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gravely reminded that the Saviour
Himself ionic, when u great principle
was at stake, took a whip in Htfl
hand and scourged evil doers. "And
Jesus went up to Jerusalem," reads
the 13th verse of the If chapter of
John, "and found in the temple those
that sold oxen and 'she p and the
changers of money sitting. And
when he had made a scourge of
small cords he drove all out of the
temple and the shep and the oxen.
and lioiired out the rlianeprs' ninn.v
and overthrew the tables, and said:
"Make not my Father'! house an
house of merchandise."
Apparently the authority of the
llolshcviki does not reach ns far as
MesopeAamta, where Kussinn troops
are still reported to be co-operating
successfully with the British.
The Germans only pretend to
believe that England got the United'
States into the war, but everybody
knows that Germany got Russia out
of it.
Hit LAST HAND
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DEC. 27, 11M 7.
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those made at
less costly than
home.
5. Do not look upon the departure
to the front of those dear to you as
an abandonment. Be with them con
stantly in thought, us they are with
you, particularly in the hour of dan
ger; and do all that you can to re
place them in their former occupa
tions. 6. Do not complain of the diffi
culties, annoyances and privations
caused by the war. Think of those
who are dying for their country and
complaint will halt upon your lips.
7. Multiply your activities, in
your country by the work of your
John W. t'ntrlght, editor of the hands, the warmth of your heart . and
Lincoln Daily Star, in a recent issue i the clarity of your Intelligence.
fail as the DhreWd paelflel congress
men, because they foolishly imagine
that they have much nt stake. But
there is a way to teach them and
they will be taught in due time.
The most effective way Ib very
pointedly suggested by t h litor of
the Saturday Kvening I'ost. Re
marking that til omen: ce from ene
mies at home is steadily increasing
and th: t the department of justice
can cope only with those who com
mit certain overt acts, he goes on to
big danger mark on them, but there
is not." On the contrary, the
ubiquitous girl of this sort, instead of
having loud manners and a flashy
appearance. Is very pretty, engaging.
sympathetic, and "you may thank 'riot's scorn
yourself the only man she has ever
loved, but you are not."
Young women of this pleasing but
BRIEF
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Slackerism is not confined to
young men anxious to escape mili
tary duty. It Is at it3 worst among
the obstructors who are ready only
to preach pessimism, the unwilling
who are not lifting a finger to help
win the war. These may not be ac
tually disloyal but only unloyal; they
may not be taking the kaiser's blood
money, but they are justly objects of
suspicion. And they rhould be made
to feel the sting of every real pa-
If still in existence, the Nobel
peace prize ought to go next year to
the man who does the most to make
a peact'-seeklng war vigorous and effective.
We should not confuse the best
Russians, nor cowed and suppressed,
with the spineless Bolshevikl who
have elected to lick Germany's boots.
We've given the kaiser's agents in
America plenty rope, but we needn't
expect any hangings without our gov
ernment's voluntary assistance.
Chamberlain's Tablets
Ex-Fresident Taft wisely recom
mends no more deluded talk about a
promiscuous sort have multipled the j short war; Hp woud havp evprv
numbers of the innii tes of a certain
hospital near Cherry Hinton. There
fore Lieutenant McQuarrie says to
body get busy in every possible way,
for "we must settle down to a pol
icy based on the prospect of a two or Tablets are also of great value for bil
Chamberlain's Tablets are in
tended especially for stomach trou
bles, biliousues land constipation,
anl have met with much success in
the treatment of those diseases. Peo
ple who have suffered for years with
stomach trouble and have been un
able to obtain any permanent relief,
have been completely cured by the
use oi tuese laoieis. v. namoenain
say: "If you know your left hand the American preparing for foreign , fhrep year8. 8trugfjlp,- We should iousness. Chronic constitpatlon may
from your right you can tell Prus
sianism from Americanism. When
you Unci a disloyal neighbor whom
you cant' send to jail, shun him as
if he had the smallpox. Keep out of
his house and keep him out of yours.
Let him Bee that he stands discred
ited and disgraced that he is unfit
company for loyal Americans. Let
him be socially interned, cut off from
all speech and traffic with decent
men and women." The editor urg-
sorvlce: I have given you some
Straight tips, try and take them.
You are the father of future Ameri
cans. Don't sow foul impulses in
your race. Give your children a
fair chance. We are pretty bad in
Europe, you know. You would be
the same with war at your doors for
three years. Your race is made up
of our very best. Don't give us the
fearful responsibility of ruining you
and your nation. Forgive this
be cheerful and confident, but it is
better to face the truth, Indulging in
no wasteful illusions.
MIST LIKE 'I'll E
U-HOAT THREAT
ing this course concludes with good ( preaching." " Surely every young
reason that the results will go fur- man of sense will not merely forgive
war than but welcome such a timely warning.
ther toward winning the
would the annihilation of a
dozen German army corps.
half
And even every prude ought to look
with favor on this brief editorial
Senator La Follette Is reported to
be practically ostracized by the other
members of the senate. Thin war
will not be won until a similar re
buke is meted out to the less famed,
but equally busy La Follettes of
thousands of American communities.
be permanently cured by taking
Chamberlain's Tablets and observing
the plain printed directions with each
bottle.
So far as is known villainous Ger
man agents had no hand in the
frightful disaster at Halifax, but
even if they had not we may be sure
mention of a vastly important mat-i that they wish they had and that
had the following:
When a prominent German expert
predicted months ago that America
had a rope around its neck because
Germany controlled the potash of
the world, and potash is essential in
War, he came about as near striking
the truth as did the German states
men who have kept predicting that
the l'-boat will win the war.
But ' American papers are still giv
ing credence to that nonsensical Ger
man prediction about potash A Ne
braska paper of recent date says:
"The I'nlted States needs 300,000
tons of potash annually. Yet last
year, 'by our best efforts, we could
produce but 10,000 tons. Next year
We expect to get out 25,000. and It
is figured that with all by-products
Utilized wie may be able to develop
45,000 tons."
It is mortifying to note that some
Nebraska newspapers do not even
hnow the resources of their own
Btate. Months ago there was one
Nebraska potash factory turning out
118 tons a day, or at the rate of more
than 40,000 tons a year. And there
are four or five other factories near
by it to help in its tremendous war
Work.
Meantime great quantities of po
tash were being extracted from sea
Weed and other materials in other
States, and in California has recent
ly been discovered a lake holding
twenty million tons of potash in so
lution. Let us not worry about the potash
BUppl as any threat that we will
lose tlu war. It is a kaleer bogeyman.
8. Exhibit day by day and hour
by hour the same courage a man
shows upon the field of battle. In
struct the ignorant, uphold the
feeble, console those who are
stricken; transmit your own confid
ence to others.
9. No matter how long the strug
gle last may, await victory with
strength and patience.
10. If you tore stricken in your
dearest affections, hear your sorrow
nobly, that your tears may be worthy
of the hero whose death you mourn.
DIALOGUE of
WAR FOR WOMEN
"A new decalogue of war for wo
men has been arranged by the pro
tensors, of the University of Turin,"
ays Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, chair
man of the woman's committee of the
Council of .National Defo&ao
"This decalogue, like that of the
leiiptureo, applies to both men and
Women, and by close attention to its
GERMANY'S
FREER HAND
The release of large German forces
from the Russian front, made pos
sible by the armistice, is regarded
with apprehension. It is supposed
that the Germans can now employ
two million more men on the west
front and to be feared that the Al
lies may be overwhelmed by num
bers. But this Is Impossible, what
ever may happen. Ex-Ambassador
Gerard has said that Germany has
twelve mllilon men available for war.
but he doubt les3 included the forces
of her allies, for it is stated by sup
posed authorities that Germany it
self has a force of only six millions,
and, if one mililon has been sent
; against Italy, she has only five mil
I iions to employ on the west front.
I The total forces of the British and
! French, together with the relatively
small American adidtion, are said to
be nearer eight than seven millions
Why, then, should tile estimate)
ncreas in tin' German tones on
the west be feared? Why have not
the larger forces of the allies al
ready driven the Germans out of
Fiance? The answer given is that
mere numbers have not yet begun
to tell anil wil (not until waning
man-power renders the Germans in
capable of holding their long lines
and forces the shortening of these
Moreover, as has bH'u , shown at
Verdun, a smaller entrenched army
with great guns can stand off a much
greater army for a long period. It
is contended that if it were a matter
Germany would
rules, everyone will be able not only
to do her part, but to do it so sys-1 ol mere numbers
tematically and efficiently that there i already have been conquered. It
is no demand the government could s ' ins to be manifest that under mod-
make would not find us prepared to era conditions of war victory can be
respond at once. If every family vvou ""' by the slow process of at
wearing out
of the contestant with the smaller
as well as the j resources In men and supplies.
the great
kept this decalogue where it could be trlbutlou the gradual
in view every day. It would remind
them of their duty
giory or snaring in tne great new
struggle which we trust shall hriag I THIC WAY TO
AMERICAN
UNITY
German propagandists and pro
German "pacifists" have no intention
of slowing up their efforts, but the
spectacle of American unity of feel
ing and purpose, a unity more com-
lete every day, must give them mo
ments of profound discouragement.
I'his unity, with the president as its
nurture!- and spokesman, is the stib-
ect of comment in widely separated
irts of the world. "The United
States." says La Razon, a leading
newspaper of Rio Janeiro, "occupies
the most prominent place in
world today because of the perfect
alliance which exists between the,-
people and the government." The j
London Daily Mail goes so far as to
say:
No autocrat in history ever en-
Joyed the power and authority freely
ielded to President Wilson by the
tmerlcan people. His voice Is their
olee, his thoughts their thoughts to
i degree that no comparison with
any European country can quite par-
illel. Whenever he speaks It as
though America, with its 100,000.
000 people, blew a blast on a single
trumpet. To read his latest aaaress
to congress is to know immediately
what are the ideals and purposes of
the entire nation."
What is most remarkable about
this is its truth. We have not
changed; our Institutions are pre
celsely what they have been all
ilong. Our country is a republic
omposed of forty-eight self-govern
ing states. Yet in tnis crisis one
man does sit down pen in hand and
peak for the whole nation, with the
x. -option of a small, secretly dis
loyal element with foreign sym
pathies. Reading the president's re-
ent address to congress, his re
ponse to the pope's peace appeal,
and his other important public ex-
presisons since we entered the war.
millions of Americans in the ranks
of all political parties Have ap
plauded not merely because both the
substance and form of the president's
utterances have compelled admira
tion, but because lie said what t hev
hemaelvee had more or less vaguely
thought and had wished to sav.
Woodrow Wilson has a mervolo'.is
ear for "voices" from the farms, '.tie
workshops, the counting-houses, the
universities, the home fire sides, an 1
joined with this gift of perception
ire many other talents befitting a
great statesman. This is wny ue
can speak, in a great hour, for a huu
ii d million people and is freely
yielded a power and authority no
European monarch enjoys.
ter.
A "conscientious objector," dis
approving of war under any circum
stances whatsoever
they will do the like whenever and
wherever they can.
We now have 2 2 , r, 9 6 m'lliona in s.
was asked if he, one-third more than we had in 191n.
The Soft Corn Question
The Agricultural Extension Serv
ice of the University of Nebraska has
just issued an emergency bulletin,
entitled "The Problem of Soft Corn."
The question of feeding soft corn is
taken up as well ns methods of dry
ing it out. The bulletin is well Il
lustrated with drawings showing
ventilating devices for cribs. Free,
copies of the publication may be se
cured by writing to the Bulletin
clerk. State Farm, Lincoln, Nebr.
Nine Pounds of Iron and Steel
In the equipment furnished each
to us a fulfillment of the Spirit of
Him who came to bring, 'Beace on
Earth Good Will to Men." "
The decalogue is as follows:
1. Do not chatter. Keep to your
self the news you hear, your own Im
pressions, and your opprehenslons.
t. Do not listen to alarmists, or
to those who would spread discour
agement. Silence them.
8. Be moderate in your spending,
neither lavish in gifts nor sordid In
your economics. Let everything in
your life, even your daily expenses,
take on at this moment its true na
tional Importance.
4. Encourage national industries,
avoiding Imported goods, even
though they may seem better and
TEACH THEM
WO have remarked that pacifist
congressmen have learned much
since they went home on a visit
fOff one thing, that to be suspected of
vote-hunting pro-Germanism is to
lie damned for life. But what of
those who come and go among us in
almost every town, criticising
preaching "pacifism" which is now
merely a polite euphemism for near
disloyalty? Even such of these as
are not secretly influenced by Ger
man ageuts, who are not literally
disloyal but only unloyal, are labor
ing to undo the work of a great gov
ernment and a great people in an
hour of national p rll. What of them
are they also learning? Not so
could be content to "turn the other The increase will not be so rapid now j infantryman bv the Ordnance Bureau
cheek even in case the Germans that munition makers must nil or
knocked out England, took Canada, 1 ders at rates fixed by the govern
ment, whether for the American
marched across the border, invaded
his house and were about to attack army or for the armies of our alii,
his women? He looked troubled,!
but fanaticism still held him and he
answered: "Yes, I would say
Germany can be beaten, must be
to beaten and will be beaten, says Gen-
them: 'Can I not persuade thee not ' eral Pershing. Perhaps he did not
to do this evil thing?" He was con- i add that Germany is now being beat-
temptuously given up as a hopeles3 en merely because the genuine sol-
me I ... . . . . . ..
ease, nut ne ougnt to nave Deen dier never Doasts.
I of the war department are 9 Ms
pounds of Iron and steel. This is
exclusive of the uniform equipment
provided by the quartermaster corps
Used in the bayonet stabbard are
2 ounces of iron and steel; bacon
can, 0.04 ounce; bayonet, 15 ounces;
front sight cover, 2 ounces; knife, 1
ounce: meat can, 0.03 ounce; pack
carriers. 0.03 ounce; rifle, 107
ounces; shovel, 25 ounces.
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a v ERY
IMIORTANT MATTER
Hector McQuarrie, a young Brit
ish college man of long service in
the Royal Field Artillery, has writ
ton a book called "How to Live at
the Front," which contains much in
formation of the little known sort
and much good advice which the
young American soldier going aboard
may well take to heart. Perhaps the
most Important chapter is the one
headed "A Curseof War," in which
the author warns lonely American
soldiers stopping In London or other
cities that "there are a fearful num
ber of women not necessarily profes
sional women of a certain class going
about in England, who have become
quite unmoral and very kind
hearted." Of course thz same Is true
in France. "Thero ought to be a
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