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Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
OutdoinR Attila In Deviltry.

| Innate and exuberant savagery marked the
progress of the ancient Hun across Europe, At
tia boosted the grass never grew again where
his horse had passed. In the pride OF his brutal
strength he destroyed all he could reach Just as
therefore, his boast was to great degree merely
a figure OF speech His successors are making a
far more terrible record They have advantages
Attila wot nothing Of; he had no high explosives,
no modern enginery and well-built walls defed
his strength, while woods and orchards waved
long after he had passed,
These things easy to the present day Ger
man. With cold-booded scientific purpose he
goes about to loot and then to raze the cities he
fundamental and thorough. THE abandonment
of this sector (north of the ,Oise) was prepared
with our customary care" says dispatch from
the Wolff bureau published in Berlin papers,
land we have been able without being interrupted
to take away from this region everything that
would be of any use to the adversary"
Everything means just that Household
furniture, clothing, bric-a-brac, ornaments of any
kind, all the possessions of high or low, have gone
in with the merchandise and similar loot, to be
hauled away to Germany, sorted and sold. When
that was done home and howell church and pal
ace, factory and storeroom were destroyed, de-
berately and completely Military necessity did
not require it, nor did the act itself deter the pur
suing army to any advantage of the retreatng
Germans The worlds history holds no parallel
for the wantonness that has marked the retire
ment of the invader from the region he held
Attila suffers by comparison to the modern
missionaries of mischief
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
Mr.. RooseveRs Prize Mone/

Mr.. Roosevelt's distribution of the Nobel
peace prize money which congress recently
returned to him, is, characteristic. He real
ICES how small comparatively speaking the
total sum is if measured by the necessities of
the time; and so he selects, not one or two
war activities for remembrance, but very
inclusive list, with the view of approaching
and encouraging all. The Red Cross, the
Young Mems Christian association, the Sal
walton Army, the Knights of Columbus and
the Jewish Welfare board are among the
more obvious of these. But Mr. Roosevelt's
sympathies have so wide a range that he
does not forget the needs of Belgium, Ser,
bia, Roumania. Armenia, the victims of Ger
man cruelty in France, the Russians, the
Czecho-Slovaks, and large number of more
or less personal enterprises in which war
workers are engaged. More welcome to
these, in sense, than the money will be the
evidence that the former president of the
United States is an ardent upholder of the
causes they epresent-Philadelph Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
Around the Cities

Sioux City plans to put over its
share Of the fourth Liberty loan in "a
hours. Watch the Indians do 1t.
One year of war economies reduced
by one-third the volume Of alcoholic
cases treated in the hospitals OF New
York City.
Washington cops pulled off ball
game a week ago Saturday and pulled
down $4,000 for the police pension
fund. 1t wasn't a world series game,
either. but the box Office looked it.
Pending a final court decision on
the scent fares in Kansas City, Mo,
the company is required to impound
the excess pennies and give every pas
senger a receipt for a cent.
1t would cost perhaps $2O,000,000
to make Chicago ratproof, according
to experts, who also figure that the
principal would be saved in three
years by the reduction of rat depreda-
tons.
Baltimore is training battalions of
its high school boys for the task of as
sisting in gathering the huge apple
crop ripening in the surrounding
country That's a job at which a live
boy will shine. Working and MUNICH
ing pippens at the same time radiates
a grade of joy that is in class by
itself.
Back in Cleveland the marriage Ii
cense clerk experienced land office
rush Of business during the first three
days of the week. Some smooth work.
ers circulated the notion that mar
riage buttressed exemption claims, and
eligible registrants swallowed the bait.
Did the girls boost the report? Perish
the thought
In anticipation of the drouth in beer
and whisky, municipal flnanciers of
the big cities are figuring on prospec-
tive losses II the worst comes, New
York City stands to lose $1S,000.000
year in liquor licenses and taxes. Chi
cago will suffer a revenue loss of
about $S,000,000. How these deficits
are to be made good perplexes the
tax gathers.
Boil the shaving brushes" warns
the Minneapolis Board of Health.
Wartime brushes are made of horse
hair with an outside layer of badger
hair. In the view of the board this
combination may carry germs of
anthrax. Boil the new brushes in a
10 per cent solution of formalin," says
the board. The solution should be
10 degrees hot and the brush should
remain in it four hours
Councilman w. r. Hamilton Of
Sioux City, one of the reformers elect
ed last spring, has reformed himself
out of the job. Local courts put the
lex" before his title. Hamilton had
charge Of the police department and
conducted a series of raids which dis
credited his sense of responsibility.
He Regarded the job as a sort of a
picnic, and now senses the morning
after feeling
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
S1gnposts OF Progress
Experiments have shown that good

Experiments have shown that good
paper can be made of grapevine.
Operated by water motor, an ele-
vator has been invented for moving
heavy objects up and down stairs in
residences.
A new electric spotlight for auto
mobiles projects strong beam Of
light for 500 feet, surrounded by a
cone of diffused rays.
Receipts of the Internal Revenue
bureau show that as the war pro-
crosses Americans are spending less
on travel and more on amusements.
1t has been demonstrated that
platinum wire may be drawn so fine
as to be invisible to the naked eye,
although its presence upon q card
can be detected by the touch.
A new receiver for wireless mes
sages, which will hear stations 10
miles away, is but little larger than
a fountain pen and transmits sounds
when one end is inserted into a per-
sons ear.
The state supreme court has ruled
that where a Colorado employer sends
worker outside the state as part of
his employment, and the worker is
killed, dependents can collect COM
pensation benefits.
The telescribe, an instrument which
records both sides of a conversation,
is said to be- Thomas Edison's latest
invention. The telescribe consists of
a debating machine which has special
receiving appliances and socket in
which the ordinary telephone receiver
is placed. The message may be con-
firmed at any time by use of the die
tating machine.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
Whitfield to O. Point

Baltimore American: We shall be
disappointed if we do not learn that
some Of our brave colored troops par
ticipated in the capture of Ham.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: A German
general says that If the British dictate
peace, the fatherland will be wiped
off the map. And what a wonderIui
thing nice, clean map will be!
New York World: When General
Bernhard wrote Germany and the
Next War he did not foresee that
Marshal Haig was to beat out Of him
large part of his personal interest
in the subject.
Brooklyn Eagle: In melting up the
statues of dead kings the Prussians
and the Bavarians show lamentaple
misunderstanding of things. It's the
living monarch that should be tackled
and pulled down. He is the cause OF
all misfortunes.
Louisville Courier-Journal: Bryan.
speaking to 800 persons at HOT
Springs. Va, offers sane advice:
Give implicit support to everything
the government demands" Doing so
will insure quick end of the war; a
quick return to old-fashioned Ameri-
caniSm.
Minneapolis Tribune: Talaat Pasha
says there is no sense in continuing
the hostilities" There was no sense
in beginning them, but they will be
continued, we hope, until that bloody
| beast in Constantinople is stood up
before firing squad. To him. with
the sanction of the kaiser, are to be
charged the Armenian outrages and
wholesale massacres.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
BoLsHEvIKI DECEPTION EXPOSED.

An interesting chapter of the war history is
being supplied by the federal government, which
has made public its proof of the bargain between
the bolsheviki and the German government When
Lenine and Trotzky appeared in Perograd,
shortly after the revolution of March, 1917, the
charge that they were German agents was openly
made, Many events since that time have justi-
fed this, and now positive proof OF their treach-
cry to the cause OF freedom is at hand
Many apologists for this precious pair have
arisen, in America and elsewhere, and they have
had extravaganza praise as devoted agents OF the
downtrodden Extreme socialists have found in
them the incarnation OF brotherhood and peace,
and sappy writer's have glorihed the pucrile
proclamation OF peace to the proletariat, sent
from Petrograd after the Smolny Institute group
had captured the Winter Palace.
No people, avid for liberty, hopeful OF its
blessings, ever was so shamelessly betrayed by
those it looked to for guidance. The ignorant,
supersttous mujik, accustomed to the resonant
eloquence of fanatical dreamers, hazily cropping
for firm hold on fundamentals, finds himself
delivered helpless to his worst enemy, victim
of his credulity, and led to his own undoing by
the prophets who had promised him the mil
lennium.
Germany proudly boasts of how Russias mil
lions were brought to harinlessness as soldiers.
Even the kaiser has limited that this was one
added proof of the valor of his army. Less may
be said hereafter in Berlin on this topic now that
it is known to be but another triumph for the
crafty doubk>dealing of the Potsdam gang, who
know no morals, nor honor, nor any sense of
truth. II such thing possible another
blot of shame is thus added to the German
record of the war already so black that this will
hardly be noticed i'll the smudges and smears that
have dishonored the kaiser's escuchcon
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
People and Events

Put your dollar through the hole of the
doughnut.
Army shoes are not of the bargain counter
brand in price. The latest contract for new
footwear calls for Sis pair.
Thirty-hve million Americans carry life in
surance totaling $60,000,000000. The bust
ness doubled in a little over year. These
official figures emphasize the development
of protective thrift in the United States.
Advance couriers of the fourth Liberty
loan expect to rally 100000 subscribers in
three weeks. The going is particularly good
abroad. The speed of the home folks in dig
ging up must not be less, but more, and then
some.
Gasless Sundays east of the Mississippi
river stages a startling quietness along coun-
try highways and city streets. Voluntary
observance of the day markedly increased
attendance at churches and left millions of
gallons of gas unused in the tanks. Success
of the gasless Sunday in the east suggests an
early tryout west of the big river.
While the matter carries only a reminis-
cent interest hereabouts, it is worth while
noting that the order shutting down all the
remaining breweries in the country Deem
Der throws pail of gloom over political
workers in the wet belt. A severe shrinkage
in the volume of campaign funds impends.
The brewers, of course, will not chip in as
usual. Unless new sources of oil are tapped
the machines face season of nerve-racking
friction.
Down in southwestern Iowa, where ex-
empts or conscientious directors" of the
Amish sect drifted in for farm work, resident
farmers have entered an emphatic objection
They will have none of them and have
warned the newcomers to seek other fields.
The policy of the War department in grant
ing exemption on sectarian grounds and at
the same time drafting farmers does not look
like square deal to farmers on the spot, and
they decline the exchange
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
Odd BITS OF Late

Ten per cent Of the entire popula-
ton of Massachusetts,, or 100000 peo-
pie of voting age, are unable to read
or write English.
The natives of New Guinea are the
shortest-lived people in the world,
which is attributed to their diet Of
the larvae of certain beetles and their
practice of drinking sea water.
Official reports made by some ma
tional banks in the northwest to the
controller of the currency show that
many bank directors in that section
cannot write their names and so use
a mark.
Because he had invented paper
sack for potatoes, the manager of a
British textile engineering firm re-
ceived six months exemption from
army service. Germany has been
making paper sacks for years.
James A. Garfield, then member
of congress, addressing an excited
crowd in New York the morning after
Abraham Lincoln's assassination,
used the phrase, God reigns and the
government at Washington still
lives"
Amasa Morse, an elder in the Ad-
ventist church at Stafford Springs,
Conn, who died recently at 104 years,
taught school when young man and
outlived all his pupils. He preached
in Adventist churches over half a GEN.
fury.
A curious tree stands on the top
of Tunnel Hill, Johnstown, Pa, about
four miles from town. 1t is a sugar
maple about 100 years old which has
prolonged its own life by grating a
branch into a much younger tree.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
GOING WITHOUT.

All this eatng's just a habit anyway,
to,
When they take away some ylctual
Or restrict us to a little.
We surprise them, our objections are so
few.
We're discovering that many things we had,
Prime essentials, necessartes, as we
thought,
Are the merest, passing trifles,
Simply naught compared with rifles.
What a divers lot of changes war has
wrought!
Once we knew the inner meaning OF dessert
And demanded loaves containing only
wheat.
Now when shortages are bristlng
Everywhere, we keep on whistling
And go out and hustle something else to
eat.
When they ask us to go slow on pork or
beef,
When they say the sugars scanty in the
bin,
Then turn to boiled potatoes
Camouflaged with canned tomatoes,
For with most of US it's anything to win.
We grow friendlier, more cheerful all the
while.
day.
Once our appetites were tickle
Now we'd relish burdock pickle.
All this eating's just habit anyway.
Walter c. Doty In Browning's Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
War Inspired Music Triwal
Most of II Falls Short of Artistic Excellence
J. N. R. in Rochester Post Express.

Inecked fife" In the year 1877, or thereabout
the beats and calls OF the drum were insti.
tuted the tattoo calling soldiers to their
quarters was once called "taptoo" from the
Dutch word sgnifying no more drinks to be
sold or tapped. The first regimental band
appeared in 1887, in the Woolwich regiment
1t was made up of FIVE claronets, two French
horns, one bugle horn, one trumpet, two bas-
Soons, one bass drum, two trlangleS ant two
tambournes. Regimental marches, used not
only to stimulate courage, but also to Insure
the orderly advance of troops date from the
middle of the seventeenth century. One of
these marches is still played by the Welsh
regiments taking part in the world Wharf.-The
March O. the Men o Larlech."
This is military music. Field music is the
music of the bugle by itself. In the artillery
and cavalry drills the voice of the bugle is
heard continually above the clanking sabres
and wheels and the clatter of hoois Each
evolution is designated by its special call, and
the men--and the horses, too, Tor that mat
ter-need no further word OF command. In
the infantry the spoken command is used
more than in the artillery and the cavalry,
but the bugle is used also. Just when the
commands came to be signaled by, trumpet
and drum is rather indefinite. The innova-
ton came gradually, beginning first, army Off
GERS tHlHk, Wltn tnOSe ringing calls 10 an
nounce the charge and the retreat, commands
that obviously could not be heard above the
roar of battle One of the most beautiful
bugle calls-I hear it every evening from the
Preside at Monterey-is the "Retreat" the
sunset retreat not the retreat that calls SOL
diers from the field of battle 1t is played
at dress parade just before the flag hutters
from the masthead. The call dates back to
the time when the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary 1t has been traced to
the First Crusade. The French army adopted
it for its cavalry. We use it both in the
army and the navy. In the latter arm of the
service the call is known as Evening Col
ors"
The original of our Boots and Saddles"
was the Boute- sele, first published in Ant
werp in l545. Our call is an amplihcation of
the original. Our own tattoo was taken
partly from the French and partly from that
used in the British army The first few bars
constitute the French call, Lights OUT
Napoleon's favorite call In 1867 our buge
calls changed, those of the French infantry
being transferred to our service almost in
their entirety. Musicians say that these calls
cannot be improved upon. The most beau
tltul, the most poignant of all the calls,
laps, originated in our own army. At
least, investigation has never proved other
wise. 1t is sounded over the grave of gen
eeral and private alike. Once heard it fingers
forever in the memory
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
MIRTHFuL REMARKS.

"Your mother is putting down her foot
hard at You for taking another helping OF
sugar"
"oh, yes: she always does that when she
mothers thrift stamp,"-Baltimore Ameri-
ran.
"That novel has had remarkable sale"
commented the bookstore man.
Have you read it,"
"Oh, no, l wouldn't dare read IT, as my
suites require me to be enthusiastic In rec
Citizen.
,Bacon-what do yu think of this work.
or-fight order?
Egbert-I think it's all right.
And do you think the unemployed VIII
work."
NO think they'll fight-against work.
ng"-Yonkers Statesman.
II have an idea for a summer novel;
That seems inconsistent"
HUH"
How can il be a summer novel II yoN
put an idea into it?"-Louisville Courier
Journal
II know man who sticks to his bust
ness. although he has had nothing but re-
verses since he entered it.
what does he do?"
Turns somersaults in a vaudeville aero
battle team. "-Baltmore American.
Tommy-Pop, what is an optimist!
Tommy's Pop-An optimist, my son, 10
person who not only hopes for the best, bu'
actually expects to get it.-Philadelphi'
Record
THE world owes me a living"
"Mister. nowadays that is all changsd
You owe the world year or two In tht
renches."-Detroit Free Press.
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
murmured the romantic maiden.
well, here's looking at you!" replied tht
practical youth.-Life.
1.-THE government seems to be gettinl
results
I'm some respects" replied the million.
aire. Its got that son-in-law Of mine II
work; something could never do
Browning's Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
IODAY
Year Aro To-day in the war

One Year Ago Today in the War.
Sweden stopped transmission OF
German messages.
General Korniloff was arrested on
order OF Kerensky.
United States senate passed the
$l1,53S, 100000 war bond bill.
The Day We Celebrate.
I. s. Hunter wholesale fruit jobber
with A. U. Chany & Co.. born 1855.
William Howard Taft, former presi-
dent of the United tates, born in Gin
natl. 81 years ago.
Prince of Piedmont. heir to the
Italian throne, who has received his
baptism OF fire in the present war,
born In Rome. IA years ago.
William Strother Smith. one OF the
new rear admirals of the United
States navy, born in Georgia, 81 years
ago.
This Day In History.
16i3-Duke de La eRochfoucauld
who left the world valuable set of
maxims, born in Paris. Died there.
March IL. 1880.
17Ss--James Fenimore Cooper, the
first great American novelist, born at
Burlington, N. =. Died at Coopers-
town. N. Y, September IA, 1851. /.
1S57--Brigham Young proclaimed
martial law in Utah.
1SS4-Ceiebration Of the centenary
OF the first balloon ascent in England.
1s14-The French cathedral city of
Rheims was occupied by the allies.
1s15-British House of Commons
voted q $1,250.000.000 war credit
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

The Nebraska State Railway commission will
keep il up until the federal government takes
notice of its antics and then it will receive ben
edction somewhat similar to that pronounced on
the bull who disputed the right-of-way with the
cucoroinr train
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

Texas is great. big state, but that does not
prevent its thinking people from worrying over
the fact that it has had l,l2s homicdes within the
last two years. Human life is almost as cheap
there as in Russia
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

Several divisions lately employed by Luden-
dorff in defending the Hindenburg line are now
regularly eating in prisoner cages. We know
that these will not fight again in this war.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15
Just so Years A0o Todau

Ralph w. Breckenridge took his de-
parture for Burlington, VT, where he
is to be married to Miss Harriet A,
Allen.
The Ladies Aid society of the West
minister Presbyterian church, gave a
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

why do the Americans want to annihate
Germany" querulously asks titled lieutenant,
just taken prisoner The answer is we do not;
we merely want to destroy its power to harm
the world q
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

Another German naval expert announces that
the U-boat will bring England to terms, but
wisely he declines TO say when.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

The weather man again promises showers
He must not think he can scare anybody herea-
bouts with such predictions,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

The New York World is disturbed because
Vardaman goes and La Toilette remains in the
senate. But wait until Wisconsin voters get an
other chance to clean house.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

Wonder il the Berliner Taseblatt has disco
cred more than 10000 Yankee soldiers on II
firing line YETI LudendorH might enlishten thu
editor
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

Won Falkenhayn and Won Mackensen used to
. enjoy the "pineer" game, but they were working
it on the Russians then. 1t is quite different
thing now.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

The Huns fed from St. Mihiel without de
stroyins the town, sure sign that they were sur
prised by Pershing,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

Putting the packers under federal food license
regulation is not likely to seriously affect thu
price Of hogs, now we'll up to $2o and still going
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

able home Of Mrs. W, Randall, $50
Park avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Nagel cele-
brated their wooden wedding anniver-
sary and large number of city Off
Gals and other well known citizens
were in attendance.
Capt. C. E. Drummer returned from
Chicago.
Miss Stella Hamilton has gone to
South Bend, Ind, to enter Notre Dame
acadamy.
Miss Mabel Porter left for Knox
Vile, ILL.,, where she will enter st.
Mary's school
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

A pair OF patched trousers will also be sign
that the wearer is doing something to help win
the war
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

With Metz under American guns, it might
reasonably be said the way to the Rhine is being
we'll opened.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

Another nationwide Stacker hunt is being or
gani.ed Uncle Sam means to get the skulkers
i he can
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-15

, Pershing played "l3" to the limit on his birth