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J- 6 B .HE OMAHA . SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 11, 191SY The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING - SUNDAY FOUNDKD BY EDWARD BQSEWATER T, ' VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE EES PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TM aleooietad f raM, M afck The Me i a menitwr. la ioiunl - entitled M lb use for pubUoatloB ef all ntwt dipetBe credited - to n or not otherwise credited la thl paper, and alio tha local nrwt lkUtk karetn. All rUht of publication of our special dispatches are alao raaamd. OFFICES Thr-ahe Tb Baa Bulldlns. fhlrato People's Oil Bulldlm. South 0rahe Mil N. St New Ywk-2to Fifth At. . CoiBVil Bluff 14 N. Mai St. Loula-Naw B k of Coumerc. ' . Uacola UlUe Bolldlrif. Waihlntlf Ml 0 Rt. june' circulation Daily 69,021 Sunday 59,572 IMret drettlMroa for th moult, subscribed and worn to by DalfM minima. Circulation Meneter. Sueeerfbera leaving th city should hava Tha Bei mailed t them. Addrea chant ael eft a requested. ' "'' THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG 111! "One more river to cross," it the popular eng In the Germin army now. ,It an "Alberta low," not a "Bermuda high," that i doing this to our climate. "Marie Henry" may be in retirement, but his war:whoop will echo for many a day. , '''The watch on the Rhine" is now being kept i forth fim of the kaiser's troops on he home itretch. '' Talk1 about a German offensive on the Italian "ront is, heard-, It miy a well be understood. that :he Hun 1s offensive on'any tront . While all ahis other trouMe is going on, the provident Omaha householder .is, filling his coal bin in anticipation of another winter. i r. ;. . .. in j i , i lhVl' Claude' Kitchen balks at the flat fax on war' profit!, but ;doej not evert stutter whenic,comeV V to slipping ; ?0 per cerlt on a suit of clothes. , v..' ,-, . Von" Hindenburg is entitled to credit for one 'thing tie hasn't hjtd nerve enough to talk about . "retiring to a previously prepared position.", r' Cutting, the Douglas county, tax levy will not help -th eourt house fang to perpetuate its hold "von office. The people are weary of thatjunch. Untie. Sam doesn't keep books the way some , outsider do, and that is why folks get into trou ble by. not following the rules laid down by the government x ' ' . , ' ' ' " " - Increased vigilance on part of the auto owners is bringing early results. Maybe the stealing of machines may yet . come to be classed as a i ; hazardous occupation. Tit MjMitt rtmali ritArtHit wlirt rntMfii4 a UV VI iiwiiwM v via jvi vi vw w soldier grafter performed a real service, for the ' army, This fellow deserves some sort of punish ment that will bring to a realization of the im- pOrtance and dignity of the uniform he wears, ap A plication of which is tip to the army itself, 'Representative Huddleston of Alabama also f ran tthJfy that "politics Js adjourned," having been recipient of the same sort of depth bomb ' that wi.t annlierf tn th elimination nf "Tim" Slayden of Te'xai. ' Thei yictini' might be less rarrf and r6t use a "form.", jsit. '.;; v ;. ' ' ' " ' ' " :rl , , ' .For a fleal Labor Prpgram.' Organized labor of ' Amencai through itj rty)- retettatiyt body, his.'goie' on record with a pro; . gram for the war, and various association of em ployer have adopted similar pronouncements. These all breathe a fine spirit of patriotism and a Seterminiatio to assist the ftovernment . in, every 'ssiblt Vayto, 'win .the war.V-lsV question ia raised al to 'the sincerity: of arty of Uie- declara- - tions.'nor is any complaint heard that honest ef-, fort ia; not' Vtjiat fta4Vt0i hearty: then out." 'A - great opportunity, ia ; Wflg allowed to pass, how ever, and that it for preventatives 6f capital and . labor to, jointly ' adopt r program .thjit f hall be binding 'on; boti ;npt.onry f orthe war.' bull (or the peace; that i io, come". The"'. Chicago Tribune. j' arguing thU point, goes into '.the relatiipns be ' tweeffjfcett tvvo jgfejaeUmenta :of ' otjr Industrial , nil, mif ilium iiuw iiicjf.ua yyiucneij .nearer and nearer 't6 . a definite Understanding without really' reaching one'. ,' For example, much that Is advocated by thfclNationaf ManufactureriVAss'o - ciiiun (itis iHtumctt in ;ipe program oi me Aineari. Federation of .Labor. But the two are as far apart as the pole on the subject of labor's right -to'. organize ,- and, ' 'mainttin uhion. ,If it iiouia( .ntppen mat ; representatives -ot tnese b9dief , were to onfer, an avenue of approach iftightbe discovered through which differences couldbe' adjusted' and a great; step forward be . taken; '.Here is ajchance' that neither side can afford to let go by forever.'j Mr. Taft and Mr. . Walsh, tah very well serve their country by ar rangihat ,'for1 such! a' meeting. '; ' ! VICTORY GRO WIN 6 , FUTURE POSSIBILITIES.. The systematic manner in which Foch is re deeming his promise, not expressed in words, to defeat the Hun has excited tremendous en tliusiasm in this! country. It is difficult to soberly consider what is involved in this movement, yet its effect on the future must be carefully weighed in order that its actual value can be determined. Capture of a German divisional staff and head quarters gives an idea of how terribly swift the blow along the Somme has been. It could not have bceu unforeseen, by the glnerat staff, for the most casual observer must, have noted this a Obvious. That the Germans had decided to hold on'there if possible is equally apparent, and their failure so to do emphasizes the defeat they have undergone. , What relation these operations bear to the future remains conjectural, but a forced retire ment of the crOwn prince of Prusaia to the line he held in March opens the way to immediate renewal of action against the crown prince of Bavaria, who has held the right wing, resting on the coast, for four years. Penetration here will be fital to the whole German line. It will not be easily done. For two years the Canadians and Bavarians have occupied opposite sides of a cinder heap at Lens, without either being able to dislodge the other. Lille, once almost within the grasp of Haig, remains on the German side of the line. But that line can be blasted out of ex istence, and once the hold on the Flanders coast is broken; the whole aspect of the war is changed. -Haig aimed splendidly at this in 1916, and all but accomplished his purpose. Foch is now in position toslaunch an even more effective stroke against this wing. That these facts have been kept in mind by the Gerrnin high command must be conceded, and therefore the great battle of Flanders may. be a, struggle that wiil make all Others' look small and tanie in comparison. Has the Church Missed the Message? Some month ago. the chaplain of two Scots regiments that have added undying laurels to an cient names, after service of nearly three years in France and" Flanders, addressed himself to .American church, neft. He gave emphatic notice that the men who return from the war will come with much clearer ideas of God; they will not worry about creeds; in fact, this good minister said creeds wpuld probably be swept away, but religion would survive and be tie better. In sharp contrast, the Northwestern Christian Ad vocate expresses' an opinion that already we have lost much of gain made by painful effort. It find in the use of tobacco in the asmy only vie-, tory for the tobacco trust, and in the practice of boxing at training camps a recrudescence of bru tality banished through Christian culture. It is this attitude that excites wonderment as to whether the church caught or missed the mes sage of the war. Army chaplains find new ideas of life through contact with their meji; fundamen tals of religion in plenty, with none of the re finements that have divided the world through creed or laid down dogmas for the confusion of the multitudes. These men work with boys of Clean minds, clean bodies and clean hearts, and find them Unhurt by reason of tobacco, while one writes that "a punch in the nose does little harm."'-' Ministers of every faith are working with the soldiers, and have aeerral! their point of diver gence wailow$d, up in the great mystery of life and death. They will come home from" the war teachers of faith jn God, and will be followed by a sturdy' lot of men. who have given practical ex- ' emplihcation of that faith. It will not be a light or easy' task to bend these who have faced the sublime truth into narrowness of existing sects. A new church must come from this war, just as a new and better democracy is being born out of the world triva.il. , :'. ' -v A Promise Unfulfilled. . Y When the, .Hindenburg drive was launched in March it was to ,ltad to victory before fall. So cialist support in the Reichstag had been gained by a promise that at the cost of 1,500,000 men the great war would be ended in a triumph for Ger many. Ludendorff planned with infenial adroit ness and skill; the general staff gave its approval, and to confident were all that von Hindenburg boasted he would dine in Paris on April 1. TJie final effect in .Berlin is told in. two sententes.in the Berlin Tagoblatt:. "The Marne defeat has produced unspeakablescene of despair in Berlin. Such outbreaks of utter,, discouragement and downheartedness never before were witnessed." This may be .taken as an indication of what Ger many at home is like today. Four years of com bat in pursuit, of world domination, held to the taik,by promises of loot end in realization that defeat is only a question of time. - No words of explanation from the military overlords- can revive- the"1 hope that. has dietf. Germany was crushed in theecond battle of . the) Marne, and ;whateyer follows is but incidental to that victory of the Allieil t Ludendorff unredeemed promise ia merely one) of many made only to disappoint tne people who had hoped to establish themselves above all others in the world. Germany is wak . ing.up from arj jllusive dream to a reality that, would be more tern were the victorious powers , less generous. , 'That Fourth in Paris in 1918 A Pen Picture and a Prophecy From Over There ', Stars and Stripes, Published in France And it shall come to pass in the years to come, when, in various parts of America they are celebrating the Fourth of July with bon fires and parades, some old soldier in the company a battered old soldier, perhaps, with an empty sleeve to tell his story--is sure to pipe up and say: "Ah, this is all very well, but you should have been in Paris on that Fourth of July back in 19f$. "That was the year when our Independ ence diy was first celebrated by all the free peoples of Europe. , That was "Die greatest Fourth I ever knew or ever hope to know. Those who were in Florence, and Rome boasted a festive rime. Yes, and at every camp behind our lines, at every port where our troops were pouring in, at every town and village in France, there were celebra tions. "There were high jinks, too, in London, with the king, bless his heart, fairly cheering his royal head off at a fast, close baseball game between the Army and the Navy out Chelsea way our Army, mind you, and our Navy. Then, it must have been no bad thing to have been with the Yanks who celebrated by helping their pals from Australia take 4he village of Hamel, for you must remember that the German kjad pushed their way quite some distance into France that anxious sum mer. . ! v "We knew our president was speaking a worlij-famous speech at Mount Verrton that day, ajid we guessed that old New York must be fairly standing on its head with ex citement. But all in all, we counted OurJ selves luckiest whb were an Paris that day, for Paris is the heart of France and France was the heart of the war.' "You did. not have to read the newspapers to know that there were going to be great doings. It was in the air. It was in the flags that began to flutter from every window early in the week, in the extra greeting every passing poilu gave us, n the friendlier wave and the sweeter smile from every girl in France. "Certainly it was in the uproarious trucks that came trundling into Paris on the night ofgthe thirdf bringing fresh from Chateau Thierry p,h, you've heard of Chateau Thier ry at school, have you? well, bringing in from there a lot of howling young hellions who were so full of jubilation there was no keeping them under cover till time for the great show to commence. ' ; "The morning of the Fourth poured all Paris into the streets. I don't think I ever saw so many flags before. I don't think I ever 6aw so many flowers. I dn't think I ever breathed air that was more a-tingle. with holiday spirit. It was wonderful, undaunted Paris, holdlrlg out one hand to America, and with the other snapping her fingers at the German legion drawn up not more than 40 miles from her gates. "The morning papers all carried the news that the millionth American had sailed for France, and we could not help cheering, for the early spring had knovvn faltering weeks vhen, in the bottom of our hearts, we won dered if American were coming as fast as France had a right to expect. "I had' been in Paris on that other Fourth when a prophetic battalion of Yankee in fantry marched in thje parade, but then lhe total number of our troops in France was not more than 15,000. That had been the Fourth of promise, this was the Fourth of fulfilment. The newspapers hummed with the tidings, and we were all so engrossed we scarcely noticed that the old sultan of Turkey had celebrated the day by passing unto his fathers. ' "To begin with, there were great goings on in the Place d'lena, where, underneath the statue of Washington, they renamed the Avenue Trocadero the Avenue ilu President Wilson. And you knew for sure you were In Charge of the Telegraph "'The' government has now assumed opera tion of the telegraph and telephone lines as well as the railways. The first steps taken in the reorganization of the telegraph and telephone lines bear a striking contrast to what has been done by Mr. McAdoo in reor ganizing the railroads. The operation of the tetegraph and telephone lines has been turned over to Postmaster General Burleson. He has turned it over principally to a man named David J. Lewis. Who is Mr. Lewis? Well, he is a former coal miner, who studied law, practiced in Cumberland, Md., was elected to congress, ran for the senate and was beaten, and was opposed to thf tariff commission. While in congress he wrote a series iof speeches and articles advocating government ownership of telegraphs, tele phones, railroad and other public Utilities. These articles and speeches disclosed the fact that he knew more things about the railways of the world that wer not so than almost any othe. man living. If, as apparently is the case, lie knows as little about the telephone and telegraph business as he does about the railroad business, he is an utter misfit in his new job. In other words, his appointment is a typical, political one, and should Be re garded as would be the appointment of Sen ator La Follette Or Clifford Thome as direc tor General of railroads. Mr. McAdoo, in reorganizing the railroads, has put experi enced railroad men in the most important positions; and if he does not get good results it Will be because it is impossible to make a success ;of government operation, even in time ofVar. When the .railway officers, em ployes and security owners consider whatf the appointment of Mr. Lewis means they may well thank. their stars that Mr. McAdoo, and not Mr.vBurleson, is running the railroads. , It cinnot be too strongly emphasized, how ever, that under government operation of railways in time of peace there"almost cer tainly woulTbe more politicians and theorists like Lewis than experienced and able.railway men appointed to important railway posi tions. It is Mr. Burleson, and not Mr. Mc Adoo, who, in this matter, is running "true to the politician's usual form. Railway Age. at the heart of the wrld when, all unex pected and unannounced, a car drew up and out got the premier of Britain and the pre mier of Italy to sit them down beside the premier of France and watch our boy march by. "So the parade passed in review, passed and turned down the Champs Elysees, which wa just as fair to see then as it is today, passed under the arching shade trees to the Place de la Concorde. There were French dragoons, wonderful on their fine horses with drawn sabers. There were French in fantry, and the crowd went wild when they saw that from every poilu's bayonet fluttered a small, perky American flag. "I remember how every hat came off as the American nurses passed, straight and brave and true as steel. Then, to the music of 'Swords and Lances,' down the broad thoroughfafe in double column of fours came our. own boys, infantry, marines, artillery men, and all, with their helmets telling whence they had come. "I can. hear the cheering now. Sometimes it seemed to be led by- the American wounded, who, fresh from some hospital, stood grinning and waving their unbandaged arms from the curb. And those American soldiers who were able to see the parade be cause their work was in Paris yelled louder than any que else, and there wasn't a man among them, from the highest to the lowest, who would not have given all he had or hoped to be just to be of that bunch that marched that day in the Champs Elysees. "Overhead, French aviators looped the loop and circled low ndw flying straight as an arrow the length of the avenue, now swooping so low that the craning thousands held their breath while the fragile, gaily painted wings seemed almost to graze the tosing tree tops. 'And the jammed side walks were like fountains of flowers, so steady were the streams of roses and hor tensias that hurtled up and out into the street, till the columns advanced through a very rain of midsummer petals. "All morning the skies had been overcast, but just as the parade dissolved in the Place de la Concorde, and the French band, paus ing before the high gates of the Tuileries, struck up the opening bars of 'The Star Spangled Banner,' the sun came out from behind the clouds and smiled down on Paris. "Those of us who lingered by the band snapped down our hands at the final note and followed in its heels as it gambolled off up the Rue Royale. When the leader gave the cue for 'Madelon,' a war song all the poilus knew and loved, the crowds from the sidewilks broke their bounds, piled into the street, mingled with the band, caught up the choru of the song, and all marched singing to the Madeleine. .""It was not till we scattered for chow that we reali-H the Germans had not played their expected part in the festivities. No boche machine had ventured into the Paris heavens, and the 'Fat Bertha," all the more expected because this was the holy fete day of Sainte Berthe, was silent all dav long. "All day long the jollifications went on, with luncheons and dinners and no end of speechniaking, ' I suppose. That evening Elsie Tanis, whom we thought just about the salt of the earth, put on such a show at a big movie auditorium as kept 7,000 soldiers in a state of violent approval. "All day long and far into the night trysts were made and kept under the trees. All day long and all night, Poilus and Aussies and Tommies and Yanks marched arm in arm along the boulevards, pausing from time to time at this terrace and that to buy one another drinks and each to swear that the others were the greatest soldiers in the world. "Thu it went till the dawning of the fifth marked the passing of the greatest Fourth in history." People and Events "Owing to the increased production of air craft motors,"- read a drug shop sign, "castor oil is getting scarce." Oh, well, that's one war horror that can be endured with due complacency. War surprises in home life pop up at a shocking rate. Over, in Wisconsin the de cree has gone forth that saloons are not es sential industries and barkeeps must work pr fight. Gee whiz, isn't that a clout in an unexpected quarter? Occasionally justice scores without the machinery of law. An auto thief at Kolze, 111., speeding away with a limousine, struck a slippery road and ditched himself with the car on top. The car had sufficient heft to dispense with the services of a coroner's jury. ' The humble toiler has no kick coining on the generosity of William HowardvTaft in wage awards. As a champion of scrub women he shines with fresh luster. In the case of the General Electric plant at Sche nectady, N. Y., Umpire Taft grants a mini mum weekly wage of $10.50, an increase of $5, for four hours' work, beginning 5 a. m. Isn't William a dear? Back in Overbropk, Pa., a public service company vending Itteam heat put over a juicy raise and got away with it for awhile. A persistent kicker brought the company to account and forced a revision backward through the state public service commission. All the company scooped in above 7 per cent on actual investment must be paid back to the victims. War profiteering is not as easy as it looks. . One New Jersey woman has been obliged to revise her patriotic plans. In providing against a bullish tendency in the loCal egg market she employed a' rooster to arouse the hennery to business each dewy morn. Chanticleer -was on the job regularly and some over, putting so much pep,m his notes tftat neighbors turned out and angrily kicked. A solemn court finally sentenced the rooster to the pot or to the market fOr "spring chicken. Oh, Liberty, what fowl blows are dealt in thy name! TODAY 'One Year AgO Today to tho Vit. Arthur Henderson, eecrMary of BrIU ' js'i labor party, resigned from British w.ir cabinet. - '. Federal shipping board authorised the construction of. 50 ship at once, .to cost $$,000,000. , . ; . v The Day IFej Celebrate.;. .; E. -francla Morearty lawyer, born , ecu Manborougn; cnurcnni. ,u. s. i a? no .rVitf ronanp al Wajihlnartnn. born In Massachusetts, 46 yeara ago. l " Lt.-Gn. 61r David Henderson," K. C. B..VWBO built up tha British air - ' service, torn ( yeara ago. ; Sir Albert. Sd ward Kemp, minister , of overaoaa military torcea of Canada, born 1n tha province of Quebec, 60 This Da 4a. HlstorV. v ' V' ' USSHostllltles between 5 .Austria in Italy were enaea witn an armis yee. - . . ' . HITt William k ftrshanf thai mf expedition to Japan, died at Saratoga, . TV. X. "isorn au ajjuouiu, jv w ocimsui I HO Jon Henry Newman, .the m.. f Vtaviiar, oafrllnal. rllorl In Kir. . . rnlngham. Born in London, February 1, 1891. - : -' V .- Fraaca declared war on Aus- ' tna-HUjsgary ana jHC&iesEgro ae - ui m a sim (Ianmo n v . .. J us SO Years Ago Today Attorney Offut has returned from a two weeks' visit at his old Kentucky borne. -' Mr.' aftd Mrs. R. Wlthnell. who taaV "wvs ina- Niagara Falls, Sara- toga. Long' Branch andother resorts, have returned after four months' ab Dean Gardner and family ,will start for utlca, N. z., tnis weelc where they will take their vacation. Prof. G. R. Rathbun nan decided to talc up his residence in California and will give a farewell reception to his associates of Goodrich lodge at his residence. Twenty-rust and Charles. Wilbur Forblsb and Miss Louisa Wtndhelm were united in wedlock The reception was held at tha home of the brtde'a ' mother, 04 South Eighteenth street, and was attsnded by a multitude of friends Quait Bits oj Life Here and There A slrl of Brighton, England, boasts that since the war began she has been enrared IS times and has broken every engagement herself. After a controversy that lasted 10 years, French scientists have decided that the-use of old corks in wine bot tles is not detrimental to health. Siberia, of which at the present time there is so much talkcontains nearly 5,000,000 square miles and Is about 45 times as big as the British laies. Plcardy Is not on modern maps. It was an old 1 province of northern France, now" divided among the de partments or districts of Aisne, Somme, Olse, etc. Instead of repeating a number o'f prayers, Buddhists have written pray ers attached to the wheel, the revolv ing of which a certain number of times Is supposed to have tha same effect. Camp Sherman. Chilllcothe, O., has 800 newspaper men In training out of a Total or 10,000 men in camp. A study of the list shows that every man who ever did any work on a news paper is properly listed by the per sonnel department. Although four men have been work ing nearly a year on the British offi cial history of the war, they have only reached events which took place in septemoer, ii4. It has been sua rested that the forre of historians be Increased In an effort to bring the h uik up 10 aaia ainfifl(. tt have nroved that one man in 60 Is partially or wholly color Diina. Th nrinia trad Is aaid tn be the only oho which produces fruit, and flowers at tn same time. rna ViunArad and flftv different lan guages, each with a complicated mul titude or aiaiects 01 us own, r spoken In India. Rtr wmiam S. Gilbert, the famous librettist, had no ear for music. On his own admission he was una. me to hum a single tune in any of the Gil bert and Sullivan operas. Tialfaat Traland. hfiSat.a of -tha big gest shipyard, the biggest tobacco fac tory, tne Diggesi iinen.miu, ins wb aaat rnn works and the bicaest dis tillery in all the world. Tha raaann whv Trov welrht IS SO called is that the French town of TmvH .In tha mMHIa aces, the site of a -Teat annual fair in precious: metais. iroyes naa us own "J"" tern of weights, and th.s. or some of them, were Introduced into England. All sailors are superstitious, out none is .so completely ubder this In fluence as the old deep-sea fisherman. Nothing would Induce a skipper tf the old school to 'sail on a Friday- To speak of pigs aboard a Ashing trawler Is ftal to success for that trip. Sim ilar misfortunes will result from tak ing off a hatch covr and laying it on the deck upside down. Other skip pers believe that to wish your face in the m!ddleof a tria will break a spell of calm weathor, - Center Shots Washington Posf: Some persons' say tne jnonenzonerne are no good; but Just think what splendid goats they will make! Baltimore American: The Huns met their fate at the Marne, but the real fun will come when the allies. begin to cross tne Rhine. Philadelphia Leaker: The high command attempts "to console the German people by telling them that the Marne is "merely a river." So is the Rhine. Brooklyn Eagle: .Germany begins to doubt the pledge,' "Thy sons will guard, the River Rhine." And yet that's the dlrectton-Nin which many of the sons are now running. . Cleveland Plain Dealer: The kaiser has Issued, a decree abolishing the Salvation rmy a Germany. If there's one thing the boche can't stand, it's practical Christianity. Brooklyn Eagle: Turkey and Bul garia are also tottering In loyalty to Germany. The good old German Gott and Allah are a matched team and ought to drive well In the direc tion in which they are headed. The use of the Kurds to slay Armenians could not have been better planned in Berlin. New York World: The" Frankfurter Zeitung now declares that it was American trocrps that made Foch's victory possible, these being the same American troops that could not be transported to France because of Ihe German submarines and that were raw and wnrthleMi when ihov AlA r there. Around the Cities New York has decided to fix f 1.000 s the minimum salary for ita school teachers. The Cnitvgo Telephone company boasts of having Installed ita 500,000th phone last week. ' . A tract of farm land near Nevada, Ia., containing 107 acres, recently sold for $325 an acre. Just before the war the tend changed hands at $200 an acre. - Popular subscription to the Mltchel memorial fund in New YorlfT have passed the $25,000 mark. A commit tee of leading cltlaens has taken the project In hantj. v . Commenting on the recent riot in the city the Philadelphia Ledger says "the police department needs some thing beside men walking around, with night sticks in their hands." One of the bone dry hotels of Sioux Olty, raided by boose Sleuths, yielded aifty supply of the forbidden Juice and at the same time imperilled a $10,000 bond previously given as a (guarantee of 100 per cent dry. Sioux City apartment nouse tenants have the united word of tha landlords that prices will, ascend a story or two at the end of existing leases. Rents took the elevator a year ago. The coming lift promises to ."raise the roof." ' T Brooklyn's , gas company .wants $1.25 a thousand cubic feet, as against the prevailing 80-cent rate of Man hattan. The public service commis sion wants to be shown and is tak ing testimony for and against tae pro posed boost. k During the first six months Of the year charity organizations disbursed $12,021 worth of food and fuel among the needy of Minneapolis. The num ber of families assisted wa 25 per cent less than during the same period of 1917. Plenty of work and gooni pay accounts for the decrease. , Congested New York let out a dally scream against the Inadequacy of local transport service, especially during the rush hour. Newly oper ated subways do not perceptibly de crease the crush. Heads of the system tearfully admit they are, doing- the best they can for 5 cents, but if the public grants a 6-cent fare trouble and annoyance will end at once. Signposts oj Progress ; Recently government statistics show that clay products are being made in every state in the United States. To facilitate writing in the dark an inventor has patented an electric flashlight to be attached to a lead pencil. Oyster shells are being used exten sively In the manufacture of Portland cement along the coast of the' Gulf of Mexico. Nine thousand girls of all ages In the state of Washington pledged themselves to spend the summer in planting and handling crops. . The newest railroad snow plow combines an endless conveyor belt and a rotary fan which cuts a' way through the heaviest drifts. The gas and electric lighting com pany of .Baltimore is training women for. the work of reading meters and Installing heating and lighting appli ances. A speed or nearly 75 miles an hour has been attained by a unicycle built by a St. Loujs inventor, the machine consisting t hiefly of a single, wheel almost Beven feet In diameter, drawn by an aerial propeller. Patents have been granted to a Connecticut woman for a baking board consisting of a pad of waxed paper from which single sheets cart be removed when soiled, and for a 1 waxed paper rolling pin with a card board core. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, f ' "Maria need not aspect to aaln anytnln from b baabaod by aheddlrig capiput tears '' ' . "Becauaa ho ha 164 much dry- humor Baltimore Amcta. t don't underatane) It." . , ....... . . ; "My boy haa been In France two weeks now and haan t won .the ICroii de Guerre yet-" Detroit 'free Frees. "Feminine Intuition 1 a reat tWhe "Yea, but It baa Ita limttatlona. . Every huaband has a collection of old newapaeeri In hi den. Rare la the wire who doei not throw away ome of hi treasure Bow and then." Louisville courier journal, "Building a caatla la the air? old man?" "Not that preclaely, but something-: at the eort I wa Jut wlihlnf I had con tract to pave easy atreet" Buffalo jjje- . "JVtp, what' a ynony?" "If one of them place where yon tt a big salary and no work to do. Alwayi eome to your father, my boy, when '' want to know anjthlrtf. "Brooklyn all ien.'' 1 f "Did the . bookkeeper who wanted to trf come an amateur acrobat mike food a LI. - . .. . "No. he loetht balanee the first thine" ...... . . . . 1 . J I , U i a l.i n I k.l. .-wnat a puy: aiio it - ance, too!" Baltimore American. DREAM LEAVE.. Wen the night I huahed and tlll To the mother wrapped tn dream. Down the valley, round the hill Through the heath, aero the stfe. . Come the alxfoot fighting men - v Laughing little bey again. , V . They have t awty thelMwdro', ' t, " They have laid their bill Slide: For an hour the batlla-lofd - N rA without thai, earn ef ttlrl. Lead their kit patrol ne merer. Bid them of the dust of war. 1 ' 1 in tne glass ine iinoi run b, . Backward ipin th ereepltig rears Down the dim and ehadow traok, v .... Through the wood ot mlle and tears. To where boyhood bold ant blithe . . Hide from Time hit huns'jr ortM.: , youth tier empire reaffirm. f f ' Bramble-torn about th kneel... -1 Grubby-handed gathering worms, ' Green and etlcky cllmbinr tree; Boyhood with it brown leg bar Takes th k!s of aun and air. 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