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Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20

Like man, the horse 10 heir to
many ills and it was not 80 many
years ago that the individual who
treated these ills of the horse was
known as the horse DOCTOR. Now,
the ills of the horse are treated,
but in 4 scientific manner and by
a veterinarian, a man who is skilled
in medical knowledge" said DR.. b.
w. Leech of Lincoln, who was here
last week as one Of the delegates
to the twenty-sixth annual conven-
ton of the Missouri Valley Veter-
mary association. Continuing, DR..
Leech said:
twenty-five years ago the horse
doctor was called when the horse
was sick. With him the doctor
brought = black quart bottle. It
was filled with 4 decoction made
up of oil and dozen, or more kinds
of drugs. 1t was 4 medicine that
was presumably \ curative for bots,
collie, poll evil, spawn. ringbone,
heaves, cribbing and frog in the
foot.
"When the doctor came, no mat
ter what the condition of the horse
might be, the wise man looked the
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20
Ry CARRIE CHAPMAN Gait.

tThe following article was written by
Mrs.. Gait. the suffrage leader. for circula-
great nation-w wide Americanization propa-
ganda,)
Women who have campaigned for
the vote have had occasion to know
well how great is the, menace to
American institutions from an illit-
crate non7English speaking 'elector-
ate.
These women did not wait to be
awakened by a world war which
should tax the national conscious
ness almost, to the breaking point.
They had met the slack spots in
American citizenship before. They
had seen groups of men, upable to
read of speak the English language,
marshaled to the polls to defeat the
ideals of freedom for which, as
American born women of democratic
ancestry, they had long struggled.
When the National American
Woman Suffrage association made
its offer of service to the United
States government in February, 1917,
its program emphasized the need of
a campaign of Augmentation,
which at that early stage in the war
was elsewhere generally looked upon
as Of slight importance. One gov
eminent officer sneered openly at
the idea that Americanization was
needed in war preparation.
But the nations prediction, based
on women's experience all over the
country, proved correct. 1t was not
long before the federal authorities
were appealing to governors and
state councils of defense to push
forward this movement, and a ma
tional Americanization conference
was called by the government
The Reason.
What was the reason!
Almost as soon as practical efforts
began to mould into homogeneous
army the mass of men gathered by
tho draft, it became manifest that
one of the greatest handicaps to
swift mobilization lay in the inabil-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20

knowledge of the use which may be
made of the illiterate vote to defeat
righteous ends.
Defeated by Illiterates.
Read the lists of referenda
through which state after state has
passed to gain the ballot for its
women. Often the women who
have led those campaigns have been
descendants Of revolutionary an
cestors. In their veins has flowed
perhaps the blood of the very men
Who devised apd created American
democracy, yet they have stood
powerless beside the polling booths
while illiterate men often only a
few years in this country have. been
voted in blocks against them.
These new citizens, drifting into
this country, drifting through the
naturalization courts from whence
they emerge as voting citizens, with
out knowing how or why, are often
the articulate voice of an invisible
government which somehow man
ages to speak its will through them
In the whirlwind campaigns, COM
mon to democracies, the final frenzy
for success makes men turn to
strange and hurried methods to gain
success. They find themselves div
en- into last-minute compromises and
unholy alliances in order to turn
votes this way or that at the behest
of great commercial interests. Many
good cause has gone down to
defeat because of this use of the
massed vote of the illiterate.
"In Every Party"
This influence is not democratic,
it is not republican, it is found in
every party when political expedi-
ency runs amuck and principles are
left behind.
In order to clarity what we mean
| by a program of AUGMENTATION, it
is best at once that the word should
not connote what Germanizing the
Alsatians has meant in Europe. 1t
should mean the effort to give all
foreign-born residents in the United
States an incentive to be true Amer
leans.
We have seen, during the war,
with what rapidity and success the
problems of unifying the country
may be met when united govern
mental action is brought to bear
upon it.
Why may not a program for a
patriotic peace be carried forward
with equal success if all political par
ties, state and national governments
will unite upon a method of work
and throw themselves whole-heart-
edly into its leadership? Its object
should be not merely to Americanize
our foreign citizens but to natural
ize the whole. electorate, for there
is no more reason why the United
States should tolerate. an indigen-
Gus than a transplanted illiteracy.
Y There is no reason why every citi-
zen, man or woman, foreign or ma
tive-born, should not take an oath of
allegiance, become educated in the
meaning of American ideals, and be-
come thoroughly informed on feder-
al, state and local problems.
To this end I make the following
nine proposals for better America:
I. Compulsory education in every
state.
Most of our educationa laws are
now If -dequate and the period of
school attendance is not sufficiently
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20
Yukon Mail Carriers
Get Pound and a Half
Of Fish as Daily Paw

Washington, July l9.-There is
good deal of talk over the meager
pay received by mail carriers, but
the most poorly paid of Uncle
Sam's mail carriers receive far less
than the family postman, yet
never make complaint. They get a
pound and half of dried salmon
for full days work.
They are the huskey and Mala.
mute, the native Eskimo and the
native Indian dogs in the great
Yukon country. Without them the
gold seekers, the fur traders, the
shopkeepers and the mission work.
ers in the interior of Alaska Except
for more fortunate ones who live
along the lines of the few railroads)
would receive no mail from the time
the ice forms over the river in Oc-
tober until it breaks up in May.
Even the most inaccessible of DOS,
Offices receive mail once a month in
winter Though only letter mail is
carried then) and for those in the
interior of Alaska the husky and
Malamute are mail carrier and Santa
Claus combined. They would be
without word from the outside
world for eight months every year
if it were not for the mail dogs.
These animals are pushed to their
utmost by considerate and crued
driver alike for there is a prescribed
task for them every day, and all they
get out Of it is the pound and
half Of dried salmon at the end of
of the day.
When they are not working their
allowance Of fish 10 cut down. In
the summer they are fed on refuse
of fresh salmon at the fishing camps,
where the mail contractor boards
them out until the rivers freeze
AGAIN.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20
Swarrns Of Locusts,
Danger to Eyes Of
Speeding Autoists

Massapequa, N. Y. July l9.-Au-
tomobilists are compelled to put up
their windshields to protect their
eyes from the swarms of 17-year
locusts which are destroying fruit
and hardwood trees on 20 square
miles of farms near here. The
farmers are greatly alarmed over
the invasion by the locusts.
The chief anxiety of the farmers
affected so far relates to their fruit
trees. The locust requires a woody
fibre in which to lay its eggs-it is
in the egg-laying process that the
damage is done.
The foliage is destroyed because
the female of the species-more
deadly than the male-is equipped
with an extremely efficient trench
digger attached to her ovapositor.
With this she digs q deep trench
through the bark of the outer twigs
of fine trees and deposits her eggs
therein. The flow of sap to the
leaves Is thereby interrupted and
the foliage shrivels and dies.
The eggs then develop into larvae,
which drop to the ground. The lar
vac burrow into the ground to the
depth of 8 to 10 feet. At the
18th year after interment the larvae
begin to change into pupae, and by
the beginning of the 18th year the
pupae are working toward the sur
face, to come out when the season
is right.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20
Veterinarian Replaces
"Horse Doctor" of the Past
Highly Educated Men Now Care for Ills Of Animals
p Instead of Ancient Plan of Using Black Quart
Bottle of "Cure ALL"

animal over, shook his head and
then sticking the mouth Of the bot.
tie In the horses mouth, forced
the contents down ito throat.
"The medicine as 1t was called
was said to be good for any disease.
II the horse recovered, credit was
given to the doctor and he was
heralded a. . great man. If the
animal died the doctor simply con-
fided to the owner Of the beast that
he, the doctor was called too late.
Nov conditions are different.
The veterinary 10 an educated man.
He obtains his degree from a rep
utable college. He 10 examined BY
a state board ~ to his medical
knowledge, integrity and standing.
If he meets the requirements of the
state law, he is given 4 diploma that
authorizes him to practice his pro-
fession.
"The day of the old horse doc
tor is gone, never to return and
now the man who administers to-
the ills Of animals Is just as reput-
able and respected a citizen as the
preacher, the banker. or the mer-
chant"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20
Infant T rodigies
In England Are Said
To Be Caused by War

London, July 19.-(Correspond-
ence of the Associated Press.-In-
FAINT prodigies are being discovered
in England almost daily. Some
conn0t this with the psychology
of war. One of the youthful marvels
is Pamela Bianco, a l3-year-old
girl artist, whose drawings were
given the place of honor in an ex-
hibition at one of the principal
London galleries. Critics dealt
with them quite seriously, and said
that the work was suggestive of Bot
ticelli and some of the other old
masters. Pamela is an Italian girl
who was born in England, and never
had taken any drawing lessons.
Ronnie Routledge, years old, lit
tile more than a baby, whose par
ents know nothing of music, has en-
joyed six months of tuition on the
violin. At the Grimsby college of
violinists recently he oAtranked 43
competitors, most of them in the
twenties and scored 11o points in 4
possible 120. Professor Danton de-
scribes him as miracle.
Little Bobbie Day, 7 years old, of
Brighton, son of a motor mechanic,
has wonderful powers of clairvay-
ance, according to the Weekly Dis
patch. Blindfolded he described 4
number of articles. These included
a treasury note, (giving its color,
numbers, and writing on the back)
the color and texture of q piece of
fabric he had never seen, the cor
rect ansyer to a complicatd sum in
mental arithmetic, and figures writ
ten down at random.
After five minutes test he COM
planned of feeling icy cold. II just
see little pictures, and I just say
them," is Boobies explanation,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20

ing route from factory to farmer,
and also establish better marketing
conditions for farm products. Both
objects have been accomplished and
have proven of great benefit to the
farmer in the saving of dollars both
ways, from the factory to the farm
and from the farm to the consumer.
Members are being added daily as
the business of the state exchange
is increasing, The limit can only be
reached when every farmer in Ne
braska becomes union member
and a patron of the exchange,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20

enforced. Schools or teacher.
should be furnished the remoter sec
tons of the country; and there
should be a definite period set be-
yond which not one child over
IA should be found in this coun-
try who cannot read or write. And
flat time ought not to be far Oft
not later than 1925.
II. Education of adults.
This is an end which will be diff.
fcult to attain, since adult illiterates
are apt to be apathetic about learn.
ing. Extension courses in the pub.
lie schools will not be enough to
arouse the ambition of those wear
led by hard days work. But the
flip to ambition from knowing that
American citizenship depends upon
it, should help to awaken eagerpess
for the study of American institu-
tons.
Women Will Lead.
There are organizations of women,
whose vision is broad, who are eager
and willing to enlist themselves in
the patriotic service of creating a
better national spirit, who could and
would give a sympathetic and under
standing leadership to such a move
ment. Much has been done, under
great handicaps, by these women,
How much more might be done if
they had the support of national
policy to sustain theml
III. English should be our national
language.
This does not mean that the
knowledge of other languages need
ed in commercial and diplomatic
positions should be taken out of our
public schools. 1t does mean that
no school, public or private, giving
courses of general education, should
be conducted in any language other
than English During the war, it
was discovered that there were large
numbers of public schools in rural
districts conducted in the German
language and where no word Of Eng
lish was spoken.
LEGAL CHANGES.
w. There should be higher quail
fication for citizenship and more
impressive ceremonials of naturali-
cation.
Our naturalization law Is more
than a hundred years old and has
been but slightly modified since it
was drawn up. In the meanwhile,
oru immigration has become gigan-
tic, its problems complicated and i'm
mense. What began as small
stream of newcomers to this coun-
try, with interests differing but
slightly from those of the native
stock, had become, just before the
war, practically unrestricted and i'm
mensely diverse. Our naturaliza-
ton law needs amenring.
v. There should be direct citizen.
ship for women, nofthe present in
direct method by which women may
be qualified to vote through citizen
ship by marriage.
Woman's qualification for the bal
lot should include individual natural
ization, compelling the wife to attain
the same degree of intelligence for
her duties as has her husband.
vi. Education in citizenship
should be extended to the foreign
born through their foreign language
newspapers.
| A knowlede of the principles O.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20

ity of thousands of men to under
stand English commands or to read
camp directions.
Dr.. Claxton, head of the federal
board Of education, tells of the re-
quest of one commander for a ma
chine gun corps. Out of the group
sent him 1877 men had to be sent
back to be taught sufficient English
to read their instructions.
Figures for drafted men showed
that one-quarter of the 1,552,256 men
examined were unable to read
American newspapers, or to write
home to their families. They were
unable to understand the signs post
ed about the camps or the written
orders from headquarters.
In the first draft $4,000 to 10000
men hampered the speeding up OF
the army preparations because they
could not sign their own names,
read their manual of arms, under
stand signals, or follow the signal
corps in time of battle.
Miracle, Perhaps"
1t is a miracle, perhaps, that, 50
hampered, America made such prog
ress as it did. But what might it
not have done had this handicap
not existed?
Quickly-organized efforts to teach
these soldiers in few weeks what
they should have known before the
war began were phenomenally sue
cessful, yet there were some fac
tories, where huge government
orders were being rushed, whose
owners would not permit the inter-
ruption of education classes.
When the war ended, the task OF
AUGMENTATION was still incom-
plete. Soldiers and ammunition
workers have come back to a peace
program and to the perils and iric-
tons of reconstruction but dimly
understanding the meaning of the
democracy which they fought to
save and which they must now work
to protect and cherish.
It is right at this point that the
women of the country have had sad
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20

fight to vote for the president OF
the United States. Within six
months, the women of three other
states have been granted suffrage
on equal terms with men.
1t is with the lifelong work of
thousands of women that such free
dom as this signifies has been pur-
chased. These women believe in
America with that understanding,
zeal and intelligence that comes
from long study of its institutions.
Has anyone ever fifty emphasized
the fact that of all jewellers in this
country of the free none have so
great right to the claim to loyalty
as have those suffragists who have
sought citizenship in country
which has long rebuffed them7
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20
"When Can /
An Essex?'
That is the Inquiry Men Now NJ
corning the Light Weight, On

No industry has equaled the automobile
for its surprises. And judged by the way
people everywhere have taken to it, no car
has equaled the Essex in the quickness with
which it has gained its leadership.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20

four years ago with nothing on
hand in the way of merchandise, and
the only capital was $4,000 borrow
ed from the Farmers Educational
and COOPERATIVE State Union. 1t
is wholesale house for 265 Farmers
Union business houses throughout
the state. 1t also sells retail to the
Farmers Union members in local.
ties where they have no local insti-
tuition.
The primary object in the es-
Enlistment Of this institution was
to make a more direct merchandis-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20

The Farmers Uniop State Ex-
change, the state mercantile house
of the Farmers Union of Nebraska,
is located at Eleventh and Jones
streets in a new six-story, freproof
building, carrying a large stock of
agricultural implements of all kinds.
Paints, oils, lubricating oils, cloth
ing, shoes, barb and woven wire
fencing, complete line of groceries;
in fact everything that is used on
the farm.
This house began business about
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20
Carrie Chapman Gait, the suffrage leader adj
vocates nine specific Americanization reforms
and states her arguments for their adoption
as methods of improving American citizen
ship and consciousness.

government, the meaning of Ameri-
can ideals. simple lessons in citizen
ship, explanations of political events,
ought to be made compulsory by
the government in every foreign
newspaper, and copy for such les
sons should be provided by the fed
eral government.
IMPRESSIVE OATH.
VII. Every citizen, male or f.
male, native or foreign born, educat-
ed and ignorant, should take an i'm
pressive oath of allegiance to the
United States as one qualification
for the vote.
VIII. There should be schools of
citizenship In every rural school
district and city ward in conjunction
with the public school.
Attendance should be made COM
pulsory for all youth and would be
to all intents and purposes COM
pulsory for adults, if certificate
from such a school were made a
qualification for naturalization and
for the vote.
Such schools, with the effective
ness of their program proved and
with their functions co-ordinated
with the naturalization courts and
election boards, would doubtless re-
quire a generation for effectiveness,
but, if national support could be
given this ideal, a certificate of citi-
zenship ought eventually to become
the proudest token Of successfully
applied democracy.
TX. There should be an educa-
tional qualification for every voter
in the United States after a definite
date.
This test ought to be sufficiently
thorough to signify real intelligence
and to eliminate any need for EN-
blems on the, ballot to guide the
voter to his party ticket.
There is in these United States
rapidly increasing number of women
who are full voters, partial voters or
near voters. These women have not
only striven for their citizen rights
as no other group in the United
States has ever striven, but, in
thousands of instances, they are
daughters and granddaughter Of
other women who have longed and
worked for the ballot. In proper
ton as they have worked, the sig
nificance of the symbol of political
freedom has become of importance.
These women can never esteem
lightly or treat with unconcern the
citizenship which it has cost them
time and energy and sacrifice to
obtain. Neither will they train their
sons to regard as purchasable or
negligible this gift bought at
great price.
1t is to these millions of new
women citizens, whole-hearted for
American betterment, that the ma
ton must look for aid and they are
willing to give the aid.
They are equipped to give 1t. They
are democracy-conscious as no other
group is conscious.
In hundreds Of thousands OF cases.
thew are the mothers of boys who
fought for the world freedom, and
to whom that fight was more
sacred because Of their mothers be-
lief in human freedom.
BELIEVE IN AMERICA"
Within four months, women OF
eight states have been granted the
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20
Straw Hat Saves Life.

Johnstown, Pa. F. Brogden,
a salesman, gives credit to his straw
hat for saving his life. He fell IS
feet down an elevator shaft at his
place OF work, landed headfirst in
shallow pool of water and crashed
into the cement bottom. The hat
was crushed, but it saved Brogdef
from a fractured skull.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20
Ban Kellerman Parade.

Dayton. O.-Bathing suits are not
for promenade, but for the water.
With this statement the safety d.
rector has instructed police that wo-
men and men who disport them
selves about the streets in the vicin-
ity Of Island Park shall be subject
to arrest. The would-be Annette
some of the residents have been
Kellermans have been 50 bold that
really shocked.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-20

\ The basin Of the River Volga, es-
pecfally the Volga Valley itself. is
the chief region in which is concen-
trated a very considerable part Of
the Russian, commercial hour-mill-
ing industry
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1919-05-29
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Center Grove, May 27.-Most all Of
our farmers are through planting cot
ton.
Several from here attended the
childreu's day services at Chariot
Sunday.
Miss Julia Bray was the guest Of
Miss Ann Baker Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs J E. HARRISON spen
Sunday at DoSa the guests IF Mr..
and Mrs. c, P. Pickens.
Nadia Williamson who has been
in the military service in France re
turned to his home here Thursday.
Misses Lena and Mazillah brown Of
Newark spent Saturday and SUNDAY
here visiting their parents, Rev. and
Mrs. J l. Brown.
Little Miss Glynderbelle Saylor5 Of
Newark is spending a week here Wis
iting her aunt, Mrs. J. E. HARRISON.
Miss Ola Burlington spent Satur-
day night and Sunday at Pleasant
Hill he guest of Miss Edith Riddle.
Mrs. Rebeeea Moore and daughters
Misses Elsie and W.ess and Urban
Brittian of Charlotte spent Saturday
night and Sunday here visiting Mrs.
Bette Williamson.
Mrs. J. C. Greer and daughter Mis-
Hazel Of Doea spent Monday here
the guest of Mrs. ]. E. HARRISON.
There will be singing Saturday
night, everybody invited to come.
Misses Hula and Lelah Burlington
spent Saturday night the guest Of
Miss Ivy Rainwater.