- . -4-.: .-Tt jWMfc -, THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, AUGUST ll, 1917. The Omaha Bee DAILY (M0RX1KO-EVENING-SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWAKD KOSEWATEK VICTOR ROSKWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COM FAN Y. PROPRIETOR. EnUrtd at Omaha poatotflca m atond-tlan mattst. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION lit OsrtlM. Br Mill 01!? an Doiidtr V mooilL " mc tu. M M rwif mumu ura J w RwlH and !, " ' ' 2? .mint wtttou Husdu M J "otlofwW'dMi'(i'irrtrilro ta dtlirari Om Km. UrcuHtlM Dtpirl-snt REMITTANCE mil M drtft ripnu w potl eratr. Onlj t-tn matUUa m M,-ant of ctntll scajunn rsrsoaal ck. utt ta Oau o Miuni uaust. artd. OFFICES. Kouttt OmH-4tS Will Bt. N s-tt4 LlootU-Llltt IWWna WiiMmtaa-Tg Ut K W... CORRESPONDENCE Add-as MnaMMcttloni is'stins ta nN ltd dlterll MtWr W OiMhi Btfc Cdimrlil Dtitrlnnt. JULY CIRCULATION 57,229 Daily-Sunday, 51,153 A'trtrt Hniitwn fit tin mnnti tuUcflkta d mm to to Owlrt. tVllllama, Mrculstl Ma tut. SubaeriW laavlni city h-HI k T Baa all4 ta thrm. Aaaraaa chaag aa Its aa raauaala.. Now watch the girls measure up t& boys' job.' L , As a show piece the tractor i surely ..an t-tracter. . Mediation and arbitration .constitute an old reliable team pulling for industrial peace. It is gathered from the reports that Chicago school youngsters are , giving the kaiser a bad speller, too. , ; . According to the weather man's records, we have almost caught up on precipitation deficiency. It's food and drink for King Corn. . . Rest assured that just as many soldiers in the German and Austrian armies, would also present exemption claims if only they had a chance. A few more weeks of talk on the war revenue measure is not likely to provoke criticism of con gress. Nobody is in, any hurry for a war tax touch. ...... Three years of artillery duelling on the west front and more to follow clearly maps the region as a vast steel mine. There must be millions of tons there already. "Give us thisday our daily bread." , In many parts of the world of war humanity's fervent prayer rises to the Great White throne, but sejf appointed intermediaries render the appeal in vain. Russians are reported to be stiffening 'their lines, evidently having assimilated Kerentky'. first administration-of "blood and Iron," The medicine Is'sharp, perhaps, but sometimes has to be administered. . , Three years' of Yr scrapped scores of cabinet leaders in the old world. It is only a matter of week when necessity and efficiency will shatter some political timber around the White House. Success in a world war is not built on the party plan. , The doctor or dentist who prostitutes hw, pro fessional services t help slackers put up show of physical disability should be t sHcd to aeeotmt if for no other reason than to protect the! repuf. able practitioner who could not be induced to stoop to suchlliings.; : Some surprises' await the Japanese commis sion coming over to study .American conditions in war time. Not the least of the snrprises il the fact that congressmen assail the honor of Jhe government of whiciv they are a part nd escape prosecution for treason. , .. -. . !'..! '."X... 1 ; '.' , i ' "The atrocious weather of Flanderi," tjs dis patches picture it, it must be -'modern repetition of that which gave Ihe country's ancient 'army the imperishable laurels of profauiljv No doubt the, later armies can enlarge and diversify the bygone glossary of burning woods. ' , ! No disclosure yet of the animus of our hyphen, ated contemporary's recent attack upon Herbert G Hoover, .fit wilt come out in the course of time, however, and show whether the scnatur has a grievance of his- own or was merely helping on someone's else grievance. 1 ' ' Astonishing are the. high spurts f King Corn, in the market plce. A price swtre of ?-24.a bushel brings the yellow monarch witl(in sixty coppers of wheat and threatens to crowd the lat ter off the cereal tracks Meanwhile the producer chortles and tut out the "kick." ii-u . ' i$ To make the picture of joyful progress com plete at Fremont all the Dobbins of nearby farms ought to be lined up around the plowed fields. The spectacle of gasoline taking over" Dobbin's toughest job needs to be punctuated with mighty chorus of horse laughs! 1 " ' f !-! .UU--i i i ' Contradictions of Male Minds National Wealth and War. The Wall Street Journal crisply criticizes some statements made by Senator Sherman of Illinois in his discussion of an appropriation bill. The senator dilated on the increase in national wealth and then gave some attention to enlarging on the amount of expenditure authorized or pro posed and compared its total to the sunn of all our wealth, concluding by saying: "That means, if we kept it up, in twelve and one-half years we would, by the taxing power, reach every dollar in private ownership in the United States." The Journal dismisses the senator's confusion of debt and taxes and the unreliability of estimates as to the total of national wealth and proceeds to illus trate the economic fact that the cost of the war to the government is not the same thing as the cost of the war to the country. The war budget is simply the bookkeeping through which the support of the army is shifted from the individ uals who compose it to those who pay taxes.! The case is thus presented: A nation's wealth consists chiefly of its ara ble land, mineral deposits, buildings, railroads and other economically useful structures. We do not blow up our land or hurl cotton spindles at the enemy". What we in war waste beyond recovery consists of the materials and labor that might have been devoted to reproductive or otherwise useful ends. We do not spend the " food and clothing of our soldiers, since they would have consumed approximately the same amount of such things in anv case, but we lose, and so spend, the value of their services and of all those at home engaged in supplying them with arms, ammunition, ambulances and air planes. We lose the services of those who are temporarily employed as sailors and gunners aboard ships and the labor and materials that go into war craft. , Most of our people will pursue their gainful occupations and the net result of their efforts will largely offset the drain of war. Government expenditures may mount to where it will equal 8 per cent of the total national wealth without re ducing the latter in proportion .or dissipating it within twelve and one-half years. The United States will remain "a going concern and therein lies our safety. ' ' If It Worked Both Ways. " Another patriot has dug himself up in the public prints, over a name which invites suspi cion of its genuineness, lamenting the predica ment in which he pretends to find himself through hit liability to be drafted. He represents that his father and two brothers are in the Austrian army arid his mother at home with six children all under 12 years of age. "For this reason I do not want ta go to Europe, where I would not only fight my father and brothers, but jven I might be the means of my mother being left a widow with the small children to look after." Tthis would be indeed deplorable, if true, but the American citizen of foreign ancestry is no more responsible for such a condition nor any less its victim than ere his relatives back in the old country. for a person in this unfortunate position all that can be done is again to suggest that the ap ,peal be reversed and that the father and brothers In ,the Austrian army should have as much right to ask to be relieved from the ranks and sent home because they might be called on to fight their son ond brother when he reaches, Europe with the American army as for the son to seek exemption on their account. We repeat that if the kaiser and his war lords would excuse from military service all German and Austrian sub jects with relatives in the United States who might be' wounded or widowed or suffer loss of i"6n"or brother through the conflict 'at srms it wquld be all over in a jiffy and the hope of -vtorld peace would be promptly realized. , -fBita Trourlt - Ont effect of the feminine dress of the present day is to diminish the dignity of the wearer. Strange to say, it U not diminished through any prejudice against the dregs itself, or indeed any dislike of it at all. It is perhaps because the cos tume suggests youthfulucss, girlishness; and deep respect is not generally elicited by that condition. It is impossible jo feel the same Wspectfal awe for a lady who trips In gaily in a dress suggestive of childhood that one is bound to feel for a stately dowager who sails into the room, grand, glooiny and pecutiar. in a train. "There is nothing," says Mrs. Catherine Durning Whefliam. in her magis terial work on "The Upbringing of Daughters," "like a dress with an ample train to keep a woman away from mobs and crowds and to give her dignity and an appearance of aloofness." The thought of high-bred aloofness, indeed,' may be aid to have inspired the train. It says ' Stand off,' at 9rtce. The street dress of the moment suggests nothing of that sort. It would be an interesting psychological study to determine the reasons, artistic, historical or otherwise, for the impression of dignity that Is conveyed by s -gown 'which trails on the floor or the ground Inherently the ides is repellent The train gather dust, and is a refuge for germs. It looks untidy and it is untidy. Nevertheless it is impossible to imagine a qun or a duchess with out it, and ss Mrs. Whetham says, it gives un utterable dignity. Th more train-bearers s queen or s bride must have, the higher our respect for her rises. Ont might sunoose that the awe with which the .human race regards a woman was measured by the number of useless yards of silk or saun which sne can lay on me grouna ana drag after her. W acknowledge the folly of such s standard, and heartily approve a more sensible standard. And then, like Jean Baoti&te. we turn up our inconsistent flunkeyish noses at a aenslbly short skirt What s bundle of contradictions m Ihe mind of man! Why China Enters the War. Some pause may be made by those who have pot closely watched the course of events in the Far East in their search for reason to justify Chins' entrance tothe world ,war by declaring far against Germany, To those who are fa mijiaf vfhh the recent relations between China and jts immediate neighbors the action of the an cient kingdom and new republic is rational, It ,8loply means thut when the settlement comes China wans a seat at the Council table. Without a declaration of war this would, have been impos sible and Japan would have acted as sponsor for it big and unweildy neighbor. , Japan has made little secret of the desire of its statesmrn to attain paramountcy in the affairs of eastern Asia. To this end the diplomats of the mikado have devoted themselves assiduously, al most to the extent of declaring a protectorate over China, apd certainly seeking to convince its lead er that their interests yould best be served by allowing Japan to carry on whatever of riegotia; thjns are to be had when the politics of the world are again straightened out. With its own repre sentatives at the peace council China will have s.ome voice in the final' accommodation of na tional differences and through this means may be able to- establish such relations as will have the effect of removing some of the disadvantages from which it now suffers. It may be assumed that the open door will get a full hearing at the time when political and economic relation of the whole world are under consideration by rep resentative of the powers and it U as plain that justice cannot be done Belgium or Serbia unless it. also be done China; Viewed from this angle, it would seem that the Chinese statesman of to day are" lacking little in astuteness. Through the easy expedient of declaring war on Germany, a process that will cost them comparatively little, they will secure a bulwark against Japanese ag- fgression that might otherwise be obtained only through a costly war. Germany accuses the United States of having intrigued to bring this ibout; if this accusation is well founded, then we have done" China a good turn. The Lincoln Star insists that whoever wrote those anonymous pro-German letters that had their exclusive, publication in the World-Herald "was either paid or ought to hvt been paid with German money." Then how about the paper that welcomed them and suspended 'its rule require lljg signature snd played them up and then went them still better in pro-German editorials? Would the Star say .that it,. too, either, was paid or ought to have been paid? Health of the Melting Pot By Frederic J. Haski:i New York, Aug. 7. New York has just strug gled through the worst heat wave that has hit the city in forty years. For five days the sun ap peared to be occupying anew position somewhere near the back of a roan's neck and the street ther mometers registered 105 and 107 degrees Fahren heit with a painful regularity. People succumbed in appalling numbers an old woman here and in fant there and factory workers by the dozens in various places until by the end of the fourth day 878 deaths from the heat were recorded. Several of these were suicides. Maddened by their futile attempts to get cool, a few sought a more com fortable end in the river, while others in delirium leaped from their windows. At least two murders, according to the police department, were attrib uted to the heat. - For the most part New Yorkers accepted the heat calamity with the same sophisticated urbanity that they accept any and every evil. Where life is plentiful it is not valued very highly. Th first day a slight interest was Exhibited in persons who flopped over in the streets. A crowd usually gath ered and occasionally one heard a sympathetic remark, if it happened to be a fairly pretty girl or a feeble old woman, but by the end of the second day a man could lie face forward on the pavement for five .minutes without attracting the attention or assistance of the hurried pedestrian. Then someone would say: "There's another psor nut send for a cop!" Eventually an overworked am bulance would arrive and cart the victim away. Curiously enough, the East Side registered fewer deaths than any of the other crowded sec tions. This is probably because most of the popu lation slept in the street, while those who had enough energy and enough money went to Coney Island and slept on the sands. Here whole fami lies were found spread out on the beach tired fathers with gaunt, haggard cheeks, wan mothers with nursing babies and hordes of small progeny, who dug themselves beds in the sand. Most of these night visitors did not attempt to cool off in the ocean. They, had no bathing suits and the stern rule of Coney Island prohibits a plunge without clothing. Perhaps the greatest strain of the hot spell was felt by the city's health department. When the" heat wave struck1 the city the department im mediately got out circulars in four different lan guages telling people not to eat heating food, suchas spices and fats. A large part of New York cannot afford to eat much fat meat, for in stance, or eggs and butter but it does con sume large quantities of spices in the form of pep pers. An Italian or Jewish family has to be mighty poor before it leaves its "hot stuff" out of the daily menu, yet in hot weather it is not the bst form of nourishment. It is doubtful if the people paid much attention to the circulars, however, for, according to one health expert, you cail exterminate a people quicker than you can exterminate its eating habits. Another portion of advice distributed in cir cular form, by the health department counseled the people to stay at home and not go to the beaches to sleep while the heat wave lasted. At home, the department said, it is possible to keep cool by taking off your clothes and dipping in cold water, whereas at the beaches it is often dif ficult to find s single sleeping place in the crowd on the sands and unless you wear a bathing suit you are handicapped by clothes. A young woman on the East Side who read one of these circulars tore it up and laughed scornfully. ."Ya, and when we do stay at home they won't give us any peace," she said in very much worse English than it is possible to write jt. "At 3 O'clock in the morn ing we must all get up and go in the house while they wash the streets." . Thus any attempt to educate the foreign pop ulation of New York cannot be said to achieve overwhelming success, i Yet recently the health department has appeared to discover'' an encour aging method namely, the movies. Almost every body. in New York, however poor, manages to scrape enough money together to attend the mov ies. When the idea of reaching the people through this means first occurred, to Dr. Charles F; flolduan, director -of the bureau Of public health education, he Avas considerably elated. But it rhas taken Dr. Bolduan three years to, get his movie health campaign started. " For in the beginning he made a fatal mistake. He tried to give the New Yorker something for nothing and the New Yorker -was immediately suspicious. This is the prevailing characteristic of the metropolis, as any experienced philanthro pist can attest You can open a milk station here or s lemonade booth, announce that you will give away milk to snyonc 'who Avants it and you will not nave one request. The people will avoid your stand as they would smallpox. Yet you can sell them milk and 'lemondde below cost and do an overwhelming business. One lemnade "stand here, opened by a New York philanthropist during the hot spell, served over1.000 people with lemon ade at 1 cent a glass every, day. Thus when Dr. Bolduan rented , a hall and 'showed his health movies free of charge to all who wanted to see them there was none who wanted to. ' He simply could not get anybody to look at them. ( The New York health department has strug gled through years of careless management and inefficiency due to local politics, but today it is an up-to-date scientific organization. In 1842 a pioneer city health inspector called the city's at tention to the fearful conditions that existed ow ing to the "crowded dwellings, the habitation of dark, damp cellars, the use, of underground base ments for schoolrooms, the need of clean streets, the abolition of pig stys, thedraining of marsh lands and a careful keeping "of water records." The gentlemart was rewarded for his good inten tions by being deposed from office by his scan dalized co-politicians.. Today the health depart ment ha left such questions far behind it. It now supervises the sale xf food, the feeding of babies and the cleaning up off the slums, all activities which border on charity. When a heat wave conies it is on the job. ' Its ambulances are whizzing along throughout the city, its doctors are ready with ice baths for the heat victims and in not quite so conspicuous i manner its wagons collect the dead horses to be found in great numbers in all sections. In 1901 when a heat wave occurred there were so few am bulances that the department had tq employ gro cery wagons for the relief of heat victims. The New York health department stands for progress. In time even New York may be a clean city. Americanised Russians returning to their homes are shown, by official report to be shame less mercenaries and enemies, of democracy. America which gave them shelter, opportunity ahd safety, to them ha become an object of acorn. This exhibition of ingratitude supplementing other that need not be named emphasizes the future need of further restriction on the output of the melting pot A Ex-Senator Work of California did not have a chance to vote against the draft law in congress, but he can talk against it at home, which is prob ably ss pleasing to him., A separate reservation ought to be made ready for Work and his kind. Our Fighting Men Charles M'K. Saltzman. Colonel Charles M'K; Saltzman, assistant to the chief signal officW of the United States army, has had a full and highly creditable career as an expert of the signal corps. Colonel Saltzman was horn in Iowa forty-six years ago and gradu ated from the West Point academy m 1896. Dur ing his early career he was attached to- the cav alry and served with that arm during the San tiago campaign. In 1901 he was transferred to the signal corps with the rank of captain. For two years- he was stationed in the Philippines, where he served on the staff of General Wood. In 191 5 he was made chief signal officer of the Panama canal zone. Colonel Saltzman's attain ments as an electrician and mechanician and his ability as a wireless expert have won for him a high reputation in the service. George S. Gibbs. Lieutenant Colonel George S. Gibbs, United States signal corps, holds an important post as one of the directing heads of the signal officers' re serve corps. Colonel Gibbs has had s remarkably successful career in the military service. He is s native of Iowa born in 1875. and received his education at Iowa university. He began his army career during the Spanish war as'a private in an Iowa regiment of volunteers'. Later he was made s sergeant in the signal corps and in that capac ity served for several years jn the Philippines dur ing the insurrection there. "Some. years later he was sent to Alaska to supervise the building of government telegraph line in the far north. Proverb for the Dsy. Jack of all trades master of nose. One Year Ago Today in the War. Turkish forces drove Russians from Hamadan, Persia. Italians advanced along: fifteen-mile front extending from Gorizla to the Adriatic. French troops on Somme captured German third line trenches over a front of four miles. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today. The Clarke Coffee company filed ar ticles of incorporation, the incorpora tors being: W. E. Clarke, John F. Clarke. B. Gallagher, Henry Meyers, C. E. Wyman, A. I Medes and J. E. Markel. A croquet narty was given by Miss Edith Davis at her home, 2509 Pierce, the following young people indulging in the game: Misses C. Standish, Maud McClure, Nettle - Pritchard, Minnie Shields, Josie Ctouch; Messrs. Joe Pritchard, Charles Urquhart F. Haz zard, Art Dale, Ed Hamilton, O. Black burn, W. Elbourne and liurt Lawton. C. G. White of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, has removed his west ern headquarters from Des Moines, la., to this city, where he is located in the Hellman building. - Miss Nettle Holtzinger, who has been spending a few weeks with Mrs. F. B. Bryant, has returned to her home in Hamburg, la., accompanied by Mrs. Bryant and family. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. McNair, with their little son, Ralph, .are visit ing friends in Seymour. Ind. ' . Magnus Jacobson and Miss Carrie Swan were married by Rev. J. S. Det weller. The Misses Merkell of Council Bluffs, guests of Mrs. Beall, were entertained at the horns' of their host the follow ing young people being present: Misses Vashtl Miller, Maude Wool worth, Yates, Berlin, Kinzle, Burns, Lozier, LeUa Shears, Dixon, Jordan and Lake; Messrs. Koenig, Melius, Sanborn, White, Berlin, Horbach, Downey, W. Doane, Reed, Jordan, Beall. R. Patrick and Sanford and Dr. Smith. ,' .. ' r ' This Day In History. ,t . 1771--Jo8iah Martin, last colonial governor of North Carolina, took of fice." - i. " 1817 Rt. Rev. William H. Odenhel mer, third Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, born in Philadelphia. Died at Burlington, N. J August 14, 1S79. 1834 Ursullna convent at Charles ton, Mass., destroyed by a mob. 1849 Hungarian Dictator Gorgey surrendered to the Russians at Arad. 1876 British Parliament passed the medical act, permitting the registra tion of women doctors, i . 1890 Cardinal Newman died at Birmingham, England. . Born in Lon don February 21, 1801. .-. , 1897 The surrender of the king of Benin, Central Africa, to the British was announced. . 1902 Justice Horace Gray of the supreme court of the United States re tired. ; ' 1 1914 -France declared war on Austria-Hungary and Montonegro declared war on German. ' 1915 Germans captured the city of Lomza. Tho Day We Celebrate. ' Edward Francis Morearty. lawyer, has a birthday today, having been N-rn; AuguK 11, 18S0, in Knoxville, Tenn. Ferdinand of Roumanla, one of tho rulers driven from the throne by the central - powers,, born fifty-two years ago today. , . - Captain Allen J. Green member of tha general staff of tho United States army, born in Tennessee thifty-nine years ago today. , Benjamin R. Tillman, United States senator from South Carolina, born in Edgefield county, South Carolina, sev enty years ago today. General Sir" David Henderson, di rector general of military aeronautics .for Great Britain, born fifty-five years ago today. , Hale Holden, president of the Chi cago. Burlington & Quincy Railway company, born in Kansas City forty eight years ago today. . Hon. Albert E.. Kemp, 'minister of mtlitia and defense in the Dominion cabinet, born in Quebec . fifty-nine years ago today. Joseph Weber, prominent actor and theatrical manager, born In New York City fifty years, ago today. Timt-ly Jottings and Reminders. Benjamin R. Tillman of South Car olina, one of the veterans of the United States senate, celebrates his seventieth birthday anniversary today. The annual Christian Workers con ference opens at Estes Park, CcJo., to day and will continue in session until August 19. ' Under special authority of the Con nectlcut legislature the city of Bridge port votes today on' a new charter embodying" the managerial form of government. . . Manasquan Beach, N. J., today will be the gathering place for thousands of New Jersey farmers snd their fami lies on the occasion of the annual cele bration of "Salt Water day," or "Big Sea day," as it Is sometimes called. Storyette of the Day. . A certain man whose previous rec ord was of the best was charged with s minor offense. Law and evidence were unquestionably on the side of the defense, but when the arguments had been ' confluded a verdict of "guilty" was given and a fine im posed. : The lawyer for he defense was sit ting with his back toward the magis trate. Without changing his position or rising to address the court he re marked: "Judge, please fine me for contempt of court." The magistrate inquired: ' "What d'ye mean, sir? You haven't committed contempt" ' ,"I have," came from the old law yer. "It's Silent" Atlanta Journal. Questions by s Taxpayer. Omaha, Aug. 9. To the Editor of The Bee: Iniyour issue of the 6th you ask the taxpayer a number of questions. Do the taxpayers know that the present commissioners have spent $35,000 in building an unloading dock to take care of the manure and rubbish of the city snd It has been abandoned as they have been enjoined from dumping at Carter lake and they are paying $100 per month' for guard ing same dock. They are now dump ing in Winspear Triangle. I wonder Just how many people in Omaha know that ground lies Just east of the U. P. shops, and it ought to be stopped at once. Do the taxpayers know that since May 1, 1917, or since prohibition took effect the city work house has run at a loss of $3.50 per month? For the month of June the largest number of men was twelve: got as low as four; at present there are ten. The county gets from five to ten every day. The drinking element have all left the city since prohibition took effect, so the taxpayers ought to take some action for the Lord knows taxes are high enough now. TAXPAYER. Good and Evil. . Neligh, Neb., Aug. 9. To the Editor of The Bee: In replying to Mr. Ol son's request of August 3, shall try to hit the nail he has his eye on, also be practical. From Mr. Olson's letters it is to be Inferred that he does not conceive of anything in this world that is good without qualification. A very common, but erroneous conclu sion. ' Considering the talents of the mind, 'good will, duty, Judgment, courage, intelligence, preseverence, charity ahd love, are all good in them selves, good will is a jewel which shines by its own light. Good will is not good because of what it performs, for we all do ac tions from selfish motives, which con form to moral law. Anything good of itself Is part of the moral law, unl versal law. Justice is also good of Itself, though not always used. " Truth is good and always asserts itself, whether we wish it or not, for it survives all men in their present form. The word evil should not be applied to anything but the character of man. What many of us call evil, is good because it is part of the universal law, not justice as dealt to his fellowman by man, but nature. C. D. THOMPSON. Enough of the Democratic Donkey. Massena, la., Aug. 10. To the Edi tor of the Bee: Last Monday you editorally handed out some good stuff to the editor of Senator Hitchcock's mouthpiece. I was one of their old subscribers, but found out for myself that the senator, aided by Mr. Met calf, was playing the really cheap little unAmerican political game called neu trality meetings, for the purpose of personal vengeance against Mr. Bryan, who elevated Mr. Wilson into jn-oml-nence from obscurity, without the consent of Nebraska's many-sided editor-senator, whom the said Mr. Bryan had also dragged out of nothingness. It took me a long time to find out that my party whose emblem is the donkey, Is in reality a whole drove of asses. The old leader of the rabble in the last campaign, sang so loudly the song he certainly knew was false, or had lied to his Commoner readers.' The cam paign song, "He kept us out of war," is a complete reversal of Bryan's state ments previously issued. However, the once loved and favored William Jennings Bryan after tagging the Hitchcock-Wilson band' wagon in, the last election, is now enjoying the dis tinction of having been knocked into a "cocked hat" by the owls who he had painted beautiful feather on. If I ever obtain forgiveness for having been on of those blind followers until two years ago, I promise the donkey brigade a wide berth the rest of my life. T. S. FENLON. CONSERVATION. In thwe dajra of world-wide ilrlf. Whtn wt'ra fjffntlnf for our life. Comes a. call to 70a snd me From acroee the deep-blue sea; t'omes a call tht-w must heed It we savt odrselve from need. ''' We must practice conservation; We must feed the hungry natrons; . We must turn to purposes rood Everything that's tit for, food. Eliminate on every hand The waste so common In our land, Empty mouths we'll help to fill If we save with all our will; ' It will help to win this war Spread the Joy of peace afar; From autocracy's blighting thrall Succor England. France and all. Hare fouie meatless days a week; Emulate the poor and meek: , From the plenty' at your door. Help the wretched and te poor. Do aa Hoover says to do And a boon will come to you. rremoat, Nth. U A. THOMPSON. ,'.. ' I Why "Science and Health?" Omaha, Aug. 10. To the Editor of The Bee: In The 'Bee George W. Moore pertinently suggests that if the Bible Is Its own best interpreter, why Science and Health? We answer that Science, and Health brings us back to the spiritual meaning of the Bible from which the plethora of commen taries and apologetics has side-tracked us. At present we stagger under the weight of creeds and dogmas and need a guide and inducement to lead us back to the religion taught and exem plified by Jesus of Nazareth. He further says that no one was ever converted to Christln Science sim ply by reading the Bible. Surely he must have overlooked ths fact: that Mrs. Eddy was converted to Christian Science through reading the Bible and we will not entertain the thought that our critic means to suggest that Mrs. Eddy was not thoroughly converted. The average sermon, as we all know, starts with a text and uses it as a point of departure. A Christian Sci ence service, on the contrary, starts with the Bible and uses it throughout the entire service, probably tno body of religious people study the Bible more than Christian Scientists. There is no copyright on salvation and Christian Science has sufficiently shown its ability to survive and meet the needs of humanity so that it would seem now to be the part of wisdom to put up the hammer and make use of at least the fundamentals of this re ligion which has regenerated so many lives and Christian Scientists csre not one whit what you may call it so that you get it CARL E. HERRING. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Willie, I see crumbs. Tou've been at those cookies." "Well, ma. I was counting 'era and I found there was thirteen, so I just ate One to change the luck." Boston Transcript "Bligglns says republics are ungrateful.' "Don't see how he can express an opinion. So far as anybody knows, he has never done anything to put a repnblie under ob ligations to him." Washington Star. Ellen rushed into her mistress' apartment and cried: "Please, Mrs. Mldgley, Kate has been tryin' to light the fire with paraffin, an' she's been blown out of the window 1" "Oh, well. It's her day out. Is It not?" elamly rejoined the mistress. Everybody's Magaxlne. W HUSBAWD,VJHO IS A WmiM., VJORKS Ity K SAUXM C1C.ES KT ONE A.M.- WW SHOUtt HE. COME HOME At SIX? ( ' m.tM bUMU wtyrrs his wry ttTAKtr Home some of w customers, Orderly The men, sir, are complaining about the beans. Officer What's the matter with the beans? Orderly The men say they're 'as-beens. sir. Dallas News. "It is. 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