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The Omaha 'Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR KOSEWATER, EDITOR .' THI BEE rLBLlSHPia COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha poetoff.ee aa second-tlaM matter. , - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION B Cirriar. Bf Ml I. Dtl sad tundar ...per weak, 1JVJ rtr tsar. H.N Deilr wiuwot Hunir.. ...... ....... KmUni ud 8undjr . KMmin VaTtthAtlt SundlLV. ...... ...... 10o 4.(1 108 - to (K m .Alt SdJJoTrt 'o" i'iiAii' ' irraiul.rlt la delinrf la Qes Bet Ctreuistloa Pepsrtroem. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . Tba Associated Fran, of whk-h The Bos la a aemner. ncruttttlf eautlJTS tiT mror PWioUo of ll aw di.patcite. credited 5 It w not wtaenrlse eiJl.lea ta Ul psi an im tt. loe.l news pablUMl Ttamin. ail rifbte of mibllcsttoa of our sueeisl dUpef-aes ti alas leserrad. ... -i - REMITTANCE ' mil ti Ana express er potxl order. Only l-esnt stamps takaa In rlrt f7Vm" Wmu..l check, swept Oauhe and mm exchn. iw4 acwpM. OFFICES -aha-The Dm BuHdlM. ite4?N5fiWil 'AJ2uUfil, " CWotl Bluffs-U N. Hals St. m. J-N" Bk of Coiamto. Lincoln LIUle Bulldina. With In Hon 1311 O it. ' . " CORRESPONDENCE ' w,;, aAdrat eonmnntcitloiu teltln to aews ao adlutrtal aiUtar a Omaha Boo. Editorial Iwpirtaait. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION 58,715 Daily Sunday, 51,884 '" Imn dmlttln for tin month, nbscrlbed and swore U fc Dalihl Williams, Qfcul.tioa tUninr. - - Subaeribara leaving tha tlty should bava Tha Baa mailed la them. Addraaa changed aa eltaa aa requested. : Last chance! Button up and break into the i . , - crush. ' N - , .! I Have you early-Christmas shopped jet? If !'not, last chance. i What la evidently needed is a few big guns in place of the small bores at Washington, - ... j - I J A J .. ... The Luxourg oiscjosures oig ,.a oroaa ana uccp ; "grave for Kultur in the southern republics.' f A period of "low visibility" seriously inter feres with the pie counter, getting the-ringe of, ht Columbus war cruiser. " ' .' . The danger is that the Seventh may itself fur ish "the political pirate" a ralid reason iot Jceeping the regiment out of the federal service. -v "" mmmm , . , An . overdose of advertising seems to have jqueered Germany's bigr drive on the west front Even saber rattlers may get too much of a good thing. , ' ; ' Henry Dodge Estabrook. , The sudden death of Henry Dodge Estabrook comes as a profound shock to his many friends and admirers in Omaha, and throughout the whole west . Almost a native of Nebraska, raised and edu cated in our city, always ardent and devoted to this state, which he regarded as his home through all the years he was residing in the east, we had 4 right to be proud of his steady advance to eminence as a national 'figure in his profession and as an orator of exceptional eloquence and finished parts. He was broad-minded and thoroughly free from bigotry, though an intense political partisan in the better sense of the word. Had he lived, there would have been higher things in store for him. v v Conscription won in Canada and lost out in .Australia. The United States, however, tilts the Scales of democracy; to the side of equality of Service and responsibility. Striooed of Moslem rule for. the first time in seven centuries the Christmas celebration at Jersusalem undoubtedly will surpass the rco! ' lection of the oldest inhabitant.. . , :' Admiral Von Tirpitz observes that Germany will not triumplHn the.war unlesi she.capturei .Calais and Boulogne. Might as well throw up the sponge, admiral, and take the count. , ' " It may be suggested incidentally that a few "live wires" In cqntrpl of army equipment would . quickly head off civilian complaints. Live wires burn up red tape and deliver the goods. 1 T Most of the credit for Omaha's fine showing In the Red Cross members hip drive! however,, belongs to the' people who responded so will 'Ingly without waiting to be solicited a second ' t"ne ,. '' Z ' One by one the" grub- routes of Germany through neutral lands suffer a permanent break - down. Tightening embargo lines at the same time take up loose notches in the belts of block ade runners. , t - The New York World, which is pretty good democratic authority, insists that the submission of the dry amendment will split' the democratic party in the south right down the middle, Ve ' should worry. Ofiiciat spokesmen of the allies cannot be charged witn backwardness in telling enemy pow ers what they must do to be saved,' .Heedlcss ncssrierel pfplongs the agony.wiihout altering the-funjjrat"of autocracy by a hair'i breadth. .A jClubs built on the model of the stotie age are recommended, former Tresident Taft as effective", tools for letting the light into junker heads. Possibly, in' short arnv fighting. How ever, a storm" of "TJells will prove useful as a preparation for 'lhrtnajor operation. K ' General AHerTby, ( the captor of Jerusalem, wins an enduring niche in the hall of fame. The Holy City is an unfailing fount of world-wide publicity 'aud its capture by a 'modern crusader will ring down the ages long after other war leaders are smothered in the dust of time and forgotten, ..p...'. " ,v ' r One of tWdisagreeable facts sticking tfp like a i sore thumb in the congress inquiry, is the absence of co-ordinated effort in the War de partment. Had there been business system and ujtity of effort the blunder of calling the national army to camps unready and 'lacking in proper equipment would not have' been possible. JBimatck'& Three Wars -MtnneapaUa J annul- Germans, as veil as others.' have traced tire present war to Bismarck, whose policies led to the srrowth of a German national philosophy that made peace in the long run impossible. Bis- marcK nimseu saw iuc ircuu uu icuivicu a great war leading to world domination or down . fall. . . - .:,; .) ... At anv rate, there can be no doubt of Bis marck's large responsibility for three former wars, viiemion nas uccu tnc4 again w mc well known life,-of Bismarck by his secretary, Moritz Busch, who tells low Bismarck, .a short , lime Deiorq lie uieu, sai uciurc iuc c m iuc great room' of his house at Varzin, being then in' his eighty-third year, and threw one fir cone after another upon the open fine," saying at last after a long period of meditation: t ' "But for me three great wars woujd not have . been fought, 80,000 men would not have perished, fathers, brothers, sisters, widows, would not have been nlunired Into mournine. I have settled all that with my creator. But I have gained little or no joy from all ray work." It may well be that the aged statesman who ' deliberately broueht about three trreat wars with the death of 80,000 men and all the misery that followed in their train, thought that &e had it all ' settled with his creator. But .the. ordinary mart who loves peace and human brotherhood may well question whether Bismarck's creator may not have had in reserve a few words more on the . subject . ' . , In $bis world or any other, most of us would nrefer to take our chances with the record of a , Howard or a Wilbertorce rather than with that of a Bismarck, -Striking Live Leads. ' TTie senate inquiry into complaints of delay and . inefficiency inthe preparedness work of the- War. department is already . striking live leads. The, shortcomings have been most mani fest in the ordnance and supply divisions and the army training program has been noticeably im peded by' failure to speed up the machinery. , The story' of the investor of the Lewis ma chine ,gun and "how he repeatedly but in vain tried to persuade' th War department to take advantage of it without exacting any ' royalty and was driven to present it to foreign govern ments who at once adopted it, has been more or Jess. known, butj's' now for the' first time put into an official record. There will doubtless be Explanations - forthcoming though it is dif ficult to sea howr any explanation can be satis factory. ' x "" . ' If we measure public sentimentcorrectly, this M no. time to let personalities stand in the way of getting our mobilization into full force. The big places must be ma. cd with men big enough to handle them and nothing should Cuunt but ability to "deliver the goods." The investiga tion should go on and go to bedrock and then should be followed by quftk' remedy of de ficiencies disclosed. 7 ' '. , How Ratify the Amendment?, The Lincoln Journal throws several different kinds of fits because The Bee, in discussing the submission of the proposedfnational prohibition amendment; said we would prefer- to have the question of ratification passed on by direct vote of tie people instead of by the legislatures in the different states, particularly in states like Ne braska where the initiative and referendum' prevails.- It quotes the language of the amending clause of the federal constitution "when ratified by (he legislatures of three-fourth of the several states" as if that precluded resort to the initiative and referendum. A cursory reading of the con stitution of Nebraska, however, will show that legislative power here rests only provisionally in the legislature, subject to direct action of the people themselves, who, when tljey do act, are their own legislature. . . . The Bee has not the slightest inkling of what the attitude of either wets or drys will be, but the Journal is already cock sure that the mechanism v Of direct legislation which the wefs fought against so" hard is to be resoVted to by them to defeat this one prime object which the advocates' of, direct legislation had in view. That paper says further: i , ; Any attempt to secure the adoption of na tional prohibition in initiative and referendum ' states 'bV the initiative would apparently - be" ' illegal. The further suggestion that the action of the legislature on the amendment might be held up by the referendum is adding an inter esting complication. It is -not an academic Aoint. National prohibition might conceivably be defeated by invoking the initiative or ref erendum in some of the dozen states now un- de direct legislation. For example, Iowa has a dry legislature, but the state .went wet on a popular vote- last fait on account of the heavy wet vot of a few river counties. - Missouri is dry outside of St. Louis, and wet when the whole vote is counted. Ohio is dry outside the great centers of population. Cities have been growing so much in recent years that it is dif-. ficult to reapportion the legislative districts fast enough to prevent the rural communities ' fromrholding a .disproportionate number or, seats. -i ' , ' h ' This is indeed, interesting but the Journal's exaniples are not well chosen for while Missouri is equipped with the. initiative and referendum, Iowa' is', not. But' suppose both were and sup pose Iowa bad a wet legislature as has Missouri, should tee wjslrti of its people be blocked and frustrated if, the sentiment of the majority were dry? Here in Nebraska the state went over whelmingly dry at the last election, but there is no certainty that the next legislature will be dry. Is not every argument for letting the people have what they want in favor of submitting this amendment ' to' them for a direct expression father than leaving it to a combine of 17 mem bers of the state senate banded together to "de liver the goods"? On the, other hand, if by any chance the majority of the people of Nebraska are against ratifying the. amendment (of. which there is no indication) they certainly should not be put in the wrong .column by legislative mis representation. :v. 5 -K S i We repeat that so far as we are con ceded we would rather see the adoption of re jection of the amendment settled by direct pop ular vote in the several states than made the sub ject of 'barter and trade in 48 different state capitols. : "It proper methods of selection and care are immediately followed out, Nebraska will have .plenty of, seed corn . for its own needs next year," so tfee experts of the Nebraska experiment station tell us. Yes, we know that but the prob lem is to secure immediate application of the proper methods of selection and distribution. If that is not done, Nebraska . will not have plenty of seed corn for its next year's needs. Christmas Vings no cheer and precious little hope to the victims1' of autocracy ' in Teutonic lands. Beneath the thin veil of misty professions of success with which royalty deceives the multi tude stalks the. specter of semi-starvation and hardships, surpassing and preceding winter of war. The Berlin Tageblatt admits that much and draws a gloomy picture of the outlook for the masses. "A ye sow so shall ye reap." f Through the energy and vigilance of the fed eral secret service the ranks of alien plotters thin out steadily. Rarely does the outstretched nets' fail in landing the right party. Court trials and innumerable convictions emphasize the thor oughness of the service, 'v ' .: - - . ? South Omaha proposes to inaugurate union church services to economize on heat and light and other expenses. Not a bad idea where it is feasible! Nor is. there anv patent1 on the scheme to prevent other coAimunVies from adopting it. Uncle Sam's Mail Bag ByFreericJ.Haskin . Washington, Dec 22. One of the best ways to get an idea of a man's business is to look over his morning's mail, to scan the letters he writes and the letters he receives. Washington's daily waf mail casts an interesting light on the nature and magnitude of various war activities. The Washington city postoffiee for months has had to deal with a constantly rising tide of what is known as "penalty mail." This term does not connote, as might appear to the un initiated, that the sender is subject to fine and imprisonment. Penalty mail is official mail sent under government frank, each envelope or pack age bearing the phrase "Penalty for private use $300.". On atypical day, according to Postmaster" M. O. Chance, the Washington postoffiee will re ceive and handle 150,000 pounds of outgoing penalty mail. Some days run faf above this mark. The record was probably established when the Treasury department on a single day mailed 3,000 sacks of Liberty loan publicity matter, which averaged 100 pounds to the sack. 1 ' The Liberty loan bureau of the treasury is the heaviest single user of the mails among the gov ernment offices, when Liberty loan campaigns are at their height. Besides the Liberty loan material, the war saving stamp matter is mailed by the treasury. Recently for a period of 10 Jays this single item totalled 200 sacks a day. Other offices which call heavily on the serv ices of the local' postoffiee are the provost mar shal general's office, the adjutant general's office, the food administration, and the committee on public information. Of course, the importance of a government bureau cannot be estimated, in terms of the letters it writes, but the test is a fair one when agencies that work with the pub lic as a Whole are considered. It is interesting to note that each of these bureaus, which are now, more intimately con nected with the daily life of the American people than any other government agencies, has only been established since the declaration of War, and in some cases much later. The only exception is the adjutant general's office. Most of the thou sands of sacks of mail, matter sent out by this office go to the various training camps, and deal with military matters from a more or less techni cal standpoint. The incoming mail addressed to the adjutant general has increased enormously. L Omaha and Plattsmouth Belt Line rr.i . r.-i. - i - i--t- .i '. . f. rallwav wers filed with the emintv ine greater pare oi it aeais wun enlistment in various special branches of the army. v. ' The provost marshal general's mail is con cerned with the selective draft. Ten million questionnaries were just distributed to every corner of the nation through the mails. Their aggregate weight was 1,250,000 pounds. This represents only a fraction of the total mail from this office, for scores' of millions of form's were distributed for the first draft, the first and then the final selective service regulations were sent to all boards, as well as frequent additions and emendations to the rules of the draft. The pro vost marshal general has sent out as many as 1,500 sacks of mail in a single day, and each sack waa rt h.avv that if rpnliirlrl iurA ? m pn trt handle iy " ' ' x The committee on public information pub lishes the Official Bulletin, a daily account of gov ernment doings, whigfi has attained a circulation of 270,000 copies a day. Besides this, the com mittee prepares and publishes a constantly grow ing series of pamphlets on the war, large and small, which are mailed out in bulk by millions. Five numbers of the so-called Red, White and Blue series have been published and 10 numbers of the war information series. The Red, White and Blue series includes some'numbers which fill a large volume. They deal in various ways with the American case and position in the world war, Thus the committee has issued some of the speeches of President Wilson, with historical and diplomatic references explained in foot-notes. Another number consists entirely of carefully selected utterances of prominent Germans in every walk of life, showing how completely the dream of, world domination had fastened on the Teutonic empire, and the consequent danger to the United States. Still another number of this series is taken up with the reprinting of va rious authenticated items showing the barbarity of German war theories and methods. -t The food administration sends the public' all manner of pamphlets and papers dealing with war-time conservation. About 200 sacks of mail" is a fair day's work for Mr. Hoover's offices. ; 'All this is in' addition to the usual stream of out-going government mail, which is never a small item.' Three or-four tons of Congressional Records are sent out to an expectant public daily, the exact number of pound? depending on just how oratorical the two legislative bodies felt the day before. The open- season? for franking speeches to constituents will soon begin, and an other ton or so will be added to the total. The signature of a' senator or a congressman will carry a piece of official printed matter iree to any part of the United States, and there is now a movement on foot to extend the privilege ' to France, where a considerable American reading public will soon be gathered. Ail the outgoing mail is only one side of the problem. The prompt delivery of incoming gov ernment mail is made more difficult by the-fact that some of the deoartments .have expanded so greatly that their various bureaus lire scattered J ail over lilt tujr, aiiu icw unca oic.jjciitu uaiij. Recently the postoffiee published a guide listing several hundred bureaus and .committees, most of them established since the war. . People and Events , Congressman Johnson of South Dakota, wftc voted against war last April, balances the record by joining the colors as a private. He is 35 yearsld, married and father of two children. . One VictoV Peterson of San Pedro, Cal., sets a new standard of big valuations based on foot rule measurement Two inches of one foot, cut off by a motor truck, Peterson values at $12,500 an inch. Valuations based on measurement in sure, greater accuracy and speed in reaching the wherewith of careless truckers. , Mrs. Kate Richards ' O'Hare, the socialist talker who won a five-year sentence in Nofth Dakota for obstructing the draft, is the mdther 6f four children, has ah occasional home in St Louis and a husband working out a socialist com munity plan in Florida. Observe the distance between them 1 Two radicals working (together would boost insurance on prairie fire risks. A group of New York club men clubbed to gether last spring and cultivated a war farm. Recently they pulled off a harvest festival and "bar.n dance" on lower Broadway in honor of a crop of corn, carrots and turnips" valued at $20,000. , No dividend checks were distributed, but the treasurer reported a good balance which will go into equipment -and expansion for nrxt year's cultivation. -That is going some for clubby farmers,. ', . ' Fortunately for the country's safety the mental equilibrium of New York occasionally jrebounds from the shocks of war and grapples with questions that concern, the inner conscious ness, Ar something like Uhat. "Should golfer have dull or quick brain?" .That's the momentous "question up for debate among sports of the green. At last accounts featured by the New York Post argument was about evenly divided with , the waiters working overtime. , i Mayor L. A. Fritsche and City Attorney Al bert Pfaender of New Ulm, Minn., have been re moved from office by .Governor Burnquist for conduct and utterances tending to hinder the federal government in the prosecution of the war. . New-Ulm championed the Teuton cause six months ago and acted as if it wouldsecede from the union and move over to the Rhine. Fritsche and Pfaender led the vocal rebellion. Suddenly the community woke up to the fact that Minnesota was bigger thaiKNew Ulm and staged a veneered profession of loyalty. Fritsche and Pfaender recanted at the. same time, but not before the governor got their, measure. rfnrw Right in the Spotlight' " , General Ferdinand Foch, who has been appointed to represent France .on the Supreme War council of the allies,xhas been ce of the-most bril liant French commanders during this war. The great victory of the battle of the Marne was largely due to his strategical genius. General Foch be gan his military career in the war of 187y as subaltern . against the Ger mans, and distinguished himself as "a soldier with brains." At 26, he was comikissloned a captain of artil lery and later he became a professor in. the Ecole de Guerre. Early in the present war, through his success in forcing the Germans to retreat in the battle of the Marne. he earned the title of the greatest strategist in Eu rope. He is also the man who did much to prevent the Germans from getting Calais. One Year Ago Today in the War. Allies continued to retreat in Wal lachia. ' Tultcha, on the Danube oposite Bessarabia, occupied by Bulgarians. French senate voted unanimously that France could not make peace while eftemy occupied French 'terri tory. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Messrs. Hardin and Kennedy have signed articles for a live bird shoot for $50 a side. Hardin to shoot at 25 blrts and Kennedy at 26. The first cable car was run over Harney street to Tenth street and worked to full and complete satisfaction. Articles of Incorporation of the railway were filed with the county clerk. The incorporators are Nathan Shelton, A. A. Egbert Otis H. Ballan, Robert B. Windham, and George J. Fox. Prof. G. R. Rathburn will repre sent Omaha at the conventionof the Western Penman association, which assembles at Cedar Rapids, la.. T. J. Miner, clerk of the Windsor, received a handsome Christmas gift from his employers, Messrs. Schliyik and Prince. It consists of a hand made cigar case beautifully decorated. J. 1 Mandell and A. F. Holden of St. Louis are visiting W. J. Holden. The bill introduced by Senator Manderson for the erection of a pub lic building in this city, has been referred? to the committee on public buildings and grounds. S. A. Huntoon, general agent of the Pacific Express company, was called to ttt front of his office and found awaiting him an elegant easy chair, a present from the employes of that company. s This Day ia History. 1764 George Crabbe, celebrated English poet born. Died February 8, 18S2. 1774 William Ferguson, a soldier, was shot on Boston,. Common for de sertion. 1784 The Methodist Episcopal church in the United Statea organ ized. 1803 Marriage of Jerome Bona parte, brother of Napoleoa I., and Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore. 1814 Preliminaries of the, peace treaty ending the war betwen , the United States and Great Britain signed at Ghent. 1832 Antwerp, with a garrison of 3,500, surrendered to the French after a Brave resistance of 26 days. 1878 Johns Hopkins, - founder of the university that bears his name, died in Baltimore. Born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, May 19, 1795. ... 1914 -British airmen dropped bombs on German aeroplane sheds in Brussels. 1915 Henry Ford left his "peace" party at Christiania, Norway, and sailed for home. The Day We Celebrate. Rev. Adolph Hult former pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church, was born at Molina, 111., 48 years ago to- day. - . . Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, born in Mecklenburg, 88 years ago today. Manuel Estrada Cabrera, president of Guatemala, porn 61 years ago ttw Brigadier General James H. McRae, United States army, recently assigned to command the 158th depot brigade, at Camp Sherman, born in 'Georgia, 64 years ago today. , ' Dr. Bradford Knapp, chief of the. farm demonstration division of the" United States Department of Agri culture, born at Vinton, la., 47 years ago .today. Harry E. Brittain, director of in telligence of the British National Service Department anl who has founded a club fop-American officers in London, born 44 years ago today. Vlscdunt Morley of Blackburn, veteran English statesman, born at Blackburn, 79 years ago today. Bishop Richard G. Waterhouse of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, born near Spring City, Tenn., 62 years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. . , Last day for Christmas shopping. ' The Red Cross-'Mrlve" for 10,000,- 000 new members closes today. 1 Thousands of the boys of the new army have been granted furloughs to leave the training camps today to spend their Christmas at home. In many churches throughout the land the Christmas festival will be ushered in tonight with' special serv ices at which prayers will be offered for an early and victorious ending of the world war. ' Santa Claus Is likely to find fewer and costlier trees in American homes when he comes around with his pack tonight Because of the labor scarci ty men couldn't be found to cut the trees this year, and Uncle Sam was too busy hauling needed freight to clutter up the tracks with trees. Storyette of the Day. Prof. Copeland of Harvard, as the story goes, reproved his students for coming late to class. "This is a class in English com position," he remarked with sarcasm, "not an afternoon tea." At the next meeting one girl was 20 minutes late. Prof Copeland waited until she had taken her seat Then he remarked, bitingly! "How will you have your tea, Miss Brown?" "Without . the lemonA please," Miss Brown answered quite gently. Bos ton Advertiser SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS. Tha name of Tha H&rut, capitol of the Netherlands, is connected with larger member of treaties and rariooa interna tional understandtnre than that of any other city of the world. . During August, September and October this year 485,000 officers and meS arrived in England from the front on leave. Tha num ber of leaves granted for -the same period last year was 85,000. In tha way of newspaper funds, tha Lon don Times has made an extraordinary rec ord. Tha total of. its colleetiona for tha British Bed Cross society and for the Order of St. John has Just passed 8,0.00. . For Secretary of Anything. Theodore Roosevelt. Omaha, Dec. 20. To the Editor of The Bee: A friend of mine said to me the other day, "We've got-to be patient, we've got to realize that we are up against a big thing and have -to go slow, we must not criticize." an q of course he is right, up w a cer tain point But I Want you to stop and think just what it would mean if it were announced tomorrow that Theo dore 'Roosevelt had been appointed secretary of war, or of. the navy, or of a newly .created department of munitions, and had accepted. Wouldn't there be a stiffening of spines, a throwing back of heads, a sauaring of chins everywhere? We'd know, then, that we are going to fight a real fight Wouldn't those oys of ours over there in France serid up a shout that could be heard on Broad way, and a tossing of hats and coats and hoes and guns in the air, till the Frenchmen would think we had sent them an army of lunatics? Now, Isn't this iust what would happen, whether you. are ene of those who mistakenly thouaht that every army omcer ana every ' navy officer was a bloody minded cutthroat and we didnt need any guns or any boats or any uniforms or any training, and that Roosevelt was an imperialistic Jingo, always spoiling for a fight, or wheth er, like myself you considered Roose velt one of the greatest men this country has ever produced? Here's a man who isn't afraid of dirt and mud and sweat and hard work and blood and wounds, and Is willing and anxious to go out and take his share, personally, 1 and in the person of his whole family. Wouldn't you feel sure, wouldn't you know that nothing would be ' omitted to insure" victory, nothing done that might bring defeat to those boys of ours and this, coun try of ours? - And, oh! wouldn't Jt hearten those tired soldiers of France, fighting, dig ging, suffering, dying, grim as death itself, there on those tortured hill sides of their stricken country? Leave out all thought of criticism of anyone else, wouldn't they feel as they have never felf'at last America's in, in in deadly earnest, in to the last gasp, in until those hillsides and those valleys and those orchards have been freed and those tortured women and chil dren, together with the women and children of America and the world are safe?" . Personally I believe it Would do more good than all the men we have gotten across, and I do not for a minute belittle the tremendous task of getting them there. And that little band of Belgians, and that great English army, wallow ing waist deep in the mud of Fland ers! It isn't easy to improve on the grip of a bulldog, but don't you be lieve every Jaw would set a little tighter and the teeth would pinch in a little deeper and a little faster toward the windpipe of Germany at the news? Real fighters are . born, not cultivated. To win victories, you must want to win them and you must not think too much about whether you may perhaps hurt the other fel low; and, fellows, this lsa fight, not a physical culture test nor an educa tional experiment. We have here a leader and a fight er, ready made and tested. Whether you believe, as I do that he will never fight for anything but right, you must believe that he will fight and that he knows how. I, therefore, nominate Theodore Roosevelt for any job he will take. ' " H. W. MORROW. Ethics of Christian Science Practice. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 22. To the Edi tor of The Bee: As I have been unable to find a correction in my edition of the Bee, of statements made in an As sociated Press dispatch that appeared in the issue of December 18, I ask space for the following: Albert F. Gilmore, Christian Science committee on publication for New York, declares Grace M. Trankla, who brought suit against Clarence C. Burger to recover pay for services as a practitioner, was not a. Christian Sofentist. Careful investigation by him discloses that she is not a mem ber or regular attendant of the local churches, that she is not a member of the Mother Church, nor on the net of authorized practitioners. The methods indicated in Miss Trankla's complaint are not in accordance with the custom and practice of the true followers of Christian Science. In regard to remuneration for serv ices, authorized practitioners of Christian Science are guided by the by-law in the manual of the Mother Church, which says: "A member of the Mother Church shall not under pardonable circumstances, sue his patient for recovery of payment for said member's practice, on penalty of discipline and liability to have his name removed from membership." . CLAUDE L. DeLONG, - I Commite on Publication. " Of Interest to Taxpayers. Omaha, Dec.- 2?. To the Editor of The Bee: I wish to say a few words against the proposed purchase of the property known as Christie Heights for a public play ground, as the city owns a email tract known as Morton park which is only five blocks distant from the proposed Christie Heights site. It seems to me it would be more fit ting to purchase more ground for Morton park which is a more desirable site than Christie Heights. Lam satisfied that 90 per tent of the tax payers of the south western section of the city are op posed to the purchase of the Christie Heights property for the reason that it is undesirable on account of its location being bounded , on the east and north by the packing houses and stock yards district, and instead of being' popular es'a play ground for the pupils of St Mary's school it would only expose them to more danger aa they would have to cross Q street, a busy thoroughfare. They would have to cross street car tracks diver which the N Omaha street rail way company cars travel, the Rai ston & Papillion interurban line of cars besides automobile motorcycles, etc ' , ' - - - C. W., A Taxpayer. - . Compliments a Bee Editorials r Omaha, Neb., Dec 22, To the Editor of The Bee: I want to compliment yam on your editorial' re garding the, World-Herald's monu mental hyphenism. I want to encour age you to produce more of the same. Mr.. Hitchcock, or his paper, have not been with the president on his most far-reaching and clearest poli cies; Senator Hitchcock haayvoted no or has been absent We subscribe to the high qualities of President Wil son, from a patriotic motive. We are nil wifh him. All rieht thinkintr men. bwa All ,Aisii ttttfl riMlc, in Vifm Bih Alt v. cui. .. a ftiuv ftv. ...a. a but this hypocrisy of the senator is not consistent with his fathering the anti-munition bill, his paper's justi fication of the sinking of the Lusi tania, his stand on the Austrian situ ation and kindred other statements. The one motive that seems to actu ate him is to perpetuate himself in office with the help of the hyphenates in Nebraska and other people that are fooled by his hanging to the ;.'o oHai!K The oeODle CSt Nebraska ought to relegate him to the oblivion, whicn win eveniuai.jr Ms anyway as he will go down in Nebraska history as a self-seeking straddler and a demagogue. Go to it, Bee, is the wish of FRANK C. WARD TUNING UP FOR CHRISTMAS With a whirl and a swirl and a terrible roar . It blew In at evening from an Arctic snore. Traffic It blocked, and the treacheroOS Glitters and twinkles with silvery sleet ..m- i. a .it.. arA SnlilVra a-DlentV. Uifts for Kiddies and Sweet-and-l wenty ; Gifts for Grannies ana Aunues unu Gifts for using and losing and fads! -Gifts for Nurses and Chauffeurs and Cooks. Gifts for Bookworms who read ALL their Books! Gifts for Tinners and Sneerers and Saints. Tops for spinners, and Pastejs, and Paints. Musio meshanical, mirrors or lamps, Turkeys for orphans and newsboys and tramps. Sifts that' are fluffy and gifts that a; grim: ' A necklace for Jeanne, a scarfpin for Jim. Full aets of the classics and gleaming gold pieces suitablo-r-very for sweet little nieces. Calendars virtuous, witty or wise, Flowers and bon bons and puddings and pies ! . . 1 - . , Cynics there be who deride and defy them. But we, In our dreams, even, buy them and . I . tk.ml As aver old Winter", with snowdrift iA sleet, Trinimntpi the whole1 Town Into Santa Claus Street! ELIZABETH N. HEPBURN. Laughing gas. "Listen to this, wife. This centenarian says he has eaten an apple' a day since childhood, and chewed tobacco continuously. Just think of living to be one hundred yeara old." "I might "manage an apple a day, but I fear I couldn't chew tobacco continuously." Baltimore American. "It takes you a long time to sen mat iaay a cage for her parrot.1' "I'm doing the best I can," said tha "Our stock Is large. Can'tfou suit her?' "I think I could suit her, but she's trying to get the parrot to make a selection,"--Kansas City Journal. j "Does your boy believe in Santa Claur?'' "I don't know. He's writing hlra a let ter." ' "Wei;?'' "But I notice he leaves it around where t can see it." Louisville Courier-Journal. "He's a practical Joker, Isn't he?'' "Not very practical; he tried one of his jokes on a guy larger than himself." .Tiiifv. ' Higgs Wnat's the sense of an inquest? Everybody knows he dug his grave with his teeth. Brlggs Somebody told the coroner they were false. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. V "I don't see why the tenor excused him self from singing because he had a cold and couldn't be heard.'' "Why don't you see It?" "Didn't the eold give his voice more hoarse power?" Baltimore American. " "America is composed of three classes of men first, those who have succeeded, and, second, those who haven't." "Yes? And the third?" "Oh, they're the fellows who write arti cles for the magazines telling the second class how the first class did It." Life. Proprietor What's the trouble?" Head Waiter -Big.crowd waiting for table, sir. Proprietor Tell the ..orchestra to strike up something lively. Maybe it will msjke the'se people chew faster. Boston Transcript. Flatbiish Got a iiui..age on your place? Bensonhurst Oh, yes; a Marathon mort gage. "What's a Marathon mortgage, pray?" "One that's run 2i years." Yonkers Statesman. '''IHHIl for KrtUor-J8 55c Per Gallon A Heavy, Viscous, Filtered Motor Oil. The L Vj&holas Oil Company GRAIN EXCHANGE BLDG. 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