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THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 17. 1917.
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Petrograd stages a notable "mysterious dis
appearance." -
Poor old Nick Romanoff. Nary a servitor bid
him a safe and pleasant journey.
Every advance of Canadian troopers at Lens
clinches their right to share in the title Ameri
can. '
Pope Benedict is plainly determined to fight
it out on the peace line, even if.it takes several
summers.. - '
The issue of loyalty pressed by the State Coun
cil of Defense simmers down to this: Clear up or
clear out.
The Potsdam slogan of 1914, "Deutschland
ubtr Alles," steadily merges into "Deutschland
tnder Allies." .
..' At any rate Pope Benedict must be credited
with having pumped considerable vigor into jaded
peace conversation's.
The navy calls for 2,000 wireless operators.
Amateurs temporarily put out of business by the
stress of war have here a fine opportunity for
practical national service.
There is nothing, however, to stop public of
ficial who are preaching retrenchment and
' economy from setting in example in their own
conduct of the public business.
A generous broadening of sympathies becomes
the country right now. The old world has no mo
nopoly of trouble and worry. At the threshold
of the hay fever season charity suggests that
sympathy stick at home awhile.
China explains that " its declaration of war
against the central power is due, ', persistent
annoyance of German intrigues. War is a des
perate last resort, but the price is none too great
for riddance of a world-wide pest.
In the matter of piling on war taxes speed
cut ome figure, but the race to the pocket is
not always to the swift, City, county and state
division of the revenue have been made. Lapse
of time front levy to penalty leaves ample room
for Uncle Sam to get his touch in first.
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Sharp opposition to itate price, fixing devel
oped among coat producers of Illinois resulted
in turning down the informal agreement made"
with the state by a committee of producer. Fur
ther conferences are planned to allay temper
and devise effective shock absorber for the in
evitable fall. ' '
The prospective visit of the Japanese mission
to Omaha makes Unimportant to determine in
advance wether the locality should be designated
"At a Nebraska Port" or "At a Port on the
Missouri" This question should be settled for
tht benefit of new vendor and the comfort of
the censor' bureaus
At the last moment' Indiana dropped out of
conference of State Councils of Defense on the
coal situation. The Hoosier state produces con
siderable coal. Price are at the topnotch and
any conversation designed to check the golden
stream endanger the serene comfort of the bene
ficiaries, Hoosiers know a good thing.
Twenty-four year ago the first armed British
troops to march on American soil since the war
of 1812 participated in the naval parade in New
York City. Almost a quarter of a century
elapsed before American soldier returned the
compliment in London. The whirligig of war
stage lurprising and epochal. scenes.
This Nation at War
Sm FrajKlec Chronleie-
Befof e this country engaied in war it was le
gitimate for any American to oppose it. When we
entered it it became traitorous for any resident
of the country to commit any act or say any word
which tended to impair our efficiency in its prose
cution,,
Ma AattAM an aM4tteja am anw jtt-Uaaa 1 a i 1im
j iw itanvu vtats viiuui v vis mitj vital via bsiau
the rule of the majority and submission of the
minority. Loyalty is the reciprocal of protection
and whoever claims the protection of the laws
thereby dedicates to the country the service of
ail his property and bis life itself.
"Conscientious objection'" is a pitiful humbur.
There is an insignificant number of members of
organized religious sects who profess that if any
one wishes to kill them he may if they cannot
escape. Their number being insignificant, they
can be ignored. But by thus separating them
selve from their national obligations they place
themselves Outside the pale of the laws which
protect them; as a matter of fact, society con
tinues to protect .while excusing them from their
reciprocal obligation. But these late comers who
voiced their conscientious scruples only when a
draft was impending should be placed in the fore-
zront.ot the battle.
The language of John D. Works, who once
misrepresented this state in the senate, is trea
sonable to intent if technically outside the Ian
guage o! the statute. The true patriotic Ameri
camsm was expressed in this city by President
Nicholas Murray Butler, who said: "We must see
this war through. If we fail to see it through this
nation must prepare to arm itself for 100 years
to come, a upon arm alone will depend our very
existence." :
It i not disloyal to wish for peace. There is
no human being on earth who does not wish it
1. 2 a. J i t A - iL. ' t. . 1 . .L.
: 4i is not ouiioyai w express we wish inai me
precise object for which we wage war should be
crucially expressed.
Disloyal begins when we exoress such sent.
ment in way which furtively suggest that we
should so act in the alleged interest of peace as to
hinder the government in , prosecuting the war
and thereby contribute to the victory of the
enemy.
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Get Those Exemption Boards Together I
If a gen. al outcry of dissatisfaction is to be
avoided it is high time that those exemption
boards for our local Omaha districts get together
on their rulings. All the boards are supposed to
be acting under the same law and regulations and
passing on the facts, as would a jury, as to
whether these rules apply to the particular case
in hand. They are supposed to determine exemp
tions solely upon the question of dependence.
For one board to relieve from service all married
men regardless of whether their families are ac
tually dependent upon them or not while an
other holds married men unless dependence is
proven is not only a conflict of authority, but con
stitutes an unjust inequality between the two dis
tricts. The rulings of the different boards should
be either all one way or all another, but, in any
event, should seek an impartial uniformity.
What every exemption board should keep in
mind all the time is the declaration made
by General Crowder at the outset to im
press upon them their solemn duty and respon
sibility, that for every drafted man subject to
call they might excuse from responding another
in serial number must take his place. The main
thing is that every person affected by the draft be
convinced that he is getting an absolutely square
deal. Our young men have acepted the compul
sory military service law in the true spirit of
patriotism and are ready to serve because they
believe they ought to serve, but the essence of
universal service is equality without favoritism
rich and poor, high and low, all alike under like
conditions, unlets there are special and excep
tional reasons for exemption. For the boards to
make it easy to slip out in one district and hard in
another, would tend to destroy the very democ
racy of the plan which, in the nature of things,
must be its vindication.
Full Text of Papal Appeal.
The full text of the pope's appeal to the bel
ligerents to stop fighting "for the sake of hu
manity," confirms and amplifies in the main the
outline of his peace plan contained in the prelimi
nary dispatches. The introductory part, which is
rather long and prolix, is largely in the nature of
justification for venturing again to interpose his
suggestions. His Eminence harks back to a
similar appeal made at the end of the first year
of the war and emphasizes the constant policy
pursued to maintain friendly relations with all
the combatant nations in order to be in position
to render service, whenever the time might ar
rive to make his mediation possible. To be the
friend of all or, at least, not to be regarded as
unfriendly by any, has been the laudable aim of
the papal head with a view to qualifying to be
the eventful intermediary"! For us the thought is
a reminder that up to within a few months we
tried to persuade ourselves that we were occupy
ing this vantage ground of strict neutrality and
that peace negotiation might be finally insti
tuted by, if not carried on through, our Own presi
dent as rules of the one great nation whose dis
interestedness and unselfishness the different
countries at war would concede. Mediation by
the American president now is, of course, wh6lly
out of the question,, for we have been drawn into
the vortex ourselves. It is doubtful, even, if the
pope could have retained his aloofness and friend
ly relation with both sides under the existing
condition if he still ruled over temporal posses
sions as of old. .
The tentative plan now proposed as the basis
of a peace conference in substance echoe the
phrase emanating from various sources: "No in
demnities! No conquest!" Yet, as we have already
pointed out, the pope does not set up the "status
quo ante as the goal because he would leave the
problems of Poland, Alsace-Lorraine and the east
ern Adriatic provinces open to "conciliatory dis
posal." On the point of guaranties essential to
permanent peace, the papal notes is less definite
and less satisfactory in its rather indefinite refer
ence to disarmament and the substitution of "an
Institution of arbitration" stopping short of the
real issue of safeguarding democracy from the
menace of military autocracy. The United States,
in particular, is not specially interested in terri
torial readjustments in Europe except as they
leave the way open, or close it, to future military
aggression, but our vital concern goes to the sub
ordination of national greed and dynastic ambi
tion to the accepted rules'of international law
and fair play between nations.
The peace which we all want must be a peace
with lasting qualities built on the eternal prin
ciples of right and justice. It is bound to come
sooner or later. The pope's efforts will be ac
corded the merit of sincerity and may eventually
help toward the desired end even though it does
not now bear immediate fruition. .
Scop of the Stock Yards Law.
An interesting case is coming up before the
Nebrdaska State Railway commission, as a result
of objection filed by 'stock yards companies scat
tered through the state to combat the order of the
commission for publication of rate and charge
for feed and yardage and their maintenance with
out change unless with the approval of the commission.
The companies concerned are taking exception
to the jurisdiction of the commission on" two
principal grounds: First, that they confine their
business to the feeding of stock in transit with
out offering a market and therefore are not prop
erly commOn carriers within the definition of the
law, and, secondly, that the legislature did not
intend to include these interior stock yards, as
evidenced by sections of the law relating to lim
iting the time for unloading and commission on
sales. The nub of the case lies in the fact elic
ited by the commission's inquiry, that the rates
charged tor feed for live stock at these up-state
yards are higher than those authorized at, the
South Omaha market. -
Stock yards regulation has been for years ;
chronic subject for our legislators, but alway
aimed at the South Omaha market. It r-maini
to be seen whether the smaller stock yards can
aiterentiate themselves ufficiently to secure ex
emption from the new law and, if so, how long
they can maintain such a special status as against
luture legislation. ,
But if tta State Council of Defense is to call
for the resignation of a university regent charged
with writ in sr tiro-German letter before our rmm.
try entered the war, what about the United State
senator who published those self-same letters ii
preferred position in his cersonallv-owned news
paper without enforcing his rule requiring the
name ot. me writer and uppiemented them with
editorials eauallv pro-German, if not mnr en?
Doe a United States senator enjoy a special im
munity that a lesser official doei not have? Or
is it because he was elected as a democrat?
Chile and the War
By Frederic J. Haskui
New York City, Aug. 14. The republic of
Chile is a storehouse of war materials; it has the
only great nitrate deposits in the world, some
of the greatest copper deposits and some excel
lent iron mines. All of these things the United
States needs in large quantities to supply the
demand of a fighting world for munitions. For
this reason the war has brought the United
States and Chile much closer together than they
ever were before.
The greatest powder company in the United
States has nitrate mines and a reduction plant in
Chile; one of the greatest copper mining com
panies is heavily interested there and an Ameri
can steel company is making a great success of
iron mines which it obtained by a clever diplo
matic maneuver from a bankrupt French concern.
All of these companies are now working their
Chilean holdings 'to the limit and all of them
have numerous engineers in the field seeking new
mines. The number of Americans in Chile has
at least trebled in four years. There are now
about 600 of them registered at the embassy and
probably half as many more who are not reg'
isfered.
Our new civilian army officers have earned the
two weeks' furlough they are td have and are
cuuucu iv inane sue niosi oi u.
Here in New York, which is the headquarters
of the great companies that are searching the
earth for the materials of American industry,
you may talk to engineers who have been in al
most every village in Chile, who speak Spanish
as well as the Chileans and know intimately the
political and social life of the country.-
They are a new and significant type of Ameri
can, these young college-trained engineers whom
the big corporations send afieM in search of
treasure. It is only within a generation that
American industry has had to look abroad for
materials at all and the war demand for Ameri
can products has given this search Sts greatest
impetus.
The great corporations are "always wise in
their choice of employes. The young engineers
who go prospecting in strange lands are chosen
at least as much for their character as for their
technical ability. The result has been to scatter
about Latin America thousands of young men
who are missionaries for American ideals and
the American conception of civilisation as well
as for American industry.
The importance of this army of businesslike,
well-groomed, decent young Americans as a force
for pan-Americanism can scarcely be overesti
mated. In Chile, according to all reports, they
have already worked a transformation of the
popular attitude toward Americans. For the early
impression which all Latin Americans got of
their northern neighbors was not a desirable one.
Persons who found it necessary to leave the
United States were the first ones to-discover
that money could be made in South America.
The word Yankee became almost synonymous
with rascal. At the same time European coun
tries were gaining a large share of the Chilean
trade; German officers were training the Chilean
army and British officers the Chilean navy.
An American ten years ago was a person of
small account in Chile. Today the mere men
tion of his nationality creates a favorable im
pression, especially in business and social cir
cles. An American engineer who can show any
credentials at all will be givfn passes over the
railroads and every other facility for his work.
It is true that Chilean legislators are wont to
rise in congress and denounce the foreigner
who are monopolizing the wealth of the country,
but all intelligent ' Chilean perceive that their
country is dependent upon foreign capital and
foreign brains for its present development. The
same eloquent legislator who denounced foreign
exploitations in the morning may call at the of
fice of one of the American companies in the
afternoon and try to sell a mine.
It is true that out of this rapid war exploita
tion of their natural resources the Chileans are
getting very little inf a financial way. They levy
an immense tax upon the nitrate business and
this supports the Chilean government. But the
bulk ot the profits from that industry flow to
Europe and the United States. This is even
more true of the copper and iron industries.
The best thing that Chile is getting out of
the war boom is education for its youth. The
young Chilean and the young American are meet
ing both in society and in industry. Tempera
mentally they have a great deal in common. For
the Chilean of the better class is not a Spaniard
living in a tropical climate. Like the North
American he is a man of very mixed blood, living
in a temperate climate. The liberator of Chile
was named O'Higgins, and, Irish, French and
American name are as common as those of
Spanish origin. Some of the' leading Chilean
families are descended from New Bedford whal
ing captains who settled in South America when
the whaling business broke. Although they speak
Spanish, the Chileans are a people of many dif
ferent .races. Like the North Americans, they
are energetic and imaginative.
America's National Spirit
-laa Bar la London TlmM-
. To us who have known what it is to belong to
a nation plunged into war it is most interesting
to observe and compare the course of events in
America. ' So far that course has been extremely
normal. With the declaration of war came a tre
mendous burst of popular enthusiasm. Flags ap
peared everywhere, from New York to San Fran
cisco. Conscientious person proceeded without
delay to repair the gaps in their memory con
nected with the words of that stirring but appall
ingly long anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner."
Everyone turned to everyone else and said, "What
can I do to help?" Some people began to prac
tice a vague and unmethodical system of food
economy. Others, following a natural instinct,
began to hoard. Others, of different ideals, be
gan to profiteer. But, as with us, of any general
realization of the meaning of war there was none.
But realization is coming. A new spirit is abroad
in America today. Its false gods we were wor
shipping the same ourselves not long ago are
doomed. It can never go back to the old state
of things. It may pay it will pay a heavy price
for its share of victory, but every true American
knows and he hails the knowledge with sober
joy that his country is going to merge from this
supreme test better balanced, bigger hearted and
more united. A country, in fact, and not a continent.
Our Fightng Men
Chauncey B. Baker.
Lieutenant Colonel Chauncey B. Baker, U. S.
A., is a noted transportation expert of the quar
termaster's corps. He is as well qualified to deal
with practical railroad problems as the transpor
tation heads of any of the great American rail
roads and in addition he has made a special study
of motor transportation. Colonel Baker was born
in Ohio in 1860 and was appointed to the West
Point academy from that state in 1882. For sev
eral year after his graduation he was attached to
the infantry arm. Since the war with Spain he
his served with the quartermaster's corps. His
highly creditable record in directing the transpor
tation of troops to the Mexican border during
the disturbances there led to his selection by the
War department as transportation officer of the
Pershing expedition to France.
William S. Graves.
Lieutenant Colonel William S. Graves, U. S.
A., who was selected to accompany the Pershing
expedition to France as an official observer, has
for some time held the important post of secre
tary to the general staff. Colonel Graves is 52
years old and a native of Texas. He was ap
pointed to the United States Military academy
from his native state in 1844 and upon his gradu
ation four years later hevas assigned to the in
fantry arm. He saw active service in the war
with Spain and in the suppression of the Philip
pine insurrection and. moe recently, was com
mended for his seryes on the Mexican border.
1 TODAY
Proverb for the Day.
It never rain but it pouri.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Italians repulsed Austrian Infantry
assault on the Carso.
Russians continued their advance
northward and westward in Galicia.
Heavy German assaults on British
near Pozieres cut down without
reaching the lines.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
A meeting of the old volunteer fire
department was held at the city hall,
I. W. Miner in the chair. The follow
ing committee was appointed to take
care of the veteran firemen's excur
sion, which will stop in this city on its
way to California: A. J. Herold. C. G.
Hunt, James Tehon. A.- Moynahan,
John-Roach. Lewis Faist, V. J. Ken
nedy, A. J. Simpon. Charles Fisher,
Fred Snitz, W. T. Thlafagan, W. Ren
field, Ed Crowell and D. W. Lane. '
The Swedish Library association has
moved its q-uarte's from St. George's
hall to 1316 Douglas. The library is
under the management of Charles
Harrison. i,
Charles Banks has gone to Ger
many, accompanied by his two daugh
ters, whether they will join the rest of
the family and remain several
months.
Judge Reuther han been appointed
South Omaha correspondent of "Die
Westliche Courier," which has made
its appearance in Omaha.
All of the old asphalt gutters In the
Douglas street crossings are being
taken out and replaced with others of
Sioux Falls granite, upon a layer of
sand, which rests upon a foundation
of concrete.
M. Blizzard of Iowa is blowing
around South Omaha, looking up a lo
cation on which to start a large cloth
ing and furnishing house. r
The remains of Carl Fried arrived
over the B. & M. from Glenwood,
Colo.
This Day In History.
1648 Beginning of the battle of
Preston, in which the forces of the
Commonwealth, under Cromwell, de
feated the Scots.
1695 John Archdale became gov
ernor of the Carolinas.
1786 Frederick the Great, king of
rrussla, died at Sans Souci. Born in
Berlin. January 24, 1712.
1814 The John Adams, driven into
Penobscot river by the British, was
scuttled to avoid capture.
1817 General Andrew Pickens, one
of the great southern commanders in
the revolution, died at Pendleton, S. C.
Born at Faxton, Pa., September 19,
1739.
1818 Sidney Edgerton, first terri
torial governor o Montana, born In
Madison county, New York. Died at
Akron, O.. July 19, 1900.
1867 General Hanoock succeeded
General Sheridan in command of the
Fifth military district.
1914 Austrian advance into Poland
checked.
The Day We Celebrate.
A. V. Dresher is 43 today. Lockhav
en. Pa., is his birthplace and the
spruceness of many well dressed Oma
hans is due to the ministrations of his
dyeing; and dry . cleaning establish
ment. Bradley M. Smith, clerk in the Bur
lington freight house, is 36. He was
born in Council Bluffs and educated
In the Omaha public schools.
E. S. Freeman, state agent of the
Agricultural Insurance company, is 47
years old today. He was born in Fort
Dodge, la., and started in the insur
ance busleiiBS in Fremont.
Emperor Charles I of Austria-Hungary,
born at the imperial chateau of
Persenberg, thirty year ago today.
Brigadier General '. Richard N.
Blatchford, U. S. A., late commandant
at Fort Sill, now with Pershing in
France, born in New 1'ork, fifty-eight
years ago today.
Richard P. Hobson, naval hero, for
mer Alabama congressman, and pio.
reer advocate of naval preparedness,
born at Greensboro, Ala., forty-seven
years ago today. ,
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Emperor Charles I, who succeeded
Francis Joseph on the Austro-Hunga-rlan
throne last November, celebrates
his thirtieth birthday anniversary to
day. - The Right Rev. A. J. Glorieux, bish
op of" the Catholic diocese of Boise,
Idaho, today celebrates the golden
jubilee of his ordination to the priest,
hood. ,
The triennial chapter meetings of
the eastern province of the Passion
fathers is to open today 'at St. Paul's
monastry, Pittsburgh.
Delegates from all parts of the
country are to assemble In Philadel
phia today for the forty-third annual
convention of the Catholic Young
Mens' National union
Storyetto of the Day.
Signor - Mascagnl, the , composer,
often leads the orchestra at La Scala,
In Milan, and at the Constansl, in
Rome. .He never refuses an encore.
"In my youth" thus he explains
the matter "I was an orchestra leader
at $1 a day. Perhaps my low pay had
soured me. At that time, at any rate,
I would not grant an encore for any
consideration.
"Well, leading Satanello once in
Naples, I refused an encore of a cer
tain song in my usual manner. The
Neapolitan audience shouted and
roared. I was, of course, firm. But
suddenly I felt a blow on the back of
my head and fell off my high chair
down among the violins.
"I had been struck with a stool
hurled from . the top gallery. I rose
and promptly repeated the song which
the audience desired. From that day
to this I have never refused an en
core." Washington Star.
MERRY JINGLES.
"X Fad."
On day I chanrd to meet
, mfttd
It was a hundred in
The hd
The air ws still no loaf
Ild atir
Tet 'round htr neck sha wore
A fur
I one again thin maid did mf"i
But oh!
Cold vii the day
Below zero
I wai amaztd and said
"Br-r-r-r"'
For round nor neck there was
No fur.
Bellview.
A Forward Look.
It takra all
Aorta of folk
To make up the
Justly celebrated
World, Including
The philanthropic
Citizen who
'arefully inapecta
The bilnd man's
Slock of pencils
And aelecta the
One with the
Beat rubber btfore
Dropping a nickel
In hia tin cup
Macon Telegraph,
'Kultnr.,,
Omaha, Aug. 15. To the Editor of
The Bee: What on earth does Ger
many mean by her national war cry
of "kultur?" In England it means
"civilization," but when a government
of highly organized murderers starts
boasting of their "kultur" it certainly
becomes perplexing. For years Ger
many has believed herself to be the
most highly educated nation on earth,
and when doubts are cast upon her
assertions she becomes aggressive and
acts like a bully who swears that he
will smash the face of anybody who
says he is not a perfect gentleman.
The truth seems to be that Ger
many has repeated the belief in her
"kultur" so often and so insistently
that she has at last come to imagine
It is true. She has practiced a kind
of national self-deception. She has
preached year in, year out, an implicit
belief in what Mr Roosevelt calls "the
big stick," as a suitable weapon to
drive home her "kultur." It is a kind
of world-wide physic of which every
body has got to swallow a dose. And
when a great many of us say that the
kaiser's physic is really a "dope," that
his boasted "kultur" is organized ma
terialism of the very worst kind,
backed by a vicious tyranny of a me
diaeval brand, she starts to whine and
bluster, and "hack her way through"
every decency that makes life worth
living.
And what is so astonishing is the
fact that she cannot understand the
world's detestation of her. Or, at least,
she pretends she cannot. One can
hardly believe she Is so stupid as not
to know the cause of the world's in
dignation against her. Yet we find her
inquiring of the few neutral countries
left: What have I done that you should
be so cold to me?
Oh, what on earth has "kultur" done
That all the world should blame the Hun?
We've screamed abroad our songs of hate
In hope your anger to abate.
We've torn up treaties, bluffed and lied,
And yet you are not satisfied.
We've murderad children by the score.
And lam waste villages galore;
Unutterable deeds we're done.
Tet compliments for ua you've none.
We've slain the innocent and weak.
And still no word of praise you speak.
We've poisoned wells and sullied rivers.
And half the world with anger Quivers.
Asphyxiating gases, too,
We have made use of against you.
The Belgians we harshly use
And still our : anners you abuse.
It is astonishing to us
That you should make this fearful fuss.
If German "kultur" should not prove
Tho proper way to win your love.
It's more than likely we shall try
A different method by and by.
SAM h. MORRIS.
'So War on German Art."
Omaha, Aug. 15. To the Editor of
The Bee: I wish heartily to commend
both the tone and the letter of your
editorial upon this theme. Let us
understand plainly that there is but
one thing that bears the brand of
Gerjnan upon It which all the earth
should Join in destroying. That one
thing is her militarism, especially
under the domination of an autocracy
which itself has curbed the demo
cratic spirit of the German people.
Some of these days thj German people
themselves, especially here in America,
will see this and then they will be
grateful to America for having under
taken what it. has,
There is too rmich of value In Ger
man art, in music, every phase of
sculpture and painting, literature and
so on, not to mention sclenoe, philo
sophy and commerce, for the world
to. spare it. We are not unmindful of
the fact that the German military au
tocracy, through its conceited boast
fulness, its brutal attitude toward the
spirit of democracy, its Infamous con
cepts of its right in War both on land
and sea, has justified the spirit of re
sentment that has risen against it all
over the world, but let us not carry
this resentment to the point of includ
ing in our condemnation all that is
German. We will do more to win
the confidence of the world and the
regard of the masses of the German
people themselves if. In the eclipse of
reason, we hold to the light embodied
In your editorial upon this subject.
L. J. QTJTNBr.
Nethiiw to It.
I do not understand the term ,
'"Trusi company."
They are reluctant. I affirm.
At trusting me.
Louisville Courier-Journal
Olson's Christian Science Experlenc.
Omaha, Aug. 15. -To the Editor of
The Bee While waiting for Mr. Her
ring's reply to my letter of August 3
I wish to call his attention to a few
particulars, which space forbade
touching in former letters, as I re
member the editor's shears and his
capacious waste paper basket.
In his letter; of July 16 Herring dis
poses of my view of the Christian
Scientists formula that "God is All
in All," by saying that "Such com
mon sense Interpretation would render
a discussion of things spiritual impos
sible." In this instance Mrs. Eddy Is
consistent, though she reasons Incon
sistently thereto at other places, and
says, page 287: "God being every
where and all-inclusive, how can He
be absent or suggest the absence of
omnipresence ana omnipotence? How
can there be more than all?" Here Mr.
Herring must discover that he has not
yet learned his catechism.
Mrs. Eddy declares, page 466: "The
term souls or spirits is as Improper as
the term gods. There is no finite soul
nor spirit." How can Mr. Herring aver
with consistency that "Mn and wom
en of culture and sourra Judgment
have found a soul-satisfying haven,
etc," unless he and his class possess
part of the Infinite Soul? If so, I would
ask, is God divisible?
Mrs. Eddy declares emphatically
that the only real thing is spirit. If
Mr. Herring has accepted this postu
late without reservation, why does he
caM attention to a supposed unreality
of evil, when everything that he can
think of Is unreal, except the un
known, inscrutableN spirit, God, the
first cause, first principle of Herbert
Spencer? It seems Mr. Herring again
forgot consistency. But I take it he
will soon give heed to Mrs. Eddy's
warning, "Refrain from public con
troversy." I am accused ty a friend of mine
of seeking "cheap notoriety" by put
ting my thoughts down on paper. I
was aware of such thoughts before ut
tered. But, I remember an expres
sion that it is belter nine guilty ones
escape the gallows than that one Inno
cent be hanged. To my knowledge,
some persons are in the grave because
their nearest of kin stubbornly re
fused to seek any aid but that of the
Christian Science. "
Two years ago I was persuaded to
try the remedy of Christian Science
with earnestness, as to be cured meant
more to me than can here - be ex
pressed. Also, I said and felt that if
the study of Christian Science can
bring my mind to see and find more
value and benefit. In the Scriptures
than before, I would be glad. But,
after studying the Science and Health
and taking seven treatments from an
accredited practitioner, 1 felt and
said that I wished to discontinue the
treatments and continue my studies
of the doctrines until I could more
understand them, and then be more
likely to benefit.
Mrs. Practitioner told me frankly
that I would not be healed by my
reading or understanding but by her
treatment. This struck me as being
contrary to what I had thus far
learned. Furthermore, when I, a little
later, came to pay the balance of my
debt, she struck me with intense sur
prise by demanding another dollar,
and explained that she gave me an
absent treatment on Sunday while at
church. Twenty-fourth and St. Mary s
avenue. These two facts almost gave
a death blow to my estimation of the
correctness of the Christian Science
teachings.
Well, for some time I read on. hop
ing to benefit, passing over the nu
merous baseless, vain, inane, inconsis
tent and sometimes contradictory
statements found in the textbook,
which is alleged to be the "echoings of
heavenly harmonies," while Mrs. Eddy
was merely the scribe. I could not
indefinitely stultify my sense and rea
soti, however, and had to stop to In
quire whether I was wrong or the
author. Should any one wish to know
where I find such statements in that
sacred book, I should be glad to ad
vise. With reference to Mr. Herring's al
lusion to the fact that Christian
Science has "regenerated so many
lives," I wish to make a comparison
with him and hia followers and the
famous Billy Sunday, whose activities
are claimed to result in very many
regenerations, in spite of "such
loathsome gospel, such a frightful
God, such a grotesque Christ, such a
fantastic heaven, und such an impos
sible hell." Dr. Aked.
Mr. Thompson, you are right; there
are things which are intrinsically
good. DAVID OLSON.
Touches the Right Spot.
North Platte. Neb., Aug. 14. To the
Editor of The Bee: Your editorial on
"Democracy in Days to Come" has cer
tainly the true ring. I have been a.
daily reader of The Bee for some
time. I have been buying and read
ing magazines and other papers. I
have been watching and waiting for
somebody to mention this very sub
ject. I have seen nothing and heard noth
ing until I saw this in The Bee. I have
read long letters on international
peace and have heard and read some
lectures. But there is more common
sense in this article than all the others
combined.
Now, Mr. Editor, if you can get this
lesson taught to the people of the
world you will have done a wonder
ful thing and your name and the
name of your paper ought to be writ
ten in halls of fame in letters of gold.
HENRY MILES.
Peace Through Disarmament.
Council Bluffs, Ia Aug. 14. To the
Editor of The Bee: I am not a Cath
olic and, in fact, belong to no church,
but, as surely as 1 believe in God, 1
believe that the proposal of the pope
should receive the attention and con
sideration of the warring nations. Le?
us have peace! WTith his proposal of
disarmament it is only a short step to
a "federated states of the world."
If war taxes are increased much .
more we, the people, will not be ftble
to more than exist. The cost of the
war should be borne in money, by'
wealth, and should fall mostly on those
owning vacant lands, especially those
held for speculation.
If the war tax bill as advocated by
Senator Simmons is passed corpora
tions by merely increasing their capi
talization decrease their war tax, yet.
the man receiving an income of $1,00
per year cannot reduce his war taxes
by this method, although his expenses
are at least 20 per cent greater than
in 1911-12-13.
Let us have peace; let us have laws
regulating the ownership of land; let
us have laws doing way with the prin
ciple of taxing a man because he im
proves a piece of property. Then
"charities" and "slumming'! will not
be so necessary.
Let the question, of "to which na
tion belongs'1 Alsace-Lorraine, Ireland,
Poland, etc., be decided for them
selves and by themselves, their affairs
in the meantime to be administered by
a "council of nations," above board in
the open. Do away with the unneces
sary secret diplomacy. Let us have
peace now, if any agreement can bo
reached tending toward eventual dis
armament. CHARLES TAYLOR.
1013 Seventh avenue.
SMILING LINES.
Teacher Into what classes were the peo
ple in the Mayflower divided?
Bright Pupil Pilgrim fathers, Pilgrim
mothers. Pilgrim sons and Plymouth Bock
chickens. Judge.
Bessie Tou don't believe every bit of
scandal you har, do you?
HelenOh, dear, no; but if one keeps
repeating it, it seems to help a lot. Judge.
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