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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE; JULY 8, 1917.
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nuiiama, ctrcuiatKa aiauager.
Subeeribera leaving the city ahould have the Be nailed
la then. Addreaa changed aa often aa requeated.
China's emperor-makers at the same time gave
their measure for the yellow coat.
One thing is quite well established some of
the witnesses at the police inquiry are prevari
cating. Observance of the Fourth in London marks
progress in popularity and promises to reach the
fireworks stage in due time.
Still the German crown prince may console
himself with the thought that he is not the only
failure in the Tuetonic field.
Activity and output of the nation's mints al
most quadrupled in two years. Some speed, that,
but scarcely equal to the gait of prices.
Twenty men from each district does not sound
so formidable, so the selective draft is awaited
with perfect calmness by the eligibles.
It is apparent at this stage of the play that
fumigation should supplement bath house treat
ments in purifying the police atmosphere.
A preliminary tally of Independence day casu
alties shows a total of 152, only seven being fatal.
Although the lowest on record, it is still 152
too many.
In view of the vast expansion of Omaha's
family it is evident that the school census takers
failed to catch all the nimble youngsters ready for
the classrooms.
It nearly always' happens that when "T. R."
and "Sam" Campers meet on the same stage
sparks fly, but neither has been seriously injured
in jny of these encounters.
Scolding one another over East St. Louis will
not right conditions there. What is needed is
the establishment of law and order, so the town
will be safe for all citizens.
,A censorship may be needed at times, but pub
licity for a great nation engaged in a stupendous
wir ought to be conducted on a plane above the
work of a circus advance agent.
The prospect of distillers being permitted by
the food law to use alt corn on hand gives the
torn market a midsummer boost of cheering pro
portions. King Corn shows no fear of the morn-,
ing-aftcr feeling.
In two instances in. one day auto drivers who
ran down children on the streets sped away
without stopping. The police should exert every
ounce of power in bringing these brutes to the
penalties they richly deserve.
Coming restrictions on American food exports
cast dark shadows among neutrals of north Europe.-
Objections and protests' come from many
quarters affected. Apparently a tightened lid im
perils a profitable trade with Germany.
A Prussian military expert discounts our sol
diers, rating them below both German and
French.-.-This would be matter' for grave con
cern were it not recalled that Prussian experts
predicted an easy victory for Spain over the
United States.
Nathan Straus is credited by the New York
board of aldermen with having saved the lives
of 250,000 babies through his milk stations in the
last twenty-five years. You can help in similar
work in Omaha by getting in on The Bee's free
milk and ice fund.
Community Efficiency and tne Individual.
A writer for an eastern publication, discussing
some of the immediate issues, takes us to task,
as a nation because of what he terms our failure
from the point of community efficiency. He bases
his charge on the individual failures, plentiful
everywhere, which might have been turned to
success had the subject been started aright. In
this the terms "failure" and "success" are relative
to the contribution of the individual to the com
mon store of wealth. This definition of the terms
paradoxically broadens the inquiry while it nar
rows the application of the theory. If to create
wealth .only is, the aim of existence and the serv
ice of each individual lite is to be measured in
terms of productiveness, then failures are even
more numerous,- perhaps, than are realized. To
obviate this condition the cause must be removed
and this, of course, will more readily be achieved
by the selection which will set the subject at the
task for which he is best adapted and see to it
that he does not wander from his business.
On the other hand, if life holds something aside
from the sordid grind of uninspired production, if
an individual is entitled to any consideration that
does not entirely rest on his relation to the whole,
but in some sense conceives his right to do as he
pleases just, a little, then the list of failures seems
less appalling. Not every man has been permit
ted to achieve his ambition, but he is not a failure
unless he has not tried. It may be that the ebbing
tide of hope on which he rose will leave him
stranded where he does not belong or that a
toss of adversity lands him where he cannot dis
lodge himself. Society still is his debtor because
he did undertake to do something.
"Community efficiency," under which each "will
tdo his or her "bit" in a way that will produce
the utmost of effective result, is not possible to
a democracy. Misfits in all walks of life are in
evitable, but may better be "borne than the un
human precision of scientific accuracy of selec
tioa incident to a perfect machine-
Be Careful Whom You Recommend!
That is a timely admonition given out by Secre
tary of State Lansing, urging more care in recom
mending persons to officials which all of us will
do well to take unto ourselves. He emphasizes
the utmost importance of the loyalty and integ
rity of all persons endorsed for public service be
ing beyond question and he adds: "There seems
to be a most unfortunate laxness in the issuance
of introductory letters by private individuals as
well as commercial houses, banks and other or
ganizations. It has frequently happened that in
dividuals' who had presented letters of the high
est commendation, some of them written by per
sons of prominence, were afterwards found to be
of Questionable character 'and even of doubtful
loyalty. , It is earnestly hoped that hereafter per-
sons who write letters oi lniroaucuon, 101 uc m
connection with applications for passports or po
sitions in the public service, will do so only upon
a real acquaintance with the applicants and
knowledge of their character and loyalty as well
as their identity and citizenship."
The truth is "laxness" is a mild word to be
applied to the prevailing American habit of writ
ing letters and signing petitions ot various Kinas
for all sorts of people , merely for the asking.
Most men would rather subscribe to such a paper
as the quickest way to get rid of an importunate
caller, making sure only that it carries no financial
obligation, or proceeding on the theory that re
fusal invites enmity. Thus we vouch for. men
and women for whom we would not endorse a
ten-dollar check. As a rule, all that is necessary
is to get a start with one or two well known
signatures on the strength of which others come
easy, which explains why, as a rule, most of
us give little or no weight to such letters or pe
titions and are not offended if those that we sign,
likewise, receive no consideration.
We will all readily agree that this condition
is wholly wrong and thoroughly vicious that a
letter of introduction ought to mean what it says
and ought not to be written except with a sense
of responsibility and sponsorship. Let us realize
the seriousness of war conditions and appreciate
the necessity of caution in "going good" to the
government, or to other people, for mere casual
acquaintances for whom we are not willing to
assume personal responsibility.
"Seeing America" on the Screen.
The whole world is "seeing America" at the
movies nowadays. Over six million dollars worth
of film, nearly 159,000,000 feet, were exported last
year, going to all countries of the globe. Re
ports from 100 consuls located in different quar
ters of the earth show a steadily increasing de
mand for American films and an ever-widening
interest in our affairs. It is to be hoped, however,
that the final judgment of foreign spectators is
not irrevocably based on what they see of us at
the movies or they may become the unconscious
victims of some sadly distorted notions.
The development of the film Industry is over
shadowed only by that of the automobile, its rise
to fifth place among American industries being i
accompanied by the confusion and excitement in
cident to sudden growth, but it is slowly settling
down to a stability and solidity that will insure
its respectable premanence. Immense capital is
now required and aii extensive organization for
the promotion ot the work,, so the field is prac
tically closed to the adventurer. Farseeing men
who are directing the affairs of the "movie world
realize the importance of their relation to society
and are giving greater attention to all its details.
Especially is this true of the type of pictures be
ing' produced. The educational as well as the en
tertainment aspect of the business is getting full
attention and public taste is considered with due
regard to the quality of the subject as well as
the photography. This course means much for
the permanency of the trade.
The war naturally, has had much to do with
the supremacy, that has been attained in foreign
countries by American films, but the lead so es
tablished can be maintained if the producers do
not overplay their hand.
Poetic License and Cold Facts.
Folks do not expect poets to stick to absolute
facts all the time, else why give them "poetic
license" at all? On the contrary, wooers of the
muse are permitted to soar in fancy, eyes "in
fine frenzy rolling," and visioning such things as
cannot be on land or sea. The exception is the
poet laureate, of course, who is expected to em
balm in deathless rhyme some stipulated occur
rences, more or less concrete, and is therefore
hampered to that extent in his mission as a pur
veyor of misinformation. Now and again one of
the songsters hits a note that calls for protest.
One of these occasions is when Alfred Noyes
rhymes in the Bookman of the "wreck of a dying
race," referring to the American Indian.
It is charity to think Poet Noyes got his in
spiration from the car window as he rode across
Nevada, where the graceless Digger spends his
waking hours riding back and forth over the
desert on a Central Pacific flat car, exercising his
treaty right, while his squaw' chases grasshoppers
and similar game for the family larder. Or, may
hap, he has gazed from the deck of a Puget sound
steamer at a God-forgotten Siwash paddling his
dugout along the shore, longing for a surreptitious
snifter of forbidden "hootch" and dreaming of a
vanished "potlach." But these do not represent
the American Indian. Poet Noyes has missed
the Omaha, industrious and contented owner of
many broad and fertile acres, whose produce
steadily swells his bank account; he overlooked
the Sioux, the Crow and the Blackfoot all farm
er stock-raisers, business men and builders; the
Kiowa, the Comanche, the Tawnee, and the
Cheyenne, from whose oil wells spout liquid,
smelly millions, whose ranges are alive with fat
cattle and whose farms support the assessor's
list. He should look into the schools, the col
leges and the churches and see what the Amer
ican Indian is really doing. And finally he should
know that the Indian is more numerous on the
North American continent today than when white
men first came in the wake of Columbus.
"Dying race," forsooth 1 Poet Noyes and
others like him ought to stop in at Cato Sells'
headquarters in Washington and get some of the
recent "dope" on the red man they effect so sin
cerely to mourn.
National safety and equality of service shat
tered party solidarity on the conscription issue
in the Canadian Parliament. The record vote on
the ministerial measure disposes of the referen
dum nonsense in the Dominion as thoroughly as
in the United States. Slackers conspicuous in
Quebec and Montreal must do their bit or an
swer to the law. .
South American republics in fact or in spirit
line up with the foster father of the north in re
sisting autocracy. The prospects of converting
the western world into a German colony are as
fonrw aa the vision of "Mittel Eurooa .
1 Br Victor Koae water
ONE OF THE straws pointing the growing
importance of the west in the relative per
spective of observers and students is the
interest being manifested in western history evi
denced by the establishment at Harvard univer
sity of a commission to gather together original
source data for the historian of the future. The
representative of this Harvard commission on
western history, Thomas P. Martin, officially
known as its "archivist," was here this last week
on a -swing round the western circle to locate
material for the collection.
"We specially want documents and literature,'
he exolained. "bearine on the early settlement pe
riod and also elucidatin the oeculiarly western
social and political movements in their local
phases. We are glad to see the activity ot tne
different state historical associations with which
we want to work in harmony and we are careful
not to draw away books and papers which more
properly belong here in the states, unless in the
form of duplicates. The purpose of the Harvard
collection is to help give the proper setting to
the part of the west in the history of the whole
country rather than to go into purely local his
tory which is the proper field of your own so
cieties." Mr. Martin found some things he wanted and
got a line on others to be checked up later at any
rate, on leavinjr. expressed himself as satisfied
that his expedition was proving worth while. In
cidentally it may be mentioned that this work ot
making a collection on western history for Har
vard is chiefly under the direction of Prof. Fred
erick J. Turner, who, when at the University of
Wisconsin, used to be an occasional visitor in
Omaha, where he came during their lifetime to
look in on his uncle, Charles C. Turner, and his
cousin, Curtis Turner, for whom our Curtis Turner
park was named and donated to the city as a memorial.
I had a postal card the other day from the
young woman whose vivid description of hospital
conditions in , France a year or so ago excited so
much interest when printed in these columns at
the time. The writer, Miss Madeleine Davis, who
used to be a newspaper woman and has school
day friends in Omaha, has been over in the war
zone for nearly two years and writes that she is
now at Lagny, having moved closer up, within
sound of the cannon. The significant sentence on
the postal, however, is this: "People seem to
think this is going to last a couple of years
more." I give the statement for what it is
worth, coming from someone who ought to be
in a position to judge so much better than can
any of us.
The death of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is
being acclaimed by dramatic critics as taking
away one of the greatest English actors of our
time. I saw him in London portraying the char
acter that brought him much fame in the play
called "The Dancing Girl," in which he was still
drawing crowded houses after a long run. I
later saw the same piece in this country with
E. H. Sothern in the title role and the two were
about as different as they could be, although I
do not want to be understood as saying anything
in disparagement of Sothern's acting. Tree was
afterwards knighted and so would Sothern be also
if he were on the Enulish staee instead of the
American stage.
Have you noticed the enlarged ohotoirraDh of
Secretary McAdoo and his party hanging on the
walls of the Commercial club rooms as a souve
nir of the secretary's last visit to Omaha to pro
mote tne sale ot Liberty bonds? 1 his photograph
was made at the time of arrival for The Bee bv
our staff photographer and shows the group stand
ing in the station indulging in a hearty laugh at
some sally that had just been made before the
camera was snapped. I gave the original print
to the secretary before he left the city and it
must have made a hit, for we have just received
a request for another copy from Assistant Secre
tary Sherman P. Allen of the Federal Reserve
board, who was along and who writes:
"We all looked so very pleasant and agreeable
- in that picture that I want to preserve it." t
It goes without saying that the picture will be
furnished as an inspiration to all the treasury and
federal reserve bank officials to look equally pleas
ant and agreeable whenever anything in which
Omaha is concerned is up before them.
Through the favor of my friend, W. S. Wright,
I have received a copy of a special edition of a
Shanghai newspaper, full of instructive informa
tion about conditions in China. The publication
is in English print and from the size of the pages
and the number of them and the high quality of
the paper and presswork I assume that newspaper-making
in China is not beset with the same
troubles of scarce and high-priced print paper
that we are contending with. A glance through
the issue strikingly discloses many familiar names
of advertised products made in America and mar
keted in China automobiles, shoes, tobacco,
typewriters, sporting goods, electrical appliances
and many other articles that show the broadening
reach of American manufacture and commerce.
It reminds me of George Francis Train's cele
brated speech on the breaking of ground for the
Pacific railroad here in Omaha more than
fifty years ago when he pictured the future pas
senger station in Omaha with the train caller po
litely crying out, "This way for China I"
People and Events
A New Yorker by the name of Coffin predicts
five more years of war. A cheerful prophet is
Coffin.
One of the young princes of the Greek royal
family is reported angling for an American heir
ess. With prospects of a life job gone glimmer
ing, making provisions for the rainy day glimpses
royal thrift. i
Mrs. Theodore Benoist of St. Louis with her
four army sons are among the active boosters of
recruiting in the .Missouri metropolis. Mother
Benoist talks right out in meeting and shames the
slacker mothers of the city.
Business before professional courtesy rules the
section of the federal bench commanded by Judge
Landis. The other day a lawyer .who neglected
to obey a court order and had no excuses in re
serve was soaked for $1,500 for contempt.
After due deliberation on what they expect to
market in the days to come, a committee of Kan
sas farmers reported to the State Council of De
fense that $2 a bushel at the fields is the correct
minimum price for fall wheat. Dollar wheat is a
back number. How much above $2 they would
take remains unfinished business.
Missouri's new capitol building at Jefferson
City already attracts attention as a smear. Much
of the stone used show increasing discolorations.
Many of these spots have been chiseled off by
the builder., only to reappear as the weather
searches the stony pores. The building should
have been completed a year ago. This and the
stains promise further delay and litigation, fol
lowing the usual trail of political jobs.
Printed pictures of the prow of the dread
naught Idaho, recently launched at Philadelphia,
rival in fearsome aspect the giasticutises of Oma
ha. From base to center the prow resembles a
long lantern jaw, ending at a mouth intended
doubtless to grip the "fighting bone." Beside the
mouth are huge anchor-like ears, and above, in
the swell of the bow, two eyeholes complete the
likeness of a monster. That's what the Idaho is
a naval monster.
Back in "little old New York," where mirth
abides, Theodore P. Shontz regales patrons of
the traction companies with placards appealing
for an extra 2 cents for transfers. Official sanc
tion of a fare boost from 5 to 7 cents was denied,
hence the company's appeal for an extra handout.
"The price of everything has gone up," President
Shontz explains, "and we can't maintain the best
service unless we get more money." Calloused
must be the heart that can resist the appeal
Proverb tor the Day.
Every man has his weak point
One Year Ago Today In the War.
British sained 3,000 yards of Ger
man trenches on the Somme.
Germans made unsuccessful attacks
on French positions near Thlaumont
Russians vigorously assaulted the
Germans along the entire line from
Riga to Bukowina.
In Omaha Thirty Tears Ago.
Joseph H. Standeven will assume
the duties of boiler inspector, John
Jenkins retiring.
A man named Haines who runs a
shooting gallery on Tenth and
Farnam, was knocked down and
nearly drowned by the bursting of a
hose near the hydrant at the corner
of Thirteenth and Farnam. He was
picked up by the firemen and taken
home In the patrol wagon.
Frank Moores made out passenger
certificates for Europe for E. G. Kit
ton and wife and Joseph. Henman, an
old resident of this city. They intend
to sail on the Servia, of the Cunard
line.
At the annual meeting of the Gate
City Oil and Mining company, the fol
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Stephen J.
Broderick; vice' president, A. Burmes
ter; secretary, Ferdinand Ilaarman;
treasurer, Charles "VVehrer; superin
tendent, L. J. Lohleln; trustees, J. P.
Mallender, C J. Schmidt, and Henry
Miller.
The private burying ground of Jesse
Lowe, back of Prospect Hill cemetery,
was desecrated by vandals. The trees
and shrubbery were torn up and the
flowers uprooted. A reward of $50 is
offered for information that will lead
to the detection of the guilty persons.
The contract for the construction
of sewers in District No. 48 along
Twenty-fourth street from Decatur to
Patrick, along Parker from Twenty
fourth to Thirtieth and along Blondo
from Twenty-fourth to Twenty-ninth,
was let to John F. Dalley.
The engineering force has begun
work at the new waterworks plant at
Florence.
This Day in History.
1621 Jean de Lafontaine the great
writer of fables, born at .' uateau
Thierry, France. Died in PaW;, April
13, 1695.
1709 Charles XII. of Sweden de
feated by Peter the Great of Russia
in battle of Pultowa.
1775 A Spanish force of fifty-one
ships of war and 26,000 men made an
unsuccessful attempt to take the town
of Algiers.
1778 French fleet under Count
d'Estaing arrived off the mouth of the
Delaware river.
1813 Russia and Prussia formed a
coalition against France.
1814 British schooner Whiting cap
tured in Hampton Roads by privateer
schooner Dash, of Norfolk.
1838 Count Ferdinand von Zep
pelin, Inventor of the airships used by
the Germans In numerous raids on
England, born in Baden. Died in
Berlin, March 8, 1917.
1862 First patent granted to Theo
dore Timby for the revolving gun
turret. 1863 Port Hudson surrendered to
General Banks.
1896 Sir Charles Tupper resigned
the premiership of Canada.
The Day We Celebrate.
C. S. Hayward, president of the Hay-
ward Brothers Shoe company, was
born July 8, 1857, at West Acton, Mass.
He has been president of the Commer
cial club and also member of the
school board.
John D. Rockefeller, one of the
world's greatest capitalists and phil
anthropists, born at Rlchford, N. Y.,
seventy-eight years ago today.
James B. McCreary, formed united
States senator and twice governor of
Ketucky, born in Madison county,
Kentucky, seventy-nine years ago to
Frank A. Waugh. consulting land
scape artist of the United States For
est Service, born at Sheboygan Falls,
Wis., forty-eight years ago today.
Andrew M. Soula, president of
Georgia State College of Agriculture,
born at Hamilton, Ont., forty-five
years ago today.
Lee Cruce, former governor of Ok
lahoma, born In Crittenden county,
Ky., fifty-four years ago today.
Ivey B. Wingo, catcher of the Cin
cinnati National league base ball team,
born at Norcross, Ga., twenty-seven
years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The national convention and reunion
of the Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks will be formally opened
in Boston this evening with religious
services in Trinity church.
Those interested in abstruse
mathematics, not to mention others
absorbed in religious history, will note
with interest that today is the one
hundred-thousandth Sunday of the
Christian era.
Storiette of the Day.
A certain blacksmith, although an
expert at his trade, was quite Ignorant
of surgical methods. When he sprain
ed his wrist one afternoon he hurried
to a doctor's office.
The doctor examined the wrist,
and then took a small bottle from a
shelf ,but found it empty.
"James," said he, turning to an as
sistant, "go upstairs and bring me
down a couple of those phials."
"What's that?" exclaimed the pa
tient, suddenly showing signs of emo
tion. "I merely asked my assistant to
bring me down a couple of phials
from upstairs," answered the doctor.
"Files!" cried the blacksmith. "No,
you don't! If that hand has got to
come'eff use an ax or a saw!" Pear
sons Weekly.
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MILITARY MATTERS.
The newest battleships of the United
Statea navy carry sixtr-fiva officers and
crew of between 1,100 and 1,200 men.
The present Pay department of the mili
tary eetabliahment of the United Statea,
originated in 1821, when an set of eongress
declared that the department ahould constat
of a paymaster-general and fourteen pay
masters. It ia rather a curious fact that the dura
tion of the American civil war waa exactly
four years, four montha and four days,
figured from January 9, 1861, when the
"Star of the West" waa fired upon in
Charleston harbor (the first ahot ot the
war), until May 13. 1865, when the laat
engagement was fought near Palo, Pinto, Tax.
The origin of the observance of Memorial
day aa practiced by the Grand Army of the
Republic, ia aaid to have been a sugges
tion made to General Logan's adjutant-general,
b German veteran of Cincinnati, in
which Bw referred to practice in his na
tive seam try of gathering once year to
place flower upon the graves of the dead.
AROUND THE CITIES.
New York reports fewer firea by S12 in
191$ than in 191S. But .the money loss was
greater, according to the city fire commis
sioner. New York announcea that retail coal prices
are back at the normal point in that quarter.
Early buying is advised as a means of head
ing off the fall rush.
Duluth ia on the water wagon for sure.
The wagon runs on water from the Zenith
city to Superior where the lid ia off and all
kinda of wet goods are available for cash.
Residents on German avenue, Salt Lake
City, petitioned for a change of the name of
the highway and the city commission
granted the request Henceforth it will be
known as West Kensington avenue.
Owing to the high coat of municipal liv
ing Topeka dada announce that there is no
hope of a reduced budget for the neit tax
year. The levy will equal last year'a squeeze
and aome over. Like cheerless word goes
out to taxpayers in Salt Lake City.
Evansville, Ind., ia well into ?ta centen
nial year and ia going like s youngster on
roller akates. The midsummer number of
the Evansville Courier honors the extent in
fitting manner and place a prosperity halo
on the brow of the husky centenarian.
According tp a court in Kansas City, Kan.,
a man with a wife and five children to sup
port haa no business taking a week off to
go fishing, and soaked the victim $100. Just
how the fine would help the family mere
than fishing the judge did not explain.
Minneapolis faeea a possible municipal
deficit of 81,000,000 unless the ax is ap
plied to expenses. ' One alderman delivered
a hot talk on retrenchment and hi asso
ciates, still warm under the collar, instantly
voted an increase of 135,952 in current bills.
San Francisco barbers - lifted the prices
of shaving and shearing from 15 cents and
35 eents respectively to 25 cents and 60
cents. High cost of living ia the reason
for the uplift. Local fashion oracles hail
the change as a boost for whiskers and long
locks. -1
The twin cities put on a broad grin on
the Fourth because Louis W. Hill, president
fo the Great Northern, failed to ahow up
as general manager of the reception of the
Belgium commissioners. It was explained
that Mr. Hill discovered too late that sar
torial perfection called for a silk topper.
It is said Louie never owned on and didn't
have time to buy or borrow.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
HERE AND THERE.
China contains more American missionaries
than American business men.
One large susar-reflnina? concern in this
country employs 185,000 cara to carry on
its business.
A New Hamnshire a-irl ham
blacksmith. Her only nrevioua exneeieni..
had been in shooing hens.
A clay nine mar ha uaed aa a itriirikl.
for melting amall Quantities nt metal. Th.
stem is broken off and a plug fitted into it
According to their " latest .t.t.m....
Canadian banks had on denoaie anm.rhin.,
more than 81,500,000,000. Laat year'a in
crease was 8232,000,000.
In the United Statu onlv one farm fn
seven, of more than twenty acres, now sup
port sheep, and consequently w import
neany intra or a billion pounds of wool
yearly.
The Putet Sound division nt thm VAvtt,-
ern Pacific railroad has adnnteit th tw,it.
of employing women instead of men
ever women are able to do the work re
quired. Since the beginning of the war Canada
has provided 414,402 volunteers for active
miltary duty, and, in addition, has sent
21,260 British reservists and 10,000 men
for the aerial and naval aervlces.
THE PRESENT CRISIS.
James Russell Lowell.
Once to every man and nation comes th
moment to decide.
In the strife of truth with falsehood, tor
the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God'a new Messiah offer
ings each the bloom or blight.
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the
sheep upon the right.
And the choice goes by forever 'twlxt that
darkness and that light.
Then to side with truth la noble when w
share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and
'tis prosperous to be Just:
Then It Is the brave man chooaes, while th
coward stands aside.
Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord
Is crucified,
And the multitude make virtue of th faith
they had denied.
"IMa aa easy to be heroes, aa to alt th Idle
lavea
Of a legendary virtue carved upon eur
fathers' graves,
Worshippers of light ancestral make the
present light a crime;
Wa the Mayflower launched by cowards,
steered by men behind their time?
Turn those tracks toward paat or future,
that make Plymouth Rock sublime?
New occasions teach new duties: times
makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still, and onward, who
i would keep abreast of truth;
Lo, before us gleam her campfires! we our
selves must pilgrims be,
Launch our Mayflower, and ateer boldly
through the desperate winter sea.
Nor attempt the future's portal with the
past's blood-rusted key.
Our undertaking experience haa won
renown. Our careful, conscientious man
ner of executing a funeral trust should
make you feel certain that we are en
tirely efficient and trustworthy. Our po
lite, modern methods appeal to the peo
ple whom w serve.
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor. '(Established 1888)
17th and Cuming Sts. Tl. Doug. 1060.
Cholly What qualifications must a fella
have to join your club, old dear?
Chilton Well, he'a got to have ell he
brains or money.
Cholly I'd rather like te get In.
Chilton Hra! How are you fixed fr
money? Boston Transcript
"Time Is precious." said the parson.
'It is, indeed." rejoined the business man,
"and I've wasted an awful lot of It?"
"By indulging In foolish pleasures, J sup
pose?" suggested the good man.
"Not exactly," replied the other. "I
wasted most of it by being punctual In keep
ing my appolntmenta with others." In
dianapolis News.
"Isn't sh a beauty?"
"She haa more beauty than ense, my
boy."
"That's al! right. When I want wisdom
I can read the encyclopedia." Kansas City
Journal.
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MIKE CORieAWJ
mV. VttrA TWRT YOU'VE QcY
OWW ONE CP V4HH N00
Att rV&K WM F HE WANTS
V- JUL BET NOU HE TAKES It!
"Lovely bunch!"
"I just love to be called by that name."
cooed the bride. "I hope no other bride
will ever be called by that name."
"We'll fix that," aaid the groom briskly.
Til just get it copyrighted. Baltimore
American.
Irate Parent I warned you boys and now
I'm going to switch you for making such
a racket.
Bobby Well, switch Johnny, we're play
ing train and he'a the locomotive. Boston
Tranacrlpt.
"I don't aee why Cupid should discriminate
against any particular trade or profession."
"Didn't know that he did pr was sup
posed to." 1
"Then why do they say that lev laugha
at locksmiths?" Louisville Courier Journal.
Durability
In a Piano is Only Prov
ed by Years of Use
and the Testimony
of Owners.
A piano is a lifetime pur
chase, so the buyer should
be careful to secure dura
bility as well as beauty of
tone and case design.
Some makes of pianos
may last, but your assur
ed safety lies in purchas
ing a piano with a long
and honorable record.
Proof of
VOSE
durability is found in the
fact that today a large
number of Vose sales are
made to friends of Vose
owners who purchased
years and years ago.
YOU CAN PURCHASE
A Vose Upright as low as
$400
A Vose Grand as low as
$650
A. Hospe Co.
1513-15 DOUGLAS ST.
THE VICTOR STORE
We Toot Our Own Horn
Because We Have the Goods
Surplus Funds Over $33,000,000.00
V
All Members Over 70 Years of Age Receiving
Old Age Disability
820,000 Contributing Members
Fraternal Insurance at Lowest Consistent Cost
This is the Record of the
Woodmen of the World
s For Further Particulars Call Douglas 4S70
J. T. YATES,
Sovcreif a Clerk.
W. A. FRASER,
Sovereign Commander.
THE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU
Waubint-ton, O. C
Enclosed find a two-cent stamp, for which yon will please send me,
entirely free, a copy of The Canning Book.
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