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12 THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1918. The Omaha 'Bee DAILY (MORNING y EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EPWARO ROSEWATER - I VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THS BEK PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. Entarad at Omaha pot toffiea saeond-elass matter. TEAMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Br Carrier. Bt Ualt. Bmi4b Mr Mk- lite i.r tmi. M.OU Daily wttkoot Sunday " 1 J M Rmlna ana Bandar " lf " ftatoa wiUxmt Sunday " g 2 m t!d notloa ManVarf'tddnat'w'irrwIarlt la dallwry to Omaha Uaa Clrculalloo Dpartaent MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th aawetated P-as. of -hlcb Tha Bea tt a mrtw ti iclttilJ antitM to tbf bm for publication of all am dinxtrnai rratlltad lo It or not other-1- crMited In thia papa and tlU weal Bjwa HiNUbod Iwretn. All HgUU of cubltcaUoa of OUI apaolal dlapatcata ara alao yaaerrad. - t REMITTANCE Itaatlt hy drift, e a or portal order. Only t-tmt tUaipa totan ta yra-t of amaU aoooanta I'anooal ehatk. axon oo Omaha and tutara ochaata, aot aooeptad. tcaao Paopla't Oaa Bullosa, OFFICES fmtha Tb Baa rMldlof, t htra r..i i,.itu N ki.in M. fit. I)ulr Nt B'k of Coountrca. UdooIo-LlUla Bolldlna. WialilmttoB 1311 Q Bt. CORRESPONDENCE jkiMra n-mtcaUoni Matins W oairs and sdlterial Blatter 10 Omasa Bea, Editorial Department. ' JANUARY CIRCULATION ' 59,964 Daily Sunday, 52,534 imata etrculatlun for tha monts. aubacrlbed and won to U Dwlibl fVilliitna, Circulation Manner. Subacribera leaving tha city should bava Tha Baa mailed 10 tbem. Addraaa chanted aa often aa reqoeatad. 11 ; Wonder what has become of that story about Kitchener being in Petrograd? Temperance In speech as well as in eating and drinking is one of the virtues everybody should acquire. - -.- V ' ' ... , . i Miles of crippled box ears occupying side tracks do not show well for the alleged efficiency of railroad operation under private control i . . r " Back to the old schedule if you want to, but the progressive -big stores say they like the shorter day arrangement and may stick to it. ' t Mobilising the "pinto" bean is all, right, if something be done to keep it from joining the other beans on the top step of the price schedule. Better mechanics for airplane service are be ing called for. When these are supplied, maybe wis will hear less of loss' of life at the training fields.1 ..;.', ' j , 'v General Pershing's report that aviation senr kfc with the army is not especially harardous re ferred to conditions in Francs and not to those prevailing in Texas. Yankee gunners helped French poilus take oyer a nasty German salient, and the team work is' reported to have been excellent Watch these, boys work together for the future. ? American manufacturers have agreed that an after-the-war boycott of German goodwill be of no service to the cause of humanity. In this they are in lme with the people, who are fighting for a ;free chance for everybody. i When Governor Neville calls the extra ses sion of the legislature, what will become of the honorable members who" have accepted other public employment with. nice salaries attached? .Will they be able to hold orto both jobs? K-' - i - I ' . : Omatia' public school children are reported to be slow in subtraction. ' All right; the accom plishment needed to keep up with the procession nowadays is addition, or multiplication, in both of which our youngsters are said to be proficient i The bolshevik is about to experience further taste of German, kultur, as the kaiser needs the food he can only find in the Ukraine. Petrograd may wait until the Teutons are well established in Kiev, Ekaterinoslav and Odessa, where the supplies come from. ' , . Why a Half-Way Suffrage? The threatened ' suit to test the referendum anjl vote on the limited suffrage law enacted by the last Nebraska legislature has been started. Whether the time has passed for attacking the validity of the signatures, pr whether the petition is good or bad, will devolve upon the courts to determine, but The Bee cannot refrain from re stating what it has said before, that it would be far better if the law extending the limited suf frage should be declared unconstitutional, as was recently a similar law enacted in Indiana, and the question put up to Nebraska voters of whole suf frage or none. The prospects are fair that suffrage by na tional amendment may receive the approval of congress at its present session, in which event the issue of ratifying the amendment would be projected into our next state election in the choice of members of the legislature to pass on the question. If the suffragists preferred, they could present the same issue in an initiated amendment to our state constitution, whose adop tion would naturally carry with it ratification of the proposetftmendment to the federal consti tution. ' . " . . , " In either event we see nothing to be gained, one way or the other, either by clinging to the half-way suffrage r by introducing the confusion of a referendum upon limited suffrage in "an elec tion, where the real contest is and must be over full suffrage. , . Standardization of Box Cars. - Secretary McAdoo is reported lo be in fayor of building standardized box cart tor the use of American railroads while under government operation. Such a move is in the direction of in creased serviceability, perhaps, and will not re quire very great modification of existing prac tices. For many years the railroads themselves have been moving in the direction of a standard for equipment, although problems of operation peculiar to each system have been met in a way deemed best by the independent management. Many years ago the Pullman Palace Car company 6ct the example by standardizing its cars and service. The universal gauge for tracks is an other example, while the adoption of certain fixed sizes and measurements for interchangeable parts of equipment has been another. But the produc tion of cars all of one size and capacity has not been undertaken for various reasons. It is as' difficult as to set a single style for locomotives, or for the devices that enter into the handling of trains. Fundamentals are easy to determine, but to establish a rule for their application might have the effect of checking improvement Ameri can railroad practice has generally been in. the di rection of economy of operation, of hauling the biggest loads for the least monev. and the aro eminent director, well aware of this, may do well not to attempt any extensive experimentation. Lloyd. George Wins Again.-, The storm in the British Parliament has quieted down, and the war cabinet holds on to power. This is gratifying in a considerable de gree, for it shows the British are not going to allow their attention to be diverted from the main point by nonessentials injected into the probfem for political reasons only. Lloyd George fairly met his critics in the labor conference,, when he frankly told a heckler that the government is the people's and if the people want a change they can make it He expressed than a readiness to go to the country at any time the country wanted an election. In Commons Bonar Law answered a similar question in a similar way. This coura geous attitude of the ministers, who have been quite as frank in discussing accomplishments as in outlining aims, has won for' them support which means that for the time Great Britain's partin the war will be as vigorously prosecuted as it has been at any time. With no change in the cabinet and none in the command of the army, the empire is ready for the spring drive. Conviction of Bolo Pasha. The conviction of Bolo Pasha and two of his associate conspirators by a French court brings to a termination one of the phases of the great German intrigue, planned to accomplish what the armies of the kaiser could not. Bolo, as agent of the German foreign office, was .bountifully fi nanced, his mission being to corrupt men and women of influence, to undermine the French spirit at home, and to destroy the morale of the people. He succeeded in enlisting men high in public life in France, and much of the political turmoil that has disturbed that country within the last two years is traceable to his operations. But a patriotic group of statesmen and journalists fought against the insidious efforts to poison the mind of the people and weaken their will, until finally the conspirators were discovered. Bolo Pasha will pay Jor his work with his life; others tried Vith .him will be also punished, while Cail laux, once premier of. France, and Malvy, poli tician and journalist, are yet to be tried. France is cleaning up the mess made by the Berlin in triguers, but only by ridding the world of the in struments. This but scotches and does not kill the snake. In America as well as in France these agents of Germany have been found busy. Our government hat disposed of several, but must be forever on the lookout '.,...' " Retrogression in Base Ball. National league magnates in annual conclave have taken a step backward, resolving among themselves that hereafter the public will not be advised of offers made to ball players. This is serious; it, amounts' fp an invasibnlof . a .right which, if not vested, at least is sacrt'i''r.SrralLwe be deprived of tur , winter pleasure by having withheld .from us the information that the Never 7 sweats have offered Boriehead Bill, the world's champion backstop, a king's ransom to disport his talents for . the fans in a Neversweat uni form? Or will we never again hear that the Wolves have sold Pirate Pete, to the Mastodons for three times his weight in Liberty bonds? And when it comes to considering the exciting jnews. that Southpaw Slim, has declined to accept a meager million as his season's honorarium on behalf of the Diggers are we no longer to have that joy wherewith to ttay ourselves while wait ing for the new season to open? The reaction aries, who seem to be in control, should be warned in time. The public hat tome rightt and one of the dearest it that of talking about sala ries paid ball players and the rivalry of team own ers in quest of star performers. A warning to all is contained in the experience of the Montreal holocaust Every possible safe guard . should be thrown around hospitals and nurseries, no matter under what management or control. ' '' ' ':" " ''"'' Lloyd George and His Questionaire British Prime Minister Answers Questions From Labor Delegates At the conclusion of his "go on or go un der" speech before the full conference of la bor delegates in London, January 18, Premier Lloyd George' invited questions from members on any points they desired more light. A series of searching questions followed and the answer of the prime min ister, printed verbatim in-the London Chron icle, deal concisely with vital issues of the world war. The following are reproduced as typical of all: A Delegate: Did not the prime minister think it was advisable to enter into negotia tions with the Germans when they were al leged to be whining and squealing for peace? Mr. Lloyd George: The Germans have always been ready for peace at their own price, but that is not a price we are prepared to pay them. We have not been prepared to pay it in the past, and we are not prepared to pay it now., That, I am confident, is the opinion of the people of this country. The moment the Germans show a disposition to negotiate peace on equitable terms the terms have been stated, and they are terms which the labor party itself in substance adopted then there will be no reluctance to enter into peace negotiations. A Delegate; Do I Understand the prime minister to state that the acceptance of the allies terms of peace is a necessary condi tion Of calling a peace conference? Mr. Lloyd George: It is a very difficult problem for any government to decide the moment at which it is desirable to enter into a peace conference. You may enter into it at one moment and find you have put your head into a noose, My own personal view is that it is not desirable to enter into a peace confetence until you see that there is a fair chance of emerging out of it with a satisfactory settlement I am firmly con vinced from the attitude of the leaders of the German government at the present mo ment, that if you entered a peace conference it would not result in anything like anCquit able understanding. In that case it would aggravate matters instead of improving them. . A Delegate: In President Wilson's speech there is a reference to the freedom of the seas. Are the views expressed by Presi dent Wilson the views of our government? Mr. Lloyd George: I want to know what freedom of the seas means. Does it mean freedom from submarines and does it mean starvation for this country? After all, we are in a very different position from America or Germany or France, or any other con tinental country. We are an island, and we must scrutinize with the very greatest care any proposal that might impair our ability to protect our lines of communication across the seas. Freedom of the seas is a very elastic term. There is a sense in which we would rejoice to accept it, but we must guard very carefully against any attempt to inter fere with the capacity to protect our shores rand our shipping that has alone enabled us even to exist up to the present moment. A Delegate: With a view to proving the sincerity of our claims to be fighting for democracy, will the prime minister give an assurance that the wealth of this country will be conscripted, and that maximum in comes will be instituted in order that we may have an economic democracy? Mr. Lloyd George: I suppose that would apply to workshops as well? (Hear, hear.) If there is going to be equality all round it will beequality in all sections and classes. I am very glad to know that is the view, al though I do not observe that that is received with the same general cheer as the first prop osition. (Laughter). Let me point this out to my frined. In no country and in no war has wealth been as heayily taxed for war pur pses as in this country. Even at this mo ment the taxation of wealth is higher here than in any other belligerent country, not even excluding Germany; and if he will just look at all the budgets of the world, past and present, he will find we have gone further on that road than any other country. I do not say that we have come to the end of the path yet. . A '.Delegate: Arising out of the prime minister's statement on war aims, and the limitation of armaments, is he prepared to give this assembly an undertaking irom the governments that the whobj, productions of armaments in this country will be national ized and we shall cease to have profiteering in these engines of warfare? i Mr. Lloyd George: All I can say is that, speaking for myself, I am entirely in sym pathy with that proposition. I do not think there ought to be any pecuniary incentive to encourage armaments in the world, and I am entirely in sympathy with the spirit of that question. ) ' A Delegate: Will the prime minister state that steps will be taken to consolidate the respective war aims of America and the allies in order to present a unified front to the Germans? Mr. Lloyd George: I think. there it a good deal to be said for that suggestionTWe did hope to be able to do it at the great con ference in Paris, which was held about two months ago. Representatives pf the Rus sian government were corning over, but ac cidents happened to them meanwhile. It was quite impossible to attempt to co-ordinate the war aims of the allies without having repre sentatives of the Russian government pres ent A 'good many of our difficulties arose from the demands which' had been put for ward by previous Russian governments. Constantinople was a case in point. We could not have dropped Constantinople as a war aim without the assent of the Russian government I agree with our friend that if there were any doubt at all about the war aims of the allies which have been stated by President Wilson and myself it would be desirable that we should meet, but so far we have had nothing but complete assent. A Delegate: Is it the people of France or the people of Alsace-Lorraine who are com plaining of how they are situated? Mr. Lloyd George: The people of Alsace Lorraine have never ceased to complain, but a very considerable proportion of the popu lation have been forcibly expropriated by the Germans. If you take the real population of Alsace-Lorraine, there is absolutely no doubt at all that the overwhelming mass of them are in favor of being restored to the French flag. Allow me to 'recall a personal incident I remember once crossing over the Vosges into Alsace-Lorraine. It was late at night, and we stopped at a little inn on the French side. Just a mile or two beyond was the German frontier, and the old people who kept the inn told us that every Sunday work ing people and peasants came from the Ger man side over to the French side merely in order to spend Sunday under the French flag. ' A Delegate: Will the prime minister give an undertaking that in the event of the terms of settlement being arrived at, com pulsory military service in this country will be immediately withdrawn? Mr. Lloyd George: It is my hope, and that is really what we are fighting for, that we will establish conditions that will make compulsory service unnecessary not merely in this country but in every country. Unless we succeed in establishing those conditions I personally will not feel that we have achieved one of the most important of our war ains. We want to make this sort of thing impossible again ever. It is not a question of whether you are going to stop it in this country. You must stop it in other countries otherwise you cannot stop it here. We must defend ourselves here, and the first thing for us to do is to put. an end to mili tarism throughout the world. Copper Famine Nears in Germany New York Times. Secretary Baker testified that 63,000,000 shells had been ordered for our use. Nobody knows how many hundred million cartridges will be necessary for our army.. The allies' war orders here totaled $1,308,000,000, in cluding unspecified amounts of copper, which must be had if either bullets or shells are to be fired. Rifle or cannon fire without copper is beyond imagination as much as an army fighting without food. There are substitutes for meat, but none for copper, ft is a singular fact that the world's copper supply, except almost negligible quantities, comes from the countries of the entente allies. Un questionable authority places the output of copper for the world in 1917 at 1,413,056 metric tons. The United States alone sup plied 856,570 tons. Japan supplied 124,306 tons, and no other country supplied as much as 100,090. Germany's annual production be fore the war was 25,308 tons, and is thought to have increased to 45,000 in 1917. In 1913 We supplied Austria, Belgium. Germany, and Holland with 222,658 tons. . To that should be added whatever Germany may have ob tained from its present allies, say 30,000 tons, with whatever old copper was reclaimed for reworking. Altogether, perhaps, Germany had at command, on the estimate of competent au thorities, about 407,000 tons in that normal year. For four years Germany's uses of cop per have been abnormal, .while ordinary sources of supply have been stopped both by war and by difficulties of communication. The accumulation of stocks in industrial plants in the course of trade distribution and industrial, processes may have been 136,000 tons. Being notoriously forehanded in mili tary affairs, Germany and her allies may have had stocks of 100,000 tons of military copper at the declaration of war. .The mine production of the quadruple allies can hardly have exceeded 50,000 tons. It is necessary to suppose that they got their share of the quickened movement of copper in interna tional trade in 1914 and 1915 through Italy, Norway, and Sweden.. Their imports were above their normal, consumption, and it went somewhere at a time when direct shipment to enemies of the entente was not possible. Aggregating these sources and quantities, it is difficult to see where Germany can get enough copper fop her cannon and rifles. It is no secret that it is short. That is sufficiently shown by the manner in which every country to which Germany has access has been stripped of telephone wire, kitchen utensils, church bells, household fittings of every sort Germany has hunted copper as eagerly as impecunious persons search for cigar ends in the gutters. Whatever she has found she has used as occasions have demanded. President Wilson Tias said that" this is the culminating year of war. Only yesterday he spoke of the "final tackle." There are many ways in which it may come by starva tion, by financial collapse, by industrial trou bles, and otherwise. But if the end in those ways is postponed, it only brings nearer the time when the war must end through the ex haustion of Germany's copper. For that J there is no substitute, nor any possibility of setting supplies except in driblets. Cannon must be fed at both ends, and Germany is. short at both ends. It is increasingly dif ficult for her to find "fodder". for the can non of her enemies, or cartridges for her own guns. She can economize in soldiers indefinitely by a war of defense, but the end is not distant when she must begin to economize in ammunition. That will be the last stand, and military observers are remark ing that she is on the offensive only with submarines, while on land she sticks to trenches and leaves artillery initiative to those who can afford it. One Year Ago Today In the War. Railroads of United States tendered resources to the president in event of war. British advanced their positions on both sides of the Ancra along a mile and a. half front v The- Day Wo Celebrate). - William R Butta of the W. R. Butts company, born 1S71. Gorg Kennan. journalist and lec turer, ana a noted authority on Rus sian affairs, born at Norwalk, 0 TJ years ago today. Charles Thomas Main, president 'of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, born at Marblehead, Maes., 63 years ago today. ' - Henry Watterson, one of America'! foremost editor and Journalists, born in Washington, P. C, 78 year ago This Day In History. 1804 -Lieutenant Stephen Decatur burned the captive United States frl rate Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli. - 1857 Dr. Ellsha Kent Kane, who discovered the north Polar sea, died at Havana, Cuba. Born in Phila delphia, February 20, 1820. 1865 The advanced General Sher , man's army reached the bank of the Congaree river -opposite Columbia, a c. . - , t 1871 Deputies of Alsace-Lorraine made formal protest against the pro posed annexation of their country to Germany, . Just SO Years Ago Today At the Christian church the nup tials of II. - O. Devrles and Miss Klora Cotner .were solemnized. The wedding party Immediately went to the Burlington depot where the happy couple took the 8 o'clock train .for Denver for a trip of several weeks. A. II. Forbes anounces that he will give James Sullivan $25 to epar Pat ; . - Killen four rounds at Tommy Miller's benefit. Chris Specht and wife and son "have returned from a two months' trio to Dossel in Hanover where-Mr. "Specht met many 01 nis 01a scnooi mates ana enjoyed his stay In his. native place, ' William 3. Shannon of St Joseph. Mo., has accepted a position with the Omaha Mill & Elevator company of umana. .. Mrs. -' 3. P. Rowan has " returned from an extended visit with relatives at Missouri valley. Colonel Curtis has returned from Washington where , he had been for ome week visiting hit aged xoaer. Roiled About the States "We' must! YTi will!" - Four emphatic words comprise the war winning motto of the Kearney Hub. Other words frame the motto, but add nothing to its condensed vigor. Clear the track and the Hub room, - Something - has "gone wrong with the Pierce ' County . Leaden' Usually genial, . and truthful, with heart pulsing sympathetically for weak, er ring humanity, the Leader throws the shooting stick at Omaha and inti mates that it la a pretty tough town. Oh, corae out of it! Take a run down this way and . let Omaha Bhow you how Insignificant are a few evil acts beside a multitude of good deeds. . vTekamah Journal la scheduled to change ownership April 1. Van V. Boyce,-late publisher of -the Lydns Sun. takes over the Journal from J. W. Tamplan. ThS"iatter plans a rest and belated recreation after a steady grind of 12 years. Boyce sang in a like key when he sold the Lyons Sun, but soon found that real happiness and the Joy of service could not be nad without the editorial harness. -The" home guards of Hall -county. which means the stay-at-homes, must be up, and doing active service for the nation, elsa the Grand Island In dependent will unllmber Its artillery ana start something, wun auu sons preparing to go over there, the peo pie are expected to back them, up, even though it nurts the pocket The Independent believes 95 per cent of the people line up with the boys and plans, to run the percentage np to Here and There Canada has only two Inhabitants for each mile Of ber vast territory. . Don't complain. United States Steel paid J61;000,000 In Income and ex cess profits, taxes. ; . . ., . For home . consumption Great Britain imports about 30,000,000 pounds of coffee annually. A pig was sold in Chicago for $10, 000. At that rate, a week will soon have seven pOrkless days. , New York still complains of "an array of unemployed." 'When is the government going to '"take over" the unemployed? " Simon Kaiser of Brooklyn, tells how he dropped 85,200 In a gambling house on a "cold deck." There is no more effective way to escape Income taxes. ' , " , . . T ' Chicago dealers were manicuring potatoes, wrapping them in pink pa per and selling them for 8 cents a pound until the government got after them for profiteering.. The govern ment might also Investigate the big red apple situation. .... "Wake up, America;" exclaims "Shellprooff Mack," who went over the top several times and lives to tell about it "About the choicest thing In the form of German Kultur is mustard gaa Any man wno has had a good dose of it and lived feels like going and slaughtering the whole blooming tribe of Teutons. It might be a good plan to give every citizen pt pa-U ted states a "snis of it," Calls for Cars for Corn. Ralston. Ia., Feb. 12. To the Edi tor of The Bee: In large type on the front page of your paper you state: "Hoover urses farmers to get soft corn to market before It spoils in bins." For God's sake 'cut that stuff. The newspapers have advised the farmer from the time he planted this crop up to the present They have advised him how to dp everything on the farm, the farmer has, learned more from the wonderful newspapers this season than he ever gained from practical experience in a lifetime, but you can't make any'one believe it. They have told him to eat a little and raise a lot, but they haven't found a way for him' to dispose of what he has raised. You say Mr. Hoover says to urge the farmer to market this soft corn. Don't make Mr. Hoover look foolish in the eyes of the farmer. Mr. Hoover doesn't urge that, he knows it is unnecessary; he knows that the farmer is the one that knows better than any other that this corn is spoil ing and will be an absolute loss if not marketed at once. Mr. Hoover knows that 75 per cent of the farmers of the middle west are sweating blood right now trying to dispose of this corn. Don't blame the farmer if rot ten railroading makes a loss of 25 per cent of our corn crop. Use your in fluence and energy to get better serv ice in the way of grain cars and get them to market when loaded: E. L. KREGER. Catholics and Their Clergy. Omaha, Feb. 14. To the Editor of The Bee: I am not obliged to Arch bishop Harty and the three Omaha priests who aired their personal views of prohibition "in last Saturday's Bee. The archbishop's labored logic makes me feel sad and disillusioned, for he was, born in America and is new to Omaha citizens. The others are for eign born, and their, records are known to Omaha if not to Nebras kans. We Catholic laymen are dependent for our living upon the good will of our non-Catholic neighbors. Also we must eke out support for all our cjergy. Our neighbors have ever been Inclined to suspect us of being domi nated by our priests: and they have thought of our hierarchy as un-American. We of Nebraska, enacted a pro hibition law. Before voting we had a chance to pass on the deadly "parallel between prohibition of whisky drink ing and prohibition of coffee drinking; we decided to prohibit the booze and when Luther Burbank Invents a cof fee that makes the drinker chase his wife and children with an ax, we. will consider the prohibition of coffee drinking. Why a discussion of the principle of prohibition at this time? It -was good enough for Father Matthew, who was a temperance worker; and it is gopd enough for Cardinal Gibbons in one county in Maryland. But the case is not before the clergy. Our constitution protects the right of in dividuals and of minorities, and our courts interpret our constitution. OUr highest courts, composed in part of Catholic jurists, have declared that prohibition wrongs no man. No ap peal lies to Rome, and we Nebraska Catholics want no such appeal. While wrestling with affairs of state, what of the church's progress? Plenty of buildings and of large families, 'tis true, but these are the offerings of the laity. Let the clergy debate why hun dreds of men and women .born into the church and educated by the church, are no longer communicants thereof. It Is not the fault of Catholic doctrine, for these people have not turned to other creeds. In the Writer's opinion the chief causes of this sit uation are, first the petty tyrannies practiced by some foreign born priests, and, second, a general failure of the clergy to keep up with American ideals. Gentlemen of the cloth, can you not stick to the great tasks for which you were trained? You have an un happy knack of getting on the wrong side of political reforms. Slavery and gambling were abolished without your help. Please do not encourage the Ignorant to become bootleggers, please do not vex the American people. THOMAS LYNCH. tive patriotism beyond the mute al mighty dollar. ' I i, onnnch to behold upon the ; 1 awe-inspiring elevation of the terrify- 1 . lng catastrophe, the world war , demagogues of the nation seeking to temporize with and politicalize (par- , don the word) human agony and hu-man-aestiny. Now. that we discern ; in vision and in thought these ; wretched and despicable figures in bold and audacious isolation trifling with the very life of the American republic in an hour of its greatest peril to satisfy unholy ambitions what I man, what woman can remain silent, j It Gilbert M. Hitchcock is an ex ponent of Nebraska's patriotism, God pity such patriotism. A patriotism that gives comfort and information to the enemy. . ' J. BRAXTON CAULAND. , Justice to the iicsis. ( Oakland. Neb., Feb. 1 4 . To the ' Editor of The Bee: I think it. sim ple ' justice that an '-explanation be made about the "ye'-lcwii.g" of the Irving Kerl residence. To call it , a bape 'in justice is vuttuar tnihr.s uiiUliy. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Kerl is a street corner patriot but they both arc doing work a grout deal more elec tive than thut. Mr.-. Kerl devotes two days of her time to Red Cress v.-orlc; sends her maid a third day, besides contributing her r.Jwre. to- knittins. and Mr. Kerl is spending every spare moment with his knitting needles; having already turned-out two beauti fully knitted sweaters arid has a third on the needles since Christmas. And not a drive has been made lied Cross, Young Men's Christian associa tion, Knights of Columbus, etc., that ' ho and his wife have not given a goodly share and besides Mrs. Krl's two brothers are in the servicer one who was an officer of the "disbanded Seventh," and the other enlisted, in , the balloon school. U eacn ana every citizen of Oakland would do their share as the Irving Kerls have, this little town would be the banner town of Nebraska. The citizens of :Oak land owe an apology to the Kerf fam- , ily for allowing such work to go on. ; CITIZENS OF OAKLAND. ' TART TRIPLES. "Shakespeare said that all the world was a stage." - - I "tin. Do you suppose the gtreats wera j filled with these chorus irlrl costumes In j his day?" Louisville Courier-Journal. "He is a pessimist, a regular cynic, a coni . firmed misanthrope, and " . . j "Yes." returned J. Fuller Gloom. "He fa : very hard to fool, Isn't he?" Judge. "Is the strenuous-looking young womaa you showed me a war bride?" "I should say so. When she and her husband get to arguing, she throws tha first thing that conies to hand at him.'' Baltlinoro American. - Degrees of Patriotism. Omaha, Feb. 8. To the Editor of The Bee: These are moments of tremendous concern to this republic. Yea, the intensest moments in the agonizing call of human freedom: moments I pray. God, whose wisdom is universal to mankind. A wisdom our noble president with prophetic vision has intrepreted in the great cause of democracy. A wisdom to which the political situation in the state of Nebraska is appalling; a dangerous approach to conspiracy against the republic" and Its potential formula "make the world safe for democracy. A situation of a state whose people are seemingly insensible to an in tellectual and a moral appreciation of the sense of American freedom, and to the possibilities of an impend ing world moral crisis into which must enter triumphantly the ideals of democracy if this republic is to sur vive. What event under high heaven short of the agonizing throes of a tot tering nation will arouse Nebraskans to. a realization of the infamous treachery now going on at Washing ton. I ask in anxious concern for my country must the nation be in names and the torturing cry of its people be heard from its four corners before the people of Nebraska assert a posi- A CLEAR DOMP LI DM Peppery Points Washington Post: Looking over the revelations regarding operations at Hog Island, there seems to be con siderable in a name, after all. New York World: To us, with our ideas of court procedure, the accounts of the Bolo trial suggest a free-for-all experience meeting. But the French judicial system does' elicit the facts. St Louis Globe Democrat: Amer ican marksmnnshln la admlttedlv tha very best when an American goes out to shoot squirrels, he aims at a squirrel and not as if the tree held 1,000. , " - s Minneapolis' Journal: The Vor- waerts of Berlin called a well known pan-German a Hungerfriedensresolu tionsmehrbeitsblszundebek a m p f e r. There can be no doubt that the appel lation was earned. 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