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THE BEE : OMAHA, THUKSDAY, JULY 25,- 19 18. The Omaha Bee Daily (morning ) evening Sunday FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER - VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THB BKI PUBUSBINO COMPANY. PROPRIKTOR. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS eotiiUd to UW m tor publloUlun at all TJf"i. W II at Ml otoerwlee aradiMd IB Uirt HI. 4nd H Um f' BaMttte (Mrna. 411 lbl of eublnwtwe ft out D' 4ml ue else wwl oFfVces , Onleaao eot'iee J,t HuiMiaa, Near York-tte rif A. St. Loolt Ke B'k of CoouMiSft Mtabinitoa UU 0 tllMlU- rtK CM BUIIOIII. Sou UmK Zlll M. IH. CombsU Bleffe 1 N. Mils ss. Luwots Uuls BullOU. JUNE CIRCULATION Daily 69,021 Sunday 59,572 tmi atnuutioo foe the aunt, oboBrlM mi saw to Oaiga4 WtUisas. OrcttUUoo Manatee. Subscriber leaving the dtr ehouM have The Boo mails to taesv Addma csaage4 as olua as requested. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG. 'ii:'!'i!i!i!;!iimMiiiiiiiiilillullll,in I 1 I Mil II I Itlffl III i I M 1 I Illlll I M IIMH II I I I 1 I iiiiiimH!Ni!i'i::!";i!iim;,inmi!!n!iii,'mimni:iiii in 555KK5?5 Oh, bow these democrats do love one another! Peace plans will be accepted, not written, in Berlin. -' One week longer, and you will say "hello" to Uncle Sam. Kronprinz Willie found out whether the gun was loaded, all right.' . If politics is adjourned, what would we have if politics were still in session? Rheinward the German army takes its way; those left behind are there to stay. , , Five million men? , Whatever you say, Mr. Baker, but we thought there was to be no limit to the sue of the army. "More wounded prisoners than the total Al lied casualties," says one report from the battle, showing how badly the affair has gone for the Hun. ,. - . Four years ago the kaiser was cruising on his pleasure yacht waiting for the fuse to explode the bomb. It's a cinch, if he had it to do over again, he wouldn't do i . - German newspaper correspondents may con vince the Berlinese that the Americans have been wiped out in battle, but they will find it difficult to make the crown prince think so. . If our new city commissioners do not call each other worse names than ''liar" the walls of the council chamber, which have heard much more offensive language, will not be shocked. Just as naturally as water runs down' hill, the bolshevik republicans, run to the, hyphenated World-Herald, and to what "Met" calls "der Lincoln Staats Journal." I "The' Fatherland" were still printing tt would also be lending a help ing hand. ' " , The ' democratic county commissioners who tried' to gerrymander themselves back into their jobs should not be permitted to camouflage be hind side issues. ' The management of the county affairs , needs the same kind of housecleaning which was voted for the city hall. If the city is ready to take up the question of providing public bathing places, one good way to meet the demand would be to build a mam moth swimming pool in the Auditorium, to be, covered with i sectional floor that could be re placed whenever the building is wanted for other purposes. .v.; Money in Live Stock, One Nebraska farmer came to the Omaha mar ket with fifty-four head of beef steers, and went home with $15,595.20 as the proceeds of the sale. Another brought in thirty-three head, and went home with $8,57X40. These figures will arouse the envy of such of the old time cattle barons as are yet living. Time was when the beef steer stood at $50 to $60 on his hoofs, and his owner prospered at those prices. Change has come over the scene since then, and with it an ever-increasing high regard for the keeper of flocks and herds. Nowadays the cattle baron no longer operates over sky-bounded and horizon-staked plains, but , within a limited enclosure devotes his attention to ' the preparation for the shambles of a few se lected specimens of tovine perfection, and anon visits his banker and chucks into safe deposit a roll of money that would have scared to death one of his progenitors. 4 Before the flood the rats ing of live stock had its attractions, and it has ever .persisted in all ages, but never has it shown to such glittering advantage as now. Unto him that hath steers shall be given, and from him that hath to buy meat shall be taken. And even Charlie Wooster will have a hard time to prove that the grower is losing much money at the pres ent prices. - . DIFFICULTIES OF THE SOLDIER VOTE. Even so good a lawyer as Judge Dungan, who gives as one reason for hastening to decline a filing for the democratic primary that he fears delay might prevent the ballots reaching the sol diers, seems to be under the impression that our new Nebraska soldiers' voting law gives all the men in the military and naval service- a voice in the choice of party candidates. A reading of the statute as enacted by the legislature last winter shows that this is not correct. The law makes a distinction between the pri mary and the election, and primary ballots are to be sent only to those on the official register of electors in service who are "at the time sta tioned within the continental United States." The law provides, further, that the ballots shall be mailed twenty-five days before the primary, which is only five days after the time for filing expires, and the exact day when the time for ac cepting or declining petition filings runs out. With reference to the nonpartisan ballot, which is also to be included, the conflict presents worse difficulties because filings for the so-called non partisan offices need not be completed uqtil ten days prior to the primary, so that the possibility of late nonpartisan filings losing out on the sol diers' ballots is even more serious. Getting down to bedrock, while the impelling purpose of preserving for the soldier's their right to vote is shared by all of us and is highly com mendable, the practical obstacles are so many that it is unlikely any large number of soldiers' votes can be polled for the primary, or any very much larger number for the election. Federal Government "On the Wire." The president having determined that the ex igencies of war justify taking control of the tele graph and telephone service of the country," has ordered that on July 31 ' private management cease and with the beginning of the new month these means of transmitting communications and information will go under the administration of the Postoffice department Details of the plan, rather sketchily outlined by the postmaster gen eral, will be awaited with interest. Mr. Burle son talks of extension and modification to make the wires of greater service to more people, but ex perience with the mail facilities .under his man agement scarcely warrants the conclusion that either telephone or telegraph usage will be great ly improved while he is at the head of affairs. This, however, is not the fault of the plan but a result of mismanagement in carrying it out. Unification of service, doing away with costly duplications of plant and delivery systems, and closer operation in other ways -ought to effect notable economies and should permit large sav ings to patrons without diminishing efficiency. Recent financial statements of the Bell company, the Western Union and American Telegraph and Telephone companies,' show that they are right now at high tide of prosperity, and the owners have nothing o fear as to loss through govern ment management, as their dividends are guar anteed, while all obligations will be discharged in full by the federal government During the debate on the resolution in the senate, it was openly charged by Senator Lewis that telephone wires were being used to convey forbidden ' communications. This implies a stricter censorship over the talking wires. How far this is to be carried must depend on the judg ment of the postmaster general, acting with the military authorities, in determining what is re quired for protection of the government Fend ing the announcement of Mr. Burleson's rules, discussion of this point must rest. What affects the public most is the quality of service to be furnished. ' , "Peace Terme" of Baffled Burglar. ' Whether or not Vorwaerts speaks by the card, the outline of the terms for peace it says Ger many has asked Spain to proffer to the world is quite familiar, having several times been paraded in almost identical form. It is the offer of a baffled burglar, willing to withdraw from the premises he has broken into, if permitted to re tain the plunder he has bundled up and guaran teed immunity from prosecution or prevention from taking up his nefarious work again at his own convenience. The editor of; Vorwaerts naively comments that the terms seem very fair. To Germany, yes; to permit the junkerthurm to retain all it has grabbed of Russia and Roumania with the privilege of exploitation in the rest of that region on a scale of its own; to restore Ger man colonies as they were; to refer to Belgium's status to a conference, and to similarly dispose of the principle of self-determination; to require Great Britain to abandon all its outposts these items comprise all that victorious Germany might reasonably ask. save indemnity. 4 This latter is graciously waived, because the supermen look for ward to compensation to be secured from sub jugated Russia and Roumania. Spain may offer the proposal on behalf of Berlin, but for the present no inclination to bargain with the Hun is apparent anywhere among the Allies, whose victory is coming nearer with each tick of the clock. "Uncle Mose" must look easy, for two demo. crats are going after his place. In a few months they will come to know better that Kinkaid is an established institution in the Big Sixth. Fake Reform Offered In Hungary Move of the Magyars to Foot the World Is Lucidly Explained New York Times. The lower House of the Hungarian Diet has adopted the franchise bill. It is beauti ful to see the Magyars in the high moment of democracy and reform. This franchise bill is the peak and summit of Magyar democratic purpose and achievement The Magyar magnificos have been trumpeting "universal suffrage" loud and long for months. At last accounts the franchise bill disseminates universal suffrage in Hungary by diminishing the proportionate parliamen tary representation of the non-Magyar peo ples. It gives the Magyars something over 62 per cent, the Germans 12J4 per cent, the other nationalities less than 25 per cent of the whole electorate. And diverse cunning gerrymanders are arranging. Last fall the minister of suffrage, who is likewise chief of the so-called democratic party, said that, in case the ballot was given to lit erates of 24 and upward, the Roumanians would have a majority in only four of 64 Translyvanian constituencies. Even in two of these the majority would be so slender that it could not properly be called Roumanian. Could these, at the utmost four, Roumanian representative be thought "a danger to Mag- yardom t 1 he universal suffrage reform would prove that Magyardom was not so weak. The basis of the franchise reform of a former premier was to add 22 new constit uencies, "all pure Magyar free towns, as a counterpoise to dangers from the nationali ties. The protagonist of universal suffrage was going to increase still further the "num ber of seats among the towns where the Magyar element predominates. So triumphant Magyar democracy is go ing to allow the nearly 1,500,000 Roumanians of Transylvania two sure and two doubtful seats in parliament. In short, this universal suffrage is the culmination of the whole Mag yar scheme to Magyarize Hungary. The dis- paten wnicn tens ot tne passage ot the ma through the lower house adds that the dis cussion of details "was postponed until after the house had dealt with a number of social and political questions, especially those relat ing to the safeguarding ot the northern and southern frontiers of the monarchy, which, Premier Wekerle said, were more important than the franchise question." Naturally. Let us see Count Apponyi. minister of education, visiting the frontier districts last December to judge for himself what mea sures were needed "for the cultural defense of the country." The Roumanian teachers' training colleges had been closed and were to remain closed.- The count's educational aim was simply "to strengthen everywhere the national Magyar state." He began "bv mul tiplying the state schools in order to place a barrier along the frontier and insure the safety of the Magyar racial islets by linking them up with one another." He appointed a cultural committee to set up a cultur-I zone. That is to say in all the frontier counties in struction must be based on a Magyar edu cation, beyond reproach from the point of view of lovaUy to the state." In the schools the non-Magyar populations have long seen almost their only chance of preventing the suppression of their nationality. Non-Magyar public instruction will be abolished if the Magyar "democrats" have their way. Another means of Magyarization is through Magyar priests and the creation of Magyar bishoprics of the Greek Catholic (Uniate) church, of which many Roumanians and Ukrainians are members. The plan is bv degrees to destroy the racial and national inheritance of Roumanians, Ukrainians, Serbs, by sermons in Magyar and unwearied pro selytizing. In Transylvania the Roumanians have the fattest and best land, in South Hungary the Serbs. A decree issued by the minister of agriculture last fall provided that no transfer or lease of land should be made without con sent of the government Leases were to run for not more than ten years. "I shall em ploy this right," said the minister, "exclu sively ana solely in tne service ot Magyar national land policy." The Czechs in the Austrian parliament raged against the' decree. A Budapest jingo journal told them that the state had a right to protect its territory "against suspect elements." The decree must be applied to all Hungarian territory. "The state must have an unlimited right of expropriation in order to be able to parcel out and colonize the land. It must carry out a healthy distribu tion of land to the Magyar race, which ' alone is a support of the state." ' The northern and southern frontiers of the monarchy are to be safeguarded bv a chain of Magyar colonies. In fact, the chain is to run so as to part the non-Magyar races in Hungary from their brethern across the frontier. Finally, there must be "reform" in the administration of the frontier districts. The autonomy of the communes must be ended. The government must be centralized. The frontier districts must be thoroughly Magyarized. As the minister of interior said, "the tendencies which threaten the idea of our state find their most fertile soil in the frontier districts of Hungary." State officials, "absolutely reliable officials," must overcome those tendencies. School reform, administrative reform, land reform, religious reform, suffrage re form r it is an edifying and a characteristic Magyar plan. Is there anybody left in the United States who swallows the tiresome old Magyar myth? Fourth and Largest Liberty Loan Staggering Figures oj Government Debts, Our Own and Foreign New York Financial World. , The house of representatives gave just one hour's consideration to the fourth Lib erty loan bond bill, which gives the secre tary of the treasury authority to issue $8,000, 000,000 more Liberty bonds. The law makers knew that the money must be raised, and they did not dispute over the bill, but passed it in short order. With this amount authorized, the warring powers will have war debts approximately as fololws: Debt before War debts. the war. United States.. $24,000,000,000 f 973,000,000 Great Britain.. 87,000,000,000 8,000.000,000 France ....... 29,600,000,000 6,000,000,000 Germany 34,700,000,000 2,200,000,000 Italy (partly estimated) .. 7,500,000,000 1,200,000,000 It will be seen that the United States, which has been in the war less than one and a half years, while England, France and Ger many have been at it for almost four years, is piling up its national debt faster than the others. One reason for that is we are forced to speed the war preparations and provide the war machinery at a rate none of the other nations ia now capable of. and also because it costs more to finance a war fought more man j.uuu miles away than one where Berlin's Lie Factory at Work In ita haste to deny the Canadian hospital ship Llandovery Castle was sunk by a Ger. man submarine, Berlin has recourse to plain ies. "It appears' from the later news," the German semi-official statement says, "that no one on board observed a U-boat or t torpedo." The German plea in self-defense is as clumsy as it is mendacious. Captain Sylves ter of the hospital ship, two others of the ship's officers, and Major T. Lyon of the Canadian medical corps, were taken on board the U-boat and examined. Evidently the mistake made by the German submarine commander was not in murdering the 25 survivors of the hospital ship. If only they had perished along with the other 234 per sons on board the Llandovery Castle, then the German government might have had some reason to hope that the lying reports authorized by it would be accepted. In its attempt to evade responsibility for the de struction of the hospital ship it only con victs itself of delberate falsehood to cover uo wanton crime. Even in Berlin it is no': thought expedient to admit that in their ruthless warfare the U-boats neither spare hospital ships nor re spect the Red Cross. The German govern' ment does not shrink from the practice of slaughtering women nurses, doctors and medical attendants, but it dislikes facing the proofs of its barbarity, even at home. To the lie, carefully prepared in advance, that tne uandovery Castle carried American flight officers is added the second lie that the hospital ship was not sunk by a U-boat but by a British mine. New York World. the belligerent governments and people are near the scene of the strife. We are expend ing on this war, according to treasury hgi ures, $50,000,000 every 24 hours, or at the rate of $1,000,000,000 every 20 days. Since the war began four years ago 43,000,000 men have been put under arms either in the ar mies or navies of the fighting nations, while 8,700,000 men have been killed or died of wounds and disease. In all probability be fore the last battle is fought 10,000,000 sol diers will have been put into premature graves or their bones left on the battlefields never to be cared for. How many civilians, innocent noncombatants, men, women and children, have died can only be estimated, but the number must reach into the hundreds of thousands. . The brain reels and the imagination is challenged by the figures and everyone asks instinctively: How much longer can this possibly lastf At the end of each Liberty loan campaign men and women say, well, we simply cannot stand another call of this kind, but when the next loan period comes around we somehow manage to buy again and would feel shame-faced and mean and low had we held aloof. The first Liberty loan brought in $1,986,595,200 from 4,500,000 purchasers; 9,500,000 persons participated in the second Liberty loan, which realized $3,808,766,150, and there were 17,000,000 individual sub scribers to the third Liberty loan, the total of which was $4,170,019,650. Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, in the house of representatives the other day, predicted that 30,000,000 Americans will subscribe to the fourth Liberty loan. We do not doubt it, because there are more than that number of Americans who arc ready and willing to subscribe every dollar they possess or ever hope to have to bring victory in this most righteous war we are waging. Whatever the price, we are prepared to pay it. Kaiser and People Are One "Das ist eins,H said German prisoners to American officers who were explaining to them that the United States was not fighting the German people, but only the German fovernment they are one and the same." his incident, related by Don Martin in a special cable dispatch to the Herald, ought to be an enlightening one for those persons in this country who still try to make a dis tinction between the Huns and their rulers. Barbarous alike, the one upholds the other in every phase of frightfulness, centuries of brutal deeds having ingrained it in their na tional character. Here is an illuminating object lesson for Americans who have been arguing that this country should wage a war that will not hurt and should receive as loving brethren after the conflict those who have proved them selves to be murderers on land and sea and who, after, nearly four years of intense strug gle, still have no repentance for their mis deeds. New York Herald. One Year Ago Today in the War. War Industries board created as part of National Council of Defense. Russaln women's battalion went in to action against Germans near Smorgon. . ' Irish convention met in Dublin to endeavor to settle home, rule contro versy. " t -' The Day We Celebrate. f Carroll 8. Montgomery, of Mont gomery & Hall, attorneys, born 1851. Carl E. . Herring, attorney-at-law, born 1163. Rear Admiral Albert NV Nlblack, U. 8. N., born at Vincennes, Ind., 69 Years mm. Rt Hon. Arthur J.' Balfour, former British ' premier, born in Scotland, 10 year ago. :ft , j. :; i , Thle iay in History. ISIS Great naval engagement at the mouth of the Thames, between the Enellsh and Dutch fleets. f) 117? Prussia, Austria and Russia s'-ned a sseret treaty for the parti tion of Poland. v i list William Tecumseh Sherman sppotnted lieutenant-general ot the United States army. ' IS id Danes defeated the armies cf Bchleswlg-Holstein at Idstadt lUlS German artillery attacks rU!d to regain lost positions in the 1316 Crisis in British cabinet over provisional scheme for home rule in Ireland. . Just 30 Years Ago Today A marriage license was issued to Herman F. Krelle of Omaha and Louisa A. Huth, also of Omaha. Bhlro Tashlro, a wealthy Japanese importer, passed through Omaha on his way to New York. , The bids were opened for a million and a hair of brick work on the en Kins house at the new city water' works site at Florence, also the bids for the building of the , firemen's residence. The Omaha Stove Repair company nas niea articles of incorporation, the Incorporators being H. A. Koster, c M. Eaton, H. j. Miller, B. F. Park er, L. P. Ash and G. W. Hervey, Their capital stock is 125.000. George S. Gurley has resigned his position as wrr clerk in Judge Shield's court and has been succeeded by William Shields, a brother of the Judge. W. E. Annin, private secretary to senator A. S. Paddock, left lor Wash lngton. - Odd and Interesting Steel that will resist corrosion is feeing made; it contains 1) per cent of chromium. A simple typewriter attachment has been invented for re-inklng ribbons at little cost The greatest meat eaters are the Australians, who before- the war con sumed an aversga of more th- i seven pounds per head weekly. The slntfU tuft ot hair I if t on the shaven head of t. Mussulman U sup posed to be left for Mahomet to grasp hold ot when drawing the deceased in tj Paradise. Without a note, purely from memory, a blind Klrl wrote a verbatim resort of a sermon lasting three-quarters of an hour, which was delivered in All soma- church, in London. Arctic explorers and other persons who have to do very hard work under extremly trying climatic conditions, in variably develop an intense craving for sugar and eat enormous quantities of it . The strength of a modern steel shlt is largely the sum of the strength of many rivets. For no matter how strong the framework and plates mat go to maxe up the hull may oe, u tne rivets are weak the entire structure will be weak. The railway system of the United States, now under control of the fed eral government, is equal in length to that of all Europe and Asia com bined, and the tracks, if strung out In :i continuous line, would suffice to run a girdle of steel 11 times around the globe at the equator. Right to the Point Atlanta Constitution: U Am- trlans are convinced that the shall-not-pass sign meanj the same thing in Italian. . - Kansas City Times: The American air squadron that downed 13 enemy planes is understood to nave no small superstitions, . j Baltimore American: if the gov ernment has taken over sulphur, there still remains a plentiful supply of it where tne Kaiser is going. New York Hearld: American ship production in June reached 280,400 tons a 'vorldta record. That's one way of riveting Gernany's attention. Brooklyn 12agle: After close con fabulation with th most radical anti war sdciallsts in Paris Alexander Ker ensky : has decided not to coma to America. The lesson the Bolshevik! ought to have taught him has not been learned, which is unfortunate for Kerensky. Louisville Courier Journal: If it is true that another 100,000 Germans have been killed the population of the world ia been purged of a con siderable proportion of an element which must be reduced to the point at which it will bj innocuous because of its relative insignificance. " New York World: The campaign for economy in materials for personal wear during the war begins with an agreement iy shoe manufacturers to limit the height of women's shoes af ter October 1 next. Certainly, the fashion of -ilgh jhoe-tops been m vogue long enough to make the patriotic sacrifice easy. Twice Told Tales Ready for a Riot An auctioneer had been selling horses all day and his voice was get ting a little husky, so that he waa economizing as much as possible in the use of words and even syllables. Early in the day he had shouted the bids, "$100, $200, $300," etc Then he restricted himself to call ing out, "100. 200, S00." etc. When McCarty, attracted through curiosity by the crowd, came up, the auctioneer had further abbreviated his speech, and was crying: "One hun, two hun, can't I get three hunt" Off went Mccarty's coat, and he sang out excitedly: , "Don't do this all yourself, young fellow. Let me in it. I can take care of a few of 'em." Pittsburgh Chron icle Telegraph. So Dear of Him. She was very pretty, but not es peclally endowed with brains. Her escort had explained that the man behind the catcher was the umpire. "What does he do?" she asked. "He. calls balls and strikes, and tells whether or not a man is safe at the plate." "Oh, I see. He is there to warn the batsmen when he sees the pitcher ia going.to hit him with the ball. How sweetly thoughtful that Js!" Boston Transcript The Real Thing. "Maym declare the fruit dih h Nell si a weddlns preaent la real cut slaaa.- "It U ent. all riht 6he sot It at a bars als sal." Baltimore Americas. "What Are We Here For?" Omaha, July 23. To the Editor of The Bee: I thought when we cleaned house at the city hall and Installed the present administration that Oma ha had set out an era of good feeling as well as good government I Im agine my awakening has been little more sorrowful than that ot many an other, who, like myself, expected the good men we chose to direct the busi ness of the city would go about it in a businesslike way, and that agree ment as to what is needed would not, be at all hard to -reach. Instead of this, we find the city hall echoing with the resounding strife that marks any gathering of these first-class men; the mayor testily alleging that the head ot the accounting and finance department doesn't know what he is about; the manager of anothe. de partment accusing a compeer of hav ing tried to bargain for. the retention of supernumeraries on the payroll, and the latter coming tack with the unequivocal, :f inelegant, s' teent that his accuser is a highly qualified and luminously ornate liar, and so en. Each of the eminent gentlemen seems Imbued with a desire to run the other departments, while maintaining ex clusive jurisdiction over his own. And there you have it. Webster Flannl gan'a well-remembered query is Bet ting its answer at the city hall just now. Maybe things will get set right in time, but two months have elapsed with little sirm of the promised re form. "What are we here for?" , QUERICUS. - Happiness Through Self-Expression. Omaha, July, 31. To the Editor of The Bee: An easterner is talking pessimistically about the scarcity of supermen and sees in the present world condition "the nemesis of medi ocrity." Our development is similar to that of plant life, which in a favorable en vironment with nutriment and light flourishes and expresses itself in end less varieties; while deprived of these requisites it starves, becoming medi ocre. To cultivate the field of human society and bring out (he best pro pensities in the genus homo, we em ply as a cultivator the sword of Jus tice to protect it from destructive weeds and parasites that otherwise would prevent its free growth. , So cial justice will not only allow plenty for sustenance of all: it will give a free education to all with equal oppor tunities facilitating the demonstration of superabllity wherever present, en riching the bloodstream of intellectual life. Pessimism, the Impotent fear or re sentment of a stinting, depressing condition of existence, is Justifiable but merely transitory. Optimism is the keynote of organic creation, per ennially reflected in sweetness of the blooming meadow, the softness of the verdant forest, in the inspiring carol and overwhelming chorus all through the animal world, despite ephemeral sadness caused by hardship and trag edy. Optimism is eternal, happiness the law. And, In the final summing up, the right to happiness born of in dividual self-expression and national determination is the great boon we are fighting for in the public arena and on the battlefield. "No one can live for another not one" H. MELL. 2017 Leavenworth street CHEERY CHAFF. Jaok You an't Judge a man by the way be dreee.ee. Edith Oh. I d.jn't know. I can tell a gentleman by his get-up in tht crowded treet car.-'-Boeton Transcript. Redd Been away? Greene Yea; made a Week-end automobile tr!t In the country. . Redd How did you epjnd your time? Ofueno Well, I apent a lot ot It cranking the car. Ydhkera Statesman. . "Yon Catnlus hut It a lean and hungry luok," boomed th tiagedlan. 1 There are a lot ot other member in the eaet who do pot look any Uo well-td, yether." commented a corpulent gentleman In the tlrit row. Louie villa Ourler Journal. Do you believe that riches have wing?'' "Tea; the U. S. A. Is the richest country on earth, and has engaged a large por tion ot wealth in first-class flying equip ment" Ban Francisco Chromolo. "I don't tat as much as I did. I'm re ducing." 'You want to bring down your weight?' No; my expenses." Baltimore American. First Man Guess I'll have soma of that beef stew. I see the proprietor eating It, so It must be good. Second Man Leave , It alone. He's a tightwad and eats only what be can't sell. Boston Transcript, '"What's your charge for a liarout!" Thlrty-five cents, sir." And for a shave?" 'Twenty cents." 'Then shave my head." Boston. Tran script. - ( "I think I should nave named my boy Flanne.l' " said Mrs. Blnks. , "WAV 7" asked Miss Jinks. "Because," answered Mr. Blnks, ''he shrinks from washing." People ome Journal. pN GUARD. By Sergt. Earl Noel. I am sitting In the guard tent, As the hours creep wearily by. Listening to the. dreary rain From out the leaden sky. I'm dreaming of my little pal. And In the embers' glow I see his dear face onoe again As In the long ago. The death-Ilk silence broken , By the sentry's weary, trod, I hear a distant tumble And my sad heart beats aloud. Again a vision comes to me With snow white wavy hair, I think ot one now passed beyond And my heart goes up In prayer. A faithful watch I am keeping O'er th brave boys fast asleep. Their careworn brows all straightened Br rest that la ao sweet. Th wet logs that almmer and crackle ' Seem to king a lullaby. That brings back dear old memories Of my youth in yw ion by. And now the dawn la breaking With a faint glow far away. And I hear th buglers trumpet As It beckons th bright new day. Well, I'll close for this spasm and try and writ sooner than I did. Give my best to all th family with my very beat to yu from, "PUTT." ' Nebraska Politics Genoa Leader: Did Gilbert Hitch cock ever represent the state ot Ne braska in anything that ever came up in the senate? Nebraska voted itself bone dry a couple years ago, and would again by 100.000 majority, and yet Hitchcock voted against national prohibition during the war, last week. Aurora Republican: The order for newspapers to discontinue sending out "exchanges," in the interest of paper conservation coming - through the committee on publlo information seems like adding iusult to injury. It there is a more extravagant user of paper, time, money and postal facili ties than this Creel committee, the editorial waste basket has not- yet formed its acquaintance. Wayne Heraldi S. R. McKelvie, who would no doubt now be serving as governor of Nebraska If Douglas county had not defeated him for the nomination two years ago, Is again before the people for the office men tioned, and it looks as though he would be a winner. McKelvie is well known and is very capable. He is a man of sound Judgment and would make an acceptable chief executive. Scotts Bluff Republican: When a democrat gets it into his nut that you must vote for a democrat in order to be patriotic, look out for him. The people of the state of Nebraska were fooled a couple of years ago bj this same trash, and they elected Hitch cock, and it is now mighty hard matter to And a democrat who has the nerve to say that he voted for the senator. In fact, most of them are ashamed of it, and we can't blame them much. nomm is more delightful, more inspiring, more entertaining, than the average cabaret. And it costs' far less. -Get a player-piano and you'll have the world's test music always at your command. 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