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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1923)
IRELAND’S DARK NIGHT. SERVICE NOT PROFITS. THAT SUPER HEATED GIRL. 'HBy ARTHUR BRISBANE-^ The whole world is upside clown. A dictator of one kind rules in Italy. .Another rules Turkey, and a totally different kind rules in Russia. The strangest, most tragic situa tion lies in Ireland. In the dead of night, a British battleship brings 300 Irish repub licans from England, a band of men and women rounded up and arrested, all within 24 hours. From the battleship the prisoners are put on two. British destroyers and by them delivered to the Irish free state, which will do aa it chooses with them, probably try and execute several. After 700 years of Irish fighting against England you see Irishmen setting fire to the homes of such men as Tim Ilealy and Plunkett, and England hunting and capturing 300 rebellious Irishmen, sending them not to English prisons, but to the Irish free state and to Irish prisons. Anything may happen after that. No more half holidays for postoffice employes. Deliveries to be cut in half. Eighteen hundred men to be dropped. That's the news sent from head quarters to the postoffice In New York city, biggest in the country. These economies are ordered, al i though New York city's postoffice makes a profit of $24,000,000 a year. The idea is to make up for losses elsewhere. But the whole economy idea is un sound. The postoffice belongs to the people. They pay the bills. They want good service and are willing to pay for It. They don't want a post master bragging of his "financial showing.” Whether it be distant rural delivery, where it may cost 25 cents to deliver a 2-cent letter, or New York city’s postoffice, earning 6 per cent yearly on $400,000,000, the only question should be, “What is the best possible service that can be given?" If the government thinks people put postoffice profit ahead of post office service, the government is mis taken. _ A Michigan girl persuaded doctors that her temperature was 114, using a hot water bag to help her tempera ture. The doctors might have known better. Such a temperature is im possible. One interesting thing in our bodies, so "fearfully and wonderfully made,” Is the fact that man can travel from a temperature of 120 degrees at the equator to 50 below zero in the north, a change of 170 degrees, while the heat of his blood does not vary one degree. This is marvellous ad justment for you. Your temperature now is about 98^4. If it dropped 4 degrees you would die. When it goes up 10 degrees, death is not far off. However, don't harshly judge Miss Lyons of Escanaba, Mich. She want ed to attract attention somehow or other, and to seem very 111 appeared to he the easiest way. The desire to attract attention Is the most important instinct in the whole gamut of human emotions. It makes men climb to mountain tops and down the craters of volcanoes. It inspires the man who seeks attention of the cannon's mouth and the other that works patiently his life through in his study or laboratory, content to believe, "if this century doesn't acknowledge ms, another century will.” It Is announced, on authority not absolute, that Germany will agree to pay 3(1,000,000,000 gold marks, about 7,500.000,000 gold dollars and no more, if she can be let alone and get a re ceipt in full. It is doubtful whether the French financiers and industrialists that gov ■ rn French-German policy through Poincare will consent. Large Crowd at Funeral of Mr*. Emma B. Manchester Lincoln, March 14.—(Special.)—Hun dreds of friends, many of them from distant places, congregated at Rob erts' chapsl Wednesday to pay final tribute to Mrs. Emma B. Manchester, past, supreme guardian of the Wood men circle, who died Saturday. Chris tian Seience services were conducted. Two special cars brought Mrs. Man chester's Omaha friends here. The supreme officers of the Woodmen cir cle nnd all of the sovereign officers r,f the Woodmen of the World attend ed the services. Two Measures Passed by Vote of State Senate Lincoln, March 14.—(Special.)—The senate Wednesday passed the follow ing bills; Senate file 215, requiring railroads lo build crossings over tracks run ning through a farm. Senate file 307, providing that ad ministrators may extend time of pay ment on notes belonging to estate. On third reading, the upper house concurred In minor house amend ments to senate file 154, validating records filed in recorder's office. McKelvie Talks at Banquet of Nebraska Thrcshcrmen Lincoln, March 14. — (Special.)— "Economic Condition* on tho Farm" wu* the subject of an mldree* by for mer Governor 8. ft. McKelvie nt the annual banquet of the Nebraska Brotherhood of Threshermen here Wednesday night. The threshermen, who are holding their annual convention here spent Wednesday morning vlnlting tho legl*. lature. Strehlow Picks Up Gage Governor Threw Down Lincoln, March 14.—(Special Tele gram.)—Representative atrehlow tit Omaha in an open letter to Governor Bryan this morning accepted th# «hallonge of the governor to debate *t any time or place on tho gover nor's new code plan on government a* against the Dysart tridepnrtmentai plan. Third Scheme Is | Urged by Mathers to Govern State Speaker of House Would Use Constitutional Officers— Theory of Code Law Is Endorsed. (Continued From Page One.) helpless council to hide behind, changes the names of officers, elimi nates many activities, reduces sal aries and retains the codification of the laws. “No one wants to see the laws and handling of activities back in the place they were before our government and laws were codified . But, we all want to see the system of codification, the extravagance of the code and dupll , cation between constitutional and code officers done away with. I “Both the governor and the spon I sors of the tridepartmental plan in sist and provide for lower salaries, I economies and fewer employes. So j do I. "My plan places the activities un ! der the officers directly responsible ' to the people at no more salary than i they receive now. Nor does it crip ! pie the governor. If from political motives or any other motive a con i stitutlonal officer fails to handle these activities placed under him suitably, the governor may remove those ac tivities and ple.ee some one at their head." Applause Greets Speaker. Tumultous applause greeted the speaker’s remarks. It was easily the greatest ovation of the session. At the conclusion, Representative Elasser. one of the “diehard*" on the Bryan code modification plan, asked Mathers if the present governor’s plan would give him more power than McKelvie possessed. “It does not," the speaker replied, I “but gives in effect more power th^n my amendment would.” Elsasser asked if the governor Speaker Offers Plan of State Government would be surrendering his constitu tional authority to state officers un der the Mathers' plan. “The governor cannot surrender his constitutional authlrity,” Mathers said. “Nor could his constitutional j authority be usurped by an executive! council, as he would lead you to be- 1 lieve.” Visitors Can Talk. A visitor in the gallery asked one of the previous questions put, by Elsasser and several members spoke harshly- to the visitor. “Throw him out.” several shouted. “No. sir, you stay where you are,” the speaker said. “You are a tax-! payer and have a right to be heard.” Representative Jacoby, a democrat, arose. He insisted upon the Bryan code modification plan ,nnd if the Mathers’ assertion were true that in reality the executive council would he a figurehead, the legislature should submit a constitutional amendment to the people which would give the gov ernor no more voice in executive duties than any other member of the executive council. Representatives Hyde. Staats, Davis of Fillmore, were other speakers. Hyde favored the Bryan plan. Davis and Staats attacked the Bryan plan. The debate will be resumed tomor row. Gives Self Alibi. Dysart in reopening the debate this morning charged that Governor Bryan in ills code modification plan gave himself an excellent alibi for mistakes made through setting up of an executive council. ‘‘He would hold this council re sponsible for all acts, and yet, at the same time, would give it absolute ly no voice in naming men for whose acta it would be held responsible,” Dysart said. "The governor delegates to him self all authority in appointing em ployes. For instance: "In house roll 681 he makes hint self head of the department of health and has sole authority in hiring and firing every employe. "In house roll 684 he makes himself state engineer with power to hire and fire all employes. "In house roll 692 he makes him anif head of a banking bureau with power to hire and fire all employes. "In house roll 683 he makes himself head of the insurance department with power to hire and fire all em ployes. "In house roll 697 he makes him self head of the labor department with power to hire and fire all employes. "In house roll 699 he makes him self head of the department of ani mal industry with power to hire and fire all employes. “In house, roll 700 he makes himself head of the bureau of inspections with power to hire and fire all em ployes. “In House Roll 701 he makes him self head of the department of fish. game and athletics with power to hire and tire all employes.” I .aw Kixes Policies. Continuing, Dysart challenged the truth of the Bryan statement that the executive council could determine state policies. “These are fixed by law.” Dysart said, "and all the council could do would he to follow the law. "What the governor's bills do. how ever, is to delegate to the executive council tlie power to act as a judicial body, something not contemplated in our constitution which sets up three separate and distinct branches of gov ernment, the executive, the judicial and the legislative. "The governor, in his bills, sets up this council as a court of appeal for persons aggrieved over acts of in spectors of irrigation banking, insur ance, health, pure food and naturaliza tion. Handicaps to Taxpayers. ‘‘In other words, a person desiring relief from the acts of these officials must, under his bills, first apply to the executive council. If the ruling of this council doesn’t satisv him, then he goes into court. "A man at McCook, at Scottsbluff, at any point in tho state must, under the Bryan bill, come hero to Lincoln and appeal to the executive council be fore he can go into court. A direct appeal to court Is denied him.” Osterman, in replying, asserted that real functions of government could be handled, constitutionally by the coun cil. "This council has the right to re view and validate all contracts made by the state,” Osterman said. "It has the right to issue as many bulletins as it desires on state activi ties and it has tho right to decide on recommendations for the budget. “As for it robbing the judicial branch of the government, the same is true with our county government, where the taxpayer is obliged to go before a board of equalization, com posed of county commissioners, to obtain relief for oppressive assess ments before he can appeal to courts.” The newest design in vanity cases has a tiny electric light for illumin ating the mirror under the lid. 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N.JL Allies Settle Knotty Problem of Peace Parley Council Finally Fixes Fron tiers Between Russia ami Poland — Lithuania Loses Vilna. Paris March 14.—UP)—The allied 'council of ambassadors today finally settled one of the most irritating problems left over from the peace conference by fixing the frontiers be tween Russia and Poland. The coun cil s action was, on the surface, a I mere perfunctory action but it was ' yeally the ending of an uncertain 1 situation which it was feared might 1 develop serious trouble. The allies had never formally ac cepted the territorial divisions made under the Riga treaty, and questions had been raised as to the fate of eastern Galicia. This matter had come up on several occasions before the assembly of the league of na tions. J The Polish government showed con siderable uneasiness at these mani festations of sentiment that the boundary of eastern Galicia had not yet been definitely fixed. Count Hkrzynskl, the Polish foreign minister who came to Paris with In structions to declare categorically that there was no longer any Galician boundary question, as it had been settled by the treaty of Riga, ex pressed great. satisfaction tonight over the action of the ambassadors. The ambassadors’ action also pro | vides that tho Viina district shall be I attached to Poland, thus ending the long dispute between that, country and Lithuania beginning with the raid on Viina in 1920 by the Polish general, Zcllgouskl. Apoplexy Causes Death of Dr. Hall (Continued From I*»gr On* ) free silver men and the delegation l headed by W. J. Bryan and Dr. Hall took Nebraska’s representative sea's at the eonvention. In 1918 Dr. Hall was elected to the board of regents of the state uni verslty, and served as president of the board, retiring last January. Jte was also one of the managers of the state board of agriculture. He leaves a wife, one son, Phil L , 'a banker at OreenwAod: one daughter. Mrs. Edith Lansing of Lincoln, and a brother, John, living at Elkhorti, Neb. Eulogized in legislature. Both branches of the Nebraska legislature eulogized the long public career, private attainments and per sonal worth of character of Dr. Hall. The following resolution, prepared by Senator C. B. Anderson, was unstv ir.ously adopted in the* upper house* Whereas, It ha a bc»-n Parns*1 that Dr. P 1j. Hall passed a way lpst •vening, an f1 w hercas l>r. Hall ha«l for many yea"* been prominent In public affairs In th* “fate and haU always shown deep and 4 keen Interest in the rood and welfare of the state, and whereas Dr. Hall »*■* at the time of hi* death a member of the *fate board of apiculture, I ino\» that cojhmitte* of three be appointed to draft suitable revolutions relative to ♦lie life and works of Dr. Hall, and the’ th!a committee be authorised to arrange **o tha? the s'na'e may be properly rep resented at the funeral. Senator Anderson, Haunrters and Purcell were named as the senate committee while the bouse named Messrs. Hroome, Regan and Reynolds. Governor Bryan made the following statement: "The announcement of the death of Dr. P. 1,. Hall comes to me as a great shock. It was but three days ago that I had lunch with Dr. Hall and while I knew he was not well, I did not know that he was seriously 111. While the death of Dr. Hall is a great and immeasurable loss to me personally, and to every member of our family, i far greater loss falls not only on the entire state of Nebraska, but on the nation as well. Dr. Hall’s counsel, advice and human sympathy has for years done much to revive hope and courage to the disheartened in every trying situation.” Couein of Harding Dir?. Akron, Ind., March 14.—Fletcher Stoner, second cousin of President Harding and founder of the Exchange bank, died at Iks home here early today. Thompson, Belden & Co. 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