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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-18
Lincoln Auditorium Is
to Go to HIGHEST Bidder

Lincoln, June 17.-(Special Lin
coins city auditorium is for sale and
will be put up to the highest bid
der for sale. The old building has
been the scene of many historic &C
tivities. Great men have packed it
to the doors, such national charac-
tiers as Theodore Roosevelt, Will
liam Howard Taft, Charles E.
Hughes, Woodrow Wilson, Mark
Hanna and several others having
spoken from it's stage.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-18

In applying for a separation order
a woman told the Slough magistrates
that she had been married Fl years.
had had Fl black eyes, and her only
married happiness had been when
her husband was serving in France.
The order was granted.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-28

I mean. But that is as much OF a de-
sert as we got. Custard or bread
pudding the way you make II, would
make the major wild with JOY, / betl
Rice pudding, cold, with eggs and
raisins in Il. Pies, wow mince, ap-
pie, lemon, pumpkin, oh, la, lal
The ads in the November and Dec
ember magazines make my mouth
water. Don't forget your preserved
fruits. Also strawberry s~hortcakes,
ice cream. etc, and salads.
You see the chief trouble with our
chow as we draw her is that she s
too heavy. not enough green or tasty
food. Everlasting spuds and boiled
beefsteak and grayey and it's greasy.
And at night ome Stun, they can't
forget Il.
OF course during campaigning days,
when we have to go for several days
on hard tack and corned beef or per
haps nothing at all. such fare as we're
getting now seemed great for a
change. But when we were outside
and working up our appetites and
when we were billeted. we could al
ways buy cheese-delicious from ages
U'm a fend for it) and we'd often
have frog ONE cook us a rabbit or
chicken. and they could do it to the
queens taste. But here We can't
leave the town and there is absolut-
ely not q scrap of food TO be bought.
So the royal dish Of beef and spuds,
sumping.
oh, for the meals that mother used
to make!
| suppose from all this talk you
have a picture of me lean as starv-
ing, far be it. Every day some n
tells me | am getting fat. So the ar
my chow can't be so bad after all.
But if Pm gaining weight now, what
IL it be like when | am getting food
to eat instead OF chow?
This is rather a different letter
from the usual, but l hope it's accept
able at least as q novelty. Naturally
| haven't put down all the good things
that | ever thought of. There Is lots
of little items, like oyster soup, mac
arony and cheese, etc, that | couldn't
think of when their turn came. But
this list, incomplete as it is, ought to
give you some idea of what | don't
get here and what I'll be wanting
most "in the line of eats" when | get
back. NIGHT wahr? Well I'm going
to celebrate the arrival of the great
New Year in the proper manner this
time, by knocking off a good ten
hours Of sleep while 1919 comes in on
us. I'll be saying good night and all
kinds Of love from your son
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-28
~MILITARIsM REBORN

When she knew him
For the few short weeks,
Before he Went Across,
His face was so brown
And his eyes were so bright,
And he was so straight,
And muscular,
And his uniform was so perfect,
With it's little gold bars on the Shout
ders
And the heavily embroidered wings
owe the heart,
And the shiny putees-
lie was s much the Man
And the Soldier
That she forgot that the Wal was 60
ing to end some day
And she went and married him.. .
And when the War was over,
He came back
And got out of the Army.
Whereupon it developed
That he had his hair cut round from
choice,
Md that he liked silk shirts
With broad red and blue stripes
Or purple dots
The size of moth balls,
And that he wore yellow shoes
With bumpy toes,
And bright green hats,
And vivid suits,
And hat he had a passion
For Pinochole and Snappy Stories
And cigars with bright bands
Which he never removed
And that he had a happy way of max
ing himself
More comfortable than any one else
At social gatherings,
And that he said, "He don't" and you
was"
And "athaletic." 80.
So now
She sits at home
In the house her father pays for.
While Charlie Furnishes an adding.
machine,
And she prays fervently
For More Wars.
Edward Hope, U. S. N. Air-Station
Pensacola, Fla.-New York Evening
Sun.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-28
Going Him Several Better

The oldest good story is the one
about the boy who left the farm and
got a job in the city. He wrote a
letter To his brother, who elected to
stick by the farm, telling of the joys
Of city life, in which he said:
Thursday we auto'd out to the
country club, where VIC golfed until
dark. Then we motored to the beach
and Fridayed there"
The brother on the farm wrote
back:
Yesterday We buggied TO town and
baseballed all afternoon. Then we went
to Med's and pokered till morning.
Today we muled out TO the corn-field
and gce-hawed until shutdown. Then
we suppered and then we piped for a
while. After that We staircasod up to
our room and b~edstedded until the
clock 1ved."-San Francisco Argonaut
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-28
Paper Examinations
Relic OfDark Ages
Supt. MacCaughey Wants Little Stress
Laid On Conventional School Tests
Indicates His Policy For Future
Sees Practical Purpose School Work
By Prof. VAUGHAN M'CAUGHEY,

By Prof. VAUGHAN M'CAUGHEY,
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
(Under the title weeds in the School
Garden, Prof. MacCaughey has indi-
Gated his views on the important sub
ject of school examinations as fol-
lows:)
Every competent teacher and every
one else who has given careful
thought to the educational process,
knows that any system of mere aca-
ds3nic examining is not true educa-
ton.
Boys and girls are not fitted to meet
the actual requirements of life in Ha-
wall by means of paper" examina-
lions. People do not live their lives
on paper but in a very real world OF
industry.
Educational systems everywhere
have laid a false and exaggerated
emphasis upon paper work. Today
schools are being tested by the way
in which they measure up to the real
tasks of real life.
Complaints have been widespread
throughout Hawaii against the pedan-
tic excuses and inquisitorial rigor OF
existing examinations. Tiny tots in
the lower primary grades are a to
be subjected to the solemn pomp of
written reviews and tests. In all pro-
gressive communities, throughout the
mainland, the present effort is to test
the pupils by fair, normal, and mo-
dern methods.
The written examination has a GER
tain place and a certain value in any
school system, but every n knows
that the majority of able men and
women in any community would
fail" at the averages school test.
Erroneous ideas concerning eXamina-
lions have tended to give the school,
an artificial atmosphere, and to iso-
late it from the great, vital currents
OF community life.
In modern education the emphasis
is upon the directed interest of the
child in his home region. He should
hav an intllignt appreciation OF his
home industries; he should be phys1-
cally strong and fit, through whole
some supervised play and recreation;
he should use the English language
with ease and understanding; he
should have a real working knowledge
of American institutions n life; he
should be trained in body rs well as
mind; he should progress naturally
from grade to grade, and emerge
from the schools, capable of succeed
ing in his daily work. in his W per,
sonal happiness, and in the affairs OF
the community.
The purposes of all examinations
should be to help the pupil on his
way through school, and not to throw
him out of school. None are so dan
gerous in a democracy as the hall
educated. Excessive routine eXamina
lions violate not only the best educa'
tional principles,-they violate ordin
ar ycommon sense.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-28

1t was at Sunday morning inspec-
ton. The commanding officer spot
ted a private who was u~nshaven.
why didn't you shave this morn
ing?" demanded the C. o. The priv
ate became you see, sir"
he stammered, there were eight of
us shaving by the aid of a single mir
ror, and l guess l must have shaved
somebody else."-Judge.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-28
Gratitude

A naval officer fell overheard. He
was rescued by a deckhand. The Of
ficer asked his preserver how he
could reward him.
THE best way, sir" said Jack, "is
to say nothing about it. II the other
fellows knew I'd pulled you out, they'd
chuck me in"
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-28
That Wonderful efficiency"

Chicago pork-packers now admit
that their method of handling pigs
has been wasteful. In Germany, as
we gather from the appeals for modi-
ication of the armistice, even the
squeal of the pig is utilized,-Punch
(London).
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-28

Nodd-"I don't mind your borrow
ing money from me, old chap, but
please don't promise to pay me back.
That hurts!"
Todd-"My dear boy, | thought you
knew me well enough to know that l
didn't mean that"
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-03-28
At The Theatres
1.-THE Girl Who Came Back"


ton In the story of a "Salamander"
hy c. VI. S. Mcclellan.
Lois Hartner is the daughter of a
thief and herself a "salamander," aid
ing her father in his burglaries. She
is saved from death by George Bay
ard. and when later she robs the safe
in the Bayard home he persuades her
40 reform. In spite OF temptations
and attempted she goes West and
p]crseycres i'm her resolve. There
Bayard finds her and makes her his
wife.
"The Source"
Characterized by some picturesque
effects. THE Source" is finely typed,
Wallace Reid. Ann Little, Theodore
Roberts. James Cruno. Noah Beery,
Raymond llattou ami Charles Agile
forming q combination hard to beat
in character portrayal. They are Civ
IN opportunity by the playwright and
play up TO h AT every angle. The
story has q vital motif, the C%onserva-
ton of war resources, and it is gen
orally well constructed.
Wallace Reid ]interprets with skill
the role OF q confirmed drunkard who
b. pressed into service at a lumber
camp. lie is cured Of alcoholism
without dclirium and rapidly asserts
q manly character. winning the con-
hdoncc OF his employer and loyal en-
rioypa. finally leading in a battle of
lImborjacks for the opening Of a dam
which has Icca deliberately closed by
icrmau influences to prevent the
spring drive. He also wins an estim-
able young woman and becomes as
sociarod With the business. receiving
. check for twenty thousand dollars
for his services.
II Is relief TO have the hero do
something worth while, even if the
story adhercs closely to the conven-
tiOnal I'm other respects. He is de-
piCtcd as a real man, struggling and
suffering, and the other characterize
tions are good, in that they are com
pick withoJt losing individuality.
"Vive la France"
Dorothy Dalton's latest picture
bears the inspiring title of "Vive La
France il was written specially for
her by II. II. Van Loan, %scenarioized
by G. Gardner Sullivan and produced
by Il. William NELL, under Thomas II.
lnCc's supervision. Mr.. Van Loan
bh"'h hI0 tNNAF VII lLtlS lt ODlullltN
from The newspapers. "The O of
shame with which the heroine is
branded by the Germans, is a mark
that has actually been put upon the
loyal women of France and Belgium.
The story concerns the adventures
Of a motion picture actress in Des.
chon. France. This little village is
the center Of turmoil at the time the
picture opens. J%enevieve, the actress
has arrived there on learning hat her
aged mother and father have been
killed by the Germans. Her brother
a soldier, is wounded and shot by
uiarJuding Germans while he rests in
her arms. The real drama of the pic
ture arises when ~Jenevieve rescues
her sweetheart Jean, who is carrying
important dispatchs and succeeds in
trucking the German officers so that
he esCapes.-Advt.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
Turk as Imitator
BY Booth Harrington.

When the Turks won at the Darda-
nelles they believed themselves safe
to carry out the scheme of exterminat-
ing the non-Moslems in their domin-
ions by the example of scientific Pan
German atrocities in Belgium, they
determined upon Pan-Turanium prof.
ect with a similar system of planned
lfrightfulness. The Germans not only
approved but pointed the way. They
iinstigated, first, the deporting of half
a million people from Asia Minor;
then the deportation of the Armenians
and Syrians, with accompanying afro
cities which resulted in the deaths OF
nearly a million Christians, including
all the able-bodied men. The most
frightful slaughter of defenceleSS peo-
piles known in history has ended IN
the scattering through Asia Minor,
Palestine, Persia and the Russian
Caucasus of four million old men,
women and Children, starved, broken
and diseased. All of these are now &C
cessible and appeal to America for AID.
Four hundred thousand are children
without fathers, and many are with
out mothers. If they are not succored
at once they will surely die. Then the
Turks will have succeeded in the
scheme they have pursued for years,
beginning with the Assassin" Abdul
Hamid and ending with the super-as-
sassins, Enver Pasha and Talaat Bey.
The Committee for Armenian and
Syrian Relief wants Thirty Million
Dollars from America. Before 1917
America would not have known how
to do that But going to war has
taught us several things, and, among
them, How to Give. We must not for
get-not while these stricken multi
tudes are dying.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
DESTROYED Builders Bills.

Nobody ever will know how much
the great palace of Versailles cost
France under the reign of its builder,
Louis XIV. Louis became badly scared
when he received the bills, because he
had heard a good deal about some dis
turbers who were whispering that even
a king had no right to spend so much
money for palace to house his friends
when the nation over which he ruled
was starving. So,Louis did what many
a purchaser of expensive hats has
donessince-tore up the bills and burn
ed them before anybody could look
them over.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
He Has No Family
BY David Hinshaw.

A little boy, one of the 100000
homeless, orphaned, starving waits
which the Committee for Relief in the
Near East is caring for, after being
washed, fed and put to bed, cried for
bread. When the worker gave him
bread he went to sleep, with it tightly
.clutched in his little hand. When
asked later on why he was not eating
the bread he said with piteous inten-
sity, 81 don't want it to eat, 1 just
want TOTO, hold it in my hand"
A form of punishment frequently
practiced in American homes is send
ing child to bed without his supper.
The entire household is disturbed
throughout the evening over the
thought of the hunger of the little one
so punished Some warm-hearted
member of the family, most frequently
the mother, is quite likely to carry
food to the little culprit.
Our hearts are moved and rightly
moved at such a time. Our punished
child has family, home, friends, and
food, except for one evening. The lit
tie fellow in the Near East who want
ed only to Toto hold it in my hand"
had neither family nor home. He had
for friends only those persons in dis
tant America who had contributed to
keep him alive. He was hungry, not
for one evening, but weak and pitiful
from long starvation. No misdeed of
his caused his gnawing hunger. A
cruel war and a barbaric practice
were responsible for his condition.
Seventeen cents day, five dollars a
month will care for him and each OF
the hundreds of thousands of needy
children of his race. Shall America
leave him without home, bed, food or
friends. He has no family.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
Western Samoa.

German Samoa or Western Samoa,
as it is called since September, 1914.
when British occupation took place,
comprises the islands of SaTaii and
Opolu with the town of Apia as the
head of the political and commercial
life. The islands are the remains of
a semisubmerged volcanic range, heav-
lily clothed with tropical verdure which
to great extent prohibits agriculture
or farming; hence the principal indus
tries are the planting of coconuts,
cacaO and rubber.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
OUR ALLIES IN NEAR EAST
BY Charles Evans Hughes.

Probably at no time in the history
of the world have there been so many
fatherless and motherless children as
there are today. Tens of thousands,
probably hundreds of thousands in Ar
menia, Syria, Caucasus, Persia, Mes.
opotamia and Palestine are not only
without parents, but are without any
strong parental government to give
them the help and protection which
orphan children of other lands enjoy
American consuls and missionaries
cable the American Committee for Re
lief in the Near East, almost daily re-
garding the situation. One message
from the Russian Caucasus pleads for
the support of 10000 children at an
average expense of two dollars per
month per child Another from Tiflis
reports 10000 children in one region
waiting for an answer TO previous
cable gram requesting help. Reports
from other points indicate similar con-
ditions. Among the many appeals it
is possible for this committee to as
sumo RESPONSE for only the most
pressing cases, and it is upon these
that the committee would focus the
attention of the American people.
Out of the horror and nightmare
through which these people have
passed comes the gratifying word that
we can be of assistance that our eff.
forts will prove availing, and that we
can share with these orphan children
the bounty which we, as Americans,
have enjoyed for years. The work
done by this committee has been most
unselfish and effective under condt
lions of great personal sacrifice. May
America respond to their appeals.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
The London Times.

The London Times was founded on
January 1, 1888, by John Walter, who
started small newspaper, originally
called The Daily Universal Register,
the first number of which was issued
on January 1, 1885. This was really,
though not in name the first number
of The Times. The 940th number,
which appeared on January 1, 1888,
was for the first time entitled The
Times, or Daily Universal Register, but
the second title was dropped on March
Is of that year, since which the paper
has been known as The Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05

The American Committee for Relief
in the near East, formerly known as
the American Committee for Arme-
MAN and Syrian Relief, will make it's
work here known through a Michigan
publicity bureau. Newspapers will be
supplied with information as to just
what the committee is accomplishing
and with illustration and brief feature
stories illustrative of the work to be
done.
American Committee Sole Agency.
The American Committee for Relief
in the Near East is the only agency
organized for affording relief in the
Near East, aside from the Red Cres-
cent controlled by the Turkish Gov
ernment). 1t has already spent more
than S15,0O0,0OO in administering to
the relief of starving Armenians and
Syrians and portions of the Greek
population in the Turkish Empire.
All of the money spent to date has
been used merely to keep alive the
destitute, until such time as the ac-
tual rehabilitation of the Near East
could be begun. Now that the war is
over, that time is at hand. Experts
OF the Committee have estimated that
$S0000,000 will be needed Immediately
to start this work, and drive will be
carried on through the United States
from January 18th to 18th.
Half Amount for Starving.
Half of the amount to be raised
during the drive will be expended in
keeping alive the destitute More
than 1,770,000 exiles are to be return
ed to their homes, and clothing must
be provided for 100000 refugees.
There are more than 100000 children
made orphans by the war who must
be cared for at once If they are to be
made assets to the world. An esti-
mated expenditure of $40 for each
child brings the total needed for these
orphans to 100000. Houses for the
1,770,000 persons whose homes have
been destroyed will cost $2,500,00
and many more millions will be need
ed to buy seeds, cattle, and farm i'm
plements for the repatriatsd, before
the country can be put again on a pre-
ducing basis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
Noted coIored Woman.

SoJourner Truth was a colored won.
an born il New York state, probably
about the middle of the eighteenth
century, as she was middle aged at
the time of Washington's death, In
l799. That was not her real name,
out she assumed 1t for reasons of her
own. She was a slave all her life un-
til set free by an act of the New York
legislature in 1927, abolishing slavery
In that state, July 4, 1927. Mrs Har-
riet Beecher Stowe wrote a life of her.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
Shakespeare Stands Alone.

Admitting to the fullest that the
present age cannot forestall the judg-
ment of posterity, it seems unlikely
that copy of the work of any con-
temporary dramatist will ever sell for
$28,OO0. Such thing happened re-
Gently in the case of four Shakespeare
folios; but Shakespeare was Shake
speare, even when his contemporaries
took him as matter of course, and
since then the judgment of time has
made him standard by which the en-
during genius of later playwrights can
be reasonably estimated.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
Good Advice.

If you're good citizen you will be
more concerned about your contribu-
ton to the world than you will be
about what the world thinks about it.
It's the fellow who can forget what
the world may think, in the desire to
give the world the best, who really de-
serves praise. Forget the unkind
words and dismiss the sighting acts
OF people about you. Censor all that
you hear for the good that's in it and
profit by the result. You will be far
more comfortable and the world will
hear from you.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
Memorial to Fallen Horses.

In Japan issa tall stone monument
erected as memorial to the horses
killed In the Russian-Japanese war. It
stands In the public park of the town
OF Sano in the Tochigi prefecture. A
photograph of the townsfolk gathered
ABOUT 1t shows the headman of the
district attired in Prince Albert coat.
General Viscount Oshima, one of the
heroes OF the war, wrote The PRINCIPAL
inscription, from which it appears that
i,26o horses from the county and vi.
cinlty are so remembered.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05
Antiquity of Disease.

The antiquity of disease is shown
by the recent discovery of Prof.
Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the
Smithsonian institution, Washington.
He found fossilized toxic, or poison
Gus bacteria, at the base of and far be-
low the Cambrian rocks. These rocks
had originally lain SO miles below the
earth's surface, but had been up
heaved by some tremendous cOnvui-
sion. Theirs is an age of 100000
years ago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05

Amena, one of the 100000 orphans,
In the Near East, was wandering in
the streets of her ruined city, in tat
tered clothing, and whimpering = she
had not strength to cry = from hun
ger, when she was picked up by a
relief worker.
Now Amena = the smallest girl in
the above illustration = has been
placed in one of the orphanages being
put up for the thousands of father
less, motherless, friendless children,