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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-10
TELLS OF
GREAT RECORD
BY THE. STATE
COMPENSATION DEPT.
Cash on Hand and Invested
Now Two aadrOne Half
Millions.

With Two and half million cash
on hand and invested for the state
compensation fund, stat" C0mpenSa-
lion Commissioner Lee OFT makes the
following statement:
The financial condition Of the state
compensation fund al the present
time is most gratifying. and | am
greatly pleased with The work OF the
We have The Fund in a
solvent condition, taking 1t as Z unit,
and If We were 10 quit business today.
taking the Fund as Il whole. we would
pay out every cent of its liability. and
have Il surplus Of about $4,000. Con
sidering the handicap VIC We're work
ing under during the first fifteen
months Of the operation OF this Fund,
| feel that we have done Il great work
for the citizens Of West Virginia.
Tho financial statement of the Fund
as Of March 81, 1917. Is a follows:
RECEIPTS
MD Senos;isi .s4.3?S.0ls.ll
Interest $1,000 81
Total S4.56l.5"S.64
~ DlSBU RS;ME:NTS.
Benefits paid ............. i.s2h' ?4S't3
Investments ............:.. i.U9b'ape'oo
20, Isi5 ..'"............. I37,s6T.l}
To.ai ....... s.. 76I. 1850
ASH on hand " 500 l@3.02
Total cash on hand and
Invested .............. i9p,o-''V+
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-10
Then The Attack

As dawn approached the Brit
i-h .tterIes one by one became
Srra is silent. For i half hour
The lness was almost oppres-
sly The hot pit flashes disan-
pearrd. All this time, however,
he German star shells and flares
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18
Musical Calendar

February 10, Omaha Mendelssohn
Choir and Minneapolis Sym
phony Orchestra, Omaha Audi
forum, 8:l5 p. m. Last number
of the Associated Retailers con-
cert course.
February 20, Leopold Godowsky,
piano recital, Brandeis theater,
$50 p. m. Auspices of the Tues
day Morning Musical club.
February Is, Paul Reimers, noted
tenor, Metropolitan club house,
$3.50 p. m. ..'-.
February 81; Mrs. Louise Shadduek
Zabriskie, and Mrs. Edith L.
Wagner, first annual sonata re-
cital at the First Christian church,
Twenty-sixth and Harvey streets,
BIS p. M.
February %, Nine, Charlotte
Lund, Norwegian soprano, in re-
cital at the Y. w. c. A. audi
torium,. Sis p. m.
March 3, Sis p. M, Nine. Mar
guerite Melville Lischniewska,
piano recital, Brownell Hall.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18
!. MUSIC.

| ton individually which he could give
in private work. attention which the
innumerable details Of musical educa-
ton a pupil must know to progress
actually demand. For these reasons
it is only under rare circumstances
that good teachers will accept any
class work of this kind and then only
in small classes where they can listen
carefully to unison work and devote
as much time as possible to each
member.
But in the hands of the poorly pre-
pared or purely mercenary teacher the
class lesson becomes a dep1orable
abuse, and many are the hopes and
aspirations wrecked on account OF it.
Many also are the dollars which the
teacher takes in under the false pre-
tense OF teaching poor people or their
children music, dollars which they can
i'll afford to spare. The class assumes
large proportions, and the individual
tone is swallowed up in the general
mass of sound. The teacher can not
possibly hear and correct each one.
Wrong notes slip in, bad habits are
lOi llCu anu WlOHS lluSIdl luCdS UC-
come fixed in the mind, while the ear
instead of being sharpened to dis
criminate between tones, becomes in
different to discord. For this kind OF
work each pupil in the class pays a
fee almost equal to the sum he would
have to pay for private lessons from
a good teacher. Many times there are
good young teachers just starting
who would teach for almost the same
fee. Yet this kind of teacher may
have from ten up in class, thus re-
ceiving more for his time while he
gives less knowledge than any
teacher in private lessons. Then, if
later the pupil wishes to go on
with his work, what is his dismay
to find that he must unlearn all he
has done and acquire new habits and
a new point of view entirely. Nine
times out of ten he becomes discour-
aged and gives it up, and musical
talent that with careful handling in
the beginning might have been devel-
oped to bring much pleasure into the
world is crushed out or blighted be-
yond recovery.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

deepest longings. For the works shine
of their own intrinsic worth. Several
of the artists whose masterful works
hang reticently on these dimly lighted
walls are not now producing the equal
of these works, Many years hence,
when another generation of artists
stand before these immortal paint
ings, they will wonder how mere men,
living SO many years before, could
have known so much and have painted
so we'll. 1t is true that the most dis
eliminating observer will not fail to
be profoundly impressed by these
works. The only pity is that the paint
ings cannot be seen in a light and
environment more in keeping with
their greatness.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18
By GEORGE BARKER.

@ STRANGER in Omaha
| A with a hunger for good art
IA and a few hours of day
~ light which he might call
3S his own, might happily
S employ his time could he
but know where our art treasures lie.
But he would never, never find them
if not especially directed by one of
the initiated. The hotels exhibit no
announcements of them, the police
do not know of them and the conduc-
tors on the street cars could hardly be
expected to mention them; yet who
else might one ask2 The Commercial
club might tell OF the Lininger gal
lery, but not everyone interested in
art would have access to this kindly
source of information.
But if through sheer luck or by &C
cident he should find himself within
the Liningcr gallery at Eighteenth
and Davenport streets he would there
discover as much art as he could abb
sorb and amusement and diversion
would be his. Should he happen to
be a supersensitive mortal in search
of really great works. he would find
in The Philosophers Den" work of
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

DR.. Bells Pine-Tar- Honey.
For your cold and bronchial cough, use
DR.. Belts Tar Honey It cuts the
phlegm. relieves congestion. Only Csc, All
druggists -Advertisement.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18
Music, Art and Drama
Where to Go and What to See
Ofon Artistic Nature IN Omaha

the noblest qualities. For this work
was painted before the days when ar
lists went crazy over impressionism
and contains the subdued charms that
we're fascinating to big artists forty
years. ago. The canvas has a lovely
quiet old tone and is painted with
rare ability, and it is safe to predict
that this picture will still be consid-
cred great when many of the later
day impressionistic works are hang
ing in dark cellars or store room.
Another praiseworthy painting
which the discriminating art lover
would find is the Return of Spring"
by Bougereau, which work put Omaha
discreditibly before the art world
some twenty-six years ago, when a
Jealous religionist, shocked by the alb
sence of clothing about the painting,
hurled chair against the dainty.
chaste, nude figure, puncturing the
canvas horribly. The late Mr.. Lin
niger afterwards redeemed Omaha by
purchasing the painting in Paris, after
it had been repaired by the master
himself. The painting was one of Mr.
Lininger's favorites. While it was
painted early in the artists career,
and is not as delightful as some of his
later works, such as "The Bathers"
in the Chicago Art institute, it is,
nevertheless, "Bougereau" and has
much of the inimitable charm which
made that artists work so universally
admired.
But should the art-hungry one not
have received his fiji from the con-
temptation of these older works, he
will have but short walk to the
public library, where on the top floor
he may see some Of the choicest can
vases to be found anywhere. 1t is not
necessary for the lover of great art
to travel half way across the con-
tinent, suffering Inconvenience and
expense and loss of valuable time to
find works Of the highest order, for
to the right and to the left of the
main stairway leading to the third
floor, hanging eight feet above the
height of the eye, are two master
pieces of which Paris, London or New
York might be proud. Many of us
have travelled thousands of miles to
see less worthy works than these,
which represent Davis and Dessar at
their best.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

OF course, there are private collec-
tons in Omaha of more than ordinary
merit, but the visitor has but little
chance of ever seeing these. But il
there were nothing else of highly
nature, the collections before men
toned would be we'll worth visit
to Omaha to see.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

Even with the most competent
teacher this is true, for progress is
necessarily slow, and governed by the
dullest pupil in the class who con-
stantly holds the others back. The
teacher cannot possibly give to each
one of the pupils the undivided atten-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

Many letters of appreciation have
been received from readers OF the lit
tie pamphlet, Without Prejudice, !"
which was issued by the Art Gid last
month. One article on the meaning
Of technic is especially fine and may
be printed in these columns in the
near future.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

A few steps farther, partly con-
cealed in the dim light OF the gallery,
one may hunt out the finest examples
Of Robert Reid, Whitman, Couse,
Redheld, Palmer, Meakin and OF other
artists perhaps greater in name if not
in quality. Here the visitor may be
filled with expressions as beautiful as
dreams, finding qualities to cancel his
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

Class lessons with but two or three
in class have been tried with fair
success in some voice and piano
studios. These have resolved them
selves into short individual lessons for
each one and whatever the pupil may
learn from listening for the rest Of
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

Give your Want AID chance to
make good, Run it in The Bee.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18
By HENRIETTA M. REEFS.

- LASS lessons are considered
~ in this editorial. The class
lesson idea is a plan
x~ whereby teacher essays
IWSI to teach the uses of a
SS musical instrument to a
class Of pupils, instead of to individ-
ual pupils inprivate lessons. 1t is sup
posed to be scheme whereby people
can get music lessons cheaper than
would be possible, otherwise, but as a
matter of fact, this is not so. Class
lessons are only successful in the
practical study of an instrument as
supplementary to individual lessons,
where they have place, and are of
value in the advancement OF general
musical knowledge. Otherwise, in the
opinion of many Of the leading local
teachers they are but a makeshift, in
which vast amount of time and a
considerable amount of money accom-
plishes minimum of result. Really,
they are the most expensive means of
studying music. ..
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

Confined on Page Five, cesmn Thres.)
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

The pupils Of Miss ida NJ Morse viii give
a piano recital Thursday evening, February
az, at 8 o'clock at the SCHNEIDER & Mue-
street, Pupils taking part are: =.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

The Concordia Singing society will give an
afternoon concert Sunday, February 49, at
$50 at the Omaha Musk verein, Seven
teenth and Cass streets. Besides various
choral numbers the program will contain a
group Of vtoiin music, including duet for
violin and clarinet. played by two members
of the society. Mr.. Harry Disbrow will
sing two solos, and one-act comic operetta
will be given. Miss Helen Mackin and Mrs.
Dfsbrow will act as accompanies.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-18

Paul Reibers tenor who appears at the
Metropolitan Club House next Sunday after
noon, Is called the Master of Lieder, Chan
con and Folk Song" Mr.. Reimers appeared
in Omaha before the Tuesday Morning Mu-
steal club and made an instantaneous hit
last season. His programs are most enjoy
able, and the one to be given next Sunday
afternoon will be no exception.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-06
That The I. W. ". Won't Work.

We hear much less of this than formerly. It hung on under the operation of that bromide that we are inclined to believe what we wish to believe. At the outset the worker was not supposed to have the moral right to refuse work whatever the terms or conditions might be. The l. w w. challenged that pratic2 and had the hardihood to go hungry and endure the bufetings of the police rather than work under conditions that were wholly intolerabie. His idea frank Iy is that his labor power is a con1- modity whose value is determined in precicely the same way as ig the value of other commodities and if he gave any thought to moral right at all he felt that he had a right to withhold his power to work if less than its value was offered.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-06

of the "gaecanny' of tho Scotch factory worNers. Certain it is that emery dust went into the lubriCdt- ing oil of printieg machinery long before the French peasant hurled his sabot into the loom he rebelliou5ly cursed. In principle the I. w. w. will and does develop in response to the industrial conditions in any pa. tiCular country
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-06
OF ESkIMOS TRACED
 MJSICALIT.

Primitive music hitherto has been little regarded from the standpoint Of racial history. Such facts IS have been gathered about tribal rhythms and melodies have been much exploited as material for the composition of eXotic-s0Inding but they have been little applied to the comparative study If lost or disappearing civilizations If sOme traveller today discovers folk tune in Abyssinia, inevitably soue com poser tomorrow will write an "Abyssinian' intermczzo for full orchestra, with a number Of new instruments added. If an anti .uar- ian goes into the back country oI Peru and brings out a strange nie- lody from the mountain people, 2 musician is sure to seize upon it at once as the theme of an aria for an inca opera.
 Breaking away rom the ldea that the present use of a folk tune is what count. for most, Christian Leden, the Arctic explorer, has in vestigated Eskimo music in Green land with the purpose of learning it's past significance.
 Startling with the idea that the origins or a race can be studied as well through music as through spoken lore, he has taken phono- graphic records of Eskimo singing, as he has heard it under both do- mestic and ceremonial conditions. The way that people expresses it. self in music does not change so much, according to him, as does its way of expressing it.clf through other forms of culture. The Eski- mos of the present time, as he has noted his theories to interviewers, have the same manner of vocal de- livery, the same way of putting stres. on a tone and the same me thod for constructing a melody that their ancestors had centuries ago.
 Going on the theory that races have permanent traits of voice, rhythm and tune, Mir. Leden has compared his records of Eskimo singing with his own and other travellers records of American In dian einging; and he has come to the conclusion that the Eskimo tribes of Greenland and the Indian tribes of both North and South Am erica have a common ancestry. In fact, he holds that he has found strong argument showing the Eskimos to be descendants of Am erican Indians who were driven northward perhaps thousands of years ago and who have since re mained isolated there.
 One of the peculiarities which the explorer, talking informally with journalists, has mentioned as common to Eskimo and American Indian singing is a sliding, or glis- sardo, accent of important phra es. There are other details which he 1 has submitted to ethnologists. He has yet to make a complete popular presentation of his researches.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-06

America would not be the most hated nation on earth if the admi- nistration had follow ed the advice of the Socialists and absolutely for bidden the exportation of {. muni- tons or food during the progress of the war
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-06

A Canadian woman has written to the department of militia asking that her husband, who has enlisted. be put in the front of the fighting in the hope that he would be :hct.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-06
BOWLING ALLEY REOPENS.

The Bowling Alley next door to the Eagle saloon is now open for business. Everybody cordially in. vited to come and enjoy themselves.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-06
That It is An Alien Importation.

This is the more readily accepted Of all the stock objections. It's jus tihcation i. not conceded even if true since much that we hold worthy, Christianity on it.; hand, is from the East In point of fact the l W. W. is most markedly Am ericau in origin, in development and in some unavoidable if unw orthy ristics,-Anerjcan pluck, fortitudc. courage, hardihOod and liberty loving ideaism. It was founded by American citizens many of whom were oG notable intellectu- al attairments A. NJ. Simons, Daniel De Leon, and Eugene '. Dehs. colobaring with William L. Trautmau, William D. Haywood and other Iabcr men who had been brought to the fore by conditions and cxigencics distinctly and pecu- liarly American. It ha, remained of.ccred. led and sponsored by Am CTlC dH NIlILCIlS Ill il1 l"l oi 't''SA part and it's membership today will stand an eighty per cent test of American nativity.
 les, it is quite true that the labor complement Of the l. w. w. exists in Eurore but it existed in America hrst and it may with greater reason be said in France. for example, that eyndiCalism is an importation from America. Today we may be said to have directly exported the l. w. w. to. Panama, to Havana, Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand since America organizers departde his country for thoee shores, Sabotage word descriptive Of the fighting strategy of the l, w. w. is a French term but it is a yer nacular labor translatiCn of our own missionary work of the Am cricaE Typographical Union in the mightie general struggle so far waged between labor and capital this country. put that in turn might be said to have been an adaptation
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-06
That it is Lawless Aggregation.

I am not apologist enough to say otherwise. I can only say that this question hangs wholly upon the point of view. It is avowedly a revolutionary movement and these are invaribly held as lawless for a time at least. The Declaration of Independence of course justifies revolutionary movements upon the part of peoples who may desire to substitute new government and this document easily become: incendiary when translated into Spanish and circulated in the Phillipine Islands. Two patron saints of modern Amer ican republication have said:
 Wendell Ph,:Ilpo: "The mama of liberty must be gathered day by day or it is rotten. Republics exist solely upon the tenure of being constantly agitated."
 Abraham Lincoln: Labor is sup erior and prior to capital and de serves the much higher right" And upon another occasion, ''The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting the labor men of all nations. lands and tongues. The I. w. w. are students of Lincoln.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-11-06
THE |. W. W. AND ITS POINT
 OF VIEW.

So general is the interest in this subject that the reader wishes to get into the matter outrightly and we need cast about for no en- gaging style to hold attention.
 !f prejudice and hatred prevail among them it is not less in degree than that which is metcd to them. If transformation is current among them,-their opponents nay say how much,--it is likelwise current about them. An inquiry into the latter phase is the specific work in hand here.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

This aggregation Of capitalists you call your governmen. has printed and handed over to some of their number called bankers, $7I7,029,4GS0O in bank notes for one-fourth of one per cent interest You hlvc this loaned to you or your merchant and you pay eight to twenty per cent for it. You are such wise guys. You know so much about government. You workers pay all the interest, whether you borrow the money or not. The fel- low who pays it gets it from you in rent CT profit in some form. Why should the rich get all the favors from government? Do they need it as much as you, who can hardly afford to give wife a calico dress once a year? Shame on your stu pidity.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

You are paying for the hund- reds of millions spent advertising
 in an increase in the price of goods It all has to be paid for Under collective ownership and operation of industries there would need be no advertising. Postage stamps are not advertised. What goes for such waste as advertising would be paid to more workers who actually produce things, and there would be more things produced for the same numbCr of people employed, which would mean more products for la bor for the same time. Aw. get wise to your own interests. Never
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

Tn aL exchange Of recent date We fiEG enumerated what they consider to be the ten leading mistakes of fife These arrors are.
 To attempt to set up your own standard Of right or wrong, and to expect every one to conform to it.
 To expect mature judgment and experience in the young.
 To try to mold all dispositions alike.
 To refuse to yield in unimportant jrines.
 To look for perfection in our own actions.
 To refuse to make allowance for the weakness of others. To consider anything impossible that we can not ourselves perform.
 To believe only what @our finite minds can grasp. To live as if the moment, the time, the day, were so important that it would last forever. To estimate the worth of people by some outside quality.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

Socialists only ask for fair play; they demand that the poor shall not rob the rich, but, at the same time, they demand that the rich shall not rob the poor Even a police judge will have to agree that this a just demand.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

ing class. Just as the methods of commerce of century ago gradu- ally blended into the conditions of fifty years ago and they into the commercial system of today, so this system is destined to change and blend into something else different from what it is. Few of the people have given these changes any at tention, but these things explain the future-to the student.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

Capitalism has created such a hell on earth that many are posi- lively braving the threat of hell
 in the future in order to escape this one.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

Confidence is belief that the banks will pay you back the money you gave to them without security after they have loaned it out on in terest.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

Contempt prior to investigation IS bar against information; it is proof against all argument and cannot help but keep man in everlasting ignorance,
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

Did you ever think of tte many who have to leave home under competition, to get a job that this was breaking up the home very effectively?
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

Socialists have no Gesirc to take anything away from Mir. Rocke- fcller, but they do insist that he shall cease taking things ava. from other people.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

The capitalist system is founded upon the fact that the masters have their eyes open and the work CTS keep theirs shut.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

FinanCier man who takes the capital others create and makes it an indebtness the people owe him for all time to come.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-03

Business is form of usage in which the people agree to being robbed according to rules and pro tect the robbers against all other corners.