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
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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
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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
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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.) Northeast of Warsaw, Pol
ish troops have occupied Volkovysk
and have taken up a line along the
River Niepka. The Russian bol
sheviki hold the town of 01;da and
the line of the River Niemen.
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Are you familiar with the many
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"Durable Pot Cleaners, 10c.
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Kitchen Scrub Cloths, 10c.
Howard Dustless Dusters, 30c.
Ready-made Glass Towels, 19c.
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Silk Boot Hose
Having every appearance of all
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2 on Sales
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11 on investment (capital and surplus)
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delphia. He expects to be released
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