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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1918. r fHE Pmaha Bee ()AILY (MfiENING ) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNJED BY EDWARD ROSEWATEB ! VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR , . i BEE frUBUSHBiC COMPANY. PROPBUTO " MEMBERS. OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS r Asawtoued Ifa which The iin it a member, I, exelnttvely t tUtd W th tut for publication of all news dispatches credited to !l oot otherwise credited In thti paper, aad also (ha local nawi as,PUhd hi. All nm ot publication of oat special dispatches ai alto resarwd. s rhleaf -PspU Oas Building. Omaha The Be Bulldlni KawYort Ja Fifth A Bouth Omaha 2318 N St. . Ii.i.Nfw B'a of Commerce. Council Mnff n v M.in Wathuuton 1311 G St ldlng. (iinMl U I tiff. ii v u.i. a LincolnLittle Building. AUGUST CIRCULATION Daily 67,135 Sunday 59,036 Iwin cliwilttlon f 0i nwnth. subscribed and iwom to t) fwlilrt Williams. ClwalaUoa Maimer, SuhicrSheirl leaving the city should hava The. Be mailed to 'them. Addrest changed at often a requested. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG l;i & lb!il;!li Kaiser Bill is getting ready to chuck it. "Doughnut days" are over over here, but not over there. ' The "watch on the Rhirfe" must be about ready to go again. Keep th home fires burning," but do not waste fuel In doing so. The Central Powers are waking up to the fact that the Yankees are in the fight. ' Gravelotte is not so very far away from St. Mihiel. This will be a good place to reverse history.' Maybe "Vic" Wilson might be induced tb compromise with Dictator Burleson on the phone fate matter The water is all ready for Fort Crook as soon as the main ia connected, and this waits .only on the War department now. " The kaiser asks who injected hatred Into the war It may have been the man who wrote the hymn ending "Gott strafe England P Conservation of gasoline is demanded by Dr. Garfield, which may meri an extension 0$ joy fideless Sunday beyond the Mississippi. Separata peace with Austria might have its attractions, were it possible. But the kaiser will now allow his vassal to slip out so easily. Do not, in your haSte, overlook the American merchant marine It is' growing apace, and its share of the waf work is being done splendidly. The attorney general of the state of Nebras ka quotes from the code of Hamurabi, 2,600 B. C, showing where some of our law comes from. Ypu will notice that heither Haig nor Petain ; spent any time watching Pershing. They are keeping, Frit busy all along the line. Good teim work. v C . i i i i mmammmmmmm . Well, inaTnarytimes a corn crop of 2,800, 1 000,000 bushels would be accepted as worth : while, and It probably will serv for the pres ent Next year we will raise more. Th Varitre flr fifinurintr nn in moflv ntarAc along the battle front, and will establish a rec ord for ubiquity along with their other contri butions to the uneasiness of Ludendorff. . Peace based on victory is the only sort that Americana can accept We have not made all our sacrifices to accept a patched-up agreement Anything short of our full program means our boys have died in vain. Another ten-story hotel with 250-room ca pacity added to Omaha's equipment ought to impress outsiders, as well as the home folks, with the important growth the city has made nd is. malr!ny Anrt ua vt hav rnnrn tnr mnr V '.Congressman Greene pttAded with the house of Iowa eloquently pubjc funds, and the members walked out on himshow4ng a fine disregard for any discus sion the great-revenue bill. This spirit of indifference to responsibility in congress is not in spirit A to the pepole who foot the bills. Shortage of Gasoline. Fuel Administrator Garfield has given out figures thatshow the daily deficit in America's gasoline supVly at present to be 3,000 barrels a day Reservl stock of oil has been reduced more than 4,0(Voob barrels since April 1. These jigufel indicate), the increased use of this fuel under war demands, as well as the necessity for curtailment in some ways in order that actual needs of the government may not be interfered with. The appeal of the fuel administrator to autoists east of the Mississippi river to refrain from pleasure drives Von Sunday brought such response as saved a considerable quantity of the oil that was being, helessly expended, but more drastic measures roay yet be needed. In this, as in other lines, thV government has en deavored to interfere as i)ttle as possible with the routine life of .the citiilens, but no one will hesitate between giving up k joy-ride and mak ing a contribution , to, winninfe the war. Gaso line must not be wasted. Individual Initiative. . They said that the day of the individual In war was done, that the age of the hero was over, that in the struggle of the twentieth cen tury only multitudinous masses counted or Could .even be discerned in the conflict, that, on the battlefields of the world, the opposing armies were but giant machines with each hu man an infinitesimal, inconsiderable cog. To those watching from 3,000 miles away, it seemed as if only the gallant chasse pilots darting lonely cross the perilous skies had inherited the glorr that used to be. ' All this they said, and mere. It is not true. Those so fortunate that their work, takes them to the front know it is not true. There they see that, in every branch of the service, from the chaplains to th men-of the ration details, war today calls for and receives as much individual initiative, as shining a personal courage as ever the marvelling world saw at Thermopylae, ar Balaklava, at Missionary Fid;e. .There every hour they see some man no one ever heard of before reveal a blazing :piay of high valor that lights up like some r.ctt potent flare in black night of war. Stars C'i rtri-es (Published in France) AUSTRIA'S REQUEST FOR CONFER ENCE. The Austrian request for a conference to dis cuss peace terms did not come as a surprise, having been foreshadowed in the speeches of Czerniit and Burian, recently commented upon, How it will be received by the belligerents may scarcely be forecasted. It may be accepted that no sincere effort to bring the war to an early and satisfactory end can be ignored by either of the great nations, so the chief thing to determine will be the spirit in which Austria makes its proposal. On casual inquiry this does not ring true. Austria, as well as Germany and the world, has been well in formed of what basis for peace will be accept able to Americans. Less than the terms con tained in the fourteen theses laid down by the president will hardly be considered by our peo pie. ' For Austria these terms have been more completely crystallized by the formal recogni tion of the Czecho-Slovak republic. This in volves the dismemberment of the empire, and carries with it by implication at least taking from Prussia the portion of Poland held in sub jection by the kaiser. Similarly, the Russian provinces seized must be restored, while Tur key and Bulgaria will be required to disgorge territory now held by arms. Italy, naturally, will not be content short of the resoration of the Irredente, while the question of Belgium and Alsace-Lorraine "have gone beyond any possibility of discussion, other than terms of restitution. If the Central Powers recognize in the mili tary situation the hopelessness of their case, ana are willing to submit to terms, the approach will be without especial difficulty. Jvtt they can not be admitted to a conference on a status other than that of the vanquished. Pershing's Victory Growing. As more detailed accounts of Pershing's drive against the St. Mihiel salient come from France, the brilliance of that operation in creases. From Berlin on the first day was. sent word that the sector was abandoned practically without defense. The seeming ease with which the movement was carried out gave some color to that. Now it is known that the Germans re sisted to the utmost, and that some of the most desperate fighting of the war ensued, irr-which the Americans wrung from a German officer, made a prisoner, the admission that they are "terrible adversaries." Captives taken support the view 'that the Germans werfi not preparing to abandon the salient, and that the 'swiftness of the movement bewildered them in their action. Critics, who have watched the war from the first, agree (that this first real test of Yankee ability in the new science of war was carried out with a dash and to a success that gives it place among the important battles of the war. Its ultimate effect is to be developed, but the value of the ground taken is shown by the effort of the foe to retain it. Finally, it has most ef fectually settled any claim of the kaiser of in vincibility for his army. The German formula of "retirement to prepared position" has no ap plication to the defeat at St. Mihiel. Value of the Dollar and Exchange. An anonymous correspondent writes to The Bee, inquiring why it is the dollar has suffered in comparison with the pound sterling in for eign exchange. It is simply because the bank ing facilities of the United States were not well organized for the purpose of handling foreign accounts. Most of the world's banking is. done through London; prior to the war Berlin was the next great center for exchange. This was brought about because the big British and Ger man banking fir,ms had established branches throughout the world, and so were enabled to control the business. As long as Americans were borrowers, it is obvious the entire strength of their banks' found employment at home. While the money center of the world has shifted from London to New York, an incident of the war, and we have become money lender?, our banking facilities throughout the world have not yet been extended to such a point that they can efficiently serve the commerce of the world. So a great deal of exchange still is written through London that might better be handled by our domestic bankers, were the machinery for so doing adequate to the demand. Also, at the very beginning of the war, the British govern ment took steps to protect its money against un favorable exchange rates. The American gov ernment has not thought advisable to do this. Finally, the credit of the government does not rest on the rate of exchange absolutely. Liberty bonds are the only issues of any government now selling at or near par, and our Vt per cent issue is bringing a premium. The discount on the American dollar in Denmark, Spain, and other small countries is a reflection of local sen timent, rather than of actual standing of the issue. Tariff for Revenue Also. Representative "Sloan matle one telling point in his mild criticism of the pending revenue measure. It is that the majority of the com mittee has entirely ignored one of the surest and most reasonable sources of government in come, that of duty on imports. Blindly devoted to the exploded dogma of free trade, the demo crats persist in neglecting the tariff, -tven in war time, when, if ever, such taxes would be justified. It means nothing to' them, apparently, that Great Britain, hitherto the leading ex ponent of the free trade idea, has abandoned its position and collects a considerable of its in come at its ports, its revenue froin this amount ing to several times the proportion of the whole so received by the United States. Canada, long a high protective country, has increased its port collections since the war begun, and now gathers half its national revenue from imports. On the other hand, the total of imports into the United States shows a continued growth while collections of customs dues has decreased. Last year's total of importations was the greatest in 20 years, while the revenue was the lowest in that period. - The foolishness of sudh a policy, when ingenuity is being exhausted to develop sources from which to raise money by taxation for public expenses, shows a lamentable lack of capacity for understanding and meeting the grave problems of government finance. Roy McKelvie starts his formal campaign for the governorship today, and Nebraskans will get a good chance to measure the young man who hat ma Hi such a snlendid record for himself. I McKelvie's methods are thft sort that win. Right in the Spotlight. Andrew Bonar Law, wllo cele brates his 60th birthday today, is one of the outstanding figures in British politics and public affairs. Mr. Law is a native of New Brunswick and passed jus early life in the Canadian province. Soon after obtaining man hood he went to Glasgow, which had been his mother's home, and embarked on a business career, in which he proved quite successful. He first entered parliament in 1900, at a time when matters of trade and taxation were absorbing the public after the close of the Boer war. Mr. Law struck out on the broad basis of tariff as they affect the empire, and his utterances on this question attracted wide attention. In 1911 he was chosen leader of the Union ist party irt succession to Mr. Bal four. When the present coalition government was formed by Lloyd George. Mr. Law was given the post of chancellor of the exchequer and a seat in the war council. One Year Ago Today in the War. Keren'sky, as head of the Provi sional government, proclaimed Rus sia a republic. The so-called "Rainbow Division" of the United States army was re view'd on dress parade for the first time at Camp Mills, L. I. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Mrs. Robert Ringwalt and Miss Gertrude Ringwalt returned home after a few months' absence in the east. The first span of the new wagon bridge over the Missouri river .is completed. Mrs. E. E. Edwards, whd has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Clement Chase, during the summer, returned to her home at Santa Anna, California. The nuptials of Rachel Bernstein and Joseph Chamison were consum mated in the presence of a large number of friends and admirers. The Omaha Wheel club took a jaunt to Irvington today. Fred Drexel has returned from an extended tour in the east. The Day We Celebrate. Rear Admiral Albert G. Berry, U. S. N., retired, born at Nashville, Tenn., 70 years ago. Alfred Noyes. celebrated poet, re cently decorated by King George for services in the cause of the allies, born in England, 38 years ago. Selden Palmer Spencer, candidate for the Republican senatorial nomi nation in the recent Missouri pri maries, born at Erie, Pa., 56 years ago. A. E. Thomas, well-known short story writer and dramatist, born at Chester, Mass., 46 years ago. This Day in History. 1861 Postoffice savings banks es tablisheM in Great Britain. 1873 France was evacuated by the last of the German troops, following the Franco-Prussian war. 1891 The Chilean provisional government was recognized by France, Italy and Germany. 1893 An imperial ukase, abolish ing the use of the knout by the Rus sian police, was issued. 1901 Prince and Princess of Wales (King George and Queen Mary) were welcomed in Quebec. 1914 Germans were put on the defensive from Noyon to Verdun. Timely Jottings and Reminders. 1.508th day of the great war. Mexico today celebrates her na tional independence day. New Orleans is to be the meeting place today of the 20Ui annual con vention of the National Associaiton of Retail Druggists. The Southwestern Jersey Cattle association is to open a show in Kansas City today to develop a greater interest in the dairy busi ness. Six hundred delegates from the United States and Canada are ex-r pected in St. Louis today for the opening of annual session of the sov ereign grand lodge. Independent Or der of Odd Fellows. The . Enright street separation plan, said to be the most elaborate scheme of traffic regulation ever set up for practical trial, is to be put into operation in New York City today. Storyette of the Day. General Crowder was talking about the German communiques. "The way the Germans count their prisoners," he said, "reminds me of the circus barker who stood in front of the tent and barked: "'Walk! up, ladies' and gents! Walk up and see the remarkable African hyena. Measures 16 feet from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail, and the same distance back again, making 32 feet in all. Walk right up, gents and ladiesl Center Shots. Washington Post: Sixteen hun dred thounand Americans on thb dead Hun's chest! lto, ho, ho, and more to come! Detroit Free Press: Of course, all the German people are not to foe wiped off tbH face of the earth: some uf them will hav? to stick around t" pay the inJemnities. New York World: Some care and forethought may well be devoted by congress to the problem of making up for the tax loss on beer wltn6"ut taxing tea, coffee and cocoa. "A free breakfast table" has long been an American Ideal. Minneapolis Tribune: Theodore wounded: Archibald wounded; Quentin killed; Kermlt decorated for bravery in battle the Roosevelt family is living up to the best tradi tions of American democracy. It asks nobody else to do more than it will do itself. Baltimore American: The women of France interested in equal suff rape hnve sent President Wilson a letter of thanks for his rerent mes ease to the women of the allied na tions. This fact is commended to the Kttle band of agitators here who are' harrying the president In this great crisis confrontlndthe nation and de manding the concentration of all its nergiey ' What We Are Doing In France: Robert M. McBride in Leslie's. It is little wonder that we amazed the French. They do only one thing quickly fight the Huns. Tneir battle of the taxicabs at the Marne proved their speed in this. But in France mechanical construction is for the most oart slow hand work. They do not understand our methods of standardization, of fabrication, or our speeding up once we have the . i . I plants estaDiisnea. "But we have not the men you cannot manufacture the labor," the French authorities told our leaders m the work. ith true Yankee briefness the reply came: "We can try." And so from 10 nationalities we drew men for the labor. Brains and brawn must be about equally di vided to create and maintain lines of communi cation sufficient for- the needs of an army of 1 .000,000 that is rapidly growing into an army of five times that strength. And the brains are there all right brains that back home commanded salaries akin to those of railroad or insurance company presi dents. 1 chatted with one famous expert who was dressed in muddy khaki. He was sloughing around the mud at the edge of a railroad yard watching a gang of huskies converting his plans into a reality. And that man pays an income tax of $375,000 a year. r Among the officers of construction work at one yard I found a New York bank president, two great industrial corporation heads, the builder of one of the biggest enginering projects in the United States, the chief engineer of one of our largest railroads, former heads of great engineering corporations, and an endless assort ment of skilled men who, at home, were dis tinguished for their wealth and genius. The first need was docks, to unload our men and our supplies. At this particular port there were only sufficient docks to take care for the needs of France. Our men went ahead and are constructing docks sufficient for the unloading of twenty great deep-draupht steamers at once. They are building 300 miles of railroad track to Connect up those docks and the warehouses in that store yard. Before doing that 7,500,000 cubic yards of filling had to be put in. In the meantime the warehouses were going up like magic. Result that one place will maintain an army of 2,000,000 men with everything from motor trucks to canned tomatoes. There will be 200 such great warehouses, each with 20,000 square feet of space, and eight others six times as large as that! The steel for these warehouses comes from the United States. Like the famous "Agawam," the 5,000-ton ship launched from the port of Newark shipyard on Memorial Day, these ware houses are "fabft'eated." Various parts are made all over the country, shipped and fitted over there. These are the first fabricated warehouses in history. The parts .are interchangeable and these mammoth steel buildings are now going up at the rate of eight a weekl This means that one immense steel warehouse containing twenty thousand square feet of space is erected in less than a day. In the locomotive assembling plant an en tire locomotive is set up and ready to go under its own steam in 3b hours. The men who are doing this work receive from the government $33 a month. At home their wages vere from $200 to $300 a month. So we find that the engi neers and other experts are making no greater sacrifices, in proportion to their worldly goods, than these mechanics. uneo&es I ,.ya. 2. M7. Falconer "Will Frewfcrve the Spring. Omaha, Sept. IS. To the Editor of The Bee: It has come to me that there is a rumor afloat that I, as park commissioner, intend to close the spring at Klmwood park, which ia one of the most popular assets of the park system, and I am taking this means of setting the public right. It is absurd to think of try ing to close the spring a it, in all probability, would break out some place else and destroy Its use in the future. I intend, rather, to improve the surroundings and make it more inviting to the public rather than destroy It. In fact, I will not inten tionally destroy any of the' natural beauty of F.lmwood park, as It has more natural features than any park in the system, and I am going to do everything in my power to maintain them and improve on them If possi ble. TH09. FALCONEK, Superintendent Department of Parks and Public Property. MILLIONS SAVED IN WAR SALVAGE BEHINDJhS.ARMY Material Saved Behind Ameri can Advances Amounts to $2,500,000 During ' August. American Supply Headquarters, Tours, France, Sept. 15. Two car loads of hair brushes abandoned by j rcs 0f the output: Shoes, $325,120 clothing, $1,307,026; harness and stantial footwear.. Like the par ments, these were classed to bo bacl to the fighting troops or to tht stevedores or to the German prison ers. 50,000 Garments Dailvl It was the same with the infinite variety of army equipment goins through the salvage process, rubber boots and arctics, shelter tents, har ness for artillery, saddles, bridles, stirrups. All of it was on a prodigi ous scale, 50,000 garments a day; l,r)00 pairs of rubber hoots a dav at, the army price of $2.65 a pair. The salvage of all kinds of rubber arti cles was 99 per cent, an almost com plete saving of everything received. More than $1,000,000 worth of clothing was saved last month, and the magnitude of the work as a whole can be judged from these fig- A Miracle at Sea. It doubtless would send a thrill of delight through Germany if one of its U-boats should sink an outward-bound American troop trans port and snuff but the lives of all the soldiers on board. No submarine commander has been able to turn that war trick, although more than 1,500,000 of our men have been landed on the other side. In its attack on a troop ship just reported a Teuton U-boat tornedo came desperately near a tragic success. The transport appeared for a moment to be doomed to quick sinking, but something it is not yet clear what saved it from going down. The 2,800 men on board were rescued by crews of vigilant British and American torpedo boat destroyers. Even the ship was kept afloat so that it could be beached, and it may be retrieved for further service. Aside from the miraculous character of the escape, the striking feature of the incident was the admirable behavior of the troops in a try ing situation. The men did not lose their poise or in any way disclose themselves as other than true soldiers, responsive to discipline, cool in the face of extreme danger, buoyed to courage by the underlying American spirit that urges them on to their given mission as foilers of Hun designs. Jt is no exacting test of faith to believe, in the light of a sea event of this kind, that the destinies of the world are being shaped and directed by a Power greater than the supple mentary to that ot armies and navies. Ger many proposes but God disposes. Minneapolis tribune. People and Events. A wife suing for divorce in Chicago testified that her husband drank a barrel of wine contain ing 80 gallons in three months. Almost a gal lon of wine a day isn't so much for an artistic appetite anticipating an indefinite drouth after December 1. Airplane mail service between New York and Chicago, featured as a new treaty of good will betwen the rival cities, gets a cruel jolt at the start. Some Gotham barbarians "spilled the beans" by putting out a story giving Chicago a shocking odoriferous oriein. According to the New vYork version Chicago sprang from Chicauk, the Indian name for skunk. Let it go at that. ' " , New York's district attorney continues squelching fake war charity schemes in that quarter. Frequent exposures deprived the schemes of their original richness, still some of the smooth workers manage to touch the gen erously disposed. A so-called French restora tion fund, recently suppressed, brought the boosters $9,000, of which $7,000 clung to the palms of the boosters. Of seven French school children's composi tions on American soldiers, featured by the New York World, three mention their cleanliness and four their politeness. Courage is taken for granted. They are kind to children. They have a sweet tooth. They speak about their mothers. With money they are generous. What more can be said? The youngsters caught the main points and drew a picture true to life. Gold coins of other days recede farther and farther from sight. Precious few people may produce evidence of goldbuggery these days and get away with it. Uncle Sam wants it, and holders or hoarders of the yellow metal had bet ter get a license or keen mighty mum. All of which is a reminder of how quickly the world spins around. Back in '96 the goldbugs actually flaunted their opulence in public. Frequent mention is made of the high cost of living in Washington. It is surely going some. Mrs. Howard Gould, who is in Washington, helping to find suitable living quarters for wo men war workers, is'about to quit the job. She says she cannot afford to live in the city because she is charged 40 cents for an egg and $1.40 a dozen for fried oysters. One egg and a dozen fried being little more than an appetizer the Washington-bound gets an advance hunch on the cost of a square meal. Out in Montana the girls play the game of politics with all the zeal and candor of initiates. A Mrs. H. C. McDonald, running for a seat in congress, frankly1 tells the enfranchised that her election will mean the "appointment of capable, experiesced business women to at least half the offices," at the same salary the men get. If that doesn't fetch the ambitious feminine vote in an avalanche, all Other appeals are useless. Plans for a Primary ' Omaha, Sept. 11. To the Kditor of The Bee: Summing up the pres ent primary system in this state, many candidates for office have found that the direct primary can be controlled by political bosses and! corporation mnuence unaer tne siate system. By this system too heavy a bur den of expense Is placed on candi dates in proportion to the legitimate benefits to accrue, as the salaries paid for state offices are too email to recompense the candidate for the expense incurred In securing the nomination and election. The recent primary shows that some candidates, practically un heard of, and Who only paid the fil ing fee for the office, through some mysterious manner have been nom inated over other candidates who were better known, and who ex pended a considerable sum In news paper advertising. This thoroughly proves that the political bosses ate still masters of politics by being able to manipulate the present day pri mary through the slate system. Under the slate system a canal date ia forced to political bargaining wnn political bosses and corpora tion Influences, to align himself with other candidates and thus form a slate. Slate cards, printed with the names of candidates for the respec tive offices, are distributed bv hired workers at each voting precinct, to the voters in the primary election day, and through this organization they defeat the very purpose of the direct primary law, which was adopted by the people as a reform measure against the abuses of the old convention system so as to give every candidate a fair and square deal, free from all Influences, so that democracy might prevail and the people might rule. Granting that the present pri mary law Is a failure, no candidate would invite back the old conven tion system with its political intrigue. But a modification of our present primary law, by a few amendments, we can secure a perfect system of nomination and election, which will eliminate political bosses and insure honest elections. First By amending the law to make the filing fee for public office $15, and the candidate to swear un der oath that he will not expend di rectly or by contribution over $300 In primary expenses. Further he will not allow his name to be associated with any other candidate or candi dates In making out a slate, instruct ing voters to vote for such a slate, the penalty for violation thereof be ing a prison sentence of one year; and any person who aids or assists in distributing'such slate cards is guilty of election frauds, punishable, by .one year in prison. This will eliminate the political boss, and will allow every candidate a fair chance, and will insure a better type of office seeker. Year by year It Is recognized more fully that the political organizations are a oart of the government, but these political organizations through the adoption of the direct primary law, are to be no longer regarded as private clubs in which the general public has, iitNe or no interest ex cept to pay tne election expenses. The present primary law should be amended so that every man who de sires to vote should be registered at the primary and if h.e Is not inter ested enough to register at the pri mary, he should lose his vote at the election. Another change should be made in the state platform convention, in which the so-called unit rule should be absolutely prohibited. Each in dividual delegate should be allowed to vote as he sees fit on every mea sure for the convention s considera tion. This unit rule is the worst form of political piracy, a usurper of power, and authority, and is not a representative form of government. Not only that, but it is an instru ment made use of by political bosses to deprive the individual of his right oi reterenaum. The committee on platform should be selected by the convention, one member from each congressional district, and in this way every section will have a voice in the making of tne pianns or tne platform, and should make a perfect system. The suggestions that I have offered for the betterment of the present di rect primary law, lr such amend ments were enacted into laws, I be lieve would prove a step forward in our political affairs, and would In sure bona fide candidates, free from doss ruie and corporation influence, mm imep me campaign expenses within ordinary bounds, and would pioviae ample protection for candi dates seeking office against fraudu lent manipulation of the direct pri mary law. ROY M. HARROP. Over There and Here. The Hune are how fully 55 miles rrom Paris, measured from the near est point to their lines. Thev are further oft and worse off than at any time since the first battle of the Marne. Members of the Mennonite and Dunkard sects, drafted into Camp Grant, signified their readiness to serve during the war In any branch outside of the fighting lines, espe cially farm work. Their conscien tious objections were conceded, and they are to wield farm tools for army pay. Mrs. Ruth E. Quinian of Evans ton, 111., is the proudest grandmoth er living Just over the line of Big Bill Thompson'a billiwick. Mrs. Quin lan's service flag carries 26 stars for that number of grandsons with the colors. She is 93 years old and does not care who knows it. "Back up your boys at the front with all your power," epitomizes the message of Floyd Gibbon, war corre spondent, invalided home from France. To a New York audience he said: "Don't pull at your boys' coat tails to impede them. Close your ears to the International kamerad cry the Germans will send to you this win ter. The message from the boys at the front is 'Stick It out!"' Sergt. Tom Glfason of New York. 18 years old. one of the scrappers of the old r,9th regiment, now on the firing line, cheerily tells In a letter to dad that he has 11 notches on his gun. .four of them put on slnglehand ed and at one sitting. The Huns giissed him once and wounded him twice without marring the beauty of his box score. .American soiuiers m camps were among the wreckage' of battle brought today to. the great salvage depot of the American arniv here. This was only one little item in the grist of debris and litter from the fighting 2one which has been care fully gathered up and sent here for restoration. Five thousand persons are employed in renovating and re pairing this wreckage. The ma terial thus saved and restored to use or sold amounted in value last month to $2,500,000.' In the big battle around Chateau Thierry, as our fighting men went over the top they were followed closely by detachments of non combatant troops to grooe amid the wreckage and debris and save it from complete abandonment and loss. Each detachment comprised 29 enlisted men and an officer. They had trucks and derricks and all the paraphernalia foregathering broken down cannon, rifles, cartridge belts, helmets, clothing, and the vast stores of abandoned arms and ma terial left in the track of a con test, and to send it back to the sal vage depot here. Salvage Big Industry. Strange things have come out of this war, but none stranger than this gigantic salvage plant where every thing from crippled guns and can non to old army shoes and caps is saved from total loss and turned back to some useful end at the front. At first people looked at it as a freak. There was nothing like it in the civil war or the more re cent modern wars. It started on a small scale with 200 hands. But now, after a few months, it is a monster industry, with hug'fe buildings and towering stacks. It wili save the government $15,000, 000 the first year, and it may reach $50,000,000. This is no freak; it is cold, hard saving of millions of dollars, at a time when material is scarce and shipping difficult. It is the anti-waste campaign brought -to its highest development by a huge government undertaking. Going over the plant today there was an opportunity to see the re markable details of this salvage. The wreckage of the battlefield is only one of the sources of this sal vage, explained our escort, but it is the greatest source. As men spring into action they throw aside every thing not absolutely essential. Ihere is besides the litter of the actual fighting, broken and abandoned goods of every conceivable nature. Arms Are Recovered. It is not only what is left by our own troops, but what is left by the enemy, often great stocks of arms, ammunition, bayonets and every kinds of fighting material. Even when there is no battle, the mere shift of a division of troops leaves an enormous stock of aban doned goods. Moved on short orders, the men pick up a few fight ing essentials guns, blankets, emer gency rations and leave the rest behind, books, extra clothes, shoes, etc. The men arrive from Amer ica with an undue amount of cloth ing; it is trimmed down at the first training camp; again it is trimmed down as they go to the front; and each ne. trimming of thousands of men means another huge stock ior salvage. In the main building, a auarter of a miie long, there was the roar of a vast and diversified industry, with over 4,000 women workers and a thousand men, with long batteries of sewing machines, shoe machines, rubber and harness machines such as one sees in the great factory dis tricts; with the same huge installa tion of engines, boilers, disinfecting plants, laundries; and the whirr of big metal machines for making over the many branches of ordnance. Women Aid Work. Hundreds of women were sort ing the uniforms and undercloth ing just come from the salvage proc ess. There were some 200,000 blouses, on these towering shelves, and as many more of all the other articles of soldier wear. Th4t were in bundles, looking very fresh and clean, quite like the stock of a well equipped clothing establish ment. The women were arranging the garments in three classes: Class A Garments in good order, practically the same as new. to be sent back to the front as part pf the supply for fighting troops. Class B Garments oartlv worn out but fully repaired to be sent to the base ports on the coast for labor troops and stevedores. Class C Garments much worn, but in a fair state of preservation, to be sent to prison camps for Ger man prisoners. This was signficant of what the German prisoners were getting; not j the best, to be sure, and not tne same goods as our own men, but worn goods in a fair state of preser vation. .It seemed to be an answer to the outcry that the German pris oners were getting the same as our men. , , One cold follow the stages of the huge stacks of hob-nail army shoes from the time they arrived, covered with the mud and grime of the trenches and the battlefield, through process after process of disinfection, cleaning, repairing, grading, until they finally emerge in stocks of sub- eathcr. $57,000; rubber, $90,000; can vas and webbing. $35,000. 'f here" arc some curious things gathered up in this litter of the camps and battlefields; for example, three tireless cookers. Enough books and magazines are left behind to stock several libraries. Pictures and kniknacks with which the tents are decorated before the rush comes are abundant. raniTTy pictures and belongings of a personal character are carefully preserved in little bags . tj be returned to their owner or his family if that is possible. Besides restoring articles for use, every scrap of wool cloth, leather, metal, hat bands, is saved to bt turned into some other form of use ful article or is sold. The sale of junk, tin cans and scraps last month netted 18,400 francs. The- women workers are chiefly French and Belgian, many of them refugees from the invaded districts, so that the work has this further useful end for some 4,000 women. They get from 6 to 7 francs a day, working from 7 to 11:30 and from 1 :30 to 6. The wages paid last month were 711,400 francs. But all the cost of wages and new material was less than 10 per cent of the value of the articles produced for army uses, totaling $2,500,000 for the month, a'ribute to the ingenuity which has produced this unique establishment of war economy. LAUGHING GAS. glva "Whv- la It that wladom people ho much trouble?" 'I fuppnue it la because they are wise nchera." Baltimore American. "How many lumpa will you !ve'."' apked the waitresa girl to the man k' was waiting on. "Two." cald he. Hhe dropped In one. "ThanliH,'' murniered the man. anl v right on with hi rating. Portiu.id i'n it "John," exclaimed the nervo'ia , .u-i ''I believe tlier? la a burglar in t!i hova 'l hnvn't time to fool with small f wa th Rlcepy r'yiinse. "I've si iit : entire day flRlitlng regular profit h Wttuhlngton Htar. Wife The fact that thre are germs on money doeen't worry me. Huh No my dear. It would Hike pretty active term to hop from the money lo you during the brief time you have It Boston Transcript. 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