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Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
Around the Cities

> CONTEMPORARIES on Cleveland street
cars like the Job so we'll that
they defy the Department OF Labor
20 put them off. mo surrender" 10
he slogan of the Amazons OF the
ear platform.
Baltimore's chest swells with pride
over the tax value showing, which
places the city in the billion dollar
class. Beside this showing Cleve-
land, st. Louis. Pittsburgh and De-
troit lag in the rear.
In the last Is years Philadelphia
paid $4,000, 900 to the political ma
chine contractors for STRENGTHENING
work. Still '.the streets Of the city"
says the Ledger. continue to grow
more unsightly and unsanitary."
Rouen, which is in Jersey, mourns
the death of Peggy, and refuses to
be comforted. Peggy was a jewel
of DUCK, the champion egg layer
of the duck world. In one year
Peggy run up a score Of 325 eggs
m egg for every working day and q
few Sundays.
Down In Brooklyn, N. Y. q group
of home-loving neighbors staged
block party" 1t was q great sue
cess socially and otherwise, and all
participants went home at midnight
quite happy and tired. Such affairs
usually leave a pleasant memory,
This one was different. 1t started
= neighborhood row which led d.
:ectly to the courts, and put up to
the district attorney the task Of find-
Ing out "Who got away with the
money!"
A minneapolis grocery n
thought he saw q real live joke in
the sudden call Of two men masked,
Us he imagined. against the "hu."
His risibities suddenly ended when
the callers tickied his ribs with two
runs, But he was gamey and quick
witted. A sudden tumble to the
floor tripped one highwayman,
scared the second, and both fled
without a scrap Of plumber. leaving
The groceryman to enjoy the last
laugh as we'll as the first.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
THE, FLAG OF VICTORY

Gloried be the flag that Ii floating abovs
US
The symbol Of freedom. which fluttsrs
on high; .-...
The war tattered ensign; the school child
ren's emblem
The soldier mothers treasure which
windows the sky. ~
Lift up thy eye, O. brethren minsi
Honor thy flag abroad, on seas;
Victorious she floats, and wields divine
Her nations memories MP
Again. midst the stress Of . nations
dark moments, a-A
Old Glory has led Us and guided Us
right.
For aye shall she rise as a savior Of honor,
And be as an alter Of freedom and
might.
True be the flag to ancestors brave
Who gave their lives to make thee free.
Give praise to Old Glory tears to the
grave
Thy nations history
ROBERT WoRTHINGToN DAVIS.
Arion, la.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
WHAT IS A SOLDIER BOY
WORTH? !

What IL the worth Of soldier boyf
What Is he worth to you?
He Is up on the auction block right now,
What are YOU going to do7
He has offered his life for q cause.
One that IL just and true,
Fighting for home and humanity
What are YOU going to do?
He has barred his breast at the lannon's
mouth,
The shrapnels are bursting, too,
His body is torn. his blood he has split
What are YOU going to do?
He has gone from your home. and from
mine
His heart beats honest and true,
les gone. Oh. God. how we loved him
What are YOU going to do?
He went with the glad heart Of duty,
To carry the Red. White and Blue,
hat stands for the emblem of freedom
Now what are YOU going to do?
he never has wavered or faltered,
No matter how death bullets flew,
It's over the top, and onward they go
Now what are YOU going to dor
He's carrying peace to all nations.
He weeps that he cannot go through
When wounded and dying in conflict
Now what are YOU going to do?
lie feels that the friends left behind him
Have hearts that are all beating true,
His life he is offering for freedom
What KIND of an offering have your
are you proud of that boy over yonder,
Who is fighting by land, air, and sea.
and down in your heart are you certain.
That YOU are what you ought to be?
ire you bidding all that you can, sir?
For the lives of our boys so true,
your sacrifice equal to theirs, sir
Then what are you going to do?
dust all of their sacrifice fail now,
Must their blood be offered in vain.
FOR the sake OF little more sacrifice,
Must this war be fought over againf
20, we bid every dollar we have, sir,
Well struggle by night and by day.
and pray to our God. for our boys. sir,
That peace may come to us to stay.
omaha. w. b. LINCH.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
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Punishment to Fit Crime.

Omaha Nov. ITO the Editor of
The Bee: If the Omaha Daily News
ever wants to be reinstated in the
public's favor, II must atone for its
fake news about peace of last Thurs
day. Those who paraded and spoiled
their suits, overcoats and health In
the heavy rain m&y abstain from
suing the News for damage for the
loss and ridicule IL the News will
pay the one-half days wages lost by
celebrating peace-or an average of
50 for every Omaha worker lured
from work by the fake peace news.
If one Of every five Omaha inhabi-
tants lost half day 1t would make
10000. multiplied by 8, or $4,000,
which / suggest should be paid over
for a Christmas fund for presents
for our soldier boys in France to
the Red Cross.
II the News will not voluntarily
do this, 1t deserves to lose its patron
age of all peace-loving people Of our
fair city, who went home with
spoiled clothes and wet feet Thurs
day evening, And what Of the doctor
bills and funeral expenses?
JAMESON MARTIN. -
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
Cities Coming to the Surface,

Something of the relief experienced by in
habitants of regions now freed from grip of the
Hun is reflected in stories coming across the
sea. Tales of privation, suffering, abuse and
horror that surpass anything the war has yet
afforded are now being made known, and proof
to support them is furnished. This, of course,
refers to the Conquered" or occupied cities.
Towns like Trieste, supposedly enemy strong
holds, also afford evidence that noncombatants
generally have felt the effects of war to de-
gree beyond understanding. Vienna has suf-
tered for want of the commonest necessities,
Disease has found easy victims among the hun
CRY and the distress has spared neither high nor
low. ,
All this will be brought to an end now, for
the American Red Cross is already at its mis-
sion, carrying relief to the needy The wealth
and strength of this great nation is being ex-
erted to succor the helpless in the cities that
again are coming to the surface after years of
submergence. From the first this phase of the
war has rested on this country and the gener-
osity of our people has not failed. Now that
the war is coming to its end, we are charged
with the great duty Of helping the people of
Europe regain their balance and get their af.
fairs into order. Brilliant as will be the mill
tary record of America in connection with this
war, it will dim before the story Of our philan-
thropy.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
Over There and Here

The siege Of "fu" at the Great
Lakes naval station was raised last
week, the medical official reporting
hospital cases down to normal. The
peak OF the epidemic there was the
week Of September %.
Great Britain has begun its second
annual campaign for q war loan of
thousand million pounds, billion or
so under our Fourth Liberty mini
mum. Fifty months Of war shook
down j. BIS financial resources, but
the can is not empty by any means.
Stars and Stripes announces that
the real Beau Brummell of the fight
ing army has been identified and
Jagged. While most of the dandies
IN uniform merely brushed up and
ahmed up for a street parade, the
iS. B. went 'em all one better by EN-
Iasing his slender calves in several
,hicknesses of paper before putting
On his dress spirals."
Two years ago, even a year ago,
life would not be worth much to the
person who would mock the huge
wooden idol of Won Hindenburg in
Berlin Probably a million easy
marks paid mark each for the
privilege sof driving a nail in the
statue. Now guards are required to
prevent angry Berliners from MAX
ing bonfire Of the idol. Ach, Louie,
what fall!
Things happen over there which
make the boys forget for a time the
trials and toll and the mire of fields
and roads. One spectacle of sur
passing grandeur thrilled a crowd on
the rear lines Of the Argonne battle.
Fous stalwart Prussian guardsmen,
bearing stretcher on their shoul-
ders, solemnly goosestepped by. On
the stretcher recined a wounded
Yank serenely putting a cigaret. Can
you beat it?
One Of series Of individual
howls' printed in the Stars and
Stripes over there comes from
an engineer. Hes is tired of
bomb-proof jobs in the back dis
tricts and wants to get into action
at the front. Il have applied for
transfer both to the tank corps and
the doughboys," says the bowler,
but have not heard anything from
that maps the route to Berlin.
Lille and Lens, ST. Quentin, Laon
and Rheims, around which the tide
of battle has ragged recently. are all
old-time backgrounds. Lille was
captured by Louis XIV, and was
stoutly defended in 1892 against the
Austrians. In 1913 Lens was the
scene Of a great battle in which the
French routed the Spaniards. At
st. Quentin, in 1857, the army of
Philip II gained great victory over
the French, and the Germans, under
Won Goeben, defeated the French
there in 1871. Laon was the center
of fighting in the religious and
League wars against England, and
at Laon Butcher defeated the French
in 1914. Near Rheims Napoleon ad-
ministered disastrous defeat to the
Russians in 1914.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
ASHES or EMPIRE.

The German empire, builded on force and
cemented, as its architect grimly expressed it,
"by blood and iron," has fallen apart. Its
bonds could not endure the test, and it will 60
into the scrap heap of discarded human en-
deavor because it was found wanting. The way
along which humanity has come up from the
mists that shroud hstorys dawn is lined with
wrecks of such experiments. All along that
way, now glimmering but family, now shining
with a clear and steady light, may be noted
the ray of hope that beckons man on. This
hope has its resting place in human liberty,
liberty founded on law and sustained by justice.
Man has raised himself to power, has built
high his bulwarks of tyranny, laid his oppres-
sive rule on millions, only to fall at the moment
when he stretched his hand to grasp the ST.
preme dominion over, all the world. Dynasties
have fourished and vanished. but the eternal
spark, lit by the divine reason within man and
ever nourshed by his aspirations to better
things, has never failed. Even when it flick
cred lowest, and darkness gathered closest
around the race, the embers never died, but
waited only breath to fame up again.
And from the ashes of empire always some
thing grander and nobler has arisen. God
mocks at mans pretensions to unlimited do
main and confounds him, even as he COMPOUNDED
the builders at Babel, and the great are cast
down and destroyed now as ever when their
greatness turns to oppression. From the
chaos in Europe will come order, from the
wreck will be built newer and. stronger nations,
because they will be more free and more just.
For the Germans a future uncursed by
kaiserism and all it entails should hold prom
Use of new and nobler achievements For the
Russians, the Poles, Bohemians the Serbs,
and all that long roll call of oppressed,
brighter day has dawned. Out of the night
of war and desolation they will come into the
sunlight Of liberty and all it means.
Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy,
sorely strained and magnihcently steadfast will
come out of the fiery ordeal brighter, better
and grander, because they have been staunch
and without fear through it ALL Americas
share of this purging fame has been less, per-
haps, but its contribution to the victory is not
to be without its compensation I'm clarified
national life. Our duty must be palmer to US
now than ever in our history. Service and
not self for the future, and all the world will
be blessed because Americans are so devoted
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
TODAY
Right in the Spotlight.

At the head of the great campaign
to be launched in the United States
today to raise war fund of Sl70,-
100000 for use in support OF the
seven organizations engaged in well
fare work with the American expe-
dictionary forces is Raymond X.
Fosdick, chairman of the commits
sion named by President Wilson
to supervise the recreational tacil--
tiles Of the army camps and guard
the moral welfare of the enlisted
men. Mr.. Fosdick was we'll htted
by experience for the position he
now holds. In 1916 he was sent
by the secretary of war to make
study of conditions on the Mexican
border. Later he visited Canada to
study the training camps of the
dominion. He is a native OF But
falo and graduate of Princeton.
After leaving college he studied
law, and in 1908 entered the office
of the corporation counsel of New
York CITY,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
sIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR.

Chancellor James r. Day Of syria.
cuse university says: 1T is religious
10 hate the kaiser, because the Bible
teaches us to hate the devil and all
his works"
German soldiers captured in
France despise the once-coveted iron
cross. One Of them lately traded his
decoration for cigarette, and others
spoke sneeringly Of the token.
Parts Of French motors bought by
the military aeronautic division at
Washington and formerly valued at
over $10,000,000, are now obsolets
and must be sold as Junk at $26 to
$3.50 ton.
DR.. Danjo Ebina, q leading Jap.
anese Christian pastor at Toxic, pre-
diets that Buddhism will die out
when militarism and Imperialism are
abolished, and Christianity will be-
come the religion Of the Japanese.
For 20 years before the outbreak
of the gteat war the Germans i'm
ported vast quantities Of black wal
nut timber from the United States.
This timber, used for making
weapons, Is now being utilized
against American troops.
a. Three Syrians employed By the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation
recently earned $40 by nights
work in which they broke the
worlds record for riveting. averag-
Ing more than five rivets a minute.
One Of the largest Red Cross
storehouses in Paris was formerly q
storage garage. When the Red
Cross took possession of the building
recently it called upon the owners Of
cars to remove their property. Forty
per cent Of the owners had been
killed in the war.
The First Baptist church Of Bal
timore recently adopted resolutions
denouncing Germany's awful crimes
against womanhood. childhood, CIV
ilization and Christianity" and de-
handing that there shall b no
peace until Germany and her allies
have Internationally surrendered.
and until the leading criminals
have. with their lives. paid for their
fearful crimes"
A German professor says that
neither the Russian bath nor the wa
ters of Marienbad ever, produced
such effects as the war diet In Ger
man households. The change from
grossness and hugeness to bagging
trousers and overlapping waistcoats
marks the severity Of the military
regimen. The-professor does not ad.
NIT that the consequences are bad.
This year the United States will
pay $1,000, 100000 for artillery. In
modern usage, artillery stands wheel
70 wheel, first row Of three-inch
guns, behind them the six-inch and
:hen the 10 and 12-inch rifles and
1owitzers. The fire from these
pieces sweeps away the wires In
'front.' of the enemys line, smashes
the trenches and destroys machine
run nests
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
RIGHT TO THE POINT.

St Louis Democrat: No
candidate ever got as many votes as
he expected.
Kansas City Times: Germany
never knew before just how lone
some a place The world might be.
Minneapolis Tribune: American
sailors are introducing rag" dances
and jazz bands in Europe, and just
when it seemed likely the horrors
of war were coming to an end.
st. Louis Democrat: There
will be no peace except the peace Of
the sword" said Emperor William
some time since. Sword" has al
ways been pet figure Of speech
with Emperor William. He's some
thing of a prophet, too.
Philadelphia Ledger: What a
pity DR.. Dumba, the late and last
ambassador from Austria H ungary
to the United States, did not survive
long enough to ask Dr. Bryan just
what he meant when he said the
American notes about the war were
for home consumption only and
were not meant to be taken seri-
ously in Austria-Hungary!
Brooklyn Eagle: If English tailors
are to make 100000 pairs Of
trousers and 100000 army coats
under contract from the United
States, our brave boys may we'll be
resigned to the inevitable. They will
soon have garments as ill-ftting as
any Yankee millionaire ever got
out Of the same artists. That Is a
modicum of consolation.
Brooklyn Eagle: Cardinal Mer-
rier must be pleased to receive the
compliments Of I the departing
Baron wonder Lancken. We share the
indignation the cardinal feels as
This disgusting person and his Shiny
followers are forced out of the land
in which for four years they have
practiced murder and all the foul
crimes named in the penal code.
The American people will want Car
dinal MERCER to know they are glad
his fair land Is Kidding itself, with
the help of the friends Of justice and
truth, Of this foul brood. The
spirits of the murdered Belgian
priests, crying for vengeance, we
think will be heard drowning the in
sulting voice Of the hurrying Baron
Won der Lancken, one Of the slayers
of Edith Cayell
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
Struck Gas" company have struck

Struck Gas" company have struck
Omaha.
F. D. Calhoun left for Denver aft
err a pleasant visit with relatives in
Omaha.
A meeting of the socialists and
anarchists of Omaha has been called
for Metz hall at 2 o'clock today.
Councilman Alex Halter of Lin
coin, was visiting in the city.
The Omaha Charity association is
requested to meet at the Paxton
hotel to consider some change in
the constitution and to form COM
mittees.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
This Day in History.

l794-Marquis Lafayette escaped
from the prison at Olnutz.
1835-Destructive tempest on
Lake Erie, the waters at Buffalo
rising higher than was ever known
before.
1854 fire at Fredericton, N. B.,
destroyed 800 houses.
lSo3-The largest grain elevator
in the world was completed at But
falo.
l9l4-The Germans captured Dix
nude.
l9l5-Italians made another great
attack on Gorilla. =.
l9l6-Germany and Austria called
on the Poles to enlist in the army
and fight Russia as first duty OF
new kingdom
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
HERE AND THERE.

Scientific Investigations have led
to the belief that the Pacific is fully
mile deeper than any other ocean.
The army Of Monaco is the small
est possessed by any country of the
world. 1t consists of rs guards. an
equal number of carbiniers, and 20
firemen.
While there are many varieties
and great quantities Of curious fish
in the abysmal depths of the ocean,
(some have been traWled up from
depths of three miles or more), none
of these are eatable. The limit to
which fish fit for food is found is
1000 feet.
For many years a member of the
Royal Geographical society conduct
ed experiments with floating bottles,
several of which travelled 10000
miles or more before coming to
shore. The experiments showed that
on an average the bottles Travelled at
just under half a mile an hour.
The apartment at No. 10 Downing
street. where the meetings of the
British cabinet are held is a solid
and plainly furnished room, so feet
long and 20 feet wide, fitted with
double doors through which no
sound can reach the keenest listen
ing ears.
The most costly map in the world
Is a map Of France which was pre-
scented to the republic by the car of
Russia when the Franco-Russian al
lance was contaminated. The
groundwork of the map is polished
jasper and the chief towns are rep
resented by precious stones and their
names inscribed in gold. The rivers
are strips of polished platinum, and
the 81 departments are set out on
a wonderful scheme of blazing gems.
John Cartwright of Washington,
Ore, boasts that he has several
grass bearing sheep, with a luxuri-
ant growth of grass growing on their
backs and well down the sides OF
their bodies, giving them the ap-
pearance of having a pretty green
fleece. He says that grass seed from
the feed wagon lodged in the wool
and that Oregon has had q very
rainy season
The upper 400 Of New York, quar-
tered along Riverside, are seeking
some means of diverting from their
nostrls certain pungent fumes watt
ed over the Hudson from New Jer-
sey. Some mighty stixa fumes are
brewed over there, and when the
wind is in the right direction the
plutes of Riverside are obliged to
give a sneeze of recognition. No
mistake about that
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
List to Henry's Song.

Henry Clay Richmond, publicist statesman
and friend Of the people, says it is no secret
now that Gilbert NJ Hitchcock will be can
didate for the presidency in 1920 Bill Nc
Adoo," says Henry Clay, will find western
foeman worthy of his steel.' >Foeman" is good
Hitchcock has been consistent foeman of the
president on so many occasions. the exact num-
Der has been lost track of. Nebraska is not
proud of Hitchcock and Nebraska will be the
first state to swat the aspirations Of the Ne
braska senator, if Nebraska's memory doesn't
play out-Nebraska City Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
Wilson Did It.

votes met hearty RESPONSE from 1 the repub
licans, whose loyalty had been called into ques-
ton. Had it not been for President Wilson's
appeal, at a time when it was supposed that
politics had been adjourned, the result might
have been different His sentiment as ex-
pressed in his prayer for votes was as much a
political blunder as Rev. Burchard's Rum, Ro-
manism and Rebellion" in the Blaine campaign.
But mistakes will happen in the best regulated
ampaigns.-Omaha Examiner.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
A lust Rebuke.

The judgment of the voters is an honest
and just rebuke to the political machine that
has held Nebraska in its grip for the last six
or eight years. The people of Nebraska are
tired of the Observation-Disclosures -Gooch dynasty.
They want freedom in political matters just as
they want economic and industrial freedom, and
they intend to have it. The election of 1918 is
merely handwriting on the wall. What was
administered to the machine this fall is an indi-
cation of what will happen to Senator Hitchcock
City Press
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
Timely lettings and Reminders.

One thousand sixty-iourth day OF
the great war.
The week beginning today has
been set apart for the great union
war fund drive to raise. $l7O,5O0,0OO
for use in support of the organiza-
tons engaged in welfare work
among the American soldiers.
Rural credits and other important
subjects are scheduled tor consider
alton at the annual convention OF
the National Association of State
Commissioners of Agriculture
opening today in Washington, D. c.
The members of the British edu-
cationGl mission, now touring Amer.
lea, are to be the special guests of
the National Association of State
Universities as its annual conven-
ton to open today in Chicago.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
Adams Stunning Somersault.

The tide in Adams county certainly turned
this year. Two years ago Adams county went
democratic by about 800 This year the head
of the ticket goes republican by majority Of
about l,500. Are the people tired OF democratic
promises? Answer it yourself. And you re-.
publican Office holders. who have been elected
by such handsome majorities, are advised to
watch your step and to keep your ear to the
ground or the recall may get you the next time
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
In a Swedish Sh;pyard.

Oresundsvarvet, shipbuilding
yard at Landskrona, Sweden, across
the sound from Copenhagen, Is en-
larging it's plant and will be, they
claim, the largest shipyard In
Sweden. They are deepening the
harbor and building dry dock 621
feet long, costing 5000, 900, ito ac-
commodate ships of, $4,000 tons.
Four ships are now under construc-
ton,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-11
Two Horses Hitched.

Instead of swapping horses while crossing
the stream, we have taken the big. Swapping"
idle horse out of the barn and hitched it along
side the other big horse that has been struggling
under heavy load The republican horse is
hitched alongside the democratic horse. Let
the president take the reins in his hands and see
that both horses pull faithfully and sturdily.
The load will be moved easily if he lets each
horse do its share.-Nebraska City News. 80.