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A COSTLY METHODIST RULE.
For some twenty years conferences of the
.Methodist Episcopal Church located in eastern
Mates, thinking the disciplinary rule against
worldly amusements more honored in the
breach than in the observance, have been pass
ing resolutions recommending its elimination
by general conferences, which meet every four
years.- AH have failed when brought before the
general body, because the sentiment of the
church has not yet risen to the point where
the majority think such matters may safely be
left to the individual consciences of ?he mem
bership. Dancing, theatre-going and games of chance
ire the amusements around which the church
controversy has raged, and many an honest
member has set his lace strongly against them
while tolerating dominoes, "flinch," "authors,"
and games in which dice are used such as
"parchesi." Craps and bridge are condemned
by people who fail to see the element of chance
in the insipid games mentioned.
The world may always be depended on to
select the most interesting amusements, and wc
have always thought church members entitled
to them as well. But when some honest brother
arises in the general conference and aggres
sively shouts that the elimination of the rule
would be a step backward, a return to evil prac
tices, and a blot on the Methodist record, the
roar of approval with which his words are
greeted make more enlightened members de
spair of beating a mischievous prohibition with
a sound principle of conduct. And so the meas
ure is lost, and in our judgment will be lost
again.
Meanwhile the ablest thinkers in the church
understand fully that the rule is unconstitu
tional, and the members of Methodist churches
in cities who desire to do so attend theatrical
performances, dance and play cards with im
punity. Such indulgence cannot be classed as
a means of grace, but neither can chess, nor
croquet, nor billiards, nor golf, upon which no
explicit ban is placed. The unfortunate rule
of the "0's has kept hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of clean, desirable young men and
women out of the Methodist church who have
lived true religious life in other denominations
not so set in favor of prohibitions.
A Sick and Angry Europe.
Europe is sick over the rejection ct the
peace pact by America, and mad through and
through over the way it was deceived during
the making of the treaty. It was led to believe
that everything President Wilson promised
would be faithfully carried out by America, and
that he was acting in full compliance with the
American people's and the Senate's wishes.
This deliberate deception was possible be
cause of the rigid censorship dictated by the
president that kept American sentiment from
becoming public in Faris during the peace con
ference. Hiding the truth gave Mr. Wilson
great vogue and tremendous prestige while he
was in Paris, but it has played the very divvlc
with his reputation in England, France and
Italy since the censorship was lifted, and Eu
ropean peoples have learned the truth.
A Delightful Look Backward.
A day like Friday, with a warm sun and
drowsy air, the buds swelling on tree and bush,
and winter on the run for the time being, makes
a man who had a normal boyhood think of the
old fishing hole in the creek where catfish
lurked in days of yore.
With pole and line and hook, a can of
wriggling bait, and a lunch basket lined with
bread and butter and apple butter, a huge piece
of pumpkin pie, a link or two of cold brown
sausage, and a big bottle of fresh sweet milk,
the boy of thirty years ago knew life was worth
living when he settled comfortably under a big
tree, cast his hook in the clear, deep pool, and
a moment later saw his bobber dart under the
water. The man is old and worn and tired, in
deed, who does not thrill at a memory like that
when the early balmy spring days come.
When He Didn't Keep Us Out of War.
Secretary Daniels was one of the triumvirate
of perfect pacifists we had to lead us away from
war Wilson in the White House, Daniels at
the head of the navy, Baker secretary of war.
Of the investigation of Daniels's disinclination
to send our navy to seajest it get wet, the Chi
cago Tribune says:
The testimony reveals that the secretary
would not take steps to prepare the navy
when war was in prospect, that he did not
take steps when. war was inevitable, that he
had not taken steps when war was declared,
and that he did not know what steps to take
when the fleet went to battle, and would not
accept advice.
The same remarks could truthfully be made
of the president and the secretary of war. The
perfect pacifist is always a tardy truant in a fal
tering funk at the approach of war.
hausfrau, the helpmeet, the sympathetic bearer
of her husband's burdens. She is the most pa
thetic figure connected with the German
tragedy.
Bill for Soldiers' Bonus.
A measure has been presented to the house
at Washington providing in a comprehensive
way for further payment to the soldiers for
their services in war. Introduced by Chairman
Fordney of the ways and means committee, it
may be accepted that the measure has had the
careful scrutiny if not the full approval of that
important body, from which must come the
laws that bring the revenue. This fact will give
the measure considerable weight in advance of
detailed discussion.
Mr. Fordney has tv.ueutly ucd to reconcile
a number of conflicting views, and to embody
several plans that have been proposed for giv
ing additional compensation to the soldiers.
Fifty million dollars a year for a period of ten
years is to be devoted to carrying out the land
settlement idea, to enable former service men to
bring into usefulness some of the present waste
area of the country. Fifty million dollars will
be available for home loans, giving the boys
a chance to accjuire with government assistance
the home each one ought to have. Vocational
training and education get $S,000,0(X) , and
provision is made for carrying out the purpose
of the act.
As an alternative proposition for either of
these, the bill allows pay at the rate of $1.50 per
day for eacli day served between April 6. 1917,
and November 11, 1919, or one year beyond
the declaration of the armistice, and including
all the time the great army was in existence.
This payment is to be made within a year.
This bill fairly meets the demand of all.
Those who propose farms for the soldiers have
a chance to get them. Those who want a home
in a city or town, can have it. Education and
expert training will be put within the reach of
any who seek assistance in order to be able to
earn a better living, and those who would pre
fer a cash settlement can have it. Legionaires
and others have not wholly agreed on what
form the compensation is to take, so the Ford
ney bill includes the four leading suggestions.
Congress now has a chance and can do noth
ing better than to send this bill along with
something of the speed that marked the pas
sage of the big war measures that went through
with a whoop,
Dilatory Mail Service.
Second-class mail is not receiving a square
deal from the postoffice department. When
newspapers from New York reach Omaha in
two days, and others mailed at railroad points
only hall that distance away require from five
to fifteen days to reach the same destination,
something is wrong somewhere.
Newspaper publishers, harassed by excessive
costs of production, should not be handicapped
by the failure of the postal system to deliver
their finished product. The dissemination of
intelligence by the newspapers is recognized
as a matter of prime importance. Is it not so
regarded by the railway mail service? During
the war bad conditions generally quieted all
criticism, but now, sixteen months after the
armistice, the delivery of second-class mail is
more tardy than then, and the department seem
ingly deaf to criticism or appeals for better
service.
We wonder if a recent rebuke from a lady
got through, the epidermis of Postmaster-General
Burleson. He had delivered himself of a
tirade against the vanities of women when the
wife of a naval officer arose and said:
Mr. Postmaster-General, I believe that you
are as ignorant of the American female as
you are of the American mail.
A palpable hit. upon which, as an exchange
remarks, "all good citizens will stick the stamp
of approval."
Heading Off Greedy Landlords.
The New York legislature is grinding with
all speed on hills that are designed to check
the repacity of profiteering landlords. The first
of these declares an increase in rent exceeding
25 per cent illegal. This is retroactive for a
year, to reach the extortion hitherto practiced.
Other of the laws deal with evictions, notice
required from landlord and tenant alike, and in
other ways undertake to regulate the practices
that have brought so much of protest and some
thing of actual hardship with them.
It is not expected that the battle will be
won with the enactment of the statutes, for it
is admitted that some delicate constitutional
points are involved, and these will have to be
determined before the battle between landlord
and tenant is won. That the situation should
have developed to a point where the entire
state is concerned gives an inkling of what
thoroughness marked the course of the rent
boosters. If it is possible to set a limit to them,
the fact will be welcomed, for New York is not
the only city in which the practice has aroused
indignation.
One Pathetic Figure In German Tragedy.
Out of the many stories that come from
Amerongen looms one figure that commands
sympathy. It is that of the former kaiserin. Her
husband, now said to be in the twilight of his
madness, pretends at times to be the all-highest,
and demands the deference and pomp of past
days at Pottsdam; then he is the nervously ener
getic man of action, and then black depression
comes over him, ahd the fit of passion that
amount to almost insanity. At such times only
the faithful wife can restrain him. Her patient
gentleness soothes the wild, dark mood of her
husband, and she brings him again to reason
and repose. Her devotion is said to be unre
mitting, the faithful care of a gentle soul for
ever attached to the man who, in the heydey of.
his power, did not withhold the iron discipline.
ruling his wife as an example to those husbands i
below him. Augusta has suffered, but h" bears
lot with patience, and is proving herself the j
League of Nations Borrowing Money.
News comes that the League of Nations is
having to visit the bankers for funds to keep
going. The General Assembly of Spain has
refused to appropriate its quota for running ex
penses, and France is a laggard with its dues.
It is said that France is dilatory because of
the enormous salaries paid league officials, and
the packing of its labor bureau with French so
cialists, all on fat salaries.
The general secretary, an Englishman,
draws $30,000 a year, and the French socialist
at the head of the labor bureau gets $25,000 a
year or will if the nations pay up. But there
is said to exist no enthusiasm for the financing
of the league.
Humane treatment of live stock to save meat
is urged. No one is more interested in this
than the stock raiser, and he may be depended
upon to do all he can to save animals that
mean dollars to him.
John Sharp Williams is partly right in de
scribing the debate in the senate over the treaty
as a "gabfest." His contribution to the pro
ceedings comes under that classification.
Turn about is fair play. India has decided
to bar Germans for five years. This may con
sole the Hindoo for being shut out of America.
An effort is now being made to demobilize
the "war" workers at Washington. Their wages
will help pay soldiers' bonuses.
New York i bound to save daylight. It is
the one thing they use as little as possible in
Gotham.
A Line 0' Type or Two
Haw to the Line, let the aulpi fall where they may.
The natives of Salvador can neither read nor
write, but their happy days are numbered. The
Baptist church is going to spend three millions
on their conversion. Their capacity for resist
ance is not so great as that of the Chinese. Do
you remember what Henry Ward Beecher said
of the Chinese? "We have clubbed them, stoned
them, burned their houses, and murdered some
of them, yet they refuse to be converted. I do
not know any way except to blow them up with
nitroglycerine, if we are ever to get them to
heaven."
The House of Representatives yesterday
cheered the suggestion that President Wilson
should announce that he is not a candidate for
a third term. Lucifer fell faster, perhaps, but
he had farther to go.
Who's Loony Xow?
From the Terre Haute Star.
Having decided to campaign the country
for W. J. Bryan for president, 1 will sell all
my personal property, consisting of horses,
wagons, harness, farm implements and hogs
(some fancy brood sows) and rent my farm.
AI. P. Kirkham.
The Kaiser is so poor, says a Dutch official,
that it is a question whether he will be able to
pay Count Bentinck what he owes him. We
supposed he was sawing wood for his keep.
Tolstoi's "Power of Darkness" reminds P.
G. Wodehousc of a definition of Greek tragedy
the sort of drama in which one character
conies to another and says, "If you don't kill
mother. I will!"
Till'. THIRTY-THIRD D KG REE.
From the London Times.
It was noticed that in private talk with if.
Bourgeois, with whom he seemed on almost
brotherly terms, Mr. Balfour shrugged his
shoulders, threw out his hands, and accurately
reproduced every other gesture presumed to
be the inseparable accompaniment of the
French tongue. Mr. Balfour is the least self
conscious of men; he was not acting, but living-
vigorously in the moment.
The British have suppressed the activities
of the Mullah in Somaliland. They are having
much more trouble with the McMullah.
Where Soi-lHlism Is a Success.
James L. Ford in Vanity Fair.
''he "ideal state," dreamed of by the
visionary and demanded by a certain 6ehool of
Socialists, is by no means the novelty in com
munistic living that we have been led to be
lieve. ... A model community of this sort
which has long since passed the experimental
stage and outgrown the huge buildings in w-hich
it is housed and now has a long waiting list, is
situated not far from New York. Here each
member, no matter what his ability or previous
worldly status, receives exactly the same wage,
which gives him the supreme satisfaction of
knowing that none of his associates is better off
than himself. The hours of toil are few and far
between, and the work is limited to the making
of clothing and shoes and the other necessities
of life. To secure any export trade for these
goods would mean competition with foreign
workmen, which is contrary to the principles of
Idealism. The short hours of labor leave the
toilers ample time for self -improvement and also
for those forms of recreation which the state
deems suitable. Chief among these are those
unrivalled delights of the American public, base
ball, moving pictures and occasional entertain
ments by visiting singers and players. The com
munity differs from that earlier experiment in
plain living and high thinking. Brook Farm, in
that it attracts men of almost every occupation
and every variety of thought and habit. Brook
Farm, on the contrary, was recruited exclusively
from the intellectual class, and the period ot
retirement from the world of grosser ideals
bore ample fruits. . . . In like manner do the
ample leisure, easy hours of toil and that com
plete freedom from carking care that only slate
supervision can bestow tend to promote self,
improvement and intellectual and moral up
lift. Mr. Bryan would have hit nearer the mark if
he had said that a million bureau- clerks would
spring to arms between dawn and sunset.
SPRING HINT.
From the Blnomington Fantagraph.
The evangelist's subject at the Mount Pis
gah church revival for this evening will be
"Take a Bath." The evangelist is driving
hard and straight, and many men, women,
and children have made the confession.
BUCK ETSHOP CLASSIC.
Sir: Branch office manager is talking
long distance to main office when he inter
ruptedly shouts over the wire: "Customer
just came in. Hold the wire while I lock the
door."
"They do not speak of 'false teeth' much to
day. They are called 'patent appliances.'"
More often they are called "store teeth."
"Greeley Man Pinched for Wreckless Driv
nig." Fort Collins, Colo., Express.
Mrs. Lacer sells corsets in Crookston, Minn.
Honestinjun !
One learns from strikes that one can do
without half the things one considers indispens
able. Mining Trade C lassics.
Sir: Have you heard of the Bostonese presi
dent of a famous mining company operating
out here who wired his manager, when he saw
the invoice for a car of candles, that he be
lieved the manager could make a great saving
in expenses if he worked more of the men on
the day shift? I thought you hadn't. That is
matched by the London board of directors who
cabled their manager in South Africa in re
sponse to his repeated requests that the mine be
provided with a new shaft at an expense of
$75,00(1, "You may get the new shaft, but the
cost seems to us too large, and we recommend
the purchase of a second-hand shaft." H, M. A.
THE INSPIRED MAKE-UP MAN.
From the Green Valley Banner.
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share
your courage with others."
Subscribe for the Banner.
Is there anybody more amusing than a home
made hootch hound? B. L. T.
How to Keep Well
Ey Dr. W. A. EVANS
THE CIVILIZING TOUCH.
In recent years a very eccentric
French painter spent several vears
of his life at Tahiti and died in the
Atuona valley, Hivahoa island.
After his death his paintings be
came the vogue in Europe, and his
autobiographical sketch of a. brief
period of his life in Tahiti was wide
ly read. Within a year two of thu
best sellers, "The Moon and Six
pence" and "White Shadows," have
dealt somewhat with this eccentric
French painter, Gauguin, and the
regions In which lie spent the later
years of his life.
Told the Truth for Once.
Prohibition Leader Anderson said in his
sumptuous skyscraper office in New Yotk:
"The lawbreaker's defense is always weak
like Jagson's, you know.
"Mrs. Jagson said on her return irom Ber
muda: " 'How do you suppose, George, that all
these dozens and dozens of empty bottles ever
got in our cellar?'
" 'I don't know, my love,' George Jagson
answered. 'I assure you I never bought an
empty bottle in my life.'" Detroit Free Press.
i im rvi ivi r rAv,x
"Bu Arthur Brooks "Baker twMJi
BISHOP EARNEST VINCENT SHAYLER.
The Protestant Episcopal's a church of size
and weight, whose teachings cannot be the
point of loose and free debate. It holds some
very well developed, formulated views, which
all outsiders have the choice to take or to re
fuse; but which, though ministers be superficial
or profound, they're all expected to endorse and
faithfully expound.
To keep the church's teachings duly uniform
and true provides a heavy piece of work for
any one to do; and Bishop Shayler's vision very
accurately saw that many things were needing
to be done in Omaha which, taken in the total,
would undoubtedly supply the occupation for
a man of talents large and high.
He thinks that true religion would if skill
fully applied, abridge the chasm day by day
more perilous and wide, dividing those who
claim the world from those who turn its wheels
and gather by their so-called work their merely
so-called meals. Could capital and labor but
endorse the Prince of Peace, he thinks their
hot and frequent wars would practically cease.
Alas for twenty centuries with churches
open wide, to preach the doctrines which as
yet remain to be applied. But on the optimistic
hand, hurrah for strong belief which holds
aloft the light of faith in times of woe and
grief, to rally the humanity which, unenlight
ened, gropes toward that w'e and worthy goal
of Bishop Shavler's hopes.
Next subject: A. V. ShotweJL
Frederick O'Brien set out from
Tahiti and sailing 700 miles north
and west debarked on tho island of
Hivahoa, where he spent one year
gathering materials for his now
popular "White Shadows." Darwin
is responsible for the theory that
the Marquesan islands, of which Hi
vahoa is one, originally were part of
the Asiatic or African mainland and
were inhabited by Caucasians. Per
haps the mainland bridges the Pa
cific ocean between Asia and South
America. When it sank into the
sea, leaving a few mountain tops as
Islands, there remained hands of
marooned Caucasians cut off for
thousands of years from contact
with their fellow men.
Our interest lies in the health les
sons which O'Brien draws from the
history of these people, who were
numerous, strong, and healthy until
the white man introduced his dis
pbrps nmontr them about 100 vears
ago. The best way to tell the story
in this limited space is to quote
rather freely.
"I have seen many go as Aumia
has gone," said Father David. "All
those lovable races are dying. All
Polynesia is passing. A hundred
years ago there were 160,000 Mar
quesans in these islands. Twenty
years ago there were 4,000. Today
I am convinced there are 2,100.
"Aumia and her friend, Taipt, had
consumption and the way they were
going would be followed by many ot
the neighbors.
"An American whaling captain
sent ashore a sailor far advanced in
consumption. The natives nursed
him. The germs of this disease thus
got a foothold at Fetuhiva and since
they have carried off more than
four-fifths of the race and today
thev are killing the remnants.
"The white man brought the Chi
nese and with them leprosy and opi
um. Smallpox came with a Peruv
ian slave ship. This ship left an
other dread disease which raged the
islands as a virulent epidemic (pre
sumably1 venereal diseases).
"The" healthy Marquesans had no
antitoxins in their pure blood to
overcome the diseases which with
us hardened Europeans and des
cendants of Europeans are not dead
ly. Here they raged and destroyed
hundreds in a few days or weeks."
A recent epidemic of colds O'Bri
en said had been brought by the
schooner Papeito.
"Besides the empty church stood
a refectory far gone in ruins, j
imoiie the breadfruit trees we i
found empty bottles of a 'medicat
ed discovery.' a patent medicine dis
pensed from Boston, favored in
these islands where liquor is tabooed
hv the government. Seventh Man
lifted a bottle and sniffed it regret
fullv 'Prentv strong.' he said;
'make drunkee. Call him Kenne-dec-.
Drinkee two piece you sick
three day.' "
One of the most interesting sug
gestions bv O'Brien is that the de
cay of thePolynosians is in part due
to suppression of play among them
bv the whites. He says the whites
always have destroyed the copper
colored races and one important
factor has been the white man's re
pression of the play instincts of the
overrun races.
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Pay for the Teachers.
Omaha, March 28. To the Editor
of The Bee: I am greatly interested
in tho problem presented by the
teachers' demand for higher pay.
First, for the reason that I want
to see them get it. Our teachers
have always been underpaid, from
the primary school to the university.
It has been a matter of national dis
credit that we have paid professional
base ball players at higher rate than
we have our college professors,
while a successful pugilist earns
more in a few moments in the ring
than a teacher can hope to amass
in a lifetime. 1 know that these
athletes are superb specialists, and
that they appeal to a certain element
with utmost potency, hence their
great earnings, but the teachers are
' pui-forming tho most important
thing in our intricate social program,
and should be compensated in keep
ing with the service they give.
In the second place, the problem
intrigues me, because it Involves n
situation that has been developing
in Omaha's school finances for a long
term of years. It is the steadily
growing overdraft. This began
when the school fund was largely
obtained from license fees, and it
became the custom to anticipate
this source of revenue, with tho re
sult that it was always expended in
! advance of receipt, and each year
saw the deficit growing steadily
larger. A balance could always be
forced, but the gap was there, and
now the school board is carrying an
overdraft of magnificent proportions,
chiefly on account of the large in
creases made in salaries paid teach
ers. This red ink balance will have to
he met some way. It has been sug
gested that authority may be ob
tained from the legislature to fund
tho outstanding floating debt, and
put the school district on a cash
basis again through that expedient,
but this will not take care of the
problem for the future.
Omaha peoplo are proud of their
schools, as they always have had
reason to be. The school board has
never seriously asked for money
that it was not forthcoming. What
is needed now is a greater revenue,
and this is possible only through
taxation. Property owners must
make up their minds to contribute
more liberally to the public schools,
that they may be properly supported.
TAXPAYER.
"Elevator Etiquette."
Omaha, March 26. To the Editor
of Tho Bee: I have read with much
satisfaction your sensible remarks on
"Elevator Etiquette." You so near
ly express my views that I am not
going to try to improve on what
you have said. In these days when
cohol, 1 'i ounces; chinoidin,
ounce; gum mastic, 'i ounce; gum
myrrh, 1 ounces.' Mix. Let stand
48 hours. Shake the bottle occasion
ally. Apply with camel's hair brush.
The varnish can be removed with
alcohol or hot water.
To Curb Vail Biters.
Mrs. H. S. writes: "My daugh
ter has a habit of cracking her
nails. T have put bitter almonds
on them, but still she bites them.
How can I get her out of the hab
it?" REPLY.
To prevent a person from biting
the nails paint on the following; Al-
Toe
MAOX
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Pneumonia is Contagious.
R. G. writes: " 'A' claims pneu
monia is contagious. 'B' claims it
is not. Will you settle this?"
REPLY.
Ordinary pneumonia is not con
tagious to the degree that measles
and scarlet fever arc. However, the
disease is spread by the sputum and
mouth secretions and health depart
ments frequently require a modi
fied isolation with disinfection of
sputum and saliva.
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the dear ladies are coming Into their
full share of responsibilities that
used to be the exclusive possession
of the masculine portion of society,
they need not be disappointed if they
do not find men ready and eager at
nil times to grant "place aux dames,"
This does not in any way or sense
mean that men are losing their re
spect for women, or that the real re
lations between the sexes arc on dif
ferent footing. Put woman in business
life long ago learned to realize that
she had to give and take like a man,
and so it may be in all tho ways of
the world. It is not disrespect or
disregard for a busy man, hurrying
along about his important affairs to
omit some part of the cereimmml
that pertains to the salon, the ball
room or the private home. 1 thank
you again. ,11 'ST A MAX.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
It is computed that 10.000 threads
of the web of a full grown spider
are not larger than a single hair of
a man's beard.
The first stained glass window de
picting an aeroplane to be placed :n
it church is now tn be seen in a bul
lion place of worship.
Luxemburg !s the wealthiest
country in the world in proportion
to population, with the United Stat'
ranking second in this respect.
The largest negro life insurance
company in the world has lis head
quarters at Durham. X. ('., wln ri- a
modern seven-story building is rmw
being erected for the aevomnioii't
tion of the company's general offices.
The Oiiy We (Vh'brnte,
Louis B. Bushman, oculist an4
aurlst. born 1877.
Henry White, former 1'nited Statea
ambassador to France, born in Bal
timore 70 years ago.
Joseph Cawthorn, a popular star
of the musical comedy stage, born
in New York City 61 years ago.
Denton T. (Cy) Young, long cele
brated its a base hall pitcher, born
at Gllmore, ., h'i years ago.
Thirty Years Ago In Oinnliii.
i E. Meyers, architect of the new
i county hospital, was indicted by the
uraiiii Jury. He was charged with
having permitted the use of much
i smaller t miners than the speciflca
! tions called for anil allowing an in
i ferior kind of work to be used In the
i construction
j Tj pouraphlcal Fnion Xo, 190 was
the lirst organization to introduce
I the Australian ballot system in
; Omaha. The membership at that
time was 300. W. A. Ilunkles was
' president.
Superintendent of Poor Mahoney
! reported that $,O0S.75 had been
spent during tho winter in giving as
sistance to about i;00 needy fami
I lies.
i The regular physicians of Douglas
county met at the 1'axton hotel and
(ircaiii'ed the Omaha Medical so
, cicty. There were 40 charter mem-
her and Dr. Milroy was elected
; president. '
Another Problem for Palmer.
Attorney General Palmer will now
tackle the high cost of running.
Columbia Record.
LEONARD WOOD
THE NATION'S CHOICE"
"I STAND FOR PEACl
Leading Candidate for President Says Train f
for National Service Can Be Accomplished
Within Four Months; There Will Ee No
Conscription American People Final
Judges.
"I want, you to understand my
attitude on universal training. It
Is this: I want the American
people to agree to a system
which will take the young man
of from 19 to 21 years and,
while not in any way increasing
his liability for military service,
will train him for from four
to six months in all the good
things that army discipline has
to offer; to make America, not
a country of soldiers, but a
country of finer citizens; to
teach our boys how to shoot, a
rifle straight yes, and to
teach them at the same time
how to think straight anil live
clean and love to have a pur'?
body; a training which will
send them back to you betler
men; a training which will
teach them vocationally so that
they will be better able to earn
a living, marry, support a family
and grow up right in tho com
munity. That Is my idea of the
'universal military training' for
which I have been so mistakenly
criticized.
"The destructive effect of vice
upon human life is many times
the destructive effect of war.
War in its killing power is a
pygmy confpared with vice. If
we can get hold of our boys of
13 to 21 and clean them up
nhvsicallv thos" who have
PINCHOT TELLS THEM
"If the American people want a man in the White house who
knows and hates militarism, who is hated by every militarism
soldier in America and has suffered vitally from their opposition
and jealousy, who was loved by the soldiers he trained because he
was human, who was hated by the military clique for the same
reason let them take Leonard Wood." Clifford Pine-hot, thief of
the forestry service under Theodore Roosevelt.
come in contact with vice yoo
can-not- estimate how much that
w ill mean to American manhood.
Fifty per cent of the familiaa
that are without children are
without children because of
vice; 25 per cent of all the
critical operations on women
have to be performed because of
vice diseases; 45 per cent of
epilepsy, of nervous diseases, of
defective development, of mo
ronism, run bark to vice. These
are our public health statistics,
and the truth of them was
tragically brought out in the
draft. If we can stop this,
wholly or in part, by universal
training, 'lon't you think K
worth while?"
"A lot of you men and women
sent your boys down to me at
Camp Funston and a lot of yon
who came down there and saw
them in the early days must
know how helpless they were.
They had had no training but
under the exigencies of the war
we were sending them over to
Europe. Lots of those fellows
in the last year of the war were
drafted in Julv and killed in
September. We hadn't any
time to train them. Many a boy
went "over the ton" withrmt
knowing how to open his rifle
after having fired it. Those
the things we are trying t
v cnt.
"WOULD YOU OBJECT?" NORBECK ASKS.
Governor of South Dakota Explains Leonard Wood's Service
Plan and Shows How Free Education Would Prove Great
Benefit American People Must First Approve.
"If the government offered to send your hoy to the State
Agricultural college, or to some similar institution, for a month's
period, where he would have an option of a mechanical or agri
cultural course, and if the government should pay all expenses,
would you object?
If the course included an hour or two a day of military
training in connection with the vocational training, would you
object?
"This is Ix-onard Wood's recommendation for universal train
ing. Is it objectionable?
"Wood, however, says that we cannot, and should not have
universal training until the American people, throurh the Ameri
can congress, express themselves in favor of it. He adheres to
Abraham Lincoln's idea of governmentthat this government is
of, by and for tV people." Peter Xorheck in Tulare speech,
March R.