THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 4, 1917.
MA MAY NOT
BE PERMITTED
TO HAVE OPERA
Placing of Auditorium on "Un
fair" List By JJnion Would
Cause Transfer of San
Carlo to Council Bluffs.
; Unless city officials and Omaha
Musicians' union adjust : difficulties
which resulted in declaring the Audi
torium "unfair" the, dates of the San
Carlo opera company's engagement,
December 3. 4 and 5. will be trans
ferred from this city to the Council
Bluffs auditorium.
Rangvel Olsen and Fred Phelps,
president and secretary, respectively,
of the musicians' union: Assistant
Citv Attorney TePoel. City Commis
sioners Hummel and' Withnell and
Lucius Pryor, operatic promoter, con
ferred in Mr. Withnell's omce witn
out reaching a definite conclusion or
agreement.
The American Federation of Musi
cians, upon information furnished by
the local union, placed the Audito
rium on the unfair list, which means
that union musicians will not play in
that building. Practically all of the
musicians with traveling organiza
tions are said to be affiliated with the
federation. Unless the unfair ban is
removed before December 3 the San
Carlo engagement will not be held
here.
3,000 Tickets Sold.
Lucius Pryor, promoting the fort'i
comintr operatic season, attended me
conference and announced that 3,000
tickets already had been sold and that
he had received a tempting oner trom
Council Bluffs.
At the outset of this morning's con
ference the officers of the musicians'
union, m substance, made it known
that they wanted the city to engage
qhly union music,. "I see no reason
why union bands should not be given
all of the municipal music," stated
Secretary Phelps. v
Later in the conference President
Osen statedxthat if . -Commissioner
Hummel would agree to engage union
and nonunion music on a basis of
three-fourths, to one-fourth there
might be a prospect of settling the
trouble.
Hummel Rebukes Musicians.
"I will agree to treat the union mu
sicians fairly, but I will not agree to
do anything more specific than that,"
sharply replied Mr. Hummel, who
added that the union players have
taen the attitude of wanting all or
none. He added that union bands
would not play park concerts last sea
son because a few nonunion bands
were allowed to play.
Attorney TePoel explained that a
recent decision of the district court
left no alternative for the city officials
to4 do but engage music without dis
crimination as to membership or non
membership in a union.
"The trouble has been that union
bands would not play if other bands
played," stated Mr, HummeL
-P-'- Fair to AUj '";"
The jnusicians' union officials em
phasize!! their point that" the engage
ment of V union band insures compe
tent, playert, while Mr. Hummel has
taken th positi6n that competent
players tyere found in the nonunion
bands he engaged last season. He
steadfastly refused to make any con
cessions to the union officials further
than W state that he would be abso
lutely fair to alL
Mr. Phelps explained that the mat
ter of having the Auditorium declared
unfair beyond' the musical feature of
the situation had been brought to the
Central Labor union for action.
Promoter Pryor stated that he was
the innocent bystander, holding the
sack. He made a strong plea for the
city officials and the musicians to get
together. -: -
Little Dunbar, Neb., Girl
f ' Purchases Liberty Bond
Dunbar, Neb., Nov. 3. Dunbar
boasts of having the youngest Lib
erty bond purchaser in the state. Lit
tle Miss Delphine Boyd, the 5-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
R. Boyd, the Burlington agent at this
place, unaccompanied by her parents,
all alone, -walked into the Farmers
bank1 here the last day of the loan,
said, she wanted to buy a Liberty
bond, opened up her savings bank
and'made the first payment to Mr. A.
Weiler for the same.
She had heard the four-minute men
speakers say that even little girls
could buy Liberty bonds and she said
she wanted to help Uncle Sam whip
the kaiser because her papa told her
that Uncle Sam was such a good man
and lo. ed little girls who stood up for
him lilie he did the soldiers. This
little miss of Dunbar is a favorite
with everybody and very original and
bright. When she bought her Lib
erty bond it made the total for Dun
bar ,?48,6U0. '
Fonmer Omaha Preacher to
Be at North Presbyterian
Rev. M. Wilson will occupy the
pulpit of ' the North Presbyterian
church Sunday morn.ing and evening.
Rev. Mr, Wilson is not a stranger to
, the people of Omaha. He was pastor
of the Castelar Street Presbyterian
church several years ago and from
here webt to Seattle, called there by
one of. the leading Presbyterian
churches, on the Pacific coast From
there he went to Chicago and for
some time ' has been pastor of the
Williamette Presbyterian church of
that city. Here, visiting old-time
friends, he has been induced to preach
the morning and evening sermons to
the people -of the North church, many
of whom knew him well when he was
formerly resident of the city.
Wesleyari Chancellor to
Preach in Omaha Church
Dr. L B. Schreckengast, chancellor
of Nebraska Wesleyan university,
will preach both morning and evening
at the First Methodist church Sun
day. , , . .
Dr. Schreckengast has many friends
in Omaha and is a man well known
in educational-circles. He has done
more in recent years to place Ne
braska Wesleyan university on a
strong financial basis than any other
man, and is now occupying the chan
cellor's chair and directing the af
fairs of the leading Nebraska Metho
dist university.
, Bee, Want Ads Produce Results.
Portia Swett to Help Entertain
Teachers With'Aesthetic Dancing
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Portia Mansfield Swett of Chicago,
aesthetic dancer, and her troop of
outdoor dancing girls will be the en
tertainment provided by the bureau of
publicity for the State Teachers' as
sociation Friday evening, November
9. at the Auditorium. Mrs. Hazel
Smith Eldridge, well known Omaha
singer, will supply the vocal inter
ludes with solos and ensemble
choruses throughout (the perform
ance, creating all together a program
of the highest aesthetic and artistic
merit
A history of the development of the
dance through 3,000 years will be the
theme symbolically, illustrated by the
dancers under the leadership of Miss
Sweet. "Sun Worship," "A Bedouin
Daughter of the Desert," "Dance of
the Cresent Moon," "To a Grecian
Urn," "Incense Dance of Salammbo,"
"Saturnalia," "Russian Rhapsody,"
"Indian Lament" and "French Valse"
indicate the steps to be pictured down
to the modern time of the revival of
the Greek dancers by Isadora Duncan.
This phase of modern art will be illus
trated by the dances "Spring's Awak
ening" and "Mendelssohn's Spring
Song," . with more recent expressions
in-the "Russian Ballet" and "The Tu
mult of the Elements." "
Mrs. Eldridge's numbers will in
clude such splendid selections as "Ah,
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j-uvc uui uay, uy i iuuiciuc
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oaring ouug, uy viuai, x uc mu,
Conauard's "Hai Lui." "How Much I
Love Thee," by Frank La Forge and
Saint Saens beautiful "My Heart at
Thv Sweet Voice."
One of the striking features of the
program will be a patriotic ensemble
by Omaha school children trained by
Miss Pleasant Holvoke. who will il
lustrate the introduction of the dance
in the public schools and who will
lead the chorus of the audience in
"America" after the singing of the
first verse bv Mrs. Eldrige.
The music will be in charge of
Uhree Umaha gins, witn miss nioise
I West as director, Miss Hazel O'Con
nor at the piano and Miss Grace Sla
baigh as vocal accompanist.
Members of Miss Swett's company
are Emily Bentley, Lucy Courtney,
Pleasant Holyoke, Charlotte, Perry
and Frances Stephenson. Their cos
tumes are the designs of Miss Swett
and Miss Perry. '
This evening entertainment for the
Teachers' association will.be made
an annual event of the Bureau of
Publicity for the entertainment of
Omaha s visitors.
WAR'S BIG JAM
IN WASHINGTON
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Inyaon of Clerical Help Over
taxes Available Shelter and
Rears a Live Housing
'.. Problem
If the.! United . States government
is hot compelled soon to build bar
racks to accommodate the army of
clerks It has called there, Washington
ians will miss their guess. It has been
the prophecy all summer that the
government would need.to. supply
tents for some of its workers in- the
fall, and although these .have not yet
materialized, they ought to be set up
on all government lawns, for hun
dreds of clerks, men and women,
know not where to lay their, heads
from day to day.
v Quiet . residential neighborhoods
where owners never have dreamed of
taking outsiders into their homes
have been invaded by 4he newcomers,
whose pleas for housing and board
are; so pathetic that almost every
private family in town now entertains
its "paying guest." ,
Nor is the apex' of population any
where near reached. J. he normal
clerical population of Washington
and its meager suburbs is about 39,000.
These men and women are in the
classified service and there are hun
dreds, 1 if not thousands, of others,
like the employes at the capitol, ap
pointive officers and the like, who
form part of the vast machinery of
the government.
. It is estimated by , the Civil Service
commission that within the last year
the clerical population has 'doubled,
which means that nearly 80,000 per
sons are on the payroll, albeit some,
Frank A. Vanderlip and Daniel
Willard, tnay receive only $1 a year.
There must also be included in the
resident population the wives, chil
dren and often other relatives of the
newly enrolled officers of-the army
any navy, along with the officers
themselves, most of whom must be
housed outside the camps or build
ings to which they are attached.
Boom in Population.
Not long ago a prominent Wash
ington business man astounded one of
the locaf trade organizations with the
prophecy - that' within three vears
Washington would have a population
of 700,000 it was less than 350,000
before the war. His figures were re
garded 'as extreme, although they
were said to have been based upon
official statistics. . -
But this prediction aside, the real
estate men of the capital, than whom
no better informed men walk the
streets, agree, that the guess of 500,
000 within three years is not a wild
one. The government and its various
agencies have taken on more than
30,000 employes within the last year,
and at the offices 'of the Civil Serv
ice commission it is believed that the
peak of new employment will not be
reached until next June.
The government, through the com
mission, has been making the most
frantic efforts to secure stenographers
and typewriters, and has been begging
eligibles to take civil service examina
tions in their home towns. -In nor
mal times men are preferred for the
government offices, but as many of
the most competent young men ste
nographers are of military age, the
draft has caught a lot of them and
officials have waived all distinctions
of sex. Chief clerks in the various
departments wait for days and weeks
for the Civil Service commission to
fill their requisitions for clerks and
often are compelled to obtain an
executive order authorizing them to
employ men and women directly with
out the intervention of the civil serv
ice examination. -.
One of the results of the acute de
mand for government clerjcs is to
expose the mischief cf that remnant
of the old spoils system, the appor-1
tionment of clerks among, the states.
When the clerical force was es
tablished on a civil service basis,
congress still insisted that the needs'
of the government for help should
be supplied in proportion to popula
tion, as members of congress are
elected. This scheme, while it gave
members of congress no actual con
trol over the Selection of applicants
for civil service positions, neverthe
less retained enough of the element
of sportsmanship to make it attrac
tive to many politicians in congress
who hitherto had been elected on
promises to take care of their friends.
It is possible, although it may not
be a historical fact that the civil
service laws could not have been en
acted had not this concession 6f
clerical apportionment among the
states . been made; However this
may be, it still exists' in the law and
has handicapped the ; government
tremendously in equipping its offiees
with competent workers, notwith
standing a little loophole in the law
which permits an overruling of the
apportionment in emergencies.
Particularly Hard on Washington.
The people of Washington have
been made to suffer beyond all reason
by the restriction which provides that
only a limited number of Washing
tonians may be employed in the gov
ernment, service. Washington is es
sentially a political city and presum
ably the country desires that this
should be so. Neither congress nor
much public sentiment in Washington
has encouraged the coming here of
manufacture, and the private business
of Washington is confined almost ex
clusively to mercantile establishments
and such industries, like brewing, bak
ing and repair shops, as cater to the
individual needs of the citizens. The
result has been that the young people
brought up in the city have been un
able to enter the commercial : field
and have been compelled to rely al
most exclusively upon retail ' estab
lishments, real estate concerns and
the government service for employ
ment. It has been extremely difficult
for the simon-pure Washingtonian to
find employment for his sons and
daughters and many of Jhem of neces
sity have struck out for other cities in
which to make their living. But
naturally, Washington, like all other
communities, has been . turning out
stenographers by the hundred, yet' un
der restrictions of the civil service law
governing apportionment only a lim
ited number of them could find work
in the various departments. The
Washington Star, a very able and in
fluential newspaper, has begun a cam
paign for the correction of this grave
injustice lu w aoiiiMjtiiit III latu
demands the abolition of the wholeNl
apportionment system, on the ground
that it is a relic of the days of political
graft which should be destroyed. Now
is the time more than ever to root out
the whole despicable system and to
leave the government free to send out
not only into the District of Colum
bia but into Pennsylvania, New York
New Jersey, Massachusetts and, in
fact into all the highly , developed
adjacent industrial communities for
the skilled workers whose services
are so greatly needed in the emer
gency of war.
Barracks for Government Clerks?
Returning to the original subject the
government must make as intelligent
and rapid provision for the housing
and feeding ot its clerks as it is mak
ing for its military forces. Not an
apartment is available in Washington
Hardly a house is vacant and the few
that are have been picked over by
would-be tenants who have declared
that they would rather throw. up their
government jobs and go home than
try to live in them. New structures
containing hundreds of apartments are
rented before they are finished. Men
and women spend weeks hunting for
suiiaoic living - quarters ana Doara.
The hotels are filled to overflowing
and engagements in many of them
must be made long ahead. Room
seekers actually are camping on the
doorsteps of householders begging
to be taken in. Ordinarily the
congestion could be partly relieved
by building, but building has Stopped:
for materials are high and often not
obtainable while the government is
paying unheard of wages to carpen
ters, masons, plumbers and laborers
tor work upon the cantonments at
Camp Meade and the new buildings
at Fort Mver. Camp University and
other posts in this vicinity. The situa
tion is made the more distressing for
many of the clerks by the embargo
upon household goods placed by some
of the railroads. The great majority
of the clerks come from the north and
west, which are served into Washing
ton by the Baltimore & Ohio and the
Pennsylvania. The Baltimore & Ohio
is still transporting household goods,
but the Pennsylvania is not, and many
an unfortunate young man has scut
tled to Washingt6n to grab his gov
ernment job, leaving his wife to pack
and come along after him, only to
find after he had engaged a house or
an apartment here that his goods
could not be moved.
With nearly 40,000 new clerks al
ready overcrowding Washington and
nearly as many more expected within
the next nine month s, it is obvious
that the government must either make
provision for these people or go with
out their services, unless it is willing
to see them sleep in the streets or the
police station. The picture here drawn
is bv no means a caricature, and, in
fact, your correspondent rather re
grets being compelled to state these
facts, for the government needs all the
clerks it can get and they should not
be discouraged from trying to come
to Washington if they are not of mil
itary age. But living conditions as
they exist here cannot be blinked at.
Will the government take this matter
in hand or will it permit thousands of
Its employes to suffer great hardships
through the coming whiter f Boston
Transcript Letter.
TRENCH CANDLES
FOR LADS OVERSEA
Long School Children Boil Old
Newspapers in Paraffine to
Make Tapers for Uncle
Sam's Soldiers.
A strong odor of paraffine pervaded
Long school Friday. Following the
odor to the basement, a visitor found
here, under the direction of Miss
Schneider, a roomful of children
studying lessons with one eye on a
big can of paraffine bubbling over a
gas stove. In this were being boiled
the trench candle, the children had
made from newspapers.
These had been tightly rolled,
pasted and cut into proper legnthi by
a buzz saw in the manusl training
room.
Even the paraffine was of scraps.
The Jewish children had brought the
remnants of Friday night candles, the
Episcopal and Catholic boys and girls
had brought pieces of altar candles.
Added to these were the tops of the
mothers' jelly glasses, all in the big
melting pot.
Several bushels of candles was the
result. These will be sent across the
sea at once. They will light the
trenches for Christmas, ana during
the long evenings. Each candle will
burn for a half hour, with no smoke.
They are chafing dishes for the boys
also, as the camp soup can be heated
over them.
Fifteen of the prettiest blue and
white baby quilts ypu ever saw have
been made by kindergarten tots in
the Long school. Miss Ryan and her
assistant. Miss Shields, have made the
sewing of these optional, but every
rot has wanted to have a hand in the
matter. The parents and teachers
have supplied the material. These
will be given to the Duryea Aid so
ciety, now in charge of the Vassar
club at 618 Bee building. This so
ciety will send them across, where
they will keep some babies in Europe
warm. .
Artistic Booklets.
Some very artistic booklets to be
sent to the soldiers have been pre
pared by the drawing classes of Miss
Young in the Long school. Ernest
Burkland has a unique design with a
shield and a Christmas greeting com
bined; Eddie Rahnier has a Christ
mas design with beautiful color and
placing. Louis Dorsky, who works
after school hours as newsie at the
Paxton hotel to pav his
of the most interested in the art work
Harvey reterion, Bertha Englehart,
George Pearlman, Vera Dunn, Mar
ccllus Richard and Emily Robinson
have beautiful booklets with a well
chosen set of poems, stories and
jokes in them to entertain the boys
in the trenches. All those made are
worthy of mention, for each child has
done his best.
Many sacks of clipped cotton goods
to make pillows also were contributed
by the ichool kiddies. These pieces
will be used to soften the pillows of
soldiers who sleep in trenches or re
main in the emergency field hospitals
until taken to the base hospitals.
The enthusiasm of Omaha boys and
girls in responding with their chew
ing gum, trench candles, clipped cot
ton and other articles aroused the in
terest of their teachers,
, Hundreds of small joke bqoks were
made by the children for the hoys at
the front. The covers were designed
and painted by the children and the
pages were filled with jokes and sen
timents clipped from newspapers and
magazines. Omaha school boys and -girls
will send many joyous moments
to- the soldiers who will read these
booklets during the holiday Reason.
Big Navy Recruiting .
Campaign Scon to Start
A tremendous navy campaign may
soon be started by prominent busi
ness men of Omaha in connection
with the navy recruiting office here.
The navy is calling for men and help
from the substantial citizens of the
city and will go far to get them.
"If I had $10,000 I could bring in
1,000 men $10 a man," said Ensign
Condict, recruiting officer, today. "I
would do much of it by newspaper
advertisinir, Of course. I, myself.
way, is bnef could not handle the money, but a
committee of citizens might do this. ,
A number of suggestions have come .
in to the navy office since a story ask
ing for ideas was printed in The Bee
several days ago. There is some talk
of a mammoth entertainment and
Spme of a parade. At any rate, the
navy is going to wake them up soon,
Go to Rsd Cross Conference
Iri Chicago Wednesday
At the Red Cross central division
conference to be held in Chicago
Wednesday and Thursday, the follow
ing Omahans will be present Frank
W. Judson, Gould Diets, W. G. Ure,
Mrs. Z. T. Lindsey, Mrs. Clement
Chase, Mrs. Howard Baldrige and'
Mrs. C. M. Wilhelm and . Leonard
Trester of Lincoln. Mr. Judson will
attend the war fund conference at the
same time and the dinner Henry P.
Davisson of New York will give
Thursday evening. "
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