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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1918.
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yet has a week to run, so do not do anything rash
before next Saturday. '
American soldiers who would rather take a
chance with German bullets than go hungry all
day may be- depended on in other emergencies.
Knitting competitions among the men folks
bid fair to be popular this coming summer, but
a lot of them could help in other ways just as
well.
Women .have been notified officially that the
navy does not require them as radio operators.
Uncle Sam insists that to "man" a ship is not
a mere figure of speech.
A San Francisco former democrat has had
himself registered as a bolshevik, but why did
he go to all the trouble? His actions would have
designated him sufficiently.
Norwegian sailors still feel the sting of the
U-boat in a way that makes them wonder what
would happen if Germany were to assume an
"unfriendly" attitude towards them.
A Russian agent of the bolshevik! . managed
to "blow" $26,000 in a single sitting in a New
York hotel, which proves that he, like his su
periors, has, little regard for money. m
' War bread is becoming a lot more popular as
it is better understood. It does not look quite
so nice as did the snow white loaf of old, but that
is more than offset by what it stands for.
Japan is willing to co-operate with China in
; saving easterri Siberia from the bolsheviki-German
combination, and is also willing to take a' chance
on its offending the Lenine-Trotzky adherents.
; Shade of Thomas Jefferson, look down on de
cadent democracy t When Mayor Hylan of New
York returned to the city hall after a winter
vacation in Florida Tammany had his walk lined
with palms and similar tropical growths, to re
mind him of the devotion of the unwashed and
hungry, no doubt. '
Fo6d Stocki In Farmers Hands.
One of the features of the report from Wash
ington of grain in hands of farmers on March 1
was that even with the usual shortage in crop
yield, more than 10,000,000 bushels of wheat were
held by the raisers in excess of the amount a
year before. Some commentators have hastily de
duced from this the conclusion that the farmers
were loath to part with , their grain. Better
reasons are back of the fact. , First is that in
April last year the president of the United States
put an end to speculative purchase of wheat, and
before the new crop came into market a basic
price had been fixed. Moreover, the milling opera
tions of the United States were licensed, and since
have been under strict federal regulation. There
fore, if a larger amount of wheat remains unsold
in hands of the farmer this spring than last, it
must be ascribed to thef effect of oversight and
control by the food administrator, and not
charged to any effort by the farmer to hold up
a hungry world. The extra 10,000,000 represents
at least a portion of the saving effected, and
means that much more to be added to the amount
available for export.
The soft corn situation appears serious at
first glance, but two important factors must
be considered in connection. One of these is
that the actual amount held by farmers does not
materially differ from that of ordinary .years; an
other is that pigs going to market allow a very
decided increase in weight, the average for the
last. two weeks in February being 232 pounds,
as against 203 pounds for 1917 an increase of IS
per cent in meat value. This is quite significant
of the use the farmer has been making and will
continue to make of his soft corn.
When Order Comes to Russia.
Writing of Russia's predicament before the
bolshevist peace was finally signed, Count Ilya
Tolstoy expressed views to the effect that the
days of the Trotzky debauch were numbered. In
his opinion, the next experiment to be tried by
his unhappy countrymen will be under direc
tion of the social revolutionaries, who aim at the
same end as the bolsheviki, but hope to attain
them by evolutionary rather than revolutionary
methods. This group seems to be gaining the
ascendancy. Whether it will meet more of real
success than came to the extremists is yet to be
proved. The point is that Germany has not
made peace with the Russians. In the treaty
of Brest-Litovsk are set down terms on which
armed hostility is to be ended, but in none of
these is found the solution of the problem. How
to conquer the Russian heart and gain friendly
confidence is yet unsettled. Order must be re
stored to the country through some agency, and
when that time comes needs must be supplied
from some source. Two countries only will be
in position to meet the Russian need for the ma
terials that must go into the work of restoring
industry of all kinds the United States and Ger
many. Americans will have easy access to this
great market if the Russian can be disabused of
the false notions spread by the bolsevism. Our
statesmen must find means to prove to the people
of that land the genuine quality of our friend
ship and the sincerity of our interest in their
future. If this can be accomplished, the crush
ing of Russia by Germany will prove the most
expensive achievement of all the kaiser's many
costly accomplishments in this war.
Back of Peace with Austria.
Washington has word that Austria still is
studying President Wilson's fourteen theses and
that discussion at Vienna leans strongly towards
acceptance of them in principle at least. It will
be worth while for Americans to study these
proposals, too, that they may be understood at
home as well as abroad. For .the present they
are taken as embodying the aims of Americans
in the war and their endorsement by our allies
makes them fairly the basis of future peace.
As applied to Austria, the exact wording of
the 10th thesis is most significant. "Freest op
portunity for the autonomous development of the
peoples of Austria" is the language used. How
this will be interpreted by Austrian statesmen
is not within our knowledge, but that it holds
a wide range for application is plain. Some inti
mation has been'noted from Austria. and Hun
gary of a willingness to admit Bohemia on an
equal footing, the dual to become a tripartite
monarchy. It is also clear that such an arrange
ment is not especially popular just now with the
Czech clement. In the Bohemian legislature, as
sembled at Prague in January, complete inde
pendence was demanded and to this the great
mass of Bohemians is devoted. Those of the
nationality who have come to America have ear
nestly worked for the consummation of their
dreams in freedom for their country and will
not be content with a peace that leaves Bohemia
less than an independent nation.
If Austria accepts the Bohemian construction
of this condition of the president, accompanied
as it has been by a statement of no intention to
interfere with the internal politics of any of the
nations, peace may easily be reached. It may
be questioned, though, if Americans will now
abandon the Bohemians or Poles any more than
they will recede from efforts in behalf of the
Belgians or Serbians.
Work for. the History Teacher.
In the recently published report of the com
missioner of education emphasis is laid on the
value of teaching history as a method not only
of stimulating patriotism,, but also of stabilizing
judgment as to the meaning of events or the
value of policies. This was brought to public
attention through a leaflet issued to teachers of
history early in the spring of 1917, and is again
referred to because of the importance of the
subject.
Dr. Claxton is justified in giving the weight
he does to the topic. It is not especially credit
able to our schools that sp little attention is
given to the teaching of history, particularly that
of the United States. For seme reason not
exactly clear, and certainly not sound, history
has been pushed into the background and its
place in the major curriculum has been taken by
other subjects of far less service so far as the
foundation for understanding citizenship is con
cerned. It is not enough to trust to other
agencies or other channels to provide this teach
ing. Americans have reached a point in national
development where they not only require, but,
should demand that history be taught, and be
taught correctly, in the public schools.
This means that the text book and the instruc
tion must go beyond the recital of chronological
tables, or the unfolding of talcs of heroes, but
that some comprehending notion of the philos
ophy of history,' the relation of events and the
development of policies be given to the pupils.
It is unreasonable to think that knowledge of
our own country will not make better citizens of
the boys and girls now growing up. When they
understand more fully what it is to be a citizen
of the United States they will be less 'liable to
be carried away by- false notions. The teacher of
history is needed now if ever.
"Patrioteering" Versus Profiteering
Senator Williams Reads His Colleagues a Lecture on the War
In the senate of the United States on
Saturday, March 2, the conierence report on
the soldiers' and sailors' civil rights bill was
up for adoption. A number of senators made
"war talks," and finally Senator John Sharp
Williams of Mississippi, apparently out of
patience with the tone of his colleasrues.
read them a lecture, from which the follow
ing excerpts are taken:
Mr. President, the observation of my
friend the senator from New Hampshire
(Mr. Hcillis), about "giving men furloughs
while they go home and harvest a crop," or
t 4 a . 1 .
run nome ana ioaa ine trucKS or relieve a
railroad congestion, or something of that
sort, reminds me of the old story they used
to tell of Governor Joe Brown of Georgia,
during war between the states. It was said
that he wrote a letter to Jeff Davis and said:
"My dear Mr. President, why do you keep
the farmer boys away from home in camps
all the time? Why do you not let them stay
at home and make a crop until you are about
to fight a battle, and then tell the boys to
come, and they will all go" there and fight
it?- I know the Georgia boys will." Mr.
President, we can not carry on war in that
sort of way. .
Now, what i this situation? Whom have
we drafted? Have we drafted all the men
in the United States? By no means. We
have drafted the men between 21 and 31, or
the men who have arrived at 21 and arrived
at 31. , Do you mean to tell me that if all the
men between 21 and 31 were to die tomorrow
America could not raise food enough for it
self and food enough to export? That it
would be a great inconvenience, there is no
doubt. That it would be a hardship, there is
no doubt. That it would be a serious hard
ship, there is no doubt. But if they all died,
so far as the farms of this country are con
cerned, there would be plenty of men left to
work them under 21 and over 31 to make
foodstuffs enough to feed the American peo
Now. Mr. President. I am irettinar a little
tired of this "patrioteering" business. I love
patriotism, but I have been reading the last
two numbers of the Saturday Evening Post
and a couple of poems on patrioteering that
1 round there, and if any senator has not
read them he ought to read them. Men go
out and exploit themselves about "meatless
Tuesdays" and "wheatless Thursdays," and
they seem to think they are doing something
very patriotic. The whole confederacy lived
without wheat at all for I do not know how
long about three years, at least, in the coast
and southwest departments and the southern
department; they had none. 1 as a boy in
the confederacy did not see anything made
out of wheat from the early part of 1862
until the surrender, except now and then we
would plant a little patch of .wheat and grind
it on a corn mill and sift it as best we could
in the kitchen for the purpose of making
Christmas and birthday cakes.
I hen we were confronted with the fact
that we did not have any sugar for the cakes,
and we had to make them with molasses for
"sweetening."
What is the use of talkmsr about the
"hardships" of the American people? They
have riot suffered any hardships. You have
not put your front toe into the anteroom of
the temple of Mars. You have thus far done
nothing except to complain, and to complain
again, and to repeat complaints about the ef
forts of those who are as patriotic as you or
I in attempting under official oath and high
responsibility to do what they can to win
the war. Kead those - two poems on pa
trioteering. They are worth reading. I wish
I had them here; I if I had them, I would
read them with proper emphasis right now.
Everv man between 21 and 31 years of
age. who is a common farm laborer, or who
is merely a farmer, can, if absolutely neces
sary, be spared; but is it absolutely neces
sary? It ought not to be even under these
circumstances; unless you, find that a man
presents an exceptional case. I know an
instance of a boy who is running a motor
tractor, for example and cultivating ISO acres
of land in corn and peas and oats and soy
beans, and with them feeding hogs and cattle.
If he lived farther north he would be culti
vating it in wheat. He ought not to go out
to bear a musket, if he claims exemption.
This particular boy did not claim it, but he
ought not to have been sent, because he
could have done infinitely more good with
that motor plow than he could do with a
musket, even if he killed a German every
time he went into the trenches,-which is
upon the average, once in four days. .
I am sometimes afflicted with the utmost
pessimism when I hear men talking about
the lack of certain supplies to accompany
soldiers to France to fight, when I hear men
complaining that this or that or the other
regiment did not have a hot "foodwarming"
stove, when I hear men complaining that
overcoats were lacking, when, even if a suf
ficient number had been furnished in the
first place, boys, with their carelessness,
would have lost or misplaced or sold ! or
pawned a great many of them and more
would have had to come from the quarter
master department; whi I hear men com
plaining that soldiers and sailors had no
sleeping cars to ride on when they were be
ing transported to the point of duty.
Why, do you, know, Mr. President, a story
was once told me, which I have every reason
to believe to be true, that there was a com
pany in the confederate army which at one
time, in 1864, had but one skillet? The cap
tain wanted it, and he found out that the
first lieutenant had it, and he sent for it.
The first lieutenant reported that he was
sorry, but the sergeant had borrowed it, and
they found that the sergeant was washing his
feet in it.
What do you know about war? What do
you know about the sufferings of war? Are
you going to sit down here dilettante fashion
and talk ajl the time talk about peace at
one end of the avenue and talk about war at
the other end of the avenue? What you want
i3 men in France men in France. What
you want to put them there is ships, and
what you want to go along with them is
something with which to shoot sAll the bal
ance of it is secondary. If you can not put
up with the hardships that are mere mci
dents to the first three demands, then you
are unworthy ot yours, because if there is
anything in God's world that they under
stood it was hardship, suffering, endurance,
fortitude, standing out to the bitter end so
long as a man could stand.
What is the use of all this patrioteering
camouflage? Why, you have not even done
what you ought to have done long ago. You
ought to have called the boys of 19 and 20
into the service,' not to go to France to fight,
but for those 19 years of age to be trained
two years until they are 21, so as to be
ready for fighting, and for the men of 20 to
be training for one year until they are ready
to fight
You have shown the most remarkable in
stance of American capacity to understand
and to adapt itself to a situation that has
ever been shown in the history of any coun
try. What was it? When you turned these
boys loose most of them college boys into
the training camps,' to make our officers out
of them; and you have made thousands of
the best subordinate commissioned officers
that the world knows today, in three months'
training. Often they had to take three more
months, even better training while they are
training and teaching their men. You have
done that. I say "you;" no, it is not you;
oh, no. It was not you; it was not the
legislating part of the United States, al
though you laid the foundations wisely:, it
was the boys; they ha: done it. They are
ready to go; they are ready to put up with
some hardships. They do not expect buck
wheat cakes for oreakfast This reminds me
of what I heard during that "Chickamauga
war the war with Spain when a good
part of the army never got any further than
Chickamauga. There was a row raised down
at Chickamauga because the troops did not
have enough to eat; and old Major Patrick
Henry of Mississippi, came to me and said.
"My God, John, I have examined into it,
and do you know what they are complaining
of, chiefly? They are complaining that they
do not get pie over twice a week." He said,
"John, if we could have given the confederate
army pie once a month, it would have had
Washington .captured in less than six
months." s '
People suffering on account of the waft
Labor suffering! Labof never had "as much
money in the life of the world, here or any
where else!. Farmers suffering 1 They never
made as much money out of their cattle and
corn and oats and wheat and cotton and
hogs since agriculture came into existence,
here or anywhere else, as they are making
now.
Do vou imagine that there is no food in
Fcance and hone in Switzerland or Spain or
the Argentine or Cape Colony or India, and
none in England? Do you imagine that ours
is the only country in the world with any
food? What is all this talk I hear of danger
of Americans starving? Does anybody be
lieve it? Suppose we have to take a beef
steak less now and then, or a mutton chop
less here and there, or a cup of chocolate
less in another place, or a little bit less of
sugar, would we be any less healthy or strong
or wise or good? I think there has been too
much of that talk; that hysteria, in fact;
and it has given too much comfort to the en
emy. I picked up the other day what pur
ported to be a translation of an editorial in
a Berlin paper, and it went qn to tell that
rne "entire transportation system of the
United States had broken-down," which was
not true, but partially true; that the Ameri
can government was going to "ration its
citizens" pretty soon or "else they would not
have food enough;" 'which was not true in
any sense of the word; and that the Ameri
cans were "dependent altogether upon the
English and French for big guns and am
munition," which was not true at alt, even
ab initio.- The only reason we ever bought
any from them at all was because they beg
ged us to do it, and because they could sell
them to us cheaper than we could buy them,
and save transportation; and yet that article,
purporting to be a translation of an editorial
m a Berlin newspaper, went on to prove
its every assertion by quotations from de
bates in congress and from American news
papers! , People and Events
March, in its melting moods, is a prince of
charmers. ;
Not the least of the horrors of waf is the
callous refusal of income tax gatherers to
permit deductions for poker losses. Have
a' heart,' uncle 1
Early risers on one of the sunki'ssed
heights of Omaha remarked the presence of
bluebirds on Thursday morning. The event
acclaims the open season for spuing poets
and thrummers of the season's lyre. Go to it 1
A Tammany assemblyman waxes hot un
der the collar because the assembly chaplain
officially prayed for ihe success of prohibi
tion. In hjs efforts to have the prayer
stricken fom the record the Tammanyite
vindicated the wet policy of the tribe by per
spiring copiously. ,
Some of the hot stuff of James W. Gerard,
former ambassador at Berlin, is going, the
rounds in phonograph records. One prize
four-minute speech regaled members of the
St. Louis Chamber of Commerce and closed
with this peroration: "I have traveled six
years over all the United States, through the
Alleghenys, the White mountains and the
Catskills, the Rockies and the Bitter Root
mountains, Coast Range and Sierras, and in
these mountains there is no animal that bites
and kicks and squeals that would bite and
kick and squeal equal to a fat German-American
if you commenced to tie him up and told
him he was on his way back to the kaiser."
9m
1 10 DAY
One Year Ago Today In the War.
- British force under General Maude
captured Bagd.'d from the Turks.
First day of organized revolt in
Petrograd, culminating in the capture
of the strong fortresses of St Peter
r ana cu -aut oy ine revoiuuo&uru.
'! The Day We Celebrate. '
I William L. Tetter, president Tetter
Davidson Walt Paper company, born
lM7s '
Baron Sidney Sonnlno. Italy's mln
Meter of foreign affairs, born at Pisa,
71 years ago,
f Walter E. Weyl. noted economist,
bora ia Philadelphia, 45 year ago.
Dorothy Gish, actress in motion pic
tures, born at Dayton, O., 20 years
ago. .,..
Al Reich, heavyweight pugilist
born In New Tortc City, 28 years ago.
This Day la History,
v 1812 Jamea Speed, who served as
attorney general in Lincoln's cabinet
born in Jefferson county, Kentucky.
Died there, June 25. 1887.
1S18 Thoma Le Clear, celebrated
portrait painter, born at Oswego, N.
Y. Died at Rutherford, N. J Novem
ber , i8J. i
11(1 Confederate states congress
provided for the organization of an
army.
18S8 Samuel Luther Dana, who
perfected the modtrn method of
bleachinr rnttnn. rliari .at
jytss. Born at Amherst N. H., July i
Xh A715, I
Just SO Years Ago Today
E. E. Whalley has been elected
president of the State National bank
in place ot E. L. Lyon, who resigned.
M. V. Gannon was principal
speaker at the Irish National league,
which held its regular monthly
meeting in St Phllomena's halt Miss
Rose Flannery sang the popular Irish
song, '."Over the Mountains," and
Charles Taggart gave a declamation.
One ot the largest audiences of the
season was present In the Grand opera
house when the curtain rolled up on
the first act of "Shulamlth," or "The
Daughter ot Jerusalem."
J. L. Brandeis '& Sons added an
other store room to their great dry
goods house, commonly known as The !
Fair, which is located on rne south
west corner of Thirteenth and How
ard streets.
W. G. Albright the Omaha real
estate rustler, has flooded the state
with maps, descriptions and statistical
of the marvelous growth of Omaha
and has harvested a large crop of
complimentary notices from the coun-,:
r 1
try iii easy
Whittled to a Point
Louisville Courier-Journal: "God
has been with us," says the kaiser
upon the occasion of Russia's knock
ing under. It is the popular impres
sion that Trotzky and Lenine have
been "with us."
New Tork World: "I did not have
a chance to do anything before an
American grabbed me by the throat"
says a German prisoner. After that
his chances to do anything did not
materially Improve.
Washington Post: As every other
celebrated expert has been inter
viewed on the conduct ot the war, we
fear that the sole remaining survivor
of George Washington's bodyguard ls
on the sick list again.
Brooklyn Eagle: The 150 Jewish
volunteers from New Tork accepted
by Great Britain and going via Boston
to join the British force in Palestine
show race enthusiasm. The spirit of
the Maccabees is alive throughout
civilization. ,
Minneapolis Tribune: Those re
turned Canadian soldiers at Toronto
who prevented Bryan from making
his speech probably were just trying
to show that they had learned from
experience how to repel gas attacks.
New Tork Herald: Officers ot the
German -American alliance insist that
"kultur" is misunderstood that is
does -tot mean culture. It, does not
What it means is the bombing of con
vents from the air at Venice and the
murder of sisters of the church whose
only crime is that of devoting their
UY.es to Christianity and to culture
Aimed at.Omaha
Tork News-Times: Omaha's munic
ipal political . pot is beginning to
boiL Dollars to doughnuts the old
gang divides the field of the opposi
tion and, holding together, wins out
Blair Pilot: During February
Omaha's corn receipts were 6,146
cars. The figures for January were:
Omaha, 8.210 cars: Chicago, 1.697
cars; Kansas City, 1.2S3 cars. Blair
is the seed corn center of the world
and Omaha is the greatest corn mar
ket In the w.orld.
Tork Democrat: Food Administra
tor Wattles has called the bluff of the
Omaha bakers who declared they
would close their bakeries before they
would sell bread at 7 1-3 cents a loaf
wholesale. And we happen to know
what occurred when better organised
men than the bakers tried to bluff
Gurdon W. Wattles.
Harvard Courier: .Another effort is
being made to organize a farmers'
packing company in Omaha. ' Such a
company would have a long, .hard
row to hoe in competition with the big
packers, but it would be a good thing
if it could win out A start will be
made towards organizing the com
pany as soon as the state railway
commission gives permission to sell
the stock.
V
There's the Rub.
'Twice Told Tales
Safety First.
.Recently a young man became en
amored of a beautiful girl, and on
eventually proposing marriage he was
told by the fair one that he would
have to consult her father.
"By the way, Gladys," remarked
the stern parent on returning home
to dinner the ' next evening, "that
young man who wants to marry you
has more brains than I gave him
credit for." ,
"Oh, papa," was the rather pleased
rejoinder of Gladys, "do you really
mean It?" - ;
'yes,'" came the Joy-killing re
sponse of father. "Instead of coming
to see me he called me up on the
telephone." Philadelphia Telegraph.
Dreadful Doings.
"Do you know there are times when
it is positively terrifying to enter a
, church," observed a lady to the bishop
"That cannot be, . madam," re
turned the bishop; "pray explain."
"Why," said the lady, "it is when
there is a canon at the reading desk,
a big gun In the pulpit; when the
bishop is charging his clergy, the
choir murdering the anthem and the
organist trying to drown the choir."-
Boston Transcript
The Reporter What are your
views about municipal ownership?
The Boss It's alt right if none ot
j them inquisitive fellers come snoop
ling -around to find out how you got
Making it Hit.
"Don't you think my new novel has
a punch?" asked Scribbler.
"It sure has," replied the friend.
"It puts me to sleep, I know." Cin
cinnati Inauirer
Calls It Camouflage.
Omaha, March 7. To the Editor of
The Bee: I am amazed that Arthur
L. Warrick, in the columns of a local
paper, should openly dare to criticize
Candidate Smith and his chief adviser
and backer, Mossman, for calling a
political meeting under the guise of a
patriotic banquet.
Mr. Warrick will now undoubtedly
be placed In the large bolsheviki
class of Mr. Mossman., What if the
city hall did send 61 boys into the
service of Uncle Sam, as Mr. Warrick
says? Does that give the city hall the
right to deny the invictive of this
great reformer and patriot who for
years has been striving to et into the
city nail himself?.
Theo-called patriotic banquet was
just wnat its supporters are, "camou
flage." Each campaign they .seek
some new slogan to carry them Into
office. And they start off this time
by doing exactly what they have criti
elzed the administration for in past
years, namely, "steam-rollering" on
position and picking a slate that will
make their , candidate mayor. They
were very careful to see that control
of the "organization" stayed in' the
proper hands. Hence they left it to
a "committee" to be appointed by the
chairman of the meeting, to decide
what other candidates should go on
the ticket and what steps should be
taken to insure the election of Ed P.
Smith for mayor.
j As for patriotism, they showed how
patriotic they are by giving such a
fine banquet in times of food scarcity.
Mr. Hoover has pleaded with the
American public to save beef, but
each guest at this patriotic banquet
was served with more roast beef than
he could possibly eat, unless he had
gone without meals for a week. Pa
triotism, bah!
The true bolshevik Is Mr. Mossman
and his associates, who pulled off this
camouflage banquet in order to fur
ther their own selfish ends. I have
heard that Mr. Mossman and his as
sociate, Murray, have ambitions to-
.ward the city legal department. If
their candidate or "slate" Is elected,
let us see if this prediction is true.
But I most sincerely hope that their
camouflage campaign and their
camouflage silk-stockinged slate are
Just as much failures as their patri
otic banquet.
"HOT-SHOT" , MURPHT.
Let Japan In.
Omaha, March 9. To the Editor of
The Bee: Without general council
with a definite aim, organization and
progress in the east will be slow.
Japan would like to fight if its offers
could be accepted, and under the cir
cumstances .there is no good reason
why it should not want to fight.
Japan has . developed . considerable
military strength. Ultimately that
strength will be exerted somewhere.
As the world is in war for world
power, good and bad, Japan's
strength should De-used in a way that
will render the greatest . ervlce for the
best cause:
' , The United States, the allies, Rus
sia a.id Japan should council to
gether and arrange for Japan to as
sist Russia on trie eastern front, in
the same manner that the United
States is assisting the allies on the
western front. ' W. B.
Fixing the Sabbath.
- Council Bluffs. March 8. To the
Editor of The Bee: Mr. Walter John
son's answer in regard to the Sabbath
is interesting, in view of the facts-. It
Is possible that the- Sabbath of the
Lord and the ceremonial Sabbaths
have confused him. The number of
the days in a month does not change
the weekly cycle. Verily, "he 9
shall think to change times and
laws." (Daniel .7:25.) but the origlj
nal seventh day remains the same
upon the present calendar, although
much of Christendom keeps the firstl
day, believing they are keeping the,
commandment of God. Levltieusi
twenty-third chapter, recites the ceren
monial Sabbaths to be observed and
the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth)
verses say in part, "These arie the
feasts (or ceremonial Sabbaths) T
Beside the Sabbaths of the Lord
" The fact that our Lord ben
came our Passover (1 Corinthians:)
6-7.); being sacrificed at the time of
the Passover, according to the Jewish)
calendar; that He rose at the date of
the First Fruits offering, becoming
the First Fruits of the -dead (1 Com
inthians. 15:20-23). and that the!
Holv Spirit was given in fulfilment
His promise (John 15 26), as the anti
typical feast of the Harvest (of souls)
on the nnietn aay auer ine rassove
fPentecost). demonatrate plainly t
the seeker of truth, that Christ ful
fiilled the ceremonial Sabbath laws,
The seventh day can not only oe ac
curately placed in history by astro
nomical testimony, out ine nrsi aa;
of the week, on which Christ rose,
and later UDon which tne HOiy spim
was given stand out in history or
dates absolutely authentic.
Will Mr. Johnson kindly go more
into detail and cive proof for nn
stntpmpnts? Also, vou who say I
Hosea, sixth chapter, "Come and le'
us return unto the Lord; ior ne nai
torn, and he will heal us; He hat
smitten and He will bii.d us up." i
"After two days (2,000 years) will!
He revive us; in the third day will
He raise us up, and we shall live in.
His sight." Give ti3 your. testimony,
Israel of the blood. Does our "Satur-4
day and Sunday come on every day!
of the week in the Jewish calendar
in a period of seven years," as Mr,
Johnson makes claim? Sincerely,
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