THE BEE : OMAHA, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1918.
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Lightless nights will also help lick the kaiser,
10 go to it
- Politic1 has been adjourned, but just watch
the fur fly for the next 30 days.
Three days at a time gives the chautalkers a
little chance, but it is not a safe basis for booking
long route.
' If Haiti makes as much trouble for Germany
as it has for Uncle Sam, the kaiser will know
another nation is in the war.
Ludendorff now wears Hindenburg'a title,
which may be accepted as corroboration of the
reported death of the latter. v
The anonymous letter writer may console
himself with the thought that at least he is help
ing swell the sale of postage stamps.
Two hundred thousand Americans engaged in
the battle line ought to be a sufficient number to
attract attention, even from the kaiser.
' If you do not believe that tne democrats are
harmonious, listen to the exchange of compli
ments between the "Jims" and the "Jacks."
- Battle planes are going across the Atlantic
now at a rate that may bring us up to require
ments in time for the big drive next spring.
. The American boys are not only fighters, but
pace-setters. Give them i litle more practice and
the Allies' troops' will have to speed up to keep
up.
"perman objectives were attained," says the
official report from Berlin. Perhaps they were
only trying to find out if the Yankees would
fight.
An Omaha elevator girl says she can spot the
local proteuts by their long faces and grouchy
demeanor. They will have other marks of dis
tinction before it is all over.
The kaiser took much pleasure in watching the
start of the latest "storm for peace," but his
faithful reporter does not say whether he stuck
lor the finish. If he did, he learned a little more
about war.
Some will read the sporting page today, and
jgvonder what it will look like hereafter without
the box scores, but if they will only wait till the
f'var is over they can go back to their favorite
literature. ',. .
Ella Flagg Young pledges the women to con
servation for the next big Liberty loan drive.
31ess her, the women folks have been conserving
for the last three years, or we never would have
,Rotten along as far as we have.
- . Base Ball on a War Basis.
secretary Baker s decision holding profession
al base ball a nonessential industry is well found
ed. This does not imply any hostility to the
sport, for it is the cleanest and most commend
' able ever devised. , No other game ever took
such a hold on the people, nor was any ever so
implicitly trusted in its professional aspect. But
. professional base ball is not required for the win
ning of the war, nor. will it seriously spffer
through adjournment until that i happier time
when we will be at peace and Americans can in
comfort devote themselves to the game they all
enjoy. Minor league magnates saw the end
before the beginning, and while they bravely tried
to "carry on" through a few weeks, patriotism
led.ihem to put up the shutters and rive their
players opportunity to get into useful service.
Big league owners have sought merely to get
some return for the large sums they have in
vested. Their patriotism is unquestioned, and
they will probably submit to the ruling with such
grace as will bear good fruit when the park gates
are again opened and the sport resumed, as it
will be. '
GERMAN DEFEAT BEYOND DOUBT.
That the Germans have sustained another
serious defeat along the Marne is now bevonrl
doubt, and the end of the war is brought that
much nearer. The full extent of the victorv
gained by the Franco-American forces may not
yet be told, for the drive has not wholly spent
its force. Steadily our troops are pushing ahead,
driving the Hun from vantage point after van
tage point, and restoring to allied control local
strongholds of importance. The forward move
ment has slowed down some, as was expected,
owing to stiffening German resistance, but the
south side of the Marne has been cleared of
enemy effectives, while the retirement north of
that river in the direction of the old Hindenburg
line is progressing.
In the maze of speculation two points are
quite clear. Paris has again been preserved,
through almost the identical strategy that broke
up vorKjuck's advance in 1914. At the same
time, rmTallied armies are in a far better posi
tion for the opening of the proposed grand as
sault in the fall. German strategy of huge mass
movements has again broken down because of
the superior skill of its opposition. The boasted
supremacy of the kaiser's troops in open war
fare has been exploded. What they will do on
the defensive is yet to be decided.
As a prelude to the mors important opera
tions planned for the coming autumn, this sec
ond battle of the Marne is impressive. It was
not won by happy chance, but through careful
calculation, and its lesson will not be lost on
either side. German boasting will not be si
lenced, but soldiers who have been so signally
beaten will not quickly recover a false sense of
invincibility. For its effect on the morale of
the Hun, then, the affair is especially important.
Are State Railway Commissions Obsolete?
There is evidently method in the mad scramble
of our Nebraska State Railway Commission to
make work for itself. The commission insists up
on asserting jurisdiction over the public service
corporations of Omaha in matters of rate regula
tion; it goes through the forms of issuing orders
governing railway operations performed by the
federal administration over which no state board
has any authority; and it is also speeding up in
its activities under the so-called blue sky law.
The commission plainly has to have some excuse
for continued existence and something to war
rant maintaining its expensive staff of rate
clerks, bookkeepers, engineers and valuation ex
perts, and if they confined themselves to the
field of railroad supervision originally mapped
out for them, the members might be in danger
of discovering themselves to be gentlemen with
out an occupation.
The Bee was one of the original advocates of
a responsible elective state railway commission
in Nebraska and is a thorough believer in strict
government control of the railroads when they are
in private hands, but no one can fail to see that
state regulation becomes superfluous when the
federal government steps in to run the railroads
on its own account. So far as the public utility
corporations are concerned, and to the extent the
service is local they can be as well, if not better,
controlled by the local authorities as a function of
municipal self-government. Repression of blue
sky speculations is very well in its way, yet the
state railway commission would neverhave been
created for that one job, which could easily be
imposed upon other state offices.
Perhaps the state railway commission in Ne
braska is no more obsolete than railway commis
sions in other states, but the whole subject of
their future usefulness or uselessness calls for
early attention.
Increasing the Terrors of Wr.
The ways and means committee of the house
will do well to look up some of the reports made
from France of late years, notably that which re
lates to housing and tuberculosis. A few centuries
ago a king of old France found himself short of
funds and his chancellor of exchequer conceived
the idea of taxing windows. The populace an
swered by bricking up all superfluous openings,
and originated a habit that persists to this day.
They went without fresh air, incurred tubercu
losis, and evaded the tax. Ten cents a gallon on
gasoline will mean that most folks will give over
the use of the automobile; taxing clothing above
a certain cost will force most wearers to buy the
cheaper kind, and so on through the socalled
"consumption" list of the new revenue law.
Finally, all tax must be taken . from income,
either directly or indirectly, and whether levied
In one way or another, it eventually rests on the
production of the country. Why not. adopt a
law based on our own and the experience of
Other countries, and not experiment with devious
and uncertain devices, which may or may not
produce revenue, but certainly will give the war
additional terrors.
The World-Herald expresses astonishment
that the president should be moving to immedi
ately take control of the wires. Why, do you
think, did Mr. Wilson insist that the resolution
authorizing him so to do be passed wthout delay
or debate, if he did not intend at once to assume
direction of the telegraph and telephone business
of the country?
Creel and His Achievements
Senator Sherman of Illinois Dissects the Eminent
"Publicity Man'
Senator Sherman of Illinois took occa-
sion, .during the debate on the resolution to!
authorize the president to take over control
of the teleRraph and telephone systems of the
United States, to refer to the career of
George Creel, chairman of the official public
ity committee, as follows:
Creel now appears as the creat luminary
to scatter the darkness he and his kind have
created. The aboriginal freebooters of de
based journalism are rebuking the snirits
they called from the vasty deep at $1,250,000
annually. They remind me of the thrifty
genius who kept a kennel of wolves in the
brush and bred them so he could collect the
bounty paid on their scalps. The bane and
antidote are discovered on the same pay
roll, presided over by a saffron swashbuckler
of former days. A mental discharge of 10,
000 words per working dav in the rarefied at
mosphere of the Rocky Mountains exhilarat
ed the imagination and brought on a verbal
looseness which makes it imprudent for Mr.
Creel to appear before an audience. We have
his own words for it in this hearing, to wit,
of the condition of affars in Denver when he
wrote the editorials inserted in the Record
by the senator from Indiana (Mr. Watson).
I quote: "Nobody then spoke in whispers,
nobody spoke in conversational tones we
screamed."
The press enlightened its readers with
tropical epithets and red headlines. It was a
waste of ink to use an adjective less than the
superlative. He vows on page 160 of his
evidence: "Never again will they get me up
on a public platform."
Onre a short time ago he made a speech
in a .ew xoric cnurcn. excitement, or tne
novelty of being within a sacred edifice, or
a relapse into his natural temperamental ex
aggeration made him refer to congress as
slum scenery. His July 4, 1917, U-boat chap
ter was not an amazing yarn; it was a psy
chological extravagance. It is so explained
in cold type. We marvel at his self-restraint.
Was there not an opportunity to blow up the
kaisers whole fleet of marine pests! fie re
strained himself to one submarine and strew
ing the sea with wreckage and oil so one
could have somthing for his imaginaton to
work on.
What a hieh-horsepower expression is
worth is shown by details generated in his
superheated fancy. Aboard a warship ac
companying the fleet was a prosaic Associat
ed Press correspondent who was unable to
see or to hear any of the engagement. He
persisted in wiring that the whole story was
a myth. It was, to be euphonious about it,
an artistic elaboration, is the way it was ex
plained in the hearings.
The apocryphal tale that the government
could have put a rifle in the hands of every
soldier as he entered camp emanated from
the same wellsnnnsr of veracity who would
have charge of the distribution of all human
information if this joint resolution were
passed in its present form. This careful re
gard of the government caused the men to
be drilled with broomsticks as a safety-first
caution. They were then unaccustomed to
firearms.
Then a flier on aeroplane news absorbed
his next effort. He, it was, who inserted in
the thrilling serial dubbed the Official Bulle
tin," and edited by the official bullhead,
language which led the unsophisticated citi
zen to believe that hundreds of aircraft had
gone to France and that thousands more
would be ready in a few da'ys, that the whole
European sky was to be blackened with them
in a little while. He was told by the senior
senator from New York (Mr. Wadsworth)
and other members of the committee on mili
tary affairs of the gap between fact and fic
tion before it was published, and yet it ap
peared, and Mr. Creel laid it on an individual
named Strunsky; I find that thoughtful pre
caution in the hearings, as I go back to that
time and peruse it. One thing it has netted
us, Mr. President, at least, it has enriched
our vocabuary with a new word. Munchau
sen is stale and vapid. Strunsky tunes things
up with a refreshing variety that falls upon
the ear with indescribable euphony. Creel
admitted before the committee that one air
plane had actually been shipped. This was
so much better foundation for most of his in
formation than usual that the committee and
everybody else felt relieved that he got so
near the truth.
Then came the Von Igel revelations,
which were given him to prepare copy for
publication. His handiwork relating to Hol
land brought an instant and indignant protest
from the Netherlands minister in this city.
Diplomatic matters in an undigested state, it
is notjceable, have not been referred to him
since. Great creative ability and a high-voltage
imagination do not impress the depart
ment as promotive of international harmony
among free peoples. Sensational matter does
not appeal to him, he avers. He is so tied
to humdrum routine that anything lurid
causes him infinite torture. He says him
self that any trashy or stupid stuff is at once
relegated to the garbage can. I wonder how
he himself keeps out of it? He knows it at
sight as a qualified expert, having produced
It himself in prodigious quantities before he
was named by the president as conservator
of the free press of our country. '
Mr. Creel said six years ago the American
voter was a Russian serf. The senate sits in
despotism and we are the despots. Those
are things' stated by a public officer, whose
power it is proposed to increase prodigious
ly by the passage of such a resolution as this.
The supreme court is a tyrant. The law is
an autocrat winking at criminals in high
places. The president is helpless. The execu-
tve office must have aroused the sympathy
of congress for it has delegated most of its
power to that department. It would hand
over the rest of it if the constitution were not
an obstacle. That document is, he said,
worn out and ought to be abolished by hav
ing every court decision on unconstitutional
acts of congress or states referred to a vote
of the people. The constitution in this simple
way could be amended every 90 days. All
public officers were to be subject to recall
on a 3 per cent petition. Instead of being
present in our seats, most of us would be
home answering the 3 per cent petition de
mand and justifying our right to hold our
seats longer. Elections would be going on
all the time.
This explains Creel's appointment and
most of his pay roll. He further illuminates
us by saying America is "a race of commer
cial sharks willing to devour one another."
Our government was framed behind
locked doors by rich men who despised the
masses, to preserve aristocratic privileges.
The whole scheme was a conspiracy against
the people to rivet chains on their, necks.
They were implored by Creel six years ago
to rise and smash this insufferable tyranny.
If it were true then, it is true now. If it
were false then, it is unspeakably vicious and
depraved now. A man who will say it now is
a civic leper, and under recently enacted
laws a potential felon. The only mitigation
offered is that it is campaign extravagance,
local temperament, and sophomoric periods.
He regrets his phrasing, and modified his
form of expression. It was too hectic for
lower altitudes than Denver. Instead of
screaming, conversational tones and a more
didactic style are now recommended; maybe
the official elocutionist did some good. A
lower pitch and denatured epithets do not
purge him of principles which he avers stout
ly he still believes. It is impossible to re
sist the conviction that, if Creel were not on
the payroll he would be going out of one
vociferous spasm into another, emittine 10.-
000 words of crimson balderdash per day or
oe in tne custody ot the Department ot Jus
tice. The senior senator from Idaho (Mr.
Borah) called my attention to the most sing
ular composition ever produced from offi
cial sources. It had escaped mv attention.
The senate is indebted to him for my com
ment on it.
The latest exploit of this public function
ary is a special feature service article July
7, 1918. From proof sheets we learn it was
sent out by the committee on pitiless public
ity, or, rather, public information. The style
and familiar nausea remind a western man
from the Wabash region of over-indulgence
in paw-paws. It identifies unmistakably the
toadeater whence it came. There is no use
in having anybody's name to it. The subject
matter and style identify it completely. The
subject is the secretary of war. His wearing
apparel, his gait, how his brain functions, his
manner of saying "yes," or "no," of making
a complete tour of the brown davenports lin
ing the wall of his outer office, giving to
each occupant a succinct judicial answer, are
minutely sketched. Without warning the
startling information that he thinks clearly
under all circumstances and is never ambig
uous is hurtled out to an astonished world.
He selects his words fastidiously, shad
ing his meaning like one of the old masters
mixed his colors. The reader's head buzzes
when he is told the secretary can keep three
or four stories told him by as many men up
in his dome all at one time. Instinctively
we think of the juggler who entranced our
boyish attention by keeping up a gorgeous
maze of whirling balls with no perceptible ef
fort, except a fixed smile. Suddenly he ap
pears mingling with ambassadors, the wise,
the good,, fair forms and hoary seers; he
turns aside in the twinkling of an eye to
meditate, while contractors hang in midair
and profiteers wildly clutch their pocket
books in deafening silence. "Yes or no"
comes with a decisive ring in his voice, and
hundreds of millions of dollars gush from the
public treasury on his nod. Then the earth
temporarily resumes its customary revolu
tion. Five stenographers then rush in. He
dictates to nearly all of- them at once. Oth
ers linger in hailing distance as a reserve if,
perchance, some of the overworked function
aries should drop dead. Immense bundles of
documents of state appear, in which he im
merses himself, lost in a profound vacuum
of sublimated thought. The shorthanders
flee madly from the incarnated human temp
est, waving their notebooks ominously. Now
the landscape fades away in a haze of tobac
co smoke. Gradually the scene reveals a
briar-root pipe, with the Secretary of War at
tached, curled up in a deep, soft, armchair,
reading his Theocritus and Juvenal or a
biography of Tom Johnson or a work on
3-cent fares. From this deep dream of peace
this overripe Boswell blazes the film with
Baker's trip to war-swept France. We are
permitted to gaze upon the greatest secre
tary of war the world ever saw. Stanton
struggles dimly into view, merely as a basis
of comparison, to enable our staggering men
tality to gain a last look of Baker walking
serene on the summit of inaccessible grand
eur before we lapse into unconsciousness. The
peerless strategist and warrior fiinishes the
moving theater by remaining for hours in
the trenches and dugouts in mortal peril
from bursting shell and scattering shrapnel.
Here the dazed audience disperses. In the
consuming major portion of the scene I for
got the prose prologue of "Round the Clock
with Baker," as this horrible phantasmagoria
of adulation is called. Here it is let me
give it for the benefit of the senate, for
fear that it might escape in "the wrecks of
matter, and the crash of worlds." I shall
now quote literally. Perish the base thought
that I could improve on the original:
"There he goes now," remarked one of the
office force who sit working in the room out
side Secretary Baker's office. "There he
goes, in his palm beach suit, with that little
old soft hat on his head. Just as friendly
and natural. Nothing pompous about him.
I should say not. Just as easy and demo
cratic as an old shoe!"
Mr. President, after enduring this from
Creel, the terrors of a Hun invasion are con
siderably mitigated. We await our fate with
calmness and fortitude. Nothing can be
worse on either side of the grave. It has al
most converted me into a Universalist hell
has nothing like this.
I I ODAV
One- Year Ago Today In the War.
Many Russian regiments reported
to have mutinied and fled before the
Germans. Slam declared war against
Austria and Germany, bringing the
number of the allied nations to six
teen. :
The Day We Celebrate.
E. J. McVann, former manager of
; the Traffic Bureau of the Commercial
club, born 1869.
Duke Somerset, bora 71 year. ago.
- Bishop John C Kllgo, of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, south, born at
Laurens, & C, K7 years ago.
James Speyer, leader in banking
and finance, bora in New York City
e years ago.
Tills Day In History.
1657 Frederick I, the first king ot
Prussia, born in Konigsberg. Died
February 26, 1713.
1706 Treaty for the union of Scot'
land with England signed.
1881 United States congress voted
1600,000 lor war purposes and au
tnorized the enlistment of 500,000
troops. ,
1896 George W. Jones, first United
Stats senator from Jowa, died at Du
buque. Borq at Vincennes, Ind., April
12, 1804.
191 S Berlin reported progress in
the German advance toward Riga.
J 9 1 6 Germans encounter drive
gained footing north of the Somme,
Just 30 Years Ago Today
W. R. Stirling, next president of the
Brotherhood of St Andrew, ad
dressed the local organization at Trin
ity cathedral.
The new addition to the utreet car
barn at the south end of Thirteenth
street line Is now completed. It will
accommodate 100 horses. Five addi
tional cars will be put upon that line
and they will run every ten minutes.
Kdwirr. Copenharve and Miss Amy
Odlorne, both of this city, were mar
ried by Rev. John Williamson in the
study of the Central United Presby
terian church.
i W. E. Annin an l wife have returned
from a tour of the pleasure reports rf
Roll of Honor Endorsed
Holdrege Progress: An Idea ad
vanced that Omaha establish a Roll
of Honor commemorating those of its
young men who have given their lives
for their country, gives promise of
bearing fruit It's a laudable inten
tion, and the action of the Metropo
lis may well be followed by other of
the state municipalities. In the city
park at Portland, Ore., stands a beau
tiful monument commemorating the
valor of the Oregon young men who
gave up their lives in the Fhilllptnes.
Surely Phelps county can well afford
to commemorate the heroic actions of
her young soldiers.
Beatrice Express: The Omaha Bee
Is out with the suggestion for the
maintenance of a "roll of honor" In
some publio place upon which shall
be inscribed the names ot Omaha sol
diers who have died while serving the
country in lhn military or naval forces
engaged in the war. The Bee suggests
that the "roll of honor" could be set
up in the court house or city hall in
an attractive though temporary form
that would permit of constant addi
tions and be converted into a perman
ent tablet later. The suggestion Is a
nod "hp and one which should also
be carried out In Beatrice and other
cities. The proper authorities, the
'Next of Kin" organization, Council of
Defense or Commercial club should
take steps Immediately to that end.
Hrown'a Worry.
"Brown's debts don't seem to worry him."
the west Includine Kalt Lake Denvnr ' Nu; n tty " n looked worried It
ivf-T. . Jv , "J . Vs o a" J-Ke f'enver, W0Ul(1 , h1 ,,-, nJ ,he0 the,
Vlit0U, Colorado Springs and Lead- , K0 worry him Inlo worrylns wma mora."
Boston xranicrrpt.
ills,
Editorial Shrapnel
Albany Journal: The time may not
be distant when the kaiser will have
to say: "Rueckwaerts mitt Gott."
New York Vforld: Even the black in
the German flag la splotched by the
blacker infamy of such a dee i aj the1
sinking of the hospital s -ip Llandovery
Castle.
Baltimoro Amerkan: One million
men in France, tho first million tons
of ships completed, and the shipment
of big howitzers to France begun.
Three cheers! America is under way.
Pittsburgh Post: American rat. are
destroying $200,000,000 wonh of food
every year, which is more damage
that the bundesra . the reichsrat and
all the oth.r enemy rats have been
able to do.
Portland Press: Men used to say
that the world owed them a living.
Now they are learning th: ; they owe
the world a reasonable amount of
work at a lseful occupation.
Kansas City Star: The Louis
brewers present what they conceive to
be the whole casj asainst the -uel ad
ministrator's order denying them coal
when they pant out that their plants
represent an lnvotment of $80,000,000.
Shucks! n.e sou:n had $400,000,000
Invested in slaves in i860.
New York Herald: So Germany holds
up the western jffensive while the
kaiser rants about hamerjlng the sun
and sea and Von Hertllng prattles
about the future of Belgium. But Ger
many will have t i little voice in the
disposition of that country as the
kaiser when the allies sit down to
talk terms.
Twice Told Tales
Very Likely.
A socialist vas talking at the Col
ony club abouv girls' schools. '
"Ultra-fashionable girls' schools I
don't like," she said. "They educate
a girl in everything but an education.
"Two housemate" i were talkin? once
about their mistress daughter, who
had Just returned from one of these
ultra-fashionable schools.
" 'What's that new course Miss Ma
rie Is taking?" the first maid asked.
" 'I think,' said the second maid, 1
think the name of It's cosmetics "
Washington Star.
Ready for tho Fray.
"I understand Mis. Gabson has left
Mr. Gabson and gone home to her
'nother."
"Yes, a ad affair. She charges
aim with excessive cruelty."
"You surprise me. Gabson doesn't
look like a man who would beat his
wife."
"Oh, he didn't do anything of that
sort He got hold of a gas mask
somewhere, and when Mrs. Gabson
Started one of her monologues he put
it on." Birmingham Age-Herald.
Cuseful Science.
During a recent visit to the house
Tommy's uncle decided to test the
youngster's progress In study. -
"What Is geography, Tommy T" he
aksed.
"Geography." said Tommy, "Is ,whf-t
you put inside your trousers when
you think you are going to get a
whipping." New York World.
One Well Managed County Office.
Omaha, July 17--To the Editor of
The Bee: Last Saturday an article
appeared In The Bee Letter Box un
der the heading of "County Employes
and Wages," signed "Taxpayer.". Mr.
Taxpayer says, as I understand it, "all
county officials" are at fault In em
ploying incompetent office help. I
do not care to enter into an argu
ment with "Mr. Taxpayer," but I Jujst
want to mention a thing or two: Dur
ing the last 10 years 1 have had the
opportunity to call at various depart
ments in the court house and have
noticed the way the various depart
ments were being managed. One cer
tain department I visited mostly, as
my business has demanded. When
I wished to look up certain records
I have always found them In first
class shape, which only goes to show
that all work is kept up to date. In
case I was unable to find what I was
looking for, all I had to do 'was to
turn to one of the employes and ask
for information, which was always
given me in a willing way and with
pood service. I never saw any "vis
itors" in this particular department
disturbing the employes, who were
always keeping themselves occupied
with work.
Mr. Pearce himself Is an able offi
cial, has no outside interests of his
own to look after, devotes all hisitime
to his office, knows his business and
runs his department not from a po
litical standpoint, but in a real busi
nesslike way. He employs none but
the best experienced help, who are
also alwftys pleasant and anxious to
accommodate. It would not be Just
to Mr. Pearce and his able force if
we included his department with some
of the others, which in my estimation
ran stand a good overhauling. I hope
that our voters will not wait till the
last minute, but start right now and
pick out their candidates, study them
;nd their records and be sure that
when they cast their votej that they
will cast them for the right kind of a
candidate and not feel sorry afterward
and when it is too late. A VOTER.
Germany Should Pay Indemnity.
To the Editor of the Bee: It has
been the idea of some and advocated
by some that the United States should
not demand any indemnity from Ger
many at the end of the world war.
What would Germany do to us, should
she by any hook or crook win the
war? They have already announced
that they would compel us to pay a
large part of their demand for the
payment of $45,000,000,000 and would
make the United States a part of the
great world-wide German empire.
Should we back out and not ask any
indemnity? I should say not.
As I advocated In the daily press
recently, and my position was strong
ly upheld by numberless people, many
of them of high talent, the German
nation should be destroyed, and the
kaiser and his six worthless sons
should be banished to the remotest
parts of the earth, until they die. Not
only should Germany be destroyed as
a nation, but the people of that part
of the earth should be compelled to
pay us for the vast amount of dam
age and expense they have caused to
numerous peoples of the earth. They
should be compelled to pay for the
material damage done to us and to
replace every form of property they
have stolen from the Belgians, from
the French and from the other na
tions they have overrrun. The kaiser
and his sons should either be banished
or executed for murder. Personally,
I would favor the execution of the
kaiser and the crown prince of Ger
many. The life of one slain Amerlcar sol
dier Is worth the lives of 10,000 such
fellows as the kaiser and his six goocU
for-nothing sons. Let us demand an
Indemnity of Germany that will cause
her to be so placed that she will never
again want to start out n any world
wide conquests, and would tend to
stop her military system forever.
There should be a universal demand
in the United States for indemnity
from Germany, for we are simply
dealing with barbarians far worse
than the Goths and Vandals of an
cient times.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
tXfalr, but with baron at torty-ft-e eenta a
wune it's ao Joka, at tnat Brownlns'a
axtna.
"Ha la nothing If not romantlo. Ha pro.
poaed to har oa tha adga ot a mountata
torsa."
"What did aha oV
"Sho threw blm over." Baltimore Amer
ican. Doctor Did yon g-lve the patient tha
medicine I ordered tor hla lneomnla regu
larly T
Amateur Nurae Tea, doctor, but It madi
him mad when I woke him up to take It,
Baltimore American.
ON THEIR WAY TO FRANCE.
Down to the deep blue water.
Marching to throb of drum, '
From city atreet and country lane
The ltnea of khaki come;
The rumbling guna, the aturdy tread,
Are full of grim appeal.
While raya of weatera aunahlna
Flaah from burnished eteel
With eager eyea and cheeka aflame
The aerrled ranka advance.
And your fine lada and my fine lade
Are on their way to France.
A aob clinga choking In the throat,
Aa file on file aweep by.
Between those cheering multltudea,
To where the great ahlpa lie;
The batteriea halt, the columns wheeU
To clear-toned bugle's call.
With ahoulders aquared and faces front
They stand a khaki wall;
Tears shine on every watcher's cheek.
Love speaks In every glance;
For your fine lads and my fine lads
Are on their way to, France.
Before them, through a mist of years,
In soldier gray or blue.
Brave comradea from a thousand fields
Watch now In proud review;
The same old flag, the same old faith
The freedom of the world
Spella duty In those flapping folds
Above long ranks unfurled.
Strong are the hearts which bear along
Democracy's advance,
As your fine lads and my fine lads
Go on their way to France.
The word rings out, a million feet
Tramp forward on the road,
Along that path of sacrifice
O'er which their fathers strode, ,
With eager eyes and cheeks aflame.
With cheers on smiling lips,
Those fighting men of 1918
Move onward to their ships.
Not even love can hold thorn ba,ck
Nor halt their stern advance,
As your dear lads, and my 'dear lads,
Go on their way to France.
J. A. WHITTAKER.
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"Did you hear of the death of my rich
uncle?''
"No. How much did he leave you?"
"Not a blessed cent."
"Well, gee whiz! What was the good of
his dicing?" Boston Transcript.
''Philosophers speak of a law of compen
sation." "Not disputing that, what most of ns
complain about is the amount of compen
sation forthcoming." Boston Transcript.
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