Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1915, Page 8

OMAHA BLES WILL HONOR THEIR DEAD y Memorial Services to Be Held This Morning at Orpheum Theater by Local Order. MATTHEW GERING THE SPEAKER Omaha Eiks will hold their annual norial services thls morning at 10:9 the Orphoum theater when they will the twenty-three members of the * who have died during the last r. This is the greatest number of any year since the chapter was secured Omaha, About one-halt of those who ed jolned the lodge prior to 1900, The ritual will be conducted by Ray- d G. Young, exalted ruler, and her officers of the order. The princl- speaker will be Mathew Gering of itsmouth. Following is the program: PAR® 1 rAe—The Av"mglfm len Cox and embers of the aha String Orohestra pening ceremonie Exalted 1 pening Ode ..... ORATOR AT ELKS' MEMORIAL SERVICES TODAY. 1. Abbott, e Bar. hys Herbert Omaha Blks' Glee Club, d Shall Wi y All Tears..Harker ‘Beulah Dafe Tu Bryant CRUEL HORRORS OF WAR Scenes and Incidents of Battle of Champagne Described in Letters and in Diaries of Soldiers, MEN OF RANKS CRY FOR PEACE (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) PARIS, Nov. 10.—Letters written by German soldiers during the battle of Champagne, found on prisoners and dead, throw some light on the spirit of the troops. ‘The battle front has disappeared in a cloud of smoke,” wrote one. “Nothing can be seen, for the French artillery fires @imost as rapidly as the infantry., One ermored shelter was crushed in and not one of the teen occupants escaped. Mer are falling like flies and the trenches are nothing but debris, “Shells are simply rairing upon us,"an- other wrote. “If the end wero only near! This s the cry everyone should raise, nbettode—3n Memoriam” Grieg p n Memoriam . i Henry Cox and Members of the ha String Orchest: ot Ashamed of Christ.. Grace Pool Mathew Gertng, Plattamouth Todwe. (Dedicated’ to Omaha Ldoge ‘W. Berryman .. .Jewitt ole. Great Good is Done by Fund Raised by Sale of Xmas Seals Never befors have as many questions, and whats, put to Mrs. XK. R. J. Im, state agent for the Red Cross Christmas seal, as have come to her this Mrs, Edbolm now puts these questions the public: ‘Peace! peace!’ " Do you know that Red Cross Christ-| «Cruel hou: & captain noted in his seals sell for 1 cent each? dary, “It | if the earth were crum- Do you know that §1,200 from the sale| yiing up. Our losses are very heavy. f the Red Cross Christmas seals in |1 i ‘ One company of 250 had “ : in the last few years has been R As AR Nat BT, B % i § last night and a battery close by lost sixteen dead. A shelter five yards deep, protected by two rows of logs and two and a half yards of earth, was caved in 04 It it were only & match; that's a speci- men of the force of the French shell Many of our men are useless” wrote the captain of the Twenty-fourth infantry in a report intended for his superior off- cer. “We must have reinforcements at once. Our men are dying of fatigue, privation and loss of sleep Nothing to Eat. “Nothing to eat; heavy losses,” noted another. “The haven't ceased firing since the morning of October Zist; it has gone on sixty hours; how long will it last? Every spot of our position s #0 bombarded that it is next to im- possible for human beings to hold out any longer." “Six of our men were killed by shells yesterday morning,"” wrote a captain. “Our trench has been nearly levelled. “l"ho Eloventh battalion has suffered heav- . How the reinforcements were rushed up is revealed by another officer. “We were crowded Into autos” he wrote, “and rushed madly from Vousziers to Tahure. After two hours rest in the rain and slx hours march to our position under constant shellsfire, we reached the trench, losing fifty-six of 250 men of the Second company by the way. We never 118 hours without food In & trench not two feet deep. Hell couldn't be worse. Six hundred more men just arrived; tuey will only replace the killed and wounded of the last fow days." the Visiting Nurses' association | by thelr work with tuberculosis cases? know that $25 from the sale last season'y Christmas seals was the have been Monday night the recently organized male Lyrie bullding, Nineteentn streets. The Menoma churus is the name by H this body of singers will be known, ling to action taken at the last ro- traction of *Men of " and is distinctive, easy to pro- and not difficult to remember. Director Carnal splendid pro- 18 belng made in the preparation concert to be given recelved half an rehearsal, manders' that fell into the hands of the French indicate that the attack was not but the quantity of market- previous years. MISSION KIDDIES TO STUBY THE VIOLIN ot of properly under- taking a general counter-attack. Over confidence in the solidity in the first line trenches seemed to be general among the officers, for many of them were found in bed at Trou-Bricot & half hour after the attack began. They were Il‘m':;ol ;h:o'uplllh of the first line of s use the telepho had been ruptured. e In the counter-attacks divisions were broken up and scattered, regiments even were divided, battalions sent to right and left in absolute cofitradiction of the Ger- man epirit of organization. There were Mr. engaged between the Malson de Cham- pagne and 19 Hill thirty-two battalions belonging to twenty-one different regi- ments. 3 What acted most on the nerves of the German troops, according to informa- tion brought out by questioning prisoners, was the continuity of the French artillery fire, the weakness of their own reply, the extent of their losses, lack of food for several days and thirst. They sur- twenty boys and girls has A fact that 1s regarded as significan is that the reinforcements the n.n...: sent up during the battle were mostly of the contingent of 1915 with some volun- teers of the contingent of 1916 previously held in reserve at their bases. The con- PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Pacific I"fl look after duties. B e e g—— o THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 5, 1915, [\#) Safta Claus® life 1s no easy one | Particularly hard is the life of thoss | ten Santa Clauses who have taken thelr on the beside their chimneys to gather mohey for t positions streots | teers of America Christmas dinners and clothing for the poor All day long to the cold, ringing a beil and gathering coins from those who have more than thcy need, to stand in #lve to those who have naught—t Is no eany life, But are these Santa Clauses sad? Ha, ha, sad, you say? Why they're the happlest old codgers. Stop and talk | to them and they're all cheerful. There | may be lcicles in thelr whiskers and | thelr feet may be numb, but they're happy, for they're working to feed and clothe hungry and shivering children and | mothers and old people, On Sixteenth street, and Dodge streets, Arthur L, Kymball stands beside his chimney in his red| coat bordered with white fur and rings his bell to attract the passing throng. Kymball needs artificial | for he has a set of gray ones, wn., “I am the original Santa | between Douglas he says proudly. “I've been a| Santa Claus for sixteen years. | Banta is right on the job, for he | t stop ringing his Lell even to talk. “Yes, you meet all kinds of folks,” he continued. “Sometimes a little newsboy will come up and drop In a cent, and then agaln, & man once came up and stuck in & 8 blil. It all helps to feed the hungry that couldn’'t have nothing If we didn't ralse this money and buy things for 'em, Tne spirit of this veteran, ‘original Santa Claus” runs through the ranks ot all the Santas stativned about the holi- day-thronged streets. It's a part of the | spirit of Christmas, “Who gives of himself with his gift | feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor and IGaihéring Coins to VHeIp Clothe and Feed the Poor and Hungry . WVOLUNTEE TROUBLE FOR THE AMERICANS Travelers in the European Nations at War Frequently Arrested as Being Spies. ENCOUNTER MANY DIFFICULTIES (Correspondence of the Assoclated Pross) PARIS, Dec. 3,~Difficulties for Ameri- cans traveling on the continent are in- creasing. Walter Morse Rummel, the American composer and planist who has been living for many years in Parls, and his wife, formerly Therese Chalgneau, a French planist, were arrested at Dieppe recently, suspected of being sples. They were returning home from Lon- don where professional engagements called them. They had submitted their papers to the French consulate general in London and had recelved a safe-con- duct to Paris, They had an American passport and a personal letter from Mr. Thackara, the consul general. They were searched after their arrcst at Dieppe. Although nothing susplcious was found they were detained in a hotel overnight. The next morning Rummel was taken by gendarmes through the streets, fol- lowed by children calling out that he was a German. Both he and his wife were locked up in prison until the next morning. Rummel's cell companions were two persons accused of theft. Mr. and Mrs. Rummel were transferred by train to Rouen, imprisoned there in cells, the floors of which were covered with fiith and the walls with obscene drawings, They were there six hours be- fore being able to buy a plege of stale bread and a plece of cheese. Rummel's fellow prisoner was an Apache who con- fided to him that he had just stabbed a woman. Rummel had at every stage of his experience explained who he was and demanded that the authorities should inquire at the American embassy in Parls. Luckily he had been able to send o telegram to the consul general in Paris before being Interned. He and his wife were released therefore after forty-elght hours detention altogether, upon repre- sentations of the American consul in Rouen. Mr, Rummel's father and gradfather were British, His mother was the daughter of 8. ¥, B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph; Rummel happened to have been born in Berlin during a period when his father wds there on business, He was registered as British-born at the British consulate, His parents went to America when he was three years old. After the death of his father his mother resumed American citizenship. Young Rummel was entitled to take his mother's nationality and did so. The cir- cumstance that he was born in Berlin appears to have drawn upon him the suspiclon that he was German. The American embassy has gone fully into the affalr and has made representa- tions to the forelgn office upon the in- dignities Mr. and Mrs. Rummel suffered. They have spent most of their time since the war began In hospital and other charitable work in France, particularly in organizing funds for musicians. g e ——— NOT * YOUNG GOVERNMENT ssed as One of the ma in the Waorld. The United States of America is one of the oldest nations on earth. With the exception of England and Mussia it is, as an existing nation, older than any country in Europe. And alone in the Western world it has stood for the last 125 years with an unchanged government. Its boundaries have expanded and its constitution has been amended and it has gone through civil war, but the United States is “ruled” today as it was ruled in 1789, and s the only western nation that is. The constitution of the United States of America was adopted in the year the French revolution began. Since 1788 Burope has been remade. Among the nations four stand out as “anclent"— Russia, Denmark and Spain. Yet in the last century and & quarter The changes that have taken place in the English regime are the most in- teresting, because they are the least known to the world at large. It is in- evitable with us all that the meation nation,” a “stable gov- country on earth™ bring the thought of England to passage of we first reform bill These bills—the first in 1832, the sec- ond In 1567 and the last In 1884—shifted the government of England from Lords to Commons, from nobles and men of great property to the people themselves, changed the “limitation” of England's monarchy from a feudal to a popular right. Without revolution the govern- ment of the country was effectively rev- olutionized. The striking evolution which began In 1832 with the granting of the ballot to the merchants and men of small property in the realm, moved on Its final step in the Parllament bill of 1912, which took away all but ‘“suspensive veto power” from the House of Lords and left the Commons rulers of England. France began its revolution as all the world knows, in 1780, Since then it has had two empires, three kinds of kingdoms and three republics; it has ex- ecuted one king and deposed two others, and it has forced each of its two em- porers to abdicate. BSince the final form- ation of the third French republic its cabinet has been changed very nearly on an average of once a year, Out of the Franco-Prussian war grew, as every one knows, the present German empire. In 1789 there still existed in central Europe that “Holy Roman BEm- pire,”” which was, as Mr. Bryce has pointed out, “neither holy nor Roman, nor an empire.” It consisted at that tifme of between 350 and 400 ee) te and practically iIndependent states.—Phila- delphia Ledger. e AT T - Press of China Is Charging Misuse 0f Salvation Fund (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) SHANGHAL Nov. %.—Charges and counter-charges are made dally in the Chinese press concerning the use of the Salvation fund, which was started at the helght of the boycott against the Japanese, In an effort to provide money for the strengtening of China. There have been many statements made as to the sums subscribed. The promoter, Ma Teau-gon, set $50,000,000 as the goal which the fund should reach within six months, Some of the contributors understood that thelr funds were to be returned if this Koal were not reached in the specified time. With the appearance of the monarchi- cal movement, contrihutions slumped and disgruntled contributors demanded their money back, saying that they did not care to continue their support of the fund on deposit in government banks, No exact statement has been made as to the exact amount of money con- tributed, although it is generally reported that at least $5000000 Mexican, were actually paid in. 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Eat what you will or when you will then take & Stuart Dyspepsia Tablet and see how you will digest that meal. In a short time your stomach will have a natural supply of gastric julces and your whole system will be able to take care of digestion easily. Y Ask any druggist about Stuart's Dys- pepsia Tablets. His answer wil tell more than we can say. Ask him how they sell. If you want to buy them give him S0c. But if you want to test them write us and you will recelve a trial package by mail without cost. Address F. A dates ‘That is the date of [Stuart Co, 213 Stuart Bldg., Marshall, | CROSS SWISS FRONTIER | WITH MESSAGES ON BACKS (Correspondence of the Associated Press) in Omaha LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Dec. 38— Women are alwaye more closely ex- amined than men at the Swiss-Austrian | frontier, writes a correspondent on the Austrian side to the Gazette De Lau- sanne. 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