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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1918.
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BUTLER CLASHES !
VITH URE 1HC9TY
HALL WORD DUEL
"Dorrt Side Step" Remark
Brings First Disturbance in
Mayor Smith's Official
Family.
DEAN NOYES
Falconer Nominates
New Park Foreman.
PICKS PLUM
Commissioner Falconer of the park
department will present the name of
Dean Noyes to th city council Tues
day morning, as general foreman at
$250 per month. George Redman, the
present incumbent, said he had re
ceived no advice as to his tenure with
the department.
The first exchange of sharp words
between members of the new city
council occurred during a meeting of
ht committee of the whole Monday
morning, when Commissioner Ure
urged Commissioner Butler not U
aide-step.
Ure brought out what he insisted
was a lax system of checking bills
against the city for supplies. Auto
mobile gasoline, lubricating oils, ac
cessories and repairs' caused particu
lar comment.
- "No; don't sidestep," said Ure,
addressing Butler, former superin
tendent of accounts and finance.
Butler Resents Remark.
"I am not going to sidestep with
Miis commission. You are superin
tendent of accounts and finance now
and you should run your depart
ment," Butler retorted.
"You bet I am going to run my de
"partment, and we are going to have
Some EUdll&cs, luu, vma uita
back.
t - "Yon are trying to dig up some
thing just to be starting something,"
.was Butler's answer.
"Oh, no, I just want to have a sys
tem whereby whet. I present an ap
propriation ordinance to the council
the members can vote for it." Ure
explained.
Gasoline Bills Protested.
The discussion narrowed down to
automobile gasoline and the old sys
tem of citv employes stopping at any
filling station for gasoline and using
. all they wanted without check, lhe
case in ooint referred to the gas light
ing department which was under the
former mavor's jurisdiction. Butler
atated that he protested against these
excessive gasoline bills and was told
by Dahlman that it was none of his
business,
"I was in the helpless minority, and
vhen the bills came in they had to
be O. K.'d " Butler added.
"That would be too much gasoline
for one man to have tn a month un
less he drank it," was Ure's comment
on bills of the gas lighting depart
ment '
Mayor Smith Objects.
"That would be at the rate of 150
miles a day tor that automobile. I
would think that a man would break
down with nervous prostration if he
would drive that far in a day," was
the conclusion by, Mayor Smith
The superintendent of accounts and
finances will prepare a set of rules
for adoption by the council to pre
ent indiscriminate buying by city
employes.
Mr. Ure estimated that a person
Derating a Ford runabout would
travel approximately 150 miles every
cay, including bundays, if he con
aumed 242 gallons of gasoline during
a month.
He bad in mind the March bill of
Superintendent Taylor of the gas
lighting department. This bill
GIRLS WARNED TO
STAY AWAY FROM
CAMPS AT NIGHT
Army Officers, in Sanitation
Conference, Declare Dan
gerous and Deplorable .
Condition Exists Here.
George J. Morris, J. B. Coningham,
B. Grunwald and H. H. Kruger, rep
resenting the Omaha Master Plumb
ers' association; headed a delegation
to protest to the city commissioners
against the appointment of Henry L.
Bndwell as plumbing inspector, iheir
action was based on a rumor that
BridweJl would be appointed. The
general charge was that Bridwell
would not be fair to shops which trc
not strictly union. Mr. Coningham
also charged that under the present
plumbing inspector, work had been al
lowed to go without proper inspec
tion. Bridwell, who has been walking
delegate for the plumbers' union, was
one of the defeated labor ticket candi
dates at the city primary election.
The council took the matter under
advisement
A city hall rumor is that W. T
(Billy) Hunter will be named as city
clerk. George D. Rice, W. B. White-
horn and a few others are also men
tioned.
Commissioner Zimman favors the
old plan of having desks instead of
a long table for the commissioners in
the council cnamner.
The commissioners will take
cognizance of alleged contamination
of the waters of Carter lake by
sewage.
Public playgrounds and swimming
places will be opened June 1 with a
corps of supervisors and attendants.
$51.04 for 242 gallons of gasoline-
Mr. Ure believes that Taylor must
have done some traveling to have
used that much "gas."
Taylor's bill for April showed only
100 gallons of, gasoline.
lhe moral ot this is that the city
commissioners, led by Commissioner
Ure and Mayor Smith, , announce a
policy of "pitiless publicity" in con
nection with automobile bills of the
various city departments.
They do not believe that Taylor or
any other official or employe rode
150 miles a day in March or in any
other month. This particular March
bill appeared in the May miscellane
ous bill ordinance and will be paid
with other bills of a questionable na
ture.
"Here is a bill incurred by Tames
C. Dahlman for a picture of Presi
dent Wilson sent to Camp Deming,
remarked Mr. Ure. "I commend the'
patriotic spirit of Mr. Dahlman send
ing a picture of the president to the
camp, but I cannot see the fairness
of requiring the city of Omaha to
pay for this patriotic expression of
the former mayor.
The mayor and commissioners are
considering a municipal garage prop
osition with a checking system for.
every machine owned by the city. It
is orooosea to maintain a shoo in
howed $9.70 for luhncatmg oil and connection with the garage-
Army officers and city officials, at a
sanitary conference Monday declared
that "a very dangerous and deolorable
condition exists in Omaha," after fort
commanders had complained ot young
girls, some below 16 years old, fre
quenting the neighborhood of the
camps at night.
The army man declared that this
appalling condition is traceable di
rectly to the home," and mothers are
therefore urged to maintain a closer
supervision over their daughters.
The statements were incorporated
in a proclamation addressed to "The
People of Omaha," an adopted at the
meeting attended by Superintendent
Ringer, department of police and
sanitation; Health Commissioner
Manning, Colonel J. M. Banister,
Lieutenant Colonel H. B. Hersey,
Major Daggett and Captain E. L.
Delanney, on matters pertaining to
the health and sanitation of Omaha
and environs. N
Statement to the Public.
The city authorities and army offi
cers agreed on the following state
ment, addressed to the public by the
health department:
"The officers were assured that the
health department would co-operate
with army officials in every manner
possible, lhe officers stated that it
was the policy of the War depart
ment to insist on the best possible
sanitary conditions in the civil com
munity immediately contiguous to
every camp, to be maintained by civil
authorities when possible, but by mil
itary regulations if necessary. All
contagious diseases were included in
the above regulations, but especial
ly veneral infections.
tor some time past there has been
a detail of military police assisting
the city officers in arresting all pros
titutes in Omaha. Under a city ordi
nance these women are then exam
ined for evidence of disease and if
found to be infected are interned and
placed under proper treatment until
the disease is no longer in a contagi
ous stage.
"In addition, the officers state that
a very dangerous and deplorable con
dition exists in Omaha. Young girls,
some even below the age of 16, fre
quent the immediate neighborhood
of the forts, especially at night. The
cause of this appalling condition is
traceable directly to the home and
mothers are therefore urged to main
tain a closer supervision over their
daughters.
"Regarding smallpox and typhoid
fever, the officers inform us that there
has not been a single case of these
diseases at either Fort Omaha or Fort
Crook since January, 1917, in spite of
the fact that there have been numer
ous cases under quarantine in the ad
jacent civilian vicinity. They at
tribute this result entirely to the fa:t
that on admission to the army every
soldier is vaccinated.
"An improved method of vaccina
tion has been developed by army phy
sicians, and Captain Delanney states
that there has not been a single re
quest for sick leave on account of vac
cination since this method was
adopted. The details of the method
are obtainable by any physician.
"The policy of this department in
the control of contagion will be to
adopt as far as possible the methods
found to be successful in the numer
ous army camps in this country. We
feel that conditions in these camps
re especially favorable for determin
ing the most efficient methods of con
trol. No regulations, however string
ent they may be, will be successful
unless each individual in the city feels
a personal obligation tfi co-operate
with the authorities in establishing
thorough sanitation.
"We are informed that the control
of the soldier in camp is comparative
ly easy, but that recently much time
and money have been lost in correct
ing the health of drafted men. The
statistics of venereal disease among
the men subject to draft regulation
are absolutely appalling.
"It therefore devolves upon this
community, as a patriotic duty, to as
sist in every way possible in securing
proper care and sanitation for the
men who will soon be called to fight
its battles. By doing this we will suc
ceed also in raising the standard of
health in our civilian population. We
believe that thts result may be ac
complished by individual effort aided
by publicity methods and advice given
by this department. We sincerely
hope that the actual aid of the mili
tary forces will not become neces
sary to accomplish these results.
"An advisory board of Omaha phy
sicians has been selected to assist the
health department in all matters re
lating to public health. This board
consists of Colonel J. M. Banister,
chairman; Dr. H. C. Sumney; Dr. I.
S. Cutter, dean of the medical de
partment of the University of Ne
braska, and Dr. Schulte, dean of
Creighton college of medicine,"
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Care should be taken to strain the
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Just try it! Get three ounces of
orchard white at any pharmacy and
two lemons from the grocer and
make up a quarter pint of this sweet
ly fragrant lemon lotion and massage
it daily into the face, neck, arms and
hands, and see for yourself. Adv.
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