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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MUVMk z, ivio The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR v THK BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPR1ETOB MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS , Hit Anociit I'tM, of whica Th He n s mointwt. it ueloslteJj UUd to tb um for pubiioatioa of ail nm dixxtchoi eredJM tm It or aot ouierwlae endued In ihls paper, tad elao Um loeal Mat paMlabed Serein. 411 nihil of puslieatloa el tut SJ01 aiepatoa art alio iwnxl OFFICESi ; Chloaio Ptople's Oai Bolldina, Omaba Tha Bat Bid. ' ' h Yors J4 Flftb Aa. Boutb Ovaba 1318 N St K Loala Na U'k of Commtre. Oouncll IMuffaU N. Mail It WesbJaftoa13U Q Sk Unoola LltM Balldtna. ' OCTOBER CIRCULATION " Daily 68,570 Sunday 60,405 ' Ararat circulation for tb Drouth aubaorlM and swan to by . B. aV Baao, Circulation aiacactr. Subaeritaa Icavlnf th city should havt Th Ba mailed ; to them. Address chanted lUm rquted. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAO tttti. 3 Chile an 91'edicine. and Feru need a dose of disarmament Anybody heard anything of Bernstorff or Dernburg? - - 1 They're starting backl That's the sure sign that it's over over there. Who is husking the corn this year? We miss the usual argument. Bond issues are needed for good roads, W definite plans must conie first. The goose hangs high, but more people have the necessary pole to reach it than ever before. Wasteful war covers a multitude of extrav agances in high-pressure war work. Time to cut 'em out. Ludendorff has fled to Sweden, which will be about all that incoming to the Swedes for their part in the war. The red, white and blue is a god flag the best ever no one of these colors will do without the others. Looks as if a lot of Christmas packages might have to be forwarded back home for de livery to addressee. South American countries are beginnig to show signs of bolslievism. It is as near a pan demic as Spanish flu. PERSHING FOR PRESIDENT. Organization of "The Pershing Republican League" in Ohio may be accepted as giving definite form to ah idea that has slowly crept into the minds of many people within the last few months. It is that the great leader of the American armies in France be named as candi date for president by the republicans in 1920. Such a move would be wholly in keeping with national traditions, for our people have always turned to great military leaders. Our first president was our first reat general, but many others have followed Washington, Jackson Harrison and Taylor, being "examples of the earlier selections, while Grant, Hays, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt are more modern instances of the soldier-statesmen who have well served the republic as its chief magistrate. Therefore it is quite natural that the public heart should turn to the man whose qualities of leadership have been so thoroughly proved through actual test. One little detail remains to be decided, however, and that is the disposition of General Pershing himself. Natu rally, he will have to be consulted, and his wishes regarded. He may not even consider that he is a republican. The Oregon decision in the Hughes case will permit his being drafted should sentiment show sufficiently strong to warrant such procedure. Whatever is done, Americans will earnestly try to discover means to express their great pride in this sterling sol dier, even to making him president. A whole week's intermission without con gress in session, but, having gone through this far, the country will survive. The lure of "easy money" has led another postal clerk to the doors of the penitentiary. It , ! not easy to steal from Uncle Sam in small turns. - Do your Christmas shopping early for your own comfort and good, if not out of considera tion' for the merchant or the saleswomen and :lerks. Come on with your questionnaires; Uncle Sam "wants to know all about you, no matter whether the war, is over or not. ' There might e another some day. i H The "skip-stop" is serving in lieu of some thing better as an escape for pentup discussion. Its permanent adoption will serve as a reminder that Omaha is fast getting away from wornout practices. Many worthy objects of charity appeal to the generously inclined. The Bee's Free. Shoe Fund for shoeless school children has a definite purpose and every cent goes to buy shoes. It will make your donation count. A German expert comes forth with figures to show there is no food shortage in that country. This is just what the Allies suspected when they declined to be stampeded by Dr. Solf's oiteous pleas for succor. Secretary Baker professes to see no reason to fear "red", influences in America. For one who has so persistently preached the doctrine of pacifism this attitude is natural. Three years ago he could see no danger of war for America or lieed for preparation. Inspection of surrendered German warships affords one plausible reason for tkrir not giving battle. None was in shape to make a decent fight Prince Henry and von Tirpitz put in their time talking and did not look after the details of their respective jobs. Coffee and the Profiteer One curious result of the efforts of the fed eral food administration to conserve our food supplies for the benefit of our European cobei- Itgerents has been to impose a heavy tax upon ' the American consumers of coffee and that means virtually everybody without any corre i sponding benefit to anyone except the specula tors in that commodity. If that tax went into the federal treasury there would be little of . which to complain, but that it is going into the pockets of profiteers, here and elsewhere, is a legitimate reason for dissatisfaction. " There is at present a serious shortage of coffee in the American market, while in Brazil, where fully two-thirds of the coffee we use is grown, there are large surplus stocks. Further more, it is said that the countries of Europe, " the needs of which in the matter of coffee we have been supposedly protecting, have now an abundant supply. Yet, abnormal as it may seem, the price of coffee in the Brazilian mar kets have been forced up to a point beyond all rtasonj and American imports have been , checked in consequence, until it is doubtful whether there is today in the hands of the trade, wholesale and retail, more than a (hree months supply to meet domestic demands. This mar- 1 gin is too small for safety and has played into the hands of speculators, who are holding their coffee for a still higher advance. Whether it is now in the power of the food administration to apply an effective remedy is doubtful, unless the public should be called upon as a patriotic duty to abstain from its daily morning beverage for a sufficient period to break the present speculative market That would undoubtedly effect a change beneficial to the pockets of American housekeepers. For ; it is plain that, however good its intentions, the food administration has not by its rulings pro tected the American people from gross- over- t I any ot the ends which it was designed to reach i ! rum Over the Phosphate Deposits. When Chile entered on its great scheme of territorial expansion,' jnore than a quarter of a century ago, it bargained for a heritage of trouble. Seizure of the southern provinces of Peru, of western Patagonia, and encroachments on its eastern neighbors, brought to Chile great additions of territory, but these in turn brought interminable disputes. Peru, defeated in war, was forced to submit to drastic terms, but has never forgotten, and now renews its claim to the phosphate deposits which have been such a source of national rev enue to its more powerful adversary. The question is now so acute as to threaten armed conflict. Along with this must be considered an adjourned dispute between Chile and Ar gentine over the demarcation of the boundary between those tvo countries, so far from recon ciliation as to' adversely affect the accord of the "A. B. C." group that should be most potent in South American affairs. V Argentine is passing through a political con vulsion, incident to the course maintained by President Irigoyen in his foreign policy. This easily could bring up the dispute with Chile and array Argentine on the side of Peru. Bolivia also has a grievance of long standing against the aggressive Chileans, and would doubtless make common cause with Peru. Thus, it appears, we have the outlines for a perfectly lovely second edition of the world-war on our own side of the world. Good counsel may prevail to head off hostilities, but matters cannot be allowed to drift much longer, as the situation is becoming serious. American Influence in Europe. Paris correspondence gives the impression that the administration has won a complete diplomatic victory, at least in the preliminary moves preceding the peace council. Whether this conclusion be justified will appear later, when the actual work of the great conclave begins. For the present it is easy enough to admit that the Entente Allies have agreed hat the abstract principles of the famous fourteen points may be given full weight, subject to cer tain specified reservations. This hardly may be accepted as committing any of the nations to 'the concrete application of either or all of the theses. To give them life they must be fully interpreted. That each nation is com mitted to the principle of justice to all requires little emphasis. That each of them will seek to secure for itself security for national devel opment must also be plain. For the United States the council holds one great possibility. It must bring such an ad justment as contains no seed of future war. Our own interests are more intimately concerned in this phase of the adjustment than any other. Irrevocably pledged to the principle of self determination, to an adjustment of. boundaries on racial rather than on political lines, and to the maintenance of the open door for all, we do not expect that age-old European jealousies will be allowed now to give color to world policies. If the acceptance of this view by the Allies be taken as a triumph for American diplomacy, well and good. It amounts simply to the ex ercise of common sense, with no grain of seri ous abnegation "on the part of any. Not every nation will get all it asks at Versailles, for many are openly bidding for special consideration that scarcely can be given. But with reasonable conception of justice prevailing, satisfactory outcome of the great conference ought to read ily follow. S Philadelphia Ledger, "Spurlos Versenkf for German Navy? Quite an astonishing suggestion is made for the ultimate disposal of that part of the German, navy that has been turned over to the victors. It is that the surrendered ships of war be taken into deep water and sunk without a trace. This proceeds on the supposition that the Allies will be unable to agree as to a division of the spoils, so, to avoid serious differences, all will be de stroyed. It is difficult to "think that England and France, after fighting side by side through the four dark years of the war, would now find cause for bickering over the booty .taken. Italy and the United States are less concerned, per haps, but surely not less generous. The world will be little the worse off if all the German navy be sent to Davy Jones' locker, and such might well be its fate If the plan be adopted, though, let it be for nobler reasons than because its conquerors could not decide on its partition between themselves. ' A German naval officer says the navy is ruined for all time. His remark may well be matched by a similar observation from an army officer, for the same state of facts applies to both branches. They are disgraced by their own acts. Bavaria's archives furnish support, if any were needed, to the charge that Germany de liberately provoked the war. Prince LicJl nowski was taking no chances when he pub lished his report : 1 1 A Right in the Spotlight. . Victor Emanuel Orlando, who will be one of the representatives of Italy in the approaching peace con ference, has held the Italian pre miership since October, 1917. Al though little known to the outside world, Signor Orlando has had a highly distinguished career. He is a native of Palermo and a graduate of the university of that city. In 1886 he became professor of juris prudence at the University of Mo dena, and 1888, after a short stay at Messina, went back to Palermo as full professor. For nearly 10 years he devoted himself to his teaching duties, but found time to write a very important treatise on the prin ciples of constitutional law, the suc cess of which paved the way for his entry into, public life as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1897. In 1903 he was made minister of public instruction. In the Giolitti cabinet of 1909 he was minister of justice, and in the Salandra cabinet of 1914 he held the same post. One Year Ago Today in the War. Germany and Austria closed their Swiss frontiers. Scandinavian rulers assembled at Christiania for conference. London reported torpedoing of American steamer Actaeon off the Spanish coast. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. The Omaha Guard's bazar was largely attended. ' , Thanksgiving turkeys are among the heaviest arrivals at the Union Pacific depot just now. Mrs. Scott-Siddons has engaged a suite of rooms at the Paxton. General Brooks in company with Postmaster Gallagher viewed a site near Papillion for a military fort The property in question is a piece of land containing 440 acres and is located about eight miles from Omaha, near Papillion. William Anderson, cashier at the Murray, has gone to his home in Des Moines to spend Thanksgiving. The Democrat Publishing com pany has filed articles of incorpora tion with a capital stock of $50, 000. - - D. E. Thompson, general super intendent of the B. & M., went west this morning. The Day We Celebrate. Clinton Brome, attorney, born 1884. Grant Hall, executive of the Ca nadian Pacific railway, bom in Mon treal, SS years ago. - Alvey A. Adee.'assistant secretary of state at Washington, born at As toria, N. Y., 76 years igo. Maj. Gen. Frank W. Coe, chief of coast artillery, United States army, born in Kansas, 48 years ago. John A. Hoogewerff. rear admiral, United States navy, born in Mary land, 58 years ago. This Day in History 1843 Cornelius Vanderbilt. em inent capitalist, born at New Dorp, S. I. Died in New York City, Sep tember 12, 1899. 1868 General Custer defeated the rebellious Indians on the Wichita. 1894 The French Chamber of Deputies voted in favor of a com mercial treaty with Canada. 1914 Secretary of State Bryan an nounced that the Tennessee incident was closed. 1915 Main Serbian army driven across into Albania, abandoning heavv artillery. 1916 Two Zeppelins were shot down in a raid on England. Bohemia's Dream a Reality E. F. Prantner in New York Herald. The hour of the Cecho-Slovaks has struck. Freedom and liberty for Bohemia are breaking through the ages long, gray dawn, as the early morning sun, strengthening the hopes and warming the hearts of the people in these lands. The dreams of centuries are now being realized.- ' This little group, now as a foundling among nations, has trained an enviable position in the estimation of the world through its achieve ments in this war. How are these heretofore unbelievable successes attained? is the question most frequently propounded, invariably specu lated on but seldom satisfactorily answered. It is everywhere conceded that the Czechs are possessesd of that stage of education and public opinion in which these people can be conscious of a national governmental respon sibility. A nation is a belief, a faith, a devo tion to fundamental things. It is the belief in their iust cause, it is faith in those orincioles of humanity so ea:-c:tly urged by Hus, Co- menius and Czech scholars of subsequent per iods and it is devotion to their language that closely knits these people as a nation under their ancient standard of white and red. The history of Bohemia is one long and con tinuous story of constant wars between the Slav and the Teuton, Some of the conflicts were waged because of religious differences, while others were carried on as linguistic wars. The object of all the struggles was the same the extermination of the Austrian Slav. The strifes were unending, while the application of the "Germanization" process was constant. During the first half of the 19th century the Czechs, under the leadership of Palacky, reac quired a culture which in some respects approxi mated their medieval splendor. This, also, is the period of the reawakening of the Czech peo ple. The nation sprouted out with wonderful vigor from its long and enforced idleness. The culture of the French and English scholars was the medium, which, with proper and constant nourishment, served as a vehicle for the reha bilitation of the Czechs. This new culture flour ished until, just before the war, it was far su perior to the other peoples of the dual mon archy. The constant grind of the Czechs between the nether and upper stones was bound to create a national feeling, generate a national spirit and a unified people. Thus the results produced were absolutely) contrary to German plans and expec tations Today these oppressors deal with a nation imbued with an independent spirit; deter mined to gain its freedom, which determination is spurred by a rejuvenated national feeling, while a united people demands justice from the rulinar classes of Austria-Hungary. The pres ent Czechs are the product of German influence and miscalculations. The resentful people are seeking an opportunity to avenge the wrongs committed against themselves, against their forebears. Is it any wonder that they battle with such bitterness, tinged with much enthusi. asm, against tht German and Magyar hordes, their persistent oppressors? The Bohemian lands and people are the brightest jewel in the crown of Austria-Hungary, but they are also its Nemesis. They are one of the moving spirits in the dismemberment of the empire of the house of Hapsburgs and in the undoing of militaristic Germany. The meaning of German propaganda aimed to disrupt a nation or a people is now thorough ly appreciated by all the world.( The Russian debacle is but the most recent, interesting and noteworthy example. For ages the Czechs, and the Slovaks as well, have been subjected to a systematic, vile and calumnious worldwide propaganda conducted by German and Magyar publicists. Its only purpose was to discredit, in the eyes of the world, everything Bohemian or bearing the earmarks of the Czechs. While the world lent a willing ear to their nefarious preachings, and believed them, a person of Czech birth was forced to bow his head because of the situation created and so earnestly desired by the autocrats. Not. .being content with discrediting the Czechs, they divided the Slavs, of which family the Czechs, are members, against themselves. In this way they arrayed one member of the Slavic family against another. An illustrative instance is that of the Poles, who voted with the German and Magyar minority in the Austro-. Hungarian Reichsrat against the interests of the Czechs. Timdv Tottino-s and Reminders. Ooutgoing trains in every city of the United, States will be laden to Hav with nUn and women who olan to spend the Thanksgiving day back home. Sampel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Charles M. Schwab, director of the Fler Cnrnnration. are scheduled as speakers before today's session of the National Housing conference at Boston. Storyette of the Day. George Washington Brown, late of Mobile, was making his first trip frontward on a supply wagon in France. He was almost there when, from the side of the road, a camou flaged American battery broke forth thunderously, casting a few 300 pound mementoes over the line to Fritz. The ground trembled from the terrific salvo, but not more so than George, as he jumped from his high seat to the road. The American artillery officer di recting the battery crossed over to the road. "Scared?" he asked smilingly. "Well, sun,'-' said George. "I was slightly agitated at fust, suh. I sut tingly was. But don't mind me. Keep right on. I reckon dat's de only way to win this wah fiah dem guns." Baltimore American. SIGN POSTS OF PROGRESS. The United States Steel corpora tion pays some skilled worker $52.50 a day. ; A monthly output of 500,000 tons of shipping before end of this year is expectation of emergency fleet cor poration. This is one-fourth the tonnage delivered in 13-month pe- As an aid to poultrymen a Massa chusetts man has invented a ma chine that at regular intervals de livers water to a trough and scatters measured feed broadcast i The Canada food board has made still further changes in the bread that may be used in Canada. Up to the present the regulations have only required the use of 10 per cent of substitutes in the manufacture of bread. Under the new regulations the proportion will be Increased to 10 per cent An effort is being made by the Philippine government to stimulate the building of ships in the islands, particularly such ships as are adapt ed to interisland trade. This effort is meeting with a promising response in many parts of the country. Ves sels to the size of 250 tons suitable for domestic commerce are. being turned out in at least seven different sections ot tha Philippic" To all outward appearances the Czechs are a leaderless body, which is true in one sense, the military, but a masterful power unites them through some mysterious, intangible, indescrib able means for the attainment of a common objective. Though lacking a military genius, on the other hand they are under astute political leadership. Within Bohemia Deputy Kramarz most ably directs the movement while in dis tant lands Professor Masaryk pilots the "baby" ship of state over dangerous shoals. The deep mystery of it all is that they work in apparent harmony for the attainment of the same general purpose without visible connections. If it did appear that there was any communication be tween the two men, and the Austria-Hungarian authorities became aware of it. Deputy Kramarz would quickly feel the heavy hand of the ruling autocrats. The Czechs have been branded "traitors" by the German and Austria-Hungarian authorities. If the refusal to squander their lives for a cause tor which these powers prosecute this war con stitutes "treason," and it must be borne in mind that these people have no interest in and do not believe in the aims of this war as waged by the Teutonic powers, then the Czechs will forever glory in the fact that they were "traitors." At every opportunity the Czech soldiers de sert the Teutonic armies to impart information of military value, relative to the status of the Hun forces, to the commander of the allied army in whose midst they seek shelter, refuge and asylum. Possibly in a military sense the Czechs are insignificant; nevertheless, by their course they exact an enormous toll from the ranks of the "missionaries of human progress." They are compelled, under existing circum stances, to avail themselves of the best weapons at their disposal in order to attain their goal, and they act in no wise different than the Teutons would act is similarly situated. The Czecho-Slovaks are one of the most sorely tried nations among the Allies. Their fighting men at all times without a foot of national soil to stand on, they are deserters in variably, but who before deserting were driven, between German and Magyar soldiers, on pillag ing expeditions through trackless wilderness only catching their breath in prison camps of France, Italy or Russia; then reforming under foreign but friendly leaders to fight for their just cause and the Allies' cause of humanity.. The injustices and oppressions of the Czechs have been directed against the individual as well as against the nation. The bitter school of practical experience, under the harsh tutelage of German and Magyar despots, has taught the Czechs that Bohemia's freedom and liberty may depend on the act of one person. Every one of them being imbued with that spirit, he has trained and nerved himself for the supreme moment, that moment when the secrifice of his all, qr if need be of himself, shall materialize Bohemia's ambitions. They realize that they connot act as a body, but that they may act as individuals. Each Czech acts for himself in such a way that the particular act he bravely and daringly consummates will bring nothing but joy and happiness to Bohemia and her people. Even though each individual acts for himself yet through inborn individual purpose, so it appears on the surface, the Czechs are acting in cencert to accomplish a unified and well defined purpose. In substance, the unen flurable oppressions and injustices have made every Czech a "traitor", if such a thing is possi ble, to the stifling, incompetent and arogant house of Hapsburg and its cluster of leechified satellites, and each seeks to avenge the -wrongs committed not only against himself but to avenge the wrongs committed against his kins men and his nation. State Press Comments Aurora Republican! Mr. Bryan comes out of the war in about as pitiful a state as his arbitration treaties, and now the Fershing pres idential boom threatens to eclipse his star as Lincoln's most distin guished citizen. Fatrbury News: Now if President Wilson's friends want to invite an other rebuke for him in 1920 they will proceed with their government ownership plans. The people have had enough ot it and will rebuke It every time they get a chance. Grand Island Independent: The Omaha Bee might well urge good roads even more strongly. State and federal road building should proceed at Once tj permanently-surfaced roads and concrete bridges. Not as aoon as this first legislative session should we forget the lessons of the war as to both ultimate econ omy and maximum utility. Blair Enterprise: Not much sur prise will be manifested by the pub lic at the announcement In a Wash ington telegram published in an other place in this paper that ex press rates are to be materially in creased by Director General Mc Adoo of the railroad administration since taking over the express com panies, in view of the fact that rail road rates, passenger andyfreight, have been boosted 60 per cent since the president turned the railroads over to his son-in-law. Harvard Courier: The next leg islature has a chance to perform a real service to the state by abolish ing a lot of nonessential offices and boards. It is said that Governor elect McKelvie favors such action and that he may defer making sev eral appointments until the legisla ture has a chance to act One sug gestion is to consolidate some boards and abolish others and place all that are left under the management of one business manager, to be ap pointed by the governor. The state would save money by making such a change and the business would be better looked after. WHITTLED TO A POINT Detroit Free Press: Germany may yet become a great nation, but it has a lot of hard work to do. St. Louis Globe Democrat: Alex ander, Caesar and Napoleon created their glory, while Wllhelm merely lost what had been handed down to him. Minneapolis Tribune: By Increas ing the per capita sugar allowance from three to four pounds monthly the food administration is making the nation safer for fudge. Baltimore American: Europe has been astonished at the rapidity of the United States in turning itself into a fighting nation, but, then, history could have reminded them of that from the start we were a country of minute men. Brooklyn Eagle: The red-blooded male of every species much above the starfish protects the female. When the kaiser and the crown prince ran away and left the em press on a jlck bed and the princess nursing her, they set a new example of anthropodial degeneracy. New York Herald: The German women who appealed to Mrs. Wilson may not have known that 150.000 freight cars only replace those taken from France and Belgium for and in a war of conquest; or they mav think that, with articles so easily mislaid, "findings is keepings." Philadelphia Ledger: The senate will make a very good start in re ducing the amount of the war rev enue bill if It cuts out some of the taxes on luxuries. The last thing people are going to pay high prices for is the thing they can go without. And when consumption is checked, of course, there is no revenue from the tax. SUNNY GEMS. Mr. Fisher You wouldn't Hippos that I had a ion lit school, would you? Mr. Blunt No, Indeed. I had an Idea that all yoar children must be through college by this time. Detroit Free -Presa. Husband It Is a strange thins, ''but true, that the biggest (oola have the most beautiful wives. Wife (pleased) Oh, you flatterer. Judge. Bronson Moat of the airs people put on about the benefit ot foreign travel are all a bluff. Woodson Tea. But you've got to travel yourself In order to be able to call the bluff. Brooklyn Citizen. "Do you- believe in evolution t" "Surely. I have seen some remarkable examples of development from the lower forms of animal life. Only yesterday I saw a recruiting officer change a lounge llsard Into a regular man. Baltimore American. .... i V "It seema odd to me that a student's life should be so monotonous." . "That's easy to explain. On so seldom receives a check from home that h gets no chang at all." Widow. "Doctor, do you approve of til those don't-worry theories?" "Well, I always Ilk to have my patients Indulge In a little healthy anxiety about paying my bills." Toronto Telegram. Causes of the Flu. 'est Point, Neb., Nov. 22 To the Editor of The Bee: Nowadays one reads frequently of comparisons which are designed to make our war casualties "over there" seem less impressive because the Influenza here has taken more lives than the war. But if we want to arrive at the more correct number of lives lost prema turely on account of the war, the influenza victims must also be counted. History shows that war is, as a rule, accompanied or followedj by an epidemic. I know of several Instances where measles and InCuenza were gotten or brought from training camp. Also, the use of various substitutes and the reduction of sugar, have done much to make people less resistant to dis ease. O. H. BIlOCKMAN. Who Pays for Passes? 'Hastings, Neb., Nov. 23. To the Editor of The Bee: Stripped of pa thos and melodrama, Mr. Hanson's letter on "Passes for Employes" ad vances in, the defense of such free transportation the following argu ments: 1. Railroad men should receive courtesies in the form of passes as a reward for faithful service. 2. Railroad men, being a part of labor, "should take all they can get" being "certainly entitled to it" 3. Railroad men do not abuse their pass privileges. Answering these in numerical or der: 1. Passes are not issued as re wards for faithful service, nor as Inducements to more faithful work. The mere fact of being on the pay roll (with possibly some qualifica tions based on kind and length of service) entitles an employe to free transportation. 2. Unjust discrimination In favor of railway employes and at the ex pense of the rest of the labor world is indefensible. The cost of carrying "pass riders" does not come out of the thin air, but out of the pockets of othar laborers, just as faithful and just as much entitled to con sideration as the railway employes. You, my dear Mr. Hanson, are not shifting your railroad transportation cost to the shoulders fit our "capi talists" only, ut also to the shoul ders of the "old mothers" and "poor sisters," who. for one reason or an other, are compelled to travel. 3. Irrelevant. V. E. J. OMARBUNDY. . "ou remember Omar Bundyl 1 has come bom from th army. From tb army of th Yankee overseas. There's a Yanke twang about tt-r-Jmar Bundy non can doubt It J And his talk wa Yank, on hundred, plus, degrees. (!a was holding on, was Bundy, At the Marne, that fateful Monday. At Chateau Thierry, wher th pace waa hot. With the Huns In maasea forcing At each fording place a creasing, And the acattered Yankees yielding not a jot. And the word waa passed to Bundy Ha had boat withdraw, that Monday, Till the Oerman strength had aomewhat spent Its blow. But he said he thought he couldn't. That, Indeed, he rather wouldn't. That In short In substance bls,jeply was "No." "For the whole truth Is," said Bundy, "If I made them quit tne aninay. They would neither understand It nor enjoy It. It Is easier to buck It. Wa will stick." And so they stuck It And th Uochs was never abl to Fossoy It. It was rather brusque of Bundy, That reply, some say, that Monday; But they seem to be short-sighted In their view. Experts say he won the battle When he alew the Huns like cattle. Blocking hard where they Just had to puah on through. At Bud Dajo It was Bundy: Likewise at the Mam that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday every day right down to now. And my bunch Is hell to breakfast. You will find him Just as steadfast. Altogether, toaat him! "Omar Bundyt How!" Maurice Morris In New York Sun. 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