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    THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1917.
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Depend on King Corn to show his usual speed
on the home stretch.
Even small favors from the.Postoffice depart
ment are appreciated in Omaha.
Hard cider generates trouble in dry sections as
merrily as in the wet belt. It is built that way.
Boston proposes to save 50,000 barrels of
white flour by eating brown bread, presumably.
Pancho Villa is now rated as a bandit in Mex
ico. He attained that degree in American esti
mation long ago.
As the affair looki at this moment the Okla
homa resisters overlooked the important detail
of an adequate undertaking department.
A Russian general has been ordered shot for
disobeying orders, the new government thus giv
ing a concrete application of equality, so far as
punishment goes.
Oklahoma "rebels" face a charge of high trea
son, perfectly constitutional, but something they
never heard pt in the talks they had from the
agitators who stirred them up.
Aliem In Omaha are settling the draft ques
tion by taking out naturalization papers as fast
xs they can. l,f the same rule were followed else
where much trouble would be avoided.
None of the atates voted on the question of
a federal income tax any more than on tha ques
tion of national prohibition, but congress submit
ted the income tax just the same and it was ratified.
Why blame a young man for "slacking" hen
he gets so much encouragement from men high
in public life. If we are going to clean up the
slackers, why not start at the top and work
down?
"This Is no time to argue," saya Elihu Root.
"American liberty, justice and independence are
: at.ke." TrikhM. rsely stated. Action
marks the course of patriots, leaving to slacken
and pullbacks a monopoly of talk.
Hannis Taylor will find in Berlin a lot of
support for his move to prevent the sending of
American soldiers to France. Frienda of the
kaiser will most earnestly hope Mr. Taylor'a
interpretation of the constitution, ia the right one.
Auto drivers are again due for the admonition
that the law requires them to come to a full stop
where street cars are loading or Unloading pas
sengers and not to start until after th street
car starts. Regardless of the law, this ia a pretty
good "safety first" rule.'
One hundred thousand American soldiers
'somewhere in France" by January 1; 600,000 by
springtime and 1,000,000 'by midsummer of
1918. A mighthy program mapped out by the
war board, but your Uncle Samuel has the men
and the money to see it through. "
Speaking of his military aspirations, Governor
'Neville aays he cannot appoint himself and Lieu
tenant Governor Howard has given him no prom
ise. It is a safe conclusion that the governor
will stick out his term in the executive office and
try for re-election just like all the1 rest of 'em.
Questioning Some Figures
St Louts plob Dtmocrat-
' It is not to be called surprising that the War
department at Washington is flooded with pro
testa and remonstrances coming from the thou
sands of applicants who have been undergoing
severe military training in the officers' reserve
campa at what is said to be the certainty of their
disqualification for service. If reports have not
been exaggerated as to the number of men al
ready practically rejected and constituting more
than one-half of the number originally enlisted,
the public wonder will be that such a large num
ber of men, believing themselves qualified for serv
ice as officers and confident enough to put their
fitness to a severe test should have been disap
pointed as to their own capabilities or have so
far underrated the magnitude of the tasks to be
set for their performance.
Naturally enough, many failures were to be
foreseen. Some of these, it could be understood
in advance, would be temperamental, wholly dis
qualifying the applicants for service in lines where
coolness and composure among the men in com
mand is a first essential. Others, not less surely,
could be expected to fail for a lack of amenability
to discipline. But that more than one-half of 44,
000 men, for the most part thepicked men of their
communities, should have failed is a revelation.
It is something more than a revelation. It is a
keen disappointment to more than the rejected
and their immediate friends. It is no less a disap
pointment to the patriotic intelligence understand-
mgr the dire need of officers for the new army and
which will fear the effect of such wholesale re
jections upon future enlistments for that line of
service.
Nobody will be disposed to question the mo
tives of the army officers in charge of the ramps
and the very extent of the rejections would, in
itself, teem to acquit them of personal favorit
isms or prejudices operating as causes. Such feel
ings would not operate to such an extent among
such large body of men in any field of selec
tion and army officers, in particular, must be pre
sumed free of auch weaknesses. If the figures
arc to be credited, and we must again express
doubt of their accuracy, the truth may be that
nonessentials, in the minds of men trained in the
minutiae of military schooling, have been permit
ted to obscure the few really essential qualities
possessed of which an officer in an army can do
nis cuty wen ana serve his country wen. it more
than half of nearly 50.000 nicked Americans are
unfit to hold rank in an army we have already
Commenced to feel the degeneracies of too-long
Kerensky'a New Cabinet.
Another -ave of anarchy has welled up and
subsided in Russia, leaving Alexander Kerensky
apparently even more firmly seated in control.
With a vote of confidence from the several domi
nant groups, he has formed a cabinet so consti
tuted as to embrace representatives of the sev
eral elements that are working to establish order,
and of such personality as may serve to bridge
over another crisis and set Russia a little nearer
to stable government. It would be risky to pre
dict long continuance of this government, for the
forces of disorder and reaction are yet powerful,
and until they can be entirely subdued, no Rus
sian government can by firmly established. But
Kerensky is accomplishing wonders in holding
together the majority groups, and may yet be
able to show a semblance of intrenchment from
the political and economic chaos into which the
affairs of his country have fallen. His internal
problem is far greater than his external problem,
just now, for, despite the promise of Hinden
berg to the kaiser, Russia is not likely to be put
out of the campaign in three months or at all,
if Kerensky is able to counteract the domestic
panic that has disturbed efforts at government
since the German propagandists began their
"boring from within." Russian spirit is being
sorely tested these days, but promises to come
through the fire of trial clean and strong.
The Coming Tax Levies.
Are Omaha taxpayers aware that the lime is
at hand when the levies are to be made that will
fix the taxes they will be called upon to step up
to the counter and pay next year?
Are our taxpayers aware that the assessed val
uation of Douglas county for the coming year
has been increased in round figures from $47,000,
000 to $49,000,000, on a one-fifth basis, which
means that every mill levied will produce 4 per
cent more money than it did last year?
Are they alive to the fact that Douglas county
should have a reduced rate accorded by the State
Board of Equalization, commensurate with our in
crease in valuation as compared with other coun
ties, but that we will not get what is due us unless
we Insist on it?
Are Omaha taxpayers aware that the city hall
officials secured from the last legislature a new
law changing completely the method of making
up the tax levy and that they now are subject
to a percentage limitation only instead of an ab
solute limitation on the various funds?
Are our taxpayers aware that under this new
law it is possible for the council to increase the
city tax rate, which last year was 68.68 mills, up
to 83.5 mills if they go as far as the statute per
mits? Are our taxpayers aware that the school board
has raised its requisition from 25 mills to 35 mills;
that the water board is again asking for 3 mills
on the higher valuation; that the special fire
equipment levy to produce $70,000 is contemplated
in addition to the apecial levies of $140,000 im
posed during the last two years for that purpose;
and that the special bond-sinking levy must be not
less than 2 mills nor more than 4 mills?
We confesl that the people of Omaha seem
to be less keenly alive to the problems of taxation
than to any other subject of public importance.
We will not, however, let that deter us from chal
lenging attention to the sitution while some meas
ure of preventive relief is still possible.
The Mob Demonstration In Oklahoma.
Disorder In Oklahoma, incident to the opera
tion of the selective draft jaw, ia an unpleasant re
minder of an inherent weakness of any form of
government. Unanimity of opinion and action is
difficult to obtain under the most favoring condi
tions and almost out of tha question under cir
cumstances that prevail in parts of Oklahoma.
Here Ignorant leaden have inflamed the minds of
men as ignorant ai themselves and incited them
to futile rebellion. Opposition to the draft, it ap
pears, is merely a pretext; the real purpose is rev
olution, out of which tha followers of the red
flag are to gather means of ease and luxury by
seising on others' property. The "Jones Family,"
i aecret organisation, with sign, grips, passwords
and the like, hat had several predecessora in the
history of the country and is but repeating the
experience of such episodes as "Shay's Rebellion"
and the like. These demonstrations always have
the same end and may be expected in the future,
for no government will ever please all, but the
republic ia in little danger from such outbursts.
In Oklahoma the civil authorities are moving vig
orously and apparently are competent to dea! with
the present trouble. For a remedy the schoolmas
ter and trustworthy courts are the best at present
available.
Field Week for Senator Gore.
Accepting the forecast for congressional ac
tion during the coming week as fairly accurate,
w may readily conclude that Senator Gore from
Oklahoma is looking forward to the time of hia
life. As chairman. of the senate's committee on
agriculture he has so far consistently and per
sistently obstructed to tha utmost of his ability
the war program of tha administration and he
now finds an opportunity to keep it up. The
food administration measures, the need of which
is admitted by alt, has been agreed upon by the
conference committees and their report adopted
by the house, but the Oklahoma statesman -does
not like it. Urgency mean$ nothing to him nor the
certainty that his efforts will avail him nothing
in the end. Ha proposes to stave off the final vote
as long as he can and to use every privilege
granted him by generous senate rules to achieve
this purpose. i
The spirit in which Senator Gore approaches
the food administration bill is typical of that
evinced by other obstructionists, whose misdi
rected zeal or wrong-headed obstinacy has ham
pered every effort to' get ready for the great work
the country is now engaged in. These men can
not lay aside their own views in favor of what the
majority deems to be for the good of the coun
try; even when they realize that by delaying ac
tion they an putting into dire jeopardy the in
terests of the whole country they have hld to
their course with auch persistency that t n- sin
cerity has been seriously questioned.
Senator Gore's efforts to prevent action (that
may check profiteering in food is inexplicable.
The only possible benefit from his conduct will
accrue to enemies of his country and to food
gamblers, yet he willfully prepares for his cam
paign of objection. People must bear with hire'
as his kind and win the war in spite of foes abroad
and their assistant! at home. -
The locatios of a quartermaster's training
camp at Fort Crook would be an acceptable con
eolation prize for Omaha after the bump given us
by the award of the cantonment to Des Moines.
If Omaha is ignored again the only conclusion
must be that our representatives either don't count
at Washington because "in bad" with the ad
ministration or are again asleep at the switch.
We atill hope for the beat
In v
The Fall of the Fortune
Tellers
By Frederic J. Haskin
New York, Aug. 3. Not long ago a certain
Hindoo fortune teller did business in an elabor
ately furnished apartment not far from Broadway
in that region of romance, the forties. One day
there applied to him for a reading of her future
a middle-aged woman of a very competent and
unsentimental appearance. The seer made sundry
passes through the air with his long, antenriae
fike fingers, went into a brief reverie, and then
explained that his customer's "vibrations" showed
that she would be very successful in business, but
that in love she was a failure. This defect in her
personality he offered to remove by a treatment
which would cost $33.50.
"Did you take him up?" the woman vas asked
today.
"Yes: I took him up to the station house,"
replied the unsentimental and competent woman,
whose love vibrations were out of order.
She is a woman detective sergeant, whose spe
cial business it is to rid New York of fortune
tellers. She has had her fortune told hundreds of
times in the last year, and has conducted a motley
troop of Hindoos, crystal gazers, metaphysicians,
mediums, gypsies and card readers to the bar of
justice.
Nearly all of them have been convicted, for it
is against the law in New York to profess to fore
tell the future or reveal by occult means the lo
cation of lost objects. To make a practice of
fortune-telling, even though no money is re
ceived in compensation, is a violation of this law.
Until a couple of years ago, this law was notor
iously violated. Along Sixth avenue the fortune
tellers advertised their presence by immense flar
ing signs. You could buy a glimpse into the fu
ture at any price from a dime to $100 or more,
and by any one of a dozen methods.
Two business-like gentlemen with offices in a
downtown building were found to be the official
heads of the future-dope trust. They collected a
regular stipend from every fortune teller doing
business in New York, and in return they were
able, at that time, to guarantee immunity from
police interference.
Now these two. gentlemen have been safely
put away, and though there are doubtless stilt
fortune tellers at large in the city, they have no
immunity from police prosecution, and they dare
not advertise their presence in any way. Until
a few days ago, they could not be put in jail,
but were merely placed under bond when con
victed. Now, by a new regulation, they may be
treated as common criminals.
Nothing but the wondrous credulity of the
human mind makes possible the operations of
these fakerl, and the laying bare of their methods
is a revelation in this regard. All of the super
stition, the fear of the mysterious and occult,
which is typical of savage races, seems to remain
latent, needing only a suggestion to bring it to
the surface.
Some of these professors of the occult obtain
an ascendency over their patrons, which nothing
can break. For example, a crystal gazer with an
apartment on West Forty-Fourth street, had many
wealthy and fashionable women anions his
patrons. His favorite game was to advise invest
ment in some stock, which was, of course, worth
less except to him. In this way he secured $40,
000 from a wealthy widow. Incidentally he made
love to her and persuaded her to marry him. On
the date set for the wedding, however, he tailed
to appear, and the police were asked to find him.
This they did, whereupon, to their unlimited dis
gust, the widow fell into his arms, and refused to
appear as a witness against him.
Some of these seers are fakers of the shallow
est sort, while others are persons of genuine abil
ity. Such was a woman 73 years old, who main
tained a splendid residence in upper New York and
supported six grown children in idleness by her
work as a fortune teller and healer. She induced an
old workman to give her his life savings of $800
for investment. He never saw the money again,
but he made a complaint to the police. The
woman pleaded ill health, and an ambulance was
sent for her, The ambulance surgeon had an in
terview with her, and refused to move her on
the ground that it would probably prove fatal.
A detective then called at her residence, who
knew aomething of her methods. He induced her
to get up, dress and accompany him to the police
station. She had the power of feigning sickness so
effectively that even to a physician she appeared
to be dying.
The gypsies are perhaps the most picturesque
and primitive of the fortune tellers, the ones that
play most crudely upon superstition. They not
only predict the future, but sell charms, and per
form wondrous incantations by the full moon.
Yet even for their barbarous services there ;s con
stant demand. Incidentally, they are dangerous
customers for the police. A gypsy woman drew
a knife not long ago on the woman detective, who
found it the part of discretion to retreat to the
police station for re-enforcements.
The spiritualistic mediums are also difficult
to handle, because all of them claim to be adher
ents to the spiritualistic faith, which is an or
ganized religion with many devoted followers. It
is rather hard to distinguish the sincere believers
from the fakers. However, the woman detective
did not hesitate to arrest a medium who "mater
ialized" in a "dark circle reading" her departed
mother and sister. She has no sister and her
mother - is still alive. Another medium who got
into police court had gained a great influence over
a man by endowing him with a "spirit bride,"
whose every suggestion he obeyed.
A personal investigation revealed but ope for
tune teller who seems to be enjoying immunity
from police prosecution. She is an Italian woman,
young and good looking, who stands on a corner
in one of the swarming East Side streets. A big
parrot perches on her shoulder, and she has a tray
full of little slips upon which are printed horo
scopes. Some of them are more expensive than
others. You may buy a pretty good one for 3
cents or a better one for a nickle, and tho parrot
will gravely pick it up in his beak and give it to
you. As the crowds of homebound work people
surge by, many a girl will pause long enough to
buy her "future" from the bird, read it, sm'le and
pass on, her face lit for a moment by a dream. All
of the parrot's predictions seem to be happy ones.
Our Fighting Men
William G. Haan.
Colonel William G. Haan, U. S. A., according
to the latest assignments made public, has been
placed in charge of the aeronautical interests of
the eastern department of the army. Colonel
Haan is known as an exceptionally brilliant ex
pert in the artillery arm of the service and for
his recognized ability in that line he was selected
for his present post in command of Fort Totten,
one of the chief coast defense forts guarding the
entrance to New York City. He is a native of
Indiana and was appointed to the United States
Military academy from that state in 1885. He
is a graduate of the Army War college and has
served two details on the general starY.
Frank F. Fletcher.
Rear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, selected to
represent the navy on the new war industries
board, is well remembered as the commander of
the American naval force at Vera Cruz during the
Mexican troubles in 1914. He was born in Iowa,
and was graduated from Annapolis in 1875. He
has sailed the ocean blue and filled various posts
of responsibility ever since on land and sea. He
has commanded gun boats, torpedo boats and bat
tleships, and has been in charge of the torpedo
station at Newport. He is one of the mechanical
experts of the navy, and is the inventor of several
gun devices. He not only knows how to sail a
ship and fight a battle, but he is regarded a one
of the best sea-lawyers of the navy. A year ago
he was detached from command of the Atlantic
fleet and has since served as a member of the
general board,
n - r
TODAY
Proverb For the Day.
If the shoe fits wear It.
One Year Ago Today in tie War.
French pained near Peronne and
Italians pushed toward Trieste.
British line north of Pozieres held
under determined assaults.
British aeorplancs blew up German
supply lines and military depots far in
rear of Somme front
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today.
Miss Maggie Wollenhauf entertained
a number of her friends at her home
at Twenty-fourth and Howard. Among
those present were Misses Minnie and
Lizzie Mathews, Jennie Porter, Maud
Corey, Emma Gray. Mary Forward,
Kate Kewit, Delia Kewit, Lizzie Por
ter; Messrs. Herdman, Dewey, Finlay
son, Blair, Kyle, Diabold. W. C. Batter
son, A. J. Luddltt, J. Hathews and L.
J. Wollenhaupt.
Mrs. Alex McGavock has returned
from a visit to friends and relatives In
Beloit, Wis.
A very pleasant picnic was given at
Hanscom park, Mr. and Mrs. N. Shel
ton, Mrs. Shears and Mrs. C. D. Wool
worth chaperoning the following
young people: Misses Yates, Vashtl
Miller, Kountze, Kennedy, Burns,
Lake. Leila Shears, Orchard, Dixon,
Ida Sharp, Clark, Woolworth, Miller,
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Love, Dr. Smith,
Messrs. Reed, Paxton Wakeley, Will
McCague, Howard, Horbach, Chase,
Stevens, Hall, Poppleton, Caldwell,
Downey, Jordan, Berlin and Beall.
Daniel Press and Miss Anna Gold
stein were united in marriage at the
residence of the bride's parents on
Capitol avenue near Tenth. Dr. Ben
son performed the ceremony.
A novel fishing excursion was en
Joyed ai1 Springfield by Charles H.
Fitehell, Tony Hanson and Carl John
son. Inasmuch as their luck failed as
far as pickerel, pike, bass and even
catfish were concerned they bought a
number of mud turtles from some of
the rustic youths in the vicinity and J
announced to their friends In this city
that they had been turtle fishing, hav
ing discovered that the commonest
turtles 1n the muddy waters of Ne
braska would make just as palatable
a dish as a Maryland terrapin.
This Day In History.
1789 The War department was or
ganized by act of congress.
: 803 By treaty ratified at Vin
rennes, Ind., the Indians ceded to the
United States 1,634,000 acres of land.
1814 Commissioners from England
and from the United State met at
Ghent to arrange a treaty of peace.
1829 General Thomas Ewina, who
checked the invasion of Missouri by
General Price in 1864, born at Lancas
ter, O. Died in New York City. Jan
uary 21, 1896.
, 1867 Ira Aldridge, a negro trage
dian of remarkable reputation, died at
Lodz, Poponia. Born at Belair. Md.,
tn 1804.
1894 Russia threatened to interfere
In the Japanese-Chinese war, if its
trade suffered too severely.
1912 The national progressive
party' convention at Chicago nominated
Theodore Roosevelt for president.
1914 Germans occupied Liege, al
though the forts still held out.
1915 New allied army landed on
Galllpoll peninsula.
The Day Wc Celebrate.
Dr. J. B. Flckes was born in Orrs
town, Pa., Just forty year ago to
day. He is one of Omaha's leading
dentists. '
W. A. (Pa) Rourke has just reach
ed his fifty-third birthday today. Co
lumbus, (., is his birthplace.
W. H. Yohe of the Updike Milling
comptiny, has forty-three birthdays to
his credit tday. He Is a rcnnsylvanian
by birth.
Harry A. Tukcy was born Atisust 7,
1877, at Mankato, Minn. He was edu
cated in the Omaha public schools and
the University of Nebraska, and Is one
of Omaha's hustling: real estate men.
Alfred D. Touzalin, secretary of the
Bankers' Savings and Loan association,
is 65 years old today. He was born
in Essex, Conn., and was educated in
b. technical school in Dresden, Ger
many. Dwight IT. Beck, better known as
"Tailor" Beck, doing business on South
Sixteenth street, was born August 7,
1877, at York, Neb.
Charles R. Crane, Chicago manufac
turer, now a member of the American
mission to Russia, born in Chicago,
fifty-nine years ago today.
Dr. James Y. Joyner, superintendent
of public instruction of North Caro
lina, born in Davidson county, North
Carolina, fifty-five years ago today.
Baron Gustav Krupp von Bohlen
and Halbach, husband of Bertha
Krupp, and active head of the great
Krupp gun works, born at The Hague,
forty-seven years ago today.
Stanley J. Weyman, celebrated nov
elist, born in Shropshire, England,
Ixty-two year sago today.
Billie Burke (Mrs. Florence Zieg
feld), popular actress, born in Wash
ington, D. C, thirty-two years ago
today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The Knights of Columbus opens Its
national convention today in Chicago.
Delegates from all parts of the
country will gather in Scranton today
for the forty-seventh national conven
tion of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America.
A convention of liberal leaders f
western Canada is to meet at Winni
peg today to consider the whole politi
cal situation, particularly as it affects,
western Canada, and to define the at
titude of the liberal party towards a
number of serious economic and politi
cal problems arising out of the war.
Democrats of Virginia hold a gen
eral primary today for the selection of
candidates for the state offices to be
filled at the next election. Interest
centers chiefly in the three-cornered
contest for the gubernatorial nomina
tion, in which prohibition figures as
the leading issue. The candidates are:
J. Taylor Ellyson and John Garland
Pollard, who favor the present state
wide prohibition regime, and West
moreland Davis, who is an advocate of
local option.
Storyette of the Day.
Young Miss Perkins, whose beauty
Is equal to her bluntness in conver
sation, was visiting at a house where,
among other guests, was the eldest
son of a rich manufacturer, who was
commonly looked upon as a very
eligible husband. The talk turned on
matrimonial squabbles. Said the
young man:
"I hold that the correct thing for
the husband is to begin as he intends
to fo on. Say that the question was
one of smoking. Almost immediately
I would show my intentions by light
ing a cigar and settling: the question
forever."
"And I would knock the thing out
of your mouth!" cried the imperious
beauty.
. "Do you know," rejoined the young
man, "I don't think you would be
there'" Judge.
SAID IN FUN.
About Paving Inspectors.
Omaha, Aug. 4. To the Editor of
The Bee: Referring to the poor pave
ment and curbing in Omaha do you
not think that If the city paving in
spectors were good honest men, and
not political ward bullies, who, no
doubt, are paying off some political
agreement who are often seen on duty
sitting in the shade somewhere, or rid
ing around town with the contractor
in an automobile instead of seeing that
the work is done according to con
tract; if inspectors were compelled to
do their duty paving and curbing, no
doubt, would last much longer.
A. TRAYNOR.
Says Worthy of Reprinting.
Albion, Neb., Aug. 4. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: Attached please find
a clipping cut out of this week's Al
bion News, which is so good that I
think it deserves the prominence your
paper can give it.
LEONARD HOHL.
One German's Views."
"To the Editor of the Auburn Re
publican: I have seen several arti
cles about Germans trying to raise
strife in this country. I am a Ger
man by birth and I am an American,
heart and hand. I will tell you why
I left Germany. There were ten in
our family and we were poor like the
most of my countrymen who come to
the good old United States of America
to get away from oppression, and it
was a hard matter to keep the wolf
away from the door at times. When
I landed in this country I secured
work at once and received more money
for one month's work than I got in
Germany for one year's work. I sent
for my folks and I am proud they are
all true American citizens and will an
swer the president's call to arms
against Germany or any other country
when needed.
"I don't see how my countrymen can
go back on Uncle Sam. They came
here without a cent and made money
here; now they want to fight the coun
try that feeds them. The kaiser never
did anything for them or for me. If
he had we would be back there yet.
All he did was to start this cruel war
and starve all our people there and
make soldiers out of everybody and
force them to work for his dirty 12
cents a day with a fourth of a pound
of meat and a loaf of black bread. I
hope to see the day when he is kicked
out of Germany and a president put
in his place. You don't see any Amer
icans going over there for jobs or to
any other nation. They are happy
here and don't owe any allegiance to
any king or kaiser. I hope Uncle Sam
will win. Hurrah for President Wil
son, i
"Stop all foreign papers printed In
the United States. If they can't read
English let them learn and keep all
foreign languages out of the schools.
The English language is good enough
lor anybody. JACOB CRATTS.
Jerry Likes Borah's Speech.
Omaha, Aug. 5.- To the Editor of
The Bee: I am not on the mailing list
of any of the statesmen at Washing
ton, D. C. '
However, some friend sent me a
copy of the Congressional Record of
July 26, 1917.
I desire through your widely read
paper to publicly thank this thought
ful benefactor of mine. Through said
publication I obtained information
concerning this important question
that confronts our beloved nation
that surprised me. To my mind Sen
ator Borah of Idaho in his great talk
before the United States senate as pub
lished in the Congressional Record of
July 28, 1917, has rendered the coun
try a distinct service by calling atten
tion to the transactions at Washing
ton, D. C. This wonderful man is
frank and fearless In his criticism re
garding expenditures and other diplo
matic and delicate subjects. Senator
Borah, like the man from Missouri,
makes the request, "Show me." I be
lieve that it is a crime and an impo
sition on the public for the papers to
pubiiHh political harangues, while
logical matter like Senator Borah's
speech is entirely suppressed for
some designing motive.
This address of Senator Borah's on
July 26, 1917, ought to be published in
toto in the nchool histories of the na
tion. If this beloved republio of ours
is to endure, mofd men of the caliber
of Senator Borah will have to be
elected to office. God save America!
JERRY HOWARD.
A DOG'S OBITUARY.
Finding Frnceic full et teari, I laid,
"Tell m thy trouble." "Oh, my do !
of jb:
Murdered by poison! n on
wht
Wi ever doc born capable ef thatT"
"Child" I began t ay, but checked my
thought
"K better dog can eaelly be bought."
for no what animal could him replace?
Thoee losing eyeB! That fond, confiding
faee!
Those dear dumb touchea. Therefor I was
. dumb.
From word ef mint could any comfort
come T
A bitter Borrow 'tl to loee a brute
Friend, dog or horae, for grief must thes
be mute
So many amlle to ae the rlvera ahed
Of tears for on poor speechlesa creature
dead.
When parants dl there' many a ward to
say
Kind words, consoling on csn always pray;
Whea children die 'tis natural to tell
Their mother, "Certainly, with them 'tis
well!"
But for a dog, 'was all the life he had.
Since death Is end of dogs, or good or bad.
This waa his World; he was contented here;
Imagined nothing better, naught more dear
Than hie young mistress; sought no brighter
sphere;
Having no sin, asked net to be forgiven;
Ne'er gueaaed at Odd nor aver dreamed of
Ceavn.
Now he ha passed away, so much of love
Goe from our life, without on hope above!
When a dog dies, there's nothing to be said
But kiss me, darling! dear old Smller's
dead! Dr. Thomas W. Parson.
knows
for
Oldbach Tou glv your wife a good deal
of liberty, do you not?
Menpeck Well, we'd been married only
a few day when she read me the declara
tion of Independence. Judge.
He This bargain hunting shows your
character. Tou ar always looking for
something cheap.
She Too true. That Is how I cam to
marry you. Baltimore American.
Lerret I hear that Ehortcash. who mar
ried the banker's daughter last winter, is in
desperate financial straits.
Tadilloh I'm not surprised. He probably
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Dtggs Silly looking guy! But say, t didn't
know your wife was married betor ab met
you.
Rlgg Shi wasn't. This Is a picture of
myself when I was twenty-five. Boston
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he?" aid ths old fogy.
"H ur replied h wis guy.
"He'd charga you lnteret If b lent yo
hi moral support." Cincinnati Enquirer.
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the government will commandeer all pri
vately owned automobiles?"
"I don't know," replied the melancholy
motorist, "but It the government want to
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hurry." Birmingham Age-Herald.
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