rHE BEE: - OMAHA MONDaV, APRIL 6. 1917.
BOYS AND GIEISili
WAR GAMEFOR GOOD
Enlist to Fight Bugs and Raise
Garden to Help Feed
" Hungry.
PEBRASKA CITY TO GRAFF QUITS SOON;
"Moths"
By Nell Brinkley
OBSERYE ARBOR DAY NOT UP FOR ELECTION
Celebration to Be Participated ' Report That Other Cities Are
in by People From All Over I Considering Him for School
Antelope State. Position.
PAY TRIBUTE TO MORTON j SUCCESSOR IS UNCERTAIN
CAN DO MUCH OF GOOD
'
Lincoln, April 15.-An army of
i were than 5,110(1 Nebraska boys ami
girls are taking preliminary steps fwr
mighty "spring push" that promises
to be of no mean importance hi fur
thering the -war.
The boys and girls are going to
shoulder the hoc in place of the gun.
for though they are too young for
military service, they are old enough
to seek to express their patriotism
in a tangible form the home-school
garden, of which they are members.
Their battle field is to be the back
yard or the vacant lot where they
will wage a war of extinction against
weeds, insect pests, etc., which inter
fere with a maximum production of
food for the family table. i
' Can Help a Lot.
Boys and girls, it has been demon
strated, can produce much of the food
required for the family use, thereby
releasing the commercial product of
he country for the needs of the peo
pie in large cities ar.d in foreign coun
tries. Furthermore, since available la
bor is likely to be one of the limiting
factors in increasing production, the
use of boya for productive work will
be economically valuable, it is thought
Last year boys and girls in
; twenty-five towns and cities took part
in the home-school garden project
conducted under the direction of the
agricultural extension service. As
result of their work, 1,259 back yards
and 345 vacant lots grew gardens. The
total receipts from these gardens was
nearly J1J,000 in addition to nearly
$2,000 worth of canned products. This
ear more than 5,000 children are ex
pected to take part in home-school
gardens in forty-five towns which
have taken up the work.
Louisianiana Come to Learn.
i A party of 100 -Louisiana farmers,
headed by Director W. R. Dodson, of
the experiment station at Baton
Rouge, La., is planning an invasion of
northern states in July, among them
the state ot Nebraska.
Ihu is a cart of i program to
promote diversified farming and to
develop the live stock industry of the
' south so that it will be less dependent
upon cotton md the single crop sys
tem than at present.
Nebraska's share in entertaining the
visitor! is being planned by the Ui i
versity of Nebraska in co-operation
with Director Dodson. Trips will be
made to the stock yards at Omaha,
to the state university here, and to live
' stock farms in this vicinity. One day
will be spent with live stock breeders
of Seward county and another with
live stock breeders of Gage county,
Ex-County Commissioner
Hurt by Blow From Autd
' Dr. J, R. Connolly, 825 Bancroft
atreet, former county commissioner,
received a compound fracture of the
left arm, a fractured nose, fractured
left ankle, abrasioni on the right knee
and other injuries when he was struck
by an automobile driven bv Andrew
Meir, 2517 SoutH.Twelfth street, Sat
urday evening. . folice burgeon fcarl
Connolly, son ot the injured man,
was one of the three other surgeons
who attended Mr. Connolly. He
was taken to St. Joseph hospital. His
injuries are said to be serious.
Mr, Connolly was waiting for a
trect car at Fourteenth and Farnain
streets. In some way he darted in
between two automobiles which weri
awaiting the signal of the traffic of-
hcer to proceed aouth. Mr. Connolly
evidently failed to tee the machine
beliind him when it itarted and was
knocked to the pavement. '
Omaha Congratulated on
Athletic Club Prospect
. Congratulations upon Omaha's pros
pect for having a fine athletic club
building, were offered to George
Brandeis Saturday in a letter from C.
C. Rosewater, former manager of The
Bee, now in Los Angeles. ' I '
."Mr. Rosewater told me he was
flopping at the Athletic club in Los
' Angeles," Mr. Brandeis said. "He
laid if Omaha's Athletic club is half
as fine as that of Los Angeles, Omaha
will have something to be proud of."
' Bids for construction of the build
ing here will be received up to 12
o'clock noon, April 24, by Secretary
Wharton, and will be opened at 2
p. m. in Architect Latenser'a office.
The bidder who gets the contract will
wreck the Douglas Auditorium dance
hall now on the club', site.
Three Drowned When High
River .Water Swamps Skiff
Decatur, Neb., April 15.--(Special
Telegram.) Three persons were
drowned here today when a skiff in
which they were attempting to cross
the Missouri river swamped and
turned over. The three drowned were
Louis Beaver and his wife and Mar
tin Jezipen. A fourth member f the
party, Wylie F.nglish, swam ashore
and saved himself.
The pafty came to Decatur Friday
and Spent the night here. They were
returning to their homes on farms on
the Iowa side of the river when the
accident occurred.
The river is very high at this time.
In some places near here it is so bad
the waters are cutting away the
, banks, and this morning the water
was partieu'arly rough.
Boy! Page All the Ship's ,
Carpenters in This Seaport
Ship s carpenters, and all workmen
.'no probably could qualify as such,
are desired to enroll here for possible
government employment in the con-
' slruction and repair of ships during
the war. M. A, Coykendall, immi
gration inspector of the Department
of Labor, hat received such n forma-'
t'on from Inspector James R. Dunn
.of St. Louis. On Monday and Tues
day such workmen will be enrolled
f.-ee of charge, at the co-operative
government employment bureau in
the court house. ' :
Persistent Advertising la the Road
To Success. .'
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rHEN I was a
VV
the night sky arched above as blue as the field in
our flag and as spangled with thick stars, where
the shadow of our house atretched acroas a mile
of rose-washed prairie the high, white peaks were
a tender pink from' a mysterious 'rising sun the
lark soared into the splendid sky trailing his aon
jewels in a shower at the dawn out there when I
wns a litle girl, my mother used to sing me the
'songs her brave little grandmother sang. ,
Do you remember the shivery songs then? Do
you remember that melody always quavered and
was aa dismal as Tom Sawyer in the church-yard?
An' it was always the song bout the girl who
would not wear a silken cloak to keep her warm
when ahe wentto a dance with her lover that wan
young Charlotte, who "laugh like a -gypsy Queen"
at her mother, and then got frozen to death. Do
you remember "LAURENA?" Laurena waa a aad
young lady whose lover sang to her of aetting
suns (my gracious) and coming snows and such.
Do you remember the young man who sang
about "young love" being- "like a flower," and his
When the Animals Speak ,
(fNothtnt morft IllanllhillV tins attar haan
round If th lower eiUmel world than the
oommunal lit and thdenrchlteclurel genlui
of hive bete. Darwin thotiaht he hari Ala.
covered an evolutionary principle underlying
m umeiry ei a noney-romn, but it aeema
juat aa hard now aa It waa before he wrote,
to underatand ho the bees arqulre thrtr
aclence. So their aoclal orsanliatlon la
laetlns peycholoflcal puiile. Ed.) , .
.'" By PROF. SERVISS.
A. few mornines after, the viit nf
the hive bee to the bumble-bee's
shack, she made her appearance once
more at the mossy entrance,' and
waited about there glancing curiously
and somewhat disdainfully at the big
dowdies who buzzed in and out, until
she saw her rustic friend emerging
for a, foray upon the clover field. Ap
proaching, with the urbanity of a city
dame, she said (in substance):
"Good morning. Can you possibly
remember me? 1, for my part, shall
never forget that delicious honey.'
I fear I was a litthfrticle when you
showed me your interesting home,
but then, you know, I have seen so
little outside our own circle, and
one becomes so easily clannish. But
you promised me to visit my home
and now I have come to chaperon
you. , . ;.-
The bumble-bee's curositv ' had
been olnuerr. and " she claHU- ir.
cepted the invitation. She was very
content, too, to have a safe escort,
for she knew that, notwithstanding
their superior size, the members of
her race are sometimes waylaid by
hive bees, robbed of their fragrant
burdens and" otherwise maltreated.
She generally gave a wide berth
to hives, and now, as they drew
near a long row of them, she was
astonished by the countless throngs
ot workers streaming in and out
and crowding all the ntrances.
Every hive had several hundred limee
the population other own nest, which
she had been accustomed to regard
as an important capital, but which she
now preceived was a mere village. V
they approached the largest of the
hives, whose splendid white . front
little tjirl, out on the western
prairie-sea, where the shadow of the great
blue mountains trrew lone at sunset, where
abashed the unsophisticated visitor as
a great marble building in a city im
presses an untravclcd countryman.
They were challenged at the porch,
but a little crossing of antennae open
ed the way, and together they en
tered, many bees politely, but with
concealed annoyance, squeezing them
selves against the walls to make room
for the lumbering, broad-shouldered
peasant.
"Here are our coinos," said the
hive bee, leading her guest into a
passage between huge walls of deli
cately sealed cells. "You , see how
we arrange them, so that no space
is lost and no material unnecessarily
used. Come with me and I will shqw
you some cells that are just being
made. You will see how different
tliey are from yours." . V
1 She led the way into a part of the
hive where the wprkcrs resembled
so' many masons constructing a brick
wall.-.'- '" ' ,
"We make two ets of cells, back
to . back," said the conductress.
"Each cell has six sides, and at .the
inner end, where it joins the cells of
the opposite set it has a' three-sided
point. In this way we make every
side of everycell do double duty by
dividing two adjoining colls and so
only half as much wax and half as
much labor are required as would be
necessary if we made our fjflla round
as you do." , . ' , .
(Measurements his shown that the
bcej lay out their ee'lls on the plan
of a series of intersecting circles, thjc
distance apart of whose centers is so
fixed thlt straight .'lines joining the
points of intersection form -the sides
of regular hexagons. Ko other geo
metrical figures would , afford equal
economy of space and material. More
over, it has been proved that the slope
of the three sides of the pyramidal
point of a celt is precisely that which
mathematics demands for maximum
' , , , .
"Well," said the bumb e-bee: "nn
nave sucn a vast number ot cells and
waa crushed underfoot by a false maiden? My
little; mother sang them with a laugh and so the .
little child I was, seeing the laugh, smiled too, and
did not weep over the melancholy things. Still I
could see Laurena with raven hair and Charlotte
in her's lover sleiffh in a tulle dress freezing slowly
to death behind his coal-black horses 'with their
silver bells.
Do you remember "MOTHS?" There are many
hflght things in this world pretty Moth. Do but
ditzsle to lead you astray.
Love burns a white flame and from all the
world the moths came, some young and tender,
some a litle older and wiser, all, they circle about
the lovely, thing that shines from world's end to
world's end. Some warm their hearts and their .
cold lives by his dancing fire and take no harm.
Some others dash into the lovely glory and their
wings curl and shrivel-the gold dust black,
the fragile gossamer, ash. "There are many pretty
thinga in this world, pretty Moth." Maybe you
remember the rest of the woeful old song just as
I can go back to the west and find the same rose
on the snowy peaks it dawn. NELL BRINKLEY.
such an enormous population that I
don't wonder vou have- to economized
I labor, time and material. We have
plenty of space, and not so many
mouths to feed, or so many young
sters to bring up, and then, we are a
little slow anyway, so we take the
easiest way. ., In truth I don't think
we could do the headwork that your
system seems to demand." .
"Oh, it's easy enough when you are
born that way," replied the hive bee.
"But now let me show you our var
ious kinds of cells. I regret that we
have no public honey wells like yours,
but they would be too tempting to the
idlers in a metropolis. The lazy
drones would . be always at them.
That reminds me, we are going to
kill off the drones today, and you. can
stay and see the massacre."
"What do you kill them for?" asked
the startled visitor, who perhaps felt
as Cortea's soldiers did when they
found out how the Aztecs disposed
of their prisoners.
"Oh, just to get rid of them," re
plied the hive bee lightly. "They're no
use any more after the queen's flight."
"Why does your queen run away,
then 1" .
"Run away? No. She makes her
nuptial flight, and all the drones, who
are males, of course, chase) after her,
and the one who overtakes her be
comes her mate. After the marriage
she kills him and we kill the rest."
"I remember," said the visitor, with
shuddering wings," that you said
something about your queen's jeal-'
ousy and her stuaghtering of rivals."
; "If you had been here yesterday,"
returned the hive bee. - "you might
have seen her dispose of one. I guess
the body is lying in -the grass outside
now. We thought for a while that the
queen herself would be the victim,
but just at the right moment she
drove home her stiletto."
"But suppose she had been killed."
"Then we should haVe taken the
victor for queen, of course,"
As the sun rose higher it became
uncomfortably warm in the hive.
Its tune for the fans!". said the
hive bee, impatiently.
. .t !... 1
Ah, there they
The visitor looked in the 'direction
indicated and'saw a circle of bees link
ing the ends of theit-wings together,
and then agitating them with a regu
lar up and down motion. A refresh
ing breeze was immediately felt in the
hive. ' Some tired workers topped
to enjoy it for a few moments.
Other ranks of fanners were formed
and presently there was a stir of in
terest as an unusually large bee, with
a long, slender body, made, her ap
pearance in, the midst of the throng
and was immediately surrounded by a
bodyguard, while a circle of fanners
seemed to make her the special object
of their attentions.
'It is the hive bee," whispered the
hive bee, in her guest's ear.
The' bumble bee looked with great
curiosity at this autocratic ruler, and
her impressions were perhaps colored
by what she had heard of the jealous,
sovereign's bloodthirsty temper. He?
more democratic instincts may also
have been somewhat offended by the
adulation heaped upon the queen by
her submissive subjects. At any rate,
she begged her friend to show her the
way out. As they emerged from the
gale of the hive they saw a number
of big frowsy looking bees huddled to
gether, apparently under guard of a
circle of soldiers.
"Don't go yet," said the hive bee.
They are the drones; the massacre is
about to begin." -
"Thank you." returned the bumble
bee. "I've neglected my work too
long. I shall remember my visit."
As she hummed away from the hfve
she hcarda acute sounds behind her,
and glancing over her shoulder, saw
that the massacre had begun. But the
sight only put more speed into her
wings. i
Big Doings at Opening
Of Ernie tfqlmes Park
Big doings are carded for the open
ing game at Ernie Holmes' park to
day, when the Holmes White Sox and
the Ramblers pry off the Greater
Omaha league lid. As a preliminary
game the North Side and South Side
bloomer girls will tangle in a battle.
Dan Desdune's ragtime band will fur
nish music for the occasion. ' -
Nebraska City will celebrate Arbor
day, April 23. The occasion is to be a
state semi-centennial as well as an
Arbor day celebration. The details are
being managed by people of Nebraska
City, the home of the late J. Sterling
Morton, the father of Arbor day, a day
that in 1872 became known as a Neb
raska holiday.
The Nebraska City celebration will
start Monday afternoon at 1 :30 o'clock
with a historic parade to Morton park,
where the historical exercises will be
held. In it will be citizens of the city
and state, city, county and state offi
cials, civic societies and floats, the
Nebraska City and Syracuse bands
supplying the music.
The Evening Program.
In the evening, from 7 to 8 o'clock,
there will be an open air concert, fol
lowed by a meeting in the Overland
theater, Nebraska Citv. Uoon this
occasion Paul Jessen will preside and
John Lee Webster of Omaha, presi
dent of the State Historical society,
will deliver the principal address.
There will be songs and instrumental
music by the Nebraska City chorus
and the High School Glee club? John
Mattes will deliver a short address
and then the audience will join in
singing the "Star Spangled Banner."
The following reception committee
of Nebraska City men has charge of
the arrangements: J. W. Steinhart,
H. D. Wilson, J. H. Sweet and C. M.
Hubner, with Bert W. Ryder, marshal
of the day.
The Nebraska City Business Men's
association extends an invitation to
all citizens of the stale to participate
in the exercises. Special arranuc-
ments have been made for feeding and
housing visitors.
The Home of Morton.
Nebraska City was the home of I.
Sterling Morton. Aftet his death in
1905 the citizens of the nation, by
their contributions, aacretratmir $20
000. erected here in beautiful Morton
park a monument in bronze to his
memory. 1'resident and Mrs. Cleve
land, with the cabinet, graced the
occasion of the unveiling of the monu
ment with their presence, Mr. Cleve
land delivering the oration.
, In addition to the regular Burling
ton and Missouri Pacific trains for the
celebration, the Burlington will run a
-special train from Lincoln leaving
there at 8 o clock in the morning and
leaving Nebraska City after the eve-
ning'entertainmcnt. The special will
stop at all stations going and re
turning. '
Contractors Fight J
For an Open Shop
Through the Court
Twelve local contractors have filed
injunction suits in district court
against the Electrical Workers' union
No. 20, seeking to enjoin the union
"from molesting nonunion men em
ployed on local jobs."
Affidavits were also filed purporting
to show that the nonunion meri have
lcen intimidated by the union work
ers. The contractors in their petition
state that they arc willing to meet
the increase from S7'i to 60 cents an
hour, but declare they will not make
exclusive contracts with the union
men.
-Your Life Hangs by a Thre-,
of transportation. '
Millions of tons of food move thousands oi miles
to reach the American people centered in cities and
millions of tons more rot on the ground for lack of cars
to carry them.
WAR, STRIKES and FLOODS menace this threat
upon which the food supply of a nation depends.
HOW LONG COULD YOU STAND THE SIEGE
of hunger if shipments of food were cut off from your
city? How much could you produce on the soil you
own? How much have you stored in the cellar ?
The American people have long been the most im
provident folks on earth because they have been the
richest. They are just beginning to feel the pinch of
hunger after generations of waste. .
IT IS YOUR DUTY TO THE NATION AND TO
YOURSELF to be PREPARED for an emergency to
be INDEPENDENT ofrailways that may at any moment
be needed FOR YOUR DEFENSE.
This means that you must learn to produce food and
to save food to cultivate the ground and store the har
vest. Perhaps you can do much, perhaps only a littk
but whatever you can do is worth while as an exampl
of thrift and preparedness.
Get This Free Garden Book.
A fifty-page illustrated" booklet on the 'planting and
care of the home vegetable garden will be sent free to
any reader of The Bee. This book is an official publica
tion of the United States government. It covers the gar
den from artichokes to turnips. It tells you what to
plant and how to plant it, gives cultural hints and a
planting table for more than fifty of the most important
vegetables for the home garden, tells you all about the
proper tools, fertilizers, etc., etc. Contains 'diagrams
showing how to lay out your garden. You need thir
book to do your share in the big campaign for raising
more food. "
THE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU.
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Street Addren. ,;
I That there will be a change in the
, headship of the. Omaha public schools
! is now made certain by the detcr-
niination of Superintendent Graff, who
I has confided to intimate friends that
he .will not seek re-election at the
expiration of his term next July.
In this, Superintendent Graff is sim
ply recognizing conditions which were
outlined in The Bee some time age
and which have been a consequence
of the shifting control in the schou1
board. It is known that he is untie
consideration right now for equall .
tesponsible supervisory positions t
the schools of at least two other citi
and knowledge of this fact has start
applications from various ources f
the vacancy expected in Omaha.
Just who will land Hie job it is i
possible to tell, is school board num
bers arc extremely reticent in discus
r.ig the subject and insist that no oi
a: yet has the call. The only name
iiicimuneu so lar nave Dcen inose
Superintendent Hunter of Lincoln
former Superintendent Graham or.
South Omaha and Superintendent
Beveridgc of Council Bluffs, and the
only active canvassing has come in
lehalf of Mr. Graham, who for a year
.';fter consolidation served as an as
sistant to Mr. Graff, but for the last
year has been engaged in life insur
ance. The report is that Mr. Hunter
lias laid down the condition that he
will not consider any offer, unless it
came from a unanimous board, and
iJiat the board is by no means unani
mous. When it was first rumored that Mr.
Graff might not succeed himself, a
nnnber of his friends among the local
business men and also representatives
if the teachers rallied to his support,
lut found that the situation did not
invite -interference. As the superin
tendent's present contract has only
two months and a half to run. more
iictinite developments are expected
within a few weeks. .
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