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THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1917. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVEXIXG - SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAKV. PEOrRISTOR. Entered at Omaha, potoffic u second-dsns matter. Br Mi'J. it nu. M 4.04 .M 4.M 100 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier. u irj Sand per seel. Ki Only witbo'.it Sundfcy., " 1. v'Trc'nt anj Sunday " !: Kwmg wiUiom BumUy ' r4 strode Be only So snd notice of citing of 4dr?ai or lrrcoUrltr to delirtry to Oma&a I'M UTVOIMIOO UCPUtSHBL MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1d auuolatM Preo. vhlck Tti He u a iMwitwr. M eielu''lj .nUtlaa lo Uf N f pib!KMUOQ of til ov dt0trtif crlHi-l tt or uot otnnnw crMifced to th!i paper and atj Ui local ntm rtfmin. ail risk! of mbllcatlua ef our tpKKl tfliottctx 1 aiao reserved. REMITTANCE l enf! hr drift, eisrest or poaul ordr. Only S-ont umr taken la ymrit of trrull aornonti. Periooil cbeca. : on Onub uid nstfm fxohan-3. not accepted. OFFICES tUcfo Peocle-! Hu Rtilldlcs. N'ew Wk 2i Fifth Am. Kt. IyiuU Ne It'K of Commerce. Waahindon I3ll G Ht. '"iiaha The B Bulldln. stlth Omb Ui Mt. -iwlt Blurt 14 N- Main Bt l. u-oto Little Building. CORRESPONDENCE oldrw ooinrrmlratloBi reltvjii to news and editorial matter to :aha Be. Editorial DrperUaent. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION 58,715 Daily Sunday, 51,884 vena elrrulinne for the month, subscribed and roro to by Dwir.t U'llllans. ClreuIaUoo Maaaaar. Subscriber leavrnc tha city should have Tb Bee mailed to them. Address chaaged aa often at requested. In the language of "Met," Mr. Hitchbranch is mad. That'i very evident. By the way, which Christmas was it that was io hare seen the boys out of the trendies? It is plain from subsequent developments that Edgar Howard's shell squarely hit the black-handcrs. Having passed a dry Christmas in Omaha safely, the ordeal of the first dry New V'ear may come easier. Still the BoIsheviVi of the Mexican border could tcarcely design a better plan than raiding to facilitate involuntary suicide. "Food will win the war." "Air supremacy will win the war." "Control of the ocean will win the war." All right, just so wc win it. Let the searchlight uncover the truth, wheth er it go to police dereliction, postoffice ineffi ciency or War department incompetency. War bulletins "made in Germany" emphasize the steady development in that quarter of the art of concealing hurts and trumpeting successes. No chaplains over 40 years. Seasoned min isters are not unwelcome in the army, but in the coming grand hike to Berlin, Washington realizes that only pulsing youth can keep the pace. Christmas peace offer from Potsdam some how failed to connect with the wire. The de liverances of Wilson and George doubtless forced a recall of the promised message fot radical revision. The proof of the pudding is in the eaiing. The best refutation of the charge that "a political pirate" has been standing in , the way ot the Seventh regiment will be its acceptance as a part of the national army. I'rotnpt and vigorous measures should be tVken to check the epidemic of "shudders" around Capitol square. The enfeebled condition of the state house renders the slightest shake perilous to the inside population. If the meat packers and packing house em ployes can agree to arbitration terms for labor disputes during the war, so can other industries. And if trbitration can give us industrial peace during the war, why not after the war? Jobs and more job crowd upon American artisans here and overseas. A hurry call for carpenters and bricklayers for American work in England and France electrifies the dormant cur rent of .wanderlust and foreshadows a quick response from the unattached. A touch of the homey feeling no doubt crept into the Christmas festivities of the boys "some where in France." They would not be Ameri cans without it Imagine the priceless value of the experience. In the years to come "my Christ mas with the army in France" will be a theme of surpassing interest around the home fires, on the platform and in the magazines. Reports of Germany being posted on the movements of American ships lack the element of surprise. Those who should exercise caution seem more disposed to disregard ordinary pre cautions. The New York Times tells of a no torious pro-German, convicted under the espion age act and released on parole, allowed to live on Staten island, where he may observe the day light comings and goings of ships in the harbor. More Work for Women -Minneapolis Journal - The personnel of employed classes in this country already has undergone a marked change as a result of the nation's entering the war. VVomen in large numbers are taking places made vacant by dratted men and volunteers. Men over 45 are finding it much easier to procure remun erative employment. Thousands of women are taking preliminary training for positions which will be open to them later as the operation of the draft act widens. The public employment bureau of the city of Xew York has just made an interesting state ment of the situation. It finds that many kinds of employment hitherto reserved exclusively tor men arc now available to women. One of these is architectural drafting, another is the running f elevators in apartment and business houses, ;md still another automobile cleaning and driving. ' One large New York downtown banking in stitution is filling its vacant clerical positions exclusively with women. Bankers are the larg est employers of women as clerks. Some of the women are protesting against the number of hours they must work and are chafing at certain restraints which, they feel, constitute an assault on their dignity and liberty. Some departments of factories are operated solely by women. These employes are paid the ,ame wages granted to men at the start. Rail road companies are engaging women in ever increasing numbers. The process is to "try them out" in a general way and then transfer ;hem to the specialized work for which they seem best adapted. To date few women have been asked to per forin arduous physical tasks or to work at night Special environment becoming to their sex. Broadly speaking, the charge i- only in the experimental stage, but the results are encourag ing that, if emergency requires, the women of America will rival in the faithfulness and ex cellence of their nervier their sisters abroad. More "Scraps of Paper." Germany's disregard of terms of the armistice w;th the Bolsheviki i not t all surprising under the circumstances. None outside of Russia has placed any confidence in the sincerity of the kais er's flirtation wi'h the Lenine and Trotky dupe'. This does not lessen the advantage to German arms, gained by the respite on the Russian front, which permitted withdrawals of troops to strengthen the HinHenburg line in France and Flanders. The Bolshevik is powerless to en force any of his terms against the German, and if he has fallen a victim to the duplicity of the kaiser's party it is his irretrievable misfortune. That such an outcome was certain to follow the so-called peace negotiations could easily be fore seen, yet the move was wholly within the rights of the dominant faction of the numerous Russi.tn divisions. It has a lesson for Americans, as establishing even more definitely the accuracy of the charge made against the (ienn.-.n xevern ment, that it is not to be trusted in treaty or oth erwise. Its whole course throughout the war J has been one of utter disregard to obligations ! towards others, no matter in what form pre- j scnted. The armistice agreement was merely another "scrap of paper," and is now in straps The Pernicious Fee System. At the end of a protracted litigation our Ne braska supreme court holds in favor of the con- ' tention of the clerk of the district court that under the law, as it existed up to last July, he could rightfully keep, in addition to his salary, one-hall of the naturalization fees coining into his hands. On the general issue the decision of the court is a dogfall, since it had previously ruled against the clerk's claim that he was en titled also to hold receipts coining to him as in sanity fees. The last legislature changed the law with the intention to limit the clerk's com pensation strictly to the prescribed salary, so that, unless this law too is attacked, the fee system is abolished for this office, at least for the future. The Bee wants its position kept clear that it is opposed wholly to the fee system as a method of paying public officers because that system has invariably led to abuses beyond control. The Bee believes every public office which carries compensation should have a definite and fixed salary limit which should be understood in ad vance and that every person seeking, or accept ing, the office should take it without further profiteering in the way of perquisites, fees or side lines. What we say applies not particularly to the position of clerk of the court any more than to other public officers. We know there are still several loopholes in the law by which such perquisites may he legally retained, but these holes should be plugged as soon as possible. We have made great progress in getting away from the discredited fee system and we should finish the job. Over the Top for the Red Cross. Local subscriptions to the Red Cross show that Omaha is going along in step with the country in contributing to war aid. It must be gratifying to all that this should be so. The immensity of the sums subscribed for this and similar purposes since the beginning of the war is splendid proof of the responsiveness of the public to all calls for help. Generosity plus has been and will continue to be the rule. But a much more important phase of the subject is now getting consideration. The suggestion made by The Bee some weeks ago, advising closer co ordination and control of war relief activities, is attracting careful attention. It is now soberly proposed by many that the work be turned over to the government for management and admin istration. The task is one of greatest magnitude and importance, and almost too great for a vol unteer organiiation. No complaint is yet made as to the effectiveness of the work, but some thoughtful men and women incline to the belief that better results might be obtained with all work in connection with the war handled by the government. Relief will continue to be furnished liberally by the American people, but its quality will not he affected by elimination of existing duplications. Value of Congressional Inquiries. Committees of congress sitting at Washing ton during the holiday recess will provide suf ficient of sensational proceedings and disclosures to avert any likelihood of stagnation of interest in the war. These goings-on arc an inevitable accompaniment of our national method of doing business. So far as the investigations already in progress are concerned, developments simply serve to emphasize statements heretofore made that the governmental machinery was inadequate to handling the great task of war preparation. It was not a lack of patriotism, but delay in get ting to work that put such a tremendous burden on the little army machinery. Bureaus chargeable with the management of military affairs, it is not denied, broke down or were unable to function at the required speed. Some of the blame may probably belong to con gress, where the greatest of the delay occurred. Distinct and detailed information submitted ty capable officers of the War college was ignored and the only serious effort to get ready for war had as its outcome the resignation of Secretary of War Garrison, while congress continued to camouflage the most dangerous situation the gov ernment ever faced. Politicians now confronted with the certainty of rebuke at the polls may seek to shift the blame to army and navy heads, but the best they can do is to share it with them. The value of the congressional inquiries will be found in the fact that they will uncover enough to waken the peo ple to the part the democratic statesmen had irt leading the country up to the very brink in a state of unreadiness for campaign purposes. Ample warning was disregarded by them and fhe country is paying the bills. Very little noise comes out of Japan regard ing her present part in the world war. The country is doing its bit just the same. Besides munitions supplied to Russia during its righting days "the Yankees of the east" loaned $500,000. 000 to the allies and 1,000 Jap soldiers, natural ized in Canada, are among the Canadian forces shooting up the Huns on the west front. Curing Personalities Fij Frederic J. Raskin Washing Dec. 24 The amazing number ot neurotic- and psychopaths encountered in the armies of this uar have demonstrated the tre mendous ri'-fd of the mental clinic in our civil life. In ahh'.-t fiery iity in this Country there are rye. e,,r .,r;d throat clinics, dental clinics and orthopedic i hmf v The city hospitals maintain free wards for all such cases. But it is on'v within the last lew vears that a few cities have established mental dispensaries where people could go and be treated free of charge tor mental diseases. In New York, Boston, Baltimore, Ann Arbor, Mich., and several other cities mental dispen saries have been introduced with encouraging success; in a few other cities hospitals have es tablished free mental wards, but the instances are all too few. In every community there are many persons who are in need of mental treat ment, just as others are in need of throat treat ment, but there is no provision for them. Nerve specialists there are plenty, but a nerve spe cialist is the one type of medical man who rarely undertakes philanthropic work not that he is unwilling, but somehow people do not look for nerve diseases among the poor. Yet more neurotics, morons, psychopaths and feeble-minded persons are to be found among the poorer classes than anywhere else. The Ameri can Society of Mental Hygiene recently made a study of the inmates of several American prisons and established the fact that with few excep tions the criminal is mentally defective. Mo.-t drug addicts, vagrants, irresponsibles and de linquents, moreover, are victims of mental dis orders. And, while these types are not peculiar to the poorer classes, they are most prolific un der poor economic conditions. Here, where the struggle for existence is hardest .where the strain is always felt and a man's personality is in con stant conflict with his environment, is the great need for the mental clinic. One difficulty lies in the way of the mental clinic, however, which does not affect other clinics. This is the diffidence most people feci towards admitting any mental infirmity. About his sore throat or his hay fever or his lumbago a man will talk to you for hours, but let it once be suggested that it is his personality which needs a little treatment and he energetically rises to his own defense. Thus it happens that patients are usually brought to the mental dispensary, and not attracted there. A mother brings her small son at the suggestion of an officer of the juvenile court; a woman is sent to the dispensarv by her physician; still other cases are brought bv social workers. Kight In the Spotlight. Acttvf ly enpaged in "doin hi? r.n" in his thirr war, lif-ar Admiral Lu'ti r ft. Hillinzs. L'nited .States navy, re- tiled, a man of remarkable '.xieri J ences, celebrates his 75th birthday j annivfrsary today. Veteran of the civil war, one time confined in I.ibhy prison, the la.si surviving,' otli.-er of the i I'ni'H S'lU'H ship "Water Witch." ; wreked in an earthquake and tidal ' wuve at Arlca. I'eru, in U6. and the i former head of the roast signal scrv 1 iee during the Spanish-A met lean 1 war. Admiral i'.illing.s has .if laie been I cervirip at the head of the Fifth naval district's purchasing omee m lla!?: rnore. He is a native of New York and entered the naval e- ie. .-oor. after the commencement of the civil war. One Yettr Aro Today In the War. Russians fell hack on the Moldavian frontier. British airmen destroyed Chlkaldir bridge on th- Hagdad railway. Germans claimed further sue, e.ss.-s at Rtmnic-Rarat. and 10,00ft prisoners. (Sitys Only Curtis. Neb., tor of The i A. H. -Hit'onii 25 Per nnt True. Dec -.'4 To the K.li The letter of Airs 11 in The l'.( entiiV "Woman I'ities Life of Funston Men.' is about 7i per cent mi.sMaternert. if; reports by soldier boys home from ! Funston are reliable. It seems to mo ' .-u h reports should not be publi-'hed Willi" !; im es-tiara.t'.on. This :s ,i poor time foi hc-o n s ; and -.vtier.itionj?. F. F. UIDPKL1.. , In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Miss Margaret Uodkln, niece of Jacob Markei, held a reception at the Millard. The lady was assisted by Miss Oussie Trice of Lawrence, Kan., in whose honor the reception was held. For want of it quorum, there was Keud lice I tlilorial From Pulpit. ' ' n i aha, South .Side, Dec . . To the Kditor of The Iji-e: F rnus-t be that thousand of other readers of The H e. with myself enjoyed that tine editorial in the issue o." December 25 on Christmas." 1 look the lib erty to read it lo my coiigrt nation at our church services on Chnstirvr in online with com mem. The fact that it was wri'teii some tlnee years tip. as a prophttic mes satce, to be lonii.d after this lapse of time, indicates clearness ,.f vision, none too common. Also, to r- produc fill article dealinc wi'h wor!.l-ide af-, fa,rs without ilio ehantte of a letter. 1 v. hiel: s-ems to in.; to he slightly ox aegeraied, of over l.Ouo men that I know ihe accurate conditions of there have been three deaths in as many months. If you will ask any Ins tr ance asent he will tell you that is a nn:-Mitv low percentage of death rate. in regard to our wooden guns, the government is taking en re of that and we do not need tho help of civilians sc ure these things. A wooden eun is more beneficial to health than a real can because It does not tire '0UI j he poor mistreated soldier, starved, ragged and on the very verge of stepping into the preat Beyond. We have not been mollycoddled or treated as little sisters, but when pec pie maK" the statement that we are mistreated it makes us all angry, f say the least. N'o one realizes as does ih- .-olda r what the government has gone through with to get what tney ha ve. Mrs. McCoiinell says that she woull not have picked a swamp to tram i.oys in if she had the choosing f do' We are not in a swamp, but s litile tuamp training would not hurl us any if the reports from the West ( rn front are true. v Eleven W. FOLKE. company K, S 1 4th .Supply Train. Often, too, a person has no suspicion what ever that he is suffering from mental trouble. His symptoms may be anything from headaches to hallucinations. Indigestion i frequently caused by mental excitement instead of uncon genial food. Blindness and deafness, palsies and even paralysis may be .symptoms of mental dis order just as much as hysteria, hypochondria and tantrums. A music teacher for years used to have vomiting spells regularly every Saturday night. She tried all indigestion remedies to no avail. Then she happened to come under the ob servation of a psychiatrist, a friend of the family. He discovered that on Saturdays this young woman taught pupils in widely separated parts of the city, that she was constantly running to catch cars, and worrying over possible delays in her appointments. By evening her nerves were keyed to such a pitch that nausea was the re sult. He explained the matter to the young wom an's family, and got them to persuade her to give up these Saturday pupils for a couple of months and to spend her Saturday afternoons in the gymnasium of the local Young Women's Christian association. This prescription was suc cessful where all the indigestion remedies had failed. or a in it flag peop api'i transposed s unaltered a no l le I sentence, position u r nation. wish to record is masterful .f loyalty to Wi'h nvu y my son t i e On the other hand, organic disturbances of one kind and another are often responsible for mental disorders. In fact, as medical science progresses, the mind and the body arc discov ered to be more and more closely allied. Thus a feeble digestion may be the cause of melan cholia, or melancholia the cause of a feeble diges tion. "The personality in face of difficulties," says Dr. C. Mactie Campbell of Johns Hopkins hospital, "may find refuge in phantasies, deliria or hallucinations, but also in aches and pains and palsies; and the latter may be as truly evidence of mental disorder as the former." Under these circumstances the work of the mental clinic is not so much to treat the patient, as to diagnose his personality and prescribe the proper environment for it. And the sooner that personality is placed in its proper environment, the quicker the cure. So the work of the psychiatrist of the mental dispensary must begin with school children. These are divided into two groups the backward and the neurotic types. Backwardness in children is usually, although not always, due to some constitutional defect. Sometimes it is adenoids; sometimes nearsight edness which prevents the child from seeing the blackboard, and again it is defective teeth. In this case the child is in need of a general dis pensary and not the mental clinic. In the case of actual mental backwardness, however, due to in capacity or feeblemindedness the psychiatrist does the prescribing. The child must be trained in accordance with his abilities, he must be taught some simple employment that will keep his de fective brain occupied and perhaps enable him to earn his own living. Then the child's parents must be advised in the matter of training such a backward child. His conduct is in need of closer supervision than that of the normal child; he must be kept away from bad influences; from morbid habits and unscrupulous persons. A double responsibility is also imposed upon the school teacher. The neurotic child affords just as great a problem as the backward one. His symptoms, according to Dr. Campbell, arc "night terrors, tantrums of temper, pilfering, romancing, unex plained moods and marked cruelty." There is little difficulty in detecting the neurotic child. School teachers have long been familiar with his type the child who is constantly destroying the otherwise peaceful discipline of the schoolroom, paying no attention to his lessons and always teasing or bullying his companions. He is the child, who placed in a bad environment, becomes a delinquent, a drug addict, a criminal. Hence, the psychiatrist mu.-t study this child well his physical make-up. his mental abilities, his emotional vagaries and his capacity for self control. Then he studies the child's environ ment. What are his parents like? Whom does he play with? What are his interests? What, in a word, is the general atmosphere in which the child lives, and what would be its natural re action on him? Much libt is generally thrown on the child's case by a discussion with his pa rents and school teacher, to whom the psychiat rist may suggest certain measures of reform. Thus the mental clinic oilers an excellent so lution to that problem which the war has shown to be reaching grave proportions the problem of the psychopath. For years many people have been struggling along with their tempestuous temperaments, their personality was ailing like a throat or a tooth. With personality specialists and mental clinics rapidly increasing in numbers, there should soon he an appreciable diminution in chronic cases of "nerves." A marked scarcity of "Scotch" in Britain threatens to reduce holiday hilarity in that quarter. A species of silent conscription trans ferred I.OOO.OiH) gallons of the brand to the fronts where facilities ;'or fireworks approach perfection. Of course the shortage in blankets, over coats and woolens at the cantonments was wholly by oversight. It is the weather man who should be held culpable tor bringing winter on as usual in December People and Events days are reported a The food regulator talks, but bis words Wlieatk'ss and nieatle failure in Oklahoma Citv in that section talks and carry no punch. German has be.: dv.ypa! from the eour.e of study in ,'il high siiools r.uiionua since the opening of the "p'ccr.t ,chool year. A rising patriotic leelmg against (iermntiism in any form is likely to banish it iron) every school room in the state eialion of thai, spb ndio ediiori.il. u);i-;kt u whkki.ki:. I'astor Wheeler Memorial l'ia .-!, t.-. rian church. no meeting1 of the city council. The first of the worklngmen's trains pulled Into the parking house dis trict, and consisted of six comfortably fitted up coaches. Dr. J. M. Swetman, the well-known and popular physician, wan united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Mrs. Mae K. Black at the residence of H. B. Irev of North Nineteenth street by the Rev. C. W. Savidge. The energetic work of the Rev. M. L. Holt on California street has resulted in the building of a cozy chapel. Prof. William H. (Handing and wife of Midland college, are the guests of Mr. A. C. Patterson during the holi days. 1 The American Waterworks com- pany on Christmas eve presented each I of the married members of the fire department with a turkey for Christ- j mas dinner. The office of the coal department of the Fnion Pacific will in a few days be removed to the headquarters of he i road on Fnrnam street. Thin Day In History. 1719 John Phillips, merchant and founder of Phillips-Exeter academy, born at Andover, Mass. Died at Ex eter. N. It., April 21, 1735. 1771 William Johnson, the first Justice of the supreme court of the l'nited .States to oppose the practice of permitting the chief justice to act as the organ of the court, horn at Charleston, si. C. Died at Brooklyn, N. Y.. August 1 1, 1834. 1862 Federal forces tinder Gen eral Sherman made an unsuccessful assault on the defences of Vicksburg. 1870 The Germans began a bom bardment of the French city of Per onne. 1882 Six hundredth anniversary of the establishment of tho house of llapsburgr celebrated in Austria. !S8!i Rev. James McGolrlck was consecrated Roman Catholic bishop of Duluth. 1892 Orange Judd, one of the most celebrated of American agri cultural experts, died at Evanston, 111. Born at Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 26, 1822. 1914 Washington government pro tested against British stoppage of American trade. 1915 Lloyd Oeorge threatened to resign from the British cabinet unless compulsory military service was adopted. The Day We Celebrate. Walter T. Page, manager of the Omaha plant for the American Smelt ing1 and Refining company, is 56 years old today. Brigadier General Peyton C. March, l'nited States army, who was sent to France as chief of the Amer ican artillery forces, born in Penn sylvania, 53 years ago today. Rear Admiral Luther G. Billings, l'nited States navy, retired, born in New York, 75 years ago today. Brigadier General William H. Rixby, l'nited States army, retired, former chief of army engineers, born at Chnrle.stown, Mass., (18 years ago today. Dr. John A. Marquis, president of Coe college and secretary of the board of home missions of the Northern Presbyterian church, born in Wash ington county, Ta., 56 years ago to day. M. Joiinart, noted French colonial administrator, now high commissioner of the protecting powers in Greece, born 60 years ago today. Charles C. Parr, well known in base ball circles as manager of minor le.igue clubs, born at Coalesville, Pa.. 41 years ago today. Itnosovelt for Secretary of War. Omaha. N'eb., Dec. ;-2.- To ;hc Edi tor of The Bee: As there seems to be a good deal of dissatisfaction among p. opie in general over the management of war affairs, it seems to me that it is about lime President Wilson would get beyond the bounds of his southern democracy mhI look for the bi si men to run the w.v regardless of politics. There are many thines thai Roosevelt has done that I did not approve of nor did million. of other republicans approve of tlv m. yet it. ret ins to me that ip ihe present crisis of our national affairs, that he is the man of the hour and he should be appointed secretary of war for then things would simply hum and Would not drag along as they have been doing according to all Ihe re ports we can get of the conduct of the war. President Wilson and other' demo crats are always quoting Abraham Lincoln and almost deify him, yet Lincoln did not hesitate lo appoint democrats in places where he thought they would fit in best and only looked to the fitness of men and not to their polit it s. The only men that Wilson has ap pointed to positions outside the demo cratic party have been appointed to positions that are either ornamental or positions without pay of any kind. It seems to be the effort of Wilson to make it a democratic war instead of a. national war in which wc are all of us interested as citizens of the republic. Wc all have to go up or down in this war and it seems to me that 'he pr.rs of the country ought to strongly ure Wilson to look the field over, get beyond the bounds of partisan politics and place men in positions to conduct the war thai will make the war a success for the allies, no difference what the politics of the men appointed may be. We want to win in the war and ihe only way to win il, is to place men at tho head of military affairs who will push things to a speedy con clusion. As one A. C linnkin said in The Bee a few days ago. "line words finely put together will not win the war for us. Speedy and well titi.ed action is what we need." FRANK A. AGNEW. Perhaps Then, Hut Not Now. f'amp Funston. Dec. 21. To the Editor of The Bee; 1 was a news paper man for two years and hr.d the reputation of being a good one and know when things are rotten and when they are noi, and 1 will say that the men in Camp Funston are treated better than they have oectj at any other time of war in the history of the l'nited States as n. ar as I can find out from history and men who have lived through these wars. Mrs. Me Connell says that the men have only overalls to wear; wdiat of that? Ar-; they not of good heavy denim and do they not turn the wind and weather? Does not each man have three 'aiits of good underwear, a heavy overcoat ami, what is more, plenty to eat? Airs. McConnell tells of conditions which were here on September l'7 and does not tell of them at the pres ent time. When I arrived here it was October " and the el list was blow ing so you could hardly see; who ever saw dust in a swamp, not 1, and I have been through swamps in In diana, Illinois and even in the Mis souri bottoms of Montana, and failed to ever see any dust. j As for lack of bed clothing, there is i not a man in Camp Funston at pres- ; em that does not have sufficient of j that lo keep him warm, one wool j blanket, one cotton blanket and one I comfort ought, to be enough to Keep I any man warm. In addition to that j we nave steam neat in our nnr racks. She says that we are dying by scores CHRISTMAS CAROL. Our I.er.l wb M the o roremar.il To k rs t t Jurtah'a King. H biad i H trost upon th-j l3!id To np-n it for siring Te npn ii f'ir serins. Scni firs, ..... epUnt: t" His wool. Whl-H v.- M must h" as ;e ran e- Arel who artall Judge 'he Lord? 'Vh.n per f'nni.n .kate the Ice or shiver en ihe upUI, W- !i..ar the ery ef a single tree That breaks h-r heart in the cold Thot breaks her heart In the cold, good slri. And rnd-'-th liy the board, v.'tiich wf-il inus' b" as ye can see And who shall judge the Lord? lr wood is Tiieil mid little worth Kxrepting ai. to burn. ThHt we noiy warm and make oar minh I. rail th,' .sprln? return I iiO! th,- sprint; return, sood sirs, Vii-n peo)ilp walk ahruad, Whl.-h well loust he . ye can nee And who .-hail judge the Lord' ilort hlesf, the master of this hous. And all Hint sWp therein! And guard t lie fui.i from pirate folk. And kepp us all from sin. To walk in honesty, good sirs. Of 'houeht and deed and word. Which shall befriend our latter end And who shall iudi;t the Lord? nUUVAKD K1PLINO, Locomotive Auto Oil The Best Oil We Know 55c Per Gallon The L. 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A total eclipse of the moon is scheduled to take place tonight, visi ble generally throughout North Amer ica. Many prominent speakers are seheduled to address the annual con vention of the Mush Teachers' Na tional association, which assembles in New Orleans today for a four-day session. War and reconstruction topics are to be discussed at the 13th annual meeting of the American Fconomb association . and Its allied bodies, which is to assemble today in Phila delphia. Questions affecting the economic and civic status of the negro and his relations to the country, now and after the war. are to tie considered at the seventh annual conference of the National association for the ad vancement of colored people, which is to meet in New Vork today for a ses sion of three day. Storyettc of the Day. Reference in a Washington club was made to the huppy faculty thut some people have of rising superior to an embarrassing pltuatlm wr.en this anecdote was fittingly related by Sen ator I.ee S. Overman of North Caro lina: Some time since little Bessie was ! taken on a railway journey by her young aunt and aunty's fiance. Every thing ran along as- monotonously as all railway trips until tne train en- i tered a dark tunnel, and then sud denly there came the delicious smack ' of a sweet kiss and the voice of a ; child. j "Oh. aunty." appealingly exclaimed innocent lit tie Bessie, "please kiss me. tool" I Some situation, but v unty was cjuite or, mil to it I'.efore the passengers cot.'.d break into a tickled tUi-r she 1 was calmly addressing the child. '"It is in-orre.-t to say "ki-s me ; two," Bessie dear." said she. . "You should say 'kiss me twice ' " yhila delohia Telesrraoh I! THE GULF COAST "Combines Florida and California" Between New Orleans America's Paris, and Pensacola founded by Spanish Dons, extends a beautiful shore line. Tempered by warm waters and vitalized by balsam bree.es a soft salubrious climate prevails the winter through Here every day existence is enlivened with the charm ot 1-rencn and Spanish customs and scenes. Amusements in clude every conceivable form of out-door sport and variety of tieh4htful, inexpensive trips. Overnight service from Chicago on splen didly equipped trains. Leave Dearborn Station at l-:4s noon arrive at the Gulf Coast the next afternoon. Low tares in force to Pass Christian. Biloxi, Ocean Sprinjs, Gulfport. Mississippi City. Bay St. Louis, Pascagoula, Pensacola, New Orleans. Mobile. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Louisville & Nashville Railroad Aor Hkntar orrto S. M. CHILDS Gcacral Agcil. C. A E.I. R. R. 108 West Adam Si. Chicaio 111. j0 II 11111in.i THE OMAHA BEE INFORMATION BUREAU Washington, D. C. j Liieloseu find a L'-cent stamp, for which vou will n!eae send m entirely free, "The Navy -Calendar." P aena me Name Street Address City """" ' "" n iKI ...State...