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SEEKS
Mother's day carries the finest sentiment of
ft.
Bird of a feather the city hall gangland
the court house ring.
Our British cousins are ffettins? so they can do
Uie Hobson "plugging" trick quite neatly.
Get busy now. Messieurs Commissioners.
greater Omaha challenges you to do your best.
. With the turnover' of the city hall, the pres
sure on the suppfy of unskilled labor in Omaha
should be noticeably relieved. . ? U
, The women want in on the peace negotiations.
Ve won't start a fight over that, however, until
e hare finished our fight with the kaiser.
Be very careful not to put too much credence
in tales about German weakness coming from
Kcrlin. These usually are but transparent camou-
' '
Colonel Roosevelt mentions the Hearst
pipers as examples, of postoffice leniency to pro
Germanism. He could mention some other hy
.enated newspapers overlooked by Mr. Burle
ion if he wanted to.
, Whatever the "motive behind Gutzon Be
fc'.aV exposure of the aircraft fall-down, rep-U
Borg
Iz xr exposure of the aircraft fall-down, rep-lace-ir.cnt
of the head of, the aircraft board ana ap-
brought about testify to the fact that he hit the
target,' . '.y: ' ' ,
According to the hyphenated World-Herald,
ryoEfe who alludej to Senator Hitchcock's rot
i record of kaiser-coddling and pro-German
must be counted among his "business com--ior
tnd personal, and political enemies."
Hit's the answer that always comes when there
is ao answer. . . ' ;
Vegetable Fats as. Foods.. r
Another of the important things we have
!;-rned since entering the school of necessity is
tie food value of vegetable fats. For many gen
erations we had followed ' nature's kindly lead
t'i relied on animals to furnish us the fats we
t::ied. It Is an axiom of .biologists that nature
;. jvided the whale and the seal for the tnhabl
v - ;s of polar regions, the various meat animals
r those whose good fortune set them within the
t -;erate zone, and seeds and nuts to furnish
") and fats for the dwellers under the tropics,
rtsie and increased demand incident to the
V r tavi combined to enforce a readjustment of
C.!l schedule to a greater extent than has been
c :sed. In the United States the consumption
if vegetable oils has enormously increased, within
tie last two years. For example, while we are the
world's laree it nrnditpfr nf enttnn nil v in
the last year we imported $l,210t000 worth of
this material Our total imports of vegetable oils
far the year totaled $75,000,000, of which almost
half came from the Philippines. This-includes
teeoanut oil and copra, soya bean, peanut and
i'.milaf ,oils, almost all of which is now going
L.to the daily dietary of the people. The animal
fits we once consumed arebeing saved for the
r liters.
"MOTHER'S DAY." ;
. In all the world's history no people has paid
greater deference to its mothers than have the
Americans. Whatever of sanctity and affection,
honor and love, can be bestowed on that supreme
function of womanhood has been expressed in
unmistakeable manner. It is the generous tribute
of enlightened manhood and equally elevated
womanhood that puts the mother on a pedestal
apart and endows her with attributes withheld
from all others. Appreciating this, we must ap
proach the , observation of Mother's Day this
year with greater admiration for the matrons of
America, young and old, than ever. Tender and
true, loving and gentle, clinging to the highest
ideals of the home, these women have risen to
the heights of sacrifice and have proven them
selves worthy of that devotion which led us into
the great war. Mother has bidden her boy God
speed and sent him forth to war. She has hidden
the anxiety of a loving heart behind a smile of
pride as she has watched, her son swing by in
the khaki line, and in her prayers she has asked
the God of All first that the cause of right be
triumphant. No army ever went out with greater
sustenance of love and affection than has gone
with our boys across the seas; never have gentle
hands wrought with more of determination that
home comforts might surround the young men
who are holding back and overcoming the terri
ble foe. Mother has always had her part in
war, but in none has she been sweeter or grander
than in this. One day especially set apart for
formal recognition of what she is on every day
of the year is fitting but inadequate.
Civilization is Gaining.
An event has just transpired on which the
public is to be greatly congratulated. Principals
of a proposed prize fight have called off the
affair and have abandoned its pursuit because of
lack of public interest in the contest. That this
can be so at a time when man is arousing his
combativeness to its utmost pitch, when millions
of peaceably inclined and carefully nurtured
youth arebeing taught the art of war, which
means fighting in its' most savage form, and when
a portion of this training consists-of instruction
in boxing,' shows how civilization is gaining. We
will fight for what is , right, giving lives and
treasure wthout stint for the preservation of a
principle but when it comes to pouring out
our golden coin to reward a couple of profes
sional bruisers we turn aside. In times of peace,
when some men have more money and leisure
time than they otherwise could spend, a portion
of it may be given to the prize ring, but not now.
The public has other fish to fry, and if Willard,
Fulton or any others of that lot want to fight
let them get into khaki and go to the front.
Shying at Revenue Legislation.
Back of the reluctance of the democratic
leaders in congress to enter on a program of
further revenue legislation stands the specter of
the fall elections. Only for this reason is it sug
gested that the matter be deferred until next De
cember. Nobody questions the need for more
revenue, nor the desirability of certain amend
ments to the present law. At the beginning of
the. present session of congress certain specific
changes were suggested as necessary, and were
agreed to by the committees of both house and
'senate in informal consideration of the points
involved. No other progress has been made. In
January Senator Smoot submitted in the senate
a substitute for the present law, which had com
mendation of the closest students of revenue
problems. It has never emerged from the com
mittee, but now that the secretary of the treasury
has asked for action, the Smoot bill may be
heard from. Claude Kitchin, chairman of the ways
and means committee, voices a threat that if
revenue legislation is taken up he will see to it
that all profits are wiped out. This is in keeping
with his statement of last summer that he would
vote for the war .tax bill with his eyes shut. He
did, to the extent that the big revenue measure
was entirely rewritten in the senate, and muddled
in conference, so that in one or two vital points
it defeats its own purpose. Experience has shown
the weaknesses of the law and sober judgment
should be applied ih their correction. The major
ity party in congress must face its responsibilities.
Factory Labor For the Farms.
' In the east, where the industrial adjustment is
more on the side of the factory than on the
farm, various expedients have been suggested by
which something of a balance may be established,
and sufficient help be provided to carry on farm
work. In Connecticut what seems to be a most
practical plan has been put into operation. Un
der it large employers of labdr in factories or
similar industries have obligated themselves to
furnish a certain quota for farm work. Men
are' sent from the shops to the farms on squads,
the arrangement being that each employer will
keep a certain number of men steadily engaged
in farm work, sending them in relays. The
wage question has been adjusted on a basis that
is entirely satisfactory to 'the men, they getting"
their regular pay at the rate contracted for in the
shops, while the farmer pays to the employer
the wages for farm hands. This plan is strongly
commended by the service bureau of the Depart
ment of Labor.
Views, Reviews and Interviews
Some Reminiscent Thoughts Suggested by Our Recent
V Municipal Election Campaign
Looking backward, the upheaval that
overturned the political equilibrium of the
city hall took place with far less excitement
and turmoil, with smaller expenditure of cam
paign ammunition, with much less fight on
both sides, than has characterized any pre
vious contest of this kind that I recall.
Mavor "Jim" is unhorsed after riding in the
saddle for twelve years, a record unequated
here in Omaha and approached only by that
of Mayor Frank E. Mooies, who held his
own atrainst all combathints for nearly nine
years and then was knocked out, not by his
political enemies but by the scythe ot the
Grim Reaper. I believe all who are compe
tent to judge will agree that the campaign
that first landed Mayor Moores in the office
was the fiercest municipal campaign ever
waged in -this city and when the smoke of
battle cleared it was found that Moores
had won out with a slender majority ot only
219 votes to the Rood. Even after the returns
were counted and canvassed the fight on him
continued unabated and he was not allow
ed to take or to hold his official power
except through a step-by-step struggle
in the courts, at each turn of which, however,
he was successful as a result of indomitable
energy and persistence. Mayor "Jim" has
had his troubles and plenty of them, yet they
were as nothing compared with the difficul
ties with. which Mayor Moores was succes
sively confronted and embarrassed I should
say harrassed. I suppose these are the stages
all growing and progressive cities have to go
through and I take it to be a fair assump
tion that the new mayor of Omaha will have
a much smoother road to travel than his
predecessors. ......
Almost as bitter a city campaign was
the one pulled off two years before that
the A. r. A. campaign of 1895. In that con
test The Bee espoused a "citizens' ticket"
fused with the democratic nominees, while
the World-Herald championed the A. P. A.
slate, including the republican candidate for
mayor. The onslaught which The Bee made
upon the secret political order, exposing its
inner workings, while failing to elect our
candidates, was nonetheless eminently suc
cessful in sounding the deathknell of the
A. P. A. in this community. That famous
campaign makes too long a story to tell in
detail now, but the key to it is contained in
this incident: In the early stages of the fight,
the law firm of Churchill, Covell & Winter,
whose members had been leading lights in
the A. P. A., moved out of its offices in the
New York Life building, as it was then call
ed, and the rooms thus vacated were rented
by another law firm, Mahoney, Minnehan
& Smyth, all Catholics the firm into which
Ed. P. Smith just elected mayor soon after
entered. When they came to take possession
of their new quarters they found great heaps
of papers and documents stacked up in the
fireplace, presumably ready to be burned, but
to which by neglect the match had not yet
been put. Cursory examination disclosed that
these papers were the records and archives
of the A. P. A. councils of which the out
going lawyers had been officers, and which,
for the first time, now were spread before
the eyes of the uninitiated. The "find" was
scooped up and put into baskets and carried
over to our office, furnishing us with the
corroborative documentary evidence, proving
all the charges of invisible government which
had been layed against the order. The bombs
were exploded over the enemy through The
Bee in the campaign that followed with dead
ly effect and the- reverberations were heard
from one end of the country to the other
wherever A. P. A. activities had been mani-
Freemasonry of the Sea
There has always been among seamen of
all nationalities a sort of tacit agreement for
mutual protection against pirates and other
peculiar dangers to which those are exposed
who go down to the sea in ships. By a mu
tual understanding among nations there has
never been need for extradition in the case
of pirates, the common enemies of the human
race, who recognize no laws written or un
written. They may be convicted and pun
ished wherever they are caught, without re
gard to nationality:
When Germany restored piracy to the
seas through her submarines, she expected
that our merchant seamen and those of our
allies would be terrorized, and that they
would refuse to man our ships. And yet it
is asserted that not one American or English
seaman has refused to sign up for another
voyage, even though he might already have
been torpedoed. These men whose work is
so obscure and whose risks are constantly
so great are worthy of all honor. They il
lustrate the spirit which Emerson has de
scribed: So night is grandeur to our dust
So near is God to man,
When duty whispers low, "Thou must,"
The youth replies, "I canl"
A writer in the Atlantic Monthly says of
these brave men:
It is they who have gathered the great
armies of the allies from the end of the
earth. They man tugs, salvage the
wounded and convoy the well. They have
been called upon for every sort of serv-ice-sto
navigate unlighted craft, zigzag
ging at full speed, day and night, through
dense fog, without blowing a whistle; to
, bring their torpedoed craft into port, ex
pecting every moment to have her sink be
neath them. Some day the historian, and
after him the poet, will tell their story.
British seamen under the leadership of
Havelock Wilson, in order to show their de
testation of pirates, have determined to boy
cott the Germans after the war, unless they
establish a true democracy and refuse longer
to , obey the autocratic commands of the
kaiser. And it will not be easy for those
who comprehend the real meaning of the
freemasonry of the sea to blame these men
for taking such action. Minneapolis Journal.
fest I have many of the original documents
still in my possession.
Who says the Englishman has no sense of
humor? My attention was attracted to a re
view in a London paper of what was called
in the headline "An American crook play," in
which the critic declares, "Miss Kyrle Bellew
is the outraged heroine at her best when
doped." Is this a delicately scented bouquet
or a comouflaged brickbat?
The spotlight now playing on Gutzon
Borglum, the noted sculptor, who has also
devoted his talents to aeronautics, attaches
interest to the fact that a turning point in
his artistic career came while he was a resi
dent of Omaha in the early '90s. I have a
little booklet to which I have already re
ferred, compiled by Robert B. Peattie as
a souvenir of Omaha of 1892, to which a
chapter on art is contributed by Rev. Joseph
T. Duryea and from his inventory and de
scription ot the Uninger. gallery 1 take the
following paragraphs:
"Of American painters there are J. G.
Borglum (13), Mrs. J. G. Borglum (8),
etc.
"Mr. and Mrs. Borglum have been resi
dents of this city, and a: the several ex
hibitions much of their work has been
presented to the public. They have ex
hibited in the Paris salons and their pic
tures have attracted the attention of the
critics of the leading French journals.
"Mr. Borglum was educated in Nebras
ka. He began to draw when a boy. Follow
ing his bent, he early made his choice of
a profession. He studied for a time with
Mr. Harry Aberly, then removed to Cali
fornia, where he continued his studies with
Miss jaynes Putnam and at the art school
in San Francisco, Mr. Virgin Williams
preceptor. Mr. G. W. Lininger sent him
abroad for further instructions. Both these
artists give abundant promise of distinc
tion." This is a reminder that Gutzon Borglum
made his reputation first as a painter before
taking up sculpture. Mr. Borglum has been
a frequent visitor to Omaha and he sent a
number of his models and other pieces to
the art exhibit held here last year. I saw
him-in Washington in January, at which time
he told me he was doing some work for the
administration in connection with the air
plane program and I have no doubt he will
open the floodgates of light on the whole
situation before the finish.
German Courtesy a Myth
A few days ago I was present in a com
pany where an American newspaper man
gave an extremely interesting talk on avia
tion at the front, and he related the following
story:
"Courtesy among aviators at the front is
so great that when Guynemer was killed the
German 'aces' invited their French colleagues
to be present at the burial behind the German
front. The invitation was accepted; the
French came in their airplanes, were present
at the funeral service, exchanged salutes with
the Germans, and when about to turn back
were surprised to see that the German avia
tors, with gracious hospitality, had had their
tanks filled with gasoline."
The story is a delightful one so de
lightful that certain doubts arose in my mind
as to its veracity. I therefore cabled my gov
ernment, asking them to make inquiries at
grand headquarters and find out if such an
incident really took place. I have just re
ceived the following reply:
"You can absolutely and formally deny
the story that French aviators were present
at Guynemer's ; burial inside the German
lines." -
May I ask for the courtesy of your col
umns of this letter and cable? And I would
also like to avail myself of this opportunity
to request our American friends never to
give any credence to stories of German cour
tesy or German generosity, even when re
lated in perfect good faith. German gener
osity and German courtesy, we know by this
time, are pure myths. Stephane Lauzanne in
New York Times.
People and Events
American money now in circulation is said
to be almost $50 per head. In circulation, re
member. The average purse is nothing more
than temporary shelter.
Three million dollars worth of marine
glasses have been donated to the Navy de-1
partment by individual owners, who had
special means of seeing their duty and do
ing it quickly.
A state registration of friendly aliens iust
completed in Minnesota shows a total of
180,000 men and women thus classified
About 10,000 alien Germans were registered
by federal authorities.- Both records are to
be indexed by voting divisions for the pur
pose oi preventing voting ot persons not
citizens.
Louisville is quite chesty over its topping
record of subscriptions to the Liberty loan,
totaling 180 per cent. A creditable record,
surely, but how small it aooears beside that
of Antioch, Neb., which went over the top
of its quota eight fold. Still, the Blue Grass
metropolis is at liberty to take a little julep
for the feeling.
May day in Detroit and other. Michigan
towns, just installed in the dry belt, differed
little from conditions noted in Nebraska on
May 1, 1917. Remember the date? Enough
of the souse of the evening before remained
over , to facilitate the tapering-off process
and mitigate the shock of parting with the
dark-brown taste. Detroit records a one
commendable improvement the , disappear
ing ut iiuunigni serenaaers on residential
streets, despite the nearness of Walkerville.
Around the Cities
The traffic squad of St Louis here
after will be made up of alx-footers
or better.
For the nrst time in lta history Boa
ton has Inaugurated the budget sys
tem of municipal finance. .The imd
get for the municipal year carries
$27,066,774. '
St. Louis firms are working over
time on government contracts aggre
gating $40,000,000. SUU, extraordi
nary efforts were necessary to put
over the city's quota of third Liberty
bonds.
Topeka's municipal employes must
show some speed In helping to win the
war or risk separation from the meal
tub. Subscriptions to some ot the na
tion's war bonds or stamps make for
safety on the job.
Sioux City notes with moderate glee
that the county jail feeding bill tum
bled down to 1178 for April, the low
est monthly bill In 15 years. This is
one instance ot diminished business
that merits general applause there
abouts. .
In spite of the popularity of
apartment houses as a labor-saving
shelter, Minneapolis sticks to the de
tached home by a large n.ajorlty. Per-
.mits issued during the last eight-year
period show H.075 single dwellings,
1,003 duplex buildings and 997 apart
ment houses.
Jitneys persist In radiating gas and
trouble in Minneapolis. To the street
car people the scouting flivvers look
like trespassers on the streets -and
their operations send shooting pains
to the corporation treasury. City au
thorities are given to understand that
while they permit the Jitneers to lap
up the cream nothing better than
skim milk service can Jae expected
from street cars.
Out of the Ordinary
Sugar is extracted from 16 varieties
of palms that grow In Ceylon.
Not far from Fresno, Cal., a sum
mer home has been constructed un
der ground.
xne AraDian jNignts stories were
translated into English from the
Arabic by Antonie Galland, a French
savant and traveler, who died in 1715,
He obtained them in their original
form during his visit to the east as
an attache of the French embassy at
Constantinople.
The term "pocket handkerchief is
one or the queerest in our language,
At first It meant kerchief (courve
chef), a covering for the head; then
it became handkerchief, a covering
tor ine neaa carried m the hand, and
at iengtn pocket handkerchief, a cov
ering for the head held in the hand
and kept in the pocket.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
.'That tog la rxtctly like bit master."
"How it that?"
"Whvn ba attache himself to a tron
It 1 exceedingly difficult to ahaka him
off." Baltimore American.
Nixon I aupposa your married lit u
one trrand, aveet rong.
Newpop Well, since our baby cam, ttt
been more tike an opera; full of mnd
marches, with loud calls for the authoi
every Bight. Boston Transcript.
. "When the war Is over there will bs t
treat many changes in this country." said
"That's right," replied tha landlord ol
the Petunia tavern. "For one thing, about
fifteen or twenty secretaries of war In this
town will be left without anything to argue
about." Kansas City Star.
"Oh, these days of anxiety and worry!
1 wish they were over.
"Mere, wishing won't make tharo to.
Why don't you do something? Buy a raft
cf lfberty bonds oa the instalment plan."
cnicago rosi.
"Why do the young lawyers hang around
tha courthouse?"
"In the hope of picking up a . case. 1.
suppose. Tou know a good many cases
a -a thrown out of court." Loulsvlll Courier-Journal.
" ,
"Smith's exclamation when he found ihs
condition of his boot was harrowing." '
''Why harrowing?" ' '
"BocauRe It was the cry of a lo sole.
-Baltimore American.
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MOTHER'S DAY.
Kver working, ever tolling.
With no thought of her own reet, '
Brooding over little children,
That their lives may hold the best,
Giving up her rest and pleasure,
That they may in comfort stay.
Watching, praying, weeping, yearning.
Every day is mother's day.
Into other lives and futures
Do the mothers their own pour.
With a reckless fond profusion
Draining their own more and more,
Careless If their own lives nourish
Other lives, and they must pay:
Mother love-- is sacrificial
Every day Is mother's day.
So why should not this great nation
Stop a moment to give thought
To a love whose mighty silence
Is with Its salvation fraught?
Mothers give years of remembrance
Never does It pass away;
Then why not this love requiting,
Olve the motheis just a day?
Baltimore American.
3e Tear Ago Today in the War.
British took village of Bullecourt.
a Arras district.. . .
Eeebrugge, German submarine, base
an Belgian coast, bombarded by Brlt
ih warships. . .
President signed bin appropriating
t:"l,046.J22 for support of the army
! r tha fiscal year 11$.
. " rr We Celebrate. .
-.V W. Moore of F. P. KlrkendaU &
r v fcora 1174. s -
" irdon W7 Wattles. United States
1 administrator for Nebraska,
' ent of the Omaha & Council
j Street Railway company, born
. .:nrjr Cabot Lodge, senator from
aonuseua, born m Boston, 68
-' ago. -t l.
-liam Alden Smith, senator from
' ra. born at Dowaglao. Mich,. 51
a...-.
"eph K. Toole, first state governor
: DGtana, born at Eavannah, Mo,
, . .zrs ago.
' Til In History.
French army under Na
i took ; possession of Vienna,
t of ths Austrian empire.
Florence Nightingale, the ta
nirse A ths Crimean war, born
ence, Italy. Died in London,
t 14, 4110. .
-riogwell p. Flower, governor
Tork im-95, died at East
A. T.. Born at Thersa, N. V,
. tf 1135, . ' . .
J us! SO Years Ago Today
Mrs. J. W. Noel left for Wichita,
Kan., to make a short visit with her
sister, Mrs. William M. Dustin. who is
soon to become a resident of Omaha.
The new societ;' game of "angling"
was given Us formal introduction to
Quaint Bits of Life t
ths Omaha people at the residence of
Colonel Chase. Miss Fannie Butter
field was hostess.. t
C. W. Baker left for two weeks'
visit to his old home .In Abbots
town. Pa. s
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. John Mer
rltt and Miss Minnie Rosenthal cele
brated the occasion of their intended
departure for Europe by giving them
a complimentary farewell reception.
Pupils of Mrs. S. E. Clanna. aa.
slsted by Mr. E. Crapp and the Central
Glee club, gave a very entertaining
musicals in Crapp's music hall. ?
A . number ot the Omaha Guards
gave a pleasant and Informal hop at
the armory.
- Major Samuel Burdette is taking a
tour inrougn ths far west.
a Japanese is tne inventor of a
street sprinkler Mat distributes water
so as to form advertisements on
smooth pavements. .
; Miss Fannie Bacon of Cavendish,
Vt, has a moth or butterfly, captured
by herself, measuring six inches from
tip to tip of the wings.
When residents ot Cleveland move
from one location to another they are
required by law to leave their change
of address with ths police.
When lack of funds prevented the
erection ot a new hospital at Palm
Beach four women . started in and
raised nearly 120,000 In a few days.
A Kansas woman last year caught
more than 300 bushels of grasshop
pers, and by drying them and selling
them for chicken feed cleared 3560.
An insect of ths Hercules variety,
weighing three ounces, was able to
support on its back a brick weighing
more than a pound. A human being,
if subjected to a proportionate weight,
would be crushed.
All school teachers signing con
tracts in Oregon must subscribe to an
oath ot allegiance, ft was announced
recently by the state superintendent
of schools. The oath will be similar
to that taken by the government of
ficials. - , '
Charles H. Cleaves of Saco. Me.,
has in his possession a wooden can
tern carried by a Saco soldier in 1776.
It is circular in shspe, and is In per.
feet condition. There is not a crack
in' the wood. Not a nail was used in
,its construction.
Signposts of Progress
Statistics show that 75,1(7,672 gross
tons of iron ore were mined in the
United States last year. , s i
A patent has been Issued for a
twisted wire clothespin that. is used
in the same way as a wooden one.
Millions of tons of coal actually In
sight have been found by American
experts Investigating the fields of
southern China.
Water valves It feet in diameter
and so constructed that they wilt close
automatically tn event of a break in
the pipe line, have been built for a
hydroelectric plant in Utah.
Engineers in Sweden are experi
menting with perforating the webs of
street car rails to Increase their re
siliency and Increase their life when
laid on rigid foundations.
Electrical apparatus taking current
from a light socket has been invented
by a French scientist to purify the
air tn a room by literally pumping it
into a reservoir ana washing it.
The war has greatly benefited ths
Italian silk Industry, whlcv for sev
eral years had had a rather precarious
existence. The year 1916-17 closed
with the warehouse empty, the stocks
naving been disposed of with excep
tionally gcod profits.
Coal reserves In the south are sun-
posed to amount to 530,000,000,000
tons. West Virginia is said to have a
greater coal area than Great Britain
and Germany combined, and it is
thought that Kentucky has coal
enough to supply the whole world for
(several generations,.
Right to the Point
Washington Post: Naturally ths
boys at the front want cheerful letters
from home to harmoniae with the way
they feel about it
Louisville Courier-Journal: The
bill to lid the I. W. W. should go into
the federal statute books as a com
panion measure to the bill to squelch
the German-American Alliance. .
Minneapolis Tribune: The Prus
sian war lords will please observe that
the billions invested in the third Lib
erty bonds is not stage money like a
good deal of the stuff that is floating
around In Germany. ,
New York Herald: Insurance on
steamships and cargoes passing
through the war zone was above 6 per
cent last August, has been 3 per cent
of late, and now a reduction to 2
per cent is discussed. So much for
the vaunted efficiency of the U-boat.
. New Tork World: England, hav
ing doubled the tax on liquor, has now
fixed the pries of whisky, gin and
brandy to the consumer at a figure
below that ; revlously prevailing. The
English theory seems to b that con
sumers of liquor, like other con
sumers, are entitled to protection
against profiteering.
Brooklyn Eagle: A C ? jwnley ot
North Dakota's Nonpartisan league
confesses tha: his organization, which
takes in all the farmers of the state.
has bought only 35,000 worth of Lib- t
erty bonds. These gentlemen who oe-
neve that union is strength are neg-
lrtln nn,.,.l, KV i,n nlir
- - u ujjjui tuiiiij s.v utavn t'
great union, the greatest ever formed.
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Our specialty is in
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men who know the
value of being well
groomed men who
appreciate the quiet
correctness and indi
vidual style we put
into clothes.
Suits and Ocercoats.
Prices $30 to $70.
Featuring Tweeds
and Homespuns at
$35.
An almost endless
array of smart fabrics
await your selection
here.
"I hear that BUI has cut out ths
water entlrelv."
"Tes; he drinks nothing but pUin soda
now, but he wears yellow glasses '0 matt
him think it's champagne." Boston Tran
script, i t
"Why didn't you Join in the refrain!
Havs you no affection or respect for out
National Anthem?" ;: ,
"My friend, the way for me to show renl
respect for a song Is not to try to sing It."
Chicago Post.
Little Brother We'll play we're married
and you say you'll obey me.
Little Sister Can that caveman stuff
I'm a voter. Judge.
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WILLIAM JERREMS SONS,
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reterem'e ror rw
is indicative of a
superior musical
natureVsay Melba.
Words, arguments,
reputation count
for little. HEAR the
Mason & Hamlin
and you will
AGREE with Meiba.
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Up
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A LIBERTY BOND OWNER IS A
VOLUNTARY SUPPORTER OF OUR GOVERNMENT
Woodmen of the World
CERTIFICATE HOLDER IS
A VOLUNTARY HOME PROTECTOR
EACH IS A PATRIOTIC DUTY
HE WHO NEGLECTS EITHER
ISA SLACKER -
WHY NOT JOIN US AND BE FRDUD?
W. A. FRASER,
Sovereign Commander.
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