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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1918. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING)-EVENIXC-SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD BOSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THI BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tilt Awoctited Prat, of which The Bm li member, li iicluitMlj enllUwl to til um for publlrstioa of U news dlipttclies credited to it Of not otherwise credited tn thli piper, and also the local news published herein. All rlghu of publlcaUoa of our special diiixtcbea are alto referred. OFFICES i Ohlcsgo Penple'e Gm Bulldlni. Omaha The Be Bldf. New Tork Hi Fifth Are. South Omaha 2318 N it St. Ioul New B' of Commerce. Council Bluffs 14 N. Main St. Wuhinston 1311 O St. Lincoln Llttla Building. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 69,418 Sunday 63,095 Ararat circulation for the month subscribed and iwora to by 8. K. Baian. Circulation Manatur. Subacribara leavlnf the city ahould have The Baa mailed to them. Address chanced often aa requested. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG I'M lJ lilillllllillii The "jitney" has vindicated itself at'last. Omaha's Christmas tree will be a real joy this time. "Tom" Reynolds is another promised improvement- in the state administration. Another big hotel is projected for Omaha, and it will not overcrowd the lists, either. Nebraska boys are to winter on the Rhine, but their hearts will be on the Platte, just the same. The kaiser has no reason to complain that Bernitorff was not on the job while he was in America. j 'The president's trip across the Atlantic most remind him of things at home not smooth sailing. The Red Cross women realize that the end of hostilities did not put a stop to the work of jnercy they carry on. k Some distinguished pacifists now insist they were not pro-German, but the trouble is they were not pro-American, either. . Our boys in France will have no turkey for Christmas, but, for the matter of that, they will be no worse off than a lot of folks at home. Three million dollars an hour paid to farm ers for live stock during November makes itock raising look good alongside some other occupations. Mr. Burleson and his aerial mail promise toafford much good reading for the long win der nights. His plan's, like his machines, are up in the air. t ', "Charlie" Schwab is giving nip the shipyards I- to go back to Bethlehem Steel, but he leaves V back of him a record of achievement that will " 'iand fto his credit forever. ,yjust ai soon as the brake is taken off private V,,'"' .enterprise jfill take care of all the labor to be supplied by returning soldiers. This country is ? not going to stand still, nor enter otfa period ..of depression just because the munition plants ire closing. Herr Ebert is modest and sensible in declin j ing to take an off-hand election as president of the German republic. His counsel to the sol diers .that they be patient is in luminous con , trast to the course pursued in Russia, and may mean order for the Teutons. Obesity has almost wholly disappeared among German civilians, gout and similar dis eases are gone, and even soldiers have been relieved from nervous disorders, according to a Berlin professor. It was pretty tough on the rest of the world, though, to have to administer he cure. Mr. Burlesoli has encountered his first snag in the aerial mail service, his superintendent nd assistant having resigned as protest against employment of novices in important positions. But this will not deter the czar of the Postoffice department from carrying out any experimental plans he may have formed. . Yes, the school board ought to arrange to Sell those new building bonds so as to be able to- start construction early in the spring. But there is no need of borrowing the money merely to pile it up in the banks awaiting the need for it contract for delivering of the bonds as '.he money is wanted ought to be feasible. ? In selecting Mr. Robert Cowell as head of the chapter the directors of Omaha chapter of the Red Cross have acted well. Mr. Cowell will bring to his new duties notDnly the benefit of a wide business experience,but the confidence of the entire community, in which he is highly regarded for his personal probity and for his warm human sympathies as well. His choice for the place is a happy one. Red Cross Work On his return from a tour of three months in Europe inspecting Red Cross activities. H. P. Davison, chairman of the war council of the or ganization, issues a statement telling of its great work in foreign countries and citing ex pressions of appreciation from those who know most about it and are best qualified to judge. General Pershing said the value of service -rendered was beyond computation. General Ireland, chief surgeon of the expeditionary forces, declared that the Red Cross workers have "rendered an essential service to our men the value of which can never be fully known." Admiral Sims and the most conspicuous per sonages of Great Britain, France and Italy unite in praise of the service rendered by the American Red Cross. Syria and Palestine share in the expression of gratitude, and General Allenby has asked his government to urge the Red Cross to continue its work there. . Cessation of hostilities has ended many emergency but opened up new and pressing needs, Mr. Davison points out, and there will be an appealing cry of humanity from all over the world. The' people of Amer ica can do the most, and in Mr. Davison's "opin ion we owe the most to suffering humanity. . The American Red Cross .must be kept strong and efficient that it may do its share in full measure. New York Herald. ' PUTTING ORGANIZED LABOR IN BAD. Developments m the Omaha street car strike confirm the growing opinion that there was neither excuse nor reason for calling the walk-out, nor justification for continuing it, after the company has offered to arbitrate any question of interpretation of the award of jthe War Labor board. It is clear now, though at first obscured by conflicting claims, that the men have no grievances relating to wages, hours or conditions of work for which redress is not at hand. In defiance of the War Labor board, and in complete disregard ojthe convenience and ne cessities of the public dependent on street rail way service, the street car strikers are delib erately undertaking to hold up the traffic of a community of a quarter of a million of people. They forget that it is the wageworker and school child whom they are forcing to walk, not the capitalist, or employer, or professional men, who ride in their own autos. From the standpoint of organized labor, this repudiation of .the War board's authority and award appears unfortunate and indefen sible. We do not see how the street car men's union in its affiliated international can ask for the intervention of the War board, or appeal to the authorities, here or in any other city, when they refuse positively to accept findings and orders when made, except insofar as they are to their own benefit. As we have observed before, What would a contract with this union be worth, if the obliga tion of it is not to be recognized by the men, but only by the company? We believe the street car men are making a serious mistake in following bad leadership,' which is rapidly growing worse in letting irre sponsible professional labor agitators put or ganized labor in bad. Bringing Home the Troops. One of the expected incidents of demobiliza tion has arisen, that of argument over how long the men can be held in service. One of the most interesting phases of this will turn on when does the war end? By operation of the law drafted men can be held for four months after the war ends; in the senate some discus sion has been had on the question of whether this will permit keeping a large force in Europe to do police duty while governments over there are being reorganized. The senators are in clined to consider the war at an end when hos tilities cease, although some of them agree that it may not be technically called off until the peace treaty has been negotiated and ratified. All of these, however, contend there is no war rant in law for retaining men in service in definitely. If the United States is to assume the task of preserving order in Europe existing laws will have to be modified, or a new enlist ment must be had. All of this, of course, makes no note of the physical difficulty that will be encountered in the matter of lack of transport facilities. British ships that carried 60 per cent of our men across will probably be used by their owners for other purposes, so that the eight months required to carry the men to France may be so lengthened as to permit all necessary guard duty to be performed while men are waiting for transport home. Consideration of the point will be helpful, if it only points out the makeshift nature of a lot of things we had to do when, getting into the war. , ' t First Move for Good Roads. An Iowa legislator, who also is an ardent as well as a sensible worker in the good roads movement, touches the center of the problem when he says the men who use the roads must be awakened to the benefit to come with im provements proposed. This has been contended from the beginning by The Bee, which has tried, to interest the farmers in the movement. Until the agricultural class is made to realize how costly and wasteful is the system that prevails, little progress will be made in the general cam paign. It is not that the farmer does not un derstand, or that he is not progressive. In the adoption of new methods, the application of ma chinery, the betterment of breeds, and all that line, the Nebraska farmer stands alongside the most progressive.- It is only in tie matter of roads he has not advanced. In this he has been deterred by the first cost of permanent ' construction. When he comes to understand how this can be distributed over a long term of years, and hoyv lightly it will bear on his re sourcs, while the accumulated savings will counterbalance the outlay, he willot lag in the. work. The first th'ng to be done in the pro-' posed campaign for good roads in Nebraska is to get the farmers interested in a compre hensive state wide program. Once they take it up properly, success is assured. One Long' Round of Pleasure. A Paris editor outlines a. pleasant prospect for the United States. It includes a long list of visits from European heads of governments, presidents, emperors, kings and the like, all in cident to the visit of ovuj president to their countries. This, of course, is reciprocal cour tesy. Heretofore we have not often been called upon tqf entertain royalty; in fact never as such. The heir-apparent of the British throne once did us the honor, while some Russian grand dukes, the brother of the German emperor, an aunt of the king of Spain, and a few others whose birth was more or less close to the purple, have visited our shores, but not the ruling monarch of anycountry save good old David Kalakaua and Liliuokalani, and they "'did not count for much. Now, that we have broken the ice, showing that we are not stuck-up, so 'to speak, we may look,for both formal and inforrnal visits from the folks on whom beats the .fierce light that surrounds the throne. - We will show them each and every one a good time, and perhaps through this social intercourse, w,e may bring about a better way of doing things bqth here and abroad. It looks like one long round of pleasure ahead of the good old U. S. A. Right in the Spotlight Maj Gen. George Barnett, com mandant of the United States Mar ine corps, who has been reported seriously ill in France, enters upon his 60th year today, having been born Dec. 9, 1859, at Lancaster, Wis. Gen. Barnett has been at the head of the marine corps since the early part of 1914. Previously he had seen service in Cuba, Panama, the Philippines, with the legation guard at Pekin, and on numerous cruises with the Atlantic fleet. He com manded the expeditionary force of marines in Cuba in 1906, and, in fact, was the first officer in com mand of troops that landed in the island to form the army of Cuban pacification. His record has been uniformly excellent all through his military career. One Year Ago Today in the War. Italians succeeded in checking the enemy in the battle of Asiago. Cos sack counter-revolution broke- out in southern Russia. Italian destroyers penetrated Tri este harbor and torpedoed two Aus trian warships. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. Electric cars on the motor line commenced running across the new briclpe, a 20-minute service being in- augurated. Four cars ran from noon till 10:30 at night and were crowded with passengers through out the day. Jerome Seibert, cashier of the Pacific Express was united in mar riage to Sallie C. Holcomb by Rev. Harsha. O. Tudor Griffiths of the Com mercial National bank is convalesc ing from typhoid. The Humane society at its annu al meeting at Trinity elected as of ficers: President, Champion S. Chase; vice presidents, George L. Miller, Henry Rundt, Rev. John Williams, Dean Gardner, A. J. Fop pleton, O. M. Carter and B. E. B. Kennedy; secretary, Preston A. Allen; treasurer, Alfred Millard. The Day We Celebrate. Elmer A. Cope, treasurer of the Updike Grain company, born 1879. Maj. Gen. Andre W. Brewster, U. S. A., born in New Jersey, 56 years ago. Brig. Gen. Benjajaiin D. Foulois, U. S. A., born in Connecticut, 39 years ago. Prince Feter Kropotkin, Russian writer and thinker, who was forced to live in exile many years, born 76 years ago. Meredith Nicholson, author of popufar novels, born at Crawfords ville, Ind., 52 years ago. Thomas W. Hardwick, United States senator from Georgia, born at Thomasville, Ga., 46 years ago. This Day in History. .1608 John Milton, one of the greatest poets that the world has ever produced, born in London. Died there, Nov. 8, 1674. 1825 The first steamship reach ed Calcutta from England. 1864 Gen. Grant, becoming im patient at Gen. Thomas' delay in attacking Gen. Hood before Nash ville, signed an order suspending Gen. Thomas, but the order was not sent. 1914 Russia reported her war ex penses to date amounted to $892, 500.000. 1915 German imperial chancellor declared peace proposals must" come from allies. Note thrl evidence that Senator Hitchcock's Hyphenated paper printed the page ad of Ger man propaganda as a donation to the cause of Kaiserism and Kultur. Incidentally it counts this in for its showing of "clean paid ads." Clean? Phew I Selecting postmasters with regard to merit and not for party "service will be a novelty in Nebraska, and this is with all due regard fop Dan Stevens' election plan. Even one plum falling must encourage the hungry, for it shows the tree will produce. Timely Jottings and Reminders. The supreme court of the United States reconvenes today after the Thanksgiving recess. . The annual convention of the In vestment Bankers' association of America is to open today at St. Louis. , Public health officials from all parts of the United States, Canada, Mexico and several of the South American countries are expected in Chicago today fof the opening of the annual convention of the Amer ican public health association, of which Charles J. Hastings of Tor ronto is president. Storyette of the Day. Andrew Carnegie, complimented one day at his Scottish castle on his gifts to the cause of education, said to a young lady: "There's nothing so pathetic as the self-fnade man who, is conscious of his lack of education. These poor fellows seem to think that every body is educated but themselves. "Once in a smart New York res taurant Iheard a man with a dia mond horseshoe pin say hoarsely to a waiter: " 'Shove over that chandelier.' " 'It isn't a chandelier, sir,' said the waiter as he obeyed. 'It's a cruet.' ' "The man with the5 diamonds blushed brick red. "'Well, never mind what she is, shove her over,' he said. 'We ain't all been to college. ' San Francisco Argonaut. EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS. Washington Post: The war seems to have assured self-government everywhere except the District of Columbia. Baltimore American: Perhaps the most cruel punishment that could be visited upon the kaiser would be to let him live with his regrets. New York Herald: Americans are not worrying, nor do they intend to worry, about the internal economic conditions of Germany. Whatever it is, it has been created by the Germans. They must sit at the board which they have laid for themselves. Brooklyn Eagle: Private competi tive methods will never be restored in the railroad business, according to Winthrop M. Daniels, chairman of the " Interstate- Commerce commis sion, but just how the people are to be reconciled to double rates-in peace times is not yet explained. Kansas City Times: Another rea son why German envoys should not be sent to the United States at once: The American boats are just now engaged in the work of sweeping the Atinntio for mines laid alone: the coast by GeVman U-boats, and the.' a. i : a . t.A cn f a fnr- tha art i voya. Nebraska Sets the Pace. Henry L. Stoddard in New York Mail There is one state in the union that is not afraid of peace Nebraska. From that state comes a refreshing declara tion of readiness to meet all reconstruction work with confidence that the funds, the brains and the energy to meet every requirement are" at command. Nebraska sends word to the east' that the state has half a billion deposits in its banks, that farm mortgages are as scarce as hen's teeth, that she has a job for every soldier and sailor she has sent to the war, and that the people out there see nothing but prosperity ahead of them. Here is part of one dispatch from Omaha: Nebraska sent 41,000 men to war. The state can give every one if these his old position the day he crosses the'Missouri river. And there will be room for 34,000 more men in this state if they care to come and ask for work. Ne braska can care for 75,000 workmen' and can still cry for more to carry on its regular busi ness, to say nothing of the increase which nat urally comes after two years of marking time." Talk of this kind from other states, including particularly including our own. ought to take the place of the timid twaddle going around regarding the deep problems we face and the terrible time we are to have while solving them. Why, to listen to some of the talk, and to read as patiently as one can some of the interviews with, so-called financial leaders, one would be compelled to class Americans as a nation of ghost seers. We are "seein' things at night" just because we have ceased killing other human beings and having our own sons and brothers killed. Literally, and in a word, as a nation we seem to be afraid of peace! With half the gold of the world in our pos session, with a mighty development of our in dustrial resources that a half century of normal times could not surpass, with the task of feed ing the world on our farms for two years at least, with more money of the people in savings banks and in government bonds than we ever dreamed could be accumulated there, with every foundation stone of prosperity as strong as Gibraltar, we shudder at the very thought that hereafter, instead of concentrating our whole industrial effort on making instruments of de struction and death, we are to turn back to the nobler work of building up, of cementing, of creating instead of destroying. And we shudder at this splendid task, and, witFf furrowed brow, ask each other how we ever shall do itl We went into war in April, 1917, with an unconquerable spirit; we knew we had some thing big to do, and we hadn't a doubt that we would do it and do it well. We are going ito peace in November, 1918. in a timid spirit, fearful that the dollars of profits that were earned so plentifully in war times may not be earned so plentifully in peace. We are watching our dollars, piled up in bank vaults, and ignoring our opportunities, which are greater, in number and in possibili ties, than Destiny ever offered to any other people on earth. Instead of skulking under the shadow of timidity our people should be out con fidently in the sunshine of anticipated power and prosperity, precisely as Nebraska says her citizens are 'doing. We have more to do, individually, than ever before; we have more to do at home, more to do abroad, than our farms and factories have ever been called to do; the yield from both will spell prosperity unequalled in peace times, more permanent, more widespread, than the passing prosperity of war times. We, are at the end of world confusion; we are at the beginning of world reconstruction. We shall have to draw on no nation for our needs; there is no nation that will not have to draw on us. Why, then, should we be fashioning ghosts in our minds, professing to be wandering in darkness, when the clear light of prosperity is thrown on the path ahead of us? Are we to let Wall stree't, which typifies wealth, and therefore cowardly wealth, make us a nation of doubters, when the only doubt is that which we raise against ourselves? The late J. T. Morgan gave Wall street a good many examples of courage, of vision and of patriotism; but he never said anything better tli.vi when he replied to a question put to him during one of our panic periods: "I am betting on Uncle Sam every time." Let us get that spirit into our multi-millionaires so-called captains of industry (or are they generals now?) and go to it, Nebraska like, to show the worM that we have not grown too rich out of the war to be courageous, that we do not prize our energy, our skill and our salesmanship so poorly as to lack faith in them. White-Flagged Deutschland Named among the submarines surrendered in the great white flag presentation of its ships to the allies by Germany was the Deutschland, the first submarine liner to cross the Atlantic ocean, whose port on this side was Baltimore the first trip and Newport News the second. The Deutschland was then, undoubtedly, bent upon espionage and other service of the government. Baltimoreans were duped; not to their discredit, for honest men may not always detect the marks of the rogue. There is an eager desire that the ship that was later transformed into a war submarine and coasted on this side the Atlantic, and is credited with having planted the mine that sunk the San Diego, shall be given over to the United States. As a ship of treachery and deceit it ought not- to be added to the American naval forces. This government should acquire it and make a museum exhibit of it, plarng it in the national museum at Washington. The historical inter est of the Deutschland and its ignominous fate, added to the stirring chapters of adventure in which it figured and the dramatic career and probable fate of its captain, would cause this to be an exhibit of ever-increasing interest with the passage of the years. By all, means let the Washington officials move for the acquisition of the Deutschland for the purpose here sug gested. Baltimore American. People and Events Andrew D. White, educator, diplomatist and author, left a fortune of $900,000, more than half of it going to Cornell university. Minnesota plans to signalize the new year of world peace by investing $6,000,000 in per manent good roads. A good start in the right direction. ( A wholesale rush homeward of the swivel chair warriors at Washington awaits the signals of army bureau chiefs. It is said they are weary of the jobs ind anxious to return to civil life. A fine assortment of office chairs and desks are headed for local bargain counters. Serious charges of business graft are made by George Jackson, a South Dakota soldier, against the business men at Louisville, Ky. Jackson was at the officers! training school at Camp Taylor. He alleges an organized "shake down" in prices for uniforms prior to the armistice. After that the price was cut in two, and civilian clothes boosted 50 per cent. As for forbidden booze, all kinds and quantities are peddled freely at $8 a quart. With 50.000 men in camp the fleece was abundant and the shear ing skilfully done. Capt. A. F. Rostron, the hero of the Car pathia, which rescued the Titanic survivors in April, 1912, brought the Mauretania ,into New York with the first. load of homebound Ameri can soldiers. A man of slender build, medium size, quite averse to hero worshipers, he has commanded many different ships since the war began. The host 'of returning warriors who hailed Miss Liberty with a mighty cheer a week ago were scarcely less joyful than the thousand of maroqned Americans whom Captain Ros tron, commanding the Alaunia, brought to this side in September, 1914. In the Wake oj War More thin 1,554,000 Iron crosses were disti ;:.uted by the kaiser dur ing the v r. No wonder the bar gain cour r is overwhelmed with discredited metal. The firs- American war corres pondent t reach Berlin since the armistice r ; nrts the touch there re minds him ,.f home. A room In a first class : tel costs $5.50 a day. Real monej, too. There Is move In New Tork to give the n.Tne "Maid of France" to the square :.i Riverside drive where her statute s ands, which prompts a local critic n remark: "Why persist in mat wret.'hea English perversion "Joan of Arc." Britain's select committee on transport says the unified control of British railroads was satisfactory during the war and should be con tinued. The committee, however, does not recommend government ownership In time of peace. The palace at Po sdam Is consid ered a happy solution for the hous ing problem at P.erlin. Unless the new ruling- powers insist of accom modation befitting their present Im portance the palace affords elbow room for 500 persons, without plac ing cots in the marble halls. Stars and Stripes quotes from a letter received by one of the dough boys in Prance from one of the home girls. "My, but this town Is full of lonesome girls. They won't even buy new clothes because there is no one to look at them but old men." Oh, you Home guards. The saddest words of tongue or pen no doubt were fashioned by Field Marshal Mackensen when his load of Roumanian swag was swiped before his eyes at the railroad station at Berlin. The guards took the gold and notes because "they believed the goods had been stolen." Thus was another proud highway man beautifully humbled by the profesh. The famous bronze horses of Con stantine, taken down and hidden when the robber armies drove to the Tiave river are being restored to their ancient position on the balcony of St. Marks, Venice. The sandbags which safeguarded the front of the famous basllieu from the bombs of air raiders, the columns of the Doges' palace and the an cient bronze doors of the Campanile have been thrown aside, and the famous square of St. Mark and neighboring plazetta Ouch more re flect their peace-time glories. And the gondoliers look forward Joy ously to the coming of the tourist who appreciates the loveliness of the only Venice. ROUND ABOUT THE STATE Just as soon as one problem Is scrapped another bobs up to perplex the faithful. Pie hunters on the anxious seat wonder where they can safely hang their sox a few weeks hence. Stringing them around the executive mansion means emptiness. Prudence forbids invading a private residence. Here's an opening for genius to give the right steer. Fremont iTribune admits having passed its fiftieth milestone without putting up a celebration or saying something like "Have one on me." The date happened back In July, when the noise of the cannon and the campaign made a celebration incon venient. As to saying something quietly the absence of the "makin's" forbade a murmur. Even though the festal trimmings were not put on, It may be said the Tribune does not look its years. York News-Times shows a sur prising lack of sympathy for the al leged sufferers who object to the cry and sale of newspaper extras in the residence districts of Omaha during midnight hours. Moreover, the harsh critic takes a pot shot at the city commissioner who sides with the ob jectors. "The motherly dames of West Farnam and Binney streets,1 observes the Yorkman with medical precision, "need a little bromide to quiet their nerves and the commis sioner needs to take a trip to Ex celsior Springs." Rome mighty good ideas for public betterment and general uplift are floating about these pulsing days seeking practical application. To all such Nebraska maintains a receptive mood, ever ready to pick the beat and aviate upward. Unfortunately lor the state, conditions forbid in stant acceptance of the happy thought of the governor of Virginia, officially christened . "The Depart ment of Kicks."' No idea springing from the upheaval of war so com pletely "fills a long-felt want." Per haps it will keep. Good things, like good deeds, never die. A department of kicks would imperil the old capi tol, which has all the trouble it can safely bear. It is worth preserving as a feature of the decorative scheme of the new capitol and provide the essential "acid test" of its strength and durability. LAUGHING GAS. "Senator, how'd you like to take charge of the urpent deficiency bill?" "Well, the work would be familiar. My wife springe one on me every week." Judge. Mttle Leo Pop. do you know that the earth la gradually getting colder and colder? Mr. Corrlgan I do not, but I do know that that overcoat has pet to do yo wan mora winter, ire son. pintle hints to the contrary, notwlthstandin'. Buffalo Express. "The Germans have always been describ ed to mo as hnme-lovlng people," re marked the mildly observant person. nThey must be," rejoined Miss Cayenne, "Judtrlns from the way they are running for home at present." Washington Star. tees. There Is one clnss ot men who, no matter how hard they try, are bound In the end to go down hill." "Who are they?" "Mountain climbers." Baltlnjore America!. "They say," remarked the morallzer, "that aggressive and impulsive people usu ally have black eyes." "That's right," rejoined the demoralizer. "If they are not bnrn with, them they man ago to acquire them later." Indianapolis Star. The maid was vexed. "I know," said she, "that I am not the first girl you loved you make love so beautifully." "Uh. I learned that from watching mo tion plcturcs.'V said the qulck-thlnklng young man. Whereupon the maiden was satisfied Film Fun. ACROSS THE DEEP. Bound for a distant fore ign shore The good ship sails away A1 Bhips have often sniled before. And yet. we pause, today To tireafho a pray-r of earnest zeal That He who ruli s above May guard the path of those who sail Upon this task of love. 'TIs love of fellow-man which calls Across the wide exjans'; The memory of a million palle Illumes the way t.j -'ranee; Tne babes and, imth. who beseeched Through tontjuts forever stilled H:ivc Bent a message which has reached A heart with pUy filled. Did they who "died on Flanders field Their life blood sh"d tn vain? Shall' not their sacrifices yield ' A full return for pain? They died that swords of tyrants might lie cast Into the sea; And dying, saw the holy light That Bet a whole world free. 'TIs love which calls across the foam. We pause to breathe a prayer That love of Him. of country, home. May have Its portion there; The tyrant's sword Is cast away The dead died not In vain; Thank God. wo live to see the day When Peace alone shall reign. ' Appreciates The Bee's Report. Omaha, Dec. 5. To the Editor of The Bee: On behalf of the Advertising-Selling league I wish to thank you for the excellent account of our last meeting as appeared In your paper. The Advertising-Selling league is working for the good of advertising and our community at large, and we appreciate co-operation such as manifested by this report .We will be pleased to reciprocate In anv way possible. CHARLES h. SYKES, President. German After-War Immigration. Omaha, Dec. 4. To the Editor of The Bee: A headline stating that "Austrians Want to Be Annexed by America" may seem ridiculous to the ordinary reader, yet, taken In con nection with other news Items, It in dicates an effort on the part of the Huns to sidestep the penalty they should be forced to pay, If for no other reason than to most thor oughly convince them that their part In the world tragedy can never be wiped out by humanly-conceived penalties. Recently an Item stated' that a great many Germans were contem plating leaving, after peace has been declared, the "country whose rulers have caused so much human suffer ing" and emigrating to "the greatest country In the world, America.". Again, a person of German birth, In discussing the situation recently, gave it as his opinion that the In habitants of. Germany would never remain to toil the rest of their llvts, and that of their children, In meet ing the heavy burden of paying war Indemnities. While 1 do not advocate needlessly oppressing those who perhaps could not help being subjects of the kaiser and his crew of world-wreckers, yet I believe the allied nations should see to It that not a guilty person escapes the full penalty, and that none be allowed to enter the ter ritory of any other country so long as there Is a demand for labor in the devastated territory of Europe. There would be no Justice In al lowing citizens of the Hun countries to leave and take up residence in other countries. In the case of the Austrians who want America to an nex them, were It practical to do so, it would place America in the posi tion of paying the Austrian war in demnity. Certainly that would be a much-desired proceeding for the Austrians. When Belgium, France and other devastated territory are restored it will be time enough to again let down the bars to Hun migration. The best way to get the germ of world dominion out of the German system is to keep them so busy re storing the destruction they brought about that by the time that Is ac complished the thought of world domination will be so repugnant that any effort to revive agitation along that line will find few to listen. It Is a disease with which Germany has been afflicted for many years and for the good of German posterity it Is up to the allied nations to see that the healing Is complete. I. J. C. I. Dancing as a Recreation. Machine Gun Training Center, Camp Hancock, Ga., Nov. 30. To the Editor of The Bee: I have been reading with a great deal of Interest the accounts in Omaha papers of the discussion in regard to dancing In the community centers. If the community center Is to ful fill Its promise of being the "neigh- borhod club house it must make provision for the favorite recreation of Its patrons. When the people of a community choose dancing as one form of their recreation, who can deny them the privilege? The only question to be discussed la one of proper regulation. There Is no harm In the dance if properly regulated. This social relaxation has been tried in community centers In many progressive cities, and In practically every case has proved successful. As in Omaha, at first there were critics who fought the mere suggestion of conducting danc es in the school houses. Yf t in how many instances were these critics successful in causing the dances to bo abandoned, after once being at tempted ? The issue should be left to the community to decide. Commissioner Falconer has shown himself to be a representative dictated by the Inter ests of the people of the city. In this matter he has acted in accord ance with the wishes of the majority. He can be relied upon to see that proper regulation is maintained in any activity conducted by his depart ment. Regulation by formation of clubs, in which membership depends upon the good behavior and co operation of the members, Is an Ideal arrangement. CORP. J. J. ISAACSON, Camp Hancockt Georgia. Cause of the "Flu." Omaha, Dec. 2. To the Editor of The Bee: Although I have , been content with the theory that the Germans are responsible for the flu. I have had no proof of its origin till today while downtown. While waiting indirectly for a West Farnam car at Sixteenth street and directly watching that slim traffic cop that makes such emphatic motions with his arms, hands and everything the one that was at Six teenth and arnam today about 3 o'clock you haveiall seen him. Well, while watching him go through this manual training exercise my atten tion was drawn to a fair damsel, one of those who take the eyes of "Mutt and Old Man Jiggs. She had a hft on that looked like one side of a roof of some of the West Omaha houses after the big tornado of a few years past kind of eattywompas like and her hair looked like it miht have been made out of a fallow can dle that had melted and run down as far as her ears and there piled up, making a little porch Just .back of her palaces I mean temples. She had a good enough complexion, I guess, though I didn't see her be fore she left home. You could see the stringers and trusses in her neck. Mechanically speaking, it was well designed, not much for looks, but hell for stout. Her bosom was 'pret ty well exposed, but nothing to be proud of. tOon't use any comas or anything between pretty and well) kind of rolling like, you know, something like the Nebraska land north of Omaha. The .whole bosom was bare down as far as her imitation string of beads went The rest of her waist and arms were cov- MOT r --fl i r ' . ..to oiu ered with a kind ot flimsy cloth that looked about like nothing 13 montna old. Jumping from here to Just above her knees she, electrically speaking, must have ben wearing a transformer, which, with what lit tle coverrng she had on, looked like) a sheave of wheat tied real tight in the middle. Her skirt wasn't long enough to do much good in the way of covering up her ankles; anyway, vou could see what time it waa by her ankle watch. It waa a little after 1 o'clock anyway, It was after the same one. every time I looked. Her hose, I think, were two or three months younger thnn her waist; her feet looked about like two Lewis ma chine guns loaded with projectiles made for the noted French solxante quinze. ' This, I think. Is the cause for the flu, as anyone dressed like thla when they get the old-fashioned grippe has It severely and spreads It easily, as everyone who Isn't blind stands and looks so Intently with their mouth wide open trying to see what time it is they take In all the germs coming their way, and then it is called the flu because it cornea from a flu that has the grip exceedingly severe. Well, I must quit and finish de- cn-nimr on nnnmnHntA 10,0 ner rent flu t'ag to hang in my window, as i, . . i . . i . i i j my woman ana an me kiub imvo nu heretofore, or are having now, the grip spread on so thick they have named'lt something else. AL F. ABETT. An Anonymous Letter. ( Omaha, Dec. 5. To the Editor of The Hee: A few days ago someone took It upon themselves to send me an anonymous letter, simply because I have been and am opposed to the r war fad called the "dayligfct saving system." I exercised my great American privilege of opposing one of the sllli. est of all the war fads that hava ' been forced upon us In the last year. If the anonymous letter writer will call at my office, I will show him a set of resolutions recently adopted af a state meeting of the Iowa farm ers, when they appointed a commit tee to fight the continuance of that silly law, and they will go to Washington-to fight it. I can also show this busy person letters from mem bers of congress who say they ars opposed to the continuance of thls, law and do not see what good It has occmopllshed. Then I can show a circular latter Ximi was strut, lu iucmiuoib v& vva gress by one of the very men who engineered I the fight for the adop tion of this law by congress, in which he says he does not think it has ac complished what was expected of It and that he does not think it wise to continue this Jaw any longer. The farmers of Iowa say In their resolutions that this law is a great detriment to them and that they will fight Its further continuance. As I said before it benefits no one except golf players, hammock loungers an4 automobile speeders. It may possibly benefit anonymous letter writers, too. It does not benefit gardeners, for the proper time to work gardens Is in the cool time of day in the morn ing and not In the hot afternoons. I will keep on fighting this silly law as long as there is any danger of its being adopted again, even if I re ceive a wagonload of anonymous let tors from cowards who are afraid to sign their names. FRANK A- AQNEW, Subconscious Mind the Healer. Council B"Iuffs, Dec. . To the) Editor of The Bee: All internal dis eases are the results of stomach abuse. Abstinence from needless food turns away infirmity; although in a cureless disease this turning Is not entirely successful, of course. Sometimes I go without food for a day and always with fine results. My friend. Felix Crocker, a sturdy railroad mechanic in this old, excit able town of Council Bluffs, is a vet-, eran In alimentary self-denial. Last n'pplt Via nkinnprl four rinvfl nf'jiatlno in a row. a year ago J. J. roinis, the Omaha orator and bookkeeper, ; abstained from food for six consecu tive days. I have read that one Gen eral Rchenck of Washington, D. C, lived a year on milk alone, thereby , healing himself of chronic Infirmity. ' The degree of abstemiousness that Induces real sleep Is the index of hea'th'. During sleep the subcon scious mind governs the body; the submind being the particular healer of sorrow and lnfrmity. A rich man died in Council Bluffs a few mcmhs ago who ate a hearty . meal just before he passed on. If we take rold, we catch It on the side of the neck, os a rule, along the large blood vessels. 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