Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 6, 1916, Page 6

THE BEE PUBLISHING Y, PROPRIETOR. 3 Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-clgss matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ¥ By Mall , per year. Daily and Sunday R v,00 } Daily without Sunda 40 Bl Evening and Sunday ! 600 Evening without Sunday . 400 i ¢ Sunday Bee only........ 2.00 Daily and Sunday Bee, thr . $10.00, Send notice of change of rity in de- tlon Department. Bee, C! "REMITTANCE. - Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps taken in payment of small accoun Personal checks, except on Omaba and ea ge, not accepted. OFFICE. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. South Omaha-—2318 N street Council Bluffs—14 North Main street 526 Litgle Building. s Gas Bullding. . 25§ Fifth avenue. New Bank of Commerce St Louis Washington—725 Fourteenth street, N, pi CORRESPONDENCE. ' Address communications relating to news and & matter to OUmaha Bee, Editorial Department 4 NOVEMBER CIRCULATION. 55,483 Daily—Sunday 50,037. o Dwight Willlams, cireulation manager of The Bee ! Publisning company. belng duly sworn, says that the average circulation for the month of November, 1916, was 55,483 daily, and 50.037 Bunday. A SHGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. 1 editorial THE BEE: OMAHA, WED A Purely Perfunctory Message, Only an exceptional partisan enthusiast can read the president’s address to’ congress at the opening of its final session and reach any cof- clusion other than that it is a purely perfunctory message. It is a technical performance of the constitutional duty “from time to time to give to the congress information of the state of the union and recommend to thejr consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedi- ent,” but the president lays before the law mak- ers this time no information that they do not already possess and he confines.his recommengda- tions wholly to repetition of advice already urged upon them. Perhaps in this the president is wise, as being convinced that little beside budget- ary appropriations is to be expected from this outgoing legislative body. He, therefore, recog- nizes the futility of endeavoring to start con- gress on new paths or to make headway on any new subjects. This inference is borne out by the. half-promise made in Mr. Wilson's concluding paragraph, that he will not have, or at least does not anticipate having, any occasion to address the Sixty-fourth congress again. It goes without saying that while he cannot hold himself to this determina- tion against possible emergencies, it pldinly re- flects his state of mind ‘and warns the people not to look to congress to do any more work than is thus laid out and not to be seriously 3 . Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me of December, 1916 {18 40, day 612 . W. CARLSON, Nétary Publlc. e ds s Subscribers leaving the, city temporarily >" 7 -:vul‘dr have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- hanged often as require i . " Only fifteen more days for early Christma I % shopping | By comparison with the presidential election, 3 it is a light vote on the light question. e Oil kings,” with all their millions, have no stronger grip on mortal existence than the rest of us. | Firing hot ;ir at the hgih cost of living is about as effective as Russia's deed to the Darda- 'f nelles. | | : Early shopping coquendn_‘i;ulf as exercise, . but early buying is what counts in price and quality. | All of us are willing to be surprised by an unlogked-for event bringing a |pgedy end, of the great European war. ! i S———— \ Teutonic guns in Roumania blew up more cabinet timber at Westminster ‘than all the Zep- pelins sent across the channel. . —— H With five federal judgeships on the pie coun- ' ter the potenéy of a pull depends on the smooth- ness of a geographical combine. — | == Eight hundred millions for defense and t_he usual percentage for pork. Uncle Sam easily ' tops the list of neutral spenders. eai——— Cereal prices are slowly returning to the high, | scores of November. Looks as if the month-end - “shake-down” worked out as planned. 1 e — The loan sharkg, are entitled to no sympathy. . aud no more are the shyster lawyers that play the justice courts along the same line. Colonel Bryan's example in securing a lofty perch from which to watch the bubbling of: polit- ical pots suggests a like observatory for' Governor Morehead. - The direct benefits of the Panama canal ac- crue to the coast cities. This simplifies the | process of levying Panama taxes in proportion ' to benefits. ) 5 Prepnredn;u bills are mounting to heights of | dazzling immensity, . The splendors of the scen- ery diverts attention for a moment without mar- i ring the efficiency of the touch, | Observe that the Congressional Record is resuming business at the old stand and is the ' only known publication not required-to econo- ~ mize space to get away from the high cost of | print paper. The bridge joker slipped over on Sioux City's’ ! economical tourists touches the funny-bone of ' tailroad efficiency. While the tourists had their, § laughs first, the subsequent guffaws of the M. & | 0. outshine the former by four-tenths of- one. e — Anura\nce is given that the “emergency” for which the National Guardsmen were calltd to the Mexican border has not yet passed. But, just ' exactly what that “emergency” is, remains to be disclosed. Wonder if it ever existed except in imagination? disappointed Af it falls short of that program. In other respects, the message will go into the: archives as"a very commonplace document. Public Market as Living C;n Reducer. The high cost of living is universal and Omaha cannot hope to escape its burdens. But it is well within belief that if we enjoyed the benefits of a system of public markets, as do many cities, we would have at least some meas- ure of relief. The Bee has preached the gospel of public markets for many years. We have several times roused the people of Omaha to a pitch of ef- fective demand, ogly to be frustrated or mis- guided by the clever and persistent opposition of the combined grocers and commission men. Omaha at one time invested some $50,000 in a market house on lower Capitol avenue, where its ill-advised location made success impossible, and the money outlay was eventually a dead loss. The so-called market we now have is not ‘a public market for householders buying at re- tail, but simply a commission men's trading place, and, even if it were to be thrown wide open, its location is specially picked to keep retail cus- tomers away. : 3 If the high cost of living necessities is to con- tinue for any length of time, it will behoove Omaha in to grapple seripusly with the prob- fem of a public market or a Ehain of public mar- kets, { —— British Cabinet Crisis. The tesignation of David Lloyd-George as war minister will bring to a definite focus the crisis impending for weeks in the British imperial cabinet. . Issues arising from the course of the war have precipitated what now seems to be .the probable downfall of the coalition government. The immediate cause is the persistence of Pre- mier Asquith in holding to his seat at the head of the war council, but tl;e trouble lies deeper. When the present government was formed it was looked upon as a patchwork affair, in which some concessions were made in pretense of harmonizing hopelessly discordant elements, The presence of Sir Edward Carson, for example, a man who at the beginning of the present war was heading an armed rebellion against the government, could hardly have a reassuring effect. on the liberals, much less on the Irish, Then Viscount Grey. has been retained in his place as foreign minister, and _has been elevated to the peerage within the year, as a reminder of the prestige of the tory party in the government. These constant elements of discord have not promised much for the perma- nence of the cabinet, particularly as the inclina- tion to let party prestige outweight patriotic pur- pose has been noticeable all the time, = ° . Moreover, much criticism has been heard of the conduct of the war, and it has been openly stated that Mr. Asquith is entirely -too amiable \for a place at the head o he war council. That Lloyd-George, next to-Kitchener, the greatdst'| figure England has shown in the present combat, should resign to emphasize his disapproval of the premier’s’ course must give outsiders some notion of how deep the sentiment against Asquith has become. The utterance of the Manchester Guardian, that England,js not winning, will find many echoes among the people, and must tell against the prime minister, Credit and Collections, The Bee has frequently condemned some of the practices of the loan sharks and collection agenties and will continue to do so as long as persons engaged in the business transcend right and law. But there is something to be said on the' other side. The dealer who sells on future payment installments is entitled to. some consid- “The current story that all. Missouri voted dry except St. Louis is smothered in its own dust. “Twenty-nine large and populous countie . th: GlobeDemocrat, “voted with St. Louis "{ \ The high cost of living fails to check the CE B of/ joy hunters in Missouri. In St. Louis s alone ninety-two couples coupled up on Thanks- < giving day, boldly ignoring the wogry signals of sedate elders. & Missauri politicians legislated state prison { workshops out of business and abolished the con- -l tract system. Now the authorities are wonder- { ing what to do with 3,000 idle men, who are | sater at work than loafing, After deliberating for a week on the high cost of Thanksgiving, the head of a Chicago house- hold, rather than forego the annual centerpiece, plunged for a sixteen-pounder at 35 cents per. His courage was rewarded by finding a $150 dia- mond in the gobbler's crop. § Harry Lauder is said to be listed for a title New Year's in recognition of his generosity ia putting up $100,000 in real money to finance bands of Scotchpipers for the army recruiting service. As the king's jester Sir Harry is bound to shine. “The court needs a gloom banisher. Is a wooden leg equal to a live leg in kicking a hole in the treasury of a liability law? It is for the courts of Illinois to say. Dan McReyn- olds of Danville, owner of the smashed limb, wants $110 for a new, up-to-date member, be- ‘% side full time for three weeks and hospital bills, Dan got in the way of an automobile while doing a bit of road work and lost his peg. For the third time in three years Dewey ‘Haines of Drake County, Ohio, a lad of )9, wins " the state :hnnflonlhlp as a corn raiser and gets _ a free, personally conducted excursion to Wash- ington and New York as a special reward for industey and skill. Young Haines raised 137.5 ik | bushel of corn on a single acre, a remarkable 3 W::H‘ "“'E:“'fie cultivation. He typifies the N e P eration. To be sure, he realizes the chances he is taking and has made calculations close enough to protect him against ordinary risks, yet he'is giving a service that can’scarcely be dispensed with, His.customers are mostly among those who have no established credit at other stores, for they cannot meet requirements. Giving these elements of the problem full whight, the reason- able thing to do is to educate the people who are situated so that they find the installment house a convenience to the full sense of their responsibility in the transaction. If they can be induced to avoid extravagance and to appreci- ate the necessity of promptly meeting their obli- gations, much \j; the difficulty will be done away with, Considering the immense volume of busi- ness done on credit in Omaha,* the amount of complaint seems infinitesmal, for generally the people pay their bills. Honest debtors need pro- tection at times and can always get it; those who are in genuine misfortune will be helped, but their predicament should not be made an'excuse to cover the shiftless or the uhreliable in their trickery. TRR Another side to the problem-of bringing to- gether the bachelors and majds of Lincoln and Omaha deserves congideration. As love ‘s’ blind and matrimony largely an insightless venture, an exchange of eligibles 3f the two cities accords with the fundamentalsfof sentiment. Besides a “sight-unseen” trade provides the zest of romance and thrills of anticipation. ST ——— The high cost of money produces more dis- tress in Wall street than the high cost of living. ,riulturisu who, as Vance puts it, “are fifty bushels better than Sweating the coin of speculation throws the pov- | erty clutch on the lamb-shearidg industfv The Boys on the Border = Captain Rupert Hughes in Collier’s Our country is playing the old “hold the baby” trick on the National Guard. That trick, as many people know, is usually worked by a woman who has a baby to get rid of, and is too tender or too timid to leave it on a doorstep. So she rushes up to a man waiting for a train and says: “Oh, sir, please hold my baby for a few minutes while I run.and find my other missing children. I'll be right back.” She never comes back. . The National Guard had already spent a busy winter recruiting its members, making extra drills and urging legislation to increase the country’s military resources. It was looking forward to a summer of rest except for a brief camp experi- ence. On the 19th of June Columbia, the well- known Gem of the Ocean, rushed up to the Guard and said with great excitement: “Oh, sir, please hold my border for a few minutes while I run and get my regular army recruited up.” The Guard took the border and is still holding it. Columbia has never come back; the army is not recruited up; the recruiting boom has col- lapsed; Uncle Sam has been out campaigning at night and selling firecrackers: to foreigners in the daytime. The Guard waits in Texas and sweats and shivers and hikes up and down look- ing for Columbia instead .of Villa, The Guard misses train after train, loses job after job, de- faults on mortgages, forfeits opportunities for making money, relinquishes the market to rivals and substitutes and wonders whether his wife or sweetheart has starved to death or run off with another fellow, The border is behaving beautifully. It sleeps all the time, except for a warning yawp when the Guard is tempted to leave it alone and go home. A great many people are saying that the Guard will never hold another border; that the Guard will go out of business once it gets home, if ever it does. Uncle Sam chuckles back: “The Guard is my sworn slave, an oath is an oath. In spite of camping all symmer and all autumn, it will drill all winter or go to jail.” . Meanwhile the regular army is being neglected ¢ven more completely. It has not been recruited to the strength, commanded by congress. Such efforts,as were made were a pitiful fiasco and are largely abandoned. On October 30 the regular army was 14,307 below the peace strength under the old law and 34,307 below the peace strength under the new law! And it was ruled that we were technically at war with Mexico! The navy is in no better plight. Great appropriations have been voted, but when the Arizona went into com- mission the other day it put out of commission three battleships and took their crews and was short 164 officers and men in spite of that. The nation said “Let there be might!” but there is no might. The marine corps alone has its authorized quota, thanks either to some unusual “attractive- ness of its life as a passenger or to its very active press byreau. It is advertised by its loving friends and get recruits. The army and navy evidently have no loving friends. The National Guard, it is feared, will' be advertised the wrong way by its loving enemies. The Guard used to have its detractors outside. Now it is so full of discontent that its greatest danger is from within. In spite of all the enthu- siasm in the world, the Guard has not been re- cruited up to its proper strength and now those within very largely feel that they have been duped and imprisoned or exiled as a reward for their devotion. In a recent letter to the press a guards- an called the experience “a nightmare” and “an outrage.” Such men will be the worst possible press agents when they return home, They ought to be brought home at once. The expense of keeping' them there is unjustly distributed. They are subjected to cruel and unusual discrimination, I shouldn’t be surprised if their detention were unconstitutional. Almost everything is. They still expect to return home. Hope springs eternal in the guardsman’s breast. But when they will return—ay, there's the rub! Governor Whitman of New York, growing anxious about the fu- ture existence of the fine division he gave to fUnclc Sam, wrote the president and said in ef< ect: “Sorry to trouble you, ‘Prexy,’ at a time when we are both looking to our fences, but could you give me a hint as to when we can slay the fatted calf for the lean boys in olive drab? Their mother is' anxious and their wife has just applied for a reservation at the poorhouse.” And the president answered, in effect: “The Lord only knows, Gov. Ask Mr. Carranza when Mr. Villa is coming home and his answer will be mine. Your Guard is a fine lot of lads and I'm ever so much obliged to them and so is the country.” | ‘When I was down there and it was hinted that election day might find us still on the border, we ridiculed the idea as a preposterous one, an in- conceivable hardship. Yet there the/Guard still is without even a rumor to gnaw on. The Army and Navy Journal in its issue of October 28, 1916, says “thé general impression about the War department is that neither the army nor the National Guard will" be' relieved from Mexican service within a year.” The Guard is kept there by the ingenious and perhaps necessary device of refusing to accept resigndtions or grant:discharges except on the most exceptional terms. The popularity of the service is indicated by the fact that if resigna- tions and appeals for discharge should be favor- ably reccivccf the Guard would all be home and there would be no Guard, N The Atmy and Navy g‘oumnl of October 7 contains the names of eighty-five Guard officers whose resignations were accepted between August 30 and October 2. T was unfortunate enough to be compelled to be one.of these, though fortunate enough to be released. Between f'“l 20 and Octo- ber 25 nearly 500 resignaiions of ogicers were ac- cepted. It is safe to.say that 2500 resignations were submitted flnd_ficld up. Of the men who want discharges the number would.runi to many thousands. In consequeee .the enemies of the Guard are saying that it has not made good, that it will not stay good and that it is no good. Some editors praise the self-sacrifice of the Guard and some ridicule it for cry-babyism. The administratioh T?h-h necessary to patrol the border at all.cbats. *agree:with that opinion after meeting the peoplealoagthe bordér. - They are convinced. that*the presence of the Guard alon¢ protects them™ fromt:bandit atrocities and that these would ‘begin again at once if the pa- trol were remoyved. There are not enough men in the regular army to do the work and so the Guard ‘stays. This is not the fault of any individ- ual or any party, but it is a fault and it ought to be remedied in common decency and humanity. The Guard volunteered at the president’s call and took a stringent new oath of obedience to his least behest. It is obéying that oath, but it feels cheated because it did not volunteer to act as po- liceman and night watchman. It would not feel cheated if it were at war and being shot to pieces. Call a country|doctor out at midnight to ride several miles through a storm and treat a sick baby—he will not complain, provided the baby is sick. He will fight hard for its life and reproach no one for the summons. But let him find that the baby is well when he gets there and ask him to walk the floor with it at regular rates for time—and see what the doctor says. He ought to be glad that he was not really needed, but he will be hopping mad for the fool's errand. So the Guafd would have made no protest if it had found a hostile army at the border and had lost a high percentage by death, wounds and discase. Finding the border sound asleep, the Guard is only human in resenting the call and the com- ulsion to stay. Its health has been excellent and it _has_ learned something, but it is bitterly un- happy ' and almost completely cured of ail de- sire to belong any longer. Of course, if actual war broke out, patriotism would kindle the old fervor anew, but nothing short of actual war will restore that interest. And what w¢ want now is an immense and well-or- ganized peace reserve which.can be called on in an emergency Thought Nugget' for the Day. Grit is what is left in a man after everything has happened to him that can happen to a human being and still leave him alive.—Marden. One Year Ago Today in the War. Bulgarians made violent assault on allies in Serbia. | French kept up intense artillery fire from Loos to the Argonne. King Constantine declared Greece would remain neutral to avoid the fate of Poland. President Wilson sent note. to Aus- tria demanding disavowal of the An- cona sinking, ' In Omahhd Thirty Years Ago. Mrs. Stewart entertained the Wal- nut Hill club at a card party. The fol- lowing guests were presen Messrs. and Mesdames Needham, Montgom- ery, Felton, Taylor, Hunt, Van Horn, Cooper, Scott and Hutchinson. The next meeting will be held at Mrs. Needham’s. Contractor Ed Brennan has erected a winter stone-cutting shop imme- diately east of the county jail in which he is placing stone and a stock of coal with the intent of continuing the cutitng, during the winter, of stone required in both the retaining walls and boiler house of'the- county building. Dr. and Mrs. Dinsmore gave a small dinner party, entertaining the Hon H. H. Giles of Madison, Wis. Those present were Rev. and Mrs. W. K. Copeland, Prof. and Mrs. Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Groff, Mr. and Mrs. Lininger and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Woolworth. A meeting is called at the opera house to revive a society for the pre- vention of cruelty to animals. Among those who have consented to speak at the meeting are Dr. George L. Mil- ler, Hon. A. J. Poppleton, Hon. J. W. Savage, Hon. J. C. Cowin and Hon. J. M. Thurston. Frank Kast, who until recently was hotel runner, has beeh appointed agent for a large soap concern. His numerous * friends are -delighted to hear of his success. ¥ Manager E. B, Smith of the tele- phone company says that in addition to the public telephone system already established at the stock yards, another is soon to be established near the ex- change building. This Day in History. 1768—First court held opened at Fort Chartres. 1814—Don Juan Prim, famous Spanish soldier and virtual dictator of Spain after the overthrow of Queen Isabel, born in Calalonia. Assassin- ated December 30, 1870. * - 1834—James Buchanan was elected United States senator from Pennsyl- vania.J 1841—Lieutenant Jacob Elliott, one of the last surviving veterans of the battle of Lexington, died at Chester, N. H. 1846—Indecisive battle at San Pas- cual between the Mexicans and the Americans under General Kearney, who was twice wounded. 1869—Charles Robinson, republi- can, was chosen governor of Kansas at an election held under the Wyan- dotte constitution. 1866—William Edmond Armitage was consecrated Protestant Episcopal bishop of Wisconsin. 1882—Anthony Trollope, celebrated En{‘llnh novelist, died. Born April 24, in Illinois 1884—Capstone of the Washington monument placed. 1889—Jefferson Davis, ex-president of the confederate states of America, died -in New Orleans. Born in Chris- tian county, Kentucky, June 3, 1808. 1906—French senate passed a bill for the separation of church and state. The Day We Celebrate. Francis A. Brogan is just 56 years old. He was born at De Witt, Ia., and studied law at Harvard university law school. He practiced for a while in Emporia, coming to Omaha in 1888. He has recently been elected to the school board. Frank J. Carey, president of the Carey Cleaning company, is today 34 years old. “Born, raised, educated and going to die (dye) in Omaha,” he says, adding, “My hobby is real es- tate and I like dirt even if I am in the cleaning business—especially if it is corner lots.” Police Judge Charles E. Foster is celebrating his forieth birthday. He was born in Lafayette, IlL, and grad- uated in law from the University of Nebraska. He was for five years with Baldrige & Debord and for two years deputy county attorney. James Drummond, jr.,-teacher in the High School of Commerce, is 29 years old today. He Is a native of Massachusetts. General , August von Mackensen, who is directing the Teutonic drive in Roumania, born in Saxony sixty- seven years ago today. Charles ‘8. Thomas, ‘United States senator from Colorado, born at Darien, Ga., sixty-seven years ago today. Rear Admiral Victor Blue, com- mander of the battleship Texas, born in Richmond county, North Carolina, fifty years ago today.’ Willlam 8. Hart, celebrated photo- play actor and director, born at New- burg; N. Y., forty years ago today. Captain W. H. G. Bullard, com- mander of the battleship Arkansas, born in Pennsylvania fifty years ago Edward H. Sothern, one of the fore- most actors of the American stage, born in New Orleans, fifty-seven years ago today. Howard Elliott, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, born in New York City fifty- six years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. President Wilson is to receive the Ohio Corn club boys and girls at the White House today. : Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the Ben- gali poet and Nobel prize winner, is to lecture at Yale university tonight. The new quarter-million-dollar cer- amic engineering building of the Uni- versity of Illinois is to be dedicated with a two-day program of exercises beginning today. Cabinet officers and other prominent speakers are to address the thjrteenth annual convention of the Tational rivers and harbors congress, which is to begin a three-day session today in Washington. Storyette of the Day. In an Irish court house an old man was called into the witness box, and, being infirm and just a little near- sighted, he went too far in more than one sense. Instéad of going up the stairs that led to the box he mounted those that led to the bench. The judge good-humoredly said: “ls it a judge you want to be, my good man?” "Ah, sure, was the reply, “I'm .an old man now, an’ mebbe it's all I'm.fit for."—London i Globe. Yer Honor,” Samuel Gompers' Salary. Broken Bow, Neb., Dec. 5.—To the Editor of The Bee: Please state what Mr. Samuel Gompers draws as salary .| as head ‘of the American Federation of Labor., A. J. ELLIOTT. Note: Mr. Gompers' pay @s head of the federation was fixed by the Phila- delphia convention in 1914 at $7,500 per year. The same convention fixed the salary of Frank Morrison as séc- retary at $5,000 per year. that for flve years the pay had been $5,000 and $3,500 respectively. More About Logan Fontenelle. Newberg, Ore., Nov. 25.—To the Editor of The Bee: In last week's issue of that excellent paper, the Blair Enterprise, was printed an article relative to Logan Fontenelle of a be- littling character and purporting to be hased upon the “records” of the Nebraska Historical society. It says he was the son of a French trader and an Omaha woman; that he never was a chief; that he signed his name with a mark; that he was Kkilled while picking blackberries, and that he never was a “hero.” My father, James A. Bell, was one of a committee of about a half dozen members of a company organized in Quincy, I, in 1854, for the purpose of locating a cplony in the then Terri- tory of Nebraska. They crossed the sparsely settled state of lowa in a horn river which they named in his honor and named a stream which ran into the Elkhorn above the site of the new town Logan—also in honor of the head of the Omaha Indians. The exploring party returned to Quincy full of praise of the character of Logan Fontenelle as they had learned it during a week or ten days in his company. One incident of this experience was a feast which he gave the party at Bellevue. ‘The following summer the Omahas sent a hunting party out west and signs of the pres- ence of Sioux were discovered on Beaver creek (if I am not mistaken as to the name), a stream which runs into the Loup fork of the Platte about where ‘the town of Genoa is now lo- cate Fontenelle told his companions to make their escape while he would mislead the party of Sioux and delay them somewhat, confident that with his swift horse he also could escape after allowing the other Indians time to get away. Fontenelle's plan suc- ceeded in respect to the escape of the others of his party, but he was killed after he had killed several Sioux. The story drifted back to Quincy and one of the members of the party that had made the trip to Nebraska the year previous wrote a poem, set- ting out the facts in the case, which was printed in the Quincy Whig. I was a little fellow them, but I remem- ber distinctly the printing of this story of the death of Logan Fontenelle and of the high praise my father gave Fontenelle. I do not know just what would, in the mind of the person who furnished the “records” referred to in the Historical society archives, consti- tute an act of heroism if this deed of Logan Fontenelle does not fill the bill completely and overflowing. The body of Fontenelle was recov- ered and taken back to Bellevue, where the ceremony of burial was of the most impressive character as de- scribed in-a history of Sarpy county published many years ago by Stephen D. Bangs. It is a long time since I read it, but I remember one incident was of a white woman turning upon Stephen Decatur in great wrath be- cause he, who lacked a whole lot/ of being a churchman, read over the grave the burial service of the Epis- copal church! She considered it a desecration for him to read it. The “records” referred to, it ap- pears, say that Fontenelle was not a scion of a noble family of France. The Fontenelle family has been dis- tinguished in France for y, many years, and the father of Logan and Henry Fontenelle belonged to that family. 4 The selection of the \name Fonte- Prior to| wagon and went to Bellevue, where the Omahas were then located, and had a conference with Logan Fonte- nelle, then chief of the Omahas. He went with the party on their trip out into the country, which resulted in their locating the town on the Klk-| NESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1918. : nelle in christening t is said to be one of the finest hotels in the middle west was a credit to those responsible therefor, and in view of the exact facts relative to the life and death of Logan Fontenelle, regardless of what the “records” of the Historical society of Nebraska have to say on the subject, they can always look upon the name and the portrait, which I understands ornaments the hotel, with satisfaction and pleasure. To me it is a matter of gratification that the name is properly spelled “Fontenelle” and not “Fonta- nelle.”” Some of the most vivid recol- lections of my boyhood are associat with the name and with the personal acquaintance I then had with many of the Omaha Indians. . JOHN T. BELL. ) | Jews and Christian Science. Omaha, Dec. 5.—To the Editor of The Bee: The Jewish religion and | the Jewish conception of God is the | primal source from which the reli- gions of all the world gain their in- spiration. | _In majesty and grandeur, Jehovah, | the Lord God of Israel, fulfills the | ideals demanded by the first com- mandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me."” The Old Testament, the Bible of the Jews, contains the form of all | that is known about God and man. It proclaims the omnipotent God as Spirit and man created in his image and likeness. Its seers and prophets | understood and practiced God's law for the healing of the nations from their sins, their sickness, their poverty and their woe. | Small wonder that the God of Ts- | rael, who created man in his image | and gave him dominion; the Psalms | of David, which teach the spiritual | life of man and the protecting power | of God, and “Thou wilt keep him in | perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee” of Isaiah should find their way into' the Christian Science serv- ice. The question is asked, “Why is it that these verses when read in their service mean so much more to Chris- | tian Sei 57" The question is not answered by saying that Christian ence has incorporated Judaism and in the same moment that Christian §ci- ence is not a religion. \ If this is a sufficient answer, the collateral conclusion as to Judaism being a religion becomes more embar- rassing than Christian Science. There seems a flaw in the argument to say that Christian Science is not a | religion, but that a Jew ceases to he a Jew the moment he accepts Chris- | tlan Science. | " If Christian Science is to be de- nounced as only a system of healing, why adjure the sick among the Jews not to seek Christian Science because their own religion offers the same rem- edy by prayer to God? The same thing cannot be a system in one place and a religion in another. Rabbi Cohn says: “In Judaism we find the, same help, only infinitely finer, infinitely more beautifully ex- pressed. 1 often think the concepts of Christian Science merely words.” They are merely words, but to the sick and despondent, who have found some measure of health and hope, they are Life. In this is found the answer to the question. It inyolves \no attack upon Judaism or the slightest detraction from its wonderful place in history, for spiritually we are all children of Israel. We. do regret threadbare attacks upon Mrs, Eddy. They are not true and that kind of thing does mot help to establish good feeling among neigh- bors. One might as reasonably con- jure up something about Moses or { his mother and expect to get any- where with it in an attack on the Jewish religion. We must win on the strength of our own title and not on the weak- ness of our adversary. Misrepresen- tations and misconceptions of other religions will not inure to the strength of our own. It is what you have to offer, not your pulling down ability, that will build for righteous- ness. The Jews are a proud people and, the source of their pride rests on no mean foundation. They have a right to and should be proud of the fact that they have given to Christian Sci- ence the cornerstone of its whole structure, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.” CARL E. HERRING. 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