THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918.
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'Z'r The season for "million-dollar rains" is now
1 ilran.
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Consumers are not so vitally concerned in the
;!cost of producing sugar as they are in quantities.
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Down instead of up for the price of bread in
maha. Uncle Sam's word in this matter goes.
;J Rabinadrath .Tagore will not be the first to
.discover that it is dangerous to attempt to min
!!le poetry and politics.
;; The Russian "army" is proving Germany's
'lest aid in the' present sprrd of kultur over the
Jlomain of the bolsheviki.
' Wyoming wool men promise to market this,
spring the biggest "clip" they ever sold. They
;ilso expect to receive the highest price ever paid
for the staple. '
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IS The present address of "Dave" Francis is un
known, but his friends feel secure in the thought
4hat the gallant Missourian is not likely to be
permanently lost. - '
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1 Cuba is showing some activity as a "co-bellig-j
rent" by interrupting communication between
! texico and Germany through Spain. Every lit-
te move of this kind helps the main purpose.
King Auto is having the time of .his life in
6maha this week,' where his subjects overwhelm
jjim with adulation. However, the display his
Highness is making entitles him to all the praise
s& far bestowed.
Battles in the air are becoming more numer
lis, a sort of curtain-raiser for the big show
(fiat soon will open. At present the Allies are
hiving the better of the argument, which may
U accepted as an omen. ,
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.General Goethals has decfded.to take over
v.1iat wool the government needs, which may not
leave a great deal for the home folks. But we
will; try to put up with the inconvenience if only
thj! I surplus is fairly divided 'among the consumers.
. Another hospital ship has fallen victim to the
tf-boat, adding a new ray to the glorious halo ac
cumulated by that humane instrument of kultur.
The commander who fired the torpedo will be
disappointed, though, when he finds he succeeded
in drowning only a few nurses and no wounded
soldiers. f , . .
j ? Pioneer and His Progress.
!' ; The first Nebraska farmer to buy an auto
mobile is attending the Omaha Auto Show this
week. He was considered quite advanced by his
' neighbors at the time lie made his purchase, and
' perhaps a little bit venturesome. Nowadays he
I has" the company of fully 100,000 of his own
I class, fo of the 150,000 machines used in Ne-
braska fully tw'oHhirda, belong to the farmer. No
I where has the j self-propelled vehicle been so
I quickly or so generally recognized as an adjunct
j to successful agriculture as in this state. Its
many possibilities are daily tested by new uses
m actual service, and its capacity for assistance
'iin the business of the farmer has not yet been
'I fully measured. J Not alone does the possession
M of a machine indicate the prosperity of its owner,
but -also his foresight, for the adoption of im-
improvements is one of the secrets of success in
; agriculture. So from the light car in which the
i owner of the premises drives himself, and his
family into town to do business up to the giant
I tractor that drags the gang of plows or performs
other operations where power in large supply is
: needed, the farmer is using the auto. The man
who bought the first was merely the earliest to
see that it was good; the man who has just
'bought one' is merely following a long procession
i along a road that is well marked and which leads
lup to real success.
March: Lion, or Lamb.'
The advent of March is always welcome to
inhabitants of the northern hemisphere, for it
means that winter is coming to an end. In the
present instance it is doubly welcome, for it brings
with it a termination of troubles that have made
the last four months memorable. No winter re
called by white men in this country has been
accompanied by such discomforts and hardships.
Weather surpassing the record in severity was
aggravated by hitherto unexperienced conditions
of living, until not only the patience, but the en"
durance of the people were taxed to the utmost.
Public emergency required efforts never before
made and immense energy was spent in the
task of keeping things moving in the face of
enormous obstacles. Man won in the conflict with
the elements, but he now welcomes the promise
of milder weather, and in the more gentle days
to follow will recuperate and build up his forces,
so that he will not only accomplish the imme
diate work ahead, but will provide as far as pos
sible against another season of stress and trial.
Spring will bring gladness to Americans, but no
relaxation. March is welcome, lion or lambr be
cause it opens the way to do all those big jobs
we have on hand and to which we may give our
undivided attention, secure from danger of visi
tations such as made November, December, Jan
uary and February terrible. Out of the snow
drifts and the ice bonds that have held us back
we merge with March into a time for harder
work than ever we have yet done as nation or
individuals. Let us bend, each to his task, and
get somewhere.
Asia for the Asiatics.
Developments involve Sir Rabinadrath Ta
gore in the progress of plots against Great Brit
ain hatched by Hindus in the United States. The
connection of Germany with these futile machi
nations was long ago established. Now it is be
coming more plain that Japan, too, had its finger
in the pie, although for different motives. For
the matter of that, each of these was inspired by
a different'purpose. Tagore is an apostle of "in
ternationalism," Germany sought merely Eng
land's embarrassment, while Japan has a definite
policy of "Asia for the Asiatics."
Some discussion of the so-called Monroe doc
trine for Asia has been had already in America.
Count Okuma, while premier of Japan, made
little effort to conceal the ultimate object of the
policy he fostered. It was to establish the in
fluence of the Japanese from the Pacific to
the Red Sea, not necessarily by interfering
with the British in India or the Russians in Si
beria, but by, awakening among Asiatics a more
lively sense of nationalism and a quicker respon
siveness to the needs of each in relation to mod
ern civilization, Japanese assume to. be listed
among the "superior", races, although greatly
chagrined that the United States, among others,
will not concede this point. For this reason the
mikado and ' his counsellors regard themselves
as the ones to awaken Asia and lead in any
movement for the general uplift of the races
there.
No good reason is known why Japan should
not so occupy its great capacity for organization.
The renewed understanding between that coun
try and the United States as to China, the alli
ance with Great Britain (which covers India)
and the present situation in Siberia all contrib
ute arguments in favor of Japanese activity along
these lines. This will do a great deal to offset
the disintegration and consequent disorder now
threatening in that part of the world.
Save the War Stores.
To the mind of the common man it would
seem that a good plan to adopt in regard to
the immense stores of war material piled up at
Vladivostok and elsewhere in Eastern Siberia
would be to move at once, to make them secure
from the Germans and the bolshevik!. Plenty
of time to debate the action after it has been
taken. The co-belligerents, which seems to be
the official Washington term for what have hith
erto been called the "Allies," are vitally concerned
in the fate of these munitions and equipment.
Most of it was manufactured in the United States,
but some came from Japan, for the Russian army
before the collapse of government in Russia. It
has been well determined that the bolsheviki are
powerless to defend themselves from the German,
and this makes it quite certain that whatever of
this war material js fit for use will go to the good
of Germany. Prudence demands that thrs be
prevented if possible. Delay for debate will not
greatly assist and may seriously jeopardize the
situation. Japan should be encouraged in its
hinted purpose and if tha attitude of "co-belligerency''
is needed to be maintained American
troops are available in the Philippines and the
Chinese easily may provide a few, so that the in
ternational aspect of the intervention can be pre
served, and any tradition of agreement with Rus
sia be respected. But action is needed rather
than talk.
One of the obscurities in the situation just
now is what will the Germans do with Petro-
grad after, they get it? They will be as badly off
as Napoleon was with Moscow. Defeating the
Russian carries with it no especial advantage, as
the kaiser might have learned had he looked
up the record of Charles the Great.
Case Against Alien Conspirators
Amazing Record of Pro-German Crimes Against Nation
Louis Seibold in New York World.
The United States is the only country in-1 dignity of American law has been sedulously
oDservea in me inais 01 spies ana oiner en
emy agents.
Until the imperial German government
forced the United States to depart from its
policy of neutrality, the quest for enemy S
agents engaged in a wide range of criminal
enterprises was hampered by a confusion of
red tape, mainly due to the determination
of the government to avoid embroilment in
the world war.
Since America became a belligerent, the
safeguarding of the nation's interests has as
sumed more definite and decisive form, with
the consequences that there has been less
conflict of authority and greater success in
bringing to book Teutonic criminals who
hitherto were permitted to escape.
The work of ferreting .out the per
petrators of crimes against the country is di
vided between several bureaus of the gov
ernment, largely working independently of
each other. The most active of these is the
bureau of investigation of the Department
of Justice. The others are the secret serv
ice bureau of the Treasury department and
the bureau of intelligence of the Army and
Navy departments.
Co-operating with these federal bureaus
have been the local police authorities of
every state in the union. Various volunteer
organizations made up of patriotic citizens
have also rendered valuable aid in this direction.
volved in the world war that has not inflicted
the death penalty on any of the German
agents, spies and enemy aliens who have
been violating its laws for nearly four years.
The fact is the more remarkable when
the amazing record and character of the
crimes presented herewith is taken into con
sideration. .
In every other belligerent country, with
out exception, spies and other enemy aliens
guilty of no greater offenses than some of
those which have been committed against
America have been summarily put to death.
Investigation now proceeding may event
ually compel the United States to resort to
the drastic methods adopted by other bel
ligerent nations in dealing with spies, though
it is obviously, the policy of the American
government to evade such measures, if it
can be done without loss of dignity and
honor to its interests. ....
Up to the present time, the policy of this
country toward enemy criminals has been
limited to inflicting upon them terms of im
prisonment under the domestic laws or to
sequestrating them in internment camps for
the welfare of the country as well as for
their own safety.
The government records show that there
have been arrested for violation of federal
neutrality and' war laws a total of 2,164 per
sons, and that the number of persons who
have been interned is in excess of 4,000.
Of the persons arrested and put on trial,
180 were charged with violation of the
espionage act. Of these 174 were convicted.
For attempted violation of the selective draft
law, 964 persons, a few of whom were wom
en, have been arrested and convicted or
pleaded guilty.
Under tne general conspiracies act, &x
persons nave neen arrestea ror various
crimes against the United States. Of these,
113 were convicted or pleaded guilty, ano
but seven were acquitted. There are ap
proximately 1,000 cases still pending in the
courts for violation of the various war
measures of the government.
This record stands alone throughout the
world and furnishes a striking contrast to
the drastic policies of the other belligerent
nations, and especially Germany, where the
heavy hand of the kaiser's military machine
deals ruthlessly with even the perpetrators of
comparatively mild offenses.
Holding zealously to democratic doc
trines, the American government has dealt
most leniently with conspirators against its
welfare. Every offender has been guaran
teed he utmost legal protection and ac
corded the fullest opportunity to prove him
self innocent of the charge or charges made
against him.
There have hecn no drum-head court
martials, speedily followed by execution. The
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Under the War department there are 1,
870 German aliens interned and the prison
ers are under military guard - at Forts
Oglethorpe and McPnerson, Georgia, and
Fort Douglas, Utah. These are classed
dangerous German alien, enemies. Under the
Department of Labor there are 2,200 Ger
man aliens interned at the detention camp at'
Hot Springs, N. G These were taken off the
merchant ships of the German government
when the former were seized by the United
States. There were interned at Ellis Island
200 German aliens who are under the super
vision of the Department of Labor.
The foregoing items enumerate merely
the vindictive activities of alien enemies and
spies, but make sparse mention of the re
sults of their vicious enterprises. A state
ment authorized by the National Board of
Fire Underwriters of New York in January
last, exhibits the fiery harvest of our internal
enemies during the nine months since the
United States entered the war in terms of
dollars and cents.
The value of destroyed munition fac
tories, stock yards, grain elevators, tanneries,
oil, cotton and marine industries related to
the belligerency of the nation is stated to be
more than $50,000,000. Of this amount over
$43,000,000 represent fires in which the dam
age done amounted to $100,000 in each
specific instance.
First Hand Views of Hun Ravages
American Sketches German Savagery in France
Managing Director Reed of the Flint,
Mich., Board of Commerce, who has just re
turned after an investigation of the condi
tions on the western war front in Europe,
gives some first-hand observations of the
barbarism of the Huns.
Speaking of a French town which the
Germans had abandoned, he says that they
"left bombs in the cupboards which would
explode when the cupboards were opened.
They left things, lying about that "children
would pick up and be maimed by the result
ing explosions arms or legs blown off or
their faces mangled."
.. "I saw cemeteries where the Germans
had taken the tombstones back to Germany
with them to place in their own cemeteries.
The Germans entered these tombs and with
true German efficiency removed the lead lin
ing of the coffins to be used in making am
munition." He visited a ruined city which had once
been behind the German lines. Before leav
ing they had placed a mine in every house.
They had carried away everything from the
houses that could be carried. The able
bodied men and women were taken to Ger
many to work' in the munition plants. The
old folks and the young children were herded
together outside the city while the mines
were touched off. Not a house in "the place
was left standing.
"We passed through miles of farming
country; saw where fruit trees had been de
stroyed. ' They were not needed for making
munitions. They were just chopped down
or broken off and left lying. We saw farm
machinery bent and twisted out of shape so
as to be utterly useless.
I "This story I checked carefully to assure
myself of its truth. A nurse had brought a
German officer through. He had been hor
ribly wounded, but she had nursed him back
to health and strength. When he was leav
ing the hospital he asked the nurse if she
would shake hands with him to show that
there was no enmity between them. Im
pulsively she stretched forth her hand and
as she did so he seized her by the wrist and
snapped her arm across his knee, exclaiming
as he did so. There! You'll not be in shape
to nurse anyone else for a long while. They
took him out and shot him.
"Another wounded German, as the nurse
bent over him to give him some medicine or
some broth, jabbed a fork he had concealed,
deep into her eye. , ?
the Germans
captured an American boy. Under all rules.
. r i - in trAormpnt AS a
ot wanare nc was uuukv , . .
prisoner of war, but they took him out into
NoMan s Land ana cut nis inruai. un .
thia rnntemnt for the
American swine,' as they call us. A savage
Indian could have done no worse. Since our
boys heard about it they can hardly wait
until they can get into .the trenches.
"In the city of Baronne, of some is.uw
population they mined every house before
they retreated and poisoned the wells by the
most despicable imaginable.
"I saw a printed requisition there for
pretty girls of a certain age to act as order
lies for the German officers. That's where
the young girls go.
"They tried to get the hospital at Barle
Duc and set fire to it first with an incendiary
bomb dropped by one airplane. Then when
the people rushed out to extinguish the fire,
the other plane .swooped low and opened up
on them with machine guns. Then they
bombed business buildings and flew away.
. "We experienced an air raid by day. We
were going to visit a cemetery where there
were nine graves, the first of our boys to
shed their blood on French soil. We saw a
plane coming down, flying along parallel
with our. automobile. It did not look like a
French plane and soon we saw women peer
ing from behind curtains while soldiers with
rifles were hidden behind corners. Just then
the people began coming out of the church
and the raider dashed down and opened fire
with his machine gun on the crowd."
Such things as here reported have become
a common story. They are no longer de
nied. Mr. Reed is readily credible when he
says that our boys in France are impatient to
get at these fiends. Is there a patriot in this
country who is not impatient to join our
boys in France, or, if that cannot be, is not
determined to do everything in his power
and make any sacrifice a: home to back our
soldiers and sailor on to victory? Louisville
Courier-Journal.
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People and Events
the hnlshrvil-i. in makintr the
streak, might drain the Yellow Sea.
One scientist fears our supply of coal
will give out in 6,000,000 years. A govern
m.nt vnerr thinks 1.000 vears will do the
trick. Join the "Don't Worry Club."
It is a dreary day when grist misses the
1.r-,t milt Rorlr in Tersrv a court has iust
decided that the finder is the owner of a
$20 picked up on the premises ot a railroad
company. The promise of an appeal visions
a losing finder. t
(Jut in Salt Lake Uty one miss Augusia
Minnie Deckmann, a maid uncommonly flush
with ninniv anrt takinv a university COUTSC in
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domestic science, got too close to an in-
terned alien and quickly touna nerseu noD-
Vila si 4 onv Frtrf "nreticlaa nearhv is one
of the nation's four internment camps, and
draws a plotter now and then, dui iew suc
ceed in eluding the secret service.
New York is no exception to the rule that
campaign promises are more honored in the
breach than in active application. Grief
mingled with astonishment pervades the
ranks of Tammany's bolshevikis. They fea
tured Mayor Hylan as their oracle and
kci.J w,m nn tVi ink Nnw tfiev find him
till. v.. J ' -' - J . . :
vacationing at Palm Beach, hobnobbing with
aia .1 . tl 1 A
millionaires and coddling tne iaie ncn. An
other idol shattered.
, Spnej Year Ago Today In the-War.
United State" house of representa-,
Ives nassed the Flood bill. cmDOWcr-
fng the president to Arm American
f nerchant ships, but the measure died
lith ' the $4th congress on March 4,
its a result of a filibuster.
f he Day We. Celebrate. '
I CHarlea & Stebbins, assistant to the
keneral auditor of the Union Pacific
f allroad. torn 1848.
j F.I.F. A. Wellman of Bliss & Well-
tnan' born 1874.
i WBliam Dean Howells, man or let
lfmhorn t Martina Ferrv. O.. 81
'ears aeo. "
! Walter W. Warwick, comptroller
'f the United States treasury, born in
fcloto countv. Ohio. 46 years ago.
I Drs Harry M. Crooks, president of
alma college, born at GUman, 111., 49
tears aeo. ,
I Vi 3. Ross Stevenson, president of
frinceton theological seiniijiry, Dorn
t Llgonier, r&., 63 years ago. .
!"h6 Iaj in History. ,
1 18$ 4 Great Britain, Austria, Rifs
tk and Prussia, alpied tha treaty of
i haurnont Un4 at tlM tvarthrow of
vapoleoa. '
eiK NsnAiMO . nirme aerinwi
. -V" . .
I rom' Elba, arrived at Cannes 'to re
over1 taia throne.
1811 General v. E. Twiggs was
lsmtssed from the army for sun-en-
eiing the United States military
ota la Texas to the slaw
J ust 80 Years Ago Today
The office of the Nickel Plate road
has been removed to that of the
Wabash, on the corner of Fifteenth
and Farnam .streets, where the agent,
A. j. cooper, nas placed his desk.
Mayor Broatch .has received offi
cial notice from .the evangelical alli
ance throuRh a committee appointed
that it was tha intention to stop alt
ball playing on Sunday the coming
season.
Alice Vincent. Clara Wisdom, G.
W. Perdy and wife and Fannie Ktce
of the Carleton Opera company are
at the Millard.
L. M. Rheem. manager of the
Americas District Telegraph company,
baa returned from a business trip to
Chleasto. v
The McClurg Cracker and Cake
company of Council Bluffs is anx
ious to move its plant to this city
without delay and to this end a rep
resentative of the company consulted
with the Board of Trade officials.
Whittled to a Point
Washington Post: The firing squad
would soon give the spies the "fool's
peace" they are trying, to impose on
others.
Minneapolis Tribune! Life of the
farm boy ot the future will be easier.
He will not have to bed down the
tractor at 10 p. m., or feed it at 4
a. m.
New York World: The kaiser's ex
clusive discovery of an "amiable" side
to Carranaa'e character at the same
time emphasizes its genuineness by
the fact that it was alone revealed to
the most friendless ruler known to
modern times.
New York Herald: Oh for the
Russian Bear that walked and fought
like a man. rather than the bolsheviki
beast, which, answering with a
Trotsky to the kaiser's call, has
proved itself to be a combination of
yellow cur and skunk!
Baltimore American: .The unex
pected Is certainly happening in Ger
man' military circles when recruits
dare mutiny in resentment at an of
ficer's sabering a private. Such feel
ing in privates before the war would
hava been looked on as unheard of
insolence.
Brooklyn Eagle: Luxury produc
tion may be non-essential, luxury con.
sumption may be pernicious, but the
maker and sellers of luxuries and the
people they employ Imagine they are
doing an honest business or earning
an honest living. Sincere illusions
should not be too hastily nor too se
verely crushed. 'N
Sidelights on the War
Figures compiled by the local se
lection board of Pratt county. Illinois,
show that ti per cent of the regis
tered men are native born.
More enlistments from Wall street
families are recorded by the War de
partment than from any other class
of families in this country.
-Army officers say that a man con
nected with the heavy field artillery
is no more likely to be killed than one
in the employ of a railroad.
Venice cut out the Mardl Graa car
nival this year, the residents centering
their energies in defense and shooting
up Huns around the lagoons.
Anticipating a big haul of prisoners
by Americans on the west front. War
department officiate have made plans
for Quarters for 85,000 German cap
tives. Prisoners will be Kept on tne
other side. - - - v.-
A few years ago a pro-German
booster from the east exclaimed be
fore a friendly crowd in omana.
"Americans love tne nonar. uormiia
, . . TTr.. nnnrfitinna annarentlv
gives great play to the talent, particu
larly tne an oi recnui v.
shrunken mark. Munich Post in
January reported the arrest of a Ber
lin official for emblezsllns $350,000
and the .arrest of the municipal staff
of Dessau Duchy, of Anhalt, for co
ordinated robbery of the city treasury.
Another lover of art. Dr. Brensky,
government assurance official of the
ji.(.ui A xrintn la iinrlnr arrest for
theft of Jewelry at Brunswick. Caught
wun me gooas, w
Louie! . ,
Round About the State
Boone county farmers in'mass meet-
I no tnrnArl - rinnm the . countv aeent
proposition for the year. No one
present was aDie to snow enougu pen
eflts for the money.
Rushvllle Standard: If the feeling
against Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock
is all over the state similar to what
it is in this section, the senator s goose
is forever cooked in Nebraska.
Lyons Mirror-Sun chuckles merrily
over the easy money said to ne roiling
intn thn nncketa of bogus "German
spies" in that locality. Some thrifty
fAiinur trtttnsr next to xne uermaa
nrhndule of nrlcea for Pictures Of
imtrlran rrnsrpdrP89. snanshotted
milldams and other dams and pulled
down $500 for the work. Easy? Just
like finding it. And the Mirror-Sun
im a vVill nf veracity.
Commenting on the statements of
Mayor Madgett of Hastings, quoted in
Fred J. Clark's letter to The Bee. the
UaaHno'a TrlhttnA admits tha correct
ness of the police figures on prohibi
tion benefits, but challenges this as
sertion by the mayor: "Recently the
Presbyterian church turned its poor
offering to the deficiency war fund
because thure were no poor." "We
object to the inference that there are
nn nnnr naonla in Hastings." says the
Tribune. "There are poor people in
Hastings; In truth there are poor peo
ple in every city. 'Pity, 'tis true.' Of
course, if Mayor Madgett meant that
there were no members ot the Pres
byterian church in needy circum
stances then he should have made
that clear. It is welt to keep history
atraight at all times.!', lv.
Also Against the Squirrel.
Sutton, Neb., Feb. 21. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: I notice in today's
Bee. a letter by one Charles Stolten
burg concerning the beautiful little
pest, the squirrel. His beauty is only
on the outside. I am also a great
lover of creatures and have had these
little pests in captivity to make a
more thorough study of them. I have
had them in our park on the lawn in
their native state, and the more I
study them the more 1 consider them
a pest. One day last June I heard
the birds in this little park making a
great noise, and on investigating I
found a squirrel sitting up in an Ar
kansaw king bird's nest holding an
egg in his fore feet and eating it.
Thts convinces me. that squirrels eat
eggs of birds. Besides this they cut
holes in the buildings and eat corn
and all kinds of grain. They are
nothing but a pest.
WAY BARNELL.
About the Sabbath Day.
Council Bluffs, la., Feb. 25. To the
Editor of The Bee: The question ot
the right Sabbath and the authority
for keeping same seem too be of inter
est to at least two readers of the
column.
In regard to tne law In which the
seventh day Sabbath is contained.
Deuteronomy 6:8 says: "And tnou
shalt bind them for a sign upon thine
hand, and they shall be as frontlets
between thine yes." Revelation 13th
chapter says: "The beast or the
image of the beast shall cause all to
receive a mark in the hand or fore
head." This seems to say that some
ruling power In the last days would
cause all who would buy or sell, to
break the law of God. Now, consider
the 11th and 12th verses of the 14th
chapter of Revelation. Speaking of
the saints that have not received the
mark of the beast: "Here are they
that keep the commandments of God,
and have the faith of Jesus."
"Now we come to the righteousness
of the true Sabbath of God. In the
31st chapter of Exodus the Lord says
the Sabbath (seventh day) shall be a
sign between him and the children of
Israel throughout their generations
that they may know that he is the
Lord that sanctifies them." Read in
this connection, Epheslans chapter 2,
the 12th verse, in which It Is made
plain that the Christian of any
descent was made part of the com
monwealth of Israel and heirs of the
covenants of promise. In the -5th
chapter of Matthew, Christ tells the
Jews they have transgressed the com
mandments of God by following the
traditions of men. And he sums up
with this remark: "Every plant
which my heavenly father hath not
planted, shall be rooted up."
Is the Christian Sabbath of the
Lord's planting? Revelation 11th and
13th chapter, speaks of the beast con
tinuing 42" months. This is the same as
1,260 days mention in the third verse
of Revelation, 11. Is it merely a singu
lar coincidence that from the reign
of Constantine the first pope who
made the keeping of Sunday a law in
538, until 1798 the end of papal
dominion is Just 1260 years? Hosea
chapter two says that the Jews Sab
baths would be taken away from
them. Revelation 11th chapter says
the Gentiles shall tread down the
holy city 42 months (1260 days or
years). In the words of Elijah In
I Kings 18:21 "How, long hast ye be
tween two opinions? if the Lord be
God, follow him; but if Baal (sun
god), then folow him."
The remnant of the followers of
God are to build up the old waste
places and repair the breach (in the
law). See 58th chapter Isaiah, 12th
verse and 61st chapter 4th verse.
Incidentally bear in - mind what
Paul says aboit the grafting in of the
Jews again, when the time of the
Gentiles be fulfilled in Romans, 11th
chapter. A BIBLE STUDENT.
Letter to a Senator.
Red Cloud, Neb., Feb. 12. To Sen
ator Hitchcock, Washington, D. C:
We have the greatest faith and most
implicit confidence in President Wil
son and Secretary Baker in their
conduct of the war and believe that if
left unhampered they will quickly and
successfully bring this war to an end.
Just criticism with proof of its Jus
tice is to be encouraged, but criti
cism without proof of the justice of
such criticism is to be strongly con
demned, and you have lamentably
failed to prove that your criticism was
just. We believe that Wilson and Ba
ker have infinitely greater sources
of information as to what is being
done in war preparation than you or
any other of your associate critics
and their ability and patriotism are
above question. You find it easy to
criticise, but can you do better?
We condemn you for the fight that
you are making on the president and
War department on the manifest
grounds that you are giving aid and
comfort to the enemy, discouraging
our soldiers at the front and delaying
war preparations. You will remem
ber that very likely you would have
been defeated for senator had it not
been for the fact that it was believed
that if elected you would stand by
and support our president in this
great crisis, which you have failed
to do.
We therefore ask you to get behind
and support Mr. Wilson in the fight
that is being made upon him, or re
sign, come home and give us an op
portunity to select another senator,
and, as it is to be hoped, with better
results. We can say confidently thai
your action is condemned by at least
90 per cent of your former support
ers in this vicinity. ia,rv.c,
SIGNED BY FIFTY-ONE CITIZENS
OF WEBSTER COUNTY.
now to Get Supplies.
Avoca, la., Feb. 26.- To the Editor
of The Bee: I have just finished read
ing the speeches mado by the food
administration speakers there yester
day (February 25) and its seems to
me that telling people to save wheat
and pork is like locking the barn after
the horse is stolen. In other words,
if our government needs these things
as bad as these speakers say, why
does not the government take at the
mills and packing industries what it
needs? Just as long as people are
allowed to buy flour and pork, Just so
long will it be used, because each fel
low thinks, "Oh, what little we use
won't be missed," and so it goes. We
can get along without these two com
modities here. So the only solution,
and the best one. that I can see la
"Cut out our supply for awhile."
G. N. PENROD.
LINES TO A LAUGH.
"I understand young Loftus draws quita
a small salary In hla clerical work. Ha
could make much more just now by going
Into a factory." ,
"Yes. but then he would hava to draw
wages." Baltimore American.
New Arrival And where do 1 go when
this shelling business starts?
Sandy (late of the Wee Kirk) Laddie,
that a' depends on your releegioua opln
aeons. Blighty.
"The bride's mother has all the best of
It at a wedding."
"How so?"
"She can sob and whoop and faint. And
there's no way for the groom's mother to
get back." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Willis Do you wear any Insignia on your
golf coat?
Qillis Yes, during the winter the moths
laid out a complete 18-hole course on it.
Pittsburgh Press.
A RAY OF HOPE.
This has been the coldest year
Sinco I've been on this mundane sphere;
The weather man, as all well know,
Has sent us much of ice and snow.
The wind has whistled at our door
As It has whistled ne'er before:
The Ice has f roxen In the river
Till thought of It Just makes one shiver.
And what Is also to the point,
In times like these, so out of Joint,
The price of coal has soared so high
That it has long since reached the sky.
But just as morn wilt follow night
And darkness wilt succumb to light,
So will come the dawn of spring
And soon we'll hear tha robins sing.
LORIN ANDREW THOMPSON.
Fremont, Neb.
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