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The Morning Bee M O R N I N G—E VENIN G—S UNDAY THE HKK »»l IH.lNfflM, CO.. Pnhlliher, MEMBER OF "THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, fa exclusively entitled to the use for republieation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department lantle or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M.: 1 OOO Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or AT. 1042. OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Council Bluffs—15 Scott St. S. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N. New York—World Bldg. Detroit—Ford Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. Kansas City—-Bryant Bldg. St. Louis—Syndi. Trust Bldg. Angeles—Higgins Bldg. San Francisco—Hoilrook Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Truat Bids WHO WILL PAY THE FREIGHT? President Coolidge is busy on the most important assignment he has yet filled. His first address to the congress on the state of the Union will really be the acid test of his popularity; it may make or break him as a presidential candidate. He knows this, as well as anybody, and it therefore is reasonable to expect from him a document that will be note worthy. Internal affairs properly should get the most care ful consideration, as on the handling of the problems involved depends the prosperity, happiness and wel fare of the whole people. First of these of course will be the transportrU:on problem. It presents so involved and extended a surface as to contain much of the entire life of the country. Commerce and in dustry are directly and vitally affected by the cost of service of commerce carriers, and, while most of the great industries are fairly keyed to the present rate schedules, the greatest of them, agriculture, is suf fering because of the charges. Until rates are so fixed as to permit the farmer to get to market on reasonable terms, and also to stand an even chance on what must be shipped to him, a one-sided state of affairs will exist. , The president has counselled with men who are familiar with what is the most pressing of all his problems. Railroad men have given their views, and shippers have presented their side of the case, and between them the president will have to decide. The Interstate Commerce commission is not without power, although apparently without disposition at the moment to take up the matter, but this will not tie the hands of the executive nor of congress. Senator Cummins has, it is reported, pressed on Mr.. Coolidge the desirability of proceeding to en force the consolidation into groups of the railroads under the provisions of the Esch-Cummins law. This diseregards the pressure for the repeal of that law, which surely will be felt in the approaching session. No intimation has come from the White House as to how the president regards the matter, but his expressions as to the need of relief for agriculture from exactions laid upon it by the carriers may be taken as a sympathetic inclination to the proposals for repeal or modification of the transportation act. As in many other instances, the well-meant law has not produced the effects aimed at. Instead of bringing relief to a situation that was almost in tolerable for carriers and public alike, the law has only partly cleared up the muddle for the railroads, and has made matters worse for the shippers. Whether carrying out the recommendations of Profes sor Ripley or the counter proposals of Carl Gray, Hale Holden and others will bring the relief needed is un certain. Business is not in condition yet to be able to sustain further experimentation. -Practical ways for relief have been suggested, mainly in the nature of a return to competitive practices that worked very well before so-called stabilization was attempted by the process of making all roads money earners through theoretical rate fixing. No greater issue than this confronts the con gress. and the public expects it to be handled fairly and justly for all concerned. No war should be made on the carriers for political reasons, but some way to relieve the country from existing burdens should be discovered and applied. GATES LOCKED ON ASIA. Another definite step in the anti-Asiatic policy of the government has been taken by the supreme court, which has just approved the alien land acta of California and Washington. These were speci fically directed at the Japanese, although applying to any aliens who can not become citizens of the United States. Long ago it was held that citizenship could be denied to the Asiatics; then the laws prohibiting their entry to the United States were strengthened, and now they are forbidden to hold property in fee or by lease. This latter provision wi'l effect ually bar the Japanese from competing in fields they have practically made their own, and reopen to use much land from which whites have been driven by reason of the aggressive presence of the Asiatics. The wisdom of the program is no longer open to question. Failure of the races from Asia to assimilate with the population of the United States, the threat to the future of the Pacific coast because of their multiplying presence, could only be met by measures of exclusion. These could only be made effective by the successive steps that have been taken, and other steps may yet be needed. How the court’s decision will affect the inter national relations between the American and Japa nese governments must develop. Since the days of the Root-Takahira gentlemen’s agreement, when at the behest of President Roosevelt anti-alien legis lation was postponed in California, through the days of Wilson, when Mr. Bryan made a personal appeal to the legislature of California along the lines adopted by Mr. Roosevelt, the program has pro ceeded until it is now complete. The Japanese have been under no misapprehension as to the prevailing sentiment on the Pacific coast. Whatever they may do now, the case is closed against them. WHEN DADDY GOES A-HUNTING. A nice little argument is on between a former state game warden and a present fe'doral guardian of furry and feathered creatures. The latter has said that business men who go hunting on bright, sunny days, when game is scaree, arc foolish. From his point of view, yes, assuming that the principal object of hunting is to get game, Dan Celias knows better, nnd speaks right up to the contrary. He says, and rightly, that the main thing in the mind of a business man, when he dons his hunting togs, calls his dog and grnhs his gun, is to get out into the open. Securing game is a secondary consideration. The walk in the sun lit air, the tonic of the ozone, the inspiration of out doors, is more to such a man than any amount of game could possibly be. If he bags a few prairie chickens, gets a squirrel or a rabbit, or maybe a duck, so much the better. He has the advantage of the life-reaewing excursion, and any apoil he may bring home is incidental. The true hunter is not always the man who gets the biggest bag. GERMANY’S SEA OF TROUBLES. And, suppose the eldest of the Hohenzollern children does make a bid for the throne of Ger many, what do you suppose will happen? Is it reasonable, do you think, to expect that the German people will return submissively to the domination of an imperial master, with his militaristic cabinet and advisers? Such things do not just happen; without the support of a sufficient force it would be impossible to restore the overturned throne of Prussia, let alone the revival of the empire. Napoleon, with “a whiff of grape,’' cleared the streets of Paris and opened a way to empire. But Paris was France, and Berlin is not Germany. A different state of mind prevails in Edrope than was present when the Republic of France disappeared through the Directory into# the Empire. Germans have tasted freedom, political and social, and have little stomach for anything else. Their affairs have not prospered as they might under happier condi tions, but it is not likely they will confess them selves incapable of enforcing a republican govern ment. The Hitler-Ludendorff fiasco gives some proof as to the temper of the people. It will be surprising if royalist plots do not focus around the former crown prince, but equally sur prising if they come to any serious proportions. The German people have paid in blood and tears for the republic they are now endeavoring to sustain. Should it fall before a plot hatched at home, all the suffer ing of the common people will have been in vain. Harassed from without and bedeviled from within, the German people are literally walking on hot plowshares through a dismal labyrinth. The soviet is pressing them, the monarchy threatens, and France resolutely endeavors to hold shut a door that might open on a brighter way. In spite of all this, there is plenty of reason to think that out of the trials the nation will arise, stronger and freer than ever. One thing is sure, it is not going to break up into fragments and disappear from the map. So great a people can not be suppressed from without, and no sign of suicide is noted. Ebert may not be a Bismarck, nor Streseman a Von Buelow, nor is the problem of this day com parable to those faced by the dead and gone giants of half a century ago. Devoted patriots are striving to bring the state into clear waters, steering against rapidly shifting winds, but showing skill that must command the admiration of all who study their situation. What they need now, for the good of Germany and the world is a little sympathetic en couragement. If they fail, the way to the next war will be cleared. CIVE THE CROW A CHANCE. Strange things happen up in Holt county. One of the latest is the discovery of a flock of crows, whose maternal ancestress had once been a pet of a man whose looseness of speech was notorious throughout the countryside. She has transmitted to her progeny the unpretty expressions she gathered while in captivity, and they, in turn, are corrupting the conversation of the children who attend a dis trict school This raises a pretty question So far as we know, no crow is capable of speech. Nothing in this im plies that a crow can not be taught to talk. Once a belief was prevalent that on splitting the tongue of a crow it could be trained to utter articulate sound. Magpies are notorious for their habit of chattering, and Poe's raven quoted “Nevermore” with such iteration as discouraged the poet on that memorable night. These are cousins of the crow, and if they can talk, is there any reason to suspect that other members of the family are always to be silent? While suspending judgment on the Holt county case, we are inclined to suspect that the honest crows are being made the scapegoats of the district in volved. A shrewd conjecture would be that the school children have learned to cuss in the natural fashion. Mrs. Coolidge laid a white rosebud at the shrine of the Unknown Soldier on Sunday, and by that simple act testified the love and devotion of all the women of America. Movement of a big snow plow into position by the Burlington may or may not pressage a heavy winter, but it does show a decent regard for pre paredness. Do not let your mind be entirely withdrawn from The Omaha Bee Free Shoe fund. Many little feet will need care before the springtime comes again. Beatrice is booked up for one hot time in Janu ary, no matter what the weather may be. The volun teer firemen are to hold their state convention there. Doctrines and theories are not necessary to faith, says an Omaha minister, but a lot of believers think otherwise. Silent Cal will not leave them guessing much longer. His first message will go to congress in another fortnight. Mobilisation for the Community Chest drive goes on apace, and it now looks like a short, active cafnpaign. Madison county is going in for graveled roads. Slowly the big idea is spreading. Moral freedom is all right, if moral responsi bility goes along. McAdoo ought to know what happens to a late train. Homespun Verse —Hy Omaha’s Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie FATHER S BOY. I don't know Jest why but somehow Mebby 'cause I nm hi" dad— 1 can not deny him favors When he needs my help so had Gay an' soft o’ easy goln'. Never wntohln' thing" about. Often rnrelesa—hut I alius Ijo rny best to help him out. Yet It might be better fer him If ho had to light his way, An' get through the world by dlggin' Fer his share o' praise an' pay; Hut I guess It's Jest my nature— Anyway he Isn't had. An' I owe him somethin' aornohyw As the only boy 1 had. An' I reckon all you fellers With the parent pride and Joy Wouldn't turn In cold defiance An’ desert your only boy. He might he a trifle shiftless. An' a somewhat careless one. But fer all his faults an' failures He la none the less your aon. “The People’s Voice” Edltotlali from readers of The Morn ing Per. Headers of The Morning Pee are Invited to uaa this column freely for expression on matters of public Interest. Shoshone Falls. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Your Issue of Novem Iter 11 contains an article concerning Shoshone falls, Idaho, the territory Immediately surrounding having been recently acquired by Mrs. Adams and myself, and Is being held for the public for park purposes In case they wish It. Your account is Inaccurate, how ever, in stating that "during a large part of the year the falls are nearly dry." The facts are that during the height of the Irrigating season, which happens in parts of July, August and September, the water is very low, and detracts considerably from the beauty of the falls, but during the balance of the year there Is an abund ance, especially during the months of April, May and June, when the flood waters coir.-e down, still present ing a magnificent spectacle a large part of the year. F.-J. ADAMS. Twelve-Hour Hay. Council Bluffs—'JJo the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Would you please spare me space in your paper to add my protest to the Union Pacific Rail road company working its watchmen 12 hours per day. This, I am told, la the only railroad company In this section of the country that is doing this- These men draw a wage of about 37 cents per hour, and I am told they get no vacation or time off duty. Air. Editor, we have been told In bygone days that the poor slave had to work for his master without pay. They had their times off duty and had their days and nights at home. When Abraham Lincoln stated that all must be freed at the point of the bayonet he overlooked the Union Pa cific watchmen. These men are faith ful to their company and protect Its cars and other property and they are the only men with the company who work as slaves.' Let all men do some thing to help these men by entering protest against such actions. ROBERT C. COOPER. Offers to Help Street Railway. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: I have sent the following open letter to the management of the Omaha A- Council Iilulfs Street Rail way company: I notice in your literature to the public that you will have to either curtail service, increase street car fare or he excrr.-pterj from the occupa tion tax. Have realized for some time that you were getting out on the limb and that you will continue to cel out further and further until the limb breaks. There Is a way out of your predicament, and if you will furnish me with a complete statement of your receipts and expenditures during the past five years I will prepare for you a constructive plan that will solve your problems, which will neither com pel you to decrease your service, In crease your fares, decrease wages, nor ask for any tax exemptions, In fact, X will show you how to reduce 5’our fares 5 cents, increase your revenues, and lower your cost of opera tion. The compensation I will ask for this service will lift nominal and agree to furnish you the necessary Informa tion and plans within a period of six months of date of receipt of your statements. ROY AI. HARROP. Safety in the Streets. Omaha—To the Editor of The j Omaha Ib-e: Eighty two cities in America today have children's safety organizations. In Cleveland a text hook on safety instructions has been adopted In the' schools and 45 minutes a week of safety study Is given in the kinder garten and first four grades. The fifth and sixth grades have been organized as junior safety councils. Ralph W. Emerson, general mana ger of the Cleveland railway, says the increase in auto accidents due to collisions with street cats throughout the United Slates has been approxi mately 474 per cent in the last 10 years. Mr. Emerson says also that due to the campaign of safety study In the schools traffic accidents to school chil dren in Cleveland were reduced last year by 50 per cent, and "own fault" accidents were reduced 82 per cent. Schools of Instruction In auto driv ing have been suggested by some as a means of educating such auto drivers as have shown themselves to be Incompetent drivers, and It has been suggested that compulsory at tendance l>e enforced In cases of such persons. L. F. Wynne, general claim agent. Georgia Railway A Power company, Atlanta. Ga., saya: "Every person la not fit to drive an automobile any more that* every person Is fitted to take charge of a locomotive. "A locomotive is confined to Its path by rails of steel, and Ita opera tion Is bound about by some of the most stringent laws on the statute honks. Years of apprenticeship ami rigid tests are required. But virtual ly anyone la allowed, after the most perfunctory examination, to lake charge of a i«>werful automobile, a machine as potentially destructive ns the locomotive, and drive It where lie likes, through the Crowded streets of our cities. Unfitness to operate an automobile U discovered only after an accident. "The plain facts are that the auto mobile Is a deadly weapon of which we must tske account. "A mental and physical examina tion should he required of every ap pllc.mt for a motor car license ” A. E. IjONO, Food for Thought in This. Something is wrong with public life In America when ft sojourn In Moscow Is necessary to fit a statesman for Washington.—Cleveland Times Com mercial. Daily Prayer W# tru*t In th* living «!»»<!. who l« th* Saviour of nil man, »i>«cialiy of thonr< thAt bnllrv. I Tim. 4 1". Our God «nd Father, for -the pro tecting care of the night w« give Theo thanks For the new day, a fi ♦ gift of Thine, with Its message of re newal and tireless interest on the part of our Father, we give Thee thunks. Teach us anew with this new day the meaning of home, friendships and opportunity to do our work for God and our fellow men. Fet our faces In the right direction as we go out to live another day. For tify us that we may not be overcome by any evil. Kent rain us from any untoward tendencies. If the wav grow dark, cause us to ne.< Thv light. If loneliness should he our lot. let us be mindful of Thy companionship By Thy help may we add some Joy to other lives, nod live out this day with the blessed thought of having done something worth while. And as the shadows of the evening creep over us we would again give thanks and commit ourselves anew to }Ilm Who coreth for all We make our request In the name of Christ .fastis our Lord. Amen KIEV. i*V«AIUSNCtC \V fvl.Ml'Ilt, AJJnntApolla. ut la Itirds, plants, animats. The rnmmonplHre and the unusual. They are of common interest to all. The Omaha Bee welcomes letters from readers on observa tions of the world of nature. XOVKMBEK. The leaves are fallen to the ground And formed into a purple mound. While here and there a streak of gold , la laid from autumn’s busy mold. The nuts are lying on the ground That form the squirrels’ winter store. The black crows caw from tall tree top, Watching the cornfields o'er. The withered sunflower bows its head, While all Its lovely bloom Is shed. The goldenrod kissed by the frost Has all Its autumn beauty lost— The wind moans through the leafless trees, * The year moves on with silent step. And looking all around we find October days have from us crept NONA S. FITZPATRICK. LISTENING IN On the Nebraska Press "If,” muses the Aurora Fun, "Gov ernor Walton Is one-half as had as those opposing him allege, he Is about seven times as bad as a man ought to be who is governor of a state.” • • • "No matter," shrieks the Fremont Tribune editor, "how many pins you take out of the new shirt, there is al ways one left to jab you In the back.” It has been so long since some of us hail opportunity to don a new shirt that we had actually forgotten about the pins. • • • The Pierce Call intimates that it is a mighty poor grade of coal that Governor Bryan is handling. Doubtless the governor opines that It is a very Inferior brand of politics tianded out by the Pierce Call, thus maintaining a very fair average of personal opin ion. • • • "Rich old men have no right to buy youth,” soliloquizes the Sidney En terprise, "and women have no right to commercialize their personal charm." Is the Enterprise striving to put a charge of dynamite under our present social code? • « • After consulting hii goosebone, In vestigating the thinness of the com husks and noting the slim stores put away by the squirrels, Joe Alden an nounces In the York Republican that to leave Nebraska for the winter Rnd go to PI or California is to ex change a sure thing for an uncer tainty. • • • Noting that Christopher Columbus received only *320 for discovering America, the Kearney Democrat confesses its inability to understand why Nebraska farmers should be com plaining about their lot. • • • The Seward Independent-Democrat knows what is ailing politics. "Too much working for the good of the party and too little for the good of the people." Is the I -D.'s explanation, and It sounds all right. I • • • Gene Westervelt's Republican, which ts published In Scottsbluff. Just across the river from Al Mathers’ home town. Gering. asserts that if Al becomes a candidate for the re publican nomination for governor there will bo heaps o' doings while the primary campaign lasts. • • • The Idsco Tribune gravely asserts that h!1 the farmer needs If he Is to continue paying higher taxes and freight rates is a higher price for what he produces. This seems to ex plain the situation, but not the how ever. • • • Frank Broome Is once more settled in Alliance and publishing the Alliance News, which he moved up from An tioch. If the Alliance News prospers as lte editor deserves it will be some newspaper property. • • • The sleuth of the Hildreth Tele scopo reports that he has discovered the trail of an oil well hug in that vicinity. The bite of the oil wall bug has proved disastrous in a number of Ne braska rases Dan Webster's St. Paul Phonograph is beginning to hope that If the fel lows In these parts keep on buying hootrh the time will soon rome when school expenses will be paid out of fines collecyd. C. T. Williams Is the new editor of the Broadwater News. He succeeds ileorge Brewer, who has located In Colorado. * • • Noting that a Nebraska banker says the state's crop of wheat will not pny Its gasoline bills, the Nebraska City Presa rises to Inquire If the wheat crop will pay the cosmetics bill of the feminine rljlng generation. What an Inquisitive sort of person John Sweet Is. hull! • • • Ray Wlsner of the Bayard Tran script nplncs that If Henry Ford la doing all these things for the dear people merely to further his preslden Hal aspirations, It would be a pious idea to postpone the election a few years and give Henry a chance to work right along. • • • "Realism In literature," asserts the Nebraska City Press, "Is merely nil other name for rot." • • • The Soottsbluff Star-Herald notes with slpns of approval that the t’nlted States reclamation service offlolnls arc In ginning to show some regard for I be welfare o4 the people living on the reclamation projects. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for October, 1923, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .72,205 j Sunday.76,995 ; Poe* not Include return*, left over*, enmple* or paper* spoiled tr printing and Include* nr apecia • ale*. B. BREWER, Gen. Mgr. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subacribad and awor n to balora aaa thla Bth day a( Navambar, IMS. W. M. QUIVKY. (Saal) Natary Public “From State and Nation —Editorials from Other Newspapers— Another Exile Tries It. From the Kansas City Times. Frederick William has yielded to the lure that terrgits all political exiles and returned to Germany. Jt is an adventure that he was fairly sure to have embraced sooner or later. No exile with a stake like his ever is content to let It go without one last throw for It, and to ex-mon archs and their heirs that throw Is a return from exile and a dramatic reappearance upon the scene of their former roles. The German ex-crown prince has been careful to give it out that he is returning to his native land to live quietly on his estate as a private citizen. Hut If a quiet life Is what Frederick William wants, he has had It at Wierlngen the last five years. He has had enough of that life, it may be believed, and now prefers another sort. His return to Prussia, without the consent of the allies, and in the political circumstances that now exist in Germany, can mean nothing else than that the Hohen zollern Interests are ready or in preparation to make a bid for the restoration of that house. * What the present chances are for such a restoration cannot be known and it is possible they are known least of all to Frederick William. Exlies seldom get a clear view of a political situation. They see every thing In a rosy light. The ex-crown prince may believe from the reports of his agents and partisans that all Germany is ready to acclaim him. But the persons who have everything to gain from a Hohenzollern restora tion are as likely to mislead them selves as Frederick William Is to be misled and the value of the Informa tion that haa been carried to Wierin gen recently Is very uncertain. So experienced a military leader as Gen eral Eudendorff seems to have been completely misled as to the chances of the monarchist movement in Ba varia. At any rate we seerr.- destined to ace another chapter added to the exile tradition. For more than half a cen tury the Stuart pretenders kept their cause alive In TSritain. As late as 1745, 57 years after the flight of James II, his heir was able to raise an armed rebellion in Scotland. Vol taire, in "Candide.'' gives us a picture of nearly a dozen exiled kings in one tavern room, and. while they didn’t have the price of a dinner among them, ail had visions of thrones. Finally there is the classic example of Napoleon’s return from Klba, and, while It can hardly be called success ful, It shows what daring can do. Frederick William probably knows the history of fallen thrones, but, like all exiles, probably thinks he can reverse It. One wonders what the ex kaiser's thought of that may be. watching there at Doom. Anyway, he appears to have left the enterprise to younger blood. The Victory in Vermont. From ths Christian Science Monitor. The election* in Vermont were, in reality, hut a confirmation of the de cision reached in the nominating primaries The real test of sen timent toward prohibition and law enforcement was In the battle in which Senator-elect Dale was norni nated against a field of candidates as favoring a modification of the law- to permit the sale of light wine** and beer. It would have been startling, in deed, had the voters, of whom a ma jority are republicans, repudiated the action taken at the primary. And | yet. if all that is said by the advocates ; of nullification is true, there is an j overwhelming public sentiment, even destructive of party lines, against the enforcement of the existing law If that sentiment exists, as it is claimed it does, the wonder Is why It is not expressed at the polls. As a matter of fact, no such senti ment exists. It probably is not possi ble for the opponents of enforcement to cite a conclusive instance, where the issue was clearly defined, in w hich a popular expression of opinion at the polls has been against the law. In Vermont, where In former years the people have shown a willingness to experiment with devious schemes recommended as being "just as good aa prohibition." there seems to be a solid sentiment In support of the ex isting federal measure. The Issue was not disguised at the primaries, and even up until the night of Tuesday the voters had the opportunity to re verse the decision previously taken. -The election of Mr. Dale will fortify the scant majority in the United State* senate, and it will likewise make more difficult the undertaking of the nulll ficatlonlsts to bring back the open saloon by permitting the traffic In beer. The saloon cannot be trusted to carry the banner even of the mis guided compromiser who believes that to concede the right to manufacture and dispense drinks of a low alcoholic content would tend to discourage the Illicit traffic in whisky. Enforcement officers In the vicinity of Boston quite recently raided a so-called near beer saloon and confiscated a quantity of unadulterated alcohol. The Instance is not an Isolated one. A disguised saloon Is no more of an asset to a community than an open bar. Both are a constant temptation to those who are willing to be tempted and a stumbling block In the path of the un wary. Vermont, In the vernacular, runs true to form. The victory there may mean little or much in the calculations of astute political prognosticators, but It is accepted as a gratifying indica tion of the purpose ot the people gen erally to stand four square against the vicious assaults of those who have the temerity to boast that they, by the exercise of evil Influences, can re verse the solemn decision of a nation of free born people who have advanced beyond the stage of slavery to appe tite. A Ciallant and Honest Sailor. From the Brooklyn Eagle In the history of the American navy there have been few disasters that brought go grea* a sense of shock to the public as the loss of seven de stroyers on the rocks of the Califor nia coast. The hurricane at Apia caught obsolete craft and hurled them to destruction, not through any fault on the part of their commanders, but because the ships had not the engine power needed to attain the open gea. and safety. The wreck of the de stroyers occurred under conditions gravely reflecting on somebody's judg ment. So far as one officer is concerned, the duty of the court-martial now in session will be considerably lightened Capt. Edward H. Watson, who was in command of the destroyer squad ron, says: "I don't want an acquit tal. I am ready and anxious to take my medicine. I made a seaman’s de cision and I was in error I am ready to abide by that error. Kor me to be completely qcqulttei by this court Abe Martin J*r» p<MM Mfl If Lafe Bud an’ his wife wuz prominent they couldn’t git along any worse. Fellers that can’t speak in public wouldn’ be so awful if they didn’ alius want t’ try. (Copyright. 1>23 ) would be bad for the naval service, to which both my father and myself have devoted our lives." There could be nothing finer or more dignified tnm this from a man facing charges which, In any event, must have a serious effect upon his career. All men who assume any responsibili ties at all make errors of Judgment, it was Captain Watson's fate to make an error of judgment which had grievous consequences in the loss of ships and in the loss of human lives He will have to pay the penalty of that error in one form or another. Nevertheless, the frankness and man llness of his confession must appeal to his fellow countrymen who wil^ hope that the demands of Justice wfl.^ be such as to admit of his retention in the service in some capacity. His error was grave, but his confession of it sets a fine example which ought never to tie forgotten. Nothing Else Afoot. Post—New York is overcrowded with njotors. Parker—Vee. there s notliing afoot but plans for relief.—Exchange. 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A Son’s Ambition— That I may be truth ful, honest and faithful in all my relations with my father; that I may be obedient to his wish, appreciative of his aid; that my life may always be so ordered as to be a source of pride and joy to him.