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    THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY AUGUST 13. 1917.
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JULY CIRCULATION
57,229 Daily Sunday, 51,153
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miliums. CircalsMoo atsaassr.
Subacribara leaving tha city shouTd bava Tha Baa Baailed
ta than. Address chaafad aa often aa requastad.
It seems that the hyphenates struck a discord
in that choral concordance.
It is evident from the scream of the press that
the American embargo hits the Teutons nearMhe
belt.
Opening wider the doors to draft service em
phasizes Uncle Sam's eagerness to accommodate
the rush. x
The marksmanship of Governor Lowden of
Illinois is attested by the speed of the coal pile
coon coming down.
Sudden cabinet changes are the incidents of
war. If we in the United States escape them, it
will be almost a miracle.
The recruit who survives all the farewell feed
ing and feasting will have successfully passed the
last test of physical fitness.
Germany's mark has shrunk SO per cent in
money value, thus proving the efficiency of the
empire's celebrated anti-fat treatment.
The military situation in Turkey embraces two
impressive tactjdal operations rustling food at
night and dodging for shelter in day time.'
It may be remarked once more that royal com
manders personally observe the rule of safety
tlrst and keep out of range of enemy shooters.
A brief study of the American Revolution af
fords solid ground for confidence in Russian pa
triots pulling together and finally making good.
Echoes of that police scandal and shake-up
continue and fear is expressed that the end is not
yet vTiine for the bad actors to take a back
seat. i -
A two-billion federal tax bill glimpses the
toad to be shouldered in the immediate future.
Brace your underpinning and do your bit cheer
fully. ' ' "
The British cabinet explosion was the biggest
world news of the day for Sunday's papers, but
readers of one Omaha publication would not know
it without a searching expedition.
General Pershing's plea for an age limit of 45
for general officers sent to the front does not
evoke enthusiasm at Washington. The plea liits
too many veterans glued to the rule of seniority.
Public attention and hospitality bestowed upon
he soldier boys are fitting and proper. In a lim
ited way both evidence 'the deeper affection for
the men who answer the country'! caH for
service.
Too many cooks cannot spoil army broth.
Nearly 4,000 can be accommodated in the national
army's culinary department. The quicker they
romt and pick up ?90 a month the happier Uncle
'ssin will feel. " . - '. ,
Ther War department's plan of giving military
rank to the personnel of thf Red Cross serving
abroad means that William HoWanl Taft, chair
man of the central committee, will be a major
, general. Think of that jwith Roosevelt only a
colonel. ' t
Every time politics mixes with patriotism, pol
itics comes out second best. The political itch
ing palms of New York did 'not get very far
with draft loot, simply because patriots on guard
saw them first. Like vigilance everywhere makes
for national safety. , t
The famous blue laws of Connecticut, vene
rated but not wholly respected for generations
past, are about to receive long deferred interment.
Growing liberality and the impulse of world war
uproots provincial notions and broadens the view
of life. Connecticut feels the spur of the times
ad follows Iowa's example in sending blue laws
to the scrap heap.
General Crowdefs Success
St Lauia Globe-Da macrat
Westerners have long followed the career of
Enoch H. Crowder with admiration and pride and
they are consequently gratified,-but not surprised,
at the report that President Wilson contemplates
promoting him to a' major generalship. His Out
standing character and abilities have been recog-
- nized by four presidents. McKinley made him a
brigadier general of volunteers in June, 1901.
i Roosevelt commissioned him colonel judge advo
vate general of the regular army in April, 1903,
and Taft made him brigadier general and judge
advocate general in June, 1911, and a few months
later entrusted him with an important special
mission to Chile as envoy extraordinary and min
ister plenipotentiary. In the Philippines, in Cuba
and in Manchuria he distinguished himself and
reflected honor on the country. Like that other
. Missouri West Point graduate, General John J.
rershing, Oeneral Crowder showed the wisdom
to take a thorough university course in law, which
accounts for the excellent service he long ren
dered as judge advocate general General Crow
dtr'l dealing with the delicate complications aris
ing from the somewhat anomalous status of the
Pershinft expedition in Mexico attracted wide and
. favorable attention, preparing a larger public for
ht handling of the stupendous task of raising a
national army under the conscription act The
manner in which he has discharged his duties as
provost marshal general has focused national at-
tentioo upon him and even brought praise from
experts, in other lands. . He was graduated from
West Point in 1881 and has ever since shown
liuiiavii luxiyi ivi aa I a v 11511 J ViUVIVlIk VHIVVU
capable of arising to whatever new duty devolved
upon him. His promotion would be universally
recognised as a reward of high merit, .
The British Cabinet Ruction.
The British cabinet ruction, involving the en
forced retirement of Arthur Henderson, who was
in the war council as a representative of the
labor party, shows that Lloyd George is 'not dis
posed to tolerate any half-hearted support of the
war program by any of his official associates. Had
Mr. Henderson been merely a private citizen or,
perhaps, even a member of Parliament, he might
with impunity assist in promoting the proposed
socialist peace conference to be participated in
also by enemy representatives, but as an official
charged with the duty of prosecuting the war, it
is a gross breach of propriety, to put it mildly,
for him to encourage such a movement in person
without the sanction of the government and in
direct opposition to the understanding of his col
leagues. On the face of the evidence so far disclosed,
the weight is preponderant for the position taken
by Lloyd George--for in war there can be no
divided councils either on one side or the other.;
We may be sure that under similar circumstances,
the same thing would have happened to a mem
ber of the cabinet in Germany or Austria, in
France or the United States, in any of the belli
gerent countries.
Democracy in Days to Come.
Along with the fight to make the world safe
for democracy comes a still greater responsibijity.
Democracy must in some ways be made such a
condition that it will merit the great boon of
human happiness entrusted to its keeping. Just
now this' is not in all ways realized. Throughout
the United States, most democratic of great na
tions, may be noted signs that self-government
has not fully inculcated the lessons that lead to
government of self. Disorders of various kinds,
riots, violations of law, such exhibitions of un
controlled energies or passions as would in
peaceful times excite wondering comment, ar: be
ing passed over as worthy only of a moment'a
notice, while all attention is centered on the
greater objective of the moment, that of prepara
tion for the war. Vet each of these disturbances
is symptomatic of a derangement that must be
remedially dealt with if our republic is to come
to its fullest usefulness as an institution of hu
man government.'
Our people lack regard for laws of their own
making; this does not mean they are" vicious or
lawless, or unruly. They are careless, thoughtless,
impulsive, and prone to follow individual judg
ment or convenience rather than consult the
rights of others or to observe rules laid down
for governance of all. In seeking each hist own
comfort, happiness or advantage, obligation to
observe what is due to others is overlooked.
Every man for himself, and the devil take the
hindmost, is not a good rule among folks wher
ever situated, and yet it has come to have such
general observance among Americans that
strangers might well take it for our national
guide. '
Americans are generous, are chivalrous, de
voted to high ideals, and capable of tremendous
sacrifices. But under the rule of liberty they
have ceased to practice some of the homely vir
tues essential to true greatness. Our social life
can be made simpler and less impetuous' without
sacrificing any of its desirable qualities. -Our
national fiber will be firmer when we set a tlittle
higher standard for success than some now ob
served, and when each American comes to re
gard himself as responsible for his share of the
nation's greatness and gives to it as mu,ch atten
tion as he does to making provision for his own
well-being. A better democracy should emerge
from the flame of war, and will if only each citi
zen willingly adds his own mite of self-restraint
to the common whole.
No War on German Art.
Any movement having for its purpose the
suppression of German music, drama, literature
or art is misdirected, Whatever quarrel we have
with the workings of the German political ma
chine, or its present manifestations, should de
cently be confined to that, and not extended to'
those things coming from Germany that minister
to our esthetic senses. Culture should not be
confounded witli "kultur." The contributions of
German minds to the treasure store of world
knowledge or delight are not to be lost to man
kind simply beciuse a war lord and his cohorts
have gone on a spree of destruction. ' Those gen-'
tie souls who were inspired to sing songs to the
lark, or whose artist's "ears caught the music of
dreamt or "the light that never was on land or
sea," and gave it to us in music, in song, in paint
ing or poetry, deserve better from us than that,
we let tur stern disapproval of a mititary cult
lead us into the mistake of excluding all that is
good in the simpler life of Germany from our
own. I
Halting the Coal Holdups.
Adequate fuel supply for the coming winter
already presents a serious problem in the middle
west. The problem involves both supply and
price. Few if any coal terminals hold the normal
August stocks. Lake ports are reported short on
both hard and soft coal, and urgent orders from
retailers receive limited and belated response.
Whether from design or accident the apparent
shortage furnishes the groundwork for a wide
spread squeeze of consumers surpassing the pirati
cal holdups of coal brokers last winter. That some
of the projected squeeze rests on design is pub
licly charged by J. H. Davidson in an appeal to
President Wilson in behalf of fifty hotels and
apartrnent house owners of Minneapolis.. The
identity of the companies involved is not disclosed,
but the fact that the big steel and railroad cor
porations are securing an . abundance of fuel
while the general public faces a shortage supports
Mr. Davidson's charge that "a working agree
ment exists among the companies to increase the
price of coal to consumers and compel an extor
tionate price by force of necessity."
Public indignation and the power behind it
constitute a mighty force which operators dare
not ignore. The apparent certainty of the state,
as a last resort, taking over and operating the
mines proved an effective weapon in Illinois. Oper
ators abandoned "the public be d " attitude, went
into a conference with state authorities and agreed
to state supervision of price and distribution. The
result promises much relief locally and in sur
rounding states, where the Illinois product forms
a large part of the fuel supply. A conference of
governors of twelve middle west states, called by
the governor of Illinois, foreshadows further con
certed action against extortion and profiteering.
The spur of war is manifested notably in the
July charters of new corporations. Excluding
companies capitalized at $100,000 or less, the
aggregate for all states amounts to $492,965,800.
The total tops the monthly record for the year
and for 1916 and 1915. Urgent demands for war
supplies accounts for much of the record capital
ization. V- - p "'. '! V' -; ;'
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Mrs. Humiston and the
Missing Girls
" By Frederic J. Haskin
New York, Aug. 10. The popular feminine
idol of New York at present is not an actress, but
a woman lawyer. The newspapers print her pic
ture regularly; the movies are after her to sign a
contract, and in the Italian quarter where she is
particularly well known, the activities (of the
"avocatessa" ; are followed with awed interest
Moreover, try to start a conversation . with . a
New Yorker and in a few minutes you will find
yourself in an animated discussion of Mrs. Grace
Humiston and her missing girls. ' v ,4
' Mrs. Humiston , has made her personality
strongly felt in New York in the last Itvr months.
In finding Ruth Cruger, she started .a campaign
for the recovery of the other 853 girls reported
missing in five and a half months. The police de
partment suddenly awoke from apathy and estab
lished a whole new department forthe recovery
of missing girls. Then it appointed Mrs. Humis
ton its special agent, with full police powers and
a squad of five policemen to assist her in her
work. As a result, nearly 800 girls have been
returned. -
The great problem, Mrs. Humiston believes,
lies not with the girl herself, but with her home
conditions. She stands the mas long as, she
can, then she runs away from home. Lonely and
unprotected, she is usually an easy prey for
the various plausible gentlemen who frequent the
city's streets, representatives ofsthemost sordid
business in the world. The average girl feels that
a good time is her natural heritage. If the good
time happens to appear in the form of(a well
dressed young man who approaches her with just
the proper amount of admiration and respect and
suggests a car ride on a soda, she is very apt to
accept. There is one chance out of tea that the
young man is harmless, in Mrs. Humiston's
opinion, and there are three chances out1 of five
that the soda will contain a drug." .
. The white slave traffic has been the principal
feature of so, "many sensational moving picture
dramas that the average individual has about
reached the conclusion that it never did exist any
where else. Mrs. Humiston, however, can tell
you that it does. In her rescuing of girls she has
uncovered some information that has put the po
lice department and every Home on its guard. For
the last two months her spies have been occupying
certain "beats" in various sections of New York,
and they have made the unanimous report that it
is practically impossible for a young girl to walk
for ten blocks in New York without being ac
costed by a dozen strange men.
Cases of girls who have been drugged and
carried off in taxis are numerous. Several are
now being handled by the Humiston office. - The
majority of these are girls who have had a good,
bringing up in the most conservative of middle
class homes. It is an interesting fact that the
middle class suffers from this evil the most The
girl of the East Side and slums, who has practi
cally been brought up on the streets, usually un
uerstauas tneir dangers ana is an expert. 111 avuiu
ing thein. On the other hand, the society girl is
too well protected to be subjected to them. , But
the middle class girl is neither sufficiently so
phisticated or protected, y
Of course, you will say, it is primarily the
girl's fault. She should not allow a strange man
to Vck her up." But what would you say if you
knew that every once in awhile a girl is taken
screaming and struggling against her will in the
very heart of Broadway in iroad daylight? This,
acording to Mrs. Humiston s chief detective, has
happened repeatedly. Two men overpower a girl
and force her, risisting,, to a taxi, while a third
stands a few feet off and calmly turns: a fake
moving picture camera. Under thefe circum
stances even the traffic, policeman grins good
naturedly while the crime-is being committed, '
Protection, however, in Mrs Humiston's
opinion, dies not mean close surveillance. : It
means' giving your daughters a good home, and
sufficient recreation to keep, them satisfied with
their, lot. The other day a distraught mother
came to Mrs. Humiston and asked her to find
her daughter, who had run away from home. "Her
father will never forgive her," she wailed miser
ably.. "He always said she wasn't no good." The
next day Mrs. Humiston located the daughter in
Pennsylvania. She had obtained a situation in a
small town and was living in a quiet boarding
house. When told that her parents had sent for
her, she began to cry. and said she would not go.
home. "My father called me a street bum " 'she
exclaimed bitterly, "and I won't let anybody calf
me that." Mrs. Humiston brought her back to
New York, however, and turned her over to a
friend of her own. Then she called on the father,'
and, knowing .Mrs. Humiston as we do, it is
highly probable that when the interview, was over
he was a changed man. At any rate the girl was
taken back enthusiastically by both her parents
and has made no attempt to run away since.
Mrs. Humiston thas attacked the missing girl
problem from an entirely new angle. She does not
believe in punjshing the girls, even if they are
wayward.' She does not believe in wasting too
much energy in closing disorderly houses. She
does believe in striking at the root of the problem
economic and home conditions.
" , Mrs. Humiston's work is not entirely confined
to niissinn girls. She is primarily a lawyer. There
ii'nothing that she loves better than to win a
case for a man who is so poor that he is never
likely to be able to pay for her services. This is
how she started her New York career, and she
is still doing it. She was left a widow with a
large income when still very young. She decided
to study law, a profession which at that time was
considered entirely inappropriate for women.
Upon passing the bar examination, she put her
money in a law firm of which the present Mr.
Humiston was a member.
People and Events
nmnav
Proverb for the Day.
It Is hard to teach an old dog lew
tricks.
One Year Ago Today In tlie War.
Constantinople claimed further adV
varices for the Turks against the Rus
sians on the Persian front. .
Northwest of Pozieres, north of the
fiomme, the British advanced aeveral
hundred yards over a mile front.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
A merry party started in the Pull
man car, Bogota, for Spirit lake, the
excursionists consisting; of Hon. John
A. McShane. Hon. William A. Paxton
and wife, N Frank Colpetzer and wife,
Mrs. Joseph Barker and Charles, H.
Ouiou.
' A building on Sixteenth and Web
ster streets, belonging to S. T. Peter
son, and occupied as a boarding house
by H. W. Miller, was damaged by Are
to the extent of $200.
Count Raymond de Chambrere and
family were in the city, the count being
on,, the way to succeed Count Le
Brusin as minister plenipotentiary and
Mrs. Mary J., Lamb of Chicago takes high
rank among America's Spartan mothers. She
gives three sons to the country's service and re
grets that her fourth is too young to enlist. Writ
ing to the exemption board, she expressed .these
patriotic sentiments: "I think I am only doing
my bit by seeing that there are no slackers or
yellow streaks in my manly, brave, willing and
America-loving sons. It makes me disgusted with
womanhood to hear so many selfish mothers
voice their terrors. No mother loves her sons
more than I, but I look on this war as God's
laundry." (
San Francisco's bureau of municipal research
wields a probe that is a penetrating peach. It
delights in turning the spotlight in the shady by
ways of graft, occasionally throwing a search
light in quarters of dignity and respectability.
The latest revelation of the bureau deals with
the bureau of architecture, composed of "honor
able men," one of whom is "consulting architect
without salary, also a brother-in-law of the
mayor. Although not directly attached to the
pay roll, the researcTi bureau reports he scooped
in fees amounting to $47,499 in the Vast two years.
Artistic work for an "architect without salary.'1
The elder who hies to his old home town with
boyhood memories freshened up for the occasion
gaily stumbles on a mound of disappointment.
Visions of things and places as they were years
before obscure thoughts of progress and change
and lure the pilgrim on to a rude, heartbreaking
jolt. An Omaha tourist recently scouted around
his boyhood town of Buffalo, flitting here and
there seeking scenes memory cherished. All had
vanished. Remorseless progress wiped everything
but the streets off the map. The home, the haunts
of boyhoold gatherings and games were sub
mersed bv industries, and scarcely a foot of
vacant ground remained as a memorial to the
fiercely contested games of base ball in the mak
ing. The school was recognizable only by its
number, the bridge spanning the nearby creek
disappeared as completely as the creek itself, and
the hallowed "ol' swimmin' hole" revealed itself
transformed into a children's playground. "That
was the blow that killed father." tThe first train
out carried shocked pilgrims toward the Mis
souri. , v.,
envoy extraordinary for the republic
of France In the Central American
'states.
Adolph Meyer has left for Spirit
Lake and will bring his wife, who has
been sojourning there, back with him.
. The men engaged in grading Twenty-fourth
in South Omaha to the lim
its of Omaha have their work almost
done. v
Articles of Incorporation were filed
for a new savings bank, the leading
mover in the enterprise being J. I
MJles of Davenport, la., and the fol
lowing gentlemen being the Incorpora
tors: John U Miles, Dexter L. Thomas,
Samuel Cotner, James Thompson, Al
1n Saunders, John Rush, Andrew
Rosewater, Samuel D. Mercer, J. II.
Evans,, Erastus A. Benson, Morris
Morrison and George E. Barker.
A. D. Brandeis has returned from a
trip to New York.
This Day in History.
1704 Battle of Blenheien, in which
the English and Austrians, commanded
by the duke of Marlborough and
Prince Eugene, defeated the French
and Bavarians. 1
1792 Adelaide Louisa, the Oerman
born queen of England, who won the
devoted affection of King William IV,
born In Saxe-Meinlngen. Died in Eng
land December 2, 1849.
, 1812 American ship Essex, in com
mand of Captain David Porter, de
feated the British sloop Alert in a
battle of eight minutes.
11888 Count von Moltke resigned as
chief of the general staff of the Ger
man army.
1896 Dr. Nansen, the Arctic ex
plorer, arrived at Vordoc, Norway, on'
his return from the far north.
1898 Manila surrendered to the
American forces after a short land
fight and bombardment by the fleet.
1906 Riot at Brownsville, Tex., In
which negro soldiers - of the United.
States army killed and wounded sev
eral persons.
1914 Belgians repulsed the Ger
mans near Dlest. .
, 1915 Petrograd reported a repulse
of the Germans in the Mltau region.
The Day We. Celebrate.
Erie B. Brown was born In Gra
ham, Mo., August 13, 1871. He is en
gaged in the real estate business.
Marquis of Cambridge (formerly
the duke of Teck), elder brother of
Queen Mary, born in Kensington,
palace forty-nine years ago.
Dr. Karl Liebknecht, famous Ger
man socialist leader,' imprisoned for
"attempted high treason," born forty
sijf years ago today.
Harry L. Gandy, representative in
congress of the Third South- Dakota
district, born at Cherubusco, Ind.,
thirty-six years ago today.
! Rear Admiral Clifford J. Boush,
tT. S. N., retired, born at Portsmouth,
Va., sixty-three years ago today.
. Brigadier General John L. Clem,
U. S. A., retired, who was the last civil
war veteran on the active rolls of the
army, born at Newark, O., sixty-six
years ago today.
Fielder A. Jones, manager of the
St. Louis American league base ball
team, born at Shingle House, Pa.,
forty-six yearsago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The International Typographical
union opens its sixty-third annual con
vention today at Colorado Springs.
The police department of New York
City today opens a school to train de
tectives in the scientific detection of
criminals.
Patriotism is to furnish the keynote
of the annual meeting of the grand
aerie of Fraternal Order of Eaglea,
opening today at Buffalo.
Journeymen plumbers from sll sec
tions of the United States and Canada
are to meet at Toledo today for the
annual convention of their interna
tional union.
The third annual convention oj the
National Association of Custodian Em
ployes of Federal Buildings meets at
Indianapolis today for a three-day
session.
An important step toward making
Mobile one of the chief porta on the
gulf will be the special election in
that city today to vote on a $600,000
bond issue to carry out the greater
port project
Storyctte of the Day.
A soldier in the English army wrote
home: "They put me in barracks;
they took away my clothes and put
me in khaki; they took away my name
and made me 'No. R75'; they took me
to church, where I'd never been be
fore, and they made me listen to a
sermon for forty minutes. Then the
parson said: 'No. 575. Art thou
weary, art thou languid?' and I got
seven days in the guard house because
I answered that I certainly was."
Christian Register.
ABOUT RATS AND PARROTS.
All the eomraon hou rati btlonfed
oritinatJy to tha old world, from which they
earn to this continent in ahlpa.
Tha tail of the rat ia s moat Import
appandace. It haa mora muaelea than the
human hand, twins vaed aa a hand, aa a
balancer and aa sprint to aid in jumping.
The brown rat, erroneously called tha
Norway rat, waa originally a native of India
and Persia. It entered Europe through
Russia about 1727. and waa brought to
America about 1775.
- Mamo ia the name of a beautiful bird of
the Hawallip Islands, now bellaved to be
extinct, having been destroyed for the sake
of its golden-yellow feathera, used in for
mer daya to decorate , the state robes of
Chiefs,
. The little parrots called "love birds" are
nativea of Africa . and are abundant in
Madagascar. These birds adapt themselves
readily to captivity). They bread readily
in confinement, producing 1e broods in
season.
Tha gray parrot of western Africa is
credited with having greater power of
imitating tha human voice than any bird
of the species. It has long been a favorite
and ia the subject oC many stories of greater
or leas credibility. V -
Purpose of Food Control.
Washington, Aug. 10. To the Editor
of The Bee: Now that legislative
action has been taken setting up the
food administration, it will be possible
for us to make a definite statement tfs
to the objectives of the food admini
stration and the national and interna
tional issues which are involved. I
shall take the liberty of forwarding to
the press of the country, through the
usual distributing agencies, a series of
articles, prepared by myself and staff,
bearing on the entire problem.
The world as a whole is faced with
a definite and growing food shortage
which will have a most important
bearing on our national life, not only
as affecting our task of supporting
our allies in the war, but in its ulti
mate reactions upon our entire range
of food industries and the life of our
people. I recognize that to an intelli
gent people it is necessary, to prove
the case that such a shortage exists
and will increase, and that this proof
must be furnished as a basis for creat-ing-tbe
dominant idea in the national
mind that we must enlarge our food
service to the world, not only as a war
measure, but as a measure of hu
manity itself. If we can secure the
.emplacement of this idea in the minds
,of the people, the wi""t P
of constructive order which we may
make will fall not only on -a rcej..
mind, but upon a convinced Intelli
gence. Aside from the necessity of increas
ing our production and reducing our
waste and unnecessary consumption,
we can substitute certain commodities
which we have in excess for those
which, by virtue of their concentrated
form, may be shipped abroad in this
time of diminished shipping. Fur
thermore, we have to contend with a
large disturbance of our economic sys
tem by virtue of the suction of this
food vacuum upon our resources, and
a sequence of measures will be taken
to improve our national handling of
foodstuffs and to hold in check the
forces of speculation and avarlplous
ness. We are Imbued with a desire.not only
from an immediate point of view, but
in the long run as supporting the very
essence of democracy, that all of the
above measures shall be acomplished
to the last degree by voluntary effort
among.the people themselves, and our
greatest service will be to direct such
voluntary urganization and to stimulate
it to action. If this can be accom
plished, we shall have demonstrated
the ability of democracy to defend it
self through its own instinct of organi
zation, for if it cannot rise to this sit
uation, it will have proved Itself a
faith which cannot endure in competi
tion with the forces of autocracy.
To guide the public mind in these
channels, we are wholly and abso
lutely dependent upon the press of the
country. If we do not reoelve this sup
port, the problem is hopeless. If we
do have It It can be solved.
I am therefore addressing you per
sonally to enlist the continuance of
the support which you have given us
to , date and ask for the . devotion of
space to the material which we shall
send in the course of a few days, I
believe this material is of distinct news
and national importance, andf we ehall
disclose for the first time the actual
food situation of the world, backed by
statistics and figures, for we Relieve
that we must first prove the case and
then we must trust to the guidance of
the press of the country to secure the
awakening of the national conscience
to the dominant Idea of food admini
stration.. That is. I reiterate, that, we
are faced with a world shortage in
food and with the necessity to feed
our allies on a scale hitherto un
' dreamed of, and we must protect our
own people if we are to win the war.
HERBERT HOOVER.
Jerry Jars tlie City Solons.
Omaha Aug. 11. To the Editor of
The Bee: I desire to submit a brief
statement of facts through your widely
read paper to the public, especially
to those of the Irish race who were
ever and always faithful and true.
Enclosed find a copy of a petition
addressed to that exalted body in tht
city hall. ' It speaks for itself.
Probably, but for that great problem
that confronts our beloved nation,
wherein every, emotion must be taken
advantage of to arouse and stimulate
our fellow citizens to patriotic action.
it is more1 than likely that fellows of
the caliber of the present city commis
sioners would never be petitioned to.'
recognize Commodore John Barry.
Yesterday I called on the city clerk,
who has a prefix before his name that
a woman could throw a washtub
through, expecting he might take pride
in the memory of the hero, Barry.
But lo and behold I was flabber
gasted when told with a sneer that
"ordinance No. 9657" became law a
week ago, whereby the streets were
named. One of them after Brigham
Young, etc. ;
Notwithstanding the depravity of
the city administration you would
think that it could be hardly possible
for that body of statesmen to be so
lacking in decency and patriotism as
to object to naming a street after the
"Father of the American ' Navy."
. JER.RYHOWAD.
Omaha July 2.-VTO the Mayor and
City Council: At the solicitation of a
number of my fellow citizens. I am re
quested to cal lthe attention of your
honorable body to a patriotic and im
portant subject, to-wit: that the his-
tory of the achievements won by the
founders of the nation, whether 011
land or sea, should be kept before the
minds of our fellow citizens, wherever
the opportunity presents itself to
stimulate their thoughts and ideas to
lofty aspirations and valorous deeds.
And whereas, your distinguished body .
has under consideration the naming
of the streets recently acquired
through the consolidation of Benson
and Florence with Omaha, I hereby
suggest that one of the streets be
named after Commodore John Barry,
thereby having a street on the north,
side like Washington street, on the
south, bearing the, names of the
"Father of the American Army" and
the "Father of the American Navy."
If this republic ot ours is to endure
its history must be kept straight and
the valor of its heroes ought not to be
forgotten. JERRY HOWARD.
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