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Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
New York Moosers
Vote to Stand Fast

ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 7.-George w.
Perkins and twenty-eight other pro-
gressives from various parts Of the state
at a closed meeting here today adopted
resolutions pledging unswerving fealty to
their party and urging any voters who
are dissatisfied with conditions in other
parties to come into the progressive
camp. ta
Harrison Deyo Of Yonkers who made
public such news as was to be given
out, said that no conferee even suggested
returning to the republican fold.
Mr.. Perkins in an address insisted that
the United States should prepare for
peace by canging the tariff and also
prepare for war. If the war were to
stop now. he insisted. Europe would flood
this country with the products OF cheap
labor and great business depression
would follow. The progressive party, he
concluded, Is the only one that offers
a plan looking to preparing this country
to fight the battles OF the industrial
marts In case of peace, or the battles Of
guns and men in case of war
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
VIENNA OVERLOOKED TO
HEAR WARSAW TAKEN

ZURICH. Switzerland Cvia London),
Aug 7.-Dispatches from Vienna state
that the public manifestations OF Joy over
the fall OF Warsaw. which were ntena-
fled by the later news Of the occupation
OF Ivengorod by the Teutons, far ex-
ceeded any jubilation since the outbreak
OF the war. Public buildings and private
houses were decorated with flags and
great crowds promenaded the streets. The
Ringstrasse in front OF the ministry Of
war was blocked by people cheering the
armies of the central allies. Tho demon
STATIONS continued until the early hours
this morning.
According to private reports from Berlin
the calling up OF the unframed landstrum
between the ages OF ~ and IS. In various
towns generally is meeting with vigorous
opposition on the part OF manufacturers
who have held several conferences with
the military authorities. Until now these
classes have been called only from the
rural districts.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
Price Thinks Youth
Should Be Fighters

w. r. Price Of Lincoln thinks the
youth OF tho United States should not
be trained to yield too easily when faced
with the alternative OF putting up a
fight.
Similarly he thinks the nation should
not sit passively and let other nations
walk over us Mr., Price IL In full accord
with the view OF Frank L. Halter. who
told the business men at their ohautaudua
that the young men OF the country needed
TO be taught respect for authority.
'why." said Mr.. Price. ARE we going
to let other nations do what they want
to toward us without protesting. am
opposed TO Il. The people as a whole. /
think. are with President Wilson in his
attitude.
Mr. Price was In the early days OF Mr..
Bryan's residence In the west one OF his
most ardent friends. lie recently paid q
visit TO Washington while Mr.. Bryan was
stlll secretary and protested against too
much peace in the policy OF any govern
Inent.
You've got to let your neishbors know
you're alive once In a WHILE" declared he
TO The Bee, in order to maintain your
self-respect."
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
MAN STRUCK DOWN BY CAR
OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER

r. N. George was struck and painfully
hurt by car driven by County Commits
sioner Best on Eighteenth street between
Farnam and Douglas streets about 6
o'clock last evening. George. who was on
q bicycle. rode out OF the alley beside
the telephone building, in which he Is
employed, just as Mr.. Best, with a party
OF four, drove up the street.
Although the automobile was moving
slowly, Il was impossible to stop before
II struck the bicycle, throwing George to
the pavement with considerable force.
The auto was stopped within two or three
feet of the spot George was not run
over, having been knocked to one side
by the fender. DIT. zimmerer attended
the injured man. The injuries are not
serious. but Mr.. George was taken to the
Swedish Mission hospital, where he will
probably remain for several days.
Those who witnessed the accident seem
unanimous IN declaring that Mr.. Best
handled his car well under the circum-
stances.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
Dies from Thirst
As Car Breaks Down
In Western Desert

Los ANGELES. Cal, Aug. 7.-Failure
to think OF putting water in an automo-
bile radiator brought death to one man
and frightful tortures to two others who
arrived here from the desert and told Of
their sufferings.
The trio. James s. Roche and John H.
Welsh, attorneys, and James @. Clark.
a real estate dealer. left here Sunday in
an automobile for FL Centre in the I'M
perial valley.
Monday morning the car stopped in the
sand. The passengers found the radiator
empty and mad no water. Roche and
welsh started after a mirage, which they
believed was the salton sea. Clarke
waited a day and then, believing them
dead. made his way to Mineral Springs.
where he was resusciated and organized
a rescue party. They found Roche un-
conscious and Walsh dead. Roche said
they drank lubrioating oil.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
Culls from the Wire

The Lsocomobile Company OF America
announced at Bridgeport, Conn. II would
institute an eight-hour work day In its
plant should the employees desire that
instead Of the profit-sharing plan re-
Gently proposed.
The Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific
passenger train from Kansas City to
st. Paul. via Des Moines was wrecked
several miles south OF Owatonna, Mimi,
Al the coaches turned over. but none
Of tvs passengers was injured.
Kansas City, Mo-. was selected as the
next meeting place OF the American
Osteopathic association at the closing
session of its nineteenth annual conven-
ton at Portland Ore. Resolutions favor
ing national prohibition and opposing
militarism were adopted. The conven-
ton favored the compulsory reporting
OF all social diseases to boards OF health.
Miss Margaret Blttner was exonerated
by q Chicago coroners jury at the CON
efuaion OF the inquest over the bodies
~ George II. Jones, the haywood gar
ilge owner who shot and killed bis wife
}lis wife's brother and sister, John ID
and then committed suicide last Mon
Say, Testimony at the inquest showed
that the tragedy was the outeOIse OF
e love affair between JOnes and Mas
The name OF Robert Wilcox was taken
from the roll Of those indicted for par
uelpauon IN the alleged Panama zons
supply purchase frauds at New York.
Wilcox was Indicted with John Burke,
On charge OF Offering q bPibe IJpon
production Of Wilcoxs books by his
lawyers United States District ATTORNEY
Marshall was convinced that the cbarse
was unfounded- While Burke gave Wil-
cox a large order for Kerosene il was
shown that the government has actually
saved money BY the transaction
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
Dads of the Race Arraigned

Then again they say It's political. It's
no such thing. We don't give a darn
whether fellow Is Presbyterian OF bull
moose. we want him there for his prac-
teal hard sense about the handling OF
growing children.
Federal statistics show that Of every
100 boys that start into the grade schools,
only five finish high school, Yet every
mother thinks when she ties whites tic
the first morning that he Is going through
high school. She fails In ninety-five casee
out OF 100 Is she altogether 10 blanc
What hand has father been taking in the
course Of that boys Development
Look herel II farmer starts to shell
corn. and shovels 100 ears OF corn into
the hopper and az the other end OF tho
machine finds that only five Of them are
sheiled. what does he do9 lie stops the
machinery at once and fixes the shelter "
When a case OF notoriously delinquent
young girl In central Iowa was attract
ing great deal OF attention and the
mother was blamed for the delinquency
stevenson. just for gamble, bet friend
in Council Bluffs y that the father was
as much to blame as the mother. II not
more so. Then. he spent so OF his own
money to visit the town and investigate
The facts he unearthed OF the father
delinquency, which had actually started
the once devoted mother on the down
road, won him the 3, but the expense
OF the investigation, which was 80 he
bore himself.
I've got a couple OF three dollars and
six-bits ia Just as soon spend that waS
as any other" said stevenson. I'm
simply tired Of hearing the mothers con-
tlnuaily blamed for not bringing w
angels"
No. the club doesn't have TO be com
posed OF preachers. That Is clearly shown
by the fact that federal Judges, lawyers
manufacturers, doctors. wholesalers re
tailers and men in every field OF WORK
have Joined the clubs.
'It's no place for the fellow that wants
20 wear a hustle or q corset" says stew
enson. I'VE get the practical men we
have the men who have opinions and are
not afraid to speak them out. Some oil
them say damn when they are enthust
asticaily discussing a point but we are
getting results"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
Blackwell's Island
Not Pleasant Place

ALBANY. n, Y. Aug, 7.-Condltions at
the Blackwells Island prison we're Sc
vereiy criticised and blame for them
placed directly on the New York City
department Of corrections, OF which Kath-
erin b. Davis Is the head. IT. a majority
report on an investigation OF the insti-
tuition made public by the State Com
mission on Prisons today. The report
recommends the dismissal OF Warden
Patrick Hayes.
Among the findings of the commission
are;
That the administration OF the peni-
Tertiary IL too severe, harsh and repres-
sive
That over 1000 prisoners are confined
two in a cell with an air space OF about
$50 cubic feet. which IL grave menace
to health.
That healthy prisoners are doubled uT
with prisoners affected with tvberculosIs
and other diseases.
That the cells are more or less infested
with vermln.
That prison guards on various ocoaaionS
have struck prisoners with clubs and
their fistA.
That on two occasions hose OF about
seventy pounds pressure was played upon
prisoners, who were making q disturb
nnce In their cells.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08

Look after the kids9 I should say
not. That's what the old woman Is
for
This statement. or the sentiment in
substance. was heard 80 often from men
who thoaght themselves too busy to give
their children any attention that Stymest
Stevenson. a lumbermsn of Council
Bluffs. got entirely disguised with Is.
So he called little meeting in the
Madison avenue school In Council Bluffs
some two years ago. Then he lectured
the dozen fellows that came. He told
them just what he thought they as
fathers. owed to their children.
What sort Of father are you?'
That Is what he wanted TO know. Some
had little TO say in defense of their at
titude toward their children. one man,
hard pressed for an answer. finally ad-
mitted that he had never given fifteen
minutes a day to his children, although
he was the father OF six.
Then and there Stymest Stevenson or
eaniEed the dozen men into a Fathers
club, the first in the world. other
neighborhoods followed the example, I'm
| til today there Is Fathers club in
every one OF the fourteen ward schools
~ SSeiASA 4eAtAAHt NilcTt dFN upWhtNh VI
1000 members in ALL they are united
into n federation o. fathers clubs, and
have already. for a year or more. taken
active part in municipal and state leg
islation on the matter OF cigaret and
tobacco laws, Juvenile court matters
matters OF sanitation In the ward schools
and on the efficiency or non-efficiency
Of some of the teachers Of Council Bluffs
Tacoma, Wash, has caught the spirit
and now has a club Of 1900 members
Des Moines and Guthrie Center. Ia, have
substantial Fathers clubs patterned
after stevenson's club. and all are do
ing effective work.
Stevenson gave the matter a great
deal OF thought for years before he
started to organize. He marshalled the
facts and tho evidence 30 strongly
against the fathers that he can convince
most any father Of his own delinquency
In the matter OF taking the responsible
ity of head OF family. ...'.'...
There never was a man that could
stand the fire OF stevenson's arguments
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
Twenty Thousand to
Aid Flood Sufferers

ERIE, Pa. Aug. with hundreds Of
workers clearing away the debris along
the path of Tuesdays flood, about 800
100 was raised today for relieving the
suffering Of victims.
Monday a committee Of 100 business
men will begin a canvass to raise huge
fund and from this money those who
have lost their all in the disaster will be
given a new start in life.
The state health authorities are taking
sanitary precautions to avoid an epidemic.
State police have taken charge of the
guard work in the stricken district. There
was little footing reported today and few
arrests were made In the flood zone.
Three bodies were recovered today and
ali have been identified. They are:
WILLIAM DEWITT.
MRS. MINNIE STOZER
EDWARD CARRIER
This brings the number of known dead
to twenty-nine. with many others unac-
counted for.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
FORTS OF WARSAW
ARE UNDAMAGED
Defenses Of Polish Capital Fall
Virtually Intact Into Ger
man Hands.
THOSE OF 1vANGOROD RAzED

BERLIN (via London), Aug. Z.
The forts OF Warsaw have fallen
virtually unchanged into the hands
Of the Germans, according to infor-
nation reaching here. The defenses
OF Ivangorod, however, were de-
stroyed by the Russians before their
retirement. The garrisons OF the
two fortresses appear to have COM
pleted the evacuation without ma
terlal loss and to have carried away
a large part of the stores and MUM
tons Of war accumulated in Warsaw
for the armies in Poland.
Some disappointment Is expressed
among the Germs people AZ the failure
OF The Teatonio forces to make an impCs-
ing capture Of prisoners and guns IN
Warsaw but military experts here do not
share this feeling.
Significance OF Capture.
They point out as the real significance
OF the capture OF the two fortresses that
the Russians thereby nave lost the forth
fled baso OF operations which gave them
such Immense advantage in the earlier
movements IN Poland and that this adj
vantage now has been transferred 20 the
Germans, who can utilize Il either for de-
fensive strategy or TO facilitate q further
offensive campaign against the Russien
army.
II prisoners and guns are desired there
Ia still q chance OF making a consider
able capture, the military writer's say, for
the Russians crowded within the long
salient running out 70 the fortress Of No
vogeorRievsix are in n precarious post
ton. with German armies on three
sides. the mouth of the Jack from which
they must escape Is scarcely dozen
miles wide and from the north General
Won Gallwitz's army has broken through
the defensive lines ana 10 pressing ire
sistibly down toward tire Narew river.
Grand Dukes Plan.
No indications OF an evacuation OK
NovoReorgievsk by the Russians have
been received here and Grand Duke
Nicholas commander-in-chicf OF the BUS
sian armies perhaps may intend TO
leave the garrison IN this fortress. which
,s really stronger and more important
than Warsaw, to stand a siege.
The Russians still hold the eastern
hank OF the Vistula Il Warsaw and COM
uand the crossing here, which is so Inn
portant in facilitating the orderly retreat
by the railroads which converge at this
point.
No details OF the capture OF Warsaw
beyond the meager official reports nave
been received here. number cf GER
man war correspondents arrived In the
vicinity OF the Polish capital few Gays
ago, but have not vet been able 10 fend
any dispatches.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
RUSSIAN FORCES
EYACUATE KOYNO
Fortress Of First Class, Forming End
Of New Slav Line Of Defense,
Given Up.
GOVERNOR AND AIDES GONE

LONDON, Aug. IA dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Copenhagen
says:
THE Russians are evacuating
Kovno. The governor and his staff
and the banks have gone. The popu-
lation has been leaving for the past
week"
Kovno; fortress Of the first class,
is the capital Of the government of
the same name in northwest Russia.
II has been stated that Kovno was
to form the northern head OF the
new Russian line Of Kovno, Grodno
and Brest-Litovsk. The city has a
population of between $4,000 and
100000.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
Russians Declare
Warsaw Evacuated
To Spare the City

PETRoGRAD. Aug. 7.-Cvia London y
The following official communication wa
made public tonight,
There IL no appreciable change In the
situation. Between the Dvina and Me
men rivers. we yesterday repulsed the
Germans.
There was desperate fighting through
out the night of August 4, and ali
OF yesterday on tho left bank Of the
Narew on the Rozan-ostrolenlsa-o strov
roads. A series OF vigorous counter at
tacks by our troops held up the enemy
along an extended front. At a distance
OF about ten versts (about six and one
fourth miles) from the river, we captured
several hundred prisoners. Violent fight
ing continues.
along the middle vistula all 10 quiet
since our retreat to the right bank.
"wArsaw was evacuated in order to
save the town from the effects Of a
hombardment
1.-THE fruitless attempts OF the enemy
to extend the zone OF It's occupation II
only being continued In the region Of
MatzievitSe."
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
Tractor Being Used
To Tear Up Roadway

Traction machinery Is being used in
the preparatory grading ON West Broad
way. Council Bluffs. where Contractor
Wickham is engaged in removing the
central strip Of macadam and replacing
It with Galesburg block laid on a con-
crete base. A powerful traction engine is
pulling pillow and tearing up the old
rocky base with apparent ease.
The work was first attempted by men
using picks, but was found slow and diff
neult, Then several heavy horses were
attached to strong pillow, but the task
was too much for them. The powerful
tractor was then resorted to with COM
plete success. The work is being pushed
rapidly and the street will not be inter-
fered with to any great extent.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
Convicts Prefer Being
Bumped to Being Shot

SPOKANE, Wash. Aug. Thirty
seven conviots on a motor truck, which
was crossing a railroad track here late
today. realized that a collision with an
approaching switch engine was inevitable.
but they refrsined from Jumping for fear
of being shot by armed guards following
in an automobile. The engine crashed
squarely into the truck and seven OF the
prisoners were severely injured. two
probably fatally. Twenty others sus-
tained cuts and bruises. The convicts
were being taken back to prison after a
days work in flax fields. They saw the
engine in time to Jump to safety, but
thought the guards in the automobile
would not understand the situation ana
would begin firing.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08

for twenty minutes at stretch" said a
Council Bluffs man. in discussing Stew
enson's organization.
Make the indifferent different" IL
the slogan OF the club.
II know when people hear the word
Fathers club" says Stevenson. they
think we are a bunch OF sunbonnet sissies.
chewing white gum and splitting in the
coal bucket at the meetings But they
are wrong. we are not angels. We are
no better than anyone else We only
want 30 wake the fathers up to their re-
sponsibility. and they all wake up when
they hear few lectures on the subject.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
TREATING MADE ILLEGAL
BY A BRITISH LAW

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 7.-rreatins has
been made illegal in a new ana drastic
order regulating the sale OK hauor III
saloons and clubs here. credit also mas
been abolished. The period IN wmun
the liquor may be sold Is limited 10 i'Ne
and a half hours per day.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
Victory Shots" Fired
To Celebrate Victory

LONDON. Aug 1.-THE Amsterdam
correspondent OF the Exchange telegraph
company sends the following:
"a Berlin dispatch states that General
Won Kessel. military commander Of Ber-
lin. ordered a salute OF sixty victory
shots fired at noon today in honor CT
taking Warsaw"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08
FRANCE SETS ASIDE MONEY
TO BUY CIVILIANS FOOD

PARIS. Aug. 1.-THE Chamber OF
Deputies today passed a bill carrying an
appropriation of 100 million francs (s21,-
100000. to be used in the purchase Of
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08

wheat and flour for feeding the civil
population. The limit OF such purchases
Is fixed at 20o,00o.Ooo francs.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08

can be rented quickly and cheaply by q
Bee For Rent
Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-08

sses CT Il @ = $::zF q - Go On Sale Monday
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-09

ARRAS DESTROYED - GERMAN
OFFICERS SLAIN BY TURKS
Hull, EngIand.-Wilson liner Guide
torpedoed and sank off North Scot
land today. Crew saved.
Berlin, via Wireless to -SayYiIIe, L. !.
-Arras still burning. Result of bonn
bardment by German artillery, &C
cording to dispatches from headquar-
tiers today. Practically all enemy's
supply stations in city destroyed.
Rome. - Tribunals ConstantinopIe
correspondent reported Turkish sol
diers in garrison at Ottoman capital
revolted and killed 100 German
officers.
Rome. - Austro-Gernans offered
Serbia terrific in Albania and an
outlet on Adriatic if she would con-
sent to immediate peace, Nish cor
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STORM DEATHS TO REACH As
TORNADO TEARS THINGS UP
Cincinnati, o., July 9.-31 known
dead, with estimated total Of As lives
lost and property loss Of over $1,0O0,-
900 is latest summing up of havoc
wreaked by Wednesday nights tor
nado.
Police searching for Is persons still
missing. Believe those unaccounted
for are dead. At least six are believed
buried in hUlks of sUnken steamboats,
in Ohio river. About $50 are injured,
some seriously. Cleanup work is
progressing rapidly.
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SAID HE EGQ-

SAID THE EGG
'My brother has made a tremen-
dOus success as an actor. He was
cast for the heavy villain and made
a great hitp"
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Of the present system by harnessing
the very forces which under other
circumstances possibly would bring
about a collapse.
'In the United States the tendency
toward the government ownership of
great industries has been shown by
the support given Mr.. McAdoo's ship
ping bill. The Pan-American ship
ping combine proposed at the recent
Pan-American financial conference
at Washington is but another eXem-
plifcation of this tendency.
There is a bill in congress, which
shall come up at the next session,
providing for the operation by this
government of a great trading COM
pany, designed to compete with pri-
waite concerns in the coastWise and
foreign trade. The bill provides not
only for the transportation, but for
the manufacturing and selling of
products by the government. These
are among the strong measures
sought to be taken by a neutral pow
er. Perhaps it is to be expected that
beIIigerent nations will go further.
"The official who has evolved this
plan is in constant communication
with the great financiers and states
men Of the European nations"
-O-O-
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respondent Of Giornale D'Itaia re-
ported. Offer refused. ..
Copenhagen. - Danish schooner
Ellen, bound-fo Liverpool with cargo
of lumber, halted in North sea and
set afre by German submarine. Crew
saved.
Pretoria. - Gen. Botha, command
ing British. forces in South Africa,
has accepted surrender of entire Ger
man forces in Southwest Africa. Hos
tilities have ceased.
Rome. - Austrians have launched
thousands of floating mines in the
Adriatic. From the Austrian naval
base at Pola they have been carried
southwark and along Italian coast
Sailing ship sighted one of the mines
off Bari yesterday and exploded it
with rifle shots.
Geneva. - Austrian military au-
thorities Selling printing presses and
type and converting them into war
munitions.
Athens.-TUrkish arsenal at Cor
nedor partially destroyed by eXplO-
sion of unknown origin early today.
from Constantinople said
shock was felt there and caused a
panic, people lieVing Russian Black
Sea fleet had blown up BOsphorus
fort.
STORM DEATHS TO REACH As
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America knew him, except the slum
children and the ward boss who gave
him his job-driving garbage cart.
That was yesterday. Today the
world knows CulOtte as hero, and
he'll probably be decorated" with
the Carnegie medal for braaery.
Culotte, the white Wings, be-