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Proposed Film
Duty in America
Alarms British
Ij English Producers Say 30 Per
Cent Tax Will Cauae Dead
ijx lock in Interchange of
Negatives.
y By GRAFTON S. WILCOX
I!' Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, Aug. 13. Whether
the American people are to see in
. future any foreign films whatever,
cr only those produced by Mary
v-: Fickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie
X Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle and other
stars ana icsscr uma tuui
clusively by American producers in
surroundings exclusively or almost
exclusively American, is one of the
problems now being seriously con
sidered by the finance committee of
the senate. '
One of the features of the Ford
ney tariff bill recently passed by
the house and awaiting action by the
senate is the drastic provision1 in
paragraph 1,450 by which the bill
seeks to "encourage" the moving
picture industry in the United States
at the expense apparently not only
of foreign producers but of American
audiences.
Heavy Duty Imposed.
Under the proposed law, the rate of
duty , on "photographic film nega
tives,' imported in any form, for use
in any way in connection with mov
ing picture exhibits, or for making
or reproducing pictures for such
exhibits, is 30 per cent ad valorem.
Some of the effects of this provi
sion, should it be enacted into law,
are pointed out in a letter signed by
16 members of the British producers
committee of the Incorporated Asso
ciation of Kinema-Tograph Manu
facturers, who were sufficiently
stirred by the impending disaster to
"Write, to the London Times about it.
Tax Is Prohibition.
! "The true gravity of this tax does
not appear at first sight," aays J.
Brooke Wilkinson, secretary of the
committee in the letter, a copy of
which has just been received in this
country. "It is 30 per sent ad valorem
duty upon all cinematograph pictures
imported from abroad, but the ad
valorem is based upon the cost of
production of a similar work in the
H United States. Now, the cost of pro
d duction in America is admittedly
E about five times as heavy as it is in
this country a fact which is due to
is- the inflated salaries paid to artists
g' and to the technical staff. No doubt
i these things will find their own level
in the course of years, but at the
present time, a tax based upon cost
iJA. of production in America is not mere-
ly an import duty but a prohibition,
sri "A picture which costs 10,000
to produce in this country would cost
fr 50,000 to produce, in America on
the same scale and import duty of
. 15,000 would obviously prevent its
Strikes Peace Influence.
The matter, he continues, is
one which goes far deeper than a
mere blow at a home industry; it
strikes right at one of the most
potent influences working for the
peace of the world. The power of
the cinematograph pictures is far
greater than most people realize. By
its means, people separated by half
a world learn subtly and uncon
sciously of one anothers-' doings.
"Hitherto the screens of this coun
try have been freely open to Amer
ican films which introduce scenes of
American life to the people of this
country, but if British film manufac
turers are to be entirely debarred
from the opportunity of reciprocally
performing the same office in the
United States with regard to English
ideas of life, there will be no option
but to prevent the practically free
importation of American films into
this country and then we have the
deadlock complete."
State Finance Secretary .
Issues Funds Statement
Lincoln, Aug. 13. Funds available
for state expenditure during the pres
ent bienniiim total $29,090,811.12 of
which $1,333,293.78, or 10 per cent,
has been reserved for contingencies,
according to a financial statement is
sued here today by Phillip F. Bross,
secretary of the finance department.
Fxed apprppriations and cash bal
ances at the beginning of the fiscal
year are given as $21,461,922.38.
Estimates approved for expenditure
for the current quarter are $3,671,-
903.92, more than $2,000,000 of which
was previously certified to the audi
tor. The estimated cash funds to be
derived from miscellaneous courses
to the state is listed as $7,628,888.74.
Columbus Girl Receives
Ancient Family Heirloom
"Columbus, Neb., Aug. 13. (Spe
cial.) Miss Pearl Freeman re
ceived from relatives in Venango,
Pa., a family heirloom, which she
prizes highly a spinning wheel
which her greatgrandmother used
more .than 100 years ago. Through
all the years that have elapsed the
device has been kept in the family.
It is in a perfect state of cultivation
and serviceable still.
Beatrice Gas Company
Reduces Rates 10 Cents
Beatrice. Neb.. Aug. 13. (Special
Telegram.) The local gas company
has filed a communication with the
citv commissioners announcing
cut of 10 cents per 1,000 cubic feet
on the price of gas the cut to include
this month's billing. It is said the
reduction is due to the lowering of
prices for products used in makfng
gas.
Generally Fair Weather
Coming Week Is Forecast
' Washington, Aug. 13. Weather
predictions for the week, beginning
Monday, are:
Upper Mississippi, lower Missouri
valleys: Generally fair except for
scattered showers, moderate tem
. perature.
- Old Settlers' Picnic
Beaver City, Neb., Aug. 13. (Spe-
-cial.J-i'An okl settlers' picnic will
be held at Hendley August 17 and
18. R. B. Howell, Gov. S. R. Mc
Kelvie and other speakers are on
the program. The Hendley ball
team will play the Kickapoo Indians
Eleven - Year
An 11-year-old teacher in domes-
tfc science that is Marie Helen
Witte, daughter of H. J. Witte, 8606
North Thirtieth street.
Despite her youth Mane Helen
has become quite an expert with
the needle. She sews with the skill
of one twice her age.
Encouraged by her parents, the
little organized a sewing class among
Elsasser Family
To Hold Annual
Reunion Aug. 28
More Than 250 M(mhers of
Family Expected to Attend
Picnic at Elmwood
,';L ' Park.
The annual reunion of the Elsas
ser family will be held at Elmwood
park on Sunday, August 28.
The promoters believe there win
be more than 250 members of this
family . at the cdlebration.
It is ; believed that this is the
largest family in Nebraska.
The. original members came to
Omaha in. 1866.
The reunion will begin at iu a. m.
and will;last all day, with games
for r young - and old, prizes -to the
winners and a general good time
for all..
Pioneer friends of the family are
invited to join during the afternoon.
W. L. Elsasser is president of the
Elsasser Reunion association and W.
G. Elsasser is vice president.
Thieves Steal 10 Tires
From Depot at Fremont
Fremont,' Neb., Aug. 13. (Special
Telegram.) Ten automobile tires
were stolen from the Union Pacific
freight depot about 3 this morn
ing when thieves torcea a iock on
the freight house door and helped
themselves to the shipment consigned
to the Rasmussen Brothers garage
at Ames. Nothing else in the freight
house was disturbed. The marauders
crawled through the window into
the ticket office and broke the cash
drawer open but found it empty.
Jess Hager, living across the
street, heard shouts and noises
about the station and arose from
bed to investigate. He suspected
a robbery at the time but feared to
bother the visitors unarmed, lhe
thieves made their getaway by car.
The station at Ames has been visited
by burglars several times the last
few months.
Beatrice Company Will
Leave for Encampmont
Beatrice, Neb.,' Aug. 13. (Spe
cial.) Capt. Emmett Powell of
Company C announces that he has
received transportation for mem
bers of the company who will leave
next Wednesday, August 17, for
Camp Dodge, la., to attend the an
nual guard encampment. Company
C truck, in charge of two men, left
Beatrice Saturday for camp, and it
will be used in hauling provisions
and supplies to the grounds for the
company.
Father of Omaha Realtor
1 To Be Buried at Fremont
George S. Gibson, former resident
of Fremont, Neb., father of W. R.
Gibson of the Payne Investment
company, will be buried in Fremont
at 2:30 this afternoon. He died last
week in Vancouver, Wash. Several
members of the Payne investment
firm, as well as several real estate
salesmen from other offices here, will
attend the funeral.
Stage Booze Raids
Columbus, Neb., Aug. 13. (Spe
cial.) Twenty-six gallons of liquor
were seized by state agents in raids
upon John Sokcl's soft drink par
lor at Duncan and the A. Nordland
home in Columbus. Sokol paid a
fine of $200 and costs in county
court and a sample of the Nordland
booze was sent to Lincoln to be
analyzed by the state chemist.
Plan County Picnic
Beaver City, Neb., Aug. 13. (Spe
cial.) A county picnic will be held
at the fair grounds here August 24,
under the auspices of the Beaver
City Community club. A program
of sports, music, speaking and en
tertainment will be given to the
whole county free.
Plan Booster Tour
Beaver City, Neb., Aug. 13. (Spe
cial.) A county tour to boost the
Furnas county fair, the county pure
bred stock business and the county
picnic, will be held by the Furnas
County Farm bureau and the Beaver
Citv; pmrnunity, club. August 23, ,
- Old Teaches Sewing Glass
her playmates. She is the teacher
and regular classes are held.
She is seen in the picture with
four of her pupils. Marie Helen is
the girl on the left in the group of
four above. The others of the
group, left to right, are Rose Marie
Jensen, Lucille Nigro and Mary Lil
uth Green. Below is Nettie Helen
Nigro.
Obsequies
Winifred 8. Ewbif.
Fontanelle, la. Winifred S. Ewlnir, 64, a
business man hera for the last quarter of
a century and the first white child born
in Richland township, died at his' home
here. He had been ill for many months.
Mrs. Mcnne Harms. :
Beatrice, Neb. Mrs. Menne Harms, 81,
pioneer of Gage county, died at her home
northeast of Beatrice after a prolonged
illness. She is survived by her husband
and three sons. She was a native of
Germany and had lived in Gage county
for about 40 years.
Herman Hamm.
Beatrice, Neb. Herman Hamm, a rest
dent of Beatrice since 1876, died, here
after a prolonged illness. He was born
in West Prussia In 1831 and was never
married.
Henry Boechner.
Beatrice, Neb. The body of Henry
Boechner, 22, who lost his life in the
war in France, was brought to his home
at Plattsmouth, and military funeral serv
ices in charge of the American Legion
nnmt TOlll ha held Sunday. AUKUBl XI.
Burial will be at Plymouth.
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F. O. Mathlas.
Beatrice, Neb.. Aug. 7. F. O. Mathlas,
former resident of Liberty, died at the
home of his son. Roy, at Byers. Colo.
The body was brought to Liberty lor
burial. " , '
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W. K. lay.
' Columbus, Neb. W. K. Lay. , Aied
suddenly while reading a newspaper in
the city park.
H. B. Hammond. ,
Beatrice, Neb. H. B. Hammond, 73,
employed for, more than 26 years as a
train dispatcher for the Burling ton at
Wvmore, died at his home there. A widow
and two children survive.
Henry F. Wellensiek.
Syracuse, Neb. Henry F. WellensieK.
72, died at nis noma u
Syracuse from heart dis
illness of three weeks. Mr. WellensieK
was born at Westphalia, ""many Jane
6 184K. He came to America at the ago
of 16, settling first in aytcn county,
Iowa, and then moving to Nebraika in
1879 and settling on the farm in Osage
county where he died. ,
Mrs. Hannah Vandegrift.
Loup City, Neb. Mrs. Hannah VanAe
grift, 90, died at her home "e".""'";
She had resided In the same v cintty for
nearly 50 years. Her husban.l riled many
years ago. She leavjs several children
and may grandchildren and great grand
children. Mra. Emmn Hard.
Friend. Neb. The body of Mrs JEmma
Hurd! 88, who died at McCook, Neb , was
brought to Friend and buried here by the
side of her husband and two iste"
She was a former resident of thla local
ity and one of the first settlers in SrJino
county.
Thomas C. Foster.
Pawnee City. Neb. Thomas C. Ft-.
85. a resident of Pawnee county for 40
years, died at his home trSre. He Is sur
vived bv his wife and two sons. Rev.
Harry Foster and Dr. John Ftfr.fch
of Omaha, and one daughter, Miss Kath
arine Foster of this city.
a mv Ktnnffl.
Road-Ice. Neb. Mrs. A. M. Betnogle of
Adams, 79, pioneer of that city, died at
her home there after a prolonged illness.
She is survived by one daughter and two
sons.
Infant Mclntyre.
Nebraska City, Neb. Madeline, one of
five triplets born to Mr. and Mrs Neal
Mclntyre In this city on January 4, died
last night following an Illness of but a
few days. Another of the triplets is 111
and fears are entertained for its recov-
Harry M. Steven.
Shelton. Neb. Harry M. Steven, 27, one
of the consulting engineers of the Gen
eral Electric company at Schenectady,
N. T., died at the Ellis hospital in that
city. Mr. Steven was born and raised In
Sheltjn and Is a graduate of the Kansas
state university. His parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Jiunes Steven, row residents of Law
rence, Kan., were among the early settler
In this community. He is survived by
his wife, father and mother, two brothers
and two sisters, one of the latter being
a teacher In the American college at
Honlulu, T. H. The body was brought to
Shelton for burial.
Mrs. KMa Johnson.
David City, Neb. The funeral of Mrs.
Ella Johnson., 47, who died at her home
In Omaha weft held here yesterday. Rev.
J. M. Bothwell of the Methodist church
conducting the services. Mrs. Johnson
was the sister of Leonard and Tlnsley
Tabor of this city. She leaves her hus
band, W. E. Johnson, and three grown
children, Ernest, Edith and Olive Johnson
of Omaha.
F. E. Casrida.
David City. Neb. F. E. Casslda of Con
way la., died at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. J. C. Duncan. Death was due
to pneumonia.
Henry Albers.
Shelton, Neo. Henry Albers, 66. died
at the home of his slBter, Mrs. Martin
Mattlson, who lives three miles east of
Shelton. He was a resident of Lincoln
and Lancaster county for more than 40
years. He came here In 1916 to make
his home with his sister and the past
three or four years had been totally
blind.
Mrs. Margaret Campbell.
Atlantic. Ia., Funeral services were
held for Mra. Margaret Campbell, widow
of William Campbell and formerly en
gaged In the operation of a millinery
store here for many years. Her death
occurred at her home In Omaha. Mrs.
Campbell was 66 and a native of Louis
ville.. Ky. For many years ahe was a
teacher in the rural schools of Guthrie
county.
Mrs. Theodore Gottschlac
Beatrice, Nab. Announcement was re
ceived here of the death of Mrs. Theo
dore Gottsrhlaf, formerly a resident of
the Plymouth vicinity, which occurred
at her home at Banner, Okl. The body
will be taken to Ohlowa, Neb., for burial.
lr. A. C. Woodrnff.
Orlswold. Ia. Dr. A. C. Woodruff, 71,
pioneer physician ef Oriiwold. musical
1 J.Fi!
composer of ability, and former Chau
tauqua star, died at Storm Lake, where
he had more recently resided. Dr. Wood
ruff was a native of Knox county, Illi
nois, and came to Iowa in 188S, settling
in Dallas county. He graduated from
Keokuk - medical college and came to
Griswold in 1881. Following his remov
al to Storm Lake, Dr. Woodruff was
elected couunty recorder, which posi
tion he filled for a number of years.
Charles Jackson.
Beatrice, Neb. Charles Jackson, for
merly station agent for the Burlington
road at Wymore, died at his home at
Long Beach, Cal., after a brief Illness.
Mr. Jackson was well known along the
Wymore division of the road. Burial
was at Long Beach.
Mrs. Marie Johnson.
Madison, Neb. Mrs. Marie Johnson
died after a' lingering Illness. Funeral
services held from the home of her son,
Henry Johnson, of this place. Burial
was in Crownhlll cemetery. Marie Pet
erson was born at Somark Moen, Den
mark, March 2, 1SB2, and came to Fre
mont, Neb., in 1883, where she married
Peter Johnson. She Is survived by her
husband and three sons, Albert of Rich
land, Neb., and Chris and Henry of this
city.
Abraham Reimer, Jr.
Beatrice, Neb. Abraham Relmsr, Jr.,
40, farmer and stock raiser living near
Hoag, this county, died at a hospital
here where he was recently operated up
on. Mr. Reimer Is survived by a widow
and six children. His mother was killed
a little more than a year ago when an
auto In which she was riding was struck
by a Union Pacific freight at a crossing
just north of the city.
Thomas C. Foster.
Pawnee City, Neb. Thomas C. Foster,
85, a pioneer resident of this place, died
at his home In this city. Funeral serv
ices were held from the home.
Mrs. Harvey Robinson.
York, Neb. Mrs. Harvey Boblnson
76, died at the family home. .
Mrs. JE. A. Burke.
Tork. Mrs, E. A. Burke, it, died very
suddenly at the hospital in this city.
She underwent an operation on Monday,
from which she never rallied. She was
born in Seward, and was the only child
of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Hayes of that
city. The body was taken to Seward for
burial.
Dr. 3. W. McKlbben.
Beatrice, Neb. Dr. J. W. McKibben,
one of the early settlers of the town of
Adams, northeast of here, and formerly
president of the bank of Adams, died
suddenly at his home. A few years aero
he went blind as he reached the top
of the stairway at his home when he was
about to retire for the night and he
never regained his sight. Since that
time he had been In falling; health. A
widow survives him.
John Levander.
Sutton, Neb. The death of John
Levander, SO, marks the passing of one
of the very earliest of the pioneers of
the west part of Fillmore county.
Charles Sleaser.
Tork, Neb. Charles Sleaser, il, died
at the home ol his sister,
Piper, near Arborvllle.
Mrs. Susan
Hymenal
Browm-Connard.
Wvmore. Neb. John Lawrence Brown
of this city and Miss Mary Connard of
Blue Springs were married at the Chris
tian parsonage at Blue Springs by Rev.
E. E. Powell. They will make their home
in Wymore.
Byrd-Weaver.
Central City Maud Weaver of Mar
quette and William Byrd of this city
were married here.
SIoss-Bntsbach.
BeWrice, Neb James Ewlng Sloss and
Miss Beatrice Butzbach, both of Lincoln,
were married here by Rev. A. O.
Broyles of the Baptist church.
Hawarth-Conroy.
Geneva, Neb. Marriage licenses were
granted to Jake Hawarth, 31, McCool,
and Hazel Conroy, 21, Alexandria, and to
Feeman Krause, 24. Ohlowa, and Jo
hanna Bax, 17, Ohlowa.
Burr-Dalrymple. '
McCook. Nob. Misa Carmen Dalrymple
of Inavale. Neb., and Daniel Barr of
Bloomlngton, Neb., were married by Rev.
A. E. Fowler of Culbertson in the M. K.
church parsonage. Thai young couple
went to Colorado to make their home.
Marshall-Johnson.'
Atlantic, la. Miss Bailie Gertrude Mar
shall was married to William R, Johnson,
youns; business man of Madison. Neb. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
James E. Ball, pastor of the Congrega
tional church, at the home of the bride.
The young people will make their home
at Madison, where the groom Is engaged
In the automobile business.
Petersnn-Krotte.
Beatrice, Nob. Harry J. Krotte, 23, of
Humboldt, Neb., and Mlas Emily Peter
son, 18, of Virginia, Neb., were married
at the court house by County Judge Mess
more. Borkman-Birdslry.
Tork, Neb. Clifford Burkman and
Nellie Birdsley, both of Grand Island,
were .married by County Judge H, G.
Inquest Monday
Into Shooting of
Charles Daniels
Man Killed With Shotgun,
After Attempt to Force
Huckster to Drink, Had
Criminal Record.
Inquest into the fatal shooting of
Charles Daniels, 4124 Redman ave
nue, Friday night, will be held at 9
Monday morning in Mac at rai
coner's morgue, Deputy County
Coroner Steinwender announced, yes
terday. "Daniels was a trouble-maker,"
said the deputy coroner. "He has
been haled into district court a dozen
times in the past 10 year, on various
criminal charges." s
Records in the county attorney's
office show Daniels was last ar
raigned in district court in May,
1920, on charges of intermarriage
with his daughter. These charges
were nolled.
sent to Penitentiary.
In November, 1919, he was ac
quitted of a charge of horse rustling,
while in June, 1918, he was sent to
the state penitentiary under sentence
of 1 to 10 years for shooting with in
tent to kill.
Daniels died in Swedish Mission
hospital Friday night from wounds
in the abdomen caused by a charge
of buckshot fired from a shotgun in
the hands of Tony Calamia, 2019
North Twenty-first street.
Calamia is a huckster who had
gone to a shack near Forty-second
and Grand avenue to prepare for an
early morning trip to market. Dan
iels, William Ray, 3714 Spencer
street, and John Fowler, 421S Hime
baugh avenue, drove up to the shack
in a buggy and called for Calamia
to come out and get a drink, accord
ing to his wife.
Fleet from Shack.
Calamia appeared at the door and
when Daniels seized him by the
shirt and called him a vile name, he
reached for his shotgun and fired,
Mrs. Calamia told police. Then he
fled out the rear door while Ray and
Fowler pulled Daniels into the
buggy and started to drive away.
Daniels fell out, however, and rolled
into a ditch where police found him.
Daniels' young stepdaughter-wife
whom he married following the
death of her mother, told police her
husband always was violent when
he had been drinking and calmly
showed officers where the wounded
man lay in the weeds. She tried to
comfort Mrs. Calamia who was
hysterical. Fowler and Ray are held
by police as witnesses.
Autumn
1921 .
Exposure of Ku KIux
Man on rue nere
(Continued From Page One.)
the first men to join in the state,
that Governor Morrison after his out
break against it was seen and prom
ised p:ood behavior and later applied
for admission and was held on pro
bation, that Josephus Daniels was re
fused because he was too tricnnly
with the negroes after living in
Washington eight years, that Senator
Overman was twice refused admis
sion, that General Pershing, Attor
ney General Daugherty, Gen. Julius
S. Carr and many others were orig
inal and earnest members.
Easy to Believe.
"Why I believed any of these
things is another thing entirely, and
I can't answer it, except that it is
easy to believe what one wants to
believe.
"I was credulous and was caught.
"They then picked me to head the
permanent organization in the state.
I thought this was due to my ac
quaintance with the state and wtih
the right kind of men in every
county.
"In fact I know now it was be
cause they figured was the best
asset they could pick, in order to use
it to bring in the coin. Colonel Sim
mons promised me everything and
gave his personal word to me that
no action could be taken in the klan
that was not lawful, that I was the
supreme head in the state as he was
to the nation and answerable only to
him and that I could build my own
organization with men of genuine
ability and character. '
All Empty Promise. -"All
this was empty promise, and
the organizers, professional money-
getters from outside the state who
knew nothing and cared nothing
about getting the right kind of men,
proceeded to use my name secretly
and openly as answers to the charges
of fake and fraud. At one meeting,
while still in the faith, I pledged the
state organization for law and order,
and 141 men came forward, took the
oath and paid the cash.
They caught me and used me and
probably laughed at it, but they made
the mistake ot thinking I would
quietly lie down and take it. After
the higher-ups saw this disruption
was imminent, tney ottered me
everything possible in a commercial
sense. I have paid all my own ex
penses out of my own pocket, and
am glad now that this is so. 1
only wish I had lost 10 times as
much and nothing else but the
monev. I deserved to lose it and I
repeat my only regret is that all I
lost m it -Vight have been money.
Wizard Incompetent.
"The imperial wizard is a big-bod
ied, red-headed, genial Irishman, and
in my opinion, personally sincere. He
is not competent to head the organ
ization if it could succeed. He has
From l'Arc de Triomphe
to the Statue of Liberty
'HERE is only one Paris.
There is only one city in
the world that can tell
us how short to wear
our skirts, how
long to wear
our sleeves and
where to put our waistlines.
8?
And while we do not always
observe the strict letter of
every decree, yet the fact
remains "as Paris does, so
does the world of Fashion."
We often doubt whether it is
generally known that most of the
fashions we show have had their
inspiration in Paris, the wonder city
of Europe. It is so, nevertheless.
Three or four times each year repre
sentatives of certain New York
manufacturers whose fashions we
onlv moderate ability and no force
at all.
"He has mixed up with fraternal
orders and dreamed this thing, and
some stronc-minded men without
sincerity or dreams, took charge of
it, and laugh at the poor tools wno
fall for it. 1 hev gave me my chance
to close my eyes and revel for a
year in the easy money, put even
if I were blind, I couldn't forget
that there are other years.
"This thing tould succeed only by
makine national and state govern
mcnts their vassals, and that isn't
possible, ai)d if it were, would be
wrong. Our, governments are not
what they should be, but they will
not be cleansed bv work' in the dark.
"The 'sacred sublime' flubdub has
disguested me from the start, and
yet a very large proportion of the
men who have joined, did so because
of this stuff and of the appeal to
passion and to ignorance. I have
never really taken the thing serious
ly but simply have hoped in spite of
the tacts facing me that it might
be made so.
"There is nothing serious about it
exceot the protection it affords bad
men, and the money it takes out of
the state, lo accomplish these things
the professions of Americanism and
law and order, common to all fra
ternities, are rung in for all they
are worth.
"The ritual of the order is the
worst jumble of bad English and
asininity that I have ever met. It
reads like a compilation by a school
boys' blood and thunder society. The
whole thing uses whatever is neces
sary for commercial purposes.
Omaha Third City in Area
Of Parks, for Population
Omaha is the third city in the
United States, from a population
standpoint, in park area. Spokane
and Washington, D. C, are first
and second.
Omaha is third, with 1,400 acres
of parks, joined with 35 miles of
boulevards. The park system is
valued at $7,000,000.
Other cities Omaha surpasses in
this respect are: Los Angeles,
sixth; Seattle, ninth; St. Paul, 12th
and Dayton, 20th.
Lincoln Musicians Will
Not Accept Salary Cuts
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 13. (Special
Telegram.) Lincoln musicians to
day, through their attorney organiza
tion refused to accept a 20 per cent
wage reduction tendered them by
theater managers who a year ago
granted musicians a 40 per cent in
crease. Firemen Plan Picnic
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 13. (Spe
cial.) At a meeting of the Beatrice
Volunteer Fire department it was de
cided to hold a picnic at Chautauqua
park on August 28. All active and
exempt firemen with their families
are invited. '
feature, set sail to seek the newest
and most attractive of Parisian
modes.
These, brought over at great
expense, are modified and
adapted by skilled American
designers and, believe it or
not, hardly have the wrinkles
blown out of the original
importations before we arc
setting before
your eyes Amer
ican adaptations
chic lovely
inexpensive.
Half of the Joy of new
clothes is in wearing
them early in setting
the style rather than
following it."
8? "S?
You are invited to call and see our
advance showing of Autumn modes.
Roads Announce
Reduced Rates
For Ak-Sar-Ben
Visitors Can Get Round frip
Tickets for Fare and One
Half; Cut Will Swell
Attendance.
Reduced railroad fares for Ak-Sar-Ben
visitors will be allowed by
railroads running into Omaha.
All of the roads entering Omaha
will put into effect excursion rates
of fare and one-half for round trips
during the fall festival period, It has
been announced.
These reduced rates will apply to
all points in Nebraska except those
within only a few miles of Omaha
and probably will extend to Kansas
City on the south, Sioux City on
the north and Des Moines on the
east.
This will be the first time in six
years that reduced rates have been
allowed for the Ak-Sar-Ben festival.
"This will mean the biggest out-of-town
attendance in the history of
Ak-Sar-Ben," declared Charles Gard
ner, secretary, joyfully when he
heard the news. "They'll till come
for the biggest celebration on earth
now."
Release Man and Woman
From Jail at Wymord
Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 13. (Special.)
After beine arrested without a
warrant and held in jail at Wymore
for a week without charges being
filed against them, Thomas wyatt
Rnhinsnn and Mrs. Bessie Kraus,
both of Bristow, Okl., were ordered
rinsed this afternoon upon a writ
of habeas corpus issued by "Judge,
Rnhinson believes he was arrested
upon request of the sheriff at Bris
tow, where he says ho owes a num
ber of bills. No further complaint
was made against him on this score,
however. Mrs. Kraus said her hus
band had deserted her at Bristow
and that she was on her way to her
former home at Kimball, Neb., with
her little son, when she was arrested
at a dance with Robinson.
Authorities state there had been
no illegal relations between the cou
ple.
Let Highway Contract
Fairbury, Neb., Aug. 3. Special.)
The first rural paving contract
in Jefferson kounty was awarded to
Berge and Gardner cf Lincoln, at
$2.94 a square yard. The work in
cluded a distance ot about oUU feet
and 18 feet wide, along the state
highway, a mile west of Fairbury.
The material used will be cement
Autumn
1921
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