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At last we .can ee through Lenit
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The watch on the Rhine is working over time
these day's.
Mr, Hitcnbrinch ii mad g.ainl That column
snriek rnakes it very evident
That little rain was of much benefit, but came
too near to being snow for comfort
Local leaders of Omaha organized labor may
consider themselves duly slapped on the wrist,
LL-.. JU'
ft required a long time. a take Lens, but the
Canucks never let up until the job was finished.
AH ready for the world's series over here.
The world's series "over there h been in rat
tling progress for some time.
. If "leave to print'1 be abolished, in congress,
the Record will become much tanner, but its
service to the country will suffer little.
Kaiser Bill's plea to, the German people to
make further sacrifices is only a notice to them
that they will fe required to, willy nilly.
. With a guaranteed p.rice of not lesa than $2.10
a bushel, the; farmer can lay plans for his 1919
wheat crop drive with the most variable factor
eliminated, .
x The skip-stop system for street railway! is
recommended by the fuel administration, Here
in Omaha the street car, we note, )i skip-stopping
about half the timcV
It Is a safe fuesa. tht th bunch of I. W. W.'s
incarcerated in our Douglas County jail would as
soon stay where they are M be transferred to a
federal prison under long term, lentence,
Chairman Kitchin must lso ake cognizance
of thk fact that ttif sew wage, schedules, have pro
duced' a much larger number of taxpayers than
we had a year ago, TWt hou.W iweH, the Income
4Ux collections considerably.
. ill,1 , ),' ULUI'.J - :v-
The official primary figufei flvt Bjf Jeff"
the republican congressional nomination by 5,374
votes to 2,364 for hi opponent, Of hettir than
two to one.' Keep up yof speed, "Jeff, and you
wi)t do it the same way q your democratic com
petitor.
. At any rate, Director McAdoa his the right
idea with reference to the obligations resting on
a nonpartisan management of the railroads. The
rules, he lays down art exactly what The Bee has
been' advocating for our avowedly nonpartisan
trenches of local administration, for the water
works, for the school board, for the whole city
hall Officers elected without regard to party
Should not permit themselves, or their employes,
to engage, in partisan politics.
.The New Revenue BilL
The new revenue bill, laid before the hcuse
by its ways and means committee, with, a unani
mous recommendation that it pass, contains at
H4st one feature that will interest alL That is the
increase in levy to be made on incomes. Instead
of lowering the minimum as' had been suggested,
the committee, has' brought the starting rate up
from 3 to 6 per cent, increasing the amount of
tax to. be paid by.the little fellows three times.
Such additions at have bees made in the upper
brackets of the bill in the surtax naturally are not
in proportion, to the trebling of the basic rate,
but are sufficient to be really impressive. Almost
billion, end a half of dollars is expected to be
derived from this source of governmental and
war uses, and $3,100,000,000 is to come from taxes
or war and excess profits, Vntil mors detailed
information is given, out concerning the new law,
careful analysis can not be made. It is hoped,
however, that care has been taken to eliminate
. some of the more serious defects of the law of
1917, that taxpayers will not he confused as to
what is expected of them,. V .
A NEW POLICE CHIEF FOR OMAHA.
It is announced that Omaha will soon have a
new chief of police in the person of Marshal
Eberatein, now in the government service,
charged with the duty of reorganizing the de
partment, the appointment having been jnade by
Commissioner Ringer with confirmation of toe
council, effective next month. .. , Q
In hi formal explanation to th public Mr,
Ringer commends his selection for the position
and it the same time gives recognition to Chief
Dempsey by declaring his intention to take care
of him in an equitable manner. He further de
dares that "this change is directly in line with my
pre-election pledge to the people of Omaha," and
expresses hope that he has now found "the last
ing solution of Omaha's police problem."
This hope we share with the commissioner,
although we must confess with some dubious
ness, for, as everyone knows, the past troubles of
our police department are not chargeable to the
failure of the successive chiefs of police so much
as to the constant interference with) them by their
superior officers. Mr. Ringer, himself, when he
assumed charge of the police department, made
another pledge, which was that every man in it
should .have a fair chance to make good, but this
pledge he has pot carried out so far as Chief
Demptcy is concerned. Chief Dempsey has been
no more the head of the polic; department under
Mr. Ringer than he was under Mr. Kugel. So
long as captains and sergeants and detectives art
made by the superintendent regardless of the
recommendations of the chief of police, and sub
ordinates "work out" of the superintendent's
office instead of under orders from end responsK
bility to the head of the force, the police depart
ment is bound to be at cross purposes, demoral
ized and Inefficient, If he is to succeed, the new
chief of police, when he takes hold, will have to
have the free hand which has been denied to his
predecessor. Otherwise Omaha's police problem
will be as far from the lasting solution as ever.
"Hindenburg Line" Crumbling,
The fall of Queant, followed by the reported
evacuation of Lens, is the most noteworthy
achievement of the Allies campaign of offensive.
White' the enforced withdrawal of the Huns from
all the ground they seized ll l result of the
tremendous effort of the spring and early summer
is not to be minimized, it does not hold the por
tent of the penetration of the strongly fortified
and stubbornly defended "Hindenburg line," on
which the Germans pinned their hopes. Particu
larly has the so-called Drocourt-Quean) sector
been considered impregnable by the German
high command. When the Canadians were held
up at Lens, two years igo, and when Byng's
thrust at Cambrai broke down, the faith of the
Hun inNhis defense along that part of the battle
front was made absolute.
Reportf coming from, there now bring the
cheering news that this part of the wall built to
support the kaiser ia crumbling fast. It has been
penetrated at its south and at its north ends, and
the enemy ia retiring from positions he has so
long held. The possibilities of this victory are
so extensive that care must be exercised in con
sidering them. At least, it involves an extensive
change of positions in order to rectify the Ger
man line, and this may carry with the retirement
of Prince Rupprecht's army from its hold on the
coast The x withdrawal under pressure which
gives little opportunity for reorganization of shat
tered forces may take the beaten Germans far
back of their prepared positions.
Other parts of the lines, from St Quentin to
Ypres are under assault, and the probability of
seeing francs and a considerable portion of
Flanders fidded i the Hun before winter is not
too remote to consider. The beginning of the end
seems to be in sight
Recognition of the Czecho-Slovaks,
The simple announcement by the secretary of
state 'that the Czecho-Slovaks have been recog
nized as I co-belligerent nation contains a great
fact that will probably become one of the fea
tures of the present war. It is more than a mere
acknowledgment of the aspirations of a people
long submerged by tyrannical oppression In. it
is contained the death knell of the Austrian eav
pire. Czechs and Slavs, both, north and south,
Poles and Latins, who have suffered for genera
tions under the despotism, of the Hapshurg dy
nasty, now can see an end to their bondage, and
the coming realization of their longing for a gov
ernment of their own. Their contribution to the
armies of liberty, already great, will be made the
larger end more effective, now that their own
freedom is assured, - They are indeed fighting for
themselves. Thoso of the races involved, who
have lived to long In America, and have so earn
estly labored t bring about this result must re
joice that their fins,) victory is t hand. The em
bryo Cecho-Slovak republic will be welcomed by
the people of the United States with sympathy
and a 'promise of assistance far its future.
German cjgar factories are to, close because
their tobacco supply is about exhausted. . Back to
dried grape leave and sumac but orac to think
Of it, does sumac grow in Germany?
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Hindenburg is eminently correct in, atating
that the Huns are now on the, defeosive-ftot a
very good defensive at that. , '
The Lichnowsky Memorandum -
By Professor Munroe Smith oj Columbia University
Critical interpretation and discussion of this most important war docu
ment by one of the world's foremost authorities on historical jurispru
dence and the study of comparative international law.
II.
The chief value of Prince Lichnowsky's
memorandum lies in the' fact that he rejects
and helps to disprove every plea in justifica
tion of Germany's conduct that has been ad
vanced since the outbreak of the world war
by Germany's official apologists. His testi
mony is of especial value in refuting the Ger
man assertion that, for s long period before
the war. France, Russia and ureat Britain
had been united in efforts to check German
commercial expansion, and to deny to Ger
many, a newcomer among the great powers,
its iust share in the exploitation of the
world's undeveloped resources. By their m-
. . f i r . l
trlguei uermany was nemmea n, or, as me
Germans put it, "encircled." In this conspi
racy of epcirclement Great Britain, as the na
tion most seriously menaced in its economic
interests by German competition, was the
arch conspirator. For its selfish purpose! it
supported the French desire to recover Alsace-Lorraine
and the Russian desire to gain
access to the Mediterranean-desires de?
scribed as French lust for revenge and Rus
sian lust tor conquest.
We see today that the encirclement theory
was one of the most valued drugs in Berlin's
political medicine closet. It was t once an
anodyne, by which the German people were
made to bear more quietly the growing bur
den of armaments, and a stimulant adapted
to fire them with a sense of wrong and a con
viction that by war alone could they obtain
satisfaction. Germany's encirclement could
also be represented, and was represented, as
a prelude to aggressive action by the encir
cling powers. Failing to stifle German com
petition by diplomatic wiles, these powers
would sooner or later seek to crush Germany
in war, Thus the German people were pre
pared to look upon a European war either as
necessary, in order to gain free field for
their industry and trade, or as Inevitable for
the defense of the Fatherland. And, since
these different notions were simultaneously
presented to them, and were not dissociated
In their minds, the German people were
adroitly prepared to regard an aggressive war,
when ever it should please Germany to start
it, either-as a "preventive" war that is, a war
to anticipate attack-r-or as a war of defense.
When war should come, the encirclement
plea could of course be used, as in fact it was
used, influence neutral opinion. The the
ory was primarily constructed, however, for
domestic use.
Lichnowsky attacks the ' encirclement
theory on two sides. He asserts, in the first
place, and adduces new evidence to prove,
that the rapprochement between Great
Britain and Russia was no offensive con
spiracy, but a defensive entente. The provo
cative policy pursued by Germany during the
years preceding the world war had awakened
general distrust of Germany's intentions. It
was this distrust, more than anything else,
that brought Great Britain into closer touch
with France and with Russia. Germany was
not isolated by the wiles of its neighbors; it
isof ted itself by its own conduct.
Lichnowsky shows, in the second place
and here his testimony is of the greatest
value because of the position he held in Lon
don during the two years immediately pre
ceding the warthat English jealousy of
Germany's commercial and industrial devel
opment had come to be outweighed in the
minds of English manufacturers and . mer
chants, by their recognition that Germany
bad become England's best customer. He
testifies that Sir Edward Grey s. policy, sup
ported by the JbngUsi premier, did not aim
to exclude Germany from competition in the
world's markets, or even to arrest Germany's
colonial development On the contrary,
Grey was anxious to adjust all disputes be
tween Great Britain and Germany .in the
field of world politics, as he had previously
adjusted-alt such disputes between Great
Britain and. Russia, He was ready to accord
to Germany spheres of economic, influence
and of eventual political control in those
parts of the world in, which the competition of
the great powers was keenest Not only was he
willina: to meet Germany half way, but he
was even disposed to accord to Germany,
notably as regards the Congo, opportunities
and expectancies which, to the German am-
uas5(tuur a surprise, ucum ikimikv 6i-.
The African and the Basrdad treaties which
Lichnowsky negotiated gave substantial ad
vantages, as he points out, to German com
merce, industry and finance. They also gave
the German empire important colonial expec
tations. Why were these treaties not wel
comed in Berlin? Why was the Bagdad
treaty not concluded? Why was the African
treatv accented onlv after long delay, and
only on the eve of war, when its ratification
was no lonirer oossihle? Lichnowsky's ex
planation, that his rivals in German govern
mental circles grudged him successes so con
spicuous, is equally characteristic and un
convincing. .
The chief point in controversy, he tells
us, was ' (at least as regards the African
treaty) that of publication. Sir Edward
Grey insisted that the treaty should be pub
lished; Berlin insisted that it should be kept
secret The most plausible argument for
secrecy, advanced by Berlin, namely, that the
partition of the Portuguese colonies into
spheres pf influence and of pre-emption
would so ortend fpnuguese reeling tnat uer
man entrepreneurs would be unable to obtain
concessions, is rightly characterized by Lich
nowsky as a pretext England, as he points
out, held Portugal in the hollow Of its hand:
He might have added that, under the circum-
cfon m a anu Pnv tiiorn ac rontmpnt wntlllf
probably direct itself primarily against Great
Britain, and that, if Great Britain could take
the risk, Germany surely could. Even, more
absurd (although vc-n Jagow still endorses it)
is the pretext that, if the German people had
learned that Great Britain was conceding
rights of pre-emption in the colonies of Por
tugal, there would have been an outcry
against British "perfidy" which would have
embarrassed the uertnan government and
fas von Taarow now suecests') would have
vitiated the "good atmosphere" which the
Berlin foreign office desired to create ia An-,
glo-German relations. It is, however, not
easy to believe that in the Germany of the
20th century there would have been a general
ethical revolt against any British, action that
was advantageous to Germany.
The probable explanation, the probable
reason why Berlin was willing to ratify the
treaty but unwilling to publish it, was that
its publication would have shaken, and might
even have destroyed, the fiction of encircle
ment, it the Uerman people had been per
mitted, in 1913 or in 1914, to read treaties by
which Great Britain accorded to Germany
the economic control of Mesopotamia and of
important parts of Africa, the belief in Ger
many'a encirclement which the German gov
ernment had created, and which it needed
for the coming war, would have been seri
ously undermined.
Yon Jagow's reply to Lichnowsky shows
that the opposition on wich the African and
Bagdad treaties were wrecked was neither
made nor suported in the Berlin foreign,
office. The Berlin foreign secretary also de
sired a rapprochement with Great Britain
and favored the ' ratification of the Grey
Lichnowsky treaties. This leaves but one
possible conclusion. The opposition was
higher up, in the militarist-Junker entourage
of the emperor. Tha in these circles there
could be little enthusiasm for arrangements
which would primarily subserve the interests
of German commerce is quite intelligible. For
decades the Junkers had witnessed with
growing distaste and apprehension the rap
idly increasing wealth of the middle classes.
This new wealth was lessening the relative
power and the prestige of their own order.
Least of all were they disposed to welcome
arrangements which would further enrich
German merchants, manufacturers and bank
ess, if, these arrangements tended to avert, or
even to postpone, war; for it was to war they
looked tos, re-establish their threatened pres
tige and to assure their 'dominant influence in
Prussia and in -the empire.
(To Be ContinuedTomorrow.)
Poppies Bloom on Battlefields
War correspondents, writing from the
Flanders front have mentioned the great
masses of flaming scarlet poppies that spring
up within a few months after each battle on
the hlood-soaked fields. An appropriate
flower for the battlefield is the poppy, for,
looked upon in some parts of the; world as
the symbol of death, many profess to see a
happier sign in the old superstition that the
markings in its center are the outline of the
cross. There appears to be a real connec
tion between these flowers and the blood
which has been poured out, for the same
thing has been mentioned by historians who
have recorded the stories of the countless
battles fought in this "cockpit of Europe."
Macauley has a paragraph about it m his de
scription of the battle of Landen, fought in
this region in 1693 by the English under WiU
ham III end the French commanded by
Marechal de Luxembourg. It runs:
"The region, renowned as the battlefield,
through many ages, of the greatest powers
of Europe, has seen only two more terrible
days, the day of Malplaquet and the day of
Waterloo. During many days the ground
was strewn with skulls and bones of men
and horsesi and with fragments of hats and
shoes, saddles and holsters. The next sum
mer the. oilt fertilized with 20.000 corpses,
broke forth into millions of poppies. The
traveler who on the road from Saint Trond
to Tirlemont, saw that vast field of ricl scari
let spreading from Landen to Neerwmden,
could, hardly help fancying tha.t the figurative
prediction of the Hebrew prophet was liter
ally accomplished, that the earth was dis
charging its blood and refusing to cover the
ilain.V-Kew'York Post ,
List to the Hun Scream
The German presa shrieks the discovery
that arms taken from a regiment of Ameri
cat troops prove to be sawed-off shotguns
carrying buckshot, contrary to the Geneva
convention.
If our troops are using a weapon em
ployed against express car bandits, who has
a better right to complain than the Germans?
They have merely introduced poison gas and
liquid fire; poisoned wells; left man traps in
retreat torpedoed merchant ships carrying
women and children as passengers; set sav-?
age dogs and equally savage keepers on pris
oners of war; sunk hospital ships and
bombed field hospitals, and taken civil pris
oners, women and children, into slavery.
Their regard tor Oeneva rules and. nague
rules is well known. They beaan by tearing
up their Belgian treaty as a scrap of paper,
and they have continued Dy aiding ineir
Turkish and Bulgarian allies in exterminat
ing the Serbian. Roumanian and Armenian
population of coveted territory, Levying il
legal requisitions and hacking down frqit
trees and pillaging convents are minor
pleasantries.
Upon a Christian nation thus scrupulous
to a fault in making war those inhuman
Americans descend with new ways and wiles.
Whether they use shotguns or not, they cer-
tainly aim rifles with disconcerting skill and
do not blush to stalk machine-gun nests In
dian fashion instead of walking confidingly
up o. bet shot No wonder the Germans,
whose gent'e manners are the amazement of
the world, clamor for justice. New York
Wosld.
ncsz
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Russiana retreated from. Bts
Germans retired (row a brod belt
east of Yprea.
..Eleven persona killed and St in
jured In a German air raid on London.
The Dav Wo Celebrate. " '
Luther Ia Kountze. vice president of
the First National panic, born tT4.
James H. Wintersteen, contracting
gent tor the Standard Bridge com
pany, born Mi.
. James I " Toraanek, pharmacist
horn ISM. ,
Simon Lake. Inventor of the aven
keel lypa pf submarine now in use by
the navies or in woria, corn ai neas
autvUlelN. J I years ago. -Rear
Admiral Corwln P. Re, tt, &
K retired, born at Belly, O, 19 years
go. - -
Henry Lefavaur, president of 81m
mom college), bora &l saiem, naaa, n
vara azo. -; -
Clarenea W, Walker, outfielder of
the Philadelphia Americas league
base ball team, bora a Denver 11
This D ia History. '
1870 On receipt of the news from
gedan, Gambetta and other rrencn
liberals assumed to depose the em'
ptror and establish' a republic.
1887 Irish National league met in
eeiiance n the queens proclamation.
ISUwGermana crossed the , River
aiarne on their march south. . '
J ust $0 Years Ago Today
' Workmen ar now extended mlong
Harnsv street from Slxtuanth fetroaf
some grading, others putting in con
crete anq otaers sun wonting tne
blocks.
Ed Rothery's display of carrier pig-
eons at the fair is attracting great t
teotloa. . County Clerk Roche issued quar-'
terly papers for US prisoners.
. The LuUdtng- Inspector issued build
ing permit during, the month of Au
gust ggrega,ting the value of t48,
j78. A marriage license was issued to
Alex Gavin and. Miss Mary Marts, both
residents of Omaha.
The Bank of Omaha 'has been m-
corporated by Frank V. Wassarmaa,
Charles Breasted, August Benson. M.
8, Powell Md C P. Nsedham, The
authorised capital la 1110,009,
1 , - .
Here and There
Scotland has over 18,000 sons and.
daughter who eonversa only ia
Gaelic
The steamboat and the first prac
tical sewing machine were American
inventions. j
Normandy has a town called O,
Holland a river T, Sweden a village
named. A and China, a city V
More tobacco is smoked per head
In the United States than in any
other country except Holland.,
The average number of . horses
killed in, Spanish bull fights every
year exceeds MjKO, while from WOO
to 1,300 bulla ara sacrificed,
It has been found that the age of
a fish may be read, from its scales.
These increase ia else by annular
growths, two rings being formed
each year, ,
A bottle of wlnej 1,800 years old.
waa dng out of a Roman toroh at
tiuayfr, in Bavaria, . Th seal was
broken and the wine proved to ba in
excellent condition, - ( '
Ctiarlea Currier ia the last pf a
group of aged persons who lived on
adjacent farms in Warner, N. H, The
oldest of the fiva attained a century,
and the youngest lived to the age of
4 ...... J . . " T
jtoh auu buk monms. ,
It a bigamy case m Russia a few
years ago the prisoner, a beautiful
yovng woman, admitted that she had
ten married to. IS husbands, run
ning away from each in turn and
taking all their portable prpperty
.with her, ,
v Center Shots !
Baltimore American: German air
plans have received a serious setback
The same is true of the Teuton hot
air offensives.
Minneapolis Journal: Those hand
picked German kings for small na
tions will last like snowballs in the
corn belt in the final roundup.
Kansas City Star: Th French es
timate of Foch's ability is now being
confirmed from the highly - corapa,
tent source of the Germait newspaper
military critics. ,
Louisville Courier-Journal One of
the staunch supporters of the admin-,
lstration in the matter at the ' man
power bill is Otto. Kahn. Let us hope
that the kaiser may read the name la
the news occasionally, .
Detroit Free Press) British officers
say they would rather fight Turks
than Germans, because the Turks al
ways fight fair. The German soldier
has thoroughly besmirched, the char
acter of the German people,
Philadelphia Lednreri It is easy to
understand why German prisoners in
this country should not want to go
home; but the lot of American pris
oners In Germany is hot so happy,
and. i hs the interest of these that
tne government is bound, ta consider.
New YorK gerald: Without st
temptlng to go. iuta details concern
ing the subject matter of reports
which the secretary of war rightly
believes should not he transmitted
abroad, it may be suggested that
somebody In Washington owes as
apology to Mr, GuUon, Borglum.
Twice Told Tales
Conservation. .
Ha was not a good card player. He
admitted it. But that was no reason
why his partner should be so disa
greeable whenever he made mistakes
After a particularly glaring error the
pestering partuer turned on him.
'Why dldat you follow my lead??
he asked.
"If I followed anybody's, air," ex
claimed the novice, hotly, "it certainly
wouldn't be yours."
His partner snorted and subsided.
But in the next hand he threw down
his cards in desperation.
"Look here!" he cried. "Didn't yon
see me call fop a spade or club?
HSve you no black suit''
"Yes, I have,' cried the novice with
warmth. "But I'm keeping it for
your funeral," Rehoboth Sunday
Herald.
Blessed Carnegie.
Andrew Carnegie is now 13 and
resting on his oars, but he loves to
'reminisce,' and the folowing is one
of bis favorite stories:
"A tourist stopped in front of a
handsome bqilding and asked a
Immoral urhnt it worn
- The public library, sir,' replied
uo man, piess air. carnegia,
who gave t to us:1
' 'You don't look as though yon
Itad much literary taste,1 observed the
tourist.
Oh, I don't use the library, said
the man, "but my ole woman's got the
Job of cleaning H 9uti "-Boston
Globe.
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Wage for Fighting lien.
Auburn, Neb.. Sept 1. To the Ed
itor of The Bee: Wt believe every
loyal Americas citizen believes ia fair
ness to all citizens of our country and
are willing ta do their part to help win
the war. Soldiers we must have to
fight the battles against the Huns
(formerly called Germans), now ene
mies of the whole world, and we now
have a, million or two already ever
there, and sending mora most every
day, or the Bneat specimens of man
hood that ever facod a foe, aid every
loyal American must feel his heart
swell within him when ha thinks of
that grand army oi young citizen sol
diers now In France facing the most
barbarous enemy of liberty and hu
manity that the world has ever known.
Will they, with our allies, win the
war? Every loyal citizen knows they
will win, but we who are left at home
must do our part to help them; their
part is to kill Hun soldier and work
day and night (we do not war on
women and children, a the Hun
does and face the big guns of the
Huns. -
We who a-.. left at home and oat
of the danger of bullets should be
more ready to do our part Our part
is to raise the foodstuff to supply our
army and navy and allies. Can we
do it? Yes, and no mistake about it
And now comes the fairness I spoke
of." We believe all ablebodled men
should be drafted, some to farm and
raisa foods, soma to manufacture mu
nitions of war, soma to build ships, I
sorae to manufacture clothing tor our
army, and soldiers to fight tha bat
tles. Can any loyal American citizen
come forward and say why all these
men shouM . t be reated alike and
paid the same wages, or nearly so?
We believe that if anyone should
profiteer in this war it should be the
men wV fight our battles.
. M. BURRESS.
Appreciation.
Lincoln, Sept J. To the Editor of
The Bee: I want to express to you in
the most hearty possible way my ap
preciation of your ..ersonal note about
Our new commander-in-chief, past de
partment commander, C. E. Adams.
It was a splendid thing for you to do,
and to do it so generously.
As I think you know, I have been
deeply interested for 4S years m the
public affairs of Nebraska. I knew
your father very well; while we did
not always agree as to the attitude of
the republican party, I appreciated his
force of character and the work he
did for Nebraska. 1
These are mighty days and you have
a greater opportunity than ever.
HARMOX BROSS.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
"Don't you think congrewnian oucht to
Bava a longer term than two yeant" I
"I nave tomeume thought ao, but thaia
asema to b no great clamor for a ohange.
So 1 Infer that moat people consider two
years long enough, to et a congressman go
without an accountlng."J.oulvlUo Courier-Journal
Are ' Toil & Anmnr.ra nnnhlln..,"
asked the man who ilwuvm nut, talk
politic.
'I dunno." remond1 tha man hi l-
thlnklng about other things. "Are you?"
wasnington Star.
Uncle Bill, hearing an explosion to the
Immediate, neighborhood, laid to his small
nephew, sitting in th automobile beside
him: "Get out. Jimmy, and look at tha tlra
and se if it ia flat" T
" look pretty good," said Jimmy upon
Inspection; "It's only flat on the bottom
aide." Everybody's Magazine.
'I wonder how far the government control
ef tha telephone, will Mtend." ,
"I hope It will control the conversation
of my wlfa and the oelghbars'-rHte.
Mr riethush. consider her a perfect
lady.
Mrs. Benaonhurat WelL I don't
"Why not?"
"Well, tor one thing, her hair is not
her own." Yonkera Statesman.
STRATEGIC RETIREMENT,
Achl I am one retreater groat!
When I am. running I'm a winner.
I only take this hurried gait
So I may be at home for dinner.
Besides, the speed vita which I go
Makes some pursuer stub bis toe!
I had htm down: by strategy
I got position underneath.
I had him down; to prove It, he
Compressed my nose between his teeth.
And when his Jaws the foe unbent
1 let him go and then I went!
The Frenchmen hit me on the left;
The Yankees hit ma on the right.
And, tired of being rauttandjeffed,
I dropped abruptly out of eight.
Why did J duck! You ask me. brother t
So those two men could hit each other! ,
You think me beaten when I fleet
You say that I have got my licking T
You much mistake the strategy
That makes me take an English kicking.
I let him boot ma o'er and o'er ?'
Because H make his feet so sore! '
Ja! when I go back, back. ' more hack,
I da not hunt a safe poai.au.
I seek to mat) the Allies lack j
A good supply of ammunition.
They shoot at me when there I'm notl
Achl suth a waste of costly shot)
So when you see me run and run,'
Remember I'm a foxy Teuton
And that the war I will, have, won
If I just scoot on. scoot on. scoot on!
My flight brings on a new-style death: i
-ML. M . I . , . I . ...
mo loeniea, BnaainK, ose tneir Dream:
John O'Keeio lu Wew York World,
Over Here and There,-,
The kaiser is at Bad yauhaim. the! x
crown prince at home and Prince -Rupprecht
of Bavaia on a vacation, t
Royalty wisely gets'beyond the range:
of allied guns. ,
Qne of the recent slams of the In4
dustrtal War board lands on the eaat
era makers of the so-called "Navajo
blankets." , No objection to the Na
vajo Indian doing tha Job at homoj
Only those who faked the trademark!
are hit
'The man who broke the bank at,
Monta Carlo" will note with sorae in
terest that the notorous gamblng re
sort is doing mighty little business
these days. Americans have been
offered the plaije as a leave resort dur
ing the war.
New methods of handling and ex
peditlng mail to and from the Amer
ican forces in Prance have been put
into effect. It is a huge Job, with
many obstacles to overcome. Start
and Stripes says the home-going mail
alone averages 8,600,000 letters;
week.
In the days before Uncle Sam en
tered tha war game Dr. Von Mach ol
Brooklyn started a fund to purchase
and forward condensed milk to the
famishing babies of Germany. Only
$100 woxth of the milk ever got to
Germany. "The tender-hearted here,"
says the Brooklyn Eagle, "subscribed
$10,000 to this noble fake. Dr. Von
Mach's salary was $75 a week, with
$175 for his board at the Holland
house- The rest of the money weni
into Hun. propaganda."
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