influence for the betterment of the whole sit
uation. The railroads, according to all reports, have put more
efficiency into the crop-carrying business, without adding ma
terially to their equipment, and although the transportation serv
ice is far from adequate, there is less complaint of car shortage,
delayed freight and congestion in terminals, while a freer move
ment of all freight is reported.
Don't get the idea that business has been poor in Omaha.
Business here is like an old-timer said about whisky; "All of it is
good, but some is better"
The monthly bulletin of the Federal Reserve bank covering
conditions in the Tenth Federal Reserve district, which includes
Nebraska, Wyoming, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and
New Mexico, reports that merchants in this part of the country,
as a rule, regard the outlook for late fall and winter trade as ex
ceptionally good.
In the wholesale trade the lines which in August showed par
ticular activity are said to be furniture and hardware. Dry goods
and millinery made gains over the same season of last year. v Al
though sales of drugs and groceries showed declines in August
from the previous month, sales were better than a year ago. The
uncertainty over prices that has now largely been allayed was re
sponsible for whatever slackness was found.
f
The Federal Reserve bank has collected reports from depart
ment stores in this district reflecting the trend of retail trade dur
ing the month of August. These show a considerable increase in
net sales over those of a year ago. A summary of the report of
twelve department stores, as reported by the bank bulletin follows :
Percentage of net sales during August, 1920, '
compared with net sales during the same
:-.onth last year Inc. 10.1
Percentage of net sales this season from July
1 to August 31, 1920, compared with net
sales during same period last year Inc. 14. 4
Percentage of stocks' at close of August, 1920,
compared with stocks at close of same month
last year . . . ." Inc. 39.2
Percentage of stocks at close of August, 1920,
compared with stocks at close of July,
1920 Inc. 10. 0,
Percentage average stocks at close of each
month this season (commencing with Janu
ary, 1920) to average monthly net sales dur
ing same period ' 334.09c
Percentage outstanding orders (cost) at close of
August, 1920, to total purchases (cost)
during calendar, year 9.2
"In addition to the showing made by the department stores
are the reports of a number of retail dry goods, clothing, millinery,'
shoes and general merchandise houses," says this Federal Reserve
bulletin. "Except where local conditions interfered, as the Den
ver street car tieup, these reports show a normal retail trade in
August, with improvement over July and indications of the disap
pearance of summer season dullness. It is reported in some quar
ters that the 'trade' is asking for cheaper goods and there is a
noticeable falling off in the demand for higher priced merchandise."
W. L. Wilcox, V. Pres.
W. A. Smith, V. Pre.
Tyler 5188
IlllllaV
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Omaha (81
Council Bluffs
Street Railway
Company
' W. H. AHMANSON, Pres. ,
James E. Foster, Sec-Treas.
Merrick E. Lease, Agcy. Supt.
6X8
Barker Block
E!lllll!l!lllll!!l!l!!iil 1!
6,000
MILES
Guarantea
!I!II1DI1I11I1II
Cornhusker Tires
NEBRASKA TIRE &
RUBBER CO.
3167 SPAULDING
Eat
Purity
Sausage
Purity Prevision , Co.
2424 Q St. South 2404
X
GASOLINE SAVER
All kind of flavoring' extract. I
HOLCOMB FOOD CHEMICAL ,
PRODUCTS CO.
913 No. 16th' Tyler 4904
PHONE TYLER 448
WALNUT 82S
Geo. A. Roberts
Grain Co.
Receiver and Shipper
GRAIN HAY
SEEDS
Consignment a Specialty
230-31-32-33-34 Grain Exchange
Omaha, Neb.
EFFECTVE EFFICIENT "
OIL AND COMPRESSION TIGHT
GILL PISTON .RING CO,
1923 Farnam St.
OMAHA (WSm
!i;illl!l!!I!!!nil!MI
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 1 motors
MADE AND REPAIRED
Send your radiator by express. Guar
anteed work, prompt service and rea
sonable charges.
OMAHA AUTO RADIATOR MFG. CO,
1819-21 Cumins St. OMAHA.
SCREENS AND CABINET
WORK
Residence Phone Walnut 4633.
Business Phone Tyler 1632.
A. C. LESSARD & SON
Remodeling and Building
Contractors.
2021 Cuming St.
JOHN DEERE PLOW GO.
Agricultural Implement
Jobbers
Sioux Falls Sidney Omaha
RALPH DeLONG
Common Brick
Yard on C. B. & Q. R. R.
404 FINANCE BLDG.
Tyler 4348.
Attention Mr. Automobile Owner
V.'s overhaul your car, rtbore the cylinders, make plitou and rla( or any
part you might need.
P. Melchiors & Son Machine Works
417 South 13th St.
General Automobile, Machine ud Blacksmith Repair Work.
p J j
BUSINESS IS C00D THANH Y0U"
Nicholas Gasolenes
Give
POWER
LV. Nichols oil Compa
MVp
"Little Red Wagons"
Grading Contractors' Equipment
, TRACTORS
STROUD & CO.
Colfax 2998. 20th and Ames Ave.
KOPAC BROTHERS
Automotive and Shop Equipment
Holt - Caterpillar Tractor '
Tires and Truck
Wholeaale Branch Norfolk, Neb.
Mam Office Omaha, Neb.
Norfolk David City Columbus
Schuyler, Neb.
Not only Lumber, but Mill work, Hard
ware and Paint.
WE PAY THE FREIGHT.
C. Hafer Lumber
Company
135 W. Broadway
Council Bluffs, la.
Diatributor of Quality.
ELECTRICAL
MERCHANDISE
and Supplies."
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 cost no more
to insure your property in
OMAHA LIBERTY than in any
other responsible company and
you share in the profits.
Insurance against loss by fire,
lightning and tornado. Auto
mobile and hail insurance.
Home Office: 1817 Douglas St.
Phone Tyler 2621.
FAIRBANKS MORSE
&CO.
P'L ELECTRICAL
, ENGINES MACHINERY
FARM ENGINES SUPPLIES
WIND MILLS
FAIRBANKS SCALES
'3 iiJfr t23z
II (i
1)
The
HUGH MURPHY
Construction Co.
PAVING CONTRACTORS
D. 834. 206 Karbach Bldf.