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While the job chases the man, idling becoraei
national menace.,
Old King Coil ii 1 merry old soul, nd he
I (ills the toboggan with glee.
But will the "status quo ante" be resumed
when the ninety day are expired?
Patriotic Sunday) Hear the national doc
trine expounded and brighten iti luiter by prac
tice. Volunteer days for the army are over, but
Uncle Sam'i navy yet welcome! any ladi who
long (or a sailor's life.
It Is inferred from the Duma's remarks that
it regard! the soldiers' and workmen's commit
tee as a vocal improvement club.
The dreadnaught Idaho took the water with
mack grace, and soon will exert another big
pull on the rope for peace the American govern
ment is weaving.
Make no mistake about it. Taking advan
tage of war to squeeze the people will become
mors and more perilous to the squeezers as the
days roll on.
Tightening the lid on exports to neutrals at
the same time plugs several profitable food sub
ways into Germany. The squeeze throws some
more fat in the fire.
The mounting tide of earnings made the rail
road's poverty plea look foolish to the Inter
state Commerce commission, and the public will
view it in much the same light
The rivers and harbors appropriation went
through the lower house on greased skids.
Copious slices of congressionsl pork invariably
reduces friction and accelerates speed.
"Old Fritz up in the Elysian fields" may be
pleased with what is going on along the western
front, but if he is, Elysium is a much different
place than most of us have imagined.
Omaha loan and building associations sre
about to distribute a million dollars in dividends
to stockholders, a substsntisl proof of growth and
service. As the great majority of the stock
holders are also borrowers, the building and loan
plan worka both ways.
Every day emphasizes the fact that bootleg
ging is decidedly unprofitable business in
Nebraska. The number of captures of smugglers,
' the convictions and penalties Imposed make a
creditable record of law enforcement in the first
two months of the drouth.
Senator Sorenson is rightfully insisting on his
prior claims to having suggested the ship within
a ahip as a means of foiling the U-boat His plan
ia as feasible es any yet proposed, and has a
distinct advantage in that nobody has yet shown
that it will not do the work.
Some things are bettered ordered abroad. The
New York murderer apprehended in Italy wins
a preliminary diet of bread and water in the
Bologna dungeon. Mo flowers, hand-painted cake
or sob squads. As a curative agent for homi
cidal mania, the Bologna treatment ranks next
to Ossininga celebrated electrocutor.
The Council of (National Defense plana to
turn loose a flock of orators on the Fourth who
will regale multitudes with four-minute speeches.
Qnly four minutes by the watch. Merely an
oratorical appetizer. Perhaps the council, in
limiting the output, considered the temper of
audiences and the Issues of humanity at stake.
To the youth of keen eye, with nerve to
match, and willing to do and dare, the aviation
corps is an irresistible lure. No other branch
of the service afforda equal scope for initiative,
for quick self-assertion and individual achieve
ment The risk is also in proportion to the
greater sweep of action, and none ahould enter
the service but those possessing steady hands,
clear judgment and thorough training.
More Wheat from India.
Reports from the Indian government on the
wheat crop of that country are greatly encour
aging, revised estimates far exceeding the pre
liminary figures. The latest figures, based on
careful and corrected estimates, ahow an increase
in wheat acreage for India of 9 per cent over 1916,
and a prospective increase in yield of over 17
per cent, or nearly 1,500,000 tone. The total yield
will be around 400,000,000 bushels, 65,000,000
bushels greater then 1916. Considerable of this
will be available for export, a most welcome ad
dition to the world's supply of grain food. This
, is an unexpected turn in affairs, and is all the
mort welcome because it lessens in that much
the gravity of the food situation. It does not,
however, warrant any relaxation in effort to
r produce to the utmost The American wheat
harvest, now well under way, is turning out yields
fully equal to estimates, and reports to the
weather bureau are all favorable. Energetic
work by fanners of the world have obviated
serious menace of famine, but have not as yet
produced s surplus. Best qualified observers
predict a continuation of this condition over a
term of years. American farmers have little to
fear from the competition of India, for hungrj
nations will eat all that can be produced for a
, long time ahead
Free Milk and Ice for the Babies.
The war's demand upon, the generosity of our
open-handed people are, we know, so insistent
and urgent that other charities, and public enter
prises should ordinarily keep in the background
as far aa possible. The Bee feels it absolutely
necessary, however, to continue its fund to supply
free milk and ice during the hot weather to the
suffering children of poverty-stricken families in
Omaha, and contributions to this fund will be
gratefully received and scrupulously devoted to
the purpose intended.
We will try to raise only a few hundred dol
lars, limiting individual donations to sums of
$5 or less, so that it may not be burdensome to
any one, and that all who want to help this good
work can share in it. Contributors may rest
assured every cent will be used to pay bills for
milk and ice furnished to destitute or sickness
inflicted families with children under three years
of age nothing for administration or "expenses."
The regular appeal for this fund will begin tomor
row, and we bespeak a generous response.
SummerVGlorioas Opulence.
- These early summer days and nights are filled
with such lavish display of nature's opulence, the
delighted senses scarce can choose which of the
many attractions that assail them is most wel
come. The promise of a vigorous and virile
springtime has been redeemed, and in the fullness
of verdure the earth is wreathed with such glory
of greenery as only may be seen when the old
world smiles with the caress of tfte first soft winds
of summer. -' Bloom time has gone, and ' buds
have paased from flowers into fruit; growth is
now the order, and all about is evidence of the
response of the productive to the creative impulse.
Trees, now clad in their richest suits of foliage,
idly toss their magnificent crowns in the gently
stirring sir, or sway in majesty before the summer
gale, while in their leafy depths the wild folks of
the great outdoors are busily attending to such
affairs aa require their attention. Over the fields
lushly growing grains snd grasses ripple like
waters of the ocesn before the wind, snd orchard
and garden alike pledge bountiful returns for
man's diligence' snd care. The thickets along the
atreama teem with life, and from forgotten places
come forth myriads of living things to vex man
by their presence, but to the thoughtful proof of
nature's munificence snd a source of wonder
always as to her ways. Everywhere the activity
of accumulation ia in process, and preparation
against that time when the sources of life wilt be
dried up and stopped by the cold, still slumber of
winter. ,
Summertime soon passes, and autumn comes
with its ripened fruitage, and winter follows to
exhaust the store. A plain and prosy lesson it is
that is taught by this succession of seedtime and
growth, of harvest and rest, but one that al! must
learn who would profit by and prosper through
the teachings of nature.
Freight Kates and the Public.
Refusal of the Interstate Commerce commis
sion to grant permission to the railroada of the
country to make a horizontal increase in freight
ratea fairly meets public needs. The case was
well argued, and even specially presented on
behalf of the roads, but with all the facts in view
the commission finds against the contention that
conditions justify a general advance in charges.
On the other1 hand, the commission did find that
the carriers have enjoyed a substantial and in
creasing prosperity, and that instead of being un
duly burdened by the troop movements, have
derived profit from that source.
Railroad earnings have increased tremen
dously within the last two years, a natural result
of the greater volume of business, which has taxed
all their facilities to handle. For the first four
months of the current year gross earnings show
an increase of $209,000,000 over 1916, which was
the banner year for railroad earnings. April
alone produced increased revenue to the amount
of $38,000,000. Againat this the railroads set off
increases in operating expenses and taxes, snd
put up the plea that they sre working harder than,
ever for no more money. The final bal
ance sheet for the year will determine
this more sccurately. The plea, however,
will in general aspett fit almost alt lines of busi
ness. Some especially favored industries have
reaped great profits from the war "prosperity,"
but thia has not extended to all, and few have
enjoyed the benefit of increased business as
have the railroads.
An effort is now being made by the federal
government to bring unreasonably elevated pricea
down to a justifiable level, and the railroads will
share in whatever of relief comes from this, for
the move affects the principal Items in their
expense bills.
Need for new funds to pay for extensions and
betterments also is alleged as a reason for the
requested advance. Specters of the Rock Island,
Pere Marquette and C, H. & D. deals will long
haunt the railway atock market A public gulled
is a public shy, and the magnates must win back
confidence forfeited through ahady transactions.
While this is being done, the transportation In
dustry must bear as others have its share of the
tolL extorted by coal and ateel barons, and aid in
bringing about an adjustment under which pres
ent freight rates will be found amply remunera
tive, t '
Democratic Simplicity in Army Dress.
The London Times reporter who met General
Pershing and his staff on the occasion of their
passage through the British metropolis waa ao
much imnresserl with tha aimnliritv nt u nfr;.-.
uniforma that he described them in some detail
tor tne oenetit ot the Thunderer a readers. Espe
cially did he remark that compared to those of the
British army, the American's uniforms are unob
trusive. This may comfort some of our home
folks. Who have imhihert Ihair iitra nl nlf.ri.i
dress from watching a parade of the governor's
ataii. as a matter ot tact, the American army
officer never has been given to excess in the mas
ter of dress. While he has alwaya been arrayed
more definitely than waa Gungha Dhin, he has at
no time sought to shame the noonday sun, and
some of hia greatest accomplishments have been
achieved at times when hia apparel waa least im
pressive. General Grant received the surrender
of Robert E. Lee attired in a battered service
uniform, much worse for hard riding over dusty
roada on that memorable morning, and many
stories are related of how General Washington
went among his men unrecognized because of the
lack of official designation. Thia is one of the
secrets of the American soldier. Our European
friends may note some other departures from tra
dition in the mannera of our army, but they will
find the "boya" a magnificent lot of well-behaved
young men, who may be depended upon in a pinch,
and who know how to wear simple garb with
becoming dignity,
" Bj Tlctar Baaawatar "
THESE sre the days when newspaper publicity
is proving its immense power.aand the "value
of the printed appeal to rally the patriotism
of the people is being recognized as never before.
When the editors were here for the Nebraska
Press association, I dwelt, in one of my talks,
somewhat upon this phase of newspaper use
fulness and called attention to the part played by
the press through both news and advertising
columns in paving the way for, and insuring the
success of, enlistments for all branches of the
army and navy service, the registration under
the universal military conscription law, the float
ing of the Liberty Loan, the most colossal bond
issue ever put upon the market at one time, and,
finally, the raising of the numerous relief funds,
particularly the Red Cross $100,000,000 war fund,
of which the like was never dreamed of in all
history in any country on the face of the globe.
My own interest thus stimulated in the subject
led me to make a few inquiries as to the scope
and extent of newspaper publicity utilized for
the Red Cross campaign in other cities as well
as in our own, and the information will, I take it,
be of equal interest to newspaper folks if not
to the general reader.
What was done in New York was explained
in the first of the series of big ads put out by
the Red Cross workers in the metropolis, who
told the public exactly what they were trying to
do and how they were going to do it. I quote
the exact statement, because it reflects the value
placed upon advertising by the biggest men in
the country, and the advantage, as results dem
onstrated, of taking the public into their con
fidence: "Perhaps you are wondering as you read
these lines where the money comes from to
pay for thia advertisement. Let me tell you:
"Some big-hearted, sympathetic, patriotic
men said: 'We must get the Red Cross appeal
for funds before all of the people quickly. Our
volunteer captains and their associate workers
cannot possibly get in touch with everybody in
New York in ten days. How shall we go
about it? The newspapers are helping more
than their ahare, and it is unfair to ask them
to do more. We had better contribute a sum I
of money to advertise Red Cross needs to alt
of the people. If everybody reads what the
Red Cross is doing, there will be an avalanche
of subscriptions.'
"Representatives of the Advertising Club of
New York were consulted. Inquiry was made
ot newspaper oublishers as to what they would
charge. They instantly responded by naming
a price that barely covers the cost of the white
paper on which this story is printed, the com
position and the distribution. Could anything
. be finer?
, "The big-hearted, sympathetic, patriotic men
referred to then went down deep in their
pockets and drew forth a fund large enough
to pay for three pages in each of eighteen
newspapers in New York and Brooklyn a total
of fifty-four pages.
"Today this page appeara in every morning
and evening newspaper in New York and
Brooklyn, and its message will be carried to
the hearts of over 3,350,000 individual pur
chasers of these newspapers.
"Each of the fifty-four pages is expected to
produce for the Red Cross fund at least $800,
000 and it will if all of you start today to do
your share."
Reports from Minneapolis, St. Paul. Denver,
Kansas City, Des Moines and Indianapolifare alt
to the effect that newspaper space was a princi
pal factor in raising the Red Cross money, and
in all of them, as in Omaha, the papers "took
the lid off the news columns" and went the whole
limit. Here in Omaha the three papers, in addi
tion, contributed the cost of an average of a page
of display advertising every day for the six-day
campaign, something which I do not find to have
been done anywhere else. In Indiapapolis ten
pages were bought and paid for by patriotic news
paper patrons. In Des Moines a page every day
of the week was inserted and paid for by the
Ad club, which raised a fund for this purpose,
the papers contributing the price of one page. In
Minneapolis three or more pages were bought
and paid for in each paper by the campaign pro
moters, likewise in Kansas City. The Liberty
Loan sale and the, Red Cross campaign are, I
am thoroughly convinced, opening up the eyes of
the public to a field of newspaper publicity activ
ity almost wholly neglected heretofore, but which
will be more systematically cultivated from
now on.
The judicial appointment handed by the presi
dent to our fellow-townsman, Constantine J.
Smyth, is a handsome midsummer bouquet, and
Mr. S,myth is really a "deserving democrat." I
remember when we all went over to Chicago
with William Jennings Bryan and the Free Silver
bunch in 1896, and he did as touch as any to
inflate the Bryan presidential boom and make it
aviate. Judge Smyth, as I suppose we should now
call him, has been exceptionally successful, too,
in keeping between the lines and avoiding' the
brick-bats in the fights between Nebraska demo
cratic factions which have proved fatal to so
many ambitious statesmen. I congratulate the
new judge, although sorry to lose him from
our midst, and have no doubt he will dispense
even-handed justice to District of Columbia litigants.
People and Events
The military census of New York state, though
not complete, shows a marked increase over esti
mates of males between 16 and 50 years.
An army of New Yorkers have leaped into the
trenches ar Washington to fight the "drys" to
finish. As viewed along the great white way war
prohibition spells calamity.
Taking time and opportunity by the topknot,
the Kansas Council of Defense has started a
drive for sowing 10,000,000 acres of winter wheat
next fall. Patrols are already scouting for good
seed.
Conservation of food grips the dining car
service on some, eastern railroads. Decreased
portions are served, but the quantity is ample for
healthy appetites and prevents waste. Beside,
the reduction extends to the price.
The federal grand jury has indicted as slack
ers 134 members of the Industrial Workers of the
World at Rockford, 111., for failing to register.
Only one of the number is a native born Ameri
can. The rest left home to dodge work and serv
ice and are still on the job.
The last federal roundup of smooth and shady
political workers at Indianapolis netted half a
dozen, headed by the city chief of police. A jury
of Hoosiers picked outside the capital city wrote
"guilty" after each name as proof of their .be
lief that ballot box packing in Indiana is a dis
credited industry.
President Wheeler of the Wisconsin State
Bankers' association read the riot act to members
at the annual meeting because their spinal col
umns wobbled when depositors threatened loss
of business if they invested in Liberty Bonds.
"Cowardice bordering on treason" was the brand
applied by the speaker. As a result of Mr. Wheel
er's exposure federal authorities are seeking the
authors of the threats.
Booster literature on the money making pos
sibilities of old ships overhauled, noted by the
New York Journal of Commerce, bring to light
numerous followers of Colonel Sellers booming
war time business. Numerous instances are given
of ships rescued from marine grave yards, gal
vanized into life and sold for bundles of money.
Lofty ocean freight rates and the demand for
shipping are said to transform hulks in various
stages of decay into gold-plated steamers and
wind jammers. Authors of the literature rarely
struj upon the bridge, their aim being to give easy
money the right steer
P"wawawyBTr-BBSwaV a s m
Proverb for the Day.
Death loves a shining mark.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Alllea began (rand offensive on both
aides of the Bomme.
French regained ground In the vi
cinity of Thlaumont.
Blockade of Oreece raised by the
allies fleets.
Petrograd reported further gains
for the Russians near Kolomea.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Articles of Incorporation were (lied
tor the New York and Omaha Land
and Truat company, the Incorporators
being Milton Hendrlx, Jacob R. Hen
drlx, Joshua 8. Btoneman and Mere
dith M. Green.
Adam Edwards, living at Twenty
fourth and Green, found a. 2 months'
old Infant on the door step of his
residence. The friendless waif was
taken in and well cared for.
Mrs. Reuben Gay lord, of this city,
has made a liberal donation of $500
to the Franklin academy, situated at
Franklin. Neb.
The stock in the Omaha Water
Works company of Marshall Field of
Chicago. B. F. Smith of Boston, C. W.
Hamilton and James A. Crelghton has
been purchased by Secretary Wiley In
favor of other members of the associ
ation. .
Willie Stelnmeyer, a small lad living
on lower Leavenworth, fell off the roof
and sustained a dislocation of the
shoulder.
The EI Refugio Milling and Mining
company, with a capital stock of $200,
000, filed articles of incorporation, the
following being the incorporators: N,
W. McKaakell, E. D. Town, C. B.
Rusttn, Louis Schroeder and C. B.
Brown.
Arrangements have been made by
which Omaha folks will have the ad
vantage of Lake Manawa this season.
The Union Pacific will sell tickets to
Manawa for DO cents for the round
trip.
This Day In History.
1725 Jean Baptiste Rochambeau,
the marshal of France, who aided the
Americans In the revolution, born in
Vendome. Died May 10, 1807.
1802 Gideon Welles, secretary of
the navy in Lincoln's cabinet, born at
Glastonbury, Conn. Died at Hartford,
Conn., February 11, 1878.
1817. De Witt Clinton was inaugur
ated as governor of New York.
1863 First day of the battle of
Gettysburg ended with the federals
still holding a position which was the
key to the field of operations.
' 1867 The act of confederation took
effect, uniting the provinces of Ontario,
Quebec, Nova Scotia anoV New Bruns
wick under the title of the Dominion
of Canada.
1884 Count Todleben, the Russian
general who defended Sebastopol, died
at Odessa. Born in Courland, May 20.
1818.
1 898 American forces assaulted
and carried the Spanish earthworks
at San Juan.
1903 Bulgaria appealed to the pow
ers to compel Turkey to withdraw
troops from the frontier.
1 905 Charles J. Bonaparte suc
ceeded Paul Morton as secretary of
the navy.
The Day We Celebrate.
George Forgan was born in Bo'Ness,
Scotland, July 1, 1871. He new handles
the Interests of a large and important
clientele under the name of the Forgan
Investment company.
H. B. Fleharty is forty-five today.
He was born in Windsor, 111., has held
the office of city attorney of South
Omaha and Is now holding down the
tity sollcitorshlp of Omaha.
Russell Phelps was born at Prairie
du Chien, Wis., in 1891, and has since
developed into a remarkable combina
tion of reporter and horse editor,
equally at home in the court house and
the trotting track.
Major Monroe C. Kerth. of the gen
eral staff corps of the United States
army, born in Illinois, forty-one years
ago today.
Hon. Charles Marcll, former speaker
of the Dominion House of Commons,
born In the province of Quebec, fifty
seven years ago today.
Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, Harvard
professor and noted publicist, born at
Clarksville, Pa., sixty-three years ago
today.
George W. Donaghey, former gov
ernor of Arkansas, born at Oakland,
La.t sixty-one years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
"Patriotic Sunday."
Birthday greetings to the Dominion
of Canada, 60 years old today.
The Denver and Rio Grande railway
today puts into effect a pension system
for its employes.
The prohibition act which comes
Into effect in British Columbia today
brings virtually the whole of Canada,
excepting Quebec, under the "dry"
laws.
Eminent Catholic prelates and edu
cators are to assemble today at CHff
Haven, N. Y., for the opening of the
twenty-sixth annual session of the
Catholic summer school of America.
The People's council, an outgrowth
of the recent conference of anti-war
interests in New York city, has issued
a call for a second conference to be
held today in the coliseum In Chicago.
The much-discussed consolidation
bill passed by the last Illinois legisla
ture is to come Into operation today.
The. bill, perhaps the first of its kind
to be enacted in the United States,
abolishes a large number of boards
and commissions and places the affairs
of the state government under the con
trol of nine separate departments, each
In personal charge of one director.
The postofflce appropriation net,
containing the Jones-Reed "bone dry"
amendment, comes into force today.
The effect of the new law will be to
exclude all liquor advertising from
"dry" states and localities and prevent
the shipment in interstate commerce
of liquor Into those states and locali
ties which prohibit the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic beverages. The
ban Is immediately effective in twenty-two
states.
Stnryette of the Day.
Captain George Marvell, head of
the motorboat patrol, was arguing with
a pacifist
"You wobble," said Captain Mar
vel). "You hop from this side to that.
You are like the dinner guest
"'Come out to our place to dinner
tonight said a banker.
" 'I'll be glad to; mighty glad to,'
said the guest warmly.
"'Our oldest girl,' said the banker,
'is studying music '
" 'Gosh, that reminds me. I've got
an engagement for tonight Sorry,
old man, but I can't come.'
"'Can't you? Too bad! Our old
est girl, as I was saying, Is studying
music In Chicago, and we're Infernally
lonesome evenings.'
" 'Oh, I'll cut out that engagement,
said the guest 'and come anyhow.' "
Washington Star,
AROUND THE CITIES.
Dulatfa joint the ewelHng column of dry
cities today. A Superior etoek of water at
It feet remove the dancer of a aertoae
thint.
Chicago admit It dublom eminence aa
retort of auto thieve. According to the
Tribune, four timet a many autoe art ttolen
1b Chtcaio than In New York.
The school board of Minneapolis la wres
tling with s nice, warm deficit of 1880,000.
Still the emptineet of the treasury failed to
head off a salary boost for employes.
Sioux City officials and those of Woodbury
county have decided to put up a joint funi
of 870.000 for Rood roada and pull down a
allee of the federal good roads Bacon.
Flushing, Long Island, Is not a big town,
measured by numbers, but It is loaded with
the right brand of public spirit The reel
dents subscribed four times their allotment
of Liberty bonds and when asked to give
$5,000 to the Red Cross made the pile 817,836
for good measure.
St. Joe will stage an unusual Fourth of
July celebration, one entirely suited to the
tini'' . A union patriotic service will be held
In one of the big churches, commemorating
the natal day and invoking divine favor on
the struggle for liberty and humanity into
which the country has entered.
Minneapolis and other Minnesota cities
were drained almost dry of wet goods to
meet orders from the Dakotas, which have
just joined the dry belt The barrel, jug
and bottle rush In Omaha and other Ne
braska cities during the waning days of April
were duplicated in the Dakotas and carloads
of boose rolled in from Minnesota to help
out in the droubhy days now oa.
McGregor looms large on the map of Iowa,
as befits the name. The reason for it lacks
romance, but makes a mark on the day's
history. A weakness for wet goods and the
nearness of the Wisconsin oasis started
things. Had McGregor been satisfied with
a moderate load all might have been welt
Six truck loads and a score of autos full of
jugs proved too much and the state swooped
down and laid low McGregor's joy.
Chicago's rood fellows art domer a fine
line of kindly work through an employment
bureau for elderly men. The sole object of
the bureau la to assist to employment men
of 45 years and over. Modern conditions of
working life too frequently bar gray hairs
from workshops, entailing serious hardships
on men for one cause or another thrown out
of work in middle life. The bureau takes the
working measure of the applicants and finds
work suitable to the years and experience
of each. A number of employers eo-operate
with the bureau in thus conserving human
industry and happiness.
HERE AND THERE.
In Alaska fitth are caught by means of a
wheel which works with the current of the
stream.
The year 1918 is ssidMo have taxed min
eral resources in the United States to a
greater extent tbsn ever before.
A man who boasted he could "blow up
anything from a tin can to a battleship" was
accepted at Chicago for the marine corps.
He ia a professional dynamiter.
Nearly 15.000 trucks are scattered over
the state of New. York, with 85 per cent of
the number in cities either located on or
connected by Improved highways to the main
artery that runs from Buffalo to New York.
The Austrian black and yellow were the
colors ot the holy Roman empire. They were
adopted by Frederick Barbarossa, whose
fancy was captured at a ceremony in May
ence by the black and gold flooring f the
hall.
An apple tree in the front yard of the
Joseph Vavis farm, near Dover, DeL, blos
soms each spring with pink roses exactly
like those growing on a rose buth, with the
exception that they grow in clusters like
ramblers. The tree bears no fruit
Jamea Schreeder of Highland Falls, N. T.,
reported that in flihmg eight hours he landed
from the Hudson river a catch which weighed
altogether, according to his scale, nearly
half a ton. He caught shad, herring and
striped bass weighing from one to twelve
pounds each.
This year it is estimated 1860,000,000 will
be spent for tires for pleasure motor ears
alone. The estimate is based on the number
of cars in use, the average mileage, the
guarantees ordinarily made with tires, and
on other figures of tire consumption by ear
owners in the past
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
RUMBLINGS OF THE WAR.
A million dollars' worth of horns, drums
and other instruments will be required for
the military bands of Uncle Sam's new
army.
Official figures show that since the begin
ning of the war England's importation' of
cotton hosiery from American and Japan has
more than doubled.
While there are many hundred mills at
present engaged in spinning cotton 'in the
United States there are leas than a score
spinning hemp and flax.
The Italian government is arranging to es
tablish an aerial mail service between the
mainland of Italy and Sardinia, In order to
avoid the danger from submarines.
The dethronement of Emperor William
and the establishment of a German repub
lic are the aims of a society formed recently
ty German-born eitisens of New York.
The largest organ In the world, with a
total of more than 10,000 pipes, la now be
ing built for the new cathedra in Liverpool
four years wiU be required for its completion.
The Young Men's Christian association and
the Council of Churches of Christ In America
have formed a joint committee which will
have charge of supporting chaptama In the
army and of securing prominent religious
speakers and singers to address and enter
tain the soldiers.
Many curious Instances are given in the
history of the Romanoffs as to bow heirs-
apparent have' been cheated of their rights,
Peter the Great, for instance, left the scep
ter to Empress Catherine I, a woman of
peasant birth, who had been a chambermaid
at an inn. His grandchild, the sole off
spring of bis murdered son, and rightful
heir, was thus disinherited.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
H. C. It, has raited the price of beer In
San Luis Obispo, Cal., to 10 cents a glass.
Emma Austin, a Dallas negress, Is in jail
charged with having killed her husband with
a blow from her fist
A southern Illinois town peopled almost
wholly by Germans has invested all its sur
plus funds In Liberty bonds.
Patriotic addresses and songs In the sign
language featured the graduation exercises
at the Michigan School for the Deaf.
The Congregational church at Zanesville,
O., has granted its pastor leave of absence
to fill a contract for a seven weeks' vaude
ville tour.
A committee of public-spirited citizens
presented a 860 Liberty bond to the parents
of each child born In Pasadena, Cal., on reg
istration day. 1
Because more than half of its membership
has enlisted for military service, the oldest
social elub of business and professional men
In Green Bay, Wis., has decided to disband
for the duration of the war. "
Observant traveling men report that the
high price of potatoes has caused the hotels
to abandon the ancient custom of keeping a
squared potato on the desk into which the
guest could throw the pen after putting his
name on the register.
The quiet grandeur of the funerals
con due tW by this organization appeal to
thoughtful people who expect real worth
and dignity in a funeral without any un
toward, ostentatious display. We have
succeeded in the undertaking budineta be
cause we know how and because we are
polite.
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor. (Established 1S8S)
17th and Cuming Sts. Tel. Doug. IQflO
Miss Nibllc I don't think Mrs. Driver
plays such good golf as aha did before she
was married.
Miss Brassle That's the trouble with
matrimony. It does Interfere ao with one's
game. Boston Transcript
Judith So Harold Is trying to support
htenself by writing? Has any of his work
been printed?
Janice -Yes, three positions-wanted ads.
Puck.
"Plenty of modern girls know how te
clean and mend."
"Just as their grandmothers d'd, eat"
"Well, they know how to mend a tire
and clean a spark plug." Louisville Courier-Journal,
i
never misrepresent his
a trick could be easily
"Smith oould
goods, for such
seen through."
"What kind of goods does he sell?"
"Window glass." Baltimore Americas.
b9 MR. kfrBBUE,
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ASKS) ME TOR S. 1 CfrYJE
UE'LLBE BACK-know
WOVJ HAM) VY Iti TD iY
The Chancellor The proletariat beg W
know how much longer they are to be
butchered!
The Kaiser Fools! Why are they al
ways butting Into other people's business?
Life.
The little boy had told a little girl that
he loved her and the teacher ordered him
to write "I love Bessie" on the blackboard
100 times.
"But that was no punishment," said the
teacher later. "He would cheerfully have
written It 1,000 times." Washington Star.
'Why did you resign from the Don't
Worry club?"
"I discovered that the way the rest of
them got out of worrying was by telling all
their troubles to me." Boston Transcript.
GONE TO THE COLORS.
W. M. Herschelt.
The kldhas gone to the colore
And we don't know what to sjv:
The kid we have loved and cuddled
Stepped out (or the flag .today.
We thought him a child, a baby,
With never a care at all.
But his country called him man-size,
And the kid has heard the call.
He paused to watch the recruiting,
Where, fired by fife and drum,
He bowed his head to Old Olory
And thought that It whispered "Come?
The kid, not being a slacker.
Stood forth with patriot joy.
To add his name tto the roster
And, God! we're proud of the boy:
The kid has gone to the colors;
It seems but a little while
Since he drilled a schoofboy army
In a truly martial style.
But now he's a man, a soldier,
And we lend him a listening ear,
For his heart is a heart all loyal.
Unscourged by the curse of fear.
His dad. when he told him. shuddered,
His mother God bless her! cried;
Tet. blest with a mother nature,
She wept with a mother prtde.
But he whose old shoulders straightened
Was granddad for memory ran
To years when he, too, a youngster,
Was changed by the flag to a man I
Every Day is
"Cut Price Day"
at the
Rexall Drug Stores
With prices of food stuffs
and other necessities rising
rapidly you owe it to your
self to make your purchases
where dependable merchan
. dise can be procured at the
least expense.
You can save time and
money by trading at the
5 REXALL DRUG STORES
Sherman & McConnell
Drug Co.
Fire Good Drug Stores.
Men Women -- Money
ARE BEING MOBILIZED FOR
Defense of Freedom and Liberty
A CERTIFICATE OF LIFE INSURANCE IN THE
Woodmen of The World
PROTECTS YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN AGAINST THE
Slavery of Sweat-Shop and Wash-Tub
Emancipate Your Wife and Children
DOUGLAS 4S70 WILL TELL YOU HOW
J. T. YATES. W. A. FRASER,
Sowaratgn Clark.
Sovar.ign Command.r.
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