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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 30. 1918. THE Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) - EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD EOSEWATER VICTOR EOSEWATER, EDITOR THS BSE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ttt lanciaua em. Men If mrntw entitled e U w tat rubltcatioe o all dipatebe onaitaa (a it or aw othtrwiM oradttad la this oaiwt. and also tns local ew Mibllahsd brin. ail rifl of eulilioaUoo 0 oat seeaa) aimtrbot let le meml OFFICES iJamna Tba Bat Bulldlne, Chloaio Peoria's 0 Bulla. traUi Oe he SIS H. at New Tors M Pitta ae. Oowll Blu"-H N, Hew 8t Louis H B i of CoWMIW. Uaoola Little Baud) a. WuhlBtun 1311 O Bt JUNE CIRCULATION Daily 69,021 Sunday 59,572 A rent tnmtatlM tot tb moeta. subserlhsd aad twoin to b D'a' ivillnma. Oreulatloa Muafet. . Subscriber leaving the city should havo The Bm mailed to them. AddraM chanfcd aa often aa requested. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG. , t "A life on the ocean wave" has its advantages. Don't let yourself forget that, according to N official edict, "politics is adjourned." I The weather man is demonstrating that he can be good to us when he wants to. Sunday's record indicates that safety first is not universally practiced by auto drivers. . . Treasurer Endres slipped up a little on the joy ride, but be had the trip first, which may console him. Hindenberg is now reported to be alive and well, but a safe guess would be that he isfar from happy. OveV the Aisne may not be out altogether, but it if on the way to Berlin, and that is the final destination. One of the kaiser's sons celebrated his birth day last week, but so far none of the six has been injured In battle. - Omaha's hospital unit has reached the other side in safety, adding by that much to local in terest la the proceedings over there. If the president ever does find out what the Russian people want, we will wager his discov ery includes free grub, clothes and vodka.' Mr. Hoover has slackened the brakes a little on wheat, but that does not mean that we are to run wild with the cereal like we once did. If a few more candidates for primary nomina tions would now withdraw in the interest of pa triotism and party it would simplify matters still further. ' . . ' feint, the propriety of civic organizations con stituted regardless of party trying to put candi dates on both party tickets, is at least open to question. , Someone will have to rescind that double barreled postal card by which' Frank Harrison was going to dictate governorship nominations on both sides of the political fence. TEXT FOR THE REPUBLICANS. To be a good republican and a loyal citizen of the United States is one and the same thing. Since the republican partythe party of Abra ham Lincoln was born none has ever had to ask where it stood on any measure looking to the proper and adequate defense of the nation. For fifty years the republican party directed the course of the government along a way to growth and prosperity, broken only by a brief ex periment with democratic control that. brought immediate and dire disaster to industry and commerce. This is the complete answer to the democratic insinuation that to elect a republican congress will be to jeopardize the safety of the government, or to hamper the prosecution of the war. For all his war program President Wilson has had the most loyal and effective support of the republicans in congress, the minority party there, but the one to which "the chief executive has had to turn when leaders of his own party have been in opposition to his plans. The republican party is committed without re serve to the vigorous and relentless prosecution of the war to speedy victory. Its leaders en thusiastically advocate a more aggressive policy than that so far pursued. Only on this score has criticism been offered, directed not at the president, but against the reactionary group whose fuglemen hide behind the White House to concoct their gas attacks against republicans. In going into the present campaign the repub licans can present good reasons for seeking the confidence of the people in preference to the incompetent democrats. No war policy of the president is in any danger through the republi can party; many times his plans have been seri ously interfered with by the democrats. There fore, the loyal citizens of America well may turn to the party that has stood steadfast and staunch through the country's most critical history and greatest growth. Money Behind That Bill. Through one advertising agency alone $205,000 of German gold was used in 1915 to buy space in English and foreign language newspapers in this country to manufacture public sentiment for the bill to prohibit the export of arms which our Sen ator Hitchcock introduced and championed in congress for the kaiser. There was Hun money behind that bill and the kaiser would gladly have paid millions to anyone who could have success fully "put It over" on our statute books for him. The Nebraska law governing state platform conventions expressly prohibits any expression for or against any candidate for office to be filled at the ensuing election which eliminates, the in centive ).o a lot of grief. Again has the Nebraska state railroad board gone through the motions of putting into effect n order of the federal railroad director. Watch its wheels revolve when the control of the wires passes on Thursday. The members must have come employment besides drawing salary checks. Our Ships and the World. ' Chairman Hurley "gave the South Americans a little glimpse o( what the great American merchant fleet may mean to the world commerce after peace has come again. It is too soon to speculate as to details, but in a general way it is clear that the presence of these great cargo carriers is going to exert a vital influence on the affairs of all nations. Nor is it conceivable that that influence will be for anything but good The United States is not seeking any selfish purpose in this war, nor expecting to achieve any victory save that in which all nations, may share. Therefore, it is only fair" to conclude that when it comes to adapt to the uses of peaceful world the means through which Ger many will be defeated, this country will seek no selfish advantage. Ships now built and building - to carry men and munitions to France will in time be used on errands of peace throughout the world, messengers of friendly commerce among the nations. America will have the mightiest fleet afloat when the war is over, and will con tinue to use its giant power for the good of man kind. - ' Murder is Murder and Not War. Another tale of wanton murder of sailors is added to the long count against the Hun. In this instance a former atrocity is repeated; the cap tured crew of a fishing trawler was placed on the deck of a submarine, carried far from the place where overhauled, and then the cruel cap tor submerged his boat, leaving his victims to drown. Nothing more despicable or dastardly seems possible. Very early in the progress of the great American rebellion Judah P. Benjamin, attorney general for the confederacy, laid down the principle that killing fer the mere sake of taking life and not because of military necessity or advantage is murder. This has been accepted by all enlightened nations, whose armies scru pulously follow the role. But Germany has re spected the laws of neither God nor man, and has wantonly destroyed the lives of helpless vic tims again and again, under circumstances that leave no doubt as to the bloodthirsty purpose of her warriors. The repetition of the offense from Liege and Louvain down through the years to this latest crime constitutes a record that will forever damn the Hohenzollern and all his precious crew of freebooters and murderers. The world must be cleansed of the lot before safety is secured for democracy or any other form of government. Driving the Lesson Home. The announced policy of the government in taking over the telegraph and telephone lines of the country is to consolidate and unify the op eration in every possible way. It will tolerate no longer than absolutely necessary wasteful and costly two-telephone systems serving the people of the same territory. Exit the independent tel ephone delusion. It will hook up the telephone and the telegraph for co-operative and joint ac tion. Thus the government will itself do what it forbade the companies from doing on their own account when compelled by court order to unmerge the union that had been effected. We arc learning through stress of war. Shades of a long line of heroes, turn your heads t The sombrero is to go into the discard, artd the dinky little nondescript cap becomes the headgear for the Yankee soldier abroad, when he is not wearing his "tin hat." It may suit the climate, but the home folks won't know him. Germans are using American prisoners to shield railway stations at the front from bomb ing. This is a continuation of the policy that forced women and children to march ahead of the Hun infantry when it went into battle. Great Splash For Labor Day , Ways All Set For Another Launching In Ship Yards New York Times. Labor day is dedicated to celebrating the advancement of the cause of labor and the promotion of the interests of workingmen. The form of the celebration is by parades and meetings this is the serious aspect of it; but also it is the rtd-letter day for relaxation and sport, the prelude to another year of toil. It has been proposed by organized shipyard workers that the opening of Labor day this year shall . be the signal for the launching of ships on all our coasts and on the Great Lakes, for another "Big Splash" like that of the Fourth of July, 1918, which will be historic and forever memorable in the annals of American labor and industry. In what finer and better way could the spirit of the day in vartime be observed? Victory in the world conflict is as much the concern of the American workman as it is of the statesman and the investor. Defeat would shatter the hopes, eclipse the ideals, of labor, and bring want and njisery to every home. Surely no cne has a greater stake in the struggle than the artisan and the toiler, however humble. "The credit for winning this war will be shared equally by the workmen of America and the fighters cf America," said Charles M. Schwab at San Francisco on the Fourth of July. The war as an inspiration should be in the front of every Labor day celebra tion this year, an occasion more of sober thought and earnestness of purpose than of recreation. So the shipyard workers think, 300,000 strong, who, in the words of the di rector general, "are all fighting fot America," like the men in the trenches. Henxe the pro- posal made to the shipping board by the men themselves to have another demonstration of how fast and how well Americans can build ships to beat the submarine. There will have to be a taking of stock, a counting of ways and fabrics, to determine how big, without delaying construction, the "splash" of Labor day shall be. On July 5 the returns (incomplete) of launchings on the Fourth showed that 95 shins, of a total of 474,464 tons, had taken the water, to the fluttering of nags, the ringing of bells and the booming of cannon. America had never seen such a gala day. The Pacific coast led, with 27 wooden and 18 steel ships. The At lantic coast's tally was 12 wooden and 12 steel ships. The gulf coast contributed 14 wooden ships and one steel snip, and tne Great Lakes 11 steel ships. "The number of ships launched today," said the director gen eral, "is the greatest record of launchings for a single day in the history of the world." As America is ready in this war to break its own records, perhaps the Labor day launchines will ring round the world, too. To quote Mr. Schwab again, "if we complete" our shipbuilding program, tney win Know over in Germany that not a shred of hope remains." The Atlantic coast, with its in cerased number of ways, should press the Pacific coast hard next time, or carry off the honors. Can't we have the biggest "splash" yet, Labor's triumphant message to the kaiser and von Tirpitz? Also good tidings to our allies and a hail to the American army in the trenches the workers to the fighters t What better use could Labor day be put to, achieve ment and festival? The Bristol 'Plane Incident All that "Jim-Jack" harmony may "explain why the "S. O. S." was sent out, urging the Douglas county delegation to be on hand when the big show starts at Hastings. "The failure of the Bristol plane and its abandonment is a disappointment, but not a calamity. To understand the significance of the fact it is necessary to know something of the various types of aircraft. Five gen eral classes are in production fox war uses, aside from training planes. 1. Small, fast, quick maneuvering sin gle seater fighters, used for scouting and for protecting heavier, slower planes. Their speed is between 120 and 130 miles an hour. Among the better known planes -of this class are the French Spad and Nieuport, the British SE-5 and Sopwith, and the German Albatross. 2. General utility two seaters, used for reconnaissance, artillery spotting, photo graphy, map making and bombing by day. Their speed is from 100 miles an hour up. The DeHaviland, Bristol, Voisin and Far man are in this class. ' . 3. Battle planes, heavy and slow, equipped with a cannon as well as with the machine guns which are common to the preceding classes. The French make the Voisin battle planes. 4. Night bombers, slow planes with enormous wing spread, with a radius of operation of from 500 to 1,000 miles, car rying a large supply of bombs. The Brit ish Handley Page, and the Italian Caproni are the best known of these among the allies. The Germans use the Gotha and the Friederichshafen. 5. Flying boats and hydroplanes, for naval use and particularly for hunting sub marines. When we entered the war we knew noth ing about the war developments of airplanes. It was one of the results of the incredible negligence of the War department before the war that we had no information in this country concerning this most important fac tor of modern fighting. Our only army planes were the slow and heavy sort that are now used solelv for training. We actu ally had to send a commission to Europe after the declaration of war to learn what sort of olanes to build. While that ques tion was being studied abroad our aircraft board went ahead with the vital question of motors, having the Liberty designed, and arranging for the production of proved for eign motors for use in European factories. The British general utility JJeHaviiand plane, equipped with four machine guns and with bombing apparatus, was selected in the late summer as one of our main reliances, and was sent to Dayton for adaptation to the Liberty motor, and for production in the Dayton-Wright plant there and in the Fisher Body company's plant in Detroit. The De Haviland was to be our contribution to Class 2 mentioned above. It was felt that the battle plane of Class 3 could wait. Of the night bombers of Class 4, the Handley Page, equipped with two Lib erty motors, and the Caproni, equipped with three, were selected. Rapid changes in the models abroad caused delays, but this spring the models were made and orders finally placed. The Handley Page people have been conducting a clever publicity campaign in this country, insisting that 10,000 of their planes would end the war. But efficiency decreases with the size of the plane, and it is still doubtful whether in general two Lib Kansas City Times. guns instead of with four, as in the DeHavi land, and by omitting the bombing apparat us, and consequently the load of bombs, the aircraft engineers believed they could in crease its speed over the DeHaviland and make it a successful swift pursuit plane to take the place of the Spad. Unhappily, their plans didn't work out. The Liberty motor was adapted admirably to a plane of about the dimensions of the DeHaviland, but when the engineers tried to refine the plane for greater speed, the motor proved too big. Several groups of engineers were working on different models simultaneously. All were hopeful, but all failed. So the Bristol was abandoned. Meanwhile, contrary to General Persh ing's expectations, the single seater devel oped in importance. The Curtiss company accordingly was given an order for the SE-5, a successful British single seater. Along with this plane it will continue to build training planes, seaplanes and the big Caproni. By the Bristol failure we have lost a part of the capacity of the Curtiss plant for sev eral months. So far as the plane itself is concerned, its functions will be largely met by the DeHaviland, which is now in quan tity production and will answer the purpose for which the Bristol was designed. In stead of building a two seater fighter, the Curtiss company now returns to its original plan for. a single seater fighter, which was abandoned last November, under Pershing's orders. If the War department had kept up to date on airplane development before the war the delay might have been avoided. It didn't, and the experience with the, Bristol is part of the cost of unpreparedness. But the important thing now is that we have learned by experience and are driving ahead. Naval Cosmetics Among the other notions of war that we have been forced to discard is the old one that a man, in order to be a first-class fight ing man, must be something of a roughneck, or at least one so intent on the technique of homicide that his personal appearance is a matter of' the utmost indifference to him. Especially was thi3 true of the jolly jack tar, and the old quid-chewing-shiver-my-timbers shellback, who swore strange oaths, danced hornpipes and punctuated all conver sation by taking a half hitch at his trousers. If this man-o'-warsman ever existed outside of the fiction of a generation ago, he is now as extinct as the dodo. Quite the contrary is the navy today, which calls for bids for face cream, manicure sets, hair tonic and perfumes in staggering quantities. If one were to judge the fighting qualities of our sailors by the supply officers' requisitions, it would not be an unnatural error to assume that the navy had some thing to do with a girls' boarding school. Certainly there is no suggestion of 14-inch shells, torpedoes, depth bombs and dread naughts pounded to the bottom in the requi sitions for vanishing cream, peroxide cream and other aids to beauty. Nevertheless, there is unmistakable evidence that these ar ticles get ahmg very well together. The fact of ll'c matter is that these lotions serve a coou ana comiorting purpose: mat erty motors will not do better service in two.? n whose skin is in good condition who DeHavilands than in one Handley Page The navy, of course, was on the job early to get its seaplanes, and these have been in production all spring, along with training planes, in the Curtiss plant in Buffalq. Now to return to Class 1, the swift single seater fighters. An order for 3,000 Spads was placed with the Curtiss company last September. As it was getting ready for pro duction in November General Pershing ca bled that the single seater was becoming ob solete and was being replaced by the two seater combat plane. Therefore, he directed the cancelling of the Spad order. This His arranged Curtiss plans, for while the com pany was building two types of flying boats as well as training planes, it had arranged facilities for producing the Spads. The aircraft board had received in Wash ington a British Bristol, a machine of the Class 2 type, very similar to the D.eHavi- land. By equipping it with, three macnine is clean inside and out. who takes a pride in his personal appearance is nine times out of ten a better stayer in the fighting game than he who makes a pose of being rough and ready. All this toilet-making adds to self respect and creates a sense of duty out of which traditions are built. This has been proved time and again on the Somme and in Flanders, where men who might be consid ered to be a bit foppish, or at least inclined to be dandies, have stuck it out to the last. This is why Pershing insists that the Ameri can soldier shall be natty, that his uniform shall fit him and that on all occasions he must be spick and span. It is no longer a matter of two or three hours of habhazard musketry, but days and weeks of unremitting shell fire that calls on the higher qualities of the soldier or sailor. And these qualities are founded on self respect, that pride in self that conies from being clean. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. TODAY One Year Ago Today In the War. British cruiser Ariadne was tor pedoed and sunk, with a loss of 38 Uvea. Officially announced that since the beginning of hostilities 866 persons had been killed and 1,029 injured in air raids on London. Th Day We Celebrate. Arthur C. Crossman, investment and real estate broker, born 1851.-- i Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer, now turning out "Ea gle" boats for the government, born at Greenfield, Mich., 6S years ago. Julius Kruttschnitt, the new presi dent ot the Southern Pacific railway, born at New Orleans, 64 years ago todav. John Sharp Williams, United States senator from. Mississippi, born at Netr Orleans 6 years ago. RL Rev. Charles David Williams, Episcopal bjshop of Hichlgan, born at Kenevue. u ds years ago. This Day In History. 1859 Richard Rush, who had remarkable career as an American diplomatist, died, in Philadelphia. Born there August 29, 1780... 1884 Chambers-burg, Pa., again raided and partly burned by confed i rate cavalry under General McCaus land. " ' 1914 Germany sent an ultimatum to Russia demanding an explanation nt its Intention regarding mobillza Just 30 Years Ago Today The Republican Flambeau club met to devise ways and means for raising funds. The peneral desire favored an excursion and picnic mud the matter was referred to a committee com posed of Messrs. P. J. Barrett. C. M. O'Donovan, H. B. Hunt, H. H. Red field and James Ish. The gcne.al freight agents held a meeting at the Paxto i for the purpose I 1 " ;;prr- of equalizing rates, especially those on grain. Clint Allen, assistant depotmaster at the Union Pacific depot, is back from Ills trip to Chicago, where he visited his brother, irank. A marriage license was issued to Charles '.owa and til. 3 Anr.lj Cross manuof this city. Dr., McParlln, United States army, and daughters have returned from their eastern trip, Nebraska Politics Gerlng Courier: The democratic party wants pollutes adjourned during tht, war, but they want republicans to do the adjourning. Albion News: The assertion of Ar thur Mullen, chairman of the state democratic central committee, that the election of republicans this fall will be celebrated in Berlin with bon fires, is in line with all smaU bore pol iticians who are capitalizing their pa triotism. Neville and his hand-picked councils of defense have been playing politics from the start. It there is anything that justifies a man in boil ing over these days it is to nave nis loyalty questioned, and that has been the policy of many petty officeholders under the present administration. The result is likely to be republican vic tories an along tne line. Scottsbluff Republican: Congress man M. P. Klnkald nled for renomi natlon and election last week, and it goes without saying that our congress man from the Sixth district will again be nominated and elected. The judge's uniform and unqualified sup port of all war measures, as is vended by the records, places him .with the 100 per cent American class. The judge believes that It is imperatively up to Americans to turn tho scale in favor of the allies by rapidly increas ing our military forces In the field. The quicker and more effectively it goes about this, the less the sacrifice in men and money. There la no ques tion as to the judge's popularity with the people, and that his majority will be Increased there is nut little doubt Editorial Shrapnel ir.n.aa riv Times: The coal deal ers are merely asking you to do your winter shopping early. Minneapolis Journal: Germany in tan.is tn md the sea of hospital ships and barges drawn by tugs. Baltimore American: A war that brings us fetching elevator girls in be coming bloomers has its consolations after all! n...ii nmilrnr? If Karl Tinsner UUiiaiu - - - wants to start the kaiser on some thing interesting he should ask him this question: "Can the Americans tight?" Washington Star: "The German lan guage newspaper is possibly not bo much to be feared as the English language newspaper inai minus u German. T.n,in?lllA fnurler-Journal: Tt seems that enough Germans have been cap tured to -admit or every nttie iem show in America having its gorilla to jexMDit. St. Paul Pioneer-Press. A million hnnViaa hAhlnd thi TTnn lines and a million more Americans behind the allied lines isn i a baa summer work at that. New York World:- If the German general staff could select a democratic candidate for governor of New York, there is no room for doubt that that candidate would be William R. Hearst. Minneapolis Tribune: The allies have the plans well along for the world's greatest bottling works some where between Rhetms and Soissons. The product in mind is-pickled boche. Twice Told Tales She Was a lighter. v.rarvnna Vripw that TJentptiant Thorlelgh and his pretty young wife had failed to agree during tneir rew years of married life, but no one quite ni.-n, tn nsk him where she was livinir during his last months of training in this country. So when an inno cent newcomer Inquired point-blank where she was, there was a rather in tense moment before he said, calmly: . . j i ,, My Wile is xittiiue. "What is she doing?" was de manded further. . "Fighting," he answered, calmly. "Fightingl" everyone exclaimed. "Well," he replied, "perhaps she she's quarreling." Harper's Maga-sine. Poor Position. Alfred A. Knoff. Russian anthoritv. said in his New York office: "It s no use being pessimistic about through these throes of hers in order to Decome sane anu neauny. i ney re Via Ihrnps nf ftpaslrkripss nnrl tr, turn away from them with pessimistic hor ror unu uisBi ia iu ue Hs unreason able as the little school boy. "A little school boy refused to play during the recess. He sat with a dis contented look on a hard rock. "'Why aren't you playin', Harold?' said another little boy. "'Huh! Catch me rJayin'!' he re plied. 'If I played the time would go too fast.' " Inner Circle Plans for Xormal School. Lincoln, July 27. To the Editor of The Bee: The report is common that at the next meeting of the board of regents they will fire President Dick of Kearney and President Hays of Peru. It is reported that they Intended to do this at their meeting in Peru last month, but Superintendent Clem mons and Heitzman Were absent and nothing was done. The same report has it that George Martin of Kearney is to succeed Dick and Dean R'ouse is to .succeed Hays. The report is out that Hay. has resigned within the past few days. He saw the handwriting and go out. It is also sported that George Mar tin went to Columbia University this summer with the assurance that he should have Dick's place upon his re turn. This report is common through the state. It is said 'that Hays cannot work with Tom Majors. It is impor tant that Tom have someone with whom he can work in view of the fact that he takes such a leading part in the management of the normal schools. It is said.that Dick was brought over from Iowa for temporary use until the Thomas trouble should die down and then a Schoolmaster's club man would be put in. This program now promises to be fulfilled in the election of Rouse and Martin, both members of the club In good standing. The Interests of Majors and the Schoolmaster's club far outweigh the interests the schools or the service they render the state. X. Y. Z. Flirting With the Negro. Omaha, 4Tuly 29. To the Editor of The Bee: The appointment of Messrs. Britt, Mohamit and Williams on comrwittee-at-large is worth while, yet it seems strange that a race who is shouldering its portion of the present world's peril, that casts as many votes as any nation in Douglas county, is denied the privilige of having a delegate in each ward. W. E. ALEXANDER, 2512 North Twenty-fifth Street. Vigilance Is .Needed. Omaha, July 26. To the Editor of The Bee: Now the way things look it would be as well to look twice where one can afford two squints at the situation. Everybody knows about 1912 and 1916 is even better known. Was Wilson re-elected in 1916? Yes, by a popular vote that could have been vastly improved if all the whims of the democrats were realized. The electoral vote was noth ing to brag about. It served in 1916, but will it serve in 1920? Will the cry, "He kent us out of war." attract as large a contingent from the Ger- j man vote? It isn't likely. The map j of democratic territory west of the : Mississippi in 1916 is blotted only by Oregon on the Pacific, and a very few others. Republican success lay in the densely populated sections. Of our 11,000,000 or 12,000,000 of Germans, 600,000 were sent here with the sinister purpose to rouse up the American-born Germans to deal us a treacherous blow the same as Belgium got, and later the Lusitanla. Of course, we can't hold 12,000,000 guilty, but there are propagandists after them, and as they are lurking in our midst it is well to accept the warnings of a rattlesnake, for a copperhead never gives any warning. "Sink with out trace" is the German method. It applies to any transaction with which a genuine Hun may be identified. That's the reason so many of them accept their fate on the western front To be caught with the goods is the "lost cause" for any thief or body of thieves. Death at the front Is prefer able to the just hatred of mankind when they are kicked back to their own dunghills. Wilson has made a good record since he went into it, but he was so slow starting things. Bernstorff should have been apprehended. But for the democrats to try and show that the republicans are not for the war "teeth and toenails'.' is as comical as for a parrot to chirp "if the country is saved it will be us big people save it." D. HOLADAY. BREEZY TRIFLES. Lawyer Are you aware, air, 'that what you contemplate Is illegal? Client Certainly. What do you suppose I came to consult you for? Boston Trans cript. "I hear they are wearlni" paper eloth lnsr In Europe." "Which shows how fashions repeat themselves,': observed Miss Cayenne. "My grandmother used to wear quantities of newspaper when bustles were in style." Washington .Star. "Do you believe the old saylnf that an apple a day will keep the doctor away?" "So far aa I'm concerned, it would have to serve," replied the impecunious citizen. "I can't afford to buy apples and pay doc tors, too." Blnghampton Age-Herald. Sidelights on the War The British army smokes 4.000, 000,000 clgarets a year. Five girls of Aberdeen, Wash., have signed as oilers on a Pacific steam ship. , . Sixty days' leave for farm work is being granted United States naval re cruits at Providence, R. I. 1 Women of Fife, Scotland, have agreed to provide the labor Tor har vesting the flax crop. Peat brick are being retailed in Dublin at a penny each .instead ot three for a penny, the price before the war. Quarrymen of Bethesda, England, have applied for an extra allowance of sugar, awing to the arduous nature of their work. A WOMAN'S THANKS. Whenever I meet a sailor or soldier on the street, Mv thanUs He at his feet, While, o'er his head, I place a helmet fair of prayer, That he may come again to all Who hold htm dear, Both far and near. I long to say. T 'ou give your life, Your future fair, to spare Me from the lash of driven labor 'Mong strange neighbors, To keep from battered ruin, cannon-blown, my dear home, To let ma live In my own body'i peace. Not loathing It, defiled. Bearing a stranger child. Or your young flesh you build a living wall, around all To women's hearts, most dear. The roans, the old, Tou guard from fear untold! Far out of reach of human eyes. The ramparts of our sacred country rite. Impalpable, but stronger far thaiwdeath. Freedom and light and love, our nation's breath, Dwell safely there, free from all thought of care. These walls of your noble spirit builds and bears." This, while I pass a soldier on the street- This vision fleet! I do not even hold a grateful hand, thus. While I stand. I only bow my head and say, "Dear lad, God bless you on your way. And bring you safe, some day. To that dear harbor where you long to ba. I cannot thank you for your gift to me. For who can thank for life, love, liberty. The one who gives life's hourly sacrifice?" B. A. Furman in N. T. Times. W While They fight ill !v& Slipknot Rubber Heels tt conserve health- Their re iliency saves yur system f and nerves frcm vcer and TO j tear Slipknot durability tl fcj saves your pockelbook. Insist v 1 on Slipknots. 1 Fj'J Manufachiredby 3 Ffi PLYMOUTH RUBBER COMPANY jj Vj Canton, Muss. W' Put on at all Shoe Repair Shcps f Wife The fact that there are germs on money doesn't worry me. Hub No, my dear. It would take a pretty active germ to hop from the money to you, during the brief time you have it. Louisville Courier-Journal. "No," remarked the determined lady to the Indignant taxi driver who had received his exact fare, "you cannot cheat me. 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