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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1919. HOUSE TO RENEW DISCUSSION Oil LANGUAGE BILL Will Be Carried Over From 'Thursday of Last Week; May Be Returned to Senate. From a Staff Correspondent. ' Lincoln, Feb. 23. Discussion of the foreign language problem will be renewed in the lower branch ot the legislature this afternoon when the lower branch reconvenes to re consider the Siman bill, S. F. 24, in the committee cf the -whole. This bill was left over last Thurs day when the companion measure, the Burney parochial school hilt, occupied the attention of the house for almost a ,day. The two had been made a special order of busi ness at that time. In the amended form which it has been placed by the house com mittee, the Siman bill simply pro vides that no foreign tongue shall he used for either secular or re ligious instruction in any public, private or parochial school up to and including the eighth grade and adds a penalty of fine or jail im prisonment for its violation.'" The part covering "church or denomina tional schools." as distinguished from "parochial schools," was elimi nated by the house committee on education, which also cut out the proviso which forbid language in struction in foreign tongue above the eighth grade unless approved by the state superintendent. May Go Back. These provisions were in the bill as it passed the senate and some of the members of the upper branch have already indicated that they will hive to go back before the two houses can reach any agreement. If they are not restored by the house committee jf the whole then thev will have to be threshed out in the conference committees, they say. p While the house is devoting it self to the, bill, the senate will this week consider a measure dealing with the language question which so far has esciped public attention, but which will prove more revolutionary than first glance shows. It is S. F. No. 227, by Reed and Johnson, and it requires all public meetings and business sessions of organizations and corporations within the state be conducted in the English language , This bill would do away with po litical meetings where foreign voters are addressed by politicians in their own tongue. It would also require foreign born nationalities who hold meetings to protest on pending legis "x'ion to conduct them m English. The hill has been reported out from the committee. Poultry Men to Meet. DeWitt. Neb.. Feb. 23. A special meeting on improved' poultry will be held at the Fred Klliot farm near Wilbur on Monday, February 24, at 2:30 p. m.: at the William Bucking ham farm West of Dorchester Tues day. February 25. at 2:30 p. m. and at the J. A. I.athrop form near Crete February 25. at 10 a. m. Hoyt AT. Wells, poultry specialist from the state farm, will give demonstra tions on the selection joi breeders for better egg production. Beatrice Citizen Dead, Beatrice, Neb., Feb. 23. (Special) I. H. Brubaker. proprietor of Bru- baker's feed yards here and a long time resident of Beatrice, died early this morning at a local hospital where lie was operated upon a few weeks aeo. He was 58 years ot age and leaves a widow and two chikW rcn. Orace and Kicnara Bruoauer, both of this city. Mares Cleared of Charge. DeWitt. Neb., Feb. 23.-(Special) The case of the state against Charles Mares on a complaint charging him with having and per mitting intoxicating liquors to be in the garage of the Mares Auto company, Wilbur, was dismissed unon the recommendatoin of the county attorney. Fight on City Sleuthing. Beatrice, Neb., Feb. 23. (Special) Walter Kelley, a taxpayer of Be atrice, yesterday appealed from the allowance of the city commissioners the sum of $650, which Mayor Hef felfinger ws allowed to be used for employing a number of extra . sleuths in running down gamblers and bootleggers in the city. Peru State Normal Notes. Vincent Janda. the famous Bohemian nthlfte, has been upending the week In l'eru. Ho as discharged recently at Camp Lao, Virginia. Ho and Arthur Schneider wato two ot the champion bask et ball team at Camp Lee. Tres. E. U Rouse. Pean Mattia C Ellis, and Prof. F. M. Greftg. will attend the mid-winter meeting of the National Edu cation association In Chicago next week. President Rous left Thursday for the annual meeting of the National Council of normal school presidents of the United states, which meets Friday and Baturday In Chicago. H. C. Richmond of Omaha, spoke to the students Wednesday morning at rhapel. Mr. 'Richmond has been one cf Peru's staunch friends and the faculty aua students enjoyed hl address very much. Prof. 'Rose B. Clark gave the regular Wednesday current events talk. She gave a most excellent digest of the constitu tion of the league of nations. This regu lar feature of the convocation exercises Is bringing the student body Into an un usually close relationship with the affairs of the world. . Tha budget event for the week waa a piano recital by Mrs. Kdward MacDowell. widow of one of America's most brilliant composers. lira. MacDowell gave de lightful and Inspiring program. Interpret ing the composition of her brilliant hus band in a manner that was greatly ap- uroclated by laymen as well as those more technically versed in music. Bark Sinks After Collision and 16 of Crew Are Lost New York, Feb. 23. The French bark Helene was sunk early yester day morning in a collision with the Norwegian freighter Ganfjord off Winter Quarter Light, Virginia, and 16 of the crew perished. Eight sur vivors, including the skipper, Cap tain Maisoneuve, were brought here today. The survivors were brought here on the Gansfjord. with its bows stove in and its forepeak full of water. The Helene, abound for Bal timore to Nantes, was loaded chiefly with steel and went down like a plummet Words Are Not Adequate to Fight Indifference While War Is Half Ended Gabriele D'Annunzio, Man Italy Into War, flakes Appeal to Countrymen; Says Italy' Begging Smile from President Wilson. By Universal Service. New York, eb. 23. Following is the public Appeal to lis countrymen by Gabriele D'Annunzio, famous Italian writer and poet, whose firey eloquence is said to have put Italy into the war. The Italian poet's attack on Italy's assoc iates in the war made a national sensation in Italy. Universal Service condenses the most striking parts of the appeal:. To mv countrymen: Words are rtot an adequate weapon to fight indifference not only not ended, but has reached its climax. On September 15. 1 made a vow before the altars of Zara, sebenico, bpalto, Trau, Ragusa and Cattaro that all ot you repeated the vow "And the other clay I happened be fore the altar of a tiny church on the Dalmatian coast. Who had re opened the little church on the arid coast? I was the first one to arrive.1 It was enintv and desolate. Not even the pictures of Carpaccio were there. J he at. beorge wasn t there, nor his horse. The St. Jerome and his lion were equally absent The picture's of the apostles sleeping in the garden had gone. Only solitude was there and the anguish of Christ. The solitude and the psayet; of your betrayed soul. Deserted and Forgotten. "It is verv small, this Dalmatian oratory, almost a wooden shed, lone some in its desolation, bverything of value had been taken from it and it had been shut for fear of aerial raids. It had been deserted and for gotten. But the other day, empty and desolate as it was, it appeared to me as a powerful human tramc, wherein lives a spirit without limit. i . . i . . i . i. , . i neiween ine aitar ana ine aoor me martyrdom of Dalmatia loomed high as loom the invisible powers. In the middle there stood a prayer stool with an open prayer book in front of it. I read "Rcmiscers, Dom ino, Delicta Nostra Et Dclicta Hnr iim.' Remember, O Lord, our sins and their sins. "Suddenly a poor muddy, cold-- looking private came In and remain ed standing with uncovered head near the door. A long scar marred his forehead and you could not sec his arms. He was like so many I had seen on the Carso dying of thirst like those I had seen on the mountains and in the trenches, knee deep in the sticky mud like those 1 had seen in the church of Dotede, asleep near the altar where, next to the sacred vessels, the helmets and the shoes of the dead lay in a heap. Who had sent him? The cucaristic sacrifice was just begin ning. But of all the service I re tamed, only these words which are symbolic of Italy's remote: "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.' (My fault, my fault, my grievous fault.) Ihe patriarch officiating nt terea tne words irr sucn loud voice that they resounded in the present, in the past and in the future. No Sacred Vessels. "And in that small church of the Dalmatians, afjn all other churches, gutted by the roar of battle, and changed to nothing more than a poor shelter for wounded, the altar, for you and me, no more sacred ves sels nor candles nor flowers. For you and me only the shoes and hel mets of the dead decorated it, the helmets battered, rusty, gray like ashes, with the lining clotted with blood tne shoes which had re mained for days and nights in the mud, in the dust and among rocks, and the laces of which had to he cut in order to extract them from the frozen feet at the edge of the grave the garments which .iau once covered the head and the feet of the living who had gone for ward to die. "And as on that altar, so it is on all the altars in Dalmatia, the over powering weight of the bloody sac rifice . "So now before those altars I re peat my vow of September 15. And the same vow is repeated by all those who have fought for a pledge which today We have conquered with the valor of our men. I my self and my fellow soldiers have fought for that pledge which must remain ours as a protection from the Austrians and from that mix ture of southern Slavs (Jugo-Slavs) who under color of a new liberty and camouflaged by a bastard name hardly succeeds in hiding their old enmity and hatred. - Fought For Victory. "We all fought because we be lieve in victory. We fought to win the war. All the war. During the dark days of Caporetto (the retreat to the Piave). we did not lose heart. We said 'Italy has won 11 victories over the enemy. Her 12th victory is won over her own self.' And hex Jast victory was the vic tory of victories. "It was the Roman wedge smash ing into the enemy's strength it was the collapse of a formidable lie it was the final knockout to an empire whose roots were deep in.. the blackest ignominy. "It was then fliat Italy, still in arms, should "have said to her com petitors, 'This is my sacrifice. Will you weigh it? This is my victory. Will you measure it? My sacrifice and my victory are above "your measurements and surpass the pact of London. I don't care whether this pact is valid today or not. It is my right for which I have fought alone and suffered alone. My bonier line to the east is marked hv the Yelebite mountains and by the Dmanche Alps, a continuation of the Julian Alps. All that strip of land which was Italian in origin and essence, is mine. The- ancient persecution of the old tyrants and the falsifications of the now con quered usurpers (Jugo-Slavs) count for nothing." Weighted by Triumph. "Instead, we seem to be weighed down by our triumph and we are losing time in useless words. We are begging for a smile from the arbiter (President Wilson).- Ve acclaim the 32 teeth of his enigmatic smile. As an offering we place in the hands of our gracious guest (Mr. Wilson) a solid gold reproduc tion of the Roman wolf. - But if universal power is once more to repose in the pocket of the philoso- Who is Said to Have Put and humility while our war is Dalmatia should be ours and with me. pher, why have we not regilded with dollar gold the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurcliusr "We have two enemies equally ignoble and implacable the foreign enemy and the enemy inside our gates. We conquered the toreign enemy. And lie now seems to oe reborn under a new name, and with a novel doctrine, he is once more facing us, claiming for him self what is ours. "We might have imagined that the enemy within our gates would have been squashed by the same smashing victory. Not at all. He s at it acain more dangerous than before because he is now professing the new doctrine of immortal prin ciples. And' so, Italy, the ancient and great Italy, stronger than its fate and purer than its glory, is again staggering under the load of that unspeakable humility which for 50 year i made her vegetate in obsctrr- ity. What Kind of Peace? "And the people of the 'Star Span gled Banner' docs not conceal that it has concluded the best and great. est of its work, i.e. the achievement of 'eternal idealism,' and Italy al ready allows strangers to interfere in internal affairs. "What kind of peace will be im posed upon. us in the end? "Pax Gallica? (A French peace?) "Fax Brittanuica? (A British peace?) ' "Pax Stelligera? (An American peace?) "Well, ho. Enough. Victorious Italy, the most victorious of all na tions becaunse victorious over her self as well as over the enemy shall have been her Alps and her sea a Roman peace. Enough. Smash the loaded scales. If necessary we shall face he new conspiracy as our ardit-faoed storm troops faced the enemy with a bomb in each hand and a knife between our teeth. It is not possible for the treaty of Versailles to renew against us, un der another form, the infamy of Campoformio. "The paramount question now is "Will that mixture of slaves (Jugo- Slavs) try to perpetrate upon us the same sort of swindle with regard to the coast and the islands which, with the secret of avowed help of an allied nation, they practiced upon us with regard tevthe fleet ve had con quered. - .Ships are ships and land is land. A people does not abandon its land even as a paid crew abandons its ship. As Romans, as Italians, you prefer death and a people who call themselves Latins (the trench) want to help you die to make room for the Croatians in the Loggia of the Venetian magistrates. Untor tunately, there are people who hold a like view within our gates as well as on the other side of the Alps. V Given Everything. "As far as I am concerned, I have given everything and I am ready to. day to sacrifice every friendship, every love, every convenience to our own causer And like me, I know n every fit htine man to the most mod est of private soldiers. And I shall be with you to the last and you know what I mean by this promise. And I wish all Italians were today with tis in resolute and open unanimity. x I wish I could stamp out that attitude of beegar and adulator to raise the intrepid stan dard of a victorious people who wants to win and knows how. 1 hose who are not with us in this view are condemning you to serve and to perish. They want you to be the slaves of the slaves. They want to kill vou and your hope. Faithful Dalmatians! If the injustice is ac complished, you will load your boats with the remains of your glorious ruins and you will put to sea with them. And once upon the sea you will sink your relics and yourselves to meet under the waves our dead, and thus in their company you will no longer be serfs, but free men among free men. Thus it will be said that the victory of Italy was written on the water." Portland Man Hangs Self Near Town of Scottsbluff ScottsblufT, Neb.. Feb. 23. (Spe cial.) The body. of Dr. George E. Schuyleman of Portland, Oregon, was found yesterday at a point some 12 miles southeast of this city, he having commited suicide by hang ing himself from the wheel of an irrigation headgate. Dr. Schuyle man had come east in the interest of Y. M. C. A. work but at the out break of the flu epidemic had as sumed the practice of another phy sician at Narka, Kan., where he worked very hard for several weeks finally suffering a breakdown in health. He came to this city to visit relatives and recuperate, prior to his return to the west. The de ceased was a brother-in-law of Al Harry and Herbert Bowen and Mrs, cert Jellison of- this city. Dr. Schuyleman was about 40 years of age and leaves a wife and one son, residing in Portland. Johnstone Named Chief ' of Police of Lincoln Lincoln, Feb. 23. (Special) Mayor J. E. Miller announced last night that he had appointed Peter Johnstone, acting chief of, police, as chief to succeed the late -James Malone. His salary will be $2,500 a vear. Johnstone has been acting chief since the death of Mr. Malone. He is a son-in-law of the late chief and was formerly chief of detectives. YOUNG WOLiEIJ OF NATION HAVE GREATPROBLEM Must Find Use for Wrist Watches Now Worn by Discharged Soldiers, v Says Fred Woosley. The conclusion of the war has brought two great questions to the fore. One of them pertaining to the disposition of the barbed wire on the fields of Flanders and north ern France has already been solved. It has been resolved to utilize the wire in knitting a sweater for the kaiser. The other, and the indefi nitely more important question, has not yet been answered, and it is up to the young women to find the solution since it is of greatest con cern to them. "What is to be done with the wrist watches which near ly all discharged men are wearing; I hec were the statements made by Fred Woosley, member of the Dietz Tflemorial church, i entity and Pierce streets, when called upon to deliver an address of welcome to the soldiers and sailors who had as sembled to witness the demobiliza tion of the service frag at thut church. But only the beginning of Mr. Woosley's address was humorous. As he dwelt upon the sacrifices of the doughboy and gob,, and told ot their solendid courage and clean living and as he pointed to the gold star gleaming from among the blue and set off by the field of white, his voice trembled with suppressed emotion and soon lost its humorous sueeestion. "I extend to each if you a heart-felt welcome," he con- luded. In Silent Prayer. The service flag of the chur.-.h, bearing 34 silver stars surrounding one star of gold, was then lowered and Mrs. J. Tong, who has con tributed two sons to the service. pinned a silver bar above each of the stars. As the gleaming bar of silver was beine placed over the star; of gold the congregation stood for a few minutes in silent prayer for the one who had given "his last measure of devotion to his country, in the words of Rev. M. E. Brown, pastor of the church. The congregation, led by the pas tor and assisted by a trained choir, sang the songs popular to the sol dier and sailor. "Smiles," "Good Morning Mr. Zip, Zip, Zip," "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag" and "Home, Sweet Home" were some of the songs rendered, by the congregation. Kerr Welcomes Men. Dundey Kerr welcomed the ic- turned men in a speech. ''We sent our best and we did cur best," he stated. "We are proud of you men," he continued. "You proved to the world America's strength and America's idealism." Mr. Wi ham Abels, recently ois- charged from the army, then spoke in appreciation -of the welcome ex tended the returned men by the pas tor and the congregation. , Rev. M. E. Brown has, himself been recently discharged from the service. The services were closed with the singing of popular songs. Pioneer Omaha Man Dies From Effects of Pyorrhoea William C. Fareman. aged 62 years, died in the Ford hospital Fri day afternoon from the effects of , r i-. . . ovorrnoea. Mr. rareman cauic iu Omaha in 1886 from Port Byron New York, and the following year accepted a position with the Omaha Merchants Express and lranster company, which place he retained till the time of his death. He is survived by his ' wife and eight children. Charlie and Harry of the Omaha fire department; William.'of the Union Pacific: Babe ot th Gate City Transfer company; Miss Maude, a dressmaker at Eighteentn and Farnam streets; Miss Buelah, assistant secretary of the Kirken- dall Shoe company and Miss Grace of the Fairmont Creamery com pany. Funeral services will be held at the residence, Thirty-fourth and Farnam street at 4 o'clock today and interment will be in West Lawn cemetery. Wood Urges "Good Citizens" to Aid Returning Soldiers Chicago, Feb. 23. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood in a Washington's birthday address appealed to "good citizens'" to look after the interests of returning soldiers. He said many soldiers and sailors tould not bt rblamd for feeling bitter when they were unable to find work. Some, he said, had actually been reduced to beggary. "The lowest type of person is the rrren or woman who preys upon the returning soldier or sailor, and robs or swindles him out of whatever he lias," Major General Wood said. "Yet such as these are the ones who have extended the welcome while our good citizens have remain ed apathetic." Crete Women May Abolish ' Billiards and Soft Drinks DeWitt,, Neb., Feb. 23. (Special.) Proprietors of billiard and pool halls, soft drink and cider dispensing establishments in Crete are prepar ing to look for new and more peace ful locations. The women of Crete are going to vote on the abolition of these places at the spring election and at present the indications are tremendously in their favor. If the women get what they want they are going after the cigar stores and chewing gum slot machines next election. State Commissioners Favor Private Control of Wires Washington, Feb. 23. RetuAi of telephone and telegraph companies to private management by June 30, was recommended to President Wil son by Charles E. Elmquist, presi dent of the National Association of Railway and Utilities commission ers, in a letter made public tod;ty. The recommendation was made, Mr. Elmquist explained, on behalf of the executive and war committees of the association, which includes commis sioners of practicaly all states. Mayor's Plan to Rid Omaha of Social Evil Not Good Ethics Rev. Mr. Kuykendall Says it is Not Right to Throw Refuse Into Your Neighbor's Yard ; War Gives the World New Gospel; Smith's Plan Will Not Work. Mayor Smith's plan or ridding Omaha of the social evil by driving all prostitutes from the city, in ad dition to being. unworkable, is un ethical, unsocial, unscientific and un christian, declared Rev. J. Delman Kuykendall, at Plymouth Congrega tional church Sunday morning. Mr. Kuvkendall stated that the motives of the mayor are no doubt good and his courage beyond ques tion, but that the proposed method of bringing about the needed reform is evidently the result ot very shal low thinking.' J he mayor will find, said the speaker, "as he probabJy has dis covered already, that when he at tempts to drive out the woman ot the street he will simply start a merry-go-round, and that what goes out one door will come in another. He will also find that the process of creating prostitution is still going on in the city itself. His plan simply will not work. Don't Shift Burden.' "It is hardly good ethics for a householder to throw his refuse and his old tomato cans into his neigh bors back yard, though that may seem the easiest way to dispose ot them. Shipping human refuse from one city to another is not one whit more ethical. "It is rather surprising to hear a proposition so utterly selfish as that proposed by the mayor, in a time when the social view of life is sup posed to have been established in the stress of war. I he world, we have been told, has accepted a so cial gospel. The obligation of every individual and of every social group to every other individual and social group is supposed to have become a commonplace in human relation ships.. To assume that Umaha has no duty to perform in the curing of the diseases of its unfortunates, and that its only interest" in them is to send them on to other cities to spread disease, is to assume that the priest and the Levite were right in passing by the victim of the robbers and that the good Samaritan was all wrong. It is to assume that America was wrong in helping to rid the world of German brutish r.ess. Find Cause and Cure It. "The scientific method of treating any disease is to seek its cause and to apply the cure not to spread it through the world. When UmahS and every other city goes whole heartedly at the task ot finding the cause of the social problem, and MEW WAY of heating CELLAI Houses Simple way of heating a four-room cellarless cottage by IDEAL ARCOLA Radiator-Boiler and three AMERICAN Radiators. 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Jesus' plan for the social outcast was re demption, not ostracism. Omaha's big task, with reference to its so called, "fallen women" is the task of redemption and prevention. TJic city cannot wash its hands of re sponsibility in the matter by simply driving out the victims of our social system, as the mayor so naively proposes to do." ' Invades Personal Liberty. The discussion of the mayor's statement came in the course of a sermon on "The Gospel of Good Health," in which Mr. Kuykendall declared that health of body, mind and soul is fundamental to success, not only of individuals, but of social groups and of nations. This fact is the justification for the regulation by an enlightened majority of some of the habits of the unenlightened minority. The vision of the King dom of God on earth can never be fully realized as long as the habits of one group constitute a menace to the safety and success, not only of that group, but of ther groups, which have not thesV habits. At this point personal liberty ceases to be personal liberty. "The use of intoxicating liquors, temperately or intemperately, has come to be recognized as such a menace, and public opinion has jus tified an effort to eliminate its use. "This is a matter that touches the life of the whole people, and if all are to have bodies that function properly, minds that are clean and active, and spirits attuned to thcJ spiritual lorces in tne universe mis demoralizing habit must be elimina ted, even though some people shall feel themselves inconvenienced. Recreations May Be Harmful "How far tljjs regulation can go' is largely a matter of expediency. Some recreations and some habits of life may become harmful to the individual. Until these become clearly destructive of the general bodily and moral health of the peo- World s New Greatest ARCOLA radiator AMERICANRADIilTORrOJlPANY -..fa,' ',' . : .'..'. m mm '"fa ',,nr. ?(. - . M i4 i4 (W.V.(W.(W Brie City News Kojal Intftn, Burgess-Qranden Co. Have Root Print It Beacon Press. Dr. W. Pouglus Hums has re turned from the dental corps of the army and resumed practice.' 658 Iirandeis Theater Jildg. tJo to Excelsior Spi ln John W. Gamble, president and Itobert Man ley, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, have gone to Kxcelslor Springs for a few days. Church Festival Opens The St. Rooe church festival opened Sunday in the auditorium at Father Flaunt gan'a home for boys at the old Ger man home on South Thirteenth street with a large attendance and with considerable interest in the pro gram. During the afternoon the Bo hemian Catholic Turner .(iirls of the South Side put on an exhibition in coKtumo under the direction of An ton Uworak. In the popularity con test Frances Orittenbrlnk. Victoria Ouggemns and Frances Karta were the leaders. The Weather. Comparative Local Kccord. 1919. 191 . 1917. 131 e. 5 S5 3.. (Ill Highest j-esterday l.owpst ystorday . . . I7 i'l ,.; 37 7 .Mean tomprrnlura ..37 b'i 14 Prfvlr-itRtion .00 00 T T(mporaturo and precipitation depar tures from the normal: Normal t'inptrat lire 20 Excess for tlvo day... 11 Total excess sinre March. 1, 1918... 1.611 Norntl precipitation 02 Inch Deficiency for the day 02 Inch Rainfall since March 1, 1918 . .21. 6 Inches Deficiency since March 1. 191S. 8.69 Inches Deficiency cor. period in 1917. 7.19 inches Deficiency cor. period In 1916.13.05 inches pie public opinion will not support anv extensive regulation. .of them. "For this reason," stft Mr. Kuy kendall, "it may be questioned whether an excessively stringent censorship of moving pictures will be enforceable, even if it were de sirable. It may also be questioned hwhethcr a campaign against the use ' r ...i i.. f..ll.. launched. Some motion pictures are unquestionably harmful to the moral health of the public. The use of tobacco by the growing youth is harmful to the physical health of the nation. Public sentiment will probably support the elimination of the clearly immoral and suggestive motion picture. It will support the prohibition of the"iise of tobacco by boys. Beyond this the public sentiment will not go, because it has not been made clear that the public health of body and mind is seriously threatened by these things as it was threatened by the liquor habit. "It is likely that the effort to start a crusade along these lines, conceding that it would be desirable, ,would be a complete waste of effort. The same effort expended in con structive work looking toward the voluntary regulation of habits which at the worst are only mildly in jurious to the public health will ac complish much more than will a new crusade for their prohibition." Easy beating of a cellarless office building by our IDEAL ARCOLA Radiator-Boiler and two AMERICAN Radiators. tea mm- -' 4 J 14 M .:' 'N W CORDEAL MAKES DEFENSE OF BILL ON CIVIL CODE Employes ' at State House May Be Transferred From One Department to Another. From a Staff Correspondent. Lincoln, Feb. 2. (Specials State Senator J. F. Cordeal has giv en out a lengthy statement defend ing the civil administrative code bill which Gov. S. R. McKelvie has asked the legislature to enact and which provides for a reorganization of state government. The bill merely provides, Senator. Cordeal says, that the affairs of the state be administered under the di rection of six departments and doej not represent a radical departure such as is evidently feared by large number of Nebraskans. Tin duties of the different state depart- ments will not be .greatly different under the code hill than at present Senator Cordeal says in his state nient. i It is the rewritten administrative code bill of the state of Illinois, Cpi deal declares. Work Longer Hours. ! The bill provides that employe can be transferred from any one( department to another where their, services may be more urgently need ed at some particular time. Senator1, Cordeal says. It requires all etrw ployes to work from 8:30 in thd morning until 5:30 in the eveningj including the secretaries of the sii departments finance, agriculture labor, trade and commerce, public welfare and public work. Each) secretary will receive $5,000 a year One change which the bill pro vides over present methods is alkfee and funds collected by the different! departments must be paid directlW into the state treasury without Ae duction of operating expenses of th bureaus. Some of the department now use their fees to conduct tha affairs of the office and pay in to the treasury only the balance left. Senator Cordeal, in his statement outlines the different activities of the! departments as previously outlined' by the digest of the code bill. Senator Cordeal said that an elab orate method had been devised so that all laws passed by the presenti session can be. made to fit in with the provisions of the civil adminis trative code law. ' Invention! -boiler-' - The IDEAL ARCOLA win look attractive ia any room paint it to match the interior colortchctne. Write Department 0-4 413-417 South Tenth St Omaha . H. rw m W ) 4 W 4 m : y?f Mill trrrl' j I iii 1