Nebraska Newspapers

    D. H. CRONIN, Publisher.
O'NEILL, NEBRASKA
Senator Shaker Introduced a motion be
fore the Anti-Japanese Association of
California this week to place on the bal
lot of the next state election certain dias
t..1 anti-Japanese measures by mtans of
the initiative, which was carried unani
mously. “Japanese are now not permitted
to own property because they are not clti
aens,” Sharkey explained, “but their chil
dren born in the United States become
cltixcns automatically by virtue of this
section of the constitution and can own
land. Therefore, the Japanese arc Im
porting 'picture brides' for propagation
purposes, and through their children born
In America, are grabbing our land."
Count von Eckhardt, whose activities as
German minister to Mexico during the
war are credited with the strong pro
German sentiment there, warns his fel
low countrymen against emigrating to
Argentina and Mexico until they are cer
tain that condition# there are favorable
for them. Eckhardt boosts of his success
In winning Carranxa to the side of the
Germans and Is quoted as daylng: "The
country Is still pco-Germaa today and
the sympathies for Germany will not be
killed. What we may derive from this
predellctlon depends wholly upon out
ability to Inculcate Into th« Mexican peo
ple German culture.”
FlrBt Lieut. William B. Wilson, sou of
Secretary of 1a’or Wilson, had been
passed as a flyer and was about to go
overseas when the armtstloe was signed.
His brother, Joseph B. Wilson, was a sec
ond lieutenant in Fort Meyer, and James
H. WUson, youngest of the three brothers,
• enlisted as a private of Infantry, spent six
months on the Mexican border, and sub
sequently went to France, where he be
came a non-commissioned officer. Frank
lin K. Lane, Jr., served as a naval aviator
with the rank of lieutenant. Junior grade,
at the naval base at Queenstown and also
In England and Franca.
Prohibition has been absolutely “cock
roblned’ ‘In Great Britain by the very sug
gestion of an American Invasion of the
Anti-Saloon League out-of-works. It Is
simply am axing what renewed popularity
John Barleycorn has acquired since the
arrival of the American vanguard of tem
peranoe workers. The British hold them
selves quite capable of doing their own
reforming when necessary, and are riot
thankful for canned moral direction Im
ported overseas, writes the London cor
respondent of the Boston Transcript.
Largely financed by the trustees of the
Bernice Pauahl Bishop estate and the
Bernice Pau&hl Bishop museum, a scien
tific expedition will leave Hawaii next
spring to spend two years In the South
seas In an of for to determine the origin of
the Polynesian race and to trace Its vari
ous migrations until HawalL the north
eastern outpost of Polynesia, was reached.
Bernice Pauahl was an Hawaiian princess
who married Charles It. Bishop, pioneer
Honolulu banker.
A vaudeville performance of 17 acta will
be given In Chicago tomorrow afternoon
(or the benefit of John Miller, flagman,
who waa crippled in tils attempt to sav<
the Uvea of Mr* and Mr a. Tanner on the
railroad track of * Chicago suburb a few
weeks ago. Forty of the leading acton,
and actresses now In Chicago and the
choruses of three shows are donating their
sanrloee.
It is estimated that property to the
value of $260,000,000 la destroyed in the
United Kingdom every year by rats. The
chief rat Inspector of the board of agri
culture estimates that each rat destroys
property to the value of about $5 every
year, while an official of the British
Medical Association accuses them of the
spread of many deadly diseases, including
trench fever.
Street cars could be run by cities as
elevators are operated by owners of sky
scrapers. without charge to passengers,
Ralph S. Bauer, president of the Associ
ated Boards of Trade of Essex county.
Massachusetts, told the federal electric
railways commission. The business com
munity should be glad to pay the expense,
he said, because car riders ere "messen
gers of prosperity.’
“I think it would be a great step toward
reduction of the cost of living If the whole
scheme of excess profit tax could ha abol
ished. There never was so had a device
In business as the device called 'cost plus’
and the excess profit tax Is In its cssonce
a ’cost plus’ scheme," says William B.
Colver, of the Federal Trade Commission.
The American Red Cross is now con
ducting operations in 17 European coun
tries. The relief material distributed in
Franc* mainly in the devastated districts,
since the armistice. Is valued at over
11*000,000 francs. while in the same period I
■other European countries have received
more than 200,000,00# francs' wortli of simi
lar supplies.
At a funeral in New York last week,
the mourners were compelled to get out I
of their carriages an dhire another, when
a walking delegate, who stopped them,
found that their driver had the card of
a Brooklyn union instead of a Manhattan
union, where the funeral was being held.
The leading packers paid a total of $61.
161,906 for labor In 1918. The average In
crease in the hourly wage rate between
January 1, 1916, and January 1, 1919, was
132.9 per cent. The actual average wage
per annum in 1912 was $603.60. while in
1918 it increased to $1,163.41—Bradstreet's.
Cost of producing the 1919 cotton crop in
Texas was estimated at 14 cents per pound
by the price fixing committee of the
Texas farmers’ Institute, which advised
farmers to hold cotton for that price. The
estimate Is based on accounts kept by 300
Texas farmers since the first of the year.
Indiana produces two-thirds of the mint
of the United States. During the summer
season 3,425 acres of mint were under cul
tivation and produced a record breaking
crop. This year the yield near Nappanee,
Ind., has been unusually largo and the
farmers have received os high as $6.25
per pound for it.
A report from Dresden says that the
city power plant which employes more
than 1,000 men, may be forced to close
■within a few weeks, because under the
terma of the peace treaty the German
government la bound to return to France
the stolen dynamos used in the plant.
The three new marshals of France.
Joffr* Foch and Retain, have not yet
Appeared in the regular uniform of mar
shal but content themselves with adding
a row of golden oak leaves to their caps
and four supplementary stars to the
sleeves of their uniforms of general.
Chicago relatives of a soldier who lost
tils life In the Texas storm and was buried
ther* have been notified that It will cost
them about $700 to move his body to Chi
cago.
Vienna Is rejoicing ttiat it is again possi
ble to purchase meat twice dally, as well
•a fruit and fresh vegetables, and that
aggB and butter can be had for breakfast.
The country Is reported to be still wealthy.
The Woman’s Advertising Club, of Chi
cago, has been awarded the war trophy
donated by the Los Angeles Women’s Ad
vertising Club to the women’s dub that
during the year did the most constructive
work in advertising.
Prof. William A. Noyes, director of the
chemistry department of the University t
of Illinois, has been presented with the j
Willard Gibbs gold medal, the highest '
•ward Cjt chemical rfo'c-trek
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REABlFOfl CM
Concrete Structure at West
Point, Neb., Is Dedicated
With Appropriate
Exercises.
West Point. Neb., Oct. 13.—The dedl
cation of the new concrete elevator of
the Farmers' Cooperative company,
which was erected this summer, took
place this week. C. H. Gustafson,
state prdesidcnt of the farmers’ union
made an address on the occasion. He
spoke along the lines of cooperation
and its advantages to both the pro
ducer and consumer.
The gathering of members from ail
parts of the country made the occasion
for the annual meeting of the local
county union. The following officers
were elected: Laurtlz Lauritzen,
president; Lawrence Seeman, vice
president; Herman F. Grosso, secre
tary-treasurer; directors, R. Bert
Graff, I .aw re nee Seeman, Otto Brock
man. William Daberkow and John E.
Albers. Gus Daberkow was again ap
pointed committeeman from this
county on the legislative committee.
A resolution was passed endorsing
the Kenyon-Hendrickson 'meat pack
ing bill no wbefore the congress.
The new elevator Is the most sub
stantial structure 1 nthe city of West
Point. It was built at a cost of
(30,000 and arranged to hold 60,000
bushels of grain.
CHILDREN’S WELFARE IS
TO BE CONSIDERED
Lincoln, Netw, OcL 13.—The first
meeting of the state commission to
draft a children’s code and which will
also have supervision over child wel
fare work in the state was held Friday
kt the state bouse. Judge Howard Ken
nedy, of Omaha, former member of the
Btate board of control, was elected
president.
The legislature appropriated (7,500
for the use of the commission, but not
more than (160 a month my be paid
for a secretary. Some difficulty Is be
in gexperlonced in getting the kind of
person desired for that sum. The com
mission is to co-operate with the child
welfare bureau, but Us main work is
to formulate a law for the next legis
lature, and to secure the data desired
they have full access to all records.
PRIVATE CAR COMPANIES
MUST PAY THEIR TAXES
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 13.—Secretary
Osborne, of the state board of equal
ization, la using a sharp stick on the
private car companies of the state,
which are backward about paying any
taxes to the state of Nebraska The
reason they object is that the railway
administration has taken over their
equipment and is using it as a part of
the transportation service of the com
pany. They get paid for this use of
their cars, but they decline to pay taxes
thereon. Assistant Attorney General
Barnes has given an opinion to the
auditor's department that they are lia
ble, and If they do not pay suit will be
Instituted.
Another point raised by the compan
ies is that the state cannot assess on a
mileage basis cars that run outside the
state. The state authorities insist,
however, that as the express companies
pay their taxes, notwithstanding the
government is running them, there is
no reason why the private car com
panies shall not do the same.
LAUREL MURDERERS ARE
SEEKING NEW TRIALS
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 13.—Two Cedar
county murder cases are on the docket
[or the term of the supreme court be
ginning on October 20. These are the
appeals of Francis and Parker, one of
them a former Sioux City resident, who
claim that they were not give na fair
trial when arraigned on the charge of
filling Harold Crownover, telephone
manager at Laurel.
Crownover was a member of a sher
iff's posse that pursued men who bur
glarized a store and sought to escape
in an automobile. One of the men
claims he was not In the burglary, and
I Hey both raise the point that they can
not be convicted of first degree mur
ler, under the statute which makes
filling while in the commission of a
crime first degree murder, because the
filling occurred after the crime of bur
glarizing the store had been completed.
Another important case to be argued
nvolves the constitutionality of the
Albert law, under which citizens may
close up for a year any property where
mmoral pursuits have been shown to
exist. A hotel in Omaha was thus or
dered closed, and has appealed.
Fagan, bandmaster at the Geneva
home for delinquent girls, convicted in
[•’ilTmore county of immoral relations
ivlth a former inmate then employed as
i cook, will also have a hearing.
WEST POINT—One of the oldest cltl
ccns of West Point Carl Zeplin, died at
Ids home in this city In his 84th year Mr.
Zeplin was a native of Germany, and the
father of former Mayor Herman Zeplin.
He had resided in the city of West Point
continuously for 35 years, during which
lime he has engaged In the oil business.
ALLEN—Members of the Allen Metho
dist church gave a reception In the church
parlors this week in honor of their new
pastor, Rev. Frank Williams, and his
wife. Rev. Mr. Williams was formerly
connected with the Methodist Episcopal
church at Wakefield, Neb.
WEST POINT—Mrs. Herman IMers,
who was the first hotel keeper In West
Point celebrated her 88th birthday on
Thursday. The event was In charge of
the Ladles’ Aid society of St. John's
church. Mrs. Dlers is In excellent health.
EST POINT—The non-partisan league
Is obtaining a strong foot-hold among the
farmers of Cuming county. Two speak
ers John A. Currie and O. E. Wood, ad
dressed the audience of farmers at a pic
nic a few days ago
ALLEN—The eholars and faculty of the
Allen high school are arranging for a ly
ceum course for this winter, the proceeds
of which will go toward purchasing some
equipment for the new building.
puna Is becoming a very heavy buyer
of British books, especially text books.
Nasbys of Nebraska In Conven
tion at Lincoln Demand In
creases of 60 to 100
Per Cent.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 11.—At a conven
tion of second class postmasters of the j
state, held here, a resolution was
adopted favoring a new scale of sal
aries that are an advance over the
present pay from 60 to 100 per cent. '
Speakers said that the war and the
high cost of living had hit them hard, '
rs their responsibilities and work were
Increased, while their pay has re
mained stationary.
Postmasters Grosvenor, of Aurora:
Ludi, of Wahoo, and Morgan, of
Plattsmouth, were named as a com
mittee to represent the Nebraska i
Nashya at the hearing in Kansas City
shortly, where a joint commission is
to sit and listen to reasons advanced ,
for Increased pay.
ATTORNEY GENERAL DAVIS ;
NAMES HIS ASSISTANTS j
Lincoln, Neb., Oct 11.—Attorney j
General Davis has named Mason
wheeler and Alfred C. Munger. both
former residents of Lincoln, as assis
tants. Mr. Wheeler, who Is a grand- ^
son of Oliver P. Mason, a supreme jus
tice In pioneer days, will take the place j
of George W. Ayers, who has been
given the Job of codifying the statutes,
while Mr. Munger, who is a son of Fed- (
eral District Judge Munger, of Lincoln,
but lately practicing in Omaha, is fo
maintain an office in that city.
HEAR ARGUMENTS AGAINST
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 11.—The state
supreme court listened to arguments '
Thursday in the appeal of B. S. Baker, j
lawyer and taxpayer of Douglas coun- ]
ty, from a rluling that his claim that
the law calling the constitutional con- '
vention is Invalid. Baker and J. P.
Breen argued the appeal, contending J
that when the constitution says dele
gates shall be elected In the same 1
manner as members of the house of
representatives it means through par
tisan nominations. The act makes the !
election nonpartisan. County Attorney 1
Shotwell maintained that the act com
plied in all essential features with the
constitution, and that the point was 1
also badly taken for the reason that
when the constitution whs adopted
there were no such things as direct '
primaries, and nominations were all
made by state conventions.
rmu ntUHASKAN DEAD
IN HIS AUTOMOBILE
Fremont, Neb., Oct. 11.—Ed McGuire,
45 years old, a hired man In the em- 1
ploy of J. P. Killian, of the Rogers
vicinity, was found dead in the Kil
lian automobile at the farm home.
McGuire evidently had died during the
evening as he sat in the front seat.
He was unmarried and is survived by
his mother, who resides at Norfolk.
The body was taken to Schuyler, his
birthplace, for burial.
NORFOLK SOLDIER BOY i
DIES FROM HIS WOUN08 £
Norfolk, Neb., Oct. 11.—Glen Bar- 1
man, a Norfolk boy who recently re- £
turned from France with wounds which
he received during the battle of Can- I
tigny, died at Windsor, Mo., Wednes
day night, Norfolk relatives have been
informed. Barman enlisted here and
was a machine gunner in the first di- I
vision. £
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NORFOLK TEACHERS DEMAND c
HIGHER WAGE SCHEDULES t
-. t
Norfolk, Neb., Oct. 11.—All teach- t
ers in Norfolk grade schools and sev- t
eral high school teachers have de- t
manded increases in salary by appear- 2
ing before the board of education. The t
high cost of living, the teachers say, t
has forced them to ask for increases t
in pay. 1
“FIGHTING PARSON” HAS \
IDEAS ABOUT DANCING ,
Chanute, Kan., Oct. 10.—"A city
should provide a dance hall * for its
young people the same as it provides
parks with play apparatus for its i
children," declared the Rev. E. A. I
Blackman, the “lighting parson.” in his f
sermon as pastor of the Christian 1
church here Sunday. He explained t
that he was not finding fault with the s
way the one privats dancing hall main- l
tained here is being conducted.
“I visit it," he told his large con- t
gregation, “and I congratulate the two c
young men who are now in charge on 1
what they are doing to make it a place c
no one need be ashamed to visit. (
What Chanute ought to have, though, t
is a municipal dance hall large enough c
to accommodate all the young people
who like to dance, and also large $
enough so that their parents can go to
listen to the music and vtolt and enjoy
themselves with the young people."
i. w. wTsnoTwanted l
ON RIOT PROBE JURY \
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 10.—That there 0
might be no element of radicalism, I. r
W. W. or bolshevist, on the Jury In- £
vestigatlng recent riots, each man was £
closely questioned whether he was op- j
posed to organized government and in j
its maintenance and if he favored strict t
enforcement of the law, The Jury Is ]
composed entirely of white men, no <
negroes being called.
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WORKMAN FALLS TO DEATH
DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT
lies Moines, la., Oct. 10.—Albert Re- *
mlck, 53 years old, was killed when he '
plunged three stories down an ele- 1
vator shaft at the Salvation Army In- c
dustrial building shortly after 4 o'clock 1
yesterday afternoon.
He was rushed to the City hospital, *
but died before reaching the operating £
room. Fractures of the spine and: 1
skull were rospons*.' 'e /'or his death,*
polite sure r,n» ft>*. __ •*—
Mil EMPLOYES
iT NOT SHIRK
Governor McKelvie, of Nebras
l ka, to Demand Full Time Be
Put In—Eight Hours
to Constitute Day.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 10.—Under orders
just issued by Governor McKelvie
there will be installed in all of the
offices under the code a system equiva
lent to punching the clock. Every em
ploye will be compelled hereafter to
put down the time when he or she
comes in or goes out. From this the
pay rolls will be made up. Employes
must work eight hours. They must
sign in at 8, may leave at 12. must
come back at 1 and quit at 5. In re
turn they have every Saturday after
noon in the year off, two weeks vaca
tion with pay, and if they can confine
their illnesses to two weeks they will
find no deduction from their salary.
This is so revolutionary at the state
house that if it were not that these
departments have been reorganized
and recreated, there would be a revo
lution. For years if a state house em
ploye reached the office at 8:30, he
felt himself on time, and an hour and a
half at noon was neoessary for his
meals and his exercise. Along about
4:30 o’clock he began to get nervous,
and in a few minutes the office knew
him no more.
Another reform will consist in the
heads of department making out his
pay roll and drawing the money in one
warrant. At the present time each
employe must sign a voucher and a
clerk from the auditor's office acts
as grand Individual distributor.
NOTED AUCTIONEER IS
PROBABLY FATALLY ILL
Lincoln, Neb,, Oct. 10—Col. Frederick
M. Woods, one of the best known citi
zens of Lincoln, is seriously ill at a
hospital following an operation. He is
75 years of age. For 40 years he was
the best known live stock auctioneer
in the middle west, holding sales in
practically every stock raising neigh
borhood. He was for the 10 years
preceding his retirement from business
the highest paid auctioneer in the
world, making from $100 to $1,500 on
the days that he worked, with a yearly
income running as high as $30,000.
Colonel Woods is the father of Frank
H. Woods, head of the Lincoln Tele
phone company, George J. and Mark
W. Woods, big real estate operators,
and Albert, head of the Maryland agri
cultural college.
ROAD MATERIALS MUST
BE SHIPPED TO NEBRASKA
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 10—Nebraska rail
roads have received peremptory in
structions from the regional director
to notify all local agents to expedite
shipment of road material for use In
Nebraska on federal aid projects. A
car shortage exists, and local agents
have been misinterpreting the orders
relative to handling open top cars so
that serious interference with the work
now in progress resulted.
Hereafter the road makers will get
a fair share of all available cars, al
though it will not be possible to fill all
requirements. Specific instances of
discrimination by local agents have
been asked for so that the administra
tion may know whom it must get
after.
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NEW ARGUMENT HEARD
AGAINST THE LEAGUE
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 10.—James M.
Beck, of New York, assistant attorney
general under the McKinley and Roo
sevelt administrations, spoke at the
commercial club Wednesday in opposi
tion to the League of Nations. He said
that he did not plead for isolation for
the United States, but that he felt cer
tain the entering of this country into
the league would bring a war within
25 years. The reason he gave was that
the big five would draw down upon
themselves the opposition of other na
tions. He gave as his opinion that if
America will remain aloof her position
will be much stronger and that be
cause of her aloofness will be able to
prevent wars.
APPLE PICKING NOW
IN PROGRESS IN NEBRASKA
Auburn, Neb., Oct. 10.—Apple pick
ing began last week in Easter Cass,
Richardson and Nemaha counties. So
far there seems to be no shortage of
labor for the purpose of harvesting
the crop and growers have started the
season paying pickers 25 cents a
barrel.
Jonathans are showing the best yield
and quality and it is thought that the
crop will be nearly a normal one.
Winesaps and Ben Davis come next In
quantity with a good crop of Grimes
Goldens and some Ganos. The Black
twig crop is estimated at 30 per cent
of the normal yield.
SIOUX FALLS MOVES
FOR ANOTHER HOSPITAL
Sioux Falls, S. D„ Oct. 10.—Sioux
Falls is to have another large modern
hospital, If the plans of a number of
physicians and other interested are
effected.
The subject was under discussion
at a meeting of local doctors, when the
need of such an institution here was
discussed. It was pointed out that the
Sioux Falls hospital is not now entire
ly adequate for the growing needs of
physicians who operate there and that
there is a demand for a larger and
more modem building, which can han
dle a greater number of patients.
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REMSEN MAN DENIED
CITIZENSHIP PAPERS
LeMars, la,, OcL 10.—John Walsdorf,
of Remsen, a Luxemburger by birth,
was refused his second naturalization
papers in the district court here, be
cause it was shown that, although un
married and of military age. he had
claimed exemption from draft durln
the war on the ground of being ar
alien. The court ordered ills f ; p
pers canceled and barred l:'.ie r
ever becoming ad citizen ' •'
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j Training Little Children
Be Kind, but Firm, in Your Insistence on the Right—Once Actuated
by This Motive a Child Will Become Considerate and Generous.
Begin to Form Habit of Self-Reliance With Children When They
Are Little
Suggestion* bj mother* who litre been Mndergartmr*. Issued by the United States Bureau
of Education. Washington, D. C.. and the National Kindergarten Association. 8 Went
Fortieth ytreet, New York.
-BY MRS, RUTH HEI’PNER SWAINE.
"HE child ib a primitive little
being. His desires are near the
surface, and primarily very sel
fish. He wants all things for his own.
He must also be first in everything,
and, if he is the biggest force in tho
play group, what more natural than
that he should try to make everything
conform to his wishes? But this child,
if once actuated by the right, becomes
the most generous, the most consider
ate and the gentlest of little fellows.
A few words, a firm but kind insis
tence on your part, aAd he knows the
pleasure of giving up for others.
All children have their difficulties
with ono another, and sometimes, if
one judges by the noise in the back
yard, they are very big ones.
A moment’s wait will usually show
whether it is wise to run and help the
children readjust their little world.
Do this only when necessary. Hold
your breath behind the door, and see
if happily they are not righting the
situation themselves. Even the physi
cal hurts need much less sympathy
than the average mother is apt to be
stow. Would we coddle our children
into becoming physical cowards?
From earliest babyhood, begin to turn
their attention when hurt to some new
interest; and observe how quickly the
pain is forgotten.
A strong conviction has grown out
of the passing years of my mother
hood that the greatest service a
mother can do her child is to teach
him self-reliance. If you begin with
'be baby, the habit forms easily and
before you know it self-reliance lias
really become a habit with him. Hold
yourself free from fear as he tries out
his growing powers. Watch alertly,
but wait. Let him try the reach that *
may topple him over, but secures for
him the bright ball. Let him make
all the moves he wants to. and If
necessary, be there to catch him as he
falls. Hesitate long before you turn a
child deliberately away ffom the thing
he has set his heart on doing. Strong
initiative is too glorious a charac
teristic to nip in the bud. Try for
orfe day to stop and think before you
deprive your child of the pleasure of
simple achievement.
There are countless little tasks a.
child can do for himself to help
mother. Each mother will think of
many of these In the course of a day.
Remember that in the child’s world
of new Impressions the most trite acts
to us are, to him, the most delightful
of plays.
Play is the vital employment of
childhood. The art of playing alone,
being friends with himself, is a foun
dation for self-reliance In greater
things later In life. A child cannot be
more than contented. So hesitate, dear
motller, to interfere when your child
is quietly employing himself In his
own chosen way, even If It Is only
baby with his toes. Let the spell
last as long as It will; the next will
last longer. Soon your child of three
will play hours by himself. The busy
mother often needs this respite.
Please pass this article on to a
friend and thus help Uncle Sam reaejj
all the mothers of the country.
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The Delusion About the School
Year.
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By Newell Dwight Hillis.
The American people are under a delusion about "the school year.” We
have supposed that the period of study was from September to June During
July and August "everybody is out of town” and so the schools and churches
are closed. It is true that during the past summer everybody was out of New
York excepting 5,000,000 of people who were in the city. Equally mistaken is
the idea that young people do not want to study in the summer time. Every
where in going up and down this land during July and August one finds the
summer college classes crowded and the lecture halls jammed. The great
vocation schools run at full power straight through July and August, in a single
institution here in New York you can find any August night 2,000 young men
and women—clerks, bookkeepers, laboring men and women—pursuing their
studies from 6 until 10. The war has taught them the money value of knowledge.
They have found out that the men who climb are the men who know. Their
employer pays the cash for intelligence, therefore they are increasing their
wages by increasing their ability. It is a most hopeful sign of the times!
The republic faces a crisis! Our country was put to shame in the face of
France and England by the discovery that of the 2,000,000 young men who
landed in Europe, 200,000 of them could neither read nor write. It was not a
pleasant discovery. We had boasted too much about our "free schools,” dif
fusing knowledge. Gur national superintendent of education thinks that,
including the different races an dthe aliens, we have 20,000,000 of people
essentially illiterate. But even the face that a man is able to read and
write does not mean that he is competent to vote. Only an expert has a right
to pass upon the chemicals in a bombshell. Only an expert has a right to
decide whether an operation shall be performed on the patient. Only intelli
gent men have a right to vote on the great questions that affect the destiny
of millions of people. Carlyle jeered at universal suffrage when a large per
centage of the voters could not read and voted like blind men passing on paint
ings. That is why Carlyle said that "soon or late we would go over Niagara
Falls.”
Now the discovery that the school year is a delusion and that any night
in July and August and any Sunday is worth just as much for the intellect
and the conscience as a night or day in December or January offers hope. Some
thing has quickened our working people. They want to know! They have a
right to know! Every public school in this city should be run 12 months in the
year with relays of teachers just as every church in this city and every Sunday
school should not only have its usual services, but should in summer double
them. The time has gone by for great high school and public buildings to be
deserted for three months in the summer.
A little public excitement is medicinal. Fathers and mothers who are sup
porting the school by taxation should make themselves heard. It is a far better
thing to take these children out of the street, keep them in the schoolroom five
hours a day, have them graduate at 15 and then put them for a year into a
machine shop or vocational school, where the boy and girl become experts in
earning their own livelihood, than to allow them te run wild on the streets. That
was a wise judge who said that "the summer vacation had brought many a
boy into evil associations and the beginning of a career of crime.
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4 FORESIGHT NEEDED. 4
4 4
4 From the Springfield Republican. 4
+ If the Senate's investigation of 4
4 the steel striketiad come before the 4
4- strike, and if the law had forbidden 4
4 any strike during the period of the 4
4 investigation and the preparation 4
4 and publication of the committee's 4
4 report on the sut-iect, we should 4
4 have had iu this country a counter- 4
4 part of Canada's act providing for 4
4 the compulsory investigation of dis- 4
4 putes between employers and their 4
4 employes before things happen. As 4
4 things are, a great steel strike is 4
4 seen coming for months; everyone 4
4 hopes it won't actually ocour, but 4
4 finally it comes like a cloudburst. 4
4 The honorable Senate then gets 4
♦ busy inquiring what it's all about. 4
4 Much hindsight can probably be 4
4 east upon the event by the com- 4
4 mittee, but meanwhile the strike 4
4 goes on just the same. 4
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ACCORDING TO lilS LIGHTS.
John J. Leary, writing in McClures,
quotes Colonel Roosevelt as follows;
"Most men. I believe, are good citizens
according to their lights. Take ‘Big Tim’
Sullivan for example. Tim came to me
while I was In the White House to get
a pardon for a friend. The man was in
Atlanta for blowing a post office safe,
shooting the watchman and I know not
what. Tim was fnsistent that he had
reformed and that he’d go straigiit if he
were pardoned. The post office folk did
not think so, neither did the department
of justice. But Tim was so sure, so posi
tive. that I dec'ded to favor him.
" 'I'll give you this pardon. Tim,’ said
I. ‘on one condition. You must take it to
Atlanta yourself, see this man before lie
has a chance to see any of his old pals
and warn him that if he. goes wrong again
he will not only be punished to the limit,
but will have to finish out his sentence as
well. There will be no mercy for him.
And at the end of the year I want you
to bring the fellow here and let me know
how he's made out.’
"Tim agreed to this. He would have
agreed to anything and kept his agree
ment, too He got the pardon and went
his way. I forgot all ahont the thing
until just one year after. I was told Tim
was waiting to see me. He had an ap
pointment, lie told the attendant.
“ ‘Mr. President,’ said he, when he came
In, ‘I’ve come about that fellow Blank.
You know you told me to bring him here
when he'd been out a year and let you
fcnow how he’d beeu acting He's outside
now.’
" ‘Yes, I remember,' I told him. 'How
has he been doing?'
" 'He's been perfect, Mr. President,’ said
the big fellow. 'When I got him to New
York 1 put him to work behind a wheel
in a gambling house, and he's been doing
fine ever since.’
"That was good behavior, as Big Tim
saw it!"
Our Smokeless Powder Output.
Perhaps the most striking contribution
of the United States to the common cause
was the enormous quantity of smokeless
powder high explosives produced. From
April 1, 1917, to November 11, 1918, we pro
duced 632,000,C00 pounds of smokeless pow
der, which was almost exactly equal to
the combined output of France and Great
Britain.
S’Nuff!
From the (Abilene, Kan.) Reflector.
Mr. and Mrs. ''had Hoffman, of Wichita,
announce the birth of a baby girl at their
home. This is the third girl born to them,
no boy baby, and they have named her
Plenty.'
In For Business.
From the Boston Transcript.
Mother—I think Mr. Shyboy will propose
to Madge tonight.
FM her—Why ?
Mother—Didn't you notice how deter
mined she looked as she went into ths
parlor?
Putting on Her Percolator.
From the Rufel Meeting.
While in the army an officer was accom
panied by a sergeant that, to hear him
talk, was one of the brainiest men Uncle
Sam had hired.
One Sunday, in a certain town, a young
woman met the officer and sergeant on
the street and asked them if they cared
to go to her home and have a cup of cof
fee.
On arriving they were introduced to the
woman’s mother, who made excuses in
regard to he! appearance.
She remarked, "I'll go and put on the
percolator.' ’
The sergeant said. “Oh, you look all ,
right the way you are."
The report that President Wilson has 1
expressed a desire to have casts of the
features of all the principal delegates al
the peace conference is causing much
speculation in Paris as to. what Clcmen
CPau will say to the request. Even Rodin,
when working on his famous bust of the
"Tiger," 10 years ago, was unable to get
him to submit to the "manhandling” nec
essary to get a cast of h:s featgrer.