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THE rBEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, JUNE 29, m8. The Omaha: Bee PAJLY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY 1 I FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUS BEB PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR. , MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' AaodiUd Press, ct which Th, B tl memhw. U cselutiwl) 1 Jtled to tlx nw (or publtcailoa of U w dltpnehes endiud It or sot othCTwlM orediw to thu ppw. nl l th, loesl new, ' 4bliliJ tmtim. Ail rtshts at pvbUoUloa of our ipwlal dltptfr Ins . . OFFICES ulm Dm Bm Sulldiot. ' Chlcuo PPl'l Gm Building. -uk Omiluv 231S N. Hi New lors-SK Fifth kn. tutU Biirf 14 N. tuts Be St. ixmit Nw B's. of Comment. MlBUut BuUdin. WwhlDftoo 13U O St : v. , - MAY CIRCULATION )aily 69,841 Sunday 59,602 rtt circulation for th, month, tubiorlbed ud sworn la by Dwlght jSikioi. CtreaUtkm Muinr. .- "Hvscriber leaving tho city shouU b Th Boo mailed m them. Address chanted ettea requested. ' ' THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG. l!i I l i i HI Willi xr llHillllll ; Omaha it at present the bet place to be born i, aj well at to grow up and live in. il With thorough team work, there is no limit Omaha's industrial and commercial advance i sent i: ' ; ''') : '. ;,'. .ii ii ' ' Wilhelm the Testy will keep it op until he will f.nd it as hard to get ministers as does Karl the Incompetent f ; -.'-i Kaenlminn will not get into the glorious com ; mr ot the "Km," even if he did lose his Job for :!2sg ttt'tratluvA. '5 : ' The Bee suggests a debate on the subject of tender between Editor Edgar Howard and Sbtat Tom Tibbies. I When yon think three pounds of sugar is. a aH ration, thintof the French living on seren es ounces and be content ' i;' , i 1 '.J-'' Emperor Karl ought to receive a handsome " w decoration from the kaiser, for he is whipped Sibst as badly as was the crown prince at Keren iky, Korniloff and Kaledinee are re !ed to the news columns at a very interesting ait. If they can carry.out their original pur jie, it will be a great thing for Russia. t . i The New York World! poll of the senate on suffrage amendments pute Senator Hitch xk among those who favor it The last time : was heard from he was against it Has he Vitched? ' : ' ' Another, drawback of our two police juuge stem lies in the six months' alternating ex 'ange of police courts. One police judge for ataha not only could do all the business, but ould anchor responsibility in one place. ' ' Brother -Tibbies of the hyphenated World Vald editorial staff finally comes out and tries draw a distinction between unlimited legal ten S Liberty bonds "and unlimited legal tender eenbacks. Better argue that out with some of j old-time fellow greenbackers. ) 'l-.iA'f''. - - I Of all the crazy patchwork legislation ever put 1 the statute books, the new, second-class xone jstage law is the craziest ever; None but a raocratic postal administration and a demo te, ''congress could possibly have perpetrated ch a freak 'scheme by which the postoffice is ing to charge more for carrying the part of e paper printed over with an advertisement if for carrying the part of the same sheet inted over with reading matter. Certain democratic luminaries are claiming ,&'A for securing votes for Nebraska s overseas 'iiera i the coming November election. It i&ina to be seen, however, whether our. new tiers' voting law can be practically applied so -t the men in service may really cast their tea and have them counted. ' We hope they r, but wt confess to doubts. This law, when -l out in nearby cantonments for our recent una city election, oroved a fizzle. The details 1 have to be handled better to make it work "-factorily in November. Oh, My, How Funny I yCh, isn't this rich! Under the heading, "A cany Paper," the , hyphenated World-Herald ,hta a letter from a contributor containing this iragraph: That State Journal is certainly a funny apcr. It ought to be published in Berlin or Potsdam instead of .Lincoln." ' t Eut anybody reading the World-Herald up to t time the United States got into the war would txrilly believe that hyphenated paper was !tcd in Berlin or Potsdam instead ! of , in 3teha, or if in Omaha, that it was printed here ?rely because the kaiser thought it could be ore useful to him for promoting the German ropaganda over here than over there. Funny? .It certainly is. v . ANOTHER CZAR POR RUSSIA? Events seem to be moving rapidly in Europe, although full credence to all the sensational ru mors must be withheld pending verification. Fol lowing the report o the assassination of the late czar conies the account of the overthrow of the bolsheviki government at Moscow and the proclamation of Grand Duke Nicholas as czar. It will be hard to fully estimate the importance of this should it prove true. If Korniloff and Kaledines have returned to activity, at the head of sufficient force to oust the crew of Lenine and Trotzky, it will mean first of all that elements of order in Russia will have a rallying point. To ger that country back into line as an organized force will require many months, but a start has been made. What part German intrigue has played in the coup must also await developments. The grand duke is known as a man thoroughly devoted to Russian interests, and was removed from his command of the armies on the west front of Russia and sent to the Caucasus at the instance of the Ger man cabal in Petrograd. Korniloff and Kale- dines, likewise, have been among the foremost of German foes in their country. Accompanying these stories are accounts of the spreading revolt in Austria more or less cir cumstantial, and all without positive support To any of these great significance may be attached, but as nearly all of this news comes through channels controlled by Germany, it must be taken for the moment with a great deal of allowance for its source. From Washington it is announced that the administration is almost ready to give out the names of a commission to be dispatched to Rus sia. In this is noted evidence that the president has not been unaffected by the progress of events and that he is now ready to give over any reluc tance he may have had and to take active steps to save Russia from complete Germanization. "On With the War," Says Germany. . With von Kuehlmann it was the expected that happened. Whether his speech to the Reichstag was the unfortunate admission of truths, or the re sult of a deliberate effort to sound German public Opinion, its reflex is shown in his retirement from office. The agrarians and junkers still are pow erful enough to force the removal of any minister of the .empire, who does not suscribe in toto to the pan-German program,-.Therefore the exit of von Kuehlmann may be interpreted as notice to the world that neither the kaiser nor, his party is ready to abandon any part of their demands, much less to give sanction to the foreign minister's declaration that Germany can not win victory by the sword. " This means that Germany intends to fight on. In reaching this stand, Austria's internal as well as external troubles must have been fully consid ered by the war lords, and we may as well accept Germany's own estimate of their extent, that they are not sufficiently serious to greatly weaken the battle line. Similarly, must we con clude that the economic situation within the Ger 'man empire is not so desperate as recent accounts would indicate. The kaiser has not yet reached that stage of exhaustion where he will submit to any peace less than his own proposals. Here, then, Is a plain view of the task that is before us. Our president certainly understands the situation, as well as any, and realizes fully alt that is. contained in his declaration that "force would be used to the utmost. ' This holds nothing that should dampen the ardor or check the war spirit of America. " Optimism easily is to be maintained in the face of the kaiser's utmost defiance. Only our, people must not let them selves think the war is on the .verge of collapse. We have a long, hard road before us, but victory, peace and security are awaiting at its end. Cm a Victim of the Mob. It is not difficult to believe that the late czar of Russia has been assassinated; if any wonder is felt it will be ;that the murder was so long de layed. For sixteen months he has lived at the mercy of the mob, his life within the reach of any fanatic who might feel moved to take it. Within this time thousands of Russians of all ranks and qualities have fallen as victims to the cruelty of the unreasoning forces of anarchy. The bolshe viki leaders could not guarantee protection to Nicholas, however much they might have cared to spare him. They unloosed the beast when they overthrew Kerensky, and possess no control over him. As for Nicholas himself, his worst fault was the weakness that, characterized .him in all hia acts. Not cruel nor despotic by nature, he was placed where a strong man might have achieved greatness, but a weak one could, only commit blunders. And . all Jus ' life , the czar moved from one mistake to another. His home shadowed by superstition; that would have shamed the meanest of his subjects, his court a maze of intrigue and plot, publicly and privately dominated by wills other than his own, Nicholas will stand a pitiful figure in history. Much sym pathy will go to him because of the manner of his taking off, while the cause1 of the people will be but poorly served through the assassination. The man dies, but the system lives on, and it will be many years before the old regime in Russia is too dead to longer threaten the new. : Omaha certainly sends the boys off smiling. Wartime Life in Washington Observations on the Military Salute and the Stenographer Washington Letter in New York Times. Three of the interesting aspects of war time Washington may appropriately be classified as follows: Salutes, stenographers, 1 1 IUULI1CS. The instructor of our home defense com pany says (after consulting the handbook he keeps in his hip pocket) that there are three kinds of salutes, or sloots. One is the hand salute, the other two are rifle salutes, at or der and right shoulder arms, respectively. As a rifle in wartime Washington is so sel dom seen as to be something of a curiosity, the Washington salute is the hand salute, fingers extended, palm to the front, hand raised 'briskly to the visor of the cap or the brim of the hat, then dropped to the side; done in two counts, "Hand sloot, one, two." This is according to the manual. Ac cording to the practice it varies in a scale between the motions of a base ball pitcher winding up and the languid use of one finger in a die-away "How de doo-00." As to the frequency of its manifestations, it may be said that many who take their ex ercise vicariously and formerly watched base ball games to that end now stand on F street and get the robust exercise of watching the hand salute constantly going on at either of the busy corners. The salute most fre quently cheered by onlookers has a snappy finish like the motion when you are trying to keep them from stealing your bait, but there is a round arm punch that is interesting to observe and gives the exercises by proxy an exhilarating jolt. There is a little mechanical Uncle Sam which taps on one of the store windows to call attention to a display. At times he taps at infrequent intervals and at others he pounds away as if the boss was expected in. You get something of the same effect if you follow ,say, a medical officer from the army medical school on Louisiana avenue up to the War department. After he has saluted everything that bears the shade of khaki in the vicinity of the Medical school he gets a few moments' rest by keeping to the side of lower F street, pervaded by the shipping board, which wears no uniform, scuttles by the provost marshal's office, and at Ninth street braces himself for running the gaunt let. From Ninth to Twelfth streets he makes it in about 4-4, or common time, gradually accelerating, until at Fifteenth street and the avenue, if it goes less than 16 notes to the measure at any time, he looks around to see whether his arm has dropped off. From there on it is a matter of picking the right party. Shall he slight this marine and salute this French officer? Marines are very touchy; better salute him. Here is a private of the sanitary corps and a colonel of the general staff. This is a 'democratic army, but may not colonels have good mem ories for-neglected salutes? And at the end of his journey a great light of Scriptural in terpretation rewards him. And they stood on the right hand and orr the left and held up his hands. Sure, the old Sunday school puzzle is plain enough nowl Shielding great-hearted lies, trying to bring the enshrined deity of tht inner room up to that ideal of business ffficiency that a care less, blundering, procrastinating, conversation-loving and time-wasting man is con stantly nickng and batterng. In the old days, ah, those good old days, when a social engagement was perfectly valid as an excuse for leaving departmental duties, a few in Washington took their lunches disguised in one form or another and ate hem, as it were, behind their hands. For the most, there were, as the calendar revolved, in due season, the shad, the soft or deviled crab, the fried chicken, a dish or two of reed birds in the season of plenty, the oyster in many a guise, the country sausage, and so on, and so on. The surroundings where these were eaten were a trifle un cleanly, but the Grub, speaking of it with a larg G, was good. That was before the Greeks arrived ac companied by the steam table. Someone has said, "When Greek meets Greek, they start a restaurant." Not at all. These are the lines: "When Greek meets Greek, they con jointly and with each other, with malice pre tense and aforethought, willfully and know ingly conspire to set up a certain device known as a steam table and thereafter to maintain the same." So that Washington clerical life either troops to work equipped with paper bags containing lunch with the content of butter more or less apparent, or it lunches on one of three dishes spaghetti a la grease, taint ed beef done up with strange and bitter herbs, or deboshed fish with a sauce con taining streaks of an unknown scarlet sub stance. Some kickshaw like a piece of foun dry pie or a globule of machine-made ice cream completes the feast, and the vendors thrive; sirs, they thrive. As a result we have the luncheon in the park, one of the features of wartime Wash ington. Groups of girls, groups of boys, groups of boys and girls, and just he and she, are eating from paper bags. It has been stated by persons from New England that such a condition of open and shameless eat ing in the sight of everybody would not be tolerated on Boston Common, to which the rejoinder is that it is sc much the worse for Boston, for this, look you, is a pretty sight at the noontide hour; and if two should take alternate bites from the same sandwich, what harm? And. hurrah, here come the stenoera phersl They are here from multi-storied city skyscrapers and trom country lawyers offices: from business colleges and from just- learned-it-by-myself; calm, self-possessed, Jear-eyed; helpers of detail helpless men. Power resides in their right hand and in their eft. The entire clerical personnel of at least ne commission has to be renewed every four months, and the stenographer's depend ents who hold executive positions will stand for a good deal before .they will risk losing a stenographer who can read at least 80, per cent of her notes, .therefore, some future historian may call this the stenographers' war. At least, they know who is running it. .,' Did you ever happen t J hear what Wash ington was like during the civil war? Take the opposite, and you will get what Wash ington is like in this war clear, clean, straight-out. Loyalty? Why, the way those women stenographers lie for their chiefs brings tears to one's eyes. Just business lies, you know; transparent little lies that are more informing than if they told the truth. Mr. So-and-So will be right back. Oh, yes, Mr. So-and-So has attended to that matter. Yes, that letter has already been mailed. What Is "Non-Essential?" ' If war's necessities are such that occupa tions for men of draft age must be classed as to usefulness and that point is decided the line can hardly be drawn more carefully than in General Crowder's order. Yet a deal of trimming wilt be needed to fit it to actual business needs. Sport as a profesion is, of course, non essential. Footmen and male, domestic serv ants can well be dispensed with. Younger boys or older men can serve as bellboys, elevator attendants and porters; girls have always been competent restaurant waiters. The most fashionable London clubs now employ them. War is grasping. The chauffeur does esential work; the bar tender does not. Cooks, clerks and man agers are left to hotels; they are skilled hands hard to replace; so with department store heads of departments and experts gen erally; with travelir r salesmen and pharma cists. Porters are essential if engaged in heavy twork. Railway porters in Great Britain and France are women. We have already women track laborers in this country- '- . The most important words in General Crowder's ruling are that it is to be elastic, and that boards must act with "sympathy and common sense." Few cases are so justly decided by general rule aa by particular con siderations. Seasonal needs, time to make changes without undue loss, the public con venience, must all enter into consideration if this rule of reason is to be followed. And followed it should be. The war is not to be won by smashing business. Busi ne?s must gradually be molded to its de mands. New York World. Profiteering in War Husbands The prosecution by the war risk bureau of women who have married two or more soldiers to obtain their war insurance dis closes the existence of a thriving new femi nine industry. Taking two soldier husbands instead of one of course doubles the wife's income during the war and likewise doubles the expectation of a round sum of insurance money in case of death or disability. Ap parently the honors in this form of plural marriage profiteering belong to the woman at Camp Mills who has married four soldiers. Under the old pension system of reward ing war service the matrimonial eligibility of a soldier increased with his years.. The present aystem of government insurance ap parently puts a premium on youth; there is now no necessity of waiting to become an aged veteran's bride and in due course his widow in order to receive his pension. This to be sure, is taking merely a cynical view of plural-soldier marriages. It may be that some women o'f exuberant affections find soldiers so irresistible that they are even willing to commit bigamy, not once, but as often as necessary for their sake and the sake of their pay and insurance. In addition to the romance of the adventure, they multiply their sources of support The revelation is a curious one of femi nine duplicity. While soldiers have been protected from the influences of open im morality, they have become the prey of a peculiar form of marriage exploitation for profit by conscienceless women, not only m isolated cases, but, according vto officials of the war risk bureau, "in all sections of the country, from Maine to California." New York World. Liberty Vindicates Itself "111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay." Of course. But is not the land where wealth accumulates and men do not decay the ideal of all political economy? Income tax returns show that we have in America 206 persons whose incomes are each $1,000,000 a year or more. An estate of $20,000,000 wisely administered should produce as much return as that. We have 376 persons getting more than $300,000 an nually, more than 4,000 with incomes run ning between $100,000 and the half-million figure, almost 400,000 whose earnings plus in vestment revenues are more than $3,000 a year. The figures are stupendous. Is there any reason for worrying over them as an in dication of national decadence? Not unless our standard of manhood is going down. The magnificent response of that manhood to the demand for war sacri fice, the fine efficiency of our navy, the work our soldiers and our marines are doing in France utterly negative the decadence the ory. And at home, despite high prices, our workers are the best fed laboring people on the face of the earth, and have a spirit of in dependence which no employer today thinks of trying to suppress or coerce. Optimism seems to have the right, we believe it has the right, to revel in the vindi cation of our system of government. Old Hickory was not mistaken "Our constitu tion has preserved unimpaired the liberties of the people, secured the rights of property and our country has improved and is flourish ing beyond any former example in the his tory of nations." President Wilson might say the same thing in 1918 without fear of contradiction. Brooklyn Eagle. I One Year Ago Today in the War. House of representative gave the i president power to designate, priority shipments in interstate commerce, i Premier Lloyd George, in a speech at Glasgow, declared the war would not end until the entente allies had attained their objects. "Che Day We Celebrate. Major General George W. Goethals, ijow serving as acting quartermaster reneral of the United States army, lorn in Brooklyn, N Y 60 years ago. I Major General James w. McAn drew, chief -of -staff of the American rtpeditionary forces, born in Pennsyl vania 66 years ago, 4 George W. Stevens, federal manager if the Cheasapeake & Ohio railway, Itora at Utica, O.. 67 years ago. r Is Day tn History. 11818-Angelo SecchL a famous suit astronomer, who lived for a De In the United States, born at g"lo, Italy. : Died at Rome Febru- , 1816 General Lafayette laid' the Tterstone for the new university jams; at Burlington, Vt 1875- Ferdinand I, ex-emperor of tria, die at Prague. Bom in in nn. .' . i:?-Thb aearing housj banks of v York prevented a money panic t-s loan or 16,090,090. JUS Dr. Karl Ltebneeht, German ! sociauKt, sent to srisoa lor at fc.iii-m.. - Just 30 Years Ago Today The Second ward republican flam beau club held an enthusiastic meet ins: at Kessler's hall on South. Thir teenth street , Tk. i.v i Xf'.fihsnA Tnvinclbles . V'li. m erected a Cleveland and Thurman pole on the corner of Sixteenth and Dorcas streets. ' ' . ' , W. Jf. Babcock. western passenger agent for the Chicago & NorthwesternJ has left for a trip tnrougn tne easi. Edward Rosewater, editor of The Bee, has returned from his visit to Montreal, (Quebec and lower Canada. The cable tars commenced to run on North Twentieth street to Lake traat Havsii trains hnva been DUt on the line running at intervals of Ave minutes ana making uxe rouno trip In, ii minutes Melting Pot o War Airplane postal service between London and Paris is projected. Uncle Sam's example is catching. Payments on account of burglary Insurant in Berlin Increased from (inn linn In 1QW tn ahnnt IB. 000. 000 in 1917. The example of the military plunderbund is contagious. , President Faunc o.' Brown univer sity says that the cruelties of Baby lon were were child's play compared Witn me scientinc sympmneiu ueu i.hnan" nf P.rrmiin warfare. This is Judgment based on knowledge. A British medical journal says the war has caused a marked decline in u A n.imVtar nf jmlflrtps Amnnir men and women of Great Britain. The certainty of a Hohenzoiiern Waterloo makes the Joy of living irresistible. Poultry raisers in White Russia are taking doses of German kultur with bayonet trimmings. Owners are re ,..,. tn rasristor their hens and turn in three eggs a week for each. Should any rebellious nen ioai on mo jou u is up to tne owner to prove mm u vu lay no more eggs, "First in the Fight," motto of lm.rb marines. holds KOOd i,..o tha rhnnre offers. . At Chateau Thierry they hopped to it with characteristic -vim-ana wem n first In the fray in their day. But the -Kaa niinttfti flchters shadow that region. Ccrapplng bega.i there- v. ... m a m rav Tar sr si inn r kulii vcu- tury. Possibly some of the forbears of present-day marines were first in the mixup, . : Peppery Points Minneapolis Tribune: Ger any has an open season for gunning at Young Men's Christian association huts as well as Ked Cross hospitals, children's homes and klndergaten schools. Baltimore American: It must have ben a terrible shock to the already shaken divine right of kings when a member publicly proclaimed In the German Parliament that this war is a family affair of the Hohensollerns, and he could not be executed for lese majeste, or even jailed. . New York World: The citizen from whom the government is expect ing an income tax payment of $14, 800,000 apparently possesses a "swol len rvrtnn" of the kind once de nounced as inimical to democratic institutions. But it seems to have a public usefulness at the peseni moment K,o Vnrit Herald: Safety razors. soap, towels, hair brushes and tooth brushes are now being issued to an enlisted men in the overseas service. Tl, - V. mahao, nf nn art) 1 PArsh. Ing, who believes that personal clean liness increases the morale 01 nis forces. The Americans are to con tinno tn ho "clean flehters." Baltimore American: inere is some consolation in the thought that the work-or-nght order win appiy xo tne man who nlavs the flute or trombone! Louisville Courier-Journal: The gun that flred the first American shot in that Rnrnnenn war has since fired 18,000 more. At that rate it may yet fire as many shots as the kaiser has flred speeches proclaiming .victory ."done wan," Twice Told Tales Good Chewing. "The American soldiers." said Major Frederick Palmer, the press censor, "have proved themselves in France, and are very highly admired there. Of course, this doesn't prevent the keen-witted French from Joking about our idiosyncrasies. "There's a story in France concern ing two nollus on auard duty at night. Suddenly one of them holds vv his hand and mutters: "'Listen! Sauish. sauash, squosh! What can it be, mon vleux? A Ger man division advancing through the mud?' "'No.' said the other poilu. -ca- mezvous, Marcel. It is only the Americans farther down the line chewing their gum ration. " Wash ington Star. Insult to Injury. The greatest 'insult ever heaped uDon an inexpensive but very popu lar make of automobile is here re corded: The DroDrietor of one of the ma chines was driving ajong a country road, when he was startled Dy a gun ahnt frnm a wnnd cln.se at hand. "Don't shoot again!" he yelled. "I'll surrender!" A man with a gun came forward and began to humbly apologize, "t hoe vniir rardon." he said "When I heard- vour honker and quickly looked your way. I thought It was a duck." St Louis uiuue- Democrat fQJVV Judge Hanna for Senator. Greeley, Neb., June 17. To the Ed itor of The Bee: Hon. J. R. Hanna of Grand Island, Neb., has been asked by his many friends and acquaint ances to become a candidate for Uni ted States senator at the primaries to be held in August 'The judge is 100 per cent American; the right .nan in the right place; he is modest always congenial, never ag gresive; he is the type of a man needed in Washington at this critical time. Heretofore the man sought the office, now the office seeks the man, and Judge Hanna's friends think him the "noblest Roman of them all." A. M. J. Woman, Wages and War. Omaha, June 27. To the Editor of The Bee: In today's Issue you an nounce, "Girls can strike as well as run elevators." Unfortunately, the ministering an gels' demand for a "living wage" is treated similar to that of the horny handed sons of toil, consequently the girls have no redress. Therefore, they must resort to the old, old weapon, the strike. What do the uplifters, or society in general, think abom women going on a strike? Doesn't any humane, sane person know that the feeding of the mothers of the American race surpass forts and fortresses, and that it goes deeper than submarines and higher than balloons? JERRY HOWARD. New Civilization. Carson, la.. June 27. To the Editor of The Bee: Doubtless the prophet of long ago knew what he was talking about when he said "There shall be wars and rumors of wars." ,As we look over the pages of history from the earliest recollection of mankind to the present time we observe more truth than poetry in the statement Earth has been reeking with the blood of the fallen from the time the "first lings of the flock" had been offered as a sacrifice unto the Lord to the present time, with the historian of the pres ent-day writing of "war as an industry." In this industrial field we find ref erence to the battle of Verdun of about a half year's duration, wherein the French fired 60,000,000 shells con taining 1.80C.000 tons of steel. In the production and transportation of these missiles to the battle front It required nearly 9,000,000 tons of coal. To further prosecute the war for the present fiscal year, our congress has appropriated $19,000,000,000. It is indeed a task for the average hu man mind to grasp the meaning and staggering stupendcusness of such a sum, but it is quite evident someone will be compelled to "pay the fiddler" before the game is over and the final goal is reached. ' But this is the most insignificant part of the entire program. The sons of earth are being .offered as sacrifice in a new field of "Industry," which cannot be estimated in a men , and millions movement Physical force and gunpowder are having their day in the industrial world, but some fine day we shall find it necessary to go back to mush and milk and first prin ciples, with our educational ideas based on the life and character of One who drove the money changers out of the temple, "for the wrath of man worketh not righteousness," with "fer vent charity covering the multitude of sins." The industry of the warring world may be right, but when.it requi.es the best blood of young manhood of earth to enrich the soil of nations and peo ples, it is time for someone to rise at the foot of the Cross with a fighting heart and no desire to use other than the sword of the Spirit to drive ar rows of conviction into the tenements of those who would seek to profit by misfortunes of the weaker brother. Let men and nations arouse fom a frantic and maddened state and keep in line with long established educa tional and religious ideas, and the world will eventually grow better, if not wiser, helpful to the present and unborn generations T. J. HILDEBRAND. THE DEAD TO THE LIVING. O you that still have rain and sun. Kisses of children and of wife. And the good earth to tread upon. And the mere sweetness that Is life. Forget not us, who gave all these For something dearer and for you! Think In what cause we crossed the seas! Remember, he who falls the challenge Falls us, too. Now is the hour that shows the strong The soul no evil powers affray Drive straight against embattled wrong Faith knows but one, the hardest, way. Endure, the end Is worth the throe; . Give, give, and dare and again dare! On, to that wrong's great overthrow! We are with you, of you; we the pain and Victory share. Lawrence Blnyon, In London Times. m lUl Certain When the last curtain has been low ered on the activities of some member of your family do not hesitate to ajrail your self of our experienced undertaking abili ties. We can promise you that the tact ful manner in which the funeral is ar ranged and carried out will appeal to your sense of justice. N.P.SWANSON Funeral Parlor. (Established 1888) 17th and Cuming Sts. TeL Douglas 1060. Around the Cities , New York is to have a hotel cost ing $15,000,000 and containing '2,508 rooms. San Antonio, Tex., this year cele I rates its two hundredth anniversary. Vhe city doesn't look its years from a ny angle. Not this year, because It i as one of the biggest army training amps nearby. North' Jay, in the state of Maine, holds front rank in America's gaso line map. With three exceptions every man in town owns a car, and auto dealers have the lonesomes backed into a corner. Ice prices in Chicago have been shaved by the food administrator of Illinois, the maximum price for fam ily cakes being 65 cents for 15Q pounds, delivered. Jitney stations have been established where Ice is sold at lower price? on the "cash and carry" plan. Boston is in a fair way of taking fver and operating the elevated-subway system. Both branches of the Massachusetts legislature have reached ?.n agreement on a bill granting the city the necessary authority. The companies are agreeable, since the city guarantees 6 per cent on stock pnd the payment of outstanding bonds. LINES TO A SMILE. The little Irishman was being examines, for admission to the army. He seemed all right in every way except one. 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