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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
Youth Renewed By the Draft
Throbs and Thrills Which Awaken the Bachelor of 10
New York Evening Post.

What do the older men. between 81 and As,
liable to the draft think about their military
prospects? We have read reams concerning
the effect Of army life on eghteen-year-olds.
The whole country resounded for time
with that controversy. Specimens, weedy and
husky, of youngsters loaded down with a
soldiers equipment were exhibited in our
congressional halls to work on the feelings
OF our legislators. Did anybody ever think
OF exhibiting bachelor OF 40, torn up by the
roots from his old-maid-ike environment and
flung into the chaos of war before the eyes
of sympathetic publicl Or did this 40-year-
on his own behalf3 Most admirable, indeed,
has been his general attitude. Outwardy
you can scarcely observe and evidences of
inward perturgation. To all appearances he
has continued with his daily routine, as OF
yore, stole and unmoved like Wellington's
guardsmen at Waterloo. His schedule of
goings and comings, his accuracy at the Of
hce, his greeting to his landiady, his perfect
courtesy to his stenographer remained the
same. Not even the slightest disorder in
his meticulous dress betrayed an inward
agitation. Perhaps the golf game, in that
it developed a sudden, nervous, and erratic
vigor, would have been the only sign of I'M
usual psychic disturbances.
CT uC uust HdNC uCCH tHhhlik sOihC ioiiS
thoughts, while saving his daily wood. AT
first it would be very difficult for him to Wis
ualize the complete dislocation of his life
threatened by this new act. Gradually, how
ever, he feels himself drawn nearer to the
vortex. The details of registration, ques-
tionnaires, exemption claims, hitherto sub
jects of only mild interest. become absorbing
realities. And then he begins to worry about
his physical fitness. A man around 40 has
often come to consider himself consigned for
good to a sedentary existence. His life has
become stabilized as it were; good deal of
sitting around in great leather club chairs,
certain emphasis on things good to eat
though never admitted; little mild exercise,
walking and golf or riding, very few mental
excitements or upsets, these constitute the
life of the average man of %, without de-
pendents, liable to the draft. In reviewing
his physical condition he will remember that
ankle he sprained in The year 1912, the at
tack of lumbago which laid him up month
in 1914, the pumping of his heart when he
climbs flight of steps, his increasing bald
ness and decide that he can certainly not be
fit for the mud and rain and sleet and bad
food of the trenches. He tries to imagine
himself sticking bayonet into a German or
getting one stuck into himself
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
Austria's Peace PROPAGANDA.

Something significant, il not exactly sinister,
may be discerned in the attitude of Count Ger
nin late premier of Austria, who is just now
acting as spokesman for the Central powers in
their renewed peace" drive. His acceptance of
the league donations policy and his virtual CON-
initial OF Baron Burian to that idea might be
impressive we're it not for some other facts
Count Czernn and Baron Buran are leaders of
the most notorious school OF crafty statesman
ship known All the traditions of the Haps
burg dynasty of intrigue, deceit duplicity and
perhdy, have found expression through the oper-
atoms of this pair of pastmasers at thimblerig
gng. Recent history of the court at Vienna is
not such as justihes any reliance on proposals
for a negotiated peace emanating from that
source.
= The German people are just now being fed
on another brand of dope. 1t is told them that
President Wilson is responsible for the wars
continuance into the fifth year and that America
hopes to dominate Europe. On this line the
Vienna Neue Freie Presse says:
If the Central powers and the Entente now
had the decision to themselves they would
both perhaps consider that it is time for
diplomacy to speak. \ But the English
and the French are no longer independent.
Tsar Wilson feeds them, clothes them, sends
them men and money. He decides about war
and about peace, and is bringing Europe under
an alien rule, which is ntoerable if only be-
cause every European power is forbidden to
interfere in American policy Wilson is the
obstacle to peace, which might perhaps have
prevailed after the fluctuations of this summer
The innuendo herein contained is the more
potent because of the fact that America arrived
in time to prevent the enforcement Of peace on
German terms. Otherwise, the effort OF the Aus
TRANS to set themselves and their German allies
in the light of being oppressed, and to array
other Europeans against the United States
amounts only to desperate effort longer to de-
lude the people as to the causes and the course
of the war.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

egraph company, unique in its efficiency and
its general enlightenment of management,
will be under government operation, and the
vast fabric of almost perfect public service,
built up through long years OF palnstaking
labor and scientific research, will be in the
category of government jobs
The company has practically created the
telephone, as we know it today. To its great
corps of engineers and investigators is due
telephone service. Step by step these men
have perfected one detail after another in tel
ephone transmssions, until across the CONT
nent a whisper carries to the listeners ear
instant recognition of the speaker. Very few
inventions of Importance in telephony have
originated anywhere else than in Bell labor
atories One phase after another OF voice
transmission problems has been dealt with,
and after meticulous study and research the
difficulties overcome. And now through the
mazes of underground conduits and high ten
sion electric wires the sound of ones voice
travels unimpaired and for distances we'll
nigh limitless,
Even the lay mind must realize the diff
cult technique of the telephone business. 1t
is realm wherein the problems are those of
hnesse-of infinite delicacy. Unlike the cleo
trician who plans high-power transmission
circuit, the telephone engineer deals in faint
electrical impulses that must be protected by
score of delicate devices lest they fade away
and die amid the ruder forces about them.
| 1t is only the faintest breath that carries the
sound of ones voice over the wire. That this
delicate impulse can slip unimpaired amid
the myriad noises and cross-currents of great
cities and girde continent is one of the
wonders of the age. And yet that is just
what these engineers have achieved. Their
work, unheralded and apart has been almost
miraculous and their achievements have made
possible the ease and swiftness of modern
business intercourse. There is nothing like
it elsewhere Abroad the telephone and tele-
graph service as we know them are nom
existent.
And now it is all to end in government
operation! Alas, for individual initiative, for
painstaking research, for work done for the
pure Joy of the doing. The experience of prac-
tically all countries shows that these things
cease when the government steps in. Reason
for this is no doubt found in the record of
most governments as employers of labor.
The experience of postal employees generally
does not seem likely to inspire telephone
workers with exuberance in the prospect of
the civil service. Contrast the lot for exam
pie, of the average Bell employee, we'll paid,
happy in his work, his future, and that of his
family made secure through a wise and lib
eral pension plan, with that of the postal
service! -
The war is making necessary many far
reaching changes, affecting the welfare of
masses of the community. But there is more
than a suspicion current that many of the
innovations proposed are made necessary,
not by the war. but by the politician. 1t is
to be hoped that Canada will not follow too
readily the untried projects of our good
lneighbors.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
PeODLe and EUents

During July and August revenue agents
poured $4,000 gallons of moonshine whisky
down the mountain sides of Kentucky, Geor-
gia and Tennessee. Uncle Sam insists that
business as usual" is impossible in the moon
shine belt.
A marked shortage of teachers fronts
Iowa on the threshold of the school year.
State Superintendent Deyoe expresses alarm
and fears many schools must remain closed.
Special examinations are to be held for the
purpose of gaining recruits from the ranks
of youth.
Advices from the briny beds make it clear
that the oyster family flourish as usual in
spite of war alarms and submarine scares.
Early samples of the fall crop along the east
ern coast are the smoothest ever and have
not yet caught the price uplift of the
profiteer.
Let the hay-feverites cheer up and look
pleasant. Prophets of medical science hold
out substantial hope of permanent relief,
provided the war runs the prophets limit of
seven years. By that time war gardeners
will have destroyed all the odous ragweed
in the country With the cause exterminated
cure is assured. Hey, there. do you get it?
Trouble brews in Texas as luxuriantly as
in Chihuahua or Juarez. Something is pop
ping all the time to keep the home state OF
Colonel House on the map; Just. now the
politicians are worrying and perspiring. and
much of the fairness of the pie counter tits
toward the fire. Women voters are asking
notwithstanding questions, some OF
which impale the sanetity of the democratic
machine. Moreover, the plaguey quiz grows
in virulence, menacing the peaceful division
Of the provender in November. Unless the
doughty colonel hurries home and Gains the
new voters a political Alamo impends
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
WHY aBIo Jeff" FOR coNcREss,

The Numbering OF the big gun by the hyphen-
ated organ this early in the campaign indicates
that desperate effcrt is to be made to save the
present democratic congressman now represent
ing this district through fearful plea that "Wil-
son wants him. which is humiiating confession
that no good reason can be offered in his behalf.
What the people of this district want (and what
we believe Wilson also wants when not msled
by the democratic camoufage artists and political
onhangers) is to have someone represent US in
Washington who is not only thoroughly Amer
lean and stands right on the war, but also pos
lens, and at the same time to push the interests
OF his constituents and see to il that the claims OF
Omaha get due consideration when we have some
thing at stake.
The republican nominee, A. w. Jeffers, is so
superior in his record of straight Amercanism,
in mental equipment, in actual public service, in
proved efficiency and in general standing in the
community that no one can make comparisons I'M
less blinded by political partisanshp of the mar
rowest and most bigoted Sort
Why then Big JEFF for congress? Because
it is high time for the Omaha district tho district
which contains the metropolis of Nebraska and
in which focuses all the industrial, commercial
and financial interests of the state, to have a
representative in congress big enough and broad
enough and brany enough to do the job credta-
bly, and hold his own with the biggest men in that
great law-making body.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
Looking Into the Airplane Middle.

Secretary Bakers present visit to France, with
Second Assistant Secretary Ryan as a companion,
is said to be for the purpose of getting at bed
rock facts on the airplane muddle The almost
total failure of our great program in this respect
has had several explanations, one of them coming
from General March to the effect that conflict
of orders from lover there" had brought such
confusion on this side as to render compliance
almost impossible. Mr.. Baker and Mr. Ryan are
to consult with the heads of the several airplane
divisions in France and find out just what is
wanted and ought to return to America with
definite notions of what must be done here to
meet needs there. We cannot stop now to parley
about what has been done; inquiries set on foot
will determine where the mistake was made, but
the big thing is to get the quantity production
program under way as speedily as possible, that
we may provide the army in France with all the
airplanes it requires for the great forward move
ment that is yet to come. The fact that we have
enough machines flying to protect our men on
the battle line is insufficient. America must have
absolute supremacy in the air, as we'll as on the
ground. With the air service consolidated under
one head. and that head fully aware OF conditions
and needs. the rest is simply problem OF manu-
facture The present visit of the secretary of war
and his assistant to France is really of vital i'm
portanee in this regard, and should bring some
results. .,.z.E
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
Center Shots

Minneapolis Tribune: When does a
man cease to be 4 in the meaning Of
the draft?
Washington Post: The Huns have
lost the switch to the Hindenburg
line and the German staff is now ex-
planning how much easier it is to fight
in a smaller trap.
Kansas City Star: The German
crown prince denies that he is fire
eater. which was quite useless. No
one had accused the crown prince even
getting within eating distance of the
firing line.
New York World; President Wilson
might as well understand first as last
that the senate committee on military
AFFAIRS thoroughly disapproves of the
speeches he is about to make for the
Liberty loan.
Louisville Courier-Journal: To the
credit of the vendors of gasoline be it
said, there is no cry that the request
OF the natinoal fuel administration Is
an unwarrantable interference with
business as usual"
Baltimore American: The allies
are giving Jerusalem an up-to-date
municipal government. And yet to
the average Imagination on this side.
Jerusalem with modern Improvements
is very hard image to conjure rp.
Brooklyn Eagle: Washington CT
ders that there shall be no garnishee-
ing of railroad mems wages, the money
being government funds until actually
paid over. But all debts will be paid,
Nobody will risk such jobs as the rail-
readers now hold.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

Presently he pays a visit to doctor who
gives him thorough going over. He 1.-THE
draftee) is surprised to find himself expert
encing a strange thrill when the medico an
nounces Sound in wind and limb, from head
to toe A little too feshy, and short OF
breath, but, by exercise, these things Will
straighten themselves out" There is sort
of satisfaction in reaching 40 in perfect and
undoubted health, especially if one has done
everything in ones power to ruin an iron
constitution by soft living. A farmer can
claim no pride in such a performance equal
to that OF the city dweller. Your draftee re-
turns to his home with firmer and ,prouderr
tread, Meanwhile, strange thoughts and
impulses pop up to disturb his ego. He re-
members his last camping trip OF III years
Ibefore-the last one he and his friend, Smith,
took without guides. They both had sworn
never to repeat this performance, that they
were getting entirely too old for such things.
Subsequently they always took guides, tents,
patent ovens and mosquito netting; IN, short,
they went, thereafter, equipped like sport
ing goods shop. Your draftee wonders
whether it wouldn't be desirable to sleep on
the sky, under the shower bath OF steady
rain, with nothing between one and an empty
stomach but few prunes and hunk OF
pork. =.
Other, and even stranger, avatisms emerge
to worry him. He finds himself appraising
the men OF his own age like a schoolboy, on
the basis Of combative possibilities. A man
is only as old as he feels. And the drafted
bachelor begins to view with longing the life
of adventure that the army holds out. He
wonders what real fight will be like. 1t is
20 years since he got arrested at college for
trying to lick the local constable. Since
1898 civilization has been standing between
him and the .constabulary. Some one sug-
gests the irksomeness of obedience to SUI
perior officer, probably young enough to be
his son. At first this confounds him. Then
he sees that the most rejuvenating element
in the whole adventure will be just this ir-
responsibility begot of being forced to obey
orders. After years of ones own thinking
and ordering, one longs to be ordered about
a bit. Decidedly, the most irresponsible, mis-
chievous and light-headed recruits will come
from the ranks of the tough conscripts OF
40 They will know best how unwelcome
orders may be safely disobeyed and they
will be most reckless in their disobedence.
And, on reflection, they will be the last to
ask for service in semi-civilian employments,
the quartermaster's the medical, or the trans
portation department.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
TW1ce Told Tales

Little Willie, who for some months
had always ended his evening prayer
with please send me baby brother"
announced to his mother that he was
tired Of praying for what he did not
get, and he did not believe that God
had any more little boys to send.
Not long afterward he was carried
into his mothers room early In the
morning to see his twin brothers, who
arrived during the night. Willie
ooked at the two babies critically and
hen remarked: ITS a good thing
stopped praying when I did."-Farm
and Fireside
Gathering En- In.
A recruiting officer in Germany de-
termined that no prospective soldier
should elude him. One man said he
was too old, but the officer replied:
Won Hindenburg is 70 and he's in.
Get a gun"
: Another man with one arm came I'D
to claim exemption and the officer
said: THE kaiser's in. Get a gun. !"
Finally woman brought her half
witted SON, and the officer said: mo
matter: the crown prince is in. Get
a gun. "-Everybody's Magazine.
An Interested Supporter.
Senator Simmons was congratu-
lated the other day on a recalcitrant
senator who had returned to the fold.
I'D value his return more highly"
he said, "ff he didn't need my support.
Election time is coming on, you know,
and he needs all the support he can
get"
The senator added:
ANY man will look UP to you when
he's in q hole"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
WILLIAM CAN'T RULE
OVERsME

Ito the tune Of MY Bonnie Lies over the
Ocean.")
Great William lies over the ocean,
Great william lies over the sea,
Great William has got q fool notion,
That he'd like to rule over me.
CHORUS.
No! Mol Oh! No!
William can't rule over me, Ger me,
Oh! No! No! No!
William can't rule over me.
Our boys have gone over the ocean.
Our boys have gone over the sea,
Our boys will teach William his notion
Is rotten as rotten can be.
CHORUS.
Well fight Mr.. William with taxeA
Wen fight Mr.. William with bonds.
We'll fight him with club and pick axes.
Wen fight him with gases and bombs.
CHORUS.
Our boys will camp under the linden.
Old Glory will float from each tree,
The Sammies will bury old Hinden;
Our boys will set Germany frea
LAST CHORUS.
Free! Free! Erect Freei
Our boys will set Germany free, yes, frsA
Free! Free! Free! Free!
Our boys will set Germany frea
Omaha. C.. J. ROBERr1
Copyright applied for,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
! more careful review of their an

by more careful review Of their an
swers.
A man situated as described In the
second question. may be useful IN
many ways in connection with the
war. Application should be made
through the local organization OF
either of the war welfare agencies for
service. This should bring a review
and proper assignment.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

mo politics in the railroad service is the de-
cree OF Director General McAdoo and then by
his authority as treasury head, "Artful Arthur is
to add to his duties as democratic national COM
mitteeman Ss0O0-a-year job of legal advisor to
the federal reserve banking board passing on cat
tie paper. Did someone say politics is adjourneds
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

Medicine. This prescription was compounded
for the Reverend Father John O'Brien at the
old drug store on that date, and was so success
full in treating Father Johns ailment, which
was severe cold and throat trouble, that he.
recommended the medicine to his friends and
parishioners. In going to the drug store and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

Our hyphenated contemporary refers to the
present democratic incumbent representing this
district in Washington as "a peculiarly useful
congressman" He himself says he is nothing but
a messenger boy, and while messenger boy can
be useful, are we not entitled to more for our
moneyl
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

covering nearly a century.
Perhaps one Of the most
interesting books is that of
the year 1855. On one of
the pages of this book, that
dated June 9th, 1856, is
written the original pre-
enesnhsns. e. Ea4La. Iol,s-,.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
LOOKING Backward 60 YEARS
An Interesting Bit of History
Everybody Should Know

One Of the interesting places in Lowell, Mass.
is the old apothecary shop on Merrimack street,
established in 1897. This location is still drug
store, although of course modernized in many de-
partments. The old prescription books, however.
have been preserved and form an interesting record
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

Nothing but regular dinner on the dining cars
after next month is the new order in the interest
OF more modest meals We did not know there
was any complaint about lack OF modesty in the
dining car meals now being served.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
TODNY
One Year Ago Today in the War.

British reported an advance Of 400
yards on Somme front.
General Korniloff, at the head of a
lage body of troops, began a march
on Petrograd.
Russia's Council of Workmen's and
Soldiers Deputies decided to support
Kerensky.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

TO sign up to go wherever Uncle Sam needs them
The Potsdam gang should make a note of this
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

American war savings work spells Ward
Burgess OF Nebraska. If new head director Is
wanted, that's the answer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

Even the short corn crop, translated into
terms of meat, means more than 200Oo,Oo0,0o(
pounds OF beef, pork and mutton.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

One way to put your dollar into the front
line trenches is to give it to the Salvation Armys
"doughnuts for doughboys" fund.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

Maine voters did no, heed the appeal to give
the president a rubber stamp congress. why
should Nebraska
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

The explanation of the corn crop shrinkage
is easily found in the nearly l2-inch rainfall de-
iciency since March |, according to the official
record
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

Cheaper gasoline is promised just at the mo-
ment it is announced that no more Ford cars will
be manufactured. What's the use?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

The worst part of the cancellation of the pres
ident's hoped-for visit to Omaha is that it de-
stroys the chance OF us seeing "Prince Arthur"
again paradng his silk tile
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11

"Jimham" Lewis finally encountered real
thrill and the U-boat's captain will find his cha
grin greater when he learns what brilliant VIC
tim escaped .,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-11
Ground was broken for the new
hospital in Monmouth park in the
north part of the city.
The pohibitionists had small torch

A new police and ire alarm box has
been put in on the corner of Fifteenth
and Douglas.
A marriage license was issued to
John Woods and Miss Jennie Watson,
both of Omaha.
The wife and family Of Gen. George
s. Smith left on a visit to Irvington.
Alameda county. Cal.
General Dodge, one of the Union
Pacific directors. and c. F. Meek Of
the Denever and Fort Worth road, ar
rived in the city in private car.