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m Omaha Daily
PART TWO
EDITORIAL
PAGES 13 TO 24
OmIhA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH,, 30, 1918
VOL. XL VII. NO. 245.
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RETREAT IS BAIT
OF ALLIES' TRAP,
SAYS DR. CESTRE
t ' French Counter Attack, is Fore
A runner of Return Drive,
French Professor in
Omaha Declares.
fhe Thursday counter-attack, in
which the French gained two miles on
a six-mile front, is looked upon as the
beginning of a great counter offen
sive of the Fench and British
armies, by Dr. Charles Cestre of the
University of Lyons, France, who
spoke at the Omaha Chamber of Com
merce at noon.
Dr. Gestre has watched the great
German offensive carefully since i
began, anil he is confident the French
and Briti:h will hold the line until
the German rush has spent its fury.
Then they will counter-attack, gain
all that they have lost, and, perhaps,
even gain some additional territory,
he believes.
"There is no doubt the British and
French have been retreating for
strategic reasons," said the doctor,
"to lure the Germans into a trap and
at the same time save their own men.
The French and British do not wish
to sacrifice lives, as the Germans are
willing to do, and the result of these
retreats in good order is that the
allies conserve their man power and
at the same time kill tremendous num
bers of the enemy.
Childish Strategy.
"The attack in great masses which
the Germans are making is, after all,
a childish method, the least strategi
cal method, and the strategy which
requires the least brains.- It is costly
and will tell on them in the end.
"The fact that the Germans made
the big drive at this time and were
willing to make such enormous sac
rifices proves very clearl.; two
things first, that they recognize their
submarine warfare is not going to be
successful, and second, that they fear
the coming of Americans. Their pro
fessed contempt of the Americans is
disproven by the fact that they now
find it necessary to attempt this big
drive in the hope of forcing a peace
before the Americans can get on the
ground i.. great numbers.
"I have every confidence that the
Enpiish iind French will hold them
here, and then when the Americans
come with 1,500,000 or 2,000,00(1 men
the grand offensive of the allies is
toming."
France Demands Alsace.
Speaking of Alsace-Lorraine, Dr.
Cestre said the French would of
course insist on getting this territory
back. "It is not a mere matter of
getting a little piece of land," he said,
- "but a matter of establishing the in
" ternatioi.al morals of nations. Presi
dent Wilson included the recession of
Alsace-Lorraine to France in his
famous 14 conditions on which peace
could be made acceptable, and that
document of the 14 conditions for
the first time defined the war aims of
all the nations fighting Germany. It
was the first document to which they
could all subscribe."
Dr. Cestre says it is ridiculous to
look for the end of the war now, even
when the big German offensive fails.
"No, no, the end will not yet come,"
he said. "It will come only, after the
Americans get over there in great
numbers, and when the big allied
offensive comes next year." f
Movie Stars Will Visit the
City on Night of April 3
, Mary Pickford, Charley Chaplin
and Douglas Fairbanks will make
rear platform speeches at the Union
Ration in Omaha at 9:55 the night of
wipril 3. They will be on their way
from Los Angeles to Washington
on a Union Pacific train. The train
will be held 30 minutes for their
speeches.
The three celebrities will arrive in
Washington Saturday, April 6, for
the opening of the Liberty loan cam
paign. From thence Charlie Chaplin
will tour the south, Miss Pickford the
east and Fairbanks will work west.
The Nebraska Liberty loan commit
tee is trying to get Fairbanks for a
series of talks through the state be
ginning about April 18.
The tanks which will move down
Farnam stret to indicate the progress
of the third Liberty loan, will prob
ably be started at Thirty-sixth street.
If Omaha's quota is about $3,000,000,
the tanks will be moved one block
f'.or each $250,000 subscribed.
Several Hundred Knights
Observe Maundy Thursday
Semper Fidelis chapter, Knights
Rose Croix, observed Maundy
Thursday at the Scottish Rite cathe
dral, several hundred knights assem
bling to participate in the ceremony
of the extinguishing of the lights.
This ceremqny took place at 6:30
Thursday night. It was followed by
the usual dinner. After dinner Rev.
Robert L. Wheeler responded to the
toast, "Peace and Prosperity to All
Masons, Everywhere." T. W. Mc
Cullough responded t6 "The Presi
dent of the United States." J. R. Cain,
jr., to "The Memory of Albert Pike,"
and Arthur C. Pancoast to "The
Memory of Knights Who Departed
This Life During the Year."
The ceremony of relighting the
lights will be observed Sunday aft
ernoon at 3:30.
School Boy Drives Too Fast;
I Pleads Guilty, Fined $15
Earl Schafer, 5201 Webster street,
and Robert Dodds. 5007 Cuming
street, were arrested Friday for
speeding. Schafer, driving the car,
pleaded guilty and was fined $15 and
costs. Dodds was dismissed.
Second of Alleged Gunmen
Will Be Tried April 8
Frank "Big Wally" Martin, second
"he alleged jewelry strre robbers,
will be put on trial for the murder of
Detective Frank Rooney April 8.
Asks Preacher 8 and
Laymen to Till Soil
Bisho; Homer C. Stuntz of the
Methodist Episcopal church ap
peared before the Methodist
preachers recently and recom
mended that preachers and lay
men now residing in the city who
have had previous experience on
farms be enrolled for work dur
ing the coming summer.
Bishop Stuntz asserted that
many men now living in the city
have hat experience in farm work
and that their services for a pe
riod of two weeks or more dur
ing the seeding, cultivation and
harvest of the crops would be of
inestimable aid to the farmers by
bringing their knowledge to bear
upon the critical problem of food
production for this country and
the allies.
The pastors present unanimous
ly resolved to act upon the plan
and request their laymen to do
likewise.
Neligh Man Files Cross
Petition in Divorce Suit
Henry S. Palmer, 65 years old, of
Neligh, has filed a cross petition in
the divorce suit brought by his wife,
Jessie C.
In his petition Mr. Palmer asserts
that his wife has a violent temper, is
sulky and sullen at 'times, and that
she expressed sorrow at having mar
ried him when he refused to support
her mother, father and sister-in-law.
The Palmers were married in 1880 and
have six children.
OMAHA SCHOOLS
IN FULL ACCORD
WITH LANE PLAN
Secretary of Interior Makes
Suggestion That Institutions
Should Be Used to Maxi
mum Capacity.
Members of the Board of Educa
tion and Superintendent Beveridge of
the public schools are in full sym
pathy with the suggestion of the bu
reau of education of the Department
of the Interior, that the widest pos
sible use shall be made of the school
plants during this period of war
exigencies.
School officials in Omaha already
have arranged to operate the High
School of Commerce on practically
full time during the year, with brief
intervals for rest. Superintendent
Beveridge months ago expressed him
self in favor of lengthening the ele
mentary school year. ,
Don't Close Schools.
"Don't close the schools; use them
to maximum capacity," states Secre
tary of the Interior Lane in a circular
which has been received by school
For Constipation! Physic
Purge or Laxative?
Everyone now and then becomes constipated, and
millions are chronically in that condition. The perplexing
question arises what to use.
Purgatives and cathartics are drastic and usually cause
a reaction. Saline yaters are rapid in action but do no more
than empty the bowels.
Just as certain an effect, and certainly a much more
pleasant one, can be obtained by the use of a combination of
simple laxative herbs with pepsin sold by druggists under the
name of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It acts gently, without
griping. It is an v especially ideal medicine for children,
women, old people and others who find purges too powerful.
Only a teaspoonful is required, and by morning the move
ment is free and complete. A bottle in the house is insurance
for the whola family against constipation, indigestion, head
aches, flatulency and other digestive ills.
Tho druggist will refund your money if it fails
to do as promised.
NO INCREASE
la spit of nornoua
Incrsaaed laboratory
coats doe to the War
th. manufacturers of
Dr. CaldweU'a Syrup
Papain are sacrificing
their profits and absorb
ing trie war taxea. ao
that this family iaxathra
may remain at the pre
war prica of Me ana $1
a large bottle. So sold
by aruggiata for 26 yeara
SDr. Caldwell's
YRUP DEPSIN
The Perfect gLlaxative
FREE SAMPLES Dr. CaldwetTt Syrup
Papain is the largest selling liquid laxative
in America. If you bava never used it. aend
rir address for a free trial bottle to Dr. W.
Caldwell. 468 Washington St.. Monticello.
III. If yon bave babies in tba family send for
a copy of "The Care of the Baby."
Bargains at Beaton s
FOR SATURDAY
TOILET ARTICLES
50c Abonita Face Powder,
at.. 35tf
20c Professional Emery
Boards 14$
50c Sempre Giovine.34&
10c Amami Shampoo.. 7$
25c Opol Shampoo. . .16$
50c Goutorbe Rouge. .29$
$1.25 Goutorbe Face Pow
der 98$
$3.00 De Mar's Whirling
Spray-Syringe... $1.98
50c Ivory Comb .27$
75c Tivoli Facfc Powder,
for 43$
Household Necessities
Crude Parafine Oil, for gen
eral house use, per qt.,
for 25$
4 and 6-inch Flexible Nail
Files 12$
35c Stationery 19$
25c Roach Paste 19$
$1 Punch Oil Mops. . .79$
25c Iwanta Polish 17$
Varnish Food (For renew
ing all ' varnished sur
faces), per bottle. -50$
$1.10 Chamois, for cleaning
and polishing 89$
$1.25 Auto Chamois. .98$
Edison Mazda Lamps
25, 40, 50-Watt, each. 30$
60-Watt, each 35$
CANDY
Easter Novelties
Rabbits in Basket 15$
Easter Eggs in Basket,10$
Jelly Beans, per lb. . .32$
Huyler's and Allegretti
Chocolates in 1 to 5-lb.
. boxes.
PATENTS
25c Mentholatum .... 17$
50c Ziora, an ideal antisep
tic, for 34$
15c Haarlem Oil.. 9$
30c Kolynos Tooth Paste,
for 21$
25c Barkeeper's Friend,
for .17$
25c Peroxide Hydrogen,
for .6$
$1.00 Horlick Malted Milk,
for 69$
25c DeMar's Cascara Pills,
for 17$
25c Beaton's Greaseless
Cream in tubes 19$
30c Sloan's Liniment. 19$
50c Energine 38$
50c Putnam's Dry Cleaner,
for ........34$
50c Syrup Figs. . . . . .39$
35c Castoria. 24$
Somerset 'Coffee (used in
the White House) , at,
per lb .....50$
15c Lux Soap 12
75c Automobile Goggles. . .492
Radiolite Wrist Watches, each,
at .84.25
$1.50 .Alarm Clocks 982
PERFUME I
$1.25 Azurea Perfume, per oz.,
for ...... S9
$2.25 Ideal Perfume, per oz.,
for 81.69
$1.50 Altar Tropical, per oz.,
for ...l 98
75c Locust Blossom, per oz..
for 39
A large assortment of domestic
and imported Sachet Powder,
in bulk, worth up to $1.50 per
oz., Saturday Special, oz. 49
PHOTO DEPT. ,
All films developed free, when
prints are ordered. Agents for
Ansco Cameras.
MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE OUR PROMPT ATTENTION
Beaton Drug Co.
15th and Farnam Sts.
officials. "The entire spirit of the ad
ministration at Washington is and
had been, from the beginning, that
the war should in no way be used as
an excuse for giving the children of
the country any less education in
quantity or quality, than they other
wise would have had," he continues.
"Both the present demands of the
war emergency and the prospective
demands of the necessary readjust
ments inevitably to follow emphasize
the need of providing in full measure
for the education of all of the people,.
"Opportunities should be found to
introduce into the school activities
having real educational value, which
at the same time link up the public
schools with the ideals of service and
self-sacrifice actuating our people and
bring home to the consciousness of
teachers, pupils and parents the es
sential unity of the nation in this
great crisis."
Armenian-Syrian Relief
Fund Reaches Huge Sum
Cleveland H. Dodge, treasurer of
the American committee for Arme
nian and Svrian relief, announces re
ceipts A $681. tl 8.99 for the month of
February, making a total of $8,240,
168.92 collected by the committee for
relief in the Russian Caucasus, Persia
and southern Palestine. The coni
mittee has already cabled $7,210,367.55.
New apportionments amounting to
$955,000 were made at the executive
committee meeting of March 1.
One-'Minute
Store' Talk
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"Lucky for you people that
you've featured VALUES and
not prica a your itora policy.
' No wonder you're dolnf a
smathlng bualneta now whan
the 'P.-tce Talkera" are at their
wits' and," laid man who
know.
Greater Nebraska "talks price,"
too, hut it's the "what-you-jet-for-what-you-pay"
kind that has
always made a powerful appeal to
thinking- people.
Our greatly enlarged store is now
at your service better service
than ever. See our new second
floor addition the most modern
daylUrht cloth in room in the west,
and in all the largest.
JOHN A. SWANSON, Pres.
WM. L. HOLZMAN, Trcas.
Demonstrating Our Ability and Keen
Determination to Maintain Values
laster's Supreme Showim
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of Wor
est Clothes
W.E'VE prepared for our greater store
the most wonderfully complete spring displays
and best values assembled in the WesW-Compare
Months ago we determined that,
in spite of 'soaring prices we could
and would continue to make value'
giving a feature for Spring , 1 918
Every energy and resource has been directed to this end. The
most worthy clothes makers and famous woolen manufacturers
have been drawn upon for their best productions, and this year
of all years, we say, demand quality get the best clothes made
clothes backed by the Nebraska guarantee of satisfaction.
All That's New for Spring
You'll enjoy inspection of the vast and varied ex
position of the new spring suits and top coats in
it!-
Hickey -Freeman Quality
Fashion Park Creations
Brandegee-Kincaid Styles
Adler Rochester Tailoring
and a host of other celebrated makers' intensely
interesting new fashions and super quality fabrics.
Young Men's Styles
Young men are delighted with the new
figure-tracing models, decided mili
tary effects; a wastiness and flare to
coats. New 5-seam back models, very
stylish ; dashing double-breasted ideas
and new single breasted styles new
from lapels to $9A I
pockets, at tp&U 10 pOD
Business Men s Suits
We specialize in fitting hard-to-fit
men. Some of you are stout, tall, short
or extra large. Never in all our crperir
ence have we assembled such a range
of special models, enabling us to fit
and satisfy all men. Economy suggests
buy the best it's' here, and values
unequalled in dlCi. dIC
Spring Suits, at $13 0 p4j
Spring Top Coat Style Leaders
New ideas more of them than in any past Beason. Form-fitting styles, military
effects, raglan shoulders, welt seam models, roomy coats, utility coats, -silk-lined
Chesterfields, new coverts, military tans, knit weaves, Scotches, Llama cloth.
Never such attractive colors and weaves CMC &QC
P 1J to PJJ
Men's and Young Men' Clothing Second Floor.
in top coats, at.
Easter Hats and Fixin's Galore
AS the old saying goes: "Something new worn on
luck." Nothing but the new and the most of
Quick, intelligent service. (
John B. Stetson
Spring Hats
Largest Western Showing
$4.50 to $12
Borsalino Featherweight
1918 Styles
$6.00 and S7.00
Nebraska Superior Hats, $3.50
Crofut & Knapp
Smart Hats
$4.00. $4.50. $5.00
Nebraska DeLuxe Hats, $3.00
Easter spells good
the newest here.
Wonderful Showing
Silk Shirts
for Satrday
$4.00 to $9.00
Introducing more new patterns, more
new color combinations and dis
tinctive styles than Omaha has ever
known in high-class silk shirts.
Men's New Spring Caps, $1.00 to $3.00
Stetson Army Hats and Serge Caps.
Smart Negligee Shirts
$1.00 to $3.50
Featuring fine silk mixture crepes, fibres, madras,
oxford and cord, in every pattern and color.
Bates, Manhattans, Yorke, newest spring shirts.
Easter Neckwear
Just what you'll want sparkling new
patterns in crepes, grenadines, Jap
silks, florals, novelties; thousands at
50tf to $2.50
Men's Footwear,
Featuring Hurley, Arnold Glove Grip,
Forbush and Bates Dress Shoes and Qx
fords for men and young men. "All the
new spring styles and leathers, at
$4.00 to $10.00
REMEMBER APRIL 6 STARTS THE THIRD LIBERTY LOAN DO YOUR PART
SEE
OUR
WINDOWS
TODAY
JOSH I A SWA.NSOM.mcs. iMI.'i
MM L HOlZMAN.a
CORRECT APPAREL FOR MEN AND WOMEN-
COMPARE
OUR
VALUES
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