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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918. SIOUX FALLS IS CANDIDATE FOR CONVENTION Omaha Man Pleads With Ro . tarians to Back Boy Scouts in Building Or f ganization. Ce(;; Rapids, la., Feb. 22. John V. Welsh of Omaha in an address t to the Tenth district Rotary con vention today made a plea that the national organization get behind the Boy Scouts to encourage them and assist them in building up the organ ization. Sioux Falls and Omaha are the candidates for the Jiext year's con vention. The city will be chosen at the June meeting. Prospective Revival of Whaling in New England Ihe return of the brig Viola to New Bedford with a $75,000 catch of sperm oil and ambergris reminds us that New Bedford is once more a whaling port, and that the fine old practical school tor , sailor men, the whale ship, still sails the sea. Twelve hundred and fifty barrels of sperm oil and 121 pounds of ambergris spells no small profit for owners and crew. In the days that antedated petroleum, the decade before the civil war, whale ships by the hundred sailed out of New Bedford and not only made for tunes for their owners, but furnished training for hardy seamen that made the American sailor the pride of the sea. Then came "coal oil," to take the place of whale oil for lamps, and the industry languished and all but died out. New Bedford prospered n manufacturing rather than whaling. The old brigs rotted at the wharves and the romance of their adventurous voyages to all seas passed into tradi tion. The country lost by the change. A race of hardy mariners passed. Cot ton manufacturing is a lucrative and honorable business, but the mill op erative is a poor figure of a man com t pared with the husky, hardy, self-reliant seaman that the whaling bred. Strangely enough it is the battle ship that relaunched the whale ship. The modern battleship is a mighty machine, and it was found that for use in certain bearings of its ponder ous engines nothing would take ihe place of "case" oil. There is in the head of the sperm whale a great cavity that holds barrels of this strangely clear oil, a lubricant that does not disintegrate under great heat and nressure. As battleships grew in size and number the world over, the demand for case oil for their bearings sent the whalers to sea again. The from the seas. The rig revived, and hulls that no one dreamed would ever sail the shoals again passed Nan tucket, outward bound. New Bedford is once again a whaling port Rusty harpoons shine, the line smoices in the chocks and from many a mast head in the Spanish Main the shout "Ah blow!" resounds. Boston Transcript. Courtship in Bulgaria . Modern and Primitive Bulgarian youth of the two sexes meet frequently, and their courtship nictnms ar at the same time modern and primitive. The popular meeting place in a Bulgarian vinage is mc spring, to which every household must send for water. Hither comes the peasant girls in brilliant costumes with the pails carried over their shoulders on yokes. And where the .... n . . .1 .f girls go thitner nocK tne youin siai wart fellows in short breeches, em broidered jackets and round caps. Here is enacted the ancient story of Jacob and Rebecca, and here a mod ern youth has plenty of chance to court a girl. He may fill and carry her pails 'for her, he may beg the .flower from her hair and put it behind his ear or he may invite her to meet him at the husking bee that night The husking parties are gatherings where boys and girls chaperoned by an old woman husk corn for some neighbor, then join in singing folk songs or dancing their circular dances, and finally sup on some of the corn, which has been boiled for them in a great pot. What better chance could there be for encircling Olga's waist or stealing a kiss from Tinka or whispering in Blagoya's ear? Not seldom the party is broken up by the sudden rush of one of the y'iung men, who, seizing a girl in his arms, carries her off to his home. Or dinarily the girl is entirely satisfied ' with this proceeding; indeed, openly or indirectly she may have excited it by her fascinations. The Bulgarian ' girl knows well the art of flirting and pleasing, although she is frank and friendly, lacking the mysterious charm lent by veil and seclusion. This marriage by capture, such as was practiced by our tribal an cestors, is consecrated the next day by the orthodox religious service, when the tall-hatted, long-robed vil liage priest unites the two lovers in legal wedlock. World Outlook. ' Emmer Better Than Wheat In the Arid Districts ' is emmer, but it has been used in the Old World for at least 6,000 years. The wild emmer found in Palestine is believed to be the original grass from which wheat has been devel i .iped. The Scientific American tells how Prof. B. C. Buff urn of Worland, Wyo., brought some emmer seed from Palestine ten years ago and has experimented with it in true Burbank : - style. . . Prof. Buffum bred it selectively un til he overcame its sharp spinelike beard, and then distributed it to farm ers for trial. In the arid regions to the east of the Rocky mountains it grows , far better than wheat, crops (mm fi tn 180 bushels ter acre being harvested, the higher amounts under irrigation. Flour made from emmer is a little richer than wheat in protein, carbo hydrates and mineral matter, and 3 per cent more of its protein and 4 per cent more of its carbohydrates are digestible; The perfect balance of the ration it supplies and its nigti mineral contents make it the only L-nrtwn amnnff tne cereais. Mills for grinding emmer into flour and breakfast cereals have already : been built m Wyoming ana uoioraao. 1 The meal is becoming known in - the far west as a breakfast food, but k there is no reason why it should not t be ground into flour and used for . t bread. New York World. ' Americans Must Overcome Softness in War Service Chicago, Feb. 22. Some form of service is necessary to the develop ment of proper citizenship, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford university, said in an address today before the Congress of National Service, which opened a three days' session yesterday under the auspices of the National Security league. "America has been raised 'soft' and has to harden," said Dr. Wilbur. "We are suffering from our prosperity and now have to face the ugly, hard facts of the war. Six months from now we will be a changed nation. "Our children now are being brought up in the school of war, and will get training of an international sort Unfortunately the children of this generation are growing up look ing upon the German in the same way that the generation before did upon the Apache Indian, as cold, cruel, re m?"e!ess' .?,s ? vinous, clever savage. Th.s will interfere with the need we have of studying our enemy, which is the first move in defense. To give up the study of any foreign language, including German, at the present time is to play the ostrich .Some form of service is absolutely vital to the proper development of citizenship. It must be a part of the life of each boy and girl part of their education. 'This sen-ice must be associated with our educational system. It must include adequate physical training for all, military training for a large per centage and some form of national service for all." Don't Stop When someone stops advertising, Someone stops buying. When someone stops buying, Someone stops selling. When someone stops selling, Someone stops making. When someone stops making, Someone stops earning. When everybody stops earning, Everybody stops buying. Keep going. Th Retort. Two wrongs don't make a rlirht. Still" A senator was discussing the food control bill. "While th bill has Its drawbacks," h. went on, "there would be worse drawbacks without It, and to we can face our opponents like the lady. " "My love,' her husband said to this lady, 'you spend all your money rettlne; your palm read.' , "She smiled sweetly. ' 'And you, dear,' she retorted, "spend all yours getting your nose red.' " Washing ton Star. MINORITY LEADER HOSTTO SOLONS Nebraska Congressmen and Leading Republicans of Lower House Discuss Pending Legislation. Washington Biirean of The Omaha Hee, 1311 O Street. By EDGAR C. SNYDER, (Staff Correspondent.) Washington, D. C, Feb. 22. (Spe cial Telegram.) Acting Minority Leader Representative F. H. Gillett gave a largely attended dinner to a number of leading rrnnhlirans Thurc. day night at the Metropolitan club, tne guests including Representatives Sloan and Reavis of Nebraska, Mon dcll of Wyomine and Towner of Iowa. All the republican members of the wavs and means rnnim!tti r present, the leading republicans on the interstate and foreign commerce committee, the judiciary, military af- tairs ana ruies committees. Get-Together Dinner. The dinner was planned to bring together the various elements in the house and included Representatives Lenroot and Cooper of Wisconsin, Campbell of Kansas and Kahn of the military affairs committee. The guests discussed the republican American Troops Take Over Another Sector On the French Line (Hy Asovliit'il Press.) With the American Army in France, Feb. 22. In a patrol fight, Americans from units under in struction in the famous Chemin-Des-Dames sector killed one Ger man and captured another. One American was slightly wounded. This is the first time it has been permitted to reveal the fact that new American units have entered the line. The troops have been there for some time, suffering slight casualties, but their presence was kept secret until it was cer tain the enemy knew they were there. has been in Washington for a fort night on matters before the commis sioner of internal revenue, left for the west Thursday. Anton Dredla of Crete is in the national capital on a short visit. Representative Lobeck delivers an address before a conference of Swed ish Lutheran ministers in Baltimore this evening. position on pending legislation, in cluding the railroad bill and the war corporation bill. It was generally thoueht the republicans vhmiM sun- port the house railroad bill. Nothing was done with reference to the war corporation measure. Educators Here. President Hayes of the Peru Nor mal school and President Conn of the Wavne Normal are in Wasliino-. to'j to attend a meeting of school men on Otir rural ftrlnratinn rilUrl K J. L. McBrien, formerly of Nebraska, now director of rural triiirati'nn tin. der the United States bureau of edu cation. Edward M. Martin of Omaha, who Widely Known Churchman IsSrriously III Denver. Colo, Feb. 22. Rev. T. C. llilT, widely known throughout the United States for his work in home missionary and o ther church work of the Methodist Episcopal church, is reported critically ill today at St. Luke's hospital. lie is not expected to recover. His home is in Los' Angeles. He is 73 years old. He served through the civil war and was a missionary in the Rocky moun tains from 1870 to 1901, and also was superintendent of the Utah mission at Salt Lake City. U. S. Soldiers Plot to Shoot Their Officers Camp Lewis, Wash., Feb. 22. Four national army soldiers are held in the ii. . . guarunouse toaay awaiting a presi dential warrant from Washington which will mean their internment as enemy aliens who plotted not only to shoot their officers the first time they got into action in Europe, but also to deliver all the American soldier's in their organization to the German army. Train Tonr Skin. , It Is pretty generally believed that ex posure to cold and wet weather will bring on the disorder known as a "cold."' But sensitiveness to cold Is usually due to the fact that the nerve center controlling the circulation of blood through the akin are over-delicate, and exhibit a sort of hair trigger reaction to exposure. By acoustom lng the body gradually to cool and later to cold baths, resistance to cold. Is aet up. 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