THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE : AUGUST 31. - 191 9.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. There still are 10,000 in the
service caring for the 36,000 sick and
wounded men still in our military
hospitals.
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