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Raiding schooners without warning gives a
touch of local color to ruthlessncss.
Five more weeks and Woodrow will have con
gress on hi hands.
The man behind the guns of armed neutrality
loom, large at a factor in coming evehti.
If Secretary Daniels practices what he preaches,
his Raleigh News and Observer becomes for the
craft a model of patriotic news suppression.
Road tragedies supplement road injuries in
underscoring the truth that heedless speeding
eventually lands at the hospital or the cemetery.
The five independent congressmen holding the
balance of power in the house will play in great
luck if they do not torpedo their hopes by de
manding too much.
Omaha's live biggest banks hold combined de
posits aggregating nearly $100,000,000. Just try
to imagine what yon would buy yourself with that
much spending money.
It is the irony of fate that a retired clown who
in his day achieved immense popularity in the role
Humpty-Dumpty falling off the wall should be
killed from a fall on a slippery sidewalk.
The county commissioners must unwittingly
have queered their own salary raise. No doubt
the lawmakers accepted their statement that the
treasury barely held enough for present stipends.
It is a rare day in legislative annals when
lawmakers fail to send tome wheat to legal mills.
The plan to annex railroad right-of-way to adja
cent farms insures considerable new business along
the line.
But if the supreme court hands down a decis
ion invalidating the Adamson eight-hour law, will
the president denounce the judges as "unpatriotic"
for refusing to make the constitution fit hit pet
measure?
The railway mail clerks are not the real suf
ferers, from the false economy of the Postoffice
department. The victims are the country's busi
ness men who depend upon prompt and efficient
mail service which they are paying for, but not
getting.
- Former President Gomez, the captured leader
of Cuban rebels, realizes at last that Mexicaniring
Cuba is a hopeless task without the consent of
the third partner. The scenery at Cabanas prison
lends a touch of melancholy to reflections on
hopes dashed.
' Any old time the State Board of Health
plans a physical inspection of the state's charges,
a preliminary examination of the food supply is
strictly in order, A casual inspection of the
Board of Control's records of last year's edibles,
from bread to tobacco, no doubt will convince
the doctors that the patients respond nobly to
the treatment, rendering a tour of observation
unnecessary. ,
War and politics working together mark prog
ress in throwing a dry belt around the world.
Most of the United States and Canada are
buckled up. Russia blazed the way in the old
world, France banished absinthe and other hard
stuff, Great Britain cut consumption in two and
Germany went farther. The report that north'
ern Germany is going beerless foreshadows the
climax of the dry wave and its irresistible
march. '
Food Crops
-Mow York TIjboo-
The price of wheat has recently advanced,
owing to a foreign demand which led the British
government to offer 90 cents a bushel for ocean
transportation and to reports about farm reserves.
l titie, a leading crop expert says, are only 98,000,
000 bushels, against 241,000,000 a year ago, and
the quantity available for export before the new
crop comes is, in his opinion, less than 40,000,000
bushels. Secretary Houston says that 164,000,000
dusrcis was tne exportable surplus at the begin
ning of the crop year. All the estimates show
that the Quantity which can be sold to foreign
buyers will probably be exhausted before the next
harvest. While last year's crop of wheat was
about 90,000,000 bushels below the five years'
average, the yield of corn was only slightly defi
cient But in recent months there have been large
exports of corn, and the price is very high. Farm
reserves are reported to be 785,000,000 bushels,
against 1,333.000,000 bushels at this date in 1916.
1 here was wheat crop shortage last year all over
the world, the reduction having been 25 per cent.
In Argentina a failure of all the cereals has af
fected one of Europe's sources of supply. We had
only about two-thirds of a crop of potatoes. There
w.v uviikicuim ciscwncrc ana prices' are wim
out precedent
As the time for planting approaches, our
farmers should be moved by the prevailing price
figures, last rear's deficit, and the persistent de
mand from abroad for American foodstuffs, to in
crease their food acreage. The area given to win
ter wheat has been slightly enlarged, but not all
the reports as to condition are favorable. What
will be done in the spring wheat states remains
to be seen. The financial argument for greater
potato acreage should be convincing. Our farm
ers expenses are much higher than they were be
fore the war, on account of the cost of what they
must buy and of the wages they are required to
pay. And it is difficult to get the workmen who
are needed. But there ia good reason to expect
that the prices of their products will continue to
be high, even if peace should come. There will
be profit in additional acreage, and our farmers
siiuuiu strive ro max large crops this year.
From Frying Pan to Fire.
William J. Stone of Missouri is disqualified
for the chairmanship of the senate committee
on foreign relations by his own admission.
When instructed by that body to report favor
ably the bill empowering the president to arm
merchantmen, he perfomed a certain lip-service,
but, announcing that he could not urge the pas
sage of the measure, he intrusted its legislative
fortunes to the guidance of Senator Hitchcock.
In all essentials involving Germany he has been
persistently in opposition to the government of
the United States, and yet has retained a senate
chairmanship which gives him immense influ
ence upon the foreign policy of the United
States. New York World.
But would the world retire Senator Stone, real
izing that the seniority rule would advance to the
chairmanship of the committee the member next
longest in service, wbo happens in this case to be
Senator Hitchcock? Does not The World know
that, with the exception of standing with the
president on this particular bill, everything it says
about Senator Stone t'ould be said with equal
truth, and more force, about Senator Hitchcock?
Is The World unaware that Senator Hitchcock's
own newspaper organ has been devoting columns
of good editorial space to explaining the senator's
"change of heart" and reconciling his present at
titude with his munitions embargo' bill proposed
and championed in the face of President Wilson's
declaration that such a measure would violate our
neutrality? Has The World never seen the issue
of "The Fatherland" with Senator Hitchcock's
portrait emblazoned over a complimentary in
scription on its front page?
Before insisting that Chairman Stone should
go. The World should make sure that his going
would not be merely a jump from frying pan to
fire.
Our Answer to the East's Sneer.
Two hundred young men have been passed and
accepted at the Omaha recruiting station each
month since December 1 for service in the army.
Almost an equal number have gone into the navy.
These young men are not driven to enlistment be
cause of lack of other means to provide for their
needs. Most of them come from good homes;
they are farmer boys or mechanics, sure of steady
employment and at high wages, who have taken
up the service of their country in the spirit of
the truest patriotism, a desire to be ready when
the time comes that they will be needed. These
young men have given over all thought of per
sonal gain and presented themselves, dedicated to
the first duty of citizenship that of defending
the country of their birth and its free institu
tions. In this may be found a quiet answer to the
oft-repeated assertion from the east that the great
central-west lacks a sense of its obligation to the
nation, and is slothful and content in its obese
ease. Our friends beyond the Alleghanies needn't
worry. The boys from the great Mississippi
valley have never yet proved recreant.
Vindication of Grape Juice.
. A breath of subdued cheer, bearing the trade
mark of judicial straight goods, comes chortling
to the dry belt irom tne leaerai circuit court o:
New York. The celebrated dry belt tonic, grape
juice, is esteemed a public necessity, a source of
interstate exhilaration, entitled to the protection
of the Sherman act and the Clayton act. Monopo
lizing the juice is not involved, but dictating the
telling price is odious and unlawful.
The pronouncement of the court, white not
conclusive, will hearten the "wets" and strengthen
flickering hope for ultimate relief. Other tonict
and thirst eradicators may be had when the favo
rite decanter is sealed for good. Medical and
mechanical necessity will be available to pull the
cork in a crisis. Soft drinks without number,
and rivaling the huet of rainbows, assure reason
able wetness minus the thrilling punch. Each have
a place in the economy of the dry belt But grape
juice it in, a class by itself. It tops the whole
catalogue of succulent juices, cider alone excepted.
Moreover it carries the orthodox endorsement of
W. J, Bryan and therefore becomes the favorite
first aid for the home folks. In these circum
stances the ruling of the court forbidding pride
regulation is a deliverance of supreme importance.
It safeguards the dryups from the added perils
of a holdup and placet the grape juice halo se
curely on the brow of Nebraska. '
Yankee Ingenuity in War
"MlnaoapoUo Jetiraal-
Being the greatest chemists in the world, the
Germans were encouraged to conquer the world
by force of their chemistry. Early in the war the
British exhorted themselves to hopefulness by
the assurance that they were the greatest en
gineering nation in the world. For ourselves, we
can now find comfort in the fact that we Ameri
cans are the most inventive people whom the sun
ever shone upon.
Frecsrick Palmer, the war correspondent, says
the Navy department has enough secret devices in
cold storage to whip the German fleet inside six
months, and the Wizard of Menlo Park, whenever
he thinks of war with the kaiser, smiles compla
cently, like the cat who has swallowed the canary.
Haven't we also young John Hays Hammond,
who as magician treads on the heels of Signor
Marconi?
Should we go to war, depend upon it there will
be displayed some Yankee novelties that will make
the world take prolonged notice. And the little
Jap will stare, drop his jaw, admit he hadn't
thought of that sort of thing, and wonder whether
after all the dawn of the day of the yellow man
has arrived.
. Your Uncle Samuel is mighty careless in some
ways. He is plain, low-down shiftless in his in
surance policy. But he remains an ingenious old
gentleman, and can put salt on the tail of the bird,
if pressed to perform. And if he once gets into
this struggle for good and plenty, he can be
counted upon to do some stunts that will surprise
the devils and not cause the angels to weep. It
may take a Yankee invention to sting the sub
marines, to burst the German trenches clear
through, to make middle Europe so sick of mili
tarism that militarism will stick t knife in itself
and roll off the chest of the honest German people.
You never can ten. Least of all can you tell
what the Yankee nation will not invent, once it is
compelled to put up a fight They may think
that we are too proud to fight, or too much afraid,
but they will be convinced we are clever at fight
ing, once we make a start
This is a war of equipments, says Lloyd
George. We might make it a war of electric
shocks and vibrations. Who knows? Mr. Edison,
maybe. Very likely he does. He has been work
ing his best tor the government quite a spelt now.
It's a safe bet he has a regular bag of tricks up
his sleeve.
Let the enemies come on, if they must. Let
Cuba revolt and Mexico invade. Let submarines
stick their snouts into our harbors, and Zeppelins
cross the Atlantic. Let even Japan desert its
allies to strike swiftly at us. AVe might have a
hard time for a while, but we would teach all
those ferocious ones some things quite new.
Criminal Combinations
-Now York Journal of ComrAorco
City Garden Work for the Boys.
Some hesitancy hat been expressed by persons
connected with one or another of the several
movements for the conservation of city boy en
ergy to entering upon anything like a general
campaign for gardening because of the labor en-
tailed and the possibility of disappointment. It
ahould be well understood by any who ventures
upon gardening that success Is only to be achieved
by careful watchfulness. Gardens are subject-
the same drawbacks that attend other important
enterprises. Unlett constantly tended, the orig
inal effort is wasted.
But how can a boy be better employed in the
summer time than in giving a few hours of his
time each day to the useful employment of look
ing after a little garden patch? It may interfere
slightly with his ball games, or his scouting, or
some of the other occupations that fill in his vaca
tion days, but it will give him little first hand
knowledge that wilt serve him well in his man-,
hood years. He will learn in this way the value
of directed effort, as well at the equally import
ant truth that anything worth while involves
work. Whatever of benefit may come through
the addition of home-grown truck to the family
bill of fare will be secondary to the advantage of
having the growing boy employed during a por
tion of the day at something useful.
The Reason for the Delay.
The Chicago Tribune innocently askt why the
special session of congress should be convened for
April 16 instead of March 16. Just as if it did not
know that there it a vacancy due to the death of !
one democratic member which can not be filled
until a tpecial election it held. It might be added
that inasmuch as the vacancy pertains to the rep
resentation of a Tammany district, a democratic
tuccessor is confidently counted upon. If it were
a republican congressman who had died, or if the
vacancy were credited to a republican district,
there would have been no such incentive to wait.
If the numerous corporations and individuals
who have been indicted for violation of the anti
trust law in combining to put up the price of
semi-bituminous coal from $1.25 to $3 a ton at
the mine, should be convicted after a fair trial, it
is to be hoped that they will be made to suffer the
penalty. It is time an example were made of
such offenders, after all that has happened of vio
lation and evation of a law which, if properly
applied, is the only defense against a glaring
wrong.
It is not to be assumed that the charge as
made will be sustained. We must wait for the
evidence, but just at this time a combination to
put up the price of such a product in order to
make an extravagant profit can only be regarded
as an outrage, even it not strictly a violation of
law, as this appears to be. According to the state
ments covered by the indictments, but yet to be
proved, fifty-five men, representing 108 corpora
tions, and practically controlling the soft coal in
dustry of West Virginia, met at a hotel in this
city in January and agreed upon this advance in
price to take effect with all contracts for the year
beginning April 1. It it said that these same de
fendants, by an agreement among themselves,
have already "from time to time" fixed the price
of 22,000,000 tons of Pocahontas and New River
coal "with an increased net profit to themselves
of $34,000,000," which seems hardly credible.
The supply of this kind of coal is so far con
fined to a limited district and under a limited con
trol that it is comparatively easy to manipulate
it in this way. It is used mainly for steaming pur
pose! by railroads, manufacturing plants and
steamships, including those of the navy, but is
also used for steam heating purposes in schools,
hospitals and other institutions. While it is not
much used for fuel in households, it affects more
or less the "cost of living" for everybody, and an
extravagant profit for the benefit of a few men at
the cost of the many makes this kind of an offense
peculiarly disreputable even if it were not made
criminal by law. Any individual proved guilty is
liable to a fine of $5,000 or imprisonment for a
year for each offense. A corporation can only
be fined, which may not be an adequate deterrent
unless the responsible officers can be treated as
individual offenders,
Shafts Aimed at Omaha
Grand Island Independent: "No half way
station any more between 'Wet' and 'Dry1," re
marks the Omaha Bee. Same as to Met and Bry.
Polk Progress: An Omaha minister, over
sixty, goes slumming and gets the boot of rowdies.
Savidge was hit name, but he wat not savage
enuf to hold his own and get his note book filled
with immoral happenings.
Bloomington Advocate: Preparations are al
ready being made in Omaha for a grand celebra
tion on the night of April 29th, the Saturday
night before the drouth begins. . Booze will flow
like water at that time, and the next day they
will be a sorry looking bunch.
Grand Island Independent: An Omaha candy
house now offers a large potato free with every
purchase of one dollar's worth of sweet-meats.
Measurably, however, there is nothing new in
that. The retailers of the metropolis have ever
set the state's pace for unprecedently spectacular
extravagance.
Kearney Hub: The Omaha Bee says the
state needs the "budget" system for its appropri
ations. Quite true. The Hub has frequently
said the same thing. Every member of the legis
lature knows it But the budget would do away
with the legislator's "pork," and of course that
would never do.
Plattsmouth Journal: The state's metropolis
seems to be on the verge of a moral house
cleaning that will close up the bright spots in the
underworld of that city as the result of the activ
ities of Rev. Savidge and Sheriff Mike Clark, and
the tcene in the half world of Omaha it described
at a "deserted village."'
Beatrice Express: We have always been told
that land, especially Nebraska land, was the
safest kind of an investment. The World-Herald
editor apparently does not believe thit for, with
various other bits of advice to the Nebraska leg
islature, he says: "Let it provide for disposing
of the school lands and the investment of the
funds in safe securities." But then the World
Herald's advice is not alwayt entirely sane.
A world shortage of wheat, affirmed by com
petent authorities, carries to growers assurances
of profitable prices for all that can be raised. If
war dooms Europe to another shortage the crop
in America will have a market for the excess
limited only by transit facilities on the seat.
People and Events
Leaders of the Woman's Peace party sorrow
fully report that a strain of fighting blood taints
the system of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. The
shocking discovery resulted in Mrs. Catt being
turned down as an honorary vice president
The mother of John C Cornwall, governor of
West Virginia, traveled by special train from
Romney to Charleston, 200 miles, to enjoy the
thrill of witnessing her son's inauguration. She
it 87 past. i
j Did O'Leary dig up?' Chicago's boss stake
I bolder of campaign bett kept democrati out of
! the money from the anxious hours of election day
till inauguration day, alwayt promising to lilt
the lid and distribute a pot of $650,000 as toon as
he was convinced that Wilson surelv was it He
I had the pile in hock as late as March 4, and prom-
isea a uisiriDuuon Aiarcn 3. vvnai nappeneo to
the famished winners escaped the spotlight
Health Hint for the Day.
People who are not accustomed to
cold bathing should commence by a
tepid bath each morning or a cold
sponge, or rubbing with a wet towel,
or wrapping oneself In a cold wet
sheet
One Year Ago Today In die War.
Germans repulsed counter attacks
by the French at Verdun.
Italians began twenty-four-hour
bombardment of the Austrian town of
Gorltz.
British mercantile fleet auxiliary
Fauvvette sunk by striking mine; four
teen lost.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Article of Incorporation were filed
of the Foppleton Park Building asso
ciation, the Incorporators being R. B.
Guild, Jay Northrup, Jamea C. Wuth,
F. J. Brrthwlck, U G. Schellfsnberg,
F. B. Bryant, H. O. Devries, L. A.
Harman, J. A. Sunderland, J. H. Tay
lor, R. F. Fagan and T. E. Stevens.
The youthful teetotalers of the Tem
perance Army had a meeting in the
Omaha mission, where the following
young folks took part In the program:
Percy Doe, Ethel Uhler, Georgle
Brown, Nellie Carney, Mary Hart,
Julia Enquest, Mamie Davidson, Ina
Kennedy, Llllle Silver wise, Maud
Spain, Lena Morrissey, Katie Wln
slade, Neva Embersoa and Howard
Johnson.
The New Book club held Its annual
meeting at Mrs. William Wallace's.
The organization Is composed of resi
st
denta of the northern part of town,
mostly older settlers, and has been In
operation for eight successive years.
The committee of arrangements for
the Nebraska State Pharmaceutical
association met at the Paxton hotel
and waa called to order by Henry T.
Clarke, chairman. D. W. Saxe was
elected secretary and treasurer.
The following high school students
took part In an entertainment given
In the high school auditorium : Eliza
beth Siddell, Florence Blrkhauser,
Mabel Balcombe, Kate White, Oliver
Auchmoody, Millie Dorn, E. S. Phelps,
Mabel Fonda, Alice Brown, Ed E.
Hale and Nellie Bauterman.
Mrs. E. C. McShane gave a chil
dren's party In honor of her little
daughter's birthday. She waa assist
ed in entertaining by Mlsa Morgan,
Misa Potvin and a very large and beau
tifully decorated birthday cake with
"trlmmin'a."
The A. L. C. club met at Mrs. Man
deiberg's, 424 Convent street
This Day In History.
H4 Oeorge Berkeley, the cele
brated Irish prelate and philosopher,
born in Kilkenny, Ireland. Died at
Oxford, England, January 14, 1753.
1710 Dr. Thomaa A. Arne, who
wrote "Rule Britannia," born in Lon
don. Died there March S, 1778.
1817 John L. Worden, who com
manded the Monitor in the famous
battle with the Merrlmae, born in
Westchester county, New York. Died
in Washington October 18, 1897.
1854 Alliance between England,
France and Turkey signed.
1882 Jacksonville, Fla., surren
dered to the federals.
1867 American bark Rover waa
wrecked on the coaat of the Island of
Formosa and lta captain and crew
mamacred by the natives.
1871 The German troops quit Ver
sailles. 1879 Flood destroyed 2,000 lives
and 1,000 houses In town of Szegedln,
Hungary,
1907 Mrs. Russell Sage created the
Sage foundation with 110,000,000 for
phllanthropio work.
1912 The federal government be
gan a suit against the sugar trust.
The Day We Celebrate.
Charles E. Williamson, investment
and real estate broker, was born
March 12, 1861. He studied at the
Ohio Wesleyan university and was once
reporter on Columbus and Cincinnati
papers. He has the distinction of be
ing a descendant of Hugh Williamson,
one of the signers of the constitution.
Frank Crawford is celebrating his
forty-seventh birthday. He la a grad
uate of Yale college and Michigan uni
versity law school, also of the Univer
sity of Nebraska,
George H. Reiffe span of life start
ed thirty-nine years ago today In
Reading, Pa. He la still Interested in
'spans, being contracting agent for the
Standard Bridge company.
John Bekina Is 40 today. He halls
from Michigan and Is president of the
Omaha Van and Storage company,
which transports people's belongings
from place to place, especially in the
moving season.
Joseph 8. Frellnghuysen, the new
United States senator from New Jer
sey, born at Rarttan, N. J., forty-eight
years ago today.
Hilary A. Herbert who was secre
tary of the navy under President
Cleveland, born at Laurensvllle, S. C,
eighty-three years ago today.
Daniel W. Hoan, the socialist mayor
of Milwaukee, born at Waukesha, Wis.,
thirty-six years ago today.
Rt Rev. Joseph Schrembs, Catholic
bishop of Toledo, O., born in Bavaria
fifty-one years ago today. -
Adolph 8. Ochs, publisher of the
New York Times, born In Cincinnati
fifty-nine years ago today.
Joseph W. Engel, pitcher of the Bos
ton American league base ball team,
born In Washington, D. C, twenty
four years ago today.
William L. James, pitcher of the
Boston National league base ball team,
born at Iowa Hill, Cal., twenty-five
years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminder.
Important decisions are looked for
from the supreme court of the United
States today, which is the first decision
day following the four weeks' recess.
Today has been set for beginning the
trial in Denver of Mrs. Stella Smith,
prominent society woman, who shot
and killed her husband on January 14
last.
The Fashion Art League of America
expects to prove at the style show,
opening In Chicago today, that the
American women can dress well on
$787 a year plus a few hundreds ex
tra for the acceasorlea and little trink
ets so dear to the hearts of the fair
sex.
President Gompera of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor haa sum
moned the heads of the 100 or more
national and International bodiea af
filiated with that organisation to meet
In eonference In Washington today to
determine the part labor shall oialm
In the formulation of polloies of pre
paredness and defence In the crista
confronting the nation.
Storyette of the Day.
Jimmy had not come up to his
father's expectations In regard to his
studies at school and an explanation
was demanded.
"Why la It" Inquired the irate
parent "that you are at the bottom of
the class?"
"I can't aee that it makes any dif
ference whether I am at the top or the
bottom," replied Jimmy pacifically.
"You know they teach Just the same
at both ends." New York Times.
Accident Prevention More Important
Omaha, March 10. To the Editor
of The Bee: I have heard much dis
cussion of late with regard to one of
the planks of the platform adopted at
the last democratic state convention,
namely the plank which pledges the
party to an adequate amendment to
the workmen's compensation law.
The employers, represented by the
Nebraska Manufacturers' association,
are apparently afraid that aome
amendment may be enacted which
will affect the Insurance rates which
they pay the employers' liability com
panies to Insure them against the re
sults of their negligence.
I have had a great deal of expedi
ence In factory and In factory Inspec
tion work, and desire to present an
other view of this matter. It Is my
Judgment deliberately formed, that If
the employers will observe the pro
visions and requirements of the Ne
braska factory act the Nebraska scaf
fold act, and in addition to this, use
ordinary care in cases not covered by
these acts, they will do away with
nine accident cases out of every ten
occurring at the present time.
In my Judgment it Is because the
employers persist in violating these
laws and In being negligent that they
fear a fair, Just and humane amend
ment of the present workmen's com
pensation act JOHN M. BERGER.
3320 North Fifty-third Street
Quite Plain to All.
Omaha, March 10. To the Editor of
The Bee: I am disturbed at the re
ports of what we are trying to do with
German citizens In this country who
are found plotting against England.
As a loyal son of the Emerald Isle, I,
and my father before me, have done
everything we could to help further
the Independence of Ireland. We have
contributed to every peaceful and war
like uprising that has taken place in
Ireland for the last fifty years and I
have never considered that I have
done anything that waa contrary to
the spirit or the letter of the Ameri
can Idea of freedom. I assumed that
America's sympathy and aid were
freely extended to every country under
oppression.. I want to know whether
it Is treason to this country for me to
contribute to the Irish cause and how
far I can go in my sympathies for Ire
land without being guilty of offense
against the laws of America. I was
under the Impression that we Ameri
can citizens were perfectly free to sell
arms and munitions to anybody who
would buy, regardless of what use to
be made of the same. Every Irish or
ganization In America Is guilty of plot
ting to free Ireland of English oppres
sion. Ia this treason 7 If so, are they
liable to be called before the grand
Jury? Please make this plain to me
through the columns of your paper.
TOM MOORE M'CARTHY.
Tjetter Box Submarines.
Omaha. March 10. To the Editor
of The Bee and the patient readers
of The Bee s letter box: under the
heading of "Shall we abandon neu
trality?" Berlah F. Cochran has come
back. If memory serves me right he
used to contribute to The Bee's letter
box regularly, about two years ago, In
the Interest of the kaiser and hla war
bunch over there. Mr. Cochran tries
to come back under the guise of neu
trality. "Neutrality" or "patriotism"
Is the usual way for those writers who
try to run in like the submarines and
deal a blow for the kaiser's cause, and
then, like the submarines, again run
thinking they got away, but the read
ers of The Bee's letter box is too in
telligent to let such stuff go by under
the disguise of either of the above
headings, without recognition.
Mr. Cochran, through the letter box.
informs us of an order (or part of
said order) by the British admiralty.
Issued November 2, 1914, with the
obvious Intention of further Justify'
Ing the murderous campaign (not
war) of the kaiser with his subma.
rines on the high seas. (Free set
policy of the kaiser.) Mr. Cochran
ahould know that the old order he
refers to, was shortly after modified
and was gotten up In the first place
with reference to mine fields, but not
a single American life haa been sacri
ficed. Some cargoes of meat and cot
ton have been confiscated and our mail
has been held up and inspected; the
cargoes, I believe, in nearly all cases
have been disposed of through a prize
court ana settled ror.
How about Germany? Has the
Lusltanla been settled for yet, or any
of the rest of the ships destroyed by
submarines f
In the case of the steamship La-
coma, sunk recently without warning.
6.000 sacks of United States mall were
sent to the bottom of the sea.
Hundreds and hundreds of Innocent
victims, men, women, children, babies
In arms, He at the bottom of the
ocean, and whether we go to war or
not I believe In God In Justice and I
also believe there is a day of reckon
ing coming.
Now, Mr. Cochran says, let
Imagine that the Lusltanla waa sunk
by a British mine. Why, no one can
be made to believe that the British
sunk the Lusltanla. Why Imagine
these things when we have the reality
ana tne estaousnea xacts oerore us?
' P. G. LEWIS.
The Vice Crusade.
Fremont, Neb., March 10. To the
Editor of The Bee: Ever since Eve
picked the fatal apple man haa been
conceived In sin and as long as the
strlte for the dollar continues there
will be violations of nature's laws of
regeneration. The fact that nature
punishes a violation of these laws by
loathsome diseases Justifies the com
mandment "Thou shalt not commit
adultery." The way to Increase obedi
ence to that commandment Is to In
crease love among the sexes. Restraint
i aone of the principal characteristics
of genuine love and there can't be
much love where the strife for money,
diamonds, fine clothes, automobiles
and social position Is so great Allow
me to suggest to Brother Savidge that
he tell his followers that If they have
a desire to bring a more heavenly con
dition on eartn tnat tney must sacri'
flee. They must treat the maids in
their homes with such consideration
that they will stay there. Don't snub
them when you have a little party
treat them as If they were one of you
and you will get better service out of
them and they won't drift into the
shameful life. Every person craves
comoensatlon and If respectable peo
ple are going to treat their employes
as slaves it la natural that they will
seek the companionship of those far
less respectable.
Wouldn't it be a good plan to have
places of social amusement where
young and old could go evenings and
meet people who are trying to live
righteous lives? Let there be good
music, entertainment and sociability
that Inspire to the better life. I do not
doubt the good intentions of Brother
Savidge In forming a league to enforce
law and order, but suggest love and
reason as the principal force. X be
lieve if all of the church member
were Christians, treating all with
whom they com in contact witn Kina
nes and love, and sacrificing some of
their own useless luxuries and vices
In order that other might get a little
enjoyment out of life that there would
be no need of an Albert law to make
folks good.
"Let him who Is without sin oast
the first stone." Don't spew great
volcanoe of wrath and condemnation
upon the dive-keeper until you your
self are sinless. Go to the saloon
keepers with a kindly smile and have
a pleasant chat with them over a glass
of pop. Reason with them gently and
you will be surprisea 10 una inai a
large percentage of them are recon
ciled to the fate that awaits them.
In obscurity in a certain rown in
this state there lives a maiden who
will some day be recognized as the
equal of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. I en
close one of her poems entitled "The
Vulture, which bears upon mis suo-
Ject
THE VULTURE.
Of all the curses that visit thfl earth,
Of the criminals living- or hunt.
The worst la the virgin, with purity pose.
Who blackene a sou! with hjer toncue.
The vilest of reptiles, the woman who rails
At her own fellow woman In sin;
She passed down the very lame atreetway
berself,
But no one Invited her In I
For goodness is often the lack of a test.
And those who are prone to condemn
Would tumble the quickest and lowest of all
Should that same temptation face them.
The ir. i who will advertise scandal and
crime
With devilish leal as he toes,
And looks with suspicion on each clrcum-
Has'beea'there himself and he knows!
1 say that the vultures who feed on smirched
And gloat at tha death of their prey,
And yet hold themselves sinless, are never-
A score more tlmea sullty than they.
I am willing to wager that He who Is Ood
Will welcome the weak who have strayed
And damned will the angel-faced hypo
crites be
Who scoffed at the sinner and prayedl
Still the H. C. L. Question
Omaha, March 10. To the Editor
of The Bee; In a conspicuous place
In your paper recently, appeared the
protest entered by the Retail Grocers'
Association of Omaha against the plan
which I suggested to the city commis
sion. Among other statements, which
seem quite Incredible, is the following:
"If grocers went on a cash basis to
day 26 per cent of the people would
be on county charity," said the secre
tary of the association.
This is a terrible indictment against
present conditions. It means that
60,000 people living in this city, are
subjects of charity. What a deplorable
situation! If this statement Is cor
rect it is high time the citizens of
Omaha, through their officials, take
steps to effect a change in the present
system of marketing food stuffs.
The protest on the part of the gro
cer is made because of his failure to
understand the purpose of the plan
and naturally enough, because his
interests are in the welfare of the gro
cer rather than the consumer.
For Information of your readers I
wish to quote the following few sen
tences from my letter to the commis
sion: "That your honorable body give to
the writer the permission to use any
space available in a public building,
and under the control of your honor
able body, for the purpose of keeping
for sale and vending a variety of
eatables. The writer will stock up this
room with a stock and will offer all
of these necessities to the people of
Omaha at original cost."
The reader will readily see that the
writer did not have In mind the estab
lishment of a grocery store for per
sonal profit or gain. The establish
ment was to be operated under the
supervision of a committee of citizens
appointed by the commission. The
writer was to give his time to the
project, without compensation, all to
the end of accomplishing what Is Indi
cated In the foregoing quotation, a
practical test of the theory of sell
ing from producers to consumers di
rect If the plan should prove successful
In a practical way, the possibilities for
good are unlimited. I have no griev
ance with the grocers and intend no
harm to them In this plan'. ' I am
quite familiar with their condition and
with their responsibilities in this high
cost of living situation. The facts are
that the grocer, with a few exceptions,
la the slave of the man higher up. He
Is himself the victim of vicious com
bines and does not receive a decent
compensation for hi labors.
If the citizens of Omaha deem this
problem of sufficient Importance; if
the necessity is as great as the grocers'
association says It Is, then there is
every reason why the city commission
ers should get behind, foster, support
and encourage any plan which will
accomplish these results.
H. H. AUERBACH.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"My wife ! ltk George Washington; t
don't beliv ibs could tell a 11a to nave
her soul."
"You're lucky t Mine can tell a He the
minute I get tt out of my mouth." Boston
Tranicrtpt.
To tee a clergyman preach in r from notes
la very annoying to lorno churchgoere. An
English yokel waa asked, "Well Rob, do
you like the new minister's preaching T"
"Like it?" answered Rob disgustedly. "Hi
reminds me of a crow In a potato field
two daba and a look up." Boston Tran
script. "Does the new play afford the leading
ltdy adequate opportunity to display her
talenta?"
"Tea, Indeed; she wears a bathing suit
In the second act and a dinner gown In
pit third."-Life.
"Two wrongs don't make a right.
"I'm not sure about that," mused Mr.
Chugglns. "If I travel faster than the
law allows and a motor oop travels fast
enough to overtake me, It'e perfectly right
for him to arrest me." Washington Star.
"What's this tn tha mall?,,
"A tragedy of mine."
"Have you really written a tragedy old
chap!"'
"Looks like It. I've paid return postage
on It now fourteen times," Louisville Courier-Journal.
Your
Ambition
DID you ever ask yourself
what you would be worth,
say, twenty year from now!
Of course, you have. There
is probably not a person liv
ing who hasn't put this ques
tion to himself. IT IS A
NATURAL AND RIGHT
AMBITION TO PROVIDE
FOR THE FUTURE, and no
better plan has ever been
devised by man than buying
stock to a food, substantial
L. V. Nicholas Oil Company
re selling stock in amounts
of from 100 to $1,000 at
$100 par share.
Correspondence and
views solicited.
inter-
ThhConan
PMafcs PI
Grain Exchange Building.
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