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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURlUY, APRIL 27, 1918
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The Sees 5aevice Flag
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Nailing campaign lies is now in order.
Heckling is an old feature of hustings, and
candidates mast look for it wherever they go.
Gas bombs and smoke barriers are already in
evidence in Omaha, and the bombardment is only
just commenced.
f No telephone or megaphone is needed to carry
to Berlin the sound of such choruses a were
raised on the court house lawn.
- "Bullet proof jobs in the government service
are being subjected to close, inspection just now,
and the safety? first brigade is correspondingly
agitated. .
A little call by the navy at Wilhelmshaven,
similar to the visit paid to Zeebrugge, would be
mightily entertaining and probably would in
terest the kaiser.
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The .State Council of Defense now has a fine
opportunity to prove up on the professors it has
accused of disloyalty, and should not let the
shatter rest in its unfinished state.
The bill extending the draft law to automatic
ally Include young men coming to their majority
has passed the house, and the boys may as well
get ready to enroll themselves on the great scroll
of fame. . .
' Our Dutch friends are not exactly reconciled
to their situation, but they must not forget there
is a hereafter. If they refuse to sell us tin, we
can find a way to get along without it, but they
might miss our wheat and meat greatly. .
Hamilton county has Just experienced the
unique sensation of having a bridge company
"put back" a considerable sum of money. Tax
payer are on the trail of other contractors, and
hope to effect a clean-up. They struck pay dirt,
apparently,, with the first shovelful.
Overman Bill Going Through.
The Overman bill, which really is the presi
dent's bill, is going to be passed by the senate,
although not exactly in the form sent over by
tha White House. Instead of putting it to final
vote, on Thursday, as had been ordered, discus
sion was continued that additional amendment
might be made, the aircraft situation presenting
tha opportunity, While the president through
Senator Overman ordered the adoption of the
bill without amendment and without compromise
on its principle, the senators have halted at the
provisions in 'some respects. Making no effort to
destroy or interfere with the centralized control
of all government war activities, amendments
have been suggested that will increase the power
of the executive and preserve the rights of the
legislative. The particular amendment that re
sulted in prolongation of the debate refers to
tha naming of a single head of the aircraft de
partment The advantage of this is apparent Un
der the direction of one man who is capable of
managing big affairs, the collapsed program may
be set In motion again and something retrieved
from the wreck. If the Overman bill will bring
this about it will have helped mightily in winning
; th war. : ' :
CLEAN UP THE UNIVERSITY.
The Board of Regents of the University of
Nebraska have met a grave situation in a manner
that is calculated to produce results. It has asked
the State Council of Defense to arrange for an
open hearing, to listen to accusers and accused,
and to make recommendations, promising to take
swift action on the showing made.
In no other way can the scandal aroused be
disposed of. Nebraska can not afford to have in
definite and unformed stories circulated about its
great school.
Already the state has suffered greatly through
loose or ill-considered talk by men whose loyalty
is not questioned, but whose discretion may not
be entirely commensurate with their zeal. This
is regrettable, but the damage is done. As to the
university, it has been the center of consider
able! criticism, because of the actions and utter
ances of some members of its faculty. Nebraskans
now or at no other time wish to circumscribe the
faculty of the university in the matter of instruc
tion. The citizens realize that the value of educa
tion is in direct ratio to its breadth and depth. Ad
mitting all this, however, a higher and more im
portant consideration must be recognized by all.
The safety of all our institutions rests on the un
derstanding of our citizens, and, when a mind be
comes so broadened by philosophic research that
it no longer Includes within its vision the horizon
of nationality, it has in that far become a danger
to the very things we are most earnestly devoted
to perpetuate.
As The Bee understands the situation at
Lincoln, the chief trouble has arisen because
some members of the faculty have developed
"the international mind," and are devoted to
"philosophic pacifism.'' This attitude is capable
of eloquent defense and has been supported most
ably, its prifti'ral danger existing because of
the fact that the rarefied atmosphere of pure
reason into which these learned gentlemen have
elevated themselves is fatal to our national as
pirations. While it is dangerous to undertake to
limit the activity of a teacher, it is far more so
to permit an irrational "philosopher" to spread
his inchoate dogma among" minds that are seeking
for light and reason.
Nebraska "Over the Top."
Thousands of Omahans stood in the raw, chilly
wind and raised a mighty chorus whose echo
will be heard in Berlin, when the "tank" went
over the top, signifying that the state had ex
ceeded its quota of subscription to the Liberty
loan.
That the amount of the loan taken would ex
ceed the minimum set down for the state has
never been in doubt Nebraska has done a great
many things in a fine, big way, to show its loyalty
since the war has been upon us. Its subscription
to each of the Liberty loans has been in .keep
ing with expectations, and its purchases of War
Savings stamps has been so far ahead of alt others
that no state in the union expects to get within
hailing distance of the record made by our
people. Its young men have answered the call to
the colors, its farmers have worked harder than
ever to produce for the world's needs, and its
citizens generally have done and are doing their
utmost to help humanity win this war for free
dom. We have a'mong us disloyal men and women;
some of these undertake to hide behind a screen
of pretense; subscription to Liberty loans and
purchase of thrift stamps is not the best test of
devotion to the ideals of America just now. Lip
service is easy to perform, but it is heart-devotion
the nation now needs. Time-servers and hypo
crites will be discovered in good season, and the
day will come when loyalty will not be measured
by the noise one makes. Nebraska is over the
top for the Liberty loan, and is going over the
top for Old Glory, too, and the secret sympath
izers with the kaiser should keep this in mind.
t Naval Success at Zeebrugge.
- Renewal of the German efforts to push on and
capture the Channel ports, and to cut the line
between Calais and Paris may be ascribed to the
great success that attended the British raid on
Zeebrugge and Ostend. While the Germans as
sert the attempt to close the'Ostend canal was
not entirely successful, they practically admit that
Zeebrugge has been put out of action. Details
now coming through give the affair a color of
gallantry that is not surpassed by any incident of
the great 'war. Crews of the ships engaged work
ed under fire of batteries looked upon by the
Germans as invincible. Many a gallant son of
Britain went to his death, but the others held on
until the mission they had set upon was ; ac
complished. '
Americans should read the stories of this
wonderful raid with avidity; in its recital will be
found the best possible answer to the slanderous
charges of pro-German propagandists that the
British are not doing their share, that they have
been holding off to allow our men to be sacrificed
in the dangerous work that must be done, and
similar lies spread to weaken our alliance. With
her soldiers fighting with their backs to the wall,
her sailors guarding the seas, and carrying out
such effective raids as those lately chronicled,
and her people spending $35,000,000 a day to win,
only a shameless kaiserite can say Great Britain
is not carrying her share in this war.
Public Syirit Should Outlaw Them
Men Like Hitchcock Should Not Be Honored in America
By W. E. Martin.
News Item: "The Kansas City Chamber
of Commerce is delighted at the prospect of
an address by Senator Hitchcock."
News Item: "Senator Hitchcock will talk
to the Omaha Chamber of Commerce on
'How the Business Man can Help Win the
War"
Quite truly, I don't like writing this a little
bit. This is the time for doing. Moreover,
there is no shortage of professional writers
who know so much more than the amateur
and tell what they know so much better. I
felt this so strongly that I scrapped my
original draft, decided to keep off, but this
morning I saw that the most fearless and
jus Springfield Republican had taken ' up
arms against Hitchcock and my pen took the
bit in its teeth once more. So I dug out
the scrapped draft, pieced it together, and
here it is. .
One doesn't like leveling his lance at an
individual, much prefers a tendency or a
condition; but Hitchcock presses so hard, so
insistently against my dearest beliefs (not
mine, the dearest belief of a great people)
that he compels attack upon the man.
When the foul flood poured out of Ger
many, hot wrath swept like fire over Ameri
ca. There was one mind and one heart about
it. I say this unreservedly because the Ger
man is counted out without saying so, had
no mind of his own about the matter, had
long taken his mind about public questions
from above; but excepting the Germans,
everyone knew the black horror assailed
humanity. It was not a thing to take sides
over and debate about any more than it is
debatable whether a man has a right to
beat his wife. It was sheer badness, self
advertised as much, proudly bent upon de
stroying goodness, that is, the goodness be
lieved in by the rest of the world. In short,
as someone said, "The Kaiser's God is our
Devil." So we could only feel about it and
the only thing to feel was loathing. It
was expressed on every street-corner, in
every home, in every club, by every fearless
monthly, weekly, and daily. The great
Atlantic Monthly has devoted a large part
of every issue to expressing it from the first.
It. opened its presses to the pro-German. It
said to Kuno Francke in substance, "Cer
tainly you may try to state a case for Ger
many in our pages, but we are sure you can
not do it," and he tried and of course could
not.
thing. But Hitchock from the first looked
upon the war about as a dog fight In the
early days of it, a man told me that Hitch
cock said to him that the war would best end
in a dog fall. It does not matter whether
he ssh'd it or not, for on his editorial page
and in the senate he went further than that.
He wrote and spoke in effect in aid of Ger
many. If the bills he introduced and sup
ported had gone through, long ago, all
Europe would have been under the kaiser's
heel. That is indisputable. His editorial
page was a hospital for every bad case of
pro-Germanism that knocked. Let him
charge this to which he pleases, his head or
his heart.
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Look at this young man, revealed through
his letters in the April issue of the Atlantic
Monthly, Edwin Austin Abbey, 2d nephew
of the great painter. When the war came he
was a civil engineer of highest promise, in
full flush of young manhood and of devoted
exercise of a great profession. He had just
begun a great and difficult bridge construc
tion. His fine spirit instantly flew to France
and as soon as the bridge was done he went
there bodily and spilt there his precious life
for the Great Cause. This "gentleman, un
afraid," hardly more than a boy, wrote these
radiant words which seem to me to hold
the whole of why we must fight the kaiser
and his cutthroat conferees off the earth.
"I can see very little patriotism or flags
or countries; it is more a struggle of man
kind to defend the principles of humanity
and chivalry which the Creator has handed
down, even though the defenders them
selves have abused and sinned against the
very principles they now defend. It is as
though the world has sinned to a point
where it divided, the one half going over
the bounds of human possibility, the other
stopping and reaching back to former good
and true tradition to resist the impulse of
the lost half to swallow it up as well."
He was a distinguished one of tens of
thousands. Was there one such that rushed
to the kaiser's colors?
This is an old story but its telling is
essential here. Put it beside Hitchcock. Put
young Abbey, his heroic sacrifice and his re
markable sense of the stake over which the
world is at grips, beside this mature man
who in his young manhood was in close
quarters with Prussianism. I know no other
whom intimacy with it had not taught the
most intense abhorrence of the monstrous
Ruined Rheims a Monument
to Kultur
For a week the Germans have concentrat
ed a heavy fire upon the city of Rheims un
til nothing is left of it but a heap of ruins.
The buildings have been leveled and the
streets have disappeared. Of the great
Cathedral, according to a correspondent of
Le Matin, only the west front and a few
pillars remain standing, as a mute protest
against the devilish thoroughness with
which the hand of the Prussian has done its
work.
From what motives the Germans perpe
trated the final destruction of Rheims makes
no difference. So often during the past three
years they have offered lying pretexts for
bombarding the Cathedral that nothing they
may say in self-defense can be accepted as
the truth. It was vainly hoped that some
where in Germany .there was enough com
mon sense and respect for the decent opin
ion of mankind to restrain them from wan
tonly battering down stone by stone the glori
ous monument preserved from the 13th
century. In the long future nothing can
ever save the German nation and the Ger
man people from the shameful reproach
they have justly earned in the desolation
created by their imperial master's cannon.
Rheims in ruins will be mourned by the
world. In title only it belonged to France.
It was one of civilization's precious posses
sions, a common heritage for all time until
the Teuton came. On the site of the beauti
ful city among the vine-clad hills of Cham
pagne, only heaps of shattered stone and
wreckage remain as proof of the hideous
crime committed in obedience to a German
kaiser who proclaims his partnership with
God. New York World.
One day he sees two dogs fighting. The
next he sees seraphim hovering over one of
the dogs. The day before we entered the
war he was for standing aside, holding that
the war is an exclusive European feud. The
day after it became to him a holy war, in
which we must fight to the last gasp if need
be. But the cause for which we are fighting
is the same, today, yesterday and tomorrow.
The only question all the time was how best
we could serve it.
Our country in the war, with brazen and
unexampled effontery, Hitchcock sprang to
the fore, his shamelessness rising to high
tide when on the floor of the senate he
charged the administration with a break
down and tried to tear the reins of leader
ship from Wilson's hands. How faulty the
administration was and how much good the
senate did and how good or bad was its way
of doing it are beside my mark. Those are
now questions for the historian. What 1
am drawing at are two living things, first,
the danger of Hitchcock's becoming chair
man of the most important senate commit
tee, and second, honors being paid to him. I
have said enough of the first. As to the sec
ond, I think no fair-minded man would say
that honoring Hitchcock reveals a low na
tional morale. We all know that our morale
can challenge confidently any other people's.
What it reveals to my mind is a dull sense
of state and an excess of good nature. It is
so much easier to get on in America than
any other, where there is so much more
elbow room; we are jostled so much less,
that we care comparatively little whether the
other fellow does well or ill and take lightly
what he does, however far-reaching its ef
fects. This extends to the state. We are
highly pleased with our freedom and our
results in running ourselves and so we let
the state run itself. Chambers of Commerce
honor Hitchcock by letting him talk to them
and leading men sit on the platform and it's
all prodigal good nature. But I have no
doubt the men on the platform have as little
respect for him as anyone else. Possibly it
is the office they honor, the shell, regardless
of the quality of the meat. But is this war
so light a thing that the possibility of Hitch
cock's being chairman of the greatest senate
committee but , slightly disturbs us? Aren't
we touched by the ferment seething in the
world. Archbishop Lang, the British
emissary, looked us over and saw little cor
respondence here with the fact that the
Britisher's brain is about as busy with po
litical, economic and social reconstruction as
with reconstruction of Germany. We cannot
go on in the old way. We are at a sharp
turn of the road, and we need now a public
spirit which makes outcasts of such men as
Hitchcock.
Clean Tp America.
Silver Creek, Neb., April 25. To the
Editor of The Bee: Gentlemen and
friends of our flag, let us all stop and
look and see where we are at Our boys,
the choicest of our land, are dying
daily for the freedom of the world. We
have traitors right In our land at
home who have been honored by the
wings of that old eagle and protected
by- that old Stars and Stripes, today
the glory of the world. Long may she
wave over the seas and the land of all
freedom. Now let us all rid this na
tion of the disloyal. Let us join to
gether, hand In hand, and die for our
dear boys in the far east Don't be
chilly. Renovate this dear land of the
unclean hands. H. N. WILSON.
Great Frederick to the Cellar
Frederick the Great, standing so long in
bronze aggressiveness before the Army War
college in Washington, has at last gone to
the cellar never again to emerge,, probably,
as a monitor to the American people. Good
riddance 1 But inasmuch as the war college
is in a very out-of-the-way situation at the
national capital, perhaps it might have been
a good thing to leave the Prussian where he
was, as a reminder of the, advantage to the
nation to any nation of a policy of military
preparedness over one of studied and stupid
neglect of all precautions.
Frederick II was never a friend of Amer
ica. What little he ever said or did for the
American colonies was mere camouflage, hav
ing reference to his dealings not with us but
with rivals in Europe. He hated every single
principle, every thought, every ideal which
our founders put upon their books. He
started the current of conquest which has
involved us in the w.orld war against his peo
ple. To all Americans his name should be
forever odious. But he was at least a living
expression of the policy of making his wn
country great and safe. We Americans have
always been bent on making our country
great, but we have seldom thought of mak
ing it safe. The Prussian on his pedestal
might have served, in view of all that has
happened, to remind us of that duty.
Field Marshal von Micawber
"We must suffer still for a short time our
present anxieties in order to insure our good-
future, bo rield Marshal von iiindenourg,
cheers up the Essen Chamber of Com
merce and the old folks at home. A little
more than four months ago the field marshal
was telling the Vienna Neue Free Presse:
"If for some time yet we maintain our
strength and exercise patience, we shall carry
it to a good end."
By mid-January the German Mars, adored
in his monstrous wooden idol by the Ber
linese, was giving out amusingly strong tonic
to a collection of German editors:
"By next April I shall be in Paris."
Now "we must suffer still for a short time
our present nnxieties." Always a "good fu
ture, "victory," "a strong peace," is going
to turn up. Steel and wood Mars playing
Micawber, trying to micawberize the "Ger
man people." Great is Hindenburg. One
wonders if honest "German Michel" doesn't
get a little weary of being cheered up even
by the wooden god of the German tribes.
New York Times.
One- Year Ago Today In the War.
. British premier declared home rule
necessary for victory and peace.
. Allied conference- in Washington
agreed on baalo principle for con
duet of war.
Tha house turned down tbe Roose
velt scheme of raising a volunteer
force for France.
Tbe Day We Celebrate.
' T. J. O'Connor, city clerk, born 1184.
Major Arthur Finley Nevin, IT. &
A., who has been serving as a direc
tor of camp singing, born at Edge
worth, Pa., 47 years ago. -4
. Sir Henry I Drayton. Dominion
power controller, bora at Lingston,
Ont, 49 years ago. .
' William Draper Lewis, dean of the
law school at the University of Penn
sylvania', born in Philadelphia, 61
years ago.,
H.VH. Myers, outfielder of the
Brooklyn National league base ball
team, born at East Liverpool, O., 28
rears ago. j
This Day In History. "
1102 Louis Kossuth, the famous
leader of the Hungarian revolution la
ISO, born In Hungary; Died at Turin,
March 10, 1894.
" Ull Force of 1,700 under Gen
eral Pike assaulted and. captured
York, capital of upper Canada.
' 181 The porta of Virginia and
North Carolina were proclaimed to be
in a state of blockade,'
J usi SO Years Ago Today
Mrs. O. H. Elliott of Bt Paul,
Minnesota, arrived in Omaha to visit
her sister Mrs. Juda P. Currle and
Mrs. H. C. Stevenson. '
The residence of J. B. Farrell, lo
cated two blocks south of Hanscom
park on Thirty-second street was
struck by lightning and the roof and
second story of the building com
pletely demolished.
The Omaha Worklngmen's Edu
cational society held a meeting for
the purpose of learning if the work
ing people are Interested in opening
a reading room which is to be run
on the club style.
' The ball game today was postponed,
the diamond being too soft by reason
of two days rain. ,
Jack Morrison, one of the popular
proprietors or the "Diamond ' will
present to the member of the Omaha
team making the best batting ave
rage at the end of the season, a
magnificent diamond horse shoe pin.
State Press Comment
Beatrice Express: Nebraska's se
dition law covers so much terrlotory
that Nebraska people ought not worry
about punishment being administered.
Kearney Hub: It Is regrettable
that the loyalty of any part of the
faculty of the state university is In
question, but now that the charge has
been made It is the duty of the board
of regents to go through that faculty
with a fine-tooth comb. Let no Ger
man germs escape.
Beatrice Sun: As a measure of
conservation, some of the new phrases
which have only been recruited into
our language, should be sent back to
rest billets. For instance, it is not
fair to expect "over the top" and
"camouflage" to be kept constantly
in the front lines of conservation
without imparlng their morale, pep,
resiliency.
Crawford Chronicle: Senator Ken
yon of Iowa In a speech In Omaha the
other day made this remark: "I for
one hope never to see daylight again
If I ever buy one article made by the
hands or machinery of the contempt
ible Huns." for which sentiment he
was vigorously applauded, and in
which ha will be joined in action by
millions of our American people.
While the senator was on hts recent
trip to Europe, in conversation with
a Scottish lieutenant the latter said
that "Germany, had aa much chance
of winning this war aa a celluloid cat
has of catching . an asbestos rat in
hell." And that's going some in true
prophecy, .
Editorial Shrapnel
Brooklyn Eagle: There's many a
slip twlxt the plan and the ship; but
the refrain, "Schwab. Schwab, on
the job," is a mdst cheering one to all
of us.
St Louis Globe-Democrat: The
Germans are discovering that the sol
diers on the western front are "dif
ferent" They keep right on fighting
after they are theoretically whipped.
Baltimore American: After all the
doings of the Huns, It must be a great
strain on the nerves of the allied
troops when the former in surrender
ing call them Kamerads. j
New York Herald: "Press on!"
was Secretary Baker's parting words
to General Pershing and the Ameri
can army In France. Is it lese ma
jeste to express the hope that General
Pershing's reply was a polite "Same
to you?" V
Toronto Mail and Empire: A Ger.
man paper says that Germany lost its
last chance to keep the United States
out of the war when it failed to pre
vent Mr. Wilson's re-election. Now
ex-Governor Hughes is a peaceable
man, but he would be willing to pay
a heavy fine for the pleasure of doing
certain things to this editor.
Loulsvile Courier-Journal: While
the world may be shocked to find an
emperor to be a plain liar the fact is
that lying is one of the smallest vices
of the dynasty to which the present
emperor of Austria-Hungary belongs.
The Hapsburgs began aa robbers and
murderers and as time passed they
Improved their oportumties. not their
morals.
Twice Told Tales
The Peculiar Nut
A Journalist visited an insane
asylum to get material for an article
and was shown over the establish
ment by one of the inmates, who
was so intelligent that it was almost
impossible to believe he oould be out
of his head.
"And what are you In here for,
my man?" asked the Journalist at
length. J
Immediately a cunning look came
Into the man's eyes and he looked
about him warily. , , ..
"I'll tell you. if you'll keep it dark,
ha na.li. lowBrina- his voice. "I have
a mania for swearing. I write 'cuss
words' all around: Its great, sporr.
Why, they have to hire a man Just
to follow me round and rub 'em out.
hnr rnmlno- a little closer. 'Til tell
you a secret I'm four 'damns ahead
of him and I've got 'hell' written all
over your back!" cnicago neram.
Tfw T.4wnn.
A professor of history met one of
his class who had returned trom
fighting on the western front and
asked him if he had learned any par-
HfMilnr laaoann tmm the W&Te
"I have discovered," replied the
young man, "that it is a great deal
.easier studying history than it is malt
ing it." .Boston Transcript.
TKa IfoAHnr.
"IK met your friend Spongely this
morning."
"TTnw rlM ha utrika YOU?
"Said he'd left his change at home
In his other trousers." Boston Tran-
scrint .
Quits the Hyphenated Sheet
Kennard, Neb., April 23. To the
World-Herald, Omaha: Sirs You
will please discontinue sending me
the World-Herald from this date on.
I am paid in advance and you can
either use this money to support
Hitchcock with or tickle the 6ides of
some Dutchman, as it is immaterial
what is done with it. just so that my
name never again appears on the page
of a World-Herald. Why don't you
use the word "Hun" when the other
papers do that is the way it is sent
to you for your use instead of sub
stituting the word German? Are you
afraid of hurting some unpatriotic
German's feelings?
Last evening in Omaha you had a
patriotic address by a man who has
been to the trenches, who has travel
ed from one end of the line to the
other, and a man whose patriotism is
100 per cent American. There is noth
ing on your front page of his stirring
addres3, but instead there is a com
plete column by the man in the sen
ate who has been guilty of opposing
this administration's war plans from
the very beginning. Your competitor
has given it a column on the front
page, the place it deserves, where every
man may read something that will do
his soul good and make him a better
American for the reading. The man's
writings to whom you give prom-1
inence savor very much of playing
for the German vote and if signs have
anything to do with it I am of the
opinion that that is Just what he is
going to get when the next election
comes. And, when we speak of the
German vote, we mean pro-Germans
or those whose sympathies are across
the water. All others in this country
of German descent who are loyal we
call "Americans." Now please cancel
my name, as, I have stood for this
kind of thing as long as it is possible
for me to do so, and I do not want,
for my part to disgrace the postofflces
of this great country by requiring
them to place such a periodical in my
olllce box. Patriotically J. B. A.
P. S. Webster says that a patriot
is one who loves his country and zeal
ously supports and defends its in
terests. "Over There and Here"
The military surgeons have found
creped paper -a very satisfactory sub
stitute for cotton gauze bandages.
Much work looms ahead for the
commission that is to probe the school
text books of New York state for Ger
man propaganda. Some fine pictures
of the kaiser are sure to go to the
scrapheap.
Missouri experts claim to have
proof of ground glass in corn meal
sold over some of the counters at St !
Joe. Proof was obtained by burn
ing samples of the meal and sifting
the glass from the ashes.
Many chaplains with the allied
forces in France make it a point of
writing to the parents or relations of
every man. killed in action in their
brigade, a labor of love which Is richly
rewarded by the consolation it brings
to the affljeted.
Germany's lowely gretchens are
crowding the columns of matrimonial
papers with advertisements for hus
bands. Some of the ads reveal a state
of desperation, as when Gretchen
writes that lack of an arm or leg will
make no difference.
One of the oddities of the price-fix
ing system of Britain is that strictly
British-raised cattle are restricted to
a maximum price of 76 shillings a
hundred, live weight, while Irish cat
tle, unrestricted as to price, bring as
much as 100 shillings. British farm
ers insist on equal rights and propose
to get them.
Five thousand employes of the
Macy stores in New York placed on
the main building an elaborate bronze
tablet as a tribute to their associates,
219 in number, who have joined the
colors. The inscription reads: "We
h?nor those who do us honor. In this
metal we inscribe our humble expres
sion of appreciation to those of our
co-workers who have gone from our
midst to defend a principle and bring
peace to a stricltert world."
LINES TO A LAUGH.
FLAGS OF FREEDOM.
(Tune: Battle Cry of Freedom.) '-.
Yes, we re aprmglng to tna color, ion miinoi
freemen brave,
Fighting with all tha nag of Freedom
For the kalaer must ba taught that tha
world la not hie elava,
Fighting with all tha flaga of Freedom.
Chorus: '
Our Freedom forever! Hurrah, boyn, hurrah!
Down with the kaiser! On with tbe Frea!
Hip, hurrah, hurrah, hooray! Up, Freemen,
save the day -Fighting
will all the flaga of Freedom. ,
We miut save tha Ubertlea that our father
won before
Fighting with all the flags of Freedom .
And we'll teach the brutal mailed flat II
shall asaatl no more, ' ,
Fighting with all the flags of Freedom. '
Wa will never stack our arms, boys, til
seas are aafe to sail, ',
Fighting with all the flags of Freedom,
And the brutal kalaer crew ahall now lean
the Free prevail
Fighting with all the flags of Freedom. ,
ERNEST L. IRELAND.
Omaha. . .
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CONCERT PIANIST
"We utilize everything In our business,"
said the pork packer. "When we kill a
hog nothing Is lost but the squeal,"
'We beat tnat, said the lumber manu
facturer. "When we cut up a dogwood
we do not even waste the bark." Boston
Transcript
"So you think that long hair makes a
man look Interesting and Impressive?"
"Yes." replied Miss Cayenne, "I supect
that hair was provided by nature to divert
attention from the fact that a man la a
bonehead." Washington Star.
"What are you thinking oft" h Inquired
as tha conversation languished.
"I have heard that you have a terrible
reputation for kissing every girl you meet."
"Ye-es?"
"And I was wondering how you got such
a reputation," concluded the fair maid.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"You won't get anything out of that law
yer. I asked him It the old skinflint who
was his client left anything behind him,
and what do you think be told me?" ' ,
"What did he tell you?"
"That he left all he had." Baltimore
American. "
Blinks Did you see the cutting look she
gave me? .
Jinks Yes; her hatchet face la capable
of doing; such things as that. Boaton Olobe.
"How did you deceive that country con.
stable who was chasing you for speeding?"
'"Oh, we managed to throw dust In his
ees." Baltimore American.
"We want to rent your hil."
' "All right."
"For a Don't Worry Club."
"Eh?"
"A Don't Worry Club. . Our members
allow nothing to worry them."
"In that case the rent will be In ad
vance." Louisville Courier-Journal.
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