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THIS OMAHA SUNDAY BKK: JUNK 10. 1W17. y A .WOMAN PLAYS TRICK ' UPON KANSAS MEN Slips One Over During Valley Center Election Day; Fem inine Officers Are Elected. That the little city of Valley Cen- iit. Kan., is governed entirely and inclusively by women is due to the prankish disposition of Gene Talcott. ionner city clerk. The municipal election, was held last April. There was only one ticket up and very little interest in that. At noon on election day only two votes had been cast. '"I'm gonna start somcthin'," said ills waggish Mr. Talcott, taking liitn- toll out of the polling place. "It's too tleepy around here." There was a mysterious conference with a few crcwiies and a new ticket, written oil cardboard, was placed by , somu unidentified agency outside the voting place. It was a feminine ticket Irom top to bottom. Someone had se lected the candidates withut consult ' ing them, and someone started things w ' if by writing in the womens' names Tu ilic blank place ot Ins ballot. Lit tle realizing what they were doing, S voter after voter smiled and cast bal- ? lot after ballot for the women. When th polls closed at 6 o'clock and the score was figured up Miss Avice Francis, spinster, had been elected mayor by the count of thirty-two out of , forty-three cast. She led her ticket, and the other women were close behind. Mrs. S. A. Ridenour went in as police judge, Mrs. S. W. Pike as city clerk, Mrs. George Bright as street commissioner, Miss Delia Talcott as city treasurer, while Mrs. Mary .Kohle, Mrs. Nan White lock, Mrs. J. G. Cliipp, Mrs. W. T. i Taggart and Mrs. Gene Talcott were elected as councilwomen. To make the job complete, Mrs. Susie Good- ictl was appointed as marshal. None of the women had ever been n. politics, but since the honors had Isought them out they decided to make lob ot it and run the city. Vallev Center has a population of pbout 450, and, generally speaking, is not a difficult place to govern. It Jias a little stone jail, but there hasn't fbetn a prisoner in it in twelve years. Having elected the women, the men eat back and waited to see what they I would do. ine opportunity lor aa- Iranced legisla'.ion was rather limited, irbut the new administration speedily y louna an evil to correct, it was tne custom of the gentlemen- of Valley ' Center to spend their Sundays pitch ing horseshoes on Main street in front of the blacksmith shop. "It was just terrible," as Mrs. Susie Goodrich, the marshal, put it. "They would gather there in great crowds a dozen or two." No More Horseshoes. An ordinance was passed forbid ding Sunday horseshoe pitching and was published. It was not necessary to go farther. The hint was, suffi cient. The menacing figure of Mrs. Goodrich can now traverse the length and breadth of all Valley Center any Sunday and there is not a ringer in sight. He who defies the law. and t pitches does so at the risk of a $5 fine. Haying cleaned up the horseshoe gang, the women turned their atten tion to the larger malefactor the Atchison, Topeka' & Santa Fe railway. It seems the Santa Fe freight trains had been ignoring the ordinance that provides that no crossing shall be blocked for longer than five minutes. If the trairi happened to be a long one,' not only Main street, but two other crossings, would be blocked. For years, under masculine rule, Valley Center had suffered bisection from the trains. Under the new re gime the railroad people were warned politely, but they failed to heed. The fair, tittle town must have appealed to the loafing instinct of the tram crews, for it was their custom to loiter some times as lone as twenty minutes, sep arating the north side residents from L the south siders. On the 10th day of this month Conductor M. A. McNeil l nulled his string of box cars into Mown, barricaded two of the three crossings and settled down to stay a while. Mrs. Susie Goodrich, from her home, could not see what was going on, but Miss Avice Francis, from her home, could. Telephonic communciation was established be tween Miss Francis, speaking as the mayor, and Mrs. ausie Ooodnch, the official capacity of marshal. "Thev're blocking traffic." the mayor said. "Hold them right there. I m coming- with the police judge. - The Unlucky Trainman. No sooner said than done. The three women started for the train and Conductor McNeil saw them. It must have been his guilty conscience that prompted him to step up and ask if they were looking tor mm. "That's what we are," said Mrs. Susie Goodrich, "and I want you to consider yourself under arrest." .The conductor was marched over to the station, where Mrs. Ridenour con vened court. Court is held wherever the judge happens to be, since there is no court room. Conductor Mc Neil tried to beg off, but his pleas were rejected in concert. "No, sir," said the women, "you've been .warned." Whereupon Mrs. Ridenour fined him $5. .The costs amounted to $1.25. "But suppose. I won't pay this SJine?" asked the conductor, just to ? try the mettle of his antagonists. "Then you go to jail," replied Mrs. Susie Goodrich, with a significant gesture toward the little stone struc ture which lies close by. "But what if I haven't got that much money on me?" Conductor Mc Neil ciueried hopefully. " "We'll 'just hold your old train here until you dig it up," the marshal told him with feminine firmness and a vague idea that she was within the law. Conductor McNeil capitulated. "Oh, . all right," he said, as pleasantly as possible, "I'll pay it." And he did. "Let this be a warning to you," said the judge. "You tell the world it is," replied the conductor. So . ended the first showdown of the forces of law and order. After the Cigaret. Minors' who smoke cigarets are hav ing their troubles, too, for thewomen are after them. The young daughter of the marshal saw a 16-year-old boy smoking a cigaret the other day and when the young man saw her he fled with all his might. Resisting the temptation to pursue him, the young woman eeported the incident to her mother. The county attorney has " been consulted and he has advised the gathering of evidence with a view of beginning prosecutions. It is ru moredr too, that certain dealers in Valley Center sell either cigarets or cigaret papers and it is not violating A svetzvs -tht rwe U I sJ3t 0m?0r, s;X W MUCH MONEY IN WAR. t$ f MR. $PRI(J5MS rtRouNO tMgr STOCK ? ThSYVe IHVlTEO ' oJH. fVEW ESTTfc Jf"&. I; u'i To Cttv. - HURRY I; '. . r ; g( W") f; PANTING- IT'S A r.M,-. m t f 'y Genuine STERRtTT J JJ l i ' ' cjf, r-rherVs Y TflNcY f no I BuT or COURSE CHICKENS C?ST 6 I IN COR VRtSENT V, 'o a piece ' L circumstances j- ?q. a isrzr - They TJon'T Have Le- v w rZ-f Do They V -To ; Supposedly Dead Man Wakes Up the Morgue "A ghost 1" gasped the atendant at the coroner's morgue last night as he stared into the visage of a form that faced him. The ghost's features worked excitedly. "S-s-s-s-s-s-say," he began. "Y-y-y-y-y-y-es," answered the morgue attendant. wna-wna-wnai can I -d-d-d-d-d-d-do f-f-for y-y-y-y-you?" "T-t-t-tell 'em I'm n-n-n-not -d-d- dead." 'C-c-c-c-certainly! chattered the B-b-but w-why morgue attendant. aren t y-y-y-your All of which was a pertectly logical question, ror in the back room ot the morgue was the body of a man taken from the Platte river yesterday morning and identified by four per sons as that of John Moran, other wise known as "Stuttering Jack." And yet, before the morgue attendant was another just such person and he was stuttering denials. t- The attendant took a hurried and shivering peek into the chapel of the morgue. The body of the man iden tified as Stuttering Jack still was there and it gave him a bit of reas surance. Whereupon his teeth grad ually ceased chattering and he gath ed the information that there had been a mistake in identification. Hence the visit of "Stuttering Jack" to refute the assertion that he was dead. The body later was identified as that of John Barrett, 1405 Umatilla street, an employe of the Denver Gas and Electric company. His drown ing still isa mystery. Denver Post. Notables Extoll Red Cross Volunteer Workers Washington, May 23. The colossal relief and rehabilitation task that con fronts the American Red Cross if the United States is to do its full part in the war was detailed by a notable group of speakers today at a confer ence of men and women from forty cities who have volunteered to assist the society's war council. Major General John J. Pershing, Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary Baker, William H. Taft and Henry P. Davi son, in turn told the volunteers that they must go to work expecting a long, hard task, but one which would stand out in history as the greatest philanthropic effort of the age. While the conference was in session Presi dent Wilson issued a proclamation designating the week of June 18 to 25 as Red Cross week during which the people of the United States will be called upon to give generously and in a spirit of patriotic sacrifice for the support and maintenance of this work of national need. Mr. Davison, who at the president's request became chairman of the war council, declared the $100,000,000 fund which, it is proposed to raise quickly, would be only a beginning. Will Kill Menagerie ' Animals to Save Food (Coirefipondcnce of The Associated Press.) Paris, May 22. A part of the im portant menagerie of the city of Paris in the Jardin des Plantes is to be sac rificed to economic necessities. Every animal feeding on hay or grain, ex cepting rare specimens that cannot be easily replaced, is to be killed to save fodder for horses and cattle and bread for the people. Certain species of bear and other animals, such as the wild sheep or Algiers and wild horses ot prehistoric origin, will be spared. The wild boars and the kind will be sold as game. The camels, because of their frugality, will be preserved. a confidence, as they say in Washing ton, to state that those dealers have a little package of trouble on the way. Another little thing the men prob ably will be glad to hear is that the poll tax is to be collected from now on. In the past the subject of poll tax was dropped by common consent, but it is going to be revived. Nevertheless, the rule by women is proving popular. An elderly man who was painting a house paused in his labors long enough to comment on it. "In some respects," he confided, "I believe they are doing better than the men. For one thing, they stopped the trains from standing on the crossings and I'm right glad of it. I'd been an noyed considerable that way, living as I do on the other side of the tracks." Kansas City Star And So It Goes FIVE -MINUTE TALKS BY NATIONAL LEADERS. By JOHN J. LENTZ. Former Congressman from Ohio. Society and government have fought their way step by step to a free press, free school, free speech and a free pulpit, knowing that all four of these agencies are necessary to promote and procure a correct public opinion. We live in an age that is cursed with the speed craze in forming opin ions as well as driving automobiles. Shallow pates come to a conclusion on a tew tacts. Opinions of today may be as far wrong as were those of the past. Half a century ago public opinion on opposite sides of the Mason and Dixon line justified a civil war, in which hundreds of thousands of men murdered each other. Today public opinion on either side would brand a man a traitor who would suggest that the controversy over states' rights be opened up again. Universal education, through a free press, free school, free speech and a free pulpit is enriching and en nobling the average mind and equip ping it to practice the deliberations of a great judicial tribunal and attain a more wholesome and righteous pub lic opinion. We now have a world-wide war demonstrating that the rulers of all these nations have not taken their own prayers seriously, or, if they have, it demonstrates the inefficicacy of prayer and the impotency of Diety. Silently, persistently, and to most men unconsciously, there are three forces at work which will kill the war germ prohibition, suffrage and insur ance. War, prohibition and equal suf frage will hold their places on the first page for a short time and then all three will become relics on the junk heap of a barbarous age. There will be no more tyranny of war, no more diseases and death due to alcohol; no more serfdom for women. Fixed Residence in Germany Is Construed as Prison (Correspondence of The Associated Pri'is.) Havre, France, May 20. A number of Belgian officials who remained in that country after the invasion have retused to continue their service un der the administrative division of the country decreed by the German gov ernment. One of these patriots, M. Sauveur, general secretary to the minister of the interior, wrote a letter of protesta tion in which he resigned his office. The governor general then "fixed his residence in Germany," the "fixed res idence being construed here as prison. Fewer Holidays Now In Russian Territory (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Petrograd, May 12. One important reform which the revolution has ef fected has been the abolishment of excessive holiday-making in Russia, Before the revolution, not only were twelve great chiurch holidays cele brated, but also the birthdays of the emperor, empress and the heir appar ent, the anniversary of the accession to the throne, the coronation, etc. In stead of these, the 1st of May it to be instituted as a national holiday. 1 j JAPAN IS WARNED AGAINST GERMANS Dr. Nitobe Tells His People that Calamity to Orient Would Follow Defeat of the Allies. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Tokio, May 30. A warning against the spread of pro-German sentiment among the Japanese people has been uttered by Dr. Inazo Nitobe. Through the columns of a business organ he has declared that two dan gers confront his people during the present war. The first is the pro- German illusion, and the second the tendency to luxurious living. He said: "Though Japan is one of the bel ligerents, we did only a little fighting at the outset of the war. and for the rest we did nothing but make gain. We realized unexpected profits through war trade. Some Japanese make no hesitation in ottering un stinted tribute of admiration at the German altar. No Lauding the Germans. "This is no time for the Japanese to indulge in lauding the Ger mans and disparaging the en tente people. For if Germany should wia victory in this war and control Europe, it would be an ap palling calamity for all the states of the orient. If the Japanese were so much bewitched by the splendid Ger man organization as to adore other objectionable Uerman qualities, sucn as disregard of justice, humanity and international treaties, it would be a most deplorable misfortune for the nation. "If the German ambitions should be realized, Japan itself, unless it were conquered by Germany, would have to become ultra-military, and sacrifice all other aims of civilization at the altar of accumulation of warlike weapons and military preparedness. With a country like Germany roam ing about at large in the world there could never be a guarantee of peace without powerful military strength." Dr. Nitobe condemns the extrava gance of those who have become rich through the war, and says they are exercising a degenerating influence on the morality of the masses of the people. Movie Romance Blasted When Girl Pinched Cupid Ona Ragsdale, 17 years old, who said she came from Arlington, Ky., is a prisoner in the East St. Louis jail because she eloped with Bernard La Blanc, 14 years old, 320 North Fifth street. East St. Louis, and now Ona says she is "done with the love stuff for the rest of her days." The girl said she met La Blanc, or "Buddie," as she calls him, in a mov ing picture show. In some manner she accidentally pinched "Buddie's" hand in the seat. She apologized, started a conversation, and then, they, having nothing more to sa'y, fell in love. This was some time ago. They planned to go to Kentucky, starting Wednesday. The girl stanced the elopement. They got as far as Red Bud, III., and meant to go to work, but "Buddie" became homesick and cried. The girl gallantly paid for a telegram to "Buddie's" mother telling her how badly he felt. There was no answer, so she purchased tickets back to East St. Louis. Ar riving there, "Buddie" was not posi tive of his mother's expression, and ran from her. The mother captured Ona, took her to the police station, and the girl was ordered to the Belle ville jail. But a case of smallpox there caused her return to East St. Louis. She probably will be sent to the state industrial school for girls at Geneva, but she wants to go to her mother at Wickliffe, Ky. The girl said her parents were di vorced when she was a year old. Both remarried and she lived with her father and stepmother until the lat ter died. Then she came to East St. Louis and found work as a house maid. Later she was employed at the Deaconess hospital and earned $12 a month. She had hoped to become a nurse, but then she met "Buddie." Now her careers will be shaped by the state, unless her mother inter poses. M. Louis Cjlobe-Democrat. Persistent Advertising is the Road to success. ' LOW COST OF WAR TO GERMAN EMPIRE French Economist Gives Six Seasons Why Kaiser Is Able to Keep Down Expenses. (Correepondenre of The Associated Press.) Paris, May 14. On the supposition that Germany would be glad to call the war a draw, Andre Cheradainc, an author and journalist, points out some advantages that Gcrmanv would gain from such a settlement, tiie prin cipal of which is the relative low cost of the war to Germany, to this time, as compared with the outlay of the entente allies. There are six fundamental reasons why Germany has been able, in his opinion, to' conduct the war with less expenditure than any one of the en tente allies in proportion to the num ber of men put into the field: Ataence of ImprovlMHttoti In tho Oerntan effort. Salaries well established for the produc tion of armament and munitions Absence ot wastage due to the abevnee of Improvisation. Kconomtcal labor. Free Iron ore and coal from Invaded re gions. Economical transportation by reason of the grouping; of tho central powers Inside the battle lines. Work Already Standardized. Germany, he asserts, had only to develop with machine tools built on its own territory, in order to produce the enormous series of types of can non and the different calibers of pro jectiles that were needed. All these had been carefully and minutely worked out in the tranquility of peace, while, on the other hand, the production of war material was in significant in France and almost noth ing in Great Britain and Russia at the beginning of the struggle. In all of the entente countries it was necessary to improvise, to con struct rapidly new works, to equip old ones with new machine tools brought from America at enormous expense and at the same time to im provise new types of cannon and projectiles. Improvisation Is Costly. This improvisation, M. Chcradatne declares, in time of war occasions a great many false steps, inevitable wastage of material and an immense increase in general expenses. The remarkable extension to a state of war of indusrial methods that were highly developed and systematized in time of peace, says M. Cheradame, enabled Germany to avoid in every branch of construction enormous losses of raw materialstoif every kind, from which all the entente allies have suffered. Germans Work Prisoners. So far as labor is concerned, the 100 LUCKY ONES MAY JOIN MICKEL BROTHERS White Sewing machine Club Fairly forced upon you! The world's best known, best iiked and best operating sewing machine ; sold to you on terms SO easy that you scarcely know you are pay ing. A machine so THOROUGHLY guaranteed that you cannot entertain a sec ond's doubt as to its quality. Think of it. Just imagine the ideal Only 25c as an initial payment and the machine is sent to your home. But you must join the "Club." 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