12 - THE BEE): OMAHA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1917. . j--
SOLDIER AT CAMP
TONS TON SAYS HE
WILL NOT -FIGHT
Gustav Eric Gustavsen, Enlist
ed Man. in Depot Brigade,
' Declares Lord Commands
He Shall Not Kill.
Stiortage in Spectacles is More
Serious Than That of Sugar
Gustav Eric Gustavsen, Company
thirty-four, One Hundred and Sixty
fourth depot brigade, at Camp Fun
ston, is indignant. More than that, he
is peeved, and has written a letter to
The Bee in which he gives vent to
his outraged feelings.
. He stated that the story published
in The Bee October 13 about him be
ing given "dope" which made him
want to fight the kaiser's minioiw is
devoid of even the most meager
shreds of truth.
He doesn't'want to fight the kaiser's
minions, he said. He doesn't want to
kill anybody in this horrid war; he
doesn't believe in war.
"I am still a conscientious objector,'
, he declared with bold strokes of the
Pcn-
Gustavsen, upon his arrival at Camp
Funston, is reported to have said that
he got sorue medicine in the hospital
at Fort Omaha that made a regular
fighting man of him.
N Lieutenant Scott, physician who re
ceived him when he entered the hos
pital, can testify that he got the medi
cine all right a big dose of certain
kinds of oils skillfuly blended. But
the treatment didn't put the battle
pep into Gustavsen, as was first re
ported. ...
"I am unalterably determined that
I shall not deviate from this course
(conscientiously objecting) and that
I will not change my principles under
any respect," he stated in his letter.
Gustavsen'a course 6eem to be laid
out in a different direction from that
which leads to the battle front. At
least it was laid out that way until
the government stepped in and found
him of draft age, physically accept
able, and apparently suitable soldier
material. .... ,
But that his heart isn't in the work
of preparing himself to fight for his
country is evinced in his letter, which
reads as follows:
Laws Disregarded, He Says.
"I find an article published in your
paper October U, headlines read like
this: 'Given Dope and Now He Wants
to Fight tUe Kaiser.'
"1 am sorry to say that these facts
are not true under any condition.. I
am still a conscientious objector I
recognize that it is the duty of every
person to abide by the laws of the
land, but when those laws are disre
garded by the men having the obli
gation to execute them, or when such
laws are used in an aggressive man
ner, in utter disregard of civil and re
ligious rights, then I owe ait alle
giance to my Heavenly Father and to
the Lord Jesus Christ, my Redeemer,
that is higher than the allegiance to
any institution on earth. . ,
"My Lord comtvnds that I shall
not kill, nor shall 1 be a party to the
taking of human life, either directly
or indirectly. I recognize it is my
first obligation to obey the Lord.
"I am unalterably determined that
I shall not deviate from this course
and that I will not-thange my prin
ciples under any respect."
Mad Bull Breaks Loose; (
' Terrorizes South Siders
A m-irl ftiill hrnV aunv from the
t. 4M va who -- j -
stock yards Wednesday morning and
terrorized residents in ine ncignoor
hood of Thirty-sixth and Q streets
tnr 1m net thro hnnrft hefnre it could
' be hot The angry animal jumped
over high fences ana ran amucs
through the crowd Several persons
climbed trees to escape the bull. Men
tried to rope the animal but were un-
M in orr within thrnwinor distance.
Little children on their way to school
were forced to turn ana run oacic
At last the mad bull dashed into St.
Marv's cemeterv. where Officer Joe
Baughman climbed upon a tomb
stone and shot and killed the big ani
mal. ' ; ,
Norway Wants Agreement
... With U. S. Regarding Food
Christiania, Oct. 24. Commenting
on the recent official statement con
cerning exports from the United
States to neutral countries, the
Norske Intellicenssedler, the Kovern
ment organ, says Norway is doing its
best to arrive at an agreement witn
the United States as soon as possible
The, statement was made in reply
to other newspapers, which are de
inanding more active steps for a set-
. tlement of the uimculty betore Nor
; way is faced by famine. The Intelli
gcnssedler continuing, says:
"Everybody must see that it de
pends upon America and not upon us
t when matters will oe adjusted.
America retains our cargo ships and
we cannot release them, although we
have neglected nothing to that end."
- American Army Units
In France Buy Bonds
Washington, Oct. 24. American
army units in France have subscribed
for more than $1,500,000 in Liberty
bonds and - in , some organizations
every soiaiervnas suDscnoea.
Officers,-clerks, soldiers and inter
preters at General Pershing's hcad
. Htiartcrs are subscribe,, wi the
Intal fnr the exnerlitinnarv force is
expected to be large by the end of
the week.-
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Funeral of Sen. Husting
4 Is Held at Mayville
Mayville. . Wis., Oct 24,-The fu
neral of United States Senator Paul
O. Husting, who was accidentally
shot and killed by his brother. Gus
live, while on a hunting trip on Sun-
, day last, was held this forenoon, the
body being laid to rest in the family
plot at Oraccland cemetery.
. . .
.Lumber Steamer Rammed
. - And Sunk; Cook Missing
An Atlantic; Port. Oct 24. A Jap
sjKse steamship laden with munitions
yfammed and sunk the 1,300-ton lum
ber steamer Katahdin here late last
night. The rook of the sunken vessel
i tni&sing. The Japanese steamer had
its bow stove in,
Not only sugarut spectacles are
hard to get now.
There is an acute shortage of glass,
according to the optical jobbers in
Omaha. Three years ago 99?6 per
cent of all optical glass used, white or
tintad, was imported from England.
France and Germany. The domestic
output was not large enough to sup
ply Windsor, Conn. In those days
glass came over the water in ship
loads. American manufacturers at
that time were busy making plate
glass, window glass, beer glasses so
busy they had neither time nor in
clination to do the costly experi
menting necessary to make optical
glass. .
The .European supply was entirely
cut off with the coming of the great
war. The European factories got
busy with other work, and what little
optical glass was made was immedi
ately requisitioned by the various
warring governments.
The result is lhatvwhile sonic of
the jobbers and manufacturers in
America had it figured out tKat there
was an 18 months' supply of optical
glass in this country, the war has
lasted about 40 months, and the glass
situation is growing more serious.
MAY LOOK AT BOOKS
OF COAL DEALERS
J. L. Kennedy Says the Propo
sition Now is More How to
Get Coal Than the
Price.
"If excessive prices are charged for
coal," said John L. Kennedy, federal
fuel administrator for Nebraska, "an
examination of the books of the coal
dealers will reveal that fact, and ad
justments will be ma'de accordingly."
This announcement appears in an
obscure place in a statement just
made public by the fuel administrator
of Nebraska.
Mr. Kennedy hold, however, that
the important proposition at this
time is to get coal into the state.
"There is a shortage of steam
coal," he says, "brought about chiefly
by the lessening of the supply from
certain sources, by the increased con
sumption in manufacturing establish
ments, and by the use of steam coal
for anthracite in se of necessity.
"The real hardship to the domestic
consumer comes from the shortage of
hard coal. There is very little of it
coming into the state. Much of it has
been going to lake ports, in anticipa-
. ' . ii
tion ot tnc ciose ot me navigation
season."
Would Drive Squatters
Out of Winspear Triangle
The notorious Winspear Triangle,
on the river Jront at tlic northeast
side of the city, may be cleaned up
and the half hundred squatters there
requested to move out. '
The Winspear Triangle has been
set aside by the cityjeouncil as dock
age property for the development of
river navigation in Omaha. Plow-
ever, nothing has, as yet been done
to develop this dockage and the halt
hundred squatters still live there.
A Commercial club committee, in
vestigating the situation, has re
ported m favor of asking the city
council at once to clear this property
of squatters so that the dockage may
COCKROACH WARD
AT POOR FARM IS
TO BE ABOLISHED
Commissioners Vote to Trans
fer 125 Inmates From Base
ment to the Fourth
Floor. "
U.S. ARMY SURGEON
TALKS TOROTARIANS
Former Director of Omaha Club ,
Proud to Wear Uncle Sam's
Uniform; Christmas !
Plans Laid. j
be developed. A'committee has made
a renort showinz that from SO to
75 shacks Kcupy the ground;!
that the . people pay no rent,
but build their shacks on this public
ground of old sheets of tin, railway
tics and sticks and boards, banked
high with manure to keep them
warm. The report is that the people
live in unspeakable filth.
Col. Welsh is On the
Job When S, 0. S. '
Signal ' Flashes
Colonel Welsh of the weather bu
reau is a chivalrous gentleman) as
everybody knows. He proved it
anew the other day while attending
a moving picture house. A fat
woman was seated next to him. She
began to bob forward and backward,
and finally she spoke to the colonel.
"I am sorry to trouble you, sir,"
she said, "but really 1 can't get up.
Thee scats are so narrow."
Not an instant did the doughty col
onel hesitate. He arose and took
the woman of avoirdupois by the left
arm and gave a mighty tug. But he
could not pull her loose from the
seat. . .
. Another man came to his assist
ance. He took hold of the good
woman's other arm. The colonel
gave the signal and together they
gave a mighty tug. The arms of the
chair groaned and cracked and the
woman stood up. She smiled and
thanked them. Somebody started ap
plauding, but the colonel and his as
sistant sat down without acknowl
edging this recognition of their
achievement.
Russian School Children
Strike For Representation
Petrograd, Oct. 21 A dispatch
from Tiflis says a strike has been
called by the pupils of intermediary
schools, who demand right to have
representatives of the three higher
classes of scholars participate in the
administrative affairs of the schools.
They also demand that the number of
Latin lessons be decreased.
Bee Want Ads Produce Results.
The famous "cockroach ward" in
Douglas county's, infamous county
hospital and poor farn may be abol
ished. County commissioners have voted
to hire an architect to prepare plans,
for the remodeling of the fourth floor
of the hospital building, to which will
be transferee the 125 men inmates
now living in the basement.
The estimated cost of the improve
ment will be between $5,000 and
$6,000. Work is to commence as soon
as plans have been prepared.
Each time the searchlight of pub
licity is Hhrown on the county hos
pital, the basement, a dungeon-like
place where inmates battle w;ith ver
min and sentinels armed with blow
torches give battle to legions of cock
roaches, comes in for the chief atten
tion. Unfit for Hogs.
During the investigation last spring,
when delegations of Omaha doctors
visited the hospital and inspected each
ward, the basement was reported
back to the county board as a place
"unfit for hogs to live in-." Neverthe
less more than 100 men are still liv
ing there.
The county board also has voted
other improvements at the hospital
and has raised salaries of several
county employes theje.
W. L. Nichols, superintendent, was
raised from $100 to $125 a month. His
wife, matron, gets a boost from $35
to $60 a month. The job of assistant
superintendent is created at a salary
of $75 a month." Other employes, in
cluding a woman in charge of the old
women's ward, three firemen, a farmer
and a scrub woman, get raises of from
$5 to $20 a month.
The board voted to hire a graduate
pharmacist for the county hospital at
a salaryi of $50 a month and room and
board. A new librarian and book
keeper will receive $70 a month.
The commissioners voted to require
the superintendent to furnish a $2,500
bond.
! Captain Henry Aiken, well known
! Omaha surgeon and a director of the
Rotary club, was accorded a rousing
i welcome when he appeared before
the Rotarians at their noon meeting
at the Henshaw Wednesday. Captain
Aiken is (now regimental surgeon of
the engineers stationed at Camp
Grant, Rockford. III. He entertained
his fellow Rotarians with an account
of his experiences as a "rooky" in
the officers' training camp.
"I received an ovation similar to
this from th6 Rotary club at Chicago,"
he said, "and I was glad, too, because
I knew it was not m? they vere ap
plauding but the uniform I wear. I
am proud of it."
"Ask him how many pounds'he lost,
Mr. Chairman,'' someone suggested.
"I didn't lose any," Dr. Aiken ans
wered in a flash, "I just shifted it
around." ...
Archie Carpenter supplied the Ro
tarians with Morrisannia apples from
his ranch in California and sent his
regards.
The Rotary club will take the Bran
ded theater for an evening perform
ance in the near future to raise their
annual Christmas fund. Manager
Roy Sutton of the Brandeis offered
a donation to help cover expenses.
Harry Minturn, leading man of the
Brandeis stock company, who will
play for the Rotarians, addressed the
noon meeting.
Omaha Boys Enlist to Avenge
Brother Who is Now in Hospital
The1 fact that their elder brother is
lying in a Canadian sanatariuih, a
victim of German gas and bayonets,
has not deterred two boys in Omaha
from enlisting.
Charles . Powell, an employe of
the . Western Electric company in
Omaha, enlisted in the aviation corps
at Fort Omaha soon after his brother
returned home, and is now awaiting
call. His younger brother, John, has
been at the Newport News naval
training station six months and is
visiting his brother while on fur-
lough. r ' '
Merritt H. Powell, the brqther in
Canada, enlisted in February, 1915.
with the 20th Canadian battalion and
was soon on the firing line. He had
six months of actual trench work, and
as a result is now almost a physical
wreck. From his former weight of
170 pounds he has dropped to 125.
But Canada is very kind to its
wounded heroes and the American
boy. now lies in a beautiful mountain
sanatarium iti Ontario, Canada, which
is a famous health resort and has
been taken over by the government
for the recuperation of, returned sol
diers. With half of each lung gone
as a result of the deadly German gas,
the young man is glad to be alive and
grateful that the doctors say he will
get well and stay so if he Ukes good
care of himself. He also suffered
number of minor wounds.
"My brother went over the top at
least, forty times during his six
months in the trenches," said Charles
Fowejl yesterday. "So many times he
failed to keepveount. The night he
was gassed he was on a scouting
expedition. As is the rule for such
attempts, the men "traveled light,"
taking only revolvers and did not
take gas masks.
"When the gas came he would have
been killed but for the fact that he
wjjs enabled to take a mask from a
dead German soldier. So he got back
to the trench, but the doctors say
half of each lung is gone now. How
ever, there is no tuberculosis, so we
are thankful for that."
"I should think it would frighten
the rest of your family from trying to
enlist," said a listener.
, "Indeed not," said Powell. "It
makes us want to get in, too. As
my brother says, he thinks he knows
who did it. He is anxious to go back
and get him. As he can't, we are
going instead."
The three Powell boys, have had
military training at prep, school and
at Kentucky State university. Their
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WHEN YOU WAKE
UP DRINK GLASS
OF HOT WATER
1
Wash the poisons and toxina from
systtm before putting more
food Into stomach.
Say Inside-bathing makes any
one look and feel clean,
woet and refreshed.
Suffer
From Pileo
no matter how long1 or how, bad go
to your druggist today and get a 40
rent box of Pyramid Pile Treatment.
It will give quick relief, and a single
box often cures. A trial package
nailed free in plain wrapper It you
send us coupon below.
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Wash yourself on the inside before
breakfast like you do on the outside.
This is vastly more important because
the skin pores do not absorb impuri
ties into the blood, causing illness,
while the bowel pores do.
For every ounce of food and drink
taken into the stomach, nearly an
ounce of waste material must be
carried out"bf the body. If this waste
material is not eliminated day by day
it quickly ferments and generates
poisons, gasses and toxins which are
absorbed or sucked into the blood
stream, through the lymph ducts
which should suck only nourishment
to sustain the body.
A splendid health measure is to
drink, before breakfast each day, a
glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in it,
which is a harmless way to wash
these poisons, gases and toxins from
the stomach, liver, kidneys and
bowels; thus cleansing, sweetening
and freshening the entire alimentary
canal before putting more food into
the stomach.
A auarter pound of limestone ohos-
phate costs but very. little at the drug
store but is sufficient to make anyone
an enthusiast on inside-bathing. Men
and women who are accustomed to
wake up with a dull, aching head or
have furred tongue, bad taste, nasty
breath, sallow complexion, others who
have bilious attacks, acid stomach or
constipation are assured of pro
nounced improvement 'im both health
and appearance shortly. Adv.
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Mil
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' 7-passenger Touring Cr, $1595
4-passenger Roadster, $1595
7-pasenger Convertible Sedan, .
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with all its warmth and smooth fit,
that you are unconscious of wearing it.
There are a million little sptings in the?
SPRINGTEX fabric that meet your every .
motion with a "give and take" you never feel.
There's a yelvety softness and a warmth to
its, fabric that are luxuriously grateful.
Springtex is sold at your deal-
union suits and separate
garments at popular prices.
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She has found how to for
' get her undertaar troubles,
she never gives its launder
ing a second thought. Only
each time she puts on a
lacy, fresh-laundered cami
sole, or shakes out a rosy
silk nightgown, she breathes
a little "thank you" tothe
goddess of pretty things
for having sent her Lux.
Two enemies of silk
underwear
Lux has banished the two
enemies of silk underwear
alkali and rubbing. Author
ities on silk say alkali is
what turns silks yellow.
Rubbing pulls and spoils
the silk, thickens and coars
ens the lace. -
Lux contains absolutely
no free alkali, and the trans
parent flakes contain so
much more real cleansing
value than is possible in
any other form of soap, that
the dirt dissolves without'
a bit of rubbing.
Made to protect silk
underwear 1
Cake soap leaves little pieces of
soap sticking to the, threads even
throuch all ths rinsings. They
turn the febric yellow and maks it
harsh. "
Lux is in flakes, because it ia
made especially for the washing
of delicate fabrics. The flakes malt
instantly in hot water.
Use Lux no rubbing to get
the dirt out no robbing to get the
soap out. No yellowed or rough
ened garments.
rsa Lax on mttjrthing thtt
pur wafer aono will not harm.
Order It today from your grocer,
druggist or department store.
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How to wash silk underwear
Whiak a handful of Lax Into a thick lather in very hot water. Ad
uld water till lukewarm. Dip your underwear throueh the foamy
rSKJ ft mea-work it about ie the auda-do not r&. Rinae i
ihrrwT"rI the ..me temperature a. the water in , whiet . you whed
it. Seueeie the w.ter out -do aot wrins. Dry ia the abada. Wbea
nearly dry, preas with a warm iron never a hot one.
WonVtura
silks yellow!
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