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.
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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.
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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.
Regarding bus transportation fa
i cilities between Baltimore and
j Washington, the Maryland Public
(Service Commision has recently ren
dered a decision of judicial charac
ter, which is said to have “an all
important bearing upon tcansnorta
j tion problems in Maryland,” and
I which is expected to have a wide
reaching influence on this question
throughout the country.
The commission was required to
pass upon the application of a pri
vate corporation which sought tc
establish motor bus transportation
facilities between the cities of Bal-
I timore and Washington, through
I the free use of the state highways.
'ln denying the application and re
fusing the franchise, the commission
laid down the broad and significant
principle that territory was already
i necessary. And further that to
j competently served and no addi
tional transportation facilities were
permit the use of the public boule
. vards for private enterprise of such
a character would add to the strain
of already overcrowded highways.
KILLS HER HUSBAND
AND ENDS OWN LIFE
PONTCHATOULA, La., Sept. 21.
—Mrs. Charles J. Herman was
found shot to death and her husband
auditor of the Strawberry Growers’
Association of Hammond, La., was
dying when two children of the
couple, returning from church Sun
day morning broke open the barred
door of the Herman home near here
Police said circumstances sur-
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the child instead of the chickens in
a chicken coop. Neighbors became
so indignant that one of them offer
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rounding the tragedy indicated that
the husband, who died en route to
a New Orleans hospital, was shot by
his wife, who then killed herself.
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Show Decrease As Compared
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ATLANTA, September 21. —j
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generally known —to the effect that i
the railroads are not as prosperous
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were below those of 1923, that is
on class 1 railroads. Furthermore
there was a decrease of 6 per cent
in the total freight earnings last
year as compared to 1923. Gross
! revenues and expenses last year
both show decreases as compared
to the year before.
Class 1 railroads representing a
total mileage of 236,190 had a net
operating income in 1924 of $987,-
133,650, or a return of 4.35 per
cent of their property investment,
according to reports filed by the
railroads with the government. In
1923 their rate of return was 4.49
per cent.
Although the railroads were op
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efficiency in their history, they
failed to earn a return of 5 3-4
per cent, which has been set up as
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