THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1917. 7" The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD R03EWATEK VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TS BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR Entered at Omaha postoffleo m eond-class nutter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION I'ttly n Funds? V "jo. llr without tandaj Htratai uit Bund... m J? - Kranlnf wilaeut uadr 1' t J " Br Usti Per Tr. W W f 00 ; - I.OO 4 M a AA -li"oclk V' s'sV ' Irfegulsrltjr la dellt to Omabs MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aasorfsted Puts, of rti THe Bee if Bmt. Is eieloilfsb' , bSitwI crdi ll la tb't PP sd site ths local bws rb 2edlSJeiE AU rshti U ntubiluUoa of our special dupefchss .r. el,o mfusd. T REMITTANCE M t rft. iss or port! order. Ontj -wt rP'J" lymat of Buall accounts. Psrsoaal chsc. except fca Omaha ana utm anchsnsa. not sootpted. - OFFICES Douia OmsHs-4fi5T 8. tit, it New Yort-SM TO A' rnrtlBHiff-I4 Mats . . 'fu'-L,;Bif,l,,0NS' ijncola-LIUlt Building. Wiihlinton 7 ' w- CORRESPONDENCE Address WMamwilcitloof rslstlng to aa4 editorta! MUST tt UiubBM. lajtortal DpKpaat. - 1 AUGUST CIRCULATION 59,01 1 Daily Sunday 51,912 Atmst dtrolsuwi for the swath whserlbtd and worn to hr DwUht mill , CtwuUttoa Maastsr. I " Sufcac-ibore leaving tha elty should have Tho Baa ntaiUe ta tare. Aadress changed alun as requested. Uncle Sam's knocking department !i getting on the job. ' Record state fair crowds vision the prosperity of the corn belt. Still altogether too many automobile accidents 1 ' Slow up and keep your eye on the road ahead. , Still, silverjinust still travel some distance to get on speaking terms with $2.15 wheat or $2 corn. Observe how warmly and fondly September caresses the whiskers of King Corn! Some charmer; . ' -.: -' '. ' Speaking about billions but, what's the use Let statesmen do the speaking. Our task is to do the digging. , ' v Corn speeds to the $2 wire with renewed vigor, You can't hold a good thing down when the track is clear. ' ' Plotting in Petrograd appears as barren of re suits as plotting in the United States. In both cases the principal result is fattened jail registers. " Put Down she Brakes. Locking the stable door after the horse is stolen will not bring back the horse, btU it may stop another intruder from coming in uninvited. In the same way, while stricter enforcement of the rules and regulations for auto driving will not undo the succession of disastrous mishaps with which Omaha has been afflicted, it may exert a measurable effect for preventing further auto accidents. To be blunt, it is up to Omaha authorities to be$tir themselves for a more drastic enforcement of the law against speeding, reckless driving,' un authorized obstruction of the highways, running without lights, passing street cars and all the various requirements of law and common sense to safeguard the occupants of the machines as well as people afoot. The truth is that the indifference of our public officers and the extreme leniency of our police magistrates when called on to impose penalties make them in part responsible for the killing and maiming witnessed on our streets . and thor oughfares. In no other city that we know of are the laws and road rules so flagrantly violated with impu nity as they are right here in Omaha, and we have a repetition of the case where laxness merely breeds contempt and recklessness outdoes itself. It is time to put down the brakes and keep them down, , Harrv Garfield Steadily outpoints Herb Hoover in picturing a delightful state of expectancy iof finauy determjnei the basic figure for steel and its Wheat, Coal and Steel Prices. The Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, commenting on the price fixation undertaken by the president, calls attention to what he alleges is a disparity in, treat ment between the farmer and the coal miner and expresses some curiosity as to how the steel: maker will fare. He charges that the price of wheat is fixed at three times its normal value, that production may be stimulated, while coal has been held down to a moderate profit, and from this argues that steel may be brought low if the policy m not changed. Facts scarcely justify the statements made. 'Wheat prices have been sub ject to artificial control for years, with the great range between farm and table going to specula tors, a condition that is. true of neither coal nor steel Any increase in the selling price of coal or steel or any of their products has been brought about by control of the producers, a process im possible to the farmer. Nor is it true that the farmer has been unduly favored in other ways. The proportional value between the bushel of wheat and the ton of coal or the fon of steel has been equalized to an extent that may do away with some of the advantage hitherto enjoyed by the miners ' and furnace men' at the expense of the agriculturist, but no injustice yet has been done any.'1 When the government fuel consumers. But there's many a slip between 1 the pronjise and the cut. Let no ribald warbler aggravate the cruel sit uation by serenading the county building or city bastile with: "Oh,' How ,Dry I Am." A corking good serenade might blow up the lids. The magnitude of the task and the speed of cantonment building stand , out at a model of American efficiency. The details deserve a pri vate message to Potsdam as a foretaste of coming events. products we will be better able to determine if fixation of prices has evinced favoritism or merely set things on a level. , Where Danger from Russia Lies. N Advancing columns of the German rmy along the Baltic shores do not carry much, dread for the Allies; the trouble lies in the other direction. Even should' the kaiser's men. progress to and occupy Petrograd or dominate the whole of northern Russia it would be a hollow victory for them. To maintain an army frozen in in that in hospitable region would' put a severe tax on the resources of the Germans and one they will not lightly incur. On the other side, if they can break t 1.- .t T . mrougn itoumania inio souinem Russia iney win Looks like something rotten over in the court house back' of those county roads paving con trarta. Countv commissioners ordinarily do not go to such length for a favored bidder without J have tapped a store .of, food, jfuel, pil, everything isome substantial reason. , ( . : , they need for their sustenance.' -Just how mud ; . ' , ' , t k wneai is in storage in Kussia none can say ctoseiy, 'While the different departments of the govern ment are every .day appealing to the newspapers for co-operation in promoting their various actm- ties, congress is trying to burden the newspapers -with taxes and postage increases so that they j cannot respond. Co-operation implies reciprocal helpfulness. ' 1 Rut could anyone have offered more effective aid and comfort "to a dangerous and formidable eney than' those , who championed and urged that embargo on munitions export, which was exactly what the kaiser wanted, and which would have kept the United States absolutely unprepared and at his mercy? V but the crops of three years have been harvested iince nc war organ ana airoosi none 01 u nas been sent out. Consequently there should be a large quantity held, in addition to the crop of tHc current season. This is the prize that is: being played for Just now by Von Falkenhayn and Von Mackenaen in their push through northern iRou- mama. It is or importance, although not vital. to the Allied cause that the lines that separate the Germans from the wheat bins of Little Russia hold firm. . ; '' ; ' ' Speaking of the predicament of 'the mayor of Chicago, the democratic World-Herald says: "Amazing as it may seem, the one explana tion offered in Chicago for his strange conduct is that he is inspired by political ambition. It . is said that he desires to go to the senate he was prominently mentioned' a couple of years ago for the presidency! and that he is count ' ing on his opposition to an 'unpopular war' to further his political aspirations." I .-; Well! Weill Weill Just move this back a year i and see how well it would fit the proprietor of s our amiable" hyphenated contemporary. The only visible difference is that with the help of the Wil son wave the senator managed to "put it over." Let us get things straight as we hump along. The coming separation of realtors and real estate dealers foreshadows not so much a sundering of old ties, but the transition from primitive shelters to np-to-date apartments. Prosperity works won. ders in vocations. ' s . Public Schools Our Salvation PhUaJtlyala tadiV " ' . .. v Sugar Men Enlist With Hoover. Volunteering to aid in food conservation and price control, sugar has escaped the conscription visited on wheat and coal. The whole range of foodstuffs must eventually be included if the plan .... l.i i. : i . . 170-..- -e .lJ government's activity in this direction so far has been to assure the public that basic prices will not be established by speculation and will remain stable. Mr. Hoover admits, in the case of bread, that the fixing of a rate for, the consumer involved much that cannst immediately be determined, al though he holds out an indefinite promise that eventually a ratio between the loaf and the nickel may be adjusted. Dr. Garfield promises soon to" name a retail price for coat, and these two leave the presumption fair that in good time other costs 40 consumers will be similarly arranged that some relief may be experienced by the householders of the land. The application of the theory to actual practice has been found more difficult in some of its details than appeared on the surface. The public patiently waits even for a little relief, and meanwhile some may wonder if the haste of the sugar men to enlist with Hoover was not irr some measure stimulated by the discovery that servcie under the food controller, is not so onerous after all. . , The Four-Minute Men By Frederic J. Haskin , Washington, Sept 4. A new war organization, known as the Four-Minute Speakers, has re cently been formed under the auspices of the government for the purpose of arousing patriotism throughout the country. The four-minute men, like the -minute men of 76, are patriots organized to meet an emer gency, but they are disciples of Patrick Henry rather than Ethan Allen. -Their task is to arouse interest in the war by making.speeches about ia speeches strictly limited, confined and re stricted to four minutes. .- ; y. Maybe you consider that a simple task. Well, it seems that it isn't. The organization has had the greatest difficulty in procuring men who could make a speech in four minutes. Many men who are splendid speakers, if they have plenty of time to tell stories and get up steam, cannot make good on a four-minute speech at all. And yet the four-minute feature is absolutely essen tial to the success of the organization. For the four-minute men speak in moving pic ture theaters. At the end of the big featurean American flag is thrown on the screen to attract the attention of the audience. Immediately fol lows a large-lettered announcement that Mr. So-and-So "will speak for four minutes on a subject of national importance. He speaks under the authority of the committee on public information, Washington-, D. C." This saves time in introduc tions, which the organization dislikes for the reason that the introducer is always tempted to make a speech himself that is apt to string itself out and tire the audience. And the audience must not be tired. This is the basic principle of the tour-minute idea. . So strict are the four-minute men regarding this principle that a visiting committee, appointed by the organization, visits the moving picture theaters and times the speakers. If a man allows his speech to run one second over four minutes he is severely called down by the visiting commit tee. And if on a second occasion he repeats the offense he is asked for his resignation. The visit ing committee is not lenient, in this matter. It is made up of deposed, speakers. As a further check upon the time in which a four-minute man speaks the organization has en listed the aid of the moving picture theater mana gers, too. . If at the end of tour minutes a man goes on speaking they are requested to stop him either by ringing a bell, blowing a horn or, as one member said, shooting him if necessary. This, of course, means' that the' four-minute men are really most excellent speakers. They come from all walks of life. The organization will accept anybody from a policeman to a cabi net officer just, as long as he can make a good speech. Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Lane are both four-minute men, although in view 6f their pres ent heavy duties they will doubtless be infrequent speakers. In Washington the chairman of the local committee of four-minute men is Ira N. Ben nett, a lawyer, and the other forty or more speak ers who make up the rest of the committee are mechanics and professional men, government clerks and enlisted men, the two' cabinet officers already mentioned, the assistant secretary of the treasury, Byron S. Newton, and the treasurer of he United States, John Burke. The soeeches of the four-minute men are confined exclusively to the war,. Each moving picture theater on the list gets two speakers a week. The first night the subject is the "Need of Food Conservation; the second night it is "Why We Are Fighting and the next week an other speaker gives a four-minute talk on "What Our Enemy Really Is the German Government Rather Than the German People." In this way all the facts about the war are presented to the moving picture audiences by different speakers who keep the interest ot the people oy ceasing 10 taiK jusi as nicy arc auuui 10 iusc iv. The subiect of the soeeches are siven out each week by the national headquarters at Washing ton, which mails the data, as well as a sample speech, to every : four-minute man throughout the country. He can either use .the sample speech or invent one of his own from the information given, with, the assistance of the outline mapped out for him. ' ' v ? ''. The moving oieture theaters are co-operating with the four-minute men in every way possible. They offer their theaters and their audiences to the four-minute men tree ot criargp simply to show that they are patriotic citizens anxious to further the cause of the war as far as they are able. Very few movie men have refused the courtesy, although perhaps those tew are to be excused, on the grounds that they have suffered from the effects of former generosity. -, When the Liberty loan was being floated mov ing picture men offered their theaters to govern ment campaigners wno nao noi oecn irooucu whh the four-minute idea. They made long speeches to the people in their , zeal for inspiring subscrip tions and as a result the people yawned, figeted and finally made their escape, never to return. It was the Red Cross campaigners who first dis covered the efficacy of being brief. One of them had heard the story concerning the late Samuel Clemens, who, tupon going to cnurcn, was so oleased with the minister's sermon that he put a $5 bill in the collection plate. The sermon went on, and Mr. Clemens Began to regret nis nasty act. It 'was still going on when the collection plates passed him the second time, at which Mr. Clemens is said to have reached out and taken his $S bill back. ..--y; -A-.-i The American public school system is the sal vation of a republic that must be based not on the immoderate ideas ot those without any train tnsr that fits them for citizenship, but on the com mon sense of all who have been put through sound educational processes. That everywhere efforts are making to improve the system is no indict ment of it: these are the efforts of its friends, who would make it, year by year, take on a higher efficiency and realize in every way its nossibilities. That the years of war will test the system goes I present great undertakings. without saying, though the readiness of alt con cerned to meet the formidable conditions created by the war has been one of the fine things in the ready response of the leaders of the educational world generally to the demands made upon them. As a result of all this preliminary work the United States commissioner of education has issued an appeal to all in the secondary grades, as well as in the upper, and in the colleges and tech- ; Cleaning Up the Traitors. The sweeping movement of the Department of Justice to seize I. W. W. records and arrest some of the more impetuous of the figureheads of that organization of anarchy and treason is part of a general plan to head off the!anti-war agitation. Alt our people, are concerned in this, for it involves the life of the nation and will do much to determine the success or failure of its Wt respectfully submit, however, that the I. W, W.does not com prise the worst of the offenders against the gov ernment at present "BilP Haywood and his de luded or desperate followers are indefensible. but in themselves would not constitute a grave danger. The government is confronted by a far more serious situation, which must be cleaned riicil schools, to keep at school. The very nature h Arrest and sequestration of hobo spouters of the war agitation, even where it in nowise asks will not end our trouble so long as former min- any specific duty of those at school, gives so many j,teri 0f th, Unite(1 Suteg- ortntr Unite4 St4tes i . ;u. ,mni;fiM rn.. I ntors, ministers of the gospel, college profes ouently. all educators have joined to fight this ,6r nd otheri who r supposed to be leaders of tendency. Whatever else may be true, it is cer- I thought are permitted to spread seditious falla. tain that In tha immediate future we shall need I cies among the people. Whoever is not for his better educated and better trained citizenry to meet the issues ot the war and the issues of peace. For when peace cornea then the silent war will ' begin, the war of industries and commerce, and the United States will need all the technicians. all the trained brains and the trained hands it j can develoo to save for it that leadership in the : world's affairs which its interests and its impor tance call for. And in this conflict the attendance in the schools of today means success in the w orld's work of tomorrow, .. . . ; . country' in this war is against it, and this alone should be made the test forsuppression. Various measures of the patience of Job. which have come down the ages leave much room for guesswork. In the absence of ancient accu racy a fair working model of JoVs talent may be had by watching consumers patiently waiting for the promised comedown in prices. Our Fightng Men Arthur Murray .'' ' Major General Arthur Murray, who has been called from retirement to take command of the Southeastern department of the army, possesses attainments that are exceeded by few officers in the service. He is the author of many military textbooks and his career has been along such con structive lines of military endeavor as to leave a marked impression upon military development, both in this country and abroad.: General Murray was born in Missouri sixtv-six years ago and graduated from West Point in 1874, second in his class. In the bpanish war he served as judge advocate of the First army corps, and later he made a big name for himself by suppressing tne rihpino insurrection in Samar and i-eytc. uur- ing the latter years of his active career he served as chief of artillery of the United States army and as commander ot the western department, , One Tear Ago Today In the War. Roumania announced the capture of the Bulgarian city of Orsova. Germans surrendered ports of Kilwa, Kivinio and Wlelwanl, East Africa. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. A delightful lunch was spread in the tenta of Quartermaster Clarkson by Mrs, J. T. Clarkson, Mrs. Holdrege and Mrs. Captain Allen, which was appre ciatively masticate by the following gentlemen: Governor Thayer. Senator Manderson, General Wheaton, Com mander Russell, General Cole, Major Boyls, Major Clarkson, Adjutant Bur mester. Major Franklin. General Al exander, Colonel Warner and Captain Ebsteln. A. J. Simpson, the carriage builder, gave hfs employes a holiday and sent them to the fair and reunion in one of Jim Stevenson's recently ; returned Edward Burr. , - , , , Edward Burr, one of the new brigadier gen erals of the United States armv. has a splendid record of military service covering a period of nearly forty years. General Burr was born at Boonville, Mo. in 1859. After graduating from Washington university in 1878 he entered the T ' . . f . . . If!!', 1 k , T7 .L- . m unnea oiaies Military acaaeray. upon iuo iuih taction of his course at West Point he was com missioned a second lieutenant of engineers and in the years that followed he had a prominent part in carrying out manv important engineering proj ects undertaken by the government In the war with Spain he sewed as lieutenant colonel of the Second United States engineers. , He reached the rank of major in 1903 and was made a colonel in ioi- ' . ' Beniamin D. Foulois. v ' Major Benjamin D. Foulpis, one of tha pioneer aviator of the signal corns.' has had an excep tional career in the United States army. Enter ing the service as an enlisted man, he rose rapidly through the noncommissioned ranks and received his commission as a second lieutenant in 1901. As'an infantry officer he made a highly creditable record in th Philinninea. but it was not until he became attached to th signal corps in J907 that he attracted attention outside the service. He commanded the aero sauadron with General Per shing in Mexico and more recently he has been in charge of the organization of the aerial forces of the army in Washington. Major Foulois comes from Connecticut, in which state he was born ,in 1879. j . - - - . - ' - "Deadwood stages,' the motive power of which was six spirited bays, the reins of which were freely handled by Jim Pike. Judge Neville was seen promenading around the fair grounds and scanning everything with a pleased expression on his benign countenance. Dr. J. 8. Chambers, the well known veterinarian, was bitten in the right hand by a sick horse which he was at tending. Oscar Groshell, salesman in Rich ardson's wholesale drug house, was the lucky holder of ticket 46858, which drew one-tenth $2,000 of the S20, 000 capital prize in the Louisiana state lottery. F. F. De Laby, who has been the guest of his former partner, Daniel Delaney, 1730 South Fourteenth, is so pleased with the Gate City that be has decided to locate here next spring. Catching the enthusiasm of the New Tork firemen's visit, the members of the old volunteer fire department of Omaha formed an association amone- themselves, Senator Manderson and Messrs. Kennedy. Miner and others being at the head of the project. This, Day in History. 1781 American force under La fayette cut off Cornwallis from retreat ing into North Carolina. 1815 Howell Cobb, governor of Georgia and secretary of the treasury under Buchanan, born at Cherry Hill, Ga. Died in New York City,, October 9, 1868. 1 . 1817 Queen Louise , of Denmark. who was called the "mother-in-law of half of Europe," born in Hesse-CasseJ. Died in Copenhagen, September 29, 1898. 1863 A federal expedition under General Banks, to restore the flag in Texas, arrived at Sabine Pass. 1877 The Russians beean the sieee ui novua, which was neia oy me Turks under the redoubtable Osman Pasha, i 1889 The largest natural gas well in the world was drilled at Upper Sani dusky, O. . 1914 Extreme German ris:ht besran the retreat back across the Marne. v 1915 Emperor Nicholas announced that he had taken command, of the Russian armies. 1 , 1916 United States senate ratified the treaty between the. United States and Denmark for the purchase of the Danish West Indian islands. People Who Sate or Have Life Insurance CaUler'a Weekly It must be that the persons who read these lines, that great group of average Americans who live in town or village and try to order their lives for the betterment of their children, have, in probably ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, policies of life In surant or deposits in savings banks. And we are troubled to wonder if these serious persons realize how their stores of provision against the future are affected by the- present situation of the. railroads in the United States. We don't want to cause a panic among them. There Is no need for panic, but there is need for knowledge, for re flection upon that knowledge, and for some sort of common action v as the fruit of it The real, ultimate owners of the -railroads in the United States owners, not in the technical sense of - the stock which rep resents a varying' equity, but own ers in the more fundamental and primary meaning of mortgages include, as a large factor, life insur ance companies and savings banksK to gether with fire, marine and other In surance companies, benevolent insti tutions with invested funds and col leges, school and charities with in vested funds. At a recent conference of life insurance officials, savings bank directors and others this assertion was reduced to figures in the following classification of owners of railroad se curities: By individuals outright, numbering over 1,000,000, owning $10,000,000, 000. ..; By life insurance companies, with 4,000,000 of policies in force, rep resenting a total of $1,550,000,000. By savings banks, with 10,000.800 depositors, representing $840,000,000. By fire and marine insurance com panies, casuallty and surety companies, representing a total of $649,000,000. By benevolent associations, colleges, schools, charitable institutions, etc., $350,000,000. By trust companies, state and na tional banks. $865,000,000. Balance held fn channels not enu merated, mostly abroad. What these figures mean is that the actual owners of the railroads include the man, typical of the mass of the public, who has a savings bank ac count, the man who has a life insur ance policy or Is the beneflelary of one, and the others who have an inter est, in one sort or another of savings institutions. They fall to realize It merely because the thing they have in their desks is not a railroad bond. The thing they have is a pass book or a policy, but the pass book or pol icy fundamentally is merely evidence of an interest in railroad and other bonds. The Day We Celebrate. "Charles E. ("HattieV) Black is cele brating his fifty-fifth birthday. He commenced as a printer, was then twelve years in the wholesale Hour siness.and seventeen years in the hat business. Robert F. Bacon, department man ager for McCord-Brady company, was born September 7, 1855, at Sandy Hill, N. Y. He began as salesman in 1885 and has been for the last sixteen years in his present position. ' fVtat"loa TP Wnntr fnpmAn Van on a rtcvr gressman, who Is to become a candi date for the United States senate, born in Allen county. Kansas, fifty-seven years ago today. ; " , , f letro juascagni, tne composer ' or "Cavallerta. Rustlcana." born at Lee- horn, Italy, fifty-four years ago today. Mario G. Menocal, president of Cuba, born in the province of Matan cas, Cuba, fifty-one years ago today. Ceciie Sorol, one of the most famous Actresses of the French stage, born forty-five years ago today. 1VL1Z.S1 XltLJUB,. WUU II OH WUII IUUUU popularity in America as a musical comedy star, born in Budapest, Hun gary, twenty-five years ago today. ' . William F. Murray, former congress man, now postmaster of Boston, born in Boston thlrty-slx years ago today. Rear Admiral Alfred Reynolds, u. S. N. retired, born at Hampton, Vs., Bixty-four years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Today is the twenty-fifth anniver sary of the death of the poet Whittier. Followers of pugilism will recall to day as the twenty-fifth anniversary of the memorable contest at New Orleans, in which James J. Corbett won the world's heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan. . . War and other problems of vital importance to the lumber industry in the United States are to be considered at the first annual convention ot tho National Retail Lumber Dealers' asso ciation, scheduled to open today at Chicago. 1 In the federal court in New Tork City today arguments are to be heard on the ' application of Speyer St Co, New. York bankers, for the appoint ment of an additional receiver for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad. . . . -. Storyette of tho Day. He was a lion tamer. But the man who ruled the king of the forest was in turn ruled by his wife. One night he was entertained by his friends, who refused to allow him to depart until the small hours of the morning." As a result, on his home ward way, thinking that his wife Would not receive him as cordially as he deserved, he spent the night else where. On the morning he tried to slip into the house unobserved, but, alas! a voice from the top of the stairs greet ed him coldly; J "Where have you been' all night. John?" "Well, my dear. I was afraid of dis turbing you, so I slept in the lion's cage." There was a moment's pause, a grit ting of teeth, then down theetairs floated one word: , "Coward!" Minneapolis Tribune. SOME ODD FACTS. Ferdinand of Bulgaria is tha only Euro pean ovcrcitn "who can apeak Yiddish. v ' Tha lata Lord Strathcona, who ttvad until tia waa over 90, saver ata mora than two meali a day. . . . Tha favorite talisman of the soldiqre ot tha allies is a bullet with which a man has been killed or wounded. ' Experts declare that telegraph wires are 'better conductors on Monday than Satur day, on account of their Sunday rest. A ton of steel mad into hair-springs for watches is worth more than twelve times the value of th ssme welcht in pure gold. The knitting mills of Cohoes. N. Y, are making 1,000,000 piecea of heavyweight un. - derwaar for Uncle Sam's soldiers and sailors. Now, the fact is that the investment of these men is already impaired by Hhe situation of the railroads, and is in danger of being more seriously af fected. For proof of this we cite the statement made by Mr.-J. W. Stedman of the Prudential Life Insurance com pany in his plea to the Interstate Commerce commission for higher rates: "I want to say at the outset that I represent the Prudential " Insurance Company of America, which is a mu tual eoncern, and is owned by over 11,009,000 policyholders scattered all over the United ' States. Ten million of these policyholders are members of hard-working families of moderate means; over 40 per cent of the assets representing their good money con sists of railroad securities, recognised by the various states in which we do business as legal investments for life insurance companies, having a par value of $184,000,000. Feeling myself U as one of the future trustees for these peopie wno, an unconsciously, may face a large financial loss, I am glad to see this opportunity. This state xf affairs cannot continue,' much longer without forcing some of the systems into receivership. The 'crisis ia acute, and if this continues it will spell calamity to the policyholders. One of the solutions, to my mind, is to get the Interstate Commerce commis sion to recognize the fact that the railroads cannot go .On adding to their debt. We want to get them to real ize that improvements and additions and betterments must be made, to some extent at least, out of earnings, and to a larger extent as the years go on, and that in order to make this possible and to pay necessary divi dends larger profits must be had." The railroad problem Is a larger one than can be covered In this space. What we should like to do is to make the average American Wake up. His habit of mind is to put his money in the savings bank or pay his premium and then forget It, feeling that some omnipotent and benevolent George; will do the rest. As a matter of fact, it As not too much t say .that a man who has occasion to withdraw1 his money from the life insurance com pany today will get less than he would have gotten but for the many railroad bankruptcies . which have - occurred during the last few years bankrupt cies which destroyed the value of rail road bonds held by the insurance com panies, and in many cases caused the companies to pay assessments. And things are headed for the worse rather than for the better. The average man must wake up and become self-con scious. He must feel himself a rail road security holder, just as he feels himself the owner of a farm or a shop. And he must be as vigilant about the one as the other. What to do is a large Question with debatable an swers. That question can wait for the future. What is important ror the in stant present is forvthe individual to wake up. SMILING LINES. "Here's a doctor says you shouldn't est when you're worried." "But suppose you are continually wor ried for fear you won't be able to get any thing to eat!" Boston Transcript. lira. Smith Sam. are you going to get married, like some other people I've heard of. to ke-p from going to war. Sam No'm; I ain't goin1 to git married. If I has to fight, I want to tight a man! Life. "Let's get the butrtier for a referee." "Why the butcher?" "Because he's used t handling steak money." Baltimore American. v M.jor Who will take charge of our ma chine gun? Private Smith Corporal Higgins was one of the best machine men In our ward; let htm do it Puck. Patience He said he'd bet he'd be mar ried In six months. Patrice And did be win the bet? "No. He couldn't find anyone to taka him." Tonkers Statwi.in. j : The nesr-sighted homorist nappenea 10 bump Into a pedestrian who bad a grouch. The pedestrian grew pugnacious. "Take oft thorn glasses and I'll punch your face for you," he cried. "But mv dear sir," said the humorist calmly. "It ia quite, against the custom, you know. Who ever heard of ordering off the glasses before the punch Is served T'V-Bostop Transcript. - I SUSPECT MY FI&NCE KErXD-VMKT SHMl 0WAWJ TME HMTOkSWEllCfcr-E ND OBOn? EXPENSIVE Wf?. Prison Heformer We're Inaugurating a circulating library for the use of the in mates. Is there any particular book you'd like to make use of? No. 3333 Sure. , If I could only use It right, I'd like to have a railway guide. Everybody's Magazine. "Phew, but It's hot!" said Mr. Sissle, mop ping his brow. "Where's Bobby V' "Out flying hs kite," said Mrs. Slszle. "Tell htm to ston it at once, roared Mr. Slszte. "The idea of using up what little braese thers is on such nonsense.'' Louis ville Courier-Journal. "I heitr you are going to marry an operario singer." , 'Tes. "My dear girl, don't' you know that oper atic singers are proverbially hard to get along with?" .. ".Never mind, I'll make him sing small.' , Louisville Courier-Journal. Nora has been guilty of what was con sidered an Indiscretion, so the mistress of tbs house had her 'on the carpet. , "If such a thing occurs again, Nora," said the lady, "I shall have to get another ser vant." 1 , 1 Whereupon Nora, with a grin, responded: "1 wish you would, mum there's easily enough work lor two 01 ns!' ---iiveryooay s Magazine. "Where are you going this summer?" ' "Oh, to one of the liberal beaches.1' "What is a liberal beach?" "A place where feminine bathers are not required to wear more clothes than they do on tho street." Birmingham Ago-Herald. , FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT. Awake! my countrymen, awake! Your country's peril know; ' -Ail meaner thoughts forsake And realize our woe. In apathy grave danger lurkt And serves but to deceive; The leaven of lndlff rence works J In ways we'd scarps believe. The menace of autocracy O'ershadows our fair land, . An threatens our democracy With the assassin's hand. Our wife, our child, our home Will ne'er again be free tJntll the day shall come -; When we crush autocracy. ' Barbarity we ne'er believed But suits the kaiser's part: , No cruelty by mind conceived Congeals tho Prussian heart. , So Join democracy's noble throng And fight with all your might Against unrighteousness and wrong And for tho eternal right. LOB. IN ANDREW THOMPSON. Fremont, Nebraska. WOqENJV flOTHERSfV Y DAUGHTERS! Yeu who tire easily; are pale hag gard and worn;, nervous or Irritable; who are sub ject to fits of melancholy or the "blues," gat your blood examined for Iron defici ency. ' ' .IIOI taken times a if Mr Is will Increase your'streng ranee juo per cent In tw many cases. Ferdi three 1 vs lets u esim eks' UXATED IRON oe ODUlned 1 fusrsntee or ntusiif 1 three tl :ing. 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