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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE; MAY 19, 1918. 110 LIMIT SET TO WIN THIS WAR, ; : ASSERTSWILSON - President Declares In New York 'Address That Nation . Will Go to Extreme to Beat Germany. (Continued From One.) nation; he compasses them in his per sonal experience, and I am not Come here tonight to' review for you the work of the Red Cross, I am not competent to do so because I have not had the time or the opportunity to follow it in detail. I hare come here simply to lay a few words to you as to what it all seems to me to mean and it means a great deal. To Win War First Duty. There are two duties with which we are face to face. The first duty is to win the war. "And the second duty, that -goes hand in hand wit it, is to win it greatly and worthily, showing the real quality of our power not only, but the real quality of our purpose and of ourselves. "Of course, the first duty, the duty that we must keep in the foreground of our thought until it is accom plished, is to win the war, I have , heard gentlemen recently say that we "must get 5,000,000 men ready. Why limit it to 5,000,000? "I have asked the congress of the United States to name no limit be ' cause the congress intends, I am sure, as we all intend, that every ship that can carry men or supplies shall go laden upon every voyage with every man and every supply she can carry. "And we are not to be diverted fr6m the grim purpose of winning the war by any insincere approaches upon the subject of peace. I can say with a clear conscience that I have tested . those intimations and have found them insincere. I now recognize them for what they are, an opportu nity to have a free hand, particularly - in the east, to carry out purpose of conquest and exploitation. Intends to Stand by Russia. '; "Every proposal with regard to sc . commodation in the west involves a reservation with retard to the east. Now, so far as I am concerned, I in- 'tend to stand by Kussia as wen at France. . (A voice from the audience inter rupted with "God bless you.") ''The helpless and the friendless are the very ones that need friends and succor;, and if any man in Germany thinks we are going to sacrifice any body for our own sake, I tell them now they are mistaken. "For the glory of this war, my fel low citizens, insofar as we ere con cerned, is that it is, perhaps for the first time in history, an unselfish war. I could not be proud to fight for a selfish purpose, but I can be proud to fight for rdankind. If they wish peace let them come forward through ' accredited representatives and lay their terms on the table. We have laid our and they know what they are. "But, behind all thia grim purpose my friends, lies the opportunity to demonstrate not only force which will be demonstrated to the utmost, bttt the opportunity to demonstrate character, and it is . that opportunity that we have most conspicuously in the work of the Red Cross. Not that our mea in arms do not represent our character, for they do, and it is ' FEATURING LAIRD-SCHOBER .py. THREE ORIGINAL v Laird'Schober Desiqnk - BraUgne Pump As shown below, have hand-turn 'sole 2 V4 -inch It Covered Hrench heel long ramp. Available in pat ent colt, black calf, tan calf or Complete white kid, at- $10 VI to D SECANE OXFORDS. Al illustrated above, have hand welt soles 1 -inch leather walk-1 ing heel long vamp Imitation CM tip with pin hole tot punch ing. In dark brown kid or bright bla A Idd $10 TBM Ml astir There's a Laird Schobar ttyU for vary oecatioa. Mr. X V itet wltk or WithM amnt Cash Mail Orders Prepaid. 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Our own participation in the war has increased the demand, and naturally our interest in this great work, We hope and believe the American people will respond liberalfy to this second call. Nebraska's quota is $1,300,000, and each county has been assigned its quota based on population. Every man, woman and child sh ould contribute to the extent of their ability to this great humanitarian work at this .time. FRANK W. JUDSON, State Director. a character which those who see and realize appreciate and admire; but their dutv is the duty of force. The duty of the Ked Cross is the duty ot mercy and succor and friendship. Nation and World Knitted Together. "Have you formed a picture in your imagination of what this war is doing for us and 1r the world? In my own mind i am convinced that not a hundred years of peace could have knitted this nation together as this single year of war has knitted it to gether: and better even than that, if possible, it is knitting the world to gether. "Look at the picture. In the center of the scene four nations engaged against the world, and at every point of vantage ' showing that they are seeking selfish aggrandizement; and against them 23 governments, repre senting the greater part of the pop ulation of the world, drawn together into a "hew sense of community, eommuni y of purpose, a new Stnst of unity rt life. . "The secretary of war told me an interesting incident the other day. He. said when he was in Italy a member of the Italian government was explaining to him the many rea sons why Italy felt near to the. United States. "If you want to try an Interesting experiment go up to any one of these troop trains and ask in English how many of them have been in America and see what happens. "He tried the experiment. He went up to a troop train and said 'How many of you boys have been in America,' and he said it seemed to him as if half of them sprang up: 'Me from San Francisco, me from New York, all over.' There was part of the heart of America in the Italian army. People that had been knitted to us by association, who knew us, who had lived amongst us, who had worked shoulder to shoulder with us, and now, friends of America, were fighting for their pative Italy. Qreat Duty Facing Us. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. And this intimate contact of the Red Cross with the peoples who are suf fering the terror! and deprivations of this war is going to be one of the greatest instrumentalities of friend ship that the world ever knew and the center of the heart of it all, if we sus tain it properly, will be this land that we so dearly love. "My friends, a great day of duty has come and duty finds a man's soul as no kind of work can ever find it. "May I say this? The duty that faces us all now is to serve one an other and no man can afford to make a fortune out of this war. There are men amongst us who have for gotten that if they ever saw it Some of you are old enough I am old enough to remember men who made fortunes out of the Civil war and you know how they were regarded by their fellow citixens. That was a war to save one country this is a war to save the world. "And your relation to the Red Cross is one of the relations which Will relieve you of the stigma. You I FOOTWEAR OF FASHION Sagamore Oxfords As pictured be low, hare hand turn sole 2U ineh celluloid covered French heel long vamp. Complete sizes now obtain able in patent colt the most popular leather of today $11 ThU wfor lo MMt in white b 14 tan Mif ot whit IlMn. 8 r a I r md. and Self-Measuring Blanks. 307 Sooth ,16th St mm 1 can't give anything to the government of the United States. It won't ac cept it. There is a law of congress against accepting even services with out pay. The only thing that the government will accept is a loan and duties performed; but it is a great deal better to give than to lend or to pay and your great channel or giv ing is the American Red Cross. "Down in your hearts you can't take veryrnuch satisfaction, in the last analysis in lending money to the government of the United States because the interest which you draw will burn your pockets. It is com mercial transaction and some men have even dared to cavil at the rate of interest, not knowing the inci dental commentary that constitutes upon their attitude. Soul Goes With Gift. "But when you give something of your heart, something of your soul, something of yourselT goes with the gift, particularly when it is given in such form that it never can come back by way of direct benefit to your self. You know there is the old cynical definition of gratitude, as 'the lively expectation of favors to come.' "Well there is no expectation of favors to come in this kind of giving. These things are bestowed in order that the world may be a fitter place to live in, that men may be succored, that homes may be restored; that suf fering may be relieved; that the face of the earth may have the blight of destruction taken away from it and that wherever force goes, there shall go mercy and helpfulness. "And when you give, give abso lutely all that you can spare, and don't consider yourself liberal in the giving. If you give with self adula tion you are not giving at all, you are giving to your own vanity; but if you give until it hurts then your heart blood goes into it. "Andu think what we have here; we call it the Red Cross, but it is merely a branch of a great international or ganization, which is not only recog nized by the statutes of each of the civilized governments of the world, but it is recognized by international agreement and treaty as the recog nized and accepted instrumentality of mercy and succor. And one of the deepest stains that rests upon reputa tion of the German army is that they have not respected the Red Cross. Extendi All Over World. "That goes to the root of the mat ter. They have not respected the in strumentality they themselves par ticipated in setting up as the thing which no man was to touch, because it was the expression of common hu manity. We are members, by being members of the American Red Cross, of a great fraternity and comradeship Support the Red Cross Warming Thousands-Feeding Thousands Healing Thousands From Her Store Aid the Red Cross It's a Privilege Every Dollar of a Red Cross War Fund Goes to War Relief Trefoussc Gloves The finest that come to us from France are distributed in Omaha exclusively by the Thompson Belden store. They excel in quality, style and fit Obtain able now, in white, tan, pastel and black, with three and four row embroidered backs in self and contrasting shades, $1.80 and $3.80. 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"It fills my imagination, ladies and gentlemen, to ' think of the women all over this country who are busy tonight and busy every night and every day doing the work of the Red Cross, busy with a great eager ness to find out the most serviceable thing to do, busy with a forgetful ness of all the old frivolities of their social relationships, ready to curtail the duties of the household in order that they may contribute to this com mon work that all their hearts are engaged in and in doing which their hearts became acquainted with each other. ' r "When you think of this, you realize how the people of the United States are being drawn together into a great intimate famliy whose heart is being used for the service of the soldiers not only, but for the service of civilians where they suffer and are lost in a maze of distresses and dis tractions. "And you have then this noble pic ture of justice and mercy as the two servants of liberty. 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Then, standing in the reviewing stand he gravely saluted the ' colors as the women of the Red Cross filed past in a seemingly endless line. Miles of white gowned women marchers made a mute but hear-stir-ring appeal to the New Yorkers to contribute one-quarter of the $100, 000,000 asked from the nation to carry on the work of relief and succor. The great procession in this city was described as "only one of 1,500 parades, with 5,000,000 Red Cross workers, marahing on the same after noon in the Unitd States. Like Modern Crusaders. Fool sore and weary before they had gone half the distance given them to cover, the women trudged along as gamely as any column of regulars. Those of gray hair, and there were thousands of them, marched as bravely as their younger sisters, many carrying a service flag. And they marched amazingly well. Their faces aglow with high resolve, they looked like modern crusaders. Perhaps never before had New York seen such a demonstration of patriot ism. It was known the president would review the parade, but his inten tion to march at the head of the line had not been announced. Leaving his hotel after taking luncheon with Mrs. Wilson, he motored up the avenue until he met the had of the column at Sixty-sixth street. There he dis missed his car and flanked by Brigadier General George R. Dyer, the grand marshal, and Joseph P. Tumulty, his secretary, he took his place at the head of the procession. As the president's car drove up to the curb he was recognized and a cheer such as the historic avenue sel dom has heard. The cheering con tinued in a steady crescendo as he strode down the avenue. like the 'Battle Hymn of the Re public,' to hear the feet of the great hosts of liberty going to set them free, to set their minds free, set their lives free, set their children free, you would know what comes into the heart of those who are trying to con tribute all the brains and power they have to this great enterprise of liberty. 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Lieutenant Ed ward Rickenbacher of Omaha yes terday encountered three enemy airplanes along the sector norsh west of Toul and brought down one of them, himself narrowly es caping. His machine collided with a German plane, sending him spinning downward, but he was able to regain control of hie craft. One of the German airmen, ap proaching the lieutenant, " mis judged his distance. "I saw his mistake ariB tried to get out of his way by turning up ward," said Lieutenant Ricken bacher, "but I was not fast enough. The tail of his machine scraped my top wing, ripping it. The Ger man's tail was carried away. "The force of the Collision sent us both toward the earth in spin ning nose dives. After dropping a thousand meters I managed to straighten out my machine, but the Boche dashed down completely out of control until he was just over the trees. There he wobbled for a second and took another dive into the field back of the edge of the forest. It was just pure luck that his machine was damaged more badly than mine." WIDOW'S DEATH LAST CHAPTER IN KOUNTZE WILL (Cdntlnned From Page Ob.) society belle. "Forest Hill" was later occupied by the family of Herman Kountze. While in Omaha Augustus Kountze was a pillar of the present Kountze Memorial Lutheran church, later named after him, to which he was a generous contributor even after he and his wife went to New York to live. Threatened Will Contest Averted. The Augustus Kountze "last will and testament," referred to, made various bequests to different members of the family, stipulating a life in come for his widow from certain properties which, on her death, were to revert to his brothers and the male heirs of the Kountze family. There being no children in her own family, Mrs. Catherine Ruth Kountze was prevailed on to challenge the will and claim her dower rights in the real estate possessed by her husband. It is said the controversy never came to trial in the courts because a set tlement was effected by which Mrs. Kountze received certain payments and was assured a handsome income for all her remaining days. The real estate in Omaha which was in ques tion and all the real estate holdings of the Kountze family were there upon transferred to a real estate holding company, organized for the Fashionable Apparel for Outdoor Life City Needs Social Affairs Traveling Anticipating the requisites of Milady's every summer activity in a distinctive manner that is characteristic of exclusive apparel. Summer Afternoon Gowns Service Frocks Taflleur S&its Summer Wraps Coats For City, Club and Motor Wear Separate Skirts Exquisite Blouses Ginghams Very Sophisticated There is nothing sweet and plain and coun trified about these newest ginghams. 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"Their capture of the big wood north of Moreuil and the charge of a squadron into a battery of German machine guns, according to their comrades in the cavalry corps, in a class with Balaklava. The whole op eration is regarded as the most fa mous cavalry action of the war. Canada must be prepared to find many of her sons gone, but the price paid was not excessive. In addition to turning the tide of battle at vari ous places in the forward areas, they practically saved Amiens. "Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson, visit ing the Canadian cavalry on April 30, addressed each unit in turn and told them that the two woods they had recaptured from the enemy, the Bdis de Moreuil and Rifle wood, were the dominating features, the possession of which might at that time have been fatal to the defense of Amiens." Soldiers to Be Teachers of v Youth "After War, Says Kaiser Amsterdam, May 17. "1 have rocMik confidence that my people will be equal to the great tasks of the future," the Cologne Volks Zeltung quotes Emperor William as s saying when inspecting the graves of soldiers during his recent visit at. Aix-la-Chapelle. The soldier who has Struggled through the iron time of the world war will be a teacher and leader of the growing youths at home in build ing up and consolidating the reborn empire," he added. purpose, by which the properties have since been administered in this way, providing effectually against the pos sibility of dower claims against any future Kountz family estates. Mrs. Catherine Ruth Kountze lived quietly during" her later years at the Plaza hotel in New York, where she died, the funeral services having been held in the chapel of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, with interment beside her. husband in Woodliwn cemetery. 71 1312 H DODGE STREET