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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1918. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aaooiall I'rr-sa. of nhn-U 'flu Hue la it iricmlwr. aicluttl) entitled to the ue for publication of mil new dispatchea credited to tt or not otherwise credited In iliis pauer, anil also the lx-al neni publlahed lierin. All rlghta ot mbllcaliuo o( our iwcial diapalcuoa an alao reserved. OFFICES Chlcato Peoples ;a Building. Omaha The Bw Building. New York 2W nnn Are. a. Loula New H' k of Commerce. WMtalaitoa 1311 U ttL Ni.ulh Omaha 231N N Hi. Coiuicll lilufta M N MU) 8U MncoUi Little Building. AUGUST CIRCULATION Daily 67,135 Sunday 59,036 A reran cireulstloo for tne month, aubacrlbed and eworo to b Bwlght Wllllama. Circulation Manager. Subxriber leaving the city should havt The Be mailed to them. Addret changed aa oftea at requested. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG i i Good morning; are you sneezing? Each bond sold is a wallop at the Hun. Buy bonds. Lens was a long time falling, but it finally dropped. You can subscribe to Liberty bonds without the advice of a doctor. Whatever you do, Jceep cool; nothing good is ever accomplished by losing one's head. Each foot of ground gained in France makes the security back of the Liberty bonds that much better. TIME TO KEEP COOL. "Keep your feet warm and your head cool" is the first edict issued to any community threatened with influenza epidemic. Let us take this advice to ourselves there is no occasion to be stampeded over the quar antine established in Omaha by our health com missioner against places of public assemblage, including schools and churches. Regardless of our aproval or disapproval of this action, or any disposition to regard it as premature, the order lays on all of us the obligation of obedience. Since the scourge of Spanish influenza which is ravaging the country is not yet serious in this city, the precautionary measures of the health commissioner are preventive in anticipation of what might happen without their enforcement. Remember, it is better to be safe than sorry. Whether the action taken be justified by con ditions locally or not, it has support in experi ence elsewhere. Eastern cities are placing sim ilar re'strictions on their inhabitants in an en deavor to check the spread of the disease, which has seriously menaced life and health every where. Expert medical opinion advises isola tion as the first step in treatment. Quarantine is in the nature of preventing promiscuous gath erings at which the infection may be ignorantly or carelessly propagated. Now is the time for citizens generally to keep cool. Observe with care the ordinary rules of health, follow the requirements of the public health authorities and do all that may be done to avert calamity. Plenty of opportunity for debate and com ment will be had after the embargo is lifted. Austria is now pledging "no annexations." That is one wish of the Hun that will be grati fied to the limit. Wall Street also responds to the stimulating ) news from overseas, and bulls are chasing bears ' again at a lively speed. f The skip-stop system is coming, and then we will have all the latest frills except the 6-cent : fare on our trolley lines. Every day is Fourth of July on the battle front now, and the kaiser is beginning to learn what a real war looks like. A "silent moment" is to be adopted by the Red Cross workers. This might be extended to Others with little loss of efficiency. "Backing up the president" is all right, so long as the president goes the way the Omaha Hyphenated thinks he ought to go. "Spanish flu" holds no unknown terror, but it is a mighty inconvenient thing to have going ! around just now, when we are so busy on mat ters of real importance. Ak-Sar-Bcn will soon be out of the way, and 'the Liberty loan drive will start in earnest. Get f eady to surrender at the first aproach, and make the job a short one. Sugar beet growers have responded nobly to the call, and will fill many more sugar bowls this year than last. A little urgency always jets a definite answer in America. .. One hundred ships went down the ways from American shipyards in the month of September. As this is at the rate of four a day for the work ing period of the month, it must be considered quite satisfactory. As $9,000,000 is to $4,000,000, so is the dem ocratic performance in Nebraska as compared to its promise. Easy to figure this out. Yet the clacquers for the administration have the nerve to insist that they saved the state money! Splendid Naval Achievement. The successful attack by the allied navies on the Austrian base at Durazzo is one of the out standing features of the day's news. This place has been one of the strong nests from which the submarines have set out to make travel on the Mediterranean uncertain. It also has been used as a base for the Austrian army in Albania. and as such was doubly important to the foe. As an outpost of the Hun it was a menace, and its reduction removes just that much of the German power for harm. While the much stronger naval bases at Fiume and Pola remain in Austrian control, they are bottled up more completely than ever because of the freedom of action secured by the Allies through the demoli tion of Durazzo. Austria's navy, aside from its U-boats, has been of even less service than the German, and has suffered more severely because of persistence of Italian attack. This latest blow will render the great naval establishment of the dual empire practically worthless. "Backing Up the President." The president of the United States, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the land and naval forces, appealed to the senate to pass a certain measure, assuring that body he deemed such action vitally essential to winning the war. The Omaha Hyphenated, whose owner voted against the president, squarely contradicts the commander-in-chief it hypocritically pretends to adore. "A war issue it cannot be consid ered," answers this apologist for and defender of the kaiser in bygone times, when it was safer, and then it jumps onto the people who did stand by the president, saying: It is amazing how sensible people will poll parrot phrases they do not themselves be lieve, and that very few other people believe, and yet assert them in a manner as if every body believed them. That is to say, those who have consented to follow tl e president in this war, and who quote his words on occasion as representing American sentiment, are "poll-parroting phrases they do not believe." The outfit that played the kaiseVs game so long is making a poor showing for itself when it comes to giving unswerving sup port to the president. y Judged by preparations made, the Heinies intended to stay forever in Argonne woods, but the Yankee boys rooted them out of their con- a- i: i i - t ti.. crcie-iincu uurruws, just tne same. 1 ne name American will have a new significance in Ger many forever. s Of course, if anybody did, Keith Neville did, and if anybody didn't, why, it was somebody else. This sums up the defense of the governor in the columns of his organists. However, the voters are not in a mood to trifle with explain ers this time. Allies Sweep Armageddon ' Students of Jewish and Biblical history will be profoundly interested in the announcement that "the British army has crossed the plain of Esdraelon, known as the "Battlefield of Arm ageddon." This plain figures largely in history on account of the many sanguinary struggles of which it has been the scene, but it is of especial interests to the modern world by the reference to it in the Apocalypse (Rev. xvi., 16) as the place where in the final struggle between good and evil the greatest of all battles will be fought: "the battle of that great day of God Al mighty," to be fought at Armageddon, Arm ageddon being the Hebrew name of the plain. yThe plain separates Galilee from Samaria, is triangular in form, and surrounded by moun tains, of which Mount Carmel is the most con spicuous. Through it runs the road across Palestine, which was the greatest thoroughfare of Asia Minor in ancient times. It was because of lying on the easiest and most frequented highway of antiquity that it be came such a frequent and famous battle ground. In it," writes one historian, "Gideon's gallant band of 30O picked men routed the Midianites from beyond the Jordan by their sudden night attack. On Mount Gilboa, Saul and Jonathan made their last tragic stand against the Philis tine army. In the southwestern arih of the plain, King Josiah was defeated and slain by the Egyptian army. Holofernes set up his camp on the Plain of Esdraelon. So did Pompey. and Mark Antony, and Titus. Near Mount Tabor Vespasian in the year 67 A. D. routed the Jew ish patriots with great slaughter. Vii'The last significant campaign of the Jades took place when, one after another, 'Christian strongholds on the edges of this jvere captured by the Saracen army under It, : Six hundred vears later east and west Jmet on the historic battlefield, when Na- m Bonaparte was victorious over the J urks, ih the victory was won at such great cost me had to retreat to Acre and give up his Itious. dreams of rivalintr Alexander the eat as the conqueror of Asia." New York prlo. - . Confusion in Central Empires. Americans should not allow their judgment to be led astray by reports from the capitals of Germany and Austria. While confusion un doubtedly prevails among the politicians of the Central empires, and the people there are greatly disturbed as a result of the military sit uation, it is plain that as yet the kaiser has no thought of meeting the requirements of the Allies. Selection of a man of moderate views to fill the important office of chancellor of the empire is a concession to German sentiment rather than to outside pressure. It may be taken as a reflection of the policy leading to the recent remarkable proposal from Count Czer nin on behalf of Austria. The Allies declined to be caught with such bait, and may be trusted to steer clear of any approach to a false or in conclusive peace. Prince Maximilian as chan cellor should be looked upon as sop to those Germans who have fallen away from the pan German program and his appointment consid ered merely a device to fool the kaiser's sub jects into a notion that he sincerely is trying to restore peace and order to his realm. Germany is not yet ready to accept the verdict of defeat, W'hich finally must be rammed home by the armies of democracy. Charles Kemmes, Doubly Decorated. Something attractive about that boy from Nebraska, Charles Kemmes by name, on whom General Pershing has bestowed a double decora tion. When he left the little community he calls home he did not think of himself as a hero, and mest likely he does not now. His days had been spent, as have those of all Nebraska boys, in ways of peace,' learning how to do things that will produce good. Caught up in the swirl of the war, he went to the training camp, drilled, dug ditches, took gas mask practice, and all that sort of thing; "crabbed" at the grub, and gener ally behaved like a big, good-natured, whole some lad, which he is. In a general way he knew that he was going with some millions of others to drive the Hun back into his den, to rid the world of a terrible menace. One day in July, on the Soissons front, he . scovered a German machine gun nest of two guns and the men to handle them. Quite casually he went in and put the whole outfit out of business. This won for him a decoration, and all his com rades were glad Two days later, under some whaf similar circumstances, he repeated the feat, for which he was given a second decora tion. He is back with his company, ready to do it again, if he gets a chance, and when the war is over he will return to Nebraska, take up life anew and become one of the state's substan tial citizens, just because he is the sort of stuff that has made the American soldier resistless. Right in the Spotlight. Kt. Rev. William Lawrence, who today celebrates his silver jubilee as Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, is widely known by his leadership of the campaign which raised a fund of $8,500,000 for clergy pensions, and by reason of his former presidency of the Religious Education association. Prior to being selected to succeed the famous Phillips Brooks in the episcopate, Bishop Lawrence was first a professor in and then dean of the Episcopal theological seminary at Cambridge, Mass. A native of Boston, with eminent ancestors, among whom were some of the lead ers in the industrial development of New England, he has shown unusual ability as an administrator, con servator of the property of the churches, and censor of methods of finance. One Year Ago Today in the War. Theodore Roosevelt addressed a great loyalty rally in Madison Square Garden. , Field Marshal Haig reported the capture of 4,447 prisoners, including 1 14 officers, in the British drive at Ypres. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago Today. bx-Judge Palmer and wife of Sioux Falls, S. D., are visiting Dr. A. B. Somers. The Schuetzen club Will have a prize target shooting match at American Invasion oj Britain Schuetzen park. There will be $600 in prizes. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Breckenridge arrived in this city this morning, haying visited the principal eastern cities on their wedding trip. They will reside at 1809 Farnam street. The fireworks committee met and agreed on some of the pyrotechnics for the bridge celebration. John Fallon and Miss Annie King were married in St. Bridget's Ro man Catholic church by Rev. Father D. W. Moriarity. Peter Colson and Matilda Binder son, both of this city, have been licensed to wed. Mr. and Mrs. A. Finlayson re turned from Canada. The Day We Celebrate. B. J. Scannell, real estate man, born 1861. Charles M. Eaton of the Omaha Stove Repair works, born 1859. "Tay Pay" O'Connor, celebrated Irish journalist and parliamentary leader, born at Athlone, Ireland, 70 years ago. Alfred E. Marling, president of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, born at Toronto, Ont., 60 years ago. Charles F. D. Belden, librarian of the Boston public library, born at Syracuse, N. Y.. 48 years ago. William Churchill, former United States consul-general in Samoa, and a noted authority on Polynesian af fairs, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 59 years ago. Frank H. Hitchcock, former postmaster-general of the United States, born at Amherst, O., 49 years ago. This Day in H.story. 1750 James Iredell, the first jus tice of the supreme court of the United States to enunciate the lead ing principles of - the state rights doctrine, born in England. Died at Edenton, N. C, October 20, 1799. 1813 Battle of the Thames, in upper Canada, between the Ameri cans under General Harrison and the British and Indians under Gen eral Proctor. 1853 Turkey made a declaration of war against Russia. 1877 Chief Joseph of 'the Nez Perces surrendered to Col. Nelson A. Miles. 1881 An international cotton ex position, the first in the United States, was opened at Atlanta. 1915 United States notified Tur key the Armenian massacres must cease. 1915 Roumanian armies met with severe defeats in Bulgaria and Tran sylvania. Timely Jottings and Reminders. 1527th day of the great war. Centennial anniversary of the meeting of the first state legislature of Illinois. The dedication of the new state capitol of Missouri, which was to have taken place today, has been in definitely postponed because of the war. Owing to the war, the proposed celebration of the semi-centennial of the founding of Cornell university, which was to have opened today, haj been indefinitely postponed. Republicans and democrats of Massachusetts are to hold their state platform conventions today, the republicans meeting in Boston and the democrats in Worcester. In recognition of the war work being done by millions of Ameri can women, Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo has designated today foi observance in the Fourth Liber tv loan campaign as "Women-in-War-Work Day." From midnight tonight German alien women are to be barred from er.tering without special permits the half-mile zones surrounding all fed eral forts, camps, arsenals, aircraft workshops, government or naval vessels, navy yards, and plants en gaged in war work in all parts of the United States. Storyette of the Day. When Wilkinson went to his of fice one day last week he felt calm and contented. He hadn't any need to worry about his wife's loneliness any more, for he had bought a cap ital watchdog for her. But, alas! when he arrived home his wife met him with the deplor able news that the dog had gone. "Eh," said Wilkinson, "did he break the chain, then?" "No," she replied; "but a great, ugly looking tramp came here and acted so impudently that I let the dog loose. But instead of tearing the tramp to pieces the nasty dog went off with him." "Great Scott!" said Wilkinson, "that must have been the tramp I bought him from!" Pearson's Weekly. Frank Dilnot in New York Times. America has conquered England in a more effective sense than it can ever conquer Ger many, for while its great armies will play a large part in the military defeat of the enemy its spirit and its personality have secured the respect and admiration, and are daily gaining more and more of the ffection of the people in the old country. It is inevitable that for gener ations to come America will have a hold on the feelings of British men and women, outwardly unemotional, but of all peoples the most tena cious i kindly regard or active dislike. One of the incidentals of the war is the fact that great masses of American troops pass through England or are temporarily stationed there. Thus the towns and villages and coun tryside places have had two great experiences, reacting on each other, the first being the in spiring and exhilarating knowledge that Amer ica had come into the war with its vast forces on behalf of civilization; the second, personal contact with the American soldiers, with all the homely knowledge of them that is bound to arise from a friendly curiosity. These two in fluences have had and are still having enormous effect. The English are not demonstrative. There is little or no ringing of bells or waving of flags to signal various battle successes. There has been an instinctive avoidance of arrogance or jubilation at public meetings. But neverthe less on one occasion this year, namely, on July 4, the British people let themselves go. A dis tinguished French journalist recently arrived in this country, who has spent some years in Lon don, tells me he has seen no enthusiasm during the war comparable with that he witnessed in London on that day. At the meeting in Len tral Hall there were fervid scenes which deeply impressed all foreigners who know how the Britishers have to be intensely stirred before they demonstrate at all. No one could have been in the streets or at that meeting without realizing how the heart of Britain was moved. I am a Frenchman and was able, therefore, to form an impartial judgment. It was impossible not to feel the deep sincerity of these people of all classes, people who as a rule cover up their teelings. It was wondertul. An English officer in France wrote to me a month ago with great frankness: "I was a lit tle doubtful what the Americans were going to be like. One has heard a great deal about American bluff and bluster, and, to tell the truth I was rather nervous, and .wondered whether I should like them or not. I have now met sev eral bunches of them. Latterly three young officers have been living with us. It has been a delight to meet them (of course it is the officers I have been at close quarters with.) They are as modest as they are keen. They are fine fel lows personally gentlemen all. We think no end of them." A young English gunner who has been fight ing two years in France and Flanders wrote me about the same time: Last week we came m touch with some of the American boys, the first we have seen. They are a fine, upstanding lot of chaps, and we are on chummy terms with several of them. What we like specially is that they have no bounce. There is ginger in them. They are taller and thintrer than our crowd; they naturally have'a good deal to pick up, but those I have met are both quick and clever. We like them because they are nice fellows." London is not a city which beflags itself easily. There is scant display of Union Jacks even in wartime, and there was a good deal of significance in the hoisting of the Stars and Stripes over the Houses of Parliament and other public buildings. But emphasis was given to the display of the American colors in an other direction. I learn that in the suburbs where are the homes of the poor and the mid dling well-to-do the Stars and Stripes are hung out of the windows of houses in thousands of cases. One letter from a typical middle class home very English and with no American affiliations gives an example: "We are going to keep our old Union Jack to the end of the war and put it out then, but we have put up the Stars and Stripes, one from an upstairs window, one from a tree in the garden. Out of the 12 houses in our road three are showing the Stars and Stripes." The character and behavior of the American troops in England is a substantial factor. A race like the Enelish is bound to be impressed by the fine physique and martial bearing of the j sinewy Americans, but more potent even man this has been the personality of the soldiers from overseas. The impression they seem to have made is that of highly intelligent, slow speaking, quick-witted young men. Their sobriety is commented on. They are deeply interested in all they see and hear; they are high grade in both intelligence and manners. "Gentlemanly" is the English way of summing them up. The hospitality with which they have been received has taken large numbers of them into British homes and many lasting friendships have been formed. Something more than friendship is likely to be reached in many cases. I have just heard of an American private who has become engaged to the daughter of an in fluential London lawyer. There must be hun dreds of love matches in the making, for the clear-cut American boy is just the one to appeal to a girl with a touch of romance in her. There can be no doubt that the Americans' invasion of England is approaching completion. It will probably-be beneficent for both countries. The Clean Plate Mr. Hoover, the food administrator, says that to fill the requirements of the allied civilians and armies, the Belgian relief and cer tain neutrals who are dependent upon the United States this country must send abroad during the current fiscal year 2,600,000 tons of meats and fats, 10,400,000 tons of breadstuffs, 1,850,000 tons of sugar and 2.700,000 tons of feed grains. We can do it, he says, and still have plenty left for ourselves if every person during ths year will eat half a pound less a week of breadstuffs and half a pbund less of meats and fats. There is to be no rationing here, he says. That will not be necessary if the people practice reasonable economy voluntarily, as they have done on occasion in the past. "It is necessary," says Mr. Hoover, "that every family in the United States study its food budget and food ways to see if it cannot buy less, serve less, return- nothing to the kitchen and practice the gospel of the clean plate," Mr. Hoover may rest assured that the American public will take up a notch in its belt and enlist in his "clean plate" army. He has demonstrated in the past that he will ask no sacrifice of the people that is not necessary and that he indulges in no arbitrary regulations .merely to show his authority. The public will effect the economies he asks and a little more for good measure. Washington Post. People and Events From a place in the sun to a cellar in Mann heim is quite a descent, but the kaiser made it all right. Air bombs staged the nose dive of the All Highest. Just what the Bridgeport machinists were kicking about did not appear in the dispatches. Not wages, surely. Their daily eight-hour pull ranged from $8 to $10. A weatherman on the spot says the drouth in the southwest was the orst in 150 years. Let's see, about that time oldest inhabitant started mapping the "Great American desert." The bicycle output is to be curtailed and the steel saved turned into war essentials. Con servation magnates opine that the frequency of official leg-pulling afford all the exercise needed in that line. Out in San Francisco, where hair clips range from 50 cents to $1, the Chinese style of hair braiding looks mighty good to the Caucassian crowd. If John C. sets the hairy fashion in the fog belt the era of the sandlots and Dennis Kearney becomes a vague memory. Round About the State Will Maupln once more backs Into the newspaper harness, this time at Orins. The gentleman from York and Lincoln and other towns Deems determined to gobble the belt j the champion newspaper promoter and trader in the Antelope state. A public sale of farm land In Mer rick county, held in Grand Island recently, visions the going value of land thereabout:.. Several parcels were auctioned, brlnsin,; a total of $8-1,870. The highest price paid was $135 an acre for the homestead lo cated seven miles east of Grand Island. A happy and timely means of fit ting punishment to the crime Is piped by the Norfolk Press: "When our boys get thrpugh with their guns over there we would like to borrow them for a few put shots at the profiteers over here." All in favor of the motion will please riso and give the sign. "Twelve or more officials," In dexed by the Alliance Herald, are browsing around the domains of the potato kings of northwest Nebraska. What doing? Oh, just sizing up the rpud crop and grading them for market. These little attentions lend new touches of distinction to royal society thereabouts. York News-Times, which keeps close tab on Omaha's upward march, observes drouthfully that "even wets have become converted to the dry doctrine. The people look bet ter, the city looks better and the j bank accounts Iook better. Iietter all around." Praise from a stern critic is praise Indeed. The reported abundance of apples in Wayne county failed to depress prices at Norfolk. Evidently the dealers kept tab on Wayne's orchard output and discounted the report. "Apples," says the Norfolk Press, are higher now than at any time since iloses was raised on one cow's milk. It is not yet claimed that the apples are needed to feed the allies, but that excuse will probably come along in time." CENTER SHOTS. 'diie&jQeS: Detroit Free Press: About the only time the Hun comes forward now Is when he sees a fine chance to sur render. Washington Post: Liberty motors are used in American and allied air planes, motor cars and tanks. No wonder the kaiser hates the very word "liberty." New York World: The Turks and the Bulbars have found bne point on which they can agree German support in time of their defeat is a false hope. Minneapolis Tribune: American bankers tell us this country could raise $300,000,000,000 for war pur poses if necessary. That puts Croesus in the piker class. Baltimore American: Glad wom en in St. Mihiel dug out of hiding places their best clothes they had saved four years to be worn on the day of ajjeliverance from the Ger man oppressor. The eternal femine: New York World: The United States has again spoken, not only for itself, but for all the free govern ments at war with autocracy. The winged words of President Wilson's Baltimore speech are still democ racy's message to Prussian militar ism and Imperialism. Philadelphia Bulletin: The chief trouble with Hog Island seems to be that too many lazy mollycoddles are on the pay rolls. A full day's work for a full day's pay and fewer "sporting events" and "social fea tures," ought to be the cure for a lot of mainchance idlers who have been passing themselves off as work-ingmen. New York Herald: A gratifying report on the stock of wheat in the country is made by the Department of Agriculture. Elevators, mills and wholesale dealers reported on hand as of the first day of this month more than 114,000.000 bushels nearly three itmes as much as a year ago. The figures do not include the amount on farms or the total com mercial stocks of the country. And the work of increasing the planted area goes on. ' The Republican Party. Omaha, Oct. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: From its conception to dato the republican party has met every social, economic and political crisis and survived to see victory recorded for its effort The republican party of Nebraska has shied its castor Into the polit ical arena of 191S with a ticket that merits the undivided support of the party from United States senator to township officers. In this great crisis President Wilson has appeared before both houses in Joint session oftenor than any president in Amer ican history. He has received sub stantial suport from the republican party. Harmony is purchased with the price of casting aside personal and petty bickerings, lining up in a solid phalanx and opposing the com mon enemy with a united party. The keynote of republican govern ment Is, "the voice of the people Is supreme law." Those who were successful In receiving the nomina tion should stand by the nominees if they want Nebraska in the repub lican summary. Villification and misrepresentation when not justifiable are not answers to sensible arguments. Up to date Mr. JetTerls has escaped, Mr. Nor- ris receives his baptism of tire be cause he is in the way of profiteers, friend of farmers and labor, Mc Kelvie a friend of plain people and "Mike" Clark beouse he obeys the law in spirit and letter. Ladles, attention: No man has a right to govern ano'her without that man's consent. Women who pay taxes are amenable to all the in fractions of the civil and criminal codes of law, are intelligent, capable and conscientious, yet denied the right to say who shall make laws to better or mar their condition. Ladies, keep your eyes on the re publican party. W. E. ALEXANDER. 2512 North Twenty-flfth Street , ., i size of Omaha, which has not at least one ilruri store open all night What is a person to do in event of an emergency? It occurs to mo that with the support we give theuu drugstores goodness knows how many of them we keep going! they should have sufficient appreciation and human Incentive to make some arrangement by which at least one store would be open all night. It does not necessarily need to be the same store every night, but there should be some place where a per son can secure medicine If needed after midnight. K. L. WHITE. U 7unerdte USE We have the perfect equipment that poes toward the making of a high charactered funeral. We hava a wide experience which makes it possible for us to carry out every detail of this ceremonial, and our charge is a just one. N. P. SWANSON Funeral Parlor. (Eatabllahtd 1888.) 1 7th and Cumlnf Sti. Tal. Douglas 1060. HERE AND THERE, Flowers smell sweetest just pre vious to, rain. The perfume, which is volatile, is prevented by ths moisture-laden air from rising and dispersing. So it is more concen trated in the flower itself. England has granted exemption to a man who is the owner, manager and only employe of a coal mine near his home. The man mines 20 to 25 tons of coal weekly, and last year his output was 1,000 tons. The first medal awarded to a for eigner for meritorious service to the United States was given by con gress to Lt. Fleury, a young French officer, for gallantry displayed at the battle of Stony Point in 1779. In the manufacture of great bells Russia has always taken the lead. A bell cast at Moscow in the 16th century weighed nearly 300,000 pounds, and it required 24 men to ring it. Larger still was the "Great Bell" of Moscow, which, however, was cracked and broken before its completion. A workman engaged In casting metal for the manufacture of ord nance in Woolwich Arsenal, a few years ago, lost his balance, and fell into a cauldron containing 12 tons of molten metal. The man was ut terly consumed In a few seconds. The war office authorities decided not to profane the dead by using the metal in the manufacture of ord nance, and the mass of metal was ac tually buried, and a Church of Eng land clergyman read the service for the dead over it. Vote on Wartime Prohibition. Malvern. Sept. 25. To the Ed itor of The Bee: As one of your subscribers would iike to have you publish the names of the Iowa con gressmen who voted for the prohibi tion measure recently passed. The writer votes as a rule, making ex ception for county offices, the regu lar republican ticket, but I do not wanP to vote for a republican con gressman who ignores the mandate of the people of Iowa expressed on October 15, 1917. MILLS COUNTY SUBSCRIBER. Answer The amendment referred to was adopted in the house by a division, and without calling the roll; therefore there is no record of how any individual member voted on .the proposition. ALso Opposed to German. Creston, la., Oct. 2. To the Editor of The Bee:. Answering the criti cism of Charles Wooster of and con cerning Governor Neville and the State Council of Defense, I desire to say that, while 1 hold no brief for the democratic party, being a repub lican myself, the action taken by them concerning the use of foreign languages was exactly right. Mr. Wooster and all his ilk must learn that this is America! He evidently does not know it. Anyone of foreign birth who comes to this country to make the same his home owes the country complete, full and absolute allegiance, a part of which is to use the language of his adopted country. This is the American nation. Use the American language. If you do not know it, learn it; if you do not like it, get out! ( It is high time to abolish all "little Gcrmanys," or any othf-r clusters of foreign nations, within the American nation. The rration has been indulgent too long; it is time to act! E. A. LEE. 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