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THE SEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUME 23.' 1U1S.
PfllDDY SPEAKS
AT MEETING OF
INSURANCE MEN
. -.-
President df National Associa
tion of Underwriters Talks :
. :v to Omaha and Lincoln -
, !' " Members.
i
"Lawrence Priddy, president of the
Rational Association of- Life Insur
ance Underwriter!, addressed the an
-' nuat convention of Lincoln and Oma
ha Association of Life Underwriter!
at the Chamber of Commerce yester
dav afternoon.
After hetiad described some things
that the national association has ac
complished, 16V new ' agents signed
i their names -to applications for mem
brrship. -.
"He described the labors of the New
York members following the life in
- surance investigations.
"For seven w.eeks he said, "about
1,500 life insurance men from New
' York labored in -Albany and( in that
time secured 250 amendments to pro
posed insurance legislation. One of
these things concerned the commis
sion to agents which are fixed in the
original bill at 30 per cent and four re-
: ncwals. This we had changed to 50
per cent and nine renewals.
He has much of the Billy Sunday
manner of rapid-fire talking and held
his audience's attention closely as he
told.some of his own experiences in
t.,nug liiouiaiikc. lie is uasi-picsi'
dent of the famous $200,000 club, i
club made up of New York life in
surance company members who write
more than $200,000 in one year.. An
, Omaha man, Ed Wolverton, it in the
race for the presidency this year. The
presidency of the elub goes to the
agent who writes the greatest amount
f insurance. .Wolverton is in the
ieaa now.
Mr. Friddy has written the insur
anceof some New York multi-mil
lionaires: He told how h.
dent of the national association! hai
. prosecuted men who practice the life
insurance eviif ot rebating , and
twisting." ". '
"All the states tf the union nowl
imvc anu-reDaung jaws," he said. "If
you know, of anyone in .your com
munity suspecteor of doing this it is
your duty to set a trap for hinv catch
him and have his license revoked. And
t won t be long before the revok-
ing of a man's license xo write life
insurance in one.state will result au
tomatically in the revoking of Jii,
license throughout the nation"
I American
Casualty List
Washington, June 24,-The army
casualty list today contained names,
divided at follows; '
Killed in action, 8.
, Died of wounds, 4.
, Died of disease,. '
Wounded aver1v 1?
- .Wounded, degree undetermined, 3.
uo in Action.
IrcIaS K- RSert Armagh,
'Charlw S.e!den, Hoqulam, Wash,
rhihp Henry Gillie, Gratiot, Wit.
Wayne C. Jackson. Salem, C)re.
Joseph Kaneski, Woctawek. Russia;
Joseph Savmsky Warsaw, Poland.
'Att'i- ' , ton FyettTaiei
Giro Ursplao, Woreester, Mast.
. i?led ' Piaeate.
Ernett Dillon, PeTo, N. Y.
Luther Hunter. Lafayette, Ala.
; ! Died of Wounds.
Lt Edward G Tomlinson, Balti-
snore, Md. '
hiir5..Lewli T,yi
m?!!' PVHe" Portsmouth. O. ;
" PopLoVir B.Imo?;w Srnh'
,Coh'Jreoklyn. N. T.i Harry m!
Cuff J,rj, City. N. J.j Michael A. Oun
n i.irh.in Cincinnati. O. Edwin tT t"p.
ham. Blu. Mountain, MJ.a.: Jam.. H. En
!&fcAl,SJ7 MHt rarl.jr. Walim.
, Sf 1 "m tVHammar. potUvllla, Pa.;
Kd IIHm., Whav. N. C.j Ivan O. Hoffl
wtach. 111.; Nathan Sulphur. La
Bart Lana-aland, Berf, N. D.j Kugan 8
Mttla, Evlngton, Va.; Owar Martfn. .t
tons Ky.; Jam.a Mullen. Cincinnati. O.;
John Paladaa. Nashua, N. H. j Ray L
?72,,h.:KT.?or. Ky- William Raid. Jr
- lldorado. IIL: Krneat C Roaa. Mllner. Oa.:
Ambr D. Sandara. Vlnctnnea, Ind.; Charlaa
N. Bcofleld, Baranao Laka. N. T. Oaoar
eal. Brooklyn. N. T.i Max Blefort, Jr..
v Mllwaukaa, WU.J Michael J, Sullivan, Eaat
PP',,V Maaa.t -Henry Bw.nion. Janea.
T,V"'W.'.,'! .ot,fr1 (Thompaon. Chlcaito,
III-: William A. Thompson, Durham, K. C.i
Tatar Tomaa. Cheater, Pa.; Stanley Wlnon.
eek. Fluahlnr, O.J John P. Zunr. Men
- Tork. . V
Wounded, Dtp ITndetermlned.
Prtvatea Charlea W. Anderaon, Han Fran-
elaco. Cat.: Arthur . Bimbo, New Haven.
Conn,; Gaetano faleo, Bucclno, Italy. .
iWife Tossed Through v
Pullman Car Window
Husband Admits Deed
' -,. . .-, v 'v.-
. Macon, MaJune 24. Irving Mor,
gan, alias John R. Jackson, who told
the police he pushed his wife through
the window of a, sleeping car near
Shelbina, Mo., was brought here earry
from Kansas City. Theauthorities
deemed, wise not to take him into
Shelby county, the scene of the death,
because of reports there might be a
demonstration against him. ' .
"l don't know why I did it," Mor
gan said, "ft . was no anger that
caused it. It was not jealousy. I
think it was because I loved her so
much. I more than loved herI wor
fhiped htr.
Government Denies Any Tax
! Considered on Farmers' Crops
-- Washington, June 24. Iums cir
culated among Colorado farmers that
Uhe government intends to tajc broom
corn and other crops $5 an acre were
officially denied by the . department
of agricultures today with the an
nouncement that steps have been tak
en to stop the spread of such stories,
designed to discourage food produc
tion, ... ; . . - ,
Laude
aft! ii
in tfte' Wat?
Zofie
JVtTtsfrc? ttt France" Te?s fzs Zfkrsoxa?
experience's on Ac Wesievn fcgtzn tttonf- I
CHAPTER XXIV.
- In the Shadow of Ruin.
Albert, when we came to it, we
found a ruin indeed. The German
guns had beaten upon it until it was
like a rtbbish heap in the backyard
of hell. Their malice had wrought a
ruin here almost worse than that at
Arras. Only one building had sur
vived although it was 'crumbling to
ruin. That was a church, and, as we
approached It, we could see, from
the great way off, a great gilded figure
of the Holy Virgin, holding in her
arms the infant Christ.,
The figure leaned at such an angle,
high up against the tottering-wall of
the church, that it seemed that it
must fall at the next moment, even
as we stared at it. But it does not
fall. Every breath, of wind that
comes sets U to swaying1, gently.
When the wind rise to a storm it
must rock perilously indeed. But
still it stays there, hanging like an in
spiration straight from heaven to all
who ee it. Ihe peasants who gaze
upon it each day in reverent awe whis
per to you, if you 'ask them, that when
it falls at last the war Will be over,
and France will be victorious.
That is rank supersition, you tay?
Aye, it may bel But in the region
of (the front everyone you meet has
become superstitious, if that is the
word you choose. That is especially
true of the soldiers. Every man at
the front, it seemed to me. was a
fatalist. What it to be will be, they
say. lt is certain that this reeling has
helped to make them indifferent to
danger, almost, indeed, contemptuous
of it. And in France, I was told, at
most everywhere there were shrines
in which figures of Christ or of His
Mother had survived the most furious
shelling. AH the world knows, too,
how, at Rheims, where the ' great
cathedral has been shattered in the
wickedest and most wanton of all the
crimes of that tort that the Germans
have to their account, the statue of
Jeanne d'Arc, who saved France long
ago, stands untouched. -:
How is a man to account for such
things as that? It he-to put them
down to chance, to luck, to a blind
fate? I. for one. cannot do so. nor
will I try to Jearn to do it. '
Fate, to be sure, is a strange thing,
at my friends the soldiers know to
well. But these is 'a difference be-
een fate, or chance, and the tort
o
fact, though I racked my brains, I
could not remember the words. And
so, much as I should have liked to
Land for Me," and this is the way it
goes: .
There's a land I'd like to tell you all
about - N
It's a land in thenar South Sea.
It's a land where the sun shines near
ly every day
It's the land for you and me.
It's the land for the man with the big
strong arm . ,
It's the land for big hearts, too.
It's a land we'll fight for, everything
x that's right for
Australia v's the real. true blue!
Refrain: ' - s '
It's the land where the sun shines
nearly every day
Where tRe skies are ever blue.
Where the folks are as happy as the
day is long
And there's lots of work to 4o. '
Where the' soft winds blow and the
y gum trees grow,.
As far as the eye can see,
Where the magpie chaffs and the
cuckoo-burra laughs" . -Australia
is the Jand for mef .
Those Kangaroos took to that song
as a duck takes to waterl They raised
the chorus with me in a swelling roar
as soon as they had heard it once,
to learn it, and their voices roared
through the ruins like vocal shrapnel.
Yoik could hear them whoop "Aus
tralia Is the Land for Me!" a mile
away. And if anything could have
brought down that tottering statue
above us it would hare been the way
they sang. Tliey put body and soul,
as wen as voice, into tnat nnal pa
triotic declaration of the song.
We had thought I speak for
Hogge and Adam and myself, and
not for Godfrey, who did not have
to think and guess, but know we had
thought, when we foiled into Albert,
that it was a city of the dead, utterly
deserted and forlorn. But now, as
I went on singing, we found that that
idea had been all wrong. For as the
Australians whoooed up their
choruses other soldiers pdpped into
sight. They' came pouring from all
directions.. .
-I have teen few sights more amaz
ing. They came rom, cricks- and
crevices, as it seemed; from-under
tumbled heaps of ruins,, and dropping
down from shells of houses where
there were certainly no stairs. " As I
live, before I had finished my audfc
ence had been swollensto a great one
of 2,000 menl When they were all
roaring out in a chorus you could
scarce hear, Johnson's wee piano at
all it sounded only like a feeble
tinkle when there was a part fcr it
alone.
I began shaking hands, when I had
finished singing. That waj a verrain
judeecious thing for me to attempt
there I I had not reckoned with the I
strength of the grip of those laddies
trom the underside of the world. Bun
l naa been there, and I should have
Known.
Soon came the order to- the Kan
garoos: "Fall in!" v
At once the habit "of stern discip
line prevanea. iney swung oS again,
and the last we saw of them they
were just brown men, disappearing
along a brown road,' bound for the
trenches.
Swiftly the mole-like dwellers in
Albert melted ' away, until only a
few officers were left beside the
members of the Reverend Harry
Lauder, M. P., Tour. And t grew
grave and distraught myself.
(Continued Tomorrow.
Pattison Buys Portion of :
Miller Farm Near Table Rock,
Table Rock, Neb., June 24. (Spe- -
cial.) John Pattison has purchased -?.
, Mrs. .J. I. Miller, 320 acres of thi
Miller farm, four miles southwest of
Table Rock at $100 an acre.
Recently Roella and Earnesl
Munsinger,. children of Leslie Mun v
singer, were handling an airgun, "
when it was accidentally discharged,
the shot enterine the ffirl'e U
below the right eye. The wound is
n,ot regarded as dangerous.
At the eighth grade commencement
exercises held in Pawnee City, Taolt
Rock had the largest class in the
county, consisting oi19 members.
The recent 'labor registration oi
Pawnee county shows that there are
24 ministers in the county, Jfl mer
chants, 85 railroad men, 58 carpen
"s; ,10S "tji-ed farmers, 48 clerks,
160 laborers and 2,213 farmer's.
County Treasurer Albright, who
has been in the Pawnee City hospi- -
tal for several weeks, has so far re
covered that he was able to be takeif'
to his home.
w
f force that preserves ttatuet like
those I have named. A man never
knows .his luck; he does well not to
brood upon it. 1 remember the case
of a chap I knew, who was out for
teariy three years, taking part in
rreat battles from Mons to Arras.
Te was scratched once or twice, but
wat never even really wounded bad
ly enough to go to hospital. lie went
to ' London, at last, . on leave, and
within an hour of the time when he
stepped from his train at Charing
Cross he wat struck by' a 'but and
killed, i And there was the ttrange
case of my friend, Tamson, the bak
er, of which I told you earlier. No-
man never knows his tatei
So it teemed to me, as we drove
toward Arras, and watched .that
mysterious figure, that God himself
had chosen; to leave it there, as
sign and a warning and a promise
all at once. There was no sign of
life, at first, when we came into the
town. Silence brooded over the
ruins. We stopped Ao have a look
around in that scene of desolation,
and as the motors' throbbed beneath
the hoods it seemed to me the noise
they made was close to being blas
phemous. We wert right under that
hanging figure of tne Virgin and of
Christ, and to have left the silence
unbroken J would have been more
seemly. '.; .
But it was not long before the ail
lence of the town wat broken by an
other aound. It was marching men
we heard, but they were scuffling with
their feet as they came; they had not
the rhythmic tread of most of the
British troops, we had encountered.
Nor were these men, " when they
swung into sight, coming around
pile of ruins, just like any British
troops we had seen. I recoginzed
them at once as Australians Kanga
roos, as their mates in other divisions
called them by the way their cam
paign hats were looped up at one
side. These were ihe first Australian
trooos I had seen since I had sailed
from Sydney, 'in the early days of
the war. nearly three 'years before
Three years! To think of it and of
what those years had seen!
Here s a rare chance to give a
concert !" I said, and held up my hand
to the officer in command.
tt r . att a a ii J
nam ne criea. ana men: otanai .
earn . - I
at ease r
I was about to tell him why I had
stopped them, and make myself
known to them when I saw a grin
rippling its way over all those bronz
ed faces a grin of recognition And
I saw the officer knew me, too, even
before a loud voice cried out:
"Good old Harry Lauder 1" -
That was a good acots voice-
even though its owner wore the Aus
tralian uniform.' .
"Would the boys like to .' hear a
concert t I asked the officer.
That they would 1 By all meansl"
he said. "Glad Nf the chancel And
so'm II I've heard you just once be
forein Sydney, away back in the
summer of 1914."
Then the big fellow who had called
my name spoke up again.
"Sing us 'Calligan.'" he begged.
"Sing us 'Calligan,' Harry I 'I heard
do so, I could not sing itvfor him.
But if he was disappointed, he took
it in good part, and he seemed to like
some of the newer songs I had to
sing for them as well as he could
ever have liked old "Calligan." .
l sang ior these Kangaroos a song
I had not sung before in France,' be
cause it seemed to be an especially
auspicious time to try it I wrote it
while I wat in Australia with a view,
particularly, to pleasing Australian
audiences, and so repaying them, in
tome measure, for the kindly way iirh
wnicn tney treated me while I wat
there. I call it "Australia la the
you sing it 23 years agone, in Mother-
wen roon nam ,
"Calligan!' " The request for that
song took me back indeed, through
all the years that I have been , be
fore the public. It must1 have been
at least 23 years since he had heard
me sing that tong all of 23 yean.
"Calligan" had been one of the very
earliest of successet on the stage. I
had not thought of the song, much
Jess lung it, for yean and veartv Jn
Gettin
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