THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918
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It la to be expected that a new. broom will
weep clean at the start
Precedent haf won another victory over pa
jtriotiim in jte United States senate.
j . Lloyd George appears to be as firm in Eng
land as though he had been elected for a four
ear term. - - . '
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Ibcrats, would they make a republican mayor? Not
;fcy a Jugful.
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Next to the splutter of the machine gun, the
loise of the riveting hammer is the saddest music
;the kaiser has to hear. 7
j Yes, but there are not one but two bachelors
rimong the city commissioners chosen at our re
!nent municipal election.
'"No official can go-on being re-elected for-
ever." World-Herald. Certain United States
senators and congressmen will be wise to take
notice. ' . ' ' .." " ' '
; The United States "now has a half million
fighting men across the water. The kaiser will be
advised of their presence very soon if he does
tot already know it. it." '
It would help a lot if the food administration
tnd the bakers would , get together on bread
standards and, stick to them. This 'everlasting
rhanging of weights and prices is tod confusing
to be assuring. ..,
, If the voters had designated the particular
departments' which each of the commissioners
is to manage, this pulling and hauling and trading
far department assignments 'would bey forestall
1. Really, that might be the better way.
!v, A Billion Buahela of Wheat
. Secretary Houston of the Department of AgrL
r ulture is quite optimistic in his forecast for the
r.heat crop of the coming season. He talks of the
i assibility of a .billion bushels, although this is
f-.r from being a probability. It is reasonably cer
t Ja, though, that the yield of wheat in the United
Ctates will be far greater than that of last season.
Already the improvement noted in the fall-sown
crop has lifted the estimated yield! by 12,000,000
tassels over the April forecast. This, however,
rn!y provides for 372,539,000 bushelswhich will
V ;air 428,000,000. bushels of the spring-sown
? :.:ltty to bring the total up to the billion point.
I'xst year's total for spring: wheat was 232,758,000
V-stel?, so that the crop this year will have to
c almost double that in order to attain the secre
tary's goat In 1915 the total wheat raised was a
tittle above a billion bushels, of which winter
contributed 673,947,000 and spring furnished 351,
54,000 bushels. How great an acreage has been
sown to spring wheat will not be-known for
tome time. A far better prospect than last season
U reported. The established fact is, that unless
roroe calamity now overtakes the crop," the yield
tf wheat for 1918 will be much larger than that
tf 1917, and a corresponding surplus will be at
land to feed the hungry abroad who art depend
: '.'jr on America. ;- - " '' .''
A GOOD JOBTHE COURT HOUSE NEXT.
The turnover of the city hall is admittedly
due to a rampant, feeling among Omaha voters
that a change of control is overdue. ,
The city hall crowd had simply been in power
too long, with too much scandal, too much loose
ness and extravagance, too many shady transac
tions, too much nepotism, too much accumulated
rust. . '-
It is time to wake up to the fact that the
conditions prevailing in the city hall that aroused
the people to the point of discrediting the bunch
are duplicated across the street in the court house
in the county board's management of the county
affairs.
The throttle governing the outflow of money
from the county treasury is as wide open as that
governing the outflow from the city treasury.
The do-nothing employes over there drawing
fat salaries are as plentiful; the county institutions
are about as' costly to the taxpayer as they could
be; the questionable deals causing talk of graft
are just as numerous. In a word, the one thing
urgent in the court house, as in the city hall,
is a change of control of the managingvboard
S clean-out of the barnacles, pie-biters ana chair
warmers a business grip on the purse strings
that will spend the money intelligently and get us
full money's worth for it.
Omaha has done a good job in applying the
broom to the . city half. The steam behind the
sweeper must not be allowed to die down without
doing the same job in the court house without
putting the ring in the county board out of busi
ness. "V': -v.
Hitchcock LandsThe Kaiser Laughs.
Despite" his notorious record 6f pro-Germanism
and his obvious unfitness for the place, Sen
ator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska has been
landed -as chairman of the committee on foreign
relations to succeed the late Senator Stone of
Missouri by virtue of. the seniority rule of pro
motion. ' ' r "
The kaiser and Von Bernstorff, with whom
Hitchcock wis closely hobnobbing while the
ambassador was pursuing his intrigues in Wash
ington, must be laughing up their sleeves to see
this position so important in our war and peace
strategy manned by a senator who has done
more to earn a red eagle than most of his imperial
majesty's subservient counsellors. .
, The senate committee on foreign relations,
in discharge of its constitutional duties, is one of
the ftiost vital parts of our government ma
chinerymore so in time of war-than at any
other time. Its chairman should be? a man of ex
perience in world politics, and today more than
ever is it required that be have the confidence
of statesmen and leaders abroad as 'well as people
at nome a connaence jntcncocK nas torteited.
Up1 to our very entrance into the war Sen
ator Hitchcock was openly pro-German. He spon
sored the kaiser's bill to stop the export of arms
to the allies and to make America helpless by
closing down all our munitions factories. He pro
posed a measure to help the kaiser still further
by shutting off the sale of securities by the allies
in this country. .
Even after our entrance into war Hitchcock
gave out an Interview saying he saw no reason
for us to declare war against Austria, the kaiser's
partner in 'crime, and only a few weeks ago,
through his newspaper, he sought to preserve
the right of alien enemy subjects to vote .in; Ne
braska over the next presidential election. ,
From start to finish, we regret to say, Senator
Hitchcock has not been "right" on the war. Of
all the members of the foreign relations commit
tee, he is the one who conspicuously falls short
est of the full measure of Americanism which
the leadership of that committee should com
mand. , , Under' these conditions the elevation of Sen
ator Hitchcock to--this chairmanship, while t.
fine vindication of the moss-covered rules, cher
ished by our American house of lords, is an in
sult to the loyal and patriotic people of this
country and an affront to our allies. A former
United States senator recently said that it would
be easier to expel Hitchcock than to set aside the
operation of the priority rule in his favor and
what' has happened verifies that statement. The
sooner the senate frees itself from the onus of
such a rule the better it will be. .
It, is now plain that seven commissioners to
govern our city hath business "are needlessly too
many. Three commissioners, consisting of a
mayor, '.a . commissioner of public works, and a
commissioner of public safety, together with an
independent elected auditor to keep check- on
them, would fill the bill at least as well, if not
much better. '
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Germany is now feeding European neutrals
on itemized statements of what frightfulness has
cost the oppressed who have fallen under the
heel of the kaiser. The other side of the picture
will-be exposed later on, when what it has cosjt
Germany will appear. '
' Finland is to have a German king, too. Pres
ently the kaiser will have each of his six sons
provided' with a kingdom, demonstrating the'
prudence that has withheld them from the danger
of the battle line.
- Farmers as Favorites of Fortune
War Time Prices and Big Crops Brings Home (he Coin
. New York Evening Post
The latest government crop predictions,
foretelling increased crops, With wheat, at
the head of the list, estimated at about 900,
000,000 bushels, and decreased prices for
practically nothing, make urban humanjty
turn a moist eye of envy in the farmer's di
rection. Not so long ago those of us who
habitually dressed in store clothes and could
rely with a reasonable degree of certitude
.uporripay envelope every Saturday,"pre-
tended not to pity the man who, all summer
through, worked a daylight day, and who
seldom saw any long green save that which
flourished in his fields .and in the wood lot.
-Professors of history o?-those days pre-
Y tended to be worried by the drop in our
rural population, and foresaw tor us the fate
of .Rome. Some of us, who remember free
silver days and populism, marvel how times
have changed, how the more fortunate half
of our people has succeeded, by a happy turn
of fate's wheel, in melting down its "cross
of gold". into a comfortable surplus at the
bank. For much more than a decade the
farmer's - stock has been rapidly going up;
the great international calamity, with its
accompanying food scarcity, has merely ac
celerated a steady improvement in his con
dition. - f 1
No one can deny that during this war, in
particular, our 50,000,000 or so fellow citizens
who live on and by the land tertainly fare
better, both absolutely, and comparatively,
than any other considerable element of the
population. Even your twenty-dollar-a-day
man has to pay the farmer tribute through
the agency of the butcher, the grocer and
candlestick-maker. Your farmer has no ex
penses similar to those of the city worker.
He pays no landlord a war advance; he eats
his own products except when it pays better
to sell his hogs at $15 a hundred and buy
part of them back later on in the shape of
bacon daintily put up in glass. He gets prac
tically everything he -requires off his land
except his clothes, which obviously, need be
less ostentatious or elaborate than those of
the city man. And even these clothes he can
Ket by mail-order cheaper than at the store.
In short, the rise in the cost of living affects
him only pleasantly, on the surplus side of
his ledger.
But the farmer has the advantage not
only as a buyer, but as a seller also. Every
other industry finds itself faced with govern
ment regulation. More and more manufact
urers are coming under the "administrator's"
thumb. Not so the tiller of fields, baselv mis
represented by Millet in "The Man With thej
yt, hjuiiie, oiigui auciup.is iitivc uccn mauc
to regulate crop prices. Wheat was pegged
at $2.20, to the. accompanying wails and
lamentations of rural communities. But there
the regulation pretty well stops. Why? Be
cause Washington knows that the farmer's
business is the most elastic of all, and, ca
pable; of the. greatest diversification. -
Unless, therefore, the authorities decide
to regulate all agricultural products,, the
farmer will, without doubt, find himself pretty
safe behind the law of supply and demand.
And there is little likelihood of his being
socialized in this manner. For, although he
has become prosperous as never before, the
atmosphere of oppression and misfortune
which surrounded him in the days of 1893,
the melodrama of mortgage foreclosure, still
hovers about him. He is still a privileged
n ohav i
r- Tear Ago Today In the War.
t he Italian war mission arrived la
' "ashington.
i London received the first dlsqulet
k' t reports from Russia.
ErltlBh launched attack against
ulfarians southwest of Lake Dolran.
v Day In History, J .
; William E. Reed, Omaha nanager
r Clay, Robinson & Co., born 1872.
Charles E. Ady, life insurance man,
' rn In 186J. .
Viscount Bryee, former British
-bassador at "Washington, born In
-ast Ireland, 80 years ago.
L :r Thomas - J. - Lipton, merchant
1 sportsman, born in Glasgow ' 8
m ago. -r .
Gordon Bennett ' proprietor
Oe New York Herald, born in
v York City 77 years ago today.
'y Day In History. ' ' '
1818 Montgomery Blair, President
coin's pogt master-general, born In
tucky. Died at Silver Spring,
-yland, July 27. 188S. ,
. ! 48 Rear Admiral Francis A.
z, who commanded Schley's flag-
at battle of Santiago, born at
Just SO Years Ago Today
J. D. Her has sold the old Boyd
packing house to the soap manufac
turing firm of Fage, Dere & Co. of
Creston, Iowa. The firm will Im
mediately commence to manufacture
soap here, giving employment to
about SO men and turn oufubout 250
boxes of soap daily. ' , .
The mayor has called a special
election for Tuesday, May 22. to vote
upon the subject of granting a fran-
chise to the cable tramway company
to build and-maintain tracks on a
number of streets In this city.
The building contractors and - ma
terial furnishers' association will hold
-S-mpton, Mass. Died October 8, . an Important meeting this evening to
complete me organization of the
'1 In response to the call ; of
lent Lincoln, the flret Vermont
nt of volunteers reached New
City. ' . v- , . r
M Monument to the mother of
-fte-tftn Unveiled It Vrar1u.iba.
... Va, l
builders' exchange which was under
taken, soma time ago. - .
Richard Kitchen has returned after
an absence of several weeks.
, Four teams stuck in the mud on N
street, in one block, were on exhibi
tion today, and they were good teams.
Round About the State
This is "clean-up- week" In Schuy
ler, and every town patriot Is admon
ished to keep the home fires burning
rubbish. v
Cy. Black at the Hickman Enter
prise, having calmly studied alien
plots and other disloyal activities, be
lieves the time has come to "order out
the firing squad."
"It 11 refreshing tor note." says the
Nebraska City Press, "that the 'dollar
slacker' Is a rare bird. Only, in iso
lated instances, taking the. slate aaa
whole, do we hear of men refusing
to come to the aid of their country
in Its greatest hour of need."
Two foolish booze runners gathered
up a cargo of 40 quarts of Cheyenne
lightning and imagined they could nut
it over for coin in Nebraska. They got
ty several near-the-boundary towns
and might have succeeded had they
ducked Kearney. Kearney can sniff a
booze van tea. miles or something like
that- This one didn't "let away, and
theflown sleuths coralled the precious
cargo and the owners. Wonder if that
far-flung sn iff Wins a snifter?
Editor John E. Kavanaugh, the new
steam radiator of the York Democrat
makes a broad Raleigh bow to the
community and promises to boost for
all things that make for progress and
general uplift "Everjf legitimate
effort," he says.,a advance the in
terests of humanity, the welfare of
the community, the upbuilding of the
town, the growth of the community
and the betterment of civil life will
have the support of this newspaper,
and to that end we Invite the co-operation
of every citizen
Soldiers and thq Suffrage
The decision of the War department that
soldiers in France shall not be permitted to
vote for members of congress or other offices
next November is conveyed to congress, not
by a communication from the president, but
by a letter of Adjutant Genera!MtCain to
Senator Vardaman. Whether the president
has ever passed on the question- we do not
know. "The department has reached thede
cision that their (the soldiers') vote cannot
be taken without serious interference with
military efficiency.".: It "will. permit soldiers
in this country to vote as their respective
states may direct." ,:
In other words the secretary of war takes
the same position that Edwin M. Stanton,
perhaps his, most distinguished predecessor,
took in the civil war till he was overruled by
Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln saw that an Amer
ican soldier does not cease to be an American
citi :en and that his vote should -count as
much as any slacker's indetermining Amer
ican political policy. v
We had one presidential election while
the civil war was going on. Union soldiers
could only vote in accordance with state
laws: some of the loyal states had made no
provision for such voting. But in 1864 116,887
soldiers' votes, representing 12 states, were
counted for Lincoln and 33,748 for McClel
lan. This relative showing has some signifi
cance, perhaps, for 1920, if the war goes on
so Jong, though in 1864 no result in any state
was affected by the soldiers vote. Lincoln
ran for re-election against a general popular
with his men and not without friends
throughout the army and beat him three to
one. That a civilian would have been worse
beaten is certain. That the sentiment of
fighting Americans is to sustain' a fighting
administration cant hardly be denied.
The problem today, is a graver one. We
may have a million and a half of our best
men in France by November. Perhaps 20,
000,000 men and women will be entitled to
vote for members of the house and senators.
The per cent in France might easily make the
difference-between a majority for Wilson's
party and a majority against that party. We
imagine congress will want to be shown why
a mere casting and counting of votes hurts
"military efficiency," and how. Possibly the
president will want to be shownSentimental
ly, Americans generally are opposed to dis
franchising wearers pi the uniform; senti-;.
mentally they are opposed tq having the
nation's army kept out of touch, with the
duties of American citizenship. Between, the
breadth of Abraham Lincoln and the forceful
narrowness of Edwin M. Stanton the choice
of President Wilson should not be hard to
forecast Brooklyn Eagle.
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character, to be protected and boosted on
every occasion in congress. Besides, he and
his family constitute about half the elec
torate, and therefore it doesn't seem, likely
that even his JU-cent cotton will be regulated.
The only fly in his' ointment, at present,
would appear to be the abor question, which
worries him as much as it does any other
industrialist. Sixty dollars a month and board
is being paid out west for farm labor, and
none to be had even at that Here he must
compete with the city employer. nd conse
quently will have to revise his ideas about the
value of hired men, or Tie and his sons will
have to do all the work themselves. But
even so, the whole country is anxious to
help himTthe womenare turning out ad
army of farm laborers, and the boys are
being organized for his assistance. Well we
all know that upon bumper crops depends
success in the war; and so long as the
farmer's factory of acres produces to the
limit of its capacity we can afford to see him
TraA aai i vaywi
Can Hitchcock Qualify?
Kearney Hub.
Washington advices are to the effect that
Senator Hitchcock will in all probability be
promoted to the chairmanship of the foreign
relations committee made vacant by the re
cent death of Senator Stone of Missouri. The
sum and substance of the supposition is that
the senate will not set up a new precedent
by ignoring Hitchcock, next in order, for that
might catch some other grave and reverend
senator later on. v
We all understand very well how the sen
ate of the United States is bound to pre
cedent to a greater extent, perhaps, than any
other body on earth, the next nearest, being
thev house of bishops of the Episcopal church
in this country. Customarily the house of
bishops forms a hollow square and saves
the good name of the church by protecting
an offending bishop, but recently in the case
of Bishop raul Jones of Utah it departed
from that precedent so far as to permit him
to resign on evidence that he was suffering
from pro-Germanism and anti-American
pacifism, i his was tne wise, sensible, pa
triotic thing to do.
But what shall wexsay for the senate of
the United Mates? Here for instance is. La
Fgllette, whose presence in the senate is
protested by every patriotic person in Amer
ica, and against whom charges have been
made and his expulsion asked for much
greater offenses than were committed by
Bishop Paul Jones. La Follette stays; sticks,
in fact; because the senate is too cowardly
to break down the old precedents and do
the thing that is right because it is right.
Now as to Hitchcock's case: We believe
that no person is doubting Hitchcock's abil
ity. We might doubt his democracy, and even
his political sincerity, but we shall not be
prone to question his - intelligence. But he
does not for all tha measure up to the stand
ard of a man who should head that great
committee a man who should stand some
where for some considerable length of time
and should have established a record for
standing conscientiously 'and" consecutively
for American interests and ideals.
Indeed, some of Hitchock's offense are
worse than the offenses of La Follette, and
we are sure that no one would be sb bold
as to whisper that the Wisconsin senator be
made chairman of that committee. It is true
that Hitchcock confesses now that he was
mistaken, that he has seen a new lisrht -and
that he stands ready to stand shoulder to
shoulder with those who are for America
first and win the war at anv cost And while
he is making this 'confession we can not for
get his -alliance with the German-American
alliance which insured hts re-election m 1916.
In the face of that one damaging fact, not
to mention a few otherJ-quite as damaging,
wc may sun asK: can ne quality;
Schools Must "Carry On"
In taking issue with Dr. Claxton's need
less press aeentinir in behalf of the retention
of the German language in this country Dr.
w. l. Hornaday expresses the view of the
great majority of Americans. The national
commissioner of education is wrong. The
German language will stand through the
ages as the medium of exoression of barbar
ism. Nothing that it represents, nothing that
it expresses, is wanted by Americans. Here
after the secondary languages of this country
will be French, Italian and Spanish. To
France we will go for much thatTias hereto
fore been foisted upon us by the insidious
Uerman propaganda, of which we have been
too much -the victim. Germany stands for
barbarism, France for civilization.
Despite the criticism it has evoked, an
other re:ommendation of Commissioner
Claxton will have the approval of thinking
persons, as it has had that of President Wil
son. This is that the youth of the country
not of draft age shfuld remain in the schools
and the colleges "carrying on. '
Many Americans have not vet fullv erase
ed the underlying meaning of selective serv
ice. Still Under the spell of the volunteer
t. . . i . .
system inneruance, iney urge DOys to rusn
to enlist in the military service. Commend
able as is the patriotic spirit of the youth
who would desert school or college for the
colors, their duty is to stick to their present
tasks and await their turn, which will come
i . . . . . .
as eaciweacnes mannooa and is needed. J
. The draft law assures to the nation alfl
the men it needs and can care for. Another
need of the nation present and future is
a full supply-of educated youth. The flower
of America's young manhood is now in uni
form. How many of" these splendid young
men will return to aid in the important work
of rebuilding no man, can say. Unless there
are others to fill the places of those who do
not return the nation will be crippled.
It may come hard with the youth of
theschools and colleges to wait and "carry
on, but that is the best service they can now
renaer ineir country. jew York Herald.
Editorial Shrapnel
Washington Post: When Bill the
boche loses his. throne he can at least
claim he has given the world its
crowning example of the high cost of
firing.. , ; . '
Washington Post: Those giant Hun
murder boats may be able to go 10,
000 miles, but not at the rate of the
dreadnoughts of the air which will
chase them.
St Louis Globe-Democrat; The
brotherhood of man! Well, Amer
ica's co-ooeratlon with. England.
France. Italy, Belgium, Portugal and
the rest of them is part or it. ,
Minneapolis Tribune: Germany de
mands from Russia an exchange of
well prisoners for sick ones. . From
what we .have heard of German ybris
ons there couldn't be any other kind
of exchange. :
New York World: Petrograd has
never yet been entered hjr a foreign
foe. But as it dates back only to May,
1703, when the first house was built
on its site, its unique distinction
among continental capitals is of only
two. centuries' duration, while Athens
and Rome count their age In mil
lenniums. - 1
- New York Herald: Hindenburg has
had thirty days of grace added to the
date he promised the German people
he. would be in Paris, and is practical
ly as far from his goal today as he
when he gave his promise. It can be
said for the ruffian of the wooden im
age, however, that he hasn't yet equal
led the kaiser's record for1 Parisian
dinners mv4. j
Twice Told Tales
One Class of "War Workers.
A government official said at a
banquet: ,
"There are some men who desire
to do waf work of a showy, facile
and nonflangerous nature. These men
are, to be found in all the Allied
countries. Doubtless they are to be
found among our enemies, too.
"They remind me of a colored
orotner who got religion. . He was a
lazy chap, a remarkably, lazy chap,
this colored brother. Nevertheless he
proclaimed loudly that he was going
to help on the good cause with, all his
strength.
"He wound up his first prayer In
this manner:
" Tse me. Lord, use me in mah
advisory capacity!' " Washington
Star. , .
Snrlnclne the Tran. ' "
"Before I became an author I hadd
more money than brains, but now 1
have more brains than money," said
the speaker at a meeting.
"How is it with those who have
neither?" inquired . one of the au
dience. , j
"If the gentleman desires te relate
bis experiences, I will cheerfully give
way." was the quick response. Bos
ton .Transcript. . '
All For Charity. 'V
"Did the old duffer ive you any
thing toward the charity funds you
were soliciting?" -
"Oh. yes: he gave me a smile of
approval That doesn't cost anything."
Baltimore American. ;
State Rights and Secession.
Grand Island, Neb., May 8. To the
Editor of The Bee: In a letter appear
ing in your issue of this date a writer
refers to those who assume to deny
the constitutional right of a state to
secede from the union as being "relics
of the stone age." I fear in his own
person he himself best exemplifies the
phrase. His words are: "One of your
correspondents takes - exception to
Vice President Marshall's statement
that the south had the constitutional
right to secede from the union. Let
him learn that the doctrine of states
rights was held by Presidents Jeffer
son, Madison, John Quincy Adams,
Polk, Taylor, Monroe, Pierce, Harri
son, Van Buren and Buchanan that
President Wilson holds lt--that Daniel
Webster held It" etc. The Implication
here is that state rights include of
necessity the right to secede. Every
one believes in state rights. But, thank
God, few citizens of our republic be
lieve in the right of any state to se
cede and break up the nation. He
who does so believe is a "relic of the
stone age." But I challenge the accur
acy of your correspondent He says
President Wilson believes in tho; right
of secession. In : Volume IV of his
"History of the American People,"
page 201, President Wilson says of
the right to withdraw from the union.
"It was an assumption, the theory of
which would hardly have been seri
ously questioned while the generation
lived which made the union, though
that generation would have been as
ready as any that followed it to make
protest, it might be of arms, against
actual secession." I shall be interested
to see formal, documentary proof that
President Wilson has changed his
view. Your correspondent says Presi
dent Buchanan believed In secession.
On page 203, of thi3 same book, Presi
dent Wilson says "Buchanan promptly
and. unequivocally denied the right of
the states to secede." And of Daniel
Webster's position the same writer
affirms "For a majority of the nation
no conception of the union was now
possible but that which Mr. Webster
had seemed to create and bring one
for all to their consciousness in the
debate with Hayne." And every school
boy knows Webster's ringing utterance
"There can be 'no such thing as a
peaceable secession." .
I trench no further on your space.
The claim as to belief in secession on
the part of other presidents may well
be put away in a pigeon hole marked
"Important if true." x
LOUIS A: ARTHUR.
"Over There and Here"
Belgium's - church bells rimj-'no
more. The Hun Invader takes-them
as he does all other movable "booty,
sending them to the meltJngpot to
be made into guns. , ' : ;
Raleigh Hughes, an Annapolis grad
uate, declined a naval appointment
that meant a desk Jpb, and rushed to
a recruiting station and enlisted. The
Ih'e- ones want service, not Jobs.
"You big fat Dutchman." his- "lov
ing wife" called Philip H. Lester of
Detroit. Lester resented the unkind
name and showed the court that ha
was born in Sweden. The court held
that the intent was to slur Lester as
a German, and that was sufficient
ground for divorce. So ordered.
A trolley car painted red, white and
b"ue, the motorman togged out as
Uncle Sam and the conductoress garb
ed as Columbia, is the unique war
stamp sales shop rolling along the
surface lines in New York City, The
street car people staged the plan and
are winning applause and business
all along the line.
One.of the first cases coming under
the so-named moratorium" for soldiers
and sailors was decided in favor of
the defendant, an enlisted man, by a
Minneapolis court. The plaintiff sought
to foreclose on a contract for the
purchase of a home on the install
ment plrin, on which $55 had been
paid. The court, however, intimated
that if plaintiff refunded the $55 paid
in, foreclosure would be allowed. ',.
"Hats off to -Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Strawn of the Barneston vicinity .'Vex
claims the Beatrice Express. "They
have just given Gage county & real
object lesson' in patriotism." The Ex
press relates that Mr. Strawn. a young
married farmer, had a ovt draft num
ber and would not be called for some
time, but finding a neighborVegistrant
had deserted, a family council decided
that Cecil's duty lay in Joining the
colors. He is now at Funston. "Cecil
Strawn and wife." concludes the Ex
press, "are ' of the stuff which has
made America what it is today. All
honor to them." 1 ,
SMILING LINES.
Toun Lady (on her first visit west)
What do you hire that coll of 11ns on your
saddle for?
Cowboy Th.t line, you call It, lady,
w us for catchlnic cattle and horses.
Toung Lady How Interesting! And what
do you us for bait? Boston Transcript.
Gladys Would you sooner be an old
man's darling or a young man's slave?
Penelope A young man's slave It Is so
much easier breaking a young man In and
making hlra to tha mark. Chicago Her
ald. "Queer, wasn't It, thatth woman who
hid a lamp thrown at her got such heavy
damages?"
"Why was it queer?"
"Because It was manifestly a case of light
assault?' Baltimore American.
"W don't know what we're fighting for,"
complained a Prussian private.
"What's the difference?" retained
another. "We -wouldn't even get It, any-'
uiin(ioa oiar.
"I suppose It Is the ambition of very
girl to marry a"" millionaire." - . ,
"Many have hopes."
"A'nd many of those hopes must be
blasted. However, there seem to be
enough lieutenants for all." Louisville
Courier- Journal '
. ' .
Miss Muddle Co you know anything that
is really good to preserve the complexion?
Miss Knox Why, dear? Are you Inter
ested in somebody who has one ? Boston
Transcript... . e-
Examining Officer And why did you as
sault the sentry in this brutal fashion?
Private Hank (late of the gas house
gang) Well, de guy sea h challenges me,
so I busts him one in de jaw. Jester.
Husband Hurrah? I'v got a week's va
cation. Wife How nice. " Now you can dig the
garden, clean out the cellar and whitewash
the kitchen. Puck.
'Ta, 'are all those young doctors in the
hospital where we were German prisoners?"
' Of course not, my boy; why do you ask
that?" . '
"Because somebody said they jrere in
ternes." Baltimore American.
IF GOD IS WITH THE GERMANS.
If Cod Is with the Germans, -
Then I choose otherwise:
I'd rather hold the devil's truth ,
Than half the German lies. '
If God ta with tha Germans,
Then good-by, God, for me:
I'd rather Join the devil's crowd
That fights to make men free.
If God is with the Germans,
Then every wrong Is right:
And falsehood, rape and murder foul
Ar virtues in his sight.
Tf God la' with the Germans, .
I'd rather go to hell I -And
sizzle with the allied hosts
And with the devil dwell. ,
Tf God is wlthrth Germans,
I'm damned while ages roll;
But down in hell I'll thank my stars
I did not sell my soul.
DR.. E. B. VTOLETTE.
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