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V )MAHA SUNDAY BEEt OCTOBER 5. 1919 i to i f RESERVATIONS TO PACT ASKED BY BAY STATE G, 0, P i i. Prompt Ratification of Treaty . Without Amendments F Adopted in Platform in Boston Meeting. i t i Boston. Oct. 4. Prompt ratifica tion of the treaty of peace without amendments, but with "unequivocal and effective reservations, was adopted in tjie platform offered at the republican state convention to day. The reservations include such unequivocal and ertective reserva tions as will make clear the uncon rlitional right of the United States to withdraw from the league upon due notice, as will provide that the United States shall claim no oblig tion to our spliders and sailors only as congress shall direct, and that the United States shall be sole judge as to the interpretation of the Mon roe doctrine. ihe Shantung pro vision of the treaty also was de nounced. Inability of the committee on res olutions of the democratic state convention to agree on its attitude toward the league of nations caused delay in opening the convention this afternoon. Only a small number' cf the dele- Rates elected to the convention came to the city, and there was lit tle interest in questions other than that of the league of nations. , Overnight Compromise. That the attitude expressed in the resolutions toward the league of nations had been an overnight com promise was made obvious when Senator Lodge was introduced. He received the greatest demonstration of the day. 1 "I am glad," he said, "that you adopted the platform without de bate. "With the statement of reserva tions, I am in full accord. "t accept the platform. I have no Hesiue to discuss it. but on the por tion of the resolution embodied in the two words 'without amendment.' I wisJi to express my opinion. I have already voted for amend ments." Here the senator was interrupted with a noisy demonstration, - after which lie continued: "I voted for the amendments that have beeai presented. I voted for them in the committee and in the senate, t voted as I believed to be right. I will continue to so vote. I would have so voted if I voted alone. "In your resolutions you condemn Shantung. You turned 40.000,000 peaceable .and friendly people, our allies in tine war, over to Jaoan for an indefinite period. I will never vote to do tfcat. I eaitnot consent to give to any other nation the power to send to war the people of the United States without the free action of congress. ' "I wanted a league of nations, founded on The Hague convention. I wanted to see an international court and judges. What have we trot? A political alliance and noth ing more; the representatives of nations voting in the expediency of their own countries. They all got great advantages in the matter of territory and otherwise, except the United States. . , Can't Isolate U. S. "We pot nothing and I am glad of it. But as we asked nothing certainly we've a right to say what our burden shall be. I am not dis turbed by the threat of isolation. You can't isolate the United States. . "I am not impressed with the plea that if the treaty -waits it will be necessary to re-assemble the peace conference. It is already assembled. They are in Paris now. I think that at whatever council tables the United States sits, her vote should be the equal of that of any Other nation." Senator Lodge also declared that he would vote for reservations as suring the United States exclusive voice on the questions of the Mon roe Doctrine and immigration. "Unless the reservations I have specified are adopted," he said, "the treaty is dead." As the senator concluded the nearly 1,200 delegates came to their feet shouting and clapping their hands in a noisy and prolonged demonstration. Gompers Firmly Against An Anti-Strike Clause Washington, Oct. 4. Opposing any anti-strike legislation in the railroad reorganization law, Presi dent Gompers of the American Fed eration of Labori told the house in terstate commerce committee today that workers would not obey it even though it were held constitutional by the supreme court. Answering Representative Web ster, republican, Washington, Gomp ers said in such a situation he would "remain silent and make a test be fore the people," instead of advising and counseling obedience of the law. He insisted, however, that he could not conceive of the court hold ing such a law valid because, he said, it would impose "involuntary servitude." . By appeal to the people, Mr. Gompers explained that, he would seek to have the court opinion "re versed by the next congress." Taft Proposes Budget v System Before House HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE The Visiting Nurse? HER BLACK BAG CARRIES MAGIC Daily Trips Take Her Into .. Odd, Squalid and Alien . Corners. Washington,. Oct 4. Enormous ar expenditures, have forced the attention of congress to the ques tion of adopting a budget, former President Taft today told the-house committee investigating proposed changes in government fiscal affairs. "Every great nation except the United States," said Mr. Taft, has a budget and could not live without one. The United States has been able to live without one because its revenues have been so large that little need was felt for ecouomy." Mr. Taft recommended that cabi net officers be required to come be- tore congress to testifv on est ates contained in a budget. I. I in BujfSHARDWARE at HARPER'S Hatiron BWt 17tk and Howard How would you like to carry the troubles of a whole street around on your mind? That is what you would have to do. if you were a visiting nurse. Mcfct of us, think we are abused when in addition to our own misfortunes we are called on to sym pathize with the troubles of our neighbors. But the district nurse never has time to think of her own troubles, because she carries the mis fortunes of a whole section of the city around behind her genial smile. somehow, the people of the city whom the nurse visits, whether they be Americans or of the variety of races and nationalities which are scattered over the poorer sections of our city, think of her as a magic visitor out of whose black bag must come comfort, physical, m'ental and spiritual and it comes. "Hey, nurse 1 Oh, nurse 1" This is the call which greets her from a half-opened second-story .window or from the obscurity of a narrow stairway as she starts on her round of calls. Some Easy; Some Hard. And she always answers this ap peal, no matter how it may cut into her plans for the morning or the af ternoon, i She enters the little home, prepared to find a sick baby, a de serted wife,! or merely a family jar. Sometimes the door is locked, and she knocks loud and long before the door is opened, an inch at a time. to admit her to a rdoriv littered with unwashed clothes and dishes and probably unmade beds. Sometimes the door stands open; she goes in and through several dark, empty rooms until she reaches the darkest, smallest bedroom, where four or five women are hanging over a tiny baby who gasps for breath in the middle of a huge bed. These new calls she always puts down in the little notebook in her black leather bag and follows them up from day to day. The other day a man came to a nurse and asked her whatever in the world he ought to do. The wife of one of his friends. had died and his own wire had decided that she would go and keep house for the bereaved man and take care of his four children, so she went. She had only one of her own, but she took him along, so her own poor husband was left familyless. And I know I can give her a bet ter home than the other man can," he said. What shall I do? " And the nurse told him that his wife be longed to him and that somehow they would manage to get her back. The man went away comforted, for the visiting nurses always keep their promises. Gives Cat Castor Oil. But even this list does not cover all the range of calls which the dis trict nurse gets.. The, other day a nurse was called in by a woman who seemed very much worried over some member of her family. The "member" proved to be a beautiful white Angora cat who was suffer ing from constipation. Instead of being insulted at being taken for a veterinary, the nurse saw the hu mor of the situation, took the cat's temperature and prescribed two spoonfuls of castor oil, which the worried woman hastened out to get. ' I She gets closer to the souls of these people she visits, does the vis iting nurse, than do any of the other social agencies of the city or any of the institutions trying to "American ize" them. Why? Because she does things which they can see and understand. If she goes into a home and finds a mother with her day-old baby by her side, lying in bed, with no one in the house to help her, the nurse sweeps the floor, builds a fire and prepares some nourishing food and by that time the mother is very ready to follow the advice ant suggestions of the nurse about how to bring up baby. " "You must keep your floor swept, and you must open your win dows to let in some fresh air," are two of her most oft-repeated les sons. In the matter of cleanliness there do not seem to be any com parative standards among the races. Two Italian families or two Pol ish families, or one of each, will be found living side by side. In one kitchen there will be banana peels, egg shells and bits of broken crock ery mixed with a great deal of ordinary dirt about on the floor, a stained half-filled glass of beer on a dirty tablecloth, and a hungry cat licking crumbs from the floor, while one door down the hall the tin dip per hanging over the the sink shines, as docs the top of the stove, and every stick of wood is its proper place in the woodboje. Counteracting Doctor "Magic" One of the biggest problems which the visiting nurse has to face is the doctor problem. In the people of Eurooe who have come to our country, the people in our crowded tenement districts who regard the visiting nurse with perfect trust, there lurks a trace of the old super- stitution that a doctor is a witch or a magic person who cures illness by the magic of his presence or by a scrao of Daoer. - When a Syrian mother or a Russian mother realizes ' that her baby has a fever and is probably sick, she calls a doctor, of her own race if she can get him.; at any rate the cheapest doctor she has been told of by her neighbors, who arrives, writes out a prescription and departs with $2 of the woman's - hard-earned money, if she had it to give him. Then she lays the prescription on the shelf and thinks the baby is bet ter. Next time she is worried she calls another doctor, pays another $2 and adds another written pre scription to the collection. The advice of the different doctors con riicts and the mother follows none of it. Instead she goes out and calls in the visiting nurse, if she can find her on the street. The nurse's first impulse is to sweep all the bottles and the unfilled Descriptions on the shelf into the garbage can, but she knows that she cannot use such rough methods. Instead she usu ally applies as much soap and water and fresh air to the situation as she can with her hands, and with per- " suasion. The powers of persuasion which . the nurse acquires in the course of her duties are little short of marvel ous. Some families are very hesi tant about visiting doctors, but if a nurse gets a mother to promise that she will take little Mario to the doctor to find out what the measly rash on his face means, she will keep her promise. But dint of con stant coaxing she gets impossible . floors washed and windows open ' which have been nailed tight all win ter. The children love the visiting nurse and her path down some squalid little street is made glad with shouts and waves of the hand.. Smudgy little hands creep into hers and equally grimy fists tug at her skirts. When she enters the room whence wails of anger or hunger have been coming, the complaints often cease" and the toothless grin greets her as the baby stretches out, fat arms to her. Many of the moth ers are won over to the nurse and her point of view by the confidence and friendliness which their chil dren lavish up on her. Calling on Old Ladies. But the duties of the district nurs are not all for the saving and preservation of life thnough the de velopment of health common sense. Sometimes the nurse just feels like resting and listening to some one else talk, so she drops into see one of her "old ladies." And one there is living in three rooms down near the bank of the Missouri river, who would delight the heart of anyone who likes a bit of gossip in the afternoon. Through a rickety wooden gate down a narrow broken walk to her open kitchen door at the back of a gray and somewhat tumble-down tenement the nurse goes. - She is greeted at the steps by two out stretched withered hands and num berless blessings are called down upon her head as the old lady draws her in the kitchen and pulls out the one rocking chair for her. On the kitchen table are a withered bunch of violets and a dish" of oranges, visible signs that the Girl Scouts have visited their grandmother re cently . She talks. Her first husband died shortly after the close of the Civil war, although he paid his $300 for a substitute so as not to have to die fighting For a second husband she married a veteran of the war who was ill and unable to work from the day she married him.i For 15 years she supported him and two years ago he died, just when his pension had got up to . $95 a month," she said regretfully. The pension was held up for almost two years, . but in March the Visiting Nurse associa tion by communication with Wash ington succeeded in getting back the pay for her. Now she has $600 "up to the bank, to bury me right and proper." She lives alone and buys her pork chop and pint ot milk every day and beams with joy when the nurse stops into see her. Grandmother Goes Washing. Another one of her "old ladies" the nurse meets on the street corner. She is little, withered and misshapen with rheumatism; her dark' eyes are sunken in the wrinkled folds of her nut-brown countenance, which is strongly Roman in cast. She hob bles rapidly along leaning on a stout staff, which she plants firmly in front of her at every step. A wide smile re veals her toothlessness, as she catches sight of the nurse, and when they meet she pats the nurse's hand, murmuring indeterminate greetings. The old lady s daughter-in-law does not give her enough to eat, so she goes out washing two days a week to earn a little money, in spite of her rheumatism and 86 years. Through the thin cotton of her well worn shirtwaist there gleams some thing suggestive of Mardi Gras. The nurse pulls back her dress at the throat to investigate,.' and the old lady glows with pride. She is wear- ng as near the outside as possible her gorgeous sea-blue corsets with Kelly green trimmings, which came 11 the way from Italy, and although she is almost swallowed into the tall, stiff steels of the corset, her step is lighter and she carries her head higher in the knowledge of her glory. v ! , Babies are Greatest Care. The babies of the district are the nurse's chief interest and worry. She stops mothers on the street whom she has not visited recently to cast a critical eye at the infant in arms to urge the mother to bring baby to the clinic next Thursday afternoon to be weighed and meas ured. Also in other parts of the city the nurses pay more and more atten tion to the welfare or the little ones as the hot weather approaches. The visiting nurse deals in trouble, but she never becomes blase or pro fessional. She is on her feet from 8 in the morning until 5 at night and indeed it is all I can do to get my bath and my supper before I go out in the evening, and a holiday means a little longer sleep in the morning, for me. Into every home she enters she brings fresh interest and the influ ence of her own personality and in her eagerness to help people she never thinks how tired she is until her day is done. There is a friendly rivalry among the district nurses concerning certain difficult families or groups of families and each nurse who works in the district is anxious to see if she can not be the one who will "clean up those people and make them stay clean. The district nurse does not work for money, although her salary is somewhat larger ithan that of the average school teacher or many of her sisters in some other profes sions. A nurse who has one of the most difficult sections of the city to look after recently refused the offer of a position outside which would pay far better, because she said she could not leave her "peo ple." SUGAR SHORTAGE RELIEF NOW NEAR, DEALERS SAY Shipment of Cane and Beet Sugar to Middle West Is Promised In Near Future. That it is only a matter of a few days until the sugar shortage here will be greatly relieved, is the opin ion of a majority of wholesale gro cers and sugar brokers. H. G. Hoel, manager of the Mc Cord Brady company, stated yester day that he believed three refineries in western Nebraska would open next week, and that shipments of sugar could be expected at once. Chicago Gets 12-Cent Sugar. "We may not get as large a quantity as we expected," said Mr. Hoel, "because beet sugar produced in Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming must be used to supply territory as far east as Pittsburgh, while formerly it was not shipped farther east than Chicago in large quantities. We will get our share of sugar, however." District Attorney Clyne of Chi cago announced Friday that enough beet sugar would arrive in that city to provide Chicago arid Illinois with l-cent sugar during the present critical period. Mr. Clyne stated that the, sugar would come from Colorado, Utah and Nebraska, and arrive by Thurs day of next week. H. B. Patrick, of the Russel Sug ar Brokerage Co., asserted yesterday that Chicago would nbt"get more sugar in proportion to the popula tion than Omaha, and would not receive shipments at an earlier date. 'The statement of District At torney Clyne is somewhat exagger ated," declared Mr. Patrick. "Al though shipments may be received in Chicago from western refineries by next Thursday they will ne-t re lieve the shortage in Chicago at once, as he intimates. "The situation will be gradually relieved in all parts of the west as soon as shipments begin from the refineries. Omaha may rest as sured that it will get its portion of sugar as soon as Chicago if not at an even earlier date." Pickens Less Optimistic. Charles H. Pickens of the Paxton & Gallagher 'company, was less op timistic over the situation, but pre dicted that the shortage here would be gradually relieved. One of the largest refineries was to have opened on October i4," said Mr. Pickens, "but excessive rainfall has put the beets in a poor condition for slic ing. "Hence there has been some de lay. The sugar equalization board has decided that cane sugar cannot be shipped west of Pittsburgh, so a large territory is left to be supplied by the beet sugar refineries. Sugar is being received here now in small shipments, and as the demand is less than during the canning sea son, it goes a little farther." Its inventor has obtained a patent for a telephone bracket consisting of a number of telescoping mental tubes. Johnson Expresses Sincere Sympathy a For Sick President Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 4. Sym pathy for President Wilson in his illness was expressed here by United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson, who is enroute to San Francisco from Los Anegels. Senator John son issued the following statement: "I think 1 can understand the president's illness and I deeply sympathize with him. Few people realize the tremendous strain and the great fatigue of a trip such as he has recently taken. Even with every possible aid and comfort it is a most difficult and nerve-wrecking experience. The constant travel and continuous confinement, from ' which, apparently, there is no es cape; the receptions, meetings ana the necessity for mental alertaes and for the maintenance of complete equanimity in the face of any con tingency will geenrally break the nervous system of the very strong est. "I can sincerely feel for the presi dent in his present sickness, and it is my hope that he niay speedily and fully recover. He has, of course, in his illness the best wishes and the sympathy of all Americans." , Among other ingredients Chinese joss sticks contain aconite to pro tect them from rats and mice and camphor to make them burn steadily. urn Z Lotion for Skin Disease Five Sherman A McConnell Drug Storei. Prescription for Eczema foi Is veer the atandard ikln liquid used externally injtant relief from itch. the mildest of clean ert keep! theilcinalwayicleaaandhaaltbr. Com ta and uk u about botk Soap Germany Rushing to Arms; Goltz Defies Allies, and Monarchy May Come Back French Writer Just Back .from German Tour Says kaiser's Old Supporters Really in Saddle and Ready for War Again Situation Brought About by "Fantastic" Versailles Treaty. '- By ANDRE CHERADAMA. , Leading French Historian, Just Returned From an Investigation ot Condition in " Germany. Written Expressly for TTnlverwil Service. Special Cable Dispatch. Paris, Oct. 4. Germany ' is not beaten, nor is she repentant. Instead she is again feverishly laboring in preparation for a new battle of world conquest. What is more, the incredible blindness and stupidity of the allied statesmen, who are pinning their faith upon the worthless treaty of Versailles, will permit Pan-Germanism, as strong and ruthless as in 1914, to win. . The severest measures of repres sion on the part of the allies are imperative now. Next year it will be too late. Delay means the en slavement of Europe under the yoke of the Hun. Arming at Top Speed. Germany is arming at top s'peed this very minute. She has confessed the truth through Herr Steger wald, national minister of social economy, who told the Rhineland delegates at Cologne on September IS: "The Versailles treaty is a scrap of paper. What does it matter if in it we do recognize a debt of 3,000, 000 or 4,000,000 marks, as long as we are certain that we won't pay a single pfennig? Germany now has 800,000 men in the army, which will be 2,000,000 strong within two months if necessary. Now that Ger many is revictualed she will refuse to execute a single line of the treaty." What could be clearer and more harmonious with the actual facts, the most striking of which is Gen eral von Der GoTtz's defiance of the allied order to quit the Baltic provinces? Black Germanism. The real situation in Germany is this: The social democrats, now in power, are advocates of Pan-Germanism iq the blackest hue. eaual to that of the kaiser himself. All of the . kaiser's strongest and most ruthless supporters r Kuehlmann, Bernstorff, . Lud'endorff, Hinden burg, Prince von Buelow and von Der Goltz are collaborating with the social democrats for the im mediate realization of Pah-Germany. The so-called socialization of the German productive sources is only a fertile kernel of an economic Pan-Germany. Production of war munitions is going on intensively, the stocks being concealed in the German forests. The new army is masquerading under various designations, such as "police," "gendarmerie" and fores try service," and is expanding steadily and on an enormous scale. Good Pay for Army. The humblest boche trooper gets six marks (in normal times $1.50) a day, in spite of the fact that Ger many declares she has no" money with which to pay her debts. She has money enough to build up a vast army. Soon 6he is going to stage a clever farce, a la bolshe viki. In a few weeks violent red revolu tion will be instigated by agents of the Berlin government. It will break out in Bavaria. This will be put down immediate ly but no' without a bloody battle. Then Berlin will tell the world: "You see, we are still threatened with bolshevism; we need a large army to protect ourselves against it." The effect in Germany, on the other hand, will be to frighten the would-be revolutionists and avoid all future trouble and seal the fate of bolshevism once and for all, leav ing the Pan-Germans free to pre pare for world domination. To Restore Monarchy. ' As soon as the last suspicion of bolshevism is wiped out the Ger man monarchy will be restored with Prince Henry of Prussia (the kaiser's only brother), the probable candidate for the imperial throne. Simultaneously, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia will be attacked and seized while Italy will be busy squaring accounts with the Jugo slavs and central Europe will re turn to complete German domina tion within a very few months. Ger many's victory will be brilliant and decisive. These are the plans of Bernstorff and Company, to be exe cuted at the very moment when bolshevism, incited by Prussian agents, rends France asunder. Idealogy of Wilson. Staggering under the dual weight of radicalism and financial failure, France will fall under the German yoke and be ' reduced to complete servitude all this without a single shot being fired. The fantastic situation thus cre ated will be the direct consequence of the idealogy of Wilson and! Lloyd-George, coupled with the ef fect upon them of international fi nance. We have been forced to make too many capitulations to the Utopian diplomacy of these two men. Last Sermon of Old Pastor At Danish M. E. Church Rev. N. C. Hansen will succeed Rev. 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