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1, THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1918 I ffifa 1L ll !k fy't:'M W ffeT W! t$mMM& (upper Lett Hand) The American Red Crois It ren. (Lower Left Hand) Canteen field kitchens are an p" : V J0fik3Lli I ' r .. iini f... TVVti'' .h. ..m. ..ir ta colored man at It It to white Important factor In emeroency service. 11 11 , j5&Y?uL- I . !r Jrlj ; iS?Iri . -" 'troops (Lower Center) It It almost an Inducement for t " . tjMtWl SvCa! I L!rs?isf (Upper Center) When this happent he Knows that service man to be taken ill en route when the American Ls5f4 if "H? f vtv f el u7f'i "Somebody Caret." . mi.iw nuiina uuini. i it W txlh'Mzi O jklyk 9c .2rTJ Jv3t"'iSC a. , ... Ih. a...!.,. (Lower Right Hand) In the larger canteen? the coffee Y 1 1 "7. SVlSSS J&5y IVY XTTFk.. (Upper Right Hand) "Greet "fl" JJ' Ae.r'"n Is kept at the belling point for day and night distribution f Srllir j Red Crott en route from camp to embarakatljn point. t0 troopj en TOUte Kdl fe"fl lfe & w v ir GERMANS PLAN MORE RUTHLESS: U-BOAT DRIVE Allied Naval Chiefs Prepare !to Meet Desperate Cam-, paign of Ruthless Destruction. Washington, Oct.- 11 Another great effort of German's submarines . is impending;. Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the British admiralty, in a statement '. tonight paying tribute to the part played in the war by the American navy, diclosed that plans of the , enemy for what may be the final in tensified U-boat campaign of ruth , lessness are known and that the al lies are prepared to meet them. Ho details were given by Sir Eric, nor was further information to be obtained at the Navy department as to what the American and allied chiefs have learned. There was sug- gestions that Germany, in the midst of a peace offensive, and with her i ' soldiers being driven back to their i own borders hoped to strengthen her diplomatic drive for a peace by negotiation by sending her submar ines on a desperate campaign of de struction regardless of measures of i .auiion iiercicmjie ukcii mr ic y of U-boats and their crews. Praises U. S. Navy. Warm praise was given by the British first admiralty lird to the American naval units of all classes, including the air contingents, oper ating in the war zene. It was after description of work done by the destroyers that he said: . "What I have said of the destroy .. ers applies in no less degree to your submarines and your chasers. Their untiring and constant harassing of the enemy has helped to bring the enemy submarine to its present , position in which we can confidently say that it is now held, though not . yet mastered. I lay great streess on these words. A great effort on the part of Germany is impending. " We know it and its extent. We face - it with that knowledge and with the steadfast courage of our seamen it , will be met." Warns Against Early Peace Hope. - Sir Eric spoke of peace, but only in referring to his pleasure at being in America at a time when the allied forces are winning all along the line v a"nd reaping the fruits of sound naval ; strategy, that his policy and his ad vice to others was not to be deluded by hopes of an early peace, but al ways to be prepared for two wears more of war. As an example of what sea-power has done, he sakl, seven American soldiers and their equipment have i landed in Europe every minute of the night and day during the past three months. Through the splen did work of American shipbuilders, he added, the United States now is able, to transport more than SO per cent of her soldiers in American ships manned by Americans. When the United States army first began to move overseas, it was carried largely by British vessels. Pacific Coast Timber Land May Be Reclaimed kan Francisco, Cal., Oct. 13. , Eleven million acres of "logged-off"J timber land on the Pacific coast might be reclaimed and used for ag ricultural purposes, according to the statement of Walter H. Graves, whose appointment by Secretary : Lane as an engineer of the reclama tion service was recently an nounced. Mr. Graves has been in structed to make a study of the large . districts of cut-over timber land in the west for the purpose of determining, its availability, when cleared, for farms for soldiers after 1 the war.. The land denuded of tim- j ber would have to be cleared of the encumbering logs, stumps' and brush. ' , .The redemption of this vast wil derness, it is estimated, would add $-',000,000,000 to the farm wealth of ! the Pacific states. The cost of clear t ing the land would be less than the alue of the land if improved me . chanical devices were used, Mr. . Graves said. ' Expose London Profiteers . by Government Restaurant London, Oct. 11 The national ' restaurant here, which was estab lished to expose the profiteers, is not only self-supporting, but is mak- ing a good profit, according to Al derman C. F. Spencer, its director. Caterrers had charged that the en terprise was able to supply good food at reasonable prices only be cause it had government aid. , After deducting rent, manage ment charges and all other expenses the restaurant has been clearing . about $350 a week, or 70 per cent on its capital. Meals sold for 13 cents yield a net profit of about 2 cents. Com menting on this the Manchester . Guardian observes: "It is thusxbe yond question that, even at war ' prices, excellent food in sufficient quantities can be sold at prices with in the reach of everyone, with a ; sound profit left over." , Soldiers Get Proper Burial , by Aid of Omaha Chamber The military ceremonial commit tee of the Chamber of- Commerce assisted last week at the funerals of - 10 young men who had died in the service of their country, either from influenza or pneumonia. Furnish ing automobiles for these occasions " was attended to by the auto corps of the Home Guards, captained by John W. Parrish. A firing squad and paUbearers were furnished by f Fort Omaha and the quartermas- terg corps. For naval funerals pall " bearers were furnished by the navy recruiting office. " Members of the committee attended each funeral and supplied flowers. i ' TnAero finTmtir DrtPS Well ' V Fremont. Keb.f Oct. !3.-(Special Telegram.) Subscriptions to the I'v i . j . .v - ' - . v00 this afternoon. FremontV 's $523,000. The committee is ut the quota will be reached. from the rural districts in fut the county quota, twill be passed, GHT THIS WAR TO finish; SAYS COL. ROOSEVELT "We Should Secure Complete Justice for All Our Allies," Declares Former Presi dent in Address. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Oct. 13. Theo dore Roosevelt, speaking at a Liberj loan meeting last night, declared that peace proposals had been dis cussed "only with our allies." "As for a leaugue of nations," the colonel added, "1 should regard a proposal to include Germany, Aus tria and Hungary in it as on a level with the proposal to stop burglary and murder in New York by inviting J 0.1 lilt, UlU filrtl J Oil VI U II 111 V It ll JVU the police force." l'eace terms the colonel ?aul should include "economic barrier! against Germany so that she cannot flood our markets with her hoarded products." "In the next place." he said, "wc should secure complete justice for all our allies. We ought not to be content merely with autonomy for the subject races of Austria and Tur key." After, declaring that Germany should give up Alsace-Loraine and north Schleswig, that all subject peoples should be free from Teutonic overlordship and that England and Japan should keep the provinces they have conquered, the colonel continued: "In other words we should fight this war through to a finish. We should put an absolute end to the threat of German world domain and instead of merely talking about fu ture justice we should bring justice now to all the nations oppressed by Germany and her allies." During the meeting Colonel Roosevelt was told of the German government's acceptance of Presi dent Wilson's terms. "What I said in my address cov ers this development, was his only comment. Whenever he is enroute to camp or embarkation point no matter what the hour or the weather the man in oliye drab, navy blue or forest green knows that his country speaks to him that "somebody cares" when the canteen service of the American Red Cross extends greetings along the way. i NEW FOOD RULE AFFECTS 2,000 1STITUTI0NS Will Rigidly Enforce Rulings Pertaining to Sale of Food Products as Conserva tion Measure. Rules and regulations governing all public eating places in Nebraska are announced by Gurdon W. Wat tles, federat food administrator for Nebraska. These rules are effective Monday, October 21. More than 2.000 commercial institutions are af fected by the new rules. A striking feature of the new orders, 12 in number, are that they are orders and will be enforced to the letter. The orders are: General Order No. 1. No public eating place shall serve, or permit to be served, any bread or other bakery products which does not contain at least 20 per cent of wheat flour substitutes, nor shall it serve or permit to be served, more than two ounces of this bread, known as Victory bread, or if no Victory, bread is served, more than four ounces of other breads, such as corn nread, mumns, rsoston hrown bread, etc. Unlimited service of "Victory" or substitute bread in sandwiches is permissible. General Order No. 2. No public eating place shall serve, cr, permit to be served, bread or toast as a garniture or under meat. General Order No. 3. No public eating places shall al low any bread to be brought to the table until after the first course is served. General Order No. 4. Of course you eat but do you belong to the most popular "Eating club" in the world? If you are a member of this "Eat ing ciub," then you have a real, per sonal interest in the fact that it has over 2,000,000 services a month to its credit; that it distributes more than 1,000,000 packages of cigarets a month and over 1,500,000 post cards, which it also Emails: that eight and one-half ton! of coffee are used in a week by one of its units, and that in one day it provides over 20,000 shower, baths. Perhaps you are one of its 65,000 workers scat tered over the length and breadth of the United States, or in far away Alaska or the tropical canal zone. If you are a member of this "Eat ing club," have you any idea just what it is? And do you belong to the American Red Cross? Well then, if you are a member of the Ameri can Red Cross you are automatic ally a member of this ever-growing "Eating club," which is none other than the canteen service. Have you any idea of the vast scope of its distribution in America? These fig ures apply to America only the activity of the Canteen Service over seas is a story in itself. The Canteen Service of the Ameri can Red Cross is in operation in over 700 cities and towns through out the United States, including points of embarkation and debarka tion. Its prime object is to be an outward and visible sign to the men in the service that "somebody cares" a privilege, on the part of Ameri cans to express their loyalty to" and their pride in the wearers of "the olive drab, the navy blue and the forest green a welcome and a God speed, no matter what the hour or the w'eather, nor where he is with the. colors. This is the American Red Cross Canteen Service briefly outlined. Wearing Croix de Guerre Makes Yank Feel Foolish pork, poultry and any by-products thereof. General Order No. S. No public eating place shall serve, or permit to be served, any bacon as a garniture. General Order No. 6. No public eating place shall serve, or permit to be served to any one person at any one meal, more than one-half ounce of butter. General Order No. 7. j No public eating place shall served or permit to be served any one person at any one meal, more than one-half ounce of Cheddar, com monly called American cheese. General Order No. 8. No public eating place shall use, or permit the use of the sugar bowl on the table or lunch counter, nor shall any eating hfluse serve sugar, or permit it to be served, unless the guests so request, and in no event shall the amount served to any one person at any one meal exceed one teaspoonful or its equivalent. General Order No. 9. , No public eating place shall use, the use of an amount ot ing a bakery license. No sugar al loted for this special baking pur pose shall be used for any other purpose. General Order No. 10. No public eating place shall burn any food, or permit any food to be burned, and all waste shall be saved to feed animals or reduced to ob tain fats. General Order No. 11. No public eating place shall dis play, or permit to be displayed, food on its premises in such manner as may cause its deterioration so that it cannot be used for human consumption. General Order No. 12. No public eating place shall serve, or permit to be served, what is known as double cream, or Cream De Luxe; and in any event, no cream containing over 20 per cent of butter fat shall be served. Clyde Smith, a South Dakota boy, winner of the French Croix de Guerre for capturing a German ma jor singlehanded, is so modest that he carries the much-coveted deco ration in an inside pocket. Roy Daniels, another South Dakota sol dier, in a letter to the home foiks, tells about it. He writes: "Clyde Smith dropped in on me the other day and told me a few of his experiences. He was trans ferred to an infantry regiment and participated in the Chateau Thierry fracas. He received a bullet wound above the knee and was also gassed. "During the course of our con versation he informed me that in their first stay in the front line he was made first-class private, and in the second was made corporal, and in the next he won the 'Croix de Guerre.' "In utter amazement and surprise I asked him why in hell he wasn't wearing it. Keeps Medal in Pocket. "He replied that it made him feel foolish, so he carried it in his pock etbook, where he showed it to me. When I pressed him with a number of questions as to how he won it, he told me that one night he was feeling rather restless and as though he hadn't done a whole lot for his country, so he took his 'Gat' only and started crawling across 'No Man's Land.' "He very successfully negotiated that feat and reached the German front lines. Seeing but an occasion al sentry, he worked into the trench, and. under cover of the friendly darkness, which seemed to work for democracy as hard as he did, (to quote Clyde), he stepped into a com municating trench and boldly walked to the second lines. "There he found a German offi cer who, as Clyde said, had no busi ness to be walking around that way, anyway.' Captures German Major. "So he stuck his 'gat' into his 'map' and very quietly persuaded him that absolutely his only chance to secure a choice seat 'in the sun' would be to go very quietly where the gun pointed him to go, other wise there would be one more wid ow in Deutschland. "The officer complied, and the greatest wonder of all was that they succeeded in reaching the American lines in safety. "Much to his surprise he discov ered that he had captured a Ger man major single-handed. ''Another fellow captured a Boche machine gun and four of its crew and made the crew carry it back to our lines. Both he and Clyde Smith were paraded in front of their bat talions and decorated with all due formality that li e French love to accord to such occasions. I know, because I saw two fellows French truck drivers decorated when we were at the front, and the afore mentioned formality made him (Giyde Smith) feel so much like a fool that he remembers it when ever he sees his decoration, so he doesn't wear it." Paper Embargo Affects Newspapers of Mexico Mexico City, Oct. 13. Eighty one Mexican daily newspapers art affected by tfte recent embargo im posed by the United States govern ment on the exportation of news print papers from the United States to Mexico. Except for one plant, which controlled by Germans, there are no paper factories in Mexico. I or permit No public eating place shall serve, i sugar in excess of tvvd pounds for or permit to be served to any one person at any one meal, more than one kind of meat. For the pur pose of this rule, meat shall be con sidered as including beef, mutton. every ninety meals served, includ ing all uses of sugar on the table and in cooking, excepting such sugar , Fix Porto Eico Quota. San Juan, Porto Rico, Sept. 30. Porto Rico's quota for the fourth Liberty loan has been fixed at $4, 000,000. For the third Liberty loan, Porto Rico subscribed a little less than $.1,000,000, making a total as. may be alloted Dy tne reaerai ot o,uuu,uuu sunscriDca iur me m Food administration to hotels hold-1 three loans. Senate to Put Ten-Dollar Tax on Everybody's Job Washington, Oct. 13. The senate finance committee in revising the war revenue bill has approved a business or occupation tax. House provisions placing a tax of $10 on all persons "engaged in any trade, business or profession" whose gross receipts exceed $-',500, were adopted after being amended so as to include farmers whom the hou$e had ex empted. Announcement was made that amendments which would fur nish some relief to farmers would be considered later. fctrl grf'YN fj&isff ' ! f' V(f& Hi 1 7-77 ' IJ Haffgutrd your relieve your ilMrcn jlN ' ' ' '-0 1 "U1' l"lUt"1 "m'at ,)l tall'n Toys Made in Omaha that Once Came from Germany Toys which used to bear the "Made in Germany" brand are now being made in Omaha by the Jen sen Omaha Toy company, an "infant industry." which is less than two years old. Suggestions for such a plant were made two years ago in ihe Chamber of Commerce "What and Why" contest. The factory re cently received a telegram ordering 9.000 wooden automobiles. A "Kid Koaster," "Igo" wagon," . "Wood pecker" and "Jumping Horse" are among the products of the concern which are meeting great favor. 1 Tanks. Win for Allies. New York, Oct. 12. German newspapers here generally attribute the success of the allied offensive to the employemnt of huge numbers of "tanks." An Open Letter To the Members of the Omaha Fire Department: I take this means of addressing each and all of you as members of the Omaha Fire Department. I realize, and so does every one of my associates in the City Council, that you are shamefully under paid and that your salaries should be increased. The City Council would gladly increase your pay at once if it had the power to do so ; it will give you an increase just as soon as it can lawfully appro priate the money. I am sure you would not ask us to do so in violation of law I am sure you would not want the money thus obtained. It is rumored that some of you are being urged by parties outside the Fire Department to resign your positions, quit your posts of duty and leave the city with inadequate, or no fire protection. I want to appeal to you as patriotic American citizens and urge you not to take any action that might result so disastriously. At the present time our ware houses, our packing plants, our elevators and mills are full of food stuff that is being daily shipped to the boys in the Military service ; most of our fac tories are running day and night making supplies for the boys in the Camps and in the trenches. To cripple the Fire Department in any manner whatever might mean a very serious loss of these food supplies or clothing or other material intend ed for the boys at the front. The German govern ment and its sympathisers would no doubt rejoice over such a condition, but how about our boys in the trenches, in the hospitals or in the camps? Each and all of you have relatives and friends among those who have gone to the front; they are fighting in the ranks for $30.00 per month; are we going to let food supplies, clothing, Red Cross supplies and other equipment become endangered' because of differences of opinion over matters that have never been considered vital to your, service or in the department heretofore? LET EVERY LOYAL AMERICAN CITIZEN IN THE DEPARTMENT ANSWER FOR HIM SELF. The city of Omaha and all its citizens will long remember the answer. I pledge you my word of honor that as Mayor of the city I will do all in my power to increase your wages and otherwise contribute to the health and comfort of each member of the department when ever and wherever I can lawfully do so ; in return I ask you on your honor to do jiothing in this crisis that will impair the strength or efficiency of the Omaha Fire Department or cause it to be said any citizen of Omaha vas willing to let our boys in the army suffer for food or other supplies while they were burning up in Omaha because her firemen had deserted their posts of duty. ' Oct. 14, 1918. ED. P. SMITH, Mayor.N i