THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1918
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MARCH CIRCULATION
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ttartta circulation for the month. aubarrlbed and iwom ta' by Dwijht
Wlllnroa. Ciroulatteo Manager. ,
Subscriber leaving the city should have) Tha Be mailed
ta them. Address changed aa often aa requested.
All line up for the Liberty loan.
j Every footstep in the parade tomorrow will
b a swat at the kaiser. Fall in.
5 Do your buying today, so you can lay off to
morrow and take part in (he parade.
f What the Omaha Hyphenated means to say
is;that it printed more words, not more news.
I Each dollar invested in Liberty bonds is a
pledge for the safety of our home institutions.
The rotten-egg candidates should be scratched
before the start of the municipal primary race.
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If eventually, why not now, when it comes to
disfranchizing alien enemy voters? Why wait
tlxee years?
T'HRD LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE.
When the third Liberty loan drive starts on
Saturday, it should get under headway with a
greater impetus than that which characterized
either of the others. Several reasons may be
cited for this. Americans are more than ever
aware of the truth that we are in a war. General
Pershing's order suspending the publication of
the casualty list, at a time when our own boys
are about to enter the most sanguinary conflict
of the war, has an ominous quality that must
impress every patriot with a sense of the situa
tion. Our boys are over there, and our dollars
must follow them.
The Bee already has published a synopsis cf
the operations of the Treasury department for
the current fiscal year, which includes the bond
sales. These figures justify the statement of the
secretary of the treasury that war expenditures
have not reached the limit of estimates, and for
that reason the loan at present is smaller than
anticipated. Only three billions and oversub
scriptions are to be issued. This amount, Mr.
McAdoo states, will carry the country well
through the calendar year. Practically all of the
great initial expenditures have been provided for.
Maintenance is now the problem.
Urgent demands for speeding up the war
work In America are being met, in part at least.
Transportation of troops to Europe will be ad
vanced as rapidly as physical difficulties can be
overcome, invents have driven home the truth
that our army is entirely too small to cope with
the great problem, and Its expansion is already
determined upon. Our national energies are
being concentrated at last upon the biggest job
we ever tackled.
Money alone will not win the war. But with
out money the war is lost. We entered on our
share of the war rather blindly, but now we are
going about it with a reasonable understanding
of what is required. The third loan will proba
bly not be the last, but it should be raised with
much less of effort than either of the others.
The Late John E. Redmond
Prime Minister's Tribute to Life Work of Irish Leader
Lloyd George in House of Commons, March 6.
It is quite appropriate that the general com
manding the aviation section of the Signal corps
snould make his journeys by airplane.
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The really sad thing about tile Wisconsin
election is that 102,000 men registered themselves
m favor of the kaiser by voting Jor Berger.
. The assessor is supposed to be again abroad
in the land just to remind us that death and
taxes are the two things that are unavoidable.
Remember how raising the salary of council
men from $1,800 to H500 a year was to get
higher grade men into the service of the city
for us?
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Every out-of-town visitor to , Omaha goes
back home enthusiastic over our city and tyjost-
n it as "comer.
boosting, too,
Let the home folks do some
.Washington is puzzled over the silence on
thj Picardy front, but the experts at the capital
may feel assured that Foch has, something in
view for the edification of his German visitors.
Des Moines is still busy adding to the army
establishment there for which the capture of the
cantonment gye the momentum. If Omaha only
haJ some live official representatives at Wash
ington, the administration might not keep us in
the stepchild class. '
, As was expected, the house rejected the sen
ate's $2.50 wheat price, and now the matter will
go to conference, and continue the disturbance,
while the food administrator is talking about
confiscation of all available grain. Better team
work is needed on this matter.
. ..Visualising the Great Battle.
To get a definite notion of the proportions of
the' great battle in Picardy, some concrete com
parisons are necessary. The mind does not read
ily grasp the stupendous facts of the conffict,
and even examination of thd map does not bring
home forcibly just what the struggle contains.
In their tremendous onslaught the Germans
bae overrun and occupied territory amounting
approximately to 1,000 square miles. This compares
with the size of Douglas county. The battle front
extends . distance of about the length of the
southern and western boundaries of the county.
Imigine, if you can, two armies struggling over
thia; field, one of them numerically equal to such
a force as might be constituted if every man,
woman and child In the state of Nebraska were
a soldier, and the other equaling the population
of jhe First and Second congressional districts.
Th losses on the German side amount to more
thajt the total number of voters in Wisconsin,
as indicated by the election of Tuesday, while
those of the Allies will reach a total equal to the
number of votes cast for. the successful candi
date at that election. These comparisons might
be Extended, but .will serve to givfc a notion of
what is involved in modern warfare.
Protect Nebraska's Potash Property.
The lure of war profits from Nebraska's pot
ash deposits is naturally tempting, but that is
no good reason why the interests of the school
children in the potash lakes that are pah of the
permanent school endowment should be sacri
ficed'. During the last legislature a bunch of
profiteering State-house politicians pushed
through a measure designed to give them a pre
ferred hold on the state's potash property, which
they proceeded to perfect by questionable leases
sanctioned by the state board, but subsequently
invalidated by supreme court decision. The same
democratic politicians,- always with an' eye to
their own pockets, seems to have persuaded Gov
ernor Neville to include legislation on this sub
ject in his extra session proclamation and they
are now busy trying to validate the leases knock
ed out by the supreme court
We believe the governor made a mistake in
yielding to the importunities oT the potash
profiteers, for this is no emergency matter what
ever. On the contrary, it calls for careful and
thorough study to make sure of drafting a law
fully protecting the public interest, as well as
the interests of private owners df adjoining
lands, which, it is plain, the bill' as introduced
pursuant to the governor's recommendation does
not do. The best thing that could happen to the
proposal to pump, the state school fund dry of
its potash lakes would be, to let it go over to
the next legislature.
I am sure the house ha9 been profoundly
snocnea oy tne unexpected news ol the death
of one of its oldest and its most respected
and eminent members. The usual procedure
wnen a aisunguisneo memDer ot tnis house
passes away is that a tribute of respect to his
memory should be paid two or three days
after the news of his death arrives. Un
fortunately, it was impossible to follow that
procedure on the present occasion, as I un
derstand members from Ireland preferred
that it should be done immediately. I only
mention that fact, because I only heard of it
about half an hour ago, and I only put for
ward this plea for the inadequacy of the
tribute which I pay to the memory of so dis
tinguished and eminent a statesman.
The government would have taken the
responsibility of moving the adjournment of
the house out of respect to the memory of
the late Mr. John Redmond, had it not heen
for the fact that the urgent necessities of the
war rendered it absolutely necessary that we
should carry through certain business. Me
had been a member of this house for 37
years. I rememberit is one of my first
memories in this house about 26 or 27 vears
ago, an old member of the house said to me,
pointing to Mr. John Redmond, "There goes
one of the most respected members in this
house." That is 26 or 27 years ago, and
since that date I am sure it will hr the uni
versal teelmg of all whA are present, and of
every member of the house, that he has
grown in the esteem and affection, the admir
ation, and the trust of all parties. (Cheers).
lliai IS a great mine to sav for anv mrmhr
of the house, but it certainly is a great thing
t say for a man who, during the whole ot
that period has been enarazed inrpstantlv in
one of the fiercest controversies of our time
controversies which aroused the deepest
passions of all men who took nart in them
with the most inflexible purpose, because, if
he won the respect and esteem of this house,
he never did it bv deviating
breadth from the principle which was the
dominant principle of his career. (Cheers.)
There may be, and there undoubtedly is,
possioiy even now, a ditterence of opinion as
to the policy which he stood for arid fought
for. - There is absolutely no difference of
opinion as to the ability, the genius, the
eloquence, the judgment, the dignity and the
honorableness with which he advocated that
policy. Above all, there is no one, either in
this house or out of it, who would for a mo
ment question the complete disinterestedness
with which he gave his life to his country.
There was no office or position in the British i
empire that his great Parliamentary talents
could not have entitled him to aspire to.
There was no position, in my judgment, that
he could not have: attained. He gave all hi
great gifts, not merely of Parliamentary
ofatory, which were almost unrivalled, but
nis gins ot real statesmansnip he gave
them all his time, his opportunity, his
strength, his health, and even his life to the
service of Ireland. (Cheers). And it is one
of the tragedies of a land of many tragedies
that he was not afforded the opportunity to
use to the lull those great powers of leader
ship and wise and sagacious statesmanship
for the benefit of his native land. Another
of its many tragedies is that lie was struck
down before he had achieved the great pur
pose of his life.
His attitude in the war has given him a
great place in the affections of Britain, and
there is no man of British race throughout
the world, wherever he is, who will read o
his death today except with unfeigned sor
row and with a feeling that it is a blow and
a loss not merely to Ireland, but to Britain
as well. He was a man of real breadth of
view. He knew when to fight; he knew when
to make peace. He was a man of real
courage. He had the courage not merely to
face toes; he had the more difficult and try
ing courage to know when to face friends
and to face misconception among friends,
ne yearnea tor conciliation, ior tne recon-
cilation of the feuds of centuries. He
yearned passionately for it He yearned as a
man who wanted to see conciliation before
his hour struck. He labored for it. Union
ists have told me with enthusiasm ani with
pride of his work in the convention, the re
spect and confidence he won there by some
of the greatest speeches of his career.
They trusted him. They believed in him.
Their hopes rested upon him, upon his in
tegrity as well as his sagacity. They spoke
witn teeiing ot a man -they had spent a life in
fiehting. He went there bowed with sorrow.
We know now even the physical tortures he
endured when he was serving his country in
that trying position. The last time I saw him
was only a few days ago. He was a broken
man, and death was written on his face. But
his last word to me was a plea for concord
concord between two races that Providence
has decided should work together for the com
rnon ends of humanity as neighbors. He has
passed away. We can only here in this house
extend sympathy to his sorrowing familv
and friends, yea, and to the sorrowing coun
try which is berett ot his w-.se leadership at
inc greatest crisis ot us xaie. veneers;.
Sheer Brutal Barbarity.
Every step taken so far by the German gov-;
ernment in connection with the war has been
characterized by njthlesaness, but none shows
the brutal barbarity of the Hun more e'early
than his deportation of civilians to be enslaved
in Germany or elsewhere. One of the latest ex
amples of this violation of the laws of humanity,
and war as well, is that of French men and
women carried into Russia to do hard work,
where, of all places a sufficient supply of labor
should be available. These unfortunates have
been enslaved and subjected to barbarous treat
ment to -further a trick that might dupe the
French government into a recognition of Ger
man citizenship for Alsatians who have escaped
into France. The childishness of the attempt is
so apparent that it would be ridiculous if under
taken by another nation, but a government that
depends for its existence on suppression of all
individual rights and hopes to establish its su
premacy over others by terror may be expected
to resort even to this sublimation of barbarity.
It well exemplifies the genius of kultur.
Reports that Russia is to raise another army
will create-but moderate excitement among the
Allies, who well recall that the tame power now
proposing to form a fighting force willfully de
stroyed one at a time when it would have been
of Immense service to the cause of freedom. The
German drive on the west front was made possi
ble by the disbanding ef the Russian army under
bolshevik influences, whose abilities for construc
tion are far less than their capacity to destroy.
The weather mart is also reminded that he
is charged with some responsibility, and that
it will be looked upon as unfriendly, to say the
least, if he turns on a rainstorm for Saturday
afternoon.
Leniency Invites Lawlessness
Americans are not by nature at all blood
thirsty, but it is evident that they are be
ginning to fret over the strange tenderness
with which aliens openly inimical and na
tives as openly disloyal have been and are
treated in this country by the various gov
ernmental authorities, federal and state. It
is also evident that, unless there i an .'m.
mediate change of policy in the laws dealing
with these dangerous foes, there may be a
lamentaDie outDreak ot lawlessness. The in
evitable result of that will be the maltreat
ment in ways more or less serious of many
persons who have excited what may be
groundless suspicion among' their neighbors,
and even when the punishment inflicted by
irresponsible mobs has been earned by evil
acts or evil communication, its infliction as
"wild, justice," always has other and lament
able effects, including that of creating or
confirming distrust and contempt for the law.
From several towns reports of lawless
acts are already arriving, and theSe repre
hensible proceedings are sure to increase in
number and fierceness unless steps are taken
to convince the public that spies, pro-Germans,
and plotters of destruction among us
can be left to the constituted authorities , in
confidence that they will be made to realize
the gravity of their offenses. Too many of
our oenanr. enemies are paroled in the cus
tody of their lawyers. Too many of them
.who seem to have deserved long imprison
ment, or death itself, escape with short
sentences or -vtith internment in camps,
where they live well in a leisure that strikes
the fbyal citizen outside, struggling with the
high cost of living, as altogether too
pleasant. Jew York limes.
Life of the Home at Stake
The life of the home is just now at stake
in more than one vital sense. The menace
of Germany is primarily aginst the home.
If the Teutons had left the homes of the
peoples they have overrun as nearly inviolate
as did the armies of the American civil war.
the, horror of their deeds would not have so
gripped the whole world. But ft is the home
that they have been systematically keen to
wsnonor, oenie ana destroy. Ana in the
last analysis, It is the home, the heart of
America, that American boys in this war will
fight to the last ditch to defend.
An old saying of English law is: "A
man's home is his castle;" and to this creed
America is heir. Instinctively Americans re
sent any univited intrusion into the home
even under guise of officialdom. So long as
an American obeys America's mild code of
laws, no public official key can be made that
will fit the lock of his home door. But in
Germany the government has a pass key to
the front door and the inner closet of every
subject; and it stops not to wipe its boots on
the doormat before entering.
Our soldiers in France have been sent by
nation, state and city. The service flasrs
hanging m lodge rooms and churches, and
those floating before office doors and oubllc
buildings mean something. But the place
from which the boy was most truly sent.
from which the heart's deepest desire will
follow, and to which the soldier will some
day be most aboundingly welcomed back, is
the place where the little service flag with
the big lone star hangs m the window.
The true heart of this nation, as of any
nation worthy to exist, is the home. Minne
apolis Journal.
People and Events
Only American citizens mav obtain a sa
loon license in Chicago now. Kultur hits a
hard road even with Bill Thompson at the
wheel.
That $1,500,000 fire at Jersey City started
from a cigarette in the hands of a reckless
smoker. The combination spots the most
imposing firebug in the country.
rut in next winters coal now, is a
country-wide slogan. What boots it if last
winter's bill overlaps! Let it rip, provided
the spring high sign works with dealers.
One of St. Joseph's aliens misjudged his
company in a pool hall when he cut loose
with hunnish cheers. An allied fist quickly
collided with the jaw and stopped the output.
Subsequently the police judge gave the de
cision to the owner of the fist, with the re
mark: "More power to your elbow."
"Love's young dream" shattered by a cold
mitten, prompts a Jersey maiden of tender
years to air in court her heartache and "pro
tect other girls from being deceived as she
was," The tact that the cruel man is reputed
to be a multimillionaire lends 6ome piquancy
to the case, and serves to raise the limit of
heart damages to $1,000,000.
Out in Salt Lake City a dentist extorted
from a woman customer an extra $10 by
.1 t . T a..
locKing ine aeotor in a secluded room. The
imprisoned customer rustled the tenner by
telephone, sued for damages and got a ver
dict that will spoil the doctor's income for
a year. Moreover the award has just been
approved by the state supreme court.
I A score of "hot cross bun" 'makers in
Chicago "put one over" while Hoover's
agents shifted their gaze from the flour bins.
The sleuths came back on the run and per
suaded the bun makers to dig up consider
ably more than the profits for the benefit of
the Red Cross. It takes a smooth profiteer
to get away with the unmixed dough.
Further researches by hirsute savants
buttress the conclusion that red hair
symbolizes with , temperature at the roots.
The Medical Record, quoting a medic who
knows, says the "red head is a live wire,
throbbing with energy, violent emotions.
vivid imagination and sanguine hopes."
Naturally they are healthy, owing to their
superior facilities for burning up enemy dis
ease germs. Brunettes and blondes will
please take notice and step aside.
Democracy makes progress in the stand
ard oil plants in New York and New Jersey.
From now on some 8,000 employes will have
their say about working conditions, wages,
hours and everything affecting their im
mediate welfare. Last week the employes
by ballot chose from their own ranks men
to represent them before the big and little
officials of the company. The change was
istituted by the head men of the company
apd will be extended to 30,000 men.
Quite a colony of blue sky stock .pro
moters are in the toils in New York. Most
of the promoters ooerated locallv. where
pickings are uncommonly good. A few hit
the road, still claiming New York as their
headquarters. One of this class of get-rich-quickers
was overhauled at New Orleans
while peddling hot air certificates. His was
a fascinating money getter of the film order
and worked fairly well, yielding $250,000 in
two years for the promoters. Investors hold
ornate certificates as souvenirs. Nothing
more.
Christian Science War Work.
Omaha, April 3. To the Editor of
The Bee: About 29,500 articles were
prepared and sent to enlisted men
and war refugees by the comforts
forwarding committee, conducted by
the Christian Scientists of the Boston
district and located at 32S Boylston
street. Boston, during the firwt three
months of the committee's work.
Among th goods forwarded were K,
000 knitted articles and comfort kits.
5,500 articles of new clothing for
French, Italian, Belgian and Serbian
refugee children, and about 8,000 se
lected second-hand or remade articles
of clothing;.
)ne American ship has btn suo
plied with enouifh knitted fcoods.
totaling 8,500 pieces, to equip all the
Bailors on board. A large number of
the knitted Karments and other com
forts have been turned over to the
different war relief associations in
Boston which are in direct conimuni
cation with the people of their re
spective countries, notably the British,
frencn, Italian, and Belgian associ
atlons. Some of the recruits from
Boston for the British and Canadian
forces were supplied with knitted
articles before they left home.
A feature of the comforts forward
ing committee's work which ha
brought Rt!cnd-d results is the "unit
system" of preparing new garments
lor refugee children. Ten of the com
mittee were first instructed in the
making of a model garment, each of
tne ten instructed ten others and the
latter became captains of teams of
ten others whom they in turn instruct
ed. Two groups of team captains rct
at tne committee's rooms every day t
receive instructions and material for
use by themselves and the members
of their respective teams, who work
at leisure moments at home. Thus
1,100 sewers are banded together for
this particular part of the com
mittee's program and they are turn
ing out an average of over 1,000 gar
ments a week. In this work, thev
have been greatly assisted by ono of
the patriotic manufacturing companies
".i uoston, wnicn orrerea and has un
dertaken to do all th cutting re-
quirec-i for thee garments.
Before beginning to pew for the
reruffees of any country, the commit
tee ascertained not only what articles
were needed but also the form and
material desired, so" far as was nsa!
ble. It was learned, for instanco that
so common an article of general use
as a pillow case was, in one country
for which the teams were sewing, very
unlike the pillow case of the Amer
ican home. For knitters, wool is sold
over the counter, Instructions are
given, and the finished garment is
returned to the committee's head
quarters when ready. In addition,
there are four knitting machines in
operation, on each of which it is pos
sible to knit a pair of socks in 20
minutes.
Much praise- has been given to the
comforts forwarding committee of the
Christian Scientists by persons associ
ated with other war relief organiza
tions, for the high quality of tha ar
ticles produced and the systematic
manner of, their productions. Nnarly
BOO such committees are conducted bv
Christian Scientists throughout the
United States,
CLAUDE L. DEU)NG,
Committee on Publication.
hla caae. receirat aa tdverM deeiiioe ant
then appeals again. Fuck.
"I can't par this bill, doctor. It's xorbl,
tant. I'm no better than I was, althar."
"That's because you didn't taka my ad4
vlca"
"Ah well of course If I didn't take It. I
don't aire you tor It. Thanks! Good monu
ing." Boston Transcript.
"Yea can't tool the people all the
time."
"I don't want to fool 'em all the time
declared the alleged statesrhan. "Just a
few weeks before election will do me."
Loulsvlllo Courier-Journal.
"Tney say It was a banquet of regal
magnificence the Spenders gave at their
daughter's part'-" ,
"So it was. All the bread served was
made out of real flour." Baltimore American.
"I have heard of people who take their
pleasures seriously."
"Tes?"
"Did yoti ever meet a person of that
sort?"
"Quite often. Any man who plays a good
game of poker takes hta pleasures seriously."
Birmingham Age-Harald.
WHEN SINGING APRIL CAME.
Isabel McKinney, in Poetry.
When singing April came, the land awoke,
And love-of-llberty, perennial.
Pushed up Its cosily crimson through the
sod
In every sheltered garden. April sang.
As ever, mattngs of unnumbered blrda.
And all the shy and sweet Imaginings
Of woods and fields, the beauty and the hope
Of the live world; but piercing clear and sad
In the swift wind, and In the vibrant light.
Even In the throbbing notes" of orioles.
She sang of death, and rang a challenge out;
And the red flower flamed high beneath
her words:
"Oh, sorrow for the shining, wind-swept
highways of tha seal
They are made foul with blood.
Oh. sorrow for the beauty of earth.
For glowing orchards and quivering fields,
For Jeweled cities bumming In the sun
They are laid waste and desolate.
Oh, sorrow for the beauty of young sonls
Hiding their vessels of fire beneath their
cloaks!
The great wind has torn their mantles
away.
And filled the heaven with burning.
And wrapped them In a winding sheet of
flame."
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MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"The fair defendant has been acquitted."
"So I hesr."
"Is ahe thinking of going on the stage?"
"Not yet. She's too smart for that. She's
going to marry her lawyer and save a cork
ing Dig fee," Birmingham Age-Herald.
The young men we used to be was wont
to warble occasionally to hla lady love.
jsver ot tnee rm tondly dreaming." v
Our son Plunks a ukulele and bawla soul.
fully, "Tou are my Honolulu , kid." Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
"It Is more blessed to five than to re
ceive," quoted the Sage.
Maybe," commented the Fool. "But tt
men out of 199 want to serve on the receiv
ing end." Minneapolis Tribune.
Black He's a young lawyer, and des
perately tn love.
White Tea. he enters an appearance at
the girl's home threa nights a week, pleads
11
Wov&i which describe
pianoforte construction
tail to convey a true
Idea, ot .musical
quality. .
, -. To hear
thf Mason & Hamlin,
Is the only way to re
alize that it W a jewel
or imperi$habe tone"
as distinguished from
insrrumentf depend
ing solely onVputa-
ncm ror meir sale.
4s US ta sv4omr
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m&utpritt.
Sidney Silber Plays tha Maien
4 Hamlin Exclusively.
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POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
One Tear A-o Today In the War. '
House of representative passed
resolution declaring state ot wax with
Germany, -
Congrese asked for $3,502,317,000
to finance first year of war.
Oermans launched vigorous attack
northwest of Kheims in effort to re
lieve pressure on 81 Quentin.
Just 30 Years Ago Today
Genera) George Crook was nomi
nated by the president to be major
general of the army.
Mr. Boyd announces the most
notable dramatie event in the history
or Omaha the appearance of Ameri
cas greatest actors Edwin Booth
The Day We Celebrate.
Harry 8. Culver, born 1 871.
Henry fit George Tucker, Virginia
lawyer, bora at Winchester, Va., 5
year ago.
Joseph 8techer, professional wres
tier, born at Dodge, Neb., 2i years
This Pay In Blatory. and Lawrence Barrett in "Julius
, 1795-By the peaee of Basel. Prus- fEn Y1en,c
aia abandoned the German cause and .S,, .,'ftcbet5' ' General
eeded to France her territory on the ! mW,JJ- f,nt J; boM
left bank of the Rhine. m ',0 ,nd 10: Kallery, tl.',
18l The Federals under MoClel- Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Evans,' well
lan commenced the alege of York- known proprietors of the City Steam
t0J'vv " " laundry, have returned from a trip of
IMS-Rev. Robert B. C. Howell, eight weeks to the Taciflo coast
for 10 years president of the southern - ... ...
Baptlat convention, died at NashvUie, , ? .:?,,' nuI"b,r .ot do licensee
Teim. Born In Wayne county, North MUCd up 1111 today ."..
C!lf aVJiarch !? im- . ! At the meeting of the Toung Men's
"1-rnan(51n railway tunnel. Democratic club, held in J. A7creih.
'M Ch".' "V0 Argentine Re-, ton. office. Charles Ogden. John At
PU, aft W TL opene1' 1 foherty. Joseph Garneau. C. a Mon
rtti 8tat' ,JnnJ sorcery. Jr.: John K. Boyd, and J? B.
It Mwui(m0Trnany for nklng. Riley were elected delegates to the
t the William P. Frye. , . J convention of democratic clubs.
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"Over There and Here"
A "patriotic burglar" in Upper
Manhattan expressed to the revenue
agent his readiness to pay an income
tax provided he is not required to tell
where he got It.
The kaiser's congratulations to the
Krupps on the "success" ot the won
der gun suggest the Joy ot a fat
dividend in prospect Bill and the
Krupps are partners.
When the battle of the Marne
reached a critical stage General Foch,
the new commander-in-chief, sent this
graphic message to General Joffre:
"My right ia In disorder, my left al
most In rout . I shall charge with the
center." That was the stroke that
sent Von Kluck reeling backward.
Any husky boss beyond draft age
and possessing experience in dock
Work Is eligible for a commission
ranging from lieutenant to major by
getting next to Uncle Bam. Lota of
work, and big work in that line, is to
be done on the other side, and re
wards are sure In proportion to the
skill and energy displayed.
The executive committee of the
British wheat commission, sitting in
London, keeps in closer touch with
the wheat situation than any existing
body. Every morning cables come
from Its agents in the United States,
Canada, South America, Australia,
India, and South Africa, telling how
much wheat has been bought the
amount ready for shipment and the
amount shipped. The commission in
reality is an international grain buy
ers combine backed by , the royal
treasury, and the success of its opera
tions spells national lite, '"
Right to the Point
St Louis Globe-Democrat: It took
the greatest war in history to make
congress recognize the needs ot salary
increases tor postal clerks.
Baltimore American: American
soldiers are winning war crosses al
most as fast as the Germans. But the
main difference is that the Americans
are earning them as well.
Minneapolis Journal: The crown
prince has been made ohief ot the
Grenadiers. He threw a hand grenade
at some British prisoners 10 miles be
hind the line,
Washington Post: Some are trying
to make adequate comments on the
kaiser's appeals to his God, but it
would be hard to improve on what
Elijah remarked to the priests ot
Baal
Louisville Courier-Journal: "God
willing we shall overcome the enemy
in the west," says General von
Hlndenburg. Quite so. In other
words, it will be dry under foot if it
doesn't rain.
Baltimore American: German own
ers of seised property here will get
Its value after the war. What Ger
many would do in a like case here
with us is already proved by what it
has done with seized property in Bel
gium. New Tork World: Daily reports
from Berlin say that "the fortress of
Paris was bombarded by; long range
guns." Paris is not a fortress. It is
a fortified city, and international law
prescribes that in such cases there
must be due notice of attack so that
noncombatants may be removed.
Must a Prussian lie J -
Twice Told Tales
Cause and Effect.
.One afternoon an esteemed citizen
named Mike was going down the
street when, in passing a group of
foundry employes, he heard them
mention the name of Thomas Casey
in a sympathetic voice.
"Shurc an Oi heard yez sayin' some
thin' about Casey," said Mike, Joining
the group. "Phat's the matter wid
tym?"
"Iverythlng the matter wid him,"
sadly answered one of the party. "The
big illctrio hammer at the foundry
fell on his chest an' killed him."
"Faith an' Oi'm not surprised to
hear thot" thoughtfully commented
Mike. "Casey always did have a
weak chest" New Tork Mall.
Government Workers.
Some time since a certain es
teemed citizen who held down a gov
ernments position returned to his
home on a visit and passed around
among .his envious friends.
, "You are looking fine, Jim," re
marked a friend, as they stopped to
light a cigar at Jim's expense. "Your
new line seems to agree with you."
"Yes," cheerfully assented the
other. "It might be a whole lot
worse."
"By the way, Jim." asked the
friend a few minutes later, "How
many people work in your depart
ment?" "I don't know exactly," was the
smiling reply of Jim; "but, roughly
guessing, i unouia say aDout one-
third of them." Philadelphia Tele-aW
Home Rule For
. Omaha
It wa a Ion, hard fight for Omaha to
yet the right of Home Rule. It has had the
right for Seven Years, but it has not used it
Harry B. Zimman. former City Council
man and Mayor, was' a pioneer in seeking
to get the right Now. as a candidate for
City Commission, he favors using it.
Mr. Zimman, years ago, got the League
ef American Municipalities to Petition the
Governors of every state -to bring Home
Rule for cities to the attention of their leg
islatures. He helped to get a Nebraska
! legislature to approve it and the people
of Nebraska to vote for it
As a City Commissioner, Mr. Zimman
proposes to have a Home Rule Charter sub
mitted to the voters. If one Charter is re
jected, he proposes to have another sub
mitted, until one is submitted that the
Voters can approve.
That will free Omaha from legislative
domination and interference. No one who
knows the difficulties of intelligent legis
lative consideration of a big city's problems
can underestimate the value of such a
promise.
Vote For
Harry B. Zimman
Will Sell Ten Shares $l,00O 8 Per Cent
, Preferred Stock
Skinner Macaroni Co., of Omaha, for
$950.00
if taken at one. This stock said at tl20 per share. There
is now 20 of scented earnings which goes with the stock.
SNYDER, Wellington Inn.
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