Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 18, 1915, Page 4

4—A DUAL HONARCHY DELAYS PROTEST} Austria-Hungary Raises Voive On Shipping of Munitions Only After Foes Defeated. VIENNA (Via London), July 17 ~From a highly authoritative source at the foreign office, a rep resentative of the Associated Press has received an explanation of the motives that are sald to have in spired the dispatch of the Austro Hungarian note to the United States regarding the American traffie in war munitions. The Austro-Hungarian statestian who | spoke sald that althongh the facts upon which the note ia lased had been in existence for a long time, the com- munication was sent orly now when after great victordes in Galicia, It could not be interpreted as a cry for help from a land in distress. IHe disavowed any idea that the note was sent at the request or inspiration of Germany, as serting that the step was taken spon- | taneously in the hope that, owing to the | undisturbed friendly relations between Austria-Hungary and the United States, | the note would be assured a sympathetic veception in the latter cowntry Feelings of Frieadship. “The note,” sald this statesman, “is fnapired by friendly foelings of the mon- archy toward the unio) where so many of our subjects have found & second | home. It is the speech of a friend to & friend—an attitude which we are the more justified in taking because the relstions of the two states have, as & yaot, never been clouded. “It ight perhaps easily be a eource ot wonder that since the baslo grounds | of the note have been In existence for | months the note was not sent long ago, but there is a reason for its appearance at this particular time. In view of the fncredible rumors and reports about the condition of the monarchy, which have been ciroulated throughout the United Btates, this note would surely have been interpreted at an earlier stage of events & confusion of weakness, As An ap- for help in Alstress. Today 'hcn' rioh harvest s belng garnered through- out the monarchy, when talk of starv- ing out Austra-Hungary therefore is rend- ered idle, when complaints of shortages | of ammunition are heard everywhere else except in the allled central monarchies, there cannot be the slightest question of this. i Why Note is Sent. “On the other hand, it might be asked | why the note, under these conditions, ‘was issued at all. With nothing to check the victorious progress of the oon\rfll powers In sight, with their ability to pressure in the economic fleld demonstrated, it might well be thought is & matter of Indifference to ‘whether America continues its not. That, however, is not the problem of international law, war has brought up are of | far reaching importance. The solutions standards of action for i “For eminently practical as well as reasons, therefore, the i forced now mot only to con- itself with the questions of the but/ aleo to feel its responsibility the future interests of mankind thid reason the government #t necessary to approach the sub- under discussion—the more 80 be- 1t felt that the previous debate pro con had not, as it wished, led to the result and because it bolleved numbers of arguments specially laid | in The Hague convention hitherto | escaped consideration. “It may, of course, be nssumed that the is the product of mature consider- and was drufted, after consultation International law by experts of the | rank. The sbsence of the slightest tntent fn It ageinst the union is ) i gy R i no objection to j¢ g | - s i i i H estimated among the people. of America among us are pain- the fact that actual fmpression that Amer- unintentionally, differ- s v‘ I s¢ i : | ! I Omaha |and then the great New Men Chosen For Officers of Ct‘:l_ltral Union As a result of one faction issulng a printed ticket, there was big shakeup at the election of officers at the Cen- tral Labor union at Labor Templo lust night. Thomas P. Reynolds of the Stereotyners was re-olected president, after a ~lore mee with R. B. Donahoe of the licn ‘Worke: Bighty-nine delegatos were n the hall, and of that aumber forty-seven voted for Reynolds and forty-one for Donahoe. As tho vote was annousced Delegate Dave Cuttes ocontested the count, but his desire war drowned ty the opinion of the boly In general. The missing vote which the propused contest was evidently based npon, was accovnted for by one of the olection officers an. nouncing that he had faliad to cast Wis ballot. Following are the suie "1l candidater: James BSwanson, delegate from the moulders, vice president: J. W. Finn of the musiclans, recording secretary. ¥, J. Huller of the clgarmakers, unanimously re-elected financial secretay. George Norman of the machinists (re- elected), C. L. Shamp of the stutionery firemen, and B. Hempol of the Bheot Metal Workers, were chosen as trustces B. Dunlap of the stationary firenwen, was unanimously re-clected pergeant-at- arms, 2 John Pollan of the Typos aphical union, Wwho had served many years recording secretary, was beaten Ly a very mar- row margin. GERMAN SINGERS HERE THIS WEEK (Continued from Page One.) Penters who are building the great tiors of seats where the chorus of 2,000 will sit. To do this and make it strong enough the stage of the Auditoriumn was removed tiers were bullt reaching clear up to the celling and with thelr supporting timbers reaching through the Auditorium floor to find solid foun- dation on the ground below. The incoming singers will be met at the station Wednesday by & large re- ception committee and two bands and will move In procession to the quarters of the Omaha Musik Verein, Seventeenth and Cass streets, where the officlal greeting will be given, after which the singers will be taken to their hotels, and to the homes where they will be enter- tatlned, Featival of Songs. ‘Wednesday, Thursday and Friday even- ings and Thursday and Friday after- noons will be marked by the great festi- vals of wong for which the saengerbund is famous. Saturday will be the day of | the grand parade in the forenoon and a great pienic in the afternoon at the Ger- man Home and park. Bome of the choruses will be directed by Theodor Kelbe of Milwaukee and others by Theodor Rudolph Reese of | Omaha. Mr. Kelbe is already In the city. Never before have six artists of such International renown been brought to Omaha as these that will be here to aink |at the saengerfest. They are Madmmo | Marie Rappold, Miss Julin Claussen, Miss Christine Miller, Paul Althouse, Henr! Bcott and Barico Palmetto. Local Singers Help. Bix great local artists will be added to these, namely, Miss Margaret Damm, so- prano; Mrs., Thomas J. Kelley, soprano; Paul Reese, baritone: Louls Schneuber, violinist; Miss Corinne Puulson, planiste; | and Edwin C, Boehmer of Lincoin, bari- tone. | The orchestra ia made up of local | members and members of the Chicago Soloists a t the Saengerfest wsuffocate the enemy, and at | Symphony orchestra and some trom Min- | I'HE ]Yarg’ueite Damm sale opens today at the Auditorium box oftice Italian Papers Exploit Painter a8 Great Prophet (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) ROME, July 15.—The Leonardo da Vinci, of whom the world thinks only as a great painter, is now set forth in the Italian papers as a great prophet of what might come to pass in warfare. In the latter part of the fifteenth century his versatile genlus included skill as a sclentist, en- gineer, mechaniclan and architect, as well as & painter and musician, and his imagination led to the design of many remarkable Implements of war, among which was a steam gun which was run by bolling water. In this invention, in- cidentally, it is sald he anticipated the steam engine. In certain of his works he told of sev- eral forms of bombarding engines, one of which threw minute particles, like a storm of hall, producing quantities of dense smoke to frighten the enemy. Among his papers are found what may be called the ancestors of the terrible cannon for throwing burning liquid at a great distance, which the Krupp and Esson tactories are sald to have turned out, “There will issue from the earth™ he wrote, ‘‘that which, with frightful sounds, will deafen the surroundings and with its breath will kill men and ruin cities and fortresses.” He suggested the use of a powder which would stun and the same time suggested a remedy. ““To send pol- son in powder,” he sald, “be careful to have a wind which will not send the powder upon yourself, or have the nose and mouth covered by a thin wet cloth, 80 that the powder cannot pass,' He left sketches of mortars and other heavy engines of war which suggest the modern heavy and quick-firing guns, ‘and seemed even to have imagined a subma- rine and aeroplane. Of the former he wrote, according to the quotations given in the Itallan papers: “I do not publish or divulge my way of staying under water because of the bad nature of men, who would use it for assassination under the sea by ripping open the bottoms of ships.” Papers Published at Front Saved by French Government (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) PARIS, July 6~The French National library is makink a collection of publi- tions edited and printed by soldlers at the front, to be preserved iIn the archives and to serve future historians as docu- mentary evidence of the state of mind of the army. There are at present twenty- eight of these publications appearing with ditferent degrees of regularity. The “Boyau (xig-zag trench) is pub- lished by the 1i5th infantry, the “Eocho des Gourbla” (the echo of the huts) by the regiments from the region of Quercy, the “Kcho des Guitounes” is the organ of the 114th infantry, the “Hcho des * (echo of the big German shells) cho du Ravin" (echo of the ravine) are published by the ohasseurs; the “Canard Pollu” (the hirsute duck), the “Lapin a Plumes’ (the feathered rab- bit), the “Journal de Rout the Echo des Tranchee the “Ori de Guerre," the “Cri de Vaux,” the “Pollu Enchaine, “Marmita,” the "Cr du Cor “Rigol- boche,' the “Diable au Cor" and the Rascasse Territoriale' are among the pub- llcations aiready In the archives of the library, but the collection is not yvet com- plate. HEAT AT KARTOUM IS CAUSE OF MANY DEATHS (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) CAIRO, July 16.~The excesslvs hest ut Khartoum, where daily maxtmun tem- perature of 110 degrees lastd for some woeks, caused directly the death of some members of the city of London regi- ments stationed there. Now, periodic |dust storms rege in the Sudan to add to the miseries. When thy storm is in neapolis, sixty usiclans in all. A blg sale of seats for the event is being made by mall. The general scat full blast, neither man nor beast can {stand up against it. It s vecorded that already reported. Many reservations am | in 187 an entire convoy was suffocated | by one. T Feel When your appetite is bowels regular. desirable_condition of body. You How Much Better Maybe 'you sre not at present in that Do you know that Peruna will restore the appetite, invigorate the digestion and keep the bowels regular? Peruna the Tonic Laxative. APK THE DRUGGIST. HE KNOWS. good, digestion splendid and OMAHA | orthodox SUNDAY Jk: JULY 18, 1915. |Feast of Tisha b’Ab Commemorates Three Sorrowful Events in the History of the Jews| By ALBER Tisha B'Ab, the ninth day @ year falls on Tuesday, observed by the The of Ab, July fast of which t will be congregations in a very ful manner This 1s the saddest day In the year, as it is on this day when a num ber of the most tragical events in Jewlish history took place. By a strange cofn- cidence, the fall of Judea. and the destruction of both the first and the sec ond sanctuaries In Jerusalem happened to take place on this day. The sanctuary bullt by King Solomon was burned down on the ninth duy of Ab in the year 638 B. C. E. by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia, who after he laid waste the country, drove away its inhabitants into captivity in bis own land. From that oc- casion came down to us the wondertully beautiful and pathetic psalm cxxxvii, in which the poet pictures the Jewish cap- tives sitting at the Babylonian rivers and weping bitterly when the Levites, the temple singers, were asked by thelr cap- tors to sing thelr Zion songs. In reply they hung up thelr harps on the nearby willows saying: “How can we sing tho songs of the Lord on the of the stranger?" This simple but sincere reply called forth a wave of patriotic feelings and all the people uttered the oath: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its sunning, may my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember Jewish mourn Jewish #oil thee; It I recall not Jerusalem at the head of my joy." This exile, however, did not last very | long. After a perfod of seventy years when Babylonia fell betore the Persian eonqueror Cyrus, the Jews obtained per- mission to leave the captivity and re settle their old home land. Some 60,000 Israelites returned to Palestine under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah, and after a great number of obstacles had been removed, difficulties overcome, they succeeded in making Palestine a Jewish country once more, and the sanctuary at Jerusalem was rebuilt. Not until the claws of the Roman eagle had taken hold of the little country, had Judea been forced to get Into & strife with the then most powerful military system on earth, and thus lose its independence, its coun- try, and fits existence as a separato nation. In the year 67 C. E., due to the treat- ment of the people by the Roman gov- ernors in Palestine, a revolutionary move- ment was begun, aiming to free Judea from Roman rule. Vespasian was sent in the command of the Roman legions to quell the movement. He found the whole country ready to fight for its In- dependence, and it took him two years before he could finish the provincial campaign and reach to the walls of Jerusalem. ¥rom there he was called to the throne at Rome, and his son Titus was left to finish the rest. History knows of no more desperate warfare than what was going on around the walls of the T PFEFFER. Palestinian capital. Only after a pro- longed siege, the fighting garrison being made a prey to tamine, sickness and sword, did Titud succeed in storming the | walls and entered the city, to find one and all gathered within the fortified | court of the sanctuary, ready to dessnd it to their last drops of blood. A war council was hastily summoned, which de- cided to spare the edifice. On the fatal Oth of Ab, 70 C. E., the besleged attempted | one more furious onslaught against their enemy, but were repulsed and closely fol- lowed by the Roman soldiers, one of whom, selzing a burning fire brand, mounted upon a comrade's shouwlder and flung it through one of the windows in‘o the Interior of the temple. This example was followed by many others, the fire blazed up and the flames rose heaven- | ward Titus considered this victory one of the greatest of the Roman people and per- petuated its memory by buflding up the well known “Triumphal arch.” This arch 1s still standing, although it \s a long time since the Roman nation has gone out of existence. On that arch are still visible the carved reliefs representing a long train of captives carrying the golden candlestick, the holy | | ark, the tablets contained in 1it, and other holy vessels taken from the temple. Many of these relics may be found at the present time in the various mu- secms in Europe and America. The memory of these tragic events, however, is kept alive not only in the historical books or relics, but also in the | hearts of a natton. Many of the Jewish peopie still cling to the old custom not to partake of any food or drink on this |day. In the synagogues mournful serv- lces are held, where, accordingly Wwith the oriental custom of mourning, the people sit on low stools, while chanting the lamentations of the book of Threnl, which were uttered by the prophet Jere- | miah, amidst the ruins of Jerusalem upon the first fall of Judea, together with another number of lamentations com- posed at later occasions. At this day, as well as at any day | during these twenty centuries, many of the Jewish people cherish the hope that the day will come when they will once more inhabit their own land—Palestine. To attain this end, the late Dr. Theodore Herzl formed the Zionist organization, which counts over 50,000 members. This organization lald the foundation of two finuncial national institutions, the *Jew- ish Colonfal Trust” and the “Jewish Na- | tlonal Fund,” which are devoted to col- onization work in Palestine, which for | the time must be stopped on account of the war. Among present day leaders of | the Zfonist movement are such men as | Max Nodau, Dr. Oppenheimer, Louis D. Brandels and Nathan Strauss. Tisha b'Ab has since been set aside for the of a picture | | purpose of propaganda | funds for Zionist work University Shows Lows. and collecting | BRIDEGROOM KILLS | SELF ON WEDDING EVE or ndence of the Assoclated Press.) FREIBURG, Germany, July 15-The| LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 17.—Charles famous old University of Freiburg this |D. Cook, a hotel man from Telluride, year has only 2208 registered students, as | Colo,, here attending the Elk#' reunion against the 3,178 last year, and of this dled early today from the effects of year's number 1,7% are in the army and | poison taken last night at the hour set Red Cross service. This year there are [ for his weding to Mise Elizabeth Wileox but twenty foreigners enrolled at the uni- | of Bell Flower, a suburb, Cook left a | versity, including three Americans. The | note addressed to Miss Wilcox In which institution's honor roll includes three pro- | fessors, three aseistants and 117 students who have fallen for the Fatherland he sald that he which he feared ' and would finally suffered from aphasia, was becoming worse render his Insane. 1 Some of the LATE “July Clearance” Sale Plums Make Rich, Ripe Picking! Clearance' is a bona last moment. There you in our stocks. the price one We didn't restric Misses’, Visit all departments 1516-18-20 F. In other words, there are THOUSANDS of ex- cellently styled, dependably made up, extraordinar- ily reduced items to be had here YET. Our “July fide attraction until its very is much, indeed, to interest Man, Woman, Miss, Girl or Child will find wearables for NOW, at expects at “Sales.” t the “July Clearance" reduc- tions to any particular few departments, but cut down—fairly MOWED down-—prices, in not only Men's Clothing and Furnishings, but in Women's, Ohildren's and even Infants’ wearables. Monday, NSEN & TORMNE @ 'ARNAM STREET. HENRY I None STARS & STRIPES and OLD TIME. Phone WILLOW SPRINGS BREWIN th, Energy and Strength All Good Beyrs Better T1 in *OLLOCK, Distributor Doug. 2108 CO. Phone ng. 13206 CASH RAI i By far the most promising sale in Omaha today — Greatest price reductions of fine furniture at a saving of ONE-HALF It's our Semi-Annual Clean Up of Stock—turning goods into cash—making a terrible sac- rifice in order to hurry the goods away. 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