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8 THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, - MAY 2, 1918 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD BOSE WATER VICTOR KOSEWATER, EDITOR THE SEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha pottoffice at second-clses natter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION By Cerrtsr. ttr Mali. Daily aad Sunday par trek, 15a htwiiN O Uaily without Sani'r. ............ ....... ls " 0 Enala and Sunda;. .......... IS " f.N Enalat mUtout 6uodr a .. " .M tadu Bat only S.ftO (Mod aottos of enante of address or Intfiiltrltr la dilmr te Omaha M urcuuuoa Department MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fh Amaciiled Praia, at hick Tb Bo 1i a number. It aalat1eh entitled lo tbo bm for publloatk of all am dlipstehas eradiud as It er act otherwlsa credited to this paper, sad tin tin hnal nwi ubuahai herein. All rlfhu of publleaUoa of out spsstal dispatches an alio reserved. s REMITTANCE Bmtt ey draft, axpnas or poatal order. Only t ant I -earl atuaca wtea la paynea-. or snail acoounu. raraoaai snacs, vxoept : Oauha end oaatara axeaaafa, not aonpted. OFFICES . tasteThe Bm Bnt!Snr Clucaio People's (las Buitdlsa. Boui Omehs ISIS M 8c New Yorlr iW Flfte. Aw Coonell Bluffr 14 H. kala Bt Bt. Loula New B'k of Commerce, UacelaUult Building. Waahtoaloa 1311 O 8t CORRESPONDENCE ' addreas amomnteatlaos relating to a am and editorial aittar ca Oaube Baa, Editorial Department MARCH CIRCULATION C3.558 Daily Sunday, 56,553 twit emulation for the montfe, aubMrlbM aad iwora te or Dwliki WtUUaa, aroulatloa Uanesac Sabecrlbere leavtaf Uia city ehouU have The Baa KeaUee" ta tbesa. Add rasa changed aa aftem aa roqaaatad. TAeBees Setvtce Flag i - II I... "hhiii ; They shall not past!" What tase hat Nebraska for a "stein," anyhow f Almost a bond in every home. Make it 100 per cent ,; -V Still we hae two days of the drive left. Obey that impulse and buy another bond. - ' One thins in faror of the "potash milRohairea" is .that "they have not tried to evade war taxes or Liberty bonds. v An Omaha boy has won a battle in the sky. Yon can not head off the lads who went out from here, above or below ground. The Omaha Hyphenated, quotes with approval defense of " pro-Germans from one of Mr. Hearst's editors. In this case the "fellow feeling" is easily seen. "An orgy of pacifism" Is the description given of the spell that is now passing in America, by a veteran who knows what .war means. Our people are waking up. Von Illndenberg's prophecy of peace by August may rest on his belief that the German army will be wiped out by that time. At any rate, he is trying to make good on that basis. - Wheat in Nebraska has been improved greatly' in the last month, and the May report is expected to show several points above the April standing. The Antelope state will do its "bit" this year in the food line. - ' Emperor Karl Is hard to satisfy, for he is now reported to be offering separate peace to Italy. Host rulers would have had enough of it, after his experience with France, but he appears to tea a arlnfrnn tnr nnniahmint. 1 Inverted Moral in Court . A singular case is reported from an Iowa Justice court, in which the magistrate is said to tava commended a man who 'was before him it stealing. The justification rests on the fact Cat the culprit had intelligence from' his wife that she was in Chicago and without means. He therefore committed a' crime, that her extremity rc:;ht be relieved, and the justice of the peace tdore whom he was arraigned is recorded as t'fjtt the husband thus showed the proper spirit , "snest to provide for a wife is good in any ri.land, but his devotion should stop this side cl stealing. That resort to crimein this case v's unnecessary m proved by the tact that as aitnatinn became Imawn amnla fundi were immediately contributed to relieve both husband oi wife. No honest person need suffer, long in America, It may be humiliating to have , to ask a stranger for assistance, but very few per tons will decline to assist a worthy person in need, and most folks will take the chance of teing imposed on, even as did Goldsmith's vicar, "whose pity gave ere charity began." Moreover, it is far better to apply to pride the softer shock if admitting misfortune than to have it sustain Vf r( AltA rlm-.- Th hpw efiAwn ty the Iowa justice is commendable, but he let Us emotions get a little ahead of his judgment b expressing approval of theft in any form. . . ANOTHER DRIVE FOR PEACE. When the great German drive was commenced more than a month ago, it was accompanied by a prediction that it presaged a new proposal for peace. Just now we are told that the pope is pre paring to submit to the warring nations within. a few days further views on the subject No reason exists to suppose that any connection may be traced between the two statements. It is but one of the odd coincidents of the war. All the nations, belligerent and neutral alike, are earnestly desirous of peace, and it is no less than simple justice to think that the head of the great Roman Catholic church earnestly and zealously labors at all times to restore order and amity to the world. What basis for an understanding his holiness will propose must be left for his dis closure, but he is aware of the war aims of the Allies, as set out in President Wilson's fourteen theses. He must also understand that these ex press in substance the expectation of the Amer ican people, and therefore are subject to little if any modification. It was with ufmost reluctance this nation entered the war, and even now it is fighting only to establish justice and equity be tween nations, and until ' this be accomplished it is idle to talk of peace to Americans. Unless the war party of the Central empires is willing to accept far less than heretofore offered by them as terms for settlement,' peace still awaits their ultimate defeat. Three Million Men for Service. ' Washington is preparing the country for the announcement of another increment to the army, and reports traceable to Secretary Baker's office set the figure at 3,000,000. This means doubling the force that was under arms on May 1. General Crowder alreadyTias laid plans for adding 800,000 to the army, training to be started during the summer, that the men may be ready for transport to Europe early in the winter.! A quarter of a million of these will be in camp very soon. Troop movements within the last few months have been pressed with utmost energy, the only limit being that enforced by the t shipping available. The amount of tonnage at hand for transport is steadily increasing, so that it is possible to send a constantly increasing number of men to France each month. Whereas, 50,000 a month was at tained early last winter, it is the impression that that number has at least been doubled. All that is certainly known is that our government has sedulously avoided making public the number of men it has sent abroad, this for military reasons, and that it is doing its utmost to get men over there.. Preparation for training further soldiers must be commenced without delay, that the boys abroad may have proper support, and the state-mcr-t that the army is to be incresed to 3,000,000 witltbe accepted as a proof that our president means to win the war as quickly as possible, Justification for Centralizing Power. Senators who voted against the Overman bill did so on the high ground that it gives extraor dinary powers to the president. These and others feel some trepidation at even this approach to absolutism. Reasons for the measure are found in the necessity for doing many things promptly tnd without resort to delays or circumlocution inevitable under the operation of our government on its theoretical basis. We are at war, and so must exercise our united power as a nation; con centration of effort is imperative, and concen tration of authority becomes equally so. Danger lies in a possible deadlock between co-ordinate branches of the government and the compromise that thus would be forced to obtain movement. Our president is commander-in-chief of both army and navy, and has asked that he be given i unusual 'authority for the exercise of his func tions. The Chamberlain bill was designed to bring about the same result, so far as centraliza tion is concerned, as will be produced by the Overman bill, the difference being that the former measure, originating in the committee on mili tary affairs, contemplated a war council of three members, to be appointed by the president sub ject to confirmation by the senate. The Overman measure, which came to the senate from the White House, puts atl the power for co-ordinating and controlling the war activities of the country in . the hands of the president. Congress is in effect eliminated, its business being to pro vide ways and means for carrying out plans for mulated by the executive. Mr. Wilson wants a free hand, and will be given it. The people want a victory, and will win It Difference of opinion as to how best the end eonld be brought about will continue, but the great need is unison, and the country will accept any workable plan that will bring central control while the war is on. No danger to democ racy lies in this, but rather its certain preser vation. .;" ::, The only support given to the proposition that Senator Hitchcock be made chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations comes from those who are frankly opposed to the Wil son administration. The connection is quite clear. Sheriff Clark now has control of the elevator leading to the county jail, and the tempest that got too big for the teapot has finally passed. It raised quite an uproar while it lasted. 'Sheep for Vacant Pastures Definite Plans Made to Supply Farmers With Reliable Animals By G. W. Hervey. How can I get breeding sheep?, This has been the general inquiry coming up from all over the Missouri Valley states for the past year, from the small farmer who wants to try the sheep business in an experimental way, and see how he likes it This class of sheep buyers realize that it is a difficult prop osition to buy a good quality of sheep in small lots, without being obliged to take some very undesirable animals, culls, refuse, tail-ends "the whole bunch must go to gether or no sale" is the emphasis used by the seller. The sheep and wool committee, appointed by the State Council of Defense, last fall, saw the need of devising some plan whereby this class of sheep buyers could be supplied with a good, serviceable quality of breeding sheep, at a reasonable cost. The co-operation . of the extension de partment of the University of Nebraska offer ed the best, means of providing a working force that would be able to canvass the state and get in close, touch with the needs and desires of the small farmer who wanted to try sheep raising on a small scale. This prob lem was filially given over to the extension department of the university and a represent ative of the sheep and wool committee of the State Council of Defense to work out formu late into a practical proposition that could be applied in supplying this demand; both in quality of sheep and cost The uni versity farm has becdme a source of infor mation for both purchase and sale of sheep; thus an interchange of correspondence with buyer and seller may bejiad that will result in great good to the live stock interests of the state. Nothing but good quality of stock, Lsound and serviceable, will be considered or accepted, ine assistance or the south umaha Live Stock exchange has been secured in the filling of orders for carload lots 'of sheep. This advantage may be had by neighbor hoods or communities forming sheep clubs, and join in the purchase of carload lots of breeding sheep, thus greatly reducing the shipping expense to neighborhoods where a carload can be sold. Mr. Snaoo is ifoldinsr meetings or 'sheeo institutes in neighborhoods where the sheep The extension department incorporated into its bureau of information a sheep de partment, whereby all inquiries for the pur chase or sale of breeding sheep would be taken up, and buyers and sellers put into communication, so that many persons could have their needs accommodated. Every coun ty agent of the extension department in this way becomes a source of information in re gard to where and how the farmer buyer may receive assistance in getting the animals he needs or wants. This department has been placed under the supervision of Prof. W. K. Warner, rep resenting the State Council of Defense sheep committee, and Glen Snapp, the government agent who has been placed in Nebraska .to assist in promoting the farm flock industry of the state. This makes the matter of sheep supply, in getting' a suitable quality of sheep for a farm flock basis, comparatively safe interests desire instruction, an awakening in I the care and management of the flock. Hisf1,,,, mvinn Rtamns n: work is of a missionary character, teaching the little details or how to handle, teed and care for the sheep, fn sickness and in health. Such lectures, from a practical shepherd, one who has lived with the flock through all the varied conditions of flock management from the breeding of the stock to the bringing of the lamb to full sheephood is of inestimable value to the beginner. The safety and protection of the flock from the dog and coyote is a feature, how ever, that must not be overlooked or care lessly ' passed, in the excitement of high priced wool and desirability of entering the sheep raising business. There are means of protection for the sheep raiser that he must enforce himself until a sufficient dog law can be passed. One reasonably successful course for the sheep farmer is to use his gun on all dogs trespassing on his premises. This is his right and privilege. Another is protect the flock by a dog proof fence, en closing corrals and pastures where sheep are left at night. The present dog population in Nebraska more than equals that of the sheep representing the farm flocks. Present condi tions demand the very closest watching, vigi lance must be resorted to by the sheep owner, or loss and damage will soon result in discouragement. Too Costly Even for Carnegie Free Pensions for College Teachers Down and Out Boston Transcript. Twelve years it is since the liberality of i cial soundness or of its Shake Dice for Stamps. Omaha, April 30. To the Editor of The Bee: To help sell war savings stamps why not divert the dice shak ers to this more patriotic and also more profitable pastime, viz: Use two dice with five fellows in the game. Decisive dice make two spots, 4, 6, 8 and 10 spots. Each player shakes until one of these five total spots ap pears, and that determines his ante; e. g., the first player may throw two fours or a five and three or a six and two (making eight spots). Eight spots call for 80 cents, six spots, 60 cents; 10 spots, II; four spots, 40 cents; two spots, 20 cents. Total antes S3 to pay for $3 in sfamps. Then, using five dice, the five play ers throw "horses" and by elimination determine who is to take all of the stamps, or which two .will each take half of them, or which three SI worth each. It's a good gamble for the players othor woman, aha et up a bl dlnnar party ao aa to anub tho other woman oy not inviting her." Boston Tranacrlpt. Mandy Bastua, you all knows dat you remind mo ot dem dere flying machines? Rastus No, Mandy, how's datT Mafidy Why. Decays youao no good on earth. Sun Dial. TO THE DRAFTED MAN. Andrew Carnegie first brought the day of free pensions to its dawn in the American colleges. It has been the brightest and warmest single material blessing which the faculties of the associated institutions have known, bringing comfort and protection to scores of professors in the later years of lives spent in unselfish and underpaid service a deferred compensaion received by them, as Mr. Carnegie expressly directed, as a pay ment due them in right, not in charity. Sup ported by the millions of wealth which the great donor gave the Carnegie Foundation as direct endowment and the millions more which the Carnegie Corporation was given to hold in reserve, his pension plan was hailed as one of the enduring works of the 20th cen tury. Surely it seemc t that it must be. Yet at the end of only . 10 years the necessity of discontinuing it began to be mooted by the trustees in control of the fund. And now, after 12 years, the sunset of its bright day is firmly and finally foretold by President Henry 5. rritchett in his latest report, lhere are to be no more free Carnegie pensions for college teachers in the ultimate future. The general lesson to be drawn from the trustees' enactment of this, decision may well he said to be this: That even the millions of a great American magnate cannot do the work of the world. Without an adherence to the principle of individual co-operation on the part of the professors themselves and of their respective institutions no endow ment, however vast, can be large enough to carry the load which the passing of years will come to pile upon the founder of a free pension system. To this it may be objected, however, that if the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation had restricted the operation of their plan to a few colleges, instead of add ing quite steadily to their number, they could have avoided the menace of bank ruptcy. This may be so, but it only brings one face to face with the question "Can there be justice in establishing, within our higher educational world, a closed circle of special beneficiaries limited to the few al ready fortunate?" The idea is obviously in consistent with our democratic ideals, and it is fair to assume that the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation, even setting aside Pres ident Pritchett's ambitious desire to extend the influence of the system, could not long or rightly Jiave resisted the pressure for ex pansion which came to be placed upon tnem. As a -matter of .fact it was the trustees' forthright decision that they ought to include all institutions in the foundation's benefits, which has been one of the reasons for their recent abandonment of the original pension plan and their choice of a scheme which can be applied to all, upon a' sound financial basis and without risk of overtaxing the available funds. There will be, in the end, no more free pensions for the institutions now on the associated list, but there will be a plan for the sale of life insurance and annuities to all college teachers who desire to accept the new system's benefits. The Carnegie Foundation will pay all overhead expense of writing this insurance and annuity business, and so will be offering such contracts to college teachers at a very low cost. It is admitted that the exact success which this plan will attain re mains somewhat in the field of doubt, but, as the trustees have finally fixed its arrange ments, there can be no question of its finan- entire fairness. Compulsory acceptance of the life insurance, as at nrst recommenaea Dy rresiaeni mi chett, has been stricken out, and only : measure of influence brought to bear to sug gest that the payment of annuity installments be made a universal obligation pf all Jacttlty members in any college which votes to adopt the plan. . Watch Your Liberty Bonds Dealers in Liberty bonds in New .York, Boston. Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities have oiled uo on their desks an in creasing string of nunibers of Liberty bonds that have been stolen and which they have been asked to hold up if they come into their possession. -Only the $50,000 and $100,000 denominations are registered under . the name of the holder, all other issue9 being negotiable out of hand and without any de mand for title from the seller save the pass ing of the physical possession of the bond from seller to buyer. Practically all the Liberty bonds handled in Wall street are "bearer" bonds and are readily sold without any red tape or ceremony and pass from hand to hand like so much goods or mer chandise. If the owner of Liberty bonds does " not make a memorandum of the numbers and denominations of his bonds, there is ab solutely no way of proving his property if the thief should be caught, because there is no public record of ihe numbers. Physical possession gives title and unless the num bers are known and kept by the owner, once lost or stolen the bonds cannot be recovered unless the finder happens to know to whom the bonds belong or the thief repents. In the year since the government issued the several series of Liberty bonds fully $300,- 000 have been stolen in the New York cea eral Reserve district and elsewhere others have been lost. It behooves every Liberty bondholder, therefore, to first see to it that he has a memorandum of the number of his bonds put away in a safe place and that the bonds are placed in a strong box. New York Financial World. People and Events The governor of Minnesota has given all concerned to understand that the Gopher state will be a dangerous place to pull off a fight tor money on July 4 or any other old day. Fighting for liberty and democracv is the only lawful diversion in Minnesota just now. l hat s a-plenty. To head off local police scandals through official telephone wire tapping the New York legislature put through a bill prohibiting the practice. The governor, interposed a veto on the ground that the proposed law might ob struct the ends of justice by facilitating the activities of alien enemies. Lawrence B. Thompson a former Nasby at La Branch, La., is in jail in New Orleans for attempting to annex a postoffice inspector in his "school of love." For some time previ ous he had conducted fin extensive corre spondence school with girls without their consent finally drawing a real flirtatious let ter from the inspector. Thompson thought he had landed an eager soul. Instead he land ed in jail. 3IOSH C- Tear" Ago Today In the War. rcg-Und reported loss of It snips ty German submarines during veels. French mission, headed by Joftra f -,d "iviana, began tour of the United Ljfctea. Secretary McAdoo offered the first ' l.GOj.OOO.OOO of the war loan at .jrilar subscription. -s Cay We Celebrate. Peter E. Peterson, president of the t'aion Pacific Steam Baking com r"y, born, 1813. Uallle : Erminie Rives (Mrs. Post ' -.. Mler), author, born in Christian -ty, Kentucky, 40 years ago. - carles H. Sloan, Nebraska con--jnan, bora at Honticeilo, la., it s ago.-. Ijirold. I. MeCormlck, son-in-law ! John D! Rockefeller, born in Chi- 41 years ago. (. sar Admiral Oscar W. Farenholt . 8. retired, born near San An- 3, Tex, 78 years ago. , ry In History. '.r ) . 1 David Wooster. commander of C'nnactlcut troops In the revolu- tiled of a wound received while -lng to British from Danbury. a March 11710 - - 108 Revolution irfSpain and gen ii, -uwacro of tho French reai ' in Madrid. ::r . iQlCaoadiarAHouse of Commons i a Vill establishing May 24 as a i to bt named Victoria day. J ust SO Years Ago Today County Commissioner Pete Corri gaa of South Omaha was married and his friends went out to their Twenty fourth street home to offer congratu lations. A very enjoyable dinner was given at the Millard by the Harvard club. The tables were beautifully decorated. a delightful menu was served and fol lowed by lmpromtpu remarks, which were enjoyed by, everybody. , ' The Toung Men's Christian associa tion la preparing to hold a reception in the hall in honor of Ed T. Dadum, the new general secretary, and. an at tractive program has been prepared. The first game of the championship series between the St Paul ice packers and the Omaha base ball team was played and the score was 3 to 1 in favor of the home team. Robert Mantell is appearing at Boyds opera house in his beautiful five-act drama, "Monbara." Nebraska 'Oder the Top Friend Telegraph: Nebraska is going clear over the top with its quota in the third Liberty loan. Ne braska men will also go clear over the top when the battle is on in France. Fremont Tribune: Looking at Ne braska's War stamp and Liberty loan record, certain easterners may com mence to wonder whether they fully realise, as does the west that we are in the war. Grand Island Independent: Ne braska has certainly made an envi able record in all war support and nothing proves that fact more em. phatically than the official statement of the National War Savings commit tee. Nebraska City Press: Nebraska leads the union in the total sales ot war savings stamps. And Nebraska was once included in that large block of western American territory which was accused by a woman writer ot being apathetic toward the war. Butler County Press: Ward Burgess of Omaha; who won national fame and praise for his excellent work as director of the War Savings stamps campaign in Nebraska, was recently called to Washington to take up some Important work for the War Industry board. The record of Nebraska in War Savings stamps purchases stands without an equal in the union and was the result largely of the perfect or ganization secured and directed by Mr. Burgess. - . Editorial Shrapnel Minneapolis Journal: The button supply is getting low. 'Hoard your safety pins. Minneapolis Journal: Buy a bond even if you have to have your trousers half-soled, as Mr. McAdoo recom mends, for the rest Of the year. Washington Post: The arrest of an American artist and his wife for holding a costume ball in Munich is highly approved, as no one has any right to be happy in Germany. New York World; Secretary Mc Adoo wants eubscriptions of $5,000, 000,000 as a minimum liberty loan total. That is a desire that the coun try should find no difficulty in grati fying. Brooklyn Eagle: Kaiser Karl must envy the record of Clemens , Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Metternlch. It took time to spot Metternich's lies for Austria, They were rather better as lies. Baltimore American: "Surrender!" said a superior force of Germans to a .little group of Americans. "Cer tainly," replied a lieutenant, and shot the leader dead. Whereupon all the Germans gave themselves up. Thus the great game of getting the Teu tons goat goes merrily on. . Louisville Courier-Journal: Beat the sun rising; beat the chickens to breakfast: beat ths pigs eating' corn; beat HooVer saving wheat; beat your neighbor war gardening; beat your last record buying Liberty bonds; beat the nose of the 'kaiser, that the boys in khaki may beat it home to their sweethearts and to peace with honr. Twice Told Tales Some Relationship. ( "You say, madam," said the lawyer to a woman in the witness box, "that the defendant is a sort of relation of yours. Will you please explain what you mean by that Just how you are related to the defendant?" "Well, it's Just like this. His first wife's cousin and my second hus band's first wife's aunt married brothers, named Jones, and they were own cousins to my mother's own aunt Then, again, his grandfather on my mother's side were second cousins, and his stepmother married my husband's stepfather after his father and my mother died, and his brother, Joe. and my husband's brother, Henry, married twin sisters. I ain't never figured out Just how close related we are, but I've always looked on 'im as a sort of cousin." New York Globe. Passing a Hot One. Was it at a meeting of our aircraft omciaisi Perhaps it was ana per haps it wasn't Anyway, a member was protesting vigorously against the snail-like progress in turning out things that were sorely needed. A "scene" . ensued and the chairman tried to pour oil on the troubled waters. "Mr. Blank must remember." said he,, "that Rome wasn't built in a day." "I know it wasn't" retorted the protesting member, 'and if thts board had had the work to do it wouldn't be built yet And war savings stamps are good property, in addition to their bad effect upon kaiserism. R. E. S. Tin in the Black Hills. Helvey. Neb., April 27. To the Editor 'of The Bee: I see by today's) Bee that Holland has placed an em bargo on the "exportation from the Dutch East Indies of tin and tin ore, cinchona bark, quinine, quinine salts and kapok, all of which is needed, in large quantities by the United States for war purposes. The embargo on tin and tin bre will prove especially embarrassing to the United States as the supplies needed for munitions and food pres ervation were expected to come from the Dutch East Indies. Now as a matter of fact, we have here at home a few tin mines which are located in the Black Hills, within a radius of 10 miles of Hill City, S. D. In the early '90s these mines were running in full capacity, with a large ore mill running night and day grind ing the ore. It was said at that time by the operators that there was enough gold in the ore to pay all run ning expenses and that the tin ob tained was all velvet. Now, during the winter of 1892 the mines and mill were closed down and the mill locked . up and put under guard . It was rumored at that time by good authority in Hill City that all the mining property including the mill had been bought up by some foreign tin syndicate for the purpose of stopping the tin industry in the United States, as they were all the tin mines in the United States. Now, if this is true, and no doubt it is, why not our government take over these mines and produce our own tin. or make an investigation at least? I was at that time employed by the Burlington railroad which hauled the ore from the different. mines to the mill and was with the crew that did the work and know something about the situation. Our engine stood on a side track . nights out in the weather most of the winter, waiting developments. When it was decided that the mines were a paying proposi tion the company built a house for the engine. When we were nicely lo cated in the house with the engine things took a sudden change and mines and mill closed down for good. For what reason, unless to stop the tin industry in the United States? Pa triotically yours, B. F. TOWNSEND, They're aendln' the drafted men candy. 'N sweaters, 'n wristlets, 'n such; They've a invite to dine any 61' time. Seems 'slf folks can't do too much . When any of them coma aroun' "'hum:, They're welcome witli all kinds of fuss: But I guess 'cause we're the regulara, They've kind of forgotten us, . .' .. WVve fit the blacks In thuh i'lands, 'Nn tangled with fhlnks in thuh east: We've blistered our hands In the bolltn lands - With Pershing, when beans was a feast I Jes "cause wo got rank parlor manners Them drafted men give us the dus', . An' I guess 'cause we're the regulara Folks kind 'a- forgotten us. ; . , But I ain't a durned old growler, An' what I say now la right Thet when "Death's Still" Is on thuh "mill" We'll be side by side In thet fight; An' when the shouttn's all over, , We'll back that blame lucky cuss The folks at home may go n ferget. But them Germans 11 remember us. Omaha. "MICHAEL O'ANGELO," , Of the Regulara. Kissing the Flag. Des Moines, la., April 29. To the Editor of The Bee: It is time for all loyal Americans to protest against forcing traitors and pro-Germans to desecrate our glorious emblem by kissing it as a source of punishment What does it mean to a German sym pathizer? Not the spirit oi honor, truth and freedom if does to us. These people who come to this land because they could not live in their own land and have the freedom they have in this or a decent living retain their own traditions, spread discord and terror throughout our nation should be punished, but not by kissing our flag. That is for those who truly love it and the thing for which it stands. Tonight on the -shell-swept fields of far away France our Sammies are sleeping under its starry folds. Tomor row they will shed' blood to preserve us from the most barbarous foe the world has ever known, the "Unspeak able Hun." From all buildings the Stars and Stripes are proudly floating and enemies to it are made to kiss it? When I think of what our flag stands for liberty, truth, freedom to degrade it by vile, seditious lips it makes my blood boil and every man, woman and child should protest. No, Mr, Editor, the right to kiss Old Glory is for lips who love and rever ence it. If you want to punish these Hun-lovers send" them bag and bag gage back to the land they love so dearly. Maybe a submarine might teach them what true liberty is. But spare our flag the desecration of un clean lips. J. A. LOG I E, V CONCERT PIANIST V The Apollo Reproducing Piano which created such a furore at the Blackstone Recitals last week, is now to be seen and heard at HOSPE'S In our special Apollo ware rooms these beautiful instruments are demonstrated daily. The public Is invited. 4i (la. AkAif Vrrrmnr. 1513 Douglas St. Don't fail to ask to see the famous Brambach Grand Piano $495.00 and the- Hocpe Player $475.00 . Easy Terms WHY-j NOT h sip- 0ILS?Q) Vjfllt "OH Company I 'Business is Good Thwik You1 SUNNY GEMS. the "Why are men alwaya holding up Venus of Mllo to women as a model?" . 'Because if all women were like her, they would not take matters In their own hands." Baltimore American. "What la the chief aim of Jobllng's ex istence?" "Making money. "But he's always hard up." Quite true. His aim is poor." Birming ham Age-Herald. "This Item bobs up again from the south about a fan who became so enthused over home run that he hugged a perfectly strange girl sitting next to him." 'Sometimes I think the base bait people spread those reports to increase feminine attendance." Louisville Courier-Journal. 'I knew a college fellow who was hazed by having- a lot of jam rubbed In his hair." 'I guess the other fellows wanted his sweet impressions to stick." San Francisco CL.onlcIe. "Confound those feminine squabbles! They cost ma a lot of money." How?" 'Whenever my wife rjunrrrl with an- TOM lira Healed ByThree Cakes of Cuticura Soap anckThree Boxes Cuticura Ointment. "After an attack of typhoid fever I retained an irritation of the forehead and scalp. Day and night I was tormented by a terri ble itching and I suffered very much from a rash. The skin was inflamed and sore and the itching was so in tense that I scratched and irritated the affected narts. 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