Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-21

Inquirer-Alfred p. Won Tirpitz,
former grand admiral of the German
navy, is just over three score and
ten. He is the reputed father of a
navy. Is just over three score and
ruthless submarine warfare. No
former anniversary within Tirpitz's
memory bears the slightest resem-
blsnce to his environment today. Ex-
cepting the kaiser himself, none of
the Germanic idols of. yesterday has
fallen further from place and power.
Even before the war the admiral
welded tremendous power as father
Of the navy league, said to have had
100000 members, and his unwav-
ering enthusiasm for Der Tag" kept
him within whispering distance of
the good ear of the all highest Born
commoner he is back in his class,
shorn of power for good or evil, a
buffer who did not make good,
penniless and an exile.
Methodist-Dr. John w. Hamil-
ton. chancellor Of the American
Methodist university at Washington,
d. c.. is a native of Virginia, rs
years of age, and one. of the best
known educators of the denomina-
llOIl al lliC olllICu oldtCS. n 81 oou-
ate Of Boston university, he founded
the Peoples church in Boston in
1875 and served as it's pastor for 10
years, later filling many Methodist
pulpits in the New England states
and winning promotion to bish-
opric. During his active career as a
bishop he organized missions in
Alaska and Hawaii and served as
delegate to several church confer
enceS abroad.
The dean of southern brigadiers. if
not the last of his class, passed off
the worlds stage in the death in New
York of General Roger Atkinson
Pryor at the age of 90. His activities
antedated the civil war, chiefly as
editor of the fiery Richmond En-
quirer and as congressman. In those
tense antebellum days his alterca-
ton with Lovejoy of Illinois on the
floor of the house in April, 1860,
drew the spotlight and made clear
the shadows of approaching strife.
Oratorically and temperamentally
Pryor was the human spark plug
which precipitated the attack on
Sumter and settled the course of
Virginia as a secession state. In the
thick of the war he resigned as a
confederate officer rather than
brook interference by President
Davis, fought in the ranks and was
captured at Petersburg. President
Lincoln saved him from would-be
executioners. HE was the first con-
federate general to come to New
York to mend his broken fortune"
says the World. And so finely were
the war wounds of the spirit healed
that he became justice OF the SUI
voices once were raised demanding
that he be hanged"
The name of Gen. Hans Won Win
terfeldt no longer appears in the lists
of German representatives who are
brought together periodically to re-
ceive instructions from Marshal |
Foch. For a short time during the |
original armistice conference he was
quite conspicuous, not to say chesty, |
but suffered a sudden eclipse and |
vanished in the subsequent gloom. |
What happened was this: Prior to
the war Winterfeldt was German |
attache at Paris. While at
tending the grand maneuvers Of the |
French army in the south Of France |
an accident to his car fractured his |
thigh and caused other serious in
juries which nearly cost him his life.
after long struggle, the
generous French government made
him an officer of the Legion Of
Honor. When the war came in 1914
sought refuge in Spain
rather than risk the journey to Ber-
lin, and became the Boyd Of the
spies and plotters in that country.
Marshal Foch spotted Winterfeldt
when he appeared with the
German emissaries to receive the
armistice terms. On his breast were
the legion's cross and red ribbon. "A
sharp command from the marshal to
remove the cross at once ended Win
terfeldt's usefulness on that oc-
casion and put him in the also-ran
class.