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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1918 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD IJOSKWAILrt VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. l'ROI'RJF.TUit. Entered at Oniki poitoffics as second-clsss mntli r. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION P Crner. B Mill. Dsllf and Bunas j.,.. ...pet wH. Per ytsar. M nn Dally altioul Siuidty.. m " 4 no Eseaisi and AuiuUt " l'kj " i Breams without SuuiUr . . . . " i " i" fSwlu Bas wlf ' " Sf'iu Beat Delia of ensngs of tddnu Irrtgu'arity In dellttrs U Ou,L Bm CjtouUUosi iMvutaunk MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED V RESS til AlSMiMed FrM. of which Tb i a member, li sulmlrelt nUtled to tB use for pubUcstinn of all news rtlllnt-bM credited to It iw ne otherwise creHlisd ta lliii papar. anil aim rfce local nun Iiahlliasd asset. AU rigats pubJicailoa of our ticeiel d'tpafcbu rs alt raaanad . REMITTANCE Snail to draft, nprsss or aoital ardar. Only I and S eant sump Utae la fcirwieel at frrull aiwouaia. Persons) chk. atccct w Omaha aad ssstem tuauia, aot socepted. OFFICES Omaha flia Baa ButMtnj. Chics Panel's (lit Bnlldlna, BnuUi Omsas Z118 N St. Ve Yora MH Fifth Aw. Council Bluffs 14 N. Maio St. Nt, Iiuia New B'k of Commerce. LlacaU Uiila Building. Washington-Mi fl St CORRESPOVDENCE address eonurumtritlons relttlni to ileal and editorial matter to Oiaaoa Baa. Irtitortal DeparUnant. MARCH CIRCULATION '"" 66,558 Daily Sunday, 56,553 Itartta circulation for the month, lubeorlbea and emirs to by Dwltht WUUsias, Clrcttlatton Mni. Subscribers leaving tha city aheule! have The Bm mailed la them. Addreea chanted at often as requested. Be a bell ringer. The mob at Collinsville is learning that ours is a government by law. aMaHMsswaaaBBaBBMsaafasasWavajjBysjBM Mr. Weatherman, isn't it time for you to do your share to speed up our backyard gardens? Mr. Wilson is doing his best to keep the coun try on an even keel, but some of his subordinates persist in rocking the boat. Uncle Sam's airplane department is all tip in the air, paradoxically, because there are no air planes ready to go up in the air. Soldiers at Camp Funston prepared for Gen eral Wood a welcome that echoes the sentiments of the American people for that gallant soldier. Someone asks what would happen if one or more of the 14 city corrunissjonership nominees should now quit.' Why. ask such a foolish ques tion? :'., ' ' ' " Matters along the Mexican border are reach ing a stage that may force a renewal of "watch ful waiting." Carranza seems to be looking for real trouble his time. I Let us direct your attention to the fact that Representative Shallenherger, who is making such a noisy' fight on the selective draft law at Washington, is not a republican. , ' The Berlin editors had occasion to print an other extra edition. A shell from the "terror gun" hit a foundling asylum in Faris and killed several new; born babes, ipecies of murder in which kultur delights. ' - Count Czernin says Austria is true to Ger many, but Emperor Karl says the kaiser should let go of Alsace and Lorraine, and there you have the harmony that prevails between the two part ners in the plunderbund. Trouble at Vladivostok grows primarily out of resistance of foreigners to looting by the bol shevik!. These apostles of liberty cannot under stand why they are not to be permitted to plunder as freely one place as another, so long as it is done in the name of the people. An Omaha socialist spOuter pleaded in court that most of his disloyal remarks were made "in fun," and that he said some things without knowing what they meant If he could have gotten away with it, he would have been a hero in the 'red" camp, but as it is he will have to be content with the crown of a martyr, for the court refused to release him. ! What a Woful Waste of Words. At the instigation of the New York World an expert accountant has made a careful compu tation of the number of words spoken in the two houses of congress during the month of March, finding that the word output embalmed in the Congressional Record, when reduced to figures, was 3,12f,402, or an average of 100,000 for every day in the month, including Sundays, holidays and adjournments for recovery from exhaustion. The World refers to this "as an orgy of oratory that runs on endlessly through the season." We regret to note that the expert accountant does not distinguish the proportions that belong respectively to house and senate, or give us any way of ascertaining which of them is contribut ing more or less than its share to the outflow. It Is fair to assume that while the membership of the house is in round numbers four times that of the senate, the "leaves to print" are correspond ingly greater and that the amount of white paper consumed by each as word carriers is somewhere near equal. They are preaching conservation at us in congress all the time, but this woful waste of words proves that there is no conservation of conversation. ! PLUNKETT ON THE IRISH QUESTION. I Sir Horace Plunkett, who was chairman of the Iri.-li convention, has written a letter, transmit ' ting the report of the convention, which throws :i;.t on tne situation, sir jiorace siares mat failure to ;.grce unanimously on a plan for self govcinmrnt for Ireland i due to the persistent i'p i i ; n nf the U'st'-r unionist. Southern un--- nationali.st i and five of seven lahorites tinit.ii in Miiiri of the plan submitted, and whivh Sir Horace surest s should be enacted into Liu. He points out alo a fact that is quite apparent, that the I'Uterites and the minority of the nationalists, in their reports, minimize the agreement and emphasize the disagreement. Charges of had faith against the government are made by both sides, although the turmoil seems to be caused by a group of extremists at either end, who are irreconcilable, and whose views will probably not he accepted by the ma jority in parliament at tin's time. Sir Horace warns the government that the question has be come acute, because "in the dominions and the United States, as well as in the allied countries, the unsettled Irish question is a disturbing fac tor, both as regards war efforts and peace aims." This is particularly true in the United States, where a group may be found supporting one or the other of the contending factions. Each of these for the moment overlooks the fact that much more is at stake in the war than a differ ence of opinion between Belfast and Cork. They must not be surprised if the people of the United States decline to consider seriously their fac titious divisions, or if their efforts to enlist sup port for a movement to embarrass Great Britain in its war plans come to naught. War's Grimmest Aspect. A few words in one of the dispatches from London disclose the awful nature of the present struggle on the flat grounds of Flanders. TJiere war has assumed its grimmest aspect, that of scientific slaughter. Victory now depends on which side can kill the most men in the shortest time, and 6upply Its own losses with least delay. This phase of warfare has from the beginning characterized German tactka The theory of the kaiser's general staff is that oi overwhelming the enemy by sheer force of numbers, regardless of losses sustained. If 10 men are started and one reaches the objective, the other nine being killed on the way, the high command reckons a victory. Allied commanders have been loath to adopt this form of fighting, and even now, when desperately defending threatened positions, are chary about wasting, men in useless slaughter. But the German horde shows no consideration and leaves no alternative. Defenders must sustain the shock of tremendous bodies of men who move on in utter disregard of death. How long Ger many can afford to pay the price is the ques tion. A1 feebler British army checked the drive for the Channel ports in 1914 and the splendid organization under Ilaig will not give way now. Americans, confident of the steadfast quality of the defense, must stand aghast at the inhuman purposes of the kaiserbund as revealed in the battle as it now rages. Marvin. Hughitt Retires. Having passed his eightieth birthday, Marvin Hughitt retires from the chairmanship of the di rectorate of the Northwestern and from active connection with the affairs of that great railroad system. No other reason is given for his action, so the assumption is warranted that Mr. Hughitt seeks a little rest from the toil of a busy life, spent in the building up of one of the greatest transportation services known to the world. Pio neer among the railroads, the Northwestern is in separably connected with the settlement and de velopment of the west, and Marvin Hughitt's name is so connected with the railroad that they can not be told apart. What the seven prosper ous states so well served by the railroad he helped to build owe to his foresight and energy can not be estimated, but it is shown in some slight degree by the evidence of material well-being to be noted along the various lines of the system. Marvin Hughitt has been a builder, not of rail roads alone, but of communities, and his service in this way is beyond computation. Of him it has been Raid that he managed the Northwestern in the interest of the stockholders, and allowed no financial freebooters or stock-juggling pirates ever to climb aboard. He found that to serve his stockholders he must serve well the patrons of the railroad he directed, and this he did. Omaha, as one of the great centers of Northwestern ac tivity, long has had an interest in Marvin Hughitt, and will not now relax its friendly concern. What do the loyal people of Nebraska really think of the effort of the Hitchcock-Mullen bunch to put through the legislature that "pro viso" in the declaratory citizenship amendment to the constitution? Do they realize that this "joker" would continue the right of foreign-born residents to claim exemption from military serv ice because not yet naturalized and at the same time vote and hold office while American boys subject to the draft are fighting in the trenches in Europe? Captain Fersius, the German naval critic, ad mits the kaiser blundered when he (orced the United States into the war. Some day a German will be found who will admit that the kaiser blundered when he started the war in 1914. . German Menace in Far East Time Ripe For Japan to Act With All Its Power N. Kato, London Editor "Osaka Mainichi," a Japanese Daily. Japan's special position, both physically and politically, in the war made its statesmen think tiiat its hour of wholehearted military co-operation had not yet struck. The phys ical difficulties of sending a large army to ihe European theater were so great that even with it utmost endeavor it would have been something like beating the roof of a high building with the tip of a long pole. Politically it was waiting for the time when the public opinion, both of its own na tion and that of its allies, would have come to the unanimous agreement that its military intervention was a matter of indispensable importance. Such a concord of public opin ion, both at home and abroad, has, in my opinion, at last come. The German menace in the Far East is now serious enough to arouse the patriotic enthusiasm to a high pitch, which spirit is most essential for a victorious war for any nation, especially for the Japanese people, whose moral code is so much centered upon the love of country. Suppose for a moment that Germany could launch a few submarines in the Pacific, using Vladivostok as its naval base, or send out thence a few squadrons of airplanes across the channel to attack the defenseless cities and towna within the range of such air raids, what would be the consequence? It would mean an entire paralysis of the Japa nese shipping now engaged in Japan's own commercial enterprise, as well as in the all important service for the allied cause, and, moreover, it would mean that the wooden houses of the Japanese towns would be put to fire like a box of matches in a grate! The liberation of German prisoners in Si beria is another danger which might happen at any moment when Russia and Siberia come under the domination of Germany. Japan's hour to intervene has now arrived, if simply for the sake of its self-protection. But Japan's responsibility is more than its own defense, because no one can possibly fail to see the disastrous consequence which might arise out of German penetration to the Far East. It is as if the front door of a house had been opened to it on account of the Russian abject surrender, but the key of the back door is in Japan's hands. Can Japan be so unifaithful to the allied cause as to abandon that key to the enemy's hands even without a struggle? God forbid! The guardianship of the Far Eastern peace is one of the most sacred duties of Japan, for which fulfilment it would fain stake its own national destiny. Here lies the foundation of understanding among all the allies, whose public opinion have now become so ripe that whatever Japan would deem it its duty to undertake to check a world calamity would be acknowl edged by all its allies with full accord and perfect confidence. Japan's proved loyalty to the allied causes goes without saying by this time. The west ern allies can very well rest assured that Japan will never betray their interests, even under the crushing weight of German arms. What Japan wants at this critical moment is a free hand to play its' entrusted role in the world's war. When the, neutrality of, Belgium was trampled upori by Germany did France wait for a mandate from its allies to take the nec essary step to defend its own country? What Belgium was to the safety of France, Siberia is to the safety of Japan. To defend itself is to defend the allies as a whole. There is no discrepancy of interests between Japan and its allies, even including Russia itself, for whose national safety Japan is pledged to give its assistance by the letter and spirit of the late Russo-Japanese agreement. We Japanese are not going to fight against the Russian people; far from it, we arc going to do our best to save them from the German domination, if not in Europe, at least in the Far East. The coming gen eration of Russia will surely be thankful for Japan's intervention at this critical moment. History will judge our unselfish motive in even temporarily occupying the tenantless Siberia. The most effective co-operation of Japan in this war lies in the part it is going to play in the outer court of its own home land. If we could control in time the whole Trans Siberian railways we might very likely be able to save Petrograd from German occupa tion. If this honor be denied to us, we shall be satisfied wkh the bit of work to check the German invasion east of the Ural. Japan's turn of full co-operation in the world war has at last come. It is surely the interest of its western allies, as well as of the United States of America, that they should not frustrate its utmost effort in its allotted task for the salvation of the world by any unnecessary diplomatic pedantry and much lamented lethargy. I am glad that the full understanding among the allies has been arrived at to enable Japan to move as it thinks proper. German in the Schools Real Knowledgeof Language Necessary, But Not Propaganda Boston Transcript. The agitation against teaching of German in the public schools is partly wrong, but more largely right. It is quite right and en tirely desirable that there shall be a wide spread and expert knowledge of the German language in this country, not only for defen sive, but for business reasons. It has been well said that if you are dealing with a sharp competitor, you cannot succeed against him unless you know what is in his mind, and in order to know that you must be acquainted with his language. This is one reason why it is desirable that all those who have deal ings with the Germans should be familiar with their language. There is, besides, an enormous store of practical and expert knowledge on every scientific subject that is to be found recorded only in German. Our military men, as well as those of France and Germany, are compelled to consult German books and reports which have never been translated. 'The desirability of a knowledge of German is axiomatic. Nobody denies it. The Germans themselves have set us an ex ample in this line by the familiarity with English and French which they have shown during this war. No one, in fact, seriously proposes to put the German language aside. But what we should get rid of is the useless smattering of German which is about all that the pupil in the public schools has ever gained from the official teaching of that language. What does the pupil, in either the elementary or the high schools, usually obtain from the in struction in German which he has had? No more than a hazy idea that the language of Schiller and Goethe is something full of awe and moment, but beyond his reach. He also gets, if he gets anything, a considerable amount of deliberate German propaganda. Frederick the Great, the founder of Prussian militarism; William the First, butcher of the Liberals of 1848, trampler upon France, and even William the Sudden, chief purveyor of the massacres and outrages of Belgium and France, apostle of frightfulness and blas phemer of God, have all been glorified in this German school literature laid before our trussing children in the public schools. With all this propaganda, no useful knowledge, generally speaking, of the German language (ias been disseminated. Of all the American nen and women who have really learned the German language, and whose knowledge of it has perhaps been of some use to the coun try in the present emergency, how many have learned it in the public schools? Extremely few; perhaps none at all. The public school teaching of the language has been, willingly or unwillingly, to a larger extent German propaganda than it has been effective in struction in the German tongue. It could be discontinued without any sacrifice or im pairment of the expert knowledge which it is an undoubted advantage to possess. The idea is not to sweep away, but rather to extend, a proper knowledge of German. Insofar as it is a public or a private benefit to know the language, it should still be taught. Business and technical schools should undoubtedly teach it, and teach it thoroughly, conversationally, idiomatically. Officers of the United States army should be" found in every battalion who can speak and understand the language well. . West Point and Annapolis will do well to develop their close and practical instruction in it. Those who undertake to master any branch of sci ence should learn it well. An idiomatic knowledge of the language is open in this country to any individual who will acquire it and is willing tq acquire it in the patient and zealous manner by which, and by which alone, a practical knowledge of any foreign tongue can be obtained. To say, "Away with everything German, from A to Z, just be cause it is German," is foolish. But it is also foolish, and worse than foolish, to con tinue that gilded smattering of German which is all that the average elementary and high school student of the language gets. It is purely mischievous, and a hurtful perver sion of scholasticism. Americanizing Americans A Future Task At the Americanization conference in Washington the other day there were gov ernors of 18 states, members of the State Council of Defense and representatives of many educational institutions and industrial interests of the country. The purpose of the 'gathering and of various associations is to promote from this time on the real Americanizing of all who may become Amer ican citizens or who exercise the privilege or enjoy the benefit of living under American law and government. The importance of this is being forcibly emphasized at this time. The United States has been a free country, open to all who see fit to make it their home. Part of its policy has been to afford free education to its people, but the different for eign elements have been free to go their own way in education. Hence there are regions in which the English language, the language of the United States, is an unknown tongue in families and in schools. The native tongue of foreign set tlers is kept up and they persist as foreign communities, with their old traditions and habits. They retain sentiments of people who are liable to become enemies of the United States. Now everybody who ex ercises the rights of American citizenship should be able to speak, if not to read and write, the language of the United States. All pupils in public schools should be taught that language. No other should be the language in which the exercises of any public institu tion is conducted. The people living in the United States as regular or permanent resi dents, as subjects to their laws and entitled to their rights, should be Americanized in their education, and so far as possible in their views and habits. After this war there should be an end, not of personal liberty or equal rights, but of special privileges in maintaining com munities that segregate themselves to pre serve foreign qualities and characteristics, which are likely to bring them into conflict with other elements of the population and put them on the foreign side in any interna tional differences. There can be no sudden transformation and it is to be hoped that there will be no occasion to consider "enemy aliens" in the future, but our educational and social system should be directed hereafter to Americanizing all those who assume or presume to be Americans. New York Jour nal of Commerce. On Year Ago Today In the War. British extended Arras victory and routed Germans on 30 miles of front. Russian provisional government greeted America, In message to Pres. ,ldent Wilson, and pledged collabora- tlon for war and peace. t Th Day W Celebrate. Charles W. Baker, president of the .Baker Construction company, born 1875. - ' - Charles H. SherrtH, former Amerl. can minister to Argentine, now adju , tant general of New York, born In "Washington, D. C, it years ago. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford, Jr., university, I bora at Boonesboro, la., 43 years ago. ' . Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes,, aecretary ( of Yale university, born at . New Brighton, Staten Island, .44 years ago. This Day In History. 1772 Ell Terry, the father of the clock manufacturing industry In America, born at East Windsor, Conn. .Died at Terryvllle, Conn., February 24. 1852. . i UJO President Jackson at a pub lic dinner In Washington In celebra tion of Jefferson's birthday gave the toast. "Our Kederal Union, It Must Be Preserved." r - IJ80-Samuel J. Randall, who served three terms as speaker of the national house of representatives, died In Washington, D. C. Born in Phlla delphia, October 10, 1S2S. Just 30 Years Ago Today Commissioner O'Kcefe left for Hot Springs, Ark., where he will remain for some weeks. About 90 ladles and gentlemen, in mates of the deaf mute asylum in Council Bluffs, visited the city for the purpose of taking In the Eden Musee and Other places of interest. They took a ride on cable cars placed at their disposal. Mrs. W. A. Kelley, wife of W. A. Kelley, lias gone on a month's visit to Blair. The closing ball of the Luveta So cial club was given in Hunt's hall and was largely attended. An effort is being made to establish a merchant's polii-e system in South Omaha, for the purpose of looking arter me Dusiness cnsu-iit, during tne night time. Forty stone, cutters are now en. gaged on tha curbing of Leavenworth street Out of the Ordinary Merrimack county. New Hampshire, has contributed Daniel Webster andJ jonn laui j ones to ine a ran army. Tor military purposes a New York man has designed exceedinaly efficient wireless telegraph and telephone ap paratus that can be carried In a mo torcycle side car. Wheat hoarders In Gage county have been placed on the carpet by the County Counsel of Defense. One Ax tel farmer, said to have 30,000 bushels of wheat stored up, has been tagged for action. By royal order, the celebration of Arbor day has been made obligatory In every township and municipality In Spain, and tree-planting Is to be carried on upon a more extensive scale than heretofore. "Kill the cursl" thunders the Kear ney Hub In training its artillery on useless dogs that menace the sheep Industry of the state. "A good dog," says the Hub," is a true friend and In many cases useful, but the gangs of curs that range about a. city or town are utterly worthless and should be disposed of." Members of the women's land army of England occasionally lend a touch of color and variety to the official uni form. One of the number recently arraigned in a London court wore an American soldier's hat, an officer's trench coat, trousers of unknown Identity and the green armlet badge of the land army. Incidents of this kind suggest that mere man is not dead sure of savins- his old clothes. Peppery Points St. Louis Globe-Democrat: When treaties become a "scrap of paper" there's nothing left for It but the bit terest kind of a scrap between peo ples. Washington Post: The caretaker of the German embassy in Paris has presented a bill for damages done by Hun bombs. Next thing the boche will be complaining that American military equipment seized in Russia doesn't fit. Minneapolis Tribune: Von Hinden burg was wlllins to pay his way to Paris with 300,000 men. The toll was collected before he reached th6 half way house. The allies have placed a prohibitive price on the rest of the distance. New York World: Berlin blames Paris for the killing of scores of wom en and children during the shelling of a church. Only a wicked city would put a house of prayer right In the path of the Christian-like shells of the ally of the Lord. iLouisville Courier-Journal: The kaiser's last joyous teleirram to Mrs. Hohenzollern was: With Gott's help our most glorious long distance gun tore a hole in a French church and killed many women and children, for which Gott be praised. Baltimore American: The ease with which all America turned its clocks ahead and slipped Into the new order of things without commotion in dicates what can be done through centralized authority. And it ia thus that we will win the war. Twice Told Tales Practical Sympathy. Maylor Hylan said in a Red Cross appeal in New York: "Whatever we non-combatants can do for our soldiers seems trifling and futile beside what these young heroes are doing for us. "Yes, the most generously con tributing non-combatant, when he's compared with the fighting soldier, Is a good deal in the position of the lady visitor at the base hospital: " 'And so you've lost a leg?" the lady visitor said to a young patient. " 'Yes, ma'am, said he. " 'Poor dear!' said the visitor. 'Have a gumdrop!" New York Mall. Bnslness-Likr. "When Jones bought his new house it was with the express understanding that he should have a room all of his own a den or study." "Yes, I know what you mean. Did he get it?" "Yes, and his wife furnished it" "How?" "With a sewing machine, a cutting table, two dressers, dummies, three sewing chairs and a full-length mirror." Kiuorgcncy Rations. "You say you were lost for days in the boat and your provisions had given out?" "Exactly." "What did you do for something to eat?" "Finally I hit on a happy Idea and we had a spread of canvaa," Florida Times-Union. Drop German In Schools. Omaha, April 11. To the Editor of The Bee: I notice the letter of "Citi zen" regarding the kultur being taught in our high schools, and I think our school board should be bombarded by the parents of these scholars with letters until they drop this study. If the board continues it I, for one, be lieve a coat of yellow paint might make them take notice that we will not stand for this shame in our schoola Question to the board: Do they believe the 11,000,000 bonds would have carried if the voters had known that they were Koine: to teach kaiser-kultur and tslng "Wacht am Rhein" in school? PROTESTER PARENT. Defends the Xegro. Osceola, Neb., April 9. To the Edi tor of The Bee: We note in your pa per of April 5 that Mr. C. L. Nethaway desires to be enlightened as to whether there Is a man running for city com missioner who believes in the segrega tion of the colored population of the city? While we have no fears that there are gentlemen so running for city commissioner, we deplore the fact that, regardless of the thunderous ap peal for democracy, on the tongues of all true men in such grievlpys times as these, we have yet among us a man who has no conception of what true manhood consists of. We wonder if he is aware of the tremendous part the negro has played in the destiny of this land we won der if he knows that a black's crimson blood was the first to stain the ground of Boston's common when this coun try fought for independence? We would know if he will follow us down through the pages ef this coun try's history, and see those gallant black men bleed and die on the hill! of San Juan? Buf wait and see those black sons-o-guns plunge into that hell trap at Carrizal! Do not pause, but consider Booker T. Washington, a. recognized leader of 10,000,000 of this country's people (blacks, if you please), hy whose death the world lost pne of the truly great. .We do not believe that any of the gentlemen will lose the race for city commissioner through not having Mr. Nethaway's vote. C. T. WALLACE. Pratt hotel. Isolation for Pro-Germans. Glenwood, la., April 11. To the Editor, of The Bee: The anarchists, socialists, pacifists and Industrial Workers of the World are nothing but German monkeys. The proper place for them Is In Russia where the Ger mans are learning them the way to step lively to the German music. I think these German monkeys should have an island set apart for them so they could live or starve together. B. F. WARD, 'M. D. C. LINES TO A SMILE. "I despise a hypocrite. Now there's John son, for example; he's the blsrgest hypocrite on earth." "But you appear to be his best friend." "Oh, yes; I try to appear friendly towards him. It pays better in the end." Boston Transcript. Black The widow married a hank presi dent, and her daughter caught a young millionaire! White I see a case of mother and child doing well. Life, "The man they were after was In a per fect fsver when hs found detectives were on his track." "I suppose It was the spotted fever he had." Baltimore American. "What is the Chinese word for trouble?" "Dunne." "Would you know it ff you saw It?" "Csn't say I would. All their words look like trouble to me." Louisville Courier-Journal. "Heard from you boy lately?" "Tee. ire's getting along very well tn the army: but he complains that he hasn't been Introduced to General Pershing yet." Detroit Free Press. "Why don't you open the door? That may be opportunity knocking." "It's much more apt to be a bill col lector." 'Well, If you only knew It, a bill eol leetor offers a good opportunity to get out of debt." Birmingham Age-Herald. PASSED BY THE CENSOR. I met her In the 'Boise Boulogne To be precise, "somewhere In Franca;" Her elbow almost touched my own, And I was gladdened by her glance. One look, and then we went our ways "Somewhere In France," her loveliness To haunt me through the coming days And give me courage, more or less. A great ship on a certain sea Sailed westward from a certain Isle, And on the deck, one morning, She Returned my greeting with a, smile! While we wern passing Sandy Hook, And in the Narrows, near the fort, I held her han.l and. later, tuok Her bag at "an Atlantic port." We hastened from a certain dock Up through a certain city where There is a certain lofty block Fifth avenue meets Broadway there; And, later, when I dared to plead With eager longing in my glance Sho said she was glad, Indeed. That we had met "somewhere In France." S. B. KISER. "Over There and Here Profiteering is not confined to coiA munltlwi adjoininR training camps. New London, Conn., landlords, appre ciating the inrush of shipyard work men, have boosted rents to unheard of heights. Many prominent men of German blood in Minnesota have formed an organization to give practical effect to their loyalty to the United States and overcome the seditions spirit rampant in that quarter. Major-General Bir Hush Gough, the British general who lest the St. Quentin line, has been relieved of his command. The incident Is not likely to win a new tablet for the Gough statTie in Phoenix park. Dublin. By the terms of a law just passed by the New York legislature teachers in the schools of the state must be come citizens to hold their jobs. The law Is intended to root out the evils of anti-American instruction fostered by alien teachers. Editor Bern hard of the "Berlin Vossische Zeltung in a recent lecture estimated German's imperial war debt at 150,000,00,000 marks, which will call for an annual interest payment of 5,000,000,000 marks. War lords come h'sh- For women workers in arsenals and government munition plants an offi cial khaki uniform has been designed, consisting of blouse and overalls, the latter made full and buttons around the ankles. It may be worn with a minimum of danger In plants where the customary feminine garb would be likely to catch in machinery or pick up flying particles of powder. BUY A LIBERTY BOND HOSPE'S PIANO PRICES As They Were and As They Are ' I Rals8 I Prices iiflfeJI $400 Bush & Lane, $400 f40O Vose & Sons, 8400 275 Kimball $275 $300 Cable Nelson, $300 $250 Hospe $250 $225 Hinze $225 $475 Hospe Player, $475 You now have 30 months to pay for your Piano. Bench and Delivery Free with Pianos or Players. 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