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Come on, Turkey; your turn is nextj
Let the Hun have justice. He deservei it.
Be patient; maybe you can go to church
next Sunday.
Mr. Wilson's note to Austria was pointed
enough, at any Ate.
Now prepare for the War Work drive. This
is giving, not lending,
Emperor Karl insisted on having a separate
answer, and he got one.
"Gasless" Sundays terminated yesterday, but
v what most folks are interested in is fluless days.
''Muny" coal is all right, if the . citizens who
buy it are not required to pay a high price for
an inferior article.
'
A thief who 'would steal a doctor's runabout
these days deserves to be turned over to the
kaiser for punishment. .
Chasing the flu germ is in order. Having
uprooted the Hun, we ought to be able to track
his smaller prototype to its lair.
Of course, the Liberty loan went over. It
was a hard pull, but the Americans are getting
so they can pull pretty nearly anything.
The kaiser is calling loudly for Frederick
' Barbarossa, but the old boy does not waken.
Wilhelm will have to resume his pleas to Gott.
Mr. Wilsonhaving announced that the "four
teen points" no longer contain the basis for
peace, maybe the Omaha Hyphenated will also
admit the fact. .
The wily Baron Burian will have plenty of
time to figure out why his trap did not catch the
simple minded Yankees, but he will never get a
chance to try it again. , '
One would think it an easy matter to tell
where the "muny" coal comes from by locating
the mine that ships it. That ought to end any
dispute as to its quality.
Chicago bulls took a mad plunge into the
corn pit on a rumor that Germany had recalled
all its U-boatf. Doesn't take much to stampede
the grain gamblers these days, especially when
they are looking for. a chance to get even.
Huns are driving Belgian civilians before
them as they retire from the Hindenburg line.
The German soldier never shines so brightly
is when he it lording it over an unarmed and
helpless citizen.
Bulgaria took the "unconditional surrender"
medicine without particularly bad effects at
any rate, it survives what it feared would be a
deadly dose. Turkey next, then Austria-Hungary
and Germany in their order.
. Hfce heavy run of grass cattle at the stock
yards has been so readily taken up by feeders
that the supply of finished beef for winter con
sumption is assured. Our farmers and stock
raise rs are doing their best to meet the call for
food. t
While the report that the Germans have
stopped looting may be taken as dependable
information, the wonder will be whether it is
for (em of what may follow or simply because
they have already grabbed everything worth
stealing.
The arbitration treaty between Japan and
the United States having just been extended
for another five-year period, the date of the war
on the Pacific coast may be considered to be
set" at least as far ahead as 1923. Maybe by that
time its agitators will forget what it was going
to be about.
Wireless Girds the World
A few years ago the news that a wireless
message had enveloped the globe would have
been astonishing, would have been the news of
the day. News values have altered since August
1, 1914, and yesterday the report of this event
was printed briefly. News value is an expres
sion which, being translated, means "what peo
ple are interested in," and in these days propor
tions are altered;
' The short report we printed yesterday was
that direct communication between England and
Australia, a distance of 12,000 miles, had been
established. Twelve thousand miles is half-way
around the globe. But since the Hertzian waves
move equally in all directions, this message
moved also in the opposite, direction to that in
which it was aimed and covered the other 12,000
miles. It did more than that; it enveloped the
entire globe in every direction. Puck offered
to spread a girdle around the world; this scien
tific Puck changes the girdle into a mantle.
That, however, is a feature of ,the report
which only tickles the love of the marvelous.
: The practical side of it is not the encirclement
of the globe, but the sending of the message to
tha intended receiver of it half-way around the
circle. "The messages were received with per
fect clearness." They went from" the Marconi
rattan at Carnarvon. Wales, to the Amalgama-
n.l ted Wireless company of Australia at Sydney.
3 The abounding achievements of science during
ificltfie war, many of them directly caud by the
- tV, are getting little attention compared to the
a wupjpojy drama itself, but after the war they will
ifme into their owar-New York Time.
"STANDING BY THE PRESIDENT."
Every democratic spouter in the country is
making appeals "to vott 'er blind" on pretense
thlt only through that party can the president
have dependable support in prosecuting the
war. Judge C. M. Skiles, an up-state candidate
for state senator, is quoted as saying:
The American people re-elected 'Lincoln
and h party in 1864, when his job was un
finished, and we stood by Taft and his party
in ,98 in waging war and making peace.
The judge is unfortunate in his historic al
lusions. In 1864 the democrats nominated
George B. McClellan and did their utmost to
defeat Abraham Lincoln, their Chicago con
vention adopting resolutions declaring the war
a failure. In 1898 McKinley was president, and
how did the democrats support him?
A measure authorizing the issue of $600,000,
000 in bonds to finance the Spanish-American
war activities of our government was passed.
In the senate only seven out of thirty-four
democrats voted for it, and in the house only
six out of 130 democrats could cast aside party
lines to support the president with necessary
funds. One of these six was Amos J. Cum
mings of New York. On May 3, 1898, Champ
Clark said, turning to Cummings
s If it were notfor my personal affection
for the gentleman from New York, I would
inaugurate a movement among the democrats
in this and the other end of the capitol to read
out of the democratic party, by name, every
man who voted for the bond bill the other
day. Genuine democrats do not propose that
such action shall be charged to them.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis, then a
member of the lower house of congress, fol
lowed Mr. Clark with an even more bitter
tirade against the democrats who had voted
to supply money wherewith to support the
American army in the field. He wound up:
On this side of the house there arises now
and then, as did my friend from New York,
the distinguished and honorable gentleman,
Amos Cummings, who advised this assembly
that he "put his country before his party,"
and under his leadership certain gentlemen on
this floor, calling themselves democrats,
found it agreeable to support trie measure
(the war bond issue). For myself, I am tired
of this constant prating cry of patriotism,
which is ever invoked on the floor of this
house every time there is an attempt to com
mit a constitutional wrong. I say that with
the true democrat there can be no such cry
as my country before my party.
That was the attitude of the democrats in
congress in 1898 party before patriotism.
"Jimham" Lewis is now the recognized spokes
man for the administration in the senate. Does
he still revolt at the cry of patriotism and is he
still putting his party above his country? Will
the voters be fooled by the cry that none but
democrats are patriotic enough to be trusted
with the government of the country?
Where Does the Corn Go?
Much speculation has been had as ko what
disposition is made of the enormous corn crops
annually harvested in the United States. A
bulletin just published by the Department of
Agriculture give some interesting information
on this , point. While the United States pro
duces over 70 per cent of the world's output of
corn, it furnishes only about IS per cent of the
volume of the world's export trade in the
cereal. Ordinarily less than l.S per cent of the
domestic crop is exported.
Most of the great crop is consumed on the
farms where it is grown." In the 1911-15 period
only 19.4 per cent of the crop was shipped out
side the counties where it was harvested. The
farm consumption amounts to 83.4 per cent of
theotal yield; 27 per cent going to feed horses
and mules, 26.8 per cent to fatten swine, 8.6
per cent to milch cows and 9.4 per cent to other
cattle: poultry 'gets 3.6 per cent, and human
beings take 3.4, sheep require 2.2, and 0.8 per
cent goes for seed, while the use of 1.6 per cent
is doubtful.
The urban use of corn totals 15.2 per cent,
divided approximately: Ground in merchant
mills, 6.5 per cent; live stock "not on farms,"
5.4; gltfcose or starch, 1.6; distilled spirits, 1.2;
fermented liquors, 0.5. The remainder of the
crop, 1.4 per cent, represents the annual export.
Thirty-eight per cent of the crop reaches the
market "on the, hoof," most of it being fed on
the farms where it is raised. Only seven states
of the union, Nebraska being one, normally pro
duce more corn than they consume. When the
.dairying and live stock industry of this state is
properly developed, no occasion will arise for
sending a bushel of the state's great corn yield
jieyond the border in other form than that of
a highly concentrated food product
Right in the Spotlight
Prince Gregory Lvoff, who is re
ported on his way to the United
States from Japan, is the Russian
statesman who assumed temporary
direction of the government of Rus
sia after the fall of Czar Nicholas.
Considerable interest and import
ance is certain to be attached to the
visit of Prince Lvoff 'at this time,
though it is not known whether he
is coming in a private or official
capacity. Long a liberal in his sym
pathies, he has yet managed to re
tain the respect of the more conser
vative and exclusive classes of Ru
sia, and thus he can, at this junc
ture, mediate as few men can. Be
ing of straight Slavonian stock, his
prestige is enhanced by thii fact.
Previous to heading the govern
ment after the overthrow of the
czar, he had been the founder and
chief factor in the Union of Zem
stovs, or county councils.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
A. Mitchell IJalmer Appointed
enemy alien custodian, for the Unit
ed States. ' .
American transport Finland, re
turning from France, struck by
torpedo and eight men killed.
British troops made a successful
attack on the Turks northwest of
Bagdad.
Austria's Diminishing Prospects.
The note just dispatched to Vienna by
President Wilson may be taken as fairly deter
mining the fate of Austria. To say that the
suppressed nations, so long held under Austrian
depression, are to declare for themselves what
their future relations with the empire will be is
to practically settle its dismemberment Al
ready the Hungarian Diet has in so many words
denounced its alliance with the empire and pro
claimed the independence, of Hungary. The
Czecho-Slovak republic was formally promul
gated on Friday, and while this may be bat a
preliminary and pro forma move, it is an earnest
of the temper of the peoples concerned. There
fore, the Austrian empire probably will shortly
dwindle to the estate of the original archduchy,
and the oldest and proudest of European dy
nasties will come to its end. The Hungarian
maneuver is quite interesting, as it involves the
status of the Slovaks, who have so long borne
with their Magyar overlords. Whether these
latter hope, by seeking a separate peace, to
escape from the full effect of the Wilson dictum
is not certain, but it is not likely they will be
left undisturbed in control of Slovakia. The
breaking up and reformation of the kingdoms of
central Europe, now under way, is going to be
a process of tremendous interest to Americans
for many reasons, not the least of which is the
effect it will have on the outlook for early
peace. i
f Omaha Czechs lost no time in giving ap
proval to the message that fairly seals the fate
of the Austrian empire and secures to the Bo
hemians, Poles and others the unrestricted right
of-self-determination. The shritk that Freedom
gave when Kosciusko fell, is nothing to the
shout of triumph that went 'Up from his suc
cessors when Austria finally crashed on the
rocks of despotic greed.
K No increase in winter wheat acreage is
asked by the food administrator, an evidence
that our farmers made good last tims -
In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today.
rs. Louis Reed gave a pleasant
party at her home, , Twenty-second
and Davenport streets, in honor of
Miss Zera Snow, of Portland, Ore
gon. Captain Ray Webb Hays, John S.
Collins and Henry Homan leftson a
hunt in the Powder River country,
Wyoming.
The Evening Star club was organ
ized in Levis Hall, Thirteenth street.
About fifteen members were present
and elected D. P. O'Connell presi
dent and W. J. Ford, secretary.
A very pleasant party was given
to Miss Maggie McShane and her
friends at the residence of .Mr. and
Mrs. Charles F. Taggart, Walnut
Hill.
A grand fair is to be held in Ex
position hall for the benefit of St.
Joseph's hospital in the near future
C. W. White has returned from a
trip to Wisconsin, where he is
heavily interested in the pine reg
ions. ,
The Day We Celebrate.
Benedict C. Crowell, First As
sistant Secretary of War of the
United States, born in Cleveland, O.
' D. Howard H. Russell, founder
of the Anti-Saloon League of Amer
ica, born at Stillwater, Minn., 63
years ago.
Lieut.-Col. Ernest Dunlop Swin
ton, who is credited with the in
vention of the British "tanks,"' born
50 years ago.
Louis N. Parker,' English play
wright, born at. Calvados, France,
66 years age.
James Lukens, McConaughv. pres
ident of Knox college, born in New
York City, 31 years ago.
Prof. Arthur N. Talbot of the
University of Illnoins, born at
Cortland, 111., 61 years ago.
This Day in History.
1805 Admiral Lord Nelson, the
most popular of British naval he
roes, killed at battle of Trafalgar.
Born in Norfolk, England, Septem
ber 29, 1758.
1868 An earthquake damaged the
city of San Francisco, causing con
siderable loss of life.
1870 Great Britain, supported by
neutral powers, asked for an arm
istice in the war between France
and Prussia.
1880 Contract signed for the con
struction of he Canadian Pacific
railway. y
1914- French reported progress
on the right bank of the Meuse.
1915 Russians occupied Czerno
witz, capital of Bukowina.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
One thousand five hundred forty
third day of the great war.
Centennial anniversary of the
birth of Enoch Fitch Burr, a cele
brated American lecturer and writ
er on science and theology.
The annual convention of the
Kansas Motion Picture Exhibitors'
League will meet at Hutchinson to
day for a two-day session.
One thousand rallies have been
planned for cities , and x towns
throughout Ohio tonight to mark
the formal opening of the republi
can campaign in the Buckeye State.
With the Liberty loan campaign
ended, the leaders of all parties are
planning for a vigorous political
campaign to begin today and con
tinue during the two weeks remain
ing before the general elections.
Storyette of the Day.
Senator Lewis said on his return
from France:
"I hope that our war decorations
for valor will be given with a more
sparing and a juster hand, than has
been the custom in the past.
" You often see across the water,
a shabby private, minus a leg or
an arm, with a single modest deco
ration on his breast, and you then
say to yourself 'That decoration was
earned.' But often, too often, you
see politicians and elegant young
princelings whose breasts are a
jingling glitter of decorations, and
before this sight you say nothing.
You just shake your head.
,'One day at a dinner I noticed
three decorations on a personage's
tunic, and I murmured maliciously
to the Frenchwoman at my side:
"'Can you tell me, madame, why
the duke got those three decora
tions?' w'To be sure I can,' said the
Frenchwoman. 'He got his third
decoration because, he had two, and
his second because he had one, and
his, first because he had none.' "
A service flag with six stars rep
resenting six sons adorns the office
ot Governor Richard Irvine Man
ning of South Carolina.' If any
other governor can show a like flag
in that vicinity no doubt the gov
ernor of South Carolina will enliven
the subsequent conversation,
Where Is the"Woolly West?"
Christian Science Monitor.
It. might be difficult to say just why the ex
pression, the woolly west, was ever applied to
the American west, or what the term was in
fended to imply. It is possible that its more
widespread application began with the publi
cation of A. Welcker's "The Woolly West" in
1891. The phrase, and also its amplified form,
"wild and woolly,' however, came to stay. How
familiar and general its usage became may inci
dentally be gathered from an article which ap
peared in a New York newspaper in 1909, when
the journal congratulated itself upon the happy
circumstance that "the wild and woolly individ
ual of the early mining camps, whose business
it was to terrorize the editor by demanding re
traction, was no longer in evidence." I
The quality of "woolliness" as applied to the
west, however, is perhaps dependent upon the
way in which one is disposed to take itu In the
sense of the west being, as it were, one vast
sheep ranch, it is obviously a misnomer. One
hardly ever sees a sheep along the beaten
tracks, whilst the sheepskin overalls or "chaps"
of the cowboy are now far less common than
formealy on the plains. Rather is the-word ap
plicable, in these days of the changing west, to
the striking effect which the ubiquitous sage
brush has upon the'imagination. Let the sage
brush growth be viewed, say, frqm the vantage
point of a Wyoming trail, where the beholder
is separated by many leagues from human habi
tations, and the whole earth roundabout will
probably convey the impression of woolliness.
But that is only one of the signal and peculiar
aspecfe of the west
The real "wild and woolly" -west is above all
a place of human equalities, which rarely seeks
to record its successes in outward dress or
style; which has neither its operas nor its thea
ters; neither its parks nor its gardens nor its
clubs; and in many instances it is without its
churches. Amid its immense solitudes a lonely
ranch or a hut may, and usually does, look
strangely out of place, and conveys the impres
sion of having been lifted bodily from among
the clustered habitations of men and dropped
amid the fawns, grays and greens of a wondrous
Mever Never Land.
More difficult to account for, perhaps, is the
peculiar reluctance of certain westerners to ac
knowledge that they are denizens of the "woolly
west" Perhaps, because the west has visibly
shrunk year after year, and the frontiers, have
steadily retired toward the setting sun, there
has gone beyond the Missouri much of the life
of the east; but be that as it may, one has not
to penetrate far beyond Kansas City. St. Joseph
or Omaha before he will be sure to meet those
who still keep up the fiction of their being
"east," who will tell one, perhaps, that the west
is no more, or that it has slipped back into the
Pacific, or that one may find it in Alaska or
possibly in China, but that anyway it is not in
that particular individual s latitude or loneitude,
And there is much about the west of today to
lend color to the contention. If one were to
look for the "woolly west" with the grasses of
the prairie, the footprints of the buffalo, the
whoop of the American Indian, the pathos and
tragedy of the trail, the dissoluteness of the
mining town, the lawlessness of the gunmen and
the life of the pioneer, then one might search
for it in vain. Yet there is, none the less, a
west that is "wild and woolly" by virtue of the
comparative emptiness which ' the passing of
these elements and conditions of the past has
produced.
In contrast with the signal change which has
come over the west is the ineradicable belief.
cherished by boyhood everywhere, in the sur
vival and permanence of the old-fashioned west.
It has lived in boyhood's dreams like the tales
of the Arabian Nights and the adventures of
the Crusoes and the Last of the Mohicans. It
seems impossible to convince the boy that there
are no wild Indians roaming the plains no herds
of buffaloes, no lonely trappers, no (faring ex
plorers, no herds of antelopes(lno wild horses,
no prairie schooners and home-seeking pioneers,
and that there are few specimens of the noble
cowboy. It is even difficult to convince him
that there is a better and far greater west, a
west which fs'a legacy from the past, which has
leavened the whole east and endowed it with a
wider horizon, a more redundant energy, a
greater mission, a unique type of civilization.
mar wesr toaay is caning to wnoie nations to
help to fill its ample tracts with men, to merge
their interests, to mold their patriotisms and,
settling on the broad and liberal spaces of the
woolly west, seal that bond of interrelation
ship of the races which is one of the great les
sons of the present war.
A "
Poland an Acid Test
The long, long way to peace through Ger
man discussion of President Wilson's fourteen
points is well emphasized bv Mr. Roman
Dmowski, president of the Polish national
council at Fans. Mr. Dmowski sent a message
to be read at a Liberty loan meeting in Chi
cago, in which he pointed out that the thir
teenth item of President Wilson's peace pro
gram dealt with the independence of Poland,
"an independent Polish state," including all the
territory, inhabited by indisputably Polish pop
ulations, "which should be assured a free and
secure access to the sea."
Mr. Dmowski shows that such a Polish state
would include Prussian Poland. Would Gerl
many give up Posen, Polish Silesia, the PolisH
part of west Prussia, including Dantzip;, and
that part of east Prussia that is Polish? Would
Germany thus agree to the creation of a strong
barrier between herself and Russia, thus re
nouncing all hope of exploiting Russia? If she
would, then Mr. Dmowski admits that the sense
of right and justice will have penetrated iTUfjl
Germany. But he reminds his hearers that the
Poles know Germany through 1.000 years of
struggle against German greed, German lies and
German brutality. "We have had bitter experi
ence," he says, "which have taught us not to
nourish vain hopes. Germany will never sin
cerely accept the thirteenth point of President
Wilson's program."
President Wilson's questions had hardly be
come known in Germany before the newspapers
of Berlin announced that two of his peace items
must be considered rejected offhand, those re
lating to Poland and Alsace-Lorraine.
There are many wayl of demonstrating that
Germany does not actually accept the presi
dent's peace program. One acid test is Poland.
.Germany will never let go her grip upon Poland
uniu tne antes smasn ner military power.
Washington Post.
People and Events
' The celebrated rumor factories of Amster
dam and Rotterdam, and the whispering galler
ies of Copenhagen and Stockholm, so far out
distance Rome in product that the Eternal city
seems lost in the dust Time was when Rome
had all competitors limping far in the rear.
Where the chatter of world politics sounded
like a quadrupled band now is silence as solemn
as the byways of the Forum.- Much of Rome's
laurels passed to the1 northern neutral capitals.
Geneva and Berne are plucking the remainder.
War optimists monopolize the public ear
these Virring days. Political optimists scarcely
get a word in edgeways. Still, the latter hold
the endurance '.belt unchallenged. No matter
what befall, even though calarnitytlooms ahead,
the genuine political optimist glimpses only the
sunshine of victory in the ides of November.
Back in New York City 600,029 men and 414,760
women voters have registered, the largest in the
city's history. As party spokesmeri view the
huge figures victory is sure taperch in both
camps. Registrants will do the talking later On.
Soldiers in United States camps jnay vo,te,
but must not be pestered with campaign litera
ture. These regulations leave the home papers
buttressed as missionaries of enlightenment
- Not the least of the noiseless upheavals of
war is the mysterious disappearance of the re,d
neckties from man's pulsij i0 ': ,
Round About the State
York News-Tlmea, referring to the
fourth Liberty loan drlva, saya "the
country has gone over, but it looks
like the big cities had gone under.
The bigger the city the greater are
opportunities for hiding and dodging
duty.
Dollar weeklies are rare prints
these wartimes. Even the 11.50
weeklies are getting aa scarce as
they are unprofitable. Crete News
IS the latest driven from il to $1.60,
The 12 mark is the noDiilar limit,
and any weekly worth its salt is
worth $2 a year.
What happened to the surplus
apple crop of Wayne county remains
a mystery in that section. The
Wayne Herald maintains an air of
unrtiffled innocence, like the cat
which absorbed the canary. As none
of the pippins were green enough to
disturb the interior department the
Herald plays safe in putting over an
air ot innocence, i
Torli News-Tlmea scents an'ap
proachihg hour when consumers wl'I
rise in their might and lambast
profiteers in a vital spot "The con
sumer pays the bills coming and go
inp," observes the York prophet
"He is getting a tired feeling that
no amount of Washington hot air
will oe able to dispel." Lead on,
York. Start something!
Berlin, Otoe county, sticks to the
news map, although it has ceased to
be Berlin. The precinct was one of
the first civis divisions to go over
the top with its Liberty loan quota,
and treasury officials placed the
achievement at the top of the score
board of 100 per centers. The Ber
lin of bygone days is renamed Otoe,
in Otoe preoinct, Otoe county,
In a garret corner of a farmer'i
house In York county, neatly blan
keted from prying eyes and cold
weather, reposed a surplus hoard of
flour. The hoarder seemed as much
surprised as the discoverers, but his
greatest surprise came when he was
persuaded to hand over a fine of
$250 to the Red Cross, besides send
inpr the surplus back to where he
got it.
Look, look, what have wehere?
A 28-page boom number of the Al
liance Semi-Weekly Times, overflow
ing with fatness and booster meat
Pictures, penwork and potash 11
lumlnes the highways, which, like
the roads of Rome, lead to the "best
city In western Nebraska." If there
be doubters, let them read the Times
and be convinced. Aside from its
quality as a community write-up,
the number Is a notable sample of
artistic print-shop work.
Over There and Here
Since the allied drive began, July
18, 460,000 Hun prisoners have been
captured and counted. This week's
haul will push the score over the
half-million mark. The labor prob
lem of the allied armies seems fairly
well settled.
Charles H. Grasty, writing from
Paris to the New York Times, re
ports that competent authorities be
lieve Rheims cathedral can be "suffl
ciently restored to maintain its rank
among the worlds art treasures.'
Only the walls remain.
A former East St. Louis man serv.
lng With the colors in France tells
the' home folks in a letter of the
128t"h Infantry going Into the trench
es for its turn and coming out with
out the loss of a man. The Huns
gave them a hot time for eight, days,
but never touched em.
The newly elected king of Finland,
Prince Charles of Hesse, brother-in
law of the kaiser, is known at home
as "the Eddie Foy of Germany." He
Is the father of three sets of twin
boys. Aside from this his naln
achievement, like other princelings,
Is that of living off the state and
looking wise.
Investigation by the district attor
ney's office into war charities In New
York reveals over $4,000,000 con
trlbuted by patriotic people since
April, 1917, squandered or diverted
to the pockets of "smooth workers."
Very little of this crooked work
comes to the surface now. Grand
jury indictments and prosecution
put tne war crooks out of business.
October prices for milk, butter
and potatoes in London range from
13 cents a quart for milk, 62 cent
a pound for butter and $1.45 a
bushel for potatoes. The principal
articles of, food in Great Britain
average 116 per cent advance over
the prices, of July, 1914. Prices of
necessaries on this side equal the
British jump, and we have scarcely
Degun to ngnt the profiteers.
Around the Cities
Personal assessments of New
Yorkers this year increased $600,
000,000, and recently assessments
jumped $146,000,000. These are
tentative figures, which suggest an
unusual volume of business during
me swearing-oti period. v
Minneapolis stands out this year
as a rare model of municipal econ
omy. A reduction in the tax rate
for 1919 has been decreed. The size
of the cut is not so important as the
fact that the taxing authorities re
fused to Join in the wartime Squeeze,
A new lease of life seems assured
to Madison Square Garden, New
York's famous auditorium. The tak
ing over of the Grand Central palace
by tne government diverts consid
erable new business to the garden,
insuring operating expenses and
some over.
Down near Pacific Junction Or-
chardist Henry Evernham scores a
liu.uiro apple crop from 100 acres.
The record is exceptional in Iowa
this year, and is credited to Missouri
river water percolating vitality
through' bottom lands. Wayne
county (Nebraska) apple kings will
please sit up and take notice.
According to the high signs of the
trade in Chicago shoes costing sev
eral plunks more than the official
maximum of $12 a pair will continue
to be sold until the stock is exhaust
ed. Footwear costing $18 and $20,
as the trade, views the tag, is not
unreasonably, considering the excess
of leather needed for a Chicago fit
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
The man who la now so high In hla
party's councils was ones a- carpenter."
Then he ought to know all aboiKtut-
tlng the planks In the party platform."
Baltimore American.
The Bride I want to thank you for
that beautiful prenent.
Her Married Friend Don t mention It,
my dear. It was a mere trifle.
The Bride Well. I didn't
when I gave It to you at
Botton Transcript.
think io
your marrlage-
"My line Is useful."
"Bo?"
"But I .have a hard time Interesting
l-eople."
"What are you selling T"
"Snowshovela for November delivery."
Inclnnatl Enquirer.
I had such a burden upon me that I
wouldn't sleep, but walked the floor of
sights."
"How terrible! Was It business or mea
nt trouble?"
"Neither: It was the baby." Baltimore
American.
N "I see they are going to put con
scientious objectors to work on the farms."
'Gee whis," replied the old farmer,
we've had enough ot that sort of help
hanging around our farms already." De
troit Free Press.
Howell The fool aren't all dead yet
Powell No. and the worst of It Is that
lost of them aren't even sick. Judge. .
Canada and the Empire.
Omaha, Oct. 1$. To ths Editor of
The Bee. Up to the present over
900,000 Britishers have made the su
preme sacrifice. The first three
years of the conflict has convinced
British statesmen that the agricul
tural development of Canada is a vi
tal necessity for ftje- future wolfare
of the British empire. I
THOMAS HENRY W ATKINS,
Locating the Peace Council.
Omaha, Oct 19. To the Editor of
The Bee: I saw In one of the local
dally issues that there Is some possi
bility that the world peace congress
will meet for that purpose in Brus
sels, .Belgium. Inasmuch as peace is
coming, the world will be Interested
as to the place where the peace dele
gation shall congregate to ratify the
terms that will be calUd peace
terms.
Some one might say that it does
not matter where that body shall as
semble, sine peace comes. It does
matter. It matters where the sun
rises and where it sets. God knew
that Now that peace is coming, and
let none dare call it man's peace;
world's peace, the peace of democ
racy; but let it be called God's
peace, for He says that In this world
we shall have tribulation, but in Him
we snail nave peace. This being
true, let us not have our minds upon
some big, outstanding and loud
sounding city; but let us seek a
lowly place, simple perhaps in its
outstanding feature, but lofty in Its
history. Let that place be Jerusalem
Bethlehem of Judea the Holy
Land, where the Prince of Peace
was born, and so start that peace
rolling that shall not stop until the
peaceful atmosphere shall be such
that the lion-like spirit among men
shall assume lhat Iamb-like nature,
and study warW more.
M. H. WILKINSON.
Voting in the South.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 18. To the
Editor of The Bee: I was much in
terested In your editorial entitled
"Franchise in the Solid South."
Very few people of the United States
realize how many voters in the
"solid south" are denied the right to
vote. Although our constitution
guarantees the right of suffrage to
an, with very few exceptions it is
dangerous for a negro to attempt to
vote in many of the southern states.
If he insisted on his constitutional
rights he might be hanged or shot
without any formality, and the
event would not create enough ex
citement to be published in a local
town paper. Many white men also
are denied the right to vote In Mis
sissippi and other southern states be
cause they do not own a certain
amount of property. In fact, the
south is hotbed of political cussed
ness and tyranny unequalled any
where by a people claiming to be
democratic.
I hear so much sung of the
Sunny South," that glorious land of
Dixie, but such praise sounds hollow
to me. Tnat land is ruled by a
clique of politicians who deny the
right to vote to thousands of Ameri
can citizens, in defiance of the con
stitution.
Your editorial did me good. I
would like about 15,000,000 voters to
get wise to .his fake idea that the
south is the home of democracy.
A YANKEE.
The Church and the "Flu.H
Omaha, Oct. 8. To the Editor of
The Bee: Referring to a letter In
this evening's Bee, a pastor wishes
to have the church exempt from the
closing order on account of the
'flu" because "God will take care
of His own."
There is a very large section of
Christians and non-Christians, both
inside the church and out, who find
no evidence that God ever protected
Daniel or anybody else from the
lions or the fiery furnace, who do
not believe that He is so partial as
to suspend the laws of nature for
anybody, or that under the same
conditions the "flu" ferm will be
more considerate in getting in his
work in a church building than in
any other place where people assemble.
The church needs, nor should it
ask, any special privileges of the
commonwealth, and it stultifies itself
vhen it asks it.
The days of the state-governed, or
fostered or protected church are
going, and should have gone centur
ies ago. Success to the church and
all the righteousness for which it
stands,, but when the "flu" and pa
ralysis and the smallpox are abroad
the doors of its assembly rooms had
better be closed. A. B. BROWN.
Save the Heifer Calves.
Omaha, Oct. 10. To the Editor of
The Bee: A few days ago I was
talking to some butchers from one
of the packing houses and they were
telling of the killing of calves. I
said to them that I supposed more
male calves than females were killed,
but they told ' me it was just the
other way. One man said he knew
of one bunch of 1,600 calves that
were killed and that at least 900 6f
them were heifer calves, and he said
It runs that way all of the time. If
these statements are true, it is high
time a law was passed to curtail the
killing of heifer calves. I would be
In favor of a law that would forbid
the killing of female calves under 2
years of age.
If there is going to be conserva
tion, 64 there surely will have to be
very soon, the best way to begin is
to save the heifer calves. For one
do not eat veal, and have not for
the last five years, and my reason is
that I want to see the calves of the
country saved instead of being
slaughtered as tlfey are being by the
hundreds of thousands every 'year.
Until a law can be passed to save
heifer calves everyone should stop
eating veal unless they are positive
that the veal is not from heifer
Cities in War's Red Glare
Douat. the French city Just llbfr.
ated from the Hun invaders, traee
Its history back to the stvanth cn
tury. Its site-has been trodden tf
battling armies for 1.000' years. 'A
strings feature of its history is that,
in the sixteenth century Douai was a
haven of liberty for English Catho
lics exiled from home and by them
was produced the Doual version ot
the Bible, in us by English-speaking
Catholics throughout the - world.
Three centuries later the English as.
slsted in liberating the exiles' refuge
from tha Huns of modern timea la
peace times Doual had a population
Of 25.000 and a score of thriving in
dustrles.
There was a hot time in the old
town of Bruge when the allied lib
erators drove in and chased the in
vaders. For Bruge is quite an old
town, redolent with memories of the
counts of Flanders and dukes of
Buig-indy, who there held forth and
fought and feasted, regardless 'of ex
pense. Its name, "The Bridge,'
sprang from a primitive structure,
the first that spanned the sluggish
river Reye. In the height of its
glory and opulence, centuries ago, it
was known as the "Venice of the
north," being bisected by canals and
enjoying the commercial advantages
of an inland seaport These advan
tages long ago vanished. Canals and
river long unused filled with silt and
the town relapsed into commercial
decay. Still the city preserved its
charm for studious tourists, archae
ologists and artists, and was es
teemed by the latter "the mother ol
the arts of Flanders."
Beirut one of the latest objectives
of the allies, Is the chief seaport on
the Syrian coast of the Mediterra
nean and one of the most ancient
settlements of Phoenicia. More than
half the population of the place is
European and American and foreign
capital is heavily Invested there. The
town is beautifully situated in the
narrow, garden-girt coast-plain at
the foot of the Lebanon.
Baku, the Russian port1 on the
Caspian sea, which has fallen into
the control of the enemy, is a city ot
about 250,000 inhabitants and lays
claim to rank next to Petrograd and
Moscow in industrial Importance.
Baku has a petroleum industry that
produces raw material to a value of
$50,000,000 yearly, and is the dis
tributing center tu the huge agricul
tural regions of the Caucasus, the
Transcaspla and northern Persia,
Durazzo, the seaport town on the
coast of Albania, which has Just
been bombarded by the allied war
ships, was a place of considerable
importance and splendor in ancient
days, but since it came under the
sway of the Turks at the beginning
of the sixteenth century it has fallen
into a city of sorry dilapidation. In
ancient history it occupies a place as
the scene of Julius Caesar's last suc
cessful resistance in his struggle
with Pompey.
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calves. In that way a great saving
might be made.
This country has been the most
destructive on earth, and wartimes
seem to further the extravagance
and waste instead of conserving.
People in the city of Washington
write to friends out this way that
extravagance runs riot in the na
tional capital. It is to be hoped that
there will be a law passed to save the
heifer calves of this country before
cattle go the way of the buffalo, the
wild turkey and the wild pigeon. By
saving heifer calves for the next few
years the meat question of the fu
ture would be met.
FRANK A. AONSW.
STATUS QUO POST BELLUlf.
Since Bill Hellensollern Is feeling" lot
peace.
At breakfast and dinner and tea,
I may as well tell him by Creel releaae-
Just when he will set It may be I
When r titer tea Linden Is labelled Broad
way,' When the Thlergarten's tailed Lone
park;
When all of tha Huns that are left ean
play
The game of base ball la the dark.
When the ohlcks of the "Follies" pick
Johns at a spa;
When the Albany boats sail the Rhine;
When the kids of Berlin call the Presi
dent Pa,
And the grown-ups all toast him with
wine.
When BUI Sunday la Hunland the devil
combats;
When tin lizzies toot-toot la Vienna;
When Sn polio flashes from Leipzig to
Orati
Id electrlos as bright as Gehenna.
When the palace at Potsdam's aa auto
mat; When Oerard la tha mayor of Cologne;
When the crown prince la Harlem baa
bought a flat
And Is using the plaae as a throne.
When all of this happens and very much
more
When we're a longer Yankees, but
Taps;
When we've put on ear earmuffs and
locked every door.
Why, we'll listen to peace talk perhapsl
OLIVER OPDTKB In N. T. Herald.
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"Tour daughter, I notice, Mr. Comeup,
has a great deal of savolr fairs.
"Tee, you s?, we thought we might as
well lay In a lot of It for her before they
stopped Importing it any mora," Detroit
Frae Press,
Notice to Taxpayers of
Douglas County
Commencing November 4th, 1918, 1 am by law
compelled to sell all delinquent taxes or special as
sessments on all property in Douglas County.
It is not my desire to sell the property of any tax
payer, so for the benefit of the tax-paying public
I will state that there is still time to avoid the sale
of your property for deliquent taxes by attending
to the matter at once, as the taxes on all property
advertised mav be paid without any extra expense
except advertising, before November 4th, 1918.
If you are in doubt as to whether you have any
unpaid taxes call us up by phone, or read the Eve
ning World-Herald of October 19th and 26th.
M. L.ENDRES, ;.
County Trefclirer ,
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