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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER
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War measures lake precedence.
When the 1917 election returns are in we will
probably have a new map of Bryanism.
Signed pledge cards in Nebraska number
141,303. How many signers crossed their
fingers?
Why not try out the overtime rule on men
first A little extra money might be relished in
hat quarter.
It goes without saying the American boys in
the trenches put up a game right. Equally certain
they will make the raiders pay in due time.
Attila achieved distinction at the champion
butcher of hit day. If he could return to earth
and essay t comeback his successor could truth
fully tell him, "Go, get a reputation."
Among the significant ligns of the times is
the alacrity of big business in co-operating with
the government to win the war. Small business
pulls back, but leads in volume of sourfd.
Entertaining the state teachers is always a
privilege to Omaha and, besides that, each time
makes us realize better that the schools in the
smaller towns and cities are just about as good
as ours. '
AH agree that the just finished New York mu
nicipal campaign has been full of personalities
and bitter recrimination seldom matched in any
political contest There is no limit on "schrek
lichkeit" in political warfare.
The United States has been formally at war
with Germany now for seven months. .What
would have happened to us in our unprepared
ness it the Allies were not keeping the enemy
busy on the other side of the water?
The Fryingpan festivities in honor of the
colonel-to-be deftly combined the practical with
the social gayeties of the occasion. A few more
similar experiences will prove of great military
value in overcoming the gas attacks of the Huns.
Dr. Dumba, the bounced Austrian diplomat,
observes once more that "the giant naval program
of the United States is mostly a bluff." The qual
ifying word saves the doctor from complete sur
prise when Uncle Sara exerts the full force of his
naval boot
Brother Wilhelm's encouraging letters to
Sister Sophie lose none of their interest coming
after the Greece pot and plot were overturned.
Now that Tino and Sophie are down and out
Brother Wilhclm can do no less than support
them in the style to which they are accustomed.
"Sink and leave no trace," advised Count von
Luxburg in dealing with the neutral shipping of
South American countries. Official repudiation
of the policy were unconvincing for the reason
that proof was available. The inhuman treat
ment of the crews of the shattered British con
voys shows conclusively that barbaric policy rules
the sea forces of the kaiser.
. Great Britain's economy campaign, which will
continue through November, is more compre
hensive in forces and sweep than the famous vic
tory loan campaign of last winter. Four thou
sand orators and lecturers are in the field, sup
ported by 1,500 local committees and 40,000 food
saving associations. The magnitude of the or
ganized forces thus spreading the light of home
economy broadly visions the determination of
the British people to make any sacrifice necessary
to win the war. '
Farewell to Bacon
Philadelphia Ledger
How do you like yours cut thick and blink
ing reflectively in its own comfortable grease or
sliced into thin seductive curls of a dryness in
effable? Whichever be the choice, it were well to
gratify that craving once more and have done,
lest bacon the beloved vanish utterly from the
knowledge of man. It is with alarm that the
bacon fancier notes the inclusion of his dear de
sire in the list of things, to be conserved; and his
fears are not allayed by reading of a restaurant
located in a stronghold of the Pennsylvania Dutch,
which now requests its patrons, via the menu, not
to order the delicacy the inference being that
they won't get it even if they should disregard
the courteous request. 1
O Bacon, where may we find a substitute like
unto thee? Our loss will be a soldier's gain, for
which reason we kiss the rod and obey; but what
a sacrifice I Down the long series of workaday
mornings, silently snowy or musical with sum
mer's bird-songs, we face a procession of break
fast eggs unrelieved, unadorned, unvaried, by a
ingle curl of bacon. What campfires innumer
able will burn and die, what picnic meals be eaten,
at which fragrant memories of the dear departed
will combine with the wood smoke to dim the
vision and start the tears! If the war be pro
longed, the coming generation may have to attain
its majority without learning the palpitant joy of
frizzling the elusive slice at the end of a stick, and
jthen popping it between the wings of a roll for
Immediate use repeat ad infinitum.
There is no fragrance like that of frying bacon.
There never will be one that rivals it It would
call one back from the brink of the Styx, Charon's
canoe in full sight It can do more than that
it can get folks up in the morning. Therefore,
when that enticing siren scent no longer wings
ha way from the kitchenette clear into the
matutinal dream, it is a safe bet that more than
one person is going to roll over and go to sleep
pgan. Then now will the world wag on?
America and Japan Agree on China.
One of the most momentous announcements
yet recorded of external policy for the United
States is that just made from Washington that
an understanding agreement has been reached
with Japan as to China. This agreement recog
nizes Japan's peculiar interest, due to propin
quity, in China, but guarantees political independ
ence, territorial integrity and the "open door,"
which is all that Americans ever have contended
for. Under such an arrangement we relinquish
nothing of the quasi-protectorate assumed when
the "open door" doctrine put a check to Russian,
German and Japanese encroachment, but that re
sponsibility will be greatly lessened by Japanese
accession to a share in it. On the other hand,
Japanese statesmanship is of the farseeing vari
ety, which can project into the future the effect
and influence of such an agreement, and already
can discount the advantage that will come to the
Nipponese because of their "peculiar interest."
China should be benefited by the understand
ing between the two great Pacific powers, each
vitally concerned in the opening up and full de
velopment of Chinese resources. With the bug
bear of Japanese intrusion definitely removed,
the Chinese may compose their own political dif
ferences, assisted thereto by the friendly concern
of the nations now standing sponsor for their fu
ture. Whatever external influence is now set to
work on Chinese affairs should be benign, for
America and Japan in agreement will serve to
bar any untoward design held in abeyance by an
other nation with reference to China.
The effect of the agreement on relations be
tween the subscribing powers must also be bene
ficial. All differences have not been wholly ac
commodated by this act, but it is a long step in
the direction of perfect accord. Just now the
outcome is especially gratifying, since all three
of the nations have joined in the war on Ger
many, and unity of action on this line is made
certain by the agreement.
Wisely Postponed.
Regardless of the impelling reason, the school
board is to be commended for rescinding its or
der for a special election to vote on a $2,250,000
issue of school bonds. It is explained that this
action is taken in response to the appeal of the
National Council of Defense that no new public
enterprises not absolutely necessary be under
taken at the present time, but we feel also that
The Bee's voicing of adverse public sentiment
convinced that the cost of a special election
would be sheer waste of money had something
to do with it It is rarely, however, that an offi
cial body like the school board can be brought
to see and admit that it has made a mistake and
to remedy the mistake itself, and that is why the
school board members who voted to postpone
the submission of the bond proposition should
have a double encomjum. When the time comes
to pass on the school building program, particu
larly if it is presented in a proper form, it will,
in our judgment, be found to have gained rather
than lost in popular support through thus re
tracing the misstep.
Call to the Stock Raisers.
The Omaha conference of the Nebraska live
stock committee, under the direction of the na
tional food administrator, has sent out a call to
stock men that should be heeded. It reiterates
much that already has been said, but which can
not be said too often until the crisis has passed.
It is well enough to talk about this being a land
of plenty; a food emergency exists, the world is
short of both bread and meat and this must be
provided. If America lived for itself alomf it
would have abundance, but out of its store it
must share with the needy of other lands.
Therefore the stock raiser and the farmer must
make exertions beyond ordinary to respond to the
call.' It is not a question of price and it tran
scends any other duty, for it is the call of human
ity. Patriotism in America today means loyalty
to the greatest government of, for and by the
people ever erected and the life of that govern
ment now hangs on the food supply. Our farm
ers have shown their faith by their work and it
is now squarely up to the live stock raisers to
get into line and do their bit.
Iron Rule of German War Lords.
From both Germany and Austria come ac
counts of protests futitely made by soldiers
against barbaric cruelty and savage brutality.
These afford no surprise to any who have watched
the war closely from the start The commission
headed by Viscount Bryce which went in 1915 to
officially inquire into the outrages in Belgium and
eastern France unearthed numerous instances of
protests by German officers as well as men against
the "terror It is a sad mistake to think of all
Germans as brutal below beasts. Many good men
have been caught up by the great war machine
and forced into its dreadful service. Cruel rigor
of iron discipline holds them helpless, but their
repugnance for the work they are set to do has
lessened their efficiency. Death is their portion
if they refuse to obey orders and they are held
between two horrors, the disclosure of which em
phasizes the duty before the democracies of the
world. The military machine that made possi
ble the terrible incidents now recounted must be
broken so it can never be reassembled. This is
our work and the nation is now marching for
ward to its accomplishment
Austria's Internal Troubles.
Austria's desire for early peace rests on more
than mere war exhaustion or humanitarian con
siderations. The tide of political 'disorder in
the empire is rising steadily. Opposition to
German-Magyar rule is increasing daily among
the Czechs, Slovaks and Ruthenians, who are
making their presence and temper felt in a way
most unpleasant for the dominant races. Strong
elements long held in subjection by force and
denied privileges extended to equals now demand
political and economic independence. This rests
on racial aspirations and is not to be overthrown
for the glory of a government in which the pro
testahts have little share beyond assuming a large
portion of the burden of its support Bohemians
especially are determined to win their freedom as
a result of the war. The Stockholm .resolution
consigning them to further subjugation under
Germanic and Magyar domination is the merest
travesty on professions of democracy. The keen
est of interest in this aspect of the war is felt
in the United States, where so many of the races
affected have made their homes, and from which
their young men have gone forth to fight against
conditions sought to be perpetuated by the Aus
trian crown party. Any threat from Vienna to
suppress the agitation by force is idle. The
peace conference, when it is held, will deal with
the question of these submerged peoples and ad
justment will be made on lines of justice for
all nations and without regard for the welfare
of any particular dynasty.
Community Music
By Frederic J. Raskin
Washington, Nov. 4. Baltimore's tax budget
contained a novel item this year. Among all the
appropriations for street paving, sewage, light
ing, drinking water, policemen and all the other
things that belongs to the average city there
was an appropriation of $6,000 for the municipal
symphony orchestra.
This is the first tftne that an American mu
nicipality has been taxed for music, but it is not
at all surprising when you consider the phenome
nal rapidity with which the community music idea
has grown. Similar appropriations for orches
tras, bands and choruses are now reported before
town assemblies and state legislatures in all parts
of the country and it has even recently been
urged that the government create a new federal
office, known as the bureau of fine arts, for the
purpose of encouraging and supervising this new
American movement.
Representatives of the government, it is sug
gested, should be eent to the state capitals to
persuade the legislatures to pass free orchestral
bills, to encourage communities of 2,000 or more
inhabitants at least to mobilize a town band and
to get the school houses of the nation turned
into concert halls. Why isn't music as impor
tant as agriculture? the advocates of this meas
ure desire to know.
Baltimore is extremely musical under any
circumstances. It has a large musical conserva
toryone of the best in America and is full
of musicians, to whom good music is just as
necessary as paving or policemen or any of those
practical things for which people usually pay
taxes. Thus the municipal symphony orchestra
means a great deal to Baltimoreans. They hear
splendid concerts free of charge or they play in
it themselves under the direction of a famous
harmony teacher, Gustav Strubie, who once led
the Philadelphia orchestra.
How often do we hear that absurd remark,
"I don't know anything about music, but I know
what I like when I hear it." It is, of course, im
possible to conceive why anyone should wish to
boast of anything so obvious. One might as well
say, "I don't know anything about spinach, but I
know what I like when I taste it." Naturally
most people do. And it has been demonstrated
that despite their prejudice against anything which
is "high-brow," Americans like good music. Mu
nicipal band concerts, the phonograph and, to a
less extent, the movies have proven this.
Watch the crowd around any free band con
cert and what do you find? People from every
walk of life will be there listening attentively to
the music. Some who have no programs do not
even know what it is that they hear. At a Ma
rine band concert in Washington not long ago,
for example, an old man was vociferous in his
applause of one selection. "That sure is some
piece 1" he informed the man next to him. The
fipiece" referred to was a selection from "La
Tosca."
It was this natural love of good music which
convinced a few musicians three years ago that
music was the thing that every community needed.
Harold L. Butler, dean of the department of fine
arts in the Kansas State university, was one of
the first to start the idea moving. He started
a state-wii'.e campaign for community music. He
gave copious advice to young men on the desir
ability of learning to play some musical instru
ment, to parents on the wisdom of letting their
children study different instruments rather than
the piano and to everybody on the necessity of
opposing all music that was,,"cheap, vulgar and
indecent." But the dean did not confine his ac
tivities to talking.
After lecturing the business men's and wom
en's clubs he, sent out circular letters to every com
munity, informing its members that the Univer
sity of Kansas would send to any school or club
which had a machine four sets of 15-disc rec
ords each, to be used for instruction purposes.
Each set of records, the letter continued, would
be accompanied by a typewriteen talk, explain
ing the music about to be heard and giving some
interesting facts concerning its origin. The rec
ords were to follow each other, according to their
numbers, so as to show the development of mu
sic from its beginning to modern times.
The dean was at once besieged by requests
for records. Especially were they in demand by
music teachers, who found them exceedingly val
uable in teaching musical history to their pupils
and incidentally their parents. Gradually an in
terest in music grew up in the various communi
ties that received the records that resulted in
musical organizations of one sort and another
from church choruses and cantatas to bands.
This was three years ago. Since that time
the community music movement has grown far
beyond the limits of the state of Kansas. It is
no longer looked upon as an entirely social di
version, but as an educational opportunity. Al
most every state now has some system of ex
changing phonograph records between different
communities and in this way thousands of people
are becoming familiar with great compositions
and great voices. But with this increasing knowl
edge has come the desire to make their own
music.
Drastic Measures Needed
-St. Louie Globe-Democrat -
A series of peculiar "accidents" warrants the
War department taking drastic steps to protect
every important point from German plotters.
Little heed should be given the stories that Ger
man agents are engaged in such petty undertak
ings as the scattering of tetanus germs by circu
lation of court plaster, or that they have been
responsible for diseases that have become epi
demic in isolated communities. But there have
been some incendiary fires at places whose de
struction would greatly cripple the United States
in prosecution of the war. The United States
knows what acts would be of great advantage to
Germany as well as the directors of German spies
do. Docks, ships, munition plants and every
other plant engaged in making essential supplies;
the sources of water supply of cities and can
tonments, important bridges, packing plants,
stock yards, milk condensation plants, arsenals
and all public buildings are among the places that
should he guarded by specially trained soldiers,
equipped to kill skulking spies at sight and under
orders to do so.
AH the detective skill of the country should
be directed to fixing the responsibility for of
fenses already committed and there should be no
hesitancy about inflicting the extreme penalty of
the law in every case. That penalty is death, as
it always has been in time of war and. as it
necessarily must be. The worst crime a govern
ment can commit in such a crisis u that of feeble
ness. Summary execution of proven spies will
have a deterrent effect In dealing with spies
the only question to be considered is specific
The issue of tolerance or leniency is not involved.
A spy is the worst foe the nation can have and
self-preservation demands that he be blotted out
People and Events
Among the goods consumed in the Baltimore
dock fire were a lot of equipment intended for the
submarine Deutschland, which failed to show up
a second time at that port.
According to Dr. H. M. Smith, United States
commissioner of fisheries, the woman who wears
a sealskin is performing a patriotic duty and
adding dollars to the national treasury. Now if
the doctor will prescribe a practical means of
getting the sealskins, patriotism will bloom as
never before. ,
Mrs. Sarah J. Walker, the wealthiest negro
woman of New York, is building a castle costing
$250,000 at Irvington-on-the-Hudson. Known as
"the Hetty Green of her race," she got her start
at the washboard, expanded into a laundry at
Denver, Colo., supplemented with a successful
venture in grub staking a prospector. Mrs.
Walker is in the millionaire class. Now at 49,
a widow with a daughter of 20, she 'proposes to
enjoy herself and keep the rust off the coin.
"piiy paw A J
Right In the Spotlight
Sir George H. Reld, who Is to de
liver a public address in New York
City tonight on "What American In
dependence Has Done for the British
Empire," Is a former prime minister
of the Commonwealth of Australia. He
was born in Scotland in 1845, and first
appeared in Australian politics in
1880, as a member of the legislative
assembly of New South Wales and has
been a conspicuous figure in Anti
podean political life ever since. After
the Commonwealth came into being
he assumed the leadership, of the fed
eral opposition, till, in 1904, he became
prime minister. After his retirement
from this office he became high com
missioner for Australia in London.
Throughout his political career Sir
George has been noted for his strong
adherence to the policy of free trade.
Recently, however, he has announced
his conversion to a tariff program di
rected against the central powers.
One Tear Ago Today in the War.
American steamship Columbian
sunk by German submarine off the
coast of Spain.
Cardinal Mercler, primate of Bel
gium, Issued a protest to the world
against the deportation of Belgians to
Germany.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today.
A special train consisting of seven
coaches and three baggage cars, the
former of which were filled with
United States troops, arrived in
Omaha over the Union Pacific from
Salt Lake City and made a stop of
twenty minutes, on their way to Chi
cago to suppress any riot that might
occur during the present week and
on the day of the execution.
A number of leading young men of
the city met in the office of Potter,
Webster & Co. and took preliminary
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steps toward the organization of a
military company, Independent of the
state militia.
Articles of Incorporation of Trinity
Methodist church were filed at the
county clerk's office. The incorpora
tors are Rev. J. W. Phelps, Rev. Theo
dore M. House, Rev. T. R Hilton, Cur
tis A. Cain, Abraham L. Stonecypher
and Edward A. Parmelee.
Several carloads of pipes arrived to
complete laying of the water main on
Twenty-fourth street to N street.
The members and friends of the
Kountze Memorial Lutheran church
in a comparatively short time sub
scribed $12,641 to enable the congre
gation to complete the church clear
of all Incumbrance.
Edward F. Swift arrived from Chi
cago last night and will make a per
sonal Inspection of the Swift Interests
at South Omaha,
The time table for the new west
transcontinental trains on the Union
Pacific is complete. The total time
between Omaha and San Francisco
Is 72 hours and five minutes.
This Day In History.
1798 Rear Admiral Silas II. String
ham, who commanded the North At
lantic blockading squadron in the
early part of the civil war, born at
Mlddletown, N. Y. Died at Brooklyn,
N. Y., in 1876.
1806 Conquest of Prussia com
pleted by Napoleon with the surrender
of Blucher and his army.
1817 Peter Hamilton, one of the
most eminent lawyers of his day, horn
at Harrisburg, Pa, Died , at Mobile,
November 22, 1888. '
1835 The New York and Erie rail
road was commenced.
1862 General McClellan was super
seded in command of the Army of the
Potomac by General Burnside.
1S73 Captain Fry and crew of 80
of the Virginius shot by Spaniards.
1899 United States cruiser Charles
ton wrecked on a reef on the north
west coast of Luzon.
1914 Russians defeated Turks near
Erzerum, Armenia.
1915 Secretary Lansing sent note
to Great Britain declaring blockade il
legal. The Day We Celebrate.
Samuel Corneer, treasurer of the
Union Fuel company, is celebrating his
67th birthday.
John W. Hughes, of the Omaha Na
tional bank, was born in Omaha 35
years ago.
James C. Huteson, the optician, is
60 years old.
Nels A. Lundgren, real estate and
insurance, is 50 years old.
J. J. Gleason of the Western Stamp
& Stencil company, was bora here in
Omaha 43 years ago today.
Byron H. Smith, secretary of Wil
liams, Smith & Company, is celebrat
ing his 50th birthday. 1
Charlotte Crabtree (Lotta), famous
actress, now retired, born in New
York City, 70 years ago today.
Dr. Andrew D. White, eminent as a
scholar, , educator and diplomatist,
born at Homer, N. Y., 85 years ago to
day. Major General Augustus P. Block
son, U. S. A., commanding Camp
Cody, Doming, N. M., born in Ohio,
63 years ago today.
William Denman, late head of the
United States shipping board, born in
San Francisco, 45 years ago today.
King Baggot, widely celebrated as a
motion picture actor, born in St Louis,
38 years ago today.
Robert L. Doughton, representative
In congress of the Eighth North Car
olina district born at Laurel Springs,
N. C, 64 years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Birthday greetings to Andrew D.
White, first president of Cornell uni
versity and former American ambas
sador to Germany, who is 85 years old
today.
Sir George H. Reid, former prime
minister of Australia, is to deliver a
public address in New York City to
night on "What American Inde
pendence Has Done for the British
Empire."
The Association of Southern Com
missioners of Agriculture is to open
Its annual meeting today In Texas,
holding sessions for two days in Waco
and later visiting Austin and San An
tonio. Storyctte of the Day.
"Ambassador Gerard," said a New
York broker, "had a happy way in
Berlin of chaffing the great war lords
and dictators.
A grand duke said to the ambas
sador at a reception:
" 'Germany will win this war. Then
let America look out'
' 'How will Germany win?' said Mr.
Gerard, calmly.
" 'With her submarines, with her
gases, and, above all,' said the grand
duke, "with perseverance. Persever
ance, Mr. Ambassador, always con
quers.' " 'Always? said Mr. Gerard, wink
ing at his second secretary. 'How
about the hen on the china egg?' "
New York Times.
The words are Washington's, penned in
February, 177S, the darkest month of Amer
ica' first struggle for liberty. Out of the
triala and tragedies of that winter came
the dawn of better days and brightened out
look. Four months later the revived army
emerged from Taller Forge, fought and won
tha battle of Monmouth and brought York
town and independence nearer
lees?
Democratizing Germany!
Omaha, Nov. (L To the Editor of
The Bee: It isthe greatest disad
vantage to misunderstand your oppon
ent. '
In my opinion the vast majority of
American citizens are basing their
hope of an early cessation of the world
war on their belief that Germany is
likely before long to overthrow the
Hohenzollern dynasty. This, in my
opinion, is a fallacy which we should
at once get out of our minds. I rec
ommend all interested to read"Kaiser
and Volk," page 100 of the November,
1917, issue of the "Century," by Sam
uel P. Orth.
Permit me to refer to my Colum
bus, Neb., address of July 1, 1917, in
which I said:
"The German race has been a lib
erty loving and liberty seeking race
for centuries, its greatest poets have
written beautiful lines about liberty,
but it will never attain to true liberty
and equal rights for its people until its
present form of government, the most
militaristic and autocratic existing in
Europe today, has been so changed
aftd amended as to eliminate these fea
tures in their most objectionable forms
and extent, and substitute for them a
constitutionally much limited mon
archy, giving every citizen an universal
equal and secret ballot maintaining
an army only to the extent of a na
tional police force and for the discip
line and physical development of its
young men, not at such enormous ex
pense and as a menace to the peace
of the world.- The present extreme
militarism and autocracy of Germany
must be overthrown and a government
bf the people by the people and for
the people established In its place;
whether its chief head be called king,
emperor or president is not the most
important detail. Genuine equality
and democracy is the main Issue and
the future peace of the world must be
the outcome of this horrible butchery
or it will all have been in vain. Do
not, however, expect it to happen by
revolution as in Russia, or you will be
disappointed. Germany must and will
reorganize itself, after the eyes of its
people, largely blinded by its present
officialdom and military machine, will
be opened to a clearer vision of them
selves and their correct relations to
the rest of the world. And we, as
American citizens of German birth
or ancestry, must not be political sym
pathlzers of the kaiser and his auto
cratic military machine and regime.'
C. J. ERNST.
SMILING LINES.
HERE AND THERE.
A recently patented eye shade is upporte
from the nose like eyeglasses and is reh.
forced by a malleable metal band that per
mitt it to be fitted to heads of all ahapes.
By iystematie reforestation Java la con
stantly increasing- ita teak forests, irhicl
now cover mora than 1,480,000 acres, de
spite the great amount of timber cut iver:
year.
"Zooming" means. In the language of th
military aviator, juat lifting the nose of th.
machine to surmount obstacles such as tree;
and then immediately dropping again wher
they are passed.
Simultaneously with the outbreak f th
war the kaiser's special train was adapted
to war-time traveling. The cars are all ar
mired and the locomotive is designed tu
withstand even bomb and shell attacks.
A barrel of German red dye, hidden away
in a stock room of a paper company in
Lincoln, N. H., since its purchase three year
ago for $39. while war conditions boosted
its value, has been sold to a New York con-cer-i
for $5,000.
..eeda, flax bolls and dried potato peel
i.;js are being used in Holland for cattle
food. High prices are demanded and re
quest has been made to the government t.i
regulate the sale of these supplies and re
lieve the situation.
The kaiser has no settled headquarters
Since the outbreak of the war he has kein
continually on the move, rarely staying mon
than a week at any place, and often only
a day. But the place wherever he may chanci
to be is the official German headquarters.
The vast number of men called into eerv
ice affords ample room for the work of thes.
organizations. No better or more importan
service challenges their energy and resources l
A reasonable amount of recreation am
amusement is as important for the men a
military training. Moreover, the gone:
icheme safeguards the moral, physical .1
religious welfare of the men, making tii
all the better fitted for the task ahead.
LOOKIN BACK.
She I thought you told me your friend
nan very nme to say.
He So I did.
She Why, he hasn't stopped talking since
ne came nere an nour ago.
He That may be, but he hasn't aald any
thing. Boston Transcript.
Trusslan Colonel Captain, how do you
keep your men In such good spirits T
Captain I hava a very simple method ot
keeping up their morale.
Colonel What do you do?
Captain I read one of La Follette'a
epeeches to them at every roll call. St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
"What do you suppose Mlsa Pert laid
when I asked nor If I was In the market for
matrimonial consideration?"
"What did she say?"
"That I must go to Par before she could
take any stock In my proposition." Balti
more American.
"What we want is freedom of peedi!''
snouted the man on a soap box.
"Yes!" answered the woman who was
leaning out of the wlndow.'"But haven't wa
members of the Antlnolse association any
right at all?" Washington Star.
"Tou think up a good many funny stunts
for your kids to do."
"Yea," admitted the famous cartoonist.
"Echoes of your own boyhood, I take it?''
"No, I never had any such fun myself."
Louisville Courier-Journal. ,
Nelghboi" Jones la always telling the
bright sayings of his children. '
Commuter Yes, and I suspect he pol
ishes them up quite a bit himself. Judge.
"Pa, were you rich, when mama married
you?" '
"No, my doar."
weu, papa, wnat was u, inen, no you
think, that mama married you for?" De
troit HY Pr... .
Willis Steel is going up.
GUI la Good. Maybe they will be obliged
to cut down the number ot pins In a laun
dered shirt Life.
Mrs. Willis The papers say the govern
ment is going to control everything.
Mr. Willis Well, It's going to have an
awful time with that Jones boy next door.
Judge.
Two sons of Erin were digging a ditch
for a gas main. One of them was a trifle
handicapped by the shortness of the handle
on his pick. His back was aching from
bending over so far and he had paused for
a moment, when his companion remarked:
"Say, Mike, phwat wud ye do ef ye had
a million dollars?"
"I'd add four Inches to the handle o' this
pick," waa the reply. Everybody's Magazine.
It ain't no love feast service where i..
bloomln' trenches are,
Tho' Fritz and Tommy often In the cai.i
mornln' spar.
When the mists are lyln' heavy and tl
guns are all at rest,
And the rifles are furgettln' to be a dirt)
pest.
It ain't no love feast service where ti:
kaiser's flowers stand,
Ruined trees and splintered on the fit Id i.f
no man's land.
But Tommy's knocking at Us door, 'e's g .1
'lm on the run,
And devastatln' land will be for Dill a
coatly fun.
It ain't no lovo feast service where u're
livln in the dark.
And 'arf a don shells will find a solitary
spark.
The plucky English sky lark, above th
kaiser's trench,
la callln' 'ard to Tommy and It gives
'eart a wrench.
'E'i thlnkln of 'Is sweetheart and it's "L's ur
Them," 'e knows.
So a little bit of "All Right," 'e's servin' to
'Is foes.
'E sends a bullet smackln', for. the ginger's
In 'Im now, ,
And Tommy Is a scrapper and 'e's in u
mighty row I
Don't talk so bloomln' silly, it ain't no love
feast play,
The troops we're lettln' pass us, must 'ave
the right of way.
They 'aven't 'ad no rest at all, they're sura
dead beat for sleep.
But English blokes are 'angln' on, their
placei wo will keepl
It ain't no bloomln' love feast, but a rotten
bit o' luck,
And Tommy's 'eart Is thumpln' wen a
Frltzte boy Is struck.
But i'e's not a bloomln' ljut, and 'e's above
i the sod,
White the English bloke beside 'lm Is gone
to meet 'la God!
No, It ain't no bloomln' love feast, but Tom
my's lookln' back,
'E lees the Sammies comin', red 'ot upon 'is
track!
E'll glvo a cheer to greet 'em ai a joyful
tear 'e wipes.
And thore'll be a love feast service, beneath
the stars and stripes!
Shenandoah, la. MRS. J, P. NYE.
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II
Easy Starts
in Cold Weather
i
Polarine is produced under pressure at a zero
temperature. That's why it flows freely,
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est weather. So winter starting is easy with
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Polarine lubricates thoroughly. It forms
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wall. That's why compression and power
are increased.
This winter get the driving satisfaction that
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wherever you see the sign you'll find it on
numerous Service Stations and good garages
everywhere.
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