THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 12. 1917.
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ANY EXEMPTED MAN
Fined as Slacker, McEwan Ad
mits He is a Dishonor
ably Discharged Sol
dier. This Shows the Way Men of "Dandy Sixth"
Get Outside of Pies Like Mother Used to Make
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Elmer McEwan doesn't look like
a "slacker." Yet that is the charge
on which he was brought before Fed
eral Judge Woodrough Saturday
morning. He is a big, fine-looking
chap of 22 years. And he answered
all questions put to him by the judge
and Assistant United States Attorney
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end of each sentence. That indicated
army training.
in tact, wlien lie told Ins story it
was shown that he is an ex-army
man. And he admitted that he was
discharged from the United States
army- dishonorably.
He enlisted in the regular army
several years ago when he was only
18. He was sent with his regiment
to Honolulu. Far from home, lie'
grew lonely and homesick. And he
sought to drown his sorrows in the
fiery, alcoholic liquors of Hawaii. He
was soon a slave to them and his ha
bitual drunkeness led to his dishon
orable discharge.
For a year and a half. McEwan
said, he has not touched a drop. On
registration day he was working on
a arm near Dalton, Neb. He failed
to register. He left soon after reg
istration day and went to his home
in Denver. There he was arrested.
He was also registered there.
Prosecutor Saxton recommended
mercy in McEwan's case. He said
.McEwan was not a "slacker" in the
usual sense of the word, but wanted
to enlist.
"I'd be glad to take the place of
some exempted man, sir," said Mc
Ewan wistfully.
. Judge Woodrough sentenced him to
sixty days in the Madison county
jail, with the provision that if the
Denver exemption boards call for
him at any ,'me to take the place of
an exempted man the sentence will be
suspended.
It is a question whether McEwan
will be accepted in the draft army.
For. there is that black mark on his
record, the dishonorable discharge.
cut he hopes to get in.
Alleges Wife Humiliates
Him Before His Friends
Bruce White has filed an answer
and cross-petition to his wife's di
vorce suit in district court, alleging
she entertains other men and humili
ates him in the presence of his friends.
His wife, Viola White, alleges infidel
ity. They were married at Sioux City
The 375 pips to which the
women of the National League
for Woman's Service Friday
afternon created the soldiers
quartered At the Auditorium,
went dowa in record time.
Each soldier received a plate
with two varieties of pie. All
the flavors and varieties of pie
of wnlch the most learned cul
inary expert could possibly
conceive were in abundance.
Company by company the
men lined up and passed the
mess table, where the women
in charge handed out pies at
the rate of half a pie to a man.
Conversation was conspicuous
by its absence, as the men sat
around in groups devouring
the delicious homemade pas
try. Tongues were too busy
for mere talk, but the unmis
takable look of satisfaction on
every tanned face testified to
the ability of Omaha house
wives to make pie that "hits
the spot."
The machine gun company
of the "Dandy Sixth" lined up
and gave three rousing clieers
for the women of the National
league, and all the others boys
in the building echoed the sen
timent. The pie feed was in charge
of the commissariat depart
ment of the National League
for Woman's Service, headed
by Mrs. L. J. Healey. ,
in December, 1910.
HARCOURT OPPOSES
ENGLISHJREPUBLIC
Liberal Leader Says Great
Britain Already Democracy
in Fullest Sense; No
Change Needed.
(Correspondence of Th Associated Press.)
Rawtenstall, England, July IS. Op
position to the idea of reorganizing
the British government on the lines
of a republic recently was expressed
by Viscount Lewis Harcourt, member
of the liberal party and formerly sec
retary of state for the colonies, in a
speech delivered to his constituents
here. He said: .
"Because there has been a revolu
tion in Kussia ana a deposition in
Greece, and because there were al
ready republics in France and the
United States, a small minority of
thoughtless and illogical persons in
this country thought or said that we
shall have or should have a republic
here.
"Why, in the name of wonder,
should we radicals and democrats
want or seek anything of the kind in
this country? What in heaven's name
could any of us gain by it? We have
already the most perfect and com
plete democracy that the world has
ever conceived ok constructed. We
carried out an orderly revolution
through parliamentary legislation bv
which we deprived the crown of all
its undemocratic prerogatives, until
today the king stands as the best
hereditary popular president which
any constitution monger could create.
"Our own system of limited mon
archy is the most strictly limited and
most plebeian form of monarcy which
any sane republican could desire or
devise. No elected president would
obtain the prestige, especially in In
dia, which we happily find in our
present hereditary head of the British
commonwealth."
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"Fresh Air Farm" for 400
Refugee Children in France
Paris, Aug. 11. The American Red
Cross has instituted a "fresh air farm"
on a beautiful hillside as a refuge
center for 400 children who have been
driven from rlieir homes by gas
bombs dropped by enemy airplanes.
Each child is kept on the "fresh air
farm" for ten days at a time. The
American tuberculosis committee-was
received yesterday by President Poin
care at the Elysee palace.
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Intervening silli are done away
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ire riveted to the frame, and
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In ordinary cars all such parts
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