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in U. S. Schools
National Survey Makes Chargo
That Politicians Hamper Ef
ficiency of Education.
FINANCES ME ANALYZED
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Teachers' 8alarles Aggregate 64 Per
Cent of Total Current Expenaeo of
Schools 377 Cities Covered
by Survey.
New York. TwfjirlinocniiBUBof nn
alleged "doplorrVdo" condition of
American public schools are red tnpis
and the- handicapping bf boards of ed
ucation by politicians, according to n
survey of public school boards nnd
their receipts nnrt expenditures, by the
national committee for chamber of
commerce co-opeintlon with the public
bchools and the American city bureau.
The survey, which covered H77 cities,
said that In -17 irtr cent of cases where
boards of education were "Independ
ent" or free from political manipula
tion the most clllclent ndmlnlstratlvo
and cducntloiml results arc obtained.
City Officials Hamper Schools.
"Tho best Interests of the public
schools," says the report, "cannot be
served In a tlty where the budget of
tho board of education may bo reduced
and remodeled by city olllclals."
The survey shows thnt Uio school re
ceipts In Uie 377 cities for the last fis
cal yenr were $353,200,000 nnd that the
expenditures of these same cities dur
ing that period wero about $2,000,000
less than Income.
11m funds are from five sources nnd
nro supplied In tho following propor
tions: From Uie states, 11.0 per cent;
tbo fydernl government, 1.3 per cent;
tfeo county, 5.7 per cent; local taxes,
63.4 per cent; nonrovenue or miscel
laneous sources, Including Income
from sale of bonds or short-time loans,
17 per cent. The survey shows that of
nil cities reporting 70 per cent do not
receive n dollar from the federal gov
ernment. Teachers' salaries aggregat
ed $1S0,000,000, or 01 per cent of the
total of tho current expenses of the
school.
85 Per Cent for Buildings.
The relation of cnpltul outlay, aggre
gating $51,727,t!4, to the total expen
ditures showed that nearly 85 ier cent
was utilized on sites nnd new build
ings. A totnl of $1,841,000 was ex
pended for medical Inspection nnd
dental and nurso servlco In the 377
cities named. Tho pnrt of tho totul
expenditure spent for the alteration
nnd equipment of old buildings was
only 1.8 per cent. Commenting on this,
the committee said:
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Frank Morris Is here seen operating n movie camera from nn airplane with
his Invention the addition of a small motor driven by nn 8-volt, flO-umpere
bnttery which does nwuy with the three cranks thnt tho movie operator has
to use and makes aerial movie photography steady and easy.
WHEN DID MAN
iStrips Breathing, but Heart
Beats on for Eight Hours.
'Extraordinary Case In London Has
Aroused Considerable Interest
In Medical Profession.
London. Much Interest hns been
aroused In medical circles here by tho
cxtrnordlnnry case of a man whoso
heart continued to bent for nearly
eight hours nfterbrenthlng hnd ceased.
Tho question arises: When did deatn
occur?
Tho mnn In question, n dustman, ap
parently hnd been In good health un
til Whltsun, when ho boenmo drowsy
and often would have fallen asleep but
for a severe pain In his head. Ho
wnB admitted to a hospital suffering
from drowsiness, 6tlffness of tho neck
muscles nnd hendacho, but there wero
r other prominent symptoms.
It was decided to test tho spinal
"Tho smallncss of this amount Is of
pnrtlculur Interest In connection with
Uie findings of this committee In their
report on school housing conditions In
American cities. This report shows
that u large percentage of tho children
In the public schools are continually
menaced by tho unsanitary conditions
and fire hazards In many old school
buildings now In use. In Eastern cities
the conditions lire particularly bad."
The basis for the committee's survey
was an Inquiry sent to the superintend
ents of schools In cities with popula
tions In excess of 8,000.
CHINESE TO STUDY TANNERY
University of Pe1ln to Have Modern
Machinery for Working
Leather.
I'ekln. Tho I'ekln university la
about to Introduce Into Its curriculum
n course In tannery. .Students taking
up "lenther" will be required to spend
twelve hours n week In the practice
laboratory, which Is being equipped
with modern leather working machin
ery from the United States and
stocked with the latest chemicals and
dyes and the most Improved tanning
compounds.
Dr. II. S. Vincent nnd John Wang
will be In charge.
From Pole by
Wireless Plan
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Capt. Roald Amundsen Hopes to
Talk With World While
Locked in Ice.
WILL DRIFT PAST THE POLE
Believes Ocean Current Running
Northeasterly From Cape Serdro
Will Carry Him Past Pole and
Into Atlantic Ocean.
Seattle, Wnsb. From the remotest,
most lnncccsslblo spot on earth the
north pole a wireless message will be
flashed to tho civilized world, If tho
plans of Capt. Itoald Amundien, dis
coverer of the south pole nnd famous
nrctlc explorer, are carried out.
DIE IS PUZZLE
fluid, nnd accordingly nt 11 :20 o'clock
In the morning tho man's henrt was
sounded and tested, after which chloro
form and ether were ndmlnistcrcd.
Tho operation took only half n min
ute, but on being turned over on his
back again he ceased to breathe, al
though the henrt was beating well.
Artificial respiration was tried, and
nt D::iO o'clock a tracing of the bents
was taken. At 7:!U) the heart ceased
to beat.
At the post-mortem examination It
was found thnt denth was caused by a
tumor on the right side of the brain
and that this would have nothing to
do with respiration ceasing whllo the
henrt remnlned beating.-
An eminent specialist has given as
his opinion thnt so long us his henrt
beats n man Is not dead, und bays that
In sleeping sickness (from which tho
dustman was suffering), as In nil brain
disturbances, breathing may cense,
though the heart continues to bent, n
different nervo center being Involved.
DECRIES EAGLE 'SLAUGHTER
T. Gilbert Pearoon, Head of Audubon
Societies, Would Repeal
Alaskan Bounty.
New York. Protest against tht
wholesale slnughter In Alnskn of the
bnld eagle, symbol of American Inde
pendence, was voiced here by T. Gil
bert Pearson, president of the Nntlonnl
Associations of Audubon Societies. He
said that according to tho Inst authen
tic Information ho hnd from Alnskn,
the territory had paid bounties on
over 15,000 eagles.
"When I first discovered this Inw,"
said Mr. Pearson, "I at once began a
campaign to try to get the bounty law
repealed. It Is my contention thnt the
killing of these birds should be
stopped until the englo can hnve Its
day In court. The late Governor Klggs,
I nin Informed, expressed himself as
feeling that tho time had perhaps
come when the bounty might bo taken
off the eagle, but so far os I am
aware nothing hns as yet been done."
1 Pricks Tire Dirt Bubble;
Explosion Blinds Farmer
Lnncnster, Wis. Ilobnrt Doll,
farmer, residing In Beetown,
near here, was seriously hurt
and probably will be permanent
ly blind as the result of tho
explosion of nn nutomoblle tire.
Doll Is said to have scratched
n dirt bubble on the tire and
the explosion followed, shoot
ing dirt and sand directly Into
his eyes at 70 pounds pressure.
Captain Amundsen's schooner Maud,
on which he hoped to drift pnst the
polo with the Ice Hoes, was disabled
by a broken propeller off Cape Siberia,
after he had spent two years In push
ing around the eastward arctic pas
sage from Norway. The explorer left
Ills vessel and crew to await u break
In the Ice und proceeded to Nome, la
ter coming to Seattle on a recent ship.
Will Install Wireless on Ship.
The Maud has no wireless apparat
us, but Captain Amundsen expects to
Install one when the craft Is brought
here tome time this summer to be re
paired nnd refitted. Captain Amund
sen explained thut his party had been
cut oft' from communication with other
human beings for two years, with but
one break his trip out to Nome last
year.
"The war was In Its most critical
period when we left the world," he re
called, "and for months wo speculated
In vain on the course of eveuts. It
was December, 1019, more than u year
after the feigning of the armistice, that
wo met a Russlun trader who told us
what had happened. Then I deter
mined we would carry wireless."
To Sail Next Summer. .
Captain Amundsen said he would
spend the next year In the United
Stntos, probably most of It around
Seattle, and would sail from this port
next summer.
The last voyage tended only to con
firm his previous theories about mag
netic properties of the polar basin, tho
explorer allirmed. Ho expressed faith
in his belief thnt an ocean current run
ning northeasterly from Cape Serdzo
would carry him past the polo and
eventually into the Atlantic ocean.
, "It will take three years perhaps
l longer," he predicted.
Captain Amund&cn said that an im
portant part of his equipment consist'
ed of hooks, hundreds of them.
"I read mostly fiction," he said.
The Maud's crew Includes Dr. II. V.
Sverdup, a scientist; Oscar Wlstlng,
U. Olonlkln and seven natives. They
left Norway in 101S und remained bur
led In the Ice 10 months.
Loses Wooden Leg, But Swims 'Ashore.
Gilbert, Minn. While Harry Wood
nrd, a good swimmer, was drowning,
Hoy Ithodda, minus his two wooden
legs, which became loosened when a
boat occupied by llvo men overturned,
swam H00 yards to shore. Ithodda told
friends that two of his companions
utlllz ed thu wooden legs to uld them to
reach shore.
Hut no explanation of how It could
continue to beat for more than seven
nnd a half hours after respiration had
ceased Is forthcoming.
OPERATED AT SEA BY RADIO
Captain of Ship, Directed by Wireless,
Successfully Used Knife on
Seaman's Hand.
Ilrooklyn. A surgical operation1 200
miles nt sen, directed by wireless from
ilrooklyn, N. Y., was "performed" by
Dr. ltaymond Ilnrrctt. Tho captain
of tho tanker Vesta did the real work,
under Doctor llarrett's directions,
transmitted by n radio operator.
Tho operator heard the Vesta call
lug for nld for u man who had an In
fected hand. lie telephoned to Doc
tor Unrrott, who feared from tho de
scription that tho man's whole arm
would become Infected. ,
Under the doctor's direction the cap
tain used a kitchen Icnlfe for u scalpel
aud pieces of rubber for drainage
tubes after anesthetic treatment. Tho
operation was a buccess.
CORNHUSKER ITEMS
News of All Kinds Gathered Prom
Various Points Throughout
Nebraska.
- Tho lonn of practically 52.000,000
which tho Nye-Schnelder-Fowler Co.
of Fremont requested of their cred
itors, consisting of bnnkers In Omaha,
Chicago, New York City, Milwaukee
and Kansas City, will be granted, ac
cording to n statement mnde by F. II.
Davis, president of the First Nntlonnl
bnnk, and representatives of the Om
nhn banks. The amount to bo ob
tained from Omnha bankers Is said
to bo practically $ir0,000, the balance
being furnished principally by Chicago
banks. "Wltlr this loan the organiza
tion will be nbie to tnke aire of the
Nebraska harvest," declared President
Davis. "It would have been n serious
loss to the Nebraska fanners If this
concern, with Its 100 elevntors In tho
stute, hnd been forced to the wnll."
An up-to-date radio station In chnrgc
of a competent operator will be one of
the attractions at the Dodge county
fair to be held August :10 to September
2. The management plans to send out
tho names of the prize winners In some
of tho lending exhibits by this menus.
Tho station will have a long range
receiving apparatus with n telephone
attachment. It Is plnnned to give fair
visitors n musical concert by wireless
If possible. Market quotations "nnd
wentber conditions will bo received
and posted for Uie benefit of the vis
itors.
Two Indies' ball teams linvo boon
organizing In Falrbury and nro giving
spectators the view of Uielr lives. So
fur men have been used for the bat
teries as tho ladies do not feel com
petent ns yet to do In tho pitching
and catching. One of tho teams Is
called the Illucks nnd the other tbo
Hods. They nro trying to arrange n
game with the Plymouth Bloomer Girls
at an early date.
The McDowell oil well southwest of
Falrbury struck another vein of nr
tesian water recently, mnklng the sec
ond vein thut hns flowed over the top
of the well. This water wns struck
at a depth of 0S0 feet. It was shut
off with casing nnd drilling proceeded.
A flow of artesian water wns previous
up struck nt !1S7 feet.
v. small cyclone pnssod through n
strip of country between Cortland nnd
Plckrell, unroofing many of thu farm
buildings, und leveling telegraph nnd
telephone wires to the ground. The
storm wns nbout half n mile In width.
As far ns known no fatalities occurred.
Three hundred nnd twenty-five Ne
braska fanners had signal contracts
wltli tho United States Grain Growers
Inc., nt the close of tho first two weeks'
nnd half of the membership cnmpalgn
according to nn announcement made
from the office of stnto headquarters
nt Lincoln.
All Indications point to the fact thnt
the sugnr making campaign will com
mence early this year In the North
Plntte valley. So at least Is tho in
fonnntlon given out by the Great
Western Sugar company, who have
factories at ScottsblufT, Goring, Bayard
and Mitchell.
School district No. 35, n consolida
tion of three schools of Cheyenne,
Deuel nnd Garden counties, has Just
voted $'J.,000 bonds for the purpose
of erecting n modern rural high school
building to bo located In Garden
county.
Ground Is being broken nnd work
of construction on tho new Lisco High
school building will commence at an
early date. Bonds In the sum of $2.V
000 were voted nt n spcclnl election
recently.
.The Alliance poinsh plant nt An
tloch, built in 1017 nt a cost of approx
imately 5C00.000, was sold at n
sheriff's sale at Antloch to Herman .7.
Krnuse for .?:12,G00.
Beatrice citizens will vote on n prop
osition September 20 authorizing the
city commissioners to issue ."Jl.'O.OOO
bonds for the purpose of constructing
n municipal electric light plant.
A new Methodist Church to cost
90,000 will be erected In Fremont and
It Is expected to get the building well
under way before cold weather.
Tho melon crop In Pawnee county
nnd tho surrounding country is a real
bumper. Watermelons and canta
loupes nro plentiful.
The now lighting system nt Stratton
has been completed and tho chnngo
from direct to alternating current hns
been mnde.
Approximately $77,000 tnken from
tho Nebraska state guarantee fund,
wns received by Ben Saunders, re
ceiver of tho failed Hadar bank, nnd
will bo usel to pay depositors whoso
deposits In the bnnl; were guaranteed
by tho stute. ,
Itesolutlons nppenljng to Congress
man Andrews, who has Intcrostcd hlru
eclf In the additional hospitalization
bv the nation for disabled war vet
erans, to request nn appropriation for
such a hospital at tho stato soldiers'
home in Grand Islnnd, wero ndopted
by tho disabled war veterans of Grand
Islnnd.
Itcduced railroad fares for Ak-Snr-Ben
visitors will bo allowed by rail
roads running lnt,o Omaha. All of tbo
roads entering Omaha will put Into
effect excursion rates of faro and one
half for round trips during the fnll
fostlvnl period, It hns been announced.
Scott's caravan, n group of ninety
persons who have given up their
homes In Brooklyn, N. Y nnd nro
traveling overland In automobiles to
take' up homesteads on tho Irrigated
tracts of Idnho aro scheduled to arrlvo
In Omaha within a fow days, and will
travel across tho staU on tho Llncaln
I highway.
Money appropriated by the last
legislature for the relief of ex-service
men will be released Immediately nc
cordlng to n decision readied by of
ficers of tho American Legion, depart
ment of Nebraska, nnd the bonrd of
educational lands nnd funds. Tho
legislature appropriated ?2,000,00d and
provided thut the Interest from tho
fund should be given to disabled ex
service men or their dependents. It
nlso appropriated $."iO,(M)0 to be used J
Immediately pending the placing of
tho .?2,000,000 on Interest. There will
be $G,2r0 given nwny quarterly for tho
relief of ex-service men and their de
pendents In the stnte. It was prov.e-.d
under rules ndopted that application
for relief should be made to the local'
commander of the American Legion
post nnd then sent to the state head
quarters where a special committee to
be appointed will decide whether tho
application has merit. Under the law,
tho American Legion Is Intrusted with
tho distribution of the fund.
One thousand live hundred nnd six-ty-ono
feet of strong wire fence, ten
feet tnll, with six sloping strands of
the worst kind of barbed wire known
to tho wild nnlmal trade, Is to bo
erected by the board of control nround
tho men's reformatory at Lincoln.
It will be strong enough to keep chick
ens In nnd nlso out, according to tho
belief of n member of tho board.
"Tho finest oil drilling rig ever
brought into Nebraska" Is thu report
of oil men who have visited the loca
tion of the outfit being erected by the
Lakeside Development eolnpnny nt n
point n short distance west of tho
town of Lakeside, on tho Burlington
railroad and Potash highway, about
twcnty-llvo miles cast of Alliance.
Tho members of the Evangelical
church nt Dawson held n meeting Sun
day and raised 521,000, with which to
build a now church' to rcplnco the ono
which was destroyed by lightning n
few weeks ngo. It wns voted to build
a $.10,000 structure on the present site.
Twenty per cent of thu telephone
subscribers of Monroe will order their
phones out when the increase in tele
phone rates granted by tho statu rail
way commission goes into effect, it was
stated here this morning. As yet no
definite action bus been taken.
The first sixteen days of August In
Omnha were thu coolest in forty years
of observation with the exception of
101.r, according to unofficial statement
by, Meteorologist Itoblns, who Is com
piling figures on thnt subject.
Big Springs elevntors have shipped
out 102 cars of grain In tho last four
weeks, representing 105,000 bushels.
This Is only nbout one-tldrd of what
will be shipped from here. Most of
thu grain Is going to Omaha elevators.
Free scholarships in tho University
of Nebraska Agriculture college will
be nwnrded by the Union Pacific to
each 2!) boys ranking highest In their
counties for boys' nnd girls' club work,
It was announced.
Nearly all of tho talent of Chey
enne's frontier days' celebration will
appear at Seward August 30 to Sep
tember 2 In thu first show of this
kind ever to he produced In this sec
tion of Nebraska.
Albert Miller, a farmer living south
west of Callaway, was fatally Injured
when he wns caught under a steel road
drag. His head was so bruised that
he was paralyzed. Ho died u few
hours later.
Secretary Trimble Is receiving n
long list of entries for the horse races
that aro scheduled for Ak-Sar-Ben
track. September 13-17. Some of tho
fastest horses In the country will be
entered.
Tho city council of Plnttsmouth Is
arranging to purchase additional acre
age adjoining its undeveloped park,
and provide a camping ground ns well
as a municipal children's playground.
The best yield of wheat reported In
the vicinity of Callaway is on tho
Willis Gllmoru farm in Itcdfern table.
Fifty-five ncres threshed out twenty
seven bushels per acre.
The McCook Electric compnny has
put In operation the newly Installed
200 horsepower oil burning engine,
which will Increase the capacity -10 per
cent.
Fire nt Hardy destroyed three build
ings and the entire stock of-the Fair
& Bymn Hardware Store. The loss
Is estimated nt $20,000.
Andrew Unas, 51, farmhand on tho
Philip Llndstroni place, north of Ames,
fell from a haystack and was dead
when picked up.
Grain from Nebraska, Iown, South
Dakota nnd Kansas Is moving to tho
Omaha grain market In large quanti
ties. Approximately '100 representntives
of tho Evangellcnl Lutheran church
will meet at Lincoln to discuss tho
establishment of n college or university
nt Lincoln through thu consolidation
of five or six Institutions already ex
isting In the district. i
Reunited for tho first time slnco
they wero mustered out of servlco In
1803, F. Williams of Scandln, Kas nnd
F. Gates of Phllllpsburg, passed n few
hours together nt tho Interstuto G. A.
R. reunion held nt Superior In con
nection with tho historical pageant
'They wero "buddies" In the northern
forces for two years.
Slebcnd nnd Henry Ideus, 11 and 10,
respectively, wero seriously Injured
nnd. four horses nnd four mules wero
killed when lightning struck n corn crib
on tho fnrm of John Ideus, their
father, five miles north of Fllloy. A
mule fell ncross tho body of Slebcnd
badly "crushing his lower limbs. Both
boys will recover, doctors salrl.
Rear Admiral Moffltt, chief of tho
navy, advised Reprcsentntlvo Jcfferles
that ho would keep In mind VAX 2,
Americn's greatest dirigible, to tho
nero congress In Omaha In October,
but that conditions wero too Indcflnlto
to permit of present acceptance.
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years old and have been bothered for
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Every month my
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I always had a cold
and felt drowsy nnd
sleepy. 1 worn in a
millinery shop and I
went to work every
day, but felt stupia
and would have such
cramps. I had seen
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women talk of it, so mother got roe
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so that during my periods I am not now
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If a word to thu wise is sufficient,
most clergymen must consider their
congregations foolish.
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Tnke Aspirin only ns told In the Bayer
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Lumbago, and for Pain. Handy tin
boxes of twelve Bnyer Tnblots of As
pirin cost few cents. Druggists also
sell larger packages. Aspirin Is tho
trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of
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