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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-02-28
Wasted Sales Talk.

A young man in charge of a
newly plotted realty tract, upon
which the only building was the
office of the company, upon see
ing the first person to enter the
door, hastily took down the tele-
phone receiver and commenced:
Yes, sir, think we can agree
on those terms.
Thirty let's in one parcel and
twenty in another. Yes, sir, the
price is satisfactory $50, 600 at
the transfer and the remainder
in sixty days. Did you say
could meet you in the morning
at nine o'clock and receive your
check for $4,000 as the initial
payment? Very well sir"
Hanging up the receiver the
busy person turned to the mar
who had entered the Office,
rs there anything | can Dc
for you, sirW
Nav, not a thing" returned
the visitor. Il have just come
to connect up your telephone
that's all. "-Keystone.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
Taking Care Of Industry.

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The administration Is preparing to deal with
two phases Of the really important problem OF
placing industry on war footing. Firms and
corporations engaged in nonessential lines are
threatened with bankruptcy by reason OF en-
forced cessation Of activity, and those that are
being transferred to the essential group are suf-
fering from the temporary interruption. For the
latter class Chairman Baruch Of the War Indus
tries board proposes recourse to the half-billion
fund established by congress to aid in such cases.
These can be tided over any passing embarrass-
ment BY this means, but the group whose opera.
lions will be entirely shut down must have more
permanent form Of relief. Chairman Harding OF
the Federal Reserve board is giving this his at
tention and will have some recommendations to
make on the point soon. It is said that exten-
sion Of credit in form OF rediscounts has been
suggested as measure Of relief for institutions
that might otherwise be forced into disastrous
liquidation. Exigency of the war situation il
forcing such extensive readjustment OF business
that only through the utmost care can serious
trouble be averted. Obligation in this regard
rests quite as heavily on the citizens as on the
government and prudent cooperation must be
established to prevent permanent injury to the
country's home interests
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
OUR LOANS TO OUR ALLIES.

As everyone knows, large part Of the money
raised through the sale of the Liberty bonds has
been used for loans to our allies. If we are fight
ing our battles shoulder to shoulder with our war
partners for the same object and for the same
stake, we are under obligations to extend them
the utmost financial help as we'll as men, muni-
tons and supplies. The very fact that our allies
bore the brunt of the onslaught for more than
three years before we took hand and in that
time depleted their resources for our benefit as
much as their own makes this obligation all the
stronger.
Yet, we must not delude ourselves with the
notion that we are being called on to carry more
than our part Of the financial load or that Great
Britain which alone OF our allies is in position to
share this burden, is not likewise coming hand
somely across. We quote reference in the Lon
don Times to a recent statement officially made
by member of the British cabinet, which should
open our eyes to what Great Britain has done
in this direction: .+
Meanwhile the most interesting financial dis
closure made by Mr.. Bonar Law was his an
nouncement OF the details of the loans made
by us during the war to our several Allies
Hitherto il had been considered contrary to the
puDlfC interest," 10 say now HiuGH We Hdu iciit "
each other, but it is felt that this reticence
is no longer necessary. The public now learns.
therefore, that OF the l.402 millions (of pounds
sterng) lent by US to the Allies up to the end
of July-and owing to the help now given by
the United States this is f22,700000 less than
was estimated in the last Budget-Russia has
had 568 millions. France 402 millions, and Italy
3l3 millions, while the remaining llo millions
has gone to the smaller states. including Bel
GUM, Serbia, Greece and Roumania.
The Times goes on to declare its agreement
with Bonar Law in his avowal that no qualms
have ever been felt in that country about these
advances and adds:
We may sometimes discuss among ourselves
how far part of these loans may be recover
able" but that does not alter the fact that we
have made them in the consciousness OF our
own wealth, and with an unselfsh determina-
ton to put it and all our national strength in
to the common service against the common
enemy. That we have done this in complete
unseIfshness is we fell sure, we'll recognized
by our Allies.
That we are confident we'll expresses the
sentiment also back OF the money which we in
the United States have advanced to the other
countries engaged with US in the world conflict
against the Hun. 1t is only question of best
subserving the common purpose and most quick.
ly achieving the universally desired end. The very
knowledge that the hard hit countries can draw
upon. the mitless resources of Great Britain and
America will be one OF the powerful factors fore
ing the German people finally to realize and
admit the hopelessness of the kaisers ambition
to chain the world to the chariot OF "kultur."
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
Around the Cities

Goshen, Ind, proudly boasts of q
father, aged 81, who followed his son
into the army. William A. Brooks Is
his name. The son is In France and
dad Is headed In that direction, via
Jefferson barracks.
Minneapolis is mighty sore about
the restrictions on burning up gaso-
line on Sundays. While the major
portion of the city lies west of the d.
viding line enough fringes the eastern
emption impractical. Besides. the
by sticking close to st. Paul, at least
on Sabbath days.
Buffalo voters, $4,000 to 1000, re-
jected an ordinance authorizing Scent
fares on street railways. Referen-
dums on that issue work that way,
Traction people are more successful
with state commissions. Boston and
Pittsburgh have 7-cent fares, Mis-
souri, cities are on scent basis, and
several Massachusetts cities, by mu.
tual agreement, conceded Scent fares
for the duration Of the war.
Unbusinesslike accounting of the bus.
| mess affairs of the city Of Minneapoli.
| is sharply critized by the state public
examiner. after an extended examin
| alton. Defects consist of overlapping
| accounts, lack of inventories of cit.
| property, and the eagerness OF cit!
officials to spend more money thar
the taxes produce. The city comptrol
Ter admits the charge and offers as ,
| remedy the removal from Office of al
| official who makes expenditures II
excess of annual appropriations"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
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"Why Haze We No Friends?"
The Eternal Question Fronting the Pariah of Nations
Philadelphia Public Ledger,

! ter of even miltarism at its maddest They
no more believed that Germany or France
would strike treacherous, deadly blow at
Belgium than that a foot ball player would
begin the game by stabbing a spectator.
When the cowardly thing was done they
gasped, incredulous-and then took another
long, accusing, Mortified look at this land of
Goethe, Schiller and Wagner.
But this assassination of nation was
only the beginning. Horrors followed thick
and fast. Where were the chivalry, the high
courage, the knightliness of war? The Ger
mans were fighting like brute beasts. 1t
would be idle to go over the sckening cata-
logue again; but Of this Germany may be
sure when it asks, as defeat darkens the hori
zon, why it has mo friends"-every muir
dered civilian, every shamed woman, every
manned child, every desecrated and de-
stroyed home strewn along that first terrible
march through Belgium and France has been
long since resurrected as a regiment Of
avengers whose massed armies will one day
compel Germany to pay to the uttermost.
Third-Gradually the German purpose
emerged from the smoke of battle so menac-
ing and monstrous that none could mistake
it. Germany meant to master mankind. The
German ambition was to establish German
| fear of force. 1t has no friends now because
| it proposed to know no friends in the day of
its triumph. Its soldiers sang Deutschland
ueber Allies" as they smashed their way
across two of the finest industrial districts
| in Europe. And that was its preconceived,
imperial policy-Germany over ALL
These are probably the three chief vision
clearing shocks to the universal human con-
sciousness which has made every people
free to choose its course-align itself with
the original entente allies whose heroism
averted the greatest disaster Of civilized
times. We think instinctively OF many other
German acts than those mentioned, but
they all fall into one or other category. The
atrocities have been unnumbered, unceasing
and often unmentionable-th Lusitania, the
hospital ships, the torture of prisoners, the
maiden tribute of Lille-but they all merely
60 to show how Germany makes war. Brest.
Litovsk shows how it makes peace, with the
insane purpose of world domination always
in mind Germany has challenged mankint
to hght-to-a-hnish to settle who shall bs
: master-the German race or "the common
sense of most" On such battle-ground
!, where could Germany expect to find friends
/ except in the kingdom of that other arch
/ enemy of the human race whom the kaise
y blasphemously defines as "our good Germa,
+ Eodf"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
Quaat BITS OF Lite

The United States senate meets on
an average Of less than 200 days in
year and 1t costs about $4,000 for
each meeting day.
Canadians are discussing the ques-
ton of having aliens now in intern
ment camps in Canada employed on
the highways Of Canada.
Miss Jessie McGrath Of Chicago,
carried $1,962 in bills sewed in the
lining Of her clothing, 1t was develop
ed when she was sent to the hospital.
Six thousand five hundred and thir-
teen women are holding 81 different
classes of Jobs on the Pennsylvania
railroad lines east Of Pittsburgh.
AS q consequence, 1t is charged. OF
wilful misstatement of ages, the num-
ber of women in the British census
groups, aged 20 to rs, and Is to 80
Is disproportionately high.
DR.. Isabella Gray of st. Louis. Ill.
Is said to be the first woman admitted
to the United States army service with
rank of lieutenant. She has been as
signed as an anesthetist at base hos.
pital.
For the first time in their lives
refugee children sheltered in the Lux
emburg asylum in the Toul sector II
France are being taught to brush ant
care for their teeth by American Rec
Cross nurses. ,..t t.a...y
Joel Moses. named for state eHgi
neer on the socialist ticket In New
York state, explained that he coult
not take the nomination, as he wa
not an engineer, but a tailor. Th'
convention said that wouldn't maxi
any difference.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
Over There and Here

Lord Lansdowne, the British pa
cifist, is now trying to put through
Parliament bill to legalize lotteries
promoted by war charities.
Oh, we'll, II mems clothes go up
few more notches over here q suff1-
cient margin will be left open for
condoling with the Viennese. A pre-
sentable suit for a man costs from
$500 to $500 in Vienna.
A soldier at Camp Dix, belonging to
a sect forbidding marriage, won a 10
year penitentiary sentence for max
ing an allotment to spirit wife,"
The latter returned the money and
gave the soldiers game away.
New British regulations forbid
aliens of German and Austrian
descent from Disgusting themselves
with new names. All name changes
made since August. 1914, are declared
unlawful. Hereafter changes cannot
be made without royal license.
I. P. O'Connor. NJ. p, reports that
over 900 of his Liverpool constituents
have perished on the battlefieids Of
the war. Other divisions Of the king
dom have made proportionate sacri-
fees. Never before have Britons
made greater life offerings for the lib
critics of their posterity.
Private Harry L. Mcfarland Of
Fallston, Pa, in a letter to his father
tells Of finding his brother dead on
the battlefield of France and Of aid
ing his burial, and adds this soldierly
postscript: Now, Dad, do not worry
too much. He died game. He still
held his rifle in his hand and there
We're seven dead Huns in front OF
! him.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
Views, Reviews and Interviews
Incidental Remarks Suggested By Personalities Figuring
an Current News
IN Current NeWs

1t is gratifying to the friends of Capt. {.
E. Adams, as it must be to him, to have
him bring back again to Nebraska the high
est honor within the gift of the G. A. R.
The position Of national commander. To be
head of this great organization, the remnant
of the finest fighting force the world has
ever seen, up the time of its disbandment,
Is the privilege of few, even though the term
is only one year and rotation is quickened
bv the rule against reflections. Captain
Adams has been an indefatigable worker in
the ranks of the G. A. r. My acquaintance
with him dates back more than Is years,
when he successfully planned and carried
through the Kansas-Nebraska Interstate
G. A. R. reunion that put the town of Su-
perior on the map
In response to insistent demand that
The Bee send member OF its home office
staff to cover the meeting, as the only foot
loose reporter. | was delegated to go to
Superior, where | was received and treated
as special guest. The reunion proved to
be quite up to prospectus and had such an
enjoyable time that welcomed the chance
to repeat the assignment the following sum-
mer. ! do not believe have attended many
G. A. R. gatherings since, but it would be
a safe wager that few, if any, have been
pulled off in. this state that Captain Adams
has missed.
Another incident in my personal relations
with Captain Adams, which have always been
cordial and pleasant, goes back to the famous
1894 republican state convention. That con-
vention made history by sponsoring the
nomination of Tom Majors for governor,
bolted by my father and The Bee with the
result that the election went to Judge Hol-
comb, Nebraska's first populist governor.
have no present desire to review the why's
and wherefores of those proceedings, ex-
cept to recall that Captain Adams was the
chairman to whom delivered the letter my
father had written explaining why he could
not support the nominee and rendering his
resignation as member of the republican
national committee in order to be wholly in
dependent in the course of action he had
decided upon. By advice of the floor leaders,
whom he hastily consulted, the chairman
pocketed the missive without disclosing its
contents to the delegates. who remained in
ignorance of what had happened until the
newsboys came rushing into the building
with copies of The Bee containing the full
text of the document, and the sensation il
created forced another hasty conference that
reversed the previous decision and instructed
the chairman to present the letter to the
convention for its action.
The death Of Senator Ollie James leaves
big hole in the leadership Of the demo
cratic party. Ollie James used to be adver-
tised as "the baby giant from Kentucky
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
The Empire of Siberia

About 80 per cent Of the population
of Siberia Is OF Russian origin
Nine-tenths of the inhabitants Of
western Siberia are engaged in agri-
culture.
The entire population Of Siberia is
estimated at little more than 7,O09,-
900.
The Siberian winters are long and
exceedingly severe, the summers short
and hot
Siberia has long been the greatest
source Of supply Of the fur trade OF
the world.
While Siberia has many schools 1t
has but one university, which is 10
Gated at Tomsk.
Siberia has an area more than one
and one-half times as great as that OF
the United States.
vladivostok, the great Siberian port
on the Pacific, was founded by Rus
sia in the year 1850.
Siberia contains rich deposits of
graphite, used chiefly in the manu-
facture Of lead pencils
Virtually all of the crops common
to the temperate zone can be pro-
duced in abundance in the vast agrt-
cultural regions of southern Siberia.
The Trans-Siberian railway repre-
sents the greatest railway undertake
ing in the world. 1t cost nearly sl75,-
100000 and took II years to build.
The city of Tomsk is the largest
manufacturing center Of Siberia, hay
ing -four mills. potteries, iron
foundries. sugar refineries, and a
variety of other factories.
Peter the Great began to send pris-
oners to Siberia In 1710. The system
was continued for 200 years, until
abolished In 1910, except In the case
Of political offenders.
Irkutsk, the seat Of the administra-
ton Of government in Siberia, is a
city of more than 1875, 900 inhabitants,
and contains many handsome build
ings and modern improvements.
OF recent years thousands of Rus
sian peasants have settled in Siberia
to carry on agriculture, and nearly all
the fertile soil free Of forest and out
side the steppes has been occupied.
One Of the principal Siberian cities
Is Tobolsk, the commercial center of
the vast province Of Tobolsk, which
extends over an area Of 100000 square
miles, a large portion Of which, how
ever, Is practically uninhabited. The
most prominent building in the city
is the Kremlin, built in imitation OF
the great citadel in Moscow. This
structure was erected by Swedish
prisoners of war captured by Peter
the Great at the battle of Poltava in
1909.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
MILLIONS PRAYER.

am old and blind! d"
Men point at me as smitten by Gods frown-- :
Afflicted and deserted of my mind
Yet am not cast down.
! murmur not that no longer see;
am weak, yet dying.
Poor. old and helpless. the more belong.
Father Supreme, to Thee.
o mercful One!
When men are farthest then Thou art most
near; :
When friends pass coldiy by. my weakness
shun. q
Thy chariot hear.
Thy glorious face
/. leaning towards me. and its holy light
Shines in upon my holy dwelling place, j..
And there Is no more night. .
On my bended knee
My vision Thou hast dmmed that may 80
Thyself-ThyseH alone. I
have naught to fear:
This darkness is the shadow Of Thy wing
Beneath 1t am almost sacred, here
Can come no evil thing.
oh! ! seem to stand
Trembling, where foot of mortal never ~
has been,
Wrapped In the radiance Of Thy sinless hand
Which eye hath never seen. --.,
Visions come and 60:
Shapes Of resplendent beauty around ma
throng:
From angels lips I seem to hear the flow
OF soft and holy song.
It is nothing now,
When Heaven Is opening on my sightissa
eyes,
When airs from Paradise refresh my brow,
That earth In darkness lies.
In pure cline
My being fills with rapture; waves Of thought
Roll in upon my spirit: waves sublime
Break over me unsought.
-
Give me now my Tyre! ...*
I feel the stirring Of q gift divine
Within my bosom glows unearthly fire,
Lit by no skill Of mine.
ELIZABETH LLOYD HOWELL
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
TQ[1AY,-
One Year Ago Today In the War

ODc 1eaF hkO AVuny hf hic "oAs
Four German mine sweepers sunk
BY British destroyers.
French struck blow on Aisne front.
taking mile of trenches and holding
gains against counter attacks.
General Pershing moved his head
quarters from Paris to the region
turned over by the French govern
lnent for training American soldiers
The Day We Celebrate.
william e. Palmatier. manager
prominent Loan society, born 1863.
Alfred C. Kennedy, real estate man,
born 1899.
Rear Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN,
paymaster general OF the United
States navy, born at Laurens, s. c.,
As years ago.
George w. Anderson, member OF
the Interstate Commerce commission,
born at Acworth. N. H. 81 years ago
Henri Bourassi, leader of the
French nationalist party In Canada,
born In Montreal, SO years ago.
James j. Corbett, former champion
heavyweight pugilist Of the world
born In San Francisco. So years ago
This Day In History.
Is5I--Gen. Narcisco Lopez. the dar-
ing filibuster, who attempted to wresi
Cuba from the Spaniards, died in
Havana Born In Venezuela in 1893
1S64--General Hood evacuated AT.
T lanta. after blowing up his militar,
WORKS and destroying his stores.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
''WhY have we no friends?"

"Why have we no friends?"
This, on the testimony of an American
lady just returned from Germany, is "the
eternal question" ever and everywhere hearc
in that mighty empire, once all-conquerne
and confident, now depressed by defeat
doomed and damned.
Even a bespectacled German cannot es
cape this stunning truth. His beloved Faith
erland is utterly without friends. No matter
which way he looks, he sees unwilling satel.
lites, shivering "neutrals" who hate and fear
him. and open enemies that cover the earth
We sometimes laugh at our long list of allies
against Germany. But the German does not
laugh. 1t means that the condemnation
the contempt, the distrust, the disdain of the
entire world have avalanched upon his head
The great case on trial before the grim court
OF last resort might be fairly listed as "Ho.
henzollern against Humanity"
But why has Germany no friends? When
one comes to look at it, it is extraordinary
that the great duel for which the world long
waited between the triple alliance and the
| triple entente should have found the rest oil
the nations all on one side. Public opinion
is not usually so unanimous in any war. But
in this war even one member of the triple
alliance went over to the triple entente. The
two Teutonic empires stand absolutely alone
with only Turkey, which they bought, "bam'
boozled" and bullied and Bulgaria, which
rose from hospital cot in search of revenge
| What are the reasons for this shameful iso'
| lation?
First--It was Germany that lifted the lie
off hell. The decent. civilized, humane sec
tions OF the human race have never yet re
covered from the shock of waking up one
morning out OF their dreams of millennia
dawn to find that great nation, nominally
civilized and Christian, had actually opened
the wild beasts cage and let the carnivori
OF war loose upon the complacently peaceful
world OF this twentieth century. Why, WI
all thought before August, 1914, that wa
between advanced industrial nations wa
impossible" Germany committed the crim'
of Staying our settled belief in human prog
resin the triumph OF the good-and setting
up once more the butchers code that th
blood of battles must baptize whatever lead
ership mankind would follow.
Second-Germany again shocked man
kind by its methods OF making war. Its hug
armies began by riding down an innocen
nation that stood in their path. Militar
writer's had talked of swinging into Franc
by way of Belgium for years, but the vas
mass of law-respecting, treaty-regarding me
and women had simply never regarded it a
possible. They thought immeasurably b.