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r THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY MAY 11,' 1918 14 The OmXha Bee DAILY (MORNING) - EVENING SUNDAY . FOUNDED BT EDWARD KOSEWATIK ' VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE rPBUSHIKQ COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. Entered at Omsha mstoffica aa aacond-elaas matter. x , TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION telly ea4 San-Jar ......:... irak. 1 f-mtljoj Celly wtlkost 84r v" - 2 . X" m HilW awl 8olr.. ...... .5.. I . - M S2Siol5rnhwi of eadra at tmtuluttr ti aeWerr M Omaha fcsa QjoolUloa IMfartmct. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS C It w art etMnrtes edited la twt rpsr. 4 sl Ue 5J2 FaMiaheShenta. All Me of puMlesUgo at our special spetceai bM in WBMBl of vurrriNr : ... rwi. 4 mm ataana Ib auMt of craul eeeewita, reraoaai sura, aw and mun antismo. set aeeervsa. . OFFICES - MlOna. . Chleupj-PtoplftJ 0 BnllffiB tlTnute-lIU M St. Ke Tors tM Flfl Aye, sarnie) I m i souou CORRESPONDENCE . AMress esaawmlaatloBs reinin to rwf and editorial mtom m Outi Bm, BdltorUl Pnwtnit . APRIL CIRCULATION. Dily 67,265 Sunday 57,777 , mw eoittoa fw im swam, nMrtM art note to ey Dwttt iUUuss, OreuUUsa atanefer. ' - ' - Subscribers leelf Ike elty tk14 Tb" Bm i I tSlWB. AddTMl changed M ltS M r)Ui THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG FFffiffl ri fTi'tri Cut eat of the (ec tr-'t on both ildei of the street . ... ;,, . , Lloyd George hi about the ime tort of line back of hin in Commoni i Hat'g hai in Flan- Th .mint hoard rinflr bat the tame thing coming to them that wai handed to the citywir. Our next mayor ia atarting out vlth the right idea. .Ie ia already talking about "my" admin UtrstloQ Korniloff ) again reported tafbe dead. Newt comet from bolshevik tourcee, which tends to discredit It , ' V-v- J Looks a little as if one or two of the eommis tlonert who got the highest rote are nonetheless S doomed to play the roje of "orphans." The Koelnische Zeitung sees great danger to Europe in America. To certain parte of Europe the danger Is both apparent and real Federat pursuit of local slackers will have support of alt but the draft dodgen themselvea. -Omaha has not many of this ilk, but one is more than we need. J ., . State Treasurer Hall denounces the proposed renewal of tht potash leases knocked out by the supreme court to bo, a "gigantic steal." He's got the correct words. Just try to imagine Bryan etllt tecretary of . state and Hitchcock chairman of the senate com mittee on foreign relations. It would be almost at exciting as "Jimmy" Gerardhaking his fist un der the kaiser's nose on the movie screen. If the republicans were in control of the 5 United States senate the only parallel to making Hitchcock head of the foreign relations com mittees would be to put La Toilette in that posi x tion. Can you heariie outburst of indignation that would come from patriotic Americans? STOP THIS ROTTEN FEE QRAPT. Treasury looting by the fee graft route per sists here in only two places. In defiance of the law passed by the last legislature, "Fee-Grabber Bob" Smith, in the" court house, is still-trying to line his pockets with money N taken in for naturalization fees, , and City Health Commis sioner Connell, in the city hall, is still absorbing public funds claimed as fees for compiling vital statistics both of them in addition to liberal sal aries allowed by law. ' Th fee graft in the district clerk's office must be dealt with nelsewhere, but the fee graft In the health commissioner's office cannot continue, ex- ,cept with the acquiescence of the newly elected city commissioners. Taking their promises of re form arid retrenchment at face value, we look to them to stop this abuse so often denounced and constantly fought by The Bee. If scotched at the start the evil can easily ba, eradicated and the refusal of the city authorities to stand longer for this rank graft game may spur the responsible county authorities to close in on '"Fee-Grabber Bob" and wipe out the last'remnant of private perquisites in public office. Stop the rotten fee graft in the city hall right ndw in the court house next k ; ' Shipbuilders Making Good. The United States Shipping board is before eongrest asking for a $2,000,000,000 appropriation for the continuance of its campaign. Thia huge sum of money it to be expended in producing ships that will carry our men and munitions to France during the war, and be turned into the carriers of American commerce after the war. The shipping board asks for it in full assurance of obtaining a hearing, because it can .show re cultt. Since August 3 of last year 122 ships, aggre gating 814,000 tons, have been turned over to and accepted by the United States and are now in service. In April 240,000 tons of shipping left the ways and slid into the water, and shortly all of that will be In service. Bated on the April record, the thipyardt are producing 9,000 tons of shipping daily, and the entire capacity hat not yet been tested. Miracles of construction have been and are being accomplished under the spur of thenar, that America may fulfill its pledges to the world. Our shipbuilders have followed the lead of. the army and art making good. , c Increase In Railway Wages, The recommendations - of the wage commis sion to the secretary of treasury, looking to a geneTal increase in pay for all railway employes, is coming injor a good deal of comment and some criticism. This latter is from the highest paid class of help, those whose pay has been in creased until it has come up to a fairly reason ablepoint Whether their voice will determine the action of the secretary in his final decision, or whether he will look to the situation of the unorganized and underpaid men and women, whose numbers far exceed those of the well or ganized brotherhoods is to be determined. The fact is that eJeVks, station agents, section hands, freight handlers and many others, whose pay has never been big and who have had no substantial advance in many years, are the ones that most deserve consideration just now. Others whose unions hsve protected them and secured for them from time to time advance In wages may well put up with the smaller increase proposed just now, that their less fortunate fellow work ers can have something nearer to decent pay. Conditions justify this and fairness demands it. ) War Taxes and a National Budget Secretary McAdoo has put a stopper on talk of early adjournment of congress by asking for additional revenue, which will necessitate fur ther legislation. This need has been apparent since congress convened in December, but for some reason the leaders have avoided the issue. In addition, the letter of the secretary of the treasury to Senator Simmons discloses an aston ishing discrepancy between treasury estimates and the. amounts requisitioned by heads of other departments. Instead of the huge sum of $15, 000,000,000 asked for the military establishment by the secretary of war, the treasury estimate is $9,991,000,000; navy estimates are reduced from $1,500,000,000 10 $816,000,000; the shipping board's request for 2,250,000,000 is cut to $900,000,000. Here is a difference of seven billions of dollars between the several estimates. If the spectacle argues for anything, it is for the adoption of a budget plan, whereby accurate and closely balanced allowances may be "sub stituted for the present haphazard methods of making appropriations. It was promised by tht democrats last October, when the first war session reached an end, that for the future all appropria tions would go to a single committee, that amounts might be more carefully governed. This waa not carried out in practice, though, and each department besieges congress with its own esti mates and requests for money to the limit. . That many, appropriation! mad have been extrava gant Is generally admitted and that nearly all have been' founded on guesswork is also true. Increase in taxation will be patiently borne by the people, who are willing to make any sac rifice that will win the war. It is due to them that the enormous slums of money so generously contributed be expended with prudence. This can only be brought about-when a closer and firmer control is maintained over machinery by which revenue is distributed for disbursement. At to tht Soldier Vote. . "Most of the soldier boys were not Sufficiently interested to mark their ballots and mail them back to the old home town." World-Herald. It does not follow that the soldiers were not in terested, but more likely that they were unable to make a self-satisfying choice from a list of names for the most part unknown to them with nothing to indicate who the candidates were, what their qualifications or what they represent Were they furnished a ballot bearing party labels, the; might have voted for their preferred party can didates, but to pick names out of a nonpartisan ballot with no other information than yhat the ballot offers it too much like shooting in the dark. If the soldiers in camp are to exercise this suffrage right, some arrangements must be made to provide them with a "who's who" of the can didates so they caovott intelligently and eon Vcientiously. V " wj" Empty Claims' of German Greatness Fourth Raters in Music, Art, Science and Invention Herbert Friedenwald in Brooklyn Eagle." 'A The German nationthe most capable j nation in the world is more richly endowed wittf talents, and faculties than even tbei Greeks and Romans were." So says the preface to a "Universal Edi tion" of onttof Beethoven's sonatas that has been recently issued in Leipsic, officially sub sidized, and recommended by the imperial and royal department of public instruction of Austria-Hungary. - ' Thii study of the sonata Op. Ill," the preface declares, "was written during the first year of the world war. In the supreme distress of this conflict, so criminally im posed upon the German people, Beethoven, with a few other great names, appeared to us as a truly tutelary and consoling spirit as the most precious talisman of a nation whom the enemy powers, themselves so backward, have dared to insult by calling it barbarian. In this world war Beethoven has taken part in many a battle. He has won victories. Harder battles are prepar ing for the German people, and those also Beethoven will help us to win." Tht preface does not " remark that See thoven't ancestors came from a village in Belr gium near Louvalnl No. The commentator overlooks that significant fact. And it is a fact that must be taken into account in any audit of modern Germany's claim to a rich endowment of "tSIentt and faculties." The modern German kultur that massa cred (the inhabitants of Louvain, burned its famous library, and destroyed its beautiful old buildings that kultur still pretends to be culture of Beethoven, It is a typical Ger man pretense. Since Germany turned to kultur it has produced no Beethovens. It has had no musicians to rank with those ot other na tions. It has had no one to rival the Rus sians, 1 schaikowsky and Moussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakof, or the French Massenet and Cesar Franck and Debussy, or the Ital- lan-JUascagni and Jniccmi and Wolf-Ferrari. It. has not even produced the great singers, violinists and pianists of our century. 1 Of modern violinists, Isaye is a Belgian, Kreisler is an Austrian, Elman and Zimbal- ist-and-Heifetz are Kussians, and Spalding is an American. Of pianists, Paderewski is a Pole, Hoffman is an Austrian, Godowsky is a Russian, Harold Bauer is an English man, iiloomheld eisler is an American and Carreno a South American. Of the sing ers, Sembrich is a Pole, Schumann-Heink is a Bohemian, Gluck is a Roumanian, Gallt Curci, Caruso and Scotti are Italians, Mary Garden is Scotch-American and Homer and Farrar are Americans. The most distin guished of present-day cellists are Casals, a Spaniard, and Gerardy, a Frenchman. The boasted musical culture of modern Germany has trained neither composers nor the artists to interpret composers. Bee thoven has become the "tutelary and consol ing spirit ot a nation that is capable only of destroying the home of Beethoven s ancestors. There is an art that has been added to culture since kultur was developed. The very idea of a German practitioner of that art is laughable. One cannot think of a German interpretative dancer without a smile. Isa dora Duncan is an American. Her rivals, Pavlowa, Lopokova and Mordkin and Nijin sky are Russians, Ruth St. Denis is an American and the fairy-like Genee is a Dane. In no period of the world's history has there been a German painter to nk with the great masters with Rembrandt Michael Angelo, D Vinci, Raphael, Titian,- Rubens, Van Dyke or Velasquez. In the arts of sculpture and architecture, those two glor ies of Greece and Rome, no German his excelled. The sculpture of Berlin is the joke of civilization. Could anyone who has seen the monstrosities of modern German archi tecture think of going to Berlin, as thous ands go to Paris, for his education? Could a nation with any sense of grace and beauty be capable of such abominations as the sculpture of the Sieges Alie? "When we get to Berlin," the French officer said, "we'll take an awful revenge. , We'll leave it ex actly as it is." It was Goethe who wrote of Berlin: "To tell the truth, we all lead a miserably iso lated existence here; We meet with but little sympathy from the common herd around 'us. Personal intercourse and vivi voce interchange of thought is a matter of rare occurrence Only imagine, however, a city like Paris, where the cleverest heads of a great kingdom are grouped together in one spot. Where all that all that is of most value in tjjtkingdoms of nature and art from every part of the world is daily opened to inspec tion, and all this in a city where every bridge and square is associated with some great event of the past, and where every street corner has a page of history to un fold. And withal not the Paris of a dull and stupid age, but the Paris of the 19th century, where for three generations such men as Moliere, Voltaire and Diderot have brought inrt play a mass of intellectual power such as can never be met with a second time on any single spot in the whole world." And it was Alexander von Humboldt who called Berlin "an intellectual desert, an insignificant city devoid of literary culture." Germany has never had a Shakespeare. It has had sy one to rank with Dante or Milton or Moliere. Goethe has been its greatest name. In the modern art of fiction it has produced no world figures to rival the masters of France and Russia and England. Where is its Balzac or its Tolstoy I Where. in drama, is its Ibsen f In all the arts but music the German nation hat been less "richly endowed with talents and faculties" than any other civilized people of our day. Outside of its claim to being "the most cap able nation in. the world." it has not even in vented its own fairy tales. .Grimm's Fairy Tales are adaptations from the Slajjc All that the Grimms did in many cases was to change the logical unhappy endings of the .original aiories ana give mem s wcaitiy sen timental German conclusion of "happy ever after." . ' It, is as adapters of the' discoveries of others that German scientists, too, have made their way. There has been among them no Galileo, no Francis Bacon, no Isaac Newton. Germany has prided herself on her contributions to chemistry, but the French Lavoissier is by all regarded as the founder of modern or quantitative chemistry; Dalton, the Englishman, established the atomic theory; and Mendeleeff, the Russian, dis covered the periodic law which classi fies the elements according to their weight. And the "new" chemistry dates from 1896, when the Frenchman Becquerel of the fourth generation of a family of great chemists, showed that compound of uranium evolves some vsort of radiation which impresses a photographic plate, and thus paved the way! tor the epocn-makiflg discoveries in, radio activity of Madame Curie. Jn the great work that has been done to develop the evolutionary theory no German can claim to-haveocen a pioneer, and he would be bold, indeed, who accorded pre eminence to iiaeckei and WeiBsmann, as against Lamarck and Darwin and Alfred Rus sel Wallace, or the Swiss Mendel, or the Dutch Hugo Ue ,vnes, on whose investiga tion the wonders wrought by Luther Bur bank are so largely based.. With all the attention paid by German scientific men to the minutae of investigation we might have expected that theirs would be the -credit for the modern germ theory, "but this great contribution to civilization was left to the genius of Pasteur to make He is best known among laymen for bis discovery of a cure for rabies; but, notable as this is, it was the least of the long series of gifts with which he enriched the world. He revolutionized chemical biology; he created chemical pathology; and he estab lished the germ theory of infection. His great pupil and successor was Metchinkoff, a Russian. Is it not retributive justice that while Pasteur s bitterest opponents were German, ultimately one of the foremost of German pathologists, Koch, was enabled to make his discoveries oqjy by adopting Pasteur's theories and following out his ob servations? , Of the many discoveries and inventions that have made the 19th and"20th centuries perhaps the most memorable of all Jime, hardly one is of German origin. Germans did not invent the steam engine, nor. with their notorious facility for adapting the dis coveries of others, did they apply it to rail way or to ship transportation. England and the United States had the genius to present these contributions to civilization. The typewriter is not German, nor the tele graph. These and the trans-Atlantic cable we owe to an American. As is well known, that instrument of convenience, the tele phone, owes its origin to Alexander Graham Bell, a Canadian. Without the epoch-mak ing experiments of Langley, supplemented by the genius of the Wright brothers, the world might have had to wait many years tor the pertection of the airplane, which has been put to such significant use in the pres ent war, though the practice of utilizing it for the purpose of murdering women and children had its origin in the German brain. The utilization of gat for illuminating pur poses is an English discovery, and we are in debted to our own Brush and .Edison for the electric light as we also owe to the latter the phonograph. We need hardly be reminded that the submarine is American and that Marconi gave us the wireless. The Germans perfected only that greatest fail ure of this war, the Zeppelin. Let us not deprive the Germans, however, of a credit that isr justly theirs. Thev first employed poisonous gas to make the horrors ot war more horrible, and, with characters- "v wiwj iuivjvu lb via lite WvOf ern front, where the prevailing winds are so constantly against them that the allies now smother them at will in a reproduction of their own villainy. Also a German, Otto, invented the gas engine, and Daimler, the internal-combustion engine, using a product of petroleum as fuel, although it was Pan hard, a Frenchman, who first saw its possi- Dinties as applied to motor vehicles. People and Events A Bfble printed in 1535 brought $3,600 at auction in New York City. A more legible one can be had for $1, but would fall short in volume of curiosity. One of Brooklyn's slackers sought to duck auty py arranging marriage with a woman for a money consideration. The bargain in cluded a subsequent divorce, but the divorce court refused to sanction the deal and the slacker remains hitched and in iail as well A ruling handed down by judge Pollock of the federal bench of Kansas solemnly warns the favored few traveling on railroad passes that they do so at their own risk. They cannot enjoy the luxury of free rides and at the same time soak the company for personal injury. In other words the pass rider may not go tne company going and coming. The marshal of Webster Grove, a St. Louis suburb, while roaming in nearby woods stumbled on a cache of metal money in halves, quarters and dimes. They were good to look at' and almost filled the marshal's hat Great stuff for a campaign and a dinner for the winners, thought the marshal as he lugged the load to a bank. "Take it awayl" shouted the cashier. "Phony coin." The mar shal is now sleuthing for the counterfeiter. Down in Louisville, where Kentucky de mocracy blooms perennially, the board of aldermen, democratic to the core, has thrown on the screen a characteristic pic ture of camouflaging voters with a platform built to get in on. The aldermanic office is an unsalaried one, but that makes no differ H?fri' As Jhe immortal Campbell remarked, What s. the constitution between Wends?" TJte LOUISVllIe aldermen trmlr ihm ratnnh11 hunch and voted themselves salaries aggre- Kaung a year., can you beat it? One Year Ago Today in the War. Elibu Root named to head the American mission U Russia. British and French envoy given memorable banquet aa climax to New York ovations. Chinese House of Representatives refused to .adopt resolution declaring , war on Germany. . ; Day We Celebrate. , Frank H. Turner of the . F. H. Turney A Co.. born 1877. Uajor General Ebon Swift head ot te American military mission to Italy, born In Texas rears ago. John B. Schoeffel, one ot the oldest rnd most prominent of American theatrical managers, born 71 years . Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice Trident or the united States, Dorn i Union county. Ohio, 6 years ago. I?r.- Robert J. Aley, president of ; a university or Maine, born at Coal V.ty, rM., S years ago, ( -L ! 's Day In History. ' -; i 1814 Robert Trnt PuJna Man. " v'- vsetta signer of the Declaration of . -jpendence, cied in Boston. Born -e. March 11, 17JL - HIS The surgical operation known ri the ligation of. the Innominate ar ? ry was performed for the first time ; y tr. valentine Mott of New York. i I Ji- Mai .orlal services held at " York navy yard over bodies of P' f.M ana marines killed at Vera Just $0 Years Ago Today William. Annls, William Burdlck, J. 3. Cooney, John Flynn, John Mesaitt Leu Sowders, P. J. O'Connell, James Burns,- Ed Casstan, John Doran, Thomas Lovett, Joseph Miller, Daniel Shannon, George Wilson,. Ed Gast fleld and John Healey are the names of the members of the Omaha base ball team. ' The Omaha Gun : club held fts first shoot of the eeason on its Wiii i.i.i . grounds back ot Shaw & Field's ware house. Articles Incorporating the Omaha Type foundry were filed with the county clerk by A. V, Brown, H. P. lialrock, II. J. Pickering and 8. P. Rounds, jr. The capital of the com pany is nxed at 150,000. Nineteen young men assembled at the residence of Dr. Denlse for the purpose of organising a committee to assist In securing the money required in Mimnlftt frH Viitni, u.n'. rthMla.. tlan association building. . Sidelights on4Ke War A national exhibition was recently held in Berlin to popularize the use of paper clothing. , , . In an effort" to secure additional gold In Germany, engagement , rings have been suppressed. A recent renort of British experts favors absolute abstention from strong drink, but supports the use ot light wines and liquors. V Dr. D. A. Poling, superintendent ot the United Society of Christian En deavor, reoently returned from France, rates our army's morals higher than those of civilians. General Leonard Wood tells us that 'we are only at the beginning now. My word to you Is to save everything you can. Produce everything you can. Do everything you can and we will make the world eare ror democracy. At a cost of $3,000,000,000, we are now making 11,250 Springfield rifles a day, 40,000 pieces or motorized ve hicles, smokeless powder at" the rate ot l.SOO.OOO pound a day, 1,850.000 automatlo pistols, and 3,250,000.000 rounds of ammunition for 300,000 ma chine guna Germany's eighth war loan, recent ly closed, comprise two classes of se curitiesI per cent in stock and4tt per cent in treasury annuities. The former was issued at 18. The latter Is really a short-time loan, one-tenth redeemable Jafluary 2, 1919, at 110, which represents an annual interest rate or more than m ner cent, on tho. seven former loans, 1,500.000,000 marks of Interest was due April 2. last ... , -i- Whittledtoa Point Washington Post: Just add a post- script to the letter to the boy. over there that you .have bought another Liberty bond. J ' Brooklyn Eagle: General Pershtng has joined the Protestant. Episcopal church. He wlllnot be lonesome. There are 70,000 men of that church in arms. Baltimore American: With, his brother-in-law in the nemv forces and his mother-in-law banished, the Emperor Charles ot Austria Will be hard pushed for a goat in his next Indiscretion unless he falls back on the cook.- ' . . Brooklyn Eagle: Napoleon spent a week at Calais and Dunkirk talking to fishermen and smugglers with his confidants, Lannea, Sulkowsky and Bourrlenne. They asked him if he, thought he could Invade England when he had gone over the situation. And he replied: "It is too' great a risk; I. will not hasard it I would not thus sport with the fate of France." And the Germans are Just as easy to down. ThejChannel moat remains England's strong defense. New York World: Napoleon, accord ing to Wellington, excelled all com manders in his power of concentrating vast masses at men. and Joftre after the battle of the Mifrne said that if Napoleon were living he would find a way to victory. So far that way has not -been found, and it yet remains to be seen whether Foch r Hlnden burg surpasses in the art of concen trating masses ot men 'Jit critical points. The general capable ot that may decide the war- ' Twice Told Tales What He Knew. . ah unio man whose son was an applicant for a position in the federal civil service, but who. had been re peatedly "turned! down," said: "It's sure hard luck, but BUI has missed that civil service again. It looks like they just won't have him; that's all." . "What was the trouble?" asked the rriend. "Well, he was kinder short 'on Bpellln' and geography, an' he missed a good deal in arithmetic." "What's he going to do about it?" . "I don't know." aaid the fathfcr. "Times are not so good for us, an' I reexon ne'U have to go bacK to teachln school for a Hvln'." Every body's Magazine, One of the Units. Speakine of unite, as we often do nowadays, a Londoner had occasion toj' pay frequent visits to an eminent physlcn, and he said one day to the attendant: "You will be tired or open ing the door for me, James." "No at all,' sir,", was the gracious reply; "you are-but a hunlt in the nocean, sir." Boston Transcript Charming Innocence. Bessie catne running to her grand mother hnlriinp a rirv. nrpssed leaf, obviously the relic of a day long gone by. "I found it In the big Bible. grandma," she said. "Do you s'pose it belonged to ,EveT" -Boston Tran script - - ...:eVV Czecho-Slovak Army. ; maha. Neb.. May 0. To the Editor of The Bee: Since the Czecho-Slovak army is being rrequentiy mentioned in the dlspatcnos irom ma. European war theater, some p&rtldulars about that fighting rorce win no ooudi in terest your readers. 'And also what the Bohemians (Czechs) and Slovaks in the United States are doing to heln their brothers who have sacri ficed so much in this struggle for world liberty and civilization. The nucleus of the Czecho-Slovak army were the Bohemian residents in Russia, mamiy in uKrania, eome oi them lived there' many years, reared their families in that country, but under the laws - ot the old Russian regime they were not citizens of Rus sia and therefore not eligible for mili tary service. These Bohemian resi dents of Russia organized a regiment and called it theussite Guard, adopt ing the old Hussite black and red flag as their own, and offered their services to the Russian government The truth is the old Russian regime did not look with much favor on this new military force, Imbued with west ern Ideas of liberty and democracy, and It was only tinder the first provi sional government of Russia that, this army, Increased by this time by the former spldlers of Austria-Hungary, was fully recognized. . ... , This army took part in many battles on the eastern front, even when after disintegration of the Russian army set in, and won a great victory against superior foroes of Germans and Aus trians near Zborov. After the collapse of Russia part of this army was trans ferred to France, the last contingent reaching that country only last month after eventful voyage via the Arctic Sea, Prof. T. G. Masaryk, former member of the Austrian house ot dep uties, arrived recently In the United States, and' his chief mission Is to secure the help of our government in transporting these troops to the French front. There are 50,000 of these soldiers, fully eqdipped and trained and ready to go, and 60,000 others ready to follow shortly. The sons of Bohemia and Slovak- land are fighting against, Huns on all battle fronts of Europe. In France, in Flanders, in Italy, In Macedonia, and even in Africa. These former sol diers of Austria-Hungary joined the so-called enemy, disregarding their oath which they never considered as a solemn oath, but a sacrilege wrung- from them when their hearts were full of bitterness against their oppres sors. This bitterness has grown Into hatred when they have seen with their their own eyes the bestialities com mitted by Germans and Magyars up on the helpless people In the occupied territories. Do you wonder that they deserted at the first opportunity from the Hun hordes and joined the armies of liberty, of light, of civilization? This Is how the Czechs and Slovaks In the Austro-Hungarlan army have become the "allies of the allies" and our "associates In wan" Now let me eay a few words about their Sacrifice for the common cause. They knew that by joining the ranks of the so-called . enemy they for feited all rights guaranteed prisoners of war under International law. But this Is not all. Their property in Austria-Hungary was confiscated, their kin are brutally persecuted and yet they write to their sons, brothers and husbands n the Czecho-Slovak army whenever they succeed In smuggling a letter across the border to stand firm and not lay down- the sword until Bohemia is free and In dependent. ' The Czecho-Slovak army In France has been augmented by thousands of American Bohemians and Slovaks, either not fully naturalized or out side of draft age. and our noble Bo hemian women, who are everywhere recognized as the most Industrious and efficient Red Cross workers, yet find time to knit and sew and make bandages for these boys in the Czecho slovak army. They are simply doing double duty and carylng double bur den, and are doing it gladly. The position of men In the Czecho-Slovak army Is tragic In more ways than one, All the other fighting armies have their "home folks" behind them. But the jnotherland of these sons of Bo hrmla and Slovakland is in the grip of a brutal, ruthless enemy, and they do not even know whether their "home folks" are living or dead. All the "home folks" they have are In these United State who have sent so many of their sons and brothers and husbands to battle under the glorious Stars and Stripes, and yet are filling the ranks of the Czecho-Slovak army with recruits, young and old. And as for our women who are do ing their full share In Red Cross work for our American soldiers, I am sure America will not grudge the little help they are giving our boys fighting under the white and red flag of Bo hemia In the ranks of the allies, but will say, "God bless those noble wo men." The blood of Americans and Czechs and Slovaks is commingling in a crimson stream on the western front, all fighting for the same ideal the world 'liberty and democracy, and all fljghting for our firesides to protect them from the Huns, from the fate of Belgium and northern France. F. J. KUTOK. President Bohemian National Alli ance, Omaha Branch; Hushed. 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