Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1916, Page 6

{ 'q - i e e THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. THE BEE PUI COMPANY, PROPRIETOR. - Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier By Mail por month Daily and Sunday... T...65c ) Daily without Sunday.. 46e Evening and Sunday 40c Evening without Sunday 26e, Sunday Bee only...... 20¢ Dally and Sunday Bee, thres years in sdvanee, Send notice of change of address or irregularity in de- livery to Omaha Bee, Circulation De| t REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps taken in payment of small mecounts. Personal checks except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. 7 Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—3318 N street. Council Bluffs—14 North Main stree! TLincoln—528 Little Buflding Chicago—818 People’'s Gas Bullding. New York—Room 803, 286 Fifth avenue 8t. Louis—503 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—725 Fourteenth streot, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address communications relating to news and editorial matter to Omaha Bee, Fditorial Department NOVEMBER CIRCULATION. 55,483 Daily—Sunday 50,037. { Dwight Williams, circulation manager of The Bee | Publishing company, being duly sworn, says thi the average circulation for the month of November, 1916, was 55,483 dally, and 50,037 Sunday. WIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this nd day of December, 1916 . C.'W. CARLSON, Notary Public. Subscribers le ving the city temporaril should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as required. — Ach, Louie! how soon are friends bidden to the , frost! Paper values and peace persist in an attitude of deadly enmity. No better time could be chosen to preach { peace, even for home consumption. ( In the minds of statesmen truly great a mount- ing national deficit, decorated with a fat pork bar'l, becomes a work of art. It may be gathered from Premier Briand’s re- marks that France is somewhat suspicious of Germania posing as a modern Santa Claus. —— P In view of what Ohio did for the administra- tion, it seems little short of raw ingratitude to pick on Cleveland as the prize goat of price boost- ing. It is understood, of course, that Art Mullen is not looking for a job for himself. Merely browsing around Washington to lend animation to capital scenery. With four of the five members of the new British war council picked from the unionist ! party, it does not appear that toryism got much { of a jolt in the shakeup. Unless gratitude is dead and hearts unrespon- . sive to the thrill of heroism, the valiant deeds ‘iof Chairman Langhorst deserve the pick of the cuts on the state house pie counter, A German naval critic senses the situation correctly when he says there is no jingoism in ! American preparations for defense. Jingoism . merely vocalizes the way and ducks the recruit- ing office. H —————re— The speed possibilities of congress may be guaged by the fact that one bill was put through | the legislative mill in six working flays. In one respect the achievement is notable. An average | quantity of gas burned up without affecting the supply. The holdup methods of New York apartment house butlers and janitors, as revealed by a re- cent investigation, serve to show by comparison that the pirates of the Spanish ndain were mere pikers, Hinory'unhirty maligned a respectable i ancient occupation. o 3 S— Council Bluffs did not bother itself with ref- + erendum expenses before accepting a reduction in electric light rates. The city spotted a good thing on sight and hopped to it. In these times * of advancing prices in necessaries a reduction is too great a rarety to pass up. i Despite his countless offenses against civili- ! zation and “watchful waiting,” Pancho Villa must be credited with skill as a humorist and imitator. His promises and professions carry a vein of sol- emn humor rivaling the airy assurances of a con- gressman bent on “saving the country.” The Sheppard of the dry flocks of Texas will not be happy until he makes the District of Co- . lumbia as dry as the staked plains. The expense & of installing individual lockers piled on high liv- ing cost mutely pleads for merey. Adl in vain. The Texan hears nought but the requiem of booze. ek Chancellor Avery's summary of price boost- ing operations puts at the foot of the list “the psychology of situation.” On the score of com- prehensive reach and sustained wind power “the psychology of the situation” long ago won the lead. But if is not known by the learned desig- nation. In friendly circles is passes for “Boost! Everybody's doing it!"” Pensions and Pensioners New York Times b A pension, like an annuity, is an encourage- § mentto longevity. The report of Secretary of the Interior Lane shows that, while no soldiers of the war of 1812 are left, the names of 115 widows of soldiers in that war are still on the pension rolls | Presumably these were young women who mar- ' ried ancient men, but all must be stricken in years ' by this time, Of the Mexican war, over nearly § seventy years :go, there are 513 living soldicr £ pensioners, and 3,785 widows. On June 30, 1916, & there were 362,277 pensioned soldiers of the civil wat, a decrease of 34,000 in a year. On the same £ date the number of widows of civil war soldiers was 287,753, a decrease of 3,354, This is the sec- §' ond year of decrease. Till 1915 there had always been an increase, The greatest number of civl war soldiers on | the pension list, 745,822, was in 1898, More than © half have gone since then, The greatest num- . ber of widows, 304,373, was in 1912, There were | 709,572 pensioners on June 30, 1916, 38575 less ' than on June 30, 1915, The :moum&.-:)id for pen- sions was $159,155,090, some $6,000,000 less than in the preceding year, From July 1,1790, to July 1, 1916, the govern- pensions $5,054,630,727, The ons in war expense is indicated by m 1789 up to and including 1915 i it | the high cost of poor roads. Itis | between the farm and the shipping point | can be reduced only through better highways. Hindsight Versus Foresight. Omaha is again being taken to task because its builders did not possess the gift of prophecy and therefore could not exactly foresee what has actually happened, It may be urged in defense of our pioneer citizens that, pluming their hope on imagination’s wing, they did picture for them- selves and their descendants a future as great and glorious as could be conceived at their time, but they were also in some degree limited by material considerations. They could think in terms of population, of area, and similar con- crete facts, but they could not plan for trolley cars, for skyscrapers, nor for a number of other incidentals of present day existence. Moreover, they had to cut their garment according to their cloth, Some problems necessarily were leit to future builders, and some that confront us now will also be postponed. Thus it happens that some sewers were put down that are no longer adequate; if the present day needs of the city had been taken into con- sideration twenty-five years ago, the public works would not have advanced as they did, for the peo- ple then could not have contrived them. Nor can the citizens be accused of want of foresight be- cause the school room situation has become acute in some sense. This has been with us for a quar ter of a century, and Omaha has not been negli- gent in the matter. The people are not to be blamed for the dilatoriness of the school board in carrying out its program. The funds voted were ample at the time, and if the board has dallied and allowed the money to lie idle in the banks while the price of real estate, building material, labor and everything else has gone up, the fault does not lie with the public. And, finally, The Bee again suggests that the planning board give us a plan, rather than so much advice that leads to nothing. Part in the Peace. One of the questions that will come in for much consideration in connection with any pre- liminary discussion of possible peace in Europe will be Russia’s attitude. What will be needed to satisfy the Bear? If this were to be considered wholly from the point of view of Russia before the war, the answer would present much of real difficulty. As constituted before hostilities drew armies into the field, the ambition of Russia would not have listened to the suggestion of a revived Poland, nor an adjustment of the Balkans that did not consider Slavic domination. Bu- reaucratic Russia had definite views on these points and declined to discuss them, However, it is a different Russia to which proposals for peace will be made. Of all the countries that have engaged in the war, Russia has undergone the most profound political change. It was freely prophesied at the beginning of the great conflict that the end would see the rule of the people established instead of the aristocracy. Nowhere has this been more nearly realized than in the most backward of all the belligerents. While the general form of the Muscovite govern- ment has undergone no change, its quality has been profoundly affected by the course of the war, Russi actionary bureaucrat, and the calling of Trepof, not a democrat, but filled with progressive ideas and an opponent of the system that all but ruined the empire. This change was brought about through a bold attack in the Duma against Stur- mer and his methods. It was the continuation of the attack which had been evaded by Goremykin a year ago through inducing the czar to prorogue the Duma. Doremykin could not stem the rising flood of the people’s power, nor could Sturmer. It is of curious interest to recall at this time last year refused to allow to come before the Duma, much less to be debdted, has as one of its chief planks the granting of autonomy to Po- fand. From this to independence is not such a far Step, and may easily be conceded in ex- change for some advantages as to the use of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. The neutralization of these important straits will almost certainly be an issue of the war. Thus it seems that nowhere has the tide of democracy risen so high under the impetus of the war as in backward Russia. No other people as a whole will benefit more directly or materially than the Russians, and nowhere in Europe may greater development be looked for when peace comes again. Germany understands this, and may be counted upon to look after the future of Ger must be carried on across Poland. Farmers/and Good Roads. The Nebraska Farmers' congress has put it seli on record as being opposed to the federal good roads plan. The farmer is the one who pays a rather anoma- lous situation that finds our agriculturists willing to adapt improved machinery, new methods, and eats into their profits, Last spring the state engi neer gave out figures to show that millions of dollars can be saved annually in Nebraska on te cost of moving crops to market through the sim- ple expedient of building better highways. These millions come directly out of the pocket of the farmer. He pays the freight both ways, on all he sells and all he buys. Five hundred million dol- lars’ worth of farm produce is annually hauled to market in Nebraska, and the chief expense of this attaches to that portion of the trip made by wagon This And better highways will be built in Nebrask for it means added profit to the farmer. The sav- ing in cost of hauling by team all he sells and all he buys will more than pay the interest on several times the money needed to construct the roads The new Carranza commander at Chihua- hua, General Arnulio Gonzalez, imitates Pancho. Villa in thundering against General Pershing for home consumption. The American commander is not seeking trouble, nor dodging it, for that matter, but there is no doubt of his willingness to entertain one or both warriors in the highest style of the art. Legal contests with coal dealers over broken contracts lack the vigor and speed suited to the times. A hot catch-as-catch-can “go” on the Auditorium mat more closely meets the desires of consumers, besides providing an expedient for inserting the punch in the right spot House insures the customary volume of voice- less wisdom in forwarding peace negotiations. In “the government was $7.657,322,- i1l $3,233,862,654. that line of action the Texas colonel lends a dis- tinctly human touch. to the nature of the clam. This is shown by the overthrow of Sturmer, re- | that the progressive program, which Goremykin | man relations with its neighbor, even if traffic | all the advanced ideas for producing crops to | lessen the unit cost, and then declare in favor of | perpetuating the system of transportation that | The presence of Colonel House at the White | | Lloyd George New York World. I'magine William Jennings Bryan as the politi- cal idol of Wall street. Imagine all the financiers and bank presidents and corporation managers and captains of industry hailing him as the savior of the republic. Tmagine all the forces of organ- ized property and reactionary republicanism ral- lying to his support. Then we shonld have a sit- uation parallel to the situation in Great Britain, where Lloyd George is engaged in organizing a new war cabinet. Three years ago David Floyd George was casily the best-hated man in the British empire He had been the best-hated man for half a de- cade. He was the ringleader of British radical- ism, and while excuses might be found for other radicals, he was beyond the pale. Financial Eng- land detested him as enthusiastically as the dukes detested him. There was hardly a day when the British empire was not supposed to be rocking upon its foundations because of something that this “contemptible little Welsh attorney” was doing or preventing. The worst that Wall street said about Bryan in the campaign of 1896 was flattering in com- parison with the least that conservative England said about Lloyd George for five years, and yet he is the man to whom conservative England has turned as the head of a new government. It is beyond belief that the Tory intrigue against the Asquith ministry ever had for its ob- ject the making of Lloyd George prime ministet of Great Britain. Yet that is its inevitable con- sequence, for there are only two men who can meet the exigencies of that office. One of them is the prime minister who has been forced to re- sign and the other is the “contemptible little Welsh attorney” who has been the great driving force of the government since the beginning of the war. No member ofsthe former opposition measures up to the work, as Bonar Law practi- cally admitted when he refused to undertake the formation of a ministry, What the unionist leader in Parliament could not do, no other Tory can do. The qualities that make a great chancellor of the Exchequer with revolutionary measures of social justice, or a great minister of munitions or a great secretary of state for war, are not neces- sarily the qualities that make a successful prime minister. Lloyd George has proved that he could use the Asquith government to mighty purposes. He has yet to prove that he can create a govern- ment of his own and use it for still mightier pur- poses. But there can be no doubt that with the Asquith ministry overthrown Lloyd George is the onc statesman to whom the average Englishman, regardless of partisanship or caste, would imme diately look for leadership. He has proved him- self the most vital individual force in the empire. That this radical of radical democrats should be called upon at this time to organize a govern- ment is one of the most significant political events in British history. In a war that has been prolific in paradoxes, there has been no other such para- dox as this. Universal Military Training New York World Before there can be intelligent discussion of universal military training, there must be a dcfi nite plan of military training before the country. Major General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the United States army, devotes his annual report to an argument in favor of general com- pulsory military service, and then sa “1 shall carry out so important a work.” It scems to the World that that is precisely what General Scott ought to have done. The first thing the general staff should do is to evolve for consideration. Otherwise argument is futile Universal military service seems to mean a different thing to each of its advocates, but it must mean a particular and definite thing before it can be enacted into law or seriously debated. What kind of universal military service does General Scott think the country requires as a measure of national defense? In his report he takes it for granted that “the average parent would gladly welcome the opportunity for mili- tary training for their boys between the ages of 18 and 21."” Perhaps he would and perhaps he would not. It is hazardous to guess at the atti- tude of the average parent toward a military measure that has never been presented to him and about which he has only the vaguest notions. Much will depend upon the scope, the length and the character of the training that is proposed. “The average parent” in the United States is neither a militarist nor a pacifist. He did not raise his boy to be a soldier. Neither did he raise him to be a shirker in time of national need. He has no inherent objection to military training in itself, within reasonable limitations, although the theory of compulsory service of any kind is inherently objectionable to him. General Scott could get a far clearer notion of the opinion of the average parent toward | universal military service if he would present a plan of universal service and give the average parent a chance to discuss it. Universal service based upon German military theories would be overwhelmingly rejected. Universal service adapted to American theories of govert.ment and American habit of life might meet with general | approbation. Everything depends upon the na ture of the plan, and when General Scott declines to cvolve a plan he leaves the question where it was before. | Unless the general staff has something definite to offer in the way of solving the problem, its ar- guments are of no more practical value than are those of the National Security league People and Events Cardinal Gibbons, now in his eighty-third year, has just completed a six-volume series of his reminiscences. Governor Capper of Kansas donated the first $100 toward the fund for the Carrie Nation me- morial to be erected in Topeka. Playing billiards is one of William J. Bryan's favorite recreations and his friends declare that he is something of an expert at the game, Sir Ian Hamilton, the celebrated British mili- tary commander, is the author of numerous poems that have been published” under various pen names Peter Goelet Gerry, the young democrat who is to succeed Henry Lippit as United States sena- tor from Rhode Island, is a great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry, who was elected vice president with Madison in 1812, Pennsylvania pays a bounty of $6 for wildcat skins and i1s doing considerable business in that line. Besides the state is getting a free sideline of plain catskins, which sports attempt to push over for $6 each. Nothing doing. | Special importance was attached to the duty of counting and declaring the soldier vote mailed from Mexico to Westchester county, New York, and the expense run up to $22.75 per ballot. Ar- tistic service comes high in heeling times. Age does not contract nor long usage weary the vocal sweetness of Chauncey M. Depew. “When is a girl pretty?’ The question wis fired at the sunshine patriarch at a New York bazar. ‘Always,” he replied. Safety first. Half a thou- sand girls surrounded him. There is nothing slow about Mary Warren of Salt e City. Pretty and dark-eyed, demure, experienced and 26, she had shaken off three hus- bands and was about to annex the fourth when the law stepped in. Reversing the ancient matri- monial methods of It Lake shocks modern law and social custom. The fortune of the Standard Oil magnate, Charles W. Harkness, appraised for tax purposes in New York, amounts to $60,000,000, the sixth largest fortune in the Empire State record. The recent death of Mr. Archbold brings Standard il fortnue into court and the tax gatherers wear i a holiday smile of large dimensions. not attempt in this report to evolve a system to | a system and present it to the American people | | THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 ==_______7__—____—_____—-_—__—_———‘--——-————~—————~— - | This Day in History. 5, 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. Love, hope, fear, faith—these make humanity; These are the sign and note and char- acter, —Browning. One Year Ago Today in the War. Greek troops evacuated district be- tween allied lines and Salonica Berlin reported four aeroplanes of the allies shot down on western front. General Sir Douglas Haig succeeded Field Marshal Sir John rnchin command of the British forces in France and Flanders. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Harry Lawrie, late of Chicago, who has done some excellent architectural work in this city since his arrival, will become iated with Mr. Mendels- sohn, the architect. Mr. Lawrie will succeed Mr. Fisher, who retires Miss Minnie Wood, principal of the Leavenworth Street school, has just WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF 47 2 had published a companion First Reader to be used as a review book | for primary students. The mail matter intended for Wal- | nut Hill people was sent to the branch postoffice at that place, but had to be returned because the postmaster ap- pointed had not yet opened shop. George W. Crosby of the Beach & Bowers Minstrel company spent the day with “Stub” Bandle renewing an acquaintance formed in the halcyon days when Bandle was wearing out his young life behind the bat for the Union Pacifics and Crosby was in the pitcher’s box for the Chicago Re- serves, Mr. Crosby has cast his for- tunes with the best little minstrel show that has visited Omaha since Murray's block was commenced. At the forty-third musicale of the Ladies’ Musical society of Omaha and Council Bluffs the following were on the program: Mrs. Cotton, Miss Itustin and Mr. Wilkins. Articles of incorpbration were filed of the Gramercy Park Land and In- vestment association. The incor- porators are Joseph L. Langevin, C. Beindorff, J. H. Weist, Simon Ober- felder, . K. Shepard, 8. H. Baer, T. H. Taylor, Martin Cahn and A. H. Wooley. The Pees LeSer: \bout Liquor Bonds. Omaha, Dec. 12.—To the Editor of The Bee Within a few days authorities of the city of Omaha will issue liquor licenses to applicants who desire to engage in the saloon busi- ness. Under the Slocum law the ap plicant is 1 i to give a bond in the sum of $5,000, conditioned that the applicant will pay all damages that result from the traffic in which he proposes to engage. The law con- templates the giving of a good bond, ind now, more than ever, ought this phase of the law be enforced. There will be a tendency, during the remaining months in which the traffic may be carried on in Nebraska, for some saloon keepers to conduct their places of business with only one ob- ject in view, and that will be to get every dollar out of the business pos- sible, without regard to the manner or means by which this end may be ac- complished. The duty of demanding a proper bond from every applicant devolves upon the city commissioners | of Omaha, and they will be held re- sponsible this year, more than ever, for a proper performance of their duty in this respect. | The question now is will they per- mit & repetition of the “personal bond" farce which was acquiesced in a year ago or will they demand that the ap-| plicant give a proper surety bond in some company of recognized respon-| sibility? There are numerous instances at the | present time in this city of saloon keepers who have virtually no bond | at all, having been able last year to| put over a “personal bond" upon the| comnission. I In many instances the proposed per—‘ sonal sureties possess no real estate| outside of a homestead, or other prop- | erty heavily incumbered, which would | be of no avail to the widow or orphan whose husband or father may have been Killed or debauched by the traf-| fic. In some instances some sureties| who signed liquor bonds a year ago,| alienated their property immediately | after the granting of the license, and| in such a case the saloon keeper has| no hond at all. | Nothing in the law requires the| surety who signs a liquor bond to re-| tain ownership of his property which| he scheduled in order to justify upim the bond, and he is at liberty to sell and dispose of the same at any time thereafter and in such an event the| abject and purpose of the bond is de- | feated Within the last sixty days two in-| stances of such an abuse have come | to my notice as an attorney. In either | of the cases a suit to recover the dam- | ages wrought in the home of the de-| pendents of a debauched husband | would be useless for the reason that | Charles M. Lynch and Mrs. Carrie Davis were united in marriage by Jus- tice Berka. 1814—Delegates assembled from the New England states and organized the Hartford convention as an anti-war movement, and also to oppose the ad- ministration of President Madison. | 1831-—Hannah Adams, who is sald to have been the first woman in America to have made literature a profession, died at Brookline, Mass. Born at I\lodflold\‘.\laus in 1755 1840—Remaing of poleon 1 laid with great pomp {n tomb at Invalides, Paris. 1847—General Scott announced his purpose to occupy the republic of Mexico until it sued for peace. 1864—General Thomas attacked the | confederate army under General | Hood before Nashville, | | 1891—A convention for organizing the state of Oklahoma met at Okla- homa City. 1899—The British under General | Ruller were severely defeated by the Boers while attempting to force the Tugela river, near Colenso. 1903—The German emperor was pronounced recovered from his severe | illness. { e | The Day We Celebrate. | John Douglas, president of the | Douglas Printing company, was born December 15, 1863, in Lorton, Eng- Jland. He is a printer by trade, learn- ing the business in England and com- ing to this country at the age of 21 His first work here was as compositor on The Bee in 1884, He established the Douglas Printing company in 1890. August W. Wagner, the North Six- teenth street feed man, is celebrating his fifty-third birthday. He was born in Erie, Pa. Alfred P. Thom, who, as counsel for the Southern railway, has been testi fying in the congressional investig; tion of railways now under way in | Washington, born in Northampton county, Virginia, sixty-two years ago tod Sir Richard McBride, former prem fer of British Columbia and later the agent general for that province in London, born at New Westminster, B. C.. forty-six years ago today. I'rank B. Sanborn, one of the last survivors of the “Concord Group” of philosophers, scholars and patrio bhorn at Hampton Falls, N. H., eighty five years ago today. Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury, | U. 8. N, retired, born at Lowell, Mass., seventy-one years ago today. Bishop Willlam F. Oldham of the | Methodist Episcopal church, born at Bungalore, India., sixty-two years ago today Timely Jottings and Reminders. | President Wilson is to be the guest | of honor tonight at a dinner to be given by the Vice President and Mrs. Marshall. e The lumber reclassification case is to come up for oral argument today before the Interstate Commerce com- mission in Washington. Business and civic organizations of Cleveland are to meet today to launch a campaign for the adoption of the managerial form of city government. | Elihu Root, Alton B. Parker, James M. Beck, and other persons.of promi- nence are to speak tonight in Carnegic hall, New York City, at a mass meet- ing to protest against the deportation of Belgians to Germany. | Approximately 200,000 workers em- | ployed in the offices, mills and mines of the United States Steel corporation today begin work under a new scale, | which provides for an increase of 10 per cent in their wages. The advan will add about $20,000,000 to the anf- nual payrolls of the corporation Storyette of the Day. Three commercial travelers meet- ing at a hotel one winter evening had a hearty supper together. Supper over the three found some difficulty in al- lotting their respective shares in the bill, but one of them at length cut short the dispute by proposing that whoever had the “oldest name" among them should go free, the expense be- ing halved by the other two. This amendment being promptly ac- cepted, No. 1 produced a card in- scribed “Richard Eve,” which No. 2 trumped with “Adam Brown.” Then No. 3, a portly veteran with humor- ous gray eyes, laid down his card with the quiet confidence of a great general making a decisive movement and remarked, with a chuckle: “1 don't much think you'il beat this ‘un, gents." And he was right, for the name was | “Mr. B. Ginning.”"—Pittsburgh Chron- icle-Telegraph. | public. the “personal bonds” given are worth- | less, the sureties have left the city and disposed of the property which was scheduled by them at the time the| bond was approved by the commis- sioners. | The commissioners have the power, | and it is up to them to demand a proper bond, and every one Kknows that the only safe bond is that given by a surety company. 1 invite public attention to this, to| the end that the commissioners may know that the people are looking to them for justice and for a square deal. They owe it to the wives and children of the prospective victims of booze to | arrange the liquor bond matter so| that the dependents may have ré- course against a saloon keeper who is thel ———————————————— wnion iu the azure ol our 1 [ hayonet and made atonemon nation’s sin in blood, and mide name America first inoall the cartl To us their memory is an inspivation We all have an influen howen | humble and small it may be. Ouy | br boys are growing fewer in num [ ber each day, and soon we must i | to our work the quota of labor whic they have performed. They were the heroes who under God's guidance brought our armies through th shadows of that dark and dreadful | struggle into the light of victory | The Woman's Relief corps has been organized to assist them in their ma- terial wants as they are traveling on the downward hill of life. Truly grateful to those who purchased our liberties at such priceless cost, we turn our thoughts and attention with patriotic devotion to their undivided country which claims our allegiance and our love, NELLIE TONEY, Department of Nebraska Press Cor- respondent, Woman's Relief Corps | Uses of the Wild Horse. Silver Creek, Neb,, Dec. 14.—To the Editor of The Bee: 1, like your read- ers generally, as 1 suppose, have been much interested in reading your re- ports of the proceedings of the federal court in that wild horse case wherein certain parties are charged with viola- tions of the postal laws. Whether found guilty or not, the defendants have certainly rendered a great service in the way of educating the public as to the gullibility of hu- man nature, and warning them in gen- eral against those designing persons who make a business of preying upon innocence and virtue. For those bankers, barbers, real estate men and preachers whose greed of gain seems to have quite over- powered the better instincts of their natures, if they had any such instincts, and who really ought to have guard- ians appointed aver them, I have no sympathy whatever. If I had been such an easy mark as they seem to have been, 1 would have taken my medicine without a wry face or a squeal. In case the defendants should be found guilty, I think the court should look upon this service of theirs to the public as strongly in mitigation of their offenses; make their sentences as light as possible, and, if that were permissible, recommend to the presi- dent that he give them an uncondi- tional pardon. CHARLES WOOSTER. BREEZY TRIFLES. Alice—Why are vou taking up botany?® “Because my fiance {s interested In a plant of some kind, and [ want to be able to ¢ intelligently with him about his busi Brooklyn Citizen. “‘Mrs. Comeup, ur daughter's savoir fs« unfailing.” “Well, when we do get any of them im- ported urticles we always do it in big quan- titles."—Baltimore American. DEAR MR.KABIBBLE, 1 TRIED T GET MY FIANCEE ON “THE PHONE ‘THE OTHER NIGHY AND EVERY TIME Y CALLED UP, THE PHONE WAS. BUSY — WHAY Do You Suspecy 2 —10uis ATER % NOT YOUR HIANCEE - WAS PROBABLY A FEW RELAWES VISITING HER HOUSE THATS ALL' % ter is a perfect husband.* ver heard he was so wonderful.” . every time he sees a mailbox he in his pockets."—Buffalo Express. W feels responsible for their misfortune. | Let us hope that the commissioners | will cut out the “straw bond™ or “per- | sonal bond” farce and demand a sure- | ty bond. HENRY C. MURPHY. i | In the W. R. C. Omaha, Dec. 11.—To the Editor of The Bee: How often do we hear it | said, "I cannot belong to the Woman's | Relief corps, having no blood relations who were soldiers? To these I wish to say the membership of the Woman's Relief corps is not made up of rela- tives of the Grand Army of the Re-| And upon our broad founda- | tion stands the eligibility of member- | ship. The loyal women who all th years have banded together to as the Grand Army of thé Republic; the loyal woman who stood loyal to her | country, charged father, brother and | lover to remember her praver, follow- | ing them amid ‘shot and shell.” " the| bravest soldiers of our land. Remem- | ber, women are loyal by birth, not by | marriag® so we as Woman Relief corps women do welcome all loy: women to unite with us in honoring the grand men who wear the bronze button. They planted the stars of our Wife—That Mra, Tucker next door must be an awful gossipSe. Hub—What's the trouble now? Wife—Oh, nothing In particular: but 1 never can fell her anything but what she's heard it before.—Baltimore American. “I'M SORRY; I WAS WRONG.” Chicago Post. 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