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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918.'
NO NEGOTIATED
PEACE FOR U. S.,
PLEA OF TAFT
v Urges-Republican Congress as
Check Upon Weak Pol-
of Wilson Wih
the Huns.
Icy
Burgess-Nash Honor Boys
Who Have Joined Army
(Continued From Fa Eleven.)
Reclaimed diplomacy of the admin
istration. What ate the views of
our allies, who have borne the heat
and burden of this war and who
have saved us from German domin
ation? We know generally that
there are some of the 14 points
which they will not agree to, and
that there are other conditions, not
ably indemnities, not contained in
the 14 points upon which they will
insist.
"The course of the president has
seriously endangered the unaninim
ity of the allies in this critical stage
In the settlement of the war. Until
we know exactly what the allies
wish, until they have mads formal
declaration of the terms which they
demand, we cannot in honor fix
what our terms shall be. But w
do know that the terms can all be
properly settled only after an un
conditional surrender by Austria
and Germany. How then, can the
attitude of our government be made
a demand for unconditional sur
render by the return of a repub
lican congress in the election of
next Tuesday? This will push the
president, as nothing else can, this
will be an expression of the popular
will that he cannot ignore, this will
be a controlling of will that he must
respect.
Would Dictate Peace.
"The president speaks in all his
messages as if he were the sole ar
biter in the matter of peace, the
participation of the senate in fixing
the terms he never mentions and as
to the right of the allies to take part
in the settlement and have an equal
voice he makes only a slight reluc
tant referenced
i "The return of a republican con-
fress will settle all these mat
ers to the satisfaction of the Am
rican public. .
"Third: After unconditional sur
render and q statement of the terms
of peace, the country will naturally
turn to its domestic questions and
this subject must be considered by
the next congress for a large part
pf its term. For nearly two years,
the executive of this administration
has exercised more uncontrolled
power man any administration in
the history of the country, and that
power has included the expenditure
of vaster sums per year than this
nation or any other nation has ex
pended in the history of the world.
, "One of the functions of congress,
impiled in the constitution, is the
examination into the account ex
penditures by the executive under
its appropriations. lit other words
one of the principal and most salu-
tory restraints upon wasteful, ill
advised and corsvpt expenditure of
money, and tliV misuse of discre
tionatyi'eri is the investigation
which congress or either house of
congress, is authorized to make with
view to preventing further abuse
with a view to makinjr known to
the American people the story of
the stewardship of the , executive,
to whom such power and expendi-
ture have been entrusted.
1 Should Probe Waste.
: "Thafthere has been waste in the
. expending of money appropriated in
preparation for the war goes with'
out saying, but the American people
can be trusted to note how inevita
ble such waste is under the most
careful administration where a war
. has been thrust suddenly on the
government without trained agen
ciea to make the preparation there
or,
. "Such Investigation rhold be
made with due regard to the dlffi
Cutties that were presented, but it
should be made impartially . and
without fear and independent of
any partisan restraint I need hard'
!r say that a democratic congress
nder the control of the executive,
s a democratic congress will be,
is not likely to look with close sera
' tiny into such a stewardship. Only
a republican congress can be count
. ed on to bring the facts as the peo
ple should have them.
"W nave contracted enormous
, debts to carry on this war, debts
; which our posterity to the third and
fourth generation will have to pay.
If we have unconditional surrender
and a just peace, that which we
have secured will be worth the cost
But the American people are en
titled to know that the money is
honestly and effectively expended,
or to understand in what respects
tho administration and its depart
ments and subordinates did not
meet the patriotic duty and the
proper standard ot ethciency which
the American people had the right
under the circumstances to expect
Wo have during this war, under es-
' pionage acta and under other legis
? lation, given the executive greater
power of restraint upon the free
dom of speech and freedom of the
press and upon freedom of action
than in our previous history,
, Whether in peace or in war the
American people are entitled to
' know byfull and free investigation
after the war. when revelations can
injure no one but those -.who are
guilty, whether that power has been
exercised for partisan purposes.
, Only a republican congress can be
trusted to make such an investiga
tion.
Post-War Problem "Great
- "Fourth; when the war closes and
; the demand for ammunition and all
, kinds of war equipment ceases
; abruptly and the intense activities
in many fields of production are to
be turned from war instrumental
Ities in supplies to stores of peace
necessities that are now so limited
in quantities, it is essential that such
a business transition shall take
place with the least disturbance to
labor and capital. In any event
and under the widest legislation, we
must expect a halt in business that
will trv our oeoole.
"The exigency must be met by
wise legislation and careful admin
istration. This is a matter for earn
est counsel and deliberation. It is
a problem for the solution of which
both the legislative and the execu
tive branches must be responsible
wa must therefore have a legisla
L I m If
T " ,sf
The Burgess-Nash company has,
within the past few days, done
honor to the boys who have gone
from their ."rm to do their part in
"making the world safe for democ
racy," by placing a beautiful bronze
plate bearing the honor roll of'the
firm in large letters, in a conspicu
ous place at the entrance to the
elevators.
It was the plant of the firm to
accompany the installation of this
honor roll by a suitable ceremony
of speeches and songs, but the epi
demic of Spanish influenza induced
them to dispense with any form
ality of that kind.
Besides the 52 names which the
plate now contains there are ten
more to be added to bring the list
up to date.
More than two-thirds of these
men are now overseas, and the
Burgess-Nash people rejoice that
so far as they know, not a single
fatality or accident of any conse
quence has befallen any of them.
RUSSIA SCENE
OF BLOODSHED
UNPRECEDENTED
Lord Cecil Says Present Gov
ernment Surpasses Worst
Days of Old Regime in
Denial of Justice.
London, Nov. 1. Discussing the
position of British subjects in Rus
sia in the House ot commons to
day, Lord Robert Cecil, assistant
secretary ot state and toreign at
fairs, said that the government's
information was that the amount of
blood shed bjrthe present govern
ment of Russia greatly exceeded any
thing that ever took place under the
imperial regime.
"There has been no pretense of
justice, he said. Teople ot all na
tionalities have been arrested and
imprisoned without any reason be
ing given. Moreover, there has been
a large amount of casual murder
and brigandage throughout all ofc
European Russia. mere has also
been reckless destruction of all
means of subsistence.
"The British government will
shrink from nothing within their
power to get every British subject
out of Russia and unquestionably
mean to exact justice on the people
guilty of these outrages when they
are able to get them into their
power."
American
Casualty List
LIEUTENANT PAT O'BRIEN
GOING BACK TO FIGHT.
tive branch which shall be indepen
dent and courageous in its proposals
and in its legislation and not sub
ject to the dictation of the executive.
Job Too Big for Wilson.
Fifth: The measures which have
been adopted to organize industry,
transportation and other great agen
cies so as to concentrate industry
and transportation and these great
agencies to intensify production and
transportation of war necessities
have thrust on us many problems of
government ownership and opera
tion and stirred jjp so many ques
tions as to relations of labor and
capital that the whole country is
roused to the need of constructive
measures of an economic, social and
political character to keep pace with
the progress of ideas generated by
the war.
"These measures need the deliber
ation of an independent and
courageous congress, not under the
control of the executive, and not
subject to academic ideals and
theories, except as they are modified
and made practical by a considera
tion of existing conditions and a
practical knowledge of what can be
achieved in human nature's daily
regime.
The Question of mvprnmnit
Ownership of railroad and nttir
public utilities, and of the regula-
uun oi production irom tne eartn
and in the factory to human neces
sities, must all be considered with
progressive, but practical states
manship. These are questions which
were not rifa when the president
was elected. The president was
elected on tht platform of peace.
and on the ground that he had kept
us out of war. The war came on
notwithstanding, but we h vad
no formal and elector?! exi .on
from the people, sine his mandate
of power antedates the present
emergencies and the questions that
force themselves upon us.
"It is of the utmost importance.
therefore, that we have in the legis-,
lative branch of congress represen
tatives wno snail speak their will,
unrestrained by the control of an
executive elected on other is
sues. For that reason, again, a re
publican congress must be returned.
Would Avoid Restraint.
"An unmistakable postulate of this
appeal is that during the period of
the next congres, the present presi
dent rmift be the sole director and
judge of the proper course, not only
as the head of the army but as set
tling the terms of peace and all
civil matters. The war may end
before the new congress begins its
term. In any event it will end be
fore the first regular session of that
congress. The military reasons for
his unified leadership therefore have
little or no application. As to the
settlement of the terms of peace the
constiution requires the co-ordinate
action of the senates and refutes at
once his claim that he must be the
unembarrassed spokesman of the
country in settling finally what
those terms of peace are.
"One important duty of the next
congress is to demand account of
the president's stewardship. Upon
what theory of republican govern
ment can it be claimed that matters
of character and importance should
be under the unrestrained control
of the man whose stewardship is to
be examined.
"Another important duty is the
legislative provision for reconstruc
tion. Upon what view of democratic
government is that to be entrusted
to the uncontrolled will of the ex
ecutive. The remarkable character
of the appeal Ms its demand for a
power during the next two years
equal to that of the Hohenzollcrns
in war and peace and accounting and
reconstruction. In assuming that he
will be embarrassed and will . be
free from control if a renublican
congress is not elected he demon
strates his belief and it is well sus
tained that a democratic congress
will be no restraint upon his will at
all.
"He fails to recognize that without
the republican minority his prosecu
tion of the war would have been a
failure. He asks the American peo
ple to entrust him with an unlimited
power over the settlement of a
peace which will affect them for
a century, when he has given many
evidences of the wish to pursue a
course against which their faces are
set. The president's expression of
the fear that election of a republican
majority in either house will em
barass him abroad as a vote of want
of confidence in his prosecution of
the war, is . wholly without force.
The return of a republican congress
will confifm our allies in a knowl
edge that the American people in
sist on unconditional surrender and
repudiate a peace by negotiation."
Three Billion "Cigs" Are ,
Bought for U. S. Troops
Washington, Nov. 1. Orders for
3,000,000,000 cigarettes, enough to
provide two smokes for every per
son in the world, have been placed
by the War department-, to sunnlv
American soldiers for the balance
of th year,
The following Nebraska and
Iowana appear in the casualty list
given out by the government for
Saturday morning, November 2:
WOUNDED; DEGREE UNDE
TERMINED. Errol Grisman Leyda, next of
kin, Jno. Frederick Leyda, Bloom
field, la.
Lewis Wuncnell, next of kin,
Mrs. Christ Wunchell, Wall Lake,
la.
SLIGHTLY WOUNDED.
Sergt Clyde Anderson, next of
kin. George W. Anderson, Have
lock, Neb.
Corp. Glen I. Murray, next of
kin, Floyd J. Murray, 1427 How
ard street, Omaha, Neb.
William B. Morrissey, next of
kin, W. T. Morrissey, Albia, la.
The following Nebraskans and
Iowans are named in the casualty
list given out by the government for
Friday afternoon, November 1:
WOUNDED SEVERELY.
Harry Distelhorst; next of kin,
Mrs. Alice Distelhorst, Burlington,
la.
WOUNDED SLIGHTLY.
Elmer E. Folander; next of kin,
Mrs. Eleanor Folander, Davenport,
la.
MISSING IN ACTION.
Corp. Arthur M. Hamilton; next
The Drawl KM
Sajfl Dad buys
m Sttd ' Shod
ShoM btcans ht
doMn't kav to
buy them
often."
A Boy's
Shoe
That will outwear two
pairs of ordinary Boys'
Shoes will have lots of
friends ancTthat is ex
actly why
STEEL
HOD
HOES
are worn by thousands of
happy boys in Omaha. If yourJ
boy is not a Drexel Kid we
both lose. .
Bring him in tomorrow.
Boys' !!
1 to 5!i $3.25
Little Men.
9 to 13 M .....$2.75
Drexel Shoetlo.
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Mail Orders Solicited.
. Parcel Pott Paid.
PERRY WHEELER
LAWYER
- v for
Municipal Judge
Lt. Pat O'Brien of Momence, 111.,
the American boy who, as a mem
ber of England's Royal Flying corps
was shot down back of the German
lines, imprisoned and later made his
escape, is going back to fight the
Huns. Lieutenant O Bnen is going
back to the front despite the fact
that he was rejected by the British,
Canadian and American recruiting
officers as unable to fight because
of his wounds.
of kin, John Boyd Hamilton, Des
Moines, la.
RETURNED TO DUTY, PREVI
OUSLY REPORTED MISS
ING IN ACTION.
Private Vincent Placek, Prague,
Neb.
The follahving casualties are re
ported by the com'maading general
of the American expeditionary
torces: Died ot wounds. 6: died
from airplane accident, 1; died of
disease, 17; wounded severely, 113;
wounaea sngntiy, lsu; missing in
action, 31. Total. 318.
Nordyke and Marmon Win
Liberty Motor Honor Pennant
Indianapolis. Nov. 1. The Nor
dyke and Marmon company of this
city won the first honor oennant of
fered by the United States govern
ment to the concern building and
shipping 12-cylinder Liberty motors
the most rapidly in October, it was
announced here today. The contest
began October 1, and ended last
midnight. The Nordyke and Mar
mon company made a production
record of 225 per cent of its allot
ted quota.
A. E. F. EVOLVES
NEW AUTOMATIC
SUPPLYTRAINS
''teen, Each of Thirty or
Thirty-Five Cars, Leave
' One Great Base Every"
. Day.1
American Regul ting Base, Ad
vance Zone, France, Nov. 1. The
automatic train" is one of the
strange devices which has sprung
out of the war, and there is nothing
quite like it in the whole range of
railway transportation. It has been
developed by the American military
authorities here as one of the neces
sities of keeping up an automatic
daily supply of food, forage and all
requirements, to every unit of the
American expeditionary forca in
France. To dp this with unvarying
regularity each day, so that every
man in every division -stretching
over a vast area along 300 miles of
front, would have his daily needs
supplied was a huge problem.
The only solution was to secure
absolute uniformity, or a standard
ization of trains by which the make
up would be automatic day after
day. And out of this has come the
"automatic train" of the American
army, which is one of the wonders
of American organization.
Like Great Puzzle.
Watching the make-up of"the
"automatic trains" as they go for
ward to the American divisions on
the fighting front, is like watching
some gigantic jig-saw puzzle, for
there is the same fitting together of
confused parts, until at last all the
pieces form a completed whole of
fifteen of these so-called "automatic
trains," SO cars to a train, each train
moving off to one of the American
divisions.
Here at a small interior village of
the American advance force is the
center fro.a which the automatic
trains move out daily. The place is
well forward in the advance zone,
just far enough away from the
fighting to be out of reach of hostile
raids and yet near enough to permit
the supplies to move forward with
the greatest facility. '
One Thousand Cars Daily.
It was a sleepy village last
October, with 2,000 inhabitants, to
day it is a center of intense activity,
with an American working force of
22,00011 times the population a
year ago with 72 miles of yard
trackage, 45 enormous warehouses
and railways radiating to every point
of the long front held wholly or in
part by American troops.
Last month 32,000 cars were
moved, or over 1,000 a day. in this
stupendous stream of supplies go
ing forward to the fighting forces.
Colonel Hilgard, commanding offi
cer, and Captain Bigger, regulating
officer, explained the details of these
automatic trains, and later there was
an opportunity to see the trains
assembled like parts in a huge
puzzle and started on their way to
the front. The basis on which the
automatic trains are made up is as
follows:
Two cars of refrigerated fresh
beef.
Two cars of fresh bread.
Seven cars of food comprised in
th soldier's ration.
Four cars of fuel for cooking.
Fourteen carj of forage for horses.
One car of gasoline, mineral oil
and lubricants for motors.
One car of mail and packages.
Consist Is Invariable.
These are the fixed and practically
invariable elements of each auto
matic train, the same wants of food
and forage being repeated day after
day.
In additioin each division has
varying wants of clothing, ammuni
tion, medical supplies, etc.. as it may
be in the midst of the fighting or
further back in a calmer section.
These varying elements are added
to each train, according to the needs
of the division.
Thus, 15 trains go out daily in
15 directions, each train having some
30 to 35 cars in the fixed and auto
matic make-up. and some AS or 20
cars with the varying elements of
amnumitioin, medical supplies, cloth
ing, etc., dependent on the prox
imity to the fighting.
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McKElVIE
Republican Candidate
For GOVERNOR
S. R. McKelvie is the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor. We believe that he knows the hearts of the
people of Nebraska and that, if elected, he will faith
fully reflect their sentiments and ideals.
Mr. McKelvie was born and reared on his father!,
farm in Clay county, where he remained until he be
came of Rge. All his interests are and always have
been in Nebraska. For more than thirteen years he
has been directing the destinies of Nebraska's pioneer
farm paper, "The Nebraska Farmer," of which he Is
publisher 'and principal owner. This has kept him in
immediate touch with industrial business and social
conditions throughout the state.
Mr. McKelvie's political record is an open book. He
was Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska from 1913 to
1915, a member of the State Legislature from 1911 to
1913, and a member of the Lincoln City Council from
1908 to 1909. The following is quoted from Mr. Mc
Kelvie's platform :
"I stand for th prosecution of the war until the un
conditional lurr.nder of our enemiei. And 1 beli.T. that
T.rjr individual should be permitted to do hit (hare re
gardless of party affiliation. Partisanship must be elimi
nated from all war activities. I denounce profiteering
and discrimination in price fixing. I favor state and na
tional prohibition. I favor equal suffrage. I favor the
development of all natural resources of the state. More
efficient and economical distribution of the products of
the fields and factories of Nebraska must be encouraged.
Waste, graft and favoritism in public office must be dis
placed by efficiency and honest service."
McKelvie is definitely opposed to the Hitchcock-Mullen-Gooch
Machine, which has for so long domi
nated Nebraska politics. McKelvie's election will mean
the return of representative government to Nebraska.
A vote for McKelvie is a vote against the machine.
Swat the Machine
By Voting for McKelvie for Governor
Republican State Committee
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