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DECEMBER CIRCULATION
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Is the tag still on your shovel?
The home folks now know where the boys are,
just as do the Germans.
German militarists still insist the U-boat will
win the war, but decline to fix a date lor victory.
"Heatltfcs," "meatless,' "wheatless" days in
America mean gloomy days in Berlin.
Men arc to be more gaily clothed say the
' tailors, who have not yet consulted their cus
Some of the boys may have gone to Camp
Cody short on "sand," but that deficiency has long
ago been made up.
Kaiser Wilhelm has handed a few more iron
crosses to his valiant U-boat warriors, but that
is nothing to what they get from the Allied fleets.
Winter's effect on the front is reflected in the
report showing British battle casualties to be
reduced to less than 1,000 a' day. The lult before
the storm.
' Nebraska among the states and Omaha among
the cities lead the nation in Red Cross member
ships, and this is" only part of what we are doing
to help win the war, ,
If the bolshevik had displayed as much energy
fighting Germans as he has expended against
Russians who do not agree with, him, the war
would be nearly over now. i
Secretary Baker's statement is now undergo
ing the acid test of senatorial analysis, and is de
veloping even stronger arguments for the estab
lishment of a central war ministry.
The patriotic pretenses of the Nonpartisan
league have been very effectually disposed of by
the State Council of Defense. Halfway devotion-J
to our country will not avail in this war.
Business failures for January were fewer and
amounts involved less than a year ago, a proof
that war prosperity has been accompanied by
the saving grace of peace time prudence. .
Dun's Review finds the market for shoes and
leather still weak, principally because civilians are
not buying. The editor might have investigated
a little farther, and he would have discovered
the reason for folks not stocking up on shoes.
Consideration (or Enemy Aliens.
Nothing affords a stronger contrast between
the governments of the two countries than the
relative treatment accorded enemy aliens by the
United States and by Germany, In Germany, at
the. beginning of the war, enemy aliens were
promptly interned, and some of them have been
shown but scant courtesy, even being treated as
prisoners of war. It was not , necessary that
they be registered, for the German authorities
already knew the names and addresses, the busi
ness and much of the private affairs of all aliens
within the empire. This knowledge was promptly
actid upon. In the United States, after being at
war with Germany for 10 months, we are just
moving to obtain information as to the number
an4 location of German subjects resident within
our borders. We have no exact knowledge as to
their numbers, their business, their conaections,
or their disposition. Even now we are proceed
ing in such fashion as will discommode these per
sons in the slightest possible way. They will
not be discommoded ftS their business, nor ham
pered to any extent, and finally all information,
.including their names, is to be kept secret. If
this sort of treatment does not impress them with
the most earnest ambition for American citizen
ship, it will be because their contempt for our
easy ways of doing business is too great to permit
them to appreciate the advantages of sovereignty.
Debate on the War Cabinet.
In the senate the debate on the government's
war policy is taking its definite turn. This course
was foreshadowed immediately with the gather
ing of congress in December. Dissatisfaction
with the progress being made had arisen to a
point where expression could no longer be held
back. Just now the situation has been given
something of an acute turn because of the pro
nounced opposition of the president to the plan
for creating a war ministry. Mr. Wilson has
been quoted as saying such a board would inter
fere with his plans. The president stands com
mitted to the system of divided authority and ir
responsibility established under his secretary of
war, whose explanation and defense is now the
topic of criticism. The military affairs committee
of the senate has offered a measure that will not
shear the president of any of his powers, but
which should have the effect of making them the
more effective by securing co-operation and con
trol that Js now impossible. A clearly-drawn
issue is raised, and, while it is expected that the
president's opposition will prevent the enactment
of the committee's measure into law, successful
prosecution of the war will require energetic re
form in both plans and processes. Dissatisfac
tion with the secretary of war does not rest on
partisan bias, but on results achieved. ,
Maupin'i Report on Deming.
Will M. Maflpin, sent by Governor Neville as
a special investigator, to Deming, make a full
report on his four days' inquiry. He found that
the soldiers there are well housed, well fed, and
generally well cared for. Also, that they are
eager to get across the water and into the big
fight. Sanitary conditions in and around the
great camp are as good as can be had under the
conditions.' Health is about what might be looked
for, and the medical service is alert and efficient.
After finding all these things, Mr. Maupin ex
presses the amazement voiced by The Bee and
other papers last summer, that a great camp
should be located at a place like Deming. Cli
matic conditions are such as should have for
bidden the assemblage there of a considerable
body of troops for the training period, and these
can not be changed. If any of the great training
camps is to be abandoned, it should be that at
Camp Cody, as it is least of all adapted by na
ture for such uses.
An American Armada.
bne of the most interesting facts connected
with our recent war activities has passed almost
unnoticed. It is the arrival in France of the
mightiest convoy of transports that has yet passed
the limit set by the kaiser for ocean traffic. Not
only this, but the great armada was made up of
vessels built in Germany and formerly owned by
Germans. At no other point has the weapon of
the war lord been so impressively turned against
him. Headed by the wonderful Leviathan, first
called the Vaterland, the greatest ship ever con
structed, with its capacity of 54,000 tons, carrying
an army on its own bottom, 16 of these once
enemy vessels steamed into a French port, loaded
with men and munitions for Pershing. These
ships were the pride of German commerce, the
finest ever built, and engaged in the lucrative
trade between America and Europe. German
"thoroughness," looking ahead to the possibility
of the United States entering! the war; Ordered
them to be crippled, so that at least three years
would be needed to repair them. This was done
but so little did the Teutonic superman value
Yankee' ability that he merely did what he
thought would baffle his own workmen, and the
result is that in 'less than 10 months after his
wrecking crews had been ordered off the vessels,
they landed in France under American command
and carrying American soldiers. No feat of the
war so far outshines this, ami no blow given the
kaiser has been more effective. It hurts German
pride as well as prospects.
Finland's Peculiar Importance.
More of real importance attaches to Finland
just rfow than appears on the surface. In their
efforts to establish their independence the Finns
are giving the first effective answer of the Baltic
peoples to bolsevism, Anarchy, pure proletarian
ism, does not appeal to the Finn, nor to the Letts,
the Esthonians, the Lithuanians, or others of the
Baltic, tribes, now eager for an opportunity for
what has come to be summed up in the expres
sion, "self determination." - The, racial genius and
aspirations of these peoples finds its expression in
order and in constructive effort. Thus tjhe re
sistance of the Finns to' the attempt of the Rus
sian radicals to enforce anarchy on them is an
effort to retain not only the right of self-government,
but of self-development It is oddly enough
the people who were last to be submerged by
Russian despotism who are now making the most
successful resistance to Russian disorder. Sweden
has acted wisely in keeping hands off in Finland,
trusting to the Finns to take care of themselves.
Occupation of Helsingsfors or any other part of
Finland by the Swedes could only be done with
German assistance at this season, and its effect
would butbe for German advantage. Unless the
Swedes are ready to enter the war as Allies of
the Teutonic group, they are doing well to keep
out of the fuss between the Finns and the bol
sheviki. '
German Unpreparedness ; . :y
Some Vital Things Prussian Junkers Did Not Foresee
Rollin Lynde Hartt
In perhaps the jolliest of his amusing es
says Mr. Bernard G. Richards declares, "Ev
erything has been said, but not everything
has been contradicted," and concerning Ger
man preparedness for war so much has been
said and on the whole so ill said that con
tradiction becomes less a task than a frolic.
When the mood takes him Mr. Chesterton
will haye the lark of a lifetime poking fun
at German "efficiency," German "thorough
ness," German "preparedness." As usual, a
good share of his cleverness will devote it
self to the solemn, truth-conveying business
of twitting on facts. For the supremely im
pressive phenomenon of our day is not Ger
man efficiency. It is not German thorough
ness. It is not German system. It is Ger
man superficiality and self-deception in a
word, German unpreparedness for war.
All the relatively little things Zeppelins,
42-centimeter guns, and the rest Germany
has spent 40 years in amassing. All the big
things she had overlooked. She was pre
pared to begin the war, but not to end it; to
spread the war, but not to limit it; to win
the war by hook or crook, but not to lose it,
and matters have so turned out that this
war of hers runs on indefinitely and grows
less and less manageable and must eventually
be lost. .
An affair of weeks she imagined it would
be. Thanks to overwhelming preponderance
at arms, only a swift triumph could result.
Aber, a huge, fateful aber, when you come
to think of it), she forgot that the prepon
derance at arms might shift to the side of
her foes. Just this is occurring. The hour
has arrived when Ernst Lissauer might sing,
"We have one enemy and one alone
TIME1" Strange emotions must harrow
the souls of those who set off so jauntily for
Paris in August, 1914. They began the war
in the spirit of "On with the dance 1" End
it they cannot. Perhaps sometimes they re
call Hiram's advice to his boy, "Sonny,- never
raise the devil till you're goldurn sure you
can lay him!"
Year by year new enemies arise. They
were not in the reckoning. Italy was to have
fought for Germany, not against her, while
the British empire was supposed to be re
citing, "First in war is first in pieces." With
trouble brewing in Ireland, India, Egypt and
South Africa, how clear that the British em
pire would disintegrate! So argued the Ger
man imperial government, basing its logic
on reports from spies.
The joke of the ages, those spies". They
knew precisely how much money a Belgian
had in the bank and how many bottles of
wine he had in his cellar, and where he hid
the key, but not that Belgium would fight.
They listed French works of art, mapped
French dooryards, and took down the names
of village notables to hold as hostages, but
told their masters the French were "degen
erate." So everywhere. For blazing stu
pidity, where will you find their match un
less possibly among German diplomatists?
in Chicago Tribune.
Just for the prank of it, imagine a German
triumph possible. What would it be worth?
How long would it last? Then, for candor's
sake, declare a German victory impossible,
for so it is. In defeat, how will Germany
fare? What will be the outcome of this un
precedented adventure? .
Woes unutterable shame, impoverish
ment, subjection, ostracism. All those are
in store. Others, maybe, but those without
question. Germany has lost her good name;
not for generations to come will she regain
it if ever. She has lost customers; of what
will "Made in Germany" remind us? Of
the ruthless submarine. Of liquid fire. Of
gas. Of bombs dropped on hospitals.' Of
treachery in time of peace and barbarism in
time of war. Who will want German goods
when he can obtain others? Who will travel
in Germany or study there? It is even doubt
ful if Germany will retain complete independ
ence. Autonomy, perhaps, but not the right
to go armed. And many a long year it will
be before civilization again welcomes Ger
man diplomats. We have known them. One
and all, they were spies.
No doubt we shall continue to hear much
of German preparedness for war of Ger
man thoroughness, German system, German
efficiency. It is to laugh. Fliegende Blatter
was never so comical. Think of those Ger
man boys dashing through Belgium in their
haste to reach Paris, when in reality they
were not going to Paris 1 Think of the
frightfulness which, instead of frightening,
made heroes of even the timorousl Think
of Prince von Buelow wheedling the Italians
by telling them that Dante was a German!
All in all, this is the saddest of wars, but
likewise the funniest. The more you reflect,
the more you come to feel that it justifies
the French definition of humor as "the
laughter that has fled from the heart to the
head."
Whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad, and there is no madness like an
overweening confidence to thoroughness,
method, preparedness and efficiency. No
thoroughness is thorough enough, no method
methodical enough, no preparedness pre
pared enough, no efficiency efficient enough.
War remains what it always was, a contest
not so much of material forces as of spir
itual forces, and these no man can measure.
Germany discounted or misinterpreted or
overlooked them from the first. And the
war she made ready to wage was not a war.
Civilization had defined war. This has
been another thing( quite. Honor, chivalry,
every decent restraint in short, all that dis
tinguishes war from a debauch of crime and
lust and Villainy the German imperial gov
ernment wiped out at the start. Mr, Ches
terton, I presume, would make much of that.
So may I, in my way. And if some reader
finds himself called upon to chide me for
pointing ottt the laughable side of this war
I shall retort, "Why mention war? It never
happened."
Qol Watterson Views the Situation
It' is the nature of Jack-in-office to lord
it and there are divers Jacks-in-office rat
tling round now at Washington. They seek
characteristically to magnify their own im
portance. Thus we have all sorts of ad
monitions to be frugal and to that end many
restrictive regulations upon our productive
industries.
The cant of the hour dwells upon the al
leged virtue of sacrifice. One might fancy
that we are a nation of slackers. Again he
might fancy that we are in a state of siesre.
We are pouring out billions of dollars. We
are organizing to send millions of men, hav
ing sent not a few already., The real need is
expedition.
It is easy t& talk about sacrifice. But
there has been no lack of it. Have the moth
ers at home made no sacrifices brave
though not tearless in seeing their sons off
to the front? They at least should not be
further depressed by the eternal chatter "this
is war." None of us, they least of all, are
going to forget it.
Nor should we punish ourselves by vol
untary privations. Ours is a great and
fruitful. It still flows with wine, milk and
honey. To be strong we must subsist well
surely as well as we can. The home should
not be made a house of want as well as a
house of woe, when the awful lists of the
killed and wounded begin to come from over
the sea. In short, we should lead as far as
possible our normal lives. Work should go
on as usual and likewise play. Jack-in-office,
as we "have seen, would kill the goose that
lays the golden egg by putting business in a
strait jacket. He should be called down
wherever he appears,' but especially in the
national capital, where he wanders at large
and at will, exploiting himself and offending
hL betters.
I know very well what war is. I have
ever in mind and heart the experience and
the memories of four years of drastic war.
Scrrow was brought to every door. Sacrifice
became the common Jot. It was a war of
sections," not a civil war, as it is so often mis
called. To one o the two parties to it its
result brought poverty dire and universal.
All the south got out of it was ruin and
glory. If the north enforced the union
merely to wreck the republic SO years later
on the rocks of centralization, the one-man
power dominant, the blood that was spilled
on both sides was spilled in vain.
I do not believe that it did. Hence it is
that I am not seriously disturbed by the
immediate rowdy-dow in congress. Good,
rather than ill, will come of it. It will serve
to recall the powers that be and the peo
ple as well to the circumstance that we
have a constitution that our government is a
system of checks and balances; a dual sys
tem of federal and state sovereignties: a tri
partite system, executive, legislative and
judicial; each ordained to live, move and
have its being within its particular orbit
clearlv defined by the organic law. .
That politicians play politics is a truism.
It goes without saying. The two old his
toric parties may be dead, as a ragtime New
York newspaper recently pronounced them,,
but their labels their trade-marks survive,
and, having little else to cling to, why should
not the professional officeholding and office
seeking class invoke them in the coming
congressional elections? If I had a vote in
every congressional district of the union
next fall I would cast it in each instance for
the individual candidate and let the trade
mark hang. ,v
The personal controversy between the
president and the Oregon senator is another
matter. I cannot help thinking it the off
spring of a certain isolation which, in his
private relations with public men, the presi
dent too much indulges. The plaint comes
from Washington that he neither gives, nor
receives, confidences. Perhaps this is why
he seems prone to quarrels, nor averse on
occasion to falling out with his friends.
Senator Chamberlain has surely been one
of these. He is of the president's party. He
is moreover chairman of the military com
mittee of the senate. His New York deliver
ance may have been imprudent, but it was
not an attack upon the administration to be
hotly resented and it was wholly within his
right. A chieftain more patient and tactful
may I not say wiser would not have made
a curt, stand-ind-deliver demand upon such
a senator. Indeed, he would not have writ
ten at all the matter too urgent and impor
tantbut would have sent for Mr. Chamber
lain, have heard him, have communed with
him, have prayed with him. He might gent
ly and affectionately have "cussed" him,
that particular form of friendly pressure be
ing sometimes more effectual. An angry
controversy between such persons at this
time is clearly to give aid and comfort to
the enemy and if the president and senator
were mere private citizens the two of them
might regard themselves lucky to escape in
dictments under the espionage act.
We are going to win the war. Never a
quibble about that. To believe otherwise is
to believe the world is ccming to an nd.
Truly otherwise it were not worth living in.
Yet we may not win it "fust off" and "hands
down," and if it be prolonged, parlous times
are ahead for Woodrow Wilson. It were
meanwhile well for him to prepare for them.
He will need all the help he can get The
proposed war cabinet may be premature. But
if he should defeat it now and it becomes
necessary later along he makes in advance
an uncomfortable bed for his administration
to lie in. Nothing short of victory this year
will 'save him, and the party that calls itself
democracy, the coming fail elections, and,
with an opposition house, and maybe a hos
tile senate, the war still going on in 1920,
good-bye to the succession. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
cmnsz
One Year Aso Today in the War.
Congress pressed plana for rapid
expansion of the army and navy.
Germany detained Ambassador Ger
ard In Berlin while waiting for as
surance of Bernstorrf safety.
Announcement of killing of Ameri
can aailor when submarine shelled
boat after sinking British steamer
lavestone. , -
The Day We Celebrate.
John Walter Smith, United States
senator from Maryland, born 71 years
ago.
Simeon E. Baldwin, former gover
nor of Connecticut born at New
Haven, 78 years ago.
This Day In History. -
1779 General Zebulon M. Pike,
who explored a vaat portion of our
western territory, born at Lamber
ton. N. J. Killed at Toronto, April 11.
IS 12. - - ' ,
It 18 Jean Baptlsta Bernadotta,
ona of Napoleon's famous marshal,
ascended the thron of Sweden and
Norway as King Charlea XIV.
1887 The hot blast first aucceaa
fully used In iron making.
1865 Georgetown, 8. G, waa cap
tured by the federal.
' X90J Henry L. Dawes, the Massa
chusetts senator to whom the country
owea the Introduction of the weather
bulletin, died at Plttafleld. Mass. Bom
at Cumington, ilasa., October 10, 18 It.
Just 80 Years Ago Today
Messrs. Ellla, Field and Kennedy,
the board of managers of the Omaha
Gun club, who were entrusted with
the responsibility of putting a check
to the illegal killing of prairie chick
ens, will meet for a discussion of the
nituation tomorrow evening.
The mild weather of last week
brought In a few straggling flocks of
red heads and gunners are rapidly fol
lowing, victims to the fever.
Hennesy, tha young pugilist who
contested with Jimmy Lindsay for the
atate middleweight championship at
the recent Boyd'a opera house exhi
bition, is to fight Charlie Gleaaon, of
St Paul, to a finlBh.
Joseph Nelken haa bought the Ca
sino garden, corner Fourteenth and
Howard, and also the entire stock of
the Omaha club, and proposes to open
the Caaino soon aa a strictly first
clans restaurant and place of resort
C H. Smithy haa returned from a
trip to Denver, accompanied by hia
daughter. ,
Peppery Points
Minneapolis Journal: General
Pershing la running the army in Eu
rope most satisfactorily. But he Is in
JSurope.
St Louis Globe-rmocrat: Europe
is weary of war, that's evident. Three
year of a devil's dance is enough for
any generation.
Baltimore American: In the inter,
est of economy and self-preservation,
no doubt marrie 1 men wou!d be will
ing to agree to clothes without
pockets to nullify the domestic rtght
of search.
: New York World: Nobody can get
much real humor out of war, but the
nearest approach to it thus far seems
to be Theodore Roosevelt's Insistent
demand at Washington ttat every-
i Doay must spean me ifuui.
no circumstances, says Chancellor von
Hertling, will Germany giva up
Alsace-Lorraine. But "men are the
sport of circumstances, when circum
stances seem tha sport of men."
Minneapolis Tribune: The former
head of the shipping board says the
Germans will win this year If the
building of ships is not speeded up.
This Is from the gentlei.ian who did
o little speeding that the president
had to say: "Here's your hat; must
you go?" . ,
. Brooklyn Eagle: While beef on
the hoof advanced 17 per cent the
packers hid the hides and rOced from
them an advance of 85 per cent. The
price of shoes has Jumped. Tanners
have been 'held p. But the reliable
old beef trost goea right ahead beating-
the people at the gam t Hvintr.
State Press Comments
Hastings Tribune: Any nimrod who
has ever hunted In the sandhills of
Nebraska will testify that he has never
heard of a failure of the sandbur crop.
Beatrice Express: The food ad
ministration haa made It plain that
Nebraskans must eat Nebraska corn.
Residents of Nebraska ought to at
least be able to eat their own prod
ucts. Harvard Courier: Farmers within
a radius of 50 miles of Omaha are us
ing motor trucks to deliver their hogs
to market The hogs reach market
in better condition than when they are
delivered by rail.
Pierce County Leader: The Catholic
and Lutheran schools of Osmond have
discontinued the teaching of German
in their Schools. Surely If these
schools can do this, why can't they do
it in the English schools In Pierce?
A little more patriotism and not so
much talk at Pierce would be better.
Columbus News: Judging from
several unpleasant happenings this
week on trains and in public places,
it would be prudent for all to cease
talking In public places. These are
strenuous times and a language that
cannot be understood Is apt to cause
suspicion of those within hearing
which may result in argument that
may lead to blows.
Mere Man's Guess.
"What is the lady's age?"
"Tha lady won't give her age. Says
she is thirty-odd."
"Well, if it's an odd number, put
her down at 89."--Kansaa City Journal.
Twice Told Tales
.(True to Tradition.
An English, 'Irish and Scottish sol
dier were returning to camp after a
stroll. They were footsore and tired,
and a kindly farmer on his way home
from market gave them a lift on the
road. '
The soldiers were very grateful and
wished to reward the farmer for. his
kindness.
Said the Englishman: "Let's stand
him a drink!" -
."Sure," said Pat "that Is agin the
law. Let's give him some baccy!"
"Hoot ma laddies!" interjected the
Scot. "Don't be extravagant Let's
shake hands with the mon and wish
him good nlcht" London Tit-Bits.
Andy's Comc-Back.
Andrew Carnegie was once asked
which he considered , tw be the most
Important factor In industry labor,
capital or brains? The -canny Scot
replied with a) merry twin k la In his
eye:
"Which Is the most important leg
of a three-legged stool ?" Christian
Register. , .
, Hint to. Mother.
The feeling of superiority In the
sterner sex is inborn. ... .
"Mamma, do you think you 11 go to
heaven?" said Jack, looking thought
fully into his mother's face.,
"Yes. dear, if I'm good,' said his
mother cautiously, wondering what
was coming next. - -
'Then please be good, for papa and
I would be so lonesome without you.
Philadelphia Ledeer.'
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Why Leach "Pulled the Pin."
Norfolk, Neb., Jan. 10. To the
Editor of The Bee: I am somewhat
amused to see In your issue of Jan
uary 22, under the heading "Just
Politics," that a Mr. Lewis has been
moved to take up the cudgel in de
fense of Mr. Walter Johnson, to whom
my letter of the 9th was addressed.
Mr. Lewis asks how I managed to
"pull the pin and make the flying
switch," etc. Any railroad man would
tell him that it is only a matter of
getting sufHcient slack between the
ca and the engine at the right time
and giving one strong pujl, and the
thing is done.
My reasons, however, were not the
ones tited by Mr. Lewis, either on ac
count of the class legislation, or the
other. I fail to see, however, how the
legislation in the interest of the pluto
cratic one-flfth of railroad workers,
the benefit of which to the majority of
men in the train service could be rep
resented by a large, opulent cipher
with the rim removed, can be so in
jurious to the poverty-stricken four
fifths, aa the amount they have had to
pay in Increased freight rates on com
modities on account of it can be rep
resented by the same figure, the rail
roads never having been granted the
increases in rates asked for to offset
the effects of the so-called "Adamson
As to the "he kept us out of war"
slogan, I am willing to leave that to
the patriots wh se political ox is being
gored at this time, and who might be
likened to the Irish Immigrant who,
on landing at Ellis island and being
asked his political faith, said, "I don't
know, but I'm agin the government"
1 A. M. LEACH.
Frederick and America.
Omaha, Feb. 3 Editor of The Bee:
In a recent letter signed Karl Aldrlch,
there is one statement in particular in
which he completely overreaches
himself. To quote: "The democracy of
America, assisted by that of western
Europe, under the leadership of La
fayette of France and Frederick the
Great of Prussia, won our indepen
dence." Is that a correct statement?
Wonder where he got it? Imported?
Or, gotten at some German parochial
school where Germanism is exalted at
the expense of Americanism ? ' Such
an absurd and unfounded statement
would have been gotten at no Ameri
can school, public or private.
The American people are not so
dense as they may appear to be on
short acquaintance. And they are not
so ignorant either as not to know who
fought for and won their own politi
cal independence. They did it them
selves. They did it, not under the
leadership of any foreign or set of
foreigners, but under the leadership
of General George Washington, ai d
without whom, what with the tories
and traitors, the copperheads and
pacifists, of the time, together with the
destitution of supplies, coupled with
broken down finances, the war of In
dependence would hardly have sue-
Of the foreigners In the service, the
most distinguished and who stands
alone was Lafayette. He, in addition
to personal service, gave liberally of
til nrlvnfn means to aunnlv the armv.
The erilightened despot of Prussia, not
only wasn't anywhere In sight either
in person or by proxy, but never en
tertained the (foolish, from hia view
point) motion of giving any sort of
support to a body of political ideas
diametrically opposed to those of
which he himself was a chief bene
ficiary. Would the great Frederick
(called "great" because by a series of
outrageous conquests he put his Prus
sia upon the map) subscribe to the
declaration of 1776? Let the robbery
and ravishments of other peoples, let
the shameful partition of Poland bear
witness. But we are told by hia biog
raphers that he admired and appre
ciated the greatness of Washington.
Oh, yes, so did Napoleon Bonaparte.
Frederick Is said to have been in
terested in the revolt of the English
colonies. He was that But we are
not told by his sponsors whether it
was a disinterested interest so to
speak, or not That he really was In
terested to some extent Is a matter of
fact That the motive which
prompted this interest waa partly, if
not wholly, aictatea Dy nis oiuer
hatred of the government of George
III, for having "double-crossed" htm
in the seven years' war (our French
and Indian war) is beyond question.
The attempt by apostles of German
ism to habilitate old Frederick the
Great as being identified with Ameri
can independence is nothing but bosh
merely pro-German tommyrotl
B. EVANS.
CHEERY CHAFF.
"Did you hav a bard time with the cus
tom a people when you landed?"
"I ebould cay o! After the Inspectors
got through with our baggage the first
thing when we got out on the pier, we were
met by a searching rain." Baltimore Amer
ican. "What sort of a man Is Green T"
"Fine. The best ever."
"Is he trustworthy?"
"Very."
"Would you lend money to him?"
"Aa to that I can't say. I've never lent
him any. I've only borrowed trim him."
Detroit Free Proas.
Mrs. Lushman (at 1 a. m..) Well, you're
a beauty, I must say. "O wad some power
the giftie gle us to see oursel's aa liners
see us."
Lushman Zat sot Shay, If some pow
er' d make you shee yersel as I shoe ye, ye'd
think ye waszh lookln' at a bloomin' freak.
Boston Transcript
"Things have changed In recent yeara."
"Yes." replied Farmer Corn tassel. "It Isn't
so long since It was hard to keep the boys
on the farm. Now I shouldn't be surprised
to see a whole lnt of city boys coming to
the country to make their fortunes." Wash
ington Star.
"Where's the property Aan?, We'll need
some stalactites 1 the second act."
"No tights In my op'ry house," declared
the riunkwlle manager. "I've never allowed
"em and I never will." Louisville Courier
Journal.
"Jones has an automobile, a motor boat,
an aeroplane and a special train, but when
he Joined an amateur theattrlcal company
what part do you suppos they gave him?"
"What part?"
"That of a walking gentleman." Balti
more Amorli-iin. j
, Jones Hut. my dear, we can't afford an
automobile.
Mrs. Jones f know that, but I want to
show that ttuck-up Mrs. Brown that we
can have things we can't afford just aa wel
as they can. Boston Transcript
"Does the moon remind you of any
thing?" he asked, sentimentally, think
ing of their courtship days.
'Tes.' said his wife.
"What?"' he asked.
"You," she said, "on club night'' Bos
ton Transcript.
''I am afraid, my dear young friend,
that I am losing my grip."
"Don't sajr that, professor. Why, your
address baa been holding attention from the
start."
"But I am losing myv grip, I tell you.
I saw the porter give It to -the wrong man."
Baltimore American.
Sidelights on the War
i...llflti anMlprfl in the field h&v
AUDI!
contributed J500.000 to the Common
wealth War loan.
With armor and guns complete, tne
cost of a British "tank," as used on
the western front. Is $25,000.
Up to the beginning of this year
the German troops captured by the
British totalled about 178,000.
Free letter paper supplied the Brit
ish troops by the Church army huts
in France and Flanders costs 175,000
a year.
The German postal authorities are
organizing a telephone service be
tween all the large cities and the
army fronts.
The average number of letters cen
sored each day In the London Postal ;
Censorship department is 375,51.,
weighing about four tons. i
One of the conditions of enlistment ,
in the famous French Foreign legion
is that in any fighting the legion shall i
lead any "forlorn hope'V the French
army may be called upon to carry
out.
The Graves committee, with head
quarters in London, understakes to
furnish the relatives of British sol
diers killed-in action with informa
tion as to the burial place of the de
parted hero and a photogra.'- of the
grave, whenever obtainable.
Virtually all military aviators ac.
tively engaged in the war have mas
cots to safeguard them in their flights.
If they did not, air casualties would
be far heavier; at least, that is the
opinion of ever genuine flying man,
and particularly every "old hand" at
the game.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
Hats off to the volunteers!
Brighter each downing their worth appears.
How like the minute-men called of old.
Left they the plow In the steaming mold.
The flock far astray or unfed In the fold;
The cot to the prowler's malignant brand.
Wife and babe to his stealthy hand.
Sweetheart a-weeplng and bride unwed.
The fevored a-dying. unburled the dead,
As seaward and hellward the grim ranks
sped.
Woe be to him who encounters their wrath!
Mad the black Hun that would block their
path!
Hell could not stop them nor Heaven slow.
When out rang the bugle note: "Ga,
boys, go!" !
Hats off to the volunteers!
Thelr's the full glory In after years,
When the homeland shall ring with oar
welcoming cheers.
Bunker Hill dwindles and Bull Run fades
When we measure the rush of our mad
brigades
Leaping like rock from a mountain wall.
Like avalanche roaring elate with Its fanV
They hurled themselves Into It, hearts,
souls, all.
Nor paused for equipment snatched each I
hia gun,
Hatless, costless or wind or sun;
Barefooted, half of them, 'mid the snew,
Eager to find but the trail of the foe, :
Nothing could daunt them their watch- , r
word, "Go!"
Hats off to the volunteers!
Brighter each moment their fame appears.
Hall them, Columbia! Kiss their feet!
Know they have saved you disgrace an
defeat '
Doom, it may be, and a winding sheet.
Know that this handful of men alone ,
Hearts of fire 'mid hearts of atone
Spared you the lash and the bondman'
groan.
Foemen had drenched you with crimson
dyes, '
Blotted your stars from tha startled skies.
Trampled your feeble defenders in dust
Hounded your women to death with their
lust,
Tossed your babies on their sportive spears.
Save for this handful of volunteers,
Valued o'er all that the land reveres.
Kneel to them, worship them think what
ye owe!
Set ' them on high o'er such gods as y
know
These who shot hellward when God sail,
"Go!"
MINNIE B. BLAKE.
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