Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-09
NATIVES ARE NOT ENTHUSIASTIC
Better Times in Ireland 0bviate the
Need TO Enlist.
SCOTS PREFER THE SIMPLE LIFE
Fictitious Military Spirit is to Be
Aroused by Tournament.
COST OF ESTABLISHMENT HIGH
Army aud Navy Estimates YEARLY
Involve More Money Than Was
spent In the Wars with
NaDoIeou.
BY PAUL LAMBETH

LONDON. April S--(Speclal to The Bee)-
England is hard pressed for soldiers and
sailors The Irish are boycotting the army
and refusing TO enlist. and the canny Scots
are leading the simple life at home. The
average Johnny Bull prefers to remain at
his fireside and read about war or cheer
war songs at the music halls. Cut off from
Irish and Scotch food for cannons" the
authorities have hit upon a scheme for get
ting recruits. A naval and military tourna-
ment organized with the object OF securing
recruits is to visit every city and town Of
Importance I'm the kings dominiOns. This
4 tournament which starts on three-years
tour will be on a scale Of magnifcance-
FNEach trooper will enlist for three years.
The weekly cost Of running the tournament
is estimated at over S12,5OO.
Establishment Heavy Burden.
A striking feature about the new army
and navy estimates Is the fact that It IL
now for the first time. costing England
more in ornaments to keep the peace than
Il cost TO carry on the Napoeonc wars,
the greatest and sternest struggle this
country ever figured in. In the height Of
that struggle. I'm the year before Waterloo,
the total war expenditure was SS5S OOO. Co.,
~ Under the new estimates we will be spend
ing on ornaments 100000 sterling more in
time of profound peace.
1t Is probably that with a view of re-
ducing the frightful burden that John
Burns the labor leader. seeks the position
Of head of the war department.
PeGgIng the Peacock.
London doesn't laugh very often but
when It does II laughs loudly and heartily
and II Is now laughing over a most anus
ing episode OF all-night sitting i'm the
Commons. The cause was the encounter
between young Irish member and a Tory
nobeman from Dorsetshire The latter a
gorgeous being in evening dress, who had
been specially conspicuous in his inter.
ruptions of the home secretary. was talline
the earivtrnornfng air on the terrace wher
he was accosted by the lrishman.
Waiter, bring me one OF those nine
penny oigars?" sad the latter
''Sir. what the devti?" stammered tn,
astonished baronet
"Confound your lmpudence, give me you
numberv'answered the Irshman, affecting
haw-haw manner. Il shall report you a
once to the manager for your neglect an,
lnsoiehce" Then he walked away, Ieavint
the nobeman TO figure It out.
Trade UniOnists Active.
A dcputation OF the Trade Onion con
Igress parliamentary committee was re
ceived by Winston Churchill. the home sec
rotary. recently.
w j. Davis asked Mr. Churchill II h
could see his way to amend the jury laws
ElIe urged that working men. who wer
supposed to be tried by their peers, foun
they were tried by their superiors Sine
limited liability companies had come int
existence. they never knew who was tryin
them. When the offended was large fri
and some OF their men were prosecuted,
special jury was called. and some Of II
members might be shareholders In IN
company which was proceeding aEains
the men. Trade unionists. Mr.. Davis al
Gued were considered sport for magi.
\. trstes and judges. Workmen ought to
l. on jures as well as employers, and !
adequately paid,
Mr.. Churchill. in his reply. dealt symps
theucally with most Of the points raise,
which should be carefully studied in n
home office. and would be put before tho,
who were charged with drawing up any Il
ture agreement.
The home secretary dealt with the az
ministration OF justice, remarking that
Joined with the deputation in deprecatir
any general expression OF opinion from Il
bench calculated to destroy or weak,
the confidence OF the wage-earning peop
In the administration Of justice lie WI
not going 10 mention names, but IL wi
true that on several occasions statemen
had been made from the bench reflectir
on trade unions I'm language which W
extremely ignorant, intoleraut uncaI,
for and wholly out OF touch with the d
velopment of modern thought
BeIIc Gilmore Legally Dead.
Mrs, Cora Crippen known as Belle I
more, and wife of HaWley Harvey CrI
pen, is reported in a grant Of administr
ton now issued from the principal pr
bate registry to have died on or sin
February l. 1910 on which day she W
last seen alive al 80 Hilldrop-crescel
aforesaid, intestate." The grant then &c
ON to state that letters OF administered
have been granted TO Harold Otto Seyd.
torncy of Theresa Hunn. The value OF
estate is set down Sl,655. The grant is
result of the action brought by Mrs. Hu
tBolle Elmores sister claiming that ID
Crppcns claim 20 his wife's effects sho
bo set aside by reason OF the circu
Z stances I'm which she met her death.
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