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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1917.
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JULY CIRCULATION
57,229 Daily Sunday, 51,153
iterate strruiaiion for the aaontB eu been Bed sad swora U by Dwlga.
Willtaaa, CtrcultUoa Muater.
SnbacribeTS laavtaf the city shauld have Taa Boo Basils)
la them. Addro chaagaa' aa aftea aa reaueated.
Let Potsdam cheer up! China promises to ob
serve the rules of the game.
To auto speeders: Slow down, or it's only a
question of time till you'll be sorry.
Judging: by the local tax levied those official
canning lessons failed to reach official spenders.
The process of "digesting peace proposals" sug
gests a welcome change of diet in some quarters.
Nebraska is one of six debtless states. Its
Inhabitants, though, have been consistent bor
rowers, i
The route to medical glory for doctors stretches
cross, the seas. Uncle Sam stands ready to em
ploy 50,000.
No fire in the rear on the boys going to the
war zone. They'll have enough to do to fight
the enemy in front, of them.
Nick Romanoff's mysterious disappearance is
not the only one of its class this year. There is
the case of one W. J. Bryan.
Now, if other monarchs conducted themselves
with the corpulent good will of. King Corn what
happy old world this would be. .
Allied shipping increases as U-boat destruction
declines. Crowing numbers of scouting destroy
ers accelerate the freedom of the seas.
Vast numbers of husky people urge peace,
but shy at the thought of Jaking active part in the
most effective means of bringing it about.
- Get together and get busy. The fall months
in this climate constitute the harvest time of
juiiding operations and should be utilized to the
limit. .
. The dirge of whisky-making in this country
ill be heard at the midnight hour, September 8.
"Ye that have tears to shed prepare to shed them
tow."
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v A Missouri coal magnate- justifies boosted
prices by 'quoting from the Bible "Ask and ye
shall receive." But suppose the squeezed con
sumer should ask for normal prices, what would
he receive? Oi that point .the Missouri magnate
is silent - '"'. t
' ; The' attorney generat of Missouri enliven" the
gaycty of midsummer by intimating boldly that
the coal producers of the state are ih a price
fixing combine. Some day, perhaps, the attor
ney general will wake up long enough to give
tmt some fresh news. ' V
There is no human heart so dull that does not
quicken to the pulsing of peace. Equally mov
ing is the instinct for present and future national
safety. Until the latter is definitely assured na
tions forced to take up arms against kaiserism
cannot yield to nlcre sentiment.
Mexico's publicity bureau vouches for the re
port that Villa's chief of staff, General Salazar,
lias been disposed of by a firing squad. Salazar
has a record of being put out of business as fre
quently as Villa and, like the revolutionary leader,
managed to turn up very much alive at unex
pected places.
Bulgaria, one of the big four, spurns the idea
of peace without annexation. Much as King Fer
dinand abhors the smear and disorder of war, his
scruples yield to the soothing touch of added
acres. For that alone Ferd let loose his legions
of spoilsmen. If he cannot hold what the kaiser
handed to him the fruits of ravaging his neighbors
will resemble the Dead Sea variety.
Comparatively Few Slackers
Now York Tim-
More significant than the fact that a few cow
irds here and there are trying to escape the mili
tary draft is the stirring fact presented in the
news columns of the Sunday Times, with statis
tical proof, that since April 1 more than 1,750.000
men have volunteered for service in the army,
.iavy and marine corps of the United States. Many
of these men were rejected by the recruiting offi
cers because they could not pass the rigid physi
cal examinations. But that was their misfortune
ind the country's. Their patriotism is beyond all
question. Doubtless the failure to pass; in many
cases, has impelled the men to take better care of
their bodies, to try to overcome their physical de
fects, so that they may be accepted for military
service later on.
In spite of the many rejections of volunteers,
this country now has. equipped and under arms.
more than 800,000 men. This number, of course,
does not include the men already selected for the
.national army, but it includes the regular army,
the -National Guard, the marine corps, the navy
and the naval reserve. It must be borne in mind,
too, that the recruiting has been conducted in the
most businesslike way. The martial spirit has
rot been aroused by military parades and music.
There have been no reports of military achieve
ments or misadventures under the American flag
to stir our young men to offer their services. They
have gone to the recruiting offices as one goes to
his office, shop or factory. ,
( The result of the selective conscription, which
will increase our armed forces by next winter to
nearly 1,500,000, is more satisfactory each day. We
, hear a great deal about the slackers, but in pro-
, portion to the stalwart patriots there are very few
- ot them.
Fanners and Profiteering.
The profiteer who tries to coin his patriotism
into money ground from the necessities of war
victims obviously invites public odium and ought
not to escape it. When the New York Journal of
Commerce, however, presumably to solace the big
profiteering combines, tries to placard the whole
agricultural industry of the country as a band of
extortioners because farm products have been
commanding unprecedented prices, it fails wholly
to make out its case. That paper sets out what it
calls "astounding figures" representing the aggre
gate of the farm output, if sold at this year's top
prices, which figures are doubtless mathematically
correct, although only a portion of the yield is
ever marketed at the highest quotations, and
draws this conclusion:
Nobody begrudges the farmer his prosperity
when within reason. But the question arises is
he not receiving rather more than his share,
and are not the prices of food which he produces
unnecessarily high? It has long been fashion
able and correct to blame the speculater and the
distributer for inordinate prices; it now looks
as jf the farmer himself needed a little of the
criticism which in the past he has flung so suc
cessfully upon those who come after him in the
chain from producer to consumer. The farmer
has for years been able to wield powerful po
litical influence, on the supposition that he was
a miserable under-dog and needed some sort of
government aid. From some of the ordinary
burdens of citizenship he is therefore exempt.
He is also the recipient of some very substantial
public favors rural delivery, tax exemption,
etc., for example so that all-in-all he is a par
ticularly favored individual in these times. Is
there any special reason why he should be more
coddled than any other class?
But the Journal of Commerce is completely in
error when it leaves the inference that the farmer,
by combination or other questionable means, has
raised the prices of what he has to sell. Except
for, perhaps, the growers of certain special food
articles who maintain co-operative selling asso
ciations that have adopted marketing methods
devised and perfected for commercial and manu
facturing lines, the farmers have never succeeded
in maintaining a price combination with any de
gree of effectiveness. The American farmer takes
the most money he is offered for his corn and his
wheat and his oats and his cattle, but he has to
accept the price fixed in the equation of supply
and demand in the whole world's markets. Out
side of accessibility and better transportation
facilities, the American farmer has no advantage
over the Argentine farmer or the Canadian farmer
or the farmer of India. War profits he has been
enjoying, but not war profiteering.
; - Nemesis of Klondike's Evildoers.
Dispatches from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
describing the opening of the trial of two Eskimos
charged with murder, glimpses the energy, perse
verance and courage of the Canadian mounted.
police in pursuing and bringing lawbreakers to
justice. In the lexicon of the organization there
is no such word as fail. Neither time nor distance,
wilderness or weather, halt pursuit of evil
doers. The case on trial is typical, of the' work
of this famous body in the outskirts of civiliza
tion. The crime was committed four years ago.
in a desolate fringe of the Arctic. Discovery
came much later. The mounted police took up
the trail, followed it relentlessly through Arctic
wastes and covered 3,000 mfle to and from the
hiding place of the alleged hiurderers. The hard
ships .and difficulties of such a journey attest the
physical stamina and resolute character of the
men who maintain law and order in Canada's
Klondike.
Success is not wholly due to the fact that they
are picked men, strong, alert,' and sure of aim.
It comes largely through freedom from local con
trol and influences. The mounted police are an
independent body, responsible to the Dominion
government only, .one of the links in the chain of
law enforcers pursuing their delegated duties
without fear or favor.'
Similar bodies of civic soldiers are increas
ingly necessary in the United States. Pennsylvania
has taken the lead with state police independent
of local control. New' York state is about to
follow. Six governors of Pacific states, harrassed
by roving bands of trouble makers, at a recent
conference proclaimed the necessity of state police
to overcome the evils of defeated justice growing
out of complicating local jurisdictions. No mis
takes will be made if such bodies are modeled
on the plan of the Canadian' mounted police.
Six Star Statei.
Let every one who likes to point with pride to
Nebraska sit up and take notice of this bit of in
formation incorporated into a study of state
finance j'ust made by the census bureau of the
Department of Commerce:
Six states Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas, West Virginia and Oregon report no
net indebtedness.
Nebraska has no state debt because we are
forbidden by our state constitution to borrow
money in time of peace in excess of $100,000, for
which the interest must be met by a special tax
irrepealable until the debt is paid. It go?s with
out saying that while there have been times when
the state has issued bonds under this proviso, a
loan limited to $100,000 in its present condition
of affluent resources would fbe of no particular
benefit in financing one of the state's projects.
Adverting to this star list of six debtless states,
it should be noted that four of them are in a
single group constituted of Nebraska and its
neighbors on three sides, Kansas, South Dakota
and Iowa the great corn belt states that form
the garden spot of America. Of the other two,
West Virginia is an eastern border state and
Oregon a Pacific coast state, but there is none
representing New England or the state rimming
the Great Lakes or the southern states.
To be out of debt does not alone decide the
character of the commonwealth, but a common
wealth must have people of character if it stays
out of Mebt. In this group of free-from-debt
states Nebraska may be well satisfied with the
company it keeps.
Our amiable hyphenated contemporary does
not want to discuss the senator's vote against
submitting the proposed national prohibition
amendment in defiance of the vote of his con
stituency favoring prohibition. It seems to think
the senator can get away with it better by keep
ing silent on the subject.
Did you note that item about the mayor of
Joplin being removed from office by a recall elec
tion as a result of charges against his police sub
ordinates? Some folks in our Omaha city hall
must be congratulating themselves that they are
not holding office in Joplin.
Organized action looking to increasing the pay
of British soldiers gains strength in England.
Three shillings a day, or an equivalent of 71 cents,
is considered a reasonable figure. This would
bring the British soldier within hailing distance
of the United States soldier in the matter of pay.
Musicians and the War
By Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C, Aug. 17. The conscrip
tion of aliens will mean a feeble musical season
this winter. Our Italian opera, our Russian sym
phonies, our French orchestras and our Hungar
ian solists will many of them depart for training
camps, leaving a gloomy prospect of closed opera
houses, vacant halls, empty theaters and quiet
streets. For the greater part of the musical tal
ent that the United States has coaxed to its
shores is of military age.
Such is the discouraging picture drawn for the
American public by persons who live by the pro
duction of music. They predict every sort of
disaster from a "Faust." sung entirely by women,
to the disbanding of the local masculine choir of
Milwaukee, if musicians, especially alien musicans,
are taken in the draft. Moreover, the musicians
themselves, moved by the thought of a world with
out music, have intimated that it might be well
to follow the example of other countries and, as
far as it is ju?t and possible, to exempt musicians
as a whole.
"Ministers and theological students have
been exempted as a whole," says one prominent
musician whom Americans have adopted as their
own, "yet ministers as a class do not give any
thing to their country. They are merely propa
gandists, preaching that which someone else has
given. But every real musician is a real composer.
The rhythm within him sooner or later will find
expression in some sort of composition. Suppose
they had taken Beethoven and Wagner before
they were thirty, and sent them to war? Ah, it is
enough to cause one to shudder! Yet there may
be several embryo Beethovens in the United States
today.
This idea that musicians should be spared on
account of their value to the country is not new.
Many famous musicians are in the armies of the
belligerent countries of Europe, with perhaps the
exception of Germany, but it has been the policy
of each government to put them in positions
where they are out of danger.
In Germany, according to the best reports, they
have not been put into military service at all.
Germany is extremely proud of its musical repu
tation, and It intends to protect it. During the
whole period of the war Berlin has kept up its
opera; it has kept open its musical conservatories,
and left its teachers and composers in safety. The
same is true of Munich, Bayreuth and other large
German cities.
Occasionally, one of our own borrowed musi
cians has gone back to fight for nis country, but
it is interesting to note the speed with which he
was discharged from military duty the moment he
was wounded. At the beginning of the war, for
example, we all heard with a pang of .personal loss
that our great American violinist, the Austrian
Fritz Kreisler, had gone back to fight and had
been wounded. But it was not very long before
he was back again, his leg a trifle stiff, but his left
wrist in its usual famous working condition.
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One authority has attempted to point out that
the various countries are protecting their musi
cians not because they are musicians, but because
their physical health was such as to make them
undesirable as military material. There is one
flaw in this argument, however. The musician
of today is usually a healthy specimen.
There is a, story to the effect that Albert
Spaulding was once caught playing tennis, by his
manager, who immediately raved, tore his hair and
insisted that no American audience would ever
tolerate an artist who was also a sportsman. Mr.
Spaulding, however, seemed to feel that his own
physical health was more necessary to his art than
was this particular idiosyncracy of the American
audience, so he refused to relinquish his morn
ing hours. on the tennis court. But today, every
artist has his own little pet outdoor sport. Pas
quale Amato is not afraid that his love of swim
ming and fishing will affect his voice; the Zim
balist family revels in all outdoor sports, from
hunting to golf, and Gabrilovitch has even cut his
hair and gone in for surf bathing this summer.'
No, there would be no difficulty in obtaining
a healthy quota of musicians for the army, if the
government decided it wanted them. And, ap
parently, it has decided that it does, since no
provision has been made to the contrary. Mean
time, preparations are going forward fbr the big
gest musical season that we have ever had in
America. Many new operas are being rehearsed
by the Metropolitan Opera company; numerous
sopranos, tenors and baritones are practicing
English translations of German songs for con
cert work throughout the winter, and every
where choruses, choirs, orchestras and bands are
looking forward to an active year after a long va
cation. Never have musical prospects looked
brighter. Is it any wonder," therefore, that musi
cians and impresarios resent the intrusion of the
draft, and urge the exemption of musical talent?
It is all yery well to say that men are equal,
but men are not equal so far as the state and.
civilization are concerned. Artists are too scarce
and too valuable to the world to be offered up as
sacrifices unless it is absolutely necessary. While
making the world safe for democracy, would it
not' also be well to make it safe for art?
Our Fighting Men
Edward Jo Lewis. , .
Colonel Edward M. Lewis, U. S. A., -who is
slated to be brigadier general of the troops lately
comprising the Indiana National Guard, is an
Indiana man. He was born at New Albany in
1863 and received his early education at DePauw
university. He is a graduate of the United States
Military academy and has seen thirty years of
active military service, including a highly credit
able record in the war with Spain. Recently he
was made colonel of the Forty-fifth infantry, one
of the new regiments, now stationed at Fort Ben
jamin Harrison.
Albert C. Dillingham.
Rear Admiral Albert C. Dillingham, U. S. N.,
retired, who has been placed in charge of the de
velopment of the great naval base at Jamestown,
Va., was born in Philadelphia in 1848. Before
entering the navy he served in the army during
the civil war, in the Seventh Pennsylvania volun
teers. After the war he entered the naval academy
and graduated in 1869. As a lieutenant he served
on the United States steamship Nashville during
the war with Spain. While in temporary command
of the Nashville he ran that vessel close in to
shore at Santiago and under a heavy fire from the
infantry covered retreating cable-cutting boats. In
later years Admiral Dillingham was twice sent to
Santo Domingo to protect American interests dur
ing he insurrections there.
Jesse Mcl. Carter.
Colonel Jesse Mcl. Carter, who has been as
signed to the command of the new Nineteenth
cavalry regiment, is a noted cavalry officer of
the United States army. He also has a high repu
tation as an organizer and for his known effi
ciency in this line of military service he was se
lected by the War department to direct the work
of building up the cavalry arm of the National
Guard. Colonel Carter is a native of Missouri
and was appointed to the West Point academy
from that state in 1882. t His military record in
cludes services in the Spanish war. in Porto Rico
and on the Mexican border. He has served two
details as a member of the general staff.
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Frank W. Bartlett.
Captain Frank W. Bartlett, U.S.N., on inspec
tion duty in the bureau of steam engineering, is
one of the noted engineering experts of the navy.
Captain Bartlett is a native of Massachusetts, born
in Boston in 1856, and graduated from the United
States Naval academy at the age of 22. Two years
after leaving the Annapolis academy he was ap
pointed an assistant engineer in the navy, and
since that time his activities have been confined
to the engineering branch of the service. He was
made chief engineer during the war with Spain
and in 1910 he attained the rank of captain. Cap
tain Bartlett is the author of several standard text
books on naval engineering.)
Proverb for the Day.
It Is bad luck to turn back.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Bulgars attacked and drove back
both flanks of the Anglo-French line
In Greece.
Italian and Russian armies landed
at Salonlca to co-operate with the
British, French and Serbians.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Mrs. J. T. Clark has returned from
her visit to Michigan and will con
tinue in charge of the choir of the
First Methodist Episcopal church.
A number of young people ten
dered a surprise party to Master Au
gust Kuehn at hia parents' residence,
807 South Twenty-fourth, the occa
sion being the birthday of the young
host. An enjoyable time was spent
by the following: Misses Steinhauser,
Weulrich, Wilde, Lehmann, Strieker,
Gsantner, Fruehalf. Wittig, Spettman,
Masters A. Karbach, J. Settzle, Henry
Rix, Everitts, J. Purvis, John Wittig.
Picard, Laccoom, Fred Strieker,
Chris Boss.
The steamer Benton, which went
up the river past Omaha in the year
1881 during the time of the great
freshet, arrived at the foot of Far
nam street and put up there over
night on her way dowh to St. Louis.
Byron Reed is trying to evict the
squatters from his lots near Cutoff
lake.
Mrs. R. D. Peironet, one of the old
est citizens of Omaha and mother of
Thomas Peironet. died at her resi
dence, 824 Virginia avenue, in her
eightieth year.
Captain Rustin, 1622 Harney, was
awakened from a sound sleep by the
operations of a burglar, whom he
found piling his silverware into a
bundle. The crook was even more
startled than the captain and quickly
snatching a pair of opera glasses, a
couple of silver card-cases and a pair
of solid silver spoons, he sped through
the open window.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirchbraun have re
turned from their bridal tour.
TWs Day in History. '
1778 General Sullivan succeeded
General Greene in command of the
American forces on Long Island.
1794 American army under Gen
eral Wayne routed the Indians in
battle of Maumee Rapids.
1795 Commodore Robert F.Stock
ton, the American naval officer who
captured California fcom the Mex
icans, born at Princeton, N. J. Died
there October 7. 1866.
1833 Benjamin Harrison, twenty
third president of the United States,
born at North Bend, O, Died at In
dianapolis, March 13, 1901.
1847 General 8cott returned to
Pan Augustin after defeating the
Mexicans at Chesubusco.
1877 Turks began a series of des
perate attempts to take the Schipka
Pass from the Russians. (Russo
Turklsh war).
1912 The. Mexican federal troops
took possession of the city of Juarez.
191 4- Brussels abandoned by the
Belgians, occupied by the Germans.
1915 Italy declare war against
Turkey.
The Day Wp Celebrate.
J. M. Harding is a native Nebras
kan. having come to this world in
WIsner just thirty years agef today.
The Harding Creamery company now
claims him aa secretary.
Frederick J. Farrington was born
August 20, 1876. He originated in
Romeo, Mich., and now manages the
John Deere Plow company.
Orla Holmes Menold. agency di
rector in Nebraska for the New York
Life Insurance company, was born on
a farm near Viola, 111., August 20,
1866.
Joseph W. Woodrough, judge of the
United States district court of Ne
braska,, born at Cincinnati, forty-four
years ago today.
Christine Nilsson, for many years
one of the world's most famous sing
ers, born in Sweden. seVenty-five years
ago today.
Raymond Poincare. president of
the French republic, born at Bar-le-Duc,
fifty-seven years ago today.
Father Bernard Vaughan, celebrat
ed English Jesuit author, preacher
and lecturer, born seventy years ago
today. '
Lieutenant General G. T. M.
Bridges, one of the British delegates
to the Washington war conference
last April, born forty-six years ago
today.
Morris McDonald, president of the
Maine Central railroad, born at New
Albany, Ind., fifty-two years ago to
day. . ,
Arthur P. Rugg, chief Justice of the
Massachusetts supreme court, born at
Sterling, Mass., fifty-five years ago to
day. Herbert Myrick. agricultural econ
omist and New England Representa
tive on the price control committee,
born at Arlington, Mass., fifty-seven
years ago today. '
Julia Sanderson, popular musical
comedy star, born at Springfield,
Mass., thirty-three years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Boston today gives an official wel
come to the fifty-first annual national
encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic and affiliated organiza
tions. .
The national convention of the
Irish Catholic Benevolent union opens
in Pittsburgh today and will continue
in session through the greater part
of the week.
' The third anniversary of the death
of Tope Pius X will be observed to
day with a special mass to be cele
brated In the crypt of St. Peter's, In
Rome.
St. Louis Is to be the meeting place
today of the supreme lodge and uni
form rank of the Knights of Pythias,
a negro organization of national
scope.
The thirteenth annual convention
of the International Metal Polishers,
Buffers, Platers and Silver Workers
union of North America meets today
In Cincinnati. ..,.,
Under the provisions of a Maryland
statute which goes into effect today
all able-bodied males between the
ages of 18 and 50, who are exempt
from military duty, are to be required
to register for employment in indus
trial or agricultural pursuits.
Storyett of the Day.
Colonel Roosevelt told at the Platts
burg training camp a hot-weather
8t"Today," he began, "is like the day
when the major said to the colonel-
" Colonel. I bet I've sweat twentyr
four gallons this afternoon.'
"'Major,' said the colonel, 'gentle
men don't sweat they perspire.
Hosses sweat, sir."
" Then, by gum, colonel, said the
major, 'I'm a hoss.' "Washington
Star.
The Japan nation wa the ft rat to re
ogntx th true valua of the medical officer
in time of war that hi plaee as at the
front of any army, to prevent diaeaaea. a
well at at the rear, to cure it.
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Thanks the Bee.
Omaha, Aug. 16. To the Editor of
The Bee: Upon completion of our
work as 'a committee, we wish to
thank you for the publicity and sup
port accorded by The Bee during our
recent campaign for signatures to the
Hoover Pledge Card.
Realizing that newspaper publicity
is most necessary, and feeling that
The Bee rendered valuable assistance
toward making our work a success, wet
as a committee, wish to express our
gratitude frr your hearty co-operation.
FOOD CONSERVATION COM
MITTEE, Miss Gladys Shamp,
Secretary.
Not His Kind of "Kultur."
Omaha, Aug. 18. To the Editor of
The Bee: "No war on German art"
is the slogan of permans and some
well meaning Americans. German
"kultur" is responsible for the ravish
ing of Belgium, northern France,
southern Russia and most of the small
nations of Europe. TJiat nation of
"kultur" is trying to ravish the whole
world. It is the most brutal and crufcl
nation the world has ever known. It
confines itself as much to the destruc
tion of individuals aa it does to na
tions. Its men of "kultur" seize and
deport defenseless women and girls
and hold them in slavery and white
slavery. They Know no law and no
bounds In their murderous savagery
on either land or sea and humanity is
entirely foreign to their "kultured"
souls. "Kultured" Germans are re
sponsible for tha greatest calamity
that was ever forced on the world
and still in their arrogance and in
tense egotism they talk of their su
perior culture and wisdom. They
have tried to corrupt every nation on
the face of the earth. We have our
"Patricia Newcombs" and our kaiser
ites who slur our president, slur our
government and slur our people.
They deplore everything American
and praise everything German. They
hate everyone and everything not
German. They belittle our schools,
our Intelligence, our country and our
flag and they bind themselves to
gether in all sorts of intrigue.
Down with such a government and
such a people and all their art, sci
ence and literature and everything
else that upholds them until they
have reached sanity again. The
would be better off today had there
ature as good or better than was ever
produced in Germany, and the world
would be better o today had there
never been a Germany. Had I a piece
of German music today I'd tear it
Into scraps of paper or smash it into
smithereens and replace it with that
produced by a nation of people who
have a soul that is capable of keep
ing pace with humanity; then I would
have real music or real art, science or
literature with a soul.
ERNEST L. IRELAND.
difference to the sufferer whether you
call pain real or unreal?" No differ
ence to the sufferer, but a radical dif
ference in the treatment. If pain is
real, you should give paregoric, but if
pain is mental, there Is a better rem
edy than paregoric.
If matter possesses the inherent
reality sufficient to enjoy Itself or have
pain, it would then seem logical to
apply some other matter to induce
the pleasure or stop the pain, but if
disease is error Induced by wrong
thought, the remedy should be di
rected toward correcting the thought
and this constitutes a Christian Science
treatment.
Our critic admits some of the heal
ings of Jesus and denies others. This
is not meeting the issue. The question
Is. did Jesus establish tha principle of
spiritual healings? If He did not, the
case is closed, if He did, mistakes and
failures are no more to be recorded
than the failure of the school boy to
work his sums destroys the science of
mathematics.
Christian Science accepts the gospel
recftrd of the healings performed by
Jesus in their entirety, not only for
the evidential fact, but as a precedent
and guide tor Christian healing for all
manner of diseases.
Lest this series of letters should he
unduly extended, we commend sin
cere seekers after truth to the text
book of Christian Science, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures, by
Mrs. Eddy, which can be obtained at
the public library, and close with a
citation from page 287, "Error is falne
mortal belief: it is illusion, without
spiritual identity or foundation, and
it has no real existence.
"The supposition that life, substance
and intelligence are in matter or of it
is an error." CARL E. HERRING.
TART TRIFLES.
Gospel of Christian Science.
Omaha, Aug'. 15. To the Editor of
The Bee: In the Bee of August 6, Mr.
Olson arrives at the conclusion that
Christian Science- cures diseases, but
that Christian Scientists do not know
how it Is done.
The patience of the editor and the
good nature of the public are rapidly
bringing us to many points of agree
ment. The writer cheerfully admits
that he is but skirting the edges of the
tremendous philosophy contained in
Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy in 1910
said, "Today, though rejoicing In some
progress she still finds herself a willing
disciple at' the heavenly gate, waiting
for the mind of Christ." (Science and
Health, Pref. IX.)
If then we are agreed that Chris
tian Science heals and that we are
mere voyagers on the edges of truth,
we have laid well the foundation for
further progress.
The question is asked, "What is the
Pater Familial Jane, 1 want to ipeak
to you about the youne fellow who's court
ing our Matilda. I don't like his short
comings. M.iter Kamlllas And I don't lllie his long
goings. Baltimore Americun.
Brown Everything Is fair In love and
war!
Green The man who originated that did
not know that German was going to war!
Puck.
"There seem to be many disturbances In
Russia. Situation must be serious."
"That doesn't necesearily follow. Russian
newspapers mtRht easily report many dis
turbances In the United Stateu. But we
know they're not serious. Louisville Courier-Journal.
"They rejected him because h? had flat
feet."
"And you were accepted?"
"Yes."
"Lucky for you It's flat feet, not flat
heads, they object to." Detroit Free Press.
"Willie, did you put your nickel In the
contribution box?"
"No. mamma. I asked Eddie Lake, the
minister's son, if I couldn't keep it and
spend It for candy and he gave me I .mis
sion." Boston Transcript.
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