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Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
Romance of the Sea

II u.s. probably, rather rough December morn
ing, and the outposts Of the British blockading
feet in the North Sea are tossing about uncom-
fortably. They do not give much attention to
substantial Danish steamer that is nosng her
way slowly but confidently northward The BIZ
furcated Danish flag is painted on her hull, and
on her deck is heavy load Of hay. One of the
British boats halls her and sends an officer TO
investigate. One cannot be too careful when one
is blockadng Germany It is well to be absolutely
certain that hay boat is hay boat and Dane
is Dane The British officer is rowed over the
big waves; he goes aboard and is met by polite
but rather stolid Dane who cannot talk much
English. Papers are shown. The Briton snoops
about in the hay a little and then departs, salts
ned. The hay boat passes on to the north and
the British patrol goes back shverng in the icy
spray and bitterly resentful of the fate that has
consigned valiant British officers to such tire
some and unwarlike duty.
Aweek or two later big black boat is streak
ing southwark through the mid-Atlantc. 1t is
the hay-laden Dane, but she has no hay now
This has been cleared away and effective guns
are ready for action. The guns mean business,
too, as can be asserted by two dozen or more
British and French sea captains
Where there is merchant ship pursuing her
placid course. there appears the black destroyer,
no longer Dane with provendcr, but German
with much gunpowder. Straightway the merchant
ship ceases to be. But wherever there is Brit
ish or French cruiser there is no sign of the
quondam hay barge. Many weeks pass, dozen
Of the swiftests warships are prying into every
sea nook in their search for the mysterious craft
Of which all the world has been warned Only
when some hapess British tramp puffs her sooty
path to the horizon does the black sea ghost arise.
Visible moment, she disappears almost before
her victim has dropped to grave a mile below.
Here is mystery for new Marryat or Rus
sell, grim, true sea tale of SURPRISING interest
In time it will be told, OF course, for such good
tales are always told.
Meanwhile, perhaps, some erstwhile ennuied
sub-oficer Of the British North Sea blockaders
may be recalling certain rough December day
and tiresome visit to Danish hay boat He
may be thinking, but probably he is saying very
iittic-perhaps nothing at all
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
pershing on the Way Home.

Washington authorities now admit that Gen
erai Pershing has been given orders to return
from Mexico, and that as soon he can con-
soldate his forces by the withdrawal of his out
posts, he will take up his march for the United
States Pancho Villa, the object Of Pershing's
parade into Mexico, still rides and rules in Chi
huahua and over a much larger share of the ter
ritory Of northern Mexico than he did ten months
ago. when his raid across the line at Columbus
set this nation ablazc with demand for his pun
ishment. Thus ends the chapter. Pershing's
expedition was neither punitive nor exemplary.
Criticism is as unavailing as the presence Of
American soldiers on Mexican soil was futile. No
bandit has been punished or is likely to be pun
shed for any Of the border forays in which
Americans were murdered, their stores looted
and their homes destroyed. While General PERISH
ing and his army are travelling northward an
ambassador from the United States will be on
his way to the City Of Mexico, there to repre-
sent this government while the farce Of "paci-
flying" Mexico proceeds Make your own COM
ment
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
Floating 8 Per Cent Bonds
With the prospect of extensive governing
Wall Street Journal

With the prospect of extensive government
financing in the near future to reimburse the
treasury for the heavy OUTLAWS involved in the
Administrations program an interesting question
is presented with regard to the hotaton of long
term bond issue. 1t is deemed advisable to charge
posterity for the expenses in connection with the
Mexican border patrol, the Alaskan railroad pro-
ject, the nitrate and armor plants, the purchase
of the Danish West Indies and the creation of a
merchant marine; and as the aggregate of these
OUTLAWS will approximate the authorized but I'M
issued 3 per cent Panama bonds, it is proposed to
make use of this expedent.
For many years past the position of United
States bonds has been something of anomaly.
1t was ridiculous to say that the credit of the
Uuited States was on 2 per cent basis, even
when the per cent bonds were selling as high
as 10, with the knowledge that it was the ma
tional bank circulation that impaired an extra
ordinary support to the market, aided by the gen.
erous treatment of Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw in handing out government deposits to
the banks. 1t could not be said that later bond
issues characterized the government being
even on 3 per cent basis.
A few years ago the government placed $50
100000 of Panama IS at better than par without
the circulation privilege But that is different
matter to an issue in the neighborhood of $240,-
100000, as is now proposed. Can the government
make so large an offering on 3 per cent basis
now with the circulation privilege barred and in
bond market glutted with the more auring
foreign government issues?
Compensating for the loss of the national bank
circulation factor, it must be borne in mind that
any prospective issue of government bonds will
receive certain stabilizing influence from the ex-
cmption clause of the income tax. No less than
in the case of municipal warrants, government OBJ
legations offer happy refuge for those seeking
to cover up at least part of their incomes. To
this must be added the new situation created by
the Federal Reserve banks which, under their
purchasing powers, now take up the slack of the
bonds securing circulation.
The present easy condition OF the money mar
ket would also be an aid in floating government
bonds, but how far that influence will extend in
the case of per cent issue of any size remains
to he seen.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
Apotheosis of the Spud.

Behold to what height the meek and lowIy
spud has attainedl A trainload is reported to be
progressing under special armed guard from a
growing section to distribute its precious freight
among the hungry consumers, who are awaiting
its approach with watering mouths and eager
stomachs. Wheat may vaunt its astonishing afiu-
cnce, while corn and cotton, diademed monarchs
that they are, can boast of many conquests, but
neither of them has ever travelled across peace
full country under escort of armed men. The
humble and neglected tuber, not succulent but
mealy, is now elevated above all things that
grow from the ground, either above or beneath.
And while the hungry householder helps himself
to the costly food prepared from the newly cor
onated peer OF the vegetable realm, he comforts
himself with the thought that with another har-
vest potatoes will be just potatoes, and will travel
without frills. You can't make a real king out of
a spud
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
The Egg Boycott.

Omaha, January 2O.-To the Editor
of The Bee: If the smart people who
are engineering the egg boycott would
spend money to build poultry houses
in their back yards, then buy some
hens and after that buy feed for them
at the present high prices, give them
warm water every cold morning,
study what to feed them to produce
eggs and how to keep them warm
so that they will lay eggs in cold
weather, think they would soon find
out whether they could produce eggs
for so cents dozen, for if they could
produce eggs this winter for less than
so cents dozen they would most
certainly be entitled to Chromos. II
hens do not begin to lay eggs before
cold weather begins they are not apt
to begin until near the end of winter
The winter this year set in unusu-
ally early, before most hens had be-
gun to lay eggs, and, as it has kept
up steadily ever since, hens that did
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

not begin to lay early in December
are not laying yet,
II looks rather silly to start boy
colt on what people of moderate
means produce the most of and not
start any boycott on the packing
houses and other big corporations. If
you boyCotters want to strike big
game, why not go after the meat
trust, the -four trust, the sugar trust
the grain trust? | have had expert
enCe with poultry for more than thirty
years, yet | have not been able to pro-
duce many eggs this winter, and ]
figure that every time / sell eggs for
less than 80 cents dozen this winter
that | am losing at least 10 cents
dozen on them. ~
Instead of starting a boycott that
strikes small producers the hardest,
it seems to me that the boycotters
could strike a much harder blow by
cutting down their meat bills for
most of them probably spend SO for
meats where they spend 81 for eggs.
Why not get the county attorney
and United States attorney and other
proper officials to go after the people
who are forcing the prices of all
necessaries of life higher every day?
Get after the price manipulators
and not after the few people who may
have few dozen eggs a week for
sale.
If you want cheaper eggs get after
the grain gamblers and show some
consistency and good sense in your
fight against the high cost of living for
If feed was not so high the egg pro-
ducers could sell their eggs cheaper
When Grover Cleveland was presi
dent and Jerry Simpson was congress
man from the district ] lived in in
the state of Kansas at one time
bought fine wheat for my chickens for
80 cents a bushel fine corn for IL
cents a bushel and sold my eggs at
10 and Is cents dozen, and yet
cleared more money on my eggs than
l can clear how by selling them for so
and 80 cents dozen.
If you boycotters want to do real
service to a suffering public you had
better get after big game and show
some consistency in the fight against
high prices. FRANK A. AGNEW.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
Reception Of the Peace Pact Pronouncement.

The reception accorded the presidents peace
pact pronouncement, as was naturally to have
been expected, is sounded in conflicting chords
running from fusome acclaim to unqualified de-
nunciation, and yet the most Of it, so far as can
be judged from the first expressions, IS sympa-
thctic even il not altogether hopeful. The reas-
surfing part of il is the absence OF suggested
search for hidden motives and the admission that
the goal set up is what all the nations desire to
attain.
European comment from both sides OF the
war line accepts the proposal of world peace
pact as evidencing sncerest desire to make the
coming peace lasting one the most poignant
dissent registered going to the presidents re-
fusal to distinguish between the right and the
wrong in the origin of the war and his insistence
that the war must end in peace without victory
Everyone knows that neither side has yet con-
ceded stale-mate and that the leaders on both
sides are still feeding their followers at home on
roseate promises OF certain success. Should there
be peace with victory the victors would, of course
dictate the terms-without it, there must be ne
gotiation and adjustments, and agreements, and
guarantees and, to guard against another world
cataclysm, these must consider the rights Of metz
trails who otherwise may be belligerents in the
next war.
The presidents present utteranee is obviously
and by its own explanation only preliminary. The
very fact that those whom it concerns receive
it in good spirit and manifest readiness to con-
slider it seriously attests the progress made in
world thought under stress and strain Of war
barbarian, for it is uncomfortable that any such
measure Of cooperative internationalism would
previously have had respectful hearing
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
Timely Jottings and Reminders.

Retail coal dealers Of Colorado have
been called to meet in Denver today
to discuss the formation Of a state as
ISOLATION.
The Swiss federal council has de-
cided to mobilize several additional
divisions of the Swiss army today, as
a measure of precaution.
The annual convention of the Ma
tonal Lumber Exporters association,
which meets today in Pittsburgh, will
be devoted largely to consideration of
the Webb bill, now before the senate.
which would authorize American
manufacturers to cooperate for the
purpose of extending their export
business.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
HERE AND THERE.

A number of muskrats and a flock of
wild geese are wintering on the lake in the
State capitol grounds at Pierre, S. D., hav-
ing been attracted by the warm water from
an artesian well which feeds the lake.
Although there is no perfect clock. the
one that nearest approaches perfection in
this country, the standard clock of the Unit
ed States, is kept in glass case in dark
underground vault in the Naval Observatory
at Washington. where scientific officers of
the government. regularly detailed for the
duty. watch over it day and night, constant
ly correcting it by observations made from
the stars and sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

where he can practice upon his cor
net without inconvenience.
Plattsmouth capitalists have pur-
chased from John A. Creighton a
twenty-acre tract little north of
loves addition, for $4,000.
The directors Of the board of trade
have employed John Reed as cashier
at the new chamber of commerce.
Percy Snyder, the real estate agent.
has left for Grand Rapids, Mich, to
be absent about ten days.
An experienced landscape gardener
has been engaged by Mr.. Benson to
lay out the grounds in Benson and no
expense will be spared to make Ben
son the most beautiful place within
reach of Omaha
A lamp exploded in Goldberg's gro
Gerry store on Fifteenth and Webster,
creating a small blaze that called out
the fire department.
The ladies of the First Baptist
church gave a social in honor of Rev.
A. W. Lamar, the new pastor of the
church.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
People and EUents

Drake Watson, who has beeu elected speaker
Of the lower house of the Missouri legislature, is
farmers boy, who by his own exertions secured
a university and law school education, and before
he was 80 years had made his mark in the field
OF politics.
Lord Davenport, who has been appointed Eng
lands food dictator" started his business
career as clerk at the age of IA years. At q
years of age he was in business for himself and
eventually he rose to be the head OF one Of the
largest provision firms in the United Kingdom.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
Storyette of the Day.

George AIDE. the humorist, was talk
ing at the Chicago Athletic club about
the new fashions.
II took tea at the Auditorium with
a bachelor the other day. he said.
After tea, as we waited for taxi,
l remarked:
That was a pretty girl who sat at
the table opposite ours
I didn't notice her, the bachelor
answered, absently.
oh. yes, you did, said I. The
girl with the sable collar, the white
blouse, the string of pearls and the
black velvet beret on her charming
blonde head
mo, ! didn't notice her. he re-
peated.
I'm sure you must have noticed
her. l said. She had on high heeled
bronze shoes and bronze silk stockings
with openwork-
My friend gave delighted laugh.
"'Oh, yes!' he said She was
peach, wasn't she?' philadelphia
Bulletin.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

Canada's contribution to the fighting forces of
the empire total 100000 men, of whom 10000
crossed the seas last year. All these are volun-
tary enlistments. Still more troops are wanted
The supply of volunteers appears about ex-
hausted and that fact explains the gathering
shadows of CONSUMPTION in the Dominion
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.

The little S-year-old son Of John L.
Hill, the Thirteenth street butcher,
while playing on high bank on the
Bellevue road, fell distance of TWEEN
ty-five feet sustaining only a bruised
arm and a sprained knee. 1t is
thought young Hill will make a BIZ
cycle rider if he lives to grow up.
A single gentleman is advertising
for a furnished room in a locality
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

To make the nonpartisan ballot effective for
its intent and purpose, men holding nonpartisan
Offices must be kept off OF partisan ballots. This
can easily be done by barring them from seek
ing party nominations during the terms for which
they shall have been elected as nonpartisans and
this rule, which now applies to judges so elected,
should be made to apply generally.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

As long as the League to Enforce Peace looked
like the special property of former President Taft
as its most earnest and active advocate, demo-
cratic orators and organs were knocking it ham
mer and tongs, but now that President Wilson
has taken over proprietary interest, watch them
put on the soft pedal
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
TODAY.


Many young folks are troubled with
acne. commonly known as black
heads" but they need not be il they
will besides watching the general
health, take a cold bath or warm
one, followed by a brisk rubbing,
every day. They should also gaze with
disdain on candy, pastry, cakes and
pies
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

Foresghted and forehanded, Omaha club
women want guaranty that woman will be
named on the proposed municipal civil service
board. Do they want equal chance with the
men or the special privilege of having one place
cinched and chance at all the othersa In the
interest of safety first" we suggests that one
place be guaranteed to a mere man.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

Among other thrilling features Of the war the
reproduction in real life Of the Flying Dutch
man" under. Germanic colors takes first rank.
The operations Of the latest Teutonc raider sends
fiction to the back shelf.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

According to the Wall Street Journal, the COM
ing quarterly statements of American steel mills
will show earning never dreamt Of before the
war" This may explain why the mills, gorged
with war profits, passed up normal profits in the
navy she'll contract.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

By the way, the supreme court Of South Da-
kota clearly marks the railroad station at which
the Interstate Commerce commission gets off.
The information might be serviceable to neigh
boring courts
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
DEAR Mr.. kAs\BbG<
A NOUNS LAW I KNOW Is Al
HOME Ill -WAM KIND OF
CANDY SHOULD Z SEND ARt
800 MOSES
W.
Ann BRANp-HEn VISITORS
WONI CARE!
W6

Hes honest, anyhow"
What makes you think so?"
II asked him the other day IL he thought
peace was near in Europe and he said right
off the bat that he didn't know blamed
thing about it!"-Detrot Free Press
You say he has no money!"
None
NO prospects,"
None"
why on earth does she want to marry
such a MANI"
'She says she loves him. "--Louisvil,a
Courier j Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

II will be noted. however, that President Viii
son exercises his constitutional right to advise
with the senate by telling members Of that august
body what he has decided to do and without
asking any advice from them.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
This Day in History.

This Day in History.
1746-Gustavus III. king of Sweden,
born in Stockholm. Assassinated March
20, 1892.
1749-Charles J. Fox, the greatest
Of England's statesmen. who advocated
the independence of the United States.
Died September 10, 1906.
1S35-Charles Kendall Adams, for
many years president of the University
of Wisconsin, born at Derby, Vt. Died
at Redlands, Cal, July rs, 1902.
1S67-Schleswig Holstein, formally
Incorporated with Prussia.
1869-First Protestant meeting for
public worship in Madrid
1S71-Count Bismarck was made
chancellor of the German empire.
1SSS-Centenary of New South
Wales, celebrated at Sydney.
1S90-Nine hundred fishing boats
wrecked and many lives lost in
violent storm that swept the coast of
Japan
1S95-Queen Liliuokalani abdicated
the throne of Hawaii.
1901-King Edward VII Of Great
Britain and Ireland, and emperor of
India, was proclaimed.
19o3-Treaty providing for mixed
commission to settle Alaskan bound
airy, signed at Washington,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
The Day We Celebrate.

The Day We Celebrate.
Joseph H. Choate, lawyer, orator,
and former ambassador to Great
Britain. born at Salem, Mass, thirty
five years ago today.
Charles H. Niehaus who has been
selected to design the Francis Scott
Key memorial at Baltimore, born in
Cincinnati, O., sixty-two years ago
today.
Marcus A. Smith, United States SEN
ator from Arizona, born near Gym
thiana, KY, sixty-five years ago today
Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, national
president of the Florence Crittenton
League Of Compassion, born in STAFF
ford county, Virginia, fifty-nine years
ago today.
Charles r. Flint. New York ner-
chant, banker and shipowner, born at
Thomaston, Me, sixty-seven years ago
today
Moses P. kinkaid. representative in
congress of the Sixth Nebraska dis
trict born in Monongahela county,
West Virginia, sixty-three years ago
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

The element Of "sagacious craftsmanship at
tributed to the presidents latest deliyerance lies
not so much in the form as in the chosen moment
A like deliverance during the late campaign would
take rank as political bunder
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

When it comes to enforcing the proposed
world peace pact, it may be taken for granted
that Henry Ford will stand ready to respond to
all reasonable requisitions
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

Unfortunately for the allies there is no Tom
Lawson in sight to thunder demand for prob
ing the leak in the blockade.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

In the threatened battle between Mayor jim
and the Woman's club, the safety of neutrals lie:
in the direction of tall timber.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

If the blue sky laws Of Michigan and South
Dakota hold up against attack in the courts, Ne
braska's blue sky law will probably also stand
Promoters of get-rich-quick projects will take
notice and govern themselves accordingly
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
One Year Ago Today In the War.

Austrians occupied Antivari and
Dulcigno
French and Germans engaged in
hand grenade battle near Melville.
Germans attempted heavy attacks in
Belgium and northern France, but met
with severe repulse.
Germany submitted another Lusi-
tania proposal. eliminating mention of
warning and denial Of wrong doing.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

No objection to scientists amusing themselves
with the Darwinian theory, but decent regard
for their forbears forbds lifting the lid off bysone
family affairs.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

It may be recalled that Uncle Sam frequently
has been proposed for the role Of international
policeman, but invariably declined the job because
home troubles were enough to keep him busy.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

It's dollars to doughnuts Woodrow Wilson
pulls down that Nobel peace prize ahead OF Will
liam Jennings Bryan
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

Any prominent citizen who has not been hon
ored with eoionelcy no doubt can have the over
sight corrected by dropping hint in the right
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

One patriotic member Of our Nebraska leg
islature proposes to take money spent for news
paper advertising out from under the candidates
campaign expense limitation. Now you're talk
ing!
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24

The unacceptable conclusion is that villa,
dead or alive" is dead ISSUE
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-24
SMILING LINES.

What do you think of this wonderful
work of art?" she asked as she proudly
led him to where hanging in state the
impressionist landscape she had purchased,
Il think" he replied after careful in
vestigation, that the man who did 1t must
have had painters cOlic."-Baltimore Amer
lean.
Flatbush-This paper says of all animals
dogs seem to evince the keenest musica |
susceptibility. Do you believe that?
Bensonhurst-Yes, l do, because every
time your daughter tries to sing my dog
growls.-Yonkers Statesman.