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THE BEE: OMAHA; TUESDAY. AUGUST 14, 1917
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JULY CIRCULATION
57,229 Daily Sunday, 51,153
a.,rire olrrnletlmi IM the innt subscribed tat tworo to W Bttgh.
Williens. Circulation UtBtf.
Subseribari leovlni the city ohoutd fcav. Tbo Bey malM
to thorn. Addreea chanted oe often m rwnwtri, -
War profiteer! will 'soon be "up against it,"
if not there already. -
' Count that day "lost which dots not bring an
auto speeder to grief.
' Every one of ttie twenty-seven sections of the
food control gun appears loaded.
Automobile owners are asked to do less joy
riding in order to, conserve gasoline likewise to
conserve the contents of their pocketbooks.
It looks as though the school improvement
program derived its fabulous sire from the notion
that Omaha had a cinch on war munition contracts.
Douglas county taxpayers certainly spend
enough money upon their roads and bridges every
year to have something to show for it. What's
the answer?
The high cost of living practically grips the
whole world. This fact, does not mitigate the
pinch, but gives to local kicks an international
touch of sympathy.
The increasing volume of coin pouring into the
Union Pacific treasury suggests a ntw passenger
station before long as one urgent means of re
lieving the pressure. ,
City, county and state taxes are booked for
increases in 1918 and federal war taxes promise
an equally stiff touch. Those who cannot dodge
the bills should begin saving now.
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Only one southern state has so far contrib
uted its quota of enlistments. Twenty-three
northern states have passed the mark. What's the
matter with the fighting spirit of the south? . .
The New Shoulder Straps,
Annouin- ments of commssions for the boys
who have been successfully tested out in the
officers' reserve training camps marks another
great forward step in the work of preparing to
take the field for our part in the world war. The
greater number of these young officers will shortly
become drillmasters for the first-call conscripts
as soon as they are assembled in their respective
cantonments and they will presumably go with
their troops when the latter are ready for active
operations.
According to all reports, the boys trying for
the officers' reserve commissions have been put
through a most comprehensive course of military
instruction and selected strictly on their demon
strated merits. The vast majority of them, in
the nature of things, start out with the lowest
commissioned rank, but they will all have an op
portunity to add to the bars or stars on their
shoulder straps by making good in the tasks ahead
of them. We take it, too, that the usual rivalry
always heretofore manifested between military
academy graduates and those who come up
through civil life will continue, but this should be
but a salutary spur to competitive service, bring
ing out the best that is in each.
The hopes of the nation are centered in the
army and the success of the army must in a large
degree depend on the fitness, perseverance, cour
age, skill and leadership of the officers.
Congratulations to, the boys who made com
missions and best wishes to those who failed to
land, who are nevertheless entitled to grateful ap
preciation for good intentions and best efforts.
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t der.
All methods are fair in war, according to the
ethics of the slaughterbund, but the average civi
lized . hUi.wilLcoatinue. to regard bombing non
vJ jbatant men, women and children as plain
" Huge increases in stocks of food in cold stor
age promotes conservation and insures a steady
winter market. The old game of hoarding for
war prices it not likely to work out as planned
this time.
It is easy for a newspaper to score a beat by
violating its solemnly plighted faith not to use
information given it in confidence until the agreed
time. But deliberate violation of confidence usu
ally suffers a setback.
Mississippi's total of enlistments since April
1 is less than one-third of its quota of 3,500. Evi
dently the state is not anxious to prosecute the
Meridian indictment against Kaiser Wilhelm or
"bring the indicted party into court
Despite the lowering winds which blew a few
shingles off the granaries of King Corn, his stock
remains unchanged in quantity, quality and sus
taining power. Besides, the present price sur
passes the dreams of peace-time wealth.
Those backyard gardens have reached the
stage now where they offer infallible testimony
to the industry or negligence of the gardener re
sponsible for their upkeep. Here is where cir
cumstantial evidence is all that is needed to
support the verdict. -
Time Limit on Ratifying Amendments, ; ' ,
The debate in the' senate last week furnishes
much illuminating information about the method
of" ratifying a constitutional amendment and ex
plains the. reason and purpose of the so-called
Harding amendment.'limiting the time for ratify
ing the proposed prohibition amendment to a pe
riod of six years. On'this phase of the 'question
the speech of Senator Ashurst embodies the re
sults of painstaking research and profound study
as the basis for critical analysis of previous ef
forts to change the federal constitution. The
senator shows that the first congress submitted
twelve consitutional amendments to the states, of
which only ten were adopted. In 1810 another
amendment, and in 1861 still another, was submit
ted that failed.
These four amendments, according to the sen
ator, are still "pending" before the states for rati
fication or rejection because there is no time
limit set to action upon them. After the second
of these amendments relating to salary grabs
had "floated around" for eighty-four years the
ilate senate of Ohio in 187J resurrected it and
passed resolution of ratification. Senator Ashurst
also called attention to another usually overlooked
incident in the history of our constitution making
as follows:
"The whirlwinds, simoons and siroccos of poli
tics do strange things. The fifteenth amendment
to the constitution of the United States was by
proclamation of the secretary of state declared
adopted March 30, 1870. The requisite number
of states ratified the same, for by that time the
secretary of state had begun the wise policy of
announcing by proclamation when the requisite
three-fourths had ratified amendments. Yet in
the turmoil, struggle and tumult of the political
situation in the state of Delaware it seems that
the state got temporarily under the dominion of
the Addicks "machine" and that that "machine,"
thinking to flatter, thinking to pander and to do
what we call "catch" the negro vote, dealt with
the fifteenth amendment to the constitution, which
had already been ratified for thirty-one years. Del
aware ratified that amendment solemnly and
gravely bn the 12th day of February, 1901
adopted a proposed amendment which had been
a part of our system since 1870."
The senator's conclusion is that "there ought
to be a limitation on the time when ait amend
ment should be ratified. We ought not to have
a state waiting eighty-four years and then pass a
resolution or wait until an amendment is adopted
for thirty-one years and then solemnly pass a
brutum fulmen, a harmless thunderbolt."
But, notwithstanding this situation, some doubt
remains as to whether congress can by such a
tacked-on clause fix a time limit for ratifying
constitutional amendments. Senator Norris in
terrupted Senator Ashurst to say that while in
sympathy with the purpose of the provision "there
ought to be, I should think, an independent, sepa
rate amendment to become part of our constitu
tion so that it would apply to all amendments."
And several senators expressed doubt as to the
effectiveness of the proviso.
Perhaps the whole controversy is more aca
demic than practical, for the consensus of opinion
agrees that if a national prohibition amendment
cannot muster the necessary ratifying three
fourths majority within six years, when it is a
live and vital issue, it cannot expect to secure
the additional ratifications no matter how long it
might be "hanging invisibly in the air."
Our Fighting Men
Richard M. Blatchford.
Richard hi. Blatchford. U. S. A., who recently
was promoted to the rank of brigadier general, is
a veteran officer with thirty-four years of military
service to -Jiis credit. General Blatchford was
born in New York in 1859 and after his gradua
tion at West Point was assigned to the infantry
arm. In his early career he saw active service in
Indian campaigns in the west, which was supple
mented by a highly creditable Spanish war rec
ord. In II J he reacnetl the jgrade of colonel ana
was assigned to the Twelfth infantry. At the time
of his latest promotion General Blatchford was
ii command at Fort Sill. Recent dispatches have
reported his arrival ip England. ,
William J. Snow."-. .
Colonel William -J. Snow, Fourth field artil
lery, who has been assigned to the command of
1-ort bill, Jkl., u well known among the younger
officers of the army. Ife is a native of New York.
born in 1868, .and 'graduated from the United
Mates Military Academy in ieVl. He is also a
graduate of the artillery school and of the Army
War college. During his entire military career
ne nas vtta iaentinea wttn tne neiu aruiiery. in
recognition of his ability and services he has been
advanced in rank twice within the last eighteen
months. Colonel Snow's new command at Fort
Sill will include the 'school of musketry and the
school of hre tor held artillery.
Kenneth Whiting. ; ' -
Lieutenanjt Kenneth Whiting. U. S. N.. who is
in command of the corps of American naval avia
tors that recently arrived in France., has already
established a reputation as a brilliant and daring
young officer. One of the most remarkable feats
ever attempt in the navy was performed by Lieu
tenant Whiting some years ago when be was an
ensign in command of the submarine Porpoise.
He had himself ejected from a torpedo tube of
the submarine craft to demonstrate whether it
was possible to escape from submarines in case
they sank. Lieutenant Whiting is 36 years old
and a native of Massachusetts. He was appointed
to Annaoolis from New York and graduated in
1905. He mastered the science of aviation as a
result of several years -spent at the naval aero
nautical station at. Pensacola.
New Facts About Our Virgin
Islands
By Frederic J. Hcuskin
New York City, Aug. 11. -The three little isl
ands of the West Indian archipelago which the
United States has just purchased from Denmark
have attained in the last few months a prominence
inthe public eye such as they have not known
since Columbus discovered them. Artists, writ
ers and scientists have journeyed into the Carib
bean. The surprised natives have been inter
viewed, the scenery described, the hills and
beaches dug up for relics.
Theodore de Booy, an ethnologist attached
to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye
Foundation, has just returned from the islands
after completing what is probably the first thor
ough scientific search of them for relics of their
primitive inhabitants. He brings the interesting
information that our three little islands, of St.
Thomas, St. Croix and St. John were never in
habited by either the Arawaks or the Caribs, pop
ularly supposed to have been the pre-Columbian
peoples of all of the West Indies; but were the
k- o i.tinrt rir IT aUn discovered that
living a uiainivi i.vvt - " " J
these islands were once the home of a strange
wingless bird, which was exterminated by the
Indians, and he interestingly describes-the. jrob-'
able condition of the Virgin islands in pre-Colmri?
bian days, when they were heavily forested and
had a fauna quite different from the present one.
Mr. d Booy found the sites of two villages
upon the island of St. Thomas, where the Danish
capital of Charlotte Amalie is now located. On
St. Croix he found evidence of a large popula
tion for primitive times; he estimates that about
10,000 Indians were supported by this rich little
island, which is now largely planted iff' sugar
cane and tropical fruits. The island of St. John,
which is the best watered and most beautiful of
the three, he believes never to have been occupied
by the Indians as a home, but to have been set
aside by them for ceremonial purposes.
Heart of the Young Soldier.
Men of medical science are finding much of
deep interest in the experience of the present war.
Surgeons have accomplished real triumphs and
look ahead to others. One of the most notable
advances has been in the combat of infection.
Out of the newer methods of destruction came
infection of a sort science knew not how to deal
with when the war was young; ordinary antisep
tics were of little or no use and discovery was
demanded. This has been met, until now abso
lute cleanliness and consequent recovery is avail
able. But some of the lessons of older wars are
yet remembered and applied. One of these is
the fact that transition'of young men from sedent
ary to active life, such as going from the counting
room to the training field, has a bad effect on
the heart and not infrequently incapacitates the
young soldier. This was studied at the time of
the civil war and is now getting deserved atten
tion from army doctors. In the British army it
has been met not only with heart simulants, but
more effectively by graduated exercist, so that the
recruit is worked up to his capacity througlr de
grees that develop him without any undue strain.
The great task of shaping up our new army in
volves no end of detail, not the least of w.hich is
this factor of physical endurance. American sur
geons are hopeful, however, of being able to
eliminate "soldier's heart" from the list of dis
eases to be faced.
Mr. lc Booy unearthed many skeletons of the
primitive people of the islands, many of their
stone implements, and found numerous shell heaps
where they had made their fishing camps, but
the relics which convinced him that he had come
upon the traces of a separate tribe were the bits
of pottery that he found about the village sites.
On the strength of this pottery alone he asserts
positively that the Virgin island Indians were
neither Caribs nor Arawaks, but of a different
tribe, for the making of pottery is an art and it
is an art which gives play to personality and im
agination that in any people, primitive or civil
ized, is distinctive. Thus a penknfe made in Ger
many is not in any essential or characteristic way
different from a penknife made in the United
States. You could not distinguish the two prod
ucts in a store window. This is because there is
only one way to make a penknife so that it will
best serve its purpose. But German painting and
sculpture are absolutely distinctive from these
arts in the United States, as are German phil
osophy and fiction.
So among primitive races stone axes, arrow
heads and knives made by widely separated tribes
in about the same stage of development are much
alike, but the pottery of these tribes in form and
design is different.
Mr. de Booy's theory is that the people of
the Virgin islands belonged to some South Ameri
can tribe which was driven from its main land
home, found all of the more rich and important
islands occupied by the warlike Caribs and the
powerful Arawaks and so were forced to settle
on the two minor islands of St. Thomas and St.
Croix, which are about the smallest in the In
dies that have a dependable water supply. It is
interesting to notice that this weak primitive tribe
got the islands for the same reason that the small
and helpless civilized nation of Denmark got them
later because no one else wanted them.
Next to his discovery that a hitherto unknown
tribe once inhabited these islands Mr. de Booy's
most interesting find was the bones of a flight
less bird. Such a bird, belonging to the rail fam
ily and having useless rudimentary wings, inhab
its New Zealand at the present day, but that a
similar creature lived 'on this hemisphere was a
tremendous surprise to the scientists of the Smith
sonian institution in Washington, who identified
the bones sent them by Mr. de Booy. The bird
is not prehistoric, but was undoubtedly hunted
and eaten by the Indians 300 or 400 years ago.
Another creature which existed upon the isl
ands in pre-Columbian days and is now extinct
was the isolobodan, a large rodent, which also
furnished the islanders with food.
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Pessimism born of U-boat operations against
allied shipping find little support in late trade
reports of Great Britain. June imports totaled
86,068,342, a decrease of 859,338 compared
with June, 1916. The significant feature of the
report is that the decrease is in other articles than
foodstuffs.
Omaha is being visited by a quite a few high
army officers these days, but they are too busy
during their short stay here to let us show the
hospitality we would like to accord them. The'
latchstring, is out and the invitation holds good
at the pleasure of the guest
Mr. de Booy's discoveries indicate that the
islands have not only been deforested, but that
the whole character of their fauna has been
changed by man. Not only the flightless bird
and the isolobodan have been exterminated, but
he also found bones of a species of crow which
is now extinct and is. known to have inhabited
only dense forests. For these animals which have
been destroyed the European fallow deer, the
partridge and -the wild goaf have been substi
tuted. Thus the character of both flora and fauna
have been radically altered by man and if one
of the aborigines could return he would probably
find the islands hard to recognize.
Thrifty School Children
-New York World.
Interesting figures showing the earning
capacity of school children in vacation and after
hours' employment are contained in a report is
sued by the National Bureau of Education. From
an in investigation of the cases of 14,391 children
of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades in eleven
states, it is estimated that a total of about $60,000.
000 is earned annually from casual labor by school
children of both sexes, mainly in such occupa
tions as housework and messenger, delivery and
personal service. Because of the strict labor laws
only a negligible percentage do vacation work in
factories, mills and mines.
This is a surprisingly large income to be de
rived from the intermittent work of children; it
exceeds the wage payments of large industries
and would nearly pay the interest on an issue of
Liberty bonds. That school children possess this
earning power is no doubt one of the reasons why
they are eager to leave school, though the bureau
ascribes the main cause to "dissatisfaction." That
is an old complaint of schoolboys; that it exists
today indicates only that they have not changed
their nature. A satisfied schoolboy is an unat
tainable Ideal, yet the bureau aspires to it in its
suggestion of "vitalizing" school work by a
change of method and providing "remunerative
employment for children while attending school."
Why worry about remunerative employment
for school children when they have already pro
vided it for themselves to the extent of $6(1,000,
000 a year? As respects vitalizing school work to
increase its appeal to the pupil, have not the
school children of this generation been pampered
enough as it is? If a new order of things is de
sired in the American system of public-school
education, the experiment might be tried of run
ning it for the benefit of parents.
People and Events
Washington gossip drifting back to Kansas in
timates that Victor Murdock of Wichita has both
ears curved to catch the buzzing of the senatorial
bee. Classifying himself as a thoroughgoing ad
ministration man, Mr. Murdock declines to con
sider any job below the senatorship and is willing
to have the democratic nomination come his way.
Connecticut, the land of steady habits and
wooden nutmegs, loosens up with the years. A
new and strange, but more enjoyable brand of
Sunday has come into existence. Amateur sports
are indulged in, soda fountains pour out their
soothing joy at so much per, and newspapers,
cigars and auto gas may be had without disfig
uring' the pious fast of the Connecticut counte
nance on the Sabbath day. The world moves and
Connecticut hobbles along.
1 ay jihv nil A V
Proverb for the Day.
It is easy to advise other fulks.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
Russians continued their great drive
of the Austro-Uermans In eastern
Galicia.
Germans recovered part of ground
captured by the British the previous
day northwest of Pozieres.
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In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Mm. .1. Renson. of FreeDort. III., has
located In the Kamere building and j
Will engage III I.UC V J "
ness.
Frank Macdonald, manager of the
Millard hotel, who has extended the
hospitality of his house to President
Cleveland, has received a note from
the president's secretary stating that
the president is trying to arrange his
trip su as to Include Omaha.
Kev. J. N. Crawford of Indianapolis,
Ind., who has been the guest of O. P.
McCarty, has left for Fulton, Cal.
Frank Clifford. Miss Minnie Clifford
and Miss Kate Quailey have left for
the west to be absent about a month.
A new detective company has been
organized In Omaha under the name
of the I'nited States Detective associa
tion. The members of the firm are
Charles W. Lewis, Joshua Hougrha
wout, Hiram Harris, Charles L. Bauer,
Fred Oreen, James E., Robertson,
Maximilian Mabery, John P. Burgher
and Chris Johnson.
J. F. Riehart and family, who have
been visiting in Iowa,vhave returned
home.
Chief J. J. Galllgan has returned
from Chicago In fine spirits, his Injured
optic having been well taken care of.
This Day In History.
1756 Fort Oswego was taken by the
French under Montcalm.
1781 Washington decided to trans
fer his army from New York to Vir
ginia. 1813 The American brig Argus,
after a successful cruise, was captured
by the British brig Pelican in the
English channel.
1817 Arrival in Philadelphia of a
party of Separatists from Germany.
1870 Admiral David G. Farragut,
the most famous of the Union naval
commanders in the civil war, died at
Portsmouth, N. H Horn near Knox
ville. Tenn., July 5, 1801.
1876 The first wire of the Brooklyn
suspension bridge was drawn over the
East river.
1888 Brig. General John M. Scho
fleld was appointed commander of the
United States army.
1889 Judge Terry killed In Califor
nia for threatening the life of Justice
Field.
1914 The French invaded German
Lorraine.
1915 British transport Royal Ed
ward torpedoed in Aegean sea, with
loss of 1,000 lives.
The Day We Celebrate.
David Martin McGahey is just 47
years today. He was born im Belfast,
and is engaged in the insurance busi
ness in Omaha as general agent for the
Home Life Insurance company of New
York. .
K. M. F. Leflang, capitalist, is celei
bating his sixty-seventh birthday to
day. He was born at Silkborg, Den
mark, and was a successful! miller at
Lexington, Neb., before moving to
Omaha.
George J. S. Collins, consulting and
contracting engineer, was born August
14, 1863, at Wells, England. His first
experience was with the Cape govern
ment railways In South Africa.
Prince Henry of Prussia, only
brother of German emperor, and who
has been in command of the German
Baltic fleet, born at Potsdam, fifty-five
years ago today.
H. Parker Willis, president of the
insular bank of the Philippines, born
at Weymouth, Mass., forty-three years
ago today.
Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., president
of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural
society, born sixty-seven years ago to
day. Little John Jacob Astor, one of the
wealthiest infants in America, born in
New York City, five years ago today,
four months after his father perished
In the Titanic dsaster.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Ferdinand of Bulgaria today com
pletes thirty years on the throne.
Alabama will observe today and to
morrow as good roads day.
A 35 cent gas rate ordinance is to
be submitted to the voters of Cincin
nati at the primary election today.
The Imperial Palace Knights of
Pythias and Knights of Khorassan
are scheduled to begin their annual
meeting today at Cedar Point, O.
Henry D. Estabrook of New York
is scheduled to deliver the annual ad
dress before the midsummer meeting
of the Vermont Bar association at Rut
land today.
Probably the largest display of
monumental and sculptural works that
has ever been held in this country will
be placed on exhibition in the Com
mercial museums In Philadelphia to
day In conection ith the annual con
vention of the National Retail Monu
ment Dealers' association.
Storyette of the Day.
As the burly and distinguished fig
ure of Lord Northcllffe hurried down
the hotel lounge a correspondent said:
"There goes the most successful and
deservedly successful Journalist in the
world. In this war he has done more
for the allies', cause than any other
man except Lloyd George.
"A hard chap to -interview, though.
I could never land him. The last time
I wrote him for an interview he wrote
back:
" 'I am sorry, but I must ask you
to excuse me from acceding to your
request. 1 am like the little boy at
the school treat who, when the squire's
wife came round to him with the
strawberry jam, promptly said:
" 'No, thank you, ma'am. I works
at the place where they makes it." "
Washington Star.
OBLIGATION.
S. E. KUer. In Ltlle'a.
I rimy not have the strength to trt
My will against the tyrant's arm.
Or rause him sullenly to U t
Hn prey escape the threatened harm;
But If the bully does not choose
To suffer mo to shield the weak,
I tenderly can bathe the bruise
That blackens on the martyr's cheek.
I cannot hope to gladden all
To whom each day bring only dread;
I cannot answer every call
From those whose dearest hopes are dead:
But 1, within the little sphere
In which my dally tasks are laid.
Can speak the faith and lend the cheer
That makes the doubter unafraid.
I am not numbered with the few
Whose fame extend through every une;
Sly place la with the millions who
Pursue a daily course, unknown;
But. even so, I have no right
To shun the wrongs I should atsuil;
I, too. must help with all my might,
And I am guilty it I fail.
Drafting of National-,.
Omaha, Aug. 12. To the Editor of
The Bee: There Is considerable agita
tion going on throughout the country
and ip the press to get the allied gov
ernments to consent to the drafting of
their nationals into the United States
army. The British government is alive
to the fact that the record of the ad
ministration proves beyond a shadow
of doubt that if Germany had com
plied with President Wilson's demand
that they cease Finking American
ships, the United States would still
have been a neutral. If there is any
drafting of allied countries nationals,
it will not be into the United States
army, but into the armies of the coun
tries to which they owe allegiance. If
the administration had moved in Au
gust, 1914, then the request probably
would have been granted.
THOMAS HENRY W ATKINS.
Another Suggestion to Stop U-Boats.
Omaha, Aug. 13. To the Editor of
The Bee: The United States is bat
tling for the right purpose, democra
tizing Germany, or rather educating
the Germans as to the only system of
government.
When this is accomplished, then
what next?
England, Italy, Spain, Turkey,
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, etc, all
are monarchies. Will we go ahead
and hammer the rest of Europe until
thpy are in the democratic column?
Why not prevail on the latter named
countries to lay down the scepter and
offer their names as nominees for
presidency of their respective coun
tries? This would set the German people
to thinking and will have a greater
effect towards putting a quietus upon
the submarines than all the man-killing
devices that human brain can in
vent. "IN HOC."
Loyal Women. Too.
Plattsmouth, Neb., Aug. 11. To the
Editor of The Bee: As Jacob Cratts
"hurrahed" President Wilson, I say,
"Hurrah for Jacob Cratts.' He is truly
a patriotic and loyal American citi
zen. Speaking of patriotism, let me cite
an instance of loyalty which cost a
woman here a number of friends, but,
taking The Bee's stand in the matter,
considered she wasn't losing much
when she lost friends because of her
patriotism. This woman belonged to
a club whose members were (and do
yet. I presume) continually "hoching
der kaiser" and making disloyal and
treasonable remarks about President
Wilson. Because of this "kalserism"
this loyal woman ceased to belong to
this club. I say "hurrah" for her, too.
I glory in her spunk.
Why should women be allowed to
"hoch de kaiser" any more than the
men? LOYAL AMERICAN.
Railway Mall "Reorganization.'
Chadron, Aug. 13. To the Editor
of The Bee: I have read with no small
amount of interest and appreciation
of your efforts in behalf of the rail
way mall clerks through the columns
of your paper.
On all of the lines that have been
"reorganized" I think the one put into
effect on the run between Chadron,
Neb., and Lander, Wyo.. on June 1
is the rawest piece of work of its kind.
Usually in a contemplated reorgani
zation of this kind it was custoirmry
for the department officials to put
forth some excuse that would look
plausible to the public at least, but in
this case "for the good of the service
and the clerks themselves." This is
the only reason offered by the second
assistant postmaster J. general ,when
asked for the-reasons- v '
But Chief Clerk Meyers of. Chey
enne, Wyo., in answer to the question
as to why this line was reorganized,
said, "The R. M. A. is to blame for
all this reorganization in various parts
of the country and that we here were
merely incidental to that reorganiza
tion." When . pressed further as to
what interpretation was to be placed
uporv that remark it was stated that
the R. M. A. was too active in oppos
ing the department in its affairs per
taining to the railway mail service.
., Further than this he would not say,
but are we to infer that this is an at
tempt to disrupt that organization and
other organizations of a similar nature
because through- those organizations
we have sought the betterment of the
service and the employes? ,
Does the department recognize the
fact that congress has given these em
ployes the right to organize and pe
tition that body for redress of griev
ances? If not, perhaps It were well
that their attention should be called
to that fact.
Or are we to infer that-4his reor
ganization is a novel form of punish-
ment to be meted out tu th."ie em- .
ployes because they have dared t
exercise those rights guaranteed to us
by the constitution it- elf and iurtnsih
ene'd bv act of congress? Nov,- to
the reorganization cf the line re, erred
to above. This is a oue-mun run. grade
B, of five crews of one man each. viu
prior to June 1 were running through
to Lander, Wyo., from Chadron. Neb.
Being on the road and away from
home six nights and twelve day:, per
month each. ,
Ur.der the present plan there are
three men between Chadron and Cas
per and two men between Casper and
Lnnrfpr ptrmlovins the same Ave men
at the same salary as before with the
exception that the departmeut is pay
ing an increase in travel allowance to
the combined five men of S108 per
year more than would be paid if the
clerks were running as before and in
addition to this the department is put
to extra expense on account of the in
crease in the use of supplies, which
will amount to in all of an increase
in cost to the department of $200 per
year more than what it would be if
the clerks were still running through
to Lander.
So much for the departments side
of the case and now as to the other
side of ther affair. Two of the olerks
have been deported to Lander, Wyo.,
having been compelled to give up their
homes here, while the remaining three
are living in Chadron, as before, with
this exception, that they are on the
road and away from home twenty days
and ten nights per month each at an
additional expense of more than S20
per month each over what it would be.
if permitted to run through, as all
clerks on this line wish to do.
This sums up as follows: A loss to
the clerks on the line of about $1,000
per year and a loss to the department
of about $200 and yet it is all for the
good of the service and the clerks.
We are asking for nothing during
these trying times but fair treatment,
so that in the face of the ever-increasing
cost of living we will not le com
pelled to sacrifice more than 20 per
cent of our wages, when no one derives
any benefits from it and, in fact, the
clerks and the department are both
losers.
As you are no doubt aware of the
wrath that will descend upon the head
9t him who dares to divulge any of
the secrets of this business, which
seems to belong exclusively to Burle
son, I beg of you if you see fit to
print this matter that you omit the
name of the writer. R. P. C.
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Bluffs Police Unfair to Autolsts.
To the Editor of The Bee: Many
Omaha and Council Bluffs autolsts are
disgusted with the tactics of the Coun
cil Bluffs police in regard to speeders.
For instance, while driving along a
nice streetch of road a machine will
ride along side yours and the driver
will tantalize and by action banter
you for a race. After increasing ones
speed to get away from the uncouth
and unwelcome intruders with their
rattling old cars, one is commanded
to halt, notified of his arrest and either
taken to Jail or caused to deposit a
certain amount of money stipulated
by those drivers, better known as po
licemen, for your appearance in court
the next day, where your word is
matched against the officer and the
witness who rides with him. This is
a poor policy from a social and a busi
ness standpoint on the part of Council
Bluffs. Certainly, speeders as well as
all other violators of laws, should be
arrested and fined, but men in autos,
either on pleasure or business bent
should not be subjected to such con
temptible tricks and usage. Wouldn't
it be well for Council Bluffs authorities
to investigate this matteY?
AUTOIST.
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girl?" - ,
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acuse she Is such a good little sir)."
"But, grandma," Paul protested, "yU.arl
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"What did you get out of that will case?"
asked the first lawyer.
"A hundred and fifty thousand dollars,"
replied the second! lawyer.
"Good round sum. eh?" 1
"Ves, but I thought the old man left
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