fHE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918
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JANUARY CIRCULATION
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ta then. Addraea chant ad aa aftaa at requested.
Medicine Hat is coins to upset our spring
plans again.
Did the stuff you canned and dried and pre
served last summer keep well? , x
This softening weather is another call to mo
bilize the plows and harrows of the corn belt.
Turkey is going after Armenia again, another
of the concrete results achieved by the Trotzky
triumph in Russia.
The . cook who told General Pershing he
wanted more green stuff can find a lot of com
pany in the home land these days.
? A German alien named Grady has asked for
registry in Nebraska.' Marshal Flynn balks at
" the name, but agrees to let it pass.
Colonel George Harvey says the spies should
be shot, but asks if anyone can picture Newton
D. Baker in the act of signing a death warrant.
' Germany Ss trying out a "super" gas on the
Americans in the front line trenches, with about
as good effect as it had with its "superman" stuff.
Haig will have to start something pretty soon
if he does not want the clamor of the critics at
, Jiome to drown out the noise of the guns on the
battle line. '
. Formulation of a definite program for labor
during the war is a trifle late in starting and the
i sooner it Ss announced the better it will be for
' i everybody.'
The enemy is reported to have tapped Ameri
can telephone wires at the front, but it is a safe
conjecture that what the listeners heard did not
encourage them any.
, John Masefield says almost anything may
.come out of Russia. No reason to dispute this,
for everything but order has Ncome out of that
distracted region within the last year.
Bolsevism seems to have done its perfect
work in Russia. Starvation now threatens the
mass who sought to reverse all human experience
and may force a revival of orderly government
and industry. : .
Closing dance halls is not the way to achieve
social reform, according to a Chicago expert
amongst us. We do not know what Chicago
tried, but hope nothing will be done to bring
Omaha to the condition of the Windy City.
Money for Good Roads.
State Engineer Johnson's compilation of
money to be expended in Nebraska in connection,
with the national goad roads campaign is most
encouraging. While the sum is not large, it is
sufficient to make a start, and it is not unreason
able to think that once we have fairly entered
on the work of constructing durable and serv
iceable highways the undertaking will not be
abandoned until Nebraska is well supplied in that
regard. For the present year the nineteen dis
tricts into which the state has been subdivided
will invest a total of $266,358 in the comprehen
sive plan of construction, this money to be ex
pended on sections of highway subsequently to
be connected into a unified system. Covering a
five-year period, it is planned to use $3,167,911
in the furtherance of these projects. This money
is aside from that annually spent under the di
rection of district supervisors for the repair and
construction of country roads. - Properly applied,
it will produce such a nucleus of improved high
ways as will not only justify the immediate ex
penditure, but encourage a continuation of the
work. As the move is nation-wide, it is making
certain that the middle of the century will see
the United States fairly well equipped with thor
oughfares that will match the highway systems of
any civilized country.
Labor's Responsibility in War.
Two notable declarations addressed to labor,
but holding also a message for everybody, have
just been given to the public. The one is the
reply of the president to the head of the car
penters' union, the other the address of the exec
utive council of the American Federation of
Labor. Mr. Wilson, in declining to confer with
William L. Hutcheson, general president of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, lays down
this proposition:
No body of men- has the moral right in the
present circumstances of the nation to strike
until every method of adjustment has been tried
to the limit. If you do not act upon this prin
ciple you undoubtedly are giving aid and com
fort to the enemy, whatever may be your Own
conscious purpose.
Of the correctness of the president's conclu
sions in this matter there can be no doubt. One
of the great principles involved in this war, and
for which we as a nation most zealously contend,
is the peaceful adjustment of all the international
differences; if we cannot settle wage disputes
without strikes, how can we expect to determine
international disputes without war?
Samuel Gompers and his associates, .who speak
for organized labor of America, present a brief
that should be pondered carefully by every citi
zen. It completely sums up the case for the
worker and in temperate but earnest language ex
presses the aspirations of the men and women
who do things.
In these two statements is contained the call
to capital and labor alike, to employers and em
ployed, to give over individual ambitions or de
sires and get together for the war. The only
way to peace now is through victory and victory
cannot be achieved when strife over industrial
problems divides the nation.
"Black Jack" and "the Boys."
"Whoever saw a commanding general walking
among the men?" inquired a private, skeptical of
the information given him that the man with
four stars on his collar was Pershing. It was
the same Pershing, though, who jumped from his
seat in front of his tent down in Mexico to shake
hands with a grizzled trooper whom he had
known years before and who still wore the uni
form of a private soldier. It was Pershing who
gives close attention to major tactics and the in
finite strategy of the war, attends international
councils and helps to plan great campaigns and
yet finds time to look after the welfare and com
forts of his men, seeing to it that they are cared
for in all ways. General Pershing is a splendid
example of the, American soldier and wholly de
serves the confidence he has been given by his
country. Fathers and mothers whose sons are
in France with him know the boys will get a
square deal under "Black Jack" and that the world
will have a higher regard for the American army
because of the fine character of its leader and
the men under him. ' '
Breakdown of Bolsevism.
"The hope of the bolsheviki for a speedy rev
olution in Germany is an insane delusion," ac
cording to Vorwaerts, the organ from which the
socialists of the world took their tune a few
years ago. It is still the potent mouthpiece of
the socialists of Germany and in its utterance may
be noted the dominating thought of the reds
within the central empires. No thinking man
has credited the Germans with any intention to
accept the doctrine of bolsevism or the prac
tices of the bolsheviki. Whatever else the so
cialists within the kaiser's dominion may be, they
are loyal to the German ideals. "Deutschland
uber alles" means as much to the socialist there
as to the junker and their "international mind" is
manifest along that line only, Meanwhile the
bolshevik, unable to make headway against the
Teuton enemy, is carrying on a furious warfare
against Russians who refuse to join in the. lunacy
of Lenine and Trotzky. No semblance of order
or safety remains in any region dominated by the
disciples of brotherhood and idleness, but Ger
many is making ready to establish its control
over provinces not yet brought under subjection.
Civilization never looked upon a darker picture
than that presented by Russia at the close of its
first year of freedom and liberty, ,
Use the Substitutes.
Many housewives have wondered what to do
with the substitutes sold them along with their
purchases of wheaten flour. The only answer is,
"Use them." All are edible, nutritious and palat
able. Their enforced presence at this time is
something of an indictment of the generation.
Not a great many years ago most, if not all, the
available substitutes for wheat were in common
use. ' People were familiar with them aa articles
of 'diet and thrived on them. Adversity has
shaken us out of our soft ways of living and we
are requested to give over some of our ; table
dainties, among them the white wheaten loaf.
When we have recovered from the shock of this
experience we will haye discovered that it is our
esthetic and not our material sense that has been
disturbed. Corn, rye, oatmeal, rice, potatoes all
the list of edibles offered to take the place of
wheat are good for man's consumption.
Reasons for using these substitutes have been
frequently stated.' They are sound and should
appeal to all. Unless we get down to business
and do all we can to win we will not win the
victory we have started out to achieve. One way
to help is to use the substitutes for wheat.
Long-Planned War on United States
1 'There is No God But Power and Prussia is Its Prophet!"
Prof. Albion W. Small, Chicago University.
In the summer of 1903 I was in Germany
on business which gave me occasion to sam
ple the opinions about our country of more
different classes of Germans than I had ever
interviewed before. The itinerary scheduled
stops at Cologne, Lucerne, Vienna, Budapest,
Munich, Dresden, Berlin and thence an ex
cursion into Russia. At each of these points,
and in the intermediate travel, I had oppor
tunities to talk with men of prominence and
with as many more whom I could classify
merely as ordinary specimens of their various
types. I soon became aware that, quite aside
from the direct purpose of my trip, I was
gathering from these sources a collection of
significant and cumulative evidence. Over
and over again Germans of different' social
positions, living in as many different parts of
Germany and neighboring countries, volun
teered the same opinion in almost the same
words: "You Yankees are all right, but it is
only a question of time when we Germans
will have to fight you, not with trade regula
tions, but with cannon." And my question
"Why?" invariably brought the stereotyped
answer: "Because you are trying to get some
of the world's foreign commerce."
Up to that time I had firmly believed in
the pacific intentions of Germany. I had re
garded the pan-German agitation as a joke.
I had interpreted the familiar grandiose ut
terances of kaiser, and professor, and editor,
and Reichstag orator as the harmless word
painting of an imaginative people who delight
in setting national commonplaces in a heroic
light. But these coincidences started my re
flections in a new direction. It was incred
ible that so marfy men, of such different kinds,
from such widely separated places, could
have arrived independently at such an aston
ishing consensus. Such a state of mind must
have been the result of some central influ
ence or influences. A captain of infantry,
whom I met in the home of a friend in Ber
lin, strengthened this inference when he gave
me a book which contained the same senti
ment in almost the same words, with the
comment which afterward proved to carry ac
crued interest: "It is the most popular book
of the year among German officers." Then I
began to pick up other threads of association.
I recalled a lecture which I had heard during
my student days by Prof. Gniest of Berlin,
who at the time was reputed to be the fore
most continental expositor of the British con
stitution. The argument expanded these
propositions: "The United States of America
has no sovereign. Therefore it has no sov
ereignty. Therefore it is not in the proper
sense of the term a state. Therefore it is
not entitled to the full rights of a state
among states." I listened with amusement to
the exposition and had scarcely thought of
it meanwhile, because I had taken it as a
choice specimen of academic pedantry, with
no practical bearing. Presently I began to
recall, however, that in my reading since my
student days I had come across many Ger
man expressions of the same idea, with the
implication that it was something to be taken
for granted.
On my return to Chicago I reported my
experience in a newspaper interview, with
the conclusion that we Americans would be
living in a fool's paradise until we provided
ourselves with a navy so strong that, even if
the creed which I had heard should proselyte
all Germany, it would be too unsafe to fol
low it into practice. For two or three weeks
following publication of the interview, at a
signal from Consul Wever of Chicago one
of the most efficient promoters of German
interests that has ever represented that
country in the United States the German
language press of America and not a few
publications in English bristled with abuse
of the ignorant American tourist who had in
sulted Germany by drawing such an infer
ence from such data.
Up to the present hour the Germans have
pursued the same policy of denying the sig
nificance of any and every fact which tended
to fix on them the stigma of militarism in
general or responsibility for the present war
in particular. No matter what German has
endorsed the creed of force or of terroriza
tion as the technique of the creed, even the
kaiser or the crown orince. or the chancellor.
or authors with readers by the hundred thou
sands, the professional German apologists
have always given the cue for a world-wide
claque to shout the repudiation: "That par
ticular utterance or that particular man cuts
no figure in Germany."
We have always had a few men in Ameri
can politics who waxed great in their own
eyes by declamation of the manifest destiny
of the United States to be "bounded on the
north by the Aurora Borealis, on the south
by the Southern Cross." Usually the saving
sense of the people, ably aided and abetted
by the obduracy of things, has rendered such
politicians innocuous. But suppose the in
conceivable had become actual and we had
found ourselves under an administration
which had deliberately committed this coun
try to the aim of annexing Canada. Suppose
we had made it a test of loyalty to support
this administration in waging a war for the
conquest of the Dominion. Suppose we had
persisted in accepting without question the
administration's fiction "The war was forced
upon us I" Suppose we had refused to cast
in our lot with any peace movement which
might involve overthrow of the administra
tion or of the party that had seduced the
country into its immoral course. In that
case our deeds would have spoken louder
than our words. American character would
consequently have to be known, not by what
Americans had denied in terms, but by what
we had actually done.
The outstanding fact, to which the Ger
mans have been delivering themselves with
accelerated motion till the incredible cul
mination of 1914, and since, is that all the
Germans have adopted as their own the cause
of those leaders who have advertised their
trust in war as the foremost means of sat
isfying national ambitions.
Few native Americans have more or
weightier reasons for gratitude to Germany
than I have been accumulating for nearly 40
years. None can be more willing in every
possible way to acknowledge the debt which
can never be discharged. And yet! And
yetl This will be an intolerable world until
the Germans have once and forever recanted,
wfth all it involves, that most hellish heresy
that has ever menaced civilization: There
is no God but power and Prussia is its
prophet 1
Gold Pours Into Tank Banks
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London Letter in New York Times.
PcriiaiH taking the hint from the recruit
ing "battleship" in Union square, the British
government has been with extraordinary
success turning an engine of war to novel
uses in raising money for national pur
poses. The intense interest aroused by the
tanks, which figured in the lord mayors
show at the beginning of November, sug
gested that an exhibition of them in London
might be used to attract subscriptions to the
war loan, and the idea proved to be so good
that in the last six weeks about $100,000,000
has been raised by the "Tank-Bank."
The first tank was put on exhibition in
Trafalgar square toward the end of Novem
ber. It was a real tank, destined to go to
the firing line as soon as its money making
career was over. Two girl cashiers were in
stalled inside, and it was announced that if
any one would come to Trafalgar square
and there s- scribe for war bonds in five
pound lots or the 15-shilling and six-penny
war saving certificates, these would be
stamped to show they had been bought at
the Tank Bank.
A few captured guns and other war relics
were placed alongside the tank, and a cer
tain amount of advertising was done, but the
organizers of the show never expected how
great would be their success. The first day
they took in $40,000; the next day $63,000,
and the next $125,000, and then there was no
doubt the idea had caught on. For the fort
night the Tank Bank was in Trafalgar
square it became one of the sights of Lon
don. Parents brought their children to buy
a few of the cheaper certificates; employers
organized campaigns among their men 'and
marched them down at the noon hour with
bands to invest their money; the theatrical
profession, of course, saw the beauty of the
idea and were photographed in picturesque
positions filling out forms requesting allotments.
The tale was told of the canny Scotch
man who said, as he was going to buy war
bonds, he thought he might as well get on
them the Tank Bank stamp, for "Ye no can
tell. Yon Tank Bank puts on a wee stamp
that ma worth guid siller yet," apparently
in the spirit of the collector of rare postage
stamps, and there can be no doubt that the
novelty of the idea brought out hundreds of
pounds of small savings that would never
have found their way through the ordinary
postoffice into the government coffers.
A second tank was enlisted in the service,
and was sent on peregrinations through the
city. It was announced that if any firm
would subscribe $250,000 this wandering tank
would roll along through the streets to fetch
the check. This it had to do several times,
and so the crowds in the busiest thorough
fares had the war savings idea brought be
fore them. Meanwhile in Trafalgar square
itself the scene was a nearer approach to
that of an old time country fair than London
had seen for many a day. Hawkers with
medals, flags, picture post cards, and
souvenirs thronged the open spaces around
the barriers; investors formed long queues;
military bands played stirring music, and
well known men were hoisted to the top of
the tank to make speeches.
The first week the Tank Bank was doing
business it took in not much under $1,600,000,
but the second week it captured over $15,500,
000, and it had by this time so thoroughly
established its power as a money maker that
it was determined to send it on a provincial
tour.
Since then the great industrial cities of
England have been visted and at the date
of writing the amount collected has been
not far short of $100,000,000. This has been
achieved partly by appealing to the local
rivalry, wnich is so large a feature in the
life of the English provinces. On the Royal
Exchange in London, for example, is a huge
board on which the chief towns of England
with their populations are inscribed. Against
them day by day is placed the amounts given
the Tank Bank by each center, and the Man
chester cotton broker or the Birmingham
munition maker, called to town on business,
sees that the openhandedness of his home
town is on record in the empire's finanicial
center. Similiar posters attract his attention
when he gets home, and he is spurred on
to dig a little deeper in his pocket for the
credit of his own community.
Still more important, however, are the
sums enticed from the hiding places of the
less wealthy classes. The government, for
sound financial reasons, would rather have
the saver of $2,500 invest it in the war loan
than leave it in the savings bank, and there
are still hoards of golden sovereigns tucked
away in the proverbial stocking in the more
remote districts that are doing no good to
anybody. Many instances have occurred of
these being rifled to take up Tank Bank
bonds, and the number of the small investors
has been one of the features of the cam
paign. Some of the more important totals yet
recorded are: Manchester, $22,250,000;
Birmingham, $21,500,000; Bradford, $9,600,
000; Newcastle, $9,000,000, and Southampton
$360,000. .
On Year Ago Today In the War.
American Red Cross issued an ap
, peal for 1,000,000 new member.
President Wilson called tor full re
ports of the army and navy strength.
Germans rushed British positions
south of Le Transloy after destroying
trenchea.
The Day We Celebrate.
Myron L. Learned, attorney, born
in 186S.
Joseph Barker, insurance man, born
in 1877.
William V. Wappich, attorney-at-law.
born In 18 SO.
- Adellna Patti (Baronesa Ceder
strom) born in Madrid 75 years ago.
General Henry Sinclair Home,
British commander on western front,
born 87 years ago.
Newcomb Carlton, president of the
Western Union Telegraph company,
born at Elizabeth. N. J, 49 years ago.
This Day in History.
1807 Admiral Duckworth, with
eight British - war vessels, made the
daring passage of the Dardanelles and
appeared before Constantinople.
1864 Order of the Knights of Pyth
ias founded in Washington, D. C.
1918 Secretary Lansing informed
Austrian charge that United States
stood .mly for right of merchant ves
sels to carry guns for defense. '
1917--MaJor General Frederick
Funston. U. S. A., died at San Anto-
nio, Tex. ' Born at New Carlisle, O-
Just SO Years Ago Today
The recent warm spell has started
the geese north.
A dispatch received from Jackson
ville, Fla., tells of the arrival there
of the party of excursionists from
Omaha.
Kendall, Weinek and Klrby of tho
Omaha Amateur Athletic club . will
attend the spring meetings of ath
letes In Chlcatro and St Louis and
take part in different trails of skill. .
The mission at Trinity cathedral Is
to consist of a series of lectures to
men. Rev. Dean Gardner will offi
ciate. Dr. L. A. Merriam lectured to the
students of the Omaha Commercial
college. The doctor had for his sub
ject, 'Evolution, or the New Thought
of the Nineteenth Century."
1 The Omaha Amateur Athletic
club gives a rrand dress ball at Ma-
I sonic haU on Ki sveoip ( March. 14
Around the Cities
Chicago is slowly waking up to the
necessity of checking the crime wave.
Various civio and religious bodies are
prodding the police and pressing for
greater energy in running down the
highwaymen, safe crackers and crooks
of minor grade operating boldly in the
city. .
Chicago experts differ much on the
quantity of whisky in stock in town.
The quantity in bond is deemed
enough for two years, unless the de
mands of neighboring dry belts ex
ceed expectation. Private stocks range
from two to six years' supply, meas
ured on a narrowing scale and broad
ening prices. ,
The battle against gas price reduc
tion in Chicago, begun in 1911, moves
with snail-pace through the courts.
The present or temporary rate is 80
cents per thousand cubic feet. The
city insists on a 70-cent rate. Nearly
seven years were used up in clearing
the judicial forum for a trial on that
issue, which Is now set for April 8.
Over at Minneapolis last Monday
a daughter, son-in-law, nine grand
children and a great grandchild
helped to celebrate the 104th birthday
anniversary of Grandma Peterson.
Grandma was not very well, but Im
bibed the spirit of the occasion and
enjoyed herself. Toward evening
twilight as the guests departed and
the 104 candles burned low, grandma
closed her eyes and quickly sank into
the sleep that knows no waking. One
ox ner two daughters is Mrs. Alfred
Servine of Oakland, ftebj
State Press Comments
Hastings Tribune: Men don't smile
as much in Nebraska as they did be
fore the first day of last May.
Plattsmouth Journal: Camouflage
is nothing new at our house. We've
been putting milk in the cream
pitcher for years.
Norfolk Press: Senator Hitchcock
fought Wilson before the primaries,
he fought him in the Baltimore con
vention, and has fought him ever
since. In the matter of supporting
the administration it is about an even
break between Hitchcock and the
kaiser.
Beatrice Express: With John G.
Maher in the service of the United
States and therefore barred from par
ticipating in politics, Charlie Bryan
announces that it is possible that he
may file for the democratic nomina
tion for governor-at the primaries to
be held this summer. There is, how
ever, one Arthur Mullen still at large
who is liable to prove somewhat of
a stumbling block in the way of the
ambitious "Brother Charlie."
Falls City Journal: Bakers' bread
with' a SO per cent substitute of white
corn flour is an improvement on the
old style of extra refined wheat flour
as the new bread appears to have
more body and does not gum up on
one's teeth in sort of a dough ball as
fresh wheat bread from a town bake
shop used to do. A number of the
substitutes are an improvement, but
they cost more, which is probably a
reason why they were not in more
use.
Right to the Point
Wall Street Journal: Wisconsin
troops aboard Tuscania should be a
reminder as to who represents that
state in Washington.
Brooklyn Eagle: The Overman bill
would call- for a superman. Let us
stick to the wisdom of the fathers and
be happy, or as happy as we can be
in these unpleasant times.
Minneapolis Tribune: While every
one Is insisting that nothing is too
good for the army, along comes the
government with a threat to com
mandeer all 'the prunes for the sol
diers. New Tork WorJl: Every soldier on
the Tuscania on reaching the Ameri
can lines in France will carry a mes
sage to his comrades that there will
give a fresh edge to their fighting
spirit.
Louisville Courier-Journal: In a
current photodrama, it is said, "the
soul of a woman is laid bare." A last
resort, no doubt, inasmuch as pre
vious photodramas have laid bare
everything but her souL
Louisville Courier-Journal: British
transports since the beginning of the
war have carried 11,000,000 troops
safely "for long or short voyages"
with a loss of only 2.000, due to the
sinking of nine vessels. Does Ger
mania or Britannia rule the waves? ,
Baltimore American: Germany
seems to have sunk a lot of money in
spy propaganda in this country. The
trouble with that sort of enterprise
is that there is no way after payment
has been made of enforcing the de
livery o Ui good
For a Home Rule Charter.
Omaha. Feb. 18. To the Editor of
The Bee: At the April primaries
there is to be submitted to the voters
of Omaha the question of calling a
home rule charter convention. It
seems to me this subject has not re
ceived the publicity it deserves. I
have asked a number of voters who
are generally famHiar with what is
going on if they knew of this fact
and have only found one who had ever
heard of the proposition and he was
one who had been instrumental in
having the council submit the ques
tion. I am interested in having Omaha
come under the home rule provision
of the state constitution. I know
what a difficulty we must face every
two years in trying to pursuade the
legislature to grant to us needed leg
islation. We should be capable of
knowing what we want and of se
curing it for ourselves without ask
ing the legislature. We can do this
if we adopt a home rule charter.
The former attempt to adopt a
home rule charter was defeated be-j
cause the charter convention intro
duced much new matter on which the
people of the city were divided. I
propose this time that the convention
do nothing of that kind. It should
organize and then submit to the voters
of Omaha the present charter under
which the city is operating. It should
introduce no new matter of any kind.
Our people are reasonably united in
support of the charter that we have.
By a. formal vote of the people this
may be adopted by the people. It
contains within Itself the means by
which the people may themselves
amend it and which they will no doubt
do as necessity requires from time to
time. L. J. QUINBT.
Against Spring Shooting.
Stuart, Neb., Feb. 16. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: I saw in the Letter
Box of The Bee dated February 11 an
article written by V. A. Bradshaw
of Geneva, Neb., urging us to write
to our congressmen to have the fed
eral law prohibiting spring shooting
repealed in this state, setting forth in
his argument that It is a good method
to use in conservation of meat.
Now, Mr. Editor, to me that would
be like killing the goose that laid the
golden egg, for every time you killed
an old hen duck in the spring you
kill a whole brood of young ducks
which would be grown during the
summer season .for fall use. By all
means let us uphold the federal law
as it is.
It is the best law cer enacted
for the conservation of meat. Why.
our food administrator has just passed
a ruling forbidding us to kill any of
our domestic hens this time of the
year.
I have hunted ducks and chickens
all my life and know the federal law
as it now is in force is the best law
ever enacted to conserve our game
birds (which is meat). By all means,
let us keep it in force.
H. H. EVERETT.
anythln worth drinking I don't want to
kcp it aeventy-two houra. Boston Tran
script.
Winnla couldn't set her doll to tt up ti
h wanted It and after many vain at
tempts she banged It down, exclaiming:
"Oh! I wish I belonged to a family that
sweared!" flan Francisco Chronicle.
"The labor shortage has given my nephew
some new views on life."
"Huh?"
"He thought everything went by pull.
But the other day he went out and got a
job as street sweeper on his own merits,
something he hadn't thought It possible to
do." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"How does your boy like life In the
army?"
"Not particularly well. He says he's beea
In it six weeks now and hasn't been or
dered to do something glorious." Detroit
Free Press.
Mr. Styles My dinner coat needs a but
ton, Julia. Please attend to it today.
Mrs. Stylee But I can't tell your dinner
coat from your breakfast jacket, dear.
"Why, the breakfast jacket has eggs on
It and the dinner coat gravy." Yonkera
Statesman.
"What did your landlady mean by telling
ma she had a bone to pick with me?"
"Don't know, unless it was an Invitation
up to dinner.'' Browning's.
THE FLAG.
Law Still in Effect.
Deshler, Neb., Feb. 15. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: Some years ago our
great government passed a law for
bidding the killing of migratory birds
i. e.f geese, ducks, brants, etc. after
January 1 until the following fall.
Now our great state of Nebraska says
we can pursue and kill for our per
sonal use said above birds up to April
1. Each spring I am beggUig you for
advice not for myself alone, but
many others who do not want to do
anything to engross our great nation.
However, under our food conserva
tion advice we are all striving to save.
Should they allow the shooting of
game birds legally in this great time
of need it might, and would be, a
great help. Our honored food admin
istrator advised us to eat rabbits as
a meat. Now I eat rabbits until I
cannot look a rabbit in the face. If
I could legally have some duck soup
to take the rabbit taste out of my
mouth it would be a favor never to be
forgotten. Thanking you in advance
for the legal information through
your paper, as the advice will reach
many like myself who want to know
the law. O. A. RICHEY.
Ans. The federal game law which
forbids the shooting of migratory wild
fowl, and especially aquatic, or water,
fowl, during the spring months is
still in effect. It is illegal to kill ducks
of any kind, geese, brant or waders,
such as snipe, in the closed season,
which includes the spring months.
SMILING LINES".
Tommy This American fellow does not
appear to be at all moved by the slaughter
In the trenches.
Second Tommy Of course not. He's one
of their college foot ball champions. Balti
more American.
Wife How did Mr. Bilklns manage to
pass that examination which you failed In?
Husband Bilklns took his two little boys
with him and the boys coached him. They
had only left school a few weeks. Fear
son's. Agent This vacuum bottle will keep any
thing hot or cold for seventy-two hours.
Mr. Tipples Don't want It. If I have
Stars of white In a field of blue,
Bars of white and red,
Symbolic of our country.
To save, has caused bloodshed
Freedom speaks when It unfurls
Protection within Its folds'
To all who give it honor
And loyalty upholds.
Bars of white and bars of red,
Stars In a field of blue:
Do you know what it has done
And what It means to you?
This banner should remind us,
Reverential always be,
For It has made America
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Stars of white In a field of blue.
Bars of red and white.
In conflict will It enter
When only for the right;
In the midst of combat
And enemy try to sever, ,
The Stars and Stripes will keep unfurled-
Surrender In battle "Never!"
Omaha. BELLEVTJB).
BALLAD OF THE
UNSUCCESSFUL.
We are the tollers from who Ood barred
The gifts that are good to hold.
We meant full well and we tried full hard.
And our families were manifold.
And we are the clan ef those whose kin
Were a millstone dragging them down.
Tea, we had to sweat for our brother's sin
And lose the victor's crown.
The seeming able, who all but scored.
From their teeming tribe we come;
What was there wrong with us, O God ?
That our lives were dark and dumb?
The men ten talented, who still
Strangely missed of the goal,
Of them wa are; It seems thy will
To harrow some In soul.
We are the sinners, too, whose iust
Conquered the higher claims;
We sat us prone in the common dust
And played at the devil's games.
Wa are the hard luck folk who strove
Zealously, but In vain;
We lost and lost, while our comrades throve,
And still we lost again.
We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain we were sound aa they,
But the prizes were not ours.
A mighty army our full ranks make.
We shake the graves as we go;
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Spent and dishonored and aad.
Our epitaph this, when once wa have died;
"The weak He here, and the bad."
We wonder If this can ba really the close,
Life's fever cooled by death's trance;
And we cry, though It seem to our dearest
of foes:
"God, give ua another chance!"
RICHARD BURTON.
University of Minnesota.
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