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THE EEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1917. The Omaha Bee PAIL (MORNING) EVENING - SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATfcR VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEK PUBLISHING COMPANY, PBOPRIETOB. Enters t Omha postofflet as eond-elasa inattar. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION flf Carrier. By Mall. Dally ana Sunday per weei. PerMr. K.SO Dally aluiout Sunday " Je J K.eeim and Suodat... " le " I.M Kfeuini without Sunday fe " 1?2 (unday Bee ooiy ; .,, " Send notice cf ohinx o( addrea ot Irregularity In aellrery to Omaba Bi Circulation Uepirtmwl. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th iMortuM Pm of utile. TIi Bee li member, la eielurltalf entitled lo Uit se for repiiellcaUmi of (II nroa dlipet'hes credited o It or not otturwlM emllted to thin paper and also the lorsl nem rablMieS berrin. AU Mitita o publleatioa of our special Upatebea ra also reserved. REMITTANCE Remit by draft nmu or portal order. Only t-eeM stamp taken III intmoil of (mill accminta. Personal check, eioi on Omaha and ultra tachaote, netVweMed. OFFICES Imahe Tb Bm Bulldtna, pileatoPeep'' flag Building .Inula. Omaha 2318 N 81. flew York m Fifth Art, Counrtl Bluff II N, Mala St. St Louis New B'k of OomncrMt Uneoln Utile Building. Waahlntton ldll O Bt. CORRESPONDENCE AMrm ceoinittnleatleiis relitlni la new) and adlterlal fcattar to Jnaha Br. JEdltorlal Department. - .... OCTOBER CIRCULATION 58,059 DailySunday, 51,752 rtnr eiiesiatlM fM Ih month subscribed and swan to by Dwtiht rt'tillenia. Circulation Manafsr. ii i i Subscriber leaving tha elff should have Tn Bm bwIM te them. Addraat chanf ed at ettea at rtqttattaS. Kansas City at the bat put it over the top for I homer. If Lincoln can have municipal home rule, why not Omaha? . , As money-getters for their war welfare, work the Knights of Columbus are some record v breakers. With the bear's forepaws in the trap the Teutons need manifest no anxiety for peace in that quarter. The local coal price fixing committee heads Into a heat wave of sufficient strength to put live radiators on a vacation. j It is evident from his .letter to Prtmier George that Lord Northcliffe studied the swing f Teddy's big stick while over here. . Still, the kaiser might have acknowledged that the Russian reds earned the money. Faithful service in a pinch deserved that much. Junkerdom turned down the peace proffers of At Russian reds. And for a good reason. Who oould guarantee the reds delivering the goods? ' 8-5S-S -r-af Speaking of the .lections of 1917, Mf. Bryan ays, "as between the democrats and republicans, the latter have more reason than the former to rejoice." For small favors, thanks awfully! Cordial support and co-operation with the food administration is & duty no honorable busi ness man will pass up. Thole who put the dollar above duty borrow trouble it high Interest rates. Cuba insists on an extra helping from its sugar bowl before passing it tip to the rich uncle cross the straits. In the light fcf home made ex perience the Cuban request for only t Quarter of a cent a pound is surprising chiefly lor the mod eration of the touch. ' Alimony Is not to' be treated al Income for tax purposes, the high court view it, and is not subject to the rule of "collection at the source." The decision puts ex-husbands to the - jwinfol task of seeking other way! of doing their bit than as voluntary tax collectors. Treason is carefully denned in Our constitu tion, but by no stretch of interpretation can it be made to Include mere refusal to subscribe for Liberty bonds or to, contribute to Red Cross, Y. M.CA, Knights of Columbus o! any other war activities, however much such refusal might Indicate lack of patriotism In other words, there la a large difference between a traitor and a ilacker. ; The order requiring alien enemies to take out registration papers and making permits prereqiu lite for them to travel about in this country will imoke out a lot of Germans who have been liv ing here without taking out naturalization papers. The number of them it is impossible to approxi mate in advance, but it is our guess that there ire a great many more than most people suppose. The Nebraska farmer's real ground for com plaint is not that the government has fixed a price for his wheat, but that it has not fixed a price for the cotton raised by the farmer of the south, which is just as necessary to the conduct of the war. The democratic party is in control, which means that the south is in the saddle, and the south is the beneficijry of every discrimination. A Complex Problem -6L Lenta Globe -Democrat- Decision as to what industries are really "es sential" to the waging of the war is not as simple as it may appear at first blush. A recent bulletin of Uie Chamber of Commerce of the United States discusses some of the complexities, particularly those affecting exports. A product that may be voted "nonessential" at home may be the only article that may be exchanged for highly essential imports. The bulletin gives this striking example: "We need nitrate and copper from Chile. Thse are essential to the production of munitions of war. We may, however, procure this nitrate and topper by shipping jewelry or automobile to Chile. Again, we need wool, wheat and hides from Argentina, and these necessities mav be obtained by shipping in exchange sewing machines and typewriters. Thus the manufacture of a limousine or a typewriter may be, in fact, the means Of producing nitrate or wool." But the complexity is still greater. Argentina may not want enough sewing machines and type writers to pay for the wool, wheat and hides. It badly needs coal, which is dhe of the admitted war essentials here. Thus the question of relative needs is raised. If we need wool, wheat and hides badly enough we may have to let Argentina have more coal than we can convenientlv spare. So it is with far-off India, which produces jute and burlap. We may have to send India, in addition to merchandise we can well spare, iron and steel pipes and fittings, which we part with reluctantly. We are even sending steel to Japan, at a sacrifice of some of our leading industries, because Japan has, at a great sacrifice of some of its interests, sent some of its merchantmen to the Atlantic, where they are greatly needed to supply the shortage in absolutely essential shipping. These intricacies show the necessity for large - powers of general, supervision and the also indi cate the delicacy of the problems confronting . the war trade board and other commissions created on account of the" Alien Enemies Within Our Borders. The restriction of alien enemies in this coun try during the war is the subject of the latest proclamation by the president, establishing special rules and regulations for their control. At the outbreak of the war in Europe Germany and Austria on one side and the opposing govern ments on the other lost no time in declaring alien enemies within their borders prisoners of war and promptly interned those of them sub ject to military service or of Other possible use fulness to the country of their allegiance. Here in the United States we have been officially at war with Germany for nearly eight months with alien enemies continuing to enjoy every privi lege of loyal citizens and, strangely enough now, the freedom of movement still to be accorded subjects of the kaiser domiciled among us is in sharp contrast with the severe treatment meted 'out to aliens in Germany. Another singular feature is that only German subjects are included in the prohibitions of the president's proclamation, which does not apply to subjects of Gefmafly'1 partners in war. This, of course, is because technically we are at race with Austria, Bulgaria or Turkey, although such of their subjects at they can control over here must be potent agencies for our harm. It goes without saying that with the continuance of the war this anomaly will have to be remedied. In making his rules governing alien enemies, it may be conceded, the president is actuated by the highest humanitarian consideration! and if he has erred it is on the side of mercy. But war is war and we will eventually have to take every reasonable precaution to protect ourselves against enemies in the rear while we are fighting enemiei in the front. , 1 Lloyd George to Americans. The address of the British premier to the House of Commons, in which he defends the formation and purposes of the inter-ally war council, has a message to Americans. His de scription of the difficulties in the way of the armiei must itrike home in our country a! well as among the English. Russia might not have been saved, but Italy could have been spared, had concert of action as well as of purpose been ap plied. The splendid fruit of two years of Won derful fighting was lost in a week because of the separation of the Allies. It does not help any to harp on this ftOW, but common sense demands that it be not repeated. The United States is firmly pledged to the cen tral control of War activities. Only frank and perfect understanding between the governments engaged and the closest of co-operations between their armies will brjng the victory desired. The Issues at stake are more than any country or any man. Lloyd George says the front is east, west, north and south. That is literally true. The bat tlefield is the world and humanity's future hangs on the outcome. Get this intoyour mind clearly. It is not a war to establish the supremacy of the Allies, but to free the world from the menace of militarism and make it safe for democracy. We do not seek to force anything upon unwilling peo ple; we only want to make ourselves and those whom we have joined secure. The closest of counsel between the allied de mocraciei is absolutely necessary- to their suc cess. The war Will demand the best efforts of all and these must be exerted if we are to win what w set out to do. , ' Railroads, Revenue and the Public. Admitting all that President Merchant of the Illinois Central says of th railroads and the ac curacy of the figures he presents in his letter to The Bee, it yet remains true that Justice Bran deil was not far wrong in his criticisms of the management of the transportation lines at the time of his much-disputed declaration. The roads have been enabled to meet the sudden stress put upon them by the war emergency only through the application, of tbe very efficiency methods suggested years ago. Last winter the transpor tation 'Systems of the country broke down and nearly collapsed, but today with the same equip ment a volume of business fully 30 per cent greater is being handled with facility.' V Fairfax Harrison from time to time announces the great saving achieved in fuel consumption and in other ways through cutting out of excessive and duplicate train service and in other ways. He also tells of added use obtained from equipment and of various Improvements whereby the trans portation of the country is handled at least pos sible expense. The public would have co-operated with the management, then as cheerfully as it does now on reasonable regulations. Practices complained of by Mr. Markham and other presi dents were built up by railroads through ineffec tive competitive methods. Much of the dupli cated service and other wasteful practices tin fortunately still .persists and will have to be eliminated before railroad management is down to "brass tacks" in America. Notwithstanding all this, fairness requires ad mission that the present requests for an increase in freight rates may have some justice in them, for the cost of operation has been increased enor mously.. It is needless, though, for President Markham to undertake to defend a system which the actual experience of the roads has proven to have been extravagant and wasteful and which they' themselves arc trying their best to shake off. The Kenosha Plan for Raising War Funds. The plan inaugurated by Kenosha, a center of industrial activity, to organize its war work on a basis that Centralizes control, assures con tributions from each according to his means and that imposes the least possible disturbance to business is attracting widespread attention. By that plan one governing Ijody has charge of all focal promotion work and each member of the community is expected to give the equivalent of half an hour of time each week to its treasury. When a request is made for assistance of any kind it goes to the central committee to be de cided upon. For example, in the matter of the, Y. M. C A. drive the quota for Kenosha was de termined, a check for the amount written and the incident closed, with no solicitation, no mass meetings, and no interruption of business what ever. The people of . Kenosha paid their full share and went on about their daily occupations. Such an organization may not be possible everywhere, but its efficient operation rec ommends it strongly. , The need of closer control of the whole business of collecting and disbursing contributions is admitted, The Bee's original suggestion for a single authoritative direction of all money getting campaigns still stands. It has been endorsed by all who have thoughtfully con sidered it, and something of the kind ought to be adopted in Omaha. No deserving cause could suffer, the unworthy and fraudulent wOuld be headed off at the start, and the whole business of assisting in war relief would gain by the introduc tion of a systematic and responsible method of collecting these funds. V. The New Warfare I Science Wins By Frederic J. Haskin Washington, Nov. 18. The scientific wonders of this war surpass all dreams. When the day comes for these wonders to be described, they will make a chronicle more fascinating than romance. Now, in the midst of war, they cannot be written; they can at most be hinted. Some must not be mentioned; some can be described vaguely; only a few can be known, and those usually the ones which have already been cast aside for newer wonders. Such are the iron laws of military secrecy. One effect of the new scientific warfare has been to lessen the relative importance of the fighting man, and increase the importance of his tools, above all of the new and strange devices that science uses to gain, military advantage. This difference has been well expressed by one author ity who says that in former wars the tools and machinery were largely taken for granted, and the issue turned on the ability and Courage of the individual fighting man; while in this war the ability and courage are taken for granted, and the issue turns on the superiority of machinery and tools. When the supremacy of the air is in question, for example, and aviators go forth to battle for the advantage, the modern war mjchine docs not look primarily for strong, brave a,id daring men. That business of selecting champions belongs to the dead days of chivalry. Nowadays the brave men are taken for granted. Every effort is put into the machines. Acres of blue-prints are drawn and re-drawn; all the mathematical brains of art empire are set to studying endless formulae, the angle of a wing-surface is changed by art inch, the steel shell of a cylinder is scraped a fraction thin ner; a new propellor blade is invented, a metal lurgist perfects a new alloy; and finally one side turns out a machine that can climb 8,000 feet while the enemy is climbing 6,000. And that set tles it until the enemy's scientists discover a new trick. A modern infantry attack, say men of science, closely resembles some huge and dangerous in dustrial operation. The attacking infantry are hardly more than the hand labor which must ac company every industrial process. Skilled labor, and picked labor, in a new sense of the words, they certainly are; but by their own unaided devo tion and heroism they can achievelittle or ftoth irfg. They do not go forward to an unknown problem, but to one which science has studied and solved before they start. The precision of every movement In time and place must be of a truly marvelous delicacy. For days before, aviators have crossed and recrossed the ground taking thousands Of photographs. From these photographs a detailed -map of the terrain is made. Already, science must have per fected the engines of those airplanes, standardized, the cloth of their wings, calculated their stability and wind resistance, cast and ground the Optical glass for their wonderful cameras, sensitized the glass plate which can blink at a countryside 6,000 feet below for a fraction of a second and carry away a clear and detailed copy of it for all time. Even the tin drums in which the volatile gasoline for the airplane motors was brought across the sea represent expert study and patient experimsht. Then comes the artillery preparation. Every shell that is fired stands for months of improve ment in the art of making high explosives. The great guns are fired from miles behind the lines at invisible targets, guided by a maze of mathematical calculations that allow for every thing down to the force of the breeze that rustles the tree-tops. The time fuse is so delicately set that the shell can be exploded withuV any desired distance of the ground. In order to score a hit, the power must explode just hard enough, the fuse must burn just fast enough, the wind re sistance must be just strong enough, the angle of the gun must be true to a hair. Before the men go over the top, watches are set to the split fraction of a second. Then the mighty machine really begins to work; The cur tain of shell fire moves to a certain point, and the men follow on. At a given second, the infantry advances, and before they reach the wall of fire it leaps forward. A scouring fire begins to drop protecting their flanks. The whole move! for ward like a wave until the objective is reached, smd the curtain fire stretches forward to break up counter-Attacks. Every calculation must be made to the foot and the second, but when they are So made the casualties of the attacking force are un believably low. Science means safety in warfare. When the new position is established, perhaps there is a gas attack. One of the gases used is odorless, colorless, deadly. lit can be present in appreciable amounts without being detected bj nose or eye. But science is' ready. An apparatus has been perfectedt whose exact nature cannot be disclosed, which will detect this gas where so lit tle is present that even a chemical test would show a blank. Gas masks to neutralise it hays been made and provided. The gas attack is re pulsed, bnt not in the trench. It was r.epyUed a month before in the laboratory. The fundamental change in modern warfare, the change from the personal to the impersonal, from the heroic to the scientific, is thoroughly realized in America. Scientific investigation along recognized lines and promising new ones is going forward night and day. A great part of this work is being done at the federal bureau of standards, where 750 scientists and their assistants are push ing work on several hundred problems. Some thing oftwhat they are doing will be told in the next article. Who Are "Alien. Enemies?" -Nnr York Journal of Commtrct- Nominally and technically those "enemy aliens" who are forbidden to enter certain zones on or near our water front, without official per mits, arc unnaturalized German subjects. In the technical sense we are at war only with Germany. Arrayed with that power in war are Austria Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria, and there are many persons of Austrian birth in this city, some of whom are under suspicion of being the in struments of German spies or plotters in the serious mischief that is done in fires and ex plosions and the unlawful use of shipping privi leges. It is reported as having been asserted by a "high federal official" that there are 600 un naturalized Austrians serving on lighters in the water about New York who are free to go and come on the water front without permits. Some of these may be to all intents and pur poses "alien enemies" and deserving to be treated as such. There obviously needs to be a broader definition of those who cannot go around the docks and wharves, and storage and receiving and delivery places without identification and permits. It is even suggested that these should be required of everybody going and coming in these places, so that they may be identified by watchmen. An other proposal is a complete military guard Over these sones or districts whe-e such serious mis chief may be done in the service of the enemy country, whefherdhe alien is of that country or some other or whether the suspect is an alien stall. Certainly there should be some effectual means of detection, for all such offenders, and when proved guilty of one of these spying or plotting offenses they should be promptly and severely punished, if need be by military court martial, regardless of ordinary technicalities. It in hard trmnsrh tn rnrlnr th fntlv anA .Htrnect of native or naturalized pacifists and sneaking ciuzcns, uui atiuat plotters, spies ana aisioyansis should not be tolerated whether around seaports and munition works or in the woods and prairies Of mountains of the interior. The task of watching and bringing them to justice should not be left to vigilance committees or rioters or permitted to them, but there is need of watchfulness in behalf of public authority. Spying and plotting and mischief-making may be legitimate helps in warfare by real enemies who take the risks, but in subjects of the government they are nothing less than traitors and deserve to be treated as such Right In the Spotlight Pope Benedict XV, head of the Ro man Catholic church, is 63 years old today. The pontiff came to his high office at one ot the most critical peri ods of modern history. He has had to bear a tremendous burden in the great war and has made several futile efforts to bring about peace. Pope Benedict was born Giacomo Delia Chieua, the son jdI an aristocrat, resid ing at Genoa. At IS he evinced a de sire to enter the church, although his father had planned to make a lawyer out of him. On entering the priest hood he became secretary to Cardinal Rampolla. Under this famous church man he acquainted Himself with diplo macy. Later he was Rampolla's un derstudy when the latter was secre tary of state in' the Vatican. In 1908 he was made archbishop of Bologne and six years later he was chosen to Succeed Pope Plus on the pontifical throne, . One Year Ago Today In the War. British hospital ship Britannic sunk by a mine it Aegean tea. German Minister of Foreign Affaire Gottlieb von Jagow resigned. Craiova, Wallachla, captured from the Roumanians by the Austro-Ger-mahs. In OnutliH Thirty Years Ago Today. The Omaha Water Works company has just contracted for one of the new Gaskill pumps, manufactured In Lock port, N. Y. A farmer living about four miles southwest of thiB city reports having twtuf seen five antelopes skipping across his Held. A Thanksgiving program will be rendered by the Philomathian society or the Farnam school. Mayor Broatch presided over a good sized gathering to perfect an organi zation of charities and the matter was pretty thoroughly discussed by several present. A committee consisting of Judge Groff, Rev. John Williams, Rev. C. W. Savidge, P. U Perrine, J. J. Joints, Mrs. Dr. Tllden and Mrs. -Dr. Dinsmore were appointed on organi zation. The county commissioners started away on a Junketing trip to several place in the county. Work on the Davenport, West Side and Hickory schools has been pro gressing slowly, but the Board of Edu cation looks for completion in time to "take up" school In each by the 1st of December. Robert W. Smith, treasurer ot the Pennsylvania railroad, accompanied by hla wife and daughter, are in the city on their way to the Paciflo coast. Jerry McCarthy and Mrs. Hattie foster were united in matrimony ,by Judge Read. The plans for the new Pickering Me morial church, which it la proposed to erect, have been furnished by Men delssohn & Lawrie. This Day in History. 1729 Josfah Bartlett, one ot the New Hampshire signers of the decla ration of independence, born at Ames bury, Mass. Died at Kingston, N. H., May 19, 179B. lt80 England paid $2,858,000 to the Landgrave of Hesse for Hessian soldiers killed in the American revo lutionary war. 1800 Congress met In Washington for the first time. 1862 French empire re-established by overwhelming vote of the people. 1864 General Hood left Florence, Ala,, with 40,000 men and moved to ward middle Tennessee, aiming to strike Nashville. , 1867 The general assembly of the southern Presbyterians met at Nash ville. 1914 Allied airplanes attacked Zep pelin sheds at Frlederlchshafen. 1915 Germans occupied NoVlpa tar, Serbia, and claimed capture of 80,009 prisoners In campaign.' 1916 Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, died at Bchonbrunn castle. Born August 18, 1830. The Day We Celebrate. John R. Webster, general manager of the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company, is celebrating his 66th birth day. Rev." Henry N. Couden, chaplain of the United States house of representa tives, born in Marshall county, Indi ana. 75 years ago today. Frederic C. Howe, immigration com missioner of the port of New York, horn at Meadville, Pa., 60 years ago today. Thomas B. Morlson, solicitor gen eral for Scotland in the British cabi net, born in Edinburgh 49 years ego today. Hugh M. Smith, United States com missioner of fisheries, born in Wash ington, D. C. 62 years ago today. Clark Griffith, manager of the Wash ington American league base hall club, born at Nevada, Mo., 49 years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Applications of New England rail roads for increase of passenger and freight rates will be heard by Inter state Commerce Commissioner Ander son in Boston today. John Starzl, editcr of a German lan guage paper at IeMars, la., is to have a hearing in the federal court at Sioux City today on a rharge of vio lating the espionage act. Industrial problems arising from the war are to be const Jered by the.Ten neKsee Manufacturers' association, meeting In annual session today at Nashville. The Standard Oil Company of Loui siana, the majority of whose stock is owned by the Standard Oil company ot New Jersey, will hold a stockholders' meeting at Baton Rouge today to vote on a proposal to increase th ! capi tal stoc'.: from $5,000,000 to $10,000,-000. Storjctte of the Day. Speaking with some friends in the lobby of a Washington hotel. Con gressman Frank L. Greene of Ver mont referred to the high cost of liv ing and recalled a little story along that line. One evening Harold took the dar ling of his heart to a cafe where it Is expensive to eat. The dear one had said 'She wasn't hungry, so Har old thought he would escape with an ice cream or two. But alas! Ukewise woe! It was a chicken that Gladys ordered, with pie and all the fixings to match. All that Harold could do was, to watch her and suffer in silence. '. "Harold, dear." finally remarked the fair one, daintily taking up another bit of the luscious bird, "you are not eating a bit ot this. Won't you have some?" "No, darling," answered Harold, with something akin to a sigh, "I have had all that I want." "All. that you want!" exclaimed Gladys, wondering. "Why, you haven't had any!" "Yes, I have, sweet" returned Har old, with yet another sigh. "The waiter Jusf handed me the bill," Philadelphia Telegraph, Praise for Dahlman. Minden, Neb., Nov. 17. To the Edi tor of The Bee: When Mayor Dahl man told William J. Johnson when in terviewed by that gentleman recently "I can't make speeches for saloons again and be honest, my arguments are shot to pieces: the city was never in a better condition," he certainly shows he is a big, broadminded man. The thought occurred to me, "will the dry element of Omaha Show that they are just as broadminded and stay by the mayor In all things to the finish in the future?" When he made this statement he fixed himself for good and all with the wets of Omaha, and will ha-e to look for his friends in the future among the dry voters of the city. It was frequently said by many if the state went dry that it would be impossible to enforce the dry law in- Omaha. Mayor Dahlman has proved he was willing and nble to turn the trick, and deserves great honor for his straightforward Up rightness and manhood. Every fair minded man should paste this in his hat. Mayor Dahlman has been weighed in the scale of Justice and has proved he is just. J. H. CLEARMAN. Work of the Y. M. C. A. Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 16. To the Editor of The Bee: Some facts re garding the work being done by the army Young Men's Christian associa tion in the camps and cantonments, by one of those in the work (and a resident of Omaha) may be of interest to you, and your readers, the matter on the other sides of this paper will help you some, and what I write you may use as you please, If you wish. In this camp the Young Men's Christian association have 11 audi toriums, each seating from 600 to 900 each, there are" some 33,000 soldier men here, and we are trying to give them something like home, or a club possibilities. Each evening some entertainment is given in each ot the buildings, all free, on Sundays and one evening in the week, religious services are held, the other evenings something like lec tures, moving pictures, musicaies, etc., all free. The buildings are open from 6 o'clock in the morning until 9:30 in the evening, nice accommodations for writing, good light, warm room, free writing paper, everything free except the stamps, and you may be surprised to ktiow we are sending from 2,000 to 3,000 mail parcels from each of these buildings each day. B. EDWARD ZEISS. How to Win the War. Milford, Pa., Nov. 12. To the Edi tor of The Bee: The great war in which our nation is engaged will be won not alone by food and men, but by mechanical power as well. Without mechanical power we could not make ,or move the weapons with which we fight -gunsT ammunition, ships, and supplies. Our national resources of power, whether from coal, oil, or wa terpower, are national war necessities. We need them to Win the war. In this gigantic struggle our se curity requires US to use ell these great resources, and to use them wisely and well. ' The people of the United States own some 60,000,000 un developed water horsepower, or about enough to run every train, trolley, fac tory, mill, mine, and electric power plant we have. For 10 years the friends of conser vation have urged the development of public waterpowert in the public In terest. But development has been held back by a little group of water power magnates and their friends in congress who have blocked all legisla tion which would not give them these valuable properties forever and. for nothing. Today, when the nation heeds ell its resources, the same men who have been blocking reasonable waterpower legislation own and are holding mil lions of watef horsepower unde veloped and out of use while clamor ing for more. The time has come when such ob struction threatens the nation's safety and success. We need the develop ment ,of these powers in war even more than in peace. At the coming session of congress sound waterpower legislation should be enacted as a war measure, based upon principles fair to all sides. These principles I be lieve to be briefly as follows: 1. The thing to do with waterpower is to develop it Whatever retards or restricts the development of publio wa terpower on terms fair to the publio is against publio policy and hostile to the general welfare. 2. Waterpower belongs to the peo ple. The sites where it is produced should always be held in public hands, for only so can effective control in the general interest be secured. 3. Where public development is not desired, the right to use waterpi.wtr sites should be leased for periods long enough to permit . sound, attractive, and profitable investment, but never longer than 50 years. At the end ut each lease all rights should return to the people who gave them. 4. In order to protect the con sumer against extortion,' rates and service should be regulated by f-feral authority when state or local authori ties fail to do so. 5. Reasonably prompt and cum- A plete development and continuous op eration, subject to market condition, should be required. Already millions of water horsepower are held out of use to further monopoly by private corporations. 6. Corporations ot individuals who make money out of rights granted by the people should share their profits with the people. 7. The public has a right to com plete information about every business based on the use of public property. These are the principles for which the friends of conservation have been contending. Many waterpower men believe them to be fair and sound. They will, I hope, commend them selves to you as Wise and reasonable. I am writing to ask your support for immediate legislation, based . upon them, when congress meets. This is no time to give away public assets necessary for the welfare of our peopla both in the war and after the war; and we should no longer tolerate the selfishness of private interests' which take the dog in the manger position that they must have these waterpowers on their own terms, or no one shall use them at all. As the president has said: "The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve to gether." GIFFORD PINCHOT. "UNCLE SAMMY'S HORNETS." The kaiser stirred a horneta' neat And now la doing hla level beet To atop the horneta' atlng. But merrily they sing: "We're Uncle Sammy'i horneta And we're going to get the king." Tea, Wlllum was aome kaiser, he, But some day he will wiser be It then will be too late When he ahall tee hit fate To save his "bloomln" empire Being made into a state. When Kaiser Bill Is done with war And all the World will him abhor, . He'd better soak his heed And go right off to bed Btfore the Sammies get at him f And fill him full of lead. 1 The kalsorltes should all be shot Or brought to justice on the trot. Our efforts seem so lame And justice seems so tame Perhaps we're waiting 'til ouf boja Are numbered wita. the alaln. Democracy la now at Stake, And monarchy is provd a fake; Then let us do our beat " And leave to Qod the rest, For He will surely cause the right To triumph east and west. Shenandoah, la..' F. t. DESli LAUGHING GAS. "How's your bungalow? Tou told me It Was cooled by woodland breexea in the sum mer." "That part waa all fright, but the land lord is working nature overtime. Now he's trying to heat It solely with the sun." Louisville Courtcr-Jourrtat. 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