THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1918.
MAIL SERVICE TO
WEST DELAYED BY
NEW TRAIN ORDER
Trade Conditions Depending
, UponRapid Interchange' of
Mails Threatened by
McAdoo Changes.
Omaha and other places having;
trade relations with the Pacific coast
and interior cities are seriously af
fected by the McAdoo order elimin
ating a number 'of passenger trains
throughout the country.,
i ' The change has worked havoc with
mail serviced and since it hasgone
into eflject ,has resulted in the delay
of important mails and threatens to
seriously cripple the. business rcla-
tions hat xis between the east and
west. 1 ; .' ' '.
. Changes in the mail schedules dur
ing the week ending June 8 have al
ready emphasized what threatens to
.. bring about a demoralization cf trade
conditions that depend upon the
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intportant centers.
Heretofore mails brought from the
east to Omaha by the various fast
mail trains were immediately dis
patched to points of destination by
connecting last morning or aiiernoon
trains.
Held in Omaha.
, "With the consolidation of west
bound fast mail trains No. 5, which
' formerly departed at 9:30 a. m., and
No. 9, which left at 2:30 p. m., over
the Union Pacific the- combined serv
ice now takes all the mail received
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aiuui eastern man iiaiiis iu
departure of the new train at 11 a. m.
Any west bound mails received after
the departure of train 5, except for
some that go to the northwest, are
held up for Union Pacific train No.
13, which-leaves Omaha after mid
night or for the departure of train 5
next Jay,
In many instances important mails
are delayed at this point for more
than 24 hours. ,
Cases have already developed
where several pouches of first class
mails have been received from the
regular afternoon trains and because
of a lack, of connections were held
ever until the foll&wing day, for the
11 a. m. train.
Lack of Help.
It has been the custom to open
pouches of such mail and rework it
into direct packages, but. because of
a lack of competent help, only a
small quantity of this mail can now
be worked into "directs" and those
not opened are dispatched intact to
the next west bound train and passed
on to be worked out somewhere
along the line.
An instance has already developed
of. several cars of fast mail destined
for western points being held from a
regular afternoon fast mail train to
the next morning for dispatch be
cause of lack of connections.
No blame can be attached to local
officials for the breaking down. of
service, and which threatens demoral
ization to western business, but
rather to the drastic order of the di
rector of transportation, and which
made no provision for the rapid dis
patch of important mails to Pacific
, roast and interior points west of the
Missouri river.
Day of Opportunity for
Elderly Women at Hand
. Elderly women are coming into
their own at lalt. Time was when
the woman whom the most courteous
could no longer call young was de
cidedly at a discount in the working
world. Now, according to Miss
Grace Oddie of the employment
bureau at the Young Women's Chris
tian association, there is a dearth ' f
elderly women to fill places awaiting
them.
Many people would like to offer a
home to an elderly woman in return
for a little help with the work, but
it is impossible in most cases to find
'a woman to go into even the most
desirable homes on these terms, as
work at a living wage awaits her if
' she prefers it, which she generally
does.
Miss Oddie believes this is not en
tirely a wartime condition, although
the work in the factories under gov
ernment contracts has helped, but she
says that work for the older women
wis becoming plentiful even before
this country went into the war.
Manager of Tractor Events
' Tells of Plans for This Year
A. E. Hildebrand, manager of the
tractor demonstrations staged last
year by the National Tractor Manu
facturers' association, was' in Omaha
Monday! Mr. Hildebrand is onhis
way to Chicago, where a meeting of
the tractor manufacturers' association
is to be held Tuesday, at which time
the location and date of the national
demonstration, for the last few years
held at Fremont, Neb., will be de-
cided.
Mr. Hildebrand says that the big
demonstration will be held somewhere
in the central west thi.1 vear. nrnhahlv
in either Nebraska or Kansas. He
is on his way from Pullman, Wash,
v -where he has been attending a local
demonstration, managed by the Wash
ington State college, but sanctioned
bv the national aocnristinn Ttiii
was a very successful affair, about
20,000 people being in attendance.
Oliver Plow Company to
Help in Winning War
More than 20,000 persons, members
ox one great organization, will de
vote the week of June 10 in "unsel
fish service to the farmers of the
country on whose successful work so
much depends." .
J D. Oliver, president of the Oliver
Chilled Plow works, South Bend.
Ind., in a special bulletin to R. E.
Parrett, manager of the Omaha
branch instructs him to use his en
tire organization during the week of
Jne 10. That week is to be known
as Natipnal Oliver week and, accord
ing "to the bulletin, "it signifies the
".contribution of the whole Oliver or
ganization to help win the war." The
same bulletin has gone to every
Oliver branch in the United States
. and from the branches the message
will be carried to the Oliver dealers.
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CHAPTER XVII.
- Before we left Boulogne a definite
program had been laid for the Rev.
Harry Launder,' M. P. 4our. iWe
had decided that we would get bet
ter results by adopting a program
and stacking to it at all our meetings
or concerts. So, at all the assemblies
that we gathered, JHogge opened pro
ceedings by talking to the men about
pensions, the subject in which he was
so vitally interested, and in which he
had done and was doing such mag
nificent work. Adam would follpw
him with a' talk about the war and
its progress.
Htwas a splendid speaker, was
AdanuHe had all the eloquence of
the fine preacher that he was, but
he did not preach to the lads in the
trenches not hel He told them about
the war. and about the way the folks
at home in Britain were backing them
up. He talked about war loans ana
food conservation, and made them un
derstand that it was not they alone
who were doing the fighting. It was
a cheering and an inspiring talk he
gave them, and hie got good round
applause wherever he spoke.
They saved me up for the last, and
when Adam had . finished speaking
either he or Hogge would introduce
me, and my singing would begin.
That was the program we had ar
ranged for the Hole-in-theGround
theater, as the Canadians called their
amphitheater. For this performance,
of course, I had no piano. Johnson
and the wee instrument were back
where we had left the motor cars,
and so I just had to sing without an
accompaniment except that which
the great booming of the guns was
to furnish me.
I was afraid at first that the guns
would bother me. But as I listened
to Hogge and Adam I ceased, grad
ually ,to notice them at all, and I
soon felt that they would annoy me
no more, when it was my turn to go
on, than the chatter of a bunch of
stage hands in the wings of a theater
had so often done.
When it was my turn I began with
"Roamin' In the Gloamin'." The
verse went well, and I swung into the
chous. I had picked the song to open
with, because I knew) the soldiers
were pretty sure to know it, and so
would join me in the chorus which
is something I always want them to
do. And these were no exceptions
to the general rule. But, just as I
got into the chorus, the tune of the
guns changed. They had been cough
ing an spitting intermittently, but
now, suddenly, it seemed to me that
.it was as if someone had kicked the
lid off the fireworks factory and
dropped a lighted torch inside.
Every gun in the battery around
the hole began whanging away at
once. I -was jumpy and nervous, I'll
admit, and it was all I could do to
hold to the pitch and not break the
time. I thought all of Von Hinden
burg's army must be attacking us,
and, from the row and din, I judged
he must have brought up some of the
German navy to help, instead of let
ting it lie in the Kiel canal where the
British fleet could not get at it. I
never heard such a terrific racket in
all my days.
I took the opportunity to look
around at my audience. They didn't
seem to be a bit excited. They all
had their eyes fixed on me, and they
weren't listening to the guns only
to me and my singing. And so, as
they probably knew what was aboot,
and took it so quietly, I managed to
keep on singing as if I, too, were
used, to such a row, and thought n'o
more of it than of the ordinary traffic
noise of a London or Glasgow
street. But if I really managed to
look that way my appearances were
most deceptive, because I was nearer
to being scared than I had been at
any time yet!
But presently I began to get in
terested in the noise of the guns. They
developed a certain regular rhythm.
I had to allow for it, and make it fit
the time of what I was singing. And
as I realized that probably this was
just a part of the regular day's work,
a bit of ordinary strafing, and not a
feature of a grand attack, I took note
of the rhythm. It went something like
this, as near as Lean gie it to you in
print:
"Roamin' in the PUH LAH
giomin BAM!
"On the WHUFF! BOOM! bon
ny BR-R-Rt banks o BIFF
Clyde-ZOWl"
And so it went all through the rest
ofc the concert. I had to adjust each
song I sang to the odd rhythm of
the guns, and I don't know but what
it was just as well that Johnson wasn't
there! He'd have had trouble staying
with me with his wee bit piano, I'm
thinkin'l
And, - do you ken, I got to see,
after a bit, that it was the gunners,
all the time, havin' a bit of fun with
met For when I sang a verse the
guns behaved themselves, but every
time I came to the chorus they started
up the same inferno of noise again.
I think they wanted to see, at first, if
they could no shake me enough to
make stop singing, and they liked
me the better when they found I
wpuld no stop. The soldiers soon
began to laugh, but the joke was
not alf on me, and I could see that
they understood that, and were
pleased. Indeed, it was all as amus
ing to me as to them.
I doubt if "Roamin' in the Gloam
in'" or any other song was ever sung
in such circumstances. I sang sev
eral more songs they called, as every
audience I have seems to do, for me
to sing my "Wee Hoose Amang the
Heather" and then Captain Godfrey
brought the concert to an end. It was
getting along toward midafternoon,
and he explained that he had another
call to make before dark.
"Goodby, Harry good luck to
youl Thanks for the singing!"
Such cries rose from all sides, and
the Canadians came crowding around
to shake my hand. It was touching to
see how pleased they were, and it
made me rejoice that I had been able
to come. I had thought, sometimes,
that it might be a presumptuous thing,
in a way for me to want to go so
near the front, but the way I had
been able to cheer up the lonely, dull
routine of that battery went far to
justify me in coming, I thought.
I was sorry to be leaving the
Canadians. And I was glad to see
that they seemed as sorry to have
me go as I was to be going. I have
a very great fondness for the Canad
ian soldier. He is certainly one of the
most picturesque and interesting of
all the men who are fighting under the I
Mags of the allies, and it is certain
that the world can never forget the
record he has made in this war a
record of courage and heroism unex
celled by any and equaled by few,
I stood around while we Svere get
ting ready to start back to the cars,
and one of the officers was with me.
"How often do you get a shell
right inside the pit here?" I asked
him. "A fair hit, I mean?"
"Oh. I don't know!" he said, slowly.
He looked around. "You know that
hole you were singing in just now?"
1 nodded. I had guessed that it had
been made by a shell.
"Well, that's the result of a boche
shell," he said. "If you'd come yes
terday we'd have had to find another
place for your concert!" v
"Oh is that so?" I said.
"Aye," he said, and grinned, "We
didn't tell you before, Harry, because
we didn't want you to feel nervous, or
anything like that, while you were
singing. But it was obliging of Fritz
now wasn't it? Think of having
him take all the trouble to dig out a
fine theater for us that way!"
"It was obliging of him, to be sure,"
I said, rather dryly.
"That's what we said," said the of
ficer. "Why, as soon as I saw the
hole that shell had made, I said to
Campbell: 'By Jove there's the very
place for Harry Lauder's concert to
morrow!' And he agreed with me."
Now it was time for handshaking
and goodbys. I said farewell all
around, and wished good luck to that
battery, so cunningly hidden away in
its pit. There was a great deal of
cheery shouting and waving of hands
as we went, off. And in two minutes
the battery was out of sight even
thotfgh we knew exactly where it wasl
We made our way slowly back,
through the lengthening shadows,
over the shell pitted ground. The
motor cars were waiting, and John
son, too. Everything was shipshape
and ready for a new start, and we
climbed in.
As we drove off I looked back at
vimy Ridge. And I continued to gaze
at it for a long time. No longer did
it disappoint me. No longer did I
regard it as an insignificant hillock.
All that feeling that had come to me
with my first sight of it had been
banished by my introduction to the
famous ridge itself.
It had spoken to me eloquently,
despite the muteness of the myriad
tongues it had. It had graven deep
into my heart the realization of its
true place in history.
An excrescence in a flat country a
little hump of ground! That is all
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there is to Vimy vidge. Aye! It does
Mt stand so high above the ground
or Flanders as would the books that
will be written about it in the future,
were you to piles them all up to
gether when the last one of them is
printed! But what a monument it is
to bravery and sacrifice to all that
is best in this human race of ours!
No human hands have every reared
such a monument as that ridge is and
will be. There some ofythe greatest
deeds in history were done some of
the noblest acts that there is record
of performed. There men lived and
died gloriously in their brief moment
of climax the moment for which, all
unknowing, all their lives before that
day of battle had been lived.
I took off my cap as I looked back,
with a gesture and a thought of deep
and solemn reverence. An so I said
goodby to Vimy Ridge, and to the
brave men I had known thereliving,
and dead. For I felt that I had come
to know some of the dead as well as
the living. N
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Judge Woodrough is Holding
Federal Court in West
4 Federal Judge Woodrough is hold
ing court at Fueblo, Colo., for a few
days. He has exchanged with Judge
Lewis of the Colorado bench. Judge
Lewis is hearing an equity case at
North Platte. R. C. Hoyt. clerk of
the United States district court, and
Deputy Marshal Nickerson are also
at North Platte. ,
Wheat Products Taboo In
Clay County Eating Places
Dr. J. W. Archerd, food administra
tor for Clay county, has advised Food
Administrator Wattles that , every
public eating place in the county, with
one exception, has eliminated all wheat
products from the daily menu. He
adds the elimination will be continued
until after, harvest, when the flour
from the new wheat is on the market.
Graduating Nurses Class
Volunteers for Red Cross
Eight nurses, who compose the
graduating class of the Nicholas Senn
training school for nurses, have volun
teered their services to the Red Cross
and will use their skill to nurse
wounded Sammies back to health. The
class held its commencement program
Monday afternoon in the living room
of the hospital. Presentation of di
plomas was by Dr. A. P, Condon
chief of staff.
Several social affairs are being giver
for the class. Picnic day was held
at Manawa Saturday. A dinner was
given Sunday at the home of Mrs.
Karl L. Patrick, a sister of one of the
graduates. The graduation auppei
will be given at the Henshaw hotel
tonight.
The members of the class are: Rut.
Taylor, Anna Hagenberg, Irene
Blinter, Marie Cook, Mildred Huttou.
Edith Richardson, Lucile Bell and
Allida Carlson.
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'EVERYBODY STORE"
atnm.
Monday, Juno 10, 1918-
-STORE NEWS FOR TUESDAY-
-Phona Douglas 137
Our Annual June Sale of
the Finer Qualities of
Muslin Underwear
Including Filipino Hand Made Lingerie
At Prices Based on the Cost of Months Ago
T T ia your opportune time to lay in a generous supply be- , N "
- cause each succeeding day sees increasing costs of cotton -
and mill labor. The undermushns in: this sale are, all stand
ard lines made under the most sanitary conditions, without
skimping an inch on measurements or a penny on cost or
quality.
Dainty Undermuslins,
A$1.95 v
Including . . ,
Gowns of fine nainsook, in wide variety of styles In pink or
white. Envelope chemise of nainsook in variety of pretty styles.
Also Filipino hand-made gowns and envelope chemise beautifully
hand embroidered to match. x
Exquisite Undermuslins,
$2.45
Including
. Filipino hand embroidered gowns.
Filipino hand embroidered chemise.
Filipino hand embroidered petticoats.
Filipino hand embroidered combinations.
Also fine American made pajamas of batiste, nain
sook and crepe. Gowns of nainsook, envelope .chemise
end crepe de chine camisoles.
ry
Filipino Undermuslins, ,
$395
Exquisitely hand embroidered, including'
gowns, chemise, combinations, corset covers,
drawers and petticoats, also bldomers of wash
satin, and tub silk, trimmed with lace and hem
ititching and envelope chemise of flesh or pink
uolored crepe de chine and wash satin, prettily
irimmed. 1
' Pretty New Undermuilins ....
$2.95
' A big generous assortment, including Filipino
Beautifully hand embroidered gowns,' chemise,
:ombinations, corset covers, drawers and petti
coats. Also fine nainsook and batiste gowns
and envelope chemise and pajamas, daintily trim
med with laces and embroidery. r.
Burgaai-Naah Co. 5cnd Floor.
ON THE SQUARE
AT THE ELEVATOR TUESDAY
. Women's Pure Silk Hose
, $1.00
Pure thread silk hose, black, white and fancy
stripes, seamless and regular made foot with dou
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Droviding for Sub-
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We know that thousands of
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On MONDAY, JULY 1.
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YOUR OFFICIAL SUMMER BLOUSE OF
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In the Down Stairs Store
Percales, 25c
Good quality percale, light or
dark colors, for aprons' or
dresses, at 25c per yard.
Wash Goods, 15c
36 and 40-inch voiles and
non-shrinkable modette. A very
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Draperies, 19c
One table of short lengths, 1
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madras, etc., 36 and 40 inches
wide, for curtains or over
drapes. Some are priced at
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Cretonnes, at 39c
One lot of 36-inch cretonnes,
special at 39c yard.
BurgMo-Naah Co. Down Stair Star
Etamines, at 15c
One eounter of fancy eta
mines, scrims, etc., plain or
hemstitched edges, white, cream
or ecru, desirable lengths for
curtains, at 15e yard.
Muslins, 21c
Good quality unbleached
muslin mill remnants, 38 inches
wide, for sheets, etc. 21c yard.
