Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 9

LUSCOLN KVK.M1SG JUOKJNAL, THUHSUAY, JUNK 23. FROM TODAY'S MORNING JOURNAL KNOX SEES ATTEMPT TO MUZZLE U.S. PRESS Tells Editors Unprecedented Propaganda Machine Is In Full Operation. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va.

Frank Knox, republican vice presidential nominee in 1036, told the nation's editors "Wednesday a "propaganda machine, the like of which this country never before has seen" is in full operation in America. Declaring any effort to muzzle the press must not be allowed "to go unchallenged," Knox said the 'propaganda machine" was being used "to fasten blame for the depression on business." "What form of government the Germans and Italians choose to live under is no business of ours," Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, told his non-metropolitan colleagues at the National Editorial association convention. "But when the technique of European propaganda is imported to the United States and adapted to American use, it veiy much becomes our business." In his prepared address which was broadcast nationally, Knox Bald- 1 ihere are agencies in every one of the 48 states. The purpose of these agencies (and Washington is the clearing house for all) is to spread the gospel of the new movement. These sub-agencies also act as sentries." The publisher declared the men in power had more ways than one to deal with those disagreeing with them, saying: "Let any person of prominence speak up criticism and any one of three things--or all three--is likely to happen to him." he predicted, the person would find hirnself before a legislative investigating committee in Washington; a federal official publicly would castigate him, or "he will be put on the calling list of the internal revenue department." Speaking of unsucfessful efforts by congressmen to investigate the use of public funds for publicity, Knox said a 1913 act prohibited such use unless the money is specifically appropriated, and charged that between 25 and 40 million dollars "of the people's money Is being used to exploit the present federal administration." "It is being used in direct violation of the law," Knox declared.

"Personally, I am of the belief that the president of the United States should be the first among us to obey the law." Gov. Homer A. Holt, of West Virginia, speaking after Knox, tendered the cditois what he said was a "modest apology that some slight miscarriage has transposed this evening Into one In whicn politics are not entirely eliminated. The democratic governor said he wanted to ''accord Colonel Knox the greatest freedom speech and in his publications the greatest freedom of the press" and that as one of the hosts he wanted to extend "every other consideration to our guests but on the other hand I feel the guest should have a Ht- tle consideration for the host." HOLD 13TH ANNUAL PICNIC 2 0 0 0 Persons Attend Burlington Affair. Nearly 2,000 Burlington e.m- iloyes and their fi lends and fannies swaimed into Capitol Beach Wednesday afternoon for the 13th annual picnic sponsored by the Veterans association of the road and the traffic tip committee.

The Burlington had a virtual lease on all concessions and printed thousands of tickets admitting guests midway attractions at reduced rates. After a picnic lunch from 5 to 7 p. Miss Ruthalee Holloway of city recreation board directed a half hour program of games and novelty races. The Burlington band also played during the evening. HUDSON DIES Was a Former Resident of Lincoln.

Hudson D. Duncan, a former resident and well known in Lincoln, died in Denver Tuesday night after a short illness Surviving is his wife, Elmina, daughter of Mrs. C. E. Ladwig, 1109 st Mr.

Duncan was formerly in the railway mail service and served overseas in the postal department. For the last 12 years Mr. and Mrs. Duncan have spent their winters in Los Angeles and their summers in their home at Alma, Colo. The body accompanied by Mis.

Ducan will arrive in Lincoln Friday morning. FAIR ATTRACTS CHILDREN 300 Boys and Girls Compete in Reading Contest. Nearly 300 hoys and girls have registered for the "balloon ascension" reading program sponsored by the juvenile department of the city library in connection with its annual Book Fair. The fair Is now In its third week and has attracted many visitors from neighboring communities as well as from Lincoln. A library card serves as ticket of admittance.

Large posters showing Lincoln's skyline have been placed ai ound the trails of the children's room and above the horizon the sky is divided Into thi er areas--the "troposphere," "stratosphere" and Upon registering to make the balloon ascension, the boy or girl chooses a colored balloon sticker which he places on the fikyline. After reading six approved hooks he receives a sticker in the "troposphere." for 12 books IIP ascends to the "stratosphere" and for reading 18 he receives a gold sticker balloon marking- completion of his flight into the "ozono- spnere." EUCHARIST MNGRESS OPEN First Canadian Meeting; Is Cause of Quebec Display. QUEBEC. Canada's fiust national eucharistic opened Wednesday with pomp and ceremony. The belli of nearly 50 churches in this ancient city rang out a message of prayer while membeis of tho Canadian Episcopate, 10 archbishops and 44 bishops, walked slowly from the archbishop's palace to the Basilica for the first official act of the congress--reception of Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, as papal legate to the five day Thousands lined the short route from the palace to the Basilica, mother church of all Roman Catholic churches In North America.

The cardinal pushed along the flnp decorated route to bless the crowds who knglt as he passed. ASSIGN MORTGAGES. Assignment of 1-1 mortgages from the American Annuity Assurance company of Omaha, formerly mnrte to the Amerimn States Life Insurance company, to the National Republic Life Insurance company of Dallas, Tex. wna filed In Register of Deeds Vflughnn's office Wednesday. The state insurance department authorized the reinsurance nnd moigcr of the American Annuity company with Ihe Dallas company a suit Is pending in district court on fin appeal from the ciepart- t.

order. RIN6LIN6 EMPLOYES REBEL Show Docs Wot Go on After Wage Cut Ordered. SCRANTON, Pa. J. performers and workers of Ringlmg Bi others, Barnum and Bailey circus Wednesday night refused to put on tJieir show, saying- they had not agreed to take a reduction of 25 percent in wages.

The show was called off after Ralph Whitehead, executive secretary of the American Federation of Actors, asked the circus em- ployea whether they had agreed to the wage reduction John Ringling North, president, said was necessary if the circus was to continue. The employes tokl Whitehead they had not agreed to the reduction. Later they went to a nearby ball park while money was refunded to an estimated 4,000 persons. Only a few men, those feeding the animals, reported back to work and North intimated that if a ivoiking force were not on hand late Thursday the circus would return to winter quarters at Sarasota, Fla. H.

T. PEARCEDEAD. OMAHA (JP). Hariy T. Pearce, 54.

foimer Decatur, Neb, farmer who moved to Omaha a year ago, tiled Wednesday. Survivors include a son, George, Decatur. ASK PWA FUNDS FOR DODGE STREET SPAN Trustees Not Halted by Sale of Douglas Bridge to Ak-Sar-Ben. OMAHA. (UP).

Despite announcement that ths street car company had sold the Douglas st. bridge to Ak-Sar-Ben, majority of the Dodge st. bridge board trustees decided to go ahead with plans to ask PWA for a loan to finance their proposed bridge across the Missouri river here. Mayor Butler refused to attend the meeting and Mayor W. S.

McCall of Council Bluffs was out ot town. Chairman Kieser, Atty. Gen. C. Hunter and Dr.

Matthew O'Keefe, were the three attending the meeting. R. A. Radford, regional director of PWA here, said he saw no reason why the application of the Dodge board, if in proper form, should not be accepted. It asked for a grant of 45 percent only, with no loan.

Radford believes the pio- posed bridge might be built by PWA for $1.500,000 With a percent giant, he pointed out, the outside bond issue would not be very heavy. "If it is true as 1 have been told," he said, "that the Douglas st. bridge, which is 50 years old, may have to be icbuilt, I believe a new span at Dodge st. would insure free travel faster than any other plan." PWA, he pointed out, holds the bonds on the South Omaha bridge, and would insist that the two bridges be paid for together. "But," he added, "this would not be a serious problem.

Last year South Omaha put $20,000 into the sinking fund from earnings. Earnings so far this year are averaging $80 a day higher than last year. South Omaha will take care of itself very nicely." HURT IN COLLISION. Robert Brandau, 24, 217 So 27th, suffered a minor scaip laceration and slight concussion early Wednesday evening when the car he was driving collided with one driven by W. H.

Linch, 4828 Baldwin, at 17th and M. He was taken to Lincoln General hospital where attending- physicians said his condition was not serious. Police reported that the accident occurred when the machine driven by Linch collided broadside with the Brandau car as It was making a left turn from 17th ALEX BAIM SOUGHT. State sheriff's office was asked Wednesday to get in touch with Alex Bairn of Illinois and tell him to call his office, as his brother is critically ill Mr Bairn is driving with Mr. and Mrs Sid Levinc, nnd was said to have left Sioux Falls Tuesday for Gordon.

URGES ADVERTISING DRIVES Editor of "Banking 1 Tells Way to Fight Inertia. NEW YORK. UP). Aggressive advertising campaigns by business to oveicome inertia and an upward trade trend were advocated in the new of Banking, official publication of the American Bankers association, by William Kuhns, editor. He said: "Public education thru aggressive advertising and selling is the best weapon that business has to combat the prevailing: inertia.

It la the only means lying completely within the control of business which can be used to counteract the aide of the depression that is purely psychological." The problem of making large reservoirs of existing bank credit available for sound businesses, said, "is being attacked from many angles." Discussions at Washington, he went on, "have indicated considerable headway among authorities as to methods by which the flow of credit from banks to industry can be SUGGESTS SCHOOL COUNCIL Proposal Made by Lefler at Board Meeting. Superintendent Lefler suggested to the school board a discussion and advisory council, composed of representatives from all ranks and from every type of school' and from the P. T. the public school forum and the teachers' association, be formed. Lefler said the proposed council would be formed on the round table discussion idea with committees headed by chairmen to make and report investigations on suggestions and recommendations.

Lefler believes the council with its various divisions would elimi nate friction and would tend to create a more democratic control of school business. The board received the proposal with favor and indicated that the council will be planned out fully to begin its works as soon as possible. The council would have no voice in the matter of school management. BENTON LOSES BOARD POST Kansas City Art Institute Objects to Recent Books. KANSAS CITY.

WP). Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri's outspoken artist who has been a storm center since his murals appeared at the state capital, was the only faculty member of the Kansas City art institute who failed to be reappomted by the board of governors Wednesday. Howard Huselton, a director of the institute, opened a campaign last week against Benton's retention, charging the artist had included shockingly "sensual" passages in his recent book. VOCATIONAL TRAINING TOPIC OF DISCUSSION Ministers Hear Talks by State Superrisors of Work. Nebraska rural ministers late Wednesday heard dijtcuMions of the relation to rural life of vocational education and extension work in agriculture, as they continued their conference at the college of agriculture.

"Expansion of vocational training in agriculture is limited only by the supply of well qualified teachers," L. D. Clements, state supervisor of vocational agriculture commented. "At present the demand far exceeds the supply." He pointed out that next year new departments of vocational agriculture will be added in schools at Geringr, North Platte, a i Clark son, Schuyler, Hooper, Wisner, probably at Sutton and perhaps one or two others. In addition, there is a sizable waiting list for the following year, he added.

H. G. Gould, assistant director of the Nebraska agricultural extension service, observed, "The place of the extension service in relation to rural living is to bring the farm people in close contact with the beat available scientific information and thru demonstrations nnd tests to help them adapt this information to local conditions within the state." Dr. A. B.

Graham of the U. department of agriculture, now retired, spoks Wednesday afternoon. "There never was a time before when we had as great an outpouring of the spirit and teaching of the church as there is today," he commented. "And in the material field, we successively from one plane of abundance to another due to the work ot the chemist and inventor," POULTRYMEN ATTEND DINNER Individual Experiences Are Belated. Nebraska hatcherymen talked over their poultry breeding problems Wednesday night at a fried chicken dinner at the college of agriculture.

Following the dinner a number of individual hatchery- men presented their experiences and made suggestions for improving the quality of poultry. Discussion centered around the topic. "Fixing the desirable characteristics in popular Nebraska breeds." The men witnessed pictures Illustrating operation of the national poultry Improvement plan. RFC IN BIGGEST BOND SALE Profits Thru a $60,000,000 Deal With Bankers. NEW YORK.

UP). In the biggest such transaction in its history, the Reconstruction Finance corporation Wednesday sold 60 million dollars worth of 4 percent metropoli- tan water district at a point premium to two private banking groups--Chase National and associates and Lehman brothers. The district Is a $200,000,000 project under which water is to be taken from the Colorado river In Arizona for Los Angeles and nearby communitlea in southern fornia. The RFC has put 150 million in the district and expects to advanca 50 million dollars more. ESTELLA BAKER IS DEAD Taught in Several Schools Over the State.

Estella Loretta Baker, 41. 42-11 Touzalln, died in Lincoln at 4'30 m. Wednesday. She was born i Lincoln Nov. 7, 1897 and had lived in Nebraska all her life.

She had taught in many rural Nebraska schools and in the public schools at Meadow Grove and McCook, Neb. She is survived by her mother, two sisters, Lula of Lincoln, and Erma of New York City; and two brothers, Walter of Lincoln, and Dr. Earl E. of New York City. TEST STATION READY.

The municipal brake and light test station, with a local monopoly on tests, will open for business no later than July 1, accoiding to Director Venner. All equipment to serve the two lanes is in place. Paved approaches are ready and necessary building alterations have been made. A staff of nine men, to be announced, will handle the business, one bookkeeper and font to the lane. The ordinance officially establishing the station will be effective in ample time.

Two testa a year at 50 cents per test will required. The old rate when privately owned stations did the testing was 25 cents per teat, two a year. Process of floor leveling ia now under way. J.B. HAS THE JITTERS Facing Vote Testing of Public Sentiment in Coming Elections.

DY W. G. Our old friend John Barleycorn seems to be suffering from something like "the morning after the night before." Immediately on the repeal of prohibition he indulged in unrestrained excesses and now, according to reports, he is seeing things, and suffering from bad spells of the jitters. In the fust place, there are the local option elections. They seem to inJicate that the people genei ally are still looking for a saloon- less place in which to live According to the recoi ds the drys carried 5,000 out of 7,000 recent local option elections.

In Pennsylvania, which never had state prohibition, the wets have suffered a loss of more than 1,000 voting units, during recent wet-dry elections. The general opinion among both wets and tlrys seems to be that theio ave two reasons for this dry trend. In the fiist place the new dnnkery, whether tavern, beet spot, or swanky cocktail bar makes a strong bid for youth and womanhood. In the pYc-prohibi- tion days the drinK empoi amis were mannish and catered almost exclusively to men. Mothei and the kids stayed out.

The man who thought it manly to staggei home at 3 a. m. and kick up rough house or drop into an oblivious stupor as the case might be, does not consider that such conduct is the inalienable right of wifey, or even of his girls and boys. So wet pater families is often voting dry as the deacon. The other reason is cut from the same piece of cloth.

It is that the repealists, including Mr. President himself, promised with pledges long uiul loud, that under repeal the pre-prohibition saloon, either in its old form or in any new guise should never, never return. But in practice tho post repeal boozo joint is as much worse than the pro-prohibition bar room as smalt pox is woise than the measles. This applies to tho immaculate cocktail lounge which attracts the dainty and elite, to the sawdust beer shack that appeals to the roughnecks or to the spiffy dance and drink spot, with its nudish floor show and thrilling swing orchestra that incites and bewitches youth. If John Barleycorn wants a long walk he should watch his step.

CONSIDERING METERS. GRAND ISLAND. CP. David Kaufmann has been named chairman of a special committee of tho chamber of commerce to Investigate the feasibility of Installing paikmg meters in the business district here. "OIL YOUR FEET" Ordered Napoleon To His Soldiers Sore, itching, buiniiiR feet prob- nblv cnuse more misery--more dis- more bad trmpei curo.nn thnn most other human ailments.

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