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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 6. 1917.
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JULY CIRCULATION
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average circulation tor tne mnntli eatucriDea ud iroro to ay Dai flu
Williams. Oroulettos Meaner.
Subscribers leaving the city should have The Bat mailed
( them. Address changed aa of tea aa reeueeted.
Owing to exigencies of war the Ananias club
regretfully passes up choice business opportunities
at Berlin.
Discussing the cause of war at the end of the
third annual round gets about as far as guessing
on the finish.
When the authorities get through with the
Oklahoma slackers, precious little slack will re
main for them.
As a veteran of unnumbered scares, King Corn,
mutely and unafraid, hangs out the cheery sign:
"Don't worry."
Persistent silence of Mexico's publicity de
partment suggests that Villa lost his crutches in
the last border flim-flam.
Returning American commissioners express
divergent views on the Russian situation. Similar
views may be gathered from Petrogrid reports.
Unless all signs fail some of the brides of
draft slackers will experience just as much disap
pointment if marriage results In exemptions as if
it doesn't. '
The middle west occasionally sets the pace
in midsummer temperature, but it lacks the
deadening humidity which rides the heat waves
of the eastern coast.
American soldiers in France are getting on
swimmingly with the allied fighters at the front.
Camaraderie has reached the stage of swapping
pipes, plugs and cigarets.
House Leader Kitchin, who comes from North
Carolina, observes that projected war taxes bear
heavily on the poor. Now watch the "poor"
south slip another one over on the "rich" north.
Still, it is hardly fair to base conclusions on the
percentage of drafted men setting up exemption
claims. The thousands who have volunteered by
enlisting in the different branches of the service
without waiting for conscription must be taken
into account .
September corn "deals" are to be settled here
at $1.63, and no further contracts to be made.
This is practically the Chicago plan, adopted many
days ago, and shows the directors of the grain
exchanges can control some features of the specu
lative market when they set about doing it.
The argument for draft exemption of aliens
overlooks the main incentive for staying at home.
With Americans only fighting the country's bat
tles, some mighty fine business opportunities fall
to the aliens, enrichin;r them at the expense of
the natives. Just like Berlin diplomacy. Get it?
Another awful warning' is given automobile
drivers in the deplorable accident to the Hastings
machine. Safety first may take a little longer,
but a little more time spent on the road is far
preferable to weeks in the hospital, to say nothing
of unrestorable live! lost because the driver
wanted to go fast. '
Talk of enlisting a few regiments of Indians
for our army revives memories of the experiment
that we tried at Fort Omaha just after the Pint
Ridge war. A battalion of red men was enlisted
and drilled to no end, and finally dischafged from
. the service, because the Indian seemed unable to
soldier on the white man's basis.
No Crippling War Council
.Wall Street Journal"
If any man capable of rendering a reason were
asked to state the relation between food and fuel
and supervision of war expenditures, he would be
compelled to say they were as fur removed from
each other as the two poles. Yet, when the senate
of the United States passed a sorely needed put
long delayed measure to provide for the marketing
and distribution of food, feed and fuel, it added
a proviso creating an unwieldly board of ten mem
bers to oversee and advise the administration in
ka jkn4fiffr aif tVia war
The authors of this last minute provision may
justify it on the ground tnat inere is no wun-
tlAaaf KrAvifinn ae-ainat inxertinsr into a DrODOSed
law a provision utterly foreign to its main pur
pose. Technically tney are correct.
If it is advisable that a large committee of
members of congress supervise the conduct of
k tVi m-iciir ehmilH Stand On its OWn
legs where the people can see it. Don't push it
through clinging to tne SKins 01 one 01 me mum
important ot war measures, in me nope wai ine
.;n nrroni it rather than imoeril the
war by vetoing the entire bill. The job ahead of
OS is too big tor such pontics.
, Through the constitution the people have dele
gated to the president the authority to conduct
the war. He is the commander-in-chief of the
army and navy. He is the one who executes all
measures. The people have also enacted that
.l,!! v. a WUIativ hmtv. Thev are
to lay the taxes and provide the means for con
ducting the war wnicn tne executive must wage,
or manage, in we common ucu.
u:... tin tstM tYirm that war rannnt be auc
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....f..!Uf rAacntrH under th divided command
of committees or debating societies, because war
..ft. , Ainit and deer!. Therefore, our
fathers thought to provide for the common de-
tense vj concemraw.ig jwwcj uu ivvm?
if. With the life of the na-
tioa at stake, the people will not look with favor
ofeon a measure slipped through as this one was,
'a -a ..... will he. nnt tft mike the COn-
duct of the war more powerful, but to harass and
embarrass their commander-in-chief.
The measure is as unwise as it is unpatriotic.
and the conferees can ao no more service wan
Some Pertinent Impertinent Questions.
While the efforts of a member of the Ne
braska State Council of Defense to fix the author
ship of certain anonymous letters that have ap
peared in the World-Herald from time to time,
are interesting, though inconclusive, they make
pertinent some impertinent Questions
These letters are now branded ?s treasonable
in their pro-German and anti-American sentiment
for which the spokesman for the Council of De
fense would hold the writer accountable. But, if
so, what about the publisher who put them in
circulation? Why was the hyphenated World
Herald specially favored with these kaiserism
exuding letters and not any other Omaha paper?
The hyphenated World-Herald prints at the
top of its contributor's column this notice: "Let
ters signed with a nom de plume must be accom
panied with the name of the author for the editor's
information." Why were writers of pro-G:rman
communications excepted from this requirement?
If this rule of the hyphenated organ demanding
the author's name "for the editor's information,"
was suspended for anonymous letters extolling
the kaiser and running down America, were these
letters thus specially favored because their con
tents coincided with the policy of the paper?
If the hyphenated organ, as it might claim,
was imposed upon at the start by the anonymous
pro-German letters now complained of, what pre
vented it from shutting down on them as scon as
their real animus was disclosed and rejecting
them as it rejected pro-Ally communications?
Again, publication of these letters as we are
reminded, ceased with the entrance of the United
States into the war. Did they stop because the
anonymous author ceased to write them or was it
because the hyphenated editor suddenly decided
it was not safe for him to continue to print them
in a paper whose responsible owner is a United
States senator.
Finally, if the authorship of anonymous, trea
son-breathing, kaiserboosting letters, printed in
one column of the editorial page is to be con
demned and punished as a heinous offense, why
is not the publication of the more treasonable,
and more anti-American, and more kaiser-worshipping
articles in the editorial column of the
same page to be condemned just as severely and
bring upon the publisher the same, if not greater,
penalties of public opprobrium?
."Birds of a feather flock togetherl" exclaims
the World-Herald. Does that explain why the
hyphenated letter writers have all found an open
door arid a hand of welcome in that hyphenated
newspaper?
Will Deming Prova a Blunder?
No good reason has yet appeared why Deming
was chosen as a rendezvous camp for a division
of the Nationat Guard, but what word is per
mittcd to come through from there makes the
question mark after its selection loom bigger.
Some thirty thousand young men from the north
are to be encamped down there for a period of
intensive training. So far as can be learned the
only Qualifications the' town has for the purpose
is its remoteness from civilization and a good
water supply, for which the government must pay.
The rest is desert sand. Into this camp now are
rushing civilians of every type, all eager to win
a harvest from the soldiers.
It is true that the army heads will prevent as
far as possible the establishment of dens of vice
within five miles of the camp, and that all the
restraining influences of discipline and of the
Young Men's Christian association will be thrown
around the young men, but in other ways the
situation will resemble nothing so much as a
mushroom minina; camp. Greedy adventurers will
be on hand to prey on the soldier, under pretence
of supplying his needs, and all the elements of
disorder, short of the sinkholes that are to be
forbidden will be present. When account is taken
of the favorable locations in better settled parts
Of the country, where order could more readily
be maintained, and where the civilian population
is under regular restraint, sending the troops to
that out-of-the-way place for training seems all
the more dubious.
The Bursted Egg Boom.
"A dollar a dozen for eggs," the slogan raised
by the food speculators last spring, has joined
the slogans of a long list of unsuccessful ventures.
The boom in eggs has burst, and it was on the
rock of public indifference. When hens began
to lay last spring profiteers commenced putting
the surplus away in storage. Millions of cases
were piled up in refrigerators and warehouses
throughout the country. How many no one
knows exactly, for all the big packers do not re
port to the government on the number of eggs
held,' but many more than ever were laid up
against the coming winter. Farmers held to high
prices, but the speculators paid, safe in the
thought that last winter's experience would be
repeated. What brought the change? People at
home quit eating eggs and the European demand
did not materialize. Famine prices have pre
vailed until within a few days, but now the tide
is slowly receding, and the greatest stock of eggs
ever stored is held by packers, who are certain
of heavy loss uhless a miracle intervenes to save
them. In this instance the profiteers overshot the
mark, and will get no more of public sympathy
than went out to the dressed poultry men who
underwent a similar disappointment. When the
food control bill becomes effective the situation
will be even more favorable to the folks who pay
the bills at the grocery.
Reaching for Alien Slackers.
Some of the inevitable inequalities of the se
lective draft law are now being brought to atten
tion of the public, one of the most aggravating
being the presence of a large number of aliens
who will escape military service. In one western
mining town practically all the eligible Americans
will be called to the colors, only aliens remaining
to manage the affairs of the community.; An
other case is that of an actor of British birth,
whose popularity is bringing him immense reve
nue In this country. He says when "his country
calls him" he will respond. Very likely he is
waiting for a parliamentary commission to ex
tend him a personal invitation. The attitude of
these men is especially obnoxious at a time when
the nations to whom they profess allegiance as
citizens so sorely need the services of alt their
men and the country they are successfully ex
ploiting is doing so much to get ready to take
Its own share in the war. But these selfish slack
ers may yet be brought into service. A resolu
tion has been intr6duced in the senate asking
our allies to give the United States authority to
conscript their nationals domiciled here. This
or some similar plan will be devised in order to
reach these men from abroad. America is an
asylum for the oppressed, and always will be, but
it must not become a safe harbor for akulkers
from duty.
Enroll For Service Now
By Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, Aug. 2. Are you a member of
the United States Public Service Reserve? This
organization is a newly created division of the
Department of Labor. It is preparing to solve
the enormous problem of putting the nation on a
war basis industrially. It wants every American
to put his name on the official rolls, with a state
ment of what he can do and the assurance that
he is ready to do it.
It makes no difference whether you are a
plumber or college president, a truck driver or the
most expert of scientists here is the chance to
satisfy that desire of yours, which has been grow
ing ever since April 2, to do your bit for your
country. With your name on the rolls of the
Public Service Reserve you can go about your
affairs with ah easy mind, secure in the knowledge
that when you are needed you will be called for.
Enrollment in the Public Service Reserve does
not lessen any man's liability for military service.
It is intended to find places for those who are not
called for active service, both the ones who are
over the age limit, those who are far down on the
draft lists, and those who are exempted by the
boards. If a man is serving his country more
effectively in his present capacity than he could
otherwise, then the Public Service Reserve will
leave him where he is. If he is fit for work more
important and essential, he will be offered a
chance to get it.
Two things are worth noting about this new
system. First, it is a sifting of volunteers. The
men enrolled will be the men who come forward
and offer to serve where they can do most good.
So many thousands of men have already done
this that some organization to take care of their
applications was absolutely necessary. In the
next few months the number of industrial volun
teers will reach into the hundreds of thousands,
if not into millions. The Public Service Reserve
hopes to be able to put its finger on any man, or
any number of men, needed in any department or
any industry necessary to the successful conduct
of the war.
The second point to be noted is, that the filing
of your application for membership in the Public
Service Reserve will not necessarily be followed
by the offer of a new position the next day. For
the moment the government has more oners to
serve than it has positions. There has as yet been
only a mere beginning of the expansion of the
administrative offices that the war will surely
bring. The draft has not yet cut into the labor
supply. Offers of service exceed the demand.
And yet. if anything is certain, it is certain that
within the next few months men will be needed
by the tens of thousands. There will be a general
shift in the industrial situation. ' Certain neces
sary industries will expand, and they will have to
draw on other industries for men. The way to
bring about this reorganization with a minimum
of waste efficiency is to have on file at a central
headquarters the names of hundreds of thousands
of workmen, along with an exact statement of
what they are doing and what they are able to do.
This is a very critical period in the war from
an industrial and administrative standpoint. The
executive departments and the necessary indus
tries are going to need large numbers of men, but
their expansion is only beginning. They will
need those men in three months, in six months,
in a year. But the men are volunteering now,
and they want to be accepted right away. A
typical case is a man who writes from New Eng
land, enclosing half a dozen letters from great
corporations testifying to his executive ability.
"I have written twice already." he says, to the
Council of National Defense, "I would like to be
of service to the government at once."
"This is an instance of what we are doing,"
said 'an official of the Reserve. "This man is not
needed today. In a few months it is highly prob
able that we will want him badly. But by that
time we would lose track of him,, and he might
feel disgruntled as well. We ask him to become
a member of the Reserve. Then he can have the
consciousness of having done his duty, and when
the day of need comes we can notify him at once.
The Public Service Reserve is analogous in
the industrial field to the Derby recruiting scheme
in England in the military field. The arrival of
a crisis is invariably accompanied by a wave of
fine enthusiasm that swamps the administrative
offices with offers of service. The offices, how
ever, need time to expand their organization and
the necessary industries before they can take care
of the rush. And while that time is passing the
precious enthusiasm cools. This is human nature.
In England the recruiting offices were
swamped. Men were turned away for lack of
facilities to handle them. They went back to
work, and after a time tried to enlist again. If
they failed a second time they were likely to stay
at home in the future. Lord Derby conceived the
scheme of accepting and enrolling all who ap
plied and sending them to their homes to await
the call. The scheme was tremendously success
ful, Over 2,000,000 pen were recruited under it.
The Public Service' Reserve is doing the same
thing here and now. It is enrolling any man who
applies. When the time comes it will call on him.
It offers every man a chance to do his bit.
The Public Service Reserve is well organized
and has already taken over classified lists of
names from various sources numbering many
thousands. Yet it is only the beginning of greater
things, as anyone can see who has considered the
tremendous war problem of labor. The applica
tion for membership is rather a fine thing In its
straight-forward patriotic appeal. Here it is:
"I hereby apply for membership in the United
States Public Service and ask. it to register in its
records the accompanying description of my
training, experience, aptitudes and capacity for
service. Whenever the United States Public
Service Reserve learns of a need in public or pri
vate employment for a man of my qualificat:ons I
request it to notify me with full particulars, in
cluding duties and compensation, and thereby af
ford me an opportunity to assist under the aus
pices of the Reserve. I make this application be
cause I desire a practical opportunity in this war
emergency to contribute personal service ly doing
work that will aid the general welfare. This is
followed by blanks for a full description of the
applicant s present position and training. Re
quests for application blanks should be addressed
to the United States Public Service Reserve, De
partment of Labor, Washington, D. C.
People and Events
Mrs. Catherine Cudahy, widow of the Chicago
meat packer, Michael Cudahy, has been made a
papal countess. She shares this honor with only
one other woman in the united states, tne count
ess Leary, of New York,
It does not appear that the Russian Women's
Legion ot Deatn naa any long training in xrencn
technique before getting out of the trenches for
a charge in the open, l he will to win or die is as
potent a factor in war as it ever was.
"Bob" LaFollette was to have addressed an
anti-draft meeting at Pittsburgh last Sunday, but
again the United States government intervened,
the federal authorities preventing the gathering.
"Bob" is certainly havmg a hard time to get that
speech out of his system.
Under the American flag the big German
steamship Vaterland will not only make a very
handsome appearance but wui De a very serv
iceable auxiliary in the transport service. The
repairs on the ship are almost completed, and
after three years of enforced idleness it will be
put to the best use.
Aenes Lowe, an adventurous young woman,
set out at Estes Park to be a modern Eve. She
was to live a week in the wilds, with only her
hands and her knowledge of woodcraft to provide
her wants. One night proved quite long enough,
for she showed up at the hotel the next morning,
cold, wet and hungry, and quite well content to
take advantage of all civilization can provide
Proverb for the Day.
It is never too late to mend.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Russian forces crossed the Sereth
and Graberka rivers and captured six
villages from the Austrians.
Germans began vigorous attempt to
retake trenches captured by the Brit
ish at Fozieres, on the Somme line.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Edward Everett Hale is here, the
guest of the Rev. W. E. Copeland.
Pursuant to a public call, some of
the battle-scarred veterans of Omaha
who have starved and suffered in
southern prisons met at M. R. Ris
don's office, Thirteenth and Harney.
Among those present were J. J. John
son, V. S. Seavey, W. G. Templeton,
W. O. Kasson, David C. Custard, D. A.
Hurley, O. W. Whltmarsh, W. H. Hoyt
J. B. Sawhill, Jacob Billings.
After an absence of two years, dur
ing which time he failed to inform his
parents of his whereabouts, Willie
I J
Bergson returned and was welcomed
back to his home on North Twenty
fourth. John T. Bell has returned from an
extended trip to California. He will
return there in a month, taking his
family with him to spend the winter.
Miss Ella Kennedy, accompanied by
her nephew, James Kennedy, has
gone west on a recreation tour. They
will visit relatives in Colorado, Nevada
and California and will be absent
about two months.
Miss Maggie Fitzmorris has returned
from a two months' visit to relatives
in Buffalo. N. Y.
A surprise party was given in Wal
nut Hill by Miss Hattie Swller in honor
of her uncle, Frank C. Buckley, lately
foreman of the printing department of
the Deaf and Dumb institute, who is
preparing to move further west. It
was quite a "silent affair," the deaf
mutes of the city being present, and it
was greatly enjoyed by all.
Tills Day In IUstory.
1780 Andrew Jackson, a youth of
14, began his career as a soldier by
Joining in the American attack on a
force of British regulars and torles at
Hanging Rock, S. C.
J806 Dissolution of the German
empire and formal abdication of the
emperor. x
1817 Rt. Rev. Theodore Dehon,
first Episcopal bishop of South Caro
lina, died of yellow fever in Charleston.
Born in Boston December 8, 1776.
1862 Destruction of the confeder
ate ram Arkansas by Commodore Por
ter in the Essex.
1867 Madame C. D. Murat, widow
of Prince Murat and a gTandnlece of
Washington, died on her plantation in
Jefferson county, Florida,
1897 International Arbitration con
gress met in Brussels.
1898 Commodore Dewey and Gen
eral Merritt demanded the surrender
of Manila.
1914 Austria declared war against
Russia.
1915 Germans pushed Russians
back close to Petrograd railway In
Courland.
The Day We Celebrate.
Alfred Bloom, president of the Al
fred Bloom company planing mill, was
born August 6, 1853, in Sweden, com
ing to this country when 23 years of
age.
John A. Gentleman born August 6,
1881, has been a lifelong resident of
Omaha and is engaged In the under
taking business.
Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan. professor
of Rush Medical college and president
elect of the American Medical associa
tion, born in Chicago, fifty-six years
ago today.
Darius Cobb, one of the oldest and
best known of American painters, born
at Maiden, Mass., eighty-three years
ago today.
Edward Ballantine, who has
achieved prominence as a musical
composer, born at Oberlin, O., thirty
one years ago today.
Sherwood R. Magee, outfielder of
the Boston National league base ball
team, born at Clarendon, Pa., thirty
three years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The International Association of
Display Men opens its annual conven
tion today at St. Louis.
T,.ThJL,Pac,flc Coa8t Association' of
Fire Chiefs meets at Anaconda, Mont.,
today for Its silver Jubilee convention.
. opimeu wree-cornered campaign
for the democratic gubernatorial nom
ination in Virginia will be closed to
day with rallies in every part of the
state.
The annual convention of the Na
tional Association of Chiropodists will
open at Providence, R. I., today and
continue in session until Friday.
The annual national demonstration
of farm tractors will begin at Fremont,
Neb., today, with 250 machines repre
senting all the leading makes partici
pating. Storyette of the Day.
"My dear, you mustn't let anybody
read that letter from cousin George at
the front. I'm surprised that he'd
write such things."
"What's the matter with his letter?
It s mighty interesting."
"Some parts of it are, but his con
resslons of his disgraceful conduct are
dreadful. , I wouldn't for the world
have anyone know of his doings."
I don't get you at all."
"You don't? Didn't you read that
part of hla letter where he says he
was out with a British tank last night
and they rolled all over the place?"
Detroit Free Press.
BITS OF BIBLICAL LORE.
The daughter of Herodiai brought the
head of John the Baptiat in a charter
(Matthew, xlv, 8) probably a trencher or
platter.
The Hebrew word that baa been trana
lnted aa glaaa occura only in Job, uvili. 17,
where, in the authoriied version, it la ren
dered crystal.
During a recent period of the maaa move
ment toward Christianity In India, the Chris
tian population increased at the rat of
1,000 a month.
Only two seasons are mentioned in the
Bible, summer and winter. They signify the
two grand dlviaiona of the year, the warm
and eold seasons (Psalms lxxir, 17; Zacha
riah xir, 8.)
The Book of Esther is read through by
the Jews in their synagogues at the Fsaat
of Purin. It has often been remarked as a
peculiarity of the book that the name of God
does not oocur in it
Cheese is mentioned only three times In
the Bible and on each oecaaion tinder a dif
ferent name la the Hebrew (Job, a, 18; I
Samuel, xvil. IS; II Samuel, xvli. 19.) It
ia difficult to deeide how far these terms
correspond with our notion of cheese.
With respect to the term translated in
tha Accepted Version "degreee" a great
diversity of opinion prevails. The most
probable ia that they were pilgrim songs,
sung by tha people as they went up to
erusalem.
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Jones' Friend Wins.
"A. E. Jones, South Side," Is noti
fied that his friend is right, so far as
The Bee is concerned. This paper
will not print doggerel attacks on anybody.
Likes the Letter Box.
Omaha, Aug. 4. To the Editor of
The Bee: As an old reader of The Bee,
I wish to express my appreciation of
your paper as an accurate news gath
erer and distributor, and for the priv
ilege of expressing one's self through
your Letter Box column. And as a rule
these contributions are of an interest
ing nature. Once in a while, however,
a wearisome pest, seeking free ads for
his product or ideas, takes advantage
of your courtesy and lnfllcta your read
ers with his ideas that run In a rut on
one or two subjects and never any
more.
The bright side of the Letter Box
is there, however, with both feet Writ
ers who are strictly American in name
and deed do not bore us with whole
sale rot, but send in good, clean, up-to-the-minute
writings, expressed in a
conservative, sensible manner, on
timely subjects for the good of the
community or nation. More power to
The Bee. BEN J. STONE.
1821 Corby 8treet.
Doesn't like New Poet Rate.
Omaha, Aug. 4. To the Editor of
The Bee: I am opposed to any Increase
in postage, because it is penny wise
and pound foolish. The low rate of
postage in this country is a distin
guishing mark of high civilization and
a stimulant to sociability. The ignor
ant, sordid and unsocial, who write
two or three letters a year, will be lit
tle affected by such increase, but the
intellectual, friendly, social people who
keep their friendships alive by corre
spondence, will have to bear this en
tire burden.
It is an outrage to tax anything that
does not produce gain. It is confiscat
ing pleasure and privilege. I resent it,
as I would a tax on prayer, benevo
lent contributions, a shave or a bath.
Raise all the revenue necessary, but
put the tax on something that yields
the means to pay it Millions of our
boys and girls, too will go to the
front in the near future and sad good
byes will be heard on every hand. Why
embitter the separation by increasing
the cost of communication about the
only comfort they will have while
away from home? It is treason to ask
our boys to give tip everything even
life itself and increase the cost of
their only comfort, a message from
home.
We are arresting men for discourag
ing enlistments and interfering with
the draft Members of congress are
doing the same, when they increase the
cost of correspondence between the
boys and their loved ones at home.
If I were a congressman or a aen
ator, I would be ashamed to have my
dope printed free and distributed by
the ton on a franking privilege and
then increase the cost of postage 50
per cent to soldier boys and their
mothers. I'd be ashamed to sponge an
hour longer on the government; Td
pay my postage, as other men do, and
not increase it on an already heavily
burdened people.
We had a hard struggle In the civil
war: our money was greatly depreciat
ed in value, but congress was never
unpatriotic enough to propose an in
crease in postage. It's an outrage to
propose it now. Congress refused to
Increase second class postage a year
or two ago, under the protest of pub
lishers; now it is trying to saddle an
increase on the people at large, who
are less able to pay it but cannot get
together, as the publishers did, to pro
test against it
t.If ?!.ore revenu Is necessary, put
tne additional tax on commercial pa
per, something that yields profit, and
not on friendly correspondence, which
produces no income. Put it on the
?ACSbO0Sters- They are making $100.
000,000 a month out of a patient peo
pie who have been looking to congress
for five months for protection. Specu
la,t0. are "seeing the people out of
$1,200,000,000 a year, more than half
the entire revenue we propose to raise
this year, and we let them do it bv
delaying the "food law." Nay. we do
more; we increase the burdens of the
people by increasing their postage a
wrong which no emergency can Justify.
What is government for? "To pro
tect the people and promote the gen
eral welfare," our constitution says,
but we are not doing it. We passed the
questionable Adamson law in about a
week. The nation has been writhing
under the hand of the extortioner for
years and we do nothing but talk, talk,
talk. Its time to do something. Re
lieve the people and we can have all
the revenue we need. Tax business, not
social privileges. D. C. JOHN.
j What Is Real and What Unreal?
Omaha, Aug. 8. To the Editor of
a no ee: in nis letter of the 28th
ult, appearing: in vour imne, nt ty,a
inst., Mr. Herring says that "but one
purpose nas Deen kept in view." It
seems to me he has not yet shown one
consistent reason why his view as to
the unreality of evil is "well worth
serious consideration." He has writ
ten three or four long letters on the
subject and made absolutely no head
way. I therefore Judge him incon
sistent. What Is the difference, to the ob
jects of the suffering, pain, or priva
tions of the misshapen child, blind
mother or mangled Poilu or Sammy,
whether you call their ailments real
or unreal? Please answer, Mr. H.
Quit talking about ghosts or witches,
which everybody knows never existed,
except in vivid imaginations. Nobody
but an imbecile would ever in earnest
ask such a question as "Is two and
two are five real?" I presume the
inference is that because the sentence,
"Two and two are four," is correct,
true and demonstrable, therefore the
other is Incorrect and, according to
the C. S. and Mr. Herring, unreal.
Truth and error are opposites; reality
and unreality likewise, but truth never
was a synonym of reality nor error
of unreality.
True to the C. S. doctrines, Mr. Her
ring claims that Jesus healed the sick
not by destroying evil, but by knowing
its unreality. I want to stamp this
as a gratuitous presumptton. How
many healings Jesus actually per
formed nobody knows. That many of
the stories are pure fiction I have no
doubt, Judging from the conflicting re
ports and the credulous relators. That
faith has cured the sick I don't want
to doubt; that Christian Science doc
trines have cured and helped many I
don't want to question; but I firmly
believe that the healing accomplished
has not been brought about by the
means which either the patient or the
practitioner believed.
I know that fever has been stopped
by applying ice to the chest: that
toothache has been stopped by apply
ing heat to the Jaw; that digestive or
gans have done their natural work
merely by preserving the anima' heat
Yes, I know that limbs have been pre
served, that sight has been restored,
that death has been turned away and
life has been preserved, not by call
ing the threatening evils unreal, but
merely by applying such means as ex
perience has taught humanity are con
ducive to life, health and happiness
Show us, Mr. Herring, that we are
wrong.
It seems to me Mr. H. cannot ex
press what he wants with such com
mon words as real or unreal. I nore
Mrs. Eddy says that evil is a negation.
All right I can picture evils coming
from the withdrawing of heat light,
etc.; that is, by shutting living organ
isms into darkness or cold, for sureK
the vitality, the thing or principle
call life will disappear. Sucn ev-.v
(killing) would be brought into be
ing by negations, but witness the re
ports in the daily papers of hundrwJs
of human beings killed and thousands
of prostrations caused by an excess
of the life-giving principles, light and
heat and this is the opposite of nega
tion. Show me, Mr. Herring, that
either the cause or effect, or both, arc
unreal,, imaginary, fictitious, and you
shall nave gained one docile disciple
to your much-loved .nd highly-priced
doctrine of the "unreality of evil."
Then you would conform with Mr.
Thompson's wish and become prac
tical. I wish to thank Mr. Moore for show
ing Mr. Herring that his contentions
are not scriptural and I wish to ask
Mr. Thompson to point out wherefn
we are "wide of the mark" and
wherein we are "both right atid
wrong." Then he, too, would become
practical and we would all benefit.
DAVID OLSON.
GRINS AND GROANS.
Edith Which would yon advise ma t
take, violin or piano lessons 1
Her Friend Piano, dear. Ton took an
much better sitting down than standing up.
Boston Transcript
Madge She's the most precise girl I aver
knew.
Marjorle There's no doubt ot It. Bhe'e
making a collection of the fingerprints of
the young men to whom she becomes en
gaged this summer. Puck.
"On tha third hand," continued tha
orator.
"Hold on there."
"Eh?"
"How many hands has fc' figure rf
speech?" Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Blesaed are the meek." quoted the
deacon. In reproving the backslider, "for
they ehall inherit the earth."
"They may Inherit all right, deacon,"
said the irreverent one, "but somehow or
other they never aeem to get possession."-
British Weekly.
"They say that widow la a good bust
ness woman,"
"I should think she wast She was as
gaged to the carpenter while her new eot
tage waa building, and then she married
the plumber." Baltimore American,
Footllght Haa ho finished that play tit
waa working on yet?"
Bue Brette On, yes.
"Haa It been produced yetf
"Oh, my, yes; that's what finished ft
Tonkera Statesman.
He Here's a woman auing for divorce ea
the ground that ahe waa In a trance when
she got married.
Hla Better Half "Well, If marriage won't
bring her out ot It divorce won't Judge.
"What'e the dlfferenca between social
ist and a specialist?"
"A good deal. A socialist wants half of
all you possess, and a specialist wan la It
all." Life.
"To avoid quarrels my wife and T ar
ranged when we were married that I waa
to be the deciding power In all major mat
ters and ahe In all minor affairs."
"But who decides in which category your
problema come?"
"Oh, ahe does that and thus far no
major matters have come t p." Boston
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