THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919
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FEBRUARY CIRCULATION
Daily 64,976 Sunday 63,316
Arrrare circulation for the month aubacribad and sworn to tiy
K. B. Raaan. Circulation Manager.
Subscribers leaving tbo city ahould have Th Bm mailed
ts tham. AaWrcss chanted often r.queated.
Nepotism dies liard, but it must go.
Two house-bulging attractions: The fiddle
and the automobile.
Let us hope that the president will be over
his peeve by the time he reappears in the peace
conference.
If the state senate does come to Omaha
today, it will see some auto show. That much
will be guaranteed.
A man who owns a farm in Nebraska and
Ihree oil wells in Wyoming certainly possesses
his full share of prosperity.
"Rig Jeff" lands on the Indian affairs com
mittee of the next house. Well, where would
you look for a "good Indian?"
Why sink the German battleships? They
were of little use to the kaiser, but real sailors
might get some service out of them.
Anyway the auto show is the only one that
makes customers jostle the box office to pay to
look at goods the dealer wants to sell them.
Mr. Baker might not have seen the biggest
; rmy posts in the world, but he would have
! seen two of the best if he had come to Omaha.
Nebraska has spent money for lots worse
purposes than to assist in making things easy
tor the boys who are coming back from
France.
It is intimated that William Jennings Bryan
is against the League of Nations plan. We
know how to get him. Just attach a clause for
nternational prohibition.
The bill for postage on automobile license
(dates does look a little steep, especially when
most of them might have been sent by freight
itid not through the mails at all.
If "Dave" Francis knows what he is talking
"about, the League of Nations will have its
hands full in about ten years, when Germany
ets its grip on Russia completely fastened.
' A Chicago judge says that war-time mar
riage knots are tied as solidly as those hitched
in peaceful days. Slacker marriages will end
in the divorce court dockets just the same.
The American Telephone and Telegraph
company announces its net earnings available
for dividends as being over $5,000,000 greater
:han last year, when $4,500,000 was carried over
to surplus. Maybe this is why Burleson in
Teased the rates.
Omaha banks make a showing of deposits and
loans that is most gratifying. No better test
for business conditions is possible than the in
creases in money accumulated and employed as
tvidenced by the reports made. "Business is
?ood, thank you."
Fort Omaha is to go on a "peace basis," but
1 what we would like to know is the nature of
that basis. This post has proved its worth, and
j as the great balloon training school of the coun
try it-ought to have an important part in the
i future of the army.
Branding the late kaiser as "arch criminal"
may relieve the pent-up indignation of the peace
congress delegates, but it will not have any
very marked effect on the Hohenzollern. Most
people would like to see something put on him
'hat will hurt worse than a stigma or reproach.
The "booze hounds" who located the winery
t Florence are entitled to about the same de
gree ( credit that Mark Twain allotted Colum
bus for discovering America. If he had missed
it, the fact would have been occasion for corn-
a
ment.
"Vetbal massage, however skilfully applied,
will not maintain a permanent (peace," says
General Wood. And, more's the pity, no
amount of talking has ever been sufficient to
get the American people to understand this
fundamental truth.
The Record at the Finish
As official reports become more complete
the severity of the fighting in which American
'troops were engaged amounts to a surprise.
The total is far greater than was supposed. Ac
cording to official reports about 800,000 Ameri
cans reached the battle lines. As far as the
figures are made up our loss in killed, wounded
and missing was 273,079, of whom 46,476 were
killed or died of wounds, which is more than
half the number of union soldiers killed or died
of wounds in the four years of the civil war. In
France the American list of dead from all causes
was 69,058, and 7,000 are still missing. These
are proofs of desperate fighting. The German
resistance was as stubborn and skillful as they
could offer with their best units and veterans.
It is evident that in case their left flank was
broken they had planned to ask for an armistice,
but until the end came they could reinforce the
threatened flank from any other part of their
front. The attack on that flank was steadily
and vigorously pressed by 600,000 Americans
through the weeks of battle in the Argonne sec
tion, or five times as many as Grant took into
the battles of the Wilderness. The American
casuality list in France is more than twice the
size of Grant's army at the beginning of the
last year of the civil war.
The Americans fought with extraordinary
spirit and tenacity at the finish in France. When
the collapse came our troops were in the hottest
place and they were pushing on when the enemy
cried "Enough." Marshal Foch has said that
the Americans irt this final offensive were
"superb." The compliment is well earned. The
marshal knows what enabled him to dictate
terms at the moment he did so.
These facts as developed greatly emphasize
the American achievement, and show how much
rf the history is yet to be written. St. Louis
Ulobe-Dcmocrat
"PUNISHING THE NEWSPAPERS."
Our amiable hyphenated contemporary reads
the Nebraska legislature a sharp lecture on its
disposition to soak the newspapers in limiting
the amount of money to be spent for advertis
ing by office-seekers, in much of which we con
cur, but must except to the final paragraph,
which reads as follow: "The press can stand
the punishment very much better than the leg
islature, and the republican party can afford to
pay the price of administering it."
Coming from the democratic organ, whose
editor is a part of the democratic machine in
congress, this is what would be called "rich,
rare, and racy." If there are any offenders,
self-convicted on a charge of punishing the
newspapers, it is the democratic bunch at Wash
ington, who, while calling on the papers to
reinforce the war activities without stint, have
gone out of their way to insult and kick the
patriotic publishers of the whole country, ac
cusing them of being grafters on the postoffice
and needlessly loading the newspaper postage
rate with a penalty of more than 50 per cent
increase just to get even for deserved criticism
of high and mighty democratic statesmen.
If some short-sighted members of the Ne
braska legislature, republicans or democrats, are
striking a blow at the newspapers, they are only
following the example set by the democratic
swashbucklers in control of congress during the
past two years, for which the democratic party
has been paying the price.
How Democrats Delayed Business.
The Congressional Record may he dry read
ing, but it is a reasonably dependable source of
information as to what is going on in congress.
In the issue of the Record for March 3 may be
discovered how earnestly the democrats in the
house worked to dispatch public business. Mr
McFaddcn of Pennsylvania, on a question of
personal privilege, asked to be allowed to an-'
swer a personal attack made by John Skelton
Williams on him. Speaker Clark ruled that he
might proceed.
Twelve pages of the Record are taken up
with the proceedings, showing how Mr. Wingo
of Arkansas, democratic member of the house
committee on banking and currency, sought to
prevent Mr. McFadden from making his state
ment. Adverse rulings of the speaker failed to
check the champion of the comptroller of the
currency, who, assisted by other southern
democrats, exhausted every possible subterfuge
and pretext, wasting hours' of time, only to have
the statement go into the Record at the end.
Then followed for two hours the reading of
a voluminous report by the committee that had
investigated the National Security League, sub
mitted with no recommendations. The speaker
ruled it might be presented and printed without
reading, but the house wanted it read, because
it helped kill time. Republican Leader Mann
called attention again and again to pending con
ference reports, but the democratic majority
was not willing to transact public business.
On that same day in the senate Mr. Varda
man took time to report on the anthracite coal
situation, to read into the record a long maga
zine article on Hog Island, and other similar
matters. Senators Thomas, Reed, Ashurst,
Hitchcock, Owen and other democrats either
made speeches on the League of Natins or
had inserted in the record lengthy articles or
addresses by others on the topic.
In the meantime the necessary public busi
ness of the' country was at a standstill, and the
democrats from the president down were accus
ing republicans in congress of blocking pro
ceedings by a filibuster!
Free Speech and a Free Press.
In the news columns may be found the most
effective answer possible to charges that free
dom of speech or publication has been sup
pressed in America. Conviction of certain in
dividuals under the espionage laws, because of
their seditious utterances, does not indicate
that the great American privilege of shooting
off one's mouth is abrogated or abridged. Limber-jawed
citizens, and non-citizens, bondmen
and bolsheviki, find ample opportunity for ut
terance day by day, or night by night, and flood
the atmosphere with the outpourings of their
wisdom, their complaints and their plans for the
regeneration of the world by the expedient of
abolishing everything mankind has piled up as
a result of age-old experience. Those who do
not talk write for the public press, and columns
are published, filled with expressions of half
baked or mushy philosophy. And the govern
ment lists fourteen papers frankly devoted to
the noble work of overturning our national in
stitutions, because our ways are not free enough.
In the face of these facts, is it not absurd to
charge that an individual is curbed in his rights
in this country? Babel itself does not parallel
the intellectual confusion that has come over
us. Time is needed to sober off, and maybe in
a little while the nation will get into a more
restful mood.
Possible Development of Commerce.
Students of American export trade now
agree that the Webb-Pomerene act does not en
tirely "fulfill its purpose. It permits associa
tions forbidden by the Sherman law, but only
for export trade; yet it does not give to these
the broad activities now deemed necessary to
successful competition in the world markets.
Much of our domestic prosperity will depend on
external commerce for the future, as it is certain
the home market will not consume the nation's
production. If manufacturing is to grow as it
should, it will need the benefit that may come
from a law that will place Americans on a level
with foreign competitors. This brings the
question back to the other end: Can not a
statute be framed that will eliminate the "trust"
evils complained of, and yet give the domestic
consumers all the advantages that flow from
highly organized commerce? The question is
attracting much attention just now, at Wash
ington and elsewhere, with a probability that
some form of solution will be reached.
Amelia E. Barr may not be listed among the
great writers of the world, but she long ago
achieved a place as one of the most prolific.
Her death, just reported, will revive memories
of a vogue long gone, yet interesting as re
flecting American taste in popular literature at
a time when life was more sedate but not the
less enjoyable for that reason.
Habits die hard in the bureaus at Washing
ton. The needs of the army were held up for
months while bureaucrats tried experiments
with machine guns, airplane motors and the
like,, and now the navy building program is
postponed until another type of vessel may be
decided on. It is a great game, and the public
foots the bill
The Naming of Omaha
Christian Science Monitor.
It seems almost incredible, but it is never
theless true that it has remained for a resident
of Omaha to raise a question as to the Indian
origin of that melodious name. He introduces
his theme by paraphrasing a well-known and
much-committed passage from "Romeo and
Juliet so as to read:
Omaha, Omaha,
Wherefore art thou Omaha?
and proceeds with a long string of heresies cal
culated to disturb the equanimity of one of the
fairest and happiest communities in the entire
transniissouri region. Apparently presuming
that, in reply to the inquiry, multitudes will
rush forward and exclaim, "Omaha! why
Omaha is named after the Omaha tribe of In
dians!" he recklessly asserts. "But there were
no Omaha Indians: those Indians were the
Mahas." And he has the temerity to quote
from the records of Lewis and Clark, which
say: "We halted to examine the spot where
one of the great chiefs of the Mahas, named
Blackbird," and so on, insisting that the fa
mous explorers frequently refer to the Mahas.
"How, then," he asks, "lid Omaha come to be
named Omaha instead nf Maha?"
Undertaking to dispel the mystery that to
him appears to have enshrouded this strange
circumstance, it becomes necessary to recount
a legend. A man named Jesse Lowe, so the
story runs, lived in Kanesville, la., a settlement
opposite the present city of Omaha, and long
known as Council Bluffs. This was back in
1853, which was a long time ago, as time is
measured in the middlewest. On July 23 of
that year, Jesse Lowe paddled a small skiff
across the "Big Muddy." otherwise ' the Mis
souri, and was so pleased with the locality that
he anticipated George Francis Train in pre
dicting, then and there, that this would some
day be the site of a great city. As an evidence
of his faith in the future of a city that did not
then appear on the map, Jesse Lowe staked out
a claim at the west end of what is now known
as Cuming street. Having gone thus far, he
began to think about a name for the city, which
a few years later was to become the real east
ern terminus of the Union Pacific railway. It
seems hat he had read the records of Lewis
and Clark, and therefore knew something con
cerning the Maha Indians. So he thought of
naming the place "Maha," but, having a musical
ear, he regarded the sound of this as not suffi
ciently euphonious. Then, like many before
him, and after him, he thought it would be a
good idea to give his own name to a future
large and prosperous city; but, realizing that
Lowe might not be a suitable name for a com
munity which, he was convinced, would in
years to come aim high, he said to himself, as
i, it were, "What's the matter with 'Lowe-
maha?' On second thought, nothing appear
ing to be the matter, this was the name he
chose. But he gave it subject to change. The
"e" seeming to be superfluous, he dropped it a
few days later, and so it stood, ipr the time be
ing, "Lowmaha." After another interval this first
resident of the Nebraska center, finding that
the "w" was useless, dropped that also, and the
place became "Lomaha." In the course of
time newcomers began to drop the half silent
"L," and eventually even that was dropped alto
gether, and so the name became "Omaha."
This legend is interesting and plausible, but
one of the difficulties with it is that it tends to
sweep out of existence a great tribe of Indians
of. the Siouan family, the family of which the
Sioux tribe is a distinguished branch. This
family, in fact, comprised some of the most
noted Indian tribes of the continent, among
them, in addition to the Sioux, the Dakotas, the
Yanktons, the Assiniboi, the Blackfeet, the
Crow, the Osage, and, not the least worthy of
recognition, for reasons that will presently be
given, the Omaha.
Like all the leading tribes of the Siouan
family, the Omahas were warlike, but they had
one distinguishing characteristic. They never
made war upon the United States. It was their
friendliness, hospitality, and loyalty that im
pressed the first immigrants in Nebraska, and
that led these pioneers to name what they be
lieved would be the chief city of the state
Omaha. Omaha has taken over as its own
many of the leading traits of these Indians.
They were disposed to talk a great deal about
the advantages of Nebraska. They predicted,
from the beginning, great things for its leading
city. They were cordial to strangers. They
could be counted on at all times to respond to
every call of the nation, in peace or in war. In
fact, .all the circumstances, whether one builds
upon the plain facts of history or reasons from
induction, combine to establish the fact that
Omaha was called Omaha in honor of the
Omaha Indians. As to the "Mahas," Lewis and
Clark were explorers, not ethnologists.
Europe's Needs and Ours
The American Red Cross has rescinded its
order of December last to "cease knitting,"
which was a sequel to the armistice. The rea
son is that it is found that a million garments a
month are wanted for destitute war refugees.
It seems too bad, under the circumstances, that
the work was suspended during the three
months, since in that period there might have
been an accumulation of garments to meet the
emergency.
These people who go about reiterating "the
war is over" have not been able to visualize the
destitution in Europe. They have not inter
preted aright the significance of the photographs
of ruin which have appeared in newspapers and
magazines. If their own houses had been blasted
off the face of the earth by German shells, they
would have understood the bitter experience of
returning to the site of a happy home there to
find only a yawning cavity with rubble and
scarcely a single recognizable article of house
hold furniture.
We hardly understand, in the midst of our
comparative affluence, what it means to have
nothing. Bernard Partridge's powerful cartoon
in Punch represents King Albert's defiance of
the kaiser, who tells him that all is lost, with
the words, "But not my soul!" In the stricken
and beleaguered lands the bodies of women, chil
dren and men have piteously suffered. The
spirit has endured and is undaunted. To sus
tain, cherish and nourish those who with that
spirit barred the way of the Huns to our shores
is our part until again they are self-sustaining.
We must not think so much of what we
have given. It is for us to contemplate what
they have done and how great is our debt to
them. Their claim to consideration a million
times over takes precedence of projects for
the reclamation of the Huns from that deplor
able state to which Germany's own crime has
brought its people. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Day We Celebrate.
Frank Crawford, attorney, born 1870.
Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, senior United
States senator from New Jersey, born at Rari
tan, N. J., 50 years ago.
Rt. Rev. Joseph Schrembs, bishop of the
Catholic diocese of Toledo, O., born in Bavaria
53 years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Rev. M. P. Dowling, president of Creighton
college since 1885, left for Detroit, where he
will assume the presidency of Detroit college.
Six lady bicyclists are in training at the
Coliseum for the big race, among them Louise
Armaindo, Jennie Oaks, Hattie Lewis, Kittie
Brown, all professionals, and a Miss Williams
of Omaha, who is to make her debut on the
racing track.
Somebody stole the celebrated brindle
"Ophelia" from the stage at the Boyd, where
it was taking a leading part with Evans and
Hoey in "The Parlor Match."
The report that Postmaster Gallagher in
tends to resign is indignantly denied by that
gentleman.
Our Free Legal Aid
State your case clearly but
briefly and a reliable lawyer
will furnish the answer or
advice in this column. Your
name will not be printed.
Let The Bee Advise You
Distribution of Property.
G. V. B. A man dies leaving
throe children by a former marriage
also a widow, but no children from
this marriage. What would be the
share of the three children and also
of the widow of a house and lot in
Omaha?
Answer The widow is entitled to
a one-fourth interest, subject to any
homestead rights she may have. The
remaining three-fourths would be
divided equally among the children.
Judgment.
M. E. H. Seven years ago my
husband bought a home on a con
tract providing for monthly pay
ments. After we had signed the
contract A. rami) and said he had
done some plumbing in the house
which amounted to ?35 and. claimed
a lien for it, but agreed to give us
live years in which to pay it, to
whieh we agreed. After three
months, we moved out returning the
contract to the owner which he ac
cepted, and he told us not to pay
the $35. Afterwards the owner died
and A. brought suit against my hus
band and recovered a judgment for
the $35, no part of which we have
ever paid, and it has been over five
years ago. Can A. make us any
further trouble?
Answer You could have probably
protected yourselves at the time the
transaction took place under your
contract of purchase with the
owner, but since judgment has been
obtained against ypu and time for
appeal or in whieU to obtain a new
trial has past, the judgment is still
good and although now dormant
may be revived within 10 years.
M. E. Ii. We do not answer ques
tions unless the writer's name is
signed to them. If you will restate
your case and sign your name it
will be answered.
Garnishment.
C. B. Two years ago I loaned a
party $100 and took his note. He
refused to pay it when due and I
brought suit and recovered judg
ment. The debtor has no property,
but works for the county receiving
$125 per month. I have talkedwith
my attorney, who tells me I cannot
garnishee the county. I would like
to know if this is true.
Answer Your attorney Is right.
Under the laws of this state the
county is not subject to garnishment.
Desertion.
G. H. I was married in Omaha
in 1916 and lived with my husband
there until September, 1918, when
he left me and went to Colorado.
We have one child and he refuses
to support us or send us money to
go to Colorado. What can I do?
Answer You should consult the
county attorney. The statutes of
Nebraska provides that If a husband
without good cause abandons his
wife or child under 16 years of age.
and willfully neglects or refuses to
provide for them, shall upon con
viction be deemed guilty of deser
tion and be punished by imprison
ment in the penitentiary, provided
sentence may be suspended upon
giving bond to provide for such
wife or child or both.
New Trial.
G. B. S. Your action for damages
having been tried to a jury resulting
in a verdict for the defendant and
a new trial refused by the court
from which no appeal was taken,
you cannot now, after several years,
obtain a new trial.
JiCnse Willi Option of Purchase.
L. L. B. In February, 1917, I
leased a house and lot for one year
with the provision in the lease to
purchase the premises at any time
during the lease for $3,500. In .Sep
tember, 1917, the lessor died. When
the year was up the lessor's ex
ecutor renewed the old lease for one
year. " Ten days before the second
year was up I gave the executor no
tice in writing that I would buy the
premises under the terms of the
lease and tendered him the money.
He refused to accept the money or
to give me a deed to the premises
and has since given me notice to
quit and vacate the premises. Can
I compel the executor to deed me
the premises?
Answer The renewal of your
lease by the executor is a continu
ance of the old lease and since you
exercised your option to purchase
before the expiration thereof, the
executor should comply with the
contract. He is probably only try
ing to "bluff"' you in giving up pos
session and if he refuses to deed you
the property, a court of equity will
compel performance.
BROTHERS.
Close to the heart of their country
One from over the fosm
From the long hard fight
To the loved home-light.
And on who didn't come home.
Joy for the one returning,
And joy for the one that Ilea
Where the battle eod
Knows the peace of God
Under the silenced skiei.
Aa one they went, with the legions
Heart-true to their country's call;
And who all would give
That their land might live,
They fall not when they fall.
And great the home-returning
With Joy that shines through tears!
And a flregide place
For a dreaming face
Through glory given years!
Close to the heart of their country
One from over the foam,
And a God thHt gave
A hero's grave
With one who didn't come home.
Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Conjtltu
tlon.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY
(Peggy snd Billy hide the Wild Go
from the Klylns; Ogre, who seeks to kill
the beautiful Blue Uoose. )
CIIA-TKK III.
The Ogre Lands.
THE Wild Geese, following Billy
toward the cave, honked and
Muttered so excitedly that I'eggy
feared they would betray themselves
to the Flying Ogre.
"Be quiet!" she warned. "If you
fly closo to the ground he cannot
see you in the dusk."
The Wild Geese obeyed and soon
they were in the grove which bor-
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"We Can't Go Into a Cavern,"
Shouted the King of the
Wiltl Geese.
dered the river just above the cave.
Here they dropped down out of
view of the Ogre's airplane, which
was flying back and forth as the
monster searched for his vanished
prey.
"Here Is the cave. Crowd In!"
cried Billy, as they came to an en
trance leading back into the cliff.
"We can't go into a cavern!"
honked the King of the Wild Geese
much to the surprise of Peggy and
Billy.
"It is the law of the Wild Geese,"
explained the Beautiful Blue Goose.
"We must always have flying room
overhead so that we can escape dan
ger." "But that danger is overhead
now." answered Tegey tartly. "Bo
sensible, and get into the cave."
The King of the Wild Geese blink
ed ut her. "What Princess Peggy
says is so is so because she says it's
TO!" ho gabbled rapidly, leading the
flock toward the cave. At the en
trance he hesitated. "It's dark in
there!"
"But there is nothing to bo afraid
of. I'll show you," said Billy, bold
ly marching into the cave.
But in a second Billy came piling
back so fast that he caught bis heel
and spun a somersault right there
in the entrance. And sprawling
after him came a bear, its mouth
open and its teeth gleaming.
"Woof! Woof! I'm hungry!" roar
ed the bear.
"Then eat fish!" answered Billy
indignantly, giving the bear a sud
den shove that sent it tumbling
head over heels into (he rushing
river.
"It's Lonesome Bear! He is a tame
dancing bear," explained Peggy to
the Wild Geese, who were ready to
take wing again.
Lonesome Bear came up splutter
ing and splashing, but to the sur
prise of every one he had a tlsh in
his mouth. He was taking Billy's
indignant advice. As the current
swept him around a bend in the
stream, Lonesome Bear gave Billy
a laughing wink.
"Humph! He thought he was
going to scare me," fumed Billy,
leading the way into the rave.
"Hurry! Here's the Onre!" warn
ed Peggy. The Wild Geese rushed
into the cave, and as Peggy followed
them the airplane whizzed low over
the river. They had gotten out of
sight juRt in time.
"We'd better keep an eye on that
airplane. I want to know what that
ogre is doing so that he can't take
us by surprise," said Billy.
"Keep perfectly quiet and you will
be safe," advised Peggy as the weary
Geese began to nod and snore. "I'm
going scouting with Billy."
They could neither gee nor hear
the airplane when they reached the
grove.' "Maybe it has landed," sug
gested Billy.
"It's awful to think of that Ogre
prowling around here in the dark,"
whispered Peggy.
They reached the edge of the
grove and were starting out into the
open, when suddenly Billy drew
Peggy behind a tree. He didn't
speak, but Peggy's frightened eyes
saw their danger. Coming toward
them was a huge fur-covered crea-
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The Maskalonge comes to the shore.
When you have traced to sixty-four.
Draw from one to two and so on to tha
end.
ture with a queer head and goggle
eyes. .
"Th Ogre!" whispered Peggy.
Billy nod:.;d and drew her closer to
him.
(Tomorrow will be told how Peggy
and Billy learn the secret of the Ogre.)
vees
Wliy the Dictation?
Omaha, Neb., March 8. To the
Editor of The Bee: Since the war in
Europe ended last November I have
been called upon a good many times
to draw up affidavits of parties in
terested in the discharge of soldiers
from further service in the United
States army. When making the affi
davits the statement has been .made
to me that the soldiers who want to
be discharged have to submit their
cases to the members of the Bed
Cross in Omaha and they decide
whether the soldiers shall be dis
charged or not.
I would like to know and so
would a good many other people like
to know why people should be com
pelled to submit their cases to the
members of the Red Cross and have
to abide by any of their arbitrary
rulings. I have been told of some
very flagrant cases of injustice to
wards the dependents of soldiers
who are held in the army against
their will and when they are doing
nothing except idle their time away
at camps, when they should be dis
charged and sent home where they
are needed. A good many people
would like to know why they should
be compelled to submit to the dic
tations of people who are not in any
way in the army, and by what au
thority they act in such cases.
The parents and others directly in
terested, should have more say than
members of the Red Cross, who are
trying to force people to submit to
their will and dictation.
We would like for the Red Cross
people to state to the public their
authority in trying to compel people
to submit to them all their requests
for the discharge of friends and rela
tives from the army. There has
been a great deal of dissatisfaction
over the delay in the discharge of
men from the army and it seems
strange that people right in our
midst should be in part to blame for
the delay. It seems to me that mem
bers of the Red Cross should help
men get home, rather than place
obstacles in the way of their dis
charge. FRANK A. AGNEW.
To the Soldiers of America.
Woodbine, la., March 7. To the
Editor of The Bee: The soldiers of
America, the savior of the world.
When President Wilson saw that
war was Inevitable he issued a proc
lamation of emancipation, declared
I
ro lAvV y7l
i
ox
the world should be free. He de
clared that kaiserlsm and despotism
should not rule the world. Ha call
ed for soldiers. They came from
the fields, from the shops and mines,
from the great factories. They came
in numbers of more than 1,000,000
strong. They marched down our
streets and through our great cities,
crossed the waters into France.
They went into the trenches. They
were fearless and bold. They were
victorious. They made tyranny and
despotism as insecure as snow upon
volcanic lips. They kept our coun
try on the map of the world and our
flag In the skies.
The soldiers are returning home
to their wives and their children and
Ui the maidens they adore. They
had not been demoralized. They
have been enobled. They made it
possible for government to be just
and statesmen to be honest. They'
made the world a nation, sovereign,
great and free. ,
Blood was water; money, leaves
and life was common air until our
flag floated over Europe without a
master and without a slave. The
soldiers rolled the stone from the
sepulcher of progress and found
therein two angels clad in shining
garments, nationality and liberty.
They were the liberators of man and
now let us drink to the soldiers who
sleep In unknown graves upon the
battlefields of France. Belgium and
Italy, whose names are only in the
hearts of those they love and left,
of those who only hear in happy
dreams the footsteps of return.
Let us drink to the brave women
who gave their service and their
lives upon the battlefields of Europe.
They were heroines. They were
noble and last of all to our great
generals, to Pershing, Haig, Diaz,
to the Belgian generals and last 'of
all to General Foch, the foremost
general of the world. Let us drink
to President Wilson, whose loving
life like a bow of peace spans and
arches all the clouds of war. I have
one sentiment for the living and the
dead cheers for the living and tears
for the dead. L. K. McGEE. '
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