Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1916, Page 11

Part Two EDITORIAL SECTION Pages Eleven to Twenty VOL. XLV—NO. 307. 26,000 SIGN UP 10 MARCH IN PARADE This Number Does Not Include the Women, and There Are Others to Hear From. BALL GAMES TO START IATE \ A column of 25,000 persons for the patriotic parade next Wednesday aft- | 4 ernoon - is already in sight, with a number of the important organiza- tions yet to be heard from. The lat- est figures were again compiled by the committee at noon, when some further details of the parade were worked out. The estimate of 25,000 does not in- clude the women's organizations, on which no definite figures can yet be obtained, nor does it include the di- vision of manufacturers who are also not yet ready to report numbers definitely. he improvement clubs also have not been heard from with a_definite estimate as ¢o numbers. Only a few of the many fraternal or- ganizations that will march have as yet reported their numbers. The Odd Fellows report 500, the Woodmen 500, and the Woodmen of the World 700. To Assign Places Soon. It is as yet impossible to assign the places of assembling for the va- rious divisions and sections, for Gen- eral Harries says this will be im- possible until definite figures are ob- tainable as to the size of the respect- h ive divisions, so that ample room may Al be allowed in each section of the street to be allotted to them for as- sembling. Joe Kelly suggested that the va- rious employers urge as far as possi- ble that their emiployes bring their own lunches on Wednesday in order to avoid the congestion and loss of time in trying to get to restaurants or to get to their homes for luncheon before the paride starts. This was accepted as a good suggestion. Commissioner fnc Hummel is to be asked not to allow any ball games to be started in the various parks before 4 o'clock at least] in order that the interest of as many as pos- sible may be held strictly to the arade for the few hours that it may ast. South Side, Too H. O. Edwards reported that 250 commission men from the Exchange building on the South Side would be in the parade. Albert Noe is to be marshal of the commission men. Jack Walters, as marshal, is to head 750 stock yards men. Luther Drake is to be marshal of the bankers’ sec- tion, in which 300 are to march. J. ) H. Tyler reported for the retailers that there will be easily 2,500, Harry Tukey reported an estimate of 300 for the real estate men, i City Commissioner Walter Jardine reported at least 700 in the municipal division, to say nothing of about EOO city employes, who will march in va- rious other divisions = and " Sections with which they are closely affiliated ' in a fraternal way or some other con- nection. The Bohemian societies are to aggregatc 2,300 in number. The ! manufacturers, though they have not definitely reported yet, are looked to for 5,000. ’Iehe Elks will have 2,000 in_their division. The public utilities will yield 3,500, it is estimated. The fraternal bodies are looked to for anything from 4,000 to 8,000. Degree After Death . To Thesis Author "1 . ] Killed in Fight (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Paris, June 1.—A posthumus degree of Doctor of Letters has been con- ferred upon Pierre-Maurice Masson, head of the faculty of letters of Fri- bourg, Switzerland, who was killed in action on April 16, Second-lieu- tenant of infantry in the French army since the beginning of the war, Mon- sieur Masson was to have presented his thesis on “The Religion of Jean Jacques Rousseau” on March 4. Re- tained at the front around Verdun, | he was unable to leave his regiment on the date fixed and six weeks later he was dead, o Masson’s thesis contained an in- teresting preface, written in the trenches, as follows: “It may appear impertinent or friv- olous to amuse one's self correcting | proofs while ‘coming back from the advanced linés, and still to think of | books when it is the life of the na- § tion that is at stake. I have thought | of that more than once. { not, however, be scandalized to ex- cess. night on the watch in the barbed-wire entanglements, and when they go e back into their forest, they relax into the genius of the arts of peace; they carve canes, design gardens, tame and train’ animals, tura themselves into silversmiths to carve, or form jewels out of the shells that have missed us. “I have followed their example. I have not fled from the diversion that offered itself to me, so to speak, like the souvenir rings that the men carve in the field.” Two Villa Men Are Hanged at Deming Deming, N. M., June 9.—Francisco Alvarez and Juan Sanchez, two Villa followers, captured during the raid on Columbus March 9, were hanged here at 6:30 this morning. The men were hanged singly. Two companies of New Mexico state militia guarded the interior and approaches to the county jail. There was no attempt at disorder. The men convicted on charges of murder were led to the gallows singly. Both met their fate stoically, smoking cigarettes until they ascended the scaffold. They were accompanied by their spiritual adviser, Father Garnet of the Catholic church here. Asked on the gallows if they had any state- ment to make, each replied “No.” Alvarez was first to face the execu- tioner, Sanchez following in a few minutes, Five other Villa followers cons demned to death were granted a re- rieve by Governor W. C, McDonald | or. further cases, investigation of their Modern | We must } When my men have passed .a | More Than Five Hundred Per Cent in Germany Since the Begin- ning of Present War., GREAT BRITAIN COMES NEXT (Correspondence of the Assoclated Prass.) Paris, May 20.—The records of the nationg! defense bonds at the minis- try of finances show that the public is now bringing to the treasury an average of 50,000,000 francs cash a ay in exchange for the short term obligations at 5 per cent. This is more than 1,500,000,000 a month, or 18,000,000,000 a year, which is $3,000.- 000,000 more than the war of 1870 cost. “That fact,” says a high author- ‘ity on French finance, “show suffic- iently. that the cautious French public is not alarmed by the financial re- quirements of the French effort. “There was a period during the war when people, astounded by the proportions the conflict had taken, were inclined to say, ‘It can’t go on fike that. Where will the money come from? Yet it has gone on s!cadilfiincrcasing expenditures—bil- lions iollows billion§ into the gulf of war, yet the money flows in. The truth is, that, after being shocked by the financial effort required, French- men were astonished at the revela- tion of their own resources.” The deduction drawn by French financial experts generally is not only | that French confidence is undismayed by the multiplication of the govern- ment's debts, but that it is not money, but credit, which keeps the war go- ing, primarily. On the other hand, they point out, it is war that keeps money in continual circulation, hand- ing it out to new creditors as fast as it is brought in by old ones in‘ex- change for bonds. In this way the French public debt has gone from about 30,000,000,000 francs before the war to about 52,000,000,000, an ‘in- crease of nearly 62 per cent, but noth- ing in proportion to the increase in the public debt of Germany, which is 515 per cent, and in Great Britain, { which is 165 per cent. Increase in Debt. The public debts of the leading belligerent powers before the war and the percentages to which they have been increased as shown by figures available here, are as follows, in billions of francs and percentage of increase: Francs. Increase. Germany 2 516 Great Brit 5,405 165% Austria 8,704 T4 France 31,967 61% Russia 23,618 8% to. 14,231 p ead of populatiom, the average debt of these six belliger- ents has gone from 280 francs to 535 francs. France now owes 1,250 francs ger head as compared with 800 francs efore the war; Germany 590 francs as compared with 97 francs; Great Britain, 565 francs as against 342 francs. Riches of France. French economists have estimated the riches of France ‘all the way from 250,000,000,000 to 350,000,000,000 francs, Taking 300,000,000,000 as a ‘basis, it would mean 7,700 francs per DEBTS OF EUROPE PILE llP‘t % | economy may take at least 1,500,000,- THE OMAHA DAILY OMAHA, Garfield. Standing: W. P. head; with an income per head, not including salaries and wages, of 300 to 350 %rancs, while :lhcd ‘;nterest charge on the increased debt now figures out at about 1,300,000,000 francs, or about 33 francs per head. While France paid 960,000,000 francs interest on her debt of 32,000,- 000,000 francs before the war, her annual budget has gone far above the 5,000,000,000 mark, or 128 francs a head. Those budgets were loaded by generous social legislation and liberalities of all kinds, such as were particularly favored by the paternal sort of state the French republic had become. It is pointed out that strict 000 francs. out of those budgets in the future, covering the interest of 30,000,000,000 francs: new. debt-at § per cent. 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Heard, W. P. Martin, Herbert K nox Smith, William Dn:or Lewis, James R. v On Trains, at Hotels, News Stands, ete., So ‘DO BIT,’ BUT WON'T KILL 'EM British Noncombatants Digging Trenches Are Novel Spec- tacle. ARE NOT IN FEAR OF SHELIS (Correspondence of the Assocluted Press.) British Headquarters in France, June 1.—Unique among all the the variegated units of the armies on the continent is the British non-combat- ant corps—the conscientious objec- tors, who do not want to fight, and who are not expected to fight. Not fear, but conscience is their reason for being excused. In England, where individual rights are so strongly recognized, the Quak- er is not required to bear arms be- cause it is against his religious scru- ples. When compulsion was applied, an- other class arose. They said they had conscientious scruples against the taking of life. Tf they would not fight, then they must work, the gov- ernment decided. \Where a man who enters the army under normal condi- tions must drill for many months be- fore he is sent to the front, the con- scientious objector is given a few days of drill, put in khaki and sent to France at once. There he wields the spade instead of the rifle, Same Pay as Fighters. “There are the N. C. C's -doing their bit,”” said their commander, an officer with a strip of colors on his breast, who had been in several cam- paigns and was so badly wounded in this war that he was hardly fit for active service. “They get the same pay as the men in the trenches, and the same rations, with the extra al- lowance of meat which is given to the laborers' corps.” At the time, the N. C. C's were engaged in some railway work. Vir- tually all are men unused to manual labor; but though it was pretty hard SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1916. From left to right, seated: Blooligood, William L. Ransom and Chester H. Rowell. Both were thrown several feet and Miss Allensworth was rendered unconscious and for some time it was tHought she was by J. R. James. Iup the injured young people and T Y brought them to Red Oak. No blame is attached to anyone for the acci- dent, as the rain was beating against SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. Thousands of Omaha families read The Bee ' exclusively, If you want their trade advertise in The Bee. clerks, and those who were not were usually sho _kec?ers. Many were « members of the Plymouth brethren, a sect which holds much the same views as the Quakers. These said that it was against their creed to fight, and they would not renounce their creed. They spoke quite frankly about the charge of cowardice, which is made against them; and seemed to realize that. they were the anathema and laughing stock of the millions of their fellow countrymen who are offering their lives for Britain. ] “I do not want to kill anybody. I do not believe in war,” one said, As \an exponent of passi\)e resistance he was ready to work at command, but no powers could make him fight. “If we are sent up to work under shell fire, I think tgat you will find that most of us will not flinch,” he added. Call Each Other Mister, One of the unmilitary character- istics which amuse the average Brit« ish soldier is that the N. C. C's all address one another as “Mister,” One | mentioned that their conversatfon |around the mess table was very “in- tellectual” and thorougnly enjoyable, “If you want any proof that Eng- |land s a free country,” said a ser- | geant of regulars, “you have it in this | ot. How much of a chance would a band of conscientious objectors | stand in the Germany army? Mean- while, the fighting army protects them from the enemy and from pub- lic opinion. But let them have their way. There aren’t many of them.” A shirker may not suddenly be- come a conscientious objector to es- cape service. 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