THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY y, 1518.
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DECEMBER CIRCULATION
541 DailySunday, 51,987
ilitlon for the month, rabasrlbed and (won la pj Daight
irculttloa Manner.
bera leaving tht city should' bavi Tht Be mailW
JAddreaa changed aa olttn aa rtquttttd.
La Follettc inquiry is still going on, with
ect that, it may be over about the time
ends.
rt willing to help Russia, but it cannot
through Germany.
are repudating Turkish citizenship,
placing that privilege pretty close to itsl
alue.
weakness of the Bolshevik may suit him
use, but that is no reason why America
dopt it.
Leopold says not until .German arms
raphant will the sword be sWathed. He
kime to change his mind.
I
pus Reader: Yes, those alien voters lived
nska in 1916 and returns show most of
ted the democratic ticket.
uilding has not been speeded up, testi
manager of one of the big companies.
fly is to blame if this is true.
Jbers of the morals squad are accused of
g the odor of garlic for 'the fumes of
Bootlegger must be peddling some
nds in Omaha. x
lias banks show a decidedly Healthy
bt of money. It is gratifying to note
pposits, but it is much more pleasing
fiat the money is out and at work, as it
'
or Stone stands up in his gumshoes long
to say he thinks the president's latest
vill shorten the war. This ought to en-
exeeptive to the peculiar kind of demo
o line up with Stone.
tors on the streets,' renewal of requests
lission to increase rates, and similar per-
eg make the railroad business look "like
old smite, regardless of the lact that
Js have been taken over by Uncle Sam.
a mistake somewhere.
nany, armed to the teeth, its heart eaten
ed," is the same Germany that destroyed
sacked and burned Louvairl, dropped
bn the hospital at AntwerpTsunk the Lu-
and committed innumerable outrages
the law of God and man and for whom
aha Hyphenated found defense and at-
justification. "Circumstances alter
Undeedl
Lesson from New England,
ern folks are given to the notion that
i gland is a land of abandoned farms, of
astures and general agricultural decad
he Monthly Crop Report of -the Depart
f "Agriculture for December gives this
on a severe jolt. Surprising as it may
ermont reports the largest average yield
per acre for the United States. New
lire is second and Massachusetts is third.
Hates are not in the corn belt and their
pear insignificant when set alongside of
yi, Iowa, Illinois or Missouri, but they do
prn, and in, such fashion as might pay
monarch s of the field to study and per
flate. If Nebraska's acre had produced
same rate in bushels as did Vermont's
. i a
p tor tne state wouia nave oeen aimost
uOO bushels greater-and the profit to the
correspondingly increased. Vermont has
kntage over Nebraska in the way of soil
ate; the increase in yield must be due to
per Cause. ' It will be well for our farm-
md out the secret ot the Ureen Mountain
urists and if it can be applied Here to
b work. If the yield of corn can be don
thout using any more land let us find
v it is done ana then ao it.
Prerequisites of Peace Definitely States!.
President Wilson has very clearly supple
mented the declaration of Lloyd George, setting
forth in concrete form the essential prerequisites
of peace. Some of his expressions after he has
stated the general principle, may be open to a
construction that will be unfortunate unless we
are to abandon some things for which Americans
have always contended.
Restoration and reparation, recognition of the
rights of any and all nations, of whatever size;
disarmament so far as comports with domestic
safety and freedom of the seas these are trie
prime points on which we insist that Germany
shall yield. President Wilson carefully states
that we have no intention of interfering with
the German people in the management of their
own affairs. Protection for weaker nations from
the aggressions of the strong, autonomy for na
tions now submerged and guarantees for the fu
ture are details of theNims the Entente Allies
have in the -war.
In the third section of his categorical state
ment the president lays a ground work for free
trade that may prove to be embarrassing.
Americans are well conversant with the doc
trine of protection, and it is a national right that
scarcely can be denied. To insist on the exact
language, that we remove "all economic barriers"
to trade, may be going further than even the pres
ident intends. It may also be questioned if we
are ready to pledge ourselves unreservedly to re
drawing the map of Europe. This is a task we
can very well leave to the Europeans themselves.
No effort is made to drive any wedge between
the German people and their rulers. The presi
dent does ask, ajid rightly, if the spokesmen of
the central powers at Brest-Litovsk addressed
the world in the name of their people or merely
represented a group of militarists. It is for the
Germans to answer this question. At present
we areNperplexed to know with whom we are
dealing. For our side the president says:
There is no confusion of counsel among
the adversaries of the central powers, no
uncertainty of principle, no vagueness of de
tail. The only secrecy of counsel, the only
lack of fearless frankness, the only failure
to make a definite statement of the objects
of the war lies with Germany and its allies.
Mobilization of Labor.
One of the secondary tasks of the govern
ment in connection with the war is now to be
undertaken. It contemplates the mobilization of
labor, at least to the extent of 3,000,000 work
ers who will be required for industries especially
essential to war success. The shortage of labor,
which has been more apparent than real, is to
becompensated for in a considerable measure by
postponement of enterprises that are not of ur
gent character. This includes a considerable
amount of building throughout the country, which
is being put off for rrlany reasons, chief of which
is the high cost of material and help. Labor
thus liberated will be available for distinctly war
purposes, such as shipbuilding and munition fac
tories. The business of the new board will be to
assemble the men and to distribute them so as
to make them the most useful. In the same way
agricultural needs will be looked after and a
general effort made to keep all needed work going
without any unnecessary lost motiq Co-oper
ation between the government and the working
men, through the medium of the Department of
Labor on the one side and labor organizations
on the other, is depended on to lessen, if not
to entirely obviate, much of the shortage. This
will be possible through a more careful distri
bution. Until the plan has been well tried the
talked-of conscription of labor will be held in
abeyance. The right of tha government to draft
workers is not questioned, but if it can be
avoided the effect will be to the advantage of all.
Labor leaders realize this and also that they are
on trial now. Pledges given by them are satis
factory and their redemption will be one of the
greatest victories the trades unions ever won.
N The New School Board.
The Omaha Board of Education has been re
organized in mid-term by reason of the resigna
tion of two of its older members, President C. J.
Ernst and Mr. Thomas A. Fry, who found they
could no longer give the attention required to
the service. Mr. Ernst has established himself
as a careful and far-seeing executive and his rec
ord on the 'board has been one of helpful and
unselfish work. Mr. Fry brought to the board
an Interest in the welfare of the public schools
that has been exhibited in his action at all times.
Their successors are well chosen. Mr. McGilton
has ripe experience in public affairs and should
be of great value in his new work. Mr. Eldredge
is not well known to the public, but among the
business men of the city he has high standing.
He, too, is qualified by experience , for effective
work in school administration. Under direction
of President Reed theboard ought to go steadily
ahead with the great task entrusted to its over
sight and direction. . A
If the police judge were to apply a few well
adjusted fines to the offenders the chances are
that careless automobile drivers would learn to
look for fire hydrants when parking cars on thej
streets. The leniency shown in court is echoed
in disregard for the ordinance.
To Kaise Wilhelm and Friends: If that is
not plain enough ask again.
Prospects for a Five Years9 War
Conditions Which Foreshadow a Campaign Into 1919
Frank H. Simmonds in American Review of Reviews.
Like 1917, the new year opens in the
midst of discouragement and depression for
the allies, in whose number we are' now
reckoned. For the first time during the
present war a year begins with no legitimate
reason for expecting victory, decisive vic
tory, during its course. Unless all signs fail,
the end of the year will see the war still in
progress; and there is every prospect that it
will see Germany able to make headway
against her enemies and in possession of al
lied territory on the western front.
In a sense the lack of great optimism at
the opening of the fifth campaign of the
world war and the civil war was decided
early in the fifth campaign is due to a
growing appreciation of what modern war
really means. We recognize now, as we did
not three years ago, how stupendous is the
task of defeating a people in arms and pre
pared for war. From the first abdication ol
Napoleon to the coming of the present Eu
ropean conflict, all European wars of im
portance had speedy decisions. Waterloo,
Sadowa, Sedan, Lule Burgas, and the
Brcgalnitza, each, within a few weeks of a
declaration of vyar proclaimed the outcome
of the 'contest. (Only in our own civil war
was the outcome long doubtful and the strug
gle protracted in a way to suggest com
parison with the present contest.
Thus the world was led to expect a speedy
solution of the great problem raised by the
world war. Yet, looking backward in his
tory to similar struggles of other countries,
there is written much of more than passing
contemporary value. France, in the revolu
tion and under Napoleon, defied Europe for
more than 20 years. And France of the rev
olution was unprepared for war. Her con
script armies began their campaigns in rags
and ended them quartered in the palaces of
every European capital. Not even the army
which Napoleon led to Austerlitz had such
an advantage in numbers and preparations
over the Russian and Austrian armies as the
German -armies possessed over their British
and French foes three years ago, when they
set out for Paris. But they had Napoleon,
With the wars of Napoleon or of Louis
XIV in mind, it is easier to understand the
protraction of the present struggle and to
realize that the decision mav yet be post
poned for years. Decisive victory last year
was only remotely possible even if Russia
had stayed in the battle line and contributed
her share.
When Russia deserted there was an end
of all hope of a decision in 1917 or in 1918.
There would have .been an end of all hope
of allied victory even had no new nation ar
rived to replace Russia. America enlisted,
but not until next year can America Ml Rus
sia's place, and upon the arrival of this final
reserve the allies must wait
Meantime . the Russian collapse Tias re
leased some hundreds of thousands of Ger
man and Austrian troops, a considerable
portion of whom were compelled to remain
on the eastern front until Russia .was .defi
nitely out of the war. Since Russia is out
and negotiating a separate peace, these
troops will now constitute a strategic re
serve; they are the material with which Ger
many can build a new offensive campaign,
and with their arrival the offensive on the
west front has passed to Germany. For the
first tinte since Verdun, Germany has the
means both as to men and guns to risk an-i
other great offensive. --
And the German press and the German
critics are all agreed that such an offensive
is now to take place. One is tempted to
suspect the good faith of such declarations,
for Germany has not in the past used the
brass-band method to advertise her strategy
in advance of putting it ito operation; neither
the Dunajec nor Verdun was preceded by
press agents., Yet there remains the solid
fact that Germany has the resources for an
offensive, and there is obviously sound rea
son why she should now seek by an offensive
to get a decision before the American army
is ready, as she sought to get a decision at
Verjdun before the British were ready.
Since there will be no reinforcement of
the British and the French until the Amer
ican army is ready for action, and since tlje
American army cannot be ready in great
numbers before the campaign of 1919, al
though some thousands may be in the firing
line before spring, there is then no reason
to expect a decision this year, as the result
of allied military achievement in the field,
and there is every reason to expect that allied
effort may be restricted more severely to the
defensive than in any previous campaign of
the whole war. We must then face the prob
ability of a five years' war, at the shortest,
looking at the military considerations; as to
victory won by economic weapons in a
shorter time, this remains always possible
and never likely. ,
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Stebbins Starts Something.
North Platte, Neb., Jan. 6. To ta
Editor of The Bee: As I have no
Greek Bible, will you permit me to
ask through The Bee's Letter Box
this question: "Has the Christian
church Bible, the Greek, recognized
since the apostles, a Sabbath that is
as independent of the Jewish church
seventh day Sabbath as the Christian
church is independent of the Jewish
church? If after investigating it is
found said Greek Bible does recog
nize a resurrection Sabbath, I ask how
could that established church of Je
sus recognize a resurrection' Sabbath
without Jesus' knowledge?" Will
anyone, including my Seventh Da?
Adventist friends, piease answer my
question, that the light of truth may
shine forth? CYRUS STEBBINS.
War is like a slow disease, but, slow as has
been the progress of the world patient, there
ha'e been no desperate moments in 1917 to
compare with those of 1916, and the outlook
for the new year is only gloomy.Aecause of
the pain and agony, the sacrifice and suffer
ing which all must see are inevitable. We
see our own sufferings and those of our al
lies, but we know that the German's suffer
ings must be far greater because of the con
ditions under which he lives. Europe could
not conquer Louis XIV, but at the end of the
war of Spanish succession Louis had been
cured of his great ambition to rule Europe,
and France sank back exhausted from her
sacrifices doomed to the terrible scourge of
the revolution.
The object of this war is to destroy the
German belief that his people are a superior
people to vTiom it is permitted to break
every law and violate every convention of
humanity and decency in the effort to
dominate mankind. Peace with the German,
while he holds to this doctrine, is impossi
ble on any terms, because no agreement
would outlast his return to strength. And,
as this German view was a national view, it
can only be abolished when the whole na
tion has been brought to surrender it. Lin
coln in our civil war saw that there could be
but one ending; that compromise was im
possible with those who were determined
to disrupt the nation and who made their
main demand secession.
In this war we have passed the Antietatn
and the Gettysburg; we have escaped the
greatest peril; and it is now merely a ques
tion of tirrfe until by suffering, if not by con-
ouesL the German oeoole are driven tot
abandon that portion of their doctrine which
threatens the safety of all nations. Week by
week month by month the casualty lists are
the most potent influence. Germany is
bleeding to death, her sons are falling to
British, Franch and Italian guns; they fell
to' Russian and they will presently fall to
American. Her enemies are dividing their
losses; she cannot divide hers. Last year
the .French lost 300,000 in their ccnflicts
with the German; the British, perhaps 800,
000; but the German lost not less than a
million and probably a million and a quarter.
In 1916 he lost 700,000 against the French,
an equal number against the British, and 350,
000 against the Russians and his other foes.
In the same year the British and French
losses were perhaps 750,000 apiece. In two
years Germany has lost 3J)0,000 men in bat
tle; f ranee a little more tnan a muuon; ine
British a million and a half. But Germany
cannot continue to lose at this rate against
these enemies, and in 1919 she will have- to
pay tribute to the United States also.
To win by attrition is a long road, but it
is a sure road. More than this, it insures
that after the war the Germans will find
themselves handicapped for a generation at
least by the destruction of their male popula
tion. As compared with her great industrial
rivals, the United States and Britain, Ger
many will be crippled for an indefinite time.
She is using up her future now. And so her
local victories. like the iar more considerable
victonies of. Napoleon, can be endured with
equanimity, so long as the will to fight of the
allies remains unshaken,
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For the Railway Clerks.
Omaha, Jan. 6.T0 the Editor of
The Bee: In the name of our organi
zation, the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks-1 wish to thank you for1 your
editorial of the 5th inst. Yours is
not the only prominent publication
in the country that has awakened to
the tact that the . raUway clerical
forces of the country have been sys
tematically squeezed.
The clerks and station employes
themselves have finally been aroused
to the realization of that fact and are
flocking into our order as fast as w
can carry the work to them. For
your information I will state that we
have lodges scattered from Portland,
Me., to Portland, Ore., and from Du-
hith to New Orleans. Ia eight years
the clerks on the New York, New
Hampshire & Hartford have boosted
their wages to the tune of $762,000.
Clerks and station employes on the
Northern Pacific railway have ob
tained the eight-hour day, comfort
able increase in wages and various
other concessions through this organization.
The animosity of' officials towards
the organization of the clerks is be
ing removed through the efforts of
the Lnited States Department of La
bor, which has served notice 'on sev
eral railway officials lately that clerks
are not to be removed for Joining our
order and when Vice Presidei t Slade
of the Northern Paclfls railway re
fused to meet with a committee rep;
resenting the clerks on that system
the president of that company was
promptly informed that Mr. Slade or
some other competent olnciai must
meet and talk business with their
underpaid employes just the same as
with their engineers.
B. H. BAXTER,
Organizer Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks.
American and German. Efficiency
Repairing Damaged German Ships Seized by Gonernment
Announcement has recently been made
that all of the 109 German vessels damaged
by their crews at American ports are now
repaired and in actual use, adding more than
500,000 gross tonnage to transport and cargo
fleets in the war service of Uncle S5m. Not
one crippled engine baffled our navy engi
neers. The complete story of the damaged
machinery and the remarkable work of re
pairing it was furnished by the committee
on public information and gives occasion for
honest pride. The New York Times says:
"There is evidence that a German central
authority gave an order for destruction on
the ships, effective on or about February 1,
1917, simultaneous with the date set for un
restricted submarine warfare, and that the
purpose was to inflict such vital damage to
the machinery.of all German vessels in our
ports that none could be operated within
18 months to two years. This purpose has
been defeated in signal fashion. In less than
eight months all the ships were in service.
The destructive work of the German crews
consisted of ruin which they believed would
necessitate the shipping of new machinery
to substitute for that which was battered
down or damaged by drilling or dismantle
ment. To obtain new machinery would have
entailed a prolonged process of design, man
ufacture and installation. Urged by the ne
cessity of conserving time, the engineers of
the United States Navy department suc
ceeded in patching and welding the broken
parts and replacing all of the standard parts
which had been destroyed or thrown overboard."
The campaign of destruction lasted for
two months and the Germans thought they
had made a thorough job of it, and as they
had only contempt for our American engi
neers they did not expect us to make any
use of their ships. . And, indeed, when our
shipping board first saw the ruin they thought
much new machinery would be needed and
that at least 18 months would be required
for the woric of reconstruction. But officers
of our navy's bureau of steam engineering
decided that no new machinery would be
needed and that the work of repair could be
completed by Christmas, and, as a matter
of fact, the last of the fleet took its final sea
test and went into service as early as Thanks
giving day.
The time since the work of repair was un
dertaken has not been wholly occupied in
pafching and welding machinery, but also in
the tedious work) of dismantling all machin
ery in the search for explosives and concealed
mutilation. On one ship the engineers found
a record written in German f the work of
destruction on that particular ship. The list
was probably left by oversight, but was found
correct in every detail. In a number of in
stances, after specifying with great minute
ness the damage done, these words were
added, "Cannot be repaired." These words
occur frequently and are suggestive not only
of the extent of the wreckage, buf-of Ger
man contempt for the skill of American fen-
When the Leviathan, formerly ttys Vater
land, the largest 6hip afloat, was put in com
mission by our government and sent to sea
for a trial run its commander was ordered
to "exert every pound of pressure it pos
sesses, for if there is any flaw we want to
know it'now." And the Leviathan stood the
test, as did all the other ships. .
The German junkers perhaps will get their
nn,n rt the fact that they have no mo-
inopoly of efficiency. Minneapolis Journal.
The Coming Municipal Campaign.
Omaha, Jan. 6. To the Editor of
The Bee: Within a few weeks the
voters of Greater Omaha will be
called upon to select the commission
ers who are to- manage the affairs of
this city for the next four years.
Never having been an advocate of
our commission form of government,
I am not to blame for the expensive
luxury which the public had thrust
upon it. Yet, in view of the fact that
it is the form under which we must
be governed during the coming four
years, it may not be out ot.place to
present in advance the names of a
number of new men, as well as some
of the present incumbents of these
offices.
In the outstart it will be conceded
that all of the present commission
ers will endeavor to succeed them
selves, with the possible exception of
Mr. . Jardine. Jn further view of the
fact that conditions have materially
changed since their last and previous
elections in that the powerful fac
tors in politics that obtained in past
elections no longer exist, it is reason
able to expect that it will be every
body's fight or a free field and an
open fight, free from boss rule and
pernicious influences.
That Mayor Dahlman's administra
tion, both as mayor and commis
sioner, has never in the history of the
office been excelled, in point either
of honesty and efficiency, cannot be
denied, and his popularity since the
declaration of war and the passage
of the prohibitory amendment has
practically . assured his renomination
and re-election to that office.
That Commissioner Dan Butler,
through his opposition to the en
croachment of corporate interest, will
align the powerful Influence of that
element against him can be expected,
yet his clean record and exceptional
popularity with (he masses ot tb
common people will without doubt in
sure his re-election.
Commissioner A. C. Kugcl no doubl
will be the butt for much of the criti
cism incident to the recent investiga
tion of the police department, very
little, if any, of which should be juSTly
charged to him. either by any act ot
commission or omission, all of wnicn
has been fully proven, both at and
since the investigation. The position
which.. Mr. Kugel holds is one of the
most trying and vexatious of all of
the departments, the one most in the
limelight, that of police and sanita
tion, yet in my judgment there is no
other commissioner who could have
handled that department with any
greater degree of success than has
Mr Kugel in fact. I doubt if there
is another man in all Omaha who
could improve on his administration
of the office and he should be re
elected. .
As to Commissioners Hummel and
Withnell. little can be said for or
against them, as their ability could be
easily placed in the mediocre class,
leaving it within the provinco of any
man of ordinary ability to discharge
the duties devolving upon their re
spective offices.
As to Mr. Parks, his department,
like that of Mr. Kugcl's, is one much
in the limelight, where his acts of
omission as well as commission are
equally criticised, for if he fails to
keep our streets clean he is damned
and If he spends the money necessary
for that purpose he is again damned,
or, in other words, he will be damned
if he does and if he don't Taking
Mr. Park's record as a whole, he haa
discharged the duties of that office
efficiently, faithfully and conscien
tiously and as a business man of many
years' experience he has introduced,
business methods in the discharge ol
the duties of the office. It is gener
ally concededUhat he is the choice 01
the people of' the South Side, whera
he resides, and will no doubt be nom
inated and elected.
There are many new men who have
been frequently spoken of, any one of
whom jvould make available commis
sioners. Among those I hear men
tioned are William G. Shrlver, former
tax commissioner; F. S. Tuclier, for
mer mayor of Florence : Frank Dewey,
present county clerk; ex-Judge
Charles T. Dickenson, Henrjc. Rohlff ,
Frank A. Kennedy, editor Western
Laborer; Sherm Clayton, present
county jailer, and Hon. Jerry How
ard. In this connection I might be well
to state that Inany surprises might
be in tt-jre for the poHH'-al prophets,
in view of the elimination of impor
tant factors that heretofore controlled
our elections; namely, the brewers,
the salooi'S and the machinery of the
old Third ward. This coupled with
a strong undercurrent tending to
ward a complete change in our entire
municipal officials.
KU IT. MUKlUAKXlf.
fODAY
ar Ago Today ia the War.,
tera of allies gave Greece 48
o comply with demands made
trl.
stated specific peace terms at
of President Wilson repara-
estitution and adequate ae-
or the future.
ijr We Celebrate,
Richardson, of the Richard-
:.'f companyiorn 1879.
i E. Adams, county surveyor,
874.
I Coad. Jr.; president of the
y National Bank of South
. born 1874.
enant General B. B. H. Toung,
I States army, retired, former
riding general of the United
army, born in Pittsburgh, 78
iro today.
r General 3. Franklin Bell,
States army, commanding the
-eeventh division, at Camp
bore at Shelbyvllle, Ky.. 62
go today.
rat von Holtzendorff, one of
man Emperor's chief counsel
naval warfare, born 65 years
y. -. .
f la History
-First balloon ascension in
at Philadelphia, witnessed
5 Washington and other no
.t the time.
Charles Sumner - was re
united: States " senator from
usetu. - '' 1 : '
Just SO Years Ago Today
James Nelson sold out his black
smith business to C. F. Smith.
In an old cabinet in the county
clerk's 0 files was found an' immense
amount of stationery that has laid
there for three or four years. It is
estimated that the find is worth be
tween 1600 and $700v
Secretary W. S. Wiley of the wa
ter works company is in Boston.
Tha Burlington people are busy
making preparations for their cheap
excursion to San Francisco and
points in California, which leaves
Omaha on the 12th instant
Two additional night schools have
been opened the Hartman and Cas
telar schools whfch makes a total of
five in operation. The other three are
Leavenworth, Center and Cass.
W. D. Sanborn," general agent ot
the Burlington at San Francisco,
stopped off fta the city on his way
1 noma irom . meeting ot passenger
agents neta in vnic&go.
Peppery Points
Washington Post: As regards the
results of the senate investigating
committee, U would appear that the
black sheep have all the wool.
Phildelphla Ledger: " It is not Bur
prising that a Filipino should put
forth an indignant pretest against the
comparison of his people with the
Germans.
Kansas City Star: The railroad
president whose salary is cut from
$160,000 a year to $10,000 is not to
be dealt with too abruptly. He will
be permitted to fill out his income
blank on the basis of the old figures.
Louisville Courier-Journal: An en
tomologist of a federal experiment
station elves eloborate directions for
the removal of mites from the ear of
a cat Evidently a man so engrossed
in his field of scientific research that
he does not realize how busy the
world is.
New -York World: The f kaiser's
present Forwar.d-with-God command
to Germany presumably has Its usual
exceptional applications, v Whalevet
may happen, he can reasonably ex
pect to be able to say with his great
exemplar, Frederick the Great once
upon a time: "All is lost sava .the
royal family.'
On the Job to Stay.
Uncle Sam has given notice em
phatically that he is on the Job of
waning the war and that he is on the
Job to stay. The foreign press and
public, allied, neutral and enemy, are
requested please to copy and take
notice of same. , .
Doings o State Editors
Wars and rumors of peace will not
disturb the slumber of the Osceola
Record, which suspends publication
until peace Is a reality.
The Madison Star-Mall passes from
William M. Rynearson to F. A. Wolf,
one of the pushing young bloods of
the) town and a native son. '
The- Lexington Clipper Citizen sa
luted, the new year in a new print
shop with all the conveniences and
comforts which make the dally grind
a regular Joyride. .
Paper and printing ink come higher
than ever before. As a consequence
a general advance in weekly subscrip
tion rates to $a year is announced.
Even at the new rate few publishers
will break even on the war-time ad
vance in essential materials of the
print shop.
G. J. and II. G. Thomas, publishers
of the Harvard Courier, have sold the
paper and print shop to O. O. Buck,
an experienced newspaper man, some
times banker and midwest hustler.
Editor Buck announces that he is in
the game to stay if Harvard stays by
him. Reciprocity in that line bene
fits all participants.
Dick Thompson's old-time Hastings
Democrat changes- -ownership once
more, the Wahlqulst brothers selling
to the Watklns-Ashby-Clute Printing
company. Both Wit kins and Clute
have been in the publishing harness
before and couia m-t be happy with
out it The Wahlcuists are said to
have made their "pile" and merely!--"Won't that be lovelyr
retire for a rest and give the other
fellow a chance at & coon thin.
Twice Told Tales
. Literature and Pork.
Although Thomas Hardy,
the fa
mous English . novelist has lived for
so long in Dorsetshire, among the
very scenes that he has depicted so
graphically In his books, he is of such
a retiring and modest disposition that
his fame is unknown to a number of
the quiet country folk who live in his
vicinity. , x .
There is an amusing eiory 01 n
enthusiastic admirer who visited
Dorsetshire and approached an old
lady whom he found sitting outside
her cottage door.
"Mr. Hardy lives near here, doesn t
he?" he inquired.
"Which Mr. Harvdy?" asked the old
woman.
"Why, Mr. Thomas Hardy, who
writes books," replied the astonished
P "Oh. I know naught about him
said the woman, "but there be a
Hardy near by that rears grand pigs!
Just a Snack.
"Say, John:"
-"Well?"
Did you feed the.furoace? '
"You could hardly call it feeding.
r did rive it a little' light lunch, so
to sneak." Louisville Courier-Jour
nal. .
Social Uplift. ""
"Were goinsr to have a house.
warming up at our new home."
"Fine. Every gnest is going
to
vicicor
Records i
for
January
1
NowHere
Including records by
Alma Gluck
Galli-Curci
McCormack
Caruso
. Harry Lauder
Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra and Other
' Favorites. v
Two Great Hits Are Also
Represented
IM08 "Walt Til the Cow
Com Home," doubled with
"Sweetheart My Own". .75c
18413 "Long- Boy," doubled
with "i Don't Want To Get
Well" 7Sc
Orchard &
I mrn 1 n m
I Wednesday's Graduating
Piano Sale
At HOSPE'?
a
Twelve Pianos
$ 79.00 $ 89.00$ 99.00
109.00 119.00 149.00
169.00 199.00 229.00
239.00 249.00 259.00
Lowest possible terms,
One Dollar per week. Pi
anos selling fast. First
cometirst served. Our
books close January 10th
this sacrifice is made to
prevent inventory of same.
Bailey ' J7Q A A
Upright Piano, V 7UU
Gruenwald QQ flA
Upright Piano, pOi7sUU
Emerson flJQQ'AA
Upright Piano, pl7i7.UU
Cable & Sons, 1 AO AAN
Upr. Piano, aplUH.UU
Upr. Piano, $119.00
Bordman M 4A A A
Upr. Piano, D lti7.UU
Upr. Piano, $169.00
Schaeffer-
Upr. Piano,
$199.00
Fraser & Son (nnn ff
Upr. Piano, 0a47.UU
"gSOi $239.00
Upr. Piano, $249.00
Upr. Piano, $259.00
ONE DOLLAR
Per Week Pays for One
Piano Stools $2.50
Piano Scarfs $2.50
Player Rolls... 25c up
Pianos Rented .... $3.50 Month
A. IIOSPE CO.
1513 Douglas St
I Apollo Reproducing Piano
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Washington, D. C
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