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SubaeriW laavlni city h-HI k T Baa all4
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Now watch the girls measure up t& boys' job.'
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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. , .. -.
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"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."
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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 "
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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. ,
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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.
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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. Indeed, hard," said the melan
choly gentleman, "to lose one's relatives.''
"Hard," snorted the gentleman of wealth.
"Hard! It is impossible! Jester.
Bobble had been taken by his father to
the circus. The youngster came home
round-eyed with excitement and flushing
with enthusiasm. "Oh. ma," he exclaimed,
"If you go once to the circus with me
you'll never want to fool away time going
to church again." Boston Transcript.'
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Eagle Brand Condensed
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1-lb. pkg. Mule Team
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Colgate's Tooth Paste,
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