THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 16, 1919.
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ULLAGE NAMED
AMBASSADOR TO
PARIS BYVJILSOH
Appointment of Successor to
Sharp President's First
Official Act on Home
ward Journey.
On Board the" U. S, S. George
Washington, Feb. 15. (I3y Wireless
to the Associated Tress.) President
Wilson ha nominated Hugh C.
Wallace of Seattle ambassador to
France, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of William
Graves Sharp.
This was the first oiiical act of
the president on his homeward
journey. . ,. , .
The president also, dispatched
telegrams arranging for brief cere
monies in connection with the
speech which he expects to make at
Boston on February 24.
President Wilson spent the day
resting from the strenuous exertions
which marked his last few days in
Paris,
Sailing in, Fair Weather.
The steamer is heading for the
southern route in fair weather. The
escorting French warships signalled
farewell soon after leaving Brest,
and the United States tlreadnaught
New Mexico and several destroyers
will be the escort of the George
Washington, until the Azores are
reached. At the Azores the ship
will be met by numerous American
destroyers and convoyed home.
Despite the hard work which he
will engage in during his brief stay
The House of
Menagh
For the Jeune Fille
AND FOR
the Small Woman
Our suit and dress
department holds
especial treats in
store.
The prettiest
modes of .the sea
son and the clever
est fancies of the
hour are reflected
here in the suits of
fine soft serge, in
navy blue, buttoned,
and braided vin .
black, steel, or col
ors. Some have the
vestees of victory
red, of overseas
blue, or of linen col
ored moire.
Tricotine, too, and
silky jersey in the
jay blue, and sum
mer weight covert
laid in horizontal
plaits for. the boxy
back that now is so
strikingly popular.
The Italian jumper
jacket suit, in navy,
with its petite vest
of sand color, is an
other of the clever
est of spring mod
els. The dresses, too, are
really-truly valentines
in loveliness. Almost
every sort of silk is
represented in their
choice, clingy trico
lette, glossy foulard,
crisp taffeta, shiny sat
in, and soft, fine-weft
messaline. The colors
range every popular
shade, navy, the new
henna, combinations
of henna and figured :
georgette, all the new
blues, gray, black,
green, and the newest
plaids.
T h e r e's everything
I here, for every taste,
every occasion, and ev
i cry pocketbook.
in the United States, the president
is already planning to begin his re
turn journey to France immediately
after the adjournment of congress.
It is expected that he will select
successor to Thomas W. Gregory
in the attorney generalship of the
United States, before the ship
reaches home waters.
Wallace Close Friend of Wilson.
Washington, Feb. IS The wire
less dispatch tonight? from the
George Washington was the first
public intimation that Hugh Wallace
had been selected by President Wil
son as ambassador to France.
Mr. Wallace, who spends much of
his time here, is a close friend of
President Wilson and often has par
ticipated in confidential conferences
at the White House. Soon after
this country entered the war he was
sent to London by the president on
a personal mission and it is known
that the president has the utmost
confidence in his judgment and abil
ity in handling important and deli
cate matters.
Except as a member of the demo
cratic national committee and an ac
tive worker in presidential cam
paigns, Mr. Wallace has not taken
an active hand in politcis. The only
public office he ever held was re
ceiver of public moneys for Utah
by appointment of President Cleve
land, 1885-86. He was a delegate
at large from the state of Washing
ton to the convention which nomi
nated President Wilson and has
since been one of the president's
most ardent supporters. ,
Mr. Wallace, a native of Lexing
ton, Mo., celebrated his 56th birth
day this week. His wife is a daugh
ter of the late Chief Justice Melville
W. Fuller of the supreme court and
for a number of years they have
maintained homes here and in Ta
coma, Wash.
Anybody Can Attend
Transmississippi Meet,
Says C. C. George
C. C. George, chairman of the
Transmississippi Readjustment con
gress in Omaha, February 18 to 20.
announces that hundreds of inquiries
are being received from business
men in the 22 states west of the
Mississippi as to requirements for
participating in the congress.
"We invite every business man,
farmer, or professional man west of
the Mississippi river to attend this
congress," says Mr. George. "They
owe it to themselves, their commun
ity and the great west to attend if
possible.
"The Transmississippi Readjust
ment congress offers an opportunity
such as has never before been pre
sented for all interests in the west
to join hands in formulating a con
structive program and creating the
machinery to carry it out at Wash
ington and elsewhere."
The streets of Omaha will be
especially lighted for the visitors to
the congress. -
The Nebraska legislature will be
asked to adjourn and attend the
congress in a body.
Carol Beckwith's Paintings
Exhibited at U, Art Gailery
Through the efforts of Prof. Paul
H. Grumann, head of the school of
fine arts of the University of Ne
braska, there are on exhibition in
the university art gallery, Carol
Beckwith's reproductions of famous
masterpieces. The canvases, which
will be on exhibit until February 22,
include copies of Velasquez, Reu
bens, Nattier and many other fam
ous artists.
The exhibition will be sent to the
normal schools of the state under
the auspices of the school of fine
arts.
Gen. Fau Enroute Home.
Victoria, B. G, Feb. 15. Gen.
Paul Gerald Pau, French military
leader, and members of a French
mission to Australia, were expected
to reach quarantine tonight on the
steamer Nicaragua. They are en
route home to France. As the ves
sel approaches her dock tomorrow a
salute of 17 guns will be fired and
a guard of honor will be drawn up
at the quay side.
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Hudson Super-Six Gained Its Leadership
on the Speedway. It Maintains It
With 60,000 Users
The records Hudsons made in the tests that prove endurance are
just as important today as they were when made two and three
years ago.
That was the only way then in which it could be proved a life car. The
abuse which only the speedway and the hardest touring and hill climb
ins: would reveal in a few hours had to be used to demonstrate Hudson
limits of endurance. Ordinary driving was too slow.
Now 60,000 users through t-rery kind of service and neglect are individually eon
firming what was shown in those tests. They have established the leadership of Hud
son Super-Six in every way that proves performance and long life.
Rival's Imitations Make It the Pattern Cat
Every car produced since Hudson Super-Six design showed the importance of mini
mizing motor vibration, as it does with its exclusive motor, has reflected Hudson lead
ership. First it was mechanical leadership. Now it is in body designing as well, that
others look to Hudson.
This year's auto shows reveal that influence. Comparison of most cars with earlier
Hudson models show it. Present Hudson models in such types as the Sedan, the Tour
ing Limousine, Coupe and others are regarded as forecasts of what others will offer
next fall. y
When you get a Hudson you may expect to see a similar type on models which
others bring out six months to a year hence. But there is a shortage of Hudsons this
spring as there has been every spring for the past three years. You should speak
early to assure delivery.
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M PICK GRAF
TO DE MEMBER OF
CONTROL 00
Holcomb Likely to Be Ap
pointed Legal Advisor, Po
sition to Be Created in
Bill, to Be Introduced.
From a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, Feb. 15. (Special.)
Neither L. F. Langhorst. former
chairman of the democratic state
committee, nor Henry Gerdes,
present commissioner, whose term
expires next July, will be appointed
to the board of control as the dem
ocratic member of that body to suc
ceed ex-Governor Silas A. Holcomb,
who tendered his resignation. Gov
ernor McKelvie has not included
Gerdes in the list of men mentioned
to members of the state senate with
whom he conferred, and the sena
tors themselves have eliminated
Langhorst from consideration.
Holcomb is to be taken care of
by appointment as legal advisor or
agent to the board, it is now under
stood. A bill will be introduced in
the legislature within a few days, it
was said, making provision for this
office. The salary will be between
$2,500 and $3,000 per year, it is un
derstood. The new man will come from the
Third congressional district, shrewd
political observers believe. Charles
Graf of Bancroft, a prominent Ne
braska farmer and pioneer, is count
ed upon as standing a good chance.
Graf, it is pointed out, belongs to
that faction of the democratic party
which bolted Governor Neville and
aided Governor McKelvie in his
campaign. Langhorst, also bolted
the democratic candidate for gov
ernor. Mr. Graf was one of ,the three
men appointed to the board of con
trol by Governor Morehead in 1913,
but the state senate was politically
hostile to the governor and the
nomination was rejected. In Graf's
seclection the governor would also
be recognizing the rural interests.
The names of two democratic
members of the legislature have also
been mentioned in connection with
the place. Governor McKelvie said
that he had presented the names of
Theodore Osterman, democratic
floor leader in the house, and W. F.
Crozier of Polk county, along with
L. F. Langhorst, to the senate mem
bers with whom he conferred.
Germans Insinuate
Occupation Was Not
Due to Superiority
Amsterdam, Feb. 15. A note in
sinuating that the occupation of
German territory was not due to
military superiority, according to
the Cologne Zeitung, was handed in
recently to the allied armistice com
mission by the German delegates.
A French general, acting under in
structions from Marshal Foch, the
newspaper adds, refused to make an
answer to the note and declared it
would be examined only if it was
presented in a more courteous form.
General von Hammerstein, the lead
ing German military delegate, de
ferred a declaration in the matter
until the receipt of instructions from
the German government.
War Department Orders.
Washington, D. C. Feb. 15. (Special
Telegram.) By direction of the president
first Lt. Hurold Fisher, infantry it re
lieved from h'is present duties and ! de
tailed aa professor of military science and
tactics at Luther college, Decorah, la.
First I.t. Selmar Burchart, medical corps.
Is relieved from duty at Camp McClellan,
Anniaton, Ala., and will proceed to Fort
Des Moines, la. Flrat Lt. John Joseph
Lancer, medical corps, Is relieved from
duty at Fort Omaha and will proceed to
Fort Crook, Neb. Capt. Allflrtus Strong,
medical corps. Is relieved from duty at
Fort Crook, Neb. and will proceed to
Fort Omaha, Neb. First Lt. Anathol
Leucyer, medical corps, now a patient in
United States general hospital, Fort Des
Moines. la., will proceed to Camp Fun
aton, Kan., for observation and treatment.
St Led Then and
Leads Now
GUY L. SMITH
"Service First"
Farnam St.
Salvation Army Work
Exemplifies Practical
Religion, Says Leader
New York, Feb. 15. The story of
the Salvation Army's overseas huts,
"which have no closing hours," was
told here today by Miss Evangeline
Booth, commander of the organiza
ion in America, who termed the
baking of doughnuts and apple pies
for "doughboys" at the front "an
example of practical religion."
The Salvation Army workers went
to France early in the war, she said,
with no guarantees but their ex
penses and these made possible only
through loans from banks. The first
was for $25,000, the second for
$100,000, '-for our credit is good,"
the commander asserted, adding that
the quality rather than the quantity
of the work won the "generous ap
preciation" of the American people
and prompted the inclusion of the
organization among the beneficiaries
of the United War work campaign.
Service in the "cold Flanders
fields" was "nothing to an 'army'
accustomed to hardship." Miss
Booth declared, adding that even
tinder fire "our workers did not fail.
She quoted statements by Marshal
Foch and General Pershing, com
mending the efficiency of the Salva
tionists. Battle Death Rate for
Expeditionary Forces
Is 57 Per Thousand
Washington, Feb. 15. Battle
death rates in the American army
during the great war exceeded the
death rates from disease, General
March announced today in making
public statistics prepared by the
general staff. In past wars disease
killed 'many more men than lost
their lives under fire.
The battle death rate for the en
tire American army in this war was
20 per thousand per year. In the
expeditionary forces it was 5 per
thousand per year. The disease
death rate was 17 per thousand per
year in the expeditionary forces and
16 in the army at home.
Among the American forces, the
table showed, the battle death rate
was only half that of the British ex
peditionary forces, which was given
as 110 per thousand per year.
General March said that but for
the influenza epidemic, the disease
rate would have been cut in half.
Noted Archaeologist Dies.
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. lS.-Hec-tor
Alliot, a noted archaeologist,
died suddenly here today, aged 57.
He was active in explorations among
the ruins of the cliff dwellers' habi
tations in the southwestern part of
the United States and in 1893 was
in charge of the exhibition at the
Chicago exposition of the relics
found by him and assistants, tor
his work in the advancement of
science Mr. Alliott was decorated
by the government of France, his
native land, in 1907.
Bank Discounts Increased.
Washington, Feb. 15. Deposits in
the federal reserve banks and dis
count operations increased in the
last week, together with federal re
serve notes in circulation and the
ratio of reserves to net deposits and
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STATE EMBARKS
Oil POLICY TO
CHECK MORONS
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through its propagandists an effort
is being made to introduce them in
every state of the union so that
they will become standard measures.
Their purpose is to create a super-race
of men and women, free
of the physical and mental ills that
afflict the race today.
The thing that they seek to wipe
out is called a "Moron."
Salamander or Spanish Town
Ask the average member of the
Nebraska legislature, upper or low
er branch of the assembly, what a
moron is and he will not be a.ble to
tell you. If you insist on the infor
mation and he goes to the diction
ary he will tell you the definition
of the word is an animal of the
salamander type, or it is the name
of a town in Spain.
He will be wrong.
Yet the penitentiaries are filled
with morons and, according to those
who are striving to produce a suprr
race, there are morons in the Ne
braska legislature, which will soon
be called upon to vote appropria
tions for two state prisons for the
incarceration and treatment of mor
ons and which, by the operation 'of
the new laws, will be eventually
filled with morons.
In order to ascertain the meaning
of the word moron as i.t applied in
its relation to mental and sex hy
giene, we mnst go back to the Latin,
where so many of our perplexing
words come from. In Latin a moron
is a fool.
There are different grades of mor
6ns, the idiot who knows nothing
whatever and is as helpless as a
new born baby is the lowest grade.
The next step up is the imbecile,
who has the ability, to feed him
self and find his way about, and
then the real morons the persons
who range from simpletons to the
subnormal or border line cases.
Innocent as he is of the knowl
edge of mental hygiene and the ele
ment that go to make up the mor
on, the average member of the Ne
braska legislature is starting out to
open up a hew scheme of law with
all the confidence he has in passing
a law relating to dog taxes. It does
not flaze him at bit what the pur
Dress Ginghams
The genuine D. and J. An
derson's Scotch Ginghams in
plain shades, beautiful new
checKs and stripes. These
are beyond doubt the finest
of all ginghams, $1.25 a yard.
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The New Silks Are Lovely
Have You Seen Them?
Rich fabrics for every occasion a represent
ative asortment of the1' most favored Spring
weaves foulards, crepe meteors, taffetas,
Baronette satins, Fan-ta-si, Moon Glo crepes
and satins, Rubaya. In the bright and charm
ing shades that make Spring such an interest
ing season for dress.
Choice New
Woolen Materials
Very good values in cor
rect weights and various
qualities for every pur
pose. A display that is
particularly complete.
New Embroideries
For Spring Sewing
Delightfully dainty patterns in
all of the latest embroideries.
No difficulty in making a
pleasing selection.
Headings and seam beading?,
narrow and wide edges, in cam
bric and Swiss with insertions
to match. For dresses, many
beautiful twenty-seven and
forty - five - inch f louncings.
Flouncings for baby layettes;
all-overs for yokes and collars,
and colored edges. The prices
are sensible.
pose of the new program is, how
far-reaching its enforcement will be
and what will be its ultimate effect
upon the state and nation.
Study the Situation.
If he is an intellectual, above the
common herd of his fellows, and has
the breadth of view as well as the
caution to ascertain "whither aie
ive drifting," he will devote some
study to a situation and a problem
which will tax his brain and open
up a vast and limitless field of pos
sibilities to him.
He will learn that he is being
called upon to apply to the daily
lives of the people, the facts estab
lished by the Mendelian law that
most of the ills of the body politic,
as well as physical, is "bad pro
toplasm." He will find that most of the crim
inals of the country today, as well as
most of those in the state of Ne
braska are morons, the high grade
kind, who were incubated from
"bad protoplasm," the latter polluted
hy social disease or vitiated by alco
hol. It is pointed out by investigators
that the mentally defective popula
tion of the United States confined
in insane hospitals, homes for the
idiots and feeble minded, is the same
as that ofj the population of the
prisons.
Dr. Caldecott, who made a study
of 361 high grade morons, who had
served 15 years in institutional life
for purposes of treatment, found
that 3.25 per cent of them were earn
ing wages; 3.81 per cent were at
home very useful; 7.5 per cent were
at home merely useful, while 85.5
per cent were no good and should
be taken care of for life.
The high grade moron is often
not recognized by outward and visi
ble signs, the chief characteristics
being inability to judge accurately
between cause and effect, and it is
from this class we get the joy rider,
the gun man, and all sorts of vio
lent criminals. They are but chil
dren grown up, having the adult's
body, appetites, and passions, with
out any power to control or inhibit
them.
Not all morons are criminals and
those only are considered dangerous
who show traits of behavior which
may lead to disaster to themselves
or others.
It is the purpose of the first legis
lation introduced in the Nebraska
legislature to deal with the causes
which produce the moron and also
with those which excite him or
her.
The Nation-Wide Prohibition.
Nationa-wide prohibition was the
hrst accomplishment ot the persons
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Wash Cottons
For Spring
Never were the patterns
and color combinations so
delightfully dainty and al
together charming. Make
your selection while show
ings are complete.
Silk Underwear
That's Attractive
Crepe de chine gowns and
chemise in extra sizes at rea
sonable prices.
Envelope chemise of silk crepe
de chine or satin, plain or trim
med styles. Sizes 36 to 44.
Priced, $4.50, $4.75, $5, np-
wards.
Silk pajamas that are very
dainty; also silk bloomers, mod
erate in price.
Boudoir caps in combinations of
silks, nets, laces and ribbons,
60c to $2.50 and more.
Linfri Third Floor
who are at the foundation of this
new propanganda and its program
of legislation. The next step will
be to eradicate from the blood of the
people the dangerous germs of so
cial diseases, all of which produce
"bad protoplasm," and in the course
of a few decades produce a race of
super-men and women, free of
moronic tendencies.
Along this line laws have been in
troduced in the legislature providing
for the physical examination of indi
viduals of both sexes affected with
sex diseases and providing for their
treatment or isolation.
More stringent laws are demanded
for the suppression of the scarlet
woman.
To deal with high grade defec
tives, the most dangerous of which
are women, a bill has .been intro
duced in the lower house calling for
an appropriation of $100,000 for the
establishment of a custodial home
for females. The women who will
be segregated therein are the women
of the city streets and the small
town brothels. They will be treated
until physically well and then turned
loose.
Another bill calls for an aDnronri-
ation of $150,000 for the creation of
a custodial home for men. Into this
will be gathered the male morons
of unfortunate estate, the petty of
fenders who habitually fracture the
laws and those guilty of crimes be
low felonies. They will be held for
a time either in the hope of curing
them physically or giving them
some mental impetus toward good.
"Movie" Censorship Laws.
Laws which deal with mental hy
giene are the proposed moving pic
ture censorship law, the law cre
ating the state board of child wel
fare and the law permitting the es
tablishment of welfare boards in
communities of the state outside of
Lincoln; also the law directing the
teaching of sex hygiene.
There are thousands of defectives
in the state, thousands of morons,
the new criminals, who do nothing
violently criminal, but who are of
fensive to the experimenters in the
new realm of mental and social hy
gienethose who are trying to de
velop a super-race by following the
principles of the Mendelian laws,
and who will experiment on the
children of the poor and on the un
fortunate derelicts who make up the
flotsam and jetsam of Nebraska life.
When the new laws are amplified,
elaborated and are working as the
promoters would have them, the new
institutions will be filled with a
class of criminals de jure new to the
state. They will be arrested, tried,
convicted and sentenced by social
Remarkable Sale of Dresses
For Children and Juniors
The Price-Monday-C) g q
We could hardly become too enthusiastic
about the wonderful values these dresses pre
sent, but we prefer to let you judge for your
self. We received them from a manufacturer
who desired to dispose of his stock.
Their regular selling prices
are from $1.95 to $3.50.
Tomorrow They Go For 98c
Every conceivable, desirable style (all long
sleeves) in gingham and chambray. Various
good looking plaids in endless color combina
tions besides plain blues, pinks and greens.
Sizes 2 to 12 years
It is a most unusual opportunity for mothers to
purchase a supply for future requirements.
On Sale in the Basement Section,
Where Sales Are Never Disappointing.
Stylish Gloves
for Shopping
Bacmo one-clasp mochas
and washable leathers in
tan, gray and butternut
shades, $3 and $3.50 a
pair.
Several Qualities
of Fine Lisle Hose
A very dependable lisle in
black, brown, white and
gray. Garter tops and
double soles, 65c a pair.
Very sheer lisle in black,
white, brown and gray, $1
a pair.
Black lisle hose, with
Maco split soles, $1 a pair.
experts anumembers of the boards
of health, as well as by alienists, and
some of them will have to serve life
sentences for the crime of being bad
eggs, evoluted from "bad proto
plasms." Napoleon arid Shakespeare Morons.
But the moron must got Napol
eon was a moron I Shakespeare was
a moron 1 All great men whose
mentality approached the border
line were morons I
It is within the range of possibil
ity to legislate the race to physical
iiiness and respectaSle mentality,
according to those behind the pro
gram of legislation which is aimed
at the moron, and the Nebraska leg
islature is confronted with the task
of passing laws along this line.
It may be true that the members
of the Nebraska legislature do not
know what a moron is, hut that thv
will legislate against him, all the
same, is a safe bet.
American Regiment
Feted in Genoa on Its
Arrival From Front
Genoa. Italy. Feb. 15. The Three
I Hundred and Thirtv-second regi-
meni ot tne i;nneu states iniantry
arrived here irom the Italian front
yesterday and was enihusiastically
welcomed.
The streets through which thry
passed were decked with flowers
and crowded with cheering throngs,
who threw bouquets to the passing
troups. Italian troops, which lined
the streets, presented arms as the
Americans marched by.
By order of the military com
mander in Genoa the American sol
diers will be entertained as guests
at the Hotel Miramare until they
sail for New York.
Japan's Greatest Actress
Takes Own Life in Tokio
Tokio, Feb. 15. A sensation was
created here when it became known
that Sumako, who had been regard
ed as Japan's greatest actress, com
mitted sucide. The day and hour
of her death marked exactly
two months from the death
of Prof. Shimamuna of Wa
desa university, who had
given up all his wife, children,
friends, and his chair in the uni
versityfor love of the brilliant
actress.
Sumako had appeared as usual the
night before at the Yurakuza the
ater. It is said she -hanged herself
with a scarlet silk sash.
Sorosis Pumps
and Oxfords
We are showing a
great many of the
new styles in Spring
footwear. The
most graceful and
attractive pumps
and oxfords you
have ever seen.
Brown calf skin
pumps with high
Cuban heels.
Brown kid ox
fords. Patent
leather oxfords
and pumps. Black
k i d oxfords
oxfords and
pumps and
smart oxfords
of gray kid.
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