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Patriots for profits only fool only themselves.
The situation at Berlin suggests a case of
'chreckenlichkeit."
American loyalty must manifest itself in deeds,
not in hammer knocks or backfire.
It is inferred from the attitude at Vienna and
Berlin that the Russian offensive, is too offensive
for words, , ' '
The secretary of state has discovered that the
late democratic legislature made a new record
for appropriations. He might have found that
cut by reading The Bee three months ago. .
"How dry I am" takes on added significance
with the latest order from the attorney general,
wao says even liquor on the person is now ille
gal in dry territory. Parties ,on their way home
from any adjacent oasis will be under even greater
obligation to circumspect conduct hereafter.
Nebraska's quota of the big army is a moder
ate number, far less in proportion to population
than the territory's contribution of soldiers to the
civil war. The honor of service in this select
number will, as time goes on, become an unfailing
source of pride and distinction for the chosen.
Four months ago Teutonic veterinarians pro
nounced the Russian bear down and out and be
yond hope of recovery. Now the bear has become
the speediest and most aggressive animal in the
war aoo. The transformation confounds the wise
acres and places liberty tonic at the head, of the
list of miracle workers. ' j
Cincinnati stages a war move of interesting
possibilities. An ordinance has been introduced
requiring German language papers to print trans
lations in English side by side, the correctness of
the translations to be verified by the publisher
under oath.' The purpose is to give American
readers an .opportunity to grasp the spirit of the
parent language. ( . ' ,
Out of Washington once more comes word
that there is "an abundance of foodstuffs in the
country and the present high prices on many ar
ticles are unjustifiable."' Consumer have been
aware uf that fact for twelve months. Still, con
gress pours out volumes of sounds ( and throbs
with fear lest somebody drowns in a schooner of
beer or barrel of whisky.
Nothing in the government's estimate of over
three billions of bushels of corn for the coming
crop seems to worry the "bulls," for they keep
shoving up the price right along. Pretty soon
they will get com where they had wheat and
cotton, and then somebody will be hurt. Of
course, bidding on corn for delivery next May is
needed to "stabilize" prices now.
Charges and counter charges of the pot and
kettle variety rise above the smoking ruins of
firebuggery and murder at East St. Louis. Local
. authorities pass responsibility to the state, and
the state charees the city authorities with gross
incompetence. The latter are more directly cul-.
pable in having advance knowledge of conditions
nd failing to take adequate preventive measures.
While the politicians wrangle and waste words
over the dangers of regulating prices in war time,
many men who know business from the ground
up, and big business at that, entertain no fears
of government supervision. Conspicuous among
them is J. Ogden Armour, head of the Armour
house, who not only welcomes government con
trol, but advocates minimum prices to protect the
farmer and maximum prices to protect the con
sumer, .
People and Events
A compilation of the cash cost of draft regis
tration in the state of Kansas shows only $5,000
paid out for labor and rent. Services approxi
mating $14,000 were rendered by patriotic citi
zens. . ;
One joyous deed cancels a bunch of bogus
alarms, just before Colonel E. H. Green crossed
the matrimonial Rubicon a Chicago reporter who
was wedded the same day worked on the colo
nel's sympathies and won a scoop One to.ich of
vanished bachelor days unloosed the big secret,
with its hope and joys and gay trepidation
whereof the wedded only know, j
' : The theft of Da Vinci's .famous Mona Lisa
painting from the Louvre gallery some vears ago
was duplicated in New York recently. The taint
ing of Abraham Lincoln by the German artist, W.
Hausemann, that for years hung in the grand
companionway of the Hamburg-American liner
.in .ja f t.H . -1 r . a
rrcsiacm Lincoln was cut irom us irame ana
carried away. The theft occurred after the gov
ernment took charge of the steamer.
Bugle blasts of marchinir battalions t.orely
aggravate the spirit of Joe McMahon, a Brook
lyn blue ribbon veteran. Mac fought in fotu wars
in as many countries in his day the Crimean
war, the Sepoy rebellion in India, the Maori out
break in New Zealand and the American civil
war. While the spirit is willinsr. eiirhty-one years
of life crimps the physical powers of the Limerick
scrapper. Ine best he can do is to watch the
'young warriors-to-be march by and cheer them
on to glory.
Judge Landis of Chicago Is wearv and sore
He knows Illinois and voices the deep American
. spirit animating the citizenship of Lincoln's state.
Unfortunately here and there political dregs- and
derelicts taint its purity and $ive the judge the
tired feeling. In a recent patriotic gathering the
judge toasted Mayor Thompson of Chicago and
Congressman Billy Mason on the gridiron, ,-nding
the vocal roast with the fervent hope that they
"would do one patriotic thing so that I would
not be kept apologizing for them wherever I go."
The Borderland of Treason.
The Bee is giving space in our Letter Box
column to t communication from a Plattsmouth
attorney taking issue with The Bee's editorial
utterance upon "Nebraska's Unpatriotic Element,"
because we believe the writer feels he is making
his challenge in good faith. For the same reason,
we take up the questions, he propounds and
answer them in their order:
"If a citizen of the United States is thorough
ly convinced that his government is violating a
fundamental law of the nation in its eagerness
to prosecute the war, what would you advise
him to do?"
We advise him to get himself unconvinced as
fast as he can. Let him particularly dispossess
himself of any false notion about the United
States' "eagerness to prosecute the war," because
all the facts prove that the United States was
forced into, the war by German's persistent ag
gressions. "Would he be a good citizen if he failed to
raise his voice against it?"
He will be a bad citizen if b( does raise his
voice against it in any way to make peace through
victory more remote.
"Is a citizen a traitor to his country who by
pen and voice calls attention to facts that show
constitutional violations by his government?"
A citizen is a traitor when he commits treason
and in war time treason consists in "giving aid or
comfort to the enemy." If the use of pen and
voice is calculated to give aid or comfort to the
enemy, it may easily come within the definition
of treason. ( . ' f
"Do you think the Postoffice department jus
tified in denying publications that print these
facts the right to use-the mails?
The Postoffice department is part of the gov
ernment machinery and the government cannot
be expected to disseminate literature inciting to
treason.
"Don't you think the precedents now being
established will confront you and your publica
tion some time when the personnel of the govern
ment is changed and different principles control?"
We don't know.. We will cross that bridge
when we come to it and fight i out then it nec
essary. '
"Is it more important that we establish democ
racies in Europe than in our own country?"
Democracy is already established in this coun
try, and, if we understand it rightly, what we are
trying to do is to make it possible that our
democracy may be perpetuated instead of crushed
out or made subject to world-controlling military
autocracy. Let us quote ah apt expression by a
distinguished Nebraskan: "The way out of this
,war, is through it," and draw' this corollary:
"Democracy's safety lies in setting bounds to autocracy."
KornilofTs Career an Inspiration.
In the career of L. G. Korniloff, the Russian
general who has won such brilliant success in
the new drive against Lemberg, may be found
an inspiration for our own young soldiers. It is a
story often told in this country, that of tht rise
of a poor boy from obscurity to fame. Korniloff
is the son of a Siberian peasant and his early
yean were spent in abject poverty. As Abraham
Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant studied by the light
of pine knots, because .candles were too expen
sive, so Korniloff struggled with the rudiments of
education in the Siberian forest, where he worked
as a woodchopper. Gaining admission to the Si
berian cadets, he was given free instruction at a
government military school, and, like Napoleon
Bonaparte, was sent to the army as an artillery
lieutenant. ' ' ' '.' ,
His poverty proved his salvation, for instead
of a soft billet in a garrison town he was sent to
Turkestan and thence to eastern Siberia, finally
winning his way up to be a colonel of artillery.
As such it fell to his lot to cover the withdrawal
of Kouropatkin's bartered forces at Mukden,
which was so brilliantly done the waited rcogni
tion came to Korniloff in the form of promotion
and decoration. Again in the great retreat across
Galicia in 1915 he was assigned to the rear guard
and fought well for days, covering the Russian
retirement, till he was wounded and made pris
oner by the Austrians. From them he escaped
and when the revolution broke Out he was called
again to take command. How well he has suc
ceeded is told in the news dispatches.
Hard work is his secret and being on time
when needed the foundation of his success. If
such distinction can be gained by a peasant's
son under despotism, what may not be looked for
from Korniloff under the republic he now serves.
Sheep Breeding for Nebraska.
The University of Nebraska, through its ag
ricultural extension bureau, offers to assist the
farmers of the state in purchasing pure-bred ewes
to increase sheep breeding in the state. At the
same time the Department of Agriculture at
Washington has undertaken to impress on farm
ers the desirability of replenishing the flocks of
4,he country. We have fewer sheep now than at
any time in recent history and the number is
being lessened rather than increased, so that a
really critical condition is faced, a severe shortage
in both wool and mutton supply.
Two factors that Contribute most to this un
fortunate situation are of easy control. One is
the sale of lambs, which should be prohibited,
that flocks may not be depleted or destroyed.
The other is the damage done by dogs and wolves,
sufficient to discourage the farmer whose under
taking in the sheep line must be confined to a
comparatively few head. This matter was seri
ously put before the late Nebraska legislature and
shamefully neglected by that body. If sheep
breeding is to be brought to its proportional im
portance in our general scheme of production
growers must have some encouragement. At
least they must be given assurance of protection
for their flocks from predacious animals.
- This is another of the great problems the war
has forced upon us and which must be properly
and successfully dealt with before we can have
any real prosperity in America. ,
"In the Good Old Summer Time."
, Mankind is responding to nature's invitation
and spends much of his time out of doors these
fine njidsummer days. Whether it be his bent to
follow some pastime or whether he finds life
more bearable in the open does not so much mat
ter. The fact that he is outside getting the sun
shine and the fresh air is the main thing. : Golf
and tennis occupy his mind and fishing, swimming,
motoring, base ball, even prosy pedestrianism,
give him surcease from ofijee worry and business
trouble. This, of course, applies to the city
dweller; the farmer is out of doors from neces
sity these days from dawn to dark, bit he also
shares in the benefit that goes with sunburn and
tan. Vacation days are in full swing and folks
are working quite as hard at play as ever they did
at their daily tasks. It is "the good old summer
time," in all its radiant glory, and the soul that
I does not expand to its invitation is missing much
of the best the world has to offer to its dwellers.
The Battles of Cumberland
By Frederic J. Haskin
Cumberland, Md., July 13. Cumberland is a
monument to the well known principle that strug
gle means growth. Ever since colonial days, this
mountain city has been a center of battle, mili
tary and political, and out of its turbulance have
come prosperity and wealth.
Cumberland fought its first battle nearly two
centuries ago, and just won its most important
one a few weeks ago. Having thus aroused jour
curiosity, we will go back a few hundred years,
and examine the beginnings of the Cumberland
fighting spirit.
Cumberland lies high up in the mountains, at
the head of shallow water navigation on the
Potomac. In 1754, England sent a garrison to
represent it in the struggle for the west. There
were 500 men with Braddock in command, and
George Washington was one of the vounsr of-
Jicers. Everyone knows how Braddock mrched
out toward Pittsburgh .and how his whole com
mand was cut down. It was Cumberland's first
battle and first defeat. But more troops were
sent, and throughout the long French and In
dian war, Cumberland was England's military
headquarters, and England was ultimately vic
torious. Naturally the men of Cumberland were fight
ing men. When the revolution broke oui. they
formed the first company or rifles that ..-ent from
the south to fight under Washington a. d they
were among the best riflemen in the continental
army. At Fort Washington on the Hudson a
150 of them held 5,000 British in check for over an
hour, and killed a thousand of the enemy. It was
the marksmanship of the American hunters that
won American independence.
After the revolution Cumberland seems tj have
settled down to the job of founding its commercial
greatness. A transportation company for the
navigation of the Potomac was formed with
George Washington as its president. This early
American corporation spent the enormous sum
of $60,000 in. improving the river, walling in its
shallows, and building flat boats and bateaus.
They had a splendid passenger service that car
ried persons from Cumberland to Georgetown in
a day and a half. Folks used to gather along the
banks of the river and watch the boats rush past,
and the old people would shake their heads and
mutter something about the wonders of modern
industry. .
Trouble started for Cumberland again when
the civil war broke out. The union army domi
nated this section, but southern sympathizers
dominated sentiment in Cumberland. As a result,
a strong northern garrison was stationed here, to
prevent the CUmberlands from giving aid and
comfort to the enemy. General Crook, who
afterward madej a reputation as an Indian fighter,
and a General Kelly were in command of this
garrison. One night a couple of Cumberland
boys who had enlisted in the confederate army
decided to pay these two distinguished Yankees
a call. They overpowered the sentry at the edge
of town and forced him to give them the pass
word. With the aid of this they easily got inside
the town, and there they were among friends.
They located General Crook's hotel, roused that
commander out of bed, made him order his horse
with a pistol at his head and lead them to Gen
eral Kelly's place of residence. He too was'ar
rest?d and both commanders were carried away
as prisoners, so that the garrison woke up to find
itself mini two general officers. It was one of'
the most daring feats of the war.
After the war Cumberland's days of blood
shed and adventure seemed to be over, but not
its days of struggle. There were and are two dis
tinct factions in the town, one known to the op
position as the Mossbacks. The other faction
seems never to have been given any name In print,
but it might be well called the hustlers. The
hustlers have always acted, as a spur to the Moss
backs, while the Mossbacks have been a valuable
check upon the radicalism and ambition of the
hustlers. One of their first arguments happened
about six years igowhen the hustlers wanted to
raise a lot of;money and dam a mountain stream
for a water supply. After a few months of bat
tle in newspapers and mass meetings, tht hustlers
and the Mossbacks suddenly united and the moun
tain stream was dammed. Then came the mat
ter of commission government. At first the coun
cil meetings looked like conventions; but now
they have everything straightened out and run
ning nicely. I
Cumberland has coal some of the best in the
world and there is no reason why it should not
be a great manufacturing city. All it needs is
the factories. Well it became known that a very
great tire company wanted to move away from
Akron so that it would have more room to grow.
Little Cumberland went after that factory. The
big company said it would lpcate in Cumberland
for $1,000,000, and a building site. Once more the
two famous factions clinched and went to the saw
dust, 8nd once more they arose united, had a big
mass meeting, the newspaper took it up and $750,
000 were raised. The company was offered that
amount and a building site. It accepted. The
contract was signed a few weeks ago.
Thu at a single-stroke Cumberland added
about 50 per cent to its population (for the work
men, and their families will number fully Ji.OOO)
and planted a great growing industry right in its
midst. Of course, there was a good deal of fric
tion over it. But Cumberland is beginning to
realize that friction generates heat, and that heat
is energy. j
Our Fighting Men
George E. Bushnell.
Colonel George E. Bushnell, who has been
ordered to Washington to undertake the task of
safeguarding United States soldiers from the rav
ages of tuberculosis, is a well-known officer in the
medical department of the United States army.
He was bom in Massachusetts, in 1853 and re
ceived his professional training at the Yale medi
cal school. He was appointed from Wisconsin
as an assistant surgeon in 1881, served through
the Spanish war as a major chief surgeon and
received his commission as a colonel in 1911. He
is regarded as eminently fitted by experience for
the task to which he has been assigned. For
some time past he has been commandant of Gen
eral hospital, Fort Bayard, N. M., which has
had the treatment of all soldiers suffering with
tuberculosis. -
George Bell, Jr. "
Brigadier General George Bell, jr., U. S. A., for
some time in command of the military forces sta
tioned at El Paso, was born at Fort McHenry,
Baltimore, in 1859, and is the son of a distin
guished army officer. His services since his gradu
ation from West Point in 1880 have been in
connection with the infantry arm. He first won
distinction in the Cuban campaign before Santi
ago. During the first years of American occupa
tion of the Philippines he was prominent in en
forcing the authority of the United States, and
he won promotion by .his suppression of the in
surrection in Lamar and Leyte. From 1907 to 1913
General Bell was attached to the inspector-gen
eral's department and in 1911 he headed the
American military mission to the Swiss maneuvers.
Albert P. Niblack. " I
Captain Albert P. Niblack. U.S.N,, has a record
of service abroad that has been equalled by few
of the present-day officers of the navy. Born at
Vincennes, Ind., in 1859, he graduated from An
napolis in 1880 and was assigned to the Pacific
station. 'In 1884 he was ordered to Alaska, where
he spent four years in exploration and survey
work. He was naval attache at Berlin. Rome and
Vienna until the beginning of the war with Spain,
in which he served on the blockade of Cuban
ports, participating in the battle of Nipo Bay. Sub
sequently he participated in the suppression of the
Filipino insurrection and in the China relief expe
dition. In 1910 he went to Buenos Aires as at
tache of the American enibassy and from 1911 to
1913 he was again stationd at Berlin in a similar
capacity. ,
I TODAY
Proverb for the Day.
Fate haa no feeling.
One Year Ago Today In the War
Russians captured Baiburt in Asia
Minor.
Deutsehland declared commerce
boat by Washington government.
Britten advance In the west reached
third German line north of the Som-
me. -
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Mrs. J. M. McGovern, wife of the
well known coal man, and her sister,
Mrs. Edward Hartley, wife of one of
the oldest and best known typographi
cal artists in the city, have left on a
pleasure trip to Massachusetts. There
are two lonesome husbands in town.
The Council Bluffs Ramblers and
the Omaha Wheelman had a joint
club run to the lake. Among those
from Omaha were C. A. Bernev, Ed
ward B. Smith, F. T. Mittauer, Guy E.
Mead, George J. Kosters, Dr. G. W.
Williams. H. B. Mulford. H. H.
Hhoades, A. E. Schneider, Myron
Wheeler, Bert Wheeler, G. O. Scribner,
G. W. Howard, Edward Yytte. H. C.
Miller, Walt Morris, W. E. Coombs,
Franke Clarke and Frank Allard.
The Manawa motor line remains in
a comatose condition awaiting the ar
rival of 1.&00 feet of rails to complete
the track.
Officer Fahey found a substantial
sack coat in the alley in the rear of
the Metropolitan hotel, containing let
ters addressed to James W. Lester.
Jay Kaiser, a 14-year-old lad, is
missing from his home. Twenty-sixth
and Cass. His mother is offering a re
ward for information which will lead
to his return and she also offers the
boy himself a reward if he will return
home.
The First Free Methodist church of
South Eleventh street, was dedicated,
Rev. E. P. Hart conducting the serv
ices, assisted by Rev. D. G. Shepherd,
the paBtor.
Thl9 Day in History.
1661 Pierre LeMoyne Ibbtrvitle,
destroyer of Fort Pemaiuid, Me., and
founder of Louisiana, born in Mon
treal. Died in ifavana, July 6, 1706.
1779 Americans under General
Anthony Wayne took by etorm Fort
Stony Point. N. Y.
1828 William Few, first United
States senator from Georgia, d!ed at
Fishkill, N. Y. Born in Baltimore
county, Maryland, June 8. 1748.
1873 Don Carlos re-entered Spain
and issued a proclamation to the Car
lists. 1878 Lord Beaconsfleld and Lord
Salisbury enthusiastically received In
London on their return from the Ber
lin congress.
1S82 Mrs. Lincoln, widow of Presi
dent Lincoln, died at Sprlngfleld, 111.
1916 General Clprlano Castro,
former president of Venezuela, ex
cluded from the United States on the
ground of moral turpitude.
The Day We Celebrate.
C. C. Cope. Jr., general manager of
the Omaha Printing company, is just
46 years old today. Jollet, 111., is his
birthplace.
Frederick E. Bollard, vlc president
and treasurer of Garvin Bros., was
born July 16, 1864, at Northampton
shire, England. He came to this coun
try in 1870, locating first at Geneva,
O., and removing to Omaha in 1884.
Captain Roy C. Smith. IT. S. N., gov
ernor of Guam, born in Texas, flfty
nino years ago today. i
Marquis of Bath, recently appointed
a Knight of the Garter, born fifty-five
years ago today.
Major Ezekiel J. Williams, of the
Philippine Scouts, recently appointed a
member of the general siaff corps of
the- army, born in Georgia, forty-five
years ago today.
Colonel Archibald Campbell,. U. S.
A., commandant at Fort Screven, born
in Pennsylvania, fifty-two years ago
today.
Prof. George Henny Nettleton, in
charge of the Yale bureau in Paris,
born in Boston, forty-three years ago
today. ,
Theodore N. Vail, president of the
American Telegraph and Telephone
company, born In Carroll county, Ohio,
seventy-two years ago today.
Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer
of the South Pole, bom at Sarpeburg,
Norway, forty-five years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
A board of flag officers of the navy,
headed by Admiral Mayo, meets in
Washington today to select officers to
be recommended for promotion.
Joseph J. Scott, former collector of
internal revenue for the San Francisco
district, is to be placed on trial in the
federal court at San Francisco today
for alleged embezzlement of govern
ment funds and wine tax stamps.
Prohibition, is one of the chief is
sues in the general election to be held
today in Porto Rico. The election is
the first in which Porto Ricans have
had an opportunity to vote as Ameri
can citizens.
Storyctte of the Day,
When Lincoln was still an insigni
ficant country lawyer he had occasion
to travel to. a small town to take
charge of a case. It wag a drive of
some fourteen miles from the railroad
station to the town inn where he was
to spend the night. Wet and chilled
to the bone, he arrived at last, but, to
his dismay, found only a small fire
built in the grate, "while standing
about it, so aa to exclude the heat
from the traveler, were the other law
years interested in the case.
At length one of the group turned
to Lincoln.
"Pretty cold, eh?" he asked.
"Yes," replied Lincoln, "aa cold as
it is hot in Hades?" N
"Ever been to Hades, stranger?"
asked another. j
"Yes," replied Lincoln, solemnly.
This raised a faint smile among the
other lawyers.
"What does it look like there?" they
asked. "
"Very much like this." said Lincoln,
dryly. "All the lawyers! nearest the
fire." Illustrated World.
NEBRASKA EDITORS.
Blauvclt A Howard, editors of tht John
ton County Journal at Tecumsch, are installing-
a linotype.
J. B. McCoy, who hai been connected
with the Arnold Sentinel for the lait nine
months, is now editor and manager of that
paper.
. Grand Island Independent: Nebraska has
been nnder the governorship of a Nebraska
editor for the last thirty-six hours and noth
ing has happened out of the . ordinary.
The Scottabluff Daily Star-Herald sus
pended publication last week after an exist
ence of thirteen months. Lack of mail
facilities and the high cost of publication
made the venture unprofitable. The paper
will henceforth appear semi-weekly.
The Northeast Nebraska Press associstion
will hold its next meeting at Wayne July
27 and 28. The editors will be the guests
of the Wayne newspaper men and the Wayne
Public Service club. L. J. Quinby of Omaha,
Frank L Ringer of Lincoln and G. L. Cas
veeL secretary of the Iowa Press associa
tion, have been 'invited to make addresses.
"Copy,"" pleaoe.!
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The Borderland of Treason.
Plattsmouth, Neb., July 12. To the
Editor of The Bee: Editorially today
you strike at the anil-war sentiment
in this state. I am an American citi
zen and opposed to this war, because
I think it was declared without reason
able cause. I hold no brief for Ger
man autocracy, neither do I wish to
defend American autocracy, and of
the two I prefer the German brand
because it is farther away. I believe
in genuine democracy, but I believe in
supporting and upholding the consti
tution of the United State until we
can find something better to take its
place. '
Now I wish you would permit me to
ask a few questions: If a citizen of
the United States is thoroughly con
vinced that his government is violating
the fundamental law of the nation in
its eagerness to prosecute the war,
v.hat would you advise him to do?
Would he be a good citizen if he failed
to raise hla voice against it? Would
you advise him to keep quiet or pro
test? Is a citizen a traitor to his coun
try who by pen and voice calls atten
tion to facts that show constitutional
violations by his government? Do
you think the Postoffice department
justified in denying publications that
print these facts the right to yse the
mails? Don't you think precedents
now being established will confront
you and your publication some time
when the personnel of the government
has changed and different principles
control? Is it more important that -we
establish democracies in Europe than
in our own country, and If so, why?
J. M. Leyda.
LETTER BOX
Report Suits the Loyal.
Ogallala. Neb., July 13. To the
Editor of The Bee: The State Defense
league has made public its first report
of treasonable utterances, and acts of
disloyalty within our state. The re
port starts out with the statement
that "On the whole Nebraska is in
tensely patriotic," this is certainly
gratifying to all liberty loving and
loyal Nebraskans.
On the whole the report is timely
and good. No genuine patriotic
American can find any fault.
We are engaged in a foreign war.
Our boys are now on the firing line.
The country will not tolerate anv back
firing at home. "If you don't like
your Uncle Sammy Just go back to the
place from whence you came."
EDWIN M. SEA RLE.
. As to German-Americans.
Omaha, July 14. To the Ed:tor of
The Bee: With the single exception
that the defense council should men
tion names and not make its charges
indefinite, I think all true Americans
will agree with Metcalfe's statment in
Saturday's Bee. He is also correct in
his criticism of our gumshoe congress
man.'but I feel that he unduly flatters
Lobeck. He credits him with coming
out in ravor or the Britten resolution
to exempt German-Americans from
service. Not so with Gumshoe C.
Otto. , He might feel that way, but it
is not customary for him ever to take
a definite stand upon any question.
While Viereck's paper "flatters" him
as a supporter of the resolution, hie
letter to Vlereck does not warrant such
a conclusion. As hear as C. Otto gets
to that is "I shall be glad to give it
full consideration." I can fully sub
scribe, however, to all else that Met
calfe has tov say with reference to our
congressman.
I think your editorial upon this
theme is strictly to the point. Let
Viereck's use its propaganda upon the
kaiser to have him exempt fine service
Germans who have relatives in this
country. There is at least as much
reason in that proposal, and it would
be far more effective in bringing about
peace. The faet is that Viereck's and
every other proposer of such schemes
Is simply attempting to. aid the kaiser
in every way possible, while trying to
keep within the law. There could be
but one sound reason for exempting
German-Americans ' from service in
this war. That would be a fear that
they would prove disloyal in actual
engagement. But if tnat were true,
there should be more drastic' ways of
handling them. I do not believe such
a suspicion to be Justified, and I do
not believe that any true American of
German ancestry, or even birth, would
consent to exemption if there v.-cre the
least ground for suspicion that it was
made upon that basis.
L. J. QUINBY.
HERE A,ND THERE. .
One million tons of plates will be required
to carry out the government's program for
the building of 8,000,000 tons of steel ships.
A safety lock for automobile robes, costs
and pareels is nickel-plated steel clamp,
three-fourths of an inch by two and one
fourth inches when closed. The lock is
opened by a combination.
CHEERY CHAFF.
"What makes you think .all women hate
each other?"
"Because a woman so seldom brings up (
ron fit to be another woman's husband.''
Boston Transcript.
Neil I bad a charming call from Mr.
D&shaway last night.
Belle What did he talk about?
Nell Why. come to think of it. he never
opened his mouth. He Just at and listened
to me. Philadelphia Record.
"How's things?"
"Rotten."
"Here, too. What's wrong at jour houss?'
"Sickness. What's wrong at yours?"
"Company." Louisville Courier-Journal.
HOW tW4 X YAV MCNB OVjr
OF MM HUSBNW TROUSERS
viwouy yum fcefccriNfi rr r
JXJNY T0U THE TROUSERS
"This is a strictly up-to-date prison."
' Tes. I notice the drink prisoners are be
hind burs, tho women inmates are in tiers
and the more Intelligent prisoners. I suppose,
they put in brain cells." Baltimore American.
"I want to see the head of the nous."
"Pa's down town, but the speaker of the
house Is at home If you want to see her."
Detroit Free Press.
"What's an optimist, pa?"
"An optimist, sou, is a man who believes
even such things as that a submarine com
mander ywould take a disabled hospital ship
in tow. Judge.
'TVhy don't you correct that boy of
yours? He needs a good licking."
"I know he does.'W
"Then why don't you administer It 7"
"Well. Its' this way. I licked him when
he was a featherweight, when be was a
lightweight and when he was a middle
weight. But be shows signs of being a
heavyweight now." Louisville Courier
GOOD MORNING AND GOOD
NJGHT.
H. R. Hart in Cleveland Leader.
Good morning, Kaiser Wilhelm!
While your U-boats prey the sea,
And sink our ships, you still disclaim with
us at war to be.
Although we' hold your sailor men, and
you're detaining ours.
Tou love to say your quarrel -still is witn
the entente powers.
Our boys are drilling now that they may
fight without delay.
Good morning, Kaiser Wilhelm;
Are you feeling well today?
Good morning, Kaiser Wilhelm: '
When your spies you sent to us,
To start an awful rumpus and evolve a
mighty fuss,
Tou thought the wily Japanese and Mexican
would be ,
Delighted to assist you to bring kultur o'er
the sea.
But to your siren blandishments scant heeoU
did either pay.
Good morning, Kaiser Wilhelm!
Are you feeling well today?
Good morning, KaJser Wilhelm!
Tou have prated long and loud.
That we Americans are not a patriotic
crowd.
Tou urge upon your people we have not the
heart to fight.
Tou geek to prove conclusively we cannot
wreck your might,
But Pershing and his officers in France are
on the way.
Good morning, Kaiser Wilhelm!
Arc you feeling well today?
Good morning, Kaiser Wilhelm!
You declared us of a mold
Uninterested ' hen it came to giving time
and gold.
From coast to coast, the people have re
sponded; and again
Will they respond, if comes the call, with
all their might and main.
We've got the men and money, and we're
not afraid to fight.
Good morning, Kaiser Wilhelm!
Good morning,
And
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