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, THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1918. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THK BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR " MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rt AaKtieted Press, of which The S d l number, te clojlely mlitlad to the um for publication of ail aewi dupatehai credited to tt or not oUwrwias credited la this paper, ul alto Uw local mm published herein. All rltau of publication of our special iitpatehee art alto reaemd. OFFICESi rhteafs Parole's Cat Balldio. Omaha The Bee Bif. New Tors W T'.tlh Are. Soma Omaha M!8 N St St. Louts New B'k of Commatea, Council Bluffs-14 N. Mala 8L Waabuittoa 1111 0 Su Lineota Lluie Building. AUGUST CIRCULATION Daily 68,570 Sunday 60,405 Arerafe circulation for the month subscribed and sworn to by E. B. Baian, Circulation Manner. Subacrlbere leaving tha city ahould have The Baa mailed to tham. Addraaa changed as often aa requeeted. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG 111m "Big Jeff" for congress. Today's the day. Be sure to vote, and vote right m Tomorrow we will still have the war to talk about. - Yes, and don't forget that "Wilson kept us out of war." You're not a 100 per cent citizen if you do not do your duty at the polls. 'Hit the line hardl Don't let the force of your vote be diverted by minor side issues. One thing the president's letter did do it aroused a lot of old-time republicans from their apathy. Look out for fakes and roorbacks I They're - always the camouflage part of the democratic v political offensive. The "bootleggers' bund" is squandering a lot of money trying to replace Mike Clark with Hofeldt. Can you imagine why? Poor "Bill" Smith! The republicans actu ally are trying to keep him from going to con gress from the Fourth district. 'Snoutragel Who balled up the official ballot with refer ence to the alien-voting amendment? Was it unintentional, or only accidentally on purpose? As for "Jim" Dahlman he is "sitting on the world" with a $5,000 job and no chance of being blamed for anything that is going to happen to the democrats today. The NewXork World does not, agree with the president in his political ambition, realizing i that loyal republican is far more to be de sired than a disloyal democrat. Vote "yes" on the constitutional amend ment making full citizenship a condition of vot ji.ing for the foreign-born, and also vote "yes" iliok the constitutional convention. ( Don't waste sympathy on our messenger boy 4 congressman. He's had a juicy job of one sort or another at the pje counter for a quarter of a century-and hasn't anything more coming to . him. Could it be the clerk who "inadvertly" put Charlie Pool's campaign literature into the offi- 'cial entelopes is the same one whose "over sight" neglected to certify the constitutional amendments to the county clerks? Our present reform nonpartisan mayor is as up to his eari in democratic politics as ever was his predecessor, Mayor "Jim," with -whom he is working in' close cahoots. Guess the change there was only a swap of one brand of democ racy for another. The little Germany payroll colony in county " treasurer's office have been sending out per sonal letters to friends to please vote for Herr . Endres. The letters have been neatly typewrit ' ten for their signature, otherwise they might ; have been written in the German language. "' Americans have accomplished the great task of closing the door to retreat east from the Champagne district and forcing the Germans to retire northward. This has been the important undertaking in France for several weeks and J Pershing's boys have made good on the assignment. The Blow That Killed Kultur ' The blow that told with the German people and opened their eyes to the evils of war and ' the greater evil of autocracy was no verbal dialectics, but the presence of 2,000,000 Ameri can troops in France under the general leader- ' ship of General Foch. This was the great les son, Wilson's real answer, that they first learn ! ed last July, which has deepened as the weeks ' have gone fey. For a careful study of the ut . iterances of such German newspapers as are or were supposed to represent the people in Ger u many shows that up to the allied drive of July the people were still under the delusion that 5 Germany "could win and dictate terms," and .they were absolutely and wholly unrepentant. Indeed, they not only gloried in the incredible Russian terms of peace by which Germany got $1,500,000,000 among the loot, but the Vor ; waerts, now singing so sad a tune, actuallyde i clared that the" kind of economic and physical dratronnade that Germany had set up in Russia was the kind of economic and political determi nation that German arms would demand of the allies when they admitted they were conquered. - Moreover, despite me ease wun wmtn me opin inn of the socialist and union workmen's move ments in the allied countries had been presented to the German socialists from the first day of the war in-1914, they were deaf to any appeal . to reason or humanitx or to their supposed principles so long as Germany was on top and the kaiser loudly claiming that he would dictate ' peace when he was good and ready. But the 2.000,000 Americans, incomparable fighters all, who nave won the admiration of all the allied commanders, who helped Foch turn the tables, settled the kaiser, and eventually the German people began to see things in a new light; or, at least, they say they are in process of seeing things somewhat differently. Philadelphia Ledger. WHEN YOU VOTE TODAY. Your vote for a republican today will not be a vote to discredit the president in his conduct of the war. It will not cause any bonfires to be lighted in Berlin. ) The republican party nationally stands, as it has always stood, for the preservation of Amer ican interests, American rights and privileges, at home and abroad. Its record on this is clear and clean; that of the democratic party is not. A republican congress will guarantee that the welfare of the whole country, and not ofa sec tion, will be considered in the future. It will also make sure that the tremendous powers now yielded the executive will be restored to the people when the war is closed. A republican state administration will mean the restoration of business management to pub lic affairs. The republicans in Nebraska are pledged to the adoption of a budget system for state expenditures. The democrats have made no pledge on this or on any other point relating to state affairs. In Douglas county republican success means that the business of the county will be taken from the hands of a gang that has squandered public funds, shamelessly gerrymandered the county and winked at the scandalous "gymna sium," and for the perpetuation of which the "bootleggers' bund" is putting forth its utmost efforts. In a word, a vote for the republican ticket is a vote for honesty and decency in public ad ministration. Republicans are quite as much devoted to winning the war as the democrats, and much more strongly pledged to efficiency in government. Vote right today. Mischief That is Dangerous. Somebody in the office of the secretary of state has made a mischievous and probably dan gerous blunder in connection with the official ballot. The plain provision of the law in regard to certification of the constitutional amendment for insertion with its party endorsements has not been carried out. Under the law of 1917 it is obligatory on the secretary of state to so certify all amendments that have been approved at the primary. This was not done. The effect is that straight party votes may not be counted for the amendments. This in turn may be the means of defeating the "suffrage" amendment, so called, and thus extend to aliens the right to vote for president again in 1920. When Governor Neville recommended to the special session of the legislature last spring that such privilege be granted to the "first paper" voters he was actuated by the hope of the local kaiserites that their strength would not be im paired by shutting the ballot box to unnatural ized aliens. The Bee exposed this then, and the legislature declined to follow the wink from the executive. Now, by grace of negligence in the office of the secretary of state, it is made possible that what the kaiser-coddlers could not get through the legislature they may in another way. If the secretary of state had been in his office, attend ing to his duty, instead of pursuing his chimer ical plan of defeating "Uncle Most" Kinkaid for congress, maybe the "blmwkr would not have occurred. Voters should be careful to mark the ballot "yes" on both constitutional questions, and make sure their choice is registered. Acme of Imperial Hypocrisy. Giving his august approval to the bill making changes in the constitution of the German fed eration, the kaiser attains a new depth in hy pocrisy. After sanctimoniously expressing his emotions at the change he goes on: "Thus comes to a close a period which will stand in honor before the eyes of future gen erations. Despite all struggles between in vested authority and aspiring forces, it has rendered possible to our people that tremen dous development which imperishably re vealed itself in the wonderful achievements of this war." And of what achievements does the kaiser thus boast himself? Four years of savage War fare have drenched the world in blood at a time when it might have been making" its greatest progress. Civilization's name stained with a record of such horrors that men scarcely dare to whisper among themselves.' Misery, want,, starvation, disease, all the horrid train of man's .direst afflictions, have followed in the wake of the kaiser's power, and constitute the "wonder ful achievements of this warl" And the man, above all others, who is re sponsible for the woe, the heartache and the physical suffering concludes his exportation with an adjuration to his followers to persist "and with a firm step win ( bright future from the gloom of the present." Is comment neces sary? Notice to the Kaiser. Terms granted to Austria as a basis for un conditional surrender are notice to the kaiser of what he may look for. Austria gives up everything and retires from the war, beaten. Moreover, conditions exacted are such that the Austrians cannot engage in war on an impor tant scale for generations. Its army is to be disbanded and mustered out, arms and equip ment turned over to the victorious Allies; its navy will be for the most part taken over by the victors, the rest dismantled and interned; its forts on the Danube and the Adriatic to be disposed of as the Allies deem most useful. Most of them will be razed. The Danube be comes an open highway. Italy regains the "irredenta,"- or unredeemed portion of its ter ritory, -and Prussia's treachery of 1866 is thus at last brought to justice. And finally, Austria is opened to the Allies for approach to Ger many. Bulgaria and Turkey capitulated on similar terms. Less will not be offered to Germany. Now, next month, or next year, surrender is the only way out for the kaiser and his gang. Mr. Kitchin's well remembered remark that "we .will make the north pay for the war." is rising up to haunt his party. Figures gathered trom the tax records show that Mr. Kitchin is making good. The president openly expresses preference tor a socialist over a republican. And the social ist is running on the unmodified St Louis plat t . . . .... V lorm inai aeciarea against tne war. Abraham Lincoln did not ask whether a man voted for him or not what he asked was whether the man was loyal V I TODAY I Right in the Spotlight. The Most Rev. T. T. Harty, head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Omaha and former archbishop of Manila, celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday today. Bishop Harty is a native of St. Louis and received his early education in that city, later completing his divinity studies at St. Vincents college, Cape Girar deau, Mo. Following his ordina tion to the priesthood in 1878 he returned to St. Louis, which city remained the scene of his labors during the ensuing 5 years. In 1903 he was appointed archbishop of Manila, in which position he ren dered valuable services during the early years of the American occu pation of the Philippines. In 1916 he returned to the United States Ao become bishop of Omaha, in suc cession to the late Bishop Richard Scannell. One Year Ago Today in the War. Berlin claimed great victory over the Italians on the Tagliamento. American patrol boat Alcedo tor pedoed and 21 lives lost. German authorities in Belgium imposed a tine of $2,500,000 on the Province of East Flanders. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. A surprise party was given at the Windsor hotel by Sol Prince and Julius Furth to Mr. Samuel Drey fus and family, who have lately come to Omaha to make this city thtir home. After the paracftpg was over tha Fremont Flambeau club, led by the Fremont band and commanded by wan" Marshall Purcey, marched to the Bee building. The band tendered a serenade and the Flambeau club went through a series of maneuvers in their pretty drill. County Treasurer Bolln sold about 400 pieces of property for delinquent taxes. John A. Good of Chicago, arrived in the city on Saturday and will in future make his home here. J. F. Glasgow left for the east to begone for a fewweeks. The Day We Celebrate. William B. Weeks, president of the Weeks Grain & Live Stock Co., born 1859. John D. Ware, attorney-at-law, born 1861. ' Alexander C. Reed of Reed Bros., real estate and abstractjj born 1871. Lt.-Gen. George Francis Milne, prominent British commander in present war, bon 50 years ago. - lruman H. Newberry, republican candidate for United States senator in today's election in Michigan, born in Detroit, 54 years ago. Brig.-Gen. Robert E. Noble, U. S. A., director of military hospitals in the United States,- born in Georgia, 48 years ago. Ida Minerva Tarbell, noted au thor and editor, born in Erie county, Pa., 61 years ago. This Day In History. 1854 Battle of Inkerman, in which 50,000 Russians were defeat ed by a force of 14,000 British and French. 1862 General McClellan was re lieved of the command of the Fed eral army of the Potomac. 1900 The Boers, under General De Wet, were defeated at Botha ville by the British under Gen eral Knox. 1914 Serbia severed "diplomatic relations with Turkey. 1915- -Lord Kitchener left Eng land on a mission to the Near East. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Fifteen hundred and fifty-eighth day of the great war. Centennial anniversary of the birth of Gen. Benjamin F. But ler, civil war commander, governor of Massachusetts, and greenback party 'candidate for president in 1884. National election in the United States, involving control of the next congress, as well as the poli tical complexion of numerous state administrations. A possibility that the "dry?' area of the United States may be in creased lends interest to the elec tions in Missouri and Wyoming, in both of which states a prohibition amendment is to be passed upon by the voters. Storyette of the Day. At the funeral services of an eld erly darky of Richmond, Va., the following colloquy was overheard between two aged negroes: "There ain't no use in talkin'," said Mose Barker; "Dick Williams, he was the .most charitable man dis town ever seen." "I reckon dat's so," said the darky t whom Mr. Barker imparted this information. And he paused as if waiting for evidence on this point. "Yessuh," continued Mr. Barker. "Dick Williams, he always owned a plug hat, and durin' my time I ain't never heard that Dick ever refused to lend dat hat to anybody." At lanta Constitution. WHITTLED TO A POINT Baltimore American: In chal lenging the republicans to contest, itmust be there are a few democrats the president wants to get rid of. New York World: A vote of con fidence by the Reichstag may hold good until the kaiser finds occasion to name a new imperial chancellor. Detroit Free Press: The big dif ference between the diplomatic and the military sides of the war is that the Hun doesn't waste, any time dickering with the allied guns. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Sixty years ago the republican party be gan standing by the United States was organized for tnat purpose; and isn't likely to give up the practice. Minneapolis Republican: Judge Torrance, former commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re public, makes the pertinent sugges tion that if only democrats are to be trusted in Washington, as the president contends, it is high time that the men in the trenches were looked over; there might be some republicans among them too. In deed, it Is strongly suspected that J Pershing is a, dangerous republican. Etchings of Battling Yanks Stars and Stripes, France. During the Germans' four years occupation of one tiny hamlet in the St. Mihiel salient the French population was forced o work for the German officers, prepare their meals, wash their clothes, clean their dirty boots and do various other tasks that were imposed upon them, just as it did in the other towns. One toiler was an old, woman, much bent with years and suffering with rheumatism. Her daily task was to care for five rooms, wash and scrub the floors, change the linen and look after the officers' many petty wants. She was not allowed out after 7:30 in the evening or per mitted to visit her neighbors without first ob taining permission. During all those four years this old woman kept, hidden away in a secret trunk, a silk waist and tailored skirt, hoping against hope that a brighter day would dawn for her. The bright day dawned when the Americans swept forward on the early morning of the 13th of September, driving the Germans before them. After the barrage had passed on and the streets had filled with Yanks, she dusted off the trunk, unlocked it, dressed up in her best, carefully smoothed out the wrinkles, asked a doughboy if it was bon, then went calling on her neigh bors, and even paid a visit to the American com mander. September 22 was a red letter day in the army lives of the railroad engineers stationed around a certain base, for on that date the first ail-American trains set out from there for the front. The word "all-American" is used advisedly, for the trains were made up in our own yards, of our own cars, engines and all, and manned throughout by our own crews. They were all American but the rails and scenery. Incidentally, the railroad engineers at Base No. (the same place the first all-American special started from, by the way) would have you know that the dear old base now boasts some. 200 miles of track. This, as they will tell ydu without your asking, makes it one of the biggest, if 'not the biggest, railroad yard in augurated anywhere on earth. To the great dis comfiture of their brother railroad workers further up the line at X, they point out that X is a mere piker, being unable to count only a measly 90 miles of trackage around the entire project. A truck train was lined up on a dark road running parallel with the front and only a few kilometers back while a company of pioneers mended a broken culvert. A colonel, who was unfortunate enough to be at the rear end of the jam and who was quite anxious to be on the move, turned on the elec tric lights of his limousine in hopes that the light w ould enable the men toiling on the roads to work faster. A pioneer private paused, pick above his head, when he saw the sudden flare of light. "Hey, you rubel" he shouted. "What are you trying to pull off. down there? Do you want all the German artillery in the country turned on us? Can that stuff or I'll come down and kick a lung out just to pass the time." There was no reply. But the light went out. An interesting story of the "pep" which Americans are putting into the conflict is told of a certain colonel in command of a regiment from Montana, which participated in the recent drive in the Argonne-Meuse line. This unit was working in liason with the French wing in the Champagne. The Germans were fighting rather savagely in this particular district when the Americans came into line. The French commander suggested to the colonel that it might be advisable to withdraw a short distance. "Retreat?" queried the surprised American colonel. "Hell, we just got herd" The Americans did not retreat, and when the western shock troops got into action the Amer ican and French wings went forward. One artillery unit worked hard during the afternoon of the second day of the Argonne at tack to get its pieces into position. It had moved up for the second time, and had not fired a shot It was 4 o'clock when the lieutenant in com mand gave orders for everyone to stand by. The gunners were to fire their first volley into the German lines. Everyone stood waiting for the final word, when the telephone rang and word came that the infantry had advanced so far that it would be necessary to move up again before going into action. "Oh, hell!" said a gunner; "those infantry guys ain't got no respect for us at all I" An American private spied a rooster prowl ing around a farm house in No Man's Land just after the Americans had captured Very. Being hungry, and having an appetite for roast chicken, this American private decided to crawl up on the rooster and trap him in the building. 1 The American was about to lay his hands on the astonished rooster, when a German entered the rear door of the building bent on the same mission. Both were so surprised that they stood for a moment and glared at each other; then the American motioned for the German to do a right flank on the prey they were after and both closed in on him. The rooster was cap tured by the American, who later returned to the American lines with both rooster and Ger man in tow. Later, at the regimental P. C, the German roasted the chicken for his captor, who shared it with him. A Yankee truck driver's right forward wheel had just sunk with an air of finality into a half filled shell hole on the road near Avocourt, and he was throwing over a terrific barrage of pro fanity, when he suddenly stopped short and his jaw dropped. Then it closed in a grin as broad as the Sacramento, from whose distant shore he had gone forth to war. He was contemplating the approach along the roadside of four stalwart and imposing officers of the famous Prussian Guard. On their shoulders, as they marched along in the drizzling rain, was a stretcher, and on the stretcher lay a wounded doughboy smok ing a cigaret. A waiting column of infantry was watching the aimless circlings of a French plane. Then they began to realize that the circlings were not aimless that the pilot, in all his voyagings hither and yon, high and low, was looking for some thing. Apparently he found it, for soon he made off in a bee line for somewhere and dis appeared. The waiting column could not see the end of the adventure, did not know that the French flyer, discovering at last the huge red cross that marked an American hospital, finally glided down, stopped a few feet from the hospital en trance, got out and asked if he might have his wounds dressed. ' Tottering Thrones Tottering! The business of being a king is getting to He unpopular. Constantine of Greece was the first to tumble from his throne. Nicholas, the world's greatest autocrat, was the next to fall, and later lost not only his sceptre, but also his life, through the treachery of the bolsheviki. Now Ferdinand, the "Fox of the Balkans," finds it healthful to retire from the kingship of a country that he has led to ruin. Kaiser Karl has not been sure of his Austrian throne at any moment since he succeeded the venerable Francis Joseph. Whether or not one may accept the news dispatches which represent Kaiser Wilhelm as having fallen into a sort of religious mania in which "he spends most of his time praying for the preservation of his dynasty," there is no doubt he has seen the handwriting on the wall. The wave of democ racy has even reached Japan, the land of em peror worship, where for the first time a 'min istry has been organized on the basis of party responsibility. In a "world made safe for de mocracy" real kings will seem out of place, snd a make-believe king will be an expensive luxury. The days' of kings are numbered. Leslie's Weekly. . ZffSeJQ, lees Resents Dictation. Omaha, Nov. S. To the Editor of The Bee: I have voted the- demo cratic ticket since Cleveland's time, over 26 years. But the demand from the White House on my vote is so un-American and undemocratic that I will not stand for it, even if I have to fight for it as the soldiers in France do for democracy and freedom. Wilson's demand on the American voter is insulting to a free people and a disgrace to the position he holds as our chief executive. If he had said, "Fellow Citizens, Voters of America, I am the president of a free people and I refrain from dictating to you how to use your vote as freemen, but as this election is on while the greatest war for lib erty ever waged is in progress, and that we live in a reconstruction time, when the incoming congress must decide many far-reaching and im portant questions dealing with our country's and people's future wel fare, I therefore ask you, whom soever you vote for, democrats, re publicans or others, to vote for 100 per cent Americans, that we may be able to settle the war and America's future welfare to the approval and satisfaction of a free people to the glory of our land and Institutions." But President Wilson did not speak to us as a tree people. There fore I shall on election day cast my vote for none but republicans, that I for one may show that I have de cided to vote as a free man. JAMESON MARTIN. Armies Won the War. Omaha, Nov. 4. To the Editor of The Bee: Contrary to the impres sion that the democratic leaders are seeking to create the breakdown of the Teuton alliance has been caused by the irresistible armies of the al lies, and not by the skillful diploma acy of President Wilson. The elec tion of a democratic congress will not make that breakdown one whit more complete, and it will seriously Interfere with the difficult work of reconstruction after the war. If the United States sure needed a repub lican congress this is the time. H. M. JAMES. What Will Others Think. Omaha; Nov. 4. To the Editor of The Bee: Our president seems to be deeply concerned about what the people "on the other side of the water" will think of us unless half the people of this nation are de prived of a voice in the government and conduct of the war. I think the vast majority of the American peo ple are deeply concerned about what the people "on the other side of the water" will think of our president when they read his letter. Is there any reason why they should not think of him as we would think of the president of France (with apolo gjes to the Frenchmen) had he ad dressed such a letter to the French people? TATRIOT. Echo Answers. Omaha, Nov. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: Who is the man they call Colonel House? The dispatches an nounce that such a man from the United States has arrived in Paris on an "official mission of momentous importance." I supposed I knew something of every man in America whose ability, experience, character and achieve ment would entitle him to represent our nation in a world crisis in mat ters of "momentous Importance," but the man they call Colonel House is one on me. I have made diligent in quiry of the best posted men I know. They all seem to have found out that he once lived in Texas, but now in New York. A congressman of whom I inquired knew or thought he knew, that he earned his title of colonel by serving on the staff of a Texas governor. None of them knew what his trade, vocation, business or profession was in Texas or is in New York. None knew of a single thing he ever did or said or was ever ac cused of doing or saying until he gum-shoed in on the seems at Wash ington, two or three years ago. If you know or can find out anything further about this mysterious in dividual who Is our representative in Paris on an "official mission of momentous importance," you will perform a service by making it pub lic. If our destinies are In his hands, we ought to know more about him than that he came from Texas and earned his military title by services on the staff of a Texas governor. B. A. E. , Questions for the Board. Omaha, Nov. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: I would like to ask the present county commission board the following questions: 1. Is it customary to award a contract to the lowest bidder? Why Is it Bower & Johnson, after being the lowest bidder, had to go to court to overrule the Callahan Construc tion company. 2. Why is it. under the present county board, that the tax commis sioner's office has increased 100 per cent, the county treasurer's oflice 50 per cent, the county store 65 per cent the county poor farm 150 per cent and the rest of the democratic offices based om the same as the high cost of living or the democratic ma chine? 3. Are they paying Ed Agee $150 per month or Art Smith, the painter. $100 a month for the work of the interest of the taxpayers of Douglas county and furnishing Dave Copnpton with two automobiles with the expense of $1,500 in the last year arfd supporting Mikey Gib son's pinochle game, and John Ho feldt's candidacy for sheriff for the benefit of the taxpayers? On April 9, 1918, a man by the name of Pinky bid on machine road work at $35 a day and the noard awarded a contract to John Hofeldt, the present democratic candidate for sheriff, for $45 a day. JENKINS. ry xtravtsant. talks a atrtak and 14 almost wholly lrrspoulbl. I.n Why not let hir run for eem gress? Ufa. meant tr th thatr A Champ Clark's Compliments. Omaha, Nov. 3. To the Editor of The Bee All you who have drafted sons or brothers or relatives or friends and you women who have drafted husbands in the army, take this from Champ Clark, democratic leader and speaker of the house of representatves, "There is precious little difference between a conscript and a convict." If you want the man who said this to remain speak er of the house of representatives, then follow the president's instruc tions and work and vote for the democratc candidate for congress and whlen you have thus performed your patriotic duty, write to your boys and tell them honestly and frankly what you have done. If you want to retain Mr. Clark as speaker, it Is necessary that you get in your work, for the republican leaders in Washington have given it out cold that if they control the house they will replace him with a speaker who regards the conscripted or drafted man the peer of any soldier who ever wore a uniform or carried a gun. A VOTER. Likes the Slogan. Gothenburg, Neb., Nov. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: The title given "Vote the Republican Ticket." Mr. Agnew's article in this column a few days ago would be an extra good motto and principle to be promin ently displayed in the columns of The Bee on election day morning and practiced by the voters all over the union that day. The reasons for "voting republi can" are numerous. Every wheat raiser and hog rais er in all the land ought to "vote re publican" because of the sectional faction existing in democracy that will fix a price on wheat and hogs and not on cotton; and all because the south and its allies of the north are in control of the present con gress. Let the slogan be "unconditional surrender" for the Hunnish horde, and "vote republican" for American and the world's best interest. YAN KEE. MIRTHFUL MOMENTS. for Patience la Fred gsttlnr ready winter? Patrice Ob, yes. He's broken off his engagement with that girl he met at the beach last summer. Tonkers Statesman. Yeast They say water will make peo ple fat. Crimson beak I don't doubt It. Why, In the state of Maine nearly every man you meet Is thin. Yonkers Statesman. Parke I can't make up my mind what to do with that girl of mine. She Is TopT" "Well, enn "What la war?" The theater cf war. my son, Is where we are now playing; moat of our "tank" Ira mas." Youngalown jrlejtrariK WASN'T ABLE 10 WALK WITHOUT USE A STICK Takes Tanlac and Can Now Go. Up and Down Stairs Almost Like a Girl; Gains 15 Pounds. "Today I'm feeling fine, but fot a long time before I took Tanlac I couldn't get about without the use of a walking cane," said Mrs. Cath erine Rhodes, residing at 509 North 18th street, Omaha, Nebraska, in a recent statement regarding the re markable benefits Bbe- has derived from the use of the medicine. "For the past six years," contin ued Mrs. Rhodes, "my health hat been going from bad to worse. I had no appetite, simply had to force down what little I did eat and was nauseated after every meal. The pains in my left side were almost unbearaV'e at times and my nerve werd completely shattered, i was so dizAy that I always felt like I would fall when I tried to walk. One time I was taken down with nervous prostration and for three or four days no one thought I would live. I lost forty pounds in weight and had to give up all thoughts- of housework for several weeks. I had a raging headache all the time and many a night I havt-'had such , aw ful sinking spells that those who waited on me thought I could not live till morning. Besides all this, I bad , rheumatism in my hands, feet and knees from which I just suf fered agony. I havj gone day in and day out worrying about my condi tion and wandering if there was rothing that w.uld help me. "When I saw Tanlac so highly recommended in the papers I some how felt .that it might do me some good. Well, it has not only helped me, but has made a new woman of me. Before my first bottle was gone I had a good appetite and my nerves began to quiet down, and every day from then on I could see more improvement. I can eat all I want now and my food agrees with me so well that I have already gained fifteen pounds in weight I donft have any more headaches or dizzy 'spells and my nerves have improved until I can sleep splen didly. I am so much stronger and better in every way that I can go up and down the stairs almost like a girl. I don't need my cane any more and am doing all my house work, besides cooking and taking care of five boarders. It really seems wonderful to me that I have gotton so strong and well after go through all I have, and the only way I can account for it is that Tanlac is such a fine medicine. Just lots of people know what it has done) for me because I have told them about it." - Tanlac is sold in Omaha by all Sherman & McConnell Drug Com pany's stores. Harvard Pharmacy and West End Pharmacy under the personal direction of a special Tan lac representative. Also Forrest and Meany Drug Company in South Omaha and the leading druggist in each city and town throughout the state of Nebraska. Adv. Causes I M mi tl Many people seem to think that acid-stomach or superacidity is of little importance; that it merely causes some slight trouble such as belching, heartburn, sour, gassy stomach, food repeating, bloat, etc. If those same people would only realize the real truth about acid-stomach and when these first symptoms appear would at once start to rid themselves of the excess acid, what a crush ing load of awful suffering, misery and ill health would be lifted from mankind! Do you realize that the ill effects of an acid stomach extend throughout the entire system and more or less affect practically every organ and tissue of the human body from the crown 1 of the head to the soles of the feet? Well, it's a fact. For instance, probably few people would ever think that there could be any con nection between an acid-stomach and dandruff and falling hair; or between an acid-stomach and a gouty foot. Nevertheless there is a direct connection. Now you know what acid mouth does to the teeth. The acid eats right through the hard enamel causing them to decay. What chance, then, do you think the delicate organization of the stomach has against excess acid? The excess acid interferes with digestion and assimilation. It causes the food to ferment. Makes the sour stomach and creates gases. That's what causes those acute stomach pains of indigestion, that miserable bloated feeling after eating, heartburn, belching, food-repeating, etc. Moreover, that sour mass of fermenting food becomes a breeding place for countless millions of deadly germs toxic poisons they are called. They are absorbed into the system, impoverish the blood, make it thin and weak. That is why so many people you see are weak and emaciat ed; thin, bloodless and look bad; not down right sick but always ailing, lacking in vitality, vim and vigor. They've lost their punch; are listless in both their work and pleasures they're run down and seem "all in." Now of course the right thing to do is to get rid of trie excess acid, give the stomach a chance to digest the fod properly and Nature will do the rest. There is a quick and easy way to do this. A wonderful new discovery makes it pos sible to remove excess acid without the slightest discomfort. It is called EATONIC, made in the form of tablets they are good to eat just like . a bit of candy. Their action in the stomach is a good deal like a piece of blotting paper taking up a drop of ink they literally absorb the injurious excess acid and carry it away through the intestines. They also drive the bloat out of the body in fact you can fairly feel them work. Try EATONIC and see how quickly' it ban ishes the immediate effects of acid-stomach bloat, heartburn, belching, food-repeating, indi gestion, etc. See too, how. quickly your gen eral health improves how much more relish you take in eating how much more easily your food is digested how soundly you sleep how nervousness and irritability disappear. It is so easy to get this help and it costs so little. So why suffer another hour when sure, quick relief is at hand? Everywhere people who have used EATONIC testify to its power to bring quick relief. The testimonials of some of these people are so enthusiastic and tell of such remarkable results as to be almost unbeliev able. If you are one of those who have "tried everything," but in spite of it are still lacking in physical strength and vigor, begin at once to take EATONIC. Don't put it off. Get back your physical and mental punch. Have the power and energy to work with vim. Enjoy the good things of life. Larn what it means to fairly bubble over with health. Like thousands of others, you will say that you never dreamed it possible that such a wonderful change for the better could be brought about so quickly. So get a big box of EATONIC from your druggist today. We authorize him to guarantee EATONIC to please you and you can trust your druggist to make this guarantee good. If it fails in any way, take it back he will refund yeur money. If your druggist does not keep EATONIC write to us and we will send vou a big 50c box. You can send us the 50c after you receive it. Address H. L. Kramer, Presi. dent, EATONIC Remedy Company, Cor. Wa bash Ave. and 11th St., Chicago, 111.