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"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 ; '; - ,
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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 '
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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
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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.'
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. 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
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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,
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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.
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Ethel Oh, that's nothing. He said the
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Fuller :What are you going to the ;Taft
bar for?
Buller Just a few setting-up exercises.
Judge.
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room with an interminable speech. Look
ing around at the empty benches, he re
marked to a bored friend, "I am speaking
to posterity."
"If you go on like this," growled the'
friend, "you will see your audience before
you." Boston Transcript.-
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