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/ do not apologize for revertlng to
the casualty list. 1t Is essential that
these statistics should be made known.
It u difficult In short article to con-
vey any fair picture Of Britain's work
In other fields. In heavy guns alone
she manufactured during the third
year OF the war twenty-seven times as
many as In the first year and two
hundred and twenty times as much
ammunition. The expenditure of rife
ammunition per week Is now slxty-five
times greater than the average weekly
expenditure during the first ten
months Of the war. The output Of ma
chine guns has increased thirty-nine
times. : Two thousand miles Of railway
track, one thousand locomotives and
many tens Of thousands Of wagons
have been shipped abroad. The Min
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
18Th NOT FIGHTING
ASLATE AS SEPT. 1sT

Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Shipe. of
Maryland avenue, received a letter
written by their son, Private Carter
Shipe, OF Battery e, 3l3th Field Ar
tillery, from France on September |
According to this the 313th, or al
least his battery, were not in action
on the front He stated that they had
not gone to the front, but were doing
considerable practice on the range.
However, he tells his people not to
worry about him being in danger He
tries to live the best he can, despite
any adverse circumstances and unn.
fiuenced by surroundings. He was
not at all scared or afraid, believing
that when his time came it would
come irrespective of whether he was
at the front or in quiet home life. He
has visited quite a number Of
French villages, where the peasants
barely exist. we folk at home really
living like princes in comparison. He
also has seen hundreds of German
prisoners and expects to see hun.
dreds more, but thinks the war will
soon be over.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25

lis prime ministers, its secretaries of
state, its judges. its governors Of far
off lands. its parliamentarians. law
yers, professors. scientists. its un-
doubted leaders in every branch OF
human thought and endeavor. That is
part of the price asked of us for
choosing to support Right as against
Might, and 1t is heavy impost in IT,
self. Again, we have lost nearly every
officer and man of that small but SUI
perbly efficient army which we threw
into France early in August, 1914.
1t has been estimated that Britain
has fought on seventeen fronts during
the past four years. One can rendily
enumerate most Of them, for her troops
have been to the fore In Belgium.
France, Italy, Serbia. Greece. Russia,
Palestine, Mesopotamia. China and
North, East and West Africa, to name
only the main theaters of the war.
She and her Colonies have raised
100000 soldiers, and of this total
'England's tnot Great BrItain's) pro-
ROA tlVA 40 w QCI CCuIs Al tAilS tCSdiu
! must remove Misrepresentation, or,
to be candid. nail down a Hun lie,
which has found credence in some
quarters. I shall not labor the point.
It should suffice IL I state with abso-
lutte authority that one man in every
seven and half Of the population OF
England is Id the army. The same
ratio holds good Of Scotland. Wales
has contributed one man In every ten
and a nth, Ireland one man In eves !,
twenty-six and a third and the over
seas dominions one man in every fif-
teen. Those are the cold, hard facts
as to man power In the army, while
the following table tells its own story
and refutes another Hun lie:
Relative proportions of men In Brit
ish forces and of casualties suffered
I by each part Of British empire, exclu.
sive of India, Africa, etc, to Novem-
Der, 1917:
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keep on killing them till they cease to
plague mankind. l have no concern
for Germans. You Americans have a
frontier proverb "a good Injun is a
dead Injunl". Until Germany casts
out the devil Of Kaiserism and goes
back hundred years to the race
which produced some decent and use
full members Of the body corporate l
shall believe most firmly that the best
German is a dead German. What does
grieve me most profoundly is the
knowledge that Britain-and every
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25

which shall transcend In power and
greatness the widest dream ever
dreamed by enthusiastic Pan-German.
1t must be so. 1t Is a deduction based
on the soundest theory Of life, the
very essence OF all that science has
taught us either OF men or OF the low
er animals. But cannot blind my eyes
to the immediate gaps in our ranks.
Our universities are empty. Oxford
and Cambridge gave eight thousand Of
their undergraduates to the army In
the first year Of the war, and, be It re-
membered, no matter what View may
be held as to the value Of Z university
education, these young men were the
future rulers Of the British Empire
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
CAR SHORTAGE PREVENTS
MOVING OF SCRAP METAL
tey international News Service,

Cleveland, O., Sept. 25.-With
scrap metal commanding an excep-
tionally high price, dealers here are
unable to move their stocks to foun-
dries and industrial plants nearby
that would use them, ii is said. Their
is said to be such a shortage in both
men and cars that the scrap ma
terial cannot be moved and that com
panies that formerly gathered scrap
for sale are unable to handle it,
Before the war $40 was considered
a fair price for scrap metal, but
with the price now at 500 thousands
of dollars worth of metal is lying
where it is on account of the short
age of men and cars
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25

flesh and bone of our bone. They are
at once our tribute and our lnspira-
ton. We who gave this holocaust
must be worthy of it. We who are left
must be more resolute, more knightly,
more grandly Indifferent to loss or suf-
fering, than those who have gone.
How can it be otherwise? The cross
they bore, the sacrifice they made, is
all the lighter for us because Of their
example. The blood Of the martyrs is
the seed Of the Church Of Christ? The
blood Of our dead is the seed Of race
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25

from Central Park to Washington
square in ten long summer days. Amer
lea is proud, and very properly proud,
of the great army she has poured into
France. 1t is million, in round num-
bers, million of first rate fighting
men carried in British ships with abb
solute safety across perilous seas.
But Britain has already lost a mil
lion in dead and grieyously wound
ed, while two and a half millions have
been smitten by the pestilence called
Germany. l have not exaggerated
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25

when it is falling earthward ont or
control, the spinning being beeap,c
more weight is concentrated in tbo
nose than in the tail, the latter thug
turning in wider circle.
"a tail spin results from reduetio,
of the forward speed so that the a,
traction of gravity overcomes tho
buoyant properties OF the wings who
sufficient air is passing through
them
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
Howard &. Tavenner.

Relatives and friends in Jefferson
county and Martinsburg we're shock
ed by the unexpected death Of the
late Howard e. Tavenner, father of
Mrs. Eugene M. Chapman and Mr..
Nelson c. Tavenner, Of this city. MIR.
Tayenner died suddenly of heart trou-
BILE yesterday morning. He had gone
out to attend to his milking and not
returning at the customary time a
search was made only to find that he
had been stricken in death. The
funeral will take place from the house
at IL O'clock Thursday morning, the
pastor of the Baptist church, of which
he had been life long and consist
ent member, officiating. MIR. Taven-
WIS native of Loudoun county, Va,
ner, who was about CT years OF age,
and had spent most OF his life in
Jefferson, owning and living in the
old Zoar Baptist church which years
ago had been remodeled into a sub
stantial residence. He was a quiet,
transformations man, devoted to his
family and home and man of fine
Christian character. Possessing a
most happy disposition he was below
ed by all with whom he came in con-
tact. He is survived by his widow
and three children, including Miss
Jennie Tavenner, who resided at
home. and a number of brothers and
sisters, chiefly residing in Loudoun
onitnfv
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BRITISH OFFICIAL pAorooRApAs

word 1 have written would he stulti-
lied IL you did not realize that l am
proud OF my own folk--has lost the
flower of her manhood, just as you,
my honored friends in America, will
lose stock hard to replace il the mil
lion of your magnificent youth IN
France and the other millions You will
put in the field until there are enough
dead Germans are fated to show cas-
ualty list comparable with that Of
Britain. But do not misunderstood
ne. My faith In the destiny Of our
joint races Is supreme Are not our
dead the best warranty Of the past
and the brightest hope Of the future7
They are our very own, flesh OF our
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25

these figures. They are official. We
know some Of the details with q
mournful exactitude. During one
month In France in 1917 we had q 900
men killed. In the first twelve months
of the war we had 6,660 officers and
$4,000 men killed. During the month
of April of this year as the result of
March q, 1918, we had over 10000
casualties among officers alone. OF
course we have Killed and wounded
many Germans. But chat does that
matter! What does it matter how
many Of the brutes are killed? 1t is
our duty, a duty put on us by the laws
we live under, obey and swear By to
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
CAUGHT WITH GOODS ON.
(By international News Service

by International News Service.)
st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 25.-When a
man who gave his name as Edward
H. Daniels, of Hannibal, Mo-, was ar
rested here there was found in his
effects paraphernalia including con-
fidence game outfit, a trick telephone,
100000 in stage money" and fake
newspaper clippings. 81
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25
ElGHTEEN-YEAR-oLDS
nv international News service.)

Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. 25-The
United States need have no fear of
the eighteen-year-old draftees not
making good as fighters against the
Huns. Yrhe eighteer-year-old Ameri-
can lad is the equal of any German
of any age" declared Harry Simon,
a nineteen-year-old Canadian veteran
"The younger soldiers gave good ac-
counts of themselves and withstood
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TAIL SPIN DEFINED
BY AVIATION OFFICER
10y International News service.)

(By international News Service.)
st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 25.-What is
a tail spin? OF all questions asked
aviators this is the most frequent,
according to Lieutenant Charles H.
Platt, flying officer at Scott Field,
Bellville, Ill.
"a tail spin" said Lietenant Plat
lis the natural action of an airplane
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.the discomforts of the trenches bet
ter than men many years their sen
ior. The only persons who have &C.
casion to regret the drafting of the
young lads are the Germans. The
Prussian Guard is no match for the
when our fellows get a little train
ing"
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HUNS FOOL MARINES BUT
PAY WITH THEIR LIVES

by International News service.)
With the American Army in France
Sept 25.-Grim-faced, begrimed and
stained after several days of desper-
ate, continuous battle, a platoon of
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25

People Of America. you falhels an
mothers, wives. sisters and sweet
hearts Of the men you have sent ~
France, ask YOU to study l''a' '. MI
Kultur should be known ny rs fesu ,,,,,
and II benighted England can ~" ~,
such a case against enlightened ue' !,
many Is 1t not worth fnnr years "', a :,
need be. forty years - w''r !" NV'p H.
your country and ours clear 81 Wv
virus of Kuitur? The answer Is ue", ,'
given today wherever the hun s,ains
up against our, soldiers. II ~ pe'Ds
dinned into his ears by high explosives
and driven into his carcass ny So
bayonets. When he needs we VAN -
and not until he does heeu-g'l'i ~
knees
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-09-25

kin In every cline where the English
tongue Is the speech of the people.
We have dared all |; we shall gain all.
So If you have read into this preface
the meaning l have striven to convey
you will understand that In the re-
mainder of this brief essay / shall tell
of the glory and the immensely or
Britain's achievements in this war not
to flaunt her deeds in the eyes Of the
world, but as an earnest of the self
same sacrifices and ideals that shall
flow from this great. nation OF the
West in an ever-increasing and IRE
sistible stream. That is my purpose,
and l want to declare it now. Britain
has done much and, though weary and
blood-stained, will do more, but the
measure of her heroic effort can sure
ly be applied to the determination of
the splendid country in which l write
these lines. Why, to mix with you
Americans on the days when the news
seems bad, when some disaster at sea
or some reverse on land chillS the
blood and adds fresh burthen TO an
overladen heart, is the best Of all
tonics for an Englishman. l have
gone out to address audiences of an
evening when my soul was heavy
within me-, when each mouthful Of
food In a well-appointed club or hotel
had almost choked me by contrast
with the privations better men than ]
were enduring with steadfastness.
But the first sight of an American au-
dience, the first ringing cheers evoked
not by my oratory, but my theme.
brought healing and strengthening
altogether Divine In their efficacy, for
here, indeed, in the truest sense of the
phrase, the voice Of the people became
the voice Of God.
Well, the record has many items.
Let US begin with the worst, the IT.
remediable, the tax levied by death.
1t is a sad showing. The British cas-
ualties In officers and men are as fol-
lows:
August, 1914. to the end Of
1915 ..................... $4,000
In the year 1916. 650.OO0
In the year 1917. 100000
In six months Of the present
year (estimated) ......... 100000
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The following account Of Great
Britain's participation in the war
! was written by Louis Tracy, a
member OF the British War Mis-
sion, to commemorate the fourth
! anniversary of our ally's en-
trance into the war. MIR. Tracy
Is widely known throughout the
! United States as novelist, be-
ing the author of 1.-THE Wings of
! the Morning" and some forty
/ other novels.
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2,5OOoo0

OF these at least one-fifth must be
counted among the dead. So half
million gallant men of the British En-
pire are lying in their graves all over
the world or hidden forever in the
terrible and mysterious depths of the
sea, while more than another half mil
lion are so MANNED and broken that
they can never again be counted as
useful citizens Of world wherein
man must work If he would eat and
therefore live. New York and many
other great cities in the United States
love procession, and 1t Is startling
fact to note that If the dead and who'll
~ war-shattered youth of the British
Empire could march down Fifth ave-
nue. in platoons OF twenty men In a
rank the pallid host could not pass
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Large clean cotton rags wanted al
this office.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-05
DETENTION HOME
FARCE IS EXPOSED
BY RUARk CASE
Mayor Tells Board of Public
Welfare That Conditions
Disclosed Make His
Blood Boil.

An investigation into the admins
'tration of the Detention Home for
Women, Twenty-seeond street and
St. Mary's avenue, has disclosed
methods which Mayor Smith in an
address to the Board of Public We'll
fare Tuesday afternoon said made his
blood boil.
The mayor contended that this in
stitution was established for COM
puisory treatment of diseased women
of known immoral tendencies. but not
for women who are victims OF Cir
cumstances.
The case OF Mrs. Wilbur Ruark
moved the mayor to express himself
against the management of this home,
which is under the jurisdiction of the
health department. This woman's
soldier-husband is at Camp Funston,
Her baby was born on July of this
year in St. Luke's hospital, whose SUI
perintendent learned that Mrs. Ruark
was afflicted with a disease which re-
quired special treatment.
Taken There By Police.
An investigation showed that the
hospital notified the Red Cross. the
Red Cross notified the city health de-
partment, the health department no.
tilted the police and the police sent
an emergency officer to the hospital
and moved the woman to the deten-
ton hospital without warrant or COM
plant or advising her whittier she
would be taken. She escaped from
the hospital on August 2l and was
taken back by policeman. Her baby
was taken from the detention hospital
to the county hospital.
She was moved from the hospital
to the city Jail and assigned to one
of the lower cells, with cement floor,
rather than in the matron's depart
ment, where women usually are
placed. When she was brought be-
fore Acting Judge Holmes she was
dismissed and advised to take her
case before the Board of Public We'll
fare.
People who have known Mrs. Ru-
ark during her residence here testified
to her good conduct and expressed
the belief that she had been more
sinned against than shining.
Mrsa Cornish, head of St. Luke's
hospital, spoke kind words for this
mother whom she had attended. The
police records do not show this
woman's name. Miss Burger of the
detention home reported that the Ru-
ark baby was ordered removed from
its mother by one of the doctors.
Several women in the detention home
stated that Mrs. Ruark was attached
to her baby and became depressed
when her child was taken from her.
Some of the patients at the home
charge doctors with uttering inn
proper remarks during the Clinics"
also with abusive A,eatment in the
operation room. One young woman
stated that she had been handled
roughly by a doctor. who inserted a
needle in first one place and then an
other, according to his whim. An
other woman said she refused to let
these kid" doctors attend her any
more; that she would rather spend
the rest of her life in jail.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-05
Brief City News
Eiec. Fans, IS. Burgess-Granden Co.

Elec. Fans, IS. Burgess-Granden Co.
Have Root Print It-New Beacon
Press.
Eastman In Wyoming.-O, T. East
man, manager Of the Omaha Federal
Reserve bank. is in Cheyenne attend
ing a meeting of the Wyoming Liberty
loan committee.
Goes to Mncoin--James Nobel, di-
rector of physical work at the Omaha
Young Mems Christian association, is
spending the week In Lincoln on bus
mess.
Seeks Passports Abroad--Miss Lucy
Meneray has filed an application in
federal court for a. passport to Eng
land, France and Italy. She has been
appointed overseas clerical worker for
the Red Cross.
Ben-Hur Chief in Omaha.-Dr. r..
H. Gerard, supreme chief of the su-
preme tribe of Ben Hur, will be in
Omaha September IS. DR.. Gerard
makes Charlottesville, Ind. his head
quarters. He will be in Omaha on a
trip of inspection in the west.
Chamber of Commerce Night.-The
executive committee of the Chamber
of Commerce decided that Friday ev-
ening shall be Chamber of Commerce
night" at the Czecho-Slovak bazaar
in the auditorium and all business and
professional men are urged to be pres
ent ON that night.
Bank Organized Tonight-The or
SANITATION Of the new Industrial In
vestment and Savings company will be
perfected tonight at banquet at the
Rome hotel at 5 o'clock The rooms
in the railway Exchange building,
formerly occupied by the Great West
ern railroad, have been leased.
Check Oh Alien Nomep-German
women cannot move freely from place
to place, for federal officers will keep
a close tab on them. Government or
ders have been issued which require
that all alien enemy women must OBJ
tain permits from federal officers be-
fore they can change their place of
residence.
Home on Furlough--W. w. Drum
my, formerly with the Union Pacific
department, but now of the
quartermaster's force at Camp Funs-
ton, is home on brief furlough He
reports the Omaha boys at Funston
in good health and high spirits, all
chafing under the bit and anxious to
get overseas that they may take
hand in the fighting.
Move Oflice-Saturday the Great
Western passenger office will vacate it's
room in the Range block, moving in
with the Milwaukee, where it will re-
main until the union city ticket office
in the Union Pacific headquarters is
ready for occupancy. The future To-
cation of the Great Western local
freight office, now in the Range block,
has not been determined.
Fine fireplace goods at Sunderland's
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-05
FEDERAL AGENTS
L00K'F0R BUTTER
PR0F|TEfRS HERE
Government Takes Steps to
Stop Sale of Butter with
Water Content Above
Normal.

Uncle Sam is trying to put a stop
to the selling of water at AZ cents per
pound.
1t is one form of pro6teering the
government is determined to stop
and two experts have, been sent here
to ascertain til hose guilty of this COM
mercial piracy.
Agents of the internal revenue de-
partment are working in Omaha and
the different dairy product centers of
western Iowa and the state of Ne
braska, making tests of the butter
that is being put out by the different
creameries. and butter Ladders.
1t has been reported that manufac-
turers were working in more than
the normal quantity of moisture and
were selling the excess of water at
butter prices. The normal quantity
of moisture in butter, fixed by United
States standards, is l6 per cent Sam.
Piles of butter purchased at different
points throughout this territory by
the Investigators have shown as high
as Is and so per cent of water.
One concern, handling 100000
pounds of butter, was getting rich
selling the surplus of moisture at the
rate of As cents per pound. Ware
houses are being invaded for samples
and tests are being maze of butter
purchased at retail. If evidence is
found of butter being treated in this
manner with intent to defraud a pen
atty will be imposed on the violators
of the law.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-05
Don't Let Soap
Spoil Your Hair

When you wash your hair, be care
full what you use. Most soaps and
prepared shamppos contain too much
alkali, which is very injurious, as it
dries the scalp and makes the hair
brittle.
The best thing to use is just plain
mulsified cocoanut oil, for this is pure
and entirely greaseless. It's very
cheap. and beats the most expensive
soaps or anything else all to pieces.
You n~get this at any drug store,
and few ounces will last the whole
family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with water
and rub it in, about a teaspoonful
is all that is required. 1t makes an
abundance of rich, creamy lather,
cleanses thoroughly and rinses out
easily. The hair dries evenly, and is
soft, fresh looking, bright, fluffy,
wavy and easy to handle. Besides, it
loosens and takes out every particle
of dust, dirt and dandruff.-Adv.