THE BEE: GMAHA, MONDAY JULY 15, 1918.
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One country, one flag, one allegiance and one
language is good for all true Americana.
Great Britain hai determined to help the
Ctecho-Slovaks in Siberia, while "watchful wait
ing" holds 01 back.
la nulling: off that rotten gerrymander, our
democratic county commissioners are likely to
discover that they poked up a wasp a neit
Edward Frederick Trefz says $500,000
month U being spent for German propaganda in
America. How much is coming to Nebraska?
Secretary Baker reports that 95 per cent of the
iotdlers la Berries hare taken out war Insurance,
' thus showing that th boys art prudent as well as
Ponoatfon of three American army corps in
Franc ought to convince the kaiser that our
soldiers have the theory all right, and he knows
jth practice will come
The youngest of the Roosevelt boys has made
t& mark la the war, but up to date not one of
jtttt kaiser's sons has got beyond the safety sone.
that art not so reckless.
The Vheaf senators are entitled to whatever
-obmfort they may get from their efforts to thrust
th farmers Into the profiteer class, bat the presi
dent knows the situation better.
Von Hertllng vouches for Von Hintsa as com-
oletely subservient, on which assurance the so
cialists In the Reichstag will doubtless vote for
the budget It Is a great game, surely, the way
it is played at Berlin.
A reader asks for information as to the
"Vaterland" publication. ' It was a periodica
established at the outset of the war to further
Germany's interests In America, and was presided
over by George Sylvester Viereck, who received
a subsidy from the imperial German treasury,
To' be sure, politics is adjourned, but the
president has simplified democratic plans for
Illinois by giving J. Ham Lewis a personal en
do;3tment and an Invitation to again shed his
radiance over the campaign for the senatorship.
If the Illinoicans do not see through this, they
will deserve their historic name of "Suckers."
TWO GAS PLANTS SAME AS TWO PHONES
What does not appeal to the World-Herald
as wise or feasible is the talk of constructing
a new gas plant. It would be economic folly
to tear up our streets and spend a million or
two or three of dollars in building another to
match it. World-Herald.
Again we have a naive self-indictment by our
hyphenated contemporary which only a few years
ago was responsible as much if not more than
any other one factor for perpetrating this very
folly by forcing upon Omaha the construction
of a second telephone system.
Of course, everyone knew what the moving
cause at the time was for the hyphenated paper's
advocacy of the Independent Telephone fran
chise. The scattering of blocks of stock and
the deal for votes to send the editot, of that
paper to congress is not forgotten except by
those with very short memories. The result
then was exactly what is now charged against
the plan to build a second gas plant. Our streets
were torn up and our pavements ruined. For
two years the two telephones ringing at the same
time almost drove people crazy; the worthless
franchise was capitalized and the securities un
loaded on gullible investors; finally, after the
smash, the Bell system was blackmailed into
buying the useless remains for a million dollars
on which its customers must forever pay returns.
It is good to know that some of those who
had, a hand in this outrageons crime against the
community have since seen the light, even though
they have escaped the penalties that should fol
low the offense.
Real Eves of the Army
Camera Enables Airmen to Review and Report Accurately
Save Child Labor From Its Friends.
The remarkable Senator Robert Latham Owen
of Oklahoma declares his intent to secure the
passage of a child labor law that will be effective.
To accomplish this he proposes to reintroduce
the law held to be invalid by the supreme court,
adding to it a section that will forbid any court
to set it aside. That is all, and by that expedient
tha senator, whose views on other matters are
nnlque as his concept of the function of our
oourU, will forever settle the potency of "be it
enacted."
, Ha explains that the majority of the court
slavishly followed tha rule laid down by John
Marshall, instead of striking out boldly along
new line and upholding tha dictum of Robert
Latham Owen. As a matter of fact, the majority
of tha court followed what teems to be a clearly
'defined principle of constitutional law, marking
tha boundary of control of congress over com
tneree between the states. Justice Holmes, who
announced the decision, expressed his sympathy
' with the purpose of the law, but could not for
that reason hold It good.
Child labor, or any other abuse, can be made
a pretext for assault on the probity of our courts,
but Americans realize that finally their liberties
rati on law. Other and legal means will be
found for dealing with this vexatious problem,
and efforts already are under way. So far as
Senator Owen's personal attitude is concerned,
hit seat for the reform does him credit, but his
willingness to undermine the foundations of our
institutions in carrying hit point suggests that
his judgment is not the soundest The cause
of the children will be far better served In hands'
Prevention Instead of Cure.
Economists and sociologists are engaged just
now in intensive as well as extensive study of
the subject of compulsory sickness Insurance
The National Manufacturers' association and the
American Federation of Labor alike have prac
tically committed themselves to Support of laws
to establish such a department of state activity,
although neither has made a final announcement
of its plan. Supplementary to the relief that
has been provided for in the various workmen's
compensation laws, it is expected that the sick
ness insurance will do away with much of the
economic distress that now interferes with in
dustrial efficiency.
Quite as important and as interesting is the
work undertaken by some of the great insurance
companies, which looks to the preservation of
the health of policyholders. Old line and fra
ternals alike have had this impressed on them
in a most practical way. The Modern Woodmen
of America have set up and maintain one of the
greatest sanatoriums in the world for the use
of their members; the Equitable has a "welfare"
department that is more than paying for its keep
by its services to risks of the company. The
International Typographical union has built up
a great home and sanatorium for printers at
Colorado Springs; the Printing Pressmen's union
has its similar institution at Hale Springs, Tenn.,
and other trades unions are looking after their
members along the line of reducing preventable
disease. .Great industrial concerns have taken
up the matter in a practical way, and have
secured excellent results.
AH of this supports the conclusion that pre
vention is far more to be desired than cure, and
must be studied as closely as the subject of
relief. In this connection it Is comforting to
reflect on the fact that young men in the military
service are getting an education along sanitary
lines that will be of value beyond calculation
when they are returned to civil life. The share
the doctors of the land have in this tremendous
service entitles them to far more of credit than
they are likely to receive. The material well
being of the American nation is to be vastly
improved as a result of the war and its influence
on industrial and social problems.
To call the British airmen the eyes of
the armv is a common metaphor. Even at
the beginning of the war they did much ob
servation for the artillery besides playing the
leading part in general reconnaissance, cut
their present value in all matters of observa
tion greatly exceeds anything that was ex
pected at the beginning. Without aircraft
f. i i -ii . : r
in important numucrs, aim wiinuui auu ih
whatever their numbers, which can hold their
own against the enemy, an army is prac
tically blind; and without their cameras air
men would not be the all-seeing eyes that
they are. For, as the airman is the eye or
the land forces, so the camera is the eye of
the airman. It at least provides that part
of his vision which is most penetrating and
accurate.
A series of photographs from the air is
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a wondertui piece oi work, nunareas oi
snapshots go to make it, and these are so
cunningly fitted together that a complete pho
tograph is obtained, bo the work goes on,
section by section, and by degrees is pro
cured a picture, which cannot lie, of the
whole of the enemy's defenses from flank to
flank of his lines. As his dispositions are
constantly changing, or at least being elab
orated in important respects, there is no rest
for the aerial photographers and no end to
theh work.
Every day on which there is a reasonable
visibility until the end of the war they must
fly into the face of danger to discover new
secrets with their cameras. The danger is
of a particularly unpleasant kind, because
throughout the operation they are within
effective range of Archibald the anti-air
craft gun which is the flying man's most in
veterate, if not his most deadly, enemy. To
take a series of photographs of an enemy
position needs a special coolness and nerve.
This is a typical quiet morning in a day
of the photographers of the air. A machine
is run out from the sheds, and pilot and ob
server mount to their places. It is not a fast
aeroplane, as speed is now counted, but each
man is armed with a machine gun, and attack
from the air will be met with stout and effi
cient resistance. Attack from the ground
cannot be answered. It can only be evaded
by maneuver. Through a hole in the fusel
age or body of the machine a camera points
earthward, capable of reproducing a consid
erable area on each plate exposed. Ihe de
vice by which the snapshots are taken is as
simple as it is ingenious, and it is almost
London Letter in New York World.
"fool proof." It is the duty of the observer
to take the photographs; A the pilot, to pass
over the exact ground detailed for observa
tion. . ...
In half an hour or so the machine has
crossed the lines at a height of little more
than 4,000 feet Far above are small, fast
scouts, ready to attack any aerial enemy that
may attempt to interfere with the work be
low. I-rom the nrst, ann-aircrait guns
uncomfortably attentive, but the bursts can
this stage be defeated Dy ciimmng, uivm8
or swerving movements.
It is when the actual objective ot pnoio
prapic attack has been reached that the real
difficulties and dangers come. Further dodg
ing and diving are no loi.ger practical, since
an accurate pictorial record can only be ob-
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tained by steady Hying. ine airpiane mui
be as level as possible when a snapshot is
taken. Yet the enemy knows the purpose of
the invader and chooses thi.s moment to make
his utmost effort to destroy him. The Archi
bursts are thicker than evei. The range has
been nicely judged; the bursts are well aimed.
In the midst of them the two must do
their work as steadily and quietly as if the
air were still. Up ana down, over the narrow
section of ground whose secret must be won,
the pilot steers, for the most part an even
course. Shells burst closely around them,
on this side and that, beneath and above. At
moments the pilot is forced to swerve, but
he must quickly get level snd resume his or
dered course.
Meanwhile the observer studies intently
the pitted earth below, which would appear
to the uninitiated as indefinite as a huge
ploughed field. But his practised eye picks
out its essential features, and, regardless of
the shells, he presses his lever at carefully
timed intervals. At last the deed is done
just as a shell bursts close under their tail
and tosses them upward as a wave might lift
a cork. Fortunately the damage is slight.
"Finished?" asks the pilot through his tel
ephone. "Finished," says the observer.
And they swing for home with an inevita
ble sense of relief.
It is all in the day's work a very ordi
nary job. But even the airman's most ordi
nary job is out of the common as a risky ex
perience. As for the knowledge obtained, it
may prove of vital importance. The camera
is more than an eye; it is a weapon. And the
hand that controls it must be as purposeful
and steady as if it held a rifle.
Vital Question for Voters
What Should We Look For in a Candidate for Congress?
The Outlook, New York.
Vote for the congressman in your district
whose supreme purpose in all he does and
says will be to win the wai. Whether he De
democrat or republican, prohibitionist or anti
prohibitionist, for woman suffrage or
against woman suffrage, is of small conse
quence. There is but one ifsue this summer:
Win the war.
Measure candidates by their deeds, not
their words, Of two candidates, if one was
for universal service before we entered the
war, and the other is a late convert, the pre
sumption is for the first. He who went for
preparedness against the tide is to be pre
ferred to him who goes with the tide for per
formance. Beware of the chonic fault-finder, the con
stitutional critic, the man who proves his ef
ficiency, not by doing something, but by
finding fault with everything mat otner men
are doing, who glorifies himself by belittling
his fellows.
Beware of the chronic eulogist, the man
who thinks criticism is disloyalty, the man
whose only motive is, Get behind the presi
dent. Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
The president's best friends are the men who
give a wholehearted support to tne war poi-
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ICy, Out uo nul HCSlldlc lu j'uun yui sitvo auu
snortcomings in particular puimcs ui ncm
ods.
The American government is not a comet,
with the president for its head and congress
for its tail. Congress has its duty not less
than has the president. Send to congress a
man who has the vision to see his duty and
Barefoot Days in Germany.
A German emperor once crawled on hands
and knees across the Alps in winter to do pen
nance to the pope for his offenses. His ains had
been much on the same order aa those of which
the present kaiser is guilty. However, William
the Last makes his amends vicariously, and passes
on to his devoted people the inestimable privilege
of enduring privation that their war lord may
prosper, or at least continue to carry out his
plans for making the world uncomfortable. That
the blessed supermen who make up the popula
tion of that sublimely efficient empire of sweet
ness and light, kultur and other unmentionable
things, over which the ultimate Hohenxollern
now holds his sway, may enjoy to the utmost all
their manifold advantages as his subjects, he now
extends to them the great boon of going barefoot,
that they may save paper to make foot covering
against another winter. Leather in Germany
has long been sacred to the soldier, and one great
but unboasted result of recent experiences in
France is found in the fact that the German army
has not so many feet to clothe as it contained in
March. This is a most practical economy, doubt
less much appreciated by Herr von Ludendorff,
quartermaster general of the empire, although
not publicly referred to by him. And anyone
with an imagination can supply for himself the
comment of the German people on being granted
full permission to deprive themselves of footgear
in order that the war lords may proceed with
their game.
the courage to do it. This is no time to con
vert the American congress into a German
Reichstag, a mere debating society, a "hall
of records." There are too many men of the
"ditto to Mr. Burke" order in congress. Do
not add to their number. Elect a man inde
pendent enough to have an opinion of his
own; enough ot a mixer to work tor a com
mon end with men of a different opinion.
Do not elect a pessimist who is sure that
the Germans can never be defeated, that the
most to be hoped for is a stalemate. Despair
never yet won a victory.
Do not elect an optimist who thinks
German victory is impossible, that we need
not worry, serenity never won a victroy.
We can win if we have the will to win
we cannot win without the will to win. Elect
courage, not cowardice; hope, not despair
resolution, not vacillation; a discriminating
doer of deeds, not a blind follower of
leader.
Dead and Gone Von Bissing
The man "whose name, justly or unjustly,
was destined to stand forth to the world as a
svmbol of one of the darkest, crudest and
most sinister pages of its miserable history"
is thus described by Brand Whitlock in
Everybody s Magazne.
"General Baron von Bissing. standing
there in the lofty saloon of the residence of
the Belgian minister of the arts and sciences,
in the early twilight of that short December
afternoon (1914), was a man over 70 years
of age, old and thin, with thick graying black
hair brushed straight back from his forehead
and olastered down as with waer or with on
on the curiously shaped head that was so
itriight and sheer behind. His face was
hard and its leathern skin, wrinkled and old
and weather-beaten, was remorselessly
shaved as to chin and throat, and high lean
cheeks, leaving the thick, heavy mustache of
a Prussian Reiter to hide somewhat the thin
lips of the stern mouth and then flow on,
growing across his cheeks to bristle up
fiercely by his ear..
"He was scrupulously clean, one might
almost sayscrubbed. One might almost im
agine him smelling of soap like an old sergeant-major
in a regiment of guards. His
brow was high and wide and the lean face
tapered to the wedge of a verv firm jaw; the
visage of an old Prussian dragoon of the
school and mentality of Bismarck. But out
of it there gleamed a pair of piercing dark
eyes that seemed black until one saw that
thev were blue: th were keen, shrewd eyes,
not wholly unkind. He wore, ceremoniously,
a great heavy saber that clanked against his
thin legs as he walked stffly into the salon
until its hilt was grasped, as though by an
habitual gesture, in the aged hand.
People and Events
Unlike a multitude of job holders the dol
lar-a-year men an . sfied with th -al
ary.
New York state socialist party declares
for a six-hour day. This gives the hookworm
a hunch on where to hea. in.
The United States coined 528,351,479 pen
nies during the last 12 months. How many
of them by the feel did you mistake for a
dimef
v Uncle Joe Cannon, 82 past, will not "run"
for congress next fall. He doesn t have to
The Danville district will run for Joe and
hold him in.
The automobile1 death score in New York
state rose from 72 in June, 1917, to 99 last
month. The old world is far from monopo
lizing the killing business.
' Back in Bridgeport, Conn., workmen in the
torpedo-boat yards worked three hours on
the morning ot Independence day and dona
ted their time checks to Uncle Sam. That is
patriotism of the right kind.
Uncle Sam's railroad folders are strangely
sober these days printed tragedies in black
and white. Not a streak of enlivening color
relieves the gloom or vouchsafes a rift of
cheer for rainbow printencs.
During the first ..alf of the year new en
terprises launched in the eastern states fell
down to SO per cent of the capitalization of
the same period last year. New York Jour
nal of Commerce footings show $1,902,000,
000 in the first half of 1917 and $985,000,000
in the past six months. War clamps the lid
on peaceful enterprise.
St Louis is in .he grip of a sensation in
volving the higher-ups of the street railway.
Some months ago the cit council passed an
ordinance very favoral'j to the company.
A referendum petition suspending operation
of the law until submitted to a vote of the
people was about to be presented to the
council. The night before the time set for
filing thieves broke into the vault containing
the petition and vanished with the precious
document A grand jury investigation result
ed in the indictment of Bruce Cameron, su
perintendent of transportation of the street
railway, as the instigator of the theft. " ther
indictments are expected s the 'ight is turn
ed on the crime. .
Veterinarian on Scrum.
Ogallala, Neb., July 12. To the
Editor of The Bee: In your paper
of July 12 you have an article en
titled, "Serum Men Endanger Hog
Supply." In regard to this article, I
wish to state in defense of the veter
inarians of Nebraska, a few facts that
are not generally known to the laity.
First, in order to treat a disease, a
diagnosis must be made. There areJ
several diseases commonly called hog
cholera by the farmers and county
agents. These diseases, when treated
with hog cholera serum, have a mor
tality from 80 to 100 per cent.
In your article you claim county
agents to be graduates of state uni
versities, their diplomas being proof
of their ability to administer ho;
cholera serum, which they say is a
simple operation. These men may
be graduates of universities and in
telligent, but as to the treatment of
hog cholera and diagnosis, they are
as ignorant as tne rarmers. xney
know nothing of sanitation or differ
ential diagnosis.
Your article seems to point out the
fact that all veterinaries are natural
born grafters, and to me, your arti
cle would be more properly labeled
"Serum Men Protect Hog Supply."
I will ask you, what you would
think' of a veterinary, who knew noth
ing about farming conditions; having
had no experience, who would go out
and advise the farmer how deep to
plant his corn and when to harvest
the same? Personally, the interests
of the farmer, arp my interests; upon
his success my success depends, and
I hope before you publish another ar
ticle dealing with hog cholera, that
you will give this matter sufficient
study to enable you to write an in
telligent article on the same.
P. T. SMITH, D. V. M.
Making the World Safe.
Omaha, July 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: President Wilson in his
Fourth of July address at Mount
Vernon, the resting place of Washing-H
ton, defined one of the aims of the war
to be "the settlement of every ques
ton, whether of territory, of sover
eignty, of economic arrangement or
of political relationship, upon the
basis of the free acceptance of that
settlement by the people immediately
concerned.
This is harking back to the ancient
theory of state rights. It is taking
advantage of the stress of the nation
to resurrect a defunct doctrine. If
this is true, then the state of Ne
braska has no right to say to a partic
ular community you must cut out
booze, or quit stealing horses unless
it suits your pleasure.
We have Just had an application of
this doctrine in the decision on the
child labor law, where the work for
equity and Justice has been thrown
back a quarter of a century. It was
decided with great solemnity that the
nation must not intercept goods man
ufactured by children working 10
and 12 hours a day. Fifty years ago
the same doctrine said that slaves
could be taken into a free state and
the people of the free state were help
less and could only stand and look on.
In the south already the ghouls of
greed are returning to the long hours
and literally working little chldren to
death to Increase their incomes. There
is no, competition that demands such
action. It is pure inhuman greed.
If this doctrine is correct, th- we
are usurpers in the Philippines. Our
training and educating the natives for
government and industry has been an
outrage. We should have turned
them over to Aguinaldo and his free
booters and allowed a condition of an
archy that would put the muddle in
Russia to shame.
Democracy is loose, rampant and
dominant in Russia, and every crime
in the category is being committed
with not a single human right pro
tected. The world needs to be made
safe for righteousness and democracy
trained and educated to perpetuate it
S. J. WOODRUFF.
tlon. hv no ioul, they don't bllev.
spirit ? Bltlmor American.
Bacon U that trui that your wife
brain farerT ...'
Esbert Why. no. but sha'a tot tha next
thins to it
"What's that?"
"Hat faver." Tonkars Statesman.
John Doctor, you ara a feneral practi
tioner. What ta tha difference between that
and a specialist?
Doctor A seneral practitioner, sir. Is a
man to whom you pay a fee for telling you
to what specialist you should ro. Typo
graphic Messenger.
The freshman class in trigonometry was
reciting. ... ,
''And hae you proved this proposition T
kfd the "math, prof." ,
"Well," said the freshman, "proved Is
rather a strong word; but I can say that I
have rendered it highly probable. Ix
Angeles Express.
WHEN WEST WIND BLOWS
The West Wind Is the home-bound wind
As It blows across the sea;
And every breexe bears a breath of love
From a lonely heart to thee.
And the West Wind sings as It sweeps
along ,
Where it plays with the white-capped
foam;
But It will not pause, for It bears a song,
And the theme of the song is Home.
And the West Wind whispers, soft and low.
As of old in the lullaby,
And a father hears, as It starts to blow,
The sound of a baby's cry.
Then he sends a kiss to his tittle child.
And the West Wind bears It home;
While a doughboy down In the front Una
trench
Wings a prayer on the wind In the
gloam.
For France la the East and the wind Is
West,
And the sea Is a long, long way,
But the bridge of the sea is a wisp of lova
At the close of a lonely day.
So the West Wind bears on Its broad,
broad breast.
As It swings Us way over the sea.
A thought of love to a million hearts
And a throb of love to thee.
To thee does the West Wind bear a
thou hear of It over there.
Oh, mother heart, and baby dear,
On the soft, sweet twilight alrT
And, woman God gave, dost thou hear it,
tooT
For It goes like a dart to thee;
Hark! It blows on the path of the sunset
warm.
West bound on the eastern sea.
For the West Wind Is the Home Bound
Wind,
And It blows with no vagrant chance;
'TIs the Wind of Love In the hand of God,
And it blows from the news or ranee.
Wm. L. Slldger In Stars and Stripes.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"Senator Fudge relates an amusing
anecdote '
"If it's new, all right But I don't eara
to listen to a stale story Just because It la
tacked onto a United States senator."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Nail I had a charming- eall from Mr.
Dashaway last night.
Belle What did he talk aboutT
Nell Why, come to think of It, ha never
opened his mouth. He Just sat and listened
to me. Philadelphia Record.
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I TODAY I
One Tear Ago Today in tha War.
Russians continued to advance
along a front now widened to 100
miles.
French In brilliant attack captured
' S00 yards of strong German trenches
- in the Champagne sector.
Tbt Day Wa Celebrate.
Gwyar l. Yates, auditor ana ac
- cou&tant of the United States Na
tional bank, born 1185.
Lucien Stephens, men's furnishings,
born 1861.
C. W. DeLematre, attorney, born
18S0. ' .
- Viscount Northcllfft. born near
Dublin. ES years ago.
Mme. Schumann-Helnk, born near
Pratue. Bohemia. 67 years ago.
Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the
Interior, born In Princa Edward Isl
and, 6 years ago-
Tbla Day In History. ,
1840 England, Austria, Prussia
. and Russia entered Into a treaty of
. alliance with Turkey, to tha exclusion
of France. " " -lS41Winiam
C Whitney, secrt-
tary of the navy In tha first Cleveland
administration, born at Conway, Mass.
Died In New Tork City, February 2,
1905. - -
. 1868 William M. Evarts of New
'V Tork became attorney-general of tha
United States.
4 8t9 -Napoleon III. ot Franca de-
I ,rl-. ed war against King William of
1 Jjtsaia,
Just SO Years Ago Today
Dr. Amelia Burroughs has returned
from Niagara Falls where she attend
ed the American institute.
Col. Al Fairbrother. editor-in-chief
l1 '
of the Lincoln Call, made a brief call
at these newspaper headquarters.
Fully 1,000 persons visited Lake
Manawa and the various boats were
busy conveying persons to and from
Manhattan Beach.
N. P. Dodge and daughter, Miss
Carrie, left for a European trip for
two months.
The printers ot the city accepted
an Invitation to visit Like Manawa
at an early hour and took a plunge
in the "surf." Colonel Reed furnished
motor line transportation to th lake.
, Promoting Economy.
He How about getting married T
She Getting married if It's tha
right girl ehould double tha Ufa of
your tires ana cut your; gasoline dui
13 two, fti louii uioDe-vemocraii
Round About the State
Hastings Tribune: After talking
about how sacrifice is necessary if our
country la to win this war, some peo
ple take a lot of money and start on
long and costly pleasure Journeys.
Ownership ot the York Democrat
stages another sudden change, this
time irom jonn a. Kavanaugn to x.
B. Hutchinson. The last issue car
ries Kavanaughs long farewell and
Hutchinson's vocal salaam. A cas
ual reading both indicates that the
paper's politics is above the suspicion
of a change.
Some men remain bachelors," ob
serves tne Flattsmouth Journal,
wanking up the typewriter, "be
cause they have no faith in women,
and some men keep their money In
the garden becauso they don't trust
banks. But a man who wears both sus
penders and a belt doesn t seem to
have faith lu anything."
Grand Island Herald makes a July
bow to old rlends featuring Volume
No. 1, of Its new mission. "It is our
aim," says tha salutatory, "not to af
filiate with any political party, but
to stand by our government and to
uphold American ideals and prlnci
pies, American rights and American
honor now and in tha future." Pub
llehed every Thursday by tha A.-H
Publishing Co. - . -
At Random.
Redd Who wrote th worda for
that sonc?
Greene I don't think anyone could
have. I guess they Just picked 'em
out of the dictionary, Tonkars States'
cuan. ,
Editorial Shrapnel
Minneapolis Journal: By the way,
what has become of Villa?
Louisville Courier-Journal: Tha
Berlin Vorwaerts wants the allies to
concede to the Germans "a peace
with honor." But where would they
get the honor?
New York Herald: The senate
has adopted a resolution for the ob-
servance oi noon prayer auring tne
war, but this does not mean that pray
er should be confined to the noon
period or to the period of the war.
Brooklyn Eagle: Altogether the
United States has lent Belgium $181.-
800.000. or not quite szo per capita
on the ante-war population. But you
could go through this country wltn a
fine-tooth comb without finding any
body who grudges the cash that has
gone to Belgium.
New York World: The masters at
great German headquarters have paid
Austria-Hungary anotner compliment
by insisting that Prussian generals be
placed in command of the dual mon
archy's armies, which is another proof
of the trutn or president wuson s
statement a year ago that the Haps-
burg empire is a vassal.
Brooklyn Eagle: Compare the
president's speech at Mount Vernon on
July 4, me, wun me speecn oi ur.
von Bethmann-Hollweg in the Relch-
Rtar on August 4. 1914. Oris la a
nohla statement of immortal prln
doles, of justice and nrorress: the
other, a presentation of the trickery
to whicn an cuttnroats ana liars re
sort, whether In a police court or the
Jcourt.ola king, , i
Twice Told Tales
Marking Time.
The captain and his family were
returning to their quarters a little
late, after a Thanksgiving dinner, and
were stopped by a sentry on duty for
tne nrst time.
"Who goes there?"
"Captain J., Company C. and fam
ily," was the response.
The rookie was slightly puzzled aa
to procedure, but rose nobly to the
occasion: "Advance, Captain, and be
recognized, rest of family mark time."
Everybody a Magazine.
Hop to It.
"Why ain't you working?"
"I'm looking for something to turn
UP- ...
"well, nere s a neia ot fine soli. Just
the thing to turn up. And here's a
spade to turn it with." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Camouflage.
"I can't get the children to Fletcher,
se."
"Make a game of it"
"Huh?"
"Tell 'em they are playina chew-
hew." Louisville Courier-Journal. .
Some Dividends.
"I suppose you can't get any money
out of a snowbank?"
"Oh, I dunno. They protect the
winter wheat and we get good divi
dends there." Louisville Courier-journal,
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