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IH3 OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: "APRIL V 1918.
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MARCH CIRCULATION .
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Mtllisms. Clrrulallon Manager.
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le them. Address changed aa of tan as requested.
Now watch the third Liberty loan go "over
the top" in a jiffy.
, .
When you buy a Liberty bond you are loan
ing money to yourself.
li you can not join the army, buy a bond,
olant a garden and swat the kaiser anyhow.
That Kansas City fire might be duplicated in
iny large American city, so authorities should
be doubly vigilant. X
That little April shower will mem many dol
lars later on for Nebraskans to invest in Liberty
Honds and the like.
Count Czernin insists that Clemenceau tried
to talk peace, but most folks believe the count
,ias succeeded in talking "bunk."
The "offensive" in the political drive on our
Omaha city hall will start Tuesday with 75 self--acrificing
volunteers in the assaulting ranks. '
Super-subchasers are promised for. June de
.ivcry. and let us hope the promise rests' on
something more substantial than moonshine.
LENDING TO LIBERTY. '
Marching millions, cheering, waving" of flags,
and applauding patriotic speakers the spon
taneous demonstration of an awakened nation
marked the anniversary of our presence in the
war as a combatant. The day also signalized
the commencement of the drive for 'the third
great loan to the government by its people. That
this will be a success none can doubt. It is as
certain as that, the devotion of Americans to
their country never was higher than it is today.
All the arguments made in behalf of the first
and second loans are forceful in support of this.
The money is needed by the government to carry
on the war. We are in the war for liberty, for
the safety of our institutions and for our homes
and our happiness. Therefore, money invested
in Liberty bonds is loaned to Liberty. Better
security could not be offered.
The bonds are offered to the people, as before,
that each may have an. opportunity to show his
willingness to back up the boys who are in
Europe, facing the proudest and most determin
ed foe ever arrayed against freemen. And just
for this reason the third loan will be oversub
scribed as were the first and second. Over the
roar of battle in Ticardy Berlin can hear the
echoes of the American cheers for the Liberty
bonds, and in that sound listens to the doom of
kaiserism
No crape will hang at packing house doors
oday, although it is announced that Francis J.
leftcy has resigned as counsel for the Federal
Trade commission.
' Sedition, disloyalty, sabotage, treason, are in
tolerable and unpardonable crimes, but they call
for prosecution and punishment tinder the law
not for lawless mob violence. While dethroning
odious autocracy in Germany, we must not en
hrone cqualy odious mobocracy in America.
-Patriotic democrats, of Nebraska are .asked
to reward the man whose name was signed as
governor to the kaiser's just repealed Jcultur
Mfckett law with their nomination for United
States " senator. If they do so they can again
:ount upon the unqualified endorsement of the
German-American Alliance.. . . , '
Those legislative patriots who .vote themselves
ay for the special session, admitting the ques
:ionabte constitutionality of such a salary graft
and cam6uflage.it with promising to give the
money to war relief societies, must not think
they are fooling any intelligent person. By this
trick the state would simply be reimbursing them
money they -would otherwise put up for the Red
Cross etc,', out of their own pockets. So what's
.he difference? - '
Saving the Nation's Babies. '
Organization for the better care of infant lives
.n America is well under way and a nation-wide
:ampaign has been started. Back of the mover
jicnt is the fact that 300,000 children under the
ige of 5 die annually in the United States, and
doctors believe that with proper care 100,000 at
cast of these could be saved. This desirable
snd, however, can be accomplished only through
bringing to mothers, young and old, a better un
demanding of the responsibility they assume
in regard to the young lives in their care;- Scien
tific measurements, weight-taking .and other fea
lures of the campaign may appear to be super
fluous to some, but they really have a part in
the work, and require attention. Principal of the
needs however, is education of. the mothers in
the simpler and more vital duties of baby nurs
ing. This may be done without exciting distrust
or suspicion, and in the end will, help to carry
the point. The work is not new in Nebraska,
for our people have been interested in the better
babies movement for years, and Omaha has rank
i :d high among - American cities with a low rate
of infant mortality. But as long as a life is need
lessly sacrificed, through ignorance or lack of
care, as long as a single baby falls victim to
preventable disease, there is work ahead for
those who are devoted to conserving and uplift-
Ing the race. ' .
Objective of the German Drive.
What was the objective of the German drive?
has been asked on all sides. Did the kaiser ex
pect to capture Faris, or was he to content him
self with taking Amiens? Did the German
strategy board brieve a decisive victory could
be attained? Or was the costly advance or
dered chiefly to view its effect upon the United
States?
Of course, definite answers can not be given
at present, but the last question suggests a pos
sible partial explanation when taken in connec
tion with the discussion precipitated in Germany
by President Wilson's series of peace talks two
months ago. For illustration, we have now an
extract from an article contributed to the "Neu
este Nachrichten" of Munich by Professor
Bonn, who was in America as assistant to Dr.
Dernburg when the latter had charge of the
German propaganda here, which concludes as
follows: . '
"During the last three months Wilson has
forgotten many things and learnt much. He
has grasped clearly the change of the military
situation in our favor which has been produced
bv the Russian collapse.- From his point of
. view America, as far as concerns seal military
operations, is somewhat in the position ot a
neutral who caai look on as long as the forces
of the two sides are more or less balanced.
But if the'side with which he feels himself al
lied at heart suffers a decisive defeat, he must
either accept in the, peace the consequent alter
ation in the world situation or he must throw
in his whole forces. Wilson is afraid of the
first possibility, and he would like to save
America the cost of ' the second possibility.
Consequently, it is sober policy which makes
him . offer us peace suggestions. It is also
sober policy for us to regard these suggestions
with the calm which is permitted to us Jy our
brilliant military situation, and for us to ask
ourselves what we shall gain if we dispose . of
the English enemy only to find the American
enemy take his place." , '
, The real purpose of the German drive, there
fore, may well have been to furnish America
with an object lcssorr in the hope of tightening
us, if not into a back-down, at least to a modi
fication of the planks in our peace program as
promulgated by the president. If such were the
case the kaiser and his advisers have not learned
as mudf about the temper of America as they
would naturally be credited with knowing. , -
V . "They Shall Not Pass." ' 1
, French and British soldiers again, have an
swered the most desperate assaults of the. Ger
man armies with such stubborn' valor as to turn
into defeat mighty efforts of the kaiser to pas's the
line beyond which he can not force his way1. One
hundred thousand men hurled against a nine-mile
front means a massed attack of such proportions
as scarcely can be appreciated by civilians. When
supported by artillery on a scale such as has
been, made familiar in this, war, such a charge
would be irresistible, yet it broke and was turned
back again and again by the determined defenders
of that line that stands .between the Hun and his
victims. -No word is'given as to whether any
Americans took part in this defense. It is only
known that effectives of General Pershing's army
have been incorporated with the French and Brit
ish armies, to be used where" they will be of
greatest service. Until the military authorities
lift the veil, we may only know that our boys are
serving. " For the moment the encouraging fact is
that the hideous sacrifice of human life by the
kaiser does not avail to break the line.
Omaha taxpayers will vote for school boaejs
chiefly to provide new quarters for the High
School of Commerce. They authorized a $1,000,
000 bond issue for this purpose once before with
out getting. what they voted for, tip they will
insist this time on the board taking care of the
High School of Commerce ' ahead of everything
else. '
Views', Reviews : md Interviews
Changes that Have Marked the
Are Called on to
Although the overshadowing world war is
responsible for the apathetic attitude of our
people to the impending city election which
is to determine the" character of Omaha's
municipal government for the next ' three
years, this condition also emphasizes the
ease with which an American community
quickly adjusts itself to new administrative
forms. This is only the third time we shall
have been called on to choose officers under
the commission plan of government and yet
it takes an effort to recall things as they
were under the old mayor and council re
gime. It is hard to realize that out of
Omaha's 64 years of existence we have had
the commission plan only six years.
I once made a careful study of the begin
nings of municipal government in Nebraska
and embodied the materials gathered in a
paper which I read before the State' Histori
cal society and which 'may be found in its
publications for the year 1894. In that paper
I shtewed that we had cities and city govern
ment even before we had territorial govern
ment. The very first election proclamation
of acting Governor Cuming mentions Omaha
City and Brownville among the' list of elec
tion precincts and a slightly later proclama
tion fixing the judicial districts for the ter
ritory names Omaha City, - Bellevue, Ne
braska City and Florence as places where
court should be held. It was not until the
spring of 1855, nearly a year after the terri
tory, was organized or opened, that legis
lative" enactments were recorded incorpor
ating Nebraska City and Omaha City.; These
were special charters and special charters
continued to be the regular order until
statehood wa3 established under the consti
tution of 1866, restricting for the first time
the lawmakers from legislating for cities
otherwise than by general" law, and' even
then the first general municipal corpora
tions act did not became law until 1869. .
The early city charters in Nebraska were
all of the mayor and council type, presum
ably copied in all essential particulars from
Iowa, from which state most of our terri
torial laws were derived. Omaha started out
with a mayor and nine aldermen elected an
nually. They were called councilmen in the
act of 1869, which also provided that they
should be elected two from each ward, with
one of the two retiring each year. The
charter revision of 1881 kept the number of
councilmen equal to twice the number of
wards, but made it so that half of them were
to be elected by the city at large, the two
classes retiring in alternate years. The num
ber of wards was increased later from six to
nine and still later to 12. We are how elect
ing only seven commissioners, but at dif-
List of City Offices Which We
Fill by Election ;
ferent times in the past we have had as
elective officers besides the mayor and coun
cil, a recorder, who was afterwards rechris
tened city clerk, a comptroller, a city treas
urer, a city marshal, a building inspector, a
city attorney, a city engineer, four police
commissioners, a police judge, (now two of
them),' a tax commissioner and I will not
be positive that I have enumerated all of
them at, that.' 'I have not mentioned school
board or water, board members, for it may
be contended that they are. not, strictly
speaking, city officers. There is evidently
room yet for a more simplified system.
A leading article in a current magazine,
in the nature of an appreciation of Edwin
Booth as one of America's foremost actors,
reminds us that just twenty-five years have
passed since the death of. Booth. This at
the same time reminds me that I once al
most made a stage appearance with Booth
myself. It was while I was a student at
John Hopkins university and the Booth-Barret-Modjeska
all-star combination was
billed for a series of performances at the
old Holiday street theater in Baltimore.
Word was spread among the boys that any
budding dramatic genius among us .would
be given preference for positions as supers
that carried 50 cents a night compensation
and the privilege of seeing the show from
the stage wings. I enlisted with others and
was cast for the role , of one of the Roman
citizens in Julius Caesar, only to . discover
that. I was too. small in stature to fit into
any of the costumes which the property
man was possessed of and I was thus com
pelled to deprive these talented tragedians
of the privilege of acting with me. To get
even, I dug up the price of admission to the
top gallery, from which I wigwagged to my
fellow students behind the footlights.
"Food will win the war" is the slogan of
the food conservation movement, but it could
well be matched in alliterative phrase, "What
we waste will win the war," conditioned, of
course, on not wasting it. The committee
appointed by the Omaha Real Estate board
to urge avoiding needless destruction of
anything of value, to replace which requires
time, effort or .money, deserves hearty co
operation. If this war will teach us to stop
the frightful waste previously perpetrated
and Americans have been known the world
over as the most wasteful nation on earth
we will later get out from under our colossal
war burdens much faster.
Man-Power Alone Will End War
Victory by Economic Pressure Deemed Impossible
Our state senators have generated so much
friction over the sedition bill that it might seem
the proposed measure really does touch some-
body. '-, .
Prof. J. Xawrence Laughlin, in Scribner's.
Except for products which it has been
able in the past to obtain by trade with neu
trals, such as Switzerland, Holland, Den
mark, and Sweden, Germany has had to r.ely
on its own productive power. The neds of
the army and its supply of munitions, .ot
course, come first: so that the civilian popu
lation can receive at the best only that por
tion of the total production not devoted to
military uses. Is that sufficient?
rrom our.ojrn experience in only tne nrst
stages of war we know what a very large
proportion, of productive power must be di
verted to military and naval uses. Other
needs cannot all be satisfied as before. So
great is this diversion- in Germany that the
demands of war now leave for civilians little
more than the simple necessities of life and
to many scarcely these. As the war demands
increase, .this residue out of a diminishing
total production is steadily - growing, less.
Since the farming lands of Roumania, Po
land,' and the Balkans have come, under the
control of Germany, it is quite likely that the
supply of food 'may be sufficient to prevent
absolute starvation', but, in practice, prices
of food are so high that the poorer classes
am reallv slrufirarhnflr - to eet evert the min
imum of subsistence. Country districts. ;of
course, are better than the cities; and in
munitions works laborers receive higher
waffes. Moreover, the willingness to- sacrifice
the herds in view of the possible early end
ing of the war has increased' the ration of
meat. ' In addition, although Germany im
ported foodstuffs before the war and paid for
them bv exoorts of finished Roods, now that
most exports and imports are cut off,' it hat
been; possible .for Germany ooth to reduce
consumrjtion and to increase its production
of food. Therefore, speaking generally, the
possibility of starving the Teutonic allies, es
pecially in view4 oj large potential supplies
irom Russia, may oe aismissea,
It must now be obvious 'that the practical
'and finaltest of Germany's .staying power is.
in its man-power.' It is a question of having
enough men on the firing line to equal or
surpass those, of the, allies, jn conjunction
with guns and munition. j complete i eco
nomic and financial! exhaustion is not present
as yet and even made remote by a peace
with, Russia the end can come only when
its-armies are hereafter reduced by casual
ties. By withdrawing its armies from the
Russian front and even recovering prisoners
of war it has been able considerably to en
large jts man-power in the west. Every pos
sible man has been brought tQ the colors. It
is now a test of menguns and generalship;
but our allies, are in far better condition to
meet heavy attacks than two years ago.
In spite of the facts as already preserved
cold, stubborn facts the staying forces of
the war a;e undoubtedly to be estimated by
the influence of them upon the psychological
situation. Can. Germany go ,on to. the theo
retical end as presented above without break
ing down before that end is reached?' In
other words, may not psychological . condi
tions become more powerful than economic,
financial or military ones?
It must be admitted, however, that the
German ruling classes are exceptionally
skilled in maninulatinsr the German mind, in
coloring its prejudices, stirring its hates, ex
citing its hopes, stimulating its courage, and
in knowing what springs ot action to ioucii
to make it respond to its policies. Thus the
stavincr nower of Germany largely depends
upon the psychological witl to sacrifice. Iu
no other country has the government such a
tight grtp on the mental processes ana
opinions of its people. Here is its charac
teristic strength. There being little private
political initiative, there is great potential
. a . . 'I'm. I
unity ot purpose ana action in military anu
diplomatic policy. - . ,
W'e may as well, dismiss the fiction that
the people will not follow the kaiser.
Pebple and Events
. Public treasurers are not worrying about
the third Liberty drive. Taxpayers' credit
is good and security ample.
Vnmn in Massar iivtsetts mav 'work onlv
50 hours a week for pay. At home, as here-
tofore, there is no limit to wonting nours.
.' Old Doc Munyon, he 'of the warning fin
Ufr tTmr will, and afcout $5,000,000. The
combination is , not likely to be much of a
puzzle for rhiladelpnia lawyers.
Five hundred hotel proprietors are pledged
to save 100 per cent of the, wheat bread used
in their establishments as long as Uncle Samr
needs the flour'.. ! That's the kind of "patriotic
support to swear by.
. A Manhattan woman arrested for hanging
out a German flag explained that she , had
washed it and hung it out to dry. The judge
remarked that she put the wrong rag in- the
wash and gave her three months for medita
tion and board at public expense.
One of the big distilleries of the middle
west at Hammond, Ind., anticipating a pro
longed ' Hoosier drouth, "sold for a song
last week,"ajid is to be. converted into a
chicken feed mill. , Mow nave tne migiuy
fallenl .
A local roar went out in a quiet section of
suburban New York against taxing a ceme
tery for street improvements. The idea of
" .a t lU.
slapping a tax on tne aeaa snocKea me
cemetery owners at the start, but a subse
quent quiz on cemetery profits provoked a
graveyard silence. A "popular cemetery in
that quarter strikes a high line of steady
dividends unsurpassed in Wall street.
It is stated officially that there are more
than 10,000 Smiths in the army and navy,
of wnom 1,500 are William Smiths." 1,000
are John Smiths and 200 are John A.
Smiths. There are 1,000 John Browns, 1,200
John Johnsons, 1,040 George Millers and 262
John J. O'Briens, of whom 50 have wives
named "Mary." Where are the Jones?
Never mind. The list is enough to worry a
side-partner of the manager of the service
card index.
Around the Cities
St Louia has a force of 15 police
women, and the old town regards the
squad as the pioneers of equality of
service.
The Billy Sunday cocktail is the
latest liquid confection in the wet
belt of Chicago. The "stick" in it is
pronounced a corker, what ever that
means.
Taxes in Xew York City have gone
UD 34 noints and rentn are mnvine- to
ward the same high notch. Tenants
down there imagine they escape'
taxes, but they have another guess
coming.
The traw band -business has seen
its best days in Chicago. Federal and
state courts have broken up the fed
eration of crime profiteers who have
heretofore supplied immunity for a
host of vicious lawbreakers.
A crusade against automobile
thieves is on at St. Louis. Three
strong bodies back the drive the
Chamber of Commerce. Automobile
club and Automobile Dealers' associa
tion. Crooks caught with the goods
are assured a long vacation from the
highways.
Philadelnhia's finer ftlin- nre
grievously hurt by the Navy depart
ment's report of shocking vice condi
tions. It is claimed by the city's de
fenders that conditions are not as bad
as pictured. On the quiet, however,
admissions are made of considerable
badness existing, which calls for a
general cleanup, with a minimum of
publicity.
Pro-German books have been re
moved from the shelves of the public
library of Sioux City. The present
supply of books are said to be 100 per
cent American. It may be noted in
this connection that the librarians of
New York City report a marked fall
ing oft iir requests for Germanized
books and an equally marked increase
in the circulation of American Brit
ish and French books.
TO OUR SOLDIER WIVES.
We are often told In etory
And I've heard It oft in sons
That when a eoldler'a fighting
To right aome mighty wrong.
That h flghta a greater battle
And he flghta with greater vim
TOJien he thinks of the little sweetheart
That la waiting here for him.
We have atlll another aoldler.
Whom wa know ig just aa brave,
Who flghta a fiercer battle
Thus freedom'a cauae to save
It'a the husband and the father
In the fiercest of. the atrife
Ha flghta for home and mother
Aa he thinks of child and wife.
Wa read of Spartan mothera
In the days of long ago;
But but we have thousands like her.
Whom you, perhaps, may know;
And as she spends the evening
With her children by her knee,
She Is thinking of their father
So far beyond the sea.
She's the finest type of woman
Beneath God's starry dome;
She excels the Spartan mother
In the days pi ancient Rome.
So here's to her, Ood bless her!
Give her all the Joys of life
And pay her all the homage due
A gallant soldier's wife.
The soldiers' wives and mothers 'x
All play a noble part,
So grant them all the pleasure
That will ease an aching heart
There Is one golden rule applies
To all the walks of life.
Where you trust a soldier's sweetheart
You may trust a soldier's wife.
Omaha. J. & HUNTER.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTIES.
Nell Honey, I'll tell you something If 3
won't breathe It to the lieutenant whea b )
cal!s tonight.
' Bell Why, what is It, dear?
,! Try eating an onion for that cola
Florida Times-Union.
"A Turkish beauty must be fat."
"Fat V
Weight la what counts."
"I suppose a fond lover tells the object
of his affections that she's as beautiful as
a freight car or a haystack." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
"I want a pair of button shoes for my
wife."
"This way, sir. What Kina ao you wwn.
sir?" t ......
"Dosen't matter, just so tney non i duuuo
in the back." People's Home Journal.
Friend Why do you make that patient
wait two hours every day In the anti-
rI)octor He needs rrrt and that Is th
only way I can compel him to take It.
Boston Transcript.
"I told Mrs. Mlxup that affairs were U
a rotten condition."
"What did she say?"
"That such a statement rut her in a
state of putrefaction." Baltimore American.
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t TODAY I
One Year Ago Today in the War. -
Cuba declared war aginst the Teu
tonic allies. -
Herbert C. Hoover selected to head
the federal food administration.
Representatives of France, ligland
and United States conferred on Joint
naval warfare. ,
The Day We Celebrate, i
Rear Admiral, Nathaniel R. Uaher,
United States navy, born in Indiana,
S3 years ago. '
Walter Camp, athletic trainer and
author, born at New Haven, 69 years
. ago.
Most Rev. Randall Thomas David
son. archblshoD ot Canterbury, born
70 years azo.
John J McOraw, manager of the
New York National league team, born
at Truxton, N. Y 45 years ago.
This Day in History.. ."-'
17T9 William Wordsworth, poet
laureate of England, born. Died
Aprll23, 1850. .
181S General Jackson took fore!
ble possession ot the Spanish fort at
St, Mark's. Fia,
i86Sv-6econd flay of battle of Pitts
burg Landing, or Shilch, ended in the
vithdrawal of the confederates. - '
1868 Darcy McGee, a member ot
the Dominion Parliament, was as
sassinated by a Fenian at Ottawa.
. 1892 Germany decided to adopt
the Maxim gun, and ordered 180 tor
use in the navy, - , , .
J ust 80 Years Ago Today
The Guarantee, Loan & Investment
company filed articles of incorpora
tion. J. H. McConnell, W. J. Martin,
C 8. : Parrott, David Bennison and
S. P. Morse, are the incorporators,
and the capital stock is 1100,000.
i
The Union Pacific placed its new
cars in service on the suburban line.
They have a seating capacity of 67,
cane mounted and are models in
nearly every respect
The lumber with which to erect the
buildings on the fair grounds, which
had been destroyed by the Are last
fall, has already been .purchased and
work will begin in a tew days,
A meeting: of the .Irish National
league was held at St. Philomena'a
hall, at which a recitation was deliv
ered by J. W. Evans. Miss Cecelia
CNell declaimed one of Patrick
Henry's immortal speeches and John
A Groves delivered the address.
At.
Out of the Ordinary
A part of the army ot Madagascar
is a cavalry ( regiment mounted on
oxen. v' :
Tuesday is said to be the only day
ot the week which is not recognised
as the Sabbath by on people or an
other. . !.
Massachusetts officials estimate that
the number ot women workers in that
state has increased by nearly 19,000
since tne beginning of the war. :
Nero, famous for many acts r be
sides "fiddling while Rome burned,"
is said on one occasion to have spent
$175,000 merely for roses for his ban
quet tables. The roses were brought
from Egypt.
Because of the extreme low water
ia Red river, from which Fisher.
Minn., gets its supply, the residents
of the town will be alowed to take
baths only on days designated by. the
council. -.
For the unit ot women telephone
operators to be sent to France a dis
tinctive uniform is. bring provided.
Salaries - range from $60 to $125 a
month, with allowance for rations and
quarters. Successful applicants must
speak both French and English with
ease. . - r.
Somebody Is always wanting to
know. how. much salary the president
gets. The total amount the govern
ment provides htm for clerk hire and
"White House expenses, including his
salary, ia $260,000 annually. NOf this,
$75,000 is straight salary, $25,000 for
traveling expense) and $160,000 tor
the real,.-. .. y - , ,
Signposts of Progress
The United States grows more than
6,000,1)00 bushels of peanuts a year.
An Italian university prof esaor, says
he has found radium in ordinary dew.
Compressed peat, formed .into
sheets, has . been Invented In-Europe
for. Insulation against heat and cold.
The state of New York has 394.023
motor vehicles. ' They pay an annual
fee of more than- $2,215,000 .and give
employment to 106,000 chauffeurs,.
A new automobile . attachment
makes a permanent record of the
speed of the car during the entire trip
for the purpose of preventing speed
disputes with authorities.
In the belief that a thief will be less
likely to steal hand baggage that has
no handle upon it, an inventor has
patented a detachable handle for suit
cases.
i'-Ten mules' can haul about two tons
or material and their work Is limited
to 10 hours, but the tractor hauls 25
tbhs jtnd covers a distance bf 20 miles
at the same time.
: American . manufacturers have
built one-handed plows for use in
Latin America. Tests have proved the
worth and popularity of these imple
ments.' Farmers in those countries
cannot be Induced to use a plow hav
ing two handles.
With1 a view to -meet - the paper
shortage in Scotland the attention of
paper manufacturers Is being directed
to the possibility of utilizing the ex
tensive crop of river reeds found
along the banks ot the Tay In that
Jscahti-t ..'.,
Whittled to a Poiii
Washington Post: Congressional
conversationalists with sons at the
front might do worse than write over
and ask the lads what they think of
making politics in war time.
Baltimore American: Roosevelt as
sails what he calls kid glove manage
ment of the war. Of course we all
know the . colonel prefers boxing
gloves to all others even though they
Impair his vision. -.
St. LouIb Globe-Democrat: If the
delay in airplanes Is due to tampering
with the planes by enemy workmen
as testified to in congress Isn't, it
mystifying that nobody is reported
caught at it?
Minneapolis Tribune:' Vienna pa
pers call the commandeering of Dutch
.Kir.. . th. T7nti states "an un
precedented act of violence against a
neutral people." The Teutons merely
sink neutral ships, instead of com
mandeering tnem ana paying ior
them.
Brooklyn Eagle: We have been
reading for nearly four years that
Germany's internal condition Is not
good. If it be true that, the Germans
were eating snowballs last winter it
must be that the snowballs contained
a high percentage of tallow or an
equivalent substitute for elbow greese
driven by muttonheaded intelligence.
New York World: The popular
tenor whose Individual "drive" has
contributed $80,000 to the Red Cross
ma tiavA.fmmrl .a v. v tn do ef
fective war work without going to the
trenches, jonn aiccormacK sets an
Inspiring example to stay-at-home pa
triots not only in his own profession
but 8ver wbf .
Hot Water for
Sick Headaches
Tells why everyone should drink
hot water with phosphate
In It before breakfast
Headache of any kind, is caused by
auto-intoxication which means self
poisoning.' Liver and bowel poisons
called toxins, sucked into the blood,
through the lymph ducts, excite the
heart which pumps the blood so fast
that it congests in the smaller arter
ies and veins of the head producing
violent, throbbing pain and distress,
called headache. You become nervous,
despondent, sick, feverish and miser
able, your meals sour and almost
nauseate you. Then you resort to
acetanilide, aspirin or the bromides
which temporarily relieve but do not
rid the blood of these irritating tox
ins. A glass of hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in
it, drank before breakfast for awhile,
will not only wash these poisons from
your system and cure you of head
ache, but will cleanse, purify and
freshen the entire alimentary canal.
Ask your pharmacist for a quar
ter pound of limestone phosphate. It
is inexpensive, harmless as sugar.
If you aren't feeling your best, if
tongue is coated or you wake up with
bad taste, foul breath or have colds,
indigestion, biliousness, constipation
or sour, acid stomach, begin the phos-
phated hot water cure to- rid your
system of toxins and poisons. Adv,
1 " i i J i aT
We ha?ve won supremacy in our
chosen field of endeavor because
of our earnest desire to please our
clients. We are equipped to serve
them in a dignified manner, and
we are trustworthy.
N. P. SW ANSON
Funeral Parlor, (Established 1688)
17th and Cuming Sts. Tel. Douglas 1080.
'S
HO RAISE IN
P3AH0 PRICE
SALE
HAS AND IS HOW
Was
$250Oj
Hospe
Pianos and Players
Our friends know that for 44
years Mr. Hospe has given the
best for theprice.
Pianos $250 to $350
Players $395 to $475
f 2i75SliPn
Kimball
Grands, Uprights and Players
There are over 300,000 in use
right now.
$275 and UP i :
r300 HPtlJ
Cable Nelson .
- .. .. Upright Pianos . .,
In wonderful woods and beauti
ful cases. "Tis our bread ana
butter."
$300 and UP ki
(Now I (I
I $400 Hflgjj
Bus1! & Lane
Grands, Uprights
For 15 years we never had one
returned for any reason.
$400 and UP
Reproducing Pianos
Apollo
Most wonderful instruments.
Plays electrically, reproducing the
exact duplicate of the master's
work, all expressions automatical
ly a perfect reproduction.
W e carry a great number of re
produced rolls for this instru
ment,
Aiso piayea by root power or
hand playing.
Priced from $850 to $2400
Used Pianos
1100 $125 $150 $175 !
Organs
$15 $20 $25 $30
Terms to Suit.
Player Rolls, Scarfs, Stools
Benches, Cabinets.
Pianos Tuned and Repaired.
1513-1515 Douglas St.