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Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
WIN HANOICAPS
IN STATE TRAP
1OURNAM ENTS
Replacing Of the Subsidiary
Handbags by State Events
Proved Excellent, as
AZ Were Held.

When the Interstate Trapshoot-
ing association did away with the
subsidiary handicaps and added a
handicap event to the program OF
the state trapshooting tournaments
it made a very wise change. The
subsidiary neutrality-suspicious. in mum.
ber-attracted an average entry OF
about IFS. Handicaps were held in
AZ states and the average entry was
in the neighborhood of 90.
Montana, North Carolina and VII
GINA did not hold interstate handi-
cap events. North Carolina and
Montana conducted handicap races
which have been on the program for
years. Louisiana did not hold a
state tournament-the only state
that didn't do its bit during the year.
In three states the shooter who won
the championship also won the ham
dicap-Key. in Mississippi; Becker,
in Utah, aud Barclay, in Vermont.
and in New Hampshire, Eugene E.
Reed tied his brother, Elmer, for the
state championship and then won
the handicap.
The best score from long mark
was 81 from q yards by 6. L. Becker
in winning the Utah handicap.
Twenty yards was the favorlte han.
dicap mark of the winners and "
was the score that brought home the
bacon oftenest. There were IL wir-
ners from 20 yards and 93 won ~
times. There were three winners
from Is yards, two from II, five from
10, eight from 10, seven from q and
FIVE from q yards. One handicap
was won with score of SO, one with
90: three with 81: five with 90; three
with "a; five with IS; nine with 9o;F
four with 81 and one with e9.
The handicap winners, yardage
and scores are appended:
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
Golfers Crowd Field
Club Links on Last Day
OF PLAYING Season

The Omaha Field club closed its
largest and best season of its history
Saturday night. The largest num-
Der of golfers that have appeared
on the links at one time this sea-
son took advantage of the last days
play. More than l25 golfers teed off
although there was no competition.
The city tournament will start
next Sunday in the opinion Of off,
GERS of the association. No course
has been selected for play during the
tournament.
Higgins, former Carter lake ten
mis- shark and now a member Of the
Field club has discarded the racquet
in favor of the golf club and is
rapidly becoming one of the lead
ing golfers of his new club.
Some of the low scores turned in
d,,r;ro The day'c NAV were.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
Prettiest Mile Organizes
Eight Bowling League

The Prettiest Mile club has or
gained a bowling league of eight
teams for the winter season. The
team play will start Monday night.
The club has arranged special prizes
for each week to the teams making
the highest score.
The following teams will play:
Monday Night. =,
w. holland tCapt) II. A. Rundqulst (C)
H. christensen Ellis w. Cass
w. c. Fenwck B. Rcavis
George Sert Ralph Russell
DR.. L. L. Myers w. S. Cass
f. J. Dougherty Gle, Baum
Andrew Anderson
Tuesday Night.
DR.. $. McCleneghan W. Ii. Ptutner &C.
tCapt) J. G. Quick
H. w. Pollock F.. L. Trout
A. Adams George Adwers
c. +. Connolly Frank Spellman
w. A. Mickey C. J. Ochiltree.
DR.. "A. B. Adams
Thursday Night.
J: Dolphin tCapt.) j. hosell tcapt)
A. c. Malem C. J. Parrot
L. E. Yost F. L johnson
Wilbur Jones J. H. Chiles
v. ID. Benedict Stanley Green
Edwin Ross Roy Congdon
F. p. Brown
Friday Night.
A. D. Bland tCapt) Ralph Newell (C)
DIR. Bishop J. C. vought
w. B. Cronk Harry lizard
Frank Russell Ed Knapp
Harry H. Viner sE. +. Gray
Eugene Atkins Tom Falcones
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-22
Centrals primary defense. Here's
some of the family history of Gen.
trails seven vets.

Pretty husky bunch, and several
more babies are in line for a berth
on the scrimmage line, among
whom is Joe Pollard, who has l65
pounds of muscle and bone, which
reaches five feet and eleven inches
above the. ground.
Scrimmaging will begin Monday.
Noble is conceded to be the likely
backhelder again. Harper is doped
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
THE ARMY AS A SCHOOL

MIE HAVE been teaching reading, writ
w ing and elementary arithmetic to be.
tween thirty-five and forty thousand IL.
literates in the army, higher branches Of
mathematics to about seventy-five thou
sand other soldiers and French to more
than two hundred thousand. besides many
technical subjects to men engaged in diff
ferent branches of the service.
The army has developed into n great
school under the pressure Of necessity
1t will be a grave mistake If the educa-
tonal facilities offered to the soldiers are
dropped when the army Is reduced to Its
peace size. We educate the officers at
West Point, because they enter upon the
life Of a soldier as a career. But we have
not educated the private soldier in the
past. So 1t has been difficult to induce
young men to enlist.
If each army post were made a great
school for the private soldier, where in
addition to his military training he could
receive an education in books which he
had not been able to obtain on his own
Initiative, there would be no lack of enlist
ments. Every young man who passed
through the army would come out better
fitted to earn his living than when he
entered and the nation would get imme.
diate return for what it invested in its
military establishment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
A Splendid and Perilous Course

To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-I cannot refrain from expressing my
genuine appreciation Of the editorial in to-
days paper November 30), relative to Our
Course in Europe" 1t is a splendid and
perilous" course; and you have done non
partisan and real patriotic service by giving
such a sane and impartial Interpretation OF
the difficulties and dangers which beset Pres
ident Wilson's unqpestionably noble aim ito
establish real national relations throughout
the world, and assured justice for all peo-
pies"
The editorial should be reprinted in the
papers of every section Of the United States,
for it Is just that kind Of calm, dispassionate
thinking that win help Mr.. Wilson ana
every other man and women who honestly
puts America before party and before egotis-
tic railings of political demagogues. 1t has
given form to my own rather hazy IDEAS
and 1 shall be glad If you continue the dis
cusson. Do give expression to subsequent
thoughts on the subject under the same
heading, expand and enlarge the excellent
ideas expressed in the first article
RICHARD TILGHMAN BURROUGHS.
1913 South st. Bernard street, Philadel-
pha, November 29.
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THE MODERN BABY

TNHE hand that rocks the cradle-but there
i is no such hand! M
1t is bad to rock the baby, they would have
us understand;
So the cradles but a relic of the former
foolish days,
When mothers reared their children in un-
.. scientific ways ~,
When they jounced them and they bounced
them--those poor dwarfs of long ago.
The Washingtons and Jeffersons and
Adamses, you know. IL" T III
They warn us that the baby will possess y
mudded brain
II we dande him or rock hinl---we must
carefully refrain; ,
He must lie in one position. never swaysd
and never swung
Or his chance to grow. to greatness will be
blasted while he's young ~"
All! to think how they were ruined by their
mothers long ago
The Franklins and the Putnams and the
Hamiitons, you know.
Then we must feed the baby by the sched-
ule that Is made,
And the food that he is given must h
measured out or weighed .,b
He may below to- inform us that he isn't
satisfied,
But he couldn't grow to greatness IL his
wants were all supplied.
rhlnk how foolish nursing mothers warped
their weakngs. long ago
The Shakespeares and the Luthers and the
Bonapartes, you know.
We are given great mission, we are herr
today earth ... F7M
10 pring forth race of giants and to
guard them from their birth, ,tfT
10 insist upon their freedom from the rock
ing that was bad -
For our parents and their parents scram.
bled all the brains they had. 1s
An If they'd been fed by schedule. would
they have been stunted so?- So
me rWebsters and the Lincons and the
Roosevelts, you know
- ." ,..t Author Unknown.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
Mrs. Wilson's Gowns

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-I was very much surprised as well
as panied to read the article today on Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson's gowns for her trip abroad.
roes it not strike one, as our boys are not
home yet, and as many will come home
broken and wounded, that their feelings In
this matter might be little considered? Would
it not be better taste for the wife of the head
Of our nation to go quietly and not be so
thoughtless to be considering tinseled
gowns? Would 1t not be in better taste for
her to remember the cause of this journey
and all the suffering that will have to be
met when our boys come home? Will the
mothers over there and over here care
how much sparkle Gas the paper speaks of
in those many gowns she will wear? Would
1t not be in better taste IL the wife of the
head Of our nation should go with trunks
OF clothing for those poor French and Bel
CLANS that have had everything taken from
them? Gerald Campbell, Of the London
Times, speaks of, the quiet dignity of Mar
shal Petain, his long cavalry coat hiding all
his wel-earned decorations and the quiet
dignity of that procession. VII the wife
Of our President fiaunt her gay attire In
the face of those saddened. tear-stained faces?
AMERICAN READER.
Philadelphia, November 2S.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
STOP THE WASTE FIRST

CHIEF DAVIS, of the Water Bureau,
" admits that of the 30O,OOO,OOO gallons
of water pumped every day, S0,000,000 gal
Ions run to waste in one way or another.
The saving of this water will not relieve
the situation south of Market street, where
there is not pressure enough in the mains
to get the water above the second floor.
A new main is imperatively needed to feed
that section of the city.
But if we can save sO0o0,0OO gallons a
day by installing meters in the houses
and by repairing the above surface pipes
to prevent leaks, the spending of millions
to develop new sources of supply can be
postponed until we have arranged TO de-
liver to the consumers the ample supply
of water we already have.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
CAN ROBINSON COME BACK?

ARE decency and efficiency in COM
1Amunity government attalne BILE only in
time of war? Must we admit that peace
is evil?
So those politicians would have us be.
ieve who announce with defiant flourish
that James Robinson is to be returned
to office as superintendent of police. Di-
rector Wilson is the spokesman for the
powers at City Hall. There can be no
doubt about the implications, of his state
ment. Nov that the war is over say
the powers behind Robinson, we can be
comfortably rotten once more"
Captain Robinson will be remembered as
the man who couldn't or wouldn't do his
duty. He was forced out of office by the
Federal Government because the Federal
Government found that conditions tolerated
in this city were menace to enlisted men
in the service of their country.
Captain Mills has maintained his repu-
taton for clean efficiency in his admins
tration of the police system. IF he Is
pushed aside by those who wish to re.
establish a discredited and dangerous order
in the Department of Safety we shall have
to admit that though all the rest Of the
world learned something of the elementals
Of patriotic duty through the war, we in.
this city have learned nothing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
Why WE MUST FEED EUROPE

gfTNHbUGH much prejudiced nonsense is
- ccnstantly being written about our
present efforts in Europe and the plan to
send limited quantities of food to Ger
many and Austria, nothing that has ap-
psared In print Is altogether so foolish as
the bitter outbursts of those who com
plain because America sis asked to feed
the enemy
The facts of the case are simple and
easily understood. We must get food to
Nurope for our own protection. The part
that armies played in maintaining the
eQuilibrium OF civilization and ordered
government reverts now to those who are
charged With rationing the nations left
desoiste by the war. The food gathered in
America and elsewhere for Germany and
Austria and southern Europe is necessary
~ Keep .own panic. ito avert impeading
<naos and TO prevent the limitless spread
~ <he madness which would be inevitable
m>lIions were left to riot and starvc.
.e1I we complain. ia y mood Of resent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02

Justice for Germany

To the Editor Of the Epening Public Ledger.
Sir--1n the last few days many letters
have appeared in your paper relative to the
punishment of Germany. the leaders and the
people. for it is Grass idiocy to differentiate
between the Junker leaders and the German
people for the crimes committed in the coun-
tries invaded by the German armies and by
the piratical U-boats.
Many articles are appearing in the news
papers and the various periodicals urging an
'dealietic peace, a peace that will not enrage
er dishearten Germany and which will quick
ly permit. of her taking her place again on
footing with the decent nations Of the
world. Again we have some urging that
little or nothing be done to punish Germany
other than depriving her of the means to
again run amuck among the nations of the
earth
It has been my lot to live for number
OF years in both England and Germany, and
I confess frankly that when the war broke
out was pro-German, but not since the
sinking Of the Lusitania. e. s..
Germany has had no change of heart, no
regeneration of conscience, no flood of de-
cercv.' She Is today the old unregenerate
collection of Huns she always has been. and
10 we ere 10 make the world safe for dAmoc-
racy Germany must be properly and rigor-
ously punished for her crimes, and such safe
guards placed about her as will prevent her
from again setting the world afame
have heard two educated Germans men Of
substance and reputation, each separately
and apart from the other. declare that Ger
many would not suffer from the war as much
as did the United States or any other of the
Allies and that she would soon be controlled
by the same old crowd of militarists.
These things must not be. Germany must
be punished severely and the punishment
| must extend over years 30 as to teach the
young peope now growing UP that wal Is
always futile, ignorant, brutal and that any
| nation undertaking to wage war must pay
| the price and cannot shrk such responsible
ties In any way.
There are many who are OF this opinion
and my object in writing this letter IS to
| see IL cannot crystallze and bring toy a
| f0r"s those holding this opinion,
We are actuated not nv hate. not bv
| spirit of revenge, but with ain intense, over
| whelming desre to see just'ce-cold, COM
! plete. exact justice-meted to her.
W. e. p.
Philadelphia, November 80.
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shevism or equally deluded junkerism, Is
a sheer loss.

It is because calculation is about to
enter into the negotiations at Paris that
peace guarantees can be regarded as
having passed from the realm of fancy
into that of imminent fact. No cloud
overhsnging the meeting is comparable
in magnitude to the one which passed
away on November IL or to one which in
the future might be developed by a
prospect of general strife.
Disinterested, pure altruism will not
inform the actions Of the most aspiring
envoy to the peace conferences. The
greatest war in history has not delivered
man from the habit of looking to his own
interests. This is why, however humanity
distant from any supreme ideal, some
profitable warranty of world safety may
be expected to override other and con-
flicting issues in the negotiations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
THE CHATTING DISH
AT a Movie Theatre


How we'll he spoke who coined the
- phrase
The picture pdIdcei Aye, in sooth
A palace where mems weary days
Are crowned with kinglness of youth.
Strange palace! Crowded, airless. dim.
Where toes are trod and strained eyes
smart,
We watch a wand of brightness linn
The old heroics of the heart
Romance again hath us in thrall,
Young Love is sweet and always true,
And in the darkness of the hall
Hands clasp-as they were meant to do.
And when more savage scenes occur
Kind escorts calm thet, ubed mates:
"Sure, that's q dummy, tLds amt her
Gee achts, that bump tcould bend, her
pldteSw
Released from peevish joys and ills
Our souls pro tenn. are purged and free:
We see the sun on western hills,
The crumbling tumult of the sea.
We are the blonde that madens crave,
Well balanced at dozen banks;
BY sleight Of hand we haste to save
A brown-eyed life, nor stay for thanks!
Alas, perhaps our instinct feels
Life is not all 1t might have been,
So we applaud fantastic reels
OF shadow, cast upon a screen
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
HOTEL TELEPHONE CHARGES

TN THE short list of good works that
4 may be credited to Mr.. Burleson we
must place the effort to eliminate excess
telephone charges in hotels. The telephone
Is an essential convenience of particular
use to hotel patrons But the management
in most hotels adds 100 per cent to the nor
NAL charge for service OH the ground that
it has to employ its own operators.
This traditional rule belongs In the
category with the hatcheck graft. the
waters plunderbund and like abuses which
deH the pretensions of the average Amer
lean hotel to sense Of hospitality. Tele-
phone service for which ten cents is
charged is no better than the service OBJ
tainable elsewhere for five. The telephone
aaunpany gets none of the excess.
Mi. Burleson has it in his power to
xemoke cause of irritation that has pre-
vailed too long. He has issued hissorder
and III is likely to be generally obeye:.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
WILLIAM THE LIAR

TN1E most ignoble abdication in history
= has been that of William Hohenzollern.
The emphatic and comprehensive docu-
ment which the refugee has signed at
Amerongen exposes the first German rev
cynical and sinister continuance of the
Huns persistent policy of mendacity.
1t is evident now that a gang of chronic
crooks and liars sought TO deceive their
conquerors with a fake drama of reform
The scene, however, was overstaged. The
Kaiser's "shiver" of CONSERVATION, Scheide-
mann's bombastc yet suggestively
"phoney" proclamation, Prince MaX's an
nouncement that his imperial master had
decided to abdicate"-all these were pre-
cious bits of business" in the mummery.
This newspaper suspected a hoax when
on November 19 it editorially inquired, "Is
the Kaiser shamming? Does he plan a
return from Utrecht" Since that time
Indications of the whole shameless trick
cry have developed as the red flag ac-
quired Increased authority in Germany.
The paper to which the skullting charla-
tan has now affixed his seal gives plausi-
bility to any mOnstrous extravaganza, how
ever theatrical, by the pack of junker
clowns. William, ousted at last, is the
supreme detestable specimen of these
mummers. He was a shameless liar to the
end of his iniquitous reign.
The logical sequel to the dethronement
of q wickedly criminal and despicable ruler
-is punishment. AS to the play-acting
Hohenzollern, we can only repeat what we
said fortnight ago: The greatest deed
OF the war yet remains to be achieved"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
What Are Beligans?

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
sir-1 really hate to bother you, but
am thirsting for information, and the only
way to find out about some things is to ask
questions One hears and reads SO much
that is mystfy!ng these days. And to re-
main in state of ignorance Is quite abhor-
rent to my nature.
WA, Congress which has Just
victims OF War begun Its recess, didn't
adjourn. IL was liber-
ated like the Begans-Evening Public Ledger.
Nov. %.
What are "Beligans?" Please.
1t reminds one. somewhat, of another queer
word, In song sung by Arthur Fields
('Let's bury the hatchet-in the Kaiser's
head')-"We'll punch him in the Belgium
and smash his western front" ...
Are these two words sn any wav related
to each other? EMILY d. S. BERGER.
Pelham N. Y, November 27.
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ment. because some of our grain and meat
is about to pass into what used to be enemy
countries, or shall we Gsk whether 1t Is
to our own advantage as well as to the
advantage of civilization. to maintain law
and order on the continent Of Europe by
the one method necessary to stop the bar
barous campaign of Bolshevism against
civilized government?
Hunger is the one great ally OF the Bol.
shevilii in Europe
SO we must fight hunger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
THE READERS VIEWPOINT

the American flag first should be sent back
where they came from
If there is a conglomeration of people
that want to establish new flag, let them
migrate to a country that has no flag, If
they can find one, and stabish their flag.
If they can show real nations that they
have some hing good, we may recognize it.
but hope that they won't try to change our
colors, because It can't be done.
H. T. EISENBERG.
Philadelphia, November 20.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
Signs of Peace

When the fervid ad-
signs OF Peace vocates of simplfed
spelling shouldered
their way into the news columns, from which
they were absent for four long years. we
knew that the world was getting back to
normal state of mind. A man in New York
who wants to rewrite the Bible in Broadway
slang has managed to get himself inter-
viewed, and one of these bright days we
shall be listening once more to the chaps
who are convinced that esperanto and a milk
diet are essentials of universal peace. Then
indeed, civilization will be itself again.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02

Major o. b. Zlmmer-
Faster and Faster! man, United States
army inventor of the
fuel which the War Department believes will
supplant gasoline. says his stun is 80 per
cent more powerful than ordinary gas" far
cheaper and also odorless. In the distance
you can hear the cheering of the speed kings
who have had to loaf along the city streets
at a mere sixty miles an hour Now they
will be able to do eighty at least,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-02
PR. T.'s Right to Change Car Routes

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger
sir-If the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Company thinks it has rights which the
people must ignore. why do not the citizens
get together and test its right to change car
routes whenever 1t suits their convenienceT
For instance, the Ridge avenue line Is char-
tered to run down Ridge avenue to Tenth,
Tenth to Arch and Arch street to Second.
And the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany can be compelled to live up to IT'S
charter rights. The Lcmbard-South line Is
chartered to come out Lombard, via Spruce
to Thirty-eighth. to Lancaster avenue, not
to turn at Thirty-eighth into Market street
and up Forty-irst. The charter of the Lom-
bard and South gives no such right. The
citizens of Philadelphia have some rights
even that the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Is bound to obey. Let's get together and
see II the Philadelphia Rapid Transit is
greater in it's right than the citizens and
taxpayers of Philadelphia are. And do not
lose sight of the fact that by a special act
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit is not Obliged
to pay taxes on its powerhouses and barns
used in its business PAUL S. KELLER
philadelphia. November 2s.