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MONDAY, MAT 10, 1927.
Do Animals Suffer When
Kept Captive sfn Zoos?
Survey Shows That Treatment Given Them
Compensates for Confinement
Central Park zoo '
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View ef Berlin Hephant compound
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By MAURICt: MERRYFIELD
International Illustrated News
Feature Writer
NEW YORK Another season is
beginning at the zoo, but only a few
of the thousands who will stand in
awe before the monkey house or lions
cage this summer will appreciate
what amazing progress has occurred
in this field of instructive recreation.
Numerous improvements have been
made in housing and caring for the
animals, collections have been added
to. and facilities improved for the
spectators.
The first zoo on record was in
China as far back as 2000 B. C. It
was financed and operated by the
government, and established as a
means of acquainting the people with jpreciate the excellent care given
the wonders of the animal kingdom, j them. Comfortable quarters, the best
Indian potentates and medieval kings i food and constant medical attention
frequently maintained zoos for themake ijfe much easier for them than
amusement of themselves and their j if they were roaming their native
royal households, but it has been habitats. Authorities on the subject
only recently that municipally-oper-! are of the opinion that few animals
ated institutions such as those injresent their lack of freedom.
Chicago. "Washington. New York.j When it is considered that lions
Cincinnati. Munich, London and hive from 20 to 25 years in cap-
Rome have nourished.
Norris Antici
pates Many New
Small Forests
Asks CongTess for $2,500,000 to Help
Fanners Plant Trees Has
Passed the Senate.
"Washington. Senator Norris of
Nebraska believes his bill providing
$2,500,000 for federal co-operation
with farmers in planting and grow
ing of trees will result in many new
small forest tracts thruout the na
tion. The bill has passed the senate and
Norris predicted its passage in the
house. He said while some details
were yet to be worked out, it was
likely the government would furnish
forestry trees to farms if they would
sign an agreement to care for them,
Norris said his measure "is experi-mentt-1
to a certain degree" and
"would put the individual farmer in
touch with the forestry bureau."
"There are now 1"3 million acres
in small tracts on individual farms,"
he continued. "Very little of this
is getting attention. I think this'
will lead, to a wonderful amount of
forest education which will lead to
the growing of a large number of
small forest tracts."
Norris said in Nebraska, forestry
men advised him 20 percent of the
trees were lost last year.
"It is a lesson," said the senator.
"It teaches us what kind of trees
will stand th? drouth. The forestry
service undei this bill would decide
the kinds. The country is forest
minded now and would take pride inLidow, four sons and two daughters
keeping up trees.
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Excellent Care Given Them
One of the most outstanding de
velopments in the operation of zoos
has been the European plan of ex
hibiting the animals in the open in
stead of behind fences or in cages
Elephants are allowed to roam their
compound without heavy chains
these being replaced several rows of
spikes which ring the enclosure and
Drohibit the pachyderms crossing,
yet allow the spectator a better view-
Lions are also "turned loose," the
traditional cage having been replaced
by a circular moat which is at effec
tive as bars since the king of beasts
will not cross water.
Those who feel that it is cruel to
keep animals in captivity fail to ap-
itivity in comparison to a life span of
jabout 10 years in the jungle, it is ap
! parent that the struggle for survival
j takes the edge off their freedom,
j Numerous zoos have increased their
J educational value by supplementing
the usual identifying signs with post
ers which describe the animal and its
habits. For the further edification of
visitors, many zoos are now exhibit
ing the animals in quarters which
are built up or painted to resemble
their natural habitats.
SOUVENIR FROM BULGARIA
Falls City, Neb. King Boris of
Bulgaria is sending Gus Phillips a
souvenir which the Nebraska railroad
engineer vill receive thru the Bul
garian legation at Washington.
A letter from the king telling of
the souvenir reached the Phillips
home thi3 week, at the same time as a
picture of the royal family.
Phillips, a native of Bulgaria, met
the king four years ago when he visit-
ed his birthplace. The king, chief
executive of the Bulgarian railroad
system, spent several hours talking
railroading with the Nebraskan, and
last year sent to Phillips a gift of
16 bottles of rare wine. Last Jan
uary Phillips sent an electric "toy
train, to the king as a birthday gift,
and American dolls to Princess Marie
Luisa, 4.
YORK PI0NEEE DIES
York, Neb. Daniel Keefe, 79, na
tive Indianan and York county resi
dent since 1S71, died at his farm
home near here. He and his wife
celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary last Feb. 24. Keefe had
been in ill health three years. His
survive.
THE
Dan Stephens
Analyzes Burke
Court Fight
Says That Senator Is Afraid Reac
tionary Justices Would Lose
Their Supremacy.
Dan V. Stephens enlarges on his
demand for the resignation of Sen
ator Burke, and his views on the su
preme court of the Limed fciaies, in
a statement issued Wednesday. He
recites the history of the court from
the time it was instituted with three
members, tells the struggles of Lin
coln and Grant against its authority,
and maintains that its only legal
power is to make decisions between
litigants. Any further power, such as
that of passing on the constitution
ality of acts of congress, he declares
to have been usurped.
As to Senator Burke's opposition
to Roosevelt's proposal to increase
the present membership of nine by
appointing six additional justices,
Mr. Stephens says the only object to
be attained by a larger court is to
liberalize the court, which has dried
up. He continues:
"But what is wrong with 15
judges? Only one thing is wrong
for Burke and his crowd, and that is
the fact that the president would
appoint the six new judges if the old
fellows refuse to quit. "Why don t
the old reactionary judges quit like
gentlemen? The answer is the crowd
Mr. Burke trails with and whose
views he represents want the four re
actionary representatives they nave
on the bench to stay there and rep
resent them, as some of them have
since they gave up their corporation
salaries. These special interests
would be hopeless if they lost these
members of the court. It is because
of these vast special interests that
the court becomes such good hunt
ing. They know the president is next
to their 'racket' and will sooner or
later win for the people the right to
rule themselves as the constitution
provides. But he can't do it any more
than Lincoln could win the war, till
he had a court in sympathy. ,
"No matter how the country votes
at the elections, the tricksters know
how to defeat its objectives. Chief
Justice John Marshall issued a man
damus to compel Jefferson to issue
some judicial commissions Marshall
had failed to deliver before midnight
the end of Adams term as president.
He and Adams had an elaborate
court system and appointed many
judges, among them Marshall him
self as chief justice. It was a no
torious act and the country resented
it and later repealed it.
"President Jefferson threw the
chief justice's writ in the wastebas
ket and branded his act for what it
was, a rank attempt of the court to
act as overlord for the president and
congress.
Up to that time no one dreamed
that the court could nullify an act
of congress. But old John Marshall
knew his abortive attempt, which
President Jefferson stopped, would
soon be grabbed upon by scheming
judges to take over the rule of the
people in defense of the constitution,
which has come to pass.
"If I were Roosevelt I would toss
in the wastebasket every decision
of the court nullifying acts of con
gress in violation of the constitution.
That is what Jefferson, Jackson and
Lincoln did, and they were great men
and knew where they were going all
the time, and their spirits are still
marching on. The constitutional
rights of the people should be pre
served." MRS. GRAY IN NEW YORK
New York. Among the thousands
of sons and daughters who will
make their annual pilgrimage on
Sunday, Mother's day, will be two
sons of Mrs. Carl Gray of Omaha, and
their wives. But, instead of going to
Omaha, they will come to New York
to see "Mother Gray" receive the sil
ver medal symbolizing her election
as the "American mother of 1937."
Gray, who married the nation's
model mother 50 years ago when she
was only 17, arrived here Wednesday
night from Washington and will re
main thru Sunday. Carl Raymond
Gray, jr., their oldest son, who is
president and general manager of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha railroad, will arrive with his
wife Sunday morning. Russell D.
Gray, the second son, and Mrs. Gray
will con-e over to Manhattan from
nearby Bronxville Saturday. Dr.
Howard Gray, the youngest son,
whom Mrs. Gray calls "my doctor
boy," is in Paris.
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If this Alsatian wolfhound followed his natural instincts, he would
probably make a meal of the Angora rabbit, but the two of them
and the tame cockatoo, all owned by an Australian pet fancier, are
close friends and have become ah inseparable trio..
State Plants
Trout in Lakes
at Louisville
Eighteen Hundred Brook and Rain
bow Trout, 8 to 22 Inches,
Dumped Saturday.
Eighteen hundred Brook, and Rain
bow trout were dumped in the state
owned lakes at the State Recreation !
ground here Saturday. The speci
mens were raised at the Gretna
Hatchery and when dumped ranged
in sizes from S to 22 inches in
length. Anglers are permitted to
catch them and are invited to en
joy the sport of fishing for these
game fish.
April 24th, 12.000 bullheads from
the Sandhill lakes near Hyannis
were brought in and dumped in the
local lakes. Bullheads will be
brought in quite regularly during
the coming months, but because
trout are raised at the hatcheries
another stocking will probably not
take place before fall.
Sportsmen from the surrounding
territory have been enjoying some
fine catches of crappies during the
past three weeks and many have re
ported very nice catches.
The fine fishing here is due in
part to the excellent work of Super
intendent Merritt of the Gretna
Hatchery. Mr. Merritt has been in
charge of the Gretna plant for sev
eral years and during this time has
had much success, in raising trout
which have been distributed to the
lakes and streams. As long as
Superintendent Merritt continues to
have this success, the fishermen will
be assured of much sport and good
fishing in the Louisville lakes.
Louisville Courier.
URGES CARE IN EXPANSION
Washington. Secretary Roper
urged Wednesday that precautionary Y
measures be taken against extrava
gant industrial expansion because of
the increasing world expenditures for
armaments. 'The rate of industrial
expansion in several countries is be
ing greatly influenced by increasing
expenditures for armaments," Roper
said at a press conference.
"It is easy for us to mistake these
demands for normal and continuing
trade expansion. It is easy to be car
ried away in increasing plant ca
pacity and other unguarded expan
sions that will not be endured. For
instance, under the present world
outlook, many billions will be spent
thruout the world during the next
twelve months for plant expansion
and armament product requirements.
This will tend to create abnormal
demand conditions that cannot last
and naturallj' will be followed by
recessions if advance precautionary
methods are not used."
WALTER R. MARTIN DIES
Bellevue, Neb. Walter R. Martin,
postmaster here from 1925 to 1934,
died at his home of heart disease.
A World war veteran, he is survived
by his widow and three daughters.
One daughter, Bernice, is attending
University of Nebraska.
SHAW RENAMED MAYOR
Lo3 Angeles. Frank L. Shaw was
re-elected to his second four-year
term as mayor of Los Angeles with a
plurality of more than 25,000 votes
over Supervisor John Anson Ford.
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Tax Structure
Analyzed by Com
missioner Smith
Tax Load in 1936 was 58 Percent of
Total Value of All Crops As
sistance Program Perplexing
The total value of all crops grown
in Nebraska in 1936 was $133,719,-
000 but the total tax load borne by
Nebraskans, from all sources, was
?5S,059,953 or 5S.15 percent of the
value of the crops was the statement
'made by Tax Commissioner Smith
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before the Lincoln Real Estate board.
In an analysis of the tax struc
ture of the state Mr. Smith em
phasized as wfse the provision forbid-
i ding bonded indebtedness and said
that Nebraska was one of the three
states, Nevada and New Hampshire
being the other two, that had not
resorted to so called "new forms of
taxation."
j The indebtedness of subdivisions of
state government have dropped from
$113,000,000 in 1929 to $79,000,000
;in 1936.
He warned that the state assist
ance program is one of the most per
plexing problems facing the state
and said it will continue to be in the
future. The total of $5,937,874 paid
out up to March 1, 1936 was greater
than that used to maintain all state
activities, the university and normal
schools, the state institutions and de
partments, during a like period.
In an analysis of the taxes for the
year 193 6 Mr. Smith presented the
following figures:
Total $41,941,727.
Schools $19,170,642, or 45.7 per
cent. City and village taxel $9,337,261,
22.3 percent.
County taxes, $8,815,938, 21 per
cent. The division of the tax dollar was
as follows:
Judiciary 6.6 cents
Executive 7.2 cents
Administrative 3.6 cents
Miscellaneous 6. cents
Education 40.3 cents
Penal and charitable 36.3 cents
The average value of the Nebras
ka land per acre in 1936 was $24.34,
$38.60 in 1929; $31.30 in 1913 and
$29.60 in 190S. Assessed valuations
have dropped as follows:
1921 $3,312,737,091
1931 $3,045,793,706
1936 $2,060,835,168
SHORT OF CCC QUOTA
Omaha. CCC enrollment for the
seventh corps area is 5,586 below its
60,000 quota, it was announced at
area headquarters. Figures released
in Washington showed national en
rollment 35,000 short of the 350,000
quota at the end of the last recruit
ing period.
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iURDOGK IIEI
A. J. Bauer visited with friends
and relatives in Lincoln the greater
part of last week.
Norman Schewe, who is a student
at the University of .Nebraska, vis
ited at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. O. Schewe, over the
week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Craig and Mips
Orland Pariott were in Lincoln laFt
Monday evening, where they looked
after business matters and visited
lriends. -
George Menke, who is farming the
Stroy place, has purchased a tractor
and plows and will use the newer
power methods in doing his farming
this year.
Water has been installed in the
home where Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Dean reside. Heretofore they havi
been deperdant on a well, for their
water supply.
Julius Reinke has been having a
new roof plated on his barn at the
farm north of town. The severe
winds of a few weeks since caused
considerable damage to the old roof,
which had been on for a long time.
Mrs. Harriett Sawyer of Los An
geles, Calif., writes to her parents.
H. H. Lawton and wife that she is
enjoying the weather there, the cli
mate being warm and mild and all
vegetation and garden stuff well ad
vanced.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Johnson
who conduct the cafe, were guests at
the home of their daughter and son-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. R. Jensen, of
north of Avoca Sunday and later
in the day went over to Nehavka
for a short visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bohlson ot
Omaha and the kiddies were guests
at the heme of Grandfather and
Grandmother Mr. and Mis. Charles
Kupke, where notwithstanding the
rain they all enjoyed a very peas
ant visit for the week end.
Mrs. Fred Stock, Sr., and son Jes?
were over to Lincoln to see Fred,
who was so seriously injured when
the buzz saw cut eff his thumb and
mangled the remainder of the hand.
Roy also tock Mrs. Stock over to be
there at the time of the dressing of
the wound.
Rev. F. C. Weber took his son
Earl to Rochester, Minn., for an ex
amination in the Mayo clinic for r.n
ailment hard to find and locate by
home and Lincoln physicians. Earl
has been failing and loosing weight
for several weeks and the matter be
came rather alarming to the parents.
Will Open Season Soon
Those interested in the kitten or
soft ball games are notified that cn
May IS the season will be officially
opened in Murdock, when there will
be three rattling good games for you
to witness. Keep the date in mind
and come out and root for your
favorite team to win.
To Repaint Standpipe
Last winter when the standpipe
and the tank at the top thereof
froze up, making necessary the build
ing of a fire to thaw it out and save
it from serious damage, it was quite
badly smoked and the paint burned
off making it look badly. Ed Gan
naway was washing it off and the
standpipe will be repainted in a
short time, thus putting it in good
condition again.
New Town Board Organized
With the re-organization of the
town beard following the recent
spring election. Otto Miller was re
named as chairman, Charles Schaef
fer as treasurer, Henry A. Tool as
clerk and Ray Gamlin, street com
missioner. Messrs Miller and Schaef
fer were re-elected at the late elec
tion while Ray Gamlin is a new
member of the board.
Not Feeling So Well
Mrs. W. T. Weddell, who has not
been in the best of health for some
time past, was taken to a hospital in
Lincoln for an examination and
clinical checkup last Wednesday. She
IlelpThem Clean.' the Blood
of Harmful Body Waste
Your kidneys are constantly filtering
wmste matter from th blood stream. But
Iddneya Kiinetiiiiea l( in their work do
not art as Nature intended fall to re
move impurltiea that, it retained, may
poison the ayatem and upset the whole
tody machinery.
Symptoms may be nagetag backache
persietent headache, attacks of dutinea,
getting tip nights, swelling, purEneas
under the eyes a feeling of nervous
anxiety and loss of pep and strength.
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis
order may be burning, scanty or too
freooent urination.
There should be no doubt that prompt
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was accompanied to the hospital by
Dr. Formanak, as well as h r daugh
ter. Miss lone WcddfM and M.s
Wilma Panska.
New Hone Plastered
Gust Stock, who h is b. . ii having
under construction a ih .v i.;n.i none,
has gotten to a point v here ti e plas
tering has been coinplc ibis w rk
being done by Mr. Bnukhaue and W.
. Armstrong, of Greenwood.
Hard Eadly Tangled
Fred A. Stock. v.iU i:zai:.-.l in
lwing wood lat Well.-ly fore
noon, s'.iiiertd an ;:i-::i i:..u o.
him a thumb a:id thre l:.c!y lum
d fing-rs that wji take a I n-;
time to heal. The hatid 'v-s lanubt
in tne rapidly r von inn s.i o...u .
lie wrs b;nr:.il to town f..r tnedi-::!
attention, tut Dr. l oi i:'..im. k !;:oi
crone to tne lio'-vilal r:i ;::hi:it
patient and po v;ts taken to t'A:.:
wood for lirst aid tr M by Dr.
Liston, later bt in:. t;.kri to a Lin
cola hospital.
Kother Cat Adepts Rabbits
Conraut eau:i.io-.r ha-' a eat
which has preen.pt d a p-pit i"ti in
his barn, where .!: !..:o.I- !.er I t.io
and became the troth' r of thr- e v ry
tine kittens a week - ten days a-.
Recently wlun (-a'!i went to th"
barn, he went over to pi k op the
kittens and taking t'icn :? :' by
one, found another in the bo:;, a::. I
on removing it found it was a little
rabbit which the laotlnr .at had
brought in to mother alone with th
kittens, and it was sharing and jo in
ed perfectly contented in its r.ew
home.
On Her Way Heine
Mrs. C ha lies Sim:', who ha.c b-en
at Ventura. Calif., the past sevt rai
months, will be home in a short ti-.,e.
She starud last week, but p ant. eel
stops in northern ('alitor: i.i ;.:id
Oregon to visit rtlatives. At Marsh
land her visit will b.' at the h nae o:
her daughter. Mrs. A. D. Nie.. Her
visit at Ventura, was with lor
daughter. Miss An anda Stroy. who
holds a nurse pt sit ion there. eti
ture i3 located but a short distant.
from Los Ancehs.
Mrs. Stroy expects to rea h hom
within the luxt ten days ,.r tw.;
weeks.
CARD OF TIIAirKS
We wish to thank all of on- m-iith-bors
and friends who so kindly h ij e d
in dismanteling the old church build
ing. This kindness was rrrj'ly ap
preciated. The 11. F. S hlueter Fam
ily. Plattsmouth offers a splendid
market fop farm produce. Local
dealers always pay top prices.
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