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&:: ' - ! , i HE BEE: OMAHA; THURSDAY, MARCH 38, 1918. ,' . . .. - ' . , THURSDAY, - MARCH 1918. THfi Omaha Bee IPAHY. (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY j !, FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha poatoffiea second-class matter. V - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION - tm r-Htu - Dm Hat I r ea . h awwiat j -L. It fl.. a . . k AA l eeeee"C wvu ju n vj iiuh cm Hondo...!.., jnij wtwout etusotT ivc .w )svanin( and Huuday...ll..,.w " KM " COO tl.iwilng without Sunday M " 4.UO fvmj In only " 40 " IM . 'BrtiJ not toe of diiatt of tddriu ot irrtculirlt? In dc Uteri to Ouihs f Circulation UepsrtBaeot. - 1r MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - The lamented I'rwa, ot wblca Tot Bes Is mtmbtr, ereroaittty j lUled lo tM ml IN publtdUoa s( all sm dlspelcaes endued ,1a H or not wbenrln cmttted tn this paper, tad also MM local ers -DubHuhM herein. AU rtgbtt of publication M ou special dispstrbea r alto reaerttd. 1 . REMITTANCE ' 'limit M drift. erpreis or postal order. Only t so J-Mtil Btampa laim its' M;nmt of small accounts. Pmonal eaeci, etcept M 'Jmalts uid Mtrn axfcui. sol accepted. ' 1 " A OFFICES ' - " iiMiw-Th Km Building, micaf -I'enflle'e 0S IhllidiBt. Smili Omilia-JSIS N St. N Tor-8 Finn At. Vmincll niu!T-)4 !. slats St 4 . Uuls-New B' of Commerce. LilcoIb -Utti linljdtm. ' (VaablDiton 1311 0 St v CORRESPONDENCE -Mdrws fomroiinldtlnnt relating to sews od tdltorlll Battel to D.mlia Bee, Edltariil DapartSMnt, A FEBRUARY CIRCULATION 62,544 Daily Sunday, 54,619 ' tiinm circulation far tlit Month, mbirrlbtd and Iworo to M Deiibt ' WtlliaaiJ, Circulation Hunt;, ' ' 5 Subscribers leaving the city should have The Be ailed to them. Addrtat chanted aa oftea as requnted. "He who is not with vs is against us," applies ,io this war. , . t ' The-grind is on at Lincol but the fireworks jliave not commenced yet ! Jerry Howard starts in jut where he finished , last yearin the legislature.1 ,.iv- : .. ; ; j If' tbe extraordinary Session of the legislature does not produce results, it will not be for lack of advice, ' 'i, How does Hoover expect' to get wheat from the farmer, for $2 when the senate is promising Jfim' $2.50 frhlnds7 are rearing around ! Our bolshevik aayi, but they must not expect too muck front page space. 'f ' . ' ; Putting mutton and lamb back on the "meat less" list wH.il, help to pnserve the wool as well i.as the food supply , . . . Mi 1 I Tht ?ir-mile gun may b added to the list of 'things that exefted much interest but. did not fprore of grtfat value. . . ; -V ' - J Ji- - "v The call to wheat hoarders, is not directed, to Neibraskansj" Our farmers on March 1 held qflly .what they need for seed. , .. V ' . 3 Kaiser Wilhelm sanctimoniously congratu lates Jhe people'of Germany that, the big battle i..was' not fought on theirssoil. This will console he victims mightily, ' t' Hoyal iWisxonsin republicans are rallying Ve Thind Lenroot in a way 'that 'assures his election. iThcy realiae that is the bnl way to redeem their atejfrom Verism and $a Foliettisnt. . (- ' i THE GOVERNOR'S CONFUSION OF THOUGHT. ,, . Though Governor Neville's extra session mes sage is in the mam a plain speaking document, that part dealing with th proposed constitutional amendment to abolish six months'Urst-paper voting in Nebraska manifests a deplorable con fusion of. thought. Thr governor has been struct- with the in congruity and danger developed by present war conditions of according the suffrage to immigrant residents who are still the subjects of foreign countries with which we are in war, yet seejs to believe an amendment can Be framed that will do this and at the same time save the voting 1 rights of aliens born in allied or neutral countries and also thtfse born in enemy countries whoVre at heart with us in this fight and whose loyalty is not to be questioned. ' If this is the governor's thought he will find it wholly impracticable and impossible of execu tion. We do not believfc it feasible to continue first-paper v.oting in Nebraska for residents born in friendly countries while disfranchising resi dents born in unfriendly countries, and" surely not for friendly aliens born in enemy countries while debarring other aliens, born in the same countrie. This will be .perhaps more under standable language by applying--it to actual con ditions. The United States is at war with both' Germany and Austria-Hungary. -Regardless of the loyalty or disloyalty'of the" German immi grants from those countries, the Bohemians and Polesand Slava generally who have come here from Austria are as, loyal and as patriotic as any class of our citizens. It might look likea pen alty upon, loyal Bohemian-born" people still not fully naturalized to treat them in changing our constitution in the same way as the disloyal Ger mans, bilt we do pot see how the distinction can be rdade andwe do not believe these loyal unnajy uralized Bohemians, even those who may be un able to complete their naturalization, woujd want to keep such a privilege at the price of protect; ing the franchisexf the disloyal Germans. In another place Governor Neville indicates a desire to permit loyai aliens who have- been voting on first papers in Nebraska a farther We to make themselves safe againsli franchise for feiture.. Under the naturalization laws they now have this tifne, fixed' at five years', before they must begin the naturalization, process anew. For Nebraska to have a different time period and a different method of i qualifying for the franchise time than that required for obtaining full United States citizenship is what we are. frying to avoid. All the ffie states of the Union, with the excep tion of Nebraska and four or five more, insist on complete naturalization of foreignrborn vot ers, and if-NeUraska is to get in linewith the rest "it will have to go the whole way without compromising ' the principle . through a half measure, ' ' " donia may gaze from his post at evening, at mountains behind mountains.-at hills covered with a dense and seemingly impenetrable bush, across a plain that divides the mountain systems with league upon league of fertile land," broken by ravines, straggling villages, and minarets. The starlight strikes down upon the twisted strands ofwire before him, the remote whiteness of the; empty cottages, and a shallow stream that meanders beneath its' trellised roof of branches. AH else is hidden. The accumulated gunfire of the entire war, reinforced by the toy-moonshine of Verey lights, the splutter of machine gun and rifje 'fife, and any other noiss-devised ,by civlfzed man. would oroduce uoon nature' in La Macedonian night tittle more than a mild 0i.c?a iftAnir.iii.n.. ' 1. - air. 1 m VI IIM.UII VlllIlWt. ttliai kISC UlL expect in a land of tortoises? The going iow of tlx sun. is the signal alike for the falling asleep of. one haJf and the awakening of the otherTialf of the in habitants of hill, bush, and thicket. No sooner has the, last night gone from the west than millions of Crickets and grasshoppers begin a might concert, repeated over and over again. ,It is a song of(one note. In the cricket it is moderately musical, but the grasshopper sound never rises above a whist ling whirr. So'mohotonous does it become that one fails at last to be conscious of it until it diminishes or ceases or unless one is straining one's ears to analyze another sound that comes from just beyond the wire. This new sound the sentry, if he be lately out frbm England, will swear to be made by an enemy ' patrol moving among the bushes. It suggests 3 slow and deliberate movement as qf somebody moving with dif ficulty and" care. Suddenly it is broken into by a fcenzied scraping noise and a bump. Hearing these, your suspicions, if you are not,a newcomer, are justified at oncef It is the tortoise again. , Now the tortoise has but one aim in, life to discover suitable winter quarters. All day and all night he looks ior them. That is why he walks slowly,"" with frequent glances right and leffy His anxiety that the winter quarters will not be found before the end of autumn has wrinkled his brow. He blunders through the hornbeams. He can rot squeeze through narrow spaces; he tilts tin one side to get throucli. He makes a noise out of all proportion to his size. Un- peaks. 1 i ' ! 'J ' Jspt ' turning over a. few ships in-return for sstcel from w.hicjt'tb.buila others. This bargain - might have been reached long ago, had not the little brown brothers asked toomuch for'their 1 ; i.uaenaorr(,says me oaaue nas gone aicoruing l(o calculation, and, is a gret victory or Germany. -jA$ the German losses are, estimated at 50 per, ;.Mt of thVyroo4 engaged, it will not take many mt;c tch victoriesto end the war. v- I jA itCebraska farmer, offers hjfxrm to the gov- x ifrnmenl far wa'r uses tintil pece'eomes again. 't 'He asks only that he be permitted to live on nd ' work the ', land. Its ' e'xantple becomes cotj- itagidu4,x Liberty Joans" will be outstrrpped ' long before they are announced. - , , - - ' !-"---- . . ' ' v' . " - ".7T S ' ' "Coining the blood of Francer'' is the yy the j lew' Vork ld refers to -the. jenate1 action ;tixini the, minimum price 'of wheat at $2.50 per bushel. The World should understand the action - is' political rather than' economic, and that the ' (Avheat crop of the country," save in the spring , ; wheat section, was long ago sown, so the farmers ,, lare in no sense to blame for the senate's ma neuvers. , v V 3 . With Strings Sticking Oit.. . , ' jl ' With .undisguised reluctance and bad grace, ' Senator Hitchcock's hyphenated World-Herald at' list professes to favor the repeal of the ' ' i .' M6c,kett law, forced upon , the statutes 'of Ne j ' braska :by . the German propaganda, but with a ' l whole lot of "bBts." It also endorses half-heart- "bjit 51 ;edly the, pther loyalty rrteasures proposed for the jspeclal session of the legislature with trie same :Und of "buts" in fact VitN throws in almost cnoyghs "buts" to stock a gcyd sized goat farm. '.Why is it so terribly afraid of wounding the tender sensibilities of the kaiser's subjects in v America whom jt has berUso constantly coddling? ;Why not stnd for Amerjca first ahd alt the time ;tand unconditionally instead olt. leaving Fie strings ' "sticking ont? '' S-'jf,-' ,' ;' .V New Phase of Warfare Promised. Count von Ludendorff, Vext to Von Hinden- burg in command of the , German armies, is quoted as saying, the renewed battle of the Somme has changed operations from warfare of positions to warfare of movement. If this be true, the pre dictions that this is the beginning of the ed will be realized perhaps' sooner than expected. .That this cohditjon would have to be established has been admitted, the trench warfare long ago hav ing reached a state of stale-mate. To overcome situation, one ? r the other sidexhad to aban don shelter of trenches and come into the open. Such'a nT&ve entailed tremendous sacrifices of men," and she Allies hesitated to assume the of fensive on a grand, scale for that Reason. Von Ludendorff is perhaps accurate enough in his statement, and, if he js, it may be accepted that the advantage has passed over definitely to our side. ; In the. only great battle of the-war yet fought in the open, that of the Marne(the Ger mans were signally defeated, while the nearest Approach to it prior to the conflict now raging was at Verdun, where the Germans also were beaten. How the present' oattle will end may not be told, but the Soldiers of the Allies, and especially the ' Americans, will welcome the change from underground to open-air" fighting, v-.. . -, : After Two Thousand Tears. Pesachj chief of ' Jewish festivals, is celex brated, today as it has not been for twenty cen turies. For two thousand years at the "seder" one sentiment has been expressed: "Next year in Jerusalem," and now it has come to pass. In all these years the Feast of the Passover ha not before been observed in Jerusalem without dis turbance. The Jev4r hasj been under dominion of an oppressor; he has not been conquered, merely overcome, and, while he has rendered untoTaesar the things that Were, Caesar's, he has kept alive forever the aspiration to again see in the city of David at least the rites of his religion respected and observed . as they were by his fathers. This has been made possible as a pari of the re sult of a great war. Civil government under the Jew is restored in Jerusalem today, and thither the tribes may again repair to partake' of the un leavened bread, to (Sprinkle the ' lintel jnd the jambs of the door, and to renew their covenant with Jehovah. , Israel's persistence in his faith has beep sublime, and its verification is as grati fying as it' is remarkable. All he prophets from Abrahamyday will rejoice on this celebration of the Passover. ' Night on Macedonia's Fjont . Bush Life and Noises That Breahthe Stillness i . Correspondence of London Times. Whoso by night keeps watch in Mace-' accustomed 'to leaping, he rarely looks be fore. He does not see the six-foot precipice beyond, presses forward in a fever of slow ness, and falls headlong over the side, his shell and' claws scraping the rock as he descends. A dull bump marks his arrival at thfe bttom of the ditch, where he sprawls on his back until he finds a stone against which to lever himself over. In- the dark trees above him shines a reddish light. His noises have produced no flicker'Sn Jt. It might be a glow'worm, or an-illuminated watch dial. A pair of field mice can see better. They see a pair of lights and remain silent and motionless. But the owl cannot descend upon them from his tree, and pretends not to be hungry. That is why he is so stilfand unblinking; that is why his eyes might almost "bcj. pair of sleep ing glow worms, He is assuming disdain, and there on the branch he remains like a statue until a grass snake disturbs the mice, and he flies hooting away. r As the owl wheels low over the bushes a wild cat creeps with belly pressed against the ground towards a covey of sleeping part ridges. No real wild cat this, but a descend ant of th? outlaw cats "who once purred be fore, the hearth in those empty cottages. The life of the bush, and its tradition of in dependence, 'received through three or four generations, havemade of it a free lance. It creeps on Jiearer and nearer to- the covey. But the outlaw Bulgar dog who steals our ration meat, though no hunter, is coming from the opposite direction. Suddenly he plunges into the midst of the. covey; ; the terrified- birds flutter and squawk; the cat creeps off again; and half a solony of green lizards scuttle away among the ried leaves. A cockchafer dashes pst on clumsy wingsi like a ricocheting bullet. All night long the sounds continue. Na ture lives and moves and has her being about the very shell craters as if there were no war, A hedge hog, lost in the gloom, falls over the parapet, and perforates a rat, which squeaks loudly and darts into the the dug out. Hour after hour the crickets and grass hoppers maintain their iteration. At last a jackdaw .chuckles hard ' by, a hoodiecrow flaps a sinister vng, and a magpie shakes out the black and white of his plumage. Al most imperceptibly the other sounds vand movements have died olit, The first -streak has touched the sky behind the eastern Tlie German-Americah Alliance Reasons Why It Should Be Abolished and Dispersed 1 George Harvey's War Weekly. , Two Kinds of Sabotage. Omaha, March 2?. To-the Editor of The Bee: In defining: sabotage by process of law it is to be hoped that our state legislators will not act with only the Industrial Workers of the World in mind. The profiteers who destroy foodstuffs in order to control prices have as much to answer for as have the Industrial Workers of the World when it comes to practicing sabotage. The profiteers more than likely invented the system of saboUe. I. J. C. "Not one cent for, America, but millions for the Hun I". Such is the National German-American Alliance's adaptation of Pinck lcy's immortal epigram.' We speak by the card. Such is the official confession of the treasurer of that organization, who cer tainly of all men pught- to know the facts. Testifying before a senate xommittee re cently, he admitted that down to the, en try of the Urlited States into the war the al liance collected or contributed $886,670, most if not all of which was turned over to Qount von Befnstorff, the German ambassador at Washington. " , 'What tlid Bernstorff do with it? Documentary evidence, produced by the treasurer of the alliance, shows that at least $313,000 of It was passed . on to Dr. Bexnhard Dernburg and Meyer Gerhardr, Have Amer icans forgotten who those. men were? Dern burg was the ihead .devil of the German propaganda in 'this 'country, for fomenting and sedition and for committing sabotage, arson and murder. Gerhardt was Zinvner- mann's righf handman in trying to get Mexico ahd Japan to attack this country and seize California, Arizona and New Mexico. And the German-American Alliance,, by its own confession, gave hundreds of thou sands of dollars to promote those damnable schemes. Truly, a, most loyal and patriotic organization! x . , - . . But after we had shipped Bernstorff, fol lowing, Dernburg, back to Germany, as unfit longer ,toJe upon American sfil, and after we had taken up th Huns gage of battle -And recognized 'the existence'of the war whic Germany had in fact been waging against us since August,. 1914, what then? , Why, the treasurer of the German-American Alliance advised the members. of tnat organization that they should raise no more money for Germany, but should make their contributions to the American Red Cross. And since i that time, now approximately a year ago, how much has that organization, which had so freely contributed to Ger many's liunds, given to American Red Cross? Not one cent! ' 1 Let us recapitulate the facts:. From the German-American Alliance To Bernstorff, for purely German uses, $800,000, more or less. To .Dernburg and Gerhardt, for raising hell against tne united states, w,uw. To American Red Cross, for America, nothing, j ' , . ' As wifat Stevenson tailed '"a footnote to history," quite pertinent to tills record of thei German-American Alliance, let us recall the case of the Arabic The Arabic, we may ex plain to our forgetful fellow citizens, was1 a passenger steamer which a German U-boat destroyed without warning, thus causing heavy loss of life, including tw American citizens. The case was so flagrant' that the president and secretary of state resolutely insisted upon disavowal and indemnity, and the German government, unable-o justify the outrage, signified its acquiescence to their demand. . 'V ' But this precious German-American Alli ance, more kultured than the kaiser, in ses sion at Elizabeth, N.vJ., declared: ' "That we 'declare the sinking' of the Arabic was justified and deserved, that we endorse Germany's submarine policy and ex tend to its marine commanders the unstinted praise to which they are entitled." . ) "Unstinted praise" for the murder of American citizens! Yet what utterance could have been more appropriate'to bemade-by those who at that very time were contribut ing freely- for the wrecking and burning of American factories and murder of American workmen? ! Not one cent for America, but millions for the Hun; and "unstinted praise" for Huns.who murdered American citizens. Such has been and is the German-American Al liance. Yet there are those good, easy men who doubt whether we should go so far as to rebuke it by withdrawing its national charter. . . , Let Uncle Sam Hold It The man who used to eat a 25 cent chicken supper at the church, and expect to lay up 25 cents' worth of treasure xin heaven on the strength of his supper ticket, is now patting himself m the back for a patriot, because he has invested in a 25 cent Thrift stamp. . This liberty toan advepture is the modern version of the magic-cake that could be eaten and .laid up, too-the chicken dinner that counted both on earth and in heaven. This loan.' indeed, does help boost the batteijy through the mire; it gives your Uncle Sam uel a lift on the peak load; but it remains undiminished in the pocket of the Liberty loaner. One, runs no risk in serving his country this way, as the man behind the gun does; but he surely does assist in bringing up the ammunition. 4 , The man with a' little ready money is the most popular traveler on the pike of life. At every turn of the road is a minstrel smiling and singing, "Give Me Your Money to Hold." Downtown at night Vanity Fair is all a-flutter with the bejeweled, beckoning hands, like an illuminated Municipal St. Vitus' dance, calling for that ready money. The muscular action of reaching down for the American wallet has become as involuntary as breath ing. At every step on the pike is a slot. cut. to catch a coin. . V , Lucky is the earner whjs, while strolling down the joy pike, first meets your serious Uncle Samuel with his honest request: "Give Me Your Money to Hold." At the coin slots along the way you may Jfave, in return for your money, a flash 6f joy and the privilege of looking into the hole where your money went. With your Uncle Sam you have indeed the flash of ijoy but it is contiitued into a long afterglow, and more. So long as your Uncle holds your' money he pays you for the privilege of holding it saf: and he pays steadily and regularly on the ticjc of the naval observatory clock, as long as you like to have him do it. This Liberty bond never grows too decrepit to do a full day's work or earn a full day's pay, even though you do. An when you want it back, there it is safe and sound and in full measure unto the ut termost farthing. Laying up treasure in the United States treasury may not bring blinding thrills of joy, but it brings days of solid comfort which in the long run count more than alt the night thrills that ever happened ,on earth since the fall of Babylon. I'olKes and Mistakes. Grand Island March 26. To the Editor of The Bee: There is some where around 8.000.000 or 9.000.000 dogs in the United States;' allowing that four dogs will eat as much as one man the dogs of America eat enough to feed an army of 2,000,000 an example of the humane inhuman ity of man. TViile authorities are in the busi ness of setting the clock ahead they. might as well set it ahead a whole day; few would notice- the difference. It would not be .necessary then to change the alarm 'and people would not realize that they were getting up mornings 24 hours ahead of time. All who are loyal and able will give an hour a day for the benefit of hu manity, and credits marked up for such performances would have a bet ter effect, than setting the clock ahead. Wilson objects to dropping German on 'the ground that we are. fighting Prussianism ark not language.. He fails to take into account' the itjill grown and, living fct that Prussian ism was founded, for 60 years was nurtured and through 44 years of strenousness was developed to its full capacity through the aeencv of the v.ti.1 iiiu.il language. i nu ja.ucv7 .a holding to the system Mhe system is more communicative and better under stood through the German language. The German language is the strongest weapon the kaiser has in America. Wr necessities are no relation to peace time routine. We are living for the time being under changed condi tions. The language should be abol ished. After the war is over, if it is found essential, there will be a plenty of time, and it will be perfectly easy tq reinstate the language. It is troth a folly and a mistake' for a man to pose as a patriot, say grace at meals and then load his plate up heavily with meat. Our best prayer is to think of the soldiers always and share with them every meal. Last year people made the mistake of waiting until late in the fall before collecting in their fuel. We should commence collecting fuel right now andkeep it up all summer. Fallen trees, broken boughs, tree' trimmings and everything that will make fire should be gathered up and put in the woodshed, and coal bins should- be filled up to the top" before snow flies again. We are about to overlook some thing. Not qMile enough energy is being put Into the campaign for gar dening. The high school boys are being organized for farm work; thej juniors should be organized for gar dening. Everybody Wiat can use a hoe should dovsome gardening. Every available foot of ground1 should be worked. Spring is here; everyx day counts and no time should toe lost. , ,V W. B, ace Is an original chap. I told Mm not to allow any stout persons tof go of at present, and he pat up a stent tee tor thin people.' ' Boston Transcript , Fassetl I thought Hasperley claimed h ! too old to be dratted? Knox Ho did; but the draft offlfialt learned that Miss Hasperley, who awore ahi was only 22. was his twin sister, and the; were too gallant to take his word In prefer ence to oers. judge. . IN FLANDERS. Eugene Field (About 1890. Through sleet and fogs, to the aaline boga Where the herring fish meanders. An army sped, and then 'tis said. gwot terribly in rianaersi Good and Bad Publicity. Omaha, March JL5. To the Editor of The Bee: Most anyone can appre ciate that "advertising Omaha adver tises you" and also the desirability of it, particularly if they have ever been away from Omaha and thus realized that we really need good ad vertising. ' ' ' V But there are different kinds of ad vertising. The orte consists of doing something or being something worth while and thrills us with pride. This is, of course, the right kind. The other kind gives notoriety" to some individ ual or perhaps some foolish news ar ticle but does not-reflect any credit on Omaha. That is the wrong kind. Both kinds advertise every man, woman and child in. Onaha either fa yorably or unfavorably. Whenever we hear or see something about Oma ha which makes us glad we live -there, Omaha has been advertised indeed. That makes it our opportunity andJ duty to say ana ao tnings wmcn wiji increase our pflde in living in Omaha and to prevent others from saying or doing things, which will make us asrtamed thatVe live there. Thwe is nothing better w can do. - ' tq. R. RIGHTT SAID IK FUN. Lady (in street car) Thank you, sir, but I don't like to deprive you of your comfort able aeat. , v ' Pat Be the powers, -.ma'anv It was com fortable no longer -wtiln Ol saw ye atandln'. Baltimore Transcript ' t , "Society la 10 shallow," remarked the blase L young woman. . - - '"it s a gooa tning n is. - replied us cynic, "or half the people who are wading around In It, would be drowned." Boston Tran script i -- . 1 "tt won't he much ot a story, will It?" "WhaXr - - "When our grandchljdren'ask us what we did In the great war, and we have to tell them that once a week we went without meat." Detrplt Free Press. One Year Ago Today jo the War." ' British on western front pushed Germans two miles in 24 hours, cap- Muring several more villages. , 1 Conference of German and Aus-" - l!,triiinemperors, presumably on possl ' 'U.ility or averting war with the United .'-r-tates. , ..r-i- ' . hhe JtoyVte Celebrate, . -f George "C. (Slovall, proprietor of the ' jfllongkong Tea company of Omaha, Jborn 1873. i - ,? Jacob H. GalHnger ot New Hamp shire, oldest member -of the United ' I'; states senate, aorn at Cornwall, Ont., . Jsi years ago. - c ; ' ' Aristlde Briand, late prime minister i"of France, born at INantea, France, 67 -j i) ears age ',. ; - , 'iThia Day la liistorj. V a I SIS Wade Hampton, confederate v general governor of8outU Carolina . tand United States senator, born at .Charleston, 8. C. Died at Columbia, & Cm April IXi IMS... - ; i- I84 Commodore ""David Porter, distinguished . American naval officer ot the war at 1SJ2, died in Turkey. :'Born in Boston, February 1, 17S0. ?- .18l8-Earl of Cardigan, who led ' " afte famous charge of the light brigade 'ft. Balaclava, died in England. Born a here October 1, I7I7. , t871 Representatives of .France nd Germany met at Brussels to die toss final terms for peace. Just $0 Years Ago Today At a meeting of citizens in South Omaha about 200 met In Hunt's hall to tell what they either knew or thought about the coming election. A number cX alumni, and former students of Cornell university met at ,i Omaha club rooms to make prepara tions for the organization of a per manent state' association. . A dinner was tendered ' to Alfred Sorenson, managing editor ot The Bee, who assumes a like position on the Herald of this city. The writers present were: E. C Hardy. AL Falrbrother, T. J. Fitxmorris, E. A. O'Brien. Silas W. Niles, & G. V. Gris- wold. . W. A. Runkles, James B naynes, rana AiKinson. w, j. Byrnes, C. H. Leader, Richard 'Met calfe. E. E. Pettigrew, Charles Elgut ter and C W. Jackson. City Clerk Southard is at present engaged in issuing certificates to the clerks and Judges who conducted the recent election, . ; State Press Comment , Wayne Herald: People are en couraged to give until "It hurts." Some people are hurt so early in the giving process that they wouldn't give much it theyatopped. Bloomlngton Advocate: A number of candidates are being talked of for county officers this year. The biggest qualification a candidate will, have this year is that he is a patriotic citizen. No other need apply. candidates political affiliation , this year will cut but little figure. York Democrat: The- man who tries to explain the present high price ot shoes' by ci ting the demand fof shoes for soldiers, must think he can make tis believe our army has been recruited from centipedes. Our boys In the army wore shoes before they donneduntforms. Beatrice Express The supervrsoTS, In adopting an estimate of 825,000 for general road work, indicates that there Is N to 'be something doing in good road work' in this ounty, the coming year. And It is badly needed. Gage county roads are in poor condi tion at the present time, and anything done ta.improve them will be greatly appreciated.' I . Kearney Hub: A young soldier from Omaha, ' Corporal Hughes, has been reported killed in France. It may be a Kearney boy soon. Many communities of the United States will undergo this sacrament of sorrow, (JAfse boys who fall are giving their all. How many of those who are not in the ranks, but are called upon for sacrifice, are giving a titha of their The f bandits is reckoned in rifles and not fiight to the Point Minneapolis Tribune: If Ignorance is bliss, Russians should be the hap piest people in the world. Minneapolis Journal: Did? you ever try a small modicum-of coffee, without cream and sugar? This is the time to make the experiment. New York World: Things are changing in China The ransom asked for two American engineers held by In v . Washington Post: Thus far the German-American Alliance hasn't started trouble Jy demanding that Joe Bernstorff tell what he did with, the money. Baltimore American: The sudden threats of the Teutons against .. the Scandinavian nations sound ominous ly "like the complaint of the wolf against the lamb-for muddying the stream; -v ' Baltimore American: One of the most significant and promising fea tures of American participation in the war thus tar is the accurate shooting of our artillery- ' Even Germany Is highly Impressed." ' y ," Minneapolis Tribune: .The govern ment might defer talk of shooting sol diers who have slept at their posts un til after shooting a few German spies who have been wide awake and on the. job an the time. St Louis Globe Democrat: 'JEVe ore new told by a conservation enthusiast that the eggs ot the crocodile or alli gator are good to eat. Happy dwellers in tropical America, with -a breakfast of aUced bananas and alligator eggs! twice Told Tales His Excuse for Calling. A member of the American Lafayet te squadron had to make a precipitate descent and was fortunate enough to come down at a British aerodrome behind .the lines, not, however, with out mixing up things a, bit After rescuing himself from the tangle of wire he limped slowly up to a ,'brass hat." "Are you the big noise, of this Joint?" he asked. '' v ' "I- am the commanding efflcer. if that has anything to do with, it," was the reply." , , . . v "Well," said the American. "I Just looked tn to tell you I have spread the gasoline tank aji your front grass plot" London Tit-Bits., . .s " Ope Reason. , "Do you knoWhy money is so scarce, brothers?" the, soap box ora tor demanded -and " a fair sired sec tion of the backbone ot the nation waited in leisurely patience for the-l Answer ' A tired looking woman had paused for a moment on the edge of the crowd. She spoke shortly- - "It's because so many of you men spend your, time telling each other why. 'stead ot hustling to see that it ain't!" St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1 - ' Economy. "I'm doing my own phfs scraping now, to save expense. ' "Same here. What do you put on your face after shaving?' - . ' "Court plaster,yusuaJljJT-Boston Transcript ( - 'I hear Banger's son has been made president of vthe jcejnpany. Didn't know he had any particular ability." 1 '"On the contrary. He married" the daughj ter of the head of the union that controls the company." Life.. X 1 "I suppose von claim that you will leave office -poorer than you entered HZ" "I'm not making any statement about that. But I can truthfully say tha the campaign depleted my bank roll consider able." Louisville Courier Journal. "In the olden days -gentleman useof to call upon a lady with formaltty Snd state- ley ceremony. 1 Well?" - ' . 1 v "Now he merely drives up and honks for her to come out." Kansas City Star. ' "Th man who .has chatgeof the lakeon V A hideous' store of oaths they swore, Did the army over 1ft Flanders. At this distant d'y we're unable to say What so aroused their danders; But It's doubtless the case, to their lasting disc-race. That the army swore In Flanders: And masy more such oaths, they sfore, Iiid that Impious horde in Flanders. Some folks contend that these oaths with out end Began among the commanders, That, taking this cue, the subordinates, too. Swore terribly in Flanders: . Why the lr was blue with the huUaballM Of those wicked men in Flanders. But some suppose', that the trouble aros With a certain Corporal Sanders. Who sought to abuse the wooden shoes. That the native wore in Flanders. , Saying What marvel then that the other men Felt encouraged to swealn Flanders. ' f ' At any rate, as I grieve tol state. Since these soldiers vented their danders, Conjectures-obtain that for language pro fane. There is no such place as Flanders:1' 'f. , " , This Is the hind of talk you'll find If you ever ' go' to Flanders. i How wretched Is he. wherever he be. 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