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THE BEE: (XMAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1918.
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from Lorraine to' Nebraska the- benefit would
be great.
When you sneeze, do so quietly and unob
trusively, and' thereby help in heading off the
epizootic. '
Astronomical autumn begins today, but this
season nature did not wait for the procession
of the stars.
Tip to the worried: pmaha's city parks
never looked more beautiful than they do these
early autumn days.
pemoqats in congress quite indignantly re
jected a tax oft cotton. That staple grows
"down in Dixie," you know.
'Clemenceau still is the "tiger," but Foch is
giving the Hun a fairly good imitation of the1
jungle monarch's relentlessness.
An embargo on lurabir shipments is an
nounced at St. Louis. Local dealers noted
something of the kind two years ago.
Germany cannot be so badly off for print
paper, if the waste of it in dropping leaflets in
American trenches is any indication.
No politics in the railway service under this
democratic administration, but the customary
shake-down of postmasters is in progress.
"A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse,"
but Coin Collector Jamieson believes in making
it plain enough for anybody to understand. 1
A short, sharp drive is planned for the Lib
erty loan here something like Pershing's move
at St. Mihiel, and it ought to be as effective.
DEMOCRATIC POLITICS ALL THE TIME.
The Pharisaical-, camouflage with which the
democrats have been seeking to hide their par
tisan activities, culminating in Tumulty's tumul
tuous tirade on Chairman Hays for calling upon
republicans TO be alert, is ruthlessly ruptured
by the disclosure of the democratic national
committee's shake-down of postmasters for
campaign contributions now in progress.
' While calling upon republicans to adjourn
politics, the democrats are busy, as the tell-tale
Jamieson letter proves, pulling the strings on
the patronage brigade for money to be used to
entrench the democrats in power still further.
The subtle insinuatio.. in the postscript re
minder warns against violating the law which
prohibits under drastic penalties one federal
officer or employe soliciting political contribu
tions from another, as also the solicitation as
such contributions in any place occupied as fed
eral quarters. In other words, the admonition
is, "Dig up yourself, Mr. Postmaster, or get the
money from your friends, but do it smoothly,
for if you trip yourself we, the democratic na
tional committee slush fund raisers, will dis
claim responsibility and denounce your awk
wardness." Oh, yes, politics has been officially declared
adjourned for the paramount prosecution of the
war,but not democratic politics. At this game
the democratic spoils-mongers and office
brokers are playing all the time faster and more
unscrupulously than ever.
Doctor's Part in War Times.
'Organization of the Volunteer Service Med
ical corps serves, if anything, to emphasize the
work the medical men are doingrWar threw
a tremendous burden on the healers, and they
arose to meet the requirements nobly. Since
1914 skilled surgeons, experienced physicians
and patient and enthusiastic nurses have
wrought miracles among the battle-stricken.
Annals of the profession will be wonderfully
erfriched when these men get time to se down
their experiences for the guidance of others.
Present efforts at organization do not mean that
the doctors have not volunteered. Since the
sought for service, not because of its attractions,
but because of the need of their skill. In offer
ing themselves for this humane work they have
accepted the murderous condition on which the
Hun permits them to practice on the field and
in the hospitals.' Only the Germans have re
fused to respect the Red Cross. To them the
sign of mercy is an invitation to attack. Sur
geons are especially singled out for slaughter
whenever posible, and nurses come next. And
these men and women accept their assignments,
going out as noncambattants, unarmed and urf
protected, realizing that they are preferred
above all other targets by the devilish foe. Their
reward is the knowledge that they have helped
the suffering. Heroic devotion to- duty can
reach no greater height.
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The argument over the corn-husking cham
pionship will probably be missed this fall, for
most of the huskies are toting muskets just now.
t Twc hundred eighty -thousand head of live
stock sold in Omaha for the first five days of
the week is a pretty good sign that starvation is
a long way off yet in this country.
"Mr.. Postmaster, take him out on the side
walk before you nailhim for the shake-down.
This will help you evade the letter of the law."
Treasurer Jamieson to the Nebraska federal
brigade.
Another American hospital haspaid the pen
alty for putting out the Red Cross as a sign of
its nature. The Hun aviators dearly love to
see that emblem. It means helpless victims,
their favorite prey.
, "Belgian babies" now request a moment of
your time and a little of your money. These
tots ought to be conidered our especial care
and get a response that will add -further bless
ings to America's name.
Persistent Profitless Propaganda.
German airmen, flying over American
I trenches to scatter copies of the Austrian peace
proposal, are wasting their time, but are also
demonstrating the rigidity of the German mind.
Once an idea gets fixed in the Teutonicskull,
nothing can dislodge it. The whole war has
been mapped and carried out along this line.
Having determined what course of action would
most affect them,- the kaiser's agents proceeded
on the theory that other people would react to
th same influence. Thus" the propagandists
operated in America, seeking in many subtle
ways to turn public sentiment, or at least some
sympathy to their cause. Our national attitude
of fairness we mistaken for one of complai
sance, hence the surprise at Berlin when Amer
ican indignation blazed out into war spirit. The
German is not ready to admit that he misunder
stood us' then, but continues his childlike course,
taking tio note of the fact that our people fully
understand the issues involved in the war, that
we went' into it with our eyes open to all it
means and with a determination to see it
through. To think that Pershing's crusaders
can be turned aside by crafty lying is absurd,
but nothing is too fantastic for the plotters who
rely on terror and deception to support their
falling cause.
Missouri Valley doctors have classified the
brand of insanity that affects the kaiser. They
will have some trouble in getting the world to
join them, a popular verdict of general cussed
ness having long ago been returned in his case.
That exposure of near-German money
. poured into a .Washington newspaper to help
the kaiser's propaganda in America must touch
the tender sympathies of certain other hyphen
ated pro-German newspapers still under cover.
,Mr. Hoover has asked that the tax on mixed
flour be adjusted so that millers can grind "Lib
erty", flour and sell it at reasonable prices.
When he gets this done he may proceed to have
the oleomargarine tax similarly treated, and
folks can then get a healthy substitute for but
ter, which is rapidly getting beyond the reach
of the ordinary consumer. War is showing us
several mistakes made during peace times.
Telephone Girls in'France
vOur American forces have already built
across France a greater and more efficient sys
tem! of telephone and telegraph service than
exists either, in Italy or Spain. The French
service before, the war was inadequate. How,
, then! could we .hope to use' it? So we have our
. own Wires and strjtlg, not on their poles, but on
I polestof our bwnj officers of our own, with
switchboards qI; our own and greatest joy of
all operated by hello girls of our own! We
have put up along our lines of communication
in that fan-shaped territory of ours in France
75,000 miles of wifeenough to circle the earth
' three times I . i
At the beginning the drawled "Are you
' thereif of the Enjdish operators, or the even
more leisurely "Que voulez-vousr" of the
French operators; v Or their broken English,
. "What eet ees you weesh?" and the terrible long
. waits, nearly drove our men frantic. Then, one
day, not very lqng.ago, a, very busy brigadier
general took 'up theJine with a groan at the
difficulties and delays he expected before getting
: into touch with. his party;. From the receiver
in clear, bright, tpnes, yet in the voice with a
smile, came the query: "Number, please?" The
' general was so delighted that he shouted "Thank
God 1" Even the telephone girl laughed at this.
' They speak French as w.ell as -English for the
most part, and they havespeeded npthe tele-
phone communication, according tc the solemn
statement Aade to me by a certain major, "fully
SO per center-Robert M. McBride in Leslie's.
Concentration and Victory
New York Financial World.
The rapid march of events in the world war
and the increasing problems that are confront
ing the allies to meet every situation as it arises,
point to still further concentration of energies'
and resources, especially those in America. The
world that includes the allies is unquestionably
leaning on us more and more to provide the
means and the men to deliver the final blow in
the great world war that will bring victory. All
our people do not know the significance or grav
ity of this and what must be done to make the
blow tell in victory, but the lesson must be
learned if we are to win. Recent events have
given a renewed emphasis to the situation and
are calculated to awaken us all to the new de
mands. The signs are all about us now that the
indusrtial army is gathering the resources of
the nation and conserving its energies for trans
mission to the other side. There is a strange
affinity between the battle front and the action
of Henry Ford, the former pacifist, in shutting
down absolutely on the production of Ford cars
and devoting all Ford energies to the produc
tion of engines of war; the move by the Federal
Reserve bank of New York and the money
committee to limit stock speculation is nothing
more than a signal to the Stock Exchange to
substitute battle rlags fnr eights and quarters;
the capital issues committee at Washington, in
giving an order for the suspension of all new
public utility and industrial financing until after
the Fourth Liberty loan, is merely transmitting
a message to Pershing and the army that the
nation's bankers understand their enlarged re
sponsibilities; the decision to comb out of the
13,000,000 registrants all those whose industrial
energyy or ability to serve exceeds the value
of their fighting value, is but the trained special
ist's way of concentrating in another direction
the brain and brawn and stamina that are re
quired to stand back of the army and the navy
and feed, energize and stimulate them to win
the final victory.
The nation is about to pour into the national
treasury the greatest amount of money ever
called for in the world's history, for there never
has been a single war loan in any nation as
large as $6,000,000,000. TRe total is to be
pledged in the 'brief period of three weeks an
other sign of the faster pace the world war is
making. And there is no question about it, no
doubters or scoffers. It means saving, but not
sacrifice; it means care and thoughtfulness in
husbanding personal and family resources, but
J!.rtAmfA. ' !. nil f . 1.
first day of the war Americans have eagerly Ipause, and the proceeds will flow into all the
manifold industries that have been created for
providing the means for winning the war, and
they will flow away from the old activities,
which must remain dormant while we concen
trate on the infinitely more important and larger
task.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
General Alexieff resigned as chief
of staff in Russia.
United States soldiers were re
ported just back of British firing
line.
German and Austrian replies to
Pope's peace notes were published.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Pat O'Hearn has been appointed
assistant night yardmaster of the
Union Pacific.
Rev. W. J. Harsha of the First
Presbyterian church, having just re-
The poet says "the warrior sniffs the battle
from afar," and we, too, who are left at home
may feel in some small degree the enthusiasm
and dash of the soldiers across the sea as they
take up the tools we at home are providing
them for the winning of the contest. We are a
part of the battle; the nation is energized and
being made more fit for the job and may yet be
called upon to dislocate and disjoint temporarily
that element of our national industrial life which
can be surrendered for the good of the common
cause, but if we have the warrior's true concept
of our duty we will think of none. of the tem
porary hardships or inconveniences, but look
onjy to the winning of the finaMieights occupied
by the foe.
Flora of Battlefields
Detroit Free Press.
Many witnesses of the havoc wrought by
war, through books and letters they have writ
ten, have mentioned how nature is doing its
best to soften the desolation resulting from
shell and shrapnel, flinging a mantle of grass
and. flowers over the battlefields. Mrs. Duryea,
president of the Duryea war relief, says atten
tion is often called to the unusual size of the
poppies here and there, and that the observer
is assured that beneath always lies a soldier of
France, whose life-blood has arisen from death
in beauty and vigor through nature's eternal
resurrection. Up through the sod come? the
heart's blood spilled for France.
Omar Khayyam expressed much the same
thought in the Rubaiyat some eight centuries
ago:
"I sometimes think that never blows sov red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled.
That every hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropped in her lap from some once lovely
Head." y
A similar sentiment is voiced in Lieutenant
McCrea's charming lyric, "In Flanders' Fields,"
one of the most touchingly patriotic poems
evoked by the war, beginning:
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place"
and ending with the injunction:
"Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you, from falling hands, we throw
The torch. Be yours to lift it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
AYe shall not sleep though poppies blow
In Flanders' fields."
The legend of the soldier's blood reincar
nated in flaming poppy petals is substantiated
in the popular mind by the fact that after the
battle -of Landen, in- the Netherlands, in 1693,
millions of scarlet poppies sprang up on the field.
The same thing is said to haye occurred after
Waterloo. Their presence can be accounted for
in the same way that wc explain the annual
whitening of Georgia's fiplds, not by its cotton
crop, but by the profusion of northern daisies
that are a memory of Sherman's war-worn sol
diers who camped there during the civil war.
The seed came in forage shipped to the army,
just as certain of our common and pestiferous
weeds are souvenirs of foreign importations.
The poppy is indigenous to Europe; growing
freely among the crops, as it does, it naturally
reproduces itself in profusion when undisturbed.
What weed seeds will be our dower to Eu
rope as reminders of the war is yet to be dis
closed. But some there will be.
Artistic Baggage Smashing
Must the allies, smashing the German lines,
smash the baggage of glittering German officers,
too? If so, a special corps of semi-civilian bag
gage smashers must go with every advancing
column of British. French and Americans. Dis
courtesy to these . surrendering officers is, of
course, out of the question.
That story told in a special dispatch is a de
light to any fellow who drinks in the comedy
of life:
"Major Count von Schenesing was found
sitting in his headquarters, -which the enemy
believed was bomb-proof and shelll-proot. His
dress was immaculate, his gorgeous uniform
was new and his boots were" pbliShdd. His en
tire staff stood around him, and at a distance
were five orderlies, all his own. Without the
least show of resistance hfe and his entire staff
If we have any choice m the matter, Omaha r surrendered to the French soldiers. Their bag-
Guard Against "Spanish Flu."
Another terror, more annoying than serious,
has been added to war by the spread of so
called "Spanish influenza." TJiis exasperating
disease is recognized by medical men as an ag
gravated form of grip, so common during early
winter months. That it is quite unpleasant, and
in neglected cases likely to become dangerous,
is admitted. Prevention here as elsewhere has
a decided advantage over cure, and the better
way to combat the infection is to avoid it as far
as possible. Observation of ordinary rules of
health will be of utmost service. Dress care
fully to prevent exposure, keep the home and
the office alike well ventilated, sleep with at
least one bedroom window open, eat sparingly
of wholesome food, and do not neglect a "cold,"
should one be contracted. This will at least
diminish the likelihood of being attacked by the
influenza, but ifyou do fall a victom, take the
advice and the medicine your doctor gives and
you will recover in good season.
turned from a summer's jaunt
abroad, was tendered a reception
by members of his Congregation in
the church parlors.
The Omaha ball club went to
Kansas City to play a game.
Over 000 tickets have been sold
for the switchmen's excursion and
picnic to Fremont.
The First Congregational church
society will dedicate their new
church building next Sunday morn
ing. Work was begun on the new Bee
building. '
The Day We Celebrate.
Frank Parker, recently promoted
to be a - brigadier-general of the
United States army, born in South
Carolina, 46 years ago.
H. SG. Wells, one of the most
popular of present-day English nov
elists, born in Kent, 52 years ago.
Lyman P. Powell, president of
Hobart College, born at Farming
ton, Del.. 52 years ago.
Clark Howell, Atlanta newspaper
editor and democratic leader, born
in Barnwell county, S. C, 55 years
ago.
Charles Hawtrey, well known as
an actor in both England and Amer
ica, born at Eton, 60 years ago.
This Day in History.
1558 Charles V., the emperor
who resigned earthly power to spend
his last days in a monastery, died
in Spain. Born in GhentNjn 1500.
1779 English fort at Baton Rouge
was captured by Galvez.
1870 Prince Frederick Charles
became sole commander of the Ger
man armies besieging Metz.
1879 Bismarck made a defensive
alliance with Austria against Russia.
1914 French force seized Coco
Beach in the Kamerun.
1915 Petrograd reported success
of the Russian retreat from Vilna.
1916 Italians continued a vigor
ous offensive against the Austrians
northeast of Trent.
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On Behalf or Norris.
Fremont, Neb.! Sept IS. To the
Editor of The Bee: Jf there ever
was a time when unity and good
feellnif among Americans should be
supreme it is now while a baptism
of blood is taking its toll from hu
manity. It Is in this spirit that 1
wish to reply to Frank M. Currie':
letter in The Boe. It Is true Mr.
Norris voted against war at a tim
when I think it is generally asreet
that the American citizens wer
unanimously oppcrcd to it. The op
position to it was not a lack of patri
otism, but a feeling and a hope tha'
some way might be found to avoit
slaughtering our worthy citizenship.
Bear in m'nd, too, Mr. Currie, that
Mr. Wilson at that time had Just
been re-elected jnder the slogan
that "He kept us out of war."
War is a terrible thing: and I cr.n
not see that it is right to condemn
a senator for opposing: it aniens you
can prove that his motives in so do
ing were impure. I do not think
this was ever proven on Mr. Norf-is.
When the majority wajj against
Mr. Norr: he voted in favor of giv
ing the 'dent an army (f 5,000.
000 men. Then Mr. Xorrls voted
against issuing bonds to carry on
thi war- because he wished the
money to carry on the war to bi
raised by taxing the bloated wealth
of the country. Mr. Norris was
most heartily in favor of raising the
money, but there was a difference
of opinion r.s to the bpst method of
doing it. Bear in mind that today
the toll that the ammunition plants
are making out of the war is enor
mous, as well as the toll that the
"profiteers," dealing in most every
commodity, are making. Is it right
that this profiteering should go on?
President Wilson says not. Mr.
Norris wanted these profiteers to pay
for the war. and as Mr. Wilson now
wants the profiteering stopped, the
two are of about the same opinion
on the matter, but there is a differ
ence of opinion as to th best
method only.
Although you say you believe In
republican principles. Mr. Currie,
you aid Mr. Morehead's election
without making any attempt to show
that he Is better fitted for the posi
ticn than Mr. Norris. I fail utterly
to see that Mr. Norris has any rec
ord to repudiate. I am not a hide
bound politician, and I believe a nir.
Jority of the voters in this day place
tha man in front of the politics, and
let us hive the facts that we m.-.y
cast an Intelligent vote: and what
ever we do, Mr. Currie and fellow
citizens, let us stand back of who
ever gets elected senator with all our
might, whether it be Morehead or
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The Nebraska State Railway commission
threatens to dispute authority of the postmas
ter general, as head" of the telephone service
taken over by-the federal government, to im
pose an installation charge upon telephone
users, As before remarked, the sight, of the
railroads, telegraphs, telephones and express
companies being .operated by the government
is sending acold chill through the state commis
sion that see their comfortable jobs in danger
of thus slipping away from them. Who
wouldn't put up a fight for his meal ticket, anyway?
should prefer to keep the military balloon school
at Fort Omaha rather than at Fort Crook to in
sure its accessibility to strangers and home
folks. As a permanent institution, a balloon
school here will be a great attraction to visitors,
and the closer at hand the better.
"Pitiless publicity" - is being worked with
good effect on the deal by which Russia was
ruined, but some of America's hopeless mental
perverts are unconvinced as to the crookedness
of Lenine and Trotzky. They ought tt go to
Russia.
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gage was.packed and was . ready, for transporta
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It can't be possible that ttre pblite poilus let
the major, or even his orderlies, smash that bag
gage, though the story goes no further. We
must assume that Frsnchmen gleefully loaded
the trunks and boxes into A rnoving van. If an
upholstered carriage wasn't offered to the count
he understands the war difficulties that surround
problems of etiquet on the front.
"Smash jour baggage, sir?" may soon be a
synonym Jor "Please surrender." That willbe
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the common run of things than. the. psychology
of the Cerman martinet, who is without prece
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