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'lxitu lit: U id AH A, iUi)AY, OCTOBER 4, 1U1B. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fhe Associated rreas, of Kblcii Tin Bee U a neuiler. n eiclutlrel) entitled to the iim for publication of til news dispatches credited lo It or not otherwlie credited in thti lit. sod also tb local news ubllabad herein. All hfhu of publication of out special dispatches are also reserved. . OFFlCESi " Bhlesto People's On Bulldlnt. OmahaThe Bee Buildlni. haw York IX Fifth Ate. Nouih Omaha 2318 N St. 6t. li uu New B'k of Commerce. Council Bluffs 14 N. Main St ashlnitoa 1311 O St. Uncoln little Building. AUGUST CIRCULATION Daily 67,135 Sunday 59,036 Amu circulation for the month. subscribed and iworn to bj Eirlfht WlUlame. Circulation Manacer. Subscribers leaving tb city should have The Bee mailed to them. Address changed as often as requested. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG . IE Till Turkey ii coy, but is coming. Get in Hn for Liberty I Buy a bond, and keep it "Spanish flu" it no joke, no matter how much you sneeze at it. Butter prices here seem modest when com pared to the $12 a pound charge now in vogue In Petrograd. Too many street accidents marred the Ak-Sar-Ben parade. More care is needed when such crowds are out Remarkable, isn't it, how binding the pro ylsions of the party platform suddenly became on the democratic senator from Nebraska t Burning German cities will not restore any to France, but the thought that it may happen is likely to have a deterrent effect on the expo nents of kultur. Multiplying evidences of German prepara tions to evacuate France and Flanders show the effect of the blows Foch has delivered. We are winning the war. Winter wheat is now going into the ground at a rate that indicates the Nebraska farmer knows the world will need bread next year, just the same as in the past. One htyidred airplanes and twenty-one bal loons is the toll taken from the Hun by Amer ican flyers in six days, which is a pretty fair in dication that we have also made good in the air. The women will find much comfort in the reflection that the doctrine of state's rights ap plies to their case, but did not cut any figure when old John Barleycorn was before congress. President Wilson may change his mind, but the Hitchbranch element of the party will stand firm to its principles, and see that the executive bring no disaster that a vote in opposition can prevent! Commissioner Ringer says Chief Eberstein Is to be head of the police department. If he will only stick to that, the new chief will be spared a lot of trouble his predecessors had to go through. The Omaha Water board has caught the fever and is now formulating an increase in ; rates to be charged for service. This will en courage all who have hoped to see the rates go J the other way. Another Yankee ship, has gone down, victim to a submarine, with all its crew on board. But the convoy of transports it was guarding passed in safety. The Tampa was not a battleship, but its work was well done. The toll of prisoners and guns taken by the Allies in France since the middle of July amounts to a respectable army, even as such things are regarded these days. The kaiser can not long stand such a drain. "Yes, ladies; we want you to have the ballot, and we know you will get the ballot, but it will be when we cannot prevent it by voting against you." Explanation of Editor Hitchbranch in behalf of the democratic senator from Nebraska. Now that Secretary Campbell of the demo cratic state committee has got the geography of the tickets all straightened out, maybe he can explain why "Charley" Pool put his personal literature into the official mail going out from hi office. Value of Strategical Unity "We must do Foch the justice to say he is apparently beginnig to obtain on a big scale that strategical unity he has already obtained on French soil." So speaks the Cologne Gazette, one of the most influential newspapers in Ger many and perhaps the greatest paper in the Rhine region. We are bound to admit that for once a truth has been uttered in Germany. It must have had a bitter taste to the Gazette, and must have been read with wry faces by its nu merous readers; for "doing justice" to the en emy is something new in German journalism, and such a concession indicates a chastened spirit as well as a remarkable relaxation of the censorship. But it is an essential truth that we ourselves should begin to realize. General Foch's authority is not confined to France, and while he is sacrificing nothing on the western field of warfare, where the war musfbe decided, he is stretching his long and puissant arm over the east in order to hasten that decision by ap plying to the battle fronts of Macedonia and Syria the same tactics of offense that have been so successtul in t ranee. It is an old principle of General Foch that - no war can be won save by attacking, and while lit 1 1 1. ntlt I've, j irvviva in niuvii he seemed to have abandoned that principle, we jlt-know now that he was only biding his time. vf v iHfiuciii aim uic uiJyuriumiy lame lie h0ff application, aim since mat momentous iefiy ne nas not ceasea to attacK. nanny .fie part of wisdom to establish the in- and to make it his permanent possession fa-the field where the stake was greatest Die issue most essential. That he has done. ince. Germany is reduced to defensive :n this front and Foch, with his growing will see to it that it never again has the ie to regain the initiative. 5t. Louis Globe -crat ' - PEACE, WITH ALL ITS TRIMMINGS. Germany and Austria are looking ahead to peace on a basis of the status quo ante. Just what conditions exist to support such expecta tions are scarcely visible to the naked eye, but expressions from the colonial minister of Ger many and from the new premier of Austria are to the effect that neither country figures on giv ing up anything it held before the war. Dr. Soli dwells on the economic disadvantage at which Germany will be when shorn of colon ies on which it has depended to provide raw material for home factories. He was aware of this condition before the war, but, with others of junkerdom, preferred to risk the substance by grasping at the shadow. Baron von Hus sarek tells the lower house of the Austrian Par liament that the determination of Bosnia, Her zogovinia and other principalities submerged by Austria will be subject to negotiations, and sig nificantly adds that Austria knows how to ne gotiate. These eminent exponents of kultur have en tirely missed the plainest lesson of the war. Peace will not be brought about by negotiation, nor is it contemplated that in the adjustment of political boundaries either Austria or Germany will be consulted. They will be dealt by, not as they have dealt by others, through force, but in the application of the principle of impar tial justice to all. This means that the yoke of bondage they have thrown onto weaker peoples will be removed. Following the president's rule a little further, "without regard to the selfish interest of any," means that Germany's economic situation will not be considered as a reason for restoring the South African coloniestor any part of them to be exploited for the benefit of the Germans at home. Peace, with all its trimmings, will be established in Germany, but it will not bear the label, "Made in Germany." Liberal Chancellor for Germany. If Prince Maximilian of Baden has been elected as imperial chancellor for Germany, as reported, it indicates a probable change in pol icy on part of the kaiser. Fourth to hold the important position since the beginning of the war, Maximilian is the first who is ascribed to the "liberal" element of his country. Von Bethmann-Holweg was reactionary to the limit, a pronounced pan-German and a staunch advocate of the war. He assented to everything in the way of frightfulness, assisted in the plots to Germanize America and showed himself in all things a willing tool of the kaiser. Forced from power by the singular combination of so cialists and Catholics in the Reichstag, he was succeeded by Michaelis, who had all the at tributes of his predecessor, but none of his abil ity. Von Hertling soon came in, and brought new strength to all the policies established by von Bethmann-Holweg. Impending defeat may account for his overthrow, the logic of events demanding a more liberal government at home as well as a better front for the world. So Prince Maximilian is called to stand as an earnest of what Germany may be when its im perialistic notion of conquering the world has been laid aside in interest of saving something from the wreck of militarism. "Squaring It for the Boss." No more delightful task falls to the lot of the editor of the Omaha Hyphenated than the ever-present duty of "squaring it for the boss." As often as its owner, who misrepresents Ne braska in the United States senate, takes a po sition in opposition to the president, then the eloquent, facile and fluent typewriter of the Hy phenated's editor swings into action and emits such a torrent of words as fairly beclouds the track along which the senator retreats from the indignation of the citizens. It was so when the senator was honeyfugling with the kaiserites in 1914, introducing bills and resolutions in the senate, trying to provide a means of easy vic tory for the Hun; it was so in December, Jan uary and February last, when he was doing his utmost, in cahoots with other reactionary demo crats, to take control of the war out of the hands of the president and his cabinet and place it under a board to be named a't the pleasure of the group that has so consistently undertaken to interfere with Mr. Wilson's plans. And, of course, it is so now, when the senator assumes again active opposition to the president on the suffrage question. "Squaring it for the boss" has been a steady job for the editor of the Hy phenated, and will be as long as it tries to play both ends to the middle on every question of importance before the public. Use the Market Basket Save Paper. How many of us appreciate as much as we should the shortage of all kinds of paper which exists today? This shortage has been brought about through various causes, but the principal one is that the government wants and must have the commodities which are used in making paper, as well as the man power which it em ploys, i In our small way and with very litlte effort we can help in providing the government with these materials. You ask how? By saving pa per. Use a market basket and when you are marketing do not ask to have your cabbages, carrots and celery wrapped, but save that much paper. It is nc;t necessary to have a piece of wrappnig paper or a bag placed around your apples, oranges, bananas and lemons, which al ready have a covering and could be carried home in your market basket. If thousands of market baskets were used throughout the country, think what an enormous quantity of paper would be saved, and paper saved or paper not used means coal saved; it means chemicals saved, which are needed so badly for munitions; it means sulphur sa,vtd for our chemists to use in the manufacture of pois onous gases; it means wood saved for shipbuild ing, and coal and chemicals and sulphur and wood when manufactured by the government into munitions and gases and ships are the prin cipal units which will safeguard the lives of our soldiers. So use the market basket and save paper. The Turk has given assurance to he kaiser of fidelity and fealty, but keeps right on surren dering important points to Allenby. By and by it will be too late, for the sultan will t monarch over nothing but a name. Smoldering ruins designate the path of the retiring Hun, whose nature runs true in defeat as in victory, to destroy everything he can. TO DAN Right in the Spotlight Sir Joseph P. Maclay, who holds the important post of British ship ping controller, is the head of a well known firm of shipowneers of Glas gow. His career began when he ob tained a place as office boy in a Glasgow shipping office. In five years he had worked himself to the position of a junior clerk, and by the time he was 25 years he had saved enough to buy a small interest in a freighter. This proved to be the nucleus of the great firm of which he is now the head. From the outbreak of the war Sir Joseph was a member of the Board of Trade committee on shipping and in 1916 his unrivaled experience as a ship per led to his unanimous election as shipping controller, when that branch of the administration was es tablished. One Year Ago Today in the War. British captured 3,000 prisoneers and several important positions in great drive east of Ypres. United States Navy department reported the sinking of three Amer ican vessels by German raider See adler in South Pacific waters. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Articles of the Foreign Emigra tion company were filed, with a cap ital stock of $100,000 and the prin cipal place of business is to be the city of Omaha. Articles of incorporation of the Bemis Park company, with a cap ital stock of $400,000, have been mrnmeT' mi filed by George P. Bemis, Sam T). Mercer, Ed W. Nash, John D. Howe and John H. Dumont. C. F. Weller, vice president of the Richardson Drug company, left for the east via the Wabash. J. B. Perkins, president, and John Walker, vice president, of the Walr ker Manufacturing company of Cleveland, O., are in the city to ne gotiate with the Omaha Horse Rail way company for the machinery used in the operation of the pro jected cable line. The directors of the Water Works company have decided to add two additional settling basins to the water works at Florence, which will cost about $70,000. This addition will make the plant worth upwards of $1,000,000. The Day We Celebrate. ' Andrew H. Clark, with the Cud ahy Packing company, born 1880. Jerry M. Fitzgerald, assessor of Douglas county, born 1864. Frank Whitmore of the firm of Whitniore Brothers, born 1853. Maj. Gen. William Haan, U. S. A., commanding the 32d division in France, born in Indiana, 55 years ago. Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, noted Baptist clergyman of Boston, born at McMinnville, Ore., 51 years ago. Othon Goepp Guerlao, Cornell university professor, born in St. Louis 48 years ago. Dr. Albert Ross Hill, president of the University of Missouri, born in Nova Scotia 49 years ago today. This Day in History. 1704 Alexander Selkirk, supposed to have been the original of Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," was landed on the island of Juan Fernandez. 1810 Eliza McArdle Johnson, the wife of Andrew Johnson, who taught the future president how to write, born at Leesburg, Tenn. Died January 15, 1876. 1862 Confederates attacked Rose crans' army in a strong and fortified position at Corinth, Miss. 1890 Work begun on Niagara Falls power plant. 1914 British and Belgians en gaged in hard fighting with the Ger mans around Antwerp. 1915 German offensive in east slackened as a result of withdrawal of troops for the western front. Timely Jottings and Reminders. 1.526th day of the great war. First week of the Liberty loan campaign ends today. Buy early. One month from today will see the end of the state and congres sional campaigns. Bulgaria, now in the spotlight, of the world war stage, today rounds out its first decade as an independent kingdom. All of the matters bearing upon the induction of women into the field of industrial labor are to be discussed at a conference of labor to open in Washington today, with trade union women present, who have been summoned from all parts of the United States. The confer ence is the first of its kind ever called by the United States government. Storyette of the Day. "It's no good, uncle," said the am bitious youth. "If you won't give me more money at your place, I'm going over to get a job at the new store." "Don't be silly, my lad!" admon ished the old merchant. "They've only just started. How d'you know they won't go to smash in six months? You've a job with me for life. We're firmly established and thoroughly sound financially." "Well, if they do smash I dare say I'll get another job somewhere else." "Ah, my boy, remember the old adage. 'A rolling stone gathers no moss.' " "Moss? Moss? Who the deuce wants to gather moss? Where's the market for moss these days?" London Answers. "SPANISH FLU." "Your eyes are red;" Your Hps are blue, That's the sttrn of The "Spanish Flu." You begin to sneese And ache all over, So akin right home To bed afid mother. Pleese order the doctor Without delay. E'er it's too late. And you pass away. Omaha, DAISY ANON. Band Prices War's Barometer New York Times. Bankers and bond men have devoted much study to the course of interest-bearing securi ties since the German retreat began in the west, seeking for indications that prices of bonds are discounting the end of the war. In furtherance of their inquiry it is nothing more than natural that they should seek precedents supplied by other Wars, following the course of security quotations during the period of hostilities and for some years after. The dlvil war being the greatest and most intensely fought in modern times, except the present conflict, it has been the subect of close scrutiny. Along this line Howard S. Mott, vice presi dent of the Irving National bank, has prepared the result of the study of charts on bond prices in connection with the historical developments of the civil war. He finds that the quotations of six standard railroad bonds, figured "in the equivalent of their gold value, began to discount the end of the conflict six months before Gen eral Lee's surrender at Appomattox. About half the decline of prices suffered in the earlier years of the war recovered in this period. Subsequent to May, 1865, when the confederate army was disbanded, bond prices fluctuated narrowly, and it was not until 1860 that average quotations passed above the average for the same bonds in 1861. In drawing a comparison between military developments in the civil war and those which have appeared so far in the present struggle, Mr. Mott points out that the gold value of bonds reached their lowest levels in 1864, after the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg had indi cated that the struggle could have but one out come. This was caused, he says, partly by the fact that the strain on northern resources con tinued to expand after the high water mark of the war had been reached and also by the se vere defeats which the union army met, in the Wilderness and at Cold Harbor. The fall of Atlanta in September, 1864, caused a brief up turn, which was followed later by another de cline that carried prices close to the bottom again. At the fall of Savannah three months later, the market began to move forward and continued until the end of the fighting. "Any effort to relate the course of bond prices during the civil war to that of the pres ent," says Mr. Mott, "must necessarily take cognizance of the military situation in each case. It is now evident that July, 1863, was the turn ing point of the civil war. The south's greatest offensive was checked at Gettysburg. It never made good the men lost there, or at the fall of Vicksburg. Yet the greatest depression in senti ment and in bond prices occurred in the follow ing year when the south was purely on the de fensive. "Certain elements of the military situation in the European struggle obviously favor a com parison of 1918 with 1863 in the civil war. Nine teen eighteen has been the year of the enemy's maximum offensive. Until the last couple of months, Germany has never been really on the defensive. While the attempts of the allies l drive the Germans from France were being 'smothered in mud and blood,' Germany was conquering the east. This year, however, prac tically all of its power has been concentrated in the west, and manifestly that power has been decisively checked and reduced. "It may be that the victorious reaction of the allied armies has begun a continuous -offensive which will shortly end the war, but the proba bilities run counter to so fortunate an event. Practically never has it been true that the de struction of a great army or of a military power has followed a 'defensive victory' within a com paratively short time. Usually there follows a long period of hard fighting before the beaten enemy yields. Napoleon's grand army was de stroyed in Russia in 1812. In the following year he was completely defeated in the battle of the nations at Leipsic. Yet he was not driven to abdication until the campaign of 1814 had been fought in France, during which campaign he won several striking victories. "In the event that the present war does not proceed to a triumphant conclusion in the man ner which hope generates as a result of recent successes, it seems not unreasonable to expect one or two years of the bloodiest fighting of the war, and enormous losses may be the cost of progress to the Rhine. In such a case, de pressed sentiment similar to that of the north in 1864 may hereafter exist, even though our hearts' agony may never persuade us to accept defeat. The only implication it could carry, as related to the prices of bonds, would be a pro longation of the war, while national debt mul tiplies, taxation increases, and the purchasing power of the dollar continues to fall. Such events conceivably would bring about lower bond prices. "There is no doubt that government regula tion of commodity prices that is to say, the fixing of maximum prices has operated dur ing the last year and a half to keep the general level of commodity prices somewhat lower than would have been the case without regulation. In the civil war there was no regulation of com modity prices. Leaving aside any question as to the effect of fixing maximum prices on pro duction of goods, it is fair to conclude that, to the extent that the rise in commodity prices has been restrained by government regulation, the effect has been to keep the purchasing power of fixed income somewhat larger than it would have otherwise been. Conversely, should com modity prices hereafter get out of hand and rise through the levels fixed by regulation, the pur chasing power of fixed income will decline fur ther, and it would be logical to expect that fact to operate against the prices of bonds. "Defeat left the south utterly prostrate. The German people have no wish to be destroyed. Germany does not yet admit defeat, and no doubt it will take hard fighting to convince it that the game is up. It may be that Germany will recognize the inevitable soonor than a mere military analogy might lead us to expect. In any event, judging by the civil war comparison, b'ond prices should discount peace by at least six months." Hearts of Girl Athletes Parents as well as physicians will be inter ested in the case of a young woman of 20 years, who had been a star player in hockey and basket ball at a Brooklyn high school, who would not give up her athletics on graduation, and who dies from "athlete's heart" or cardiac dilation. The case is a rare one, if not unprecedented. It stimulates reflection. ' Physical directors in boys' colleges have come to be very careful in guarding against am bitous overexertion, where it is a special peril. We assume that the matter has not been neg lected in girls' colleges. That it can get proper attention in high schools, public high schools, one may fairly doubt. Endocarditis, valvular disease, may come from overexertion, with its shortness of breath, blue lips and blue finger nails as symptoms. But the more common development is hyper trophy, dilatation, in which the heart sometimes becomes two or three pounds heavier than nor mal. This is often caused by mountain climb ing. It is quickly detected by auscultation, but seldom cured. A point worth noting is that this same dila tation is produced by repeated mental emotions, or what are called "heart emotions" colloqui ally. To these women are more subject than men, girls more subject than boys. Often in cases of hypertrophy the expert advice to a young woman is not to marry; incidentally, we suppose, not to fall in love if she can help it. One consoling thought is that the laziness which has saved most boys from heart disease springing out of unrestrained athletic ambition will save more of the girls. Not many young women will die of "athlete's heart." But it is well for parents to remember, well for teachers to remember, well for family physicians to re member, that the peril of heart hypertrophy recognizes no sex exemption!. Brooklyn Eagle. i Over There and Here Four hundred and eighty French orphans have been taken under the protecting care of American regi ments and their essential needs pro vided. "Buffalo park," so named because Buflalo Bill's Wild West showed thrre, is a suburb of Paris. It has been taken over by the American Ked Cross to house its lorries and ambulances. Hats off to the Cubans! Over 100,000 of them are enrolled for ac tive service and most of them ex pect to pet into the fray next spring. Provided, the fracas continues until they arrive. An eastern linguist says that Pershing's name xinnes from an Al sntion variationof a German word meaning "peach." Owing to more pressing engagements the Germans must defer strafing the variation. Cme of the nrmising aftermaths of the "Kamerad" cry on the Hun lines is that as a prisoner of war the pri vate may scoff at his officer and defy his orders. Only as an allied pris oner can a German soldier enjoy the glorious feeling and live to tell It Cheer up, you 43's and under! The army quartermasters fit the khaki suit to the man, not the man to the suit. New uniforms are made for "longs, stouts and shorts," so that all dimensions of fronts may retain their peace-time curves. High living costs and war's pull on surplus money have had no effect on the thrifty in New iork City. Savings banks and postal savings re port an actual gain in deposits dur ing August. Postal savings in the greater city now total $34,000,000, representing the savings of 151,000 depositors. The town of Shaftesbury, In Eng land, owned by one of the squeezed lords, has been offered for sale to the municipal corporation. Should the offer fail, the owner proposes to sell out piecemeal to the tenants. Shaftesbury is a very ancient town, moldy with historic associations. King Canute died there. One of the Yank dopesters at the front, writing to the Stars and Stripes, offers a sure thing means of shooing the affectionate "cooties." liub the undergarments thickly with salt. At the end of two days lay the garmehts near water. The thirsty cooties will jump in for a drink. Then swipe the clothes. When the cooties return and find their nests gone the dopester declares "nine out of ten will die of mortification and the tenth will die of lonesomeness." WHITTLED TO A POINT Minneapolis Tribune: lluy bonds, boost "the boys" and bust the boche. Louisville Courier-Journal: The Delphic Oracle wasn't as reliable as a weather forecaster, but hardly was as wild a shot as a war prophet. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Metz is said to he impregnable; but armies hold fortified cities on their stom achs, too, and Metz's flour barrel Is not bottomless. Baltimore American: There will probably be little popular conversa tion over the capture by the Japa nese of Blagoviestehensk, for quite obvious reasons. Washington Post: The enemy Is squealing because of the distribution of allied literature which tells the Germans they must lose the war. It's the truth that hurts! Mineapolis Tribune: The allies are going to see that no statute of limitations runs against its will to put the riohehzollerns where they belong but where, pray, do they belong? Brooklyn Eagle: An Amsterdam dispatch says that the Germans are amazed at American efficiency. We doubt It not. They are amazed and likewise chasrlned, even more than they are telling. New York World: It has often been asked what Phil Sheridan might have done if he had com manded a corps of cavalry in the present war. But General Allenby's feat in Palestine Is an accomplished fact. New York Herald: Wasn't it only the other day that the All Highest assured the Krupp workers: "As to Servia and Montenegro they are finished!" Incidentally, the central powers facing an Increasing food scarcity, must,look with longing eye on me su.uuu xurxs mat ine antes have potted, for Thanksgiving. & Appreciates Tho Bee's Stand. Denton, Tex., Sept. 28. To the Ed itor of The Bee: An encouraging item is copied from your paper into the last Crisis. These words of yours are noteworthy: "A man who undertakes at this time to discrim inate against another because of color Is unfit to wear the uniform." Bless your plain talk! But why dis criminate at any time? Will "Jim crow" laws, segregation ordinances and a thousand other absurdities Imposed upon negroes be permitted after the war? Shame on our coun try if it so occurs! That would be black ingratitude towards a long suffering race, which now spills its blood for this country. When will white men be noble? Yours for kindness to the negroes. RAYMOND VERNIMONT. Catholic Priest. Sidelights on the War England now has a special typ of railway car built to carry aero planes. Because of the coal shortage many of the smaller industries in Ireland have arranged to convert their plants, where practicable, to suit the burning of peat. Previous to the present war, ths only town in the old world ever captured by the I'nited States was the town of IVrne, In Tripoli, which was taken by an American force) under General Eaton In 1S04. Not until the siege of Paris, la the Franco-Prussian war, when bal loons were used for purposes of observation and communication, did j military ballooning become a sub ject of Ktudy and experiment in army circles. About three-quarters of ths world's population which is esti mated at 1,000,000,0000 Is now In a Ptato of war, as altogether the belligerent peoples aggregate ap proximately 1,200,000,000 or 75 per cent of the total. Economic Waste in Autos. Omaha, Oct. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: Here is a matter which has impressed me as worthy of com ment in connection with war con servation. Frequently I have occa sion to wait for a Crosstown car, about half way between South Oma ha and the Omaha business district. It Is not uncommon to observe from 10 to 20 automobiles rush by with only one passenger, the driver. These cars are from three to seven passenger capacity, and it Is obvious that this empty space is an economic waste. My point is: Why could not some of these motorists pick up a mother or her child or children along the 'way, or an elderly man, and take them downtown? Yester day, while waiting five minutes for a car, I actually counted 12 of these Omaha-bound cars with only the drivers as passengers. Does my sug gestion sound foolish? I don't think so. It is not feasible, perhaps, that every car should stop to pick up strange passengers, but a little discrimination would serve a good purpose. It is true that some motor ists do stop to pick up a stranger along the way. My argument refers particularly to women, children and elderly men. What do you think of this? POX BOX NO. 2. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. "From tha way that man talka of the iieatway of controlling a woman, I up iop he browbeati his own wife." 'Oh, no he doesn't." "Then how doee he manage It T" "He lan't married." Baltimore Ameri-aan. "The Russian! don't seem to have pro duced any war aonKa." "1 think I did see one entitled "We're bolshevlklng to-nlKhtskl on the old ramp groundovltch.' '' Baltimore American. STATE PRESS COMMENT W'ayne Herald: To people who want us to supply them with Wayne county apples in carlots or less: Please forget it. Norfolk Press: Peonle are pay ing 60 cents a pound for butter these days, and the remarks they make while paying it wouldn't look well in print. Aurora Republican: And to think that only three short years ago Wil liam Jennings Bryan, late secretary of state, delivered a chautauqua lec ture in Aurora on "The Causeless War!" Beatrice Express: Many a fellow who heretofore has been looked upon as a model of physical fitness, since being called upon to register in the 19-45 draft, discoveres that he has numerous physical defects never before dreamed of. Harvard Courier: A lady in Har vard last week asked the price of some chickens she saw in the win dow of the meat murket, and was told they were 60 cents per pound. "They are fine ones," remarked she. Did you raise them yourself?" "Yep!" replied Bob, "They were only 40 cents a pound yesterday." York News-Times: The railroad administration is pointing with pride to the receipts of the roads under government control. Yes, but think of the high passenger and freight rates. If the roads under private control could have secured such rates the story would have been dif ferent. And the people pay the freight HERE AND THERE "We're talking of taxing gowns, face powder, feathers and silk hosiery,'' re marked Congressman Wombat. "Well?" "I hope the women won't cite that as an example of man-madt lawi." Louis ville Courier-Journal. "We're all going in for cooking." "Yes ?" "But Mrs. De Style says ilie can't handle a rolling pin with one hand." "Why doesn't she use both hands?" "She hus to hold her lorgnette with the other." Baltimore American. First German Helnrlch will make a fino soldier. Second Oerman Can he llok his weight In wildcats? First German No, bat he can carry his weight In medals. Judge. "How do you account for his populari ty?" "Possibly It's because he concedes with out argument other people's right to all the good things of life and doesn't act as though he were sharing with them Joys that should be exclusively his." Detroit Free Press. "Is your husband working or fighting Emily?" "He's working, ma'am." "I'm glad to hear that. 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