THE BEE! OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 7,' 1918 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MQBNINO) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED 8T EDWARD EQ3KWATER VICTOR EOSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEB PUBLISHING COMPACT. PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omaha postoffle m second-class matter. V TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Br Carrier. Br MetL fell sad undT.. wes.lS P JW. W Dlljr without 8imdr e J Evening ud Sunday I l I f S Evniltx without Sunday., ............... . JJ IM ISrtwKrt'i-'teilW IsAUf to Omit. Bee Circalettoa Utimmiou MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -rh Ai.ocu.ud Prase, ol rti)ak (he Bee is mmbm, Is exolan Sttedlo the mT for puhlleetloa of HI Bw dlipetehM credited to It w iUmS wedlMd b Ibie el the toesl oe-s iMh Xil tUUU ot publKUoe et our sseolal dlipstees br else lewied, ' REMITTANCE toils br draft. a ar potl orl. Only I sad l-esnt ittw uSb Si imtof m .llVroour. . PktwmI sheik. Omaha and auura rehm, pot socwtod. ' OFFICES " Cnaooll Biuff-14 H. Mela Mi lu JLnBA . Co'"W jtaeoln HtUs Bundles. - WealagtoB--1311 O BL CORRESPONDENCE iddnss eotanletloas rsUUm o enn and editorial etSi Omifc Bm, XdltorUt Psprtnsn. s APRIL CIRCULATION. Daily 67,265 Sunday 57,777 a at etrenUttoo for the nwoCk, soteortbwj sod iw era to s iwUM WilLUm. ClrooUtloo. Mmu - Subscriber, leaving th. city should taw The Bee BaUed to tba. AddreM cheated m oltea m mpMtai THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAO "'., m w :S " ill Why 10 many tccWentt at th Fort Omaha balloon school? V ; Whichever way you rote, don't be- "gaedM ty the political hot air artiiti. - The rala god most b waiting for tomorrow, when th local base ball aeason opena. 1 - Slate amaihing is mighty good exerciae and this is the day for the Omaha voter to go to it. i ' e-Maw-w-MMe-a---e--M3 .... t- - "'. None ot the candidates will be justified in romplaminjrpf the sort of weather furnished for the campaign. " - ,y ' - . . ., . ' :t, I Nebraska has done other things besides sell stamps and buy bonds, if the yisitors are inter ested In knowing this. . ' . V mmmmmmmm mtmm ssmssI :. Church consolidation, long yainly urged, may be forced by the departure of so many preachers for the work at the front abroad. Ed. P, Smith has given it out that he will re sign if after election he finds that he cannot be mayor. Nobody ever heard Mayor "Jim" talk that way, ':, - .. - . . Double-crossing comes so natural to certain uplifters that they just cannot go straight' even Vhen the straight road leads directly to desti nation. V ' 1 That jaw-breaker may be the word the Hun uses when he writes about the tank, but it is I good wager he has another for conversational t purposes.. -.T: - Home canners are to have the fostering care of Uncle Sam so far as sugar is concerned, even If candy makers do go on short supply. Summer surplus carried over into the winter months is worth far more than the dainty consumed on the ipot "... , " ; - - . Baniahing the Barberry Buah. The crusade against the barberry bush is gaining headway, under the leadership bf the Uni versity of Nebraska,.-which has uprooted the shrub on' the state farm, the campus down town and elsewhere, se'tting a good example for all. , Why? Because the barberry is host to puccinia graminis, which is just as bad as it looks, for it is wheat rust The black rust thrives on the barberry, doing it no particular harm, but from the leaves of the shrub the spores migrate to the wheat fields yd become terribly destructive. This knowledge is not recent; botanists have known of it for many years, arid graminologists, have warned against It this long time, but U took the needs of war to awaken grain growers to action. Thus we will find the conflict in Europe supplemented by an equally Interesting conflict in the fields of America. Vegetable parasites' and insect pests are to be pursued as never before, . and rats and mice and similar "small deer," whose ravages have long been patiently borne, are to be eliminated Jt 'possible, because they consume millions of bushels of grain that is needed for auman food. Here is another place where the war has already brought something of good in Its wake.;; , : r : WHY A SELF-PICKED MAYOR? Omaha's commission plan of government pro vides for the' choice of seven members of the city council from among fourteen candidates listed on a nonpartisan ballot, who, after they are elected, are to get together and by mutual agree ment assign themselves to the direction of the different municipal departments, with one of their number designated as mayor. The voters are not permitted to Indicate on their ballots their prefer ence for mayor and each of the seven elected has as good a popular mandate as any other to fill this more prominent position. In other words, the fact that two or more candidates in their campaign speeches avow their desire to be mayor in no way carries either a legal or a moral ob ligation upon the other, candidates unless they publicly pledge themselves to that effect. There is nothing in the charter contemplating a self appointed mayor any more than a self-appointed fire commissioner or a self-appointed superin tendent of public works. Why not get back to the spirit as well as to the letter of our com mission form of government, .if that is the plan under which our municipal affairs are to be managed? Studying Nebraska Methods. The presence in the state of Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, Mr. B. E. Sunny "and others of emi nence, in connection with war work is decidedly complimentary to Nebraska. These gentlemen have come confessedly to study Nebraska methods and to learn of the ways by which some remarkable results have been accomplished. In the purchase "of Liberty bonds and War Savings stamps, Red Cross subscriptions, nd all other forms of money raising for war purposes, the people of Nebraska have made a record that is attracting much public attention. When the in vestigators get busy they will find that whatever of success has been attained in this state may be traced to an awakened public intelligence, in which the newspapers have done a full share in arousing the people. Regardless of what senti ment prevailed before the war, once in it, our people have given themselves unreservedly to the cause of their country. In contributions of men and money, in production of food and in all other ways they have determined to help to the utmost. This, work has been carefully organized and Intelligently directed, to the end that no en ergy ha, been wasted, but every lick has counted. Any tendency to disloyalty or to slack per formance has been promptly checked and the offenders have been brought into linev- When the visitors have completed their survey of the state and its ways of helping Uncle Sam, they can go back and tell the world that Nebraska is on the job right. " , j Probing the Air Board. President Wilson has ordered an inquiry into the affairs of the air craft board, to be thorough and decisive. It will be carried on' by the Depart ment of Justice and will be watched with ut most concern by the people. This is the outcome of the report made by Gutzon Borglum on' the inquiry' he made for the president, some portions of which have been made public, although much of Us contents are yet known to the president alone. In the senate one day last week the charge was made that most of the evidence on which Mr. Borglum based his report has been destroyed, and that more-will be. Demand for criminal prose cution of civilians and court-martial for army officers Involved has been made, Trnd perhaps the sternest of justice yet will overtake- those who are responsible for the collapse of our air craft program. Whether the matter is merely the result of rivalry betweeoSmakers of airplanes, a contro versy between designers of motors, or contains basis for the allegations that German influences have Intervened between the government and the air craft, the people are entitled to know the truth. All they now know is that $640,000,000 of an appropriation has been consumed, and a deficit estimated at above $250,000,000 has been accum ulated, and the thousands of fighting airplanes promised have not been produced. They know that boastful yarns about the Liberty motor, the swooping battle plane, and a lot of similar stuff, were the work of flamboyant press agents, sent out under sanction of the Committee on Public Information, of which George Creel is the active head. It has been charged that the secretaries of J i.. ... t- r i'. . swsr iiiu navy, wuu aic mr. viccis assuiittics uu this committee, were deceived, as was the presi dent,and that through them the deceit was pass ed along to the public. What is now necessary is, to find out who practiced this deceit, who aided in bamboozling the public while the princely sum of almost a billion of dollars was being dissipated, and the war plans of a great nation were being delayed, and make an example of the guilty ones. No cul prit here should be allowed to escape. A'ship complete in twenty-sev,en working days is a pretty fair record, and is a notice to the kaiser of what the American nation can do when it once gets under headway. If he is going to win before the Yankees can get. an army to France, he will have to hustle faster than any thing he has done in the last fofr years. Mystery Miracle of War - A Day When Ypres Was Wide Open to the Bochc New YorkHerald. ; "Queer things happen In all great battles, said the veteran of many of the great com bats of the western front "There are oc currences which nobody can explain, and sometimes it is on these inexolicable fea tures of a day's fighting that the tide of bat tle turns." ' ... The veteran is an American. but he has been "in it" from the first for he went over with the first Canadian contingent, and astonishingly enough came through Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge and innumerable other giant struggles with the enemy and still lives, hoping after a blighty, which sent him home, to fight again another day.' Of all the thousand and one episodes which crowd to his mind when he can be persuaded to let his thoughts wander back to the western front the one that stands out as most start lingly mysterious, most strangely fateful, is the stopping short of the Germans at Sanc tuary Wood and Maple Copse, in the out skirts of Ypres. "For they stopped short and turned back within 300 yards of us," says thfTAmerican veteran, "when we were completely out of ammunition ami they knew it and when they might have swept on and taken Ypres. with nothing in the world to hinder them nothing but a few exhausted men with not a round of shot among them. "Why did they do it? Nobody knew. No body will ever know. v That was the strange part of it Was it from love of us? It was not. There were 30.000 casualties resulting from that engagement 30,000 on our side, I mean and I believe there were 45,000 on theirs. Still they had all the best of it, for their forces were greater and were well sup plied. They had swept on and taken every thing in their way. And there was nothing between them and us but a heap of dead men. "The fight started June 1. 1916. and kept up until June 4. It was what you might call a good fight Just to show what it did to our part of the army, there were 7,000 of our men to go into the fight and of these 179 answered the roll call on the morning of the fourth. "The First, Second. Fourth and Fifth Canadian Mounted Rifles were in the front line trenches when the fight opened Tune 1. We supported them with the First and Sec ond division field artillery and with the La hore batteries, which took the place of the Third Canadian field artillery, which hadn't yet been able to get over from England. "Our guns were stationed just by Zille beeke lake when Fritt, coming over very strong, had cleaned up the Canadian Mounted Rifles and was on his way to us. The pros pect was not very cheerful, for with his bar rage fire the enemy had cut off the road so that it was impossible for our ammunition to be sent up. "Nevertheless orders came to stand by our guns. , "Orders are orders in war )time. It evi dently meanly that all those who were left of us were to be wiped out. It didn't look as if a man could come through. But the boys stood by without a murmur. Fritz was within 300 yards of us, still coming on and cleaning up our men as he came. He was shelling the infantry and killing off the artillery with bay onets. Naturally, as we were in the artil lery, we had no bayonets; so we equipped ourselves with our intrenching tools, pick axes and anything we could get and prepared to sell our lives dearly. We didn't suppose we would have much of a chance to drive a good bargain, for,-after all, pickaxes are not strong against shells and bayonets. , "Standing by our guns, of course, was only What It Set In Motion The kaiser, looking over the havoc.of the battlefield of Cambrai is said to have re marked, "What have I not done to spare the world these hofrorsl" Napoleon, riding over the field of Austerliti the evening after his victory, , made a similar hypocritical utter ance. We credit the kaiser, however, with not having foreseen Cambrai nor the other ter rors when in 1914 he decided, for war. It is no draft on our credulity to believe that he had no such horrors in his mind then as have since happened. He did not count upon hole causfs of dead and wounded, upon four vears of destruction, upon such human suffering as no one man's act ever has caused humanity. Could he have foreseen, even that pinchbeck imitator of the great butchers would, have blenched from the responsibility. But no man can foresee the consequences of his act Judgment and justice have their part, of course; but even with the best exer cise of them a man cannot always foretell what a train of events he sets in motion. Judgment and justice we may believe do im pose some control or moderation upon the sequence. At least, justice and judgment are all that anyone can impart into his decisions. Humanly he cannot do better. Having done his best, he sees the consequences of his act occurring, one following the other to he knows not what beneficence or catastroohe. BuCwhen impiously he disregards justice and flings moderation away, he has fortified the right to wonder at the horrible result which, may come to pass. And the world finds it sickening to hear such -disclaimers 'as this of the kaiser's on Cambrai's field. Wilhelm is certainly not excused, because, when he cast the die for war he did not con template these massacres, starvations and agonies.-' They were all within the range of pos sibility as consequences of his act And the act itself was a coldly considered oolit(c one not one of a generous mistaken passion even, unless the Hohenzollern ambition be con ceived as generous. The act was uncon necfeTd with justice and, has been proved non judicious it was worse, it was conceived in evil and delivered in derision of all whom it must hurt That it set in motion conse quences which no imagination at the time could compass, in no wise diminishes the guilt of its perpetrator. Whether he decided in strength or yielded in his weakness.,. Wil helm is rightfullv the, most hated person of modern times.-.Minneapolis Journal. a way of putting it WhaUwe really did was to sit down to the situation. Fritz was still too far off to get at with a pickaxe, and so there didn't seem any reason why we shouldn't take it easy. Some of the men sort of lav about and some sat together in groups all the time, however, keeping their eyes on the approaching enemy. Not a man had any thing to complain of. We shook hands, wished each other a pleasant journey and hoped we wern't going where Fritz was, that was ail. inen we just sat ana wauea. "And then suddenly, while we looked, scarcely believing what our eyes told us, we saw those advancing thousands stop short We held our breath for a moment but wej COuiu c inc cuciiiT juuc cicany cuuuku iw be sure that he had halted, lhe situation brought us all to our feet Nobody said any thing that I can,, remember. You have otten heard the phrase 'thrilling moment' used about all sorts of situations. I hat was one "We waited, looking as hard as we ever looked at anything in our lives, I guess: but Fritz didn't start for us again. Instead, if you can believe it he began to retreat began to retreat jnind you, whenrhe could have taken Ypres with one hand, you might say: when there we were at his mercy. It would have been just like parading for .him. "Well, "have you. ever been all screwed up tight for 24 hours just waiting to be killed and determined to die like a man leaving a last goodby punch behind you? "And have you ever, after this prepara tion, had something come along to unscrew you and let you down easy something you coum never nave counted on ior a minute, could never have dreamed of? "That was what happened to us in Sane tuary Wood. We expressed ouV amazement and pleasure over the considerate action of Fritz, but I couldn t tell you what we said It wouldn't be printable. It was one more example of the shifting fortunes of war. You never can tell. N "A few hours after this our ammunition limbers got through, and then we flew at the enemy and kept it up until we had gained back every bit of ground that he had taken from us. We paid them back, too, for every- Write Cheery Letters to the i Soldier Boys It is rather astonishing to find that the United States War department feels ft neces sary to ask the families and friends of sol diers now in the training camps of this coun try not to write them doleful and despondent letters. When a map is in a line of duty which may put him up against something holding an element of danger, deprivation or exposure of any sort, the thing to do for him is to make him feel 'that he is where he is because he is the best man for the place, and that, when the ordeal is passed, with his duty done, he, still a young man, would be awfully sorry if he had never gone to the front. A at. Louisan. answering a Christ mas letter from a nephew who is on the way, if not now "over there," wrote: "When the sofdiers get back, if you should find yourself here and never having been over there, you would feel like a bound boy at a shucking bee. You are fortunate to be at the right age. Your chance to get back with a whole skm is more than even, but, none the less, the world, and particularly the women, will admire you for having taken the chance of losing it" That is the -way to write , to a soldier. The Wife who writes to a husband in line of duty. singing jeremiads, . or painting Woeful pic tures, is not a true soldier's wife. She should be mated with a mollycoddle and bathe his feet at night lhe mother who writes de spairing or fearful letters to a son is not a true mother in Israel. She is not of-Vthe stuff of the pioneer women who helped lay the foundations of the existing order of things in the midst of privations and dangers of every sort. Rather is she to be ranked with the women whose hysterics have wrecked the careers of men and the happi ness of families. We feel confident that young women with sweethearts at the front are not included among these slackers. The young woman with a soldier beau is almost always a source of inspiration to him for seeing it through and getting back home again. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Skm on Teuton Pride Abas sauerkraut, enter Liberty cabbage I the new name selected by the food commis sion, under which the German counterpart of chop suey will henceforth be bought The effort to camouflage the succulent strings of sour cabbage ferment under the new name will be on a par with seeking to subtract from the fragrance of acrose, by calling it a dandelion. Only in this -case the camouflage will be complimentary to the viand and ele vate 't to the place of honor among the dishes upon the hotel menu. " For sauerkraut has soured upon the public stomach under that name and guise, and the pickle dealer sought relief through the food commission. From the day that the Rus sians wrenched the name St. Petersburg into Pctrograd and King George gave up his Ger man decorations, the Huns have not had such a slap to their pride as the alteration of the name of the edible that above, all others represents the German lulinafy invasion. The food commission has immortalized it self. Liberty cabbage may not describe the dish, as dogs saurkraut, but it describes the revulsion of Amerioans at anything that smacks of "made in Germahy," either the thing or the process so derived. May the pickle dealers mostly of the Teuton deriva tionflourish in their trade now that they can put the new sign over the old com pound, so that the onetime kraut that drop ped from $45 and $50 a barrel to $14 may again soar to a profitable figure as an item of merchandise. Baltimore American. One Yea Ago Today In the War. ' British repulsed an assault by the Germans aoutheas t of Lena. ' House of representatives passed the . bill authorising the use ot seized Ger man ships. War department ordered the enlist ment of nine volunteer regiments of engineers) for service In France. lhe Day We Celebrate.' ; Earl of Rosebery. English states man and former premier, born la London, Tl years ago. Joseph O. Cannon, Illinois congress man, born at Guilford. N. C. 82 years Edwin War field, former governor of Maryland, born la Howard county, Maryland. 70 years ago. v 4 Paul Smith, tnnelder of the Boston American league basa ball team, born at Mount Zlon, III.. 11 years ago. " ; This Day In History. .. 1885 United States treasury stop ped the printing ot one and two dol- ' Jar greenbacks. ; . 1310 George V was proclaimed kin? of Great Britain and Ireland. 1914 Miss Eleanor R., Wilson, daughter of the president and Wil liam G. McAdoo. secretary of " the . treasury, were married at the White House.-.-- ISIS Steamship Lusitania sunk oft - south coast of Ireland by German sub marine with loss of nearly 1,200 lives, including more than 109 Americans. Just SO Years Ago Today Dr. and MrarWrlght and family, formerly of this city, have been In the city for some days visiting old mentis. The board of public works held a meeting at which the contract for the grading of Leavenworth street with cypress blocks on a concrete ba from Twenty-fifth avenue to Thirty first street was let Miss Treat of Chicago, who has been visiting In the city for some days with the families of Messrs. Heafey and Heafey, left with a party of friends for Denver and the west 1 Articles Incorporating the Benevol ent association ot paid firemen of Omaha were filed with the county clerk and the following have been chosen officers: j. J. Galllnghara, president; D. P. Beard, secretary, and J. C Fairish, treasurer. . Major Edmund Butler, Captain Samuel McKeever and Lieutenant Horace B. Earson came in from Belle vue Rifle range and spent the follow ing day at home with iheir families. NebrakansLead Em All Nellgh Leader: The- way Nebraska went over the top in- the Liberty loan drive is gratifying; in fact the entire west is beating the east in this matter. When the west starts to do things. It does them. Fremont .Tribune: Nebraska has fgood right to swell up with pride and tuck her thumbs in her armpits and wiggle her fingers with, satisfaction. For Nebraska Is giving the world a mighty fins example ot enthusiastic patriotism, and patriotism is the most essential article on the whole menu of life Just now. Webster, County Argus: Nebraska has made a remarkable record in the sale of war savings stamps, one-tenth of the total subscribed to the treas ury var chest in this campaign hav ing come from Nebraska, according to a report of the secretary of the treasury. This state leads New Tork by over $2,000,000. Based on popula tion, Nebraska has also far outdis tanced all other states. , Tork Republican: Nebraskans hate a right to feel chesty over the report of the war savings stamo camoalen. Up to April 1 Nebraska had Bub scribed $14,344,000 to this fund for winning the war. That was a per capita for Nebraskans ot $11.06. The next state on the list was the District $3.78. Nebraska had on April 1 sub scribed one-tenth ot the whole amount subscribed tor war savings stamps. A splendid organization pre senting their arguments to a Respon sive people Ptvturede magnificent a Whittled tia PoinU Washington Post: One would feel better If so many arrested conspirators were not found working on govern ment contracts. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Appeals to the United States Labor board should precede strikes. Every hour of Idleness may needlessly cost lives of American boys. . New York Herald: It will be noticed that the Hapsburg family's rebuke to Emperor Karl Is not for his having lied. Lying Is one of the distinguishing traits of the Hapsburg famllyv New York World: The German War Minister's statement that some German detachments lost two-tniras 01 tneir officers before Amiens hardly tallies with his other, statement that losses have been "quite normal." Germans are "normally" careful to save com missioned officers, as difficult to, re place j Brooklyn Eagle: The Washington bll to let national banks contribute to the Red Cross Is properly permitted to die. Directors are free to give, stock, holders are free to give; both ought to do so, but the directors arenot the agents ot stockholders in us1c the' latters funds for philanthropy? New York World: German votes of credit are now $31,000,000,000. The ot Columbia, whose per capita waalgtates have separate war debts; also cities Benin last novemner had a floating war debt of $200,000,000; Hamburg one of $100,000,000. Mr. Bonar Law says German taxation falls nearly two billions short of meeting interest and other costs. Weltmacht oder Nledergang) H-UiiTIi--' , k Twice Told Tales Some Economy. One day Jones was complaining that hs was not feeling as fit as' us ual, and a friend suggested that he go in for exercise. "There's horseback riding, for in stance," said the friend. "It is one of the best forms of exercise on earth." "I know," was the doubtful rejoinder,- "but I am afraid I couldn't afford It." "Can't afford it!" wonderlngly ex claimed the other. "You already have a horse, and Just think of the appetite it will give you." "Yes." responded Jones, with a sigh, "and Just think of the appetite it will give the horse." Philadelphia Tele graph. Foresight At the wedding reception a young wife remarked: "Wasn't it annoying the way that Nelson baby cried dur ing the whole ceremony?" "It was simply dreadful." replied the prim little maid of honor, ' and when I get married I'm going to have engraved right on the corner of"18 Invitation, 'No babies expexted. Chicago Herald. s . Noting An Exception. "Times have changed. ..war cant be won nowadays without money. "Name one that ever was." " "Why, the American people fougnt for years and achieved their inde pendence after they had given, up their last sovereign' Boston Tran script v- . For War Time Taxes. Omaha, May J. To the Editor of The Bee: Please allow me to sua gest an emergency war tax at this time levied on tne weaitn or the na tion, viz.: OwnerslllD of $2,000 as sess a minimum tax' of $5; $3,000, as sess at 2 mills; $4,000, at 2 mills, with H mill Increase for each adds tional $1,000, up to $10,000. Then skip up to $15,000, making thaJevy on that at SH mnis. witn mm ror each additional $5,000, which 'would compel a man worth $100,000 to pay to the government the sum of $312.60. and so on up the line. Increasing the lev K mill or of 1 per cent after you reacn tne per cent ior every addi tional increase ot wealth, skipping $5,000 i upward, at each $100,000 period. ' I haven't taken the time to figure out how this tax would affect Mr. Rockefeller, with his $1,250,000,- 000. but I will take It for granted that it would be more of a task for him to pay this tax to Uncle Sam than the purchasing of Liberty bonds. J stand ready for the government ap pralsers to come and appraise what I am Worth, and am anxious to pay to my country a tax in proportion to what I am worth. Those who are willing to follow suit and pay this kind of a tax to their government and all those exempted on account of not owning the $2,000 worth of prop erty should petition to their repre sentatlves in congress to this effect and be true patriots to their country, In assisting to bring in our war fund a part of the unearned increment now held by the so-called rich. C. L. NETHAWAY. Here It Is In Figures. Pittsburgh Pa, May 1. To the Editor of The Bee; I feel sure your readers will be deeply interested in a startllngly new. and seemingly con vincing interpretation of the 13th chapter of Revelations, in which I find proof that William von Hohen zollern Is the "Beast" whose forth coming as a scourge of earth was foretold in the Bible. My method of interpretation dif fers wholly from that hitherto em ployed, In which the figure "6." for instance, was appended to the numer. als corresponding to the title, "Kai ser." There is no authority for the arbitrary use of such a figure, and according to my method it is not re quired. This view of the true meaning of the scriptural prophecy became clearly manifest to me after witness ing the presentation of the terribly scathing screen production f "The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin." and I feel that the Inspiration that gave to this production the admirably fitting title it bears was akin to that direct ing the mind that announced Revela tions to the world. The 18th verse of the 13th chaoter of Revelations reads, "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is 600, three score and Six." shall make up his number." Taking the name of "Will am von Hohenzollern. King of Prussia, Em peror of all Germany," and trans forming the letters into numbers, as a-1, b-2, c-3. etc., the following result is obtained: 23-9-12-12-9-1-13 22-15-14 8-15-8-5-14-26-16-12-12-5-18-14. 11-9-14-7 15-6 16-18-21-19-19-9-1. 5-13-16-5-18-15-18 16-6 1-12-12 7-5-18-13-1-14-25. making a total of 666, or' the "600, three score and six" of the Bible. As confirmation of this view let us consider the attitude of the German beast's followers toward him and then read the 4th verse ot the 13th chapter of Revelations: "And they worshipped him. saying. Who is like unto the beast? Who is able tovmake war with him?" If we read the 6th verse of the same chapter we find further amaz ing confirmatory description the an cient Hebralo measurement of time by months, prophetic assurance that tne course of the beast Is almost run. It reads: "And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue 40 and 2 months;" HUGH M. DURIGAN. to be abolished and the far side re stored. The State Hallway commission has no right to come into our city and say where we shall get on or oft the street "cars, nor have they any right to say what we shall pay as fares. If we are to have home rule. let the people of Omaha have the say as to the near and far side stops and as to the fares we shall pay. Let the gen eral public have the say and not some officials who live in other parts of Nebraska. FRANK, A. AGNEW. LAUGHING GAS. "What art the dining houra at your club?" - "From S to S for all axcept the com mittee." j "Vfhr the exception?" "Became rulu 6 ears: -' The committee la at liberty at any time to fill any va cancy In their body.' "Baltimore Ameri can. . . -t Flret Sweet Young TnW Do you find It more economical to do your own cooking? Second Sweet Toung Thing Oh, yea; my husband doesn't eat half as much as he did. Chicago Herald. Pat Did ye Iyer sthrop to think, Mike, how this counthry is overrun wld Olrish and yet there Isn't wan state In the union wld an Olrish name? ' Mlka O'lnnr wld ve! What's the matter if Id O'Regon?" Boeton Transcript. '"Do yoa believe in hereditary?" "Tea," said the school teacher. "There's a little boy in my class who has to retura home every day for his books, penolls and pens. His father's a plumber." Buffalo Ex- . press. MM Mt - S "In the eld days an actress was adjnred to hold the mirror up to nature." Well, sirrah?'' . 'A good many of these nw-etye ae tresses are too busy holding the mirror sp to 'themselves. "Cincinnati Enquirer. T thought yon said the foreign link was a spy and that he was to be shot at sunrise." 'So he was, bat a fog butted in, and thai' wasn't no sunrise. "t-Ltfe. - The doctor told my husband got plenty of oxone in his system." 1 don't care what the doctor says. He ought to be careful about taking those dangerous drugs." Baltimore American. "Do yon break these sets?" asked the shopper in the chlnaware department 'No, 1 m sorry to say we aon t, maaam. replied the polite salesman, "but if you keep a servant girl she will probably do It for you." Town Topics. - THE DAY OF DAYS. Oliver Opdyke. in Boston Transcript There's a day for work, there's a day for rest 1 ' There's a day! for trial and a day for test There's a day for doubt there's a day for creed. There's a day for talk and 4 day tor deed But the day of day in Time's surrey. Is the one that la kept as Liberty Day! There's a day for woe, there's a day for cheer. There's a day for courage, a day for fear, There's a day for love and a day for hate. There's a day for fortune, a day for fate- But the day of days in the Land of the Free Ie the day that we celebrate Liberty) There's a day for neglect, there's a day for care. There's a day for challenge, a day for prayer, There's a day for war, there's avday for peace, At the bottom of chapter 14 of thei.There's a day for vlolefce' a for "u.' Innralnni. th... I- m T Cease ' , ing, "The numeral letters of his name But the day of days In the whole array It the one that Is known as Liberty Day! There's a day for repose, there's a day for ferment. There's a day for regret, a day for content. There's a day for the cross, there a day for the sword. There's a day for reckonings, a day for award . But the day of days for you and for me . It the day of American Liberty! There's a day for victory over the Hun A day when his blood-fest must bedone There's a day for Fetaln and Pershing and Halg A day when they'll nd the Teuton plague A Day of Days O, soon may it be! The Birthday of World-wide Liberty! Complains of Car Service. Omaha, May 3. To the Editor of The Bee: In addition to the incon venient near side stop system and in addition to the wretched service! we are now given, I see that street rail way officials are going to ask the State Railway commission for permis sion to raise the fares from 5 to 6 cents. I had occasion three different eve nings this week at about 6 o'clock to take the crosstown car at- Twentv fourth and M streets. All three eve nings a crosstown car passed north loaded to the outside bottom step and the conductor yelled to those who were waiting to get on the car. that it was loaded too full already." So that soma of us had to wait almost half an houribefore we could get onto a car that was crowded then but not as much as the one I mention. While we were waiting for the crosstown car, every evening two cars on the line going to Benson passed to one on the crosstown line and each evening there were not as many passengers on the two Benson cars as on one of the crosstown cars. 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