D. H. CRONIN. Publish**. r"- _■ -raw rNEJLL. NEBRASKA Hartford. Conn., says there is Hom ing new about “daylight saving." It was practiced in that city seven years after the town was founded. An order dated October 1643 provides that a bell be rung toy the watch every morning one hour before daylight There shall be In every bouse one up and some lights within one-quarter of an hour after the bell Is ringing. For default is to forfeit one •hilling and sixpence to him that, finds him faulty and sixpence to the town. A London cable to the New York Herald says: “The traditions of the king's bench (rot such a shock this week that *Jie headpieces nearly fell from the crowns of the bewigged bar rlstors w'hen one of three women Jur ors. sitting In court for the first time In Its history, calmly took out her knit ting and thus occupied herself while listening to the evidence.” The British minister of labor has de cided that an “employed person,” as classified for the purposes of unemploy ment Insurance, does not mean a doc tor's domestic servant who does house work and also answers the door for pa tions, a farm tractor plowman, thresh ing engine driver, steam plow foreman, •team plowman, or farm tractor driv ers. The Liclnian law, effective 275 B. C., forbade any ono to own mora than 500 acres of land and more than 100 large cattle, or 500 small animals. Another law of the same name, 56 B. C., imposed a heavy penalty on those who organized clubs for massing power at an election, while another law, 103 B. C., limited the funds one might expend supplying bis table. Forty states at present are considering asking for appropriations to meet the federal allotment provided In the Cham berlln-Kahn act for the control of ▼enereal diseases. North Carolina and Tennessee have up laws prohibiting the marriage of Infected men. A New Jer sey law requires a physician’s certificate •hewing absence of the disease for both parties. Labor correspondents of various Lon don newspapers assert the cost of liv ing has declined in Great Britain and that a reduction of wages is inevitable. They report decreases in wages already have occurred In cases where sliding •cates of pay were based on the selling prices of the goods produced. Iowa Is lacking In one of the most ef fective legal measures yet devised for suppressing crime and controlling vene eal diseases, says the American Social Hygiene Association. The law which the state needs, says the association, Is one making It an offense to live tt the earnings of prostitutes, or off other lawdnesa. A Mr, has been Introduced in the Wis consin legislature to give husbands the same dower rights In their wives’ es tates as are now shared by widows In their husbands’ properties, with the pro vision that a married man or woman, who, without Just cause, has lived upart from his mate for a year ©r more, loses all dower rights. The average of fir© deatructlion during the last five years has been $283,000,000 per year, which means that wo burn down at least on© out of every 10 new buildings we erect. An average of 889 homes are destroyed by fire on every working day of the year.. Students of economic subjects assert that at Ictst 6,000,000 Germans are pre paring to laavo the "Fatherland” for the United States, Mexico and South Amer ican states as soon as they are able to raise passage money, or obtain admis sion In the case of the United States. A movement has been started at the University of Virginia to give the title ©f "doctor” only to medical men, and to abandon that of "professor” for jazz band leaders and ex-prize fighters. Hereafter the faculty of the university answer only to "mister.” A writer in the Chicago Tribune is ad vocating "building bees” to ameliorate the housing condition. Tic suggests that th© workers get together and build their own homes, especially as there are at present about 36,000 of the 60, | been holding for higher prices and that they will be forced to market it at once. One farmer marketed 500 bnshels that was slightly damaged. Myron H. Swenk. of the Nebraska Agricultural college said reports had been coming to the college of some damage to wheat stocks held by farmers by the grain weevil, but the condition, he said, was not alarming, and the complaints were no more fre quent for this state than in past years, and .hardly as frequent as last year. Mr. Swenk said the remedy lay in fumigation. He questioned whether there is any panic among farmers having wheat. GIVEN SURPRISE ON THEIR 25TH ANNIVERSARY Bloomfield, Neb., March 14.—Mr. and Mrs. Aug Onewuch celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary, 20 families of neighbors and friends sur prising them on that occasion. They are still living In the house in whlclr. they were married and Rev. A. Ollen burg, who performed the ceremony, is still their pastor and was present at the anniversary doings. This is the first couple married by the Rev. Mr. Ollenburg. Chauffeurs Tell Stories of Mil lionaire’s Young Wife’s Ad ventures with Other Men. BY TERRY RAMSAYE, U. S. Special Correspondent, New York, March 14.—The line ot peek-a-boo what-did-you-see testi mony in the Stokes divorce suit on hearing before Justice Finch, Friday came from the point of view of the garage, instead of the back stairs and maids’ rooms, as in previous ses sions. Evidence offered scintillated with testimony of New York and seaside life as seen by the keen-eyed sharp faced young men who sit at the steer ing wheels of rich men’s luxurious motor cars. Usually chauffeurs are disciplined to profound silence, but this was chauffeurs’ day in court. The lights that twinkle late on Broadway, artists’ sudios, certain matters of posing foridaring pictures, mysterious apartment addresses and the like entered in the testimony which counsel for W. E. D. Stokes, the millionaire hotel man, is introduc ing in the action against Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, daughter of Mrs. Ar thur Smiler, of Denver. The locale of the chauffeurs' day narratives ranged from the towering canyons of financial lower Broadway to the White Light belt uptown and took In a gay cafe at I.ong Beach on fashionable Long Island and the Stokes' seashore residence at Long Branch on the coast of New Jersey. Francis Harold Baird, formerly a racing chauffeur and once employed by the Stokes, now a victim of par alysis, was carried to the witness stand, and he said: Tells of Kissing Scene. “I was in the kitchen after lunch and a man drove up, Mrs. Stokes ran down tho steps and threw her arms around his neck and kissed him.” Then Baird testified, he went up stairs for continued observations. Valetine A ICubicke, chauffeur for the late S. Montgomery Roosevelt, artist and a general for Scotch whisky, according to the witness, took the stand. He related movements, studio parties, and the like, first set In a period of some 60 days of the early summer of 1917, in New York, a time, when according to earlier evi dence, Mrs. Stokes was said to he in Colorado. Considerable confusion re sulted as to days, dates, times and seasons. In Artists’ Studios. Kuhicke mentioned a woman vari ously known as Mrs. Yerkes and Mrs. Kearney, as a friend of Mr. Roose velt, who figured often in the move ments of the motor car and various trips to cafes, hotels and the Roose velt studio with Mrs. Stokes. Kubicke asserted that he had once picked up George Schroeder at No. Ill Broad way to add him to a party and the chauffeur related having taken Mrs. Stokes to the artist's studio alone four times. Pertaining to one of these times, the driver described a scene which met his view when he entered the studio, thinking is unoccupied. After a sparring of attorneys, Ku bicke was permitted to continue, say ing, "Mrs. Stokes was sitting smok ing a cigaret.” “Did you see her smoking a cig aret?” “She was holding one and it was smoking." The case was adjourned to Mon day. WET ‘‘JUNK’TvORThT MORE THAN $100,000 Chicago, March 12.—One hundred thousand dollars worth of liquor, dis guised as junk shipped to the Pioneer Rag & Metal Co., was seised by fed eral prohibition officials in the New ■ York Central railroad yards Friday night—but not until the authorities ! had fought off a band of gunmen. The shipment was from Plymouth, ! Pa., and consisted of 24 barrels of | 12-year-old whisky. PRIMA DONNA IS NEBRASKA NATIVE Attendants at Teachers’ Con vention Will Be Entertain ed By Gifted Singer. Holdredge, Neb., March 12 (Spe cial).—The Southwest Nebraska Teachers Association will convene here March 23, 24 and /25. Prepara tions are being made to care for 1,500 visitors. Miss Velma Lois Sutton, formerly of McCook, Neb., now prima donna of the Philadelphia grand op era company, will be the musical at traction of the gathering. Her father is H. P. Sutton, of McCook, director of the Burlington band for the past 20 years. CORRESPONDENCE MARRIAGE ANNULLED BY COURT Omaha, Neb., March 12.—District Judge Sears annulled the "marriage by mail” of Fred E. Williams and Jes sie Deering. Williams is a farmer at Llewelyn, Neb. He was lonesome, and wrote about It to the Rev. Charles W. Sav idge. Rev. Mr. Savldge showed the letter to the ex-Mrs. Deering, and she wrote to Williams: “I am a young widow, very good looking, '39 years old, black eyes and black hair, and could marry a city man, but prefer a farmer.” As a result of 19 letters inter changed, they were married at North Platte. Soon Mrs. Williams found she didn’t like the country, and re turned to the city. Williams could not follow. She sued for divorce. Judge Sears found "generally for the defendant,” but annulled" the mar riage on the grounds that six months had not elapsed since her divorce from Samuel Deering, an Iowa farmer. OUT OF ONE TROUBLE BUT INTO ANOTHER Omaha, Neb., March 12.—Assistant United States Attorney Magney Thursday filed informations, charg ing violation of the Volstead prohibi tion enforcement law against nine of the prisoners recently ordered re leased by Federal Judge Munger at Lincoln, who ruled in accordance with a circuit court of appeals decision at St. Louis that persons cannot be legally convicted under revenue laws when their cases are fully covered by the Volstead act. TAKE DEPOSITIONS IN CRONE DIVORCE CASE Hastings, Neb., March 12.—Deposi tions of six wtinesses for cry home owner will appreciate.” ... | The Mythical Flood. A“ " ... • ... mm m rr. ' ttt. ------ Francis H. Sisson, in Bulletin Guaranty Trust Co., (N. Y.) We should guard against hasty and ill-oonsiderea action inspired by un justified fears of an Immigrant inundation. It is imperative that we ex. amine the facts in the case and avoid loose thinking and unsound conclusions We have heard, for instance, that 10,000,000 people plan to come to the United States as soon as' possible. We have read that 8,000,000 want to come from Germany alone. In another statement it has been announced that 5,000,000 in Italy would seek admittance here; still another has declared that 1,000,000 plan to leave Poland for the United States, and smaller groups of prospective immigrants are reported from Spain, Austria, Syria, Sweden, and elsewhere. I have no sympathy with the hysterical fear expressed by many that this> country is about to be invaded by hordes of radicals who would destroy our institutions, and by the victims of disease who would undermine our health. Surely such extremes are easily subject VO regulation, and if there be threats of such invasion the fault would lie in government administration and not in any necessity of the situation. I should regard it quite as supposeable that conservative and intelligent Europeans would seek to come to this country as a refuge from bolshevism as to believe that only the bolshevista could b» attracted to us, and that the healthy and industrious may desire to come her* to seek a proper reward for their efforts, out of the atmosphere of a sick and ailing homeland in which their fullest achievement would be impossible. Before we become unduly alarmed and close the gates entirely, let us con sider that there are transportation facilities for the arrival of only 1,000,000 immigrants a year, and arrivals since the armistice do not bear out the prophecy of any tidal wave of immigration. The total net gain in popula tion by immigration through the port of New York in 1920 was about 266,000, or about 50 per cent, of the yearly average for the 5-year period preceding the war. Furthermore, it may be well to bear in mind that prior to the war we received on an average about 1,000,000 Immigrants a year, but during tho 6-year period of the war we received a total of only 1,880,000. This repre sents a loss to us of 3,500,000 immigrants who would, in all probability, hav* come to our shores had there been no world war. A comparison of 1912-18’ arrivals and departures with those of 1918-19-20 show that only one Bohem ian is coming now, whereas 42 arrived before the war; that three times as many Slovaks as arrive are going home; that only one Jugoslav to about 17# before the war is arriving; that seven times as many Poles are going home a» are arriving. I believe that it is generally recognized and conceded that the United States would not and could not have been as fullx developed and as power ful as it is today if it had not drawn so liberally upon the populations oi Europe as it has. We must, in fact, acknowledge our great economic debt ta immigration. But I doubt if it is generally realized that immigrant workmen today mine three-quarters of our output of iron and coal; that they constitute the majority ot the laborers in our lumber camps; that they are used almosf exclusively to lay our railroad tracks and build our roads and to keep then» in repair; that in all forms of our construction activities they predominate, and because of the shortage of such workers the building of houses in this* country is seriously handicapped. It is quite possible, in fact, that unless immigrant labor is obtainable in the proper quantity and quality when need ed, some American industries may have to set up factories in countries where labor is available on a basis that will permit such industries to compete withe those of rival nations, for certain of our industries are almost wholly depend ent upon immigrant labor, as it is impossible for them to obtain an adequate supply of native born laborers at any price. The first responsibility of Amer ican industry to itself and to the nation is to make sure that it has a suffi cient supply of labor to maintain production with a fair margin of profit, and at the lowest possible price to the consumer. Furthermore, this country—the richest of all in nati*Kil resources—is un der-developed ana unaer-Dum. nunureas oi years win elapse oeiore we W1I. begin to exhaust our resources. And today it is conservatively estimated that we need 2,000.000 homes in the United States, while the proposed plans for state and federal highway construction call for the expenditure of $1,000,000, 000. Our railroads urgently demand new construction and extension, as wel'it as repairs, on a large scale. Despite the present temporary lull in industry and the consequent more or less widespread unemployment, there is a vast amount of work to be done and it cannot long be deferred. Reviewing the resources of our vast country many years ago, Lord Macauley estimated that not until our population had reached the figure of 20,000 per square mile would we reach the danger zone of sufficiency. To day our population averages 35 to the square mile. Texas alone could ab sorb the entire population of Germany and France, and still not be so thickly populated as Italy. It is estimated that the southern states could today ac commodate an additional population of 250,000,000 and still have not exhaust ed their supporting powers, so any danger of over-population is too far re moved to warrant serious discussion. There is a further consideration which, the situation compels, and that is the economic problem of the world as a whole in its relation to our own. In many parts of the world consumption has overtaken production and, in order to add to the world's economic develop ment, there must be some redistribution of population. The world needs tho produets of our land and we would be denying to the world its legitimate claim upon us if we closed eur doors to it’s proper expansion. We must be international-minded in our outlook on this question and realize that no na tion, as well as no individual, liveth unto itself alone. So any spirit of rigid, exclusion on our port would be both economically and socially wrong anfl in the long run we would help bear the penalty which such a policy would assure. But it is patent that we have progressed to the point where the unregu lated flow of immigration is no longer needed or desired. More scientifio handling of immigration is demanded now for the most successful future eeo nomc development of this and other countries. We must find the means to accomplish the efficient economic assimilation of immigrants. Therefore, any constructive legislation must deal not so much with restriction as with selec tion. and any proper selective method will require the services of officials abroad which in turn will necessitate arrangements with other countries to permit such officials to conduct their investigations. .Such treates to regulate the migration of international laborers already exist between various Europ ean government, notably France and Italy, France and Span, France amt Poland, Italy and Brazil, England and France, and the United States and' Japan. Depression in Diamonds. From the Boston News Bureau. An Amsterdam diamond trade paper s authority l'or the statement that in he week of January 22 last, 7,9-6 per sons out of 10,800 employed there in the liamond cutting industry are out of employment. In addition, possibly 800 more—brokers and the like—are also seriously affected. The cause is the cessation in the "consuming” demand, particularly in :he United States. The business de gression here has practically closed a market which normally takes say 70 jer cent, of the Antwerp and Amster lam production. Which means praeti ;ally the world's production of cut i tones. Unemployment Insurance. Can American employers be compelled mder the constitutional principles of heir national and state governments to jay unemployment insurance benefits to heir workers? Can a statute force em jloyers to organize mutual insurance jompany and pay to men laid off. or sven discharged, because of adverse msiness conditions, certain wages for k maximum period of 13 weeks? These questions are raised by an elab irate bill now before the Wisconsin leg slature. The hill was drafted by 1’rof. lohn R. Commons of the University of A’lsconsln. a noted economist and cham >lon of welfare labor legislation. It is lupported by the American Federation if Lat»oi. Another War Casualty, From the Boston Transcript. Mr. Paderewski returns to the United, States, his “second fatherland," evi dently with joy to be here, but with oc casion for sorrow in his heart. After having sacrificed his artistic career ora the altar of his native country, so that he is constrained to say that “piano playing is a closed chapter in his Iife,’r he also sees his political career virtually at an end, with his beloved Poland suf fering from privation and hunger, anti desperately threatened by its enemies. The great artist, abjuring his artistry for public service, returns to America with heart saddened, as his locks are whitened by the stress and sadness of the five most terrible years of the world's history. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune. It is announced that the world's sav ings, if equally divided, would give every man, woman and child $13 58. But it isn't an equaJ division that the aver age advocate of equal division really wants. A club lias been started in Oxford uni versity by undergraduates who think it would be advisable to get educations, not from books, but by asking head masters and" councilors and other edu cational authorities to submit to in formal interviews and cross examina tions.