THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918.
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DECEMBER CIRCULATION
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Arena etrealatloa for the amnio, aabaerlbad aad eworn to br Uwitui
tVilliaaa, tlrculatioa Manaaer.
. Subacribara leavlnf th city should bav Tha Baa nailed
ta them. Addreaa ckanicd a often aa requested.
Friday was a poor day to preach fuel saving
in Omaha.
Any conference between the republicans is
troublesome to the democrats these days.
Sweden heaves in sight with a temperature
record of 70 below. Who wants to go to Sweden?
Coal has the right-of-way over the railroads
just now, but the cold wave does not travel that
way.
Call for cornmeal at reasonable prices is be
coming general. Our folks are getting so they
like it.
The .kaiser has withdrawn his peace propos
als, but not until they had been pretty well shot
full of holes.
Kaledtnes and his Cossacks are giving the
kaiser more trouble than all the rest of the Rus
lians combined just now.
Old" Boreas and Jack Frost are doing some
splendid team work, but their efforts are not
altogether welcome hereabouts.
Nebraska does not especially relish the dis
tinction' of being the coldest spot on the map,
bat it is in keeping with the state's way of doing
things not by halves.
The war must be won on the battlefield, says
German editor, who evidently has the same
opinion of the kaiser's diplomacy as is held by
the rest of the world.
With prohibition and woman suffrage out of
the way, the house at Washington can now give
attention to revenue legislation and other minor
matters connected with the war program.
Our amiable Hyphenated contemporary is not
above stretching Hs advertising bills against the
city just as far as it can. Maybe a little more
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views on the point.
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'Charley" Lobeck saw a great fight after the
president spoke on suffrage, but he missed his
greatest opportunity to get into the real lime
light. If he had stuck he would have had the
distinction of tying his party's vote. Another
chance to be a hero gone glimmering.
Bolshevikl Performances Mystifying.
In some particulars the Bolshevik resembles
Artemes Ward's monkey "He is an amoosin
little cuss." Just now, however, the world is not
looking for amusement so much as a way out of
a serious plight, toward which the Bolshevik is
contributing only further confusion. His play
ing at peace-making with Germany is accom
panied by empty threats of a continuation of
war if he does not gain his point While his col
lapse as a fighting factor has placed an added bur
den on his former allies, he demands that they
come in and join with him in making a farce
out of democracy's hopes. Tretending to loy
alty to the cause of the people and hinting at
further purpose of fighting, he admits he has not
the means wherewith to prosecute a war either
of offense or defense and asks for help from the
nations he has abandoned. This impudent re
quest is supplemented by a declaration that all
his obligations, to these countries are to be re
pudiated. Debts contracted by Russia will not
be paid, says the Bolshevik, this being to en
courage the proletariat to firmer belief in his vic
tory over the bourgeoisie. If Germany is wholly
smitten with what Prof. Jastrow calls "mania
Germanics" ; Russia exhibits every symptom of
the disease that once overwhelmed the French,
which Thomas Carlyle denominated "eleuthero
mania." Only on such hypothesis can the mys
tifying performances of Lenine, Trotrky and
their followers be accounted for.
Vote on Suffrage Amendment.
"From the depths of a swelling heart," shouts
the World-Herald in its ecstacy, "we congratu
late the United Stateson the democratic party."
It might as well congratulate the United States
on a crop failure or any other form of national
calamity. So far as the vote in the house on
the Susan B. Anthony amendment is concerned,
the women who are concerned most in the mat
ter have sense enough to see for what they have
to be grateful to the democratic party. A two
thirds vote was required to carry the amendment.
Two hundred and six democrats divided almost
evenly, 104 voting for and 102 voting against the
amendment. If it had not been for the 165 re
publican votes in favor as contrasted with 33
negative the day would have been lost to the
women. In other words, while the democrats
divided evenly, the republicans voted 5 to 1 in
favor and saved the amendment for the women.
These facts will not prevent the democrats from
claiming all credit for passing the measure
through the house. However, they put a very low
estimate on the intelligence of the women if they
think they can get away with this brand of bun
combe. The women also realize that it is among the
unprogressive democratic states of the solid south
that they will meet their greatest opposition and
where the amendment is most likely to fail of
needed endorsement. Democrats may point to
Tammany's help to suffrage in New York, but
the bulwark of the party's power lies in states
that are frankly opposed to extending the fran
chise to women. ,
With Whom Are We Dealing?
One of the points made in President Wilson's
statement of war aims deserves larger attention
than it has so far received. The president says
it is necessary that we should know with whom
we are dealing. Is his address directed to the
people of Germany, or to the militaristic cult
that is in control? ' Does the attitude of Germany
to the world fairly reflect the sentiment of a ma
jority, as expressed through the Reichstag, or is
it but the will of a minority enforced by the
sword? Only the Germans themselves can an
swer this question.
All experiences since the beginning of the war
give affirmative response to the query as to the
olidarity of the nation in support of the kaiser.
Now and then some small note of protest has
arisen, but it has quickly been silenced. As the
conflict has continued the aspect of the war has
changed; it was begun as a war of conquest, but
for two years it has been a war of defense. By
reason of their sudden dash and splendid readi
ness, the Germans seized a large area outside
their own boundaries. This they have sought to
hold, using it for the most part as a basis for
trades in connection with peace proposals that
have been rejected. From their opponents have
come only such terms as are contrary td the
entire German program. On this condition hangs
the belief uppermost in German minds that the
fatherland is threatened with disruption if noth
ing more. Discussing Lloyd George's late
speech, the German and Austrian press, reflect
ing the governmental attitude, flatly says the
terms proposed can be accepted only by a de
feated Germany.
That an element of the German people realizes
the hopelessness of the situation for the Central
powers is true, but how extensive or influential
it is can not be said. That the hope of the mili
tary rulers is to obtain an advantage on the west
front is equally plain. Russia and Italy are both
out of the war, so far as any effective offensive
Is concerned. This strengthens the hope of the
kaiser and his party. For this reason it must be
clear to any who has studied the signs that we
are still dealing with the war lords of Germany,
and our action must be taken accordingly.
Stock Dividends and Income..
The supreme court of the United States has
reversed a decision won(, by the Treasury de
partment in the district court of New York, in
volving the status of stock dividends. Under
the court's ruling a stock dividend is not sub
ject to income tax, it being held to be merely
a change in form of assets retained as capital
in the business and not a segregation of profits
accruing from that business. The Treasury de
partment had ruled that a conversion of surplus
capital into stock and the distribution of the
stock amounted to a dividend. Against this the
supreme court points out that the transaction
does not produce any profit nor add to the value
of the stock outstanding and therefore does not
provide anything against which an income tax
Can be Jevied. The logic of this is apparent, since
if the capital were permitted to remain as sur
plus it could be employed continuously in the
business without bejng taxed and therefore
merely to issue stock certificates against the ac
cumulated surplus, absorbing the latter into the
enlarged capital of the company, does not actu
ally add to the value of the capital nor produce
a profit. This decision is one of the most im
portant yet given in connection with the income
tax law and will necessitate a considerable re
adjustment of schedules filed within the last two
years. It will very materially reduce the reve
nue, since the transactions of the kind were
mainly such as bought them well within the up
per brackets of the surtax.
Kaiser a Receiver of Stolen Goods
Astronomical Instruments Pillaged From China
Front Potsdam
Director W. W. Campbell, Lick Observa
tory, in New York Times.
Knowledge of the German kaiser's con
duct in a certain matter has rankled in the
minds of astronomers of many nations for
16 years and the time has come,' in
my opinion, to give the facts as wide pub
licity as possible. The kaiser is literally and
knowingly the receiver of astronomical in
struments plundered from a helpless na
tion. When the soldiers of manv countries were
in China putting down the Boxer rebellion in '
1900 there was much looting of art treasures
by the army officers of several nations. On
the walls of the City of Peking was an ob-'
servatory containing many beautiful as
tronomical instruments. These had been de
signed in France, with the usual French ar
tistic taste, constructed in France, and taken
to China several hundred years ago by the
Jesuit fathers. The instruments consisted
of great globes, armillary spheres, astro
labes, and large circles divided for measure
ment of angles in the sky, all of heroic size
and cast in massive bronze. Eight or nine
of these instruments were dismounted from
the Peking wall by officers of the German
and French expeditionary armies and shipped
to Europe as soon as the Boxer rebellion
was over.
General Adna R. Chaffee was in command
of the American expeditionary forces, and
he not only excluded looters from the dis
trict of Peking under American control, but
he made vigorous protest to the commander
in chief of all the forces, Count von Walder
see, the German general, against ' the re
moval of the astronomical instruments from
the city wall. Those who were interested in
the events of the Boxer rebellion will recall
that the actual fighting was essentially over,
and perhaps entirely so. before the arrival
of Count von Waldersee and the German ex
peditionary forces.
General Chaffee aroused the ire of von
Waldersee by making thi pointed statement
in his letter of protest that the looting was
not committed by the men who had done
the fighting and opened the way to Peking,
but by the latecomers who had borne none
of the brunt or the conflict or of the hard
ships. General Chaffee's spirited protest was
approved in principle by our government
authorities in Washington, but diplomacy
had to be called upon to calm the ruffled
Teuton temper. The subject was closed so
far as our expeditionary forces and our gov
ernment were concerned.
Five of the astronomical instruments went
to Germany, and three or four were sent to
France. The French government refused to
receive its share of the pillaged property;
it I sent it back to Peking, where the instru
ments were quickly remounted on their old
foundations. Did the royal and imperial Ger
man government .end its share of the loot
back to Peking? No. Were these five in
struments placed in the museum of Berlin?
No. Foundations were built for them on
the lawn of the kaiser's palace at Potsdam,
and the plundered Chinese instruments were
set up permanently on those foundations. I
saw them there in 1905. They are in front
of the well-known Orangerie connected with
the "Sans Souci" palace of the kaiser.
What would we think of ourselves and
of our government if those instruments had
been brought to America ana were now
mounted on the White House grounds in
Washington? Could President Wilson sleep
with the loot on his lawn.' the sentiment,
"The king can do no wrong," still exists in
unexnected olaces in Germany: two German
astronomers have sent me postal cards illus
trated with the photographs ot the Chinese
instruments in Potsdam as Christmas greet
ings! Where does the spirit of Christmas
rr m in ?
The nedestals for the five1 missing instru
nipnts are still nreserved in good order on
the wall of Peking. It seems that somebody
in the German government 10 or IS years
ago agitated for the return of the loot to
China; but German diplomacy, so experi
enced in certain kinds of problems, was ap
parently unequal to the task.
The looting of defeated enemy countries
and the transporting of the loot to the
capital of the victorious country was very
common in Europe a century ago; but it will
be a surprise to many to learn that the all-
oowerful monarch of the land ot kultur is tne
living vestigial representative of the prac
tice.
We may learn something else about the
kaiser's character in connection with the
looting of Peking. Here is part of the
kaiser's speech to his expeditionary army at
Bremen on the day that the punitive torces
started to Peking, from the Illustrirte
Zeitung of August 2. 1900:
" , You know well you will fight
against a treacherous, brave, well equipped,
cruel enemy. When you shall meet him, re
member, quarter is not to be given, prison
ers must not be made, use your weapons so
that for 1,000 years to come no Chinaman
dare look askance at a German. Preserve
your manly discipline, the blessing of God
be with you, the prayers of an entire people,
my wishes accompany you, each single one
of you. Open the way for kultur once for
all! Now you may go. ' Adieu, comrades 1"
That was the treatment prescribed by a
powerful monarch for a defenseless people.
Letters written home by the German sol
diers in China at the time of the Boxer re
bellion were read aloud to the German
Reichstag by a member, Herr Richter. When
reading them Richter called them "Hunnen-
briefe," or "Letters from the Huns." These
letters left not a shade of doubt that the
kaiser's instructions to 'Jpive no quarter,"
"take no prisoners," etc., were literally fol
lowed. It is interesting to note that those
who have spoken of Huns in 1914-17 have
high German authority for the practice.
Where the German Shoe Pinches
Future World Trade Depends On Negotiated Peace
Besides the two most important para
graphs in the president's address to copgress,
that reaffirming our intention to fight until
Germany is defeated, and the recommenda
tion of war with Austria, there is another
paragraph which will receive the earnest
consideration of those who control the Ger
man state. It reads:
"The worst that can happen to the detri
ment of the German people is this, that if
they should still, after the war is over, con
tinue to be obliged to live under ambitious
and intriguing masters interested to disturb
the peace of the world, men or 'classes of
men whom the other peoples of the world
could not trust, it might be impossible to
admit them to the partnership of nations
which must henceforth guarantee the world's
peace. That partnership must be a partner
ship of peoples, not a mere partnership of
governments. ,
"It might be impossible, also, in such un
toward circumstances, to admit Germany to
the free economic intercourse which must
inevitably spring out of the other partner
ships of a real peace. But there would be no
aggression in that; and such a situation, in
evitable because of distrust, would in the
very nature of things sooner or later cure
itself, by process which would assuredly set
in."
In other words, if, as the Germans hope,
they could finish the war without being de
feated, the president promises them that
neither we, nor any one else that agrees with
us, will deal with them. If this were' rigidly
enforced by Great Britain and the United
States, the coaling stations around the world
would be closed to Germany's ships, her
overseas trade could not start again, and her
land-borne trade would be confined largely
to her improverished allies. This is a result
which commercial Germany has shown
plainly that it dreads above almost every
thing else. And the president's words are
given an acerbity they might not otherwise
have by the establishment of a blacklist by
our government of 1,600 firms in South
America that trade with the enemy. Ger
man captains of industry know we can carry
out this threat in the president's message. v
It is difficult to reach or convince the
German people, for the German government
acts as a nonconductor between them and
the rest of the world. But the captajns of
industry in Germany will read the president's
speech and will understand its significance.
They no longer hope for a German vic
tory. They hope for a statement in war fol
lowed by a negotiated peace which will leave
them free to build up their business. They
are now confronted with the fact that even
if their hope of a negotiated peace were
realized their opportunity to renew business
would not come with it
If Germany wishes to do business with
the rest of the world it must change its gov
ernment, for no one can trust the present
one or any of its kind. World's Work.
People and Events
The sure-thing installment dealer, who
tried his game on Omaha women and failed to
deliver, knows now that some experiences are
worse than war possibly could be.
Those boys at Fort Omaha who are sleep
ing in tents are giving full proof of their pa
triotism these days. They'll have little to
learn about some things when they reach
trance.
Coroner jobs went out of business in New
York state. January 1. The end was peace
ful enough, but the pathos of parting
wrenched countless hearts wedded to the
fee line.
An Omaha woman joins her soldier ex
spouse in pleading with the court to set aside
a decree of divorce granted before the war
broke out. He's in khaki now, and that makes
a lot of difference.
. Sugar magnates of Cuba are rolling in
more wealth than Avarice dreamt of. Much
of the juice of the cane fields reaches the
workers and makes for general prosperity.
A trade hint from the island points to jew
elry as in great demand. Articles in that line
under $50 draw like a bargain counter. ,
Colonel Welsh has resumed publication of
his daily weather map, and thereby again fills
a want felt by a lot of local experts, who put
in quite a little time every day, studying
isobars and isotherms and disputing over the
highs and the lows just as they used to watch
the war maps. The weather man fills a larger
part of life every day.
One of the things smokers are wondering
about is the steadily mounting price of "war
tax" on tobacco. A few weeks ago the deal
ers made" a slight advance in selling price, be
cause of the war tax. Now another has gone
into effect, and the users of the weed are fur
ther told that they are likely to be cut off
from their favorite brands. Why this should
be so in face of the biggest crop on record is
beyond understanding, but the only thing to
do is to submit and agree that Sherman said
something.
Whatever may be said of Tammany
methods in New York the political Indians
have not staged in recent years a campaign
of wasted boodle as did the fusionists last
November. The latter had a campaign fund
of $1,200,000 and blew it so recklessly that
members cannot account for much of it or
whither it went. The dough appears to
have been ladled out to applicants regard
less of investigation and probably went into
the pockets of Tammany heelors. In the
orivacv of his retirement John Purroy Mit-
chel might properly exclaim, "Save me from
4JIJ IIIVIIUOi
aTost a Suggestion,
nmihg .Tan 11. To the Editor of
The Bee: We would like to suggest
to the fuel administrator oi jvenrasKa.
a way in which he can save tons
.nd tonri of coal and yet not hamper
any business at all.
You know that tne city or umana
is past Its childhood days and has
all rnnntrv town habits, ex
cept one, and that is keeping all the
retail stores open unui p. m. ea.vu
Saturday in the year. This includes
hardware, clothing:, furniture, dry
goods, millinery, Jewelry, shoes and,
in fact, all lines of retail business.
Now we would suggest that you
all a rnmmltlu rtt these hu&ineSS men
together and let them see how they
could save on light ana neat Dy clon
ing their respective places of busi-
nsca at K n m oarh r1.1V in the Year.
including Saturdays, for the duration
of the war, and thus be patriotic
They would not lose any business if
they all closed, but would, rather,
gain, and ehdw the world that Omaha
cannot be outdone by any city of its
size or larger. We out-did them on
Red Cross work; we forged to the
front on the Young Men's Christian
association work; we did nobly on the
two Liberty loans and all other calls,
and now we have a chance to save
thousands of tons of coal a year by
closing early.
Will we do it?
LOYAL CITIZEN.
due to delayed train and a conse
quent late start, it was 4:30 when the
meeting ciosen. imae
u.nnM r,t nrirerit feeding and
chore work at home and not be
cause they were not interested in wie
...... .hio aHriivKs Mr. Maxwell eaVe.
The report goes cn to ''quote or
rather misquote some oi me eiaio-
. ih. cnoilcr made. These were
so changed and distorted as to make
the reader prejudicial. It is not my
practice or metnoa to muuipu m
ntino nr.r la ft the tirinciule of
the movement at large to do so, but
as one oi tne iarmers present onu
seeing such an incorrect and m'sleid
ing report I could not help but enter
a protest. It is often said the best
way to aaveriie someimns m turn
to tn nnliiRtlv criticise it. I
trust that may be the case in this inT
stance.
W. J. BOETTGER.
About Killing Roosters.
Omaha, Jan. 9. To the Editor of
The Bee: I do not think aome of.
these fellows who are being sent out
by the United States government to
teach us old-timers how to raise
chickens know any more about the
chicken business than I know about
running an engine on the Union Pa
cific railroad. They first advise us to
raise lots of chickens on high-priced
feed, then advise that all roosters be
killed oft on the 1st of May. As an
old-timer in raising chickens, I do
not fall to their ideas at all.
We who have to buy every pound
of fe?d at prices that are nearly pro
hibitive know there is not much in
raislnsc chickens to save meat with
even oats, the poorest feed that can be
given chickens, at nearly si per Dusnei
and all other feeds much higher in
price. Then as to killing the roos
ters on the 1st of May; if that should
be done the number of chickens raised
would be cut down instead of being
increased, for immense numbers of
chickens are raised from hatches of
June and July.
When I was extensively In the
poultry business I sold eggs every
month of the year for hatching pur
poses and in 1917, with my limited
number of birds, I sold eggs for
hatching purposes from February to
September. So these fellows who are
going to teach us about raising chick
ens had better get posted from some
ot . us fellows who know all about
the business before trying to pose as
great educators tn that line.
FRANK A. AONBW.
Answers a Teddy Critic.
Wolbach, Neb., Jan. . To the Edi
tor of The Bee: The Bee of January
4 contains a letter making a severe
criticism of Colonel Roosevelt as a
statesman and soldier and giving that
as a reason for his being turned down
as commander of troops to France.
Roosevelt's fitness, the critio assures
us, "was passed upon by some of the
most able military men in this coun
try and Europe,"
Of course, Mr. Peek is far too mod
est to tell us how this piece of "un
written history" came into his posses
sion. But the commission would lead us
to Inter that he is very close to the
chief executive, so close, indeed, that
Colonel .House had better look after
his fences. Or, perhaps, the critic came
by his knowledge through his con
nection with the army, for does he
not tell us very seriously that he was
"formerly with Company E, Third
Nebraska, Volunteers of the Spanish
American war."
Quite a formidable title, I'll admit
But it is to be regretted that the gen
tleman didn't tell us tn what capac
ity he was "with" the National Guard,
whether as high private or, like that
other military hero, "That Rascal
Pat," a "brigadier colonel. In either
case he would be classed as a mili
tarist and, of course, entiled to hob
nob with the great and the near-great,
for such is the penalty or reward
of greatness.
It is worth something to know, and
for this I am truly grateful, that the
popular colonel is a "has-been" and
Mr. Agnew a full-fledged humorist.
Also that "watchful waiting" was the
best possible brand of statesmanship
in both our border and European
trouDles. MICHAEL O'CONNOR.
That Nonpartisan Meeting.
Florence, Jan. 11. To the Editor
of The Bee: It was with a mixed
feeling of amusement, indignation and
pity that I read the report of the non
partisan league meeting at Elkhorn
Tuesday, January 8. in Wednesday
morning's World-Herald arnusement
Decause oi tne way tne report was
written up, indignation because of the
dishonesty and misrepresentation of
the same and pity for the poor staff
correspondent tne. worm-Herald sent
out some time during the forenoon
when the meeting was called at 2 p. m.
in fact, he must have left Omaha
in such haste that he overlooked his
eyeglasses, ear trumpet and other ar
ticles which he should have had to
give an honest and correct report
He stated that there were 29 pres
ent; the writer counted 62. I sin
cerely believe that the reporter meant
to give a correct report but due to
his poor eyesight, only saw the first
row of the audience. It is true that
about 12 or IS left before the con
clusion of the address, but, due to the
speaker, Mr. Maxwell's late arrival
One Year Ago Today tn the War.
Serbians made an unsuccessful at
tack near Lake Ochrlda.
Severe weather caused lull in ac
tivities on the western front
Pvtrograd claimed, that German of
fensive In Roumania had been halted
on Sereth line.
The Day We Celebrate.
Frederick Balrd of the law firm of
rurdy A Baird born 1SS5.
. E. A. Conway, attorney-at-law, born
1SSJ.
Howard G. Kelley, president of the
Grand Trunk railway system, born
In Philadelphia 60 years ago today.
Robert Underwood Johnson, who
has been unusually successful as a
poet and man of letters, born in Wash
ington, IX C, 66 years ago today.
This Day In History.
. 17T John Hanrork. first Slcner
of the Declaration of Independence
and first governor of Massachusetts,
born at Qulncy, Mass. Died there Oc
tober . 179.
1777 General Hugh Mercer, a fa
mtius American com tender in the
revolution, died ot wounds received
at the battle f Princeton. Born in
Scotland in 17X0. . .
IS 76 Jack London, celebrated
story writer, born in San Francisco.
Died November 22. 1916.
J 91 5 French assumed the offen
sive between the Mcuse ana Moselle
rivers. .
1916 Russians reported to nave
- besun the evacuation of Bukowina.
Just 30 Years Ago Today
The board of county commissioners
granted 16,000 to County Attorney
Slmeral for the coming year. He has
appointed W. F. Gurley as his as
sistant at salary of 11,800.
Postmaster Gallagher has just com
pleted his report for the quarter end
ing December SI, 1887. It was the
largest quarter In the history of the
office, the receipt being $51,000.
Captain U. & Jones celebrated his
ESd birthday by giving a banquet to
his friends at Hlggins restaurant
Covers were laid for 11.
The railroad lines leading east from
Council Bluffs have come to an agree
ment with the Union Pacific whereby
the bridge tolls are to be Included in
their rates on freight shipped to
Omaha.
There was filed with the county
cleric by E. Weymulier and Rassmus
Peterson certificate of partnership,)
the general nature of which Is the'
cutting, making, buying and selling I
Ice in the city of Omaha.
Twice Told Tales
Thomas Was Right
A chauffeur had applied for a posi
tion with a new-rich family which
aspired to be considered top-notch
socially, and was being Interviewed
by the mistress of the house.
"We call all our servants by their
last names," she announced. "What
is your last name?"
"You had best call me Thomas,
ma'am," replied the applicant
"No; we Insist that you be willing
to be called by your last name. Oth
erwise yon won't do at all."
"Oh, I'm willing, ma'am, but I don't
think the family would like to use it"
"What Is your last name, then?"
said his prospective employer, some
what coldly.
"Darling, ma'am Thomas Darling."
London Tit Bits.
The Neutral Idea.
Senator Simmons said, apropos a
piece of freindly neutrality on the
part of Holland:
"Neutral countries Sweden, Hol
land and the rest are continually
doing us these, kindnesses and the
war is prolonged.
"We feel toward these dear neu
trals like tha lady who said:
"'I'm a Christian through and
through, and I'm always grateful for
any kindness, but the one kindness
I can never succeed In being grate
ful for, is that of the man who brings
my husband home at 3 a. m. with
his feet sticking out of the cab win
dow.' "Washington Star. -v
State Press Jabs
Hastings Tribune: Nebraska can
pride herself on having one of the
most efficient food administrators in
the nation.
Table Rock will dedicate a new
theater next Monday and give S10 in
real gold money to the reserved seat
ticket holder who suggests an ac
ceptable name for the show house.
Beatrice Express: " 'Of all sad
words of tongue or pen. the. saddest
are these. It might have been.' "
Soliloquy of Lieutenant Governor
Edgar Howard, Nebraska's political
Maude Muller.
Plattsmouth Journal: Senator
Kenyon of Iowa has introduced a bill
reducing the pay of senators and rep
resentatives 12,500 a year. We men
tion it at this time so you will know
about it Don't forget it, for you'll
never hear of It again.
Grand Island Independent: Were
we permitted to become the spokes
man for the Nebraska Bar associa
tion, with reference to a more com
plete statement of its present war
aims, we should unhesitatingly and
unqualifiedly indicate that such alms
are Judge Hamer.
Beatrice Express: After a linger
ing and painful struggle, the Seventh
Nebraska regiment "the Lucky Sev
enth," has finally passed away. Dur
ing its stay in the wicked world of
politics, the Seventh managed to cut
considerable ice, and from every in
dication. Its memory will linger long
enough to stir up considerable smell
In democratic affairs at the coming
primary campaign, . ,
Pertinent Points
Washington Post: The United
States, wilt not make peace as a loser.
, Washington Post: What has be-
mmA nt the. nlrf-faiihinned married
couples who used to advertise for a
situation together on a rarm?
Minneapolis Tribune: Now comes
a scientist with the declaration that
a diet of corn bread makes for a
fine pink complexion. The effect of
such a statement should be reit in an
the girls' schools. ,
Philadelphia Ledger: The failure
of soldiers' families to receive their
pay allotments promptly Is ascribed
by Secretary Baker to "clerical con
fusion." This may be an explanation,
but it is not an excuse.
St Louis Globe Democrat: The
states that give aliens the right to
vote after they have taken out their
first papers should modify their laws,
to prevent tha recurrence of such
anomalies as now embarrass them.
Brooklyn Eagle: The Rev. Anna
Howard Shaw didn't really need to
tell a congressional committee that
suffragists are not pacifists. Joan of
Arc, not Patient Griselda, is the ideal
at which the American woman is aim
ing, and she almost hits the mark.
Louisville Courier-Journal: Dr.
Engel, Berlin Town Councillor, says
that the increase of the illegitimate
birth rate to 10 per cent in Prussia Is
'Evidence of the moral healthfuiness
of the German people." If you don't
quite grasp this ;t merely means that
you are not yet qualified for a gradu
ate's degree in German kultur.
NAVE COLORl CHEEKS
Be Better Looking Take
I Olive Tablets
If your skin is Teilcrwcomplexion pallid
tongue coated appetite poor you have
a bad taste in your mouth a lazy, no-good
feeling you ahould take Olive Tablets.
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets i substitute
for calomel were prepared by Dr.Edwards
after 17 years of study with his patients.
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets are a purely
vegetable compound mixed with olive oiL
You will know them by their olive color.
Ta havst a clear, nlnlr aVin hrint,
no pimples, feeling of buoyancy like
cuuunooa uays you must get at tne cause,
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets act on the
liver and bowels like calomel yet have
no dangeaena after effects.
They start the bile andcwccwconsti-
Dation. That a whv million nf hnr r
sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All
druggists. Take one or two nightly and
note the pieasug result . i
CHEERY CHAFF.
"That milkman of ours Is a cheery sort Of
fellow. He wns sincing this morning when
he delivered the milk."
"Yes, but I didn't like the idea Of th
ong he aelected."
"What was It?"
"The Old Oaken Bucket That Rose From
the Well." Baltimore American.
"How Is your candidate running.''
"He's making a loud noise."
"Yes?"
"Hi friends are rallying around him."
"Naturally."
"But he hasn't yet been able to find a
platform with a sufficient number of In
terchangeable planks." Illrmlngham Age-Herald.
Teacher Adding two different things to
gether doesn't make more of one. For In
stance, If you add an apple to an orange
you don't get more apple.
Johnny But, teacher, if you add a piece
of meat to a dog you get more dog. Boston
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