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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 9, 1918. George C Rothery; report by L. N Much, vice president; "Our Future Obligations,"-Don Arnold. The program on Thursday morning will be: "Educational Retrospection," Lyle A. Harris; "Future Work for the Blind" N. C Abbott; "What I Am Learning From My Pupils," E. C. Cook; "Salesmanship for the Blind," A. H. Gibson. Thursday afternoon: "Your Best and My Best in Chains." H. J. Gierau; "Professional Piano Tuning," L. B. Gillett; "Remunerative Employment for Blind Women," J. Louise Tucker; "Home Economics," Mrs. E. C Cook: "Woman's Sphere," Lena Vista Smith. Mrs. W. 0. Shrurrt First Woman In State to Win Dietz Medal Mrs. W. O. Shrum. 3819 Parker street, a member of the Willing Workers' Red Cross auxiliary, is the first woman in Nebraska to have the honor of receiving the medal donated by Gould Diete as a reward for hav ing spent 500 hours or more working for the Refl Cross. She has knit 29 sweaters, eight pairs of wristlets and four helmets, besides assisting with sewing. Mrs. Shrum is the mother of Winfield Shrum. first lieutenant ma chine gun company, 352d infantry stationed at Camp Dodge. j Consumption Tax Proposed 1 Washington, June 8. A onsump tion tax on necessities was forecast today by Representative Longworth of Ohio, a members of the house ways and means committee, at its hearing on a new revenue bill. ? affu Laudet? in tfte Wat? Z one experiences on cAe Western Jigtttttg J'tottr i I CCPVIUftHT I9IS ii', ,J CHAPTER XVI. . . ' Wierd Game of Hide and Seek. The Germans knew perfectly . well ' inkt there was a battle somewhere near the spot where I had found my gunners. Only the exact location was hidden from them, and they never ceased their efforts to determine that Fritr's airplanes were always trying to sneak over to get a look. An air' plane was the only means of detection the Canadiaajp feared. No I will not say they feared itl The word fear did not wstfor that battery! But it viz the only way in which, there was a tolerable chance even for. Frit i to looate them. and. for the sake of the wole operation at that point, as wen at for their own interest, they were easrer to avoid that German airplanes were always try inj to sneak over, I say, but nearly always our. men of the reyal flying corps drove them lack. We came a ; clo;e, just then, to having command of, the air in that sector as any army dots these days. A few hostile flyers calt get through the heaviest barage and the staunchest air patrol. And so, every one in s while, an alarm would sound and all hands would crane their necks upward to watch an airplane nying wiin an iron cross painica upon its wings. Then, and, as a rule, then only, fire would cease for a few minutes. There wra far less chance of detection when t x riant were still. At the height at r !ch our archies so the anti-aircraft ' :j ire called by Tommy Atkins ;ea the boche to fly there was little t l battery, at least, against the snd. If the i guns were . giving ::e that chance was tripled and so y Stopped, at luch times, until a . . flyer had had time to engage ; r Iun and either bring him down - tend him scurrying for the safe !ter behind hit own lines. . ritx. in the air, liked to have the s 's with him, aa ft rule. It was ex f iional to find i German flyer like :ke who really went in for single- t Jed duels in the air, As a rule m a . 4 l y preterrea to ttracx a single piane r.I.j Haifa dozen, and so make as sure ti thev could of victorv at a minimum cfriik. But that policy did not at v -ys work sometimes the lone Brit t i flyer came out ahead, despite the c ' 's against him. 1 here was a great dea! of firing on tral principles from Fritz. Hit i -'.s came wandering querulously i . ut, atriking on every side of the battery. Occasionally, of course,, there wns a hi( that was direct, or nearly so, Ar4 then; as a rule, a new mound or two would appear in the little ceme tery, and a new set of crosses that for a few days yott might easily enough have marked for new because they wcild not be weathered yet But t i hits were few and fat between, .jl: 1 they were lucky, casual shots of w! Jch i tae' Germans themselves did n" hare the satisfaction of knowing.. Gf course, if they get our range .. w mA C.JI A.. 1l .kk'rit w. 'M'lf was in the reserve, do ye ken. And I was standing in front of my hoose one day inAugust, thinkin' of nothin' at all. I marked a man who was com ing doon the street wi' a blue paper in his hand and studyin' the numbers on the doorplates. But I paid no great heed to him -until he stopped and spoke to me. "He had stopped outside my hoose and looked at the number and then It his blue paper. And then he turned to me. "'Are ye Tamson, the baker?' he asked me just as ye asked me that lame question the noo. "And I said to him,' just as I said it to ye, 'Aye.Tm Tamson, the baker.' ''Then it's Hamilton barracks for ye, Tamson,' he said, and handed me the blue paper. ' "Four tiours from the time when he handed me the blue paper in front of my hoose in Glasgow 1 was at Ham ilton barracks.' In twelve hours I was in Southhampton. In twenty hours I was in France. And aboot as soonas I got there I was in a lot of shooting and running this way and that they ha' told me since was the battle of the Marne. v"And in twenty-four hour! more I was on my way back to Glasgow 1 In forty-eight hours I wake up in Stobe Hill infirmary and the nurse was sav ing in my ear: Ye're all richt the noon, Tamson. We ha' only just am putated your leg!' "So I think I ha' been to the war, but I can only say I think so. I only know what I was told that ha never seen a damn German yet!" That a true story of Tamson, the baker. And hia experience has actu ally been shared by many a popr fel lowand by many another who might have counted, himself lucky if be had lost no more than a leg, as Tamson did. ' ' ' But the laddies of my battery, though the were shooting now at Germans they could not see, had had many a close-up view of Frits in the past and expected many another in the future. Maybe thev will get one some time after the fashion of the company of which my boy, John, once told me. The. captain of this company a Hie land company it was, though not of John's regiment had spent most of is time in London before the war and belonged to several clubs which in those days employed many Ger mans as servants and waiters. He was a big man and he had a deep, bass voice, so that he roared like the bull of Bashan when he had a mind to raise it for all to hear. One day things were dull in his sector. The front line trench was not far from that of the Germans, but there was no activity beyond that of the snipers, and the Germans were being so cautious that ours were get ting mighty few shots. The captain was bored, and so were the men. "How would you like a pot shot, lads?" he asked. , ' "Finel" 'came the answer. 'Fine, sir!", ,: . .. :., "Very well," said the captain. , "Get ready with your rifles and keep your eyes on yon trench." . a . It was not more than thirty yards away pointblank range. The captain waited until they were ready. And then his voice rang out in its loudest, most commanding roar. ."Waiter I" he shouted. Forty helmett popped up over the German parapet and a storm of bullets swept them away I (Continued Tomorrow.) !y and find out all about us we 11 e to move," laid the officer in com i d. "That would be a bore, but it i 'in't be helped.- We're a fixed t 'st, yon see, at toon as they know ' i where we are, and they can turn I ' battery of heavy howitaers t ,'nst us and clear us out of here in to time. But we're ofetty auick mov ers when, we have to.movel Iti great r- rt in I way, too, sometimes, we 1 t alt 'the camouflage behind and c itimei Frita will spend a week t ...ing a position that wat moved ? - f at the first ahell that came as UM meant they really were on to us." .? wondered how ft battery com r,:nder would determine the differ-e-e between a casual hit and the first c A t a bomDarament oetmiteiy ( ' ned and Accurately placed. - You can tell, at a rule, if you kn6w t game," he laid. There'll be s: .rching ihells. you lee. There'll be or ; too ur, perhaps. , And then, after a rretty exact interval, there'll be an ct..er, maybe a bit abort, Then one to the left and then to the right By -t time we're off as a rule we don t w t for the one that will be scored a Lit! If you're auick, yott see, yon can beat Fritz to it by keeping youf eyes open and being ready to move in a hurry when he't got a really good ar ument to make you do It ' ' wut while I wai there, while Fritz wis inquisitive enough, his curiosity get him nowhere. There- were no caiial hiti even, and there waa noth irj to make the battery feel that it n t be making ready for a quick Wa that no a weird, strange game sf hide and seek that I watched v at V.y Ridge? It gave me the creeps: I'. ;,t idea of battling with, An enemy y i could not see! It must be hard tt .'lies. I think, -for the gunneri to r je that they are Actually at war, I no there ia always the drone t I the ' tquawking of Ihe German i. "!, and the plop-plop, from time t3 t:jie,.at one nnd its mark in the mzA near by But to think of shoot ing aiwayi at, an enemy you cannot sft! 1 .. .-1 '. '' '.' It brought to.my mind a tale I had hesrd at hame., in Scotland. There wis a hospital in Glasgow and there a man who had gone to aee a friend : sapped suddenly, "m amazement, at the aide of a cot He looked down ft featuret that were familiar to him. i: e man in the cot waa not looking it Kim and the visitor stood gazing, f ring at him in the utmost aston- i Tient and doubt I say, man," he asked at last, "are : : not Tamson. the baker r '. . wounded man opened hit eyei : I iooxea up. weakly, Aye," he said, "I'm, Tamson, the . . lit voice was weak and he lookeH t. : But he looked puzzled, too. .eel, Tamson, man, what's the .er wr ye?" asked the other. ."I . sear that ve were tick or hurt. v comet it ye are here? Can it ;htt ye ha' been to the war, man. i we not hearing of it at all?" ye, I think so," said Tamson, still - T, but as if he were rather glad i chance to talk, at that ; ; , Ye think so?" asked his friend, in ter astonishment : than ever. n, if ye've been to the war do ye know it for sure and certain?"- .'ell, I tell ye how it is." laid TEDDY. HAKES IT ; PLAIN WHY U. S. ' " ENTERED WAR . (Conitsn4 Tim Fes Om.) ferent' one for individuals." he ex-H plained. "Don't fight unless you have to fight, but if you have to FIGHT! Let's not boast let's turn the trick." CM "Every woman" began to see a glimmer night!' " ' "A nation which didn't go to war after the sinking of the Lusitania pre sents the same light as a man who 100KS on wiiuc nil wuc nit ia slaoned by a stranger and, then, in stead of preventing the Repetition, en gagei it conversation about it."- , "Anyone wno can speaK or a rea sonable peace with the memory of German atrocities perpetrated on Belgium and in Armenia by the Turks la like a man who would spare the feelings of, instead ot punishing, a. blackhander or white slaver who had stolen his child." .'sit-..,' r-.. Then "Everywoman" -remembered hearing a lot of, pacifists remark it would be all right if we waged a war for defense but there wat no excuse for sending our men to France to fight. ' "Why are our soldiers fighting abroad with the allies?" they asked. "So we won't have to fight at home later without allies," Teddy explained simply and every -.. woman under stood! . Colonel Roosevelt minced no words on the German-American who claims he is loyal to this country but cannot help loving the Fatherland too. "That man ahould be believed at readily as , the man who tells you that he loves his wife yes, but he loves other women as well as hit life," said Teddy. ' i Which was a simile the point of which no Daughter of Eve could miss no matter how little her compreheh sion of war terms. . "Teddy" found a place in the hearts of. all the women . who - heard-and gave him the attention they give few political speakers. Here was a pa triot, pleading the cause of "the" eountrv-Mheirs as well as his. That his words came " straight from his heart a little service lag of five stars gave silent testimony. No woman could think of the four sons and son-in-law on French battlefields one of them wounded and lying on a hos pital cot, without heeding his words. When Rev. Titus Lowe in, his in vocation prayed for the speaker of the evening to be granted the vision not only to see the right but the strength and energy to execute the right, those nearest , Roosevelt saw him shake his head vigorously in- as sent and his lips moved seemingly in prayer for the same hope. . Plainly' clothed in a gray business suit, there was, nothing savoring of the celebrity about him, nothing ora torical, for he stood, in the same po sition and only his expressive face was a constant play of emotions. . Among . the things Omaha liked about Teddy was his utter willingness to admit his own delusions and mis conceptions in the early days of the war. . '.ti "I was among those deluded by the German-American Alliance,"- he ad mitted and that some of his presum ably best friends before the war had shown themselves disloyal, that is, loyal tQ Germany. It took-months to realize this, he said, but his strong sense of fairness would not permit him to stop on mincing no words on the treatment of German-Americans. For the American of German origin, he admonished the audience to treat with the crea test favor on pain of themselves forfeiting the right to claim true American citizenship. After he had laid down .these sim ple principles of Americanism one nation, one language he told in sim- file words . why the war was being ought and the need for men, first of all to fight,' he called on the young men in the audience to join the colors. , "If you have an unwise female rel ative who doesn t want you to, don t listen to her, he advised them. And when with a return of the old Rooseveltian fire, he offered to leave the decision for continuing to prose cute the war to the mothers of the land after they knew the facts as he knew them there wasn't a mother in the audience who wasn't ready to helo win th war hv mikincr th hie -on, very alowly and wearily; "ligest sacrifice the offer of her boyl WORKERS FOR BLIND , WILL MEET TUESDAY . ',; .:.'- i 'n 1 1. i. - " General Session Will Be Until Friday Inclusive by Nebraska Association; Mayor to Welcome Delegates. The seventh biennial convention of the Nebraska Association of Work ers for the Blind will be called to order next Tuesday morning at the Rome hotel, where general session; will be held until Friday, inclusive. Invocation will be offered by Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks at the opening meeting and Mayor Smith will wel come the visitors. Lyle A. Harris, president of the association, will re spond. An informal reception has been arranged for Tuesday night and a picnic at Manawa will be held on Wednesday afternoon. ' . ' Wednesday morning's program will be: "Our War Pwgram," Lyle A. Harris; "The Man , of the Hour," FURS ! GET 'EM : STORED QUICKLY Drcihcr Broa. Spend $2,000 on Added Devices for Their Concrete and ' Steel Fur Storage "- Vaulta. . Baker Ice Machine Co. of Omaha Producei the New Equipment Jutt In stalled at This Modern Plant. It hat cost Dresner Brothers, the .immense Dry Cleaners and Dyert at 2211-2217 Farn am street, Omaha, just $2,000 to add equip men to make capacity enough in their superb concrete and steel fur storage vaulta. . And, the additional equipment waa built by no less a concern than the Baker Ice Machine Co. pf our own glourioua Omaha, a concern that ia shipping its product to all points of the eomoasa and all carta of the earth. (Mr.1 Baker please notice-this free advertisment.) The fact is that the fur storage business here became so large that new equipment was needed and today this stands as fine as any storage plant - in America, and knowing ones say it is the best in America. 'So, there is just room enough to accomodate a few more lots ' of furs. If you have your fura about your home now you are running a splendid chance of ruining them that is, the MOTHS will ruin them for you or you may experience a visit from a burglar or the furs may become burnt up in a f ire Kr they may become damaged in some way. You are insured against ALL of this at Dresher Brothers, and, who cares to take his own rish when someone else makes a business of taking the risk for you. Do the right thing. Send your, fura in now. First have Dresners experts clean 'em nicely then have 'em stored away safely and snugly until cold weather sets in. Dresners! Fur Workers, by the way, will offer inducements on Fura made to order or repaired during the ' summer. . When the work is slac'; you can secure "bar gains" in this line, for the fur workers must be kept here until fall and might as well be busied. Remember YOU cannot pro tect your furs as well at Dreshers can. Phone t, Tyler ' 345 for a Dresher man, leave work at the plant, 2211-2217 Farnam St, at Dresher the Tailors 1515 Farnam St., or at one of the Dresher Branches in the Burgess-Nash or Brandeis Stores. Dreshers pay express or parcel post charges one way on any shipment out of town. 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