THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE, 19, 1918.
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014 Sol make the corn sprout also the can
I Mrs. Lillian Busch's experience is a proof of
the inceasing value of American citizenship.
Austrians were promised . food when they
reached Italy's plains, but the army still is
hungry. :' ,
' These are the days when the balloonist has a
decided advantage over ordinary mortals, so far
as coo! air is Concerned.
. Let us hope the weather man tries no more
of his freak experiments on this region during
the summer. One is enough.
TIi use little sparks noted in th city council
chamber may be but static, due to excessive heat,
but they certainly are signs of life.
' Michigan and Wisconsin boys are holding a
sector on German territory; This may convince
the kaiser that Americans have reached the front.
- The Nonpartisan league does not seem to
show up specjally well in the Minnesota primary.
Nebraska is as much against sedition and dis
loyalty as is Minnesota.
; At least one U-boat will not report to Berlin
ou the result of its trip to American waters. It
encountered an American submarine, and any
doubt as to the outcome was quickly dispelled.
Four, democrats in the. senate voted with 19
republicans in favor of open discusion of treaties.
But 36 bourbons lined up against the proposal,
ihus keeping the party straight on its record of
opposition to progress.
THE KAISER DRAWS THE ISSUE.
"Either German principles of right, freedom,
morality and honor must be upheld, or Anglo
Saxon principles, with their idolatry of Mam
monmust be victorious," said the kaiser in his
speech in celebration of his thirtieth anniver
sary as emperor. And he drew the issue plainly.
"German principles of right, freedom, moral
ity and honor" burst into sudden activity in the
summer of 1914. Prior to that time they had
been busy under the surface. Secret treaties
with the czar of Russia, the sultan of Turkey, a
system of espionage that encompassed the world,
were the expressions of the morality and honor
of which the kaiser boasts.
In August, 1914, Belgium got a taste of what
the German war lords look upon as right and
freedom. Liege and Louvain were early exam
ples, and the outrages of unspeakable character
that turned the happy provinces of Liege-, Lux
emburg, Namur and Hainault into regions of deso
lation, sorrow and degradation will stand forever
as proof of Germany's sense of honor, while out
raged maidens, crippled children, murdered men
and women provide a lasting monument to the
morality of the emperor and his hosts.
Intrigue in America, acts of war against our
peace and welfare, plots to destroy our govern
ment at home, carried on through official agen
cies, furnish Americans with ample evidence of
how far the kaiser and his kind are to be trusted.
Murder on the high seas, bombs dropped on
hospitals and sleeping hamlets, every form of
savage cruelty practiced with cold-blooded pur
pose on helpless victims are forms of expression
of the German sense of "right, freedom, morality
and honor."
As to Anglcr-axon principles, were tbey of
the same quality as the German, the victory of
the Hunnish horde would have been complete
many months ago, and. the world would now be
controlled and directed from Berlin. The fact
that we are in the war at all is the best possible
answer to the sneer of the kaiser, whose effront
ery increases as his doom becomes more imminent.
Planning River 'Improvements.
Hearings are now being had in Washington
concerning improvements to be made along the
upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers, that their
waters may be more generally used as commerce
highways. At the putset one of the really grave
questions is pressed to the front. It has to do
with rates; whether the government will guar
antee rates sufficient to make the venture profit-
iu yiivic investors, or u win permit rail
road competition to throttle river traffic as it did
once before. This point may" not be settled at
the present hearings, which are apt to be con
sumed by consideration of other details, but it
must have careful consideration later on. Gen
erally, the thought has been made to make water
transportation supplemental to rail, rather than
competitive, so that in combination the utmost
of service from the two. Promoters of river im
provements who are inclined to look on the
steamboat as a rival to the locomotive, rather
than an ally, may be required to revise their
viewpoint befpre the use of the inland water
ways is made general. Co-operation may be
possible, but competition would be fatal to one
or the other, and the shipper would eventually
pay the bill.
Rebuilding the Broken Soldier
What Italy Is Doing to Brighten Life
for War's Cripples
Prof. Riccardo Galeazzi in London Chronicle.
' The epistolary exchange between the gov
ernor and' the Nonpartisan league would be edi
fying under more favorable conditions. As it
is, the public it too busy with mors important
matters to read either tide.
Not that it cuts any figure, but curiosity might
be better satisfied if Tom Tibbies, of the hyphen
ated World-Herald staff of editorial writers
would tell what he thinks of Edgar Howard's
scheme ta attach legal tender qualities to the
Liberty bonds.- .
s Overhauling the "Middlemen."
The government seems to'be on. the point of
breaking up the most pernicious form of profiteer
ing that has developed in connection with the
war It it after the "middlemen," agents or brok
ers, who, through their pretended influence, ne
gotiated contractt between the government and
manufacturers. At most of these contracts were
n the cost-plus" basis, the matter of including
the jbrokerage fee in the cost on which a profit
was paid by the government made the transac
tion one of comparative flcility for the producer
md of equally easy profit for the grafter. It
ould be out of all reason to say that all agentt
brokers of merchandise or manufactures are
jrafters, or that they do not perform a genuine
ervice in the huge and complex work of'dis
ibuting output, but it is apparent that here is
in avenue by which unscrupulous individuals
uve found ready access to the pubic treasury,
nd which ought to be closed against them. The
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least of itt unattractive featuret it that now
eing brought to light
Back of the Austrian Drive.
The renewal of the Austrian drive against
Italy, at a cost of so much more than the em
peror can afford in way of men and munitions,
has back of it much the same reason that set the Kuide the earliest footsteps of the lambs of
uerman army into motion in France last March.
It is th desire to present something material
and definite Jn the way of military accomplish
ment to people whose unrest has become a
decided menace to the government. Emperor
Karl't case is even more desperate than that of
Emperor Wilhelm. Even should the Austrian
,army be tble to win a victory over the Italians,
the spirit of revolt within his provinces would
not be quieted by such means. Under the
weight of German oppression, and with the dis
appearance of Russia as a bugbear, the slight ties
of mutual dependence between Austrian and
Magyar have broken down, while the Czech, the
Jugo-Slav and the Latins have increased their
determination to be free. This situation cannot
be altered by military diversion, no matter how
brilliant the spectacle, and victory in Italy will
bring but added domestic difficulty for the weak
young emperor, while defeat means disaster for
him, j
Where Omaha Loses Out.
As reported by the New York Times, the gov
ernment has spent $25,173,417 during the last
six months on additional army hospital establish
ments. A 500-bed addition to the hospital at
Camp Dodge, over at Des Moines, has taken
$500,000 of this money. Improvements costing
$1,720,000 are going up at Denver and olhers at
posts in the south and east, but in this, as in
other army activities, Omaha remains a step
child despite the exceptional facilities at Fort
"Crook easily convertible to hospital purposes.
Our senator and congressmen at Washington,
must be easy when representatives of states like
Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado and
Iowa play all around them. i
(Prof. GaleazziSs.head of the Milan Insti
tut for the After-Care of the Disabled Sol
diers. He is famous for his successful in
ventions and experiments in furnishing his
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paucnis wun special types or contrivance
which enable the natural muscles to work
the artificial limbs that arc adjoined.)
What are we doing in Italy for those
brave fellows who have been crippled or dis
abled in the war? Let me say, first of all,
that our fundamental principle, which lies at
the root of our organization and of all our
laws that have been recently made for the
care of disabled men, is that no disabled sol
dier must be thrown upon the charity of the
puhlic for the rest of his life and allowed to
feel that he has ceased to be a useful member
of society. Though he receives sufficient
kindness now, he must remember that a day
will come when the glory of his sacrifice will
have lost its pristine appeal, and when the
broken soldier will have to depend upon him
self. His pension must be looked upon not
as his means of sustenance, but as something
given him for the sufferings he has gone
through.
Our idea, therefore, is that the future
prospects of a disabled soldier must not be
built upon his assurance of obtaining a pen
sion, but upon the rebuilding of him physi
cally, and the retraining of him technically,
to take up a self-supporting' position in life.
Therefore there must be no scrapping of
the broken soldier. When we bring him
from the battlefield and find that a limb, or
limbs, have to be amputated, the soldier thus
wounded is placed in a special category, and
we canont discharge him from the army until
every care has been taken to rebuild him
physically, morally and professionally. Then,
having given him his limbs and his reeduca
tion gratuitously, we also give him gratui
tously whatever implements of machinery
may be necessary for him to practice his new
trade, wot until then do we put him on his
new road of life. .
The organization for the different staeres
of this treatment is interesting. In Italy
each army corps has its special province or
district. And each of those geographical sec
tions has a complete organization for the
care of the disabled. There is the surgical
hospital, the orthopedic institute and the
school for retaining the soldier in whatever
trade he may be capable of following.
When the amputation wound is suffi
ciently healed in the surgical hospital w give
the soldier a month's leave, fitting him with
a temporary limb for use during that time.
When the month is out, that is before he had
time to get into lazy habits at home or suffer
from the effects of misdirected sympathy, he
must enter the school for the reeducation of
the disabled. To this school is also attached
the orthopedic institution. Here he has his
definite set of limbs fitted. A plaster castjs
taken and each limb is made with particular
individual care; and during the first weeks
of its use the soldier is under the constant
supervision of the doctors, so that they can
alter the artificial limbs according asany de
fects become manifest. '
I may also say, tor if is an important
point, that the limbs made for the common
soldier are the same as those made for the
colonel, and the one gets them gratis just as
the other does. Not only that, but we have
a national institute whose duty is to take
care of these limbs, "renew them and alter
them free of cost, as long as the soldier lives.
What are the limbs like? Well, for in
stance, even where a man has lost both
hands we have fitted artificial ones which
enable him to write with pen or pencil, to
use knife and fork, to button his clothes and
tp shave with a safety razor. Thus we get
rid of the constant depression from which a
soldier would otherwise suffer were he to
feel dependnt upon some friend for every
hand's turn in his daily life.
One of the great sources of success in ap
plying these limbs is the special Italian sys
tem, the theory of which was laid down by
Vanghetti, of making the amputation so that
the muscles from the living part of the arm
can be attached id such a way to the artificial
limb as to get an organic muscular connec
tion. Thus the natural muscles of the living
arm actually can be got to work the artificial
fingers or leg, as the case may be. I have
made several of these connections with full
success. And the system is now becoming
almost the rule all over the country. It is
a special Italian invention, though some of
the German professors want to claim the
credit for it. ,
The most important feature, however, of
one .Italian system is the insistence on re
training. If the soldier's disablement ioes
not a)w him to follow his ordinary calling
in life and if he be not of independent means,
ne is aDsoiuteiy Douna to spend at least a
montn or six weeks m the training school
There he is asked to choose a trade or call
ing in keeping Vith his physical ability. We
keep him for at least about six weeks, and
snow mm tne whole system in working or
der. Of course, if he cannot be persuaded
we must allow him to go home, for, after
an, we are a tree country. But when he re
finer technique of vine culture, wine-making,
mains he is put through a thorough course
of training.
During these first weeks in the school the
new limbs are fitted, for the school works in
connection with the orthopedic institute.
In the school we teach the illiterate peasants
to read and write. We teach all sorts of
designing and drawing, all commercial sub
jects, all the artisan trades and also technical
farming. Generally we give preference to
these trades that can be practiced at home,
and we do not encourage largely such trades
as would call for work in large factories. In
the case of farmers, or farm laborers, who
are too seriously injured to undertake the
heavy work in the fields, we teach them the:
fine technique of vine culture, wine-making
cheese-making, etc. And it generally hap
pens that these disabled men return to life
better fitted for their work than they were
bofore the war.
Letter Carriers and the Press.
Lincoln, Neb.,"Jun 15.To th Ed
itor of The Bee: At the state conven
tion of letter carriers held at Omaha,
May 30, 1918, the following resolutions
of appreciation wero adopted:
"Whereas, The press of the Unite 1
States haa ever shown a friendly In
terest in matters pertaining to the wel
fare of the National Association of
Letter Carriers in general, and the
Nebraska papers in particula. have
at all tlmea espoused our cause for
the good of the organization and the
betterment of the service, and,
"Whereas, We appreciate to the
fullest extent their hearty co-opera
tion in our laudabu- efforts, therefore
be it
"Resolved, That we, the members of
the Nebraska Association ot. Letter
Carriers, in convention assembled, do
hereby express our tbnks to the vari
ous publl.tions for their assistance."
WALTER D. SHEAR, Secretary,
1440 Peach, Lincoln, Neb.
On the Section Hand's Side.
Bassett, Neb., June 15. To the EcV
itor of The Bee: I see there Is a good
deal of a discussion about tha increao,
of railroad wages and in one of your
papers you make a statement that
even the section men are included. JJ
see where Mr. McAdoo said he waa .
going to protect the unorganised laboi I . "Why an you oppoaai a fw
the section men and that he waslla""
is. Freight and ' passenger ratea art
raised from 2& to 33 1-S per cent it
looks as though th j Consumer has tc
pay the bill, and the sectldn men are
all consumers, so It will cost them even
more to llva and thfy will not be abla
to lay up anything for their support
for the coming winter, and most of
them have families of at least four or
Ave to keep in clothes and feed, and
If any one of them gets tick the
doctor's bill, whic- has advanced from
SO to S3 1-3 per cent. If you just open
a doctor's door anc4 ask a question it
costs from $1.50 to $2, and if he pre
scribes for you the druggist gives it a
boost, and a $S bill looks like nothing.
Took you about 15 minutes to hand it
over and It took you 20 hours to Eft it
in the sun at 104 in the shade.
A BEE READER.
SMILING LINES.
"No," catd tha poaitlve girl. "I will aaver
tla myself down to oAa man."
"Perhaps," he replied sarcastloally. "If
I organise a abdicate you wilt consider
our offer." Boston Transcript ' . i
Little Miss, three years old, very observ
ing, called on bar grandaunt tha other
day. "Come again," said grandaunt la
farewell.
Father next morning said; "Goodbye,
"Goodbye. Coma again," aha replied In
polite sanes. Detroit Tt Fra
"Flubdub's wife doesn't show hint sbim
'Probably sha doesn't feel that she owr
htm tiy.M ,
"Haw'a that?" . .
"Seem her mother picked out her hus .
band for her,"-Louisville Courier-Jouriw
At the Wrong End of Life.
It is one of the disadvantages of the posi
tion of the New England Protestant min
ister that his work, in the long run, tends to
degenerate Into a sort of mortuary function.
His success in the parish really seems to be
measured by the number of people he has
managed to bury. The gateway at which he
stands is distinctly marked "Exit." in the first
place, there are generally more deaths than
births in his parish, and in the second, the
early days of even such children as are born
among his people do not in any way involve
his ministrations, as they do those of his
Roman Catholic brother, who is always the
chief figure at the inevitable and required
christening, who may be said to guard and
phis flock, and whose later functions at the
confirmation of the young Christian are an
event in the life not only of the new com
municant, but of his entire family. It is a
defect of the New England and Evangelical
system which, as we have said, tends to re
move the minister from the beginning of life
and associate him only in a marked manner
with its dark decline.
This thought is brought to the mind by
the publication of some statistics connected
with the ministry of a certain venerahle man
of God in one of our smaller New England
cities. This gentleman, who is now in his
85th year, has occupied one pulpit for 50
years. In that honorable half-century he has
baptized 123 children, which is at the rate of
a little less than two and one-half baptisms
per year. A "very good parish," this re
spectable religious flock has always been
called; but it bas, in a half-century of ex
istence, ben able to bring fewer than three
children a year to its altar. There have been
more in the parish, without a doubt; it must
be merely that they have not been brought
in for baptism, for the same minister has
during the pastorate officiated at 315 mar
riages. But when it comes to funerals, the
parish is strong. The venerable clerygyman
has officiated at 629, which is at the rate of
one funeral for every month of his 'half-century
and 29 more worked in at intervals
along the way. For him, the pastorate hasi
a a . .t . I
oeen just one Duriai atter anotner. jso mat
ter what cheerful tendencies his theology
may have bad at the start, he must at last
have felt the shadow of the tomb descending
upon it. . " . '
Perhaps this is the secret; of our Puritan
ism that we have always associated ,our re
ligion too little with the sweet smiles and
the innocent babblings of infancy and too
much with cold and crabbed age. If the faith
of our Puritan fathers ever really is "re
formed," perhaps it may be desirable so td
re-balance it that it will pick up, the thread
of life at the cradle instead of confining its
ministrations so closely to the lengthening
shadows of later years. Boston Transcript.
, "Pitiful Publicity"
The other day our pacifist secretary of
war sent out a solemn warning to the people
and press of the nation against the discussion
of the number of American troops in France,
lest such a discussion supply valuable infor
mation to the enemy. Yesterday, however,
in his cantata to the "Blue Devils' 'of France,
at the foot of the Washington monument, he
proclaimed the fact that our army in France
today totals more than 700,000 men, and his
figures put him on the front page again. It
was artful advertising, but it was not alto
gether accurate information, for the reason
that it was not the whole truth. Of the
number named by Mr. Baker less than half
are fighting troops. This is something every
German knows, but not every American, and
when Mr. Baker functions as a camoufleur
he never misleads the enemy, but he is very
apt to muddle the mind of his own people.
He played the same trick several weeks ago
when, at a meeting in New York presided
over by Mr. Hughes, he secured publicity
for his speech by incorporating in it a dra
matic announcement that he "seemed to see"
American troops soon in Italy. Again he
put himself on the front page as sponsor for
the announcement of an expedition to Italy.
It is one thing for the newspapers of the
nation, in the exercise of patriotic discretion,
to refrain from too detailed a discussion of
certain military matters in connection with
the conduct of the war. It is a different thing
for our pacifist secretary of war to take ad
vantage of their patriotic self-restraint by
using the same information a few days later
in order to profit by "pitiful publicity."
Roctnn Trancrrm
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People and Events
Hun subs shrewdly keep atNa safe distance
from Coney Island and Atlantic City, realiz
ing that the 1918 style of bathing suits are
loaded.
Now and then, somewhere, mere man
turns the table on alimony scouts. Out in
:an Francisco a judge granted a divorce to
Mrs. Esther Kehoe because Kehoe was batty
on bugology. Still as Kehoe looked after
domestic affairs v.-hile the Mrs. Kehoe "pulled
down a salary or $200 a month, Kehoe was
awarded $425 alimony. Isn't that perfectly
fierce?
Have you noticed the growing rarity of
silver dollars in money changing nowadays?
Time, was when the "cartwheels" rolled on
The counters and hummed a lay of opulence,
jingled in the pockets when fondled, and lent
i:onr.iderab!e "heft" to the consciousness of
,the owner. Now they are rolling homeward
to the melting pot of the treasury, easing the
utrain on suspenders and conserving the
fragments of rubber camouflaged therein.
'War. economies work in strange way their
wonders to perform.
going to give a substantial raise,
see where he gives them a 2M-cent
raise. They now are drawing 25
cents per hour.
It seems to me that the section men
are the goat and also a Joke in the
miaxis or tne people as well as.the
vumyaiij' uu mo yniy reason is De
cause they are loo weak to hold an
organization nbw. What is . their
work? They have to work when the
mercury stands at 110 in the shade,
and In the winter, no matter how low
it stands even 30 below they have
to go over the track and seexif it is
safe, and they have the lives of our
troops and the president of this glorl
ous country and all the public In their
hands, and are the only class of rail
road employes that everything la left
to tneir judgment. As to the speed
of trains, they can reduce the SDeed
to 10 miles per hour or can stop any
train ana noia it till they are satisfied
it is safe, without any orders from
their superiors, and they have thou
sands of Jollars of material in their
care eac.h year and the company has
conncience enough in them to look
after its interests that if a fire burns
up the whole country they are sup
posed to look after the company's in
terest and also if stock is killed they
are expected to see that the company
is protected. They go out at night
after storms and see if everything is
saie, ana an or the officers take the
section man's report and rely on his
judgment or the conditions if safe to
run their trains at 60 miles or five
miles an hour, and they don't even
question his Judgment, and he Is the
poorest paid employo on the road.
Will give you a partial list of Dricea
he has to pay now and what he used
to have. Overalls, $2.26, and light
weight that could have been bought
for 75 cents two or three years ago;
$5 for shoes that could have been
bought for $2; shirt, $1.25, used to
get at 45 cents. What he has to eat:
One dollar a sack for flour that now
Is $2.90, and not as good; sugar, 1214
cents now, against 6 cents; meat from
50 to 75 per cent per pound more and
everything else in proportion. Now
it seems as though we would be com
pelled to seek other employment be
cause we are the lowest paid employes
In any branch of business today.
There is nothing in the shape or work
today but what pays more for a man's
time. The boys all are good Ameri
cans and loyal to our country and our
flag, and we would like to have Mr. i
McAdoo remember us with at least
enough to live on. He asks us to buy
War Savings stamp and Liberty
bonds, and we have done so, some of
us beyond our means. Part of us only
can work about seven months , and
then are laid oft for the winter, and
if we live through ws have to sure
get out and hustle, as we can tot any
more tnan keep even through the
summer ana pay rent and the increase
in price of everything we use. Some
of us are going to see mighty hard
times this coming winter if we get
only a 24 -cent raise. While the train
men get practically a good raise, they
only get this becaus. of their strength.
This country boasts that it is the
friend of the weak, but the weak can
not see it work on that way, at least
in the present wage scale and the de
lay of getting what little raise there
Because, Judging from her houseclean-
1ng orgies, aha will go In for too many
sweeping reforms." Sen franclsco Chron
icle. '
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ne Year Ago Today in the War.
Russian war mission, headed by
Minister Bakhmetleff, arrived In
Washington.
Vice Admiral Sims ' designated to
ke general charge of allied naval
!orces In Irish waters during absence
f British naval commander.
The Day We Celebrate.
; Gen. Sir Douglas Halg born in Scot
and, 17 years ago.
Vance C. McCormlck, chairman of
:he exports administrative board,
Kirn at Harrlsburg, Pa., 48 years ago.
- Dr. Hill M. Bell, retiring president
)f Drake university, born in Licking
:ounty, Ohio, (8 years ago. .
Edward V. Clcotte, pitcher for the
Chicago American league base ball
Mm, born In Detroit, 84 years ago.
This Day In History.
1811 Samuel Chase, ' a Maryland
ilgner of the Declaration of Independ
ence, died., 3orn In Maryland, April
17, 1741. ' ; ; ..
: Hit The Saxon army, king and
. rovernment. Joined the Austrians
igainst the Prussians.
1EJ7 Henry Dodge, first United
States senator from Wisconsin, died
at Burlington, la. Born at Vlncen
nea, Init, October 12. 17S2.
vl89S Rt Rev. Maurice F. Burke.
f rat Catholic bishop f Cheyenne, was
transferred to the see of St Joseph,
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Just 30 Years Ago Today
' The prohibitionists held a meeting
at Dr. F. D. Wilson's office. There
was a full attendance and measures
were taken to make an aggressive
campaign,
Charles Crelghton won the S00
yard race, John Mler the 100, Jim
a
Hart the running Jump, Bolen and
Connors the three-legged race and
John Ennis and Miss Nellie Kiley the
waits prise at the plcnlo of the Du
rant Hose company at Fremont
J. B. Brewer, grand patron of the
grand chapter of the Order of the
Eastern Star, left fcr Lincoln to pre
side over the 13th annual conclave
which opens there.
Charles P. Taylor, president of the
Louisville, Ky., pressmen's union, was
given a reception at the residence of
Thomas Granville. - 143S Twenty-second
street by pressmen, stereotypcrs
and elestrotypers' union Io. 33,
Over There andOver Here
John. Purroy Mitchell, former
mayor of New York, lost no time in
demonstrating that he Is a 100 per
cent American in fact as well as In
politics. Jack is now a graduate avi
ator and will soon make a try for a
place among the "aces'' on the west
ern front.
State control of railroads In Eng
land resulted in an advance of 10 and
20 per cent In passenger rates, the
lower figure applying to purely local
business. There, as here, the object
was to check travel and turn the
saved power to essential war work.
Kxperlence In 1917 showed opposite
results. An official report states that
travel increased on short and long dis
tances and indications, point to a pro
portionate advance this year. Similar
results are unlikely in this country
because of restricted train service. T
To some fighting Americans over
there full performance of duty causes
discomfort and warm wordss Trenches
and dugouts were planned and built
before taking the measure of Amer
ica's giants. As a consequence Q. M.
ergt. Pat Orealy has worry to bum,
Stars and Stripes. theiA. E. F. organ,
pictures Pat as the biggest man in the
marine corps. Trenches are too nar
row for him and dugout door and
ceiling Impose undue strain on his
spine. Though he unbends, from ne
cessity. Pat will not be real happy
until the Hun fights In the open and
gives him a chance to straighten out
and exert the reserve 'force of his
pus - . . .
Whittled to a Point
Minneapolis. Journal! Cotton looks
like a big crop. Will the price there
fore be reduced? It will notIf the
south's grip on congress holds.
Washington Post: The trouble with
a plea to the Hun to spare a sacred
edifice is that he doesn't understand
human speech unless It 'is accented
by a bomb.
Brooklyn Eagle: I Is a fine notion
to put 40,000 negro conscripts to
Fether. for camping and for fighting.
Race pride has increased men's valor
ever since wars began, and whoever
thinks the negroes have none of this
is gravely mistaken.
Minneapolis -Tribune: The $5,000
pold cup given by the . kaiser to an
American wmner of a yacat race
thirteen- years ago turns out ho be a
$40 pewter imitation. Well, that's
About-the way everything" that has
come from the kaiser during the war
assays. ' - '
, New York Herald: "Mother and
father told me .to get them, and I did."
raid a New York marine wounded at
Bouresches-Veuilly. The 'them" he
pot were bocjtes, and a-plenty. The
moral of the story Is found in the
fact that the father and mother to
whom he refers were born in Ger
many, s '
New York World: "Senator La Fol
lette's' St. Paul speech, from beginning
lo end, is an earnest exhortation to his
hearers to maintain and defend at alfl
costs our. constitution and our insti
tutions," says his counsel. Bring on
the whitewash! The Wisconsin states
man stands ready to look like a pa
triot . . .. r ...
Twice Told Tales
Too Much For Him.
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather of "Old
Bill" fame tells an amusing story of
a soldier who thought he would take
advantage of his chum being on
sentry duty at the barracks gate, to
slip out after tatoa in order to visit
his best girl.
That's all right," said ' his chum,
"but I may be relieved before you re
turn, so I had better give you the pass
word to enable you to get back Into
the barracks in any case."
"Right-o!" said Tommy. "What's
the word?"
"Idiosyncrasy."
"What?" ' y
"Idiosyncrasy.",
"I guess I'll stay in barracks for
this evening," said Tommy. Chicago
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Battle SouTenlr.
Private Jenkins, home from
France, was seated in the village Inn
one evening surrounded by a group
of admirers.
"I suppose," said old Farmer Wur
xel, "ye had some narrow escapes out
yonaer.
"Well," answered the Tommy,
"nothing to speak of much, but I re
member one night I felt like a drink,
so, I goes down to the estamint I'd
Just got me 'and on the door-knob,
when Just then old Frita sent one of
'is big ones over right on the house,
and, believe me, it knocked the 'ole
blooming show down, and left me
standing there, silly like, with the
knob of the door in me 'and." Lon
don Tit-Bw."
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