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The end is in tight at Lincoln.
Fiume put up the Italian flag, a pointer to
the peace council.
Show the French band boys today that they
are among friends.
dy'' Peace by Easter is now said to be impos-
' , sible. But the talk must end some time.
Paris continues to be headquarters for the
rumor makers as well as the peacemakers.
"Soldiers' and Sailors'" councils may be all
right in Petrograd, but will hardly thrive in
America.
Another story of how the czar met his death
is given out. A collection of these accounts
wil soon stock a library.
One ray of light seems to have penetrated
Russia. Lenine is now said to be convinced
that the "terror" was a mistake.
The man who stands four-square today must
expect to be called synicafby the light-headed
persons who are running around in circles.
Chicago brickmakers are alleged to be in a
combine to keep up prices. It is suspected that
a similar condition prevails throughout the land.
Railroad earnings for February show another
such deficit as must convince anybody of the
beauties of governmental operation of the trans
portation systems.
General March warns discharged soldiers
that they must wear the red chevron with the
uniform. This may later be extended to in
clude the "conscobs."
Mr. Baker promises another revision of the
court-martial law. It was worked over in 1916
the last time, and he had a chance then to do a
lot of things he now proposes.
Doctors are now in pursuit of the specific
germ of lethargic encephalitis, and we hope
they have better luck than they did in their quest
for the flu bug. It's a great game if you don't
weaken.
The mayor urges exploitation of the local
clay banks as a remedy for the high price of
bricks. Which recalls the vigorous fight made
a short time ago to suppress a couple of local
brick yards.
American .soldiers are exhibiting their pro
clivity for gathering souvenirs in a way that
irritates the Russians in Siberia. The foreigner
has some difficulty in understanding our peculiar
brand of democracy.
Canucks returned from the battle front do
not take kindly to the home-grown movement
for abolishing rum and tobacco. They have
imbibed a definite notion of what liberty means,
ind are not backward about expressing it.
The code bill, now in its final stages of pas
sage, is intended to provide a business adminis
tration for Nebraska, and is being enacted to
redeem a platform pledge. That is why it
worries the democrats, who did nothing to save
money when in control.
Efforts to get men who are needed at home
out of the army are in active movement, and the
boys are helping along by volunteering to go
back and help finish the job. Thousands of
youngsters are showing an unselfish patriotism
in this way that is encouraging.
The Rainbow boys are on their way back
from the Rhine. The sorrow is they did not
get to show themselves in Berlin. That division
marching down Unter-den-Linden would have
had a moral effect worth many days of speech
making and the like at a peace conference.
You may have noted that the democrats
are now yelling loudly that the present legis
lature is extravagant because it has made an
appropriation for a new capitol building. Yet
every one of these critics knows that the build
ing is needed, and has been for years, and that
three democratic legislatures deliberately side
stepped the situation, arid thereby made it that
much worse. Nebraska republicans will cheer
fully accept any responsibility for waste that
may be based on providing a new state house.
Medals for StWpidity
' vFrau von Hindenburg, sister-in-law of the
field marshal of Germany, and who is said to
enjoy his confidence, is out with a proposal to
have leather medals struck for stupidity, to dis-
tribute widely through the old German official-
dom. This lady is of the opinion that the re
. mainder of the world has entertained for a long
i time that the greatest gift of the German mind
is stupidity.
But the sister-in-law of the man upon whom
the kaiser relied for victory says that the British
sailors, disguised as Germans, started the dis
astrous Kiel revolt, and this was the outbreak
; of the revolution. So, at last, the secret is out.
The Germans fought the war with the senti-
" ment, God punish England, upon their lips.
And now they are told by the sister-in-law of
Von Hindenburg that British sailors in disguise
precipitated the revolution. If this is so, what
a magnificent tribute is thereby paid English
resourcefulness and bravery 1 'Over against this
exhibit are to be placed the maladroit machina
tions of the German plotters to start a revolt in
the United States and to stir up Mexico. These
were stupid in the extreme.
But the British sailors did not do all the work
against the Germans. Hindenburg was misled
. as to submarine efficiency and as to the ability
of the LJnittd States to land considerable forces
in France. So the Americans did something,
also, to upset the German bean pot. Yes, Frau
Hindenburg is right, stupidity medals are in
order all around not forgetting her distinguish
. id brother-in-law. Baltimore American,
BOLSHEVISM IN THE SCHOOLS.
New York has discovered that bolshevism is
being inculcated in the public schools of that city.
It seems rather late for Father Knickerbocker
Jo find this out. Social theories of radical tend
ency have been fostered in American schools
for many years. Scarcely a university in the
land but has had its group of "advanced think
ers," who have found in the class room or the
laboratory the panacea for social and political
ills, and have devoted themselves to the propa
gation of their ideas. It would be out of reason
to trust that these notions would not spread
from the colleges to the high schools.
The most hopeful sign for the race is that
economists and sociologists have united in ef
forts to revise certain conditions of lift. They
have carefully distinguished between what is
sound and what is not, and although agreement
has not been entirely obtained amongst them,
they have achieved a great deal of good while
clinging to the fundamentals. This work has
been hindered materially by the course pursued
by some who fail to fully comprehend all that
is involved. Mistaken persons seize a theory,
expand it, and rail at the world because it does
not accept views resting on pure reason alone
and lacking in all the elements of workability.
In the public schools the effort at self-government
for advanced classes have held an ele
ment of danger, in that the so-called democracy
tends to the socialist rather than the republican
form of control. Immature minds, incapable of
appreciating the difference are led unconsciously
to the conclusion that socialism is correct be
cause it exalts the group and makes no note of
the individual.
Economic conditions augment this. It is
rather difficult to explain to a youth who has
known nothing but the dreary round of exploited
toil that a better way of living may be found
through another means than that of substi
tuting the state for the indivdual. Such explana
tion may be made, and a proper application of
the basic law of living to the teachings in the
schools will soon eliminate bolshevism. Train
the individual to know that he is responsible to
the state, instead of having it the other way
around.
"Sweetness and Light."
About the beginning of the present century
some inspired phrase-maker invented a locu
tion that has held Americans in thrall ever
.Since. Me spoke ot sweetnes ana light as tne
purpose of some enterprise he was promoting.
Since then no faker has sought to lure people
away frtm the hard path of duty, illumined
only by dear-bought experience, but has labeled
himself an optimist and an apostle of "sweet
ness and light." Let his scheme be never so
impracticable, his reasoning never so unsound,
he yet can charm the masses with the magic
formula, safe in the knowledge that long before
the logic of events exposes his chimera, his
dupes will be following another will-o'-the-wisp
in another direction.
He may be promising a world from whence
sin has been drown and evil annihilated, in
which disease no longer exists; where health
and longevity follow man willy-nilly; it may be
a life of ease and luxury without effort; it may
be that he has wiped out all strife and con
troversy. In fact, it does not matter much what
it is, if he only promises enough and presents
his bait in form sufficiently atractive, he will
get his followers. Disappointment does not dis
illusionize, and the victims of credulity are eager
at any time to adopt any device set before them
as a relief from work or a remedy for evils
following indulgence or misconduct.
Those who undertake to set up the rule of
reason are overwhelmed by the cry of pessi
mist or cynic, and are forced to accept the
melancholy satisfaction found in knowing they
are right. The law of love, which all are so
anxious to establish, does not contemplate a
life of ease for any, but demands the active
exercise of every human energy all the time.
Work is the only way to happiness; idleness
brings misery. Common sense has its reward
when properly applied to all the ways of life.
But Barnum was right, and the faker will al
ways get a hearing when he comes bringing
"what the people want," and declaring himself a
gospeler of "sweetness and light."
"Reciprocal Demurrage" a Danger.
The legislature has just sent ahead a mea
sure that embodies an ides of real value, but
in such form as will defeat its object. It looks
to the establishment of a "reciprocal demur
rage" charge, whereby railroads will be held
responsible to shippers for failure to provide
cars within a specified time. A little reflection
should have convinced the proponents of the
measure of the difficulties in their way.
Once or twice a year it happens that the de
mand for cars in Nebraska is far beyond the
ability of the railroads to supply. In the rush
days of marketing experience has shown the
physical impossibility of providing transpor
tation equal to the demand. To penetrate the
railroads because of failure to always have
"empties" ready when the shipper calls for
$hem seems unfair.
; Nor is the proposed charge "reciprocal" in
its true sense. Demurrage charged against a
user of cars for failure to load or unload within
a specified time is intended tc incease the ser
vice by eliminating unnecessary delays. The
rule works to the advantage of the prospective
shipper, by securing return of cars more prompt
ly. Such is the chief purpose of the demurrage
rules.
Some regulation may be devised for meeting
any deliberate delay of a railroad in furnish
ing cars, or discrimination between shippers,
but the measure just sent through the legisla
ture will hardly afford the relief sought. '
It was quite thoughtful of the peace dele
gates at Paris to apprise the late chairman (by
right of seniority) of the senate's committee
on foreign relations of changes made in the
draft of the League of Nations constitution.
This will help him revise his speech and bring
it up to date, but it will not affect the attitude
of his paper, which has roundly abused all who
suggested any alteration of the original docu
ment which the president himself said was
merely tentative.
Marse Henry Watterson is now back where
he started, a free lance in journalism, but that
wilt not dim the brilliance of prestige in the
least. He still retains the right, the exercise
of which has made him great, that of indepen
dent personal views on whatever question is
presented.
Bavarians are forming a national society to
promote emigration. It might be interesting to
know where they expect to land.'
Training Household Servants
London Times. ,
The Women's Advisory Committee of the
Ministry of Reconstruction were asked by Dr.
Addison in December to consider tht Sdoincstic
service problem (which now confronts the
housewives of the country in acute form), and
to indicate the lines on which the available
supplies of labour can be used in the best in
terests of the nation. The committee's pro
cedure was to appoint four sub-committees of
people specially qualified to consider the ques
tion from these aspects: (1) Training; (2) ma
chinery of distribution; (3) home helps; and (4)
organization and conditions.
The report of the sub-committee on training
is now available. It urges the importance of a
better training of domestic servants, not only
as a corrective of the waste and friction that
arise out of inefficient domestic labour, but also
as a prime means of raising the status of the
occupation itself.
"One of the root causes." it savs, "which has
led to the present low status of domestic service
as an occupation, is the lack of opportunities for
training, such as will enable a girl to become a
skilled worker." Training of this kind is pro
vided to a limited extent, but parents are in too
many cases unable to meet the loss that they
must surfer if they encourage their daughters
to undergo such training rather than to enter a
commercial or industrial occupation. "We are
of opinion that, so long as facilities for training
are beyond the reach of most working-class
homes, the occupation will suffer from its pres
ent lack of status, and continue to receive the
greater number of its recruits from women who
are driven into it by economic necessity. It is
essential that domestic service should take its
place as a skilled occupation, and that the con
ditions of employment should be made compar
able with those which exist in other occupa
tions." The report then goes on to detail the exist
ing facilities for the training of women and
girls in domestic service, showing that in 1914,
apart from philanthropic agencies and other in
stitutions, tne total provision in England and
Wales was far less than 700 pupils. Some of
these Institutions 'were closed during the war.
At the end of 1917 the pupils in attendance num
bered less than 300.
Reference is also made to the fact that the
bulk of domestic servants obtain such training
as they possess either from a mistress or, in a
large household, from upper servants Under
whom they work. "Some mistresses of small
households," says the report, "both understand
the work themselves and take pains to teach
their maids, but the unsatisfactory nature of the
instruction given by many mistresses, owing to
their own ignorance of, and lack of system in,
domestic matters has been brought prominently
to the notice of the committee."
The training received by young girls work
ing under other servants is criticized by the com
mittee as being often superficial, in that the up
per servant may have neither the time nor the
ability to explain the reasons for the various
processes which have been adopted as a result
of experience. Hence the pupil's intellect is not
trained; she tends to become mechanical in her
work, and her intelligence suffers in conse
quence. Two further disadvantages present
themselves in this kind of training. In the first
place, the number of large households is not
enough to provide training for all; secondly, the
girl leaves school at 14, and the committee and
all the witnesses examined were unanimous in
agreeing that- girls should not enter domestic
service under the age of 16.
In Part II of their report the committee
describes the training which they consider most
desirable. The schools where it is given should
fall in the category of junior technical schols,
to secure recognition of domestic service as a
skilled occupation. In certain particulars the
course suggested follows that laid down by some
of the more enterprising educational authori
ties. The training should, however, extend over
two years, beginning at the age of 14, when the
girl leaves school. During the second year
specialized training should be undertaken, which
if posible should include work in some house
connected with the school. The cost of such
training should be borne entirely by the local
education authority, aided by state grants.
Maintenance grants to the pupil should be made
on such a scale as to enable a parent to allow
his daughter to undertake this training without
greater financial expenditure than would be en
tailed if she entered some industrial or commer
cial calling.
"Without some such policy," the report adds,
"there is little chance of raising the status of
domestic service, and thereby providing a skill
ed occupation for a large number of women."
Though conditions of domestic service were not
within the scope of this particular sub-committee's
inquiry, they report themselves unable to
conclude their recominendaitons without stating
emphatically their opinion that the mere pro
vision of training facilities will not suffice to
attract girls to housework, unless the condi
tions of service are radically altered so as to
conform with those of other occupations.
Burleson and His Bludgeon
Postmaster-General Burleson may usually be
depended on to do even the right thing in the
wrong way, and when he does the wrong thing
he has the faculty of exciting the strongest
indignation. The merits of his dispute with
the Postal Telegraph company are highly tech
nical, and from the first there has been a sug
gestion in his manner of proceeding that per
sonal animosity was a motive. In summarily
removing the president and directors of the
company from all authority over its affairs
and, as he states in his official order, removing
"the owners" also Mr. Burleson may claim as
a precedent the case of the few railway presi
den'' who were similarly relieved from duty
by Director-General McAdoo. But the ground
assigned for that action was refusal to co-operate
in the Railway Administration's working
plans. No such reason is alleged by Mr. Burle
son in a way to carry conviction, and on the
other side, we have the company's assertion
that the resistance was to Burleson's plan to
put up telegraph rates where the company was
convinced that increase was unnecessary. It is
not to be wondered at that even some demo
cratic congressmen are giving quiet aid and en
couragement to the plan for taking the Burle
son episode aggressively in hand. New York
Post.
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The Day We Celebrate.
David Baird, late United States senator from
New Jersey, born in County Derry, Ireland, 80
years ago.
Most Rev. Randall Thomas Davidson, arch
bishop of Canterbury, born 71 years ago.
Commondore Ellsworth P. Bertholf, com
mandant of United States Coast Guard service,
born in New York City 53 years ago.
Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, U. S. N.,
who retires today for age, born at Vincennes,
Ind., 64 years ago.
Beny Leonard, champion lightweight pugi
list, born in New York City 23 years ago.
John J. McGra'w, manager and part owner of
the New York National base ball club, born at
Truxton, N. Y., 46 years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
The funeral of Joseph Dinebar, late teacher
in the Bohemian school, was attended by all
the Bohemian societies and the largest crowds
ever gathered for such an occasion.
A 21st birthday party was given for W. TJ.
Drake at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Allen, 1114 South Thirteenth street.
Rev. John Gordon. of the Westminster Pres
byterian church preached an anniversary ser
mon. In two years the congregation has grown
from 47 to 147 and erected a handsome edifice.
Dr. George L. Miller has accepted an invita
tion to speak on the Irish question at the com
ing Parnell meeting to be held in the opera
house.
Around the Cities
Detroit Is reported to have ac
cumulated 200.000 quarts of booze,
as a result or ths recent Ohio deluge.
.Luckily the city's1 supply of clear
water ls equal to the demand.
"Not for $1,000," exclaimed a taxi
driver In Chicago when requested
iy tne court to apologize to a police
man. Defiance cost him $25. Still
some people think peace prevails by
me lauestae.
Sioux City building contractors
and bricklayers are wrangling over
the wage scale for the year. The
men demand $1 an hour and the
Mulders offer 87 hi cents an hour.
The argument promises a showdown
April 1.
Publlo school facilities In Sioux
t'lty have not kept pace with the
citys needs. The school board will
submit to the voters at the spring
election a jioo.ooo bond proposi
tlon, the proceeds to be used In new
school buildings and equipment
War among the flsh dealers of Cin
cinnati caused a slump In the price
of sea food and consumers hopped
the markets Joyfully. The shift to
fish hit the eg market and Driees
took the toboggan. When profiteers
fall out consumers get a benefit.
Kansas City' chief of detectives
reports that the Mafia etctorted
"more than $100,000" from resident
Italians by Black Hand methods
during the last year. A reign of
terror grips Little Italy in conse
quence and the. police authorities are
begged for protection and relief.
Philadelphia, druggists are going
to the mat with tne telephone people
April 1. The drueglsts insist on the
existing split of SO per cent of the
receipts of the pay telephones In
their stores, which the company con
siders too much Orders are out for
the removal of the phones and about
4,000 are booked tc go.
New Tork City anticipates a grow
ing rush of tourists from various
dry belts during the next four
months, and sees a rising scale of
prices for farewell souses. Little old
Chicago looks for considerable busi
ness in that line, and St. Louis, Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and Boston are
ripe for overflows. Go to it! Tou'll
be a long time dry!
Sioux City and other Iowa munici
palities are in the same boat with
Nebraska communities. Both must
go to their respective state capitals
every two years to obtain permis
sion to do certain things or prevent
certain things being pushed over.
Sioux City wants permission for a
larger annual budget with which to
meet increased expenses, particular
ly pay increases for firemen and
policemen.
RIGHT TO THE POINT
Lzi5&? cc&'
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY
(In this adventure a stranger In
armor comes to the aid of Peggy
when selfish birds try to upset the
peace and happiness of Birdland.)
"THE MYSTERIOUS KNIGHT."
CHAPTER I.
BALMY spring has come and all
the earth seemed busy and hap
py. Peggy, digging in her garden,
glowed with the Joy of living. It
would be fun to plant her seeds,
more fun to watch the plants spring
forth from the ground, and the most
fun of all to gather her ripened
vegetables In the summer and fall.
As her eager space turned over the
soft noil, dozens of worms were
brought Into view.
"My, what a feast for the birds."
thought Peggy, raising her eyes to
search tne sky for her feathered
Philadelphia Ledger: Some lame
pocketbooks will need to be helped
over the spring styles.
Minneapolis Tribune: "Put Away
Your Kurs" is the way a headline
reads, .but if memories of summer
garb serve truly, this Is the time to
bundle up in them.
Baltimore American: The prob
lem of defining beer is beyond the
courts. Leave it to the poets to de
scribe that blissful twilight zone in
which one hears the birds sing at
sunset.
New Tork Herald: Fashion de
crees that women's hosiery is to be
more diaphanous than ever this sum
mer. Almost at the same time
conies the statement that the mild
winter will bring swarms of mosqui
toes in the warm months. Enough
said.
Brooklyn Eagle: Maine, which
"went hell-bent for Governor Kent."
votes to retain her September elec
tion. But, after all, her "Dirigo" has
become a mighty unreliable weather
vane, whether vanity is in her mind
or not.
New York World: The United
States has enough enemy alien prop
erty to cover all claims against Ger
many; for.-.ier owners may look to
Berlin for their pay. The simplicity
of this arangement may cause envy
in the nations of the entente wonder
ing how they will get their bills paid
and suspecting that payment may
prove impossible.
MEETING A MAN FROM HOME
Sin. O Muse. In the treble clef,
A little song of the A. E. F..
And pardon me, please, if I give vent
To something akin to sentiment.
But we have our moment Over Here
When we want to cry and wa want to
cheer;
And the hurrah feeling will not down
When you meet a man from your own
home town.
It'e many a lonesome, longsome day
Since you embarked from the U. S. A.,
And you meet ome men lt'a a great big
war
From burgs that you never hid known
before;.
And you landed here, and your rest camp
mate
Wai a man from tome atrange and distant
state.
Liked him? Tes; but you wanted to see
A man from the town where you used
to be.
And then you went, by design or chance,
All over the well-known map of France;
And you yearned with a yearn that grew
and grew ,
To talk with a man from the place you
knew.
And some lugubrious morning when
Your morale la batting about .110,
'Where are you from?" and you make
reply,
ind the o. d. warrior says: "So am I."
And the universe wears a smiling face
As you spill your talk of the old home
place;
Tou talk of the streets and the home.town
jokes,
And you find that you know each other's
folks;
And you haven't any more woes at all
As you both decide that the world Is
small
A statement adding to Its renown
When you meet a man from your own
home town.
If you want to know why I wrote this
pome.
Well . . . I've Just had a talk with a
guy from home.
Capt. F. P. Adams, U. S. A., in Colliers.
friends. And as If the birds knew
that tho worms were awaiting them
a great flock was sweeping toward
her.
"Yo ho. breakfast is readv." shout
ed Peggy, gaily. But to her sur
prise, the birds paid not the slight
est attention to her call. Uttering
shrill cries of alarm and flying their
swiftest, they rushed past without
looking downward. They seemed in
a panic like an army of refugees
fleeing from some grave peril.
"Yo ho! Yo ho! What's your
hurry," shouted Peggy, but not one
of the birds answered her. Old and
young, robins, orioles, bob-o-links,
thrushes, wrens, tanagers, martins,
swallows and scores of others, they
seemed too much disturbed to give
heed to t lie feast of worms to which
she was inviting them.
Where could they be going? Whnt
danger had driven them from home
right in their busiest season when
they were building their nests and
preparing for their summer's work
in fields and orchards?
Before 1'engy could even guess an
answer to these questions. General
Swallow, Reddy Woodpecker and
Blue Jay came rushing tip, while
Judge Owl puffed noisily along be
hind. General Swallow shrieked a
warning.
"Flee, Princess Peggy! Revolt has
broken out! Birdland has gone all
to smash!"
"Find a hollow tree, quick!"
panted Judge Owl. "And be sure
It's hidden deep in the woods."
"What has happened?" cried Peg
gy', while shivers of excitement ran
up and down her back. "Who Is In
revolt?"
"Jack Sparrow and his gang,"
snapped out Reddy Woodpecker.
"What are they revolting about?"
puzzled Peggy. "Everything has
been so pleasant and prosperous In
Birdland since I tamed the Giant of
the Woods."
"They've got ' kinks-brain kinks,"
hooted Judge Owl.
"What's that, some new kind of
disease?"
"The craziest kind of a disease,"
affirmed Judge Owl solemnly. "It
turns folk3 topsyturvy and then they
want to turn everybody else topsy
turvy, too."
"Jack Sparrow caught It listening
to soap box speechniakers on the
city streets," exclaimed General
Swallow.
"And he has given It to the Eng
lish sparrows, the cow tiirds, and
all the shiftless, good-for-nothing,
talk-talk birds, who want to live off
the toil of others," declared Reddy
Woodpecker.
"They say they are going to do
away with all rule and order In Bird
land. Food and nests will belong to
everybody In common, and the lazy
Idlers will have as much right to
them as the workers, who have
earned them."
"Why, how slliy!" exclaimed Peg
gy. That s not fair nor honest and
woul
sta
"Hurrah for Princess Peggy,"
shouted Blue Jay. "She will settle
this revolt."
"Then she will have to get busy In
Daily Dot Puzzle
.vould upset everything. We'll not
itancf for it here in free America."
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Draw from one to two and so on to end.
a hurry." shrilled General Swallow,
"for here come the revolutionists!"
Peggy looked up to see a dark
cloud shutting off the sun a cloud
made up of hundreds of tramplsh,
rough-looking birds.
(Tomorrow will be told how Peggy
is captured and the mysterious
knight comes to the rescue.)
ox
Chief Justice White.
Bruning, Neb., April 3. To the
Editor of The Bee: Will you please
answer in the columns of The Bee
at your earliest convenience for the
benefit of an eighth grade pupil, who
is the chief justice of the supreme
court (national), and was Hughes
chief justice at the time he resigned?
I say not, but others sav he was.
AN EIGHTH GRADE PUPIL.
Answer Edward Douglas White is
chief justice of the supreme court of
the United States; he was appointed
by President Taft In 1910. Charles
Evans Hughes was an associate jus
tice of the superme court of the
United States when he resigned to
accept the republican nomination for
president in 1916.
DAILY CARTOONETTE
SflYBo-'LflMEDUCK"lS
QOlNTOiOiN INflWAUffl
IF I WASYOUl'UPUTfUL
MY RDU ON HER?J
Daylight System Is a Fraud.
Omaha, April 4. To the Editor
of the Bee: Some people have
blamed me for saying that the so
called "daylight saving system" is a
fraud. I still claim it is a fraud.
In the first place it defrauds
millions of peonle of their proper
hours of sleep, for by having the
clocks set forward It is dark nearly
the whole year at 5 o'clock in the
morning, and. that really means four
o'clock, a time that lots of people
find their best time for sleep. Morn
ings in this part of the country in
the summer time are the finest part
of the day and by depriving us of our
fine mornings, it makes it all tne
harder for older people and especial
ly for the women of the homes. The
wives and mothers of a good many
workingmen have told me they do
not like to be compelled to get up
the year round in the dark to get
their men folks ready to go to work
and that the mornings when they
have to get up now ,is often the only
time of the day they can sleep de
cently. One man who does nothing but sit
around and read and smoke and
"gas" said, "what If the women do
have to get up before daylight in the
summer time? They have to do It
in the winter time anyhow." I told
him that was a very heartless way to
look at it, as the women had some,
rights as well as the people who
favor the daylight saving fad.
I see that the fuel administrators
claim that $1,250,000 tons of coal
was saved In 1918. Most of the fuel
administrators were either lawyers
or college professors and I do not
think they know much more about
the coal business than I do, and I
do not know anything about it. I
will not say the administrators lie,
but will say I think they are very
badly mistaken. They must study a
funny kind of arithmetic when they
say fuel is saved when we have to
get up in the dark and call it seven
o'clock in the morning and burn
lights and fuel for an extra hour. I
do not see how they figure that any
fuel is saved by burning it an hour
longer each day.
Stock men told me last summer
that they ate their breakfasts by
electric light every morning last
summer, a thing they never did be
fore in their lives. I would like to
ask the daylight faddists what about
the saving there? From the way
people talk about this so-called sav
ing of daylight, I do not find one in
a hundred that favor it.
FRANK A. AGNEW
Conditions at Soldiers' Homes.
Omaha, April 4. To the Editor
of The Bee: Recently I went to the
Soldiers' Home at Milford. Neb., and
stayed there for a number of weeks,
where I did not find very good condi
tions for the veterans of the civil
war.
The commandant seldom makes
any inspection of the rooms and in
the six weeks I was there, he did
not come into the room I used at any
time. Then the old soldiers are fejl
on the vilest kind of oleomargarine
that is so nasty that it would make a
hog sick, and the bread is always
so sour that it is enough to kill the
old men who are so unfortunate as
to be inmates of that home, with no
chance to get Into better places. I
had a little money with me and
bought my own bread and butter
while at that place.
It seems to me that If the young
and robust men who served in "the
recent war with Germany could be
simply swamped with cigarettes, to
bacco, candy, ice cream and chewing
gum, that the boastful state of Ne
braska could at least furnish the
veterans who saved the Union and
indirectly saved republican forms of
government to the world, with de
cent food to eat, and have that food
cooked for them in a decent man
ner. 1 do not begrudge the young
soldiers who served In the recent war
any of the good things that were
given to them, but I do think the old
veterans of a war that ended more
than 50 years ago, ought to be given
as good as the land can furnish.
Then when people In that home
are taken sick they are not given
proper attention by physicians and
are not furnished proper medicines.
The janitor of the Soldiers' Home at
JUilford is a colored ex-convict who
was convicted of murder a number of
years ago and who now mistreats the
inmates of that home and calls the
veterans the vilest kind of names,
names not fit to be printed.
- It seems to me that the state of
ebraska could find a better man
for that position, and one who will
treat the veterans with respect.
. While I was at that home an old
soldier died and when his funeral
was held the. commandant refused to
attend and when the veterans, who
did attend, came back from the bur
ial, they found the commandant
playing cards. A man who will not
show more respect for old soldiers
than that Is not fit to govern over
them.
Then the Home at Milford Is not
built right for the comfort of the old
men in that institution, for the win
dows are all of them placed so hieh,
that it is very much like a prison. The
state of Nebraska ought to furnish a
decent place for those old men for
their few remaining years.
I think the legislature ought to
make a thorough investigation of
conditions at the Soldiers' Homes at
both Milford and Grand Island, for
the conditions at Grand Island are
about as bad as they are at Milford.
Let the people of Nebraska arise in
their indignation and demand that
conditions at the soldiers' homes be
improved for their comfort and hap
piness, for it is a disgrace to the
state of Nebraska now.
JOHN D. SAWYER.
Late Co. K, 5th N. Y. Engineers, U.
S. A., from 1861 to 1S65.
My. address is No. 4826 South
Twenty-third, Omaha.
Case Against the Dog.
Shenandoah, la., April 4. To the
Editor of The Bee: I. L. Edmands
seems to be of the same childish no
tion that most children of about 6
to 14 years of age have, that is, that
a cur dog Is worth more than any
thing or anybody excepting of course
his own immediate family and that
if it was not for the dogs the viscious
wild animals, burglars, tramps and
criminals would take everything
worth having and make slaves of all
honest people or kill them or some
thing worse. Now I have no such
fear and have tried in vain to find
something that some dog would do
where the human effort required to
get the dog to perform said act was
not greater than the effort which
would have been necessary- for the
human to have done the useful part
which the dog performed, but on the
contrary have found the dog to be
a money and material loss as well
as a waste of human effort to try
and train the dog to do anything
useful In a civilized community. It
may be that some dogs are useful in
war and for handling sheep, but my
experience in handling cattle has
been that it is oftener that the dog
proves to be a nuisance than help,
and as for - burglars they are not
afraid of dogs, as one of our fellow
townsmen left a cross bulldog locked
in his house and some burglars broke
into his house and stole the bulldog;
and who ever heard of a dog biting
a tramp? I have seen people try to
set a dog on a tramp, but the dog
would never take hold of a tramp.
As soon as the dog gets its nose with
in three feet of a tramp its bristles
will immediately fall and it will wag
its tail as though It had found a long
lost friend and be willing to follow
and obey him ever after. It may be
that dogs are really useful in the
Arctic and Anarctic regions to haul
sledges, &C, but in a city they are
undoubtedly a great nuisance and
ihey are such a destructive and filthy
beast that I will give $5.00 reward to
any one who will be instrumental in
eradicating them from an area of
two blocks each way from my resi
dence. I believe Omaha has a very
wise mayor when he recognizes the
dog nuisance, and I hope your city
council will be as wise and try to
eliminate the nuisance.
P. S. Most stories of the great
services performed by dogs are pure
bunk and should be classed with
fairy stories and Arabian Knight
stories. A. J. HEIST.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
Problem If you should observe a man
on a train, elevated or street car take out
all the papers in his pockets and scan
them carefully, tearing some up, what
would be your deduction?
Answer That he la going home to hla
wife. Judge.
"Honeymoon, ehT Pretty happy, ah?"
"That's what. The bride kisses him ao
frequently that he can't (tet a chance to
smoke a clgaret." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"QIU tahuria
did: oi, rne com
tfturau.itcx3TruAta
PostToasties
"So you've gone to work now that your
husband is In the army."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Are you doing well?"
"Very. I'm making mora money than
he ever made, and I'm Just waiting now
for him to come home and aprlng that old
pag on me about my not being able to
sret along without him." Detroit Frea ,
Press.
Bedton was alwaya complaining of his
frlfe's memory.
"She can never remember anything,"
laid he. "It's awful!"
"My wife was just as bad," said
Clinker, "till I found a capital receipt."
"What was It?" asked Bedton eagerly.
"Why," said Clinker, "whenever there'a
unythlng particular I want the missus to
emembor, I write It on a slip of paper
and gum It on the looking-glass." In
llanapolls Star.
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