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THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1919.
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Anybody dissatisfied with April so far?
The Poles will march across Prussia going
home.
Milk is going to France in the original
packages now.
,: The X-ray jpecialists are invited to apply
their science to Omaha without limit.
Threats of a row in the peace conference
.' now are heard. What else have we had? ,
Daily record of real estate transactions in
Omaha indicates that a healthy activity exists
in that direction at least.
; The charge of $5 for plowing an ordinary
i city lot is extortionate, but what can be done
! about it, in these days of profit-taking?
Railroad grain control did not end with the
;, lifting of the embargo. Another big crop is
, , coming on, with consequent responsibility.
Chicago architects agree with their Omaha
brethren that cost of building material is too
high. That is not a psychologic question, either.
President Wilson is reported to be sick from
a cold again. He ought to consult some of the
; numerous experts on health and learn how to
avoid these annoyances. '
Senator Harding's suggestion that Marshal
Foch be permitted to draw the peace terms
comes a little late, but it might be entertained
as a substitute for the whole.
Herr Ertzberger is commencing to realize
. that Germany really did lose the war. Now, if
' he can convince his fellow citizens of this, he
' will do his country a genuine service.
"The service" still has its attraction for the
"boys," who are now signing up to return to
France at a rate that discourages some of the
energetic critics of the overseas army.
Now the navy joins the railroads in refusing
to accept the steel prices .fixed by the Depart
ment of Commerce commission. Looks as if
; the combination had slipped a cog somewhere.
One unpleasant fact developed by the sensa
tional suicide of the young girl is that poison
still may be obtained in Omaha with slight regard
' for the law. This ought to engage the attention
" of the authorities.
' Another sub-committee has been named at
' Paris to pass on reparation solutions. Presently
- a "Who's Who" of peace conference committees
will be required by those who are trying to
keep track of things.
Secretary Baker and Senator Chamberlain
have jolly well told the world what each thinks
of the other. Now, if they will be still for a
moment, maybe they can hear what the world
thinks of them both.
. If the Russians had shown half as much anima
tion in opposing Germany as they do in fighting
civilization, the war would have been over long
before it was, and the peace problem robbed of
half its perplexities.
George Wharton Pepper ought to be able to
expound the legal and constitutional aspects of
the League of Nations, whatever the late chair
man (by right of seniority) of the senate com
mittee on foreign relations may say as to its
. desirability. At least one side of that debate
will be worth listening to.
Mexican bolsheviki' have opened their eyes
to the fact that they do need foreign capital to
scarry on development work, and consequently
are flirting with the representatives of the
money devil. But they will find that investors
who were so badly burned by the "revolution"
will be more than twice shy about trying it over.
Lloyd George renews to France his assur
ance of England's friendship and determination
' to stand by until peace is declared and inde
pendence and security assured for the French.
jAnd this may be accepted at its face value by
the schemers who have tried to disrupt the two
-great allies. Four years of desperate warfare
' have riveted bonds between these people that
: will not be quickly unloosed by short-sighted
; ' politicians.
An Industrial Commonwealth
i . Some of those who are glibly assuring their
" ' hearers and readers that all of this world's ills
will be solved by setting up the "industrial
, commonwealth" might well turn to Bellamy's
famous forecast of a millennial civilization in
his novel "Looking Backward." For in that
now long-forgotten work, which at one time
. v upset the minds of millions and led to all sorts
of co-operative social and industrial enterprises.
v it was assumed that with changes in the single
factor of industrial life all other things would
-become sheer and undiluted happiness for all.
As matter of fact, Bellamy left out of his
' tount the great factor of human nature. And
When his industrial commonwealths in the shell
Attempted to run themselves they soon discov
' f red that the relation of employer to employed
was only one factor in a series of complicated
civic and human relationships and that the im
plement of the one without attacking the
ethers led nowhere. So the "industrial com
monwealths" which the bolshevists are setting up
on a huge scale will, if the Bellamy experiments
which were homeopathic laboratory tryouts, as
'it were, meant anything, will be wrecked on
human desires and needs that exist wholly apart
(rom any improvement in the industrial situa
tion. Society is bound and held together by all
sorts of compacts and sanctions written and
unwritten, and the unwritten laws that deal
with the social and spiritual things,, with cus
toms stronger than laws, are the determining
(actors that really spell the magic word "civili
zation." This the bolshevik folk refuse to see,
to their own, undoing. Philadelphia Ledger,
"NOTHING TO IT."
The Omaha Bee in an excellent editorial
regarding private and parochial schools in
sinuates that the private and parochial schools
may not be as patriotic in their teachings as
the public schools.
In this The Bee must be misinformed, for
there is nothing whatever to show that the
private and parochial schools are not as pa
triotic as the public schools. In this respect
there is no difference and not a single in
stance can be cited in the state of Nebraska
wherein a private or parochial school has not
been as active in the teaching of patriotism
as any public school. In fact an investiga
tion will disclose the fact that the parochial
schools have taken special pains to teach
loyalty, and if there is room for criticism along
this score at all it would lie against some of
the public school teachers who have not paid
much attention to patriotism. However, the
charge is unfounded against any of the
schools, public, priVate and parochial and the
insinuation should not be made. York News
Times. , Our critic has strangely misconstrued The
Bee's utterances. At no time has this paper un
dertaken to set up a comparison between the
patriotism of public and private schools. What
it has consistently advocated has been the teach
ing in all schools of such lessons as will be the
means of establishing a better understanding
of and a consequent deeper love and reverence
for American institutions.
One of the disgraceful facts connected with
the recent history of Nebraska is that disloyalty
was taught in the schools. We know that the
Mockett law, requiring that German be taught
in the public schools, was part of the propa
ganda carried on in behalf of kaiserism; we
know that it was introduced in the ' Omaha
public schools by the same agencies that foisted
it on the state.
It was not in the grade and high schools
alone that this disloyalty was found. Our great
state university was found to be a hotbed for
German - propaganda. Several members of the
faculty were dismissed and others disciplined for
their activity. Among these some were out
spoken pro-Germans, while others were merely
confirmed pacifists.
Under existing conditions, it is not to be
wondered at that public suspicion attached to
schools where only a foreign language was used.
It is only prudence that leads us to advocate such
reasonable measures as will remove the likeli
hood of perpetuation of conditions that were
brought to light as a result of the war.
The first object of the schools is to so train
the children that they will become good citizens.
If this training properly can be combined with
religious tenets, so much the better, perhaps;
but for the safety of the state the secular in
struction must always be above suspicion.
Adjustment of Prices.
Something of a tempest broke out in Wash
ington when Railroad Director Hines flatly re
fused to accept the prices fixed on steel by the
price adjustment committee named by Secre
tary Redfield. This was increased when Secre
tary Glass stated that Chairman Peek of the
board has gone beyond his authority in amend
ing a statement prepared to be given to the
press. Beyond these salient facts the public
knows nothing.
Many months ago it was plainly seen that
some agency should be set up for the business
of getting industry and commerce from a war
to a peace basis. Senator Weeks introduced a
resolution in July, calling for the appointment
of a congressional committee to provide for
this. This was blanketed by a resolution of
fered later by Senator Overman, personal rep
resentative of the president in the upper branch
of congress, which looked to giving the presi
dent authority to name such a commission as
he might select for the purpose.
Neither of these resolutions ever emerged
from committee. Even when the sudden
termination of hostilities threw the entire war
machine out of gear, disrupting all industries,
the democrats, either failing to recognize the
gravity of the situation, or blinded by their
partisan leanings, neglected to do anything that
would stabilize business and help the country
get back to normal.
One after another of the temporary controls
set up by the president under the law granting
him the power has ceased to function, but the
country has not automatically returned to any
thing like a stable basis. Secretary Redfield, as
a matter of expediency, selected a board that
was to provide for such readjustment of prices
in the basic lines as would relieve the conditions.
The work of this body seems to have failed.
There is where the situation stands, ,and
there is where the responsibility rests. Just as
the democratic party fell down when it was con
fronted by war, so has it proved a disappoint
ment when face to face with peace.
Freedom for the Filipinos.
Renewal of the application for independence
by the Filipinos will again arouse interest in the
progress of that race. The delegation now at
Washington expresses its great gratitude and,
appreciation for what the United States has
done for that country. In return Secretary
Baker reminds them that the only ties between
the islands and the United States at present are
the governor-general and the friendly relations.
In all other things the islanders are independent
and self-governing, and he hopes that very
shortly even the presence of the governor-general
will no longer remind them of the foster
ing care of the American people.
All this is very well, indeed. Americans
generally" are willing the people they found
steeped in Fifteenth century ignorance and
superstition, just above savagery in marfy
regards, should be given a chance to set up for
themselves, but they want to see it done in
such fashion as will ensure permanence. It
must be brought about in a way that wilt
not waste the effort and expense we have been
to in bringing them up to their present state of
enlightenment, advancement and prosperity.
Not so very long ago the Jones-Hitchcock
bill proposed to declare the islands independent
in 1920. It may be doubted if progress since
that measure was passed by the first Wilson
congress has been such as to justify the action
we are asked to take. Congress alone can de
cide the question now, and when it has been
properly inquired into action can be taken in
telligently. Fortunately for the Filipinos, the subject
will be handled by a body animated solely by a
desire to do what is most needed for the wel
fare of the islanders, and not with a view to
what will better serve political exigencies at
home.
Henry White, American delegate to the peace
conference, is said to be a familiar figure in
Parts.' Which is more than can' be said of him
in America,
Songs of the War
New York Times.
Beginning about 25 years from now,, maga
zine and "special feature" newspaper articles
will be published on the songs of the Yankee
soldiers in the great war. This is a safe predic
tion, since it was about that length of time after
the civil war that writers began to treat of a
similar subject; and many an article, and even
book, has been written on the songs of that war.
The songs of the old war differed from those
of the present one in that they reflected more
different shades of feeling. Our war has been
so short that there was not room for much more
than one state of mind; that state of mind that
is represented in "Over There." "Over There"
was just as singable up to the very day of the
armistice as it was when the soldiers began to
cross the Atlantic, But the history of the four
years of the civil war, with its hopes, disap
pointments, and renewed' determination, can be
traced in the varying themes of its songs. In
the first year of the civil war such a song as
"Tramp, Thamp, Tramp, the Boys Are March
ing" could not nave been written; it needed the
great losses of the north to bring it out. ,
"Over There" was surely the great song of
this war, as "John Brown's Body" was of the
other. George M. Cohan is entitled, not for the
first! time, to the credit of having his hand on
the people's pulse, of being a real interpreter of
their moods. "The Yanks are coming, the
Yanks are coming, and we won't come home till
it's over, over there," and the gay but threaten
ing melody eptiqmized the whole struggle from
the American viewpoint. Later Cohan struck
another chord, "When You Come Back, and
You Will Come Back, There's a Whole World
Waiting for You, but here he only touched a
phase. In the earlier song he struck the na
tional note, as George F. Root struck it in the
old war, with his "Rally Round the Flag." Root
too, has his song of a single phase. "We Are
Coming Father Abraham, Three Hundred
Thousand More." We may call Cohan the Root
of this war.
Next to Cohan must be placed Irving Berlin,
with his "I Hate to Get Up," though he wrote
others. The two catchiest lines, those which
paraphrase the bugle call, were not original,
having been used in the army long before he
entered it; but it was he who made a song
around them, a song that was sung all over the
country by soldiers and civilians, sung in
France, too. Ivor Novello's "Keep the Home
Fires Burning" was written before the war, but
is entitled to rank as a war song because it was
adapted to the purpose; and the same may be
said of Zo Elliott's "There's a Long, Long
Trail," which the soldiers across the water sang
on their marches.
"Good-bye, Broadway; Hello, France" was
the firstjn the field, went well while it lasted,
but was too commonplace to hold out. As pop
ular a song as any was "Joan of Arc," which
had two singular points about it. The author,
Alfred Bryan, was also the author of "I Didn't
Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier," which was in
great favor among the pro-Germans and paci
fists before we went into the war. When we
did, it dropped out of sight instantly, and Bryan
as quickly changed his sentiments and caught
up with "Joan of Arc," which is as militaristic a
song as could be written. It is irritatingly
commonplace in words, but the music by Jack
Wells is inspiring, and a French translation has
been made of it which is a real poem, whereas
Bryan's English words are pathos, made all the
worse by such absurd mistakes as placing Nor
mandy among the victims of the German in
vader. In place of that blunder the French
translator used words which in English would
read, "The bells of Reims they sound in pain,"
thus turning a turnip into a rose.
"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit
Bag" was as popular among the soldiers as any
song. At home we sang more sentimental
songs, such as "Your Boy and My Boy," "Hello,
Central, Give Me no Man's Land," "Bring Back
My Daddy to Me," "America, Here's My Boy!"
and others which few collectors of the future
will bother with; but we all joined the soldiers
enthusiastically in Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy,"
which was written by an army
man, has real soldier humor. It ranks with
"The Captain With His Whiskers Stole
a Sly Glance at Me," the comic soldier
song of the old war. In fact, the pres
ence of so many merely sentimental and worth
less songs is a fact growing out of the shortness
of this war; they could be duplicated in the
earlier war. It was not until that struggle had
grown deadly that we came to such desperately
earnest songs as "Rally Round the Flag." Yet
the early days of that war gave us, on the Con
federate side at least, such a splendid thing as
Randall's "My Maryland!" and such a rousing
battle song as "The Bonnie Blue Flag." There
has been nothing to approach them in this war
just ended. As for the soldiers, they obstinately
refused to sing martial songs set down for them,
just as they have in this war; and where our
soldiers sang "The Long, Long Trail," written
before the war, so the soldiers of the civil war
sang "The Years Creep Slowly By, Lorena,"
written before that conflict. "Dixie," the great
est war song of those days was made so by the
soldiers; it was in reality a minstrel melody
written two years before the war.
The two wars were linked in a noble fashion
in one song. John Hay's fine poem, "When the
Boys Come Home," written in civil war days,
was set to fine music by Oley Skeats in 1917,
and became the noblest .musical expression that
the A. E. F. ever found.
Friend of the Soldier
Replies will be given in this
column to questions relating
to the soldier and his prob-'
lems, in and out of the army.
Names will, not be printed.
Ask T h e B e e to Answer.
Atlantic City's "Hippety-Duck Hop."
Animated scenery on the Board-walk of At
lantic City is pronounced well worth the price.
Spring fashions is the scenic fabricator. Ex
traordinary tight skirts have evolved a toeing-in
stride, a kind of "hippety-duck hop," the weird
est walk ever seen in that promenade. One
writer says the "lack of space for side-action
locomotion forces the wearers of narrow skirts
to place one foot in front of the other as they
walk, with a singular swing which throws the
toe beyond the center line of gravity and makes
the preservation of equilibrium a matter of no
little difficulty.
The Day We Celebrate.
Henry S. Culver, born 1871.
Joe Stecher, champion wrestler, born at
Dodge, Neb., 1893. x
Jules Cambon, former French ambassador at
Washington, and one of the foremost figures in
French affairs, born 74 years ago.
Winchell Smith, author of "Turn to the
Right," and other popular plays, born at Hart
ford, Conn., 48 years ago.
Johan A. Aasgaard, president of Concordia
college, Moorhead, Minn., born at Albert Lea,
Minn., 43 years ago.
A. Lincoln Filene, prominent Boston mer
chant and civic leader, born in Boston, 54 years
ago. "
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Omaha stenographers have perfected an
organization with these officers: C. C. Valen
tine, president; A. C. Van Sant and Hattie Dun
can, vice presidents; J. A. Rooney, secretary;
Alice Butterfield, assistant secretary; A. M.
Hopkins, treasurer.
"Mayor Broatch and the Sunday Law" is the
theme advertised for Elder J. B. Johnson at
the Walnut Hill Christiaon church.
Chris Hartman and family have returned
from California.
The following members of the Board of
"Trade have signed up for the proposed excur-
sion to tne rwacK runs: cucna Martin, n. u.
Clark, C. O. Lobeck, W. A. L.: Gibbon, Thos.
A. Creigh, C. F. Goodman, C. W. Thomas, James
Stephenson, Isaac Johnson, Allen Rector, G. W.
Lininger, Ben Gallagher, G. I. Hunt, E. S.
Rowley, Max Meyer, D. H. Wheeler, W. W.
Bingham, Edwin Davis, Geo. Heimrod, Louis
Schroeder, W. E. Clarke, Levi F. McKenna,
James Garneau, jr.; Henry Pundt, P. Windheim.
J. H. Erck. E. Rosewater. J. J. O'Connor and
Secretary MasQP.
Many Questions Answered.
Mrs. E. N. u. S. A. A. S. 540 Is
stationed at Ferrlers (Loiret); no
orders for Its return; the 302d tank
corps is assigned to early convoy,
but no date fixed for its sailing; the
Third division is cart of th VVinrth
I corps of the ThitM army, headquar
ters at Benwelch, Germany, and is
not assigned to early convoy.
Daisy The Twefcty-eighth engl
neers is divided between the First
and Second armies; no orders for the
return of this regiment. A detach
ment of the 157th infantry sailed
irom arnce on April 1; do not
know what companies.
B. AV. N. No orders for return of
any military police unit now on duty
ai t-soraeaux.
i Wife of Soldier No orders for re
'turn of air service mechanics com
pany No. 3; it is addressed at Etam
pes (Seine-et-Slxe), via A. P. O. 702,
which is located at Paris.
H. S. The Twenty-fourth balloon
company is with the Second army,
not attached to a division; its address
is A. P. O. 784; no orders for its im
mediate return; the Eighty-eighth
division is not yet under schedule
to sail.
L. M. R. A. P. O. 706 Is at Chau
mont (Haute-Marne) ; base hospital
No. 90 is not scheduled for early re
turn. Mrs. E. B. W. The Eighty-fifth
division was on the March sailing
list.
Friend and Reader Field hospital
company No. 36 is not yet on the
sailing list.
Anxious Mother The 407th tele
graph battalion is listed for early
convoy home; have no address for
it, but at last accounts it was at Bor
deaux, awaiting transport; Battery
D, 148th field artillery. is with the
Third army, A. P. O. 754; the 314th
ammunition train is with the Eighty
eighth division, for which no sailng
date is yet fixed.
Interested The Thirty-second and
Thirty-fifth aero squadrons are as
signed to early convoy; the Eighty
ninth division is on the list to sail in
June.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Regret very
much that we can give you no word
of your son's whereabouts; you
should write to the adjutant general
of the army for information as to his
present address; when he wrote you
in March he was undoubtedly being
transferred from one hospital to an
other; there is no reason why letters
should not be delivered at hospitals;
ask the adjutant general of the army
for further information.
A Soldier's Sister Headquarters
of the Eightieth division is at Ancy-le-Franc,
A. P. O. 791; this organiza
tion is listed to sail in May; cannot
tell you the location of the artillery
unit you inquire for.
C. L. C. No orders out yet for sail
ing of the 801st aero squadron.
Mrs. T. H. B. The Thirty-ninth
company, transportation corps, is at
Libourne (Gironde). Not on early
sailing list.
X. Y. Z. The 257th aero squadron:
was still awaiting transport at a
French port at last accounts; can
give you no further information as
to this unit.
Mrs. S. The Fourth engineers is
with the Fourth division, in the army
of occupation; headquarters at j
Schweich, Germany, A. P. O. 746; re
turn to America indefinite.
G. M. D. We have no word as to
when the 109th engineers will be
sent home.
Soldier's Sister The Fourth di
vision is part of the regular army;
see answer to Mrs. S.. above.
Soldier's Friend The Eighty-third
division arrived in America some
time ago; have no record of where
abouts of units it left, in France.
R. K. Last word from the Ninth
field battalion, signal corps, it was
still with the Fifth division, and not
under orders for return home; a di
vision is made of regiments; an army
corps is made up of divisions.
A Reader The Seventy-eighth
division is listed to sail in May; this
is supposed to, include all units of the
division.
L. M. The last address of the
301st field artillery was A. P. O. 709;
it is part of the Twenty-sixth di
vision, which is listed to sail in
April, and therefore has very likely
left Montigny-le-Roy, where it has
been stationed, and moved down to a
port of embarkation.
Mrs. J. B. Present address of the
258th infantry, with the Ninetieth di
vision, is Bettembourg, A. P. O. 770;
this division is on the list to sail in
June.
D. C. Company H, Twenty-first
engineers, is stationed at Gondre
court (Meuse), A. P. O. 703; no or
ders for its early return.
G. O. F. The Thirty-seventh di
vision was on the sailing list for
March.
A Soldier's Mother No orders for
early sailing school of unit to which
your son is attached.
An Anxious Niece The Eighty
third division has already sailed; it
is very Ikeliy the engineers unit to
which you refer was left behind; you
may learn more definitely by writing
to the officer in command of division
headquarters. Camp Sherman. Ohio.
E. L. A. The Seventy-sixth di
vision returned some time ago; its
present headquarters are at Camp
Hill, Virginia; write to commanding
officer for information as to partic
ular unit.
j. r. write to the headquarters,
U. S. M. C, for information with re
lation to bonus pay for marines.
A Lonesome Mother We have no
means by which we can give you the
information you request; your best
chance of getting word of your son
is to write to the adjutant general
of the army, where all records of
individual soldiers may be had. The
addresses given were all right in
September, but need correction to
bring them up to date.
Ue ofays' (om&r
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY
"THE FOi n GOOD DEEDS"
(After Pggy sentences Balky Bam, Bil
ly float, Johnny Bull and Judge Owl to
perform good deed, they eome back and
report that they have not done the thlnia
they let out to do.)
CHAPTER VI.
The Black Hoofers Are Surprised.
V OU foolish, foolish creatures!"
JL cried I'eggy, stretching out
both arms toward Balky Sam, John
ny Bull, Billy Goat, and Judge Owl,
while tears brimmed her eyes. "You
went out to do good deeds, and now
you tell me wonderful stories, yet re
port that you have failed. Foolish
creatures!"
Balky Sam shuffled his feet. Billy
Goat rubbed his whiskers with his
forefoot. Judge Owl ruffled his'feath
ers nervously. Johnny Bull snuffled
and showed his teeth.
"Don't cry, Princess Peggy. I
know we have disappointed you, but
we will do better tomorrow," mum-
DAILY CARTOONETTE
jlORIT a MINUTE -iTOE ANHf
I'll help yoo ovefp--'
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(TOE DID-
bled Balky Sam, his usual jaunty,
saucy manner giving way to a
strange humbleness.
"Disappointed me! You haven't
disappointed me. I think you are
splendid!" cried Peggy. "What do
you say, Billy Belgium?"
"Hurrah, hurrah! for tne rour ne
roes!" cried Billy. And as quick as
he said it he was in trouble. Johnny
Bull grabbed his leg. Judge Owl
landed on his shoulder and seized his
ear. Billy Goat reared up. threaten
ing to butt him In the stomach, and
Balky Sam drew up his kickers men
acingly from behind.
"Don't you dare laugh at us." the
four brayed, growled, bleated and
growled and hooted, all at the same
time.
"I'm not laughing I'm crying."
gurgled Billy hysterically. And he
was almost crying, for big tears were
in his eyes.
"You foolish, foolish creatures!"
exclaimed Peggy again. Then she
spoke rapidly.
'Judge Owl saved a HUH girl's
life by killing the mice that were de
stroying the corn that was to pay the
hospital bill. What do you think of
that. Balky Sam, Billy Goat, and
Johnny Bull?"
"It was noble!" they answered In
one voice.
"Billy Goat rescued the pupils and
teacher from a bully, and punished
that bully until he reformed. What
do you think of that. Balky Sam,
Johnny Bull, and Judge Owl?"
"It was tine!" they shouted.
Johnny Bull brought back the
wayward cow that would otherwise
have perished, and thus gave food
to starving children. What do you
think of that Balky Sam, Billy Goat
and Judge Owl?"
"It was brave and generous!" they
cried. -
"Balky Sam gave up his time and
his ambition to give Joy to sorrow
stricken children. What do you think
of that. Judge Owl, Billy Goat and
Johnny Bull?"
"It was splendid!" they shouted.
"There, you see. you have done
your good deeds even though they
were not just what you set out to
do," declared Peggy. "You have
servd your sentences and won honor
in dolne it. I love you every one."
The four Black Hoofers looked at
each other In astonishment. They
couldn't believe their ears. Then
when they ralized that what each
had done out of the goodness of his
heart was really as worthy a deed
as though it had been more spectac
ularly heroic, their races ngntea up,
their chests swelled out, and thir
nrnild h&DDiness.
"Hee Haw, I'm going back to Jolly
up that orphan asylum every aay,
braved Balky Sam.
"I'm going to see that Bert the
Bully becomes Bert tne jrave.
hleated Billv Goat.
"I'm going to keep an eye on Nan
the cow, and look after the family
she feeds," barked Johnny nun.
"I'm going to guard every corn
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O'Flalierty Not Disloyal.
Clarkson, Neb., March 31. To the
Editor of The Bee: In the morning
Bee of March 31, first column, sec
ond article. Can any one tell me is
this party mentioned the same one
being, tried by the United States gov
ernment for intriguing with Bern-
storf being also the head of a so-
called Truth society.
F. J. KALAL.
Answer If the reference is to Sec
retary O'Flaherty of the Knights of
Columbus, he is not being tried, nor
has he been tried or accused of any
disloyal act against the government
to the knowledge of The Bee.
Jeremiah O'Leary recently was tried
in New York City on charges of
espionage, the jury disagreeing as to
his guilt.
Making the Assessment.
Omaha, April 2. To the Editor of
The Bee: As our county assessor,
his two chief deputies and precinct
assessors are now ready for their an
nual spring drive, would it not be
well for some of the taxpayers to
take an interest in this work and see
that we working men at least get a
fair deal? The past two years these
assessors' reports mostly were jokes.
Not one-half of the schedules sent
out are seen by property owners, but
are made out in the court house to
correspond with last year's records.
The precinct assessors are paid for
48 days work and they have plenty
of time to see at least 95 per cent of
the taxpayers. Also they are provid
ed with extra scedules A, B and C, so
they may know what personal prop
erty to assess, but last year of these
40,000 furnished, there was less than
6,000 filed. Why? Because your
county assessor failed to have pre
cinct assessors have them filled out.
Each year precinct assessors are
appointed that have steady work and
take these jobs as a side issue, so in
these cases it is impossible for them
to get a correct assessment, so in
most cases of the outside home own
er and renter his assessment is guess
ed at and signed by precinct asses
sor "Not at Home Called Three
Times," etc. Anything to get away
with it.
The county commissioners also can
save possibly $1,000 or more in the
next two months in the office help at
the county assessors office, as I have
seen. Last year there were 12 extra
clerks. One was employed as filing
clerk for A, B and C schedules
1,000 of them. For this work the
clerk was paid 10 weeks pay or $210.
It would require about one week to j
do this work. Some of these clerks j
would go to work at 8:30 to 9 a. m.,
quit all the way from 11:30 to 11:50
a. m. Back 1:20 to 1:30 and so
forth. Know of one to take three
days trip for himself in the country.
He also had the pleasure of drawing
48 days' pay for precini't assessor and
extra pay for office work. So if our
commissioners wish to save the
county some expense perhaps they
could keep check on this office.
FAIR PLAY.
The Boys of '98.
Broken Bow, Neb., March 27. To
the Editor of The Bee: Your editor
ial regarding "The Boys of '98" is the
first I have seen which makes me
feel there is at least one editor who
has not forgotten us. Yes, there
was only a few thousand of us then
but our lives were just as sweet to
us as any soldier of today. I can't
for the life of me figure why a life
is worth $60 bonus now and was not
worth a cent then. If it had not
been for the good heart of some Ne
braska man we would have had to
walk home from San Francisco. Our
salaries were about half what it is
today and the only sweetmeats we
received were rotten canned horse
and hardtack. We were not furn
ished cigarets, gum, sweaters, socks,
wristlets, pverseas clotning, and a
system of insurance for those who
had wives. We were even issued
green unroasted coffee on the firing
line.
I came under the last draft this
time and as my father served as a,
volunteer during the civil war and
in the Spanish-American, I felt my
family had done its share until all
others who hadn t served were call
ed. I therefore wrote the adjutant
general of the state where I resided
asking if there was any exemption
for a man who had served in actual
foreign service. I was advised there
was none. I was also advised there
would be nd preference shown in
case I applied for a commission.
Now, I don't draw a pension, in
fact have never asked for one, and
have received no favors in any way
from the United States since return
ing, nor do I want any. It does
rather hurt, however, when you have
to admit your services were not ap
preciated even though you offered
your all. I am afraid the trouble is
"there were not enough of us to
make much of a political difference."
I feel sure I voice the sentiments
of a great many when I say, "We
thank you."
J. BENJAMIN.
REST, REAL REST!
Oftlmes you have a longlnp;.
And somewhere you would go
Away from ceaseless turmoil
And from the world's great show.
It may be to far-off mountains,
Or under a sheltering bill.
Where naught you hear but long of bird
Or the trickling of a rill.
Or In some dense old forest .
W here silence is solemn and grand,
And communion is only with nature
In a language you'll understand.
And when the night o'ertakes you
On some grassy plot you He;
The sleep that comes will bring real rest
For no cares of the world nullify. J
Omaha. BELLV1EW.
Omaha.
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"There's more fun in doing good
than in doing harm," declared Peg
gy, and with this wise saying, she
bade the Black Hoof clan and Billy
Belgium goodnight, for she was ,so
sleepy she couldn't keep her eyes
open.
(Tomorrow will be told the atory of the
Wild Flower Queen.)
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