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CHANGES 111 SCHOOL BILL FAIL lii HOUSE Measure Affecting Parochial and Private Institutions En grossed for Third Read ing; Brings Long Debate. (Continued From On..) been rejected by the committe on education. It provided that paro chial and private schools should have a course of study substantially equivalent to that of the public school of the same locality, approv ed by the state superintendent, and havintr after September, 1921, quali fied teachers within the meaning of the laws of 191.1, successful teach ing experiences in private 'tnd paro chial schools being- applicable toward the requirement, and n.ak injr it the duty of county 'superin tendents to visit parochial a:nd pri vate schools to see that the require ments were complied with. Mr. Byrum said that the commit tee on education had worked out the bill as recommended in a spirit of fairness to all sects and schools con cerned. He said that he made no charge of inefficiency against the Catholic schools, although he found that some of the Lutheran schools were inefficient, and it was to cure this condition that the law was de vised. He said that in order to achieve this result it was necessary to hit the Catholics. The speaker objected to the fea ture of the amendment which plac ed the entire control of the private and parochial school affairs in the keeping of the state Superintendent of public instruction, maintaining that this would make it possible for the Lutherans and Catholics.to com bine as a balance of power and elect the state superintendent of their selection at every election. Byrum Defends Self. Mr. Byrum said that he had been objected to as one of the persons having drafted the bill, on the ground that he had signed the Bur ney bill. "I did sign that bill," said he, "I told the author at the time that it was too drastic, but it af forded -a foundation on which we could work out an equitable bill. 1 am not called a mean or a vicious man at home and I do not intend to be one here." The Vance amendment was then put to a vote and there was not a voice heard in "its support The whole membership of the house The Breath of Spring Our first showing of new Spring Dresses Suits, Coats, and Skirts will be a revelation to women who ap preciate the exclu sive and individual reasonably priced SMART WEAR FOR WOMEN 2ND FLOOR SECURITIES BLDG. Albert Cahn 219 S. 14th St. For Shirts My Spring line now ready. Order Early to Insure Prompt Delivery. 'NOTICE Disappeared Monday, Jan. 13, 1919. EARL .LITTIG , 1535 South Strt, Dwuiport, Iowa. Ac '14. Heijtht: . inches. Complexion : dark. Brown hur nd ayes. Weight: 110 pound. Wore: brown fcne trouser: w rater of blue and rd: mackinaw of red and blue plaid: brown stocking cap and high tan ano. Identification: front tooth haa chip broken oS and also acar on forehead. Notify JOHN LITTIG, Davenport, Iowa. Pi- .wJf I j'i present voted against it and ap plause followed. When this amendment was out of the way, Sturtevant of. Atkinson presented another amendment, al most identical with the one that had been voted down. In his amend ment he said it would be a sin for the legislature of Nebraska, after having countenanced private and parochial schools in the estate for years, to about face and wipe them out utterly. lie said there was no religion in patriotism, and when the boys were called to the support of the colors in a fight for world free dom in the world war, the question as to their religious faith or whether they were graduates of private, parochial or public schools was not asked. Tbeir patriotism was taken for granted. He said that he had come from a long line of Baptist preachers but that he had observed the self-sacrificing work of the Catholic sisters in the schools and had been con vinced that their efforts were toward the promotion of good citizenship as well as good Christians. One Head in State. He contended that his amendment proposed only one head for the school system of the state, that head to be the state superintendent, in stead of more than the 90 heads that would be represented by the coun ty and city superintendents in car rying out the provisions of the law. Jacobson of Dawson accused Sturtevant -of having signed the Burney bill, which sought to wipe out the parochial schools and said his present words were inconsistent with his previous acts. "That's true," replied Sturtevant. "I have more than once bought a cocoanut in good taith, and when I broke it open found that it was rotten." "The gentleman from Holt comes from the home of the present day Mollie McGuires,' " interrupted Vaurer of Gage, who took the floor. "I want to show what these angels, these nuns of the Catholic schools produce." He then began to read from a paper purporting to give statistics of the Milwaukee house of correction, and listing the inmates according to their religious affili ation. Good of Nemaha, objected to the reading, which was sustained by the chair, who put the matter of hearing the reading to a vote of the house and that body voted almost unanimously to shut off Maurer. Advise Consideration. Hostetler of Buffalo and Fosty of Douglas, advised the members of the committee of the whole to give close, deliberate and careful consideration to the amendment and not try to railroad the bill through the committee. This was resented by Dr. Jenison, in the chair, who said that he had made no movev in this direction and Foster explained that no such aspersion had been cast on the chair. McKee of Otoe, exclaimed: "We were elected to come here and rep resent Americans, let us vote Amer ican. The bill as recommended by the committee on education is American." ' Hardin of Harlan county, held that should the house pass the bill as prepared the supreme court wo..ld hold it unconstitutional for the rea son that in succeeding sections it did not hold the common or public schools of the state to the same re quirements that it did the private or parochial schools, and therefore it would be class legislation and tot constitutional. A vote was then taken on the Sturtevant amendment, which was lost by a vote of 14 for .".id 43 against. , . Scheidemann Insists . Ludendorff "Plunger" Berlin, Feb. 20. Phillipp Scheide mann, .the German chancellor, who in a recent, speech in the national assembly at Weimar referred to General Ludendorff, the moving cnirit nf the nvlitarv command, as a "plunger," refused to retract his characterization ot tne general wnen protest was entered by Field 'Mar shal von Hindenburg. In his reply Chancellor Scheide mann said: "I call that man a plunger who stakes everything on the turn of a single card without considering the results that the failure of that card might bring on. "That General Ludendorff pro ceeded in this manner I have been able to convince myself during j.iy career as a parliamentarian and sub sequently as a member of Prince Maximilian's cabinet. It was ail the more permissible for me to speak of the genial plunger,- inasmucn as Ludendorff himself as can be proved by documentary evidence, personal ly stated in referring to himself on October 1, 1918: 'I have the feeling of a plunger. Leres distinction be- hNQQTLCommon com flakes and The Best That's why wise ones call for -the hest by name 177 WJJ v THE THEY WAITED FOR ANNETTE V1I0 DIDNT COME i (Continued From Pagr One.) theless their interest was aroused. "Tell us about Annette," was the message that many of the women carried from the banished men. . But at 2, as the papers had ex pressly stated two days before, no Annette! The phones and the taxis came to the rescue. The managers of the Athletic club were spending very uneasy moments. Miss Kellerman had been so bur dened with her Omaha shopping and her publicity work that she was late that was the supposition, but the truth was very differen even from that. Could Only Pose. Miss Kellerman did not under stand the appointment horrid ar rangements and at the last mo ment, too, she had found that her motion picture contract prohibited such an exhibition all she could do was to pose on the edge of the pool ye little kaiserisms of America and because it was a private pool, she could not instruct or swim in exhibition and neither could she have her picture taken with a group. So Annette couldn't and didn't come. But the club women waited up stairs with anxious glances tat the clock, so Manager Mctiill asked H. Wendell, the athletic director of the club, to repeat the program ot swimming stunts and strokes that he had given at the stag dinner of the club in January. He did, and because he was a man, and because he didn't have such iron-clad con tracts, even though 4t was the last minute, he included ii his exhibition various fancy strokes and dives, such as the swan dive, the front jacknife, the mermaids' prayer and the tail spin dive, one which Mr. Wendell originated and in which, while in the air, he takes the same course that airmen take in their "tail spin" stunt. The last of the work showed his interpretation of a whale, and porpoise at play and an imitation of deep sea fish as seen in the North Sea. No Sight of Annette. But the women of Omaha went away with no sight of Annette, save on her shopping tours and her Orpheum stunt. "Those contracts do provide suoh things and I suppose that it catt include this," said Mrs. A. Ritchie, one of Omaha's best swim.-.iers who had to come to watch Miss Keller man. Among the other women in the pool, were Dorothy Davidson, Vir ginia Carlysle, Emma Ritchie. Char lotte Smith, Mrs. Clifford Calkins, Mrs. J. Hooman, Miss Marie Reiley and Mrs. M. V. Porter. "It really is not Miss Kellermau's fault, entirely," said Mrs. McGill, "it is a misunderstanding. She did not know that she was expected to give instructions, she said, and of course the women would not have enthused over the posing. I feel sorry for the woman." And so does everyone when they see the price that "picture stars" needs must pay for the glitter and the twinkle of their light. Embassy Denies Report of Princess' Engagement Paris. Feb. 20. The Ita'ian em bassy denies that the report of the announcement o,f the engagement of Princess of Yolando, eldest daughter of the king of Italy, to the Prince of Wales will be made in the near future. ' 60,000 Strikers in Petrograd Demand End Of Civil War London, Feb. .20. Sixty thous and workmen are on strike in Petrograd, demanding the end of civil war and establishment of free trade, according to a Russian wire less dispatch received here today. Reliable information received in London from sources which might be expected to be sympa thetic with the Russian revolution goes to show that opposition to the bolshevik rule is increasing among the more enlightened work ing classes. The military situation his chang ed favorably for the anti-bol-sheviki, especially on the south ern front, as the result of Gen eral Denikine's victory in the Caucasus and the apparent failure of bolshevik attacks on the Arch angel front a ft ft BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY, TRAUB RELATES DEEDS OF f'Eii OF TH1RTY-FIFTI (Continued From Pas One.) home his praise of the soldiers it was his "honor to command." "For six days and nights," said the general "we fought the "best the boche had. We penetrated the lines for five and a half miles, took 1,000 prisoners and captured 24 pieces of field artillery and 45 machine guns. We fought deep and we lost 500 killed and 4,500 wounded, the great majority of the layer being hurt but slightly. Never was there a finer body of men than those I had the honor to command. They were a wonderful lot, who only asked to know what was wanted and they did it and did it well." . Wounded Under "Devilish Fire." General Traub told the committee that the first task of his men after "jumping off" was the capture of a hill, which had everything in the way of defense which the Germans could build and one that "the French had been up against for four years. The Thirty-fifth, the general said, took this strongly fortified position in three hours after vic:ous hand-to-hand fighting. The wounded received the best of care and the first consideration, Gen, Traub told the committee. He said 7,000 wounded passing through the field station of the Thirty-fifth division were hurried to the rear by impressing into service every truck of every description, but because of the "devilish fire" of the Germans they could be moved only at night. One main road served the whole army corps and at one time it re quired 48 hours to build a road around a crater caused by a German shell, and ten days to bridge it. Aeroplanes appeared on call and flew over the German lines, the gen eral said. A shortage of horses was admitted, but the, officer declared there was always artillery support. Only a half-dozen shells from the American artillery fell in its lines, but in this connection the general asked to be permitted to refrain from comment on French artillery with the division. Brig. Gen. Charles I. Martin, .ad jutant general of Katonas and one of the brigade commanders of the 35th division in France, relieved almost on the eve of the battle of ,th Argonne, testified today before the senate military committee in support of a proposed amendment to the army bill that would pre serve the national guard. "Not only myself, but many other officers were unjustly dealt with," General Martin said. He added that the division commander who made the report on which he was re lieved, said he was a capable of ficer, but that he lack.-d force. He said the report did not agree with what the commander hid told him. In defending the efficiency of the national guard, the general" said those organizations were prepared to move more expeditiously thai' were other organizations, fie read, a letter from an officer of his bri gade, saying the work of the brigade in the Argonne was not as efficient as it would have been under Gen eral Martin's command. The letter also said soldiers' relatives should "know the number of lives sacri ficed to inefficiency" in France. Havner Causes Arrest j . of Rathbun After Pardonf r Ida Grove, la., Feb. 20. Ernest Rathbun, recently oardmed by Gov Harding after conviction of crini--inal assault and sentenced to life imprisonment, was arrested tonight after Attorney General Havner had caused the issuance of a mittimus for Rathbun's delivery to the war den of the Anamosa reformatory. In taking this action the attorney general ignored the governor's pardon, which he declared "abso lutely void," as the i-etition for the pardon had not been referred to the state board of parole ."for in vestigation and recommendation, as provided by law." Rathbun was in the county jail fonight and it was planned to take him to the reformatory tomorrow, unless he gains his release f n a writ of habeas corpus, which his at torney said would be sought. Quest of Burgomaster of Holland Ends in Omaha The-auest of the burgomaster of Zutphen, Holland, for Walter Breen is ended. Mavor Smith received a letter from the burgomaster several. days ago, asking for news trom Breen, who came to Omaha years ago. The mayor has received a letter from Breen, who now lives irrClen wood,4Ia., stating that he is the man for whom the burgomaster is searching. Mayor Smith has written to Zutphen, telling the burgomaster that Breen is here. Gore Plans Rider to Annul the Daylight Saving Law ur.,i:nin P.K 70 Tn re- sponse io iciiers ami usuuuus .iv." farmers urging repeal of the day light saving law. Chairman Gore, of the senate agricultural committee, J a .! !.., Urn tn announced tuuaj iu p. ... rr ' ' . . . 1. nM..qlMimtll otter a riaer io mc a6..v. tural appropriation providing for 1 4. t .,1,tj annulment ui siiuiv. Woman Makes Violent Attack on Junkerism in German Assembly Weimar, Feb. 20. The German national assembly today heard a speech by the first German wo man "assemblyman," Fran Marie Juchacz, a social democrat dele gate from Berlin. She surprised the house by a violent attack on Count von Posadowsky-Wehner and other conservative delegates. She praised the efforts of the government to rule Germany avd said that the wbmen were grateful for what had been done for them. Frau Juchacz aroused he con servative when she answered the question which Count von Posadowsky-Wehner asked several days ago: "What is to become of junkerism?" Turning to the count, the speak er repeated his question, and answered it by saying, "All the world knows." FEBRUARY 21, .1919. GOV. M'KELVIE NAMES MEMBERS CAPITOL BOARD (Continued From rase One.) prominent as mayor of the city and a leader in many crusades against vice and intemperance. W. E. Hardy was educated in the Lincoln schools, in a technical school at Rochester, N. Y., and in the University of Nebraska. After leaving the university, he was engaged for several years in work in the engineering department of the Burlington railroad. A little more than 30 years ago, he took charge of his father's business. In 1895 Mr. Hardy was married to Miss Gertrude Laws, daughter of Gilbert L. Laws, long prominent in public affairs in Nebraska. He has been president of the Lincoln Com mercial club, a member of the city council, a trustee in All Souls Uni tarian church and a leader in many of the civic movements in the com munity. Walter W. Head is vice president of the Omaha National bank, presi dent of the Omaha Safe Deposit company, member of the Executive Council Nebraska Bankers' associa tion, member of the Executive Council American Bankers' associa tion and vice president of the Na tional ban ksection of the Ameri can Bankers' association. In addition to his extensive Ne braska interests, Mr. Head is vice president and director of the Ameri can National bank of St. Joseph, Mo. (the largest bank in St. Joseph) vice president and chairman of the executive committee of the St. Joseph Life Insurance company, and owns and operates 1,600 acres of land near St. Joseph on which is maintained very fine herds of pure bred Poland-China hogs and Here ford cattle. He is 41 years old. William H. Thompson of Grand Island was bom it 1853. He came to Nebraska in 1881, starting in the practice of law at Grand Island, and he has followed that w.'jssion at that place ever since. Because of his activities in public life he is well known to a large number of people of the state. Not only is he recog nized as one of the leading members of the bar in the state, but he also has large business iiiierests aside from his practice. He organized the State Bank of Grand Island, of which he is now a member of the board of directors, and was its pres ident until last year. He was one of the original organ izers of the Baptist college board, which founded Grand Island col lege, and he served on that board fdr 18 years. He was mayor of Grand Island for four years and served as county attorney of Hall county. Poles Make Gains. Warsaw, Feb. 20. (By Associated Press.) 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