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Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08
Around the Citaes

Baltimore undertakers have discon-
tinued for the period of the war their
celebrated Friday bargain days" u
Chicago postoffice is stocked up with
airplane mail stamps. Sixteen cents
sends . letter flying to New York.
Detroits Baldheaded club serves no.
tics on BARRIERS that IL they boost hair
cuts to 81 the club will lay In a stock
of curl papers. 10
Washington reports the retirement
of General John Barleycorn into a
sector Of low visibility, but that Major
Half-and-Half presses to the front
with considerable spirit.
Profiteering gets another hammer
blow in Chicago. After September is
butter Is not to be sold or put up in
less than one-pound prints, exclusive
of the wrapping. The food admins
tration made the rule and 1t goes.
The Bush terminal warehouses in
Brooklyn, packed with government
goods for the army overseas, are
guarded by q large force of bugolo-
gists. Their job Is bigger than 1t looks.
Millions of enemy insects are drawn
thither by the lure Of high living, and
the bug men are expected to execute
them without mercy.
Down in Kansas City patrons of
street cars head off the scent fare by
demanding receipt for the extra
cent. Giving receipts to each passen-
ger entails more labor and loss than
the copper is worth and passengers
during the rush hours get their ride
for nickel. The action of the public
accords with the decision of state
court holding that the State Public
Service commission had no authority
to set aside a contract between the
city and the street railway company.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08
PROGRESS ON THE BArrLEFrELp

While the outcome OF the great battle on the
ives, front still is in the realm OF the speculative,
the continued progress OF the Allies under the
skiIlful direction of Generaissimo Foch is most
encouraging. Since July Is, or for ffty-fve days,
the Hun has steadily fallen back under the per-
sistent attack of the Allies, yielding ground he
had won a, tremendous cost, giving up strong
holds in which he had been lodged for years, and
seeing his hope for victory slowly crumble under
the steady and determined blows Of armies that
know no ruth, Resistance has beeen stubborn;
the utmost faculty of the most scientific and mer-
cess soldiers the world has ever seen hiss been
interposed to check the advance of the forces OF
freedom, and in vain. Each days news brings a
tale of further victory, OF new and important
gains, te cheer the hosts of democracy and
strengthen the hope OF ultimate triumph. These
things must have some effect back of the Ger
man line, for soldiers, however disciplined and
Injured to the varying fortunes of war, can not
daily see ground abandoned, stores destroyed,
wounded comrades left where they fall and all
the other evidences of defeat and not feel the de-
preston that comes with a sense that they are
fighting for lost cause. Whether Foch sue
eeeds in driving the invader from France and
Flanders this fall, he has so lowered the morale
of the German army that its restoration is highly
improbable. Its hosts will not again sweep for
ward as they poured across the plain of Picardy
last March in Hindenburg's last great effort.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08
AMERICA AND FRANCE.

A sllvery river with ripping charm
Winds through la France. the little Rivss
Marine;
So narrow that one. standing on Its side
Can speak 70 friends across the flowing
tide;
The birds fly Ger with one swift sweep OF
wing:
And flowers DER the waters perfume fling.
Great armies covered all Its banks serene,
With but the little rivulet between:
But twlxt them stretched a distance great
er far
Than twixt the earth and faintest twinkling
star,
For one meant love and charity and rights
The other stood for evil. hate and might.
An ocean vast with currents swift ana deen
Flows ever through its tides unendins
sweep:
SO wide that birds will never cleave the air.
And none but strongest ships the voyage
dare;
No human eye can see the distant shore;
No human voice can drown the oceans roar.
glorious country lies at each extreme.
While deep and wide the ocean rolls be-
tween;
But twixt them"is no space for love has
spanned
The distance, and they're clasping hand IN
hand
No these great nations are not far apart.
But close, SO close, they stand. heart bound
Omaha. DAVID RICHIE.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08
poesy as an Essential Occupation.

Who is poet, and what is poetry? If you
can answer these questions offhand you will very
likely be in request by the several draft boards
Judge Advocate General Crowder, who is also
provost marshal, and who must approach omnis-
cience in order to properly fiji both jobs has ruled
that poet is exempt from draft because of being
engaged in essential industry.
This definition knocks some of the polish off
the outer wrappings of the guild, for it has long
been popular notion that, no matter how essen
thai the poet, he could not reasonably he accused
whose existence is on low and gross plane of
Grass materialism, have coldly intimated that
1 poesy was but pretext to indolencee.
With this out of the way, the great thing will
be to set up standard for poetry Critics have
squabbled over this since long before the days Of
\ old Rameses and yet are far from agreement
.Seven cities claimed great Homer dead through
which the living Homer begged his bread" Had
he sought exemption from military service be-
| cause he was engaged in writing in verse til,
chronicles of the Trojan war or setting dowr
the yarns Ulysses told after Ne got back from
his wanderings, Homer would very likely hav,
fetched up in the calaboose of one of the sever
cities that so eagerly squabbled over his citizen
ship after he had gone to where posthumou
fame was Of no benefit
II may be we can afford to spare few sol
diers in hope of preserving a possible Homer
or maybe mute inglorious Milton" but hoy
viii the draft board know when to apply AM
when to withhold the boons
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08
TOT)AY
One year AGO Today i'm the War

One Year Ago Today in the War.
French launched attack on 14-mile
front near yerdun.
Russian army made a stand near
Riga, forming new line.
First national guard division, the
2sth New England) sailed for France.
The Day We Celebrate.
Joseph B. Hummel, former park
commissioner, born 1862.
5 L. Ross Newkirk. of Newkirk &
! May. born 1890.
Mrs Russell Sage, philanthropist,
born at Syracuse, N. T., 80 years ago.
Reginald Wright Kaufman, Journal
list, born at Columbia, Pa. Al years
ago.
Howard Sutherland, United States
senator from West Virginia, born near
kirkwood. Mo-. SIS years ago.
This Day I'm History.
ls32-Emilio CASTELAR,, once dictator
of Spain, born at Cadiz. Died May 20,
! 1899
IS4s-Bavaria declared in favor OF
!, an imperial constitution, with the
king Of Prussia on the throne.
I893-The legislative council OF
New Zealand granted the franchise
! to women.
1sI4-Belgian city Of Lille occupied
4 by the Germans
1s15--Twenty persons killed and So
injured in another Zeppelin raid on
London and the eastern counties OF
England. 81
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08
Views, Reviews and Interviews
The Bees Grooing Service Flag and How 1t IS Made TO
Take ON Ne,U Stars
Tdke ON NeW StGrS

and cities were forced to standstill by
the industrial paralysis, Omaha kept on
the high road to commercial supremacy
: Incidental to this marvellous development,
we need only point to the extension OF
the Republican Valley railroad, and COM
letion of the Colorado Central, the recon-
struction OF Union Pacific headquarters,
enlargement of the smelling works, estab-
lshment of a second grain elevator, Md
SONIC hall, Cruickshanks block, Williams
block, Giacominis buildings, Goodmans
new wholesale store, and scores Of other
solid brick and stone structures, and the
new educational institutions, the Creigh-
ton college, St. GATHERINGS academy, and
the enlargement OF the State Deaf Mute
asylum.
Last but not least, the marked I'M
provements of the public thoroughfares-
stone culverts and iron bridges, macadam
pavements and miles of new sidewalks;
and this is only the beginning of the solid
improvement era While Omaha was thus
improving each shining hour, the whole
country, and particularly our national capt.
tai have been agitated over the shining
dollar and other financial problems, which
at this date remain the chief bone of con-
tention Just as we have reached the very
focus of the financial agitation, the old
to continue this interesting story in our
next"
see that Ross Hammond uses swhat
said IN this column, expressing regrets that
all efforts OF win-the-war republicans to pre-
vail on the candidates opposing the nomina-
ton Of Senator Norris to merge their inter-
Nests failed, as the text of post mortem'
Mr.. Hammond |endeavors to explain his re-
fusal ito talk it over" by saying in substance
that II he could not secure the nomination
himself he would just as soon and perhaps
sooner have it go to Norris. which is char
acteristic Of his attitude when l suggested
that either he or Sloan could win, but not
both. am sure, however, that he mistakes
the attitude of his supporters, who were in
terested, as was personally, not so much
in the identity of the candidate (for had
agreed to support either Hammond or Sloan
if they would themselves decide which should
run) as in having a candidate with a salts
factory war record that would not put the
republicans on the defensive in the campaign
His own showing, especially his admission
that he is not disappointed, would indicate
that Mr.. Hammond is in position to claim
credit for the denomination of Mr.. Norris
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

Get over the notion that the Salvation Army
is nothing but big base drum and chorus of
street singers or mimic Santa Claus ringing a
bell beside an iron pot on the street corner. Ac-
cording to trustworthy reports the Salvation
Army workers are on the job right in the trenches
rendering invaluable service to the boys who arc
doing the fighting.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIES.

.'Your wife says you have her terrorised.-
Honest, judge"
II do not ask you this In my official
capacity. but as man to man. Dc you un'
derstand?"
Yes your honor"
''what'a your secret f"--Louisyille Covriefs
Journal.
''I see your boy has gone to work,
''Yes" "a
"How's he getting along?"
''oh, fine. Anything In the way
novelty appeals to him. Boston Tram
script
"Jones DOESN'T want his wife to 80 away
Feels the separation, no doubt
yes from the necessary coin.'-bostos
TRANSCRIPT.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

II was only an accident that landed Governor
Neville, in the executive chair atop the wet wave
in the democratic. primary and "hel-keep-us-out-
of-war" plea for Wilson in the election. Roy Nc
Kelvie will make an eminenty qualified and cred
table successor to Governor Neville
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

Mr. Kitchin says 90 per cent of the business
men are patriotic; he is too low in his estimate.
All are patriotic and most puzzled by the tax
laws the sapient South Caronian presents,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08
Just 80 Years Ago Todau

Rev. ]. Hudson Taylor. of the China
Inland mission, spoke in the West
minister Presbyterian church, corner
Twenty-ninth and Mason streets.
Omaha and Milwaukee played a
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

Having done all other things in the biggest
way, why shouldn't we also produce the bisges,
tax levy ever known?
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

Fort Crook is to be put under the jurisdiction
of Fort Omaha when that water main is in.
Finel Then, II we had put in the water main a
year or more ago we might perhaps have had
l Fort Crook utilized to capacity all this time.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

The fire and police commission ac-
cepted the resignation of Morris Tur-
kelson, pipeman Of Hose company No.
5. Edward M. O'Neill was appointed
TO. I'LL the vacancy.
C. c. Valentine has returned from
Lincoln, where he has been in atten-
dance on the state association OF
shorthand writer's.
DR.. Frederick A. Smith of Boston Is
in Omaha visiting his brother medico
DIR. Gilmore.
Mrs. Z. j. Littlefeld and daughter
have returned from their trip through
Kentucky. Illinois and Kansaa
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

The Nebraska State fair this year topped last
years attendance record. which means a good
augury for our own Ak-Sar-Btn.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

1t will take more self-praise and loud ap-
piause" than that to cover up the record of pro-
j Germanism made by Senator Hitchcock as spon-
scr Of the kaiser's bill to cut off the supply Of
munitions and arms from our allies.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

Won Hertiing has joined long list of illus
trous predecessors in retirement, and the kaisers
problem is yet unsolved
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

Instead of slowing down, our boys over there
seem to be speeding UP.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

Blu, when we have the skip-stop the cars
mus, not skip stopping.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

Old John Barleyeorn is we'll on his way to an
internment camp.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-08

vention. National Chairman Hays
was there and interested himself. He,
like others who had kept alert, had
heard so many republicans say they
would not support Mr.. Norris II NOM
mated that he feared he could not be
elected. McGovern had got out of
the race in Wisconsin to save Len
root. Some such plan should be made
in Nebraska. Whoever did 1t would
incur the obligations Of the next re-
publican national administration. He
preferred Mr.. Sloan would retire, as he
felt his war votes had crippled him.
Still, II / stepped out / would, as Mr..
Sloan would under the same condi-
tons, be 'in well' with the next ad-
ministration. This is an old method
of mixing political medicine. My an
swer was that I did not feel that /
could honorably quit; that I was a
candidate because many good friends
everywhere had urged me to stand
and were supporting me. l would
feel, under the circumstances, I were
trading them Off for an implied mess
of pottage. ] was a candidate be-
cause I thought I would be nomina-
ted, but If could not be would pre-
fer to be defeated.
Being defeated I regard as no dis
grace, and 1t Is scarcely disappointing.
Always someone must lose in a con-
test. Whoever enters must keep that
. in mind, and not take it to heart. One
should remember not what is missed,
but what is escaped-the cost in
money and effort and the possibility
Of final defeat at the polls Every
candidate stirs up some unexpected
pool of venom. Such Of these as my
candidacy has stirred I can easily
forget. Such manifestations Of spleen
as were made / can forgive on the
theory that they knew what they did.
I am going to proceed upon the sup
position, nevertheless and notwith-
standing, that my life and work in
Fremont have not been an entire fail
ure. The disclosure Of hundreds If
not thousands. Of good and loyal
friends here and elsewhere is COM
pensation and consolation enough. My
vote was large. Divested of other re-
sponsibilities my normal course can
be pursued uninterruptedly and
doubtless with more personal salts
faction. There will be enjoyable free
dom and independence of action. Pub
fishing a successful newspaper, made
the best possible under all the circum-
stances, is as alluring now as it has
ever been.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-02-08
THE REQ CROSS REPORTS
ORGANIZATION ACCOUNTS FOR
MONEY ENTRUSTED ToIT
To Date s7s,45o,7 Has Been APP
propriated for Relief Work.
Criticisms Answered.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington Feb 4. - What the
American Red Cross has done with
the vast sums of money entrusted to
it by the people of the United States
is stated in detail in report issued
by the national headquarters. To
date, s79,450.727.35 has been appropri-
ated for relief work in this country
and abroad.
For foreign relief $44,657,7 95 has
been appropriated as follows; France.
s30,519, 1880; Belgium, s1.999.6S1;
Russia, $751; .940s7; Rumania, S2;617.-
1876; Great Britain, s1.703,642; 9th
er foreign countries, s2.536.3O0; Am
erican soldiers who may be taken
prisoner, s343,627
The foregoing appropriations are
from the time the United States en-
tered the war until April 80. 1918. For
the United States the Red Cross has
appropriated $2,612, 5326O and the rea-
son this sum is not larger is because
the government provides nearly ev-
erything our army and navy needs.
and besides, there is no civilian dis
tress in this country of any consider
able proportions.
The great variety of the military
and civilian relief work being done
by the Red Cross is indicated briefly
in the following list: canteens that
afford food, baths and sleeping quar-
tiers for men at the front; rest sta
lions and recreation centers for sol
diers in transit and at port of arriv-
al n France; care of destitute chill
dren; furnishing supplies to 1000 hos
pitals teaching mutilated soldiers
new trades; reconstruction of viii
lagos; bringing together families OF
soldiers scattered by the war; farms
for convalescent soldiers; sanitariums
for tubercular and other patients;
food. clothing, medicine, and shelter
for the homeless and destitute: and
other activities too numerous to men,
ton.
1t is stated by the National War
Council that all salaries and admin
istrative expenses are paid out of
membership dues so that every penny
given to the Red Cross War Fund has
been spent for relief. This answers
the rumors that have been circulated
about the expenses of operation
Out of 255 executives in the four
teen divisional offices of the Red
Cross in the United States, 50 per
cent. are women The policy is to Sc
lect the most competent person re-
CARELESS of politics. sex or religion.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-02-08
U. S. TRANSPORT
SUNK BY U-BOA1
TORPEDO DESTROYS ruscANiA
OFF NORTHERN COAST OF
IRELAND.
267 OF 2,179 MISSING
TROOPS ON cUNARDER PRINcI-
PALLY WISCONSIN AND MICH
IGAN GUARDsMEN.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. Feb. T. The first
American troop transport bound
abroad has been sunk by a German
submarine. Approximately 267 Amer
lean soldiers persisted when the ship
went down. while 1912 or more were
rescued
The transport sunk was the Tus-
cania, Cunard liner lent to the
United States by the British govern
ment, which carried 2.179 American
soldiers as passengers, but was con-
voyed like regular transport.
The scene of the disaster was off
vivors being landed by the vessels of
the convoy at two neighboring Irish
ports, fifty miles apart.
The military units aboard the trans
port were:
Headquarters detachment and COM
panies d, e and f OF the Twentieth en-
gineers
One Hundred and Seventh engineer
train composed of men from the First
battalion of Michigan engineers and
the First battalion of Wisconsin engi-
neers.
One Hundred and Seventh military
police from the Fourth and Sixth Wis
consin National Guard infantry
One Hundred and Seventh supply
train. formerly from the Fourth, Fifth
and Sixth Wisconsin infantry.
One Hundred and Flfty-eighth aero
squadron.
Replacement detachments No / and
No. 2 of the Thirty-second division
michigan wisconsin, with fifty-one
casual officers
The information so far received does
not indicate what members of these
units were lost and what members
saved. Only extreme meager informa-
tion had been received up to 2 o'clock
this morning.
The American ambassadors infor-
nation was embodied in the following
statement issued by the State Depart
ment:
1.-THE latest advices received by the
State Department from the embassy
at Lcndon regarding the Tuscania is
that at IL p. M. Feb. 6, the latest in
formation was that 1912 officers and
men on the Tuscania were accounted
for out of 2,179.
THE ambassador further reports
that the lord mayor OF Belfast is CIV
ing all the aid possible"
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-02-08
CALL OF 74,50o FEB. %
DRAFTED MEN TO REPORT AT
ARMY cANToNMENTs.
nounced Men VIII Be Sent to
Complete State Quotas.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Provost Mar
shall General Crowder announced that
the movements of the men selected in
the first draft will begin on Feb. 30,
and continue for a period of five days.
This will complete the operation of
the first draft, as all states will have
furnished their full quotas.
The movement will bring the
strength of the National Army up to
the 6S5,OO0 men contemplated in the
first draft.
The number of men which will be
started to the environments on Feb. 23
are: Camp Downs, Mass, 6.575; Up
ton. N. Y, 1900; Dix. N j.. 1000;
Meade, Nd, 5000; Lee, Va, 5000;
Jackson, s. c.. 1868 (negroes); Cor
don. Ga, 1000 (negroes); Grant. ILL.,,
5000; Taylor. KY. 6,2s4; Dodge, Iowa.
1894; Funston, Kan, 1882; Travis,
Texas, 1858; Pike, Ark. 1000 me
groes).
Besides tie regular portion contrib
utory to Camps Devins and Upton,
New York will send to the former 1921
men and to the latter. 4.2S7 men which
were to have gone to Camp Dix. The
reason given for the change is that
there is more room for them at Camps
Devins and Upton.
West Virginia will send 1920 men
to Camp Meade instead of Camp Lee.
Mobilization of all certified account
ants who come within the draft law
has been ordered SO as to supply va
cancies in the army business organiza-
ton.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-02-08
FUNDS KEPT IN U. S. BANK.
To Pay Spies, Cause Strikes and
Wreck Plants Owned by Enemies.


Paris.-The Petit Parisien began
publication of German official docu-
ments which are alleged by the news
paper to establish that the war was
premeditated and preorganized by the
Berlin authorities. The documents
were brought to France by famous
French scientist" who obtained them
from a celebrated Russian revolution
airy paper. No names are given, it is
said, as their publication would endan-
ger the lives of the men.
The most important document is a
circular dated June 8, 1914, in which
the German general headquarters or
ders all owners of factories to open
the mobilization envelopes in their
possession.
A circular dated Nov. 2, 1914, in.
forms military agents on the frontiers
of Russia, France, Italy and Norway
that unlimited credits have been
opened at German banks in Sweden,
Norway. Switzerland, China and the
United States. which the general head
quarters authorizes them to use for
the purpose of destroying factories
belonging to the enemy. provoking
strikes. damaging ships. burning sup
plies and destroying electricity cen
tiers. Special agents were being
placed at their disposal, 1t was added.
to bring about explosions and fires.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-02-08

Washington. = Government control
of industry was extended to oil in a
proclamation by President Wilson put
ting under license the manufacture
and distribution of all fuel oils. No
mention is made on other oils or oil
products. including gasoline and kero-
sene, but they, too. probably will be
put under control soon. Authority un-
der the proclamation is to be vested
in Mark l.. Requa of California, re-
Gently named as chief of the fuel ad-
ministration's oil division.