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REV. TITUS LOWE WRITES
FROM BATTLE FRONT TO
OMAHA CONGREGATION
Past or of Methodist Church "Somewhere in France'
Preaches the Gospel to Soldier Boys; Conducting
Religious Services Under Difficulties Amidst
Great World War's larms. ,
At the services in the First Methodist 'church Sunday meni
ing, a letter from the pastor, Rev. Titus Lowe, written "Some
where in France," was read. It was addressed to the members
and friends of the church.
Rev Mr. Lowe some six months ago was granted a leave
of absence and soon thereafter sailed for the war tone of Eu
rope, where he has since been with the American soldiers, ad
ministering to their social welfare. ' ' !
The letter, which was dated December 27, last, follows :
GETS PAST CENSOR. 0
"There are so many thing that one
may sot write about, and the subjects
' one may write about are so limited in
extent that 'it is rather difficult to
know just what will past the eagle eye
of the censor. But, Indeed, the time
left fot writing is so very scarce that
possibly it is just as well that the cen
sor is rather rigid.
"However, some few things I have
experienced lately I think will interest
you and I think will pass the eagle
eyed critic of all epistolary effusions.
"Ten days ago, on Sunday after
noon, I went with the chaplain to
visit s section of this regiment some
miles east of where we are now. That
carried us appreciably nearer the ac
tual battle front We visited with the
jOfficers for a little while in a rather
fine chateau, then went to a well con
structed glass bottle factory for a
service, ft was a bitterly cold day
and the factory floor was of cement.
There were no chairs of any kind.
We improvised & sort of pulpit out of
a coup e of boxes and draped it with
the church .flag and the 'stars and
( stripes. The soldiers and officers
'' stood up during the service in the
form of a hollow square. But it was
so bitterly cold that it was an act of
mercy to cut te . service to the short
est possible time. . . -,
Religion Under Difficulties.
"I suspect it is possible to be re
ligious very much easier in churches
like the first church with its organ,
choir, comfortable seats, sad satis
factory temperature, and ha hallow
ed surwmndings and memories that it
is under the circumstances I have
been recounting,
"Of course we gave a short word
of good cheef and tried to show the
b)yt that the life of the spirit was
after all, the. really vital thing. The
next Sunday morning I went to an
other community to conduct a ser
i vice The hut where the tcrvice.wai
to be held was stone cold, only one
small tove which seemed only to
cmphasiw the coldness ot the rest
of the hut. Possibly. ISO men were
present.' ihe pianist was not pres
ent, so I officiated at that cut-cf-tune
instrument - The choir master was
not present, for there Is ao such be
ing there, so I led the singing. One
man was intending to lead in prayer,
but beffsed to be excused, aavinsr he
did not feel like it, ao I led in prayer,
Some boys in the Tear stopped smok
ing cigarettes at my requeft and we
continued with the service.
. Hold Real Service. '
"Notwithstanding these untoward
surroundings, we had a real service.
. I preached for s few minutes on
"God's Choicest Gift" You see it
was the Sunday before Christmas and
preaching was not difficut to men who
were thinking tenderly of the folks
back home and all the blessed associ
ations which circle around Christ
mas time. We had a tender cheer
in?, even melting time, and almost
forgot the bitter cold. 1 1
"Religion, to be worth anything
at ( all out here under these circum
stances, must be absolutely real and
wonderfully vital.' Those who have
merely a formal religion are badly
off anywhere, and here they must be
desolate.
"When I think of the beautiful Ira
oressive service' you must have had
on Christmas Sunday morning, and
the splendid musical program, pre
: pared by Mr., Carnal for both morn I
ing "and evening, I feel devoutfy
V thankful that the dread hand of war
has not touched our own -beloved
land. But in another way, it has
touched our land, for after all a coun
try is made up not of geographical
divisions, but of the people.
Have Paid the Price. '
. "And already some of our people
have paid the supremest price have
laid down life itself. No man can
do moie and none of us dare offer
. less when we are called on
"I watched recently a triple fun
eral wending its way to the little
cemetery in a near-by town. 1 stood
at the salute as the cortege went by
and uttered an earnest prayer for the
three desolated homes somewhere in
America. Then in thought I gath
ered in the whole of these war-swept
countries and prayed that the pity
ing All-Father might be exceedingly
merciful to all stricken hearts even
in the lands of our enemies. This
, war will be a tradgedy .eccnd only
to Calvary, unless it mean? the end
of all war and. the establishment of
peace among men of good wilL
Kenunaera oi ueaiu.
"We are xonstaatly. reminded that
death is not far from us. The buzt
of a big aeroplane is always a mat
ter of intense interest for it may ob
tain the greatest possible ' menace.
We move about our duties in the day
and retire to oflr rest at n'ght with
' the thought that our times are in
God's hands, and we are cm tent to
have it so. Sometime smce, some
enemy planes passed over us, but ev
idently had ome other objective, for
they did not drop amongst us any of
their death dealing messages. Na
turally we are devoutly diankfuL
"I am glad to report that I am in
- good health and spirits. In a few
, days I shall have passed the middle
point of my six months service
abroad, and I shall more and more
be thinking of resuming my service
with my own people. v
Will Pave Bed Cloud
fced Cloud. Neb.. Jan. 27. ( Special
Telegram.) District Judge Dorsey
. today gave a decision dismissing the
injunction suit by which a number d
taxpayers soum w om mt najw
and aty council restrained from levy,
ing a tax against their property ta
pay for paving in the business dis-
! trie. : . "
COUNTY FOOD CHIEFS
DISCDSSJPROBLEMS
Administrator Wattles Outlines
Work of Committee to Six.
teen Members; Says
Must Enforce Law.
The first meeting of the Douglas
county food administration commit
tee under Chairman Oscar Allen was
held Saturday when State Food Ad
ministrator Wattles outlined the work
to the members at the offices in the
Union Pacific building. Sixteen of the
members .were present for the first
meeting. They were Oscar Allen, A.
M. Jeffrey, David Cole, G. F. Beavers,
Arthur Metz, J. C Robinson. Way
land Magee, W, R. Wood, John
Rosicky, Mrs. F. H. Cole, Martha
Powell, Mrs. Charles Leslie, Mrs. F.
J. Birss, Mrs. Rose Ohms, Mrs. Ids
Hinchett and Mrs. J. C Dahlman.
Mr Wattles told thu committee
members that henceforth they are the
direct representatives of the people of
the United States in this food conser
vation movement, and that they in
dividually have as much authority as
President Wilson himself in enforcing
the law regarding the conservation of
foods He urged them to make them
selves individually feel responsible for
the observance of the laws governing
conservation of foods, and to report
any breech of the law to the admini
stration for immediate action. He
urged them also to keep in touch with
the situation as how closely the hotels
and restaurants are observing ( the
wheatless and meatless regulations
and report these facts.
"Food saving is the most serious
question in the United States today in
its relation to winning the war," said
M IVittlot -anA It 1 nart nf tVi rfutv
kf every tMttti t0 j0 ,n hj, power
to brintr the general oublic to realise
this, and to realize that every bit the
individual saves adds to the sum: total
conserved and thus available for the
soldiers and the allies who are fight
inpr our battles.
"By November 1, last, we had ex
ported all our available supply of ex
portable wheat, and this means that
any that we export between now and
th harvesting of the next crop must
be made available by saving ft. We
are now trying to export 100,000,1)00
bushels to feed the soldiers of the al
lies and make it possible for the allies
to keep up the fight ; We cannot ex
port this unless everyone denies his or
herself some wheat all the time in
order to make up the great total." ,
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Packers1 Slush Fund
Is Used to Stop Probe
Of Big Meat Concerns
(ConHnw tract ra OmJ
tha nickers to control the nation's
i-food supply, long have been charged
oy inc iivb iocn givwcip in urai
mands for governmental Inquiry into
the business. E. C Lasater of Fat
farrias, Tex., a leading figure in the
American National Live, Stock asso
ciation took the stand to tell of con
ferences riaueste-1 bv the packers to
promote better feeling between tne
producing and purcnasing enqs oi tne
business. .
He said little was accomplished, as
the packers were insistent first of all
that the proposed inquiry should be
side tracked entirely, or confined only
to economic questions with all crim
inal aspects eliminated.
. "I told them that if conditions con
tinued unchanged, my' holdings could
go to any man who would pay tne re
maininff indebtedness." he asserted,
"for I did not want to leave my chil
dren a heritage from! which they
could obtain only what they were al
lowed by five outsiders controlling the
. Colin H. Livingstone, represents
tive at Washington for Armour &
Cnmnanv in handling Questions at
fecting their foreign trade and a bus
iness associate of the late Senator
Elkina of West Virginia. Charles W.
Morse and the Guggenhelms'wasjthe
only, other witness during the day.
His testimony naea abruptly wnen
Mr Henev oroduced evidence of S
letter he had written Armour & Com
pany and which was not included in
the correspondence Livingstone tar
nished the commission. One . of the
commissions agents accompanied
Mr. Livingstone to his office to search
I or me missing icucr.
Seven Taken to Jail
For Violating Liquor law
Seven violators of the prohibition
law who still harbor an unquenchable
thirst foi J. Barleycorn, alias whisky,
wines, beer or cordials, diluted or
concentrated, failed to follow tne
straight and narrow oath, and conse-
auentlv were haled into the "hotel-
de-bum" via the Black Maria yester
dav..
the? are charged with unlawful
Dosses.ion of intoxicating: liauor.
The names and addresses of those
arrested vesterdav for illeaal posses
sion of intoxicating liquor, which were
given 10 me ponce, are: jouis co
stein. Sam Ebstein. both living at
2723 Cumins; street: Simon Ebstein
603 South Thirty-first street; Laura
Hanley, 718 North Sixteenth street;
Ella Perkins. 609 North Sixteenth
street; C K. Cornell 123 North Tenth
street and C, J. Graham, Ottnmwa, la.
THE OTC:
HEAVY PENALTY
TO BE IMPOSED
ON ARMY DOCTORS
.
Medical Officers at Camps
Funston and Beauregard Dis
missed; Secretary of War
Recommends More Se
vere Punishment.
(Bf Aaoltc4 Fro.)
Washington, Jan. 27. A heavier
punishment than mere dismissal from
the service was recommended by tne
War department last night for two
army medical officers recently con
victed by courts martial of mistreat
ing sick soldiers.
After reviewing the records, Secre
tary Baker returned them to the trial
courts with the suggestion that! sen
tences , of dismissal be reconsidered
and that more severe penalties be im
posed.
One case was that of First Lieuten
ant John G. Dwyer, medical corps, on
hospital duty at Camp Funston.
evidence brought out at his trial
showed that a soldier in the advanced
stages of pneumonia who reported
for treatment was reprimanded for
failure to salute and sent back to duty.
In fact, it was shown that the doctor
urged that the sick man, who died, a
few days later, he given double duty.
No Koom tor Men.
The other case was . that of First
Lieutenant Charles W. Cole, Camp
Beauregard, in charge of the base hos
pital. An ambulance loaded with sick
men came to the hospital from the
regimental infirmary, it was shown at
the trial, and the officer kept the men
waiting for nearly an hour outside in
the cold tnd rain before he went out
to look at them.
Clancy Is Held
As Prisoner at -'
Camp in France
(CeattniMd frara Fair Otw.)
western front, in France and Belgium,
when Wilhelmstrasse and Potsdam
gave orders to "break through at any
cost." First it was Calais and then
Verdun, with hellfire the full length
bf the line continually in an effort to
find a weak spot in the allied front.
Troops were poured in by thousands
and the world's greatest battles were
staged during that time and Clancy
wis n the midst of it He was a
Texan and a fighter and he never
shirked his duty. . "
. . . mrr: t. r
11 was at vimy riage, wnert von
Hindenbunr made one of his most
trying efforts, that Clancy attached a
silk American flag to his bayonet and
scampered "over the top", with thou
sands of others, fighting for their very
lives and for freedom of the entire
world from militarism. ".!,
Clancy does not speak of this in
cident in his letters,' other than to in
timate he was wounded "somewhere
and put in some time 'at a hospital
where Ambassador rage honored him
with a visit, f But the boys who went
over the top that morning all ld their
bit and the Texan was one of .them. '
Hit By Bursting Shell ,
How far he advanced is not known.
but a bursting shell cut him down in
midst of the charge and he' was re
moved to the rear and later to a base
hosoita!. where he suffered three
months from shell splinters and shock.
The British authorities, in apprecia
tion of the daring of Clancy, permitted
him thereafter to wear a small Am
erican flag on his left sleeve.
This was mighty comforting to the
American fighter, as indicated by the
broad smile which he wore when pic
tures were taken of hhnJater with the
Stars and Stripes he carried over the
top, fvur months before the United
States entered the war.
Shortly after Clancy was dismissed
from the hospital the United States
severed diplomatic relations with
Germany and began to spied up its
program, ihe boys in khaki started
across; men were being recruited here
by thousands to fight under the Stars
and Stripes and when congress
realised that this country's needs in
men could not be filled by voluntary
enlistment the selective army bill was
passed.
i-oves wia uiory.
The Texan appealed to his division
commander for transfer to the Amer
ican expeditionary forces, but was
refused. He was advised that he
might ask for a furlough, return to
the United States and there enlist.
But he could not get a furlough. Eng
land needed men as never before and
Clancy was admittedly 'some fighter.'
But the American could see only
one flag and he was persistent. The
British officers were firm and Clancy,
in a fit of desperation, finally de
clared that under no circumstances
woulu he again fight under the Eng
lish fag as long as his own country
was at war.
That was In June of 1917 and for
the act of insubordination the Texan
was placed in orison to await court
martial He. was tried and found
guilty and sentenced to serve one year
at hard labor. He writes that during
the first three months as a prisoner
he ".vorked from 6 a. m. tc 8 p. m.,
with one and one-half hours for
lunch."
' Why He Is Prisoner.
Clancv. in another letter says in
part: "I think that every man should
be put in a position where he can
exercsise thj best of his ability. This
Is the reason I asked for a transfer to
the American army. It is where I
rightfully belong and 'it is the only
place where I can nut mv heart and
sout into me remaining nomns- vi
thus struggle. But I am a prisoner
because of that
"Yes. I have refused to do another
Sroke until I am transferred to the
American side of the fence. In con
sequence of which I have been put
under sward and remanded for court-
martial. The writer concludes by
TiacoirecDansDoa
OMAHA, M UN DAT, JAINUAKT CT, 191c-.
SUFFMPOLOGlZE
TO WOMAN'S PARTY
Beg Pardon for Former Denial
of Alice Paul's Statement
That Wilson Would Sup
port Amendment.
Bf Axoelatcd hm)
Washington, Jan. 27. As a result
of open support Riven by President
Wilson to the federal suffrage amend
ment resolution recently passed by
the house, the national association
for woman suffrage tonight made
public an open letter of apology to
Miss Alice Paul of the woman's par
ty and to socialists for accusing them
of circulating misleading reports as
to the president s attitude on the
question.
The letter addressed to Miss Paul,
chairman of the woman's party, said
the association had publicly ques
tioned the truth of the statement that
an emissary of Prestden Wilson vis
ited Miss Paul in the Occoquan jail
and promised that the president
would secretly assist the passage of
the resolution and added:
"That the president of the United
States would, under cover, assist a
proposition which he had publicly
arid unqualifiedly repudiated, seemed
to us unworthy of his high office and'
we 'felt justified in defending him
from what seemed an unwarranted
.and unbelievable accusation.
"However,, the president s subse
quent public support of the federal
suffrage amendment, his announce
ment coming on the eve of the vote
in the house of representatives, indi
cates the truth of your original asser
tion and we, therefore, deem it in
cumbent i upon ourselves to apolo-
" ... ....
Copies ot tne letter were sent to
the president and to members of con
gress. Fritzies Flee in
Terror Before
Tommies' Tanks
" i
f1AilMMJ VMM Vrt AtuA
There, on the hill. w don't you see?'
It was quite true, i nere was a wnue
trail of smoke on the slope of Bour-
tnn Si ;it unit Incr a th dark outline-
of a ship emerges from a fog at sea,
here and there a dark crawling mon
stcr was visible.
"Then indeed even the most hard
ened veterans were anxious. 'Good
heavens I These are monsters 1'
TTv,rvm 1nnVH rfnwn the street.
The tanks would have to come down
it if they wished to get through the
village. At the barricade a aiirnal arm
went up. Nobody spoke, everyone
ViM tiir Ur-zth. 'Tanks in front.
They are coming straight toward us,'
was the next message. Their number
was feverishly counted. 'Six,' flus
tered one soldier; eight; nine, i.
,timm,rl lnnrhpr. with fixed CVCS.
T-rtoU. there are more still: thev have
overrun our forward position.
. "The .Silesians duckea tneir neaaa,
for German shells were firing straight
their heads., riurranj une was
and then another and another.
nthr. fiffl, on without a
nt nniu nn, hrard the rattle
e snaffle thatkthey( made, and
iin.' - nlffrt the sweetish
of the sugar-white smoke which
atures breathed, l tie toremost
red like mad with flashes ot
TV., riflemen tn (he barricade
mniA i th nnt like a man
who has caught his toot in tne rail
way and aees the express approach-
Wg . ' "
scurry to tover.
th fir.t tank is so close
that one feels oneself already crushed
and smashed into a pulp. But the
Silesians they showed some smart-
ness fled trom tnetr posts mio mc
houses and gardens. One moment the
village was like an ant's nest on
which a man trod, ana tne next, wnen
every man had touna nis retreat,
everything looked like a place of the
dead.
rt r-t t1, tanlra rame atammnir
Into the village. There are moments
even in the bitterest fight when there
stating that this letter was written
under observation ot a guara.
Friends of Clancy are making every
effort to have htm released from
prison and open the way to htm to
enlist in the American army, x ne
War 'department has been appealed
to, but these appeals have met with
no response. K. K. uiancy, nis orotn-
er. has endeavored to interest execu
tives of the government, through
Governor tapper of Kansas.
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such a-moment in. the midst of the
horror at Fontaine. Was it not amus
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up the high street, where there was
not a single living Sitesian left? It
went up, it went down. It grunted
wickedly from sheer rage because it
could find no victim. The bores of
its small guns snouted around, and
fired as if they could find something
living, but always too high. And so
they went clip-clap up and down the
street; like the festival car at carnival
time. The Silesians peered out into
the side streets. ' As soon as a tank
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showed its snout at a street -corn y
they showered it.wjth bullets. .
Germans Bomb Tanks.
"'But where are the Tommies?'
asked tne of the Silesians. Indeed,
Tommy seemed to have lost his tanks,
for no English infantry ventured into
the village. But was it not suspicious
that the terrible monsters should wan
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have taken amiss under the circum
stance the villager would have fallen
into enemy hands at the first rush. .. ,
"But no, the Silesians began' to
match their wits against the mon-.
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firing and bombing the tank as it
wended its way hither and thither,
probably waiting for infantry which
did not come. The Silesians fired
rifle tul'ets down the barrels of the
tank's guns and threw bombs . into
every aperture. It was finally cap
tured. But if the tank, as no doubt
was tht intention, had been supported
by infantry, the village would have
been taken in the first rush." .
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