Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-11
BOOSTER FOR THE sIoRK
An Illinois Enthusiast Takes Prae-
teal steps to Make Home
Happier.

Ii appears that ths two storks recently
received in Washington from Hamburg.
Germany, which we're supposed to be In
tended for the White House are simply
being acclimated at the national capital,
and will soon be sent to Alton, III.
Mayor Beal OF the latter city is the i'm
porter of the birds. Two pairs of storlls
which were previously ordered By him died
before reaching Alton because they we're
subjected too suddenly to the influence OF
the prairie atmosphere. After being de-
tanned for a time in the District Of Coluin-
bia, Mayor Beall believes, the storks Just
imported can be removed to their western
home with safety.
These facts are brought TO the attention
Of our readers not because they are impor-
tant in themselves, but because they viii
serve to illustrate the systematic, the al
most scientific, manner in which Mayor
Beal of Alton proceeds in dealing with
matters nearly or remotely connected with
the great movement to which he is devot-
ing his mind, his means and his untiring
energies.
1t is hardly niece ssary that we should re-
call that Mayor Beall of Alton was the
first landlord in America TO refuse to rent
apartments in his FIAT buildings to child
less couples only tenants who have chill
dren will be PERMITTED 10 occupy this fat
was and perhaps is yet, a condition affixcd
10 his ITO Rent" signs II was Mayor
Beall who had provisions inserted in his
leases which not only were not intended to
prevent children from running up and
down the stairs, from playing In the hall
ways, from chalking the wainscotinE, from
painting cartoons on the wall paper or from
dying kites from the windows, but which
actually demanded of tenants that their
offspring should be encouraged to indulge
in these Juvenile amusements.
What we need i'm this country" said
Mayor Beau in an interview to which
he submitted when he was about to throw
open to couples with children his last
block of apartment houses, what we need
in this country is babies. l am entirely
, in accord with the president on this propo-
sition, but it is folly to expect an increase
in the number OF babies unless we shall
make some provision for them.
ss'Many people who are against race sui
eide will not rent to couples who have
or expect to have children. We must
practice what we preach. l, for one. am
going to do my utmost not only to en-
! courage an increase in the baby output,
/ but l am going to do everything in my
| power to prove to the babies when they
/ come that they are welcome
/ And he has kept his word. There has
been a slight falling of in the number
J of babies arriving in Alton during the last
month or two. Mayor BeaIl, however,
/ expe cts that the arrival of the storks win
! give the movement fresh impetus. He
has sold all his chickens and is trans
Z forming his chicken coops into a pleasant
home for the storks. These will be open
to visitors at all seasons Of the year, and
/ contemplation OF the beautiful birds by
young married couples OF by young couples
about TO marry, OF even by couples who
have been married for some time and who
are not at present eligible 10 the BealI fiats,
he believes, will do a great deal of good.
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