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THE BEE: OMAHA,. THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1918.
The Omaha Bee
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THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG.
Oman will Jong remember Charles Warren
Fairbanks a a visitor who always came here to
help some worthy cause.
The only plausible explanation is that the
World-Herald'a meter choked on the hyphen and
began to baqk-pedal v ',
Four thousand more Nebraska boys are called
for the. colors this month. They will be on hand
when orders to march come.
uA bright bayonet with a smiling young Yan
kee behind is the most powerful persuader yet
brought to bear on the Hun. v
; Up till now the port of Oman, is safe, but the
preservation of the Julius Silber may yet require
the' revival of Frank E. Moores navy. J
I- : ;r V a5 ; .
Another prize-fighter has retired with his lau
rels thick around hit brow. He might make a
hit by continuing his bellicose career in the front
trenches.
: Buy your coal now and insure against short
age next winter. It - is far better to be fore
banded than to face an empty coal bin on a bliz
tard day. -
. The state got $85,000 out of the first year of
prohibition, but that gives no notion of what the
bootleggers raked in at their share of the loot.
Thirst comes hightn a 4ry itate. ,
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Plans for a safe and sane Fourth in Omaha,
n-Jicn all hands and the cook will be called in to
issist in a patriotic observance of the day, are to
be formulated under, direction of Mayor Smith.
This is one place where no dissenting voice will
He heard. , .
. Iowa, furnished a formidable list of dead in
tlie great battle of the Marne, adding to the roll
hat began" at Shiloh and is growing brighter as
years go on. ' Hawkeye "heroes have spent their
,blood freely for Old Glory, and their race is not
it an end. '
f t War Without Swords. ' t
. We still "draw the sword" when we go to war,
conquer under Its sign and sheathe it when we
lve won-that is figuratively speaking. In the
trmy it is not done. The Bee'a society reporter
tSAt of a military wedding at which four aabres
needed, and these could not be secared
Vm among the hundreds of officers present at
the Omaha oosts ' Reronne was tiad in th MitrS
t;hool cadets, where thaaabrt still gleams. This
u just referred to in order to show one of the
r " ;tsy changes that have come over the panoply
if war. Much of Its pomp and circumstance
Ir.!shed with the gaudy uniform, and the warrior
E5w weart a "tin hat" where once he shook a
waving plume. Fighting is a business, and math-t-atics
more Important to its prosecution than
t:rsonaI prowess. But can anyone think of
Henry of Navarre riding through the press vof
tittle, with a shrapnelproof hat on his head, bid
ding his jnen to follow '"where : the steel hat
shines?" Or fhil Sheridan, rallying his disor
C3nid troopers at Winchester, without his flash
ing sabre? However, the cold, stern fact is that
the army officer today goes, forth to fight or
parade as the orders may require, armed with
only a big automatic pistol Thus has realism
, tricpn the Uaht out nf that anlrlior'a tif
YANKEES ON THE BATTLE LINE.
All the promise of Yankee pluck and prowess
is being gloriously' redeemed in France. From
the bloody fields along the Marne comes such
news as must make the American heart beat
faster because of the behavior of the boys we
sent thither. ' Thrown into positions where the
Hun threatened to lunge through, our lads took
his thrust head-on, broke its strength and turned
back the invader in defeat.
In the bare announcement of the facts con
tained in the press accounts may be discerned
the tale of such gallantry as has ever marked the
conduct of American soldiers. What may not
be told of the bayonet charge through Veuilly
wood, in face of machine gun fire, when the Hun
was driven out of his vantage points and forced
to withdraw in flight? Or who will overdo in
telling the story of how the passage of the Marne
was disputed and the enemy sent in confusion
and defeat across the stream? Praise from the
veterans of four years of, fighting greets these
young warriors, who are just starting their ca
reer as champions of the right
"The Germans do not like the Americans,"
says one officer, "for they can fight with one
hand and dig in with the other, smiling all the
time." Back of that smile stretches an ancestry
reaching back to the dawn of civilization. Those
Yankee boys are the heritors of men of all time
who have fought for freedom, and they will con-,
quer, too, because they are the torch-bearers of
Liberty. That taste of Yankee steel given Fritz at
Veuilly is but a drop of the deep draught he will
be forced to quaff. As the Hun was checked at
the Marne, so will he be driven over the Rhine,
all because our boys are on the battle line at last,.'
' Charles Warren Fairbanks,
The death of Charles Warren Fairbanks, for
mer vice president of the United States, while by
no means unexpected,' will nonetheless bring
iorrow to those who knew the man and appre
ciated his sterling worth. '
' Mr. Fairbanks has held many positions of
honor and trust at the hands of his countrymen,
and always discharged his duties with conscien
tious fidelity and satisfaction to the public. He
was a big man in every way, and would doubtless
have gone higher, to the chief magistracy of the
nation, for which, ' as all know, he cherished a
laudable ambition, but for the fact that he was a
statesman of he so-called old school just at the
time the people were turning to new political
methods and new leaders. Mr. Fairbanks, how
ever, was among the very best of the old school
representatives. He had the McKinley type of
mirid and movement,' and had to make way for
others who caught the popular current and
changed with it faster. ' 1
Mr. Fairbanks was a living denial of the
aphorism, "A prophet is not without honor save
in his own country," for he was always the favor
ite son 'of Indiana, best beloved and most ear
nestly supported by those among whom he lived
and who knew him most intimately. His subordi
nation of personal interest to public welfare and
his high-minded patriotism were constant in
evidence. He was one of the few who have
adorned the office of vice president and brought
to that office and carried away from it more than
the mere perfunctory ability which it demands.
On the Roll of Honor. e
Another three-quarters oLa million of Amer
ican boys have answered the call of humanity
and registered themselvel as available for mili
tary service. Many of these anticipated the day
when they would be required to' set down their
names on Uncle Sam's roll of honor, and have
already enlisted, to that when the call to duty
comes they will be found serving with the colors.
The act itself is simple, but in it can be read the
doom of autocracy, of tyranny and oppression.
These lads are freeborn, have just come to man
hood't estate, wherein they will take full share
in the responsibilities of citizenship, and they
find their opportunity waiting. VTo them is
given the greatest privilege that could come to
freementhat of defending liberty for all the
world. 'And the most eloquent tribute that can
be paid to them it that from one end of the land
to the , other they have responded with such
spirit as must convince any of the safety of our
institutions while American men are able to rally
to their protection.
Call of the Harvest Fields.
Oklahoma and southern Kansat farmers are
busy harvesting their wljeat, and the call has
gone out for help in the harvest field., Nebraska
is' next in line for the operations of this army of
laborers, and it is now' estimated that at least
10,000 more men than they can immediately fur
nish will""be needed. Most of these will come
from the fields south of us, in the regular move
ment of the skilled workers along the line of the
ripening of the grain. Others will be provided
by the federal bureau, one of the organizations
for the war that has justified it existence. It
has mobilized and co-ordinated the casual labor
of the country after a fashion never before at
tained, and is enabled to move bodies of work
ers with somethingof dispatch to relieve short
age wherever existent. Nebraska farmers are
assured they will have help to get their wlwat
harvested when the time comes.
J You Will Win the War ' ;
But Certain Things Must Be Done tp Insure a Speedy Finish
Saturday Evening Post.'
Two great battles, against Germany are
being fought one in France and one in
America. We shall win on both fronts.
Mr. Hoover says that food will win the
war.
Mr. Hurley says that ships will win the
wjr.
Other men say that guns, shells, airplanes,
Thrift stamps or Liberty bonds will win the
war. A large number hope that 'the other
fellow will win the war. They are all mis
taken. You will win the war.
Just how soon you will win depends solely
on how long it will take you to get down to
first principles, to cut out your nonsensical
and nonessential ideas, to discard your pea
shooter and pop-gun notions of war and to
concentrate yourself and everything you pos
sess on a 100-mile line in France.
Someone has pointed with pride to the
fact that Great Britain is fighting on 37
fronts. But this is at best a necessary evil,
a defensive measure to safeguard the British
empire itself. The statement was made to
lend force to an argument that the United
States should divert men and money to Rus
sia. We hope that this will not be -done.
Until Germany is whipped on the western
front it is victorious everywhere.'.? Once
forced back over the Rhine, it is beaten
everywhere. ;
We must not chip away our resources on
deuces and busted straights. x
Before you can win in France congress
must get on a war basis. If this one will not
you can elect one in the autumn that will. It
is absolutely in your hands. There is no heed
to go into -detail about this congress. It
contains man brilliant and devoted men;
and hen there are others. These members
are self-muckraked in the Congressional
Record. Look up your senator and rep
resentative in it. Read both the lines and
between the lines.
Congress has passed some admirable leg
islation; and then there is the revenue bill
a war-profits measure that taxes everything
except war profits; a put-theburden-on-wealth
bill that in the clause taxing profes
sional earnings and salaries a final 8 per cent
exempts unearned incomes, including the sal
aries of a good many congressmen.
As a means to help you win the war the
importance of the fall elections cannot be
overemphasized. Look' the candidates over
with the same close scrutiny that you would
give to a horse you were buying. Forget
their poltics and their speeches, but look to
their characters and their records. There
are just three things to ask about every can
didate this year: Has he brains, honesty
and patriotism? Every boy oratr, every
dunderhead, every well-meaning ass, every
corner grocery statesman, every cheap poli
tician, every faint-heart returned to congress
next fall is going to slaughter the boys in
your house, your street and your town. Pork
and tariff are not the issues this year. There
is only one issue the war and the life of
your boy. . '
Before you can win in France the admin
istration, must take a larger dose the whole
bottle, in fact of the medicine that it recom
mended to the allies when General Foch was
made the big boss of the armies. It has al
ready gone a long way, but it must go the
whole distance to centralized and co-ordi
nated, autocratic and responsible control of
here, often finished abroad, whose skulls are
full of mush or headcheese. These are the
gentry who, when we propose to deal
promptly and properly with a Dr. Muck, op
pose sentence with gas bofijbs of lachrymal
stuff about there being no "nationality in
art." The truth is that there is no art that
is not primarily and fundamentally national;
and even if that were not true, America
would better endow Dr. Muck's art with na
tionality for the period of the war.
Again, when we try to suppress those cen
ters of anti-Americanism and German propa
ganda, the Germanjanguage papers and the
teaching of German in the schools, the nar
American protests to our business men that
we must continue to teach this favored lan
guage if we would do any business after the
war; and to parents that the cultural value
of German is so great that without it we
should be a shockingly raw and uncouth peo
ple. .But every American who thinks at all;
knows tthat Spanish, French and Italian are
the business languages we shall need after
the war. Again, of all European tongues, ,
German probably has the least cultural value.
If we really wjsh to teach a true cultural
language the instructors in a good many of
our schools would better begin with English.
Before you can win in France you must
take Broadway and all the little Broadways
of America in hand. You must do something
tc the swine soul of the crowd that leads the
jazz life; that swills and guzzles as usual;
that brags as if its fifty-dollar Liberty bond
were engraved in its heart's blood; that
cheers everything, including the chorus that
comes out in American flag petticoats, and
that proves its patriotism by its hoarseness
and its alibi buttons
Before you can win in France you must
cure or quarantine the fellows who, at 40, are
getting the children's diseases that most men
contract in the early stages of their mental
growth those measles, of the mind half
baked and wholly impractical theories of life
and living. The plight of Russia teaches
these men nothing; nor does the accumulated
human experience of the centuries, They
start by ignoring nature and human nature,
and reach a Utopian conclusion that is like
a Mohammedan's dream of heaven plenty
of wives and good things for themselves and
hell for the dogs of unbelievers in their
theories. '
, Before you can win in France you must
put out of business in America those men
who preach the brotherhood of man and
practice hatred of all men those apostles
of peace and prosperity who would bring
about the mellennium by violence and de
struction, and those drummers for discon
tent, disorder and disloyalty who sell Bol
shevikism on a commission basis.
Before you can win. the war in. France
you must put every idler in America to work.
War is the world cure for idleness. There
is a war job ready and waiting now for every
piano-pounding girl, lounge lizard, ; tango
queen, pool room hobo, doll and he-doll, per
fect lady and imperfect gentleman in the
country jobs that range from scrubbing to
ditching, from clerking to haying,' but all
good jobs at useful work jobs that will re
lease better men and women to fill places for
which their training qualifies them.
Lastly, before you win the war in France
you must get right with yourself. We all
have some taint .of these things that are
holding back America. We are, perhaps,
V7ihs9 rj fflv
our war activities under go-getter and get-it- half-hearted, pussy-footed, hoping that be-
done executives. We want fewer press fore our hjbur for sacrifice strikes the neces-
agents and more pressure in Washington. sity for sacrifice will be oyer. But our time
Before you can win in France you must is now. We must be fired with the old
bury the hyphen in America, and along with tAmertcan pioneer spirit, each shouldering
it a few of the hyphenates who have been his share, of the burdens of the long trail,
spreading sedition and plotting destruction. There; can be no vicarious sacrifice., We
And in adidtion to these there is another must go to it with one big boss, one big peo-
breed of hyphenates that needs your atten- pie and jone j?TPTuncn- TTh"
tion-the near-Ameaicans, born and bred ; YOU WILL WIN THE WAR. ;
Municipal War Chest Plan
! Weaknesses in the method of raisihg war
benevolences by repeated "drives" have led
some American cities to try the municipal
war f hest plan. This is practically a budget
system sustained by instalment subscrip
tions, the subscriber pledging a certain
amount per week or month during the war,
provided his income is' not impaired.
Columbus; O.,. after a thorough investiga
tion by the Chamber of Commerce, adopted
the war Chest system, thereby increasing its
benefactions from less than $2,000,000 to
$3,000,000 a yeao, arid the number of its par
ticipants by mdre than 1(30 pen. cent. Salem,
Mass., with a population of 40,000, raised
$300,000 as against less than half that sum
under the old plan, and increased its number
of givers from 4,000 to 8,300. A number of
prominent cities in New York and New Eng
land have tried the was chest with success.
Under the old plan about 10 per cent of
the population was bearing the burden of war
benevolence. Under the new plan about 20
per cent subscribe. The reason is simple.
The average earner-can afford to contribute
twice as much by paying weekly or monthly,
as he can bv oavintr in lump sum. As his
contribution to the war chest is a matter of
cool judgment ana nor oi spasmodic emo
tion, he can form a more accurate idea of the
amount he should give. He is relieved from
the fear that he will be soon called again to
give, and there is fixed in him the sense of
being a sustaining citizen of his country.
One canvass and a little supplementary
work from time to time keep the war chest
full. In this way the list of givers is made
permanent, the slackers are discovered and
a more sustained interest is created.
The distribution of the fund is put into
the hands of a responsible committee, chosen
by the givers; but any contributor may
specify the benefaction to which he wishes
his gift to go. ; . 1 I
Not the least advantage of the plan is that
it saves the valuable time of busy people,
who "clean up" better in one campaign than
they could in a never-ending series of
"drives." And in this war the saving of
time is one of the highly valuable economies.
Minneapolis Journal.
People and Events ;v
He , who makes blades of grass grow
where dandelions grew before needs no
patch on his trousers as a certificate of pa
triotism. Six-cent fares were launched in St. Louis
last Saturday. 1 The weight of the kicking
going on bears heavily on shoe leather, and
leather costs big money, too.
' It's one darn worry after another in Chi
cago. Smearing with green paint the black
and yellow dog of States' Attorney Hoyne
hits local pride perilously near the belt.
Street car conductors and motormen of
Newark, N. J., solemnly resolved to strike
if any women are employed. Just think of
these "mere men" scared stiff by women 1'
With straw hats and Palm . Beach suits
ripening and strawberry , shortcake in full
flower, those who may not hear the dis
cordant call, "Buy your coal now," deserve
the mercy of the court.
A Missouri jury possessing rare courage
boldly impugned the truthfulness of a gas
meter and cut a gas bill from $49.35 to $25
even. The presence of a woman lawyer as
defendant of course had nothing to do with
the jury's dictum.
' Federal sleuths are hot on the trail of a
Chicago medical fakir who has bombarded
families of soldiers with literature on "How
to win the war." Easy tjeb. "Just send the
doc's dope to the boys. 'A large dose of fed
eral dope awaits the dopester.
A Wisconsin professor who is six feet five
in height admits there is ryo permanent ad
vantage in having a full head over a crowd.
The greater range of vision loses its poise
and much of its dignity when the tall one
swats the footboard of a satved-off bed.
Somewhere in the United States one J.
F. Shakespeare is keeping under cover,
though anxiously sought by former ac
quaintances in Chicago and in Ohio towns.
The namesake of the immortal William is
credited with the touching talent of great
ness in distress and rare skill in turning
bogus checks into cash. His latest play was
ctaorri VAiinffctAnrn d urtlr flta attdrfort
i exit indicated an attack ot stage fright.
Orta Year Ago Today In the War.
- 1rd TNorthclln succeeded' Mr.
Balfour as head of the British War
aiiKslon ta th United States. ,
British drove Germans out of a
mil of their positions on Greenland
Hill, east of Arras.
Sir Wilfred Laurler declined to
enter a coalition cabinet for passing
Canadian conscription.
The Day We Celebrate.
Prof. Stockton Axson, aee'retary
reners.1 of the American fted Cross,
born at Borne, Ga., 61 years agro. '
Madame Kejane, famous French
rctreas, born in Paris, l year ago.
Rt. Rev. Michael J. Hoban, Catholic
hop of Scranton born at Water
. , N. J., 65 years ago.' i '
.France Starr, American Nactresa,
? -a at Onconta, N. Y., 12 yoara ago.
Vr. lames R. Kelso, president of
'fen Theological Seminary, born
India, 4t years ago.,
s Dmj in History. ..',,"" ' ; '
1TSS Nathan Hale, who recretted
t he had but one life to lose for his
try, born at Coventry, Conn,
mud by the British as a apy,
rober 22, 177.
12 Memphis surrendered to the
-4 , forces .... under Commodore'
72 Joseph Hand Scranton,
!w of Scranton, Pa., died in Ger-
. Bora at Madison, Conn., June
J ust SO Years Ago Today
The talk of a union depot and a
large freight depot for the Union
Pacific has been revived by the ex
tension of the tracks of that company
westward from Twenty-fourth street
The speed on the cable tramways
was Increased to seven " mllea' and
800 feet per hour.
N. A. Kuhn haa gone on a short
pleasure trip to Spirit Lake.
Julius Meyer, who has been spend
ing the past few days In Kansas city
and SL Louis, returned home. ,
Dr. Gerth, the state veterinarian,
examined 450 cows in dairies around
Omaha, looking for tuberculosis and
other dlKAses. lie reports, however,
that he did not nnd a single case of
the dangerous disease.
Ex-Senator Van Wyek has accepted
an Invitation to take part in the
Fourth of July observance in this
city.
Over There and Over Here
A census of railroad men of Great
Britain shows a total ot 170.000 en
tered "national service since the. war
began. The London and Northwest
ern road topa the list with 29,301
men.,
Rev. Joseph A. Mulry, 8. J.,' presi
dent of Fordham university, in a re
cent address to graduates eulogized
President Wilson aa "a man raised
up by God for the defense of civiliza
tion and liberty." Fordham'a aer
vice flag carries 800 stars. '
ttJTi. . - r'
"My kingdom for a mule kinner"
is the cry heard in many quarters of
tha vva Airak a ihaca T a, heasiA
identifies the army. Besides mule)
skinners there are Jobs of IS? varie
ties open to men "anxious to serve.
The supply of clerks alone Is an em
barrassment. , -...
A group of Bohemians,' 147 In num
ber, who enlisted at a patriotic rally
at Toungetown, O.. some time ago,
have had cltlnenshlp conferred upon
them under the atari color at Camp
Sheridan, Ala, Their naturalization
waa advanced by the recently enacted
law granting citizenship to aliena in
th national sen-ice.
Sir Arthur Pearson, head of a
Ixindon hospital for blinded sol
diers, says these victims of war make
fine husbands and win good-looking
wives, too. .Up to the present 109
happy marriages have taken place In
the 'hospital and the bridegrooms,
trained In' useful occupations, are
said to be better able to make a living
than before going to war.
Editorial Shrapnel
v St.- Louis Globe-Detuocrat: The
loyalty of 11 professors of the Uni
versity of Nebraska Is questioned.
Universities should quit electing crank
faculties. -
Minneapolis Journal: Norway agalh
inquires of Germany Just why she is
sinking Norwegian fishing boats, when
the fish caught are sold to Germany.
Berlin answers that inquiry will be
made. .vf
New York World: A German about
to be Interned here says he would
not live up to his oath to his native
country lf the Germans should at
tempt to invade America. Few Ger
mans living in this country want
Prusslanism here. .
New Tork Herald: Nicaragua, It Is
announced, made her declaration of
war apply not to Germany alone; but
to Germany's aides as well. Can it
be that our Nlcaraguan friends have
not heard ot the ineffable blessings
ot RobertacollegeT
Louisville Courier-Journal: Two
negroes who faced 20 Germans got
Pershing's praise," says a war cable
gram., At San Juan hill, at Carrizal,
the negro troops proved their courage
Hnd their training. No less la ex
pected ot them in France.
Brooklyn Easle: Claiming S.675,000
war captives. Germany boasts of her
"growing labor army." lf anybody
has had any qualms about forcing our
Interned Germans to work for their
food he may well resettle his ' con
science. , We are fighting slave-drivers.
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Twice Told Tales
Mrs. Wiggs' Rival.
in a South Side etreetof this city
lives a woman who, for optimism and
homely philosophy, take rank wlth
Mrs. Wjggs of the well-known and
Justly famous "cabbage patch.'!
This woman, with her husband and
family, was seated at the dinner table
one day not long aince when a knock
came to the door; and a friend called.
"Won't you come in for dinner"
the housewife Invited.
"Oh, no," the caller answered, "you
have such a large family yourself it
would be a shame to put you to extra
trouble." x
"Oh," was the cheery reply, "one
more don't make a bit of difference.
A!J I have to do is put another cup of
water in the stew." You ngstown
Conservation.
Jimmy is a small alO-year-old and
very unpopular with the family Just
now. He reckons time from a bag
full of ill-gotten marbles, and has re
duced the use of soaT and water to
a fine point The other morning he
was, as usual, late at breakfast
Finally his father mounted the steps
a few at a time only to come on
Jimmy in the bathroom -door looking
complacenlly Into his mother's hand
mirror.
"Whaf are you doing with that
mirror?" his father asked brusquely.
"Trying to see which part ot my
face to wash," he answered, prompt
ly. Indianapolis News,
British Food Supply.
Omaha. June 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: Your editorial in The Bee
c4 June 3, ''Agriculture After the
War." is interesting.. Great Britain's
dependence on neutral countries for
the necessities oi me najnstrung me
Britis!) navy since the commencement
of the" European war up to tne time
of President Wilson's proclamation of
government control of exports to neu
tral countries adjoining Germany.
The next time It becomes necessary
for the British empire to strike for
law, Justice and liberty Canada will
be sufficiently developed to prevent
the British 'navy from being ham
strung by the exporters or neutral
countries, the adversary of the Brit
ish will suffer from an air-tight
blockade, and if the neutral countries
adjoining the offender are dependent
upon imports ror i tneir iooastuns,
they will be rationed to prevent the
accumulation of a surplus for re
exportation, and protests of exporters
and neutrals will not avail them any
thing. The British lion will never
again relax his naval Jaws until he
has accomplished his task thescales
have fallen from the eyes of British
statesmen. Belgium was the only
friend of the British- e'mpire not com
pelled to fight that stood the acid test
Naval supremacy will be as vitally
necessary for Great Britain in the fu
ture as it has been in the past and
present People' who think this will
be the last war are living in a fool's
paradise. It will be the last until the
next
THOMAS HENRY WATKINS.
2713 North Sixty-second Street Ben
son. . ' t
Social Sanitation.
Omaha, June 4.- To the Editor of
The Bee It is about as rational to
allow socially diseased women to run
the streets as to allow mad dogs the
same privilege. Every man, woman
and child suffering witha contagious
disease is mercilessly quarantined un
til cured, but the sylph has hitherto
been allowed to Bpread her disease
without hindrance. It Is rather a
Joke on municipal morality that mili
tary men must make the first move
toward reformation for the preserva
tion of the army. Is it not Just as
Important that youth in civilian
clothes should be protected as those
In khaki?
It took 40 years of agitation to
comper- science and industry to Join
In the prohibition reform, and it
seems necessary to have a great war
to discover the -effect of unchastity
upon the efficiency of young men.
Health departments rarely mention
"venereals," but army surgeons are
not so squeamish. They classify
syphilis Just as they do tuberculosis
and other diseases, and the facts go
before the public as they are not al-
profit, but it, might be made self
supporting, and thus keep peddlers)
of disease oft the street.
D. C. JOHN.
Note The statement haa frequently;
oeen maae mai la per cent or in sol
diers in the United States army ara
ineffective , because of venereal dis
eases. The official report of the sur
geon general's department on tha
health at the army for the week end
ing May 17, 1918, gives the total of
noneffectives at all the cantonments
tin the United States as at the rate of
44.7 per 1.O00, or 4.47 per cant In
all other camps, including the avia
tion, service, the total noneffectives
fnr That ixrAplr werA SS I Ttpr 1 AOO nr :
3.84 per cent ; The total number ol
cases of venereal diseases reported for
the week is 2,783, which means that
it 500,000 men were in the canton
ments that week, less than 1 per cent
of them were affected from this cause.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
trutl
Friend Queer saying-, that about
lying at the bottom of a well.
Lawyer Tou wouldn't think ae if job
knew the amount of pumping we lawyer!
aometlmea have to do to set at It. Bston
American. , .
She-Why do you tay you can't cat any
thing home like your mother uaed to makaT
He I aupposa because rny father aatd It
be fore me. Baltimore American.
lowed to In civil life.'
The severe restrictions In sgre
gating our cantonments from cities
and the rigid exclusion of lewd
women show an immense advance In
morals, but, according to reports, 15
per cent of our army is constantly In
valided by venereal disease. As long
as soldiers are to have freedom to
leave camp the evil cannot be sup
pressed without the co-operation of
local authorities. I am glad our
commissioners are waking up to this
necessity.
If women had a right to vote they
would insist that diseased men, as
well as women, should be interned,
and it would be difficult to dispute
the Justice of their claim. As long
as diseased men are allowed to run
free there will be diseased women
many of them absolutely Innocent
victims instead of criminals. But
what is the use of Interning and cur
ing them and then turning them into
the streets, to return to their old
habits? , Temporary . internment and
cure are not sufficient They cannot
permanently remedy the evil. The
city must go farther;; It must estab
lish an industrial institution in which
reformed and cured women may find
a place to make an honest living.
Even those that are not reformed
should be forcibly retained and com
pelled to earn their living. It is a
false humanity to maintain any crim
inal by the labor of honest people.
Such art institution would cost much,
but it might be maintained by the
labor of the inmates.
We therefore commend our com
missioners for the step they have
taken, but they must go further nr
no permanent --esults will be ob
tained. These unfortunate women
must inevitably fall back into their
old habits unless some institution' is
maintained wherein they can earn an
honorable living. Such an institu-
THE MOTHER'S GRATITUDE.
Beatrice Barry In New Tork Time.
"Over there" are murdered bablea, mute evi
dence of work
Sanctioned by the German God, through
Prussian and through Turk. -
I give thanks all reverently, that, perfectly
at res(.
My little eon can aleep, hie hand upon my
breast . .-
V - v
"Over there" are men who . worahtp at a
nobla ahrlne.
Fighting hard to make tha world mora aafe
for babea Ilka mine.
May he be a man like these! But bow,
secure from harm,
My little son can sleep, hla head upon my
arm. -' y ... , .
Alt' the thoughts and all tha prayer that
fill my grateful heart,
Travel with each soldier lad who salli to
v do his part ,
Where the country that I love, its faith
with mankind keeps,
And fights Its fight, the while my little baby
sleeps. -i , '" . '
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