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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1919)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE : AUGUST 31. - 191 9. 7 A STATE FARMERS "REPORT LOSING SPRING LAMBS Investigation Shows the Flocks of Nebraska Are Badly Affected With Div !' esases of the Stomach. ' Winners of Canning Contest of Which 350 Youths of Summer School Participated The state veterinarian has received complaint that the farmers are losiny their spring lambs. : investigation shows that lambs re very badly infected witU stomach worms In one flock 75 per cent of the tombs plainly shows something is seriously wrong and anothe.- had lost almost one-third of his lambs. and they were dying at the rate of two to five daily. The trouble is confined to the so-called native lambs. Farmers hanHlincr th! c!ic f lambs need to be on the lookout fo" this trouble if they are to avoid scriouj loss during this in. nth on account of the presence of this worm. Ihose who make a practice of raising March lambs with a liberal quantity of feed and frequent cnanges ot pasture are nearly always able to have them ready for market in June or July, and thereby avoid the losses that frequently follow in July or August on infected-pastures, while those who rear late lambs on limited pasture and without fre quent changes to clean pastures are the ones who have the most serious loss. Pastures Infected. The early part of the grazing sea sou the weather was rather cool, damp and even wet most of the time, a condition very favorable for the existence of the larval or imma ture form of this stomach worm. The pastures became infected from the affected ones which have a greater vitality and very rarely 1 1 - i. e . r r naruiT cnougu oi me worms to effect their health. . Tha mature worm is a blood suck ing parasite about an inch long and the siz of No.. 40 thread and red dish-brown in color and is found in the fourth stomach. The mature femalo worm produces a large num ber of egs which pass out with the droppings. It is thought worms become scattered over the pasture. These eggs are in various stages t development, some hatch in a retiple of days and cithers in a week or 10 days. The iirst stage or period after hatching lasts about two clays. During this stage they are easily killed by drying or freez ing. If eaon is favorable they cast their ekins and- enter the second -st.ige and become iusheathed in a membrane which pro'ects them from Jrying and frcezin;.; to such an .'tent that the pastures are infected for a long time. With sufficient moisture they . become active and develop into stomach worms and crawl up the stems or leaves of the various grasses ready to be swal lowed by other sheep. Western Sheep Escape. The western sheep are rarely and very little troubled with these worms, for the semi-arid conditions and the frequent changes of pasture arc not favorable to its mode of life. In affected lambs the fourth stomach is often full of these worms. The first symptoms noticed may be as harsh or rough unthrifty appear ance of the wool and on moving the Hock the affected lambs will drop bach unable to keep up. The visible mucous membrane arc very pale or anemic, diarrhea comes on, dark in color, lamb walks and stands with his head down in a lisless attitude, lacking interest in what is going on. In bad cases dropsical swelling are often under the jaw. In treating the affected lambs it is necessary to remove the cause, that is, to change to dry feed or green pastures after treatment. Freeiuent changes from pasture to stubble 'ield, then to corn field and to mea dows after haying will often prevent much trouble yith internal parasites. In many cases it may be advisible to follow the practice of feeding a light grain ration during the summer to enable them to better pass tli rough an attack. The most suc cessful method of treating, although not an easy one, is to give the lambs about four drams or one table spoonful! of gasoline with about an equal part of raw linseed oil mixed with about four ounces of milk as a drench, by means of a narrow necked bottle. In drenching the sheep a!low it to stand backed up against a fence held by an assistant, with head up sufficiently to allow liquid to flow down the throat. Go slow, and allow time for the lamb to swallow. The dose for a ewe is twice as much gasoline and oil as for lamb. This treatment should always follow a fast, that is, the sheep shtu!d be kept off feed 12 hours, as over night. Give drench in the morn ing and keep them off feed about four hours afterwards. Then light feed the balance of the day and re peat as before for three consecutive days. Then 10 days later repeat for three days asx before. If the lambs act as if they were drunk you can be sure you are using enough gaso line and if this is not noticeable the gasoline should be increased a little. Wrote "Love" 61 Times. London Remarkable extracts from a letter written by a wife to a man, who was not her husband, were read in the divorce court when Sidney Hrckman sued his wife, Alice, for divorce on grounds oi mis conduct with Cecil Brownhill. The misconduct occurred when he was in the army.' Attorney for Hick man said the word "love" occurred 61 times in a letter he read, so he proposed to shorten it by omitting it every time. Samples of the love epistle were: I belong to you now, love. I swear I will always love you. Nothing will take my love away from you, dearest You love ine. dont you? You will please yourself, won't you. love? My own dear one, my own sweet one. A de cree nini was granted. - SfT- Wafers :( fwxir, A k j , , t,j . i 1 Marriage of Teacher to Pupil Brings Real Romance to Light Cupid Invades "Ungraded Room" at Kellom School, and Sympathy and Interest Are Transformed Into Love Young Russian Immigrant Overcomes Many Obstacles. Forgot He Was Married. London, July. "I forgot all about my first marriage," exclaimed Sam net Edward Roberts, a sergeant in the royal air service when arrainged on charge of bigamy. "I don't know how I happened to forget it, I guess the war made me do it." Nurses Who Saw Service in France Launch Campaign to Obtain Rank in Army Women Who Took Care of the Boys in France Claim That Relative Army Rank is Only Way That Effi ciency Can be Maintained Congressman Reavis, Nebraska, Tells of Work of Nurses. Washington, Auer. 30. The nurses who served so nobly with the army in France and who were responsible for the amazing percentage of complete recovery of wounded and sick soldiers have started a real fight here in Washington to secure relative army rank for nurses in the service. As the reason for that demand they cite ex periences while in the service in France and England. Only through such a system, they say, can the nursing corps be maintained at the high standard of efficiency which Ameri can preparedness demands. In order to emphasize their reasons they have asked the senate and house to grant a pub lic hearing on the Jones-Raker bill giving relative rank to army nurses. At this hearing, which shortly will be held, the nurses expect to show justification - for their demands. One of their leaders, Mrs. Anne Calvert Neely, has prepared the following statement setting forth the cause of the nurses for the International News Service : By ANNE CALVERT NEELY. The transports that daily enter our harbors are bringing back not only the boys who saved our country, but the nurses who saved our hoys. When uged these nurses will shoW their many decorations and citations, but in doing so they always say: "We like these things, of course, but what we love is the praise of our wounded boys." That praise is unstinted. As one poor crippled fellow in Walter Reed hospital said to me yesterday: "Our nurses pulled us through. They were the bright light we saw when we got out of battle. They brought back to our minds what we had gone in for." And another: "An,' believe me, they were never quitters. I've seen them stick and go on tak ing out wounded when men ran for cover." The services of these women to our country is one of the thrilling romances of the war. Medical offi cers who were with themon the firing line, public men who saw them at work at the front, the boys whose lives they saved all testify to their devoted heroism. Reavis Indorses Plan. Said Representative Reavis of Nebraska, on his return from France: "I saw gray faced, hollow eyed nurses who admitted reluct antly and with a smile that they had been on duty under fire for 36, 48, even 52 hours. I've come back to do what I can for those heroic women who are doing so much for us." The War department up to the present time has failed to reward the services of our army nurse corps. In the general staff plan for army recognition just submitted o the senate military affairs commit tee the one request made by our army nurses on their return from overseas service has been side tracked and ignored. This request, made for the soldiers whom all through the war they have stood by so devotedly was that the nurses be granted rank in order that they could better discharge their duties. In the acid test of the late war our nurses discovered that they could have cared for their wounded more efficiently had they possessed rank. And this is why. The army nurse corps has the grave responsi bility of seeing that the medical of ficers' orders are carried out. To do this, as the nurses have as many as 70 patients in their wards at a time, they mujt depend on the help of orderlies who are enlisted men, for the most part, untrained in hos pital work and constantly shifting. These men have been taught to only obey officers who wear rank in signia on their shoulder straps, but not to obey nurses without rank or th insignia of rank. They think exactly what one delirious man at a base hospital kept saying to his nurse: "I don't have to obey you. You're not an officer; you're only a nurse." It has been found that this lack of rank and the authority that goes with such rank results in fric tion between nurses and orderlies; in delays that are dangerous some times fatal. Much of the time and vitality of the nurses that should be given their patients is wasted in struggles with untrained orderlies over whom the nurses, without tank, have no recognized authority. The nurse corps is not alone in believing that the possession of rank will help this dangerous weak ness in"the nursing system of our army. Taft Backs Nurses. Ex-President Taft, for four years commander-in-chief of our army and for three months a patient in a military hospital in the Phillip pines, says: "Army nurses deserve and need rank in order to work more efficiently. Why withhold it? Let us brush Mr. Tite Barnacle aside." So strong is his belief in the need of rank for the army nurse corps that he has become honorary chairman of the national committee to secure military rank for army nurses. General Gorgas, surgeon-general of the army throughout the late war, many of the medical officers high on his staff, the big civil doc tors ot tne country Hexner, of the Kocketeller foundation: Cabot Massachusetts; Vaughan, Michigan; Welch, Johns-Hopkins; the Mayos, Minnesota; all tavor rank for nurses Dr. (Colonel) Cabot says: "I am heartily m favor of rank for nurses. They did more than we, the doc tors, did. As we .are officers, they snoum be. Societies Approve Request. All the nursing associations of the country, the medical board of the Council of National Defense, promi nent lay organizations' such as the woman's committee of the Council of National Defense, the general Federation of Women's clubs, hun dreds of chapters of the Red Cross, the suffrage organizations, have ex pressed their approval of a request so patriotic, so urrselfish. The nurses, notwithstanding the gratitude they have earned from their country, are asking fiothing for themselves. They "are asking for relative rank only which means rank without commission, emolu ments or increase in pay. The wis dom of their request seems proven by the fact that Canada and Aus tralia have found that relative rank granted their army nurse corps sev eral years ago has accomplished just what our nurse corps claims it will accomplsh. Surgeon General Fetherston, af the Australian army, on his visit to this country last year declared that the efficiency of both the Canadian and Australian army nurse corps had been greatly increased by the giving of relative rank to the nurses. "And." added General Fetherston, "remember, no matter how much you give the nurses, it will be none too good for them. They are the noblest class of women in the world.' ' Only Relative Rank Asked. This noblest class of women to day is asking modestly on'iy for rel ative rank, and for the lower grades of rank, those to be carefully subor dinated to the medical corps. In spite of the wide popular de mand that these women be granted a request based purely on a desire to serve, in spite of expert testi mony proving their request to be a wise one, in spite of the proofs of success offered by Canada and Aus tralia, the War department up to the Champions Will Attend State Fair Thursday, Omaha Day, to Rep resent City. These are the champion canners j of .50 girls and boys who attended ' the summer canning classes in the I nu!i1i- and narnchial schools this summer. Left to right, they are: Helen l.vinson, Long school; Etta Frisch, Mason school; Frances Taylor, Walnut Hill school; Mary Haney, Walnut Hill school; Anna Mae Bo land, Central Park school; Ruby Crippen, Howard Kennedy school. These champion canners will at tend the ctate fair next Tursday, "Omaha Day," and will represent this city in a contest for the state championship. They won first hon ors in Omaha last week in a con test held at Central High school. In additional to winning individual honors, Misses Haney, Boland and Crippen won places in the Omaha team contest; and Misses Levinson, Frisch and Taylor won second team honors. Miss Haney, who won first place in the individual contest, canned 150 jars of fruits and vegetables this season. - ' The average for 330 members of the classes was 50 cans. Joseph Hint, supervisor of th,e canning classes, estimated that the members have canned more than 20,000 jars this season. Mayor Smith distributed the prizes yesterday afternoon at a pic nic held in Riverview park. Buttons were presented to all boys and girls who had complied with the class re quirements during the season. Great Citizen Army Asked by National Guard Association Washington, Aug. 30. Organiza tion through a new system of uni versal military training of a great citizen army to be known as the National Guard Corps was pro posed by the National Guard as sociation in a statement made pub lic through the National Security league. Thirty divisions of the Na tional Guard Corps, functioning as a separate corps of the United States army under the direction of the secretary of war, is proposed. Instead of subjecting all 19-ycar-old youths to a three-months' course of intensive military train ing as proposed by the War depart ment, the guard association would have military training as a part of the national public school system, with youths entering this course when 14 years of age. After this preliminary training, they; would be given two months'" training 'in the field and then would be graduated into the guard, where they would serve actively for two years and nine months before being placed in the reserve for three years. Pined $206 for Eloping. Chicago, III.. Aug. 30. It cost Farmer James Raywalt of Avon, 111., just $206 and a lot of trouble to elope with the wife of C. B. Eshel man, a neighboring tiller of the soil. .This is the amount he was fined by Judge Hayes tn the municipal court, and Mrs. Eshelman was sent home with a state's attorney. BY SAMUEL ISRAEL. Often in the hurried and fretful wanderings of the newsgatherer he catches sight of the fair but timid maiden of romance, and not recog nizing her he hastens on to record some hum-drum recurrent incident of daily life. Then some chronicler, more fortunate espies the maiden and her story is revealed for the (i ever curious public. And so m one ot our daily papers recently appeared the brief aiir nouncement of the marriage of Miss Pearl Norton to Abraham Swet. According to the abbreviated notice, both were Omaha residents. Miss Norton had be?n a school teacher for the last six years Mr. Swet was well versed in literature and a graduate of the Omaha schools. Romance Entirely Overlooked. But romance had been entirely overlooked in the brief article. Swet, the young Russian immigrant of some eight years ago, was en tirely forgotten in the description of the versatile Mr. Swet of today. His struggles and his ultimate triumph in the "ungraded -room" at Kellom school, where Miss Nor ton held sway as teacher, was unde scribed and unmentioned. Only the commonplace fact of marriage suf ficed for the first chronicler who had been unfortunate enough not to recognize mute romance in the dim background. The story has its inception in the autumn of some eight years ago. At the same time the young Russian immigrant arrived at Ellis island, New.. York City that great port which serves as a gateway to the promised islahd, America, for, mil lions of foreigners who flee from their native land because of perse cutions, intolerance or slain eco nomic pressure. Comes to Omaha. Both of the first two causes act uated Mr. Swet to forsake the land of his birth for the haven of refuge offered by America. In the first moments of his arrival to "the land of the free and the home of the brave," he was bewildered by the noise and j.ar of the mighty city, its teeming population and its millions who fled ghostlike through the streets each bent upon the execu tion of his own task. But fortunately, Ws experiences in the mightiest city of this continent were short lived. New York was left behind and the weary bewild ered stranger, pathetically lone some, arrived in Omaha, one cool day to take up his residence with relatives. And here romance and love exerted their spell and wove about the young timid stranger their web of circumstance. Old Prejudices Revived. The crest of the immigration wave from Europe always breaks on the cities of the east, but little poob and eddies of this wave are deposited thoughcut the country. Various localities claim tlrair portion of these immigrants. Omaha is one of these cities. To it annually conic thousands from the opposite side of the world in the quest of those things denied them in their home lands. The old prejudices of race, of creed, of belief are for time re vived by these strangers who clan together in our midst until the justly famed melting pot assimilates and does away with their petty differ ences. " One of these clans composed of the aloof Jews, separated trom their fellow mortals by creed and persecution, have found Twenty- fourth street, in the vicinity of Kel lom school, peculiarly attractive. Members of this race have settled in this locality in large numbers, confronting our. city officials with a problem smaller only in dimensions to that of which before the war faced the larger cities. Eager For Schooling To the great majority of these strangers opportunities for educa tion have been denied. Upon their arrival here, they therefore take im mediate advantage of our system of public education. Many of them.' though old in years and experience, are so desirous of attaining knowl edge that they are willing to under go the humiliation of going even to the public school with small children. Thus Kellom school found itself confronted with a complicated prob lem. The minds of these strangers, cften sharpened by suffering and experience, leaped far ahead of the average student. But the handi cap of inabality to speak the lan guage was too great. Finally a happy medium was hit upon. An "ungraded room" was established. All strangers in quest of knowledge were sent to this- room, their qualifi cations adjudged, and after a period of intensive training in the use of the English language, they were placed in one of the regular classes. Often they were graduated directly from this "ungraded room." A Labor of Love. To Miss Norton fell the task of handling these timid but bright for eigners. It was truly "a labor of love." Often she had watched the pitiful attempts of these immigrants while in the regular classes. Their efi'ot ts their struggles, their disap pointments interested her- She was sympathetic and had not failed to mention her deep interest. Teach ing and aiding these straners had become a second nature to her. She understood and was therefore appreciated. And to this room came Abraham Swet. The remainder of the story is not hard -to tell. Sympathy and interest were transformed into love and the troth between pupil and teacher plighted. remains untold. When first the sinister news of the war spread over the country the . immigrant of some eight years ago oecame ine crusaacr ui iuuy. Fights For America. With two million other younjj eager lads, he recrosscd the Atlan tic, this time in the guise of a war rior of the land which he had adopt- cu, ana wmcn iiau nuupicu mm. A resignation is now on file at the superintendent of schools ofitce. It bears the signature ot Miss Tcarl Norton. Shortly after Mr. Svvet's return" from France the couple were mar ried at Boulder. Col. The marriage was simple, and but few friend attended. It took place on July 14 of this year. Easy to Get Divorces. London "It is easy enough to get divorces now the simplest justice Darling at Kent Assizes, in sentencing 18 bigamists. "Lately," he added, "people have come to take a very lax view of marriage. People have come to re gard the marriage contract as of no importance whatever. As a matter of fact it is the most sacred engage ment that any one can enter into, and yet you treat it as no more binding than a dinner engagement." What'i To Be Done? Featherstone, Va. Frank H. Chambers, jr., postmaster here, get-! an average of $6.23 a month from the government. The other day as stamps out of the safe it fell, sticky a i n sine aown, on a nypaper. "One-third of my earnings for the mftnth nf Tnlv camp. What's kf In done?" Chambers wants to know. Buy Flour at HARPER'S Et End Flatiron Bldf 17th and Ho- or EjgW 1 . - i ii. j 22 BSC DO! present time has failed to give the nurses the asked for recognition. In the army reorganization bill, after enumerating the many officers of the medical, dental and veterinary corps, the department says: "The nurse corps shall be constituted as now provided by law." This means, in plain English, that the nurse corps, a body of highly trained profession als, is left on the standard of the en listed man. It means also that the nurse corps is the only corps in the army to which rank is not given. Still it is given even to the army bandmaster. Also the standard set for the nurse corps is higher than for any other corps in the army. They must meet not only a physical test as do the enlisted men, not only a physical and mental test as do the officers, but also a moral test such as no other corps in the'army has to submit to. During the war almost 22,000 nurses entered the service of their country. 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