V 10 THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1918 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) - EVENING - SUNDAY rOONDED BT EDWABP ROSBWATKB VICTQS ROSEWATER. EDITOR THE BEX PUBLISH Pi Q COM PANT. PROPKUTOB. (stand at Omaha paatoiflca aa second-elass Matter. . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION luuvu w a Br Carrier. Bf MU. ft '"" IS llfiafii'i"idi; sV'tanialarHs dcUwo Omabs " OreeUUoe. PecartnsBt. MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS n. AMMd PrML t hlca The Be. I. a -. ""J! f rSuiJtrtu credited to thlf paper, mxJ tin kwal nwt HMuSUSTaU SSu wWlctto. at our M afpatrtai x REMITTANCE : ., a. dou eMcr. Onl, I snd t-cet lUeire - EE? 2 ',f,pror'J - 5oaa sua WOT oschaaga, not eacntcil . - ; OFFICES , ,, dm HMMtni Chicago PenWe'S Buildtaa rna a FSPnNDENCE mm amawMaHoe relating e aw. editorial awtta. ce ataba . faun AFR1L CIRCULATION. Daily 67;265 Sunday 57,777 iwrsts alreulatioo M ta aeata, erteeribea tad taora to at Dai ft iiiiuit. ClreluoB Manner. Sabaerikar laaviat lha city ahauM ""J; m,.ilW to taem. Aedreee thangee THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG M V ' From Fuhston to France is a long trail, but . watch the boys hit it. Well, those rains ought to allay any nervous ness that wai felt as to crops in Nebraska. . All that was said about saving food during the winter holds good today. Be carefufthere- fore. The meanest sneak thieves have been located in Chicago. They looted a car of tobacco being rushed to France. The humor -of it is that when the German Ian guage newspaper's have a really important an louncement to make they print tt in English. , - Still? it is not so .much saving money as get ting full value returns for the money spent that our people voted for in the recent city election. More women and children of London have been added to the Hun's terror toll, but no one has been frightened enough to beg for mercy yet. No more teaching of German in the Omaha high school any more than in the grade, schools. That shows the kaiseriei what comes from over ioirtg their job.. SCOTCHING THE FEE GRAFT. The change in the head of the health depart ment decreed by our new city commission has a significance beyond the exit of one health officer and the installation of another. It puts the fin ishing touch upon the fee graft game, surviving in the city hall alone in that office, which The Bee has for years denounced and decried as a brazen robbery of the taxpayers. For the new health commissioner a definite and ample salary (in conjunction with a salary paid by the school board) has now been fixed as maximum compen sation with a stipulation that the registration fees accruing to the office be turned into the city treasury. We heartily approve this arrangement, which could be improved on in only one direc tion by adding a requirement that the health officer receiving a' $5,000 salary devote his whole time to the public service. In connection with this uprooting of the fee graft in the city hall let The Bee again call to the attention of the authorities across the street in the court house to "Fee-grabber. Bob" Smith still pocketing in defiance of law the naturaliza tion money in addition to the pay for which he hired out to the people. "Fee-grabber Bob's" legal salary of $4,000 is more than twice as much as he ever earned in any other capacity and $1,000 more than the salaries of the judges of the court for which he is serving as a clerk it is liberal and generous without any 'side-line fee graft, It is time to put a stop also to "Fee-grabber Bob's" efforts to hold out for himself money that right fully belongs in the public treasury. - , ( Bohemia Under Martial Law. a , - . Most significant of all the revoltsreported from the Central empires of Europe is that of Bohemia. That the Germans have found, it necessary to declare that country under maitial law, and now threaten a reign of terror in order to suppress the efforts of the Czechs to secure their political autonomy, is proof of succesSjfor a propaganda carried on for many 'years, but made acutely active with the beginning of the war. Leaders always in . the pan-Slavic move ment, the Czechs have suffered severely because of their endeavors. Repression by the Haps burgs has been rigorously applied, but since 1914 the Bohemian people steadily have pressed for ward to the goal they have sought for three quarters of a century. This movement js chiefly valuable because it is intelligently directed and has no taint of bolsevism or other chimerical hope. It rests entirely on the aspiration of a people that was suppressed and all but extermi nated by its oppressors. In it will be found proof that government cannot rest on force alone. No racial movement in connection with the pres ent, war is of greater interest than the struggle Bohemia is making against the Austrian yoke. Politically "BiU".Ure and "Bob" Smu . arc like twp peas in a pod, but "Bill's vote to stop fhf fee graft in the city hall ought to be notice to "Fee-grabber Bob" what "Bill" really thinks jt "Bob's" fee graft In the court house. The declaration of special Red Crossf divi dends by big corporations is fine in theory, but ds'; it work out in practice? How much of the dividend money really goea to the Red Cross in tuition to what the individual stockholders would contribute anyawy? -"-, . . Taking Up Lost Motion Secretary McAdoo'a move to depose the pres ents of all the railroads under government con trot may be taken as a step to make the author ity of the federal government complete. At . present the presidents in question are really serv ing two masters. They are responsible to the directors of the lines, and at the same time to the federal government in a capacity quite differ ent from that of either citizen or employe. It is also announced that in most cases the secre tary of treasury intends to appoint the presi dents to beJcderal directors of the systems which they I) a ve ffad under their management, thus con tinuing" their oversight of the operations, but as representatives of the federal government. Such a course will' take -the lost t motion out of the general problem of management, putting the railroads entirely on a basis of government op eration, and "will do away with' the conflict of authority that resulted in the summary removal ' ot President Huntington of the Virginian rail way, who consulted with hi-directors and counsel before obeying instructions received from Wash ington, Reduced to its simplest terms, it means that Uncle Sam is to run the railroads until six .months after the war is over. It is well, too, that this should be so, for the result of the pres ent experiment is certain to be quoted either for or against in future argument sover government ownership, and mixed management would be of Kcile value for such purpose. , : On the Way to "Over There." From Camp Funston comes the news that the 89th division is under, way at, last. Strict mili tary rules prevent disclosure of the destination or time of departure, so that the first definite news will be when letters arrive telling that the boys are "over there." , But this only increases the excitement and adds zest to thy great adven ture. Our lads, who marched away in citizen's clothing in August and September, and who have been going in squads of frdm a dozen to an hun dred ever since, are 'now ready to-start for the battle front. For eight months they have borne the. life of, soldiers in training, submitting to all preparatory discipline and routine, eagerly await ing the day when the order to move should come. For these boys did not go to camp merely to learn the drill and practice of a fighting man; they went there chiefly because it was a step toward the field on which they will prove their mettle. And that is why the correspondent, writing of the proceedings at Camp Funston, where the men are now getting ready for the next leg of their journey, says ''words cannot tell" of what is going on. Nor would the censor let itNbe told, but Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, South Dakota and other neighboring states are getting under headway. Impatience is now giv ing way to action, and boys from the great grain belt of the transmissouri region are on the way to "over there." ' , Give the Belgian veterans a welcome today that will show them the big Jieart of Omaha beats in warm sympathy with their own beloved coun try. The men -who have faced the German ter ror on two fronts and are going, back for more of it deserve all we can do for them in way of encouragement. "Bill" Hayward's "buffalo soldiers" are still supporting the words of the federal commander who telegraphed Washington back in the '60s, "The colored troops fought nobly." With General Pershing and a lot more of the "boys" making the history and Dr. Fred Morrow Fling to record it, Nebraska is cutting some fig ure in the affairs of this war. N ' - Coming tobe 21 years old carries with it new meaning to the young American nowaday and one he will greatly appreciate as he grows older. s, Uncolored Story of American Dyes Manufacturers Have, in Forty Months, Mastered Secrets of Industry Henry W. Harrington The uncolored story of American dyes has about 250-shades, as compared with the 900 of the German chemical saga. The most convincing presentatipn of what American manufacturers of dyestuffs have accom-i:-t i A.idtict 1014. t. civen in the UUBIICU Bill. iiuj.., , q; sixth National Textile exhibition, which closes today at the Grand Central raiace. Not all of the 130 dye-makerS of the United States are represented in the .booths and t-.11. k,. Vir s rnnncth of them tO show tharthe industry has made gigantic strides. Any trade would indeed require seven-league boots to overtake in w montns wnai it iook Germany 40 years to develop. The first thing which the Teutonic jnanu- f?eiir if the aniline color did WIS tO emulate the humble squid and to darken the waters Of competition with the inky black ness of propaganda. .They declared by indi rection ana aiso oy goou dyes could really have color or enduring qualities beyond the Rhine. The German At inAttttrv f. hitift nn nr rather was before it went into munitions, upon a series of in terlocking ! directorates, ine seven leaaing companies co-operated in such a way by an vrhanor nf ttv-nrnrinrta and residues that they could crowd most manufacturers out of a place in the sun. a As a matter of fact, the dyes which are being made in this country are, taking a gen eral average, just as good for the pacific pur poses for which they were intended as any colors ever dumped trom a uerman suDma- rin VfnrVi e( tho Hia ticf artinn registered on the faces of American womankind con cerning our native dyes has not been due to the products tnemseives, dui to tne tact tnat tVim Avm r ftn arn1iH tft tl for which .they were not intended. A vigorous com- -,.. j- t. t it.. piaint, maac uniy a ew raonuis as - cerning some goods which had faded was well justified, .because, although the color used nad me distinction ot oemg orougnt hr nn tha unriraa freighter Deutsehland. it was never, intended for silk, but for wool. The manufacturer, in order to save money on the cost of the fabric, had employed a cheap dye, which proved unsatisfactory, de spite its high-born German pedigree. The American dyestuff industry has come up out of great tribulation. Before the be ginning of the European war the making of dyestuffs in this country consisted largely of finishing off partly completed products of uermany ana owuzeriauu. xuc waitna,, coal tar, which is the mother of so many hun 4rrf nf aniline rivea. wan conserved in Eu rope and thrown away in the United States. in New York Post . In these days it seems like a bad dream that America was once sunk -in such enconomic sin that it squandered all the volatile con stituents of coal in the manufacture of coke. It was burning down bouses in order to roast its pigs. The demand for coal tar brought about by the war caused the United States to tear dawn the old type of beehive ovens and to substitute for them the by product ovens which conserved the black liquids in which are concealed the most po tent means for promoting "battle, murder and sudden death." "American dye munufacture," said Dr. Edward Wallace Pierce, chief chemist of the United States Conditioning and Testing com pany, "has made great progress. It is hand icapped somewhat by the fact that American capital demands quick returns on its invest ments. The Germans in building up tReir enormous dye industry were very thorough and very patient They expended millions of dollars, for instance, in the experiments which resulted In the making of synthetic or artificial indigo from coal tar. The origina tor of the process worked 18 years before he produced the substitute for the Indian plant When the capitalists interested told him that he ought to make it j from a cheaper base in order to have it a commercial success, he went back to the laboratory for 10 years more, and finally produced the substance from naphthaline. ' "There is no difficulty in producing, dye stuffs of purity and strength in small quan tities under laboratory conditions. When, however, thousands of tons of material must be handled at once, numerous complications arise. Impurities appear in the product. Methods must be devised for removing them. A large New York company with which I was formerly connected spent $90,000 before it produced 1,000 pounds of a certain dye which fulfilled all the requirements of large scale . manufacture. The various reactions in the. factories require certain lengths of time. For example, it is 33 days from coal tar to the H acid which is used as a basis for many of our important colors. American makers have abundant scientific knowledge, and they are rapidly acquiring practical ex perience. There are several important dis coveries almost ready for announcement which will show they have developed orig inality and initiative m nsthods." Those who are Intimately connected with the secrets of the native dye industry believe that within the next 10 years it will be a tre mendous factor, not only in this country, but in the world. v .Question of German Language Papers Hazy Line Between Loyal and Disloyal , Publications Boston Transcript k The re has beert a heavy mortality of Ger man language newspapers in the United States since war was declared against Ger many. The disappearance of some of these papers has been an advantage, but not of all of them. The Brooklyn Freie Presse, the latest to suspend, was a loyal paper, run by a loyal man. Probably it was its loyalty that killed it. Dependent vfor its support upon those who cannot read English or who read the German language in preference to Eng lish, it was naturally tied up for its support to German sympathizers. It is probable that the majority of its readers' did not want it to be loyal to the United States in the war, and consequently deserted it Other have gone the same course. On the other hand, the German paper which steers as closely as it dares to treason, printing matter which may be read in doubleense--stuff that pre tends to be very loyal, but contains innuen does and suggests conclusions which are the exact reverse of loyal will have ntT trouble in obtaining readers. There has been an im mense amount of this camouflage in the Ger man language press, and the writing of it has become an art It is precisely this state of things that gives color to tne suggestion that the Ger man language papers might as well be sup pressed altogether. Against this suggestion it has been urged that newspapers and mag azines of a distinctly loyal character ought to be published in German, in order to show German-speaking people the baseness of the warfare which Germany is waging. An ex cellent and scrupulously loyal paper pub lished at Lincoln, Neb., is referred to as an example of what may be done in the way of this sort of propaganda. It circulates a .great deal of good American war literature translated into uerman. it may inaeea oe true that there is need for publications of this sort. In this respect we may perhaps take a hint from the proceedings of the Ger mans themselves, who regularly get out their Gazette des. Ardennes in French for circula tion in Belgium, in the occupied districts of France, and wherever the French language is better known than the German. But it is evident that this sort of propaganda, paper can hardly be maintained by the sale of cop ies of the paper in question. It must have another basis of support, and indeed a semi official sort of existence. That the great bulk of the German lan guage press is bound to go as near as it dares to the line of disloyalty is evident from the fact that there are but few thoroughly loyal German-Americans who do not read English quite well enough to get their infor mation about the war, and all the loyal in spiration and crfcer that they need from pub lications n the real language of the country. As long as papers continue to be published which are dependent for their support en tirely upon those who can read or are willing to read only the German language, we shall have to deal with double-sense and camou flaged mattr, and shall see the disloyal Ger man periodicals gain in circulation and influ ence at the expense of the loyal. "A Splendid Appointment President Wilson's appointment of Charles E. Hughes to assist the Department of Justice in investigating the aircraft situ ation wiH appeal instantly to the confidence and the patriotic spirit of the country. It is a double assurance that the inquiry is to be thorough, complete and impartial; that the American people are to be put in possession of all the facts, uncolored by private or po litical considerations. Mr. Hughes is the ideal man for this task The country knows him not alone as the re publican candidate for president in 1916 or as a former associate justice of the supreme court, or as a fearless and independent gov ernor' of New York, It knows him likewise as the able, experienced and competent in vestigator of life insurance corruption, with a rare talent for getting at the heart of intri cate and complicated transactions. When Mr. Hughes has finished with this aircraft muddle there will be no doubt whatever us to the facts. No other man could render this highly important service so well or so satisfactorily to the American people. President Wilson is to be heartily com mended for the appointment and Mr. Hughes is to be equally commended for his prompt acceptance. It supplies the element of com plete confidence that is made necessary by the. nature and gravity of the inquiry. New xoric world. People and Events "Dollar gas" is the elevated slogan of the owners of the natural eras belt of Kansas. Nothing less will keep the feed pipes full, provided the courts grant permission for the boost A few years back 30-cent gas was all the go, and profitable at that, but the war has upset normal appetites tor reasonable divi dends. Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst. lontr the "stormy petrel of the New York pulpit," is about to retire. For more than 40 years he nas oeen an evangel ot righteousness and in dependence in Presbyterian circles and i terror to political and other evil-doers. His church at Madisan Square gives way to the marcn oi Dusiness, and the doctor surrend ers both to years and chantred conditions. Prospects brighten for curbing the greed oi rent pronteers at Washington. The ig nomy heaped upon the dead and gone alien landlords of Ireland fades away beside the unconstionablc reach of Washington land lords. The anti-rent profiteering bill passid by the senate, limits rents to 7 per cent of the assessed valuation of the property plus 50 per cent. The house bill fixes the rental maximum at 10 per cent above the rents charged in September, 1916. r Both bills go to a conierence committee. liOBAVI One Year Ago Today in the War. House of representative passed the nar taxation bill. Italian war misaion y officially wel comed In Washington. United States denied passports to delegate to an international socialist conference at Stockholm. Tl 9 Day We Celebrate. tilliam H. Clark, president of the rotary club and of the Nonpareil I' undry company, born 1870. ?Jor General Erasmus M. Weaver, w. & A., born at Lafayette, Ind., (4 ..; r ago. '?" -- Uouflas Fairbanks, motion picture r r, born in Denver 16 years aaro. .varta Tracy, chief of civilian corps T T camouflage with our army in . -nca. , bora in New York City 50 t a to. t Rev. Herman rage. Episcopal op of Spokane, born In Boston S3 1 E7 ta XMstory. Hi General Ambrose E. Bum V civil war commander, bora at 7, lad. Died at Bristol, K. I ttber aVim. .a Rev. Alonzo Potter was a btshop of the Episcopal tdlo- z Pennsylvania. 7i Memorial to Shakespeare un- a ra central Park, New Tork IS IU,ly made a formal dsclara- J vr agarast AuatrK" J us 30 Years Ago Today A movement Is on foot among the striking engineers and firemen of the Chicago, Burlington & XJulncy rail road yto organize two base ball nines and play a game at an early date. Up to today 650 building permits have been issued for this year. The Ancient Order ot United Work men gave its annual social at ica ele gant new home in Barker block. Fif teenth and Finui ntrta Th an. tartalnmant ranalatsit nt and literary program, a supper and nance. i Mrs. Shu San Sen, a Chinese lady who has feet only three Inches In length, passed through the city with ner nusoano enroute lor California. Assistant General Freight Aarent Johnson of the Union pacific returned from canzornla. Editoria1 Shrapnel St Louis Globe-Democrat: A wo man may like her husband to admire her hat and still have no faith in Tils taste.. Baltimore American: Now Ostend has been bottled up following the daring raid on Zeebrugge. Brittania still rules the sea, and impregnable bases are feeling nervous. Washington Post: Quite a few pa triotic statesmen now engaged in look ing over their fences feel sure that thi war will end on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Brooklyn Eagle: A little while ago mm viH tnlil that atilna tf nvar IK knots speed were needed to elude thei U-boats as cargo carriers. Now we are Informed that the first concrete ship is a success, making 11 knots on us trial. Elucidation u awaited by a puasied public. New York World: Jerusalem." says the Zionist commission, "lost two-thirds of its Jewish population by exile, typhus and starvation." To re store exile, typhus and starvation, Berlin makes the bluff that tt la to reconquer. Jerusalem forJTurkey. New graves for kultur! . , Baltimore American: A German newspaper describes the United States as the common foe of Europe who sits on the other side of the Atlantio grin ning with satanlc mien, welcoming the butchery of entire nations to secure Its monstroes' profits. It is quite evi dent from this that -the American troops are being recognised as a real peril. , " 't f " Around the Cities St Paul elected a loyalist mayor by a 2 to 1 vote. A clean-cut American, Hodgson by name, went over the top with such speed that the socialist op ponent was smothered in the dust of the back Btretches. ? Montclalr, N. J., planned a large birthday blowout on its 50th anniver sary and gathered up enough of the wherewith to make the celebration a hummer. Then, on second thought the managers decided -the affair would look better after the war and turned the money into the Red Cross treasury. "The wise men of the east" is not wholly a figure of speech. ' . For th time being the era of splr. ituous good will between Minneapolis and "Sioux City : -disrupted. Minne apolis Is not responsible for the pain ful breach. A careless woman mis sionary, hurrying to a westbound train, dropped her suitcase on the hard, un feeling station floor and cracked Ave julceful bottles. Almost priceless liq uid trickled over the marble floo. and sent a wireless message of traged and vanished hopes to the thirsty Sioux. Chicago night life Is not as glaring and noisy as it was a week ago. The eetachmentx of cabarets and dance flmlls from bars put dimmers on some ' the lamps that brightened passing Tours and generated headaches and 1 eartachea the morning after. Hence forth the lure will be less conspicu ous, possibly more select because of he inconvenience of taking the ele 'ator for the stimulus some floors ibove the dance and the songs Twice Told Tales A Legal Overture. In Mississippi they tell of a young lawyer retained to defend a man charged, with the theft of a pig. The young man seemed determined to con vince the Jury that he was eorn to shine, and accordingly he delivered the following exordium: "May it please the court and gen tlemen of the jury, while Europe is bathed in blood; while classic Greece Is struggling for her rights and liber ties and trampling the unhallowed al tars of the beardless Infidels to dust; while the United States, entering the war, shines forth the brightest orb in the political sky I, .with due dif fidence, rise to defend the cause of this humble hog thl$t." . Favorite Tenants. "May I inquire ff you are a chess player, sir?" said the Janitor i to the prospective tenant . K - "Why do you wish to know that?" queried the other. "The owner prefers to rent to chess Players, sir, because it is so seldom hey move. Elevating Art. Artist There's one good feature about the war; there, won't be any cannon balls to stack up In ugly 'piles In our parks. Those old cannon bails are absolutely inappropriate for our public squares." . Cholly Still, you know, you can't get square eannon bails, can you? -Cartoons Magazine. WJSti Employment of City Physician. Omaha, May 21. To the Editor of The Bee: Concerning the selection of Dr. Ernest T.. Manning as health commissioner, at a salary of $3,000 per year, in addition to the stipend of sz.ooo per annum, which he is now receiving as supervisor of medical in spection in the public schools, I desire to write a few words, which I hope you will publish, in regard to the matter. Why should Dr. Manninar or any other physician be allowed to hold and to receive salary from two posi tions, even though Mayor Smith states "the two positions fit in together so nicely that one man could look after them satisfactorily?" According to this evenins's Bee. Commissioner Ringer stated "that the city will have the time and services of Dr. Manning whenever necessary." but It occurs to me that as Dr. Man ning Is to be a hired servant of the people (or city), the tame as the commissioners, all of his time should be given to the city, and none of his time to the schools or to private practice. In case he does have time to nlv his vocation on other than strictly city business, then the fees or amounts received should revert to the city, otherwise he would, without question, have enough private practice to vipld mm an additional Income of $5,000 per annum. , v The present city commissioners were, elected on a reform platform fand I voted for six of them), which included retrenchment In all depart ments, and i believe It would he a mighty good plan for our city fathers to practice economy and srood hasi- ness practices "right off tha bat." which mean one man for one lob- no Increases in salaries already large enougn, ana. nnaily no emoluments, such as might accrue to a health com missioner irom private practice. H. Ij. SEWARD, n 1634 Victor Avenue. , "Love and Sr-rrlage." Omaha. Mav 21 Tn tVia t?tit- r The Bee: (Orders' Issued "in England In consequence t the statement that 6,000 American soldiers have married In that country.) The "goo-goo" eye for the American Drave Is not permitted on London pave. And anv erirl who shall michohoi.. Shall be condemned to an early grave. An N. C. O. or a Bombadler Who lets himself be addressed as "dear" By any woman born out here, Shall lose his stripes as a mutineer. All women found guilty of saying yea, When a "Sammy" offers his fierce caress Shall be dispatched to Inverness ,To marry a Scot In scanty dress. Troops of whatever rank who ask In the smile of the English girls to bask, Shall be forced on furlough to wear a mask And from neck to knee be clad Jn x CUSK. For this is the way to defeat the plot Against the American forget-me-got; And the mutineers the whole bang lot ; Who marry in England will all be i . . buui: SAM L. MORRIS. SMILING LINES. "I sea a bill rAnt1v nau, .AnsiM with out a dlsaentlna vote." , "wnat or It?" "I dMn't MtinriAM It nnMlhl. tn .tiAsAa- - bill to reasonable that everybody -would vote or ii. jeuisvina courier-journal JudgeVrhe complaint asalnat yon la that you deierted your wife. Frlioner I ain't a deaerter. iudae: I'm a refugee. Look at these Welti on my head and thla black eye. Boston Transcript Friend Husband Do yoa, think 4t would ba conceited of- me, dear, to say that I am a self -'made man! Friend Wife (sweetly) Not conceited, my dear, merely superfluous. Awgwan. Parson Cheer up sister; your husband la now in heaven. 4 ' Widow (sobbing) Tea, and so Is his first wife, whom he fairly Idolized. New Tork Globe. "She boasts that aha made her hus band." "One can readily believe that from the way the poor man la frayed out at the edges." Baltimore American, Knickers Does your' rheumatism trouble you when you're lying down? Bocker No, only when I'm on my feet. Knlck'er Sort ot standing rheum only. Cartoons' Magazine. Patience Do you think that monocle Bertie wears In one eye helps his vision T Patrice No, I don't. I overheard him say you were pretty while he was wearing It. Tonkers Statesman. ChurcB I see that .Caruso and McCor macky both famous singers, have to pay large Income taxes. Gotham Then It would seem as It those who sing, as well as those who dance, must pay the fradler. Tonkers Statesman. Sidelights on' the War Ninehundred and nlnety-seve cut ting tools are required in maufac4ur-' ing a modern rifle. The wia-dritUTs one of the most important To supply 1.0t)0,000 rifles, .04fl hoW must be drilled. . . fi Black walnut is considered xji ert best kind of wood for airplane pro peller" blades, for, besides being alm mensely tough, it docs not sp'fliter when hit by a projectile. Next, in the order named, come mahogany, white oak, ash, maple, birch and cherry. ' , Among the many suggestions made to increase the nationis food supply, no mention has been made of a cer- tain Chinese dog, or. rather,, the Chi nese dog which is destined from its birth for human consumption. This dog Is fed principally upon vegetable food, Invariably specially prepared, and this gives the animal's flesh a pe . culiar flavor and aroma. During their recent raids on Paris, the Gorman aviators were ereatly dis-. concerted by rockets which the Trench sent tip and which discharged, before dropping, parachutes with- brightly burning fuses," These parachutes dropped slowly and their fuses cast a brilliant glare upon the hostile air planes, making them a -good target for the anti-aircraft - guns. It is a safe guess that the free fireworks were not enjoyed by the Germans. . KHAKI-COLORED LYRICS. Three Loves." " v, ' " I hear my country railing, Tls my duty to obey, And .fight for good old "Uncle Sam." For he's going to win the day. . But there Is one that I will miss, Whose hfart I know Is true. And she will love me all the more In my suit of khaki new.' Here's to the "Star Spangled Banner And here's to the girl I love; The love for my flag and country, -To her I will surely prove. And when the war is over I know she'll be waiting for me, And then three, loves I always have, My flag, my girl and country. 'Jttfnvrure for tip EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVE FOR Mason & Hamlin Pianoa Uprights, S650; Grands, $1050 UP Kranich. & Bach Pianos x Uprights, $500; Grands, $650 Vote Sl Sona Pianos Uprights, S425; Grands, $625 .. . UP - Kimball Pianoa , Uprights, $285: Grands, $700 UP , Bush V Lane Pianos Uprights, $400; Grands, $650 . ., UP - , Cable-Nelson Pianoa $300 UP , V HOSPE PIANOS, $27S UP. HOSPE .PLAYERS, 475V Casee in Walnut, Mahogany, Quartered Oak. Music Cabinets. (ash OR TERMS. Player Rolls. Ult DOUGLAS STREET Two Pictures. Not by old masters painted Portraits, they're not rare, Diminutive they are In size. Not a Rembrandt, or Da guerre. Only done by an artist "Brownie," But I treasure more than gold, One In a suit of khaki tTbe same at 6 years old. When I look upon these pictures - I offer up a prayer. That the Father in his kindness To me my boy will spare. ... . When strife and conflict's over In the land beyond the sea. May my 8-year-old and Uhakl boy to 'm Come back again Omaha. me. BELLVIEW" MADE to ORDER. , NOTHING STRONG ER can be offered in any business than ex- , ceptional skill excep tional attentiveness. ' WE OFFER IT IN. TAILORING. Suits and Overcoats. Prices $30 to $70. y Featuring Blue and Gray Serges at $35. Better make your aelectWa today while the assortment It at its best ' ' ' ' ' bid: fclLLIAM JERREMSB 09-211 80. 15th 8 NOT a. "Btutaesa is Good Thaok Ygofi 5 Per CenT Federal Farm Loan 3onds 'Aim i wufr.'u4 1m.uu itu.i umaha offers $500,000 of these bonds at the . new S interest rate. U. S. 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