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BOOK TEACHING IS SMALL ITEM AT WEST POINT Character Building, Democ racy, Duty and' Honor Best Part, of Instruction at Military Academy. ' By EYEWITNESS. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee leased Wire. . Kew York," May 23. A West Point dialogue: ,, The Visitor "When the cadets go away for those exhibition drills that are supposed to represent perfection in rnaneuvering men, do you take them all along, or only the men who have had the advantage of a year or so of West Point training?" The Officer "We take them all along." ' The Visitor "Then how do you get perfection?" v The Officer "Those who are grfod make those who are poor do better." The Visitor-"Ohr ' In the great stained glass window above the altar whichthe cadets face when they march to prayer at West Point shine the three words: Duty. '. , . , Honor. - - . ' Country, ' In that place words are not the mere . emblem of an exalted; senti ment. They are ' the4 basis of the code by which lives of these men are shaped. They are as actual as the words of the officer, who, to the civilian's groping questions,' an swered: "Those who are good make those who are poor do better." '," Not Taught From Books. In short, the best part of the in struction at West Point is not taught from books. It 'is character j building, democracy, duty, honor, self-reliance. It is training a man to stand on his feet that he may know how to effectively defend the laws of the land as taught him from books. , - "In those things," said a West Pointer, "we may have a peer, but we have not a superior on earth." . It is wonderful how at West Point they have avoided the peril of re-i ducing to servile drudgery the iron curriculum to which they subject men for four years,- Many'minutes I watched the men in the riding school and heard above the panting of horses and the thud of hoofs the sharp commands directed to riders who were to execute those- com mands while their, mounts were in motion "Take ' off ' your" tie "Take off your shirt " Your eyes shut," "Put on your shirt." I saw them marching to classes in a way that suggested the discipline of a penitentiary and I heard them answering questions with a brevity which made the listener feel that a single unnecessary word would have brought a reprimand. ; Seeing and hearing this, kind of thing for many hours. I thought to myself how four years of it would produce either a craven or a bully, except-for the wonderful, berieficial thing with which West Point supple ments it-rthe thing that is pure ideal and yet is so realr"the ideal of duty, of honor, of country, that daily is transmuted into actuality. That is what saves them and makes them. They live a life of. service, but they: breath the air of glory whether they walk in the garden Kosciusko loved, or stand before the four great tablets loaded with the names of moment ous battles, and momentous battles solely, which West Pointers won. Wide Range of Subjects. ... In these articles f I . have touched upon, though only in a superficial way, what West Point teaches. We know that its principal courses are tactics, ciVU and military engineer ing, practical mechanics, astronomy, mathematics, Chemistry, minerology, geology, drawing, modern languages, law, ordnance and gunnery, military hygiene,' English'and history and summer courses in field work and encampments. It U equally worth while to ask what itdots not teach. I give the answer jn a West Pointer's words; !'We"vteach no 'isms.' No socialism, no sovietism. Anybody looking to this institution to be the leader in new types of government will look in vain, When we teacli the. laws of property, we teach them as written in the laws of the land today. We teach loyalty to authority, to the government as founded. This, in the eyes of many modern educators, .makes us anathema. - It all depends on what you want1. If you want a type that will take our army ; over bodily to revolution, then you do not want West Point" , ' , fa- All ihe Kids like to Come to Mv House says h -cause we always plenwof Brief City News A. O. V. W. Dance A dance will bf given Wednesday evening at A. O. U. W. temple by North Omaha lodge No. a, to which the public is invited. A large orchestra will fur nish the music. Save America First, . Says Bishop Woodcock (Continued From Fin Page.) any church organization. He spoke for practical Christianity in daily lives and scored "little Christians" whose only contribution to Chris tianity was an allegation of faith. Conference Is Closed. The mass meeting 'yesterday was the concluding service of the Ne braska Episcopal council in session here since Friday The meeting was presided ovei by Bishop Shayler, chosen head of the Nebraska diocese at the 1919 annual council. "The combined choirs of 10 Omaha Episcopal churches, numbering 20ft. singers, occupied the Brarideis stage, and samr under direction of T. H. Simms, director and organist of All Saints' church. It Is Dangerous to Be Contented, Bishop Says ."You can make your life just what you want it to be, declared the Rt Rev. Charles E. Woodcock, Epis copal bishop of Kentucky, in a ser mon yesterday morning at Trinity cathedral "God has designed a plan for your life. It is your work to carry out that plan, and nobody can do it but you. "W have only three primary colors, yet from these Raphael and Rubens and da Vinci have pointed their glorious pictures. There are but seven notes in music, yet Wag ner, Mozart and Beethoven have woven from these the harmonies that delight. Only 26 letters are con tained in the alphabet, yet with these all literature, prose and poetry have been written and with then the words and acts of men throushout history have been handed dov.i to us. ..- -. "The person who is discouraged doubts . God. Contentment is even worse than , discouragement. The cow lying under the shade of a tree, isvcontented She has neither soul, conscience nor ideals. Would you change places with the cow? . "A painter was -nce discovered in . tears and when -a ; friend asked him the reason,-he said, 'Alas, I am contented with this, my last picture, and, being contented, I 'can never progress.". : v ' "Don't sing that hymn" 'Oh, To Be Nothing, i Nothing.' f God doesrsjt want you to be nothing. He has as signed you work to do. Do it to the very best of your ability." , , Des Moines Bishop Speaks. At All Saints Church The' essentials Christ stood for always have been alive, Bishop Theodore N. Morrison of Des Moines, Episcopal bishop of the diosceseof Iowa, 'said in his sermon yesterday at All Saints, church. Bishop Morrison had as his text: "Christ for Man." His teachings always have been the same, the bishop .brought out, and are the big moral truths universally accept ed. In different ages emphasis has been brought to bear, on different aspects of Christ's wofd.Jut with out altering in any way their mean ing. - - - ' . . Bishop Morrison stated that the essence of all human experience brings a realization, that Christ is alive. He is the solution of all human problems. Bishop Morrison was in .Omaha attending the an nual conference of the Eoiscooal dioscese 'of Nebraska.. He. leff for Des Moines yesterday afternoon. Iowa Farmer Is Missing After Visit to This City Police are looking for Ervinc Har. rill, 22 years old, foreman of a ranch near Oakland, la., who disappeared from his home a week ago, coming, to Omaha with several of his friends. ' Harrill is " said to have left his home a week ago yesterday with several companions, one of whom was leaving for Tulsa, Okl., it is believed. He wore ani overall suit and had about $40. "with him at the time of his disappearance, his wife told the police,; His companions are unable to sav.wher Harill after arriving in Omaha. V Harrill, who has been married about a year, was a man of regular habits and there had been no domes tic troubles, his wife said. , -. . - Industrial deaths fell from 110 in 1917 to 57 in 1918 and to 42 in 1919, a saving of 68 workmen. Artificial silk establishments t in Belgium are , now employing about 90 per, cent of- their 1914 personnel. 5 I Press Agent Orgy Is Still to Be Continued (Continued From First Face.) administration in promoting of the general plan of suppression of public information under the guise of "piti less publicity." Time was when it was possible to obtain public information from any bureau of the government. After Mr. Wilson became president, the bureau chiefs were muzzled on pain of dis missal arid information was dis pensed by department heads only. Asked for information, the depart ment head would have to inform himself from his bureau chief. Then he would issue a statement contain ing is much of the information as was deemed innocuous.' In this way information which did not redound to the glory of the administration has been pretty effectually sup pressed for seven years. Mc Adoo Active. ; At one period of an intensive kill ing of Americans in Mexico the State Department was assiduously issuing statements describing garden parties given Americans in Mexican cities, addresses of welcome to Americans. I etc. William G. McAdoo was the (most active self advertiser. Every thing done i the treasury depart ment was done by McAdoo, accord ing to sheaves of press agent matter that fluttered in on newspaper of fices daily. , . " Y t The publicity fever was catching. Controller of the Currency Wil liams frequently sows the country broadcast with accounts of how much better off are the national banks under his supervision than before. The" treasury press agent recently described how many more billions had been collected by Daniel C. Roper than any previous inter nal revenue commissioner, although of course, war taxation made the showing. " Palmer Not Backward. The press agent of Attorney Gen eral Palmer is a busy public employe and if he falls down . on his stunt it is because of circumstances over which he has no control. For ex ample, a few days ago there was a conference at the Department of Justice in what to do about bringing down the price of sugar. All par ticipants were sworn to secrecy and only the attorney general could say what was done. The press agent was ready with his mimeograph to disseminate the official information as censored by Mr. Palmer, but the attorney general was tot to be found. It turned out that Mr. Pal mer, together with his assistants, Mr. s Garvan and Mr. Ames, was viewing a him of the attornev Ken etal in action, to be used in his cam paign for the presidency. If the sugar conference ever did anything it is still a secret , Speeches delivered by cabinet of ficials and other important officials invariably are mimeographed and issued in advance by the depart-! ments at government expense. Sec retary Daniels recently issued in ad vance, his testimony before the sen ate committee, comprising several hundred mimeographed pages. He is not issuing his cross-examination which is being attended to, however, by a private press agenf hired by the Daniels opposition.' Creel Was Leader. Administration press agentmg was brought to a high state of per tection ty Oeorge Creel when .the committee on public information was in full bloom, J. hen it was disloyal to print anything without : Creel's O. K. unless it was a boost for a lifelong' democrat. Secretary . of War Baker's favorite announcement was . that the munitions factories were "nearing quantity production." Several brochures have been issued by the War department to show how near we were to quantity pro duction or ordnance when the war ended. Senator , Smoot,. chairman of the congressional joint committee on printing, calls attention to the health almanac of the public health service in which is set down as a notable event to be commemorated on May 30 in the birth of. Rupert Blue, who was surgeon general of the service at the date of-issuance. A similar calendar issued by, the bureau of mines lists under "historical events" the birth' of Van H. Manning, direc tor of the bureau, on December IS, and his appointment as director on August 27. Birth. of Samuel Gom pers was the historical event set down for January 27. . "The report of the joint cpmmit tee on printing shows that in three years departmental officials had more than 30,000,000 copies of their speeches printed at the government printing office , at a cost of $109, 066.35," said Senator Smoot. "These speeches and the envelopes used in mailing them required a total, of ap proximately 1,500,000 pounds of pa per. -Including the cost of print ing, envelopes and the transporta tion in the mails, the speeches of these officials cost the government $442,798.73. Alt of this is charged to the public treasury." . Wilson Will Settle Armenian Boundaries (Continued From First Page.) ' whose intricacies are more fraught with consequences than the Turkish situation and, there is no Turkish question more delicate than the Armenian question. This is true among other reasons because a large part of what Wilson - advocated as Armenia is held by the Turkish nationalists under Mustapha Kemal, who have set up a separate govern ment and are pledged not to accept the allied-Turkish treaty. .! v Difficult Problem. ' -In fact Kemal's headquarters are at Erzerzoum, which Wilson con siders as the proper capital of Ar menia. There is no part of the Tur kish treaty more difficult of enforce ment than the Armenian provision and the greatest motives of the allied premiers in hesita'ting over the Ar menian boundaries was that they did not see how Kemal was to be got out of his headquarters. This brings up the great question of how Wilson's decisions will be enforced. President Wilson favored at Pari? a greater Armenia with Trebizond on the port and stretching far west of Erzerzoum. Should his opinions in that direction remain the same when -he undertakes arbitration1 the great question involved is as to 'Who will enforce his decision and main tain the boundary he has established against Turkish nationalists sworn to oppose the Turkish treaty. Who will put Mustapha Kemal out of his headquarters and make him stay THE BEK: OMAHA, MONDAY, MAI Z4, lttZU. ATATHXt J JOHN B. HYMER is back again with his own fantastic comedy, "Tom Walker In Dixie," as one of the headline features of this week's program at the Orpheum. The act has many amusing situa tions and Mr. Hymer as Tom Walk er, of course, is the center of the action. Peter Swift x appears as Tiger Smith. , Nan Gray, a winsome lassie from the land of the heather, scored a hit yesterday with a repertoire of songs which left no doubt that she is Scotch. For an encore she sang one of Harry Lauder's songs al most as well as Harry could sing it himself. Herbert Ashley and Roy Diet rich in "An Unusual Conversation," won several encores at the opening, Mr. Ashley's unusual Yiddish char acterization and his associate's sweet singing being a combination which proved popular. , Joseph Dorney, Helen Kennedy, Ruth Reed, Minerva Clark, Perle Frank and Joan Fortune offer a costume musical and dancing act entitled the "Whirl of Variety.'? One of the young women is surprisingly nimble for a "well-developed child.' The act is well staged. Ching and Rosie Moey open the bill with their Chinese version of American songs and dances, their dance numbers being exceptionally pleasing. Lucas and Inez close with an artistic presentation of aerial feats in which physical culture is featured. The young woman is grace ful and shapely. Ben K. Benny makes merry with a monologue which he offers while giving z burlesque of. violin playing. Topics of the Day and Kinograms continue to please as screen features. Beginning next Sunday the Or pheum will inaugurate a summer vaudeville arrangement of one after noon and two evening performances each day. The Misses Hammond and Moody charmed Empress audiences yester day with' their songs. The offering is genuinely funny when the two igrls wish it to be and live up to. the title "From Grand Opera to Jazz." Bennett and company shows some attractive girls with athletic powers. The two girls who boxed so whole heartedty drew their share of applause yesterday from Empress audiences. The girls are spending their vacation at the seashore and having run out of handsome men, use that as an excuse to put over some astonishing feats of strength. Costumes, too, are handsome. Nord and North present "Dancing Od dities." William Russell in "Leave It to Me," a farce comedy photo play, does some fast and strenuous work. According to returns from 1 32 frade unions in Germany, covering in the aggregate 4,256,398 members, 110,626 (2.6 per cent) were out of employment at the end of October, 1919, as compared with 2,2 per cent in September of the same year and 0.7 per cent, in October, ; 1918. Un employment 'among men, increased from 1.7 percent in September to 2,3 per cent in October, chiefly in consequence of the suspension of building operations and the unsuc cessful strike of the Berlin metal workers. Among women, unem ployment decreased from 4.1 per cent in September to 3.9 per ent in October; principally on account of the improvement in the textile industry- K, j: ' , ; . . 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St. Louie, Ho., for FREE trial Flapas and the Information ill Say Carranza's Death Due to Disobedience ...:).: ' : r .i ' ' (Continued From Flnt Pt ) pened, General Navoa thinking that Carranza, when- he learned of the true conditions, would surrender, Navoa when sending the general, stated that he wished to advise' Car ranza of the danger in trying to es cape through Huasteca to Vera Cruz, as he would meet with' the forces of Pelaez. Unfortunately for Car ranza, the -general did not carry out the instructions" and Carranza was left in ignorance of the true condi tions. Gen. Rodolfo Herrera, who killed Carranza, was one of Pelaez's generals who operated near Tam pico. Since the revolt Pelaez, until forced to surrender the government forces last March, was attached to the forces of General Marie!, mak ing the trip with him to Apazico, where he joined the fighting and afterwards accompanies Carranza to the mountains. Body to Family. Crowds in the streets discussing the death of Carranza, thought that when he took for the mountains he would be allowed to make the coast, where he would embark for Havana. The bodies of Carranza and the others will be delivered to the fami lies. No honors will be paid to Car ranza, as according to the plan of Agua Prieta, Carranza was not pres ident from the day the plan was signed. Mexico City is under commission rule. Obregon handling the military and Gonzales the civilian movement, until congress appoints a provisional president. Congress adopted a rule at the session this afternoon that all con gressmen who didnot report bn the 24th , be declared out. Substitutes will be called . to fill their places. Obregon is furious over the tragedy, as he had given strict orders that all military leaders respect the lives of Carranza and his companions. 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At a, late hour a sperial train with the body of Carranza had not left Bcrestin. - , A special committee appointed by Obregon and Gonzalez to proceed to the scene of the tragedy leaves, to night, Roques Estrada and Admiral Malpica head the committee.'- The Mexican minister to Rome, Eduard Hay, recognizes the new movement. General Cantu of Lower California also joined .in the election of De La Huerta as president pro tern. He is sure -the Obregon congressmen, who have a complete majority, all favor Hief ta. ' Later reports say that Luis Cabrera separated from-Carranza two days before the killing. It is thought Cabrera escaped - among the mountains, where he has friends among the Indians. . . . Call Upon Americans to v , x Tell of Circumstances New York Ttme-Chtcaf Tribnno ' Cable, Copyright, 19S9. ' Monterey, Mex., May .23. Ac cording to advices received here to day from Mexico Xity, several Americans and Briti'sh who "were at Necaxa, state- of Puebla, at the time: Carranta was killed, and' are personally familiar with the cir cumstances of his death, ' will be called upon by their respective gov ernments to make statements as to their knowledge of the facts of the matter. ' One of the largest hydro-electric plants upon the continent is at Necaxa, where the. famdus water fall of that name is situated. It is from this plant, which is owned by Canadian-British interests, that the electric power for the capital and a number of other towns is ob tained. Near the dam and power plant are locatedthe homes, of a little colony of American and British employes. Carranza and several men of prominence who were with him were killed within a stone's throw of the homes of these foreigners. It is stated Carranza was back tracking S. Tire experts be here for a only. UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. Ninth and Douglas Sts. Reward of $2,500 Is Offered for Capture Of Rich Draft Evader Chirac o Tribune-Oma'hk Be Lanced Wire. . Washington, May 23. The attor neys for Grover Cleveland Berg doll, wealthy draft deserter, who was serving a five-year, sentence at Governor's Island, N. Y., and who escaped in a sensational manner from a prison guard after he had been taken to Philadelphia, while en route to recover $150,000 worth of gold he is alleged to have hidden, offered a reward of $2,500 tonight for the capture of the fugitive. The reward was offered jointly by D. Clarence Gibboney of Philadel phia, Samuel T. Ansell, former act ing advocate general, of the' army, and Edward S. Bailey, formerly a colonel in the judge advocate gener al's office. A signed statement by the three attorneys says: ' "We, the undersigned, hereby of fer a reward of $2,500 to any person for the apprehension and delivery to the proper military authorities, at any military post or station, of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, an es caped military 'prisoner. The re ward will be paid immediately upon receipt of official note from the ad jutant general of the army, by either of the undersigned, for the delivery of the prisoner into military custody and of the name of the person cn titled toHhe reward." : Senator Penrose Suffers Relapse at Home in East Philadelphia, Pa., May 23. United States Senator Boise Penrose, who has been ill at his home here since last fall, had a relapse Saturday and was reported Sunday night to be in a serious condition. His physicians said that although the senator is very ill, he is in no immediate dan ger. . 1 ; to Mexico Cty at the time he was assassinated. 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Murderous war fare among rival union labor leaders, which has already resulted io the as sassination of Maurice Enright, Eddie Coleman, John Kikulski and John Glaven" is taking on a nior sinister aspect because the polic have not picked up the two men who beat and shot Kikuluski. His friendi are charging that if one-tenth tin energy that was shown in rounding up the killers of Enright had been vrf- in th Vilrtllski slavitlflT. tllfl two men who killed him would now be in custody. .' , . Enright died without naming his slayers, but Kikulski is slid to have told who killed him, yet the driver ol the death car tnat tranea jcuriBin has just been, convicted . and sen tenced to. 14 years, while the slayers of Kikulski are at liberty. Kikulski was a Pole aud swayed his fellow ... n an., Ifrt Vl f ' A (VC 1 - nated. The Poles are especially bit ter over the apparent inaction "in run ning down his murderers. The conviction of Jimmy Vinci, driver of the Enright death car, has thrown a big scare into the hearts of "Big Tim". Murphy, "Dago Mike" Carozza and Vincenso Cosmano, who will be rushed to trial as prin cipals. The rope dangles ominously near them, now tnat tneir auegea hireling has been convicted and given . ... r t. ,1. . tu the limit tor nis snare in tne ass Vinri ra AeMehie.A with nis sen tence. ' "I expected life," ht said. "Fourteen years pooh, I can serve 14 years standing on my head," Princeton beast Rutgers at tennis headline. Now that that's settled let's get down to prospective presi dential nominations. r T