THE O’NEILL FRONTIER"
O. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O'NEILL. NEBRASKA
“We didn’t know what we were fight
ing fore," is the keynote of the complaint
of 326 doughboys recently arrived from
the Archangel front who are now in Lon
don hospitals. Mbst of them arc Michi
gan and Wisconsin men. "We arrived In
Archangel in October and lived in bar
racks located in swamps, which resulted
tn an epidemic consisting of a rash break
ing out all over our bodies," said an
Indiana corporal "Then we went to Tul
gas, and lived In unsanitary lodgings.
Our only amusement was destroyed on
armistice day when a bolshevlst shell
destroyed our phonograph. We had no
particular complaint against the food
other than It was of the plainest and
there was no change. We didn’t have
any real clgarcts. We iiad to make them
out of tissue paper and dried moss or
tea leaves. But we wouldn’t have minded
any of this if we had known why In hell
we were there.”
Mexican officials have been advised by
the Mexican consulate In San Francisco.
Cal., that numerous Portuguese residents
of the United States, especially those in
California, arc seeking admission to
Mexico where they hope to find work.
The Portuguese are skilled in vine vul
ture but demand for their services will
cease when prohibition goes Into effect
In the United States. There are more
than 80,000 Portuguese In the United
States and that is proposed to plant col
onies in the state of Sinaloa and Navarlt.
The personal appearance of the presi
dent at the meeting between the allies
and the Germans, is commented on by
London papers % follows: The only one
who seemed nei \ %os behind his set smile
was President Wilson. — Manchester
Guardian. President Wilscn glanced
round the room with Intense curiosity.—
Central News. Mr. Wilson, cold and non
committal—Dally Mall. With a little
smile, half hidden behind passivity, was
President Wilson.— Kvenlng Standard. A
searching gaxe, but suggestive of Judi
cial stolidity.—Dally News.
Burgeon B. J. Lloyd, of the United
States public health services says the
building of tho Panama canal was hut a
day's work in comparison t* the task of
eradicating tuberculosis. "The ‘tubercu
losis problem’ means the germ of tuber
culosis on the one hand, and the newborn
babe on the other. Inasmuch as no baby
la ever born with tuberculosis, If the twe
could be kept apart there would not be
any tuberculosis problem,”
Special reconstruction towns may he
ea.abllshed by tho government In the near
future, where soldiers suffering from
tuberculosis can regain their health and
at the same time work at light trades to
fit themsjplves for a full return to the In
dustrial life, said Col. lOstea Nichols, of
the United States army general hospital
at Mont I In lurti f'rxnrt
Lord Reading said In a recent
•peech In London: "I can never spean
of the relations between America and
Great Britain without feeling a warmth
of enthusiasm which carries me. very
often, almost beyond the verge of sober
statement. The generosity of the Ameri
can public toward the British people la
perhaps difficult to represent to the Brit
ish
Commenting on the vast quantities ol
eggs being put In storage even at the
present high prices, Bradstreets says:
"And that means that storage eggs must
•ell for 71 cents average In order to show
the smallest profit, and this price calls
for about an fO-cent ftiarket for frehh
«KRs.
The handsome bronze statue of King
Charles I In Trafalgar Square, which has
been covered with sandbags from the day
German airships began raiding London, |
•rill not, for a llmo at least, he uncovered,
as the left foreleg of the bronze horse
which supports the greater part of the
statue's weight ha* cracked.
•'General Villa and I believe that after
the revolution has won Its fight a
civilian should bo elected to serve the
needs of the country,” explains General
Angeles. "It Is the Intention of this revo
lution to conquer the state of Chlhuihua
and there receive the refugees from Mexi
co who are now In the UqJJed States.
A cotton mill man from South Carolina
Journeyed to New York a few days ago
to ask aid of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World In the protection of
negro workmen in the cotton mills, who
are earning bigger wages than they ever
earned before, against the machinations
of wild cat stock promoters who find the
negroes uncommonly easy picking.
A choir of 100 trombones, said to be the
largest ever organized, will be a feature
of ttic Methodist centenary celebration at
Columbus, Ohio. June 20 to July 13, which
will mark the close of 100 years of mis
sionary work by the Methodist Episcopal
church.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen reports that Sweden Is ne
gotiating for a huge loan from the United
States at 6 per cent and that the Ameri
can concern, Montgomery, Ward Is plan
ning establishment of a large branch In
Stockholm.
The resident of Pittsburgh have filed a
suit against the Amalgamated Associa
tion of Street and Electric Railway Em
ployes In which $11,036,000.78 Is asked of the
union. This sum, it Is claimed, was lost
toy the people as a result of the recent
street car strike.
Parisian society people are taking a
hand In strike breaking In order to help
the city regain Its much needed street
transportation. Baron Rothschild has
been making regular trips as chauffeur of
auto bus and now and then a countess
punches tlokest in a subway station.
The London Times announces the death
of Toby," of the Surbiton Eire Brigade.
"Toby,” an Irish terrlor, would mount
the engine whenever a call was sounded,
suid ring the bell by the driver's seat with
tois teeth.
The liquor dealers say that, after JuTy
1. 10.000 bar tenders will be facing star
vation: hotel room rates will be increased
to make up for loss of liquor revenue,
and thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty will be unused.
The absenoe of cheap sweets, and the
healthy effects of war bread are given
hr the medical officer of Ramsgat, Lon
don. as the reason for the exceptionally
rood condition of the teeth of the school
children for last year.
It appears from a yesterday’s comment
cf Mr. Hawker that he still feels the
American Navy men did not fly over
the Atlantic because the American navy
took every possible precaution to safe
guard the lives of its men.
The first of a fleet of 40 oil-burning
freighters being built In the Detroit dis
trict will soon be on the way to the Atlan
tic coast.
Two graduates of the Oxford college for
women In Oxford, Ohio, had to go to com
mencement last week in wheeled chairs,
because of blistered legs caused from
sunburn while camping two weeks pre
viously.
The German majority socialist party
will establish an international press ser
vice Immediately after peace Is concluded
As resolution to this effect was adopted
toy the party's convention now meeting lr
Weimar.
German Methodists are appealing t<
English-American Methor"«-t« their
WILL SELL FARM
Nebraska Pro-German to Pay
Dearly For His Sympathy
For the Kaiser’s
Land.
Lincoln, Neb., June 24.—The $50,000
farm of Edward Jordon, German farm
er of Phelps county has been adver
tised for sale by the United States
custodian of alien property to satisfy
a Judgment of $10,000 secured by his
wife when given a decree of divorce
Jordon is reported to worth $60,000 tc
♦75,000.
Edward Jordon is now confined in
a federal detention camp in Georgia
classed as a dangerous German enemy
alien. The Jordons lived on a farm
two miles from Wilcox when the wat
broke out. Johnson at once showed
the most intense bitterness. It was
not long before he was summoned be
fore the county council of defense and
then the state council of defense.
He was regarded by the federal au
thorities as one of the most dangerous
pro-Germans in Nebraska. When a
government agent visited him at the
farm to investigate his case. Jordor.
threatened him and the agent was
^obliged to make a display of force.
' Served in German Army.
He was born in Hanover, Germany,
57 years ago and served as a petty of
ficer in the Prussian guard, the reputed
finest soldiers of the empire. He is a
big man and is as erect as an Ameri
can Indian.
v The Jordons have four children, twc
sons and two daughters. When the
older son told the father that he
wanted to enlist in the American army.
It is alleged that there was a stormy)
scene. Evidence submitted indicated
that the father wanted the son to es
cape over into Mexico and from there
secure passage to Germany and join
the army. When the son got a chanco
he left for California where he enlistee
in a company of heavy artillery. He is
alleged to have told the boy if he went
vto France he hoped he would be shot,
The investigation brought out that
Jordon refused to allow his wife anc
daughter to work for the Red Cross
and forbid them to go to town to par
.ucipate in an.v or me drives. 10 pre
vent them making use of the automo
.bile, he locked it. It was shown that
both of the women were patriotic and
had been doing their bit to help wir
the war.
Edward Jordon was arrested about
September 1, 1918. Soon afterward?
he was hustled off to the government
detention camp. He recently madi
an application to be released.
NEBRASKA FARMERS HAVE
REAL NEW ORGANIZATION
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Lincoln, Neb., June 24.—-On the the
ory that Nebraska is too big and broad
to admit of class legislation in a con
stitutional convention or in the legis
lative, executive or judicial branches
wf its government the New Nebraska
federation has been permanently or
ganized.
v The organization is a direct chal
lenge to the Nonpartisan League. O.
n. Smith, of Kearney, president of the
Farmers' Congress is president and
Horace M. Davis of the Ord Journal is
secretary. The New Nebraska Fed
eration is the outcome of a conference
held a short time ago principally by
country newspaper men.
W. T. Thompson, formerly attorney
general of Nebraska, but now a prac
ticing lawyer of Lincoln, has been
chosen chairman of the executive com
mittee. It will be the special duty of
,Mr. Thompson to direct the completion
of the organization throughout the
state and to asBist in bringing before
the people the non-political purpose of
the federation to the end that the new
constitution will protest the individual
liberty and property of all citizens
alike.
In accepting the chairmanship W. T.
Thompson said:
"In the framing of a constitution all
semblance of special class privileges
should be eleminiated. That document
should reflect neither bolshevism nor
North Dakotaism, on the contrary, true
Americanism only, founded upon the
proposition of equal rights to all and
^special privileges to none.”
He calls upon all true Americans,
native and foreign born, of every politi
cal affiliation, who are anxious to see
their names and their personal proper
ty rights safe guarded, to come to the
aid of the organization now working In
Nebraska. In his reference to "North
Dakotaism,” Mr. Thompson Is expected
to draw the fire of the Nonpartisan
League, which is working along class
lines, on the plea that the farmers are
unable to secure needed legislation be
cause of the organized opposition ot
other classes, now firmly entrenched in
power.
BLIND MAN BEATS HIS
WAY ON THE RAILROAD
Fremont, Neb., June 24.—John Neal
totally blind, was found feeling his way
about in the railroad yards by a North
western watchman.
Neal told the wjfchman that he hat!
"beat" his way from Rushville in a
boxcar. He was on his way to Lincoln
where he expected to start out anew
The band organ he has been playing
/or eight years wore out at Rushville
and his money was soon gone. He hat
ordered a new organ and it is to b<
shipped to Lincoln.
■ Neal says his only near relative is a
son. Chester, of Atlantic, fa., who is
now in the army. Neal was given a
lift by Fremortt police and took a train
to Lincoln.
Andree Violis, a famous Frenehwomar
Journalist, says: "Recently a dressmaker
showed me a little gown in voile de Jute,
and do you know the material? It iB that
of which potato sacks and sandbags are
made. This simple garment cost f 140. It
is more expensive to dress women than
potatoes."
The citizens' council of (treater Berlin
has declared in favor of a citizens' strike
The council is made up of leading manu
facture! s, merchants and professional
men. 1 he strike was declared necessary
because the present government was in
capable of redeeming the nation from
nha(^
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LI IS ATTACKED
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German Lutheran Synod Pleada
Numerous Reasons Why Ne
braska Statute Should
Not Be Enforced.
Omaha Neb,, June 23.—An ataek on
the foreign language law passed by the
late legislature was argued in the dis
trict court here today, principally by
representatives of the attorney gen
eral's office. The case is an injunction
brought by the German Lutheran Synod
f>t Missouri, which operates a number
of parochial schools where German is
taught and by a Polish church here that
uses that language in its schools. The
Complaint is that the law deprives the
Children an dtheir parents of their per
sonal liberty guaranteed by. the con
stitution ,and that it deprives them of
equal protection of the law and atkes
from them property without due pro
cess.
The attorney general argued that in
junction was not the proper remedy,
and that the only course to be followed
was that of apepaling from a conviction
and getting the supreme court to say
whether the law is unconstitutional.
Proper Police Force.
The attorney general took the posi
tion that the bill is a proper exercise
of the police power of the state to pro
mote the order, safety, health, morals
and general welfare of society. He said
that the court will take judicial notice
of the conditions in Nebraska that led
to this legislation. He said there were
thousands of foreign born persons who
taught their old language and lived the
life of the old country In this country
without accumulating any practicaj1
knowledge of English. These were
people, he said, “who failed utterly to
assimilate the principles and Ideals of
the land of their adoption, rendering
them a menace to the welfare of this
country greater even than armed
forces of the kaiser across the sea. No
man with any spark of national pride
or desire for national security could
wish or contend for a continuance of
any system so unpatriotic as to per
mit immigrants and persons of for
eign birth who become naturalized or
not, to live and prosper in the United
States and yet never obtain anv Drac
tlcal knowledge of the English lan
guage. It Is surprising indeed that any
one would have the audacity to con
tend for a continuance of this vicious
system.”
Might Woung Feelings.
Joseph Wurzburg, a prominent Ger
man-American lawyer of Lincoln, who
intervened in the case, argued that the
law was unconstitutional because it is
broader than its title. He declared it
to be “a piece of ill-considered and
mischievous legislation, inspired by the
fears, prejudices and hysterics incident
'to the transitory condition of w’artime,
fomented by the pernicious activity of
misguided or unscrupulous politicians.”
He declared that it is a cruel mistake
to wound the feelings of the honest, in
dustrious foreigners who were invited
to come to the state and who are resi
dents thereof. He said that violent
methods should not be used to tVlpe*hut
a language destined to a natural death.
The law is one that provides that
no person, individually, or as a teacher,
shall in any private, denominational,
parochial or public school, teach any
subject in any other language than
English, and that languages other than
English may be taught as languages
only after the eighth grade.
LINCOLN TRACTION COMPANY
GOES TO FEDERAL COURT
Lincoln, Neb., June 23.—Members of
the state railway commission are in
Council Bluffs today defending them
selves from an injunction suit brought
by the Lincoln Traction Company to
prevent the company from putting in
a schedule of fares it thinks is neces
sary to keep it from bankruptcy. The
company asserts that the commission
has capriciously refused to grant it re
lief, notwithstanding frequent applica
tions, and that it is denying the com
pany equal protection of the law. This
is the first case of the kind brought in
federal courts, according to the law
yers. Attorneys for the commission
will urge that the federal court has no
jurisdiction because the state laws givi
the company an adequate remedy.
SALES OF BONDS HAVE
BEEN ILLEGALLY MADE
Lincoln, Neb., June 23.—A number of
Nebraska taxing districts have lost
heavily in recent months through the
encouragement their official boards
have been giving to private negotia
tions with greedy bond buyers. In sev
eral instances these boards have un
wittingly or deliberately violated the
law. The law governing the issue of
school bonds in Nebraska requires that
these be sold on the open market to tlio
highest bidder and for not less than
par. A number of issues have been,
disposed of by school boards in the
state to bond buyers with whom they
made a contract in advance of the vot
ing of the bonds. In some instances
these bonds were sold for less than
par.
BOOZE RUNNERS^PULL
AN UNSUAL STUNT
Silver Crek, Neb., June 23.—This is
on the city marshal. A few days ago
he found a car at the local garage In
which were four cases of whisky. He
arrested the car and the booze, taking
both to the city jail. The liquor was
locked up in one of the steel cells. That
night the owners of the car came and
broke into the jail, upset the steel cell,
took the whisky, loaded it into a car
and drove away. No clue to their
identity has been secured.
PARKERSBURG MAN WOULD
SUCCEED H. M. HAVNER
Des Moines, la., June 23.—Senator
W. T. Evans, of Parkersburg, Butler
county, will be a candidate for the re
publican nomination for attorney gen
cral. according to members of tbu re
trenchment and reform committees of
the Iowa legislature, which lias been in
session here. TIVanS lias served two
sessions in the senate from the 39th
district, which includes Bremer and
Butler ecunties. He was county at
torney of Butler county in .1905 and
3 908. J
TEACHERS SCURRY
TO CETUCEHS
Lutheran Preachers Especially
Endeavor to Comply With
New Law In State of
Nebraska.
Lincoln, Neb., June 21.—State Super
intendent Clemmons is under fire on
the charge that as head of the Fre
mont Normal college he has been of
fering a 10-wceks’ course at that col
lege to the Lutheran preachers in
chargo of parochial schools, on the
promise that they can thereby secure
a life certificate that will enable them
to remain at the head of their schools.
Mr. Clemmons, in reply asserts that
while it is true a large number of
Lutheran preachers are attending the
college at the present time, it Is be
cause it is about to be taken over by
the German Lutheran church. He de
nies that he has sent out any circulars
of the character stated ,and says that
the only literature sent out has been
that which the college has used for
three /ears.
Mr. Celemmons says it' is possible
for a person to get a life certificate by
attending the college 10 weeks, and
that there are 15 other colleges in the
state that have the same power. He
insists, however, that whether a teacher
can get a life certificate depends upon
the previous educational training or the
credits which a student presents to the
faculty. It is up to the faculty to say
whether theso entitled the applicant to
a life certificate. At the present time
there is a big rush on the part of
teachers to get new certificates, as next
month a new law that makes it mucli
more difficult to get them goes into ef
fect.
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TWO WOMEN IN CONTEST
OVER INDIAN LAND
Lincoln, Neb., June 21.—Nellie Chase,
Wife of Hiram Chase, an Indian lawyer
of Pender, asks the supreme court to
issue a writ of mandamus directed to
Judge Guy T. Graves, of the Eighth
judicial court, ordering him to vacate
an order dismissing her injunction case
against Gdrtrude Stubberfield and es
pecially directing him not to omit to
hear the case at the ikext term of court.
The women are claimants for lease
holds on the lands of Reuben Wolf, a
deceased Indian, each asserting rights
under contracts with different sets of
heirs. Mrs. Chase went into Judge
Graves’ oourt for an order enjoining
Mrs. Stubberfield from interfering with
her possession of the land. He set a
date for hearing. Mrs. Stubberfield
did not appear, but the Indian agent
sent a letter to the court saying that
the government still held the land in
trust, and that only the federal court
could have jurisdiction. Judge Graves
then dismissed the suit.
Mrs Chase claims that he had no au
thority to do this, because it was dur
ing vacation for the court, when it’is
without jurisdiction to make final or
ders. Judge Graves’ answer says the
term had not adjourned.
WANT RIGID TEST OF
ALL TRACTORS IN STATE
Lincoln, Neb., June 21.—‘The state
university regents are trying to induce
the state Railway commission to divide
the cost of making a test of all trac
tors used in the state. The board re
cently agreed to finance the testing,
in the absence of a legislative appro
priation, supposing it would cost but a
few thousand dollars. Now there are
applications on hand from 150 different
makers of tractors, and, as the total
cost for this year, will be about $30,000,
the board wants the commission to
help pay for it. The commission says
it ha sno money.
Under a law that goes into effect
shortly no tractor may be offered for
sale in the state that does not come up,
under a rigid test prescribed, to the
representations of its salesmen. The
companies are also required to main
tain service stations in the state. It
will take a day to test each make of
tractor. Temporary permits for sales
will be given by the commission pend
ing the making of the tests, which are
to be made by-the university engineer
ing department.
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WRECKED BY BOOZE
HE SEEKS BIG DAMAGES
Omaha, Neb., June 21.—One hundred
thousand dollars is asked from Morris
Milder, Harry Milder, William Milder,
Jacob Milder, Dr. Robert Nichols,
James Christopher and the Southern
Surety company, in a suit Hied yester
day in district court by George A.
Morrissey, who charges that the de
fendants sold liquor to him which re
sulted in making him a physical
“wreck.”
The suit makes the same allegations
as one filed against the same defend
ants by Mrs. Bridget Morrissey,
mother of George, about a month ago,
in which she asked $50,000 damages.
It is charged that the liquor was
sold to him at a saloon located at 211
South Thirteenth street up until May
1, 1917, and that after that time the
liquor was sold to him at the Bexten
Pharmacy, which it is alleged was
owned by the Milders.
In' sending home souvenirs, as in send
ing other things, the army moves as a
unit. War trophies were the style in
souvenirs for a while, tut now it is
gloves
”\Ve must not leave any doubt that the
conditions of peace are forced upon us,"
says the Vossiche Zeiiung. “Neverthelss,
we must sign, trusting to our own power
to save Germany. We sadly admit the
truth of the entente's charges against our
former rulers.”
NEGRO WOMAN~HELD
FOR SHOOTING HUSBAND
Lincoln, Neb., June 20. Hattie Peo
ples, negro, was bound over to district
court and her bond Hxed at $3,000, on
a murder charge. She shot and killed
her husband, a car washer, in a garage
in the business section of the city. She
alleged that he had failed to support
her and her two children. She came
here from Omaha when she heard her
husband was here, and was paying at
tention to another woman. Relatives
gave bond for her.
| Training Little Ch iIdren
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Suggestions by mothers who have been kindergartners. Issned by y
The United States Bureau of Education. Washington, D. C., and
The National Kindergarten Association, New York, N. Y.
'Walks and Talks Afford Opportunities for Teach*
ing Facts at First Hand and in Interesting Ways.
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FROM about the age of C, and
extending Indefinitely through
childhood years, there Is no more
valuable aid for tho mother who de
sires to promote the well-being of her
•hlldren than walks and talks. It is
Usually most difficult for the home
keeping mother to find sufficient
leisure—or rather, uninterrupted
leisure—to concentrate on work or
play with her children. We are all
only too familiar with the interrup
tions of the butcher, the baker, the
telephone, the friendly neighbor,
which break In repeatedly until one
•gives up” In despair. But when you
leave your home and its distractions
behind you, you begin to realize that
you have found a way In which you
can say with Froebel, "Come, let us
live with our children.”
These walks and talks can be use
ful both to the city mother and the
country mother, though It will be
easily seen that the country mother
has the advantage In this respect. The
City mother will have to substitute,
for the suggestions below, ths city
parks, the river or lake front, visits
to the large factories, museums and
historlo points of interest. You can
make the walks as long or as short
M your leisure permits; you can plan
them for every day or every other
Cay, morning or afternoon; and after
a month’s trial you will begin to
realize their vrIuo for yourself as
much as for the children. The blue
Sky and the great outdoors will take
you away from the pettiness of the
thousand and one trifles that con
tinually intrude themselves upon your
attention while you remain within
four walls, and they will be equally
uplifting In taking the little ones
away—especially Is this true In small
towns—from the petty small-talk that
emanates from the porches and the
front stoops and passes along the side
walks from house to house and from
child to child.
It is well for you to decide upon
jrour destination before you c&U the
Children with "Let's go to the pond to
day!"—or “This is a great day for the
woods!” A playmate or two taken
along occasionally (2nd frequently If
you have but one child) will lend ad
ditional zest to the walks and will en
large your opportunities of getting
better acquainted, not only with the
playmates, but with your own chil
dren in relation to their playmates.
In the case of very young children,
places very near home will serve as
well as the more distant goals whlth
are usually more attractive to the
other children. The pond or the
stream under the bridge, or the,water
front, the beach, or the rocky bould
ers that can he scaled, or the woods—
seek them out In your vicinity. Try
every' road and see where It leads to.
The adjoining town. If it be within
two or three miles, makes a splendid
objective point with older children,
and a trolley ride will bring you back
should time or fatigue make It neces
sary.
Try to forget all your grown-up
dignity on these walks (especially if
it be a country road) and have as
much fun and laughter as the chil
dren are ready for. Wear only stout
shoes and ‘‘roughing” clothea Some
times permit the children to take
skates, or a bicycle, or a velocipede, a
wagon or jaunting cart, or a sled, a
hoop, or horse reins. All these will
provide additional attractions when
the children seem loath to leave their
Street play.
These walks will develop your chil
dren physically fully as much as any
systematic exercises, and the variety
of “stunts” that will be initiated along
the road will astound you. Ife some
of them you may Join; others will
teach you to have control of youi
nerves, while the children develop
strength and Independence thereby
Bo far as the physical activities are
concerned, you need suggest very lit
tle; the children will initiate as muol
BS there are time and energy for.
There will be walking forward and
Adolescent Democracies.
Lives of great men and of lesser men
remind us that there comes Into most
thoughtful young lives an epoch of revo
lutionism. Lincoln, whose riper years had
the grand stability of the capitol, was an
insurgent In religious thought while verg
ing toward manhood. Wordsworth, whose
life's long afternoon had the fruitful
ierenity of Grasmere vale, could recall a
period when he hailed the ruddy dawn of
the French revolution. Democracies are
like men. and they have their infantile
periods and tbeir adolescent eras. When
the 13 colonies had achieved victory in the
surrender of Cornwallis, there was much
that was raw and callow in the Immature
republic. Some thoughtful men feared
the only avenue to security lay in setting
up a throne In Philadelphia within sound
of the Liberty bell, and calling George
Washington to establish a dynasty ol
kings.
Tills nation is now In a riper stage ol
young maturity, and can therefore be pa
tient with the dashing madness of some
very young democracies beyond the trou
bled sea Hungary and Russia as lands
and nations are older than we. but as
democracies they are young, immature,
sanguine, charged with the ruthless
radicalism and unoaleuiating revolution
ism of adolescence. When the period ol
radicalism comes to a youth, manhood
is near. When it comes to a nation, tru«
liberty is ar hand.
Designations Not Uniform.
From Equity.
Nearly all the states have a "senate'
and a "house of representatives.'' Hu
California. Nevada, New York and Wis
consin use the terms "senate" and ',‘as
sembly.” Maryland, Virginia and Wes
Virginia use the terms "senate" anc
"house of delegates:” and Now Jersej
lias a "senate" and a "general assembly.'
North Carolina once called its lowei
house "the house of commons."
We have only 44 "states;” Kentucky
Massachusetts. Pennsylvania and Vir
*inia are ‘Vnmmon wealths.”
backward, sometime^ with eyes shut,
sometimes on stone walls and In
ditches; there will be running, skip
ping, hopping, Jumping from different
heights, whistling and singing, games J?
of "follow master,” racing, stone-w^^
throwing and stick-throwing Into,
ponds and trees, and tree-climbing. !
That the "walks and talks” are
a great mental stimulus is readily ap
parent, when one reflects for a mo
ment upon the opportunities for ask
ing and answering questions that sel
dom arise^ in the schoolroom; the op
portunities to observe public work
that is going on away from one'#
Immediate neighborhood; the road-i
building, the digging of trenches andj
laying of mains, the setting and tak-i
ing down of telegraph poles, the op-i
eration of the switch towers near the
railroad bridge, the regulation of|
traffic, the construction of buildings.!
There is & deepening of sense Impres
sions; there is training in the correct
use of good English in conversations
and story-telling by the way-side;
there is reading and dramatization In
the woods ahd in the shady nook*
and on thp rocky heights, that aid so,
much in creating a congenial atmos-i
phere for the play of the Imagination,!
and last but not least—perhaps the
most valuable feature—there Is a
tremendous field for developing a.
knowledge of nature’s workshop.
Perhaps some concrete illustration*
will serve to good purpose:
Sense Training.
Stand still a few moments with eyes
shut; listen Intently, then tell what
' was heard.
Look intently In all directions, close
eyes, and tsll what was seen. 1
Name objects (seeds, flowers, twigs,
etc.) by touch alone with eyes shut.
Point to every bird’s nest observed
on ‘the walk.
Find all the maple trees along one
road. By taking one tree at a time
you will soon be surprised to dis
cover how many trees you and ths
children can name.
These walks will also contribute to,
spiritual growth In no small measure.
They will afford a basis of companion-^
ship that with the older years Is not',
readily outgrown, and many fond
memories will eluster around these
little tfflP>. Perhaps the same Walks,'
though less frequent In the adolescent'
years, may afford opportunity for the
confidences, the Ideals and ambitions \
that are so often poured Into some- '
one else’s ears because the mother
seems so busy ip the home. At any
rate, you will not stop the walks and
talks when the kindergarten age has
passed. Ton will keep It up from
year to year, and each year will make
them seem more worth while. Tou
will have to Increase your knowledge
of nature’s story as the years go by,1
but with your Interest to spur you
on, and the many books on the library
shelves that are now ready to help
you, this ought not to be difficult nor
burdensome.
Please pass this article on to a friend
ind thus help Uncle Sam reach all the
mothers of the country.
’The Kindergarten Is a vital
factor In American education, both
for Its direct work with young
children In the kindergarten and
for Its Influence on the care of *
children In the home and on
methods of teaching in the schools.
It ought to become a part of the
public school system In every city,
town and village In the country."
—P. P. CLAXTON
1 United States Commissioner
of Education.
The Yank In Politics.
Prom Stars and Stripes (Paris).
The returning Tank Is In politics. Turn,
over the old home sheet and you will see
where the lad that beat you back haa
announced his candidacy for some office
that Old Man ones used to carry on hi*
Civil war record.
Young blood Is getting In. Brass bands.
D. S. C.’s and golden chevrons—what
voter can resist the temptation?
Still there Is a field for the honest Yank
to ponder. Who Is not sick of graft;
who would not recognize it? We used to
smile over the home sheet when we were
there—but here In Prance it’s a different
proposition. We want that smokestack
over on the brewery—no, not the brew
ery, the milk plant—changed so It won’t
blow soot on Mrs. Smith's washing. We
want to plant some blades of grasB where
ttiey never dreamed of having them be
fore—we want a little monument over
there—we want Main street just a little
wider—and we want—we want a lot of
things. W are going back to see that
they are done, and If they need the Yank
pep that chased the Hun out of St. Mlhiel
and few other such places like the Ar
pinne-if they want that kind of pep
in politics—why, the Yanks are ready' to
give It to them.
The Yanks In politics—sure—why not?
Should Know “The Game.”
From Address of Prof. Felix Adler, at
Jacksonville, Fla.
The essence of democracy lr that the
people shall make the Iuwb. Every cora
I munity in the United States should have
! community centers, where people can be
■ targht the very rudiments of law making,
and not let a few make all of the laws.
We will not have democracy until the
| people are taught to make laws, how to
j pass resolutions, etc. If the people can
j really make the laws they will be a
great deal more interested in keeping
l them after they ara made.