THE BEE:' OMAHA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1917.
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The prevailing discussion of "dry" bills does
not necessarily mean that the discussion is dry.
-, Fears of an invasion of Switzerland in winter
may be discounted. Avalanches move too easily.
Pity the poor movies! The lamentations at
the eastern end of the screen suggest the need
of a national collection.
Eight of the eleven members of the leak com
mittee are lawyers. Still they had to hire a law
yer ta do the quizzing.
No time should be lost if Nebraska is to bene
fit itsslf and receive the benefit of federal aid in
the construction of permanent highways.
Talk about reduced coal prices is clearly out
of order in cold weather. The subject properly
comes under the head of unfinished spring busi-
Seeing that Ohio went headlong for the man
"who kept us out of war," starring a judicial war
on those who pushed the road roller smacks of
political ingratitude. I
The Congress of Constructive Patriotism plans
a reserve army of 20,000,000 men for the United
States. The task maps the Ideal, permanent loca
tion for the sign: "This is my busy day."
Japan's legislative body persisted in fighting
administration measures and won the emperor's
peremptory discharge. The incident no doubt
attracts silent admiration In some quarters at
Washington. -: -; . .' f t '
An incautious Missourian asked W. J. Bryan
if his hat is in the 1920 presidential ring. Instantly
the quizzer encountered a voiceless frost resem
bling that which enveloped Champ Clark's houn'
dawg at Baltimore..
- President Wilson's advocacy of an interna
tional police force to maintain peace is another
way of hinting that considerable water passed
under the bridge since Washington warned his
countrymen against "entangling alliances."
Europe no doubt will welcome with restrained
glee the proposed two-bit dieting scheme of the
White House. Any means of diverting the presi
dential mind from foreign conversations throws a
rainbow of relief over warring chancellories.
President Wilson administered a timely re
buke to the Marylandera who imagined they
knew exactly what the country needs in the way
of military measures Emulating the tailors of
Tooley street doesn't get very far in this country.
Official returns indicate a growing use of cig
arets among women. Many millions of last year's
output were manufactured expressly for the fem
inine half. The steady invasion of man's domain
in recent years raises serious doubts as to the
safety of the pipe.
Talk about government ownership as a cure
all for railroad ills drips from the lips of solons
as readily as a motion to spend public money.
The chief feature of the talk is the confidence
shown in the ability of politicians to run any kind
of a job with a salary attached.
Indignation of the dry variety is at the steam
ing point at Missouri's capital. Managers of a
semi-official luncheon to W. J. Bryan surrounded
the guest of honor with sinful "wets," leaving the
"drys cooling their heels in the vestibules. For
tunately the affair passed off without raising the
roof.
Dreams of Empire
Watch Omaha's Smoke!
Onulu is more optimistic of its future tortaj
than it was ever before and with good reason.
Omaha has been forging ahead with steady and
quickened pace for several years, but today it has
big tilings ahead that are sure to make it move
even faster.
One of the most noticeable and noteworthy
factors of this expansion, which includes all the
varied activities of the community, commercial,
financial, civic, educational, charitable, is the
closer co-operation of the different elements
whose interests are identified with its growth and
permanent prosperity. This is the spirit that
builds and betters big cities. While this spirit has
never been wanting in Omaha, it has sometimes
lagged, but it is now thoroughly aroused and active
and energetic and certain to produce unexampled
results. This speeding up for teamwork and
combined effort impresses strangers visiting
Omaha more than it does our own people- and
not only elicits from them favorable comment
but spurs them on to spread the gospel of Omaha
abroad which, in turn, helps to increase the pres
tige and attracts to us the attention of live-wire
people everywhere.
Omaha can well say, in the popular lingo:
"Watch our smoke I"
Waakfcxtaa fail
Something like three years ago the steamshin
Liberia sailed from an American port bearing to
the coast of Africa a freight of passengers, headed
ny one tving sam, to wnom tney gave the hom
age due an apostle and a crochet. The object waft
lo found in the land from which their ancestors
came a black man's kingdom.
N'ow the Liberia is back at Brooklyn, after
having been salvaged off the west coast of the
dark continent, where it was abandoned by King
jam ana ms louowers. Alas tor tne dusky Ar
gonauts I The greater portion of them has died
from hardships. Tropical fevers, the hookworm
and sleeping sickness are fast doing for the rest
Those that are left are scattered anions- th na
tive villages. The reversion to type is working
its inexorable course. The kingdom has vanished.
The retrieved steamer, with its "holy room," into
which King Sam was wont to withdraw for "me
diation," has come back to its own, where pos
sible it will be overhauled and made to serve less
renowned out more practical purposes in the field
of commonolace trade.
v. It were easy to foretell the outcome of this
grotesque combination of ambition and fanati
cism or to speak of it as a parody on the high
emprise that has won continents in a better
day. Based on an indefinite object, depending for
iu iircngin on a rarm 01 appeal tnat had wrought
mightly at previous periods in the world's history,
but which gets nowhere in the age of deliberate
and mechanical achievement, the adventure was
doomed to failure. In empire building the "holy
man" of today has his headquarters in some sky
scraper office building. Over the portals of his
door the only talismanic words inscribed to ward
off the undesirable are ''No admittance."- His
subpropheta are captains and lieutenants. of fi
nance, the minor priesthood carry tripods and
levels and make maps and the puff of the locomo
tive and the glare of the first new factory are the
pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by
milht.
Washington's "Coronation" Ceremonies.
Debate in the United States senate over the
extravagance of the quadrennial inauguration ex
ercises is not likely to excite much of sympathetic
response from the great American public. Our
folks dearly love to see a parade and especially
are partial to putting their officials on exhibition,
that they may applaud what they voted for. The
ending of one administration and the beginning
of another is of sufficient moment to warrant its
being marked by a demonstration of popular re
joicing. Calling it a "coronation" isn't going to
alter the fact that people want it and in order to
get it are willing to travel long distances and
submit with something of grace to the extortions
practiced by the innkeepers of the capital. This
spirit isn't confined to America, nor to the present
age; it has existed in all times and among all
peoples. Veteran senators, who have seen quite
a succession of presidents, may have lost inter
est in the inaugural parade, but if they will look
out of the window on the Sth of March next
they will see Pennsylvania avenue pretty well
filled up with folks whose interest in the event
is still keen. "Coronations" may come more fre
quently and with more of regularity in this coun
try than abroad, but are none the less proper oc
casions for display.
Tinkering at the Adamaon Law.
The Adamson law, having served its primary
purpose of swinging a large number of needed
votes to the democratic candidate in the late elec
tion, is now the subject of a double-barreled ex
amination. The supreme court has before it the
question of the validity of the law, while congress
is concerned with so amending it as to make it
workable, if the court eventually decides it to be
good. No better example of the danger of hasty
action by a law-making body was ever afforded.
This bill was rushed through congress under du
ress and signed by the president with a flourish,
only to develop structural weaknesses showing
faults to be expected when no more of serious
thought is given to a law than this one had in the
making. Even now, with most of its defects made
plain, its friends are at a loss as to how it may be
patched in order that it may accomplish something
of relief for all parties to a possible interruption
of railroad traffic. It is plain that no compulsory
arbitration act, as suggested by the president, will
be enacted by congress, nor will the right to
strike be taken from the men. Other amendments
are of a nature that will make the law more un
wieldy, complicated and consequently difficult of
application. Achieving promised reforms through
legal enactment Is nearly as hard work for the
democrats as raising money on which to run the
government.
' "Unrestrained" Criticism.
President Wilson's rebuke to a visiting delega
tion because of lack of restraint in its criticism
of the National Guard touches a national habit.
It is characteristic of Americans to rush out su
perlatives on any occasion, temperance of ex
pression being lost in the zeal or enthusiasm of
the speakers. Bodies adopt "ringing resolutions,"
the resonance depending on the amount of vitu
peration or excess of verbal calories and generally
find that the effort amounts to about as much as
did the storied curse launched by the cardinal
lord archbishop of Rheims:
There never was heard such a terrible curse.
But what gave rise to no little surprise,
No one seemed one penny the worse.
Freedom of speech should not be interpreted
as license nor does argument consist in invective,
or vituperation take place of reason. The majesty
of our language is found in its simplicity, its flexi
bility and its response to all our needs. Criti
cism may be made most effective when its expres
sion is kindly rather than ol a controversial char
acter andtia helpful only insofar as it is construe
tive. Some day Americans may learn to substi
tute logic for abuse in dealing with public men
and public questions.
More Money for Good Roads.
Secretary Houston of the Department of Agri
culture has just announced an apportionment of
$10,000,000 among the states for the purpose of
encouraging good roads construction. Ne
braska's share in this is $213,541. the availability
of which depends upon the activity of the state
in road-building. A number of bills for new
road laws have been presented to the legisla
ture, but so far all have been on lines that will
perpetuate the most undesirable features of the
present system. Local control is one of these.
If the experience of the state is any basis for
judgment, local or county control of road con
struction is condemned by its results. It per
mits expression of district notions as to what
constitute serviceable highways, but it forbids
uniformity, tends to increase cost and seldom
achieves permanence. These are three essentials
,in a serviceable highway system. Nebraska will
undoubtedly take advantage of the federal appro
priation, even under the archaic system or rather
lack of system that prevails, and the agitation
will continue until some day the state will have
as much pride in its highways as it has in its other
possessions.
Both Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Bryan
condemn the proposed League to Enforce Peace,
while President Wilson and former President
Taft favor the plan. This lineup mikes senator
ial debate unnecessary as a means of gauging
American sentiment.
New Taxes on Industry
New York Financial World
By April 1 next I'ncle Sam will be penniless,
if the present rate of outgo of revenue is main
tained until that time. We as a nation are at
peace, but we arc preparing for war, even if we
do not expect it. and it is costing a pretty penny.
Therefore the lawmakers at Washington who
prepared the "pork" barrel treasury-milking
scheme and voted hundreds of millions for $25,
000,000 warships and other shooting things, have
decided to issue about $23,000,000 three months'
treasury bills to tide the treasury over to the mid
year tax period, and also on an increase of in
ternal revenue taxation. The inheritance tax at
present taxes estates of decedents according to
the amount devised, the highest tax being 10 per
cent. The highest rate in the new legislation is to
be 15 per cent, and smaller estates will pay an
increase of 5 per cent. With many states taxing
inheritances very heavily at present, it is clear
the lawmakers are still persistent in efforts to get
after big estates. The tax that will be felt mostly
by all business, big and little, however, is that
which is adapted from the English and Canadian
war measures the "excess profits" tax. A tax of
trom 5 per cent to 8 per cent on all prohts ot
both individuals and corporations which are in ex
cess of 8 per cent on the capital invested will be
levied, according to the plan, and the measure will
be passed before March 4. 1 he excess profits tea-
ture will, however, not go into effect until January
1, 1918. The tax Will work out this way: buppose
a business with $100,000 capital makes $15,000
annually. The excess over 8 per cent is $7,000
and the tax on the $7,000 will be from $350 t&
$560.
Whether wisely or unwisely, the United States
has decided to wear gloves of mail, and the, law
having directed that the bids for the warships to
be authorized shall be advertised "immediately,"
the secretary of the navy is finding he has to pay
war prices for everything and is very wroth there
at. He should blame congress for having forced
him into a rush "preparedness" program. The
shipbuilders cannot buy their raw material at
peace prices, nor can the secretary do so, should
he elect to build the ships, or some of them, in
government yards. It is the same thing with
building up our coast defenses everything en
tering therein is sky-high in price and likely to
remain so until the feverish buying, both at home
and abroad, lets down. If congress would only
exercise ordinary business prudence and make its
expenditures fit its income and cut out the pork,
the present taxes, which are burdensome enough
in all conscience, would be sufficient to meet the
national outgo. Letting contracts for a host of
warship all at once when it is certain the ship
yards of the country, overcrowded as they are,
cannot build them and yet keep taith witn tne
shipping industry and complete vessels ordered
long ago is about as senseless as ordering a
dozen eggs for breakfast when one or two sup
plies the need.
Real and Sham Drys
-New York Timea
Not without sympathy for the sorrows of
Superintendent Holsapple of the South Dakota
Anti-Saloon league, the Times hopes that the
South Dakota legislature will oass a "bone dry"
prohibition law. Limited prohibition is a compro
mise with Satan, a misnomer, a half-way measure
that no true dry should consent to since the
Webb-Kenyon law has been sustained by the
supreme court. Mr. Holsapple is for a law that
will allow each South Dakotan a quart of whisky
and a case of beer a month.
Whatever be the size of the allowance, it must
not be allowed! Prohibition must prohibit. If the
forces of evil say it can't, if they want absolute,
not limited, prohibition, it is because they disbe
lieve in the rugged resolution ot bouth Dakota.
They think that while she is willing to consent
to a false prohibition which shuts the saloon, but
permits domestic tippling, she would rebel against
a dry home. They wrong her. She is prepared
for the best. The tolerant and easy-going Mr.
Holsapple, better calculated for these latitudes
than for severer South Dakota, hears the ominous
growing thunder of the true prohibitionists. "I
would head a movement to close every
church door against the Anti-Saloon league," a
clergyman tells the Sioux Falls Argus-Lcader.
Mr. Holsapple cannot shelter himself in the name
"Anti-Saloon." The genuine drys will inform
him that the home mustn't be made a saloon.
Wealth Possession As a Trust
-Chicago Tribune
Almost no Opposition has been evoked by the
apparent intention of the administration to raise
both income and inheritance taxes. No orators
are out calling property holders to arms and no
tax reform advocates, a vociferous set at their
quietest, are rallying their forces. The proposal
to increase these taxes, like their original impo
sition, has been taken with amazing calmness.
The United States does not realize that it is
on the way to accomplish a social revolution.
Inheritance and income taxes are convenient
sources of revenue, it is true. The government
needs money. But their acceptance as means of
getting money implies the acceptance of a signi
ficant philosophy of wealth. It almost means that
we think of wealthy men chiefly as trustees of
national wealth and not absolute owners of it.
We accept their trusteeship because they have
earned their way to it. We will not accept wholly
trusteeship by their children.
The dangers of concentration of wealth are
generally recognized and have been for years.
But we have adopted a means of diffusion, a
method of correction, quite unconcernedly. There
has been no blowing of trumpets. No popular
orator has taken up with the subject as a means
of regenerating America. With all our evange
listic treatment which social taxation offers, we
have accepted a great refdrm without hysteria and
uproar. The United States is getting on.
People and Events
A list of contributors to a new weekly in
New York includes the names of George Louis
Beer and Felix Frankfurter. The combination in
sures a literary picnic.
The "leap year girl of Toledo," Miss Florence
Stevens, didn't land the man. but she landed a
judgment of $8,000 against Edgar J. Leucks for
damages to her heart. Some 500 letters of fluffy
stuff turned in by Leucks convinced the jury that
Florence won a financial renovator.
Aurora, 111., wove an aurora of curiosity about
a show window decorated with new potatoes at
$0 a bushel. The spuds, jewelry-like, reposed in
beds of cotton, half covered with sanitary
pajamas, and never batted an eye as throngs
shifted their gaze from the fruit to the price tag.
The Elgin Watch company has just effected
the largest group of settlements under the Illi
nois workmen's compensation law. About $50.
000 was disbursed among families of twenty em
ployes who met death by diphtheria and typhoid
fever through drinking polluted water from the
artesian well of the company's factory.
A truly-for-sure bone dry measure drafted by
the attorney general has been submitted to the
Kansas legislature. Should the bill become a law,
anybody caught bringing the demon into the
state wins a fine of from $100 to $1,000 for each
offense and from 30 to 365 days in jail. Corpora
tions hauling the stuff are subject to the above
schedule of fines.
Although 300 serious-minded delegates to the
women's department of the National Civic fed
eration in New York heard world-problems dis
cussed, one silent woman commanded more atten
tion than the orators. Miss Anne Morgan
touched off a cigaret and the smoke curl sent
to the ceiling caught the eyes of the crowd. It
I was the only smudge in sight.
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taken before bedtime and followed by
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One Ymr Ago Today ia the War.
British compulsory service act re
ceived royal ajutent.
KuHsia claimed failure nf Austrian
attacks In Oalicia.
Germans claimed new ut:(?ca in
Artois, where groat battle was reported
in projrreBs.
Hritish delivered orjranized bom
bardmentu, damaging German lines
along western front.
Cnited States made public it note
of protest against British interference
with the mails.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Mrs. Charles Powell gave a small
lunch party, at which she was assisted
by her daughter, Mrs. Nichols. Those
present were Mrs. Doane, Mrs. Rod
dis, Airs. Wakeley, Mrs. Kountze and
Mrs. Woolworth.
Ten of the members of Triangle
lodge, Knights of Pythias, gave a ban-
quest at C. S. Wiggins on Douglas,
Marry Merriam presiding.
Mrs. Goldsmith gave a receptlun in
honor of her daughter, Mrs. I. M. Ap
pel of Denver. They were assisted in
receiving by Mrs. Hellman, Mrs. Max
Meyer, Miss Lake, Miss Newman and
Miss gonnahlll.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Moores en
tertained the Butterfly club at their
handsome new home on south ElBht
eenth. Those present were Mr. and
Mrs. Black, Dr. and Mrs. Coffman,
Misses Curtis, Wakeley, Doane, Fonda,
Hlmebaugh, Morse, Mansfield, Hef
fley, Trematne, Sharp, Coburn, Cran
dall; Messrs. Cook, Rogers, Moores,
McCormick, Rustin, Redick, Smith,
Clark, Stephens, Fonda, Griffltts,
Marsh, Keller, Heal! and O'Reilly.
Miss Nealy Stevens played for the
members of. the Ladies' Musical soci
ety. Mrs. Balbach is at work on a large
painting of Niagara Falls which shows
considerable dash and vigor.
Mrs. C. R. Coleman gave a very
pretty luncheon, entertaining the fol
lowing guests: Mr. and Mrs. J. II.
Daniels, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. J. C. Whin
nery, Mrs. Allan Koch. Mrs. Dr. Kuhn
and Mrs. P. B W. Cooke.
This Day in History.
1679 First Are engine received in
Boston from England.
1689 Indians attacked Dover, N.
H., and massacred many of the set
tlers. 1756 Mozart, who was a world gen
ius in music, born at Salzburg, Aus
tria, Died in Vienna December 5,
1791.
1785 Charter granted the Univer
sity of Georgia.
. 1830 Webster delivered his famous
speech in reply to Hayne.
1840 Commodore Isaac Chauncey,
distinguished naval officer of the war
of 1812, died In Washington, D. C.
Born at Black Rock, Conn., Feb. 20,
1772.
1880 Incandescent lamp patented
by Thomas A. Kdison.
1888 Marquis of Salisbury resigned
the British premiership.
1893 James O. Blaine, statesman,
died in Washington, D. C. Horn at
West Brownsville, Pa, January 31,
1830.
1900 Foreign ministers to China
demanded the suppression of the Box
ers and other hostile secret societies.
1901 German emperor was made a
field marshal of the British army.
1905 Largest diamond in the world
was discovered in the Premier mine, in
South Africa. '
1906 New railway from the Nile to
the Red Sea opened by Lord Cromer.
1909 Secretary Root and Ambas
sador Bryce signed the Newfoundland
fisheries treaty.
The Day Wet Celebrate.
Dr. F. J. Despecher, the dentist, is
Just turning his fiftieth year. He was
born in Paris and is in sympathy a
Frenchman through and through, with
numerous relatives In the trenches.
Merle C. Rush, clerk in the rural
mail service, is celebrating his fortieth
birthday today. He halls from Mount
Pleasant. Ia.
John T. Dillon, attorney, was born
January 27, 1854, at Roseville, 111. He
prides himself on having always been
a staunch republican.
William II, German emperor and
king of Prussia, born at Potsdam fifty-eight
years ago today.
Kev. Thomas Nicholson, one of the
new bishops of the Methodist Epis
copal church, born at Woodburn, On
tario, fifty-five years ago today.
Samuel Gompcrs, president of the
American Federation of Labor, bord
In London sixty-seven years ago today.
Rt. Rev. Lenox Mills, Angelicah
bishop of Ontario, born at Wodatock,
Ontario, seventy-one years ago toda,
George Nox McCain, well-known
traveler and, lecturer, born at Alle
gheny City, Pa., sixty-one years ago
today.
Albert Wickland. former Federal
league base ball player, last season
with Indianapolis American associa
tion team, born In Chicago twenty
seven years ago today.
Meat Packer and Farmer.
Stromsberg, Neb., Jan. 24. To the
Editor of the Bee: Most people think
the packers are the cause of the high
price of meat, but it is quite the con
trary. In cities if it was not for the
packers the meat industry would be so
uncertain that production of meat
would be a hazard which the New
England states could not afford to in
vest in. If it were not for the pres
ent plan or standard of marketing no
banker could afford tu loan money to
farmers to feed stock. If we had not
central markets where could a stock
man ship his stock without taking a
gambler's chance of not being able to
sell? Supposing that every city had a
public abattoir, do you think it would
make the stockman sure of a mar
ket? It would not. The markets one
week would be high and the next week
there would not be any market at all.
As it is the packer is the farmer's
friend and in his cheap plan of dis
tribution he is a blessing to the con
sumer as well as the farmer.
H. J. SMITH.
Timely Jottings and Reminder.
The fifty-eighth birthday anniver
sary of the kaiser will be celebrated
today in Germany.
Women in New Orleans are to give
u "famine parade" today as a protest
against the high cost of living.
St. Paul's second annual carnival
of winter sports is to be formally
opened today with a grand parade of
marching clubs. The carnival will
continue through the coming week.
"Blly" Sunday and his party of
evangelists arrive In Buffalo today and
on Sunday will begin an eight weeks'
campaign in that city.
Henry D. Kstabrook of New York
Is to be the chief speaker at the an
nual dinner of the' Kansas State Bar
association in Topeka tonight.
I'nlon labor in New York City has
arranged for a golden anniversary
dinner to be given Sunday evening in
honor of Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
the occasion marking Mr. Oomper's
Bixty-seventh birthday, the fiftieth an
niversary of his wedding and the com
pletion of half a century of activity in
the organised labor movement.
Sloryettp of the Day.
When Governor Head wan In of
fice in New Hampshire, Colonel Bar
rett of the governor's staff died and
there was an unseemly scramble for
the office, even while his body was
awaiting burial with military honors.
One candidate ventured to call upon
Governor Head.
"Governor,' he asked, "do you think
you would nave any objections if I
were to get into Colonel Barrett's
place?"
The answer came promptly. "No.
I don't think I should have any ob
jections. If the undertaker is willing."
Boston Transcript.
Need of Healthful Amusements.
Blair, Neb., Jan. 25. To the Editor
of The Bee: There is considerable
agitation against the pool halls as con
ducted today as places of amusement
and recreation, with the thought that
boys and young men are traveling a
downward road at a twentieth cen
tury pace, according to the opinion of
some mothers who express their ideas
in these columns.
While evils may arise from this
source, the writer is not just exactly
ready to believe the entire foundation
of wrecked lives of youth is made from
this material. It may be true that sin
plows the furrow across the brow, but
it is believed that disrespect for moth
ers' commands and counsels of "young
America" today has an important
bearing on the subject
Legitimate amusements should ob
tain in hours of recreation and the
pool hall as conducted today may not
be the best, but there is a chance of
evolution, and we still believe we are
superior to some races where bull
fighting is a pastime. Let fathers
and mothers of the present age learn
to "shun every appearance of evil,"
injecting same into the minds and
heart of youth, and the organized min
istry of the day will be out of a Job.
With the closing of the pool halls and
Nebraska "dry as a bone" after the
1st of May, the tightening cords of
the perfect law of liberty will be felt
as never before. A correspondence
school of commonsense may be helpful
some fine day in quieting social unrest
that has mothers and others guessing,
with ancient hens like the one cack
ling in Agnew's backyard furnishing
the principal topic, and eventually the
little child shall lead them who now
hang around the pool hall to a moth
er's sorrow. In that day it is believed
the hand that rocks the cradle will
show its true power and morals of
society agreeably improve.
T. J. AITCH.
Tagore and Peshkoff.
Omaha, Jan. 25. To the Editor of
The Bee: Lieutenant Peshkoff, the
Russian, in his modest way, gave us
a vivid description of the life of a sol
dier in modern trenches, a life full
of monotony and excitement, a life
tilled with drudgery and ingenuity, a
life devoted to the art of killing and
reviving of the -nearly dead, a life full
of hatred and love, a life teeming with
all imaginable cruelties and sympa
thies, a life devoted to one ideal to
save his country to fight for it, yea,
to die for it.
Every soldier is proud of his coun
try, proud of his nation of which he
is a part. He is imbued with a great
ideal patriotism.
It is true Lieutenant Peshkoff did
not fight with his compatriots. He en
listed in a foreign land, lost his right
arm by a bullet from the gun of the
enemy, who was fighting his compa
triots on their native soil. He told
us that this cruel and gruesome, hor
rid and terrible war does not brutal
ize men, that the better part of hu
manity is not lost or forgotten even in
the midst of the carnage. Soldiers of
opposite sides help each other when
disabled and powerless to help them
selves, even If a moment ago they
were enemies trying to kill each other,
but as soon as the battle is over they
are no longer enemies, they are broth
ers ready to assist each other and
comfort the stricken.
The love for the beautiful and noble
is not dulled or obliterated by the ter
rible scenes and surroundings which
stare the soldier in the face every min
ute of his life in the trenches. At his
leisure moments he creeps out from
the dugouts to listen to the beautiful
songs of the birds who are singing
the return of the spring and the awak
ening of a new life full of hope and
sunshine. Every soldier is proud of
his comrades, proud of his country,
ready to die for it, ready to sacrflce
his life for the one great idea nation
alism, patriotism.
But now comes Tagore, the Hindu
philosopher, poet and seer, and cruelly
shatters all of our ideals, all of our
idols in which we believe and which
we teach our children to believe, of
which we are proud, of which we
boast our nation nationalism.
Tagore does not believe in it; Ta
gore decries it; denounces it as some
thing wrong, something of a monstros
ity, something that is harmful and
something which should be eradicated.
Nationalism, to his mind, is brutal;
nationalism is selfish, egotistic, de
structive; nationalism is immortal.
That is Tagore's philosophy, his cult,
his creed.
To which of the two conceptions
would you adhere?
I, for one, would rather follow the
creed and cult that teaches us that
nations, like individuals, put idealism
before materialism and material pros
perity must not dominate spiritual
welfare, and in our mad race for ma
terial aggrandizement we must not
sacrifice idealism and ideals. We must
believe in nationalism as one of the
noblest achievements of mankind for
which it is worth fighting or even dy
ing. Without nationalism there can
not be patriotism and without patriot
ism there is no object in life.
Power, wealth and riches in nations,
as in individuals, are passing, while
moral and spiritual achievements and
endeavors are lasting and enduring.
DR. E. HOLOVTCHINTSR.
THE NON-MILITANT.
New York World.
I love my A. B, X, Y, Z,
In Alffpbra arrayed;
I love the dotted heavens to ae
In antral charts displayed;
O'er IiOffie'n page I gladly pore.
Of History I rave
No tutor here can glvo me more
Then from my soul I crave.
My books hold charms,
But "Shoulder arms?"
Not e'en my soul to save!
I love the Rchool-room's ordered hush
Of platform, desk and aisle
The thought that through the silence rush
Like soldiers, file on file;
I love the discipline that holds
Rude youth within its grip
The ruling hand that firmly moulds.
Nor e'er is known to slip.
Such order's fine.
But 'Tall In line?M
Not e'en to save a ship!
I hold the school-flay purpose high,
The school-day privilege dear;
One casts Its flame across the sky.
The other rules the year,
I love the field of battling minds.
The sest of scholar' d strife,
My soul Us student glory finds
Where rivalries are rife,
Aim crowns the arch,
But "Forward march ?"
Not on my cultured life I
Things Humming These Days
At the 4 Sherman & McDonnell Drug Stores
The debris has all been cleared away at our Owl
Store, and nearly all articles advertised have been closed
out. This month has been a busy one for drug stores, and
we believe the people of Omaha have realized more than
ever the truth of our catch-line phrase :
"You Save Time and Money by Trading at the 4 Sherman
& McConnell Drug Stores."
Cigars by the Box
Black and White, a cigar sold
from ocean to ocean, we handle
in Club House, Londres, Invin
cible and Perfecto shapes; box
f 60 for $2.50
Have you smoked a Black and
White Cigar? Made in 4 sizes.
Nothing like it in America for
the money. 6c each for 1 or
same rate for a million.
Black and White Little Cigars,
10 for 15,
Black and White Tweenies, 10
for 10
Black and White Crushed Plug,
Per tin 10
Black and White Smoking Mix
ture 15,
Black and White Crushed Plug,
in large d-b. tins 35,
Get the Black and White habit.
It is pleasant and inexpensive.
El Paxo, a large, rich smoke, box
of 25 for 82.75
10c Roi-Tans, Sat, each, 5f
We are in position to make low
prices on standard cigars by the
box.
Foil Wrapped Manila Cigars,
Florentine size, box of 12, 75t
Lady Curzon Choice Domestic,
Invincible size, a mild smoke,
box of 25 for $2.00
La Providenc'a, Clear Havana, a
very small but choice cigar,
box of 60 for $2.00
Pletora, Choice Porto Rican,
makes a very full, rich smoke,
box of 50 for $3.50
Cubanoid, After Dinner size, a !
large, rich smoke, cannot be ,
excelled for the price; box of I
25 for $1.50
Cuba-Roma, Breva size, many I
cigars sold 3 for 25c are not 1
as good; box of 50 for $2.50
Chancellors, Imperial size, box
of 25 for $1.85
10c Humanas, Saturday, ea., 5 1
10c La Marcas, Saturday, ea., 5tf I
Standard Drugs and Toilets at Very Low Prices
JUSTERINE
$1.00 genuine Lambert's Listerine, for 64
25c Harmony Rice Powder 14
35c Castoria for 21t
25c Hays' Hair Health for 14
Bini Bronchilyptua (for coughs and colds.)
Free sample of this wonderful California remedy
may be had at our 16th and Dodge Streets Store Sat
urday. Mr. Binz, the maker of this meritorious prep
aration, in charge of demonstration.
Saturday is Candy Day at the
Rexall Stores.
(200 Items in this Line.)
About the Owl Store
The Owl Store is now bright and clean again. We had a won
derful sale of goods after the fire, and thousands of customers were
much pleased at the goods they were able to purchase at from 30c
to 50c on the dollar. We are restocking the shelves and show-cases
with goods from our own warehouse, where shipments of goods are
arriving from the manufacturers and importers at the rate of 12 to
15 shipments per day. We hope we shall never have another fire sale,
but if we do, we believe everybody will be pleasd if they can obtain
such bargains as were given this time. The downataira lunch room
(Owl's Nest), is now open, and as busy as ever. The Owl is some
"Bird."
Sherman & McConnell Drug Cc
Corner 19th and Faraam.
Corner 24th end Farnam.
The Harvard-
Corner 16th and Doda-e.
Corner 16th and Harner
The Owl.