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PART TWO EDITORIAL "The Omaha Sunday Bee , PART TWO AMUSEMENTS m VOL. XLIX NO. 40. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1920. 1 B SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS VJ, mans ection Gabby Tells of People, Pins And Pearls By GABBY DETAYLS. IN a lovely jewelry shop a few days ago, Gabby spied two Omaha men. They were close ly examining several diamond and sapphire pins. The older of the two is one of our confirmed bachel ors'. After watching them a few minutes it was evident that the bachelor was making the purchase. You say, perhaps, it was a scarf pin maybe so, but lovely bar pins of that style are not generally worn by the sterner sex. Business and politics have always been foremost in the mind and heart of this man and many will be very much surprised to hear that Cupid has evidently overcome all objections. As to whom the pin will be given Gabby suspects that in a short time, an Omaha girl noy visiting in the west will receive it. She comes from a family of three sisters, two of whom are married. Of course, a pin is not a ring, but when a man buys such a pin for a girl well, it must mean something. "Ah. could there In thin world be fouud Some little ipot of happy (round Without the village tattllnc" Alas it seems there is no such, for tattling there is everywhere. Perhaps that is one reason why Gabby hears of so many family skeletons. Read on and you will see where this skeleton comes m. Residing here is a former political light who Served his country in Washington, D. C, for, many years. Living with him is his daughter. During a recetit convention, peo ple were asked to open their homes to the strangers, because hotels could not accommodate them all. Gladly did they respond and the beautiful home of the above men tioned family was one which was placed at the disposal of the visi tors. One afternoon, the guests (as their self-styled hostess chose to call them) telephoned her. They wished to make certain that they might gain entrance to the house to se cure some theater tickets which they had left behind. The hostess Wishing to be obliging offered to find them and send her chauffeur to deliver them. This is how her kind ness was received, "Indeed not I Do you suppose we want to have any one rummaging through our belong ings? We shall be out to get them Ourselves!" The hostess, being. a real lady, quietly hung tit '"thrfcifi&. The next evening she saw one of the "guests" enter the house just before the dinner hour and go up to her room. "We have guests," reflected the hostess, "but I shall invite her to join us anyway." Whereupon she sent a maid upstairs with a message to the effec that there, would be other guests at dinner, but her presence, too, would be wel comed. Friendliness was met with . friendliness. Down came the guest robed in petticoat and dressing sacque. And that's whero the skel eton cames in. AGE-OLD legends and disputes about the power of pearls to grow and multiply alter theic separation from the uyster arc being revived in London as the result of . the mystery covering a bag of pearls owned by Sir Edward Birch. They were bought nineteen years , ago from a native Borneo woman, and since are said to have increased in size, number and beauty. The story runs: "Sir Ernest thought little of his purchase at the time, the pearls be ing only of pinhead size and care lessly thrown together in a small black bag. He presented them to his wife, who also taid little heed to them until a short time ago. "Opening the black bag. Lady Birch found, much to her amaze ment, that there were enough pearls in the bag to make a two string necklace of 250 small pearls, a minia ture framed in alternate diamonds and pearls the latter selected gems of fair size a gold chain set with rubies and pearls of good size, and last, but most interesting, a heaped up pile of pearls ranging from the tiniest baby pearls to others fully equal in size and color to those in the necklace." Upon hearing this tale, ' Gabby visited all the local jewelers to ask if their pearls increase in number as they lie intheir velvet-lined case's. "It's a fish story," they declare. So Gabby advises her friends not to try this as a get-rich-quick scheme. In his "Book of the Pearl" Mr. Kunz tells a belief which has ex isted for many years in the Malay archipelago that several selectd pearls of a good size sealed in a box R-ith a few grains of rice for nour ishment will increase in number as well as size. It is said that small indentations can be observed in the graini of rice sealed up with the ocarls as if a small rodent had nib , bled a bite from the end of each grain. One expanation of the growth in numbers theory is that the Baroque . pearl is made up of a number of smaller pearls and that sometimes jne or more of these collected jearls are separate from the'group, ind in this manner gives credulous Nrsom the belief that another pearl Has been grown. t TTTHT shouldn't a girl pro- VV Pse ? belligerently de ' inanded one Omaha girl. at t recent gathering of socially elect roung "buds." Pink ear's, hidden jnder masses o hair, struggled to gain a place where they might en joy the coming discussion more fully. - "Why shouldn't she T chorused a dozen other fair "young thing," the wise bachelors, who I " I 3 t i 1 if' , my4 3 Vtr It W M V- - - i : ' y 1 " "mc;i:::,ilili::.r ljEai 'I r : . . s i Student of Dramatics One of the most ambitious of high school students is Gertrude Broadwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Broadwell. At present she is a junior at South High and will graduate in June, 1921, thus completing the required course in three and one half years. Fol lowing her graduation she expects to attend the University of Nebraska. She is much interested in. -dramatics, .having appeared on the programs of numerous benefits given here and according to her friends she possesses unusual talent. have passed the 25 mark, are pleased to call them. "Just look at (mentioning a well-known matron) rejoined the first spdaker." "I am positive she did not marry her husband because of any love for him. She thought she might never have another chance to have a Mrs. prefacing heri name and therefore she grabbtd the only male eligible at-the moment. Did you ever see a man marry a girl he did not like. Never!- He doesn't even "date" Vwith her if she is not attractive in his eyes. But the poor girl! Alas! and alack! If she does not accept the invitations she receives then it is sit at home and be ah eld maid! . Another miss,-- whose beautifully tinted cheeks had grown a shade more vivid during the discussion, piped in her high shrill voice, "every one of . ycj girls knows that I would never dance' with Bob if 1 could help it. He simply tramps all over my feet. But-rhe asks me and I dare not refuse. If I did then I would not have a dance all evening. I like to dance with .Fred we get along wqnderfully on the. Poor, but pshaw! he has never asked me for ages. Now, if the women just had a few rights in such mat ters, how happy I would be." "The tlmi is coming." answered cne hopeful soul, a trifle older than the others. "No longer does a man rise to give his seat in the street car. We have won the ballot and lost a lot of courtesy. But we have what we want. Soon we' may propose and "dispose as we olease so hurrah! there is 1iope. I shall yet marry the man of my choice." "Ah, yes," said a white-haired versation. "Man proposes, but! woman disposes. There is an equal ity In that." And then her Irish wit asserted itself and with a little laqgh she. Murmured dryly, "I am not certain as to whether or not I proposed to John. I am certain, however, that" he did not propose to me. it was an unfair ileal--1 roped. him in' as it were. ' Perhaps you would call it indirect influence," and her melodious laughter communi cated itself to the group. YOU have heard, of course, that politeness is the lubricant which m!c ll ii'lidc rtf Bffttttr A f one time during the past week Gabby had occasion to converse over the phone with a woman of foreign birth. It seems there were a number-of guests in her home and their chatter prevented her from hearing Gabby. She remon strated with them several times and finally Mile. Detayls heard her fairly shriek at the other end of the wire to the guests, "I told you POLITE LY three times to SHUT UP." When a Chinese girl is married, she must wait four months before etiquette allows her to pay her first visit to her mother; but,, after this initiatory call, it is within the bounds of social custom and propriety for her to visit the home of her parents at any time Shall Women Vote? Clergy men Reply- That no man or woman, who fails to go to the polls and cast a ballot for all the officers on whom he is eligible to vote, has the right to complain about the laws or the administration of them is a s'enti menfoften expressed, "The ballot s called the peaceable weapon tor obtaining results in a democracy. It operates slowly, some say, but when the electorate utilizes that in strument intelligently and fully, then it will operate surely and well. It is the constructive means afforded citizens for expressing themselves in the affairs of their government. In the words of Carrie Chapman Catt, "suffrage is won." Just how largely women will visit the polls at the elections this year, is a matter cf speculation. "The logic of cir cumstances gives the' vote alike to the woman who wanted it and to the woman who thought she did not want it," according to Miss Helen Taft. "Neither has the right to neglect it." What are some of the leaders of thought in Omaha saying on the question: "Shall women vote?" Says Rev. Titus Lowe of the First Methodist church: Cannot Escape Obligation. "It smacks of foolishness even to aise such a question. The fight for ;he recognition of women for full equality in citizenship has been fought to a finish and has been won. Certain "mopping up" operations in many states will be necessary, but the main issue is not in doubt. Un restricted rights in the exercise of citizenship now belong to women. No woman can escape the obliga tion to exercise those rights. "In a republican form of govern ment the final authority is with the people, the voters. The' voters elect Iheir officers. ' The voters make the laws and change them. The voters are finally responsible for the administration of all local, state and national affairs. There is no possibility of evading this responsibility. "If we have inefficient or corrupt officials the voters are to blame. If our laws are out-of-date, if they lack teeth, if they make justice difficult, the voters are to blame. If those charged with the administration of our laws art timid and lax, or harsh and overbearing the voters are to blame. "Men or women who lazily or in differently assume the attitude 'let George do it' and fail to exercise their right to vote are charter mem bers of thev Shirkers' and Slackers' club. There is only one possible answer to the question: "Should women vote?' " . Four Reasons for Voting. According to Robert F. Leavens of the First Unitarian church there are four excellent reasons for wo men voting: "The vote has become a duty. The word itself comes from a Latin word indicating votive offering or vow. A vote is a prayer or vow registered for the public weal. "The vote is an informing process. In order to vote at all intelligently one must have some information and some opinions regarding public af fairs. - "The vote has to no with matters of civic interest in which women are vitally interested and often more in telligent than men such as public schools and the public health. "The vote and what comes with it will bring husbands and wives and children closer together in the home, for even when they differ in opinion they can at least exchange views, which in the past has been more often the exception than the rule." A Matter of Conscience. Father Lloyd Holsapple of St. Barnabas rectory believes: "It would seem to be obviously the duty of every woman, and more particularly the duty of the educated and conscientious women, now that fhey have the privilege of voting, to exercise that privilege. There are many, who, for very excellent rea sons, did not wish to demand the vote; but now that the vote is theirs, they should surely recogn'zc that not only, has a privilege been granted them, but a new responsi bility has been laid upon them. - It should be the aim of every woman to vote intelligently and conscien tiously, and it is hard to see how any woman who is. intelligent and con scientious can evade this responsi bility, when she realizes how great ly such votes are needed." Great Confidence in Woman Vote. Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks holds woman's standard high. His con fidence in thejr .vote contemplates nothing less than political regenera tion: ' "Citizens of a republic like ours, who have the right to vote ought to vote. Voting is more than a privilege it is a duty. ' "Majority rules. The most votes constitutes a Nmajority. If we fail to vote and bad government fol lows, we needn't go about grumbling that the majority want something different, we have what most of us' wanted, the votes, say so. "We nought to feel the purifying influence of women in politics henceforth. This country holds women in highest respect as to their ability. and purpose to vote for what they believe to be best and right, I believe. Those best qualified to vot are most to be blamed if they do not vote. I look for political regeneration because women have a vote and Mill conscientiously use it." Pray, Study, Think and Act. Archbishop J. T. Harty considers it a duty as well as privilege for women to vote. In his talk on "Civ ic Righteousness" at St. Cecelia's I cathedral Sunday, March 14, he ad- V M ML i 'xftA l" - . '' . v ;v' ,x - in ' v ' - - : : - , a v ..- , D Attractive Nebraska Girl Miss Evelyn Ryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Ryan of Grand Island, was a recent visitor in Omaha. She is a member of the senior class at Kemper hall, Kenosha, Wis. Miss Ryan has taken a strong and successful interest in dramatics and has been chosen to play Rosalind in "As You Like It," the senior class play. She will attend college in the east next year. , . vised women to take more interest in public affffairs so that they may be able to use the ballot intelligent ly. "In closing, I would suggest that you women pray,, study, think and act," said the archbishop. Archbishop Harty says further'! "Woman's apostolate finds its field of action in varying degrees in the home and in the school and in the state. "In the state her responsibility compels her to use the ballot as her enlightened conscience may direct. Woman's plafe in society is the im portant one. Her womanhood has placed humanity in her hands, so that we rise or fall according as woman is true to her womanhood. She is the fountain of good or evil to the race. Hence she is dowered with high - prerogatives by the Heavenly Father. "Woman's duty compels her to realize her dignity and her obliga tion. Such realization must be the foundation of all efficient work for the betterment of the race. Let her, therefore, insist on the rights of womanhood by means of a con scientious use of the ballot in the making of sane laws and their ob servance. . , "The influence of woman shall go into business, society, and govern ment. In this latter her intelligence, her activity, her conscience will di rect her in the use of the ballot. The good woman has the qualification for the ballot strength of mind, steadiness, wisdom. .. Social Stability Concerns Women. Rabbi Frederick Cohn does not fear the feminization of society. He thinks the influence of the woman vote is needed. "Women should most certainly vote," he says, "now that they have .the privilege. We should always avail ourselves of our privileges." . Not only is it woman's privelege to vote, it is a grand opportunity. She can cast her vote on the side of right and justice. We look to woman for the finer things of life. With her woman's instinct she is fitted to discern what will really mak for the good and welfare of society. SheJ has been used to manr.Rns: her household, guiding her children, counselling her husband. Now she can do directly what she has always done indirectly, and be a positive, practical force. "We are facing most critical times. Serious questions are to be decided. The woman's judgment is as good as the man's. She, more over, is concerned, to guard thi welfare of the home, its integrity, the stability of society. Let her voice be heard, and let her help it to be heeded, by the ballot. . "I do not fear the feminization of society; perhaps we need the finer, the more refining element. Wo man's vote will tend to be. on the side of the higher, better things of life;. Woman's .vote will not tend to mere double (or neutralize), that of her husband. . They will politi cally educate each other.' C'Not only; is it now a privilege Snd an opportunity for women to vote, it has become her duty. Now that she has the franchise she wil not shirk her duty iii exercising it. It would be just as reprehensible in the woman not to vote 4s in the man. She has now a solemn re sponsibility which she must per form for the welfare of the republic. It is no longer a man's world, nor a woman's world, but. a world of men and women, .where men and women must live together, and to gether decide what is best for all men and women." v. Distinct Gain in Woman Vote. The. words of Rev. Frank G. Smith of the' First Congregational church exhibit an inspiring faith in the woman vote. Will women dis appoint, such sentiment and confi dence by spurning the ballot box as a nuisance or something unworthy? Will they: betray. democracy's trust by refusing to accept her choicest gift to them? " "For . more than 25 years I have been a persistent and tireless advo cate of the 'enfranchisement of women. My primary reason .for this advocacy has not been neces sarily a deep-seated conviction that it would settle all the difficult nrohlcms' of our national life, but it has ncen my clear conviction that a woman has the same right to the ballot that a man has. She is a subject of the -government under which she lives, amenable to its laws, subject to its taxations and loyally and intimately related to all its institutions: ' It seems to me therefore entirely unfair and un democratic that she should not have the righf to' a share in .making, in terpreting and . administering tine laws of the land of which she is a citizen. "I firmly believe, however, v that her advent into our governmental life will be a distinct gain for the nation in every way. Statistics will readily show that she is more effi cient and self-supporting industrial ly than man is; that she is cleaner and . more wholesome in her moral life; that she is more zealous in her spiritual life; that she is more true and abiding, in her domestic! life; that she "is loftier in her ideals, nobler in her' purposes and more righteous in tier intuitive instincts. I firmly believe that her influence in. our. life, municipal, state and na tional, will be exalting, purifying and ennobling5; and if the men of this nation imagine for a single moment that the women are going to vote just as the men do, and therefore it will make no; difference, they have a rude awakening in store for them. I hail with great joy and deep satis faction the advent of woman into governmental affairs." 1 A Prayer. Americanization Prize Contest. New York State Federation. Out of scarred, bleeding Europe they will come People from all nations of the earth, Seeking an entrance here. Vague longings they are . far too tired to voice. They ask America to still.-. And they believe f That - she will grant their prayer. And shall a law be made that they be barred ? Cast off. now war is doue. Turned from her gates. America Be kind. ! I Give not to liberty a flaming sword, ur tear tne nanaage irom your Goddes's' eyes To find your Justice Blind PHYLLIS H. BROWN. Washington Is Lionizing Pershing Bureau of The Bee, Washington, March 20. Washington is taking on its spring atmosphere, which somehow always , seems just a little softer and more alluring than that same atsmosphere , elsewhere. The crocuses, seem to . come rigit out of the snow with ; rare beauty. As the snow melts, the bright green grass comes iin medtely in its wake. The spring-like weather . has brought out the president,' who is ,., now taking almost daily automo- . bile rides with Mrs. Wilson and : always Dr. Grayson. That he is- improving .substantially is proven by (he fact that Mrs. Wilson and Miss'..? Wilson have takeu some interest ", in public things, Mrs. Wilson having : been seen several times at the mati nee and Miss Wilson having had a box party or two at afternoon ; concerts, and having been the spe cial guest at several evening func tions. - , , The first one of these was the ." beautiful and thoroughly elegant reception and ball of Jan Masaryk, charge d'af fairs of that new republic , of Czecho-Slovakia, given, to cele brate the birthday of his father, the president. " - v Mrs. Wilson was the guest of honor at the third mobilization of the Red Cross units of the District of Columbia, held in the Masonic auditorium on Tuesday afternoon. She was accompanied by her mother and sister, Mrs. Boiling, and was enthusiastically received and greeted. Miss Boardman presided and was -presented with a gold loving cup ; by the combined units, Mrs. Newton D. Baker making the presentation with a graceful speech. v General Pershing is quite the so- . cial lion again, or will be until to morrow, when he will leave on an other trip of inspection, which duty, has kept him busy most of the-win-ter. He and the members of his , staff are having a comfortable and incidentally a good time in the sub- "urban home of Mrs. Henry C. Cor bin, which the general leased last fall. They have dubbed it. "The Chateau" and it is a merry little household of male creatures even to the scullery boys. General Per shing was entertained by Mrs. Lou- ise Cromwell Brooks on Wednesday . night at a dinner party, followed by a large dance. . There is something of an exodus , -again, to Panama. The prince of Wales, , who made hosts of real friends in this country during: last -, fall's visit here, will be there within a' few weeks. He sailed this week. on his famous ship, SRenown," for a long absence from "England. The ; object is primarily to visit Australia. En route he will visit Panama and ' have a little peep no doubt at the , much discussed West Indies. The president of Panama will entertain . him in befitting style and perchance r several ofvthe distinguished belles whom he met in Washington will find it necessary to go as far south , as Panama for their health. Miss ' Ramona Lefevre. sister of the charge d'affaires of the Panama lega- ' tion here,, is the first one who went. She left last Sunday and will return ' for the April weddings of which there are many. ' .Washington is getting quite'an inflrx of visitors from Nebraska,' cn route fo or from Florida. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Russell are at the Willard, where they have spent a week. They have been, entertained and are. doing some entertaining t themselves to keep them very busy. On Tuesday evening they -had a . large dinner party in the palm room of the hotel. - " -J- ,! ' Mr. and Mrs. Gould Dietz, also of -' Omaha, are spending a fortnight at the Willard on their way home front the south, and Mr. and Mts." Clark Coif- are expected tomorrow "to spend a week en route home.f Mr. and Mrs. Walter Penfield,' who have with them Mrs.-Pen field's , mother, Mrs. Frank Bacon of Oma- ha, for the winter, will have some guests next week whom they will entertain rather quietly. They are ' all in deep mourning for Mr. Bacon. " Thg'r guests, will be Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W. Ong of Boston, who will spend a week with the; Pen fields. ... v. Representative and Mrs. C. Frank Reavis v ill have at least one Easter guest, -their younger son, t. W. Reavis. who is a senior at Cornell. He will spend his Easter holidays here. They are not sure whether they will have a family reunion, as C. Frank, jr., who now lives in Cleveland, is not sure of being able to get home at that time. . Mrs. Chaties E. Johannes and Mrs. E. W. Gunther of Omaha are making a visit, here, staying at the Washington. Tuesday Musical Club. The annual meeting for the elec tion of officers of the Tuesday Musical club will be held Tuesday. April 6, at 3 p. m., at the home of Mm. R. B. Howell. The nominating committee presents the following names for election: Mrs. A. V. Kinsler, president; Mrs. Osgood T. Eastman, vice president; Miss Gladys Peters, recording secretary; Mrs. C.- W. Axtell, membership sec retary; Mrs. Forrest Richardson, treasurer; Mrs. A. D. Dunn, auditor: Mrs. Lucien Stephens, Mrs. R. B, Howell and Mrs. W. J. Hynes, di rectors, .i Mrs. Yone Sunuki, who controls the steel industry of Japan, dom- "mates the sugar market there and holds world monopoly in crude camphor. She is 98 per cent owner of Sunuki & Co.. with 60 steamships and offices in London and Glasgow. . It has been estimated that the prof its of this company during the world war were more than $200,000,000. She is said to be the wealthiest woman in the world.