THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1917.
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Congress wakes up to the fact that war is
serious butinest.
"To arms or the farmsl" The Roosevelt motto
tersely expresses me winning lorcci ui ww,
-Out of regard for past favors the fabled water
wagon should be pensioned off in the street sprin
kling department
Nineteen yeara ago today Admiral Dewey lifted
the navy's shooting score to the top notch. Like
honors and fame await a worthy successor.
. War prices make- for economy more affec
tively than official preachments. Those who in
peace times made both ends meet now seem satis
fied to get one end.
When the time comes to pick the men for
active duty, no doubt the authorities will give
preferential attention to the men hitherto eager,
for a place on the federat pay roll
In the matter of advice it is give and take
with the Allies' commissioners. Incomparably the
best they can take is that Immortaliied by Horace
Greeley: "Go west and see a country worth
while." . i -'". .
' The quarterly report of the steel trust shows
net earnings at the annual rate of $72 on each
$100 share. The figures back up Chairman Gary's
enthusiastic claim that the company it "a good
trust." - ,
Conscription of property for revenue to sus
tain the government is alt right. Conscription of
slackers for the tame object it all wrong. Why
not ak national taxet voluntary at well at na
tional service? '
The gambols of the gamblers in the grain pits
quickly ceased when the Winnipeg and Omaha ex
changes pulled future chips off the tablet. By the
same action considerable monetary chaff vanished
in the winds of the shock.
Energetic and aggressive support of the gov
ernment's pleadings for nation-wide economy
comes from many quarters. Every combine worthy
of the title conscripts the fatnett of the consumer
and leaves the latter without sufficient resources
to indulge in minor dissipation. : -
In searching around for sources of war reve
nue congress should give serious thought to the
problem of preventing the higher upt from slip
ping their tax burdens down to the consumer.
Under war prices for every necessity the wage
worker and salary worker already struggle under
an undue share of the load. Taking on the bur
dens of the well-to-do imperils the camel's back.
i.iciy vi iits ,u Mi im.iH iait( u.-
solved problem. Every precaution that inventive
akill devises and experience suggests apparently
fail to wholly overcome the hidden natural dan
gers of underground workings. The Colorado dis
aster may lead to improved safeguard!, but the
deplorable life lott is too heavy a price to pay for
safety progress. '
"Big Bill" Thompson rode into power in Chi
cago on the crest of a wave of Americanism.
His opponent, an Austrian, appealed to the alien
vote and was mowed under. Expectation pic
tured the victor as a fighter from toes to crown,
with a corrugated spinal column. Experience and
tests prove the contrary. "Big Bill" tags him
self as a Teuton in disguise neutral to wanting
in civic pride and courage that he declined to
join with the city council in extending an invi
tation to the Allies' commissioners to visit the
city lest the action offend Germans. Political
landslides invariably dump astonishing freaks into
public office. The mayor of Chicago is a typical
specimen.
Give a Tithe to Freedom
-Phlladalpola Mi.'
Chairman Gary says that the United States
Steel corporation will this year pay $65,000,000 in
- taxes. That represents an increase over last year
of more than 200 per cent. The taxes, may even
be higher than that, as Mr. Gary does not include
anything embraced in the pending bills before
congress. That $65,000,000 is a terrific tax is
shown by the fact that it represents fully $12 for
every share of the corporation's common stock,
or nearly one-ninth of the total value of every
share. Here is a concrete symptom of what war
brings to us. It Is an index of what other com
panies and alt business must pay. But business
will pay its share and pay it cheerfully, provided
it it asked only to pay its share and not all. .
Business in general is earning, it it true, more
money than it ever earned before, but to are mil-
' lions of individuals. The American farmers are
reaping a bigger harvest of dollars than in any
past period and for the same reason that the
steel maker are gathering in their unprecedented
profits. Hence a system of taxation, which should
touch only one class and exonerate other classes
relatively as prosperous would be unwise, unfair,
unpatriotic and un-American.
.This is a war for our whole common country,
and for human liberty everywhere. To pay for
that war it also a common and not a class duty.
While it is right that the steel makers and other
producers who are reaping from the war monu
mental profits should give over to the government
a large share of such battle-won profit, it is also
right that congress should make its new tax plant
all-embracing, nonpartisan, nonsectipnal and 100
ucr cent fa'r .
Nebraska on a New Era.
Nebraska begins a new eta today, having en
tered upon existence at a "dry" state. Whether
in experience will vary greatly from that of other
states in which prohibition has been enacted it
to be determined. So far as the constitutional
amendment is interpreted and the law made to
give it force is concerned prohibition is intended
only to banish the open saloon. No liquor capa
ble of being used as a beverage which contains
more than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol may
be openly sold or given away in the state. On
the other hand, such as desire it and tre in pos
session of a supply may personally indulge as
fancy dictates. Reliance it placed on the federal
law to limit the source of supply after July 1.
The governor it personally charged under the
law with its enforcement and has already an
nounced his intention to exercise this function to
its fullest extent. He has been given ample au
thority and t liberal appropriation and the citi
zens will look to him to make good on hit pro
fessions. County and city officials have been
warned of their share in the work and have given
pledges of willingness to co-operate with the
governor in his undertaking.
It will be too much, perhaps, to expect that
the law will be given quiet arid unquestioning obe
dience. In every community will be found a few
who are not willing to submit to the restrictions
placed on their personal habits and some who
will defy the taw in efforts to provide the means
for ethers to indulge in turreptitious "nips." This
almost assures in advance that Nebraska will have
to deal with illicit vendors of intoxicants, just as
have other states where prohibition has been
voted.
Law-abiding citizens will do much to help
maintain order through quiet observance of the
law enacted by the people themselves. Lawless
ness will be dealt with by the law. Prohibition
is now the order of the day in Nebraska.
Hogan't Advice to the Fanners.
' As sane a view of the present and future of
agriculture in the west as has been given publicity
it that expressed by D. P. Hogan, president of
the Omaha Federal Land bank. Mr. Hogan placet
full stress on the point that the present mobilisa
tion for farm work means good for the future.
"If this mobilization campaign teaches the mid
dle west how to permanently enlarge its produc
ing capacity it will have been worth the effort,"
says Mr. Hogan, and he touchea the spot ex
actly. It is as certain as anything can be that
for many seasons to come a steady demand will
exist for all the farmer can produce and to meet
this demand utmost endeavor should be put forth.
Mr. Hogan points out succinctly how the federal
land bank can assist the farmer in financing his
operations and that the farmers themselves are
to be. the real managers of the bank. His ad
vice as. to meeting the" labor tituation also It
good. The statement Is worthy careful study
by all.
Food Control (or the United States.
Next to organizing the army the most impor
tant item in the universal service program hat to
do with food. Preliminary to any action by con
great In dealing with this factor of the problem,
farmers and others have been wisely admonished
as to the imperative necessity not -only of in
creased production, but of greater care in the
preservation and use of foodstuffs, to the end
that waste be reduced to a minimum. Following
this the more important and practical matter of
co-ordinating supply and consumption through
efficiency in distribution is to be taken up.
Bills introduced in congress have thit in view
and on their working out will depend the solu
tion, Details are lacking, but the general tcope
of the measurei at outlined tuggests that efforts
will bt made to eliminate much of the duplicated
shipment and handling of foods in bulk, as well as
to more closely regulate the distribution of sup
plies of all kinds down through the retail chan
nel!, until the consumer finally is reached. Ex
perience of the last winter has justified thit course.
While some of the staple foods were not present
in over-supply, no real shortage was noted at any
time, but through manipulation artificial strin
gency was created and huge fortune! were reaped
at a result by reason of the extortion practiced.
Speculators have had their harvest at the ex
pens of the public, but wise laws may now be
enacted by congress which will do away with
any likelihood of such another opportunity for
gamblers in foodstuffs. Business on a legitimate
basis will not suffer becaute of proper control
and the unscrupulous may be wiped out if the
laws are welt framed and correctly administered.
Socialists Not for Separate Peace,
. Statements that the International socialist bu
reau will not work for separate peace in the world
war may be taken at their face value. Thoughtful
socialists realize as keenly at do othert the po
litical need for a general adjustment of world re
lations before any approach may be made to per
manent peace. In the coming conference at
Stockholm the delegates will naturally give their
time to consideration of what may be done to end
the fighting, but the meeting will not be devoted
to the idea of establishing order piecemeal. Ger
man radicals have agitated for a separate peace
with'. Russia, but Dutch, Swedish, Swiss, Belgian,
Danish and other leaders realize that such a ttep
would be playing Into the hands of the Prussian
war machine and will not give it adherence. Con
servative socialists in Germany know that their
future rests on the overthrow of the junker party
and that thit cannot be accomplished thort of its
defeat in battle. Therefore the idea of separate
peace it. not likely to tecure endorsement at
Stockholm.
For Unorganized Railroad Workers.
One bit of unfinished business is brought to
the fore again by the Sante Fe railroad. It is
that of the unorganized railroad workers, who
were left out of the gift distribution under the
Adamson law. No one has contended that these
men and women are not entitled to some share
In the wage Increase that wat given to the more
highly paid organized railroad men and for . a
time considerable discussion wat indulged over
their tituation. War problems thrust them into
the background, but it seems they were partially
remembered by at least on companyy for the
Santa Ft has conceded a bonus of 10 per cent on
pay to all its unorganized employes who have been
in the service not less than tlx months. This Is
effective as far as it goes, but it doet not go far
enough. A bonus it not a wtge increase tnd
what the railroad workcrt who are without the
protection of unions and federal laws would
doubtless appreciate would be a substantial in
crease in the pay rate. If they are patient they
may get it in time, but they should not be entirely
forgotten. '.
Council ot National Delense
Practical Patriots
. By Frcdtmc J. Haskin
Washington, April 28. Julius Rosenwald of
Chicago, the member of the advisory commission
to the Council of National Defense, whose special
duty is to advise in regard to the purchase of
supplies, and his first assistant, Charles Eisemann,
are walking refutations of the idea that the Ameri
can business man is too engrossed in his business
to concern himself with ideals of patriotism. The
entire advisory commission, for that matter, is
proof that the American business man is ready
to serve his country, but Mr. Rosenwald and Mr.
Eisemann express this attitude in their words as
well as their work.
To them this emergency is an opportunity for
the development of a new nationalism in the
United States. As Mr. Eisemann phrases it,
America must discover a new soul; it must meet
this situation in a new spirit. The question each
American must ask is not the old one. What can
my government do for me? but the new one,
What can I do for my government? Modern war
fare, he observes, affords a splendid opportunity
for every one regardless of age, sex or occupa
tion, to do his bit for his country, and if the
nation is to meet this emergency successfully
every one must do his bit in the spirit of a
soldier.
Such in brief are the ideals of thete men. Their
practical task is the buying of textiles and organ
izing industries to fill the need of the government.
It is one for which they are well fitted, as Mr.
Rosenwald is president of Sears, Roebuck & Co.
and Mr. Eisemann is a auccessful manufacturer.
To this task they are applying their ideals of pa
triotic service literally and vigorously.
"It would not be serious," says Mr. Eisemann,
"if some of these manufacturers should lose a
few per cent of their profits, for the man that goes
out and gets killed loses 100 per cent of all he's
got."
Mr, Rosenwald personally believet that the
opportunities of men who would speculate in a
situation like the present one should be limited
by law. Cotton prices, for example, he thinks are
high enough and he believes that if they are made
to rise through speculation they should be brought
down by proper legislation.
He admits that to clothe several million sol
diers within the next year and still enable woolen
mills to fill their orders for civilian goods may
very likely be impossible. But the uniforms must
be made first; Jie has tried to impress on the
woolen men that he expects them to accept the
government orders at a reasonable profit and let
the civilian orders take second place. It is quite
possible, he thinks, that we may have to start a
national habit of wearing old clothes for a while
a sort of wear-your-last-year's-suit-again move
ment. The shiny coat and frayed trousers may
become a uniform of civilian patriotism. Mr. Ro
senwald believes that direct co-ordination of pro
ducer, manufacturer and the government is the
method by which present emergency needs can
best be supplied quickly and cheaply.
Dr. Franklin H. Martin, who is commissioner
for medicine and general sanitation, is a Chicago
physician and surgeon who has shown unusual
ability at an organizer, having been a moving
spirit in many of the associations and congresses,
of the medical profession in this country. He is
assisted by Dr. Frank F. Simpson. The task of
these men is to locate and organize the medical
resources of the country so that the government
can obtain what it wants without delay or search
ing. Men, medieines, instruments and hospitals
are the four chief factors in an army medical or
ganization and they are dealing with all of them.
One of the most difficult problems thev have to
face is that of finding the men needed by the
army without depriving the civilian population of
the amount of medical attention it needs. This
will be done chiefly by using the younger mem
bers of the profession for army work and by
using every precaution not to deprive any lo
cality of all of its doctors.
In addition to the commissioners who have
been alluded to in this' and two preceding let
ters the Council forNational Defense has two
paid officials who direct and co-ordinate all of its
efforts. W. S, Gilford, the director, is an officer
of the American Telephone and Telegraph com
pany, who hat taken leave of absence from his
regular work to accept his present position. He
demonstrated his ability as an industrial organizer
by supervising the work of the committee on in
dustrial preparedness of the naval consulting
board.
Grosvenor B. Clarkson, the secretary of the
council, is a New York business man and a for
mer journalist.. H was also associated with
Howard Coffin in the industrial preparedness
work of the naval consulting board. ,
Sugar in the Warehouse
Peru Pointer: Speculators are holding 15,
000,000 pounds of sugar in Omaha, a carload of
rice and a carload of sugar in Nebraska City, and,
of course, other cities all over the country have
speculators who are just as bad. In time of war,
why isn't this treason, and why shouldn't it be
dealt with in the same manner as giving help to
the enemy in any other way?
Nelson Gazette: An investigation brought on
by an Omaha newspaper disclosed the fact that
15,000,000 pounds of sugar is' being held in that
city for speculative purposes. This proposed
shortage of sugar has brought on a panic among
the consumers and many families have on hand a
tack or two, when ordinarily they would have
only a few pounds. Many merchants in the tmatl
towns have be'en unable to supply the demand
and at a result many thousand tacks of the table
necessity have been shipped in from mail order
houses. The speculators blame the people for
creating this panic and incidentally bringing up
the price. 1 .
Kenesaw Progress: An Omaha astessor has
uncovered 15,000,000 pounds of sugar stored in
Omaha warehouses, and Omaha merchants are
able to supply their customers in only limited
quantities. We are not an advocate of mob law,
but just the same those Omaha sugar speculators
would h getting just about what it coming to
them if a justly enraged populace would take
charge of that surplus of sugar and allow the
price boosters only a reasonable profit on the
deal on which they expect to make a rich haul.
Albion News: While the price of sugar is
soaring because it it claimed there is a thortage,
and retailers are unable to buy only in email lots.
It hat been discovered that there are 15.000,000
pounds stored in Omaha warehouses. If every
wholesale center it equally tupplied, the "short
age" is easily accounted for. Such procedure is
bound to bring governmental control of food
products; and it should. There is no doubt that
much of the "increase on account of the war" is
pure bunk and absolutely without justification.
York Republican: There are 15.000,000 pounds
of sugar in storage in Omaha, according to The
Bee. Yet the dealers have boosted the price to
consumers to 10 eentt, a raise of 4 cents a pound,
oirihe plea that there wat no tugar to be had. In
cases like that it mieht be a stood plan to seize
the commodity, whatever it might be, and sell it
to the perishing public at a reasonable price.
Nemaha Beacon: The Omaha assessors have
"diisr uo the fact that there is stored In the ware
houses in that city alone something like .15.000.000
pounds of tugar, which has been held off the mar
ket on the pretense of a shortage, while the mar
ket has been forced up from 6 to 10 cents per
pound. Further than that 'it is still being held
with a view of squeezing still more blood-money
out of the helpless and hungry consumer. We
have no doubt that if this matter was investigated
still further, the fact might be developed that
among these robber speculators were some ot tne
same Omaha millionaires who recently, in con
iunriinn with Mavor Dahlman. sicned and sent
across the continent to President Wilson a tele
gram pledging the undivided loyal support of
lT"yr"ftr a m
Proverb for the Dny.
All it fair In love and war.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
French beat back strong assault
northwest of Verdun.
Italians stormed mountain posi
tions on the Avlsco.
All rebels in Dublin surrendered
and hundreds of prisoners sent over
to England.
Official flgwet showed war ship
ment from the United Hlates during
twenty months totaled (240,000,000.
In Omaha Thirty Yeara Ago.
A brilliant paty was given by Miss
Mabel Brown, daughter ot Mrs. F. 1).
Brown, 2021 California street, in
honor Of her cousin. Miss Maud Dur
fee. Among the young people pres
ent were Birdie Van Kuren, Louise
Bquires, C. Troxell, Susie Colpetzer.
T. Moores. Darllne Coe, May Mors
man, Flora Webster, Helen Hoajt
land, Bertha Sloan, Edith Smyth, Roy
Hobble, Moshier Colpetzer, Russell
Wilber, Nat Bhelton, Dwlght and Ed
Swobe, Louis ani Charles Pratt, Joe
Barker, Guy and Will Henry and Paul
Headland.
Mrs. Louis beindorff has a panel
of hollyhock at Rose's that are true
to nature.
The young people of the Metro
politan club gave a farewell banquet
in honor of Miss Minnie Rosenfeld
and Mrs. D, Kauffman, who leave
shortly for the east to be gone six
months.
J. L. Pierson, commission dealer
in real estate and Investment securi
ties, has removed to room 8, Omaha
National Bank building, where he
will be glad to meet with anyone
looking for an Investment.
M. H. O'Toole and Miss Mattle
Bernhard were married at the home
of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
S. Bernhard.
Mrs. Edward "Balbach of Newark,
N. J., and her daughter visited Mr.
and Mrs. Balbach here on their way
to New Mexico.
This Day In History.
1813 General William Henry Har
rison was besieged at Fort Meigs, O.,
by J, 000 British and Indians.
1844 National whig convention
met at Baltimore and "nominated
Henry Clay for president.
1845 Methodist Episcopal church,
south, organized at Louisville.
1863 Final day of maneuvering
for the battle of ,Chancellorsvllle
closed with the confederates occupy
ing the better position.
1867 Burke and Doran, the Fe
nian leaders, aentenced to death in
England.
1893 World's Columbian exposi
tion formally opened by President
Cleveland.
1898 Spanish fleet destroyed by
the United States squadron under
Dewey in battle of Manila bay.
1904 Japanese defeated the Rus
sians in the great battle of the Yalu
river.
1916 Beginning ot the great Rus
sian retreat in Galicia.
1916 Dr. Karl Liebknecht, German
socialist leader, arrested In connec
tion with a May day demonstration
in Berlin,
The Day We Celebrate, i
O. G. Lieben, who, with his father,
furnishes costume and lodge regalia
for Omaha people, was born In Heid
elberg, Germany. May 1, 1884. The
annual Ak-Sar-Ben festivities owe
much of their success to his efforts.
David J. Lewis, former Maryland
congressman, now a. member of the
Federal Tariff commission, born in
Center county. Pennsylvania, forty
eight years ago today.
Joseph E. Willard, United States
ambassador at Madrid, now active
in consultation with the Spanish gov
ernment over Its policy toward Ger
many, born In Washington, D. C. titty-two
years ago today.
Duke of Connaught, uncle of King
George V and late governor general
ot Canada, born sixty-seven years ago
today.
Rt Rev. Thomas O'Gorman, Catho
lic bishop of Bloux Falls, born in
Boston seventy-four years ago today.
Paul "Nick" Carter, pitcher of the
Chicago National league base ball
team, born at Lake Park, Pa., twenty-three
year ago today.
George W. McQulllen, former Phil
adelphia base ball player, now with
the Kansas City team, born in Brook
lyn, N. Y., thirty-two years ago today.
Timely Jotting and Reminder.
The new federal Immigration law,
containing the much-discussed liter
acy test, is to beoome'operative to
day. 1
Rt. Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle of Mis
souri today rounds out half a cen
tury aR a bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal church.
Celebration ot the second national
"Baby Week" begins today under the
auspices of the women's clubs and
the children' bureau of the Depart
ment of Labor.
The sixth annual convention of the
Motion Picture Exhibitors' Corpora
tion of the Northwest is to meet in
Minneapolis today for a three-day
session.
Kansas today will put Into effect
a law recently enacted by the leg
islature ot that state forbidding the
sale of periodicals containing cigaret
advertisements.
Aberdeen Is to be the meeting place
today of the annual convention of the
South Dakota Sunday School asso
ciation. The Western Union Telegraph com
pany will put the basic eight-hour
day Into effect In its service today,
altecting 46,000 employes throughout
the country.
Sloryettc of the Day.
The little boy was evidently a firm
believer In the old adage, "Of two
evils choose the lesser." Turning a
corner at full speed, he collided with
the minister.
"Where are you running to, my
little man?" asked the minister, when
he had regained his breath.
"Home!" panted the boy. "Ma's go
ing to spank me." '
"What!" gasped the astonished min
Ister. "Are you eager to have your
mother spank you that you run home
to fast?"
"No," shouted the boy over his
shoulder a he resumed his homeward
flight, "but if I don't get there before
pa gets home, he'll do HI" Topeka
State Jouhitl.
Mr. Parrott wanted the picture
hung to the right of the mirror; Mrs.
Parrot wanted it hung to the left. For
once he proved the more insistent of
the two, and Joseph, the Janitor, was
summoned to hang the picture accord
ing to his orders. Obediently Joseph
drove a nail on the right, as directed;
this dune, he also drove one in the
wall on the left
"What I 'the second nail for?" Mr.
parrott demanded.
"It's to save me . the trouble of
fetching the ladder tomorrow when
you come round to the missus' way of
thinking," said Joseph. New l'ork
Globe.
"What Does Ireland Want?"
Mr. J. J. Fitzgerald of the Grain
Exchange sendB The Bee an article
by Sbane Leslie, M. A., published In
"America" under the above caption,
which is too lengthy to be reproduced
entire, but from which these para
graphs are taken:
"This Is an exceedingly difficult
question, because neither Ireland nor
her friends nor her enemies can
agree, even among themselves, what
she wants for herself or what they
want for her.
"The trouble Is that only extrem
ists can make themselves heard in
Ireland. The majority are not asking
for the impossible. Ireland does not
wish to hitch her wagon to the moon.
Her people ore not clamoring for re
venge or republics. Vengeance any
how belungeth to the Lord and repub
lic are for countries like Russia and
France, which, have discovered the art
of putting up auccessful revolutions.
The world we live In it one which be
lieve more In success than in princi
ples. Ireland is a country which has
slaked so much for principle that she
has failed of suceesa A humdrum,
practical, co-operative, unromantic
home administration Is what Ireland
needs, whatever her most impulsive
and gifted sons have demanded and
continue to demand.
"What Ireland wants i a fusion
government, in which agrarians, gen
try, Sinn Fein, Ulstermen and other
elements can be represented to the
exclusion of the fanatic. Ireland does
not favor the triumph of any particu
lar partisanship, but friie does want
an ideal fulfilled."
Alcohol For Powder.
Omaha, April 28. To the Editor of
The Bee: Your contributor, who mod
estly hides behind initials "L. B. H,"
In ruminating about the demon liquor,
"which causes all poverty,, crime and
insanity," recommends prohibition In
the Interest of the conservation of food
and of solving the problem of the
high cost of living, because liquors are
made from grain.
I wonder if he is also opposed to
the use of grain and other foodstuffs
for the manufacture of alcohol to be
used in producing smokeless powder
for the entente allies. There were ex
ported 2.000,000 gallons of alcohol
during February last for that purpose,
besides some 5,000,000 gallons more
used for making powder in this, coun
try, most of which, of course, was ex
ported. Now It takes twenty bushels of grain
and a half ton of coal to make a bar
rel of alcohol, and I understand that
It takes about a barret of alcohol to
make the powder required for one shot
of one of the big guns, and who knows
how many hundreds of thousands of
people have been killed with, the
powder thus produced from the alco
hol distilled from our grain.
Why not stop the use of grain for
such purposes, thus making it avail
able for food?, One can readily see
what an Important factor the enormous
consumption of corn for such pur
poses has been In raising the price
of grain to the present unprecedented
high price.
Thousands and thousands of these
good prohibitionists who last fall were
"hollering" their heads off for prohi
bition are now scrambling to lay in a
supply ot liquor for the coming drouth.
If they would stop using liquors none
would have to be manufactured and
no grain would be required therefor.
A. L. MEYER.
Word for the Volunteers.
Maxwell. Neb., April 30. To (he
Editor of The Bee: I have been read
ing the proceeding in congress, where
a large number take sides against the
volunteer soldier, I cannot refrain
from taking exceptions to the asser
tion that the volunteer has proved a
failure, for that Is not true. Every
war since the government existed has
been fought by volunteers. Take the
war with Mexico. Three-fourths of
that army was volunteers. Was that
a failure? Who fought the Spanish
American war? Three-fourths volun
teers. Who fought the war of the
rebellion? Nine-tenths volunteers.
Was that a failure? They say they
don't volunteer. No wonder. The
government has never made it plain
Don't Let Soap
Spoil Your Hair
When you wash your hair, be care
ful what you use. Most soaps and pre
pared shampoos contain too much
alkali, which it very injurious, as it
dries the scalp and makes the hair
brittle.
The best thing to use is just plain
mulsified cocoanut oil, for this it pure
and entirely greaseless. It's very
cheap, and beats the most expensive
soaps or anything else alk.to pieces.
You can get thit at any drug store,
and a few ouncet will last the whole
family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with water
and rub it in, about a teatpoonful is
all that is required. It makes an
abundance of rich, creamy lather,
cleanses thoroughly and rinses out
easily. The hair dries quickly and
evenly, and is soft, fresh looking,
bright, fluffy, wavy and , easy to
handle. Besides, it loosens and takes
out every particle of dust, dirt and
dandruff. Advertisement
what la wanted. They don't under
stand. A man when he enlists want
to know what 1 expected of him.
There has never been any trouble to
get volunteers and tthe young men are
Just as patriotic now as they ever
were. They ay It will take ten to
eleven month to train a man for the
army. Will It take any longer to train
a volunteer than a drafted man? I
think not, but if a man can't drill to
be a soldier in three months he never
will and had better be sent home.
The writer of this is an old veteran,
a volunteer, Is 82 years old. served
four years and knows that all that It
needed is for the young men to under
stand what is expected of them. Then
volunteering wilt be brisk.
Hurrah for the volunteers.
BENJAMIN F. BAKER.
CHEERY CHAT.
"Mm. Flubdub If dcttrmlned to have
wlon."
"Yen, sh worki hsrd to make It vo.
When lh convrntlon lara n turn! OS
a talking machine." Louisville Cotirlor
Journal. Offli?r Von ssjr your name fa "Wlgflea
worthT" When you were brousht In last
nlshl you save It aa "WlKKfl."
Pooay Cent Yea, that wa myfull name
wouldn't set my toneee around "WlfSles
worth" laat night. Boaton TranacrlpL
tEW V.VCA8I6BUE,
CAUS OVt Wt HE BRIVK A
BOH OV tMfoV. BVTT HE QtlS
Uf HIMSEIF-HOW CAN I
SrW Hlln
IODISE BANCROFT
SOON AS HE MSWES HANb HIM
A PlfcCE OF CHBNIM QUM
"Bobbie, run over to the next door
nelshbor and take what egsa and butur
you find In the refrigerator."
"But Isn't that stealing!"
"Certainly not. They are paciflats and
expeot IL" Ufa.
"Kicking about trad', eht Why, the
people In your neighborhood are all rich."
"Too rich. They winter In California and
they aummer In Maine. 1 only aee 'em about
three tnonthe In tlio year." Loulavllle
Courier-Journal.
THE SONG.
Margaret E. Bin prater. Jr.
H was juat a itrt musician, and ht
played a simple opK
In the BOfttipno of the twilight as the shad
ows flickered Ions;
But a boy whK hurried past him stopped
to listen to his play.
And a girt whose lt had faltered found
the grace to pause and pray.
He was .lUKt a street musician, but be
pointed out the way.
Tea, the sons was very simple, but the boy
' saw mountains green.
And a shining, threadlike river, and k tiny,
homelike scene;
Saw a farm houiie, stained by weather, and
he knew the door was wide.
And he knew that love was watting Just
across the sill inside;
And he murmured softly, "Mother," and
his heart within him cried.
And the girl remembered dimly In the land
of long ago,
How she knelt beside her window and had
watched the sunset glow
Out across the golden corn He Ids when her
heart was fre from sin,
When she had not known the city with Its
fever and Its din
And her tears were near the surface as she
breathed, "I'll tight and win!"
He was just a street musician, and he
played a simple song!
But It echoed through the twilight aa the
shadows flickered long.
And tt hovered o'er the city, pure and Ught
as silver foam,
And It touched two hearts that wandered,
and It told them not to rosin
He was Just a atreot musician, and his song
was "Home, Bweet Home."
BABY
L
HAD
BREAKING OU
T
Red and Inflamed. Irritated
Badly. Cuticura Healed.
"My baby girl had t breaking out on
her face when she was one year old. It
appeared in the form o( blisters, and
tne skin was very rea
and inflamed. It itched
and irritated her to
badly that slit wat very
I fretful, and would
scratch her face till it
was covered with blood.
It became to bad I had
to keep mittens on her
hands all the time, and her face wan
disfigured. -
"I tried medicines without success.
Then I procured Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment, and they very toon healed her.
Her face itnowwithouttcarorblemish."
(Signed) Mrs. D. A Stanger, Box 244,
Blue Hound, 111., Oct 8, 1916.
It is easier to prevent skin troubles
than to heal them. Clear th fjores
and keep them clear by using Cuticura
Soap for every-day toilet purpotet and
touches of Ointment as needed.
For Free Sample Each by Return
Mtil address post-card: "Cuticura,
Dept. H, Boston." Sold everywhere.
" AskFor.udGETX
Get the Round Package
Uaed for Vi Century.
Caution
Avoid Sub.tltuti
THE ORIGINAL
MALTED MILK
Made from clean, rich milk with the ex
tract of select malted grain, malted in our
own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions.
Mimtt mf chMrm thrin en it. Afrcu with
tin makt ttomtwh of th invalid or th ag ad.
aVnots as) Cooking not addition of milk.
Nourish! and sustains more than tea, coffae, ate.
Should ba kept at home or when traveling. A nu
tritious food -drink may be preparsd in a moment.
A glassful hot before retiring induce refreshing
tUMrp. Also in lunch tablet form for business man.
Substitutes Cost YOU Sam Priea
Take a Package Homo
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