THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 191S.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
