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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28
HEADQUARTERS
JOB OVERSEAS
NOT B0MBpR00F
Lieutenant G. A. Benjamin
Writes Christmas Letter
to Father; Says He En-
joys War Thrills.

II know what H. E. shells do
when they strike; what machine
gun bullets sound like as they pass
over and around; have had the SEN
sation of being sniped at; have seen
men die on either side of me.
also know how it feels to get burnt
with mustard gas, but all in all |
have enjoyed it, coolies and ALL"
writes 1t. G. A. Benjamin to his
father, John A. Benjamin, Clowry
Court annex.
Con one or two occasions if some
one had offered me a dime for my
chances they would have been &C
cepted and | would have thought
| was cheating them"
The Omaha boy was in the
Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel bat
ties and was with the First army
headquarters all during the battle
north of Verdun and through the
Argonne forest. RI
Often Postponed Meals.
Z haven't had any CHAIR warming
job, because it has been good hard
work, and | have seen several times
when | have postponed (never
missed) two or three meals, and
have also not seen bed or sleep
for 48 to, II hours at a time, But
it was glorious, as we had the boche
ON the run and we knew it. We have
worn our gas masks for six to eight
hours at a time"
Lieutenant Benjamin, who has
seen all the allied front from Mont
didier TO the Swiss border, expects
to return in January.
His letter, dated November a.
was written on Fathers Christmas
Letter day.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28

Capt. F. Morrow of Columbus,
Eeb., who is stationed at Lake
Charles. La, where he is in charge
Of the post hospital is at home on a
30-day leave of absence. Captain
Morrow gave TIP the practice of his
profession at Columbus to enlist in
the medical, corps OF the army.
Lieutenant Delaney, brother Of
Maj. E. L. Delaney, head medical
officer at Fort Des Moines, who died
the-e of influenza Tuesday. is ex-
pectsd to come to Omaha. from
Texas to attend the funeral services
Of his. brother. +...
Sergt. John E. Withheld, mechanic
in Red Cross ambulance service
Camp Scott, Chicago, is visiting at
home, 220o Ohio street, before he
leaves for overseas January l.
Maj. E. c. Henry of Omaha is
overseas in charge of base hospital
anti No. ll3. He sailed two months
ago aad has. written friends that he
is already Settled at the hospital
and hard at work" 1t. Frank
Henry is in Germany with our army
ut occupation.
I Sergt. Alfred L. Gauvrean, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. ~Gauvrean, ll05
South Thirty-hrst street, died at
Bordeaux, France. where he was in
charge of the medical supply depot,
according to word which has just
reached the parents. Death was
caused by inhenza. The young Of
hcer was a graduate of the Creigh-
ton university.
1t. Allan Turkey is home from the
army hospital at Fort Des Moines,
Ia, on a two months leave Of alb
sence. He is able now to go with
out the crutches he has been forced
to use ever since he was wounded in
action in France.
Word recently reached c. w.
Garfield at the California home
that his son. George H. Garfield,
Who is on the western front in
France, has been promoted from
major to lieutenant colonel.
I Colonel Garfield grew to man
hood in Omaha, having. spent the
FIRST q years of his life here. He is
a graduate of the Omaha High
school, was a cadet in the military
department and worked up to the
grades from private to captain. It
was here that his liking for the milf,
larry grew and after school days
were over he always kept in touch
With ssr1ny affairs.
Attorney Arthur Palmer is back in
Omaha after two months training
for an cnsignship at the Great.
EAkes naval training station. He has
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28

but it was decided to postpone the
request until later. The meeting con,
sidered taking steps toward gettins
in touch with other Americans SIM,
larly situated in Germany, especial,
a colony of native-born American:
in Munich who have refused to &C.
lively associate with the German.
Americans.
b. All-such efforts have thus far been
frustrated by the police, who ha {
refused to give the addresses If
Americans residing here. Appeals to
advertisements in the newspapers
have also proved futile.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28
Fostering Useful Insect 49,.
Urged by EntomologiSt

Baltimore Md, Dec 27-Twenty
associations Of scientific experts
from every state in the union are
participating in the meeting of the
American Association for the Adj
vancement Of Science, which began
its sessions at the Johns Hopkins
university. yesterday and will con
continue today and Saturday.
f. d. Ball spoke at a meeting of
the entomologists today on the i'm
portance. Of the fostering the useful
insect and of destroying the harmful
insecf, ~ g, - r.-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28

$50 pairs of broken style lines and as
sentiments In Field Mouse vamps with
Ivory tops, allover Champagne buekskin,
black glazed kid, also a limited number
Of browns, grays and tan calls. You will
be able to find your size in some style
Sizes IN this lot 211s to 7, AA to G.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28
American Society Of
Defense Wants German
Dropped from Schools

New York,-A nationwide cam
paign is being conducted by the
American Defense society to elirni-
nate the teaching of German in the
schools throughout the United
States. In letter written the prin-
cipals of public schools, private
schools and colleges throughout the
country the society urges that
French, Italian, Spanish and Rus
sian should be given prominence in
the curriculum with a view to
strengthening trade relations be-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28

capitalization will depend the fu'
ture of American education.
For those who would study
language for its utility the choice
lies between French, Spanish, ltal'
ian and Russian as our trade rela-
tons with these countries will be
UNNECESSARILY increased now that
peace is in sight. To study German
would be to condone the atrocities
perpetrated by the people who speak
this language"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28
Hun Envoy Leaves.

London, Dec. 27-"Under pres
sure from the entente" says a Ger
man wireless dispatch received to-
day, the German ambassador to
Turkey and his staff have left Con
stantinople. They are expected to
reach Genoa on Saturday.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28
Mannheim is Occupied
by Gen. Foch to Protect
Many Allied Prisoner.

Zurich, Dec. 27.-(Havas.)-
battalion of infantry has occupied
Mannheim by order OF Marshal Foch
in order to watch the prison camp
near there, where 10000 allied pris-
oners await liberation, according to
the Badische Landes Zeitung. The
paper adds that this step was taken
because of the bad treatment of the
prisoners, several of whom were
murdered.
Mannheim is within the neutral
zone east of the Rhine outlined by
the terms of the armistice.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28
Minister Arrives.

New Orleans, La, Dec. 2.-Fran-
cisco Tudella, first Peruvian am
bassador to the United States, ar
rived here today and will leave to-
morrow for Washington.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-28
New Low Record.

New York, Dec. 27.-The fourth
Liberty "a per cent bonds sold at
ga a. a new low record. on the stuck
exchange today. A Block OF 100000
par value, changed hands at this fig
ure
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-03
THEY KNEW

~ NE OF THE New York papers, which has tenderness
~ for the slush fund that the who have been
indicted did not intend ito violate the law They intended to
whatever their actions implied They paid the money out
large sums in greenbacks, without taking receipts
qurng specifications We to conclude from this that they
did not intend to be caught.
The 100000 fund raised to help elect Mitchell The
who raised know what they would have said they had
caught Hyan with $2,OO0OOO fund back of him.
Mr.. Mitchell may have been fine mayor, and Mr. Hylan
be very Indifferent The Times and Farmer is
too far away know But degree Of excellence in Mitchell
could possibly atone for the injury worked by the great uh
fund by which his reelection sought few items of adj
minsave superiority could not atone compensate for
wholesale corruption of the electorate through the agency
great contributions. =
The rich who financed the Mitchell campaign
innocent their friends would suppose Neither they
as guilty as their enemies would have them.
These slush funds have been pretty in America
They have been part of the game bad sad part few
dcmens have long been needed The indicted have
doing only what has always been done But there must be
end of old fashioned naughty ways sometime and
Icepted time
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-03
CLEAN MILK
. HE PRODUCTION Of clean milk is of more

HE PRODUCTION of clean milk is of importance to
Il the community than many things that get more atten-
ton The United States Department Of Agriculture applying
to this problem the scientific method in its usual effective and
clear headed way has proved by experiment that the produc
ton of clean milk does not require costly plant expensive
equipment Any barn gives shelter suitable for good milk
Equipment to produce good clean milk should not cost
than $50 The experiment divided into four steps, and
lasted six months Four used which housed
in frame barn of the ordinary type,
Two MIXED into open top pals and two into
49653 bacteria from the small top pals 36824 The change
of pals reduced the bacteria count per cubic
centmenter.
In the second step the pals sterized by steam
small top pals being used The bacteria decreased 35
49, total of 474976 compared with milk from open top
sterilized pals.
In the third step the stables cleaned twice week
and the udders of the washed before each milking This
ordinary cleanliness reduced bacteria another 10000
In the fourth step of the experiment the stables
ed every day. and the curried with comb and brush which
reduced bacteria to 254 per cubic centmenter 19847
less than sample contained when barn and dirty
when open topped pals used and the utensils
steamed.
Clean milk is within reach of every farmer 1t pro-
duced with little added expense There why there
should be any other kind of milk especially approximate
cleanliness may be attained by steam sterilization the
right type of pail The apparatus for steamng is not costly
Good apparatus should not cost than $40 for small
dairy
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-03
BUY POTATOES

lR AND WATER obtained, food is the basis of mans life
All social organization rests upon food The society
which is just able to feed ITSELF and will not have
high civilization The arts that make the great nations
reme exist because during the has become possible for
all the people to be fed by the labors of few
The makes especially trying demand upon food sup
ply Many withdrawn from food production, and there
need of more intensive effort upon the part of all who produce
food able to do So
year ago the government urged upon
sy of raising potatoes The response bera Because
OF poor transportation and for other reasons millions
els of potatoes unconsumed.
The farmer his money He does hard work through
long hours under conditions that favorable than
those inflicted upon the toilers of a city.
Buy the potatoes the farmer has raised. Eat poa-
toes Use up the Do this for your sake well
for the farmers. The who buys liberty bond gets the
bond The farmer who has raised potatoes ought to have
market for them and profitable market The worthy
of his hire.
The demand for the of potatoes is based upon
stronger motive than the benefit of the no
cumsances must the country become weaker power to
produce food.
Eat more potatoes. Furnish the farmer maximum ncen-
tive The duty is plain and the necessity is palmer
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-03

The narrator, a Canadian, escaped
from Giessen. For two days there,
he said. Is Americans captured last
October in trench raid in France
were kept on exhibition.
He said the Americans were thin,
weak and mentally dazed because of
their treatment They told him they
were in deplorable shape as a result
of being marched for miles over hard
roads to towns and villages to be ex-
hibited to the German people in an
effort to show the American army
could not stand against German SOL
diers.
The Americans said they had had
no chance to wash or get clean
clothes. Their daily fare was acorn
coffee, two slices of bread made from
rye. sawdust and potato -four for
breakfast; soup, a small piece OF
tough beef, turnips, such as usually
were fed to cattle, for dinner; sour
and two slices of bread for supper
British prisoners were not permitted
to communicate with the Americans
and English women at Munich who
spoke to them were locked in cells q
hours on bread and water.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-03
Give HUNS Slip
UNDER GUISE OF
GERMAN OFFICERS

Paris, April 30-In escaping from
German military prison, Lieutenant
Roland G. Garros and Lieutenant An
tome Marchal, the two celebrated
French aviators, repeated the exploit
of the famous German Captain Koe-
penick" After having been twice
caught and punished for attempting
to take French leave" Garros and
Marchal recalled how gullible the
people and soldiers proved themselves
in the case of the shoemaker Voigt
who, under the name of Captain
Koepenick" and in an officers uni
from laid everything under contribu-
ton and was saluted and honored az
only a German military officer could
be-
So they made French blue horizon
cloth uniforms resembling as closely
as possible those of German officers.
When they were finished all they had
to do was to simply walk out of their
prison, out of the camp and out of the
town, saluted on every hand by SEN
tinels, soldiers off duty and civil
ians.
Once clear of the town they dotted
the uniforms and made their way to
the frontier of Holland by rail quite
comfortably. Their greatest difficulty
was in crossing the line. 1t took
them three days during which they
crept on hands and knees backwards
and forwards alternately, lodging
sentinels
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-03
IRISH CONSUMPTION

oDAY IS BUT incident in eternity and from eternity
the present gets only it's proporonate share of con-
sderaon No conceivable duration of time vast compared
with all time Hence the attention given to the affairs OF the
hour by providence and destiny must be rather ring.
Consumption Ireland may be viewed for its consequences
the hereafter may be considered from the standpoint
the desires the living The latter viewpoint being the
commonly applied, need not be renewed here.
Irish conscrpton would probably give solid founda
ten for the ages Ulster and Ireland fast neigh
bors Catholics and Professionals inerminged the
they everywhere else anad must remain through
counted decades They ought sometime to be able get along
together Greed makes little difference between and
in America. 1t should make more in Ireland
If the great should be fought and the Catholic element
of the population not fully in it, there would be not
element for union but separation But if the creeds fight
side by SIDE Catholics and Protesans of other commun
do will be great reunion and brotherhood of af
lection.
Consumption great thing for the United States. Taking
all the young the proportion without regard to
creed there will be nobody after the who will not have
had "a share in the victory.
will not be possible to exclude the German population
for point to its long list Of the loyal soldiers living and
dead and the claim cannot be denied.
Ireand trouble is old eud which nobody has had time
heal If Ulster and Ireland sit parliament they
will learn to get along If they always stay apart they
will learn friendship Home rule and conscrpon
good twain They should together The Irish of America
want the help of the Irish in Ireland
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-03
CLASS ONE men
IN CONNECTICUT
REPORTED FEW

Connecticut, according to advices
received from the office of the pro-
vost marshal general, has a smaller
percentage of Glass 1 men in the
draft than any other state, with the
possible exception of two. This is
due, it is said, first to a large alien
population which was registered. but
is exempt from the draft, and the
many in the state entitled to deferred
classification because of essential en-
ployment.
This is apparently causing the de-
partment some concern, and Major
Buckley has received orders to de-
termine at once the number of men
in Class 1 who are really fighting
men. Accordingly all the local boards
have been instructed to report at
once how many men in this class are
ready, for general service who will
not claim the right of limited service
or any other exemption. Instructions
were issued to the boards yesterday,
and report of the local situation
will be forwarded to the department
within few days.
Inc enllSLmentS IN COnneCtlCuL LOT
all branches of military service from
July 1 to Marc;, 81 were S,1S1. These
are voluntary enlistments, and do not
include the draft, which numbers
thousands more. According to the
ruling, however, Connecticut will get
credit for these enlistments and that
number will be deducted from Con-
necticut's quota in the next draft. The
local boards have completed all the
physical examinations for the last
draft, and only the clerical work of
checking up remains.
On the face of the first returns
there was a discrepancy of about TO-
900 men between the registration fig
ures and the classified list as COM
piled under the classification order
This has been checked up and ac-
counted for in clerical errors and
other errors between local and dis
trict boards, so that the figures now
agree.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-03
ARE
NAMED IN u. S.
CASUALTY LIST
Capt. Jett Killed in Action
Capt. Chambers Dies
of Disease.
LIEUT.. MOONEY NOT
KILLED IN ACTION
Forty-Two Reported AS
Wounded Slightly and 5
Severely Wounded.

Washington, April S0-The casualty
as follows:
Killed in action, 2; died of wounds,
o; died of accident, 2; died of disease,
6; wounded severely, 5; wounded
slightly, AZ; missing in action, l.
Capt, Richard Laurence Jet was
killed in action. Capt. Charles A
Chambers died of disease, and Lieuts.
Robert D. Coye, Rufus B--Crain and
Francis Worthington Hine were slight
ly wounded.
In issuing the list the War De.
partment announced that Lieut.
Thomas J. Mooney was previously re-
ported as having died from accident
due to an error in cabling. Lieut..
John W. Morris, previously reported
wounded severely, is reported pris-
oner and unwounded
The list follows:
Killed in action-Capt Richard
Laurence Jet, Private Herbert G.
Raymond.
Died of accident-Privates Eldridge
| Cope, William W. Washington
Died of disease Capt. Charles A.
| Chambers, Privates Orris Pearl Mud
gett, Preston Noel, Clarence Everett
Brown, James Bates, Ray L. Siebert
Severely wounded-Sergeant Thos
]. Curtain, Gerald S. Patton, Privates
! Michael F. Davis, Leonard F. Sylvia
John Levi Smith.
Wounded slightly--Lieuts. Robert
| D. Coye. Rufus B. Grain, Franci;
Worthington Hine, Corps Frank NJ
! Cannon, Rurpee West, Jr., George Ia.
| brosky, Raymond c. Fisher, Wagon.
ers William Brown, Thomas E. Par.
! ris, Privates Albert o. Abraham, Johr
R. Barrett, Charles w. Bradfield
Chas. R. Clinkenbeard, Thomas ]
Corrigar, George W. Currier, Lloyt
E. Devel, George H. Dustin, John F
Egan, Wilfred T. Foster, Gordon E
Fuller, Donald M. Hair, Eugene Jou
bert, Henry W. Kennedy, John M
Kenney, Guy L. Lancaster, Edmond
P. Leroux, John F. Lindsay, Charlie
A Mcdonald, Max Markham, Shelb.
A Miller Roger ]. Nolf1, John R
O'Brien, Edward J. Parker, Arthu
| Pickup, Walter L. Redden, Louis Z
Shaver, jeremiah F. Sheehan, Vaughn
II. Silva, Charles Webb, Louis j
Wolfe, Phillip Wright, Morton c
Higgins.
Missing in action-Private Arzin
Bergeron; name of Lieut. Thomas ]
Mooney, previously as having die,
from accident, now believed to be il
error.
Private Jesse M. King, previousl
died of gunshot wound, now reporte
slightly wounded.
Lieut.. John vs. Morris, previousl
reported wounded severely, now re
ported prisoner, unwounded.
Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-03
CAN'T OVERTHROW
.SOV|ETSDECLARES
WISCONSIN, PROF.

New York, April 30-There is no
seHce of foreign aid, has the least
chance of overthrowing the Soviet or
Bolshevik government, declared Prof.
E. A. Ross, of the University of Wis
consin, in a report which he has just
made to the American Institute of
Social Service. The Institute sent Prof
Rose to Russia last year to study So
cial conditions in that country and
to try to establish relations between
tons.
The Cossacks have ceased to ex-
list and the burgeois are important to
do anything for themselves" wrote
Prof Ross. '"The estates, no doubt,
have been divided among the peasant
communes and nothing but foreign
conquest can tear them from the
moujiks.
with the masses so ignorant and
inexpert in organization, and the state
corroded with the graft and inef-
gime, one cannot imagine public cap
italism succeeding in Russia. Such
an experiment should be tried only by
a more developed people. If low pro-
ductivity and waste cause the things
produced by the factories to be very
scarce and dear, the disguised peas
ants may in time lose faith in the
Trotzky-Lenine program and throw
their support to a party that believes
in private capital and individual en-
terprise.
Russia will never be able to free
herself from mass poverty, unrest
and explosion till she adopts, with
ample safeguards of course, the sys-
tenn of individual property in the
soil.
"I am often asked the question
whether Lenine and Trotzky are not
agents of Germany. I have no means
of knowing, but 1 found no one who
in private conversation avowed such
belief The bourgeois newspapers
were full of such charges but the in
itiated paid no attention to them Let
me observe, Furthermore, that these
leaders are responsible for every
thing they do to delegate body Of
$50 genuine Russians and if they have
sold out their country these Russians
have been unable to perceive the
fact.