1H. i&b : OMAHA, .UUiNDAi, AUGUST 5, 1U18.
DEMOCRATS NOT
PLEASED WITH
NAMING OF BEACH
rind Fault With Some of Things
Done by Chairman of Re
publican State Central
Committee.
From a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, Aug. 4. (Special.) Demo
crats are not pleased with the re-election
of Ed D. Beach as chairman of
the republican state central committee.
They - find farlt with some of the
things he has done and charge him
'with doing some things he has not
done. They have even gone so far as
to charge him with mixingvin politics,
and when the chairman of a state
committee interests himself in politics,
in their estimation he is a bad man
and ought to be shot at sunrise.
One democratic newspaper in Lin
coln charges that Chairman Beach
hobnobbed with National Chairman
Hays in an effort to get some of the
republican candidates for the United
States senate to get off the political
race track in order that some others
might have plain sailing.
Denies Allegation.
Chairman Beach denies the allega
tion and says He and Hays had no
conference nor was the senatorial sit
uation mentioned while Mr. Hays was
here. Now the same paper admits it
got the dope wrong and charges that
some other fellows high in republican
politics were those who saw Hays
and tried to fix things.
Tomorrow it will probably have an
other story that it was somebody else
who saw Hays, or possibly they will
discover that it was not Hays at all
and what is more probable is they
will discover that it was democratic
statesmen who were discussing the
senatorial situation and that it was the
situation in the democratic party and
not the republican party at all which
caused so much of a talkfest.
Just now democrats are fearful that
politics will be discussed for some
reason and insist that one particular
brand should be put on the market
and marked with the ingredients on
each package according to the pure
food law.
Favor Deaf and Dumb Campaign.
For years the democratic platforms
have been advocating "free speech,
but just now they favor a deaf and
dumb campaign and some of them
would like to advocate blindness in
that connection.
Some of the democrats were discuss
ing the other day a little red sticker
found posted on the state house wall,
'left over from the last campaign
which read. "Wilson's Wisdom Wins
Without War," and wondering if the
same proposition would be put IO"n
this campaign, but one man who
claimed he knew, said that the demo
cratic party never had the same issue
two campaigns running and it would
In the meantime Ed Beach is hold
ing down the job of state chairman of
the republican party and making a
pretty good stab at the proposition.
Legislators at Special
Session Not to Be Paid
Lincoln, Aug. 4. (Special.) Last
week Attorney General Reed gave an
opinion to State Auditor Smith that
members of the legislature would re
ceive pay for mileage when attending
the recent special session of the legis
lature, but could not receive pay for
services, but recommended that the
matter be taken to the courts for
adjustment .....
The state auditor ' coincided, but
State Treasurer Hall, deploring the
condition which appears to exist, feels
that under the law and the constitu
lion, the whole matter should go to
"the courts. He issues an edict that
his signature will not appear on the
warrants if drawn by the state audi
tor. Mrs. Butler, Widow of Former
Governor of Nebraska, Dead
Pawnee City. Neb.. Aug. 4. (Spe
cial Telef ram.) Mrs. Lydia Butler,
wife of 'David Butler, one of Ne
braska's early governors, died at her
home here Saturday night. The fu
neral will be held at the home
Monday afternoon, with burial in the
local cemetery.
Mrs. Butler was born in Jefferson
countv. Ohio, in 1837 and was mar
ried to David Butler in 1860, coming
to Nebraska in June of that year.
She had lived in Pawnee City con
tinuously ever since except from 1867
to 1874, when the family resided in
Lincoln. She is survived by four
children. Her husband died m jloyi
Rail Rate Made to Visitors
T A) aUmIy Ctotfl Coir
IU iicuiaaiva ciaic i an
Lincoln. Auk. 4. (Special.) The
state fair visitors will be granted a
rate of one and one-half fare for the
round trip. This rate was granted
after considerable pursuasion on the
part of Secretary Danielson and the
state board managers.
With the regular fare 3 cents per
mile this will mean that the fare for
the round trip will be 4 cents per
mile, or a half cent more than the
regular fare one year ago.
By Associated Press.
Morris Charged With Desertion
Fremont. Neb.. Aug. 4. (Special.)
Sheriff Condit has been notified
that Earl C. Morris, member of the
May draft contingent from Dodge
countv. has deserted from Camo Fun
ston. Morris when registered for the
draft was serving a term on a white
slave charge, having been sent up
from Omaha. While in jail here he
broke out one night and later was
captured.
Dodge County Wheat Yield.
Fremont, Neb., Aug. 4. (Special.)
Reports from 20 of the 60 threshing
machine operators in Dodge county
received by County Agent L. C Chris
tie show that the average yield of
wheat is from 12 to 15 . bushels an
acre. Some fields run as high as 40
, bushels. Threshermen are required
to make a monthly report
Fremont Chautauqua Starts.
Fremont, Neb., Aug. 4. (Special.
.Fremont's Chautauqua opened Sat
tirday afternoon for a nine-day run,
The program is largely of a patriotic
character. Dr. Ira Landrith was the
speaker this afternoon,
Benet Appointed to Serve
Unexpired Term of
Senator Tillman
I If ll
i , I jj
CHBtfTTC BEXtT.
Christie Benet of Columbia, S. C,
has been appointed by Governor Man
ning to serve the unexpired term of
the late Senator Tillman. The new
senator took the oath of office and
now occupies his seat in the senate.
REED ASKED TO
TELL STATUS OF
MEDICINE VENDER
County Attorney of Loup Wants
Some Information on Use
ful and Nonuseful Oc
cupations. From a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, Aug. 4. (Special.) What
is an "useful occupation," has again
been put up to Attorney General
Reed for an opinion. This time the
inquiry comes from A.'S. Moon, coun
ty attorney of Loup county, who
wants to know "if parties going
around with wagons, selling medi
cine, or connected with medicine
shows, are engaged in useful occupa
tions." ,
In answering the communication
the attorney general says that a like
inquiry had reached him from A. K.
Holmes of the same county regarding
whether a Chautauqua lecturer would
be considered as being engaged in a
useful occupation. Mr. Holmes had
stated that if the Chautauqua opened,
he would cause the arrest of the man
agers and also the lecturers. In
answering tne communication irom
Mr. Moon, the attorney general says:
"It is auite evident that there is a
wide difference of opinion as to what
is useful or nonuseful occupation. At
the recent session of our state legis
lature a bill was passed which be
came a law and which is known as
Chapter 5 of the laws of Nebraska
of the Thirty-sixth session, being a
special session of the legislature
which adjourned April 8, 1918. The
part under consideration now being
Sections 1 and m., which is a part
of Section 1, reads as follows:
This Is the Law.
'"Section 1. Sedition defined. If
any person with intent to obstruct,
hinder, delay, discourage, hamper, or
otherwise interfere with the emcient
prosecution of the war in which the
government of the United States is
now engaged shall:
"'(M) Being physically able to
work and not engaged in any useful
occupation, refuse employment or re
main habitually idle when useful em
ployment is obtainable. Any person
so offending shall be. deemed guilty
of sedition and upon conviction there
of shall be fined in a sum not to ex
ceed $10,000. or be imprisoned in the
county jail or in the state penitentiary
for any period not to exceed 0
years.
"'Sec. Z. Abettors Whoever shall
aid, abet or procure any person to
commit any of the acts mentic.-.ed in
Section 1 shall upon conviction there
of be fined in any amount or im
prisoned for any period of time for
which the principal offender could be
fined or imprisoned for the principal
offense.
'Section 7 of the same act pro
vides: State Council of Defense aid in
enforcing act The State Council of
Defense shall aid and assist in the
enforcement of this act, and, in the
performance of such duties, shall have
authority to furnish information of
any violations of the provisions of
this act that may come to their at
tention or possession to the proper
county attorney or other prosecuting
officer. .
Question of Fact.
"As you state, it is clearly a ques
tion of fact Before any legal action
could be commenced successfully, it
must necessarily appear that the per
son or individuals arrested were phy
sically able to work and had refused
employment or had remained ha
bitually idle, assuming, of course, that
useful employment is certainly ob
tainable. And then the questions
arise: ,
"First, what are the parties referred
to engaged in?
Second, is it a useful occupation?
"From all the facts by you stated
and also those contained in the letter
of Mr. Holmes, as yet no case has
been presented which would warrant
a prosecution, but this does not mean,
mat tacts weighed may not develop,
which would warrant you taking ac
tion upon the question of a useful oc
cupation. In my ooinion. that is
clearly a question for the iurv in the
light of all the facts and circum
stances surrounding the same."
State Agents Find Still.
Lincoln." Neb.. Aue. 4. (Special.")
Governor Neville has received word
from one of his state agents that he
arrested Fred Barber on the charge
ot conducting a still for the manu
facture of "moonshine" whisky. The
still was located 12 miles south of
Mullen. Barber Jeaded guilty to
the charge of 'illegal possession of
liquor and was fined $100 and costs
He is being held for federal prosecu
tion. The still was seized and will
be destroyed.
Lift
Story
of
'JOoprrifU. lilt,
A series of article sketching the
career ( Dr. Edward A. Rumely, who
hat been arrested on a charge of hav
ing bought the New Tork Evening Mall
with money famished by the German
' government and of having used It for
German propaganda.)
By FRANK STOCKBRIDGE.
(Former Managing Editor of the Evening
Hall.)
(Copyright, 1918. The New Tork Herald
.Co. All Right Reserved.)
Copyright. Canada, by The New Tork
Herald Co.)
New York workingmen, somehow,
didn't take very kindly to dreary
tragedies depicting the suffering of
the peasant classes of Germany a
hundred years ago. Even the lure of
ten cent tickets didn't make the ven
ture a success.
The national policy that Dr. Rume
ly strongly advocated was universal
compulsory military service not the
selective draft system, which the
American people have so cheerfully
accepted as an emergency war meas
ure, but the same sort of military
service that Prussianism imposes
upon the people of Germany. Every
boy should become a trained soldier
There is no doubt that Dr. Rumely
believed in this as the best possible
system; it is German. There is no
doubt, however, that in advocating it
he was playing Germany s game.
Perhaps I overestimate Germany's
capacity to understand the psychpl-
ogy of other peoples, but 1 think any
one who knows what the temper of
the (American people as a whole was
with regard to this war up to the time
we really got into it must realize that
any serious attempt at compulsory
military service would have swept
the party advocating it from power,
and jhat war preparations on any im
portant scale prior to actual hostili
ties would have been bitterly opposed
by probably an overwhelming ma
jority of the people.
But, for one thing, it looked pa
triotic to advocate such things and
furnish a decent camouflage behind
which almost anything could conceal
itself. For another thing, there al
ways was the chance that if enough
newspapers and orators shouted loud
enough the powers that be might be
tricked into trying the unpopular,
with at least a sharply divided public
sentiment as the result I admit that
Exponent of "Feminalls"
Lives to See Garb Become
Popular Female Attire
The reported serious illness, of Dr.
Mary Walker, taken in connection
with certain recent developments in
sartorial circles, suggests the idea
that if any idealist can just stick it
out long enough he is likely to see his
notions put into practice, however
weird they, may seem at first glance.
Dr. Mary Walker was the first not
able exponent of "feminalls" and now
nearly the entire feminine world is
wearing 'em. But Dr. Walker didn't
get away with masculine attire as
simply as do the dainty war workers
of today. She failed to take the pre
caution to provide a world war as a
reason or an excuse for the eccentri
cities of dress which she exemplified.
Dr. Walker had not only to face the
jeers and jibes of a world unac
cdstomed to seeing women wearing
trousers, except figuratively, but was
frequently subjected to fines and im
prisonments at the hands of prudish
officials who did not approve of her
idea of the proper dress for emanci
pated womankind.
And today "everybody's doing it."
Feminalls are found everywhere, in
garages, on farms, in shops, stores and
even cafeterias.
Of course the girls can't fool any
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EDWARD A. RUMELY
Man Who Bought the New York Mail for the Kaiser
B, a nasi Canada, tke If. T. B.rela Ok All
would be pretty close reasoning for a
German, but I offer it as a possible
explanation of the vociferous de
mands for universal service and pre
paredness that emanated from so
many obviously German sources;
echoing, it is true, similar demands,
from sources whose Americanism
could not be questioned.
Not the Only Victim of Kultur.
I said in the beginning of these ar
ticles that I proposed to tell the story
of an American who became a Ger
man. I have told it. But Edward A.
Rumely is not the only American who
has become a German. Thousands
and tens of thousands have been in
fected with the virus of kultur; not
all have become so completely Ger
manized and few have had the op
portunity that came to Dr. Rumely
to spread the poison of German prop
aganda. I suggested that Edward A.
Rumely might be a "throw back" to
some Hun ancestors. That biological
explanation, however, does not ac
count for the Americans who have no
single drop of German blood in their
veins and yet who, before we entered
upon this war, saw only good in the
German system, believed that kultur
would yet triumph believe it still in
the secret recesses of their minds.
There was, the suggestion, too, that
Rumely's early environment among
the German speaking people of his
home circle may have had an influ
ence in the Germanizing of his later
career.
The answer and the explanation of
Edward A. Rumely is, I believe, none
of these. Certainly, there was no
conscious trending of his boyhood
aims and aspirations Germanward in
his home circle. I have received
many letters and heard from many
sources about Edward A. Rumely's
early life and his family, since the
first of these articles was published,
and I can assert with confidence that
the manifestations of his acceptance of
the German viewpoint has nowhere
caused greater surprise nor elicited
more expressions of grief than in his
home town of Laporte and from mem
bers of his own family. That the
grandson of Meinrad Rumely should
yield allegiance, even in spirit, to the
military autocracy from which the
founder of the family in America fled
is little short of shocking to the resi
dents of Laporte, who have heard the
old man tell why he came to America.
Father Tells How He Got Scar.
. "Look," he would say, pushing back
body into thinking they are men just
by wearing men's clothes. Triey may
cultivate a stride and a swagger sup
posedly masculine, but the feminine
air, that elusive something that men
cannot attain, hangs round them still.
Perhaps they are all the more notice
ably feminine because of the unac
customed attire.
Still Embarrassing,
The young women themselves do
not seem yet to know just what to
make of the plaguey things. In shops
where they can hide their that is to
say, lower extremities, behind the
counters, they are not seriously em
barrassed. But in the cafeterias, for instance,
where they have to slip about among
the tables in full view of the specta
tors, they seem as yet quite ill at
ease. They slip in behind pillars and
snuggle up to unoccupied tables and
when they catch glimpses of each
other they snicker and blush.
There are not many Mary Walkers,
bold and unabashed, even with pub
lic approval of the feminalls. If the
war continues long enough the young
women may cultivate perfect eaie in
the queer looking garb which they
are wearing. They haven't it yet
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aeroplanes, slang terms, French
phrases, and the lingo of the trench.
The very latest weapons, such as the
Browning machine gun and Browning
automatic rifles, are accurately de
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the short hair on the top of his head.
"See that scarf"
It was plainly visible a scar sev
eral inches long.
"I slipped when I was mounting
my horse as a German soldier. That
was not a great offense, but it was in
the presence of 'jnajestaet' of the
kaiser himself! The sword that made
that scar was the kaiser's own sword I
"I was in the hospital six weeks.
When I recovered I swore I would
not serve the military of that country
another day. That is why I came to
America 1"
What, then, is the explanation? How
did this man's grandson become a
German? How have the other
Americans become Germans?
I said that this was the story of a
symbol and a manifestation rather
than of an individual. Edward Aloy-
sius Kumeiy, me man who chose to
strive for pewer and riches rather
than serve as a priest of the church,
is a symbol of the conflict that is be
ing fought on the battlefields of
b ranee and t landers today. To those
who believe, as I believe, as America
today believes, that this is a war be
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life and the spiritual forces that rule
the souls and destinies of free men and
free nations, Edward A. Rumely is a
mamiestation or me triumpn ot the
materialistic ideal.
It is a difficult path to trace, a hard
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who turns aside to seek his ease in
the fat fields of the pleasant valleys.
Slaves Looked Happy.
They look happy and contented,
those slaves down in the valley, their
masters are sleek and prosperous and
feed them well. Some of us know the
truth about them, though; some of us
have chosen to live in the valley and
have only barely escaped dving
there; some of us have slipped from
the high road and been content to
lick the hand that fed us rather than
seek our own sustenance in the hills.
It is because America has chosen
the high road and found her soul and
her happiness there that we are at
war today with the German masters
of the slaves in the valley. None can
live in the valley and call himself
American. He who resigns the spir
itual ideal, who places power above
liberty, the state above the individual,
is a German.
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Poetry magazine for July presents
varied items of interest; a long poem
by Carl Sandburg, two lyrics by D. H,
Lawrence, the English poet, a "Kalei
doscope" group by Marsden Hart
ley and poems by Eloise Robinson,
William Carlos Williams, Robert
Paine Scripps and Maxwell Struthers
Burt.
The July Harpers magazine con-
tains tne louowing umeiy articles;
Ihe Conquering Chinese, by
Walter E. Weyl; "A Corner of Old
Europe," by William T. Brewster;
"The Industrial Workers of the
World," by Robert W. Bruere.
Among the. short stories of this is
sue are White Elphants," by
Eloise Robinson; "The Laugh." by
Mary Heaton Vorse, and "Miss Cyn
thia s Rosebush, by Jennette Lee.
In June Lverybody;s magazine
Melville Davison Post describes in
detail some of the newest and most
ingenious Gem. mi war ciphers and
shows how a vigorou censorship is
evaded by enemy spies. The open
ing chapters of "The Duchess of
Siona," a serial romance by Ernest
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many American readers, take us far
from modern wars alarms into the
hill towns of medieval Italy.
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for June contains the following in
teresting articles: "Inflation," by
E. W. Kemirerer; "Price Mainten
ance," by H. R. Tosdal; "The Prob
lem of Labor Turnover," by Paul H
Douglas; "Profits of Efficiency," by
C. J. Foreman and "Is Utility the
Most Suitable Term," by Irving
fisher.
In the Wido World magazine for
June, Fercy Merriman tells the story
of the Roosters a concert party,
who have been entertaining our sol
diers in the east. George Smith
writes a thrilling story of how he
a companion of his and two cowboys
were shinghaied in San Francisco
Another of the amusing "Penlope"
articles is contributed by 1. L
Hartman, entitled "Our Adventures
in Sicily.
British Observer's Para
chute Caught in Tree
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UP In !
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JPARACHOrC CAUGHT 1W TREtf,
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from an observation balloon which
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airmen, landed in rather an awkward
position. He was landed safely
through the efforts of his pals, who
climbed the tree and set the parachute
free.
AUTOS CRASH
ONCE MORE ON
DARjUORNER
Lack of Street Lights Respon
sible for .Another Collision
Forty-eighth and Daven
port Streets.
Inadequate street lighting was re
sponsible for an automobile accident
at Forty-eighth and Davenport streets
at 10 o'clock Sunday night which just
missed resulting seriously, Tony
Kaiser, 1866 Drexel avenue, was
thrown out to the street and cut
about the head when his car crashed
into another automobile driven by
Lester Klopp, 4313 Chicago street.
Miss Mary Gifford was in the car
with Klopp,
Kaiser and Vlada Honcik. 5432
South Twenty-first street; John Hon
cik and Anton Stefanek were driving
down the hiu east on I'orty-eighth
street Stefanek was at the wheel.
Under the impression that Klopp
wished to continue his way up Dav
enport street past the S-like turn,
Stefanek turned to the left hand side
of the street as soon as he saw Klopp
coming west around the curve. But
Klopp kept to the right to go west
on - iorty-eighth street. steraneic
says that Klopp's lights were not
turned on until the two cars had al
most met.
Klopp's heavier car smashed into
the lighter Ford and threw Kaiser V
the street out of the tonneau. The
Ford's front wheels were crushed and
the radiator was bent in.
The corner is unlighted save for a
short pole with a 12-inch frosted
globe on top. The nearest arc light is
a block away on either ot tne streets.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L, Selby, Mr. and
Vf.. Wlllinm rV. fv Mr and Mrs
James H. Parrott and other residents
of the neighborhood nav repeatedly
petitioned the city lighting depart
ment for more lights, but have been
unsuccessful. This is the second ac
cident which has occurred on the cor
ner this summer. Three accidents
took place on the same corner last
summer. .
Chicago Mayor Lampooned
By Placards in Parade
Peoria, 111.. Aug. 4. A demonstra
tion against Mavor William Hale
Thompson of Chicago, senatorial can
didate, was staged last evening pre
vious to a Thompson meeting sched
uled at a local theater. Men and boys
paraded the streets with signs bear
ing such legends as the following:
"When Thompson speaks the kaiser
smiles." 1
"'Pro-Germans, come hear your
leader at the Majestic tonight"
"Thompson is every color except
red, white and blue."
"Thompson, the kaiser's dachs
hund." Boys carrying the signs fallowed
the band provided by the Thompson
organization.
Arrested as Dangerous Foe,
New York, Aug, 4. Otto Kaufka,
formerly president of the Vulcan Steel
Products company, said to have been
a captain in the Austrian army, was
arrested here today as a dangerous
enemy alien and his internment re
commended.
HAD TAKEN HIS WEIGHT
IN MEDICINE
sfcMMMsTS
M. D. Faucett, Gillsville, Ga., says he has
taken his weight in medicine for headache
and constipation, but never used, anything
that did him as much good as Chamberlain's
Tablets.
DR. E. R. TARRY - 240
BRUTALITY OF
HUNS TOLD BY
GUNNER DEPEW
Ships' Crew Members Strugs
gling in Water Shot and
Prisoners Lashed to
Wire Fences.
In spite of the sweltering heat, ait
audience that nearly filled the Boyd .
theater Sunday night heard and ap
plauded Gunner Albert Depew, as h
told in simple sailor language his ad
ventures in fighting the Hun.
"I didn't believe the stories of Gere
man atrocities until I went over
there," said the gunner. "But I be
lieve them since I found a pal of mine
crucified at the Dardanelles, where ho
was doing sentry duty one night And
those who crucified him and cut off
his right hand were no Turks. They .
were Germans.
"If there is a Turk tn this audience
I will shake him by the hand. The
Turks fight like gentlemen. When
we were in the trenches down in that
tropical country we noticed that our
enemies were throwing bottles of
water over to us. At first we thought
the water was poisoned, but later wt
found it was not The Turks were
just anxious to allay our thirst. .
"That's the kind, of a gentleman en
emy the Turk is. At other times w .
knew the Turks to carry our wounded
up to our own barbed wire during the
night and leave them there, where we .
could reach them.
Not Brave Fighters.
"The Germans aren't even brave
fighters. You never knew them to
go over the top in skirmish formation
like the allied troops. They have to
go in solid formation, or else they're
afraid. And their officers don't lead
them as do ours. They go behind
them with their automatic revolvers.
ready to shoot any that hesitates.
"I knew a Belgian boy who was
picking up wounded and a wounded
Fritz called to him to give him water.
The Belgian went to give him water"
and the nun sho-v him dead.
The gunner tolfof the cruel treat
ment he received when in the hands
of the Germans as a prisoner. He
had sailed from Brest on the Georgic,
as member of the crew after being
discharged trom the navy because ot
wounds. The Georgic was captured
by the German raider Moewe.
Lashed to Barbed Wire Fence.
"They shot at us members of the
crew while we were struggling in the
water," he said. "We had casualties
of SO out of 200. They herded us into
a between decks place and battened
down the hatches. There were ham
mocks and we immediately tried to
climb into them, Ihe Germans cut
the hammocks down and flooded the
deck w(ith water. Later we were put
into a still lower deck and finally into
the coal bunkers, where we stayed
IS days. '
"In the prison camp in Germany
we were given a cup of acorn coffee
for breakfast, a little cabbage soup
for dinner and less than two ounces
of dry bread for supper. When I got
into Switzerland after Ambassador
Gerard succeeded in getting me re
leased, I think I weighed about four
pounds less than a straw hat Once .
they lashed me to a barbed wire
fence for a minor offense and the
sentry would give me a kick every,
time he passed me.
"They transferred us frequently; .
from one prison camp to another
Why did they do that?
"Simply to make the people believe
we were a fresh batch of prisoners
just captured in a Oerman victory.
We were never marched from the
train direct to the prison, but were
marched around through many streets
so the people could see us and the
wnrrl rmilH an nhnnt that there Was a
new big victory."
"The Salvation Army," he said,
"was in the field on the western front
before England entered the war and
before the Red Cross. It is doing a
magnificent work for the soldiers and
everybody ought to help it in its war
drives.
"Don't say 'I'm doing my bit' he
warned. "You don't hear people say
that in England, France and Canada!
What you are doing is very little
compared with what they are doing
over there. ' In fact, you hardly know
yet that you are at war. Say, 'I'm do
ing my best' if you really are doing
all you possibly can."
Mayor Smith introduced the young
veteran. He also introduced Miss Joy.
Higgins, an Omaha girl who has be
come a speaker of international
prominence. She made a short
speech, appealing for girls to take
training as student nurses. : A drive
for these is being made this week.
Gunner Depew's lecture was free
and a collection amounting to $97.33
was taken up for the benefit of The
Bee's Fund for Free Milk and Ice.,
which is used for the babies and small
children of the poor . . .
Austria Claims Gains
Along Devoli in Albania
Vienna, via London, Aug. 4. The
official communication issued by the
war office yesterday says:
"On the Venetian mountain front
lively fighting activity continues. '
I- a ii : . :, j A
both sides of the upper Devoli."
Rome, Aug. 3. The official state
ment from army headquarters today
says: '
"The itnemy fighting activity yes,
terday moderated. Our own and our"
allies artillery effectively fired upon
enemy lines1 of communication at
Asiago., Along the whole front our
patrols carried out harassing opera
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