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THE BEE: OMAHA, ' FRIDAY, tAPRIL 19, 1913 XHE Omaha Bee 15 A1LY MQRN1NG) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BTf EDWARD ROSE WATER H "VICTOR EOSEWATER,, EDITOR - THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. 3: . Entered at Omaha postolfice at iceond-clasa natter. !$. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (f Br Carrier. Rr UtIL if Dally and Sunday .per wees. 15e Pet tea. H(H Mi Dally without Kumiaj. " ItM " 4 CO . Krenlng and Sumlar IDo " a" OA a Ktenmg wuhout Sunday 6a 00 " f-S-jaiij Be on! J So - 100 - ixna noun or cntnft or aaaress or irreguianu u gum ro umaoe Bee Circulation DensrtmenL MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the Aesociatrd Press. o( Mrh The Bee ta a nemhar. ta exclusively .milled u Uie um for fibllcatioB el all news dlipatcbet credited 'to It or not etherwlie credited ta thia paper, and ilno tha local news l publtaheel herein. All tlfbu at publicauoa of out special ditpatcliaa , ara alw reamed. ... , , r ; REMITTANCE ' Remit trt draft, ernreet or postal order. Only tad S cant stiBr ' Sunn ta parment of arnall account. Personal caeca, except on J'umaua and tatters eicnange. sot accepted. U; 6: OFFICES j Omtha Tha Bea Btilldffig, ctiieao People's flt Building, X Smith Omaha tl N St. ' New York Fifth Aa. I'ouncll Bluffa-14 N. Wain St. Ht. '.onii New B'k of Coamerca, l.inln Little Building. Wathloftoa-Ull O St. W CORRESPONDENCE tddreea eonmnnleatlana relating to oewa and adltortal tnittei to J, Omaha Boa. Editorial Department. L MARCH CIRCULATION I 66,558 Daily Sunday, 56,553 $ t'erate slrculatioa for tna month, eubtcrfbco and orn to bt Dwljbt Williawa, Circulation Manager. , A) Subacribere leaving tha city ehould have Tha Baa mailed to team. Addreaa changed aa often aa requested. fr"1. . ' ; : . 1 TAe Sees Seeuice Flag L. "1 Over the top, but not finished. Go to it! r , ., ' Hoover urges us to eat .scarcely can be done. ' more potatoes; Mayor "Jim" 4' home again, so the jockey ing for start may commence. ' , Do not let the deadly grade crossing hide gain until new victims call attention to it. Press lt on the city council. . "Our line was reported intact on the whole or!t," is the word1 Haig sends from the battle field. Good old bulldog. ' . H ! Our democratic county treasurer miy think Jii tax, books of greater importance than the Liberty loan drive, but he will hear from the 'i'otcrs a little later. It : Visitors to the movies will do well to ob serve local customs in nTatters of bestowing ap plause. Some of the home folks are getting lighty techy just now. i , : , v The city garbage question is again coming in for consideration. This is a point of city admin istration that may well occupy the thought of some of the aspirants for commissionerships. It Jwilt not be settled right till it is taken over as a - if unction of gownment. . g; Br'er Edgar Howard has taken the plunge, Jburned his bridges, and is now enlisted for the ,ivar, or till after the primaries. .This may add isome interest to the primary proceedings in Ne braska; at any rate it will give the Mullen-Hitchcock plotters something to think about. f- ' What Liberty Bonds Mean. ! One of Omaha's oldest and most experienced bankers, answering the inquiry of a customer, told him the best-investment extant today is Liberty bonds. A Nebraska man invested all ,t)is worldly possessions in the first and second tsues, and when the third drive came on found imself without means to purchase; he enlisted .vln the army. There you have the spirit support ing the'tiberty bonds in concrete form. The banker says -he knows of no Interest or "concern , that ' takes precedence over the loan. The 'other man gave all his goods and then pledged his life. Arguments such as these are unanswerable. In them breathes the spirit of "American . liberty, the indomitable resolve to establish. and hold, on to all the rights of free jrnen. While American people are so animated, jjur, institutions are safe no matter by whom issaulted. $' We are facing the most formidable aggrega tion of relentless force ever dedicated to destruc tion, but the menvho, maddened by lust of pow er, looted that force on civilization are purblind, unable to conceive devotion to principle that will lead' men' 'arfd women alike to make the supreme sacrifice to maintain their freedom. Utterly out of touch with the real life of the world, the Potsdam, gang made the" stupid blunder vi conceiving hat murder, rapine and destruc ion could be substituted as governing forces of society in liett of justice and right. Even now they seem unable to understand what the real .Jnessage of the Liberty bond is: An end to brute ' lorce as a factor in human government. STANDING BACK OF THE PRESIDENT. President Wilson notes the inconsistency be tween his test of loyalty and the possible suc cession of Gilbert Jif. Hitchcock to the vacant chairmanship of the senate committee on foreign relations. Mr. Wilson not only is aware of the prGer man activity of the senator prior to the declara tion df war, as evinced by the introduction of the embargo resolution, but readily must recall the visit to the White House when' Hitchcock sought to dissuade the president from asking for a declaration of war. Not until he found that nothing he could do would prevent the dec laration of war against Germany, did the dem ocratic senator who misrepresents- Nebraska de sist in his efforts to save the kaiser from the destruction certain to follow America's entrance into the conflict. This is why the president is opposed to Hitch cock's being made chairman of the committee, to succeed William Joel Stone. It is not because he is, as suggested by the dispatcher, "independ ent," and that he will refuse to "obey ofders," but because his loyalty at all times will not measure up to a test that has been established by the president himself. The senate has a splendid opportunity to hack up tile president and serve the country at the same time by making Henry Cabot Lodge tliairman of this most important committee. Such action will ensure the control of the com mittee in the hands of a man who is truly loyal, whose qualifications are unquestioned, and n whom the president can with confidence rely. Will the democrats support their professions of fidelity to the president by doing this? Germans Plundering Russia. Loot is evidently the uppermost thought in the mind of the superman. Founded on the rob bery of France, and held together by prospects of rifling the treasure chests of the world, the Geitnan empire has an unbroken record of rob bery wherever it has been able to break through with its armies. Just now the record of Belgium is being repeated in Russia. Finland has been invaded, under1 pretense of restoring order; efforts are being made to seize the remnants of the Russian navy, although the treaty of Brest Litovsk specifically provided that these ships were to be dismantled by the Russians and not become part of the German loot. Little scraps of paper do not trouble the kaiser con science, though, and if these ships can be grab bed they will be made the first line of attack in an effort to break away from the strong block ade that has held the German navy helpless in its strongholds. This, however, is the least of the offenses committed against decency and good conscience by the kaiser's wrecking crew. Rural Russia, penetrated through treachery, is overrun by armed parties of German soldiers, who are seizing farm animals, food and all sorts of moveables, leaving the wretched peasants helpless and desti tute. Forced loans are levied on villages and terribledestruction follows resistance. Highway robbery and murder in all gradations are prac ticed against the unprotected mujiks, who thought in the Lenine peace they would find at least a chance to live, protected by their poverty. But no situation short of nakedness fails to tempt the greed of the heartless Hun. No better illustration of the fallacy of non resistance could possibly be afforded. "Our weak ness is our strength," said Lenine, but the Ger man regards the Russian peasant's weakness just as does the wolf that of the lamb. A help less, nonresisting people is to be plundered to the last shred, all in the name of kultur. The kaiser is building a monument of infamy whose shadow will rest dark across Germany for many generations. Universal Service at Hand. The action of the house military affairs com mittee in reporting for passage the senata bill extending the provisions of the selective draft law to include automatically all men attaining their majority since June S, 1917, indicates a change of attitude on part of the administration. Chairman Dent of the committee held up the bill, awaiting word from Secretary Baker, to be given on his return. The sentiment back of the meas ure is of a nature that admits of no quibbling. It devotes America's man-power, to the war pur poses to which our country stands pledged. Un der the restricted operation of the law,-whereby those attaining the age of 31 passed out while none were coming in, the class subject to the draft was rapidly diminishing. Opposition to in clusion of those who came of age rested on the theory that its recognition would amount to en- f-nage will be called for because of the fact dorsement of universal military training for America, against which the administration had set its face. What Mr. Baker learned in Europe-i may have helped him to change his mind, for the senate bill has been recommended for passage, and we are to have an army adequate to our needs. A correspondent asks the pertinent question of the school board as to how much longer High school pupils are going to be forced to study German. An answer to this query will interest a lot of people. :.. The Austrian Revelations "Greatest Diplomatic Sensation of the War" New York Evening Post. Publication by the French foreign office of the letter written by the emperor of Aus tria, March 31, 1917, is easily the greatest diplomatic sensation of the war. It eclipses eyen the secret dispatches of Zimmermann and Luxburg given out by Secretary Lansing. For here we have, over the name of Emperor Charles, a peace offer last Vcar which not only included many of the terms upon which the allies have long insisted as indispensable, but went on to make this definite pledge: "I beg you to convey privately and unofficially to President Toincare that I will support by every means, and by exerting all my personal influence with my allies, France's just claims regarding Alsace-Lorraine." The implications of this fairly take one's breath. Did Vienna venture this step with out the knowledge of Berlin? Did the Em peror Ovaries move without consulting his own government? So urgent and almost humble an appeal for peace would argue that Austria was even more desperately off, a year ago, from both the military and the economic point of view, than had been sup posed. All kinds of suppositions leap to the mind. This extraordinary peace "feeler" may have been put out chiefly to sound France and England, with the intention of withdrawing or repudiating it. Berlin, it will be remembered, professed not to have known of the Austrian ultimatum to Servia in 1914. Some things it is convenient not to know. You can then indignantly deny complicity in them. And it is possible that Germany was not so ignorant of Austria's efforts for a separate peace or, at least, separate efforts for a general peace as is now pretended. With so much lying and mystification going on, it may be that the jwesent exchange of Why They Don't Go Back The natural query has been of those who have been pro-German, both before the United States entered the war and some times since, "If itis all so fine, under the kaiser, why don't they go back there?" Some splendid reasons for not "going back there" have been advanced by the war, but even better ones remain behind. Edward Mott Wooley, a magazine writer, has beeii comparing the wages of laboring men in Germany and the United States as they were before the war.. The figures are taken from official documents: In Chemnitz, Germany, before the war, masons, plumbers, painters and bricklayers received $6 to $8 a week; plasters, $7 to $9; machinists, $6 to $9; molders and pattern makers, $7 to $8. Teamsters were paid $1 a day, and textile workers $6 to $7 a week, unskilled laborers from $4 to $5, and mu nicipal employees, $4 to $6. At the same period in New York plaster ers were getting $5.50 a day and masons, boilermakers, electrical workers, steanifitters, winters, cabinet makers, stationary engi neers, ironworkers, slate roofers and deco rators from $4 to $5.50, the average being, perhaps, $4.75 or more a day. Chemnitz newspaper compositors re ceived $13 a week, compared with a scale of $31 in New York. In 1910 in Chemnitz, with a population of 287,000, two-thirds of the inhabitants lived in apartments of three rooms or less. Food for a family of six persons cost $7 to $8 a week. These and similar items showed that the great gap between the wage scales of the two countries was not closed by differences of living cost in favor of Germany. Vienna plumbers before the war earned $1.10 and painters $1.25 a day. Employes in the shoe factories earned $3 to $4 a week. Unskilled laborers worked 11 and. 12 hours for wages ranging from 60 to 90 cents a day. Prussian efficiency consists in getting about everything out of the working class, and giving them in return a militarism that offers them the most splendid chance of get ting theniselves'killed for their masters that the world has yet seen. In comparison the United States seems to do pretty well for them. Yet they are pro-kaiser! Minneapolis Journal. Possibilities oj Concrete Ships The announcement by the shipping board that three concrete vessels of the 7,500-ton type are to be built immediately and that other ships constructed of the same material and of large tonnage are to follow furnishes indications of an expansion in the shipbuild ing program that must be based on most sat isfactory conclusions as to the practicability of ships of this character. It had been understood earlier that, wbjle the theories concerning the concrete ship had proved acceptable to the experts, a prac tical test would be awaited before a general launching into the new kind of construction would be undertaken. The largest of these ships', the Faith, is now being outfitted on the Pacific coast and has not yet been used for the preliminary practical tests which were to precede further developments of the concrete shipbuilding plans. , The natural assumption is that the ship ping board officials are assured that concrete ships will prove a success, the larger ton that increased tonnage rather than a greater number of vessels is the pressing need of the moment. Under the methods of construction the larger 'vessels can be built nearly a quickly as those of the 3,500-ton type, will cost but little more and will be far more profitable. Ia the event that the concrete ship has met all practical requirements, its superiority over both steel and wooden ships in- meeting the existing crisis produced by submarine destruction is beyond question. Even if the cost of construction and the liability to loss through submarine attack were the same as with the wooden or steel vessel, the rapidity of construction gives it a prime advantage. Washington Post. telegrams between the kaiser and th em peror of Austria is meant to- deceive the audience. "What about this French state ment," telegraphed Wilhelm to Karl, "that you admitted the claims of France to Alsace Lorraine to be just?" "Not a word of truth in it," replied the Austrian emperor but that was before he knew that the French had pub lished his letter! It is this publication which will play the mischief. Already there had been a good deal of bad blood between the German press and Austria. Now we may expect a perfect fury of denunciation. What, an ally negotiating behind Germany's back, and undertaking ,to give away German provinces! Talk about driving a wedge be twene Austria and Germany! The Austrian emperor's letter is calculated to drive a whole row of wedges. When hidden things leap to light, things mysterious before are cleared up. The ad vances made by the Austrian emperor to France and he desired them to be made known to England throw a flood of light upon wnat was aarK last year, we can see now with what good reason there were posi tive predictions of peace in 1917. The world was nearer to it than it knew. It seems in the highest degree probable that, but for the Russian collapse, the central powers would have made fteace on, the best terms they could secure. The attitude of Austria, now made clear as never previously, is pre sumptive proof of that. Also does it become plain now why, even after Russia had taken itself out of the war, there was so strong a hope among the allies that Austria might be negotiated with separately. This hope pre vailed in France, in England, and in the United States. To the governments of all of them the letter of Emperor Charles must have been made known. We can understand today why Sir Edward Carson, as a mem ber of the British war cabinet, stated that there were the best of reasons for believing that a separate peace with Austria might be concluded. The speeches of Lloyd George and of President Wilson, showing special consideration for Austria, are now fully in telligible. And, of course, the interview in Switzerland between General Smuts and Count Mensdorf, as also that between an emissary of Clemenceau and an agent of the Austrian government, falls into its proper place. Small wonder that the French premier confidently asked for the return of Alsace-Lorraine when he had the letter of the Austrian emperor offering to work for it. Wre are not yet at the end of the affair, resounding as it is already. The French are pressing their diplomatic advantage with great boldness. They now "Summon" the Austrian government to give "the details of the conversation of its delegates." The im plication is that if Vienna doesn't do it. Paris will. Even the great battle cannot obliterate the intense interest in this competition in disclosure. For from it we are getting hints of the way in which peace will be made, or attempted, when the terrible fighting fails or dies down. The militarists have the word itftt now. Like General Hoffmann at Brest Litovsk, they are pushing the civil rulers aside and seeking to settle everything by the sword. But the day will come, after conquest by torce ot arms lias been shown to be im possible, when the emperor of Austria and even his brother-monarch in Berlin will see the need of putting an end to "the sufferings of so many millions of men and families, and will respond to the wailipg demands of their own people, and will ask for peace. A Serious Mistake Was Made It will be with a regret deeply tinged with indignation that all sane and reasonably en lightened people will hear of the decision by the heads of the Red Cross not to use for animal experimentation often and almost al ways incorrectly called "vivisection" the money hitherto appropriated by them for that purpose. The decision may mean avoiding the loss of a few contributions to the Red Cross funds, but it also means the triumph of vicious ignorance over common sense, and it will encourage to further efforts the mem bers of the most detestable ana not the least dangerous group of men and women to , be found in the United States. The campaign of the anti-vivisectionists is waged, now as always, with no other weapons than those of calumny and false hood. They deliberately and persistently make the most abominable accusations against men who have done and are doing an enormous amount of successful work to mitigate human suffering and to save human life. Incidentally, these same workers are conferring like advantages on innumerable domestic animals, but let that pass. The im- meaiate.issue is tnat intenerence with animal experimentation just now decreases the. safety of the men in our army and navy, makes impossible, so far as the interference is effective, the conquest, of several terrible diseases to which the -fighters for liberty are still exposed, and sets up the absurd claims of fanatic degenerates against the well-demonstrated truths of medical science. And the Red Cross cautiously says that it does not take sides for or against "vivisec tion!" Such caution is reprehensible is ut terly unworthy of that great and beneficent organization. It should take sides, standing for right and against wrong. The immediate profit of doing anything else or less will be dearly bought in future loss of both money and respect. Red Cross money, in the amount that was proposed, could not possibly have been better invested than in the establish ment of a biological laboratory near the scene of war for the study of the maladies of soldiers which this sort of research has not yet conquered. It was weak, and worse than weak, for the Red Cross to heed the hysterical shrieks and the monstrous charges ot venality and murder that came from a few people whom it strains charity to call deluded or insane. New York Times. Abolish German in High School. . Omaha, April 16. To the Editor or The Bee: Just a rew words more about the study o( German ia the Omaha High school. We notice with delight that The Bee Is making some very plain statements in regard to "kultur." We expected it and are not surprised. But we are surprised that members of the Board of Education treat with indifference pleas made that German be dropped from the course of study at. once. Why not? This thing of being namby-pamby ibout Hunism should stop. The Mockett law has been repealed; good enough so far. Now let the Board of Education of our city show its Americanism by following suit. I make this suggestion: The Lib erty loan drive ends May 4. Why not gather up every thing pertaining to German, the property. of the school district, textbooks, note books, scratch paper, everything and have a bon fire on the court house square. Some Hun may ask why I do not sign my name to these articles? I am not seek ing notoriety for myself, I only hope Co say something that will drive the study of this accursed thing from our schools. No occasion for yellow paint yet. Let's get together and go after the thing right. , Boys who leave High and go out to work on farms are given full credit for the time they are out of school, I yet other pupils are compelled to study German or be cut out of their credits. I wish the pupils of the class had a little encouragement at home and I believe they would rise in rebellion and refuse to learn another lesson, and I doubt if even our policy-piaying board would dare refuse them gradu ation. Mr. Ernst, Mr. Brogan, In fact all the members what have you to say? Come, let's hear from you. Not only hear from you, but hear of you doing something to rid the High school of this Hunism. CITIZEN. ON THE HILLS OF PICARDY. On the hills of Plcardy, I.i tha sons of Llbertr- Once again doth Rache! weep, . Fijr her children in death's sleep. Never shall their grief and pain, Ba forgotten or in vain. Tho the Beast at times prevail. Right shall triumph, cannot fails. Lift the banner in air. Driving in the Market Place. Omaha, April 18. To the Editor of The Bee: In the mpjuiings, during the summer months, the streets in the market district viz: Eleventh between Harney and Jackson streets and Howard, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, are badly congested. It would help much if drivers of pleasure cars and all others who have no business to transact in this dis trict would use other streets to and from the Union and Burlington sta tions, and especially those who have the apparent disposition to show how fast their cars can run. Numerous accidents occur, most of which would be avoided and the business of the market expedited if these sugges tions are observed. ' "OBSERVER." $pe Tear Ago Today in the War. j House democratic caucus-voted to jpnflne legislation to war measures, 'jj American steamer Mongolia tired upon Ger-man submarine while near mg British coast ' General Nivelles's army crushed 200.000 German reserves and con .Jnued its victorious advance. - Che Day We Celebrate. ' Jm G. Xowrey, president and man lier of tho American Electric com- pany, born 1878. f Admiral Henry Harwood Rousseau, tJbrn at Troy, N. Y., 48 years ago. 'iUr. John Grler Hlbben, president si Princeton university, born at PBoria, 111., 67 years ago. .William A. Ayres, representative In congress of the Eighth Kansas dls t let. born at Elizabethtown, 111., SI ra ago. Den Bush, shortstop of Detroit ' t m, born at Indianapolis, 30 years p. - . ... ;---.. . , .. IW Day in History. i775 Battle! of Lexington, first hfllct of the war for American inde. pendence. : ft 832 -Mrs. Lucretia It. Garfield, ar'.f of the . 20th President . of the u; tited States, born at Hiram, O. Died i L Pasadena., Cal.. March 13, 1918. !l $39 Bishop Loras was publicly r corned in Dubuque on his arrival t .take charge of the newly created " CvttioMc rtiocere. ' ' ."18-17 The American force autarcd J. M.lfixica. ' .. - v i :t J list SO Years Ago Today The Tlrat Baptist Church associa tion have sold their building at Fif teenth and Davenport streets, to Thomas Bonner, for 410,000. New tracks are to be laid through the yard by the Stock Tard company. Native born New Englanders want a society of their own in South Oma ha and a meeting will be called shortly. Miss Carrie Ik Chapman delivered her lecture, "America for Americans," In the First Methodist ' Episcopal church before & large audience. Articles of Incorporation of St. Agnes church of South Omaha, were filed with the county clerk. They are attested by James O'Connor, bishop ot Omaha: R. A. Shoffel, vicar gen eral; D. W. Moriarity, pastor, and Daniel Rafferty and John C. Carroll, laymen. Henry W. McKendry of South Oma ha, iir going , into the hotel business and has laaaa'd Jr. RGhaxt'a aw "Over Theft and Here" The bread ration of France is down to the following basis: Children less than 3 years old, three and one-half ounces per day; children from 3 to 13 years, seven ounces: above that age 10 ounces, with an extra allowance of three and one-half ounces for hard workers. This is one-third less than former rations. Eat less white bread here and let the flour go over there. To any two men of his business class who will beat him selling lib erty bonds, Harry B. Rosen, a foreign born citiaen of New York, will give each a miniature American flag made of rubies, diamonds and sapphires. Competition is limited to members of the Life Underwriters' association. Winners must hustle, for Rosen is some salesman, himself. "Everything I have," he says, "I owe to America. And what I am going to do every for eign citizen In this country should do." "The man who gets a letter from home Is a 50 per cent better Tighter than the man who does not," says Sir Walter Lawrence, a Britisher back from the front "The great thing is to write write write. Always write cherfully, even if you do not feel cheerful." That's the. task of the home -folks. - Do it now. An Ameri can soldier over there expresses the general feeling in these lines: ' "It's pretty hard to tell -6u what a letter means to me. But O, if you could be here I believe - that you could see That the greatest of the pleasures sol dier , boys have ever found Is Just to get a letter when tha nail - i oassed around i Whitled to a Poinl Washington Post: With 98 per cent of the wounded cured in 15 days, the western front seems to be a good place for chronio invalids. Baltimore American: If two-thirds of all ourvislble supply of wheat must go to the allies, let us eat corn or rye with patience. Our luxuries are the allies' necessities. Minneapolis Journal: We some times wonder if Secretary ot the Treury and Director of Railroads McAdoo has any method of beating his way on the trains. Wall, Street Journal: "America's chief weapon is bluff." say the Ger man papers: which, if they knew our national card game. Would show they were stilt guessing the strength of our hand. Minneapolis Tribune: Russia now promises to have an army of 1,500,000 in two months. Russia should engage Twice Told Tales Lucid Testimony. i "The average individual," said a Scotland Yard official, "can't give a detective simple, plain, straightfor ward information. Questioned by a detective, he becomes as involved and difficult as the office boy. A detective asked an office boy if it was Mr, Jones or his partner who reached the office first as a rule. " 'Well,' said the boy, turning very red, Mr. Jones at first was always last, but later he began to get earlier, till at last he was first though befoce he had always been behind. He soon got later again, though of late he has been sooner, and at last he got behind as before. But I expect he'll be get ting earlier sooner or later.' " Lon don Mail. Announcing the Stork. A Kansas cattle kin in the old days WOKe UD one mnrnlns- in learn that colonel Bryan to supply mem witn ne was the father of triplets, lm one of his famous armies of 1,000,000 that springs to arms between sunrise and sunset , New York Herald: By way of ex planation, not apology, it can be said for that ColItnsvtUe (III.) lynching that It was not dfrtatcd by a commander-in-chief and not conducted by an army as was the case with the lynching ot Belgium and the lynching of Serbia. Louisville Courier-Journal: Von Hertling and Czerain seem to share the opinion that now is the time to found an international debating so ciety. Americans think now is the time ta kill enough Germans to make D6-oe' certain and lasting l" ' mensely pleased with what the gods had done for him. he raced to the vil lage, eager to tell the news to all his friends and fellow rangers. This is the way he broached the subject to the crowd at the country store. - "Fellows, you remember the ' doll rack at the county fair last su..imer, where you threw three base balls for a nickel? The fellow kept holloing, 'One baby, one cigar! Two babies, two cigars: Three babies, six cigars!" Well. I'm passing out th cigars today in honor of a stork party at my house last' night. Congratulate me? And, by George! everybody gets six rigar.3, or you can shoot we for. liWL -?' oeka Journal , "Hot Shot" on Fire Department. Omaha, April 16. To the Editor of The Bee: A wonderful exhibition of the efficiency of our fire depart ment was furnished Tuesday, in the Savoy h.tel fire. what a thrilling sight it was to see the powerful auto trucks come racing down the street, couple up their hose immediately, and start pouring water onto the old landmark. And what a splendid piece of work our fire laddies did in conquering so soon, and with comparatively so small a loss a dan gerous blaze. The thought occurred to me, "What If It were the packing houses ia South Side that were burning, and the coun cil had heeded Dan Butler's protests against modernizing the South Side fire department?" What would have happened? The South Side packing houses are working ceaselessly preparing fbod Btuffs for our boys in France, as well as for us at home. Is there a price too big to pay for protecting these big mountains of energy? A thousand times, no! Better that we should pay ten times the amount asked for the fire auto trucks needed ,i the South Side than that we should run the slightest risk of a fire catastrophe such as befell the wholesale food dis trict in Kansas City. Charlie Withnell was too farsighted for "Camouflage Dan"' Butler, and a goorl thing for all of us that Ke was. The welfare of our boys In khaki is more dear than the few thousands that were spent for fire trucks. At this time, no price would be too high for these up-to-date - fire-fighting ma chines, needed to protect" the big food plants of Omaha. And, for that matter, was the price higher than that paid by other cities that have purchased the same appar atus? "Camouflage Dan" made his play to the grandstand on the fire apparatus, and then wrote all over the country, trying to get some foun dation to his charges of exorbitant prices. And what did he find? Noth ing. Other cities had paid the same price, and some even a higher price, than Omaha. Thinking people of Omaha, are you going to be camouflaged by Dan's grandstanding of the last few months? You, Mr. Reader, are you going to vote for a grandstand reformer whose schoolmates will not vote for him be cause he couldn't recognize them on the street after he was elected? Or are you going to vote for Dan be cause Brother Joe Butler, who has been drawing $175 e. month for three years from the taxpayers for manag ing Dan's campaign, has "pusseyfoot ed" into your neighborhood and con vinced you that Dan is. really a para gon of perfection, an angel on earth? Think it over. "HOT SHOT" MURPHY. TART TRIFLES. "Tha directors of the road are's, precious lot; of grafters." Why do you say that?" ( "Every man of them had his appendix removed and charted tha cost to operating expenses." iJoston Transcript. "I notice that Deuxbar is spoken of aa a distinguished young officer." Yes; be is one of the very few who didn't marry last year." Judge. "Artists drink, do they not? That is, gome do." "So It Is said." "That's bad." "It wouldn't be half sq bad if they would refrain from painting while they are drinking." Louisville Courier-Journal. "Xn,a paper tella of a man passing him self off as a woman for 20 years. Now I wonder." , "What do you wonder 7" "If I ever gave up my aeat to that lobster on the street car." Boaton Transcript -tlMlnl:il!il:ilnli!iilili!liil!iliiliii:Hii!iliil!iliii:ililiiii!i ! HOTEL i LENOX I BOSTON, MASS, I Offers All That is I Best in Hotel Life Recognized as the Head- quarters of Boston's Rep- resentative Visitors from every state in the union. L. C. PRIOR ti:ii;ii:iiistJiii..i Standard for the Just who dare. God from Egypt saved Hie own. Ever by His power afone Shall the wicked conquered be, Aa of yore In the Red Sea. Though the sons of Liberty, On the hills of Plcardy. Lie so silent In death's sleep. And again doth Rachel weep. Never shall our hearts despair; We have cast on Him our care. Knowing well He will fulfill All His word and conquer still. Lord, we pray Thee speed the day When the righteous shall hold away. Send Thy foe by living fire To Gomorrha'a funeral prre. Let our praise arise to Thee Author of Eternity. 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