THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOTOIEER S, 191?.
, , SPEAKERS LAUD DEMOCRACY,
CALL EDUCATION ITS BASIS;
BIG CONVENTION PROMISED
More Than Twenty-five Hundred Delegates in Attendance
at First Day's Session of State Meeting; Proposal
to Meet Alternately in Lincoln Given Cool
Reception by Superintendents.
"Education is the chief business of democracy," said Dr.
Ambrose L. Suhrie of the University of Pennsylvania, in his ad
dress Wednesday at the Auditorium to the several thousand
teachers of the Nebraska State Teachers' association gathered
there. It was the first general evening session of the 1917 con
vention which opened yesterday for a three days' session with
headquarters at Hotel Rome.
ALL LAUD DEMOCRACY.
Dr. Suhrie spoke on "The Educa-
jj.tionai .program ot a uemocracy.
( sooke also on some of the difficulties
experienced in education, and pointed
out where the faults lie. Community
singing was conducted by Thomas J.
Kelly.
Miss Martha Powell, president of
the Teachers' association, in intro
ducing the speakers of the evening
paid a splendid tribute to democracy,
declaring that while England makes
democracy practicable, while Italy
makes democracy beautiful, America
must make democracy immortal.
2,500 ALREADY HERE.
The splendid program at the Audi
torium was the climax of a successful
firs(,-day, with sectional meetings in
many parts of tiie city and with the
superintendents and principals hold
ing their sessions separate in the con
vention hall of the Hotel Rome.
Exactly 2,527 teachers had regis
tered up to last night from all parts
of the state, better than the first day's
record at former sessions.
With a woman at the head of the
association this year, there is little
politics discernable either in the meet
ings or in the lobbies of the Hotel
Rome, where the teachers congre
gate. No Action on Location.
The first flash of the old fight came
up late in'the afternoon, when Super
intendent P. F. Gordon of Emerson
tried to get the superintendents and
principals in their afternoon session to
endorse a movement to write into the
constitution a provision that the con
vention should go to Lincoln and
Omr.ha by regularly alternating turns.
This was merely an echo of the old
fight which was waged for years by
the two towns for favor in the eyes
of the teachers of the state, and
which is being regularly settled each
year by the teachers themselves when
they vote to return to Omaha because
it is. as J. T. True of Schuyler puts
it, "absolutely the only city in the
state that can afford hotel accom
modations for the number of teachers
who attend annually."
The superintendents and principals
showed how little they cared to have
this old fight brought up when in the
midst of Gordon's argument they
voted almost unanimously to adjourn,
leaving the argument unfinished.
Enlist Best Brains.
Dr. Ambrose Suhrie of the Univers
ity of Pennsylvania, in discussing the
educational program of a democracy
at the auditorium in the evening, said
there is an erroneous impression
among many that good common
schools are reaching all the children
in the United States. He spoke of the
importance of having good educa
tional training and proper guidance
during the period of adolescence. "It
is a crime, he said, "to deny high
school advantages to the 'young,
people during the adolescent period."
He advocated the vesting of authority
and managemen. over schools in local
and state authorities jointly, and en
listing the best brains of the locality
and the state in the work.
"Education," he said, "may be said
to be the chief business of democracy.
It must be made accesible to all, and
it must be vocational, so that it may
be serviceable to those in the non
professional lines."
Difficulties in the Way.
Miss Mae E. Schreiber of Boston,
traced some of the difficulties in the
way of the march of educational pro
gress. She said the business man
ADE TELLS MEN ABOVE DRAFT
Former Chicago Editor Lays Stress On
Avoiding Knockers Who Aid Kaiser.
AGE HOW TO HELP WIN WAR
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By GEORGE ADE.
nte tne war is on, tne active
work in support of the boys at the
front will be shouldered cheerfully by
men and women a little too old for
acrobatic service but not yet frosted
at the temples.
They will supply part of the money
and most of the "pep" needed to sup
ply and encourage a huge army in
the fietd.
It is for them to realize that we
have passed the period of doubting
and question answering.
We have come to the days when
hustling must supplant conversation.
It was all right six months ago
to spare an hour a day in trying to
convince some one with a vacant eye
and a dark mind that we were real
ly justified in accepting the insolent
challenge thrown at us by Germany.
You are to be forgiven if, even
three months ago, you spent valuable
time trying to convince a sluggish
minority that
Eight Things to Do.
First Government bonds are a safe
investment.
Second Pro-German propaganda
are to be hit in the head.
Third The allies are to be trusted.
Fourth The Red Cross is above
suspicion and does not obtain either
money or knitted goods under false
pretenses.
Fifth All taxes which have been
levied are justified by extraordinary
and unprecedented conditions.
Sixth This is not a rich man's war;
it was not precipitated by any Wall
street influence; it is not concerned
over private investments; it is not a
grand benefit for munition makers.
Seventh Fair promises have no
value when they arc made by a crim
inal who finds himself backed into a
corner.
Eighth The men in our training
camps and aboard transports and sta
tioned somewhere in France are be
ing safeguarded as American soldiers
never before were looked after, as re
gards wholesome food, proper sanita
tion, prevention of disease, and moral
guidance.
Why enumerate further?
Some "Nuts" You Know.
Abe Martin met a feller down in
Brown county that never heard of
Tony Pastor, and we have a taxpayer
in our township who tl inks the world
is flat, and you can find cabaret per
formers in New York City who don't
believe there i: such a place as Iowa,
and clairvoyants still find customers,
and you can name people who will
consult a patent-medicine "ad." in
preference to a doctor, and old Jethro
Tilford. over in Shelby township, car
ries a dried-up potato to keep off the
rheumatism.
Iu every community you will find a
contrary-minded sediment of the hu
man race people who keep them
selves somewhat in evidence by nois
ily denying facts which are self-evident
to all of their neighbors who
happen to be in the full enjoyment
of sanitv.
Thev are scmewhat like frogs, i. e.,
they make an awful noise in propor
tion to their number.
Now ii you will take the trouble to
check up in your immediate neighbor
hood the people who, from the begin
ning of the war, have been full of
doubts and questions and false alarms,
you will find that they are few in
number and of precious littie import
ance except as atmospheric disturb
ances. How About This?
Also, did it ever occur to you:
That the man who had bought most
liberally of government bonds never
questioned the safety of his security?
That the woman who was knitting
the most sock3 and sweaters never be
lieved the silly stories about the Red
Cross being a crooked institution?
That the soldier boy about to board
a transport and join his comrades of
France and Great Britain never was
known to doubt the sincerity of the
men with whom he was soon to join
shoulders?
No, indeed!
All the wails and misgivings and
fish stories are put into circulation by
a few picayune outsiders who were
just built to be obstructionists and
somehow can't help it.
They are in a class with the Tories
who feasted the aristocratic British
officers while Washington's army
starved at Valley Forge.
They are a hold over of the Val
landigham clan that reviled Lincjln
and gave an undethanded copperhead
support to the cause of slavery, even
after it was dopmed.
Some Familar Types.
They are the kind of people who
oppose public improvements, will not
buy tickets for the Chautauqua, criti
cize the minister if he smiles in public
and attach the presumption of guilt to
any woman attacked by scandal.
They are the small bores, the two-by-fours,
the gnats, the sand flies, the
ticks put on earth to teach good peo
ple the quality of patience.
The time has come to ignore them.
If we can not lock them up for safe
keeping, at least we can shut them out
from our daily program and go ahead
with the important work laid out for
us.
This is no time to waste precious
hours and vocal energy in trying to
prove that two and two make four,
and water is wet, and the sun sets in
the west, and the mad dog of Prus
sianism must be muzzled.
Don't try to convince the miniature
La Follettes, because they don't wish
to be convinced. They derive a bil
ious comfort from being different.
They have learned that no cloud has
a silver lining; it is festooned on the
interior with crepe.
A Few Chronic Knockers.
If all the optimists along your street
should arise some morning into a
world bedecked with dew sparkles
and exclaim in unison, "What a beauti
ful, sunshiny day!" then some two
legged crab would emerge behind a
lilac bush and say, "Yes;' but I think
it'll rain before night."
If you find a banana skin on the
threshold of patriotic opportunity,
kick it aside and don't permit your
self to become fussed.
The stalwart men and wom'.n of
middle age are to keep the home fires
burning during the supreme ordeal
now at hand.
They are to raise the crops, speed
the factories, collect the taxes, or
ganize the home guards, conserve the
wheat and meat and sugar, back up
the Red Cross, peddle the Liberty
bonds, write the letters, pack the com
fort kits, and stand by for orders at
all times. , '
If a busy worker feels" some one
tugging at his coat tail, the thing to
do is to kick straight back and kick
hard but don't waste time in looking
around.
By the way here is an important tip
for every man past . 30. Don't tell
around that you would be keen to en
list if you were just a little younger.
Some of the men just under 30 will
have their doubts and even those who
believe you will not find entertain
ment in your conversation.
Gas and Flame Service
Wants Variety of Recruits
Washington, Nov. 8. The gs
and flame service corps, now in
training here, wants a limited
number, of volunters who are
chemists, gas enginers, plumbers,
electrical experts, pipe fitters, in
terpreters, mechanics, chauffeurs,
explosive experts, cooks, gas ex
perts, blacksmiths, carpenters or
clerks. It also wants "muscular,
quick thinking, resolute men, be
tween the ages of 18 and 40 years,
for pioneer soldier service of high
character." The corps gives prom
ise of early service.
complains that university graduates
are sent to him when they do not
know their English. She said she had
inquired of the universities about this
and had found the professors are
blaming the high school. She found
the high school blaming the grades.
She found the grades blaming the
primary department. She found the
teachers there blaming the parents in
the home for not correcting the child's
English in the first place. "And so,"
saiil 1Ue S.-lirieher "it comes rieht
back to the business man, about where
it rightly belongs. t
An amendment to the constitution
of the Nebraska State Teacher's asso
ciation will be presented to provide
for a state teacher's federation as fol
lows: "The Nebraska State Teacher's
association shall also be constituted
the Nebraska State Teacher's Federa
tion whose duty it shall be to place
Nebraska in the foremost of educa
tional work and achievement as rap
idly as possible, to secure longer
tenure of position on the part of
school people, to secure increase of
salaries for the teachers, to remove all
educational work from politics, to
raise the qualifications and standard
of scholarships of teachers and to do
everything in its power to keep our
state up to the times educationally in
order to meet the problems of the
hour.
"The officers of this association are
hereby given authority and requested
to proceed and act in a positive and
business like manner with prompt
ness and dispatch in carrying out the
provision of this section.'
The amendment was submitted by
F. F. Gordon, superintendent of
schools of Emerson.
Superintendent C. Ray Gates, West
Point, was elected president of the
superintendents' and principals' asso
ciation and Earl Myers, Geneva, vice
president; Anna Jelen, Verdigre, sec
retary and J. A. Doremus, Aurora,
member of the Reading Circle board.
Eight States Pass Goals
In Food Pledge Campaign
Washington, Nov. 8. Eight states
have passed their goals in the enroll
ment campaign for food conservation
during the war and reports to head
quarters tonight show that nine
others have enrolled more than 60
per cent of their families. Latest re
ports showed a total enrollment of
the nation of 8,398,794. .
Missouri, with more than 500,000
pledges signed, leads the states, with
California second. New York City now
has 513,472 pledges. Los Angeles is
second among the cities with 76,416;
Milwaukee and Buffalo have 75,000
each; San Francisco 64,433; New
Orleans 60,000 and Baltimore 52,758.
Louisiana leads all states in the per
centage of families enrolled, its fig
ures being 89. Iowa has 76 per cent;
Maine 68; New Hampshire 66; Rhode
Island 64; Vermont, Oregon and Cal
ifornia 63 each and Missouri 61.
Nebraska College Suffs
Plan Day Husking Corn
Lincohi, Nov. 8. The local branch
of the National Woman's party, made
up of college girls of the University
of Nebraska, has announced that Sat
urday. November 17, will be spent in
husking corn. Criticisms of lack of pa
triotic interest directed against the
woman's party has resulted in this
action.
Harvard Debaters Invited West
Cambridge. Mass., Nov. 8. Univer
sity of California authorities have of
fered to pay the expense of sending
a Harvard team to Berkeley for an
interscctional debate, it was learned
today. Action by Harvard will be
reserved probably pending a decision
as to whether the triangular debate
between Yale, Harvard and Prince
ton is to be held as usual this year.
Slop that Com
first
sicjn of a
Sniffle
PARKS EXPECTS TO
GO SOONTO EUROPE
Son of Commissioner, Who Is
Training in Louisville, Ky.,
Writes There Are Signs of
Early Active Fighting.
Frivate Jack Parks, son of com
missioner George Parks, has written
a letter to J. J. Hinchey, South Side
treasurer. Jack is in training in Louis
vill. Ky and is making good. His
officers wish to make him top ser
geant, but he prefers to be a private.
1 think we will cross tne pond
soon, ne writes, we are reaay to
leave on a minute s notice and we
hone to be in the thick of the light
before very long.
"The weather here is very change
able. It shifts quickly from extremely
hot to cold.
"Everything is well regulated here
and the lid is on and bolted down,
which makes Sherman $ words im
pressive.
Australians to Vote on
Conscription Question
Melbourne. Nov. 8. The Australian
government has decided to hold an
other referenruni on the question of
conscription.
A referendum on conscription was
held in Australia last year. The final
vote showed that 1,085,000 ballots
were cast in favor ot conscription
and 1,146.000 against it.
Yucatan Elects Governor.
New York, Nov. 8. Carlos (."astro
Morales, running on the socialist,
constitutional and progressive tickets,
has been elected governor of the state
kind's
or.
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Breaks the ever and make for ease
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50 year ago and for a half century It
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their advantage It would not to-day
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Your druggist sell! It,
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Leaving waste material in the body,
poisons the system and blood and
makes you liable to sick headaches,
biliousness, nervousness and muddy
skin. Try Dr. King's New Life Pills.
Prompt relief. 25c. At all druggists.
Hairs Will Vanish
After This Treatment
(Toilet Helps)
You can keep your skin free from
hair or fuzz by the occasional use
of plain delatone and in using it you
need have no fear of marring or in
juring the skin. A thick paste is made
by mixing some of the powdered dela
tone with water. Then spread on the
hairs and after 2 or 3 minutes rub
off, wash the skin and all traces of
hair have vanished. Be careful, how
ever, to get real delatone. Adv.
Ban on Fritz Kreisler
Because He's Austrian
Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 8. Charles
S. Hubbard, director of public safe
ty, today ordered the police depart
ment to refuse a concert license to
Captain Fritx Kreisler, the violinist,
who was advertised to appear in
Carnegie music hall tomorrow aft
ernoon. Director Hubbard received pro
tests from a number of patriotic or
Sanitations and from many indi
vidual against the Kreisler concert.
They took the ground that since
Kreisler was an officer in the Aus
trian army and Austria was the ally
of America's enemy, it would be un
patriotic to permit him to appear at
a public entertainment.
of Yucatan, Mex., according to a tel
egram received here by the local
agency of the Comision Reguladora
of that state. This was the first elec
tion held in Yucatan under the Mexi
can constitution and was quiet and
orderly throughout.
Austrian Professor Asked to
Resign as Result of Views
Zurich, Nov. 8. There is at least
one prominent Austrian who docs not
agree with Germany's policy of ruth
lessuess. Frof. Joseph Renlich. at a
meeting of the German Labor asso
ciation in Vienna, vehemently con
demned Germany's policy of unre
stricted submarine warfare and its air
raids on England and strongly urged
the necessity of a peace agreement.
The speech met with much opposi
tion and the president of the society
has asked the professor to resign.
Reichstag Meets Nov. 22.
Washington, D. C, Nov. ft The
German Reichstag will meet Novem
ber 22, according to a cabled report
received today from Zurich, Switzerland.
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INCREASED COT If
66
WAR" COAL
The Figures
Erionrflle OoeL
Advance of 40c per ton
tn contract price,
finking price July
tat, 1917 1 1.W
Advance by Presiden
tial proclamation ot
October 29, 1917, (es
timated) ............. .40
Total ..$ 2.30
Previous contract
price ...... $ 1.60
Itoeream fa coat ot coal
at mine, 63 I .80
Increase In freight
rata, An. 1st, 1917... .15
"War tax on freight
rate Nov. 1, 1317 M
Total Increase cost
per ton at plant. . .995
ftontlily cooaoinption,
8,250 tons.
Total man til Increase
In cost KirksTlUe
coal ....- ..13,533.78
Cherokee Slack,
Price wtaMtehed by
Presidential procla
mation of October 29,
D17 I M8
14 vara by Govern
ment faet admlnte
t rattan of October
2 1 1017 x4S
Total present cost
at mine -. t.M
Frortous contract
price U0
Increase in coat of coal
at mine, 93.4 f 1M
Increase In freight rate
August 1st, 1917 J6
War tax on freight rate.
Nor. 1. 1917 Mi
Total Increase cost
per ton at plant. 3.606
Monthly consumption,
J ,250 tons.
Total monthly Increase
in e o s t Cherokee
slack ...5,21.50
Cherokee MUL
Price established by
Presidential procla
mation of October 29,
1917 1 2.46
Advance by Presiden
tial proclamation ot
October 31, 1917 45
Total present coat
at mine I 2.90
Previous contract
price 1.70
Increase in cost of
coal at mine, 70.6. .$ 1.20
Increase 1 n freight
rate Aug. 1st, 1917... .15
War tax on freight rata,
Nov. 1, 1917 .0M
Total increase cost
per ton at plant.! 1.400
Monthly consumption,
3,250 tons.
Total monthly increase
in costs Cherokee
Mill I4.66S.S0
Monthly increase in cost of coal;
Klrk-STtlle $1,233.75
Cherokee Slack ... 6,219.60
Cherokee Mill ..... 4,669.60
Total 113,022.75
The Facts.
In America's struggle for victory over the monster of autoc
racy, every industry, as well as evory individual, is being put
to the test. It is unperativo to our success that tho wheels of
commerce rovolvo oven more rapidly than before, even in the
face of conditions and circumstances in somo instances discon
certing, to say the least.
The people of this country are feeling tho pinch of present
prices, but are keeping grimly at their task. Industries also feel
the pinch, "but also face their duty firmly, and with the deter
mination to win. Numbered among these is Your Electric
Service Company.
In the production of electricity at tho Nebraska Power Com
pany's generating station 9,750 tons of coal are used each month.
This is necessary to insure continuity of scrvioe, and our two
coal storage pits enable us to keep 15,000 tons on hand at ( all
times, to guarantee such Continuity. All present needs and
possible increases in demands by our consumers must be met
Omaha's machinery must hum; her lights burn. This is our
part in the great war program.
i
Pot these 9,750 tons of coal burned in our plant each month
Your Electric Service Company is now paying $13,022.75 more
than for the same quantity at the entrance of the United States
into the conflict !
We use three kinds of coal under our boilers: Kirksville,
Mo., Cherokee Mill and Cherokee Slack. Previous to the war
increase in prices, one ton each of these three kinds cost $4.70
at the mine. The same three tons now cost $8.294 a ne mme
an increase of $3.59, or 76, without considering the increase
in railroad freight rates in the meantime.
Accompanying statistics detailing this tremendous expense
' load, added to increases in other materials and supplies used
which will bo discussed in another article wo think convincing
proof that Your Electric Service Company is doing its bit
toward keeping the business wheels in motion.
These huge fuel-cost increases came to this company, be it
understood, shortly after its own rates had been reduced and
there has been no corresponding advance in revenue to offset
the startling advance in expense of operation.
Most merchants are fortified to somo extent against the
war-price advance by a commensurate increase in their prices
to the consumer, while the wage workers are very generally
receiving considerably larger salaries with which to meet this
emergency.
But they arc furnished with electric power for their plants,
and electric lights for their streets and homes, at a lower rate
than ever before.
The story of our relations with Old King Coal is summarized
in tho accompanying table of "figures." Presently there will be
something to say of the quantity of copper we needs must use,
and the comparative prices thereof at present and in the recent
past.
Mrasba Power Compaiy
"Your Electric Service Company"
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