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The Omaha morning bee., 1922-10-12

Mem turned 10 appeal 10 the man
I who had promised 90 drive her 90 the
Handles ranch. But he was standing
I far out IN Raa ~ sage and cactus,
dolefully regarding his wagon, which
I lay on It's back with three and half
wheels spinning In air and the other
half of one scattered about tho desert
While Mem flounderad IN tho sands
Of her own uncertainties many cam.
ola went by, and horses la gorgeous
4 trappings Then string of light
automobiles loaded with machinery
+ that she did not understand, with
/ lighting equipment, with airplnne pro.
/ pellers 10 Kick up Aandntorm and
with parAphernalia Of every sort,
/ After these walked and rndo "A great
crowd of men and women In Arabian
costumes, their faces and hands paint.
od In raw culors Ellis checked one
Of the ears In which Hnt a woman,
Mrs, kittery, TO whom he introduced
Mrs Woodyllle, explaining what was
To be done with her.
"Get Ia here, my dear" said Mrs.
kittcry.
And before Mem could protest MIR.
Ellis had Hung her suitcase IN, helped
her to a seat, slammed the tin door
on her. swung into his saddle aud
AWAY.
Tho cnr kept to what road there
was, and Mrs. kivery soon learned
how nbysmnl Men's innocence was
But she was used 10 The ignorance Of
extra women and she was glad that
Nom was not n Chinese, Turk. or
an India. She could NJ least under
stand English.
After a long and furlously jolly
passage over the sand the caravan
of motors aud the mob " suffering
extras came to Il halt on the shady
side Of a cluster Of Arabian tents,
Mrs. Kittery asked ono Of the extra
women To make up Mrs. WoodYille
while she found o costume in the
hamper. This amlable person WAS
stlll unknown 10 fame as LeSa lie.
MARE. really Mrs David Wilkinson,
whose husband had been killed In the
war, leaving her with three children
whom she supported by this form Of
toll She preferred II TO her pre-.
yious experiences M d School teacher
and trained nurse. She made from
$40 to $50 week and sometimes
more, aud she led llfe Of picturesque
travel from nationality 10 nationality
"A Mexican ono week. "A Hindu an
other, n sluaw, or a harem odaliaque.
Mem felt that the extra womnn's life
had its destinations.
The art was "the business" TO Mrs |
and sho called IL that. She |
wss generous with grease paint and
and she had village |
mind that translated TO Mems village |
. r. II -.
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Grocer jailed for Booze
Causes Arrest Of Tailor

VIII Brenr, tailor. 1913 Leayon.
worth street, was arrested yesterday
by booze sleuths on a warrant sworn
gu, by y. Goldberg, alins j kohlberg,
grocer. next door, who wns sentenced
10 80 days In jail for illegal possession
" liquor lost Saturday despite his plea
that booze found In his basement WIS
placed there by n tailor next door.
Detectives stated they VIII not assist
IN 'rear's prosecution because they
know nothing ~ the alleged transpor.
lntlon of liquor Brear threatens 10
sue the grocer.
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Uncle Sam Says


"1he linddock one of the Best Salt
Water Fishes" IN the tltle' of n recent
~ issued booklet by the United states
bureau of fisheries. Il tells about
the early history Of the haddock.
whore and how they are caught. gives
comparison Of the food values OF
haddoek and cod, and contains hve
pages ~ hnddock receipts
iI0ddock IL one of the cheapest of
the salt water fishes besides being
obtalnnble IN the fresh state, II ~ nj.
NO sold dried and snted like cod. and
smoked. IN the later state, II In known
ar Hnnan hnddlo and IL one OF the
most delicious II the smoked fishes
Readers ~ The Omaha Bee may OBJ
tain n copy of this pamphlet free by
addressing q postal card 10 tho
United States Bureau Of Fisheries,
Washington, y, O., asking for Eco
nomlc Circular No. A."
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1890. presumably believing II good
buy even under existing taxation
The consideration given In the record
IL $4,000, However. the farm il list.
ell for taxation at s20.s75. just over
half what Mr. Bryan paid for Il. No
tax n being assessed against the re.
naming 'ls,i25,
School Tax Grows.
The complete record shows that the
total tax on this farm grew from
1850 IN 1917 20 f49s.33 In 1921 nnd
dropped 10 ft0s.7l In 1929. The state
tax went from s2as3 to ,Gs.s9 ana
dropped In lS22-by reason Of reduc.
tions In the cost of state government
TO fts.0l The school tax grew from
1898 In 1917 10 3366.9l In 1921 and
still II, In 1922. s32l.47.
Following Il an analysis Of that part
of Mr., Bryan's tax which went 10 the
state uDVgrnIuaufi
The Omaha morning bee., 1922-10-12
Spcedometcr Shows Too
MANY Miles: Boy Arrested

When George X, Dowd. contractor,
got his car from the Auto Inn, 2slG
Lenyenworth street. he noticed the
speedomcter had registered consider.
able mileage since he placed the mn.
chine In the garage. He began 10 In
ycstlRnie and Yesterday caused the ar.
rest Of Harold ilshinR, 10. I472 Pink.
rot street. delivery boy md former
nght man at the garage, on charge
OF joyrlding,
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stop leak
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c. W.Bryan's Tax
Increase Not Due
to Code System
Only u Per Cent Of Demo.
cratic Nominees Assess.
meDt on Farm Went 10
State in 1921.

Continued reference by Charles "
Bryan 20 the taxes which he says he
pays IN Lancaster county has led "a
further interesting revolutions ~ n
bla qualifications ns n taxpayer.
M Bryan originally complained, ia
speeches In support " his own can.
didhcy for governor. that his taxes
on a dunrtsrseetlon farm had In
creased from 500 10 over f300 His
statement wns challenged and figures
were cited 10 show this 10 be n gross
NKaggsrntiOn.
hr Bryan then declared he owned
several farms ana cited the case u
another one ~ his collection on which
he said, mxes had Increased from ,l2s
in 1871 10. tl0i IN 1921. He charged
this lncrenHs 10 the administration
n the state government under the
codebudRet system nnd recommended
his own election IN the way 10 lower
taxes.
Tax Drops 10 st03.
Complete figures on this Bryan
farm show that the tax dropped 10
ti03 IN iJ22 and thnt only t2.G7 ~
the i27b Increase from 1917 10 1929
could, by any chnnce. be- charged 10
activities ~ the code departments of
The sthto government Tho local
school Tux Increase was t240, a gain
~ over 300 per cent, over which no
one but Mr. Bfynn aud his neIghbors
w the district had any control. only
~ per cent of Mf Bfyan's total tax
went 20 The state IN 1921, ~ against
10 nsr cent IN 1917, and only per cent
went 70 the county, ms against 20 per
cent IN 1917, School t0xes counted
for 10 per cent of the total In 1921 and
only 80 In 1917.
Aside from this the records show
That Mr.. Bryan did not own this farm
IN the years which he lpuds as low.tax
years Iio bought 10 February 2R,
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Copyright. 1921
The Omaha morning bee., 1922-10-12

II Hobby could be freed from Teele's
domination, even by the sharp knife
of jealousy, II might DO II good thing
for the next picture
Folger cast another look at Mem.
There was a fresh meekness about
her, an aura Of gracious appeal. II
would do no harm 10 try her out. II
she were failure no one would know
II II she was u discovery, he would
get the credit II would not hurt
him TO do Hobby n favor. for the
directors own contract was under
question Of renewal. and good word
from Hobby would not come amiss.
IAN right" he said, "l'll take a
chance Two of the extra women
kecled over this morning from the
heat. III have my assistant take her
to tho wardrobe woman and get her
fitted out and made up. She can
appear In the famine scene, and III
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SYNOPSIS.

Romance invaded the dulet life NJ Re.
member steddon and smashed all the re-
sirlCtinns aWi traditions that hsdeod hei
about as the daughter OF the Rev, Dr.
steddhn " tha little town ~ calVsry
Against her fathers command. she con.
tinued 10 meet secretly her lover. blwnod
Fsrnaby, Au upright selfmade young man,
second tenor In the choir OF her fathrfH
church There came time when mar
rage became necessity 10 protect hef
honor but she heHitated 10 reveal her re'
eTst To FArnhbys until too late. lie was
crushed 10 dsnth In an automobile accl.
dent ana Remember. panic stricken, ap'
peaicd to Dr. Bretherlck, the family phy-
slcians
suffering furnished the duetor an excuse
TO order ~ iTlp 10 the southwest, There,
hn suggested, she WAS 10 marry an iinagf
mary man nnd let him die quietly"
Mem confessed TO her mother The secret
of the expected baby ana her father was
induced 10 approve the trip ~ necessary
for her health
on the train she experienced the ihrIll
OF n cbanea meeting with Tom Holbyi
famous motion picture actor
IN letters home she dcscrbed aittn"
Woodyile" and thon from Tuscon, Aria,
her first stop, she Informed her parents
she had become Mrs WOudvlle" ana was
on her way 10 Yuma with her husband
In preparation for becoming wfow'
sho n61t wrote that mir. Woodylllo" had
gone into tho desert ON u prospecting trip.
sho left Yuma 90 take n Job aA waitress
at Palm springs. desert oasis
on tho way across the desert from the
station 10 Palm Snfings she
rhanced upon Tom Hobby and his com-
pAny out On locntiOn. Hobby ndmifing
her beauty and Hympnthlzlng with hor
plight. bos0uRht he company director
10 find place for her M an extra,
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NO WAR HATREDS.

Lloyd George has declared that
although the Allies called the Genoa
conference. they are not thereby
entitled to run it. but every nation.
including Russia and Germany.
has an equal place. He maintains
that an economic conference is not
the place for war hatreds. He has
a tough job" says a correspondent.
'to surround "a nations with that
atmosphere, but he igoing to try
his best
If Lloyd George can put over
that one thing-can make the 9TH
er 33 nations. realize that they
must please park their razors at
the door" and sit down to work as
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Monument in Japan to Prof. Ladd

Toxic. March 13-Attended by
more than hundred prominent
persons monument to memory
Of Professor George Trumbull Ladd,
late of Yale University, was unveil-
ed on March II, in the grounds Of
Sojiji Temple, near Yokohama
where his ashes were recently bur-
led Among those witnessing or
participating in the ceremony wese
the American ambassador, Prince
tTokugawa, president of the House
Of Peers and delegate to the Wash
ington Conference. Viscount Ma
kino, minister Of Imperial House
hold, Admiral Uruye, Baron Kuki.
Mayor Cato, NiScount Fukuoka,
Barren Yamakawa and Professors
Kuwaki, Shiozawa and AneZaki Of
the Toxic Imperial University.
When the monument was unveiled
by Mrs Ladd Mr. Okubo. Mr.. Var
rem. Viscount Maxine and Prince
Tokugawa spoke in high praise Of
the late Professor Ladd
Mrs. Ladd concluded the cere-
mony with an expression of graf
itude for the sentiment expressed
in behalf of her late husband.
Professor Ladd who was regard
ed as one of Americas great psy-
biologists. died in New Haven last
summer at the age of 80 years. He
had visited Japan three times and
gave number Of lectures in edu-
cational psychology at different un-
iversities. When he was received in
audience by the late Emperor Meiji
he was decorated with the order Of
the Rising Sun. In accordance
with his own request portion of
his ashes brought to Japan by
Mrs. Ladd recently for burial.
The monument just unveiled is of
stone more than ten feet in height
anl stands upon a hill in the te1n
pie grounds. 1t was erected by his
friends and pupils in Japan.
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.D@
TREES.

The week Of April 1922 has been
set apart as Forest Protection
Week. and its last day as the gold
en- anniversary Of Arbor Day. The
president has issued a proclama-
ton asking the nation to celebrate
the week; and the specific day, by
uniting in thought and action for
the preservation of our common
heritage
Forest fires, with greedy and
careless tinber-cutting. have
brought us to the point where it is
absolutely necessary that thought
and action be taken if any of our
common heritage Of woodland is
to be preserved.
Hardly anything is so easily de-
1sroyed as a forest. The compen-
sasing fact is that hardly anything
ts 80 easily replaced-if one wants
TO wait long enough. Ala it takes
is time and letting alone, and a cut
over land will produce another for
est. A burned-over land may also
do so if the burn does not go too
deep. Where roots or seeds are
left, the trees will grow.
It is not at all necessary that
timbering operations cease. in order
to replace cur forests. 1t is only
necessary that care and thrift be
used in the cutting. ANY woodlot
has definite annual output Of TIM
ber big enough to cut. If the thin
ming OF the lot be done with judg-
ment, the production for following
years will be increased rather than
diminished.
Fire is the great destroyer. Hot
ashes carelessly knocked out of a
pipe. falling on dead leaves-a
camp Ere not wholly extinguished
these are the chief causes of the
mighty conaagrations. And they
are wholly preventable.
Nothing in the. world is more
beautiful or more useful than
tree. This is the week to think
about trees, to enjoy them. to plant
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them.
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NOTICE

The Democratic Clubs Of Sumter
county are hereby called to meet at
their respective places of meeting
on Saturday, April 22nd, 1922. at
such convenient hours as the Off
GERS of the respective clubs may
designate. except that in the city
of Sumter the clubs Of the said
city of Sumter shall meet Friday
afternoon, April 21st, not earlier
than o'clock p. M. on said day.
Said clubs shall reorganize by
the election of officers, executive
committee, menlDcr Of the county
executive committee and delegates
to the county convention, which
meets in the Court House, Sumter.
S. c.. on Monday the 1st day Of
May, 1922, at 12 o'clock, noon.
Each club is entitled to one dele
gate to the convention for every
twenty-five (25) members, or ma
jority part thereof, based Upon
the vote Of the club at the last pri-
mary.
The club officers are requested to
give this notice all possible pub
licity that full meeting of The
clubs may be had.
H. G. OSTEEN.
Secretary County Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee
Sumter, S. c.. April Sth. 1922.
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4 LABOR CONSTITUTION.


Stephen A. Day. president of the
League for Industrial Justice, an
npunces that he proposes to call a
conference to formulate a code to
be used as basis for settlement
Of all labor disputes
''The need for such a code. or
creed, or what might be called an
industrial constitution. has long
been urged by the league. Presi-
dens Harding advocated it in his
inaugural address. The leading
thanght of the world points to its
necessity.
The present situation in the coal
Industry convinces me that the
time. has come to act. l have assur-
anees that the government will be
represented, as well as the great
est organizations and industries in
the country
There can be no question OF tn:
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RIVER IS STILL RISING
Engineers Along Mississippi On
the Lookout

Memphis. April 16.-Reports of
wave wash from the high winds
prevailing last night and today
kept the levee board engineers on
both sides of the river from Os-.
ceola. Ark, to Greepville, Miss.
l,usy on repairs on the embank-
ments all today with no serious
trouble anywhere along the CEN
tral section of the river developing
during the day. Clear weather in
the central watersheds encouraged
engineers to think that the flow 6f
the flood water from the Missis-
sippi tributaries viii. come to an
end within the next ten days.
At Memphis a slight rise was re-.
corded. the guage standing at 40.6..
Ali reporting points between St
Louis and Memphis report addi-
tional rises. with the exception Of,
Cairo. where there was fall of
o. foot Almost all the flood water.
is believed to have ennpied out ef
the Missouri but the Ohio is ris-
ing fast from Cincinnati to its
mouth.
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UNDERSTANDING THE INDEM.
NIFTY.

In the midst Of much loose dis
cussion regarding the amount of
the German indemnity, this pass
age in dispatch from an American
correspondent at Genoa to the New
York World is clarifying:
81 mentioned to German dele
gate today that at present value
Germany's. reparation debt, with
60 years to pay, was. about s12.-
600. 100000, while France. with
slightly more than half the popu-
lation oi Germany, owed England
and America about ss.e0o.oee. His
reply was that I did not under
stand the situationn"
The. amount of money the AL
lies are trying to get from Germany
is certainly not. at all excessive,
gauged by the damage done. The
only objection is that Germany is
in such bad shape financially that
she may not be able to pay the
comparatively, small sums demand
ed without her business system go
ing to smash. And although such
a fate might be just penalty for
Germany's crimes, it would be
mighty hard on the Allies. and
incidentally pretty hard on the
United States.
For here's the rub. If Germans
business system coliapses, Germa-
ny no longer affords a market for
foreign goods, and America and
the Allies all lose a profitable Gus
toner Moreover. if such a col
lapse comes, Germany cannot make
the small reparation which the AL
lies are still hoping for; and if they
cannot get what Germany owes
them. they cannot pay us what
they owe us. Our si0.00e.000,020
Of foreign war loans goes back to
Germany. and Will be. paid-if it is
ever paid-out Of German money.
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-
IENINE AND lloyd GEORGE

Russia has arrived at Genoa.
{ Al least. certain gentlemen pre-
sssuing to represent that sad and
hungry country have arrived and
made their presence known as a
beautiful Bolsheyik buster.
Nothing but complete recogni-
ton viii satisfy Russia is part OF
The soud noise. a long bill to be
presented TO the Allies forms what
may be known as a drone bass to
The student melody.
Lloyd George, bearing the chief
bnrden Of civilization, is a figure to
bs watched and encouraged. He
anticipated such moves, and seems
to be countering them cleverly. He
realizes that it is merely the orien-
tai trading method which he is up
asainst-the method OF asking a
-
hrFs price at first, far in excess
ae the one eventually exrected.
France has given her full ap-
pgryal of the Lloyd George pro-
gram ia regard to Russia, but has
sent no major representatives to
support him. Individual Americans
appryse the program, but official
II America has no voice. The little
Weishmaa is in position Of un-
usual and extremely tickiish re-
sppnsibility.
Most OF the intelligent and pro-
sresssve- minded people in the
world, however. are betting on
Lloyd George.
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DOING ONE THING WE'LL

John D. Rockefeller, Jr-, prais-
ing John b. Rockefe,ler sr.,, may
not be altogether convincing. but
tits certainly hard to find flaw
intss business policy described by
the son in q recent bible class talk.
here is. one thing above all
osheIs admire nay father for he
said, sit IS that in the great business
Re has built up he has always ap-
pied the principle Of sticking to
that business and building it up.
eHe has never attempted to go
into a thousand undertakings. in
sssaich be has been offered many
attractive opportunities. have al
ways thought that his application
To- one thing at a time was one of
the, signs of my fathers greatness
ofsmind.. He has been interested in
many other things, but he has KEEP.
his attention sentered on one
thlag.
3 this not true Of every great
business, or Of ever; small business
whieh is censpienously successful
that IT. has been butt up by some
man who made it his foremost in
teress2 Likewise OF professional
and artistic suceesa:
read now and then of a Leo
nandp da Vinci,. q BENJAMIN
Frankiin or Hugo SHINES who
seems to disregard this rule; but
such men are rare. and imitation Of
Their, Sis full Of risk, especially in
an age Of specialization. The gem
ins is. usually a person who, in
stead ee trying to do everything
vel, T. content te do one thing bet
ANYBODY else.
5nat looks IKE .brilliancy'' is
osen only scater-brainedness. Many
O. maa who might have made a
eFeet. success is frittering away his
tSsAnf BY scattering. his energies
iSteaa OF concentrating and stick
Ing to the one thing to which he
first committed himself, s
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business men engaged on the solu-
ton of business problems for the
good Of the business Of all present,
not as warning and prejudiced ma
tionals. he will have accomplished
the great purpose Of the conference.
If the nations of the world will
stop fussins long enough to learn
how to cooperate with each other
in running the business Of the
world with some mild degree of
efficiency and common sense. a
great step forward will have been
made in the progress of human civ
ilizatioa.
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FIRE RAVAGES
: LAMAR. AGAIN
Large Business Block Destroy.
ed Entailing Loss of $4,000

Lamar. April 14-The largest
building in town was destroyed by
fire this morning at o'clock. In
a few minutes after the fire was
discovered. the whole central part
of the building was a mass of
! flames. Because of the headway
gained, practically nothing could be
saved, though the volunteer fire.
men labored long in efforts to
check the flames.
The FIRST business to go was the
furniture store recently bought out
by George Spears. Out of this
large stock was saved two sets of
bedroom furniture and some small
stuff.
Upstairs the Lamar Telepho ne
company was total loss. The
young man who is the night opera
tor had to climb to the bank
building over the cross arms.
The Lamar Brokerage company
sustained the loss Of ali accounts,
books and furniture, aying only
the typewriter. This flrm had just
finished putting in an up-to-date
Office set. =:
The Lamar Insurance company
lost all papers aDd the office furni'
tuce.
DIR: S. L. Parnell, the owner of
the building, had his Office up
stairs. This office was complete in
every detail and the handsome
library, the instruments and Office
furniture were a complete loss.
The Glover grocery is a COM
plete loss, only a few things being
gotten out. This stock is COM
plete loss.
Ed Glover, who has gone to
Pineiand in the employ of the Sea-
board, had his household furniture
stored upstairs in the Parnell
building and sustained a heavy
loss as all of his possessions were
burned.
Too much can not be said IN
the praise Of those who volun-
teered their services to save the
Merchants and Planters bank
building and the Palmetto Drug
company. They climbed into places
of danger, with the bucket bri-
gade passing water in a steady
stream. BY. long and tedious toll
this building was saved. The drug
company lost a very little by wa
ter damage. Due 10 the heroic
work Of the yqoung men, the bank
building and the McSwain build
ing were saved.
Several barns and the freight
building Of the Seaboard were in
jeopardy at times from sparks. but
the bucket brigade soon had the
flames extinguished.
TO the best of information prac-
tically no insurance on the goods
and stocks was carried. The Par
nell building was insured for s10,-
600. This is only fraction Of the
cost of the building which was
erected few years ago for about
$55,0eO.
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need of some such statement. Of
principles upon which capital and
labor both may stand, and to which
disputes on separate cases may be
referred. to see in what respects the
arguments of the disputants square
up with the creed, and to make
settlements accordingly: The re-
lations of capital and labor are in a
chaotic state. Whether opinion
has developed to the point where
such constitution could be ac-
cepted wholehleartedly by both
sides. and acted on effectively. is
the doubtful point.