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4 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 13, 1913. Don't Sign Any Petition for Referendum on Workmen's Compensation Law! v n - & 4' ? V On Behalf of All Togthe Voters of Nebraska: The lawyers who fought the Com-,,v perisation Law throughout; the entire ses- sion of the last legislature, using every false argument to prevent the enact" ment of any compensation law, are now making every effort to invoke the referendum against the measure to keep . ' it from going into effect. Don't be misled by the lawyers- they have a personal interest. Under the Compensation law they cannot share in the awards for damages for personal ' J- injuries to the extent of 50 or 60 per cent, as they have done m the past. Petitions are now being circulated over the name of the "Laboring Men s protective association," which so-called -organization was formed by five men, : only, and does not have the endorse- : ment of any labor unions In order to obtain support from Wage Earners Organized Labor members of organized labor, the law yers promised to circulate petitions for a referendum on the "Convict Labor,'': and the "Garnishment" Laws. No such petitions have been seen. ' The lawyers and the solicitors for signatures who are paid solely by tike lawyers claim that the State Federa tion of Labor endorsed the referendum! want to state most emphatically that this is absolutely false. Neither the State Federation of Labor, nor the Executive Board took any such action. The endorsement was signed by two delegates, who We're unauthorized to do so. It is true that the law is not entirely what we ask,ed for, but it is a good starter for ' a better law and certainly far better than the present system, which gives the lawyers the large part of the money rightfully belonging to the Makes This Appeal: injured worker or his family. s Jy As labor union men it behooves us to refuse to sign any referendum pe tition at the solicitation of paitf hire lings, who receive as much as five cents,, , per name from the "ambulance" lawyers for each signature. Union labor is above buying or selling votes! . - In conclusion I earnestly urge alt. laboring men and friends of laboring men to refuse to sign any petition for a referendum on the compensation law. Furthermore, I ask those who; , through misrepresentations have al ready signed, to quickly communicate with the Secretary mf State at Lincoln, . Neb., and insist that their names be stricken from the list. President Nebraska State Federation bf' Labor. ' we Yomr Name Stricken from Petition An ' ,4 . . ? ;..v ' '' S .K ; 'A; . Compens ation Law y - ... i u KO SBRYAHTS1H THE HOUSE 5tew Jemy Vea BWi Tyrnnay of the Xitcliea, ' " HODEJOI METHODS IN JBGH2 Meliiutel Appliance SoWc iUc I'jrefcleK of Frdotlcnl Da,fnns ths day -whn there. i Tso no yrvnt In tna heme. Tyranny Is te pM Trwa ttn kitchen I Hrri4 repnv and MMprevai r to rcmova their allanl jMprMt9n irom. the dining tootn. Mv thrtww, amtowntlo, wugeluM, tlreUw," weffltwi, ve4eefM c&p.bU of no oantnn k(tou(k MVe Itltfit whlah jnbsrci In IU tamM oJ$t8. re to take, thetr !te Kt4 m nlouMt tr oniurK X jcMrtj, UWt nchve cRtv)fton '9A tt am ttffi-H to tk uto.bn4H, tfteNM, T nrr7 Mcf4n, and the. otMr t miM wHh tM) mw xreeaom &n the Jarser rifle. T!U U dream by K. O, ''WaUa, It ie-tNi'wtt! esteem C tclen llftO IIMMMH, VHU9TI, KJ)OrlWlMt IWft Uielr practkl awHeatlon nt the CplenUu K, J Komfceeplns Experimmit it&tlOn C fttvec New Jrey FleraUon of Vfomen'i elubs, whoee prwdilenL Mr, franX Ant" ler Pftttieoa, nutvea the discovert knd u$eea4 to the. convention of Uie oieno Rt rhlwseipi, Mrs, ?Attien U eolUie bred women, i methwly seee wtl surenlty, who4e jiewntM" iiu oecupted Itaolf, Dot .ytify seclectlruc the honi?, tout ptvlnp It nil tho attention of her intellUene nnn exper JSovf Polt of VlftWt 'TMn netr politlckt activity of women $.i iet hf irtven thtm new point ot view," M jho. "It hm enfthled them to look -t the home with kwwldfre veined puslde, knoKfUdee of rlielnerttMie la efficiency jritcm In bustnwa. Hatur lly tkfy thought, Jwhr have nat'ft3 Iency Byteqm Rnd Juimr Mvlwf Iwipreve Jnent been ad?t3 to hoveeworkT The thing t do to face (lie feet M huU meet do n of Nee ana ffUterJea. When hvmn hadi rf -pefcreo JevI U11: .v.1.;: '., "?rrr- Oandruff Pangtr and tJu Omimeal Shumpoo tndrmj! l JlsTWe thiPtf to e, It n;Akea the ealp Itotiy. . It taterfef Willi fecaijh tuxi growth of the hair. U fKflsny tf h.ir rh4 prwMvire . PhiMHg ,t recvle lAteVeiK Is the nariLooScsi u tbi It' the )iet wtiy ta preauee annji. I reter to the tsua4 nuMjtsdf of whUiii with ttnmpeo jmea 399. ete.. iiW other harrow! 4nt. in. Kr4iet ttice the whiek ina, Jrn taU wr rob SKe mtiIb t lta nattir a! o)L tire boutad to mmmivm a Akn&mtty w . "Km m MejMrjf a !!(, ,hel)3fv) hm' poo mta aawfiur wit oaxmea oatmiwi sraptt ui Ht water-rt, teMMon.ui oi Hi forfctif Sk'f4 fct a "plw of tn rttutrtny, (fit yur Hm will Wl tiuwwtr ihiut v" Nfopr. fkki rhmlnti tirfTflrwW wIunmK iMaAifur wore Th cxind oatM4, ewiMwund, wbleh aity Jrurt en uy, SeW kie v jnj jiioa. tok(M si fin. a hair k.uU. uat ily i7Veiui' riM-Adv. tmmmmmmmmssssstmeasssssss machine to tako their place, tot ot our (dona wwo atajned' front methoda of carrying on buelneee. Only lately have nny competent minds bent IhViptfelvea to; )oueho(d needa for Mltoienoyr . True,! the ecwlntr machtnn wus Invented for the houae, hut It wna really done for the mlatrew, not for the maid. UUnette for maid aervnnta went unltnprovedWer ! what they were in the atone nsc ex cept as some man originated some small contrivance a a mult of a1 chance ob servation, What I mean la that alto (tether almost no attention haabjqn Given by inventors to kitchen and household requirements, Wo have lust achieved the vacuum cleaner, hut that was inspired by' the peed of great office buildings, and we have just achieved the machine dlih- vraehcr, but that was inspired by the necessities of the great hotelt. Men have made machines oven to measure no tion. Purely they cin' mH Jnachlnw t( do house drwJery, 11 mii bfr ad fitted tiwt It kaa beenHfftouluto place household labor savlnr devices on, the market. Thos who do that Jabof are slow to taks op Improved ways. It 14 disgraceful that n wowjn In this ace Pf ria.chlno.ry. niu tp,tq.QWf on tter tepees ly scrub flodra, as disgraceful as to see har in an eleetrlo afe, harnessed with dps and donkey, in parts of Sufope, Yet sorub-woinen relent the, Uitjoduction bf the inAchine cleaner and oiler, and v)ould rather take the ruifs out and beat thsm than ua the. easier ana wra tjvo vacuum tube," Cooktna; by Tt-axf, 'Jfea trsoh'waa askedf f'Wbuia -j'Od Kf the tlKht. way to simplify house lj)fl;-lB to have a creat central cook If sr station, to do for the ' community, h,nd only desserta and aalail.a left for the Individual housekeeper to provide with eicotrlc'al appllancesr1 Bhb answered hesUatlnsly. "JSuch wholeeale work Is likely to iimore the standard of cleahllne and honest? of material the Individual home look Jfor. lotles that mostly when a food product is eommtrelallsed, and piepared -and paeked, lis tendency is to bo somewhat leea than the real thins. When thlnra are done on a Unto scale ther is lately to be substitution, adultcration-fratt." "But If the women are showing- capacity Tor so-operatlon, aa jt. relief from their uatattd inuivwuai bor, can they not hava their own oyerjeers ot the plntT" "Doutless, nut tW won't need to wth &utematlecookera in which they can place their raw material, " set '.Olaek, t turn on v et, and thor. tro off an not worry. There are eompenUs rw wWh send about with . waxpn to clean your house by vaeuuin, Our idea ! that eUamnff mlaht be arraoed bv contrast. Contract for the number of times your windows are to Ve washed during the year, the number of times other thlnxs art to be done, and for dally renovation the contracts mlht be by the hour. Men who make a business of cieaninc wlndowjt oan do It much better and quicker than maldq who do It only now and then a part of the week's work." "I$ you aree that women often em tfar a servant not for neeeseary work, bkt aa a kind of a persona) slave-and that JhHr main idea ot how to uphold bst ,mrwne w to wrt enetner mawr' KKave you studied why immfsrant Ktrls. 1K toe who Jataly struk4 prefer to o to ftrl and sweatshops, instead of to the Vtr paylnff and more eointortabla houshd workr' "Vw. I Vwaw srtrt Viha ome bm iMBSHeaBH9isse!sasBaaB!SPSswsaew after shop work so tired they have to to to bed right after dinner, Yet they won't go out to housework.' It's not that there Is a social stlnma. It's because we womertI must acknowledge it exact a slavery of housework glrlsnothlng less." "Whatrs the answerT" "Well, we must standardise the home, We must put In machinery to do things. l'o operate' that machinery will require more (kill, Since it requires skill, the operator will needs, bo of higher Intelli gence, than the former housework girl. Therefore sho will command greater re apeot and consideration. She may even be a graduate of a domestic economy eohool. She will come tq ypur house un der ths same conditions an a trained nurse does. It you want a trained nurse more .than eight noum a, day you have tp pay her tra time, or you may get another for the next eight hours' shift, and so op, Under pur plan, In a, home with modern equipment, tha trained do mestic operator would go to a house as stenographer go to office at a car tain Hour of tho mornlpgt to work, etrht hours, when hr day would be dope, fjho would prepare the food In. scientific manner, place It in the elcc'trlo cooker, attend the Vacuum machine, place the fruit, etc., Jn the refrigerator reday to bo served, artd finish an eight-hour day at 6 o'clock in tho afternoon. If one wanted 'hlnga done after dinner, why one should engage another atrl for the next eight hours. JJut I remember, .we aro not con cerned as much with the W per cent ot women who havr tyvrvahU a with the (9 per cent who attend to their own house hold yet da not want it to absorb all their day and evenings, Members of the household will have to meet tha new condition half way. If the man wants his1 rltnpcra he will have to get them hlnuelf, If the boy wants nls over coat he will not call a maid hut so and put It on himself, Some elisions will have to he made alto in the ceremony ot dlnher but no sacrifice in comfort, beauty, duality and other essentials." Dinner Without Keip. She illustrated by. an account ot one of her recent days, Aa president of tha New Jersey Htate Federation of Wonien's Clubs ahe has. work outsldo rtter expari ment station, and oqtslda her-home, eho wanted to demonstrate, that she eauld give a dinner partyj without help, after botns; absent all day and arriving home. no earlier then the, guests. She bga.n to relate,! "la eliminating the servant cjasa-" "liut," interrupted the Interviewer, "you have been telling how tha 'opera. tor wpuid come in to work eight rotri In families where help was. still needed." "Certainly. The operator win not he of the servant class, you understand She will be no mora . servant than the typutor tha cashier- Not so much ait the shop gift, who will still b serving, while the domestic operator will doing work IIH that of the rleam riveter, or the motorist ot a steam relier," X the midst the flee-tlntf vision thus eaueea or a steam rotier m ine nouse, airs, j'auison resumes; "To eliminate the snant class we as- ecmbled invention devices to do the work Of a butler, to serve guest so that none tt them would have ierita or pan any, thing throughout the weaM, To do this and to aTVfi tho ofvAtlRl nUmhtr of ourt In iha Uul jsfdw and pr. serve the beauty ot the table- I decided upon an adaptation f w Npptten breakfast '8uaan,' twllt In v.r on a : uh (arser aeate, wMel, a vry effoottvely ts a centerpiece for the table and whirls everything readily to hftnd. next i adapted the original 'dumb waiter' table, widely used 200 years ago, i but now rare. It consists of a eres of revolving disks, the one at the bottom quite largo and tho others diminishing In size toward the top a soft of five decker 'curate's assistant' on wheels; The 'assistant' or inanimate waiter stands a triflo back and at the left ot the hostess. QeMlnsr Things Heady "Before going out in the morning, tho dinner, prepared by modem mtthods, had been placed in the ClectrJo cooker and the clock aet when the actual cooking should automatically cease, After that period the "dinner will remain hot for hours Without damage. The day of this particular dinner party I arranged the tames before leaving the house. X ascended the lecture platform at I in the afternoon, when previously X would havn had to bo at home. I arrived home at 7 o'clock, tne time set for the arrival of tho guests. The dinner was In the cleotrle cooker. It had beten ready and waltlne there two hours. Flowers were where I had placed them, on the top of tho silver" revolving centerpiece on the table and between each hervlca nlate. The brnno fruit marelv nad to be removed front the refrigerator to the table when the guests took their places and were served' on small paper Plates over which were paper dollies, At the left of eaoh plate were placed at the aama time small covered bouillon dishes on nwttit standard ''Decorative ehlna bowls, the one to be ussd as a receptacle for tln grape fruit ana the, other for the sliver after each course, were on the 'assistant Vege tables had bgen, before the dinner started, placed on tne second disk of ths 'assist' ant,' The third already held the salad and small plates as well aa tha dessert. On the Upper d'ak were the bon-bons and cojfoe. The roast had to he placed on a small serving table at the right ot the hOet because oarvjng had to t done, WorWn Oi Assistant, "Having finiahed grape fruit a guest merely placed the small plate on tho re volving conttrpUoe, The slightest touch brought It around before me. and I lifted irbkcie to the lower disk Of the 'assist ant,' flipped tho graso fruit into the. large c-awi. placed the spoons In tho other howl and thepates between the two. Aa tho roast was carved tho service platea were placed on the revolving cen terptece and carried to each guest. Liter they were removed Ih the same, manner, The vegetable qlhes were easily set from, the waiter to the centerpiece, In the aa.-n0 manner, and so, tho salad and dessert. "When dinner was over the 'assistant was given a shovo and roUed. away from the table, and, upon rising, a screen wa placed around It, and we moved to the drawing room. 'That turate'a assistant' behind tho screen haunted me a little it should have been rolled into the kltebea to await tho morning, when. I press a but ton and tho dishes are washed and placa the waste in the garbage consumer. In an apartment, tho waste may elreply , be dlepoeed ot by facing it .on the serv , ice elevator or dusph waiter and started to the janitor, with old news-papers, ewaf 'ashea and empty millinery boxes," J Mra, Fatttson'a suceewes have eemd so practical that manufacturing cempa- jntta have Vaoomt Interested in her ex perlmanU, It otaty remains for then? to make aelb at reasonable price adaptations of machines produced for hotels and olubs, In order that any house wife, in a house fitted with eleotriclty, may "eliminate drudgery, eliminate serv ants." Jt may have been observed that every thing seems to depend on inventions by msn-although the implements haVe been womon's implement since tho cave age Boston Transcript. RELIC OF OMAHA'S BIG SHOW OrlRln o tho SlQW Ste' Pbrnse Watch atlssoarV Wnnta to .phan(r, A Jittle while ago' a welWntcntloned critic of St. Louis Informed the business men that their city had outgrown " stick-ln-tho mud slogan, "You'll have to show me," and (hat the first- etep In ths direction of progress must bo the selec tion ef a )e low slogan. A few of those who read hl speech In the daily., papers, protested that "show mo" was never in any sense the property ot 6t. Ixi They, were Jet sure whence It had come, nor why, Thoy could remern ber only vaguely the first time they heard It, but -they were positive It ba longed to tho state- of Missouri, and not to any one olty assuredly not to tha metropolis on the MlveleslPpU - A gentleman with a Xondnesa for deiy? Ing in the dust-laden records of tha JUS' tortcal society ho now appeared with the Information that the challenge, "You'll havo to show me," s a corruption of tho Bleu trine, whoso grave Is In the western part of the stateold Yumtia Shome having led the trbo wh crossed tha lowlands below the mouth of the Illinois, carrying their oanoca on their heads from the Mississippi to the Mis souri, and thus giving the name to tho hlstorlo old French town, Portage dee Sioux. Yumus Bhome. It Is averred, is burled' aV "Weetport, In Jaskson. County, and his name carelessly pronounced, "You mus' show me," has passed into the vtmaeular of tho state. It la a pretty story, and one that We ought to permit ourselves the pleasure at bellevfn. But, alas, it la a practical age, and sooner or later some stickler for the fet is sure to soirte forward with the proof that ther never was any such chief ai Yumus 3hom0 The man who wrote to one of the daily papers concerning him must have had soma authority for his statemsnt. Indeed, ha had what looked like excellent authority. He found It In a scrap keek attd H 'was in very good hexameler.'HS wae aura that poet roust have known what he. waa writing about, or ho wond not have succeeded. In get ting his vews published. The material story of ths chief appeared in a magaslno calted "Klrfsa and Queens of the Itange" am) devoted to the interests ot the groat Texan and Kansas ranchers, It was" pub lished while thft exposition at Omaha was in tha flower ef l(a first year's sueeeee, end was the effect, not tho cause ot "you must show meV' i Jt came about In this wayt When Omah first talked of holding a trans- UUalsslppI exposition tho newspapers In Kansas City indulged in a .fusUiado of sarcastic gibes. The idea of Omaha, the dead one. bestirring Itself enough to get up a world's fair was too preposterous to be accepted aa serious. And so. when the fair became, a fact and Included among its days a Kansas City day, a hpge delegation went up from the Kaw town, each wearing a button with the legend, "I'm from Missouri. You'll have to show me " The expression caught the ubllo fancy and in a little while $J. ""I'M 1 1 - i aourl waa known the world over as tho "ShOW me state." ftn It w TfnnBsa City,- not at. Louis, that started the stick-in-the-mud plogan. Ht, loula Globe-Pcm-ocrat. FALLACIES J0F STATISTICS Valueless Conclusions Drawn, from Half Tratho Tairsed irKh I'lain Figure. "There is probably no'form of uhtnith which fej as Ylclous aa that of figures," remnrhed an official of tho national bu reau of statistics at Washington, "be cause tho public regards what It sees lit statistical form be'ns mathematically loorroct, never otopplng- to observe, th nw)Mniiu)iy m ne )surc(( or t opserve- eaactiy ojt wnnt they nrn statistics. "Thiw, thorp- has "bben a sot of sta tistics regarding lunacy &olns the. rounds which, while true, iso far as they go, tell only a portion of tho truth. Ths result is that the Impression made by these fig urea (s that tho whole ration is. lapslnr into lunaoy nnd that wltldn thirty yearn a sane man will be a freak fit for; a dim museum, "And on'.their face tho conclusion from these atatistlos appears inevitable. Thus at the. present time tho number of luna tics is placed at more than SOT.G00, Eight years ago there were but 150.00Q In th? country and in I&90, fourteen years eartler( -thera wore but 7t,oQ0, while ten years earlier than that.. In M39, there were less' than W.ooo. . "Thus while population has not Uoubled In the last thirty-three years oUr lunatics havo increased flve-fold-raccordlng to Statleliw and the ratio of increase in the last nine yearn has been even greater proportionately than that "Tho trouble with these figures s this? that tho earlier statistics compjlM in the 'Wa represent only the lunatics -in state asylums, taking m note of those In pri vate institutions i thoso qI twijty years ago, whllo cmbrartng many private lnsti. tutiona for the Insane, took no account 4fJndlv'lduals Jn private chara outside o both public and private asylums, while the latest statistics Incjude lunatics of Vory kind throughout the country, , All that these statistics re'iHy mean, there, fore, Is that their compilation has. boon much more, thorough, of -late, x'ears. Naturally, th proportonao ,numbor of lunatics has appeared o increase' in ft most startling degjeov ' "As a matter, or -faction, cursory xaipf (nation of the old and now. figures makes ltvldcnt that, there is no marked change In tha number of patlcntii one way or tho other, Folks are not going craxy apy niora' frequently on nccoiiut of aeroplanes and autonwbllos, today than thoy went craxy on Wo 8ibJeot. of Jreygloh-the for mer most frultfuf cause ft generation ago-. . . "Yhcn nian gets rcay to tro crazy h,does so on tho list and slightest provocation. The talk about ah Jmmjnent nntlona lunacy, duo to. the swift pace at which we llvo, la all", rionsens.e." Now York Time. . . ''', -,- Coiitmtjlctory, ' . The lanaiady looked at the new boarder, "jlow do. you stand on the tariff, Mr. Oeosleyt" "Not too firmly, ma'am, Always open to conviction, you know." ' "But you favor frpe sugar." " "Of course, ot course 'Nothsr lump. please, free sugar' , Yes, ye.". . . The landlady's face dancened, "Why, you've bad two lumps alreadyl" Then she hurriedly draw tha bowl across the danger lino and,, covered It with a fringed napkin Cleveland Plain Sealer. PRICE AND LESS On all LADIES'. SUITS, COATS, DRESESS, MILLINERY y2 prig Men's Clothing, Boys' Suits SALE NOW GOING ON One Dollar a Week Will Do Union Outfitting Oo. l&th and Jfaokson Streets E