THE BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1918.
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Hive you got your second bond?
Another Red Crosi drive it on the tapis, for
!he money is needed for war work.
Half fare for soldiersxon furlough will help
ome, but free transportation would be better.
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Over the top and going fast, with many re.
turns to come, it Nebraska's record this time.
Secretary Baker wants a "white card" for the
army. Give it to him. No limit on the game now.
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The face between the radishes and the weeds
will now be started. It is tip to the war gardeners
to referee the match.
"Like coming to good hotel," is the way one
young soldier describes the effect of being trans
ferred from a southern camp to Fort Crook.
If Minneapolis will look over the record of
live stock receipts, maybe it .will understand why
Omaha's bank clearings overtop those of the Mill
City. 1
London postmen want to know if men or
mummies are to have preference in the. safety
of the subways. The answer to this ought to be
easy.
Omaha beys are making new records at the
tecroiting' office," just' one more proof that the
kaiser's effort to frighten America had Teverse
The crown prince is also a venturesome cuss;
he got close enough to actual fighting to press
the button on the "terror gun." Thai ought to get
him any decoration he lacks. ; :
New York now knows something of the senti
ment that pervaded Omaha cm a memorable oc
c3ion when a championship "wrestling" match
ended in a draw. Barnum was right ,
Winter wheat is reported to have made such,
progress in Aprij that the estimate of 560,000,000
bushels for the crop is to be raised. What will be
more, to the point is to raise the wheat. -
if f Nebraska Farmert Pledge Loyalty.
Action by the Nebraska Farmers' War council,
pledging loyal and unfemitting support to the
president, way be accepted as expressing the sen
timent of the people of Nebraska without dis
tinction, as to calling. It is unfortunately true
that some among us have not been loyal to the
United States, and that these have had the
most attention during the last few months. In
the clamor that has arisen over them the men
and women who have quietly employed them
selves at work essential to victory were forgot
ten by the world outside. However, in no part
of the union has the response to the call of duty
been more spontaneous than in Nebraska. Noisy
agitators have had their day, and the solid senti
ment bl the, substantial citizenry of the state is
now coming to be understood. Next to men, Ne
braska's greatest contribution to the cause of
freedom will be food, and this will be furnished
id extra supply. Our farmers are driving for pro
duction harder than ,6ver, and will support their
pledges of loyalty by deeds. . - ,
NO MORE "DELETED" DEATH IISTS.
President Wilson has overruled the decision
of the War department to cut out the addresses
of soldiers from the casualty lists. His action is
both sensible and humane.' On behalf of the War
department it was urged that publication of the
address as well as the 'name of the soldier who
had been killed or wounJed gave 'information
of value to the enemy, and that it would operate
to cause annoyance to the family and friends of
the soldier. For the first excuse little real ground
can exist; our people have voluntarily submitted
to be deprived of a great deal of information, for
the reason that its publication might be of benefit
to the enemy. Just how knowledge of the home
address of a soldier who had suffered in battle
can help the German cause is not plain. That
such knowledge can subject his friends to annoy
ance from claim agents and others who seek to
turn misfortune of others to their own advantage
is more easy to understand. The government has
tried to remedy this by giving assurance that
a'l soldiers relatives will be protected in all their
rights without the intervention of special agents
of any kind. With the routine work of the War
department being placed on a smoother running
plan, the purpose of the general arrangement
may be carried out..t any rate, the authorities
should find a better way to protect sufferers than
withholding information. Principally, the de
cision of the president will obviate suspense and
uncertainty arising from the fact that to many
names of men in the army are exactly or nearly
the tame. When the address is published, identi
fication is made more certain, and many relatives
will be relieved of needless pain by knowing at
once whether the dead or wounded man belongs
to them or not. The president! decision is both
wise and humane. i '
Belgian Bells to German Guns.
Now the Hun is completing his orgy of sac
rilege in . Belgium by raiding undestroyed
churches and taking bells to be melted up and
cast into munitions. No phase of the kaiser's
campaign has been more luminous in its effron
tery than the direct assault on religion and good
morals. Constantly mouthing his thanks to God,
and hypocritically pretending the utmost of devo
tion, the kaiser has complacently witnessed the
destruction of churches and cathedrals, the dese
cration of homes and the obliteration of sacred
symbols wherever his hordes have attained even
temporary foothold. As at Rheims, so elsewhere,
the foes of civilization have directed their ut
most and earliest efforts against houses of wor
ship, without distinction as to creed. Militaristic
materialism fails to comprehend or to take into
account sentiments of veneration or of sanctity
attained through long religious usage. The brave,
pathetic protest of Cardinal Mercier will meet
the same cold indifference encountered by his
former attempts to stay the course of kultur. Bel
gium's church bells will go to feed German can
non now being trained against other churches in
France. In this the civilized world may descry
what fate awaits its institutions should Germany
by any misfortune overcome the defense of free
dom. ' ,;- ':
Bohemian! a Factor in the War.
Stories from Italy that Bohemian soldiers are
leaving th! Austrian army and going over to
fight with the Italians may be believed. Similarly
Bohemian regiments joined the Russians, and at
the finish the fighting center of Korniloff s army
was composed of Czecho-Slavs who had trans
ferred from the Central powers to the Allies.
These soldiers have not been caught up in the
bolshevik maelstrom, but somewhere maintain
their organization and are eager to strike again
for the freedom of their motherland. This will
explain why the defections on the Italian front,
taken with demonstrations at Prague and else
where, are so disquieting to the Germans.
Any effort or demonstration of this sort
weakens the German cause, now and for the
future as well. It indicates the determination of
the so-called "submerged" nations to reassert
their individuality. Military bonds that have re
pressed them for generations have dissolved in
the corrosive smoke of war, and with the free
dom they have looked forward to now in sight
they are not going- to give over efforts until they
have achieved their aims. ,
Bohemia has long been a resisting subject of
the Austrian government, held as a "crown
land" and not as an equal in the. empire. The
coalition between the Magyar and the German
that made Bohemia's subjugation . possible is
greatly weakened as a result of the present con
flict and probably can not be restored. Even with
the collapse of Russia, the pan-Slavic movement
has not been abandoned, and the fighting units
of the Czechs wilt afford a rallying point for the
Slavs who- seem determined at last to break away
from German overlordship. As Austria's strength
is sapped internally, so does the prospect for
Germany's victory dwindle. Bohemia's, protest
against the tyranny of the Hapsburg is coming to
be an influential factor in the war. t
Down at Kansas City a German spy admitted
in court a record of four years of activity in the
United States, including enlistment and deser
tion from the army. He wa! ordered interned
for the duration of the war. That is all .
r German Designs on Holland
Scheming far Its Harbors; Its Colonies and Its Trade
New York Times.
"Our Rhine remains the king of all the
rivers," said Treitschke in his celebrated
lectures. "It is an infinitely precious natural
possession, but through our fault the greatest
material advantage accruing from it has pass
ed into the hands of another state, and it
is an indispensable duty of German policy
to regain the mouths of that river." Treit
schke was a German of the Germans; with
our present understanding of German state
policy, as it has been revealed jto us, we may
say that he was a Hun 'of the Huns. It was
his belief, his teaching, that the greatest
duty of a state is to make itself strong, that
it is the chief duty of the individual at all
times to serve the state. Morality was no con
cern of the state, in his view; moral prin
ciples migjit regulate the conduct of individ
uals, self-interest must be the guide of rulers
of states; therefore small states can have
no rights which great ones are bound to re
spect Treitschke did not bluntly say that
German should take possession of Holland
to secure possession of the Rhine to its
mouth; he resorted to a subterfuge. Holland
being an independent state, it was not neces
sary to insist upon its political union with
German, but "the entry of Holland into our
customs community is as necessary as our
daily bread."
This counsel of moderation is disregarded
by the war-mad Germans of today. They
are planning an assault upon the independ
ence of Holland, they are seeking to create
a pretext for war with the Dutch, for con
quest of the Dutch. Foreign Minister Loudon
told the Dutch Chamber of Deputies that
the dispute with Germany was "most seri
ous," and we hear that German cavalry has
appeared upon the Dutch border. It would
appear that the imperial government, count
ing, it majr be, overmuch upon the continued
westward march of the German armies in
Flanders and.Picardy, indeed believing that
victory is assured and therefore already won,
has set about making those territorial ar
rangements which will guarantee to Ger
many the gains it will insist upon in the
peace terms.
Germany covets the territory of Holland,
for one reason, because it would thereby put
itself in a position of immense strategical ad
vantage against England. The Dutch coastal
water would afford it many invaluable
naval bases, and it would be separated only
by the breadth of the North Sea from the
coast of its enemy. Important as that may
be, it is not Holland's chief element of value
to it Germany has lost its own colonies, it
hopes to establish its title to the immensely
more valuable colonial possessions of Hol
land. It is already preparing for the re-establishment
of German trade after the war, and
in no way could it so richly compensate itself
for the losses and ravages of war as by tak
ing as its own the colonial dependencies of
the Dutch. Germany's colonies all told had
an estimated area of something over 1,000,000
square miles, and a native population of
something over 12,000,000. The colonies of
Holland in the East Indies and in the West
Indies, including Surinam, or Dutch Guiana,
on the mainland of South America, have an
area only a little short of 1,000,000 square
jniles, with a population at the present time
of probably fully 50,000,000. The official esti
mate for Java, Sumatra, and' other East
India colonies in 1912 was 48,000,000, while
the Dutch West Indies have something like
300,000. Holland's East India colonies are
immensely productive in sugar, tea, tobacco,
rice, coffee, cocoa and tin. By the taking of
Holland with its far-flung colonial posses
sions, Germany might well feel that it had
secured that indemnity, renounced by the
Reichstag resolution, of which the statesmen
and chiefs of the -war party are beginning
again to speak hopefully.
The savage criminality of the proceeding
is characteristically German. Occupying a
land directly between the contending forces
and bordering upon Germany, the position
of the Dutch in this war has been trying and
difficult. We 'cannot doubt that the govern
ment of Holland has loyally striven to main
tain a correct attitude of neutrality., If the
allies have sometimes felt that the Dutch
were too little responsive to their requests
and overtures, it must be remembered that
the slightest indication of partiality for their
cause of their interest would have brought
down upon it the heavy fist of Germany.
The imperial government has not waited for
that provocation. Its demands upon Holland
for the transportation of war material over
its railroads and canals cannot be granted
without a departure from neutrality. Ger
many knows very well that Holland cannot
take a position which the allies would regard
as unfriendly or which they would be justified
in construing at favorable to Germany; much
less can Holland for one moment consider
taking up arms on the side of Germany. For
all its great colonies would then be at the
mercy of the allies, who control the seas.
That contingency is in the thought of Ger
many, and to forestall any risk of that nature
it evidently believes that a policy of straight
forward brutality toward the Dutch will best
serve its ends, near and remote.
The Dutch have a good army, variously
estimated from 300,000 to 600,000. They are
lacking in artillery, and if Germany were
able to send against them any considerable
body of troops, from Russia or elsewhere, it is
not to be supposed that they could offer any
prolonged resistance. Until the great battle
in France is decided, the allies would be un
able to lend aid. It may be, therefore, that
Germany will be able to conquer Holland,
if that be its purpose. That it can retain in
its possession a free land seized upon through
such a monstrous violation of law, right and
justice is a thought not for a moment to be
entertained. Whatever the result of the battle
now in progress, Germany is as certainly
Ann tn rVfMt a it has been from the be
ginning of the "war. It must be defeated be
cause that is the indispensable condition of
peace and safety for the great nations now
arrayed against it. With their very much
greater resources however far the way may
be prolonged, they will never consent to sub
jection to uermany.
Finish Fight on the West Front
' Present Struggle Not a Battle, But the War Itself
New York Evening Post.
It is not a battle, but the war itself, that
is being fought out on the western front.
In both camps there is recognition of the
fact It is the whole war in respect to the
issues involved, the forces brought to bear
on either side, the submergence of all other
theaters of conflict. Only in one respect
does Germany profess to regard the present
test as technically a battle and not a
war, and that is in the matter of time. Final
victory is still being promised the German
people in a few weeks, a few months at most.
Annexations are discussed at Berlin. The
kaiser's finance minister will not commit him
self on the'exact size of the indemnities. The
kaiser himself speaks of the open grave which
France has dug for itself. On the allied side
there is no attempt at framing a schedule.
The claim is made to be sure, that the defeat
of the German offensive will mean ultimate
victory. In that sense this is "the" battle.
But there will be clean-up operations, and no
limit in time is set for these. It is the story
of the first months of 1914 oyer again. For
Germany it was a stroke against time. The
stroke failed on the Marne and the allies
began to count time as running against Ger
many. The contest became one of nations
instead of armies. It was then, in the long
.months of deadlock, that the world took to
matcmng tne cnances 01 viciory.in terms oi
basic resources. If the Germans fail this
spring and summer, we shall have a return to
basic resources.
.; What is the relative strength of the rival
populations? In spite of the defection of
Russia, the ledger still shows heavily to the
credit of the allies: -
Entente Central Powers
France ....85,000,000 Germany . 68,000,000
British Empire Austria . . 50,000,000
(white) 70,000,000 Turkey and
America ..100,000,000 Bulgaria 20.000,000
Italy ..... 85.000,000
Portugal . 6,000,000 Total ..138,000,000
Greece .... 4,000,000 ,
Total a 150,000,000
To this, for the entente must be added the
human resources of India and the African
colonies, from which Great Britain alone has
so far drawn 1,000,000 soldiers. German criti
cism of the figures would subtract the 100,
000,000 Americans whom for the purposes of
the war it no longer describes as nonexistent,
but still professes , to disregard as unim
portant. If, for the moment, we accept the
German contention, the entente has still a fair
numerical advantage over the central powflrs.
Is it enough to hold the line until the Ameri
can army is undeniably in the war?
There enters here a second factor, much
emphasized by Germany in the early part of
the war, when Russia weighted so heavily the
numerical balance against the, kaiser. , That
was the kaiser's advantage of a central stra
tegical situation and of virtual unity of con
mand anions the Teutonic allies. These ad
vantages no longer exist Russia's 175,000,000,
misrepresentative of its military strength, do
not now come into the problem. The popula
tion figures are now a true index of armed
oower. With the disappearance of the sub
sidiary fronts, Germany has lost the advan
tage of interior lines. Its blows must fall now
in one expected direction. Finally, it is con
fronted by a unity of leadership ana purpose
almost as complete as its own. The allies no
longer have Russia and Roumania to take into
account. They will not concern themselves
overmuch with Salonica and Asia Minor, if
the necessity arises. For them the strategic
problem has been simplified.
That problem now hatwo aspects first
to hold the line in the west while America is
coming on; second, tot speed our oncomong.
The allies must now look forward to putting
up a Hindenburg defensive of their own in
France and Belgium. To this end all other
military operations must, and will, be sacri
ficed, if necessary. Any expenditure of
strength in Palestine or Mesopotamia beyond
the need of holding the present lines would
be a tragic mistake. The ( economies thus
made would react on both phases of the great
problem. -The men saved can be immediately
used on the western front. The shipping
saved can be used to bridge the Atlantic more
ewiftly. Germany is stripping all its other
frontiers. Austrian divisions are already on
tne western iront. ouiganan divisions are
arriving The allies will have to meet the
challenge bv a similar abandonment of non
essentials. The danger and the effort called
for are great, but equally impressive will be
the results of a frustration of the German ef
fort' It is, psychologically, easier to stand
up under the enemy's last blow because of the
knowledge that it is indeed its last blow.
But while the allies are holding on land,
it is essential that allied sea power should be
brought into greater play. When the kaiser
refuses to count his divisions in driving for a
knockout, the allies must not count their war
ships so carefully warding off the blow. Here,
where America began to count from the first
day of our entrance into the war, we must be
made to count still more heavily. The pres
ence ot our battleships in European waters
enables England to take chances, with old
ships, as it did at Zeebrugge, and with newer
ships if there is a fair prospect of profit. We
have been told that the British fleet was
4,000,000 tons at the beginning of the war, and
has 6,000,000 tons now. A million tons would
be well expended if thereby fhe U-boat ac
tivity could be cut down by one-half. In this
hour of crisis German audacity must be met
with allied audacity. '
i TODAY
Cno Tear Ago Today in the War.
Fresno? village captured by British
in the battle of Arras.
. Announcement that British trans
port Arcadian had been torpedoed In
Mediterranean , and several hundred
live lost -N ; '
Th Day "We Celebrate. , J :
William B. Lincoln, car service
agent ot the Union Pacific, born 1864.
Brigadier General Charlea B. Wheel
er, born in Illinois, St years ago. -
Colonel Henry 8. Graves, U. 8. A.,
born at Marietta, O., 47 years ago.
Edgar W. Howe. Kansas editor and
author, born at Treaty, lnd. 64 years
ao today. ,
August Hermann, chairman of the
national Base ball commission and
president of the Cincinnati National
!srue club born ti years ago today,
'.js Day ta! History.
. ISISJames McHenry, sigrner of the
r velars tion of Independence and sec
retary of war in Washington's cabinet
sJ in Baltimore, Born In Ireland,
Nov. 16,1753.
' 1848 William L Wilson, postmas
ter general in Cleveland's cabinet born
1 1 Jefferson county. Va. Died at Lex
I --'on. Vs., October 17, 1900.
J 154 George Mcintosh Troup, one
T tie most memorable of Georgia's
"veroors. filed at Dublin, ua.. Bom
-tember t, 1780.
18 IS After withstanding a month's
the confederates began the evac-
-eo of xorktown, va.
J ust 80 Years Ago Today
The base ball park Is bounded on
th east by Twentieth, on the north, by
Locust on the west by Twenty-second
and on the south by Miami street
1 Brigadier Generat Brooke, the suc
cessor of Major General Crook, arrived
here , to take command of the De
partment of the Platte. -
General Manager Kimball, of the
Union Pacific, who has been in Denver
for some time, arrived In Omaha,
G. Macleod, accompanied by his
sister-tn-law, left for Charlottetown,
Can., his home town.
George B. Hawes, tor a long time
cashier In the Paxton, has accepted a
clerkship at the Hotel Kitchen, Lead
villa, Colo.
Mark Beardsley, champion long dis
tance rider of the world and late pony
express rider of Buffalo Bill's Wild
West show, Is in the city. ,
Round About the State
Eight times over Its quota of Liberty
bonds, and still going some! Proud
Antloch's record is a world-beater, an
Inspiration for lesser patriotic com
munities. Hats oft to the Potash Croes
bus! May its purse never grow less.
Sidneys' score of .progress during
April features three winners a new
church, new elevator mill, and an oil
distributing warehouse. A triple al
liance of grace, grain and gasoline
boosts Sidney to the head of its class.
After all is said and done there still
remains sustained ground tor that
claim that Nebraska, at the roots, is
pacifist Denials are vain. Proof is at
hand. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Is going the
rounds of the state without provoking
enough trouble to disturb the moss.
With all the soulful ardor of a
fatherly consoler.-the Fremont Herald
bids "the girls we left behind us" be
of strong heart and hopeful. Lonely
days are bound to have an end. "Just
wait, girls," whispers the soother.
"The boya are coming home some
day. And when they do come home
what husbands they will make!"
There, now, brush the dewdrops away
and look pleasant!
York tosses Its hat In the ring, ready
to meet all comers tor the champion
ship 1 1 the convention city of the sta'.j.
Youthful vim and pugnacious pep
lend-anlmation to the contender's leap
to the front Such seasoned elders
aa Omaha, Lincoln, Hastings, Fre
mont or Grand Island may scoff at
York's pretensions, but If the are as
discreet as they look, it behooves them
to make up and nut their trenches In
repair.
Right to the Point
Minneapolis Journal: The flying
sqwads are showing the Great Amer
ican Eagle stunts of which he never
dreamed.
Washington Post: The proposed
reorganization of the Creel forces Is
nothing but a dastardly attempt to
cut George off from his chow wagon.
Washington Post: It'a a question
able form of patriotism when the
quick-lunch restaurant seta out a
doughnut with a larger hole than ever
before. ;"
Minneapolis Journal: Though the
Potsdam gang has got the whole
world into a snare, It must be admit
ted that they have combed all the
"nots" out of the 10 commandments.
New York World: A prominent
conservative member of Parliament
suggests that England turn over the
government of Ireland to the United
States. Is this offer made in a true
spirit of amity to an ally?
New York Herald: That despicable
Levantine traitor known as Bolo
Pasha has paid with . his life the
penalty for treason to France. It is a
fitting ending to Bolo and it is hoped
will prove the beginning of the end of
bololsm In France, and also here in
the United States.
Brooklyn Eagle: One of Yale's big
war sacrifices is granting leave . to
former President Taft for whatever
period he may be needed on the La
bor Board. He's the only conserva
tive, we think, who ever succeeded U
reaching an agreement or even a
modus Vivendi with Frank P. Walsh.
: Twice Told Tales
Thrift
One afternoon a woman was walk
ing through a suburban village, when
she noticed a small boy leaning on a
gate in front of one of the residences.
The boy's attitude did not betray any
great amount of ambition.
"I am surprised to see you stand
ing here, my little man." said the wo
man, kindly. "Why do you idle away
your time on such a beautiful after
noon?" "I am not idling.' defiantly de
clared the boy. "I am working for a
thrift stamp."
"Working for a thrift stamp?"
wonderingly responded the woman,
who couldn't see any signs of labor.
"Yes, ma'am," returned the boy.
"Mr. Smith is sitting on the veranda
with sister, and he told me that he
would give me the price of a thrift
stamp if I would watch for father."
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Lying Down Together.
The little town was all excitement
The circus had . arrived. The chief
attraction of the circus was the cage
in which the lion lay down with the
lamb. An old gentleman started ask
ing the proprietor questions.
"Do these two ever quarrel?" he
asked.
"Well." admitted the proprietor,
"they are not always peaceful. Some
times they have a bit of a scrap."
"And then?"
"Oh. then," "said the proprietor,
"we generally buy another lamb."
Louisville Courler-JournaL -
. Hake It Vocational Training.
Omaha, May 2. To the Editor of
The Bee: It is gratifying to note that
the Board of Education is considering
a change of program respecting the
School of Commerce building. The re
port affords a ray of hope that the
board has seen a new light
The so-called High School of Com
merce is simply a training school for
business office assistants, it was plan
ned upon the assumption that all par
ents wish their children to be stenog
raphers and bookkeepers and tele
eraDh oDerators. It admits little chil
dren and big ones. Some of the boys
are in knee-breeches and many of the
girls wear the hair in braids. It is a
kindergarten business college, xnese
children are all trained in a hopper
and are - expected to emerge fully
qualified as office .clerks. The process
of selection is wanting, xne Doara
classes this school as a common school,
when as a matter of fact, it is an un
common school, whose , students
should be selected.
The board is considering the Idea
of adding a technical school a school
to teach boys and girls to use their
hands intelligently in vocational work.
If it is wise it will do so. There are
many arguments in favor of the pol
icy. Some of which are so self-evident
as to make their recital tiresome. How
can the board escape the logic of the
situation? , JAMES B. HAYNES.
Blames Prohibition on Boozers.
Bruning, Neb.. May 2. To the. Ed
itor of The Bee: In your Letter Box
of April 30 you had a short item en
titled "Not for Prohibition" from
Council Bluffs, and signed "George
Edwards," in which he accuses the
editors of papers of not being intelli
gent for printing articles in favor of
prohibition. In reply would like to
make a few remarks from a tem
perate standpoint The prohibition is
sue has got its most strength and its
most favors for victory directly from
the drunkard, the bootleggers and
the boozers. Had it not been for them
the issue itself would have been with
out a qanse and It Would not have
gotten aid enough from the so-called
temperance people to be victorious
In any election, but as it is, the prohi
bitionists owe their victory wholly to
the so-called boozers' conduct.
J. DUIS.
Study of Foreign Languages.
Omaha, May 1. To the Editor of
The Bee: It is an old and true saying
that "two wrongs never made a right."
Many otherwise well intentioned peo
ple, exasperated to the limit as we
all are by the frlghtfulness of this
horrible war, are imitating the kaiser,
if not actually trying to outdo him,
although they do not realize it This
condition has recently appeared in
several forms, but I will here discuss
only the unreasonableness of one of
these, the opposition to the German
language. There can or should be
but one American opinion about for
eign languages in American elemen
tary schools, especially as to such an
un-American mandatory statute as the
recently burled Mockett law.
But when it comes to foreign lan
guages as "electives," in any form of
higher education above the elemen
tary schools, no fair minded man or
woman, whose viewpoint is not utter
ly warped or narrow, would, it seems
to me, deny that German, French and
Spanish all have their legitimate place
in these United States in such a course
of study. -Of course people as unin
formed as some who have recently
written public letters on the subject,
by talking about "compulsory" Ger
man in the Omaha High school, one of
whom personally pointed to Mr.
Ernst without evidently knowing
that the latter resigned four months
ago and that he emphatically opposed
the Mockett law, seem to be a little
"unbalanced" on the subject I do
not believe, however, that the vast
majority of American men and wo
men have become so utterly unfair
and unbalanced as to actually hate
the German language, or the world
recognized good qualities of the
masses of the German people.
The people of Germany as a whole,
and their blood-relations on Amer
ican soil who are not yet entirely
weaned away from a mere sentimen
tal adherence to the fatherland, will
sooner or later realize their present
errors in "sympathizing" with the
cause of the kaiser. Many Americans
of German 'birth or ancestry ar
wholly unacquainted with the "Ger
many of today;", their views show
them a mirage which would be. or
would have been, largely dispelled by
a personal visit to Germany in recent
years. Our childhood home, in most
cases, takes on a very different aspect
when we return to it many years later,
whether it was located in a foreign
land or merely In a distant place in
our own country.
I do not believe for a moment that
the kaiser will bar the English or
French languages from any institu
tion of education above the "Volk
schule," the equivalent of our elemen
tary schools, because ot this war.
Shall we then, broadminded and fair
people that we claim to be, and us
ually are, merely because we right
fully despise "kalserlsm" in every
form, go to the other extreme ot de
spising every man and woman having
inherited German blood, or absolute
ly forbid the use of the German lan
guage and refuse to recognize any of
the well established Individual virtues
of the German race, as a few hot
heads in our midst seem to be in
clined? Shall we, in fighting kalserism,
even outdo the kaiser? I hope not
A. LAYMAN.
Three Kinds of Farming.
Professor (at agricultural school)
What kinds of farming are there? .
New Student Extensive, Intensive
and pretensive Boston Transcript
Around the Cities
Sioux City reports an abundant Bur.
plus of teachers for all prospective
vacancies in school staffs. Nearly
30 applications for Jobs are on file.
. Flint Mlch. is not oppressed by
the state-wide thirst Not while its
sweet cider Jugs yield the pulsing
Juice of the apple. The cider carries
12 per cent of alcohol, a proportion
insuring a modest "kick."
Business Is piling up so rapidly on
the traffic court of New York City
that automobiles and chauffeurs as
sociations demand the establishment of
another court The latter fail to men
tion the expedient of obeying traffio
l&W9a
Kansas City's municipal machine la
now manned and womaned by dem
ocrats, with one lonesome exception.
One republican escaped the axe. How
he averted the blow excites as much
curiosity as the question "when will
the war end?" ,
A smooth shover of phoney checks
blew into Kansas City from Okla
homa, completely transformed and
defying descriptions which empha
sized his bald head. A fine thatch of
dull brown hair almost released hlht
frpm the police clutch. One of the lat
ter, foxier than the rest grabbed th
artificial thatch and exposed the
criminating dome. The incident sug-
craata tha fnllv nf lisinff O. nOOf grade
of glue on the mat "
GRINS AND GROANS.
"Banra and hla wife certainly ' mates
each other." '
"In what wa T"
"She' can't cook a dinner without bnrn
Inff lomethlnf, and he can't alt down ta It
without roaatlnr her." Baltimore Ameri
can. ,.
"What are your opinions about the war?"
"My friend," replied Senator Sorghum
"yon are asking too much, I oarer knew a
good fighter who would atop In the middle
of a bout to theorize on the merits of the
case." Washington Star.
Tommy Smokln' cigarettes hurts ye. Fep
told me ao.
Jimmy Aw, be was Jest strlngln' ya.
Tommy No be wasn't atrlngln' me,
either; be waa atrappln' me. - That's how
I know It hurts. Boston Transcript. .
She They aay the mora corn bread ya
eat the better your complexion. -
Her Lover Then I wonder that BoOTar
doesn't arreat you for . hoarding It all.
Judge.
GOD AND GOTT.
Who soothes tha slgha of sorrow
And heala the hurts ef patnT '
Who glvea ua for the morrow
The aongs wa sing again?
Who taught ua love for others T
Who guards ua aa wa roam? ..
Who links our hands aa brothers "
And sanctities the hornet
Who girds oflr souls with aureness
That we may cast our fear?
Who blesses woman's purenesa
And blda ua hold It, dear?
Oh, whispered In our praying
From cradle to the sod
Our name our faith displaying
The hallowed nam of Ood!
Who teaches torture's terror
And laughs at lies and loot? .
Who holda no faith la fairer
Than ona to shame a brute t
To whom are women abrleklng
And aobs of children maimed
As sweet aa some one speaking
Of those both loved and famed? '
Who spurns the 111 and lowly
.That falter at his gate
Who holda supremely holy
The hoarsest' curs of hater
Oh, bestial, hellish being
On Ood'a great name a blotl
Unthinking and unseeing,
Tha Prussians eall It Oott
Wilbur . Kosblt.
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We place on sale Sat
urday 100 No. 5 Oliv
ers at a price that will
move them quickly.
Sale opens promptly
at 9 o'clock. If you have use for more than one
typewriter, buy all you need, as yoii will never
have another 'opportunity like this to get the latest
No. 5 Oliver with back spacer, tabulator, ruling
device, etc., at such a marvelously low figure as ;
$29.75. Out-of-town customers should phone or '
wire orders and shipment will be made by first ex
press. Only cash orders will be accepted, as the
price is so low we cannot sell on payments Never
before have we offered such value as these, Olivers
at $29.75. .
Central Typewriter Exchange, Inc.
Omaha Oliver Agency, 1905 Farnam'