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Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-07
GRAIN AND PRODUCE new YORK STOCKS
Reported Entente Reversals in
Italy and France Prompt Mod
crate Realizing for Profits
and Short Selling

New York. Dec 6.-untoward develop
mentS. notably the reported entente re-
versais In France and Italy, the Halifax
disaster and suggestions Of additional fed
eral price revision OF important commodi-
ties prompted moderate realizing for profits
and some short selling in today's stock
market,
The recommendations contained In the
majority report of the Interstate commerce
commission impaired irregular strength to
the list at the opening, but by midday vir-
tually all initial advances were replaced by
extreme recessions OF TO 3 points In Inn
portant issues
Retention OF the regular dividends by the
principal motai producing companies, in
stead OF expected reductions induced tenta-
tive buying and short covering In the latter
part of the session, hut the market closed
sluggish with 4 preponderance OF net losses.
United States steel finished at S7N. al
most its lowest quotation OF the day and
two point setback. Other industrials made
various equipments and affiliated special
ties.
Early gains OF TO . points In minor rails
were materially or entirely reduced. UtiH-
ties were under constant pressure, losing
10 points, Sales amounted to 465.o00
shares.
Strength OF Spanish exchange and heavi-
ness In remittances on Rome were the con-
trasting features of the foreign exchange
MARKET Domestic monetary conditions were
unaltered.
Bonds, including international issues, were
heavy. Liberty 4s varied from a7.isc TO
s7.42c, and the siss from 9S.Sac to sS94c.
Total sales, par value. s4,4G5 900. United
States bonds. old issues. were unchanged on
call.
Number of sales and quotations on lead
~ i'in2p
Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-07
IiyerDo0I Cotton Market.

Liverpool, Dec s.--Cotton--spot slow;
prices easier: good midding. 22.6sd; mid
ding, 22.lsd low middling, 21.sSd: good
ordinary, 2O.63dsi ordinary. 201id; sales.
1000 baes, including 1,1o0 American; re-
ceipts, 5000 bales.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-07

You can secure a maid, stenogra-
pher or bookkeeper by using Bee
Want Ad.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-07
MONEY TO LOAN


MONEY MONEY MONEY
is SANTA CLAUS COMING
TO YOUR HOUSE?
Grown up folks know why he comes
or stays away. If you have little
money he is more likely to come
Are you going to run the risk of him
missing you? Take no chance and get
the money today. Let us give Santa
Claus your number
For 26 years we have been doing this.
Easy payments. Utmost privacy.
OMAHA LOAN COMPANY,
$40 Paxton Block Tel. Doug 22e5.
Organized by the Business Men Of Omaha.
FURNITURE, pianos and notes as security,
$40, mo-, II. goods, total cost, $3.50.
$40, mo-, indorsed notes, total cost, $3.50
Smaller, large ANTS proportionate rate.
PRovIDENT LOAN SOCIETY.
4s2 Rose Bldg, 10th and Farnam Ty. 666.
LOANS ON DIAMONDS AND JEwELRY
AT PER CENT. SMALLER LOANS 2
PER CENT. W. C. FLATAU. ESTAB-
LISHED 1892. SIXTH FLOOR tROSE)
SECURITIES BUILDING. TYLER $50
DIAMOND AND JEWELRY LOANS
Lowest rates. Private loan booths. Harry
Malashock. 1914 Dodge. D. 561S. Est 1891
Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-07
FARM AND RANCH LANDS
Arkansas Lands
Colorado Lands.


$50 ACRES Of timber land, So per acre. AR
KANSAS INVESTMENT CO.. Leslie. Ark.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-07
Kansas City Produce Market.

Kansas City. Dec. s.--Butter. Eggs and
Poultry--Market unchanged.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-07
OMAHA LIVE STOCK
Cattle Late in Arriving Find
Market Weak; Hogs Five
Gents Up; Sheep Some
Lower.
RECElPTS--CARS.

Receipts and disposition OF live stock at
the Union Stock yards, Omaha. Neb., for
twenty y-four hours ending at 3 o'clock .. m.
Dec. G. 1917:
FrEIpTS-rApc
Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-07
LAND SEEKERS.

It will pay you TO come at once and see
what have IL you wish, to file on gov
ernment homesteads. NJ STRAUSBERG,
1910 Stout st.. Denver, Colo. tfornerly in
IT q land nfSica servical
Omaha daily bee., 1917-12-07
Acreage.
ACREAGE SNAP
WHY PAY RENT
$500 DOWN AND
$25 PER MONTH

Groom house, modern except heat; III
acres Of ground near 36th and Curtis,
facing on boulevard; barn, chicken house
= 6nd other necessary buildings; close to
a Ychool, not far from car line. Priced at
v $1,000, what the improvements are worth.
PAYNE INVESTMENT COMPANY, Realtors
537 Omaha Nat. Blk Bldg d. 1881
FIVE very fine garden lots, close to car line,
close to school, just outside the city limits.
where you do not have to pay city taxes;
an ideal place to raise pigs, poultry or
garden; the owner has moved to Cali
fornia and says sell at once; price $92
each; terms SOC week on each lot Call
Walnut 's466 today or in the evening
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28

Your bordeaux, nicotine and ar
senate of lead sprays will Kill fungus
and insects which feed upon the
plant leaves. but you should go aft
er cutworms and slugs with poison
bait, says tOday's bulletin from the
national emergency food garden
commission. which is cooperating
with this paper to encourage war
garden planting.
The best poison bait is that made
with paris green or powdered white
arsenic. Paris green, however, now
being prohibitive in price. white ar
senic is the best worm poison to use
this year. The formula for it is as
follows:
Two pounds Of wheat bran. two or
three ounces of powdered white ar
senic. two or three ounces of cheap
syrup. one lemon or one orange
chopped fine. and water enough to
make a thick mush.
The bran and poison should be
first mixed together. Then dilute the
syrup with a little water. Pour the
syrup solution over the bran and
arsenic. then add the lemon or or
ange. and finally just enough water
10 make "A thick mush.
Slugs and cutwOrms do not appear
during the day. but come out al
night and eat the young lettuce and
cabbage plants Slugs, which are a
sort Of Shiny worm. are also fond
OF ripe tomatoes. strawberries. and
certain other fruits Both slugs and
cutworms hide under sticks OF wood
and other small covering places dur
/ ing the day Their feeding is done
at night
The poison bait in small quaint
ties should be placed around bed.
which are attacked by these pests
and also placed in little quantities
under sticks and other places where
the worms may hide.
In addition 70 poison bait and
poison sprays you may need 20 use
dry powdered poison 10 combat var
ious garden insects. Pulverized sui
phur is busted on plants fun strength
20 kill mildew Pvrethrum is an in
sect powder often busted on plants
/ one ounce OF pyrethrum dissolved
/ in two gallons OF water is a good
spray for vegetables like cabbage,
and caulaower because II is no
I poisonous 20 people.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28
GREAT WAR II WE DON'T WEAKEN.
BY Wallace Irwin OF the Nigilantes

A few nights ago public demon
stration was held in Madison
Square garden TO honor the crews
Of visiting French warships. That
night was truly inspiring to loyalty
and TO brotherhood in arms. The
1900 who beat the other 1900 to
the door and stormed the auditor
ium were on their feet most of the
evening. shaking the Ordered cell
ing with Yankee cheers and rebel
yells At one dramatic point
French acknowledgements leap
ed over the ropes into the central
arena and whipped out his sword,
a tongue Of flame. to signal many
hundred French bayonets which
sprOuted suddenly skyward. a corn
field of steel, raised to the glory of
a new ally The ensuing din was
terrific and lon the tide of
young enthusiasm-helped knock
off the hat of the only pacitist pres
emit.
II was out Of the contrasting ST.
lence which followed that / heard
the warning spoken softly by the
little man just behind me.
It'll be a great war" he said,
IF we don't weaken"
If we don't weaken-there's the
point of a sermon, Nobody likes
to preach on the elderly subject of
prohibition; but we are now
launched as a nation upon the bust
ness of killing and being killed and
at such a time none of us can af-
ford TO trifle with the truth. We
mustn't weaken and we must cut out
the rotten roots Of weakness.
Sane America wants the manu-
facture Of alcoholic beverages
stopped for a reason that has moth
ing TO do with sentimental twad-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28
CANALS AS HELP 10 TRANSFORMATION.

Interest though without anticipation early
summation, naturally revives in the lake Michigan TO
lake Erie project read of the opening Of
the new barge canal Buffalo to Albany. y Y The
metropolis New York city in consequence is looking
for considerable easement or railroad freight con-
gestion reduction OF freight charges vast quanti-
Of goods moving east for consumption and export
and lower prices for many commodities.
The canal makes a continuous waterway bulky
freight all the way from Chicago to the eastern sea-
board taps whole lakes region. far more
effectively than the old Erie did. The scheme
of canal ,raffc being modernized. There be
fast freight boats nste9d of the old drawn
canal boats or small steam propelled packets good
sized feet OF them is expected operation by
middle of
The rates will be dfean per less rail-
road rates should guarantee lib
ersI patronage But the facilities will be partcu-
larry welcome on account inability eastern
railroads handle the traffic forced them.
II falls naturally enough with this Development
that the rivers and uarbors and the
United shipping board urging the govern
ment 10 build fleet of bsrges the Mississippi river
10 help relieve the trunh-ine congestion OF western
Shipping intended for export Their proposal a
modest one. They merely ASK that Ss,ooO.ooo Of the
$4,000 e0e appropriated by congress for ship con-
struction be devoted to purpose The request
should be readily granted II II Will accomplish the
object
These two events. occurring az time when the
transportation problem become critical 10
emphasize the tremendous value OF waterways in our
national carrying system. 10 seems incredible the
light present situation that the country should
80 Ions treated this important matter with ndf-
II We had proper system Of internal canals
there could be such disastrous freight bockades
as those which have handicapped an oar domestic and
foreign trade during the past and which still
as bad
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28
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MAY %, 1917.
FIRE-PROOF BUILDINGS.

7he big hre in Atlanta is another bitter lesson the
American people. It is waning against himsy. in
hammabIe construction. The 6fteen hundred or more
buildings neari5 all wooden structures.
It's the old story. familiar every great conha
grafton of history.
There time when wooden houses were natural
escusable this country. They the pioneer
times when there was plenty of wood he had at COW
cost. little other building material 1t nat
Ural 700. build temporary structures of wood
Even then unwise wood the standard
material in thickly settled communities. Certainly it
excusabe today except possibly neghborhoods
where houses stand far apart that there little
danger of being ommunicated from dwelling
another.
Neither is it economical more 10 build wooden
structures itself enormously in
cost The original expense of brick cement con
struction much greater nowadays and the ulti-
mate expense is undoubtedly lower The house
business building of brick far dur
able costs to maintain and less for insurance IS
unlikely catch hre suffer much damage if it does
and a protection the community because it keeps
FIRE from spreading
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28
Animals at PLau
Their Actions Are Often Significant Prove That Man Not
the Sole PoSeSsor of magntion
BY Garnett P. Serviss-

/ turalist, tells of young orang-
Outang In the geological gardens at
London, where ne was sure exhib-
tied a sense of the ludicrOus Her
feeding tin was of a somewhat pc
culiar shape, and when il was empty
she used sometimes to invert in upon
/ her head. The tin then presented
a comical resem blance to a bonnet,
and as its wearer would generally
favor the spectators with a broad
grin at the time Of putting it on she
never failed 70 raise "A laugh from
them Her success in this respect
was evidently attended with no
small qualification on her part"
Ii seems rather astonishing TO
learn that ants are accustomed to
play almot as regularly as school
| boys, but the fast has been we'll es-
tablished. at least as regards certain
species. Both Huber and Forel. IA
nous naturalists agree in asserting
| that the species called pratensis hold
sports or festivals on the surface Of
their nests, in which the players
catch each other by the feet or
jaws, roll over each other on the
ground like boys playing. pull each
other inside the entrance of their
nest, only TO come out again. and
so on. All this is done without bad
temper. or any squirting Of poison
: and it is clear that all the rivalry is
| friendly"
Birds are celebrated for their
sports, which are usually associated
with counting. The bower birds Of
New South Wales have what the
naturalist Gould calls playing
houses" placed on the ground under
| the shelter of overhanging trees in
remotest parts of the forest The
! base consists of a platform OF inter
!.woven sticks, over which is erected
! a bower formed of sticks and twigs.
and ornamented with gay-colored
! feathers, snail shells, bleached bones
and other bright objects
Wi in these bowers both sexes
asse- q e. and the males strut about
displaying their plumage, assuming
many extraordinary attitudes. pick
1 ing up brilliant feathers and carry
ing them around. uttering quaint
notes, sesticulating with their
wings. the entire exhibition being
apparently intended for the delec-
tation Of the females.
Some OF the exhibitions Of ami
mails that appear like play 10 US are
doubtless serious affairs 20 them
hut the part that Imagination plays
in them is the same. Thus. the per
formanCes OF the preacher mon
! KEY" OF Guiana seem rather cere-
moniOus than playful. Sometimes a
member Of a troop mounts into a
tree. and by peculiar call assem-
bIes a congregation below MIN.
Then. upon signal from the
! preacher. the whole assem- blaze
sets up a yell that resounds through
the woods Next the leader in the
tree gives another signal, upon
which the congregation utters a
sort OF singing chorus. This ceases
al a third signal. after which the
preacher seems 10 be haranguinG
When ne descends from the tree IN,
exhibition is over.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28

The play OF animals is one of the
best proofs of the essential identity
of their intelligence with ours, be-
case they play implies the use of
imagination, and imagination is the
basis of mental action. as its defin-
ton shows: The power or process
of producing mental pictures or
ideas" Therefore. every living crea-
ture that play possesses, in some de-
gree, mind or ability to form ideas
If this fact were generally COM
pretended there would be revolu-
ton in our treatment of the animal
world around us. Then men would
not be so fond of taking a gun in
the morning and going out TO kill
something, for mind instinctively re-
spects mind. Even as it is, the life
of many an animal has been spared
! by a hunter because the poor crea
| ture was seen 10 be in the act Of
playing with its companions. That
act appeals straight TO the sense of
relationship.
The hardest-hearted gunner low
ers his arm when he sees fawns
sporting around their mother, for
if he tries TO aim the image of muir
der appears on the mirror of his
mind Unconsciously he recognizes
that his own kind are before him.
1t has been remarked that the
habit Of playing among animals
seems to be related to the capacity
/ TO be tanned, or domesticated All
domestic animals are fond Of play.
Amonk wild animals those kinds are
most easily tanned that are most ac-
customed 10 play in their native
state. The black bear in the woods
/ is a playful animal. and its young
are as sportive as kittens. on ac-
count Of this tendency. or perhaps
We may say of this imaginative
quality. the black bear is easily
tanned. while. on the other hand.
the grizzly and the cinnamon bear.
/ which have little playfulness in
their nature. are practically un-
tameable.
! Monkeys are playful and ba boons
are not Chimpanzees are said TO
hold revels in which numbers con-
I gegate and amuse themselV es by
( drumming with sticks on stumps or
loss. Young elephants are playful,
while a young rhinoceros or hippo
potamus SHOWS no imaginative pow
| er OF that kind. and in accordance
with these characteristics we ind
that the elephant is the only one OF
the larger animals that can be sue
cessfully tanned.
Eagles are not usually tames bic
and not playful. but parrots are fond
OF play. usually OF a mischieviOus
character seals are very playful
and can be taught a great variety OF
tricks Ii i said by explorers that
monkeys in their native woods often
play tag. and follow my leader,
chasing one another for hours
among the branches They 90 not
forget these things when they be-
come inmates OF cages in GEOLOGICAL
gardens.
Sometimes the very mind of the
monkey seems readable in its play
Thus Mr.. Pomanes. the English ma
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28

die. The manufactures of alcoholic
beverages, if continued with US,
would amount 10 a deadly German
plot in our midst This is a matter
OF plain business fact The world
is facing starvation. America must
feed herself and the world; and she
cannot sit by and see millions of
tons of good. clean grain being
poured into watts to make a rather
expensive, somewhat poisonous, en-
tirely useless liquid.
Already they are talking Of Civ
ing us war bread. Your grocer has
learned 10 say Food shortage" as
he doubles the price of every edible
and in the saloon next door the
workman-who would surely serve
our industrial army a little better
were he sticking to cold water
is cheating somebody out Of a
square meal every time a glass Of
the same" is showed at him over
the bar.
It's Up TO the banker and the
baker, the pub and the club We
are struggling desperately 10 make
food-ships, a large percentage Of
which are destined 10 feed Won Ca
pelles ruinous and cowardly sharks
War is becoming something hell
never dreamed of. And if we're go
ing TO OUTAGE hell we can't do il
by getting drunk at the expense
of soldiers abroad and children at
home. Uncle Sam has got TO go in
training for the big fight If he's
going TO win he mustn't be starved
or drugged. Patriotic brewers and
distillers know this and are divert
ing their business into channels use
full 70 the government. Those who
are not patriotic must he compelled
into decency-and your influence
will help. if you don't weaken.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28
THE WEATHER. DEBTOR.

on Thursday May L. the weather owed the middle
a large the way of temperature. There
a deficit that time of two hundred degrees.
daily records since the first of January
showed total Of two hundred degrees less than nor.
nal temperature for that period.
According statistics-and they always right
the weather plays fair in the long 1t may be
slow pay in one season, but it up For
that the weather prophets assuring garden
that great agricultural region that
there will be plenty of heatand rainto force vege-
tation in June.
That may be a comfortable thought; but we can con
ceive of citizens who that o two hun
dred degrees settled all at once
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28
EDUCATION FOR WORKING BOYS.

a school has been organized in Drifton, Pa. for the
boys working in the coal shops there. This school IS
just the attempt of coal company give the boys
interested in getting education getting
in the world a start toward that end.
So far about thirty boys being trained in the
school The class supplements shop work
and takes place during shop The boys paid
for the time. that there financial handicap p.
Only few have started but these the
training is thorough. There drills in penmanshp,
freehand drawing from models mathematics and spell
ing. Particular emphasis laid the Of mechan-
ical terms. One hour week is given each class.
1t isn't right that boys and girls should compelled
TO to work for living before they have had a fair
education restricts their opportunities
vancement and il lessons their value their employer
The fact that department factories
other industrial organizations making possible
their employees a little farther along road
toward education indicates that the problem is recog-
nized. Present only beginning of the
solution.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28
MUCH JAW-WOPK

The United states department of commerce
nounces that over a million dollars chewing
gum will go to foreign buyers coming fiscal year.
England taking $4,000 worth. $4,000 worth.
or more and there's heavy increases in the consump-
Africa Egypt
Another time proposition that stumps Here's
the foreigner down his praying for
bread. yet he's going buy all of that which
hleth not either the stomach the skull. However.
passed the chewing habit the foreigner
and ought not to kick if il took deadly hold on hI.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28
THE MUNICIPAL PLOWMAN.

\ new functionary has appeared in many American
cities He's the municipal plowman. He is hired by
the city TO pillow lots people who want 70
make war gardens and haven't the money or time OF
energy To spade them.
st Louis has gone into the thing zealously that
she has whole colony of plowmen. Any citizen who
wants yard prepared seeding simply calls
mp the city the chief city plowman' and
states his request When ne gets home from the shop
office the evening the jobs the pillow
Imam homeward plods his weary way" the municipal
garage punch the time clock his tractor
for the night
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28
IOIN THE NEW w w

All the country there should be formation and
thorough organization OF the /. W. w. II is a
when such organization is vitality necessary to
prosecution OF the If in every factory, business
place and home the spirit OF the l. w w prevails the
problem Of feeding allies will he solved, the
country 100000 600 of every year.
Gording TO the estimates the statistcians
The employer and the manufacture who don't con-
duct their affairs the line of l. w w. policy miss it
there is question but the l. W. w. propaganda
should reach irto and affect all home affairs.
are referring to the Won't Waste" movement
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-28
Business as Usual
Some Views From the Local
Field.
SHOES AND RUBBER TRADE.
BY George DimeI. Mgr. q. X. Kinney


BN George Dimcl- Mgr. q. X. Kinney
Co.
notwithstanding the calamity talk
in the magazines and newspapers
generally regarding conditions. our
company seems TO be moving along
nicely
Business as Usual" That is the
slogan that has kept England and
her colonies from economic depres-
sion during the war-kept their
people -their>industries NOV
ing-their business prosperous
War cannot be successfully waged
without internal prosperity. II is i'm
portant that our buying and selling
De uninterrupted.
Money should not he boarded.
but ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - kept
moving. That process alone will
have the country from internal
hardship and outward menace
6. r Kinney Go. Inc. announce
their determination 10 act upon this
prirsiple Our purchases will not
he curtailed-but increased. More
people than ever will be employed
in making G. r. Kinney Co SHOES
More leather will he purchased
more supplies of every kind will be
utilized
We have faith enough i'm the
American public 10 believe that this
course will be generally adopted and
that our normal prosperity not only
will be maintained but increased
during the war and after
our advice TO the ublic-respect-
fully tendered-is this: Go on buy
ing as usual-and lend your surplus
10 the government
II everybody does this. the COUn-
try will he prosperous and there will
always he a surplus 10 lend.