thk BEE: omaha, THUKSDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1917.
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Give thanks!
A thankfu) spirit denotes the true heart
Go slow! Festal moderation pays. Remeni
ter the morning of the day after.
Turkey, both whiskered and feathered, gets it
!n the neck and elsewhere. Give thanks)
One more scrimmage on the gridiron and then
the curtain. How stale and tiresome books will
lookl
The kind -of democracy the Bolsheviki works
Is that which cracks every head capable of think
trig differently.
For today the eagle must stay in the back
ground while the turkey struts the boards as the
great American bird. '
- Russian reds placing reliance on (German
promises glimpses t fresh bunch of patriots in
the act of being miked.
Berlin Is not thundering in the bulletins these
later days. When Berlin is mum or works the
soft pedal, affairs are not moving as Berlin plan
Thankfulness is not a form for one day, but
for every day. The bftener practised the larger
becomes the heart and the cheery hopefulness of
life.
The vaccination requirement for State univer
sity students invites our medical freedom friends'
to transfer some of their activities from Omaha
to Lincoln.
A reduction of 25 per cent in the consumption
f wool measures the latest war drive. The order
does not affect the grade of wool pulled over con
fiding eyes I
Democrats who consider non-partisanship a
mighty good thing for the country ought to show
their sincerity by pressing it on the folks at
Washington.. ..-'
The going and the coming governor each have
good reasons for plunging into the spirit of the
day, Both answer duty's call utterly indifferent
to consequences.
. So "silly" is the placard already pinned on Gov
ernor Howard by Senator Hitchcock's hyphe
nated World-Herald. For a starter "silly" is mild
enough. Just Wait for the high explosives!
German submarines send to the bottom ships
of the northern neutrals whenever chance offers.
Sea going losses impose on the neutrals the pain
ful duty of soaking Germany for higher food
prices, if they expect to break even.
The kaiser does not have to ask raptured
American soldiers why the United States is in the
war. All be has to do is to read oyer again Presi
dent Wilson's proclamation which contains the
answer in plain and unmistakable language.
The greatest meat order in the history of the
world Is said to have been placed with Chicago
packers. Well, when it comes to filling the order,
we may be sure our Omaha packing plants will be
requisitioned for at least their proportionate
share. '
i Of the boys at Camp Funston, and presumably
also at the other camps, 10 per cent have been ac
corded leaves for Thanksgiving and an equal num
ber for Christmas and for New Year. It is too
bad we do not have 10 holidays so all of the sol
dier boys could draw home furloughs.
After careful canvass in the cabtnet.of the rail
road transportation situation it. is given out that M
government operation of railroads during the war
will not be attempted unless the managements of
the roads fall down on their jobs. If Mr. Bryan
were only still in the cabinet he might have .mad
a stand for immediate government ownership as a
vindication of his famous Madison Square Garden
speech. x
Budget or Pork Barrel?
-New York WerU-
Members of congress returning to Washington
by twos and threes after election predict a fight
in December for a better knowledge of what has
been done with the huge war appropriations. -
This is good news for the country if it means
that congress is to take the logical means to in
form itself upon money matters. Congress has
a right to know how money is spent. It ought
to know how money is spent. It ought to direct
in advance how money shall be spent, allowing
some leeway for exigencies in war time. The
way to know is to prepare a proper budget. In
doing this congress will meet not opposition, but
active co-operation from President ".Vilson. Like
Mr. Taft, he has urged the adoption of the budget
system. . '
' There is probably no member of congress so
dull as not to know that there should be a scien
tific budget estimate system governing appropria
tions accurately based upon needs foreseen. The
only reason why a budget is not established is
that it would interfere with pork-barrel projects,
which are best promoted bx log-rolling arrange
ments in a financial go-as-you-please system, or
lack of system. m
, Congress must choose between the budget and
the pork barrel. With the one it cannot help
knowing what money is used for. 'With the
other it can never know until after the money is
pent; and seldom will know even then, 1
Latest Developments in Russia.
The operation of German influences is mani
festly discernible through the latest develop
ments in Russia working toward a separate peace.
Whatever moves are made by representatives of
the Bolsheviki may be taken to be prompted by
German agencies and will rightly be regarded with
distrust by us and ty all our allies. In a word,
the Russian peace emissaries are doing just what
the kaiser wants them to do, they are in all
probability pursuing a pre-arranged plan as a pre
lude for which the recent proclamation that the
Germans would refuse to treat with, any but a
recognized constitutional government in Russia,
was intended to be a cover to screen the intrigue
behind it. It goes without saying that the kaiser
is willing to treat with any government in Russia
that he thinks can take the Russian bear off his
back and keep it off, just as he was treating for
peace with the late deposed czar to the latter's dis
comfiture and final dethronement
Whether the kaiser succeeds or fails in com
ing to terms with those for the present in power
in Russia (more strictly speaking we should say
in Petrograd because Petrograd is by no means
Russia), cannot materially alter the situation with
the other countries upon whom he has been mak
ing war. Russia went to pieces months ago so
far as being an active factor in the combat
While we must not underestimate the advantage
to Germany of a settlement with Russia, neither
should we let anyone overestimate it. When the
terms come to be fixed to form the basis of per
manent peace, they will have to satisfy the de
mands of Great Britain and France, of Belgium
and Italy, and last but not least, of the United
States.
A Gathering of the Great
By Frederic J. Haskin
Enough to Feed the World.
Secretary David Lubin of the International
Institute , of Agriculture, with headquarters at
Rome, sends out his annual statement of the crop
yield for 1917, which makes a very encouraging
showing. Plenty to eat for everybody exists in
the world, the only question being to handle the
food without waste and to secure its proper dis
tribution. Seventeen countries, not including the
central powers, report a wheat yield of 1,868,000,
000 bushels, 85.6 per cent of the average for the
five-year period, 1911-15. As conservation meth
ods already adopted assure the saving of consid
erably more than 15 per cent, the yield is to be
valued, at terms of the normal crop. Corn ex
ceeds the five-year average by 14.1 per cent, while
oats, rice and potatoes all run about the same
above the average. Rye and barley fall little
below, while sugar beets and tobacco are well
above the normal. This leaves the only serious
shortage in the meats, and this can not be made
up in a single season. With governmental con
trol and co-operation, it may be safely assumed
that hunger is not going to add its terror ta the
other features of war in regions to which it it
possible to penetrate with food .caravans. Un
fortunates behind the lines will suffer, but only
because it is impossible to reach them with re
lief from the world's store of eatables.
Oh, What a Mare'a Nest.
The publication in Omaha papers of the ad
vertisement put out over the name of the United
States Brewers' association is seized upon for ex
ploitation as a great discovery by a sensational
sheet (which didn't get the advertisement), fur
nishing in its eyes proof conclusive of a diabolical
conspiracy to upset our Nebraska prohibition law.
The labored effort is made, to impress the public
that this is the start of an advertising campaign
with that object in view, although the announce
ment plainly defines Its purpose to be to dissociate
in the public mind the idea that an intimate and
indissoluble union exists between the products
of the beer industry and of the distillery.
Anyone harkening to these alarms would
naturally infer that the advertising campaign start
ed by the brewers' association was particularly dl-
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reciea bt. jNeurasKa, or at most at mu ana omcr
dry states where it is desired to get away from
prohibition legislation, whereas the fact is these
advertisements have been appearing in all the
principal newspapers throughout the country
first in newspapers published in New York City,
which is densely wet territory, and in wet states
as much or more than in dry states. Perhaps the 1
eagle-eyed editor who has turned up this mare's
ifest here does not see 'newspapers from other
cities and therefore Is ignorant of this fact; but
that being the case takes away all the point of his
wonderful discovery.
The Bee has no doubt the brewers would be
glad to have a way reopened for the sale of their
product in states that have gone dry, but their
present appeal is clearly aimed at persuading the
people and their representatives in congress to re
tain in any coming national legislation the, dis
tinction between beer and light wines on one side
and distilled spirits on the other that has now for
jhe first time been made in recently enacted war
measures. ,
Communal Kitchens.
Agitation has already been commenced over in
England for "communal kitchens" as one of the
obvious ways of effecting imperative household
economies and reducing food waste. Hitherto the
neighborhood kitchen and common dining room
has figured chiefly in Utopian novels; although the
tremendous expense and wanton wastefulness of
individual household cookery has been generally
recognized. In the matter of fuel alone, main-,
taining a score or more of kitchen fires, for which
one good commodious range and oven could be
substituted with better results measured in jerms
of properly prepared food, the proposed com
munal kitchen offers a convincing argument Of
course, the pressure of the war has not become
anywhere near so acute in this country as
abroad, norMs it likely to be; nor is the merger of
household activities in our more sparsely popu
lated country feasible in the same way that it
might be in the closely inhabited and congested
areas of England. But whatever experiments may
be tried out abroad in developing communal
kitchens will be worth watching and may furnish
us some valuable lessons for our future guidance.
Speed in government shipbuilding is vital, and
the principal means to that end is standardization
of plans. Henry Ford repeats and emphasizes the
advice of practical men. In urging standardiza
tion and sticking to it Mr. Ford speaks with the
force ofj a roaster demonstrator.
Some day later on when the Hohenzollerns
sober up and seek useful jobs, Crown Prince Rup
precht may recall Carqbrai and send a letter of ap
preciation to General Byng. The prince owes it
to the general for giving him the finest tank show
ever staged. ,
The lisfof county food administrators for Ne
braska, as just promulgated, includes among other
names this: "Frontier county, ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor James Pearson." O, yes, that's so,
Washington, D. C, Nov. 27. During the early
daysof the civil war when the union army was
being organized here a local ipaper solemnly
printed the news that a boy throwing a stone
at a dog On Pennsylvania avenue had hit three
brieadier generals.
Washington, which was then really nothing
but a country town with the capital somewhat
incongruously superimposed upon its provincial
quietude, had never seen such a gathering of
military and political talent as the great crisis
brought together. But the change which came
over the ante-bellum capital of '61 was nothing to
that which has been wrought in the past year.
If that same urchin could cast his missile today
and hit nothingvmore than a few brigadier gen
erals it would be a poor day for notables. He
ought, at the very least, to bag two or three
titled commissioners from foreign countries, a
couole of admirals, with perhaps an American
millionaire and a famous writer thrown in for
varjety.
For the mighty of the earth have flocked to
Washington since war was declared, in a way
that has made it a veritable museum of greatness.
Of course there are the foreign missions, to begin
with, who have come for the most part on finan
cial business connected with our foreign loans.
These emissaries of international co-operation
have added a touch of variety to the Washington
scene with their strange uniforms, have made
some excellent speeches and given the society
editors of the local papers some difficult stunts
in spelling, but numerically they are nothing to
the array of native talent which has gathered
here from all parts of the country. It has long
been a favorite plaint with critics of our system
of government that it does not bring to its serv
ice the really first class brains of the nation.
Congress, we have often been told, is merely a
gathering of medocrities of lawyers who didn't
make good at the law though so well qualified
an observer as "Uncle Joe" Cannon of Illinois
has testified to the contrary that success as a
congressman demands unusual qualfications. In
general, however, those who hold that the men
of greatest ability prefer business to politics seem
to have wop the argument. The organization of
each succeeding administration has brought forth
the lament that men of "larger caliber" could
not be found for the cabinet portfolios and other
positions upon which the destinies of the nation
largely depend.
Whatever of truth there may have been in this
contention in the past it has certainly lost all
force now. Every variety of talent, genius and
distinction in the country has offered its services
to the government. Each new committee, com
mission and board that has' been organized for
war work has had an embarrassment of riches
in the way of proven ability from which to choose.
The small salaries paid by the government, which
have often been referred to as one of the reasons
wtiy men of capacity would not enter politics,
apparently have no influence in the matter. Mil
lionaires working for a dollar a year, or some
other nominal sum, are with us literally in crowds,
and many of them sit at unimportant desks.
When the second Liberty loan was being, sold
a committee went about the government depart
ments soliciting subscriptions front all the em-
iiloyes. A certain very minor clerk was over
coked until the last because he had such an
exceedingly modest position, and an equally
modest mien. It seemed a shame to ask this
man, who was probably struggling to support a
wife and six children on thestjipened of a clerk
ship, to invest his scant savings in bonds. But
fearing that he might feel injured if he was over
looked entirely, one of the committee finally
approached him on the matter.
"What can you really afford, Bill?" was his
Conciliating question.1
Bill took out a bank book and did a littfe
figuring. i
"I guess I can take $300,000 worth now may
be a little more later on," Bill explained.
Of course the traditional seedy government
clerk is still with us, although his seediness has
been somewhat mitigated by raises of salary; but
in many 'of the war-time organizations there is
plenty of material evidence that "expense is no
object." Such indispensable enterprises as the
Red Cross, and others which have been organized
without aid from the regular government ma
chinery, have, an especially prosperous look. Nor
are they undermanned. Even the corridors of
their establishments arc crowded with well
groomed and industrious volunteer workers. It
might be added that neither are they under
womaned. The seeker after information often
finds that the incumbent of some desk with an
imposing title is a member of the more intuitive
sex, who keeps a surprising number of facts and
ideas under a hat of the very latest style.
The part that'big business' is playing in the
organization of America for war is now well
known. The public, after a momentary shock.
has become accustomed to the idea that one ot
Wall street's most spectacular plungers is en
gaged in patriotically cornering what the gov
ernment needs in the way of metals; that a rail
road president, trained in long warfare with the
Interstate Commerce commission, is now one of
Its most trusted allies in solving the problems of
traffic to which the war has Riven rise: that
one of the greatest retail merchants in America
has placed his expert judgment in the matter
of unshrinkable woolens , at the disposal of tne
president.
Everywhere 'in the government world it is the
same; talent, not to say genius, is there in force.
It is always well to ponder over the name of an
official with whom you have business, and per
haps look it up in "Who's ;Who," for it may be
a household word, and to betray ignorance of the
fact would be most unfortunate.
Brains are indisputably having their innings
In the business of crnvernment. Above the crade
of stenographer, mediocrity has, become almost
rare enough to constitute a distinction, and what
ever mistakes may be made certainly cannot be
blamed upon it
Diplomacy and Clothes
Philadelphia Iler.
Now Is the time for all serious dressers to
come to the aid of the country. Diplomacy has
intervened to secure a great saving of material
both in men's and women's clothing. Appealed
to by M. Jusserand, the distinguished French am
bassador at Washington, the dictators of fashion
at Paris nave promised that the new styles shall
call for the use of a quarter less cloth than the
old. Specific information as to the method of
carrying out this project is lacking. The surmise
of tighter and shorter skirts for women is not
authentic. But obviously they can hardly be
looser and longer, despite the recent demand
from Chicago that ankles should be terra incog
nita. Science has not yet discovered how to make
three yards do the work of five. Nor is it easily
conceivable that material added to theskirt could
be taken from the upper portion of the garment
This has already reached somewhat tenuous pro
portions. Into these mysteries it were vain to
endeavor to penetrate. They could be fitly dis
cussed only by Hermione and her little group.
Even more difficult, to the eye of the unskilled,
is the problem of reducing by 40 per cent the
amount of goods in men's clothing. A hint as to
the solution is given by the reference to unnec
essary belts and trimmings, which include, we
may assume, the much-derided trouser-cuff.
Probably, too, the loose-fitting coats and topcoats
will go, and trousers will take on a skin-tight
character, ' It is' idle as well as presumptuous to
speculate on so grave a subiect I he really signi
ficant fact is that sartorial art has at last been
considered a fitting question for diplomacy. The
Council of National Defense alone might not
have been able to soften the hard hearts of the
Parisian moulds of fashion and glasses of form.
But the appeal of an ambassador is irresistible.
Had it Kone unheeded there mieht have been
something perilously approaching a casus belli
between cmieivca and a trusted au.
Right in the Spotlight..
Joseph E. Davles, who is promi
nently mentioned for the United States
senatorship in succession to the late
Senator Hustlng of Wisconsin, cele
brates his 41st birthday anniversary
today. Mr. Davles is a native of Wis
consin and a graduate of the state
university at Madison. He nrst at
tracted attention by his successful
prosecution of business monopolies
while serving: as district attorney of
Jefferson county, Wisconsin. On the
record thus made, and because of his
service to the democratic party, he
was called to Washington in the early
part of the Wilson administration to
become commissioner of corporation,
and when the Federal Trade commis
sion was organized two years later he
was selected to be its first chairman.
Mr. Davles is regarded as a man un
usually well versed in law and eco
nomics. ,
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One Year Ago Today In the War.
Admiral Sir David Beatty appointed
to succeed Sir John Jellicoe as com
mander of the British grand fleet
Berlin reported that in latter part of
October two Russian transports carry
ing entire regiment sunk by mines off
Helslngfor.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
Q. F..Swlft the Chicago packer, is
giving his personal attention to build
ing a cattle market here.
On account of the extreme cold
weather the pupils in both rooms of
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the Park school were dismissed at
10:30 o'clock.
The clerical force of the freight de
partment of the Chicago, St. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha railroad moved
into their new quarters in the new
freight house on Webster street
W. J. Scott general superintendent
of the Chicago, Bt. Paul, Minneapolis
& Omaha railroad arrived in this city
in his private car. He was accom
panied by E. W. Winter, general man
ager. The basement of the new county
hospital is almost completed. Sixty
five thousand yards of earth has been
excavated and- nearly all the rock
and brick work required for the
foundation has been placed In posi
tion. Omaha is working hard to secure
the republican national convention
and Is encouraged to believe that there
la a good chance to success.
Colored Passengers on Street Cars.
Omaha, ,Nov. 27. To the Editor of
The Bee: In your Letter Box of this
date is an article by William McKin
ley, 1215 South Sixteenth street in re
ply to an accusation that colored men
usually sit while women are standing
in a street car.
I take it that Mr. McKinley is a col
ored man, and since he has opened up
the subject I would like to point out to
him that in order to gain respect the
colored race ought to first respect it-,
self.
On more than a few occasions I have
gotten on the Crosstown cars at cer
tain hours in the evening, going north,
and found as high as six of the double
seats occupied by colored laborers
one in each seat and then talking to
each other over the backs of the seats.
If they object to sitting with each
other how can they expect white peo
ple to respect them enough to sit be
side them?
Any Crosstown street car conductor
can verify this statement I. J. C.
Negroes and Politeness.
Omaha, Nov 24. To the Editor of
The Bee: Dear Sir The article in
the woman's section by Adelaide Ken
nerly in regard to politeness of men is
far fetched and far from being poetical
or sentimental or Intelligent When
she asserts that a negro never gives up
his seat in a street car to a lady, she
Is decidedly wrong, and must be from
the south, where they have the idea
that negroes are supposed to stand
when white people enter a car or pub
lic conveyance. In the east or west
the negro always shows intelligence
or politeness by giving up his seat to a
lady or elderly person, irrespective of
race or color, without thanks from the
opposite sex, as they often take it as
a matter of course because they are
white. MRS. ROSA BOLDEN.
2307 North Twenty-seventh street.
fighting as any can do, no matter how
long they are in training.
In my opinion the volunteer make
the best soldier and fighter. One ot
the most important parts of a soldiei
is obedience to all orders. Good 4jmi
pline is what makes good soldier!,
mv opinion our young American boy,
will make good and will be a credit
to America, louay x un in uiu man,
almost 81, but with what experience I
tinrl in war. T think I know what i
! necessary to be a good soldier.
think as soon as our Doys nave an op
portunity to show their mettle every
orill fpfl nroud nf trials
lujrai j-nii v . ..... . ...v..
courage, deeds and actions on the field
i of battle while fighting under the
; stars and Stripes. '
AClVUi WAa VlitiKA. '
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"You used to denounce that man a
bloated bondholder."
"What of it?"
"Too aoem t think he's an right these
d"Well, .he's buylns Liberty bonds now." .
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mr. Wayupp I Juat received a letter from
our old butler, Jacquee, who went to the
front aa aa aviator. He says In one day he
dropped a ton of ammunition behind the
German line.
lira. Wayupp I'm not aurprlsed. He never
could carry anything without apiaing it.
Judge.
m
"When I took my blind friend to the opera
th other night he remarked, which wai
true, that It was not a very faehlonabla
audience."
"How could he tell?"
"He noticed everybody was listening tb the
music." Baltimore American.
"Charles Is so systematio., k
"How now?" '
"I asked him in my last letter If he likrt
my eyes, and now ne refers me to his
communication of February Z4. says he
treated the subject exhaustively in that com
munication." Life.
This Day in History.
1759 Jeremiah Smith, congress
man and governor of New Hampshire,
born at Peterborough, N. H. Died at
Dover, N. H., September 21, 1842.
1798 -Hamilton R. Gamble, gov
ernor of Missouri during the civil war
period, born at Winchester, Va, Died
at St Louis, January 31, 1864.
1802 Ohio was admitted to the
union as the fourth state v under, the
constitution. 1
1807 The 'royal, family and court
of Portugal emigrated to Brazil, on the
invasion of the Portuguese kingdom
by the French.
1825 The completion of the Erie
and Champlain canals was celebrated
1830 Polish revolution began at
Warsaw, where the army declared in
favor of the people.
,1883 Confederates under General
Longstreet made their second assault
on Knoxville. . . . : .j,
1914 Russians began the bombard
' ment of Cracow.
1915 Lord Kitchener held council
with the French war chiefs at Paris.,
The Day We Celebrate. v
Brigadier General Luclen G. Berry,
U. S. A., recently assigned to command
the Sixtieth field artillery brigade at
Camp Doniphan, hotn in New York
fifty-four years ago today.
Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Holl-weg,
late German imperial chancellor,
born in the province of Brandenberg
sixty-one years ago today:
Rev. John Haynes Holmes, the "pa
cifist" leader of the Unitarian minority
that was so outvoted at the recent
Montreal convention, born in Phila
delphia thirty-eight .years ago today.
William G. Lee, president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
born at La Prairie, 111., fifty-eight
years, ago today.
Walter McCredle, manager of the
Portland club of the Pacific coast base
baJl league, born at Manchester, la.,
forty years ago today.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
President Wilson has accepted an
Invitation to attend the annual Pan
American mass to be held today in St
Patrick's church, Washington.
Thanks to the generosity of Uncle
Sam, alde'd by donations from societies
and individuals, every one of the hun
dreds of thousands of men In the mili
tary service ia to be treated today to a
turkey dinner with all the"trlm
mings." Jesse Pomeroy, the widely known
"lifer' confined in the Massachusetts'
state prison, Will celebrate his sixtieth
birthday today py partaking of a
Thanksgiving dinner In company with
his fellow prisoners, a privilege he has
never enjoyed during his forty odd
years in solitary confinement
The seventh annual meeting of the
National Council of Teachers of Eng
lish Is to open at the University of
Chicago today and will continue in
session through the remainder of the
week.
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Storyette of the Day.
As the doctor was showing some
friends through an insane asylum he
drew their attention to a stately old
woman, wearing a paper crown. He
explained that she imagined she was
the queen of England, and for their
amusement he advaaced towards her
with a courtly bow and said: "Good
morning, your majesty."
' The old woman looked at him and
retorted scornfully: "You're a fool,
sir."
The doctor was greatly astonished,
but totally collapsed when one of the
party, remarked innocently: "Why,
doctor, she was sane enough then.''
BREAD AND MILK.
English people drink mora milk than
water. - ' " -
An ordinary loaf of whit bread is nearly
half water. ,
The average yield of a milch eow Is about
S00 gallona yearly.
Tht French war loaf ia made up with
maise, barley or tapioca.
In Finland bread is, frequently made
from pine bark , and moss.
Ayshlres, Jerseys and Guernseys are con
sidered the best milch cows. -
To make a pound of butter two and half
gallons of milk are required. ;
Goata' milk. Is richer in fat than cows
milk, but contains less sugar.
' The sun-dried bread of Central Asia te
made from flout and rxain-iyrup.
In numerous districts of Franco the peas
ants make their bread from acorns.
An average ot one gallon of milk is re
quired to produce one pound of cheese.
Japanese bread ia shaped somewhat like
a atick of bamboo and is sold in strings.
White bread waa. first introduced in Lon
don about the beginning of the 19th century.
Proud of Them.
Rock Island, 111., Nov. 26. To the
Editor of The Bee: In the November i
24 issue of The Bee I see the familiar
faces of Maurice and Leslie Johnson,'
tfl.IT T . . V. 1 J .... . - I
tn.i 4jui;ubi Dueci, wiiu iiave jubi ueeu
promoted to captaincy. Deeply did
the words of their father move me:
"Are we proud of our boys? Well
who would not be?" And it seemed
to me I also saw quiet tears of purely
personal feeling and loss trickle down
the kindled countenance, a moving
symbol of true patriotism! The sacri
fice is there, keen, poignant, almost
crushing. But the offering is elevated
into a lofty joy, the almost incompara
ble joy of patriotism, next to Christian
faith the grandest expression of hu
man life, unless in between, or pre
paratory to patriotism, be maternal
love and maternal sacrifice. Mother's
love, patriotism, religious faith and
love, what a trio!
So brutal are the accidents of war
in this age that, we shall utterly faint
and fail in the midst Of din, carnage,
Just fiendish hatred, unless we catch
a vision of the issues at stake, of the
' idfals fought for, and of the priceless
ness of a victory fraught for us, with
such big meaning. When we say of
the men who go: "We are proud ot
them," we mean no mere boast The
simply personal is out of sight We
look at the rainbow of hope, after the
deluge of horror. Out of the utter
blackness of hellish butchery breaks
the sun of loftiest idealism.
I know the editor of The Bee will
please me in affording me an oppor-1
tunity to express my Joja, on seeing
these faces of former friends from the
city I love and cherish tenderly, Oma- j
ha. The middle west has more such
staunch material to offer on the altar
of the nation. I rather surmise that
the middle west has all in all aa bal
anced, as prudent as manly and aa
brave men for these trying times as
any part of the union. "Comparisons
are odious," or my heart might dare
a still prouder boast The center of
gravity for the body of the American
republic is, I rather think, the great
middle west and northwest Fortunate
city of Omaha to be located in a
region with a wealth of fine human
material in this awesome welter of
contending forces of the world.
(REV. PROF.) ADOLF HULT.
Civil War Casualties.
Omaha, Nov. 21. To the Editor of
The Bee: I am and have been a sub
scriber of The Bee for many years,
have never asked for any space for
publication of communications. I am
a veteran of the civil war, Rave been
wounded four times in that many bat
tles, namely, Chancellorsville, Va. ; Get
tysburg, Pa.; Bloody Angle, Spotsyl
vania. Va., and at or near Amelia
Court House, Va., three days before
the surrender of General Lee.
Judging from the daily war news
a person would think there never was
such terrific fighting. With the number
of men engaged during the civil war
and -the number of men engaged in the
present war, the losses of the present
war do not begin to compare with
the losses of men in the' civil war. In
the first place, the fighting of the civil
war was always done at close quar
ters and mostly by musketry firing.
In the present war the fighting is
mostly artillery. Therefore, the dangers
are a great deal less. On many oc
casions our fighting was hand to hand.
For Instance, at the battle of Get
tysburg, the great charge of General
Pickett (confederate), many of Pick
ett's company reached the union lines,
where for a short time it was hand-to-hand
battling. At Gettysburg, the
union losses were 1 heavy, the con
federates' still heavier. The same is
true of the Wilderness and the
Spotsylvania. In the Wilderness the
union loss was about 17,000, and the
confederate about 12,000 in two days
the Bth of May, 1864, the loss per cent
of the union forces was 47.1, con
federate 18.2. From Jul 1, 1863, to
May 12, 1864, both sides lost a num
ber of brigadier and major generals.
This will show the intensity of their
fighting forces.
From the beginning to the close of
the civil war we have the fol
lowing statistics. On March 1, 1865,
there were on the muster roll 965,691,
132,538 on detached service, 602,593
present for duty, 785,205, October 15,
1865, mustered out
Whole number of men Called into
service during the war, 2,628,523. Of
this number 60,000 were killed in bat
tle, 35,000 mortally wounded and dis
ease in camp and hospital slew 184,
000 more. It is estimated 300,000
union snJ iiers perished during the war.
Estimated that the union armies had
not less than 200,000 crippled or per
manently disabled from wounds and
disease.
The union armies captured 220,000
confederates during the war; .of this
number 26,436 died of wounds and
disease while prisoners, a fraction over
12, per cent
The confederates captured 196,000
union soldiers, of this number 41,000
died of wounds and disease, while
prisoners of war, nearly 21 per cent
After we enlisted we were in carrm
less than a month before we were sent
to the front I think we did as good j
a.
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