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AH lines look alike to the boys "over there."
The market basket is again becoming a
badge of respectability.
"Mike" Endres and his green card ought to
get laugh out of Galway.
Now the kaiser knows what an irresistible
force is like when it starts.
In the language of ".Met," Mr. Hitchbranch
is mad. That's again very evident.
"Round and round the big wheel goes, and
welt, nearly everybody knows the refrain.
j Hohemollern, Hindenburg & Co. will need
all the "previously prepared positions" they can
locate.
Still, as before, if Keith Neville really is anx
ious to get into the army, he will find the route
easy enough.
It ought to cheer the lawyers to know they
are to be permitted to go to war just the same
ts other folks.
s General von Sand, who deserted his army in
Turkey, is qualified to add the word "shifting"
to his other distinctions.
Loyal service as policemen or firemen and
divided allegiance between the city and the
labor union do not go together. x
The sultan says he will quit if given "favora
terms." How sadly he will miss the "bal-
of power," now in the permanent junk
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ag gack the Hun. The folks over here
io their part pushing forward the Liberty
l Stein is reported to have resigneAy gj
an war minister, and thus is anotbjv .
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at tie pro-
General von Risberg might as well secure
permanent quarters in Berlin, for he will have
steady employment explaining why the Huns
are falling back.
Needless bundle wrapping is to be stopped
in the interest of paper conservation. In a
word, when you hand someone a package, either
figuratively or literally, never mind wrapping it.
Incidentally, it must be kept in mind always
that the opposition to the president's plan of
having woman suffrage dispensed with by con
gressional action comes from the democratic
side of the senate chamber.
' Trotzky has "revoked" the terror, but it re
mains to see how well he controls the evil he
set in motion. Meantime, his Red Guard is so
busy on its murder assignment it leaves to
Starve the prisoners it is supposed to protect.
,The World-Herald has been in the paid
propaganda business so long and so often that
it is now selling its extra purity columns for
paid propaganda for the Mormon church.
Watch that paper every Monday for the Mor
mon proselyting stuff.
If the farmers of Nebraska are not altogether
fools, they will recall with very little difficulty
that Gilbert M. Hitchcock sought to prevent
the shipment of foodstuffs to France and Eng
land during the war, thus cutting off the sale of
Nebraska's products and fixing prices on basis
of an oversupply at home.
' At any rate, no one even suspects that any
part of the kaiser's propaganda fund helped
build a new eight-story home for The Bee, al
though without doubt a lot of easy money could
have been had had The Bee been willing to
champion the kaiser's cause as did Senator
Hitchcock and his hyphenated World-Herald.
Cotton and the South
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,We are confident that "the American people
as a whole will bear up bravely under the of
ficial notice from Washington that the president
is soon to fix a price for cotton and order con
trol of its distribution; but as to the effect of
this sacrilege upon the south, there must be the
most dismal forebodings.
It is all right for the government to name
prices for wheat, iron,. steel and copper. It is
perfectly legitimate to deprive a man of his
beer and strongerdrink. It is admissible to
say that wages shall be limited and profits
standardized in order to meet certain precon
ceived notions. It is even a happy and patri
otic thought to accuse and tax a citizen as a
war-profiteer when as a matter of fact the war
has almost ruined him.
' But When it comes" to cotton, is not the holy
of holies profaned, and how is liberty to prevail
if the very ark of the old-time covenant is thus
to be violated? How can the president place a
' value opon cotton which every planter and spec
ulator in the south knows is priceless?'How
regulate a crop and- gamble ' both of which
claim all the prerogative of kings?
We can find no answer to these queries in
yesterday's closing quotations of the New York
cotton exchange, which were about 33 cents a
50 and for the staple, as compared with 9, 11 and
cents in the pre-war years of 1912, 1913 and
UlirNe? York World. '
ALONG THE ROARING BATTLE LINE.
Foch has completely disrupted the defensive
plans of Hindenburg by an attack that prac
tically involves the entire Hun organization
from Archangel to the Dead Sea.
It is difficult even for close observers to
visualize and comprehend what is involved in
the concerted movement of the Allies on every
battle front. Not in all the world's history
have such forces been encaged, and never did
generalissimo move mighty armies with such
perfection of skill in detail and finesse.
This admirable strategy is made possible by
the absolute co-ordination of the forces, and
vindicates magnificently the unification of com
mand, made possible by Pershing's generous
action in May, when he placed his entire force
at disposal of the French general.
Berlin now sees Bulgaria suing for peace,
Turkey flying in disorder, Austria weakly re
sisting and the proudest of the kaiser's soldiers
being crushed and broken by the Americans,
British and French along the western front.
While von Hertling and von Risberg are utter
ing brave words before the Reichstag, deliver
ing vain boasts of ability to hold back the forces
of Liberty, Foch was launching a blow under
which the entire structure of Germany's plans
is crumbling.
The major offensive, so long looked for, is
under way, and on a scale so extensive and
of such magnificence as to stagger the mind.
Resistless as doom, relentless as fate, justice is
overtaking the Hun. His pride is being hum
bled, his ambition turned to disappointment and
his lust for conquest brought to defeat that
even he must acknowledge. As his front lines
melt away under the gunfire of the soldiers of
democracy, so does the vision of a world domi
nated by force directed from Potsdam vanish
from the kaiser's view and cease to be a night
mare for humanity.
Bulgaria's Plea for Peace.
Bulgaria, it seems, knows when it has" had
enough, and by asking for an armistice in hope
that peace terms may be arranged concedes its
hopelessness of victory. The Allied advance in
the Balkans has scored a complete knock-out,
and the formal protest from Berlin will hardly
be heard in the din of the crashing guns of the
victorious army of freedom. While the French
general, to whom the request for a forty-eight-hour
cessation of arms, pending the arrival of
the Bulgarian messengers, has been preferred,
has declined to check the fighting, he has
agreed to receive the message on its arrival.
Thus ends Bulgaria's share in the most infamous
compact ever made between nations.
culmination of a cold-blooded forgim,
ately negotiated. Lord Grey suftVj reatj
in his standing a, a diplomat or'havi faiIed
to rivet King Ferdinand tehe ntente ca
but it has developed . ,
. . r.ue that the British for
eign minister cou, . ., , . ... ..
to hum it -' reconcile his obligation
Bulgars ' ' "w'tn tne P"c demanded by the
j. , on Jagow had no such scruples, and pur
&ia.sed the adherence of Ferdinand by conced
ing practically all he required. This mainly
consisted in the right to recoup himself at the
expense of his neighbors. Roumania, Serbia,
Albania and Russia were to contribute territory
to the expansion of Bulgaria's domains, while
the matters in dispute between that kingdom
and Turkey would be adjusted on a basis satis
factory to Berlin.
Failure to realize on the ambition, and with
defeat at hand, Bulgar opinion is now swinging
around to the belief that Ferdinand made a poor
bargain. Whether the reported move of Pre
mier Malinoff presages a revolt is not especially
important. It might be a subterfuge of the
wily Ferdinand to save his royal face. Its sig
nificance is that Germany's allies are not in
clined to go to the last ditch in support of the
kaiser's program, nor to make heroic sacrifices
in order that favorable terms may be secured
for the junkerthurm.
Only the peace of victory can be extended
to any of these. Unconditional surrender must
precede any talk of terms.
New Glory for American Arms.
Around Argonne wood Americans have
added new luster to our arms in France. Posi
tions the Hun had held for four years, fortified
and improved for defense until his confidence
in their strength was unshakable, fell to Amer
ican attack. Argonne woo'd itself, filled with
machine gun nests and other devices and traps,
was surrounded, and now is entirely cut off from
the German army, its defenders left to their
own devices for the time, but certain to become
prisoners or "good Germans," as they elect. A
French correspondent writes in most glowing
language of feats thus performed, saying they
even excel the dash that took St. Mihiel. The
word passed on the Marne front that our boys
could not abide to see the colors move to the
rear is being kept in letter and in spirit. Amer
ican soldiers have not only justified national
faith, but are fulfilling the hope of the world.
s Foot Ball and the Bigger Game.
School and college coaches are making a
brave effort to carry on in foot ball, but the
gridiron looks desolate. The boys have gone
to places in the greater game, and those we
used to hail through the frenzy of the sporting
editor's imagination as "gridiron warriors" are
now indeed warriors. The "tin hat" has taken
the place of the "head gear," and puttees re
place shin guards. But what they learned on
the campus and foot ball field is well redeemed
in trench and No Man's Land. Formations
may vary a little, and signals differ in sound,
but the spirit is the same. "Hit the line hard,
and do not flinch," the watchword of the college
coach, is now heard over sorely stricken fields,
where the goal is human liberty and the umpire
Great Jehovah himself. If Waterloo was won at
Eton, as has been said, what have American col
leges contributed to the cause of humanity when
most it needed strong men for defense? Foot
ball teams may fail for want of first-class men
this fall, but the game will not have been
wasted. And when in happier days to come old
grads return from Europe, with soberer faces
and steadier eyes, the sport will not be loser
because they join in the jollification after the
contest In the meantime, carry on, college
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A SIGNED EDITORIAL.
It's the stuck pig that squeals!
That is again the explanation of the unpro
voked bitter personal assault upon me which
Senator Hitchcock's hirelingtditor makes in
the columns of his hyphenated sheet.
The'fact that the World-Herald is suffering
in prestige and pocketbook from its rank record
of pro-Germanism and kaiser-coddling is no
special concern of mine, but I cannot afford to
let newcomers here, unacquainted with the de
vious past and malicious mendacity of the
Hitchcock paper, accept as true the lies about
me with which it is trying to cover its own
infamy.
The hireling Hun-worshipper seeks to bol
ster up the World-Herald by running down The
Bee. He talks about me "inheriting from my
father" a line newspaper building and a flourish
ing and successful farm journal, "which have
passed from my control." He knows that I in
herited from my father less than one-twelfth
of the stock of the Bee Building company and
never had control of it, and that the lease of
the buikling to one tenant instead of to 100
tenants is an advantageous business arrange
ment. He knows, or could easily ascertain,
that the farm journal was sold after just one
year of my control of it for nearly twice what
was offered for it two years before, and was
sold solely to enable me to give my undivided
attention to The Bee, the result of which is
plainly seen in its steadily improving standing
and patronage, which is really what is hurting
the World-Herald.
One of my chief inheritances from my father,
but the one of which the Hitchcock mud-slinger
makes no mention, is the inherited venomous
hatred and unscrupulous stiletto warfare of the
World-Herald outfit of which my father was
the constant victim during his lifetime and
which has been passed along to me. To Hitch
cock and his paper every political crook and
scalawag exposed by my father jnst naturally
turned as a duck to water, and Hitchcock
eagerly seized the chance to benefit by their
rascality. Thus it was disclosed that hp 'nad
"a slip" in the looted city treasury casji; drawer,
and that Bartley, the embezzling republican
state treasurer, had "split" w&h Hitchcock
some of the stolen public scho0i fun(S- Hitch
cock sold out to the iive&'buHi0nairei in the
sound money fight andlet Bryan run his paper
for them, and then, Vittt 8old out Bryan and
became his most Vindictive enemy.
What it bothering the hyphenated paper
right noyv however, is its notorious liaison with
the f;,torous German-American Alliance, by
Wch it became the organ of German propa
ganda in America more zealous than, the kaiser-
bought New York Mail, and at the same time
blossomed out in a fine new newspaper building
which was not "inherited." The taint of kaiser
ism sticks out all over the Hitchcock paper,
and to get away from it this fierce gas attack is
made upon me. While I do not court such a
personal controversy, I feel that I owe it to
myself and to the public to let people know
what it is all about.
A Concomitant Phenomenon
An official statement issued in Metz informs
the people of that city that the bombardment of
the place by American long-range guns is mere
ly "a concomitant phenomenon."
The idea was put up to Rastus, the boot
black, who did a double shuffle in honor of the
boys, but he wanted vto know what the word
"merely" was doing with the other two. It
struck him the Americans must have old Metz
in an awful fix when they can do that to it. "
"Concomitant phenomenon" ought to be a
delicious morsel in Boston, Greenwich village,
New Rochelle and Indiana where literary cul
ture is farmed intensively, but in the rest of the
country it sounds a lot like swearing. Indeed, it
sounds to the average American like swearing
when expressed in German. Here's the way
the English-German dictionary (no violation of
the espionage act intended) puts it:
"Concomitant Begleitend, mitwirkend,
damit verbunden."
We did not raise or train our boys to do
"a concomitant phenomenon," but it's remark
able how readily they have picked it up. -Now
if they could only get at Potsdam with a paral
lelopiped and Berlin with a hypochondriac, we
might expect the war to be over in a short time
thereafter.
So far as we know "concomitant phenom
enon" is not mentioned in the laws of war of
Christian nations, hence the people of Metz
cannot appeal to those laws in protest aprainst
the use of this new and strange device. Minne
apolis Tribune.
Of course, cotton was not included in the
list of articles taxed by the house revenue bill.
Why not? " Look where it grows mostly.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
. P. B. Woodleaf left on a trip to
the far east.
There was no session in a num
ber of schools on account of a lack
m&r- "SCHOOL '
A Wonderful Feat
General March, chief-of-staff, on Saturdav
made the following statement, which is pregnant
with meaning:
"This afternon 35,000 men went ashore at
one of our base ports and 11.000 more will be
off before noon tomorrow fSundav). Fifteen
ships arrived at 10 o'clock this morning, out of
wnicn n were unloaded and will be ready to
return to America tomorrow."
If the kaiser harbored the belief that the
presence of his submarines on the American
side of the Atlantic would slow up troop move
ments from the United States, he should now
be disillusioned. With 46,000 troops landing
aunng a penoa oi nours and tne troop ships
making the turn-around and starting back in
the same time, the plan to have an American
army of 4,000,0C0 in France by June 30 next
seems certain of fulfillment. It is a marvelous
performance.
People and Events
Not the least of the joys undisturbed by war
springs from the return of the summer-lost vest
to the bosom oi the male family.
It should be understood before the candy
pull begins that soldiers, sailors and Red Cross
nurses are exempt from the rule limitine candv
purchases to one pound. Should they elect to
do tne treating ort goes tne limit.
A vigilance department equipped by the cap
ital issues bureau at Washington is already gun
ning for wild cats and other shovers of unau
thorized stock. Untagged promoters are as
sured a lively time if the vigilantes see them
first or later.
The esteemed rumor factory of Mole St
Nicholas, which lent much gaiety to war news
during the Spanish-American fracas, would be
a fourth-rater now in competition with Hun
Munchausens. The Cologne Gazette of August
21 fills the populace with stories of submarine
bombardments of Atlantic coast cities., Cheap
bunk tor nome consumption.
The War Industries board seems to have no
fear of the now or the hereafter in their hearts,
The members tackle the style, shape, size and
bands of men's lids as though there is no hope
of a come-back. Evidently they know how
thoroughly the home guards are subdued and
responsive to the lash. But wait awhile 1 Wait
until the board tries its collective hand at mil
linery. The mixup will be mere man's hour of
holy glee. , -
of means of heating the buildings
and no provision was made for the
cold weather.
The president of the Union Pa
cific railway. Charles Francis
Adams, is expected in Omaha Sun-J
aay irom ooston.
Falls City division o M,
Knights of Pythias, arrived in town
on their way home from Sioux City
where they attended the corn
p3'.ace celebration.
The Republican Lancers' club has
elected the following officers: Cap
tain, Lee Frost, first lieutenant, O.
H. Gordon; second lieutenant,
Frank Woolly; sergeant-major, W.
H. Barlow; orderly sergeant, Wil
liam Kelly. The uniform adopted
is a white Norfolk jacket, blue
trousers, with yellow stripes on the
less, and a red skull cap with tassel
and a red and white and blue band.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
Michaelis defended the refusal of
Germany to make public her war
aims.
Kerensky defended his adminis
tration against critics before demo
cratic congress in Petrograd.
William D. Haywood and other
members of the Industrial Workers
of the, World arrested in Chicago
on charges of seditious conspiracy.
The Day We Celebrate.
Charles G. Hunt, of Hunt &
Elliot, born 1840.
George C. Johnston, Omaha grain
merchant, born 1861.
Col. Herbert Alexander Bruce,
consulting surgeon to the British
armies in France, born at Black
stone, Ont., 50 years ago.
Carl R. Gray, regional director of
the Federal Railway adniinistra-
ion. born at Frinceton, Ark., 51
years Ego.
W. B. Tagg live stock commis
sion man, born 1S"5.
lulinn T mvfll CnnVAtt. nrrfos-
sor of mathematics at Harvard uni- j
versity, born at Brookline, Mass., j
45 years ago.
Dr. Philander P. Claxton, United
Mates commissioner of education,
born in Eadford county, Tenn., 56
years ago.
This Day in History.
1803 Prosper Merimee, who
wrote "Carmen" and left many re
markable letters, bom in Paris.
Died at Cannes, Sept. 13, 1870.
1915 Five German army corps
were ordered from the cast to the
west front.
1916 Roumanians engaged Aus-
tro-Germans in
Transylvania.
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By SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE
Fight
The war will be won by men and
ships, by guns and airplanes. To
raise armies and supply them, to
build the navy and support it, and
to furnish ships and transport, we
must have money in large
amounts. The expenditures of
the Government for the ensuing
year are estimated at $24,000,
000,000, a sum which baffles the
imagination to conceive. That
vast amount must come one-third
from taxes and two-thirds from
loans. The success of the Fourth
Loan, like those that preceded it
is, therefore, absolutely neces
sary. We must work with the
highest speed, as if the war was
to end in six months. We must
prepare in every direction, as if it
was to last for years. Speed and
preparation are both expensive.
Without the Loans we cannot have either
We are fighting to secure a just, right
eous and lasting peace. For a corn
complete peace we must have a com
plete victory. It must not be a peace of
bargain or negotiation. No peace which
satisfies Germany can ever satisfy us.
No peace that leaves Germany in a posi
tion to renew the. waV against us will
be worth having. It will be far from
sufficient to gain all our objects on the
Western front Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine,
Italia Irredenta. The President
with wisdom and foresight and great
force expressed his determination to
redeem Russia. Russia must not be left
in Germany's hands. That would mean
another war. Poland must be free.
Slav republics must be established to
bar the way between Germany and the
East. Serbia and Roumania must be re
deemed. All these things are essen
tial. Nothing will bring them but com
plete victory and a peace dictated by us
and our allies. It is a conflict of ideas.
It is the principle of evil arrayed
against the principle of good. It is the
battle of freedom and civilization
against barbarism and tyranny. Ve
must win and we shall win.
We cannot win without money, and therefore these Loans
are vital, and the country should rally in all its strength
and subscribe and oversubs:ribe the Fourth Liberty Loan
Buy Bonds to Your Utmost!
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HOW TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS
Subscriptions. Open Monday Morning, October 7th
Authorized salesmen will take all subscriptions and will collect the first pay
ment of 10. Balance of payments may be made through Banks, Trust Com
panies or Building, Savings and Loan Associations.
Salesmen will expain how you can buy a $50.00 bond for $5.00 down and
as little as $4.00 a month, if necessary larger denominations on like payments.
The Government terms are 10 at time of subscription, 20 on Novem
ber 21st, 20 on December 19th, 20 on January 16th, 1919, and 30 on
January 30th, 1919. Iir,
BUY BONDS AND KEEP THEM.
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