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Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03
AMERICA.
(London Observer.)

(London Observer
The night has decked herself in Jewel
For my pleasure,
Yet finds no favor,
For my heart Is torn and hitter
For the crushed bodies Of my brothers
The night has seen
These three years.
When suddenly
The distance trembles with a sound,
As of some great thing moving,
That holds the clang Of metal,
And the whirring of machinery,
And the tramping, tramping, tramping
OF perpetual feet.
So ! listen on and listen,
And warm wonder takes me.
For I know the sound that trembles
Is the stirring Of nation
To the succor
OF my brave dead. /
1t Is the tramping OF her armies
Gathered willing from her prairies
And her forests and her mountains,
Gathered willing from her cities
The masses Of her thousand cities
Coming, coming to the fight.
1t Is the clang Of metal
Moldlng. making in her factories
A myriad fine implements
Wherewith her men and ours
May help to force the right.
1t is the whirring of machinery,
OF her acres of machinery,
Working infinitely
To make food and clothing
Z For the men that fight.
1t seems
A giant bell within me> rings,
And rings with JOY,
To know the great are coming,
And the great will help the great
And as still I listen
The nightly sound Is growing:
Somehow 1t makes lullaby
Fer me to sleep.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

and Juniper, so that, when applied ex-
ternally, the body heat would vapor-
ize these ingredients. These vapors,
inhaled all night long, carry the
medication, with each breath, direct
to the air passages and lungs.
Today this vapor treatment, Vick's
VapoRub, is almost universally used
throughout the South in preference
to internal dosing" 1t is quick in
its action, and what is more i'm
portant, particularly to mothers with
small children, it is applied externally
and hence does not disturb the most
delicate stomach. Colds are easiest
treated at the beginning and Vapo-
Rub makes the ideal preventive for
the entire family.
This preparation comes in salve
form and its action is twofold. Ex-
ternally, it is absorbed through and
stimulates the skin, taking out that
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03
IOI1AYj
One Year Ago Today IN the War.

One Year Ago Today IN the War.
President Wilson severed relations
with Germany.
Bernstorff handed hia passpoffs and
Ambassador Gerard called home.
American steamer Housatdnic sunk
by U-boat near Scilly Islands. ss-
Attempt to sink American, destroyer
Jones discovered at Philadelphia.
The Day We Celebrate.
DR.. Herbert e. King, dentist, born
1ss2.
Rt Rev. George A. Beecher, Epis-
copal bishop of western Nebraska,
bbrn at Monmouth. ILL.,. 80 years ago.
Samuel NJ. FELTON,, president Of the
Chicago Great Western railroad, born
n Philadelphia, 65 years ago today.
justice OF the supreme court of the
United States, born at Elkton, KY,
56 years ago today.
senator from Nortn Dakota. born at
Crete, Ill. so years ago today.
This Day In History.
1s07-General Joseph 4. Johnston.
9ne OF the abiest military leaders Of
the confederate states, born in Prince
Edward county. Virginia. Died in
Washington, D. c., March u, 1891.
1S65-President Lincoln and Secre-
tary Seward held an informal peace
conference with representatives of the
confederate states .on a vessel in
Hampton Roads.
sAtss5--Henrl Rochefort returned TO
Etance after six yesvs OF exile.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Washington, Feb. 1.-The War department
has under consideration plan for supplying
its need Of technically trained workers by
sending large number of drafted men to
school.
The governments being assisted in the
development of this plan by large number
of educators from all parts Of the country
who have come to Washington to help solve
educational problems growing out of the
war. Already 12l institutions for technical
training have offered their plants to the gov
ernment. ,If the plan advocated by the edu-
Gators is adopted, these institutions, together
with industrial plants and schools at training
camps, will be organized into great educa-
tional system where drafted men will learn
trades and will be paid by the government
for their time while under instruction. This
training will be given not only to men who
have had some experience in the trades
needed, but to novices who have the neces-
sary mental and physical qualifications to
become proficient 1t will mean that the
conscript who is willing to study and able to
learn may get valuable educational ad-
vantages from his period of sefvice.
has been growing steadily more evident. The
census OF men now in the cantonments has
shown that not nearly enough skilled work.
ers are found among the conscripts to fill
the needs of the army, while many Of those
who have had some experience in needed
trades require further training before they
can be used. Some of the trades needed are
represented not at all, or by negligible num-
bers among the drafted men, A further diff
ficulty in the training OF some Of these is
/taused by the fact that the equipment nee
essary for giving instruction is very scarce,
and Cannot be found outside of technical in
stitutions and industrial plants.
The Federal Bureau for Vocational Educa-
ton, which has been organized under the
Smith Hughes act to cooperate with the
states in founding vocational training
schools, has tried to meet the need for
technically trained men by establishing eve
ming classes in schools throughout the coun-
try. But these classes, while of great as
sistaree, are necessarily unable to produce
Thoroughly trained men in short time. And
thoroughly trained men is now one of the
most pressing needs of the government, Sec
retary Baker has written a letter to all Of
the division, heads in the War department
directing them to lay before the Federal
Board for Vocational Education statement
Of their needs in the way Of trained men
Letters received by the board as result of
this order already show a need for 100000
skilled workers and these letters refer to only
a part Of the trades in whNh men are re-
quired.
The educators who have offered the serv-
ices OF their, schools and instructors to the
government argue that this evidence shows
the necessity OF some extensive system of
training under a centralized board of con-
troll. They urge the creation OF such board
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Boyd's to one Of the largest audiences
Of the season.
A meetlns'of the Nebraska Fish
commission was held at the office sof
B. Il. B. Kennedy. there being present
from abroad Commissioner May of
Fremont, and Superintendent NJ. E.
o'Brien Of the State Fishery at South
Bend.
All the special policemen COMMONLY
pointed BY NE board OF ,,ass poi,se ana
nrs sSmm,ssSnelss S ss,a are ,s norsc ros 20
security to Chief Of Police seavey.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03
JustSO Years AGO Todng

There was a large and enthusiastic
meetingtat Penfose 4 Hardin's sport
ing headquarters for the purpose OF
Organizing a citS- base bali league,
This Was Accomplished by the election
az. II. A., Pentofs.. president; w. 2.
Rockwell. vice. president: G. Fl. Sobat-
kef. secretary Aid II. T. Lalby. treas
urer. VS. -
Kiraifys "Aroynd the World In
Eighty Days. was presented at the
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03
Cut Out Coupon Below Worth
twenty-five Cents To You
Good, at Local Druggists Long the Free Supply
Lasts, for One 25-cent Package of the External
'Vapor" Treatment That Relieves Colds Over Night
Group in Is Minutes. X.

tightness and soreness in the chest
Internally, the vapors inhaled loosen
the palegm and open the air passages.
For Group or colds just rub little
over the throat and chest and cover
with a warm flannel cloth. One appli-
cation at bed time prevents night
attack of Group. >,4
For very severe chest colds, tonsil.
tits, bronchitis or incipient pneu-
monia, hot, wet towels should first
be applied over the parts, to open the
pores of the skin and then use Vapo-
Rub. For headcolds, asthmatic or
catarrhal troubles a little VapoRub
can be rubbed up the nostrils or melt.
ed in a spoon and the vapors inhaled.
The manufacturers know that an
actual trial is the best way to prove
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03
German Estimate Of Our Army.

Colonel Gaedke, German military expert criti-
cizes the American army from the German stand
point and finds il ridiculous. He is but repeat
ing the mistake made by. the German critics in
1898, when they predicted an easy victory for
sSpain, resting their conclusions on the same esti
mate Of the American soldier that now serves
Colonel Gaedke. This blunder is common to the
German .leaders-they have measured all things
by their own standards.
American officers are not trained after the
German fashion, until thoroughly brutalized,. and
no men in our ranks are beaten down to Dog
like submission. The men who make up the
American army are intelligent and adaptable,
animated by something the German knows not
of--the spirit Of independent manhood, capable
Of intense cooperation as we'll as the most ef-
feetive OF initiative. This development is impos-
sible under the plan where life begins at the top
/and nothing comes from below.
Our young officers are far better equipped for
their work than.is generally appreciated, even at
home. The large. majority Of then, are college or
university nien, whose training has fitted them
for taking on heavy responsibilities, a fact the
German critic has entirely overlooked We may
b. short on Hindenberss and Ludendorfs, but the
general officers Of. our new army are men OF ex-
pcrietice, most Of them from the best military
school in the world, capable Of dealing profess
sionally with any of'the problems of war. AS TO
the nen. no better soldiers ever lived outside the
armies Of the United States.
German critics, seeking to put new heart into
the kaisers army, may depreciste the facts, but
ii remains true that the greatest military machine
the world ever knew has been blocked by the
volunteer British army, differed in most part
Just as ours. The gigantic blunder Of the super
man has been exposed by the sovereign citizens
OF enlishteped democracy, and the fabric OF Ger
man efficiency has. shattered in contact with the
devotion of freemen.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.

Dings-I supposa you are looking lor al
early peace.
Newly Commissioned Lieut. nant-l shoule
say not! tn take me year to break even
with the cost of my untforlns,--Life.
Opportunity passes IN the way OF every
man."
"Yess," commtnted the artist-soldieri
"but the confounded thing is\almost inyari.
ably camouflaged Washington Star.
Wife (reading)-Thief grabs ladys soVS
meshbag> with two pennies in 1t.
Husband "a preacher)-Ah, ladies should
be more careful on their way TO church,
Houston Chronicle.
Dess-So Bob bought a seat on 'changs
so as to shear the lambs!
Misunderstanding, poor chap, tha'
they broil Holsters there, too!-Life
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03
Each Local Druggist Will
Give Away go Free Pack
ages, IL of Which Are
Full Size 25-cent Jars.

Fifteen years
ago, in a little
North Carolina
town, a drug
gist discovered
a process Of
combining the
o ! fashioned
r e m e d les
Camphor, Tur-
p @ n t inc and
Menthol-with
certain volatile
such as
E u C a | yptus,
Tyhme.C Cubebs
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Won Helfferichs estimate Of the U-boat cam
paign has been justified by the logic of events,
but that did not serve to keep him from being
busted from the kaiser's cabinet
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Premier Wekerle says Hungary is eager for
early and honorable peace, and then cautiously,
adds that il must Be on the German terms. His
sort Of peace might have been negotiated in 1914,
but 1t is notpossible for 1918.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Having admitted that "heatiess Monday was
a mistake, the fuel administrator may. come in
time to acknowledge that his whole program for
dislocating industry was a blunder. II ;t
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Changing the name Of the Commercial club OF
Omaha to that Of Omaha Chamber Of Commerce
ought not to affect the character Of the instisu.
lion nor lessen its opportunity for usefulness.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Maybe there is some good foundation for fe-
ports Of rioting in Berlin The police there have
ordered all women 70 wear an 'ungainly' blouse
instead Of the dainty shirtwaist
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03
Fitting Square Pegs into the Round Holes
Educators Form Plan to Supply Trained Army
Workers for the Form
BY Frederic J. Haskin.

by act of congress, and the appropriation of
funds to pay the operating expenses. The
Federal Board for Vocational Education is to
on by the schools
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

American soldiers are holding pretty tough
section Of the line in France, but they are holding
it in spite Of the Huns best efforts.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03
Checked Enthusiasm.
Conservation.

Flatbush--Are you doing anything
TO cut down your table supplies2
Bensonhurst--oh, yes: we've elimi-
Mated the finger-bo-[~Yonkers
statesman. 80
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Another Argentinian steamer has tasted Of
''spurios versenktr but the president Of that re-
public remains unconvinced Of the danger OF
German friendship.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

An average price Of $3.7s per pound for hogs
is reported from sale in Iowa. But this was
for breeding stock and not intended to fix the
cost Of bacon to the consumer
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Study the new schedule Of ."less" days and fol-
low it closely, for byrso doing you 'help'to win
the war. ..,-,z! Il. IL. =.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Dave Francis live, on SIS a week. Shade.
Of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, look dowr
and marvell
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

h o W valuable
VapoRub is in
the home and
they have ac-
cordingly fur
nished e a C h
d r u g gist in
Omaha W tn
60 free pack
a 6 e S, to be
given away on
p r e s etation
of the coupon
below.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

on Dy LHC sCHOOlS.
. II this plan is put into effect, drafted men
who have had some experience in trades, or
who are especially fitted for and desirous of
learning them, instead of being sent imme-
diately to the training camps, would be de-
tailed to the various technical schools and in
dustrial institutions, where they Would de-
vote all of their time to learning trades under
military discipline, and on government pay
and subsistence. 1t is stated that unless men
are paid to devote all of their time to study,
they cannot be efficiently trained in short
time.
Representatives of the 12l technical
schools which have offered their equipment
and services to, the government state that if
this plan is put promptly into operation the
regular work of these schools can be deter
mined by May and their plants, dormitories
and Instructors made available for training
army men. 1t is estimated that these schools
can educate an average of 500 men each and
that by October / they alone could furnish
the army with about 10000 trained men.
In the case of some of the trades needed
by the army there is no equipment for train
ing men either at the cantonments or in the
schools, while, owing to the scarcity and
high price of all industrial materials, this
equipment would be very difficult and eSpen-
sive to obtain. Gas welding and vulcanizing
are given as two examples of such trades.
1t is believed that these trades can best be
taught by detailing drafted men on pay and
subsistence to industrial plants where
classes will be maintained between shifts OF
work. ...-. .........
This plan for supplying the army with
trained men is one which has been used by
the Navy department, not only during the
war, but before. The navy enlists man, de-
tails him to a school or industrial plant for.
special course of intensive training on pay
and subsistence and puts him on duty as
soon as he has obtained the necessary pro-
fciency. 1t is largely due to this system of
navy schools that the navy has not had the
difficulty experienced by the army in sup
plying its needs for technically trained men.
OF course, owing to the smaller personnel Of
the navy and to the fact that the expan-
sion made necessary by the war was, not pro-
portionately so great, its problem has been
much simpler one than that faced by the
War department.
The army has also made use of this plan
Oh small scale and now has various small
groups of men undergoing special training
on government pay and subsistence. ~ 1t now
has, rs men at the plant of the Prestolite
company at Indianapolis being trained to
serve as instructors in autogenous welding
for the aviation division. At another insti-
tuition the army is having trained company
of bakers for the quartermaster's corps.
company of wireless operators for the sig
nal corps and 325 mechanics and technicians
for the aviation division.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03
T,osice Told Tales
Treasure Troyc,

For some reason the Sunday school
class had become interested in Me-
thuselah. At their urgent request the
teacher related all the authentic in
formation recorded in the Bible about
that amazing man, also various anec-
dotes cleaned from less reliable
sources. In conclusion she said:
Now. is that all? Are there any
further questions you would like 10
ask about Methuselah?"
I'D like to know" said the most
interested youngster OF the lot.
where all HIS birthday presents are
buried. Galveston News.
Checked Enthusiasm.
General Pershing is fond of telling
this story. 1t happened when he was
on the Mexican border. A regiment
was marching by when It met a small.
towheaded ragged Irish boy elinging
10 moth-eaten, dilapidated donkey
he had been riding. and which had
become. restless owing to the noise of
the band. 1t was all the boy could
do to hold beast A, Joker In the ranks
called out TO the boy as he swung
past. "Say. kid, what are you holding
your little brother so tight for?" Be
cause" came the reply from the
Irish kid. she sees you guys and I'm
afraid he might enlist."--London
Chronicle.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Full steam ahead on, Monday now. the same
as on other days. ii .
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Congressman will pay the excess profits tax
the same as Others and so may face their con-
sttuents next summer with little better grace
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

The educators who have offered the serv-
ices OF their schools and instructors to the
government argue that this evidence shows
the necessity of some extensive system Of
training under a centralized board of con-
troll. They urge the creation OF such board
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-03

Subserbsrs leaving the city should have Ths Bee mast
to them. Address changed a. often as requested.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-13
TWO GERMAN
DIVISIONS ARE
HEM NE D IN
AMERICANS CAPTURE
SIXTY CANNON

LONDON.-In their offensive
against the ST. Milliel salient
American troops captured sixty
cannon from the Germans.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-13
WATSON LOSES,
WAGEO HOT FIGHT
LATEST RETURNS GIVE VIM
SON 80 CONVENTION VOTES
IN TENTI1-THOMSON LOST
TO vINSON.

AUGUSTA.-Figures of last night
stick. Official counts in six counties
show that Vinson has beaten Watson
for Congress. The return from Han
cock are not official, but the Vinson
majority there is high and there is
no question as to the result There
are thirty convention votes.
Vinson has carried Richmond, 3
votes; Wilkinson, 2; Columbia, 2;
Taliaferro, 2; Hancock, 2; Baldwin,
2.
Watson has carried Washington. 4;
Lincoln, 2; McDufie, 2; Warren, 3;
Glascock, 2; Jefferson, 2.
The vote in Jefferson was determ-
ined by he official count today, and
it was shown that Watson carried
that county by votes.
A report was sent out from Thorn
son this morning that Vinson on the
official count, had carried McDufie.
Two hours later, however, correct
ton was put on the wire. Watson
was beaten in Thomson, the county
seat and his home, but the country
districts stood by him and gave him
McDuffie majority of 65.
In Richmond county Watson car
ried Augusta city ward No 5 by So
, the other five wards went to Vinson
hands down.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-13
LATEST RETURNS SHOW THAT
HARRIS MADE CLEAN SWEEP.
WITH HOWARD AND HARD
WICK TIED FOR SECOND.

Observation-Disclosures up to 3
O'Clock, covering every county in the
state, and practically complete on Of
fetal figures, show that VIM. j. Har-
ris car-ied lib counties with a total
OF 288 unit votes. Howard and Hard
wick each carried the same number
of counties, 49, with Hardwick run
ming third in unit votes, his total be-
ing AZ while Towards unit votes are
AZ. Shaw carried one county with
votes. On populaI: votes the Harris
landslide over the total combined
strength of all other candidates was
even greater than the comparison of
counties might indicate in that he
car:ied all the heavy voting counties
by good leads, except Fulton, which
went to Howard. In popular vote
Howard ran third.
The retr;ns from 1856 out of the
total Isl counties. place Harm in
+ the lead over Hardwick, his nearest
opponent, by Z4,/U/ votes and Z5,Ol/
ahead OF Howard, Representative in
Congress from the Fifth District.
While Representative Howard is
third in the popular vote the returns
give him twenty counties under the
unit system with a total of 50 units,
and Hardwick Is counies with 40
units. Shaw won the remaining
county which has two units.
In the Congressional races, w. D.
Upshaw defeated six opponents in the
Fifth District by a substantial vote,
to succeed William Schley Howard,
who voluntarily retired to run for the
Senate. In the Eleventh, Landlord
defeated the incumbent, Walker, by
thousand majority. In the Tenth
District early returns gave Watson
the lead over Vinson In all other
districts the incumbents defeated their
opponents.
In the Senatorial race, Irwin county
surprised the political authorities and
giatified all her friends by casting a
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-13

Miss Lillian Taylor has accepted
a position with the Y M. c. A. in At
lanta.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-13
Nine Thousand, Four Hundred Prisoners Captured
HARRIS SWEEPS STATE EASILY,
CARRYING t13 COUNTIES

winning vote for VIM. ]. Harris. Ii
bad been conceded that Hardwick
would carry the county, and he did
succeed in carrying Ocilla.
Ben Hill county gave Harris a lead
OF l26 over all other candidates, with
Howard second and Hardwick a poor
third. Cooper and Shaw poled the
votes they were expected to poll. The
rural precincts showed up especially
well in casting large majority votes
for the administration candidate.
For Representative Thursday de-
feated the present incumbent, Walker.
in all except two precincts, Ashton
and Williamson's Mill.
The consolidated report from Der.
Hill county follows:
Secretary of States. G. McLen-
don, 492; Henry B. Strange, $50.
Attorney Genel-al-Joe Hill Hall,
1872; Clifford Walker 685.
Prison Commissioner-Alex +.
Reese, 304; T. E. Patterson, $50
Railroad Commissioncr-Bankston
II; Price, 233; Williams. 529.
United States Scnator-Cooper. 10
Hardwick, "a; Harris, 494: Howard
279; Shaw, Is.
Judge Superior Court, Cordele Cir.
cuit-Crum, AS; Cover, i40
Solicitor General CordeIe Circuit
Griffin, 26l, Wall, 625
Representative from Ben Hill
Thurmond, 542; Walker, 34l.
The precinct votes are as follows
Bowen's Mill-Cooper, u; Hardwick
0; Harris, p; Howard. +. Shaw, O.
Crum. 7; Cover 10; Griffin, 9; Wall
II; Thurmond, ID; Walker. H.
Vaughn District-Cooper, l. Hard
wick /; Harris, IL; Howard, ); Shaw
O; Crum, 7; Cover IL; Griffin, E
Wall, ID; Thurmond, IS; Walker, 5.
Ashton District-Cooper, 2; Hard
wick E; Harris, Is; Howard, 9; Shaw
2; Crum II; Cover, 81; Griffin, 4
Wall, %; Thurmond, 5; Walker, a.
The returns on statehouse and other
officials are coming in very slowly and
uncertainty. The general indications
however, are that Price was elected
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