(1-1AHA Daily WHKX AWAY FROM BOMB .The Dee U The Paper J yen Mk far) if yoo, plan be THE WEATHER.. Snow; Colder OBoeSt BtOV then fOV S have The Bo t VOIi. XLV NO. 167. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, TXEMttKR T.O, 1915 TWELVE PAOES. Oa Tralne, at Xotal Bewe Ituti. eto-, to. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. i HE HAMER DEFENDS ' JUDGE'S DISSENT BEFORETHRBAR Supreme Court Justice in Paper ! Tells lawyers How Hi.n Tri I bund Arrives at Its I Decisions. BAE SHIES AT QUALIFICATIONS Association Declines to Go on Record Imposing Educational Qualifications. DRYDEN PRESIDENT FOR YEAR Justice Hatner of the Nebraska tpreme court told of Ita Inner work- gs and defended dissenting opln ns. In a communication placed in the records of the Nebraska State Bar association at Us closing session yesterday afternoon at the Fontenelle . hotel. It was a reply to an address previously made by John C. Hartl gan of Fairbury. who declared judges should not write dissenting opinions. Although Justice Hamer's com munication was one of the most striking articles prepared for presen tation to the bar association, it was not read on the floor, but he was given "leave to print." ) It wag lata when he entered tho room with an announcement that ha had pre pared the communication. The members were anxious to get away. ; "We are now dealt nit with unfinished business and your communication would come under the head of new business," ' said President C. J. Smyth of the asso- pend the rules in order that you might TmmA i " ' Placed on Pile. - Jl move that the rules . be suspended Wrai that Judge Hamer be permitted to J fUa hla communication." said 8. A. Searla of Omaha. This meant that the communication was not to be read. The motion was adopted and Justice Hamer handed the communication to the secretary. He aald tt was immaterial to him whether ha read the communication or placed tt on file. It was aald that tt would be incorporated into the records of the meeting;. Justice Hamer communication was in part as follows: "Every one living- within the boundaries of the state has an Interest In the su preme court of the state and in ita methods of doing business. You have .all heard the supreme court criticised aa If it was filled with a lot of drones who . had very UtU Interest in what they did or how they did it. Tou have heard It aald with much emphasis that . that court , was very much behind and that It was wholly unable to catch up. You have probably come to the very natural conclusion that the members of the court are laxy or that they are guilty of muoh mismanagement. Tou probably say that where there is so much smoke there must be soma fire. "I want to tell you what we have to A mmA mm M.rlv fUtMihlA flOW W do it. "I am unable to see anything more de serving; of secrecy in the proceedings of the supreme court than there la In the proceedings or tne aiainci or coumy urt oi In the nroceedlnss of any other piftjlto body engaged in the discharge of a oubllo service. I think that our supreme court should take into its confidence the whole people so far as that may be practicable. The Judges are the servants of the people. - Perhaps most of the people have the tiew that the only work to be done la to write the opinions. The work of writ ins; the opinions la perhaps not mora than half the labor of the court. What la there for the judge to do other than to write his share of the opinions? First, he must read the opinions written by the other six Judges. That is a heavy Job. Unless he reads them he does not kngw how to vote on the matter of their adop tion. After a Judge haa read a proposed opinion he must read the brlefa of coun sel on each aide so that he may conclude how to cast his vote. Oft times It Is ne cessary to read a large number of type written pages. If the decision of the brother judge la apparently wrong, or is wrong In some particular, then the Judge who assumes the task of coriwtlnr the error (and it la his duty to do thee.), mutt write such a correction aa h thinks should be made and he must then clrcu- l llietl ClrCU- late such correction among the other1 Judges. If the error or supposed eiw seems Important, then he will, in the lirai pwv, k (uiu are ins wmer ui me i opinion and will try to convince him by oral discussion that he Is wrong and will suggest amendments, generally In writing, It is easier to put the matter in writing for the reason thst It avoids controver- (Oontlnued on Page Two, Colunm One.) The Weather For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity Snow. Tesaperatara at Omaha, Testerday. "Jnojr lti 15 14 1H 17 1 20 n 26 27 2X 28 2 2 2 Coasoaratlve Local Record. ' . . WIS. 1914. 131S. Ult Highest yesterday iet 30 : 39 ilowest yesterday 16 i ji) 2 Mean temperature tl ) ;.J Precipitation ftO T ,00 . Temperature and precipitation ' depar - DiT" HlJt!T: ' formal temperature eparture for the day Total deficiency since March 1. Normal precipitation OS Inch Total rainfall elnoe March 1....87.ii inh efti'iency since March 1 Z 17 Inches Dericlrm-y, cor. period, 1914.... S M Inuhea Deficiency, cor. period. 1913.... 1.61 Inches Henorts front tatleaa at T P. M. Station and State Temp ilirb- lUin- of Weather. In m. et. ril. y'ney ennw, snowing....',... u -jz i laven port, cloudy 30 V iH-nvn . snowing M l i ! Moines, cloudy 28 M North Platte, snowing.... 2i .V Omaha, cloudy 29 . Hup d City, snowing 10 Zi Mieildan. anonlna 1 4 ' fciou City, cloudy ,. W w Vulvnttiie. ano:ng It 28 T ,-'il -te- " -f tr'olMtloti. U A. WELSH, Local Forecaster. iX 10 a. m.. i i Z?,' r ? 1 ni " IMl r Jp.ni.. j Jk, , f J p. m. I P - m '. mWWm--WWm-mm-WmWLK. tt. In PREMIER ASQUITH of England, whose foes are at last a unit in forcing his retirement government, and David Lloyd Commoner." t.tr.s JONES HEADS THE WESTERMEAGHERS South Dakota University Professor Elected President of Association that Has Closed Its Meeting. m HORN OF IOWA TREASURER W. F. Jones, professor of educa tion, University of South Dakota, was yesterday elected president of the Western Association of College Teachers of Education before the close of the convention at otel Rome. Prof. Ernest orn, associate professor of education, University of Iowa, was elected secretary-treasurer. These two will be members of the eecutive committee, and one other member. Prof. J. R. Jewell, deal of the College of Education of the Uni versity of Arkansas, was elected as executive committeeman. The conference probably will be held In Kansas City next year, aa it has been customary to alternate the meetings bo- twee n Omaha and Kansas City. Teat by Praf. Jones. "There la danger of cutting- a child off from the development of his greatest skill in any line if we shift lilin over from left-handedncss to right-handedness at cert. ill age," declared Prof. W. F. Jones of the University of South Dakota, who spoke on this subject. Prof. Jones has made careful scientific measurements and tests of over 10,000 cases to arrive at his conclusions, and he la not through making tests yet He it working- on a second 10,000 tests now. The professor said the world has been sperstltlously prejudiced agalnnt left handedness, when as a matter of fact a child that Is naturally left-handed will surely gain a greater skill and efficiency Kw Mnhnninv lnr 1. nAaA Ih.n ,v Kln.r . , snuiea over to ngni-nanaeuness. Ha pointed out that toola and Instru- ments are nearly all made with a view to being used by a right-handed person. "Let's see you swing; a scythe left-handed, for example," he said. Make Toola to Kit Child. "But I sayi let's make the tools to fit the child, not the child to fit the tools." Prof. Jones hai Invented an Instrument for the purpose of taking minute meas urements of arms, flexed muscles, and other details with a view to determining the relative development of the right and left arm In the child. These measurements give him some clue as to whether the child la right-handed or left-handed and how hard It will be to make the shift. If necessary. If the shift is made, he In sists it should be mado when the child la very young, otherwise the shift merely confuses the child and detracts from his efficiency and skill in any line. Make Poor Penmen. "I have never seen a shift-over that was a good penman," said the professor. "I have never seen a shift-over that could write and think at the same time." Ha pointed out that by the use of the i instrument for taking measurements, it ' can easily be determined whether the ' muscle awell of both arms Is about the ! same or whether the major arm Is much j mora developed. "If the musclo swell Is VI close to neutral in a young child," he said, "the shift-over may be made very ' easily. At the age of 7 or 8 years we can make the ahlfta by the hundmfU and have no trouble. But at the aga of 14 In girls and about 13 In boys, where the muscle swell shows considerable diver sity, it is hard to make the shift-over and the charcea are you will only have them to shift back aeraln." Iowa Man Honored. CHICAGO. Dec S.-Krank M. While. Madison. Wis., u totlay elected presi. Cent of the American H'lety of Agrlcut tural frValneers. C. K. Hhedd. Amei, la. was tUcted teircUtry-tnajiurir. f ' X ' ' 1 J ;..y I . . - - - . . . "g mm am --asw m ' Nil 1 V. I a as the head of the English d George, the "great British N J SPEND FIFTY-FIYE BILLIONS ON WAR , Cost of War of Nations Climbs to . . . Staggering Heights, Experts Figure. . ..f, ARBITRATION IS ADVOCATED WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Arbi tration of all disputes between the American nations was the keynote of practically all the addresses at to day's session of the Pan-American Scientific congress. . Economic aspects of the war were discussed before the American Eco- ajnomic association meeting in COU nectlon with the Pan-American con gress. The money coat of the war to July Jl, this year, exclusive of the capitalised value of human life, was estimated by speakers at 37,9.T74,000. By January I the aggregate . would be 155,000,000,000, and should the war con tinue, at the end of the second year, next August. It would reach SM.OOO.OOO.OOO. At the end of the second year the prob- sale human loss was estimated to be 12,000,000 lives. The capitalised value of these lost 194,000,00. workers was placed at S35,- Aged Man, Disabled By Paralysis, Dies of Exposure toxoid LUCAS, S. D., Dec. 29.-Bpeclal.)-C. B. Hartley, aged about 70, for some years a homesteader of thla vicinity, met death In a terrible manner. He lived alone. For some time he had been subject to paralytic strokes. The latest of these. which caused his death, was sustained a day or two ago. while he was In the yard In front of hla home. Unable to 1 reach the house, be lay on the ground unaer "' "n louna oy chance callers the next day, waa nearly frosen to death by his exposure of at least twenty-four hours to the elements. Ha waa removed to the home of Michael Jones, a neighbor, where everything pos sible was done fur him, but he waa un able to auxviva the stroke and the ex posure to the cold and after lingering for soma hours paused away. Nothing la known of his relatives, as tt was seldom that he would refer to bis past. MRS. M'GINTY, PIONEER OF OMAHA ANSWERS FINAL CALL Mrs. Mary McGlnty, aed M years and a resident of Omaha tor half a centry. died at her home, 2110 Harney street, yesterday, after a lung Illness. Her hus band died twenty-five years ago. She Is survived by one son, Joseph, and .one daughter. Misa K1U McUlnty. . Funeral services for Mrs. McQlnty will ha held from Hoffman's chapel at S:M Fr'day morning. At o'clock services will be held at ait. rater's Cathollo -liunh. Fathar McCarthy saving high 'u. HutU'-l will ta In Holy Sopulcher uiueteit'. V V L v " J A' if'' 'tilAKES IT jr1) ilMPULSURY IU SERAE IN ARMY Universal Military Training Will Be Adopted by Celestial Re public Upon New Year's Day. DETAILS NOT ARRANGED YET Conscription Put Into Effect First in Province Where Peking is Located. REBELLION IS NOT MENACING (Correspondence of The Associated Prens.) PEKING. Dec. 1. China is to have compulsory ' "military rrrvioe. The government has announced that conscription will be inaugurated on January 1, 1916. It will rim be put into effect In Chl-ll province In which Peking is located and Shan-Tung province, which adjoins Chl-LI prov ince on the south. Details have not yet been arranged, but are now un der consideration by the general staff. Will Have Air torn. It has also been decided by the general staff to organize an aero plane corps which will have its headquarters at Wu-HiThI in Nan Yang, where the government avia tion school is located. Nan Tans; is in IlSonan province south west of Peking. Sttaatlaa Nnt Merlons. - WASHINGTON, Dec. '29 American Minister Kelnsch at Peking cabled the State department today that recent upris ings against Yuan Shi Kal and the return to monarchlal government In China were not considered at the present time aa con stituting a serious politl.nl nittintlon In , that country. tan fined to Pravlaee. A paraphrase of the dispatch given out by the department says: "The opposition movement Is confined to the province of Yunnan. Other prov inces In the south of China are entirely quiet If the movement should spread, j however, it la not anticipated that there J will be any danger to foreign life and property nor that business will be dis turbed. On the contrary special protection la assured to foreigners ""and their inter ests by a declaration of the Yunnan leaders." ' Prof essor Asserts War toMake : Women Drug on the Market WASHINGTON. Deo. . At- today's session of the American Clvlo association, at which Miss Margaret Wilson, dauch- -Iter of President WlUon, presided, Prof. - B'1 f weiiesiey college told :the society that one of the effects of war on the status of women would be to jmake them "A drug on the market" j "It may that In more primitive times" 'aald she, "that such a situation would be a cauM of oolrramy. In our d.v It will mean a vast overplus of women. Men will return not only with Importance enhanoed by the glory of the battle field, but with a scarcity value. "A second and conflicting effect Is that women being more " necessary, be come more important Instead of less. A third effect will be a great Increase of unmarried women. Another result is that there la tormina; under our very eyes a new sex-International. Bome one has said, 'It the brotherhood of man had grown as much In the last two cen turies as the sisterhood of women has grown In the last two decades, this war would not have occurred.' " Father Henann is Dead in Milwaukee Father John Henann, in charge of the musical department of Marquette univer jalty In Milwaukee, died there Wednesday, bla death being due to a complication of dlseaaea brought on by an attack of the grippe. Father Henann was a resident of Omaha from early In 1884 until 188 and acaln 'during the years of 1698 and 1899. During hla first residence here he taught second year work In Crelghton university, and during the second period of hU residence, waa vice president of the Cathollo edu cational institution. From here he went to Milwaukee, where he had since re sided. MR. WIDNEY DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER, MRS. VANCE w. H. W id nay. aged 7S years, died 011 Wednesday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. I Vance, 316 Hamil ton street Ha had resided In Omaha sev eral years. He is survived by his aged , ,lf. four daughters and two sons Death was due to the grip and complica tions. The funeral will be from Dodder's undertaking parlors at 4 o'clock Prldny afternoon. The body will be taken to Yorktown, la., the old home, for burial. Germans Manufacturing Powder Without Using BREMEN. Germany (Via London), Dec. 29. Germany's experiments with sub stitutes for cotton In making gunpowder have been so successful that for eight months no ootton' haa been used. This statement was made by the presi dent of the Bremen Chamber of Com merce to a convention of merchants. "I have had tho opportunity to estab lish officially that for eight months not a kilogram of cotton has been used for making powder," he aald. "Thanks to eottonOerman science and industry we have succeeded in winning from German forests a cellular material which Is cheaper and better auiled for powder making than cotton. Etn aUer the war Taking His As$C(Artfr -Jr MAYOR THOMPSON WILLNOJTMAKERUN Chicago's Chief Executive Again Demands His Name Be Taken Off Nebraska Primary Ballot. DOES NOT SEEK TEE HONOR CHICAGO, Dec. 20. William II. Thompson, mayor of Chicago, today requested the secretary ot state ot Nebraska to withdraw his name from the1 presidential primary ballot - in Nebraska. Mayor Thompson said that he had been Informed that a petition had been filed at Lincoln, requesting that his name go upon the republican primary ballot as a candidate for the presidential nomina tion. 'I hereby notify you that I decline ths nomination made by this petition or sim ilar petitions and request that my name shall not be placed upon the ballot for the primary election," read the mayor's letter. LINCOLN. Neb.. Dec. .-The request of Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chi cago, that his name be withdrawn from the republican presidential primary ballot in this state will be granted by Secretary of Btale Tool. The official withdrawal of Mr. Thompson's name will not occur until the receipt of his message, M)r. Tool stated, when Informed of the mayor's letter. U. S. Will Try to Get Milk Supply for German Babies WASHINGTON. Dec St. Steps te gel milk to thousands of babies in Germany and Austria, who are without a supply, have been taken by the Btate depart ment. It aa announced today that at the request of charitable organisations In the I'nltod Htates, Secretary Lansing has In structed Ambassadors .Page nnd Parp at London and Tarls, respectively, to in quire whether the British and French governments will permit shipment of con densed milk to Germany and Austria for distrlhuMon to Infanta under the direction of the American Red Cross. LAFAYETTE C0LTRIN IS SAID TO HAVE WED IN CALIFORNIA Word reached Omaha Mat night that at Long Heach, Cat, Lafayette Coltrln had married a Wat erloo, In , woman. Her name was not ascertained. Mr. Coltrln discovered the formula uned in making the Uncle Bam breakfast food. While he does not own an Interest in the Omaha plant, he has an interest In the tents and consequently receives a royalty on the output and hhW. His wife died four years ago and uin her death he ramo Into possession of liir property, valued at SjO.oOO. Koon tj.rt-r her death he moved to California, where he has since resided. He la 7( years of ase. Any Cotton at All German ammunition factories will not buy another bale of cotton from Tmertca. 'The aecond Important Innredlent salt- ! petre is now manufactured esclualvely In Germany from the air. Our factories already are so advanced that In the spring they will be able to cover the entire requirements for nitrogen and if the war lasta 'longer they will be able to export tbla product." The speaker alao aaaerted that camphor, for seven years produced synthetically from American turpentine, la now ob tained by chemical means from synthetic turpentine. After the war there will be no more Importation of camphor from Japan or turpentine from America. Measuro HEAYY DAMAGE BY STORM ALONG GULF Birmingham and Montgomery Cut Off from Communication with Rest of World. MOBILE IS NEARLY ISOLATED MOBILE!, Ala., Dec. 20. Exten sive damage was reported early to day along the Bult coast and adja cent territory as the result ot a storm which swept orer -this section last night. Telegraph and telephone wires are reported prostrated la every direc tion. This morning Birmingham, Montgomery and Pensacola still were cut off from communication with the rest ot the world. Mobile's only means of communication was by way of New Orleans. A heavy downpour of rain accompanied the storm, two inches of precipitation being recorded here. At Deraopclia, Ala,, the rainfall was It Inches and at Bir mingham in. Ths velocity of the wind at Birmingham is unofficially reported at eighty, miles an hour at one time. The local weather bureau reports a wind velocity of forty-eight miles an hour along the coast Just before midnight. A coal barge anchored In Moulle bay, with thirty or forty negro laborers, aboard went adrift during the height ot the storm and la reported ashore near Point Clear. No lives are reported lost but the barge Is In a dangerous situa tion. Tugs left early today to rescue those on board. Storaa Maria Northeaat. WASHINGTON. Deo. 28. Sleet and snow crippled wire communication to day throughout the east. The storm mov ing northward over Louisiana gained In force during the night and today waa centered over the Ohio valley. Rain, sleet and snow were falling throughout most of the eastern part of the country- and as the storm moves northeast these conditions will prevail tonight and Thursday in the region of the Ureat Ikes, northern New York and northern New Knvland. Knlns have been general throughout the Gulf, south At lantic and middle Atlantic states, being heavy In the east Uulf atatea, Tenneasee, the Carolines and Meorgla. Storm warnings were ordered up by the weather bureau along the Atlantic coast from Key West, Fla.. to Eastport, Me. No damage to shipping waa reported. Slpet I'rlpplra Wlrea at Mempbla. M KM PUIS, Tenn., Dec. . General rains thtouRhntit the Mississippi valley last night, which in some hrclions turned Into sleet, resulted In a serious crippling of telephone and telegraph communica tion today. Trains from the west were late and reported running on slow ordera In Memphis the thermometer dropped to 28 degrees. Another storm, accompanied by rising temperatures. Is on the way from the south weal, according to the local weather forecaster. BROTHER OF BASSINGER OF OMAHA, DIES IN BALTIMORE Word was received In Omaha last night announcing the death In a hooptta! In Baltimore. Md.. of J. D. Baalnger, a brother of W. S. Basslnger. general pas senger agent of the I'nlon Pacific. Mr. Baaa'nger was with hla brother at the time of hla death, having been called to Baltimore several days ago. The brother waa a civil engineer and waa con nected with the Du Pont Powder com pany. GROVER CLEVELAND, RED MAN, MURDERS' HIS WIFE LANDER, Wyo., Dee. . Orover Cleveland, a Shoshone Indian, 40 years old, laat night shot and killed his wife, then turned the weapon on himself. In flicting a fatal wound, according- to word received heert c-day. The shooting took place at Cleveland's home on the Wind Klvcr reservation, near Fort WashakL CZAR'S TROOPS TRYING TO BREAK AUSTRIAN LINE Russia is Attempting- to Impress Roumania and Greece and Re lieve Entente by Attack rurther North. DEMONSTRATIONS IN PERSIA Russian Troops Capture Xashan and Continue Advance Toward City of Ispahan. MOVEMENTS IN THE RA1KAN3 BERLIN, Dec. J0. (Via London.) The Ccernowits (Bukowlna) cor respondent of the Tageblatt sends the following: "The Russians have made eight at tacks against the Austrlans on the Besttarablan border since Christmas night. Despite a tremendous expen diture ot ammunition and men, the attacking forces have not yet suc ceeded in breaking through the lines, t'very time the weakened columns of the Russians succeeded In reaching the Austro-Hungarians they were re pulsed. The Russians maintained a gunfire for twenty hours, which was audible in Czernowtts. Husataa Army ActlT. LONDON, Deo. !0. The fierce fighting on the Galiclan-Beesarablan frontier, of which mention la made In both Russian and German official statements, aeemt to support the fore casts that Russia, instaed of directly attacking Bulgaria, hopes to reduce the pressure on the entente allies In tLe Balkans and Asia Minor and Im press Roumania and Greece by a di version to the north, wjth the Intent, if possible, of breaking through the Austrian lines. Simultaneously comes news of the cap ture by the Russians of Kaaban, one of the principal elites of Persia, and of an advance toward Ispahan. These points are too remote for their occupation di rectly to menace the Turks who are fight ing the British under Oeneral Townahend on the TlgTls, but undoubtedly the Rus sian advance wll have an Important po litical effect in Persia and poaalbly an influence upon the projected movement ot the Central powers axstaet Egypt. Conflicting accounts come from Athens and Balonlkl regarding the movement of .. the troops of the Central powers on the Macedonian bonier, but there are' per silent reports that the Greeks have given the Bulgarians permission to cross the border If they and their allies are still . intent on following the Entente troops to Baionlkl. The recent French official statements indicate that the allies are maintaining the offensive In the west, with the fight ing fiercest in the Vosges. Italians on Eplras Froatlar. PA BBS, Deo. . "Italian troops, which disembarked at Alvona, Albania, have reached the vicinity of the northern (Continued on Pace Two, Column Four.) The Day's War News RUSSIAN OKFRNSIVU tae Beaaa rablan front apparently la aeenaa-, laar formidable prwportloas. I's. official raporta froaa Berlin sir tho Aastrlaa liars kavro held ao far. , TURKS REPORT cantlaaed aaoeasa for their artillery In laterfajrlas with allied oaoratloae la tko Dardaaellea. A battlaeela of tho aa-ameraana elaas aa4 a. era laar were hit hy Torklah sheila, St la declared. HAND OBEiflDB FIGHTIffO la) tho t'aaalaeo aaetor sad haaahaiaaaoat, of Ueraaaa positions went of tho Nsnsrla faraa, la tho Chaaapasjao, are the only activities reparteel by the Parts war office. THE WANT-AD-WAY Jul Jtlfkta lUimit Bow are you fixed for faxnltajre Thare are barga.na every day tt there's aaytain you're neeaiaa Look over tae Waal Ad wwy. Toall flad most any thins- yea wait Ueted ea the Waa A pages. Too eaa bay last what yoa need Aa! It woat take all your wares. 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