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    THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FBBRUARY 11. 1917.
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MAUD BALLI1T0H
BOOTH JERE TODAY
Speaks for the Volunteers at
the Municipal Auditorium
at 3 O'clock.
QEEAT JOY TO PRISONERS
Mrs, Mand Ballington Booth, commander-in-chief
of the Volunteers of
America, arrived in Omaha last even
ing. She is the fruest of the Rome
hotel during her stay here.
This fine-looking, distinguished
woman who Jias done and is doing
more than any other woman in the
world to alleviate the condition of
convicts and to reform them and get
them work when their terms expire,
is Very modest withal. She doesn't
like to talk about herself.
She will address an open meeting
in the Auditorium this afternoon at 3
o'clock. Admission is free. Mrs.
Booth will deliver her address, "Hope
for the Hopeless," which is said to
be remarkable in many ways and an
eloquent presentation of the case of
the prisoners and others who are
down and out. A collection will be
taken for the general Volunteers'
work jere, the prison work and the
nucleus of a permanent building fund.
Little Mother.
Mrs. Booth is known as the "Little
Mother" among many thousands of
convicts. Her work is established in
twenty-six state penitentiaries and she
visits her "boys and speaks to them
and holds services.
"As I have studied the question
within the walls during fifteen years
of close friendship with the prisoner
and have come in contact with the
great public of America in pleading
his cause, I have come to see very
clearly some of those aids that are
needed to solve this great problem,''
she said. "There is certainly needed
a Tide-spread education and enlight
enment of the public as to ita respon
sibility toward the prisoner.
"In the past it could truly have been
written over the doors of our prisons,
'Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
The one idea of prison officials seemed
to be that a convict was turned over
to them to degrade, punish drive, hu
miliate. On his arrival his head was
shaved, he was dressed in the hideous
stripes, made to walk in the branding
lock-step, put at hard tasks without
any regard to his physical condition,
shot up to sleep in an unclean and un
healthful cell and often punished at
every excuse with cruel brutality.
; Driven Like' a Slave.
"He'was often the butt of ignorant
and brutal keepers who swore at him,
aggravated him, goaded him past en
durance, driving him like a slave at
his work and then, if he resented the
treatment or failed in his tasks, he
was punished with the utmost injus
tice and sometimes with great crud
ity. "Men came to our prisons just like
the other members of society from
which they were taken because of
some mis-step, but they crept out
some years afterward poor wrecks, I
rowed, ' nervous, diseased, or . worse
still, dangerously brutalized and bit
ter against the world. Many men en
tered prison strong and robust and
within a few years died in the prison
hospital of tuberculosis or came out
to die of that scourge contracted in
the dark germ-infested cells.
"These things existed, and a thou
sand voices could be called in testi
mony of the fact today, but alas, few
knew of it in the great outside world
and few cared. Sometimes men were
flogged to death by brutal guards;
men were shut for days, even weeks,
in the dark cells where, neither light
nor sound could reach them and
where they lay on the stone floor
without mattress or covering. In
some states other cruelties too hor
rible to repeat were practiced upon
them, that maimed or broke them in
body and mind. It could truly be
said that the state took human be
ings into its charge and brutalized
them instead of taking the brute in
society and humanizing him.
"Now, I do not charge that this
was done with the support of the law:
I do not say that this was purposed
by those in high authority, but I do
say that neglect and lack of interest
allowed conditions to develop which
seemed to be nobody's special busi
ness, so nobody cared."
Men Are Reformed. j
"Xfost of this has been changed
no-.v. Prisons often reform men. I
have heard them exclaim: 'I am thank
ful that 1 was sent to prison. It
showed me where I was going and
helped nie to turn about.'"
Mrs. Booth has established "Hope
halts," where discharged tonvicts arc
received and given help and a new
start tow ard a respectable life.
The Volunteer Prison league, of
which Mrs. Booth is the leader,
started in Sing Sing prison fifteen
years ago, and has spread so that it
is a national movement through which
more than 75,000 men have been
helped.
Late Society News
Booth-Houck Wedding.
A wedding which was a complete
surprise to friends of the persons
concerned took place Saturday after
noon at 3 o'clock at' the home of the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Miles
Dorsey Houck, when their daughter,
Mary Lulu, became the bride of Mr.
Richard Niles Booth of his city, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Booth of Anita,
la. Dean James A. Tancock of Trin
ity cathedral performed the ceremony.
Only the immediate relatives of the
bride were present at the ceremony.
The rooms were decorated with bas
kets of pink and white roses and
sweet peas. The bride wore her trav
eling suit of bine English serge with
boxed skirt and belted jacket. Her
blouse was of blue georgette crepe to
match and was trimmed with steel
beads. Gray suede shoes carried out
the color note of the beads and a
black satin Castle hat, trimmed with
gold and black ribbon, completed the
costume. Her bouquet of pink weet
peas she carried in a silver filigree
holder, the gift of her grandfather to
1 his bride, which also figured at the
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Houck.
The bride attended Omaha High
school,. Brownell Hall and the Uni
versity of Nebraska. Mr. Booth is a
member of Happy Hollow club, where
he and his bride are both popular.
Mr. and Mrs. Booth left on an after
noon train for a southern wedding
trip. After March 15 they will re
turn to Omaha and will be tempo
rarily with the bride's parents until
they secure a home in Dundee.
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF
THE VOLUNTEERS.
GERMANY EXPLAINS
HOLDINGOF GERARD
Foreign Affairs Official Says
Bernstorff Not Allowed to
Report Getting Papers.
WASHINGTON IS INDIGNANT
London, Feb. 10. Dr. William ron
Stumm, German under-secretary of
foreign affairs, in an interview printefl
in the Amsterdam Handelsblad. says
Germany .egrets that it was com
pelled to take the measures it adopted
against Ambassador Gerard, but that
the United States had prevented
Count von Bernstorff, the retiring
German ambassador, from telegraph
ing that he had received his pass
ports. The interview according to Reu
ter's Amsterdam correspondent, was
had in Nordrn, Prussia. Dr. von
Stumm is declared to have said that
Germany received no reports from
the United States about the treatment
of Count von Bernstorff, or t Ger
man consjls or German subjects in
the United States. The American
government, according to the under
secretary, evidently had stopped Count
von Bernstorff from telegraphing im
mediately after the severance of
diplomatic relations with Germany by
the United States and the ambassador
had been' unable to announce even
the receipt of his passports. '
Hopes Report Untrue.
Germany has only learned from the
Swiss government that the ambassa
dor had rtceived his passports.
Such treatment, Dr. vot Stumm is
credited as having said, had compelled
Germany 'o adopt the measures it
had taken against the American am
bassador, although it deplored such
measures, which would hpve been
superfluous with some -."itual cour
tesy. ..
"I hope," - Count von Stumm is
quoted as having said, "the reports
of the seizure of German ships and
the restrictions of the liberty of their
crews are untrue, as such measure
would be contrary to the German
American treaty of 1799. We do not
wish a system of warfare against non
combatanU such as Grea Britain in
troduced by the internment of civili
ans." Surprise in Washington.
Washington, Feb. 9. The interview
credited to Baron von Stnmm created
surprise here because the government
has been doing its utmost to extend
Count vor. Bernstorff and other for
mer German officials every courtesy
and facility for getting h.xe.
The failure ol Count von Bernstorff
to communicate with his government
was explained by the former ambas
sador himself several days ago, when
he said he had sent no messages home
personally, because he took it . foi
granted he could not jse code and did
not care to use plain language ovei
the wirelsss. The Swiss minister
however, forwarded notice of the sev
erance of relations and anv other com
rhunicatioi. it was desired to send.
1 Officials Indignant.
Officials here are hvilgnant" over
Germany's action in detaining Ambai
sador Gerard. However, dispatches
today indicated that fu'l information
concerning what was being done for
the Germans and the intention of the
American &ernmetit n-,t to molest
German war-bound ships, had reached
Berlin and that the dipaiture of Mr.
Gerard would not be delayed further
Advise to Use Othei Rentes,
The Hague, Netherlands (Via Lon
don), Feb. 9. Maurice M. Langhorst
the Ameri.-an charge d'aff-.ires here
has telegraphed former Ambassador
Gerard at Berlin asking hnn to divert
as many Americans departing from
Germany s possible to Denmark or
Switzerland, r.wii.g to the restricted
accommodations, food difficulties, high
cost ol livi'ig am' the aWi.ce of shir
ping facilities in HoUand.
Can Send Messages
Copenhagen, Feb. 7. (Via London
Feb. 8.) Flic report that Americans
in Germany coiJd not 'ommuuicate
with friends abroad appi.ently is in
correct. Members of the Belgian Ke
lief commission, who arc in Copen
hagen temporarily, told The Associ
ated Pr?S' today that Americans in
Berlin arc permitted to send messaues
freely unci also to receive answers to
them. -Their messages, it was said,
were dispatched quickly, as a rule re
quiring onU foui nr five hours.
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The Omaha Sunday Bee
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1917.
BILL FOR UNIVERSAL
TRAININGS SENT IN
Measure Providing for Six
Months' Drill for All Men
Reported in Senate.
SEVEN YEARS IN RESERVE
Washington, Feb. 10. A universal
military training bill was favorably
reported to the senate today by the
military affairs committee. Chairman
Chamberlain submitted the bill with
out Comment, asking that it go to the
calendar. Senator Thomas, democrat,
and Brady, republican, members of
the committee, reserved the right to
submit minority reports.
Primarily the bill provides that all
men citizens or those who have de
clared their intention to become citi
zens shall undergo six months mili
tary or naval training in the year in
which they reach the age of 19 or in
the year when they first become liable
to such service up to the age of 26.
Ali men receiving such training would
be held in army or navy reserve un
til they reach the age of 28.
The bill submitted by the commit
tee differs in many respects from the
plan being worked out by the army
general staff and was prepared by a
subcommittee with the assistance of
Captain George V. H. Moseley, who
was for a time a member of the
general staff.
The measure at the outset contains
a provision that in the first year of
its operation the periods of training
should be three instead of six months.
Many limitations and exceptions are
provided.
Many Exemptions Authorized.
Under the terms of the bill exemp
tion from the proposed military train
ing would include the following:
Members of the permanent military or
naval forces of the Unlld States.
Portions physically unfit for any military
or naval service whatever.
Persons on whose earnings a father,
mother, brother, sister, wife or child, la
wholly dependent for support
Members of any religious sect or organi
sation now organized and existing whose
creed forbids them to bear arms In war
would not he required to undergo training
in the healing or use of arms, hut would
be trained In nottcombatant branches of
military or naval service.
Persons convicted of a felony or of noto
riously bad character woukl be trained In
special units.
Credits for Other Training.
Persons who have completed a
course of military instruction, ap
proved by the secretary of war or
secretary of the navy, would be al
lowed a credit, which would consist
of a deduction for the training period
of not more than one month for each
year in which they have completed
such course to the satisfaction of the
secretaries of war or navy. The period
of actual training undergone, however,
as a member of what would be known
as the citizen reserve army or citizen
reserve navy, would never be reduced
to less than three months by these
credits. No substitute may be ac
cepted and no one would be permitted
to escape training by payment of
money or other inducement. While
undergoing training all would receive
expenses, clothing and medical at
tendance. . '
Means for Enforcement.
As a further and drastic means of
compelling training the bill would pro
hibit the employment ot any person
up to the age of 28 years who is or
has been liable to be trained under
this act unless he has a certificate of
training or an unexpired certificate of
temporary exemptioa or a certificate
of permanent exemption from train
ing. For administering the army train
ing, the country would be divided into
districts by the secretary of war.
Each person at the time of regis
tration would be permitted to express
preference for the army or navy.
In the event of a defensive war or
of imminent danger thereof the presi
dent would call out all or any part of
the reserve army or the reserve navy
by classes, the youngest class first.
The reserve army or the reserve navy
could not be used in cases of strikes
or qther industrial disputes. -
Strict prohibition regulations would
be enforced in all training districts.
Four Hundred Thousand Yearly.
The bill, Senator Chamberlain said,
would raise a reserve army and naval
force of 400,000 trained men annually.
Wash Away
Skin Sores
11. D.D.. the liquid wash, has beoxM a House
hold ward. It hss proved Itself a remarkable '
remedy. If you are a rofferer from akin dis
eases, including ulcers, piraores, scales, crust
or Ecsera in any form, this remedy anB wot
riianjrsotnt you. It hss stood the test and today
if the mooter preparation tor ail skin diseases.
Try D. CD. Wa naran(M It. ttt.9vcfl.oa.
. SHERMAN, JkJMcCOfmEU. DRUt CO.
WHY SOCIETY WOMEN WASH
THEIR OWN HAIR
They do, not 'because it is a fad,
bat because they wish to obtain the
greatest possible hair beauty and
be sure they are not using anything
harmful. They have found that in
washing the hair it is never wise to
use a makeshift but is always ad
visable to use a preparation made
for shampooing only. Many of our
friends say they get the best results
from a simple home-made canthrox
mixture. You can use this at a cost
of about three cents a shampoo by
getting some canthrox from your
druggist, and dissolving a teaspoon
ful in a cup of hot water. This makes
enough shampoo liquid to apply to
all the hair instead of just the top
of the head, as with most prepara
tions. Dandruff, excess oil and dirt
are dissolved and entirely disappear
in the rinsing water. Your hair will
be so fluffy that it will look much
heavier than it is. Its lustre and soft
ness will also delight you. Adv.
In the nine-year period during which
such men will be subject to the call
of the president estimates of the to
tal of trained men run from 2,tXX),000
to 3,000,000.
Senators who studied the bill were
impressed with the provision that the
reserve force could be only uitilizcd
for defensive warfare.
Child-Wife's Dad
Files Petition to
Annul Marriage
Floyd G. Wathan, crippled musi
cian, who played and sung his way
into the heart of his child-wife, Mil
dred R. Busche, must fight if he
would retain her. Frank L. Unaehe.
the baby bride's irate father, has
filed with the clerk of the district
court a petition to annul the mar
riage, which was performed Febru
ary 15 at Seward, Neb., just twenty
hours before he nabbed the newly
weds and marched them back to
Omaha.
Mr. Busche, who is a contractor
and lives at 954 North Twenty-fifth
street, claims in his petition that his
daughter, Mrs. Wathan, was legally
unauthorized to enter any marriage
contract without the consent of her
parent because of her tender age. He
says that Mildred and Mr. Wathan
lived together only one day.
New Hog Records;
Highest Price and
Biggest Numbers
Mr. A. Hog was king ot the mar
ket here for the last six days.
South Omaha yards handled 131,000
hogs during the week, a record that
dwarfs all others. The best previous
record was for the week of January
22, 1916, when 109,000 hogs were re
ceived. Hog. brought record prices, too.
Several loads of good hcavirs sold for
$12.20 a hundredweight, which is 20
cents better than the previous high
price. Saturday's market in' general
was from 40 to 50 cents higher than
the market a week ago.
May Jry to Remove
His Instinct to Steal
Dr. E. C. Henry, Omaha physician
and surgeon who attends juvenile
court every Saturday morning, dis
played keen interest in the case of
Fred Walling, 12 years old, 312 Q
street, South Side, a lad with self
confessed kleptomaniac proclivities.
Young Walling told Judge Leslie that
he unconsciously steals things with
out realizing what he is doing. Dr.
Henry will examine the ben and de
cide if an operation .would remove
his instinct to steal.
BELGIAN CARDINAL
GERMAN CAPTIVE
Ecclesiastical Circles at Rome
Fear Merrier So Isolated as
to Be Virtually Prisoner.
LONG SINCE HEARD FROM
Taris, Feb. 10. A dispatch to the
Temps from Rcmc says:
"Vatican circles" have been virtually
without news of Cardinal Mercier for
some time and ecclesiastical circles
-re beginning to have the impression
lhat the prelate is bctrn. forcibly
isolated by the German authorities to
an extent that iniglrt he real captivity."
Weeks Since Heard From.
The latest cable dispatch concern
ing Cardinal Mercier, the primate of
Belgium, or his activities, was re
ceived in the United States from Lon
don, under .late of Janu.iij 17. The
dispatch said that l'ope Benedict had
made representations to the German
governniei.t concerning the Belgian
deportations in a letter from Cardinal
Gasparri to Cardinal Mercier. Cardi
nal Mercier was dirccteii to do all in
his power to alleviate the sufferings
of the Belgians. Tin dispatch also
uoted instructions sent by Cardinal
Mercier to parish priests ordering
them to defend the interest: of civil
ians and provide comforts to the fami
lies of deported Belgians.
Sends Three Letters.
During the month of December,
Cardinal Mercier sent to Governor
von Bissing three letters protesting
against the Belgian deportations. An.
unconfirmed dispatch from Amster
dam under dale of December 7, said it
was reported there that Cardinal
palace by the German authorities.
Since the Geiman occupation of Bel
gium, Cardinal Mercier has had many
controversies with the German au
thorities concerning measures taken
by them in Belgium.
Belle Fourche Land is , -Taken
Up Very Quickly
Thursday, at Belle Fourche, S. D.r
north of the Black Hills and in close
proximity to the Northwestern line,
the government opened to settlement
4,000 acres of land, it coming in un
der the provisions of the extension
of the Belle Fourche irrigation
project.
The Belle Fourche land was sub
ject to homestead entry in eighty
acre tracts. There were fifty of them
and information to the Northwestern
general offices here are to the effect
that all of the land was filed upon
within an hour after the Jand office
opened. The charges to sntlers were
$2.25 per acre when filings were made
and $42.25 per acre, payable in fifteen
equal annual installments.
Raymond T. Baker Named
Director of the Mint
Washington, Feb. 10. Raymond
T. Baker of Nevada was nominated
by President Wilson today as direc
tor of the mint. Mr; Baker, whose
home is at Reno, was private secre
tary to George T. Marye when the
latter was ambassador to Russia. Mr.
Baker was at one time warden pf a
penitentiary in Nevada. .
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