Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 26, 1915, Page 7

- = CHOOSING. ] NEBRASKA RICH IN SCHOOLS MRS e e e i Correapondence of the Assoclated Press.) | LONDON, July 16.—"War has sancti- | |tied the war baby,” said Mrs. Cobden Saunderson before the Women's Free-| dom league at a meeting called to dis- | INSTITUTIONS MEET DEMANDS cuss the subject, ‘‘Feminists and the War i Baby.” By the term, war baby, Mrs No other state in the union has such Saunderson said she meant all babies & low percentage of llliteracy as Ne- | born in wartime, whether in or out uri braska. This is the fact brought out in wedlock government census reports. Even sup-| As te the baby born out of wedlock, | posedly cultured New England has to the speaker asserted that the fact that| come in second to Nebraska. its father was a soldler gave it some | Nebraska has not put such a large glorification, but this glorification caused amount of money Into its educational in- mothers to blame their illegitimate off-| stitutions as some other states have {spring upon solMers when the fathers| But its people have the fundamental were in fact civilians. This practice hurt | desire for education which is fostered the reputation of the army and should, | and increased through the years when she added, be dlscouraged education is compulsory. There ought to be no difference in the | From these hardy people there comes treatment of the two classes of illegitl- a natural desire for the better things of imate war babies, soldler and civillan, by life. In the hearts of these children, [the guardians of the poor, she went on many of them with parents who came to say. Special provision should be made from forelgn lands where education was |for the livelihood of such mothers by al- the exclusive privilege of the rich and|lowing them to earn thelr own money great, is a natural and instinctive desire |rather than to exist on charity. for learning. BARme PART “Distant flelds look the greenest” and Miles of Entanglements Help to De- that is about the only reason Nebraska young folks can find for going to the fend German Positions in Por- tions of Poland. This and Surrounding States Have Numerous Educational Advan- tages to Offer. far eastern institutions. Some, to whom money Is no object, go to these schopls also because they con- vder that the social advantages are greater and that they gain more prestige at home from attending the far eastern institutions. Schools of the State Are Good. Be that as it may the fact remains |(Correspondence of The Associated Press.) that there are within the limits of this| WARSAW, Poland, July 16.—Barbwire, state and in the nearby states institutions | machine guns and excellent rallway ar- of all kinds. While we are perhaps not | rangements, have been the chief elements rich in great technical institutions and|{in the German operations in Poland dur- have not many special schools for young | ing the last three months. Owing to over- women there are all manner of schools| whelming superiority in these three scattered throughout this part of the| respects, the Germans have been able west, 80 that any student of any prep-|to hold lines many hundreds miles in aration and with any ambition may find | length against what was frequently a here first-class instruction in any line|far superior force of Russians, at least desired. as numbers were concerned. And the west, uniike the east, affords| To defend the German positions along the same opportunities for young women | the little rivers Bzura and Rawka, where as for young men, not only in education, [ the two armies have been facing each but in all lines and technical education |other since last fall, would in the ordinary here {s on he increase. manner of speaking require nearly eight Take the state of Nebraska alone and|army corps. But the Germans have been see the census of schools. Here are four | able to maintain their places here with a state normal schools and one large pri-{small fraction of that number, owing to vate normal. These institutions are just|the fact that their barbwire defenses and coming into their own. Peru and Kear-| troop-transit arrangements are o per- ney have an attendance during the reg-| fect. ular year of approximately 600 each. Miles of Tangled Wires. Chadron has about 20 and Wayne ap- | Along this Bzura-Rawka front of about proximating 40 during the regular term.) forty miles the German barbwire defenses They offer liberal courses of education, (are literally four miles in depth, the en- possess strong facultles and are well| tanglements being so arranged that in a equipped. military sense they cover the whole ter- They kmow Nebraska's needs and are|ritory. Behind each group of entangle- able to afford educational advamtages|ments, at the little strategic ganglions directed toward those needs more effec-| which are easy to determine from the tively than other institutions. contour of the land and the lines of Aside from these, the colleges at Grand | possible approach, there are posted little Island, Hastings, York, Central Oity, | batteries of machine guns ready to sweep Crete, Bellevue, Blair, Wahoo, Collega|away any rash offensive. It would cost View, together with Crelghton univer-|an attacking force hundreds of thou- sity, Cotner university, Wesleyaa univer- | gands of men to wade through these wire sity and Omaha university fumish col-|entangelments, which zigzag and criss lege facilities well distributed over the |cross in hollows and mass themselves in tate hedges and walls, all the vital points All of these institutions are accredited | being commanded by a merciless storm authorized by law to grant|of machine gun fire, certificates. They range in at-| The only possible way of penetrating from 200 to 500 per year. The such a maze would be by destroying It Normal school is one of the|with a persistent storm of shells, and | 1508t private normals in the country.|even this would require several days, t is given credit for the work it does|giving the defenders time to bring up and is authorized to issue teachers' cer-|reinforcements over their admirable tificates. strategio rallways. In the meanwhile, Beyond these comes the University of |also, more wire would be lald down far- Nebraska with its numerous divisions, its | ther back. college of arts and sciences, its teachers' | General Alexefeff, who has been ap college, its college of engineering, its |pointed to the command of the northerr college of medicine, college of pharmacy. | Russian armies in place of General college of law and college of agricul- | Russky (retired on account of ill-health) ture, with an annual enrollment of over |is a qulet, unobstrusive man of nearly 4,000, Adding to this enrollment students | sixty years. He has a very intellectual doing work of college rank in public and |face and an almost shy manner, but private institutions in the state will ap- military men say his brain is the keenest proximate an annual attendance of about |in the Russian fleld army. His staff con- 9,000, or about 2% per cent of the school | sists of seventy-five officers, and their population of the state. headquarters is in a little Polish city as In many lines of educational work Ne-|quiet and unobstrusivie as the com- braska ranks well. Most of the private |mander. There are fewer than fifty sol- colleges of Nebraska are denominational dlers in the place aside from the gen- and rank high. | eral's staff, and the town is less military in appearance than any in western Rus- DEATH T0 PENETRATE THEM 1 are ers Visnes . | ota Central Business College. L Entering its twenty-fourth year, this| In front of the general's quarters there business college, located in Kansas City, | &re two sentties, and a small Russian has demonstrated the success of its meth- | {188 hangs over the d°°lr‘; In '-r;nch:! ods and fnstruction by the large number | Miles away, stretching through forests of its students today and by the success ' ®nd along hill tops, numberless regiments of those who have gone out from it in the | #nd brigades await orders from thiy last quarter of & century | bullding to launch themselves against the i {enemy. The army which General Hastings Business College. Alexeleff commands is more than twice The high order of instruction at this |the size of that under the command of college is shown by the high averages|Field Marshal Sir John French. with which its graduates pass govern- ment examinations and the number of coveted positions of high responsibility and trust which they hold. 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T, 4 rofen: mont) Ten and 870 = zr-m&"}r-- “hey tions of nd responsibility. PRESTIGE ou_are seeking a posi- sense hand or business course, write for our THIX BEE: OMAHA MONDAY, JULY o ’ M" tqi. » m 'GERMANS MEN OF ALL WORK Soldiers Make Full Hands Whether in Battle, Making Roads or Laying Water Mains. TURKS PROVE APT PUPILS (Oorrespondence of the Assoclated Press.) CONSTANTINOPLE, July 16.—On the road to Entilly, three kilometers east of of the dirtiest little towns In Ana- tolta, in a group of drafted Armenians engaged in road-bullding, the Associated Press correspondent found a young Ger. man engincer, clad In the uniform of & Turkish ploneer officer. “Yes," replied the young German to the question put to him, “I am bullding this road. Hers ia a place where there have been many washouts. I am rivet- ting the embankment and hope that the road will stay for & while after that. It's A dreary life, of course. But it has to be done. I'd rather be in the firing line in Flanders, or any old place, for that |matter. But nowadays we all have to |help where best we can. That the road was meeded, and that it |was best to keep it in good repair was shown a little later, when a regiment of Turkish artillery went over it at a livaly one na Tu Isi O clip, Taking Out the Kinks. At the foot of the Amanus pass there 'was another German engineer doing slmi- lar work, “I am taking the kinka out of the road,” he replied. *You see, these old ramps up the mountain have been used from time immemorial. T suppose some conkey first discovered that as being one way of getting over the hill. I mean four-footed donkey, in the days of Nebu- | chadnezzar, Since then all the armies of |antiquity and a few modern ones have used the road without knowing that the hill can be ascended In an easier way." Then he showed the correspondent a | new survey he had made. The old road | took elght turms to get over the pass, | many of them very steep. The new road takes only one, and it reduces the possi- iity of accidents. A cut or two, a little | revetting, and the trick was done. At Ishlalah the correspondent met a German medical officer. The man had formerly been in the employ of the Bag- dad railroad. When the war came he entered the service of the Ottoman army, because physiclans and surgeons were needed. He was put in command of the | sanitary troops of Syria. Clearing Up the Place. ““They have had some typhold fever and typhus around here’’ he explained. “I am trying to get rid of both. Making |tair progress. Getting place cleaned up, Most places now safe. Nothing to fear.” The man talked as if he had to-turn| in a certified voucher for every word he | uttered in the course of a day. He was | serfous. It is doubtful whether he had ever smiled in his life. In Aleppo another German officer was met. 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