THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, APRIL' 12, 1916.
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MARCH CIRCULATION
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66,558 Daily Sunday, 56,553
ije circulation for the numtll. lubKtlbea tod iwero to by Dwltht
w illume, circulation Mtattttl
Subscriber Uavinf the city alicuM hava Tba Be mailed
i ta them., Address changed aa ottee) aa requested.
Men, food, skips are the great ne'ed9. Liberty
bonds will help fill the order.' "
This new daylight-saving business acts just
as if it had always been with us.
Twenty-three ' candidates for commissioner
received less than 500 votes in our city primary.
It was "23" for them. . - ,
The low men in the recent cjty primary re
ceived less than 200 votes; an average of not more
than one to a precinct. Accidents will happen.
. ' ; One more success Is credited to German ar-
tillery at Berlin, another American Red Cross
t i, nurse having been1 killed in an attack on a hos
Why blame Sitting Bull? That dead and gone
v exponent of kultur lived up to his lights, but he
was an untutored and not a scientifically equipped
savage. " ' , '
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, Dismissal seems a mild punishment for gen
teral who fdeliberately neglects his duty, Pro
gcrmanism in the army ought to meet something
sterner. , ,
. ? Cefmans are using American activity V back
::a dric for another war loan. Berlin is rapidly
','awakening to the fact that itblundered in arous
' ling America. , , . , .'U " :.??'. i..
? . The Finns say they merely invited the Ger
' nians to assist in testoring order, but they may
Uhave trouble in getting rid of their guests: Fin
" land is really important to German world domin-
ion plans. . -y . V .'
. I The, kaiser is ordering the "crushing" of all
armies opposed to him, but he no longer refers
;to them as "corftemptible." Experience has modi
"jfied his yiews on this roint. ;
The senate rntlitary aflfairs committee declares
,the )Var departmeot'i airplane program to have
.been aisappointnjent, which is a ,mild way of
j .characterizing what looks like a dismal failure.
jReorganizatiort and closer- control is proposed as '
' remedy. ' . .
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A proteut baker at Salt Lake was dumped into
! dough tub by fellow workmen, who for the mo
;jneat overlooked the value of. bread.. Thj: Mor-
won. city ought to provide a special dump for its
' Undesirables. ' . ,
Nebraskans have cut their wheat consumption
iol half, according to the food administrator's re
' orts. r Moreover, they will double theirj wheat
production, thus' magnifying their contribution to
lirhe world's food supply. ' .
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j ' W"1 Our Navy It Doing. t ,
I Establishment of a naval Use at the Azores
islands to serve as a protection for the commerce
in that region in announced from Washington,
.Wving to remind the people that our sea dogs
, are otv the job. We have not heard a great deal
' tSf fte. navy's part in the war: of course,. we know
'jt is on the job continually, and that through its
ceaseless vigilance we have been able to trans
'port' an army4 nd,its supplies to Europe.. Such
p impl statements do not tell the story. The navy
, vas the one department of our government that
was ready when the war broke out. It has never
'ilagged,' but has been increased in strength of
; men, vessels and .armament, until it is fairly en
titled "to rank alongside Great Britain's mighty
armada.at the beginning of the war. ; Some day
' the cove? will be taken off and the story of what
our navy is "doing will be told in detail tothe
.world. It will be in keeping with its traditions.
For -the present Americans must rest content in
. the limited knowledge that our sea warriors are
on; watch, afcrt and vigorous, and may be de
pended upon in any emergency that may arise.
DID YOU GET THIS?
Can it be that someone slipped a cog the other
day in the sanctum of our amiable hyphenated
contemporary which has been so valiantly oppos
ing editorially every suggestion of universal mili
tary training? Under a prominent heading spe
cially labeled "by F. Edgar McGee, stafLxorre
spondent," and dated at Camp Meade, Maryland,
former Congressman Johnson of South Dakota
who enlisted for service, is quoted as being con
vinced more firmly than ever after three months
in training there that he was right in advocat
ing universal military training when he was in
congress and the World-Herald "staff corre
spondent" adds for himself as of his own knowl
edge the following:
And that is the spirit in .every cjimp in
America where men. good, red-blooded men,
are tn training. Civilians a few months ago,
and nine out of every 10 of them opposed to
military training, at least of a universal va
riety, they are now to a man in favor of a sys
tem of universal training for the whole of the
United States. Simply because, through ac
tual experience, they have woke up to the fact
that universal training is not only absolutely
necessary for the protection of America and
her ideals, but essential for the preservation of
the nation's youth. Just -now we art engaged
in that highly prqfitable and pleasurable busi
ness of wiping the kaiser and all that smacks
of militarism off the map. but when that job
is over we must turn to the army system we
have created and give it some mighty serious
thought.
Which are the readers of the hyphenated organ
to believc-the unanswerable argument of the
staff correspondent in favor of universal military
training, or the camouflage argument of the pa
per's editor against universal military training
the former speaking frorn experience and obser
vation in training camp, the latter writing a dis
sertation on his beautiful desk in that costly new
building?
P. S. We want it distinctly understood that
we are not trying to get the staff correspondent
fired. .
Russia'i War on Japan.
Any declaration of war by. Russia, at present
will depend in the first place on permission of
Germany to the Russians to raise and maintain
an army. . This makes it clear that if Lenine is
allowed to carry out his threat to wage war
against Japan, it will be because the kaisfjr con
siders such action to his advantage. Japan's en
try at Vladivostok was long forecasted, and irf
a broad sense had been discounted as to its pos
sible effect ,on the Russian people. So far as this
war is concerned, Russia is of remote avail only
to the Allies: it is possible' that Germany's or
ganization can be so extended that a blow nay
be struck at Japan. This must be apparent to
any. J'rovision against such a move py the
mikado's government is only prudent. To await
the arrival of German agents in the Pacific re
gion of Liberia before moving wotrld be to invite
grave danger to Japan. Plication of the bolshe
vik! by the Allies may be an essential feature of
the general war policy,but it should be under
taken on the basis that Russia yet owes some
thing to the cause it has betrayed, and that its
future will not be darkened by declining to fall
in with, all the plans of the German military party
at this moment.
Dangerous Propaganda.
Most insidious of all efforts to break down the
American will to win is the continued repetition
of the assertion that, the German people are pre
paring, to overturn or reform their government.
Our war is with Germany, against Jhe German
genius, the German idea of control from abdve.
It is folly to think that any material division ex
ists between the German kaiser and the German
people. None on doubt that a great weariness
of war has overcast the central empires of Eu
rope, but this has not had the effect of weaken
ing their efforts. So long as their armies are n
the field, fighting desperately and "with the hope
of victory, just that long will the people of those
countries support the military. They believe in
the plan of world domination, artd look ahead
confidently to the time when 'all nationj will
recognize the superiority of the German. If they
finally succeed in imposing ' their will on the
world, the reward will be tp them worth far more
than the cost. Anericansjnusi keep this in'mind:
The only way for Germany to attain reform in its
government is through the dust of its present
institutions, and the only prospect of safety for
the world outside of Germany is through beat
ing those institutions into dust.
A conference of military experts to agree on
some standardized, form of battle interpretation
might help to remove some of the confusion that
now obfusticates the public Until it is held the
bewildered citizen' will have to content himself
with the belief that sometime all will be made
plain, but for the present the wisest of the strate
gists at home does not know what the generals
in command are doing pr planning..
Senator Hitchcock's hyphenated World-Her
ald has not a word to say about the failure of
the legislature to carry out the mandate of the
democratic politicians to .save the 'alien 'enemy
vote in Nebraska for the 1920 presidential elec
tion. The Hitchcock-Mullen bunch got the gov
ernor in bad there and would like very much to
have folks forget it . "
Unsung Heroes of the Sea
Brave Battles of Seamen Against the Sneak
, of the Deep .
New York Evening Post.
Out yonder, in European waters, is going
on a silent war, without thunder of guns
massed attacks, or hourly reports from cor
respondents. Now and .then, when a great
liner falls victim to a submarine, the cables
burn with stories of thrilling rescues, of
hairbreadth escape. But when tramp steamer
so-and-bo, loaded with soya beans from
Hongkong, or hides from the Argentine,
slowly sags forward and, slides under. water
in answer to a torpedo's relentless summons,
the statement that Masters reason for
abandoning ship was that it sank under him."
or that "It went down by the head hardly a
splash like the lady it always was, is taken
by the "nearest consul and forwarded for
burial irt some obscure London bureau. This
veritable treasury of. romance contained in
the official records has just been uncovered
and a few samples of its ingots displayed to
the English public by Tames Bone, writinz
m the Manchester Ouardian. Here in Amer
ica we shall soon be havinsr simitar archives
of anonymous heroism and bravery to store
up.
On the whole, there is a matter-of-fact.
businesslike tone in these- tales which
grotesquely contrasts with their inherent
sensationalism.. Invariably, almost, the re
port is that "All the ship's company behaved
with great coolness," that the men stuck to
their posts till the last minute. Seaman
Langfear attempted, to tret aft to' his eun
after the 'ship was struck, but only got to
the stern as the ship sank. Or-again:
I then tried to eo aft. but was stopped
by the water, so returned and got a light
to enable the crew who were aft to see the
wayi round one of the crew who said his
leg was b'roken, placed him -on hatch on
boat deck, telling him that he must look out
for hirnself as I could do no more, as by
that time I was uo to my neck in water.
Just managed to seize the davit guy, and was
carried down with the ship, ana while under
water, I heard the boilers explode."
Here is a whole chapter of Conrad packed,
compressed, jammed into a few stark sen
tences. "Master and mate went down with
the ship" is one of the most frequent entries.
"The stewardess behaved exceptionally well,
and with great presence of mind ga,vc muf
flers and other articles to the crew when
they were in the boat." In this woman's ac
tion, speaks out not only k the courage, but
also the two-handed capability of the sex.
Did the motherly soul have tucke'd away in
her bag, as well, rations of pilot biscuits and
marmalade. and a pot of tea?
Some of the accounts verify almost the
worst that has been told about the cold-
blooded brutality of submarine officers,
nearly equalling the tale of the ' Belgian
Prince, where the men were taken on the
submarine decty their life belts removed, and
the submarine submerged. Mr. Bone cites
how one submarine deliberately sank an
overturned boat ffi which the crew of a tor
pedoed ship were clinging. In spite of the
men's pleas and their telling him that a man
had been caught under the boat when it up
set, the German commander ordered the sub
marine's helm down hard, "with the result
that the whole of the men on the upturned
boat were thrown into the water and the boat
went, under." None the less they were all
rescued, even Quirk, who had been caught
under the po&t:
"The man under the boat could not re
lease himself, and to enable him to have air
we took the plug out and 'we remained in
thii position till we were picked up.
Naturally, not all German commanders were
conscienceless brutes like the one figuring
in the foregoing story. It is pleasant to note
that now and then a spilled crew was picked
up and put back into its boats by the attack
ing submarine. Various conversations be
tween German officers and English crews are
recorded, from which it appears that the
former looked pale and underfed and ex
pressed themselves as weary of the war.
Photographs often were taken, probably for
Die Illhstrierte Woche. A great point was
made of- identifying the ship torpedoed in
Lloyd's Register which every submarine
commander seems to have had handy in his
pocket.,
JNot all the tales are of unresisting defeat.
however. A goodly number record also
brave resistance, in "face of every kind of
odds. Submarines rammed or blown up by
gunfire, breathless races in the night to es
cape from pursuing U-boats, then the "terri
ble explosion of a torpedo, as one captain
puts it, with "the portfiide blown out and
the side of the bridge crumpled" and "the
boilers exploded," these art some' of the in
cidents of a waffare that is being waged
without newspaper celebration 6n either side
of the Atlantic. , When we read the week's
report of "twelve ships over and four under
.600 tons sunk, we do not visualize the
stirring deeds that these few barren words
cover. ,
"Strangefs iv the- V4llage"
Changes Already Wrought by War in Rural England
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, j k.rm omiui in juonuon wntumtic.
Time ws when in our village and ' in
nearly all other villages, too, for the matter
of that a stranger was an. object of interest
and curiosity. The sight of one walking "up
or down the street was enough to bring a
dozen heads to the windows, and as many
housewives to their cottage doors or garden
eates on some ostensibly domestic errand
which might serve as an excuse for a good
stare. Not that the attitude of the village
was in any way like the traditional " 'Ere's
a stranger 'cave 'arf a bn'ckat 'im 1" it war
imply that the arrival of a stranger was so
unusual that it could not be passed over un
noticed. Even summer visitors were few and
far between, for the village although it lies
amid scenery as fair as any in all sweet Eng
landhas no "attractions" of the guide- book
variety. Only two or three houses, more
over, had suitable accommodation, and they
generally got the same families year after
year. v
That is one of the things which the war
has changed. We have got accustomed to
strangers nowadays. We have simply had
to, whether we liked it or not. -Some people
perhaps didn't like it over much. But there
the thing is and tlrere is no ftting away
from it. And I don't think there is any
doubt about it being very good for us.
For although, as I have said, the village
was not openly hostile to strangers, it cer
tainly was inclined to suspect them, fer
haps it is an instinct filtered down from long
ago ancestors who had every reason to look
askance at strangers in days when the term
"stranger" was very often synonymous with
invader or conqueror. In many country
places a newcomer is still a foreigner, and
the next county furrin parts.
Villages are conservative places on the
whole. They like things to go on-just the
same is they have always done. They don't
particularly ' want "improvements." They
don't care about innovations, even if they are
entirely beneficial. It is the same in all walks
of society, .alike among the "old residents"
who occupy the larger houses, and the an
cient inhabitants of thatched cottages in the
village street. : ' -
And they don t or they aiant want
strangers I. That is as regards the older gen
erations. The young people have been in
clined to get out of the groove for some time.
It is a day when people ot all ages wno suck
in grooves are apt to be violently jolted out
of them. .
We see olentv of strangers nowadays. We
see soldiers dusty and hot, or wet and cold
soldiers marching through the village op
the long,-long road of war. We see labor
corps, forestry corps, all kinds of corps, some
of them speaking in the manner of strange
lands which were formerly to most oi us
mer names on the man. if so much, and
which we had never seriously thought of as
being peopled by men and women not uniiKe
r-eurselves. Some strangers even descend-
under stress Of engine trouble or some such
reason from the skies themselves into our
ancient, unchanging fields. What would sucti
a visitation .have meant 150 years ago?
Sometimes they come and build bridges over
our winding river reacnes, causing a nugniy
flutter and ouacking among inc icainercu
villages of the reedy eyots.
Sometimes we get visits from steam
plows and hay-balers, whose crews are bil
leted in. the village for the length of their
stay and, one and all, they generally get a
hearty welcome. Indeed, it is hard to think
how in these days it could be otherwise.
Very, very few of us now have no near and
dear one a stranger in a strange land. "I've
'got a boy of my own out yonder,' is the
sentiment one hears so often, and 1 wouldn t
like to treat someone else's boy worse than
I'd like my own treated."
n There are the girls, too, girls in abbre
viated skirts and big boots in which I am
sure they would never have dared to run the
gauntlet of the village,lwo or three years ago.
It has taken the village longer, I thinje, to
get used to them than to the men, for womejn.
are admittedly more conservative in such
matters. But that, too, is coming gradually.
, Is the change one for the better? Beyond
a shadow of a doubt it is. The coming of
strangers means the bringing of new ideas,
new interests, new blood to' the countryside,
all which things .will be needed when the
time comes for the repeopling of rural Eng
land. It is the same thing in little which is
happening to us as a nation. All that is good.
in local, as in the wider, patriotism, will life;
but narrowness, suspicion, and. exclusiveness
are to be things of the past when the new
order of things c6"mes in.-
They are only the vanguard of a mighty
army, these strangers we have seen -during
the last. few years.. More wilt come, and
come to stay; men from the cities whomave
learned to love air and space and wide
horizons, girls who have gone to school with
nature, men "broke in our wars," who will
seek and find health for shattered nerves and
bodies at the gracious heart of England.
J People and Events
I Back among , the gardeners of Long
Island plowmen with teams cheerily plow
away for $7 a day. t x
Chicago's prize patriotic Polly, kidnapped
by slacker kids,' has been restored to its fa
vorite perch, where it parrots to all comers,
"Kill the Kaiserl"
L- vSeveral favorite brands of cigarets are
said' to have been commandeered by the gov
ernment for fighting men. As soon as present
stocks out the factories are exhausted a rush
to recruiting offices may , be looked for.
No Hun bombs have yet exploded in New
York, but automobiles, do an equally, cruel
job of slaughtering the innocents. . Twenty
seyen children killed by the wheels consti
tute the March tragedy of the pavements.
It's no troublex looking through plate
glass windows but one may not so readily
penetrate the elevated price list. The latest
revision of the list noted by the New York
Journal of Commerce shows that a plate
which cost $8 in 1915, now pulls down $14.
No extra charge for the look-in.
John McCormack is"believed to have
touched the highest professional note in the
income tax keyboard. His contribution
equalled the yearly salary of the president
of the United States. Besides, his Red Cross
drive to date jetted $80,000. The "sweet
singer of Armagh" is as generous with his
gifts as kindly nature is to him.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
' i British pierced Hindenburg line at
Arr&a. .-..'-.'
f Bolivia-severed diplomatic relations
with Germany. i
' f United States took first step towird
formation ot a great army by. calling
, Jor'660,000 volunteers. .
- The' Dajr.Ve Celebrate. v ,
Charles E. ""Wager, assistant general
freight agent of the Missouri Pacific
railroad, born 1865.
- Vice Admiral Sir Rosslyn Erskine
W'emyss, first sea lord ot the British
I admiralty, born 54 years ayo.
V Brigadier General Jesse M. I. Car
" tery United States army, born in Mis
souri, iS years ao. ...
- Rt Bev. Arthur C A. Hall. Epls
itopal - bishop of Vermont, bora in
. England. 71 years ago. , -
This Day to History. ,
1711 Abbe RaynaL the famous
French historian otr America, bom.
Died in Paris. March , 1793.
t 1777 Henry Clay, the famous Ken
tucky statesman, born in Hanover
count, Va. Died " la Washington,
. 1. tt, June i 9. 1 152.
i 1SI1 General .Grenville.M. Dodge,
for whom the national army camp at
tes Moines is named, born at Dan
vers, Mass. Died at Council, Blurts,
ls. January S, 11 (.
181 Edmund Ruffln, a 75-year-old
Virginian,1 fired the" first gun
against Fort Sumty.
Just 80 Years Ago Today
S. O. V. Griswdld and George
Tzschuck left for a goose carnival on
the upper Platte. -
A large force of men and teams are
employed on the work of excavating
for the Armour beef house and for
the addition to the Exchange build
ing. . S. ..
A movement is on foot in which
J. J. Philbln. Jack Morrison and
Frank Hanlon are the prime factors
to organize a club for the purpose of
leasing Cut-Oft lake and converting
it into a pleasure resort. t,
t Wilson & Rankin's minstrels are
the attraction at the Boyd opera
house this week.
The Burlington ticket office will In
the near future be moved from its
present quarters to the basement
story of the First National bank build
ing. e
Major-GeneraLCrook returned from
a trip to Salt Lake City.
Aimed at Omaha
Minneapolis Tribune: Omaha has
passed an ordinance requiring all pub
lie speeches to be -made in English.
Omaha must be seeking to discourage
the socialists. - -
, Harvard Courier: An Omaha wom
an pays $100 per pair tor ber silk sox.
In these kind of times anyone who
squanders money like that ought to
be compelled to go barefooted. She
Is onovof the kid-tf women who
"Just can't. wear " anything but silk
stockings.
York News-Times: A candidate for
city commissioner in .Omaha an
nounces that he will give $100 per
month to patriotic enterprises if he is
elected. He should give what he
thinks he can to these enterprises
anyhow and not place such an induce
ment in bis political announcement
It partakes 6f the nature of a bribe
and therefore may be illegal.
Seward Tribune: The( editors pt
4he state and their ladies will hold
their annual social meeting in umana
June JO, 21 and S3. The Fontenelle
hotel was selected as headquarters by
the executive committee. Omaha cer
tainly loves the publicity boys and
girls of the state and always shows
them the time of their sweet youns
lives at these meetings. Not the least
number on the program is the Ak-Sar-Ben
stunts pulled off ' by "Dad"
Weaver and his bunch , ot willing
workers. The newspapers, are all
strong for Omaha, and there's a rea
Right to the Point
Washington Post: Women and
children worshipers murdered on Eas
ter carried to heaven their own ver-
L slon of a Hun victory.
f in....nii. Tmimal Tn1 Verne
111UIICV.,.S
Invented the first long range gun and
came very near knocking a piece off
of the moon at the first shot.
Brooklyn Eagle: The mob lynch
ing of a German sympathiser in Col
linsvllle, 111., is most to be regretted
by the few Americans still in Ger
many. Further comment is super
fluous. Louisville Courier-Journal: Hur
rah! Hurrah! Again hurrah for
Wisconsin, an American state. And
now forward with the impeachment of
La Follette and the indictment of La
Follette and Berger.
Baltimore American: An enemy
alien in Brooklyn who had been in
terned but released on bail was found
with ingredients for making bombs
in his possession. The leniency which
is shown alien enemies in our border
is fast becoming a menace. .
Minneapolis Tribune r As a war
measure, the federal authorities at
Washington would be Justified " in
forcibly annexing Milwaukee and
compelling that city to belong to the
union, at least during the period ot
the war.
Baltimore American: Airplane gog
gles made by a German firm in this
country have been found to be defec
tive. The '.weighty problem imme
diately presents itself of what would
become of an American firm in Ger
many making misleading equipment
for German aviators ? ' -
Twice Told Tales
The Cushion.
In her apartment on the Rue de
Varenne, Edith Wharton, who is do
ing war work in Paris, had Just taken
leave of a lady. This lady's call had
been brief, but she had managed to
say several wounding things to an
other lady who was present
"And Amy," the other lady after
ward complained, "calls me her'
friend! It I'm her friend, why does
she talk to me like that?"
"My dear child." said Mrs. Whar
ton, with a smile, "don't you know
that Amy is one of those women who
regard friendship as a cushion where
in to stick their pins?" Baltimore
American. v
Lincoln as Drill .Sergeant.
Lincoln's first experience in drilling -was
with his company in the Black
Hawk war. "I could not for the life
of me," 6aid h,e, "remember the
proper word of command for getting
my company endwise, so that it could
get through the gate, so 1 shouted:
'This company is dismissed for two
minutes, when It will fall in again on
the other side of the gate.' ." Phila- i
delphla Ledger.
Rookie Cut Out.
Rookie There's a young lady
wants to entertain a soldier from this i
camp every Tuesday night, sir. She
says- sbe will serve cake and hot
chocolate," and will sing and all that.
Shall I go?
Sergeant No. What's her address? j
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Labor find Politics. '
Omaha, April 11. To the Editor of
The Bee: la a former letter to this
department I expressed the belief,
based on a certain amount of expe
rience, that interested labor poli-
tlolona nun Tint nnlV attpmDtllie tO
fool the public in making claims of
14,000 members or organizea iauui,
but were trying to mislead the union
men of Omaha into the belief that
they are stronger numerically than is
really trile. There is no question but
the -late so-called labor primary re
turns were padded and the vote cast
for the "labor" ticket at the city pri
mary proves it although the average
vote cast for n labor candidates was
double that predicted. The vote re
ported cast at the labor primary and
at the' city primary follows:
- Labor City
Primary. Primary
Reynolds .' 5,004 4,376
Becker '. 4,178 1,655
Hartnett 4,253 1,919
Gardiner 3,585 2,342
Brldwell i... .3,558 1,957
Rooney 3,519 1,661
Wulf .....3.503 3,047
Of course, Reynolds and Wulf bene
fited considerable by being placed on
"slates" which had no connection with
the labor movement
Using organized labor as a buffer
for labor politicians will some day go
out of fashion. I. J. C.
Jerry Is Gratef uL
Omaha, April 10. To the Editor of
The Bee: To meet individually the
patriotic men who voted for me, like
wise the heroines who championed my
nomination. is a physical impossibility.
Tli.fnri T rlnntra tn pytpnrl tn them
through the columns of your great
paper my sincere and hearty thanks.
Kntwlthstnnrllnff- that I did not have
the support of any clique, corporation
or organization the vote cast for me is
proof of the independence of the aver
age man, since I came within a mere
trifle of receiving the nomination.
JERRY HOWARD.
Sedition and the Ten Senators.
Ogalalla, Neb., April 10. To the
Editor of The Bee: There is Just one
thing wrong with those resolutions of
the 10 senators at Lincoln, on the se
dition bill.
Too much sympathy . for the pro
Germans in this ountry, and not
enough sympathy tor our boys who
are over there in the trenches. If
we did not know that it is an impossi
bility 1 could almost swear this is the
same bunch that went to Washington
to interview President Lincoln during
the civil war. They told him he was
usurping the rights of the people and
trampling the constitution under foot.
After they were done he told them he
was going to win the war and" save
the union, if he had to twist the con
stitution to do It They slunk back
home and that was the last ever heard
of them. Another coincidence is, that
this bunch could not be elected road
overseer in their home precincts. Ne
braska is too loyal and patriotic to
submit to that kind of .leadership.
These are war- times, and drastic,
laws are necessary if we are going to
stamp out disloyalty, but an American
citizen of German birth, ir loyal to tnis
country, has nothing to fear from the
sedition bfll. It is only aimed at trai
tors and enemy aliens.
This is a government by the people;
it is not a government by those 10
German sympathisers.
. .EDWIN M. SEA RLE.
For the Dreamers.
Omaha, April 10. To the Editor of
The Bee: , Would yon care to publish
these lines written for dreamers?
TO THE CROCUS.
Come, tender flower, wake up and lift
thy. head, -
Softly the snows have fallen about
- thy trundle bed.
Life hath to thee unfolded ' nature's
, sweet lullaby; - ,
Rise from earth's idle dreaming;
Love lives, but not in seeming.
See, Nature's face is beaming.
Come, thou and live on high.
ELIZABETH ALLEN MALLORT.
Get Into the Garden.
Omaha, April 10 To the Editor of
The Bee: Here are a few lines dedi
cated to the man with the hoe:
With us 'tis "hoe in garden,"
In Prussia, "Hohenzollern;"
And we're not owln' pardon
To their old knowin' solon
When we say with all our might,
"Corn and wheat will- win this fight."
Now our spring drive is on
And we're hoein night and morn,
While we're shoutln' o'er and o'er,
"Tis our food will win the war."
' Then 'rah for the hoe!
And down with the foe!
, . ... POETICUS.
CHEERY CHAFF. '
Tou ahould hava all your clerks take our
coiirse In scientific salesmanship."
"But"
We ahow them how to aelse the pay-
chologlcal moment for closing a, aale."
"The main trouble now la that we ean't
let elerka." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Conireeaman I've JxaX, been reading-" over
my speech In the Congressional Record.
Friend How did It seemT. .
"First rate. I only wish I could talk like
that." Life. ,
"His last words were of you."
The prodigal son-ln-Iaw tried to feel as
solemn as he looked.
"Might 1 inquire what they were:"
"Tou might. He said; If he could get one
good blft at you he' would die happy." Boa
ton Transcript. -
Bill Phil wasn't at the office today, I
hear.
GUI No; I understand he is Indisposed.
Bill I bet he hated to give up.
QUI He did to the doctor Tonkera
Statesman. (
Sabbath School Teacher Who was it that
commanded the aun to atand still?
Skinny Simpson McAdoo or Herb Hoover,
ma'am, and I ain't right sure which. Kan
sas City Star.
TRUE PREPAREDNESS.
Minna Irving In Leslie's.
Xot only In a mighty fleet
Of giant battleships,
Not only In a battery ''
That roars and rends and rips,
Nor hi a fortress that defies
A siege's storm and stress.
Nor in a well-stored armory
la true preparedness.
For these are not enough without
A brave Intelligence
To wake their dread machinery
To national defense.
' It la the eye behind the gun,
The hand upon the wheel.
Behold! that makes impregnable
Our armored walls of steel.
Then sons of freedom, by the love
Within your hearts, enshrined
For flag and home and liberty,
The glorious three combined.
Keep safe the splendid heritage
Bequeathed by Bunker Hill,
And every moment you can spare
Go drill and drill and drilU
"Over There and Here19
Fort McPherson now holds l,3Tf
German prisoners of war. . " k
"This is the people's war," sayl
Theodore Roosevelt "It is America'!
war. It is a war for our children an
our children's children's welfare. Wj
who are not given the high privilegl
of going to the front must do the nexi
best thing. Back the fighters wits
Liberty bonds."
Ben, Robert William, Llewellyn an4
Charles Marshall of Frankfort, Kyj
sons of Ben Marshall, internal revenui
collector, all enlisted since the wai
broke out. They range in height fronj
six feet to six feet three inches.
Mothers of sons in France, at
they view the vacant chairs at tht
firesides, no doubt feel envious of th4
amazing good luck of the kaiserim
So far none of her six husky sons re
telved a scratch.
Only two-course meals are permit
ted in Paris restaurants under th
food restriction put into effect last
month. Desserts made of cream,
milk, eggs, flour or sugar are forbldJ
den, and no sugar is served at anj
public place. A correspondent notes
that poor people "obey the rules with
a good heart and that only the rlclt
cheat." '
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