lliK OMAHA SUNDAY' tiM: MaXCH 17, 1918,
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is: (!!iicf justice, Hon. Andrew M.
Morrissey, Valentine; associate jus
tices, Hons. Albert J. Cornish, Lin
coln; James K. t)ean, Broken Bow;
Francis G. I lamer, Kearney; Charles
H. I ettoa, Kairbury; t-3tnucl II. Sedg
wick, York, and William B. Rose,
Lincoln.
Clerk and Reporter.
The supreme court elects a clerk,
who serves ah) as official reporter
and librarian, and has deputies, clerks
and assistants in each of his three de
partments. Each member of the
court has his own clerk, mqst of
whom now are former practitioners
and members of the bar, law students
or specially trained legal stenog
raphers and clerks. The court has
at its command a law hb;ary of over
7(1,0(10 volumes, commonly known as
the "state library," which affords ac
cess to all of the adjudicated cases of
courts of last resort, commissions and
miscellaneous tribunals throughout
the United States, Canada and prac
tically every foreign nation. This
library is used to a large extent by
the lawyers of the state and a great
many of the general public.
Latest Stearns Knight
Convertible Type Sedan
SOLDIERS' CHECKS
Thousands of Clerks, Acres of
Typists Work D y and
Night in Dance
Halls.
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WHAT DUTIES OF
SUPREME COURT ARE
Story of the Work of Highest
Nebraska Judical Tribunal
Prepared for the Lay
Reader.
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N ?h :s t.M' t.ik anil t. c spirt ol
one oi the i;of i nmcnt's t'U'ati'st bu- i
ttv the Tuav.itv ilcpai iuu u lm
trail of war risk insurance. 1 on- 1
;ros:na! cri:o.:is of dcl.ix s r the .
d'tnbution o! al.oiment ami n u
.ii:ce har been met with iissii' .iiiee
that superlative promptness, inijios-'- j
blr in tiie pat because of the disorder
following the sudden creation of a
new svstent to supplant the o'd pen
sion plan, will be displaed in the
future.
All Checks Ready Soon.
The bureau expects to have rhe-'ks
for March remittances ready for mail
ing on the mornintt of April 1 ar.J by
that time much of the vast human ma
chine which has been built for prepar
ing the pay checks will be scrapped.
Machines, will do the work better, it is
expected, than men and women.
In the meanwhile, this is the way
the human machine works:
Kxperts in office management have
devised special schemes of office
routine. More than 2,0(10 yenug men
and girls cannot be managed effi
ciently by haphazard methods. Regu
lar recreation periods in the middle
of the morning and afternoon are pro
vided. There is a piano and a grapha-
phone and the girls may d.irce during
the short recess. The managers say
that they do M) per cent better work
as a result. TheTe is a lunch room,
operated at cost. The bureau has a
supervising matron, who advises the
girl employes, most of whom have
rome tt Washington recently for war
time employment on patriotic
grounds. She helps them obtain lodg
ing rooms and in other wavs.
Speedy typists are carefully chosen
from the throng and arrangid at the
long work desks in the center of a
roup ot slower woikcrs. tins ar-
langement promotes group speed and
better office morale, the efficiency
men in charge declare. Blonde girls
are assigned to places between bru
nettes, for the bureau management j
believes blondes are of more nervous
temperament and the brunettes pro
vide a steadying influence.
Each check is typed individually
and a government law provides that
checks also must be signed individ
ually rather than samned mechanical
ly. "The signing is a big task. Signa
ture duplicating machines are used,
10 checks being signed by each orig
inal signature of a pay cleik.
EvenMhe choice of pay clerks is a
lesson in efficiency. Not personality,
not training, but length of patrony
mic names is the determining factor.
Men wilh short names work at the
signing machines, for more short
names can be signed daily than long
names. This is the reason the jols
are held by E. Hibbs, D. Mills, J. L
Betr, G. A. Ball and M. Cox.
While the Coffe Cools
Profane men are the cheapest of all
sinners.
The good political loser does not re
main in the game long.
Do not urge the silent man to talk;
you may be awakening a bore.
If one cannot affford ooth. soap is
preferable to c' oap perfmv.eix.
The man who i.;.s never missed a
train has missed one foolish feeling.
The man from 'way back is not
alwavs as easy a mark as he looks
to be. ....
Candidates for office and frisky
married men are always easily
scared.
The politician with a wornout is
sue is a weatherbeaten signboard in
deed. The interesting facts of a romance
usually come out in a divorce court.
It takes a pretty active man to
make good his matrimonial campaign
promises.
The man who trails along behind
the procession is bound to swallow a
lot of dust.
Anyhow, the fatalist has the ad
vantage of the other tcllow when a
thunder storm approaches.
People who think it is smart to be
rude generally have a lonesome time
through life.
Chickens frequently leave a cash de
oosit with the desk sergeant before
coming home to roost. j
Take no stock in a bragging man.
The silent goose always lays a bigger
egg than the cackling hen.
Of course the good loser makes the
best husband.
Because the gentleman leaning over
the bar howls at excessive taxation is
no sign that he is paying on anything
save a personal assessment.
It is possible for a man to wear a
pleasant smile most of the time and
yet be as selfish as sin.
The defeated candidate alvvays hates
to meet the sympathizing friend.
Life is worth living when we can
cherish fond recollections of the man
who has sold us mining stock.
The chap continually bragging
about his ancestors is seldom a credit
to the old guys.
A large number of the burdens of
life are shouldered in a saloon.
"Most of us imagine that we could
(ifw money on the other fellow's job.
By DA1.K 1'. STOUGH, I.L. B.
Mm 1 1 i-, wiitwu rf the work of
the executive ami legislative blanches
oi our go eminent, but (Irs article
will attempt a btief. plain statement
In the lay public of the work done by
the highest aim ol the judiii.it y in our
loun state, tue .Nciu.iska supiruic
com t.
i The obxioiislv app.uent features of
j the courl's wink are that on Ir e d.ivs
, of the l:i ,t and third weeks oi each.
month, lroui .September to June, the j
j court con tics and hears oral argu- ,
Intents on motion-, and cases, and that
ihxice each mouth the court delivers j
i written opinions on these cases, which ,
i are given unotVicial publicity through I
I new spnpei s and published sets of re- 1
! ports ot decisions throughout the ,
I'mted States and olticially publish- '
ed in the Nebraska supienie couit te- ;
poits. But theie arc numerous facts'
concerning the oi ganiation, proce
dure and work of the court which
will both interest and assist the pub
lic in realizing the importance of this
branch of our state government.
Eighteen Judicial Districts.
The judicial power of the state of
Nebraska is vested, by our state con
stitution, in a supreme court, district
courts, county couits, Justices of the
peace, and such other courts, inferior
to district couits, as by law may be
created for cities and towns. In the
judicial machinery of our state, each
township and city has its local and
municipal magistrates; each connty
has its own tribunal for civil matters,
criminal examinations and probate
work; the state is divided into eighteen
judticial districts with thirty presiding
district judges; and at the head of this
system stands the couit of last resort,
the state supreme court.
This tribunal consists of seven
members, one elected to serve as chief
justice and six as associate justices,
each for a term of six years. The
chief justice presides over all terms
and sessions, and in his absence one
of the other members is selected to
preside temporarily. The judges are
required bv law to reside at Lincoln,
but ate elected tiom the state at
large. The personnel of the court
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You Won't Let Me
arve
Will You ?
III $W fM v
My name is Shnshan.
I am a little Armenian girL
Do I look much different from an
American baby girl!
I was happy until my papa and mama
died
I had nico things to eat and wear, now
T am growing blind because I am starv
ing. ' I am only one of 400,000 little orphan
srirls and boys who are starving.
You, dear, good, kind, generous
Americans will not let ua go hungry,
will you?
Many thousands of my little friends
have already died from slow starvation.
Those of us still alive can be saved
oven from the blindness of starvation if
we can get help quick.
When American papas and mamas look
at their happy little girls and boys just
as I once was, won't they say: "We will
crive enough money to save the life of a
little Armenian or Syrian boy or girL
Won't you little happy American boys
and girls ask your papas and mamas to
give you seventeen cents a day to send
to ust
That much will kp one of na a!3ke for
one day.
There are thousands of other little
Armenian and Syrian girls ,and boys
whose papas and mamas are living but
all of them are starving just as I am.
Everybody here is hungry.
Our pretty homes were destroyed and
we were driven across the desert.
My mama carried me to the Relief
Station.
She gave me the last of our food and
she S-T-A-R-V-E-D to death.
Winter is coming and it is very cold,
but being cold is not nearly so bad as
being hungry and being hungry is not
nearly so bad as starving.
The mothers and the tiny babies R
around me are starving.
They are weak, but so patient, eren
when they begin to go blind.
There arc 2,500,000 of us who an yet
be helped.
Seventeen cents a day apiece Is afi we
ask.
It is enough to keep us alive, tat w
must be saved Now, Today.
We pray to God every morning, noon
and night asking him to shower you with
his blessings, so you dear, good, kind,
generous Americans can help ua.
You will help us, won't ywxt
Lovingly yours,
SHUSHAN AlWOBHIAN.
FILL OUT THIS CHECK
For an Amount That Hurts Your Pocket
Mail now to JOHN C. WHARTON,
Treasurer of tbe Nebraska Branch for Armenian and Syrhm Relief,
OMAHA, NEBRASKA.
This work is conducted in perfect co-operation and with full approval of the Red Cross
HOWARD H. BALDRIOE, President. CHAS. H. WTLHELM, Secretary.
JOHN L. McCAGUE, Vice-President. JOHN C. WHARTON, Treasurer.
THIS IS A
NEGOTIABLE CHECK
1918
VAMR OF
BANK
N'AMB OP
CITY
BTATB
PAT TO THE ORDER OF
American Committee for Armenian & Syrian Belief
JOHN O. WHARTON, Treasurer, Omaha, Nebruka.
Dollars
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