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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
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Empty Claims' of German Greatness
Fourth Raters in Music, Art, Science and Invention
Herbert Friedenwald in Brooklyn Eagle."
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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
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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 - -
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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;
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