Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-12-14
Agents at Corn EXPOSE
ton Have No Explanation.
SENATOR CAREY TALKS TODAY
Experience" Talks by Practical Men
to Be Feature.
HEARD on THE ORIENT
VIII BE on Platform Again wednes-
day EVENING". c. Buffum of
wyOminE speaks This
Morning.
LECTURE HAIL no. L.
10 80 a. m-Smau Grain Talks.

LECTURE HAIL no. L.
1880 a. u--smau Grain Talks.
MUSIC HALL
! 80 p. m--COresrt by Mexican National
Band.
asoo p. m.-Hxarming in the west" BY
Senator J. II. Carey Of wyoming,
author Of Carey Land Act
4 800 p. r.-Band Concert.
ssoo p. m.-Program Concert by MsxicGn
National hand.
BIoGRAPE EALL-
Illustrated Lectures and Moving Pictures.
1l:15 o. rn-aReiafion OF western soils
and Climate 20 crops." By =. c. Buff
fun Of wOrland. wyO., A Il. Whitley,
presiding.
lao D. m.-ECuts Of AEea4s," with cutting
demonstrations a. wen as lantern
slides, By Miss JsEHioa Bssack.
2;ls p. 11--4Ccnservation Of Our Forests"
by D. C. Ellis.
$500 p. m--"Ths Hog Cholera Serum" By
DE-. J. W. Conway.
s:4s ?. m.@'our Live Stock 1EaThst," By
J. A. Shoemaker.
4:3o p. m.-koviag Pictures.
7;so p. r,--"Handling Live Stock" by J.
A Shoemaker.
s;ls p. m--"The Lumber Industry By Y.
! C. Lsedy.
$500 p. m.-4Bsttsr ROads.- By n o.
Eldridge.
s345 p. u.-i'The Farmers and Uncle SAM"
by p. LamEon seribnsr.
1880 p. m.-Nov5ng Pictures.
Remnants Of a moving picture, from
which the portions including President
Taft reviewing the parade Of ribbon win
ners at the Seattle Stock show during
the Alaska-Yukon-Paeifie exposition. were
removed by an unexplained official order.
were shown al the National Corn expoSi-
1ion Monday afternoon fos the first ums.
a week ago this picture was expected
to arrive for the opening Of the Corn Show.
simultaneously from opposite sides Of the
eontinent-Seattle and New York-cams
ltslcgrams bearing the information that Sec
retary Wilson had ordered the picture sup
pressed. There was no explanation OF
why's or wherefones. II was just 90 or
dered. that was all
Monday afternoon the film arrived from
Washington by express. The package was
carefully slowed away until the officials
Of the exposition Tnigat examine IT.
Late in the afternoon a little bunch OF
anxious men gathered n me quiet OF bio
graph hail 10 see tbs discussed pic
ture run on a first trial The government
officials who we're at Seattle when the
picture was taken and who are now al the
interested audience.
The picture film was adjusted and the
machine started up with a buzE The
images on the screen flashed by but there
was no suggestion Of the p. essence Of the
president in any OF the pictures. seore-
tary Wilson's order has obviously been
carried out most completely.
Cattle, horses and sheep. sleek and fine
Of figure, swept over the canvas. prancing
bravely or again pulling back stubbornly
from the urging attendants.
Good picture" agreed all the officers
who saw the trial but everyone would have
liked to see the part that was trimmed
out under Secretary Wilson's order
Government Agents Mum.
Fine cattle indeed" was the only com
ment OF F. Lsmsin seribner the official
in charge Of the government exhibit at the
Corn Show. Neither he nor Joseph Abel.
a member Of the bureau Of animal industry,
who was in Seattle at the show when the
. picture was taken. would discuss the pic
ture or anything connected with the Of
ficial action which preceded its shipment
10 Omaha
This picture was taken by z. z. Thomp-
son. a government photographer at Seat
tie. under the direction Of Joseph Abel
: The film was taken TO Washington by
Thompson a few weeks ago to be devei-
oped.
No official notice In regard to the pic
ture was given here, so far az can be
asoertsined. The picture simply failed 20
arrive on time. kilograms from Omaha
failed TO elicit further information until a
message came that the picture would be
on its way a few days late. This cen
! sored film was taken especially to show
] in Omaha at the National Corn exposition.
p II viii be taken from here to other govern
5 ment exhibits after the close Of the Corn
, show
The original picture. II Is understood con-
tained nothing more than the figure OF the
president as he stood reviewing the live
stock parade. Mr.. Taft had but paused
} 20 admire a string OF fine cattle that was
passing. He was engaged IN conversation
with the officials about him al the time
Carey and "ExperIence' TaIlra.
Today's program includes important fea-
lures OF the show Senator j. NJ Carey
OF Wyoming who has taken so large an in
terest IN the agricultural interest OF the
west and the farming methods which have
made the mi-ar'd lands pr5ductiys. win be
one of the principal speakers OF the day.
The farmers experiences" meetings held
z in lecture han No. l. viii be devoted 10
discussion Of the growing OF small grains
, The Mexican National band win play the
, usual daily concerts and the regular pro
gram Of Biograph han viii be given, in-
eluding talks by the government officials
here with the exhibits with which Uncle
Sam is educating corn show crowds
Gurdon W. Wattles, president OF the Ma
ti0nal Corn exposition. took the lecture
= platform last night, telling the assembled
/, gatheTing of the life Of the Orient. His
! lecture for the evening vas on The PM
z ippines. China and Corea" Mr Wattles'
d lecture was illustrated by pictures taken
4 during his recent tour Of the world. The
e lecture presented new view o. the ooun.
tries and their peoples. far out of ths