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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1918)
..-——a^m—m— <■—W—WWMWMHWW>IW»WM»IHHMHMMIIIIMMIIIIIIIMIIIIlllllilHI~lllli1IHII‘ll inlimilin' l‘l rn '[ uiultlullUinitHllllltMIIIIIIIIHHIt*' S Lincoln News 1 11 It was a delightful and apprecia tive audience that filled the Mt. Zion Baptist church last Sunday evening to listen to the Children’s Day pro gram. The little tots acquitted them selves with much credit, but the crowning feature was the patriotic drama, “The Banner of the Free,” rendered by the adult classes. The rhymes, the music and the drill were well rendered. Much applause was given during the entire program. Too much credit cannot be given the su perintendent and the program com mittee for their untiring effort to make it a success. If you want good, substantial ciothes instead of mere pretty lining buy from YOUNG. Don't be mislead. Call and ask us anything concerning clothes.—Adv. Mrs. W. L. Johnson was hostess for the Gideon Band last Thursday and a large number of members enjoyed a palatable menu. The annual sermon of the Sir Knights and Daughters of Tabor will be held at the Baptist church Sunday evening at 8:30 p .m. Rev. R. R. Powers will deliver the sermon. Mrs. Ida Banks of Omaha returned to our city and will finally install th° Council of Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem with twenty members. The reason why every one is pleased and admired by others is that then suits are made RIGHT to the individ ual that wears 'hem at YOUNG’S, 219 North Tenth.—Adv. Mrs. Mamie Grant and two daugh ters were week end visitors at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. B. Burcks. Mrs. Bertha Johnson and two chil dren from Iowa were the. guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Saunders for two weeks. Mrs. Annie Robinson returned from Macon. Georgia, where she was called on account of the illness of her mother. The Palatium and Sir Knights of Tabor entertained the Daughters in a joint session Friday evening. Plenty of cake, strawberries and ice cream was served. Mrs. Tillius Cowan became so very badly deranged that she had to be taken to the state hospital last Mon day afternoon. You will be far better pleased with your cleaning and pressing, dyeing and repairing by Young’s Tailoring company. Phone L-7604.—Adv. The collection at the Baptist Sun day school on Children’s Day was $22.35. Class No. 1, with $10.45 car ried off the financial banner. Mr. William Smith, after several days illness, "was able to resume his work. Miss Mabel Stillman is visiting her parents in White Cloud. Mrs Minnie Blackburn left Sunday for Oklahoma and Texas to visit her relatives for one month’s vacation. Mrs. Laura Johnson, the grand lec turer of the Nebraska and Missouri jurisdiction left last week to make her annual lectures among the various lodges throughout the jurisdiction. Mr. Thos. Perkins anti Mr. Chas. Harrold, of Omaha, made a short visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Johnson last Wednesday, June 5. Miss Frieda Cooley, who has been teaching school in St. Joseph, Mo., returned home Friday evening, June 7th. Mrs. 0. J. Burchhardt was called to Kansas City Saturday eve., June 8th, on account of the serious illnes of her nephew’s wife, Mrs. Wilber Woods, of that city. Miss Grace Gordon and Mr. George Ciso, were united in marriage Friday, June 7, at the home of the bride’s parents, in Beatrice, Nebr., Rev. O. J. Burckhardt officiating. Mrs. O’DonaM was taken iU very suddenly and had to be moved to the hospital where an operation for ap pendicitis was performed . It is re ported that she is doing nicely and her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. The banquet given by Amaranth Chapter No. 54, June 6, at Masonic Hall, was a marked success. A large number of guests were present and a very pleasant evening was enjoyed by all. The entertainment commit tee rendered a very fitting and appro priate program. Several musical num bers being given by Miss Opal Ash ford, Miss Brown, Miss Grace Stanley and Mr. James Walker, w'hich were received with a generous applause. Children’s Day was celebrated Sun day afternoon, June 9, at the First A. M. E. Church with appropriate services. Mrs. Haude Gates left Monday, June 10th, for Atchison, Kansas, to attend the Grand Court of the Heroines of Jericho. Mr. Abe Corneal left Tuesday eve for Atchison, Kansas, where he will also attend the Grand Court of Hero ines of Jericho. I am now one of Lincoln’s corre spondents for The Monitor. It is my aim to help make The Monitor a pa per worth while, so if you want The Monitor give me your subscription and I will see it is forwarded your immediately. I urge you to subscribe as soon as possible, for subscriptions to The Monitor advance from one dol lar and a half to two dollars per year after July 1st. If you want to sub scribe for the paper, please call B4957. Mrs. Sirrah Walker. BEATRICE, NEB. George W. Cisco and Grace V. Gor don were united in marriage Friday, une 7, at 11 o'clock at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Gordon, 1111 High street. The Ring ceremony was used. Rev. O. J. Burckhardt of Lincoln officiating in the presence of the immediate rela tives of the bride and a few friends of the couple. The bride was very becomingly attired in white and car ried a shower bouquet of Killamey roses and swansonia. A novel feature of the affair was the dress worn bv the bride. She had twice worn it to graduate in, first from the high schol of this city and from the Teachers’ college, Howard university. The home was tastily dec orated with ferns and flowers, pink and white being the color scheme. It was used profusely both in the living room and dining room. Fol lowing the ceremony a three-course wedding breakfast was served. The bride’s traveling suit was a gray tricotine with hat and shoes to match. Immediately after the ceremony the couple left on a brief wedding trip to St. Louis, Springfield, Peoria and other points in Illinois. Upon their return they will be at home to their friends at the home of the bride’s ] arents until the groom is called to the colors. National War Savings Day is only one day; our men in the army and navy have their day every day. Give up your luxuries [that the kaiser may be made to give up his ambitions. The CHAPMAN Drug Store 934 P St., Lincoln Oppoaite Main Door Post Office Cameras and Films, Magazines, Cigars. Candies and a full line of Druggist Sundries ■ « ■ « -«■■«- »»« ■ — Quality Service D. E. Nichols Tailoring Co. Dealeri In LATEST FABRICS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER SUITS First-Class Barber Shop In Connection LINCOLN, NEB., 219 North Ninth St. Tel. L-8431 - Shop Where Your Dollars Buy Most In Value, Service and Satisfaction. -GOLD & CO.J “THE STORE THAT SELLS THE BEST FOR JUST A LITTLE LESS.” 112 to 122 North Tenth St. Almost Opposite Postoffice. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. EXPLOITS OF FLEET OF BRITISH SUBMARINES IH THE BALTIC SEA Little Squadron Long the Terror of German Warships and Trans ports—Sink Nine in One Day—Three British Craft, Since Self-Destroyed, Attack a Whole Hostile Armada—Entered and Charted Every Harbor on Baltic. Describing the work of British sub marines in the Baltic and their de struction to avoid capture by the Ger mans, the Petrograd correspondent of the London Morning Post says: “Under all the circumstances it Is perhaps rather a marvel that the Ger mans did not make a glorious cap ture of nearly every submarine we had in the Baltic. They captured none, and they destroyed none. There is not a German harbor In the Bql tic that our submarines have not en tered and charted for their own con venience, creeping under mine fields and through channels so shallow as hardly to admit of this hazardous ma neuver. “We never hod more than nine submarines in the Baltic, and we still had seven when the end came. One of our boats put down nine enemy transports in a single day. Russia knew nnd openly admitted last sum mer that It was the British subma rines which held Petrograd intact "When Reval went it was obvious thnt the end was near. The British submarines, still seven in number and all in fighting trim, had by this time moved over to Finland, and ultimately concentrated, with their stores and workshops ashore, and a huge barge for floating mechanics in the harbor af Helsingfors. Sunk to Check Foe. “With three or four warring par ties jealously eyeing the British ships and stores and the Toovarlstchi (comrades) airing their new gospel to the British crews of the subma rines on every occasion, and with the absence of law and order in Helsing fors, opportunities for every kind of trouble were plentiful, and extreme tact and firmness were needed to bring things to a successful issue. As a result, not a single ounce of any kind of metal—British property, some of it priceless nowadays here— will ever fall into human hands, I either those of the Huns or the White j Guards or the Finnish Red Guards, i or Russian Toovarlstch. All seven submarines, the repair-shop barge, and every scrap of stores lies safely in minutely disintegrated form at the bottom of the Baltic. “In charge at Helsingfors was Lieut. Commander Downie. The task of destroying some £3,000,000 worth of British Government property to save it from the Germans, who had already landed at Hango, was his last sad duty. Plans for the private sale of enormously valuable stores of all : kinds—metals and composites, elec- j trie fittings, etc.—were canceled when it was discovered that arrangements j existed whereby all such matters of priceless value to tbe enemy were to be handed over to the Germans wher ever found. It was decided to put British property to the bottom. “That fraction of the British navy which was under Russian orders In j the Baltic consisted of submarines, 1 which I will call (because these were neither their letters nor their num bers) Alpha 2, 10, 11, 20, and 21 and Beta 20, 30, 33, and 36. The Alpha class was fairly large, carrying thir ty-odd men. The Beta was an older i type, with about half that number. Attacks German Armada. “The biggest thing the Germans have done in a naval way in this war was tlie lauding on the Islands of Messei and Dago. Certainly the only effective opposition they met at sea came from British vessels, three In number. Of the four Beta boats one was undergoing repairs at the time, leaving three available—29, 30, and 33. These three went into the thick of things and gave the Germans a very unwelcome surprise. Falling an adequate Intelligence service, the British submarines took sight for themselves of the oncoming armuda of dreadnoughts, cruisers, destroyers, and transports, and plunged Into theln midst. Everything was against our submarines, but they all came out of it ulive, and the enemy did not. “Captain Seuley, in Beta 30, was of tbe true British type, the finished ar ticle of the British navy. Beta 29 was commanded by Commander Downie, whose record proves him perfectly true to type; but it wus his first command. “The Germans, notwithstanding convenient arrangements made for the maximum of Immunity, were mis trustful of the British bouts, and the armada moved inside a ring of de stroyers and other smaller craft. Sealey, taking u comprehensive glance at their dispositions, dived under five of the destroyers nearest to him, the same tactics being imitated by Com mander Downie and by Beta 33. They came up inside the protective ring, ! to be immediately assailed from air | craft and ships with a rain of mis siles—in purticuiur with so-called deep-sea bombs. “Seuley conned his objective—one of the dreadnoughts—dived and fired two torpedoes at a range probably too short for the run of either tor pedo, for the dreadnought escaped. But one of the torpedoes passed on und put down a destroyer on the other side of the encircling ring. “Sealey then passed practically under a dreadnought and came up on the other side, still within the encircling ring of destroyers. Turn ing, he rapidly selected another ob jective, and then dived tp get it. This time he put down a transport carry ing hydroplanes—a particularly useful fchot, for these hornets, besides bom barding our Icraft, which were, of course, quite visible at fighting depths under water, also kept the ships in formed where deep-.seu bombs would best serve the Germans. Sealey dam aged u cruiser so badly that he was able to chase her for many hours, but could not overtake her. “All this time hydroaeroplanes were dropping deep-sea bombs upon all three boats, while every ship was pumping shell and deep-sea bombs In their direction, according to the sig nals of the hydrnuernnlnne spotters. Whether by good luck or more artful dodging Beta 30 got no more than a few tremendous jerks from these deep-sea bomb explosions. Beta 33, though never actually struck, suf fered so terribly from these repeated shocks that she was left helpless, unable to tell anything about her self except that her skin was un pierced. Smashed gauge glasses left her ignorant of her depth, her margin of buoyancy, what power was still available to move or lift, sink oi drive her, and she was absolutely blind besides. She simply carried on and finally beached herself and was blown up by her own crew after all her valuable fittings had been re moved. Beta 29 hud the extremely bad luck to get aground in a tight place and suffered injuries which would be summarized in the case of an ordinary ship as ‘in a sinking con dition.’ Commander Downie, how ever. stuck to It and got off.” CANADIAN “BULLDOG” RESTING IN KENNEL Western Newspaper Union waramnn 1 The Caaadlau “bulldog” seems to be a very harmless creature in his “ken nel,” but when he Is let loose on the Germans he lives up to his name. COOLS OFF IN JAIL Party by Name of Chill Gets Heated Over War. August Chill of Pine Bluff, Ark., un dertook to chill the efforts of the United States to whip Germany. Now Chill is cooling off in Jail, awaiting ac tion of the federal grand Jury. ChlU, despite his worldly prosperity, remain ed loyal to the Fatherland, and when the United States entered the war against Germany Chill got busy. He Is specifically charged with obstruct ing the draft, falling to register ns an alien enemy and declaring publicly that the Germans would win the war and that within two years Americans would be living under C.ermnn rule. POTATO BREAD FORBIDDEN Shortage of Tubers Results in Change of Swiss Order. The Swiss military department hns rescinded Its order to bakers com manding them to use potato flour or potatoes, either raw or boiled, In mak ing bread. The potato supply Is very scarce In Switzerland. While the bakers for merly were commanded to mix pota toes with bread flour, they now ure ex pressly forbidden to use any potatoes In making bread. Knitting Honors Claimed. Holding a record of having knitted four dozen sweaters, three dozen hel mets, several dozen wristbands, knee caps, abdomen hands and other neces sary articles, Mrs. Amelia Delporte of St. Louis, Is believed to be the cham pion knitter of the country. She has a »ou_ serving iu the army. The Children of the Sun * By George Wells Parker If you are in the mood tonight, dear reader, let us borrow from the vaults of fancy those mystic pigments ^ and magic brushes with which men I paint visions, forget thpse hurly bur ! ly days we live in and slip away to gether down the Hall of the Ages. As we wander down the silent aisles we hear weird echoes that hint of spirits and ghosts of other times, but fear not. They are only the echoes of our own footfalls. The dead are gone and the living seldom traverse 1 these quiet halls. We are quite alone and forever privileged to go on and dream our dreams. And now we have I come to a fallen pillar, half buried in the sand. Let us be seated. Above, j the calm glittering stars shine down j with a glory we have never seen before, the moon swims softly in the noontide air and under the still mag nificient sky the desert rolls awaj into little hills and shadows. There j is no sign of life, no ruin of great cities, no roars of beasts to scare away the stillness. And yet here where you and I sit ruled liabylon, the Gate of God, the wondrous mis ! tress of the Euphratean plain. And now get out the pigments and : brushes and paint! Night is no bar i rier to the flaming colors of fancy. Darkness is the best background for ! the flashes of fire. Taint out the desert and paint in beautiful lakes bordered with bending palms and | sweet acacias; rear beautiful palaces I of gleaming stone, palaces such as I exist only in Paradise and in the up lands of dreams; paint statues of winged beasts so large as to make j men tremble and worship; paint hand I some men and women with the skin tinge of the sun and dress them in cloths of gold and silver, in silks of purple and crimson and azure, and ] load them down with jewels whose j soft or fiery rays vie with the sun and moon and stars. Paint a market I place where luscious fruits from all : the world pour in, where gleaming . gold dashes down in torrents like Ni j agaras and where gay ships come ir with only luxuries. Do not fear thai you will over paint the picture. After you think that you have done, go over it again and touch it up with the most gleaming tints of the rainbow. Make | it the superlative of magnificence the epitome of grandeur and the quin j tessence of opulence, and you have done. Behold Babylon! Beautiful Babylon! When did she first lay claim to touch of Clio’s pen? It was so long ago that no man knows and no man dares to guess. Somr say that she is older than Egypt and maybe so. They were both so old that men can only wonder at the ag' of Earth. But she had a legend o' her founder and she told it to Isrea' when she held them as slaves and the; wrote it in their scriptures. “And Cush begat Nimrod; he be came a mighty one in the earth. And the beginning of his kingdom we Babel and Eredi, and Accad, and Caneh, in the land of Shinar.” Now Nimrod was the son of Cush, who was the son of Ham, and Ham has ever been identified with the Chil dren of the ISun. Yet when modern historians began to write the stories of the nations, they forgot the legend that Nimrod was the son of Cush and that Cush was the son of Ham. Either they forgot it or they didn’t take much stock in legends. Yet in days goneby that legend began as truth and only the years have dressed it in garments of fancy and vanity. Baby lon was so gloriously great that his torians dare not dream that she was anything but white, and white they made her. It is to laugh! Envy may flaunt it over truth, but in the end truth with trip her. Babylon was white until archeologists went to dig in the sands that sweep between the Tigris and Euphrates. Kuin after ruin was uncovered, tablet after tab let was unearthed, monument after monument was raised, and each spoke in firmer tones that the first men of this great rich valley were Sumerians, Accad ians, Cossaens and Elamites. They were not white nor were they even yello%v. They were all members of a great kindred race, a sun-burnt race, who had spread over the plains and deserts and hills of Asia and who • had wrested from the heritage of life the first fruits of the enigma which men call civilization. And these fruits they cultivated until the whole world wondered and still wonders af ter the death of so many centuries. Yellow and, perhaps, whit# savages came down upon their beautiful cities, their blooming gardens and their hap py people, but they tamed them and let them simmer away in the vast melting pot. Time and time again they melted away. Black eventually turned to brown and brown lightened into yellow, but the African birth right remained forever apparent. “The Babylonians were only mul attoes,” said Count do Gobineau, “and their aptitude for art and civilization sprang from the black races who or iginally founded that civilization.” The Count is not an American and he did not write for Americans, but for Austrians. No American historian seems to be capable of that degree of truth. Next to Egypt, Babylon was perhaps the greatest nation,of remote antiq uity. She was unfortunate, however, that her country did not have the ample protection which nature affords Egypt. Time and time again enem ies came down upon Babylon and smote it sore and after centuries and centuries of war, the beauties that were Babylon’s melted away from the eyes of men and the winds of the desert laid layer after layer of sand over the land once enclosed by walls I that became one of the Seven Won | ders of the World. Old Egypt is ; ever a reality, but Babylon today is 1 of such stuff that dreams are made ! of. No matter, though. She really lived and while she lived she lived ■ magnificently. , MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT POSTS OF ITALIANS _ % — .... .. i !■ i i ■ i i- ™ m Hlgl. on the sides of the mountains where the.i are buttling the Austrtuna and (ierniaiis above the clouds in the land of eternal snows, the Italian troop ers have built these unusual shelters stuck out of sight und reach of the Teuton gunnel's. I,adders of wood lead up the cliffs from the valley to the shelters on the very ton. The huts themselves are built on stilts wherever the ledges of roc': permit sufficient space for the foundations. The ones shown here a re used It'.' a lookout post.