THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1917.
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' Now, if Old Sol stick, to hi job, much of past
wickedness will he forgiven.
' Pulling off a six-hour work day in Petrograd
disposes of th !, complaint that Russians lack
speed. , ''
As to the war's finish, one guess is as good as
another. The way to make it short is to get into
the push. .
It might help some to center control of the
police force in one man, and hold him strictly
accountable. ' '
Writing silly letters to convicts may assist
some women to . kill time, but they'd better be
sewing sox for soldiers.
The submarine put out of- action by an oil
tanker; must have felt like' trolley car knocked
off the track by a flivver.
Simon and Leonard are not so lonely, now
that they have Benson, Spargo, Walling, Russell
and a few others for company.
Aside from its cheery, confident quality the
official crop report indicates a resumption of dip
lomatic relations with the bears.
The answer to "what is so rare as a day ,in
June" has been discovered. It is a "bright, sun
shiny day in the present month,
. According fto.."Mayor. Jim,' the trouble with
the police force now is it has too many bosses,
and so he proposes to remedy this by adding six
more. .,; , -
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Stockholm' is getting a pretty lively prelude
to the "peace" convention called by the social
ists, who are willing enough to fight when oppos
ing the police. '
War's new tax on automobiles Is expected to
yield $40,000,000 a year from pleasure cars alone.
Even, at that additional price joy-riding beats
wearing out shoe leather. "'
: ,$yi , 1 1 I I. 1 H . .'"'!''.' ''i'-j.'.
Shelling the life boats after sinking the ship is
new trick of the submarine terrors not likely to
heighten the estimation in which that branch of
the kaiser's service is "held. ,
Confederate soldiers marched up Pennsyl
vania avenue just fifty years late, according to
their own schedule. But the old boys were cheer
ing for Old Glory-this time. ....
Much of the chatter and all the killing might
be dispensed with and not raise a doubt of the cy
clonic primacy of Kansas and Missouri. Empha
sizing the home coming is irritating, to say the
least , . i .
Our , registered roll of honor, inspiring in its
magnitude, should infuse a stronger spirit of
service and sacrifice ' into the atay-at-homes.
Equality of service is impossible, but equality of
spirit is not.
Ruth Law will be welcome when she flies over
the city, even if we are all pretty well worked up
about the Liberty bonds already., We might in
sist she stop off, were it not for the fact that they
really need hert St. Joe. - - -
Mr. Hoover's explanation and denial of sugar
crop shortage accounts for the sudden rush of su
gar to storage warehouses in April and early May.
The squeeze had no other basis than a Cuban
ruction, which speculators quickly capitalized.
Railroad managers naturally dislike curtailing
passenger train service unless war orders render
action necessary. In this they show unwavering
esteem for the traveling public Besides, no man
ager with a heart could deny the summer joy
rider his accustomed travel luxuries.
Reformers report progress in liberalizing gov
ernment ir Spain. Monarchy is not an obstacle,
mainly an ornament' The chief difficulty is to in
dues the "ins", to retire and give the "outs" a
chance to get nourishment Otherwise, reform in
Spain is as airy as its celebrated line of castles.
Singing Soldiers
-New Yark WorU-
Major General Bell recently spoke of the value
of singing to an army, its helpfulness on the
march, it. consolation in camp and even its in
spiration in battle. Acting on this suggestion,
various gentlemen in Washington are preparing a
song-book for the soldiers who are to go to
France, and we ace told that it will be of a nature
to take the mind completely away from the war.
, Perhaps this is not the right kind of song
book. Most of the war songs of the civil war on
both sides were either mournful or vindictive. It
is true that thousands sang the' rollicking "Dixie,"
but larger numbers on both sides marched to the
solemn strains of "John Brown's Body" and
"Maryland." There was one song, "Tenting To
night, ' so dispiriting that many commanders pro
hibited it and the bibulous "When Johnny Comes
Marching Home" was more of a favorite m the
family circle than in the camps.
"The. Marseillaise," like nearly all national
hymns, is not what would be called a pleasing
little ditty, and yet it fires the hearts of men who
never saw France. Our own "Star-Spangled Ban
ner, "America," "Hail Columbia" and "The Bat
tle Hymn of. the Republic" would never be se
lected to take the minds of our soldiers away
from war. Even ;'Tipperary," aadly lacking as it
is ra words, carries a plaintive air which for a
long time supplanted all the historic martial tunes
of Great Britain. And we are tint in ui w
the favorite American army. song, of the Spanish I
Tighten Up the Poor Farm.
Diversion of public opinion to the war may be
expected to operate as a cover for many abuses
that would not otherwise be allowed to pass, but
waste of public money is not justified war or no
war. Right now we have special reference to the
exhibit of multiplied expense of running the Doug
las county poor farm and hospital under the new
democratic regime. The high cost of living is ex
pected to bob up in public housekeeping as it does
in private housekeeping, but while every private
householder has been watching the corners it
would seem that poor farm operations had been
extended.
Instead of more, there ought to be actually
fewer inmates of the poor farm today than tiering
a corresponding time a year ago, because every
willing worker can now easily secure employment,
and, besides that, the advent of the "dry" era
ought to have removed some of the causes con
tributing to poor farm population as it has to jail
population. The only explanation must be the
relaxation of the rules for admission or the keep
ing of folks there after they should be discharged.
It is not the purpose of our taxpayers to run a
star boarding house any more than it is to give
them less than is necessary for wholesome but
simple meals. No good reason can be presented
why poor farm inmates should fare better than
the families of average self-supporting wage
earners.
On its own report the poor farm holds out an
urgent invitation for the county board to do somj
checking and to tighten up the leaks.
Dubious Expedient in Finance. ,
Many million! of dollars belonging to Ger
man citizens are now impounded in this country
by reason of interrupted communication. This
comes from interest on loans and bonds and divi
dends onr stocks owned in Germany, from the
proceeds of goods bought and delivered, from
royalties and from other sources, and only awaits
the re-establishment of relations to be paid over
to the rightful owners. A hint now comes from
Washington that under, an act to be passed by
congress it will be possible to invest this money
in Liberty bonds and thus "make the Germans'pay
for the war." Such a course might be legalized
by congress, but its moral aspect would remain
unchanged. We must not fail to distinguish be
tween public and private property, or at least
property that may be put to direct war uses. One
of our reasons for entering the war is to secure
the certain inviolability of private property
wherever located on sea or on land. If Ger
many has seized property belonging to individ
uals anywhere under pretext of necessity, the
offense belongs to the Germans and does not con
vey to us any right to imitate the' example. The
suspended millions belonging to German .inves
tors and business men should be safer in this
country than anywhere just now. Americans have
a considerable stake in Germany, and the ques
tion of their property rights will surely be kept
in mind by the. government when settlement time
comes. For this, if for no other reason, any
thought of investing the money of German citi
zens in Liberty bonds ought to be put aside.
Lesson from Joliet
Earnest workers in the cause of prison re
form will suffer something of disappointment,
while thoughtful persons who .have not investi
gated closely will be shocked by the disclosures
made in connection with the disorder at the
joliet prison. Primarily 1( was brought about by an
effort to curtail certajn privileges that had been
abused.. Among these. was that. of receiving let
ters from women outside the prison, wht from
one or another motives had volunteered to write
to the convicts. That some of these women Were
imprudent is to state it mildly. Expressions in
letters taken from the convicts, written them by
strangers in most cases, indicate such a perver
sion of the impulse to aid in reformation that a
sober mind is at a loss to ascribe a motive for
the language used. No man can be assisted to
decency in his way of life when stimulated by
the suggestions conveyed to him through silly
letters, no matter what the writer of such let
ters may think. The plain lesson of the Joliet
affair is that more caret must be' exercised, both
in and out-of prison, if the moral fabric of the
nation is to be preserved.
Xronstadt and a Free Russia.
The experiment of the soldiers and workmen
at Kronstadt, said to have been abandoned at the
urgent pleading of the provisional government, is
interesting to sociologists as indicating how stub
bornly a fallacy persists. .Here pure idealists
again sought to establish, an Utopia, where no
dominant personality ahould gain control over
another and where all business should be carried
on by commissions, each equal in authority with
all others, and each member having similar attri
butes, with no leadership, and no management,
one man's word being as good as another.
.The end to this is easily discerned, but the
tragical fact is that Kronstadt is an expression
of the condition that threatens free Russia, whose
people must find means for the establishment and
maintenance of order and the formulation of their
will into effective acts. Liberty is a priceless pos
session, but is easily lost when unsupported by
a firm foundation. This is not yet provided in
Russia, where ' the situation is far from en
couraging to those who cherish aelf-government.
A strange turn of affairs it is that has given
autocracy, as represented by Prussian militarism,
its chance for new life through the endeavors of
the Russian people to aeize their liberty. Kron
stadt is typical of the weakness of the masses
when left to their own devices. The proposed
form of government is attractive as a dream, but
a genuine da'nger to free Russia.
College Students to the Front
The most inspiring feature of the rally to the
colors is furnished by college students. No
other distinct class equals their zeal for service
or their speed to the recruiting offices. Long
before the United States entered the war nu
merous ambulance corps of American collegians
were in the service. . These organizations be
came the nucleus of the fighting body, which
recently exchanged ambulance work for guns
and carried Old Glory to the west front. Most of
the big colleges are represented in this body.
This year's classes in many colleges have been
sharply reduced by enlistments in ' various
branches of the service. In two instances, at
least Colgate and the City of New York, the
school year was cut short because some 400
students of each left to enlist Princeton, Co
lumbia, Yale and Harvard are sending ambu
lance corps to the front Other colleges are
making proportionate contributions to the coun
try's service. In energy, devotion and enterprise
these men, properly seasoned, will Drove worthy
M their country and lend luster to the stars of
the flag they follow.
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Avenging Jonah
By Frederic J. Haskin
' Washington, June 5. From the Pacific coast
conies' vTord that the whalers of the state of
Washington and of Alaska are seeking markets
for whale meat in an effort to increase their
own profits and supplement the nation's de
pleted food supply. This report has excited so
much interest that the Bureau of Fisheries here
has had a number of inquiries as to the edibility
of whales and the chances of creating a national
market for their flesh. The government experts
looking into the matter are not prepared as yet
to publish their conclusion.
No government investigation is needed to de
termine the edibility of the whale. In Japan whale
meat, both fresh and canned, is a staple and plays
a very- important part in the diet of the poorer
classes who cannot afford to buy beef. In the
island empire the heart, liver, tongue and intes
tines of the whale are eaten, as well as the
meat and blubber. The meat of the humpback
whale, which is considered the most desirable,
sometimes sells for as much as 15 cents a pound,
but is eenerallv obtainable for about half that
amount. Roy Chapman Andrews, who has spent
much time at the shore stations ot the modern
whaling industry studying the great sea creat
ures for the American museum of national his
tory, states tffat he has eaten large quantities
of the meat and has found it both palatable and
healthful. He says that chemical analysis
shows it to contain about Vs ner cent of digesti
ble material, whereas beef has seldom more than
yj per cent. It is described as a coarse meat,
which tastes something like' venison, but has a
very distinctive flavor. The favorite way of
serving it m aoan is raw. with chonoed vege
tables and a sauce. Great quantities of it are
cooked, canned and sent to all parts of the em
pire. This canned whale is said to be superior
to a great many of the potted meats sold in the
American marxet.
While the old New England whaling captains
were writing their memoirs of this vanished in
dustry a young Norwegian was busy invent
ing a new method of whaling by which the re
maining abundant species, the blue whales and
fin whales, might be profitably hunted. Back in
the 70s the harpoon gun and the shore station
were being perfected, and now this new whal
ing business has grown into a world industry
with products worth $70,000,000 annually.
It is carried on up and down the Pacific coast
from Mexico to Alaska, where the whales con
gregate in immense herds on certain rich feed
ing grounds; from South Africa, Japan, from the
Shetland Islands, the south Orkneys, the talk
lands and South Georgia; from Spitzbergen, the
Faroes, the Hebrides, Greenland and the Gala
pagos. A peculiar thing about the industry is
that practically all ot the harpooners, who are
generally also the captains of the vessels, come
from ionsberg, the little Norwegian town where
Svend Foyn, the inventor of the harpoon gun,
lived.
The importance of creating a market for
whale is due to the fact that, besides greatly in
creasing the value of the industry and adding
to the world s food suddIv. it might be the means
of saving the whales from extermination. Al
though there are some few laws with regard to
whaling, there are none that are effective. In
the sub-Antarctic islands especially the whale is
being rapidly exterminated by means of the float
ing factories. These are great steamers carry
ing apparatus for the trying out of blubber, from
which the smaller vessels operate. Not only all
of the meat, but often all but the thickest part
of the blubber, is thrown away. A whale that
would be worth several thousand dollars in Japan
yields only about $40 or $50 to these wasteful
methods. In this way an industry which is worth
millions of dollars is being rapidly destroyed.
This new method of hunting whales from shore
stations, while it threatens the extermination of
the race, has also afforded science its first good
opportunity to study them. From the decks of
the whaling vessels many new and interesting
denervations of the movements and habits of
whales have been made, while at the shore sta
tions, where the huge bodies are pulled out for
butchering, the first accurate measurements and
records of color and marking have been ob
tained. As almost everyone knows, the whale is
a mammal, the same as man and the other higher
forma of animal life. There is no doubt that it
is descended from some mammal which lived on
land in former geologic ages, and was forced by
some sudden' change in its environment to adapt
itself to a life in the sea. It still breathes air,
but is able to hold its breath for a long time,
and is known to stay under water for at least
forty minutes at a time. How deep it is able
to go no one knows. It was formerly supposed
that the pressure of the water made it impossi
ble for the animals to descend more than 300
feet, but whalers report instances in which a
whale has taken out a quarter of a mile of har
poon line and risen within 100 yards of the point
where it disappeared. -, "
The blue whale is the largest animal that in
habits the globe and is believed to be the largest
that ever did inhabit it, exceeding in size even
the dinosaurs. Blue whales have been taken
which were eighty-five feet in length and weighed
seventy-five tons.
With the exception of the killer whale, which
is a very ferocious species about fifteen feet in
length that destroys seals and fish, the whales
do practically no harm. They are very worthy
of protection because of both their scientific in
terest and their commercial value.
Our Fighting Men
Joseph Strauss.
Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, a noted ordnance
expert of the United States navy and for some
time chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, is a native
of New York and a graduate of the Naval acad
emy in the class of 1885. In addition to the rou
tine duties of his calling alternating sea. and
shore duty and circumnavigating the globe Ad
miral Strauss has directed important experiments
in the line of naval ordnance. For several years
he was in charge of the United States naval prov
ing ground and he commanded the cruiser Mont
gomery while that vessel was used for experi
mental work on torpedoes. Admiral Strauss is
the inventor of the superposed turret system of
mounting guns on battleships.
William C. Bralated.
Dr. William C. Braisted, the present surgeon
general of the United States navy, is the man
who, above 'all others, is charged with the
preservation of the health of the American sailor
and marine during the present war. Dr. Braisted
is a native of Toledo. O., and was a practicing
physician in Detroit when he entered the navy in
1890 as an assistant surgeon. After having served
on many vessels and at many naval hospitals be
was made surgeon general in 1914. Dr. Braisted
represented the medical department of the navy
in Japan during the Russo-Japanese war and was
decorated by the emperor of Japan in apprecia
tion of his excellent report on the Japanese hos
pital service. He ia also the possessor of the
Order of Bolivar, given him by the president of
Venezuela for his services in caring for the Vene
zuelan wounded at the battle of Puerto Cabello.
Frederic R. Harris.
Rear Admiral Frederic R.-Harfis, chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks, is one of the noted
engineering experts of the United States navy
Admiral Harris was born in New York City and
received his technical training at Stevens insti
tute. Previous to entering the naval service in
1903 he had established for himself a high reputa
tion in the engineering profession by his work in
connection with harbor improvements and other
engineering enterprises along the Atlantic coast.
As an engineer in the naval service he assisted in
the construction of the new navy yard and dry
dock at Charleston and constructed the .great
naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba. . .... . , .... .
Proverb for the Day.
Competition Is the life of trade.
One Year Ago Today In the Wax.
Russian, recaptured th. fortress of
uiuk. in voinynla.
Allies reported to have begun a
blockade -if ureece.
Italians teized high mountain passe"
nonnwest or Trent and blocked A us
trians In heavy battle near Aslago.
In Omaha, Thirty Years Ago.
Henry Hornberger has Just re
turned from a trip to the east, the
feature of which was hi. attendance
upon the golden wedding of his father
ana mother in Manmnurg, Ind.
Quite a crowd gathered near the
Fourteenth street entrance to the Pax
ton, attracted by a hilarious Individual
who was throwing articles out of a
fflllff-lrS.Sin 8;
second story window, to the danger of
the passentby Officer. Dempsey and
Whalen reported the matter to the
hotel clerk and the jubilant Individual
subsided.
The funeral of William T. Preston
took place from the residence, corner
Seventeenth and Clark. '
The office of the Board of Public
Work, has been moved from its old
place In Creighton block to room 21,
the one Immediately south. U. B.
Balcombe will act as clerk to the
chairman of the board.
A Bprlghtly debate took place in the
rooms of the Daniel Webster society
at Creighton college. The following
young men took part in the debate: H.
Town, J. O'Gorman. J. B. Furay and
P. Burke. Eugene Noon read an essay
on "Socialism."
Contractor James Griffith will com
mence the erection of the new school
building on Twenty-eighth and Web
ster. C. E. Fanning of C. E. Fanning &
Co. clalmB that he is saving the city
$1,100 overy month by sweeping the
streets of the city.
This Day In History.
, 1806 General Gideon J. Pillow
noted confederate commander, born
in Williamson county, Tennessee. Died
in liee. county, Arkansas, October 6,
1878.
1838 General George M. Sternberg,
surgeon-general of the United States
army during the war with Spain, born
in Otsego county. New York. Died No.
vember 3, 1916.
1842 James C. Barbour, Virginia
governor and secretary of war under
President J. Q. Adams, died. Born In
Virginia. June 10, 1775.
1861 Virginia troops transferred
to the conferedate government by the
governor.
1867 The empress and emperor of
Austria were crowned at Pesth as king
and queen of Hungary.
1892 Bob Ford, the slayer of Jesse
James, was shot and killed by a dep
uty sheriff at Creele, Colo.
1893 Business portion of Fargo, N.
D., destroyed by fire; loss estimated at
over 13,000,000.
1916 William J. Bryan resigned as
secretary of state in the Wilson cabinet.
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. Thomas E. Dailey, the dentist,
was born, June 8, 1881, in Lincoln.
Frederick H. Mlllener, custodian of
Union Pacific headquarters, is Just 45
today. He was born in Tonawanda, N.
Y.,-and is a graduate first of De Veaux
college, of Magara college in electrical
engineering and of Jefferson Medical
college.
John Q. A. Brackett, former gov
ernor of Massachusetts, born at Brad
ford, N. H., seventy-five years ago to
day. William W. Canada; United States
consul at Vera Cruz, Mexyborn In
Randolph county, Indiana, sixty-seven
years ago today.
Dr. Samuel Simpson Marquis, noted
Episcopal clergyman and sociologist,
of Detroit, born at Sharon O., fifty
one years ago today.
Clarence H. De Mar, celebrated long
distance runner and Olympic contest
ant born at Medina, O., twenty-nine
years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is Woman's Liberty loan day.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
Is to speak in New Orleans today In
behalf of the Liberty loan.
The government grain report to be
Issued today is awaited with keen pub
lic interest because of the prominent
part that the foodstuffs situation is
expected to play in the winning ot the
war.
Many church dignitaries and men ot
national prominence are on the pro
gram ot the diamond jubilee celebra
tion of the University of Notre Dame,
which begins today and will continue
over Sunday.
A magnificent memorial to Robert
E. Lee, erected on Gettysburg battle
field by the state of Virginia, is to be
unveiled today as the crowning fea
ture of the national reunion of United
Confederate Veterans, which has held
forth In Washington this week.
Etoryette of the Day.
"Are you an advocate of prohibi
tion?" asked the lady with the Bryan
eeque chin. , -
"Yes, ma'am." replied the Individual
with the irrigated, carmine-colored
eyes, "I advocate prohibition, in lta
proper place."
"In Its proper place. What do you
mean, sir?" she demanded suspiciously.
"I mean, ma'am," 'he answered, "at
least twenty miles from any human
habitation, ma'am." Philadelphia
star.
HOMEWARD BOUND.
Dr. Henry Van Dyk, former .American
minister to th Netherlands, who arrived at
New York yesterday, wrote th poem printed
below on hta voyas; acrou the Atlantic.
Home, for my heart at HI call me;
Home through the danger ion;.
Home, whatever befalli me.
X wilt salt again to my own.
- Wolves of the sea arc hiding
Closely along the way -Under
the water biding
Their moment to rend and slay.
. Black la the eagle that brands them.
Black are their hearts as the night,
Black la the hat that tends them
To murder, but not to tight. :
Flower of th 0rman culture,
Boast of the kaiser's marine,
Choose for your emblem tho vulture.
. Cowardly, cruel, obscene. ,
Forth from her sheltered haven '
Our peaceful ship glides alow.
Noiseless In flight as a raven.
Gray as a hoodie crow.
She doubles and turns tn her bearing
- yke a twisting plover she goes; i
The way of her westward faring,
Only the captain knows.
In a lonely bay concealing
, . She Hnser for days, and slips '
At dunk from her covert,, stealing '
' Through channels feared by the ships.
Bravo are the men and 'steady, "'
Who guide her over tho deep,
, British marines ready
. To face the sea wolfs leap. ,
Lord of the winds and waters
Bring our ship to her mark,
Safe Jrom thla game of hide-and-seek
With murderers in the dark.
...... s v Waehiagten Post.
Tribute to Charles H. Tully
Lincoln, Neb., June 6. To- the
F,dltor of The Bee: The daily press
Monday carried the news cf the death
of Charles H. Tully of Alliance, nnd
no one who knew him well has felt a
happy moment since.
A pioneer of western Nebraska,
whose people he best knew and loved,
ne naa lound iittie time to mingle with
the hosts of the more populous east
ern section, although men of promi
nence generally knew Charlie Tully,
for he was a great soul. Strong,
brave and generous, he made no bid
for friends. He was one of those na
ture's noblemen, with a personality
to wnom men were irresistibly drawn.
He was incapable of a small thought
or a mean act. V ,
, It was a rare privilege to share the
hospitality of his beautiful, home and
his lovely family. It was a royal treat
to traverse the great ranches of the
TuIIV-MllNHPr I.nflri onn,t,on.L nnH
some of the nation's noted men have
tesiinea to delightful hours spent, the
guests of Charlie Tully and his be
loved nartnAI-H .nil .nm-n.I T
C. Musser and Herman A. Peters of
Kusnvine and Hay Springs.
Charles H. Tully was typical of the
Verv best of NehrflRltn-a vpaal
ranchmen. Hailed as a cattle king, he
waa as moo em as a.cnild and as ten
der, too. Always unassuming, always
optimistic and always an intelligent
and studious man of affairs, the value
of his life cannot be estimated. That
he is gone we can only be thankful fos
what our memory holds of the good
things he contributed to the welfare
of the world.
Politically a loyal domocrat, he was
as jealous of the principles which his
party upheld as he was of the friend
ships so dear to him. He was in every
sense a superb type of American man
hood, whose sojourn upon earth was
correspondingly as fruitful of happi
ness as his untimely death was sad,
and In the hearts of countless men,
women and children long will abide
the sterling name of Charles H. Tully.
HENRY C. RICHMOND.
Turn All Back to the Indian.
Omaha, June 6. To the Editor of
The Bee: In the early days of this
country and as far back as 1492, the
land belonged by right of possession
and Inheritance to a race of red men,
who lived, perhaps, not according to
our standards of civilization, but un
doubtedly as God intended them to
live. They had their tribes and lived
freely and happily until the advent ot
the white man, then they saw their
lands pre-empted, seized and occupied
by their enemies, and themselves
driven back slowly, but surely, from
the lands that were theirs by all the
rights that man should require. We
ruthlessly drove them from their
homes that we might found a nation
of our own, and when they in despera
tion turned and fought for their very
existence, we as an enlightened na
tion called all our troops to help us
wrest from them their last foothold
on their native soil. Then we segre
gated them I on reservations, over
which they bould not step, and also
over which we placed guardians to see
that they had no freedom of person
or speech which was not sanctioned
by our government.
Now, in this day when we, too, in
our turn are fighting for our right to
hold what we took by force, we turn
to the oppressed red man, and not
onry request, but demand, that he
stand by us to see that no one takes
from us what we have stolen from
him. I ask you In the name of Jus-
tic, and right, would you, In his place,
raise one finger in such a cause?
. JUSTICE TO ALU
In other wards,- the writer would
have 100,000,000 civilised inhab
itants dispossessed in favor ot th.
200,000 savages who were here when
Columbus came.
Pleads for Red Cross.
Omaha. June 6. To the Editor of
The Bee: I am surprised and grieved
at the seeming indifference of hun
dreds of men on the streets of Omaha
who do not wear a Red Cross button.
They should realize the great impor
tance of supporting the Red Cross. We
are told that the wounded in France,
both allies and prisoners, are suffer
ing for bandages and the Red Cross
cannot meet the demands. Surely
there are but few men but who could
give l to the Red Cross. The people
do not seem to realize that the gov
ernment depends on the Red Cross to
take care of the wounded. Let any
man remember that $1 will supply
bandages for one or more poor fellows
who has been hurt while fighting for
the rights of those who stay at home.
Now it is high time that these hun
dreds of men that we see on the
streets were buying and wearing Red
Cross buttons.
Say, Mr. Reader, when you retire
on your comfortable bed, would you
not feci more comfortable to know
that you had given relief to one or two
wounded who have been fighting for
you? Think it over.
J. M. TALIAFERRO.
MIRTHFUL MOMENTS.
Bzej! l" can't sing.
Besz Really, 1 can't.
Rzzt Well, if you lnelst.
"What is that?" inquired the visitor.
"That's a little record we put on before
the vocal selections. Makes the music seem
more natural, don't you think!" Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Judge It aeems to me that I have aeei
you before.
Prisoner Tou have, your honor; I taught
your daughter singing lessons. '
Judge Thirty years. New Tork World.
"I declare it Is simply outrageous all they
demand of women."
"What's the matter now?"
"On one hand they are calling on women
to come to the front, and the next minute
they want them to work hard In their back
yards." Louisville Courier-Journal.
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"Where are you going to take your chiN
dren next summer?"
"J don't know. The board of health hasn't
made any plans for them yet." Life.
"He's such a daredevil that I'm surprised
he doesn't en Hut."
"That's too tame for him; he'g trying to
get Into the diplomatic service," Life,
Reggie There's been something trembling'
on my lips for months and months, Margie,
and
Margie Tes, so I see. Why don't you
shave it off? Puck.
"How long after you were married before
your wife spoke crossly to you?"
"She yelled at me the minute X. stepped
on the train."
"My goodness! What for?"
"Well, you see, I tore off about four yards
of it." Judge.
Suspicious Employer Did your grand
mother's funeral take all the afternoon?
"Er yes, sir er It was a double
header." Life.
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