THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1917. BRYAN URGES ALL TO BACKTHE ARMY Time for Division of Opinion Has Passed and Now It Is Up to Nation to Obey the Law. 'If we don't subscribe the full amount of the Liberty bonds, if we refuse to loan this money voluntarily, then the next step will be the govern ment wil have to come and take it. For a government that can go into a home and take a boy can just as well go into the home and conscript the wealth." William J. Bryan summarised the situation in the foregoing words when he spoke to 4,000 people at the audi- torium Tuesday night in the interest of the Liberty bonds. Mayor James C. Dahlman introduced him. FAR REACHING POWER. "And if the government ever con scripts the wealth, I"ll be the last to protest; for the man who protests, puts the dollar above men. "There are only two ways in which the government can raise the money to carry on this fight. It can do it by taxation, or by borrowing. And if anyone doubts they have gone the limit on taxation, he should read an abstract of the tax law and see how many schedules are touched. I have read it, and I believe there are only two schedules that don't hit me: they are the liquor and the tobacco sched ules. "But they may put it on high as they like: I'll not complain. For as long as they ask a young man, who has spent all the years of his life in preparation for a career, to give his life, they can take all the money I have. When the government asks a young man to lay his life upon the altar of the nation, it is unable to collect from property a tax of that! magnitute. The speaker called attention to the 4 per cent bond as a good investment, form a purely investment standpoint four per cent, he said, "is better than the average rate paid by the savings banks. And a government bond is the safest security in the world. x "When the United States eovern ment bond ceases to be good security, then there'll be nothing left in the nation worth investing in. Some are asking if the world will go bankrupt through this great war. ihe answer is that if the world does go bankrupt, this nation will be last to make an as- siarnment. "Now, they have introauced me to night as Mr. Uryan of Nebraska. am proud of that title. This is my home. I vote in Nebraska. I am proud of what the state did in sub scribing for the first Liberty bonds, and I am exceedingly proud of the returns of the subscriptions made by the business men of Omaha at noon at the Commercial club of Omaha. Make United Fight "Why, they told me today that Ne braska has more automobiles per cap ita than any other state in the union. I should be ashamed of our state if we led in autos, and fell behind in bonds to support our government in this great war. "Every day we hear neoole who want to know when this war is going to end. Well, there is no prophecy or guess on that matter worth repeating, or worth listening to. But I will make a statement that is worth more than all the prophecies or guesses on the subject It is that the shortest way out of this war and to peace, is the way straight through it with no division of the American people. Any division of the American people as to the war, would only prolong the war; and, war is long enough when it is shortest "We must stand together and fight it through no matter what it costs in money or men." Obedience First Law. In his preliminary remarks, Mr. Bryan said that in all his speeches on any subject since this country has entered the war, he had purposely avoided saying anything that might fome'nt dissension. "But my campaigns have been made," he said, "on the theory that this is a people s government, and that here their word is law. I believe that this is not only the best form of gov ernment on earth, but that this is the best form of government man has known since history began. "And the theory of this govern- ment, as I understand it. is that until this government acts on a question, anything before them is a matter of opinion. But when it acts, that act becomes law, and obedience becomes the first law." (Great applause fol lowed this remark.) "When anyone tells me that this is not our war, my answer is that when we entered it, it became our war. Our first duty is to stand back of the pres ident and congress in everything they do in this war. It is their responsi bility. They are the only ones who can speak for us. And when thev speak, unless we want anarchy, we must recognize their voice s our voice. "We can support them by avoiding the saying or doing of anything that may be misinterpreted by our enemies across the sea. Before the war I recognized the right of any man to sail upon any merchant ship on the high seas, but I held that a man who loved his country, would be willing to suspend that right to avoid use lessly bringing harm to himself or his country. A man might suspend his right to walk upon the streets dur ing a riot rather than by walking on the streets run the risk of bringing harm to himself for his community. And so with speaking, while a man may feel that he has a right to speak what he thinks, there is a time when duties rise above rights." Mr. Bryan also spoke in behalf of the Red Cross, the Young Mens Christian association and other or ganizations doing valiant service in the war. He will speak in Iowa now. then in New York state, and then will come back to Ohio where he has a number of speaking engagements. GERMANY'S MILITARY STRENGTH SHOWS CLEAR DECREASE, FRENCH OFFICIAL STATEMENT DECLARES Washington, Oct 10. Germany's military strength "If the comparison is extended today to the entire now shows a clear decrease for the first time since the Franco-English front if you consider that from April war began, according to a review based upon data of IS to June 15 the enemy engaged 108 divisions the French general staff made public here tonight by against the Anglo-French forces, and finally if one the French high commission. bears in mind that the successes of the British of- Worn down and driven back by the never-ending fensive at Ypres obliged the enemy to engage fifteen pounding of the allies on the western front the state- divisions during the last ten days, you can understand ment says, the Germans have made their supreme mili- why tke German losses on the western front grow tary effort after drawing heavily upon their inactive heavier and heavier. (They admit the loss of 116,000 armies in the east and calling out their 1918 and part of men during the month of May, 140,000 men are esti the 1919 reserves. mated by the allied staff during the month of June, Thus, while the allies have reached and are pre- etc.) pared to maintain their full strength while awaiting the coming of America's great army, the enemy's re sources are diminishing at the very moment when the military situation demands that they increase. "This shows," concludes the statement "the de cisive character attending the operations in 1918, when three great democracies, England, France and America, will unite their entire strength in attacking the enemy in conformity with the only sound principle of war." The commission's statement, issued through the commitee on public information, follows: "Both French-German fronts on the Aisne, 1917, and Verdun, 1916, have already been compared and it has been noted that they are practically of the same length. It has been stated that the German forces occupying them before the attack were equally com parabletwelve and fourteen divisions. "It is known today that during the same period, from May to September, the Germans engaged twenty-five fresh divisions at Verdun and that they have been obliged to engage forty-five on the Aisne. Fur thermore, during an equal period the French took 5,863 prisoners at Verdun and 8,553 on the Aisne. "This comparison included only a small sector of the French front But it showed a very interesting result, due to the increase of the material forces of "This is because the fighting on the western front, as a matter of fact practically never ceases. Whether in the French sectors of Verdun or the Aisne, or in the British sectors of Arras and Ypres, the fighting is only discontinued at one point to be taken up at an other. In addition to the big attacks, a quantity of carefully prepared small actions, which have been crowned with success and of which the bulletins are not able to give a clear idea, increase the attrition of the Germans. "This constant activity, coinciding with the weak ness and inaction of the Russians, also explains why the Germans are obliged to maintain, and succeed in ef fectually maintaining, three times larger forces on the French front than on the Russian front. (In the beginning of the summer there were 156 German divisions to 700 kilometers on the French front, as against 130 Austro-German and Bulgarian divisions, seventy-seven of which were German, on the eastern front) "It clearly appears at present that the German staff, remembering the critical situation in which they found themselves following the Anglo-French success in the Somme in 1916, fears to see their western front broken by the allied offensive in 1917 "All measures they have taken have been defensive the allies and the improved French fighting methods in character, intended to strengthen their resistance in since adopted by the other armies and also as testi- the face of Anglo-French forces. Not content with fiedfcy the German staff itself, apropos of the battle of declining to give battle and withdrawing a portion tne aomme, in explaining tneir aeteat to the per- ot tneir tront on the riindenburg position they trans- feet use of technical methods.' ported to the western front between January and SOUTH SIDE STATE HAMPSHIRE BREEDERS HOSTS Entertain Exhibitors From Eighteen States at Banquet; Say Swine Show the Best Ever. Unions May Circulate Orders for Boycott Albany, N. Y., Oct 10. The princi pal that labor unions have the right to circulate by letters or publications requests that their members refuse to assist in the construction of build ings in which non-union made ma terials are used, when such circulation is not done maliciously, but solely for the benefit of the unions' members, was upheld by the court of appeal! nrfav. The Nebraska Hampshire Breeders' association entertained all of the Hampshire breeders who are attend ing the Nationa Swine show at a banquet at the Exchange dining hall Tuesday night. About 200 guests were present The affair was in formal. J. H. Jirak of Lyons, Neb., gave an address of welcome. Responses were made by men from eighteen dif ferent states. E. C Stone, Peoria, 111., acted as toastmaster. The Hampshire breeders are proud of the showing theyave made at the Swine show. A. L. Goodenough, Morrison, 111, was judge of the Hampshires. "Never in my life have I seen such a wonderful exhibit of Hampshires. They are wondSVffll-. This has far outclassed any no show I have ever seen before," he declared. There are more Hampshires on ex hibition here than any other breed; that speaks for itself. Everyone is enthusiastic over the Hampshires," said Mr. Stone. The popularity of the Hampshires was shown by the fact that men from the following states attended the ban quet: Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Ken tucky. Ohio. Kansas. Illinois. North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Mis souri, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Nebraska. One man from each state represented gave a short talk. Finish Judging Poland Chinas and Hampshires The judging of the Poland-China and Hampshire hogs was completed Tuesday afternoon and the following awards made: Poland-Chlnaa. Senior and Grand Champion Boar Cald well on Caldwell's Big Bob. Junior Champion Boar Slepioa ft Son on W. A.'s Wonder. Senior and Grand Champion Sow Ma harry on M.'a Choice. Junior Sow Halford on Bob Glantress A. Nebraska State Board of Agriculture Cup H. S. Meyers & 8ons, Fontenelle, Neb. Union Stock Yards Trophy H. B. Wal ter, Effingham, Kan. Journal-Stockman Cap H. B. Walter ft Son. Hotel Castls Cup W. H. Hather, Ord, Neb. Hampshire. Senior and Grand Champion Boar Reaves on Duke of Falrland. Junior Champion Boar Gates on Gate' Wonder. Senior and Grand Champion Sow Bock A 8hlrk on Queen Bess 2d. Junior Champion Sow Booeo on Perfect 81s 10th. Union Stock Tarda Cup Gates. Hogs Raised on Fruit Cop the Blue Ribbons Pork made from raisins won blue ribbons at the National Swine show this week. A Berkshire sow which won the championship has been fed on California fruits. "This hog wouldn't know what to do with an ear of corn," said one of the caretakers. "In California we don't feed corn, we give our stock culled fruit and we have good stock. We are getting to be a big hog pro ducing state. Dried grapes made mighty good feed and we give it to our hogs, cattle and horses." The California prize Winning Berk shires belong to F. A. Brush of Santa Rosa- They have been winning blue ribbons all over the country. Express charges of $1,008 were paid to send the hogs to Omaha for the Swine show. Police Judge Settles Quarrel Between Lovers The love of two men for the same maid caused "bad blood" between Mike Ruda, 2811 R street, and Mike Tom, Twenty-eighth and R streets. Mike Tom is said to have threat ened to kill Mika Ruda. Police Judge Fitzgerald gave Tom a suspended sentence of ninety days in pail and told to leave the other parties alone. South Side Brevities Tot Rent S and 7 -room houses. So. (01. Wanted- -Two sales girls. Apply TVllg Brothers, 1404 N street Mies Helen Moeshler and Miss Margaret Omaha Division Point For the Western Electric With the appointment, effective Wednesday, of H. H. Goodell, present manager of the local branch of the Western Electric company, as assist ant central district manager for the company with his offices here. Omaha becomes the headquarters for the western part of the company's central district with the Minneapolis and Des Moines branches contributary. This change marks a division of the work previously handled by the Chi cago offices and will make a decided increase in the volume of business handled at the local headquarters. Other local men affected by the change are A. H. Bannister, for the past few years local sales manager, who is transferred to Minneapolis as northwestern sales manager, and M. A. Buehler, the Omaha apparatus specialist, who succeeds , Mr. Ban nister as local sales manager. Lanntng are spending a few weeks visiting friends out In the state. The Lefler Ladles' Aid society will give a tea Thursday afternoon at the home ot Mrs. Thomas Alton, Fourteenth and Z streets. The Ladles' Aid society of St Luke's church will meet at 2 o'clock Thursday aft ernoon with Mrs. W. A. Martin, 4741 South' Eighteenth street. Telephone South S00 and order a case of Oma or Lactonade, the healthful, refreshing Home Beverages, delivered to your residence. Omaha Beverage Co. OH. DOCTOR! Fatty Arbuckle at the Beese tonight In his newest comedy riot entitled "on, uoctori Also Clara Kimball Toung, Harry Morey and House Peters. The Cormodo, recently organised by the young men of St Agnes' parish, will give a card party and dance Thursday night at the Eagles' home, Twenty-tblrd and N streets. BIG SHOW IS HERE The Heir to the Ages" with House Peters, "A Lesson In Jealousy" with Clara Kimball Young, and "Oh, Doctor!" with Fatty Ar buckle. Admission lOo and 30c. The Coronado club announces Its opening nartv for Thursday evening. October 11, at the Eagles' hall. The clun is composed oi the young men of St. Agner parish and plana a series of parties for the coming year. Army Camps Now Receive 2,500 Freight Cars Daily The railroad freight officials have made some calculations with the re sult that thev estimate that 2,500 car loads o food and other necessities are being delivered daily by the roads to the cantonments where the National army and National guards are being trained for war service. The supplies that the railroads are moving are going to sixteen non productive cities, of a population of approximately 40,000 each and to fifty-six smaller camps, ranging in population from 300 to 3,000 each. It is tigurea tnat ot tne l.uuu.uuu soldiers in the camps and canton ments, the food consumption averages five pounds per man per day, to say nothing of the clothing, fuel and other supplies that are constantly needed. Farmer Seeks Divorce From Alleged Warlike Spouse Thomas E, Petersen, farmer, wants no more of a wife who, he alleges, has a habit of holding a butcher knife against his body arid threatening to run it through him. This is one of the "choice" allega tions made in a suit for divorce filed in district court yesterday against Grace Petersen. The were married December 3, 1916. PLOT TO WRECK GERMAN NAYY Attempt to Link Radical Social ists With Scheme; Again Urge Proper "Enlightenment" of Military. Copenhagen, Oct 9. Vice Ad miral von Capelle, German minis ter of marine, announces in the Reichstag today that a plot had been discovered in the navy to form a committee of delegates on the Russian model and to paralyze the fleet so as to force the government to make peace. The guilty parties have been arrested and have re ceived their just deserts, the minis ter added. SAYS RADICALS AT FAULT. Admiral von Capelle attempted to link the radical socialists with the plot. He said the ringleader had dis cussed the plot with Deputies Haase and Vogtherr in the radical socialist conference room in the Reichstag building-. The deputies had called at- Ltention to the dangerous nature of the plot and hat' advised the greatest cau tion, but had agreed to furnish propa ganda material. Chancellor Michaelis earlier in the session had referred to the affair, rumors of which evidently had gained public circulation. He declared he could not co-operate with or recog nize a party which put itself beyond the pale by activities directed against the fatherland. The disclosures in connection with the radical socialists, if they are true, came most opportunely to help the government out of its embarrassment over the interpellation regarding Pan German propaganda. Admiral von Capelle summarized his statement with a declaration of the necessity for a proper "enlightenment" of the mili tary forces. Amsterdam, Oct. 9. Germany and Austria-Hungary have agreed to make another peace offer to the al lies, the Deutsche Tages Zeitung of Berlin says it learns on good author ity. The offer will have as its basis no territorial aggrandizement, the sur render of Belgium and French terri tory, the renunciation of positive ter ritorial acquisitions for payments in , money and no indemnity oneither side. Camp Fremont Being Prepared for Troops Washington, Oct. 10. Construction work at Camp Fremont, Palo Alto, Cal., is being pushed rapidly and troops will be sent there for train ing as soon as quarters are ready. Quit Meat When Back Hurts Or Kidneys Bother Says Uric Acid in Meat Kidneys and Irritates Bladder. Clogs Glass of Salts is Harmless to Flush Kidneys, Says Authority. Way Suffer From Pileo no matter how long- or how bad go to yonr druggist today and get a ta cent box of Pyramid File Treatment. It will give quick relief, and a single box often cures. A trial package nailed free In plain wrapper U you end us coupon below. FREE SAMPLE COUPON PTRAMID DRTTO COMPANT, KM Pyramid fildg, Marshall. Mich. Kindly send me ft Free sample of fyraaki PUeTrtmeqt, la plain wrapper. Kama Street City State If you must nave your meat every day, eat it, but flush your kidneys with salts occasionally says a noted au thority who tells us that meat forms uric acid which almost paralyzes the kidneys in their efforts to expel it from the blood. They become slug gish and weaken, then you suffer with a dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick head ache, dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the weath er is bad you have rheumatic twinges. ! The urine gets cloudy, full of sedi-1 ment, the channels often get sore and irritated, obliging you to seek relief two or three time . during the night. To neutralize these irritating acids, to cleanse the kidneys and flush off the body's urinous waste get four ounces of Jad Salts from any phar macy here; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a tew days and youi kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to j neutralize the acids in urine, so it no ' longer irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in jure, and makes a delightful efferves cent lithia-water drink. Adv, , April a certain number of divisions drawn from the eastern front. "As this did not suffice they have drawn the picked men from each of their companies on the eastern front and with the assistance of the class of 1918 have formed twenty-seven new divisions, twenty-six of which have appeared in France. "They have exchanged their picked troops of the eastern front for the inferior ones of the western front. Finally once, the battle begun, in order to hold out they have success ively replaced, nunibor for number, sixteen exhausted divisions from the French front by fresh divisions from the eastern front. "However, in spite of using all these methods, of which the latter have only been possible this year, due to the trouble made Ly the Russian revolu tion, Germany has made her supreme military effort." Methodists Push Campaign For Retired Ministers' Fund The Methodist ministers of the city and a number of laymen met at the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday to form plans for the Conference Claimant campaign that will be carried on in Nebraska during the next few weeks. The purpose of the campaign is to establish a $500,000 Methodist Con ference endowment fund for the bene fit of retired ministers. The cam paign was launched at a banquet at St. Paul's Methodist church in Lin coln sjuring the session of the Nebras ka conference. District Superintendent U. G. Brown presided, and Bishop Homer C. Stuntz and Rev. J . R. Gettys ad dressed the meeting. The ministers will change pulpits and noted speak ers will be asked to give talks dur ing the campaign. Twenty-seven Grads of Windsor School in Army A mahogan frame containing a parchment has been hung in the main corridor of Windsor school as a re minder to present-day pupils that twenty-seven graduates of this school are now serving their country in va rious branches of the army and navy. The pupils of the school will re member these young men at Christ mas time and at other times. Names on this honor roll follow: Edward Wilbur, Inland ShropHhIre, Itobert Wilbur, Edward Schutt, Stow Sutton. I.ouls Ureonhaven, John Spencer, Klmor Moran, Harry Mooney, Krnont Bahnaks, Harold Moorman, Elner Odarson, John Munroe, Adolph Carsten, Donald Munroe, Hnrnian Lunditron, Noyes Button, Huith Hobertson, Carl Kahrs, Jam's MoKllleott, Frank Barry, William Nielsen, Ueorge O'Nell, William Mynstar, Raymond Neville, l'aul Kounouky. Walton Qrom, Discharged for Alleged Theft of Walnuts The alleged theft ot a sack of wal nuts brought George Green before Police Judge Holmes yesterday morn ing on a charge of petty larceny. Green told the judfct he was driving in his bpggy on North Sixteenth street when he was made a gift of what he thought was a sack of coal, but which was later revealed to him as being a sack of walnuts belonging to Simon brothers. The bag had dropped from one of their trucks. Green was discharRed. Chicago Probe Reveals National Milk Combine Chicago, Oct. 10. Government officials rummaging through rec ords seized in recent raids on the office of the Milk Producers' asso ciation today discovered that there was a national milk producers' fed eration of which the local associa tion was member. This, it was said, may lead to a national investi gation of the manner ef fixing milk prices. The national organisation has been in existence only a short time. 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