THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 9, 1917.
5 A
Nebraska
DEFENSE CODNCIL
MEMBERS
SILENT
Gooch Only One Who Does Any
Talking Following; Charges
Made by Lieutenant Gov
ernor Howard.
(From a Staff Correspondent)
Lincoln, Neb., Sept 8. (Special)
The State Council of Defense refuses
to make any comment on the charges
made by Lieutenant Governor Edgar
Howard in his Columbus Telegram
against Herbert E. Gooch, a member
. of the State Council of Defense, and
asking for his discharge on grounds
that he is a professional patriot.
. President Joyce, Vice President
Coupland and Secretary Richmond all
refused to make any statement, say
' mg that, it was a matter that they
would have to consider before taking
any action.
Calls It Flapdoodle. '
The Lincoln Evening Star, of which
Mr. Gooch is the principal owner and
president of the publishing company,
this evening quotes Mr. Gooch as
follows: '
"The demand from Edgar Howard
that I resign from the Council of De
fense is all Bryan political flapdoodle,
"The short-weight case he refers to
was beard more than six years ago,
Previous to the enactment of the net
weight law all the mills in Nebraska
packed flour to weigh forty-eight
pounds including the sack. The net
weight law was passed, I believe, in
1911. There was no emergency clause
and the law did not go into effect un
til July, 1911. The date of its be
coming effective waa overlooked by
the secretary of our company. It
was overlooked also by perhaps rrore
than a dozen mills in this state.
Chester Aldrich was governor at the
time. The Star had oooosed his elec
tion and naturally he was unfriendly
to me.- He had his inspector on the
job and found that our sacks were
tw6 or three ounces light in the net
weight, as they packed forty-eight
oounds gross. Ignorance of the . law
excuses no person, so the milling
company was technically guilty and
we admitted it. A dozen other mills
were caught the same way. Person
ally, I knew nothing of the matter
until it was brought to my attention.
That Net Weight Case.
"Flour when milled should contain
V per cent moisture. This is the
government regulation. Flour held
in stock may lose part of this mois
ture content and naturally will weigh
fess. The only correct test as to
weight of flour in stock is to bring
the moisture content back to 13 J4
per cent and then weigh it. If flour
is kept in a very dry place, or the
weather is dry, all flour will undoubt
edly weigh light. In wet, damp
weather the reverse is the rule. This
condition does not cheat the con
sumer, as the dry flour will take up
just that much- more moisture in the
working.
"So far as Mr. Howard's charge
that our milling company is crooked,
our customers are better judges of
that than Mr. Howard. .
Political Buncombe.
"The whole thing is political bun
combe and evidently emanates from
the Bryans. Howard calls me a 'pro
fessional patriot." A couple of young
propaganda against President Wil
sons preparedness program. The
Commoner was printing attacks
against the president and reproducing
ahuts cartoons from repub
lican papers. Later on Mr. Bryan
made repeated trips to Washington
and held conferences with the oppo
nents of preparedness, and his clique
in congress proved very embarrassing
to the president. Later on Bryan was
a candidate for delegate to the St.
Louis democratic convention. Ine
Star successfully opposed his election
"and rendered a patriotic service in
doin so. The action of the intense
Bryanites in congress, such as Sen
ator Gore and others, proves this.
Where Allen Comes In.
"The Star has also criticised Dis
trict Attorney T. S. Allen for his lax
ity in holding and prosecuting trai
tors. This, too, may be 'professional
patriotism The Star, as anewspa
per, has lent its every aid to the ad
ministration. It has worked for pre
paredness, for the Red Cross, for the
t :l ...... intrt ni4 fnr tverv Other
force that would make America more
effective in this worK. in tawng us
stand on these questions it has never
considered its own-financial welfare
and has never been on both side of
the fence. This sort of 'professional
patriotism' is evidently distasteful in
some quarters. ,
"So tar as my resignation from the
council of defense is concerned, I do
not propose to pay any attention to
-demands from Edgar Howard or any
of his faction. In fact, I would make
no response whatever to his demand
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if it were not that he is the dulv
elected lieutenant governor of this
state. My position on. the council
came to me upsolicited and was ac
cepted with great reluctance. I ex
pressed the hope that some other
manufacturer be chosen. The other
members of the council know who I
am and are acquainted with my brand
of patriotism. If they have any com
plaint against me, I am willing to
step out.
DEFENSE COUNCIL
STILL NEEDS SEED
Governor Issues Proclamation
Calling upon Holders of
Wheat to Sell It at
Reasonable Price.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Sept. 8. (Special.) The
State Council of Defense still has dif
ficulty obtaining seed wheat for the
use of people who need it,those who
have it for sale holding it for a higher
price than tne council is willing to
pay.
The owners" insist they will not sell
for less than $2.75 a bushel, while the
council is endeavoring to obtain it for
$2.30 or $2.35 a bushel. The council,
through Mr. McCloud of York, re
cently gof a carload in. the western
part of the state laid down in York
for $2.34 a bushel.
Mr. Coupland, vice president of the
state council, has taken the matter up
with the federal representative at
Omaha and the matter will be looked
into. '
Mr. Coupland is anxious that the
farmers of the state should cut up
their corn for feeding purposes, be
lieving that it will be needed before
winter is over.
The governor, in a proclamation,
says:
It is reported by government
agents that in many Nebraska com
munity seed wheat is not being mar
keted and thatTrS result a shortage
for fall planting wilt fellow.
nis condition, unless quiwrty rec
tified, will be s. serious embarrass
ment to the government in the prose
cution of the war and will also entail
considerable financial loss to the peo
ple of Nebraska by greatly lessening
the planted acreage ot a crop, which,
marketed at $.15 per bushel, the
price fixed by the government, would
be most lucrative.
"It is earnestly urged upon the
people of Nebraska that they co-operate
with the State Council of Defense
and ; the government agents to the
end that a full acreage be planted."
Japan to Launch Ninety-Seven
Steamers Dunng.Present Year
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Tokio, Aug. , 1. Before the year
is over shipyards ' or Japan ex
pect to launch ninety-swen steam
ships with an aggregate tonnage of
400,000 tons. Thirty-one merchant
men aggregating 108,755 tons, t and
each exceeding 500 tons, were com
pleted at various shipbuilding yards
in Japan during the six months end
ing June 30 this year. Sixty-six more,
representing Zy,644 tons, each of
more than SOU tons, will be finished
before the end of this year.
By SAMUEL AVERY.
(Chancellor University of Nebraska.)
Lincoln, Sapt. 8. (Special.) I am
so greatly in sympathy with all ef
forts to place Nebraska in thought
an action fully behind the government
of the United States that I am not
sensitive fi a few chips from those
who are hewing to the line fall on the
university campus. However, I fear
that erroneous conclusions may be
drawn from the recent article of Mr.
Metcalfe on the teaching of German
in the university, and that not only
the institution, but also the crystalli
zation of patriotic sentiment in the
state may be hindered. The latter
thought more, than the former, causes
me to send this communication to the
press.
No regent has ever actively inter
ested himself in promoting the teach
ing of any foreign language, unless a
possibel exception be made in the
case of former Regent Anderson's
verv cordial sunoort of mv recnmmfti.
fldations regarding the instruction in
Nebraska.
German Not Require.d
. German is not required for gradu
ation from any course in the univer
sity, except that 'for the egree of
doctor of philosophy, the candidate,
as in all other Omerican universities
of standing must have a reading
knowledge of both French and Ger
man. In all undergraduate courses
modern languages are placed on an
equality.
The large number of students
wholly voluntarily registering for
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AVERY TELLS OF
GERMAN IN UNI
Head of Nebraska University
Writes About Relation of In
struction to Curriculum
in University.
German is responsible for the long list
of instructors in German. Not all of
these instructors are of German de
scent;, the list includes one Scandi
navian and several Americans. The
university has employed only enough
instructors to meet the demands of
the students.
The head of the German depart
mentProf. Fossler, though born in
Germany, is an American of the best
type. His condemnation of Ger
many's political system since the be
ginning of the present world war has
been outspoken. His influence in the
state has been one of the most potent
factors in developing loyalty on the
part of American! of Gernian descent
towards 'the political institutions of
their adopted country. His conduct
of the department for years has been
wholly on a basis of merit and he has
never been in touch or sympothy with
German propagandists who have been
trying to use "kultur" for political
purposes.
Comparison Called Inaccurate.
Mr. Metcalfe's comparison between
the amount of money used in teaching
German and English is inaccurate, as
he omits the expense of our great
rhetoric department where the study
of the accurate use of the English
language is required of all students.
This unintentional error of Mr. Met
calfe's undoubtedly came through a
lack of familiarity with the details of
the work of the university. The de
partment of English language and
literature is locally organized as dis
tinct from the department of rhetoric,
which is, of course English rhetoric
and composition.
Other comparisons of Mr. Metcalfe,
though made in good faith, are irrele
vant or misleading. Military drill has
come to, us both as a gift and a re
quirement from the federal govern
ment. Until very recently the univer
sity has spent nothing for it. The
items in the biennial report under
school of agriculture include only the
things of a miscellaneous nature The
major portion of the expense of the
school of agriculture is cared for un
der the items of the separate depart-
i 1. I lit
People'
A--" Believe
V 3f Me
Better a man lose all than
the respect and confidence
of his friends.
There is something, intuitive-
about "faith" you
seem to "know" some people -are
true and square and hon
est and nothing can shake
your confidence.
I have always had faith in
the fairness and iustice of
the people and I lay this to the fact that I first HAD
FAITH IN MYSELF faith in my ability to serve the
public faith in my honesty of purpose.
I have made some'pretty strong claims for the vir
tues of my perfected local Anesthetic. But I tested it in
hundreds of cases before I told the public about it, be
cause I did not want to be accused of misrepresentation
or even exaggeration.
I think about the meanest thing a human being
could be guilty of is to promise a trustirfg child or a deli
cate, nervous woman that a dental operation would not
hurt AND THEN DELIBERATELY HURT THEM.
While I have at times plainly expressed my abhorence
of shoddy dental work, overcharging patients and un
necessary iain, I have always placed my photograph at
the top of my announcements and my name at the bot
tom because I proclaim my willingness to accept responsi
bility for every statement made in them.
That means that I am exceedingly careful not to let
inaccuracies, exaggerations or untruth creep into my pub
lic announcements, because I could not afford to lose the
confidence the people repose in me.
r People coming to me for dental workwhether for
a simple extraction or the most complicated inlay, plate
or bridge work may be positively assured ,
that the material used will be exactly as represented.
that the workmanship will be correct and artistic,
that all unnecessary pain will be eliminated.
and the charge will be fair and reasonable and n6
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' Douglas 4604. (Formerly Rose Bldg.)
Hours 8:30 a. m. to 8 p. m. Sundays, 9 to 1.
ments. Thus, for instance, the mag
nificent new dairy plant will serve the
school of agriculture, but the expense
of operating is listed under dairy hus
bandry. Follow Wilson's Lead.
After war was declared with the
imperial German government the uni
versity, following the lead of Presi
dent Wilson, took the ground that we
were not fighting the German people.
Mr. Metcalfe is entirely right in fight
ing the German language where it is
used as a means of propagating a
foreign political system and promot
ing disloyalty. I am myself in favor
of abandoning al! foreign language
teaching in the grades, but I believe
that foreign languages should be
studied as purely secondary languages
in the high schools, colleges and uni
versities. This is precisely what Ger
many is doing. The German govern
ment would not tolerate for an in
stant a political program carried on
through newspapers printed in a for
eign tongue, wjjose future subscrib
ers were to learn this foreign lan
guage in state-supported schools. On
the other hand, Germany has for
years made French, English and Rus
sian prominent studies in its higher
institutions and has sent great num
bers of young men to these foreign
countries to perfect themselves in the
use of their respective languages, the
object being, of course, to have a
large body of trained Germans who
could speak the language of the peo
ples whom they expected to conquer
either in a commercial or a military
way. We should, therefore, make a
sharp distinction between teaching
German in the grades for political
purposes and elective Germa'n in the
higher instiutions for our own inter
est and advantage
Fewer Will Take German.
It is probable that the number of
students taking German in the uni
versity will show a marked falling off
this fall. Should this prove to be the
case, I am now planning, with the full
approval of the regents, to try to
make certain shifts of instructors to
other lines of work. It should be re
membered, however, that with the
salaries paid to university professors,
small as they are in comparison with
the rewards of the business world,
security and tenure of office are the
principal attractions to able men and
women. Even in war times we can
not treat worthy professors as hired
men, to be given their time checks
when one joy is completed and new
orders are not coming in with the
usual rapidity. If there is a per
manent falling off in German instruc
tion in the university owing to a les
sening demand on the part of the
people, retrenchment should come to
the department gradually and with
out injustice to any who have been
rendering in the past satisfactory
service to the university and the state.
In conclusion I would say that I
have no desire for controversy in the
matter. I would at this time place
the winning of teh world war above
every other consideration. Against
this the ambitions of one's life, or life
itself, should not weigh. Neverthe
less, Is not here an instance where
moderation of thought is fully in line
with patriotic sentiment?
News Notes of North Platte.. : i
North Platte, Neb. Sept. 8. (Spe- !
cial Telegram.) Swan Swanson, Ed
ward Wright William Klenk and A.
O. Kochen have been selected to rep
resent the local Independent Order of
Odd Fellows .lodge at the state con-
vention in Lincoln from October 17
to 20, inclusive. The. local lodge now
leads instate membership, having 317
members.
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