Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-31
HOW THE SCOTS ARE
LOOKING AT The WAR
Papers From Glasgow Show
That Everyday Life Goes
On About As Usual
THOUSANDS AT BALL GAMES
BY A. r. GRoH.

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Everyday life in at least some OF
the warning countries of Europe
seems 10 60 on much as usual these
strenuous days.
George Chandler of The Bee has
received some daily newspapers from
Glasgow, Scotland, that make an ex-
tremely interesting study.
We have a vague idea that the peo-
pie there think Of nothing but the
war. talk Of nothing but the war,
stand in line most of the day to get
food, and then stagger family home
to cook it and exc out existence a
little longer.
We imagine there isn't man OF
military age to be found on the
streets. We fancy there are no thea
tiers open.
Very different are the actual facts.
Here is a. copy of the Glasgow
Post OF Sunday, March 4. Sixteen
pages, and the price is one penny,
which doesn't indicate paper short
age.
Theaters Are Open.
On page II are fourteen theatrical
advertisements and Personal Gossip
from Theaters and Music Halls
Pages IA and IS are filled with
sporting news. The scores in no less
than forty-nine foot ball games. played
the previous day, are given. 1t takes
quite lot OF able-bodied young men
to play forty-nine foot ball matches
oh, what? And think Of the thousands
of other young men who were acting
as spectators. Columns are given to
detailed descriptions Of some Of the
previous days games. This paper
offers a prize Of 100 pounds weekly
for the best forecast of fifteen foot
ball games.
The paper is full Of advertisements
Of many things from kidney pills to
Yorkshire twecds for clothing.
Of course, there is plenty OF war
news, too. And il is surprising what
buoyancy and hopefulness pervade
the paper.
Clamor for Peace.
One story tells Of the capture Of 600
Germans from raided trenches by
seventy French. Another article deals
with the British prisoners who have
returned from Germany. One Of
these men reports that despair and
depression are spreading among the
people and in Lcipsic. and Frankfort
the people are clamoring for peace"
He declares, that one OF his German
guards told him. 1--WE cannot win
now. The British are bound to beat
u.s."
Another article Is headed Wearing
Down the U-Boat Pirates" The
writer estimates that Germany had
800 Usboats February and that 100
OF these have been lost, He says
Germany admits loss of fifty. He
estimates that the British and French
anti-submarine patrol can destroy
twenty-five a month and that Ger
many Is building twelve new ones a
month The real root Of the trouble,
he says, is the feet OF about ninety
big ocean-going submarines which do
the real damage and II this feet can
be cut down one-half he thinks the
failure OF the U,boat campaign will
be established.
One article points shamefully to
the fact that "in the third year Of the
war we have spent more on intoxi-
cants than in any previous year OF our
history"
There is a picture Of nine British
captives in Paderborn, Germany, sent
by one of the captives to his father
They all look healthy and well-fcd.
There is three-column account Of
two British soldiers lying in q shell
hole for six days and finally being
taken out by the Germans and nursed
back to health. "Englishman. kama
red" was the friendly way in which
the Germans greeted their wounded
foes