HIE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. APRIL 13. 10U.
FAMOUS CHICAGO
PROFESSOR IN
HEARHANGLE
"I Love Her" Protests Dr.
William Isaac Thomas, When
Crested With Soldier's
Wife.
sex
teachings
Chicago, April 12. Hinton G. Cla
baugh, chief of the local bureau of the
Department of Justice, today an
nounced that his agents lst night
took into custody Dr. William Isaac
Thomas of the faculty of the Univer
sity of Chicago, widely known as an
authority on sociology, and a woman
said to be the wife of a Texas pan
now in France with General Pershing.
Mr. Clabaugh said he had turned
over to United States District Attor
ney Clyne evidence completely
rounded out for the institution of
charges of violating the Mann act and
the act forbidding false registration
at hotels.
Dr.' Thomas and the woman, who
said sbft was a Mrs. R. M. Granger
of Washington, D. C, are said to have
registered at a downtown hotel last
night as man and wife from Gary,
Tnd. The alleged expose was due to
N the fact that the hotel clerk's sus
picions were aroused
Declares He Loves Her.
According to Mr. Clabaugh, Dr.
Thomas said: "I love her and I don't
care if the whole world knows it.
My arrest is a tremendous injustice."
Dr. Thomas for some time was
much in demand for his lectures on
inriotocrv and the relation ot
thereunto. Among his
were :
"Women are better off for having
had their fling as men do. Dissipated
women often make excellent wives,
k , "Chivalry is the persistence of the
" old race habit of contempt for
women.
"A?y girl, mentally mature, has the
right to have children and the right
to limit their number.
"The morality of women is an ex
pediency rather than an inate virtue.
"Marriage as it exists today is
rapidly approaching a form of im
morality. "Matrimony is often an arrange
ment by which the woman trades her
irrepoachable conduct for irreproach
able gowns. '
"Children are not the result of mar
riage, but carriage is the result of
children."
U. S. Defers Action.
"No action will be taken today,"
said District Attorney Clyne, in
whose hands the case now rests. "Al
though we have the results of the in
vestigation of the Department of Jus
tice, we feel that we must make ad
ditional investigation ourselves be
cause of the fact that there are a
number of peculiar angles to the
case."
Dr. Thomas, a man of distinguished
appearance, is 55 years of age, mar
ied and has grown children. Mrs.
I I'liomas . was 'one of the founders of
the woman's peace party. Mrs. Gran
der is 24 years of age and has a 3-vcar-old
child living with her mother
at Fort Worth, Tex., . ; : ' '
She said, according to Mr. Cla
baugh, that she accompanied her hus
band from the training camp at Fort
Worth to New York to say goodby
when he sailed. Dr. Thomas was in
the city to gather material for a book
on Poland. They were introduced by
Mrs. Granger's sister. The latter and
Mrs. Granger have been living at a
south side family hotel for about two
weeks. At this hostelry it was said
that Mrs. Granger left suddenly last
night in a taxicab to go down-town.
The sister's name, according to G.
V. Wayson, manager of the hotel, is
Mri Kains. '.
Digest of Work Done By Recent Special
Session of State Legislature Shows New
Laws of Vast Importance Covering War
Measure Providing Way for
Soldiers to Vote, Defining
Acts of Disloyalty and
Method of Leasing Min
eral Lands.
Several bills of the utmost im
portance during war time were passed
by the legislature at the special ses
sk!.; The bill extending the voting by
mail law so as to enable soldiers and
sailors, whose homes are in Nebraska,
but who are absent from the state in
tration of voters. The card of each
voter will show his division, regiment,
company, troop, vessel or other com
mand, so far as the governor may be
able to ascertain it. If, for military
I reasons,, it be deemed inexpedient to
I record such information on the cards,
I the governor shall keep the data in
his office. He is to secure the in
formation from the proper military
or naval authofiteis, or from any
other available source. The card in
dex is to include men likely to be
called into the service, as well as
those already in. A general register
containing the names of all absent
voters, alphabetically arranged by
war time, to exercise tlie right of suf-i counties and cities, shall be made
frage, and the bill providing penalties
tor sabotage, were among the im
portant laws. Home guards organi
zations were also given legal recog
nition. A digest of the work done by
the legislature is as follows:
Voting By Mail.
II. R. No. 1 Extends the voting by
mail law so as to enable soldiers and
sailors whose homes are in Nebraska
but are absent from the state in war
time to exercise the right of suffrage.
Designates the secretary of state as
state election commissioner and au
thorizes him to appoint two assistant
commissioners, the three to compose
a body known as the state election
commission, whose duty it will be to
administer the law. The chairman of
the state committee of each of the
two leading parties is directed to file
with the secretary of state a list of
three names, and he shall appoint one
of the three from each list as an
assistant commissioner. , The assist
ants must take the same oath as ex
ecutive state officers and give bond
for the proper performance of their
duties. They are to be appointed
within 30 days after the taking ef
fect of the law and will serve till
January 1, 1919, after which their
successors shall be appointed for
terms of two years. Five dollars per
day and traveling expenses is allowed
them for time spent in their official
work.
Index Absent Voters.
The governor is directed to prepare
a card index of all absent voters serv
ing in the army, navy or other branch
of - military service of the United
States or the state of Nebraska, which
shall be arranged by counties and in
alphabetical order. Separate indexes
will be made for cities having regis-
and kept at his office, open for pub
lic inspectoin.' A copy of this regis
ter must be filed with the secretary
of state at least 30 days in advance
of any statewide general or primary
election. It is made the duty of every
public officer and citizen to furnish
information to the governor or the
election commission, when requested
in writing to do so, relating to absent
voters, and any refusal to furnish it
or the supplying of false information
is made a felony, punishable by im
prisonment in the penitentiary not
longer than three years.
Only those soldiers and sailors
stationed within the continental
boundaries of the United States or its
home waters will vote at primary
elections. They will be supplied by
the elettion commission with ballots
of the parties which cast 10 per cent
or more of the votes at the last pre
ceding general election. This will
restricprimary voting to democratic
and republican candidates, as neither
the socialist nor the prohibition
party cast 10 per cent of the total
vote two years ago. Names of can
didates for offices in smaller subdi
visions than the entire state will be
omitted from the primary ballots, but
office headings will appear thereon,
with blank spaces underneath where
names may be written in. Separate
nonpartisan tickets will be provided
for judicial and school offices, but
the names of candidates must be writ
ten in.
Proposed constitutional amend
ments will be printed on the ballot of
each party.
Return By Mail.
In sending the primary ballots to
absent voters, the commission is also
to send with each one a red en
velope in which it shall be returned
by mail after being tilled out. On the
face side of each envelope will ap
pear a printed blank to be tilled in
with the name, residence and mili
tary address of the man voting it.
The reverse side will contain instruc
tions and a blank form on which the
voter will take oath before a com
missioned officer that he is a qualified
elector of Nebraska. A plain white
envelope will be furnished, and the
voter in each instance is to seal up
his ballot inside the red envelope,
then place it inside the white one and
forward it by mail to the state elec
tion commission at Lincoln. Return
postage must be furnished by the
commission in each instance.
These primary ballots and return
envelopes are to be mailed by the
state election commission to the
absent voters at least 25 days prior
to any statewide primary. In doing
this, the commission must comply
with any rules gr regulations govern
ing delivery of mail which the army
and navy authorities may have laid
down. The absent voter shall select
the ticket of the party with which
he affiliates, marking his choice of
candidates thereon, and also on the
nonpartisan ballot furnished him.
After he has made the required affi
davit the commissioned officer taking
the oath shall attest it by signing his
name in a blank space provided
therefor.
Vote Before Primary.
Primary ballots may be voted by
soldiers and sailors at any time after
they arc received, and must be re
turned to the state election commis
sion so as to be in its hands before
midnight of the day on which the pri
maries are held. No ballots received
by it after that time shall be counted.
The commission is to open none of the
envelopes from soldiers and sailors
until that time.
In each city having registration of
voters, the governor is empowered to
appoint two qualified electors who,
with the city clerk or election com
missioner of such city, shall constitute
a city election commission. Its powers
and duties at municipal primaries and
elections shall be similar to those of
the state election commission. It shall
prepare lists of absent voters, ballots
and envelopes in the same manner as
the state body, and shall mail the
ballots and return envelopes to the
soldiers and sailors registered as vot
ers within the city limits. Municipal
ballots shall be sent only to those sta
tioned in continental territories and
waters. None received in the mail
more than 24 hours after the closing
of the polls shall be counted.
Within 15 days after a primary elec
tion, each county clerk is required to
file with the state election commis
sioner (the seretary of state) a list of
all nominations for county and local
offices, with post office addresses and
political affiliations of the nominees.
From the lists so furnished, the state
commission is directed to prepare and
have printed a catalog, by counties in
the form of a pamphlet, which will be
mailed to the absentee sailors and
soldiers for information at the fol
lowing general election, so that they
may know the names of local candi
dates in their home counties and write
in the names of their preferred can
didates on the election ballot.
Ready September 20.
Ballots for the general election ate
to be prepared by the state election
commission not later than September
20. Two regular ballots and two non
partisan ballots shall be mailed on r
before that date to all soldiers and
sailors beyond the continental bound
aries of the United States. Cue bal
lot of each kind is to be voted iu the
other destroyed, the second being for
use in case the first one should be
spoiled in marking. Ballots must be
sent to those within the continental
boundaries not later than 25 days be
fore election.
As in the case of primary elections,
a red envelope and a white one for
returning the ballot will be supplied
to each absentee voter, with printed
instructions as to the manner in which
his vote shall be cast and certified.
This time, however, the military or
naval voter must pay his own postage
when he sends it back.
All votes cast at a general election
within the continental area of the
United States must be in the hands
of the state election commission by
midnight of election day. Those cast
abroad must be returned by midnight
of the fourth Monday following elec
tion. Prepare for Canvass.
Provision is made for the canvassing
of soldiers' and sailors' votes by the
state election commission, after pri
mary and general elections. Follow
ing a primary, the canvass will start
on the Friday next ensuing, and certi
fied abstracts of the vote shall be sent
to the various officers and boards
charged by law with the duty of is
suing certificates of nomination. This
includes the state canvassing boards.
All boards arc forbidden to complete
their canvass until the military and
naval vote has been included in the
totals, and no certificates of nomina
tion shall be issued without first doing
so.
After a general election, the state
commission will begin canvassing sol
diers' and sailors' votes from contin-
inial territory and waters, on the first
Monday following. A iter completing
this part of the canvass, it will re
cfs until the fourth Tuesday after
election and reconvene at that time
to canvas the vote received from
abroad. Certified abstracts must be
prepared and furnished to the proper
officers and boards, the same as at a
primary election.
hi opening the red envelopes, the
state election commission shall de
posit each enclosed ballot in a ballot
box, after scrutinizing the certificate
on the envelope and satisfying itself
that the person casting the vote was a
qualified elector. The ballot will not
be inspected nor counted until later
and it, will not be known how any in
dividual voted.
Penal Laws Apply.
All penal laws governing ballot
frauds will apply to elections held
under this act. Failure by any of
ficer ta perform the duties imposed
on hint is niaife punishable by a fine
not exceeding $500. Where no other
penalty is provided for its violation,
a miximum tine of $100 or mixinuitn
jail sentence of three months is speci
fied. No matter of a political nature
may be enclosed with ballots sent to
absent voters.
The sum of $24,000 is appropriated
for expenses of administering the law.
The state election commission and the
governor are each authorized to em
ploy necessary assistants and fix their
compensation.
F.mergeucy. Repeals chapter 177,
session laws of 1917.
H. R. No. 2 Provides that county
and state canvassing boards, after
making the regular canvass following
a general election, shall recess until
the ballots of absent soldiers and sail
ors are received, after which they shall
reconvene, and complete the canvass
bv incbufiiiiT such returns. Amends
j n - --
or repeals Sections 7. 9 and 10, Chap
ter 3,1, session laws of 1917, and Sec
lions 2087, 2091 and 2092. Revised
statute.
Include Military Vote.
II. R. No. 3 Provides that county
and state canvassing boards, follow
ing a primary election, shall recess
after making the regular canvass and
meet again to include the vote cast
by absent soldiers and sailors. The
county board is to recess for one
week, holding its session on the sec
ond Friday after the primary. The
state board will hold its first meeting
on the second Tuesday after the pri
mary ami must not complete its of
ficial canvass nor certify and nomina
tions without including the military
and naval vote. Amends Sections
2194, 2195 and 2199. Revised statute.
H. R. No. 4 Repeals the Mockett
law for compulsory foreign language
teaching in the public schools below
the high school. Repeals Section 6941.
Revised statute.
H. R. No. 7 Appropriates $2,400 to
pay salary of state bacteriologist.
Emergency.
H. R. No. 8 Appropriates ex
amination fees of state insurance de
partment to pay salaries and expenses'
of examiners; also provides for re
demption of $9,060.56 of canceled
checks representing amounts hereto
fore paid them without an, appropri
ation. Emergency.
Home Guards Recognized.
II. R. No. 6. Gives legal recogni
tion to home guards organizations and
puts them under the authority of the
governor as commander-in-chief of
the National Guard. He is empowered
to make rules and regulations govern
ing them. Citizens of the United
States who are residents of Nebraska
and upwards of 18 years old are
i eligible for membership. Home
guards shall perform such service ,
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Have you bought a Liberty Bond, have you bought two Liberty Bonds, and how about buying another?
these questions are presented to all of us these days and they press for an answer. There may be some who
cannot find the money to buy even one bondand yet if the kaiser was thundering at our gates and shelling
our cities, we would perhaps find a way to raise sufficient for at least one Bond. THINK IT- OVER!
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GERMAN PAPER
, DENOUNCES PLAN i
TO SEIZE POLAND
Amsterdam, April 12. The safe
guarding of the German position in
the east is primarily a Prussian inter
est and, therefore, Prussia must de
mand that the military interests
should be decisive over all others. Dr.
Essen-Hartruthe, Prussian minister of
agriculture, declared in the Prussian
upper house on Tuesday, according
to the Berliner Tageblatt.
This statement is interpreted by the
Tageblatt as meaning that a very
large section of Polish territory must
he added to Prussia. It comments
very strongly on the political conse
quence of such annexations, "which
would drive the. Poles politically into
i.'it arus of Russia and create in the
"-i for the Germans a permanent
breeding center of political unrest,
producing an irredenta in our east
ern provinces and a perpetual Polish 1
danger."
New York Solons 0. K. Taft's I
Plan for League of Nations
Albany N. Y., April 12.-The New
York legislature, after listening to a
stirring war speech by former Presi
dent1 William H. Taft,. today unani
mously: and enthusiastically adopted a
resolution declaring that the state
"favors the entrance of the United
States after the war into a league of
nations to safeguard the peace that
must be won by the joint military
forces of the allied nations."
T. R.'s Son Will Convalesce
In Former Girls' Art Club
Paris, April 12. Captain Archie
Roosevelt, who was wounded in ac
tion last month, has been transferred
from a field hospital near the front
tiRed Cross hospital No. 3 in Paris,
ihis hospital is located in what form
erly was the American Girls' Art club.
U. S. Ambulance Man Killed.
Paris, April 12. Carey Richard
Evans of Columbus, O., an ambu
lance driver, was killed last week.
while in the service of the French j
army. Evans, who was a new man, j
received, his training at Allentown, j
Pa. He' was assisting stretcher-bear-
ers in loading wounded into his car
whe:,i'd shell exploded nearby, killing'
him itistantlv. He was buried with i
military honors on the spot,
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And now let's talk of Clothes, Spring Clothes
and Summer Clothes
Suits Have Easily the
First Place In Favor
Demand Now Very Great, Supply Now Quite Meager.
Just now we are well fixed, Stock extensive, Variety
great. So many calls, so many needs, that we are adapt
ing prices to pocketbooks
So On Suits 3 Divisions For Saturday
No. 1 Serges', Poplins, Poiret Twills, $27 50
popular shades '
No. 2 -Navies and Sand Colors, $750
also Checks pJ I ajv
No. 3 Tricotines, Silk Poplins, Dis- 00
tinctive Models poiJJJ
Capes Carry the Military Idea We got a high grade
maker to get up for us a Cape of navy serge excellent
in quality and correct in cut under- QLIK flfl
priced to you at tfOO.UU
We have others in Jersey Cloth and fine Twills.
Summer Furs Never a season when Spring Furs
met the temperature needs so fittingly. Aren't the
mornings and evenings just nippy enough for Furs?
Taupe Wolf Scarfs! Battleship Grey and Kib Fox Scarfs.
Kolinsky Capes. Buy Saturday for Sunday.
Summer Sweaters, almost indispensable. A nice line.
Summer Dresses, just peeping out, advance showing
in Voiles and Ginghams.
Serge and Silk Dresses, popular and will be more so.
You must have a Petticoat with every Suit to be well
dressed. Heatherbloom and Silk finished garments, plain
colors and flower prints, 1.95, 2.39 and Upwards.
Jersey Silk Petticoats, 5. S5.95. S6.50 and Upwards
Taffeta Silk Petticoats, all costumes matched, $5 and Up
Dresses or Coats for Girls From 2 Yrs. up to 14 Yrs.
Serges, Poplins, Ginghams. Ginghams and Challies are
the popular fabrics for Girls' Dresses.
Visit Our Hattery the open season is here and we
are splendidly ready. Hats for AH the Ages.
BUY
ANOTHER
WAR SAVINGS
STAMP
Corsets for Saturday
Classic Models at Special Prices
X will be $1.29. Y will be $1.59. Z will be $2.50.
No this is not a problem in Algebra, but letters for
you to remember, so that you will know what to call for.
The Lithe, the Small, the Petite, the Slim growing
girls or little women, who find it difficult to get style and
fit Try Mrs. O'Key. Remember the name. She's the
buyer who prides herself on making a study of just such
needs.
Save the Dresses! Koveralls Will Do It!
Just the thing for
$1.00
Made from Blue or Khaki Denim.
playground or garden wear.
Each
Don't stop to make Cotton Dresses for the young
sters. On Saturday you can buy at about the price of
material.,
THE RED CROSS CAN USE YOU
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Underwear Stock Is Ripe
for Picking Saturday
All the weights wanted. A range of prices and
rightly made. To start things Saturday with a hum we
quote Specials. Glove Silk Garments made by Kayser
and other good makers.
Envelopes, Bloomers, Camisoles, Vests, beautifully
trimmed. Many sold as high as $6.00. Pleasant picking
at $2.98 Saturday.
Women's Gauze Lisle Hosiery, grey, brown, tans,
etc, 39tf.
. Women's Fiber Silk Stockings, lisle tops, Blacks and
Whites, 75.
Women's Pure Silk, cloth dyed, all shades, $1.25.
School Stockings, ribbed, for the kiddies, 29 Pair.
Men who do not like to be classed with the Ward Mc
Allisters and the Oscar Wildes of Society want correct
apparel. "Rich not'gaudy, for the apparel oft bespeaks
the man.." To these we cater. Men of modest taste
Good dressers if you will Special for Saturday Madras
Shirts, soft or laundered cuffs, snappy styles in individual
boxes would be $2.00. A counter loaded fcf oc
for Saturday, at pl.OO
Of Course, we have Union Suits for every clime and
temperature, Neckwear for all occasions, Socks for Ox
fords, and Shirts, Shirts in endless profusion.
Wash Dress Goods in West Aisle the more costly
types, at economy prices, weaves suited to the season,
prices adapted to the times
Colored Poplins, all shades, 36-inch, 50d Yard.
Plaid and Stripe Tissues, 40 and 50.
Plain Voiles, new shades, 45. 50 and 75a ?
Special showing of High Class Voiles, Poplins, Or
gandies, Etc., priced at $1 will go on Saturday at 69d.
Wool Dress Goods opposite getting mighty scarce.
Ginghams, 29S 39tf. 65 and $1.00.
Basement Brevities Spider Weave Mull, attractive
prints, 25. Woven Tissues, 29S 40-Inch Printed
Voile, 25S Serpentine Crepe, Bates Seersucker, Cos
tume Crepes, Kindergarten Suiting, Galatea, Etc.
When in the Basement look at the Semi-Cut Glass
Bowls, Footed Dishes, Nappies, Sugar and Creamers at
85 Each. 2 lots of Stemware at 29tf and 49.
Some in the lot worth more than $1.00.
New Arrivals: Cut Glass for Showers from 50
to $2.25- June is Coming. .
Kilpatrick's for Silks
A Select Lot of Beauties Came in This Week. Verily!
Verily! It makes us tired, weary, gives us a pain, to hear
the laggards blow and claim to be in the vanguard of
progress. Don't fool yourselves, the people don't forget.
How cordial the welcome would be if people were only a
little more modest. By the way, early closing will soon
be unanimous.
Now for the foolish prices on Toilet Articles for Sat
urday. You are as welcome to the goods as the flowers
of May. Just as long as the silly season lasts we'll stay
with the procession. We quote a few prices and we'll
meet all others if we have the goods. No faking, either.
No palming off something "Just as Good."
Pebeco Tooth Paste, 3-l. Pears' Unscented Soap,
11 Cake. 50c Listcrine, 39. Woodbury's Facial,
19. Cuticura Soap, 19(5. Carnation Talcum, 10.
Hudnut's Cold Cream. 50. Jergen's Violet Soap, 10.
Rubber Cushion Hair Brush, 59. -Djer Kiss Face
Powder, 48S
Cobb's for Candy
You hear this everywhere where good Candy is ap
preciated. .Saturday is a great day. Difficult to serve
the afternoon rush, so come in the morning if possible.
Cobb's is the Soldiers' Favorite.
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