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VOL. XLV NO. 307.
OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1916.
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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.
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'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.
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(Bunker Hill day), Manager Jamee Calla
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