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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 2, 1914. i)-B WALTZ GETS YEAR IN PRISON Germfcn Artist Sentenced for ating Class Hatred. Cre- NOT INIMICAL TO COUNTRY Carlratarlat Is Aajalnat the Way nrlrhnland ta f'ontlnrtrd, Rathrr , Than Oppnard to Va)rr land In fSrnrral. BER1JS, Aug. 1. Johann Jakoh Walts. n artist and caricaturist, has just brn sentenced to one year's Imprisonment by the Imperial supreme "court for Inciting class hatred and llbellna; public officials, particularly the Rend arm "anil, school teachers of Alsace-Lorraine. The offense were" "contained In a book entitled "My Ylllape," which was published some months na-o In France, but has been sold extensively In the rtelchptand and other lortlons of Germany. Th. case throws some Ilsrht upon the existence among a part of the population of Alsace-Lorraine of hatred for Germany nnd to their ardent hope some day to ba reunited to. France... It aluo aids one to comprehend some of the administratis-, difficulties with which the g'overnmant of the province has to contend, for Walts, who writes under the pen name of Hansl, has been a mouthpiece of the nationalists of the Relchsland, and there are many ethers of his stamp. Walts had already published erne boo K whose sale lri Alsace Lorraine was made a penal offense be cause of It anti-German tendency, and he Is the author of hundreds- of carica tures of Germans, German officials and Institutions.. Withal be Is, as the name Indicates, a born German, and he de c'ared upen trial that he was not Inimical to Germany. It was, he declared, merely the manner lr which the Relchsland Is administered that he was opposing. Rome Striking- Pa a an area. Striking passages from the book "My Village," which la written in French, were read , before, the,, court. . Some of them follow:. "Even, though we are humbled by the brutal law of the conquerors, It seems as If the acts of Injustice against us are too heavy, that our sorrows are 'too great to make It possible that they should endure forever, 'in our ears ring ever the eacred charges of our fathers to demand our rights as Alsatians and Lorrdiners and to ' rerrialn members or the French nation. The gendarme makes an excursion w,lthi his-family. The babe In the -baby-wagon-wears a spiked -Prussian helmet. Wherever the gendarme shows himself the children and the birds stop, .singing. The most beautiful festal day for the Alsatians la the national day of the French. Then they all make a trip to Nancy, and. at nlgtu'. when te gendarme -sleeps,' . they return home! Thelf wagons bear French flags. The Alsatian' village lies peaceful' In ' tha night. Far -off one hears the cannons of a German fortress. It Is -the cannons of Kitsch.'- Our oppressors know' that ' only steel can' hold what they have won' with steel. But the Alsatian, full of faith In France, hears' also the 'echo of a French cannon, and saya to himself: 'Over the border, too,' they are keeping-watch.', . German TonrUt Arrogant. "The German' tourists go arrogantly through the. village-like parvenus, their noses high In .the-air, in order to -niake us forget whenoB .they came.. Tbey com plain unceasingly and ara.,satlstladwltti nothing. They. . destroy the . harmony .of the landscape with, their lack, of Mate." Other passages praise the. French tour ists and declare' that the' .Alsatian chil-. dren 'instinctively love them. -The chil dren pledge each other not to Join In v . t v k j. ' . r - - r ' Here's the Way to Stop Automobile Collisions With Trains Set a Pretty Young Girl With a Flag at Every Grade Crossing NORTH FLATTK. Neb.. July W.-To the Editor of The Ree: When the engi neers In the state of Nebraska In railroad service saw how careless and dangerous the drivers who operate a motor vehicle In trying to cross ahead of railroad trains on county highways, had a bill introduced at our last legislature known as the Hoagland Senate File No. 83, to compel all motor vehicles to come to a full stop not more than fifty feet away from the truck nor closer than fifteen feet to the track, before they would attempt to cross, I only wished we had space In your col umn to give the whole bill. This bill was very much objected to by the Judicial committee, for they thought It would exonerate the railroad companies from any liability. If the bill had been passed as Introduced there would have been no liabilities to exonerate. The day I had my hearing before the Judicial commit tee, Senator Raut.dera and Senator Pod He of Douglas" county made a very ferocious fight, and wanted to throw me and my bill over the transom, but after a strong argument they submitted an amendment tar. slx-mlle-an-hour Instead of a stop, which practically killed the bill. So you see the responsibility for all the motor vehicle accidents that have occurred since March, 191 must be laid at the doors of the office of State Senators Saunders and Dodge. If we could Induce Governor Morehead to call an extra session of the legislature to pass three bills, or consoli date them all In one, the lives of his con stituents would be saved, and ha could have any gift of office the voters of the state of Nebraska could, give him. The first bill, to have the state employ all Idle young women to flag tha county highways over all railroad, crossings with knees crossed, wearing spUt skirts, as a picture on the top of this article repre sents. The engineers of the state of Ne braska feel confident thar Senator Dodge and Senator Saunders of Douglas county would give -up their desires to be a mem-, ber of congress should this bill pass and aspire for county road overseer, . espe cially In the ' precinct where there are numerous railway crossings. Bill No. 2. To make .alL drivers of motor vehicles to have a doctor's certifi cate that the vision and hearing Is tip to normal, no matter how, many, is In a man's family, as 94 per cent of the motor vehicle accidents have been shown by the court that they have run Into the side of the engine or the train. All caused by defective vision. .v Bill No. 3. To give trains, on railroads the same right as the marine law on the high seas gives sailing vessels over other vessels that are propel.ed by any form of energy to cross ahead of. them, . for they cannot stop, nor neither can a rail- L't:2ri "111 4 UzSSSSz? S?JJ .i I sh lit 3 ;., ! W -TIT" A' K' ENGINEKR MITCHKLL'S IDRA OF A PERFECTLY GOOD "SAFETY FIRST' GRADE CROSSINd FLAG WOMAN. rood train stop at a dlstsnce of fifty feet, .which is all. the. length .we have in some localities, and at the present time when corn Is only half grown' now stands a little better than ten feet, and in all prob abilities will reach the height from six teen to twenty feot before shucking time; so what show. has a poor engineer got to stop his train to save ' a collision whereby he may run Into from ten to fifty gallons of gasoline, thereby Igniting It What show would he have to get out alive with the flames going back over his engine, his own clothes saturated with pll, ; with everything around the engine covered with oil, running at a rate of sixty miles an hour would not this In crease the flames, and whereby could he escape T , You speak of the Sarpy accident. Why, the driver of this car must have had no vision at ail to run into an electric head light ray. No matter how sharp the cur rent may be these electric headlights will give a ray on the track fully SCO feet to one side or the other, and on straight tracks they will average a mile; and then again we have accidents when the driver of the automobile was Incompetent, for he haa killed his motor In the middle of the track. When we are only 1M to WO feet and one of these . motor vehicles comes up on the track r.nd Its driver kills It. can you Juatly go Into court and swear that we are guilty, or my employer re sponsible? Ask Pnator Saunders and Sen ator Dodge who Is responsible. Is It not them for not giving u their assistance In compelling these motor vehicles to stoji before crossing a railroad track? But the first man en the scene of all these motor vehicles la an atlorney-at-law. who has an automobile there making arrangements with the cripples or relatives of the dead to start a lawsuit against the company and Its employes whereby they could get half of the Jackpot. Of course If the state would pay the expense of having the young ladles flag the crossing the tax payers of the state would not be bur dened half as heavy as they are with these numerous coroners' Inquests, which are a graft and very expensive. Last, but not least, the expense to the railroad company should this bill pass with the young lady aa flagman the expense to the railroad companies would he enor mous. Our railroad state commissioners would compel all railways In the state of Nebraska to put on observation cars on all passenger trains to increase the seat ing capacity on the rear platform, to take out the plate glass windows In the rear end of observation rare and replace them by magnifying glasses. Also to have three reserved seats with field glass strictly for the use of the stato railway commis sioners. Now In conclusion will ask why caa't engineers and railroad companies have the same concession as a motor driver has on our city streets Wtien ha kills or Injures anyone they all have a vary fishy excuse, and a coroner's Jury oneratea everybody, but we as railroad employes are brought Inte a lawsuit with our employer when we are more Innocent than tha driven of the motor vehicles In the city limits, for we cannot turn one way . or the other: our rails are laid straight, our vision la above normal and It Is impossible to stop our train between 600 to 1.000 feet-thls all depends on the tonnage and the speed when any motor vehicle ran stop from an ordinary speed to the highest speed within ten to fifty feet. . Since the defeat of the engineers' bill at the last legislature there have been more people lost their lives by reckless automobile driving In Nebraska than there were soldiers killed In the taking of Vera Crui; more people maimed and killed than lost their lives in the Colorado Indus trial war, or In the West Virginia and Michi gan strikes. It Is really appalling. - Truly humanity demands, the aged, the help less and the Innocent cry'out for relief.' M. H. DOUOLAS. of Stepney, appears to have argued the natter out with his superior, for he was permitted to officiate at the more re. rent fight In which Wells knocked out Colin Bell. Mt f:mf.t. Brazil Contracts for New Battleship LONDON. Aug. l.-Tlie Brailllan gov ernment has placed a contract with .1 British firm for a battleship to take the place of the one sold to Turkey and now known as the Sultan Osman. The now vessel will be the most powerful armor clad aishlp In the world, and will greatly exceed In offensive power and de fensive qualities any battleship at present afloat. The total length will be feet and the width ninety-four feet, while the tonnage will amount to Sfl.6r0 tons. It will carry eight fifteen-Inch guns, fourteen six-Inch guns, ten four-Inch guns and two torpedo tubes. On the main belt, barbettes, and gun shields the protection will Include UVInch armor. In some of the latest British battleships now building, fitteen-inch gups will be mounted, but the stoutest armor today Is only twelve Inches thick. BILL AT EMPRESS FOR THE CUR RENT WEEK. .. 10 cheers for the German emperor,, but only to open their .mouths so as to make the authorities think they are cheering. When loyal Germans, coming from' soma cele bration In honor of tha emperor, go through the village cheering, - the- real Alsatians have difficulty in preserving their eqnanlmlty. "Until late in the night these cheers for the emperor are. heard, sounding--Uke the howls' of wild beasts." The court at. Colmar .abators whlobv the prosecution pf rWalts waa begun, declared .that 'My .Village" afforded sufficient basis for a prosecution for high treason. . Therefore., the. case was tent.bsek to the supreme court,, which alone .has jurisdic tion In such proceedings. The state's at torney at Lelpslo allowed the charge of high treason to fall, and the prosecution waa had only for libel and Incitement to class hatred. The court granted Walts three days In which to take farewell of his relatives. He promptly took -farewell of Germany, and It la probable that he-will not return. Doubtless this Is exactly what the prose cution was hoping fori, as it means tha forfeiture of Walts's ball of 18,260 and that Germany will henceforth be rid of him..' . ' ..'"--"''- Verf Realistic: V "Were you at the chauffeur's dinner?" "Yes: It was great. They had the table laid to look like a motor car." "Really?" "Yes; and to make It look more real istic, a lot of chauffeurs were under the table before the evening was over." British Clergyman Defends Boxing as Gentleman's Game LONDON, Aug. 1. Rev., John Boudier, the clergyman who acted aa master of ceremonies at . the . recent Welsh-P.itohie bout,' has this to.vsay in defense of the fistic art, "and fn explanation of nil own stand: . "I r have always taken an Interest 'n boxing land I promote it among my congregation down In Exeter by running a boxing gymnasium. During the winter we have matches with the gloves at our mission hall In , Islington, and 1 some times act aa timekeeper. But I shitutOti t like to referee a fight. It 'a enough for me to announce the combatants. J have never had the gloves on. myself. ' I en courage boxing because a. man wh. ' going ' to be a' good boxer cannot te a loose liver or a drunkard. Djdoi, 1 lleve a olergyntan ahould mix with sports of hi flock, Boxing teaches self -control, which Is among the . first of Christian virtues. Qnly please do not call me a 'boxing parson!' " Father Boudier makes an Ideal an nouncer because of hts booming volte Rev. Bverard Dig by, who waa prevented from acting as announcer at the Welsh Ritchie bout by the order of the Bishop COMING TO OMAHA J"rE1T MONDAY mt AUGUST RKOVBTCSl SOTK AtTD t'AUL 1 T The Circus of 1000 WO NDERS Parade At 10 o'clock A. M. OWE ftOt TICKET ADMITS TO AU DOWK TOWN TICKET OrTICEl MTZOS-DHIiOIT DBXTf CO. leth and Taraam ts. ame prloes as ohajjad at grounds. e- rU2rlI-' V'- avf .1 The Empress theater Is offering a well built ' bill this week, headed by Prelle's Animated Animal circus, an act full of comedy and funny costumes and comical situations. The two secondary features are Arthur Demlng and Stone nnd Hsyet. . Arthur Demlng Is an old-time minstrel end-man, with up-to-date songs and monologues, while Stone and Hayes will ,be remembered aa that extremely funny team that played at this theater last winter. They have an entirely new act this aeason entitled, "Green Goods," and they have, a "etrahgle-hold-monon-oly". 6n that "applause stuff." Rats tcn-Talbot-Bray, a trio Of songsters, will clove the vaudeville bill singing soma real comedy number. First run p eerier photo-plays, changing Bundaya and Thursdays Including comedies, drama and newsy pictures of the Hearts-Bell com pany, will closu the offering. WJCEK mTIlf SUH DAY. ' a-joust a. The Or at MOTTO MX XY TJtOOTPS Acrobats : TOllinriAYE 3 lrsnt "Organ goons' AITHCB OZnCTO Ktnstrel Man BAJaTOM-TAI.BOT-ajt,AY Comcdf. Trie FXOTO FLAY Corns diss, Wewsy, flctores, Pram lOo ADMISSION 10o Mesarvad Saats lOo Extra. 32J KRUG PARK Free Moving Plcttirrs Every Evening Finest Picnic Grounds in tha State. Dancing to Lamp's Orchentrn. Roller Coaster, Skating Hink, Old lied Mill, New Krollc, Carry, l a-All, Ferrla Wheel, Penny Areade, Etc. ' FIRST' CLARS CAFE ' Commerrinl Traveler Annual Flas ket Picnic, Saturday, Aug. 8. LAKE r.lAOAWA Dancing, Boating and Many, Other ' Attractions. - Tree Moving Pictures 7 Every Evening.' Free Band Concerts on Sundays. . Ideal Picnic Grounds. TE2E IflEEXM FKTSEOTIieE 21 m m r 1 1 n n - U UU c, U U V rin 15)5? JW L SHI 1122 Fi OrJflHA, EB. SHOWN FIRST IN OMAHA at fo) rH) n rr THE U IAI UuNl. 1317 DOUGLAS -"TREY 0' HEARTS"-IuisulTY4 FIRST EPISODE Head the Following Letter My dear Van: I am not going to rave over some :$t the stuff taken for the first, and second of the serial, "TREY 0' HEARTS," but if Mr. Vance de liberately tried to kill our people, he could not have impressed any more daring and heart-breaking stunts : than ha has put in these two installments. Two or three times Mr. Larkin and Miss Madison came within an inch of losing their lives in the rapids and on seeing the negatives this morning, I sincerely beileve we have in this series some thrillers and punch that have never been shown before in pictures. Both Larkin and Miss Madison were almost drowned and six of us, (myself included), had to jump into the rapids to save them, but there is no use of going into ecstacies. Look at the picture and judge for yourself, but for God's sake tell Vance to have a heart. We are willing to do anything within human power, but some of the stunts be calls for are simply awful and liable to kill our principals before the series are over. In No. 1, where Larkin is hanging down from the bridge and picks Madison up as she shoots past him in a canoe, with a sixty-foot fall in the foreground, is certainly some picture and if Larkin had missed Madison one inch, we. would have had to start a new terial, as the canoe was dashed to pieces in the ravine. I strongly . advise insuring these people against acci dents during the series. . Yours truly, ISADORE BERNSTEIN, General Manager Pacific Coast Universal Studio. AUGUST 4TH 'SBBBBOBBBSSEUKBBBt IDEAL 16th and Dorcas "Trey o' Hearts" Friday, August 14th FARIJAM THEATRE "The Trey o' Hearts" Tuesday, Aug. 11th And each Tuesday Following Sunday. August 2d "A Wild Ride" Sterling Comedy PARLORJTIIEATRE "Trey o' Hearts" ' Saturday, August 8th ROPER THEATER "The Trey o" Ileartt" Wodnosday, Aug- 5th Tho MONROE 26th and Farnam "Trey o' Hearts" Monday, Aug. 10th And each Monday Following Sun., Aug. 2d, The Sob Sister ii la RQ "Troy o'' Hearts" on Tuesday. August 18th First Issue DIAMOND "Trey o' Hearts" Friday. August 7th Sunday, August 2d "Renunciation" 2 Reel Eclair LOYAL Theater... 24th and CALDWELL "The Trey V Hearts" Sunday. Aug. 9th and Each Sunday Following Magic Theatre South Omaha "Trey o' Hearts" Thursday, August 6th And Etch Following Thursday LYDIA Don't Miss the First Series of "The Trey o' Hearts" Monday, Aug. 3d And each Monday Thereafter FROLIC 24th and Sprague "The TreToMIearts" Saturday. Aug. 15th Don't Miss It BENSON THEATRE BENSON, NED. "Trey of Hearts" Monday, August 17th Don't Miss it Air Dome 40th and Hamilton "Trey of Hearts" Tuesday. September 1 And Each Tuesday Fallowiag PALACE 24th and Davdipsrt Csmraencinf Sunday, Sept. 6th "Trey o' Hearts" and Each Ifoak Sunday Following LYRIC IGlh and Vinton "Trey o' Hearts" Thurs., Aug. 13 . 13 REEL SERIAL Don't Miss It PASTI&1E 24th and Leavenworth St. "Trey V Hearts" Sat., Aug. 22d Sun., Aug. 2d THE OLD COBBLER 2 Rl Bison 31 I VENEZZIA 10th and Pierce "Trey o' Hearts" Sunday, Aug. 23d WAIT FOR IT ROYAL Theater... Fullerton, (fob. Coming Ooon "The Trey o' Hearts" 2 EEEL SERIAL Featuring Cleo Madison and Geo. Larkin. Blroetad by WILFtED LDCAS It " OSCEOLA, NEO. COMING SOON "Trey o' Hearts" 2 REEL SERIAL STORY ! V n