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THi: BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1914.' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE founded by edwakp R03Kvater. victor rosewater, editor. The Fee Publishing Company, Proprietor. BKB BIILD1NQ, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. Kntcred at Omtln postofflce ma second-claaa matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. My carrier Ry mall per month. per year. lly and ffundav e .,.$ I'hIIv without Sunday....' V 4 W KTvenlng and Sunday S.no Evening without Sunday ...... ,..o... 4.00 Sunday Re only 2Uc S on Fend notice of rhsr.se of addresa or complaint of Irregularity! In delivery to Omaha, Bee, Circulation Iepartmen REMITTANCE. Remit hy dm ft, exprese or postal order. Only two tent stamps received In payment of email ee rnunte. Personal cheeka, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. 0neha The Bee Rullding. South Omaha sni N atreet. Council Bluffs M North Main atreet Lincoln K Little Building. rhicaro WU Hear Hulldlng. New Tork-Room M Fifth vena. Bt. lioule MS New Mank of Commerce Washington 7S Fourteenth Bt., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE). Address communications relating to new and edi torial matter to Omaha Bee,. Tentorial Depart mailt. OCTOBER ORCCLATIOJJ. 55,104 State of Nebraska, County of Douglaa, aa. Dwlght V llllama, circulation manager of The Ree Publishing company, being duly sworn, aaya that the average dally circulation fur the month of October, mi. waa V..1W. DWIUHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to- before me. thla ita day of November, ish. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary PubllO. ' Subscribers leaving the city temporarily hoald have The Bee mailed to them. .Ad dress will be changed often aa requested. Do yonr Chrlstmai shopping early and often. "Look Out for Snow." jAYhat's the use, It will come anyway. Yet most of us -would prefer to submit to a war tax than to a war. It might help aome to decorate Gee Bernard fc'hnw with an Iron cross or two. Those war Censor cannot chop the copy too ranch too auK the telegraph editors. And bow the courts hare aet a piece of blue sky Into Went Virginia's blue sky law. Wonder if the weather man knows that Christmas ii leu than three weeks off. . Yep, Sherman knew. The emperor and (mi press of Japan hare gone to writing poems on the war. Congress will now come to order for it short session, which cannot be too abort to suit the public. ."Landslides are not so bad this year' aaya Colonel Ooethals. Some folks may find them worse In 1916. The Water board is going to meter the city's sewer flush tanks. Ntytt th'ng In order will be meters en the fireplugs.' ''" . What seems to trouble Mr. Bryan la to de cide at which one or his winter homes be will spend his spare time nowadays. "The Progressive Party Decides to . Oo Ahead," says a headline. Come to think of It, how could It not progresa otherwise? ' ' A debate Is In progress between two ot our state exchanges as to whether the short ballot Is a progressive or a reactionary measure- Oo ahead, and we'll serve as umpire! ' Another revolution Is said to be Incubating in Mexico. Those Mexicans have become ao accustomed, to the revolution game that they Just cannot be happy without one. Mr. Bryan aa secretary of state has been a great Convenience to his friendt. Baltimore American. Tell that to some of these hungry home folks here In Nebraska and watch their mouths water. The first experiment In aeroplane mall car rying Is to be tried oat between Kansas City,, Wa, and Kansas City, Kan. 'The Poatoffke de portment must be convinced that the wind down there la one of she steady and reliable features of tho landscape. , ' ' It is bard to talk against a brass band, and also hard to run an exposition against a war. The California people are learning what Omaha discovered with Its Transmtsslssippl show dur ing the war with Spain until it fortunately came to aa end at just the right time for a saving clause. " ' Vice President Marshall pretends to believe the people do not care whether he is paid for lecturing or not, but all they eare'tor is that he shall be on his Job as presiding officer of the senate when that body Is in session. The vice president Is sadly mistaken the people care even less about having him preside over the senate than they do about htm delivering lec tures for pay. fcuZdtsy& George II. Hammond is expected to arrive In the city from Chicago to start up the pork pat' kin a at the stock yards, and to begin additional houses fur lif packing. According to one of the stock yards uunfor directors tbe ' Hammond plant will be equipped to kill iuv bead of beef and SOS hose dally. Mrs. t Ruasell B. Harrison of Helena, Mont., is in the city visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Arvln U. Saunders. Mrs. C. E. Moody went to Naples, HI., to attend the funeral of a sister. Judse and Mrs. Lipilncott were the victims of a pleasant surprise party at their horns In the southern part of the city last night The ladies of the English Lutheran eburch will glte a fair and bazar in the basement of their church builditiS- fur three days beginning Wednesday. Dr. Dlnsmor Is bark from Lincoln where n ltciurtd before the student of the University Medical colk'e. ilr. and Mis. N. F. English, formerly of Omaha, but now of fau Fraucix-o, are spending a few Uuya here A Job for Car Law-Makeri. The peculiar methods Just rcorted to, to elect the officers ot the Douglas County Agricultural society, and thus to capture the location of the Douglas county fair, by the lavish distribution of crlp one dollar bills to qusllty new members called In from tbe highways and bywsys to cast a rote, challenges attention to a palpable abuse This Is nothing more nor less than a fight for conjrol of the appropriation, amounting to a pot of several thoussnd dollars, annually abstracted from the county treasury pursuant to a law saddled on lis by the legislature, which leaves the county board no option or discretion In its disbursement. No other county in the state Is in the same fit In this respect as Douglas county, and nowhere else Is the money prise at the dis posal of a county agricultural society tempting enough to warrant an appreciable cash outlay by the chemplons of any particular fair location. But why the law should be different for Douglas county than for any other county In the state has never been satisfactorily explained, and probably cannot be explained except on the ground that Interested parties smuggled the compulsory feature Into It. We do not want to be understood to say that because the bulk of Douglas county's population Is urban, and not rural, nothing should be tsken out of the public treasury to support the legltlmete objects of a real agricultural society, but the amount should net be determined on the basis of the vote for congressman, nor should It be turned over to a private association unconditionally nor without assurance of a bona fide membership, and not a membership specially manufactured to manipu late an election. Let the Douglas delegation to the coming sesnlon of the .legislature see to It that this county agricultural society law is amended in a way to make repetition of the dollar bill meet ing Impossible, and to retain an audit and con trol over county fair appropriations in the hands of some official representative of the taxpayer. War Literature by the Ton. O. Bernard Shaw a few years ago ventured an opinion that fiction be bought by the weight, to which The Bee retorted that in such an event there could be small complaint at the high cost of novels. . Whether Shaw's Idea arose from the success ful exploiting of Dr. Eliot's flve-foo"; book, shelf or not. we do not know, but It suggests the wis dom now of marketing war literature by the weight plan and If the grist continues as prolific as it Is now, the ton would be tho most suit able unit of measure. If critics and near-critics, experts and as sociate editors of military Journals, war corre spondents at home and abroad, to say nothing of the commanders of the armies In the field If these manufacturers of reading matter keep np their present rate of production we see no reason why the output should not be disposed of over tHA scales. In listing the various classes of war-writing, current news, criticisms, expert opinions, pre dictions and descriptions, books, ' circulars, pamphlets and maps we should not overlook those voluminous official utterances Issued by the vsrlous belligerent nations In defense ot their respective poaltions. These are coming to amount to a big factor In the whole. They are evi dently printed by the hundreds of thousands and sent broadcast over the world. Incidentally, their publication and distribution is costing a tidy Utile sum. It Is impossible to say Jut how much influence these paper bullets will have, as compared with the steel bullets, but doubtless a good deal and yet many a critical thinker will not fall to heed the Intense partisan passion, la which they are complied. ' Students of European conditions must feel that the underlying reasons for this war go far deeper than the fairest ot these state papers dares exhibit. What is German 'Culture?' The Shame of South Carolina. If states are known by the governors they keep, then may the good Lord have mercy on South Carolina. , The blatant demagogue. Cole Blease, whose term of office expires on January 1, Is stxtllng to the last. Indulging his chief sport, he pardoned a new batch of 101 criminals on Thanksgiving day, bringing his total thus far to 1,430. .How many more he will let loose to celebrating his own exit is now the question. Many of his beneficiaries were murderers, sent up for life. So Cole Blease not only set courts and Juries at naught and the most hard-' enedi criminals free to overrun his own and other states, but helped to make the law a re proach in the eyes of thousands of men with already distorted visions of right and wrong. . But let the blame fall, not on this self-seeking charlatan, but rather on the state that put him where he could do such a thing. South Carolina had a taste ot.Cole Blease In one term as governor, then gave him a second. Nor was It done over a protest of any large number of "good citliens.' The returns of 1113 show that 43,133 men voted for Cole Blease and only 209 against him. That wag all his sole op ponent received. Wilson that year polled 48,355 votes In South Carolina, his three opponents, Taft, Roosevelt and Debs, 1993, so that .Blease not only got practically all the votes cast tor governor, but nearly as many aa the head of his party's national ticket The ehame, then, is South Carolina's. And this helps to deepen It: South Carolina's pop ulation in 1910 was 1,616.004. 336.843 black, 679,1(1 white. As tbey say down there, they do not "require" the colored brethren to vote. Just what they gain by disfranchising the negro, at least in South Carolina, is not plain.' He cer tainly could do no worse with the ballot than those 60,000 white men have done in keeping thla wild man from the mountains la the gov ernorship for four years. It will take South Carolina years to outgrow the mark of Cole Blease's branding iron. Out in Oregon the progressive vote dropped so low as to forfeit position on the ballot aa a separate party, the requirement in Oregon being 6 per cent of the tqtkl as against 3 per cent la Nebraska. On the basis ot 6 per cent, the pro gressives would also have ceased! to be entitled to a party label on the Nebraska ballot. According to the esteemed Baltimore Ameri can, they are "Biasing the way for Billy Sun day" In that city. And Billy's Job will be. to save them from the biases, which all will admit, is some Job. , V Sdlterlal la Philadelphia Berth American. Handle of Translation. In counting up the adverse Influences which hev beset Germany In It relations toward the world, moet of us consider only the armaments allied againKt !t and the moral opposition rotied arainet certain of Its srts and policies. Yet there la another thing, a seeming trifle, which has had a potent effect In caua Ing misunderstanding of Oerman thought and pur poen, and misunderstanding la the parent of Injvmtlre nd enmity. Thla handicap Ilea In the difficulty of expreenlng Orman Ideas with exactitude in other languages, and particularly In English. Next to a democratic form of government and a somewhat higher conception ol International morality, Germany's most urgent need we should Bay. la a competent Interpretation. An ecx pert translator with sufficient authority to command attention and sufficient familiarity with both lun guagea to render Into Idiomatic Engltnh the phraieokgy of tta publlo affaire and utterances would be a price less treasure to the empire. That Germany has auffered seriously by th perver sity of transplanted worda la not to be doubted. "While It waa at peace with all the world no great dnmag to Ita atandlng waa apparent. But no sooner liad It become Involved In war than Its foea and Its orltloe made Joyoua uae of distorted translations which had long been current. Tho B)lef Victim. The kaiser, aa the moat noted and moat pictures que apokeaman of the nation, has naturally been tbe chief victim In thla regard. Hla exalted myatlclam and hla profound conviction of hie high mlnslon In the world hare exaggerated the widespread miscon ception of somo of his most familiar utterances, phranes that to his own people ring trtte and are filled with kingly nobility have been ao marred Hi being carried into other tongues that thtjr hava aped round the World amid Irreverent laughter. "Unpreme war lord" thua, as everybody knowa, ills Imperial majesty Is sometimes addressed, and thua he Is wont to name himself In his stirring exhorta tions to hla troops. It la a moulli filling term, worthy of tho military magnlflcenca and worahlpful pomp that supposedly envelop the 'kaieer, and has become so embedded in popular thougttt that It would be hopeless to endeavor to pry It out Tct the fact Is that the phrase aa It has reached u Is wholly misleading. Wilbelin II. never waa hailed and rtever described himself as "supreme war lord" of the German people. The title he uses, with perfect right and propriety, la "Oberkrelgaherr," and Ita real meaning la pretty well rendered by commander-in-chief. title which the. president of the United SUtes bears in hla rapacity as head of the army and navy without arousing fears of Imperialistic designs. Divine Right of Kings. Since the beginning of hois ll I tie th em words have been more closely scrutinised than ever by hla foes. A perfect fualllnde tJ criticism waa leveled at him a few weeks ago by persona whose religious sensibilities had been shocked by a sentence in an aoaress to a regiment. "We shall Vet destroy our tnamlu ran k. port of the Imperial speech. "Our old God up there will give us th victory." Thla was really too much.' A belief in the it-i right of kmgs la bad enough, but it la Intolerable that me aeiuaion anouid be carried so far that a man, however exalted, should Invoke th Creator with such arrogant familiarity. The rofereno. in God up there," seemed in wretched taate. . and that ine uerman people did not seaent It proved, of course, their pagan depravity. Unfortunately for th value nf thla erii.tm t. . ver, th kalaer'a worda had no auch meaning as waa attributed to them. Hla reltgioue faith la on of th passions of his Ufa and his pious veneration ror aacrea tninge a nawt founded upon deep conviction. What he really said was, "Our ancient God on high will give ua the victory." and, whatever may be th thought of his theory, th not Justly complain of his phraseology. Cans of MlaanSentaadlng. But the exam Diss nf rrnr In rra rA 4 fTiai-m a Ideas are trifling compared to a misconception, which Is even more baseless. If we were asked to nam th on thing most hurtful to th Oerman cause, we should hesitate whether to cite the violation of Bel gium's neutrality, the sack of Louvaln or th phrase ''German culture. , , Certainly th first two have created a vaat vol urn -i of unfavorable judgment, but the third haa had an in flammatory affect upon th publlo mind that la quit deadly. And all through' a misunderstanding. Th prominence of German "Kultur" la the con troversy la due to its persistent mphaals by all spokes men for that aid. The kaiser exhorts his troops to defend th fatherland and "Kultur. It. was Teutonic Kultur" that was m peril from Russian barbarism, necessitating an Invasion of Belgium. Th Imperial chancellor used It in hla oration to th relchatag. ard It appear In all the manifeatoea of atatesmen, diplo mats, soldiers, journalists, university professors and other advocates for th empire. Oerman J'Kultur." we have been Instructed, la th very soul of Teutonic otvllisatlon, th uplifting force in Europe, th on thing needful to regenerate the world. Besides it th "Kultur" ot any other nation whatsoever la a pitiable counterfeit It aanctlfled th ambltlona of pen-Germanism and Justified every d. vie uaed to spread its beneficent influence. Now. to moat non-Germans this apparent claim to th possession ot an exclusive "culture" was at first merely amusing. Students of th glories of genius la art. music, literature and science, which are the heritage of th Latin end Celtic and Anglo-Saxon people a found th solemn aaaumpUon ot Teutonio superiority quit exhilarating. But in time th word became an Irritation. Th air f bland finality with which It waa tittered by Oer man sympathisers seemed almost effenstv. and by common consent their own weapon waa turned against them. "Confound your 'culture! " said te exasperated world. "Soma of ua had scholarship and polish and spiritual enlightenment when you were barbarians, and we have works of genius which tower above your best productions like mountain peaks abov a plain. Moreover, we do not observe in your social habits, your politics or your International relatione any impressive signs of a special seflnement which wo might profitably adopt." Hence it became a habit among Oermany's critic to Ting its culture" in Ita teeth. Th most Inexpert controversialist could make a telling point by taq air ing whether th repudiation of treaties and the burn ing of cities were evidence of Oerman "culture" la feneration. Aa All-Baahraelas; Teres. Yet all thta la lamentably unjust Germany has not arrogated to Itself the possession of th highest "cal ture."Atta "Kultur" la something quit apart from th popular meaning given to the term used to exprets it in English. Culture m th narrow sense In 'which moat of ua ua it Implies development of the mind, refinement of th aensibUltlea, enlargement of th spiritual vision, encouragement of lofty aspiration. "Kultur." on thsj contrary, la Intensely practical and materialistic. H la an all embracing term for advanced civilisation. Hew much Oerman y haa Buffered from th world wide mlacoaoeptton ot tta favorite word It woulj be Impossible to estimate. But our judgment Is t'aat it might profitably exchange Ita whel fleet of armored Eeppellna for a plan that would blot out the Dataily misunderstood word "culture" from Ita provaganda and from the memory of mankind. A a tllS-Ttsa Jikw, ' It happened that Dean Swift, having b-fen dining at sura Uttl distance from Laracor, h residence, waa returning home on horseback in t evening, which was very dark. Just before h reached a neighboring village his horse Voet a ehra. Unwilling to run the rtk of laming th animal ty continuing hla rid in that direction, he stopped at one Kelly's, th blacksmith of th villas, where, having called th man. he naked him If he could ah a horse with a candle. , "No." replied the son of Vulcan, "but' I can with a hammer." flttaburgh Cbronlcle-legraph. Rater a Prateat. OMAHA, 1pc. . To tho Editor ot The Bee: To the thoughtful man or woman vrho watched the performance of "The College Hero" at the Rrandela aome ques tions arose. Thla play waa given for the benefit of poor children, some of whom are the products of had environment. The performance brought Into act lam many who are but children, in years at least. It waa presented before four large audiences, a fair proportion of which were children. It waa apenaored ny the prominent and Influential people of Omaha. A number of the adults taking an active part in the play were from this class; people whom many thoughtless, careless folks would consider aa examples and Imitate freely. This play also atood for college life and the accompaniments thereof. The first act waa probably up to the average or above It, but ended by leading un to a second act. with a grand rush of afudenta to take their parte In thla second act. In dicating by their movement an Intense desire to reach the acenea depicted in the cabaret. It would aeem that thinking people would hesitate to send their boys and girls to college wKh auch opportunities to Indulge In the performances of th second act What sort of Influence does auch an atmosphere as that permeating the cab aret have on young minds and hearts? Think deeply and earnestly for one mo ment. Line up the detailed accorr.panl inents of this scene: Wine tn bottles, liberally and offensively presented to view and rehearsed In song: cigarettes freely amoked by men and lighted for them by women; dress that In a public cafe certainly waa not in good taate. and suggestive dancing, made doubly so by th presence of win and scant cloth ing. It seems, to put it very mildly. Incon gruous that auch a ahow ahould be ataged for the benefit of a child saving inatl tute. It would seem ss though K were time for the women and the men of this, city to stop and think seriously. indulge In laxity if you will, hut keep the children away from such scenes as th second act of "Th College Heijb," and while yon are saving children In doxens through sweet charity be careful that you do not aow seeds that will help In the downfall of hundreds. I do not believe that there Is anything but good Intent in such charitable ef forts as these: but It la growing far too easy to forget caution and those good old principles of right and wrong, that never, change, but that are forgotten In the luxury and license of tbe day. The American hones of 1914 needs some critical self-examination, and if It falls to get It soon there will be an earlier repetition of history than people are ex pecting. j A. 8. M. HraSlasr f a. 'dkaas. YORK, Neb., Dec. 4. To th Edlte of The Be: What la wrana that over over the statement is sent out, "Business Is Improving, prosperity is due and will be her soon." Is that an admission that. It had left ns? If so, what was tho cause of Its going; what th signs of Hs re turn? They tell ns the war In Emv.iv. caused everything of which tho people, complain. ' If complaint ef poor buslaeea la made, the answer la rlvt "tt w caused It" Whether the cry be high costs or low prices or no work, they all gt the same answer "Tho war caused it." Now. what would the exeuae be if the war had not came, for it baa sure bean a windfall .to this administration. Th general verdict Is that Condition were worse before the war then now. We have their own word for that Aa they keep pointing with pride to the Improvement In business, even say there is a big gain in. some lines over this time laat year an? especially In the last ninety days. W ar free to admit the war upaet flnasc and transportation for a time, but Wak at the increase in other Unas for vuy.ich war alone cauaed the rush ordre,' and raise of .pricea for ao many artlc'-, mx ported. which la a decided tenet r. But th increase of Imports only trrUea out of the country that much mor, money, leaves . that maay mora , aneri out of work at home and under free tde brings ao revenue to the govemmer - Then tn time ef peace w tiav a "war tax" put on top ef staggtna; business. Why? Well, we found t, reason th revenu did not come wit the trad, so the rvau must com rom somewhere to pay running expenses. To Issue bonds would not. do; while there Is a war any. wher on earth we can' paaa a stamp act and call It a war tax. 'for th dear people will not Be through ft They will be too busy hunting th Stamp. As th poet aaya. "It la not tk eira to reason why. Thetrs la but to dyj and (die) pay." 8o we flad every aid cloak er worn out ragged excuse hv'ng up on this war as though it was a publlo halltre ot theirs. Olve us a chansa. FRANKLIN POPE. r Creator Omaha. OMAHA. Tec. s.-To th Editor of Th Bee. I see that th Dundee Improvement club haa ailed a public meeting for Tuesday eVeaing. to diacusa consolidation with Onvs'.ia. Two months ago, when I asked for such an expression to bo made at the "November election, so that it mighty, fairly exoreaa the sentiment i .h the voters of Dundee, my proposition was rrowrjMt down. However, I am glad to e he meeting called. I Sollevo an honest expression of all the voera of Omaha's suburbs would bo snsmtly In favor of th Greater Omaha. I. am certain that would be ao In Dun dee, for ther la a mighty high typo of citlaenahlp la that delightful village. It la composed of men who ar not blind to their civic duty and their obligations to the city in which they make their living, and which auppUea thorn with all they have of metropolitan life. If they do have a few Inconsiderable advantages by a separata government, which, however, I deny, thoa cltlaatna are great enough to atand abov a few petty private ad vantage and work for th betterment o' th city to which they owe so much. It Is the common civic duty that calls out the heat a up port of all the people, of theae surrounding towns. Speaking of Dundee, it has lesa reason t remain cut of Omaha than any ot the other towns. Its farthest, western limits ar about a mil nearer to th heart of Omaha than la th northern boundary Hno of tho city. Th otber town have complete school facilities, which it haa not They encourage the establish ment of all kinds of business tn their midst, which It does trot la no sens la Its condition similar to theirs. Bom ot th cltlaon of Dundee take active part la the affair ot Omaha. What right bav they to d thla. if tbe atLto.le of a very few selfish Mllagera la correct? What righ: hae Joh i I (arte. Who Uvea there, to secure contracts for tbtlc buildings In Omnha? What right haa C. C. George, who Uvea ther. to constitute himself an active factor In beautifying Omaha? What right ha If. W. Morrow, who Irres 11. ere. to be writ ing euch splendid letter to Omaha paper, calling attention to the short comlnga of Omaha's city government? What right haa N. P. Dodge, who Uvea ther. to dlaturb himself about honest elections 'n Omaha and to Interest I..m eelf an earnestly In the betterment of this splendid city? Why all the fentlo raen have tho right to rto what they are doing, because they recognise that above aome private Interest there la higher Interest and that. Is to ccntrihutc tc the advancement of the city that supplies them their only means ot livelihood. I hope thee splendid rltlxena will as sert In no mistaken tone their recogni tion of thla higher right and nobler atti tude In joining In an effort to make of Omaha the moat glorious city of the west. I ought to add that I. too, live in Dun dee, but am glad to acknowledge that try highest allegiance la to the city where my Interests am nd where I earn every, dollar I receive. U J. QCINBY. Thlnha Gerwiam lewa Overdraw... OMAHA, Dc. gTo the Editor of The Bee: Your correspondent, A. I Meyer, display a great deal of bad temper when ever vlewa nre expressed that conflict with hla. The free expression of ao much abuse and 111 nature is hurting the friends of Germany In Omaha, and confirming! In the mind of neutral the chargea of arrogance, conceit and of fensive manners, which have been made against, the Germans. I gvatly admire your correspondent for hs layaity to Germany, but not hla manner of expression, and I think that If ha will exercise a little more self con trol he will be able to win over many friemda to the Cause for which Germany Is fighting. A. W. BULLARD. Staade for II U Oplalvns. SOUTH OMAII4 - tw w .i.- Editor of The Bee.-lf you think you ught to cut my article down, of course . vu.i.,t oojeci. aa you huve a right to ay what aha 11 and a h. ah.ii nn v.. but I do object to having thing printed . way not meant by me. In my artlcte on "Democratic Disas ters." i .aid ln part. .. the QwmanB take cars of the Belgians, whom they have despoiled of homes and sustenance to the disgrace of the world tn the un called warfare upon them." Tou cut out all after Belgian and made It appear aa I have not a particle of sympathy with th Belgians, when, aa a rostter of fact. I am atrongly In aym pathy with them and think tK n.rm.n. hard no right or Juat reason to invade me neutral neigian kingdom. Tou have' printed far worse attack on the Germane than t wrote and far worse attacka on the allies In the. letter Mr. Meyer has written so numerously In the last four months, r felt that what I meant to aay waa changed completely by leaving out the last clause In regard to tbe Belgians. r I am willing Jo atand for my opinions In regard to the war, for I firmly be lieve that the German emperor could have stopped the war If he had not been watching for the chance to conquer tho whole of Europe. I remember of reading maay yeara ago when Emperor Bill first became tbe head of the German empire that it was feared that he would start a general war In Europe, and never have forgotten what I read then. F. A. AGNEW. LINES TO A LAUGH. "VVhv are you plunr'ng In chicle and rubber today?' Inqu.ied the New York broker. "ltd a hunch." exclaimed the cus tomer. Heard an old farmer say, 'By surn' Just now as I rsme through Wall street. Ioulsville Courier-Journal. "Mr. Rllggina . terribly suplctou of hat he sees In print." "Yea,'' replied Mlse Cayenne: "the lan guage he tinea would Indicate that he doesn't even believe what he eeea ln the dictionary." Washington Star. "Some thlnge can 'only be seen at Christmas," sentimentally remarked Mr. BK'.l. "That's a fart." agreed the practical Mr. Skittles. "For Instance, the duat the Janitor brushea off your arm. "Quite a lot of doctora writing for the Masrnzine these days." "Yee, and it's a aurorlse to me. too. "Whv pnV "I didn't know a doctor could write anything that nnvbody could read except a druggist." Cincinnati Knquirer. "Anil r. t Vis iHvavm l.wa aa very llh- eral In your section?" "Liberal? Savl They are ao iinerai that nobod ever heard oT a woman cry ing at a wedding out there. Detroit Jour nal. Mrs. Flatbuah Mv husband gave me a retboy kisa laat night. Mra. Beneonhurat-What kind of a kla la thrt? ' - Mra. Flatbuah One that follows a itorm. Brooklyn Cltlaen. Mr. Rural I wnt vou to kill couple of Thicker for dinner. Kmr i'iuiIi Hate from the cltvl Te. mi'im. Which car shall I do It with? Puck. "Marv toliowed Kdward." mumbled the high school girl, who wsa trying to fix the sovereiirn of Enaland In her mind. "What's that?" spoke up grandma, who hed been dmlng. "Mary foTTowed Edward." "Then you keen away from Mary. ' fln't want vou to go w'th them kind. Girls 1 getting too told." Louisville Courier-Journal ''Hubby, can you pay me back that dollar you borrowed from me?" "But. mv dear," he protested. "T have already paid It back twice. Surely you don't exnect It aaain." "Oh. all right. If you are aa mean aa all that." Louisville Courier-Journal. "Parrots come from South America, don't they?" ' f believe so." "Then what land doea the raven com from?' "Why, from Poe-lar.d." Chicago Post. CHRISTMAS LAND. Besteat dishes, liOvely doll. Cutest store. Noisy poll, Pinging top. Jumping frog, Crowing rooster, . Barking dog. Mischievous monkeja, Building blocks, Hook and' ladder. Tuneful clocks. Grinning clown. Sheep and crook. Roller skates, Picture book. Toy piano. Kicking mule. Walking bear. Chest o' tools. Ticking watch. Kleuhant. stag. Fiddle, drum. Horn and flag. Bn and arrow. Sword and gun. Nine-pin set. Heap o' fun. Maglo lantern. , Funny mask. Ark and airship. Dray and caak. Glittering wlndowal Santa Clans' Little children Look annNpauae'. Daxxling sight. Gee! So grand! ' Tova and toya - c ' If Christmas Land. -XLUB F. VERNON. Priscilla waa won by Alice Roberts 4001 Charles St.. ' who sent us 1089 pictures. She is 8 years and attends Franklin School. The second doll was won by Marie Conrad, 2527 Decatur, with 873 pictures. She Is 5 years old and, attends Franklin School Kin dergarten. . . Mary King, TOO N. 41st St., was third with 703 pictures. v She is 7 years old and attends Saunders School, 4th Grade. The little girls worked so hard this week that we added two extra dolls; the 4th one for Edith Sanberg, 2913 Charles, who bad 6S7 pictures and the 5th doll to Lucile Anderson 1604 N. 34th St., who had OA1 pictures. 3 MORE DOLLS For Our Busy Little Bees EDITH, MERLE and CATHLENE Edith is tall and stately and has a charming disposi tion, so kind and gentle and sweet;" that's the way she looks, anyway, and you will think the ame when you look into those deep brown eyes of hers. Of course, only one little girl can win Edith, so we are giving Merle and Cathlene as second and third prizes. They are not quite so big and pretty as Edith, but you will be surprised when you see how nice they really are. Thee den will be give free to th 11 Wis sir la, aadea is years of -, the krtag os aaaUl the . largest amber f SoU's ptotare a nS of th Daily aaS Saaaay m before 4 p. satacaay, So esaser la. Edith's picture will be in The Bee every day this week. Cut them all out and ask your friends to save the pic tures in their paper for you too. See how many pictures of Edith you can get, and be sure to turn thera in to The Bee office before 4 p. m., Saturday, December 12. It you dont win one of these Dollies pcrhapa yon can get one next week. Only one doll will he given to say ons person. You can sec Edith at the D. F. Corte Furniture Co., 24th and Farnam A -:. , , U .eW... ' . ' V7T I S f t