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V. . . .'..-- ' TJIE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1918. i V . The Omaha Bee . daDLY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED Bt EDWARD BOSBWATEB , VICTOB ROSEWATER, EDITOR, THE BEE PUBUSHINO COM FAN X. PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omahs postolfics M Mond-ias mMn. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Br Gamer, it? suu? omv uo una 8wnr-?i '"P"- x Daily tilW auttdar .. '2 ioS ' ttunriAS Ms oal. ...... ......... 1 -ug - IwdiotoT M of tddiw. of Irrsfttlarltf u Wlm to omabs ' U CttcuUtiaa Deptrtawnl. , MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rn assoelsted Prss. at whit Ts Bs tt s ", I scJusi-ji MltSTlo Us l publlcuioa of U bows dlspaW-s (wdiurf 5 &3-:nd a UUs Pe. -J Use tn. ljo.1 dsw pabllrbsa Mrtin. All Dials ol ouUlesUao ol otu spseial dlsi , . REMITTANCE Remit w n. swrs- .postal ort, On n ' -,2J!?B Ulta ta psrment ot until accounts. Personal ebtsk. uotpt Oman and (uun axchsa. not accsptsd. OFFICES Onuna-11 B Butldlu. ?,?-ffj;', "i141" Bout Omu.s-Ull H ft i"11- .Oo-wtl Bluffs-U K. list . St. If-"" of Coaae. Lluoow-UUls Bailouts, Wssclmtoa Ull 0 Bt CORRESPONDENCE tddrwa Mmmonteatlou ralsUn to am tad sdllortaJ aatta M ' Oath B. auditorial DsparUnsot, MAY CIRCULATION. Daily 69,841 Sunday 59,602 issna l ilstioa for ths Bonta. mbndbM aa won to M D1M tt. WIUiuns. ClrciUUlMi llui. Subscribers Iravlnf th city bouM hav Th Boa mailed tans. Address chant) aa efUa aa raquatUd. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG 4 "THE , Gentle spring is certainly bidding Nebraska a warn adieu. ' . " "TV R saya the kaiser worked instead of bragging. In good time we may be able to do both.- " ' , Eighteen to 45 wal the original rule, " and it is a good one to re-establish for military - service. . : 1 The careless or reckless auto driver is still too much In evidence. Public safety demands his suppression. - j Railroad men can afford to rest easy, even if the increase in pay does not show up at once. Uncle Sam it good for it, and the award, was - retroactive. ' ' .. - ? , . If Venezuela is helping the German U-boat op ' erations it may leanv something tp its advantage by getting into communication right away wUh Undd Sam. . ' ' - - ' . ' t -J ... Candidate! for local office, this year will have to answer some pointed questions to satisfy the voter that they will give ui the reform? de manded in the courthouse.'' V It is just is hot whether the temperature is measured by the metric system used in Ger many or by the "idiotic" system employed by the English and Americans. v , . It is a faif inference that ehoutd Edgar How ..ard wis the democratic nomination for United States senator he must not count cm the cordial support of the present democratic senator from Nebraska. ' '. , The oppressive heat is a reminder how sick or helpless little tots will suffer unless supplied with good milk kept wholesome on ice. Don't overlook The Bee's free milk and ice fund this year. " Send la your contribution not over $5 from any one person without , waiting jto be , asked. ' ' , . " ( . ' , German Critic Disappointed. ; Americans in 1 the fighting line have disap pointed the German experts. The boy's do not possess the technique, and, according to Lieu tenant General Baron Armand von Ardenne, who observed the battle of Belleau Wood from, safe distance,; I'it obviously lacks tactical skill in bat tle Touttne." Perhaps; even probably. Very likely our boys, fresh from the farms, the work shops, the counting rooms, f n other places where American youngsters usually are found in daylight hours, might fall fiat if they were to be brought before the German military staff for examination as to proficiency in the fine art of war. But it is a safe wager that( the Germans who took-part in the actual fighting at Belleau , Woodthose who still can,talk will agree that when it comes right down to the "go and get em" part of war, the Yankee boys need no in structions, It was here our soldiers captured over 400 German prisoners, and inflicted terrible loss in killed and wounded on the enemy, dis lodging him from a strong position and subse ! qucntly holding it against desperate counter at tacks. ' It may have been main strength and awkwardness, but it - brought home the bacon, and b time even the delicately poised sensibili ties df Lieutenant General Baron Armand von Ardenne may grasp the fact that the German war college has not absorbed all there is to know about fighting. BUYING THE GAS PLANT. , In our last city election Omaha decreed by an overwhelming vote the purchase of the gas plant as the next step, in cur program for mu nicipal ownership of public utilities. We take it our people really want to buy the gas plant, rather than merely to buy an interminable law suit Our only previous experience along' this line, in acquiring the'water works, all will agree, was decidedly unsatisfactory and needlessly ex pensive. For that reason we are pursuing a different procedure , with reference to the gas plant, yet a procedure which is nonetheless simi larly exposed to various hazards. Recurring to the water works purchase, it is a matter of history that it took ten years to secure possession of the plant; that during those ten years the growth of the city was seriously checked by inability to obtain improvements or extensions of water service; that more than a half millfon dollars went to lawyers, experts and court costs; and finally that a price was exacted from the city over a million dollars more than the highest quotation all the stocks and bonds of the water company ever com manded on the market. It is aJso notorious that almost up to the time the Specific perform ance decision was confirmed by the supreme court of the United States the controversy could have been settled out of court with a saving of at least a million dollars to the city. What is most wanted now in buying the gas plant is to avoid the mistakes we made in buy ing the water works. It would be a pity to tie 'up the gas plant in a ten-year litigation, to throw away a half million dollars on lawyers and experts, to pay exorbitant war prices .for everything, if the property might be bought out right at a not unreasonable price on the market or by "negotiations with the owners without taking these hazards. A professional appraiser has offered as his free advice to the city authorities, "concede noth ing," and we have no doubt the same policy will be adopted by the representatives of the gas company. That is the attitude both sides took in the water works case and it will again be tak'en, with problematical results, if the con troversy goes on. The Bee' believes it to be its duty to the public to suggest that, before we get into the unyielding and recriminating mood, some civic body undertake to learn without compromising anybody how much the city is willing to pay and at what price the owners of the gas plant are willing to sell, and find out if there is any way to get the two sides together. It would be ai greater feather in the cap of our new city administration to buy the gas' plant at a fair price without a lawsuit, and get possession promptly, than to win out after a long drawn, bitter fight, costly to all concerned. " ' Venezuela and the U-Boat. Due allowance must he made for the possU bility of exaggeration in any statement coming from a Venezuelan editor whose paper has been suppressed by the government of that country. After this is done, enough is left in the story told by Dr. fCarlos Lopez Buslamanti to justify a little inquiry into the attitude of the Venezuelan government." Back of any pro-German senti ment there undoubtedly will be found the Castro crowd, who were evicted from power and kept out through the influence of the United States. This delectable coterie of buccaneers is capable of any sort of political treachery and will not be disposed to look with favor on any cause espoused by the United States. Opposed to this is the fact that this country has inter vened on one momentous occasion, to preserve Venezuela from imposition on part of ' Ger many. No account need be taken of the fact that we were once very near to war with Great Britain because Grover Cleveland in sisted on protecting the rights of the, little republic, then all but helpless because of the misgovernment of Cipriano Castro. The Carib bean coast might easily be hospitable to the U-boat and undoubtedly will be duly inspected to determine if any of,the pests of the sea be harbored there.; Personal Behavior In Hof Weather. Bodily comfort in hot weather is out of the question, but it may be approximated by ob serving 'a few simple requirements. First of all, do not worry. Fretting will not reduce the "temperature and it will lessen the capacity for enduring it. Eat sparingly of simple food; drink freely of cool not cold drinks, water preferred; bathe frequently in cold water; see to it that the eliminative functions of the body are working full time; avoid excesses of all kinds. Attend to your daily task with due care, letting your mind dwell on your work and not on the weather, tor which you are not responsible and concerning which you have no influence. These rules, carefully followed, will not make you feel cool when the thermometer is working in the upper register, but they wilj help, you to with stand the excessive heat and they will keep you in -good health. For the rest of it you will have to wait until next fall. ' Old Probs seems to have been looking through the wrong end of his glass when ma. ing his recent weather predictions. ' Ford and the War Work Marine Eagles, Liberty Motors and Helmets Command Plant's Energies Detroit Letter in Wall Street Journal. Henry Ford has cut his production to 1,500 passenger cars a day. A few months ago the ForJ factories were turning out 3,200 cars a day and the 1918 schedule called for 1,000,000 cars. Now that rate of produc tion has been cut in half, because Henry Ford, erstwhile pacifist, has turned over his organization to the United States govern ment to do its part in humbling the com mon foe. This would indicate that Mr. Ford has given up Jiali his production to our govern ment for war purposes. But he has done more than that. He has turned over half his plant and, in addition, has built two new plants, each mammoth in size, Mr. Ford further says that Uncle Sam an have 100 per cent of lik automobile plant if he wants it. One of the two new plants will be used for building tractors to assist the farmer both here and abroad to turn out record crops and sustain the fighting forces. The other will make the "Eagles, the JlO-foot boats that Mr. Ford expects to turn out in large numbers for submarine hunting purposes. The tractor plant already is turning out 125 tractors a day. A production schedule of 300 a day is a matter of only a short time. The-ship building plant on the river Rouge is only now getting under way. Three or four of the "Eagles" are under construction, but real production can hardly be expected before July. Eventually, the ship building plant will have 15,000 workers. The com pleted plant will permit the manufacture of 24 boats at one time. This furnishes a fairly accurate idea of just how large the plant will be. A production schedule by midsummer of more than one boat a day is not an un reasonable expectation. In the same plant a large number of so called ships' parts are being made. This in cludes a wide variety of small machinery for maritime use and for the manufacture of which government experts have found the Ford plant ideally equipped. At the main motor plant, where the records for passenger car production have been established, Mr. Ford is building many and varied implements of war, but the details are well guarded. The newspapers have told that the Ford plant will make a large number of cylinders for use in the Libcty motor. But they have not said that Mr. Ford is turning out these cylinders so rapidly that the government is expected to call for a slowing down until the manufacturers of the main part of the motor can get under way. One manufac turer of the completed motor here says that he has one immense room filled with Ford cylinders. One day last week the Ford plant turned out more than 1,700 cylinders. While the Ford factories are permitting the Liberty motor manufacturers to catch up .they will work on an order received re cently for several thousand complete Lib erty motors. So perfect is the Ford organi zation, and so wonderful its productive pos sibilities that the company will be manufac turing more than 40 complete motors a day within the next month, and by that time will be at least the third largest manufacturer of complete motors, as well as the largest man ufacturer of cylinders in the country. Ford has also been asked to manufacture small tanks for use on the European battle fields. He is now experimenting with these tanks, but whether he will become a pro ducer has not yet been decided. Several months ago an order was given to eight manufacturers of this country for 1,250,000 helmets for use by our soldiers going over seas. Ford painted all the hel mets. A few days ago the Wall Street Jour nal learned that an additional order for 600,000 helmets would shortly be released, and it is assumed that the Ford plant will perform the same task as on the initial order. Ford is now experimenting with a brand new helmej, which is shaped much like the helmets used in the old Roman days. Be sides covering the top of the head, it extends down over the ears and neck, and tests show that it serves as a deflector of bullets, and should prove extremely valuable in combat ting machine gunfire. This new helmet, of which nothing has been written up until this time, is made of a lighter weight steel than that in the manu' ..ure of the helmet now in use, so that the extra size does not carry with it any great increase in weight Tests on this new helmet are now being made in Philadelphia. vy Nebraska State Press Comment Harvard Courier: In his last paper Lew Shelley of the Fairbury News takes a shot at Senator Norris for sending out private cam paign matter under government frank. This matter is prepared in the government print ing office, addressed by government em ployes and carried by the government mail service, all at government expense and all for the personal aggrandizement of Mr. Nor ris. The Courier is not friendly to Senator Norris and will not suport him under any circumstances, but he is no worse than the average member of congress when it comes to this kind of graft How any congressman can harmonize such action with proper no tions of decency and honor is more than the ordinary person can figure out. And how any congressman can blame the newspapers for causing a postal deficit when he and his colleagues are loading the mails with free matter is a still greater puzzle. The only reason they can give is that all congressmen do it and that it always has been done. The time may come when this abuse of the frank ing privilege and the use of the facilities of the government printing office may be stopped, but it is not in sight now. Con gressmen should not have free use of the mails except for strictly government business. .Federal Loans and Land Values. Grand Island Independent: Since the es tablishment of the Federal Land bank at Omaha values of Nebraska farm land have been fixed by a federal authority with the view of reaching a basis upon which loans could safely be made. In the consideration of land as security for a loan it is unneces sary to point out that minimum and abso lutely sure values will be fixtd. Notwith standing this fact, however, the values so fixed have been found by various judges of such matters to be much higher than the values fixed for the purpose of taxation; and it has been proposed to adopt the federal estimates as a basis for taxation. It is indi cated that if this were done there -would be a mighty boost in the assessed valuation of the real estate of Nebraska. port of the politicians of the district, but i 1 1 i - . u:j r none aoes or win maKC a stronger uiu iui the suffrages of the people themselves who are, of course, the court of last appeal. The intent of Mr. McLaughlin to cover the dis trict thoroughly and to visit very section will be a great factor in his favor, since he so well stands close inspection. He has a three cornered contest with two very good men Denny of Fairbury and McMullen of Wy more but indications are that he will be able to attain the nomination which is everywhere admitted to be equivalent to election. Keeping the Governor in Line, , Neligh Leader: Governor Neville has an nounced that he will be a candidate for re election. There is no question but he pre ferred to be a candidate for the democratic nomination for the United States senate, but the Hitchcock-Mullen 'combination did not want to take any chances on a Bryan man getting the nomination for governor and hence they exerted pressure to keep the gov ernor in line for renomination. No Room for This Sort of Thing. Nebraska City Press: It is said that the Nonpartisan leaguers are now circulating literature printed in the German language. This is in line with the accusation made against the league that its organizers obtain their largest membership rolls in communi ties inhabited mostly by Germans. The Non partisan league is getting in bad every day. If it is a loyal organization, as some of its organizers so venmently aver, it is undoing the good it has accomplished (if it has ac complished any good) by permitting its paid agents to fly in the face of good American patriotism the way they are doing. York Man for Congress. Aurora Republican: The stock of M. O. McLaughlin, republican candidate for the congressional nomination, lias been at par ever since he filed; it is now going up. A trip around the district gives striking evi dence of it. There are several reasons for it. Not to name them in the relative order of importance is to mention that York never had a congressman; that Mr) McLaughlin is recignized as possessing the qualifications as well as being the type of citizen whom the people desire to have represent them in congress: that Mr. McLaughlin is an excel lent campaigner and makes friends by his bearing, his speeches and his manner ot meet ing people. There may be other candidates who will make a stronger bid tor the sup Organs of Lukewarm Professors. Kearney Hub: The Lincoln Journal and Omaha World-Herald have gone quite as far as they dared to go without boldly prejudg ing the investigation, to clear up and lend an innocent sound to the bunch of un-American instructors in the Nebraska State university. The Hub has followed the evidence with con siderable interest and is not convinced that they can continue their connection with the university to its credit or to public advantage. Democratic Camouflage. Scottsbluff Republican: The claim made by the democratic national committee that no persons are loyal who do not vote for the democratic nominees will not go far toward electing democrats to office. The democrats are going -to have a hard time to convince the public that they have a monopoly on patriotism. Passing Up a "Dead Duck." Flattsmouth Journal: If the republicans want to support Charley Bryan for governor. let them nominate him on their own ticket and not use him as a catspaw to defeat some good democrat for the nomination. Brvan is a dead duck when it comes to democratic support. Let the republicans have him. Going Home in the Dark New York entered the class of London and Paris last night as a city threatened by air raiders and therefore darkened as a pre cautionary measure. Home Defense volun teers were notified to be in readiness. Doc tors were ordered tn rnnrt tn nnlir etn. tions on call. Scouting aviators soared high aoove tne ssyscrapers to oetermine whether what little lieht wa left lnnr th- Cr-t White Way and other thoroughfares was sufficient to guide practitioners of Prussian terrorism in the dropping of bombs. It was all very mysterious, and perhaps alarming, to the nervouslv inclined- vp ritt7na uront o bed at their accustomed hours and slept as usual, waking up this morning to find the sky line of Manhattan undamaged an I their owr roois intact. We are told that the. Hitnminir nf the fitv habitual glare and the warnings to the Home Defense men and the Hnrtnrc -ura mr1ir test determined upon by the military author ities in co-operation with the police to dis cover how well the city was prepared for an emergency. So far as can be learned, the test met all expectations. Brooklyn Eagle. One Year Ago Today In the War. Haiti severed diplomatic . relations with Germany. President Wilson welcomed the Bel gian commission to tha United States. Food Administrator Hoover an nounced bli food conservation pro gram. , .' The Day We Celebrate. George W. Hoobler, western rep - resentative ot the N. W. Halsey & Co., born 1862.. ' John E. Utt, general agent ot the Chicago, Rock Island & Paetflo rail- road, born 1S4J. - William C. Redfleld, secretary of commerce of the United States, born at Albany, N. T., CO years ago. Rear Admiral Joseph N. Hemphill, tl. & N retired, born at Ripley, O., 71 years ago. Carolyn, Wells, author and humorist of note, born at Rah way, N. j 49 years ago. - . -. This Dav In History. ' . 1115 Power of Napoleon forever broken at the battle ef Waterloo, when his armies were defeated by the allies tinder Wellington and Blucher. IS 61 Governor Clark ot Texas proclaimed the payment of debts to people at war with the confederates to be att act of treason. - ise War was declared against . Austria by Prussia and Italy. 1618 General Count von Moltke, Cerman chief-of-stalt at the com . - rement of the war, died In Berlin. Just 80 Years Ago Today Today the 14th annual tournament of the Nebraska State Sportsmen's as sociation opened and will continue for four days. The entire affair is under the management ot J. J. Hardin. The Omaha Guards were not drill ing on Capitol avenue near the expo- sltlon building and attracted a large crowd of spectators. r , John C. Viward and William Hud son, the .newly appointed policemen, reported Tor duty and were, each as signed beats. Special Policeman F. J. Bollin, who has been apoplnted by the city council as officer at George P. Bernis establishment also com menced his duties. ' A party ot Englishmen, who are on the way to the mother country from Australia, passed through Omaha to day. Reuben Alien ot Des Moines Is the guest of hi son. Deputy United States Marshal Ed Allen, Round About the State An Injudicious rush of contraband booze to Kimball served only to fatten the school fund by $400. The cargo didn't get a chance to do harm. Alliance Times congratulates Butte county In successfully resisting an In vasion of the Nonpartisan league. Be sides the residents are 116 ahead of the game. Broadwater Is not happy with the three Bs "booze, bums, and bootleg gers." A sudden 'epidemic of the dis puted triplets provokes a hurry call for a cleanup that will restore the moral tone of the community. Berlin. In northern Otoe county,- is undergoing a change of name. "The people of the town," says the Ne braska City Press," have decided that 'Otoe' Is a good American name," and will stage a rechristening as soon as the legal formalities are arranged. Having enjoyed a tour to the At lantic coast while travel rates were within reach the sage of tha Norfolk News appears reconciled to the ad vance planned for Monday next "For most ot us," he observes, "there. Is a remedy tor it . all we can stay at home and invest the money we save In Liberty bonds or give It to the Red Cross. Gothenburg Independent lets loose a snort against zo-cent shaves, is cents for laundering ehirta and other soaring prices. "Cut the luxuries," ays the editorial cage, "and' wear fewer clothes, aa the women are doing." First thing you know Mc Adoo diagrams ot patriotic patches will And a hot welcome at Gothenburg.- . Editorial Shrapnel Baltimore American: The crocodile tears shed by the kaiser over the de vastation of France will be remem bered for their reptilian hypocrisy in the final accounting. Minneapolis Journal: Time flies. Twenty years ago the Rough Riders were forgathering t in Tampa, and Colonel Bryan was being interned in the Carolinas, , Kansas City Star: It may be neces sary to remind some forgetful pa triots that they can register for the drive on the harvest fields even if they are over SI. Brooklyn Eagle: The United States navy medical director In Washington, up for hoarding a ton ot granulated sugar and other foods In proportion, might have made a fortune in com merce. He Is wasting himself on the medical profession and the navy. New York. Herald: Because he voted against accepting Germany's gage of battle, Mr. Frank P. Woods has been repudiated by the repub licans for, the Tenth Iowa district Mr. Claude Kitchln also voted against the war resolution. Are the democrats ot the Second North Carolina district less patriotic than the republicans of Iowa? Brooklyn Eagle: And now a par ticular friend of Sir Edward Carson, almost as close to him as Viscount French, will prescribe Justice for all Ireland as Lord Chancellor, Ignatius John O'Brien Is "fired." Sir James II. M. Campbell comes in. Dublin will grin and bear it but tne grinning will come hard. Parson Savldge on Tobacco. . Omaha, June 17. To the Editor of The Bee: Last Saturday 1S1 select educated young men left this city to be instructed at our State university in radio and automobile service. Be fore they left their home city they were given a very nice dinner at the Commercial club. That was a most commendable appreciation. But the newspapers inform us that at the close of the dinner certain well known Omaha women presented to each of these young men a package of cigar ets. For one I wish that all such women had been at home attending to their own business, for I had a boy, in that contingent and I thank no' one for handing him what harms and degrades him, and tobacco does both. Tobacco is u filthy, expensive and in jurious habit. The highest order of men refuse and shun it I take it that these .women who gave cigarets to my son are. cigaret users! if they are not they should learn at once or they have no excuse for such unmiti gated gall as they displayed. And a cigaret-using woman is the devil's limit. But I am told that a certain well known Episcopal church took up a public offering for the pur chase of. tobacco for the soldiers. Then I say God pity such a church. Again, I am Informed that tobacco has become a regular army ration. Then I reply that tobacco-soaked army officials issued such order to tljelr own shame. Now, men should give all theV possess, including their lives, to destroy the most cruel and devilish enemy who ever attempted to enslave and damn a world, but for God's sake let our boys go with clean minds and pure bodies. The Savidge family have been noted fighters in other wars, but they were never found before with cigarets on tnem. REV, CHARLES W. SAVIDGE, Pastor People's Church. Reason and Instinct. Omaha, June 15. To., the Editor of The Bee: The artificial last great fear, acquired through superstitition, was vanishing from the mind of man, death being considered but a beautiful adventure. The natural instinctive terror and panic In peril were gradu ally being mastered. And now that the motives for hazarding his life in war are being evolwtionized from lust of possession to altruism, a new qual ity or man's courage, changing from brutal, unreasoning rage to seemingly superhuman fearlessness, is being Dorn. .Because ol this high spirit of serenity supreme self-control and knightly power displayed in our bat tles of the air, sea and land, the "new luster" given Old Glory when America joined in the conflict, thus marking the visible beginning of a grander historic epoch, shall not van ish. But the symbol of national and international honor, exaltinsr Justice and freedom everywhere beyond the gruesome reach of Venomous imperi alism, will stand out in splendor ever more, and the exacting demands of progress be paid in full, for instinct is giving place to reason. H. MELL. 2017 Leavenworth Street Jerry Suggests a Book. Omaha, June 17. To the Editor of The Bee: In yesterday's issue ap peared an appeal from the suffragists for money for a worthy cause, to de feat misrepresentation. Before a sig nature, fictitious or otherwise, ap peared on any of the petitions I sug gested a logical plan that would work like a charm, the publication of the names, but no action was taken. Being interested in the emancioa- tlon of the ministering angels, I de sire to make another suggestion: Let the suffragists get into book form some of the spicy and comic extracts from the testimony given at the trial, together with pictures of the tomb stones and cradles of the supposed signers. Likewise a picture of the kid-catcher (juvenile officer) for neg lect of duty in allowing children io circulate petitions. Fifty thousand of these books can be sold at $2 or more a copy. JERRY HOWARD. FREEDOM'S LAND. (Tun of Dixie.) Our lad In khaki uncT,for frMdom, Alway rtady when ws nstd 'm. Look sway I Look away! To our boy there. They heard the call and they croised the ocean To five the kaiser a tleeplnff potion: -Look away! Look I way! Look away'. Oral there. , i Chonia ' The allle stand for freedom. Hooray! Hooray! Somewhere in France they took their chance Tq live and die for freedom. Away! Away! We'll live and die for-freedomJ Away! Away! We'll live and die for freedom! The English Tommte 1 a bulldog gripper And the French Pollu I quite ome ripper. Look away I Look away! Keep your eye on! the fray! ; The Sammies' courare won't diminish. And soon we'll see the kaiser' finish. ' Look away! Look away! Look away! To) that day: America 4 a treat bis; nation: The Huns have roued our Indignation: So beware! So beware! So beware! Kaiser Bill. ' Tou Huns thought we were milk and watery But we'll lead you on to a slaughter. So take care! Take caret Take care! Kalsef Bill. For well we know that we can do It. If the French don't beat us to It. We are now on our way, on our way, ott there. We can Uck ts)e Hun without half trying And the kaiser, too, will soon be crying: "Kamarad! Kamarad!" with his handa U the air. DAVID RITCHIE. Omaha. -WHY- NOT Nit v L VjCheas'oi immt For Hair and Skin Health Cuticura is Supreme If you use Cuticura Soap for every day toilet purposes, with touches of Cuticura Ointment now and then as needed tp soothe and heal the first pimples, redness, roughness or scalp irritation you will have as dear a complexion and as good hair as it is possible to have. i SanoU Each Fraa K M.n AiMtvaa nnst- card: "Cuticura, Dept. ISA, Boston." Sold U every wnero. aoapc Ointment and uc. Order at Bathing Beach. Omaha, June 16. To the Editor of The Bee: I cannot help but express my feelings at an incident at muni cipal beach Saturday evening, and the lack of police supervision at this place. A life guard called to a young man who was violating the, rules in the water, and after .a third warning the guard was ordered by one of the beach officials to eject the unruly swimmer. The young man refused to be ejected, and as there was no L officer in sight the guard nad to strug gle with the swimmer in order to re move him from the water. The un ruly swimmer being smaller than the guard, the crowd immediately began Now, I do not think any violation of rules should be tolerated at a pub lic beach crowded with thousands of swimmers. If rules are not strictly enforced lives will surely be lost. The guard was entirely within his rights in ejecting a man who had been warned three times to cease his ob jectionable actions. The trouble could easily have been avoided if a policeman were stationed at the beach- to maintain order. It takes brass buttons to convince some people that they are confronted by authority. Mr. Ringer should by all means ta tlon a man at this place to prevent trouble. SAFETY FIRST. m Thrills Cut Out. ' "How are her love letters?" "Tame." "How's that?" "They are censored by her mother, , her sister and two maiden aunts." i Louisville Courier-Journal. I Speeding Business THE HOTEL of perfect service will speed your business by preventing the petty annoyances that dis tract from your purpose.: Every room with bath and circu lating Ice water; special care giv en to guests by your owa floor hsekeeper;everywntsupplied from shops in the building, . . Terrace Garden, Chicago' Woofer Restaurant, gives the rar est combination of high-da 'the-. trical entertainment and unex celled dining facilities. - . Single $2 to $4; Double S3 t IS.' ' "In tha Etart tfthi L-pH ' HloitisonWotd "Tha Eottl a Perftet ServUtT Hnm nifiatst ! MIT t Ml CUrk and Madison CHICAGO Twice Told Tales An TJhescapable Job. An Atlanta woman was standing on her back porch one beautiful spring morning. She did not appear to be hippy or contented. She confided her i estlessness to her old darky house keeper: "I do wish I could go awayl I cer tainly need a change!" "Lopk heah, chile," said tho old mammy. "Wot you' wanta git 'way from? Disheah beautiful house? Dese heah lubbly Chilian? Wot yo wanta git 'wa from? Yo" gotta mg yo'se'f 'long whereber yo' go!" Everybody's Magazine. Not So Mere. The small boy sometimes sees straight and sees far. John stood high in his examination, but a girl took the highest mark. His father was indig nant : "John, I, am surprised to find you have allowed yourself to be beaten by a mere girl." , "Yes, father," said John, unblush Ingly, "I have, but I can tell you some thing girla are not so very mere after all." Christian Science Monitor. Teutonic Metaphorlcus. Another candidate for the Mixmet club Is Max Harden. "The sea ot passion is not burned out," he writes. "When rider and steed, themselves a wandering flame, are armored against the whirls of passion as well as i' gainst the ley breeze, It will be spring la Germany." Boston Transcript. i -j V;; WESTERN UNION t .... ... growth in, a year shows fifty thousand trained workers in the service of the American people. Imagination, persistency, organization have been the abiding factors of Western Union public service since the idea was conceived of putting the whole world into instantaneous personal communication. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. . v,;