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THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. 1.- primus MEASURE PASSES TIE HOUSE A DARE MAJORITY AVAILABLE TO PUT IT ACROS8 OTHER LEGISLATIVE DOINGS A Drlef Digest of Other Important legislation Being Considered by the Nebraska Legislature Lincoln. By a bare majority, 61 to I, the lower ltoilun nnnaml Roll No. 323, tho primary bill cham- viunea uy Keprosentative Reynolds of Winona, ine Diu represents tho final SffOrt to Change the 3xlntlt,p- nrlmnrv Inw. it provides for tho election of ..ounty committeemen, one man and ne woman from each precinct, and f the county convention eloWntna t tho primary. This is designed to rcmeuy tne alleged evil duo tn nilf perpetuating county committees. The bill also removes tho stato officers, outside of govornor and those elected m a nonpartisan ticket from the op eratlon of the primary law. It urn rides that those shall be nomlnntmi by ulato convention. ' The bill yet aa to stana lire in tho senate. The lower house has passed the "coco bill," Senate File No. 2. on thn third reading, 60 to 33, practically n two. to one vote. The opposition was composed of twenty republicans and thirteen democrats. The roDort of the house action was Immediately transmitted to tho Benate. Senator Peterson moved that tho senate not concur In hbuse amendments, ex plaining that none of these were abjectlonable but that it was neces sary to send the bill to a conference committee to re-write into it legis lation, previously enacted at this ses sion affecting certain of its provi sions. Senator Peterson then held a conference with Lieutenant Governor Barrows and the latter announced tho appointment of Senators Peter son, Cordeal and Bushee, the three most ardent friends of the bill in the senato, as the conference com mittee. Representatives Jenison, Rod man and Reynolds wero named as house conferees. The senate landed a "knock-out" blow to H. R. 88, the boxing bill, which allowed limited bouts in ath letic clubs, Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus circles. The bill oc casioned a long debate. Many of tho senators suggested that if tho stato was not going to ailow these Inno cent boxing matches, under properly organized institutions, the legislature should kill football which Senator Slman says kills more men in a year than boxing over did. Senator Peter son warned the senate that if it did not at this time pass some bill which allowed a sport that had been recog nized by the army, Y. M. C. A. and klndered organizations, it would only tend to some day allow a bill to creep into the statute books allow ing real prize fights. Boxing in Ne braska is dead for two more years. 1 The general maintenance bill for the exocutive departments, as report ed by the senate finance commit tee, carries $1,170,000, approximately $175,000 more than Included In the bill as it passed the lower house. At the request of Governor-McKelvie, the committee has eliminated a clauso in the national guard appro priation making use of the appropri ation contingent upon federal recog nition of the guard. This is to per mit Nebraska to maintain the guard whether the federal government rec ognizes it or not. The committee also recommended an increase in this fund from 188,500 to $113,500. The Benate passed, by a vote of 25 to 0, HouBe Roll No. 466, which provides that applicants before the board of pharmacy shall have had two years study in a college of phar macy, and permitting certificates from other staten coming up to tho Nebraska requirement. Later, on mo tion of Senator Bushee, the senate voted to reconsider and sent it back to committee, Bushee claiming that 'it required present pharmacists who have not had two years' schooling, but bavo acquired their knowledge by working In drug stores, to stop work until complying with the new law. Senator Peterson said the bill did not apply to those already certi fied. Senate Files Nos. 165 and 166, the Omaha charter bills, were recom mended for indefinite postponement by action of the cities and towns committee of the lower house. These aro the bills urged by tho Omaha city commission to give the commission the power to initiate street Improve ments and to issue bonds for open ing or widening streets without a vote of the people. The senate has adopted the stand ing committee report1 to postpone in definitely House Roll No. 394, appro priating $250,000 for purchasing a site : id constructing a building for the state supreme court and the state li brary, also House Roll No. 358, pro viding for tho creation of welfare boards in cities of the state, similar to the Omaha welfare board. The senate passed House Roll No. 296, providing for pest eradication districts for extermination of grass hoppers to be established by county commissioners upon petition of 25 per cent of voters. j An npparent "Joker" in S. ff 244. tho bill amending the bank iruaranti law, as passed by the legislature anij signea by Governor McKelvie, whicU has boon construed to relievo state, banks now in existence from tho pays ment or assessments to Iho guaranty fund hereaafter, is to bo taken cars of by changing tho language and in. eluding the revised draft in the cod bill when It goes to conference. This was agreed upon, by Attornoy Gen, eral Davis and Sonators Cordeal and Peterson of tho senato committee which had chargo of the code bill, after their attention had been called to the doubtful meaning of one sec tion of S. F. 244. Senato File No. 295, whilo not much of a bill, succeeded in clogging tho machinery in the senate for two considerable poriods and still has a chanco to do it It provides that both owners of adjoining farms shall equally pay for a lino fenco in case ono of the farmers wants a fence, was indefinitely postponed, by a vote of 15 to 13, after a debate involving almost every senator ou tho floor. Senator Hoagland, who favored tho bill, afterward succeeded In getting the senate to refuse to adopt its own committee of the whole roport, by a voto of 15 to 17, and advanco the bill to third reading, whero it has ono more chance for its life. A special effort was made in tho senato to rush through Sonate Fllo No. 262, advancing the date of count ing overseas votos two weeks, en abling the vote to be counted at tho next election before tho convening of tho constitutional convention. The question was raised if it was not better at this time to repeal the soldier voting law entirely, consider ing tho fact that by tho next elec tion very few soldlors will be over seas. After a conference during the noon hour tho"blll waB amonded to repeal tho entire soldiers' voting law. After a prolonged but losing fight in tho senato, waged by Hoagland ot Lincoln county, against a water "power district bill which Is backed by R. B. Howell of Omaha, the senate recom mended the bill in question for pas sage in a modified form. At times the discussion became somewhat per sonal. Tho bill before tho senate bears tho number 240. It la a senate bill originally Introduced by Peterson ot Lancaster for the purpose of declaring that title In the state to water power sites shall never bo alienated. After the house killed one of R. B. Howell's water power district bills, the senate Judiciary committee reported out S. F. 240 with a substitute modeled somewhat after the Howell bill in the house. Hoagland had the substitute bill referred to the Irrigation commit tee of which ho is chairman. His committee reported tho bill out with another substitute prepared by Hoag land. The Hoagland substitute came before the'Senate In" committee of the whole. After some discussion in which Poterson and Cordeal opposed the Hoagland measure, Peterson offered another substitute for tho entire bill similar to the substitute reported out by the Judiciary committee last week. The Peterson substitute was adopted at the close of a discussion and the bill was recommended to pass. The main point of difference betweon Hoag land and the supporters ot tho new S. F. 240 Is that Hoagland opposed the appointment- of a board of directors by the governor for terms of two, four and six years, and their subsequent election. He proposes a plan to get control closer to tho people. Following an address to the Ne braska house by Chief Red Fox of the Blnckhawk Indians, located in tho stato of Washington, a motion was unanimously adopted Monday noon directing Speaker Dalbey to namo a commltteo of three for the. purpose of drafting a memorial to congress, which the legislature will approve, asking congress to confer the ballot upon all Indians of legal age who served under the American flag in the late war. S. F. 24, the Slman foreign language bill, has been signed by Govornor Mc Kelvie and is now in effect, as it has tho emergency clause. The governor Bigned the companion parochial school bill, H. R, 64, several days ago. Both are in full force now, but K. R. 64 gives private and parochial school teachers until September 1, ne.it, to qualify themselves under its provi sions. Legislative hlBtory of former ses sions repeated Itself when tho house killed a bill to establish a state board of accountancy. It was S. F. 32, the Robbins bill to make all pub lic accountants pay a fee to the state and secure a license. It was In definitely postponed in commltteo ol the whole, its suspected purpose be ing to monopolize that line of busi ness. , The house passod on final reading, the "blue sky" bill and the bill au thorizing the governor to investigate land tenantry conditions. The senate passed House -Roll No. 562, allowing mutual insurance com panies to write other Insurance now confined to stock companies. The senate by a voto of 19 to 11 passed on third reading, the bill which provides that water power dlB tricts may bo formed by voto of tho' people with right of eminent domain to construct power plants at tho na tural water power sites, and trans port electrical current for sale in such water power districts. Under the bill co-operative districts can bo formed in Omaha, Lincoln and other cities to develop one particular plant. Senator Hoagland and other rural senators opposed the bill on the basis that it was Omaha and Lincoln legis lation. DADDY3 EVENING FAIRY TALE 6y Mary Graham Donner THE LOBSTERS, . "They say," said Mr. Lobster, nnd Airs. Lobster asked at onco th ques tion so many nnlmnls and creatures ask. "Will you pray explain to me what you menn wiien you say that they' Say? Tell mo Who thpv nrn nml whn( about them and If they're good to eatl Acu me it they're to be found around here and If I'll find them tender." "My denr Mrs. Lobster," grinned Air. lobster, as ho wiggled his tegs, "they'd be amused If they heard you ask If they were' tender. And fhcy'd bo still more amused If they Jicnrd you say that you wondered if they wero to be found around here nnd If tliey were good to eat." "Well," said Mrs. Lobster, "nothing you havo said explains anything to me. I don't care If they would be amused and I don't care If they wonld be still more amused. "I'd like to know who they are, what they are, and where they are." "You've nftkitfl an mnnv nnitlnni , - ., " V, . U V V ... ( Mrs. Lobster, that it is hard to know wnere to begin answering them." "Just begin and I will tell you about the nllOHtlnnR Ymi nnlr hiu tn , - w . v.ma M.WV V .gin with the answers. First of all tell ;mo who they arc." "They nro people, nnd Instead of letting us find out If thev' rp 4iiifln nnd if they're good to eat, thoy eat us be- lore we nave a chance to find out." "They eat us I" shrieked Mrs. Lob ster. "What horrible peonlel" i "And yet you didn't think it was hor- jrlble for us to eat them If they were tender," laughed Mr. Lobster. "OuitC." Htrrppd Mr. T.nlit.r "If nil depending on who was going to do tho euung. "Naturally," said Mrs. Lobster. "Quite so," agreed Mr. Lobster, still jsmlllug. ' "And what are these people like?" asked Mrs. Lobster. "They each have two long legs," said "They Eat Us," Shrieked Mrs. Lobster. Mr. Lobster, "and they live on dry land." "How queer they must be," said Mrs. Lobster. "They're the creatures who travel In ships, they're the ones who go flsh 'lng and they're the ones who talk fun ny words all the time," continued Mr. Lobster. "And why would they want to eat us?" usked Mrs. Lobster. "Because we're good to eat," said Mr. Lobster. . "Oh, really, that Is why so many of the cousins nnd relations leave us?" tasked Mrs. Lobster. She was not very ,old, you see, nnd she had many things to learn. "Yes," said Mr. Lobster, "they go to 'be eaten by the people. But we're a great luxury In most places, that Is. we're very expensive and we're consid ered a great treat, though there ore some places where we're so plentiful that we are quite, quite cheap." "It is better to be expensive," said Mrs. Lobster. "We wouldn't be so apt to get caught if we were so oxpenslve. We might miss being captured because there wasn't enough money to pay for us." "Ah," said Mr. Lobster, "that may be so, but still if we- were cheap and there wero plenty of us we might not get caught because they didn't neod us." "I'd rather think of it my own way," said Mrs, Lobster. "Also I like to think of myself as an expensive lux ury. If I thought I were going to be expensive I wouldn't mind so much being caught."1 "And we're red when we go on the tables ns part of a salad, or all cooked up lu a piping hot dish," said Mr. Lobster. "We're not green after we are cap tured, killed and cooked? Is that real ly so?" asked Mrs. Lobster. "Really so," said Mr. Lobster. "And what were you going to tell me these people said, for you began to tell me nnd I wanted to know who they were," nsked Mrs. Lobster. "I was going to say that people sold they could tell the way the wind was blowing and whether a storm was com ing by the way we looked, acted and pointed." "I'll fool them, I will," chuckled Mrs. Lobster. She Couldn't Believe It. Ht "An astrologer once told me that March wns my lucky month" .She "How can that be? You were born In thst month." ' Iff .s&iz&m RESURRECTION IF Christ. to earth had never borne The message of the Easter morn: I. Well might the fields, stripped brown and bare, Torn by the plow's relentless share, Rasped by the harrow's tearing teeth, (Yet guarding still the seed beneath) A sullen, cold resentment feel At the sharp driving of the steel; Not knowing when the pain was past What Easter flowers would bloom at last. Well might the body, bent with age, Or where the deeper passions rage, Racked with disease, disgrace or sin, (Yet guarding still the soul within) In Its blind agony of shame Blaspheme the great Creator's name; THE RISEN CHRIST Easter Always Anniversary of De liverance of Wonderful Message of Hope. THE Joy of the Christlnn eoul is expressed at Easter In such a volume of song as rises upon no other day of the year. In the wealth of flowers that adorn altars, in the music of choirs and the praise of the children in their exercises arc found the manifestation of the joy of hearts overflowing with the happiness of a renewed hope of life. It Is the anniversary of the de liverance of the greatest message of hope the world has ever received, summed up In the three little words: "He Is Risen." It Is the Christian "victory day" Easter. Most men everywhere at all times have had some sort of Idea of immor tality. It seems to be an Inherent quality In humankind. The doctrine f the resurrection is not nn entirely new one. Even the pngnn before us had a glimpse of the truth and was moved to recognize It In his own way. Nature herself proclaims the doctrine and in every bursting bud of spring time and the new songs of the birds wo rend a confirmation of our belief In n future life. Nature rejoices along with men In n realization of the glory of life, for that which wnrt dead is alive again. Brought Light to World. But while we see In nature the sym bols of the grent truth of the resur rection and delight In the pleasing processes of the breaking forth of new life In the natural world, the Christian has something deeper nnd more firm thnn nnture upon which to base his belief of immortality. The materialist may seek to read his fu ture In the natural world, but the Christian derives his chief hope from a different source, a source no Icrs than the mcssnge from God himself. When Jesus broke the bonds of death and became "the first fruits of them that slept" ne at the same time be came the hope of nil humanity. Be fore Illm, the way was dark nnd shrouded In mystery, but on that first Easter morning He threw n flood of light upon the gates of eternity, which Illumined the wny for all and settled the question of Immortality forever. It Is but natural that the anniver sary of such a day should be celebrat ed with various manifestations of Joy, but amid the songs und the flowers nnd tho pagenntry of our celebrations the grent motive of the day should not be lost sight of. Things that min ister to the esthetic sense should not be allowed to overshadow tho appeal to the spirit. If Easter brings no heartening messnge to a soul wearied with worldly cares, no new Inspiration to tnke hold of the things worth while with n firmer grip, no now feeling of citizenship in the eternnl, our songs and flowers and pomp nnd pageantry, however beautiful, are of momentary vnltie. Divine Easter Message. The message that Easter brings to the Individual Iiob n very direct bear ing upon his life, for whnt one be lieves about the future life may largely determine his character, and til f I 711 1 1 I II I fl II I 111 1IAW 1 tkv A w-J,- even his eternal destiny. , One may even go further nnd say what n na tion believes about the hereafter de termines the character ot Its govern ment In its practical dealing at home and abroad, and the character of tho nattonnl life. Tho man or nation that Js not restrained by the feeling thnt there Is another world in which there will be a higher justice and n con tinued life of some sort, Is dangerous. Passing over tho strictly religious element In tho resurrection of Christ. momentarily, let us remember that nistory was made on that first Enster morning. When tho devoted women went down to the tomb of the Lord upon their mission of love, It wns given to them to hear tho announcement from nn angel that wns to turn the tide of history nnd to give impetus to the movement of uplifting men thnt Is still gathering force today. Jesus was a grent teacher anO He gave to the world its best principles nnd pre cepts. But there have been other good teachers of morals and religion, nnd who knows but thnt His teachings would not have perished with Him if He had not risen from tho dead nnd become the living inspiration for the millions who wero to come nfter htm. Herein lies tho distinctive difference between Christ nnd other teachers and between Christianity and other codes of morals and religion. Chris tian worship Is directed toward n per son and docs not consist in veneration of a dead leader and slavish adher ence to a rule of life or set of regu lations. Above all Christianity Is not RABBIT AS EASTER SYMBOL With the Egg, It Has Alawys Been Associated as Appropriate to the 8eason. Enster originally was an orlcntnt feast In honor of the coming spring, or the rebirth of the year. Tho rab bit Is noted for Its prolific offspring, and that animal wob chosen ns nn Ebb- ter symbol because It typified the frultfulnoss of nature. The pgg was selected as an emblem of Easter cele bration because It contains the germ of life nnd Is therefore typical of the revival of life at the beginning of the growing season. The lily bulb, like tho egg, contains tho perm of life and meanB of growing within Itself, nnd accordingly Ik appropriate, cnrrylng ns It does the nddltlonal symbol of purity. Not seeing there beyond the gloom The Angel and the Empty Tomb. Well might the world In that dark hour, Crushed by a cruel tyrant power, Through wildest storm and blackest, night, (Yet keeping Freedom's spark alight) Cry out from every bloodstained sod, "There Is no light, no life, no Godl" Did we not know that Calvary's way Led to the Resurrection Day. Oh, if our vision bounded were By the three crosses planted there On the bleak hill of Calvary If that were the last sight men see If Christ to earth had never bome The message of the Easter morn All that we see or think or seem Is but the fabric of a dream! a philosophy, but n life, drawing its Inspiration from n living Christ, and linvlng a universal appeal because It speaks the language of love. Religion Imperishable. Such n religion can not be "benten.1 It has all the qualities of the Imper ishable, nnd so long as tho church maintains steadfast it belief In the resurrection it can not be conquered by nil the hostB of evil. The resurrection of Christ wns the supremo victory of tho ages, nnd not oven whs tho overwhelming defeat of tho Hun hosts buttling on the western front n grcnter one. For wo mny sny thnt if Jesus Christ had not lived and died as Ho did and had not risen from tho dead and had not Inspired the men of the great frcn nations of the world with the love of humanity, of human brotherhood nnd Justice, there would be none to wic- nucc themselves today ngalnst the most powerfully orcanlzed hvrI em tit greed and inhumanity the world lin Known. The hope Inspired by the resurrec tion of Christ has lifted the nations gradually but surely out of the wel ter of selfishness. If there were no future wo might as well not mnko th sacrifices, nnd the strongest might go his wny as In the brute world. Not since the enrly dnvs of the church has the doctrine of the resur rection and the future life been no strongly vindicated as In the present tlmo when millions of free men vol untarily gave up their lives for the great Christian principles underlying me estatiusnment of free nation. Rushing In to do their duty, they calmly trusted the future to God. Fatalism could nover make the flght for liberty and Justice thnt civilian- tlon In making today. Only the Chris tianity or tho resurrected Christ In capable of inspiring the effort. It was a grent day for the world when the angelic choir announced tcv shepherds the birth of the Savior, but It was a greater dny when this sam' Savior rose victorious over the grave and gave to mankind the hope that hns carried them onward nnd upward nnd will continue to hear them as thoy appronch to the perfection of their Mnster. Eggs at Easter. The use of Enster eggs Is common to all Christendom, and sonmii to hn a symbolic tradition of the primitive cnurcn. it is explained in vnrlouK wayB. The most probable theory In that because of tho phenomenon of hatching It was chosen us a symbol of tho resurrection. At flint the Ens ter eggs wero taken to tho tomnin nn,i blessed by the priest, and then distrib uted to ones friends and family. But after awhile they came to stand mere ly for a festival, when they could eat the eggs that had been denied them during Lent. It Is Impossible to Bay when the first mention Is made of Easter eggs, Only One Possible Life Giver. It Is certain that a strong belief in tho resurrection was the chief strength of the early church nnd Its preaching encouraged tho wirl.v converts tn on. dure nil things. "A dead Christ might nuvo neen n teacher und wonder work er, and remembered und loved uh Bin-h. But only a Risen and Uvlnir Christ could bo the Savior, the Life and the Life Giver to all inea."