THE BEE: OMAHA, -FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1918.
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Fight, work and pray, and win the war. -
No trifling with the umpire when Uncle Sam
taya "Stop the gamel", '
Corn come tearing down the home stretch.
. Camp Grant soldiers have adopted the latest
fa targets and are now shooting at the tacks of
Von Mackeiisen and von Falkenhayn should
te in this, so they, too, might know pw the
'"nutcracker" feels.
Lightless nights are coming agaii). The old
fclan of lighting our streets by moonlight schedule
plight be worth reconsidering.
The gas clouds the Omaha ' Hyphenated is
Emitting suggest activity in its .trenches. "What
jdo you suppose it is drivingsat? '-
The menace of Cole Blease is rising Higher in
South Carolina, and the beauties of hand-picking
a senate are getting brighter all the time.
Peanut vendors have been "put in the same
jttass with base ball players, and must fight or go
to work. Gradually but surely we ate restoring
Hie simple life. -' .
Colonel "Dill" Hayward and, his colored sol
diers are making history for he negro along the
JMarne, and just the sort Ncbraskans would ex
pect from the colonel . . " s '
v- .t as " - ,.,... -.1, . ..I
The kaiser would 'doubtless like to see right
jiow the emissaries who sent him word from the
.United States that American troops would never
get into the fighting anyway.
A, little thing like being deliberately mis
quoted by the World-Herald should not ruffle any
one, for that ia what it habitually does when , the
truth will not serve its purpose.
Herb Hoover has promised, the Britishers
right, Mr. Hoover; write your own ticket, and
your countrymen will deliver the goods.
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Also keep in mind the fact that the Vaterland
indorsed the present chairman by right of sen
iority) of the senate's committee on foreign re
lations because of his great assistance to the
tause of kaiserism in America.
SOME OVERLOOKED TESTIMONIALS.
With its customary cuttlefish tactics, the
hyphenated 'World-Herald is shedding a great
deal of , inky -fluid ostensibly directed at the war
records of republican members of congress up for
re-election. The real purpose, however, is to
divert attention from the rotten record of pro
Germanism made by. Senator Hitchcock, the
owner of that sheet, that drew for him the hand
some acknowledgment of that familiar front page
portrait in 'The Fatherland," one of the kaiser's
subsidized American publications.
Lest folks forget, the reminder may be timely
that Senator Hitchcock's great work for the Hun
also brought him well earned tributes from other
organs of "made-in-Germany" sentiment, of which
we here reproduce two or three: "
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. West Point (Nebraska) Volksblatt (October
6, 1916.) The great election is rapidly ap
proaching and there also comes the question for
the Germans to decide, which senator shall rep
resent us in congress?; ,
Our present senator is GHbert M. Hitchcock
and his term runs out this year. As, every one
of our readers well knows, he seeks re-election
to this office. Shall he' be re-elected? WE
JSAY YES, because he was particularly THE
UNK StNA l UK IN CJXMuKlioo . WHU
REPRESENTED THE GERMAN INTER
ESTS " ' "' ;- l"
IN HIS DEFENSE OF GERMANS HE
DID NOT CARE WHETHER HE MADE
ENEMIES OR NOT. Such a representative ;
is worthy that he be re-elected. Vote for him
on November 7th. , - ;
Tagliche Omaha Tribune, by' Val Peter,
President of the German-American Alliance
(October 9, 1916.) Gilbert M. Hitchcock must
by all means be re-elected as United States
senator. Senator Hitchcock should receive" the
; vote of every unprejudiced voter, AND MUST i
NOT LOSE A SINGLE GERMAN VOTE.
Finally, IT IS THE DUTY OF EVERY,
GERMAN VOTER TO WORK among his
fellow citizens FOR SENATOR HITCH
COCK'S RE-ELECTION. An intense fight
will be made against him. and so we should do
our part to help this tried representative to his ,
re-election.
Columbus (Nebraska) Biene (April 14, 1916.)
t seems unnecessary to call to the attention
of German voters the merits of our present rep
resentative in the United States senate, the
Hon. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, who is seeking re
election. They are well known. Yet it will not ,
be out of place to call to our minds what he
did and accomplished. SENATOR HITCH
COCK SHALL BE REMEMBERED FOR
ALL TIME BECAUSE HE RECOMMEND
ED THE EMBARGO ON THE EXPORT OF
ARMS, for which he stood with word and pen.
NOR DID HE WEAKEN IN HIS FIGHT
FOR THIS GOOD CAUSE, AND ONLY ON
THE 17TH OF FEBRUARY HE AGAIN
MADE A GREAT SPEECH FOR EM
BARGO. ON THIS ACCOUNT ALONE
SHOULD GERMANS VOTE. FOR HIM.
Whatever possibility of dispute there may be
as to where any one else stood, there" is no room
for question about Senator Hitchcock. He had
been so thoroughly heart and soul with the Huns
that if, as Charles Edward Russell suggested, "the
kaiser at 'his next distribution of red eagles and
black eagles should remember his friends in the
United States senate," every one knows one of
the, damning imperial decorations would be ex-hibited-4
the window of the newly erected news
paper building in which the World-Herald is published.
'D.efeat of the Submarine :
Can It Be Made Absolute? Meaning oj the American Raid1
'Conundrum: Why do the bolshevik republi
can make common cause, with the hyphenated
democratic organ In Omaha and the pro-German
pacifist organ in Lincoln? Is it another case of
pirds of feather flocking together? , : -
, One Apierican submarine commander can
testify to the vigilance of the coast patrol. Dents
In the deck of his vessel also indicate the accu
Iracy of the gunner who fired at him,. This sort
ii watchfulness gives the home folks greater con
fidence. ' ,
Protection for Unoaved Streets.
One really practical suggestion has been pre
Rented in the city council, having to do with the
(tare of unpaved' streets. Commissioner TowlQs
si j ; . a. . a
petare ms associates witn a proposal taat im
provement districts be created with a view to
" Installing inexpensive combined gutter and curb
Sng along thoroughfares ,not yet paved, to care
for the surface run-off following rains. The bea
fcfit wpitfd come through the drainage, t which
Vould' prevent thewash1 that now frequently
' amounts to almost total destruction of the "road
way; expense of maintaining the unpaved streets
vUl be lessened, and tost of removing the great
Quantities of mud from adjacent pavements after
teach heavy rain will be almost totally eliminated,
3 Add to this the advantage of having the nnpaved
streets in a better condition for general use and
' Jhe plan of Commisioner Tow.1 becomes quite
..attractive.
The Angelus for Americans.
Rotary is now putting forth the force of its
influential organization in support of the daily
moment of prayer for all. It is not proffered 'as
a panacea for our national troubles, nor is it jet
out as a novelty in the line of human conduct.
Advocates of the custom merely suggest that to
turn for an instant from the cares of the world
and momentarily give a reverential thought to
that Power whose ways are inscrutable and past
finding out, will do no harm and may do some
good. An old song has it, "Prayer is the upward
glancing of the eye," and a philosopher has writ
ten that the "efficacy of prayer consists in the
profound feeling of gratitude and veneration, the
earnest resolution to amend, the sincere longing
and desire for divine aid and fivor," r A moment
is time enough for this,' and can Well be spared
from daily tasks. Nor will the proposed 11
o'clock Angelus -interfere with that already es
tablished' for . centuries by the great Catholic
church, which daily mark the midafternoon
period. Finally, it should have a tendency to
promote a sobriety of feeliruj, a sensible appre-,
ciation of the great crisis through which we are
passing, "and so encourage the work that it will
be sped with greater -energy. T A minute each day
hi little enough of time to devote to the serious
purpose, but it will serve if sincerely given.'
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Little sympathy will be felt for "Jim" Sladen
one of the most consistent of obstructionists
among the democratic reactionaries in congress,
but' his elimination by the president mus make
Jeffersonian democrats wonder whether the coni
Atitutton has', not been "adjourned" , along with
politics. At any rate, Texas will readily supply
a democrat who will do as he is told. "
The recent U-boat invasion of American
waters has been so successful in tonnage
sunk, without any apparent compensating
loss of submarines,1 that we may be quite
sure that it will be repeated on a more am
bitious tscale. We can, I, think be equally
sure that the scale cannot be increased with
out the risk to U-boats being magnified out
of all proportion. For the. American Navy
department will certainly see that the coast
wise and Caribbean- traffjeis, so to speak,
canalized and, if necessity arises, will extend
convoy protection to its more important
units. This incident lends a new interest to
the whole problem of defeating- this con
scienceless attempt io paralyze the world's
traffic, and once more provokes us to ask
the question: Is the absolute and complete
defeat of the submarine a practical possibil
ity? V ' .'.
In spite of what the navy has done and!
VI .lug ye vuaucu iimuuiuu ui luuiga iu-
day from what they were a year ago, the
problem is still intensely serious. , Speaking
at Edinburgh a week or two ago, the prime
minister confirmed, with the full authority of
the admiralty, what some observers had al
ready been rash enough to infer from the
oublished figures. He told us that the Ger
man submarine, though no longer a menace,
Arthur Pollen in London Chronicle. .
ures of defense-as interposing between the
submarine and its intended , victim, with a
view to defending that victim by sinking or
threatenine to sink the submarine. The other
consists of measnres of offense namely, ei
ther method of finding the submarine when
at large and then pursuing it until it is de
stroyedor methods which, if the submarine
tries to get to sea, will automatically block
his passage, or finally stopping it from put
ting to sea. The first involves the tactics of
defense, the second the tactics of offense.
man suDmarme, tnougn no longer a menace, across routes which submarines must take
was still a nuisance. Hardly more than aUo gc( t0 their field of operation. - Y ' .
. 'To the trenches with'theml" cries one, sec
tion of British labor, referring to munitions
strikers, while another, cries, "Teethe wall." The
inference is that the strike is not popularover
there.
rear ago it was a menace of appalling dimen
sions. The German plan and the German
expectation was to destroy a million tons of
British shipping a month and to frighten all
neutral shipping off the seas. For two weeks
in the month of April, 1917, the enemy at
tained this rate of destruction and, indeed,
surpassed it In the three months, April,
May and Jung, he sank between 1,300,000
and 1,400,000 tons of British shipping alone,
and very nearly 900,000 of neutral and allied
shipping. To call this a "menace" is only!
to understate the case. It was a sentence of
death if it could only have continued. To
day, not only is the sinking much less than
half this, but with- American help we are
building nearly twice as much tohnage as
we were building then. Germany's imme
diate strategic aim, then, is defeated, for alt
lied tonnage is growing and not diminishing!.
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But if the word j'menace" understated the
position of a year ago, the word "nuisance"
understates the present position. For in the
month of April the word lost over 300,000
tons of shipping and cargoes to correspond.
Herr Denburg, in his recent speech, said
that the average cargo ton was worth 35,
and that it cost 50 to replace a ton of ship
ping. At this rate the submarine war has
already cost the anti-German world over
1,250,000,000, and must now be taxing us
at the rate of over 300,000,000 a year. The
economic loss, the dislocation of plans, and
the embarassment to our military action in
volvedall of these 'are most formidable dis
advantages, and the enemy can still impose
them upon us. The nuisance, then, is in the
vulgar, phrase, an "awful nuisance." ' .
v The pmti-submarine campaign may be di
vided into two sides. One consists of meas-
Dirge of GermanismHn
; America r ;
The Cologne Gazette is still publishing
the voluminous reminiscences of its former
Washington correspondent, Herr George
Barthelme, In his seventeenth article Herr
Barthelme pours out abuse upon all the most
prominent German-Americans as traitors to
the fatherland. After numerous quotations,
he concludes lugubriously:
All these utterances arc not the voice of
Germanism in America. They' are the cries
of fear of people who are anxious about their
money-bags, the cries in trouble of renegades
who want their origin to be forgotten.- They
are in reality the crew without a country, for
ultimately the calculating American will show
them the door as being untrustworthy.
, Meanwhile most of the others, who have
remained good Germans, will turtf their backs
in disappointment upon the country of th.eir
betrayed hope, and those who are not able
to follow them will with broken hearts mourn
their evening upon the ruins of a devastated
dream. They thought that they were enter
ing newifcountrv and building themselves a
new houfe. Instead of that they found them
selves suddenly on British colonial sou and
in the shadow of the Union Jack. That was
a terrible awakening.
- Will it still be possible to make the United
States into a really independent American
state? I do not know. Many of my German
friends thought it possible, and one of them
assured me that he will not emigrate, pain
ful though everything has become to him,
Spouse he intends now more than ever to
take up the fight for a free America and for
a second, -Declaration of Independence. Many
things have happened so ditterentiy in mse
years that one must submit to abstinence
from a definite opinion. One-can only draw
conclusions of which the premises lie in his
tory and experience. These premises, in
deed, display Germanism in America not as
hammer, but as anvil; they show "that Ger
rnanism has been not a bringer of kultur, but
a fertilizer; they show that Germanism may
have a past, but has no future. : .
It may be that these conclusions are false.
It may be that even the German in America
has fdunA his soul, and has seen that loyal
service and : political impotence are - not
tnough. It may be that Germanism will fnd
in unity the strength which alone can secure
to it the place that is its due by right and
by histofy. It may be so, or it may not? I
am almost afraid that , it. will not be so.
American Germanism is doomed to power-
lessness. It suffers, and goes under. That
is the great tragedy which tears our heart
while we cannot alter the course of fate. But,
come what may, we are sure of one thing
that the Uerman over there, mccour Heroes
in itiin and rri-tirV ' will !BO down "With
"Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles" on his
lips and in his heart with the "moritun te
aalutant.
The tactics of defense are made up as
follows:
1. The convoying of ships by destroyers,
sloops, trawlers and submarines. . J r
4. I he arming of merchant ships.
3. The careful stowing of cargoes, so that
ships when hit remain afloat.
4. Lamoutlage.
The tactics of offense consist of:
5. Discovering the submarine by aircraft,
or hydrophone and then running' it down by
destroyers and annihilating it by . depth
charges. . -. ' .
6. Stalking the submarines at night when
they have to come to the surface to recharge
their batteries. A .
7. (The maintenance of mine barrages
8. The destruction of . the bases from
which the submarines issue. - ;
Of the first group the most effective and
if historical precedent should be aa guide
to policy the most obvious- is to group the
ships liable to attack into squadrons and
send them through the danger zone under
the convoy of vessels possessing the right
armament for dealing with submarines, and
the speed and handiness that will enable them
to use thatUrmament with the required rap
idity. The less effective and theoretically
inferior measure of defense is to arm the
merchant ship itself with guns. This meas
ure is technically inefficient, because the gun
is not the best weapon to use against the
submarine, and, further, it is. less effective
when carried in a slow than in a rapid craft.
It is theoretically inferior, because it leads
to a dispersion of force, that is guns. No
passive defense against torpedoes, (that is
protecting' ships by nets or otherwise, has
been found which can make a hit innocuous,
though much has, been done in finding wavs
of so stowing cargo that ships wiH-keep afloat
after being hit, while camouflage at times is
protective by preventing the submarine see
ing the merchantman until it is too late to
maneuver into a favorable position for at
tack. .
England's Debt ta "Rebels"
George Washington was a "rebel." He
would have had short shrift if he had fallen
into English hands. Yet how much Eng
land owes to him and to the patriots of our
revolution is jpw being recognized by all
thoughtful Englishmen, and for them Lord
Derby spoke when he said, in Paris:
"As in the days of my youth a teacher
spanked me, saying, 'You will thank me later
for this.' I say now that I wish to thank
America for giving us the best licking we
ever got. t That licking taught us
how to treat our children;. it is the reason
why we now have Australia and Canada,
and even South Africa, fighting beside us
today." - i
Time develops this sort of broad-mindedness.
It has done so with Americans. .A
hundred and forty years ago large numbers
of our patriots were suffering horrors in th
prison hulks in the Wallabout. Of the 11,
000 victims, most are now buried at Fort
Greene Park, a shaft commemorating their
fate. A trifle over a century ago a British
force burned our public buijdings in Wash
ington. Yet around Fort Greene Park echo,
cheers for every British victory, and in the
reconstructed public buildings of Washington
originates the aid vital to Britain and its
allies. '
1 England is not untrue to itself in thank
ing the men it would have been glad to hang
in the revolutionary period. America is not
untrue to itself in ; abjurng bitterness over
the prison ships, over the ruthlessness of
Englishmen in Washington. New condi
tions bring new duties. Such duties Eng
land and America are assuming and perform
ing to the best of their ability as the cham
pions and protagonists of modern civiliza
ton. Brooklyn Eagle. .
Cost of Liberty Loans
Most people will be astonished at the
small cost of floating the country's three
great war-bond issues. According to the
official report of the Treasury department,
the total expense of all the Liberty loan
campaigns up to June 30 was $2,709,480.30,
of which $1,246,650.31 was incurred by the
various federal reserve banks. The sum of
$176,157 was spent for publicity, $38,414 for
posters and stickers, $21,777 for buttons, and
other items include sa-laries, traveling -expenses,
rentals, postage, etc. It cost $744,
559 to engrave and print the bonds, and
paper used7 cost $171,820.
The total expenditure, indeed, was no
greater than that involved in floating a rail
road or corporation bond issue a hundredth
part as lafge. It shows an economy in pub
Ijic finance in rrlarked contrast with the laxer
methods of" bond selling in the civil -war.
And though the amount is charged against
the bontff, its represents something more
than the premium paid to make the Liberty
loans a success.-1 It has . served to finance
three national campaigns of education in pa
triotism, it has inculcated thrift, and it has
taught all the American people a valuable les
son in the principles of investment and in
security values which was previously known
to only a small number, " f ; ,
Certainly, the price paid to establish the
government's war 6redit has been an insig
nificant one in'view of the remarkable re
turns. New York' Herald.
. Om Year Ago Today In the- Var.
Russian general staff admlted Revo
lutionary demoralization in Russian
- rmy.
Berlin, claimed that Austro-German
forces opposing the Russians in Ga
, lie la had advanced mors than CO
miles In ob a week.
The Day Wo Celebrate. '
Marshall SB. Craig, city . passenger
xgent tot tflfc Great Western, born
1&84. . .
D. I Johnson, attorney, born 1SS6.
J. C IS. Duval, general agent of
the St Paul railroad, born 1852; -
Read Admiral John A. Rodgers, U.
P. N retired, born at Havre do Grace,
Md.. 70. years asro.
CoL Edward M. House, President
wL'son's special representative, Inves
tigator and adviser, bom at Houston,
.'ex 60 years ago. J
Chis Day In History.
1 39 Khyber Pass, the getaway to
'Afghanistan from India, was forced
y the British tinder. General Wade.
1868 A monument to Charlemagne
ras Inaugurated at uege, Belgium.
1888 German emperor visited King
Oscar or Sweden at stocKnoim. -
1915 Russians checked German at
tempt to take Warsaw.
1898 Spanish government, through
Prt-neh ambassador, asked the United
Ktnta for tfrmi nf npRr" s
lfU Russians threatened Xuatrlan
Jiuld on Brody. taking 4,000 "more
Just 80 Years Ago Today
At a meeting of th Samoset asso
ciation arrangements were made for
the presentation of the new banner by
Capt. John F. Boyd to the association
at the Pajton. All the members and
a large number of democrats have
been Invited.
The B. & M. ran Its first vestibule
train from Denver to Chicago, v
Among the attractions at the Peo
pie's theater, besides the regular per
formers, were a number of volunteers,
among them Bradley and Mangold in
banjo duets and Mr. Fretweii in a
song and dance. Mr. Junie McCree,
to whom the benefit was tendered, was
presented with a handsome gold-head
ed cane. . . : ."' '!
W. p. Bechel. auditor of the Pacific
Express company, returned from
Cleveland where he attended the an
nua? convention of the Expressman's
Mutual benefit associauon,
Editorial Shrapnel
Toledo Blade: ' It a man's txet hurt
he thinks b is doing most of the
world's suffering. v, y-' , 1 "
Kansas City Times: Why does the
government! keep on witting nickels?
They won't buy anything any more.
Minneapolis Tribune: In the grand
orchestra or tne aiues tne Americans
are doing beautiful work with the in
struments of percussion, jr. ,
Dallas News: It seems to be a set
tled fact that our congressmen will
not come home until after the wheat
has been threshed and th corn laid
by. " .. '':.., 4
Baltimore Sun: When we read of
the Busch family buying $1,000,000
of German bonds, we feel mors con
soled at the prospect of abolishing
beer.-. , , - 1
Indianapolis News: ; At . least the
kaiser has the distinction of beingt
condemned by more societies and in
more languages-than any living man
or beast. :
. Atlanta Constitution: One conso
lation the 1918 candidates for office
may have in advance of election lies
in the fact that even if defeated, they
neea not oe long out of a lob.
New York Herald: Speaking of the
trails of pro-German propaganda,
does it seem likely , that patriotic
hounds can be thrown off the scent by
any cry about "Big Business!" ;
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat: If Mr
Wilson finds ; Senator " J. Hamilton
Lewis so amusing he might find an
appointment for him in Washington,
instead fvaskin- IliinoiB lb take rare
of him at such a sacrlnce of its pride.
Nebraska 'Politks
Hntare Free Press: At the com-
ing primaries the voters ot the state
Will be given an opponumiy iu mnc
a party enaorueracui uj.
constitutional convention. iNeoraska
needs and needs badly a constitution
adequate and adaptable to present
day conditions. The, present consti
tution Wasv good enough in. Its day a
time when two-tmias or. tne state was
unsettled and Kearney was an Indian
outpost but that time nas passed ana
now too many changes are necessary
to be made under the amendment sys
tem. A nw constitution Is an abso
lute necessity. -Broken
Bow Republican: At the
caucus of the republicans last week
D. M. Amsberry was recommended as
the nominee for secretary of state on
the republican ticket Pursuant to
this atid the urgent appeal of friends
from over, the state Mr. Amsoerry
has consented to make the race for
the nomination and has filed, for the
office. Mr. Amsberry was one of the
pioneer residents of Custer county,
taking a homestead here infihe 80s,
coming from Hall county, where he
taught school. , H wiis one of the
early county superintendents and or
ganized 168 of the districts in the
county and originated th summer
normal for teachers. He was editor
of the Republican for many years and
held the position of receiver of the
land office at Broken Bow under three
nresidents. He haa manv friends over
the state who will lend him their
support in the primaries and elec
tion, and CiKtr .' wnty is pretty sure
to Va solid lor turn.
Twice Told Tales
Muleteer Meditation. .
It was one big surprise for every
one in the machine gun company
When the chaplain at last got Butch
Into the church for Sunday services.
Butch rated a pretty hard hombre
honest, efficient and faithful as they
make them, but not very careful
about his language and more than
willing to scrap most anyone any
time. The chaplain got him one day
as Butch was splicing some harness
for one of the mules. , His line was
about like this:
; "Now, Butijh, i m going to ask you
to come to church Sunday' morning.
I know you don't want to, but I want
you to come as a favor to me. v 4St
"It you were out selling lightning
rods you'd at least expect a farmer to
let you put one on lis house for a
trial, if it wasn't going to cost him
anything.
- "Now. we've been good friends ever
since I came to the regiment, haven't
we?"
Butch admitted they had been.
But Butch was equal to the emer
gency. . 'A. , .:.. . . -'.". .., '
"Let us hare fivw minutes of silent
meditation,", said Butch. The Stars
and. Stripes. ,
Just a Few Requirements. '
l think girls are getting more sen
sible." . . ,
. "HOW 60?" ! .v ,
"Don't care whether a young man
is handsome or, not. so he Is manlx.
healthy and has pknty uf coin." .
Concerning Liberty Bonds. '
Omaha, July 24.To the Editor of
The Bee: Advertising oneself or firm
as having purchased such and such
amounts of Liberty bonds carries with
It quite frequently (too frequently) a
maze of camouflage that gives that
person who really would like to own
Liberty bonds and cannot a deep pain
when he discovers the deception.
Recently, In order to come even with
the preying of the profiteers the writer
sold his little "home through a real
estate firm. When the settlement was
made it was necessary to take over
a number of Liberty bonds as part of
the sale price. The impression was
left that the purchaser could not
handle the deal unless the bonds were
accepted as part pay, and that they
belonged to Hhe purchaser. During
the term covering the negotiations it
was brought out that the real estate
firm had bought several thousand dol
lars worth of bonds and was parceling
them out In the above manner, getting
rid of the bonds while at the same
time inviting public , applause for a
magnificent pat of patriotism.
No doubt the. real estate fraternity
is doing only what many another
"large" contributer is doing and is
not entitled to special condemnation.
Nevertheless, it is not always the per
son who makes the loudest noise that
can come clean on the patriotic stunt
NORTH SIDE.
Some Pertinent Questions. .
Lincoln, July 25 To the Editor of
The Beer : Honest, citizens are anx
ious to keep , camouflage patriots out
of office, and as there is a super
abundance of sham warrior aspirants,
probably "Campaign Manager Ber
nard McNaney" of Red Cloud might
assist in the good work by explaining
as to whether his candidate for Uni
ted States senator. R. L. Metcalfe, vis
still on "Carranza's pay roll," and
what was the date of the last check
received from ; Carranza? Likewise
Mr. McNaney might state whether his
friend, H. C. Richmond, secretary of
the Council of Defense and candidate
for state senator, will give any "birth-
dav" or "annivprsnrv'1 nartioo anA
' J iw viva, wiu,
if elected, does ho intend to introduce
a bill to repeal the barbers' Sunday
closing iaw, etc.?
AN ART-ISTIC BARBEB.
How Long?
Omaha. Julv 24 Tn tho inHitr, nt
The Bee: Again 1 had occasion to
ao a uttie Dusiness at i "our" county
court house, with the usual result
Court house office hours beginning
somewhat Hater than the ordinary
workingmin's hours and closing con
siderably earlier than that of the lat
ter, line many otners X found It neces
sary to hurry to the court house dur
ing the noon period. I . rushed into
one of the county offices and stood
by the counter for several minutes
while three employes were holding a
conference of some sort in the corner
of the room. Finally (again as usual),
the time getting short, I requested to
be waited upon, which was done in
due time, seemingly much to the dis
gust of "our" public servants.
Let's have a change in the county
court house building, but for goodness
sake let's do a better job of it than
has been done by our "cleanup" , city
commissioners over at the citv hall.
KICKER.
Not a Party Wa.
Oxford, Neb., July 24. To the Ed
itor of The Bee: Please grant me
just a few lines of space 'to endorse
the wise and patriotic " article of
Charles Wooster, which voices nine
tenths of . the truly loyal American
people when their sentiments are
consulted. We have gone in to win
this war not for the democratic
party, but for the American people.
If we do not maintain the integrity
and constitution of the United States
We Will have nothing wnrth whu ift
after we shall have succeeded in sav
ing omer. nations rrom ruin and our
selves from the menaces of a foreign
power. It causes me to smart with
indignation at the very thought of
any of our beloved institutions being
violated or held in the spirit of levity.
I fought to maintain these principles
and I have no patience with "camou
flage" patriotism (?). Americans will
win this war, and not any polit
ical party. This was true in the rev
olutionary war,, and also in the war
of the rebellion. It must be so in all
wars. "So mote it be."
N. B. GRAHAM.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"One must not confuse liberty with
license."
"No, especially when thinking of a mar
riage license." Life. . 7 ,
"Did you hear thesWy about the soldier
who said he wanted Turkey and the waiter
said; 'I can't Servia?" So he went away
Hungary."
"I've heard It, but I'll honor it with an
other laugh. Uruguay dog, ain't you now?"
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"What kind of time do you have here?"
asked the stranger of the village whlttler.
''Mister, I dunno whether you mean clock
time or hot time, butif you mean the latter
they ain't nothtn' etlrrln' but the breeze."
Florida Times-Union. ' -.. i
, ''There is an opening in my business, for
any man or woman who want one.";
"That is remarkable. What is your busi
ness.?". " , - -"Manufacturing
umbrellas.' Chicago Post
' ': t .
Ted Has he much of a reputation ai an
artist? - ,
?Ned So-so. ' When the papers refer to
him as a well-known painter they usually
spell his name wrong. Life, . r
ing those goo-goo ye.V Philadelphia Bui.
letin. ,
She What do you suppose I did when
mother told ms you were coming?
He Oh, I suppose "you colored up a little.
She 8ir! Nebraska Awgwan. , , ;
' "I hear Madge is engaged to a man who
manufactures artificial opUcs."
"Is that oT Well, I reckon she can give
him a few points when' It comes to mak-
Betty to you- think Jack will Itea!
another kiss?
Marie Well, my dear, they say a crim
inal always returns to the seen of bit
crime. Boston Transcript 1 r
-."That's the fourth time I've heart D-J;
Bore tell that same story."
"yep, he's a one-story man. That's1 why
ha stands no higher as a speaker-" Judge
THERE'S A REASON.
There's a tremor In the trenches, there's S
tension in the air;
There's a hurry and a scurry and a worry :
everywhere : '
There's a nervousness apparent, there's a
. sort of last despair,
Aa the Huns observe the Yankees lining
. up Just over there! ., -
There's a tumult at ' headquarters, there's
a terror 'long the Rhine; .
There's a hunting and a shunting and a
grunting of the swine;
There's a hounded look upon them, there'
a sort of baffled whine, ' -
S out their battleline!
There's a twitching tokens trouble, there's
a trembling omens Hi;
There's, a shaking and a Quaking and a
- breaking of the will; i - -There's
a panlo of the spirit, there's a sort
of deadening chill.
As the Huns observe the Yankees coming
;'' over, dressed to kill! , - .
There's a hand-to-hand encounter, there's
a 'storm of shot and shell;
There's a grabbing and a jabbing and a
Btabblng with a yell; .
There's a poniard in the in'ards, there's a
slaughter, grim and fell.
As the Huns are Yanked by Yankees Into
Hun-deserving hell! :
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