THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1917.
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SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION
59,022 Daily Sunday, 52,158
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William. Circulation Maiiaser.
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ta Uara. AaUraaa caaaieel aa oltaa aa raquaatad.
S Meatless day J Cut out the blubber. " Pass the
whale I
Cupidity of the "mikes" fashions the prosperity
It remains to be seen whether the 10 per cent
tax on sleeping car tickets will bring the cheaper
upper ber$h into greater favor.
Omaha's bauk clearings for October have
topped alt previous heights. Omaha is smashing
all kinds of records thesedays.
Separate your local from your out-of-town
mail. , Out-of-town vletters take 3 cents postage,
white locat letters stay at the 2-cent rate.
It may be noted that Berlin enjoys the free
dom of the telegraph in sending out whoops of
victory. Only the hurts encounter the censor's
firing squad at home.
Jobbers are asked to refuse to sell sugar to re
tailers exacting more than their normal profit.
But what is normal profit? And suppose the
normal profit is abnormally high?
Uncle Sam is not inclined to' swing the club
pn profiteers. "OH Efficiency" is a reserve force
for chronic cases. , For the present a stretch of
very slippery ground carries the mute warning:
"Watch your steps." ' '
Turkey's "holy war," waged among the non-
combantants of Armenia and Syria rivals the
slaughter houses and the graves designed
by kultur in Belgium. The flattery of imitation
doubtless fills Totsdam with holy glee.
No serious objection can be urged against the
proposal ot drafting men to expedite work in
shipyards or other industries essential to win
ning the war. Drafting eligible talent for war
industries Imposes less risk than drafting men
to fight the war, J, . -
Coal operators may be as dark as they are
painted, but few of them wilt thank the dealers
who measure their patriotism by the tapeline of
war profits. If operators will' not speed up pro
duction unless allowed "big profits," the quicker
the government puts their patriotism to the test
the better for the nation.
Teaching American principles and policies to
aliens expedites the work of the melting pot,
benefiting both individual and community. But
it neW not be restricted to the foreign-born.
Quite a percentage of native-born could derive
siefjul and valuable knowledge from American
zed lessons vigorously rubbed in. , 1
A lot of newspapers are figuring out the
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of
food that would be conserved if every auto in
the country did not kill one chicken in the year.
How much would be saved if people kept their
chickens off the roaxLNewmsn Grove Re
porter. We take it this refers to chickens on country
roads and not to chickens on city streets.
s Those famous drives into Serbia, Rotimania
and Russia, thrilled. Berlin and. Vienna for a brief
time, lightening the weight of gloom and settled
weariness The Itallaii serves the "same end. So
far none of the drives shortened the war one
hour or brought the central pofcerswithin reach
ing distance of their war aims. Drives dent the
surrounding walls of steel, but fashion no avenue
of escapeMor autocracy. ,
Scarcity of labor in some of the big cities
allows surprising efficiency in eliminating a mid
dleman of dubious repute. More pay and less "of
fensive kicking started an exodus of janitors,
and the lordly landlord must buckle to the job
or lose, the money. Hitherto the janitor stood
between the landlord and the tenant, a sort
of a social shock absorber. His going brings the
principals within speaking distance and vastly
enhances the gaytty of apartment lite.
Profiteering in the Civil War
New York World.
Consumers oppressed by the high cost of living
may extract what satisfaction they can from -the
discovery that it was far higher in the, civil war.
According to an invoice which has recently been
Unearthed of goods sold by a firm of wholesale
grocers of Keokuk, la., in June, 1862. sugar was
$58 a barrel and rice $38, while tea sold at $101
for a 25-pound chest. Coffee was four times the
present price, and the same1 bill of groceries
which then brought $644.14 could be purchased
today for $291.61.
. These figures, of course, do not reduce 'the
present price of beefsteak or butter, but they may
serve to take the sting out of some bf the exac
tions of contemporary "profiteers." It is some
thing to. knr ?, that conditions might be a whole
lot worse, ;'J certainly even sugar-refiners
would hesitate to.charge $58 a barrel. In fact,
we may fed' astonished at the moderation of
the present generation of dealers and a corre
sponding admiration for the bolder methods jof
profiteering in the civil war. The dealers at
that time had hardly a third as many consumers
to loot as there are today; they had no storage
facilities, no organization, but, on the other hand,
no federal interference in price-fixing. They
charged what they pleased, and their pleasure in
the matter of extortionate prices was something
to make their successors' mouths water.
. . The invoice is of value in throwing light on one
phase of existence in the "good old days." Per
haps, after all, we are better off in the degenerate
times when prices are merely doubled and not
elevated to the limit "
Italian Situation Improving.
Affairs of the Italian army are assuming a
more encouraging condition, if reports from
Washington are to be relied on. According to
dispatches from our own capital, which gets its
information from official sources, the third army
under Cadorna has checked the thrust of the
Austro-German forces, and is holding firm a short
distance from Udine, along lines where resistance
to the invasion had been predicted. Germans still
make claims of astounding numbers of prisoners
and guns captured, but their figures may be sub
jected to revision later. Few who have watched
the course of Italy in this war, and are in any
degree familiar with the qualities of the Italian
as a soldier, will readily credit a report that
60,000 of thorn laid down their arms, much less
that the astonishing total of 160,000 have been,
captured along with 1,500 guns. The withdrawal
of the Italian army to its new position was un
doubtedly accomplished under great difficulties,
but the advance of German forces could not have
been more facile, while late dispatches indicate
that the attempted enveloping movement failed.
The defense in the Carnic Alps still holds, and
the reformation of Cadorna'a army without cross
ing the Tagliamento indicates a capacity to resist
that doea away with immediate danger of collapse
of Italy, The outcome now depends on whether
supplies can be furnished to the Italians in time.
If this is accomplished, the situation on that front
will be just about where it was at thus time last
year, with the German capacity for attack expended.
, Time to Stop Being Mealy-Mouthed.
The burning of two great piers at Baltimore,
with loss of life and destruction of millions in
property, warns Americana that the time to stop
being mealy-mouthed is almost at hand. This
fire, with many others throughout the country,
such as the burning of the big grain elevator at
New York, the stockyards at Kansas City, and
other large storehouses, is presumptive evidence
at least of organized effort to destroy food and
supplies needed by the wdrld. Back of the men
who set these fires must be others, for the jobs
are too big for two or three to carry through,
Preparation beforehand and protection afterward
is required, and this only can be furnished by
systematically arranged and thoroughly organized
co-operation of a considerable number.
To successfully combat this dangerous con
spiracy it is not required that the nation forsake
its humanitarian attitude, nor that it deal harshly
with an honorable foe. But America is at war,
and war is stern. We must treat treason as trea
son, and spies as spies, if we are to have safety
at home. Firebugs and similar public enemies
should be made to realize the danger that attends
their operations. The certainty of a severe or
extreme penalty might deter, and surely would
prevent the repetition of the criminal acts.
Tea-party manners do not ( become nation
that is fighting for its right to exist against a foe
that knows no ruth. Too many lives are at stake,
and too much property it in danger, to longer
tolerate the operations of enemies within our
borders.
Regulation of the Meat Trade.
Taking over control of the packing plants is
only the first step in regulation of the meat tradef
as the government food administrator will find
out. Adjustment of the grain trade was com
paratively easy, for the price of wheat was fixed
at the bottom and all intermediate steps on the
way to the consumer were cut out. Control of
the packing houses means taking hold of the
meat trade at the top and trusting that restraint
will extend downward. Stabilization of prices
with maintenance of remunerative returns to
growers may be achieved through this process,
but the complications are manyand the formu
lation of rules and their application wilt not be
easy.
The wide variation in the quality, of stock of
fered and the all but impossible condition of
standardizing grades' wilt present the first great
obstacle. Top prices in live stock quotations al
ways rest on a particularly fancy grade of ani
mal, seldom seen in flesh, being in fact nominal
notice to the seller that such a price might be
paid in event of an animal exactly suiting the
buyer's notion. Lower prices prevail always; for
example, at Omaha on Monday prime heavy
beeves were quoted at $16.50 per hundredweight,
but the highest price actually paid for a load sold
was $8.50 for a bunch of Nebraska steers. 'The
higher price serves to overawe the householder
who buys at the retail market.
Speculators frequently "make the market," de
spite the packer. On Monday 10,938 head of
cattle were sold in Omaha, of which the packers
took but 5,566, the rest going to speculators. Live
stock commission men should not be confounded
with the speculators; the commission man is really
the salesman, acting for the shipper. All of these
are to be reckoned with in dealing with the meat
trade and all come below the packer. :
' Gambling, in the finished product is another
phase of the problem and must be dealt with sepa
rately. , It can be handled just as was the gam
bling in grain and checked by prohibition. How
ever, a little study of this brief outline will show
that the meat administrator has been given the
most involved task in the entire work of food
control. i . ,
State Normal Board Finances.
State Treasurer Hall' is reported as saying the
State Normal board has its financial affairs in
very bad condition, that it is now a quarter of a
million behind and has expended in the current
year almost the entire appropriation made for
theVbiennium. If this be true, it evidences reck
less mismanagement somewhere, and means a
curtailment of the service of the normal schools
next year. To deliberately incur a deficiency lays
the board liable under the law. Heads of state
institutions used to do that in Nebraska, relying
on the legislature to help thenv out, and at one
time the state found itself with an accumulated
illegal debt of almost $3,000,000, which, required
a special levy to extinguish. This is supposed to
be impossible now, with the management of alt
our state charities in the hands of the Board of
Control, but the State Normal board seems to
be still a law unto itself in the disbursement of
its appropriations) It has been thtiv long time
a source of scandal and vexation to the tax
payers, and its present action may have the ef
fect of arousing such indignation as to secure
adoption of some one of many plans offered in
the past to give us efficient management In these
big state schools.
Morris Hillquit, socialist candidate for mayor
of New York, passed up a Liberty bond subscrip
tion because he did not wish to "encourage war."
He is shrewder, if not wiser, than his party fol
lowers. The roster of indicted and convicted
socialists, formerly active in discouraging war
proves the party's loyalty to the land of its birth.
Keeping Fit for War
By F reaeric J. Haskin
Washington, Oct. 30. An athlete entering an
important contest is careful to work himself into
the pink of condition. The nations of the world
today are engaged in a gigantic field meet, with
the issue in doubt and the prizes the highest for
which man ever strove. What can be said of an
athlete who enters such a contest without screw
ins; his physical mechanism to the last notch of ef
ficiency? Yet that, according to many authorities
here, is exactly what the United States is in
danger of doing. The nation is not giving suf
ficient thought to the importance of individual
health in war time. The national health is nothing
but the sum of the healths of 100,000,000 in
dividuals. One of the slogans of Mr. Hoover's office, the
federal food administration, is "Go back to the
simple life. I he food administration enlarges on
this text somewhat in this fashion: "Be contented
with simple food, simple pleasures, simple clothes.
Work hard, pray hard, play hard. Work, t,
recreate and sleep. Do it all courageously. We
have a victory to win."
In certain features this sounds more like the
gospel of the strenuous than the simple life, but it
is a practical war creed none the less. Some of
the admonitions are primarily designed to piece
out the food supply, but if the whole were fol
lowed religiously from the most selfish motives,
it would result in a considerable improvement in
the national health and a corresponding increase
in the national efficiency.
Take the matter of food for an example. A
good deal of surprise was occasioned by the
manner in which the people of Europe throve
on short rations. Germany today is in sorry
straits, according to both official and unofficial
advices, but it is facing, not a rationing system,
but certain forms of actual starvation. For the
first year of the war the overfed German
burgher was actually benefited by being fed
under government supervision. Government ra
tioning in France and England has hacjf many
beneficial effects on the public health.
There is no indication today that the AmeU
can people will ever be put on rations. We have
plenty of food, and our food conservation cam
paign is largely an effort to induce the public
to substitute certain kinds of food for certain
other kinds which are needed for export corn
for wheat, honey and syrup for sugar, chicken
and fish for beef. But, though we may never be
put on rations, there is no reason why we should
not study the rationing question with avicw to
finding out where its good effects originate.
The benefits of the system seem to spring
largely from the fact that any government su
pervision of food puts the matter in the hands
of experts, who understand the proper com
binations of food elements and the needs of the
body. The human body may be likened in some
ways to the vessel of the chemist in the labora
tory. The chemist puts' certain chemicals into
his vessel to produce a certain reaction., Man
puts certain foods into his body with a view to
producing the complex series of reactions that
constitute healthy activity. The chemist does not
expect to get the reaction in 'his test-tube unless
he puts in the right combination of chemicals, but
the average man seems to have a sublime faith
that he will get the health reaction if he shovels
down almost any combination of foods in almost
any way.
A good many factors of the diet, such as the
amount of, food eaten and the nirmber of meals
a day, are matters that each individual must de
termine for himself by experience, but the proper
food combinations are matters of chemistry,
where the scientist can help, i Every traditional
food combination, such as, meat land potatoes,
bread and butter, bacon and eggs, has a sound
chemical basis, and science can suggest many
others, as well as prevent wrong combinations,
It is in this way that government food super
vision abroad has often benefited the health of
the people. In this country, while there is no
supervision, the, food administration has done
its share by working out, in collaboration with
the Department of Agriculture, a simple but com-
1 prchensive table of "Food Elements, which can
be used as a basis for planning proper combina
tions of all sorts of food.
Another element in the national health, which
is probably more peculiarly an American problem
than any other, is the factor of worry. There is
Tio other nation which worries as do the Ameri
cans. There is probably no other mental or
physical habit which can , arise on a fairly
healthy and normal soil which cuts into ef
ficiency to the same extent that worry does.
Worry is distinctly a war problem.
War does away, so the exoerience of Eurooe
.shows, with a goodly part of the groundless, and
Sienneriy rooieu worries mat cnaracierue super
civilization. Hypochondria, melancholia all the
morbid results of too much introspection, are
dissipated by the touch of the grim realities of
war, The old saying of the medieval physician
that melancholy humors are "mightily helped by
a dead man's touch," was based on the same law.
But if war does away with a certain class of wor
ries, it brings a train of new ones.
Worry saps national efficiency. It is a duty to
put it aside. Most of it is groundless. The
United States public health service compares
the man who worries to the chauffeur who lets his
engine run on neutral all the time the car is
standing still. Says the public health service:
"Not all worry is preventable, but for the most
part it can be avoided. Most of our fears are
never realized. Worry undermines the
health to a certain extent. It really weakens the
mental forces by tiring them out while doing noth
ing. Usually the relief from worry rests with the
victim of the unfortunate habit himself." ,
Since almost every American is more or less
a "victim of the unfortunate habit," the last
phrase is worth pondering.
N. B. ' The valuable table of 'Food Elements"
for use in planning- a balanced diet, referred to in
Uhis article, is contained in a food administra
tion publication Called The War Cook Book. A
copy of this book can be secured free if you send
your name and address with a 3-cent stamp for
return postage to The Omaha Bee Informat'on
Bureau, Washington, D. C. Ask for the "War
Cook Book."
People and Events '
Conservation of soup bones is the very latest
honch out of Washington. Owing to the war,
the.hunch is nonpartisan.
Speeding tip production makes a new high
record in the Baldwin shops at Philadelphia. The
plant is now turning out 72 locomotives a week
and still going strong. This is at the rate of
3,600 a year. The best previous record was 2,666
in 1906. The Baldwin pay roll shows 20,000 men.
A readjustment of milk prices in the terri
tory supplying Greater New York gives the
farmer an average of 6.8 cents a quart. For this
milk the city consumer pays 14 cents. The differ
ence between the producers' moderate price and
the consumers' squeeze measures in equal parts
the cost of distribution and the fattened "over
head." The retail coal men of Philadelphia at the
start told the price fixers to go to Halifax or a
warmer resort. They knew what prices were
right and would get the money regardless. They
got it, but it became too hot to hold, and they
are refunding to purchasers $40,000 of excess
charges. Your Uncle Samuel in this instance
proves himself a prince of persuaders.
Csnada digs closer to the roots of food profit
eering than its southern neighbor. Three years
experience accounts for the present difference.
The latest war move of the "Lady of the Snows"
shuts out all small packages tf so-called break
fast food. No package of less than 20 pounds
may be manufactured after December 1. Stocks
on hand must be disposed of during November.
The prohibition includes "the product of wheat,
oats, barley, rye. rice, teas, beans, buckwheat. In
dian corn or lentils," A big saving in paper is'
assured and some economy in prices
Right in the Spotlight.
Thomas B. Smith, mayor of Phila
delphia, who in under indictment on
charges growing out of murderous as
saults alleged to have been committed
by hired political sluggers- in tha re
cent primaries in the Quaker City, is
48 years old today, having been born
in Philadelphia, November 2, 1869. At
tha early age of 13 Mr. Smith began
his business career as a messenger boy
in the employ of the Pennsylvania
railroad. From this position he rose
to a clerkship, which he left in time
to become connected with an in
surance concern, of which he later be
came vice president. In early man
hood he engaged actively in republi
can politics, and was successively a
member of the Philadelphia common
council, of the Pennsylvania legis
lature, postmaster of Philadelphia and
a public service commissioner before
his election to the mayoralty in 191S.
One Year Ago Today In tho War.
Italian began new offensive
against the Austrians, IB, 000 prisoners
being taken. Kort Vaux, one of the
principal strongholds at Verdun, was
evacuated by the Germans, and oc
cupied the following day by the
French.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
A nsw Tresbyterlan church has
been organized in Omaha. It will be
known as the Lake Street church and
situated at Nineteenth and Lake
streets. Three elders and three
trustees were elected and 20 members
enrolled.
Citizen George Francis Train led
some 25 gentlemen representing the
city municipalities and the press
from the main parlor of the Paxton
to the dining room of that hostelry.
Every guest was presented with a
buttonhole bouquet and, in" strict ac
cord with the directions of the host to
"pitch into the rations," "pitched in"
and did full justice to the bounteous
and elegant repast.
One hundred and eighty men are
working on the cable line. ,
J. C. Farrish, secretary of the
Omaha fire department, has returned
to his post after a month's absence.
He visited Culpepper, Va., Washing
ton, Richmond, Baltimore, Louisville
and St. Louis. At the last place he
speaks of the royal manner in which
he was entertained by the heads of
the fire department.
' The Merchants' National bank, oh
the northwest corner of Thirteenth
and Farnam streets, expects to be able
to move into its new building on the
corner immediately east by the first
of next January. The bank will be
succeeded by the Missouri Pacific
Railway company, which proposes to
open a general ticket office with head
quarters 'for its local passenger and
freight representatives.
The Young Women's Home, 1910
Dodge street, will be formally opened
this afternoon and evening and a mu
sicals and literary entertainment will
be given.
This Day in History.
1775 St. John, N. B., was cap
tured by the Americans under General
Montgomery. .
1110 General Andrew A. Hum
phreye, noted union commander in the
cival war, born in Philadelphia. Died
in Washington, D. C, December 27,
1J83.
1861aeneral David Hunter took
command of the western department
Of the United States army.
1865 National thanksgiving ob
served lor the restoration of peace be
tween the states.
1880 James A. Garfield of Ohio
was elected president of the United
States.
1889 North and South Dakota were
admitted to the union by proclamation
of the president
1892 Frederick Schwatka, Arctic
explorer, died at Portland, Ore. Born
at Galena, 111., September 29, 1849.
1915 -Russians compelled Von
Hindenburg to retreat in Dvinsk re
gion. The Day We Celebrate.
C. Joy Sutphen, theatrical business
manager, was born here in Omaha
just 83 years ago.
Henry G. Cox, the director of the
Omaha Symphony Study orchestra,
was born in PelJa, la., November 2,
1879.
James E. Watson, United States sen
ator from Indiana, born at Winchester,
Ind., (8 years ago today.
Clyde Augustus Duniway, the new
president of Colorado college, born at
Albany, Ore., 81 years ago today.
Warren G. Harding, United States
senator from Ohio, born in Morrow
county, Ohio, 52 years ago today.
Bishop Adna W. Leonard, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, born in
Cincinnati 43 years ago today,
Rt. Rev. Francis K. Brooke, Episco
pal bishop of Oklahoma, born at
Gambler, Ohio, 65 years ago today.
Agnew T. Dice, president of the
Philadelphia & Reading railway
born in Scotland, Pa., 55 years ago
today. -
Timely Jotting and Reminders. (
All Souls' day.
The increased latter mail rates be
come effective today.
The republic of Panama today
enters upon its fifteenth year.
Representative Jeanette Rankin of
Montana it scheduled to speak today
before the convention of Wisconsin
teachers in Milwaukee.
The near approach" of the close of
the stirring mayoralty campaign in
New York City is to be marked to
night with big rallies in every part of
the city.
Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of
the treasury, who has been actively
campaigning in behalf of the second
Liberty bond issue, enters his 70th
year today.
Financing the War" is to be the
topic for discussion at a national con
ference to be held in Philadelphia to
day and tomorrow under the auspices
of the American Academy of Political
andSoclal Science,
Storyctte of the Day.
An Englishman once bef-A Yankee
5 that the latter could not write or
speak 80 words without using a slang
expression. The wager was accepted.
"What shall I write about?" said
the Yankee.
"Oh, describe a storm," replied the
Englishman.
Brother Jonathan at once went to
work. )
"The sky was black an dreary,
murky and ominous clouds drove fu
riously from the west and in 15
minutes It- rained like everlasting
hooky."
. At this point he was stopped by the
Englishman, who told him he was
anxious enough to hear the remain
der, but would In the meantime trou
ble him to hand over the 5. London
Tit-Blta,
. HERE AND THERE.
The coit of feeding the people of London
for a elnile Uy to eitimu4 at 11,128,000.
A suppoted babr kidnaping cue in De
troit thrilled neichhorhood for three hour
natil word earne from Uuirary that the
yoqnatter was found inootiaf in the fam
ily wa
7 TfW .
Farmers Work and War. ,
Ansley, Neb., Oct. 27. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: In answer to "A
Reader," who is roasting "A Farmer's
Wife."
We all realize that the war is an
awful thing and I believe we have
trouble enough without those city
people who ire fortunate enough to
keep two hired girls, roasting us. The
farmer's wife doesn't have time to
make a showing that gets her name in
the paper. As a rule they commence
work at 5 a. m. and their own neces
sary work keeps them busy until about
9 p. m. Then the majority of them
knit or sew one or two hours for the
Red Cross. They do not often donate
their butter or yellow legged chickens,
but I think if the fartner and his wife
were left out of the cash accounts, the
Liberty bond and Red Cross funds
would fall quite a little short.
As a rule the people of this world
that are the real support just go along
attending to their own business and
leave the city bred that Is-Jgnorant
of the business ofthe farmer's wife to
do the blowing.
We farmers will admit we need to
be told a good many things and we
are rendy to listen to advise wl,ere we
can learn anything that wi.'l help. We
often see a piece roasting the farmer
for holding his wheat for better prices
in the same paper they are urging him
to go ahead putting in more wheat.
We would like to ask how you expect
a man to deliver grain at the market
and at the same time be putting in
more crop? As a rule the farmer is
doing his own work as a good many
of the young men have been taken
away from them to fill their places at
the front, There is no competent help
left for the farmer to hire.
A FARMER,
Why We Mu?t Win.
Tekamah, Neb., Oct. 26. To the
Editor of The Bee: I approve the
loyal attitude of The Bee, its splendid
editorial and news columns and its
letter box views and facts. There are
gems among these letters, Sergeant
Hanley's for one. I am glad the
"Stop my paper brigade" puts in. We
nave oeen waicning mesa iGiiows an
along and I am glad they have lined
up. We want to know who are our
enemies. They surely did not read
President Wilson's proclamation of
April 19, last, denning treason ana me
penalty (death) therefore. There is
more of these than there should be,
some that have "stolen the livery of
Heaven to serve the devil in." Some
that have risen from nothing to
wealth and honor and now are against
our free land, that has given them all
and against us when we have taken
the fight for the oppressed of all the
world. Traitors beware. The loyalty
of this nation will avenge.
There are but two parties. now in
this nation. Patriots and traitors,
These traitors, and the kaiser, don't
seem to take notice, don t seem to see,
the preparedness parades, immense all
over the country, the immense ova
tions given our soldier boys as they
have left for the training camps, mil
lions of them and more millions yet if
necessary, and all the equipment along I
every une as never, oeiore. xour
Uncle Sam has never gone out and
failed to bring in the baggage ,and he
will never come back this time till
he fetches Wilhelm.
After Waterloo, Prussia, Russia and
Austria entered into an alliance by
treaty and it is generally believed
there was a secret pact to strangle the
growing tide of democracy in France
and these were absolute in power
when this war began and that to de
stroy democracy with Wilhelm JI in
the saddle. .True, the czar was op
posed in a way, but was a traitor to
democracy. The second aim of the
Hohenzollerns and Prussian war lords
was plunder. In 1864 Prussia aneU
Austria plundered Denmark, two
years later Prussia and Italy plundered
Austria. Four years later a united
Germany conquered France and at
the mouth of guns exacted a part of
her territory and gold indemnity of
three times the cost of her war prepa
rations. S'pne then the kaiser has engaged
in minor wars with the blacks of
JUHa und lae Arabs and Chinese, .al
ways grabbling territory with the same
ruthlessness and barbarism, and when
there was a foe of any sise- (except
France) induced some other nation to
pull out the chestnuts for him. When
the kaiser struck in 1914 he thought
it an opportune time to realise his
long standing ambition of world con
quest Will he make it? Not much!
Tnree aays ror Belgium, inrse
months for France. Soma of his big
ivons" said two, and three years for
the United States. He imagined the
United States was a big fat goose and
could only waddle and squawk. Our
Uncle Sam is slew to anger, but some
when he gets started. What are the
kaiser's chances of success? It's a
tight to the finish. It will be werld
democracy or world despotism with
the heel of a Prussian m the back of,
the neck of every man, vvomaa and :
child in the world.
"Whom the Guds destroy they first ;
make mad." This bunch is drunken
with blood and plunder. The end id in
sight. The world loves liberty and
freedom. , The blood of millions of in
nocent victims cry out usaim-t this
monster.
Americans, do you wish a princelinp
installed at Washington, von Hindni
burg at New York and von BernstoriT,
the spy, at Omaha? I know you don't
and the fight will never end till tho
one-man ruler is swept from the earth
and we back and protect soldier hoys
and all their interests. T. N,
CHEERY CHAFF.
"This faihlon mnsazilie ausgtits that
every vomn should haw a color scheme.
What do they rnean by a color scheme?'"
"Jt la vary simple. You waar a purple
sweater, far Instance, and hosiery te match."
Philadelphia Bulletin.
A orlra lady was applylns for a Liberty
bond, when the cashier said, "What denorni-
nation, please J"
She hraltated a moment, then answered,
"Oh, I'm a Baptiit." Puck.
He A-ttsh-oo!
She Not catching cold, dear, r youT
He Oh, no Just came across "golden
rod" In hia article I'm reading, that's all.
Baltimore American.
Here) Is a message to
suffering women, from
Mrs. Kathryn Edwards,
of R.F.D. 4, Washington
Court House. Ohio. "I
am clad to tell, and have
tolrTmany women, what
1 suffered before I knew
of Cardui and the great
benefit to be derived from
this remedy. A few
years ago I became prac
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TAKE
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"l was very weak,"
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stoop without suffering
great pain . . . Nothing
seemed to help me until
I heard of Cardui and be
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gradually gained my
strength , . .1 am now
able to do all my work."
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It acts gently and reliably
and will probably help
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