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TV THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD BOSEWA1EB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THI BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR . MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS n AssoelaUd Praia, of which "Baa Bee la a member. It ex- 4ttf entitled to th um for pubiloatloa of all news dispatches eradited to It or Dot otherwise credited ia Uui paper, and also ths lord Mrl published berato. AU rtsfets of publication of our spe fltoi speteh ars ah iMamd. BEE TELEPHONES! Prints Branch Binbuit. Art for tho HTwIam 1 AAA Department w PirtkuUr Perm Wanted. 1 jrlCr 1 JJJ For Nifht or Sunday Service Call: Editorial Department - ... Tjl 1000L Circulation Department ..... Tyler 1008L Adnrtiamf Department ..... Tyler 1008b OFFICES OF THE BEE: Room OsVe, m BulMlne. lrtk sad ramam. Breach pmcoa: Ames 4110 North 34th i atauon 6114 Military An. Council Bluffi 14 .V. Main bti Mia North :4th Out-ol-Town Offices: K York at, 186 riftb Are. Uikaso Sestet Bid. Park Booth Bid Via ton Walnut Waahlniton I Lincoln Hit Leavenworth S31S N Stmt 2407 South ma SIS North 40th 1311 O Stmt 1330 H Street APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65,830 Sunday 63,444 Aiemia circulation for too month subscribed and sworn to by E. H. Kagau, Circulation Manager. Subscribers Icavinc tha city should have Tha Baa mailed to them. Address chanfed as often as requested. Perhaps somebody should not become too inquisitive. Week-end excursions to London and Paris will soon be in order. Waiting for someone to sound the "key note" of the telegraphers' strike? Special county road bond election next Tuesday. Note it down on your calendar. "May Raise Rates," says a big headline. A really striking headline would be, "May Lower Rates." Cheer up. Maybe this is one of the years when we have a hnr I line anrt a rnnl Tulv and ' August. The president ought to get a gold service (tripe. He has been in overseas service six months. N T Of course, jt was part of the German plan for! the peace delegation to advise the cabinet not, to sign the treaty. ( . The signing of the peace treaty of Versailles is tp be an elaborate ceremony. But at that the Germans won't enjoy it. No strike will win or hold public sympathy by ! resort to personal violence and property destruction. Stick a pin there. ' A man paid $500 for the pipe that Foch smoked while he was smoking out the Germans. But it wasn't the pipe that made Foch famous. i f hat aviator who had to come down at Ris ing (City could hardly have chosen a place with a more paradoxical name for the descent. New York has superseded Paris as the oracle of women's fashions, they say. Hasn't ! New York enough to bear without this? West PoitvHs accused of bjefcd.to& snobbery. , .CfiijuitT" itis that the boys who win military " adtship there do not have it when they go in. But Jiow easy to acquire the traitl A shortage tof ivory is reported due to the decreasing number of elephants. It may be nec essary to utilize some of the heads in the Omaha - police department. Five billion tons of coal in Holland. On the map it doesn't look as though the whole country were big enough to weigh that much. Admiral Kolchak is reported to have turned against the reactionaries who put him in power. If the allies trust him they need not be surprised if he turns against them when it suits his purposes. lt must be from a conviction that an Ameri- cani soldier counts for more than a soldier of . any"; other country, that congress has reduced - the administration's permanent army figures from 509,000 to 400,000. tl yon want to help along a charity that will do your heart good, send in a contribution to The; Bee's Free Milk and Ice Fund for relief of hoti weather little tots. It all goes to pay for milk and ice not a cent for administration. perhapV as that Mississippi democrat defend- ingithe administration says, -the people love i, Postmaster General Burleson for the enemies he ? has made, but the trouble is he has made noth- ing i but enemies and no friends to counter- vsisuwt. 'A No Tobacco Corporation has been launched. Tobacco was never accused of caus ; lng a man to beat his wife, murder his friend or leave his children without support. It is not in the same class with booze and the No To- bactjo Corporation is left at the post before it starts. LABOR'S RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAM. The reconstruction program promulgated by the American Federation of Labor convention will command general acquiescence and ap proval for many of its proposals, but it also contains much on which there will be' decided disagreement. This doubtless would be true of any list of desired measures put out as a strictly class program, the significant feature of the federation's action being that radicals and conservatives within their own ranks were able to get together on any comprehensive statement of labor's aims. On the protest against treating labor as a commodity or article of commerce with total 'disregard of the welfare of the workers them selves, there should be no dissent. The progress and prosperity of the nation is founded upon good wages and fair treatment for the pro ducers who toil in field, farm, factory and mine, and the advance of civilization is measured by the increase in the number of people who enjoy the comforts and conveniences of life and the steadily lightened burden involved in merely eking out an existence. The declaration which will draw most fire is that relating to the courts. The federation resolutions attempt to make anew the untenable point that our courts are overstepping their authority whenever they declare unconstitu tional the acts of legislative or executive de partments of the government. Our courts have been performing this function since the days of John Marshall, and in a democracy the nullify ing of laws conflicting with the constitution has proved a safeguard against autocracy and usurpation and a protection, and not a menace, 1 to personal liberty. How far courts should go in issuing restrain ing orders or injunctions and arbitrarily punish ing their violation as contempt, is a different question. We believe a demand for jury trials in such cases could be well sustained. The Bee has many times voiced this demand. What those responsible for this part of the labor plat form evdiently had in mind are those injunc tions restricting the freedom of labor leaders to advise, by speech or writing, resort to the strike or the boycott not to injunctions against the use of physical force upon strike breakers or upon employers' property. Announcement of intention "to treat all injunctions that invade our personal liberties as unwarranted" and "to accept whatever consequences may follow" is apt to be taken by undiscriminating minds as a defiance of all court orders, regardless of sup port or condition, and if it so understood it will prove an unfortunate expression. Labor has made and is making tremendous progress in every direction during the last few years, and these gains will be held and further advances made by following the same methods by which this success has been won rather than by trying new and doubtful paths. The Day We Celebrate. Thompson Buchanan, noted Kentucky novel . ist and playwright, born in New York City, 42 . years ago. Maj. Gen. Charles J. Bailey, who commanded - the -81st division of the National army, born at ; Tamaqua, Pa., 60 years ago. Dr. Charles C. Weaver, president of Emory and Henry college, born in Ashe county, N. C, 44 years ago. Dudley Doolittle, former representative in congress of the Fourth Kansas district, born at Cottonwood Falls, Kan., 38 years ago. - Jack Munroe, former . heavyweight pugilist who later distinguished himself with the Can adian troops in France, born at Chester, Pa., 42 years ago. ' - Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. U. S. District Judge Dundy gave a reception ' and dinner at his home on Leavenworth street ' - in honor of Ellis Bierbower, who has been ; United States marshal of this district for 17 years. Class-day exercises of the Lake street school ' took place under the direction of Miss Whit- man, principal, assisted by Miss Valentine, ' ' teacher of the eighth grade. Bert Snyder, cornetist at Boyd's, has gone east for a summer, engagement with a Phila : delphia band. At the annual meeting of the trustees of the y 1 Omaha Medical college, Dr. D. McCraw was - elected deao oi tha faculty to succeed Dr. ptmh-- - Extra Session Questions. It is not absolutely necessary, of course, for the Nebraska legislature to be called into extraordinary session at this particular time to ratify the woman's suffrage amendment, because there are no elections in Nebraska this year. Bet it would be just to have an extra session some time before the next gen eral election, in the fall of 1920. On the oth9rhand delegates to a constitutional con--fention, the most important deliberate ses sion Nebraska has ever had to ponder over, must be elected late this year, and if the women are interested in any political subject they should be interested in choosing the right sort of men to attend the convention and draw the fundamental law of the state. With that in mind, an extra session would have to be called this year to ratify the na tional amendment and make it possible for women to have a vote on important consti tutional measures, the present limited suf frage law making it impossible for them to vote on matters which are affected by or affect the constitution of the state. It would be expensive to call a special session of the legislaure, although it would not cost "$10,000 or $20,000" as a certain democratic newspaper, opposed to woman suffrage in all its phases, points out, and to deprive the women of a right to vote on an important constitutional question might cost a great deal more than that. Nebraska City Press. Just to keep the discussion from going off the track, the confused ideas reflected in this comment should be set straight. In the first place, ratification of the federal suffrage amendment by Nebraska at a specially called session of the legislature ahead of the regular time of meeting, will in no way make it possible for women to vote in the coming elec tion to choose delegates to the constitutional convention. It will not even make it possible for women to vote in the subsequent election to accept or reject the work of the convention un less, before that time, Nebraska makes the thirty-sixth state to complete the process of ratification. The most casual reading will dis close that the constitution of Nebraska will con fine suffrage on constitutional offices or ques tions to male electors and that this constitution can be changed in only one of two ways either by its own amendment or by the federal amendment prohibiting the states from dis criminating in suffrage on account of sex. If the change is to be made in the state constitu tion, whether initiated by the legislature, by the convention or by the people, it cannot be opera tive until after it is ratified at a general election and the next general election does not come until November, 1920. In the second place, it is easy to ascertain the cost of a special session, because we re cently had an extra session and the records show exactly what it cost. The total appro priations for expenses, including members' pay, for the 1918 extra session of the Nebraska legislature was $18,910. It is possible all of the money appropriated was not expended. On the other hand, the session was probably as brief as a session could be and got along with as few employes as could be expected. An extra session called this year would surely cost ap proximately the same. General French's Memoirs A good air fleet would doubtless do the busi ness for us in Mexico if things ever reached that point. In the meanwhile, the Mexicans should understand that they will be considering their own safety by staying on the Mexican side of the line and scrupulously respecting the lives and belongings of Americans. It is suggested that Germany might get away from the perplexing question, "To sign or not to sigh," by a plebiscite. It would have gotten away with it better if the question of declaring war had been first submitted to popular vote. Venizelos of Greece proves that the great ness of a man does not depend upon the size of his country, - , . , London Times' Synopsis of British Com mander's Review of War Experiences. III. So badly shaken was the British army by this unnecessary battle Le Cateau that Lord French was presently contending for delay against a great deal of pressure from the French, who were anxious to stand. This pressure was seconded by Lord Kitchener. In resisting a battle before his army was sufficiently recov ered Lord French believed he was acting in the spirit of Lord Kitchener's instructions. Lord Kitchener had written that the numerical strength of the British army and its contingent reinforcement was "strictly limited," and that it was necessary to exercise the greatest care not to incur unnecessary losses and wastage. When therefore Lord Kitchener came over to France and supported the French arguments for battle Lord French was the more indignant. The whole of this passage must be quoted: "Lord Kitchener arrived on this occasion in the uniform of a field marshal, and from the outset of his conversation assumed the air of a commander-in-chief, and announced his inten tion of taking the field and inspecting the troops. On hearing this the British ambassador (Sir Francis, now Lord Bertie) at once em phatically objected, and drafted a telegram to the foreign secretary stating clearly and un mistakably his views, and demanding instruc tions. He gave this dispatch to Lord Kitchener to read. The latter then asked for my opinion, and I said my views on the subject coincided entirely with those of the ambassador. After some discussion, the secretary of state decided to abandon his intention, and the telegram to Sir Edward Grey was not sent. In the con versation which followed between us all, Lord Kitchener appeared to take grave exception to certain views which I expressed as to the ex pediency of leaving the direction of the opera tions in the field in the hands of the military chiefs in command in the field. He abruptly closed the discussion, and requested me to ac company him for a private interview in another room. "When we were alone he commenced by en tering a strong objection to the tone I as sumed. Upon this I told him all that was in my mind. I said that the command of the British forces in France had been entrusted to me by his majesty's government; that I alone was responsible to them for whatever hap pened and that on French soil my authority as regards the British army must be supreme until I was legally superseded by the same authority which had put that responsibility upon me. I further remarked that Lord Kitchener's pres ence in France in the character of a soldier could have no other effect than to weaken-and prejudice my position in the eyes of the French and my own countrymen alike. I reminded him of our service in the field " together some 13 years before, and told him that I valued highly his advice and assistance, which I would gladly accept as such, but that I would not tolerate any interference with my executive command and authority so long as his majesty's govern ment chose to retain me in my present position. I think he began to realize my difficulties, and we finally came to an amicable understanding. "Important messages and telegrams were then brought me, and I told Lord Kitchener that it was impossible for me to absent myself any longer from my headquarters, whither I at once repaired with all possible speed.. It is very difficult for any but soldiers to understand the real bearing and significance of this Paris incident. If the confidence of the troops in their courage, endurance, and, above all, faith gree, or if his influence, power, and authority are prejudiced by any display of distrust in his ability to conduct operations, however slight the indications of such distrust may be, the effect reacts instantly throughout the whole army. This is more than ever true with troops which, at the moment in question, were being subjected to great and severe demands upon their courage, endurance, and, above all, faith in their leaders. Then again there was the effect which might have been produced on the French. Ministers and generals were present and witnessed Lord Kitchener's apparent as sertion of his right to exercise the power and authority of a commander-in-chief in the field. Fortunately, the incident terminated in a man ner which led to no regrettable publicity. Lord Kitchener realized his mistake, and left Paris that night." The Battle of the Marne. The common view of the Marne battle that it was fought in execution of a deep plan con ceived beforehand by Joffre does not receive any confirmation from Lord French. In fact, the French wanted to deliver their counter at tack further north, when . the circumstances would have been nothing like so favorable. The formation of the French Sixth army on our left was not part of a deliberate plan to assail the Germans in their flank, but was begun as a correction of the original mistake of the al lied dispositions which made them face east instead of north. Joffre, moreover, had no no tion at the beginning of the war of a with drawal before the Germans, but believed as wholeheartedly as the rest of his staff in the chances of success for a French offensive. As for the reasons for Von Kluck's sudden altera tion of the direction of his march from south to southeast, Lord French puts it down to Ger man ignorance and overconfidence. The enemy was ignorant of the real strength of the Sixth army forming north of Paris and believed the British army to be almost useless as a fighting force. "I think," he writes in another place, "that the Germans were probably justified in doubting our offensive powers, but the thing they forgot was the nation from which we spring." But he admits that for the first two days of the Marne battle the forces opposite the British were exceedingly weak and con sisted of little more than cavalry rear guards; and he praises the German conduct of this de laying action. Criticism of the battle, which though it was a great victory, did not come up to expectations, is often put in this way; that either Maunoury was too soon in attacking or' the British too slow. But neither would Lord French endorse that. He could not close with the enemy as fast as he would have liked be cause of the French armies on his flanks which were opposed by much stronger forces Von Kluck's tactics were those wbich became fa miliar later by declining the center and engag ing the wings. But it is clear and this was the real reason why the Germans escaped. the com plete disaster that we hoped for that events moved rather faster than Jaffre's information. The Germans abandoned their forward move ment before the battle began and that threw the plans away. Lord French realized the sit uation at the end of the first and Joffre also re quested that the direction of the British attack should be turned more! towards the north. "But," Lord French writes, "I do not think that his information during the day had impressed him to the same extent with the drastic change in the situation and the fact that the Germans had so soon taken alarm and been overtaken by a veritable 'panic.'" (The End.) Remnant of Primitive People. In the extreme north of the Russian pro vince of Archangel, where American soldiers and their allies have been fighting of late, dwells one of the queerest and least known races of mankind. These are the Samoyedes, the wan dering tribes of the vast frozen marshes which extend in these regions from the forest belt to the shores of the Arctic. These people owe al legiance to no master. Civilization has passed by them in its stride and they live today pretty much as their ancestors lived centuries ago. They worship idols and their sole wealth con sists in reindeer, 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 The Bee to Answer. Army Reorganization. In making up the army the first 20 divisions were to be known a regulars (only seven such were formed); divisions 21 to 75, Inclu sive, the National Guards; and the remainder, the national army. The regular divisions have In them tome dratted men and men who enlistefl for the period of the war, but these men are being replaced by true "reg ulars" In the divisions which are re maining abroad as the army of oc cupation, viz: The first three di visions. As stated before in this col umn, movement of National Guard and national army combat units from France is complete and the move ment of regulars Is under way. Many Questions Answered. T. S. Answer to your question may be found In the fact that tha bureau of war risk insurance of the Treasury department, paid out $33, 933,962 to dependents of soldiers, sailor's and marines during the month of May. J. P. A. More than 2,000 soldiers of the 23d engineers arrived at Bos ton on the Winifredian June 8; oth ers will quickly follow. Dr. O. O. There are approximate ly 140,000 medical men in this country. Of this number 112,000 were enrolled, classified and coded for service during the war, 40,000 be ing actually mobilized as officers of the army and navy and the public health service. A. J. K. and J. M. S. You do not say what company of the 109th en gineers you are interested in. Com pany D of the 109th engineers was scheduled on June 8 for early con voy from France, according to re port from Washington. An Anxious Father Various un its of the Sixth army corps have re turned. Write the adjutant general of the army at Washington for in formation regarding an individual soldier. C. A. G. The 142d field artillery is part of the 39th division, which division was made up chiefly of men from Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. They were in France on February 1. 1919. J. O. The George Washington was not renamed when the United States took it over. E. E. M. If your brother was transferred to the Second division he is likely to remain there (Since that division is in the army of oc cupation) until some regular army man takes his place. (See para graph above headed "Army Organ ization.") In no case, (unless he is a regular army man) can he be held longer than four months after peace is signed. The First company, First air service mechanics regiment, has been cited for early sailing, but the exact date is not given. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "CINDERELLA'S BALL." MUCH IX LITTLE. A man In London was hit by a taxicab carrying the bishop of Wake field. After he had been taken home and his injuries had been dressed he thanked the bishop, de claring, "You have done me a good turn. I was dumb before the acci dent." It has been demonstrated In th world's markets that Canadian flax fiber Is equal In quality to the best continental standards, and that it compares favorably with that pro duced in Russia, which country be fore the war furnished 80 per cent of the world's supply. The olive oil produced In the re gion of Bordeaux has a lightness, a perfume, and a particularly delicate savor which have given it a world wide reputation and made it an im portant article of export and a source of wealth for its producers. Most popular is the oil from Nice im ported under the Bordeaux trade mark. The asphalt lake of Trinidad Is situated at Brighton, 12 miles west of San Fernando, 27 miles south of Port of Spain and about half a mile from the Gulf of Paria. The lake itself is a flat area of approximately 120 acres, forming a basin sur rounded by a low hill. The original elevation of the lake surface was 187 feet above sea level, but min ing operations had lowered this ele vation to about 130 feet in 1918. The Philippines are In a position not only to supply newsprint for do mestic needs, but to export large quantities of this product. Accord ing to a report Just made by the di rector of the bureau of forestry, the raw materials available, such as the bamboo and two kinds of grasses, the cogon and the talahib, are of such good quality and can be so cheaply secured that if this indus try is given careful study the islands will not need to import annually $2,000,000 worth of paper as hereto fore. Praying by electricity is now prac ticed by the Buddhists in India. The prayers, written on long bands of paper, are wrapped round a wheel, and each turn of the wheel is equiva lent to one repetition of the prayer. The pious native believes that the greater number of revolutions of his prayer wheel the better his prayers will be answered, and he either turns It by hand or lets the wind or water turn it. To overcome the difficulty when the water courses run dry and to safeguard the religious customs of the natives, the government now compels the electric companies to equip the prayer wheels with mo tors and supply the necessary cur rent to turn them during the dry reason free of all charge to the natives. DAILY CARTOONETTE I'll leave my clothes here on the bank while i take RfoCfltauKfjE! J (In this week's story Pescr Is Invited by Cinderella to attend a ball, and she finds it a decidedly queer affair.) Tho Fairy Godmother. PEGGY suddenly sat up very straight in her theater chair. On the screen before her had flashed the title: "CINDERELLA'S BALL." Ever since her narrow escape from becoming Red Beard's wife, she had been eager to. learn what had hap pened to her fellow captives. Per haps this picture would tell her about one of them at least, the charming Cinderella, who had fled from the Turk's castle in her magic coach. Following the title there sprang into view a stately palace. The walls of the palace opened up, and there was Cinderella in her boudoir, busily writing notes. One of these flickered on the screen: "Greetings to Red Riding Hood. Cinderella invites her to a grand ball this evening at the royal palace. There will be a Jolly time, Including dancing lessons by the Princess of Birdland." Peggy gasped. She hadn't heard a thing about this ball, or about the dancing lessons. Yet she was Prin cess of Birdland, crowned long since by her loving bird subjects. Could it be that there was another Prin cess of Birdland one of whom she had never heard? Or could it be that the birds had elected a ruler in her place? Or was it passible that she was to receive an invitation to Cinderella's ball? As soon as the notes were writ ten couriers darted off to deliver them. One went to Sleeping .Beau ty, one to Mrs. Blue Beard, one to Princess Beauty, one to Golden Locks, and so on down a long list. The picture showed each fair heroine of Story-Book Land receiv ing her invitation and going into a transport of Joy. Finaly all the notes were deliver ed except one. A lively young courier started away with this at a brisk pace and the picture showed hirn searching through the town. With a thrill of expectation Peggy saw him stop before her own home. He "May I Have the Pleasure of Es corting You to Cinderella's Ball?" rang the "bell, but no one was' home and so the door remained shut fast. The courier promptly turned him self into a whiff of smoke and drift ed through a keyhole. Inside he searched each room, but all in vain. Peggy grew feverishly anxious. If the invitation were for her, she was in danger of missing it. "Here I am," she cried aloud, only to sink back In her seat in great embarrassment she had forgotten she was in a theater. But no one seemed to pay any attention to her that is, no one except the courier. He stopped short in his tracks, look ed toward her and walked right out of the picture to hand her Cinder ella's note. "Dear Princess Peggy, come to my ball," said the note. "Don't bother to put on your party dress. My fairy godmother will fit you out with wish clothes, so hurry along. Your loving friend, Cinderella." "Wish clothes I wonder what they are!" exclaimed Peggy. In an instant there she was in the pic ture and a queer, little old woman was snipping at her frock with a sharp pair of scissors. Snippety, snap, went the scissors and quickly Peggy's neat little dress was in shreds. "Oh, what are you doing?" cried Peggy in dismay. "Getting your frock in rags and tatters," answered the queer little old woman in a tinkly voice, as she snipped faster than before. "You see, I'm Cinderella's godmother, and I know "how to turn shabby rags into royal raiment, but I don't know how to transform pretty new dresses. There, presto! See!" And Peggy - ms t -an ox County Road Paving. Omaha, June 20. To the Editor of The Bee: The other day while in the Auto club headquarters I no ticed the map of the proposed pav ing $3,000,000 to be voted on next Tuesday. It struck me as a very odd way to spend $3,000,000 when the roads' ads urge us to "work with the gov ernment on the main highways of the county." Main highways! Indeed! And there, as plain as the nose on your face, was fully 45 per cent of the paving platted out on cross streets in next to the West Dodge additions more meat for real es tate exploitation. Let the real estate owners pay for their own paving. Use our money for regular county, state and govern ment highways. ' OBSERVER. Much in Little. " Omaha, June 19. To The Editor of The Bee: Switzerland has a river called A, and there is an island in the Baltic called Zee. Nebraska has a newspaper called The Bee. The senate of the U. S. has an aye. Most rural communities have a Jay. m T China has a Q (queue) and Japan, T. Most states a U. Jess Willard will be an X. The army has its Y. GADDER, B. C. L. Omaha Boy in the Tropics. La Romana, D. R., June 2. To the Editor of The Bee: Please let this letter escape the waste basket. First of all, I am going to let you know who composed it. To introduce mysell: My namo is Otto F. Prbyl. I am a United States marine. Enlisted Augusi o, 1916. Was born in Omaha 21 years ago; in fact, I spent 18 years or my life in that good old city, ana j. am going to spend the rest of my life there if I ever get back. Am a graduate of the Lincoln school and my parents' reside at 1922 South Seventeenth street, subscribers to your paper ever since I was a mere ad. But to get down to what I am driving at First. I will ten oi some of my exploits in these God-forgotten tropics. I arrived here Octo ber 29, 1916, ana nave ueeu ucn ever since, and, oeneve me, j. uvo had some weird experiences. e have been fighting the "bandit sit uation since April, 1917, and have somewhat succeeded in quelling the uprising. But still it Is an uncertainty, as new leaders pop up over night The weather down here is natur- ally warm, and right now we are in the rainy season. It rains every day. I am not seeking sympathy, but we sure are not getting away with a single thing, in fact, we are having it hard at present. This letter is Just a sort of re minder in behalf of the rest of my shipmates to let the people know that we marines are still down here and that we Just want ' to let the people know that they should not overlook the matter. Sincerely wish ing that this letter may receive publication, I am, as ever. OTTO F. PRIBYL, 70th Co., U. S. M. C. M funeral of f yew aapm A funeral whose dignified beauty ap peals to those who have lost a friend or relative will be furnished by us at a price that is ""'i"4"'1." ein?S, treat the finances of the living with the respect that these persons wish to show the deceased. N. P. SWANSON Funeral Parlor (Established 1888) 17th and Cuming SU. Douglas 1060 Are You Ready To Move? If you are, so are we ready to move you, quickly, effec tively and at the time you specify. OMAHA VAN & STORAGE CO. 806 South 16th Street Phone Douglas 4163. JUNE JESTS "Why, I thought you ware taking eco nomics last year." "I was, but the faculty encored me." Yale Record. ' DAILY DOT PUZZLE 27. z.2? 45 lLJ l Draw from on te two sad ao on to t&s end. looked down to sea herself clad in a gorgeous ball costume. The fairy godmother instantly vanished, but beside Peggy now stood a gallant young man garbed like a prince in silks and satins. "May I have the pleasure of es orting you to Cinderella's ball?" he asked, bowing grandly. "Indeed, sir, you may," she an swered gladly, and glanced up shyly to find herself looking into Billy Bel gium's smiling eyes. (Monday will be told how Peggy end . Billy are drawn to the ball by a giant bird hitched to a chariot.) wny inr e 1 is supreme 1 Visitors to Art School Why do you keep It so cold In this room? Student We're studying friezes week. Columbia Jester. this One-Eye Jake Dees the sun ever set in tha east, Pete? Pete I don't know, Jake, I alnt been further east nor Denver. Widow. "His father is an authority on police men." "Why, has he ever been one?" "No, but he's gone with them lots of times." Penn State Froth. From an Examination Paper' Write a rtatement telling what fishes do. Answer Fishes do down to the bottom "t the water when It rains, to keep out f the wet. Success. 'Business Is cood.ThanicYou -WHY ..NOT "Oft 11 II r Longwr-Uve'd piano m the world bar none. 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No. 12 Arrive Omaha 6:45 A. M. (sleeping car may be occupied until 8:00 A. M.). The Cheyenne sleeping car formerly on No. 7 will leave Omaha on No. 15 at 4:25 P. M., arrive Cheyenne 10:30 A. M:, making nearly all intermediate stops be tween North Platte and Cheyenne. Other Changes There will be a general change of schedules on June 22, and patrons contemplating a trip are respect fully asked to consult the Consolidated Ticket Office or Union Depot. A. L. CRAIG, General Passenger Agent.