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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28

pened three years ago at Ypres-where now, again, the Germans are trying to smash through the British line. It is the simplest of war maps, composed of a single straight line. In one dia- gram, the line for two thirds of it's length represents two Canadian bri- gades entrenched before Ypres., One- third, on the left of the line. represents French troops, mostly Turcos and Zouaves That shows the position at o'clock in the afternoon of this April day 1915-described as "a peace- full day. warm and sunny. with 2 pleasant breeze blowing across the trenches"
 The second diagram shows only thel line of the Canadians-the French arel gone, driven out of their trenches and swept off the field by the fumes from q strange yellow cloud chlorine gas as was later learned. of a sudden pouredl from the German side. Outnumbered. and with their left flank thus exposed| to the infantry rush that followed theI gas attack, the Canadians stood anal died-and won an imperishablc page inI the annals of the war. There were mol gas masks then. They used wet nand7I kerchiefs, and learned. too, that to falll back would merely mean to keep pace} with the deadly cloud as it rolled on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
THE MARTYRS POSE.

THE MARTYRS POSE. 'Tt's bad enough for your wife to sit up at night and wait for you to roll in from the club" said MT. Jibway. "so it is," replied MT. Gadspur, sym pathetically.
 But my wife contrives to make me feel meaner than I would otherwise" How so?"
 "She sits up and reads the Bible.r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven. -Richard II.
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BEGINNING THE DAY-Senrch me out with Thine eyes, O my Lord. Which weighs more with me, the cry of the crowd or the still, small voice. Do I obey men or God: Am I the hired creature of the multitude. Does fear hold the wheel in my life: Give me that unchanging courage which was His. Amcn.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
THE ORIGINAL DYNAMITE GUN

From the Rochester Democrat and
 Chronicle.
 The persistent claim of the Germans that they are bombardig the city of Paris by means of monster gun, sit. uated at distance of 75 miles, re- calls a plan, formulated in the eighties. for the protection of the port of Char lotte, now the port of Rochester.
 Captain Zalinski, a West Point grad uate and Civil war veteran of the regular army, came to Rochester with from a possible enemy fleet threaten ing it from Lake Ontario; and he de- voted several days to the study of the ports aefensives. It was at once made plain that the plan was strictly tech nical. as this country and Canada were on friendly terms.
 Captain Zalinski, taking advantage of the use of nitro-glycerine in the modified form of dynamite, had in vented a new and alleged terribly de- structive dynamite gun. It was oper- ated by means of compressed air. While comparatively light in construction, 1t was claimed that it would throw six inch dynamite shell, capable of striking and destroying ship at a distance of six miles.
 One of these weapons was to be mounted on the point just west of where the Lake Ontario Water com pany plant is located. another near the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
BLACKMAN,s WAR CARTOONS

From the Weekly Call.
 Few propagandists of patriotism have done more or better work thar n has Cartoonist Walter Blackman oil The Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
ADRIFTT WITH THE TIMES

A CHANGE TO HELP. There's none so poor, You must admit, Who cannot do,
 Somehow, his bit. The patriot
 We greatly prize Will never cease
 To "Hooverize" Until the job
 Abroad is done And we've put down
 The boastful Hun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
FLORAL FREAKS.

If by any hocus-poeus You're awakened before dawn, You can blame it on the crocus Croaking out there on. the lawn.
 -Springfield Union. Or, if you'll kindly pardon us This sere and ancient wheeze, Mayhap it was the ringing Of the bluebells in the breeze.
 Lewiston Journal If at this little matter You'd let me take a whack I'd suggest it was the tulips Just having one sweet smack.
 -Quippe oui But if upon reflection You should fall asleep, 'tis said You'll be awakened by the noises In the Johnny Jump-up bed.
 Seneca News. If these verses start you weeping Tears that run in little rills You had best resume your sleeping In bed of daffodils.
 Youngstown Telegram. But you'll never be a wonder At accunulating rocks" If you regulate your movements By the lazy four-o' clocks.
 EXCEPTIONS. "Is It tr''e that the possession of an automobile makes person look down on pedestrians?" Not always I've known a few own- CTS of flivvers to wear an apologetic air when forcing me to leap for my life,
 PAUL COOK. B
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28

old lighthouse in the village of Char lotte, another on the east side of the Genesee river on the bluff at Windsor Beach and still another near where the big Spanish gun was for time placed in what is now the Durand- Eastman park.
 As now appears, German scientists were even then experimenting with still more powerful explosives, to be used in combination with deadly gas, in the fearful Armageddon which, even then. the maniacal Hun was planning for the worlds domination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28

for the 1918 publication indicated a population of nearly 216,0O0 for Bir- mingham and its immediate suburbs; leaving out the environs about 2lo,- 900 for the city inside the boundary lines.
 Evidences of growth have been more remarked this spring than ever. If the school census is thoroughly enumerated, Birmingham's' population should be close to 220,000.
 In the federal census of 1920 Bir- mingham should reach the 500,000 mark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
IN PRE-WAR DAYS.

T long for the good old times" said the man who hates noise and tumult.
 "Yes?"
 ''When the most exciting piece of news in my daily paper was the announce ment that the stork was again lowering over the royal palace in Madrid"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28

the singular cruelty of the gas attack is that the victim is always subjected to lingering torture.
 The invention of asphyxiating pro- jectiles had long been in the mind of military scientists when the peace con- ferences met at The Hague. The ban on them was the result of discussion of the subject of making war more Humane" It was assumed, as a gen. eral proposition, that since the only legitimate object of warfare is the crippling cE the enemy's fighting forces, means ought to be found for achieving it without aggravating the sufferings of the individuals composing them But, except for the agreements forbidding gas projectiles and dum- -dum bullets. nothing came of it. For more than three years now, the civilized part of tlnD world has witnessed, with growing horror and indignation, the working out of settled policy on the part of Germany to make war in the most frightful forms conceivable, and inflict all the human misery possible.
 A war map iR two diagrams which will be preserved by the historian since it marks an epoch as we'll as illustrat- ing an episode, shows us what hap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
ONE OF THE sHUT-INs.

ONE OF THE sHUT-INs. T have just received letter from my boy. who is now in France" Flows he getting along?" ''very well, but I'm afraid his work at the front is rather confining." You are joking aren't your" Nope. He's member of a tank crew."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28

PASSING OUT. What have you there?' "A book of recipes published about 10 years ago. Here's a paragraph devoted to one of the lost arts" How can it be lost art if there is recipe for it?"
 'To all :ntents and purposes, it's lost, having to do with the concocting of mint iuleps."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28

TELEPHONE Bell (private exchange connecting all departmental Main 490O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28

From the Providence Journal
 TN the casualty lists "gassed" is as
 familiar word as any other for S describing the nature of an injury. Rnt the gas attack was never heard or hefore this war; and it remains the one ore.t novelty of military science that ,ba war has so far produced. The gun that shoots 70 miles is only bigger run. The tank is a development of the armored car and tractor. The latter, though new in war, were already de- ve1oned from the automobile when hos tilities began
 Gas was introduced by the Germans three years ago. It was stroke of frightfulness of which there was no forewarning in all history-a surpass ing illustration of German ingenuity in employing the tools of science for the waging of war.
 The German gas machine was not dreamed of when The Hague peace conference adopted the articles by which the powers agreed to abstain from the use of projectiles the sole obiect of which is the diffusion of as- phyxiating or deleterious gas" Death in other forms may be agonizing, but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter, un- der act of Congress, March 8, 1879.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15

Germany has SURRENDERED" ut is surrender;
complete, AFFECT and ON our own conditions en-
tirely." The success of Mr.. Wilson's diplo-
macy has been as dazzling as that of our arms
and the Allied arms" Yes, dear reader, you
guessed right. These are excerpts from the raw
ings of the Omaha Hyphenated over the Ger
man note. Its educated-in-Germany owner,
who is chairman (by right of seniority of the
senate committee on foreign relations, says:
'The German terms can be accepted if sufficient
guarantees are given" Which side of the war
would you say this outfit is on?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
Where Man Outdoes Nature.

Normally such disasters as the Minnesota
forest fires or the Porto Rican earthquake
would absorb public attention to the exclu-
sion of all other topics. Today they are &C
cepted as matters of passing .oment only.
Not that our people are no longer sympathetic,
grown cold and Indifferent to human misery,
or that they will lag in administering comfort
to the stricken. The calm acceptance of such
disasters as matters of course comes from an
experience with horror so extensive that moth
ing can add to it. Natures commissions, en-
gulfng thousands, are Majestic exhibitions of
uncontrolled force, but they dwindle when
compared to the dire devastation deliberately
wrought by man. Human sympathies have
been so shocked and numbed within the last
four years that giving of relief now has more
the form of routine act than the outcome of
a warm and generous impulse. Man has so far
outdone nature in spreading terror in the
world that ordinary disasters no longer thrill
the mind or challenge the Imagination. Our
sufferers at home will be cared for and will
have compassion in their misfortunes, but the
record made by the Hun will be shadow over
the world for generations.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
The Bees Free Shoe Fund.

As companion charity to our summer
season Free Milk and Ice Fund for hot
weather little tots, The Bee, with the help of
its sympathetic readers, will establish Free
Shoe Fund" for shoeess children of needy
families otherwise unable to attend school
through the winter time
The exceptional success that has met our
efforts to furnish milk and ice to relieve suffer-
ing babies leads US to believe the present ap-
peal for shoeless school children will also have
a generous response.
That such charity is not only needed but
of practical application and certain of definite
results is the unanimous verdict of charity work
ers and school teachers who have been con-
suited. Youngsters simply can not trudge
through snow and ice with feet sticking through
tattered shoes or do their lessons while suffer
ing from frosted toes or chlblains, Too many
children are deprived of their education be-
cause poor parents can not keep them in shoes
at present high prices. 1t is to keep these
children in school and comfortable while going
to school that this shoe money will be spent.
To prevent imposition the fund will be ad-
ministered through a committee of school
teachers already appointed by Superintendent
Beverage. Contributions, which are asked for
in sums not exceeding S. in order to make it
popular charity and give all chance to help
with mite will be acknowledged through The
Bee and a strict accounting made from time to
time of the disposition of the money.
We hope and have reason to believe
The Bees Free Shoe Fund will become an
established institution, as has the Free Milk
and Ice Fund"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
CENTER SHOTS

st. Louis Globe Democrat: Your
shining sword, with the handle this
way, Wilhelm; that's all.
New York Herald II have extend
ed my hand" says the kaiser. One
is not enough. He will be listened
to only when he extends both-up-
ward.
Minneapolis Tribune: The allied
armies have gotten beyond the ne
cessity of putting on gas masks when
the Hohenzollerns launch a peace
drive.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: Bull
garia entered the war in the belle
that Germany would win. 1t seeks
peace in the certainty that Germany
must lose.
Baltimore American: The kaiser
who declared he would stand no
nonsense from America, is finding
out that the Americans are not going
to stand any nonsense !om him.
Washington post: 1--WE shall try
so far as possible to grant auto
Monty to nationalties in Hungary"
says Count Tisza. The enemy Is so
anxious for peace that he is even
willing to dilute it with little free
dom.
Brooklyn Eagle: Hara Is the first
commoner who ever became Premier
in Japan, and the first man who ever
got that honor because he headed a
majority in the Diets lower house.
The future yielding to the doctrine
of ministerial responsibility is ad-
umbrated. That makes the choice
of Hara a constitutional landmark.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
Fixing Value for Good Will"

One of the most aggravating stumbling
blocks in the way of levying tax on profits is
that of good will That this intangible asset
has value is admitted by all, but how to ascer-
tain and correctly set it down none has discov-
ered Congress got around it by permitting it
to be entered on the books wherever it could
be shown that its value had been established
by actual purchase. But this only applied in
cases where business had been sold, and could
not be made use of by going concern that had
built up and developed its own good will and
still enjoyed that valuable but intangible asset
in its management
The question is likely to assume an acute,
and perhaps equally perplexing, phase in an
other of the governments transactions. Samuel
Untermyer of New York, addressing the bank
ers convention in Chicago, pointed out that
through Mr.. McAdoo's management of the rail-
roads the element of built-up or developed good
will is being destroyed. Contracts, traffic ar
engagements and similar tangibles are disappear
ing by reason of readjustments., These may be
traced and accounted for, and some compensa-
ton made when the final settlement comes, but
INC inlanSlDieS tHat WeHe Wlpea out cannot De
so weighed, and yet their loss will be noted in
the value OF stocks.
Difference in value between live and dead
concern is always ascertainable but the essence
of developed good will is its continuing pres
ence. 1t is not transitory in a going concern,
but vanishes quickly under such ministrations
as have been visited on the railroads. Sooner
or later the question of how to deal with this
must be squarely faced, but its solution will not
be arrived at speedily or easily
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
State Press Comments

Alliance Times: The mayor came
home Monday night and the walks
were cleaned off Tuesday morning
for the first time in the two rainy
weeks. Blessed Is the name Of the
mayor.
Edgar Post: The Post is in favor
of the next Nebraska legislature put
ting up law forever barring for
eign languages, and candidates who
favor that should be elected.
Beatrice Express: The temporary
closing of the clubs, cigar stores and
pool halls gave number Of Beatrice
men a much needed opportunity to
remain at home and get acquainted
with their families.
Norfolk Press: Omaha Is to build
tower of liberty" on the court
house lawn. II they build it as high
as the price of butter II will be likely
to topple over and endanger the sur
rounding buildings.
Fremont Tribune: Under the
stimulus Of the passage of a bill by
the lower house Of congress facilitat-
ing the development Of water power
there is present talk of revival of
Platte river projects. OF course
these will have o wait till after the
war. but 1t is a good idea to begin
now to get ready for that active
period Of development.
Fairbury News: The more we
think of this peace proposition
the more we feel convinced that the
proper thing for the allies to do
would be to turn the kaiser over to
the French for a peace settlement
When a man considers what the
French have endured 1t almost
freezes the blood in his veins. Ger
tainly no one Of the allies could for
a moment consider a peace plan that
was not heartily concurred in by that
long suffering people.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
Looters Forced to Let Go

Not without reason did the German high
command keep grim hold as long as possible on
Lens. Its capture means coal not only for
France, but for the American and British armies
France before the war produced not quite
three-fourths OF its coal, more than half the
home yield coming from the Flemish basin, OF
which Lens is vital railway center. Exploita-
ton of this basin in France and Belgium was as
much part of the Prussian scheme of war theft
as the annexation of the Brey district iron
mines.
The western and southern suburbs of Lens.
including Levin. have been in allied Hands for
months, but under FIRE. The capture of Lens
itself releases its very important railway juno
ton as we'll as further large groups OF mines,
such as the St. Auguste, Grand Condo and
Avion.
In France once more becoming mistress Of
its own resources an additional proof of the
value of the united command is furnished by
those American engineers and mining experts
who stood ready instantly upon the fall of Lens.
to enter the mines left wrecked by the retreating
Germans and restore them in the shortest posi-
sAle time to operation.
Bringing cheer for the French winter, aid for
r industry and relief for tonnage. the capture
hens is an event of the highest significance
lie entire future of the war.-New York
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
PUBLIC SENTIMENT PLAIN.

President Wilson's reply to the latest note
from Berlin refers the question of armistice
to the military authorities. While this probably
means the war will 90 on no doubt is left as to
the sentiment of the American people. 1t is
overwhelming for unconditional surrender. The
timid voice of the pro-German pacfists, who
favor accepting the proffer from the kaiser, is
lost in the resounding call of devoted patriots
for the prosecution of the war to finish-the
it will be visited upon them.
The president also insists that no cessation
of arms can be looked for until German atroc-
tiles on land and sea have ceased. His notice
that autocracy must go before final peace can
come is not so definite. 1t is clear, however,
that he can not be insensible to the atti-
tude of the country vigorously voiced, despite
the request of 'the government to withhold
judgment" Diplomatic word-spnnng or the
Juggling OF ambiguous phrases will not find
favor in America today. What the people
want is plain talk
1t is noteworthy in this connection that only
one senator has so far been quoted as saying
the German proposal might be accepted. That
ore is Hitchcock of Nebraska, by accident at
the head OF the senates committee on foreign
relations. On the other hand, Senator Cham
berlain of Oregon, chairman of the military
affairs committee, and Senator Thomas of
Colorado, of the same committee, for the dem
ocrats, and Senators New of Indiana and
Lodge of Massachusetts,, for the republicans,
have urged in the senate the popular demand
for the defeat of Germany in the field.
President Wilson need, not worry about
the support of the people in his decision to
reject the suspicious overtures irom the Huns
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
TODAY.
Right in the Spotlight.

A stalwart figure surmounted by
a massive head-a personality GER
tain to arrest attention anywhere.
Such is Vice Admiral William. S.
Sims, the commander of the Ameri-
can naval forces operating in Euro
pean waters, who today is in line
for congratulations on his sixtieth
birthday. Admiral Sims is a native
of Canada. He entered the United
States Naval academy from Penn
sylvania, and was graduated in 1880
In addition to the routine duties OF
his calling he has served as naval
aide at the American embassies at
Paris and St. Petersburg. From
1907 to 1909 he was naval aide at
tached to the president. Atthe be-
ginning of the present war he was
president of the War college at
Newport. The admiral is man
of the athletic school. a lover OF out
door games, neither smokes nor
drinks. and would like all of Uncle
Sans sailors to do likewise.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Rudy Cheeks-SparklingEyes
Most Women Can Have
Says Dr.. Edwards, a WE'LL Known
Ohio Physician

Dr.F.M. Edwards for 17years treated
scores of women for liver and bowel all
ments, During these years he gave to
his patients a prescription made Of q
few well.known vegetable ingredients
mixed with olive oil. naming them
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know them by their olive color.
These tablets are wonder.workes5 On
the liver and bowels which cause Q
normal action. carrying off the waste
and poisonous matter in ones system.
If you have pale face, sallow look.
dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head
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of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one Of
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly for
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Thousands of women as well as men
take DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the
successful substitute for calomel-now
and then just tokeepin thepink ofcondi-
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
The Day We Celebrate.

John Q. Yeiscr. attorney-at-law
born 1866.
Victor D. Reynolds, Nebraska
sales manager for the Dalton add
ing machine, born 1865.
Byron ]. Reed, of Reed Brothers
born 1879.
William J. Hotz, attorney-at-law.
born 1885.
Peter f. Traub, major-general in
United States army, born in New
York, 81 years ago.
Gen. Robert Nivelle. famous
French commander, born at Tulle,
France, 90 years ago.
Ernest c. Peixotto, one of the art
lists appointed by the United States
government to make a pictorial his
tory of the war, born in San Fran
cisco, 40 years ago.
Charles Ernest Chadsey, super
intendent of the Detroit public
schools, born at Nebraska City, Neb,
48 years ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-15
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Springfield Postmaster's Loyalty.

Springfield, Neb., Oct. s.-To the
Editor of The Bee: In your paper
of recent date was an article con-
corning the loyalty Of Postmaster
Olderog of Springfield, Neb. 1t
stated that he had attempted to eject
the Congregational minister from the
postotfice for reading Of the allied
victories.
This Preacher" Pych. with his
very few followers, had been making
the postoffice a loafing place, where
they discussed all topics from re-
ligion to how our great generals
should conduct this war On the
day mentioned the preacher" was
reading in such loud tones that he
not only annoyed other patrons, but
the clerks themselves. So when Mr..
Olderog asked him to either stop or
leave he was only doing his duty, for
it is his privilege to maintain order
in his place of business.
AS for the postmaster, he has
been a subscriber to every one OF the
Liberty loans and has bought more
than his quota of war stamps. and
there never was a petition started
here for a good cause but his name
could be found on it.
EX-PATRIOTIC Lacquer.