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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 20, 1918.
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'SOME FIGURES
ON COST OF
GOINGTO WAR
Millions of Dollars Expended
Daily by Uncle Sam in
Equipping and Main
taining Hs Army.
Washington, Oct. 11. "Why does
it cost the United States so much
more to make war than it costs any
of its co-belligerents?"
"What is being done with the tens
of billions being raised from Liberty
bonds and taxation?"
One oftens hears these questions.
" The answer is not difficult. It is,
f, simply, that it costs an American
; more to do anything than it costs
.anyone e!e in the world. That is the
best reason why Americans should
1 buy Liberty 'bonds.
' The American army is composed
" of working inen. The American
'working man demands a higher
standard of everything than any
' other working man in the world.
When he becomes a soldier he car
. ries that standard with him, and,
..comparatively, gets it.
Army Travels on Stomach.
.. Napoleon said, and everybody ever
since has repeated, that an army
travels on its stomach. So naturally
the stibsistaiwe of the American sol
dier comes first in the long bill
which is rapidly running to $50,000,
000 a day.
' The regular ration list of the
American army calls for 49 different
. items of food. It includes many
things which are luxuries to the sol.
diers of the foreign armies. At that,
it only costs 32 cents a day to feed
a soldier. The figure is low, because
. the government has the advantage
' of dealing in billions and tons where
the individual deals in dollars and
pounds. Even so, the army has felt
the increased cost of living because
it cost only 12.81 cents a day to
feed a soldier during the Spanish
j Runs Into Millions.
f Take into account the almost stag
gering sums the government has
spent for food alone since the war
'. began. For flour, $37,000,000; sugar,
$14,000,000; bacon, $43,000,000;
$eans,-$12,000,000; tomatoes, $9,000,
000; rice, $3,000,000. It sounds al
most lihe a food hill for a nation.
T Without any disparagement what
ever ot the rationing system oi mc
T t i ' 1 t ka cnU that
co-belligerents it may be said that
while the food of the British soldier
compares favorably witn tnat or
his American cousin, tne rrenci. ra
Dmitftas Cotmiti Modifiers Hs Netfleciecl Little Ones
Refection attd Ktttdtu guidance ace Given Delinquent- and" Dependent Children df OverView Home
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Little religious training is al-
By RUTH B. WHITNEY.
When Private Wilson marched away in the long line
. of America's defenders, he left behind in Omaha a wife and
-'.tion is less acceptable to the Ameri
can and that of the Italians would
get a very cold reception.
Requirements' of Soldiers, y
. The equipment of the American
isoldier is no less up to standard
than his food. Since the beginning
of the war the government has spent
$126,000,000 for shoes. Only recent
ly a-contract was-let which is in
tended to keep every soldier with
' two pairs one for marching and
; one for general wear. The price, in
quantity of millions, was well over
' $5 a'pain Old soldiers of the regular
: army can remember when the gov-
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quahty from Sarmyr i-enile offenders against laws of
today the land and against the laws of
-The American soldier's clothing common decency and morality are
. far v,a a rnnnd $500,000,000. apt to come to mind. A visit to the
For his blankets the government has
four rosy-cheeked children, the youngest a mere toddler just
learning to talk. All was well with the little family, who
had no thought of trouble or privation during the father's
absence. But trouble came and, as usual, the troubles did
not come singly. They culminated with the death of the
mother. Four little motherless kiddies" were to be taken
care of. The government was willing to assume the finan
cial burden, but where to find a mother for them was the
troublesome question. Douglas county provided the mother,
and a good one, at the Riverview Detention home.
When one speaks of the detentionO"
home, thoughts of naughty children,
spent $150,000,000. Every thing else
is in proportion, for in every part.c
ular of his equipment the govern
ment has supplied the soldier with
the same relative high (Standard he
was accustomed to at home in civil
life. . The extra cost of maintaining
an army on foreign soil has entered
into the huge bill because it has
been found that it costs $423.27 to
' equip' and maintain a soldier a year
abroad as against $327.78 at home.
Of this sum $251.85 goes for food.
The rationing expepse at home is
$189.80.
Pay of Soldiers.
The high standard has been car
ried to the soldiers' pay. For all
practical. purposes of estimate the
American soldier is the. highest paid
fighting man in the world. He ac
tually gets more than the verage
German officer. To the $30 a month
a private receives from the govern
ment is added a sum for hii de
pendents, depending upon their con
dition and number.
Canada and the other British col
' onies. more nearly approximate
the pay of the American soldier than
any others of the co-belligerents.
Taking into consideration all
these items it is not strange that
America's war bill is greatest
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Czechoslovaks at Home
Are Collecting Rifles
Washington, Oct. 9. Czecho-SIo-vak
peasants have created conster
nation among their German rulers
by demanding firearms in exchange
for the foodstuffs and produce which
they bring to the city markets.
.Whereas they formerly traded their
wares for drygoods and clothes, they
now-insist upon having rifles and
cartridges. The German officers re
gard this aS outrageous.
Writing in the "Reichenberger
Zeitung," the German deputy. Har
telj complains bitterly of this new
habit of the Czecho-Slovaks. "I re
minded Premier Seydier of the enor
mous danger which can ensue from
this.' he says. "Furthermore, I pre
sented to him a written report, cit
ing and describing specific cases of
the said practice. In concluding my
report I said: Tt is a fact that the
Czecho-Slovaks are thus providing
themselves with arms, and are thus
depriving us of them.'" t
Extensive Damage is Done
' by Sabotage in Russia
'. Helsingfors, Finland. Sept
Sabotage by Russian Red guards
amounting to 29,340,000 marks has
already been reported to- the State
Industrial commission by 99
firms in various parts of the state.
Many firms and private individuals
hare not yet reported. The Indus
trial ..commission, will ' recommend
to the senate that the state assist
the sufferers with loans of money,
It was a superb
and by (emission of tariffs on im-; speech and had roused the crowd to
home would soon dispel such
thoughts. Delinquent children there
are, sometimes numbers of them,
but most of the little ones under the
sheltering wing of the home are
those who have no other homes and
"no mother's care.
Snookums Remembers Daddy.
So here are the four children of
the soldier. The oldest, the daugh
ter,; is being given instruction in
sewing and cooking and taught to
be a good housekeeper. The little
boys help with the outdoor work
and all three of them go to school.
The baby is Snookums. Of course,
that isn't his real name, but that is
what everyone calls him and Snook
ums is they pet of the whole family.
He hasn't forgotten his daddy and
every morning he goes out on the
porch top and salutes the flag that
flies from a tall pole on the lawn.
No one told him to do this, but he
seems to feel that it is a fitting
rite. Everyone who sees plump,
serious little Snookums wants to
adopt him, but no one can have
him, for he and his brothers and sis
ters are awaiting the return of their
soldier father.
Tales of the county homes and or
phan asylums, such as we have all
read about, where pale, underfed
and suppressed little children dare
not smile or speak, are dispelled
from the mind like fog "before the
Nebraska sunshine when one enters
the tall iron gate and sees the lit
tle ones playing about and the older
children at work, happy, laughing,
free. The wide, airy halls and home
like rooms are clean and shining.
From the windows one looks
across the woods and hollows of
the farm and catches glimpses of
the shining river and the Iowa
bluffs,, beyond. The clean, fresh
breeze blows up the valley and
puts roses into the children's
cheeks as the loving kindness of the
superintendent and his wife puts
sparkles into their eys.
Little Katheryn Loves Them All.
. J. L. Sexton and Mrs. Sexton are
in charge of the home. They are
young and full of sympathy for the
youth of their charges. They have
a baby daughter of their own, little
Katheryn, who loves all the chil
dren of the home as if they were
her own brothers and sisters, and
they are all treated every bit as well
as Katheryn.
Ten supervisors assist the chil
dren in their work and studies. The
older girls do the cooking and clean,
ing and mending, and the boys take
care of the stock on the farms,
tend the garden and do all the out
side work. There are always more
boys than girls at the home. A big
flock of geese is raised every year,
and there are always chickens.
The children have eggs, three apiece,
three times a week. One little boy
is always assigned to the collection
of the eggs, which is quite a task,
as the big flock of hens often prefer
to lay in the woodsy hollows x in
stead of their perfectly comfortable
hen house.
Quite a tragedy happened at the
home this year. All summer long
the boys gathereed luscious toma
toes, plump green peas, delicious
sweet corn and other fresh vege
tables from the garden and the girls
canned them in big half-gallon glass
jars and packed them away in the
cave, each jar nicely wrapped in
newspaper to exclude the light.
Then, just a few weeks ago, the
cave collapsed and nearly all the
jars of fruit and vegetables were
broken and their contents lost. Dis
couraged? No, indeed.
"There are the nicest vegetables
yet," said Miss Frances Moore,
cooking supervisor, as she and the
older girls went to work on a big
batch-of the last tomatoes and corn
of the' season. The boys have built
a new cave, deep, and well ven
tilated, with thick Cement walls and
strongly braced by oak timbers, cut
by themselves on the grounds, and
the girls have filled many shelves
already with new canned goods.
Methods of Exacting Obedience.
The Sextons always have a big
family, usually about 40 children.
They have various methods of ex
acting obedience. The little girls
wear gingham aprons week days
and white ones on Sundays. When
a little girl is naughty she is not al
lowed to wear her white apron the
next Sunday and there is no worse
punishment to be devised. From
boys various little coveted privileges
are taken for naughtiness, but whip
ping is very seldom resorted to.
When it is necessary, Mr. Sexton
administers it himself and usually
gets results.
lowed in the home, which must be
entirely nonsectarian, as the chil
dren come from every kind of
home, Jewish, Roman Catholic and
the various branches of protestant
ism. Every night the children say
"Now I lay me" before they creep
into their little white beds and a
simple grace is said before meals.
Patriotic songs take the place of
hymns. On Sunday the children
may go to any church they please,
if someone responsible will take
them. Various religious societies
look after the children of their
faith in this manner.
Good Place with Poor Name.
All the children except the little
delinquents ,go to the Bancroft
school and . the delinquents are
taught in the big school room at
the home. It is seldom a child runs
away from the home, but many are
attracted by the good times, the
kindly consideration and the good
food and comfort and run away to
it. One little boy had committed
juvenile crimes several times to get
sent there, until the judge found
him out and disappointed him. Chil
dren who are delinquents at home
give very little trouble in this
wholesome atmosphere of work and
play and general good fellowship,
and it is seldom that a child is un
manageable there. Detention home
is a fine place for children, but it
has a poor name for a place where
the children are detained, not by
locks and keys, but by the kind
ness and justice of men and women
in charge.
DOG BECOMES
REAL FRIEND IN
TIMLPFVAR
Animals Go Through Shell
Swept Fields in France,
Carryng Many impor
tant Messages.
A Dog Training Camp in France,
Sept. 30. (Correspondence of As
sociated Press.) A war dog's din
! ner bell is a bomb. When all is
i ready for the meal, men standing
! near du&out . craters close to the
kennels throw in fused hand gren
ades', and right and left all over the
place there are terrific explosions
with clouds of smoke and dust The
dogs are no frightened, for they
have been taught that explosions
are merely the prelude to a meal.
As the grenades go off the "dog
men" run down the line, pushing
each dog's plate of steaming food
within reach, so that all are served
at the same time.
This training teaches the dogs
carrying messages to the front to
pass through the heaviest barrage
without fear, believing that the only
purpose of all the racket is to an
nounce his dinner. Arriving with
the message at headquarters, the
dog at once finds his waiting mas
ter, who detaches the message from
the collar receptacle and immediate
ly rewards the animal with food. In
this way communications Can be
maintained with the' advanced ele
ments of troops without the sacri
fice of human life.
Dog Leads Busy Life.
The advantages of a dog messen
ger are many. The dog of course
runs much more quickly than a
man messenger, and presents a far
more difficult target for enemy
snipers. In the case of small gar
risons in outlying posts, the send
ing of soldier runners seriously
weakens the fighting power of the
unit, besides exposing the messen
gers to all the perils of a fire-swept
zone. Experience has proved that
a combination of dog and carrier
pigeon service is, if not more relia
ble than that of the human runners,
very much more efficient.
It is of the utmost importance
that the dog of war be safeguarded
from all blandishments and
temptations to linger among new
found friends, for everything de
pends, when he is released, upon
his bolting straight back with his
precious message to his master. As
food is the reward for faithful serv
ices, no one but the master may
give the dog even a scrap of meat.
Liberty Loan Speakers Have Good Time
Carrying Bond Message on U. P. Special
By A. R. GROH.
. Jest and joviality, now and then,
lightened the arduous labors of the
nine Omaha men who spent six days
on the Union Pacific Liberty loan
special train, taking the Fourth Lib
erty loan message to scores of
towns between here and Ogden,
Utah.
The oratorical battery consisted of
six lawyers, a preacher, two rail
road men and two returned soldiers,
as. follows: W. F. Gurlev. w, H.
Loomis, W. A. . Frarr", " Tederal
Judge Woodrough, Frank Gaines
and Norris - Brown; Rev. Titus
Lowe; W. M. Jeffers and E. D.
White; Sergeant Hines and Lieuten
ant Stevens.
Joke Played on Gurley.
W. F. Gurley is a man whose per
sonality happily fits him to appre-
OURLET'S JULESBURQ CROWD."
ciate a joke either on himself or on
others. The orators were assigned
to make their speeches in rotation,
one at each town. During the first
few days they listened to each
other's speeches and it was custo
mary when the orator had finished,
for the others to congratulate him.
Attorney Gurley finished v a rear
olatform speech at a town on the
Julesburg branch,
back into the car, wiping his brow
with a look that seemed to say "that
was a speech worth congratulating
a man on."
But his fellow orators were all
reading newspapers. None had a
word to say, nor a handshake. They
apparently hadn't been listening to
him. Mr. Loomis was not reading,
but he had a lugubrious expression
and he loked at Gurley and sighed.
Gurley looked out of the window
and then at his companions. He
didn't know what was wrong. At
last they all burst out laughing. The
whole little drama had 'been pre
viously arranged.
"New" Cigar Trick.
At Denver Mr. Gurley bought a
box of cigars and told the rest he
intended to present them to Mr. Jeffers.-
The boys got possession of
the box while Mr. Gurley was away
and substituted another box in
which was one lone cigar and some
thing else to make up for the weight.
When Mr. Gurley presented the box
orf cigars to Mr. Jeffers with a neat
little speech and Mr. Jeffers opened
it and found one cigar, the big at
torney's face was a study.
. "Yd-o-u-u-u dawgown rascals !" he
exclaimed while his eyes twinkled
with appreciation of the joke. Then
the real box was brought out and
Mr. Gurley had another speech to
make and Mr. Jeffers made anoth
er speech of acceptance.
E. D. White introduced the speak
ers at each stopping place. He as
sumed the manner of a circus ring
master as he "spieled" and told of
his great aggregation of orators.
Soldiers Make Hit.
"Some," he said, "are orators of
international 'reputation, -some na
tional, some state-wide and some
local." And the spellbinders had a
continual discussion as to which of
them had the "international" repu
tations and which the-"local.".
"The awe and admiration with
returned soldiers on the train was
striking and dramatic," said Mr.
Loomis. "Sergeant Hines lost one
leg in France. As he described the
life over there, women would wipe
tears from their eyes. Men held up
their chidren just to permit them to
shake his hand or that of Lieutenant
Stevens."
The Union Pacific band accom
panied the train and played at each
stop. In the middle of the music the
JEFFERS' BOX OT CIGARS.
speakers chanted a little refrain
about "Buying Liberty Bonds" that
was a surprise to the audience and
roused much enthusiasm.
Saloonkeeper Denounced.
At Rawlins, Wyo., Mr. Jeffers
found a railroad man under the in
fluence of liquor. He made this the
occasion for a temperance talk that
was a "hummer." He pointed out
that the saloonkeeper who sells liq
uor to a soldier in uniforrrKis pun
ished but that the yme Saloon
keeper can sell liquor to a rail
road man in whose hands may be
the lives of hundreds . of people
and that there is no punishment for
this crime. ' .
At one station Ttfr. White intro
duced Mr. Gaines as "Mr.. Gurley."
Mr. Gaines pretended to be very
much insulted,
pened at a little town on the Jules
burg branch of the Union Pacific.
It was Gurley's turn to speak at
this town. But when the train
stopped not a soul was there to
hear, though at the town just be
fore there had been an immense
crowd and immense crowds were at
all the other towns on the trip. It
appears the message of the train's
arrival had, in some way, failed to
reach this place.
Woodrow Joins Train.
Of course, no speech was made
there- At the next town (where
thare was a big crowd) a telegram
was delivered to the train, purport
ing to come from the station agent
at the town where there was no
crowd. It read:
"When I announced that W. F.
Gurley of Omaha was to speak here,
I was unable to hold the crowd."
At Denver, Attorney J. Woodrow
joined the train for a short time.
He is a cousin of President Wilson.
The return trip was to have been
made over the Union Pacific's Kan
sas line, but the "flu" epidemic
caused an alteration of this plan.
The "boys" had arranged a special
"stunt" at Salina, Kan., in honor of
Mr. Loomis, for the general solici-
calls this his "home town." His
wife was born and grew up there.
She was the first white child born
in Salina..
Altogether they say they had a
fine time on the Liberty Special.
They brought the Fourth Liberty
loan message to many thousands in
most forceful form. Of course, each
admits, it was a hardship to listen
to the speeches of the others, but
even then from this they did not
shrink.
Restriction is Demanded
of German War Marriages
New York, Oct. 11. Restrictions
of war marriages in Germany is de
manded by the New Saxon, church
paper. The material advantages
which a young woman obtains by
the war marriage are so alluring that
only a few resist the lure, says the
paper, adding: "The war divorces
throw a bad light on the moral con
ditions in our people. They have
not been numerous thus far, but
we fear that they, will increase after
the war."
According to the Cologne Gazette
700 actions for divorce were begun
within a period of four months be-
tor of the Union Pacific railroad fore one court in Berlin.
Old J..B. Fails to Make Good
as Preventative of Flu
Wlti janhivt Mi. am frMrj'- !Jtrgat nthusi&sa. Mr. Gurley came i which jhe peojle greeted the twoi One of the funniest things hap-jhomes
Alas, John Barleycorn, where is
thy consistency?
When the Spanish influenza epi
demic hit Omaha it was quietly
whispered about that whisky was a
sure preventative and a certain cure.
So the boys who had had a few
quarts stored away in the cellar
since the state went into that hor
rible condition a year ago in May,
brushed the dust off the labels and
went to it. .
While Chief Eberstejn was inti
mating that he was making the
neighborhood so dry that a fish
swimming up the Missouri left a
trait of dust, the 100-proof was be-
ling sipped or guzzled in scores of
Report has it that the bootleg
business flourished of late.
Even some of those who hereto
fore have raised their hands and
dropped their lower lip in horror at
the mention of the vile stuff have
been seeking it for "medicinal" pur
poses with the excuse: "Anything to
stop the flul"
The friends of booze crowed
lustily.
But now thunderation!
"Ike" Payne, recently arrested for
having some 300 pints in a false
bottom, in his car, and notorious
expjnent of the "divine right to
drink," is flat on his back with a
hard case of the flu.
Gin now is being recommended.
Man's Suit Costs $240 f
in Russia; M&t is $4
a Pound, Butter $10
Correspondence of Associated Press.
Paris, Sept. 30. Kood prices in
Pctrograd and Moscow are the high
est ever recorded there according tos
letters received here by the father
of two French women now in Rus
sia. Boots cost $160 a pair and a
man's suit $240. The clothing and
shoe crisis was said to be '"terrible."
These French women said they
were paying 50 cents for one egg,
$1.70 for a pint of milk; $4 fof a
pound of meat; $10 for a pound of
butter; $1.50 a pound for potatoes,
and $2 a pound for fish. The Rus
sian pound, it must be remembered,
is about one-fifth less than the Am
erican pound averdnpois.
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The
Virtue
of
Patience
The more deeply it is im
planted the more it
"stands out,"
Job had boils, also patience. His patience was not
because of his affliction but IN SPITE OF IT.
Napoleon almost conquered the world because of ,
patience he lost it because of impatience.
Washington at Valley Forge, saved his country by
his-patience and ability to instill patience into his army, ,
The immortal Lincoln, with all his great qualities
and lovable nature, is remembered more for his patience
than for anything else.
Woodrow Wilson, the "Democratic Lincoln," priti
cized for his policy of "watchful waiting." towards
Mexico, and later more severely criticized because he.'
1 refused to rush headlong into war, proved not only his
patience but also his profound wisdom. ; ' :
You never knew a really big man who was habit
ually impatient you never saw a big business on a sub
stantial foundation, but what patience laid the founda
tion and raised the super structure. . ;
Many men who might have become really great in
the arts, trades or professions lost their opportunity
when impatience bid them give up a half learned trade
to try another.
I have frequently been asked how long it took to
build up a Dental practice so large as now enjoyed by
his office.
I can only say AS LONG AS MAY BE NECESSARY
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TIENTS OF YOUR ABILITY, SINCERITY AND HON
ESTY. To the thousands of patrons of this office who have :
been wondering how they were going to have dental
.work done in the future if dental supplies kept advanc
ing in price, I can merely say have patience; I havet
ALWAYS stood between my patients and high prices-'
and I am "still on the job." V-;--
Here you will never pay more than the service
rendered is honestly worth and usually much less.
While I have no desire to unduly alarm the public ,
I may properly suggest that dental work in contempla-,
tion be not delayed.
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OMAHA, NEB.
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