THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1918.
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Over the topi
On to Berlin? All right; let's got
.Still, it did not need an air flight to cinch
"Uncle Mose" Kinkaid'a grip on his constituency.
, Don't let anyone believe that Jhere ii no more
work for the State Council of Defense in Ne
braska. '
Some office seekers think they are fooling"
someone when they camouflage behind petitions
asking them to go on the ballot
Consolidation of telegraph offices is also in
jrospecU The government can do t lot 6i things
it would not let the private companies do.
Judged by its jabs at the city commissioners,
the loss of that city official advertising has evi
dently loured the sweet disposition of our hy
phenated contemporary. ,
Mr. McAdoo ought to find little in the way
o! routing freight over roads with lightest grades.
That is what the railroad men were doing in all
cases where the regulations did not interfere.
"MetV platform gives no consideration to the
Hyphenates and kaiser-coddlers. That makes sure
ho will get no aid or comfort from the hyphen-
ated newspaper over which "Met" once presided
as chief editor. '"' ' "
President Wilson is quoted as telling the
democratic congressman from 'this district that
he hopes to see him re-elected. He doubtless
Jells that to every democratic congressman, but
who has heard of him saying it to a republican
.ongressman? "Politics is adjourned."
A nation that Invented poison gas, flame
throwers, trench clubs, and other similar imple
ments and methods; that drops bombs on base
hospitals, school houses, sleeping hamlets, links
sassenger ships without warning; desecrates
churches, defiles private homes, and has commit
ted all manner of unspeakable villainies and acts
if cussedness, doel well to shrink from the saw4
d-off shotgun. It may help the kaiser a little if
he keeps in mind that that weapon was designed
to deal with evil-doers who had put themselves
outside the pale of the law of God and man, and
that it is just fulfilling its mission when used
.gainst the Hun. '
EVERYONE HIS OWN PLATFORM
MAKER.
One of the practical results of the direct'pri
mary as practiced in Nebraska is to make every
one who offers himself for the suffrages of the
people his own platform maker.
Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing
depends upon the,point of view. The candidate,
on starting out for the nomination, outlines the
propositions for which he wishes to stand in
some kind of a letter or address made to fit his
particular record and qualifications. We still have
party platforms, framed and promulgated by party
conventions, but they are not formulated in this
state until the time for the candidates to make
their filings has expired and, therefore, not until
after the personal platforms have been put out.
The party as an organization is expected to be
responsible for the fulfillment of its platform
promises, and yet, the party platform and the
candidates' platforms nearly always conflict or
overlap. As a consequence one or the other must
later be either disregarded or disclaimed.
The personal platform, therefore, not only de
stroys party responsibility but stimulates a
throwing of hooks with every kind of variegated
bait promising to catch a few stray votes. In
stead of being a declaration of principles, the
tendency is to a patch-quilt composition, too long
to command even casual reading and brushed
aside without even being preserved for future ref
erence. There- is a chance, especially this year, for
party platform makers to reform their ways and
hit the target. If they give us the same old per
functory stuff, no one will take any notice of it.
Has Foch Determined to Advance?
After standing for three days, in the parlance
of the prize ring, "toe to toe and trading wallops"
with the Germans, the Franco-American forces
launched a forward movement and gained much
ground between the Aisne and the Marne. Prior
to this, and during the three days of stubborn
fighting in which the fifth German thrust was
bafflled, the British had vigorously assaulted and
carried many important local positions. On the
showing Washington rests a belief that General
Foch has determined to assume the offensive.
Success for the Allies on either front of the great
salient the Germans have thrust forward since
March will force a retirement, and might produce
a rout. The pincer movement essayed by the
crown prince, whereby he hoped to envelope the
defender! of the Rheims salient seems to be def
initely checked, while the counter assault of the
allied armies on the opposite side of the great
loop, if carried on with persistence, must relieve
any pressure on the danger spot. More time will
be needed to fix the character of the operations
now under way, but the forward movement of our
forces will be the most welcome news that
could come from France next to the announce
ment of victory.
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vyar oreaa ana a nungry wona. . i
Opinion that our devotion to war bread will
undergo abatement with the present harvest
must be modified, if we do our whole duty to the
hungry world. Report! from harvest fields, not
only in America, but in India, France, England
and elsewhere among wheat-raising countries,
are most encouraging, 10 far as the total yield is
concerned. Against this must be set an unusual
demand. - Countries accustomed to feeding them
selves are no longer able to do so. Other coun
tries find their short production cut off to such
extent that they must turn to America for sup
plies. From ail European neutral nations cornea
a request that we contribute to their lessened
food supplies," from back of the lines we. get only
word of present famine, certain to be increased
as the season advances.
All of this means that Americans must con
tinue their savings and maybe go on even shorter
rations. Pre-war diet no longer weights down
the table of the people, but none hai suffered
because of the restrictions so gently imposed.
While our war bread does not measure up to the
dainty once enjoyed, it looks mighty good com
pared to that on' which millions of unfortunates
la Europe are subsisting.
Difficulty will be encountered in the way of
sending food to the starving in central and east
era Europe, but some means will be found to re
lieve them,' Americana cannot rest, in sight of
plenty with the full knowledge that millions are
dying of hunger. Our war bread will taste good
so long as it is flavored with the thought that we
are sharing with, the needy of the world.
Strike That Approaches Treason.
The strike of the boilermakers in the ship
yards at Oakland nearly amounts to treason. The
men complain that their employers have not paid
the wages agreed upon when the government ef
fected a settlement and set the standard of pay.
This may or may not have foundation of sub
stance, but it is not a vital cause, sufficient to
justify cessation of work on ships at this time.
Common sense should tell these men that the
American government is back of that wage agree
ment, and that they will receive every cent due
them. With this arrangement, they well can af
ford to be at work all the time, trusting Uncle
Sam to pay his workmen. To strike under the
circumstances is to express distrust of the federal
government and to hamper it in its prosecution of
the war. Soldiers who default in face of the en
emy are shot; these striking boilermakers may
not receive such punishment, but their crime is
equal to that of a deserting soldier.
"Hostility" to the President.
Just as two years ago the democrats raised
the cry that republican success meant war for
the United States, so now they are sending up a
shout that the election of republicans to congress
mean's hostility to the president. This deliberate
attempt to deceive the voters sgain is quite in
line with the record of the party. Mr. Wilson
has had his chief and most serviceable support, in
congress from republicans. His principal and
most effective opposition in connection with the
war has come from democrats. Sublime effront
ery is required to even hint that the republican
patty lacks the patriotism of the democrats. No
one who is familiar with the history of the United
States would be duped by such an insinuation,
and the democrats are only insulting their own
party members by resorting to it. Election of
republicans to congress means that the war will
be more vigorously prosecuted, and that the pres
ident will have more efficient support in his plans
for victory in the field. It also means that the
home affairs of the nation will be placed again
in safe hands, and that thimble-rigging back of
the scene! will be over. The present cowardly
attempt of the democrats to camouflage their own
record by hinting that republicans are disloyal is
characteristic of the party whose success depends
on its ability to deceive the voters.
Don't be alarmed. Nebraska hai never had a
political crop failure in all of its history.
War in Our Educational System
Dean West of Princeton Defines the Meaning of the Conflict
New York Times.
Dean Andrew F. West of Princeton, long
recognized as an ardent supporter of the
classics in education, in a speech delivered
at the general meeting of the National Edu
cation association in Pittsburgh, asserted
that in our education, a in the war, an "im
mortal conflict" was being fought to a finish.
It is the aim of the kaiser's educators to ab
breviate education by nationalizing it. Dean
West added, while France is fighting for the
perpetuating of classical culture as the basis
cf learning.
Dean West's address follows, in part:
"There are voices of confusion telling us
that everything is changing, saying that
little, if anything, of what we have held as
true can be depended on for the future,
and bidding us clutch at this or that panacea
as the only thing to cure our ills. The past,
they say, has little to teach us; for we are
Americans of the twentieth century and
should promptly cut loose from bygone
times, methods and ideas and set up a brand
new national culture of our own. In their
rejection of what they call tradition, they
are forgetting something; they are forget
ting that the value of anything does not de
pend on whether it is old or new, bnt on
whether it is false or true.
"They are proposing to run American edu
cation, not on a record, but on a prospectus.
They are, in fact, telling us to lose our mem
ories and to forget what we shall forget at
our peril, namely, that the past has our
mam lesson to teach us and that the man
who does not see behind the lurid, blinking
light of this world-war its deep-lying causes
tor decades and generations past, and on
back to the origins, cannot understand why
this war happened, nor how to prevent its
happening again, nor even what it is that is
now happening. For he who does not re
member what has gone before has little
means of judging what is happening now or
ot forecasting what will come after. It is no
time to forget. It is the time to remember
everything and to forget, nothing.
"Our struggle in the schools, as it should
be in our homes, is against ignorance, the
old, ancient, inveterate ignorance with which
every generation is born into this world, the
ignorance which must be first overcome and
then enlightened by effort, hard effort, re
peated effort, wisely guided effort, net alone
by exertion of the teacher, but on the part
of the student as well, that our young re
cruits may be trained, trained, trained into
an alert, disciplined, Irresistible army of
knowledge.
"What is the way to win? This is the
question that must be answered rightly if we
are to keep faith with our country. There is
just one way. It is to make the proved
truths of experience the one basis for our
efforts and the one test of all theories offered
for our acceptance. It is the test of common
sense. It is also the one scientific test, for
science, as Huxley put it, is nothing else
than 'highly trained common sense' applied
to scientific questions. Let us try by this
test some of theplausible assertions that
are being made.
"1. One is that there should be no 'formal
discipline' in studies. If this means that
there should be no strict and regular train
ing of the human mind, as the words natu
rally imply, the test is easily made. If it
means something else, we have no need to
consider it. All we need to do is to remember
the record of facts. This record tells us
that in the world's contests the undisciplined
mind has generally been beaten.
"2, Another assertion is that no student
should be required to take any study which
is not 'interesting' to him, because if he does
not like it he will get little good from it. It
is hard to take this seriously. What in the
world is to be done, on this basis with those
who find all studies, and especially all study
uninteresting?. This beguiling half-truth
breaks on the hard rock of facts.
"3. Some are telling us that vocational
and technical education is the one thing need'
ful because everyone should be taught to
earn his living. So he should. And nine
tenths of our youth must begin to earn their
The Advertiser's Thrift
KEEP BUSY I Yourself and your adver
tising. Make your advertising today do twice
what it did yesterday. It can.
Advertising is the matchless messenger
of war times. It speeds your message on
wings fast as thought, and cries it in a
breath from the house-tops and steeples of
the nation.
Whenever the government must get quick
word to our people, and an answer as quick,
it enlists advertising. The Liberty loans, the
Red Cross campaigns, the Young Men's
Christian association, Knights of Columbus,
Smileage, all bear willing witness to the
wonder work of advertising.
For it is the great time saver, and time
to do all we must do is the task of the times.
Time thrift is war thrift. And advertis
ing is time thrift. It is the thrifty way to get
your message to your country. It is the quick
educator, the sure inspirer.
Be thrifty with your advertising. Don't
stint it. Make the most of it. First be sure
of your message, then put the efficiency test
to the means of spreading it. Scrutinize your
space. Usefulness has the right of way over
artistry.
Some advertisers are making their adver
tising do double duty, working for their
country selling Liberty bonds and savings
stamps, as it sells for themselves. Think how
you can make your advertising a two-mouthed
salesman.
Don't stop advertising. War time is no
time to stop anything, except wasted time.
Advertising has uses it never had before.
Look into its new and special uses for your
self. It will save time for you and your men
in whatever you are doing.
Use advertising to be time thrifty 'and
war thrifty. William H. Rankin, American
Association of Advertising Agents.
living early. We grant it But this utilita
rian proposal errs in forgetting some hard
facts. For if this is practically all our youth
are to have, then most of them are con
demned in advance to a form of industrial
slavery, because they would thus be trained
to be little .more than animate tools for spe
cial tasks, and would be largely cut off from
their just chance to rise. This view overlooks
the fact they are more than animate tools.
They are human beings, our brothers and
sisters, with minds and hearts as well as
hands.
"4. One more theory needs notice. It is
that we are an independent nation living in
the twentieth century, and should therefore
have a purely American national education
without reference to the past. I know no
loyal American who wants anything else
than that our national history should be well
studied by every boy and girl in the land,
and that English shall.be the only language
used in our elementary schools. Is this all
there is in the proposal? Then we can all
accept it with enthusiasm. But it needs defi
nition. For we have the right to ask whether
it is meant that all elementary studies are to
be exclusively national. Our own language
and history for the sake of our national
unity? Yes, in plenty, and then also the ele
ments of universal knowledge as much as
we can get.
"Above the elementary education the the
ory utterly fails and fails because its advo
cates forgot or ignored the hard facts of
history. We are part of the family of na
tions, and heir to a great part of the world's
heritage of freedom.
"This nationalistic theory has a powerful
ally. Here are his words from the famous
address of December 17, 1890:
"'Whoever has been through the gymna
sium and has gone behinc1 the scenes knows
where the trouble is. The trouble is, first
of all, that we lack a truly national basis.
We must take German as the foundation of
tne ' gymnasium, we must educate national
young Germans and not young Greeks and
Romans. We must depart from the basis
which has stood for centuries, the old mon
astic education of the Middle Ages, in which
Latin was the standard, and a little Greek.
This is no longer the standard; we must
make German the basis.'
"This is the kaiser's own statement, the
basis tf his educational policy, the theory
which has been at work wrecking the Ger
man education for the last 30 years.
"It is well we should also hear a state
ment on the othei side, made September 10,
1915, by the minister of public instruction of
the French republic:
" 'The classical culture should remain the
object of our ardent study, even if it were
only for the reason that it has transmitted
to French thought the greater part of the
great ideas for which we are now fighting.'
"It is great to be a true American; it is
greater to be a true man or woman here or
anywhere. 'That all men everywhere may
be free' was Lincoln's prayer. Can we not
lay aside all prejudice and then read our
lesson in the fiery light around us? That
lesson is that no freedom is won or held
without struggle and without self-denial.
That lesson is that mental and moral freedom
is not won or held by any human being in any
land without whole-minded training in the
fundamentals of knowledge, be they pleasant
or unpleasant at first, whole-souled obedience
to duty, 'interesting' or uninteresting, and
whole-hearted devotion to the truth won and
held by hard effort, not icr money, place or
power, but for the sake of living decently
in a recent world, made fit to be free."
His Story Must Be True
What prisoners taken in war say to their
captors must always be heard with the ut
most caution, for invariably such men have
less reason to tell the truth than to please
or to deceive. By making statements which
they know or think will please those into
whose hands they have fallen, captives can
hope to get kinder treatment, while if they
be made of sterner stuff they cart try to help
their own side by taking the risks incidental
to telling lies sure to be found out later.
Prisoners of war. however, do sometimes
ipeak the truth,, and occasionally they make
revelations of such value that they are noth
ing less than treacherous betrayals, at least
from the standpoint of their recent comrades.
Again and again the allies have learned irt
this way of German plans and so were able
to prepare for meeting them. A notable case
of this was just before the great drive against
Chemin des Daces, but in that instance, un
fortunately, the proposed operation was car
ried out successfully, in spite of the timely
warning. Perhaps the warning was not be
lieved., Now another German prisoner one whom
General Pershing evidently believes, else
would he not put the man's story on one
of the communications the general so care
fully prepares for publication on this side of
the water has been making a disclosure.
What the German said was that his regi
ment, after suffering heavy losses, had re
fused to obey an order to go forward again
and to take the designated objective "at any
cost." As, in their judgment, the cost would
have been the extermination of the remainder
of the regiment, and would be paid without
achieving the aim set befor thm, they went
backwards instead of advancing.
If such a thing as that has happened be
fore in the German army, it has not been
reported from any front, and its occurrence
now seems to indicate that German discip
line and morale are weakening. We have
heard many times before that they were, but
subsequent events have not borne out the
assertions, and they had come to be held
more than dubious, except by those of us
who believe what we want to believe, rather
than the lessons of fact and experience. This
story, coming as it does, is different from
all its predecessors as regards credibility
New York Times.
tine Year Ago Today In the War.
iMaJ. Gen. Sibert mad his first In
spection of American training camp
in Franca.
New German chancellor declared
for Pan-German policy of ruthless
submarine warfare.
German Reichstag adopted a peace
resolution proposed by the socialists,
radicals and Cathollo party.
The Day Wo Celebrate. -
, Israel Gluck, Investment and real
-istate, born 184J. ;
Brlf. Gen. John P. Wlsser, TJ. & JL
retired, born In St. Louis, $6 years
sgo.
Rt Rev. John J. Henneaay, Catholic
bibhop of Wichita, born In County
Cork. Ireland, 71 years aao.
Julian William Lack, Chicago Jurist
ana rerormer, corn in Ban Francleco,
S2 years ago.-
. Dr. Charles IL Mayo of the Mayo
surgical clinic, born at Rochester,
Minn., as years ago. .
Ttiia Tim w In ITIatnn ' ..
1814 -Samuel Colt, Inventor ot the
revolver, born at Hartford, -Conn.
uiea mere . anuary 10. 1863.
IS 84 .General Grant asked- the
president to call for 200,000 mn to
reinforce the armies.
I si 5 One of greatest battles - In
world's history, involving 1,000,000
men and fOO-mils battle line, begun
Jn Russian Poland.
1918 Germans launched new coun
ter offensive Is Longueval sector,
J ust SO Years Ago Today
Fowler Bros, purchased their pack
ing house at South Omaha from the
stock yards company for a considera
tion of 6S,000.
The Page soap works commenced
LSIM
to make soap today.
The city council adopted the recom
mendation ot Its attorney .to' accept
compromise offers from the railways
for its claims In the construction of
the Sixteenth and the Eleventh street
viaducts.
Richard M. Grimes and his brother
Arthur have left for a visit to New
York, stopping at Lake Minnetonka
enroute.
Pazton & ; VlerUng are building a
beautiful office building In connection
With their works, which is to cost
$5,000.. It will be ready In a few
weeka
State Press Comment
Plattsmouth Journal: But just
wait, some of you war brides, until
the glamor of the war is over, and you
see your husbands In civilian clothes,
with derby hats and wrinkly shirts
and unpressed trousers.
Norfolk News: "What's the Amer
ican equivalent for the word 'kam
erad,' which the Germans shout when
they want to surrender?" someone
asks. There Isn't any American
equivalent There isn't any use for
one In our army.
Gerlng Courier: To a shebang
which Isn't located exactly right to
get it, we arise to remark It looks like
such organizations as the water users,
farm bureau, etc., would buy their
printing where they expect to get
their publicity. That goes for some
other folks, too.
Falls City Journal: The elevators
are about full of wheat and the
threshing has only started. The
farmers see no way of gaining any
thing by holding the grain unless they
save It back for seed and sell It for
)S pec bushel, but then everybody
can't All for seed: some ot It has to
be ground Into flour.
Greeley Cltlien: Greeley county
certainly Is in bloom at this time.
Nowhere are more promising icrops
growing. Go east, west, south or
north and you will not find as good
crops as right here in Greeley county.
This fact and the present prices of
farm lands ought to ba advertised far
and wide. Ail Greeley county needs
Is publicity.
Editorial Shrapnel
New York World: Berlin, now a
city of Influenza, presumably took Its
chills on realizing the strength of the
American draft.
Wall Street Journal: Are there no
men of the German navy tied up in
the Kiel canal who want a cleaner
fight than submarine murder?
New York World: An American
arriving in Paris from Bucharest says
the Germans have left but one cow
for every tenth farm In Roumanla,
which Is Germany'r way of distribut
ing the milk of human kindness.
New York Herald:: " In the course
of the "work or fight" campaign
against Idlers It develops that physi
cians recognize that mortal hatred of
work is due to disease. The- remedy
for that dlstase should be eight hours'
hard labor well worked in.
Brooklyn Eagle: At Krupps the
telling speech of Schwab will be eag
erly read by the directors of the kais
er's works. This war Is the case of
Krupps against Schwab. The launch
ing of 100 ships, 470,000 tons dead
weight, in one day ought to teach the
German people what fools they have
been to follow the lead of a mad ruler.
Louisville Courier-Journal: The
Treasury department has extended to
France an additional credit of $100,
000.000, bringing that country's total
Indebtedness to the United States to
11,745, 000,000 and the total of the
allies to l. 081, 590,000. How many
newspaper readers have noticed1 this
big little item of news hidden among
the reports of our dispatch ot a mil
lion men to France?
j Twice Told Tales
The Only Thing to Do.
George Washington Jones, late of
Atlanta, was making his first trip
frontward on a supply wagon, with
not much farther to go when, from
the side of the road, a camouflaged
American battery broke forth thun
derously, sending a few 300-pound
tokens over the line to Fritz. The
ground trembled from the salvo, but
not any more than George, as he
lumped from the high seat to the
road. .
The American artillery officer In
charge of the battery crossed over to
the road.
"Scared?" he demanded.
"Well," George said. "Ah was
slightly agitated at fust. Ah suttinly
was. But keep right on. Dat's the
only way to win this wah tlah dem
juns." Stars and Stripes, France.
Needed Tuning.
The landlady bustled up to her new
lodger as he came down to breakfast
me fine morning.
"Good morning," she wheezed.
"Good morning, said the lodger.
"I hope you've had a good night's
-est," said the landlady.
"No," said the mild-mannered little
man. "Your cat kept me awake."
"Oh," said the landlady, tossing her
head. "I suppose you are going to
ask me to have the poor little thing
killed."
"No, not exactly." said the gentle
lodger. "But would you mind very
much having it tuned?" Boston Transcript
Boost for "Big Jeff."
Omaha, July 17. To the Editor of
The Bee: I am a member of Plumb
ers' local union No. 16, and feel very
much Interested in the announcement
made through your paper that Albert
W. Jefferis Is a candidate for the re
publican nomination for congress
from this district. For as long a time
as I can remember he has been known
as a Nebraska booster, and whenever
the Commercial club has sent a trade
boosters' excursion into the adjoining
states to bring home business, the
volunteer that always goes along to
make the big talks for Nebraska is
our own "Big JejT."
Whenever anything big is being
done by the Commercial club or the
Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben we always
find Jefferis in the forefront. This,
however, is not my principal reason
for writing this letter at, this time, but
rather because Jefferis has always
been absolutely fair to organized la
bor, and I feel sure that this Is one
time when "capital and labor" will
find no difficulty In agreeing that Jef
feris ought to be nominated and
elected to represent the Second dis
trict in congress.
FRANK J. LYNCH.
Looking Into Hitchcock's Record.
Omaha, July 17. To the Editor of
The Bee: The World-Herald prints
under the heading, "Why This Petty
Politics?" a letter from Ed F. Mor
earty, taking The Bee to task for its
"unwarranted attacks" on Senator
Hitchcock. Mr. Morearty states that
he has never voted for the senator,
which seems strange, as he goes on
to prove that Mr. Hitchcock has al
ways been right he was right about
the Panama canal, about the federal
reserve act, about an embargo on
arms and ammunition, etc. Was he
also right, Mr. Morearty, In his op
position to preparedness and later in
his support of what the democrats
proudly styled "reasonable prepared
ness" a condition which was re
cently described by General Perching
as a state of naked unpreparedness?
Was he also right when, during the
armed neutrality debate, he quoted a
pacifist poem, the gist of which was
that the allies and Germany were all
tarred with the same brush, that the
war had no justice or right on either
side and that any nation that became
mixed up in it was acting foolishly?
Was he also right in stating a day or
two before we entered the war that
he would never vote for war, and then
in suddenly cha- ging his mind and
voting for the war?
Mr. Morearty says that the "ablest
statesmen in this nation" approved
the senator's plans for an embargo on
arms and ammunition. That i;: not
true. The lest authorities on inter
national law In the country, including
Secretary Lansing, opposed he em
bargo; furthermore, they stated that
an embargo would be an unneutral
act and would get us Into serious trou
ble with the allies a thing that would
have delighted many of the gentlemen
with German names who were back
ing the senator's action. The demo
cratic administration was opposed to
the embargo, while the German gov
ernment's secret agents in this country
were actively supporting the measure.
But perhaps when Mr. Morearty
speaks of "the ablest statesmen in
this nation" he is referring to W. J.
Bryan and Henry Ford.
This talk about the republicans
"playing petty politics" is a Joke. Our
friends in the other camp have gotten
hold of about everything in eight and
they intend to hold onto what they
have and add to the pile; hence the
continual whining about the repub
licans playjng politics. They argue
that because we are at war the re
publicans ought to lie down and per
mit the democrats to pick their pock
ets. Meantime the democrats are do
ing all they ca,n to increase their slen
der majorities in the house and sen
ate. They have even asked Henry
Ford to run for the senate as a demo
crat, but poor Henry camot make up
his mind whether he is a democrat or
not. He says that he rei lerhbers dis
tinctly casting his first vote for pres
ident for Mr. Blaine, or perhaps for
Mr. Garfield, he is not quite sure
which; anyhow, he Is sure the man
he voted for waa a democrat Maybe
it was Jeff Davis.
Our government Is the only one
among the allies that has not a coali
tion cabinet. Ours is a straight par
tisan cabinet and will remain so till
the cows come home; yet the demo
crats are terribly grieved over the
"partisan attitude of the republicans."
Petty politics! The people of
Omaha decided some time ago that
Jim Dahlman was not a proper man
for public office. Now we hear that
Senator Hitchcock is trying to get
him a government Job with a $7,000
salary attached to it as a reward
for what? We heard that kind of
stories constantly; but when you see
a democratic senator working to se
cure a government Job for a repub
lican the Job Is always the kind that
pays $1 a year.
Mr. Morearty should not have
brought up the subject of Senator
Hitchcock's pre-war record. The
National Security league recently de
cided that public men's pre-war rec
ords ought not to be dug Into, and the
World-Herald heartily supports this
view. A REPUBLICAN.
SAID IN FUN.
"That, lady la very axpart"
"Huh?"
"Keeps knitting and talking."
"Well ?"
"And never drops a atttch er the thread
of her conversation." Detroit Free Press.
"He married her for her money."
"How do you know?"
"Logical deduotlon. Tva seen her."
Browning's Magazine.
"How do you manage to live within your
Income these war times?"
"Nothing to it," replied the rich men,
"I presented my ears sad yaoht t the
government, the army la looking after my
eon, and my daughter is earning her keep .
with the Had Cross." Ufa. ,
College Boy Dad, I think Til tackle tha
stock market same as soon as I get my
sheepskin.
The Old Man (dryly) Watt, t beltere
lhat'a the proper apparel for young men
in Wall Street, Boston Transcript
"Old chap, what does tha widow think
of you?"
"S-shh She thinks 1 am aa amateur at
lovemaklng."
"Shall I wise her up?"
'Heavens! no I'm afraid now Til da
something to affect my amateur status.".
Florida Times-Union.
WHY MUNCHAUSEN QUIT.
"The Tankee troops are all a myth;
They could not get across th sea;
Our pirate boats have stopped them wltb
Torpedoes and artillery."
Munchausen was a lively guy.
Hi spun romances by the bale.
He could not match the modern lie;
H,la once fine yarns seem tame and stale,
"We did not drown defenseless men
And women on hospital ships.
They scuttled their own boata and then
Died with a lie upon their Hps."
Munchausen waa a lively guy.
He spun romances by the bale.
He could not match the modern lie;
His onoe fine yarns seem tame and stale.
"No ship remalna of all the might
That once bad swept Atlantic's ooast.
We dropped a charge of Schrecklichkeit
Into the Yankees' foolish boaat."
Munchausen waa a lively chap.
"I'll tell the truth." ha aald at last.
"1 quit I'm out I doff my cap
To Berlin now. I'm clean outclassed."
New .York World,
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