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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1917. hi 3 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNIXC) EVENING - SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. Entered t Omaha postoffica aa second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Tally and Sundav DwJt llJ)iu ftuiMtay Kweos and BumUr Emms wiihont Similar.... tanilay Bea only... Rt Carrlfr. ,.oct week, iJo . " ino e (c B Mail. I'ej fear, i .01 4.00 8.0 4.0(1 too Id notice of chtnw'rf'alditil'or'iriflarlt In daltwr to Omaha Mc Circulation Department. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS n AwcK-iafd Press, of which The Bee la s member. I nrlniitely mutlft In U) m for ruhllatlcn of all newa dleDttrhas credited k il w not oUrti c rallied In tola paper and alo th ne Kibliaiwd Herein. All rlgtiu of publication of our apccial dispatches Ira alio reserved. REMITTANCE rait bj draft, express or portal order. Only 1-cent atamin Usen In aa'mrnl of amall anavuits. Personal check. except oo Omatia and asstcm eiehan. nol accepted. OFFICES fmahs-Th Bee Building. tJhicaao-Panpln'a flai Building. Houih OmaOa-SU" N Ht. New York xM "," A. l-ounrtl Buffa-I N. Main 8t. Hi. Louie New H'k of Commerce. Uncoln LiUls Building. Waahlnjlon 1311 O MU CORRESPONDENCE Addreae (wiamnnlntiona ralatiai to nana and editorial matter to Omaha Bac Editorial Department. J NOVEMBER CIRCULATION 58,715 Daily Sunday, 51,884 Inram circulation for th month, subaerihed and aworo to by Darlfht Williams, ClrooJatlou Manager. Subacribora leaviag tha city ahould hava Tha Baa mailad to them. Addraaa changed aa often aa requested. Behold what a stampede make. a winter draft can The early Christmas shopper has the Iaugtt on the tailenders. Some folks will welcome lightless nights burglar and the footpad, for example. -the Jerusalem, the Holy, recovered from the Turk! The score is by no means one-sided. The shades of Richard the Lion-hearted, Peter the Hermit, and countless other crusaders must be holding a joyous jubilee. "Speed up!" exclaims Secretary Baker. As the secretary has his hand on one of the main levers it is up to him to set the pace. Rates on federal farm loans go up a notch for new business. Working money, like other industrial tools, exhibits increasing chestiness these times. But if plans go through for unifying all the railroads of the country under national control, what will there be left for our state railway com missions to do? A speed record in shipyard building features Washington news. It is worth while repeating as a sign of more work and less conversation in shipping board circles. More unity of action in the Nebraska state house might not advance the winning of the war. Still, a patriotic effort toward co-ordination of energies would materially conserr pub lic patience. Well, that 9-cent a pound loaf is better than . bread at 10 cents for a 12-ounce loaf, but they are doing even better than that in a lot of cities further away from the bread basket of the coun try than Omaha. Steady raids on plotters, knockers, counter feiters and other supporters of the enemy threat en to overrun 'the capacity of jails. Uncle Sam much prefers dispensing with boarders entirely, but people who insist on breaking in invariably ire accommodated. ., . A start is being made in New York City with . women letter carriers. We have had women rural free delivery carriers in several places out in this r part of the country who have made good, and there is no, reason why they should not do as veil on cityork for which they are adapted. - Godfrey de Bouillion and Richard Coeur de Lion, if cognizant of mundane affairs, may be pardoned for kicking off the lid, arousing the boys in prophet square and staging an antique celebration, in Jerusalem. A blowout once in 700 years scarcely calls for penance the morning after. In peace times a disaster resembling that of Halifax would have shocked the world and gripped public attention indefinitely. But today, so steeped is the public mind in successive hor rors that sympathetic hearts throb with pity, glance at the Halifax head lines and shun the awful details. ' V ,. One by one the rooted notions of peace times go down before the driving power of war. Three years ago or less a suggestion of government price fixing in this country would qualify the authorfor a padded cell. Similarly conscription was a military dream, scoffed by the non-professional. Both are here and working with sur prising smoothness. Pershing's Message Wkahlngtoa PoaH General Pershing, the American commander in France, has sent a message to the people of the United States which ought to quiet the flut tering pulse of any timid person who may enter tain doubts as to the outcome of this war. To Bishop Wilson, who has just returned from a Young Men's Christian association mission to France, General Pershing said: "Tell the American people that there is no ground for the heresy that Germany cannot be jeaten. Germany can be beaten, Germany must je beaten and Germany will be beaten." That's the sort of talk we like to hear. Tell 't to Lansdowne. drum it into the ear of Hill quit and shout it in the senate of the United States. That is the kind of talk which inspires :he men in the training camps, which heartens "he sailors on the destroyers scouring the dan ger zone to rid the seas of the submarine "pests." It is a heresy that -Germany cannot be beaten and every red-blooded American knows it. Ar rayed as it is against the civilization of the world, Germany cannot win. It "must" and "will be" beaten. The only question involved in the entire situation is how long it will take to van quish it, and the answer to that lies with the al lies to a great 'extent, since it depends upon the efficiency with which the war is conducted. In telligent, co-ordinated energy may end it within year; mistakes may prolong it to five years. But h any event the outcome is foreordained. Pershing's message should be repeated from :very pulpit and blazoned from every printed age until every-man, woman and child in the Jnited States receives it, for it epitomizes the American spirit The unflinching determiustior of the public to win this war at any cost, however great, that the world may be rid for all time of he, threat of Prussianism, is reflected in He werrl of the American commander in France- . - - ... Jerusalem. The taking of Jerusalem away from the Turk and its occupation by the hosts of Christendom after centuries of repeated but baffled effort will stir the sentiment of the world to a depth reached by no other achievement of the war. The seizure of Bagdad, the home of the Caliphs, was a picturesque exploit with perhaps more strategic importance than the capture of Jerusalem, but the latter will be hailed as the fulfillment of prophecy long deferred and the reclamation of the holiest part of the holy land from the control of Christianity's worst enemy. The world war for freedom and democracy has already brought freedom to Jerusalem, free dom of access and freedom of worship with free dom from tribute. It raises the hope of the Zionist and opens the way for a constantly flow ing stream of devout pilgrims to the cradle of our greatest religions. The effect must be more to stimulate the morale of the forces fighting with the allies and to depress the morale of the soldiers of the kaiser and his Austrian, Bulgarian and Turkish partners, and above all, it must hearten as nothing else the people at the firesides and in the churches throughout every civilized quarter of the globe. In these indirect after-effects the fall of Jerusalem must exert a more potential leverage for peace than on the surface appears. Education for Wounded Amer ican Soldiers By Frederic J. Haskin The Republican Attitude. While the war accentuates the need of put ting patriotism above partisanship, so long as the administration in power carries the banner of the democratic party and controls the gov ernment wholly upon partisan lines, the repub licans must maintain their party solidarity, using it, however, to uphold and strengthen the arm that is waging the war for the nation. The re publican attitude is well defined in a statement made by Chairman Willcox of the republican national committee during a recent visit to Washington, in which he said: "No republican members of congress or other republicans are seeking, nor will they seek, to make political capital out of the war, in my judgment," said Mr. Willcox, at the Willard. "There will be no more loyal citizens than the republicans all over the country. But the republicans are not going to permit the election next year to go by default because of the war, and I firmly believe that we shall win the next house of representatives and perhaps the senate. And we shall win because of the loyal support we shall give to the government. The republican party is for the war to the fin ish. If there be discord in the party, I do not know of it, and if our friends the democrats are hoping to face a divided party next year I am confident they - will be disappointed. There will be harmony among the republicans next year. It will be a united party that will go into the campaign to win the election, and we shall win." The fact is 'thaty President Wilson has had more dependable support for his war program from the republicans in congress than he has had from his own democrats. Had he nad to rely solely on the democrats, some of the meas ures most vital to the mobilization of the coun try's resources for the prosecution of the war would have failed. In the by-efections last month spokesmen for the administration tried to make out that democrats ought to be chosen to the vacant seats in congress, then being filled, in order to sustain the administration and en deavored to put the stigma of pro-Germanism or pacifism upon the republican candidates, but the resulting success of the republicans proves that the voters were not caught by the, deception, but, and on the contrary, rendeted the deliberate judgment that the republicans were 'the more to be trusted for the emergency. All it behooves the republicans to do is to keep a straight record on all the war legislation coming up this winter and to appeal to the peo pie next fall to endorse that record. Room for All in War Activities. When we look back upon the activities of Omaha men and women in the various branches of war work we feci a sense of pride in the re suits attained. The loyalty of our people can not, of course, be expressed wholly in dollars and cents, yet the men of money and the great middle class have not been wanting in expres sions of loyalty to the nation through their con r . . . inuunoiis oi money ana participation along va rious lines of war work. Comment has been heard here and there to the effect that the successive drives for money contributions often reveal the names of the same people who are called upon to support this and that movement time and again. When this rec ord is made complete, as it will be at the end of tllS war, we shall never agin hear, we hope, aspersions cast upon the well-ttS-do class whose generosity and true patriotism can never be questioned. It is a mistake to allege that the war with Germany was precipitated by the wealthy class and that the poor man will be called upon to bear the brunt of battle and to make the supreme sacrifice. If there evenwas any ground for such statements elsewhere, certainly there never was any foundation for them in Omaha or in the state at large. We do not mean to, imply, however, that all elements of our citizenship have done their duty in this regard. While there arc thousands of men and women in this community who merit the highest praise for the work they are doing, there are many who apparently do not feel obligated to join the ranks of the war workers or contribute money to the several organizations of volunteer agencies for whose services the war has created a very urgent demand. The time is coming when every organization of men or of women in this city ami state will be called upon to do its full duty along these lines. Every such organization should take this subject up for discussion with a view to ascer taining just what it may do for the promotion of these activities. Eight of the nine draft law obstructors con victed in the federal court at Kansas City won a penitentiary sentence of two years each. The ninth, a mother with a baby, was spared the ignominy of a jail sentence, and for this hearten ing reason: "This court," said the judge, "does not desire to set the precedent of sending infants to jail. We leave the improper treatment of babies to the enemies of our country in this war." The speed of railroad engineers at the front naturally excited surprise and admiration. A plodding old world cannot grasp or comprehend "nav onici iv-aii laicnt ana energy can do in a Washington, D. C, Dec. 10. Not long ago number of patients in a certain Cincinnati hot pital who were undergoing long periods of con valescence asked the nurses and doctors to pro vide them with books and teachers, so that they might pass the time more pleasantly and inci dentally learn something. The proposition was an unusual one, but the persons in charge of tin nospnai were not impervious to new ideas so they got some teachers from the public school to give a part of their time to these men. Most of the patients were workmen who had been working since childhood and had never had much education of any kind. They were, given only elementary instructions reading, writing and arithmetic for the most part. But they took noia ot it with vim. And subsequent mvestiea tion showed that most of those men when they icit me nospitai got better jobs than they had had before. Some of them who had been only workmen became foremen. Others were able to pass civil service examinations. This incident illustrates the orineinle urion which the government forces ejigaged in the task will proceed in re-educating wounded soldiers. Jt is not merely a matter of teaching a man who has lost a hand how to use a hammer with the help of a rubber grip, or of teaching a blind man how to make brooms. The blind and the maimed are only a minority of those who come to the military hospitals. It is a matter of using the time of the man who is convalescent to give him a better equipment ot training and information tor the work he will do when he gets well. Our government in approaching this problem has the benefit of the experience of all the other belligerent governments. It knows just what the problem is. It knows that out of every thousand men who are wounded an average of 167 will have to undergo some sort of an amputation. These, of course, will have to learn to work with out the limb or part of a limb which thev have lost. It also knows that six out of every thou- sana win dc aear in both ears, and about ten out of every thousand blind in both eves. These two classes will require yet other kinds of train ing to work without the senses which they have lost. But more than eight men out of every ten wouncieo are neither maimed, blind, nor deaf. Many of them are not wounded by shell or bullet or bayonet at all. In some of the military hos pitals rheumatism, heart trouble and tuberculosis outnumber all other injuries, while nervous and mental troubles are common. Now the advanced vocational educators and occupational therapists, as they call themselves, lake the view that these ten men who are not maimed, deaf or blind need and can benefit by education just as much as those more obviously unfitted for their former occupations. In a word, they see in the war an opportunity to give to a large number ot men the vocational education which they should have received when children and which the future generations of American children surely will receive. Thus the education of wounded men takes on a variety of forms and uses. The new science of occupation-therapy is only one part of it. It is the science of healing by occupation and it works upon both the mind and the body of the patient. The most obvious need for it may be illustrated by the cases of two men in civil life who had their wrists broken in crankmjr automo biles. One of them was a desk worker. He went to a physician, had his broken wrist nicely set. and gave it a complete rest for a lone time. When he finally tried to use it he couldn't; it was stiff as a board. He had to have it rcbroken, reset, and put through a system of massages and exer cises. 1 he other man who got his wrist broken was a taxi driver. Within two weeks he was again cranking his jitney. He had to. And his wrist healed without any stiffness. The oc cupational therapist would point the moral of this tale by saying that the healinn of bones and muscles is hastened by functional adaptation. In order to gain this advantage the convalescent soldier will be given simple things to do. These things will be instructive as far as may be. And in addition to hastening his convalescence by functional adaptation and perhaps teaching him how to do something useful, they will take his mind off his troubles a,nd so hasten his getting well in another way. This is the therapeutic use to which education and occupation will be put in the military hos pitals. The teaching of trades to maimed, deaf or blind men will naturally merge with it. and be an extension of it. But in addition, it is pro- poseu to give vocaiionai education to men who have no physical injury calling for functional adaptation and are not maimed so that they need be re-educated before they can earn a living. Thus a man who is laid up for six months with rheumatism contracted in the trenches will be taught a trade. In deciding what to teach him his entire record will be considered. Here, too, the experience of other govern ments shows something of what can be done. The Germans have found that if wounded soldiers arc offered vocational education after they are cured only 5 per cent of them will take it and profit by it. Most of them will want to go at once to look for work or to return to their fam ilies. But of those offered vocational education while they are in the hospitals 80 per cent accept the opportunity. Like the rest of the social machinery that is being created to meet the war emergency, this great system of reconstruction hospitals and curative workshops need not Be idle after the war. Between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 men are injured in industry every year in the United Srates. The country owes them as much and needs them as badly as it does the man back from war. Thriving Plan for Thrift Boston Tnanacrlpt All hail the new war savings system 1 The quarter saved" by denying oneself four ounces of candy, the two quarters and more saved by tak ing a street car instead of a taxicab need no longer jingle loose and purposeless in the saver's pocket. They can be set directly to work for America's cause in the war. At any of the nu merous stamp stations, including all the United States postoliices, the economized quarters and dimes can be invested at once in the issue known as the "thrift stamps." These are on sale at 25 cents apiece and are redeemable, in lots of $4 worth, for one of the regular "war savings stamps." The "war savings stamps," be it said, may also be purchased outright, but the point is worthy of notice that the little thrift stamps, in 25-cent denomination, afford a means by which one's little economies can be converted on the instant into an effective call-loan to the United States government. So much for the service which the public's pur chase of these stamps will do for the government. It is not inconsiderable. The secretary of the treasury expects it to realize an extra $2,000,000, 000 within the year for the United States in the war an expectation which looks to Massachu setts to take $78,000,000 of the total issue. In view of another attractiveness which the stamps possess, that of the sen-fee they will do for those who buy them, Mr. McAdoo's anticipations do not seem excessive. When a saver's thrift stamps have been converted into the regular "war sav ings stamps" or when these latter have been purchased outright at a base price of $4.1 apiece they will begin at once to bear interest at 4 per cent per annum, compounded quarterly. This means that if a saver collects 20 of the war stamps, as he should if he wishes to fill the cer- uncate upon which he mav paste them, he will receive for them onJ January 1, 1923. a total of 511KJ upon an actual investment of $82.40. Even Right in the Spotlight. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, one of the must notable ptu-ticipaau in the ronsention of the National American Woman Suffrage association, opening In Washington today, is the honorary president of that organization. Dr. Shaw 1h a woman of many distinc tions. Bor In England in 1847. she accompanied her parents to America in infancy. In 187S she graduated from the theological school of Boston university and for a number of years thereafter filled pulpits in various Massachusetts towns. In 1880 she was ordained by the Methodist Tro testant church, being the first woman to receive ordination by that denom ination. Her active connection with the suffrage cause dates from 1885. In 1915 she was made honorary presi dent of the national suffrage associa tion, after having filled the presidency for more than ten years. One Year Agt Today in the War. France chose a new cabinet under Tremier Briand. Admiral Gaucher was placed in command of the allied fleet In Greek waters. Chancellor von Bethmarin-HoUweg-announced that Germany and Its al lies proposed to enter forthwith into peace negotiations. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. The Omaha Turnverein held its annual election of officers- at the hall of the German-American school. The Boeiety haa now about 350 members. The heaviest steer of the season was HERE AND THERE. Authorities of Salt Lake City' water de partment threaten to map a genuine dry belt for 2.00S water users who hare failed to pay up aa promptly aa the rulea require. Shutting off the fluid will lead unusual charm to the water wagon. Acting on the report of the aehool su perintendent, Cleveland's Board of Educa tion dismissed several teachers of known German sympathies. No specific charges I were made. Action was based on ftudied inaction in teaching vigorous Americanism. School officials insist on positive patriotism in the schools. George McKown, 80, and Mrs. McKown, 77. celebrated their sixtieth wedding anni versary at their home in Bigelow, Mo., last Monday. Two of the eight children of the family live in Nebraska Mrs. C. 0. Plum mer at Steinaur and Mrs. Thomas Murphy at Rulo. The years rest lightly on the for tunate McKowns. Cleveland persists in the notion that John D. Rockefeller belongs there and should dig up a share of public tax. For the 'steenth time the oil magnate's name goes on the tax schedule of the county and op posite in plain oval-faced figures $5,000. 000. John declines to come across, but I Cleveland eeps the figures as a souvenir I of old times. 290O us. V j I WHEN OfffSiEO. Jl a killed by Swift & Company. When dressed It weighed 2,900 pounds. The question of "Legal Prohibition" was thoroughly discussed at a session of the debating club U Id in the rooms of R. C. Patterson in the Omaha Na tional Bank building. Two new schools were opened, one on the corner of Davenport and Thirty-eighth streets to be known as the Davenport school; the other on the corner of Fifth and Hickory streets, to be known as the Hickory school. The third annual convention of the Nebraska Dairymen's association meets In this city today. Harry Deuel, who haa been connect ed with the Chicago, Burltniiton & Quiney system for nearly twenty-eight years, resigned from his position aa city ticket agent with that company, and will enter tha employ of the I'nion Pacific company. He will have absolute control of the new etty ticket offlee to be established at the corner of Thirteenth and Farnam streets In the office now occupied by the Mer chants National bank. The South Omaha Land comnanv has determined upon the immense undertaking of erecting on its prop erty 1,800 dwellings for the accom modation of present and prospective residents. Thl Day in Iliatory. 1810 Jamen Shields, soldier of the Mexican and civil wars, governor of Oregon Territory, and United States senator from Illinois and Minnesota. born in Ireland. Died at Ottumwa. Ia., June 1, 1879. 1831 National republican party nominated Henry Clay for president. 18X7 Senator Blair introduced a resolution in the United States senate proposing federal prohibition of th liquor traffic. 1892 A band of Mexican revolu tionists under Garza, crossed the Rio Grande, burned a Mexican barrack, and returned to Texas. 1895 Allan G. Thurman, Ohio sen ator and democratic candidate for vice president, bled at Columbus, O. Bom at Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 13, 1813. 1914 Allies drove German from the -Yser and occupied west bank of the canal. 1915 President "Wilson's note to Austria on Ancona matter made pub lic. The Day We Celebrate. Joseph R. Wells, general agent for the National SecurHy company, is 32 years old. William P. Dillingham, senior Unit ed States senator frm Vermont, born at Waterbury, Vt., 74 years old today. Prof. Kdward A. Koss, noted so ciologist of the University of Wiscon sin, born in Virden, Ell., 51 years ago today. Arthur Brisbane, Washington news paper editor and publisher, born in Buffalo, B3 years ago today. Hichard atcs, governor of Illinois 1001-5, born at Jacksonville, 111., 57 years ago today. , William K. Vanderbi.lt. New York capitalist, born on Stahen Island, N. ., is years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. The executive committesp of the Fed eral Council of Churches of Christ in America is to begin its annual meeting toaay in Cincinnati. Secretaries Baker and Daniels are scheduled to speak tonight at the an nual dinner of the Southern society of New York. The forty-ninth convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association will begin its sessions in Washington this afternoon. hecrotary of Commerce Rerifleld la scheduled to speak tonight before, the chamber of commerce of Scranton, Pa., on the real reasons for America's entrance into the war. Chairmen of war service commit tees, representing every branch, o in dustry in the country, have been called by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to meet In Wash ington today to perfect plans for co operation with the government. The special commission of the house of bishops of the Eniacooai hurch to inquire Into certain alleeed seditious utterances of the Rt Rev. l'aul Jones, bisfcop of the missionary aisinct or l tan, win hold a meeting in New York today, and Bishop Jones has been instructed to attend. YOUR LAD AND MY LAD. pinch. Much of our commonplace achievements 111 tllC htllllliniT lin ir. tnnVa.l ..nnn t,-... , .!,...!. . . J . I . .. . .. 0 ... luunm uyuu uiuu as i muuKu nc uucs noi iiuv siamris to tne tun num. boasts. We propose to show them, and the big- . bcr of 20 if he only buys one of the regular stamps Ijc may redeem it at any time on 10 days' notice for the full value of hii Investment KandHll Tarrlsh In Chicago Tribune. Down toward the deep blue water, march ing to the throb ot drum. From city street and country lana the lim-s of khaki come; The rumbling guns, the sturdy tread, arv (ull of grl.a appeal. While rays of western sunshine flash back from burnished steel. With eager eyes and cheeks afuuno the serried ranks advance. And your dear lad. and my dear lad, are on their way to Trance. Before th"in, through a mist of years. In soldier buff or blue. Brave comrades from a thousand fields watch now In proud review: The same old Flag, the same old Faith tha freedom of tha world Spells duty In thos flapping folds above long ranks unfurled. Strong are the hearts which bear along a. mocracy's advance. As your dear lad and my dear lad go on tha way to France. The word rings out; a million feet tramp forward on the road. Along the path af sacrific a'e.- which cur fathers trod. With eager eyes and rjieeks aflame, with . cheers ni. smiling lips. Those fighting men of '17 move onward to their ships. Nor avn love may hold them back, or halt that stern dvance. As your dear lad and my dear lad go on their war to France. CHEERY CHAFF. Tommy Uncle, what's chagrin? Uncle- Well, it's what a stout man feels when he runs and Jumps into a train that doesn't start for twenty minutes. Phila delphia Ledger. ''Tom, dear," said Mrs. Youngbrida as they sat down to dinner, "I did Just as you told mo to." "Tou mean about economizing?" "Yea. Instead of buying sirloin steak I bought a porterhouse. It Isn't nearly so large, you know." Boston Transcript. 2 He likes sr to lane for Coughs e Colds The pleasant taste of this fa mous 50-year old remedy is one reason for its remarkable success. The kiddies like : , ask for it, and it docs then -ood. Slightly laxative, too, and keeps them in pood condition. Keep it in your medicine closet and give it to the kiddies for all forms of coughs, r'ds and croup. Tort as effective lor old lolks, too, especially for jfrippc Get it at your druggists "At the time of the flood, pa, were there such a lot of people In the world?" "Well, my son, that's hard to say, but T believe It had quite large floating pop. ulatlon." Baltimore American. Keep joar Stomach and Lifer Healthy A vigorous Stomach, perfect working Liver and regular acting Bowels, if you will use Dr. King's New Life Pills. They correct Constipation have a tonic effect on the system eliminate poisons through the Bowels. 25c. Jamie Gee, your grandma is a spry old lady. Jennie Well, hadn't she ought to be? Her lather lived to be a centaur and her mother was almost a centipede. St. Louis Hi-public. "I know what Russia needs." "What Is it?" "A man of the hour." "1 guess you're right. Mast of its lead en only seem to last about a minute." Louisville Courier-Journal. What happened when you encountered the burglar?'' "He took my breath awny." "Anything else anything of value?" asked Ihe officer mechanically. Boston Transcript. 1 We enjoy the public's confi dence and for this reason: we serve each client faithfully and well. Our superb equipment and ' the dignified appointments of our i funerals always make a pleasing impression. . N. P. SWANSON Funeral Parlor. (Established 1888) . 17th and Cuming Sts. Tel. Douglas 1060. She apa says he will pay half the cost of furnishing a house for us. He Hut how about the other half? Hhe Don't be a goose ? Of course we'll pick out a lot of nice things, get papa's check fur half of the bill, and then go back and aelect things only half as expen sive. Boston Transcript. mm flahssldsssVl "Aren't you ashamed of acoldtng so. W'lllle? Just see what a sweet expression Tommy Jones Is wearing." "Well, he has to wear it. He has Just thrown a rock through the preacher's win dow, and he's waiting now to make the preacher believe It was done by a little boy in a blue suit who ran down tha street." Richmond Times-Dispatch. 14 Follow the judgment of those j who know good photographs. Rinehart-Steffens Of Course. 300 18th St., South. Wead Bldg. Just Off Farnam. Christmas Presents PIANOS, $250 and Better Playe Pianoa, $395 and up Uaed Pianoa, $125 and up Pianos to Rent, $3.50 and up PLAYER ROLLS, 25 and up Stoola, $2.50; Benchea, $10; Scarfa, $2.50 Up FRAMED PICTURES, 50 up Sheet Picturea, every price and variety Photo Framea, Framea to order. Lamps, Vases, Art, Flowera, Cordova Leather, Bras. Goods, Candlea, Candle Sticka, Painting Seta and Outfita, Musical Instruments, Violina, Guitara, Ukuleles; all Braaa and Orchestra Inatruments. VICTROLAS AND RECORDS 1513 Douglas Street f FLORIDA tp I I . a.: - -v j- xj avjdr-vx:-' s. mss iw Tke Land of Sunsnine and Flowers Reached by superb through atael train of the LouU villa & Nashville Railroad Dixie Limited, Dixie Flyer, the Southland and Jacksonville Eaprea. Ungurpasaed a la carte dining car service. R aind trip tickets, at low fare, on sale daily. Greater variety route than any ether line; diverse routes if desired. Attruve Tears to Central America, Cola, Mobile, New Orleans, Pensacola and (he Golf Coast Resorts Fas- full particulars, taUe, lQtubatsxl IxmUots, slawptag car reservation,, ate, addraaa CCO. . HERRING, Div. P. Aff. 304 N. Broadway,, St Loula, Mo, T.W. MORROW, N.-W.P. A. 332 Manrosdt. BU4, IHE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU Washington, D C. Name Street Address, City gest surprise awaits those who scoffed at Ameri ca as a factor in the war. I plus accrued interest. .State.