THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1918.
OMAHA, THE CITY
OFMANY TONGUES,
LATESHECORD
Nearly Every Known Language
on Earth's Surface Spoken
Here; Recent Census
Gives Statistics,
Omaha is certainly a polyglot city.
Evidence of this fact is shown in
the latest language census, taken in
the canvass of families of Omaha o
ascertain the number of children of
school age. It was found that near
ly every known language is spoken
here. , !
The canvassers found that there are
552 families within the environs of the
city where the" German language was
spoken in the home.
With the 151 families speaking lang
uages not listed, it is probable that
the native tongues of every race of
people on the earth s surface can be
heard daily in this city.
More Germans In West
West Side school, with 200 families
speaking English, had the largest
number of German speaking families,
the latter numbering 129. Castellar
school, with 830 English speaking
families, came next with 80 German
speaking families. "olumbian, with
909 English speaking families pro
duced none within the district who
sooke any foreign tongue. Farnam
J ' a ' til. 1 CAA 1? U tn.nVintt
UlSUICl, Willi liJUU llllDll ioimus
families, also has a clear record in
that regard, as has Saunders, 4jt
families, and Field club district with
29S families.
Next to English the Bohemian
tongue is spoken !n more homes in
Omaha than any other language. The
census shows there are 1,455 families
in the city speaking this language.
Brown Park district leads in the num
ber of Bohemian families, there being
292 families who speak the Bohemian
tongue and 35 who speak English it
this district. There is but one German
gpeaking family in Brown ?ark, also
one family speaking Danish, four
peaking Polish, four speaking Slo
vak and one Slovenian and 10 Serbo
.Croatian. ,
Many Bohemians Here.
In the Jungmann district 258 fami
lies speak English and 128 Bohemian,
and in the Lincoln district, 487 fami
lies speak English and 130 Bohem
ian. i "
There are 473 Polish sneaking fam-
, Mies jn the city, the largest number of
these being in the South Franklin dis
trict, where there are 169 English
speaking families : and ui .Polish,
Lowell district has 121 English speak
ing families and 102 Polish speaking
families.
Of families who employ Dutch and
Frisian tongues in their intercourse,
there are only 46 in the city, and but
two who converse in the Portugese
tongue. There are 19 families in the
city who speak the ancient flemish
; tonffue.
In Omaha there are 238 families
who sDeak Swedish in the tamiiy in'
tercourse, the largest number in any
one neighborhood being 65, in the
Benson district Inere are 10 tam-i
lies speaking Norwegian and 223 who
speak the Danish tongue, ot whicn a
families live in the Benson district
Italian predominates among the
Latin tongues spoken within the en
virons of the city, there being 837
families employing .this tongue, of
which Park school district leads with
227 families. Mason with 136 and
Train with 106.
Some Talk Spanish.
inere are v rrencn speaking iami
lies here, of which 64 are represented
in the south Franklin school. South
Franklin district has 14 Spanish
speaking families and the balance of
the districts have 20.
There are 63 families speaking the
Roumanian language, of which 28 live
in the South Central district There
the 47 families which use Greek as the
domestic tongue in Omaha, 16 of
these families are in tl. . Lowell school
district. There are 66 Russian fami
lies, all of them being evenly scat
tred through all the different school
districts and showing there is less dis
position to gregariousness among the
Russians than any others. r
Of those who speak Yiddish and
Hebrew languages there are 657 fami
lie, 292 being in the Kellom district
and 182 in the Long. Kellom has
1,208 English speaking families and
Lqng 940. There are 36 families us
ing the Magyar, or Gypsy tongues,
most of them from Hungary, in the
city; 31 families use one of the oldest
languages in the world, the Syrian.
There are only two Turkish families,
during race riots, is authorized by a
bill passed today by the senate and
sent to the house. '
The damages for which this money
is to be appropriated were caused
when citizens of South Omaha e-
came enraged when Patrolman Low
ry was killed by a Greek whom he
tried to arrest in a boardin ho.s.
at Twenty-fourth and N streets,
the South Side.
On the following Sunday inflam
matory speeches were made to a
crowd which had gathered, and in the
evening the crowds became unruly
and smashed up the windows aid
contents of all the Greek establifh
ments they could find.
Says Railroad Shocked
$2,999 Worth of Nerves
Charging that his wife's nerves had
teen shocked $2,999 worth, Sam J.
Leon, president of Leon's, a firm
which controls several haberdasheries
about town, has juti the Burlington
railroad for that amount.
Leon alleges that in August, 1914,
his wife, Marion Leon, was alighting
from a coach at the Burlington sta
tion when the train started suddenly
and threw her to the ground. She
says that she had been told by Bur
lington employes that the train
would not start for five minutes. As
she had spent only two minutes in
side, bidding a friend farewell, she nat
urally supposed that she had three
minutes to spare.
Leon says that his wife's ankle was
about the body and that her nerves
were shattered.
President Wilson Replies
To Omaha Loyalty Telegram
The Fontenelle Park Independence
Dav Celebration association July 4
sent a personal telegram to President
Wilson assuring him of the loyal
backing of all Omahans. II. C.
Timme, president of the association,
nas received tne touowing iciegram
in reply, signed by Secretary Tumulty:
My dear sir: The president deep
ly appreciates the generous senti
ments of the message which you ad
dressed to him in the name of the
people of Omaha, and he asks me to
convey to you and to every one con
cerned an expression of his grateful
t hanks for joiirgdwshe8.'
METCALFE CALLS
STATE JOURNAL
FOR MISQUOTING
Member of State Council of De
fense Gives Press His Ver
sion of Nonpartisan
Mix.
Richard L. Metcalfe of the Ne
braska State Council of Defense has
given the press a statement of griev
ances against the Nebraska Mate
Journal. He charges that paper with
continually interfering with the w,ork
of the council. He says his state
ment of the Nonpartisan league's
quotations from President Wilson's
book was mutilated by the Journal
in an editorial.
Following is Mr. Metcalfe's ver
sion of this controversy:
Gross Misrepresentation.
The Lincoln Nebraska Journal in an
editorial printed in its issue of July
8th so grossly misiepresents the po
siti ;;i of the Nebraska State Council
of Defense with respect to the extracts
from Woodrow Wilson's book circu
lated by the Nonpartisan league that
I ask the press of Nebraska to present
the facts to the public.
The Journal expresses surprise that
any one would object to the circula
tion of the words of the president of
the United States, and then it prints
a mutilated passage from my state
ment given to the press Saturday
night. The Journal quotes me as
having said that Dr. Manahan stated
that, "it (Nonpartisan league) would
also withdraw from circulation the ex
tracts from Woodrow Wilson's 'New
Freedom,' which extracts presented,
the council thought, tended to mis
lead the reader."
In my statement as printed in the
newspapers of the state I said that
Mr, Manahan stated that, "it (Non
partisan league) would also withdraw
from circulation the extracts from
Woodrow Wilson's 'New Freedom,"
which extracts presented as they
were presented, the council thought
tended to mislead the reader." Thus
it will be seen that the Lincoln Journal
in its effort to support the Nonpartisan
league and to embarrass those who are
trying to render service to our country
deliberately in its editorial omitted
from its pretended quotation of my
statement the important words "as
they were presented."
In the Nonpartisan league's "war
program and statement of principles"
our government was falsely described
as being under the control of the
worst sort of influences. Then the
league in its literature used quota
tions from Woodrow Wilson's book
in such a way and in an effort to sup
port that false idea.
For instance, in the league's litera
ture Woodrow Wilson is quoted as
saying: "The masters of the govern
ment of the United States are the
combined capitalists and manufactur
ers of the United States.''
There are many other quotations
along the same line, seeking to make
it appear that our government is
ruled by bad influences. The state
council objected to the circulation of
these statements at this time for the
reason that, in the language of my
statement, "presented as they were
presented, the council thought, tended
to mislead the reader."
It is not true that "the masters of
the government of the United States
are the combined capitalists and man
ufacturers of the United States," and
those statements, "presented as they
were presented," amount to an indict
ment of Woodrow Wilson himself,
for he is now our government! chief.
Amount to Libel.
We object to that statement and to
other statements "presented as they
were presented" by the Nonpartisan
league for the reason that they
amount to a libel upon our country
and upon our president and give sup
port to the country's enemies and en
couragement to those who are seek
ing to stir class hatred at the time
when, all pur people should be united.
We know that there is profiteering,
and we are much more opposed to it
than Nonpartisan league organizers
are, and we know that our president
is exerting his best efforts to destroy
that profiteering. But to say at this
time that a combination of selfish
men are "masters of the government
of the United States" is a charge
which cannot with propriety be circu
lated during the war.
If the Lincoln Journal editorial had
not mutilated my statement, omitting
the words, "as they were presented,"
the statement itself would have ex
plained why we objected to the circu
lation of the extracts from Woodrow
Wilson's book, and would have fully
met that "considerable public curios
ity" which the Journal tries to create
with respect to that objection.
The Journal further gives false in
ference, when it says: "This means
that the charge of disloyalty hereto
fore lodged against the organization
(Nonpartisan league), is officially
withdrawn." j
Neither the state council, nor any
of its representatives, has withdrawn
any charges they have made against
the league or its organizers. The
charge of disloyalty, was never made
against the rank and file of the mem
bership. Many of the organizers were
charged with seditious utterances, and
much of its literature was branded in
the same way. It is absurd therefore
to say that these charges were with
drawn. The state council has never attempt
ed to interfere with the meetings of
the league, although it has insisted
that there should be no secret meet
ings, and it has advised them that
there are some localities in the state
where the local feeling against the
league is such that it is not wise for
them to attempt to hold meetings
there.
The Journal says that the council
"has abandoned its untenable atti
tude." The simple facts are that the
Nonpartisan league brought suit to re
strain the State Council of Defense,
and then after a hearing it dismissed
the suit upon its own motion, volun
tarily stating that it would comply
with every suggestion which, at Mr.
Manahan's request, I made in open
court. There was no abandonment by
the state council of any position it
has taken. The only thing abandoned
was the Nonpartisan league's suit, and
a lot of paid and imported organizers
that have been making war activities
more or less difficult in Nebraska.
The Lincoln Journal concludes its
editorial with the words, "It is an
amazing incident." It uses those
words in referring to its own misrep
resentation of the facts. Nothing
could be more "amazing," however,
than the persistent and continued ef
forts on the part of a newspaper like
the Lincoln Journal.
That paper continually interferes
with the efforts of in official body
that is rendering service to the coun
try, and it loses no opportunity to
give support to influences that offend
the patriotic sense of Nebraska.
To Enscroll the Name
of Russell G. Hughes
on City Hall Memorial
Mayor Smith was instructed bj
council, in session Tuesday morning,
to have the name of Russell u.
Hughes, first Omaha boy to meet his
death in France, March 17, at the
hands of the enemy, in defense ol
world democracy, suitably enscrolled,
framed, and the memorial placed on
the east wall of the Farnam street en
trance to the city hall.
This will be the first step taken
for a memorial to Omaha heroes who
fall in this noble cause, and will be
temporary in its nature as it will be
replaced at some time at the close ol
the war to a permanent tribute in
some form.
Arrested for Auto Theft
15 Minutes After Car Stolen
Midge Babcock, 1140 Eighteenth
street, 16 years old, and Clayton Car
lysle, 1718 Dodge street, 14 years old,
were arrested early Tuesday morning
on a charge of theft of a Ford auto
mobile from the Nebraska Service ga
rage at Eighteenth and Nicholas
streets. Motorcycle policeman Shee
han picked the boys up with the car
at Twenty-second and Pinkney streets
about IS minutes after the theft had
been reported to the police station
although Sheehan was ignorant at
the time of the missing auto.
Babcock told the politfeman that
he had rented the car for $2 and that
he had asked Clayton to go riding
with him. The boys were held in the
matron's department at the city jail.
"TFEEL that I must write and tell
A you the great benefit I have ex
perienced from using Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep
sin. I had always suffered from indigestion
bift since taking Syrup Pepsin I am no longer
troubled in that way, and I cannot praise it
too highly as a laxative."
(E
'ram a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by
Mm ueo. ocnaetter, 1103 Weil Ave.
Utica, N. Y.
)
Dr. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin
The Perfect Laxative
Sold by Druggists Everywhere
50 cts. OS) $1.00
A combination of simple laxative herbs with
fepsin, mild and gentle in its action, that re
ieves constipation quickly. A trial bottle
can be obtained free of charge by writing to
Dr. W. B. Caldwell,' 458 Washington' Street.
Monticello, Illinois.
There V no more congenial company
than a cold bottle of STOEZ Beverage.
Served wkemer beverage are sold.
Telephone ni today to pot a case In your home.
STOBZ BEVERAGE & ICE CO.
Phoe Webster 221.
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To the People of Omaha and Vicinity
' Prepare Yourself for the
Greatest Shoe Sale Ever Held
An Opportunity of This Kind
Comes Only Once a Year
See Wednesday Night's Paper for Big Advertisement
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AT 89o
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mer waists of plain
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trimmed with lace, em
broidery and tucks.
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The Store of Specialty Shops'
WASH WAISTS
$1.89
Plain voUes,' trim
med with lace, tucks,
embroidery and organdy.
Our July Clearance Sale
i
S AN unusual July Clearance. We are making it a bigger and better sale than we ever held be
foreproviding values of a kind that means SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS to you on timely mer
chandise that you need right now or will need in the near future. Just a few of the specials listed
here. Expect many more.
!. New Summer FROCKS Silk Fiber SWEATERS
Two Specially Priced Groups
$5.00 and $9.75
IN CRISP, cool tub fabrics including dimities, sheer
plain voiles; fancy plaid, striped and checked ging
hams and figured voiles.
Pleated frills, quaint fichu effects, lace trimmed
vestees and cuffs, pretty girdles and youthful bow
sashes. Unusual values in our July Clearance Sale.
Previously Priced up to $29.50
$9.95
HANDSOME silk and silk fiber sweaters featured at
a very special price during our July Clearance Sale.
A very fortunate purchase enables us to offer these
extraordinary values. Made of heavy quality, in a vari
ety of popular and becoming styles. All colors, includ
ing watermelon, Copenhagen, green, gold, purple, tur
quoise, etc1
Georgette Crepe Blouses
REGULAR
$5.95 VALUES
$3.95
SPECIALLY PRICED
IN JULY SALE
A
LL direct from New York, and copies and duplicates of modes favored by leaders of Fashion.
Fashioned of a splendid extra heavy quality of Georgette Crepe. Featuring newest conventional and floral
designs, exquisitely worked in silk floss and steel cut beads. One model has the new embroidered collar another
embroidered design on the back still another with round neck and side fastening. All sizes 36 to 46. The colors
include :
Pink
White
Grey
Flesh
Blue
Bisque
STORE OPENS PROMPTLY AT 8:30 A. M.
Maize
Tea Rose
Etc.; Etc.
Smart Tub Skirts
A Special Group
At $5.00
AN exceptional group of pique, gabardine and novelty
weave wash skirts, introducing original belt, pocket
and button style features. Some models are rather full
and gathered, while others are in tailored effects.
Smocks for Outings
Previously Priced Up to $3.50
$2.50
r r ERY desirable for gardening, porch and outing wear.
A special pricing on them for Wednesday.
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jftiaae 01 linen crasu iu wmie auu a variety or preuy
colors, trimmed with smocking, big pockets and belts.
Clearance Sale of Women's Suits
FORMERLY PRICED
UP TO $35
$10.00
LIMITED QUANTITY
IN THIS GROUP
THE values the sale price quoted and the comparative value, coming from this store is enough a lengthy de
scription could not do justice to these suits.
Silk jersey, serge and gabardine newest of this Spring's models. Variety of colors and trimming ideas.
Women's Suits
were up to $45
$19.75
Women's Suits
were up to $59.50
$25.00
Women's Silk Suits
were up to $55.00
Half Price
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