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The Morning Been MORNIN G—E V E N ING—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publisher N. B. UPDIKE, President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLKR. Editor in Chief. Business Manager. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, is exclusively entitled to <he use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in thia paper, and also the Ipcal news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are ulso reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognised authority on circulation audits, and I he Omaha Bee's circulation ia regularly audited l>y their organisations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1808, at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3. 187D. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for a T 1 a* t nnn tlie Department or Person Wanted. AI lantlC 1UUU OFFICES Main Office—17th and h'arnam V u. qjuus—10 aeon Bt. New York—World Bldg. Chicago—Tribune Bldg. St. Louis—Syn. Trust Bldg. ^San Fran.—Hollrook Bldg. ao. aide. IN. w. Cr, 24th N, Detroit—Ford Bldg. Kansas City—Bryant Bldg. Lob Angelo*—Higgins Bldg. Atlanta—Atlanta Trust Bldg. / THE HUMAN COST OF COAL. As we sit in our warm comfortable homes these winter evenings let us remember the cost of the coal we put into our furnaces. It is not all in freight rates, nor teamsters wages, nor profits to the mine operators. Coal comes out of deep mines and long drifts that burrow under the hills. Long periods of time have turned the forests that flourished in ages ago into this fuel used by modern man and nature releases her treasures reluctantly. She strikes back frequently with a blow that all our cunning and in vention cannot ward off. Two more of these mysterious, unexplained blasts of death have swept through the mines. First in Illinois, in its wake were found the scorched and blistered bodies of 32 miners, vic tims of the terror. Survivors were taken out naked and burned, suffering severely from the terrible ex perience. Sorrow and heroism mingle at the pit mouth, where rescuers volunteered to face the known and unknown dangers lurking below. Sat urday, an explosion in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields cost 40 lives. All this has been repeated many times in the history of coal mining, and man’s best endeavors to overcome or remove the menace apparently are of little avail. All that is definitely known is that explosive gas collects in corners of the working, out of the reach of ventilating currents, and suddenly a terrific sheet of flame sweeps the chambers and the drifts. Soft coal mining is accompanied by the liberation of such gasses. They are part of the coal itself. Mingled with the dust that is always present, the combination is more deadly than any artificial explosive man has devised, and far less stable. f The bureau of mines has made great progress in the direction of rescue work, and coal miners are especially trained in it. The study given to the cause,of the explosion* has not as yet produced any certain means of prevention. Guarded lights, methods of supplying pure air, the expedient of cutting off portions of the long drifts by brattice work, all serve in .minimizing the danger. But the recurrent horrors prove that the demon only waits his chance. When this phase of coal mining is given full con sideration, it may seem that the miner is not over paid when he takes the risk that attends every mo ment he spends underground. Society must have coal, but should not forget that much of the price for producing it is paid in human life. SOMETHING WRONG WITH WILLIE. If William Black, 12 year-old boy of Philadelphia, killed himself because he read too many wild west novels, there was something wrong about his mental ity. Had he been a normal boy, instead of killing himself he would have buckled that revolver to his waist and hied forth for the west, there to make many a bloodthirsty redskin bite the dust between times of slaughtering the shaggy buffalo. If there is a gray-haired man in the middlewest who has not at some period of his boyhood yearned to do that very thing, he has not made much of an impress upon his day and generation. It is that yearning for deeds of vast emprise that makes possi ble the subjugation of the desert and the elimina tion of the wilderness. The lure of the wandering foot, the desire for something new and different, are responsible for the conquest of the west. Had tales of border life affected the minds of all boys and voung men as they affected the mind of William, • he west would still be an unknown wilderness. . It is barely possible that if William had devoted his time to reading the Kollo books his untimely end might have been the same. Indeed, the chances are that it would have been hastened, for we can not imagine any boy of normal mind devoting any time to those innocuous juvenile volumes. And their effect upon a boy of less than normal mind must surely have been something fearful to contemplate. Fortunately for the west boys like little William were the very scarce exception to a very general rule. Otherwise there would have been no influx of red-blooded and virile young men into the west. WHY WISDOM LINGERS. Out of the land of the Rising Sun comes a news story that is strangely interesting. It tells of the wedding of Prince Hirohito, who some day will be the heavensent mikado of Japan, to Princess Nagasko. One of the significant details is the state ment that “no foreigners witnessed the ceremony.” High official Japan remains as exclusive and as secretive as in the days when it was a crime for a Japanese to leave hia homeland and return after having had experience of any kind abroad. Once a shipwrecked crew had difficulty in getting hack to the empire because its members had been saved by Russians, who carried them to Petrograd (now “Leningrad”) and sent them home laden with gifts. Prince Hirohito recently made a journey through a considerable portion of tho civilized world, looking at other peoples, observing their customs and man ners, and has returned home, apparently well con tent with the way they do things in Japan. This is merely conservatism. A patriotic citizen of the United States would probably do the same thing. Foreigners continually visit our shores, tell us about our national faults and shortcomings, and then go home and give thanks they arc not like the Amer icans. Right here is where internationalism breaks down. Some great leaders of thought, like Wilson and Tagore, Lenin, if you please, have triad to lead mankind onto what they conceive to be the higher plane of human relationship. Against them stands the mass thought that clings to the things that arc familiar, venturing slowly and rautiously, or not nt all, on strange roads. So it is not strange that Hirohito exemplifies in his wedding his willingness to outwardly conform to the customs of his native land. lie and those around him know that progress of nations is delib erate. However the leaven is working in Japan and the world, but the moment is not yet here when old ways can be entirely discarded. Yet the struggle is going on, and the change can not he finally retarded. The world is singing with Tennyson: ‘‘Forward, forward let us range! Let the old world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change." PRESERVING A PARADISE. Omaha’s Isaak Waltons and their friends are about to sit down to a real game dinner, the main feature of wfyich will be reindeer meat. No, they have not raided the corral of Santa Claus, to serve Iiis well worn driving stock, but expect to feed on nnimals that only a little while ago were munching pine needles and inhaling snow drifts in Alaska. While these preparations were going on, the supreme court of the state of Wisconsin has provided them with real occasion for rejoicing. The supreme court sitting at Madison has just handed down a decision in the famous Winneshiek drainage case, sustaining the contention of the Isaak Walton league in full. It is held by the court that the drainage scheme if carried out will amount to an interference with the navigable waters of the United States, and as such can only be permitted under an act of congress. What is involved in this? Simply the preserva tion and perpetuation of what is admitted to be the greatest natural breeding ground for wild fowl, game fish and small game in the United States. It is a paradise for water fowl and songster alike; the habitat of bass and croppy, trout and pickerel, cat fish and other denizens of the great rivers, and in its thickets live and multiply various kinds of small wild animals who are useful in their way. .Moreover, the timber growing in this overflowed region is mostly oak, hickory, walnut, birch and the like, all needed for man’s uses, and becoming scarcer with each year. This would soon be destroyed were the drainage plan carried through. Careful ex amination has shown that very little serviceable farm land would be added as a result. Under the law as laid down by the court, it will be possible to preserve all such land along the upper Mississippi, and so save the forest and the wild life for future generations, instead of turning these areas over to private exploitatiorl. The de cision will continue nature’s provisions for perpet uating the woods, the flowers, the birds and the fishes, and the whole Mississippi valley will benefit because spawning grounds and nesting places are not destroyed. GOVERNORS GET OFF TRACK. At leaRt two possible entries in the presidential race have been scratched because two governors have discovered that the problems of state manage ment have not all been solved. Therefore they will allow the greater affairs of the nation to go on under some other direction while they continue to look after the lesser but equally vital business of the home folks entrusted to their care. Governor Bryan of Nebraska has announced that he will be a candidate for re-election. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania has contended himself with saying he will not be a candidate for president, nor will he ask an instructed delegation from hie state to the Cleveland convention. Each of these has unfinished business on his hands. Mr. Bryan has not yet entirely made good on his pledges to the people with reference to taxation and cost of run ning the state, and Mr. Pinchot yet looks forward to the day when the Keystone state will be as dry as Sahara. Another governor still is talked of—A1 Smith of New York, who may have benefited by the location of the convention. It has been a long time since anybody stepped from Albany to the White House, and some really formidable hurdles have been set for Governor Smith by his admiring friends as well as by some who are not on his side. Practical politics seldom enters a state mansion to secure a tenant for the White House. McKinley was the last one, although both Roosevelt and Cool idge served as governors just before being elected vice president. Senators are commonly more con spicuous in the search for the great reward, but this docs not mean they are more likely to be favor ed by fortune in their quest. Now and then a plain citizen, like Lincoln, is given a chance. However, ‘■he lists are open to all who care to venture, and his is one of the things that make politics a really :;reat game. Harry Sinclair says it is nobody’s strongly quali fied business what he is doing in Europe or when he plans to return. Oil right, Mr. Sinclair, but you may find Uncle Sam holding the Teapot when you do get home again. A married woman who would sell her soul to everlasting perdition in exchange for a little time to lavish her love on another woman’s husband has reached the pinnacle of something. One great argument in favor of making Carter ake a duck preserve like' that at Oakland is that )maha’s climate so closely resembles that around Ian Francisco bay. Doubtless Mr. Box is not at all worried about the continual Jimreeding of his peace plan by the senior senator from Missouri. Do you get excited over the plans for a visit to the north pole? Neither do we, while this weather continues. William H. Anderson also was on good terms with Santa Claus. r Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Tori— Robert Worthington Davie ^ ‘ HE GAMBLED AND HE GOT THE BREAKS ’* "lie gambled and he got the breaks. —such are the Words wo bear, And ho was young and penniless once In a faded year; But through 1110 dark lie saw the light ami trudged Ills lonely way. And proved tho virtue of hls might—ami won ms all men may. But more than these a vision deep before Ids eyes was cast, lie Judged the fultiro as lie learned tho changes of the past; Tomorrow never cause to him, yet It was ever nigh, And In Ida memory remained tho days that glided by. Wo listen to bln words and hope the bu nks will come our way; We envy him hls great success because we hope to any To others who will Htrho to win when we have tolled and won. How simple ami Imw easily the enterprise was done. But the breaks are wrought by toll and thought, If trulh he plainly told. And prestige comes to those wlm face tho hardships grim and cold The breaks Will lie to our deslic. If we have eyrs to see, And strength in ipiell, tho weakness which om umbers Destiny, “The People’s Voice” Editorials from readers of The Morning Wee. Readers of The Morning Wee are nvitto to use this column freely for expression on matters of public interest. ^ Senator Allen's 1 1-1 lour Speech. Wayne, Neb.-—To the lid i tor of The Omaha Bee: The following may prove of interest to your readers In view of the recent death of cx-Senator William V. Alien. It is Senator Allen's own story of his famous 14 hour speech made in tho United States senate. Judge Allen and the writer’s father, the late Judge Jan.es Brittain of Wayne, were close friends for many years and were associated to gether as counsel In various litigation at different times. It was conse quently my pleasure, as well as privilege, to frequently visit with Judge Allen at Madison, and It was during the course of conversation of one of these visits, that 1 heard from Judge Allen’s own lips the story of his famous filibuster. After hearing tho story, 1 realised that it would some tins; lie of considerable historic Interest and Immediately reduced it to writing in the language of Judge Allen, as nearly as possible. X be lieve the following to he the Judge's words almost verbatim. The story follows: “Tho word had gone out to the senators through President Cleve land's friends that he wished the re peal of the Sherman silver purchas ing act that very night. The date was October 12, 18'J3. Senator Collyer of Colorado came to see me and wanted n.e to speak for an hour or so In opposition to the repeal. I said that I had already made one speech that day and that there must he older heads in the sente than I to do the talking. I had only been there about three months. Mo said, ’Let me tell you, young fellow, If you want to do anything here, you want to get right into the collar, if you sit around waiting for someone to call on you to make a speech, you will wait here until doomsday.’ So I consented to speak. "I started in at 6 o’clock that night. I only intended to speak about an hour when I started, hut the longer I talked, the warmer I became. To think that the president should ask a deliberative body to repeal such an important measure over night! "The opposition found themselves under the necessity of maintaining a quorum. As soon as a quorum failed, the adjournment would come. Our fellows most of them went home. Whenever the other fellows had re tired to the clouk room and had gotten nicely to sleep, some one of our men would rise to the question of a quorum, the hells would ring and these fellows would have to come out to answer to the roll call. In the morning at 8 o’clock I was still there. “One of the senators in passing said to me that Martin of Kansas had a speech that was already printed In the Morning Post which was already being sold on tho streets, and that lie wanted the floor so he rould make his speech. So I said, ‘Mr. President, I note that the gentlpmun from Kansas is desirous of speaking and I will sur-j render the floor to him." Voorhecs, who was a clever dealer In money matters, said, ’The gentleman can’t farm out the floor of this senate to whomever he pleases.’ I replied, ’Well, perhaps I can’t farm It out. but I have it now and I can hold It sll day and all night too If necessary.’ Now you either liave your choice of leaving me surrender the floor to Mr. Martin, or listening to me the rest of the day, And they all said, throwing up their hands, ’Give us the senator from Kansas.’ ” In reply to a question ss to whether he took any intermission dur ing the 14 hours, Mr. Allen said: "I only took one Intermission to get some nourishment, I had. the clerk read an excerpt from a work on eco nomics and while he was reading, I slipped out to the restaurant and returned before he had finished I also had reata on roll calls on quorums. "We kept up the fight for five daya, first one member and then another of our side holding the floor, hut finally we had to surrender and let the other fellows repeal the act." JAMBS K. BBITTAIN. Explaining an t'nfnrtunatc Event. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee; Will you be good enough, through the columns of your paper, to allow the undersigned to make a statement with regard to the diffi culty which arose last Saturday night at Nebraska City? The facta sur rounding the matlir were In no wise unusual, and a succession of misfor tunes and misunderstandings have resulted In a most humiliating situa tion for us and our families. We sre four brothers-in-law who, anticipating a rabbit hunt on Sunday morning, started for Nebraska City on Saturday night, and while driving from the hotel in search of a garage to place our car for the night, were accosted by six men In another oar. Not knowing them or their business, we feared to halt at their command, when to our utter panlo these men. who proved to be officers later, shot Into our car, dangerously wounding one of our number. We admit that we had In the car at the time a bottle of wine which we had taken with us to have during the prospective tratnp through the fields; hut we positively had not touched It prior to this time and not one of our party had the sign of liquor on hlnv. In an honest effort to state our case exactly and to relievo the im pression tliut we are professional bootleggers or drunkards, or what ever conclusion one might draw from a simple reading of the episode as It appeared In tho dispatches, wo nro asking Mint you kindly Rive this letter space. Our family has enjoyed the respect and good will of everyone who knows us we have never before had the slightest, difficulty with officers of the law—and In the hope of reclaiming the esteem of our fellow citizens and friends, among whom arc numbered men In every walk of life from Mayor Dahlman to our next-door neighbor*, we ate asking a fair statement of the fai ls. We i to vouch for every Staten chi .made herein by personal reeomtnandalions front men with whom or for whom wo havo worked nnd we ask that our acquaintances accord ns the Justice of tills hearing.—Robert A tiernandt, Otto P. OeiTiandt. Howard .Imirdan, Henry Join dan, 2745 South Tenth street. l-eiiln No llrro to llim. Omaha To the Editor of The Ontn It.i Itee. f see where some one in tho "Peoplo’a Voice" column has been making n list of the world's greatest men. Beginning with the name, Jesus, lie lias graduated that list down nicely to a tall with the nnmo of Benin. Had he added the name John Doe, ttie* tall of that list would have been complete. It t* nmtislng to listen to the i iv lugs of tho horn worshiper. Tho death of Bruin has given till; fellow n ultatti-e to let off uti-nm without blowing tip There Iv much wind wasted on heroes. We wonder at litis, since ail the heroes of history have been butcher* of hitinattltv. Take Moses, IosImi i Heitor, \i-hliies. At evotider t'o n- end Napoleon, and tin* whole tribe of lesser lights on f LISTENING IN j On the Nebraska Press ^ Says Mrs. Merwln In her always In foresting department of the Beaver City Times-Tribune: “That Omaha man who left his wife and Is tuklng a funnymoon with adrenni girl, should have been named for ono of those animals which chases a bright color instead of being called ‘Bossie.’ ” • as John Sweet of the Nebraska City Press ventures the hope that “for the sake of Nebraska, which has come to lean so heavily upon the broad and capable shoulders of the governor, that the presidential boom may he shooed away from him.” "Meantime Mr. Bok and the peace plan are receiving still further valu able publicity at no expense, via the senate," says the York New Teller. • • • Rdltor Huse of the Wayne Herald pronounces the Judgment that a rich man who seeks something for noth ing is more reprehensible than the poor man who has the excuse of pressing need. • • • The more Gus Buechler of the Grand Island Independent studies the Mellon tax plan the more he Is con vinced that it ia, In Its final analysis, “not so much a tax-reducing as a tax-shifting plan.” • • • Guy Doran of the Sidney Tele graph doesn't hesitate to say where he stands on the matter of adjusted compensation. "In any event, and re gardless of what action is taken on the tax question, the wofld war vet erans are entitled to adjusted com pensation. We owe It to them andi we should not shirk our honest debts. A shirker had a hard name during the war. Probably It hasn't lost any of Its meaning to the boys who an swered tho call.” • • • “President Cooltdge must not be put in the attitude of holding back on this matter,” declares Dwight Gris wold of the Gordon Journal, referring to the Teapot Dome scandal. • • • The York News-Times Is of the bplnion that somebody has swiped the lid off Teapot Dome. down to the kaiser and Lenin, and all rode to fame on the wave of hu man slavery or human butchery In some form or other. Instead of ele vating humanity, heroes and their Idealism have only debased society and retarded the onward rush of progress. In common parlance they have ‘'muddied the water, rocked the boat, fuzzled the hash." In spite of historical brawls and hoodlum leader ship the progress of the world, In the hands of plain practical people, has swept onward, and swallowed up or effaced the distress and confusion brought on by Idealism, heroism and hero worship. The world has been made fit to live In, not by the Moseses Caesars and Napoleons, nor even the Washing tons and Lincolns, but by the Tom Joneses, Harry Smiths and Dick Rob insons who sawed wood and cut Ice, and those gentlemen are best rep resented today by the Watts, Kultons. Carnegles, Rockefellers. Hdtsons and Kords. Such men «s these are the ones who have made the world go round and have secured for us, not the “sacred Ideal," but the golden meal ticket. Look about you and make a list of your comforts and see whose name is on them. Not the name of any hero. Idealist or politician. Whatever of Idealism has survived the teat of time has been that which served human needs, and even that has been might ily pared down, trimmed and rehashed before It was workable. It Is only after we have been cured of our Ideals that we get down to work and enjoy life. Contrary to the old maxim, money Is not the root of all evil, but “a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Don't despise the dollar; It represents the surplus of your ef forts. Without It you are a cringing coward or a ferocious beast. Rut, with a dollar in your pocket you can look any man in the face and tell him to go to hell. It puts a song In your heart and courage In your aoul. Beware of him who talks nbout tak ing another's dollars away by law. He would legislate the bread out of your mouth. Lenin and his regime stand for the destruction of capital by law; that means the waste of your surplus, and we are suffering today from such a waste, on the most stupendous scale known to man. We want no heroes who stand for such infamous Idealism. READER. “From State and Nation” —Editorials from Other Newspapers— V ____J Our li'uture in the Air. From the Detroit New*. Civil aviation In America is still In tjpe hands of private developers. In tlreat Britain the four existing com panies for the transportation of pas sengers and freight arc to he com bined into one, subsidized by the gov ernment for 10 years. This concern will be the only one subsidized; private capital will probably, there fore, keep'out of aviation, and the big company will have a monopoly. It remains to be seen which coun try will develop civil aviation the faster—Great Britain, with Its single state-aided corporation, or the United States, where already there are sev eral private companies which receive no aid from the government. We are encouraged to predict that in 10 years America will be far ahead of Great Britain in carrying passengers and merchandise by hcavlerthan-air machines. There are several grounds for such a prediction. One is that In the Brit ish Isles distances are so short and train service is so rapid that little time can be saved by the more costly airplane. The chief function of the British lines In the past has been the carriage of passengers and foods from England to the continent, thus avoiding delay at the English coast, a slow -eea voyage, and another delay at the continental port of entry. This air business can be greatly In creased, but It is nothing to what can be done In the United States by companies offering a swift passage over our vast spaces. Our mail lines have shown what can be done, and the creation of big planes will g©on do for passengers and merchandise what is being done for the mails. Another reason is that a monopoly Is not driven to pay the attention to Improvements which several com petitive concerns are forced to give. And a third reason is that the chief Interest of the British government is not the creation of commercial routes and the best types of passenger, carrying planes, but to secure a re serve of planes and pilots which can be drafted In case of war. Such a program Is not likely to lead to the development of a cheap and efficient commercial airplane. That will be the product of uncontrolled private concerns competing for private busi ness. Flow Softly, Deeper Hudson. From th* St. Paul Dispatch. The New York World report* that Col. John R. Slattery. United State* engineer in charge of the A'ew York district, haa "admitted" that he will recommend to the federal board of engineers that the Hudson river be deepened for oceangoing vessels north to Albany. Very deep indeed will the Hudson have to be If Its waters are to flow smoothly over all the splendid arguments against the St. Lawrence tidewater project which lie at the bottonv of Its deepened channel. Not longer ago than last March, when Assemblyman Cuvllller introduced In the legislature at Al bany a proposition for the construc tion of a ship canal from New York to either Buffalo or Oswego, the very idea of such a thing was enough to prouse in the Buffalo Express emo tions of the deepest contempt for the mind that produced It. Did not the honorable und Ignorant gentleman know that New York was taking Its power to squeeze the shipper* of the midwest on the argument that ocean going vessels could not navigate In restricted channels’ He had conceded everything. For. "If a ship canal is practicable at all. the St. Lawrence route would require much less canal), zatlon and expenditure than any other.” Apparently, a ship canal 1s practi cable cfter all. Albany is strongly for a ship canal, a particular canal, b^frinninff at Buffalo or Oswego and ending at Albany. A Deeper Hudson association has been formed, and Buffalo. Albany. Troy and New Tork city are heavily represented In It. The deeper Hudson's the thing! A* a project designed to "obviate the St Lawrence route." It holds an entire state, or most of an entire state, en tranced. The fact has been forgotten that "ocean-going vessels can not navigate In restricted channel*. • The Buffalo Exprrss had the right of It. If any ship canal la practicable, the .st. Lawrence route would require less canalization and expenditure than any other. Engineers estimate that a "nip canal across New York would have two or three times the mileage or * ft. Lawrence canal and would or thre* ‘in’** as much. In '0- ln *" official report, the deep waterways hoard declared that If there is to 1* any ship canal between the ocean and the lakes, the Nt. Lau rence route la "the natural outlet and the line of least resistance." For Don’t Wait for An Earthquake! Q.—Is it known whether the re cent disaster in Japan has influ enced the rental of safety deposit boxes in the various banks of that country?—S. T. T. A.— Till Department of Commerce aaye that It hae been reported that the number of safe deposit hoxee in use at the Nippon Industrial bank hae increased from ISA to I^AO since the earthquake, and in a similar manner whereat only about 100 boxes were rented before the dieaeter at the Miteuhiehi hank more then 800 are now in eervtce. — From the World• Herald Question Rox I ( Mu* Safe Deposit Vaults provide a safe and convenient place for your valuable documents or keepsakea—at a cost of only a vent and a half a day. The I WAFT A National Ban*l. lSel yi/Vlli\Tnist Groipany I some 24 years (hose words have stood uncontroverted. Nothing that has been said since they were written has added to or subtracted from the sub stance of their truth. Hard Poincare, Harder 1'acts. From Hie New York San snd (iiobe Americans know enodgh to keep their eyes on the ball, and the bull that counts most Is in the hands of Uawes. not Poincare. If this w^rr not so. there might lie reason for alnrm over M. Poincare's fresh in sistence that he learns nothing and forgets nothing. The week end saw him. after a hopeful deviation to ward a moderate course, in his worst form again. The expediency of mollifying alarm ed nationalists may have dictated some of his utterances. He sgain de. dared that France must get 2*,000. 000,000 gold marks out of Germany plus whatever the United States and Britain require upon their debts. He is still apparently unaware how em phatically America objects to seeing her account with France regarded as payable Iti German C bonds. He also asserted that If an international loan for Germany is soon to be raised, most of it must be applied at once to reparations. It has -hitherto been the Idea of all financial experts that It would be a sufficiently hard job to raise a loan for the irr.enediate re habilitation of Germany. Worst of all, Poincare defined the main task of the exports’ committee as that of Indicating ”to the reparations com mission the payments that they think Germany can make during the period of preparation for the larger pay ments'' This is hardly the concep tion Dawes can have of his job. But all this, together with the re newed French press campaign of be littlenvent, need not discourage either the experts or the world. It is true that they report to the reparations commission, and that the commission is neither more nor less than a rub ber stamp for Poincare's government. But the important goal is the facts If the experts brine these into clear relief we may leave the world opinion to do the rest. No matter how hostile the reparations commission nvay be, it cannot blunt the force of the ex perts' findings. What is In effect a great international tribunal, presided over by a man whose Impartiality Is as unquestioned as his courage, has to submit its conclusions to a body representing one Interested and in flexible government. But no govern ment will rashly resist the tribunal's conclusions. More Tea Politics. From the 8|oU* F»!!« Pr«». New York women who marry Bel gian diplomats do not have a mo nopoly on the fine points of the so cial temperament. Some of our femi nine cousins In London are in a ter rible flurry over the possible social efforts of the prospective labor cabi net. Assuming that the men who may be advanced to Important official positions will be able to carry them selves very well, grave fears are ex pressed that the wives of labor off! clals won't be able to measure up to their teapeunng responsibilities it very often happens that the! wives of laborers do not get Intensive training in social affairs. If suddenly called upon to preside at important social functions, or even to participate in them, they might show their lack of training in spite of intelligent pre caution against making blunders The social poise is not something to be acquired over night. Those who view the situation as an amusing disclosure that official circles in Great Britain take their social af fairs too seriously prohably do not know that our own Washington is quite as bad in that respect. The lead ership in our national capital Is, In a very large sense a social leader ship. That standard is wrong, of course, hut It exists and those in offi cial circles are impressively sensitive toward the situation. Labor cabinet officials in Great Brit ain could go right along sawing wood even if their wives didn’t get in r Abe Martin —A jrjwT£4/ Next t’ a Shakespearin rev: nothin’ has a darder time gittin' a audience as an undersized mar., bright, pretty day ’ll keep th' doc tor away. Cnp>right 1»:4 vited out to the best parties, or d;d feel any obligations about entertaii • „• the wives and daughters of tdh prominent politicians. Hut a labor p' itician is just as human towards l.i wife and other members of his fair, as Is the railroad politician or ti lawyer politician. The social agplr tions come along, automatically, wi the acquisition of power' and infl ence. it is these slumbering ambi tions, in fact, which help to make class strife. The history of the world will show that social controversies and poi.t; controversies have moved along hard ir. hand. Court gaieties, back in the days of universal irmnarehie were stressed more than welfare tivities. Under popular government the normal tendencies of the rulln classes are supposed to be changed through some mystic process; but they axe not. BLUE CAB CO. 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