THE BEE; OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11. 1917.
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la tham. Addreao changed aa oft aa requested.
How to make the cloth fit the garment if the
problem up to the taxing authorities now.
At any rate, the poice force has given the
city council some employment for the dull
eason.
- The sooner the police break up the "gang." at
fthe iwimming pools the better, it will be for
everybody. .
One might be pardoned for wondering what
advantage the air of Illinois has over that of Ne
braska for aviation purposes.
Another advantage of breaking into the ena
torial game early is the time afforded for getting
a line on political fire escapes.
The Russian army ought to know where it is
going. It has been over that same ground four
times before since the war began.
Another shakeup in the Austrian cabinet is
promised. No matter what happens on the bor
ders of the empire, Austrian politicians take their
regular exercise in that line.
In percentage of condition and prospects, Ne
braska corn ranks among the pennant chasers of
the middle-west. And the monarch merrily whis
pers:, "Watch my speed to the plate"
i German censorship reverses the familiar rule;
"No newt is good news." The tightened lid on
political events at Berlin clearly forecasts vol
ume of royal friction too good for the enemy.
, The fate of 2,000 saloons in Chicago hangs on
the final action of congress on the whisky sec
tion of the food bill. Even if the worst comes to
that number, the remainder, with the lake to lean
on, render a serious drouth remote. 1
Practically every ancient implement of war
.has been commandeered to supplement modern
appliances in the world struggle. Armored sol
diers now in' prospect revives the defensive garb
of warriors in the days of the spear.
Any way you look at it, the assessment mess
' fixed up by the county assessor and the Board
of Equalization looks like an invitation to law
suit. This is encouraging for the attorneys, but
holds little comfort for the taxpayers.
. Drafting the National Guard into the federal
service marks another big step toward completion
of the great army of democracy. The method
of consolidation chosen by the authorities de
prives pacifists of a stock argument.
That Mexican note appears to have haunted
Foreign Minister Zimmermanit without pity.- If
there ever was a blunder committed in this war,
.it was the Zimmerfnann note frying to. line 'up
Mexico and Japan against the United States.
Chang Ilstin understands now the value placed
on htm by the opposition, a reward of $100,000
having been offered for his head by the leaders
of the republican armies. This almost ensures
that Chang will head no more revolutions in
China.' - V :.;'
A working agreement among Washington bak
ers to hold the selling price of bread loaves at 10
'cents 'drew the fire of the Department of Justice
and a batch of indictments. The bakers who re
fujed goods to i dealer who cut prices must
answer to a jury of breadeatcri.
Home rule is the reform slogan of Spanish
provinces. Reports show growing pressure for
administrative antonomy, independent of par
liament. The vorld spirit of democracy grips
monarchies in all directions, and Spain must take
the universal treatment or suffer an upheaval.
Viewed front any angle of the periscope, the
outlook for the American farmer never before ra
diated such wealth of golden substance. The
whole world awaits his harvest, ready to buy on
awured profitable terms. Should his income fall
sliorf of improvement plans Uncle Sam stands
ready to stake him at 5 per cent Truly fortune
smiles vn a deserving favorite.
Revolt Against High Hat
Minneapolis Journal-
Many a masculine heart "will thrill with etno
tion for the flag of revolt against the barbarous
silk hat raised in Si. Paul by Mr. Louis W. Mill,
on the occasion of the visit of the Belgian mis-
' sion. , s
Under the orders given out. Mr. Hill pur
chased a bevy of silk hats for the plain clothes
men who watched over the visitors, but with an
exajted courage beyond compare he refused to
, wear one himself in the broad light of day. Rather
man pcimu ma cranium o oe criDora, camnea
and confined in such a silken cage, he dropped out
of the official proceedings and watched them from
alar in the comfort of a soft Alpine head-covering.
. .
Under such leadership other men may now
gain courage to refuse the hated "plug" hat on all
occasions, no matter how official.
The masculine skull has been fretted by many
curious and abominable "cadies" in the history of
the world--apS. hats, bonnets, bowlers, helmets,
hoods and whatnot Even now the men in the
trenches wear inverted steel bowls to protect
them from flying shrapnel. . But it is doubtful
whether in the whole history of the hat a more
barbarous instrument of torture has ever been im
posed upon masculinity , by custom than the
"stovepipe," with its silken coat that must be so
carefully kept smooth, and its severe cylindrical
outline like nothing in nature or art
Men. hats 3 to Ur, liilll lie is our friend.
Quality of the New Army.
Prussia experts affect to discount tne possi
bility of early effective service of the United
States army, but this assumption is hardly to be
taken as representing their true feelings unless
they have entirely closed their minds. While the
army the United States is gathering for the Euro
pean campaign is not made up of professional
soldiers, it does contain men whose training and
developed ability is of the highest order and
admitted availability. Take the Seventh regi
ment of volunteer engineers for example. Its
colonel is president of a great railway system; its
lieutenant colonel is vice president of another;
one of its majors was a major in the United
States Engineer corps, and another was vice
president in charge of operation of a big railroad;
a captain was chief engineer on a railroad, and
another was in charge of operation of the Te
huantepec line in Mexico. AH these men have
had technical training as well as years of practice,
and under them are men who have coma directly
from actual work the prosecution of which they
are still to pursue, although projected on the bat
tlefield. The great German army might match, but it
cannot excel such a regiment in point of techni
cal knowledge. This is true all through the new
army. Men who have volunteered their services
have had the best of technical training in splendid
schools, and this has been supplemented by actual
practice in the great industries of the country.
They are of such quality as will readily adapt their
great ability to military uses and achieve effici
ency there as they have elsewhere.
The new army of the United States may lack
actual contact with the battle line, but it will be
composed of men who will astonish the profes
sional soldiers of the world by their quality.
Regiments to Retain State Names.
President Wilson has set at rest one mooted
point by bis order taking the state troops into
the federal service. ' Drafted regiments will re
tain the name and number borne when in the state
service, and to that extent at least will retain
their identity. . This act is both gracious and wise
on part of the president. Some talk had been
heard of dropping any form of designation that
would tend to perpetuate the state name, regi
ments to be numbered Serially and to have no
other, distinctive title. Thisof course, would
completely nationalize the army, but it would
also discourage something that must yet be reck
oned withthe distinct support of the stay-at-homes
by reason of their interest in the boys from
home. State pride is not a negligible quantity and
is easily fostered by permitting the regiments to
carry their state names. The National Guard is
not entirely extinguished, as the order discharg
ing its members from state service on being taken
into the federal operates only to evade the tech
nical objection to foreign service. With 200
new regiments to be immediately formed, the fed
eral army will lose nothing by having a few state
names mingled with its high numbers, and pub
lic interest will not lie lessened, because the home
folks can talk of the "Fighting Fourth," the "Furi
ous Fifth" or, the "Dandy Sixth."
Anarchists Meet Deserved Sentence.
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman,
professional anarchists, have finally met the law
they have so persistently flouted and the len
iences they have received will be approved by all
but their dupes. Neither of this precious pair is
a citizen of the United States, although botli have
enjoyed the hospitality of citizenship for many
years, devoting their time to attacks on all gov
ernment and preaching their peculiar doctrine
whenever ihy could gain hearers. They have
always been something of a menace because of
their influence over less intelligent followers, nd
recently have become a nuisance that called for
abatement. During the coming months of their
enforced retirement they may be able to reason
out one overlooked point it their social formula
that the majority has rights as well as the minor
ity, that free speech arid freedom of conduct
carry always responsibility for acts and that even
under anarchy those who offend 'against the
strong do so at some risk. In this country the
established will of the majority is law and must
be obeyed by all.' Only so can order be had, and
only under order can the individual be secure in
his rights. Vapors of the anarchist may be en
dured in dsys of peace, but not when democracy
is fighting for life.
Up on a High Mountain.
Outlanders reading the Omaha Democratic
Hyphenate will gain an impression that Gov
ernor Keith Neville is a double-jointed paragon
jl a state executive. Also that if he were to give
over the job of being governor something too
dreadful even to think about might overwhelm
Nebraska. Insiders, who know something of the
twists and turns of Antelope state politics have
little difficulty in picturing for themselves the
governor standing on top of a high mount, with
the senator just behind him, pointing out and
descanting on the landscape and making all sorts
of, promises. It would be wonderfully patriotic
and gallant and all that sort of thing for the
governor to go to war at the head of a Nebraska
regiment, but it might upset the senator's calcu
lations if this were to happen. What Is the use
of selecting your own governor if you cannot
keep him after he is seated in the chair? It re
mains to be determined if what the governor saw
from the top of the mountain is fair enough to
balance the vista of military glory whose glamour
has so charmed his excellency.
The Washington university medical school at
St. Louis, by raising' an endowment of $500,000,
has qualified for another $1,000,000 from the
Rockefeller Education Board, being the second to
do so. Johns Hopkins coming first Why should
not the medical department of the University of
Nebraska come in for a share of these research
funds? Present conditions may not be favorable
to qualify, but the goal should be kept in view for
the very first opportunity.
Sweden is feeling the economic pressure of
neutrality severely, and makes corresponding
complaint to Washington. Our government has
given assurance that neutrals may expect fair
treatment, but that the service to them will be
secondary to that for ourselves and our allies in
the war. Unless the present situation is greatly
changed, Germany ia not likely to secure consid
erable supplies through Sweden' back door.
So far the country's entrance in the war has
not retarded organization of new corporations.
During the first five months of the year companies
with nearly $2,000,000,000 authorized capital were
launched, far exceeding the record for the same
months of 1916. This does not include compa
nies capitalized for less than $1,000,000. A goodly
part of the expansion is traceable to develop
ment in industries producing war supplies.
' A Navy for the Air
The Building Program
By Frederic J, Haskin
Washington, July 8. Congress is considering
the bills which will lay the foundation for Ameri
can supremacy in the air. That well known tune,
"Brittania Rules the Wave," we look to see super
seded by a new one, "Columbia Rules the Skies."
It will take time, effort and money a lot of
money but if we can succeed, it will be worth
the price. The American air navy will be a navy
built to defeat Germany, and it promises to do
the job in eighteen months if properly supported;
but the significance of our vast aeroplane program
goes beyond this war. The aeroplane stands today
where the steam engine stood a century ago, and
we do well to take our place among the nations
who study its construction and use on a large
scale.
The aeroplane program has been put up to
congress in the shape of two bills, one appropriat
ing $639,000,000 for aeroplanes, engines and train
ing purposes, and the second providing for organi
zation and personnel, giving the president the
power to raise the necessary men; from 75,000 to
100,000 men will probably be needed eventually.
The figures look large, but we cannot pride
ourselves on smashing any records very badly
with them. Rather do they represent an attempt
to catch up with the procession. France and Eng
land have 20,000 aeroplanes in service. The per
sonnel of their combined fleets exceeds 200,000
men. England's aircraft industry represents an
investment of $350,000,000, and Canada has put in
$80,000,000 on its own account. For next year,
England's air budget calls for the expenditure
of $575,000,000. As for the central empires, it is
sufficient to point out that while they have ap
parently lost the supremacy of the air on the
western front, they are still able to put up a
stubborn defensive fight for it, and the allied
planes can rarely make a flight over the German
lines without being attacked by aeroplanes in
squads. And Germany plans to put 3,500 addi
tional planes on the front next spring.
The great aeroplane output of the belligerents
is due to the building up of an industry through
three years of war pressure. England can build
800 aeroplanes a week, but it has 1,000 factories at
work on the job, of which the fifty largest alone
employ 66,700 men. Its aeroplane industry has
haa three years of intensive development. Its
private contractors have been assured of orders
for years ahead. When the first aeroplane, pro
gram was submitted to Lord Kitchener, it repre
sented the most ambitious thing of its kind ever
drawn up.
"Are you sure that you have everything pro
vided for in tmple quantity?" asked Kitchener.
"Certainly," they said.
"Then," said Kitchener, "Double it."
Kitchener realized that doubling the program
would build up the aeroplane industry of England,
and this idea is what America must grasp today.
The program submitted to congress provides for
the future in such a way that the aeroplane in
dustry can expand with some confidence. This is
necessary. It is generally hoped that congress
will realize the necessity, and make the money
available quickly.. Time is valuable nowadays.
Experts say that we can be turning out from
3,000 to 4,000 engines a month by next April The
appropriation bill calls for a total of 42,250
engines. By the time we have reached the indi
cated rate of production we will have equalled
England's pace, and given the allies an advan
tage that Germany cannot hope to overcome.
Throughout this fall and winter, our production
will, ot course, be steadily increasing. We will
probably be able to turn out several thousand
finished aeroplanes during these months, and at
the end of the time our aviators will begin to
finish their training at the rate of several hundred
or a thousand a month.
The program will probably call for the estab
lishment of twenty-four training fields, each with
a capacity of seventy-two aeroplanes and 300 stu
dent aviators. Besides the aviators themselves, a
large number of mechanics and helpers will be
needed at each training field. There are already
close to 1,400 student fliers in training. Officials
are confident that the flying game will appeal to
Americans so strongly that there will be no lack
of first-class human material. Americans have
proved in Europe that they have no superiors as
aviators.
As for the machines called for in the program,
the aeroplane manufacturers of this country are
confident. They say that we can produce both
quantity and quality. Work is already going for
ward on a large number of machines. There was
available, as a residue from previous appropria
tions and a part of the last army appropriation
bill, some $60,000,000 for aviation work, aside from
the proposed large appropriation. Some weeks
ago it was estimated that American aeroplane
manufacturers had on hand the material for 2,500
machines.
The great hope for setting a new record in our
construction program lies in our immense auto
mobile industry. We have carried the standard
ized wholesale production of internal combustion
engines so much facther than it was carried in
any European country before the war that we can
not look to Europe for a precedent. Nobody
knows what the American automobile industry
can do on an emergency order for aeroplane en
gines, because no such enormous organization
has ever turned to such a task before. But the
Aircraft Production board, headed by an automo
bile engine expert, Howard Coffin, is working on
the problem of converting auto engine plants into
aero engine plants, and the country is hoping for
much from the automobile manufacturers.
Finally arises the question of quality. It has
been said that America cannot be abreast of the
times when it comes to building the latest and
fastest battle-planes, because we have been too
far from the fighting front. It has been suggested
that we build training machines for allies as well
as ourselves, thus allowing England and France
to concentrate on battle-planes. This suggestion
is open to criticism. The best evidence seems to
show that we can build a machine of any type
training, reconnaissance, bombing or battle, to say
nothing of seaplane about as well as any nation.
Allowing for the greater factor of safety in our
machines, which we can cut down if we wish, our
manufacturers can build as speedy and easily
handled a battle-plane as England or France, Our
allies have offered us their latest designs and
plana. It would seem advisable for America to
build all types of aeroplanes from the beginning,
so that American inventive genius may be stimu
lated to work on improvements, and so that our
air navy shall get a far start ant i firm foundation
in all branches. We do not wM j lead the world
in making training-planes air . ,
Nebraska Press Comment
Trenton Republican-Leader: Nebraska has a
new governor. Lieutenant Governor Edgar
Howard is steering the ship while Keith Neville
takes a trip to Washington. We should shed
no tears if the change was prolonged indefinitely.
Genoa Leader: Reports from Washington
indicate that Senator Hitchcock has begun to lay
his wires for the Nebraska delegation for the
nomination for president in 1920. Wouldn't that
scald you? However, judging from some of the
political crooks and mutts Nebraska has sent to
congress and elected to other important offices,
no one need be surprised if it was given to him.
Blair Enterprise. State Auditor Smith told the
clerks in his office, whose salaries are paid by
the taxpayers of the state, not by Smith, that any
of them who failed to buy Liberty bonds would
be fired. One young lady clerk protested, but
finally yielded and invested in a bond. Her
father criticised the action of .Auditor Smith
through the columns of a Lincoln newspaper,
which peeved Smith, and he discharged the young
lady. When the voters of Nebraska get a whack
at Smith at the ballot boxes he'll never again be
heard of in public life. He's no good, has no
sense. . r- .
1 TODAY
Proverb for the Day.
Eager ears can hear anything.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Germans at Verdun advanced east
of the Meuee.
French took La Maissonette Hill,
one mile from Peronne.
British attack on the Somme cov
ered eight-mile front, including La
Bolsselle, Wood of Mametz and Trones
Wood.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Charlie Hobble, city passenger
agent of the Rock Island, has gone
down to Milford Springs for his
health.
A very happy stonecutter with a
broad Scotch dialect entered Wah
Lee's laundry about 11 o'clock at night
and remonstrated with the celestials
therein employed for working more
than eight hours. The stonecutter
was Anally removed and the fright
ened Chinamen resumed work.
The contract for the erection of a
double frame residence for F. D.
Brown, local treasurer of the Union
Pactflc, and G. M. Clayton, passenger
agent for the Northwestern, was given
to W. J. Attrldge, the building to be
located at Twenty-sixth avenue near
Howard and the cost to be $10,000.
. Al Sorenson, managing editor ot The
Bee, made his first visit to The Bee
office In several weeks. He has almost
entirely recovered from the effects of
his painful and dangerous injury.
M. J. Cuff and Miss Lizzie Connolly
were married at St. Philomena's ca
thedral by Father McCarthy, James
P. Connolly being best man and "Miss
Bridget Welsh bridesmaid.
Mrs. Ford, 825 South Eighteenth,
while leaning against the stair railing
in the back of her house, fell over it
and broke her left arm. She was at
tended by Dr. Galbralth.
This Day in History.
1767 John Qulncy Adams, sixth
president of the United States, born
at Braintree, Mass.' Died in Washing
ton, D. C, February 23, 1848.
1771 Commodore John Rodgers, a
famous American naval officer of the
war of 1812, born in Hartford county,
Maryland. Died in Philadelphia, Au
gust 1, 1838.
1782 Savannah was evacuated by
the British.
1788 United States marine corps,
after having been disbanded at the
close of the revolution, was reorgan
ized and permanently established.
1842 Military establishment of the
United States divided into nine geo
graphical departments.
1869 Meeting of Napoleon' III and
Emperor Francis Joseph to discuss
terms of peace between France and
Austria.
1898 General Miles arrived In
Cuba to take command of fne Amer
ican forces.
The Day We Celebrate. i
A. J. P. Bertschy was born in Illinois
July 11, 1875. He is president of the
Bertschy Manufacturing and Engi
neering company, manufacturers- of
automobile parts.
Rev. M. V. Hlgbee, pastor of the
North Presbyterian church, is just 48
today. He was born in Wapelia, la.,
and educated for the ministry at Mc
Cormick seminary in Chicago.
George W. Norris, United States
senator from Nebraska, born in San
dusky county, Ohio, fifty-six years ago
today. 1
Sir Robert Bannatyne Flnlay, lord
high chancellor in the British ministry,
born seventy-five years ago today.
Nat M. Wills, widely known as the
"Happy Tramp" comedian, born at
Fredericksburg, Va., forty-four years
ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is the one hundredth and fif
tieth anniversary of the birth of John
Qulncy Adams, sixth president of the
United States.
Stockholders of the Chalmers Motor
corporation are to hold a special
meeting today to vote on Increasing
the capital stock from $3,000,000 to
114,200,000.
The Grand Lodge of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks continues
its sessions in Boston, today, with an
outing at Nantasket Beach as the fea
ture of entertainment for the visitors.
Business women from all over the
United States are expected to begin
an Invasion of Chicago today for their
first annual convention, - to be held
under the auspices of the Women's As
sociation of Commerce. '
StoryKte of the Day.
Two young Irishmen in a Canadian
regiment were going into the trenches
for the first time, and their captain
promised them 5 shillings each for
every German they killed.
Pat lay down to rest while Mike
performed the duty of watching. Pat
had not lain long when he was awak
ened by Mick shouting:
"They're comin'J They're comin'!"
"Who's comin'?" shouts Pat.
"The Germans," replied Mick.
"How many are there?"
"About fifty thousand."
"Begorra," shouts Pat, jumping up
and grabbing his rifle, "our fortune's
made!" London Opinion.
HERE AND THERE.
An official investigation of the rtmaini
of the latest busted private bank in Chicago
shows a loss of $34,008 for the depositor!.
State Auditor Bussell, who explored the
wreckage, hopes to save the victimt about
SO cent on the dollar.
A city manager plan . for Greater New
York divides discussion of war measures
in that section. Mayor Mitehel favors single
control as a means of concentrating mu
nicipal business now divided among a great
number of boards and commissioners.
Word comes from Manilla, . Ia., by way
of London, that the junction town ia doing
its bit in fine shape. A letter from Mayor
Roaeoe Saunders of Manilla to the London
Times tells what the people are doing for
the allies in the way of enlistments, in
creased production of foodstuffs, and their
intensive, patriotie unity. The mayor de
voutly concludes S "May God be with yon, aa
I believe he Is, until the Prussian govern
ment i a thing of the past."
The imps of evil persist in jollying the
righteous in Kansas as elsewhere. Down in
Topeka one day this week the chief of po
lice answered a hurry call and chased a
curious mob away from shop windows,
where various feminine garments were be
ing tried on live models. "Skiddol Duck or
I'll run you in!" Then taking two long,
fascinating looks at the show, the chief
tightened his moral belt and whispered to
tha shopkeeper: ''Cut it outr
Aa indiscreet admirer of Trusslanbra la
Salt Lake City startled crowded dining
room by yelling: "Hoeh der kiiierl" For
a few moments amased men and women
gated ia the direction of the voice, seeking
te determine whence it came. A woman waa
the first to rise. Crossing the room to the
kaiser's friend she hauled off and landed one
on his jaw that sent him to the floor. Then
a soldier jumped into the melee and finished
the job. Subsequent proceedings merely
emphasised the woman's sockdolager.
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Mickle Finds a Defender.
Omaha, July 9. To the Editor ofj
The Bee: Why Mickle Mickle?
Why are some of you fellows for
ever perched on the frame of A. B.
Mickle? Jealous of him? Would you
not boss your wives as he does if you
could? Yes, you would. As it is you
keep her from the right of suffrage
and most of her from smoking and
chewing with you. But of late years
you simply cannot keep her hitched
to stand as does Mickle his spouse.
Some of your railings to the patient
Bee would lead folks to believe
that Mickle has just reached
that stage in- evolution of the buz
zard or Digger Indian because he pre
fers the animal life cooked out of oat
meal before eating. You act just as
though he did not have a right to
smack his chops over his favorite dish
as much as you have over your lob
ster or limburger cheese.
You ,berate him for having his chil
dren broken to obedience and then
shriek your lamentations because of
late years you have no control over
your own offspring. You almost cru
cify him because he sells you his good
vegetables for $18.18, while he eats the
greens from them, and then preach
and pray from the house tops for con
servation of our food supplies. You
preach from the house top "back to
the land" and then bawl out Mickle
for taking your advice by overseeing
his family till the soil.
Where, Grouches, is your charity
and your consistency?
GEORGE B. CHILDS.
Relative Necessity of Evil.
Omaha, July 7. To the Editor of
The Bee: In your Issue ot the 4th In
stant appeared a letter from Carl E.
Herring under the subject of "Un
reality of Evil." As Christian Scient
ists boast of being champions .of the
truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, and as I am a searcher
for turth, I wish to call attention to
some errors, "evils."
Mr. Herring says "the apparent
presence of evil" was a hard problem
until Mrs. Eddy embodied the idea of
evil as unreal, as the only logical se
quence from the accepted fact as to
the allness of God. From the scrip
ture quoted by Mr. H via: "All things
were made by Him," etc., it appears
to me that phrase "allness of God" is
self-contradictory. If God Is all, there
is nothing else.
Further, this "allness of God," and
the "muddled thought about evil,"
which Mr. H. claims has been Indulged
In, can only apply to the Christian
Scientists, as no one else has accepted
the idea "embodied" by Mrs. Eddy
that "God la all in all allness of
God."
If I "grant that evil is as real as
good," am I not "impaled upon the
horn of making God the author of
evil or of admitting a devil." I believe
that when the "muddled thought"
about evil, as exhibited in the Chris
tian Science doctrine, gets rid of the
mud and becomes clear, logical and ra
tional, the "problem" will be easy.
Who . will deny that the present
world war is the most real evil? Will
you, Mr. Herring, call it apparent, il
lusion, or delusion?
To me it appears that the Ideas, ex
periences and sensations which we call
good and evil only come into being,
or existence, in our relations to things,
elements, etc. Fire is good, for a pur
pose, but allow it to wipe out a city,
and its existence becomes an evil. A
gun or rifle is good for use against a
robber, or wild beast; but, misused, is
it not the cause pf a real evil?
Use your common sense, and you
need not "contradict the scriptures
that God's creation is good as well as
deny that God made all things," when
you acknowledge and admit that the
evil as well as the good exist. I ven
ture to say that Christian Science
would never have come into existence
but for the existence (reality) of evil.
DAVID OLSON.
MIDSUMMER MIRTH.
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early morning caller.
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"Well, I'd like to say a fsw words to
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"So would I. He hasn't come home yet."
Boston Transcript.
"No wonder our washerwoman ha such
a hard tlms at home. Her husband 1 a
garbage man."
"What has that to do with It?"
"Can't you understand he la always In
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'This Is a terrible time for mothers."
"Isn't it? Their boys are either fretting
married or enlisting in the army." Detroit
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Nell So he jilted her, did he? That must
have made her feel cheap.
Belle On the contrary, it gave her a
very expensive feeling ehe sued bim for
125,000 for damages to ber heart. Life.
"Wombat, the banker, looks worried. Any
thing wrong wttb hie bank?"
"Not a thing. But his wife is treasurer
of a woman's club. They have $35 in the
treasury and Wombat says managing that
to their satisfaction gives him more trouble
than managalng his bank." Louisville
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