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V 12 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURlUY, APRIL 27, 1918 The Omaha Bee DAILY tMORNING) LVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEW ATKft VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THB BES PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha poatoffict aa second-clase mutter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Br Carrier. Br MaiL n.ltt and Ban ilt j per week. Mo Per tmr. K w , IMtly WltDOUt BUOIf 1"0 H J raning and thud..... " KM " -W KwitBf wiUuwt HauiMj... 60 - 1 00 tdu fia only 60 - 1.00 Ken 1 not lr of cbarjfa of address at Irregularltf la dellrarr U Omatie Baa Circulation Depertuaal. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS nt Aaeoetated Press, o which Tha Baa ti a mem her. it aiclottraly entitled aa tbe dm for rubllcaUoo of all am dl.patche. credited U It or aot othenrlie credited la Uila paper, and aUo tha local aawa tablihad aereln. All rlgbts of publication of our apactal diapatchaa ait alaa marred. REMITTANCE It mi It to Aran, express or portal order. 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Gas bombs and smoke barriers are already in evidence in Omaha, and the bombardment is only just commenced. f No telephone or megaphone is needed to carry to Berlin the sound of such choruses a were raised on the court house lawn. - "Bullet proof jobs in the government service are being subjected to close, inspection just now, and the safety? first brigade is correspondingly agitated. . A little call by the navy at Wilhelmshaven, similar to the visit paid to Zeebrugge, would be mightily entertaining and probably would in terest the kaiser. t i , The .State Council of Defense now has a fine opportunity to prove up on the professors it has accused of disloyalty, and should not let the shatter rest in its unfinished state. The bill extending the draft law to automatic ally Include young men coming to their majority has passed the house, and the boys may as well get ready to enroll themselves on the great scroll of fame. . . ' Our Dutch friends are not exactly reconciled to their situation, but they must not forget there is a hereafter. If they refuse to sell us tin, we can find a way to get along without it, but they might miss our wheat and meat greatly. . Hamilton county has Just experienced the unique sensation of having a bridge company "put back" a considerable sum of money. Tax payer are on the trail of other contractors, and hope to effect a clean-up. They struck pay dirt, apparently,, with the first shovelful. Overman Bill Going Through. The Overman bill, which really is the presi dent's bill, is going to be passed by the senate, although not exactly in the form sent over by tha White House. Instead of putting it to final vote, on Thursday, as had been ordered, discus sion was continued that additional amendment might be made, the aircraft situation presenting tha opportunity, While the president through Senator Overman ordered the adoption of the bill without amendment and without compromise on its principle, the senators have halted at the provisions in 'some respects. Making no effort to destroy or interfere with the centralized control of all government war activities, amendments have been suggested that will increase the power of the executive and preserve the rights of the legislative. The particular amendment that re sulted in prolongation of the debate refers to tha naming of a single head of the aircraft de partment The advantage of this is apparent Un der the direction of one man who is capable of managing big affairs, the collapsed program may be set In motion again and something retrieved from the wreck. If the Overman bill will bring this about it will have helped mightily in winning ; th war. : ' : CLEAN UP THE UNIVERSITY. The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska have met a grave situation in a manner that is calculated to produce results. It has asked the State Council of Defense to arrange for an open hearing, to listen to accusers and accused, and to make recommendations, promising to take swift action on the showing made. In no other way can the scandal aroused be disposed of. Nebraska can not afford to have in definite and unformed stories circulated about its great school. Already the state has suffered greatly through loose or ill-considered talk by men whose loyalty is not questioned, but whose discretion may not be entirely commensurate with their zeal. This is regrettable, but the damage is done. As to the university, it has been the center of consider able! criticism, because of the actions and utter ances of some members of its faculty. Nebraskans now or at no other time wish to circumscribe the faculty of the university in the matter of instruc tion. The citizens realize that the value of educa tion is in direct ratio to its breadth and depth. Ad mitting all this, however, a higher and more im portant consideration must be recognized by all. The safety of all our institutions rests on the un derstanding of our citizens, and, when a mind be comes so broadened by philosophic research that it no longer Includes within its vision the horizon of nationality, it has in that far become a danger to the very things we are most earnestly devoted to perpetuate. As The Bee understands the situation at Lincoln, the chief trouble has arisen because some members of the faculty have developed "the international mind," and are devoted to "philosophic pacifism.'' This attitude is capable of eloquent defense and has been supported most ably, its prifti'ral danger existing because of the fact that the rarefied atmosphere of pure reason into which these learned gentlemen have elevated themselves is fatal to our national as pirations. While it is dangerous to undertake to limit the activity of a teacher, it is far more so to permit an irrational "philosopher" to spread his inchoate dogma among" minds that are seeking for light and reason. Nebraska "Over the Top." Thousands of Omahans stood in the raw, chilly wind and raised a mighty chorus whose echo will be heard in Berlin, when the "tank" went over the top, signifying that the state had ex ceeded its quota of subscription to the Liberty loan. That the amount of the loan taken would ex ceed the minimum set down for the state has never been in doubt Nebraska has done a great many things in a fine, big way, to show its loyalty since the war has been upon us. Its subscription to each of the Liberty loans has been in .keep ing with expectations, and its purchases of War Savings stamps has been so far ahead of alt others that no state in the union expects to get within hailing distance of the record made by our people. Its young men have answered the call to the colors, its farmers have worked harder than ever to produce for the world's needs, and its citizens generally have done and are doing their utmost to help humanity win this war for free dom. We have a'mong us disloyal men and women; some of these undertake to hide behind a screen of pretense; subscription to Liberty loans and purchase of thrift stamps is not the best test of devotion to the ideals of America just now. Lip service is easy to perform, but it is heart-devotion the nation now needs. Time-servers and hypo crites will be discovered in good season, and the day will come when loyalty will not be measured by the noise one makes. Nebraska is over the top for the Liberty loan, and is going over the top for Old Glory, too, and the secret sympath izers with the kaiser should keep this in mind. t Naval Success at Zeebrugge. - Renewal of the German efforts to push on and capture the Channel ports, and to cut the line between Calais and Paris may be ascribed to the great success that attended the British raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend. While the Germans as sert the attempt to close the'Ostend canal was not entirely successful, they practically admit that Zeebrugge has been put out of action. Details now coming through give the affair a color of gallantry that is not surpassed by any incident of the great 'war. Crews of the ships engaged work ed under fire of batteries looked upon by the Germans as invincible. Many a gallant son of Britain went to his death, but the others held on until the mission they had set upon was ; ac complished. ' Americans should read the stories of this wonderful raid with avidity; in its recital will be found the best possible answer to the slanderous charges of pro-German propagandists that the British are not doing their share, that they have been holding off to allow our men to be sacrificed in the dangerous work that must be done, and similar lies spread to weaken our alliance. With her soldiers fighting with their backs to the wall, her sailors guarding the seas, and carrying out such effective raids as those lately chronicled, and her people spending $35,000,000 a day to win, only a shameless kaiserite can say Great Britain is not carrying her share in this war. Public Syirit Should Outlaw Them Men Like Hitchcock Should Not Be Honored in America By W. E. Martin. News Item: "The Kansas City Chamber of Commerce is delighted at the prospect of an address by Senator Hitchcock." News Item: "Senator Hitchcock will talk to the Omaha Chamber of Commerce on 'How the Business Man can Help Win the War" Quite truly, I don't like writing this a little bit. This is the time for doing. Moreover, there is no shortage of professional writers who know so much more than the amateur and tell what they know so much better. I felt this so strongly that I scrapped my original draft, decided to keep off, but this morning I saw that the most fearless and jus Springfield Republican had taken ' up arms against Hitchcock and my pen took the bit in its teeth once more. So I dug out the scrapped draft, pieced it together, and here it is. . One doesn't like leveling his lance at an individual, much prefers a tendency or a condition; but Hitchcock presses so hard, so insistently against my dearest beliefs (not mine, the dearest belief of a great people) that he compels attack upon the man. When the foul flood poured out of Ger many, hot wrath swept like fire over Ameri ca. There was one mind and one heart about it. I say this unreservedly because the Ger man is counted out without saying so, had no mind of his own about the matter, had long taken his mind about public questions from above; but excepting the Germans, everyone knew the black horror assailed humanity. It was not a thing to take sides over and debate about any more than it is debatable whether a man has a right to beat his wife. It was sheer badness, self advertised as much, proudly bent upon de stroying goodness, that is, the goodness be lieved in by the rest of the world. In short, as someone said, "The Kaiser's God is our Devil." So we could only feel about it and the only thing to feel was loathing. It was expressed on every street-corner, in every home, in every club, by every fearless monthly, weekly, and daily. The great Atlantic Monthly has devoted a large part of every issue to expressing it from the first. It. opened its presses to the pro-German. It said to Kuno Francke in substance, "Cer tainly you may try to state a case for Ger many in our pages, but we are sure you can not do it," and he tried and of course could not. thing. But Hitchock from the first looked upon the war about as a dog fight In the early days of it, a man told me that Hitch cock said to him that the war would best end in a dog fall. It does not matter whether he ssh'd it or not, for on his editorial page and in the senate he went further than that. He wrote and spoke in effect in aid of Ger many. If the bills he introduced and sup ported had gone through, long ago, all Europe would have been under the kaiser's heel. That is indisputable. His editorial page was a hospital for every bad case of pro-Germanism that knocked. Let him charge this to which he pleases, his head or his heart. - .e I av I. J A Look at this young man, revealed through his letters in the April issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Edwin Austin Abbey, 2d nephew of the great painter. When the war came he was a civil engineer of highest promise, in full flush of young manhood and of devoted exercise of a great profession. He had just begun a great and difficult bridge construc tion. His fine spirit instantly flew to France and as soon as the bridge was done he went there bodily and spilt there his precious life for the Great Cause. This "gentleman, un afraid," hardly more than a boy, wrote these radiant words which seem to me to hold the whole of why we must fight the kaiser and his cutthroat conferees off the earth. "I can see very little patriotism or flags or countries; it is more a struggle of man kind to defend the principles of humanity and chivalry which the Creator has handed down, even though the defenders them selves have abused and sinned against the very principles they now defend. It is as though the world has sinned to a point where it divided, the one half going over the bounds of human possibility, the other stopping and reaching back to former good and true tradition to resist the impulse of the lost half to swallow it up as well." He was a distinguished one of tens of thousands. Was there one such that rushed to the kaiser's colors? This is an old story but its telling is essential here. Put it beside Hitchcock. Put young Abbey, his heroic sacrifice and his re markable sense of the stake over which the world is at grips, beside this mature man who in his young manhood was in close quarters with Prussianism. I know no other whom intimacy with it had not taught the most intense abhorrence of the monstrous Ruined Rheims a Monument to Kultur For a week the Germans have concentrat ed a heavy fire upon the city of Rheims un til nothing is left of it but a heap of ruins. The buildings have been leveled and the streets have disappeared. Of the great Cathedral, according to a correspondent of Le Matin, only the west front and a few pillars remain standing, as a mute protest against the devilish thoroughness with which the hand of the Prussian has done its work. From what motives the Germans perpe trated the final destruction of Rheims makes no difference. So often during the past three years they have offered lying pretexts for bombarding the Cathedral that nothing they may say in self-defense can be accepted as the truth. It was vainly hoped that some where in Germany .there was enough com mon sense and respect for the decent opin ion of mankind to restrain them from wan tonly battering down stone by stone the glori ous monument preserved from the 13th century. In the long future nothing can ever save the German nation and the Ger man people from the shameful reproach they have justly earned in the desolation created by their imperial master's cannon. Rheims in ruins will be mourned by the world. In title only it belonged to France. It was one of civilization's precious posses sions, a common heritage for all time until the Teuton came. On the site of the beauti ful city among the vine-clad hills of Cham pagne, only heaps of shattered stone and wreckage remain as proof of the hideous crime committed in obedience to a German kaiser who proclaims his partnership with God. New York World. One day he sees two dogs fighting. The next he sees seraphim hovering over one of the dogs. The day before we entered the war he was for standing aside, holding that the war is an exclusive European feud. The day after it became to him a holy war, in which we must fight to the last gasp if need be. But the cause for which we are fighting is the same, today, yesterday and tomorrow. The only question all the time was how best we could serve it. Our country in the war, with brazen and unexampled effontery, Hitchcock sprang to the fore, his shamelessness rising to high tide when on the floor of the senate he charged the administration with a break down and tried to tear the reins of leader ship from Wilson's hands. How faulty the administration was and how much good the senate did and how good or bad was its way of doing it are beside my mark. Those are now questions for the historian. What 1 am drawing at are two living things, first, the danger of Hitchcock's becoming chair man of the most important senate commit tee, and second, honors being paid to him. I have said enough of the first. As to the sec ond, I think no fair-minded man would say that honoring Hitchcock reveals a low na tional morale. We all know that our morale can challenge confidently any other people's. What it reveals to my mind is a dull sense of state and an excess of good nature. It is so much easier to get on in America than any other, where there is so much more elbow room; we are jostled so much less, that we care comparatively little whether the other fellow does well or ill and take lightly what he does, however far-reaching its ef fects. This extends to the state. We are highly pleased with our freedom and our results in running ourselves and so we let the state run itself. Chambers of Commerce honor Hitchcock by letting him talk to them and leading men sit on the platform and it's all prodigal good nature. But I have no doubt the men on the platform have as little respect for him as anyone else. Possibly it is the office they honor, the shell, regardless of the quality of the meat. But is this war so light a thing that the possibility of Hitch cock's being chairman of the greatest senate committee but , slightly disturbs us? Aren't we touched by the ferment seething in the world. Archbishop Lang, the British emissary, looked us over and saw little cor respondence here with the fact that the Britisher's brain is about as busy with po litical, economic and social reconstruction as with reconstruction of Germany. We cannot go on in the old way. We are at a sharp turn of the road, and we need now a public spirit which makes outcasts of such men as Hitchcock. Clean Tp America. Silver Creek, Neb., April 25. To the Editor of The Bee: Gentlemen and friends of our flag, let us all stop and look and see where we are at Our boys, the choicest of our land, are dying daily for the freedom of the world. We have traitors right In our land at home who have been honored by the wings of that old eagle and protected by- that old Stars and Stripes, today the glory of the world. Long may she wave over the seas and the land of all freedom. Now let us all rid this na tion of the disloyal. Let us join to gether, hand In hand, and die for our dear boys in the far east Don't be chilly. Renovate this dear land of the unclean hands. H. N. WILSON. Great Frederick to the Cellar Frederick the Great, standing so long in bronze aggressiveness before the Army War college in Washington, has at last gone to the cellar never again to emerge,, probably, as a monitor to the American people. Good riddance 1 But inasmuch as the war college is in a very out-of-the-way situation at the national capital, perhaps it might have been a good thing to leave the Prussian where he was, as a reminder of the, advantage to the nation to any nation of a policy of military preparedness over one of studied and stupid neglect of all precautions. Frederick II was never a friend of Amer ica. What little he ever said or did for the American colonies was mere camouflage, hav ing reference to his dealings not with us but with rivals in Europe. He hated every single principle, every thought, every ideal which our founders put upon their books. He started the current of conquest which has involved us in the w.orld war against his peo ple. To all Americans his name should be forever odious. But he was at least a living expression of the policy of making his wn country great and safe. We Americans have always been bent on making our country great, but we have seldom thought of mak ing it safe. The Prussian on his pedestal might have served, in view of all that has happened, to remind us of that duty. Field Marshal von Micawber "We must suffer still for a short time our present anxieties in order to insure our good- future, bo rield Marshal von iiindenourg, cheers up the Essen Chamber of Com merce and the old folks at home. A little more than four months ago the field marshal was telling the Vienna Neue Free Presse: "If for some time yet we maintain our strength and exercise patience, we shall carry it to a good end." By mid-January the German Mars, adored in his monstrous wooden idol by the Ber linese, was giving out amusingly strong tonic to a collection of German editors: "By next April I shall be in Paris." Now "we must suffer still for a short time our present nnxieties." Always a "good fu ture, "victory," "a strong peace," is going to turn up. Steel and wood Mars playing Micawber, trying to micawberize the "Ger man people." Great is Hindenburg. One wonders if honest "German Michel" doesn't get a little weary of being cheered up even by the wooden god of the German tribes. New York Times. One- Year Ago Today In the War. . British premier declared home rule necessary for victory and peace. . Allied conference- in Washington agreed on baalo principle for con duet of war. Tha house turned down tbe Roose velt scheme of raising a volunteer force for France. Tbe Day We Celebrate. ' T. J. O'Connor, city clerk, born 1184. Major Arthur Finley Nevin, IT. & A., who has been serving as a direc tor of camp singing, born at Edge worth, Pa., 47 years ago. -4 . Sir Henry I Drayton. Dominion power controller, bora at Lingston, Ont, 49 years ago. . ' William Draper Lewis, dean of the law school at the University of Penn sylvania', born in Philadelphia, 61 years ago., H.VH. Myers, outfielder of the Brooklyn National league base ball team, born at East Liverpool, O., 28 rears ago. j This Day In History. " 1102 Louis Kossuth, the famous leader of the Hungarian revolution la ISO, born In Hungary; Died at Turin, March 10, 1894. " Ull Force of 1,700 under Gen eral Pike assaulted and. captured York, capital of upper Canada. ' 181 The porta of Virginia and North Carolina were proclaimed to be in a state of blockade,' J usi SO Years Ago Today Mrs. O. H. Elliott of Bt Paul, Minnesota, arrived in Omaha to visit her sister Mrs. Juda P. Currle and Mrs. H. C. Stevenson. ' The residence of J. B. Farrell, lo cated two blocks south of Hanscom park on Thirty-second street was struck by lightning and the roof and second story of the building com pletely demolished. The Omaha Worklngmen's Edu cational society held a meeting for the purpose of learning if the work ing people are Interested in opening a reading room which is to be run on the club style. ' The ball game today was postponed, the diamond being too soft by reason of two days rain. , Jack Morrison, one of the popular proprietors or the "Diamond ' will present to the member of the Omaha team making the best batting ave rage at the end of the season, a magnificent diamond horse shoe pin. State Press Comment Beatrice Express: Nebraska's se dition law covers so much terrlotory that Nebraska people ought not worry about punishment being administered. Kearney Hub: It Is regrettable that the loyalty of any part of the faculty of the state university is In question, but now that the charge has been made It is the duty of the board of regents to go through that faculty with a fine-tooth comb. Let no Ger man germs escape. Beatrice Sun: As a measure of conservation, some of the new phrases which have only been recruited into our language, should be sent back to rest billets. For instance, it is not fair to expect "over the top" and "camouflage" to be kept constantly in the front lines of conservation without imparlng their morale, pep, resiliency. Crawford Chronicle: Senator Ken yon of Iowa In a speech In Omaha the other day made this remark: "I for one hope never to see daylight again If I ever buy one article made by the hands or machinery of the contempt ible Huns." for which sentiment he was vigorously applauded, and in which ha will be joined in action by millions of our American people. While the senator was on hts recent trip to Europe, in conversation with a Scottish lieutenant the latter said that "Germany, had aa much chance of winning this war aa a celluloid cat has of catching . an asbestos rat in hell." And that's going some in true prophecy, . Editorial Shrapnel Brooklyn Eagle: There's many a slip twlxt the plan and the ship; but the refrain, "Schwab. Schwab, on the job," is a mdst cheering one to all of us. St Louis Globe-Democrat: The Germans are discovering that the sol diers on the western front are "dif ferent" They keep right on fighting after they are theoretically whipped. Baltimore American: After all the doings of the Huns, It must be a great strain on the nerves of the allied troops when the former in surrender ing call them Kamerads. j New York Herald: "Press on!" was Secretary Baker's parting words to General Pershing and the Ameri can army In France. Is it lese ma jeste to express the hope that General Pershing's reply was a polite "Same to you?" V Toronto Mail and Empire: A Ger. man paper says that Germany lost its last chance to keep the United States out of the war when it failed to pre vent Mr. Wilson's re-election. Now ex-Governor Hughes is a peaceable man, but he would be willing to pay a heavy fine for the pleasure of doing certain things to this editor. Loulsvile Courier-Journal: While the world may be shocked to find an emperor to be a plain liar the fact is that lying is one of the smallest vices of the dynasty to which the present emperor of Austria-Hungary belongs. The Hapsburgs began aa robbers and murderers and as time passed they Improved their oportumties. not their morals. Twice Told Tales The Peculiar Nut A Journalist visited an insane asylum to get material for an article and was shown over the establish ment by one of the inmates, who was so intelligent that it was almost impossible to believe he oould be out of his head. "And what are you In here for, my man?" asked the Journalist at length. J Immediately a cunning look came Into the man's eyes and he looked about him warily. , , .. "I'll tell you. if you'll keep it dark, ha na.li. lowBrina- his voice. "I have a mania for swearing. I write 'cuss words' all around: Its great, sporr. Why, they have to hire a man Just to follow me round and rub 'em out. hnr rnmlno- a little closer. 'Til tell you a secret I'm four 'damns ahead of him and I've got 'hell' written all over your back!" cnicago neram. Tfw T.4wnn. A professor of history met one of his class who had returned trom fighting on the western front and asked him if he had learned any par- HfMilnr laaoann tmm the W&Te "I have discovered," replied the young man, "that it is a great deal .easier studying history than it is malt ing it." .Boston Transcript. TKa IfoAHnr. "IK met your friend Spongely this morning." "TTnw rlM ha utrika YOU? "Said he'd left his change at home In his other trousers." Boston Tran- scrint . Quits the Hyphenated Sheet Kennard, Neb., April 23. To the World-Herald, Omaha: Sirs You will please discontinue sending me the World-Herald from this date on. I am paid in advance and you can either use this money to support Hitchcock with or tickle the 6ides of some Dutchman, as it is immaterial what is done with it. just so that my name never again appears on the page of a World-Herald. Why don't you use the word "Hun" when the other papers do that is the way it is sent to you for your use instead of sub stituting the word German? Are you afraid of hurting some unpatriotic German's feelings? Last evening in Omaha you had a patriotic address by a man who has been to the trenches, who has travel ed from one end of the line to the other, and a man whose patriotism is 100 per cent American. There is noth ing on your front page of his stirring addres3, but instead there is a com plete column by the man in the sen ate who has been guilty of opposing this administration's war plans from the very beginning. Your competitor has given it a column on the front page, the place it deserves, where every man may read something that will do his soul good and make him a better American for the reading. The man's writings to whom you give prom-1 inence savor very much of playing for the German vote and if signs have anything to do with it I am of the opinion that that is Just what he is going to get when the next election comes. And, when we speak of the German vote, we mean pro-Germans or those whose sympathies are across the water. All others in this country of German descent who are loyal we call "Americans." Now please cancel my name, as, I have stood for this kind of thing as long as it is possible for me to do so, and I do not want, for my part to disgrace the postofflces of this great country by requiring them to place such a periodical in my olllce box. Patriotically J. B. A. P. S. Webster says that a patriot is one who loves his country and zeal ously supports and defends its in terests. "Over There and Here" The military surgeons have found creped paper -a very satisfactory sub stitute for cotton gauze bandages. Much work looms ahead for the commission that is to probe the school text books of New York state for Ger man propaganda. Some fine pictures of the kaiser are sure to go to the scrapheap. Missouri experts claim to have proof of ground glass in corn meal sold over some of the counters at St ! Joe. Proof was obtained by burn ing samples of the meal and sifting the glass from the ashes. Many chaplains with the allied forces in France make it a point of writing to the parents or relations of every man. killed in action in their brigade, a labor of love which Is richly rewarded by the consolation it brings to the affljeted. Germany's lowely gretchens are crowding the columns of matrimonial papers with advertisements for hus bands. Some of the ads reveal a state of desperation, as when Gretchen writes that lack of an arm or leg will make no difference. One of the oddities of the price-fix ing system of Britain is that strictly British-raised cattle are restricted to a maximum price of 76 shillings a hundred, live weight, while Irish cat tle, unrestricted as to price, bring as much as 100 shillings. British farm ers insist on equal rights and propose to get them. Five thousand employes of the Macy stores in New York placed on the main building an elaborate bronze tablet as a tribute to their associates, 219 in number, who have joined the colors. The inscription reads: "We h?nor those who do us honor. In this metal we inscribe our humble expres sion of appreciation to those of our co-workers who have gone from our midst to defend a principle and bring peace to a stricltert world." LINES TO A LAUGH. FLAGS OF FREEDOM. (Tune: Battle Cry of Freedom.) '-. Yes, we re aprmglng to tna color, ion miinoi freemen brave, Fighting with all tha nag of Freedom For the kalaer must ba taught that tha world la not hie elava, Fighting with all tha flaga of Freedom. Chorus: ' Our Freedom forever! Hurrah, boyn, hurrah! Down with the kaiser! On with tbe Frea! Hip, hurrah, hurrah, hooray! Up, Freemen, save the day -Fighting will all the flaga of Freedom. , We miut save tha Ubertlea that our father won before Fighting with all the flags of Freedom . And we'll teach the brutal mailed flat II shall asaatl no more, ' , Fighting with all the flags of Freedom. ' Wa will never stack our arms, boys, til seas are aafe to sail, ', Fighting with all the flags of Freedom, And the brutal kalaer crew ahall now lean the Free prevail Fighting with all the flags of Freedom. , ERNEST L. IRELAND. Omaha. . . aa-jajju.au- an Ursula )iericA CONCERT PIANIST "We utilize everything In our business," said the pork packer. "When we kill a hog nothing Is lost but the squeal," 'We beat tnat, said the lumber manu facturer. "When we cut up a dogwood we do not even waste the bark." Boston Transcript "So you think that long hair makes a man look Interesting and Impressive?" "Yes." replied Miss Cayenne, "I supect that hair was provided by nature to divert attention from the fact that a man la a bonehead." Washington Star. "What are you thinking oft" h Inquired as tha conversation languished. "I have heard that you have a terrible reputation for kissing every girl you meet." "Ye-es?" "And I was wondering how you got such a reputation," concluded the fair maid. Louisville Courier-Journal. "You won't get anything out of that law yer. I asked him It the old skinflint who was his client left anything behind him, and what do you think be told me?" ' , "What did he tell you?" "That he left all he had." Baltimore American. " Blinks Did you see the cutting look she gave me? . 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