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Even cider can be too "hard" for Nebraska.
' The Forty-firit would much rather be ordered
to France than to Kansas. ,
The sweet girl graduate will now tell us just
what this wicked old world must do to be
saved. ;
The bolsheviki are again fighting among them
selves, but it can not be over the spoils, for the
Hun attended to that.
Readjusting the departments of city house
keeping ought to improve the service, even if it
does engender a little heat in the process.
According to that report on the condition of
the city hall building, it is up to a bunch of city
commissioners pledged ie a cleaner Omaha to
begin cleanliness at home.
T
Pet names are already flying between the new
occupants of the city hall, but as no one has yet
called another "a dirty rat," the limit of per
sona! safety is not reached.
- Seventy thousand Omahans gave $440,000 to
the Red Cross in the latest drive, which ought
to convince the kaiser of what ' determination
there is back of our;, "war movement.
The pcjVTMtfon of explosive fireworks for
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ing already stocked up. Let us see if the order
standi and is really enforced without fear or
favor. ,
, Perhapi ome of the German Red Cross money
collected here in Nebraska to relieve the suffer
iiyi of war victims in the Fatherland was sent
back here to help re-elect Senator Hitchcock in
recognition of his valiant championship of the
kaiser's bill to prohibit the export of arm. Who
knows?
"Knee Deep in June."
' June, compound of all the glories of the year,
. save the tints of autumn and the aplendor of win
ter, is here, with its promise of "a summer of
roses and wine." It well deserves the honor of
perpetuating mi nam ot juhu, moincr ui bvu
and chatelaine) of Olympus. Wonderful skies,
sunshine that blesses and enlivens, soft winds
and floating clouds, deluging showers and mag
nificent rainbows make up the weather. Roses
crown the floral efforts of spring, and all out
doors is an Invitation and an insoiration to man
kind.'. June connects the seedtime with the sum
mer, and with its genial breath brings balm and
nourishment to tender growing things, that they
may withstand the heat Mother Nature must em-
ploy to bring into fall perfection the fruits of
the earth for man's sustenance. Through its
days we pass from the uncertainty of spring's
preparatory efforts into fierce days of summer's
determination. It is a time of transition, but the
process is gentle, and we linger' on the way,
knea deep in June," reluctant to see its beauties
pass,, although we know that it is to July and
August we must look for fulfillment of all that is
- Toreshadowed io the time of roses. June holds
. out to us a cup, brimming with the wine of life;
let us drink deeply, and be glad we are living.
GERMANY'S WILY WORKMEN'S INSUR-
ANCE SCHEMES..
Answering a question recently propounded at
the close of one of his public talks, former Am
bassador Gerard passes suggestive comment on
the German system of pensions and old age and
accident insurance so often paraded in this coun
try as a praiseworthy side of "kultur." Mr.
Gerard is reported to have characterized all these
insurance schemes as merely plans to keep the
Germans from emigrating. "By making them
pay so many premiums," he declared, "the wage
workers are tied to the soil and while not actu
ally in a state of starvation they are always work
ing for low wages."
This point ought to be driven home to our
people here in America that the benevolent
care of the kaiser for the aged and infirm,
the widows and orphans, is only part of his pol
icy of militarism. The pension and insurance
funds in Germany are made up, roughly speak
ing, of contributions a third from the employ
ers, a third from the employes and a third from
the public treasury. The enforced investment
by the workman of a substantial portion of his
earnings, which would be forfeited should he
cease to be a German subject liable to military
duty, operates effectively to prevent him from
moving away. He himself thus pays the prem
ium to insure his own prompt response to the
call to arms whenever it may come or to pension
himself or family should he be crippled or killed
while fighting in time of war or working at his
trade in time of peace.
Under this analysis, Germany's workmen's in
surance helps explain the cessation of German
emigration except to such countries or colonies
as the German government sanctions. Some
such system, we may bt sure, will also be relied
on again after the war, if the same policy per
sists with the future rulers, to hold German sub
jects who might otherwise migrate to lands
where the human life and human rights are more
sacred.
Making Wat1 on Newspapers.
Secretary McAdoo has asked House Leader
Kitchin that he retract his unwarranted tirade
against the press, brought out as a sequel to the
president's appeal to congress to enact further
revenue legislation. This is not a new practice
with Mr. Kitchin; American newspapers are
published under conditions unnecessarily oner
ous because of his attitude and that of some of
his associates, in congress and the cabinet. The
point is, how far does, he represent the adminis
tration by his utterances and actions?
Because editors have analyzed and commented
on backwoods statesmanship, a great industry
has been submitted to regulations especially de
signed to hamper its operation. Sources of .ad
vertising have1 been cut off, depriving newspapers
of legitimate revenue; burdensome regulations
for circulation have been made, making the sale
to subscribers more difficult; expenses of publica
tion have been increased in many ways, the late
order of the secretary of the treasury adding
heavily to the freight on white paper, for exam
ple, forcing the newspapers to pay many thou
sands of dollars additional with no chance for
passing the cost along to the consumer.
All this time the influential press of the coun
try hat been giving the most loyal and effective
support to the government in all its war activi
ties. Millions of dollars in service have been do
nated by the newspapers, while job printers, sign
painters and others have been paid in cash. Just
what the purpose in continuing its punishment
may be is not clear, but the attitude of the demo
crats in congress and in the cabinet toward the
newspapers is inexcusable.
"Eddie" Rickenbacher. Eagle.
When Raoul Lufbery fell from the air, vic
tim to a German "flying tank," the allies mourned
a hero, and America lost its foremost flyer. But
from the new army has arisen one who bids fair
to fill the gap left by the great "ace." We knew
him in Omaha as a lad with smut on his face,
grease on his jumpers and grime on his hands,
a tinkerer with the refractory internal economy
of the casual automobile. Now and then he
might have been noted flitting about the streets
in a borrowed car, with considerable disdain for
speed rules. His craving for this sort of thing
led him to the pits at the race track, frc-m which
depth he soon was .elevated to the seat of the
mechanician. This was but a step on the way
to the driver's seat, and that was soon covered.
Then, in the fiercest competition ever noted by
the sporting world, companion and rival of cham
pions, and finally a champion himself, "Eddie"
Rickenbacher drove his thundering speed machine
to victory over many a track. When he war
broke out he offered himself as a flyer, but was
taken on first as a driver for a general. This
could not hold him, and in time he bloomed forth
with the wings and bar of an officer of the flying
corps. Now, the day's press report from France
is incomplete without an account of Rickenbach
er'a latest exploit. The Omaha boy whose smut
ty face is still well recalled, is now an eagle,
whose beak and talons are well known to the
Hun. He is winning his right to fame, and a
place alongside that of Raoul Lufbery,
Claude Kitchin is not one of Mr. Wilson's val
ued assets, at least not at this writing.
Views, Reviews and Interviews
All Our Pressing War Problems Converge in the
One Over-Shadowing Problem oj Ships
My friend Mark Sullivan, editor of Col
lier's Weekly, sends me special copy of a
little book just off the press, .which he has
captioned "Wake Up, America t" and which
ought to help materially to wake us up to
our crucial need in this war which he demon-
startes conclusively to be ships. In its short,
pungent chapters he shows, very clearly that
the war we are fighting must be won on the
other side of the ocean 3,000 miles away, and
can be won only by getting our soldiers over
there, and carrying our munitions and guns
and aeroplanes across, and supplying our own
soldiers and our allies with food and cloth
ing going over in a steady stream, and doing
this in the face of an enemy whose submarines
are constantly sinking our boats. He ex
plains that 6ur problems of coal and wheat
and munitions and men are really problems
of ships that the order for coalless days
last winter, for example, would not have
aroused such resentment had it been under
stood that our trouble was not a coal short
age, but a congestion of goods clogging the
terminals, while waiting lor ships to trans-
Cort them to the other side, what ships we
ad being delayed because the coal needed to
steam up their machinery was choked up In
the freight yards. All of this emphasizes
and indicates the truism, repeated in one form
or another by all the famous military com
manders of history, past and present, that
success in war depends wholly upon safe
and efficient lines of communication.
Mr. Sullivan is particularly insistent that
our greatest danger lies in fooling ourselves
and gives, some illuminating information
which I think it worth while to quote:
"During 1917, the submarine destroyed
6,618,623 tons. During the same year, Great
Britain's entire new building was but
1,163,474 tons. The next largest builder
was ourselves; we turned out just about
1,000,000 tons. After these two, there are
no countries that do enough shipbuilding
to count in such totals as the submarine
makes us deal in. All the other allies,
France, Italy, Japan, and in addition to
them, all the neutrals, Norway, Holland,
Spain all told, produced only 539,871.
"Add together all that was Wone by all
the Allied countries and all the neutral coun
tries, all the world outside of Germany and
Austria, and you have but 2,703,345 tons.
And the submarines destroyed just two
and a half times as many.
"But the case is really worse than that.
Tt is only the sinkings that are reported.
The public is not, informed of the i ships
which the submarines have incapacitated,
which are towed limping to port, and which
often turn out to be a more or less total
loss. Nor is any account taken of the ships
which are put out of commission through
the normal operation of accident or other
misadventure. This source of loss is great-'
er now than during peace times, for ships
are badly manned; they run without lights,
and in the emergencies of wlr they take
big chances. Nor is any estimate given
it would be hard to make an estimateof
the loss of service due to the slowness of
operation forced upon ships by guarding
against the submarine, the waiting for con
voys, the low speed entailed when every
ship must wait upon the slowest in the
convoy, the inability to use some ports, the
congestion of others.
"However, you grow desperate with try
ing to explain it with figures! What you
feel like doing is to shout to Heaven that
the submarine is beating the builders at the
rate of two to one; that we are facing a
crisis; that unless we Americans can now,
this year, pull ourselves together and turn
out as much tonnage in one month as we
turned out in the whole year of 1917 the
world will suffer a calamity that you hes
itate to put in words."
I call this constructive criticism of the
most serviceable kind. It is. calculated to
wake us up before the kaiser sends his U
boats over to do the waking and it ought
also to wake up our officialdom to the need
of keeping the people posted on the equation
between shipbuilding and ship sinking. It is
only fair to add that this book is issued with
date of April 1, but in his letter to me, writ
ten May. 22, Mr. Sullivan says: "The ship
building situation is still very serious and
there is nothing the nation needs to think
about so earnestly during the coming year."
Isn't it funny what roundabout journeys
things sometimes make? Readers of this col
umn will recall a reference, about three
months ago, to an inquiry I had from Mere
dith Nicholson, asking for my estimate of
what had been accomplished in Omaha by
going to the commission plan of government
and I gave the letter that I wrote him in
response. Mr. Nicholson was gathering ma
terial for a series of articles he had been
contributing to Scribner's magazine on "The
Spirit of the West," which have just come
to a conclusion in the current number. In
this last article he touches upon the subject
of municipal government in western cities,
citing Omaha as an example, dwelling upon
the unreliability of a mere new form unless
followed up with improved'administration.
Here bursts out one of our Omaha news
papers with a great discovery, which it "plays
up under the headline, "Describes City
Council as $l,800-a-Year Men," cqnveying
hnpression that it applies to present council,
and quoting Meredith Nicholson as saying "a
citizen who is a close student of such mat
ters," as passing this comment on Omaha's
experience:
"While in theory we were to get a much
higher grade of public servants, in fact we
merely elected men con'tent to work for a
lower salary and doubled and tripled their
pay. We still have $1,800 men in $4,500 jobs."
Now this is a correct quotation from my
letter to Mr. Nicholson, printed in The Bee
in early March last, which was much more
true then than it is now, but which apparently
became startling only after it made the trip
to Indianapolis and thence into Scribner's
magazine and back again to Omaha.
I observe a notice of the death a short
while ago, which at the time had escaped me,
of George Ohnet, the great French novelist,
known to us in America chiefly through the
dramatization of his masterpiece and its de
lightful presentation by the Kendalls under
the name of "The Ironmaster." When I
studied French in college Ohnet's "Le Maitre
des Forges" was used as a text book for
reading and translation as it was, I believe,
in most colleges and the study of it naturally
gave a familiarity vith the story. I after
wards saw the piece played in German, called
"Der Huttenbesitzer," and also read it in
German, to say nothing of witnessing its
performance by the Kendalls fo,ur or five
times, and each time it gained in charm and
fascination. Ordinarily one connc ; "The
Ironmaster" with the Kendalls, to whom it
owed its popularity in this country rather
than with Ohnet, to whom belongs the auth
orship and who should have at least a good
part of the credit.
Army Tobacco Rations .
Are four cigarets a day, ready made,
enough for a trench fighter at the front?
Perhaps not, but if he likes he can take 10
papers and tobacco enough to fill them and
make the smokes for himself, under the
newly introduced tqbacco rationing system.
Or he can take four-tenths of an ounce of
pipe or chewing tobacco instead. And in
case the soldier is a nonsmoker he will com
mute his tobacco ration for other little lux
uries. Most Americans will hail with applause
the tobacco rationing. It is demanded by
army efficiency plans. It is human and
humane. Funds contributed by vast numbers
of people at home have partly met the need
which Washington now recognizes. Prob
ably those funds will go on, supplementing
the limited rations. There will still be reason
for their existence.
As for the corporal's guard of antir
tobacco agitators, we suppose they will ex
press themselves characteristically, with em
phasis and abandon. What they say will be
tjt1 Viir cn14it AG until amnfipH
mi1a Tf In jst-4iiijtri n rt tint a tflMtrv
which confronts , our fighters in North
r ranee. Brooklyn tagie.
' People and Events
In the matter of moisture Nebraska is
well over the top.
Railroad Manager McAdoo evidently re
gards summer vacationing as a non-essential
industry.
As a circulating medium of surpassing
chestiness, the railroad pass throws all the
pasteboards in the discard.
The "spotless town," a vision of yes
teryear, ctjmes nearer realization with each
forward step of the horseless age. ,
Omaha cops are not alone in their auto
worries. Sleuths of the Twin Cities and
Chicago are equally anxious for a hunch as
to where the thieves hide the stolen cars,
American shoe factories are working over
lime on contracts for 8,000,000 pairs of shoes.
Most of the work is on government account,
the balance for summery conservation hikes
around home.
At a recent art auction a oainting entitled,
"Droves of Swine," was knocked down for
$12,000. At this rate, doubtless, a picture de
picting "Bringing Home the Bacon" would
niri ,wun six artistic ngures.
A New York woman, who told an enroll
ment clerk that she had no occupation, but
"merely worked all the time," was promptly
listed as "housewife." Evidently the clerk
is a man of vision and knowledge.
Chicago's city council, revised upward a
few months ago, is running things without
the aid or consent of Mayor Thompson. The
opposition carries ample strength to squelch
the veto power and render the executive an
honorary figurehead. The eclipse of Big Bill
slowly approaches totality.
"Shadow Lawn," the Long Branch marble
castle, built by John A. McCall of insurance
memory, and occupied by President Wilson
as a summer home, has changed ownershio
for the third time. The huge pile may not
be in the hoodoo class, but there is little
doubt about the shadows.
Denizens of the drv belt attuned to the
"souse" New York makes, will have to
hurry if they desire a farewell performance.
With high fares coming strong and $44
added to a round trip ride, hitting the great
white way will become a diversion for mil
lionaires only. Even a Chicago trip insures
a severe shrinkage of the roll.
An enrollment of women citizens in Greater
New York netted 284,000 registrant?. The
total rejoiced the suffragists anil antis in
equal proportions the former regarding the
outpouring as "perfectly splendid," and the
latter as evidence of widespread indifference.
Male politicians show like facility in figur
ing partisan advantage, but the registrants
are not saying a word.
Another drive into the nnlitiral nrwrvM
of mere man is planned by the suffragists of
Kansas. Having secured a grip on many
minor offices, city and county, the legislature
becomes the next guide post on the road to
the governorship. Mrs. M. J. Grinstead. "the
ady from Seward county, is the chosen
leader, and her appearance on the legislative
race provoked much political conversation
and shaking of conservative heads. She is
republican, a reformer and a speaker of
sufficient power to put a lawyer husband in
a listening mood. '
Uncle Sam in PastWars
The- flrat gun ever rifled in America
was done at the celebrated Alger iron
foundry in Boston, in 1834.
At the commencement of our war
with Mexico in 1846 the whole num
ber of troopi of the Una was 7,244.
On the eve of the beginning of our
second war with Great Britain, the
regular army of the United States
consisted of 6,744 men, exclusive of
the staff.
The Enfield rifle, long the standard
weapon of the British army, was
transplanted to England by a son of
Vermont, under whose- superintend
ence the arms were- made.
The first muskets ever manufac
tured in America are believed to have
been 600 stand of arms made by
Hugh Orr, a gunsmith of Bridge
water, for the province of Massa
chusetts Bay, about the- year 1748.
The provincial congress of New
York, at the commencement of the
revolution, offered premiums of
$500, $375 and $250 for the nrst three
powder mills, capable of making
1,000 pounds per week, erected in the
state.
The earliest reference to the manu
facture of gunpowder in this country
is found in an order of the general
court of Massachusetts, dated June
6, 1639, when Edward RawBon was
granted 500 acres of land, "so as he
goes on with the powder, if the salt
peter comes."
In the war with Mexico, the United
States army, in less than a year ami
a half, though opposed by a quadruple
force of the enemy, won 30 victories,
captured 40,000 soldiers, carried 10
fortified places, including the capital
of the enemy, and extended our con
quests over the Immense territory of
Mexico and California.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES
Guest Tou belong to one branch of our
host'e family. I believe.
Poor Relation Tea; I belong to a branch
that never had any pluma on It. Boston
Transcript.
"My wife looks poorly, you think, doctor?"
"Tee. I do."
"What do you think she needs?"
"A new hat and a new dress." Tonkers
Statesman.
"That De Jones must be a wonderfully
brave man."
"What makes you think so?"
"Because In the course of a single d:iy
he defied the cook, flatly disobeyed hla
wife and bullied the Iceman." Baltimore
American.
people who do work." Birmingham Age-
Herald.
She Would yoo- love me any better tf I
had a million dollars?
He Certainly not. I'd be thinking aa
much about the million I'd hardly think of
you at all. Boston Transcript.
Wife Some Indian tribes have a voca
bulary of but !4 words.
Husband Yes, those Indian men think
only of their own comfort. Boston Olobe.
Nodd I don't mind your borrowing
money from me, old chap, but please don t
promise to pay me back. That hurtsl ,
Todd My dear .boy, I thought you knew
me well enough to know that I didn't mean
that Judge.
THE MOTHER'S GIFT.
(Baltimore American.)
Within the temple gates of Israel stood
A woman, past the season t of youth's
charms. 1
Tet proudest souled amidst the multitude.
A new-born babe she carried In her arms.
Thus spake she: "Lord Jehovah, here I lift
My heart In thanks for favor most dlvlna
And lay upon Thine altar my best gift
This man-child of my flesh; lo, be M
Thine.
To serve Thee In Thy temple and to lead
Our race In harmony with Thee to dwell
Thou hast so blest me, Lord; bless now this
deed.
And this my gift, my son, my Samuel." '
Behold! " today ten million mothers stand
With hearts upraised in tender pride and
prayer;
A white-souled host, a consecrated band, .
Offering their sacrifices everywhere. ,
The tiny babe that nestled at tho breast.
The barefoot lad of days long, long gone .
by ;
These are their gifts, their dearest and,
their beat,
To win renown, perhaps perhaps, alas, to
die.
s :
Tet, In the crucial moment, not' to fall ,
To add new luster to that glorious name.
Which, while the memory of mortal (hall
prevail,
Shall stand transcendent 'midst all deeds
of fame.
MRS. HARRT A. PAGAN.
(In sending these verses to the Americas
Mrs. Fagan writes that she Is proud be
yond words to be the wife of one ot those
noble Sammies over there.) ,
"John, you're spending a lot of money
for cigars lately.'1
"Tea, tha government collects a nice
tax on tobaoco. It would be unpatriotic
to cut down now on my smoking. Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
"We used to hear a great deal about
the 'idle rich.'"
"So w did."
"Are they all at work now?'
"Not all, perhaps. But here of late they
are taking care to keep out of the way of
DBiwaFBAiuri
Sanatorium
This institution is the only one
in the central west with separate
buildings situated in their own
ample grounds, yet entirely dis
tinct, and rendering it possible to
classify eases. The one building
being fitted for and devoted to
the treatment of non-contagious
and non-mental diseases, no others
being, admitted; the other Rest
Cottage being designed for and
devoted to the exclusive treat
ment of select mental cases re
quiring for a time watchful care
and special nursing.
Common cense demand! two imporlarrt
things in tho eonduct of a funeral that
it shall be conducted with proper dignity
and that it shall be properly priced. Wo
are making it a rule to only charge for
the exact services rendered. ,
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor, (Established IMS)
17th and Cuming Sts. Tel. Douglaa 1060.
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TODAY
One Year Ago Today In tha War.
Italian War Miseion received In
the bouse- of representatives In Wash
ington. Former German counsul and 13
others indicted In Chicago on charge
of trying- to cause revolution la India,
Provost Marshal General Crowder
announced tho completion of arrange
ments for tha first draft registration.
Tho Day We Celebrate.
George Rasmusaen, vice president
of the Nebraska Bridge Supply and
Lumber company, born 1884.
Arnold ft Borglum of the Darlow
Advertising agency, born lit). ,
Dr. Bwing Brown, physician, born
'mi.
Mrs. WHlard Howard Tatt. wife of
tha former president of the United
state, born in Cincinnati, ST years
ago.
.Thomas Hardy author, born In
Dorsetshire, England, 78 years ago.
Lulu Claaer, popular star of musical
comedy, born at Allegheny City, Fa.,
41 ytars ago. v - . vr; ' '; '
, CM Day m History.
1840 John L- Qpalding. first Cath
olic bishop of Peoria, born at Leba
eon, Ky. Died August 25, 1111. .
1 118 France decided upon the ex-
nnision of the royal princes.
1110 ISmperor William warned
Trine Bismarck to stop his proas
- utterances, or serious results Uitfht
--t
J ust 80 Years Ago Today
The property owners of Eleventh
street held a meting at th pop
factory of Pomy & Segelke to ex
press their preferences as to th ma
terial to be used in paving between
the viaduct and Williams street
A large audience assembled In
$a
Meyer's hall to listen to th second
annual concert of th Madrigal club.
Articles of incorporation t er flld
for th Modal Steam laundry of
Omaha, Th incorporators are J. H
Evans, James Ainseow, Harry Mc-
uiurs ana u. c. quiggie.
Th republican city convention met
m tne council chamber and nomi
nated as candidates for th school
board for three years Wtlism Coburn
Kred McConnell, Stephen J. Broder
Ick, W. A. Kelley and E. C. Conr . ,
Miss Fanni Horwich was united in
marriage to Mr. N. Ginsberg at Ger
mania hall before &a assemblage of
oyer ?oo rriesaa, ,
Around the Cities
Chicago has 6, 2 Si saioons left out
of a total of 7,000 two years ago. Still
the reduced number insures a atift
roomlng-aner feeling.
Sioux City doesn't approve consoli
dation of railroad ticket offices. A
commercial club representative is
carrying the message to Mr. McAdoo.
Greater New York has 1,110 motor
eyellsts. Th Society for th Suppres-
sion of VnnsoMsary Noise has con
siderable unnnisnea business on
hand.
Salt Lakers calmed down quickly
on being shown that a proposed raise
In telephone rates covered eniy long
dlatanc calls. Putting a rait over
on the other fellow usually relieves
anxiety.
Strang aa It appears at a distance
th pressure) of the dry belt actually
diminished th thirst of the Twin
Cities. In Minneapolis alone th out
put or four breweries in tour months
past foil away Is.tlT barrels and In
all Minnesota 101. 6I barrsls. Th
showing measures tho speed of con
servation and wartime economy.
Lak Contrary la to St, Jo what
Lake Manawa is to Omaha and Coun
cil Bluffs. Both ar built on th same
plan, being abandoned beds of th
Missouri, This year St. Joe plans to
mak the lake a beauty spot, hooked
up with smooth roads and facilities
for shortening th bills of mosquitoes.
Saints who summered away from
horn In years past now glimpse th
elevated travel rates and murmur:
"Contrary looks rnif hty good to ms."
Right to the Point
Minneapolis Journal: The Ger
mans got the hospitals, but they have
railed to pick out, so far, tn chil-
flren s and orphans nomes.
Washington Post: Th young wife
who refuses to feed hubby out of th
delicatessen store is entitled to hang
one star in the kitchen window.
New York World: Th American
Idea of a "reciprocal artillery engage
ment" appears to b to giv the Ger
mans ten shells for en and count
I he casualties at th sam ratio.
Washington Post: Human nature
Is a queer thing .which explains why
a railroad president would rather
erv the government for II a year
than have his $100,000 salary cut.
Baltlmor American: Alien enemy
omen must also, like the men. reg
ister, and be finger-printed. This Is
not a tlm which allows th observ
ance of nice courtesies to the gentler
nex.
Brooklyn Eagle: If a sister of
Charles Stewart Parnell died in a
Dublin almshouse hospital at th age
of 10, she must hav gone there In a
lit of send aberration. The Parnells
were a thrifty family. And, as for
help, all Dublin would have offered it
on th very first suggestion.
New York World: How peoples
subjected to the kaiser's yoke mani
fest their appreciation is shown by
the Ukrainians, who are burning their
grain to help along the hunger cam
paign against Germany, thus proving
once more that nations conquered are
not always naUp&j essayed '
Signposts of Progress
Despite th competition of electricity
the coal gas business is steadily in
creasing in England.
Statistics show that 7B.187.I72
frross tons of iron ore were mined in.
the United States last year.
The world's international commerce
increased from $1,480,000,000 In 1800
to $20,110,000,000 in 1900, and to
$46,000,000,000 in 1917.
At one period no mail reached th
miners of Spitsbergen for eight
months, but they ar now able to get
th world's news twice a day by wire
less telegraph.
A Polish scientist Is the Inventor
of a motion-picture camera which can
be carried in the hand and which is
operated by compressed air when a
button is pressed.
In the last 10 years the American
automobile Industry has manufac
tured about 8,853,000 motor-vehicles,
of which 4,100.000 were made in
the lsst five years.
Among the new locks to prevent
theft of automobiles is on that se
cures th steering wheel after It has
been turned slightly, enabling a car
to b moved only in a circla.
Figures based on a return dated
February 1, 1911, from all farmers
occupying over 30 acres of land in
England and Wales show that in
January of this year the area under
winter wheat was 3,804,000 acres, as
compared with 1,715,000 acres In Jan
uary, 117 an increase for 1911 of
45 par cent ever 1917 and 60 per cent
over th average, of JO years before
thp war,
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