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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 191S. i THE OMAHA BEE DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BT KDWABD B08IWATEB VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR THl BEI PUBLISHING COMPANY. PBOPMITOR. MEMBER' OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fhs JjsosUtea Fiees. at wnlea IteMtli tjsnibst. It adiimii entitled to UM bm for tmbUciUn Of sll " dltpetofae enalted to tt er no MhcnrtM credited In thl neper, end slao tlx local i obliihed asreta. All lUbta of publication of out special dlepatebet , are i maM OFFICES ftintis Ttl Bee BsOaln, Chlesto People's Oes BaUdlnt, toMkOBObo-BU H. St New Tork-t Ftfta Amu Cotsuil Bloffe-U H. 1UU M. SL loal-Mw B'k of Oooummo. I.lnnoln Mule BalUlno. WeenlnftoB IStt O Bk JULY CIRCULATION Daily 68,265 Sunday 59,312 A tm eiwelsttoi'lof tte nmtk. rabwrtbea sad swore to by DwIgM , WUIUbm, OraaUtka lUnaier. Ss&aeribera leaytaf the city should hsre Tho Boo mailed ; ts that. Address chaaftd aa eftea as mueated. ... " 1 "" . THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG HIE r r- 'V v . v i a ran j Vote with your eyct open today. ; :. America' man-power is ready whenever the call is madt. Work or fight admits of only one interpreta tion nowaday!. The auto thieve, mast go and the auto speed ers must slow down. ' This indiscriminate letter writing is a danger ous pastime for politicians - When you yote at the primary, don't help light any bonfires in Berlin. The Huns may be digging in again on the old line, but they are not doing it at leisure. If Mike Clark is not entitled to a 'second terra as sheriff we never had a sheriff who was. . ' V;,: , , With Liberty 3 a selling at 101, one might ilso say that Uncle Samuel's credit is Improving. Mike Clark is still on the job, as certain am bitious lid-lifters have discovered to their sorrow. V Congress is back at the old stand, with a fine program of work ahead, and the real campaign coming on. ;- , :'r " , "Big Bill" Haywood says the fight . Is just begun. He is right, bat it is over, so far as he is concerned. . . ' Carranxa saw where his oil graft was leading him, aad back-tracked on it, but he is not out of the woods yet y ' Remember that the candidates the democrats favor for the republicans today are the ones they hope to beat in November, y ' ' ( ' If you are Inclined to be despondent over any thing, take 'a trip Into the country and see the com fields. Two weeks ago the pessimists had them blasted beyond hope, but just look at them Today's the dayl It's your patriotic duty to do your part to nominate only real Americans is your party candidates without submitting to the dictation of any, set of handpicked slate-mak ing autocrats. " The Douglas county treasurer, who is, also exofficio treasurer for the city of Omaha, the Metropolitan Water District of Omaha and the school district of Omaha, handles many millions of dollars every year. , Play safe by toting for Shriver for treasurer. -Shriver is experienced, tried and dependable. Tax on War Profits. The nev revenue bill will, it is reported, con tain a provision for an 80 per cent fiat tax on war profits. The popularity of the idea comes from the notion that the levy will rest chiefly on the income of the essential war industries. This is true, but if the measure is adopted it will have an advantage that did not exist in the graduated in come tax.' Under ,the present law the tax in creased as the Income mounted, and only became really impressive in the upper brackets. This permitted some of the most persistent of profit eers to escape almost untouched. J No' kind of war profits is more conspicuous, for any reason that would bring the class into prominence, than that which arises from the extortions laid on small articles. Here is where the pennies count In N,ewYork the government has caught retail dealers levying W their patrons war i taxes that do not exist; here in Omaha consumers have found prices advanced but of all reason by small dealers, who set up the war tax as a pretext If the revenue measure is so framed as to reach the gains of this sort of business, filched from the public little at a time, but none the less an ex tortion, then it will be getting at the real war profiteers. -".; '.';' , ... NO OTHER LIKE NORRIS. Don't let anyone persuade you that Norris has a war record as good as any. of his competi tors. Norris' record stands unique and alone. He not only talked the armed neutrality bill to death and voted, against the war declaration, but after we were in the war, he voted against fur nishing an army to do the fighting, against levy ing the taxes to pay the army, against making it punishable as sedition to backfire on the army at home and against nearly every other measure urged by the president as necessary to the win ning of the war. No other republican represen tative from Nebraska in either branch of con gess held back as did Norris from giving support to the war program. It is hard to conceive what more Norris could have done for German "kul tur" had he been in the pay of the kaiser. Unify the War Relief Work, ' Approach of the "community" drive for funds to replenish the chests of the several agencies that have taken over the war relief work brings with it warning of a rift in the lute. A protest, mild enough, but still a note of objection, has gone to Secretary Baker from the Knights of Columbus. It appears, that what was to have been a general movement to secure funds by sub scription on behalf of seven associated organiza tions is now to be subdivided into sections, and while the goal of $135,000,000 has not been less ened, it will be secured in sections. The process has made it necessary to one or another of the seven at the end of the procession, and it is just this that has made the trouble. Neither wants, especially to be set away at the end, when all might move as one. . Secretary Baker had a perfect illustration of this last fall,, when he received a committee rep resentative of all organized societies, fraternities and institutions to represent to him the blunder he had made in giving to the Y. M. C. A. exclusive privileges at cantonments. If he will recall what happened then he may be guided to a better re sult now. ) However, a nation that is big enough to take over the management of the transportation sys tem, land and water, as well as the wires,' of the United States might also be big enough to handle the war relief work. If organizations soliciting support are carrying on a war activity it should be under the control of the govenment, if not ac tually supported from public funds. The gen erous and serviceable spirit of all is appreciated and the support of the work is certain, but the avenue for possible friction would be sealed if the work was under the single direction of the federal government Unification of the relief work is quite as important as anything in. connection with the wan ..- V ' One Real Economy. It is Interesting to note from the report of the county, clerk for. last year, just out' that we have effected one real economy through the aboli tion of the office of coroner, brought about al most exclusively through the agitation by The Bee. The law, which does away with the coro ner's position, devolved its ' duties upon the county attorney and for the twelve months of 1917, the expenditure charged against the coun ty attorney as ex-officio coroner aggregated al together $2,139.75, which is not much more than a third of wbetv'ihe cost to the taxpayers was under the old coroner system. ' There are other offices friTthi"cltyhall and court house which could be abolished or consoli dated with profit to the taxpayers. A , Bolshevism in Japan. Disorder in Japan may be set down as an ex hibition of bolshevism in that country. For years socialist propaganda has been spread broad cast throughout the land, and the lower classes of the Nipponese, have responded generally to the appeal. Shortage of food and other untoward .conditions have aggravated the social situation there till uneasiness has become general. This condition of affairs is favorable always to the bolsheviki, and Japan is no exception. It is un fortunate that, the outbreaks should come at a time when the Japanese government was doing most for its people; ever since the war com menced the Tokio government has striven to improve the economic as well as the political status of Japan, and with considerable success. Industrially the kingdom was never, so well off, work has been plenty, wages high, and the revenues of the country such as to permit a con siderable improvement in the taxes. The expedi tion into Siberia, undertaken at the instance of the Allies, has served as an, excuse for the agita tors' to touch1 off their 'plots, but, such accounts as have come' to America indicate little danger for the mikado in the present demonstration. A still unanswered question: . .Why should the so-called "Committee of 500," made up of democrats as well as republicans, confine its ac tivities wholly to the republican ticket to pull chestnuts out of the fire for i spoils-greedy po litical machine? .' "Equilibrium on the west front is being slowly restored," say the German experts. Slowly is right and as often as the Hun thinks he is safe along comes; one of the Allies ind upsets him again.. . - VitdWar Work of Dentist? i f; Thousands of Them Enrolled For Service With out Charge New York Times Magazine. ; When the roster of professional men who have taken part in the war work is called there will be none more prominent than the dentists. By thousands they have been giv ing their services, in acocrdance with a plan suggested before the war by members of the National Dental association for organizing the dentists of America into a preparedness league. The purpose of the league was to take preventive and curative measures among those drafted men or men liable to draft who were in need of treatment. Once a man is drafted into the national service, he comes under the care of army dentists. To put into good shape the mouths of eligible men who were in need of dental treatment, but otherwise physically fit, was the task the Preparedness League of Amer ican Dentists took upon itself. Its first step was to get into communication with the au thorities at Washington. As a result dentists were placed on the medical advisory boards of the country. Its next step was to have dentists made members of the local board committees. There were no regulations con trolling this; there were no laws or bylaws pertaining to the reimbursement for the per formance of such sevice. Appreciative .of the value of the skilled service they could render, the men of the league offered to act as vol unteer members of the boards, and today each board has one dentist, who makes it his duntyj to give every man subject to draft a thorough examination. The 16,000 dentists in' the league pledged themselves to give one hour's free service a day. Up to July 1 there had been nearly half a million recorded treatments. The men at the head of the movement say the figures would be greater if all the dentists had kept careful records. Under army regulation there is only one army dentist for every 1,000 soldiers. It often happens that a man is sent to a train ing camp, receives superficial treatment and is allowed to go to France with a mouth that is far from sanitary. Figures sent over from the other side, it is stated, show that at least 20 per cent of the men are incapacitated and kept from active service on account of illness finding its source in diseased conditions of the mouth. The dentists' league wants to prevent a like percentage of uselessness on the part of the men forming the increments now going across. A novel feature of their work is the fit ting out of dental ambulances. The first one given to the league, and through it to the Red Cross, was equipped through the efforts of Mrs. William B. Thompson. The ambu lance has all the appurtenances of a modern dental office, with the advantage of being able to move about and reach the patient in all out-of-the-way places. ... It consists of a main operating room and two good-sized tents. Every contrivance approved by the dental profession has been installed, with the result that the ambulance surpasses many of the finest city dental offices. In the center room, or office proper, is a complete dental outfit, including a separate bracket for instruments, electric engine, fountain cuspidor, air pressure tank with sy ringe and sprays, hot and cold water faucets, steam sterilizer, filter, vulcanizer, electric lathe, blow pipe, nitrous oxide and oxygen gas apparatus, sanitary cabinet for instru ments, a full set of operating forceps and two sets of dental instruments. On one side is a cupboard for the operating officer's clothing. There is also a typewriter to make a scientific record of all cases treated. The car is lighted by electricity generated by batteries especially built for the ambu lance. In case of failure of the batteries special provision has been made for lighting by acetylene gas. -y y When the car is in transit a field outfit which closes up in three containers is stored away in the office. This is set up as soon as the car is ready for service. On either side of the office is a tent.' One is used for the field outfit; the other may be converted into sleeping quarters for the dental officers or made into an adjunct operating room. While dental treatment is given in the office proper or the ambulance, one of the tents may be used for a more difficult operation. The car is manned, by a crew consisting of two officers, two dental assitants and a chauf feur. In hot weather the sides of the tents may be rolled up, insuring the patient all pos sible ventilation of air. One of these ambulances is at present do ing active service at Camp Upton. Almost every new increment of men arriving at the camp brings with it an epidemic of some dis ease. Often the maladies are minor illnesses, like sore throat, mumps or German measles. They are of sufficient importance, however, to mean isolation of the men. It is in these cases that the dental ambulance proves of the greatest value. The men cannot and dare not leave the isolation stations to go to the dental rooms; so the ambulance goes to the men. " Camp Meade also has an ambulance, the gift of the Cleveland unit of the Preparedness league. The Connecticut unit provided the funds for another. At present the Red Cross has put in an order for 13 ambulances, three of which are to go across for active field service and 10 for baby-saving work; that is, 10 ambulances of the same type as the ones now used at the training camp in America are to be sent to France as part of the relief work done by the Red Cross. The care of the teeth of the children of France has be come a vital problem there. The ambulances will try to solve it. The league is organized in military fash ion, divided into six military districts or de partments, in the same manner as the na tional military work is organized. There is an eastern department, a northwestern, a central, a southeastern, a southern and a western. The departments,- in turn, are divided into the different states coming under their help, and today the league's directors head, who controls and directs the work of the dentists in his territory. Dental colleges all over the country have come forward with their help, and today the league's directors are trying to enlist in their ranks the 32,000 other American dentists not yet enrolled. Our Greatest Economic Test Can Be Readily Borne If All Do Their Duty Patriotically New York Financial World, The program which this country and its allies have laid out for bringing about vic torious peace is a simple one, though formi dable. The man power in France and Eng land having been practically exhausted, so far as fighting material is concerned, the large part of the teb now falls on us We have nearly 1,500,000 troops in France and 1,500,000 under training in this country. It is intended to increase the total to 5,000,000 by spring, and with 3,000,000 Americans' add ed to the fighting forces of France, England and Italy, go forward in the spring in an overwhelming rush against the Teutonic hosts and never, stop until they cry enough. ; , Americans know now what economic changes have been brought about by the call- Ms o.iaaj.ivu men into xne military ano naval service. They are the "ultimate con sumer" and they know that war taxes are f German Ingratitude Shown An exiled German industrial leader was shocked because German soldiers, in northern France last year "burned .down the very houses in which they had been most hospita bly entertained by the French women and children of the occupied districts." But this was a comparatively mild exhibition of Ger man ingratitude. For example, a German gunboat, disabled in an engagement, sought refuge and aid in a Dutch port. Hospitably received there, it was repaired and supplies, of provisions were placed on board. Two hours after it had gone to sea its gunners shelled a group of Dutch fishing boats, sink ing four and killing half a dozen fishermen. Holland was then sending fish to Germany. Submarines repeatedly have sunk fishing boats near the Norwegian coast although the German people were receiving large quanti ties of fisn from Norway. Relying upon the northern neutrals for a, considerable part of the empire's food suply, Germany has sunk more than 1,400 of their ships and taken the lives of several thousand seamen. Exhibitions of ingratitude are less offen sive and shocking than the cruel atrocities of which Germany is guilty. A majority of the seamen lost with torpedoed neutral ships were murdered in lifeboats or in the water by gunfire from the attacking submarines. Seme were drowned by submersion of the U-boat after they had been placed on its deck. v i "Without shame," said the kaiser in his recent proclamation to the German people, "the enemy smirch the fair name of Germany with ever fresh calumnies." But the abso lute proof of German inhumanity is abun dantNew York Times. being shifted to them and that the cost of living has advanced 60 to 90 per cent in con sequence; that .the tendency, if anything, is toward a still more grievous burden; some thing akin to an economic convulsion is tak ing place in the worldof industry as the man power is withdrawn fromproductive to the nonproductive military field; that the law making power has extended the grip of the government into almost every field of , en deavor and that several great industries here tofore under private control are now in con tol and under the direction and operation of government agents, and' the taking over of the great basic industry of steel-making is now under .serious consideration. With the Tailroads, merchant marine, tel ephone and telegraph and steel under gov ernment direction or operation, and many others restricted by reason of price regula tion or limitation of output, it is seen how far-reaching has been the upheaval in Amer ican industrial life. The rapid withdrawal of an additional 2,000,00 men by spring will make the situation still more tense, and by that time, if the' Teutonic military caste has not been convinced, we then must make 'plans for calling an additional 5,000,000 fighting men to the colors. Can we do it? Unquestionably. - Great Britain, with a population of less than 50, 000,000, has 4,500,000 men under arms and 3,500,000 men and women at home engaged in war work. France hasn't a man or woman today engaged in a nonessential industry. The United States, with a population fully equal to that of Great Britain and France combined, has not yet begun to put its power to severe strain, and if it has to call 10,000,000 men to arms it can carry the burden as easily as Great 'Britain is carrying its own. A keen observer, Herbert Casson, tells us that the war strain hasn't stopped the ntional game of cricket in Great Britain the theaters are well patronized, holidays are taken by children,, women and old people, and life, while not by any means normal, is bearable,' and there is no whining over the burdens, criticism of the conduct of the war or pro test at the sacrifice of blood and treasure. In France everywhere there is a steel-like de termination to fight on. So it is here. Our casualty lists are growing larger day by day and every city, town or hamlet has had the war brought home to it with a solemnity not heretofore felt When blood sacrifices fol low the material sacrifices it knits the nation together as never before, and we now have the inspiring spectacle of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, moving in terrible unity to crush the one great enemy, and counts not and questions not the conse quences until, the job is done. rrnnsv One Year Ago Today In the War. British under Marshal Haig contin ued their djlve Into German lines northeast orYpre. In the Verdun region the Trench under Petain scored a great victory by capturing German, defenses on both eidea othe'Meuse. - ; Tb Day We Celebrate. " - V William He&ld, member ot the Oma ha. doUc force, born 1874. Raymond Polncaire, president of the French republic,, born at Bar-le-luc 61 years ago. ; Julia Sanderson, musical comedy star, born at . Springfield, Mass., 34 years go. ' -V ' ' -" Father Bernard" Vausrhan. cele brated English-Jesuit" preacher aad lecturer, born II -years ago. this Dav In History. A- ' Y 1785 Dr, Valentine Mott who was called.; the lather or American ur eery." born at Glen Cove, N. Y. Died In New York City Anrll It. 1S65. 1829 A Russian army " of 13,000 captured Adrianople from the Turks, mi Gea. Geoare B. McClellan as sumed command of the federal army of the Potomac. ' J t ' 1868 Burllogame and the members of the Cbmeiw embassy . were wei eomed In Boston. 1814 Bruasela .mi evacuated by the Belgians and occupied by the Ger mane. isi 5 Italy made- a, dejejaratton - of Just SO Years Ago Today City Treasurer Rush sold 167,500 of hort-time curbing bonds, bearing I per cent Interest at S103.S1 and ac crued Interest f Charlea P. Benjamin, the real es tate man, advertised In The Sunday Bee for a female copyist During the day 108 ladies applied for the position. A marriage license was granted to William M. Dulln of Fremont and Miss Alice E. Evans of Omaha. . Chief Paul of the fire department of Kansas City, Kan., and Councilman Packard of the same . place, and. a member ot the fire committee are In the city on their way home from the meetlnr of the fire chiefs which was recently bold m St Paul. ' Jarnm ' McVey hMMtjirnfd. ftOJU Round About the State Old settlers picnics are in full bloom. Wherefore doth the merry ehigger hop to the scratch. The sun of York beams on, but yields no Joy for ragtime song. 'The big clouds come up, take a look into York and retire. How dry we are!" murmursthe .News-Times. A king dom for a schooneri. Several' unnamed men ot Alliance, classed as ''habitual idlers." have been handed the '"work or fight" order by the County Council of Defense. . No further notice is to be given. Failure to get busy means a wrestle with fed eral law. Seven of the string of senatorial candidates Sloan, Hammond. Nor ris. Reed, Metcalfe, Madgett and Morehead have been Identified by picturea in the newspaper, art gal leries. For some unknown reason Col. Edgar Howard abstains from tossing hie picture Into the ring. Surely the colonel does not fear the barber vote. Look at Bill Madgett and his luxuriant thatch. . He doesn't care who sees It Kearney Hub: The record sustains a democratic charge that Nebraska's three republican congressmen voted against a -declaration of war one year ago last April. It also shows that three democratic congressmen voted for it In -support of a democratic president and then voted against fur nishing the sinews of war lor its im mediate prosecution. If anything the republican bare a little the beat otlt ' Peppery Points Washington Postr The old-fash, ined ambitiuos man used to scheme to own a railroad. Today he is doing much better with a soda fountain. Minneapolis Journal: Paper clothes! It is the irony, of fate that, the Ger mans are now obliged to wear "scraps of paper to keep them warm. New York World: Probably the German government will Justify the sinkipg of the fishing boats oil Nan tucket on the ground that they were word fishermen. Kansas City Star: A sadder plight than Austria's could hardly be Imag ined. It has little to eat and what it geta It must eat out of the kaiser's hand, which is about the zero In eat ing places. . Louisville Courier-Journal: Pon dera the ohtnlese crown prince of Pots dam: "Things decidedly are in a jam. Pa said my offensive would take regions extsnslve. Then why am I now where I am?" Minneapolis Tribune: Do It right, now." said the president to Mrs. Wil son as she stepped forward to christen the first boat off the Hog Island ways, and the reason he said it waa that she had to pronounce the name "Qulst conck." -:' Brooklyn Eagle: The death ie re ported of the submarine commander who sank the Lusitania. He lived long enough to see the doom foreshad owed of his cause by his act which forced this, country Into the war. .The fatal bolt he shot went far beyond Its Immediate - prey, for - it ' struck at inf Twice Tlod Tales . Slightly Sarcastic. . ' Tt is five years since I waa here last" remarked the tourist "and I must say I am amazed at the im provements I see on every hand." "Aw, you betcha, TorpidvlUe is coming right along!" replied Colonel Hooka, the real estate dealer. - "But jus what improvements do you notice in pertickler that amazes you so?" "None at all. That Is why X am amazed." Denver Post ( Resourceful. We're a resourceful nation. An American girl in Paris once halted her millionaire father before a Jew eler's shop in the Rue de la Paix and pointed to a tiara surmounted by a coronet ; "Pa, buy me that!" she said, t " "Buy you that?" her father chuckled. "Why, girlie, you've got to be a duchess to wear that" The girl tossed hex head. "You buy it," she said. ; 'Til find the duke." Chicago Tribune. ( - Transmigration. , One morning Jorkins looked over his fence and said to his neighbor, Harkins: .. "What are you burying In that hole?", " .. , - "Just replanting some ot my seeds, that's all," waa the answer. "Seeds! exclaimed Jerkins, "an ixtly. "It looks more like one et my hens!" - That's all riht" ssJfl the other. TJfie&oe's z .wr A Son Writes for His Father. Somewhere In France, July 2. To the Editor of The Bee. -A letter which arrived yesterday from my father, Harry Pearce, register of deeds, telling me of the approach of the primaries on August 20, prompts me to this expression of appreciation of the loyal eupport you have given him in the campaigns of this and other years. In the States I have always been too much occupied with my own little cir cle of existence to notice such things, but the thousands of miles which lie between France and Nebraska have greatly aroused my Interest in the community affairs of Omaha and have made me more keenly aware of the benefits of that city as a home; things which' formerly were taken merely as a matter of course. There is one thing of which I may assure you, and that is of the whole souled loyalty of the candidate you are suportlng. Two sons, Harry Pearce, jr., and myself, have left our home in the last year to enter the service of our country and our father has sent us forth filled with light hearted encouragement and wholly lacking In the dragging wish that it might be otherwise. I believe his only lament is that he Is not able to accompany us. You, I know, are as well aware as I am of the continued support he has given to war relief and government issues. As well as he may in far-off Nebraska, he Is taking a hand in the big game of making this world a decent place in which to live. Again I thank you for the work you . are doing and also for the bits of home news which reach me through clip pings from The Omaha Bee. Each line of type carries with it a vision of my home and serves to make my ex istence here a little more pleasant With most sincere regards and well wishes for the community and Its pa per. I am WALTER T. PEARCE. Headquarters Company, 840th Field Artillery, A. E. F. y Are Auto Owners Selfish T Omaha, Aug. 18. To the Editor of The Bee: How many owners of large, roomy motor cars ride each day and evening enjoying the fresh air, while great numbers of their friends and neighbors are never asked to share these pleasures? If those who are fortunate to afford such luxuries would look about them In their own vicinity and see the chil dren who would so much appreciate a ride after a hot day, would it not cause them to feel ashamed of their selfishness? Imagine the ' happiness , that is brought to the child who is given the opportunity to occupy the seat beside the driver; to youth it is a real thrill, and yet how many are denied this. Wake up, you who are one of the above mentioned, and remember it is democracy that we are fighting for. "A word to the wise is sufficient." ' AN OBSERVER. LAUGHING GAS. "What are yo reading tber, Hlrh browT" i " work by a savant named Jothu Blllln.- "Ha, ba! Rare humor that" . "Humor T Tou ar quite mlitaken. Thtu la a fin example of phonetlo pelllnt." Louiivllle, Courier-Journal. ' "Coin" 'ome te Puddleport, Joe?" "No." . , . "But I thought-you lived there?" "So I do. lad. That'e why I ain't geln'.f Pasting Show. .. ;i "Ever notice these buttons on my daikf This one Is marked "Crank.'. If I should push It my secretary would rush In." . - "Yes, I've noticed tt And I notloe you keep fingering- It every time I alL Baitl. more American. . ; . , . THE THREE MUSKETEERS." , Tbs Three Musketeers having boasted for years la story aad song of ths way they could scrap, - Heard the roar of the guns ef the Allies and Huns, And stirred and awoke from their long dusty nap. . They grabbed up their swordt and a T haughty as lords Started out to behold what the row wa about, And alt In a minute they found themselves In It, And they, wished If the truth must be told they were out. Great wthgs overhead soared with flashes of red. The rivers raa crimson and choked with, the slain. Shells burst In the air with a terrible glare. And batteries sounded a deadly refrain. They tripped on barbed wire, and they fell in tho mire. Were hit by the shrapnel that clattered I like hall. Were blown up by a mint and came down to recline 1 la a billow of gas rolling fast oa the gals. Bald Perthes: "This stuff Is a leeUs too rough. Xt nt less not .a second In taking aur flight From these fire-eating Yanks with their rifles and tanks." "Wa never," groaned DArtagnsn, "knew how to fight We'll return to the dust and our good twords may rust. For they art no longer much use. It ap pears: It's Amerloaa grit I salute ts I quit" And that was the last of the Three Mus keteers. MINNA IRVING In N. T. Bun. V Sidelight's )on the War " The British army , la supplied free with 4,400,090,000 cigarett a year. ' ' Greenwich hospital, where hundreds of British wounded have been treated during the war, was founded by Wil liam and Mary in 1C94. ; The Canadian war museum, which fills xseven large freight cars, haa reached Quebec, where It will be ex hibited for the first time inAhe con-, tinent of America. .. - Taking Into account the weight as well as the number of cattle Austria has actually lost more than half Its live stock. On .Saturday there waa no meat in the Vienna markets; horse flesh was sold at from 100 to 600 per animal. A former visitor to Germany says that the Germans will put their wom en in the ranks when it becomes po desperate before they will give up. In . that case the kaiser will have to revise his program for women's activities as restricted to nursery, church and kitchen. Among the major war activities of the Henry Ford manufactories are, in immediate prospect 100,000 - motor cars a year, 50,000 tractors for the farms or for war haulage, 60,000 pigmy war tanks If they are needed a year, and an almost tountless number of Eagle destroyer boats. LEMON JUICE TAKES OFF tAN et a t l f t; s a!- . oinsi maxe Dieacning : iouon if skin is sunburned, tanned or freckled Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle, sunburn and tan lotion, and complexion beautifier, at very, very , small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will sup ply three ounces of Orchard White, for a few cents. Massage this sweet ly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles, sunburn, windburn and tan disappear and how clear, soft and white the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless Adv. To Help Make Strong,Keen Red Blooded mericans MIL. " UA Now ;CI fl Being need by over three million people annually. It will increasa the strength of weak, nervous, run. down folks in two weeks' time in many, instances. Ask your Doctor or druggist about it Mr. Butler Tells How Cuticura Healed Blisters On Boy "When our boy was a few days old he broke out under his chin with little blisters, and his neck was soon cov ered with a dry scale. It must have. Itched and burned for he was -so fretful, and he gave us no rest. He could not sleep. "After hearing of Cuti cura Soap and Ointment we started to use them. After a few applications we could see that he was greatly relieved, and when we had used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and less than two boxes of Cuticura Ointment he waS healed." (Signed) J. E. Butler, Brown St., Crooks vUle.Ohio. Delicate, sensitive skins. with ten dency to pimples, redness or rough ness should not be irritated by Im pure, strongly medicated soaps. Why not use on the face, and for every -day toilet purposes, Cuticura, a pure, gen tle aoap, touching the first signs of pimples or irritation witn uintmenv tuattt Bhi Trte r MaO. AiMnw peat-eerd "Oatictua, Dipt. H, Soitra." Sold evarjirtitte. Soap tlx. Ointment tt and JOe, Talcum fee. Woman's Iwornsng Sickness', POOR WOMAN, she is called upon to suffer and zu rv MORE than her share cf human His, but the one that 'seems to be most trying and unfair of all is the Bickness that comes to her at the time of life when she should be at her best when every ounce of her strength should be for the carrying out of that ad v of Nature that makes her bring a new life into the world. MANY WOMEN SlJfFERawfidly terribly during this - time with a stomach sickness. It is the kind that never :an : be told in, words the morning sickness of a woman v Before Baby Comes-- ' It is one of the most trying teste of human endurance, and aU tbl more so because it is so hard to contrcn. f ' ' Few remedies can be depended upon to give more or lesa temporal; ' relief. 80 many tavorabie reports have corns to us from tnos w r, ' have need EATONIC during this time that it ia witn the greatest eatat--taction we say to ALL SUFFERERS from this pecuJar woman s sics ness of the stomach, "DO IRK AIOM10-giv it a lair trie., and GET THE HELP we so confidently teei sure you wiL get' The weuha have been so nnifcy rx)dwonderfo. m many cajes . that we say to yoo. and gladly do we say it that any poor woman sufferer who obtains a package of EATONIC from any druggist in this city or drug stores anywhere and usee it according to the simple di- ' . notions if S tails to do the good and give the be.p that it should ail ' ahe haa to do is to return it to the druggist wnom you know ana can trust and the money will be cheertully rcrandeo. Remember tt oruy ' t ecettpennyctwoadajtonBeJ!AtOaiO, Do not ever suffer again ATOMIC