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Congressman Jefferis Secures Compensation For Omaha Resident Successfully Follows Up Action of Former Congressman Lobeck Who Introduced Measure to Grant De served Compensation to Rudolph L. Desdunes Who Lost Eyesight in Government Service. LOBECK ACTED UPON REQUEST OF MONITOR EDITOR Washington, Dec. 20.—(Special Tel egram.)—The house passed the bill '''S* introduced by Congressman Jefferis giving Rudolph L. Desdunes, colored resident of Omaha, $1,200 in full com pensation for the loss of eyesight while in the discharge of his duties as assistant weigher in the United States customs house in New Orleans. Rudolph Desdunes, the father of Daniel Desdunes, bandmaster and an attache of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, while weighing a cargo of sugar on a wharf at New Orleans in the winter of 1910 fell from his stool on account of an attack of dizziness and struck his forehead, from which accident he became incurably blind. As compensation for his suffering and deprivation of income the committee on claims fixed the amount as equiv alent to one year’s pay. Former Congressman Lobeck intro duced the bill originally, but nothing coming of it in the Sixty-fifth con gress, Congressman Jefferis took hold of the bill at the beginning of the Sixty-sixth congress and yesterday secured its passage without opposi tion. In connection with the above news dispatch the following letters will prove of interest: House of Representatives, U. S. Washington, D. C., Jan. 2, 1918. Rev. John Albert Williams, Omaha, Neb. Rev. and Dear Father: This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter of recent date in the in terest of Rudolph L. Desdunes. I have introduced a bill for a year’s salary for the services rendered while in New Orleans. The bill was referred to the committee on claims and I hope to get action during this session of congress. Thanking you for your letter, I am, yours very truly, C. O. LOBECK. ff _ Omaha, Neb., Jan. 5, 1918. The Hon. Charles O. Lobeck, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. My Dear Congressman: Thank you for your letter of Jan uary 2, just received, acknowledging receipt of mine in the interest of Ru dolph L. Desdunes and advising me of k your appreciated action in introduc ing bill for his merited relief by ask ing for a year’s salary for services rendered while in New Orleans. Knowing your usual promptness I was becoming anxious over delay in hear ing from you. I am sure we can count on you to see that the matter is not allowed to slumber with the commit tee on claims. With best wishes, believe me, cor dially and gratefully yours, JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. FORMER PRESIDENTS SON AGREES TO GO ON HOWARD’S TRUSTEE BOARD TUTASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 22—Dr. W Emmett J. Scott, secretary-treas urer of Howard university, announces that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of the former president of the United States, has accepted the suggestion of Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, president of Howard university, that his name be proposed for election as a member of the Howard university board of trus tees at the meeting of the board to he held in February. President Roosevelt, in speaking of Howard university some years ago, said: "It is from this institution that are graduated those who will lead and teach their less fortunate fellows. Upon their leading and teaching much depends for their race and their coun try. I have a peculiar interest in Howard university because of having seen the effects of their work close at hand." The former president’s son has something of the same “peculiar in terest in Howard university," and is planning to co-operate in every way possible with the officials of the uni versity in putting under way the great reconstruction a n d reorganization program of the university, which has assumed a new leadership and has at tained, as has been aptly said, a new conception of her mission, through aiming practically and deliberately at meeting the national demand in race leadership, and thus fulfilling her proper duty and mission as the na tional institution for the higher and professional education of colored youth. Spoiling Her Case. Teacher was warming to her sub ject, and, laying down her book, said: “Now you all understand that the trunk is the middle part of the body, don’t you?" “Yes, ma’am,” chorused the class, with one exception. "You understand It. too?" asked the teacher of the hoy who had not an swered. “No, ma’am, because It isn't so.” “Why, my dear boy, what do you mean?" “Well,” replied the boy, “you ought to go to the etrcu-i and see the ele phant.” Composers Heavy Eaters. Many great musical composers had exceptionally large appetites. When Handel dined alone at a restaurant he usually took the precaution of or dering a meal for three. Haydn, yet more voracious, was known to consume a meai that would have satisfied iiv* "•dieary appetites. LOW-CUT DRESS AND HEALTH Chest and Back Exposure Does Not Cause Colds and Pneumonia, Expert Declares. If any objection can be urged against the low-cut dress it is not on the score of injury to health, in the opinion of a medical authority, but on the contrary, no better design could be chosen for the dress of the upper part of the body than one which gives free play to the muscles of the neck and shoulders and permits free circu lation of the blood to and from the head, says the Louisville Courier Journal. “Women do not catch colds or get pneumonia from exposing the chest and back, even in chilly weather," continues this same authority. “This fallacy has been exploded long ago. Looseness of the garments every where is what doctors have always been calling for, and if women who find benefit from this fasldon in the region of the shoulders will use theli reasoning powers and loosen the cov erings of the waist, the feet and the hands they will not only feel in better health and lighter spirits, but they will find a marked increase of their general beauty. “From tight neck and shoulder wear many evils follow. What good results may be expected from the low-backed dress? Firstly, it will stimulate wom en to develop their arms and shoul ders and, hy allowing a freer carriage of the head, will give them more grace and dignity. “But one of the most grntlfylng re sults will be the effect on the face. There is no doubt whatever that many of the skin troubles endured by wom en have been caused by tight and warm clothing round the neck. When the blood ts permitted to circulate freely the complexion will improve, wrinkles and pimples will disappear and other conditions being favora ble, the face will become plumper, clearer and of better color. “The looseness about the neck should also have a beneficial influence on the hair. Probably much of the baldness of at least the earlier years of middle age is due to want of n suf ficient supply of blood to the scalp. “Obviously the unpleasant effects of heat will be reduced, for the coolness of the bare upper part will cool the whole blood stream and body. The good influence on the nervous system is perhaps the most important factor. The coolness and ease and the free circulation of pure blood to the brain are bound to reduoe the number and severity of headaches, prevent irrita bility and make a woman in every way more cheerful and better tem pered.” Each Had a Wife. His flivver was out of gas. 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