Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 1, 1916, Page 66

MEN AGE FASTER IN WARRING TRENCH Officers Turn Gray Premature- ly from Worry and Show It _in Their Countenances. OFFICERS AGE THE FASTER| (Correspondence of The Assnciated Press.) London, Sept. 20.—What will be| the effect upon future generations of | the premature aging of millions of | then now at the battle fronts? Army | physicians and men of science gen- erally are beginning to discuss the problem. It is said that soldiers ten months in the trenches, exposed to the nerve-shattering shock of shell- | fire, often come out with the appcar-! ance of ten years having been added to their lives. /A shorter period than | this often suffices to turn iron gray| the hair of a boy of 25. This premature aging is peculiar to no one nationality, It is notice- ably alike among the English and French lines and among the prisoners 1t is said to be perhaps a little more pronounced along the ‘eastern fronts where the vast amount of territory involved frequently makes neglect of the wounded inevitable. There men have lain for days without medical attention and when finally admitted to hospitals have given their ages at 21 to 27 years, when ordinarily they would have been classed as 40 to 45. “We attribute the gray hairs now so noticeable everywhere at the front to subconscious worry,” said a Canadian army surgeon, in discussing | the subject with a correspondent of the Associated Press. “A man will not be conscious of any worry at all, whereas his comrades will daily com- ment upon the whitening of his hair. I have never known of hair actually growing white over night, as the nov- elists are so fond of putting it, but it often happens within the space of a week or ten days. “The theory of subconscious worry was borne out strikingly a short time a%o in the case of a surgeon in charge of a base hospital, This hospital was miles back of the firing line and there could have been no actual wor- ry as to personal safety or anything of that sort. ' The doctor couf;i not recall any worries officially or per- sonally, but all the time his subcon- from Germany, Austria and Russia. g s s S S Jnd must' have by THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 1, 1916. ing about the folks at home or about matters to which he gave not the slightest cohscious consideration. “Our nurses, too, frequently go gray without apparent reason, for mostly they are women of long training amid :!}c JScencs and sufferings of hospital ire. Nebraska's Stbry (Continued from Page Four.) has raised Nebraska to the rank of first dairy producing community in; the United tSates, The enormous busi- ness -of feeding the world, which in later years has engrossed the atten- tion of the state and enhanced its | astonishing growth depends on ease and quickness in communication,.| which is illustrated by Float No., 29, | with its festoons of electric wires en- circling a globe, showing the tele- graph, the telephone, messengers, typewritters, marconigrams, and all such marvels of invention in use at the present day. But the triumph of Nebraska is not all on the material side, so there is most appropriately presented i TN | the rays of the rising sun at the banks | | nurturing care the state of Nebraska : | has grown - strong and prosperous. | “the ‘union one and indivisible” shall Float No. 30, in honor of art, science and literature, which occupy a high place in our progress—from the little sod house of ruder days to the num- berless schools, colleges and univer- sities, art galleries, consegvatories and libraries of the present, together with many other opportunities of culture . made accessible to all. | Next cornes the civic seal of the | gate city of this magnificent state— | Omaha—in Float No. 31. This float will exhibit tpe word, “Omaha” in of the Missouri river, the shield with | the buffalo head, with an Indian and ' a farmer on either side, and at their| feet an antelope. American Republic. The pageant will conclude with| Float No. 32, representing the “Great | American Republic,” under whose ! The nation’s history is the state's his” tory; the nation, to which the state freely gave the blood of its sons, that be forever maintained. The King Ak- Sar-Ben, commanded and proclaimed: “Be of good cheer, Oh, ye of little ] S TRt T R courage, for my present reign doth include the fiftieth anniversary of my domain of Nebraska. Therefore for my pleasure, the prosperity of my heir, and the happiness of my peoplc I have ordered mightie doings at the Yearly - Festival Time. First there shall be a great pageant at night with lashing lights innumerable to show | braska from the mist-like past to the forth in beau Master Will the deathless akespeare, an. here shall pass through the streets of my city—Omaha—a vast and gor- zeous cavalcade stretching so far as the eye can see; setting forth as in a glowing picture all the life of Ne- very present time.” “All this 1 have done,” quoth he, “Of a free and kindly will,” and fur- ther say, "Of all my Kingdom of Qui- vera Nebraska doth lie closest to my heart, its very name forsgoth being my own spelled backward.” lays of by day s AL DGE BENJAMIN S. BAKER Republican Nominee for Congress A. A. McLaughlin Judge Wm. L. Stark M. Morrissey Chief Justice Morrissey is a candidate for election to succeed himself. Under the non-Msan law, candidates for judicial posi- tions are not elected as party eandidates, but are voted for on a separate ballot, without a party designation. Look for his name on this ballot.. The work of the court is running smoothly, expeditiously and to the satisfaction of those having business before the court. In the April primaries the voters showed their appreciation of his service by giving him a majority/in 80 out of the 93 counties in the state, and in the state he received 9,993 more votes than were cast for any other candidate for Chief Justice. A.’A. McLAUGHLIN R. M’'LAUGHLIN was born on May 13, 1868, on a farm in Hamilton County, Iowa, where his parents, natives of Ohio, had settled in 1856. He was educated in the country schools and Iowa | s 3 state college at Ames, graduating with the class : v SIS, Bowen . y of 1889, He studied law in the University of ‘ W" SRR O B o it vig (R Michigan at Ann Arbor, and graduated therefrom § %t-%‘m . e He is in vigorous health; in the prime of life; is rendering satis- : o fhe Mason ch lgn factory service in the office, and for these reasons you are aske( to 4 tter ter the university t In A ¥ -\rl?" mfl' at Webater Ofty. help elect him to succeed himself. R T “A. O. Thomas State Superintendent of Public Instruction Candidate for Re-election - in June, 1892, He was admitted to the bar of In 1878 he loeated at Fairbury, Neb., and continued his profession. Iowa on October 5, 1892, and thereafter engaged in the general practice of the law in Des'Moines. - s RS SeL gro byt bon on mmflmfimmmumhhmm-d_fi--wmc On March 1, 1908, he became assistant attorney for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. of Nebsata epration et e w3 i U st e o, alowin. o Towa, and continued in such capacity until Octo- i ber 1, 1912, during all of said time engaging also ‘ am: o hm-:l::“g:u'm By Hiing sl wilh the secroiary o suat. t attorney for Nebraska in ""urbt" in the general practice. On October 1, 1912, he . came to Omaha to assume the duties of attorney - E ted United States dist; and later was -l.-.ua Ju “ of the district eourt in the for e ‘u:l“l.n :‘:;.“w le on the bench he heard the note- for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Ca. for and Bohin, the latter being S SHEE E AT L $ people Democratic Candidate For | CONGRESS Fourth District The older generation of voters in the Fourth district are well in- , . v formed as to the excellent, active e T — ’ 2 || and unselfish service that was ren- b p— 3 dered by Judge Wm. L. Stark dur< : ing the six years in which he serv- ed the distriet in congress, but many new voters have come upon the stage during the past twelve years, both, arriving at the age of political responsibility and by com- ing to the district from other localities. In addition to his regular duties as ' representative in congress Judge Stark was appointed by former Governor Holcomb as mili- tary representative of the state of Nebraska in Washington. ‘While acting as military rep- resentative, Colonel Stark, under the direction of Governor Hol- comb, succeeded in collecting the old direct tax claim of territorial days aggregating over $38,000.00 without any expense to the state. ®uring his term of public ser- vice Mr. Stark succeeded in col- lecting and effecting reimburse- ments for the state in the total sum of $117,693.06, but one item of this entire amount being an ad- justment and all others clean-cut collections. ' All of this valuable work was done without a single item of charge to the state. This in_addition to the manifold ug'e- cific and legislative services to his credit during that time. , (| Geo. A. Magney Candidate for ; | CoUNTY EATTORNEY § i i : tinues. - the state of Nebraska, which relation still con- .W for the nomination for Congress he T R T v i i H. H. CLAIBORNE Mr. Claiborne is a native Nebraskan; a practicing attorney in state and federal courts, with offices at 512-513 Paxton ‘block. He is now republican and progressive candidate for justice of the peace, a position he has held since 1912. ¢ . 1 AT L ol A AVING received the nomination at the hands of the Democratic party for the office of County Treasurer, it is but right that I should briefly, but plainly, make g known to the voters of this county, whose vote I am g soliciting, what my conduct will be in the event of my election. I recelved my nomination without opposition from the party with which I affiliate because the majority of them who know me best | believe that if successful on November 7th I would earnestly en- g deavor to conduct the office in a manner that would reflect credit = upon the party as well as myself. Owing my nomination to no one g man or set of men in particular, I am free to administer the duties § of the office in the interest of all our citizens, without fear or % A : § e H = . The record of the present State Superintendent speaks for itself. The interest he has awakened in better schools is manifest in every section of the state. The people are with him in his effort to emphasize the essentials of a common education—the tools with which every individual must work. His plan to' make the schools of the country as good as those in town is far- reaching in its importance and basic to the futurc welfare of a great agricul- tural state. NELSON C. PRATT Pioneer Progressive Attorney, Who for Twen- ty-one Years Has Been a Potent Factor in Legal Circles in Growing Omaha and the Middle West. ELSON C. PRATT, attorney at law, was born at Belleville, W. Va., July 24, 1862. He re- moved to Illinois with his parents in 1871, He re- ceived his preparatory education in public schools and was graduated from the Northern Illinois col- lege at Fulton in 1886 with the degree of A. B. His legal education was received in the same col- lege and in the office of Judge McCoy of Fulton, Ill. He practiced law in Albion, Neb., five years . and has practiced in- Omaha twenty-one years. i His practice is general, but he devotes consider- i L ] o T BTG favors. Always a believer in equal rights to all and special privi- leges to none, I here and now guarantee to treat with fairness and impartiality every citizen of this county, regardless of his political belief, no matter what position he may occupy, whether rich or poor, and will in the event of my election guarantee that the of- fice will not be used to further the interest of any boss or clique. On this platform I invite and,solicit every voter in Omaha and Douglas county. T B able “ime to insurance law. He is attorney for the Modern Woodmen of America. Democratic Candidate —COUNTY TREASURER— M. L. ENDRES U NI B0 T R M G T ms—— i N 0 o e L L i .