Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-02
COMMITTEES WILL
HELP DRY FIGHT
Secretary Coates of Iowa Tenn.
perance Workers Says
Outlook Good.
LAWMAKERS WILL ASSIST

Des Moines, Ia, Dec. l.-(Special
Telegram)-A. U. Coates, secretary
of Iowa Prohibitory Amendment as
ISOLATION, and associated prohibition
workers, believes two important tenn
perance committees in the next gen
eral assembly will be absolutely
dry
For the first time in eight years
we are going to have dry temperance
committees said Mr.. Coates today.
81 have had conference with L. r.
Moore. lieutenant governor-clect,
concerning his appointments to those
committees for suppression of intern
perance and constitutional amend
ments and suffrage, and his suggcs-
tons meet with our approval.
THE legislators suggested for those
important bodies are in majority
dry | am willing to accept the new
lieutenant governors assurances.
"Mr. Moore is lined up on our side
in the fight for temperance,
Guards to Revolt.
A fight for legislation in congress
which will divorce the National
Guard and the regular army is pre-
dicted to take place this winter by
Colonel Smith Brookhart of Wash
now in Washington, d. c. The
guardsmen oppose modelling the
army along the lines of Prussian
aristocratic ideas and will demand
that it be organized with the French
idea of equality between officers and
men. 1--WE do not oppose universal
training" said Colonel Brookhart,
but when young man is given
period of intensive training he must
also be given vocational training and
be fitted for civil life when he leaves
the army"
Schools Need More Money.
State Superintendent A. NJ. Deyoe
declares in his report to the governor
that the schools need more money.
The appropriation of $125,000 for
normal training work should be in
creased to $l50000. This fund is dis
tributed among the schools Of the
state which maintain normal training
courses. Each school which meets
the state requirements in this work
receives $3.50 a year from the state
fund. The consolidated school ap-
preparation for the last two years
was 100000. Mr.. Deyoe says that
owing to the increase in the number
of districts and the expected growth
in the next two years the fund for
the state aid should be increased to
$l25,OOO.
State Gets Big Check.
The state treasury yesterday received
a Thanksgiving present in the shape
of check for $6,257 from the estate
of Mary G. Turner of Marshalltown,
payment of collateral inheritance tax
on $l24000, which was given by will
to collateral heirs.
Many Go to Stock Show.
Iowa will be we'll represented at
the big International Live Stock ex-
position to be held in Chicago, De-
cember to 9. The Iowa Draft Horse
Breeders, who will make a collective
exhibit in barn 20, is backing the Iowa
horse exhibit and it is predicted that
many blue-ribboned animals will be
in the show. The state college farm
at Ames is taking some high class
shorthorns and herefords. Breeders of
pure bred stock from all parts of the
state are planning on attending, as
are also state officials.
r. D,,:1J Na,,, pr;Joa
A fve-span concrete arch bridge is
to be built over the Des Moines river
on Grand avenue to cost $4,000. The
contract was awarded to William
Horrabin of Iowa City by the city
council late yesterday afternoon. This
will make the third concrete arch
bridge to span the river in the dis
trict which connects the business part
Of East and West Des MONIES. There
will be an eighty-foot roadway across
the bridge. Work will start within a
short time.
Iowa's Official Vote.
Iowa's official vote for presidential
electors shows 279,34l for Charles
Evans Hughes and 2l6,77l for Wood
row Wilson. The Hughes plurality
was 62,570. The total vote for presi-
dent was 4o6,1l2. The highest vote
cast in this state was in 1900 in the
campaign, when the
Iowa vote for the seven candidates
for president was 530,355.
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