THE BEE! OMAHA, TUESDAY, MAY 7,' 1918
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Why 10 many tccWentt at th Fort Omaha
balloon school?
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; 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.
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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. . ' .
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:. 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
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- . 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
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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-
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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.
It looks as if something was wrong
In the management to allow this to
happen right along. If we are to be
forced to. pay higher fares, we ought
to have at least half way decent serv
ice, -and the near side system ought
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