THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1918.
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Ready for Ak-Sar-Ben? His annual visit is
almost upon us. .
Hindenburg advises his soldiers to be
hard," as if they ever had been gentle.
From Berlin to Bagdad and back again the
Hun is getting what is coming to him.
"Spanish flu" is far from harmless, if ac
counts from eastern cities are accurate. Better
be careful.
Our Fort Omaha Balloon School now figures
in the government's war movie films. Thanks
for small favors.
King Ak-Sar-Ben is about the only royal
lineage monarch still in good standing in this
era of democracy.
In the meantime we may remind ourselves
that the United States is officially still at peace
with Turkey and Bulgaria.
The German commander of the Turkish
troops in Palestine made good his escape, so
the affair will register a victory in Berlin.
Of course, that whisky bottle episode must
go over. Were it to be investigated now it
would be dead before the campaign is well
started.
Let us not get away from first principles.
The police department and the fire department
can no more have a dual allegiance than an
irmy or a navy.
Omaha came near having John Ireland as a
bishop, but always had him as a friend, and no
where will more sincere .sorrow at his demise
be felt than here.
When "Charlie" Pool talks of supporting
the commander-in-chief, does he mean the way
Hitchcock followed, or that of A. C. Shal
lenberger, 6r both?
The Omaha Hyphenated is getting sadly
twisted in its efforts to make a showing against
Roy McKelvie, but it is not unusual for that pa
per to point both ways at once.
. Chicago streets are more dangerous than the
front line trenches. At any rate, a Canadian
sergeant went through three years of war and
-was finally killed by an automobile in the Windy
If our democratic governor wants to assume
.responsibility for all the sins of commission and
omission of the democratic party in Nebraska
luring his term of office, well and good. Car
rying that load will keep him round-shouldered.
"I will support the commander-in-chief," an-
swered "Charlie" Pool to a question as to what
great reform he would foster if elected to con
gress. The secretary of state will have to go
faster than that if he expects to beat "Uncle
Mose" in the big Sixth.
' General Gorgas waxes enthusiastic over the
medical service abroad. Why wouldn't he, con
sidering it is made up of the best of American
doctors and nurses, equipped with all that in
genuity or experience can devise and money
buy, arid finally under the direction of General
Gorgas?
If the United States senate wants inside in
formation of the intimate connection between
the German propaganda, the German-American
Alliance and the Brewers' bund it need not go
.outside of its own chamber. Our Senator
Hitchcock is there in fact, he would not be
there except as the beneficiary of this beautiful
rnfatual-interest combination and he can tell all
apout it if he wants to.
THE GERMAN LANGUAGE QUESTION.
Frank J. Taylor wrote the other day from
the American front in France: "The dough
boys are finding that knowledge of. the Ger
man language is useful up in front. Several
Americans, advancing up a communication
trench, were challenged by a sentry. A
doughboy who spoke German talked with the
sentry, gradually edging closer. Then he
jumped the boche." It has always been ob
vious that a knowledge of German would be
valuable "up in front." It might be the means
of saving life, as in this case it was a means
of overcoming an enemy. The army authori
ties have recognized from the first that this
would be so. While people whose zeal out
ran their judgment were calling for the out
lawing of the German language in schools
and everywhere else, the government has been
advising its soldiers to study German. Lin
coin Journal.
Everyon will admit that a knowledge of
German may be valuable at the front and in the
rear just as would be a knowledge of French or
Italian, or Russian, or Bohemian. A knowledge
of the German language to the extent of a fluent
conversational familiarity with it may be as use
ful to Americans as to English or French or
Italians, but that is wholly different and distinct
from the German language question that has
been presented to us by our entrance into ihe
war.
What is objectionable, and what must be
stopped, is the cultivation of the German lan
guage in this country as a means of propaganda
for kultur, the teaching of it in the public
schools, the preaching of it in churches, the
speaking of it in societies and clubs, the printing
of it in newspapers and periodicals, not for the
purpose of strengthening America, but for the
purpose of maintaining a little Germany over
here.
Speaking the German language is one thing,
but thinking German, aspiring German ideals,
subserving German ambitions, dividing with
Germany a loyalty due wholly to America, is
quite another thing. The German language
must be treated in this country henceforth just
the same as any other foreign language cer
tainly no better.
Words and Deeds Compared.
The New, York World publishes a compila
tion of utterances ascribed to German leaders,
showing how their hopes swelled to flood tide
and ebbed in disappointment. On January 19
Hindenburg told a delegation of German edi
tors: "By next April I shall be in Paris." On
March 21 the kaiser said: "We are at the de
cisive moment of the war and one of the great
est moments in German history. The prize of
victory must -not and will not fail us." But the
prize of victory did slip -through his grasp. Day
by day the official expressions cha"nge in tone,
until on September 5 the kaiser reminded his
people: "The German people understand the
difficulty of the present decisive battles against
an enemy filled with jealous hatred and a will
to destroy, but have unanimously determined to
devote all its strength to defend against the en
emy's assaults upon its sacred soil and kultur."
From exultation of anticipated victory to the
despair of recognized defeat, the spokesmen for
the German cause have run the gamut. Their
words as well as their deeds convict them. In
stead of marching in triumph over Paris and
France, they now resolve to defend German soil
from invasion. And Pershing is shelling the
fortifications at Metz!
The Yankee Tanks
The whole United States has been awaiting
' somewhat anxiously, but also with a large de
gree of expectancy, for war-front reports that
tell about the actual performances of the Yan
kee tanks. The information given out about
the American tank brigades has been meager.
It is known that there are two camps where
men for the tank service are in training, and it
has for some time been a matter of common
knowledge that several bin olants are making
tanks of an American design two designs, ac
'cording to the reports a whippet one-gun, two
men tank and a larger and much more power
fully armed and armored kind.
We are learning from the later reports that
the American tanks were mixed up in the busi-
oess of cleaning out the St. Mihiel salient. As
to how many tanks participated in the drive at
.. St Mihiel the allied reports fail to mention.
From German sources comes the estimate that
hr nM at l.io, 1 nnfl srmnren American rare.
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of various sizes and models engaged in the
cleanup1 of the German ' salient. The corre
spondent of the the Frankfort Zeitung attributes
the great loss in prisoners of the German army
' to theadvance doings of the American tank
- "brigadeN- .
Some thrill stories are now coming in from
American correspondents about the doings of
' the Yankee tanks. The tanks are getting across
they are beginning to demonstrate. This
Country is the home of the ' tank the land
where it was born. A fleet of the air the bomb
planes! " A fleet , on the land-Mhe tanks! The
worst for the Huns is yet to cornel Baltimore
American, -
Both Ends to the Middle.
The Omaha Hyphenated on Friday of last
week attacked S. R. McKelvie because of his
criticism of democratic tax methods and ex
travagance in management of the state govern
ment. To explain the great increase in appro
priations under democratic days, the wobbly or
gan jubilantly pointed out that $400,000 a year
for six years had been set apart as a special levy
for the University of Nebraska. All right. Four
days later the same organ devotes a portion of
its front page to abusing Mr. McKelvie because
he tried in 1911 to get through the legislature
an appropriation for the university. The differ
ence was that Mr. McKelvie wanted to put the
institution on land owned by the state, while
the democrats finally made a deal to buy several
blocks of unproductive and unattractive ground
in the city of Lincoln. And McKelvie's plan
had the endorsement of a commission of heads
of great schools, such as the Universities of
Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio,
as well as the Nebraska regents, while the plan
finally adopted by the democrats was enthusi
astically backed by a group of interested citi
zens. Perhaps the Hyphenated will abandon
this line of attack, but the approach shows how
it is wriggling in its efforts to detract the at
tention of the voters from state issues.
Right in the Spotlight.
Gen. George P. Harrison, who, as
commander-in-chief, ' is presiding
over the annual reunion of the Unit
ed Confederate Veterans, now in
session at Tulsa, is an Alabaman
who has achieved success and
prominence in numerous lines of
endeavor. He is .a native of Geor
gia and a direct descendant of one
of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. Entering the serv
ice of the confederacy at the out
break of the war he was commis
sioned a brigadier general before he
was 22. After the war he removed
to Alabama, studied law and soon
became one of the leaders of the
Alabama bar. For eight years he
was a member of the Alabama sen
ate, and from 1894 to 1897 he was
in congress. He has been president
of the Alabama State Bar association.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
German aeroplanes made another
raid on London.
Argentine Chamber of Deputies
declared in favor of a rupture with
Germany.
Lieutenant Vosse, most celebrated
of German airmen, killed in battle
with his 50th adversary.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
The Indian teams will play a
game at the ball park and that for
the benefit of the Florida yellow
fever sufferers.
Some isolated flocks of geese
flu, vms .;,!
Be Square With Uncle Sam.
A wholesome sermon may be extracted from
the experience of the Los Angeles family, whose
men folks sought to evade the draft, and whose
women folks sought to aid them in so doing.
Brought back from Venezuela as prisoners, after i
a series of adventures with the law and other- !
wise that makes a movie plot seem insipid, hese I
recalcitrant and unworthy citizens find them
selves now confronted by the government they
undertook to defraud. Whatever the outcome
of the case, they have only their trouble for
their pains. Uncle Sam asked the services of
the three sons in return for all the advantages
they and their relatives had enjoyed as citizens
of the United States. Instead of settling the
claim, as did millions of others, this outfit tried
to dodge it, and disaster has now overtaken
them. . Worse, it is accompanied by dishonor.
The plain moral is that it pays to be on the
square with the government.
Savings in Railroad Operation.
Regional Director Smith has made a report
to Director McAdoo, showing a saving of $18,
000,000 in the expense of operating railroads in
the Eastern region. This is, of course, very
gratifying, but is not to be at all marveled at,
and perhaps will be duplicated in ;ach .of the
other regional divisions of the railroad service.
It would be occasion for wonder were it not
true. This may be said with no reflection on
private management. The government has
been able to do many things that were expressly
forbidden to the companies, and most of all to
effect consolidations and arrangements for rout
ing of and operation of trains that could not
have been achieved without violating the law
or some of the orders of the Interstate Com
merce commission. One of the greatest lessons
we are learning from the government control of
transportation is that the ' industry , had been
"regulated" almost to extinction, .
have already been seen upon the
Platte.
Major Stanton of the army in
Chicago is in the city shaking
hands with many friends.
A splendid double bill comedy,
"Lend me 5 Shillings" and "Turned
Up," will be played at the Boyd
opera house this week.
Dr. L. J. Lynch, of Villisca, la.,
and Dr. Panter and wife, of Omaha,
were Omaha visitors.
The Gate City post of G. A. R.
will hold a meeting at Odd Fellows'
hall next Friday evening. Music
and oratory will be the order of the
evening.
The Day We Celebrate.
Admiral William S. Benson. U. S.
N., chief of naval operations, born
at Macon, Ga., 63 years ago.
William M. Hughes, the Austral
ian statesman, born in Wales 54
years ago.
Rev. James I. Vance of Nashville,
moderator of the Southern Presby
terian general assembly, born at Ar
cadia, Tenn.. 56 years ago.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull Mar
tin, candidate of he equal rights
party for president of the United
States in 1872, born at Homer, O.,
80 years ago.
Oliver Booth Dickinson, judge of
the United States court for the
eastern district of Pennsylvania,
born at Dayton, O., 61 years ago.
This Day in History.
1775 Ethan Allen and 38 men,
captured in the American attack on
Montreal, were sent to England as
prisoners.
1850 Railroad connected Petro
grad and Moscow, built by Ameri
can engineers, opened for traffic.
1862 General Buell, with federal
troops, arrived at Louisville, in ad
vance of the confederate forces.
1893 Two bandits killed and four
captured in an attempted train rob
bery near St. Joseph, Mo.
1914 First contingent of British.
Indian troops landed at Marseilles,
France.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
1,517th day of the great war.
The Minnesota conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church meets
in annual session at St. Paul today,
with Bishop Wilson presiding.
Michigan democrats are to meet
in convention at Detroit today, to
name candidate for minor state of
fices and adopt a platform for the
coming campaign.
The welfare and upbuilding of the
Indian race will be considered at
the annual national meeting of the
Society of American Indians, which
will open a three-day session today
at Pierre, S. D.
Storyette of the Day.
The young lawyer was defending
a man accused of burglary, and the
woman whose house had been en
tered was under examination.
"Madame," asked he, "what time
of night was it when you saw the
prisoner in your room?"
"Close to 2 o'clock in the morn
ing'," came the reply.
"Was there a light in the room?"
"No."
"Could you see your husband at
your side?"
AO.
The lawyer frowned impressively
and shot a side glance at the jury
as he fairly thundered: "Then
please, madame, explain how it was
you could see the prisoner and yet
not see your husband?"
"My husband," was the quiet an
wer, "was at the club." Baltimore
American.
Center Shots
.St. Liouls Olobe-Demorrat: The
Americans sang th "Marseillaise"
as they advanced, doubtless remem
bering: that it was composed in
Strassburg, which must be redeemed.
Washington Post: "The Germans
have no America," says Mr. Lloyd
George, "and as a result of their
despair they are turning to Austria."
Austria is turning, too to see how
much farther Italy will chase her.
Minneapolis Tribune: The Burleson
telephone management is trying to
popularize itself by charging $10 for
a change of name in the telephone
book without new installment of a
telephone. Feems as if it ought to
succeed.
Louisville Courier-Journal: There
now appears upon the war map in
the path of the advancing troop- of
the allies the frontier of Germany.
The troops of the allies are giving
the view halloo. The hunt of the
beast is in full swing. The war is
not yet wen, but the beginning of
the end la at hand
Blunders of General Primary
William Howard Taft in Philadelphia Ledger.
The general primary has lowered the charac
ter of men put up as party candidates tor orhce
It has destroyed oartv organization and the re
sponsibility of parties to the electorate for the
fitness of candidates. The old convention had
many evlis which could have been corrected by
legislation to safeguard the method of selecting
delegates. It was most unwise to abolish it.
Since early Anglo-Saxon times successful popu
lar government has depended on tree represen
tative institutions in cases in which the whole
people were not in mass able to legislate, ap
point or execute.
The convention was a mere normal develop
ment of the representative principle in party
government. The great body of the electorate
of a party could not in the nature of things
brine to the selection of candidates the" time,
the inquiry and the deliberation needed to pick
out men fit for office. Especially was this true
in the case of candidates for offices requiring
professional qualifications.
The movement against the convention was
extended to an effort to abolish parties in some
states. Parties are essential to popular govern
ment. They are indispensable to the organiza
tion of the will of the people into effective ex
pression. Men yield as to mi.ior matters to
agree on main policies. They act together in
order to put those policies into execution, and
when they become the majority they do so.
Party organization should not be destroyed. The
will of the loyal members of a party should be
allowed to have honest voice. Legislation
opening to nonmembers of a party the oppor
tunity to foist upon it candidates whom its loyal
members do not approve is a fraud upon them,
and, therefore, upon the public which is bene
fited by honest party action.
We should return to the convention, in which
no one but loyal members of a party should have
a voice. We should surround the selection of
delegates and their conduct with penalizing pro
visions against corruption in their election and
their action.
The general primary is anti-democratic, in
that it usually entails outrageous expense upon
anyone offering himself successfully for office.
It drives good men from candidacies; it excludes
the possibility of the office seeking the man.
The very legal formalities necessary put a candi
date in the attitude of chasing an office, not of
merely allowing his fellow citizens to call him.
This is demoralizing to politics and deprives the
public of the possibility of securing many men
who would be admirable public servants.
The need for informal preliminary state con
ventions or caucuses, recognized in New York
and other states, demonstrates the inadequacy
and blunders of a general primary. The ques
tion is how long the cowardice of politicians
who are convinced of the utter failure of the
general primary will prevent the restoration of
the convention with proper safeguards aganist
abuse.
In California they have not only abolished
conventions, but they have gone as far as they
could without express legislation to abolish par
ties. We have now an illustration of how their
system works.
Rolph, the mayor of San Francisco, a repub
lican, became a candidate for governor in both
the republican and democratic primaries. His
opponent in the former was the incumbent, Gov
ernor Stephens. His opponent in the latter was
F. J. Heney. Rolph was beaten by Stephens,
but defeated Heney. Under the law Rolph can
not run in the election as a democratic candi
date because beaten in his own primary, and
Heney can't run at all. This leaves the field
open only to Stephens by reason of hig defeat
of Rolph among republicans and by Rolph's
strength with the democrats. Could anything
be found in "Alice in Wonderland" to beat this?
Oh, Lord, how long?
The foregoing article is copyrighted and is
published by courtesy of the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. j
Trade Competition 'Adjourned'
In the nature of ,things the United States
and England must be, and ought to be, com
petitors, after the war, for the trade of South
America and of the orient. Their rivalry will
be genuine, earnest, uncompromising. Yet the
arrangement Washington has entered into with
England to adjourn such competition while hos
tilities are going on, though it may be unwel
come to some interests, is so manifestly fair
that it will have almost universal approval.
England has lent its ships to carry our troops
and provisions and munitions for those troops
to France. It has hampered its own foreign
trade to do this. Now that the immediate stress
is over, that the tide seems to be turning in
favor of the allies, its own exporters are com
plaining fiercely that ships should be restored
to the uses of commerce. But any movement
of that sort would be equally injurious to Eng
land, to France, to the United States and to the
allies' cause.
The assurance that we will not seek to nrofit
by England's magnanimity will smooth things
over for the British government, will silence
many protests, will make all protests easy to
ignore. But in the long years that are to come
England will have to reckon in the South Amer
ican and in the oriental markets with a new
America, unhampered as in the past by lack of
shipping, realizing as it has never before real
ized the need of banking facilities, abb to pro
tect its merchants and its concessionaires every
where, and inviting a battle without bitterness
for the trade of the world. Brooklyn Eagle.
A Modern Munchausen
To thank God that others are worse off than
we are is a form of gratitude to which the war
has given new aspects, A German named Voss
has been trying to cheer his countrymen tdjr tell
ing them, in the Kieler Zeitung, that their suffer
ings are nothing to those of the English. He
found this out in "traveling all over England"
after escaping from the Isle of Man. where he
had been interned. Some of the things which
he reports are credible enough, but they serve
only as an introduction to his tall talk. Thus
he observed that Waterloo bridge bad been so
shattered by German bombs that "hardly ry
thing was left." He also saw groups of Gurk
has, under black officers, patrolling the streets
of London in order to intimidate the starving
people. "These hordes," he added, "have at
tacked whole villages in Lincolnshire and ut
terly wiped them out. I have seen these places
with my own eyes." Whether these stories
lighten the spirits of Germans or not, they will
unquestionably add to the gayery of the English.
These veracious tales by Herr Voss ought to
be included in the "comic weekly" which the
Germans are printing in English and dropping
over the American lines. New Yerk Post.
Seed Grain Loan
The seed-grain loans to farmers in the
drouth-stricken areas of the United States are
likely to fail utterly in their purpose because, of
overregulation an evil that has brought disas
ter to much well-considered legislation in the
past. The Departments of the Treasury and
Agriculture, which have joint jurisdiction over
the loans, have just issued several pages of rules
under which they will be granted. Anybody but
a lawyer would be appalled at the restrictions
imposed. The maximum loan that will be made
is $300, and it is safe to say that much of that
sum will be exhausted in attorneys' fees for
drawing up the application and other necessary
documents. The most heartbreaking of the
rules provides that "no loan will be made to any
farmer who has unencumbered real or personal
property sufficient to secure a loan of $300." It
is safe to say that a man reduced to that ex
tremity is not going to stay on the farm to
await the results of a new crop. He will move
to the nearest city and endeavor to get employ
ment that will bring him an immediate income.
That is precisely what was sought to be avoided
by the federal purchase of seed to keep the
farmers on the farm but under the severe reg
ulations imposed that will be the result naturally
io lollow, Fairbury (Neb.) News, i
Sidelights on the War
The Tyrol, which has figured con
spicuously in the news of the present
war, has always been a battleground,
chiefly because of its strategic po
sition in command of the road across
the Alps.
Art American sergeant, when he
led a platoon into a captured Ger
man dugout in France, found altars,
vestments, statues, candelabra,
paintings, a chalice and a ciborlum
stolen from desecrated churches.
T'.ie green, white and red flag of
Italy was adopted in Imitation of
the red, white and blue of trance,
at Milan, on November 6, 1796. when
Napoleon formed the Lombard mili
tia to fight with the French armies.
Noyon, an important strategic
point recently recovered by the
allies, is situated some 67 miles
northeast of Paris and is a town of
great antiquity. It saw the corona
tion of Pippin the .Short in A. D
752, and also the coronation of
Charlemagne some years later.
It is now stated on the authority
of Martin Conboy, director of the
draft, that the recent roundup in
the New York district of more than
60,000 men on the mere suspicion
that they were slackers yielded in
sum total only 199 actual delin
quents, who have been Inducted into
the army. Of these, at least 85 were
non-residents.
Since 1870 the German general
staff has always held Metz to be the
principal pivot against France and
maintained there a peace garrison
of 25,000 men. The city is surround
ed by a veritable network of massive
forts, armored batteries, infantry po
sttions, countless shelters, and maga
zines to supply the lines and ways of
safe communication.
Some 700 returned soldiers have
applied to the Cunadian Soldiers'
Settlement board for financial as
sistance to enable them to engage
in agriculture. Nine thousand men
are required to help in the harvest
in Manitoba, according to a message
issued by the Canadian Food board.
The local supply available for farm
help is estimated at 4,000 men.
SMILING LINES.
"Those actreesea are quarreling openly
about the dressing room."
"Strange the quarrel ia open, slqe a
dressing rqom contest Is naturally a star
chamber proceeding. Baltimore Amerl
can.
Hobson Po you think It Is a good time
to sell my house?
Agent Well, it my not be a good
time, but I advise you to sell it. The
Boy Scouts of the neighborhood are Just
getting up a jau band. Life.
"Ah, so my patriotic song was partly
responsible for your enlistment?"
"Yes; I wanted to get away from hear,
ing it." Judge.
Diner These portion are absurdly
mall of late, Louis!
Head Walter Well, you aee, sir, we
have to hire such old waiters now, and
they can't handle heavy trays! Detroit
Free Preea.
A bunch of rookies coming down the
street salute at Y man, who said: "Boys,
you don't salute Y men."
That's all right, old man, we're only
practicing on you," came the response.
Trench and Camp.
She What do you think of Mrs1.
Howell's idea of getting up a dinner for
six persons at a cost of only $1.
He well, I ve no doubt she could get
the dinner up all right, but the trouble
would be In finding six persons who would
be willing to get It down. Indianapolis
Star.
"You, there, In overalls," shouted the
cross-examining lawyer. "How much are
you paid for telling untruths?"
"Less than you are," retorted the wit
ness, "or you'd be In overall!, too." Bos
ton Transcript.
LONELINESS.
f wa lonely In the city.
Though the busy, teeming street
Echoed with the din of voices,
And the tramp of many feet.
Not a hand was stretched In greeting;
No one spoke the word that cheers,
Though my heart was filled with longing
And my eyes were full of tears.
For the tollers of the city.
In their narrow grooves confined-
Each his solfish end pursuing
To all other Uvea were blind.
So I stood apart a stranger,
Harkenlng to the city a song,
For the loneliest kind of loneliness
Ia that found amidst the throng.
Then I left the busy city.
And I turned my weary feet
To the distant shady hillside.
Where the woods and river meet.
There the sun sent rays to greet m'.';
Flowers nodded as I passed;
Every tree gave blessed shelter
In the shadow that it cast;
Thirst was quenched by purling brooklet;
Breezes fanned my aching head;
While the soft and fragrant grasses
Offered me a kindly bed,
And the birds called joyous welcome,
"Welcome Home!" on every hand.
There's no loneliness In nature
For the souls that understand.
Omaha. DAVID RITCHIE.
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Why He Opposes Germany.
Ogallala, Neb.. Sept. 21. To the
Editor of The Bee; The kaiserite
pro-Germans die hard, but they have
to go just the same; the handwriting
is on the wall. Kev. Mr. Herrmann
makes a plea for the Germans and
for the German language at a meet
ing at Lincoln, and tells the people
not to be carried away by "hysteria."
His remarks were printed in The
Bee of the 21st inst. on front pai?e.
Ritrht in the next column alongside
is an account of a bombardment of
a base hospital on the American
front, in which eight of our Amer
ican boys were killed; they were
being treated in the nospltal for gas
attacks. A large red cross was con
spicuously displayed on white canvas
in front of the big hospital tfnt.
I plead guilty to a prejudice
against everything German. It is
unfortunate to the Germans resumis
m America, for something is turning
up every day, so that we tm'e loat
all faith or sympathy for anything
German.
Rev. Mr. Herrmajn rightly says
the English churches could not sur
vive in country districts where the
Germans predominated. This was all
in accord with a well laid plan, a
conspiracy to Germanize America.
Proof of this has been well estab
lished In the trial of the German-
American Alliance.
The Germans held themselves
aloof from the American churches
and schools unless they could com
pel our schools to teach the German,
which they did do in a good many
cases.
The State Council of Defense has
done a great service to state and na
tion. It has made the pro-Germans
crawl into their holes; it has been a
bitter pill for some of them, but they
have been compelled to place Old
Glory above their school buildings
and cut out the German language in
the schools.
The war la not ended, but I do
not look for any per'ous trouble in
future. Nebraska haa been made a
decent place to live.
EDWIN M. BKAKLE.
ing. At least return to the natural
order of things by the first day of,
September, instead of the last day in
October. I do not like to see dark
ness at o'clock in the morning all
the year round.
The best way of all would be to
return the hours to the old form and.
stop passing fad laws in congress.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
About Saving Daylight.
Omaha, Sept. 21. To the Editor
of The Bee: For one I think the
members of congress made a mis
take in compelling us to push our
clocks forward, and for one I think
the sooner that law Is repealed the
better it will be fox all of us
Where I have found ooa who fa
vors the very unnecessary change I
huve found more tfian 100 who ex
press disapproval of this law. It
makes most of us lose sleep when it
is the most necessary, and what we
may possibly gain in time we lose
in lack of. sleep at the right time.
The only ones who gain by the I
change so far as I can see are the
players of golf, called irreverently
by some "cow pasture pool" the
hammock loungers and the automo
bile speeders.
Most people who have work to do
for a living do not like the n-w plan.
as I stated some months ago, the j
best time for garden work is in the
cool of the morning. In this hot
climate in the summertime garden
work in the middle of the afternoon
is more harmful than beneficial. If
the members of congress, who sit
on their easy seats and pass laws
sometimes that are not beneficial to
the great mass of the people, want to
monkey with the timetable, let them
amend the law by compelling us to
push the clocks back an hour, so we
will have more time to do our gar
den work in the cool of the morn-
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