Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 22, 1916, Page 5

L A the children, care of Andrew Demetre, [ 221 Fourth avenue, New York City, | who will forward to France free of TO Fl'enGh Orph&ns cost. Expense of forwarding to New | . Railroad Men Favored |Send Useful Gifts Larger Demurrage Chargei- Local railroad officials are consid- | erably disappointed because the In-! terstate Commerce commission has | held up the proposition to increase the ARE- FARMERS OPPOSE LAW-FIXED PRICE Arbitrary Standards Double- Edged Swords—Embargo is Injurious, Says Shorthill. JUSTICE ON OPEN MARKET | York should, however, be paid by'the subscriber. Madame August M. Borglum, hon- | A list of contents should! be iads orary president of the local Franco- | closed in the packages. Duplicate lists Rt kacichatact oy laime o ote] Belgian Relief society, makes the sug- | should be mailed to Mr. Demetre. lieving the freight car shortage. They | gestion that Christmas presents sent | ¥ assert that raifroad lrti}zh( men the | to orphaned French children be c“h'"l ,Three nghwaymfll Get ] country over were in favor of the |useful personal garments or material | ’ plan of increasing the per di:m!or inexpensive toys, in view of de-| Hale’s watch and MM charges and that they have had noth- | plorable conditions in Franch. ! J. P. Hale of Millard was held up ing to do with the postponement of | All presents for children of the sub- [ and robbed at Thirteenth and Dodg the consideration of the proposition | scribers to the “Fatherless Children of | streets last night by three men, w! until next March. | France” uld ent addressed to | secured his watch and $15. Cweslz to Satisfy Cravings of Gate City L -ellers. TWICE AS MUCH A~ BEFORE “If there is justice in stopping the By A. R. GROH. advance in prices of products of the We people of Omaha eat 18,000,000 pounds of sugar y year. It whuld take 4,018 big, two se wagons like coal wagons to haul that sugar, each carrying two tons, pounds, rth, at present prices, $343. | person eats ninety pounds of year on the average. This is sl by the figures of the Depart- v’ of Commerce of the United The total consumption last in this country was 8,793,794,928 ids. Lt is estimated, roughly, that each person consumes just about his own weight in sugar every year. You may eat less than that, but many eat more. Some girls can consume a poand of chocolates while reading two short magazine stories. Maybe that's what makes 'em so sweet. We are eating more than twice as much sugar now as we were thirty- five years ago. In 1880 the sugar consumption per capita was only thir- ty-nine and a half pounds. All Kinds of Sugar. The sugar we eat includes not only what we have in our_coffee and on our Nut Flakes or Excelsior Shav- ings or other breakfast pabulum, and what dear Gwendolyn stores away so rapidly in the form of chocolates. It inicludes all the sugar that goes into our food in any shape whatsoever. Americans are the prize sugar eat- ers of the world, Gaston of Paris, Hans of Berlin, Ivan of Petrograd, Pietro of Naples, do not have such a sweet We have a candy store on nearly ever corner, but in those cities you may travel a mile in the business district and not discover a candy store. You'll be' surprised to learn what country produces the most sugar. It is Germany. In the year before the war Germany produced 2,674,986 tons. Cuba cante a close second with 2,597,- 732 tons. In the United States we uced 985,000 tons in 1914, three- ourths of it being beet sugar and the rest cane sugar. We also produced 6,250 tons of maple sugar. A good maple tree will give a pound and a half of sugar a day during the sea- son. But that's onl{ a drop in the bucket and we can't look to the trees to save us from the present high price. ! Sugar from Watermelons. A scheme was once devised, also, ‘to make sugar from watermelons, It was shown that $143 werth of sugar could be produced from an acre of watermelons. But this scheme had its flaws and today the source of nearly all the world’s sugar is either the sugar beet or sugar cane, a little more than half our supply coming from the cane. Nebraska produced 25845 tons of beet sugar in 1914. Michigan _pro- duced 109,297 tons; Colorado, 203,910 tons; California, 151,203 tons; Utah, 51,097 tons; Idaho; 26,446 tons; Ohio, 25,000 tons. Louisiana produced 261,367 tons of cane sugar; gono Rico, 325,000 tons; Hawaii, 550,925 tons; Philippines, 225,- 000 tons. Isn’t that a sweet story? Correct Time from Arlington Daily at Ryan's Jewelry The Ryan Jewelry company, 305 South Sixteenth street, is installing a wireless apparatus which will receive the correct time, market and weather reports: daily from the government station at Arlington. The receiving instrument will be placed in the watch repair depart- ment of the store. A chronometer in one of the show windows will be a permanent convenience for those who wish to correct their watches to gov- ernment time. Market and weather reports will be posted in the window. This wireless service is sent, broad- cast from the powerful station at Ar- lington, and the Ryan store will pick it out of the air and transcribe it for information of passersby. Omaha Violinist is With Opera Troupe Louis Snader, an Omaha boy, is coming here with the Chicago Eng- lish Opera company that plays at the Brandeis theater on Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week. Snader is 18 years of age, being the youngest member of the company, and plays in the orchestra. He joined the company at Chicago and will tour with it through the principal cities of the middle west and south. T.ouis is the son of Mrs. R. Snader of 1340 South Twenty-fifth street. Omaha Musicians to Make Short Tour of the State The Misses Eloise, Madge, Belle and Vieveene West have gone to Louisville, Neb., where they will give a concert this evening under the direc- tion of the Woman’s club of that city. From Louisville they plan to go to Lincoln, where, with Mr. and Mrs, Henry Cox, Mr. Edwin Clark and Mr, Will Hetherington, Miss Eloise and Miss Madge will give a concert in the Young Women's Christian asso= ciation awlimr&um At Thanksgiving the Misses West plan to go to Tal- mage, Neb., to assist the Maenner- chor in their concert. On December 3 they will play for the third time at the Elks' Memorial day service in Council Bluffs. In January they will present an entire program for the music départment of the Omaha Woman’s club. Later in_the season the string quartet will give an even ing program at St. Barnzbas’ church, Woman Breaks Arm and Leg in Fall Down Stairs Mrs. Emma Williams, 518 North Nineteenth street, fell down stairs at her home and suffered a fractured right arm and left ankle. She is being cared for at home. = Z% 7 %I /) Banks in Western Nebraska Bulging With Coin of Realm In securing data from the south- western portion of Nebraska, the Burlington land department has been apprised that in the counties of Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Red Wil- lofw hand Linco’lIn, th:.l forty-five banks of the towns have deposits aggrega- ting $7,206,233, most of which is owned by the farmers. These seven counties in Nebraska, less than twenty-two years ago, were so poverty stricken that state aid v;u asked and secured by the set- tlers. 01d Iron Brings Fortune to Milder , For a,number of years ]J. Milder, 1107 Davenport street, has been add- ing to a pile of old iron in the rear of his establishment. Milder is a dealer in the metal and the great heap of iron has caused no little speculation amongst his competitors. Now the price for the product is the highest it has been in five years and he sold the vast amount of metal to A. B. Alpern for a sum well into five fig- ures, at just twice the price that most of his rivals have received. Western Farms Are in Good Demand Just Now Assistant Immigration Agent Love- lace of the Burlington's land depart- ment has gone to western Nebraska and Wyoming with a party of twenty land seekers from Iowa and Illinois. Instead of looking for government land, they are in the market to pur- chase improved farms, as a rule. This being Homeseekers’' day with the railroads, there is a pretty fair run of land seekers elsewhere as well as to the west. The Missouri Pacific is taking out a party of ten, destined to Oklahoma, and the Illinios Central has eight ticketed to Alabama and Florida. Poultry Show Entries Are Coming Very Fast R. R. Foster, in the Bee building, secretary of the Greater Omaha Poul- try show, is daily receiving new en- tries for the show, which is to be held at the Municipal Auditorium No- vember 28 to December 2. Entries have come in from Minnesota and North Dakota, Mr. Foster says now that the show will be very large, as entries are coming in fast. Hick Loses Money, Shoes, Hat, Sobriety, Sleeps Atop Sewer Bert Hick of New Market, Ia., who doesn’t deny his name, took to his bosom two uncouth and illiterate rum- besoaked, rat-eyed gentlemen. They quaffed beakers together until Hick didn’t know Farnam street from the alley behind the general store at “hum.” He awoke this morning with his head resting on a sewer pipe near the Sixteenth street viaduct. Beside all this he was minus his sombrero, comfy slippers and $2 in money, wh{ch he believes his companions stole. Wife a Menace, He Secures a Divorce Alleging that he has a spouse whose conduct has endangered his health and life, Clarence E, Weldey has filed sui\ for divorce against Maude E. Weldey. They were married on the South Side, October, 1911, Alice Downer seeks a divorce from Ezra Downer, alleging nonsupport. James H. Townsley is named de- fendant in a suit brought by Anna Townsley. Nonsupport is charged. Mary Tice would be freed from Arthur Tice, on grounds of nonsup- port. . Mabel I. Derleth alleges desertion in her suit against George Derleth. TIowa Man Wants To Eat 'Possum Here On Thanksgiving Who's going to carve a 'possum in Omaha on Thanksgiving day? A resident of Orange City, Ia., will spend Thanksgiving day in this city and is anxious to know of “some 'pos- sum eats where he can sit in” He prefers to patronize a hotel. This Iowan has sent his name to The Bee. Rome Miller sent Billy Kierstead out to catch a few 'possums and if the latter succeeds all will be well at Ho- tel Rome. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. D. C. Bradford and wife leave today for an extended trip to the east. Before re- turning they will visit in New York and Boston. Persistence Is the Curdinal Virtue in Advertising. farm, then there is justice in stopping declines; but we have not yet heard of any act ever being proposed in any legislative body for the purpose of preventing products of the farm from selling at a price that was: too low.” That is the answer of J. W. Short- hill of York, secretary of the Ne- braska Farmers’ Co-operative Grain and Live Stock State association, to the agitation for an embargo on grain. “If the farmer must sell on the open market when it is low,” he continued, “he must have the same right to do so when it is high.” These points Secretary Shorthill brought out in his annual secretary’s report to the association at the open- ings of its convention at the Hotel Rome this afternoon. Embargo Spells Ruin. He declared that an embargo on grain would mean financial ruin to more than half the farmers' eleva- tors in the state, as they could not move their grain, espccial{y under the present candition of car shortage. Be- sides, he holds that grain should not be siniled out alone among the prod- ucts that are today contributing to the high cost of living. As to car shortage, Secretary Short- hill declared this due to two princi- pal causes—increased traffic and lack of pquipment on the roads. "fiu first cause,” he said, ‘“will, in a measure pass over in li*\e, but the second is a deliberate polic{ on the part of the roads. Some of the roads have tried to keep their equip- ment up within reason, others have let the equipment dwindle down in the face of increased traffic, when the equipment should have been in- creased. The roads on the whole have less boxcar equipment than they had a year or two years ago. Make Railroads Efficient. “This association should bring pres- sure to bear to induce congress to give the Interstate Commerce com- mission authority to force equipment on such roads as are short and to regulate the rules of interchange of equipment between the roads, so that one road cannot ‘borrow’ permanent- ly from another. This association should vigorously push a campaign for that purpose. President J. S. Canady, in opening the convention, called the associa- tion's attention to the fact that the secretary should have more assistance in the future. He pointed out that the secretary has had to make 103 trips during the last year, the trips taking an average of two days' time each, and that he has not sufficient help to do the work that must neces- sarily be done at the office all the time whether he is there or not. Visit Grain Exchange. Several hundred delegates appeared early in the morning and were en- rolled before noon. Most of them spent the forenoon at the Grain Ex- change watching the operations of the market and visiting with grain firms here. . The membership of the association is made up of co-operative elevator companies organized by one of the three classes, the Equity union, the Farmers' union, and companies or- ganized by farmers not members of either union. There are now 326 farmers’ eleva- tor companies in Nebraska, according to the secretary’s report. Former Omaha Citizen\ May Have to Fight Now | H. B. Sevier, a former Omaha citi- zen, is now a naturalized Australian. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Only two years ago he took out i naturalization papers in Australia, de- claring his allegiance to the British crown. Now he is very much con- cerned lest he be conscripted for mili- tary service during the present war, | Mr. Sevier was formerly Omaha man- ager for the Sherwin-Williams Paint company and is now looking after that company's interests in Australia. He | has a family of six children and it is thought by his friends that this fact yill save him from shouldering a mus- et. s et e £ T SRR T o ———— “LIGHT Sl 99 Inthe “LightS markably low cost of upkeep is combined 1X'+ a re- with an abundance of power. Its flexibility is won- derful—faster than a mile a minute or slower than a mile an hour. The full stream-line body is richly upholstered—both graceful and luxurious. NEBRASKA HAYNES AUTO SALES CO. Model 36—5-passenger Touring Car. Model 36-—4-passenger $ises | Roadster .. New 2032 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. Winter Orleans This Y I ‘HIS quaintest of all American cities offers all that any other winter resort offers plus a great deal. A perfect clima romance, diversion, wonderful cookery. te, restful palatial hotels, For the sportsman racing, golf, yachting, duck shooting, quail a little distance out; radius of twenty-five miles every variety o } within a land and and water game known to the semi-tropics is found and killed and brought back as evidence of the huntsman’s prowess. Some very enjoyable lexcursions may be made from New Orleans—down the Mississippi to the jetties or to Grand Isle; over Lake Ponchartrain to Mande- ville, Chinchuba, Covington and Abita Springs. Along the Mississippi Coast to Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian and Biloxi; short rail trips to Lake Bozfine; to the pine hills of Magnolia and Chatawa; to the state capital, Baton Rouge. The picturesque Teche countrfv, in which dwell the quaint Acadians is distant less than half a day. rom New Orleans The route to this romantic wonderland can be as fascinating as the wonderland itself, if you travel on The Panama Limited To New Orleans from Chicago and St. Louis & Faster than the fastest schedule ever made before. A hundred per cent more luxurious than any train ever run between North and South, Ease, security, and freedom from care; the most satisfying cuisine, the most sumptuous surroundings; all these are yours when you travel this premier train to the Southland. No extra fare. If you are going to Cuba, to Panama, to California or to South Amer- ica, by all means include New Orleans in your trip. Over the Illinois Central you can do this at minimum expenditure of money and time. Leaves Chicago Daily 12:30 p. m.—St. Louis 4:30 p. m. —Arrives New Orleans 11:30 newt morning Illinois Central 0T T S. North, District Passenger Agent 407 South Sixteenth St., Omaha, Nebraska | T e