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Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
The GrGin HGrVest

There will be war bread of better quality
than last years, practically without ration
ing for all who are fighting Germany" said
Mr.. Hoover in London last Saturday. Our
wheat harvest is nearly completed. While
the official report for August | showed
slight reduction of estimate, the crop will
exceed last years by at least 2zo,O0O,O0O
bushels, owing to an acreage increase OF Zo
per cent The early promise of great yield
in Canada has not been fulfilled, for reduc-
ton has been caused by drouth and untlmely
frosts, but the governments estimate is
232000000 bushels or only 2,00O00O less than
the crop one year ago. From the two coun-
tries 350000000 bushels can be sent to our
war partners in Europe.
Their own crops exceed those of 1917.
In France there is a gain of Is per cent,
and there was large addition to British
acreage. A great accumulated surplus IN
Australia will be available when ships to
carry it can be spared. In our western fields
wheat has been more fortunate than corn.
Since the August report, which indicated a
reduction of l7l000000 bushels Of that crop
in month, severe hot weather has caused
additional loss, estimated by a prominent
| expert to have been 400000000 bushels in
| seven states But last years crop was great
| one and much has been carried over. There
will be corn enough to keep up the supply OF
| meat.
Our farmers were urged by the govern
ment to increase their winter wheat acreage
for next years crop by about 10 per cent
In Kansas, Missouri and parts of the north
west they are now powing for that crop
which should be larger than the one now
coming to market There must still be, a:
Mr. Hoover says, economy in consumption
so that we may carry over from this mar
| vest a stock of foodstuffs that will form posi-
tive insurance" against possible weather
losses next year. Increase of seeded acre
age will be additional insurance, and farm
ers should be commended for planning th
increase, although the supply of hired labo
! is small New York Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
Over There and Here

Uncle Billy Cook, 100 years old.
registered for military service at van
couver the other day. Uncle Bill is
all right particularly his bump Of
humor.
Great Lakes training school boys
protest against the term Jackie" No
substitute name is offered. but sailor"
will do until the Great Lakes Bulletin
pulls a new one out OF Its bean.
Belgium has bestowed upon Her
bert Hoover Its supreme token OF APP
preciatlon in making him Honorary
Citizen Of Belgium ana Friend of the
Belgian Nation" Mr.. Hoover is the
4irst to receive the distinction.
II you are a smoker and anxious to
head off rising tobacco prices, dress
up and march to the fighting front.
Besides the government ration of
smokes and chews, cigarets and the
makings may be had at cost, or about
half the home retail price. Oh, Boy!
The North German Lloyd year book
for 1917-1S says the companys ships
seized in foreign waters and taken
over by the allies represent a loss OF
freight room of 100000 tons. Alto
gether 115 German and Austrian
ships have been confiscated. aggre-
eating 100000 tons.
One of the first Bohemian soldiers
who died of wounds received on the
Italian front was given an imposing
military funeral at Milan, The coffir
was covered with tho Italian tri'
colors, and was literally buried il
flowers. One wreath was inscribed
ITO q Bohemian martyr from hi
companions who await -,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
Flare-Up on Mexican Border.

How critical has become the situation along
the Mexican border is shown by the lamentable
affair at Nogales 1t is both unwise and i'm
prudent to longer camoufage conditions down
there. While the present incident like so many
others of its kind, may be smoothed over by an
interchange of notes of regret and pledges OF
good behavior from the Mexican government the
fact remains that such action will not quiet the
volcano. Mexicans along the border still nurse
hatred and contempt for Americans engendered
during the years of their own guerilla warfare.
Kindly treatment has made them the more secure
in their insoence, and has inflated their notions
of the relative strength of the two countries.
While the authorities at Mexico City are polite
enough and, pursuing policy of expediency, are
not taking any open step savoring OF hostility,
their pro German inclination has been unmistak-
able. In the recent incident Of the oil supply
the course since abandoned by Carranza was dis
tinctly unneutral. All these things serve to keep
Us reminded of the accumulation Of unfinished
business below the Rio Grande, which must be
effectually disposed of before quiet will prevail
on the southern border.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
Looking Ahead

As we look over our letters and papers
from home it strikes US that there are going
to be lot of colonegerous people at large
after the war; not only coloneliferous, but
majorical, captanic and lieutenantish. ,
There seem to be, both at home and
abroad, so many organizations outside the
army-the reserve auxiliary police forces,
the home guards, the junior reserves, to
mention only few-having the bestowing
of military titles as one of their most impor-
tant functions that it will not surprise us at
all, on our return, to find every male citizen
over the age of 81 boasting a sobriquet that
denotes some form or another of commits
stoned rank.
Good morning, Colonel" "How'do,
Major?" "Ah, there, Cap'n." Thus it will
60, all up and down the main street of our
home town. And how proud and novel and
singular and noteworthy and everything the
aevrage one of us will feel to be pointed out
as the only real private in the place!-Stars
and Stripes
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
New ministers" in War Department.

Creation OF what amounts to ministers OF mu-
nitions and aircraft service in connection with
the War department may be taken as indicating
the acceptance by the president of the fact that
the lob ID too big for the secretary OF war to
handle alone. First Assistant Secretary Crowell
is to have control of munitions, an assignment
Of enormous proportions under existing eondi-
tons To John D. Ryan, who lately was made
head of the aircraft production service, is given
control OF all the air service, with the title OF
second assistant secretary of war. This puts the
two great adjuncts OF military activity on
proper footing, dvorcing them from the control
Of the army itself, but leaving them as co-ordi-
nate agencies in the whole. Administration will
be simplihed and usefulness correspondingly in
creased With Mr.. Stettinus abroad to take care
Of details OF operation in Europe, our War de-
partment is assuming the proportions OF we'll
articulated and presumably efficient organization
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
An End to "Joy Riding"

The long expected announcement has come
from Washington intended to put an end to the
waste of gasoline by "joy riders Since our
country went into the war this has been one OF
the marvels of the thoughtful, who have regret
fully noted the consumption OF millions OF gal
Ions of valuable fuel in pursuit of pleasure.
While restrictions of stringent force have been
laid on necessities in other lines some supplies
being commandeered, the JOY rider has been al
lowed to go careering unrestrained across the
land, at the expense of oil and gasoline, rubber
and other materials vitality necessary to the war;
Even now the government is moving but softly,
merely asking that automobiles east of the Mis-
sssppi be not used on Sunday for pleasure pur-
poses Unless a sufficient response is noted
through voluntary concession by the auto users,
more definite step will be taken. The hint
ought to be effective west of the Mississippi, al
so, for proportionately quite as much JOY riding
is done in this section of the country as in the east
No effort to restrain the use of cars for business
or industrial purposes is made-only the giving
up Of pleasure drives on Sunday. This is not
asking 4 great deal, but If followed should
amount to a considerable contribution to the gen.
erai sum of saving required to make sure OF
victory.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
NOW FOR MUNICIPAL HOME RULE.

The completion OF the work of the charter
convention just closed takes Omaha one step
nearer municipal home rule. The charter formu-
lated for submission to the voters at the coming
election is, we are assured, with the single ex-
ception of permitting the council TO meet war
demands for increased salaries in police and hre
departments, previously fixed by law, is wholly
compilation of the existing statutes governing
the city, rearranged in more compact and sys-
tematic form, with obsolete sections eliminated
Under such conditions there can be no serious
opposition unless it cohes from sources opposed
to the home rule principle altogether.
The action of the convention is strictly in con-
formity with the suggestion first made by The
Bee, based on experience OF Lincoln, as the only
reasonably sure way of securing acceptance OF
home rule charter, and thus freeing the city from
its subservience and subordination to the law
makers in purely local matters, to which pro-
gram the charter trainers pledged themselves IN
advance and have now carried out their pledges
When the first charter convention was in ses-
sion certain political agencies rushed through
the legislature an emergency clause measure pro-
ydng for the simultaneous submission OF alter
native sections proposed by petition We do not
believe the law, so far as this is its purpose, is
operative, because it conflicts with the constltu-
ton, whose plain reading requires that home
rule charter be first adopted in its entirety be-
fore it can be amended piecemeal. With the
charter once ratified by popular vote, ample OPP
portunity will be afforded to make any changes
for which there may be an effective demand.
Let us emphasize again that the first great
achievement is to establish self-government
through municipal home rule, and then the kind
of sef-government we may have thereafter will
be wholly within our own choice and power. In
the interval the members of the charter conven-
ton who have given their time and thought to
this important wosk without compensation are
entitled to the thanks Of the community.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
Center Shots

Minneapolis Journal: Hindenburg
is alive. all right, but not greatly en-
joying the privilege.
Washington POST: Why should
Germany appoint a retreat speclallst
when Kultur Bill and Little Willie are
on the job?
Baltimore American: The kaiser
Is said to have $10,000,000 invested IN
this country. That ought to MAKE
him a large, If unwilling, contributor
to the Liberty bond campaign.
Louisville Courier-J Journal: Mar
ried men must fight, says Secretary
Raker. Then there is nothing under
the sun that is new, says the marrleu
man who has fought since his honey
moon,
New York World: Immediate e1-
forts are to be made to improve tne
mail service to France. with l,4aV,-
600 American soldiers there, there eA-
lists just that number of reasons lor
the reform planned.
Kansas City Star: Admiral Won
Hintze, the German foreign secretary,
told German press representatives ,nat M
'the entire truth at certain times eoes
not serve" Well, that ought 10 'os
fair enough warning Of the value oi
anything he will have to say.
philadelphia Ledger: II any UNI.
Identified person can walk INTO AZ AZ
Washington postoffice ana can
mand and receive registered mail az =.
dressed to an important goverhsiit.hha, th :
department, then the methous oi "a
Washington postoffice need TO Se 10"
ically oyerhauled and tmproVea'
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
People and Events

Montana comes to the front with a
bumper wheat crop in the valleys and patrl-
otism in full bloom in the benchlands.
The Mitchell memorial fund in New
York CITY has passed the $4,000 mark. Out
side admirers of the fallen aviator are liberal
contributors to the fund.
New York woman suing for divorce
alleges cruel and inhuman treatment in that
her husband played one record on phono-
graph for five straight hours. He wanted to
let the "air" soak i'll.
In Cuba the government fixes the price;
on shoes and clothes as we'll as food, and
every article carries cost price and selling
price In this instance Uncle Sam might
garner beneficial wisdom from one OF its
babes. -
Some lively swatting in the right spot, il
not buckshot, is coming the railroad yard
tramps who persist in stonir,g soldier trains
running into Chicago Armed guards, are on
duty with strict orders to abate the ruf-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
Against the Ku-Kluckers,

Omaha, Aug 27-To the Editor Of
The Bee: On the first day of March,
1917, I wrote letter that you pub
lished under the caption of the 'Ku-
klux Klan." l denounced the exhibit
ton which was given in connection
with production called the Birth of
a Nation" l saw by the press re-
ports that the Grand Army of the Re-
public in the national meeting at
Portland, Ore, last week denounced
the exhibition called the Birth of
Nation" and asked that it's exhibition
be suppressed. l ,pe that the city
authorities of Omaha will see to it
that the exhibition of that production
called the Birth of Nation" is not
allowed in our city this coming fall
and winter. 1t was kept out Of other
cities last winter and there Is no
reason why it should be allowed to
exhibit in Omaha again.
In this connection l might add that
under the laws and practices Of the
southern states that grew out Of the
Ku-Klux outrages more than rs per
cent of the legal voters of those states
are not allowed to vote, and this in
cludes hundreds of thousands Of white
men as well as colored men. In the
state Of Virginia 100000 more white
men than colored men are deprived
of the right to vote. Let us have real
| democracy in every state in the Uni
! ted States, then every citizen will
think and vote as he pleases.
FRANK A, AGNEW
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
IT MUST NOT BE.

II must not be
That only those who lie
Safe in their rest beneath the Flanders
sky
Or under soil Of France
Shall win the tears
And gloried acclamation Of the years,
While all these others,
Battle brothers,
Who, when the war is ended, will return
To drag out shattered days.
Are soon forgot!
These offered all for what they thought
you priced,
And gained wounds weakness,
brief seasons fame
From your poor plaudits-
1t should be your shame
II you ever grow careless OF their lot.
Yet I have seen the veterans OF old wars
Wait in the curbstone hurry
OF some street.
Dependent for the very bread they eat
On tickle bounty Of a thoughtless crowd
Till 1 have felt my soul cry out aloud:
"These are your heroes equal with the
dead
Who suffered once: these suffer every day.
II was for you these also strove and oleo
Believing that they gave
To keep you free!
And now-Shal This Thing Be?
Edna Mead in N. Y. Times
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
Hun Birth Rate Waning

DIR. Charles Greene Cumston OF the
University of Geneva, Switzerland, re-
views the heavy fall in the German
birth rate since the war began IN tne
current issue Of the New YORK Meui-
cal Journal He gets his 1acts, ne
saws, from a report on infant weiale
issued May 16 by the intelligence oe
partment of the local government
board.
"The first three years OF the war, co
he writes, reduced by over 2'ooV,Vvv
the number of infants who wouia
hi heen born had peace prevaiieu.
s, 40 per cent fewer babies were
BIZ in 1915 than in 1913. ! woulu
add that the infantile death rate mas
been kept we'll down, but IS oV per
cent higher than in England.
1.-The birth rate, which had risen
from 36.1 per 1000 inhabitants IN tne
decade lS41-1S5O to 39.1 per -,ooo III
the period 1S71-1SS0, fell in the sue
ceeding decades to S6,S, S6.1 and Sly.
The rate for the last year of the dec
ade 19O1-191O was under 80 per l,oOV,
and the continuance of the 1all
brought the rate as low as 2S.3 IN
1912. In 1918 there were 1.S3s,0oo
live births in Germany; in 1916 tnfre
were only 1,1O3, ,000-a decrease OF ~
per cent as compared with 1913.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
Newspapers and the War.

Omaha, Aug. 27.-To the Editor OF
The Bee: / noticed in the news col
umns the other day where a district
draft board ordered the employees of
a Waterlo (Ia.) newspaper to either
get into a more essential occupation
or fight.
imagine that the order has been
rescinded ere this, and it more than
likely was instigated by some demo-
cratic politician who did not like the
"merciless publicity" which may have
occasionally gotten into the columns
of the paper referred to.
However, If the newspapers of this
country wish to demonstrate to the
powers that be that they belong in
the essential class, let them neglect
to say a word about the next Liberty
loan drive, the Red Cross drive, etc.
l imagine such a course would con-
vince even the most skeptical that
the newspaper is very much in the
essential class in this day and age.
Let's adjourn politics during the
war. KNOCKER.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
TO[),AY-
One Year Ago Today In the War.

italians began the Anal assault OF
Monte San Gabrielle.
German U-boat sank a Belgian re-
lief ship off Norwegian coast.
British newspapers indorsed Presi-
dent Wilson's reply to the popes
peace note.
The Day We Celebrate. .I,
James j. Fitzgerald, secretary OF
the Commercial Savings and Loan as
sociation, born 1853.
Alfred G. Ellick, lawyer, born 1873.
Ns willard Eddy. attorney-at-law. born
1S45.
Charles J. Glidden, financier, globe
trotter, pioneer automobile manufac-
turer and now a captain in the signal
corps, stationed at Omaha, born at
Lowell. Mass, 81 years ago.
Most Rev. Sebastian @. sMessner.
archbishop Of Milwaukee, born In
Switzerland n years ago.
This Day in History.
1725--Charles Townshend, the Brit
ish statesman whose bill taxing tea
cost England its American colonies,
born. Died September 4, 1857.
1s4s-David B. Hill, governor OF
\ New York and United States senator,
born at Havana, N. Y. Died at his
home near Albany October 20. 1910.
1S65--The French heet visited
Portsmouth. England. for the nrs'
time.
isi4--New Zealand forces occupied
German Samoa
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
Tw2ce Told Tales
Parable.

Brand Whitlock said in an address
in Washington:
my war experiences have done me
good. They Lave broadened my mind.
I am a writer rather than a politician,
and we writers live too restricted
lives.
"You know the story of Carlyle and
his soundproof room'in Chelsea.
Carlyle had built a soundproot
room for himself on the top of his
house. The room had no windows,
but only a skylight for illuminating
purposes. To an elderly visitor from
Craigenputtock the room was shown
proudly by Carlyle, and the visitor
said:
"'My conscience, this is fine! Here
We may write and study all the rest O.
yer life. and nobody be bit the
wiser" "-Washington Post
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
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Thoughtless Auto Drivers.

Omaha, Aug. 27.-To the Editor of
The Bee: I was thinking tonight as
l stood at the gate at Fort Omaha,
waiting for a street car after Is hours
of service, that lift into town would
be refreshing, but 80 automobiles
passed, each having an extra seat,
and the boys in khaki were unnoticed.
My mind ran back to the day when l
had three or four cars, and Still
farther back to the coaching days,
when II horses were considered a
complete team: 1t was always a
pleasure to take on a load. and my
vehicles never went empty to town.
Well, you know ths rest?
A SOLDIER
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

Two ant-war congressman have been barred
by the British from visiting the war front. AS
both OF these gentlemen were refused re-
nomination by their constituents, their status at
home had been fixed so definitely that no COM
plaint OF lack Of courtesy will likely be made
against our ally in the matter. On the whole
the country would be quite as we'll served if more
of the visiting statesmen were required to stay at
horne
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
In the Dark.

A colored minister was about to
lead his congregation in prayer. when
suddenly the floor Of the church sank
a foot, causing a commotion among
the parishioners. The preacher was
equal to the occasion and quickly
auieted his flock by solemnly saying:
stay just whar yo' all is, my peo-
pie, de Lawd is wifi you!"
Immediately a big Nose Peters
Jumped upon a pew and shouted:
"Misto preacher. II de Lawd was
wifi me Just now, den who alrs done
took ma TO bits in dis heah low-down
bunch O. blackberries ?"--Cartoons
Magazine,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

Ollie J. James will be missed from the senate
OF the United States for many reasons, Put tor
none more than the unstrained quality OF his
An,ericanisn,. With all his devotion to Bryan
nothing aabby was noted in his moral makeup,
and. true to Kentucky traditions, he supported
the president in all his war moves with unre-
served power.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
Just so Years Ago Today

The fair ground cars are now run
ming on South Thirteenth street in
stead of on Fifteenth and Farnam, as
heretofore, thus reducing the time be-
tween cars on that thoroughfare to
five minutes
A very brilliant meteor was seen to
traverse the southern section of the
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

Omaha laundrymen are considering consoda-
ton and districting of the city in the interest of
man-power conservation The question that will
interest the public however, is "Wil cutting out
the costly duplicated delivery bring the prices
down again to where they were before all these
successive boosts%
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

heavens 1t had a blue center sur
rounded by a disk of red and had a
tail similar to the rocket
The gas company announces that
the demand on it for new meters and
gas service at this time is greater than
ever before. and shows an advance in
the city which is quite gratifying.
Claus Spreckels. the great sugar
king, who controls the saccharine
market of the Sandwich Islands,
passed through Omaha in the special
car Newport
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29
Emmy Destinn's Nationality.

Clarkson, Neb., Aug. 27.-To the
Editor of The Bee: l see in your ed
itorial you are putting among Ger
man artists Miss Emma Destinn.
Would like to inform you that Miss
Destinn never was a German and
never represented herself as German.
This artist is a Bohemian (Czecho-
slovak) by birth, and by her feelings
also. In the present war Miss Des-
tim is working for Bohemian (Czecho-
slovak) independence, and so for the
victory Of her allies. For her anti
German activity she was deprived of
her title as prima donna of German
theater.
hope that soon editors of our pa
pers shall see some difference be-
tween a German and Bohemian
(Czecho -slovak). Yours,
B. A. FILIPI.
1.-THE fact remains, however, that
Emmy Destinn's voice records are
listed among those from which the
commissioner of alien property will
collect the royalty.-Ed. Bee.l
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

Through the Hindenburg line the British
have driven thrust which is dangerous to the
Hun. The Meuse is the next stand on the way
IN Reriin
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

The logic Of events v,as put quite different
face on the program OF the secretary OF war anu
better results may be expected.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

A. the earnest solicitation OF our democratic
president, Henry Ford decided to run tor oni'ea
States senator in Michigan, but at the earnest
solicitation OF the republican voters OF Michigan
he will run. il at all. on the democratic ticket.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

Now If the senatorial ambition OF Mayor "h-
liam Hale Thompson, Of Chicago, is knocked OUT
in Illinois, another piece of distressing news
will be carried to the kaiser.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

Why should soldiers or sailors thank Keith
Neville for chance to vote? 1t was the people
of Nebraska not the governor, who extended
that privilege to the boys in the service.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

Henry Ford ran all right on the democratic
ticket, but he could not get up much headway as
4 republican. He is chiefly notable as paeihst'
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

"Charley. dear" said young Mrs. Torkins
in a tone that was kind but firm. did you
tell me you were up late last night with a
sick friend?"
'Yes"
what made your friend feel sick? Was
he a heavy loser?"-Wa ashington Item.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-29

Work or fight means work or fight. Strikers
have protection only when they are willing 10
submit their grievances to competent authority
for reasonable adjustment.