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12 THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1517. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWAP.O ROSEWATTR VICTOR ROsFwATER, EDITOR THE BE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. EnUred at Omibi poitoffice second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Rv Cir-ifr B.T Mail. Daily and S'jMst. ik! iw, IV rtr tir. IfM rtll w.thn'.u Sihr.iui ' "- ' Frentng and Similar " l " t ('0 RtfUint rm,m SunJiT " r.- H 4 'o Sundae ! milv " - " 2"" Send i f ' t! f h.ilMs L-r lrrc.'ar!fr lr, .i !;r-Ty t) On a!. Ree OlTt'lisl'T 1- ; jr:- :' MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aiv".a'M I'rt-M. "( wlc-fi Tht I'.oe In a nwih-r. i ei?lnT,-lT Mttt!t1 tc th? u. f -f t'' nOert 'l n-w rti't nfli"" rrai:1 rn It or r, ! ..h,.nc. cr..We1 hi tl-i r:'r acl V, tt'.- iTal ticm. nubllal-.ed All n!:' oi I'lf-lu aur.u uf our si- ti disratchc ire also rcrrfd- REMITTANCE Remit hr draft. xpr.8 t ..ril nr'i-r onlt ; eeM Mimr 'akm In piemenl of arii! amnr l'trv.t.l cliw.k. evil oti Omaha ard eastern ei. hani,-?. n .1 a.vpT. OFFICES Oirati Thf R"e ralldliif. M-r Pence's rii Pntldmf. Nmlh Oma'a-IS N Hi. N' t nrk SM fifth Art i'owuiI II ."- 14 N Main 81 K' I tn ,V il k i.t commerce. Uineeto l.mh- BulldiM. tos ' 1 .1 1 O Rt. CORRESPONDENCE .ddres f-nrvirl'Mt Mlatits C) nets a;i1 pai'-Tlal rr.atlr in Hial a TW. K!:!r,ria! l : Hrtmt-ht. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION 58,715 Daily Sunday, 51,884 Aerire circulation fr lr niwilh. aulwrlhed and wrn to rt, DwiM WiUiaics. rimilatum Slafa-'r Subscribers leaving the city ahould have The Bee mailed to them. Address chanced ax often aa requested. Who will guarantee a madr-in-Germany peace treaty? "Delays mean better guns for the army," says a manufacturer. A poor excuse is better than none. The Kaiser's Subterranean Peace Politics. What kind of politics the kaiser and his ad ijfrs are playing with the representatives of the Bolsheviki in the negotiations for peace between Russia and Germany may not be easily discerned at this distance, but we may be sure that things are far different from their surface appearance. It takes no specially keen insight to see that what is worrying the kaiser is not so much the question of terms for making permanent the arm istice on the eastern front, for Russia ha9 not been a serious menace to him for nearly a year, but rather the perplexing problem c,f UMng the Russian breakdown, and the German influence over the powers in control at Petrograd for the time being, as a leverage to bolster up German plans to "put something over" on the allies. Let us not forget that the kaiser is involved in a two-fold complication: First, to keep his own people keyed up to a belief that they are having matters their own way and are really victorious and second, to delude us in America into the idea that Germany is ready to accord all we set out to fight for and that we therefore need not pu-h our preparations to get into the fight. That is really our most serious danger and the kaiser's most subtle scheme. He cannot succeed in it, however, if we realize what these moves mean and decline to be deceived by pretended yearnings for peace by those who wantonly started the world war and are responsible for all its atrocities and inhumanities. What the War is Costing By Frederic J. llatkin I TODAY Wa'hingtr.n, D. C, Dec. 20 The figures re lating to this war are stupendous beyond the power of the human mind to compass. There has never been any war in hitory. or any other human activity, approaching it in n.apriisti'!''. To reckon its cost in men, in materials, or in ni'.r.ey is to impose an a!rm-t insupportable strain on the power of the intellect to comprehend or to realize. Nevertheless, the whole world is think ing of this cost, and of what it means to the individual and society. It is literally r.r.e of the mot interfacing subject-) in the world. The following estimates do not pretend to absolute authority. They are the result of care ful study and research, based 0:1 a great variety of information. Casualty lists of the belligerent nations, the estimates of their enemies, financial statements, loans, statements from official sources both American and European, and the results of several unofficial complications have been studied in an attempt to arrive at some reasonably accurate statement of the totals. I: iht In the Spotlight. P.L JUv. Julan Joseph OVonnor, bishop of Newark, who today oele hrii'es th forfx th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Is widely known an a Catholic preinte and edu cator. B'rn in Newark in 1855, he reeMvcl his A M. dt-tree' at Seton flail cnU'-U'' at the aei of Jo arid then went, abroad to complete hifc education f'ir thf church. For several years he ftiidnvj lit the American college In Fierce and the I'niverpity of Louvain in I'.e'pjum. He-turning tn the United Strife- after his ordination In 1 S 7 7. he sji.-nt the years from IS 78 to 18H5 as a professor of philosophy and theology ut SVton II a 1 1 eoilege. In 1 St5 he be a me pastor of St. Joseph's church in Newark and in 1901 he was ele-vat-d to the bishopric. 1 " r:- General Chaos reigns in Russia without the consent of any faction. The country doesn't care whether Washing ton kicks incompetents upstairs or down, so long as they go. Cheer up! The country will have plenty of sugar next year. If the sweet tooth starts trouble meantime, consult a dentist. It will be noted that while the central powers talk about peace they carefully avoid laying their cards, fare up, on the table. . i The Red Cross is doing well, but might do j still better, if some of its activjties were ex pended on home training camps. What is most illuminating about the kaiser's I present peace ideas is how different they are j from what they were three years ago. If failure to join the Red Cross is due to l.uk of money, it is excusable. If it is, due to lack of patriotism, it calls for some drastic discipline. Boston tagged a 50-50 mayor and elected a 100 per cent American. Big Rill Thompson of Chicago grows more conspicuous in his loneliness. The Lincoln city council ha'S taken time by the forelock in passing in December an ordinance restricting the sale and use of explosive fireworks for next Fourth of July. Here Is a tip for our Omaha solotis, Bulgaria's premier hotly resents the charge of his country being a small tool of Germany. His indignation is warranted, Strictly speaking Bulgaria is more a land robber than a tool, and works for No. 1 all the time. The epidemic of pay roll and bank robberies in and around Chicago shows a score of 31 vic tims and institutions and a cash loss of $400,000. Strange to say suspicion is not directed toward alien enemies, although the operations, in a small way, bear a striking resemblance to the Teutonic trimming of Brussels and Warsaw. Every day marks a substantial advance in J the unity of the Allies. The interallied council .set the pace for co-ordinated effort all along the line, not only in army and navy wotk, but in the essentials of shipping and supplies. Unity of ac tion eubstantially strengthens the forces of de mocracy and advances the winning of the war. They do things differently and more efficiently even in England. Responsibility lor defective shells was directly placed on the managing di- J rector of a munition factory and a jail sentence j , imposed. In a similar case in Philadelphia the authorities relieved the manager ami inspectors of responsibility and made two piece-work me chanics the goat. i i The welfare funds solicited by the Young , Women's Christian Association go toward sus taining one of the most important war services undertaken by women. The shelters already pro- j vided and projected at various army camps af- j ford accommodations for visiting wives, mothers, I sisters and other women relatives of soldiers, I safeguards their coming and going, and renders a service well worthy of public support. Fight it Out on One Line. Receiving a setback on the original conten tion for an accounting and reversion of the street railway lines originally operated with horses by the old Omaha Horse Car company, the legal representatives of the city now, instead of ap pealing, file a practically new suit demanding for Omaha as a municipality all the property ever controlled by the present street railway company under any of its franchises. It is safe to assume that the street railway company will contest this new attack even more strenuously than it did the former one, and that whatever the outcome In the courts may be, it will not be accepted by both sides until it comes in the form of a decree from the highest appellate tribunal. The chief, if not the only advantage, of litigat ing at this time the questions at issue in the various street railway franchises, is to secure at the earliest feasible moment an authoritative construction of the rights and relations of the city and the street railway company. If so, for the city to keep changing the theory upon which it is proceeding can get us nowhere. What should be done is to fight it out on one line clear up to the supreme court to find out where we are at and have some definite basis to start from in enforcing the city's claims or arranging new terms or taking over property for the public. It is perhaps necessary to buy a law suit, and perhaps several law suits, to develop the exact situation, but let us avoid a multi plicity of law suits just for the sake of giving the lawyers exercise. Needless Hardship at Cantonments. The remarkable interview by a woman prom inent in the social life of Omaha describing ac tual conditions at Camp Funston can not fail to stir the mothers of Nebraska soldiers in the camp. There is no doubt that every mother of a soldier in Camp Funston has personal knowl edge of some of the things discussed and be cause of timidity or the fear of reprisal upon the son these mothers have held their tongues. There is another reason why they are reluctant to talk, and that is the dislike of being regarded as a critic of the government, lest their remarks may be tortured into expressions of disloyalty. It is not so with the fathers and mothers of soldiers in Great Britain. Time and again in the early days of the war and even up to recent months the parents of soldiers in the British Isles, seeing anything wrong, have not hesitated to voice their protest and to demand improve ment of bad conditions by the higher officials of the British war office; and be it said to the credit of these officials, complaints are investigated and when well-founded, an effort to remedy them made. The British have learned how to cut the red tape out of situations of this kind. Their first consideration is the welfare of the soldiers and the result of this solicitude and of this unceasing endeavor to make sure the Tom mies are well treated, is one very good reason why Great Britain has raised the greatest volun teer army in the history of the world. The force of public opinion in this country ought to be equally potent, and the people gen erally will support the parents of the soldiers in demanding at least that the hardships of war be no worse than they must be. The Undiscovered Superlative -Philadelphia) Ledfer- With all the bunting fluttering in the breeze, all the men in uniform, all the cheering specta tors, all the tall buildings, such as he had never seen before, to meet his eye, I'rinre Ferdinand of Savov, arriving in New York, made one remark which did especial credit to hi powers of obser vation. "What beautiful women are your Ameri cans!" he said. This distinguished representa tive of the royal house of Savov comes from a land where beauty reignsbeauty of nature, i beauty of art and beauty of humanity; belle 1 signorine everywhere, from la bella Napoli to ; Oenova la superba, models for another Raphael or Titian, black-haired, red-haired, every darling type. Yet the beauty of the women of New York at once appealed to him. Ovid somewhat cynically obseved that no woman is displeased j with her own appearance, and it may be meas urably true that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. The testimony of the prince vav mi spontaneous, so genuine, however, that it should stand without question. What would he have said, it may be permitted . to inquire, if he had come to Philadephia? A choice connoisseur in beauty "elegans formarum spectator," as Terence puts it would find the I very flower of American womanhood, not on Fifth avenue, but on Chestnut sreet. There are jaundiced critics even of our girls, who find fault with tne attractive way they dress, who talk scornfully of powder and paint, often existent only in their own vain imaginations, a red and white by "nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on." Not Amaryllis nor Lalage, nor yet Titania herself, could .surpass the charm of Philft delphian beauty, as awfully arrayed to captivate mere man as that Austrian arrriv which boldlv by battery besieged Belgrade. Prince Ferdinand does well to praise the American woman in gen eral, but he can never appeciate the full value to the superlative unless he come to its proper environment. Federal Aid and Good Roads. Under the joint stimulus of the man behind the automobile and federal aid the good roads' movement grips every state in the Union and marks progress in each in proportion to the en terprise and foresight of the people. The outlay for highway construction and maintenance dur ing 1910 totaled $300,000,000, three-fourths of It in northern and western states. Federal co operation in this vast outlay was comparatively small, since the act of congress took effect in July of last year and had barely five months to effect a working agreement with the states. Nevertheless, the punch of federal aid aroused backward states and spurred good road work in states previously drawing wholly 011 their own resource. The report of the Secretary of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June last shows that all the states have accepted the terms of the law and created highway commissions for perma nent road building. Approved projects total 1,182 miles of road, estimated to cost $7,900,000, to be paid for jointly by the nation and the states in proportion to mileage. "These pro tects," says the report, "involve federal funds to the extent of $3,455,57376, or 2175 per cent of the total allotment for the fiscal years 1917 and 1918." Many states arc leagues in advance of federal requirements. New York, Massachusetts, New j Jersey and Pennsylvania and the Pacific coast states are steadily extending permanent roads ; costing millions of dollars drawn from their own 1 pockets. Federal aid, however, reaches into lo i calities unable to bear the whole cost of perma ! nent roads and becomes an incentive for rural I expansion, improved transportation, recreation j and pleasure. The push and progress and the j prosperity of states and counties ere long will , be measured by their mileage of permanent high j ways usable in all kinds of weather. The coct in hitman life is perhaps the easiest to set down. When a human life is lost ,it can be checked off the list. When a dollar is spent, it is not only necessary to record its spending, but also to trace the fate of the material it buys. When a man's labor is taken from industry it cannot be set down as a loss without givinc credit for any productive value it may have in a new channel. The number of men killed in battle has been between 7,500,000 and 8.000. 000. Some estimates have put it at over 9,000,00(1. Against this death loss must be set down the number of deaths which would have occurred in tune of peace among the 55,000,000 men under arms. As most of these men have passed some sort of a test of physical fitness and are comparatively younk'. this figure cannot be put very high. It is safe to set the war loss at more than 7,000.000 men. Notwithstanding the enormous size of this total, the actual death rate has only been about one man in 20 for each year, of the whole num ber mobilized. The figures are larire, but they are based on the greatest armies the world has ever seen. Moreover, the death rate has been falling steadily throughout the war as methods more economical of human life are adopted and hospital efficiency increases. The well-prepared nations lose least. Russia has suffered casualties disproportionately large, because 111 the first year of the war its troops were sent to the front poor ly supported by artillery and sometimes ltterallv unarmed. On the western front the French losses were heaviest for the first two years, but as England takes over the bulk of the fighting its casualties increase and those of France fall off. In addition to the dead, the permanently dis abled total about 5,250,000 men. Thus the net loss in men amounts to about 13 000,000. There have probably been about 10,000,000 men less se riously wounded, in such a way that they have either been returned to the front, or able to pur sue some useful occupation in civil life. In scanning reports of the wounded it should be remembered that the impression they give is usually exaggerated. One man may be wounded several times. The same applies to figures of "total losses." which not only include prisoners and missing, but may also include the same man several times. He may be reckoned once or oftener among the wounded, and again among the prisoners or the dead. Some realization of the meaning of these to tals may be gleaned from the reflection that the dead and the totally disabled equal more than half the able-bodied men in the United States. One Ycnr Ago Today In the War. Vienna reported Russians defeated In Dobrudja. French raided German lines in re connoisanees at St. Mihiel. Ambassador Gerard explained pres ident's peace move to German foreign mini.-ter. Jerry Become Sarcastic. Omaha, Dec. 20 To the Editor of The Bee: Notwithstanding; the spread eagle announcements about Ameri canizing: (commercializing) the for eigners, it seems thut the State Coun cil of Defense and the other fla',' raising dress parade patriots who claim to be the legitimate owners o' all the patriotism are neglecting the natives wherein there is so milch criticism about the omission of the national anthem from school pro grams and other entertainments, ete. I herewith submit for publication in your widely read paper a facsimile of Francis Scott Key's original manu script of the national anthem so that the native and naturalized citizens will have an opportunity of reading the sacred song and thereby commit it to memory. JERRY HOWARD. In Omaha Thirty Year? Ago. the first annual ball of the Pa triarchs Militant of Ezra Millard Can ton No. 1, was held at Masonic hall, and was a distinguished social affair. The Odd Fellows and their guests numbered 200 persons. The Elks held their first meeting In then- new quarters in the Continental block, corner Fifteenth and Douglas Meets, Manager Jones, of the Grand opera house, left for SL Paul for a few days' ahsence. C. R Uouffler, connected with Fred Knit's brewery, left last evening for a vacation of several weeks, which will be spent in New York In a visit to his mother. j. W. Wakeley of Chicago, assistant general passenger agent of the Chi cago, Burlington & Quiney railroad, is in the city to pass the holidays with his father, Judge Wakeley. W. F. Fitch, general manager of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad, left for Xew York, to tie absent until January 10. F. 1j. Dana, formerly connected with the Bradstreets offices, has be come editor of the Denver Exchange Journal, which has just made its ap pearance. At the postofTlee since Monday 100, 00D Christmas packages have been handled and the great rush of busi ness still continues. j A Farce If Not Such a Tragedy. ! Omaha, Dec. 20. To the Editor of The Bee: The spectacle of Senator I Hitchcock Bitting as an investigator I on the slowness of war preparation j by Brigadier General Crozier, chief j of ordnance, would be laughable if I it were not so tragic. General Crozier has evidently exhausted every 1 resource to expedite giving muni tions of all kinds to our army, while Senator Hitchcock and his coterie have just as clearly ham pered the administration at every possible point and cut down its speed to the lowest possible stage. Is it possible that the people of this country can so soon forget that Mr. Hitchcock was foremost In the effort to prevent the manufacture and shipment of arms of any kind to Europe, steadily opposed making any kind of preparation, taking any kind of care for the future? To a man up a tree it would look as if he and La Follette and Reed and Gronna and Norris and "Gumshoe" Bill Stone had never thought of anything but of cinching the pro-German vote in their states. Only last week Senator Hitchcock was showing great unwillingness to vote favorably on a declaration of war against Austria, whose armies and navy were killing our people, and declaring the only thing that in duced him to vote for it, was Presi dent Wilson's assurance that no ter ritory held by Austria should be taken from it after It was conquered. Crocodile tears flowed freely over the injustice that might he done Aus tria. That she had stolen Bosnia and Herzegovina in 190S, without a pretext of law, or of right, or of Jus tice, weighed nothing with him. That she has oppressed and exploited Italy for 100 years cut no figure with Sen ator Hitchcock. Such a tender heart for Austria! On the other hand, plundered, ravished, slaughtered Belgium; devastated northern France; outraged Serbia, the theft of which by Austria was the match that lit this war, Senator Hitchcock expresses no sympathy or compassion for. Evi dently he feela none. His heart is bleeding for the robber, the assassin. the murderer, but he has no pity for the victims. What a farce. If it were not such a frightful tragedy the spectacle of Senator Hitchcock and Senator Ret: f r'gid'y cross-examining General CroZ i,r on this subject' And when the momentous issues for all mankind, and for al! time, are trembling in the balance, how can an individual be so selfish, so calculating, so cold blooded, so Insensible to duty, as to as seme the frightful consequences that may follow his action if he forgets everything but the possibility of cor- railing a few miserable, paltry votes in his senatorial district? How con temptible' Is Nebraska loyal? Are her people ready to back up her sons who are offering their lives for our homes, our libertv and our honor.' lr Ne braska and her people are loyal, Hitchcock and Norris have not repre sented, but betrayed us. God forgive me' I voted for them both. R. A. STEWART. The money cost is a vastly more confusing problem. The total is beyond all comparison with any national debts, loans or expenditures of the past. At the beginning of the war the ; cost was $30,000,000 a day, and it was predicted that Europe could not stand it for six months. Now, well along in the fourth year, the cost is nearly $175,000,000 a day, and there are no signs of a financial breakdown. It has become increasingly evident that lack . of "money" will never make any nation sur render. Financial operations are fundamentally , only methods of getting at the economic re- j sources. As long as sufficient economic re sources actually exist, in the shape of men and munitions, food and beasts and iron and steel, so long can the nation in question continue to make war. In looking for a German breakdown the eye should turn, not toward the depreciated German mark, but toward what Germany has left in men and food and steel. This isiecause a nation can mortgage its fu ture. It can purchase everything in sight, or at least in its power. When its own credit is gone it can draw on the credit of its children through numberless unborn generations. In drawing on its own resources the German empire is in the position of a man who enters a shop with empty pockets, to pay for goods with signed notes pledging the labor of his children. It is easy to sign notes. lie can only be made to stop buying when there is nothing left in the shop to buy, and the shopkeeper is in no position to question his credit. Nonetheless, these debts are real, and will have to be paid, as people seem apt to forget in the dizziness bred 01 dealing in billions. The world's debt since the war ha increased by $90. 000,000,000. T he total cost has exceeded tin's fig ure by at least $15,000,000,000, the (Inference rep resenting the amount levied in taxes in excess of the interest requirements. This T)ay In History. 1798 George W. Crawford, gov ernor of Georgia and Rocretary of war under President Taylor, born in Co lumbia county, Georgia, Died near Augusta, July 22, 1872. 1814 John Smith Phelps, who served as military governor of Ar kansas and later was elected gov ernor of Missouri, born at Simsbury, Conn. Died in SL Louis, November 20, I8S61 1824 Matthew Hale Carpenter, celebrated lawyer and senator from Wisconsin, born at Moretown, Vt. Died in Wasington, D. C, February 25, 1881. 1831 Charles Wells was elected mayor of the city of Boston. 1854 British parliament passed a law permitting the enlistment of for eigners 'in the British army. 1914 A squadron of German aero planes dropped bombs on Dover, Eng land. 1915 House of Commons voted without division to Increase the Brit ish army to 4,000,000 men. THE SONS OF OUR FATHERS. Wi are th" tons of our father." lJnsM"n;iO , f re.-t Rnd bol! ; Bred of the storm of haul. Cast In ilu-tr mlKhty mold; Proud of ttielr ancient glory, Stroni: with th' ir ancient mUht. Itenred with th'ir world-winning Btory Suns I" "ur ars at n'shi. And , as the ons of our fMhrf. Mast live by tho ancient light. Our fathtrs thy smnt th forst. Our fathers they bridged tho ea: Our fathers tamo down and built the town Where the myrald pecdes be. Onts hand on the aword hilt rldinf. And on to labor withal, They loved and fought and they on, God wot! A place and a home for all. And we, an the on of our fathers Must follow the ancient call. Our fathers bequeathed us honor And the glory of toll and eong. And the deathless Joy of longing. nd hearts for the battle atronf. And our faith, and our land, and our women And the children that round us rise. And by God'a grace we will purge the race Of wrons. lest their Rlory dies, That a fairer land than our fatheri planned May for our children rise! Minneapolis. HUGH J. HUGHES. V Locomotive Auto Oil The Best Oil We Know 55c Per Gallon The L V-l&holas Oil Comply GRAIN EXCHANGE BLOC. President. 2? How happy the kaiser would be if Count Luxburg would "sink and leave no trace." These staggering, and in fact incomprehensi ble, figures are likely to be misleading in both directions. In the first place, a war loan floated at home does not mean a financial expenditure to the nation as a whole. John Smith or James Brown may be losers by it, if their taxes are used to pay the interest, and if they themselves do not hold any bonds. Hut it is easy to see that if all the interest is paid to people living in the United Slates, and the principal at the end of the term also paid to residents in the United States, the United States as a nation is no weaker financially for having borrowed $20,000, 000.000 than if it had never borrowed a cent Such enormous loans will probably effect a redistribution of wealth, for the interest charges will be met by taxation, and provision made for a sinking fund in the same way. By distributing this taxation wisely and equitably the end of the period that the Liberty bonds have to run may well see a more efficient balance of wealth than the present. As in reckoning war strength, the basic reali ties of the problem are economic rather than 1 financial. Such part of the great war loans as is invested 111 convertible lactones. 111 increase ot food production, and similar real assets, cannot be regarded as lost. On the other hand, the dol lars 'that arc spent for shells which explode and ships which sink are lost in fact. Moreover, the cost in dollars is no measure of the real eco nomic cost of the war, because it takes no ac count of the enormous destruction of property that has taken place. This represents a cutting into the capital of the world. The sinking of millions of tons of shipping, the destruction of cities, the ravaging of farm lands, the deteriora tion of industrial equipment in the last three years, are only a few of the items that must be charged to this account. One huge item is tin labor of 55,000,000 men. who have been taken completely from productive occupations. Even reckoning their value to industry at the mod erate sum of $1 a dav, in four years of war the industrial loss mounts up to ?'5,000,000,000. The Day We Colcbrnte. Solon II. Borglum, sculptor, was born December 22, 1868, at Ogden, I'tah. Kobert H. Manley, commissioner of the Omaha Commercial club, is 40 years old today. Kobert W. l'atrlck was born here in Omaha 59 years ago. Frederick W. Clarke, cashier of the I'nion Stock Yards bank at South muha, is celebrating his fifty-third birthday today. W. J. Harahan, president of the Seaboard Air Line railway, born at .Nashville, Tenn., 60 years ago today. Bainbridge Colby, member of the t'nited States Shipping board, born in St. Bonis, 48 years ago today. Alexander I'etrunkevltch, professor of zoology in the Sheffield Scientific school, horn at Pllski, Russia, 42 years ago today. Frank B. Kellogg, Junior United States senator from Minnesota, born at I'otsilam, N. Y., (il years ;tgo today. opie Keoil. well known Chicago author and journalist, born at Nash ille, Term., 65 years ago today. Kilward C. Stokes, former governor of New Jersey, born in Philadelphia 6 7 years afc'o today. Christmas Presents i PIANOS, 250 and Better Player Pianos, $395 an "P Used Pianos, $125 and up Pianos to Rent, S3. 50 and up PLAYER ROLLS, 25 and up St:.!:, $2.50; Benches, $10; Scarfs, $2.50 Up r jar 1 1 FRAMED PICTURES, 50r up Sheet Pictures, every price and variety Photo Frames, Frames to order. Lamps, Vases, Art, Flowers, Cordova Leather, Brass Goods, Candles, Candle Sticks, Painting: Sets and Outfits, Musical Instruments, Violins, Guitars, Ukuleles; all Brass and Orchestra Instruments. VICTROLAS AND RECORDS 1513 Douglas Street Timely Jottings and Reminders. A street procession of 20,000 Sun day (school pupils is to usher in u four thly Christmas carol festival in Phila delphia today. notable social function in Chi catfo today will be a reception at the home of .Mrs. George M. Pullman to introduce her granddaughter, Miss Florence Lowden, daughter of the governor ot" Illinois, and Mrs. Frank O. Lowden. James W. Gerard, former American ambassador lit Berlin; Wellington Koo, the Chinese minister at Wash ington, and lrvin Cobb, the humorist and war correspondent, are to be anions tho speakers at the annual dinner 01" the New England Society of Pennsylvania, to be given in Phila delphia tonight. The twenty-fifth anniversary re union in celebration of the first law degrees granted to women in the state of New York will be held in .New York City today by alumnae und students of the school of law of New York university,, which was the first institution in the state to provide a law course for women. People and Events "'A broth of a b'y" carrying the name of Emmet O'Burn Mew into a patriotic labor union rally in St. Louis and remained glued to his chair while the assembly rose in deference to the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner." A sudden wave of heat melted the glue and Emmet shot out of the hall to an accompaniment of fists and boots. The boys will rough house the yellows when- they flaunt their colors. Storyette of tho Day. The plaintiff in giving his evidence halted and hemmed and stuttered. The principal witness for the defend ant was what they call "fresh" and managed to lnteriard his testimony with his opinion on collateral nat ters, greatly to the annoyance of the attorney for tho plaintiff. When that gentleman came to cross-examine the witness and received two or three re plies that verged on being impertinent he lost his temper and said 10 the witness: "You claim to know every thing. Do you know what made Bal aam's ass speak?" "I reckon," replied tho witness, "that Balaam was a stut terln' man and his ass spake for him." The cross-examination closed. Chicago Journal. SMILING LINES Cosmetics only hide skin trouble o Q 1 n ol makes sick SJJL l J 4V JLJL K r Whether It is a serious affectiyin like eczema, or just a pimpiy, rough and un attractive complexion, you can usually rely on Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap to set it right, promptly, easily and at little cost. Resinol Ointment stops itching instantly. 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