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'IHB KrJ&: UMAHA, MONDAY, , FEBRUARY 4.918.
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(-vii ol realm hob far tjia month, eulisailbsd sad tsars n bt OmiiA
tVUIlaaw, Ctruulatloa Muiaaar.
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ta them. AaMrses chanae1 aa aftaa aa requested.
The Italian come-back seems to have
considerable "kick."
held
is the last of the heatless Mondays,
which the east is duly grateful.
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tact for
, ' Perhaps it is well the detectives delayed their
own quarrel till after the thieves were safely
jailed. .. ... . .,t- , .': ' - -
, Europe still has its "sick man " h-it hi ad
dress is no longer Stamboul. t$l sent to him
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Farm Help for Next Summer. '
One of the immediate problems of the war
is food and even now the president and all his
assistants are urging that farmers make even
greater efforts than before to produce more for
the world to eat. And the farmers lend ready
response to this to the extent of their power.
One serious difficulty is in the way of increased
farm production for this year. A' considerable
proportion of the skilled and . experienced farm
help has been taken into the army. It is not
possible to say how much of this is gone, but it
is known to be enongh to make material dif
ference. This shortage of labor will have to be
supplied from some source and largely from in
experienced men and boys.
Last year the high school boys were suggested
as possible recruits for the farm and rejected be
cause of lack of knowledge. It is now proposed
by a gentleman who is familiar with the topic
in all its bearings that this deficiency can in con
siderable measure be made up by giving the city
boys a little intensive training. . For example,
the boy who wants to help work on the farm
may arrange with a teamster to be given some
insight into the handling of horses, how to feed
and care for' them in the stable, to" harness and
drive them. Another might .go to an implement
warehouse and receive instruction 'as to the oper
ation of farm machinery. These quests could be
carried on out of, school hours1 and without in
terfering with the ordinary work. I n this way
a considerable number of boys might obtain some
understanding of the theory at least of the practi
cal work of the farm. , ;',
It might be well for some one of the many
boards that are now in existence to consider this
suggestion and determine if it has any merit.
It is Certain that if Nebraska farmers turn out
an increased yield for 1918 they will require as
much help as ever, if not more. If the un tapped -resources
of the boys of the state can be ,madc
available it will go far toward solving the prob
lem. ' : . v
Why Working Men Support the War
Prof. John R. Commons, University of Wisconsin.
' Reports from the firing line are to the effect
that our boys are at last doing what they were
sent over to do. ;
More sheep for more wool Is one of the
herns in the farmers' big program. And it de
serves the place, too. . ,
V ' Empty stomachs, empty larders and empty
coal bins are not at all to be satisfied or supplied
by empty promises, even when the, kaiser gives
his word. : , ' :' - f
Premier Lenine is taking a dangerous way to
keep in the' limelight, for one of those bullets may
reach him If he keeps onf. Trotzky s plan of just
riTVtno' Sa far the safer. - ; '
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Whether you did or did not rely on the ground
hog,1 you may feel pretty safe in prognosticating
' kweeW more of winter, for the glad spring
' time does not officially begin until March 21.
'The police and coroner's 'jury have made a
good record on the five desperadoes who killed
a police detectivf after robbing a downtown jew.
elry store in broad daylight. Now let the county
attorney keep the good work going.
.'.''to all this "readjustment of boundaries and lib
c ration of submerged peoples, the Turk gets but
what consolation he can derive from pledges
given by fbe kaiser and the bolsheviki, neither
of whom will have much to say about final terms!
i The; Omaha ( police department, evidently
Meeds a thorough course in discipline. Such out
bursts as that before the , superintendent and
chief on Saturday, docs small credit to the higher
ufticials of the organization, and materially dims
the glory-of what 'was really a good piece of
work.. . ' " ...
i Labor at the Council Table.
That labor as such is to have a considerable
voice in the council to which will be referred the
readjustment of international relationi of the
world after the war is generally admitted now.
It fs therefore both interesting and important to
know just whatj the aims of labor are and what
demlnds will be made. A wide range of pro
gram is presented, varying from that of the bol
sheviki, which looks to absolute rule by the pro
letariat, to that of the French labor unions, which
requires only that labor be given a representative
voic4 in government and that conditions and
urge's for employment be adjusted on an inter,
national basis. -This latter in effect sums up the
program of the new British labor party, although
-'u ambitions- are, more elaborately outlined by
Arthur Henderson, labor member of the British
mperial cabinet.. (In general, the sympathies of
the American labor movement are in accord with
those Tof other countries. ' ;
, Whatever of internationalism is brought about
as part of the coming peace will very likely have
the nature of closer co-ordination between the
labor groups of .the several countries. , For
American industry this means a great deal It is
' not at all likely that standards raised by the war
will be scaled down anywhere and it is quite rea
sonable to expect that actual Improvement will
follow This will bring European standards much
closer to those of America and so benefit both
labor and capital here. That will be one of the
great benefits to come from the world upheaval.
Effect of the Adamson Law.
'. The first report of the commission named 16
study the effect of the Adamson law on railroa
operation, just made, verifies some of the pre
dictions made at the time the law was passed.
Hours of employment in train service have not
generally been reduced by the adoption ol the
eight-hour day, but wages paid the men have'
been increased considerably, Expenses of the
companies , have been increased by $61,000,000.
Practically the only reduction in hours of work
is In the switch yards, where wages are corre
spondingly lower, ' Passenger train service is but
slightly affected and freight train men feel (ho
aw only in increased pay. . Railroads have been
compelled to, practice economies in various ways
to meet the enhanced demands of t,he pay roll.1
The practicability of the eight-hour flay in train
service still is undetermined after a year of oper
ation under the law and the whole, question is
again referred to the Vuture, "The short-hour
work day for trainmen is not in sight, save as a
basis for wage calculation. ..'. - ,
' Nebraska Farmer and the Food Campaign.
Farmers of Nebraska have responded to the
request for more, hogs by agreeing to raise 30
instead of 20 per' cent greater number. This
means something, for Nebraska normally sends
to market around "4,000,000 head 9! hogs each
ear, and a 30 per cent increase in the output
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win go a long aay towarus leeamg tuc army. 11
will provide four-fifths of one hog apiece for each
man-now serving in the army of the United
States. This is only part of the service Nebras
ka'n are ! performing that America may winjn
this war for world freedom. the call for greater
exertion in the field last year was met by enor
mous additions to the com. and spring wheat
planting, with the result that the loss of the win
ter wheat crop was overcome by , the increased
yield of other food grains. - This effort will not
be relaxed during the coming season, and Uncle
Sam can depend on the farmers of Nebraska to
contribute an even greater abundance to the store
of food through industry applied to the land this
year. A hungry world (will not call in vain if
the answer depends on' the Antelope state.
.' John Lawrence Sullivan, unique in the annals
of the sporting world, has answered the call of
the destroyer at last, leaving a record that will
long be conned with interest by followers of his
"peculiar style of play. Thirty-eight years ago
Sullivark suddenly blazed out in the prize ring
sky and .for eleven years his rugged, vigorous
manhood withstood the combined assaults of him
self and others. He Mattered a way to lasting
fame and finally fell before a ypunger, stronger
opponent, as much a victim of his own excesses
as of the, superior prowess of his conqueror.
Morals to be pointed from his. career are many,'
but good sports will think more of "Sully" as a
magnificent bruiser and not so much of hisliff as
a warning to the unwary. ;v
One weak spot in the Berliu tale of a plot to
foment revolution among the, Germans is the alle
gation that Senator Stone was ' its instigator.
Americans will be loath to believe 'that so emi
nent and devoted a pacifist as MGum Shoe Bill"
would ever lend himself to a design of disturbing
the internal affair "of any people, tet alone, the
idealistic relatione between the kaiser and the
Germans. , :, ' ,
Never before has democracy for wage
earnera made so great progress as it has in
the nine months that we have been at war.
If this continues, American labor will come
out of this war with the universal eight-hour
day and with as much power to fix it own
wages, bv its own representatives, as em
ployer nave.
Anybody who says that this is a capital
istic war simply does not see what is going
on. Capitalists are being controlled in their
Erofits and in the wages and hours of la
orers'with the help of leaders whom the
worjeingmen themselves have put on the va
rious war boards.
In no Other war have the government and
organized labor worked together as they are
doing in the United States today. In every
department of government that employs labor-of
fixes the price that manufacturers
shall charge, there is a leading official of the
American Federation of Labor on the com
mittee who has as much power as the rep
resentative ot the capitalists.. Ihe president
of the United Mine Workers of America is
assistant (to Garfield, the fuel administrator.
The resident of the Buildinff Trades unions
is on the'. Emergency Construction board for
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uuimmg. inni, a leading organizer 01 ine
American, federation of Labor ts on the
great War Industries board which controls
all kinds of manufacture. A trade unionist
is secretary of labor.
These, and many other trade union offi
cials were' placed there by the trade unions
themselves, because these war boards have
become "vth'e big employers of labor, or be
cause they control the wages that private
employers pay.
All through these industries President
Wilson is enforcing, as fast as the boards
can get to" it, the eight-hour day, as well as
time and one-half for overtime work. More
over, the agreements with labor unions pro
vide that, wage shall be revised upward just
as fast the'eost of living rises.
, j Most important of all the agreements
with : trade unions is that which gives the
same wages and hours to union and non
union workingmen.
J Never before have workinemen taken nart
in the actual management of a war. Never
before, in war ojjn peace, has the voice of
labor in government been so powerful as it is
now in America.
No wonder that the American Federa
tion of Labor, as is shown by the vote at the
recent Buffalo convention, supports the waf
almost unanimously and stands for fighting
it out to the limit. .
Any workingman who refuses to stand by
the great majority of his fellow workers in
their great work for labor, is injuring him
self and his , brothers. A democracy in
which the wage, earner has his share of in
fluence is coming;, and if it does not come as
it should, the reason will be that some wage
earners are misled and don't know democracy
when they see it, or don't support it when
they know it.
A German victory is the only thing that
will set labor back permanently. If Germany
defeats Great Britain, Germany will take
over the British navy. She will then be far
and away the most powerful country in the
world, and we Americans will be compelled
to have a large permanent standing army
and a huge navy to defend ourselves from
sudden attack.
A permanent army and navy large enough
to cope with Germany, besides taking our
boys and our workingmen every year for
military service, means low wages, long
hours ot labor, suppression of labor unions,
repeal of labor legislation on behalf of wom
en and children, suppression of free speech,
and all the hardships that millions of work
ingmen have come to America to escape.
Those socialist who want the working
men in' this country to give in to Germany
are blind and -inconsistent. For when the
socialists of Germany, a year before the war
started, voted for war taxes when other na
tions were unprepared, they violated their
own principles and forced the socialists of
every other nation to fight.
The leading socialists of the world,
Camille-Huysmans, international secretary
of the socialist bureau, in Holland, has said
to the Chicago Daily News that the war de
mands of President Vi!son are identical
with the demands of the international socialists.
The American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy, composed of trade unionists and
socialists, at its meeting in Minneapolis, en
dorsed and repeated these demands. These
are America's aims in the war: Equal rights
of all nations, big and little; no people to
be forced under a government under which
it does not wish to live; freedom of the seas:
a concert of nations to guarantee peace and
justice; limitation of armaments on land and
sea. - 1
Of these aims the greatest is disarma
ment, by limitation of armaments on land
and sea, through international agreement.
Without this labor cannot be free in this or
any other country.
Any socialist in America, however hon
est, who tries to weaken the morale of Amer
ican labor in this great crisis, is simply play
ing the game of the German socialists who
have already sold themselves to the kaiser.
Rather than listen to such socialists, let
American labor join in the magnificent pa
triotism of the American Alliance for Labor
and Democracy. Let them say, with the al
liance, that labor will take its part in con-
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ducting ine war; ana mat me war snail oe
fought to a finish, for upon its success de
pends the freedom and the wages of Ameri
can labor.
4 When a Blizzard Blasts the Battlefront
' Philip Gibbs in London Chronicle.
v There is "a blizzard of snow on the West-1 waiting there on our side and theirs for the
em front, and the melting ice of yesterday 1 call to battle when the spring comes. But
this new fall of snow means a longer respite.
Nature has arranged an armistice m her
white rjatace of neace. and the fighting men
are standing to and waiting with their rifles
(January 7). has harderred again and is
covered deep, .fit is as heavy a snowstorm
as I have seen, "since the inter of 1914 in
France. 1 and there is a wild wind, which
comes moaning and whining across the fields readv. but inactive
with ghostly plaint, crying round the ga- . For a time the war eems to have passed
btes of old houses and wailing through the out of the hands of the armies into those of
bare trees, which are all white again. the statesmen, and powers are nat work
It is, sweeping the surface of the snow- greater than high explosives, if ideas and th6
fields with invisible brooms as though white psychology of nations and the stress of peo
witches were dancing there and raising a pies have any force in the decisions of des
whirl of .flakes in their mad mazurka. Every tiny. Out here the armies in the field are
now! and then the wind flings itself with a waiting for those decisions which one way
shriek against the doors of the barns or the or the other will hold the fate of thousands
warped windows of one old chateau 1 know, .0f mcn. The newspapers that come out to
where a number of officers are as snowbound the dug-outs and the billets, and the -wireless
as if thev were tin winter quarters on the that gives the first clue of what is being said
Island of Kerguelen, and all the bolts ara by our statesmen and the enemy's, provide
rattled as thoueh some anerv soirit wantadii, rnnwrulinn urfiirh frna An rlnrincr rti
to come in where they sit round a log fire, day and night wherever two soldiers have a
saying "What a life I" after long intervals of chance to talk, or the thoughts that go round
Thanks From Commission.
Washington, an. 26. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: The t'nlted States
Civil Service, commission desires to ex
press its appreciation of the asstet
ance it Is receiving from your paper
and from newspapers generally in the
work of recruiting the civil service
under war conditions.
An efficient civil service is vitally
necessary to the successful prosecu
tion of the war. The demand for la
bor of all kinds throughout the coun
try is so great that the tank in.
cumbent upon the commission is a
most difficult one. It is rendered less
bo by the co-operation of the press In
bringing the needs of the civil service
to the attention of the public.
In thus aiding to maintain the effi
ciency of the great civilian army, pub
lishers are rendering a service to the
people of the highest value.
By direction of the commission.
Very respectfully,
JOHN A. M'lLHENNY, President.
Capital and Labor.
Omaha, Feb. 1. To the Editor of
The Bee: Among nearly all classes of
laborers, there is a great demand for
higher wages. This Statement in
familiar to all.
When men who get from $15 to $16
a week strike for higher wages, the
business men claim that (Strikes are
unpatriotic in war times. .
1 So with low wages it is unpatriotic
to clothe and feed his family well and
give his boy sufficient food for his
health and strength.
. The poor man as well as the rich
man fits out his boy so far as he is
able for the future and to protect his
country.
Then if the poor man's son, does not
get the proper food and care, what
kind of a man will he be for the
army? The father works hard under
the condition of toil he is placed 'in,
to earn what he can to make his wife
and children happy until he wears
out Then misery, sorrow and woe
follow the family until death comes
to their relief.
'That is the condition many families
are left in. Statistics show that 95
per cent of the money of the country
is In bank vaults.
Then do you know that all this has
been predicted hundreds of years ago
in the Bible? In the fifth chapter of
James is found the following: "Be
hold, the hire of the laborers who
have reaped down your fields, which
is of you kept back by fraud. 'Crieth;'
and the cries of them which reaped
are entered into the ears of the'Xord
Sabaoth."
Is there not just such hoarding of
money among the rich today? Read
verses one to three inclusive in the
same chapter. Nbtice the last part of
the third verse, '.'Ye have ' heaped
treasure together for the last days."
This shows that the earth's remain
ing days are very few.
GEORGE E. LINDQUIST,
4323 South Eighteenth, South Side.
officers could gain more practical ex
perience and knowledge against the
day we entered war. And, Patricia
Newcomb was permitted In J the
World-Herald's Public Pulse to ridi
cule my statements and the, policy of
officers getting practical training.
Now the senators are trying to put
a "stop commission" between the cabi
net and the president. This is on the
order of the old commerce court be
tween the Interstate Commerce com
mission and the supreme court, presi
dent and congress. It went by the
way. So, in my opinion the policy
board or munition board, should not
be created by congress, and the rep
resentatives of the people; there will
do well, In following the president's
disapproval and not en? 'tithe law.
May I make one other statement,
so in the future I may again say "I
told you so." It is with refrenee to
the British laborites' so called peace
terms, in the one proposing interna
tional administration of the African
colonies. Under Wilson's league of
nations, modeded on our federation of
states, this problem certainly could be
handled as the Philippines are noW
for America. And such a policy to
develop Africa would give the oppor
tunity for the return of the negro
from America with his 400 years' im- (,
pressions of Caucasian training to be
come leaders of the black race in
Africa. In the forecast of 1918
events, Gabriel Netth, the reader of
the stars, prophesies in the latter part
of the year the negro problem wil
be given a uolutioit. May we not ac
cept the British labor peace terms
offer, and rid ourselves of this vexa
tions situation In the south.
J. C. CROS3. ,
LINES TO A LAUGH.
silence' and Unutterable thoughts.
Outside the snbw has united across tha
roads, and a flurry of flakes is following the
dispatch riders, who must get somehow be
tween one headquarters and another. I met
one on the road this morning, and he looked
like Father Christmas in war time, with an
ermine jnantle on his back and a white crown
on his head, and his dispatch bag plastered
with snow, and every spoke of his motor
cycle thick with it. -
A lonely camp he passed was like a scene
in northern China, ' or what I should
imagine it to be, and among the snowcovered
sheds a number of Chinese labourers who,
by the' oddest freak of fate, have come to the
edge of this 'western war were standing
about snowclad above their overalls and
blankets, smiling in their sphinx-like way
into the face of the blizzard.
Lorry columns went ploughing through
the 'snowdrifts to the ration dumps, and
soldiers' became snow-sweepers to clear the
way of the roads, and liked their job so that
they were whistling to the tune of the wind
which whipped the blood to their cheeks.
1 here ts not much war in progress except
in the air. where on ootn sides pianes are
out trying to get photographs of the enemy's
lines, because, though the snow hides some
things, it tells many secrets where it has
melted above the dug-outs, and where tracks
of feet go p to certain places, and where
guns have been hidden by arttul camouflage.
So up in the air waf goes on, where our
flvine fellows, find it hard to get the touch
of their machine-guns because an ungloved
hand is like a block of ice, but where every
day they challenge the enemy to single com
bat or squadron encounters, and lately have
had the luck to drive many of them down.
Broken aeroplanes look like dead blackbirds
on the snowfields as I saw them'a year ago
on the Sbmme battlefields, before the Ger
man retreat.
On that" ground war has called a truce
because of the snow, except for bursts of ar
tillery fire on both sides as a demonstration
of the mighty power of destruction-which is
and round the men's heads when they are
alone and silent.
Is it not natural that they should be
more eager for news than the people who
get their papers at the breakfast tables at
home? For the headlines that will be
printed during the next few weeks will tell
the men what battles must be fought by
them, when the snow melts and the thaw
dries, or what has been won or what lost by
all they these fighting men of ours have
done and suffered,
A British "Oil Boom"
Polluted well water of long standing at
the market town of RamJey, near Peter
borough, England, prompted one well owner
to dig for the cause. He struck oil in short
order and created a boom and a mystery.
Another well also yielded oil. Pumpings
from both, averaging 500 gallons a day, sold
on the spot for two shillings the gallon, and
burned in lamps like ordinary illuminating
oil.
Speculators jumped at the find rather
cautiously. They lacked the sporting spirit
of Kansas and Oklahoma boomers. One
ventured a 5 note for a share iiua well and
asked 1000 for his interest next morning.
Nothirtsr doing. The game wasn't ripe
enough for plungers.
Official tests of the oil deepened the
mystery. They showed the oil was already
refined, carrvinir a soecific gravity of 8.09,
which is the gravity of refined oil. . One of
the testers, whose opinion was flouted, of
fered a bet ot isou mat me 011 was not
nautral oil. No takers.
The present conclusion seems to be that
the oil is due to leakage from some unknown
source. There are no oil tanks in Ramsey
or Peterborough town and the source of the
leak, if such it is, must be at a greater dis
tance. Lucky well owners are not worrying
about the source. With all the zeal of gold
diggers they stick to the pumps and rake in
the shillings from eager buyers of the fluid.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Germany released upon demand
Amerlugtns taken prisoner by Ger
man itea raiders. -
President WIU0.1 asked all neutral
governments to take common action
with United States in severing rela
tions with Germany.
The Day We Celebrate.
J. W. Marshal of the Otto Gas
Knsine Works, born It 62.
Uear Admiral William L. Rodger,
V. 8. N., born in the District of Colum
bia, 58 years ago.
George Brandes. Denmark's fore
most man of letters, born in Copen
hagen, 76 years ago. ' -
Jean Rlchepln, famous French poet,
born tn Algeria, t years ago.
John Mitchell, labor leader and
food administrator of the state of
Xew Tork, born at Brmidwood, 111 it
years ago.
Bishop William F. McDowell of the
. Methodist Eoiiiconal church, born at
MHIersburg, O., 60 years ago.
This Day In History.
1620 David C. Broderick. United
States senator from California, born
in Washington. d. C. Mortally
wounded in a duel with Judge David
8. Terry, September 16, 1859.
1861 Peace conference of Cvepotn
mlssioners from each state jfcsem-
bled in Washington, D. C.
Just 80 Years Ago Today
' Colonel and Mrs. Henry gave a din
ner party at the Paxton to Mr. and
Mrs. J. N. II. Fatrick and 1). V.
Patrick.-. -t, ' ' ' .-.
. A good crowd assembled in the
hall above the Turf Exchange to wit-
I "I
hess
J. Clarke
Omaha, .
Miss Wakeley gave a very elegant
party at her home, 607 North Nine
teenth street, tn honor of her friend
and guest. Miss Thrall. . - .
Frank Moore of St Louis, the
former schoolmate of K. C. Barton,
is visiting the latter.
Dr. Cannon entertained the .Whist
club. ,
Max Meyer and brothers, together
with their numerous employes, held
a most' joyous levee In Julius Meyer's
rooms in honor of Charlie Stevens,
1 86 8 Conmress Massed an rrt oro- i who is about to launch forth in busl-
hibitlAg any further reductit f the! nesa as a member of the new arm of
.urrtner " Alfred Meinberg fc Co.
a wrestling match between H.J
arke and R. C. Williams, both ot
, Twice Told Tales ;
. The Limit.
An official who was making up an
assesment roll because of some re
cent street Improvements called at
each house on the improved streets
to learn the names of the property
owners. At one house he climbed out
ot his car, went to the ' door and
knocked.
"Who owns this property?" he
asked. :
. "Why, I do," the woman answered.
The official got her name and put
it down In his book. Then he took
a squint at the size of the lot. t
"How many feet?" he asked.
"Two, of course!" the woman snap
ped, wondering whether he thought
she was, a centipede. Indianapolis
News. . , .... . 1
The. Ready Answer.
One afternoon. a man was traveling
through a country district when , he
With State Editors
"Hurray for Hoover!" Shouts the
alliterative Blue ,, Valley Blade. The
cause? Omission of chicken and buck
wheat cakes and 'lasses from the eat
less regulations. The Blade may ex
claim with ' Florence, "I'm a . P. I
G-er," perfectly independent gentle
man!" -
Stromsburg Newsin a philosophic
mood observes that "the man who ia
always kicking because things are not
right in town, and then kicks as
vigorously when some one undertakes
to better conditions, is an individual
who ought to be declared a public
nuisance." - Also canned!
Nebraska City Press from .its lofty
perch on the West Side visions a
sinuous boose route through the Iowa
bottoms. Heaven and the sleuths for
bid! Who in Nebraska City-thirsteth
enough to tackle Missouri 40-rod
Aharva inn nt h HmemlH Tala : "':" '
carting water from a river to a near- Norfolk News, "the world's greatest
by village, interested, the man began country dally." grew somewhat per
to question him. . I sonal rec.ntly and insinuated in print
"How long, comrade." said he. I that the brand of corn bread baked
"have vou been haulincr water from 1 at the editor s home never tickled his
that river?" ,
"Most ivery day for tin years, sor,"
answered Pat. halting to give his
horse a rest "Four loads a day."
"Think ' of it!" responded the
stranger. . "How much water do you
suppose you have carted away In that
time?" f
"Shure. an thot's an easy wan,"
smiled Pat. with a wave of his hand
toward the river. "All thot yes don't
ee there . now." Philadelphia Tele
graun. ,
appetite, or . something like that
Things began to happen before the
press could be ..topped. Sanctity of
editorial hearths forbid mentioning
the details. It is nough to quote the
editor's ; .nitential psalm: "Far be it
from me to say just what happened.
I'm not complaining or anything, but
I know when enough ia enough, an!
when a girl has a line of blood that
comes from a grandfather by the
name of Mulholland " Oh, well, tet
it go at that!
Peppery Points
St Louis Globe-Demotrat: Bol
sheviki are having their first practical
experience of making political dreams
fit humanity.
New Tork World: When we speak
of ''Victory Bread" we mean for one
thing notice to Berlin that we are
after a whole, loaf.
"Washington Poet: If Bill Hohen
sollern is gambling on the failure of
the United States, somebody is put
ting him up against a shell game.
' Brooklyn Eagle: It must be pain
ful to the kaiser to have a man named
Schwab toll how Schwab's shells made
t kill Huns number 50 per cent more
than Krupp can make.
Minneapolis Journal: The service
flag of vthe United Mine Workers of
America contains 19,135 stars. That's
one good reason why it is necessary
and proper to conserve coal.
Minneapolis Tribune: The experts
say- that the cold weather in the
south has killed the boll weevil. It is
likely to destroy the Hesslon fly and
take the heart out of the wheat rust
Everybody take heart
Boston Transcript: Only recently
has the War department begun to pay
the allotments of soldiers attached to
the Tankee division, who sailed for
France last September. Nobody seems
to know why so many month should
lntevene between the time the soldier
makes his allotment and the time that
his family begins to receive the bene
fit of his forethought and unselfish
ness. Red tape is the general excuse
given. Probably it Is, but that par
ticular piece pf red tape ought to be
cut aa soon as possib'" - "
Regulation of Dance Halls. ,
Omaha, Feb. 2. To the Editor of
Xhe Bee: From all I can learn there
seems to be a wide misunderstanding
of the objects sought by the nronosed
abolition or the public dance halls.
I have asked the views of some of
those who are said to be advocating
it and I am told by theni that there
would be little objection to those
places of amusement if they were
properly watched and regulated.
It is contended that the dance halls
are infested with "mashers" and at
tended by women who are more to be
feared than the mashers, and who
deliberately help to lead young girls
astray, and by a class of girls who are
out "for a good time" without regard
to consequences. There are ' also' a
number of respectable Working wom
en who wish to remain such and are
seeking honest recreation, and a num
ber of school girls some with and
some without their parents' knowl
edge. v
It is for the protection of the two
classes last named that regulation of
the dance halls is sought, and falling
proper regulation then their aboli
tion. CITIZEN.
An Ode to T. It.
Grand Island, Neb., Jan. 81. To
the Editor of The Omaha Bee: I, too,
think the attack on Theodore Roose
velt, by Senator Stone entirely , un
called for, and it seems to me coward
ly. The boot must fit beautifully or
things he says would not make them
so angry, and for a "has been" as
they call him, he has a way of hitting
the bullseye, so as to Bpeak, on ques
tions that are of the greatest impor
tance to the American people today.
In my opinion he is the greatest
statesman the world has ever known.
And now they talk about Teddy
Of that smile he has given the
Huns,
When he ia and has always been
ready,
To go over and face their guns.
Don't you. think they are brave the
way they behave
When he offered himself and his
sons.
They bawl like a calf and would make
a horse laugh
For it isn't our Teddy who runs.
It tbey would make him a mate of
the gbod ship of state
And ahold of the rudder he'd lay
He would put up a fight that would
make them see light.
For folly we sure have to pay,
He was always right there when he
sat in the chair.
And that's where we need him to
today. M. E. KROW.
Politics and the War.
Omaha, Jan, 28. To the Edi-
k tor of The Bee: Why is it, that
united states senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska must play politics with
critical situations in our government?
He did so on the munition and neu
trality subjects; again on the subject
of ordnance officials resigning to go
with munition plants about two years
ago; also last spring in the La Follette
incident and armed neutrality, and
last in the issuance of the Garfield or
der for five days conservation of coal
by industries. -
Last spring, someone ' nominated
him for president in 1920. Surely
that person regrets it now when he
observes Hitchcock wanting to wiit
and talk (investigate) for five days,
the necessity of the coal order. He
plainly showed to all his lack of ex
ecutive or administrative ability by
his resolution. It must have been
"wormwood and gall" to him and
others to hear Roosevelt say "do a
thing" then let them talk about it
afterwards," and also remark "what
good has come of all the senate com
mittee investigation of the War de
partment or ordnance bureau?"
Why, Mr. Editor, I wrote to the
World-Herald two years and more
ago advocating that ordnance officials
should be allowed to xesign to go
with munition plants at work on al
lied contracts so that such ordnance
"The traveler frantically begged the man
he found by the wayside to summon all his
flanging energies."
"Was the man hurt or unconscious ?'
"No, but the traveler wanted him to itop
the train." Baltimore American.
"Whatever Induced you te think you Vere
an actress?"
"The reporter alloded to me aa one' re
plied ta lady stiffly, "throughout a murder
trial In which I testified." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
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