Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 4, 1915, Page 4

HUMOR FLOWS IN CONGRESS | Fifteen Ships Laden With Meat from |GUNS BOO AROUND YPRES: Often Proves lfi;lectlw Weapon U. S- Are Held by Britons for Mont,lS'People of Town Hie Themselves to in Routing Political Oppo- nents. SPEAKER CLARK GIVES SAMPLE Proetor Rnott ;\‘]l Duluth speech, stunted the growth of ““the Zemith City of the Unsalted Seas” for twenty Years And gave himself a fame throughout the English speaking world. Knott declarad that after his Duluth and Pennsylvania avenue spesches he never ‘could induce congress to take him serfously, and that those twe famous achlevements of his as A humorist wrocked his reputation as o lawyer. My own opinion Is that the “ame that the genial ex-atitrney general of Missour! and ex-governor of Kentuocky won as & humorist riehly compensated him for whatever reputation he may have 1ot as a lawver. In his old age the splen- did city of Duluth heaped coals of fire on Yis head by ghving him a magnificant banquet, a complimcnt that he enjoyed immensely. People who assert dogmatically that himor does not pay in polities should stidy the career of “Private John" Allon in the first place, he joked himself into | congress. He was running againgt the #itting member, an ex-conféderate ganaral of abiiity and remown. THey had ‘what the newspapers were pleased to dfnify A% “ a joint discussion.” The general led off with & hair-raising, heart-rending ac- | (Correspondence of the Assocated Press.) LONDON, April 3.—With mililons of |dotiars worth of provisions tiea up by the BEri admiralt ond virtuslly no oppertunity to ship foodstuffs to Nor way, Denmark and Sweden, Buropean | representatives of American packers have 1ost all patience and what they {eall the dilatory tactics of Engish of ficials and are no longer disposed to ac [tept In good faith thg promises of the | British foreign office and adriralty that immediate steps wil be taken to facilitate | neutral trade with ne countries The refusal ‘of *ir Samuel Kvans judge of the prize covrt, to grant im mediate triaf to ths Norwegian ships {Altred Nobel, Bjornatjorn Bpornson, Kim and Fridland, which were selzed #t Kirk- ]'l" in November, was the worst blow {which neutral ships and shipping have {haa w0 far. The hearing was fixed for dune 7 |the erown 16 Investigate the cases Attorneys for Norweglan ship owners, pleaded their cllents would be voined by tfurther delay and urged that WOULD SEND PUGS T0 FRONT on the request of the counsel fofand who pleaded for more time | | sufficlent time bhad leen al reay for investigation All four of these carry extensive American chiefly packers’ products. Wheat allowed Norweglan sfips cargo: argoes | on these ships have beon taken over by the Buglish government and paid for The same Iy true of copper cargoes, hut | the packing house products have been detained indefinitely i1 spite of efforts to | have them released In Addition to these four ships, twelve others which earried packers products | | kave been thrown into the Drize court | These are Arkansas, Antilla. Progner, Klsa | Grokiand, Maracas, New Sweden, Kjors- | ford, Dalts Seguranca, Taurus and Stavn. All these goods have been held | pending investigation The four Norwegian shibs m-w-Hnnhll sailed before the Englieh proclamati providing that no further shipments were | to be ment newtral countries “‘to order, consequently have been (reated as sbips In a class to themselves Shipments of packers producta on ships salling ter wae all comsigned (o L’.t‘vll!ly named individvals or firms in | Brandana Denmark and Holland charge to devote ‘myself to the science | of boxing, at which despite a half-doxen | dafeats, 1 suppome’ [ may claim to have| Cellars When German Cannon- ading Becomes Severe. CHILDREN PLAY IN STREETS (Correspondence of The Associated Press) | YPREE, April 10.—Ypres is still too ac ceséible to the fire of the heavy German artiilery to be freely open tc not connected with the se In hand, yet if ome did not know what the thundering roar was all about he would not think of war. The tranquility strangers of the Inhabitants ls %0 reassuring that a visitor may walk around the grent market place with no thought that a’ shell is Jkely to Hght upon the very spot A" green Hammersmith bus drives up and some “Tommies” get out leisurely light their pipes and take a turn around the battered market house, whistling “It's a Long Way to Tipperary Dogs as Beants of Barden, An old man guiding a litfle vemetable cart drawn by three noble stops and looks admiringly after the phlcgmatic boys In khaki, While from group of children playing in front of the market house, some Flemish girls run Up to the soldiers and invite Inspection | of a series of postcards representing tha different phames of the destruction of the archftectural jewel of Fianders—'Les Hallés d'Ypres.” The superh belfry of the market house Flemish doga | never en it ends Yores mes oat « ecllars and goes about | what little left for it | to do as ¥ nothing had happened {SANDBAGS BY THE MILLION l FOR TRENCHES AND HOUSES | (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, April 15-Sandbags by the million is the latest call from the front They are used mot only for parapets to | trenches, but to make housee for officers business there Is {the gune and telephone stations. The in- | tantry trenches require about 100,000 bags | for each mile. “When we advance,” writes ohe officer, ‘we have no time to empty out old sand- |bags. We neea fresh ones, made eithet of comrse linen or canvas.' | FIRST PRESBYTERIAN TO | HOLD CHURCH AT Y, W. C. A. After June 1, when it must vacate fits old church property, recenty sold to the Erandeis Interests, the congregation of the First Presbyterian church will hold {8unday momning services at the Young | Men's Christian association buflding, un- |til Billy Sunday and his company open | their engagement here in SeptemUer. . The {church will dtscontinue its evening ser- vices and Sunday school and Christian | Endeavor meeting until its new church |at Thirty-fourth and Farnam streets, is | ready for occupancy | i X ® business |and men of the artillery, as well as for | { | #i This Week on High Grade'§ iDining Room, Furniture We have just received another car of handsome # Dining Room Furniture Sets from Grand Rapids. | has been reduced to two crumbling walls | count of the hardships he had undérgone | that reeall ancient towers along the attained some proficlency. During the when he was in the army; hejdescribed In_particular his suffering on A terribly | oold might in the Tennessee mountains. | Allen replied in this manner: . i “'Yes, fellow citizens, 1 remember well the hardships of army life. 1 remember with painful distinctness the sufferings on the extremely cold night of whith the general apenks so sloquently and patheti- cally; and what fixed the horrors of that night forever in my memory Is the fact thet the general slept soundly and anusly tucked up In his Blankets in his tent, while I, as & private soldier, was neasly frozen to death mounting guard in front of the weneral's tqht. Now I have g falr proposition: all you fellows who were Kenerals vote for him, and all who wers privates vots for me." The sudience shouted with delight, took Allen st his word, sent him to Washing- 16n, and kept him there umtil/he velun- tarily retired. z l | | i 1t _joking never pays and humorists have ng Influence In comgress, mark how pjain # tale will put down the “solemncbplists.” Here (g what T saw John Allen’ do. #dw him in ten minutes foke the house Hon. John L. Wilson of the state of | ‘Washington, who served in both house senate, sometimes dropped inte as Slas Wegg occasionally He was & very bright men, energetic, irritable, belliger. ent: and he was no respecter of persons. To puncture wolemn and pompoys pre- +tence was one of his delights. After be- ing the stormy petfel of the house for years he gettied down into the solemn | ife of & senator. 1 asked him, he senate?” wan smile be replied: ““There wort of soporific influence over here that is absent from the house. but am getting to like it —Champ Clark, | Youth's Companion. SALESMAN FINDS HE HAS ~ NO NATURALIZATION PAPERS | Fteinbers, & sslesman well | Omahs, discovered when Judge Redick's natur court to ald a friend In secur- “John, how do nawn tn lu-m Papers Contend Now is No T:me for Prize Fights‘and that Fighters Shonld Go to War. WELLS BACK WITH A REPLY | (Correapondence of the Aswociated Prews.) LONDON, April 2 fight at the Londoi opera which Dombardier Wells. champlon, added yot another to to the Gramati” defoals of ils career, has started a storm of questioning as (o why an avle hodied man with the military titie of “Bonibardier”” shoold be taking part In boxing matches instead of being with the British arm at the front. house, We do not wish to criticiee Wells," | romarks the Dally Chronicle, “except to oy tant, flost. his mdbt famoug opponent, Carpentier, is naw serving with the colos In Fréuce, and second, It seem to us 1 Proper inat he should reisn a military title in the wiize ring when his public porformance proves that he is in a fit state to go into the field.” Wells Makes Repl “Wells' reply came back by return meil, 1t was as follows: "My duty is clear. | myst stay ‘whére 1 am, and I think ‘my ressons are good. Could I ses my way clear to §o to the front | would be the Yghtost hesrted man in England, I have Loon In the army, gerving several years in Todla, and 1 secured my dis STAR. “The AVells-Moran | n | the Enghish | Niaga manufacturing, war I have boxed several times on hehalf of war funds, thereby doing the little | it that lay within my power. “Two of my brofhers are at the front and a third was the first men killed in | Ihis regiment, [ wlone remain at home | | to mupport my wife and children and the | other membBera of the famfly dependent upon me, I 1 had no thes, should be off to the front without delay. The Only Prize Fight, In this same connection, several of the | newspapers have rénewed the agitation | that professional boxing be suppressed until the end of the war. ““The only prize- | fight worth entering at present.” writes | oné aditor, “is the gigantic struggle in| | France.’ Lady Wandolph Churchill, on learning that a considerable number of women were present, ot the Wells-Moran fight, wrote the fhllowing statement for the | m papers: ‘I should hope that women had some- thing better to do than to wateh sham fighting at this moment.” There is plenty of opinlon, however, in favey of continuing the boxing matches, gene /Corrl, the referee, sums up this side of the arsument in the statement: “Boxing s s etimulus to the fighting | #pirit; mothing is better calculated to maintain the spirit of British pluck; box. ing does not hinder recrulting—it rather encourages it," Ads produce resnits Rhine. The left wing of the bullding lies {In @& heap and the main hall, completely | wutted inside, coneists of four blank walls through the windows of which daylight is seen from every side.’ People Take to Cellars. Outside the melancholy ruin, behind an improvised couriter under a lttle arcade flanked on elther wide by the debris of recont bombardments and facing ‘he roofless cathedral, a little, woman calmly awaits the rare customer for her stock of frujt gathered from no one knows where or how; she reflects the mentality of the people of Flanders—resigned, patient, confident, half-forgetful what fear is like and stubborn in their de- termination to stick to their firesides as long as one atome remains on top of another. Civillans and soldiers—French and British—are fraternizing in the mid- dle of the market place when the distant thunder stril up: and soon after the first projectile arrives. It misses the markei hall, but -explodes in the very midst of & throng orf the square. Most peopla for the time take to their cellars. The little fruit woman hurries out to | help plek up the eight vietims, then goes calmly back to her fruit stand in the shadow of the principal target for the German artlilery. The streets are de- rerted, the German artillery continues ity dull thundering followed by sharper, brighter erackling reports as if the light- ning were striking all around, ‘the volces “STAR=A Good Thing To_Pass Along™ Men Who Chew Are Men Who DO ’ EXPECTS TO MAKE ENOUGH FOR TRIP TO NEW ORLEANS Herman Falbaum, li.year-old Walnut HUl school gardener, living af 43 Charles street, is so ambitious in the school garden club work that he s planning to make - enough money from his big garden this summer to pay for & trip to New Orleans. He Is cultivating an entire lot next door to his home, and hopes to clear a snug sum from early vegetables, which he will sell to his parents and neighbors, Captured Mules in London. (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) 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