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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1917,
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Remember the morning afterl
Tomorrow and tomorrowl Oh. forget it!
Farewell, John Barleycorn; a long farewell!
Whispered the lid to the bottle: "I'm on to
you!"
Viewed from any angle the hoe ie mighter
than the golf stick.
The patriotism of pelf continues working
overtime, unmindful of the reckoning sure to
come.
Unfortunately for the shamed face of Missouri,
the kaiser's airships have not dropped i bomb on
Bowling Green or Jefferson City.
In asserting that Nebraska ii unanimously
against compulsory service, former Governor
Morehead won the right to another guess.
Throwing a coal scare for next fall before
the fires of spring, die out, glimpse a lively touch
of business preparedness. Have a heart, brethren!
Despite the claims of the Anointed One of
Potsdam, accounts agree that the side working
the heaviest artillery gets there just the same.
Divine rightera have. the best of reasons for
viewing with alarm the growing discontent of sub
jects. Progressive atarvation affords receptive
material for riot and revolution.
Still, If Omaha's Iowa neighbor! have not
achieved a state of preparedness for th worst,
by mixing social with business relations in the
metropolis, chances of temporary relief may be
improved.
"Stand alone, if you have to," shouted the
copper patriots of Butte, backing up Congress
woman Rankin's support of compulsory service.
Luckily Miss Rankin did not stand alone. Equal
ity of national service scored a veritable triumph.
A few more democratic leaders with courage
to lead the party out of the morass of political
cowardice are sorely needed in congress. Those
whom party favor or seniority rules put to the
fore obstruct national unity and shame public
sentiment.
In seeking out abundant sources of national
revenue, congress should not overlook the moun
tainous profits of the trusts. Aside from the
' revenue feature of the case, the cause of human
ity urges the government to intervene and pre
vent gorging.
In his official review of events in Belgium
Minister Brand Whit lock says the German ad
ministration has sown a heritage of hate which
will remain to plague Germanism for generations
to come. In one way or another the evils of
ruthlessness will execute their own punishment.
Out of the grain pits of Chicago comes the
word that the bounding price of wheat Is a form
of hysteria for which hoarding householders are
responsible. At last accounts dealers show no
disposition to split their profits with the victims
of the squeeze.
The aerial branch of war service partly re
lieves the world struggle from the obloquy of
midnight slaughter. Comparatively little cavalry
work lightens the mighty fray, and bayonet
charges rarely grip the heroism of lighting men.
The future chronicler of war's majestic glory
must turn from the earth to the clouds for the
heroic thrills, the daring and wondrous deeds
which the aviation corps daily accomplish at
enormous and regrettable sacrifices.
Manufacturer Accepts Responsibility
When He Trade Marks Merchandise
By Clinton L. Oliver
When the manufacturer places a registered
trade mark on his goods, he proclaims to the
world that he is the maker of those particular
products and that by placing this identifying
mark on tnem, he is staking his reputation and
investment on their giving satisfaction and con
tinued sales. In other words, he accepts full re
sponsibility for the product from every standpoint.
Having adopted the trade mark, he besins to
place it before the individuals who are possible
buyers of his product. He uses various pub
licity methods for making the public familiar
with the trade mark and the line. He advertise!
through newspapers, magazines and in other
ways. When he approaches the reputable news'
paper he must show that the merit of his prod-
uet is precisely what he would represent them
to De inrougn a printed statement in tne putmca.
tlon. This publicity l regarded entirely as a. In
vestment. To advertise goods extensively is to
widen the field of consumption and increase the
demand, thus necessitating an increase in the
quantity manufactured, which naturally reduces
the ratio of the production cost.
Sometimes it is claimed that advertising an
article must necessarily add an expense to the
cost of the article, but such a conclusion is in
correct. Assume that all advertising be discon
tinued. Take some well known brand of goods
mauutacttired several hundred miles (rom you.
a brand of goods you know is sold from coast
lo coast at a standard price. Imagine what would
lake place if those (roods were sold to customers
inly vithin a few miles of the factory. The out
put would be small,, the overhead cost proportion
ately higher I leave it to you: Would it in
rrcase or decrease the price of the article:
Victory for the Whole People.
The decisive vote by which the new army
bill was passed in congress must be accepted
as an evidence of how thoroughly the American
people are awakened to their situation. By an
almost unanimous vote, congress adopted a reso
lution declaring that a state of war existed be
tween the United States and Germany, and
authorized the president to employ every means
and resource of the country, and to use all his
great power to prosecute the defense of democ
racy against autocratic aggression. This vote
was idle and empty until army bill was passed.
The president is now authorized by the peo
ple, who gave him an overwhelming vote of
confidence in November, because "he kept us out
of war," to lead us into war, supported by the
greatest commission ever given a chief executive
of this country.
In thus supporting the president, the Ameri
can people are not casting loose from the ancient
anchorages of freedom and personal liberty, but
are moving to adapt themselves to a course that
other great democracies have found necessary in
order that they might cope with the power
arrayed against them. We have undertaken the
most serious business a free people ever set about,
and are approaching our supreme test in a spirit
that glorifies the undertaking. The American
nation is marching to battle on behalf of humanity.
Doubt and uncertainty as to service will now
be cleared away, and the way for each made plain.
Service is to be universal all are called on to
take part. The American people have spoken,
and it is "eyes front" from now on.
Experiment in Insurance by the State.
One of the new laws for Nebraska will get
much curious scrutiny in its workings. It is the
one that relates to hail insurance under state
management. It is not intended that the state
shall enter into the insurance business, beyond
exercising administrative control over the opera
tion of the law, which really provides for a mu
tual insurance on a state-wide basis among the
farmers. Any farmer seeking protection against
damage to his crops from hailstorms may make
application to the assessor, and by paying a stipu
lated fee per acre will secure a right to be
indemnified for any loss or damage sustained
from hail to be paid out of the fund raised by col
lecting the prescribed fees. If this total sum is
not sufficient to defray all the losses incurred, it
is to be divided pro rata among the losers. County
assessors, county clerks and treasurers, and the
state insurance department and state treasurer
provide the machinery for collecting and dis
tributing the money collected and disbursed. A
clerk in the insurance department is to be paid
by the Mate, and the remainder of expense of
administering the law is to be deducted from the
collections. In simple terms, the law requires
the state to provide machinery for carrying on a
mutual insurance against hail for the farmers. If
the plan works out well, other industries may
reasonably request to be similarly favored.
Paying War Bills by Taxation.
Professors teaching political and social econ
omy in forty-six great schools of the United
States have united in a memorial to congress on
the subject of war taxes. These men, whose opin
ion is entitled to much respect, urge that as far
as possible the money to defray war bills be
raised by taxation rather than by issuance of
bonds. They give their approval to the bond is
sue already authorized, as expedient because no
time is afforded for securing the vast sum by a
tax levy. Following this issue, however, the con
gress should make such provision as will secure a
steady inflow of taxes beyond any ever raised in
the United States.
In support of this these economists argue:
"The taxation policy is practicable, be
cause the current income of the people in any
case must pay the war expenditures. If the
people can support the war at all, they can do
it on a cash basis. Borrowing creates noth
ing. Except by borrowing abroad, which we
cannot do, we can get nothing which we do
not ourselves produce.
"The taxation policy and no other will en
able the country to escape the enormous
evils of further inflation. The present high
level of prices In Europe and America is pri
marily due to the war bonds and the paper
money issued abroad. If the United States
joins on a huge scale in this policy of borrow
ing, prices are bound to become far higher
still.''
The force of these arguments is illustrated by
examples that cannot be denied. War bonds in
duce inflation, and inflation increases the cost of
war. "The question of taxation versus bonds,"
say , the economists, "is not merely one of
economics; it is one of morals, of right against
wrong." These men contend, as argued by The
Bee, that if conscription of men is right, con
scription of income is even more so, and that the
conscription of both is just and right when the
nation's honor and life are at stake.
.This is one of the greatest of the problems to
be dealt with by the congress, and for the people,
next to that of producing food, the most vita!.
What may be done is not yet determined, but it
may be assumed as inevitable that the wealth of
the nation will be called upon to assume its full
share of the war's burdens.
Fuller Life or the Indians.
An extension of the Indian policy is announced
from the office of the commissioner at Wash
ington, under which the red men will cease to
be wards of the nation, save in such cases as
make it absolutely needed that guardianship be
continued. Wherever an Indian shows capac
ity he is to be put entirely on his own respon
sibility; in fact, the commissioner will go a little
farther than this and expects to set on his own
feet each adult tribesman, only receiving him
again under government protection when he has
shown his unfitness or inability to care for him
self. This is carrying out a policy adopted many
years ago and to the full development of which
'the approach has been steady, although slow at
times. Nebraskans are familiar with the element
of Indian citizenship and Oklahomans have come
to realize what it means, but other states in which
the red men live are to have their experience along
this line. The Indian has shown ability to sup
port himself, to take part in the ordinary af
fairs of the community and is now lo get his
full chance to share the burdens and responsibili
ties as well as the privileges and protection of
the government. The tremendous significance of
this may be better appreciated by recalling the
fact that since Omaha was founded thousands of
Indians living in Nebraska were yet in the stone
age of development. Their great advance in civi
lization is a tribute to their own powers as well as
to the patience of the white mau in his dealings
with them.
Council of National Defense
II Railroads and Munitions
By Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, April 27. Danial Willard, who is
chairman of the advisory commission of the
Council for National Defense, belongs to that
well known school of Americans, founded by
Abraham Lincoln, who start with the lowliest
jobs they can find, and toilfully ascend to the
highest in their respective lines. This fact may
not seem pertinent to Mr. Willard's present job
of co-ordinating the transportation and communi
cation systems of the country for war; but it is
significant because few men of this thorough
going and competent variety are now found in
American public service. The creation of the
advisory commission marks the entrance of a
new kind of man into our public life.
What sort of men are these civilian commis
sioners who have left large affairs to devote all
of their time without compensation to the work
of organizing for war? In what spirit do they
enter upon the undertaking? This letter and the
next one will be partial answers to these ques
tions. Daniel Willard is a man reputed to shun pub
licity, who has recently come in for a goodly
share of it. His reorganization of a great rail
road system, his leadership of the railroads in
their fight for a freight rate increase, his endorse
ment of the administration's eight-hour law, and
finally his selection to head the advisory commis
sion have made him easily the most famous rail
road man in America. He is a lean-faced New
Engender, with more brow and less jaw than the
typical money-maker a man more idealistic than
acquisitive. He began his railroad career at the
age of 18 as a. track walker on the Central Ver
mont railway. Willard was almost everything
that a railroad man may be, including engineer,
conductor, roundhouse foreman, and finally at
the age of .18, a division superintendent. And
now that he was prepared, opportunity came
along in the shape of F. D. Underwood, who made
him assistant manager of the Baltimore & Ohio.
Frpm that time on the way to a railroad presi
dency was open to him, and his story becomes
monotonously successful. Willard has been de
scribed as a sort of unofficial mediator between
the public and the railroads. That leads naturally
to his present position as chief of the representa
tives of big business who are helping to organize
the country for war.
Mr. Willard's share of the work of industrial
organization is to have all of the railroad, tele
phone and telegraph lines of the country ready
for co-operative government service. He has
already held a meeting with fifty railroad execu
tives, representing 250,000 miles of railroad, and
these have pledged themselves to organize a
continental system which will be entirely at the
disposal of the government during the war. The
telephone and telegraph companies have also ex
pressed themselves as ready to put all of their
facilities at the service of the government. The
motor resources of the country have been care
fully listed, and they will be no small part of our
emergency transportation equipment; for America
has three million automobiles and can produce a
million and a quarter a year. The troops that
saved Paris from the first German onslaught
went to the front in private autos and taxis.
The few facts available about Howard E. Cof
fin, who is commissioner for standardization and
industrial relations, are chiefly interesting as
showing that he belongs to the same tvpe as Mr.
Willard. For he, too, has devoted all" of his life
to industry, and enters public service with both
his fortune and his reputation made, and with a
valuable equipment of experience. He. too,
started in a modest way, as a postal employe,
but soon found that building automobiles was
his real vocation and has been building them ever
since with a success and foresight which are
familiar to almost every one. Equally well known
are his achievements in his present position,
where he lias made a reputation by his fecundity
in original ideas. It was he who worked out the
plan for educating manufacturers to make gov
ernment goods by the judicious placing of small
orders. More recently he daringly opposed the
nation-wide movement for economy on the
ground that it was paralyzing business.
Dr. Hollis Godfrey, president of the Drexel
Institute of Philadelphia, is the only member of
the advisory commission who is not connected
with business. He points out that Germany's
wonderful war efficiency is largely due to the
fact that in Germany the interdependence of
science and industry are fully recognized, and the
two fully co-ordinated. In the United States no
such co-ordination exists. The universities are
entirely independent. Our spirit is one of ex
treme individualism, and the inventor or scientist
feels under no compulsion to lay his discoveries
before the government. In a word, the United
States has no regularly constituted way of find
ing out what its scientific resources are.
Dr. Godfrey conceives that the task of his
committee is to supply this lack of co-ordination
between science and industry, and in so doing he
will undoubtedly render a service of permanent
value.
The People's Loan
Nw York World
The greatest single war credit in history, unan
imously adopted by the representatives of the
states and the people in the United States con
gress is about to be offered to public subscription
in such installments as the government's war ex
penditures call for.
This is democracy's war, the people's war.
This great war loan is to be offered as the peo
ple's loan. It will carry no bankers' commissions.
It will be offered in denominations as low as $100
and perhaps as low as $50 or $25. It will un
doubtedly admit of partial payments on the small
est subscriptions. It will embody the surest se
curity to be had on earth and it will pay per
cent, against the 3 per cent paid on like security
through the postal savings banks.
Let no one suppose there is any doubt any
where about the enormous success of this vast
loan of $7,000,000,000 offered as the money is
needed. The wealthy will subscribe heavily, if for
no loftier reason than the best security and tax
exemption. But we want to make it a great pa
triotic loan. We want to make it a means of
bringing into direct partnership with the people's
government" in war the great mass of the people.
This can be done. Small subscriptions should
and will be given preference. If costs of living
are high, wages in more cases than not are still
higher, and only a little extra saving all along the
line can take care of this loan without encroach
ing on the country's normal saving to maintain
and extend its industries. It is possible. If the
people will, it will be made actual.
Our Fighting Men
Harry F. Hodges.
Brigadier General Harry F. Hodges, command
ing the north Atlantic coast artillery district, is
one of the foremost engineers of the United
States army. In the planning and building of the
Panama canal he was the right-hand man of
General Goethals, the chief engineer. General
Hodges was born in Massachusetts in 1860 and
graduated from West Point in 1881, standing
fourth in his class. In his early career in the
army he was employed on various works of river
and harbor improvements and also served as an
instructor at the West Point academy. He reached
the grade of captain in 1893 and during the war
with Spain served as colonel of the First United
States volunteer engineers. During the Ameri
can occupation of Cuba he served as chief engi
neer officer in the island. Then came a period
of seven years of service in the canal zone, dur
ing which time he was in full charge of the de
jiizns of locks, dams and other works on the treat
i isthmian waterway.
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Proiern For the Day.
All's well that ends well.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Germans repulsed strong French at
tack on west bank of the Meiuse.
Paris reported that In the Vosges
three attacks by German troops were
repulsed.
At three polntu on the British front,
Germans made vigorous attacks, one
being preceded by a liberation of gaa
over a front of 2,000 yards.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Mr. Brigham ia making a great hit
in his solos at the Congregational
church. Mrs. 8. H. H. Clark paid a
high tribute to his talent in remarking
that Hhe felt increased regret at leav
ing Omaha since Mr. Hrlgham'a con
nection with the Congregational choir.
V. X. Patschke, a tine oboe player
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from Strassburg, Germany, will soon
be one of the Union orchestra.
Dr. H. Glfford gave a dinner party
at the club, entertaining Judge Wake
ley, Mrs. Watson. .Mrs. Gilford. A. C.
Wakeley, Dr. and Mrs. Graddy and
T. H. Noble.
Mrs. G. B. Greene has a donkey's
head In sepia colors at Hose's and a
study In pannles.
Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Clayton gave a
small informal dancing party at which
the following guests were present:
Messrs. and Mendames Squires,
Wheeler, Colpetzcr, Barker, Coe, Kir
kendall. Cadet Taylor, Brady, Mills,
Kubldoux, Colton, Gordon, Jones,
Johnson, and the Misses Booth, Dixon
and Clark, and Messrs. Clark, Chase
and Carlisle.
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Meyer and Mrs.
Louis Raapke have nailed for Europe.
Mr. and Mrs .J. J. Dickey have is
sued cards for a reception in honor of
Lyle Dickey and his bride.
This Day In History.
1778 America received information
of Lord North's conciliatory bills, of
fered In Parliament, February 17.
1790 Congress enacted that every
soldier should have a gill of rum,
brandy or whiskey dally.
1798 United States Navy depart
ment formally created, and Benjamin
Stoddert of Maryland appointed its
first secretary.
1803 United States purchased
Louisiana from France for 115,000.000.
1825 Reception given to General
Lafayette at Kaskaskia, 111.
1861. New Jersey legislature ap
propriated S2. 000. 000, and an annual
tax of J100.000 for military purposes.
1867 Generals Hancock and Custer
led an expedition against the Indians
in western Kansas.
1892 United States practice cruiser
Bancroft, the first warship built in
New Jersey, launched at Ellzabth
port. 1898 Spanish fleet under Admiral
Cervera left the Cape de Verde
islands for the West Indies.
1915 American tank steamer Gulf
light (orpedoed near the Scllly Islands.
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. W. O. Bridges was born April
30, 1856. He is a Canadian by birth,
and a graduate in medicine of the
medical department of the University
of the City of New York, and also
professor of medicine In the University
of Nebraska.
J. Fred Kerr is celebrating his
thirty-lifth birthday today. He attend
ed Bellevue college, of which his
father was president and established
the Kerr Abstract company in 1901.
Charles S. Fairehlld, secretary of
the treasury under President Cleve
land, born at Cazenovia, N. Y., seventy-
nve years ago today.
Brigadier General Henry G. Sharpe,
quartermaster-general of the United
States army, born at Kingston, N. V.,
fifty-nine years ago today.
Fielding H. Yost, celebrated foot
ball coach of the University of Michi
gan, born at Fairview, W. Va., forty
six years ago today.
J. (Red) Corrlden, former major
league base ball player, now with the
Louisville team of the American asso
ciation, born at Logansport, Ind.,
thirty years ago today.
Timely Jottings anil Reminders.
Governor Whitman of New York
has Issued a proclamation setting aside
the week beginning today for the ob
servance of a state-wide "Clean-up
Week."
More than 30,000 workers employed
In the mills of the American Woolen
company will go to work today under
a new wage schedule providing for
an average increase of nearly 10 per
cent.
Jews In America will celebrate to
day the Jewish Pilgrim Fathers' day.
commemorating the landing of the
first Jewish Immigrants to America
men who settled in New Amsterdam,
now New York, In the first coloniza
tion attempted by the Dutch In this
country.
The Federal Trade commission, di
rected by President Wilson to Investi
gate, with the Department of Agri
culture, the causes of high prices, has
asked the governors of all the states
to end representatives to Washington
today for a conference of state co
operation In the Inquiry.
The body of Ambassador Guthrie,
who died at his post in Tokio last
month, is to be brought home on the
Ji.-inese cruiser Azuma, leaving
Yokohama today, and arriving In Ran
Francisco about May 21.
A transcontinental tour of tw di
visions of national workers for thv
promotion of national prohibition and
other Woman's Christian Temperance
union principles, is to shirt from Chi
cago today, following a banouet to bo
given by the Illinois Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union.
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StoryHte of the I)h.v.
Being hampered by strict parents,
Herbert's chief joy, up to the ae of
8 years, hnrl been the weklv praver
meeting. When he arrived "at that
age of discretion a worldly minded
relative smuggled him off to a circus.
Herbert came home bursting with en
thusiasm. "Oh, mother,' he cried. "If you once
went to a circus you'd never go to a
prayer meeting again in all your life.'
Philadelphia Ledger.
HERE AND THERE.
According to the United States Bureau
of Standards, cloth measuring tapei should
not be relied on to possess an accuracy bet
ter than one part in fiOO or 1,000.
A blow on the jaw by his cousin, John
Llskao, In a friendly boxing match at New
caetle. Ta.. brought Mike Liskas' voice back
to him after he had been unable to neak
for a year.
As only "91 of the 700 American pities
with a population of more than 10,000 have
Boy Scout counciln of the first clasp, a
movement has been begun to increase mem
bership In the organisation by 8,000,000.
The million-dollar. insurance fad didn't
last long among Gotham's gold kings. It's
the two-mil I ion dollar habit now. J. P,
Morgan took out S2.6O0.00O and H. P. Dav.
ison, his partner, took out an extra million.
New Gardeners, Attention:
Omaha, April 28. To the Editor of
The Bee: There are dozens of brand
new gardeners in Omaha this spring,
who should take a little advice from
an old one. Above all, don't start your
gardens too early. The let of May or
the middle will not be too late. Seeds
put in ground that is too cold refuse
to germinate (pardon the pun), and
with the unusual demand this year, we
cannot waste any seed. One reason
against early planting isthe chance in
our climate of late frosts. We are not
safe until May 10 and not always
then. Peas and potatoes may be put
In early as they both like cool weather.
Beans and corn revel Jn warm weather
and beans are killed by the slightest
frost. Corn should be put in soil so
warm that it will come up In five or
six days, and I wish to emphasize this
point no matter how rich the soil
may look it will produce bigger and
better crops when fertilized with
stable manure. Commercial fertilizers
will not take the place of old stable
manure. Plow and harrow before
planting. Stable manure should be
spread over the surface of the ground
after plowing and before harrowing.
This gives the rain a chance to wash
the plant food down to the roots of
the plants.
If you only have a small patch of
ground it can easily be turned over
and prepared with a spade and spad
ing fork. Keep the ground stirred with
a hoe thoroughly, after the plants
come up. If you expect the best re
sults, for intensive cultivation almost
takes the place of moisture, and it's
well to remember this in our Ne
braska where "dry spells" often occur.
A small garden can be watered in dry
weather, but never until the sun goes
down. As Governor Holcomb of Con
necticut says, "There is health in the
hoe.' A GARDEN "WISE ACRE."
How to Keep Vegetables.
Omaha, April 26. To the Editor of
The Bee: I only want to say a few
words in regard to the garden truck.
To reduce the H. C. of L. we are told
by everyone to can lots of vegetables
and fruits. I want to mention a few
that can be stored or buried without
the expense of canning: Corn, beans,
peas, pumpkins can be buried; apples,
peaches, plums, grapes can be dried;
cabbage, beets, onions, squash, salsify,
winter radishes, turnips, parsnips, car
rots and rutabagas can be stored, and
you can make kraut of turnips, and
cabbage. Put corn and green beans
and cucumbers down in salt. Jam can
be made of syrup and tomatoes, plums,
peaches, berries. So you see you do
not need the cans, nor the experience
if you can raise or buy the vegetables.
By the way, I noticed in a recent is
sue where one man had taken your
paper ever since it was "published. I
sold some of the first copies seventy
five miles west of here, that were left
in my father's hotel by Edward Rose
water himself, and now I have three
boys carrying the Bee, even my
youngest boy, who is only 10 years old.
MRS. JOHN WELLS,
4988 South Forty-third Street
Food C omission Needs.
Omaha, April 28. To the Editor of
The Bee: It is a singular fact that
the United States has no law to fix
prices. So long as supply and demand
were allowed to exercise their legiti
mate function, there was no need of
government interference, prices regu
lated themselves. When monopoly or
ganized itself to fix prices, regardless
of supply and demand, and a tariff
as well, there arose an immediate need
of government control. The consum
ers could not organize as the produc
ers did, and they became the victims
of monopoly.
The Sherman law was a well meant,
hut vain attempt to control monopoly.
The "gentlemen's agreement" be
came just as effective as the original
organized monopoly, and to the pres
ent hour, absolutely controls all
trade. The people have no defense
against this invisible, intangible, but
all-controlling power, they can never
overthrow it except by government
Interference or revolution.
The press reports that the adminis
tration has decided not to ask for a
food commission, which means an in
definite continuance of "soaring"
prices.
Why this tenderfootedness on the
part of the administration? It did not
hesitate to fix prices for the railroads
by a national commission; why should
it hesitate to appoint a food price
commission? The railroads never im
posed upon the people as food produc
ers are doing today. If the govern
ment can control prices of transporta
tion, it can control food prices under
the same authority.
War is no justification for an ad
vance in prices. Diminished crops and
increased foreign demand are legiti
mate causes for an advance, but the
former is slight, and the latter, under
the control of the government; so
there is absolutely no need for the
frightful advances in the cost of the
necessities of life. There is absolutely
no shortage except in wheat, meat and
potatoes and even these are not great.
Why then should wheat advance 200
per cent, meat 100 per cent, butter 60
per cent and potatoes 400 per cent?
These enormous prices are simply the
result of the avarice of monopoly, to
make increased profits out of the mis
eries of this world war.
If ever there was u time when the
people needed the protection of the
government, that time is now; the
government will he derelict in duty, if
It does not heed the cry of the people.
The food monopolists are now mak
ing the same Insolent reply to the
complaints of the people, and the only
remedy is a food commission.
D. C. JOHN.
PATRIOTISM OF THE POETS.
Chorua of the War ? Bridegrooms.
He kept ui out of war, ve aound hl praise
with vim,
He kept us out of war, ws will all vote
for him.
He kept us out of war. we'll laud him to
the sky.
Who kept us out of war? The marriaga
license guy.
Omaha. B.
The Star-Hpangled Banner In 1917.
(With Acknowledge men to to Francis
Scot i Key.
The Kaiaers. the King and the Sultan may
fume
At our President's worda In bis icathlng
arraignment
He has sounded their doom and has plunged
th m in gloom
For Freedom must coma as a world-wide
attainment
When tur Navy seta out to put U-
boats to rout
These ocean assassins will hide who
can doubt 7
And the Star-Spangled Banner lo
triumph shall wave
O'er th sea that's made free by the
deeds ot the brave.
'Neath the Teuton's steel beet and hla
cruel mailed fist
Are writhing In death weak and innocent
peoplen.
Qod forbid that the "Huns" shall oppress aa
they Hat,
While thy vent their blind rage on house
tops and church nteeples!
Our Army brings aid that our debt
may be paid
To a land that for ua a great sacri
fice made.
Then Its flag with our Star Spangled
Banner shall wave
O'er a France that's set free by the
deeds of the brave.
When the peoples shall rule In all parti of
the earth.
When autocracies shall be destroyed or
discarded,
Of Freedom our nation will have a new
birth.
Beloved of mankind and by Heaven re
warded. May the day be at hand when the
Lord will command
That the blessings of peace shall be
spread through the land,
That the Star Spangled Banner In tri
umph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the
home of the brave!
New York. T. P. LEE.
The Italian View.
Da Kalsra he gotta a beega machine
Dat goes under water, da nuba-marlne,
A ktnda of bota dat floats on de top,
But eet also runs gooda eef ee's not.
He malt eet for starva some people, he say.
An' lie musta sinka some shipa each day.
He sinka da ship, an' American child.
Ait eay I'nkle Sammy mus' keep up hee's
am He.
But my Unkle Sammy he no Ilka dat.
An' ee'n tnlla da Kalsra whera ee's at.
Da Kalsra pretends he no understand.
And t-ays he and de Lorda work handa In
ban.
Sammy say the Lorda not worka your side.
I (hlnk Kalsra and Zaraha alia beeg snide,
I trya make mena, wherever they at,
Stana up and be mena and good democrat.
Dan my Unkle Sammy get ready for fight
An' when he eea mad lie ees some flna sight,
An' congress eet vote so mucha da mon
For buy every klnda of big flghta gun.
Sammy eay you for fight? Dan flghta you
get
An flghta lak hella my boys will, I bet.
Dan da Kalsra will wtaha lie neva have seen
Da tii ina he calla da auba-marlne.
Anonymoua.
.. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. ..
"You promised me wh?n you went out
last night that you would buy only what
your cousin did. And you could hardly stand
when you came In, while he was sober as a
Judge."
"1 did buy what he did, only a little dif
ferent kind. He got a can-opener and I got
an eye-opener." Baltimore American.
Phytic lan Did your hunband follow my
directions, taking his nv-dlclne religiously?
Wife I fear not, doctor. He swore every
time I gave him a doae. Puck.
"Do you believe In love at flmt sight?"
"Of course 1 do. There's Higglns. for In
stance. Do you suppose his wife would
have married htm if she'd taken a second
look at his face?" Philadelphia Ledger.
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