THE EEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1917.
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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.
"tou never seoin to have any pocket
money." $
"So. The reason Is, our home Is run like
congress. I'm the esimte and iny wife the
house. All appropriations of mpjicy must
originate In the house." Puck. '
Mae He told me that I am the apple of
his eye.
Fae Can j'cu ever forgive him? The td"a,
dear, of darlMg to Infer that you ftre over
ripe and getting Seedy: Jhlladelphla Bul
letin. "Went down Into my cellar on arrlvlnt
home last evening and t don't Know when
t saw such a pleasing sight."
"What kind of sight?"
"Anthracite, my boy." Boston Transcript.
''Tou're looking blue, Doa. What's the
matter?"
"Well. I'll tell you. A patient I began to
treat died this morning."
'Ah, cheer up. He might have died even
If yon hadn't been callad.' ToUdo Blade.
It is indeed a comforting though
to know that we have arranged a
farewell service for the departed
that meets with every requirement
of elegance and dignity. Our
charges are hot criticised.
' N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor. (Established 188S)
17th and Cuming Sta. Tat Doug. 1030.
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