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Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-20

vide such medical and surgical treat
ment as shall be necessary in such
cases, and such as is customarily
and generally used by the medical
profession in the scientific ascertain
ment and treatment thereof"
The ordinance also provides TO,
the treatment of men suffering from
social diseases in the same manner
1t will likely be presented to the
council for passage at the next
meeting. 5 4 g.. 49,
No reference is made in the ordi.
nance to the abandonment of the
practice of administering morphine
and cocaine to the inmates. Serious
objections have been registered
against this practice, which is car.
ried on to the extent that some have
been given as much as four injec-
tons of morphine each day for a
period extending from six weeks to
three and four months, in defiant
violation of the law.
Proposes Amendment.
Commissioner Zimman asked that
an amendment be made to the Or
dinance providing that those dis
charged from the Detention home
cured of venereal diseases, but not
Of the dope habit, be sent to state
institution. Such an amendment was
agreed to.
It is proposed to file complaints
before the insanity board in such in
stances and it will then be up to this
board to find a place in a state in
stitution for such uncured drug
addicts.
I believe that these unfortunate
people should be given dope while
in the course Of being cured" said
Commissioner Zimman. 1T is the
only way that they can be humane
ly treated"
Then you would kill them with
kindness, would you,' inquired Com
missioner Butler.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-20
Permanent Injunction
Against 7 for Quarter
Car Tickets Is Asked

A motion was filed in district
court today to make the temporary
injunction against the "seven-for-a "a
quarter" street car ticket ordinance,
permanent.
This fight started when the city
council passed the ordinance in 1914
and the population voted vociferous-
ly for it at a special election held
March 10, 1914. On April 8 a re-
straining order was secured by the
Omaha & Council Bluffs Street
Railway Co., to stop the placing
Of the ordinance in effect. On May
IS temporary injunction was
pl. ting up a bond of 100000.
1t is merely formal motion to
straighten out the records, say at
torneys for the street railway conf
pany.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-20
Detention Home Measure
By Mr.. Ringer Advocating
Bee Reform Is Approved
Council Sitting AS Committee of Whole Refuses To
Make Investigation of Charges of Petty Graft In
Connection With Home, Despite Demand Of
Councilman Butler. @ II

should make it the first order Of
business to discharge this debt as
the public duty of a public servant
In my opinion this is too serious a
matter to pass over unnoticed."
There was no support voiced to
Mr.. Buffers Recommendation.
The ordinance will be presented
at the next meeting of the council
for final passage.
| Dean Ringer, DR.. Manning and
DIR. Palmer Findley, recently follow
ing numerous and bitter protests
against arresting women without
warrants, holding them in the home
and compelling them to submit to
examination and treatment without
hearings in court, abandoned this
policy. They announced this plan
had been discontinued, and in the
future no one would be committed
to the institution without a proper
hearing in open court.
What New Ordinance Says.
The new ordinance covers this
feature as follows:
"The health commissioner, his as
sistants and deputies, and the sur
geon in charge of the Detention
home and his assistants, are hereby
empowered and directed, within a
reasonable time, to make examina-
tons for the existence of venereal
disease of all persons convicted IN
a court of competent jurisdiction,
of prostitution, as keeper Of dis
orderly house, as an inmate Of a
disorder1y house, or Of women So
Letting to detain such persons so
convicted as aforesaid until the re-
suits of such an examination shall
have been determined: and to pre-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-20
Three GroCers Arrested On
Stolen PROPERTY Charge

With the recovery of four of the
IA, 60-pound tubs of butter stolen
Friday night from the David Cole
Creamery company, Fourteenth and
Jones streets, detectives yesterday
morning arrested Albert Wohlner,
2115 California street, Sam and Harry
Rosenbloom, 1915 Burt street, all
three grocers. They are charged
with receiving stolen property.
The butter, regularly sold for so
cents pound, was on sale at Wohl-
ner's and Rosenbloom's stores for
IS cents a pound. They denied
knowing it had been stolen.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-20

Accepting the principal reform
recommended by The Bee in con.
nection with the Detention home
but refusing to institute an investi.
CATION Of the charges of petty graft
in connection with the institution
the city council committee of the
whole yesterday morning recon-
mended for passage Police Commits
sioner Dean Ringers new ordinance.
Commissioner Butler voiced en-
phatic opposition to the measure, or
any other measure, passing the
council until the charges against the
home had been investigated.
Should Probe Accusations.
81 believe that this council is
charged with the solemn duty OF
investigating accusations which
have been brought against this in
stitution" declared Mr.. Butler. IF
there has been anything wrong there
we should know about it before this
ordinance is passed. I move that
we set it over and first hold a spe-
cial meeting where the whole situa-
ton may be gone over. Severe
criticism has been directed against
this institution and its administra-
ton, and in my opinion we cannot
afford to ignore them.
1T seems to me that the members
of the city council should show a
disposition to ruin down charges
which reflect on the integrity and
honor of its members. J
Cannot Pass Unnoticed..
"Were I at the head of the Deten-
ton home, if the public looked to me
for explanations, which they have a
right to expect and insist on getting.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-20
Large Tractor Makers to
Open Warehouses Here

Omaha is to become a main dis
tributing point for harvesting ma
chinery, tractors, motor trucks and
threshing machinery, ]. M. Gillian,
manager of the industrial bureau,
Chamber of Commerce. said yester-
day morning.
Several large eastern manufactur-
ers have made inquiries for ware
house floor space with the object in
view to open branches here.
"a deal is now pending which will
result in the erection of two large
warehouses on Omaha property of
the kind desired by these eastern
ers," Mr.. Gillen said
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-20
Want to Amend Petition
In Suit for $12O,OOO,0O

Permission to amend the $780,
100000 suit filed few weeks ago by
Louise Osborne Person and her sis
ter, Grace Osborne, was granted by
District Judge Sears. They want to
add the names of other defendants
besides Armour Co. and others
named in the original suit. The sis
tiers claim to be the inventors Of a
baked bean biscuit which, they say,
has been used by the defendant
without their permission.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-20
There's Two Sides to Every
Question, Declares Jerry

Jerry Howard yesterday sent let
ter with 20 signatures to United
States Senator Borah, asking him to
come to Omaha to spea kon the
League of Nations. Jerry wants the
other side of the question elucidated
after Mr.. Taft and his party come
to Omaha two weeks renee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

At the monthly meeting of the
Grolier Club next Thursday evening
ton Of Manet's prints, inaugurating an
exhibition which will last until April
20. The club performs useful service
in arranging this affair. The great inn
prosslonist's ctchinRs and Autographs
are among the most striking relics Of
his genius TINT we hnve aud com
plete collection Of them Is not often
seen.
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Calendar of Exhibitions

American Art Galleries. Madison and eopold
behguat collection
~ 'N'' ii0N' HP'i
Anderson Galleries, boors
from various consign hngs
wood engravngs and drypoint original DRAWINGS bv
old and modern - ~
Arden Laura cordr rx
and Frances Grimes, o April -
. Braun Galleries, 1928 BroadwayPnings by Irving Couse and
Albert to Apris ~ - e N'0 OH"
Butler, B, Madison Avenue no;n4;.u.
April p"'"''is'' W
R. Leigh, - "
Dudenslng Galleries. As PAINTINGS
watercolors by American and foreign to April
Daniel Galleries,
artists, April - ~
Enrich Galleries. monoyes BY American
artists, % ~ NA
Folsom Avenue-Paintings by Daniel Gorb r.
~ '' ~
Ferargl Galleries. "a
paintings through
PAINTINGS and dr.rjrus
by Lieutenant Jean-Julen Lemordant, to April 49,
knoedler Galleries,
Bellows and Ianique art glass;
Macbeth Galleries, eroun Amer
Mich Galleries Fiyseventh s-Recen PAINTINGS b
Lillian Genth, April s.
Mcdowell Club, 10s proun Of
artists,
Montross Galleries. Avenue-Paintings bv Hoo w.ker
''
National Academy of Design 215
exhibition, o
of New DRAWINGS from piornon
Morgan collection making of nrints
Renardt Galleries. 565 Fifth
Holland, o April
exhibition, Is
Whitney Street-Scuntu croco
T'oroorc
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exhibition. The three rooms open three
different vistas. In the first are the
souvenirs Of his dance in the theatre
at Rennes, including, by the way, a
project for drop-curtain in the same
building which is superb as color
scheme. In the second, Lieutenant Lee
mordant attacks themes almost COM
pletely antithetical. painting the work
men Of Paris, exchanging the poetry of
the dance for the prose of the hardest
kind of labor. The third gallery con-
tains his pictures based on the life of
seafaring men, the studies for decora-
lions executed for the Fisheries and
Oyster Breeding Syndicate of France,
miscellaneous documents, as it were,
illustrating the joys and SORROWS of
deep sea fishermen, schemes for an
elaborate frieze and casual sketches of
isolated models. What binds all these
things together is the artists broad
view of nature, his feeling for light and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

air, his robust conception of form and
MS positive passion for glowing color.
In word, it is human vitality that in
terests him and that surges through his
work like a food. He shows us only
studies, preliminary sketches and draw
ings, yet his energy is such that he
takes us to the very core of his Breton
inspiration. Decidedly we are glad of
his exhibition, glad that he has won the
prize at Yale. He is true artist, as he
is true soldier
There are no military subjects here,
but the military motive will not down.
We keep recurring to the dramatic as
poets of Lieutenant Lemordant's ca
reer, to the life for which these happy
paintings were a kind of prepare ton.
The merits of picture are only in
directly allied to an artists sufferings,
yet we make no apology for speaking of
this painters adventures in the field
Here is NJ. lie Goffic's description of
the action in Artois in which Lieuten-
ant Lemordant lost his sight:
Lemordant, climbing the slope, re-
ceives a bullet point blank, which goes
through his right knee. 1t is his fourth
wound of the day, and his men wish
to carry him off; he refuses, feeling
that his presence is more necessary
than ever, and having no non-coms to
whom he can turn over his command,
he merely has his leg set in spints,
then, fortifying the positions on the
side toward the enemy, he sends a
runner to Major Bernard to keep him
IN touch with his advance and to call
for supports. The man is killed on the
way. Another meets the same fate.
and in the interim the German counter
attack breaks loose. 1t is launched by
whole company, and it is terrifying
TO see this gray wave rolling over the
plain, rising, sinking and rising again,
and growing at each rush which brings
1T nearer the mound. Lemordant, by
rigid command, compels his men not
to fire, to control their nerves. The
charge gets within twenty metres of
the mound, where it gathers itself up
TO comb over in single mass with
the cry "Vorwartsl"
"Rapid firc--ilre at Wilt" rOars lie
nordant.
The charge vacilates. stops. Our
men leap out Of the trench to charge
III turn Lemordant, though wounded
in the hand, in the forehead. on the
head and in the knee, charges with
them, supported by young soldier of
his section. Chance brings him face
to face with the Obcrstleutenant"
who commands the counter attack, and
whom he scizcs by the throat, just
thcn 4 fifth bullet strikes him over
the right eye, breaking the frontal
bone. II seems to him that his hcnd
has burst, md that hs eyes have
npurted out into epnce. He falls henyi-
~. II Is nlI over
How was he hnnlly snvcd? lie does
not know yet. Wounded within the
cncmy's lines. left for dcnd, he lay
there four full days without cnre and
for forty-oight hours ho wns uncon-
scious. When he came to himself IL
was difficult to collect his thoughts.
lie did not know where he was. Around
him was total darkness, and it did not
pass away. He heard the groans the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

death-rattle Of the dying, the voices Of
the wounded who called to him. He
dragged himself in their direction and
asked them questions. Why did the
night last so long? They answered
that it was broad daylight-and he I'M
derstood.
1t might be averred by the coldy
scientific critic that all this has moth
ing to do with the merits or dement's Of
Lieutenant Lemordant's exhibition,
and, scientifically. he would be right.
But 1T happens that The exhibition Is n
good one, needing no adventitioua re
cital OF personal tragedy to bolster up
It's qualities. We cite NJ. he Goffic with
no thought of borrowing from his
words an enhancement Of Licutennnt
Lcmordnnte excellence nB mn artist
thnt we hnyc already affirmed But we
do cite him for the snkc of the light
he sheds upon the spiritual nrdor of
the French artist in the war. There
were others like Lieutenant Lemordant.
lie and his work symbolic ono of the
great sources of French victory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Some Decorative PAINTINGS
By Lieut.. J. J. Lem0rdanf

wound of all, which left him blind.
But the ltftiness and courage of his
demeanor, the very triumph which his
spirit and mind have won over afIlic-
ton, only serve to deepen our appre-
citation Of the moral lesson embodied
in his exhibition. For once pictures
we'll painted carry significance
larger than that Of their strictly ar
tistic excellence. They drive home
the meaning of France in the war;
they ring out the call of a great peo-
pie. Somehow, with Lieutenant I.e-
nordant's personality vivid in the
imagination, we realize in the glow of
vitality and color on THESE walls some
thing of the human drama concen-
trated in the war. 1t was from hap
piness such as is here mirrored, from
vitality such as is here richly poured
forth, that the artists of France turned
gladly to hardship and death. They
are types of glorious remuneration. We
owe them an unpayablc debt
1t was no trihing gift that Lieutenant
Lemordant laid as sacrifice upon the
altar of patriotism. He was one of the
younger and stronger pillars of the
Salon when the war broke out How
rich a talent it was that he gave up in
order to bear arms may be judged from
the feet that this is not an exhibition
Of finished pictures; it is, rather, q col
lection Of studies, and still it conveys
an impression of authority and power
They are the studies, TO begin with. Of
we'll trained craftsman. When this
young Breton entered the Ecole DIES
BeauxArts at Rennes he studied under
professors of painting, sculpture and
architecture. When he came up to
Paris it was to subject himself to the
stern discipline of Bonnat. He had
grounded himself we'll in the technical
mysteries Of his craft And, as is
proper. this is nevertheless pcrccptible
rs an influence in the background The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

A pleasant feature Of the Spring
Academy, now open at the Fine Arts
Building, is supplied IN the group Of
prize winning pictures. These some
times point to II rather perfume tory
choice. but this year the jury Of
awards has Md good work to recognize.
Mr.. Jerome Myers ~ quite at his
best in "Eyenlng," which reapponrs
from his zone man show" and thor
oughly deserves tho Thomas 3. Clarke
prize bestowed upon it, The first Hall
garten prize has gone to one Of the
most indivdualized of the winter land
scapes in Mr. Robert Strong Wood
wards Between Setting Sun and Ris-
ing Moon,' n picture which disclosos
Imagination as we'll as skill in realistic
matters. Mr.. Ercole Cartotto's Miss
Marion Ryder" winner of the second
lIallgnrten prize, is admirable for It's
polished draughtsmanship His work Ii
altogether self possessed. capable and
prophetic Of good things to come. Mr.
Dimes Curlsen. the third member Of
this lucky group, shows IN Tho Jade
Bowl" more than ever that he Is follow
ing to good purpose in his fathers
footsteps AZ painter of stll life. Mr..
Malcolm Parcell's "Louine," to which
the snltus Medal has been awarded, re
peats Mr. Cartotto's success That is,
it is sound portrait, and it is painted
into the bargain, with some originality
Mr.. Irving r. Wilcs, who is always
capable, is a little more than that in
"The Little Green Hat" which has won
the Isaac N. Maynard prize. The
painting has certain sprightly ele-
gance, il is we'll done in really
spirited way. AS for the two Altman
prizes, the first in going to Mr.. E. w.
Redtield for THE Old Mill" rewards
him for getting out of the rut and
making perhaps the finest picture of
his career, the finest because it has an
atmospheric quality to which he has
rarely attained; and the second, given
to Mr.. Gardner Symons for his
"Shimmering free Shadows likewise
marks the topnotch of an artists prog
ress. This big view of the hills in
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ton Of the entire stock Of Meaarg.
VITAL and Leopold Benguiat, the deal.
era In antique textiles and embroider.
los, who are disseminating their eslnb.
l'shmenta IN New York and Paris, Tho
sale Will begin on Monday, April z. and
VIII continue every afternoon until
Saturday, April ~, inclusive. 1t Will
dispose of ecclesiastical embroiderics
palace hangings, tapestries, velvets and
mces, wilderness of Gothic and
Renaissance pieces.
The Courbet centenary exhibition at
the metropolitan Museum will be
opened on Monday, April 7, with pri-
vate view for members, and will last
for six weeks thereafter. The current
bulletin holds out the prospect of a
remarkable array Of pictures. There
Will be about thirty-five works shown
and they are of such a quality that the
exhibition is expected to take rank as
the most important held anywhere
since the memorial show at the Beaux
Arts in 1882. "The Quarry" lately
bought by the Boston Museum. is
among the salient things lent. An
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other is "The Ladies of the Seine"
None Of Courbct's studies Of still life
or of flowers is owned in America, but
every other aspect of his art will be
illustrated, affording an opportunity to
the student of French painting the
value Of which it would be impossible
to eXaEge rate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

winter reveals largeness of spirit
matching the great scale employed.
Altogether the prizes are, In this in
stance. prizes earned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
GALLANT FIGURE IN MODERN FRENCH ART

and by the sea. There lies the charm
of his art.
One Of his principal productions. we
gather, if not the most important Of
them all, is the decoration he painted
for the ceiling of the theatre at Rennes
"a huge circular canvas, in which
dance of Bretons starts amid a mass of
flowers, and is carried on through bill
lowing clouds, to lose itself in the blue
There are several studies for it here,
studies wrought to such point that
they fully proclaim the special quality
of the work, and in addition there are
numerous drawings for individual fig
ures. The latter are Of coast types,
homely, heavy, with no grace of poetry
about them, but it is signal proof of
Lieutenant Lemordant's artistic skill
that without trace of forcing the note
anywhere he contrives to make his
dancers, in the detached studies, mod
els Of rhythmic movement, and, in the
ensemble, no less convincing 1t is
case of racial feeling interpreted with
absolute sincerity and lifted to higher
power by genuine decorative instinct
The dancers are creatures of the soil
unmis takably. Yet the big circle in
which they tread their gay measure ia
filled, technically, with an effect making
us think variously of the sensuous
brilliance of Besnard and of the light
fantasy of Cheret. Whether Lieuten-
ant Lemordant has ever definitely &C
.cepted the influence of Besnard or not
we do not know. Looking at the sep
arate drawings he has made of his
peasants. in black and white and in
color, we should say that his more OBJ
vious prototype was the Salonnier, Lu-
Glen Simon. But as a decorator he has
beyond question Il measure of Besnards
faculty for suggesting free, ebullicnt
life in his work rather than the tradi-
tional formulp of mural painting. He
is like his famous senior, inasmuch as
he conceals q strong fabric of organic
construction beneath an impression Of
artless nature. He fills his space as a
good craftsman should. But it is. as
we have said the joy Of life that
brcathcs from his paintings.
Characteristicaly there is no mar
rowing pressure Of fixed ideas in this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
By Royal Cortissoz

COME time ago there was estab-
listed at Yale University the
Rowland Memorial Prize, "to be award
cd every two years to citizen of any
country for an achievement of marked
distinction in literature, the fine arts
or the science of government" Award
a for the first time in 1916, the prize
went to Rupert Brooke. the young
English poet, untimcly lost. In the
present year the second award has
gone to Lieutenant Jean-Julien Lee
mordant. a French artist, who was
robbed of mis- sight on the field of bat
tie. lie has come to this country to
receive the honor, and has brought a
quantity of his works with him. They
are on exhibition at the Gimpel &
Wildenstein Gallery, where they make
a dual appeal. In the first place these
paintings are intrinsically interesting
ard admirable. Secondly, they set us
10 INlHhlUE CuIt uiCic Cu lHt UOTD
played in the great war by the arts
tic genius of France
Our first thoughts a. what that
genius has done not unnaturally have
to do with the visible signs of artistic
ondeavor, with works like Fares avi-
alton pictures, with the paintings and
drawings that French artists have sent
home from the trenches, with the post
ers drawn by some of the most brill
liant men Of the period. But this tells
only part-and the less important part
1of the story. The more poignant
history Of the French artists during
the war relates. Of course, to their
losses in battle. TO tho tremendous
list Of killed and wounded. which ranks
high in the national roll of honor.
Lieutenant Lemordants II painter of
distinguished talent an artist who
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tMorc notes on current exhibitions
appedr on page nino, Mis section.)
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Random Impressions
I'm Current Exhibitions

The Society Of Independent Artiats
Inns opened it's third annual exhibition,
presenting itself this time AT the Wal
dorf-Astorin. The show continues un-
til the middle Of April.
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important point is that he has some
thing to say. 1t is message drawn
straight from the land where he was
born. The soul of Saint-Malo is the
soul Of his work. He paints the hum
BILE Breton, the peasant and the sailor,
and as he does so he brings also into
his designs the charm Of their environ
ment, the light and air of Brittany, the
joy of life as it is lived in the fields
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

There will open next Wednesday at
the American Art Galleries an exhibit