THE BEE: OMAHA, ' FRIDAY, tAPRIL 19, 1913
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Over the top, but not finished. Go to it!
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., ' Hoover urges us to eat
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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. ' .
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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.
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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. '
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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
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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.
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Author of Eternity.
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