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Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Subscriptions of 700
Millions to New Issue

Washington, Dec. l9.-Subscrip-
tons of more than $700,0O0,0OO have
been received by the treasury to
the new issue of certificates Of in
debtedness dated December IS and
maturing June Is, 1920, with interest
at AZ per cent.
Less than one-third of the sub
scriptions, Secretary Glass an
nounced, were paid for in certifi-
Gates of other series and the result
was said to be very gratifying to the
treasury.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Capt. Alcock, First to
Cross Atlantic, Is
Dead From Paris Fall

Rouen, France, Dec. l9.-Capt. Sir
John Alcock, the first aviator to
make nonstop airplane flight across
the Atlantic, died here this after
noon as result or injuries he re-
ceived when his plane crashed yes
terday near Cottevrard, department
of Seine Infesleure, Normandy.
Alcock, who was flying in wa
ter plane, was following the Seine
at the time of the fall, intending
to alight on the river opposite the
Grand palace for an aviation exhibit
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Mexican Rebel to Surrender.

Mexico City, Dec. 19.-Guillermo
Meixueiro, rebel leader in the state
OF Oaxaca for the last five years and
former governor of that state, is
on his way to the city of .Oaxaca
with his staff to surrender uncon-
ditionally to the forces Of Pablo
Gonzales.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Reserve Bank Official to
Back Republican PARTY

New York, Dec. 1o.-William
Boyce Thompson, director of the
federal reserve bank of New York,
has resigned to become chairman of
the ways and means committee of
the republican national committee.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Anti-Red Plot Found

Helsingfors, Dec. 1o.-Discovery
of an anti-bolshevik plot is reported
in Petrograd. Nine hundred per-
sons, including several French and
English citizens, have been arrested
Three hundred and fifty have been
ayeruted
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20

Over 200 employees of the Port
land, Ore, Railway Light and Pow
er company are benefited by the
recent award of the State Concilia-
ton board, which grants them an
elght.hour day. The wages OF line
men Is advanced from IS to s. per
J,v,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Case No. 20.
NEEDS SERIOUS OPERATION.
Rent. Fuel, Food and Clothing

Must Be Provided.
Man, wife and six children; girl
10 years old, girl 8 years old, girl
years old, girl 4 years old, girl 3
years old, baby | year old. Man
physically disabled, unable to work.
Will need serious operation to put
him on his feet. In meantime ex-
penses at home must be met by AS
ISOLATED Charities,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Case No. 10.
MAY BE TUBERCULAR.

DICK BABY Keeps Mother From Her
Work.
Widow and four children, a girl
IS years old, girl II years old, boy
: years old, boy 2 years old. Woman
trail. May be tubercular. Baby
been very i'll so that mother has
been unable to go to her work reg
ularly. 1t will take at least 5000 to
carry this family through the win
ter. Family in destitute circum-
stances. Who will volunteer to help
this family?
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20

rolls of II of the industries are re-
ported, the largest, oS.4 per cent,
being in mems clothing.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Case No. II.
LOST FATHER RECENTLY.
Small Pension is Widows Only

Income.
Colored family, consisting. of
widow and three children, boy 10
years old, girls s years old, baby 3
months olds Lost father two weeks
ago. Only income mothers PEN
sion. of SIS per month. Who will
help the Associated Charities to care
for this family?
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Payroll Increases
Shown In Reports Of
II Industries Of u. S,

Washington. Dec. l9.-Inereases
in the payrolls and the number EN-.
ployed by the majority of IS repre-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-20
Case No. 10.
MOTHER NEARLY BLIND.
Father Too Old and Too Ill to

Work.
Family consisting of man II years
old, wife and four children. Girl IL
years old, boy 9 years old, girl 6
years old, boy | year old. Father
too old and i'll to work. Mother
nearly blind. Have county pension
of SIS month. Mother does little
washing. Associated Charities sup
plement pension. Need shoes.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

WONDER why it is that man does
not recognize the perversity of hu-
man nature in his dealings with
woman? Give her rope enough and she'll
hang herself. Give her chance to do
as she pleases and she'll please to please
you nlne times out of ten. 1t Is the for
bldden thing we fight for, and red
blooded women do not like those words.
Thou shalt not" any better than do red
blooded men.
This is the psychology Of the dictum.
IF man smite thee on one check. turn
to him the other" The practice Of it in
dlcates rare knowledge Of human
nature rather than cowardice, with which
it is generally confused.
no sane person would advocate a
Wholesale departure of women workers
from the home industry, and there are
enough domestically inclined women to
save that institution from oblivion. hut
the most stubborn adversary must agree
that q home run by woman whose am
bltlon and training are in some other
neld OF labor is seldom successful. At
any rate, why not let her try her wines7
II it be true that home Is her perfect
sphere, there is no better and no quicker
way OF making her realize it. If home
IS a genuine factor it will come through
any test more firmly established than
ever so we need not worry about what
is TO become of the home if women do
this and that
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another had been in reformator;s. -,
they were boys"
Have you any specific cases in vor~
experience which would show lust vh.s
effect the reformatory had upon .,
mates?"
WELL" began Mr.. Moss, 81 hav. ,n
mind one fellow who told me that af,.~
he had once spent a term in the rsfor,,
atory he had decided not to get ;r,o
that kind Of mess again; on the otb.r
hand, have had boys tell me that IN ~.
reformatory their association with av;,
influences had taught them to 4.
wrong"
Don't you think that this and the f..+
that good many of our adult criminal.
once were inmates of reformator,.s
which failed to reform them into rooa
citizens form a pretty strong indictment
Of the reformatory?"
"Well," began Mr. Moss. with soms
uncertainty, would you say that he.
cause great many criminals were also
Sunday-school pupils or church men,
bers that that was an indictment Of the
church and the Sunday -school?"
II should say that in these spec,aI
cases the church and the Sunday school
failed to get their ethical principles to
take root. SO / would say that
the reformatory, which is consuming
great deal of money to reform boys. fails
to do its work in the case of those of ;ta
inmates who go on further and further
into crime"
"You might say, then,' said Mr. Moss.
smiling. that where men show m
goodness the Creator failed to plant Il in
them"
You said that the refofmntorv was
crude and inefficient MIR. Moss was re-.
minded. "You believe that something
ought to be done at once to improve lt?S
II do"
"Whnt would you do, Mr.. Moss. 10
accomplish that Improvement"
II cannot tell you now" he con.
fessed. II would first have to make n
deep study of the reformatory. | don't
know enough about it now to saw what
| would do"
And there we are!
But apparently the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum knew what to do.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Punishment Is Law of
Cause and Effect

II don't know whether punishment is
means of reformation or not" he re-
piled, "but do know that the indi-
vidual should be made to learn that
violation of law is followed by punish
ment; just as every boy is made to
learn that when he puts indigestible
food into his stomach he must expect
stomach ache; just as child soon
finds out that if he puts his hand on
hot stove he will be burned Pain is
natures punishment, and l believe the
reformatory should administer its pun
ishment in the same way. This does
not mean that favor brutality. I would
call mere detention in a reformatory
adequate punishment
However, we can no more eliminate
it than we can eliminate pain. There
was a darky once who could feel no
pain in his feet. One day while sitting
before an open fire he fell asleep. His
feet slid into the fire and began to burn.
There was no pain to wake him. so his
feet burned on till the odor of burning
flesh became strong enough TO arouse
him. Punishment should follow just as
inevitably the breaking Of society's
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

caprice. A condition so universal must
have deep roots. Why is it that the
women in the home want to get out land
the women out of the home want to get
in? Every successful woman who has
been deprived Of home and children
will tell you they are more important
than her wonderful career, but consider
this fact well: What a happy, contented
lot are those fortunate women who have
been permitted both families and
careers! They are our finest specimens
OF womanhood and arc monuments of
proof that what women need Is a home
pd job-both to their liking. And,
cPme to think Of it, that seems to be- the
VTlpe for making happy men, too!
Can't we see that. being a man or, a
woman does not matter except biolooi-
cally? The same formula for happiness
fits us all. A woman does not fail be-
cause she is woman, but because Of
lack OF experience; you men would never
let us serve our apprenticeship, so what
can you expect from green hands?
IL woman fails because she isn't.a
man, why does man fail?
Judging from the achievements k
some women we might be equally unfair
and say it is because he isn't a woman
she hath done what she could" seemed
10 DO sufficient recommendation for a
woman IN Scriptural days, but, according
70 1he limitations put upon women's ef-
forts in the present age, 1t would appear
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
"a An Orphan Asylum With Real Idea -

get the right kind OF servants with n
proper attitude toward the children.
And besides, it benefits the children TO
teach them to care for their household.
These children come from shattered
homes and they have no conception what
soever of normal life"
The cottages are immaculate, and de-
llclous meals are served by the children.
lnter-cottage competition is the chief in
centive to this efficiency.
I'VE prefer young girls, too. as cot
tage mothers, because we find they get
on better with the youngsters, as they
still remember their own youth and it's
fallings," said DR.. Goodrich.
Ruled BY and For
Its Little People
The whole institution is run on self
government plan. The six hundred chill
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
BY MAY B. BROOKS

that "she hath done what she couldn't"
would be more applicable.
Give us jobs that five don't like
ready-mades and hand-pe downs in Jobs
any better than in clothes.
The fate of the jobless soldiers can
surely be solved without committing in
justice against their understudes-the
women who took their places. We owe
much to our soldier boys, but we also
owe something to the women who made
1T possible for them to be soldier boys.
With a whole world SO wasted in both
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

men and production, certainly there will
be need Of every available man or woman
to get things running again. Must we
admit that there isn't enough work in
the world for everybody who wants to
work, and that of necessity some of US
must live in idleness-parasites upon
the workers? Then we must do some
thing about it. We must establish moro
1ndustries-it is no case for partiality.
The war has caused numerous women to
lead real, active lives. When YOU make
an idle person into a useful member Of
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Big Orphans
Help Little Ones

The constitution contains a spocial
memorandum on the Big Brother or Big
Sister Committee, from which we learn
that every "big" citizen is responsible
for "tiny" citizen. Hc sees that he
washes properly in the morning, cleans
his teeth and combs his hair. If the
younger brother is sick or hurt in any
way, the big brother sees that he reports
promptly in the doctors office. The big
brother also is interested in protecting
the other one against imposition on the
part of the other children. He sees that
all his school homework is done. He also
sees that place is made for him ON one
OF the junior baseball teams and encour-
ages him in a general way to take part
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Money Is
Needed for Institutions

"Why isn't the reformatory so
equipped?"
"No money, no time," replied Mr..
Moss, struggling his shoulders
"But since it is the business of the
reformatory to reform the BOYS that
are sent to it, doesn't it seem prepos-
ferrous that the reformatory doesn't
supply itself with just such an equip
ment, since that equipment alone is ca
pable of reforming?"
"Not enough money" was the la
comic reply.
"You said that the reformatorv as
well as the whole prison system was the
weakest spot in society. You recogsize
the seriousness, then, of not strengthen
ing that weak spot; you recognize the
seriousness of not attacking the reform
atory problem and solving it?v
II do
rs IL true, rs some investigators in.
sist, that the great majority Of criminals
begin their careers of crime In the re-
formatory? Some claim that 80 per cent
of our criminals were in reformatorics
when they we're boys"
Il wouldn't undertake to say what
the percentage is" replied Mr.. Moss
Il don't know. But | will say that n
good many Of the criminals I have
prosecuted or handled in one wav or
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gardless of her station in life or the size
of her purse.
On the other hand, one should plead
for little more time for the men, in
order that they, too, may give heed to
this higher Development With our pres
ent system, what can the average man do
but spend all his moments chasing the
dollar IN order that the home may be
properly maintained?
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
By MARIE DE MoNfALvo

NN SUNDAY, December 20, we
Z printed on this page the follow
ing statements by David S.
Greenberg, author of "a Bunch of Lit
tie Thieves" Murder" etc, on re-
formatories:
"That the reformatory does not re-
form has become proverbial.
eve are spending millions annually
on reformatories that not only fail to
reform the boys sent to them, but, ac-
cording to the majority of those who
have made deep study of these nsl-
tutions, actually breed criminals, harden
those who have acquired criminal habits
and by contact spread the diseases to
those who never had them. A very
large percentage of the boys in re-
formatories were sent to the institution
not because of any crime that they COM
mitted, but only because their homes
seemed to lack the proper kind of
guardianship. Add to this the fact that
the average reformatory admits that
half the boys released fail to make
good, and you can realize what 5est-
houses these reformatories are.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Just Like a
Real Home

Yet six hundred orphans, with the
most tragic histories of the Childrens
Court and Public Charities, live in this
little colony, which is self-governed re-
public of twenty-one cottages, each cot
tage forming its own household.
at Is just like living in real home.
you see" some little orphan will explain.
The school building is over there" she
points to the large Administration Build
ing In the centre Of the cottages, "and
we have to get there punctually eyerv
morning."
On the 1st Of July, 1912, five hundred
chlldren were taken from q crowded bar
racks institution to these modern cot
tages among the beautiful hills of West
chester County.
AS general rule we do not admit
10 our cottage plan children under eight
years OF age, and in each cottage tho
eDildren vary from eight to SIXTEEN
boys and girls being in separate COT
IaGes,' said Superintendent DR.. Goldrich.
Inere are no adult cooks or majds
IN the cottages. All housework and cook
ing, both for the staff and children. are
done by the children themselves. under
the supervision Of the cottage mother.
IN the boys' cottage, as we'll as that Of
the girls, so that the boys, too, learn to
be excellent hougekecpcrs. And note,v
had ne, with great pride, that the
majority Of children at Pleasantvillc are
pnder fourteen years Of age.
ut would hsXe been very difficult To
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Equal Rights
For Men

The whole Of any persons life should
not be consumed in merely earning an
existence. Let women share in the SUD-
port of the home, and before hurlinp
back the old slogan that any wife or
mother does that very thing consider.
flrst, how many, many wives and dauph-
tcrs there are in this land whose stains
in the home is little more than that of
household pet. The home without chill
dren or other dependents can be ideally
run In few hours day-then, idleness
or at least nproductiveness, the rest of
the time. Is that fair to our men? The
millennium would be, more leisure for
men, more work for women--of the kind
that counts.
Some men say they wish to keep their
women in the home because thev can nro-
tect them better. But custom indicates
that they take more interest in protect
ing them when they work outside the
home. A woman can work herself into
invalidism in the home and no law
maker raises his hand in her behalf.
You can work all you please" says the
husband, "but for ME only"
AS to women's duty to the race If thew
are allowed to work outside the home
that Is in the hands of a higher court
lt'will take care of itself.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

agitating for the complete elimination
of punishment, and I do not agree with
them"
"You believe in the efficacy of pun
ishment as means of reformation?"
he was asked.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

spot in society"-former Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Frank Moss, who prose-
cuted the four Becker gunner, at the
same time indicated his reluctance to
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
"No Place
Like Home!"

II believe the best thing would be
to have as few children brought into
reformatories as possible. The best way
is to keep the children home when it is
at all possible, and that should be done
much more than it is now. We should
find out, instead of bringing children
to reformatories, whether in some wav
or other it can be arranged that thew
can stay at home. Even if the home is
only moderately good, it is better than
good institution.
"Take child that is put in an in
stitution where he is kept up to the age
of 16 years: he goes out into the world
without any permanent foothold and
drifts into any mischief that comes his
way. Reformatories should be managed
in such way that children will be i'm
proved. With all child delinquents it
ought to be question of cure and not
punishment. They ought to be so treated
that they can completely take care Of
themselves when they come out, their
education should be of the right kind: and
they should not be treated in ANYWAY
as criminals"
Characterizing the reformatory "a
crude ard inefficient -- the weakest
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

Of an institution did not give the chill
dren any chance OF expressing them
selves, and the government plan was
an attempt to remedy this.
"Thcre was no incentive to motivate
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Head of Hebrew Institution Believes Homes
Can Be Made to Take Their Place

laws, as pain inevitably follows the
breaking of Natures laws
Don't you think, though, that pun
ishment as it is applied in the reform
atory or the prison has lost the natural
and reasonable quality, and has degen-
Grated into machinery by which Ill are
punished alike, regardless of the crime
they committed or the moral equipment
they may or may not have?''
Exactly agreed Mr.. Moss. 'I
should say that the trouble with the
reformatory as with the prison is that
it is not equipped for individual study
and treatment"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

dren form one large republic, and each
cottage building IL republic In itself,
with officers responsible to tho officers
OF the general republic.
1t was found that the ordinary life
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

the lives Of these children beyond the
ordinary mechanical considerations, and
1t was recognized M absolutely essential
TO cultivate their leadership ability" said
DR.. Goldrich.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

condemn the institution, on the ground
that he did not know enough about it's
administration.
Il believe" he said, "that a great
many sentimentalists Of late have been
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
MIR. Lewisohn
On the Subject

Adolph Lewisohn, who seems to have
made so conspicuous a success of the
orphan asylum described by Alissa Franc
elsewhere on this page, was asked his
opinion of the average correctional ire
formatory."
GAS regards the present reformatory
system for delinquent children" he said,
II would prefer to have as few reforma-
tories as possible. Some of these have
attempted reforms and have made a
number Of improvements, such as the
parole system; but they still continue
the old idea of extreme discipline and
almost cruel treatment Of those who do
not do just what the warden or head
wants them to do. 1t Is left entirely to
the prison authorities to treat those
committed to their care any way thew
consider fit.
II was asked recently, isn't II we'll
to have parole? Isn't that wonderful
thihgY But when 1t Is left entirely to
Keepers and wardehs and prison authori-
ties IL often works harm instead of good.
for the prisoner, IL he be- at all clever.
can adhpt himself to the wishes of the
keeper without there being any con-
structive benefit to him. Worse: Should
he fall into the hands of a disfonest off,
cial, bribery might make his years of
detention easier than those of his fellow
prisoners with no money at their dis
posal. And youth who for some rea-
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Officers Are Stupid,
And Worse

"The officers in the average reforma-
tory are the very worst men obtainable,
usually ignorant, stupid and often i'm
moral. The reason for this ls--econony.
You will find that millions Of dollars
have been spent oil beautiful sites, up
to-date, artistic buildings, beautiful cot
tageH, excellent equipment --- anything
and everything that adds to outward np.
Dearance and fnlflIs sanitary laws. And
to make up for this expenditure there
Is economy In the hiring Of men.
"The average steacher In u reforms
tory gets about $50 month. or course.
no really capable teacher will take such
an extraordinarily difficult position for
such compensation. The result Is that
the institution Is run by people whom