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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-05-01
Nebraska
SOME EMPLOYMENT
AGENTS TO FIGHT
Others Will Conform at Once to the
New Law that Provides Regu-
lation for Them.
LIGHT DEMAND FOR FARM HELP
crrom . SAD correspcnaentl

CFrom staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, April sO.--(Special labor
Commissioners Coffey returned from
Omaha last night, where he went to con-
Ser with some people over matters In
connection with the operation Of the enw
law regarding the state employment ou-
eeau, under jurisdiction Of the labor COM
missioner.
Mr.. coffey says he understands that
Attorney H. II. Bowes Of thai city will
como to Lincoln either today or tomor-
row and ask for an injunction iii the
district court of Lancaster county to
hold up the operation of the law. Mr..
Bowes represents several reference
agencies which furnish employment Of a
clerical nature and have nothing TO do
with those agencies which furnish COM
mon laborers. The latter. the cornmis-
sioner says. are preparing to come under
the law and will file their applications
and bonds very soon.
Farmers Well Supplied.
The demand for farm hands is so great
al labor headquarters at the state house
that they have been unable to supply
the demand. The general call Is for sin
Ete men VINO can go on the IhLfu anu uo
farm work. The only Individual they
have now who is not supplied with a job
Is q young man from Omaha, ls years OF
age, who was page In the last senate.
Ole would like to go on farm, but most
of the applications so far have been for
more mature men.
So far the bureau IL well satisfied with
khe work done.
VIII Ask for New Bids.
The state will call for new bids FOR
printing the senate Journal. the reports
of the board of agriculture. board OF
horticulture, railway commission and
state Insurance board. This conclusion
was reached this morning by the print
ing board after review Of the bids and
examination of the bonds.
According to Superintendent Ludi OF
the printing board, the bonds in some
discs are not satisfactory and there are
other reasons not made public why new
bids VIII be asked for. The board ID
of the opinion that tho bids in some in.
stances were too high which is sufficient
reason for another call.
Commissioner Kennedy Of the STATE
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23


able to prove his citizenship, her hus-
band could not escape serving in the
German army unless the Ambassador
would give back his precious paper.
The woman did not get the passport
1t was dear old Germany" and "the
devil take America" SO long as our
hyphenated friend was immune from
military service. But it was dear
old America" and "the devil take Ger
many" when the kaiser's recruiting
officers came around with orders for
the front. One may pity the wife,
but the temptation is strong to hope
that the hyphenated one may be as
signed to the front line in Flanders.
We suspect there would be less vigor
in spreading the German propaganda
in the United States If those engaged
in it thought they would be called
upon to back up their opinions with
a rife.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
SKATING IN NEW YORK
TFrorn Neuv Vo,,L Gu,

Mr. and Mrs. Irving Brokaw, en-
tnusiastic devotees of the pleasant
sport OF skating, and themselves
among the most expert amateurs in
ice sports, entertained company of
lOO guests with skating party upon
the stage of the Hippodrome yester-
DAY afternoon. The vogue of skating
mas increased remarkably in this city
within the past month or two and the
popularity of Charles Dillingham's s
production at the Hippodrome. in
which the st. Moritz skating scene is
distinctive feature, has PLAYED a
considerable part in establishing this
vogue.
Mr.. Brokaw took his guests, there
lore, to the place best adapted for an
afternoons amusement upon ice. The
stage OF the Hippodrome had been es-
pecially redecorated and reset to rep
resent the interior of a skating scene
at st. Moritz. The ice lake used was
the same as Mr.. Dillingham; emplovs
in his theater speciality, but Mr.. Bro
kaw used the tiny lake merely as n.
center for the decorative scheme. At
one end of the lake the Miranda band.
with their quaint string and reed in
struments, supplied music particularly
adapted to the leisurely swing of skat
ing time and of dancing upon skates.
At the other end tea was served in the
manner, with girl ushers of
the theater costumed as Swiss maids.
Those of Mr.. Brokaw's guests who
did not care to skate watched tho
sport from settees arranged at the
edge of the pond, and comfortably
equipped with furs and rugs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
LOCAL BENEvOLENCEs

N1OW is the time when the local
IN associations for the relief of the
dependent element of the COM
nunity are making their appeals for
he support of those who are able TO
give out of their affiuence. A report
of the Harrisburg Benevolent Asso-
citation contains much of interest. 1t
shows that for four months last win
ter the applications for help were so
numerous that an extra room was
rented for the disbursement of sup
plies where investigation proved the
applicants to be worthy. Much of the
assistance was given through the
Directors of the Poor the board CO.
operating with the Benevolent Asso-
citation.
During the summer 237 gardens"
were farmed by 230 of the needy
families of the city, producing an estf-
mated crop value of $1,000. Practi-
cally all of the families cultivating
these plots were either entirely out
of work at the opening of Spring or
working only part time. The gardens
were cultivated during the evenings
or on the off, days. Less than half
the families had previous experience
in garden work, but the results were
very satisfactory. This garden enter
prise aided materially in relieving the
needy people and proved of further
value in giving the charitable work.
ers Of the city an opportunity to study
the immediate needs of those who re-
quired assistance.
1t is necessary now, with the ap
proach of cold weather, to give con-
sideration to the associations which
are organized for the relief of the
needy and it is much better to con-
tribute through these legitimate ave-
nues of relief than directly to ap
plicants of all sorts, some of whom
are not worthy of assistance and fire.
quently abuse the charity bestowed
upon them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
BETWEEN YOU AND NE

1t is not generally known that Col
william b. Meetch, of this city, is one
OF the big game hunters of the coun-
try. He is always modest in telling
Iof his experiences in Alaska, the
Rocky Mountains, Mexico and else
where, but those who are successful
In occasionally drawing out the nara
tiVes of his hunting trips never fail to
learn something of interest. He has
managed to keep young through his
annual hunts in Canada and else
where.
There are many applicants for jobs
at the big powder plant near Mt.
Union. One of these was q colored
brother who approached the foreman
with request for work
Where do your parents live?" ask
ed the foreman.
"Ain't got no parents" was the re-
ply. II has an aunt down in Vir-
ginny."
Whats your aunt's post office ad-
dress, so we can send her your re-
mains if anything happens to you"
suggested the foreman
Deed, boss, these yero remains is
jist goin' to keep right on a-goin'."
And ne did.
With the growing interest in the
Susquehanna Basin it ought to be an
easy matter to organize q rowing asso-
citation during the winter. Next sum-
mer the Basin should be covered with
boats of every description.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
Are Your Feet in Fighting Trim?
By Frederic J. Haskin

sort of foot trouble. The doctor OF
feet prospers throughout the land in
every form from the high class chirop-
odist to the long haired vender of rat.
tlesnake oil, which cures corns in.
stantly when applied to the outside OF
the shoe"
Practically all of the foot troubles
are preventable. If we took the trou.
BILE to get shoes that fit us, and were
willing to sacrifice style to comfort
we would have no painful feet Fal-
len arches, Tor example, are one of the
commonest foot troubles. They are al
most always caused by wearing shoes
TOO tight in the toes. throwing the arch
out of it's natural position. In time
they Will completely disable a person
for protracted walking.
The army long ago realized the i'm
portance of proper shoes. Following
practice march, which disabled rs
per cent. of the troops, an army shoe
board was established, which worked
four years designing a shoe upon X.
ray studies of the foot. This regular
army shoe is rather low, has q few
large lace holes, is broad in the toe
has a stiff sole and a firmly supported
arch.
The military surgeons are now de-
signing a shoe for volunteer soldiers.
1t will differ from the regular army
shoe in that it will omit the supported
arch. This feature was included on
the theory that the prevalence of fall
en- arches showed the foot muscles to
be unable to support prolonged strain.
Investigation shows, however, that
people who go barefooted, or wear
moccasins, are almost never fiatfooted.
The Zuni Indians, for example, can run
fifty miles without stopping. A flat
foot was never known among them.
Neither was an arch-supporter. So
the blame for fallen arches is placed
upon narrow shoes, and the volunteer
soldier will get footwear with a fiexi-
BILE inSten
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23

American business. But their hopes
are likely to be blasted, inasmuch as
there is a widespread and increasing
distrust of the present administration
at Washington.
Germany. has convinced the world
of the value and power of efficient
| organization. The United States will
not forget the lesson and the people
generally will insist that the govern
ment keep step with private enter
prise and personal initiative in the
advancement of our business interests
and the welfare of all classes. Rail-
roads and corporations and employers
have been baited remorselessly for
several years. Now employers and
employees are standing shoulder to
shoulder for their mutual benefit.
Labor organizations are realizing that
they cannot hamper the man who
pays the wages without damaging
seriously the man who receives the
pay envelope.
Businessmen are going to have a
larger place not only in the national
administration, but in the legislatures
and municipal bodies. Business prin-
ciples are quite as important as
Theoretical and high-b brow ideas, which
ARE experimental in too many cases
and involve disaster in the last
analysis.
There is call for a straightforward
American business platform for 1916
misleading the people are going to
have a business administration at
Washington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
HYpHENATED PATRIOTISM

T<HERE is a lesson for all hyphen-
ated Americans and smile for
all true Americans in a recent
dispatch from Berlin. At the Ameri-
can Embassy in Berlin on Sunday a
weeping German woman pleaded with
Ambassador Gerard to give back her
hyphenated husbands passport. The
Ambassador had confiscated it because
of it's holders offensive remarks about
President Wilson and the American
government, which Mr.. Gerard consd-
cred insulting and verging upon trea-
son.
The man is a naturalized American,
an engineer, thirty-five years old. The
woman begged the Ambassador to re-
store the passport for only eight days
to enable her husband to go to Hol-
land and back.
Mr.. Gerard finally fathonTed the rea-
son for the women's agitation. I'M
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
THE STATE FROM DAY TOT DAY

Eighteen miles in two years and
seven months is not exactly speeding
from the viewpoint of the man who
owns Ford roadster, but at the same
time it is anything but a snail's pace
when you consider that it was turtle
that made the time. 'V d. G.. 4-15-
13" was the inscription found on the
back of a turtle at Wellsboro and the
mystery was unraveled by the discoV-
cry that the turtle had been sent from
Tyadaghton on that date by man
whose initials were V. D. G..
The Cumberland Valley Railroad is
very considerate of its patrons, judg-
ing from their recent excursion to
New York and back in two nights and
one day for the sum of three dollars.
And the twelve hundred that took ad-
vantage of the opportunity showed
that they appreciated it,
Rumor hath it that egg spectators
are holding a billion eggs in cold stor-
age down in Philadelphia, waiting for
the demand to increase so the price
can be boosted. The complaint az the
same time is that they are being sold
as fresh eggs-and the public hates to
be fooled.
A train on the way TO Williamsport
the other day was transporting a box
of beautiful bees, when the heat from
the car stirred them to life. Quickly
taking their departure, the passengers
left the conductor to fight the buzzng
beasties and finally throw them out of
the window, but not until they had
left their impress upon his anatomy.
When q man doesn't have more
than one pair of trousers, it isn't right
that he should be deprived of them.
The lone trousers in this instance be-
longed to John Lamborn, of Philadel-
phia, and had to be used in court as
evidence, a man by the name of We'd
lock having been accused of trying to
steal them. Salvation appeared in the
guise of friends trousers and our
hero appeared at court.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

INHOSE theoretical statesmen who
Il imagined that the people of the
United States could be Iulled into
Indifference toward the tariff issue by
temporary prosperity resulting from
foreign war orders are coming out of
their trance. We have emerged from
the period of hysteria during which
businessmen were ignored because
they were businessmen and theorists
were accorded the stage.
There is a demand from every
quarter for the businessman in public
station. Theoretical propagandists
are no longer occupying a large place
In the public thought. They have had
their little day and it was day en-
tirely too long for the best interests
Of all - the prosperity and happiness
and welfare of the American people.
Who shall be the next occupant of
the White House is not so important
as to what he shall be in the matter
of equipment and fitness for that high
office. Whether he comes from one
section of the country or another
makes little difference. The demand
Is for a conservative, practical, level
headed statesman who appreciates the
needs of the country and who has the
courage and the ability to administer
the affairs of the nation for the benefit
OF all the people.
Our Democratic friends are hoping
that the working man will have for
gotten before next November and the
election of 1915 the lamentable con-
sequences of the Underwood tariff and
The alleged antitrust assaults upon
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
WHAT THE ELECTIONS INDICATE
Many Lessons Can BE Learned From
the Results in Various States


That the Progressive party has dis
solved into it's original elements
mostly Republicans.
Ihat President Wilson's popularity
is confined to the members of his
own party.
That, in the language of Congress
man Longworth, protection and pre-
! aredness will be the two great issues
upon which the Republican party will
| 1916" -''
That woman suffrage in the Eastern
states is beaten but not disheartened
That attacks on the railroads, and
on big business by Governor Walsh.
OF Massachusetts, neither pleased nor
fooled the people of his State.
That Maryland and Kentucky will
be lighting ground for both parties
next year.
That the disgraceful misgovernment
of American cities is arousing tax
payers to demand efficiency and econ
omy in public administration.
That Prohibition is having it's hard
st fight in the big cities and increas-
ing its strength in the rural sections.
That the next Congress will be
more inclined to constructive than
to destructive legislation.
That the South is still solid for the
Democracy.
That New York State will be doubt
full in 1916 unless the Republican
State ticket from top to bottom is
made of the strongest men the party
can name.
That in his own State of New JERSEY
President Wilson is not stronger than
his party-nor in any other State.
That the second-term plank of
the Democratic national platform may
still mean what 1t says.
That many voters of German de-
scent intend to vote as they talk.
That the people are sick of freak
ishness" in legislation and the "Mexi-
caniZing of American institutions" as
the San Francisco Chronicle aptly saws
in commenting on the sweeping de-
feat of Governor Johnson.
That the thinking people rule
when they want toi-Leslies
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
J1TNEY REGULATIoN SUSTAINED
[From dc Scranton Republican.l

Just as The Republican predicted
the local courts have sustained the city
ordinance providing for the regulation
of the jitney service. The man who
makes business of carrying passen-
must be held responsible for the safety
of patrons entrusted to his care Just
as the trolley lines and the steam pas
senger roads are.
The city ordinance covering this
matter back of which stand the laws
of the State, is mot an unreasonable
measure. 1t is questionable whether
it provides for the amount of damages
that would be allowed in the courts
in case of severe accident. Neverthe-
less. it is believed that 1t is as drastic
as can be justified by the profits accru-
ing from the jitney service.
The city law holding jitney services
responsible for. the safety of their
passengers will have the tendency of
making the drivers of cars engaged in
this business more careful and this
Will mean fewer accidents, desidera-
tum in every large city in the United
States
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DR.. A. A. Hammersclag, promi-
nent Pittsburgh man, says in an inter-
view that he does not believe in bodily
punishment in schools.
Major ]. J. Dickinson, who has
been on trip to southern countries,
is making a series of addresses in west
ern counties.
Judge A. B. Reid, speaking in
Pittsburgh. says that the old-fashioned
life is the best.
Senator c. C. Sensenich. of West
moreland has been visiting in Ohio.
w. II. Luppold well-known Read
ing man, has been appointed to a va
cancy on the city school board.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
WEST SHORES FUTURE

A LII indications point to the begin
n ming of an epoch of unprece-
dented improvement along the
West Shore. From the mountains to
New Cumberland and from the river
west beyond Camp Hill there is spring
ing up settlement that will be even
tually one vast town. as large in area,
at least, as Harrisburg itself, and ap-
preaching this city in population.
There is manifest in these separate
communities, now so rapidly becoming
one, an admirable public spirit which,
properly directed, ought to do as much
for the GROSS river suburbs as a like
spirit has for Harrisburg in the past
fifteen years.
The grave question with which the
West Shore is now confronted is not
one of how to produce growth, but
how to control and direct growth so
that it may result in well-planned,
Systematically developed community,
instead of a haphazard, hit-or-miss
collection of buildings and a maze of
roads leading nowhere in particular
and inadequate to serve the ever
increasing traffic.
In Harrisburg this need of direction
was recognized some fifteen years ago
too late to prevent some mistakes,
but early enough to prevent many
others and to properly direct the
public spirit of the people who be-
gan then to have vision of a bigger,
better Harrisburg built along modern
lines and carefully planned to meet the
needs of the people. To-day a City
Planning Commission has that work in
charge and is in a position to help the
West Shore, but it must have the back
ing and cooperation of the people of
that locality if it is to do it's best work
there.
To-day the Telegraph publishes the
first of a series of interviews with citi-
zens of the West Shore, rejecting the
belief that the various towns making
up that district should have either a
number of local improvement asso-
Citations, which could act separately in
local matters and together when inter-
ests of all are affected, or one large
association of that nature to serve the
needs Of all. If the ideas these men
express and the possibilities they fore
see are to become realities-if their
dream of a West Shore that shall be
the ideal suburban district of all Penn
syIvania is to come true-it will have
to be through the instrumentality of
all the people working together, and
an improvement league or leagues will
provide the instrument through which
the community thought may be crys-
talized and the necessary plans de-
veloped and executed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
THIs is a question which the or

T\HIS is question which the or
ganizers of ; our prospective
volunteer army will want to ask
every American citizen of military
age. Preparedness for war involves
many things of which you never be-
fore thought in that connection. One
of them is feet. An army that cannot
march is not much good. So it is
among your foremost patriotic duties
to see that you have no corns, bunions,
blisters, or fallen arches. incidentally
this may save you carfare and improve
your golf score.
Recent experiments with the Amer
lean citizen as a soldier, like the camp
at Plattsburg last summer, indicate
that before our military authorities
could mobilize q volunteer army, they
would literally have to teach it how to
walk. Not one American civilian out
of ten is capable of marching ten miles
q day for three days in succession. A
large percentage of these amateur
troops were completely disabled in one
day. What would have happened to
them if they had been with the Rus
sian retreat from East Prussia?
Marching and running are as i'm
portant parts of war as lighting. The
British soldier is a trained athlete. In
his advances he starts like a sprinter
and stops like football player going
down on the bali. He is hard to hit.
He was the sting in the tail of the al
lied retreat across France. 1t was the
march of Jackson's foot cavalry" that
defeated Pope at the second battle of
Bull Rum Napoleon might have won
Waterloo If his army of fast-marching
veterans had not been dead.
The doctors were able to fix up a
good many of the Plattsburg troopers
so they could march fairly we'll in
about three days; but to put them in
condition for forced marches would
have been a matter of months.
Nearly every American has some
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23

Throughout the country there is a
disposition to cease batting the rail-
road and other corporations, and there
is a growing tendency toward co-opera-
tion in a restoration of prosperity
which will filter out in every direction.
1t remains now for the railroad com
panies to avoid those practices which
brought upon them an avalanche of
public criticism and unfair regulation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23

The repudistion of the Government
obligation in the matter of the re-
claiming of the Imperial Valley of
Southern California has placed Con-
gress in an unfavorable light before
the business men of the West, and
this is one of the things which will
enter into the calculation of the voters
next year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23

Since the protest against the erec-
ton of the Walnut street vaduct and
its wide approach in Walnut street
those interested in the progress and
development of the Technical High
School have been aroused to the menace
of this undertaking to that promising
Institution. They are now declaring that
the making of a traffic street of what
is now proposed as a boulevard would
be serious hindrance to the work of
"Tech"