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Part Two EDITORIAL SECTION Pages Eleven to Twenty The Omaha Daily Bee Thousands of Omaha families read The Bee exclusively. -'' If you want their trade advertise in The Bee. VOL. XLV NO. 307. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1916. On Train, at Hotel, is ewe ttuunis, et., le SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. 25,000 SIGN UP TO MARCHJN PARADE This Kumber Does Not Include the Women, and There Are Others to Hear Erom. BAH. GAMES TO STAET LATE A column of 25,000 persons for the patriotic parade next Wednesday aft ernoon ; is already in sight, with a number ' of the important organiza tions yet to be heard from. The lat est figures were again compiled by the committee at noon, when some further details of the parade were worked out. The estimate of 25,000 does not in clude the women's organizations, on which no definite figures can yet be obtained, nor does it include the di vision ot manufacturers who are also not yet ready to report numbers definitely. The improvement clubs also have not been heard from with a definite estimate as to numbers. Only a few of the many fraternal or ganizations that will march have as yet reported their numbers. The Odd Fellows report 500, the Modern Woodmen 500, and the Woodmen of the World 700. , To Assign Places Soon. It is as yet impossible to assign the places of assembling for the va rious divisions and sections, for Gen eral Harries says this will be im possible until definite figures are ob tainable as to the size of the respect ive divisions, so that ample room may be allowed in each section of the street to be allotted to them for as sembling. Joe Kelly suggested that the va rious employers urge as far as possi ble that their employes bring their own lunches on Wednesday in order to avoid the congestion and loss of time in trying to get to restaurants or to get to their homes for luncheon before the parade starts. This was accepted as a good suggestion. Commissioner Joe Hummel is to be asked not to allow any ball games to be started in the various parks before 4 o'clock at least? in order that the interest of as many as pos sible may be held strictly to the fiarade for the few hours that it may ast South Side, Too H. O. Edwards reported that 250 commission men from the Exchange building on the South Side would be in the parade. Albert Noe is to be marshal of the commission men. Jack Walters-, as marshal, is to head 750 stock yards men. Luther Drake is to be marshal of the bankers' sec tion, in which 300 are to march. J. H. Tyler reported for the retailers that there will be easily 2,500. Harry Tukey reported an estimate of 300 for the real estate men. City Commissioner Walter Jardine reported at least 700 in the municipal division, to say nothing of about 500 city employes, who will march in va rious other divisions - and 'sections with which they are closely affiliated in a fraternal way or some other con nection. The Bohemian societies are to aggregate 2,300 In number. The manufacturers, though they have not definitely reported yet, are looked to for 5,000. The Elks will have 2,000 in their division. The public utilities will yield 3,500. it is estimated. The fraternal bodies are looked to for anything from 4,000 to 8,000. Degree After Death To Thesis Author KiM in -Fight (Correapondenee ot th. Aseoolated Pres..) Paris, June 1. A posthumus degree of Doctor of Letters has been con ferred upon Pierre-Maurice Masson, head of the faculty of letters of Fri bourg, Switzerland, who was killed in action on April 16. Second-lieutenant of infantry in the French army since the beginning of the war, Mon sieur Masson was to have presented his thesis on "The Religion of Jean Jacques Rousseau" on March 4. Re tained at the front around Verdun, he was unable to leave his regiment on the date fixed and six weeks later he was dead. Masson's thesis contained an in teresting preface, written in the trenches, as follows: "It may appear impertinent or friv olous to amuse one s self correcting proofs while coming back from the advanced Unh, and still to think of books when it is the life of the na tion that is at stake. I have thought of that more than once. We must not, however, be scandalized to ex cess. When my men have passed -a night on the watch in the barbed-wire entanglements, . and when they go back into their forest, they relax into the genius of the arts of nearev thev carve canes, design gardens, tame and train' animals, turn themselves into silversmiths to carve, or form jewels out of the shells that have missed us. "I have followed their example. I have not fled from the diversion that offered itself to me, so to speak, like the souvenir rings that the men carve in the field." Two Villa Men Are Hanged at Deming Deming, N. M June 9. Francisco Alvarez and Juan Sanchez, two Villa followers, captured during the raid on Columbus March 9, were hanged here at 6:30 this morning. The men were hanged singly. Two companies of New Mexico state militia guarded the interior and approaches to the county jail. There was no attempt at disorder. The men convicted on charges of murder were led to the gallows singly. Both met their fate stoically, smoking cigarettes until they ascended the scaffold. They were accompanied by their spiritual adviser, Father Garnet of the Catholic church here. Asked ii the gallows if they had any state ment to make, each renli.ri "No" , Alvarez was first to face tha execu tioner, Sanchez following in a few minutes. Five 'Other Villa followers cbn demned to death were granted a re prieve by Governor W. C. McDonald for further investigation of their cases. . . DEBTS OF EUROPE PILE UP More Than Five Hundred Per Cent in Germany Since the Begin ning of Present War. GREAT BRITAIN COMES NEXT (Correepondence of the Aeeoclated Prw.) Pans, May 20. The records of the nationaj defense bonds at the minis try of finances show that the public is now bringing to the treasury an average of 50,000,000 francs cash a day in exchange for the short term obligations at 5 per. cent. This is more than 1,500,000,000 a month, or 18,000.000.000 a year, which is $3,000. 000,000 more than the war of 1870 cost. "That fact," says a high author ity on French finance, "show suffic iently, that the cautious French public is not alarmed by the financial re quirements of the French effort. "There was a period during the war when people, astounded by the proportions the conflict had taken, were inclined to say, 'It can't go on like that. Where will the money come from?' Yet it has gone on steadily increasing expenditures bil lions follows billions into the gulf of war, yet the money flows in. The truth is, that, after being shocked by the financial effort required, French men were astonished at the revela tion of their own resources." The deduction drawn by French financial experts generally is not only that French confidence is undismayed by the multiplication of the govern ment's debts, but that it is not money, but credit, which keeps the war, go ing, primarily. On the other hand, they point out, it is war that keeps money in continual circulation, hand ing it out to new creditors as fast as it is brought in by old ones in ex change for bonds. In this way the French public debt has gone from about 30,000,000,000 francs before the war to about 52,000,000,000, an in crease of nearly 62 per cent, but noth ing in proportion to the increase in the public debt of Germany, which is 515 per cent, and in Great Britain, which is 165 per cent. Increase in Debt. The public debts of the leading belligerent power's before the war and the percentages to which they have been increased as shown by figures available here, are as follows, in billions of francs and percentage of increase: ' Franca. Increase. Germany 6.226 tit). Great Britain 15,406 MSVfc Austria is. 70 7 Franca 91,(67 " (1 Rueele i 21,518 jsn Italy .'. 14,231 14 Calculated pel head of population-, the average debt of these six belliger ents has gone from 280 francs to 535 francs. France now owes 1,250 francs per head as compared with 800 francs before the war; Germany 590 francs as compared with 97 francs; Great Britain, 565 francs as against 342 francs. Riches of France. French economists have estimated the riches of France all the way from 250,000,000,000 to 350,000,000,000 francs. Taking 300,000,000,000 as a basis, it would mean 7,700 francs per SOME OF THE POWERS-THAT-BE, AT THE PROGRESSIVE CONVENTION Picture show eight of the nine members of the resol utions committee. From left to right, seated : Dwight B. Heard, W. P. Martin, Herbert Knox Smith, William Draper Lewi, Jamea R. Garfield. Standing: W. P. BlooUgood, William L. Ransom and Chester H. Rowell. aaeeeee5eSBae5e5a 'DO BIT,' BUT WON'T KILL 'EM British Nonoombatants Digging Irenehes Are Novel Spectacle. ARE NOT IN FEAR OF SHELLS head; with an income per head, not including salaries and wages, of 300 to 350 francs, while the interest charge on the increased debt now figures out at about 1,300,000,000 francs, or about 33 francs per head. While France paid 960,000,000 francs interest on her debt of 32,000, 000,000 francs before the war, her annual budget has gone, far above the 5,000,000,000 mark, or 128 francs a head. Those budgets were loaded by generous social legislation and liberalities of all kinds, such as were particularly favored by the paternal sort of state the French republic had become. It is pointed out that strict economy may take at least 1,500,000, 000 francs, out of those budgets in the future, covering the interest of 30,000,000,000 francs- new; debt -at 5 per cent. ' VICTIMS OF RED OAK ACCIDENT RECOVERING Red Oak, la., June 9. (Special.) Miss Edith Allensworth and Leland Replogle, who were seriously injured in an automobile accident here Mon day evening, are recovering, and it is thought that they will Sustain no iper manent injury from the accident. Mr. Replogle and Miss Allensworth, who were walking by the side of the road, were, struck by an automobile driven TODAY by J. R. James. Both were thrown several feet and Miss Allensworth was rendered unconscious and for some time it was thought she was dead. Mr. Replogle sustained a badly sprained back and two deep scalp wounds. A passing car picked up the injured young people and brought them to Red Oak. No blame is attached to anyone for the acci dent, as the rain was beating against the windshield and lights of Mr. Jones' car so hard that he was unable to see that road. (Corrtepondence of the Aeeoclated Preu.) British Headquarters in France, June "l Unique among all the the variegated units of the armies on the continent is the British non-combatant corps the conscientious objec tors, who do not want to fight, and who are not expected to fight. Not fear, but conscience is their reason for being excused. In England, where individual rights are so strongly recognized, the Quak er is not required to hear arms be cause it is against his religious scru ples. When compulsion was applied, an other class arose. They said1 they had conscientious scruples against the taking of life. If they would not fight, then they must work, the gov ernment decided. Where a man who enters the armv under normal condi tions must drill for many months be fore be is sent to the front, the con scientious objector is given a few days of drill, put in khaki and sent to France at once. There he wields the spade instead of the rifle. Same Pay as Fighters. "There are the N. C. C.'s -doing their bit," said their commander, an officer with a strip of colors on his breast, who had been in several cam paigns and was so badly wounded in this war that he was hardly fit for active service. "They get the same pay as the men in the trenches, and the same rations, with the extra al lowance of meat which is given to the laborers' ccn-ps." . At the time, the N. C, C.'s were engaged in some railway work. Vir tually all are men unused to manual labor; but though it was pretty hard at first, they said they would be in ured to it in time. The majority were clerks, and those who were not were usually shopkeepers.- Many were members of the Plymouth brethren, a sect which holds much the same views as the Quakers. These said that it was against their creed to fight, and they would not renounce their creed. They spoke quite frankly about the charge of cowardice, which is made against- them; and seemed to realize that, they were the anathema and laughing stock of the millions of their fellow countrymen who are offering their lives for Britain. "I do not want to kill anybody.' I do not believe in war," one said. As -n exponent of passive resistance he was ready to work at command, but no powers could make him fight "If we are sent up to work under shell fire, I think that you will find that most of us will not flinch," he added. Call Each Othar Mister. One of the unmilitary character istics which amuse the average Brit ish soldier is that the N. C C.'s all address one another as "Mister." One mentioned that their conversation around the mess table was very "in tellectual" and thoroughly enjoyable. "If you want any proof that Eng land is a free' country,", said a ser geant of regulars, "you have it in this ' lot. How much of a chance would a band of conscientious objectors . stand in the Germany army? Mean-, white, the fighting army protects . them from the enemy and from pub lic opinion. But let them have their way. There aren't many of them." A shirker may not suddenly be come a conscientious objector to es cape service. Anyone who aspires to the N. C. C: must prove that he held conscientious scruples against light ing before the war. One conscientious objector has already deserted. This backslider decided to fight, and he is back in England, drilling in a line regiment. - Cnanee for CaL Aa the Pirates play In Beaten. June IT, (Bunker Hill day), Manager Jamee Calla han will be expected to unload a few -patriotic uttarlnsa. 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