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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
Arthur's Friendly Letter
Minneapolis Tribune.

Arthur LeSeuer wrote a nice, chumny sort
OF letter to Big Bill Haywood on April 5. 1917
In it he addressed his correspondent as Fellow
Worker"
Mr.. LeSeuer is secretary of the Nonpartisan
league and power in its inner councils.
Big Bill" is recretary of the |. w. w. and
its most active guiding spirit.
The letter was written the day before the
United States declared state of war with Ger
many. Mr. IeSeuer said in the letter he hoped
his fellow worker" would not start anything
until the year has expired
Mr.. LeSeuer wished to know how "the Min.
nesota proposition was coming on, whatever
that may be. He also suggested to fellow
worker" that "this damned war business is 60
ing to make it mighty hard to do good organi,
cation work or good radical work of any kind,
fight should now be conferred against spy bills
and CONSUMPTION"
Incidentally Mr. LeSeuer thought CHECK
for $343 from big Bill" would be about rgh
for expenses incurred in getting "the boys out
in Des Moines, seeing that no labor principle
was involved"
The letter was addressed to West Washing
ton street. Chicago. big Bills" forwarding
address is now Leavenworth, Kan, care warde1
of federal prison. He appears to have centeret
the fight too we'll on something. Mr.. LeSeue
can still be reached by mail, care Nonpartisar
league. Mr.. Townley knows him very we'll anc
thinks highly of him.
The Minnesota Public Safety commission
thinking the text of this letter would be inter
esting to many readers, permits the newspaper
to publish it next to pure reading matter.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
People and Eyents

Patched shoes and reseated trousers are
omitted from the latest fashion chronicle, but
they are breaking into stylish society just the
same.
Wars grim tragedies still lure the muses. to
unseemly mirth. One of them MARBLES: "Ot
the six Hohenzollern boys who started in the
war there are only half dozen left"
California talks OF taking food prohteers by
the scruf of the neck and giving them mastih
shakeup. Watch how the state does it. Other
states need shining example to follow.
With much glee and unanmity eastern papers
jumped on the scheme to raise a purse OF
100000 as prize for the winner of an aerla
race across the Atlantic ocean. As a consequence
the project looks like hopeless case for pull
motor
Fifty-fve hundred styles OF rubber footwear
have been eliminated by the war industries
board, and the raw material turned into real
war work The saving will supply urgent needs
for the year and defer for the present reduc-
ton in the styles of rubbernecks
Last year Britshers footed drink bill OF
$1,000 100000, or $400000,000 more than in 1918
Still there was not half the drunkenness in war
time that there was in peace-tlme Excessive
drinking is said to have decreased 20 per cent
Evidently the moderates maintained a steady
Souse
Vendors OF natural gas warn Kansas City
consumers not to expect fuel gas this winter
At the same time the company is casing the
federal court at St Paul for permission to ee-
vate the price Should the elevation succeed no
doubt an extra effort will be made to deliver
the goods.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
Timely lettings and Reminders.

l5l6th day of the great war.
Forty-ninth anniversary of the
BLACK Friday" panic, in which the
fortunes OF hundreds were swept
away in Wall street.
Robert T. Lincoln and Mrs. Lin
coin, who are now residents of
Washington, will celebrate their gol-
den wedding anniversary today, hav-
ing been married September "a, 1868.
Sectional conferences and commit
tee meetings will occupy thousands
of bankers, assembled in Chicago
today for the annual convention of
the American Bankers association.
General primaries are to be held
today in Massachusetts and New
Jersey for the nomination of party
candidates for United States sena-
tor, congressman and state officers
to be voted for in November.
The Central States Cooperative
society has been called to a gen.
eral conference to meet today at
Springfield, ILL.,, to agree upon
measures for extending the cooper
alive movement as a means of pro-
lection for working classes against
the prohteer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
Allenby's Victory in Palestine.

The success of the campaign conducted by
General Allenby against the Turk in Palestine
is of the utmost Importance. By the thorough
ness OF his work Aenby has tremendously re-
duced the territory over which the British forces
there are required to operate, and has corre-
spondingly weakened the Turkish army He
is now in position to seriously threaten Moslem
defenses in other directions, one collateral re-
suit of the present victory being to Immediately
weaken the enemy's hold on Mesopotamia, and
so to drive him back from all his advance posts
along the southern and eastern border of Tur-
key. Most potent of all, however will be the
result of this victory on the government at Con-
stantinople. Here, as in Sofa, the vunerabiity
of the German scheme is now most apparent,
and consequent desire to withdraw and save
something is coming uppermost. In this way
Alenby has contributed greatly to the winning
of the war.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
Whitfield to q Point

Washington Post: Disloyal strik-
ers find that President Wilson can
strike, too.
Washington Post: The time when
Germany shorld have yearned for
peace was in July, 1914.
Minneapolis Tribune: They say
the kaiser is about ready to break
down-just when his army is break
ing up, too.
Baltimore American: President
Wilson's effective reply to Austria
is a polite translation of the curt
ultimatum of the streets Nothing
Doing"
New York World: 1t still remains
for the German military headquar-
tiers to announce officially that the
Austrian peace drive was success
fully carried out according to pre-
arranged plans.
New York Herald: The wisest of
Prussian prophets is Admiral Won
Scheer, who tempers his prophecy
that I'VE shall bring England to its
knees by submarine warfare by
frank admission that he does not
bind himself to definite date.
Brooklyn Eagle: Eugene V. Debs,
who spent six months in Jail many
years ago for contempt Of court, and
who, in 1912, polled S9S,53S votes
for the presidency, offers no defense
to a sedition charge, and declares he
is willing to die in prison for his
principles. That, at least, is the priv
ilege of every law-breaker. Debs
has chosen the better part; it shall
not be taken from him.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
State Press Comments

York News-Times: Jack Frost may
come along at any time now If he so
desires. He can do nothing that will
increase the damage. He will bring
relief to the hay fever sufferers and
that is a humane achievement.
Beatrice Express: Nebraska s
quota for the Fourth Liberty loan,
which is to be launched September
Is, will be twice the amount of the
quota for the third loan, according
to Washington advices. Get ready
to take your fair share.
Grand Island independents: An
other thing our boys are likely to do
when they return from France will
be to substitute our penny-wise-and-
pound foolish policy of road and
bridge building with a community
enterprise spirit that will result in
real roads and permanent. concrete
fioored bridges, instead of the tenn
porary, frail, split-plank-f oored,
shaky and dangerous apologies which
have been the vogue in the past to
keep down the taxes
Wayne Herald: There is report
from Washington that congress pro-
poses to do something to bring down
awaiting food prices. Congress wisely
feels that people should be relieved
as far as possible from the oppres-
sion of the high cost of living. No
matter how small mans income,
he wants to buy bonds and war saw
ings stamps and contribute to the
Red Cross and other worthy purposes
in the interest Of the war, but he
can't well do all he wishes to do in
that way if the purchase of bare
necessities taxes his resources to the
limit. This condition appeals to con-
gresS as ground for action.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
Business on Even Keel,

While business conditions are necessarily
wholly under the influence Of the war; DISPOSE
ton to rock the boat" seems to have vanished.
Big and little business alike accept the imper
alive fact that war orders come ahead of every
thing, and plans are laid accordingly This is
the most encouraging feature of the home sit
uaton. In some lines capacity production is
not attained, because of shortage of skilled Ia
Dor, yet this is slowly being remedied by the
training of new help. Another factor that is
making some difference in the output is that the
high rate of production of the first few months
was pitched little too fast Great factories are
getting down to steady and dependable basis,
and stable production rates is now expected.
AS it is enough is being made and handled to
care for the military needs of the country, and
civilian requirements are being adjusted to meet
the shortened supply available. With care in
use there will be enough for everybody's reason
able needs, and no suffering for lack of supplies.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
A Census for Henchmen

II seems like echoes from the land of spirits,
but. in the dark backward and abysm of time
the democratic party was looking for high
brow votes In 1912 the democratic platform,
cut of pure love and with no notion of catching
flies, wept sympathetically over civil service re-
form. "snivii service" as Mr.. Vice President
Marshall called it. The democratic partv is Sc
riousy committed, if platform declarations
amount to anything, to civil service reform. Mr..
Wilson is committed to it by repeated utter
ances. II am hearty believer in the principles
of civil service reform" he said in 1912 ard
shall take pleasure at all times IN dong what l
can to promote those principles in practice.
Mr. Wilson was sincere, but he has many
and great things to attend to. The small, mean
and permanent forces of partisanship are in
tense on all the domestic policies that he would
Be severest against if he knew about them
The census bill is a specimen OF those an
Gent, purely partisan prejudices, which,, IN this
time. are most remote from Americans of Amer
sical Contrary to the provision OF the census
Nv OF 1909. It provides, in effect that compete.
solse methods shall not be used in the making of
80 next census. The director of the census,
v3e Supervisors of the census, the SS,00O-odd
Generators of the census, will all be political
Ill ointees."
mo doubt. nobody cares Yet in the silent,
taS$n. mostly unheard remonstrance against the
y, 7eSestic. which are also to an extent the tor
- II as distinguished from the necessary. inl-
ags;atiye and win -the-war policies of an admins
IN that is largely buttressed at home by
Iii provincial democrats, may it not be wise
AlSrate to certain extent, what some or us
Not ceased to believe in. honest, real civil
~ reform?-New York Times.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
War Loans and the People.

By peculiar circumstance the ninth Ger
man war loan is to be offered to the kaiser
subjects at the time Americans are asked to
subscribe to the Fourth Liberty loan. This
naturally suggests comparison of methods.
The German war debt now amounts to $27,000,-
100000, exclusive of the huge sums for which
the states and cities, such as Berlin, Hamburg,
Munich and others, have pledged their credit.
No exact figures as to the total German debt
are available, but it has been estimated to be
above $30,000,O000O0 This is exclusive of the
money raised by taxes, which have been heavy.
However, Germany increased its taxes but
little on account OF the war, for the very good
reason that within the last few years preceding
hostilities taxation had been so heavy that care
full observers expressed the belief that it had
reached the limit. Indeed, one of the reasons
for the forcing of the war in 1914 is the fact that
the burden of supporting the army had become
so onerous that Germans could no longer be de-
pended upon to bear it. Therefore, the kaiser's
government has had recourse to loans to defray
the cost of the war, placing almost the entire
burden on posterty.
Taxation in America on account of the war
has been largely increased. A similar course
was pursued in Great Britain, the idea being to
make just division of the load between the
present and the future, and to avoid the evils OF
imitation incident to too great borrowing. In
both these lands enormous initial expenditures
had to be met, that armies might be raised and
equipped. These expenses Germany had dis
tributed over forty years of preparation.
The main point is that in both America and
Great Britain subscription to the loans is en-
tirely voluntary; in Germany the government
has way of inducing bond purchases that is
most effective. Again, the German bonds bear
high rate of interest and are sold at discount
ours at par
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
STANDING BEHIND THE PRESIDENT.

While the Omaha Hyphenated organ of the
unterrhed shreks its plea for voters to elect
democrats in order that the president may have
full support in his war program, Senator
Thomas than whom no sturdier democrat ever
signed the payroll, rises In the senate to cast
another monkeywrench into the fast-revovng
wheels Last week this eminent member of the
military affairs committee found 1t necessary to
attack Secretary Daniels of the Navy depart
ment, accusing him of interfering with the war,
Mr. Daniels having opposed one of the senator's
pet measures having to do with oil and mining
matters. Daniels, it seems, seeks to preserve
at least portion of the public domain in the oil
fields for uses of the navy; Senator Thomas
would turn it all over to private exploitation in
the name of increasing production for war uses.
However, the difference Of opinion on this
point is immateral. 1t is enough to know that
the honorable senator from Colorado is stand
ing behind the president now just as he did in
January and February, when, with Hitchcock
of Nebraska, Chamberlain of Oregon and few
others, he sought to take control of the war out
of Mr.. Wilson's hands and place it under domi-
nation of the senate. The Omaha Hyphenated
has short memory, but it's files will disclose
quite few eloquent arguments in favor of the
course its owner was then bent upon Truth
wholly on the support of his own party in con-
gress, his war program would have been
wrecked long ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
Here and There

1t is as far around the coast of
Africa as 1t is around the world.
The word "Bey" affixed to Turk
ishesurname signifies that the wearer
is distinguished in the service of the
state.
In 1912 the inundation of Petro-
grad as the result of an overflow of
the Neva was SO severe that Peter
the Great nearly lost his life. Thou
gands of people died in the course
of it and the whole city was nearly
destroyed.
Liberia, the latest country to Sc
cure a war loan from the United
States. is negro republic on the
west coast of Africa, with a popula-
ton of between 100000 and 2,000,-
600. 1t declared war on Germany
August 4, 1917. Relations had been
broken previously, but the war de-
cision permitted the sinternment of
many German merchants and others
who had been accused of unneutral
activities. -
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
Those Empty Bottles.

Omaha, Sept 21.-To the Editor
of The Bee: 1t is said that drown
ing man will grasp at straw. This
is equally true of the enemies of
Michael Clark, our present sheriff
for they have found that the OLD
boat is leaking and they are about
to be drowned in the deep waters O.
public opinion. Hence they resort
TO every stretegy, every conceivable
device that would save them from
the wrath Of the people, in the hope
of landing safely in the harbor of
political success.
A few empty whisky bottles found
in an isolated spot in the county
building has shocked the sensibilty
of such well known prohibitionists
as Tom O'Connor and Leo Hoffman.
county commissioners. Knowing
these men as l do, | am of the opin-
ion that the only real shock lay in
the fact that the bottles were empty
ones. That Sheriff Clark never knew
that those empty bottles We're there
or that they were placed there by
him or any of his employees will b.
believed far more readily by all VIII,
know him than any story told by
the schemers who are resorting to
such dastardly means to depreciate
the record made by one Of the most
honest and efficient sheriffs Douglas
county ever had, and l have known
them all for 3S .'ears past.
The good record of a public official
is a bulWark against SANDER or the
designing schemes of political trick
sters. and venture the prediction
that Michael Clark will be re-elect-
ed to his second term as sheriff by
the biggest majority ever given a
man for that office in Douglas coun-
ty, for the American people have
come to a realization of the fact that
an honest and efficient public serv-
ant is the noblest work Of God.
ED F. MOREARTY,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
[ TO-DAY
Right in the Spotlight.

John Reed, who is to be arraigned
today on a federal charge of OBJ
structing the selective draft, is the
designated consul-general of the
bolsheviki in New York City. Mr..
Reed is known as a young writer
of brilliant attainments, but of a
radical, socialistic turn of mind that
of late has frequently brought him
afoul of the law. Born in Portland,
Ore, in 1887, he found his way to
Harvard university and there at
tracted attention by his gifts as a
writer. After leaving the univer-
sity he became a magazine writer
and as such was sent to Europe
at the beginning of the war to re-
port conditions in Russia, Turkey,
France and other countries. When
he returned to New York he joined
the staff of "The Masses" and it
was his writings in this periodical
that were responsible for his pres
ent trouble.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
%Aee5Em
&ASr8oaN
Patrick Is Against Morehead.

| Omaha, Sept 19.-To the Editor
| Of The Bee: Those acquainted with
the political calber of Frank Currle
will not be greatly astonished by his
declaration that "he never voted for
a democrat for an important office"
| Nor will those unacquainted with his
| political antecedents, but who read
| the above declaration, be very great
ly astonished at his attack upon Sem
ator Norris. Currie, and those of his
| political ilk, are not so much cha
grined at the senator's mistake in
voting against the war resolution as
| they are at his refusal to obey the
orders issued by big Business,
And Morehead. although professedly
a democrat, is preferable to them
because he is at all times thoroughly
dependable, as proven by his veto
of the Omaha municipal light plant
bill, whereby he permitted the Ne
| braska Power company to continue
| its monopoly and precluded all pres
ent possibility of cheaper current
| for Omaha and surrounding terri
| tory
Will Mr.. Currie, just by way of
comparison, kindly tell the people
| of Nebraska what he thinks of More
heads telegram to Congressman
Shallenberger denouncing conscrip-
| ton for overseas service as "the
| most unpopular measure of his life
time" and insisting that only those
willing to volunteer be required to
go; or, of his subsequent declaration
that Senator Norris position was
right?"
Will the patriotic people Of Ne
braska be fooled by such misleading
attacks as men of the Currie type
are making upon a good man who Is
honestly and with all his might sup
porting our Win-the-Wars policy,
just because he insists that in rails
ing the necessary war revenue big
business and the profiteering class
shall not escape their just share Of
the burden?
For every republican who Is for
Morehead there are many demo-
Gratis, some of whom have frequently
voted for good republicans in pref
erence to hyphenates of the More
head Hitchcock stripe, who are
heartily and conscientiously support
ing Senator Norris because they are
convinced that he is honest and will
fight not only to win the war, but to
protect the American people against
those who are contributing so liber-
ally to the support, financially an
otherwise, of the political aspirants
who are willing the people Should
be robbed.
Will the people be fooled?
WILLIAM r. PATRICK.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
Over There and Here

Henry l.. Stimson,- secretary of
war under President Taft, is now a
colonel at Camp Meade.
You might not think of it, but this
comes from Missouri-frUm the
Huntsville Herald: Our language
is American. If you are an Ameri-
can, talk it; If you don't know it,
learn it; if you don't like it, move.
Hot stuff, that, and 100 per cent
American.
Private Edward J. Farrell Of New
York City, killed in action July 10,
left will just made public by a
friend which contains this para
graph: ITO the little old United
States I give my life willingly, be-
cause she is the grandest, greatest
and freest country in the world. And
l hope to God that the day will come
when she will be indeed America
for Americans of undivided al
legiance."
Editorial batteries in New York
are bombarding Judge Rosalky,
judge of the special sessions court,
for giving a convict the choice of
jail or entering the army. Inc con-
Wet chose the latter course, but get
ting in may not be as easy as the
judge thinks The Brooklyn Eagle,
quoting the Service Review says:
''The army is not refuge for GRIM
inals, even under the inclusive
methods of the draft"
Three Salvation Army lassies at
nf boz
front broke the pie-baking record on
August Is, turning out 316 apple
pies in one day, using an ordinary
field range and ovens. THE pies"
eXclaims the Stars and Stripes, pub
lished over there, were like mother
or WHEY back in the good old U. S.
A. is still baking-rich, heavy, with
aromatic juices and tantalizingly
favored spices" The best previous
record was 235 pies in a day.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
NEBRASKA.

Protection Nebraska will give
And a welcome to all who may comet
Her gates open wide
To all who'll abide
In this fair state to make 1t their home.
The Indian and buffalo once roamed
And the emigrant oft stopped to rest;
Prairie schooners capped white
Passed like ships In the night
On the way to gold fields In the west.
Towns and cities now rise In the place
Wheat and corn as they sway
Show to many the way
Why the world on this state calls foi
grain.
Flocks and herds In the green pastura
Craze,
In abundance the rlpened fruits walt:
Never was a crown worn
Like the one OF King Corn"
And he rules in the Antelope State"
To the daughters and sons Of the state
Who the pathway Of knowledge would
trend,
To all who will try
There is naught to deny
And Nebraska to her school all will send,
The blue sky and the sunsets so grand
That with envy an artist would gaze,
And clear is the air,
So marvellous and rare
The Indian Summer Is with Its haze.
Omaha BELLVIEW.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24
Storyette of the Day.

Senator Thomas of Colorado said,
the other day;
The Germans started this war be-
cause they seemed to think that
all men were rascals.
Friend and foe alike rascals-that
seemed to be the German view.
They tell story about a Hamburg
German who gave a banquet, and
found one of his silver spoons on
his doorstep afterwards.
"'Ahap he said. Dis shows dot
a guest had hole in his beckett "
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24

The Cologne Gazette, with its circumstantial
account of the deadly bombardment of Atlantic
coast cities by U-boats, almost equaled some OF
the journalistic feats Of the German-anguage
papers on this side during the first few months
Of the war. None will ever accuse the Cologne
editor of lacking imagination.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-24

Matthias Erzberger, leader of the Catholic
party in the Reichstag, has drawn up constitu-
ton for league of nations, to be effective
when the present belligerents, including Russia,
signify their entrance. 1t would have been
more to the point if Erzberger had busted him
self on this line back in 1914, when he was
shouting himself hoarse for war.