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Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

next day the wind was still blowing.
Two fires started on Our land. Ethel,
Guy Chauncey and mamma put out
the first fire.
After awhile passenger train
came along and started another one.
They went out again, taking sacks to
help put it out.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Nine Years Old Tomorrow:

turkeys. The turkeys had bells on
so the coyotes would not get them. |
reached there about 80 o'clock and
started back about 8 o'clock in tile
morning.
There was lots of fleas up there.
The feas bit me SO hard l could not
sleep.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
(Honorable Mention,l
The Origin of Glass.

By Helen Crabb, Aged 10 Years, 40l6
North Thirty-fourth Avenue,
Omaha. Red Side.
While helping my papa in the gar
den | saw him dig up a small piece of
glass. He asked me if | ever thought
how glass came to be in the world,
and when | told him l had not he told
me this story:
At the beginning this earth was a
vast ball of mist which spun around
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
The Fire,

By Pansy Shirley. Aged 10 Years,
Maxwell, Neb,, Box l03.
We live on the south side of the
track where it's very windy. The
train started fire one day.
1t was not close to our house, but |
did not want it to come over on our
land.
There were lot of men watching
the fire so it would not spread.
1t went out about 9 o'clock, but the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
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2. Use pen and Ink, not pencil.
3. Short and pointed articles will be
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4. Original stories or letters only will
be used.
8. Write your name, age and address
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for the best contribution.
Address all communica tions to Chill
dren's Department, Omaha Bee, Omaha,
Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
The Hungry Twins.

By Gladys Grantham, 10 Years Old,
Lexington, Neb. Blue Side.
This is the first time have written
20 you. I am in the fifth grade at
school. l have twin brothers, named
Wilfred and Varley, and younger
brother named Charles.
We have all been very busy taking
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
NV Trip to Ericsson.

By Eunice Collnson, Aged 9 Years,
Merna, Neb. Red Side.
Last August | took trip to Eric
son, Neb., in an automobile. l started
about s o'clock in the morning. | had
to get out and walk up quite few
hills, where it was very sandy.
| saw about 200 sheep and 100
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Success for Uncle Sam.

By Katherine Schultz, Aged 9 Years,
Milford, Neb. Red Side.
Do you think we are going to have
wAI with Germany? l hope we do not.
| do not like to think of it, for l can't
help thinking of our soldiers who be-
come so hungry when they are fight
ing. OF course our soldiers will do
their best, but many Of them will be
killed.
think the German people +have
many more soldiers than we have, but
I wish we would win and then the
Red, White and Blue would still wave.
Do you remember the last time !
wrote you letter and the name of
the story, which was, "ln the Early
Days?" l am going to finish it..
While the men were starting to look
Tor the boy some other men rode up
with a boy. 1t was the father and the
mother of the little boy.
They were all very happy to see
their dear little boy again. | will close
for this time and will answer any let
ter from the Busy Bees.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
A Happy Easter.
By Theresa Grantham, 8 Years Old

By hereSa GTanthdm, ears OId,
Lexington, Neb. Blue Side.
This is the first time | have written.
I hope will win the prize. | am going
to tell you of the happy Easter we
had.
Saturday afternoon we girls bought
some Easter eggs and told the boys
to make some nests, for the rabbit
was coming tomorrow night.
They did as we told them and Sum-
day we put the eggs in the nests. We
told them to look in their nests and
they found their eggs. In little while
Marjorie Roseberg came over and
brought some cards and we played
games.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Our Flag.

By Gwendolene G. Smith, Aged 10
Years, Herman, Neb. Blue Side.
See the flag, our nations flag,
Waving there on high,
We look with praise upon it
AS we pass it by.
And as we look upon it,
We think of the old, old story,
How the people asked Betsy Ross to
make
The dearest flag, "old Glory"
The old flag still unfurls on high,
Over our dear land,
And we think how we fought for
"Old Glory"
With a few, but faithful band.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27
Kindness to a Little Bird.

By Hazel Prange, Aged 8, 5004 Cass
Street, Omaha, Neb. Blue Side.
One day Abraham Lincoln was rid
ing with a friend. They came across
two little birds lying in the road. The
wind had blown them from their
nest. One man ride on, but that man
was not Abraham Lincoln. He
stopped and put the little birds back
into their nest. Then with happy
heart he followed his friend.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-27

By Marguerite Geiser, Aged II Years,
Columbus, Neb. Route 2,
Box 5. Blue Side.
May basket day was May |. I
gave three May baskets away. | took
one to school because it was too far
to go at night The other | gave at
night. The flowers did not bloom so
we took lilac buds and honeysuckle
buds. We also took some flowers that
we bought, and put candy in, too.
| hope Busy Bees had a good time
May basket day.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
DAUGHTEROF COL.
MOSBY SAYS THEY
CERTAINLY WOULD

Are American women going to let
Russian women win all the laurels as
soldiers?
Are they going to stand back and
let womanly pluck and daring go
down in history with a Russian and
not an American label?
These are the questions being asked
today by the daughter Of one OF the
greatest soldiers that ever lived
Mrs. Stuart Mosby Coleman, who has
inherited more than the name OF the
Confederacy's great guerrilla leader.
a regiment of American women,
fully equipped, fully trained, ready
TO go into active service at the drop
Of the hat-this is the soldierly am
billion Of a soldiers daughter. all Of
which would be, in her estimation.
more valuable for its moral effect
and for the purpose OF demonstrat-
ing just what stuff American women
are made OF rather than for any
actual competition with the men in
the ranks.
Who Would DareR
with a regiment like that, putting
them to shame, what man would dare
to be a slacker?" Mrs. Coleman ex-
claimed. What man could bear to
have a squad of women surround his
house and demand to know why he
didn't register, or why, having regis
tered, he failed to show up for med
ical examination, or why, having
passed the medical board, he faxed
up a claim for exemption!
Would a regiment OF women be
a SUGGEST" repeated MrA Coleman.
ASK first IL the regiment OF Russian
women has been a success. Does
anyone think American women are
not equal to their Russian sisters1 OF
course, It would be a success. I'd
like a command in 1t myself. I'd like
10 to have the honor OF being the one
to get the Kaiser himself, to help
avenge in the name of woman the
wrongs done to women and children
in Belgium and France.
The bravery Of the Russian wom-
en- in facing the enemy when their
men comrades were fleeing, puts an
end forever, I hope to that long
standing anti-suffrage argument
that no one should vote in q nation
who cannot bear arms in its defense.
Have women ever been asked to bear
arms and refused or failed? No
the men have just taken it for grant !
ed they couldn't, and have assigned
TO them the less picturesque tasks
related to war, the making Of NUM-
tions, the endless anxiety OF waiting
tt home and finally OF caring for
children made fatherless by the wars.
Mistaken Idea of ChIVaIry.
Men have kept women out OF many |
activities, believe, from a mistaken |
idea of chivalry, which, simmered |
down, is nothing but selfishness. The
present estimate of the physical pos
sibilities of women is all wrong
Man has made a doll baby out OF the
better class OF women because he
wanted a doll baby. The women OF
the so-cslled lower classes have al
ways done as strenuous things as
their men. And when it comes to
a matter OF courage. a man is apt
to say, A woman couldn't fight Good
The Washington times., 1917-08-05

bit near-siEhted. pretty slight and
fraIl and without much endurance at
the start. But the same sort OF train
ing that makes a fighting machine Of
him would make AmaZons OF women.
mo woman would ever night for
military glory. none ever seek the
bubble reputation even in the can
mons mouth-the queens Of history
who led in battle almost universally
were defending their lands.
Women would never remain in
standing armies or regard war as a
business. They would never lift a
finger to add laurels to the brow OF a
RomanoI or another quarIering TO
the imperial arms OF = HohenzUllern.
No Wars For Conquest.
Natural conservators Of the home
and race, they would never fight for
fame or conquest: but in tie pro-
lection Of their family and home they
would stand undaunted in the last
ditch.
Let those who hold up their hands
In pious horror at the prospect Of
future regiments of American women
contemplate. for a moment. where
many OF our young women are headed
today. Wouldn't you rather see a
young woman in khaki hiking cross
country for ten miles for a bit Of
drill than lollinG about on the back
seat Of an automobile. getting fat and
pudgy7 Wouldn't you Just as soon
see them at rife practice as being
pulled up and down the street by an
Insignificant pup at the other end of
the leash? Many q mother has con-
soled herself upon her sons enlist
ment in the army with the thought:
Perhaps It will make a mao OF him.
They might easily say OF their daugh-
ters: Maybe 1t will make a woman
OF her.
But women wouldn't be good trench
fighters" Mrs. Coleman insisted. 1T
would be too grubby Just moulding in
those trenches as the men have been
doing for years. No one but the stolId
Germans could have invented trench
lighting. For women. unhampered by
precedent. with all the dash and ardor
that comes with being new at the game,
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
STARVATION CLAIM
Of |. v. v. EKILES
FOUND TO Be FAKE

BIsBEE Ariz-, Aug. 5.-capt. NJ. A.
Palen. judge advocate OF the Arizona
military department, sent here to in
vestigate claims of big Bill' Hay
wood, that families Of deported I. w.
W. men are starving, has spent two
days investigating.
Instead OF starvation he has found
most Of the families living better
than they are accustomed to.
Local committees are attending to
the distribution of food and, as the
mining companies are furnishing the
food in most cases, there has not
been any decided inclination toward
skimping.
A leader OF the I. W. W. movement
passed through FL Paso Saturday en-
route to New York for a conference
with alleged L. W. W. leaders OF ma
tional Importance there. He came
here from Columbus, N. NJ. where the
1.16s alleged !. W. W. exiles have been
nnce their deportation from BIsbee..
Another leader OF the movement was
reported TO have gone to Chicago re-
Gently for a conference with William
Haywood and to have returned to the
I. w. W. camp at Columbus. This trip
was made in an EFFORT to have the de-
ported men sent back to Bisbee under
military guard.
A reply to the message sent Hay
wood by the leaders Of the exiles, urG-
ing him to insist upon President Will
son acting in their behalf. was re-
ceived in Columbus Saturday. accord
ing to Government agents. This mes
sage assured the exiles the national
organization was giving their cases
attention.
There Is a growing fear among the
the border west OF here that the ex.
Hes at Columbus, now scattering in
small bands, will cause trouble and
the governor OF New Mexico has been
asked for troops or other protection
by several communities.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
DISTRICT GUARDS
DEPARTURE SOUTH
DELAYEDA WEEK

Red tape and the slow movement of
departmental machinery Of the Gov
eminent will hold the District ma
tional guard in camp here for another
week.
Tuesday was the date set by the
War Department when the Third In
fantry and eight units Of the DiStrict
troops. the latter In camp on Patter-
son Field, should leave for Green
Vile. g. c., and Admission. Ala, respect
lively.
Transportation trouble IL given as
the reason for delay.
Major Leroy w. Heron. commander
at Camp Ordway, said he had no idea
when formal notice from the War De-
partment to move would reach him. II
will take two days to shape arrange
ments for leaving camp unless the
orders to depart are of an emer-
gency nature.
Even II orders come tonight for the
departure OF the troops to Southern
camps II 10 certain, camp officers de-
clared this morning. that enough rail-
road cars cannot be had on such short
notice.
The ride to GFssnVille IL about fiji
teen hours and the trip 20 Admission
takes about twenty-five hours. The
cavalry and artillery troops at Camp
Ordway will have to transport mounts,
so the trip will take longer. a. the
horses must be taken from the train
frequently anu exercised.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05

think II would be up and over the top
for them. and after that free open night
ing.
Would Like Scouting.
How ia love to do some OF the scout
ing stunts my father did. When you
come to consider that a daughter in
herits just as many qualities from her
father as she does from her mother. It
wouldn't be surprising II women would
make just as good soldiers as the men.
I'm not saying. OF course. that from
a national or racial standpoint. this
making soldiers OF women Is the right
thing TO do. II probably isn't. on any
large scale. but instead OF listening to
men declaim how women can fight, I'd
like to see a group Of American women
demonstrate that II isn't only in Russia
that women soldiers are made. One
thing is certain, women would never
make war. certainly never a war OF
aggression, but once the lighting were
on our own soil, they'd night, even IL
they had to do IL with kitchen forks.
The interesting experiment, however,
drilled !ust like the regular army.
Then look out for the 1917 Moll
Pitcher
No one who has read the exploits Of
the dashing Colonel Mosby. who. with
a mere handful OF men, worried an army
Of thousands almost 10 distraction. can
doubt that his daughter would uphold
the Mosby tradition.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
MEXICO WILL INTERN
ALL GERMAN PLOTTERS

Ell PASO, Tex. Aug. 5-Ecrresen-
tatives OF the Mexican government
here have announced that German
subjects responsible for the strikes OF
the Mexican employees in the Tampico
oil fields and at the American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company at Monte
rey are to be inteTned.
GUIDES Flowers Are FnVOrItes.
Choice, fresh cut. home grown flowers.
ideal for every purpose. 1914 + St
Adyt
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
BOYS TALBOT ROBBERS
WILL Be INVESTIGATED

Inspector Grant, at police headquar-
tiers. will summon Botherst ChamblIss,
nineteen years old, OF 1925 Monroe
street northwest, to his office tomor-
row morning to question the boy
closely about the robbery story he
told the police today.
Chambliss reported to headquarters
this morning that he came home at
10 o'clock last night and found two
men in the house. They entered by
the back door, he said, and he told
them to get out. One OF the robbers.
he said, was a white man. over six
feet tall The giant" covered him
with a gun while the two made their
escape.
The boy lives alone in the house, the
police say. His father Is a rice ex-
pert OF the Department OF Agriculture
and is on the road. His mother lie
visiting in the South. On July ~ the
police had another complaint that a
robber had stolen a revolver from
Chambliss' dressing table. Ignoring a
sum OF money that lay beside II.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
Even S174,OOO,0
Won't Pay Nations
Cold Drink Bill

Americas annual summer bill
for soda water, ice cream, and
soft drinks Is more than $174,-
Oo0, 900.
That's the estimate OF a mem
Der OF Congress, who has been
delying Into summer statistics
and his announcement today is
startling in some respects. Here's
the itemized bill for the nation:
Soda water-S5s. 400. 900.
Manufactured ice-S60. 366,000
Ice cream-S55, 900. 900.
"And that's only a part OF It,"
said the Congressman, because
we haven't any way OF getting
at the figures showing the
amount OF homegrown ice cream
and soft drinks that are con-
sumed every summer"
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
ONE TROOPER DEAD
THREE INJURED, AS
AUTO TURNS TURTLE

One man Is dead and a second Is In
a critical condition as a result OF an
automobile crash on the Conduit road
last night, when a machine oceu-
pied by four troopers from Fort Myer
sIidded, dashed into a telegraph pole,
and turned turtle.
Private Otis Winning. twenty-five
years old, OF the Second cavalry, was
Instantly killed. Private Tromas J.
Murphy suffered internal injuries and
may die. Murphy and Winning were
pinned to the ground by the car.
Corporal James +. Kane and Private
George Loran, the other members OF
the party, escaped with slight cuts
and were able to leave the hospital
today.
The men were returning from Glen
Echo, where they had spent the even
ing. They were going at a rapid clip
when the machine skidded as II turn
ed a curve.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05

heavens, she's scared OF a mouse.
Very true, but so is an elephant
scared of a mouse but no one ever
doubted an elephants courage once
he got going.
My belief is. that, were you to
take a group OF young women pro-
nounced physically perfect and train
them side by side with a group Of
young men. you'd md the women
would acquit themselves as creditably
as the men. Not every woman could
tight any more than every man. There
are male weddings as well as female
weAklings.
THE few women warriors OF his
tory have been wonderful fighters,
from Boadicea down. The Boer women
fought side by side with their men
like tigresses. Bulgarian women have
fought, too. It remained for the Rus
sian women to show what a group Of
trained women soldiers can do.
"And when a woman faces the
enemy, It requires ten times as much
as a man, for. once captured.
she, as a prisoner. has far worse hor-
rors to face than any man. II it's
true that the Russian women soldiers
carry capsules of cyanide for use II
II is a splendid idea.
Priceless Boost.
with the honor and reputation OF
the entire race OF women in their
hands, those Russian women have
given the cause OF women's freedom a
priceless boost. The percentage of
show how they fought and
how they held their ground.
Il don't believe they were super
" omen, either. They were just aver
age women from many professions
and trades, spurred on by a great pur-
pose and well trained for the work
on hand.
THE average male recruit isn't the
most likely specimen in the world.
II he's been a clerk, he's probably a
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
GIRL STRUCK BY AUTO
EXPECTED TO RECOVER

A fractured skull and broken leg
don't mean a whole lot in the life
OF five-yeGT-old Louise Kelly, OF
Riverdale, Nd, who will recover from
the experience OF walking in front
OF a motor car, according to Casualty
Hospital doctors.
Louise had spent last evening at
Berwyn with her mother and aunt.
and they came back to Riverdale In
the automobile OF a friend. They all
got out in front Of the Kelly home,
and Louise walked around the back
OF the car.
She didn't see another car which
clipped past at that moment and
struck the child. The second auto
stopped, and the driver made known
his identity, which James F. Kelly.
Louise's father. couldn't remember,
beyond the fact that the driver was
a national guard captain.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
Would American Women Fight AS Well AS the Russian Corps
BUSTER" HIPPO
BABE, BAPTIZED
AT ZOO FESTIVAL

Baby Buster took his first walk and
was christsned all at the same time
yesterday. 1t isn't every two-month-
old baby that can walk to his own
christening, but Buster is quite an
exceptional baby, being the promising
young hopeful OF Mr.. and Mrs. BunEo
Hippopotamus. who have really
spacious apartments out at the Zoo.
Buster Is really the cutest little
hippo Che really couldn't be called
whole hippopotamus yeti in the
country and Is almost certain to have
as guests many distinguished students
OF zoology, since IT is very rare for
baby hippos to be born in captivity.
Her First Child.
Although this il Mrs. Hippopotamus'
first child, she being a young matron
Of only eight years herself. she Is
taking the best of care Of It,. and 1t
now weighs ITO pounds, more than
twice its weight at birth.
To tell the truth, although the Zoo
officials are doing their best to keep
the scandal quiet. the Bungos have
separated, and their domestic Affairs
are In an awful state. It's all on ac-
count OF the baby. Mrs. Bungo,
whose maiden name is Mombo. short
for Mombosa, her native place in
South Africa, wants to bring the baby
up in entirely her own way. while
her husband thinks he should have
something to say about the matter.
Mrs. Bungo, however, will not brook
the slightest interference in the care
OF Buster, and II II weren't for the
Zoo officials using their influence in
the interest of peace and inducing
Bungo to stay in his own pool all by
himself. their quarrels would have
reached such a stage that all the
other neighbors in and around the
Lion House certainly would have
heard them.
Swan Day of Birth.
In the meantime the Jealous mother
plays With the baby to her hearts
content. while the father hippopota-
mus looks wistfully on, trying to talk
to his young son in his best hippo
potamus style.
Walking isn't Busters only accom-
plishment. He could swim the very
day he was born. In fact, that's how
the keeper fret found him. No one
at the Zoo had any idea there was
to be a baby hippo until the keeper
went in one morning and saw little
Buster, although he didn't have any
name then. showing his mother how
well he could swim.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
AUGUSTUS RED LIGHT"
DISTRICT MUST GO

AUGUSTA, Ca, Aug. 4.-Final no
tees were served today on the occu-
pants OF Augustus segregated district
to "vamoose" by August Is.
This action was taken by the city
fathers concurrent with the coming
to Camp Hancock OF the $4,000 Penn
sylvania troops, who are scheduled TO
arrive about the middle OF the month.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
LOCAL MENTION.

Today. Table d'HOte Dinner, 5 to 8.
Sl25. Music. Harvey's Famous Res
taurant, 18th and Pa. Ave.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05

PRIVATE lessons any time, Soa; G. tLS; ~.
auction to clubs: latest nlsthod. with Lad
cool ballroom. 0ioVsr's. sll md. Pm. W. I'm
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
RITES FOR GEN. WESTON.

Last rites with military honors were
held for Major General John X Wes-
ton today at Arlington National Gem
etery. He died Friday. after a brief
illness, at Briareliff Manor, n. 7. He
was seventy-two years old, and
fought in the Civil. Indian, and Span
sh-American wars.
The Washington times., 1917-08-05
CAN'T ENLIST, ENDS LIFE.

STANTON, Va, Aug. 5.-Discour-
aged because bad teeth and nat feet
had caused his rejection from the Ma
tionRl Guard, James z. Browning com
mitted suicide with carbolic acid to-
day. One OF two surviving brothers,
Harry Browning. IL In the navy.
The Detroit times., 1917-11-13

them exooilently, whilG.piaying man
dolins. guitars and other instruments.
Beauty Is skin Deep" is William
A. Brady production offered by nine
women, with It's scene laid In a
beauty parloF II shows the trxns-
formation that can DO wrought on a
woman apparently ugly. by giving
her massage and manicure. Dress
Ing her hair and array ing her in
FASH nahle garments. There Is q
moral 20 iho piece. some heart inter-
eft and lot ~ comedy. tho scenes
ihat take place In SUCH an establish-
.lent open nag the eyes 90 the males
IN the audience.
Rose Berry Ia pretty girl who
sings and TALKS. plays the plano and
dNra limitations Miss Kerry - n tall
ented young singer and Monday night
responded % repeated encores. "Holi-
d0y IN plXiei0na" IA group Of a
dozen cpl0rcd singers and dancers
who stage an otd-fIshioncd medley %
songs and dances
Two other acts on the program
that are worth while are Hal and
Francis In musical comedy shit.
and lesson and lesson. singers and
dancers.
The leading picture attraction is
Julian Eltinge in The Countess
Churmiug"