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Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-03

Wyoming. holding the Office for
three years. IN later years he built
the Brunswick hotel, now = part OF
the Rome, and a'unmber Of resi-
dences. 4
He is survived by two sons, Frank
Sweesy, an editor in Louisville. and
Charles Clinton Swecsy, steam
boat captain who is now living on
the South Side.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-03
Union Pacific Passenger
Agent Expected Next Week

A. L. Craig, recently appointed
general passenger agent ,of the
Union Pacific is expected to arrive
from Chicago Monday and imme-
diately take charge of the affairs
of the office. While employees il
the office do not know whether or
not they will be retained, it is said
that there is no great amount of
worry, due to the fact that it is re-
ported that when Mr.. Craig goes
from one road to another, he does
not take his help along with him.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-03
W. F. Sweesy, Pioneer OF
Omaha, Passes AWAY FRIDAY

William S. Sweesy, pi neer, and
one of the builders of Omaha, died
Friday after an illness of two days,
aged 90 years.
Mr.. Sweesy was born in New
Jersey and came to Omaha by boat
in 1856. With his brother-in-la
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-03
Funeral of Mrs. Walker to
Be Held Sunday Afternoon

Funeral services for Mrs. Lydia
Walker, who died in Pocatello, Ia,
will be held in Hoffman's Funeral
Home at 2 o'clock Sunday after
noon with interment in St. Mary's
cemetery.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-03

Glen f. Kimball, son of ]. c.
Kimball, 1922 North Thirtieth street,
left New York this week for Lon
don for duty in the office OF Ad-
miral Sims.
Young Kimball enlisted in Oma-
ha and has been<at the Great Lakes
training station for the last year.
Bill" Maxwell, formerly night
foreman at The Bee, joined t he
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26
INSANITY BY CONTAGION.
BY H. Addington Bruce

= INSANITY is not usually regarded as a conta-
gious disease But there is evidence that GER
tain types of insanity contagious for GER
tain types of people.
Let person of unusually suggestble tempera-
ment and none too we'll developed mentality be
thrown much into contact with another person
afflicted with the type of insanity known as para
noia, and paranoical traits may likewise develop
in the first person
Happily, insanity thus acquired may often be
cured. Even though the original paranolac be
quite incurable the one to whom the paranoia was
transmitted may recover after being brought under
different influences.
To cite case from real life DIR. B. Henry Mason
had in his charge at a Massachusetts state
hospital for the insane husband and wife suffer
ing from paranoidal decisions of persecution.
Attention drawn to the plight of these I'M
fortunates when they rushed to police station at
2 in the morning, demanding protection against
imaginary enemies. They excited and in
coherent and obviously in need of medical care
On their arrival at the hospital both were equal
ly insisent that neghbOrs envied them and plotted
against them. They sullen, unresponsive, and
perpetually brooded over their fancied wrongs.
But, not long after treatment began, the wires
condition improved greatly. She became indus
trious and sociable and looked at things in new
light.
q can see now" she finally admitted, that all
my suspicious were unfounded. They were, in fact,
my husbands suspicious rather than my own
allowed myself to be persuaded of the truth OF the
ideas he put into my mind"
The husband, however, remained unamenable to
treatment His delusions were too fixed to be over
mate of the hospital after his wife had been dis
charged cured.
Dementia precox is similarly transmissible,
though instances rare. In one such instance
the noisy violent, irrational behavior of boy was
suddenly rivaled by similar behavior on the part
of his younger brother
The two resisted all disciplinary measures. They
were restless to the point of physical exhaustion
For hours they marched up and down their room
They kept the household in a turmoil
Fortunately the true state of affairs was soon
recognized. The brothers were separated, and
though the older became progressively worse it
was found possible to bring the younger back to
normality.
These are facts worth remembering when it is a
question of dealing with case of paranoia or one
of dementia precoX.
If despite the insanity, the sufferer happens to
be of a strong, dominating personality, opportunity
should never be given for possible transmission of
his insane ideas to any unduly suggestible member
of the family.
On the other hand, if other members of the
family developed insanity before he did, the posi-
bity that his was acquired by psychic contaglon
should not be overlooked. For in that event 1t ma?
prove unexpectedly easy to bring about cure.
Copyright, 1918, by the Associated Newspapers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26
When TO Make Peace.

The Allies are far too busy hammering the
Crown Prince TO waste attention on the Kaisers
latest peace feeIers It is worth noting, however
that these suggestions. put forward by way OF
Spain bear all the trademarks of the oil Potsdam
trickery I'VE are ready to settle in the West"
hints the HohenzoIlern. ION basis of no annexa-
lions and no indemnities, but we must be left
free hand in Russia and the East" The world
learned from the Brest-Litovsk conference that
when the Germans say mo annezations and no IN
IDENTITIES they mean all the land they can seize
and all the loot they bear away after per-
suading their victim deal with them as though
thcx were amezabIe to principles of fair play and
honor.
But even granting that Germany means what
she Gays about the West, what justice would there
be, or what wisdom, in allowing her to hold the
vast empire she has grS SPED banditlikc in Russia
and the Balkans in return for her evacuation of
the country she has pillaged and prosecuted in Bel
GUM and France? Peace on such basis would
be like letting a murderOus highwayman keep mill
lions Of stolen treasure condition that he re-
turn one or two priced jewels. With Russia and
the Near East under her. domination, Germany
could we'll afford relinquish all else that she has
seize1 and to surrender hi colonies to boot fer
she then would have made her stupendously
profitable and would have secured all the ma
terial and means for another brigandsh raid.
There is but safe and righteous basis for peace
with Germany. and that is that she shall restore
ALL she has brutally taken-POland well as
Belgium, Serbia we'll as northern France and AL
saee-Lorraine-and yield unreserved submission to
the law and conscience of the world she has out
ragged
But this will never be until German militarlsm
is beaten and conquered. The Allies could get a
German peace tomorrow; but they cannot get
just peace until their bayonets are at the Hohen-
zollern throat There will be other overtures from
Berlin and other p2cilst propaganda far more in
sidious than any yet put forth. AS American num-
bers or the Western front mount to the two and
three million mark, and the striking power of the
Allied armies comes continually nearer the Rhine
the peace pipes of the Hun will grow more insist
ent and to guiEeless souls, perhaps, strange
" seductive. But there will be more sincerity
in them than there is today; more than there
was when they lured Russia 70 her undoing
HohenzOlera Germany has demonstrated its per-
fdiousness too plainly for us ever to trust its
word stand unguarded against its intentions
Democracy is It death grips with Kaisersm; civil
ization is AZ death grips with Kutur There can
be parleying until the fateful issue is settled,
no peace until our enemy is in the dust.
President Wilson will take no vacation but
there is compensation for him, congress is taking
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26
Tools of Germany.

Lenine's threat to break relations with the AL
lies if not actually to declare against them
brings no surprise He and his Bolshevik CO.
mates long have been suspected of being tools of
Germany and recent developments tend to
firm the suspicion. They regarded German perfdy
at the Brest-Litovsk conference with astonishing
euuanimity for men of any devotion to principle
much less of any love for their native land. They
stood TRANQUILITY by while the Kaisers loot gather
ers seized Russias fairest and richest provinces
They entered into regular and amicable dealings
with the brutal plunderers of their country, re-
ceiving diplomatic representatives from Berlin and
sending thther accredited representatives of their
own. Still more suspicious is the fact that while
every other considerable element in Russia has ap
pealed for Allied help of some kind, the Bolshe-
Wiki under Lenine have remained strangely silent
AS a writer in the New York Tribune tersely puts
it: Russia is starving; Russia is in state of al
most hopeless commercial and industrial collapse.
But the Bolsheviki do not for food for
supplies or for engineers for any kind of help
to bring Russia out of the present chaos" Some
observers find it hard to understand the Bolshe-
Wiki. but Germany evidently has found it easy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26

Herr Batccki, the Kaiser's food administra-
tor told the Reichstag some six weeks ago that
Germanys system of food distribution like an
emergency bridge. Three timbers,' he said,
bread potatoes and grain feed, the main Cir
ders of this bridge. If one of the timbers breaks,
Germany lies at the foot of the precipice. Each
year the timbers begin to creak and shake during
the last months preceding the harvest"
That crucial time has come again for Hun
land The potato ration has been cut to pound
a week, while the allowance of bread and fats is
hard by. the Jealous subjects of the Hohenzolern
are called upon to admire the Crown Princes stout
strategy the West and to prepare for still greater
sacrifices to their beloved and boosted Kultur.
Harvest time will bring them scant and uncer-
tain relief. Through the last spring and thus far
in the summer, weather conditions in the Central
Empires have been sharply unfavorable to crops
getting from the Ukraine and neighboring regions
will turn famislngly small, if reports true
The peasants planted sparely and will reap more
sparely because of unreasonable weather.
OF course all that the Huns ransack from
near and far will be poured into their hopper,
and they will manage no doubt to skmp along for
the glory of the Kaiser and Pan-Germanism. II
is plain, however, that Herr Batockis bridge Will
become continually creaky, shaky
more trying upon the nerves of those who depend
on its precarious span. The silent but unsleeping
and mighty work of the Allied fleet is telling IA
tally on the Hohenzollern den.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26

town was to take that package. And l went off
without it. If it had been dog it would have bit
have gone to the bank to put some papers in
the safe-depost vault and found out when 1 got
there that had forgotten the key.
1t isn't mere forgetfulness. l have trained
memory too we'll trained, in fact. 1t clamps on to
some one thing hard that l can't see any other
thing that happens to be lying around
And it isn't exactly absent mindedness. My
mind is always present Only it's well focused.
Any object that is not precisely where it is pointed
is invisible.
Kellar, the magician is said to have been able
to tell at one glance all the objects displayed in
show window l able to look at show window
and be utterly oblvious to everything in it except
l would make a poor detective. have no skill
in noting the unimportant.
Well, 1 suppose everything has its price. And
the price of concentration is partial blindness.
railway train go faster and farther and carry
than a dog but it can't frisk around in the
woods by the roadside.
Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26
Our Pacific Trade

How are we to explain the remarkable in
crease which the last fiscal twelve-month has
brought in the volume of our foreign trade pass
ing through Pacific ports? For the nine months
ended March 81, there a gain of some twelve
million dollars in the exports through San Fran
cisco and Seattle, and a gain of four hundred
and forty-six millions in their imports; the rec
ord of the three succeeding months in pro-
portion Some observers attribute this entirely
to the submarine war in the Atlantic and the
Mediterranean Much Oriental trade" says
the Springfield Republican, that formerly fol-
lowed the Suez canal route passes directly
across the Pacific" This explanation is but
tressed By the fact that concurrently with the
increases at the Pacific gateways there
marked decline at the Atlantic ports.
Are there not other factors in the situation,
however, which are just influential the
submarine war, or even more so? For
thing our imports from Japan have increased
greatly. Japanese manufacturers supply US
with numbers of commodities which we imported
from Europe in the days before the war turned
that continent into vast armor plant and battle
field During the greater part of the present
wear moreover, transatlantic shipping has been
devoted largely to carrying our troops, together
with their equipment and supplies, to France At
the same time there has been enforced reduc-
ton in our imports in order to economic ton
mage space and to leave more money available
for savings mainstay of war loans. All these
circumstances had their part in the decrease of
the flow of trade through Atlantic ports and
in the last six or eight months more important
part than the U-boat, the menace of which has
been steadily waning.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26
There's Something in a Name.

One often hears more elegant English but rarely
a eloquent sentiment than that employed by
the good people of North Dakotas capital city to
express their fortnight, fullblooded Americanism
1t the misfortune of North Dakota's capital to
be christened for that intriguing old villain and
bold type of Prussian cutthroats, Prince Otto
Eduard Leopold Bismarck. Always undesir
able, the grew peculiarly odious from the
summer of 1914, and by the time Americans them
selves we're fairly into the it became insuffer
able.
BISMARCK y. D.! The glared down
upon the loyal Dakotans from great sign above
the railway station; it jeered their pride, it smote
their common sense it challenged their patriotism,
it sent them hurrying to the law for justice and
relief But the laws delays proved too much for
the patience of these aroused and, vigorous
"Reminiscences. The quiddts and outlets of the
court all very we'll in their way doubt, and
due processes must be allowed to run before a new
name could be legally adopted; but meanwhile
nothing should compel them to put up with the old
Accordingly there was a BRIEF informal and
spirited counseling together in front of the railway
station with the result that the next train of pas
serEtrs passing the Town read, in place of the
quondam Bismarck" The stirring legend:
ITO hell with this blockheaded Hun. What
did he do for u.s."
Not the most elegant English, but admirably
clear.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26
VIVE LA FRANCE!

FRANCELINE rose in the dawning gray,
And her heart would dance though she knelt to
For her man Michel had holiday,
Fighting for France.
She offered her prayer by the cradle-side,
And with baby palms folded in hers she cried:
IF have but one prayer, dear, crucined
Christ-save France!
But if I have two, then, by Mary's grace,
Carry me safe to the meeting-place,
Let me look once again on my dear loves face,
Save him for France!"
She crooned to her boy: "oh, how glad he'll be,
Little three-months old, to set eyes on thee!
For Rather than gold, would l give wrote he,
A to France
Come, now, be good, little stray sauterelle,
For we're going by-by to thy papa Michel,
But I'll not say where for fear thou wilt tell,
Little pigeon of France!
six days leave and year between!
But what would you have? In six days clean,
Heaven was made" said Franceline,
Heaven and France"
She came to the town of the nameess name,
To the marching troops in the street she came,
And she held high her boy like taper flame
Burning for France.
Fresh from the trenches and gray with CRIME,
Silent they march like pantomime;
But what need of music? My heart beats time
Vive la France!"
His regiment comes Oh then where is he?
There is dust in my eyes, for cannot see,-
Is that my Michel TO the right of thee,
Soldier of France?"
Then out of the ranks a comrade fell,-
"Yesterday-'t a splinter of she'll
And he whispered thy name did thy poor Michel,
Dying for France"
The tread of the troops on the pavement throbbed
Like a womans heart of its last joy robbed
AS she lifted her boy to the flag, and sobbed:
give la France!"
CHARLOTTE HOLMES CRAWFORD
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26
THE WRATH OF THE PHILOSOPHER

The following from Henri Bergson. the great
French philosopher, may be commended to those
pacifst souls who think that wrath under any cir
cumstance indicates lack of the higher integ ence.
"Comprendre est pas indigner' (roughly
translated, Understand and you will not be
angry. This has been said to be the last word
of philosophy. l believe of it; and had to
choose, l should much prefer, when in presence of
crime to give, my indignation rein, and not to
understand.
Happily, the choice has not to be made. On
the contrary, there forms of anger which, by
a thorough comprehension of their objects, derive
the force to sustain and renew their vigor Our
anger is of that kind. We have only to detach the
inner meaning of this war; and horror for those
who made it will be increased. Moreover, nothing
is easier. little history and little philosophy
will suffice
AN implacable law drecrees that spirit must
the resistance of matter; that life can
not advance without bn9ising that which lives, and
that great moral results gre purchased by much
blood and by many tears. But rniG tine the sacri-
fee to be rich in fruit, it had been rich in
beauty. That the powers of earth might be matched
against life in one supreme combat, destiny had
gathered them all at a single point And behold
how death was conquered, how humanity saved
by material suffering, from the moral downfall
which would have been its end while the peoples,
joyful in their desolation raised high the song
of deliverance from the depths of ruin and OF
grief"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26
Six Dollars a Pound for Sugar.

We talk of prices being giddily high today. But
turn back to the record of some fifty years ago.
When the Georgia housewife of that pinching
period went 10 buy pound of sugar, she took from
six to eight dollars and brought home no change
She paid as much two hundred and twenty-five
dollars barrel for flour, six dollars a dozen for
eggs, and ten dollars a pound for butter. She
found sweeping almost among the luxuries, with
brooms costing five or six dollars EACH and candle
light she found a dear indulgence, with tallow
sputterers priced at six dollars a pound. She was
glad to get calico at fourteen dollars a yard and
her children glad to escape castor oil at one
hundred dollars gallon. These and long array
other striking figures. the Sandersville Progress
reproduces from a scrapbook handed down from
the days following Sherman's march to the
The extraordinary prices caused partly, of
course, by currency imitation, but that only one
OF the contributing wartime circumstances Our
parents and grandparents bore them and all
with fortitude well worthy of emulation in these
trying but incomparably happier times.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26

Perhaps there never a time in the history
of Christendom when the saying of Christ, What
shall it profit a if he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?" came oftener to the
minds of men than it does today. For truly this
is time for the sitting of hearts Very early in
the Owen Wister said, in his "Pentecost of
Calamity" 81 want no better photograph of any
individual than his opinion of this war. If he has
none that is a photograph of him!"
Any one today who can fail to the sgnif-
canoe of this conflict is blind to the things of the
spirit Any one who can wish himself, or even his
or her-dearest, free from the dangers and the
responsibilities of it, is traitor TO his own best
self and to the eternal truths upon which all life is
built
For in very high sense this is not at all.
We instinctiVey think of a fair contest
between armies for something which to each con-
testant seems just and right. In most cases right
has been side or another; but even the
mistaken side has contested its cause with a GER
tain sportsmanlike respect for the enemy, and &C
ceptance of defeat if defeat must come. At least
this is true of most modern wars. Even undue am
bon has stopped short of devltry to gain its ends.
But the present slaughter has little about 1t that
we have latterly called war. When one man falls
upon another fouly to deprive him of his property
or his life, without reason, we do not call 1t a
fght--we call it murder.
So this conflict is on the one side an unspeak-
ably base aggression, and on the other great and
brave defense-a defense of the helpless, and a
defense of all truth and right. One of the Memo
rial day preachers said in substance I'VE are real
izing more and more that this is a wa rof pres
ervation; the preservation of all that men have
fought and died for in the past, and all that will
make life worth living in the future. Therefore,
if it goes on for generations, we must fight 1t
through"
Yet there was never in all history such carnage
and such worldwide agony the world has been
going through in the past four years And here we
come to the direct issue between the body and the
soul In the of all martyrs that choice has had
to be made without compromise. And every coun-
try that has stood up to the present embodiment
of evil and defed it-from noble little Belgium to
our own country in this, the eleventh hour-has
made that tremendous that decisive choice, that
only free souls make. On the one hand we
have the delusion of peace and ease with hearts
clinging to bodily and material safety and prosper
ity; on the other we have sacrifice and struggle
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26

l have, said the professor, single-track mind.
yes, know I have reputation a high
brow. 1 have written half dozen books on phi
losophy, and I'm occupying chair in university.
and draw a salary presumably paid me for having
a super quality and amount of grey matter in my
Uranium But I've a single-track mind, just the
same.
What l mean is that when l get to thinking
on one subject it's hard to switch off to another.
All my life I've been trained to concentrate.
That's good. But sometimes you want to scatter,
and can't.
Along with perfect control of ones attention
there goes a fearful skill in forgetting. Also
certain blind spot is developed in the minds eye,
and can't see things that are right before him.
For instance have had notice handed me to
read to my class. l have held that notice in my
hand that I'd be sure to remember it, and have
found when the class dimissed that l had
forgotten it clean whistle. People won't be-
lieve it. They think I'm lying. | don't blame them.
They don't realize my single-trackedness.
l have had package laid out on the hall table
to take down town. The reason for my going down