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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-06
LouIsvIIIe club EIect. off,...

LOUISVILLE. Neb.. June 5.-(special.)
The Commercial club met last night
and elected officers for the ensuing year.
Paul Fitzgerald was elected president,
w. F. Diers. vice president: II. L. Ar
ends. second vice president; Fred II.
ossenkop, secretary Walter Blake,
treasurer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-06
CASH BOX OF MAHARAJAH is
STOLEN At SALT LAKE CITY

WASHINGTON, June b.-The Mahara-
jah of KRpurtkala. Indian prince. has
asked the Sate department TO help the
Salt Lake police recover his cash box
and important papers, which. he says,
were stolen from the room OF his secre-
tary In a hotel in Salt Lake City last
Thursday.
The Maharajah. now in Pasadena.
asked the British ambassador TO enlist
the aid Of the state department and his
request was presented today.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-06
Admires Aristocrats.


Il left Canada a good democrat and
return as l left, but ] must confess feel
ings OF admiration and respect for the
aristocrats I met in this hospital doing
what they conceived to be their duty all
these terrible times. In the hospital wo-
men who had been waited upon all their
lives cheerfully performed tasks they
would not require of their maids They
accepted the hospital routine of night
and day watches and faithfully admins
tered to the needs OF the wounded SOL
diers Of ell ranks. Among others who
served were Mr.. and Mrs. Gray of Cam
bridge. He acted as an orderly and she
as a nurse. They paid the hospital 500
month; they gave It the service of a
motor and their chauffeur. and they per-
sistently bought all sorts of things for
the institution. One of the finest char
acters and one of the most useful per-
sons about the place was Rev Mr.. Gedge
a Church of England clergyman from
York cathedral. He performed the dual
duties of orderly and chauffeur. driving
as an ambulance a car given by his con-
gregation for that purpose. Only on sun
day was he the clergyman, and | shall
Always remember Win admiration tne
calm reverence with which he conducted
service one Sunday through the din of a
terrific bombardment.
Just ten miles away, at Fayel, was
another OF these Anglo-French hospitals
where master and man. mistress and
maid worked side by side, humbly and
faithfully. The Fayel hospital is run by
Countess Helena Gleichen. a cousin OF
King George OF England. and by Lady
Wemys. daughter OF the British Ambassa-
dor at Paris. DIR. Lapthorn Smith of Mon
treal is one OF the surgeons at Fayei.
Our chief surgeon. or medicine chef. at
Chateau de Rimberlieu was Dr. Merlin,
a member OF the French Chamber OF
Deputies. and the surgeons under him
were an Enghsh-Spaniard from Jamaica.
a scotchman and myself. a Canadian.
Those who came 10 us were French sol
diers Of every rank. and all OF them pa
tient and cheerful Their one idea was
to mend and get back TO active service
That they would return TO the lines they
took as a matter OF course"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-06
CANADIANS PLEASE EUROPE
Different View of North America
Aroused on Continent by
Brave Soldiers.
FRENCH ARIsroCRATs AT WORK

Correspondence OF the Associated .'~css)
OTTAWA. Ont. May %-word that the
resolution of Canadian soldiers has siven
in Europe rather a different view of
North America TO many people VINO be-
fore had not the occasion to consider this
continent was brought to ottawa by DR.
r, ]. Manion of Fort william. ont.
DR.. Manion had an unusual experience
Three months ago he paid his way across
the Atlantic. bought his uniform, offered
his services as surgeon TO the British
Red Cross in Paris and found there was
no opening. He was proffered a place in
one OF the Anglo-French hospitals and
accepted. He found himself member OF
the surgical staff OF a hospital estab-
lished in the historic Chateau de Rim
herlieu, the property Of Count de Ber-
thune, seven miles north OF Compiegne
and but four miles back of the French
line.
I'VE had a telephone connection with
the trenches and we could see the flash
OF bursting shells from our windows, and
II was said that of all the hospitals this
was the nearest to the lines" said DR..
Manion. There were sixty beds in the
hospital. 1t was maintained under French
military direction largely by English
money. The nurses and orderlies almost
without exception. we're persons of
wealth, of prominent French and English
| families, and many of them were titled.
Two Of the nurses were daughters OF the
Count de Berthune. the owner OF the
chateau; another was the Countess de
Pange, another the Marquise de Cha
bannes. another Miss Neville, grand niece
OF Lord Beaconsfield; another a niece of
Casinir Perrier, late president of France
No one on the staff receives remunera-
ton; instead they contribute from $50 to
$500 month for the privilege of doing
the tediius, exacting and often unpleasant
work which is required OF nurses and
orderlies in every hospital. The ambu-
lances were motors belonging to these
nurses and orderlies. The domestlcs OF
the institution were chiefly their maids
or servants or chauffeurs.
There may have been a few paid do
mestics, but certainly no one on the
staff from the chief surgeon down re-
ceived a wage.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
THE "RULE 4S" FIGHT

If the hackers of some reform ef-
forts were as persistent as the wom-
en- who are fighting for the repeal of
"Rule 49," which now automatically
retires school teachers when they
marry, they might get results, even
in the District.
Today these women are to make a
final stand for their cause before the
Board of Education. They were not
discouraged when the consideration
of the matter was placed in the
hands of committee and allowed to
remain there for many weeks. They
were not deferred from further ac-
tion when the board, with no discus
sion, voted to accept the report of
the committee and retain "Rule 49,"
Now they simply are asking a
reasonable discussion and consider
alton Of the case at an open board
meeting. That the board no doubt is
glad to grant. And if, after such
public consideration, the board still
is willing to stand by it's guns, and
retain "Rule 49," no one can ques-
tion at least the sincerity of their
position.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16

destined to the civil. population OF
Germany, Germany few days ago
captured vessels carrying food from
Holland to England.
Relations between Holland and
Germany have been strained for n
long time. 1t would seem that Ger
many ought to have been anxious TO
use every possible means to regain
the good will of Holland and Den
mark, especially, because they have
been the most obvious and access
sible avenues through which to bring
supplies into Germany. 1t would
have been quite natural if the allies
had aroused the antagonism of Hol-
land through their over-zeal in try
ing to keep supplies out of that
country which might ultimately get
into German hands; and it would
seem logical that Germany should
make common cause, most insist
emily, with Holland, in The effort to
maintain the widest freedom for
Hollands trade at this time. Yet
Germany seems now to be commit
ted to exactly the other position: to
be determined to destroy the trade
of the country which is Germany's
most convenient gateway, and to
earn the hostility Of that country.
Only on the presumption that
Germany is willing, even determined,
to get the wars area extend d just
as widely AS possible, can this most
recent performance be explained.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
Former Teacher Here
New Head of FOrdham

The Rev Joseph A. Mulry, s. j.
we'll known in Washington as a former
member OF the faculty and adviser in
athletics at Georgetown. today was in
augurated president OF Fordham Uni
versity. New York. He succeeds the
Rev. Thomas J. McCloskey. s J.
Father Mulry. the new president. is
forty-one years old. and when he was
chosen to be president of St. Peters he
was the youngest Catholic college presi-
dent in the East. While in jersey City
he gathered the men OF st. Peter p
parish into the largest branch OF the
Holy Name Society In New Jersey. and
also built the largest young mems club
house in the state. costing more than
100000
Before going to jersey City Father
Mulry taught the classics at Boston
College for five years. He was vice
president Of Loyola College. in Bati-
more. for one year. He entered the
Jesuit order when only fifteen years old
and was ordained a priest In 1906. He
is a brother OF Thomas NJ. Mulry. presi-
dent Of the Immigrant Industrial Saw
ings Bank Joseph A. Mulry. 5. J.. who
teaches in Fordham Preparatory
School. is a nephew of tho new uni
versity head. as are two students in the
junior class of the Arts School.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
Describes Revolutionary
Influences in China

Under proper influences even so staid
and conservative a country as China
can be made to undergo Kaleidoscope
changes.
Contrasting the China o! only a few
years ago under the old regime, with
that nation today under its republican
form of government, Edward T. Will
liams. who a little more than a year
ago left China after a residence CT
twenty-siX years TO become the chief
of the Far Eastern division of the State
Department, in an address before the
National Press Club last night, reviewed
the influences which contributed to the
bringing about of the changes
The press eXerted an important part
in inaugurating the revolution, the
speaker said, the work of missionaries
contributed, and the lessons taken back
to their native land by Chinese students
in America played an important part.
The most marked changes, particularly
in dress, Mr.. Williams said, took place
in the years 1911 and 1912.
Next Thursday night the KinemaColor
war motion pictures. with the Fighting
Forces of Europe" will be shown at the
Press Club This will be the initial
exhibition of these films in the United
States.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
BR0WNL0W LAUDS
MOVIE" EDUCATION
Declares Death of Comedian
Causes More Sorrow Than
Loss of General.

Verify the heroes of peace are as
notable as the heroes of war, but the
heroes of the movies" transcend either
of these.
For example. as Commissioner Brown
low set forth before the Mothers Clubs
fathers night" at the Edmunds School
last evening, the death Of Max Linder,
row in France than the death of any
monarch would have caused. and the
ueath of John Bunny Will bring forth
more tears. than the laughs he created
in his lifetime.
The Commissioner termed the humble
movies" the modern expression of lit
produce a Shakespeare and a Bacon.
the movies have only been running
twenty years, and are in their infancy.
The language of the film is universal.
Therefore II has broken into manv
lands. and the English traveller in ia
pan can understand the language of
the pictures there. In China the
movie" was a force for democracy.
and because the women wished to go
to motion picture shows. the Commits
sion said, the wells came off quickly
enough.
More clean. wholesome amusement
reel" Mr.. Brownlow said, than from
tho average musical comedy for which
one pays 81"
DR.. r. G. Kimball. supervising princi.
pal introduced the Commissioner
Frank Goebel sang and Prof. Oates
Orchestra also contributed to the musi.
cal program.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
ROOSEVELT ADVICE
TO BOYS AND GIRLS
"Never Be Neutral Between
Right and Wrong," He Tells
New York Theater Players.

NEW YORK, April 16-Although he
was deaf to the loudly expressed de-
sire OF the audience which filed the
Park Theater for the second perform
ance of The Children's Revolution. -
Col. Theodore Roosevelt readily ac-
ceded to the wishes of the children
who We're taking part. and went behind
the curtain to shake hands with them.
Thinking to use this opportunity to
induce him to make speech to the
grown-up children out front" the stage
manager rang up the curtain. disclosing
the Colonel in earnest conversation with
General Washington Instead of a
speech Colonel Roosevelt waved his silk
hat at the audience and ran TO the
shelter of the wings.
AS soon as the curtain had gone down
the children gathered around the former
President again and, he gave them some
natural history, and then shook hands
all around.
Never be neutral between right and
wrong warned the Colonel. Never
toward others as you would like them
to act toward you. stand for what you
believe TO be right and never finch in
the face of any Odds
Standing near by were the boys from
the New York Institution for the Deaf
who had given a splendid drill earlier
in the program.
when | was out West" said the
Colonel. his eyes Frightening and his
lips parted in his famous smile. Il
learned the sign language of the lndi-
ans. 1t Is not so difficult or Compro-
hensive as the language these fine fell
lows use. but 1t Is expressive. For in
stance. when we were on the trail of a
white deer the sign we used for them
was a jump with the right hand. like
10 ll,, - t-ot inc lnI III,
right fist-"and then a wrigele of the
hand to indicate which way his white
tail was last seen.
Listen, Douglas" he went on. sing
ling out his little cousin. and all you
children. We used to have a sign for
the rabbit. too. We would make one
hand go hop. like this, and then wagglc
two fingers TO represent his long cars. :,
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
Meetings and Entertainments
To Be Held in Every Sec
ton of the City BY Various
Societies.
Today.

Exhibition. Washington Society of Artists.
hemicycle, Corcoran Art Gallery. q. m.
to p. IN.
Exhibition, Chilean scenes, Hall Of the
Americas. Pan-Americsn union Building.
a. IN. to p. m.
Meeting. Board Of Education. Franklin
School. 3 p. m.
Concert Friday Morning Club. banquet hall.
Raleigh, IL a. m.
Meeting, Women's National Press Club. Ra-
leigh, 1880 p. m.
Meeting. Retail Merchants Association. oak
room. Raleigh, p. m.
Senior Prom Georgetown University. large
ball room, New Willard. p. m.
Open house. Home club, II jackson place
northwest, p. III.
Lecture, 'Tne Earth r. s. Woodward. be-
fore Washington Academy OF Sciences. au-
ditorium New National Museum, $50 p. m.
Meeting Columbian Debating Society. north
hall OF George Washington University, S:lt
y. m.
Meeting, New Jersey Society Of the District
Perpetual Hall. Eleventh and r streets
northwest, s p. m.
Meeting Safety First Association. Hamline
NJ. Z. Church. p. m.
Concert, Sanctuary choir, st. Anthony
Church, Old Masonic Temple. p. m.
Modern Woodmen OF America-Lincoln Camp
No. 12455; Washington Camp, No. 1l46t
Central Camp, No. 1895.
Masonic--Lebanon. No. I: School Of 1nstruc-
tion. Royal Arch Masons; Columbia. No Q.
knights Tempar; Martha, No. I; Ascen-
sion, No. 20. Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows-Metropolls. No. 1e: Central. No.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
LEARNING THE INDIANS

Every now and then some Con-
gresham in a sudden burst of zeal
for economy inquiries how soon the
Bureau Of American Ethnology, op-
Grating under the Smithsonian In
stitution, will complete its work.
How far from completed that work
is likely to be for many years to
come is indicated in the report
brought back by Mrs. Matilda Coke
Stevenson, an ethnologist of thirty
years experience among Indians,
that human sacrifices still are made
in at least two Tewa villages.
Working alone, when she could
profitably have utilized many assist
ants, Mrs. Stevenson has, despite
lack Of trained helpers, already un-
earthed many valuable facts about
the least known Indian tribes, es-
pecially the Taos, the Tewas, and the
Zunis.
Constantly the Government is on
the lookout for Indians that indulge
in the prohibited "fire water" Such
surveillance is entirely proper. But
that such close supervision of the
Indian could exist, and yet the fact
be unknown that women and babes
still are sacrificed to propitiate the
Indian gods, is evidence of the re-
markable secrecy the tribes are able
to preserve despite all efforts Of in
trusion.
Only by such close and careful
study as trained scientist can give
them is there hope of disclosing the
complex mythology, social customs,
and religious beliefs of the many
tribes that are far from being civ
ilized within the Anglo Saxon ac-
ceptance of the term.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
THE kATWIJK CASE

The steamer Katwijk was a Dutch
vessel, under the Dutch flag, char
tered by the Dutch government, car
rying a cargo of American grain
consigned to the Dutch government.
She was sunk just outside Dutch
waters. If the stories told by her
crew are to be accepted as correct,
she was destroyed by torpedo
from a submarine, for the crew re-
ported seeing the periscope of sub
marine after the vessel was struck.
The crew was saved.
Thus a new set of difficult facts is
brought into discussion in connec-
ton with the submarine warfare.
Germany would seem, if she admits
and accepts responsibility for this
action, to have assumed an entirely
new attitude toward neutral COM
merce. She has down to this time
been notoriously receiving supplies
through ports of the neutral coun-
tries whose territory is adjacent to
her own. She has insisted on the
rights of these neutrals to maintain
general commerce, because she bene-
fitted by it. Especially has she in
sisted on the right of foods for the
civil population to be regarded as
non-contraband. The difference be-
tween food destined to the civil COM
munity and food destined to the gov
ernment is not important in the
case of a country not at war.
Germany, in brief, while insisting
on her own right to receive food
through neutral countries, now de-
nies the right of these very neu-
trails themselves to receive food from
other neutrals! 1t is apparently a
complete reversal of her former con-
tentions; and it is the more astound-
ing, in view of the fact that the
United States is indirectly con-
cerned by reason of the fact that the
Katwijk's cargo came from the
United States. Only within a few
days a communication from German
diplomatic authority has been hand
ed to the Washington Government
which verged close on the attitude OF
insult, because the United States die
not insist absolutely on the right tc
send foodstuffs in general commerce
Yet Germany now interferes with
commerce in foodstuffs between neu
trails, under neutral flag.
1t may have been an accident; anc
Germany may disavow and make full
reparation. But this is not the frs
time that Germany has inte-fereC
with food cargoes while herselt
maintaining that food ought not t.
be interfered with. Insisting tha
food from the United States ough
|. not to be interfered with when it i
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
Declares German Led
Belgians to Ambush

PARIS, April 16.-The police have ar
rested anonther suspected spy this time
an invalided Belgian grenadier named
Pierre Baeyens, who is charged with
wearing the uniform of the French army
and a French military medal without
authority. Inquiries made after his ar
rest induced the presiding magistrate to
alter the charge to one Of espionage.
Baeyens' Identity is a good deal of a
mystery. 1t has been learned that he
has Travelled recently in the districts
around Nancy and Pont-a -Mousson. He
also visited the principal naval stations.
when he tried to establish friendly re-
lations with sailors and soldiers. A
sailor Of a French submarine, Louis
Petitalo, has declared that he recognizes
in Baeyens a Belgian grenadier who Of
fered to guide a party of French blue
Jackets during the fighting at Dixmude
and then led them into an ambush.
The police believe Baeyens is Ger
man who enlisted in the Belgian army
for purposes of espionage.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
MILITARY FRANKNESS

Taken with the French war Of
fees report of the first six months
of the war, General French's account
of the bloody action at Neuve
Chapelle has given at last a real
meaning to the term, military
frankness."
In the past military frankness has
been one of those many misleading
phrases that we handy about to save
us the trouble of thinking. 1t prob
ably arose from the fact that mill
tary men are frequently brusque and
impatient in conversation with civil
ians. But frankness in military af-
fairs is altogether new. Nothing has
been less frank in the past. The
whole military idea is based on
secrecy, deception and the suppress
sion of information in every way.
The French war Office report
broke this tradition and astounded
the world. 1t was the most remark
ably frank document ever uttered by
a great power at war. 1t spoke al
most casually of orders misunder-
stood, of Grass stupidity on the part
of trusted leaders, of useless and
criminal waste of men, of uncertain
cooperation and general bungling
which only the coolness of the COM
mander-in-chief and the splendid
morale of the men prevented from
resulting in catastrophe.
General French's story of the bat
tie of Neuve Chapelle is written in
the same key. He praises gener-
ously those leaders who did their
duty, but does not hesitate to state
in plain English that there was an
unconscionable lot of laundering and
messing up of the tactical plan. He
clearly indicates that but for these
mistakes the triumph of the English
would have been much more far
reaching.
In the old days this battle would
have been recorded as mastery
and faultless piece of work and these
blunt details of incapacity would
have been carefully forgotten, ex-
cepting in the secret archives of the
war office. Historians fifty years
hence would have told the world as
tonishing facts about Neuve Cha
pelle, facts which General French
makes public within a few weeks
and at time when a great crisis is
developing.
This system is puzzling at first
glance, but undoubtedly it is sound
The truth does not hurt any people
for any length of time. Brave mer
are brave enough to acknowledge
mistakes and buckle down to correct
them without hopeless whining
about what might have been.
The Washington times., 1915-04-16
COPPER THE PEACEMAKERa

Shall so prosaic a thing as raw
copper finally decide Armageddon
Shall the absence of this metal in
sufficient quantities place Germany
and her allies at fatal disadvant-
age?
There, seems chance of some
such result unless the war is quickly
decided. Germany is using copper
in the manufacture of ammunition
about three times as rapidly as she
is acquiring it. Already there are
reports that the pinch is felt, despite
the unquestioned fact that the Ger
man government has for years been
accommodating stores of the metal.
The statistics are unusually inter-
esting. At conservative estimate
Germany and Austria are fighting
on combined front of $50 miles,
or more than 100000 yards. They
have approximately six million men
in the field; but allowing for those
needed elsewhere there is at least
one man to every yard with a rifle
in his hands. Putting each mans
average consumption of cartridges
at the low figure of twenty a day
and you have daily expenditure of
more than three hundred tons of
brass cartridges in rife fire alone
less than per cent of which is re-
covered.
Rapid-fire guns will easily eat up
smother thirty tons. German field
artillery on the two fronts fire at q
very low estimate 10000 rounds g
day. Much of the metal here is
saved, but the net loss is at least 1OE
tons in each twenty-four hours.
Here we have a consumption
dead loss-of, say, 430 tons of bras.
a day. This brass contains 72 pei
cent copper-more than 800 tons o.
pure copper metal shot away every
day on the battle fronts!
Germany produces about 26,OO(
tons of copper year. Under grea
pressure this output might be in
creased for a short time to, say
$4,000 tons year, Austria can b,
counted on for not more than 400
tons. The domestic sources would
then, produce 10000 tons in a yea,
- against the 10000 needed at tn,