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    THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1918
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MARCH CIRCULATION
'"" 66,558 Daily Sunday, 56,553
Itartta circulation for the month, lubeorlbea and emirs to by Dwltht
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Be a bell ringer.
The mob at Collinsville is learning that ours is
a government by law.
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Mr. Weatherman, isn't it time for you to do
your share to speed up our backyard gardens?
Mr. Wilson is doing his best to keep the coun
try on an even keel, but some of his subordinates
persist in rocking the boat.
Uncle Sam's airplane department is all tip in
the air, paradoxically, because there are no air
planes ready to go up in the air.
Soldiers at Camp Funston prepared for Gen
eral Wood a welcome that echoes the sentiments
of the American people for that gallant soldier.
Someone asks what would happen if one or
more of the 14 city corrunissjonership nominees
should now quit.' Why. ask such a foolish ques
tion? :'., ' ' ' "
Matters along the Mexican border are reach
ing a stage that may force a renewal of "watch
ful waiting." Carranza seems to be looking for
real trouble his time.
I Let us direct your attention to the fact that
Representative Shallenherger, who is making
such a noisy' fight on the selective draft law at
Washington, is not a republican. , '
The Berlin editors had occasion to print an
other extra edition. A shell from the "terror
gun" hit a foundling asylum in Faris and killed
several new; born babes, ipecies of murder in
which kultur delights. '
- Count Czernin says Austria is true to Ger
many, but Emperor Karl says the kaiser should
let go of Alsace and Lorraine, and there you have
the harmony that prevails between the two part
ners in the plunderbund.
Trouble at Vladivostok grows primarily out
of resistance of foreigners to looting by the bol
shevik!. These apostles of liberty cannot under
stand why they are not to be permitted to plunder
as freely one place as another, so long as it is
done in the name of the people.
An Omaha socialist spOuter pleaded in
court that most of his disloyal remarks were
made "in fun," and that he said some things
without knowing what they meant If he could
have gotten away with it, he would have been
a hero in the 'red" camp, but as it is he will
have to be content with the crown of a martyr,
for the court refused to release him.
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What a Woful Waste of Words.
At the instigation of the New York World
an expert accountant has made a careful compu
tation of the number of words spoken in the two
houses of congress during the month of March,
finding that the word output embalmed in the
Congressional Record, when reduced to figures,
was 3,12f,402, or an average of 100,000 for every
day in the month, including Sundays, holidays
and adjournments for recovery from exhaustion.
The World refers to this "as an orgy of oratory
that runs on endlessly through the season."
We regret to note that the expert accountant
does not distinguish the proportions that belong
respectively to house and senate, or give us any
way of ascertaining which of them is contribut
ing more or less than its share to the outflow.
It Is fair to assume that while the membership of
the house is in round numbers four times that of
the senate, the "leaves to print" are correspond
ingly greater and that the amount of white paper
consumed by each as word carriers is somewhere
near equal.
They are preaching conservation at us in
congress all the time, but this woful waste of
words proves that there is no conservation of
conversation.
! PLUNKETT ON THE IRISH QUESTION.
I Sir Horace Plunkett, who was chairman of the
Iri.-li convention, has written a letter, transmit
' ting the report of the convention, which throws
:i;.t on tne situation, sir jiorace siares mat
failure to ;.grce unanimously on a plan for self
govcinmrnt for Ireland i due to the persistent
i'p i i ; n nf the U'st'-r unionist. Southern un---
nationali.st i and five of seven lahorites
tinit.ii in Miiiri of the plan submitted, and
whivh Sir Horace surest s should be enacted
into Liu. He points out alo a fact that is quite
apparent, that the I'Uterites and the minority
of the nationalists, in their reports, minimize the
agreement and emphasize the disagreement.
Charges of had faith against the government
are made by both sides, although the turmoil
seems to be caused by a group of extremists at
either end, who are irreconcilable, and whose
views will probably not he accepted by the ma
jority in parliament at tin's time. Sir Horace
warns the government that the question has be
come acute, because "in the dominions and the
United States, as well as in the allied countries,
the unsettled Irish question is a disturbing fac
tor, both as regards war efforts and peace aims."
This is particularly true in the United States,
where a group may be found supporting one or
the other of the contending factions. Each of
these for the moment overlooks the fact that
much more is at stake in the war than a differ
ence of opinion between Belfast and Cork. They
must not be surprised if the people of the United
States decline to consider seriously their fac
titious divisions, or if their efforts to enlist sup
port for a movement to embarrass Great Britain
in its war plans come to naught.
War's Grimmest Aspect.
A few words in one of the dispatches from
London disclose the awful nature of the present
struggle on the flat grounds of Flanders. TJiere
war has assumed its grimmest aspect, that of
scientific slaughter. Victory now depends on
which side can kill the most men in the shortest
time, and 6upply Its own losses with least delay.
This phase of warfare has from the beginning
characterized German tactka The theory of the
kaiser's general staff is that oi overwhelming
the enemy by sheer force of numbers, regardless
of losses sustained. If 10 men are started and
one reaches the objective, the other nine being
killed on the way, the high command reckons a
victory. Allied commanders have been loath to
adopt this form of fighting, and even now, when
desperately defending threatened positions, are
chary about wasting, men in useless slaughter.
But the German horde shows no consideration
and leaves no alternative. Defenders must sustain
the shock of tremendous bodies of men who move
on in utter disregard of death. How long Ger
many can afford to pay the price is the ques
tion. A1 feebler British army checked the drive
for the Channel ports in 1914 and the splendid
organization under Ilaig will not give way now.
Americans, confident of the steadfast quality of
the defense, must stand aghast at the inhuman
purposes of the kaiserbund as revealed in the
battle as it now rages.
Marvin. Hughitt Retires.
Having passed his eightieth birthday, Marvin
Hughitt retires from the chairmanship of the di
rectorate of the Northwestern and from active
connection with the affairs of that great railroad
system. No other reason is given for his action,
so the assumption is warranted that Mr. Hughitt
seeks a little rest from the toil of a busy life,
spent in the building up of one of the greatest
transportation services known to the world. Pio
neer among the railroads, the Northwestern is in
separably connected with the settlement and de
velopment of the west, and Marvin Hughitt's
name is so connected with the railroad that they
can not be told apart. What the seven prosper
ous states so well served by the railroad he
helped to build owe to his foresight and energy
can not be estimated, but it is shown in some slight
degree by the evidence of material well-being to
be noted along the various lines of the system.
Marvin Hughitt has been a builder, not of rail
roads alone, but of communities, and his service
in this way is beyond computation. Of him it
has been Raid that he managed the Northwestern
in the interest of the stockholders, and allowed
no financial freebooters or stock-juggling pirates
ever to climb aboard. He found that to serve his
stockholders he must serve well the patrons of
the railroad he directed, and this he did. Omaha,
as one of the great centers of Northwestern ac
tivity, long has had an interest in Marvin Hughitt,
and will not now relax its friendly concern.
What do the loyal people of Nebraska really
think of the effort of the Hitchcock-Mullen
bunch to put through the legislature that "pro
viso" in the declaratory citizenship amendment
to the constitution? Do they realize that this
"joker" would continue the right of foreign-born
residents to claim exemption from military serv
ice because not yet naturalized and at the same
time vote and hold office while American boys
subject to the draft are fighting in the trenches
in Europe?
Captain Fersius, the German naval critic, ad
mits the kaiser blundered when he (orced the
United States into the war. Some day a German
will be found who will admit that the kaiser
blundered when he started the war in 1914.
. German Menace in Far East
Time Ripe For Japan to Act With All Its Power
N. Kato, London Editor "Osaka Mainichi," a Japanese Daily.
Japan's special position, both physically
and politically, in the war made its statesmen
think tiiat its hour of wholehearted military
co-operation had not yet struck. The phys
ical difficulties of sending a large army to
ihe European theater were so great that
even with it utmost endeavor it would have
been something like beating the roof of a
high building with the tip of a long pole.
Politically it was waiting for the time
when the public opinion, both of its own na
tion and that of its allies, would have come
to the unanimous agreement that its military
intervention was a matter of indispensable
importance. Such a concord of public opin
ion, both at home and abroad, has, in my
opinion, at last come.
The German menace in the Far East is
now serious enough to arouse the patriotic
enthusiasm to a high pitch, which spirit is
most essential for a victorious war for any
nation, especially for the Japanese people,
whose moral code is so much centered upon
the love of country.
Suppose for a moment that Germany
could launch a few submarines in the Pacific,
using Vladivostok as its naval base, or send
out thence a few squadrons of airplanes
across the channel to attack the defenseless
cities and towna within the range of such air
raids, what would be the consequence? It
would mean an entire paralysis of the Japa
nese shipping now engaged in Japan's own
commercial enterprise, as well as in the all
important service for the allied cause, and,
moreover, it would mean that the wooden
houses of the Japanese towns would be put
to fire like a box of matches in a grate!
The liberation of German prisoners in Si
beria is another danger which might happen
at any moment when Russia and Siberia come
under the domination of Germany. Japan's
hour to intervene has now arrived, if simply
for the sake of its self-protection. But Japan's
responsibility is more than its own defense,
because no one can possibly fail to see the
disastrous consequence which might arise
out of German penetration to the Far East.
It is as if the front door of a house had
been opened to it on account of the Russian
abject surrender, but the key of the back
door is in Japan's hands. Can Japan be so
unifaithful to the allied cause as to abandon
that key to the enemy's hands even without
a struggle? God forbid! The guardianship
of the Far Eastern peace is one of the most
sacred duties of Japan, for which fulfilment
it would fain stake its own national destiny.
Here lies the foundation of understanding
among all the allies, whose public opinion
have now become so ripe that whatever
Japan would deem it its duty to undertake
to check a world calamity would be acknowl
edged by all its allies with full accord and
perfect confidence.
Japan's proved loyalty to the allied causes
goes without saying by this time. The west
ern allies can very well rest assured that
Japan will never betray their interests, even
under the crushing weight of German arms.
What Japan wants at this critical moment is
a free hand to play its' entrusted role in the
world's war.
When the, neutrality of, Belgium was
trampled upori by Germany did France wait
for a mandate from its allies to take the nec
essary step to defend its own country? What
Belgium was to the safety of France, Siberia
is to the safety of Japan. To defend itself
is to defend the allies as a whole. There is
no discrepancy of interests between Japan
and its allies, even including Russia itself,
for whose national safety Japan is pledged
to give its assistance by the letter and spirit
of the late Russo-Japanese agreement.
We Japanese are not going to fight
against the Russian people; far from it, we
arc going to do our best to save them from
the German domination, if not in Europe,
at least in the Far East. The coming gen
eration of Russia will surely be thankful for
Japan's intervention at this critical moment.
History will judge our unselfish motive in
even temporarily occupying the tenantless
Siberia.
The most effective co-operation of Japan
in this war lies in the part it is going to play
in the outer court of its own home land. If
we could control in time the whole Trans
Siberian railways we might very likely be
able to save Petrograd from German occupa
tion. If this honor be denied to us, we shall
be satisfied wkh the bit of work to check
the German invasion east of the Ural.
Japan's turn of full co-operation in the
world war has at last come. It is surely the
interest of its western allies, as well as of
the United States of America, that they
should not frustrate its utmost effort in its
allotted task for the salvation of the world
by any unnecessary diplomatic pedantry and
much lamented lethargy. I am glad that the
full understanding among the allies has been
arrived at to enable Japan to move as it
thinks proper.
German in the Schools
Real Knowledgeof Language Necessary, But Not Propaganda
Boston Transcript.
The agitation against teaching of German
in the public schools is partly wrong, but
more largely right. It is quite right and en
tirely desirable that there shall be a wide
spread and expert knowledge of the German
language in this country, not only for defen
sive, but for business reasons. It has been
well said that if you are dealing with a sharp
competitor, you cannot succeed against him
unless you know what is in his mind, and in
order to know that you must be acquainted
with his language. This is one reason why
it is desirable that all those who have deal
ings with the Germans should be familiar
with their language. There is, besides, an
enormous store of practical and expert
knowledge on every scientific subject that is
to be found recorded only in German. Our
military men, as well as those of France and
Germany, are compelled to consult German
books and reports which have never been
translated. 'The desirability of a knowledge
of German is axiomatic. Nobody denies it.
The Germans themselves have set us an ex
ample in this line by the familiarity with
English and French which they have shown
during this war.
No one, in fact, seriously proposes to put
the German language aside. But what we
should get rid of is the useless smattering
of German which is about all that the pupil
in the public schools has ever gained from
the official teaching of that language. What
does the pupil, in either the elementary or
the high schools, usually obtain from the in
struction in German which he has had? No
more than a hazy idea that the language of
Schiller and Goethe is something full of awe
and moment, but beyond his reach. He also
gets, if he gets anything, a considerable
amount of deliberate German propaganda.
Frederick the Great, the founder of Prussian
militarism; William the First, butcher of the
Liberals of 1848, trampler upon France, and
even William the Sudden, chief purveyor of
the massacres and outrages of Belgium and
France, apostle of frightfulness and blas
phemer of God, have all been glorified in this
German school literature laid before our
trussing children in the public schools. With
all this propaganda, no useful knowledge,
generally speaking, of the German language
(ias been disseminated. Of all the American
nen and women who have really learned the
German language, and whose knowledge of
it has perhaps been of some use to the coun
try in the present emergency, how many have
learned it in the public schools? Extremely
few; perhaps none at all. The public school
teaching of the language has been, willingly
or unwillingly, to a larger extent German
propaganda than it has been effective in
struction in the German tongue. It could
be discontinued without any sacrifice or im
pairment of the expert knowledge which it
is an undoubted advantage to possess.
The idea is not to sweep away, but rather
to extend, a proper knowledge of German.
Insofar as it is a public or a private benefit
to know the language, it should still be
taught. Business and technical schools
should undoubtedly teach it, and teach it
thoroughly, conversationally, idiomatically.
Officers of the United States army should be"
found in every battalion who can speak and
understand the language well. . West Point
and Annapolis will do well to develop their
close and practical instruction in it. Those
who undertake to master any branch of sci
ence should learn it well. An idiomatic
knowledge of the language is open in this
country to any individual who will acquire it
and is willing tq acquire it in the patient
and zealous manner by which, and by which
alone, a practical knowledge of any foreign
tongue can be obtained. To say, "Away with
everything German, from A to Z, just be
cause it is German," is foolish. But it is
also foolish, and worse than foolish, to con
tinue that gilded smattering of German
which is all that the average elementary and
high school student of the language gets. It
is purely mischievous, and a hurtful perver
sion of scholasticism.
Americanizing Americans
A Future Task
At the Americanization conference in
Washington the other day there were gov
ernors of 18 states, members of the State
Council of Defense and representatives of
many educational institutions and industrial
interests of the country. The purpose of
the 'gathering and of various associations is
to promote from this time on the real
Americanizing of all who may become Amer
ican citizens or who exercise the privilege or
enjoy the benefit of living under American
law and government. The importance of this
is being forcibly emphasized at this time.
The United States has been a free country,
open to all who see fit to make it their home.
Part of its policy has been to afford free
education to its people, but the different for
eign elements have been free to go their own
way in education.
Hence there are regions in which the
English language, the language of the United
States, is an unknown tongue in families and
in schools. The native tongue of foreign set
tlers is kept up and they persist as foreign
communities, with their old traditions and
habits. They retain sentiments of people
who are liable to become enemies of the
United States. Now everybody who ex
ercises the rights of American citizenship
should be able to speak, if not to read and
write, the language of the United States. All
pupils in public schools should be taught that
language. No other should be the language
in which the exercises of any public institu
tion is conducted. The people living in the
United States as regular or permanent resi
dents, as subjects to their laws and entitled
to their rights, should be Americanized in
their education, and so far as possible in their
views and habits.
After this war there should be an end,
not of personal liberty or equal rights, but
of special privileges in maintaining com
munities that segregate themselves to pre
serve foreign qualities and characteristics,
which are likely to bring them into conflict
with other elements of the population and
put them on the foreign side in any interna
tional differences. There can be no sudden
transformation and it is to be hoped that
there will be no occasion to consider "enemy
aliens" in the future, but our educational and
social system should be directed hereafter
to Americanizing all those who assume or
presume to be Americans. New York Jour
nal of Commerce.
On Year Ago Today In the War.
British extended Arras victory and
routed Germans on 30 miles of front.
Russian provisional government
greeted America, In message to Pres.
,ldent Wilson, and pledged collabora-
tlon for war and peace. t
Th Day W Celebrate.
Charles W. Baker, president of the
.Baker Construction company, born
1875. - ' -
Charles H. SherrtH, former Amerl.
can minister to Argentine, now adju
, tant general of New York, born In
"Washington, D. C, it years ago.
Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president
of Leland Stanford, Jr., university,
I bora at Boonesboro, la., 43 years ago.
' . Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes,, aecretary
( of Yale university, born at . New
Brighton, Staten Island, .44 years ago.
This Day In History.
1772 Ell Terry, the father of the
clock manufacturing industry In
America, born at East Windsor, Conn.
.Died at Terryvllle, Conn., February
24. 1852. .
i UJO President Jackson at a pub
lic dinner In Washington In celebra
tion of Jefferson's birthday gave the
toast. "Our Kederal Union, It Must Be
Preserved." r -
IJ80-Samuel J. Randall, who
served three terms as speaker of the
national house of representatives, died
In Washington, D. C. Born in Phlla
delphia, October 10, 1S2S.
Just 30 Years Ago Today
Commissioner O'Kcefe left for Hot
Springs, Ark., where he will remain
for some weeks.
About 90 ladles and gentlemen, in
mates of the deaf mute asylum in
Council Bluffs, visited the city for the
purpose of taking In the Eden Musee
and Other places of interest. They
took a ride on cable cars placed at
their disposal.
Mrs. W. A. Kelley, wife of W. A.
Kelley, lias gone on a month's visit to
Blair.
The closing ball of the Luveta So
cial club was given in Hunt's hall and
was largely attended.
An effort is being made to establish
a merchant's polii-e system in South
Omaha, for the purpose of looking
arter me Dusiness cnsu-iit, during tne
night time.
Forty stone, cutters are now en.
gaged on tha curbing of Leavenworth
street
Out of the Ordinary
Merrimack county. New Hampshire,
has contributed Daniel Webster andJ
jonn laui j ones to ine a ran army.
Tor military purposes a New York
man has designed exceedinaly efficient
wireless telegraph and telephone ap
paratus that can be carried In a mo
torcycle side car.
Wheat hoarders In Gage county
have been placed on the carpet by the
County Counsel of Defense. One Ax
tel farmer, said to have 30,000 bushels
of wheat stored up, has been tagged
for action.
By royal order, the celebration of
Arbor day has been made obligatory
In every township and municipality
In Spain, and tree-planting Is to be
carried on upon a more extensive
scale than heretofore.
"Kill the cursl" thunders the Kear
ney Hub In training its artillery on
useless dogs that menace the sheep
Industry of the state. "A good dog,"
says the Hub," is a true friend and
In many cases useful, but the gangs
of curs that range about a. city or
town are utterly worthless and should
be disposed of."
Members of the women's land army
of England occasionally lend a touch
of color and variety to the official uni
form. One of the number recently
arraigned in a London court wore an
American soldier's hat, an officer's
trench coat, trousers of unknown
Identity and the green armlet badge
of the land army. Incidents of this
kind suggest that mere man is not
dead sure of savins- his old clothes.
Peppery Points
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: When
treaties become a "scrap of paper"
there's nothing left for It but the bit
terest kind of a scrap between peo
ples. Washington Post: The caretaker
of the German embassy in Paris has
presented a bill for damages done by
Hun bombs. Next thing the boche
will be complaining that American
military equipment seized in Russia
doesn't fit.
Minneapolis Tribune: Von Hinden
burg was wlllins to pay his way to
Paris with 300,000 men. The toll was
collected before he reached th6 half
way house. The allies have placed a
prohibitive price on the rest of the
distance.
New York World: Berlin blames
Paris for the killing of scores of wom
en and children during the shelling
of a church. Only a wicked city would
put a house of prayer right In the
path of the Christian-like shells of the
ally of the Lord.
iLouisville Courier-Journal: The
kaiser's last joyous teleirram to Mrs.
Hohenzollern was: With Gott's help
our most glorious long distance gun
tore a hole in a French church and
killed many women and children, for
which Gott be praised.
Baltimore American: The ease
with which all America turned its
clocks ahead and slipped Into the new
order of things without commotion in
dicates what can be done through
centralized authority. And it ia thus
that we will win the war.
Twice Told Tales
Practical Sympathy.
Maylor Hylan said in a Red Cross
appeal in New York:
"Whatever we non-combatants can
do for our soldiers seems trifling and
futile beside what these young heroes
are doing for us.
"Yes, the most generously con
tributing non-combatant, when he's
compared with the fighting soldier,
Is a good deal in the position of the
lady visitor at the base hospital:
" 'And so you've lost a leg?" the
lady visitor said to a young patient.
" 'Yes, ma'am, said he.
" 'Poor dear!' said the visitor. 'Have
a gumdrop!" New York Mall.
Bnslness-Likr.
"When Jones bought his new house
it was with the express understanding
that he should have a room all of his
own a den or study."
"Yes, I know what you mean. Did
he get it?"
"Yes, and his wife furnished it"
"How?"
"With a sewing machine, a cutting
table, two dressers, dummies, three
sewing chairs and a full-length mirror."
Kiuorgcncy Rations.
"You say you were lost for days in
the boat and your provisions had
given out?"
"Exactly."
"What did you do for something to
eat?"
"Finally I hit on a happy Idea and
we had a spread of canvaa," Florida
Times-Union.
Drop German In Schools.
Omaha, April 11. To the Editor of
The Bee: I notice the letter of "Citi
zen" regarding the kultur being taught
in our high schools, and I think our
school board should be bombarded
by the parents of these scholars with
letters until they drop this study. If
the board continues it I, for one, be
lieve a coat of yellow paint might
make them take notice that we will
not stand for this shame in our
schoola Question to the board: Do
they believe the 11,000,000 bonds
would have carried if the voters had
known that they were Koine: to teach
kaiser-kultur and tslng "Wacht am
Rhein" in school?
PROTESTER PARENT.
Defends the Xegro.
Osceola, Neb., April 9. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: We note in your pa
per of April 5 that Mr. C. L. Nethaway
desires to be enlightened as to whether
there Is a man running for city com
missioner who believes in the segrega
tion of the colored population of the
city? While we have no fears that
there are gentlemen so running for
city commissioner, we deplore the fact
that, regardless of the thunderous ap
peal for democracy, on the tongues
of all true men in such grievlpys times
as these, we have yet among us a
man who has no conception of what
true manhood consists of.
We wonder if he is aware of the
tremendous part the negro has played
in the destiny of this land we won
der if he knows that a black's crimson
blood was the first to stain the ground
of Boston's common when this coun
try fought for independence? We
would know if he will follow us
down through the pages ef this coun
try's history, and see those gallant
black men bleed and die on the hill!
of San Juan? Buf wait and see those
black sons-o-guns plunge into that
hell trap at Carrizal! Do not pause,
but consider Booker T. Washington,
a. recognized leader of 10,000,000 of
this country's people (blacks, if you
please), hy whose death the world lost
pne of the truly great.
.We do not believe that any of the
gentlemen will lose the race for city
commissioner through not having Mr.
Nethaway's vote. C. T. WALLACE.
Pratt hotel.
Isolation for Pro-Germans.
Glenwood, la., April 11. To the
Editor, of The Bee: The anarchists,
socialists, pacifists and Industrial
Workers of the World are nothing but
German monkeys. The proper place
for them Is In Russia where the Ger
mans are learning them the way to
step lively to the German music. I
think these German monkeys should
have an island set apart for them so
they could live or starve together.
B. F. WARD, 'M. D. C.
LINES TO A SMILE.
"I despise a hypocrite. Now there's John
son, for example; he's the blsrgest hypocrite
on earth."
"But you appear to be his best friend."
"Oh, yes; I try to appear friendly towards
him. It pays better in the end." Boston
Transcript.
Black The widow married a hank presi
dent, and her daughter caught a young
millionaire!
White I see a case of mother and child
doing well. Life,
"The man they were after was In a per
fect fsver when hs found detectives were
on his track."
"I suppose It was the spotted fever he
had." Baltimore American.
"What is the Chinese word for
trouble?"
"Dunne."
"Would you know it ff you saw It?"
"Csn't say I would. All their words look
like trouble to me." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Heard from you boy lately?"
"Tee. ire's getting along very well tn
the army: but he complains that he hasn't
been Introduced to General Pershing yet."
Detroit Free Press.
"Why don't you open the door? That
may be opportunity knocking."
"It's much more apt to be a bill col
lector." 'Well, If you only knew It, a bill eol
leetor offers a good opportunity to get
out of debt." Birmingham Age-Herald.
PASSED BY THE CENSOR.
I met her In the 'Boise Boulogne
To be precise, "somewhere In Franca;"
Her elbow almost touched my own,
And I was gladdened by her glance.
One look, and then we went our ways
"Somewhere In France," her loveliness
To haunt me through the coming days
And give me courage, more or less.
A great ship on a certain sea
Sailed westward from a certain Isle,
And on the deck, one morning, She
Returned my greeting with a, smile!
While we wern passing Sandy Hook,
And in the Narrows, near the fort,
I held her han.l and. later, tuok
Her bag at "an Atlantic port."
We hastened from a certain dock
Up through a certain city where
There is a certain lofty block
Fifth avenue meets Broadway there;
And, later, when I dared to plead
With eager longing in my glance
Sho said she was glad, Indeed.
That we had met "somewhere In France."
S. B. KISER.
"Over There and Here
Profiteering is not confined to coiA
munltlwi adjoininR training camps.
New London, Conn., landlords, appre
ciating the inrush of shipyard work
men, have boosted rents to unheard
of heights.
Many prominent men of German
blood in Minnesota have formed an
organization to give practical effect
to their loyalty to the United States
and overcome the seditions spirit
rampant in that quarter.
Major-General Bir Hush Gough,
the British general who lest the St.
Quentin line, has been relieved of his
command. The incident Is not likely
to win a new tablet for the Gough
statTie in Phoenix park. Dublin.
By the terms of a law just passed
by the New York legislature teachers
in the schools of the state must be
come citizens to hold their jobs. The
law Is intended to root out the evils
of anti-American instruction fostered
by alien teachers.
Editor Bern hard of the "Berlin
Vossische Zeltung in a recent lecture
estimated German's imperial war debt
at 150,000,00,000 marks, which will
call for an annual interest payment of
5,000,000,000 marks. War lords come
h'sh-
For women workers in arsenals and
government munition plants an offi
cial khaki uniform has been designed,
consisting of blouse and overalls, the
latter made full and buttons around
the ankles. It may be worn with a
minimum of danger In plants where
the customary feminine garb would
be likely to catch in machinery or
pick up flying particles of powder.
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