Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1910, Page 19

HALF-TONE PAGES ONE TO TOUR, THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. FOR ALL THE NEWS THE OMAHA BEE BEST IN THE WEST /. VOL. XXXIX—NO. 38 "OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 6,. 1910. ' NEBRASKA RET SINGLE COPY , FIVE CENTS. AIL DEALERS MEET IN OMAHA THIS WEEK 4 State Association Will Get Together to Devise Plans for Closer Oo-operation and to Otherwise Better the Oonditions of Retail Trade in Food Producetr in Nebraska EBRASKA retallers wiil meet in Umaha this week to try l W aevise some plan y wherzby they may assist in ieaneihig the cost of living, which {8 oL tue upward irend, and ul.¢ to formulute some scheme of co operation whereby they may reduce their expenses materially and thus meke a botter profit for themselves ihe fourtn aunual convention of brasia retullers will be held at ntlon Lall, Hotel Rome, March v and 10, when it is expected one of the most representative gatherings of merchants of Nebraska will assemble to discuss weveral propusitions which are o, the greatest Intercet lo them One of the principal topics of inter- est 10 Le discussed is what is known as tho M1 eystem of co-operation. (. Thls Is a plan trled most successfully =000 st Madison «.1 the deaters ot that < W.H.AVUB town will recommend it be tried in all ) the towws cf Nebraska. The plan is for all the grocers and produce dealers to form an exchange, with a manager on sal- ary. This manager is to buy all goods the farmers bring to town at prevailing prices, The dealers will then buy from the exoLange what they want at a slight profit to the exchange. ’llmlrvor the exchange has lefl over is then shipped to the ierket at Omaha, where it is told at a profit. The Madison exehiange has been paying expenses, besiies giving all the bene- fite to the members of the exchange. The benefits cf this exchange are obvious. They save con= siderable time to the farmer, who does not have to drive from store to store, g2lling to each dealer what he may need and at the end have some of his products left to haul back home. The exchange, will take all the farmer brings to town. Retallers may buy just what they want each day from the exchange and thus do not have butter, eggs and vegetables left over to spoil. They may buy in just the quantities they want from the ex- change. It was estimated the Madison plan saved each mem- ber of the exchange $264 a month and besides gave the custo- mers better service and lower prices, as the retailer was not forced to try to make up on some goods what he lost on others by baving them spoll Nebraska retailers are coming to the conclusion that a great deal may be saved by organization and they are preparing to come to Omabha In force. It is planned by the assoclation to have a fixed time gvr closing stores in country towns. The advantages of this are obvious. They want to close the stores on Sunday. The associa- tion has a plan for a credit rating system by which the merchant may safely guard against bad accounts. It has a plan of collection of bad debts. It has a plan for handling butter, eggs and other farm products without a loss. It has a plan to do away with the handling of butter, eggs and poultry at the store. It has a plan to obviate conliict In trade relations so as to maintain a profit on the goods sold. It has a co-operative dellvery systom to suggest which will be a great saving of expense. The officers of the Federation of Nebraska Retailers are Fred Diers, Madieon, president; Henry Bolton, Schuyler, vice president; H. L. Himes, Fremont, treasurer, and W. H. Avery of Tilden, secre- tary. The exécutive committee consists of Fred Diers, Madison; Henry Bolton, Schuyler; W. H. Avery, Tilden; H, L, Himes, Fre- mont; M. A. Hostetler, Shelton; F. B. Datel, North Bend; B. B. Finch, Kearney; Fred De Webe: Arlington, and L. F. Langhorst, Elmwood. The objects of the federation are: I'list—To maintain a state association and organize and co- operate with local and county organizations of retail merchants and individual dealers. Second—To correct evils attending the credit system, Third——To promote such legislation as may be of benefit to the retall merchants. Fourth—To abate trade abuses and injurious practices, Fifth—To harmonize trade relations between retail merchants. Sixth—To disseminate trade information, encourage improve- ment in business methods and generally advance the interests of the retall merchant. Seventh—The association asks the co-operation in this work of every assoclation of retall merchants in this and other states and of every active retailer who has the welfare of the trade at heart. The Commercial club of Omaha s preparing o assist in the enter- talnment of the visitors. Invitations have already been sent out by the club, inviting the retallers of Nebraska to Omaha and enclosed in the {nvitation was a membership card to the Commercfal club which will give the visitors all the privileges of the club during their stay in Omaba. The Commerclal club has also prepared a special leaflet on Omaha which will be presented to the vigitors as a souve- nir of their visit. ‘W. H, Avery, secretary of the federation, has a question box in h¥s office which all the members are requested to use. Any question any retailer wishes to ask at the convention will be placed within the (0000000000000 . Jee. of TTLDEN Ry Jhe. of TILDGR ) \y FRED DE-WEBBER, box. Merchants ARLINGTON NEEA. are requested tc send in any ques- tions relating to the retail busi- ness. The feder- ation promises to give a proper so- lution to any guch questions or problems which are presented. Considerable interest has been worked up over this and it is in- tended that from one-half to an hour eacK day will be given to this depart- ment, It s the intention of the officers of the federa- tion to make this an edu- cational convention, with the idea of placing n..: chandising on a higher plane. They expect to make the convention a school and have each ate tendant bear the same relation to the conven- tlon as a scholar does to his school. They say that an hour or a day missed will be expensive, as during that time sometning of vital Interest might be discussed. They advise merchants to come to Omahs with the firm intention of at- tending the entire three days' session of the con- vention. Many of the merchants will make the trip to the convention a buying trip and will im- prove their time while the convention is not in session In visiting the jobbing and wholesale houses of this city. Visitors to the convention may take advan- tage of the merchants' rates, which are now in effect, through the Instrumentality of the Commercial club. This 1s & plan by which the club refunds rallroad fare to all merchants who buy in Omaha, provided 2 per cent of the value of the goods bought is équal to their railroad fare. This plan has been used by thousands this spring and no doubt many of the merchants who are expected to attend the convention have been delaying their spring purchases that they may = L F la (77 “m, ON~ SCHUYLER . NB will speak on ‘‘Parcels Post." At the afternoon sesslon R. D. Me- Fadden of Hastings, fleld secretary of the federation, will tell of the work being done in Nebraska by the federa tion. E. F. Terfs, formerly of Omaha and now of the Sheldon School of Selesmanship at Chicago, will also ad dress the convention. D. Q. Nichol- son, manager of the Madison Butter and kgg exchange, will tell the con- vention “How to Handle Country Produce Without a Loss."” The clection of officers will be held on the last day of the convention Strilgtica show the hens of Ne- braska produced eggs last year to the value of over $40,000,000 and if the comvention {& able to increase the price the farmer receilves for these M“M without increasing the cost to the B FPINCH —— consumer it will have worked to the s & @ buy their g0ods and visit the con- vention at the same time The Com mercial club of Omaha will tender a com- plimentary ban- quet to the visitors at the Rome Wednesday evering, March 9. While tte banquet will be free to the visitors, it will cost the mem- bers of the club $6 & plate, and bids fair to be quite largely at- tended. The commft- tee on arrangements for the Commercial club consists of Joseph Kelley, chairman; Os- car Allen, C. E. Bedwell, F. J, Hoel, F. B. Hochstetler, Dan B. Fuller, J. H. Taylor, E. A. Hinrichs, Clarke Coit and Ben K. Gal- lagher. After the convention Is called to order Tuesday merning by the secretary, W. H. Avery, and invocation has been said by Rev. George A. Ray, D. D, of Council Bluffs, Mayor James C. Dahlman will deliver an ad- dress of welcome on behalf of the city. Fred Diers, president of the federation, will re- spond. During the afternoon Penn P. Fodrae, ed- itor of the Cmaha trade exhibit, will speak on the subject of advertising. Wednesday morn- ing J. J. Ryan of the Minnesota Retail Mer- chants' association will speak on the subject of "“Good Things Accomplished in Minnesota."” John Moran of Callaway will speak on ““Cash or Credit;”” W, H. Elbourne of Omaha will address the convention on the subject of “Insurance’’ and George E. Green, secretary of the Illlnols Retall Grocers’ association, KIBBNEI. NEBR- advantage of the entire state. By the co-operative plan the exchange will be able to buy all the eggs the farmer brings to market and pay cash. It will be able to deliver to each dealer just as many as he wants and will then be able to ship the surplus to Omaha more often, because the exchange will accumulate a suffictent quantity to ship oftener than the retailer would, and the eggs will therefore reach the Omaha market much fresher than under the present plan The convention hall at the Rome makes an ldeal place for holding a convention of this sort, as It is centrally located and all convenlences are to be found within the hotel. Here most of the dealers congregate and it i# much easier to keep the members together for a session of the convention than when the sessions are held in tome lsolated bullding. The hall 18 ample to accommodate a large convention such as the Federatlon of Nebraska Retailers promises to be. The publicity bureau of the Commercial club {s a great help to all conventions which meet in Omaha, as it offers its assistance to the convention in sending out the findings and glving the greatest publicity to any recommendations which may be made. This has been been demonstrated during the last few conventions which have been held in Omaha. When the Transmississippl Poultry assoclation met the association recelved more publicity for the convention itself and also for the breeders who exhibited their fowls than at any other show of its kind ever held in the west. The bureau of publicity sends the re- sults of the convention work to all pavers of the state and thus broadens the scope of the body which may be In session. The banquet to the visitors will only be one form of expressing the hospitality with which they will be met. Omaha's standing as a convention city is a guaranty of the quality of entertainment that will be afforded the retallers, and each dealer will constitute him- gelf a committee of one to assist in making the stay pleasant for every visitor. The big bulldings of the city will be open at all times and will furnish much diversion for those who have not been fn Omaha for some time. New theaters, new hotels, new office bulld- ings, new skyscrapers and the like will provide ample occupation for all, while the committees in charge of the convention will see that all are looked after. The season is too early for much pleasure on the boulevards or in the parks, and yet, with good weather, the automobile and carriage rides around the city will be found sources of great pleasure. Then South Omaha, with its immense packing houses and stock yards plants, will be a center of attraction, show- ing the retailers where the raw material is worked into the fin- ished product. . The processes through which the animals go from the time they are hauled into the yards on the trains from the farms until they are sent out in the various forms they take under the tender manipulation of the packer will all be explained and made clear. This is a never failing source of wonder to those who are not familiar with it, and a visit to the stock vards and packing houses is always to be remembered. Omaha has other factories where various food products are prepared, and these, too, will be opened to welcome the men who hand out the packages to the “ultimate consumer.” All the various processes of preparing the food products will be shown and the factories in operation will give an additional tinge of interest to the occasion. The Bee's plant will be open for inspection, as usual at all times, and the retallers will here find a welcome that will remind them of something they will be pleased to remember. It is Omaha’s way to make folks feel at home, and the coming convention is going to have the time of its life, g0 that the delegates will regret when the time for returning home has come. Omaha will extend a glad welcome to the delegates to this eon- vention, as it does to ali conventions held in this city, and will point with pride to the remarkable progress which the city shows over a year ago. The visitors will see the greatest building activity this city has ever enjoyed. onarchs Without Jobs Are Scattered About Throughout the World LESS than a year three super-eminent poténtates In is a‘Living Buddh thelr respective localitfes, hold- Ing down jobs believed to be 800d for lite, have been passes on from the body of Asia and the temporal sovereign of Tibet, peror Chien-Lung for the purpose, and ' Who has become per- after prayers and other rellgious rites the petually reincarnate on earth in order to Urn I8 shaken and the first name drawn presids over his church, and whose spirt Ut bY the Chinese minister Is declared one grana Officially to bo the true incarnation. This chased from the at of Lama to that of anotheg in a continuous °Fdeal Js known to have been used for the power, {mprisoned or exiled. Abdul Ham'd, ®uccession of lives, of which each new Beélection of the eleventh Grand Lama In former sultan of Turkey, occupies & palace DIeTarch it but a fresh link in the endless prison at Salenika. Mahommed AM Mi.za, Chain of an earthly priest-kingship. A standpat shah of Persia, broke his Thus. on “the passmg away, scepter In bucking against a constitution Ph¥sical death of the Grand Lama's body and became an exile. Cipriano Castro, \8 called, the spirit of the deceased Lama as the erstwhile ruler of Venesusls, defted th 18 belleved to enter forwith the body of a world and the asphalt combine and fs now PéWlY-born male infant, who s then to be & man without a country. The latest ad- *OUSht for and discovered by the manifes- dition to the roster of monarchs out of a 'Ation of miraculous powers OWA CITY, Ta., March 6.—Towa, And these standing next to Ohlo as & fob is the Dalal Lama of Tibet, pope of !4tter dre usually forthcoming In such an Buddslsm and boss of the roof of the 8/MOSt supernatural manner that even the world. “An ungratetul, {rrellglous, ob- Sober., emotional Abbe Huc, Investigating perous profigate” is the officlal char- the Question on the spot about sixty years “college state’’ because of the large number of Institutions of higher learning within its bord- . D, 1841—that 1s the second hierarch be- fore the present-day one, who {s the thir- But authentlc details in regard to the origin of the practice do not appear to been elicited hitherto. In the spring of 1904 Colonel Younghus- of the British column from India Into the Holy City of acterisation of the ruler of the holy oty of Lhara, who fled into India before the LOuPS dent to re-establish Chinese sov- crelpnty i Tivet China's d.lull!ll\ln of the present Dalal Lama and announcement that a new or will be elected is of greater importance than the western world may think. The Dalal Lama at Lhasa is the pope of the Buddist world and more peopls pay him reverence Lhan any other man in the world Dalal Lamas have been killed and new ones chosen, but to chose a new one while the old one still lives is 1 and Nkely greatly Than any human agency should arrogate to itself authority over the moul seems, at first sight, an as- tounding etretch of the usually concelved olimits of peychology, yet this is what aftempts In regard to the soul of fMand Lama of Lhasa. China, for Peasons, as has been known for time, has usurped a prepondering in the control of what the Tibetan uddaists belleve to be the transmigration ¢t the soul of the Dalal Lama. For the of hierarchlc suecession in Tibet for several hundred years, been based the assumption that the Dalal Lama, Bead of the Buddhist church in Central . declared his bellef In the genulneness of the miracles, and his conviction that they were ‘not due to Lama imposture, but were a supernatural device of satan himself to delude the heathen and so op- pose the spread of Christianity. The inter- num, however, between the death of one Grand Lama and the discovery of the next relncarnation became, as might be ex- pected, & period of dangerous political intrigue between rival factions of turbulent lamas, each striving to procure the appoint- ment for thelr own nominee, and leading on several occasions to disastrous eivil War. This constantly recurring menace to the peace of the state has been the reason Why China, In virtue of her suzeralnty, was forced to undertake the leading part In controlling the reincarpation of the Grand Lama in order that the “rebirth” Wil be directed iInto the channels approved of by the Chinese government. A8 her ostensible means of determining the “trus rebirth” China has established the ordeal of “the lottery by the urn.” In front of the picture or tablet of the em- peror of China, and In the presence of the resident Chinese minister at Lhasa, the names of the competing children are placed tato & golden urn, predemted by the Em- ers, boasts of three college presidents who are united in hearty sup- pere of foot ball and intercollegiate ath- letics, but Who are radically divided on dancing and such amusements. President George B. MucLean, head of the state university stands for college athletics in thelr present form with slight regulation. He has taken this position even though in direct opposition to Presi- dent James H, Trewin, chalrman of lowa's educational “experiment,”” the new Board of Education which supervises the state university, the state agricultural college and the state teachers' oollege. Despite the criticlsm of the denominational school, President MacLean has always stood for liberality of soclal questions. As a result dancing and card playing are allowed freely in his institution. Every Friday and Saturday night finds all dance floors In the eoity occupied and in addition many fraternal houses give dancing partiss on these evenings. The only restriction im- posed Is that the dances are confined to the two last nighta of each week. Other leading Institutions of the state, practically without exception have ban- ished the dancing party. President Hil M, Bell of Drake university, backed by his J. H. T. MAIN, trustees, stamped out the dance. dent J. H. T. Main of Grinnell, at the in- stigation of his Congregational put the dances on the college soclal functions, and hardly & week Koes by that some erring students are on the “carpet” for fallure to observe the rul- Des Moines President Bell greater difficulty and his reach has only far falled to bring proof and the subse- quent discipline. sports, Iowa College Presidents Frown on Dancing HILL M. BELL thirteenth GEORGE B. M'LEAN Despite the steunch stand agalnst the West of the city proper. In the view of exterminated the “tripping of the light dance hablt, the chlef exeoutives of Drake 6!l Buddhists the most interesting spot in fantastic” in University Place, the im- aud Grinnell, both strong and growing in- the city is the sacred mountaln of Potala, medigte neighborhood of the ecampus. stitutlons, joln with MacLean in his stand Which I8 crowned with the enormous struc- Drake's dancing club flourlsh In down- on athlotics, and together the trio will tures of the Dalal Lama's palace and the town halls, and various methods have ko exert & vast Influence in preventing the eNVIroning temples and monasteries. The abolishment of foot ball and intercolleglate #0-called mountaln is only about 300 feet Phe visit of the British troops was looked His personality is shrouded in mystery and Lhasa, untfl then seen by not more than upon by the Dalal Lama, the pope of Budd- not even his name Is known. After his halt 8 dogen white men who had pene- hism, as a desecration, and he, followed by fijght from the Potale, his sacred ocastle ed surreptitiously Into Its mysteries. a large retinue, began a wandering tour With that visit the exclusiveness of the through China. city was broken, and It eince has been The lama is 38 vears old and s the visited by several travelers, in Lhasa, the grand lama wandered about from monastery to monastery in the high ruler of the Buddhist church, &ltitudes of northern Thibet and central Mongolia until he finally was not less than 3,000 miles from his starting point. In his pllgrimage he was occasionally visited by officials. Chiness emissarios sent out by the throne to endeavor to per- svade him (o return to Lhasa. These mis- elons finally were successtul Lhasa 1= only & little town, containing scarcely more than 10,00 people. A Japa- nese Buddhist priest, Kawaguehi, who wa: there In disguise in 193, speaks of Lhasa as @ place of 10,000 inhabitants, but he un- doubtedly included all the monasteries, some of which have 5,000 to 10,000 students within thelr walls, Lhass, llke the Thibetans, Is very dirty, and there is lttle in it attractive to a native of the Ogel- dent The city | 5 between two rauges of mouns tains extending east and west. Around its borders extends what is known as the Cir- cular roed, about elght miles In length, This road Is famous as that along which plous Buddhists travel by measuring their length upon the ground, meanwhile repeat- ing prayers, the laborious proceeding usually taking from two 1o three days. The performance is regarded as one of peculiar merit Lhasa |5 the sacred city of Buddhism, and two places In it have especlal sanctity. One of them 18 the great cathedral, the true “Lhasa,’ or “home of the gods,” In the ety pr and the other is the palace f the Dalal Lama or the lving incarna- ton of Buddha, about three miles o the palace 10 & height of 100 fest,