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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1918. " ' 1 ' "" ' ' 1"" " ' - The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BT EDWARD EOSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TBI BEX PUBLISHING (COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It Associated Crass, of wulfn Tb U la a mtmoer. la uoluitfel entitled lo Has in (or publlcaUos ef ell oewe dlipttches credited to It or not otherwise credited in tbls paper, toll tin the lootl newi publlsked herein. All rlfhu of nubiictUaa of out special diipatoMs we tuo reeexved. -"" - OFFICES I Catoaso People's UM BuUduti. Omhs The Bee Buildlnf. NewYorl-2S Ktftli Are. South Om.be m N Bu fit Louie New B'k of romaitrot, tviibltijton Mil U Bt Council Bluff H N. Htln St. Lincoln Little BuLldlu. AUGUST CIRCULAtlON Daily 67,135 Sunday 59,036 Atereis eirrulittoo for tot month, tubtcrtbed tnd mora to bj Dwlilit Wlllltmt. Circulation MuiMer. Subscribers leaving ths city should htvo Tho Be mailed to thrar Address chanted at often ai rsqussted. . THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG Cfflffl warn , If you must sneeze, don't male a fusi about it " " . Kaiser Bill begins to realize that he is not up against Russia. The Liberty loan is lagging a little behind Its schedule. Get busy. At any rate, nothing is being said about a "strong German peace." The expected "peace offensive" has come, tnd it is as offensive as ever. . Watch for a signal from the health commis sioner's office before you let up on the "flu." Keep right on with the Liberty loan; bonds will hit the Hun as hard as bullets right now. Von Hertling gets the black eagle from the kaiser to go along with the black eye he got from, the Reichstag. "Spanish flu" has lived up to its name by lay ing King Alfonso fl3t on his royal back, and treating him just as if he were a commoner. When the British entered Lens they found the city entirely destroyed. What did they ex pect, after four years of German occupation? Germany's appeal for a cessation of hostilir ties would have sounded much better in March, but the Hun was singing a different tune then. LIBERTY LOAN AND PEACE DRIVE. Like the beaten bullies they are, the Teu tonic powers of Europe are seeking a way out of the war that will give them less than abso lute defeat Our president, in opening the present Liberty loan drive in New York on Sep tember 27, barely a week ago, said of these: They have convinced us they are without honor and do not intend justice. They ob serve no covenants, accept no principles, but force and their own interest. We can not 'come to terms' with them. They have made it im possible. The German people must by this time be fully aware that we can not accept the word of those who forced this war upon us. We do not think the same thoughts or speak the, language of agreement Unless Mr. Wilson is ready now to unsay these words, then we must go on, following his declaration made in Baltimore, "force to the ut most." He will tell them he will not be ready to talk peace while a foot of conquered ground is occupied, nor until he can talk to a responsi ble government. If the American people remain steadfast and sincere in pursuit of the only peace worth having, the peace of victory for the right, they can show it by he energy and enthusiasm they put into subscribing for the fourth Liberty loan. If Mr. Wilson is to feed the kaiser on force to the utmost, he must have the means to do it with. Buy Liberty bonds, and teach the Hun we are in earnest Sending speeders to jail has often been pro posed in, Omaha, but the first of these offenders has just landed there. The experiment is worth while; v, ' A mighty uneasy feeling has developed around the state house of late, especially since our "war governor" has returned from his trip out west Maximilian ought to read President's Wil son's answer to Czernin, for it might give him a working notion of how Americans feel on the ciubject of peace with Germany. Peace right now will be a great dlsappoint ' ment to a couple of million youngsters who are training for a trip to Berlin. They want a chance at the big show before it closes. Tin Plate and Protection. A political policy that can stand the test of time is properly to be classed as wise. If this is true, then the protective tariff policy of the republican party has been wise. One very tangible proof is just reported from the Department of Commerce, giving fig ures on the export of tin plate from the United States. In the first six months of 1918 we sent abroad" 390,805,210 pounds of this article, an in crease of 20 per cent over the previous year. To be sure, this is war time, and the mills of this country enjoy an unusual advantage as a result. The point is that we have the mills to make the tin plate. Now, go back to 1892, when the democrats were ramping and raging around, berating the republicans for having passed the McKinley tariff bill. America produced no tin plate then, nor would we be producing any now had the democrats had their way. Duty on tin plate was set high enough to foster the domestic in dustry, established because of the protection thus afforded, and in a quarter of a century it has grown to be one of the great items in our export trade. We not only make all we use, but have nearly 400,000 tons to send abroad an nually. Four years ago the republicans were scored for having assisted in the development of the beet sugar industry; today it is the salvation of the nations in need of sugar. Yet the democrats still point to the Underwood free trade bill as the greatest tariff measure eVer enacted. It took the duty from sugar, but the mistake was so palpable that the president had to advise congress to restore it Time has given another verdict in favor of the protective tariff. . Washington has Berlin and Vienna pretty well Catalogued and card-indexed by this time. TJhe .tricksters over there will find that we are not so gullible as they thought a few months igo. , .' ' sThe kaiser shook up his bag of tricks, but when he showed the result it looked to the world very much like some of the things he had pulled before. Sooner or later he will come to know what "U. S." stands for in war. Mr. Baruch'a idea that only normal profits should be exacted for household necessities is all right, but he may have some difficulty in get ting It applied. Raw material has to travel quite a ways in this country between the producer and the consumer, ajid many hands take toll along the route. Nebraska farmers are again asked to come to the relief of a hungry world by producing more pork. The response to urgent request made last spring was a 10 per cent increase in hogs by Nebraska, but if Uncle Sam insists, our farmers will raise this ante. At $18.50 hogs ought to be worth raising. Dam of Liberty in Belgium There is good news from all the battle fronts, but there is no indivdual item which will afford more general gratification than Jhe part Bel gium is taking in the victorious progress of the allied forces. In an attack between Dixmude and Ypres the Belgian army advanced between three and four mites and has alone captured 4,000 prisoners. In the glorious history yet to be written with the fullness of detail which it deserves of Bel gium's defense of its territory and resolute re sistance to the Hun invader there is nothing more inspiring than the way in which the little army gathered together its shattered and scat tered forces and held the line to the north amid the dunes and dykes. And now, as they see victory at hand and with it the restoration of their country from the grip of the brutal invader, they are joyously taking a full share in his ejectment and punish ' ment The Belgian army today is estimated at a little more than 100,000 men, but those daunt less legions have faced and fought and defeated thrice their numbers and have just taken a - heavy toll of prisoners. Those prisoners will never know the full bitterness of bondage which for the last four years and more has been en dured by the Belgian people, who have seen their homes and fairest buildings deliberately destroyed and their men and maidens cast into a captivity worse than death itself. Belgium's day of deliverance is at -hand. A few months, possibly weeks, and the German Beast will be under compulsion to flee the coun try he has so unspeakably befouled. Whether in his rage he will dare to add to the enormous sum of mischief he has wrought is doubtful. He must now see that his defeat is certain and that the more evil he wreaks the greater twill be his punishment and the amount of the penalty ex i acted. Belgium is no longer a pawn with which he may hope to bargain, but a free country, and its government will help to sit in judgment on the criminals who have raped and ravaged it Ind would have deprived it , of its national ex- fctenct..-Nw York Heraldy VO; ;i ; Plain People Finance the War. That this is not a rich man's war, so far as America is concerned, is shown by an interest ing compilation prepared by the Bankers Trust company of New York. According to this the total income of the country is sixty billions of dollars, divided thus: Family groups, 23,500, 000 in number, $52,850,000,000; corporations and other business 'enterprises (less dividend disr tributions), $7,150,000,000. In the first family group, which also includes wage earners other than family heads, with in come of from $1,000 to $2,000, the compiler places 21,375,000, with a total income of $40,615, 063,500, or a little over two-thirds of the entire income of the nation. The second group, of $2,001 to $3,000, contains 1,375,000, with income of $3,850,000,000. From here the groups scale off rapidly as the family incomes increase, till at the bottom ten are included In the bracket of $4,000,001 to $5,000,000, and a like number at having over $5,000,000 a year. For the largest group numerically, but with the smaller incomes, the calculation is on a con tribution of 11 per cent, or an average of $209 in bonds and taxes, making the aggregate of $4,467,657,000. This group, with an average contribution of $7 to the charity funds, also gives the largest total of any $143,460,000. Family groups with incomes of three to four millions, taxed at 85.75 per cent, pay an average of $2,966,092, but furnish only $51,885,000 of the whole; those with incomes from four to five millions, at 86.75 per cent, contribute an aver age of $3,915,895, or an aggregate of $39,159,000, and the last group, of five millions and upwards, taxed at 90 per cent, pays an average of $9,255, 000, and contributes $92,556,000 of the $20,500, 000,000 to be raised by direct taxes and bond sales. The rest of the total budget is to be brought in jjy indirect taxation. The purpose of this is to show that it is the plain people who are financing the war and that the contributions of each are what make up the stupendous total. Conquering the "Cootie." While the boys in the trenches have accepted the "cootie" as an inevitable accompan intent of the war, enduring it as they do mud and other inconveniences, science is not so content. From remotest antiquity the unpleasant little parasite has come down, and soldiers have suffered and stoically endured his presence, till the condition has almost seemed to be established as firmly as the use of arms I in mortal combat. Lightly his victims jest at the onslaughts of this,pestif erous bug, but the learned gentlemen who make up Uncle Sam's corps of expert entomologists have quit laughing at the "cootie," and are going after him in dead earnest. Within the last sum mer they have learned more of his ways and habits than had been ferreted out in all preced ing time. Also they have devised certain meth ods of making life as unpleasant for him as he does for the fighting man who acts as his host. Definite announcement is not made as to the means to be used, but it is confidently stated that training camps in this country are to be made secure against the vermin, and that soon the boys "over there" will be freed from an an noyance that has hitherto been accepted as un avoidable. If this turns out to be true, it will be a real contribution to the science of warfare, more notable than any of the Hun's "improve ments" or innovations.- ;- Right in the Spotlight. Brigadier General Merch B. Stewart, who is in command of the American forces forming a part of the allied army which is penetrating Russia from the northern coast, is one of the youngest officers of his grade in the United States army. He also is regarded as one of the most efficient infantry officers in the United States military establish ment. General Stewart is a grad uate of the army war college and has seen service in Cuba1 and the Philippines and on the Mexican border. He formerly was an in structor at West Point and at Plattsburg. Soon after the United States entered the war he was made chief of staff of the 76th division at Camp Devens, where his work won him a lieutenant colonelcy. One Year Ago Today in the War. Austria was reported as seeking separate peace negotiations. Uruguay announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Ger many. French and British made violent artillery assault on German lines in Flanders. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. W. V. Irvin left for a business trip to the east. W. S. Evans, who has presided over the ticket office at the Union Pacific depot for some time, has de- cided to study medicine and left for the College of Physicians and Sur geons at Baltimore. The anti-prohibition club of Oma ha, of which John Paulsen is presi dent, is making strenuous efforts to defeat the prohibitionists. A num ber of orators are abroad making speeches and organizing anti-prohibition clubs. Mr. and Mrs. E. Seligsohn, ac companied by their daughter, left for Jefferson City, Mo., to attend the wedding of their son, Julius, and Miss Nellie Obermeyer. At the residence of the bride's pa rents on Sherman avenue and Six teenth street, Louis Danbaum and Miss Mary Goldman were united in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. H. Patrick ar rived home from the east and their coaching trip. The Day We Celebrate. Dr. Millard Langfeld, physician, born 1872. Leon James Millard, president In dependent Lumber company, born 1881. Dr. H. C Parker, dentist, born 1884. Anthony F. Leermaker, with Remington & Kessler, tailoring es tablishment, born 1871. Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles, United States navy, born at Spring field, Mass., 60 years ago. Joseph E. Ransdell, renominated for United States senator from Louisiana, born at Alexandria, La., 60 years ago. Welker Cochran, professional bil liard player, born at Manson, la., 22 years ago. This Day in History. 1857 Louis McLane, President Jackson's secretary of the treasury, died in Baltimore. Born at Smyrna, Del., May 28, 1786. 1868 Gen. William Gates, the United States army officer who cap tured the Indian chief, Osceola, died in New York City. Born in Massa chusetts in 1788. 1870 In the last great sortie from Metz the French were repulsed by the Germans after severe conflicts. 1878 The Austrians completed the occupation of Bosnia and Herze govina. lPlJapanese captured Yap island in the Carolina group. 1915 Russian cruisers bombard ed the Bulgarian port of Varna. 1916 A German submarine made an unexpected appearance at New port. R. I. Timely Jottings and Reminders. One thousand five hundred and twenty-ninth day of the great war. Today begins the year 1337 of the Mohammedan era. The supreme court of the United States convenes today for the fall term. The annual state convention of the Improved Order of Red Men in Iowa will assemble at Des Moines today and continue in session until Thursday. Denver is to fce the meeting place today of the first of a series of 14 provincial conferences of Catholics to prepare plans for the November campaign to raise a $170,000,000 fund for united war activities. Storyette of the Day. A little girl of 8 entered a store in a small town and said: "I want some cloth to make my dolly a dress." The merchant selected some and handed the child the package. "How much is it?" she asked. "Just one kiss," was the reply. "All right," said the child, as she turned to go, "grandma said to tell you she would pay you when she came in tomorrow." Harper's Mag azine. HERE AND THERE. When a workingman In England leaves his occupation and doesn't find another in 14 days he Is auto matically in the army. Rafts hiiged to the sides of -a life boat and which spread out when It is afloat to give additional buoyancy from a recently invented device for safety. John Harris, after whom Harris burg, Pa., was named, organized the first eorps of riflemen on the Sus quehanna to protect his Infant set tlemen from Indians. . Veazle, Me., boasts that there Is not a male of draft age left In the town, all having gone into the serv ice, either through enlistment or by the draft. Leon Smith of New Haven, saw a fish struggling In shoal water in Highland Lake, near Bridgton, Me., and waded In and caught a five pound red-spot trout with his hands. At least, that is what Leon skid when he brought the fish home. Finest War StoriesinHospitals Stars and Stripes, Published in France. Undertoned in the moil of battle, gasped in last words where the Frenches cross, mumbled in half-delirium from stretchers being borne to the first aid dugouts, whispered to the surgeon holding the knife in the shell-shaken dressing stations, spoken tnd confided on the motor am bulances and trains and talked of conversation ally at the base hospitals, the personal,' living history of America at war is- being told every day by the doughboys who have gone into the mill of death. It is the words of the wounded fighting man, spoken while he is still under the spell of battle, that give the measure nf the spirit of the Amer ican army in France. It is these words which preserve the glory. of individual heroism and wholesale bravery. And added to the spoken word is the fortitude of wounded men the little things they do and do not do, which carry more conviction of the unbreakable spirit of the new armies than all the oratory yet unloosed on pleasantly-lighted platforms. Every stretcher bearer can tell you a story of jheroism with uncounted details. So can every surgeon who has gone over the top with the doughboys. So can the medical officers and nurses and orderlies in the base hospitals, where wounded men come to beds and operating tables marvelling at the things they have seen and heard. And about these me l there is growing a vast, many-phaptered tradition that is being preserved wherever American soliders meet, and is being transmitted back home in letters. In a certain American' hospital, whose offi cers, nurses and men landed In France in May last year, they have many of these stories to tell stories that they tell you at the same time they tell you of the night when Gothas flying under a harvest moon deliberately dropped five bombs down on wards whose metal roofs shone like mirrors in the moonlight, three of the bombs rending the frail woodwork that shel tered scores of wounded men helpless on cots, two of the bombs killing five of the hospital men and wounding 20 others. They tell you of the doughboy from a middle west town who came down to the hospital with the healing stump' of a leg and could not be comforted. The first day he lay there gloomily looking out into the steady drizzle of the rain, and they thought he must be thinking of home. He wasn't. He revived hopefully. "Fix me up in a hurry, doc I" he said to the ward surgeon. "I don't care how you do it. Get me an artificial leg a plain peg will do if it's quicker. I want to go back up to the old bunch. They're the best gang in the world, and I'm damned sure there'll be work up there for me to do in the mess, the headquarters, any where. They can't count me out while I got one good pin." They remember him, just as they remember the other doughboy who had stopped a piece of shrapnel at close range. When he came in he had been fixed up at the casualty clearing station. The surgeons had taken dozens of big stitches In a line down the inner side of his leg the part of his leg where the in-seam of his pants would come was stitched like the cover of a base ball. They found out his spirit first when he rolled off the stretcher, trying to reject the aid of the men who had carried him fn. Then he showed dissatisfaction because the orderly had to lift him when he handed him a bed pan. Three days he tried to "help himself," as he put it, but the orderly always came to the rescue. The fourth day, however, he was independent. Then there was the case during the push up Amiens way the doughboy with the wound in the thigh. This doughboy, taking the anes thetic, didn't go "clear under" before the sur geon started in. So the operation of sewing up his wound was delayed until the nurse and med ical officer thought he was completely under the influence of the "gas." All through the operation of sewing the pa tient did not stir. But almost on the last stitch he wriggled on the table and began to speak. "That was a pretty tough go, lieutenant," he said. "I felt every stitch you made. There were five of them. And on the fourth one you missed it a little the first time and took two jabs." Always it's the same story wounded dough boys trying to make light of wounds. Always the tightened lips maybe they hide gritting teeth but never a word of complaint. It is the spirit that requires watchfulness, too, lest a doughboy weary of lying on a stretcher witty a fractured leg bound in splints should swing off the side of the stretcher and go hopping around on one leg holding onto his splints with his hands. That's what one of them did. Going back to hospital traditions and that night the Gothas came over under the harvest moon. There are at' least two nurses in that hospital whose names will always be remem bered with that raid. Incidentally both are wearing medals. The arrival of the boche was just at the cru cial moment in the fight for life of a pneumonia patient The alerte sounded, but the nurse in the pneumonia patient's ward did not move from his bedside. Twenty-two minutes after the alerte the five bombs rained down on the hos pital. In an instant the quiet, dark camp be came a place of horror fumes of explosives settling down over buildings where wounded men were crawling out of burning wreckage. Through it all a nurse stood at the bedside of a man whose lungs and heart seemed, at the last gasp and stroke of life. At the same time in a ward of the surgical division a fragment of a bomb had found a mark in a bed where a Scot was lying, already on the seriously wounded list The bomb fragment tore its way past one of the partly-healed wounds and opened an artery. The nurse who had stayed by her post after the alerte rushed to the aid of the bleeding man, and in the dark ness, smoke and noise checked the hemorrhage. Scotland Forever! From American Daily Mail, Published in Paris. "An American officer told me that fie had never dreamed of troops facing such fire and such obstacles together. Not once or twice in this war I have heard officers say, 'Thank good ness, the 51st are next to us!'" Mr. Beach Thomas in Friday's Daily Mail. Long ago the German high command found it necessary to establish "storming battalions," otherwise known as "sturm truppen." It was a sure sign of decadence, which is now becoming painfully manifest. There are no sturm truppen in the British army yet, although the boche is pleased to re gard almost the entire army in that way.. Throughout the length and breadth of the con tinent our "Scotties" are regarded as the corps d'elite of the British army. The laurels of Mal plaquet, Oudenarde, Fontenoy and Waterloo rest but lightly on the brows of our present Scottish battalions, and when this great war has been fought and won there will be no more famous body of men than the immortal 51st division, a Highland territorial division, who, as Mr. Beach Thomas truly says, are placed first in the order of "terribleness" by the Huns. Britain has much to be thankful for in the "Jocks," as everyone knows them. The daunt less spirit of their fighting ancestors has lost nothing in the passage down the ages; the spirit of Bannockburn lives in this 51st division of boys who before the war were earning their liv ing as ordinary civilians, and today are regarded by our formidable enemy as the greatest fight ing force in the world. "Scotland forever!" the greatest battle cry history has known, is still the slogan of these brave men of the north. Loyal, knowing no fear and possessed of an endurance second to nothing in the world,- they die that Britain may live. A blessing on their brave souls 1 State Press Comments York News-Times: Congressman Lobeck Is calling on the political powers to help him. Jefteris Is coming down the quarter stretch at an alarming pace. Norfolk News: Every day's news for the last two months has added to our conviction that somebody "over there" knows mors about winning the war than we do. , Gothenburg Independent: Last Saturday's press dispatches an nounced that poets, fiction writers and advertising men are engaged In essential Industries, and will not be affected by the "work or fight" rules. There, you see how It is. Never planned to do a big thing yet that business didn't hold us back. Beatrice Express: What Is 100 per cent loyalty? Is It possible for a man to be 100 per cent loyal and overcharge the government for sup plies which it purchases from him for war materials which he manu factures? Oaa any citizen be 100 per cent loyal and make unfair profits out of anything which the government needs? Can a man be loo per cent loyal If he overcharges or anything which he sells to the lublic? Kearney Hub: Congressman Reavis, representing the first con gressional district of Nebraska, has come Into prominence as an orator, as the result of a speech a few days ago In the house touching the expe rience and incidents connected with a recent vtsit to the fighting front In France. . As a matter of fact Con gressman Reavis is the only real and ideal orator from this state In either branch of congress, and he is also a very good congressman besides. Blair Pilot: One of the tense mo ments at the meeting of the fourth Liberty loan held at the Methodist church basement yesterday noon was when Mr. Claridge asked Nelson Jackson 'of Herman township, to stand up and tell the men gathered there what he had done in this war. Reluctantly he told them that one son had been killed, two were In France, one of them before Metz at the present time, and another boy about to enter the servioe. That is certainly a record to be proud of, but Earl Burdic got up immediately and said Mr. Jackson hadn't told it all. He said Mr. Jackson was al ways the first to subscribe to every imiu ana aia u witn a willingness that indicated more than the amount he gave, and Earl thought he even overdid it at times. Mr. Jackson has the same. idea about this war that the colored washerwomen who said she had to buy more bonds than some people because she had more children to be protected from those Huns. , r - JUST FOR FUN. Bacon Doe your wife make her own bread? Egbert No, not now. "But ahe used to, didn't she?" "Oh, yes, beforo tho war, but ahe'a making Hoover's bread now." Yonkera Stateman. "Hello, old chap. You're married now, I understand." "Yep, I'm married. Bean married two years." "She's divinely tall, I hear, and moat divinely fair." "Yep. and most Infernally extravagant" Louisville Courier-Journal. At the reception in Washington the col ored official who looked after the autoa was directed to call "the car of the Gua temalan minister. You understand, the Guatamalan minister? "Yes, sah; I understand puffectly, sah," ha replied, and then shouted: "The ear fo" the watermelon ministerl" Pittsburgh Chronicle. young "You are really In love?" "Yes," replied the methodical man. "And how deep ere you In love?" "Just a moment until I consult my ex pense account. Ahem! Up to the pres ent moment I have attained a depth of f 314.73.'' Birmingham Age-Herald., Bill Now I see the Germans an ex periencing soma financial troubles. Gill Shoot it. "Had some fearful runs on the Marne banks." Yonkers Statesman. Sergeant-Instructor (to cadet) Na, ye'll no mak' an officer. But it's just possible If the warr keeps on a while an' ye prractlae harrd verra harrd ya mlcht mlcht, mind ye begin to hhae a glim mer that ye'll never ken the r-rudlments o' the wurrk! London Punch. Belle Those men In Washington who are running things have no consideration for people. ' Nell That's so. They are even capable of declaring that men at dancing parties arc nonessentials. Baltimore American. "What ra you crying tor, little one?" "We got no papa and no mamma any more." "Are they both dead?" "No, ma'am, but they are both golf bug now." Detroit Free Press. POETIC BOOSTS FOR BONDS. Put a Bond Behind Your Son. Ya comely dames and sturdy sires With hearts aflame with freedom's fires, With souls aglow with human love And minds upon the things above Hark to your country's clarion call And haste the day of Wllhelm's fall. Far too long has oppression's band Hung threatening over every land Where right prevails and freedom reigns And Justice still her sway maintains The time Is up to strike the blow And pulverize humanity's foe. I No more shall kultur's wlth'rlng blight Kxtend Its pall o'er realms of light; Nor eons of hell, with creeds of hate. Their deeds of murder perpertrate. Arise from weakness Into might, Defend the cause of truth and right. Your sons are on the battlefield Where right to wrong must never yield; Though guns may roar and cannon boom Here tyranny must meet Its doom. And you may help to crush the Hun Just put a bond behind your son. LORIN ANDREW THOMPSON. Fremont, Neb. The Watchword. Salute! you men of valor! Old Olory waves on high Fondled by the breezes In yonder axure sky. Each standard bears the colors In all sections of our land From Hawaii's golden sunset to Jersey's silver strand. In England, France and Italy, the Stars and Stripes you see In our war against the kaiser for a world's Democracy. Our boys are dally sailing fast across the pond And it Is up to you, who stay at home, to BUY A LIBERTY BOND. Forward Is our watchword fight and win we must "Old Olory Is our emblem our motto "In God We TruBt." Omaha. ROB'T. STANLEY DE ORRELL. Buy a Bond. . Heed the call of the S. O. 3. That comes o'er the sea beyond; For you they are fighting. Your check should be writing Buy a Bond.- These brave boys were ready And quickly the khaki donned; Its up to you To see them through Buy a Bond. When our country called 4hem Gladly did they respond; They're showing their might For Justice and right I . . Buy a Bond. They hovjierrrtSwn all the world Soldier bqys unparagoned; Loosen your, pursestrlnga, Help reimburse things - - Buy a Bond. Thanks From Red Cross. Omaha. Oct 2. To the Editor of The Bee: Your paper has been very generous in giving publicity to Red Cross news matters, particularly that which Is helpful In carrying out Its numerous activities. From the various telephone mes sages, correspondence and calls at my offlce, it Is evident that many people read the article In your Sun day edition relative to the require ments of the bureau for personnel for overseas service. I wish to thank you very cordially for the space given in your Sunday edition and at other times. J. E. DAVIDSON, State Director Bureau of Personnel. Graciously Acknowledged. Omaha, Oct. S. To the Editor of The Bee: The executive committee of the women's fourth Liberty ! nil organization wish to express their gratitude of the courtesy shown by your paper in publishing the names of its 1,600 bond saleswomen While the women are only too glad to give their services to their country's needs at this time without any personal glory or recognition of their efforts, the publishing of their names in such a great body of pa triotic workers Is bound to cause them a little pride, and will, we are sure, stimulate their efforts in the tiring work of the house-to-house canvass. Yours for the fourth Liberty loan, MINNIE E. JUDSON, Chairman. MARGARET HYNES, Vice Chairman. ALLENA HARRIS, Director of Publicity. Asafoetlda For the "Flu." Omaha, Oct. 6.-i-To the Editor of The Bee: Will you kindly publish the enclosed remedy for the Spanish "flu." It may seem much like grand mother's receipt, but it is not. It was prescribed by one of the great est physicians the world has ever known, long since dead I forgot his name. To the best of my recollec tion this remedy was used In 'halt ing and killing of the terrible epi demic that visited the south. Make a small white bag two inches square, put into bag piece of asafoetida, sew up the bag, pin to under garment next to the chest as close to the throat as possible. Tar was boiled in the streets close to schools and all public buildings. This is a good prevention as well as a cure of all diseases. "An ounee'of prevention is worth a pound of cure." MRS. F. B. HOUGH, 40g North Nineteenth street i Lilwrty Bonds and the Women. Omaha, Oct. 6. To the Editor of The Bee: Everyone that refuses to buy a Liberty bond, or does so un willingly, helps the foe. The spirit moved Jehu to say: "Shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord? therefore Is wrath upon thee from before the Lord." Germany is Just learning how great a people we are, both in qual ity and in quantity. He his long called us "the American playboy." That faculty to play well has fitted us to meet at this moment grievances and indignities heretofore beyond the ability of man to coneeiive. We will not only buy the fourth Liberty bond, but the next and the next if necessary. What greater rights should women ask to be saved from the fate of the women in the war zones? What na tion of men places its women on so high a level as do ours? When we divide our opinions on this question, it makes Some of the men wonder at our unreasonable at titude, especially in this dark hour. It may be a little darker, it is always so Just before the dawn. The whole heart of every man helps the allied cause. One single strong stroke may decide a battle. Our men must be left free to use their energy for the business in hand, winning this war. Our nation is doing a fine piece of work and its women must do noth ing and say nothing that might hinder a single man one minute, or it aids the kaiser and lessens the moral strength of our nation. MRS. R. B. ELLIOTT, 323 Park avenue. OMAHA. BELLKVUH. Wooster and the Constitution. Silver Creek, Neb., Sept. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: "Mr. Woos ter is now in mourning because he fears free speech is to suffer a severe blow if we refuse the unabridged' use of the German language," said Jesse Kinder of Lincoln. Oh, no, not so! I merely made some observations In regard to one class of violations of law. If I mourned and shed tears for every violation of law by those whose busi ness it Is to administer the law, it would afford enough moisture to dampen all Nebraska's arid fields, and some in Kansas. I have heretofore protested, and shall continue to protest, against all this lawlessness on the part of pub lic officials that is now so rampant from Washington to Lincoln and every county seat in Nebraska. Paraphrasing the Scripture: "What will it profit the people of the United States to fight to make the world safe for democracy and lose their own democracy in so doing?" And all observing men know that today we have very little, If anything, of democracy left. In proof of this I quote from a speech of Senator Lodge as it appears in the Congres sional Record of August 23. The very distinguished senator said, and no senator afterward took issue with him: "We have set aside for the time being the constitution under which Individual liberty has been preserved and the country has grown and pros pered. We have adopted measures which lead, If unchecked, to the building up on the one hand of a great bureaucracy such as that which crushed and ruined Russia, and which on the other hand are stimulating the development of state socialism." But if the constitution has been set aside, then we are in a state of anarchy; the country is running wild, and all those measures the sen ator speaks of, which in fact were administration measures, are null and void. And all this in face of the fact that every member of congress takes a solemn oath to support the constitution, and the president takes a similar oath to "preserve, protect and defend it" to the best of his NOT oils WlLM Peppery Points Minneapolis Tribune: However, the president might have mads his answer to the Austrian peace note still shorter by saying: "Nothing doing." Washington Post: "You must not think we shall get to the Rhine Im mediately." says good old Foch. What would Hindeuburg give to bs able to lop off that last word? Kansas City Times: Reference to the map will shew that If the Germans are thrown back very far by the new Franco-American offen sive between Reims and Verdun they will be In Sedan. Baltimore American: The feat of their oflMal reports also retire "ac cording to plan." They say nothing about the loss of 40,000 prisoners and 265 guns. The Hun Is the mas ter liar, but the Turk is a promising pupil. New York World; Scheidemann's declaration before the main commit tee of the Reichstag that Ludendorff and not the chancellor is the ruler of Germany shows that Germans ars beginning to discover something that everybody else knew. Kansas City Star: "Ws havs taken Koutchkovamen, Poitchlchte, Bechkhto, Melenltza. Votollchte, Razingey and Toppoletz," says ths Franco-Serbian official statement which, the, experts on the telegraph desk agree, Is a pretty fair day's work. Baltimore American'. Ths fact of the two British flyers in one ma chine who captured 65 Germans, and flying around them herded them Into the British camp, would havs aroused only derisive smiles If set forth in a work of fiction. When the history of this war comes to be , written Its incidents will make It read like an Imaginative romance). ability! In defense of thfs lawless ness in high places the plea of ne cessity is set up, but that Is precise ly the defense the kaiser makes for the Invasion and destruction of Bel gium. It Is true that ths senator also stated to the effect that later on we should go back to constitutional methods. But as to that, the thought ful citizen may well have many mis givings when he sees that from Illi nois to South Carolina, and from Michigan to Mississippi, the presi dent Is persistently trying to pack ths senate and house of representatives with members loyal to himself, per sonally, rather than to the constitu tion' they are sworn to support Power in possession is not willingly released. I have never been prepared to ad mit that a republic is inherently un able to put forth all its strength in a great war; or that it is necessary to destroy democracy In order that democracy may live. Mr. Kinder's statement that ths police power Is superior to the con stitution, is really too silly for con. slderatlon, except for the fact that there are undoubtedly tens of thou sands who entertain just such fool ish ideas as to public opinion, ths alleged war powers of the president necessity, self-preservation, and the like, being the supreme law. Such people are not fit for self-government, and for their benefit, if they are not past hope, I quote the fol lowing from "Municipal Law," page 402, by Pomeroy: "Whatever authority the govern ment may at any time rightfully possess, whatever power it may law fully assume either in peace or in war, either in the ordinary course of administration or In the exceptional circumstances of rebellion and for eign or domestic hostilities, whatever means It may employ to preserve Its own existence or that of the nation as a distinct organissatlon, must bs drawn directly or by necessary im plication from the constitution, which gives the government being, and in which the nation is organical ly embodied. The notion that we may resort to the instinct of self preservation, or to the plea of ne cessity, for the source of power is unwaranted by the constitution, is m the highest degree pernicious, lead ing to anarchy, and therefor tyranny." CHARLES WOOSTER, No Mercy On Kaiser. Omaha, Oct 4 To the Editor of The Bee: The von Hertling's speech in The Bee impresses me more than the other papers. Now something is the matter with that fellow, and its hurting him, too, "O give us peace," and pray why not? Didn't Lee get peace in '65? Yep. We should all pe sorry mar. lis nurtmg wertnng when he sees the dove of peace en closing Germany in its loving em brace. "You see I am a pacificist, but I dont't want peace until America has lots of experience. It civilized the red man, and has had an occasional Harry Tracy or Jesse James, so that dealing with a nation of such char acters irfnot altogether a novelty. England has fought from Singapore to Quebec, both ways., around ths globe, and Allenby is JuSt occupying ground as familiar to the English as England itself. When the Una reaches Germany from the east there will be 10,000,000 Russians ' rally to the cause of the allies, so the complaint or disease that is hurting Hertling, is not so myste rious as he would make the copper head bolshevists outside of the power of the German despot believe. Now, when a great London preacher some years ago said, "God damn the sultan," he didn't curse the worst scoundrel that ever went unhung, not by a damned sight When William II was a stripling tha smartest thing he could do was to call his mother the "English viper." When his nose would bleed on drill with the hussars he would sneer and say, "I am shedding the last drop of. my English blood." When Clemen-, ceau or Wilson or Balfour can hato i like that, what hurts Hertljng will be) relieved, but not till that distant day.; No, I had more to say, but Wilson, Balfour or Clemenceau wont notice the reptiles, why should I? Ita something awful to hate a German, yes it's nearly as bad as to love an Edith Cavlll. 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