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    THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1918.
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THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG
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the Stars and Stripes forever!
"Toll It to Foch" is the message from the
Allies to the kaiser.
Keith Neville imitated the soldiers in one
respect; he voted by mail.
The "flu" is hitting the high spots out west,
for the pest plays no favorites.
Kansas at least knows who it wants for
; United Statea senator and. for governor.
a M earn ianuM
Note that telephone conversations are re
itricted to five minutes. Damn the kaiser.
Come on, Mr. Kaiser Wilhelml Bulgarial
Turkey! Austria! Unconditional surrender!
Where it'i close, it will be a day or two till
returns from the rural districts tell the tale.
For a campaign on which politics was ad
journed, the wind-up at least was tolerably
, lively.
You may now get ready for the big com
munity war work drive, that is due to start next
Monday.
No eight-hour job for the Hitchcock pub
licity horn-blower it's overtime all the time
for him.
( Retail profits on eggs is fixed at 21 per cent,
, but, holy smoke! What will an order of "ham
and" cost at that?
' The Reichstag promises to be true to the
kaiser. This ought to help some in reaching
the final conclusion.
H c "Uncle Sam's boys will soon be in Ger
l many," and Kaiser Bill is already on his way
ir s, 1
Street railway magnates report satisfaction
with the skipstop, and as the citizens are get
ting accustomed to it, the order will probably
be made permanent.
Congress! still has before it the joy of telling
the waiting people of the process by which
$8,000,000,000 in taxes is to be extracted from
the American pocketboolc
The dispute over what is whisky is being
revived, for the amusement of some local quid
huncs. Patrons of the "bootleggeVs bund" will
testify that most of it is not.
The Wilson terms have been adopted as a
iasis for the armistice Germany may have, but
it is undoubtedly the terms contained in his last
note and not those of January 6.
The squeal of the Blonde Beast becomes
more pitiful as the war draws nearer his den.
His plaintive pleas fall on ears that heard the
groans and cries of his victims, and justice will
be done. s
Our boys are gathering up some first-hand
protf of the Hunnisliness of the Hun, and know
of their own knowledge just what sort of beasts
they are fighting. That is why the army stands
for unconditional surrender.
There's a way' to keep officers elected on
nonpartisan ballots out of partisan political ac
tivity. The way is to provide a penalty for
violating the spirit and letter of the nonpartisan
law.
Loss of time by the enforced "flu" vacation
is to be made up in the schools by adding fifteen
minutes daily to the sessions. It's a safe guess
that the youngsters will catch up with their
lessons without overstraining.
The Liberators
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- Not the least among the thrills experienced
by the advancing Yanks engaged in wiping out
. the St. , Mihiel salient was the thrill, brought
,home to them by the welcome of the redeemed
villagers, of being actual freers of soil from Ger
. man domination, actual liberators of people who
had long groaned under a detested foreign yoke.
It was a new and strange thrill to most o
them, and it left them blushing and shame
faced when the good folks of Thiaucourt and
, the other little towns got through kissing and
hugging them. But, after all, this business of
liberating is nothing new to the American army.
In these days of success and of great en
deavor for further success if. is good to remem
ber that the forerunners of this army of ours
liberated, with the aid of their French allies,
some 13 struggling colonies. Later their de
scendants helped the young republic of Texas
to throw off the Mexican yoke. Again it was
American fighting men who emancipated the
black man. Twenty years ago this summer an
American army brought liberation to the re
public of Cuba, now one of our allies.
From somewhere back in the past we seem
to hear the starins of: :
Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that seta you free!
Lexington to Lahayeville, the .Alamo to
Apremont, the story is the same "the fiag that
ets you free." It is the particular business of
that flag, and of the men who follow it and love
it to win freedom for themselves and for others.
So it has been in the past, so it is now, so may
it always be. Stars and Stripes, France.
BUSINESS AFTER THE WAR.
Business men all over the country are ac
tively interesting themselves to prepare for con
ditions when peace comes again, and through
their various organizations are exchanging
views and formulating plans for the new time
ahead. But they will not be able to accom
plish much of permanent or lasting good with
out proper legislative help from congress.
It is not alone the aspect of America
so far as the war is concerned; that
is determined, but the aspect of America con
cerning peace is yet to be settled. No one can
doubt the sincere desire of the people of this
country to live at peace with the world, nor
their will that justice should prevail everywhere
and the rights of all be respected. With this
admitted, comes the problem of vital'home in
terest Readjustments of the most sweeping charac
ter will be required to change from war to peace
conditions in all our industrial and commercial
life. This was foreseen months ago by the re
publicans, and the Weeks resolution in the sen
ate was intended to have an inquiry of proper
scope and purpose under way by this time. It
was held up by the Overman bill, which sub
stitutes a partisan body to be named by .he
president for the nonpartisan congressional
committee provided for in the Weeks resolu
tion. This is the only move so far made by the
administration to get ready for peace. Con
gress has a most important task ahead of it, and
the American pleople are deeply involved in its
outcome.
Retribution and Retaliation.
The frightened whine of the German gov
ernment, confronted by the victorious Allied
armies, pleading that no German cities be
bombed from the" air, sounds strange as the
echoes of German frightfulness die away. "It
is evident," says the note just delivered through
Switzerland, "that Germany can refrain from
aerial attacks on enemy territory behind the
area of operations only if, on their side, the
enemy from now on will reciprocate, and also
refrain from making aerial attacks outside the
area of operation."
Very nice, indeed. But remember that the
first bomb ever dropped from an airship in war
fare was loosened 6y a German against a hos
pital at Antwerp. Then think of the raids on
London, Paris, Venice and the lesser cities of
the Entente nations within reach of the Hun
flyers. Remember how Red Cross hospitals,
sacred to civilized nations, have been deliber
ately bombed by kaiser's pirates of the air.
Then read this:
"In the expectation that the intention
shared by the other side, to further humanity
and preserve important objects of culture, will
meet with the understanding of the opponents,
the German government proposes to the gov
ernments of the other belligerent countries
that corresponding instructions be issued
without delay to their aerial forces, informing
it of the measures taken."
Destruction of a German city will not re
store a building blown up by the Germans, but
it will give them something to think about. Re
call the Rheims cathedral when you read the
appeal that "to further humanity and preserve
important objects of culture" Germany be al
lowed to go scot free and not taste that which
it has so liberally and cruelly forced on its victims.
An Object Lesson for the Hun.
One of the most majestic processions ever
watched was in progress in America yester
day. It was the enlightened citizens of a great
country going to the polls to make a choice of
public servants. In the midst of a great war,
and without detracting from its interest or re
laxing anything in its prosecution, the freemen
paused long enough to give needed attention to
the affairs of government. Thus they showed
their dignified confidence in themselves; in
other countries, especially in Germany, elections
have been postponed because of the war; in
America this could not be. Periodically public
servants must render an account of their doings
and seek anew commission from the citizenry.
Flames of partisanship may flare up or sweep
high, and stormy gusts of passion blow, but
when the vote is cast and counted and the re
sult is accurately determined, Americans
stand again, pledged to the highest of national
ideals, exemplifying the noblest of aspirations
and daily proving to all the world the saving
grace of self-government. It is not self-sufficiency
that actuates them in this, but a con
sciousness of the responsibility each citizen
assumes in his own person for the proper con
duct of the government and the welfare of the
whole people. Our German critics ought to
consider America from this viewpoint.
An "Eagle Scout"
A badge designating him as an "Eagle
Scout" has just been awarded to an Omaha
school boy. It is not necessary to recount the
lessons he has been required to learn nor the
arts in which he has become proficient before
this highest honor of the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica was awarded him. In order to attain it he
has been required to master many little things,
each an item in his equipment for helpfulness
to himself and to others. His education and
training in these useful ways is of value, be
cause of his developed self-reliance, his adapta
bility and his proyeh readiness to serve. These
qualifications are admirable in any, old or
young, and in their cultivation the institution of
which he is a member is filling a large place in
our country's life. It is not the individual boy
alone who is benefited by the lessons taught a
Scout; his example has a direct influence on
other boys, and altogether the organization is
becoming a mighty agency for good, in that it
is turning the excess energy of the boys to use
ful rather than destructive ends. All boys may
not become eagles, any more than all soldiers
can win the cross of war, but none of them will
be loser because of the work he has to take up
with the Boy Scouts of America.
To Hohenzollern, Hindenburg, Ludendorf &
Co.: Your recent favors received and contents
noted. Entire subject matter referred to Fer
dinand Foch, Paris, who will reply to any
further communications relating to your busi
ness with us. UNCLE SAM & CO.
The weather man has been very decent to
the householder so farand has materially as
sisted in the conservation of fuel. Let him
continue his, good, work and much of his un
speakable past will be forgiven.
Right in the Spotlight.
Today is the fifty-seventh birth
day of Thomas Watt Gregory, the
attorney-general of. President Wil
son's cabinet. Like the majority of
the present cabinet officials, Attorney-General
Gregory is a south
erner by birth and training. Mis
sissippi is his native state, but Texas
has been his home since he first
entered upon the practice of law in
1885. His education was received at
the Southern Presbyterian univer
sity, the University of Virginia and
the University of Texas. His suc
cess in the prosecutions of certain
large corporations for alleged viola
tions of the anti-trust laws led to his
appointment as special assistant at
torney general of the United States,
and when Attorney-General McRey
nolds was elevated to the supreme
bench, in August, 1914, Mr. Gregory
was selected to succeed him as head
of the Department of Justice.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
British under Gen. Maude oc
cupied Tekrit.
Austro-Germans crossed the Tag
liamento river along the whole Ital
ian front.
Passchendaele won by Canadians,
with several hamlets and 400 pris
oners. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today.
Hon. A. B. Charde, receiver of
government funds at O'Neill, is vis
iting in the city.
The Samoset club received the
election returns last night and by
Big Things in Washington
means of a stereopticon threw them
upon a sheet hung in front of its
windows. The enlarged figures were
watched by a large crowd in the
street.
The Evening Star Social club
gave "their first annual ball and
about ISO couples were present at
Metz hall. About 20 of them came
from Fort Omaha and joined in
the grand march, led by D. P.
O'Connell. About 30 couples en
tered for the prize waltz and the
judges finally awarded the silver
cup to D. Clifton r -i the ladies'
toilet set to Miss Mc.'eal.
A. T. Stewart, the New York
millionaire merchant, accompanied
by his wife and child, is in Omaha.
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. Alfred O. Peterson, physician
and surgeon, born 1873.
Henry Worth Thornton, a one
time railway draughtsman in Pitts
burgh, now the greatest railway
manager in England, born at Lo
gansport, Ind., 47 years ago.
John Philip Sousa, bandmaster
and composer, born in Washington,
D. C, 64 years ago.
Frank W. Mondell, representative
in congress' from Wyoming, born
in St. Louis, 58 years ago.
Walter Johnson, one of the most
celebrated of professional base ball
pitchers, now in war service, born
in Humboldt, Kan., 30 years ago.
This Day in History.
1847 First American missionary
church organized in China.
1865 Earl Russell became Brit
ish premier for the third time.
1873 Mrs. Robert E. Lee, wife
of the famous confederate com
mander, died at Lexington, Va.
Born at Arlington House, Va., in
1806.
1893 Gen. George D. Ruggles
was appointed adjutant general of
the United States armv.
1914 An army of 25,000 Turks
began an invasion of Egypt.
1915 Berlin reported the capture
of Nish by the Bulgarians, open
ing through rail route for Austro
Germans to Turkey.
1916 British steamer Arabia tor
pedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean.
Timely Jottings and Reminders. .
One thousand five hundred fifty
ninth day of the great war.
Conventions of teachers' associa
tions, scheduled to open in numer
ous states today, have been post
poned because of the influenza epi
demic Cities of the United States and
Canada, which have adopted the
managerial form of government,
will be represented by delegates at
the fifth annual conference of city
managers, which is to meet today
at Roanoke, Va.
Thousands of Europeans, the rela
tives of men captured by the enemy
on the battlefield, will observe St.
Leonard's day today. For many
centuries this saint has been consid
ered the especial patron of prison
ers, and his intercession is sought
by Catholics in behalf of those held
captive in a foreign land. Of all
thesaints Leonard is believed to be
the most powerful in this regard,
perhaps because he spent a large
part of his life in comforting cap
tives taken by a Frankish king.
St6ryette of the Day.
Two Americans visiting London
went to see the fire station, and
seeing one of the firemen, said:
"Do you know in America we use
a nine-inch hose for fires, not a
skinnv three-inch like you have."
"Oh," replied the fireman, "we
only use this for washing down the
station. This," he said (holding tip
a 12-inch hose), "is what we use in
case of fires. When we want to
send a' man to the top of a building
re place him on the hose, turn on
the water and he's up there in no
time."
"Ah!"4said one of the Americans,
""but how does he come down?" '
"Well," said the fireman, "he puts
n? arms round the jet of water and
slides down." London Mail,
THE KAISER.
Kow does he feel
His secret murders sticking; on hts hands;
Now minutely revolts upbraid his fal'h
breach;
Those he commands mova only In com
mand, Nothing In love; now does he feel his
title
Han loose about him, like a giant's
rone
Upon a dwarfish thief.
Macbeth, Act V., Scent I.
eg, Staff Correspondence Brooklyn Eagle.
The government dormitories for women war
workers are nearly completed. The first two
groups will take care of about 3,500 women, for
the most part in single rooms. A third group
will be ready later, consisting of small apart
ments with kitchenettes. For a long time there
has been great curiosity as to what the gov
ernment would charge its boarders. This has
been at last satisfied by the announcement that
the rate for each woman will be $45 a month.
That will secure for her a good room in a
brand new building, with breakfast and dinner
on week days and three meals on Sundays.
Already there, is a rush to register for rooms
in the government buildings. The dormitories
are less artistic than the older war buildings
and they will be quite plain inside, but to the
war worker who is far from home they are in
finitely more attractive than the average board
ing house. Also, the new rate indicates that
they will be cheaper. Few women are now able
to get rooms for less than $25 a month, or
meals for less than $30 or $35. The government,
of course, is not running boarding houses to
make a profit. It simply figures to pay the
interest on the investment.
There is every prospect that there will be a
stampede to get out of private boarding houses
and into the government establishments. Just
how this will be regulated does not appear to
be decided. War workers who have been here
from the beginning claim priority, while gov
ernment officials would prefer to have the dor
mitories occupied ' by newcomers, which will
cause far less disturbance in the routine of the
city. One thing is assured: The government
will not need to advertise for boarders.
The Navy and War departments have just
about finished moving into the largest office
building in the United States, and therefore, in
the world. It is located on the edge of Po
tomac park, is built of concrete, three -stories in
height, and has a floor space of 42 acres. It
stands on what was originally the bed of the
Potomac river, the entire site being artificially
made land. Concrete piling had to be driven
to sustain the enormous weight, a fact which
added greatly to the cost of the structure.
New Yorkers rn,ay obtain a notion of the
extent of this structure by comparing it to the
Equitable building, which is 41 stories in height,
but has 81,000 feet less floor space. The Navy
and War building, if turned into a three-story
structure 60 feet wide, would be nearly two
miles long. Its floor space Is equal to four and
a half miles of Pennsylvania avenue, between
curbs. Its total cost, including the heating
plant, is $7,265,000. If the office space in this
vast structure were available for private rent
ing at Washington rates it would bring an in
come of $1,000,000 a year.
A night watchman employed in this build
ing, if he had to make a complete round of the
corridors, would travel 12 miles. If a plumber
was called on to inspect all the radiators he
would walk 25 miles. It took 20'2 months to
build the Equitable building and 5j months tor
build the Navy and War building.
There is plenty of light in the new building,
as may be guessed from the fact that there are
20,000 window shades. There are two restau
rants with a capacity of 12,000 meals per day'
and with seating room for 2,400 at one time.
In the rear of the structure there is parking
space for 600 automobiles. Some New Yorker
please figure out how many automobiles can be
parked in the rear of the Equitable building.
A week ago 13 army airplanes, duly press
agented, appeared over Washington and gave a
really fine exhibition of flying. They circled
over the public buildings, around the White
House, around the monument and around the
capitol dome. They traveled singly and in
squads. They looped the loop in unison and
performed all sorts of stirring evolutions in
perfect co-ordination. It was a great show. A
few people stood on the roofs and looked at it,
but for the most part nobody paid the least at
tention to it. Fhe 13 aviators did not succeed
in landing on the first page of a single news
paper. A few days later, unheralded, a dirigible bal
loon meandered into town from Akron, O. The
news spread like a prairie fire. Everybody ran
into the street to see the "blimp." It dawdled
along clumsily, with not a single fancy trick to"
show, and finally squatted its ungainly bulk in
the middle of the army flying field on the out
skirts of the city. The "blimp" made the first
page in every newspaper and furnished an eve
ning's conversation.
Such is the difference between news and his
tory, as this town sees it. Washington never
before laid eyes on a "blimp." But as for air
planes, they are in the flivver class. Nobody
stops to look at one, unless it runs into a tree
or tries to climb a house.
The dictionary says:
"Egg-nog A drink made of milk, eggs and
spirits, sweetened."
Mr. Hoover's Food Administration says:
"Egg-nog One egg beaten thoroughly into
a glass of milk, a drop or two of vanilla and a
pinch of sugar with a little salt."
Washington swears by the dictionary and at
the Food Administration. Eggnog got into the
limelight because of the influenza. The Food
Administration recommended it as a nourishing
food for flu-stricken war workers. Folks
thought eggnog was a great idea, but they
wanted io make it in the old-fashioned way.
Most of 'them couldn't because spirits haven't
been sold in this town for a year. Those who
have their cellars stocked can do it, but they
are in a minority. Aside from the total aridity
of the Food Administration eggnog, from the
standpoint of brandy or whisky there was a
general complaint that it was stingy from the
standpoint of sugar. Something more- than a
"pinch" of sugar went into the eggnog on which
Washington was brought up.
The war egg-nog has not made a hit. It
may be nourishing, but, like the near-beer that
came to town with prohibition, it lacks authority
that is, of course, in the opinion of the egg
nog experts of the capital, who are a numerous
company and who hold the past in reverent
memory, even if they find no joy in the present.
People, and Events .
Excelsior, Mo., has a firm grip on its repu
tation as a health resort for con men. A trio
of the clan put a retired Iowa farmer next a
"sure thing" in gushing oil wells and got away
with $15,000. Luckily for the soil filler, he
didn't have the farm with him.
The Louisville Courier-Journal recklessly in
vited readers to tell out loud what they should
do with the kaiser, and is now striving to dam
the flood. . The most popular treatment sug
gested is the hot and dry belt of Old Nick, a fact
emphasizing the importance of persistently ad
vertising a permanent summer resort.
Tenants of buildings on ground on the water
front of New York commandeered by Uncle
Sam ignored orders to move out within 10 days.
They imagined your Uncle is an easy one and
could be bluffed. They won another guess.
Fifty soldiers set their belongings on the street
in half a day. Not till then did the evicted get
a move on.
Remorseless Time steadily thins the ranks of
societies unable to draw sustenance from the
youth of the land. Only 41 members of the
Pioneers of '49 of California are now living, and
only 11 came together in San Francisco a week
ago to drink a toast to "the days of gold." There
were giants in those days, filled with love of ad
venture and the lure of gold.
After three years of fruitless court proceed
ings no one has been found legally responsible
or punishable for the Eastland disaster, which
resulted in the death of 812 excursionists in
Chicago's harbor in July, 1915. Suits for death
damages have been similarly fruitless because
there is nothing in sight to satisfy judgments.
The recovered. Eastland sold for $46,000, against
which the Great Lakes Towing company holds
a preferred claim for $34,500. The balance will
hardly pay court costs.
Round About the State
Grand Island Independent carries
nine stars on Its service flag.
Rebort B'. Channer, editor of the
Newman Grove Reporter, is one of
the few newspaper victims of the
influenza. His death is a distinct
loss to the profession and the com
munity in which he labored.
Experience in Beatrice, as In Oma
ha, applaud the wisdom of the
health authorities in promptly en
forcing measures against the spread
of influenza. "The Beatrice board
of health," says the Express, "is to
be commended for Its efforts."
Kearney Hub commends the pa
triotic spirit of Secretary Lane in
proposing to give every soldier a
piece of land when the war is over,
provided he goes to it and becomes
a farmer. "But will he?" inquires
the Hub. "Just watch. The man
who was born to the land will gen
erally, we presume, return to it, but
those who were born to something
else will look elsewhere than to the
land for an occupation."
After all, the seasoned Scout rflay
be depended on to map every live
article within range of vision. Thus
the Norfolk News Scout observes:
"I saw a girl with a fur-trimmed hat
and a heavy fur collar and a heavy
coat and a big muff, and a very short
skirt and very thin hose arid low
shoes. And I was shivering from
cold, and I wondered how tha well,
as near as I can tell you I wondered
how she kept 'em warm." You said
it, Gene!
No matter how much weather
sharps flout the goosebone, the squir
rel's nutty thrift or the thickness of
the hide of Luna's green cheese, aa
winter forecasts, November Invaria
bly stages a sure thing in even years.
Forecasters may come and go, indi
cations may point thither and yon
it is all the same to unchangeable
November. Just as sure as the first
Tuesday after the first Monday bobs
around the next day it snows. Fel
low forecasters, you can't beat it!
Sages throughout the ages assure
all comers that life's Joys are mighty
few and hard to hold. This great
truth blazes with regretable force
as the cuts of candidates beat their
annual retreat from the print shops.
Course, they adorned the scenery for
a few cheery weeks, mellowing the
sobs of the dying year. That's much
to be thankful for. Still, how cruel
It Is, after gripping affection's
chords, to skiddoo into darkness
without a party farewell. "We shall
miss them" yea, for a while. Ex
cuse the tears.
EDITORIAL SHRAPNEL
Brooklyn Eagle: The German
press is calling Ludendorff "a gam
bler." No bucket shop can hang on
after the suckers wake up.
Philadelphia Ledger: A peace of
violence is a dreadful thing in Prince
Max's eyes. But it does not even
appear that he objected to a war of
violence.
Baltimore American: The Amer
ican people will be somewhat sur
prised to know that the president
evidently considers a democrat can
be more patriotic than a republican.
Washington Post: To prove that
they have abandoned atrocious prac
tices, the Germans have bombarded
and gassed a hospital at St. Amand,
there putting many patients out of
their misery.
Minneapolis Tribune: Even if the
Huns sat in at the peace table they
couldn't write anything because it
would be necessary as a "safety
first" measure to tie their hands be
hind their backs.
New York World: Let the allies
make sure of their own liberties first
and attend to German liberties aft
erward. The Germans have been
without liberty so long that they
won't mind waiting; and no one is
trying to steal their liberty, anyhow.
New York Herald: It now de
velops that the widely advertised
changes in the German constitution
by which the people, through the
reichstag, are to be given control of
government policies are to become
operative after "a league of nations
satisfactory to Germany" has come
into being.
OVER THERE AND HERE
When the regular excuses for a
holdup showed the weariness of
overwork the invading Huns touched
the Belgians, who failed to set their
watches to German time. Now the
Huns are indifferent to any kind of
time except peace time. What they
are getting is different.
Cubans subscribed for $10,000,000
of the Fourth Liberties, exceeding
its quota by 160 per cent. The wise
kid sticks close to a good uncle.
The government restaurant in
London, founded to expose profiteer
ing, serves meals for 13 cents and
clears 2 cents a meal. The institu
tion averages a net profit of $350 a
week. Who can equal it?
Henry J. Allen, the Wichita
(Kan.) editor, writes to the home
folks that the mail service overseas
is not as bad as painted. As docu
mentary evidence he tells of receiv
ing a letter at Toul, France, which
traveled 4,000 miles and brought
three $10 bills from home club
women "to help France." It was 26
days on the way, which is consid
ered remarkable speed in a service
upset by war.
The khaki boys on the fighting
front who may be cornered and
made prisoners are assured of every
possible effort In their behalf by the
Red Cross. Thrice a fortnight food
packages for every known prisoner
are forwarded from the Red Cross
international headquarters at Berne,
Switzerland. The package weighs
150 ounces and consists of rice or
hominy, sugar, dried or corned beef,
pork and beans, crackers, peanut
butter, evaporated milk, coffee and
tea, salt and pepper, milk choco
late, dessicated berries, jam, mar
garine, dried figs or other fruit and
cigaret tobacco.
SAID IN FUN
"B. A."
Little Mildred What does
stand for, mamma?
Mamma Bachelor of Arts, my dear.
Little Mildred And what Is a bachelor
of arts, mamma?
Mamma. Any bachelor who Is trying to
stay In the bachelor class, darling.
Indianapolis Star.
Willis Bump's office Is run absolutely
on system.
GUlls Indeed?
Willis Yes, they tell me there ti even
a recess of 10 minutes each day for the
clerks to borrow money from one another.
St. Louis Republic.
"I sea I am on the committee for the
disposition of useless papers" remarked
Congressman Flubdub. "This may not be
an important committee. Still, I think
we ought to consult experts, take testi
mony, and all that."
"What expert could we consult?"
"Woll. we minht call In a Junkman."
Cincinnati Enquirer.
FULFILLMENT.
Far across the shining sea (
Some lad's heart beatB high for thee.
With a surging ever changing.
From the sordid ever ranging
Into beauty and content;
Ever toward tha spirit bent
Tn the watches of the night.
He Is praying now, that right
Brings him home again to you.
Are you ready? worthy? truef
Is he coming back to find
Wisdom, cheer, a well poised mind?
Is he coming' back to know
That God's law makes all hearts glowT
Glow In spirit, health and youth
Glow lrr happlneea and truth?
Glow for men, In peace on earth,
In a wonderful now birth.
ELIZABETH ALLKN MALLORT.
Omaha. , .
Term of Military Service.
Emerson, la., Oct. 4. To the Ed
itor of The Bee: Is it true that the
officers, or those who-become offi
cers, in the officers' training camps
are required to sign up for four
years' service? I have been told
that this is true, but have doubted
the truth of the statement. MRS. J.
Answer Officers in the United
States army are commissioned "dur
ing the pleasure of the president,"
which means that, the commander-in-chief
may terminate their service
at any time. Private soldiers are
held to serve for four years, or the
duration of the war, unless sooner
discharged. When an officer leaves
the service for any reason he returns
at once to his condition as a civilian,
subject to the provisions of the draft
law. A private may take training
for a commission, but falling to
make the grade, he returns to his
condition as a private.
Use of Service Flags.
Omaha, Nov. 3. To the Editor of
The Bee: Kindly advise through
your paper who are entitled to wear
a service flag. In other woids, are
aunta and uncles entitled to wear
one or hang service flag in window
whose nephew has enlisted? Is
there any penalty for a person to
wear one if not entitled to do so?
Yours truly, J. B. SCOTT.
Answer No law exists governing
the use of the service fiag. It is
presumed to be for those who have
near relatives in the servjee, but is
also used by firms, corporations or
associations, lodges and churches to
indicate how many of their mem
bers, employes or the like have gone
into the service. An uncle or an
aunt has a right to wear a service
pin or display a service flag for a
nephew or niece wearing the uni
form. No . -malty attaches to the
unauthorized gearing of a service
pin, and some folks have the bad
taste to so abuse It.
Despicable Deception.
Omaha, Nov. 6. To the Editor of
The Bee: The eleventh-hour at
tempt of the local organ of democ
racy to turn the war situation to po
litical purposes and capture a few
votes Is the most despicable decep
tion it has practiced in all its long
career of misleading its readers. The
headlines in its "mightnight" extra
(published at 9 p. m.) on Monday
night would cause the hasty reader
to think that Germany has surren
dered; in fact, many who bought the
paper and only glanced at the
screaming announcement, "Armistice
With Germans Signed By Allied Na
tions," shouted with gle4 that the
war is over. Newsboys took up the
cry, and for a time folks thought the
end had come. On reading the dis
patch the fact appeared that the
conference at Paris had finally
unanimously agreed on terms to be
submitted to Germany. Barnum
was right OLD FOGY.
Colonel Grant Asks Correction.
Omaha, I.'ov. 4. To the Editor of
The Bee: Referring to an article
in your issue of the 2d inst., in col
umn one, page four, as follows:
"A responsible young business
man, whose name is withheld for
business reasons, comes forward
with a statement which offers con
crete instances of the desperate at
tempts of the democrats to gain
their ends:
" 'I have a friend who Is employed
in the government quartermaster's
department at Twenty-second and
Hickory streets,' he said. 'I met
him yesterday morning, when he
asked me how I was going to vote,
whereupon I just smiled, xle then
suggested that I should vote the
straight democratic ticket; that he
intended to do so and that the other
fellows at the corral would do like-
loc, uclhuod uiucia iiuKx ueeri genu
out to the men lj vote the straight
democratic ticket.
This is to advise that no instruc
tions or orders have been issued by
this office to anyone concerning what
candidrtes or party they should vote
for. Army regulations and civil
service rules prohibit civil service
employes in the government service
from taking an active part in politics
and the information contained in the
article above quoted is unquestiona
bly in error, so far as receiving or
ders from anyone in authority at this
depot as to whom they should sup
port in any election. F. A. GRANT,
Sidelights on the War
A kaiserless Germaay may be a
day dream. A second Wllliamless
Germany is a reasonable certainty,
forcibly if necessary. Consider what
hRvoc that spells to outdoor effigies
of greatness. No other section of
Europe sports as large an assortment
of inanimate idols. Military heroes
comprise the larger number and tha
kaiser overshadows all in frequency.
Ever since the military moguls
swatted Denmark, France and Aus
tria for slices of territory and cash,
statues of sword rattlers have multi
plied at an amazing rate, so numer
ous, in fact, that they deface the
scenery. Already the originals are
fallen idols, and the counterparts m
bronze, if not already gone, are
booked for the scrap heap or tha
melting pot
"There Is one consolation for the
allied troops and civilian populations
hack of the fighting line." writes
George Fattullo in the Saturday
Evening Post. "For every ton of
bombs the boche drops on B'rench
and English towns and cities and
cantonments we give him back two,
aye, three tons. I wouldn't live in
one of the Rhine towns which are
the targets for the Royal Fighting
corps bombers for Bertha Krupp's
Income."
In an article on the submarine
warfare in the Mediterranean con
tributed to the November Century,
Herman Whltake tells of a lad on
one of the American destroyers who
had been washed overboard in a
black night storm and was thought
to be hopelessly lost till a voice
hailed the watch from under the
stern. He had caught the log-line,
which trails for a couple of hundred
feet behind, and hauled himself
along it. Another escape was still
more marvelous. Washed overboard
at night from one destroyer, this
particular lad was heaved by a wave
upon the deck if another vessel half
a mile astern. When he was re
stored to his own ship at the end of
the voyage his captain thus ad-x
dressed him: "Young man, you
have used up all the luck you will
have In all your life. The navy Is
no safe place for you. Take my ad
vice; get out of it as soon as Uncle
Sam will let you."
Wounded marines who return from
France are now saluted by their
comrades whether entitled to this
honor by regulations or not
Lieutenant Colonel Quartermaster's
Corps, Depot Quartermaster.
.
A Magnificent Reply.
Omaha, Nov. 4. To the Editor of
The Bee: The letter of Mrs. Mar
garet A. Henry, addressed to the
president and published in The Sun
day Bee, is one of the most mag
nificent productions that has ap
peared in your columns in many a
day.
The action of the president in
practically questioning the loyalty
of republicans has tended more to
cement the old-time republican party
into one solid phalanx than any
thing that has happened since the
deplorable split in the ranks of that
party in 1912, and it presages a tre
mendous republican victory in every
northern state next Tuesday, and
the flood will even sweep some of
the southern states Into the columns
of the party of Lincoln, Grant,
Blaine and McKinley.
FRANK A. AGNEW.
Suggestion for Christmas.
Dorchester. Neb., Oct. 29. To the
Editor of The Bee: The world's
motto of today is "Save, Save, Save;"
but I doubt that there are very many
who realize the full meaning of it.
It not only means to save on flour,
sugar, meat, etc.; but it means to
save on everything you buy or raise.
For Instance now; everybody is
planning for Christmas, "the hap
piest time of the year," thinking of
all the lovely and expensive gifts
they are going to present to their
friends; altogether forgetting tho
motto of today. Therefore why not
buy just a simple and unexpensive
gift, but at the same time useful, and
put av.ay the money you had plan
ned to spend; so that when the next
Liberty loan drive comes around, we
can all pitch in and buy by the hun
dreds and thousands. Always have
in mind, whenever you want some
new article whether you really need
it, and "don't," whenever the styles
change, run and bedeck yourselves
in them. But think rather of the
boys over there, that they are giv
ing all they can give, while we can
give only so little. '
MRS. Jj. SKALA.
Decide for Yourself
Which Kind of Man Are You?
One of the weak,
fearful kind whose
blood needs iron
a failure in business
and literally "going
to pieces" because
of a nervous, run
down condition? Or
a strong, healthy, vigor
ous man with plenty of iron
in your blood and filled
with the power, energy,
and courage to win?
"For want of iron you may be
an old man at thirty, dull of
intellect, poor in memory, ner
vous, irritable, and, all 'run
down' while at 50 or 60 with
plenty of iron in your blood
vou mav still be voiinc in fppl-
ing, full of life, your whole beinr. brimming ver with
vim and energy" says Dr. James Francis Sullivan, for
merly physician of Bellevue Hospital, (Outdoor Dept.)
New York and the Westchester County Hospital.
"Lack of Iron in the blood not only makes a man a physical and
mental weakling, nervous, irritable, easily fatigued, but it utterly
robs him of that virile force, that stamina and strength of will
which are so necessary to success and power in every walk of life.
To help make strong, keen red-blooded Americans there is nothing
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former Secretary of the Treasury, and ex-Governor of Iowa'
former United States Senator and Vice Presidential ' Nominee'
Charles A. Towne, General John L. Clem (Retired), the drummer
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