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C i 4 THE BEEjl OMAHA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1?18 The Omaha Bee (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY DAILY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PREsi The Associated I'ma, ol which The Hre li a mem&er, n icluiltal entitled to the una for publication of ll new dUpatobe crediteil lo it or not otherwtie credited in thin patwr, and alio the local ue published herein, all right of publication of oar specie! dupifcliet an also reamed. " '. OFFICES! Chicago People's Cm Building. Omaha The Bee Building. K,w Tort as Fifth Are. fciiitb Omaha-Wilt N St. 8t. 1iule New B'l of Ciurunaiea, Council Bluffi M N. Main St. W aihington 1311 U 8L Lincoln Little Building. AUGUST CIRCULATION Daily 67,135 Sunday 59,036 for the month, luotcriPed ana iworn w oj Ihhm elrrulatian - Dwt(hi William. Ctroulation Manager. Subscriber leaving the city ehould ha The Bee mailed to them. Addreaav chanfad aa often aa requeeted, " THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG Blfffiil ilibfc IliiillMBMllllM Unconditional surrender still goesl The farmers are also doing right well on the i Liberty loan. When the Reichstag 'on Wednesday meets maybe then wt will something hear about peace already. " Switching pashas In Constantinople is Just a preliminary to the coming of Turkey into the peace fold. Lincoln gets in line with Omaha on the "closed" town, but that is not going to help out our "flu" situation. The Fourjh Nebraska having reached France, we know of some more real he-men the Hun will hare to deal with. "Tyrants fall in every foe, Liberty's in every blow," applies to our fight against the Hun, if it ever applied vto a battle. Buy bonds, v The kaiser announced he would stand for no nonsense from America, and he is about to learn that America will stand for no nonsense from him. The Yankee boys are meeting the stiffest .resistance from the retreating Huns, but they 'are keeping the line moving steadily towards Berlin.- More coal has been mined in America since April than in any other six months period in history. This is the miners' answer to the cry of slacker. . Berlin reports: "The enemy followed slowly." What Mo you know about that our boys cannot run fast enough to keep up with the flying Dutchmen. One news Item got away from tbe vigilant censor in Washington, and the public got it be fore the president. Somebody's foot slipped, but no real harm was done. Antics df the bulls and bears In the corn marke't show what the world missed when the president stopped the dealings in wheat. Some time all gambling in food products will be pro hibited, and then the producer and consumer alike may get a square deal. i . Mr. Wilson, having ha,d the unusual expert eflcarof being apprised of an important state message byi a newspaper reporter, will have greater regard than ever for the ubiquitous guild, whose enterprising members have scooped the government several times in days gone by. British indignation at the sinking of the Leinster and the murder of her passengers is shared on this side. It is one of the most atrocious of U-boat crimes, and committed un der conditions that show nothing in mitigation. Justice, for these murderers will not long be delayed? x More than ever is being verified, Ludendorff's boast of March, that the character of the con- -flict had been changed from a war of position to one of movement And none of the participants is moving with greater precipitancy and less of forethought than the army over which Herr von Ludendorff presides as marshal. That American officer who, told the Huns to "go to hell" is said not to have been a swearing vman. We can believe that, for a really accom plished cusser would have embellished the mes sage, adding nothing to its force, but making it more1 picturesque. However, the retort is wor thy of going into history alongside the one Hugo ascribes to Cambronne when the' Old Guard was called upon to surrender. Let (he People Strike Vox Pooalil Labor is organized .and 'em- X ployers are now organizing, but the dear people are still unorganizea ana tne victims or me profiteers of all classes. Even the farmers are organizing. F.verv cnncemThn is heinsr made bv the oub- Hc authorities to the voters who are organized, and everyeoncession is met by a new demand. The president fixed the price of wheat, not as high as the farmers wanted, but high enough to atimulate the production at good figures. I doing so he fixed the high price of flour, which means the high price of bread for at least an other year to come. All hope of a lower cost of living has disap peared, for unless the price of bread drops we canont expect lower prices for other necessities. As for clothing, what prospect is there for any thing but higher prices, withX.wool comman deered for army purposes and cotton selling at over five times the price before the war? How foolish now the promises of political spouters in the campaigns before the war that the high cost of living would be reduced if they were given their way and if their program of smashing big business were carried out. The people bear their sufferings meekly. In Canada, the letter carriers, striking for higher wages, refused to deliver the mails. In Pitts- urgh the fire department struck and leff the aetenseiess until ctnzens organized a voi er system. In London policemen struck qjieves had free way tor Hours, ana now ifitnen of London threaten to strike. yose the people who are the sufferers ese strikes should organize to protect ps? Isn t it time for them to strike ovag i'ty K ecDlt .tri&hrXcslie'a Weekly. GERMANY'S "PEACE" REPLY. Germany's reply to the latest note from President Wilson has too much appearance of a bid for a respite than of a sincere willingness to submit to tfle reasonable requirements of the allies. To interpret expressed readiness to ac cept in principle the fourteen theses as a token of unconditional surrender is to indulge in opti mism inspired by hope rather than experience. As has already been noted, some points laid down by Mr. Wilson last January as conditions precedent to peace have been very materially modified by his own words, and others have been changed by the progress of the war. Ten months ago these were in part endorsedby the Central powers, who expressed willingness to adhere to the principle in discussion as to the practical application of such as were then ac ceptable. Today the principle can be accepted in its entirety, still subject to discussion, be cause it offers an easy way of escape from im pending defeat. That Great Britain, France and Italy must be consulted before any approach to a cessa tion of hostilities can be had will avert much discussion of detiils for the present Just now Germany needs a breathing spell, which an ar mistice would provide. We have the Hun on the run and no stop should be put to the fight ing till they admit they" are licked by an ac ceptance without strings. To talk of "guaranties" from Germany at this time is idle.The president has said that tha ruler of that land are without honor, and do not speak our language of agreement. The best guaranty the kaiser can give us now is to surrender his sword, disband his army, and sub mit to what lis required of him. Head of German Foreign Office Dr. Wilhelm S'olf, who has as sumed the responsibilities of the German foreign office in addition to those he already held as Coloma secretary, and wJio has been men tioned in some quarters as one of the probable spokesmen for Ger many in any negotiations that may precede the conclusion of peace, has had a long and varied experience in administrative and diplomatic at fairs. Before coming to the Colonial office he was for many years gov ernor-general of samoa, and, pre- ments are saig to be of a high order, at Calcutta. His scholastic attain ments are said to be on a high order. particularly in the matter of lang uages, of which he has mastered Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Russian and others. He holds the presidency of the German society, formed sev eral years ago for the purpose of perpetuating the spirit of 1914 after the war. f 1 1 Germany Must Pay the Price To the Very Limit. Last week The Bee printed a story of a German-born farmer in South Dakota who took himself the entire quota of Liberty bonds al lotted to his town. He gave as his reason that his boy is with Pershing in France, and he Wanted to back him to the limit. Here is an example for every American citizen. We have pledged the world that we will give every man and every dollar if need be to defeat Germany and win the war. Nineteen hundred thousand of our boys are over there, relying on our pledge to back them to the limit. The great job of driving the Huns out of France and Belgium, of liberating those countries from the grasp of the conqueror, is just well begun. Shall wevlet it lag, or will we make good on our, boast and give everything we have, if needed to win? The war'is not waiting for the "Spanish flu" to sub side. Neither should the Liberty loan. Squealing Again I The Hyphenated World-Herald, that mighty organ of fjro-German and Mormon church propaganda, is squealing again this time because it was "eaten to a frazzle" in furnishing the vitally important news about the German reply to the Wilson note. Because competitors promptly put out extras, eagerly snatched up by the public, outlining the con tents of the document under the caption "Ger man Answer Gives Approval of U. S. Plan," they are bitterly accused of being "nickel-grabbers" and perpetrating a great "outrage" while the front page of the very issue of the paper making this accusation carries a big type line reading, "Germany Says It Agrees to Accept Wilson's terms." It would be to laugh were it not so pitiful, so indicative of the whining disposition of the Hyphenated pencil-pusher who is violently over doing his job of trying to offset the taint of kaiserism with which his whole concern is in fected. Before coming out Sunday the Hyphen ated should have "killed" its editorial squeal and also conserved the white paper devoted to that lengthy dissertation about the "inevitable" campaign of 1919. s. , " WJjat We Are Fighting. "They come wTth peace in one hand and the torch in the other," said a French officer, gazing at the ruins of Cambrai, treacherously destroyed by the Huns. The retreating Germans had planted bombs with, time fuses, to explode after the Allies entered the city. On the same page of the day's news we read of the deliberate murder of sailors, whose vessel had been tor pedoed by a submarine. Other atrocities are recounted, duplicating and expanding the record made over the- entire period of the war. All of these acts of meanness and cruelty are pre meditated. They are typical, and fairly refn resentative of the thought of the military mon sters who propose "honorable" peace to the Allies. Enlightened people "are fcj&th to believe that such deeds can be committed, but each day sees .new instances of the ruthless brutalityi of the German in arms. We ought to know by this time what we are fighting; that no obliga tion of humanity, no sense of honor, no thought of mercy or impulse of decency ever moves the Hun to withhold his destructive hand. " Peace with such an outfit is possible only when they have been completely and thoroughly subdued. One Year Ago Today in the War. President Wilson proclaimed Oc tober ZA as Liberty Loan Day. British repulsed Germans north of Poelcapelle and' west of Becelaere. One Russian and two German tor pedo boats sunk in maval battle near Oesel. In Omaha 30 Years As-o Todav. s -Alfred Scott left for Peoria, where he will be married to Miss Lettie Baldwin of that citv. The stone pavers of Omaha met STppiJ Frederick Boyd Stevenson, in Brooklyn Eagle. When Germany is defeated, what will hap pen to Germany? That is the great question now beginning to occupy -a foremost place in the minds of men. There seems to be practically no deviation of opinion among the allies as to the answer in general, which is divided into two parts: One thing must be done to Germany pun ish herl One thing Germany must do pay the price! The terms of the punishment and he terms of the payment are at the present time indeter minate factors of the final decision, as the crime is so monstrous and the damage is so colossal that the human mind thus far has been unable to grasp their full meaning. Suppose all the crime which has been com mitted by Germany and all -the material damage which has been done by Germany shmild be concentrated in a single individual, friippose on$ man were guilty of millions of murders; suppose he had outraged hundreds of thousands of women and girls of ages varying from 80 to 8; suppose he had deliberately burned hundreds of public buildings and thousands of private homes; suppose he had maliciously destroyed priceless works of art preserved for mankind through centuries; suppose he had committed countless acts of larceny grand and petty; sup pose he had engaged in wholesale white slavery; suppose he had bribed and attempted to bribe the citizens of every nation on the face of the fifftVi an1 eimnnea li K 4 k Ann 4t Ua1 n onspiracy to destroy the nationality of everv nation in the world and make it a vassal of his nation. If captured and proved guilty on all these counts what would be the verdict of the jury that tried that man? . What would be the sentence of the'eourt before which he was tried? All of these crimes are directly centered in Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and from him they spread with undiminished viciousness to the crown prince of Germany, to the war party of Germany, to the war generals of Germany and. all of them have been placidly accepted, in dorsed and executed by the German people without one word of protest. The supreme penalty for these crimes can be meted out to the men who originated them. Punishment for them can be meted out to all i the people of Germany by compelling them for generations to pay by taxation for the damage J i.'lAL-j-. f -i . .. uoiie unm me rotai sum is liquidated. Germany must pay the price! Tariff and the War Tax. ' When the new revenue bill was being ex plained to the house last month Mr.' Towner of Iowa pointed out one of the great omissions of the plan. While the committee was plastering taxes right and left on everything in sight, it carefully avoided one certain source of govern mental income, hat is the tariff on imports. Even the democrats at one time professed to be committed to the policy of "tariff for revenue only."NHow they have swung away from that is shown by figures presented by Mr. Towner: Per Year. Imports. Duties. Cent. 1913 $1,813,000,000 $ 312,000,000 18 1914 ..; 1,893,000,000 283,000,000 IS 1915 1,674,000,000 205,000,000 12 1916 i. 2,197,000,000 209,000,000 9 1917 . 2,659,000,000 221,000,000 8 1918 3,000,000,000 180,000,000 6 While the total of imports was steadily mounting, the revenue derived from the tariff was going down. In Great Britain customs dues turned into the imperial treasury $182,000, 000 in 1913, -and $418,000,000 in 1917, with an estimate of $460,000,000 for 1918. Another com parsion is more impressive. Great Britain col lects at its ports of entry revenue equal to $10.22 per capita of its population, while the United States derives only $1.63. Yet the dem ocratic majority in congress has refused to look upon the tariff as a source of revenue, even in wartime. , f ' "Berlin, hell or Hoboken by Christmas" doesn't ound io wUd now. v at Kessler's hall for the purpose of ettecting an organization. About 100 pavers were present and formed an association to be known as the Stone Pavers' Union of Omaha. Lieutenant Pickering has been de tailed to Purdue university, Lafay ette, Ind., to take charge of the mili tary department in that institution for three years. The republicans of the Eighth ward met to elect delegates to the county convention. G. R. Armstrong was m the chair. William Broderick, Grace Vernon and William Pruette, of the Emma Abbott company, stopped at the Millard hotel on their way to Denver. The Day We Celebrate. M. C. Peters, president of the M. C. Peters Mill company, born 1863. Sir Edmund Walker, noted Cana dian financier and art patron, born in Ontario, 70 years ago. Bflg.-Gen. Charles W. . Kutz, United States army, born in Penn sylvania, 48 years ago. James Keeley, former Chicago newspaper publisher, born in Lon don, 51 years ago. Mayor Martin Behrman, who has "cleaned up" New Orleans for the welfare of the soldier and sailor boys, born in New York city, 54 years ago. Lillian Gish, star of the "movies," born at Springfield, O., 22 years ago. Jack Britton (William J. Breslin), prominent as a welterweight pugilist, bom at Clinton, N. Y., 33 years ago. This Day in History. ' 1774 The first continental con gress adopted a declaration of colonial rights. 1894 Germany rejected England's proposal to join the powers in in tervention in the war between China and Japan. ' 1899 General Sir Redvers Buller left England to assume command of the British forces in the South African war. 1914 Germans in Belgium made strenuous efforts to seize the chan nel ports. , 1915 Bulgaria officially declared war on Serbia. 1916 Roumanians turned upon Austro-Germans and captured two towns in Transylvania. Timely Jottings and Reminders. One thousand five hundred and thirty-sixth day of the great war. Canada will observe today as Thanksgiving day, Birthday greetings to Mrs. Wood row Wilson, 46 years old today. Today is the centennial anni versary of the birth of Alexander Smith, loom inventor and founder of the carpet manufacturing industry in America. Jeremiah O'Leary and his asso ciates in the publication of the anti British magazine, Bull, are to be ar raigned in the federal court in New York today on a charge of attempt ing to interfere with conscription. Storyette of the Day. Novelist W. B. Trites was talking about war prices in France. "French war prices are very high now," he said. "A ham costs 70 cents a pound. A pound of butter costs $1.25. It's all profiteering, of course there's no real dearth and the argument of the French profit eers are quaint. "'Why are apples so high?' I asked a fruit dealer in Nice last win ter. '"Because they're so scarce, sir said he. "'But,' said I, 'the papers an nounced that the apple crop was enormous, and the apples were rot ting on the' trees.' '"Yes, that's why they're scarce,' said he. 'It didn't pay to pick them.' " Detroit Free Press. ASPIRING "IFS." If I was a Bee I would fly far away. Nestle on the clover And makornoncy all the day. If I was a bird I would sing all day long; And drive people's sorrows Away with my song.' If I was a rose My fragranceeio rare v Would fill hearts with Joy And fladnesa everywhere. But if I was bullet Straight to Germany I'd start And bury myself in Keller snri e)d heart. It is apparent that no figures can be eiven at this time to indicate the sum that Germany muse pay tor tne monetary damage 9he has done Say she has to pay $100,000,000,000. How could she pay it? She is bankrupt now. Her credit has gone and it will be many years before it is even partially restored. After the Franco-Prussian war a great boom came to Germany. She received $1,000,000,000 indemnity from France, and her people were generally elated with their success. Then came a nerind of depression lasting for 15 years. Following tne accession ot tne present kaiser prosperity returned ana uermany leaped to the tront as a commercial and an industrial nation. As an agricultural state she ranked third in the world, and her tonnage of mercantile marine also took third place. If the allies insist that all the ship ping destroyed by Germany including that of neutral countries be replaced by her tonnage for tonnage, so far as it will go, Germany when she emerges from the war will be shipless. Germany has lost her trade. In 1914 the ex ports of the United States to Germany were $344,000,000, and in 1915 they dropped" to $28, 800,000, while our imports from Germany fell from $189,900,000 to $91,300,000. Beforehe war England imported $360,000,000.of products from Germany each year, and sent her eoods to the value of $442,000,000 annually. In 1912 Germany exported goods to British possessions amount ign to $477,000,000, and to Africa, Asia, North and South America and Australasia. $765,000,000 more. All this trade has been completely wiped out. The public debt of the German empire be fore the war was $1,194,000,000. with interest charges of $58,000,000, and the debts of the Ger man states amounted to $3,854,000,000, with in terest charges of $170,000,000. Today, at the most conservative estimate the German people face a debt of more than $30,000,000,000, which is piling up at the rate of millions every day of the war. - How, then, can Germany pay the price for material damage when she is defeated? When a man is declared bankrupt all of his available assets go toward liquidating his debts so tar as possible. He must give up his personal and his real holdings. Germany, by pyramid ing herJoan9, has given the pretense of taking care of herself financially within her own bor ders. When the crash comes she may repudi ate her debt to the German people. She cannot do that with the allies. She must pay. There is no desire on the oart of the allies to seize Germany's real estate. How, then, can Germany pay? When Germany exacted the $1,000,000,000 from France, German officers went into France and watched over the revenues of that country. Is Germany any better than France? France paid the indemnity in about two years. At that rate it would take Germany 200 years to pay damages amounting to $100,000,000,000. Ger many could probably shorten the time by one half, perhaps less. Has not Germany set the whole world back 100 years? And is there any reason why the Germans1 should not be punished tor 100 years.'' ' The Wind is Blowing Right It is Foch and Pershing and Haig and Diaz and D'Esperey and the valiant men of their commands, and the people back home, who are giving them such splendid support, who are making tor peace the right sort of peace but unconsciously Prince Maximilfen and Baron Bunan may be helping. The Hun is cracking. In these desperate appeals for peace will not the men at the front see an acknowledment of defeat by the governments upon which they have pinned their faith and whose word they have accepted with blind faith in their omnip otence? The once puissant Prussianism is now trying to make its cannon fodder believe that the "holy war of conquest" upon which it launched them in 1914 is a war for the defense of the Fatherland, but can even the dull-witted German Michael be further fooled? He finds only defeat at the front, where he is "being hammered mercilessly and sacrificed in droves; now he nnds practical acknowledgment of defeat at the rear. Gone is the hope of world conquest. Pan-Germanism is in the discard, the dream of Mitteleuropa has had a sad awakening. The whole house of cards built by kaiserism for the allurement of its docile victims has been swept to earth by the hosts of an outraged civilization. The end is not in sight, but it is brought ap preciably nearer by events of the last fortnight. The Hun is notlyet broken, but he is cracking all along the line. Once the Hun cracks it is a question of but a short time before he breaks. All that is needed to speed the day of his com plete disillusionment and his breaking is. for Foch to keep up his hammering. There will be no armistice. There will be no negotiations until Germany prefaces its plea with unconditional surrender. We have just begun to fightl New York Herald. . Round About the State Fall taxlists are abloom In the newspaper shops. Speaking about tank shows, that staged by the rainmaker got the bulk of the applause In the dry belt. HiKh school attendance at Norfolk has grown from 156 to 291 in Ave years. The citizens of tomorrow are bulging; the walls for elbow room The claim Is put out for Tekamah'a home guards that they excel In drilling. Thinking so, why not chal lenge the Omaha . home guards, holders of the ribbons. Breaking the drouth throughout the state with copious downpours last week radiates joy everywhere and awakes echoes of thankfulness in the press. If anything better than bootlegger kill-me-qulck were within reach mayhap innumerable beakers might be drained to Jupiter Pluv. Beatrice Express applauds the "Omaha police magistrate who is now handing out jail sentences to speed maniacs." For oMous reasons the speeders might swell the volume of applause for, as the Express re marks, "they will be much better off in jail than either in the hospital or tne cemetery. Gee, whiz,, how the elder scribes maul the table when real warm! Listen to this sample from the Nor folk Press: "At the risk of dlsnleas ing some people the old man is for. an early, very early peace, the kind we'll get by shoving the kaiser and nis conoris so rar into neii that a telegram can't reach them in a thou sand years. And we are going to nave tnat kind of peace soon." "Of all the various kickers to be found In any community," observes the Hastings Tribune," "the growler about taxes is the most numerous and ancient" A solemn truth. ever since Noah made the ark light th tax kickers have been exponents or sarety nrst. Without their com pany tax eaters would gorge them selves. The recent sale of a 320-acre farm near Cedar Muffs at $290 per acre lifts Saunders county land to the top notch of this year's sales. Douglas county hitherto, held the top score, $265.50 per acre at public sal?. Col fax county had a recent sale record of $260 per acre, Nemaha county, $255; Butler county, $250; Washing ton county, $24 9; Cuming county, at, ana .Merrick county, $135. homesteaders of yestervear who stayed on the farm builded better than they dreamt of. SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR. Germany's man-power still avail able is 5,340,-eOO; that of the United States, 15,000,000. Godfrey Jones, a Welsh miner, who enlisted as a private in the Brit ish army at the outoreak of the war, has risen to the rank of brigadier general. Wages of the United States Steel corporation's employes have, since January 1, 1916, increased 105.7. Puddlers in steel mills are making as high as $30 a day, and are going to work in their automobiles. Premier "Clemenceau celebrated his 78th year on the battle front. He typifies the spirit of France, which is ever young and vigorous, and al ways prepared to spring rejuvenated from disaster. The United States school gardens army comprises 1,500.000 bovs and girls. They cultivated this year over 1,200,000 gardens, averaging about one-fifteenth of an acre each, and raised $50,000,000 worth of food products. In a letter to the New York Bible society, Marshal Foch savs: "The Bible is certainly the best prepara tion that you can give to an Ameri can soldier about going into battle to sustain his magnificent ideal and his faith." Among the sunolles for dnlrtipra ordered recently by the Young Men's Christian association In France were siu.vuw.uuo cookies, representing 750 carloads, 93,750,000 sticks of chicl9 gum, 112,500,000 bars of chocolate, 1.350,000,000 clgarets and 7,600,000 jars of jam. RIGHT TO THE POINT Detroit Free Press; The thing Germany dreads most is the decpnt peace the Allies will make with Bul garia. Washington Post: Kaiser mil might 8a his face by calling his neaten army oacK "on account of the Influenza." Minneapolis Tribune: Oormnnv can't be a charter member of n world's debating society. Germany is to sit in the dock of a world court and wait for the court's verdict New York Herald: this: The kaiser's peace drive Is a drive against you to prevent your buying America's Victory bonds without stint or limit, as you must uo ii we are not to have a 'kaiser's peace. Louisville Courier-Journal: Aus tria-Hungary also Is trvi nc in nlnv the trick of a "coalition cabinet" and has invited the Czeeho-Slavs to seats therein. But the Czecho-Slavw are not to be fooled Into climbing on a tumbrel masquerading as a band wagon and making a noise like noth ing so much as a jazzed funeral march. one Jo.ee S: Hitchcock and the President Lincoln, Neb., Oct 10. To the Editor of the Omaha Bee: Permit me to speak to my democratic friends of Nebraska, and of Lancas ter county in particular: At this critical period of our na tional life, when i the women ot America are earnestly und devotedly in the work of winning the war and providing garments for our soldiers and for the stricken ones or France and Belgium, and in innumerable other activities. I consider it a na tional disgrace and a shame upon the democracy of Nebraska to claim Gilbert M. Hitchcock as one of our own or to in any way give sanction to those candidates of our party who are in sympathy with his course on the woman suffrage bill, or who kneel at his beckoning. Senator Hitchcock's vote on the bill is the more censurable because It was in direct contradiction to the personally expressed wishes of Presi dent Wilson, who appeared before the senate and besought opposing senators to cast aside their preju dices and vote for the suffrage meas ure as an essential aid to the win ning of the war. .. That Hitchcock did not do so, proves that he Is not In sympathy with President Wilson and not in sympathy with the wishes of the rank and frre of Nebraska democracy. I hope the people of Nebraska, when they vote, this fall, will prove to Senator Hitchcock, that a woeful mistake has been made which Is a reflection not only on the Intelli gence of our citizenship, but also upon our noble womanhood. President Wilson has freauentlv made it plain that he wants to mnke the world safe for democracy in Its broadest sense. To that end. he seeks to unify all classes and all conditions to bring the laborer up to a higher standard: to make the business man, the professional man, the financial man, aspire to nobler deeds and qualities that will be ex amples for less exalted peoples; to take woman out or the depth of low wage and re-nial conditions and place her upon an equality with her masculine neighbor, where she be longs not only by right of ability, but through her glorious sacrifices and achievements. A proper unifi cation of all peoples and all condi tions cannot be successfully consum mated until woman is granted her Just place in affairs of state and na tion. And.until the unity that our president Seeks is established, the world cannot be made safe for de mocracy; nor can it be realized un til democracy is made safe for the people. C. M. BRANSON. DRIVE OF THE WAR POETS Yanks. As Nation grew on .Nation From the dark and gloomy past The great column reached the Sunshine And blossomed forth at last. When with our own United States, The Flower of all the world, Ool crownr-d this mighty column And the Stnrs and Strlpea unfurled. The light thus cast to Heaven From the Kannor of the Free. Hade the aoula who longed for freedom To come arross the Sea; The bi'Kt of many countries And through the mighty melting pot Produce a brand new race. Though we're blest with education x And free from tyrant's rod, WVre over the top to free mankind over the top for God; Over the top at the trenches And over the top at home; I'reo s the breer-e that fans the trees From Florida Keys to v'oine. Thn blood of noble fathers That Is coursing through our veins la the same they ahed for Freedom When they broke the tyrant's ohains. And until Fredom's column 1 a shaft of living light We'll give and fight forever In the cause ot Truth and Right, And when the war is over And the crowns are In the dust, When swords are on the scrap-heay And the cannona gone to rust. When the autocratic nations Have all been farced to quit. The world will thank the Yankees , For their everlasting grit. Omaha. R. F. WILUAMi. erbs, a "Tc tervia.' Hold your gallant faith, y fight the noble fight While your allies' feet are speeding! Your day of freedom Is at nana M ar as dawns the light For we are not unheeding Of your bitter, bitter bleeding. And we shall greet your heroes new yew foemen are In flight Martyrs dye your harried land with blee you til can spare. Though falling, you have spoken; Tour sons shall reap the guerdon of these who do and dare- With your steadfast will as tokea. With your honor still unbroken. You shall rise from wreck and wast, and hold the victor s share! Omaha, ' SAM. L. MORRIS. t the e oft . Tragedy of Passing Years. The oldest inhabitant is free to punctuate this item with a sigh.! In the wayback days Hank Devere filled the museum spotlight as the husband of "the bearded lady," and cheerily counted the cash and curious handed up for a peep at the whiskered freak. In the heyday of freakj Hank reveled in opulence. Now he is quartered in an eastern poorhouse wrapped in the forke&iPK shadows, and burdens 0f years, Brooklyn Eaele: Th dnv Germans were protesting against th "barbarity" of America shotguns they were dragging up the trucks filled with a new line of gas snells. Sneezinffv cas nnrl nlinmfno were thrown at our men in fmnt oi veroun. The Hun idea is merci fully to sear the lungs of hundreds of men with one throw of a shell; The shotgun has a much narrower range and its wounding may be mended without lasting damage in most in stances. We would be hard put to it to think of anything more devilish than the Huns are able to invent. LIGHT AND LIVELY. "I think my boy will do well In the army." ;'Why?" "I see the scheme Is to carry on." j'Yes?" "And he always was great at carrying on." Louisville Courier-Journal. "And so youacrlflced your good name and everything for a paltry dollar?" asked the preacher. "Sure!" replied the village tough. "That was all the fellow had!" Tonkers Statesman. "I see the kaiser took to the cellar dur ing a recent air bombardment." "I thought that was abouUils sire. Most kings of history, even the worthless ones, have been willing to take a chance oil being shot at. That has always been considered part of a king's Job." Detroit Free-Press. "AH the well born and wealthy young men of America have Joined the aviation service," said Major Maxwell Klrby of the 'Gernster Field training camp In Louisiana. "In fact, yon can't pretend to belong to the upper clauses unless you're an air man." Baltimore American. Yeast It Is slated- that this war has cost the kaiser billions and billions of dollars. Crimsonbeak Well, suppose it has; he's getting a run for his money now, all right, ain't he?" Vonkers Statesman. Tha president's reply to the German peace proposal could be written Into a very short poem." "How short?" "Two words." "Do It." "All right, here It Is: Quit? I NIL t-CsUolt Free Frets, An Influential Suggestion. Omaha, Oct. 11. To the Frlltnr of The Bee. In the early summer of 1871 I was called from Chicago to my family home in an Illinois town by a telegram announcing serious Illness in the family. I found my mother, one sister and two brothers sick with diphtheria. I called on a retired doctor who told me there was no known remedy for the dis ease which he considered fatal. At that time no remedy had been discovered. The old doctor advised me to keep a small piece of gum campnor in my mouth, saying it was an excellent disinfectant. My momer, sister ana two brothers died in 13 days. During their illness I assisted in administering medicine and otherwise attending to their wants, l believe that the gum cam phor saved my life, my father and another sister and brother. It strikes me that gum camphor can be used successfully as a preventive In the present influenza epidemic. There may be other preventives Just as good, but I have great faith in gum camphor. It may be a little weakening, but is not harmful. It's safe. A. S. Restaurant Prices Too High. Omaha, Oct. 11. To the Editor of The Bee. Prices charged in some of the restaurants here are nothing more or less than plain robbery and if a man has the temerity to kick, the cause of patriotism is flaunted in his face as a reason for this goug ing. It is not so much a matter of the actual increase in the price as it is the decreasing of the size of the portions. Fifteen cents for three "wartime" hot cakes of the size and thickness which are now being serv ed is a downright outrage. Fifteen cents for a side order of bacon (two pieces, each about 2 Inches long) is rank out and out profiteering. Those are just two instances. It Is the sarre proposition all the way down the line, from "cornbeef" hash to pie. ; Within a year I have had occasion to witness and pay price increases in Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Dallas and Denver. This gives me a comprehensive idea of prices and value reeved throughout the mld dlowest. And you get Tess for your money In Omaha particularly in the chain restaurants than in any of the other cities. Why? Are we not as close to the supply? I've heard more genuine complaints in Omaha about the gouging of those who are compelled to eat in restau rants dT this kind than in all of the other cities combined. It Is plain profiteering and unpatriotic. SALESMAN. How to Cure the "Flu." Omaha. Oct. 9. To th FMitn f The Bee: I have in mind n nnrtv who lasf Saturday with the "flu." His and my symp toms were about the same. I will give in brief the manner In which I was taken down. I commenced vomiting in the evening, until I thought I must be empty, but still kept this up until late, when I was taken with a severe chill and a burning fever. I did nothing but take a hot foot bath, so hot that I fairly scalded my limbs. I took a heavy physio and went to bed, and drank all the cold water I could, and dampened a cloth In cold water and placed upon my head. Of course, I had inward fever throughout the night, but kept drinking more cold water. My "modus operandi" Is sim ple. The result :s today J never felt better in 10 years. And my unfor tunate friend, taken at about the same time, is to be burled this after noon. He was under care of a physician, and I tried to use common sense. Of course, my duty calls me m open air every day, while he was used to inside work, and he may have been a more tender plant. I have not had a doctor called more than once or twice in 50 years, and that wasJpr measles, and I find sim plest remedies best for me. I offer these suggestions freely: Keep the throat entirely free from bandage and sleep In loose gown or night shirt; don't sleep in union suit that you have worn during the day. If you happen to be taken down in day time, if you are able to move around, don't go to bed; keep In motion; keep walking or saw wood any thing to keep blood circulating. Time enough t'o go to bed when you cannot sit up. Get fresh-air and Liberty Bond Song. (Tuns: My Bonnlt.) The Yankees are over the ocean. The Yankees are over In Franca, They're making the katserltes "go some, To boost them Is now your chance.X Chorua: Boost them! cheer theml May they not suffer because yea hold back. Buy your bond! and your stampe, God helping them, they nothing may lack! The doughboys are facing the winter. They're battling the low-moraled Hun. Come, help knock the brute's power i splinter, The better the sooner lt't done. Chorus. Osceola, Neb. I M. more fresh air. I will vouch that you will come out all right. The scare of the disease is doing more damage than the disease itself. Re member, if a neighbor happens to send in a few flowers, don't take them seriously; they are Intended well enough. So many get discour aged artd cross their hands on their breasts when they feel so awfully sick, which is part of the disease, and conclude t,hat these few flowers were a forerunner of the "broken wheel" or "Gates Ajar," and simply give in. The great trouble Is we grye in too easily. JAMES HALE. What Germany Wants. Omaha, Oct. 8. To the Editor of The Bee. Germany does not really expget an "honorable peace." She knows that neither 'Heaven, earth nor Hell can give or grant her that. What she does want is all the ma terial stuff she can get, all the power she can obtain and a coat of whit paint on her bloody, hands and bloodier heart; this la what ah means by honorable peace. A. B. BROWN. it -"cr (i i "S. 1 ' II I t II I 11 ,7cmr favorite jjMece-wKat to it? Hour ofteix you osl some one to play tfc," only to be told? 1 do not know tta you can qet ttt in a music roll and enjoy it any time Start a lioraryrf your favorite OTis ic it will be a cor ftant Jeligkl. 'f Come i ioatyhJit home some new raJmi October Piano Sale Now On Pianos From $150 Up 1519 DOUGLAS ST. Chicago Opera Nov. 1-2. U JEFFERIS FOR CONGRESS B Sure That You Are Registered So You Can Vote November 5. NOT J Vfft 0ILS?V) "5"uinw is Good Buk NOW THAT "the nigta are growing longer and the waste of electricity from the use of the old style lamps in your home be comes increasingly important, DO AWAY WITH THEM and me Mazda lamps for more and better light. , ; " NEBRASKA POWER , C0HP4O