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A bond in every home. Keep at it.
The kaiser'" storm troops know what it is to
encounter a storm.
Congress doesn't seerr to care very much for
George Creel's peculiar brand of literary ability.
Mayor "Jim" accuses the other fellows of
"stealing his stuff," but he yet has time to write
'tis own platform.
Some of the senator's chickens are coming
lome to roost ,and he is not at all elated by
(heir appearance.
Bolshevik threats of trouble for the allies
lotind terrific, but the bolsheviki so far have suc
ceeded in making trouble only for themselves.
I If Omaha can get along without any one
thing during the war; that one thing will be ama
teur performances conducted in the German
language. ,
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Again the kaiser, with hypocritical smugness,
deplores the horror he would have prevented. All
be asks is that the world submit and he will call
UK ilia uuuiiviai
, Secretary. Daniels has been allowed $1,300,
,00,000 for his naval campaign. Let us hope he
Spends it for a navy, and not to foster real estate
booms in southern states.
"1 If Grover Cleveland Alexander had only been
a farmer, he might have escaped the draft at this
"time, thus showing that agriculture has some-
.-. ttitner sin art iirfian t tnmm n 9 eilnrtl I
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Arbor Day.
This Is Nebraska's especial holiday, 'devoted
in the beginning as now to the. planting of trees.
Aside from its sentimental aspect, it has a more
utilitarian vain trian ie anrrri:it,r1 ttv til e 1st
tomers to the state. In the early days of white
jeeupancy of Nebraska, the plains were treeless;
..thin fringes of light forest growth along the
watercourses were all the "woods" within the
ttate, and these soon vanished' before the needs
of the settlers. Urgent necessity induced the
planting of '.'wind breaks" and the like, until
' finally, under tfle enthusiasm of the late J. Ster
ling Morton, Arbor day was recognized and a
practice established that has borne splendid fruit.
All over the state now may be seen groves of
thrifty trees, planted in response to the impulse
fostered by Arbor day, serving man In 'many
ways. But the end is not yet. In times past
The Bee has urged that greater attention be gven
to this topic, and that, the state enter upon a
definite program of scientific afforestration, par
ticularly in the wastes of the sandhills. Something
of a start was made in this direction by the fed
eral government,, and the' feasibility of the plan
demonstrated. The state has done something,
although the late legislature , practically (Hit an
end to the work. This matter might well be
made an issue in the coming state campaign; it
has a bearing on the future of the state quite as
important as any one of several "questions that
are being urged with far greater vigor. Let us
give a real significance to Arbor day, by taking
steps to plant trees on public domain, and thus
reclaim sand wastes to usefulness. V
GOOD POINTS IN A PLATFORM.
Six of the candidates for city commissioner
have affixed their names to a platform which sets
them squarely before the people on some of the
real questions of the local campaign. One of the
most important of their promises is that which
pledges them against nepotism in any form. Their
stand on this can not help but meet approval.
Public service requires more faithful attention
than is possible when the payroll is weighted
down with relatives of officeholders.
Another promise pertains to public health and
sanitation. This reasonably may be interpreted
to contain a pledge to work out some efficient
method of collecting and disposing of household
refuse, better care of the streets and alleys, and
closer co-ordination of the several branches of
public hospital service.
Other pledges to work for a home rule charter,
for watchful supervision of the police department,
with the execution of certain reforms in its ad
ministration; economy in public expenditures, and
efforts to avert labor difficulties raise no new
issue. Nor does the pledge not to enforce so
called 'blue laws." The plank relating to muni
cipal ownership of the gas plant leads up to the
consideration of a vital question. On this the
citjzens should hive full information, so that they
may know just what sort of;bargain they are
voting for. The gas company can well afford
to sell to the city at present prices, for the value
of its plant has enormously increased since 1914.
Here is a place where some negotiation may be
of public advantage.
Taken as a whole, the, platform presented by
the anl-administration candidates is more at
tractive than . a collection of mere political
promises, and deserves careful attention.
Mystery of Mvscle Shoals.
One of the unsolved mysteries of the progress
of the present administration in the war has to
do with the establishment of plants to recover
nitrogen from the atmosphere. , For several years
Muscle Shoals was before the public, coming in
periodically with the "pork" in the rivers and
harbors bill, and just as regularly being stricken
out. Under the urgency of the war requirements
an appropriation of $20,000,000 for the erection
of a water power plant 'to make ammonia ni
trite at that place was passed.
It now develops that through some hidden
agency this appropriation has been expanded into
$125,000,000, that three plants instead of one are
to be established, and that steam instead of
hydroelectric power will be relied upon. It will
take three years to build the dams necessary to
develop the water power, and so steam plants
capable of generating 85,000-horse power are be
ing put up at once. When this cruel war is
over the entire installation is to be sold by
the government to the original promoters, who
sought at first to have it turned over free of cost,
but finally agreed to pay for it at scrap value.
Under an arrangement with the government
these promoters are allowed a fee of $1,000,000
for "supervising" the construction, which is be
ing done by army engineers. Finally, the money
is taken from an appropriation made for ord
nance, the War department deciding it had such
authority.
All of this information developed during a
debate in the house over a measure to empower
the government to condemn certain lands in the
vicinity for ivhich the holders were asking ex
orbitant prices.
Yes, Muscle Shoals is in Alabama. That may
explain why all the nitrate plants are going there,
to the exclusion of other equally attractive and
available sites.
Some Useless Worry Over Future,
One of the subjects for worry in the east just
now is what are we going to eat and with what
will we be clothed in the future. Here we are
putting up with various innovations in our
dietary; abroad even more extensive has been
the substitution of strange and unusual foods for
the normal diet of the people. So far as is
known Germany is the only place where paper is
used to any great extent for wearing apparel,
but :on the shortage of fabrics there available
sonic imaginative persons have built up a con
siderable structure, involving all the world in the
practice of Berlin at present. Assurance might be
given, were it really needed, that when the war
js over and mankind can return to hfs activity
as a producer, he will bring forth from the earth
plenty to eat and to wear without the need of
imitating Nebuchadrezzar, or obeying any of Mr.
Hoover's mandates further than the matter of
price is concerned. Some of the things that now
Uire novelties may remain as staples, but it will
be' because they have been found good. Meat
and meal, wpol and cotton in abundance will be
had, for if the war has taught us nothing else it
has driven home, the -lesson of intensified agri
culture. Worry over,' a shortage of edibles or
wearables after the war is, utter waste. If you
must worry, pick sonjething not so easily dis
pelled. '.''
a Quebec police are blamed by a coroner's jury
fJr precipitating the NJraft riots. This verdict
will cause a smile,, even in the midst of battle
danger. ' If the Canuck slackers had been per
mitted to take their own time about responding,
no riot would have followed, nor any enlistments.
First of American Liberty Loans
Hard Work in Financing the
Revolutionary War
William M. Houghton in New York Times.
The first Liberty loan in American history
ancestor of all subsequent Liberty loans
was collected from avowed pacifists in the
little city of Philadelphia during an hour or
two on the dark, chill morning f New
Year's, 1777. Robert Morris, financier of the
revolution, comprised the entire Liberty loan
committee its sales force and publicity de
partment. He made the rounds of his
Quaker friends, the only men of substance
remaining in the beleaguered town, roused
them from bed, and by dint of pledging his
own word and honor as security collected
$50,000 from them in hard money.
Hard money it was and hardly bprrowed,
but nothing less would have filled the gap
which yawned between Washington and the
further prosecution of the war. It saved his
army, which had threatened to disband on
the expiration of its enlistment term, then
imminent, and it permitted him to make his
second descent upon Trenton, turn the Brit
ish flank, and spank the rear-guard most dis
astrously and decisively. If Pershing (splen
didly equipped from the proceeds of our bil
lions) should break suddenly through the
German line and compel the Germans to re
tire from northern France, it could not
hearten us more than Washington's victory
at Trenton encouraged -our dispirited fore
fathers. Brilliant as this achievement proved, it
took a long time to end the revolution. The
government, the currency, the volunteer sys
tem all broke down, were patched up and
broke down again. Poverty, discouragement,
suffering, separately and together, assailed
the Colonists' will for liberty, which never
theless persisted as it does in France today.
Further Liberty loans became necessary.
Further Liberty loans always become neces
sary, as we are finding out, so long as the
world holds an autocrat who claims authority
from God.
But let us skip the intervening years and
loans of that early war until we come to the
transaction that made the surrender of Corn
wallis possible and assured national inde
pendence. Will any one refuse to call that
a Liberty loan, small and private as it was?
It seems a far cry from the vast public sub
scriptions of our own day, with campaigns
which rival that of a presidental year, to a
secret little negotiation among a few 18th
century gentlemen. But the necessities were
not altogether dissimilar and the object was
the same liberty, independence, freedom,
democracy.
Washington and Count de Rochambeau,
the French commander, had established
headquarters in the vicinity of Dobbs Ferry,
N. Y. This was in the summer of 1781, and
It was believed by every one, including the
armchair strategists, that the two generals
would mass their troops- before New York
City and besiege the British there. A few
The Impossible Hitchcock
New York World.
The great and growing importance of the
senate committee on foreign relations is most
clearly and intelligently described in an ed
itorial article from yesterday's issue of the
Sun which is printed elsewhere on this page.
The committee, indeed, "performs a vital
function," as the Sun says, and "the necessity
for great wisdom at its head is manifest.
The World has already emphatically pro
tested against the selection of Gilbert M.
Hitchcock of Nebraska as chairman of that
committee, and in that protest, welcomes the
support of the Springfield Republican, which
rightly says that Senator Hitchcock's eleva
tion to the chairmanship "may well be re
garded with dismay."
Since the beginning of the war, congress
has proved itself the most inefficient branch
of the government. This inefficiency is not
accidental or casual. It results from a system
of organization based wholly upon seniority,
which permits men to arrive at the chairman
ship of powerful committees for which they
have no real qualifications, and which creates
a multitude of committees with conflicting
powers and jurisdictions in order to provide
chairmanships for members who are not en
titled to them. t
The Hitchcock case is a classical example.
Except that he is the ranking democratic
member by reason of seniority of selection,
nobody in congress or out of congress would
ever think of making Gilbert M. Hitchcock
chairman of the senate committee on foreign
relations at a time like this. On that com
mittee are men of acknowledged ability and
indisputable qualifications, and yet they are
set aside under this ancient moss-back prac
tice of the senate.
The public welfare of the United States
requires that the head of this committtee
should be a man who meets the full require
ments of an office that is so closely identified
with the presidency and the State department
that it belongs to both the legislative and
executive branches of the government. John
Sharp Williams is the democratic member
of the committee who most fully embodies
the qualifications of a chairman who meas
ures up to the great traditions of the place.
There are republicans also who are equally
weR qualified. There is Henry Cabot Lodge
of Massachusetts, one of the ripest students
ot toreign affairs in congress. There is Phil
ander C. Knox of Pennsylvania, who is a
great lawyer and was secretary of state in
the cabinet of President Taft. There is Wil
liam E. Borah of Idaho, who among all the
republicans in the senate is admittedly of
presidential size.
In this great crisis of American, history
are the Williamses, the Lodges, the Knoxes
and the Borahs to be swept aside to make
place for a former spokesman of German
propaganda, whose only title to one of the
most powerful offices in the United States
government rests upon the flimsy and fool
ish rule of seniority? Is congress never to
put itself on a war basis and give its highest
and best service to the country?
men knew better, among them Robert Mor
ris, the financier, but they carefully permitted
the erroneous impression to remain current
Morris made a visit to Washington in the
Dobbs Ferry camp on August 11, when he
arranged with the commander-in-chief the
details of the later secret and fateful expedi
tion. He returned to Philadelphia August
18. Nine days after his departure Washing
ton appeared in Philadelphia on his way
south at the head of his tattered regiments,
"accompanied," as Oberholtzer remarks, "by
Rochambeau and the French troops with
their bright banners, waving plumes, and new
uniforms, well fed and properly disciplined,
in striking contrast in all these respects with
the soldiers they had come across the sea to
aid."
But there were obstacles in the path of
Washington's strategy. De Grasse's squad
ron might neither elude nor defeat the Brit
ish fleet and reach the Chesapeake, and
Washington might not surmount the extra
ordinary difficulties of transporting his army
so far south. For in his day such a move
ment of troops was a tremendous military
undertaking. Fortunately, in Robert Morris
he had a stanch and darincr backer. Morris
tackled the jealous, indifferent state govern-
ments in the matter ot supplies. He wheedled,
coaxed, bullied, and badgered them until he
had established depots for the subsistence of
troops at intervals along the entire route to
their objective point. By hook or crook he
found horses and oxen for 'overland transpor
tation, and by a supreme effort he managed
to persuade the citizens of Baltimore to pro
vide boats enough to take 2,000 of the troops
to their destination by water. To provision
this contingent "it was necessary to place 300
barrels of flour, the -same quantity of salt
meat, and eight or 10 hogsheads of rum at
the Head of Elk."
He accomplished all these things and
more; but in the midst of his strivings and
perplexities there rose one little incident
which threatened to wreck the whole su
perbly planned maneuver. Washington's
northern troops felt disinclined to journey
so far south 1
"The service they are going upon is dis
agreeable to the northern regiments," Wash
ington wrote Morris, "but I make no doubt
that a douceur of a little hard money would
put them in proper temper."
Hard money, again! It was the scarcest,
the most precious thing in the colonies. Lonp;
ago "soft money," the paper "continentals,"
had driven practically every shilling or crown
or doubloon of hard money out of the coun
try or into hiding. Robert Morris knew he
might as well whistle down the wind as try
to persuade the state governors to add this
"sugar" to the flour and what not of their
specific supplies. And yet he was old enough
in his office, too, to know that without it
those northern troops wbuld disband and go
home, as they and their fellows had threat
ened to do before Trenton on the occasion
of the first "Liberty loan."
1 TODAY!
Ono Year Ago Today In the War.
British force-, made gains between
Arras and St. Quentin.
A. 3. Balfour and British commis
ion arrived in Washington.
Stars and Stripes displayed from
Eiffel tower in celebration of Amer
ica's entry into the war.
The? Day Wc Celebrate.
i Alexander Kerensky, the Russian
; J-fvolutionary leader, born at Sim
birsk, on the Volga, 37 years ago.
' Rear Admiral George W. Balrd.
United States navy, retired, born in
Washington, D. C, 75 years ago.
Col. Guy E. Tripp, ordnance depart
(rtent United States army, born at
Wells, Me., 63 years ago.
?Ellen Glasgow, author, born at
Richmond, Va., 44 years ago.
Bishop William F. Anderson, Meth
4ist Episcopal church, born at Mor
tantown, W. Va., 68 years ago.
rhls Day In History.,
-1792 Capt. Uriah F. Levy, a Jew
tell officer, who led the movement to
abolish corporal punishment in the
United States navy, , born in Phila
delphia. Died in New York,' March
22. 1862. , -
1S54 The allied British .and
French fleets bombarded Odessa, the
principal Russian port on the Black
Hz. .;)' : . .
1893-i-Naval representatives ot all
powers gathered at Hampton TCoads
preparatory o the Columbian review
in etiew York harbor,
Jus t 8Q Years Ago Today
The ladies of the P. E. O. cleared
127 by their recent entertainment
Sidewalk Inspector Allan, and
Coivicilman' Snyder made a tour of
the -business district of the city and
condemned every walk therein which
is not of a durable character.
Frederick Dioxel has retu.-eti from
a two weeks' sojourn on the coast
"Zo-ro," one of the most magnifi
cent spectacular plays on the road,
will be the attraction at the Boyd this
wek. , George H. .Adams, the famous
clown; Pauline - Montegriffo, Miss
Toma Hanlon and SO other people
are included tn the cast
The Board of Public Works opened
bide for the sloping' of banks on pri
vate lots in this city.
Hugh Murphy commenced to pave
Leavenworth street between' Seventh
and Eighth with Colorado sandstone.
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Editorial Shrapnel
Minneapolis Journal: Invest in the
United States. It is safer than a gold
mine, for all the gold mines are in it
and back of it
Brooklyn Eagle: It turns out that
Clemenceau Is the man who "sees with
clear eyes." When he calls a man a
liar he has the documents.
Walt Street Jdurnal: Kaiser Karl
of Austria is young, but he has at least
realized the well-tested proverb that
a liar should have a good memory.
Washington Post: The disbanded
German alliance which has given
30,00 to the American Red Cross
will get a cleaner bill of expenditure
than Joe Bernstorff furnished for the
swag he carried away.
Louisville Courier-Journal: The
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States favors the elimination of nones
sentials during the war. Secretary
McAdoo says that pantaloons with the
original seat in 'em are among the
nonessentials.
New York Herald: There is fre
quent complaint that the farmer Is
not doing his part in bond buying, but
it should be noted by those who com
plain that Oregon and Iowa, two dis
tinctly agricultural states, are the first
under the wire with their full quotas
of this loan.
New York World: The senate mili
tary oomrqlttee has approved the leg
islation requested by General Persh
ing authorizing American soldiers and
sailors to receive decorations from the
allies. This authorization might more
gracefully have been given long ago,
but It la better late than aver, . ',,
Morris, fortunately, had been entertaining
Rochambeau, the French commander and the
Chevalier de Chastellux in his home while
the armies were passing through Philadel
phia. As a host he was accustomed to doing
things on as big a scale as in business or war
finance. His French guests were still with
in the influence of his hospitality when he
made an appointment to meet them on Sep
tember 5 in the house of the Chevalier de
Luzerne, the French minister to the United
States, to arrange, if possible, for a tempo
rary loan. He asked for $20,000 in specie
until October 1.
The Frenchmen showed no enthusiasm.
They had little ready cash and expected more
with the arrival of the Admiral Count de
Grasse, but he might never arrive. In no
case could they lend the money, except with
the consent of the French intendant and
treasurer, who had left the city.
Morris volunteered to accompany Ro
chambeau to Chester, where he believed they
could overtake the officers of the French
Exchequer. They set forth the next morning
on horseback. Morris was accompanied by
his assistants, Gouverneur Morris. The Amer
icans began immediately a presentation of
the urgency of the loan and the importance
of the military campaign which hung upon its
negotiation. But they had not gone far when
they ran into a rider with dispatches seeking
Robert Morris.
"That is my name,"-said Morris. "You
can stop right here."
He opened the letters and was able to
announce immediately that the Count de
Grasse had brought his squadron safely into
the Chespeake. The Frenchmen didn't stop
to argue longer, but assured the financier he
might have the silver.
Every American knows the denouement
of this tale. Cornwallis was bottled up and
surrendered, and King George III established
that famous precedent which the kaiser must
follow. He exercised the "divine right" of
complete capitulation.
People and Events
Quite a flood of fish stories of the cod va
riety have been poured out before a leeisla
tive committee in Boston by fishermen and
hsh dealers, ihe committee soucht to learn
why prices maintained a uniform high notch,
in spite ot an abundant catch. Biar companies
said the business didn't pay, that they were
losing money and stayed in it as a sacrifice
for patriotic reasons. Whereat Boston sat
up and smiled wearily.
A fine broth of a b'y is Tohn Duffv of St
Louis, just over 98. There were some doin's
on his birthday, so much so that his admirers
hired a hotel for the day and gave Johnny
the time of a long life. Local accounts pic
ture this "oldest inhabitant" as "sharp as a
wnip, mentally alert, eves and ears fine, and
all in all as fresh as a proverbial daisy."
uurry nans irom Athione, but has grown up
wun yie unuea states since 1842.
Round About the State
A marked scarcity of office seekers
out in the open suggests to the
Schuyler Sun the prevalence of po
litical frosts. Why worry! three long
months to come insures a thaw out
mayhap a deluge of primary hopefuls.
Friend Sentinel promises, in connec
tion with the Liberty loan drive, tj
vary the former practice of publish
ing the names of subscribers by add
ing aa a postscript "a list of well-to-do
people who refused to Invest" Post
scripts possess an Interest peculiar to
themselves.
The Scrappy Scribe of Polk Progress
enjoys the sport of throwing editorial
grenades at Liberty bond Blackers.
"We do not care a tinker's darn for
the business or friendship of an in
dividual who has not got his heart and
his pocketbook working" to win the
war. That's the talk to underscore.
Lyons Mirror-Sun vouches for the
statement that "men wh8 let their
wheat rot were paid more than the
ir.arket price for the grain by the.Ger.
man government" and that big sums
are being offered "to those who will
let their land lay idle," adding, sig
i lflcantly, "some of this money was
raised not a thousand miles from
Lyons."
Carefully drawn plans for play
grounds with two Jobs attached failed
to impress the city dads of York, es
pecially since the plans Insinuated a
pull of 31.200 on the city treasury for
equipment Nothtng doing in that line
tnis year. Tough luck for the kiddles,
but doubtless the younger sons and
dptighters ot York will get some fun
somehow, . '
Mirthful Remarks
"Why did you offend that euaTomerT"
"You know I have Just been tranaferred
from hate to books. He aald he wanted
something Intellectual."
Well?"
"I thoughtlessly took my apparatus end
atarted to moasure hla head." Loulivllle
Courier-Journal.
"This morning I overheard yon calling me
a Donehead.
"Did you?"
"And thla afternoon you called roe a pin
head."
"Poaslbly."
"I aay, old chap, aren't you mixing your
metaphors a bit?" Washington Star.
Fred There seems to be a let mora fuae
made over Miss A'a singing than over Mlaa
B'a. and I'm sura Mlaa B has the richer
voice.
Tom Ah. yea, but Miss A has tha richer
father. Boston Transcript
"What'e your idea of the difference be
tween a statesman and a demagogue?"
"Well." replied the aenator, " atateaman
tries to lead the people. A demagogue
raises a hollxr and trie to stampede
them." Argonaut,
"In spite of her boasted Intuition, woman
often falls in the most critical tint ot her
life."
"How do you mean?"
"Well, at weddings, one can aee tnai
hwiHaa naF.P nk. .. el. a ht ITlaYll.
Baltimore American.
On the Near Side Stop.
Omaha, April 20. To the Editor of
The Bee: I agree with those few who
have taken the time and trouble to
write, that the near side stop is very
unpopular with street car patrons. It
may be popular with automobile own
ers, who, I understand, urged its
adoption, bat the wishes of the ma
jority, the ones who have to ride in
the street cars, should be considered.
One excuse is, that other cities have
the near side stop rule, but other cit
ies have street cars with front end en
trances while we do not
As it is here, we never know how
tar down the block to walk and wait
so we will be near the rear entrance
when the car stops. Before this rule
was adopted we knew where to wait,
right on the corner and on the cross
ing, which is swept clean by the city
In snowy and .muddy weather, but now
it s only a guess where to wait and
very few guess rightly, and Invariably
automobiles at the curb are in the
way. Besides, with some corners near
side and some corners far side, even
our own citizens are puzzled half the
time, while strangers and visitors must
surely be not only puzzled, but bewil
dered and los and disgusted.
If it was put to' a vote of the peo
ple again, as it was last time, I be
lieve the result would again be as it
was that time, an overwhelming con
demnation of the near side stop.
CITIZEN.
Wants Ben Baker In Congress.
Omaha, April 19. To the Editor of
The Bee: Although Judge Ben S.
Baker made an unsuccessful run for
congress in 1916, a great many of us
would like to have another chance to
vote for him this year. Since the De
partment of Agriculture at Washing
ton has notified Congressman Lobeck
that there will be no more free distri
bution of seeds after this year, his oc
cupation as free seed distributer will
be gone. He has been the most suc
cessful and accomplished seed dis
tributer this district has ever sent to
congress.
Judge Baker is not as young as
some men, yet he has more life and
vim in him than lots of men of half
his age. In electing Judge Baker to
congress we will elect a stalwart pa
triot who will urge the utmost speed
and systematic effort in furthering the
interest of this nation and the inter
est of the allies in our fight with Ger
many. In electing Baker we will help
make the next congress republican
and will-pave the way for the election
of a stalwart American and repub
lican with lots of life and vim in him,
to finish up the work of destroying
the nation of vandals that has caused
so much bloodshed and misery in the
world in the last four years. Let us
nominate Judge Baker again this year
and then elect him. I write this on
my own accord, for I have not even
spoken to Judge Baker for a number
of months, except casually when I
would meet him on the street We
want to elect men who will help wake
this nation up from its sleep and who
win insist that system and speed be
shown in getting our army In shape
to ngnt ana in getting them over to
the battle lines. Delay may bring the
despot to our shores with his destroy
ing hordes. FRANK A. AGNEW.
have their emperor and empire, and
parliaments in plenty; the year 1870
has at last freed our neighbors frorr
a hated regime, from Caesarism anc
popery. Both nations are now repeat
ing the experience that the hope wsu
more beautiful than the realization
"Let me now say a word concerning
another phenomenon, which has beet
exciting the German youth of tht
most recent years, Neitzscheanism
the twin brother of Schopenhauerism
What Rousseau hurled in the fate ol
his times, that culture and civlllzatior.
do not make men better, Schopen
hauer teaches as a philosophical the
orem. Civilization increases our mis
ery, civilization is one great faux pas
What Is the meaning tf these phe
nomena? Is pessimism a sign that
the European family of nations is
nearing its old age? Have the mod
ern nations reached the point in theii
history which the old world harj
reached at the beginning of the
Roman empire? Does the phrase 'He
de siecle' signify not only the centurj
which is drawing to a close, but tht
end of this occidental world-epoch in
general fins saecull? The question
is what do these ideas signify as a
sign of the times? What makes the
'superman' so attractive to the young?
Neitzsche has become a stable articl6
in the periodicals and newspapers;
on the application blanks of our liib
Ilc libraries the name of Neitzsche oc
curs more frequently than any other
and his spirit is in the compositions of
the pupils of the schools.
"What draws them to Neitzsche? Is
it that the young have always a predi
lection for the new and unheard of;
to that which has the merit at least
of being opposed to the old and estab
lished forms, under the weight ot
which we are groaning, to the trivial
truths of the Sunday school class, the
trivial truths of morals and those of
which candidates for degrees are ex
amined? Neitzsche called Socrates
the first Greek decadent; Kant a de
formed intellectual cripple; a good
conscience he said was the result of
a good digestion and morality the cas
tration of nature by decadence and
philosophers. This is indeed 6aying
something different from the old. tire
some stories. Are these paradoxes in
toxicating our young men, who have
grown tired of the everlasting disci
plining and examining?"
To my mind this only shows what
has been pointed out long ago, that
the German people had grown tired
of themselves and their government;
that their ideals were all wrong and
mat iney were groping in xne aaric
for belter ones and landed on the
worst of all by way of Schopenhauer
and Neitzsche for relief.
GEORGE P. WILKINSON.
The German Mind.
Omaha, April 17. To the Editor of
The Bee: It might throw some light
on the mooted question of just what
was the condition of the German mind
and its philosophy that could have
made him so ruthless as to rush into
this war:
In his "System of Ethics," a book
published in 1899 by Paulsen, profes
sor of philosophy in the University of
Berlin, I find these words: "Nations,
like individuals, are kept alive by hope
and yearning, not by their fulfilment;
when the ideals are realized, there
comes a time of restless seeking for a
new goal. And it might perhaps be
shown that we are passing through
such a period. The German people,
particularly, who seem to be most af
fected by the feelings mentioned, have
had their long yearnings satisfied by
enormous achievements: they at last
WAR'S RECOMPENSE
Te that have faith to look with fearless
eyes
Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife.
And know that out of death and night
shall rise
The dawn of ampler life, -Rejoice,
whatever anguish rend the heart,
That God haa given you a priceless dower.
To live in these great times and have your
part
In Freedom's crowning hour.
That ye may tell your sons who see tha
light
High In tha Heavens their heritage to
take
"I saw the powers of Darkness put to
flight,
I saw the Morning break."
Lines Found Upon Australian Soldier.
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