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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Prees. of which Tlw Bet li a member, la exclualrelr mtltled to tha uh for pubiieatlon of all new, dlipatcliee credited io It or not otlierwlee credited in Uili paper, and (In the local news published nwcln. All itghU ol publication of out special dispatch ta re also fanned. OFFICES! Chlcato 1TI0-13 Bteger Bid. Omaha Tb Bm Bids. V,w York Ms Fifth Are. South Omaha 2318 N 8t. L Loula J4e B'nk of Commerce, Council Bluffa 14 N. Main Bt . Waahlafton 1811 G St. Lincoln Llttla Buildlna, MARCH CIRCULATION Daily 65,293 Sunday 63,450 Anraga circulation for the' month, tubacrlbed and nrorn to bj C B. Bat an. Circulation Msnaier. Subscribers, bavin the city should have Tha Boo mallad to thorn. Addraaa chsnfod as - oftta as requested. Now, let us have congress in session. The Peace conference was unanimous on one point, at least. i- Omaha is lagging on the V-loan drive, i Wake up, everybody. t Another day has passed without anyone fly ; ing across the Atlantic. Who will relieve the ' suspense? Ole Hansen may comfort himself with the thought that assassins never waste bombs on dead ones. Noon comes at 1 o'clock in Geneva now, another of the humors 'of the "daylight" law in Nebraska. ' ) 7 A headline says a Los Angees lover shot his sweetheart in the bath-tub, which is enough to make a perfect lady mad. Phone, rate boosters had better hurry and get the matter over with before the postmaster general gets. off. tlw wire. The new union depot ought to be marked at the head of the program until its existence be comes an accomplished fact. t - Is Omaha to have home rule, or will the city find itself going to Lincoln again to beg permission to attend to its own affairs. Four inches of snow fell in Great Britain on Monday, if you had an idea that Nebraska is the only place where the climate has slipped. Between referendum petitions, bond solicitors and stock salesmen, the fountain pens are going to be busy for. the next few days in Nebraska. Omaha food gamblers say ; they were not caught when the bottom fell out of the market, , but did you ever meet the loser in a poker game? . Japan accepts the inevitable with becoming grace, and western nations realize that the depths of the Oriental mind are, yet unplumbed. One way to get Herbert Asquith out of Lloyd George's path will be to make him am bassador to Washington. And he will be right welcome. , Nebraska s birth rate is increasing, and snowing mat tne war ow not interfere .with our home life. . , , , ' V -J J. -.. - Thirty lady stenographers and typewriters , are with the German peace party, presumably to ' make it appear thit the delegation from Berlin will have something to say. - ; r Insurance against burglary is going higher f in Omaha, which may stimulate some of the victims to enable a burglar or two to realize on whatever life insurance they may have. The esteemed Chicago Tribune inflates the Hitchcock boom for the president with his I friendship for Wilson, and thus Nebraskans are . given another good reason for passing mirth. i Speculators who "whooped" prices a couple , of weeks ago on corn and pork now commence to realize that whatever goes up must come , down, and the scramble to get out of the way , interests the bystanders who have paid for the fun of the food gamblers.' If. . . 11 a . nowever, wnen it is ail sain and done, it was not under the direction of Mr. Burleson that 'hundreds of million! of dollars were expended . for airplanes that never flew, or other hundreds "of millions on munition plants in the south that produced.no munitions. When the goat is finally i chosen for the1 administration, his greater load will come from headquarters much nearer 'the 'White House than is the Postoffice department. Were Not Caught Napping The various confessions that the men who were responsible for Germany going to war and keeping in the war are now making as to why and now they did it would prove more valuable if. they only would tell the whole truth. For in stance. Von Jagow, one of the most tricky of the group which managed the Berlin foreign of- 'fice during the war, is now telling an anxious world how war continued after 1916, because President Wilson did not respond to a hint from .the kaiser in October, 1916, that mediation would be welcomed. But when you examine the Von Jagow statement critically you find that Von Jagow and Bernstorff carefully concealed from Colonel House to whom the note was handed instead of to Mr. Gerard or Secretary Lansing the important fact that the .note was from the kaiser himself and represented his ideas of the serious situation in which Germany then found itself. This piece of duplicity in the face of a pre tense that they were dealing with the utmost candor with the president, whose good offices they were soliciting, is typical of German diplomacy all through the war. For, as a matter of cold fact what Von Jagow and Von Bern storff were trying to do was to use the United States as a stool pigeon or a cat's paw to save the situation for them when they had begun to realize that the game was up. But even their necessities would not allow them to tell -the truth or to let the president know that the sword-rattling kaiser had had enough. So their diplomacy overreached itself, the president was not caught napping and did not respond to the German advances, the ruse was not successful and Germany had to continue the war to the hitter end.' Yet even in the face of the fact that all those involved in these negotiations can ex pose his clumsy efforts to hide the truth, Von jagow seems to think that his sinister endeavor ' to show how the president could have settled the war in 1916, of course in German's favor, will imoress the world at laree. It will, but in itist the opposite way from what he intended. Phil adelphia Ledger, ARMAMENT AND THE LEAGUE. Senator Poindcxter's criticism of the League of Nations' covenant because of its limitation of armament clause indicates that he has given it the most extreme interpretation. That may be good practice, but it works both ways, and the provision objected to is susceptible of a far dif ferent understanding. Regulations laid down by the league must be unanimous, and in relation to land and naval forces must be accepted by the nation affected before becoming operative. Under this no good reason can be found why the United States can not have as big an army or navy as its people deem necessary for protection. The plain intent of the covenant is to pre vent the secret building up of a great military machine by any nation; it discountenances the private production of arms and munitions, so as to remove the element of profit such as has been alleged against the munition makers of the world. Nations unable to supply themselves with means for defense from their own resources are to have the right of purchase to the end that they be not left helpless. Finally, each ten years the situation is to be reviewed, and the regula tions revised in accordance with the project. As the main intent of the League of Nations is to abolish war if possible, one of the first things to be dealt with is armament. If the world , can be made safe without armies, if private interest in warfare can be removed, by processes so simple as those suggested in the covenant, then the league will confer on man kind a boon sought through the ages. ' None can tell exactly what the result will be until it has been tried. " The world has had enough of war, and the people yearn for some thing that is different from what we have had for the last four years. Senator Poindexter mistakes public sentiment sadly if he thinks that Americans will not give assent to any rea sonable plan that holds out a prospect for. a future safe from armed conflict. Burleson Confesses Hit Failure. Mr. Burleson's desire to return the cables, telegraphs and telephones to their private or corporate owners comes with a suddenness comparable only to the impulse that led him to grab them as a "war" measure after the war had ended. Power to take control of the wires was originally granted that the federal govern ment might have unrestricted use and also be made secure against enemy use of this means of communication. Maybe it was tinctured to some extent with the general incapacity that characterized the democratic congress, finding its outlet in a shift ing of everything onto the president. It is not doubted that Mr. Wilson sought absolute authority in the emergency, and congress with alacrity responded by not only giving to the ex ecutive assistance asked, but also going to the extreme of abdicating, and permitting him to exercise freely functions constitutionally im posed on the legislative branch of the govern ment t The postmaster general's confession of fail ure, a virtual admission of his incapacity to manage the business he undertook, is not to be in any sense accepted as a test of government ownership. It only proves the infinite capacity of the present head of the postal service for making a mess of things. He already had demonstrated to the satisfaction of the business of the country how little he knew about manag ing the mails. In order to cover up his blunders he threw out a great smoke barrage, alleging that critical newspapers were merely pursuing him because he had forced the publishers to pay for the service the government rendered. This case has never been established, although it has been made very clear that the postmaster general, to defend himself, did put an enormous burden of extra cost on the publishing industry. His sally into the field of wire and wireless communication has been quite as disastrous as any of his experiments with the mail service. It only proves that a man temperamentally un fitted for the work should not be allowed to get hold of big things to play with. High Prices and Money. A statistician for the United States Chamber of Commerce is quoted as telling a convention at St. Louis that prices were kept high without the slightest reason. He further asserts that the law of supply and demand, once put into opera tion again, will shortly regulate matters to the satisfaction : of everybody. Recalling Glad stone's classification of statisticians, little sur prise will be expressed at this one, but it is odd that one accustomed to playing with figures and making 2 and 2 foot up 3 or yi, as best suits his purpose, should allow himself to fall into an error so palpable. . It was the very exact operations of the law of supply and demand that sent prices soaring in the beginning of the present era of inflation. In 1914 the European war suddenly created an abnormal demand for all staples, and prices rose accordingly. ,As the war progressed, the de mand increased faster than the supply, and the selling price responded promptly. When Amer ica went into the war, the boost was even more1 noticeable, although the federal government put a stop to the upward movement by practically commandeering various articles. This control is now removed, but the extraordinary demand has not disappeared, deferred private request being substituted for that of war. Aiding in the advance of the cost level has been the inflation of credit currency. The cir culating medium of the United States has in creased almost two billions of dollars since the spring of 1917, and the basis for credit has been broadened by the addition of $18,000,000,000 of federal bonds, to which four and one-half bil lions of short term notes are being added. We never had so much money or such extensive and reliable credit in our history as today. This has added nothing.to the wealth'of the country. To sell a bushel of wheat for $2 today that in 1914 sold for less than a dollar has not in creased the supply of wheat by a single grain. How any man can say there is no reason for the maintenance of inflated prices is beyond understanding. Until credit is restricted and currency contracted the price level will remain high. With Wilson as the first president of the league and its first meeting to be held in Wash ington, who will say the Yankees did not get something at Paris? Socialists appealing for the release of 'Gene Debs should keep in mind that he was sent to prison for the abuse, not 'the exercise, of free speech. . . ... Allies Must Remain Friends From the Washington Poat The peace delegates at Paris are going for ward with wonderful optimism, on the assump tion that the denial of guarantees of security and equality to certain great nations will not prevent the making of peace and the creation of a league of nations, which will take control of the entire world upon the ratification of' the peace treaty. One of the aims of the United States when it entered the war was to "make the world safe for democracy," but when the American delegates entered the peace conference there was an im mediate charge that they were preventing the democracies from making themselves safe. The last democracy to be denied the safety it seeks is Italy. In this case there is no dis guising the fact that it is President Wilson him self who seeks to prevent Italy from making its borders secure against another invasion by the German and Austrian Huns. President Wilson appeals to Italy to accent his decision, which he , intimates is the decision of the people of tne united Mates, mere is notning or record to indicate the position of the people of this country, however, except the general expression of the elections last November, which Mr. Wil son announced beforehand would constitute a repudiation of his policies in the . eyes of Europe if the people should fail to elect a demo cratic congress. They failed. Therefore, when Americans suggest that Premier Orlando and Baron Sonnino do not represent the real opinion of Italy, it is quite logical for the Italians to re tort that President Wilson does not represent the real opinion of America. There is now a breach betwen the United States and Italy. It is pregnant with danger not the minor danger of direct war.but the greater danger of permanent estrangement and hatred. That would be a most deplorable out come of the Paris conference, more destructive in its consequences than a failure to make peace with Germany. Germany is down and out, and if the United States did not make any formal peace for several years, this country would not suffer. Italy, however, is one of the five trus tees of the world's civilization and liberty, and an estrangement between Italians and Ameri cans would make impossible a league of nations worthy of the name. The friendship of France. England. Italv. Japan and the United States is the prime factor or tne worlds peace and security, that friend ship has just saved the world from -slavery to the Hohenzollern and Hapsburg systems of absolutism. The first duty of these nations is to preserve their mutual friendship. This duty stands before peace with Germany. The great est desire of the Hun is to break up the friend ship of the allies. During the fighting the dire necessity of survival compelled the -allies to work together. The beginning of the oeace conference marked the opening of the period of greatest danger to the allies, which was duly pointed out by the Post at the time. We ex pressed the ardent hope that the allies would appreciate the danger that surrounded them. We suggested that the enemy would strain every, nerve to drive the allies apart, in the critical period when they would be required to adjust their claims and formulate their demands upon the enemy. Nothing can ever take the place of friend ship and confidence among the five nations that have formed the league of liberty. If they fall apart, the enemy thrives. They need not make alliances with the enemy in order to upset the world. The mere estrangement of the allies is enough for the Huns' and the bolsheviki. In that estrangement these savage enemies, repre senting the extremes of autocracy and anarchy, would find ample opportunity for attacking and slaughtering human liberty, now here, now there, and perhaps everywhere. No paper league of nations and no peace with Germany will keep peace in this worlld if the five leading nations become enemies. We all know that peace with Germany is not genuine peace, but a truce until Germany can go on the warpath again. We all know that a league;of nations which fails to include Italy, Japan, Germany and Russia is a declaration of war against those nations which will compel them to become allies. Better that each free nation should stand alone than to form a league which would provoke war. America's first attempt to interfere in Euro pean affairs is a sorry experience, indeed. Few are the Americans who do not wish the presi dent had kept the country out of the position of dictator to all the allies, and that he had not sought to deny to each of the allies a portion of its claims against the enemy. The inevitable result of such action is the growth of unfriendly feeling toward all the people of the United States and the well-nigh universal belief, which we believe to be utterly unfounded, that the United States has deliberately shielded the world's enemy from the punishment which he so richly earned. Let us hope that the patience and genuine friendship of all the allies toward Americans will not fail in these trying days. In South Africa Any superficial simplicity in the South Afri can question disappears when one asks if the nationalists whose leaders are here en route to Europe would have the Transvaal and Orange Free State freed, or the whole union loosed from the empire. The statement issued by the dele gation is more emphatic than logical. The "wounds of 1899-1902," when the independence of the Dutch republics was forcibly destroyed, "never have healed." No lasting peace is pos sible "not only until violated rights are restored but until the whole union is entirely independ ent." The area of the union is 475,000 square miles, of which the Transvaal and the Orange Free State are 160,000 square miles,, while there are to be considered other British-ruled terri tories accessible only through the union. It is not upon grounds of history that the national ists can prove that all South Africa ought to be as free as a portion of it was in 1898. Grounds of self-determination would offer an unassail able footing, and The Hertzog delegation de clares that 65 per cent of the white population is Dutch nearly four-fifths of the whole being colored; but to point to this percentage is not to prove that anything like a majority wishes for greater independence than South Africa al ready possesses. New York Post Our Free Legal Aid State your case clearly but briefly and a reliable lawyer will furnish the answer or advise in this column. Your name will not be printed. Let The Bee Advise .You 5Y The Day We Celebrate. Will W. McBride of the Omaha Life In surance company, born 1862. Dr. Wilson 6. Bridges, physician, born 1856. Princess Juliana, heir to the throne of The Netherlands, born at the palace of Het Loo 10 years ago. William H. Crane, dean of the American stage, born at Leicester, Mass., 74 years ago. Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Harrison, widow of President Benjamin Harrison, born at Hones dale, Pa., 61 years ago. Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the demo cratic national committee, born in Chicago 49 years ago. Maj. Gen. Henry G. Sharpe, former quarter master general of the United States, army, later in command of -the Southeastern department, born at Kingston, N. Y., 61 years ago. In Omaha 30 Years Ago. The centennial anniversary of Washington's inauguration was observed in Omaha. Gen. John L. Webster represented Nebraska at the celebration in New York City. The Omaha Board of Trade was en thusiastically received today at Newport, At kinson, O'Neill, Oakdale and Albion. Nebraska's Loyal Legion celebrated the inaugural centennial with a banquet at the Mil lard hotel. Among the guests of honor were Bishop Newman, Dean Gardner, Dr. Duryea, Dr. George L. Miller, Gen. J. C. Cowin, Judge Groff, Hon. J. M. Woolworth and L. M. Ben nett. Maj. J. S. Clarkson of Omaha was elected commander for t! ensuing-year, . - ' Specific Performance- of Oral Contract. J. C. B. In March of this year I entered, into an agreement with neighbor to -purchase from him 80 acres of land. Price was agreed upon and I paid $500 down and waa to pay the rest when the deed was delivered to me, which waa to be as soon as his wife returned from California, where she waa visiting. I moved on the land and put in my spring crop. The party now refuses to give me a deed unless I pay a. higher price than was agreed upon. claiming that hia wife will not sign the deed and says that I cannot hold him to his agreement because not in writing. Is there any way I can compel him to deed me the land according to our agreement, or win i have to pay what he asks to Keep tne land? Answer Under the 'facts as stat ed in your letter it is my opinion mat a court or equity will enforce specific performance. The general rule that a contract for the sale of land will not be enforced unjess in writing does not apply where verbal agreement is clearly established and under which possession of the premises has been taken and acts of part performance done. It is a gen eral proposition that sneciflo tier formance of an oral agreement will be enforced by a court of equity where one party has wholly, and the other party, partly performed it, and its non-fulfillment would be a fraud on the party who has part ly or fully performed it. If the party still continues to refuse to make the deed as agreed, you should consult an attorney who will be able to ad vise you properly how to protect your Interests. Partition of Real Estate. H. L. My brother and two sisters and myself each have an equal in terest by inheritance in a quarter section of land. My brother has been farming the land for several years and has a lease which does not expire until two years after March 1, 1919. My sisters and I wish to sell our Interest In the land, but the brother in possession re fuses to join with us, and claims we cannot sell until his lease ex pires. What are all of our rights in regard to the land? Answer In this state any one of several Joint owners of real estate may maintain an action in his or her name for the partition of such real estate. If upon the hearing the court is satisfied that such real estate is owned jointly by the parties to the suit and that all parties in terested in such land have been made parties to the suit and duly notified, a referee will be named by the court who will determine the practicabil ity of partition. If it appears to the referee that such real estate cannot be divided without great prejudice to the owners thereof he will so report to the court, who will thereupon enter an order directing the referee to sell the premises. In your case the sale would be sub ject to the lease in favor of your brother and should be taken into consideration before the suit for partition is instituted. Mechanics' Lien. C. B. What is necessary to be done to file a mechanics' lien? When and at what time must it be filed and when can it be foreclosed? Answer Any person entitled to a mechanics' lien may make an ac count in writing of the items of labor and material furnished, and after making oath thereto shill within four months of the time of performing such labor or furnishing such material, or within four months from the date of the last item furnished file the same in the office of the register of deed of the county in which said labor and ma terials were furnished, and such- ac count shall operate as a lien on the property therein described for a pe riod of two years after the filing of such lien, and the person holding any such lien may be civil action proceed to obtain a judgment for the amount of his account thereon at any time within the time of such Hen, and when suit Is started, be fore the expiration of the lien, such lien will continue In full force until such suit is finally determined and satisfied. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. N "THE VANISHING FISH." (Billy bats Kingfisher. Blue Heron and Lonesome Bear, he can beat them fishing, but when ha and Peggy and Pat, a boy they find at tha fishing hole, hook large, fine fish, the fish disappear.) t CHAPTER III Billy Throws Stones. O, I don't think this place is haunted," declared Billy as they tried to figure out where the three fish had gone to, "but I think it is mighty odd how they have dis appeared." "I feel awfully scary fishing here," whispered Pat. "Maybe we had bet ter try our luck somewhere else." "Why, the fish are Just beginning to bite here," replied Peggy. "Well, I'm not afraid If you're not," declared Pat, but he glancea cautiously around as he said it. "I'll stay." They Wited their hooks and threw them into the river. Instantly there was a wild swirl of waters. "I've got a big one," yelled Billy. Aha! There are the ghosts!" shouted Billy. "The rascals were stealing our fish." "So have I," shrieked Peggy. "I can scarcely hold him." "Feels as though I've caught a shark," gasped Pat. Up came three poles, jerking three splendid fish from the water. That on Billy's line went up into the tree; that on Peggy's line was thrown into the bushes, and that on 'Pat's line landed among the weeds. Remembering what had hap pened before, they brought their lines quickly back, but not quickly enough to save their flsh-all three catches had disappeared. Again they searched, and again their efforts were in vain. The fish were not to be found. "Some one is playing Jokes on us. but then you never can tell," mut tered Pat. "I never heard of flsh-eating ghosts, declared Billy. "And if I catch 'em at it well, look out!" Once more they threw their lines into the deep pool. After awhile there wal another big swirl in the water, and they pulled up three more big fish. This time, they tried hard to keep the fish from going into the tree, the bushes, or the weeds, but in spite of their efforts Peggy's fish flew into the weeds, Billy's went in to the bushes, and Pat's sailed up into the tree. And the fish didn't come out again. But now Billy's dander was up. He didn't believe those fish vanished off the hooks of their own accord. And he didn't believe in ghosts par ti ;uiariy in broad daylight. "Help mo. quick!" he cried, rush ing to a heap of stones on the bank. Picking up half a dozen stones, he hurled them as fast as he could In to the tree, among the weeds and through the bushes. Pat followed him, and so did Peggy. Soon they were laying down a heavy barrage on all three places where the fish had disappeared. From the tree there burst a harsh, startling rattle and then Kingfisher flew out of the foliage. From the weeds there sounded a a creaking, aL.screaming. and a loud fluttering as'JBlue Heron took wing and flapped heavily away. Among the bushes there was a thrashing and a grunting, as Lone some Bear took to his heels. "Ah, there are the ghosts!" shouted Billy. f'The rascals were stealing our fish." "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Peggy. "They intended to' win their bets with your own fish." "But they can't beat me that way," retorted Billy. "I'll show 'em." So they went to fishing again harder than ever. And now when they hooked a fish it didn't vanish, but was safely shut up in the bas kets. Their catch grew rapidly, ana Billy was exulting In their luck. when suddenly he felt a strong tug on his line. "Ht, here's a whaling big one," he shouted. He pulled vigorously, but his catch pulled just aa vig orously the other way. "It must be a whopper," he gasped, bracing him self. "It's dragging me Into the river. Help me, quick!" (Tomorrow will be told the extraor- I dinary things that happen when they try to land a big fish.) ) Daily Dot Puzzle 33 34 S5 JO -Of 56.57 I 2i 4o 2b1 14 25 lb 13 0 15 '7 43 8 o 7 4 45 2i 23 18 5b o 21 21 19 55 53 54 2 3 4 51 So a Can you finish this picture? Draw from on to two and to on to the end. i People and Events The marvelous teal of Ohio In forwarding the wherewith to miti gate the thirst of Michigan suggests that the Buckeye heart is a corker! Cheer up! Don't worry! Consid er the troubles of the map-makers and be happy. The January style of Medicine Hat is by far the most popular win ter lid designed in that arctic fac tory. Distance . swells its charms. Keep it on! One of the big new hotels of New York, with 2,200 rooms, boasts of a staff of 2,200 persons, or one em ploye for every guest room. Should any guest feel like kicking on the bill prudence suggests holding off until beyond ,ear range. Publisher Curtis or the Philadel phia Ledger announces that nex year a new home for the Ledgei will be built at Sixth and Chestnut streets, occupying the entire square. The present Ledger home is B0 year old, quite out-of-date for a moderc newspaper. New York authorities ' tunic down the appeal for a boost in true Uon fares to 8 cents. Five cents i: the contract rate, and the Inter borough system is coldly reminde. that the contract governs the rati . President Shontz of the compam murmurs in dirge-like tones, "When do we go from here?" And the un feeling public responds, "Bail ouv the water." Out of the Ordinary Ararat, where Noah's Ark went aground, is in the new Armenian re public. With modern conditions and nterprise there should soon be a 'cog" railroad to the summit and a 'Noah's Inn" "Fresh sandwiches of ill kinds." The birth of Quadruplets makes Mrs. Ammina LIzzl, 42 years old, of Philadelphia, the mother of 18 chil dren, 13 of whom are still living. She is also the grandmother of five chil dren. Each of the quadruplets weighs about seven pounds. Two are girls, blondes, and two boys, bru nettes. The story is told that when one of the phonograph companies asked John McCormack to sing for a record of "Tipperary," the famous Irish tenor stipulated for a fee of $20,000. The company refused, and instead gave him a percentage on sales of the record. These sales have so far added up to 2,500,000, netting the singer $250,000. SMILES Friend The office boy was just confid ing to me that ha wanted to bj boss somu day. The Boss (with a sigh) Queer, Isn't It? I was just envying the office boy his job. New Haven Register. what you Mrs. Nurltch Edith, reading? Daughter- Petrarch's poems, ma. Mrs. Nurltch Edith, haven't t warned you against the vulgar' habit of shorten ing men's names? Say Peter Karch. Bos ton Transcript. "The office should seek the man." "Maybe so. But when that time comes us heelers won't get no credit for elect ing him." Louisville Courier-Journal. Buy to the Limit The officers of this bank take this opportunity to recommend that its pa trons . all of them buy to the limit of their resources of the forthcoming issue of . VICTORY BONDS This loan offers you not only an opportunity of expressing your patriotism -but of participating in the most attractive investment , ever offered by our Govern ment. ' Those who are not patrons of this bank are in vited to address their bond subscriptions to us and avail themselves of the facilities of ' our Liberty Bond Department. g-r Capital and Surplus $2,000,000. The Omaha National Bank Earaara at Seventeenth 1 DAILY CARTOONETTE PMEW! TH(5 MOOSE- leSMOTfi 1M GOINGrHOWN ANETEtL THE XIANITOR WHAT I THINK OFttlM! 1 r tffANITORj The Essence of Effort TRADE MARK V T ma BUSWJSJS COOP THAMYOl" r FILLING STATIONS 38th mni Farnam. 29th and Leavenworth. 12th and Harney. 17th and Davenport.7 24K and H, South Side. 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