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The Morning Bee MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY ^KELSON B. UPDIKE, rubli.hrr. B. BREWER, Lon. J1nn.ir.-r MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The A»eh<fiat£\A Press, of teht'di Thu live i?> a member. '■* *Xilutj\clsr "‘tntitWd to tha uao for. rtpublicatiun of ail n^i dispatches rrcriit^d to i .not otherwise credittd in this paper, aud also the local nrwi rti»tH»h*,d ^herein. ATI riffhtaof repuhticaUons of oux special dispatches arc also reaarred. • BEE TELEPHONES PrivatA Branch Exchange. Ask lor the Department /\T lantic op Person Wanted. For Night Calls'After in F M. 1000 Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17 th and Far ns pi .Co, Bluffs - - - 15 Scott St. So. Side. N. W. Cor. 2 4th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bid*. Chicago - - 1720 Sieger Bldg. LET THE LAW HAVE ITS WAY. Normally, family fusses are family affairs. The public is but little concerned with them, so long as ; they are kept inside the family, and no law is/vlo lated. When a family fuss proceeds so far that one ‘ member shoots another in the buck and kills him, then it takes on a phase that can nut properly be (settled within the family. A murder-has been com mitted, and the law is interested in the prosecution and punishment of the murderer. Such a state of affairs has developed in Omaha. V. P. Chiodo, a man of substance and standing, shot and killed Frank Bonacci, his nephew. Bonacci, according to an eye witness, was running away at the time he was shot. Examination of the body shows that the bullet entered from the bayk. This ought to do away with any theory that the shot . was fired to repel an attack. The dead man evi dently was desperately seeking safety in flight when he was slain. As a reason for the shooting, the slayer sets up that the man he killed had beaten his sister, en deavoring to coerce her into a marriage she was un willing to contract. Even this does not justify the taking of life. A family affair of the sort may be settled without killing anybody. However, it is made plain that the family in question is inclined to view the whole matter as its own private con cern, one in which ih« public' has ne, interest what ever. The duty of the county attorney is clear and imperative. Regardless uf the attitude of the lam ily, and its manifest desire to keep the facts from coming out, the slayer should be brought to trial. Whatever customs may prPvai! in other lands, what ever traditions of vendetta arc held by the actors to this tragedy, they should not be permitted to, flout the Jaw. Courts iii America are open to all who have complaints to make or grievances to redress, and no man is permitted to take the law into his own hands and execute any "judgment he may pass on another. Vigorous prosecution of the Chiodo case should have the effect of impressing on all citizens that the law which protects will also punish. LET “OLD HICKORY” ALONE. A\'hat.l)as Andrew Jackson done, that his statue should be removed from Lafayette square to a less conspicuous site in the capital? We all know what he did to deserve that honor. It was not merely winning a battle from the British at New Orleans, raw troops against the picked vet erans led by Pakenham. The war was over when that battle was fought, only the participants had not been so informed. Jackson's campaign against the Seminole's brought him more military’ renowii,' but even these things are slight compared' to his other services. J.ackson was the first real president of the peo ple. He was elected in spite of the united opposi . tion of all the agencies that had previously con trolled elections. He broke the line of the "secre: tarial succession,” and killed that institution forever in the United States. He is accused of declaring that ‘‘to the victor belong the spoils,” and carrying out this policy ruthlessly. As a matter of fact, he \ anticipated Grover Cleveland’s declaration that “A public office is a public trust,”, .and not a priva" ■map, and his eviction of federal officials was justi fied by the fact that some were sent to the peniten tiary, some fled to Canada, and some made restitu tion, while the service of the government was lifted to. ft higher plane. Jackson was opposed in congress by a combina tion that makes the “irreconcilables” of today seem harmless. Clay and Calhoun, Webster and other giants of all time, fought and, intrigued against **01d Hickory,” and he overcame-{hem. Jackson Was a huge figure at a critical time in the history of the United States, stern, kindly, honest, and courageous, and it is good for us to know that the country had him then. Therefore we are inclined to approve Senator "McMillan’s protest against the removal of the statue from its place across the street from the White House. WHERp TO MEET AMERICANS. Lloyd George professes to be anxious to visit America, and says be will come this summer if politics will let him. No visitor from Europe, will be more welcome than the peppery little Welshman, who hung on to power so long by sheer dint of .courage and cleverness. ' However, he does himself an unkindness by lim iting his trip so that he will visit only four Ameri can cities, and they the largest. He Is already acquainted with our politicians, statesmen and oth ers who figure in international affairs. Therefore he will gain little but some additional publicity and probably adulation from such a visit, but very little general knowledge of the people, their problems, perplexities, aims or aspirations. A man who goes to Lofidon knows little of Eng land, as Lloyd George is well aware. He must get out into the land itself, meet the people, nnd come fn touch with the life of the country as it is exhib ited in the great industrial canters, the. agricultural communities, and learn from the sourse the things that interest Englishmen. So it is with America. New York and Chicugo are well known In the world, and Philadelphia and Boston, but they are not America, however u super ficial observer might be impressed. In fact, the turn of recent affairs shows 'that the great cities •re but a small part of America. The people in the lesser towns and of the farms are more and more directing their own destinies and the student, who ♦cants to know what America is will not find it out knless he gets to the people. Lloyd G'eorge will meet metre Amei icahs he • ought to know iu Omaha, Kansas City, L>es Moines, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Sioux Falls or Topeka, ■ than he will in either of the cities he has listed as • places for speaking. If he is coming over for any othrr purpose, than to have a good lime, he should revise'bis itinerary. WHO IS TO BE THE JUDGE? Eight thousand disloyal teachers in American j schools? That sounds mighty dangerous, and de | serves looking into. The charge is made by Mrs. George Maynard Minor, president-general of the D. i A. R., in her annual address to the society she heads. There can be no doubt as to Mrs. Minor’s loyalty, nor her sincerity. The matter will stand some preliminary examina tion, before a grand jury is called. Mrs. Minor says 1 those teachers arc inculcating ideas foreign to Amer ! ican ideals. That means a standard has been set up ( by which all utterances are to be tested for their quality of loyalty. Who has raised that standard, ' and by what was it adjusted? In I860 a great many good American citizens did 1 not measure up to the stnndard that was raised by 1 certain advocates of defined policies. Vet, when the War of the Rebellion came on, division of sentiment I on lesser points did not keep men out of the army, and Lincoln had ample support, as well as persistent ' epposition, and the union was saved. In 1898 the American people were* far from being unanimous as to the need of going to war with Spain over Cuba, yet McKinley's call for volunteers, once war had been declared, was quickly filled. In 1917, when congress passed the resolution and Mr. Wilson issued his proclamation, Americans dropped their individual views and stood shouler to shoulder, until the armi stice ended the fighting. Thus it is, in every crisis, our people are united, however they may be divided when peace time re laxes the pressure. Those who observe are astonished at times at the diversity of views they hear expressed, ranging the whole gamut from the infra-red of the submerged anarchist to the ultra-violet of the super conservative. Expression of these views has not been found especially harmful or dangerous; in fact, the chance to talk is a great national safety-valve, and reduces pressure that might end in harm. Some teachers may be sowing seed* that will bear fruit in ideas that do not square with those held by some very worthy people. Newspapers do the same, and so do preachers. Fountains of information and misinformation spring up side by side, science and pseudo-science walk so nearly alike that it takes u close and well-informed observer to tell which is which. In all matters, intellectual, spiritual or phy sical, the American citizen selects that which best meets his needs or fits his fancy, and it is not an easy matter to say him nay on any. We do not believe there are 8,QUO disloyal teach ers in America, or eight. That many may not meet Mrs. Minor’s standard, but that is no reason to con demn them wholesale. Loyalty is not always best rated by peacetime conditions among a democratic people. MINNIE hXwK AVOIDS SCANDAL. There will be no divorce in the Hawk family on the Rosebud reservation. When Minnie Hawk, wife in question, was notified that her husband was suing her for divorce, she calmly waited until he went to sleep. Then she took an ax and cut his head off. This simple proceeding did away with the neces sity for a trial, for the unfolding of any details of family life that might have been embarrassing to either husband or wife. The news item does not disclose the basis of Hawk's complaint against his squaw, but it certainly was not that she lacked spirit. Her primitive sense of justice and right i appears to have the support of courage to act with j direction along the lines she holds to be right. The incident is not without examples for com parison. White women have been known to slay their husbands, and vice vejsa. A native of Br'.tish New Guiana knocked his wife in the head with a rock, and was rattier nonplussed when sent to jail for six months for murder. The simple minded aborigine has difficulty in getting the white man's view on these matters. Mrs. Hawk’s conduct of her own ca»e will prob | ably involve her a little deeper with fh« law, yet she will be sustained along the way by her supreme conviction that she has acted in all Ways as a duti lul wife should. Her example is not commended, however, and certainly will not lie generally fol lowed. It dots not present an effective substitute lor divorce, because she chose the greater of two evils. Yet-there was a time in the history of her tribe when the husband who wanted to divorce his wife merely packed her traps, set them oqtside the tepee, and gave her a swift kick. That was before civ ilization came. The effect of the white man's laws can be noted in the advance indicated by Minnie Hawk. i ___________________ In Philadelphia a broker who drove his car through a group of people and killed three has been sentenced to prison for from six to 10 years. He will probably 1 be surprised at changes in models by the time he ■ gets around to drive another. John Bull also is facing a prospective reduction in I income lax, the result of business recovery incident to business methods in government. Europeans will soon have a target closer home than the United j States for their envious shafts. I Matches and mice have added another destroyed home to their score in Omaha. It costs less to be i careful than to be sorry afterwards, and the price of a home will provide a good many mouse traps. Churches out in Pierce county are helping to im prove the highways, while in Omaha the business of sending out sermons by radio is increasing. It is not ea.-y to tell what people want, these days. Englishmen are looking ahead to cheaper beer, hut our home brewers are undisturbed by the pros pect. Eighteen -pceders in one grist doesn't speak well for the capacity of drivers to interpret signs. Homespun Verse Hy Robert JTorthinxton Davie LIFE. • ' little toil and a little grief. A little lilis* and » littla reel. A little song when sorrows cense In a cony nook of u little nr«t. A little pain and a little cheer. A little love and u little hat'. V Illlle scorn as needs appear When a little pride cometh grcai. A little light and a littl* night, -A little tnln arid a little shine, T little peace and a little fight. And a little graclousncs* divine A rued that winds but a littla way Past in-tlng brooks, rnvines of -drib And lends us on to Ihc »tid of Its' • I To the end of a little story—Life. I fan People Tire of Liberty? ■ L'djar Howard in Columbus Telegram, j "The people uie tyed of liberty.” i So save Mussolini. Who is Mussolini? j Ho is an Italian soldier, leader of I the so-called "faselsta” movement, an ! organisation of soldiers of the late I war. He is now as much a dictator an ever was Diaz in Mexico, Cromwell in England, or Napoleon in France. He has brushed aside all other au thority in Italy. The king is now nothing more than a royal nothing. The legislative function in Italy has been reduced to n recording of the will of the dictator. Are the American people really tired of liberty? When one takes account of the do ings of our government at Washing ton In recent years—the steady inarch toward the overthrow of the rights ! and the laws of all the sovereign | stales lit the union, the centralization J of all power at Washington—it is not difficult to discover in the background the workings of an American element which really, and perhaps honestly, believes that the time has arrived for the setting up of a government which will be superior to the will of the people of the republic . However, let the distinction between the Italian and the American "fas clsta” movements be clearly under stood. In Italy the movement was started by soldiers who served in the late world war. They discovered that their government was constantly catering to the whims of a tottering royal family, or bowing to the com mands of mighty financial Interests, and so the movement was organized by the soldiers for the purpose of sav ing th<lr country. There are now two "fascista” move ments in America. Soldiers of the late war are organizing. The soldiers of Wall street are organizing. The soldier organization is new. The Wall street, organization Is not new. Lead ers of the soldier movement liolillv tell what they intend to do. The Wall street leaders have never publicly stated what they Intended to do. Their habit has been to issue secret orders. The habit of our government has been to obey such orders. How soon will the American people be compelled to make a choice be tween a dictator set up by one of these rival "fascista" movements*? That Is not a fair question. Rather the question should be: How eoon will the American peopls ■ exchange the present Wall street dic tatorship for a soldier dictatorship? Most Americans marvel that the people of Italy so tamely submit to the soldier dictatorship, forgetting that during the past six years the dictatorship of Wall street has been as certain in America ns the dictator ship of Mussolini In Italy. And there is this difference between the two sys- J terns of dictation. The Italian dicta-, tor appears to be honestly striving j for the welfare of the common people ] of his country. The American Wall street dictator strives in behalf of i the common people as a Nebraska covote strives for a chicken. God put far the day when Am»rte* must be governed permanently b.» a dictator. God bring near the day when America shall be delivered from the clutch of Its present Wall street dic tator. But if It really be true that “the. peoplq are tired of liberty.'’ and that representative government must give way to the government of a dictator, then for my part 1 am ready to make quick decision in favor of a soldier dictator as against a Wall street dic tator. The soldier dictator will have the merit of being human, and possl j bly humane. The Wall street dictator Is necessarily inhuman. Not Much, Mr, Co*. From ths Washington Poet. The last democratic presidential candidate. James M. Cor. declares that America's aloofness is responsi ble for the bad plight of the farmers. His premise and conclusion are both wild. The record shows that the farmer's plight is much unproved ] over what it was under the lust demo i ora tic administration. Mr. Co* say* that American agrl \ cultural producers tnuet det>end upon . foreign markets for the sale of stir- ' plus. Very well. If foreign nations , wish to buy American farm products j and have the price, they can do so. The implication form tills critic's ar gument la that participation by Amer ica In European affairs, a la Wilson, would have increased ths purchasing ! ---1 Daily Prayer | H* will levs thee and bisss thse.— D«u'. 1.1». Our Heavenly Father, Tbou hast been good to us. and we come to t Thee tn love and gratitude to thank Thee for the right u* of our minds, for health of body, and for opportuni ties of development and service. Help us to show our gratitude by the obedience of our live*. May we labor in'joy and trust, by Thy grace, to make this world a brighter, happier and better place for men and women to live, srid for children to play mid grow. May all fathers and mothers have a sacred sense of privilege and responsibility, and may the God of a'l grace be merciful to the multitude* of mother* and fathers, brothers and sisters, wives and little children, who suffer from the curse of strong drink. Lord, destroy that which would de stroy those for whom Christ die-1. Keep all little children, all boy* and I girls, all young men and women, un ■ arred and unstained by sin. and re member In great tenderness the aged, the lonely, the sick, the tempted, the discouraged, and those who suffer for I the sins of othsr*. May Joy ami peace and harmony and holiness alone reign ill Our heenrts. Bind tls closer to each other, and closer to Thao. Help i us to be happy, and useful, and good. | These things, with the forgiveness of *tn and the baptism of the Holy Kplrlt. we n*k in tlie Nemo of the Blessed Chrlttf, Who loved us and gave Hlmselr for u». We can ask nothing more; we dare ask nothing [ less. Amen. pnor ciixm bs roa\-!,ok. a \i . PI I Ip burgh. P*. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION far MARCH. 1923. of THE OMAHA BEE ! Daily.73,997 Sunday.80,029 Poor wat triaMa r*<urn*, Wh i avara, umptfi «r papar* a poll ad tn printing and includ*a no ap*«Ul aglaa. B. BREWER. Gan. Mgr. V. A. BRIOCE. Cir. M«r. SoheeriM and awnrn tn baf.ra P't Ihia 34 4ay of April. IB2.T W H. OUIVf?Y, iMmIi Nalary rubl e , I 1 * We Nominate— Fur ISebraxka's Hall of Fame. _ Alice It iu liter Edmlston. A LICE RIOHTER EDMLSTON of sA Lincoln is one of the group of * •*" puinters In that city who have exhibited as the Lincoln Art Guild now for several years. Mrs. Edmls tuns education in art was at the Art Institute of Chicago, as a mem« her of the Art Students’ League in New York, and In Parts studios. She has exhibited in Omaha. Lincoln. St. Paul and other cities, and has rev ived honorable mention in the field of landscape. Mrs. Edmlston has de veloped a highly original technique, on the whole more allied to the French impressionists than to any other school of painting, giving to her pic tures a vivid carrying power and a vibrancy of atmosphere admirably suited to that depiction of Nebraska sunlight on foliage and grain fields in which she. has achieved many suc cesses. In company with other Lin coln artists. Mrs. Edmlston is plan ning a painter’s vacation in New Mex ico during the later springtime. ability of the nations "over there.” Therefore, It Is a fair Inference that, to Mr. Cox. participation means the financing of European nations. If America would advance funds and ex tend credit to Europe it might buy the products of American farms—so runs the Implied argument. The farmers to which this sophis try is addressed must realize that a substantial part of the burden result ing for such advance of funds or ex tension of credit would fall on them selves. Ho the proposition simmers down to this—that the United States shall take over Europe's burdens In addition to its own. Not much. Mr. Cox! More IJglit on the Pullman Monopoly. From the York World. Pullman parlor and sleeping car charges are now to be investigated by tho Interstate commerce commis sion. and it is high time that Oiey were. The Pullman company was allowed a 2<» per cent increase of rates In 152f-. which it says 1* the only Increase It has received in 50 years. It then pro j eeede-1 additionally to impose a sur charge of 50 per eery on ha patrons, which -went to the hauling railroads and not to the Pullman company. It is this great aurcharge. apparently’, which Is to come under particular scrutiny. Pees the surcharge of half the regu. l.ir Pullman charges all go to the railroads!’ Is it in full substitution for the old haulage charge, and what wa* tbnt charge? 1» it the fact. In other words, that the Pullman com P»ny Is making its i^itror.s juiy the haulage charge instead of taking It out of Its own revenues us formerly, and what would this amount to as an additional and concealed per centum Increase In rates to itself? Retween the high carrier charges and three Pullman surcharges the traveling puhlfc- Is being squeezed Into steadily diminishing numbers. It would like io he enlightened about the reasonableness of It all. Perhaps tb« hauling railroads would like to hove the matter sited a little by the public authority. Most of them can not remember the time when they w ere not more or less helpless in the grip of the Pullman monopoly, anti that grip seems to be tighter today than ever. Prairie Gems I An Omaha woman who boasts of having made a fortune the past three years selling Intoxicating liquor. Is referred to as the "bootleg queen." That la one kind of a title.—Sheltou 1 Clipper. _ A good slogan for a lot. of motor ists: ' He who kills and *i>eedr sway, m.iv live to kill another day."— 1 Grand Island Independent. If mother would lock herself in a room and refuse to wait on them, how Iona would It take the rest of the family to get ready for church? —Han aid Courier. ■ — Looks Uke we wire drifting back to lissom- lavs. I very now gnd then you chance to meet a man w ith a red nose—Shelton Clipper. The new (100 hills have a -piondld liken*as of Beniamin Franklin en graved upon them. Have you no ticed It? Fish one out of your vest pocket and lake a good look at It.— Hastings Tribune. One reneon this legislature has the reputation of tieing « do-nothing bunch •s because so much w is expected that is Impossible of performance.—Har vard Courier. T* I* ml that there arc now (4 i water power plants on the Blue mak ing electricity, Nearly all ara oper ated by prlvutp capital—Hamilton County Register. : “The People s Voice” Iidilftruli from roadofv of Tho Moraiiif Beo. F.ttM'.rt ol Tbt or hi no Boo aro lavitea to u» thl* rolMotn Oroofy tor #»pfoooloa •» nioKrro of puMlu later* it. - wi»r Not? I W aterloo. Ia.—To the Editor of The i Omaha Bee: The day irai hot and i dusty, the traveler wesu-y and penni ! less, the steed tired and hungry, but (the environment selfish and grasping, j What is to be done? No food, to* money, no opportunity. His thoughts 'turned unto himself: and as he dream*, the large lettered guide poet ays. “help yourself." He Btops to . ihink. What! Tbis is not Europe; ind, if 1 remember rightly, it is not America. Where am l? | Unconsciously our traveler had ■ reached the realms where w isdora : dwells and he landed where all think ieis get off God in His wisdom lias I endow ed His people with attributes Which fits'them to accomplish well land naturally those tasks which the world wlshet settled, but man, in his lack of wisdom, has failed to utilize the bounties with which God ha* blessed him. Divine wisdom says: Seek ye firs' the kingdom of God. and all things will be added unto you; but humans have reversed the process, and several times in human history have lost all but hope. "With all thy getting, get understanding," now reads, with all thy getting get the job with the mun. Just like erring man Always have been that way. but we have reason to hope that he will not always stay so stupid. Joseph saved his people by provid ing for them their material wants, but the tremendous toll exacted and hoarded in the vaults of the ruler re duced them all to slavery. Christ cams into this world to save the peo ple by administering to their spiritual need*, and through that the physical, but the process was go invisible that for centuries nothing survived but superstitious hope. Today we are confronted wit the task of providing for the material needs of society with out the hoarding, slave making rae tors of old, as well as completely re moving the superstition* and Iiaselj suggestive l»y systematizing and cor relating our beliefs into incontradic tory units. During the war science made tremendous strides, l*»cause the gov ernment wisely called Into confer ence the masters In this field; but j since the armistice no provision has been made to draft into conference I for beneficent purposes the genius of : America. Why? The system pre cludes it. During the year 1320 Secretary | Hoover assembled the stalwarts of 1 America in Washington to find ! means for eliminating unemployment, and now. after m-uriy two years, they 1 propose a control of banks, of manu factures, of business and of labor as a cure? Why this control? We know I how to accomplish the task without | any control and by using to the full j and fill the credit and labor power of - the country. i Today our national congress is try 1 lng to appease the farmer with credit legislation, but of the prominent pro- I greasires asserts: “Little i« to be expected until the market for farm i produce is found." Why look for these things? We know how to get | the markets, we know bow to handle ' the credit, ve know how to intensify • every factor and maintain an equa ble status. To say that we don’t -j know Is to throw the knowledge to the winds and invite the rein of ignor- I ance. For years ere ha ve been regulating big business, ‘preventing their mer gers and forcing them to useless procedure and expense. Why? Be cause we d!d not heed thee Divine In junction, “Help yourseelf," because 1 our statesmen applied statesmanship at the v rong piece. TVs knew how to handle the position naturally, nor mally and effectually without fuss or fume. Why don’t we do it? The rfforts of our statesmen in cop ing with tax problem* have proven their lack of wisdom in forcing a ' solution. Why so much thought about a really innocent matter? We know how to handle the problem with the greatest case and certainty of *uc- 1 ces- Why don't our statesmen apply i tlx- wisdom now available? The socialist and bolshevi«t r.t.im a solution, but if London s speech m ] congress or the procedure in Rum* 4 | are guide posts, considerable amend ment of their philosophy |y needed All financial, labor, railroad, mine, tax and tariff problems find a ready j solution tn the interlocking f-ystem of ■ group production as explained under the notrlp plan. Can’t we have this plan presented through the papers? If there Is a solution out, what is the use of looking for one? Trot It out; let’s examine It. L. E EICKELBERG. Adjusted Compensation. Omaha. Neb. — To the Hditor of The Omaha Hoc: President Har ding Is to be a candidate for a second term in the While House, it la announced. However, there arc several million world war veteran*— they are voters — who will want to have • ertiun questions answered ty the ptgwident or his spokesmen be fore : h* time comes to mark the bal lots for our next executive. One of theae questions is: How does President Harding stand ou adjusted compensa tion? It shouldn't be necessary to n R the question. for In the course of a cam paign speech at Cincinnati three day a before hie election in 18:o, President I Hnriijng flatly declared himself In favor of such legislation. Hut the official acts of the president haven't always Jitved with his pronouncements while he was searching for voles. Not hr a single act alnce he took office I could anyone er*r suspect that the j pr< -ident is friendly to adjusted com- | pecsa(Ion He may have said some thing at some ttm# or other that I might be Interpreted In a friendly light. Put ho ha* never done any thing In its behalf. On the other hand, the veteians j hate not by any me*ns forgotten what ha« been written on the other i side of the ledger by the president. ' Klehteen months ago. in requesting | “Home Owners” W e want the loan on your home. Take advantage of our 6% Interest and Easy Terms | The Volntead Huxtle. EnS R.KjHT |bW>>UPV<iIG L i (►Tj&fXmG 6TVLt' f wtiL. i may look \ lYt A CAMtt. But me for. /. The Oasis J From tb# Wa*h:n*t®n Star tile senate to delay action on tin id jueted compensation bill, lie s i id "Would It not lie better to await the settlement of our fot eign (loans? At such a time it would 1/e a bestowal on th«- part of nus government when it is able to bestow’.” Now comes the agreement reached between Great Britain and the United States on the former's Indebtedness nt some $5.yf',tW0,000. The agreem nt assures annua! interest and principal payments to this country in ej/. es jof the annual odst of the adjusied ’•ompensatlon bill. But the preside;.t i let it be known that he does not favor the proposal that such payments — averaging $175,000,000 annually—be pledged to the payment of adjusted compensation, lie is reported to 1 v* stated that the money r»/ « ived from Great Britain must be used to retire the govereument s Internal debt and that its use, to pay adjusted compen sation would have a bad effect on the British government. But if the principle of adjusted com pensation is sound, as both branches of congress already have declared by offleja! vote and as the president hint self admitted while seeking vote* in his campaign for office, itg payment must perfor-» be rev irded as an in ternal obligation. Then why should it not be paid? And is the alleged "had effect on tne British govern ment ‘ to lie given greater considera tion than the effect cf the r»pu’ t. lion of the government obligation to its soldiers? Last September the j r* sident v*1 -d the adjusted compensation till that had passed the house and senate by overwhelming majorities. One reason i he advanced for his veto was an esti mated deficit of *i;5 ."ttO.oOh in the national budget for the fiscal year. In a r> cent eddre.-k to the head* of government departments he stated '.hat tl apparer ' deficit at the end of the t.- ,1 yi i- would b ‘ I#J,900,(KX1, ■ and lie upr- d the^iope that even this defii'i! w. j 1.* bw'wiped out before j the close of the y ar. The pr idem may be perfectly sin ' cere in his attitude toward adjusted compensation. Put J he is, his path i of reasoning is tviti acid by but offi cial commitment- too labyrinthian for the average citizen to follow. I t' pectuliy suggest that the president, or his spokesmen -~t up n few friend ly signs to maik h-s path. If be is against the payment of aujusted com pensation, let it be known by official statement to 'hat effect. If he is for it. let his ejjcutive acts bear'out his • <-rds Tit* ith-f 1;..« a right to know. JAMES MILOTA. I’resnleBts. Hitting his first term every Ameri can pre-ident is an anomaly—he is at chief executive and also I. potential candidate who feels that he mu>- modify hla conduct more or less to fit his aspirations for re jection. Presidents, though merely human, should be pres.dents and noth ,ng else.—Chicago News. No "Russian Question." , Why do writers still use the term "the Russian question''’ There isn't r lestion about Russia any more titan there is about the alums of a city. Everyone knows that it is the world slum.—Alhany Journal. A Pleasant Dining Room Divertisment Hotel Pontenelle Bestyette Quintette The Main Restaurant Every Noon during Luncheon. Every Evening for Dinner. After Dinner on the Mezzanine. Our 73e de luxe luncheon served from 12 to 2:30 and our weekday $1.50 table d'hote dinner served from 6 to S:30 combine economy with quality and are, indeed, dining at its best. 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