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Clean up your premises now.
Air flights are not to be compared to those
of fancy. J-
The bolsheviki are not winning many battles
in Siberia, which is some comfort.
If the Methodists want to bring Wesleyan
university to' Omaha, it will be welcome, all
. right.
" Omaha women did not waste much time in
getting on record with regard to the Geneva
school.
Roumania's appeal for aid should stir the
Allies into action. The bolsheviki can not be
quelled by proclamations.
The blue sky bill approved by the senate has
" some features to commend it, chiefly those that
remove the graft from the sale of stock.
Nebraska's democratic senator, having
picked the candidate for the republican party in
1920, the question now arises will be support
him.
Only one American officer with grade as
high as lieutenant colonel was taken prisoner
during the war, and we have ample proof that
plenty of them were in t,he fighting.
i A skittish young Nebraskan of only 78 win
ters has just eloped with a girlish widow of 80
out in California. Hard to control the young
folks when spring time comes -around.
New York gave its fighting Twenty-seventh
division such a welcome as must have made the
boys long for the quiet of the Hindenburg line
again. It was surely some ovation.
No act of Paul McAuley's career at the
Geneva School for Girls has in it so much of
public benefit as that in which he tendered his
resignation.
Israel Zangwill pays Justice Brandeis a high
compliment, but the judge would gain little by
changing his American sovereignty for the job
of heading a new government in Palestine.
Go to the, housing mass meeting tonight, and
stay long enough to hear all sides of the situa
tion. Remember that each fellow has his own
version of the troubles, and that each has a
.right to be heard.
Mr. Mackay says publicly that Mr. Burleson
is brutal and autocratic. It might be interest
ing to hear what the late head of the Postal
company ha to say in private concerning the
postmaster general.
! . Uncle Sam is going tb try an interesting ex
periment, that of selling a lot of army camp3 at"
auction. It twill be edifying to conipare the
prices received with those paid, when the work
was done on the cost-plus basis.
, One hundred and fifty-six Americans, re
ported to have been taken prisoner, are now
missing. Their fate may never be known, but
this is small compared to the more than 62,000
of the British Brigade of. Lost Men.
The Street Railway company sought the
boards at-Lincoln to .obtain relief from local
conditions, therefore has little ground for com
print if the state board persists in bossing it.
Omaha, however, has a kick coming.
i- 01 course, the tender, heart of the secretary
of was bled for the "conscientious objectors"
whowere exposed to the cruelties of a lot of
army officers, who thought a soldier's duty was
to obey lawful orders. Why doubt it?
. "Contracts amounting to half a billion dollars
for air craft have been canceled, but the War
department might have let the makers go on
with the work, and maybe by the time the next
war broke out w'e would have been ready. '
Almost any sort of contraband "hootch"
will stir its victim to unwonted activity, but the
South Omaha variety, 'reported to stimulate an
uncontrollable desjre to work, ought to pt con
served as an antidote to hookworm and similar
diseases. . ' , .
America's Sweet Tooth
Some of the breweries about to close will, it
is said, go injo the manufacture of candy. The
report causes some surprise, for the people of
this country are already the .greatest consumers,
of candy, and use about twice as much sugar as
the per capita of any other nation. Two gen-,
erations ago it was the rule to admonish chil
dren that a frequent indulgence in candy would
ruin their teeth if not their health. The present
view may be judged by the enormous increase,
in candy production, and the countless devices
to diversify and render it attractive. More
than -this, the medical departments of our army
and navy, practical men in the front rank of
hygienic science, have approved a regular candy
ration, much to the comfort and gratification of
all in service. The allowance is half a pound
every 10 days for each man, and the private
sources of supply are extensive. If candy is a
food, which is now within reasonable Hmits
the accepted theory, it is a remarkably con
venient tabloid, and has the merit of going at
once to the spot. The trenches were horrible
enough at best, but what would they have been
without a nibble of chocolate or other sweets
and. of course, tobacco.
In the last phases of the victorious American
drive in France the coffee and bean rations kept
tip with the advance lines that were seldom in
the same place two days in succession. There
was some candy ,too, and smoking tobacco is
never out as long as a crumb is left to share
with a comrade. Further than this, our armies
abroad consumed a million and a half packages
of chewing gum a month. Even this article,
that might be called camouflage, has a sugar
suggestion. If sugar is not a coming king it is
at least taking a front seat St. Louis Globe-Democrat
AMENDING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
From-Paris comes rrfws that' the expected
amendment of the djaft of the constitution for
the League of Nations is undergoing such
amendment as will melt objections raited to it
in America. That this is true need 'surprise
none. While certain elements of our people let
up a great shout that the solution had been
reached, and demanded that the tentative form
of the covenant be accepted without question,
others insisted on sober considerations, Ind the
outcome was the discovery of such flaws as
made certain that it would be unacceptable, not
only to Americans, but to other nations equally
involved. i
Such objections were not brought forward
in a frivolous way, nor because, as was so
vehemently charged, of "hatred" for the presi
dent. They arose from calm, dispassionate con
sideration of the plan, and hold only the sane
conclusions of able men, accustomed to com
pletely analyze and thoroughly weigh all mat
ters submitted for consideration. "It was pa
triotism and not partisan bias that induced these
men to express in concise form the obvious
weaknesses of the suggested covenant. To have
it corrected so that it will be more explicit, to
have definitely set out what only could be read
into the document, implied and not expressly
stated, certainly will not harm or hinder its ap
plication, but should be welcomed by its hys
terical advocates as of assistance in making it
effective.
Internationalism has not yet taken such hold
on the popular mind of America or any other
country as to make possible its broad applica
tion to present day conditions. The League of
Nations, to be. effective, must come with some
recognition of those fundamental differences
that exist and on which the lines between na
tions clearly are differentiated. More than mere
geographical or political boundaries is involved
in this, and experience has proven that pro
pinquity does not always remove these diver
gences of ideals and aspirations.
No nation in all the world is opposed to
peace, and the devout wish of humanity is that
it be enduring. For this reason men are willing
to venture on untried policies, to turn into new
ways, that they hope will bring them the boon.
To ask that some of the lessons of human ex
perience be recalled, or that we do not entirely
abandon all we have learned in the way of social
or political wisdom, will not greatly aid in the
quest. Nor will Wodrow Wilson suffer in
prestige as j benefactor of mankind because
others perhaps as wise as he insist on having a
word to say in connection with the conditions
under which we are to live.
Germany Pushing to the East.
Captajns of commerce in America and
Europe are well aware of the efforts the Ger
mans are making to restore their industries and
revive their commerce. What has been of chief
est concern is the direction that would be taken
by the German trade push. It now develops
that "Drang noch Osten" ("Push to the East")
still prevails; it will not be with the pomp and
circumstance of military conquest, followed by
a lordly group of established tradesmen,' but a
vigorous, determined attempt to organize and
systematize the trade of peoples disturbed by
war, and to supply their needs with manufac
tured goods.
Trade Commissioner Norman. L. Anderson,
stationed at Stockholm, reports to the Depart
ment of Commerce on the preparations under
way in Germany for the conquest of these fields
for business. It is not only their neighbors in
the eastern part of Europe that the German
manufacturers and exporters plan to serve, but
they are going across into Asia. In Turkey
they hope to organize agriculture and industry
on such basis as will bring added profit and
prestige to themselves.
These efforts are but natural. The Germans
seemingly realize the fierce competition they
will have to face in "the war after the war," and
are getting ready for it. They accept the fact
that the years of "penetration" in American
markets, north and south, are lost to them,
while African and eastern Asiatic trade is also
out of their reach for the present. Therefore
they waste no time in sending good money
after bad, but turn to a conveniently accessible
region, wherein they can meet competitors on
terms favorable to themselves.
Pushing to the "east will be easier for the
German with a sample case in his hand than it
was when he wore a "pickelhaube" and carried a
fire bomb or a hand grenade.
Karolyi's Remarkable Mind.
Count Karolyi, "iron man o Hungary," has
added something to the humor of a grave sit
uation "by charging the American congress with
being responsible, for the breakdown of order
in central Europe. When the bill to provide for
$100,000,000 to be expended for hungry Euro
peans was amended to exclude enemy coun
tries, says the count, we made our great mis
take. Viewed from the standpoint of an Hun
garian, this is crystal clear. It becomes the
more impressive when it is taken in connection
with the fact that Hungary refused to share its
plenty with Austria or Bohemia, but profiteered
with shameless greed on its allies in the sale
of food during the war. Even now Hungary
is better stored with food than any European
country, although it looked on the starving
populace of Vienna with cold serenity. Count
Karolyi easily can persuade himself it was
America's duty to feed the hungry in the enemy
lands, although while the war was going on he
could patiently abide the famine in Serbia, Rou
mania, Poland, and elsewhere in laijds overrun
by Hun armies. The Magyar might require the
grain for his own consumption, therefore he
would hold on to it. Not only does this ex
hibit the very remarkable quality of the Karolyi
mind, but it makes the more astonishing the
bolsheviki outbreak, the purpose of which is
to establish universal brotherhood among the
tribes of men. Being patient with such is not
the lightest part of the white man's burden.
Guiding an airplane by wireless is an inter
esting feat, but it in some way recalls the
dirigible torpedo that was to revolutionize war
fare a few years ago, but was not heard of dur
ing the late fracas.
Herbert Hoover says the people of the dev
astated region need raiment quite as much as
they1 need food. That is why the Red Cross is
after you this week to help out by donating any
garments you can spare.
The Austrian soviet did not join with the
Hungarian'comrades because dependent on the
Entente for food. Well, s.o will the Magyars
he in a little while, just as the Russians are now.
That seems to be the same
A Federal Highway System
v Christian Science Monitor.
- There is no longer need, save in isolated
cases, for agitation of the question of good
roads construction in the United States. The
I whole nation is aroused on the subject. States,
counties, ana municipalities nave given, or arc
planning to give, liberally toward highway
building funds. Time woule be wasted upon
argument concerning the subject per se. Every
body, at all informed or interested, is convinced
with regard to the soundness of the general
proposition that the country should be, and must
be, not only gridironed, but cobwebbed, with
hardsurfaced roads for the accommodation of
motor cars. Transportation and distribution
in the future will be largely by automobile ser
vice. The automobile is ready, even now, to
take over an immense share of the short and
long-haul passenger and freight business of the
United States; it awaits only the completion ot
roadways over which it may be operated with
economy. The experimental stage in motor-car
transportation may be said to have passed.
The United States government, under the
federal aid amendment to the general appro
priation bill, will distribute $200,000,000 during
the next three years, in addition to $66,000,000
already provided, among the several states en
gaged in road building, according to their de
serving. Each state, in other words, will be
rewarded in proportion to its own expenditure
on highways; The state doing the most on its
own accounf will receive the greatest aid from
the federal appropriation. The purpose of ,tlie
government in this distribution is to help those
states which are willing to help themselves.
This provision of congress for the encourage
ment of good road construction is farsighted;
every mile of highway constructed, or made
ready for motor traffic, adds to the wealth of the
nation; the condition that the states shall de
serve federal aid before receiving it is wise.
Everything is at it should be, thus far.
The one great defect in the whole under
taking is that construction in the several states
is left to their respective commissions; not that
the state commissions are incompetent, or like
ly to be, but, rather here is a case in which co
operation, co-tordination, unity of action, among
all the states, with reierence to essential points,
is of the greatest importance. Road building
should be carried on according to some plan
generally acceptable to the states and the na
tion, and with respect for the advice' and the
needs of those who are to use the highways.
Advantage should be taken of all the experience
gathered by all the states. Some of this has
been gathered at a very high cost. It is a valu
able asset. The whole nation should share in it.
Since so great an expenditure is to be made on
highways during the next three years, is it not
plainly both prudent and judicious that the work
should be carried on, in the main, by, or at least
under the supervision of, a federal commission?
To every intelligent observer of the situa
tion it is becoming apparent that there is need
of a national system of highways. Roads do not
end at state lines. Traffic will not begin or end
at state boundaries. The character and condi
tion of roadways in a neighboring state, or
throughout an entire section, are as important
to-th motor car user as the character and con
dition of the roadways in his own state, his own
.county, or his own community. Now when the
work of road construction is beginning on a
scale commensurate with the boundaries of the
country, local should readily and cheerfully give
way to national interests. The automobile. owner
in Maine, today, may be an automobile owner in
California a few days hence. The condition of
highway traffic in Florida already has interest
for ihe motor-car user in Oregon, and this in
terest is bound to increase. A comprehensive
scheme of construction and maintenance, such
as could be possible under a federal commission,
would insure a high standard of road building
and road repair everywhere. In fact, only
through the agency of a central or federal body,
acting in harmony with the state highway com
missions, can the character of the roadways of
the country be kept at a high level.
Passing of a Great Fortress
. The decision of the allied war council that
the German fortifications on the isle of Helgo
land must be dismantled and the Kiel canal in
ternationalized, with equal charges to all ships
solely for purposes of maintenance, marks the
end of the German dream of sea power. The
British took the island from Denmark in 1807
and maintained some fortifications. But they
were insignificant compared with those Ger
many built after the island was ceded to it in
1890. - The standstone formation of the main is
land had suffered from the ravages of the sea
for centuries. This had made the place pic
turesque, with fantastic caves, arches and col
umns, but it had reduced the area of the island
at the rate of a square mile a year from the be
ginning of the ninth century, when it measured
about 380 square miles. The Germans put a
stop to this erosion by filling rifts and crevices
with ferro-c6ncrete and constructing break
waters. Various improvements were installed
to make the place attractive to bathers and
every summer before the war there were 20,000
visitors.
The character of the fortifications revealed
that the. Germans did not regard the place solely
as a summer resort. They spent $5,000,000 a
year for many years on fortifications. An ex
pensive tunnel was built for safe transmission
of supplies in case of war, and it is reported
that during the great war there were ample
stores of supplies and ammunition to enable a
garrison of 2,000 men to withstand a three-year
siege. A naval harbor with capacity for the
largest warships was built, several 12 and 16
inch Krupp guns were placed on steel and con
crete bases and every inch of the waters of the
North Sea for 25 miles around was charted and
calculations worked out and furnished to the
gunners, so they might have the range of any
hostile vessel that might appear. This not only
gave the Germans great strategic strength on
the North Sea and the Baltic, but it served as a
protection for the submarine, naval and air
craft bases. Toward the end of the war the
British managed to get at the submarine bases,
but without the fortress of Helgoland and the
mine-laying it protected, Germany would have
been navally impotent from the first. The de
cision as to Helgoland js an important step in
the necessary work of rendering it impossible
for Germany to revive its war plans. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
AY
The Day We Celebrate.
George W. Holdrege, general manager of
the Burlington railroad west of the Missouri
river, born 1847.
W. F. Zagel, claim agent for the Union Pa
cific railroad, born 1867.
W. -A. Gordon, head of the Expressman's
Delivery company, born 1870.
William P. Hobby, he present governor of
Texas, born in Polk county, Tex., 41 years ago.
Edwin U. Curtis, former mayor and now po
lice commissioner of Boston, born at Roxbury,
Mass., 58 years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
These minsters called on Mayor Broatch to
endorse his enforcement of the Sunday closing
law: Dean Gardner, Rev. W. J. Harsha, Rev.
A. M. Gordon, Rev. A. R. Thain, Rev. Luther
Kuhns, Rev. C. N. Dawson, Rev. John R. Hen
derson, Rev.1 C. T. Brady, Rev. A. W. Lamar,
Dev. Dr. Detweiler, Rev. J. .A. Mulligan and
Rev. A. M. Coloneri.
Mr. E. W. Xorris and Miss Sadie McLaugh
lin were married at the residence of Mr. J. B.
Cross on Pacific street.
Miss S. W. Moore of the University of Ne
braska lectured before the Western Art asso
ciation on "Ancient Art and Modern Archae
ology." J. W. Gwin and J. W. Dunmire have bought
the gun and sporting goods store of John J.
Hardin
Our Free Legal Aid
State your case clearly but
briefly and a reliable lawyer
will furnish the answer or
advice in this column. Your
name will not be printed.
Let The Bee Advise You
Conditional Sale and Replevin.
J. E. H. In 1917 I purchased
some machinery from a wholesale
hardware company on which I paid
one-half of the purchase price and
gave a note for the balance, due 18
months after date. The note con
tained the provision as follows:
"The title to the machinery for
which this note is given, and all
goods subsequently ordered and de
livered to the purchaser, shall re
main in the name of the hardware
company until settled fully for In
cash. Notes are not accepted as
cash, but only as evidence of in
debtedness." I was unable to pay the note when
due and the company has now "noti
fied me that unless the note is paid
by April 1 they will Institute a re
plevin suit to recover back the ma
chinery. Is the note I rive them evidence
of payment and can they recover
back their machinery?
Answer In. the case of Racine
! Sattlery Company against Meinen,
7 it Nebraska 333. decided by our su
preme court In 1907, the facts were
almost identical with those in your
case. Jn this -case the court held
that a contract for the sale of agri
cultural implements, which provides
that the title shall remain in the
vendor until the whole price Is paid,
is a conditional sale and the title
would not pass until the full pur
chase price was paid. In this case
also replevin was allowed to recover
back the Implements.
Signature.
B. C. Is a signature legal which
is signed, "Witness my hand this
day of -, 1919," and no name ap
pears as witness?
Answer It is not necessary to the
validity of a signature that it be wit
nessed. If the name of the party
whose signature is required is writ
ten, by him it is a sufficient signa
ture. Signatures adopted by per
sons are sufficient to give validity
to Instruments, even though they
are illegible, and the purpose of
a witness to signature is merely for
the purpose of proving the hand
writing or that tjie signature is that
of the person it is claimed to be and
of showing that the signature is
genuine without further proof.
Insurance.
A. S. H. A man dies leaving chil
dren by a former marriage, also a
widow with no children of a second
marriage. He has left his Bank
ers Life insurance in his first wife's
name, who died long ago. Does
this insurance go to the estate and
does his widow get any of the insur
ance? Answer It is a general rule that
In the ordinary life Insurance policy,
owing to the fact that the bene
ficiary has a vested right in the pol
icy, that on the death of the bene
ficiary in the lifetime of the insured
his rights pass to his estate and the
insured cannot in the absence of
policy provisions giving him the
right thereafter divest that right.
Much depends upon the particular
policy, aa the provisions in the pol
icies of different companies vary
on this subject, and as there are
several companies by the name of
Bankers Life Insurance Co., I do
not know in which company your
husband has his policy and do not
know the provisions thereof, so
that it is impossible for me to fully
answer your question. Most pol
icies, however, contain a provision
which will fully answer your ques
tion. .
Damages for Breach of Contract.
V. J. H. In July, 1918, I made
a written contract with an Omaha
automobile concern by the terms of
which I was to pay them a certain
price for six cars which were to be
delivered to me at my residence in
Nebraska in 60 days. 1 I paid a por
tion of the contract price. They
failed to deliver the cars within the
time specified and have since in
formed me that they cannot deliver
them. On the strength of the pur
chase I had made in July I sold the
cars to farmers in my vicinity at an
advanced price, of 1250 over the
contract purchase price. Have I an
action against the company and how
much am I entitled to recover?
Answer Under this statement of
facts you are entitled to recover the
difference between the contract price
and the price at which you actually
sold the cars or contracted to sell
them, this amount being certain and
fully determined.
RIGHT TO THE POINT
Minneapolis Tribune: The consit
tution may follow the flag, but it
chases the red flag.
St. Louis Globe Democrat: So
long as the people think that the
league of nations will do what it
promises to do, they are probably f&r
it. If it doesn't, experience can only
prove it.
New York World: The forme i
king and queen of Wurttembery
are now Herr and Frau Wurttem
berg, like any other plain citizen and
citizeness of Germany. And Von
Tirpitz's son is a bank clerk in
Switzerland ajid his daughter a gov
erness. Certainly the old order ha
changed, in these respects at least
beneficially.
Brooklyn Eagle: Our commander
in Siberia will not turn over to the
tender mercies of the Japanese the
1,500 men who refused to assist
Kalminoff in a reign of terror
scheme, partly carried out Wash
ington should sustain him. Tokio
will hardly make an issue out of the
punishing of soldiers who would noi
be made tools in a murder campaign.
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ADVENTURE
By DADDY
CHAPTER III.
The Strange Howls Again.
(Peggy end Bill? (o to Blrdlnnd it
night seeking Reginald Jonea-Brown who
haa been kidnaped by the Black Hoof
clan.)
PEGGY and Billy rushed into the
dark woods ofter Lonesome
Bear. They found themselves on a
path, but the night was so black
they couldn't see a foot in front of
their faces. Ahead of them they
heard Lonesome Bear crashing
along In full flight.
"Walt, Lonesome Bear, it's only
us!" shouted Billy, but Lonesome
Bear only hurried on the faster.
Soon they,began to bump into trees,
and Billy paused uncertainly.
"What'a the matter?" whispered
Peggy.
"We are off the path, but maybe
Mi hhimhim
Peggy seated herself on his broad,
furry back.
I can find it again." Billy tried to
speak hopefuly, but Peggy knew he
was Just doing it to cheer her up.
Just then they heard one of the
howls again, but this time it was
much nearer. As if in answer there
came a howl from the left, quickly
followed by one from the right. Ab
Peggy grasped Billy's hand a bit
tighter other howls sounded,
some from in front of them, some
from behind them, some from either
side.
"I wish we could find Lonesome
Bear," muttered Billy.
A low growl sounded above their
heads, so close that Peggy and Billy
both Jumped.
"Will you be good to me if you
find me?" said the growl.
"Lonesome Bear, come right down
out of that tree and help us," said
Peggy, who had become so nervous
that she was decidedly cross.
"I'm very comfortable up here,"
replied Lonesome Bear. Then, as the
strange howl sounded again. Lone
some Bear lowered his growl to a
deep rumble, "And I'm safer, too.
There are queer doings in the woods
tonight. You'd better climb up here
with me."
Peggy felt that his advice was
good, but she remembered the mis
sion that had brought them to the
forest.
"We have come to find the Boy
Who Howls who has been stolen by
the Black Hoof clan. We want you
to show us the way through the
woods."
"The Black Hoof clan! That
sounds exciting," growled Lonesome
Bear, sliding down the tree. "It's
scary business, prowling around the
woods on a night like this, but there
are plenty of trees to climb if dan
ger threatens. Where will we find
the Black Hoof clan?"
"Near Judge Owl's home, for he
brought the message demanding the
ransom," answered Peggy promptly.
"That will be easy to find. Climb
on my back, Princess Peggy, and
you grab hold behind, Billy, and we
will be there in a minute."
Peggy seated herself on his broad,
furry back, and Billy took hold of
his stubby tail, and they went along
quickly through the woods. After
a time they saw ahead of them what
looked like a fire. "The moon,"
grunted Lonesome Bear.
Finally they came to the-edge of
the clearing. Lonesome Bear was
about to enter it, when suddenly a
howl arose a terrible howl, a howl
which seemed to be all around them,
that filled the woods, that was like
a hundred howls all joined together.
Quicker than scat Lonesome Bear
climbed a big oak tree. He climbed
It so suddenly that Peggy didn't have
time to drop off his back and Billy
didn't have time to let go his tail.
"Look!" whispered Lonesome
Bear as they reached the branches.
In the clearing and all around the
edges were scores of beady points
of light the eyes of animals shining
in the dark.
"Wolves!" whispered Peggy. Then
the rising moon threw a ray into the
clearing.
"Dogs," answered Billy, "And
they've treed something In that big
maple over there!" Sure enough,
three was a human form seated in
the crotch, well toward the top of
the maple. From the human form
came- an ear-splitting scream that
arose above all the united howlings
of the dogs.
"The Boy Who Howls," exclaimed
Peggy.
Daily Dot Puzzle
(Tomorow's chapter tells of a remark
able howling match.)
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Spank McAuley.
Omaha, March 23. To the Editor
of The Bee: Am proud of your at
titude in the McAuley affair. Had
you asked that he be removed as
superintendent of the institution it
would have pleased me more. Per
sonally I think he is as fit a person
for the position he occupies as a
wolf would be for the shepherd of a
flock of sheep. What he needs is
for a father or elder brother of one
of the unfortunate inmates that
were chastised in the manner
in which he administered the pun
ishment, have McAuley don a gar
ment like he describes and then
take the two-inch strap and give
him a good larruping over a chair.
I wonder that the women of the
W. C. T. TJ. have not demanded his
removal in the interest of human
ity. He sure deserves it.
"QTJEZO."
Rivals the Hun.
Blair, Neb., March 21. To the
Editor of The Bee: I have read
the article pertaining to the Geneva
home, and I think it would be a
credit to the state if the board of
control would send for some good
Hun like Van Armin to assume
control of that institution. Of
course, Caligula and Nero, being
dead, no jealousy would be aroused
there. S. E. KEMP.
Call It Liberty Drive.
Omaha, March 24. To the Editor
of The Bee: I have recently re
turned from service In the army to
locate in Omaha, and am naturally
interested in the description of the
scheme for a memorial drive In your
Sunday's paper.
The idea appeals to me very
strongly, and I think that the peo
ple of Omaha will miss their best
opportunity for city development if
the scheme is not carried out as
proposed. I have lived in a num
ber of our largest cities, and none
of them has a boulevard of so
great possibilities as the one brought
forth by the planning commission.
The tourists and advertising euch a
road would give toOmaha ' would
be of great financial benefit and the
drive would make Omaha famous
over the entire country.
I would suggest that the road be
called "Liberty Drive," thus com
memorating the work of the Liberty
loans, as well as the cause for which
the war was fought.
RETURNED SOLDIER.
Care of the State's Wards.
Norfolk, Neb., March 22. To the
Editor of The Bee: A great many
thinking men and women are great
ly shocked over the disclosures of
the seemingly "dark ages" methods
of the discipline at , the Geneva
Home for Girls.
Christian men and women of Ne
braska, did you ever stop to think
of the many poor unfortunate in
mates of the different institutions
under state control? Have you as
.either individuals or organizations
ever visited any poor girl at this
place, written to her or ever given
a thought to some aged inmate of,
for instance, your own local poor
farm? Do you ever concern your
selves as to whether people at the
penitentiary or insane asylum fare
ill or well? Have you ever seen
the Orphans' home, or any other
place in Nebraska, where some of
"these little ones," God's children,
are living? The Master of all said,
"Inasmuch as you have neglected
one of these, ye have also neglected
me." The W. C. T. U. and other
women's organizations will not
stand for this state of affairs at the
state institutions. That much the
Honorable Board of Control better
take cognizance of right now. There
is something wrong somewhere.
There are many broad-minded
men and women of Nebraska who
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make a study of Juvenile subjects,
and there are many social workers
that might assist in solving some of
these i,roblems. We think the
governor of Nebraska should call
into a conference the able students
on these questions and 'map out a
plan of discipline that will not be a
shame to our state. There is Dr. J.
Calfass of Omaha, Gus Miller, pro
bation officer; Mrs. M. Claflin ot
the state W. C. T. U.; Mrs. Draper
Smith, also of Omaha, interested in
such matters that pertain to child
hood: Mrs. E. E. Sheldon of Lin
coln, of the State Woman'a club, and
Mrs. J. P. Jensen of Blair, who has
very sound and advanced Ideas along
Juvenile court work, and who has
often written and spoken in behalf
of many of our state's unfortunates.
If there Is a man in public office
in Nebraska that has as his duty
the oversight and care of our state
wards, and has not the time to look
after this work, then, in the name of
justice and humanity, let him re
sign. There must and shall bo
someiniiiK nunc wny jc. mo mas
ter go further, gentlemen of the
state board? Get busy.
CLARK M. STANLEY.
Waited Too Long.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: It is
unfortunate for Senator Vardanian
that he did not discover the an
thracite trust until the day before
he retired from the senate.
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