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P. H. CROMN. tPubliih«r. WEILL, '>t0 KrEBW*9K* I Italian women' have been barred from SO poBtTtonft Mostly In Mate employ by an official announcement just issued by the government. It '"excludes women from thb'diplomatic Und consular ser vice and from the council ot state or of several courts. Italian observers point out that evidently the authorities be lieve it none too soon to raise a barrier against the possible ■ aspirations of Italian women for public office, A recent visitor to the Chicago stock yards brings hack the story that, were it not for "Mike" and “Jim," mutton chops would be higher even than they are now. Cattle and hogs can be driven into the slaughtering pens, but not sheep and lambs. They must be lead, by one of their own kind. "Mike" and "Jim" are two trained rams who meat each new herd, "bow gravely, right about face, and lead their new friends across the "bridge of sighs’ to the shackling pens.” When Iging Kdward was Prince of Wales, he appeared one day with his trousers creased down the front, and for more than :t© years It has been the mark of a well dressed man to have them so creased. The son of King Kdward, George V, appeared recently with his creased on the sides, but Amer Van clothiers think the United Statse at least will be slow to follow the new fashion. A national fight to increase the birthrate is on in France. Propaganda is being used, as well as financial re- j ward. The consideration of cheap homes available only to large families is before the government, and also a scheme of plural vote—giving a father as many votes as there arc persons in his family. War has also been declared on “birth control,” which is called Neo Malthusianism. "Fortunately for America, there is a growing element in Franco which dis tinguishes between President Wilson and America," writes Floyd Gibbons, to the Ixis Angeles Times. "This feeling was manifested lust week, when un • known persons pasted the words "des Americans" over “Wilson'* on the signs along "Boulevard Wilson," making It “Boulevard des Americans.” There is title possibility that congress will adopt special legislation allowing Increased freight rates to coastwise steamship lines so ths Lines may grant Increased wages demanded by their em ployes, J. J. Ksch of the House Inter state commerce committee has tele graphed T V. O'Connor, International president of the Longshoremen's Asso ciation. Ked Cross investigators report that 80 per rent of the entire population of Albania are Infected with tuberculosis. Unsanitary housing conditions and care less habits of eating and drinking have offset the value of the simplo life and good air generally enjoyed by the peo ple. "Italy has 1,500 blind soldiers. All of these have been or are being trained tor useful employment. Several of these have also lost arms. As all blind sol diers are being trained to read Bailie, several Ingenious devices have been In vented to assist the armless in this reading. \ new North Dakota law, Just tested for the first time, makes a child born out of wedlock the legitimate heir of Its parents and entitled to Us father’s name, providing the parentage of the child is established within a year of Its birth. The medical section of the congress of the Deaguo of Red Cross Societies, has ecie upon a campaign la Europe against madlaria along the lines of the Rocke feller commission In Arkansas and those applied in Italy by the Italian Red Cross. Bince prohibition has released great quantities of yeast for purposes for whioh It oould not hitherto be spared, Milwaukee, where It was much used In ante-prohibition days, Is using It as a complexion beautifler. Taken Internally *>r externally, it makes ’em Just beauti ful. Utah and Nevada, comprising the 4Sth customs district, will have the first woman customs collector in the United .States if the Senate ratifies the recent presidential appointment of Mrs. Estelle V. Collier, of Salt Dake City. Prince William, of Sweden, who has been reared without any consideration's being made for his royal birth, has started for Honduras with a party of friends, for a year’s study and re r arch. The prinoe Is a sailor, a poet ajmost without equal as a golfer, t Fifty IhOiLsand refugees from all parts of southern Russia have been camping In the streets of N^voroaslsk for several ■weeks waiting for transportation to tike them across the Black sea to a place of safety. Most of them are families of officers and leaders of the army of Denlkine. Great Britain has set aside a credit of 1130.000,000 to flnanoe the sale of British goods to various European countries ac cording to official dispatches to the de partment of commerce. The largest precious stone In the world's history recently was discovered in Burma, according to a cable from Bombay. It Is a sapphire and weighs 11.000 carats' or more than five pounds avoirdupois. A convention of Ontario retail clothiers passed a resolution protesting against tlie order of the board of commerce establishing a margin profit of tt per cent. They are asking GO per cent. In the two years he has been In Vi’icrengen the former German Crown Prince Frederick has drawn the pop ■ trait# of a large proportion of the fisher men and other inhabitants of the i#»«4 Tossing of a wedding ring into' the ocean marked oerqmonies recently held at Buck, or Putxlg. to celebrate the re-uniting of Poland to the sea, an event of which all of Poland had dreamed far many years. Men are needed to keep the lights in scores ot lighthouses along the si»sir.n coast line. Acceptance of the poeltion means Isolation, nut every possible cam t fort, and a chance to save money, the government explains. Somebody who had had hie ear to the key hole 4n Detroit vouches for the statement that Homy Ford will run tar ■t president on the democratic ticket. Dose to wheat growers caused by the worst wind storm Kansas >«« ever ‘ known will reach at least p annage cording to the federal meteorologist. Both the democratic and republican parties are using direct as well as In direct influence'to have Delaware ratify the national suffrage amendment this week. Scottish distillers have definitely de cided to start big new plants for the production of power alcohol. The On 'S nuitl production aimed at is 30,080,000 ■ gallons. The total number of masters, officers { and men required a't the present time to !»nan the mustered, enrolled and Mcenaed vessels of the Unitd States is. In round Siumberr, *6,030. — | SHIP CHRISTENED WITH WATER FROM MARNE r-:—r—-—?—r-— **' i& <Quf/efCWoor~ ' "' * S. S. Marne ready for launching. A bottle of water from the Marne river was shipped across the At* lantic to be used in christening the S. S. Marne, built at the Hog Island shipyard. The vessel was named the “Marne” in commemoration of the heroic defence of the French at that river. Mrs. Newton D. Baker, wife inf the secretary of war, was asked to be sponsor for the boat j A Farmer on Production. The Farmers I.oan and Trust Co., Sioux City, asked a number of fanners what they thought might be done to Increase production. The following is the answe.r received from E. Coddington, Spring Brook Farm, Smith*and, la. I want to state that I am neither bolshevlst, anarchist, a member of any labor union, a nonpartisan lcagueist or an advocate of an eight-hour labor day, but a common, every day farmer who is not afraid to labor in overalls^ milk cows, groom horses, haul manure. And I want to ask you just why should the farmers of this country want to increase production merely because other people want him to do so, knowing full well that the more he produeeses the cheaper they can buy what he produces? Don’t you think the average farmer is tired of being nagged and hounded to increased produc tion? Was not the drive instituted last August against the high cost of living started by many of those very fellows who for two years previously had hollered themselves hoarse In exhorting the farmer to produce more— that it was the only way to "save the world"—with the result that practically everything the farmer has sold since August, 1919, unless It be butterfat, has been put on the scales at a loss? Tuesday five farmer friends of mine shipped six cars of live stock—the first opportunity they had had for 10 days—and all lost money on them. Any encouragement for these fellows to produce more? I have sold six car loads of live stock In Sioux City since last August, and I lost money on all but two shipments. Is it reasonable to expect I will lincrease production? Ordinarily I keep from 12 to 15 brood sows. Today I have Just two. Farmers with whom I have talked are not advocating increased production, knowing full well it will mean lower prices. Had the consumers from the city been able to sell the manufactured products for the farms at proportionately lower prices, the farmers would not be so sore; but you didn’t Is the packer to blame? Ask him why he does not pay more for his Hve stock, and ho will tell you he can’t get refrigerator cars. In the face of this, should the farmer produce more? I recently assisted In the local drive for an increased membership In the Woodbury County Farm bureau, and 90 per cent of the farmers with whom I talked are not In favor of increased production. In fact, as near as I can find out most Iowa farmers do not favor increased production. We have a grievance and it is a just one. No one man or group of men is responsible for it; but its solution does not lie in increased production. Why not start propaganda—ycu fellows who are so much interested in production—among the automobile workers, to work for less money and put in longer hours, that we may buy our automobiles for less money? Leather isn't any scarcer than it has been. Why not agitate the question of longer hours and reduced wages with the shoe manufactures’ employes? Again, wool is more plentiful now than it has been for two years. Why not go before the textile manufacturers and makers of clothing with the question of working longer hours and paying their laborers less wages—to increase production—that we farmers may buy our footwear and clothing for Teas money? Do you know of anybody that is doing it? Yet that is exactly what you do when you ask us farmers to increase production. With thing* as they are we can’t produce more. Its the "things" that musi change. How? I don’t know. But I suggest that the average laboring man be in some way enthused, ■o he can see the necessity for taking interest in his work—to really put in a few hours more labor each week—to work while he is supposed to do so, Instead of only putting in his time, or overtime, for the sake of his pay check —and I have faith enough In the average working man-mechanic or laborer —to feel that he would do so If the matter was properly laid before him, and he could be brought face to face with the necessity for doing so. It will require the efforts of all to bring this about. When this comes to pass there will be no necessity for urging the farmer to increase production. He will only be too Willing to do this, when he realizes the other fellow U also doing his best to increase production. My friend—I trust I may so consider you—change your tactics; go after the other fellow. Gen. Grant’s Doughboy*. From the Home Sector. The divisional Insignia, which was hailed as something of a novelty when it was Introduced in the A. el F„ did not stand for an entirely new Idea In uniform decorations for an American army. Gen. Joseph Hooker — “Fighting Joe”—whose reoord in another Ameri can war fought CO years ago has not been entirely submerged in the vast his tory that grew aut of that war, had convolved the a&tpe Insignia idea, and the man of the regimetns fighting under him in the civil war'jmt on a distinc tive emblem and thereby established a fashion -that was adapted by all the union force*. The Idea did not die with the civil war. for la tpe Spanish-Ameri can war also American soldiers wore distinctive emblems to dhow what or ganisation they betopged to. The divisional Insignia, as worn by the A. K. P. eras new, however. In the de tails of its gyearing. for the soldiers of the civil waiesm£ of t&e Spanish-Ameri can war did not wear clqth patchm on the toft shoulder. The fighting men of the civil war wore their «nM«my—aobde of metal, with cloth centers—as cap ornaments. The soldiers of the Spanish American war displayed their own or ganization marks—of enameled metal with a clasp backing—pinned to their toft breast Just above the pocket Gap. , “Holy-War" Bugaboo. From the New Yoyk World. Apologists of the Turk who palliate leaving him in Constantinople by ex ploiting the possibility of a “holy war" display a low opinion of the general In telligence. The holy war of Islem never happens; it always Impends. The j SenussI were long advertised as holp warriors of the Crescent in Egypt’s hinterland A real war revealed them as a poor side issue. The pudgy Com mander of the Faithful, Mehmet V„ proclaimed the jihad In 1815 as Glen dower summoned spirits from the vasty deep. The hosts did not "come when he did call for them." The Oil Supply. From the Indianapolis News. The possibility of returning the oil Industry to federal control as during and for a few months after, the period of hostilities. Is proposed as a means of preventing feel oil for the ships un der the control pf the shipping board. The proposal seems drastic, but the situation Is serious. The board asked for bids on 2i,000t000 barrels, delivery to start April 1. when the present contract expires. The best it could get was a promise to deliver 1,500,000 barrels, and even then the bids ran from 76 per cent to » per. cent higher .than the present contract prloe. Yet the production In 1916 amounted to 356.000,QUO barrels, gels ing the oil. Under cover of a plea of war emergency would 'be an extreme method. Yet the people would like to know whether there Is a conspiracy among oil companies to embarrass the government. In Father's Footsteps. From the Home Sector. Mrs. Smith—Does the baby take after your husband. Mrs. Jones’ Mrs. Jones—Yes, IndoBd. We have taken hts bottle away from him, and the other day the little darling tried fp creep down the collar steps. wmm : ’T."/ Lindsay, Neb., Young Woman Met Death In Strange Man ner While Driving Alor.e. Lindsay, Neb., March 29—Miss' Car oline Goehry, who lived near the Peter Swanson school house, about eight miles soutli of here, Was killed in an automobile accident Thursday. It is not known how the accident occurred, as she was driving the car aione. She was driving south and when found the car was facing north on a level stretch of road. it is thought that the car made a complete somersault and threw her out. She was found with her skull crushed and it is believed that death was in stantaneous. Miss Goehry was about 20 years old and kept house for her father, Fred Goehry. —f WOMAN PUMPS INTO RIVER AT OMAHA Council Bluffs, la., March 29.—An unidentified woman about 24 years old committed suicide last night by jumping into the Missouri river from the street car bridge. The woman walked to the tollkeeper's lodge, paid her fare and continued about 100 feet when she climbed to the top of an iron railing, hesitated just a moment and then sprang into the icy waters. The tollkeeper noticed that she acted somewhat nervously and turned to watch her, but she was too far away to prevent her from committing sui cide. The body was carried swiftly down stream and has not been re covered. _-A._ W. J. BRYAN BEGINS CAMPAIGN IN NEBRASKA Lincoln, Neb., March 29.—W. J. Bryan began his campaign in Nel braska yesterday, speaking at the town of Elmwood in the afternoon and concluding with with an extend ed speech at Lincoln at night. His address this evening was Intended more especially for women voters, but there were many men present. Mr. Bryan said the democratic party was In a position to make strong appeal for the support of the women of the nation, because it Is more free to take the side of the organized masses against organized greed than the re publican, party. Women, he said, would naturally come to the aid of democracy in its fight against com pulsory military training, and because of the party espousal of the League of Nations. His campaign in Nebraska, ho said, would be in the interest of the fac tion of the party which presented a list of delegates to the democratic national convention of whlcjj he was one. Mr. Bryan said he was making his canvass in order that he might stand in the San Francisco convention for indorsement of prohibition as the permanent policy of the country and for the enforcement law enacted by more than two-thirds of the present congress. HARTINGTON PLANS FINE PARK AND PICNIC GROUND Hartington, Neb., March 29.—Thjs town is soon to have a park that will be second to none in the stae. A place where picnics and outdoor gatherings may be held if the plans of the newly organized country club do not miscarry. A five-year lease has been secured to the fair grounds and plans are now under way for the remodeling of the buildings and the improving of the grounds. A drive is now on for 100 members at $25 each, which includes dues and membership. A golf course will be laid out so as not to interfere with the picnic grounds. Officers of the organization are B. Ready, president and E. E. Collins, secretary. —g— IS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY HIS SISTER Hartington, Neb., March 29.—Har old Boucher, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Boucher, two miles northwest of Hartington, was acci dentally shot by his sister. He is now in a hospital at Sioux City and re ported to be in a dangerous condi tion. His older brother had been shooting some rats and had left the gun loaded sitting in an out build ing. Baler a 9-year-old daughter and Harold discovered a rabbit and se cured the rifle and endeavored to kill it. Just as the small girl fired, Har old managed to got in front of it and the contents lodged In his left side. PAVING WORK STARTS AT RANDOLPH, NEB. Randolph, Neb., March 27.—Active work was begun on the paving here Friday. The contract was let for 16 blocks of pavement at a cost of ap proximately $160,000. The pavement will be of vitrified brick with a cov ering of asphalt. OFFER BIG REWARD FOR ARREST OF THIEVES Albion, Neb„ March 27.—Rewards totaling $800 are offered for the ar rest of the thieves who robbed the Ripp & Bethacheider store, at Cedar Rapids a few nights ago. The loss Is clothing and merchandise and will run close to $8,000, members of the firm state. FORMER WAYNE MAN ARRE3TED AT SIDNEY, NEB. Wayne, Neb., March 29.—Simon Gooman, wealthy farmer of Gurley, Neb., and a farmer resident of this place, Is under arrest at Sidney, charged with buying and selling stolen automobiles. He was impli cated by an affidavit of John Wright, Wayne man, eerving time on the charge of bootlegging. Goeman was in bootlegging trouble when he lived here. itillTif : sr;ii ramo Tom Hd.11 Stands Out Against Proposition to Have an Elimination Contest Staged. Lincoln, Neb., March 27.—The effort of five of the six republicans who arc* running for governor against Me Kolvie to stage an elimination con ference has been abandoned. Math Avson. the sixth man. who is not.con sidered in the running, did not show up. Tom Hail, state railway commis sioner, is accused of "spilling the beans." Mr. Hall denies it. He says that three weeks ago he offered to get out of the way if all the others would do it, thus leaving the way clear for the McKolvie opposition to unite on some big man. They were then talking of uniting the field on one man as a pa.ty necessity, ar guing that if they did not eliminate all but one, McKelvie would be nomi nated and would then be defeated. None of them, however, was willing to follow his example and eliminate himself, ?.nd he refused to agree to their plan of each naming three friends, the 15 to choose one of the five as the anti-McKelvie candidate. Hall's friends say that the whole proposition was rigged up to put the skids under him and put Pollard across. He was to be taken care of, if he would consent to be sidetracked without a row, with the promise of support for Interstat Commerce Com missioner. He told the republican workers who finally called on him and told him that Jie would be to blame, that he would not consent to any plan that would put Pollard across because Pollard had never helped him in his eight-year fight for lower rates in Nebraska, but as an orchardist and big apple grower, had been found on the other side when his personal intersts were in volved in rate rows. The secretary of state may get into a lawsuit because he has refused a filing of Morehead for governor in the democratic primaries. He did this on the ground that the law says a re ceipt for the filing fee must accom pany the nominating petition, the latter not being filed officially unless the receipt is on hand or notice of the payment of the fee has been re ceived. Morehead's petition was filed Saturday, and he also paid his fee, but he did not tell the secretary of state he had so paid, until Wednes day, when it was tendered. _j._ CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION COMPLETES ITS LABORS Lincoln, Neb., March 27.—The Ne braska constitutional convention, after 74 days, concluded its work last night. Although several changes have been made in the existing con stitution there have been no radical departures. One of the last things done was to provide that the amendment giving women full suffrage in Nebraska shall be submitted separately at the spe cial election called for September 21, so that if the national amendment does not get 36 state indorsements by that time, the women of Ne braska will get the full vote by Jan uary 1, next. If national suffrage is adopted by that time, it will be mere ly a straw vote on Nebraska senti ment. Separate ballot boxes will be provided for the votes of men and women on the constitution and the separate amendments. WOOD IS PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY SOUND Friends Announce That Opera, tion 10 Years Ago Left No Bad Effects on Him. New York, March 26.—Announce ment has been made by friends of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood that the operation by which a large tumor was removed from his brain 10 years ago has not impaired his physical or mental condition. The announce ment was made at a meeting of the woman's department of the Leonard Wood campaign committee at the home of Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sis ter of the late Col. Theotore Roose velt. Dr. Alexander Lambert, personal friend of Wood, quoted Dr. Harvey Cushing, of Boston, who performed the operation, i as authority for this statement. .It was explained that while Wood was governor general of Cuba he rose suddenly from his desk and struck his head on a chandelier. A stiffness of the left foot developed, ‘several years later he underwent the operation. Lambert also raid that Wood 'is in splendid shape physically. ’ BRAZILIAN STRIKE IS BECOMING MORE SERIOUS Rio Janiero, March 26.—Graver as pects have been assumed by the strike which has virtually paralzed traffic in this city. Firemen on all Brazilian steamships walked out today in sym pathy with the idle teamsters and truck drivers and it was announced the carpenters, woodworkers, waiters and restaurant employes, ship me chanics and municipal laborers had decided to Join in the movement. The government has declared it in tended to deport all foreigners in volved in disturbances. HOKE SMITH TORUN ON RESERVEDTREATY STAND Atlanta, (la., March 26.—Formally announcing his candidacy for the democratic nomination for president in the Georgia primary April 20. Senator Hoke Smith today declared he was "unalterably opposed" to the democratic party committing itself to a national program on the propo sition that the League of Nations should have been ratified by the Sea ate*Jvvithout- any -chans®. Convention .at Lincoln DbMiies to Submit Work to Vote of the People of Nebras ka on Sept. 21. Lincoln, Neb., March 26.—The Ne braska constitutional convention lias fixed September 21 <is the date for a special election on which voters are to ratify or reject the proposed new constitution. Ttjc constitution makers think they wiil_ have their job all finished by Friday night. Just now they are con sidering what amendments or pro posals shall be submitted separtely. The committee that has the work in charge will submit the proposal to elect supreme court judges by dis trictk separately from other changes in the section relating to this tribu nal. This is because of the volume of criticism over the plan of al lowing a part of the state to select men to interpret the laws of all the people. in all there are 44 separate pro posed amendments, and this will re quire a ballot live feet long. A brief statement of what the proposal means is all that is to go on the bal lot. The following proposals were adopted Wednesday: Giving supreme judges and governor $7,500 a year, with $5,000 for all district judges and state officers until changed by the legislature; giving state normal schools constitutional recognition by placing them under a board to be ap pointed by the governor with the consent of thg senate; and a revi sion of the executive department, providing for an executive budget and a board of pardons in which the gov ernor has only an equal and not the final say. A_ FILED FOR STATE OFFICE JUST A LITTLE TOO LATE Lincoln, Neb., March 26.—Therkel Hermansen, of Omaha, has been ruled out of the competition for the republican nomination for state audi tor. thus leaving the fight a straight open and shut one between Treasurer Barnhart, of Cedar county, and Audi tor Marsh. The friends of Marsh think that Barnhart’s candidacy is backed by the McKelvie group of politicians, Marsh being a persistent opponent of the governor and his code bill, and having refused to ap prove the bill of the expert account ant who came from Chicago and sys tematized the departments under the code. Hermansen’s name was put into the listing by the petition route on the last day for filing, Saturday. He did not make up his mind to get into the fight until Tuesday, but the coun- ■ ty treasurer of Douglas county wouldn’t take his money, and now the secretary of state says he was right about iL The law Is that no petition can be legally accepted until the filing fee is paid, and that no petition can be filed within 30 days of a primary election. As Hermansen’s fee was not tendered until Tuesday the petition was not offered till then, and then it is was too late, being within 30 days of election. SLAYER OF WIFE IS SEEKING NEW TRIAL Lincoln, Neb., March 26.—Argu ments filed in the state supreme court ask for a reversal of the con viction in the case of Jose F. Blazka, Cherry county rancher, found guilty of beating his wife with a harness tug, from the effects of which the jury says she died. The arguments put forward declare he was carrying out a law of his native land of Bo hemia which he believed was right, and therefore cannot be sentenced to the penitentiary for life on convic tion of second degree murder. In ad dition the defense claims the state did not prove that the woman died from the direct effects of the beat ing. —¥— BANCROFT MAN TO OPPOSE AUTHOR OF LANGUAGE LAW West Point, Neb., March 26.— Charles Graff, of Bancroft, has filed for state 'senator from the Seventh district on the democratic ticket, for' the primary election in April. Mr. Graff will oppose H. E. Siman, of Winside, author of the “language bill." a measure which has displeased a certain element of the voters ot the district. PLATTE CENTER WOMAN TAKES HER OWN LIFE Plate Centr, Neb., March 26.— Mrs. Pete Stohr, living near here, committed suicide by hanging her self to a beam. Ill health is thought to have been the cause, she having suffered from spinal trouble for sev eral years. INDICT COLGATE COMPANY. Trenton, N. J., March. 25.—An in dictment of 56 counts alleging viola tion of the Sherman anti-trust law was returned in the United States district court here yesterday after noon by the grand jury against Col gate & Company, of New Jersey, makers of soap and other toilet ar ticles. The same concern was in dicted in 1918 for alleged fixing ot resale prices but by reason ot a technicality a demurrer to the In dictment was sustained. TO QUIZ MILLERAND. Paris, March 25.—Premier Miller ami will he asked in the chamber ot deputies today by Jean Barthou to make a definite statement concern ing the policy of France as to Ger many. central Europe, the Turkish and Russian situations, resumption of diplomatic relations with the Vat ican . ml ill--- i;nation created by the t:,.. .!« • f t t'nitnl States Senate . i;. of V'-isaili'-'s.