THE EKE; OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 1921.
"Little Moscow"
Will Soon Move
To Beet Fields
Members of Lincoln Colony
Prepare for Annual Exodus;
Some Disgruntled Over
Lower Wages.
Lincoln. ADril 19. Residents of
the. district known as "Little Mos
cow" in Lincoln are getting ready
for their exodus to the sugar beet
fields.
During the last few weeks agents
representing the growers of western
Nebraska and a tew from Colorado
and Wyoming have been busy in th
foreign settlement of Lincocln sign
ing up workrs.
With the arrival of the agents
came bad news to the beet. tenders.
Instead of being paid $35 to $38 an
acre for their work as they .were in
1920, the tenders are to receive but
$22 an acre this year. It 'seems that
there has been a general understand
mg between all sugar beet growers
that $22 will be the scale of pay for
A few workers have refused to
rign contracts at the reduced pay.
Others, agents report, realize that
there has been a change in condi
tions since last fall and arc signing
contracts at the reduced scale.
Beet field workers take their entire
family with them. The more chil
dren a worker has the greater liis
earning capacity. Growers are
agreed that children are able tox do
as much work in the beet fields as
grown persons.
More Children, More Beets. .
The more chilJren a worker has
the more acres he will agree to care
for. As a rule growers do not care
"to trust more than 10 to 15 acres to
cne worker. A worker with a family
of five children, however, can sign
a contract to care for as many, as
75 acres, and in some cases even
more.
"Little Moscow" is alive with
rumors from the bect-growing sec
tions. Children on their way from
school ask one another if they "are
going to beets." The reply usually
is in the affirmative. "Going to
beets" is the uppermost thought in
their minds. There they can help
swell the family's savings account,
be out in the open and be regarded
as an equal to grownups.
Workers of many years experience
say that conditions in the beet fields
are much more ideal than they were
a few years ago when the industry
first came into prominence. Then
the tenders lived in tents, drank irri
gated water and were forced to walk
miles for supplies. A few farmers
still have shacks for their workers
to live in. but most of them have
built small' houses for the beet tend-'
e.rs. The drinking of ditch wafer is
of a bygone day. Wells have been
drilled, and fresh warei" for all pur
poses is now available on practically
every sugar beet farm, workers say..
Save Large Amounts.
A family of five or more children
often saves several thonsand dollars
as result of their summer's work in
the beet, fields. .Henry Walter, a
beet worker of 20 years' experience,
says a family working on a farm
near him last summer saved $3,500.
He: said there were five daughters
and a small son. The-father acted
as a farm hand to he land owner
while the girls and-son worked in
the beet fields. The mother cooked
their meals and cared for the house
while the others worked. The chil
dren cared for 95 acres of beets at
$38 an acre. The father's wages as
a tjirin hand , were : enough I to pay
their living costs. The entire sum
earned by the daughter's, approxi-ii'n-ly'
$3,500, was saved, Walter
said. v ..
The beet workers will be leaving
Lincoln and Omaha, where a great
number of them spend their winters,
about May 15. From then on" ur.tilj
about June 15, they will be engaged"
in thinning out the beet plants, sowed
and cultivated by the land owner,
from the time the beets are ready
o be thinned out until harvest their
tare is left entirely to workers. Quite
'jften the workers have periods of
neveral days when the beets can be
left alone. It is at this time that the
families get together and enjoy them
selves.. Field Agents Supervise.
Field agents, representing the
sugar factories, act as supervisors
over the workers, They are inter
ested in greater production and im
proved quality and offer suggestions
along this line to the growers and
Eddie Rickenbacker to
. Fly Here in Italian Plane
Famous American Ace to Stop in Omaha Overnight
On Two-Day Flight From Oakland to Indian
apolis, Where He Will Attend Decora- '
tion Day Auto Races.
Omaha will be Eddie Rickenback
er's over-night stopping place when
the famous American ace of aces
flies from the Pacific coast to In
dianapolis next month.
Rickenbacker plans to. fly from
Oakland, Cal., to Indianapolis in
two days, stopping over-night here.
He is planning the flight to Indian
apolis to attend the annual Decora
tion day automobile races on the
famous Hoosier speedway.
Rickenbacker, in making his an
nouncement in Oakland, said he
would leave the California city at
4 a. m., reaching Omaha that night
and arriving in Indianapolis the fol
lowing afternoon: He said he would
fly at an altitude of from 12,000 to
16,000 feet.
Recently, the Indianapolis speed'
way sent the ilyer an, invitation to
attend the automobile races, in which
he was a leading performer 'in the
days before he entered the war and
took up flying, and his reply was his
announcement that he would go to
the races by air. .
The airplane Rickenbacker w iM use
will be an Italian plane. It is the
same plane with which he recently
broke the record between San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, flying at
speed of more, than 150 miles an
hour.
Kickenbacker s last appearance in
Omaha was last summer when he was
a member of the transcontinental
party which crossed the country in
three all-metal Larson monoplanes-
workers. They als act as ar
bitrators in case of . differences be
tween growers' and workers. Work
ers say that the decision of the field
acents usually are fair to all con
cerned. .
Many of the beet workers own
their own homes in Lincoln. They
return to Lincoln as soon as the crop
is harvested in the fall and send their
children to school while they engage
in odd jobs about the city. i
Last year the land owners paid the
workers' railroad fares but one way.
Many of the growers this year are
agreeing to pay rauroaa iair doih
ways in view of the reduced pay offered.
In 1920. farmers of western Ne
braska produced approximately 750,-
000 tons of sugar beets from the 72.
000 acres harvested. Nebraska ranked
fifth among the sugar producing
state of the union.
Suzar beets are grown in practi
cally every county along the Platte
river from Hall to Scottsbluff coun
ties. ScottsbluR county ranks hrst
in production in the state. Morrill
county is second and Lincoln county,
third.
Radio Association Bars
Women as Operators
The Commerce Radio association,
member of the Radio Relay As
sociation of America, and the largest
organization of its kind in "Nebraska
or Iowa, went on record recently
as oppose'd to women radio operators,
and had a clause incorporated in its
contribution forbidding admittance
of women or girls into the club.
A hot discussion was waged, both
pro and con, as to whether the girls
were capable of handling the in-,
tricate and dangerous electrical ma
chinery which covers the walls of the
radio room at Seventeenth and Leav- .
enworth streets. The motion to ad
mit girls was defeated by a large
majority.
The Commerce Radio . association
not a school organization, al
though the board of education fur
nishes the equipment and the ex
perts, Messrs. Durand and Bennett,
of the Commerce High faculty, free
of charge to the tlub. - . m
The association decided to set
aside every third Friday m the
month 'as "visitors' night." Next
Friday for the first time the club
will be opened to visitors.
West Central Declamatory
Contest Staged at Cozad
Cozad, Neb., .April 19. (Shecial
Telegram.) In the West Central
district declamatory contest held
here, first otace in the dramatic class
was won by Gertrude Owens of
Cozad. Winner in the oratorical
class was Gilbert Mcintosh of CozadT.
The humorous class was won by El
len Ericson of North Platte. Judges
in the contest were Supt. R. V, Clark
of the state industrial school; Prof.
R. W. Powell of the state normal,
and Miss Blanche Riggs of the slate
normal. . Officers elected for next
year are Miss S. W. Astwood of
Lexington, president; Supt. G. W.
Eaton of Cozad, secretary-treasurer.
K. of C. to Initiate
Ord, Neb., Api'-.l 19. (Special.)
A large council cf Knights of Co
lumbus will be .initiated in Ord in the
first part of May, according to re
ports. The initiatory work will - be
conducted by men t.om other coun
cils in the state.
v.,s.
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MATURED
men resent
comments on
their clothes
They fake
nrnner aonarel
. . . , 1 ri
for , granted
That is why - v ' ,
"Ready" clothes appeal to
such men this spring more
than ever.
OtMfdtfr (Jlotljts
Sold Exclusively at
1809 Farnam Street
Man Held on Murder
Charge Asserts Horse
Dragged Wife to Death
North Platte, Neb., April 19. Wil
liam Morris, arraigned today on i
charge of murdering his wife, says
he and his wife started out late in
the afternoon to, round up the cattle
and when they entered the pasture,
the woman's horse reared and threw
her off.
He says he asked her not to mount
again, but she insisted on doing so.
A few minutes later the horse pitched
her off again, her foot catching in
the lasso rope attached to the saddle,
according to Morris. :'
The horse ran, he says, dragging
her for three hours.
Morris said he could not catch the
horse and at dark he went home for
a lantern. When he returned, he
said, he could find neither his wife
nor the horse, so he returned home
and went to bed.
Former Superintendent
To Speak at Graduation
Beaver City, Neb., April 19.
The graduating class of the Beaver
Oty High school lias secured Prof.
J. R. Overturf of Lincoln, former
superintendent, of schools here, to
deliver the class address at the grad
uation exercises May 20. His sub
ject will be "A Common Duty." The
c!ass has 24 members. '.
Slayer of Wife's
Lover Guilty of
Manslaughter
Jury Says Prisoner Not Justi
fied in Shooting Man When
Found in- Company
With Mate.
Des Moines, April 19. (Special
Telegram.) Alex R. Graves, on trial
here for the slaying of Clarence De
vault on the night of May 5, 1920,
was found guilty of manslaughter
by the jury late this 'afternoon after
approximately five hours' delibera
tion. Graves was charged with sec
ond degree murder, but the jury in
finding that the prisoner was not
justified in shooting Devault when
he found him out riding with -Mrs.
Graves, changed th count to man
slaughter. Sentence will be pronounced later
by Judge Herbert Utterback.' The
maximum penalty which can be in
flicted under the verdict returned by
the jury is eight years.
The Graves-Devault case has had
a stormy career in tlje, last year.
When Devault was fotind fatally
wounded the night of the shooting
Graves . surrendered himself to au
thorities and admitted the shooting.
explaining that he had found Devault
out riding with his wife under cir
cumstances sufficiently compromising
to warrant the. shooting.
Two grand juries refused to indict
Graves. A third returned a true
bill almost a year after theshoot
ing took place.
When indicted Graves came all the
way trom Laiitornia to surrender.
The highest class legal talent in the
criminal field available in the state
defended Gra;es. Robert Iiealey,
silver-tongued orator from Fort
Dodge, was imported as special
counsel at the last moment to as
sist James Parsons of Des Moines in
defending the accused men. lhe
prosecution in its closing arguments
today scored heavily in its arraign
ment of the emotional pleas of the
defense battery of legal talent.
American Legion at Ord
Holds Membership Drive
Ord, Neb., April 39. (Special.)
F'delity post. American Legion, at
Old, is conducting a drive for mem
bers in preparation for a big house
warming when all details relative to
the purchase of its new home are
completed, lhe pres-ent membership
divided into two camps and the
side getting the fewest new mem
bers will banquet the winning side.
Arrangements are. in charge of Post
Commander Flynn.
Motion Pictures to Be
Shown in Which Omaha
School Children Appea
The first motion pictures of Omaha
school children will be shown at tl
Central High school auditorium
Thursday afternoon. Vaudeville
acts by Saunders school pupils and
Wallace Reid in "The Roaring
Koad, are included in the program
Three performances will be given.
Oyer 400 Saunders school DtiDils,
W. E. Reed, president of the school
board; ). II. Bevendge, superintend
ent of schools, and Miss Belle Ryan,
assistant superintendent of schoofs,
have parts in the picture.
A base ball game between the sev
enth and. eighth grades of Saunders
school, umpired by Mr. Beveridge;
the entire school in callisthentics and
flag drills and the eighth grade girls
descending the tire escape are among
the events filmed.
Genevieve Finney and Helen
Brown, members of the Saunders
school graduating class, character
dancers, nlav the leadinc narts in the
vaudeville skit to be given Thurs
day. .
Box office receipts are to apply
on the purchase of a motion picture
projector tor Saunders school, lhe
graduating class has charge of the
program.
The skeleton 'o the human being
is one inch shorter than the meas
urements of the living person.
Cigarett
To seal In the
delicious BurJey
tobacco flavor. 9
It's Toasted
Doors Open
Promptly
at 9 a. m
For
EL
Extra Sates
People to
Serve You
Wednesday
U Semi-Annual Sale of
Df esses for Women and Misses that formerly sold to $69.50.
Choose without reserve Wednesday from several hundred at
The drosses in
this tale consist
mostly of higher
credo Taffeta
Canton' - Crepe
Georaette and
Kitten's E a
Creje.
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This event will again
demonstrate our abil
ity to give the latest
styles at rarest values;'
This sale only happens at the Emporium once in six months. Therefore
don't class out present sale with any other here or elsewhere.
Our Advice Is to Be Here Early Wednesday So
That You May Have Your First Choice
Wednesday Our Famous Annual
Sale of Pure Thread Silk
SWEATERS
Pure thread SilkNot Fibre Silk! Last Year's Annual
Sweater "Sale consisted of Fibre Silk Sweaters at 22.50,
and the Entire Lot was Sold in 2Vi Hours Time!
This Lowest Price!
$15
Principally
Tuxedo and Slip-Overs
Limited Number
Every Desired Color
THIS is an annual event that is waited for by every well-dressed woman of
Omaha. There are only a limited number -of the sweaters in pure thread
silk and they come from one of New York's best known sweater manufacturers
Practically every desired color is represented and a fairly good assortment of sizes can be had
from 34 to 42. Those who attended, the frreat sweater sale last year will perhaps remember that
some of the sweaters had slight imperfections, so slight, however, that they wcje hardly notice
able. It is so with .this lot. Perhaps a slight caste in matching the silk or some other equally
small detail. The whole lot last year was sold within two or three hours at the price of f22.50.
This year we have arranged to sell the same high quality iweater At the low priw of $15.00.
Come early, for they won't teat long.
Second Floor Cutter v
; ,
Wanted!
Good Appetites
and Jaded Ones
The restaurant where you
can have a complete atify
ing dinner or a light nour
ishing lunch U the one you
patronize regularly. No
matter -what your mood,
you can find at Brandeis
Stores Cafeteria the food to
satisfy a good appetite and
the dainties to tempt
jaded one and all o nice
ly aerved'that you begin to
think of Brandeit Storea
Cafeteria as your noon
time "home" where erery.
thing is always, right.
Meals Served from 9 A. M.
to 5:30 P. M. ' '
r Maiitt Floor-Wtst
' Arcade
OME BIG THINGS
IN NEBRASKA
Afwboplsfolhelivin
One Hannv Man
C 'JK?;r0 rr'
THERE is at least one. happy man in Nebraska , and
he is not so dignified that he is ashamtd to con
fess it. A'fter all, as Francis Murphy once wiid
wfien he was aceused ot being undignified in his pub
lic speeches: "It's time enough to be dignified when
you're dead. Then you can't help it."
Not long ago someone wrote to aji Omaha newspaper
enumerating the things he hates. This prompted
Charles K. Jaeoby of Kimball, Vb., to write to the
same newspaper R letter describing "the things I love."
It was a tine letter, too. and wins tor the writer a place mon
"Some- Btf Thins In Nebraska." U shows that this man la In
lov with the simple things ot life, and, after all. It is, appre
ciation of these thins that keeps men happy. From the robin In
the tree to the stars flittering In the eternal done nothing ot
mad is too Inilcnlflcant to mill th lnvinc eonildcHtlAB af this
P well rounded Nebraskan. Thank you. Mr. Jncobr, tor the tin
note you hare given to the music ot the world snd for your, con
clusion, "I lov to think. It these though j sa broken,- that
it only proves I can find things to lore most anywhere."
French
Cretonnes
Our Own
Importations
in the most beautiful pat.
terns nnd colorings; here is
a genuine bargain, '
Regular -$2.50
Values.
Special ,. ,
at 1.75
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Fourth Floor Em
Interesting Infants Wear
Muslin Drawers, Special, 39c
Small sij-.es, 2 to 8 years; made of Tery good quality cot
ton and trimmed with neat edgings; special Wednes
day, each, it , 39
little BMe' Sweater Sacniieit Some are buttoned, bthrfh are in
to open front. These warm comfy little garments are made of
the finest quality zephyr wool; in plnk.-blue and ! QQ
white; priced at 1.70
Rahy Baskets aad Warlrohe Basinet!--Chairs, Ugh and low
cribs, kiddy koops In white enamel and plain reed. These are es
sentials for the nursery and no mother should be without them.
Ask to see them, on display in the Infants' department.
Beantlfvl Little Flecks of dotted Swiss, organdie, taffeta, neta and
various other fabrics, all are dainty dresa up dresses for parties
snd dancing class; colors are pink, blue, orchid, aire freen, lemon
and white with red dots; sizes z to ( years, and priced at
HMt VIM to HIM,
t- Third FloorEta
Specials in Curtains
Draperies, Shades, Cedar Chests.
CtrXTADr HITS; regular 1.25 and U0 qualities!
in wniie, ivory ana ecru; specui, n
98c
Window Shades i
36-in.x6-0, water color 69?
36 in.x6-0, opaque, ' 75?'
36-irt-x"-p oil opaque, 95
Curtains Price -In
on and two pair odd
lots, worth 1.95 to 6.50 per
pair; all in one lot for
Wednesday," at ' M-ksJf
pnee
Spct-ia Is in Cedar Chests ' '
Caring fr the furs nnd woolen clothing during the summer im
soa la economlcslly sntwered bythe cedar rbesL
Lot . ISIj,. dSxMxItt special, Mrs, 35,
let Ke. Slsc fttslKxiai special, each, 25.
Let X. iM-Msc 44lSili special, each, 22.
' "' Fourth Floor East. -i
7 Money-Saving Specials in Housewaresednesday
BRANDEIS BZST ROUSE
PAINT; all colors; covers
well and wears well;
priced,
kZ2(2.95
Wall
250
CLOUX, the Perfect
('leaser, ipecial, cans
PSARL -WHITE OR WHITE
BORAX SOAP,
10 Bars
15SE3J 39c
8 DTK STKAIKEBS Triangle
shape,- Jrtkde, ot ateel white
enamel; special, each, at 59t
BIG WONDER KOP HET-Con-sists
ft triangle shaped dust
mop and Me bottle of polish;
complete, special, 1.39
COMBIKETTES of gray
gruniteware with .strong bail
and tight fit-
tine; cover
apecinl, at .
1.39
lUKLAP EGO BEATIB.S
Complete with howl; f)H
special, at Q yQ
Fifth Floor Wtst
COFFEE POTS Enameled,
white nnd colors; 2-quart
sue, special.
CLOTHES LINES, loo-fl aoa
strstchahle sash cord, 98?
'POLITICAL, ADVERTISEMENT.
POLITICAL, ADVERTISEMENT.
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT.
Give the Young Man a Chance
YOUTH-
is sought by every business. . , v
YOUTH-
v . i- ..
-fought the war.
YOUTH-
if mixed with adequate experience, gives the "punch
which separates success from failure.
There is just ONE young man running for City
Commissioner of Omaha
John H. Hopkins
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VOTE FOR HOPKINS
Election May 3d
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