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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 22, 1925 RADIO UNITES FATHER AND SON Hopes to Make Great Musician of Son He Deserted When a Baby OMAHA, Nob., Sept. 21.—0 n the ■ mysterious waves of the air comes the deep bass voice of the radio announcer: This is station KFKX, Hastings, Nebraska. The next selection will be a violin duet by the William and Edward Zimmer, father and son.” And then comes a plaintive mel ody from two violins. But even the radio, marvelous as it is in enabling people to hear beautiful music of hundreds of miles away, fails completely to tell the story behind the harmony of these two violins. STORY RIVALS FICTION For it is a story of love, heart aches, anger and happiness, such as, is usually found only in fiction. It’s a story of real life written in bitter and happy experiences of 20 years. At the age of 19, William Zim mer, a violinist educated in Berlin, fell in love with a 16-yer-old girl in New York City. After a hasty courtship they were married and both were very happy. A baby was born. When the baby was nine months old, Zimmer went on the road with one of the Shubert companies, playing “The Merry Widow” ana failed to return to his wife and baby. Mrs. Zimmers obtained a divorce! and married a wealthy cotton bro-| "ker named Mack, with whom she i lived happily. Her little son never knew his ( father, but as he grew older he' was told about him and went by , the name of Edward Zimmer. Like his father, the boy soon dis-| played real musical talent. The I mother did everything possible to | develop the son’s musical edu-1 cation. The family moved to St. Louis and Edward made his debut over radio at Hastings. But due to adverse business con-1 ditions, the Mack fortune was swept away. This sudden change meant an end to Edward’s musical education, the mother realized, un less in some way the boy’s father would help. The radio had revealed that the father was living at Hastings, and the mother decided on an unusual plan in her efforts to make the boy a real musician. TO FATHER INCOGNITO Under the name of Mack she sent him to Hastings to take violin lessons under his father. At first Edward protested against the idea, saying he didn’t care to know a father who had de serted him as a baby and had never shown any interest in him. •fc 4t * The rest of the story is told by the father “He had been taking music lessons of me for several weeks, and I hadn’t recognized him,” said Zimmer. “You see, I hadn’t even seen him since he was nine months old. I had worried about him and won dered about him, because I wasn’t so proud of the things that hap pened when I was younger. And so I hadn’t tried to find him. “One day as I gave him his lesson, I noticed tears in his eyes. “You are homesick for your folks,’ I said. He had told me that they were in Omaha, and were coming to Hastings later. i - STENOGRAPMy Learn it the right way and the less □ difficult way from lEZ F"1 the start and you |TI ff 4 will find that your LU lul services will be ap- IJJ preciated by em- LI Hl ployers. ffl Lu Prepare here for ' BLJH 11 success. I I PJ THE AMERICUS Hj M BUSINESS U L'J COLLEGE bl I threw my arms across his shoul ders to comfort him. And then he broke down, and told me the whole story. I was never so happy in my life. BETTE RTHAN HIS DAD “I had told, my wife about my first marriage and that made it possible to take him right into our home. “I would always advise a man to be perfectly frank about his past life. My wife is just nine years older than he. we have a little girl six years old. And we are all yery happy together. “He is a wonderful violinist. He i plays in the orchestra I direct, and 11 give him solo parts, for he is a better musician than I am. “At the close of the season 1 shall take him to New York tc j study. I am in a position to help him, and its my turn to do some thing now. “In this life we throw away the most precious things. That boy of mine had made up his mind that if I wasn’t a worth-while father he would never tell me who he was! How close I came to missing all this happiness!” OPERATORS OF BUS LINES HIT Public Service Commissions Re fuse to Grant Franchise Per mitting Use of Highways ATLANTA, Ga„ Sept. 21.—The use of the modern and improved highways that are being constructed lat great cost to the taxpayers for heavy bus and truck transporta tion service is beginning to receive i the attention of the courts and the public service commission in various i states, it was pointed out here to -day by highway and transportation [ officials. 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