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4 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD K03EWATER VICTOR ROSEWATEB, EDITOR TH BBS PUBLISHING COMPANY, PEOPRISTOb" Entered at Omaha pontoffice u eeod-elas matter. By MUl tm ttN 4.00 4 00 , TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION By Curler. Dil ml Buadsr.t ..per aost. 5e Itulr without urUr.. ...... ...... " 45o Dreeing a uadtr.,... . " 40o Evening vititMit Suudw.:.. ....... " 2 fkauUi Im m1 S0 84 a otic of ebans of address or tmgultrity la dclitars to Omiht Bio. Ctreululoa Dmrtnmt. ' MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . Tfco Associated Praia of which The Bee ta a member, ti netuilTitf etttltd to the use for teputtueatinei of all ntwi erecuted to tt or not ottenrle credited lu this pener and tlto trie loot I nees pub lished hereto. AH t!(hu o( republlesUaa o( our ipeciil dispatches REMITTANCE ' pottti ordar, ObIj l eant sunps Ufcen In not OOMDted. , kwnlt M flnn. HDrol or I paymnl of statu tocounta. PcctoaU check, except on Omiiu aad eastern excBaue. OFFICES ttaUke The Bee Bulldint. Sautfe OrnJi . 301 Mt CoeneU Bluffs 14 X. Mwa 8. Unrotn Utile Buildmi, Ohlcafo Penple'i Cm Buil&iSf. . Kew York m nftb Aw. Imts Stw B l of commerce. i m n. w. Ward Intton lit 14th I CORRESPONDENCE Bss aad editorial suitor to Addraoi eoaunenieaUftai re! Win to Ortaha Bee, Editorial Dacartmaot. AUGUST CIRCULATION 59,011 Daily Sunday, 51,912 A 'arm eircolatloa for Oia month subscribed and ire to by Dwlfht Williams. Circuit tloa Maoaftr. Subscribers loavlnf tit city should have Tha Boo nailod ta tfc am. Addres changed aa of tea aa requested. You're tagged! Dig up the "bit"l ) "The Peace Council" reduces the strategy of retreat to a fine art . , ' Where there's a will there's a ay' of com mandeering gambling, chips and bottled bug juice. Self government launched in Poland bears the epitaph: ','Made Art Germany," , That settles its reputation t ; '; - , -r ,t - ' , A shortage ot221 degrees of temperature from the normal of six months gives September a large field for hot wort. ... . "Scraps of paper"' look good to Argentina. But then, Uncle Sam has some of the same stock a file for future .reference.- . . , ; Western-pledges of , substantial support to France are registered for redemption at full value by western fighting men. v -.; fi ill Thompson and Bill Mason put one over on the f 6vernor of Illinois. Such a gallant pair of Potsdam megaphones surely cannot miss the iron CrOSS..' i . ; '-.',- A glimpse of the number on speedy highways occasions no surptise that auto accidents kre so few. Careful driving is the rule, recklessness the exepetion.;,, V-'.. ' ;.' .v The incisions on wheat, coat and sugar, may eventually bring measurable substance to the consumer. For the present the consumer must be content with semi-official caloric From the standpoint of discipline alone, the proposed working reserve of American boys is well worth the effort.' Disciplined boys are stroflg, self-reliant men in the making. ' ; Germans are credited with believing, that the Fatherland was attacked at, the beginning 6f the war. This is another' way of proving ?(the ef ficiency of Germany's .military censorship. ' C We have borrowed several political improve ments from Australia, a few of them to our bet terment Equally appreciable good is possible by borrowing the Australian plan of outlawing the I. W. W. and giving it the necessary punch ' -.. , 1 i g : -. . v The spectacle of the Central powers promising Poland independence and (elf-government in re turn for cannon "fodder," touches the high mark of junker deceit.- History mocks the promise and Poland's experience stamps' it at the flattery of tyrants. ' Six and three-quarter millions ef British women 30 years and over are eligible for suf frage under the pending franchise bill. Should' they exercise the right as zealously as men their, number constitutes the balance of political power if not actual majority of voters in the kingdom. Thirty-eight manufacturers and jobbers in automobile supplies are under indictment in New York for getting together and aqueeaing the fel lows who declined the invitation to' come in. , A business aggregating $100,000,000 a year surely calls for a mutual admiration society, but these of fensive government lawyers rudely shoot up the mirrors. Some members of congress eagerly. pVess for tighter reins on government expenditures, espe cially what war absorbs, but so far have not mus-- tered a majority for direct supervision of. outgo. The federal meal tub overflows as never before, and scarcity of "pork" in other directions renders a touch of the billions necessary to keep hands in proper trim. '' v "r' " Enforcing the Law i WMfclagtoa Pout 11 i - i The New York police, acting sromotly in accordance with the instructions of the mayor, effectually ended the most ambitious street meet ing of the professional agitators who, under the guise of pleading for freedom for Ireland, have been attacking the American government There is every evidence that the law against treason and sedition henceforth will be enforced against the soap-box orators. Not only the authorities in- New York, but those in other cities give evidence of determination to get rid of treason. - It is a larger task that confronts the federal government in dealing with the Industrial Work ers of the World, whose leaders have been aiding Germany's industrial intrigue in the United States. It has been proposed by the Council of National Defense that a commission be appointed to deal' with this problem, going from state to state to investigate and report on such agitations." It is not further investigations and reports that are needed so much as arrests and prosecutions. A tew earnest and energetic United States attor neys would be of far more avail Federal troops, with authority to put into effect martial law. will compel the respect that will be denied to any civilian investigating commission. . When the government recently acted through the military authorities and caused the arrest of some of the western agitators who had called a strike in the mines, cantonments and agricultural regions of three states there was an immediate check in the preparations to embarrass the nation in war. Fifty thousand men had been called out. but only a bare fraction responded. Neither more law nor more investigation required to stop sedition and treason. There is law enough in the city of New York to teach pa triotism to the soap-box orators. There is sum 'rut federal law to ' teach patriotism ; to ' the 1. W. VV. . - . - German Attitude Made Plain. Whatever the government-controlled editors of Germany may say of American intentions as to the war will readily be discounted as the ex pression of a press that is enforcedly subservient to a military machine. This must apply even to the great socialist paper, Vorwarts, which, al though generally violently opposed to the kaiser and his government, yet will not be permitted to go too far in its criticisms. It may, therefore, be accepted as having tacit approval of the authori ties for whatever it says; and this makes its ut terance in discussing the reply of President Wil son to the peace note of the pope the more signifi cant. In the course of a lengthy article on the subject, the Vorwarts says: The German people are fighting this most terrible of battles not for the right of a single family or a certain form of government, but for its own existence. In this senc and in no other, the German social democracy, in jts endeavor to obtain altered constitutional con ditions, refuses to employ methods calculated to weaken the nation's defenses. .In plain words, the socialist movement of Ger many, which is the parent body of the movement throughout the world, is committed to the pro gram of the kaiser. Its fortunes are wrapped up with the; kaiser's, and its leaders in Germany,; despite a! few individual utterances, are devoted to the pursuit of the war until triumph crowns their efforts. They have no thought of German defeat, while restitution and restoration is far from their intent. This attitude is not novel; it was foreshadowed at the Paris conference in 1913, when the socialist delegates4 from Germany openly admitted they would fight against their comrades if. war were to come. How much longer will American socialists delude themselves with any notion they can fol low the red flag of their party and remain loyal to the flag of their country? Business 0utlook Encouraging. Reports from the several district branches of the Federal' Reserve bank on business conditions and the outlook are encouraging. It would be 'remarkable if some hesitancy were not noted un der the circumstances, but even with natural un certainty as to how new methods of control will finally operate as affecting general business the feeling is optimistic. Midsummer trade has been leavy in volume, an uncommon consumptive de mand having marked the period in spite of the stress laid on the need for practicing all rea sonable economies. With the opening of fall a steadying influence expected frpm the administra tion of food and fuel control and with a conse quent stabilizing of prices, such as could not come otherwise, business conditions will touch a firmer basis and currents of trade will continue strong. Crop marketing will be less spasmodic, as no reason for periodically rushing produce off to sell will exist, and' this will have a reflex on railroad business, which should avoid the perplex ing problems of traffic congestion encountered in recent years and give more even employment to the transportation facilities of the country, which are fully taxed at best. - Industrial enterprises are generally going to capacity, principal of their problems being the labor supply. , Governmental action is the chief factor affecting the future and as congress approaches a conclusion of its great war program the business of the country comes nearer to knowing just what, it must make pro vision for. "Business as usual" is out of the question in war times, but business going must be the aim of all. ' Squelch These Malignant Meddlers., . A gathering of peripatetic and persistent mis chief makers, come to consult under pretext of seeking peace, but really to further hinder any progress towards peate, met in Chicago and was able to, conclude its four-day program in four hours. This fact alone establishes the hollowness of the enterprise. If it were not enough, the names of those presented as leaders of the move ment are enough to stamp it as unworthy. John D. Works of California was an obstructionist in the senate, save when pleading for armed forces to protect California, and now is openly disloyal; Victor Berger is pro-German to the core; Morris Hillquit is an apostle of the anarchy that threat ens Russia and will engulf America if allowed to grow; Scott Nearing and other college professors associated' with the malignant meddlers are dreamers who would oppose their persuasive pleas against the serried ranks of kaiserdOm, and ex pect the junkers to prattle in return as pleas ijigly as cooing doves. Whatever the motive, the effect of the gathering is bad.' Our country is at war and stirring up opposition to its course is treason. Properly vested authority should be exercised to put a stop to the treacherous activity of these men and women, who are more dangerous than the army of the foe because more insidious. i Gathering th Cora Crop. Within a few .weeks another army will be busy in Nebraska; the big corn crop, now glori ously ripening, will demand the .attention of an unusual host Corn is too precious this season to risk the Joss of a single ear by unnecessary ex posure, and, while it is customary to let the gath ering of the crop go over the winter, taking the grain out o! the fields as opportunity offers, the present emergency requires that it have better tention. If the crop reaches the expected total ot 220,000,000 bushels, 75,000 men will be kept Dusy to get it pulled and husked in ninety days. Allowing for qays 'on which work necessarily will be interrupted, if the harvest begins by the middle of October; the end of January will come before this army will have finished its task. If is pos sible, though, to multiply the'eorn-harvesting brig ade by four or five times 25,000 and by pushing the work, to have the whole crop cribbed by the beginning of December, The State Council of Defense has foreseen the crisis and issued a call to all who can to register themselves as available for this important and patriotic task. The army authorities have contributed by allowing those who have been called to the colors who are avail able for farm work to remain untirDecember 1, that they may give service where it is needed. Nebraska's great corn crop will get attention this year it has never had before. , Indiscreet churchmen here and there manifest personal feelings to an extent that, wrings dis credit on their organizations. Only ; last week veterans of foreign wars assembled in New York were shocked by the announcement that Bishop Greer of the Protestant Episcopal church had forbidden singing, "The Star Spangled Banner," in the Cathedral of St John the Divine. The semi official reason given- for the order was that the national anthem "creates a sentiment for war and that Bishop Greer is opposed to all war.' ' ; , :" . uecreased output ot on is advanced in some quarters' as a reason for bo6sting the price. A glance at current reports, however, reveal con stantly increasing inflow of coin to the treasuries. The latter soolhci the ni'guisli of the former. t Fighting Germang in Business By Frederic J . Hcskin Washington, Sept. 1. With battles raging on two fronts, Germany is busily at work improving jts system of commercial education. The pressure and excitement of war have not blinded the Ger mans, to the fact that after the struggle of arms there is coming a struggle of dollars, a business battle for the trade of the world. So the commer cial high schools in Berlin are offering special courses in commercial geography, foreign lan guages, on the political and industrial organiza tions growing out of the world, on economic con ditions in Russia. Germany has been more successful on organiz ing itself for foreign trade than any other nation. This fact, in the opinion of our Department of Commerce, must be recognized by Americans and they must study and apply the German methods. Just as the allies have bad to build artillery equal to the German big guns, so the United States must build a trade organization as strong as that of the Germans if we are Jo make a creditable showing in the trade competition that will follow the war. Chauncey Depew Snow has just made a report to the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce of the Department of Commerce which shows how formidable and effective a thing the German for eign trade organization is. The German system of education; for over seas trade is at once the most interesting phase of the German organization for foreign trade and the one from which Americans have most to learn. In the German commercial school and commercial high schools, which latter rank with universities, he may learn not only the theory, but most of the practical details of his chosen work. Commerce in Germany is regarded as a learned profession, like law or medicine. The American who becomes an exporter simply enters some business house and works into the export ing end without any special training. The Ger man chooses exporting as his life work and spends years preparing for it. He may take a doctor's degree and be able to talk as learnedly about the theory of world commerce as any college pro fessor, or he may have merely learned some foreign languages and a little commercial geography in school. But the learned doctor will not be defi cient in practical knowledge, nor will the man of less training lack the cosmopolitan breadth of view. ' 1 The German commercial schools are a thing of recent growth. Nearly air,, Of .them date since 1880 and those of the highest type since 1898. 'Tbey followed the growth of the industrial schools. It became apparent that for Germany the knowledge how to make goods Was not more necessary than the knowledge of how and where to sell them. This led to the establishment of a few commer cial schools and their success caused them to multiply. Ihe nature of the training which these schools offer to the young man who wants to fit himself for commerce may best be appreciated by com paring their curricult with those of American schools which teach, commerce or business. The American schools, according to Mr. Snbw, are chiefly of two classes. Their are numerous so called business schools or business colleges which teach stenography, bookkeeping and perhaps one or two allied lines and many of the universities have courses in commerce Which are devoted largely to the theory of the matter. One or two universities and some of the large-municipal high schools are now offering broader courses, but to the vast majority of Americans a business educa tion means stenography, accountacy and perhaps French, uerman or apamsh. The Germans realize that knowledge of for eign languages is a fundamental. , In their com mercial schools are taught not only all of the well known foreign tongues, but the Bantu and other negro dialects, Arabic, .Turkish and Cape Dutch. The commercial houses are ready to pay well for men who are really masters of any foreign lan guage. ..Before the war nearly all of the waiters in some of the London and New York hotels were young Germans. They had odea lof taking up waiting as a. profession. They were there to learn the language as a part of theiri commercial equip-, ment.. :. -" .. 1 . J Some of the other subjects taught in commer cial high schools are "general science of business with special reference to international markets;" "trade of middle and western Europe, with a review of the trade in transatlantic products;" "bank organization in England. France and Ger many;" German banking technique in war;" "the economic chemistry ot animal and vegetable prod ucts 1" "commercial geography of France and Italy " A German commercial institution that ought to contain an idea for Americans is the Kolonial institut at Hamburg. There the German may learn the languages, even the obscure dialects, of any of the German possessions. There are three distinct courses in this school one for those in tending to settle in the colonies, one for merchants who desire to trade there and one for those who wish to go there in an official capacity. At this school the German may study the physical char acteristics, the flora and fauna, the agricultural possibilities of his colonies in the greatest detail. Our Fightng Men Thomas Snowden. - ' " " Thomas Snowden, one of the officers of the United States navy recently designated, by the president for promotion to the rank of rear ad miral, is 60 yea,rs old and a native of New York. Since his graduation from the United States naval academy in the 70s he has had twenty-two years of sea, and twenty years of land service.' His last sea duty was in command of the battleship Wyom ing in 1916. The Naval War college at Newport and the Hydrographic department at Washington, have profited by his special assignments to service in their behalf. . ' John A. Johnston. Brigadier General John A. Johnston, who has returned to the army after fifteen years retire ment to assume command of the Department of the Northeast, with headquarters at Boston, was born in Pennsylvania and, was graduated from West Point in 1875. Much of General Johnston's service prior to his resignation from the army in 1903 was spent in the adjutant general's depart ment , He was in change of and organized the inaugural parades of Presidents McKinley, Roose velt and Taft In 1902 he accompanied Generals Corbin, Young and Wood to the German army maneuvers as guests of the kaiser and prepared the report of their observations. George H. Shelton. 1 V . Colonel George H. Shelton, chief of staff of the new Twenty-sixth, division, comprising the New England National Guards, under command . of Major General Clarence Edwards, was born in Connecticut, June 16, 1871. He was appointed to the West Point academy from his native state, and upon his graduation in 1896 was commissioned a second lieutenant of the Eleventh infantry. In 1901 he was transferred to, the Twenty-fifth in fantry and commissioned a captain. In 1908 he became a major in the bureau of insular .affairs. His last two promotions date from the opening of hostilities. Colonel Shelton served with the Twenty-ninth and later theTenth infantry in the canal zone. , v;.y " " ,'. '. William Lasiiter. r; V . Brigadier; General William Lassiter,' now in London on service as military attache with the British forces, and who has been named to head the new Fifty-first Field artillery brigade, is fifty years old and a native of Virginia. After grad uating from West Point in 1889 he was commis sioned as a second lieutenant with the Fourth artillery and his entire service since that time has been with the artillery arm. He went to the Sec ond Field artillery in 1914, shortly after receiving a colonelcy and appointment as military attache with the American embassy at London. He has seen considerable of the fighting on the western front. He was graduated from the Artillery school in 1914 and served with the' general staff from 1911 lo 191.?: ' '....; v One Year Ago Tod&y in the War. . French captured mile of German trenches on Yerdun front. Bulgarian and German forces led by Von Mackensen captured bridgehead of Tutrakan, fifty miles from the Rou manian capital. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. A very interesting' feature of the Franko concert was the duo for piano ' 0 ';V ' and violin played by Master Charles and Mies Daisy Higgins, both pupils of Mr. Franko. They are promising little musicians. Pauline Schenck gave a birthday .party, at which the following little folks were present: Janet Rogers, Hope Hanchett, Marion Connell, Beu lah' Evans, Isabella Myerson, Grace and Qlaire Northrup. A pleasant party was given on Sen ator Manderson's beautiful grounds under the auspices ot the "As You Like It Tennis club." It was termed a "barn party" and among those present were noticed the following: Misses -nle Kountze, Bessie Kountze. Flo Yate- Clare Rustin, Rena Ross, Mabel Balcombe, Mary Ludjngton, Ida Dixon, My Copeland, Sadie Nash, Mabel Vonda, Bessie Morse, Messrs. Augustus iCOuntze,.' Randall Brown, Earl Gan nett, Nat-Brlgtiam, Art Kennedy, Fred Dorrancev Will Doane, Perry Badollet, Charlie Butler, John Creighton, Hil ton Fonda, Will Poppleton- and Walt Preston. ' The following Joyfu) young people participated in a moonlight excursion at Cutoff lake on the steamer "The Lady of the Lake:" Misses Allen, George, Jenkins, Jones, Tobtn, Kendall, Messrs. James Riley, Reynolds, George Testern, Watson, Parr and . Jqnes. Messrs. Riley and Watson furnished some excellent music. ' ' Miss Mellbna Butterfleld haa opened a studio here and is a welcome addi tion td the art circles of Omaha. . ' Dean and Mrs. Gardner have re turned from the mountains. This Day in Illstorr. 1795 United States signed a treaty with Algiers providing for the ransom of American prisoners. 1804 William A. Graham, governor of North Carolina, member of the United States and Confederate States senate and secretary of the navy in Fillmore's cabinet, born in ' Lincoln county. North Carolina. Died at Sara toga. N. Y., August It 1875. ' 1835 John G. Carlisle, speaker of the house of representatives and sec retary, of the treasury under Cleve land, born in Campbell county, Ken tucky. Died in New York City July 31, 1910. 1863 The federal land and sea forces united in a tremendous bom bardment of Fort Wagner in Charleston harbor. 1898 Queen Wilhelmlna of the Netherlands became reigning monarch. 1914 French city of Rheims taken by the Germans. 1915 Violent artillery activity re ported all along the western front. 1916 United States senate passed the emergency revenue bill for rais ing $206,000,000 annually by special tares. The Day Wc Celebrate. . Luther L. Kountze, vice president of J the Ffrst National bank, is Just 43 to-1 day. He was born here in Omaha and educated at Yale.' He started in at the bank in 1897 at the bottom as a clerk in order to learn the business in all its phases. Frank L. Campbell, lfe Insurance man, was born September 4, 1863, at Bainbrldge, O. He is special agent for the whole western country for the New York Life. A. B. Currie was born in Denver,-! Cola, Just forty-one years ago today. He is head of the A. B. fturrie com pany, dealing in wholesale coal. James L. Tomanek was born Sep tember 4, 1884, in Linwood, Neb. He is one of Omaha's pharmacists. , Archduke Charles Stephen, the commander of the Austrian navy, born at Gross-Seelowltz, fifty-seven years ago today. Tobias Crawfofrd Norrls, premier of Manitoba, born at Brampton, Ont, fifty-six years ago today. Charles F. Reavis, representative in congress of the First Nebraska dis trict born at Falls City, Neb., forty seven years ago today. Rt. Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, born at Windham, Conn., sixty-nine years ago today. Charles D. Stengel, outfielder of the Brooklyn National league base ball team, bora in 'Kansas City, twenty-six years ago today. Napoleon LaJoie, former American league base ball star, now manager of the Toronto International league club, born at Woonsocket R. I., forty-two years ago today. x Timely Jottings and Reminders. Today is the date fixed for enrolling the first of the drafted men in the na tional army, preparatory to their de parture for the training camps. The new federal live stock commis sion, recently appointed to stimulate that industry, is to hold ite first meet ing today in Washington. Negro Baptist leaders from all sec tions of the country will rally today at Muskogee,-Okl.,-for their annual na tional convention. An address by Charles E. Hughes is to feature the session of this, the sec ond day, of the annual meeting ot the American Bar association at Saratoga. Union labor leaders and former members of the socialist party, who left the organization because of its. at titude toward the war, have issued a call for a "conference on labor and democracy" to be held in Minneapolis today. " ' - - , Storyette f the Day. , "Some un sick at yo' house, Mis' Carter?" inquired Lila. "Ah seed de doctah's kyar eroun dar yestidy." , "It was for my brother, Lila." "Sho! Wthat's he done got de mat ter ofm?" . , . -. "Nobody seems to know what the -fciseaee is. He can eat ai' sleep as well as ever; he stays out all day long on the veranda in the eun and seems as well as anyone, but he can't do any work at all." i , "He cain't yo' says he cain't work?" . ' ' V - '- 'Not a stroke." ' : ' ' ' ' , " .' "Law, Miss Carter, dat ain't no dis ease what you' broth' got. Dat's a gin" Everybody's Magazine. , SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS. Th (wcotenirtB powrr of aycoo is Sot times greater thsa that of sugar. The ash left on burning tobacco is con siderable and the mineral matter ef the to bacco leaf frequently amount to as much as a fifth part of it weight. 'Thus a ton ot tobacco leaf would yield 490-weighta of ash. which represent valuable mineral constituents withdrawn from the soil. - Due to the increased demand for pyrite. Dr. J. H. Pratt state geologist Chapel Hill. N. C, urge owners of such deposit to com municate with their, state geologists. - At present there aa-e 4ob,000 tons of this iron sulphide produced yearly tn this country and 1.J50.000 tons imported from abroad. "Reformers" and the War. Omaha, Aug. 31. To the Editor of The Bee: Brand Whilock says some where, I think-it is in "Forty Years Of It" that no man can afford to get himself ticketed as a reformer and he gives his own personal experience of forty years to prove that people who have come to be known as reformers are the hardest proposition a public official who really wants to do right, has to handle. It really looks as though the so called reform elements in the country are working overtime to, prove Whit lock's statement. Here are our friends, the socialists, driving their ablest men out of their ranks, by their silly in ability to comprehend what is going on in the world at present. Here are the single taxers, professing a philoso phy that would free the soil to every one, rich and poor, high and low, either destroying all their influence by pro-Germanism or extreme pacifism which is simply ignorant, instead of in telligent pro-Germanism. ' Here are LaFolIette and Norris and others whom iV.ny admired and trusted, groveling tn the German mud for votes and finding contempt. Peace societies' and associations mat all of us would like to bid Godspeed show ing their absolute inability to grasp the situation and bombarding all of us with appeals for help which would be insulting if they were not so inane, so patently born of ignorance played on by sinister intelligence. ' When and where is there going' to be a contest that can be understood if this one cannot? I hoar men today argue that the civil war issues Were so simple that any northern man who took the southern side of the question must have known he was wrong and rightly earned the name of "copper head." But this war, they say, is com plex, hard to understand, two-sided as it were. How do men argue them selves into an opinion like that? -The civil war issues were so simple that families split father against son and brother against brother; able men still insist with good reason, that legally and constitutionally, the- south was right, Is there any ground for such differences of opinion how? Does any one now doubt that Germany, deliber ately set out to conquer, with the ends of the earth for a limit and speed measured only by the difficulties in the war? Is anyone longer in doubt about our fate if Germany won? And if Ger many won, -does anybody think we would have. any liberties left? Why then, "peace meetings"? What peace is there but the peace of cow ardly surrender? This country is at war do the brethren who insist that they ought to be permitted, in the name of liberty, to say and do any thing their ignorance may prompt, realize that fact? This country is at war with the most powerful, the most unscrupulous,' the most vindictive, the most savagely brutal set of men the world has ever known. Do they realize that? If they don't under stand now, what do they want more murdered babies,, more firing on am bulances, more desert countries, more crucified soldiers, more frlghtfulness, more-waste,- more -desolation, more hypocritical lying, more fradd, more deception7 ' ' ' Tell us,', pro-Germans andt peace brethren, what is it you want us to do? It seems to me that it is of more im portance just now than to know the peace terms of the allies or central powers. We could lie down and take it like whipped curs, or we can fight. Which shall it be?, i v H. W. MORROW. Science and Religions Belief. Omaha, Aug. 31. To the Editor of The Bee: Mr. Herring in his letter dated the 25th, says "Science never fails." As I consider this as' another error, let us see what science is. One definition runs "Knowledge gained and verified by exact, observation and correct thinking, especially as method ically formulated and arranged in a rational system." Mrs. Eddy does not admit that there is any science that is worthy the name except the system of doctrines and teaching that she de veloped, for the reason that in all other so-called sciences the unreliable element matter is a factor; and on that element she has pronounced her judgments ip. many and varied ways, for Instance: "Matter and death are mortal illusions. Matter and mind are opposltes, both cannot be real. In the universe of truth, matter is unknown. Matter is an error of statement. ; This error in the premises leads to errors in the conclusion in every statement into which it enters." Obsessed by such delusions and hallucinations, how could she admit the existence of any other science bOt her own? , As a matter of fact in a large sense, a science that' never failed has not cOme into existence. No branch of it has yet arrived at perfectloniior in fallibility. My friend has failed to take cognisance of facts, If he is consistent he, too, will not admit that there exists any other science than that misnomer "Christian Science." My friend says "man" is the reflec tion of infinite spirit" And the Bible tells us that man wag created as God's image. I believe that there is some thing wrong with, both of these asser tions. The latter may have been a simile of truth when God walked among the trees, and when Jacob fought with htm, and when Moses saw him face to face, etc.; but I believe it is now out of date and unsatisfactory'- As to reflection. I can see noth ing in ordinary man that could by any means reflect conception of God. Be sides, what is the medium through which the reflection is accomplished? I know that water, ordinary glass, and a mirror will reflect my face, or any thing, but by what means-is the al leged reflection of my friand accom plished? He cites St., Paul against me as a pernicious disputer, but 1 wish to re ply that at least two are required to make a dispute, and would respect fully ask who struck the match or flred the first shot?. Of course, it i irritating to have- some guy who was not asked to call attention to seeds of error, specious reasonings and veiled sophistry and word jugglery. Replying to several implications and inferences, and answering particularly the direct question In the last letter, I am glad to say that ever since I be came captain of nvown soul I have enjoyed the privily a cf acting on St. Paul's exhortation "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.." Can my friend refer me to a higher standard, rf a .V.JS..A V i r,f ......... My friend infers that I was ignor ant of and "understands so little of Christian Science as not to know that - absent treatments are legitimate- and proper." I fail to see how he reasons to come to such a conclusion. I had. known that for years; but, I did, and do consider it Illegitimate and im proper to ask pelf for services -that were not asked for, nor in the least augscsieu uj muuBlll ui. x was lu 11.11 at the office at 11 per call, which I did, twice a week.- The surplus ac tivity was uncalled for and to ask pay for same was improper, illegal, yes, in one word.- unchristian. Lastly, if Mr. Herring will endeavor to elucidate and illustrate what is meant by his "spiritual understand ing," and show wherein that magic wand has anything to commend it anove tne "evidence ot the senses, then I and those of The Bee readers who 'are interested enough 'in this dis pute to read these, letters, will rise up and call him blessed. . DAVID OLSON. SEPTEMBER SMILES. "I'll make those boys sorry they held, their circus In my camp tent." "Of course, they'll be sorry. , A eent circus under such circumstance ought to be a penny-tent affair." Baltimore American. Judge Tou have been found guilty by a Jury of your peer. . Prisoner' Please, sentence me" without knocking me, your honor! Puck. Judge What Is h charge? Cop Suspicious tjiaracter, your honor! Accused (Indignantly) --It's htm that suspicious, Judge. I ain't suspicious of no body. Boston Transcript. Suburbs Of Course, you can tell the dif ference between a weed and a plant, t . Mns. Suburbs Of course, Jack If I hoe It up, It's a plant! Life. PEARMR.KA8IBBIJE, I'M ON RN0UNr- IAW TOR THE FIRST TIME -$HWU X COME W ATWIf 50LFEIN6m NOV IF V0URE MMMfjr !j Kitty Jack told me last night that 1 was the prettiest girl he'd ever seen: Ethel Oh, that's nothing. He said the same thing to me a year ago. ' Kitty t know that; but as one grow older one's taste Improves, you know; Philadelphia Ledger. Fuller :What are you going to the ;Taft bar for? Buller Just a few setting-up exercises. Judge. A member of Parliament had emptied the room with an interminable speech. 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