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braska Highways, iaelueling tha pave
seat with a Brick Surface of Main
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4. Hemt Rula Charter for Ontaaa, with
City Manager ferae af Government.
Bankers Should Help.
The Bee ha called attention heretofore to
the great source of credit that the national ad
ministration, through the War Finance corpora;
tion, has put at the disposal of agricultural in
terests and the opportunity afforded to bankers
to extend loans which can not be liquidated
without forcing farm products on the market
faster than the demand, which rnust come ulti
mately from both foreign and domestic con
sumption, I V . t
The liberal regulations providing for loans by
the Vr Finance corporation make ft possible
for every solvent bank in Nebraska and in the
Tenth federal reserve district to extend loans
which can not be rediscounted under the law by
the federal reserve banks, until such time as
there is a revival of business and an improved
demand for farm products. '. , i -
In his eloquent address at the bankers' con
ference in Omaha Tuesday afternoon Governor
Bailey, a director of the federal reserve bank of
this district, called attention to the fact that
Nebraska bankers have been slow to avail them
selves of this source of credit, so wisely and gen
erously afforded. by the government, ' Governor
llailey also pointed out the necessity for a for
tign demand for our surplus production, not only
of farm produces but manufactured articles, he
fore the pricts of our products can return to a
normal basis.
Without auggesting any well-defined plan,
Governor Bailey declared that the present irregu
larity in values will continue until means are af
forded by which foreign customers can buy pf
us without making 'payments in gold. He em
phasized the danger to the integrity of our cur
rency, ,now based on liquid assets and self
liquidating securities, if officials of the federal
reserve bank fail to -follow not only the spirit
but the letter of the law in making Joans se
cured by self-liquidating paper.
Again The Bee is led to remark that the gov.
ernment has afforded a basis for broad agricul
tural credits. Now it is up to the banks to make
use of it. ', . i .
' Thanksgiving Day.
'Three hundred years ago the Pilgrim Fath
er were asked by Governor Bradford to gather
on a certain day and return thanks to God for
the mercies and blessings He had shown the
little colony during its first year in the New
World. Here was the beginning of a custom
that is now nation-wide, and which has spread
beyond the nation Not that the human heart
had. not long before swelled with gratitude, and
had uttered Its thankfulness to the Almighty.
This is a daily, duty, neglected by many, yet
none the less incumbent on all. The Puritans
did not select the day because of its especial sig-
nificance, nor as part of the ostentatious display
of religion. We will not be much amiss if we
ascribe it to their desire to lift their hearts and
voices In common acknowledgment of God's
goodness to them.. Underlying it all is the de
vout sense of obligation to and confidence in
the Almighty.
Americans will today observe the custom set
up three centuries ago, and in home and church
will scntj up sincere thanks to the Giver of All
Good for blessings enjoyed and mercies shown
during the last year. Home groups will gather
around boards that show forth the bounties of
the land, and the material as well as the spiritual
grace of the day will abound. It is in keeping
with the nature of the nation that this be so;
under God the land has prospered, the harvest
was abundant, there is plent3 It some there be
who want, or i business appears to be out of
lme, the fault is not with God's plan.
We have been spared from plague and pes
tilence, no great national calamity has brought
sorrow to the people; peace has been restored,
and America is now showing the nations of the
world the way to permanent peace. Our land is
full of opportunity and bright with the light of a
glorious future. For these and many other things
let us be grateful to God, and acknowledge today
His loving care and tenderness for His people.
Inaccurate, as Usual.
It is with some reluctance that we intrude
oa the quiet of a great holiday to call attention
to another of the misstatements of our excited
democratic contemporary. Perhaps the savor
of the World-Herald's partisanship will not af
fect the general atmosphere of the day; its eager
ness to assail Governor McKelvie and to find
fault, with everything he does is its only excuse
for saying: "
Warrants were never registered in Ne
braska that is made I. O. U.'s with Interest
until state solvency was restored except as a
result of two previous republican administra
tes. The Bee has no if.fenticn -of reviewing all the
history of Nebraska, bet it would like to call
attention to the fact that ends r John M. Thayer,
Jasnj ft Bov Lorenia M. Crounse, Silas A.
Ilolcomb, William A. Poynter and John II,
Mickey, warrants were registered. The state
inaiury was at various timet depleted for the
m reason that It U row, becauie taxes were
not paid promptly. Governor McKelvie is not
to blame, because taxpayers can not or d not
settle promptly.
When Governor Sheldon tarns into office he
found a floating debt of 800,000, the heritage
of four previous administrations (two of them
democratic); this h discharged through the so
ealled. redemption act, passed by republican leg
islature, and put the state on a cash baiis once
more.
Governor McKelvie has striven manfully to
maintain the credit of the itatt. His "code" law
has brought a better system of business admin
istration to the affairs of Nebraska; hi system
of requiring administrative bodies Xo keep a re
serve on each quarter's expenditures will pre
vent th traditional overlap with its accompany
ing request for a deficiency appropriation, That
money Is scarce, prices low, and the taxes unpaid
is not due to the effort of the governor io pru
dently and wisely manage the affairs entrusted to
him. Things would be lot worse were he to
follow the example of his immediate predecessors.
Nebraska: Part, Present and Future.
A hay stack may hide a mountain, provided
one stands close to the stack and the mountain
is on the other side.
One does well to remember this lit of homely
philosophy In contemplating present economic
troubles of Nebraska. Viewed by 1921 alone,
one might conclude that Nebraska is going to
the eternal bow-wows. To Judge rightly, one
must look at the whole history of the state. Such
a view was taken last week by J, F. Hanson pf
Frtmont, addressing the Fremont Commercial
club. - .
Mr. Hanson worked as a boy on a Nebraska
farm in the 70s; he has lived in the state
ever since and has been in close touch with agri
culture. What he said is known to every Ne
braska pioneer, but too much of it is forgotten
in the pressure of present disaster.
Mr. Hanson recalls that It was not until
1900, after the depression of 1893 had been passed
and forgotten, that Nebraska really began to stand
on Its own feet. Prior to IM0, the story of the
state was a tale of heart-breaking struggle against
natural barriers; the soil was unbroken and was
not entirely suited to raising the ordinary crops
to which Immigrants ' from tha . east were ac
customed; there was ignorance as to. the crops
and the varieties of crops which could best bo
grown here; there was inadequate transportation
and a lack of marketing facilities. Little by little
these difficulties were overcome, Then came
the plague of drouth and that of grasshoppers.
The state literally staggered under the unex
pected adversity, against which it had little store
of wealth to protect itself. A"d then followed
the disastrous panic of the '90s, which still
found the state with inadequate reserve strength.
' Today Nebraska has its troubles. But it has
the strength of full-grown manhood with which
to meet them. It has reserves unthought In the
decades prior to 1900. It has a soil which, by
judicious cultivation, is reasonably certain to
produce annually a valuable crop of one grain or
another. It has dairy and stock-raising interests
which contribute a steadying influence,. . Some pf
its farms are mortgaged, but the relative burden
is not comparable to that of the '80s and 90i.
Nebraska may have suffered a setback, but it
is not knocked out. Nowhere is thexe such pes
simism as there was, vith apparent -justification,
when men packed up their household goods and
"moved back" east. That happened once, but
that time is past. Times are not as good as
they were a few years go. . But use the yard,
stick of long experience and one finds them In
finitely better than they used to be.
The Unknown-
and the Forgotten
An Invitation to Think.
Public opinion demanded the disarmament
conference, but its responsibility didn not end
there. Not a statesman,, whatever hi country,
but has his ear to the ground. Some "are thus
endeavoring to find out with' how little of actual
accomplishment their people will, be content;
others to ascertain how far their home folks will
follow them in the junking of armament and the
surrender of spheres of. influence in the Orient.
The success of the peace movement Jhat is
sweeping the world depends largely on the at
titude of the people themselves. Their roars of
approval or disapproval, their murmurs of disr
content, of suspicion of the aims of rival nations
and their international hatreds and friendships
all will have a bearing. If the French people, for
example, did not harbor, justly or unjustly, the
ear of attack from Germany, Briend would be
found talking just as eloquently for a decrease of
land armament as he lately did for maintenance
of the present force. The lifting of the expense
of troops of occupation from Germany would aid
its recuperation and at the same time restore to
productive effort hundreds of thousands of young
Frenchmen, who are now a drag not only on
France and Germany, but on the whole world. It
is not fair to blame Briand for a condition which
is not within his control, and the only hope of
relief is from some plan for assuring peace.
Secretary Hughes has made it known that
the American delegation seeks the advice and the
public opinion of the country. This is a bugle
call, not to action, but to thought. The people of
America and all the other lands represented in
the conference should give intense attention to
the problems before the conference! They should
make their opinions known. The importance of
this aroused interest is" shown by the formation
of a committee of the American advisory board
to ascertain public opinion on such concrete pro
posals as that of the Hughes plan for junking
warships, the use of submarines, and of poison
gas, and bombing cities from the air.
, This is a time to think, to talk, to write to
the newspapers, but first of all, to think.
The esteem in which President Harding is
held is very pleasing, but he should not be forced
to diet on turkey for the rest of his term. Why
doesn't some one send him a country smoked
ham? Or better still, why are not some of these
gifts diverted to those who need them worse?
It is a curious commentary on human nature
that fttp nnlv laMrrat a tha nina faalmmfiv to
r Colorado seems to be whether the Rockefeller
interests or the workmen, are the stronger. No
one rises to inquire whkh is right.
The nation is slowly discovering that pros
pcrity is not eejvrpped with a self-starter, and the
argument new it ever wk sd" ert out and
create tsp.
(From the Putnam, Conn., Patriot.)
Ou Novrmbcr II, 1916, a young man by the
pume of William White, consequently more pop
ularly dubbed "Hill" In the circle of his intimates,
wat reckleialy serving pineapple aundses in the
corner drug store of a mall Connecticut town.
It was a busy day. The election returns were
still in the air, the presidency still in the balance.
Whether or not there was to be a rhangc of Jon
ants in the White Houne was yrt a debatable
problem.
"He kpt us out of war, Woodrow did," sal J
old Fri'd Turner, at he gulped down a third glass
of that popular beverage known as "coke,"
"Aw. some otf." said someone t Ue, Hie trouble
with the country is that it hasn't gone into the
war ftuuu rnuiifil. H nuiinii qcn in i 11 gj an
right, and a darned good thing it'll be, too." And
so it went on as William White turned on
siphons and ladled out creams and kidded the
dappers who strolled in after the picturre, And
along about 10 o'clock Bill cleaned up the foun
tain ami put out the lights and stopped lor a
word with Konie Smith before he turned in for
the night in Mrs, Logan s rooming house.
.: On November 11. 1917, Corporal Bilt White
of the United States army sat on the edge of his
cot at Camp Devens and darned a hole in a pair
of shapeless sacks that Kosie Smith had sent
him with the last shmmcut of fudge and fags.
Bill had changed. He, was bigger and broader
and wider and huskier, rive months drilling
and army routine had made a first-class soldier
of him.
Over on the other side of the barracks some
one railed out, 'iley, Shrimp, how'd you get In
here? Lawsy, Vho'd ever thought a year ago
this time I'd be in this here now 'Merican army
and about to sail the briny I Gosh, who'd
a-thoiiRht it, boy, who'd a-thought ill" -
Bill picked his finger with the needle, rolled
the sock into his shoe and slid between his blan.
kets just as the" sergeant growled out: .
"Can the talk, you guys, and shut up!"
On November 11," 1918," Corporal Bill White,
minus a leg and for two months on the hospital
reports as a "serious gas case," lay white and
silent in the ward of a Paris hospital that had
been a public school. There were white screens
around his bed and the ward was quiet except
for the low-spoken directions of doctors or the
calm voices of nurses.. This was th "critical"
ward, " ' .
Across the room, through a space between
the screens Bill saw a window by a blackboard
and through the window he could see two high
Gothic spires, his one and only view of a world
outside. His thoughts were sluggish and slow
and he coughed a good deal, and it hurt him.
Somehow, even when the nurse came around, he
didn't feel like talking.
Suddenly into his dim consciousness there
came a sound of bells and cannon and cheering
and singing. It wathc armistice. In the old
school yard the convalescents were singing,
''There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding," and a
band somewhere was playing the "Madelon," and
a nurse was laughing in the corridor outside.
Bill heard someone whisper, "War's overl
Gosh, kid, hear that? War's overl"
And Bill looked weakly at the twin spires of
Sainte Clothilde and wondered what it was all
about.
On November 11, 1919, Bill White, discharged
soldier, stumped, his way down the main street
of the Connecticut town in which he lived. The
new leg wasn't as comfortable as it might be.
Bill, had no plans. The old job at the fountain
was being dispensed by tow-headed Sammy
Hicks, and besides, a man with only one real leg
can't stand up all day.
He stumped along toward the Kreger Chemi
cal works, stopping now and then to get his
breath. ' " .' ' ',; "J" J. ' ., .'
X)n the way he passed Rosie's house and he
grinned to himself. Rosie was married to Jack
Lumsden these two years, and wheeled a baby
to the' pictures almost every day. But that
didn't worrv Bill much. Most of the fellows that
had' gone over had lost their girls to some guy or
another. "
.He , asked for Mr. "Kreger . himself. ""Sit
down.'lie said to Bill, and then when he had
asked a lot of questions about the war, he said,
."Sorry, White,' you know our policy of doing
everything we can for you chaps who fought so
nobly over there, but business is slackening up
and I haven't a thing iji the place you can do."
- On November 11,' 1920, there was a parade,
and Bill tried to march, although Hank Fulton
offered to take him along in his new Cadillac.
But Bill wanted to march. Four of the old squad
were back, and the citizens were giving the vet
erans the freedom of the town. The parade, was
in the morning, and then there was a lunch in
Odd Fellows' .hall, and afterwards a bunch of
them got together around the stove in the club
and smoked and talked it over. - "
- ' "Pike" Sheridan was talking ab.out business
in Michigan. He was making a pile and passing
around pictures of the wife and the kids. Pike
had married a French "Jane."
Bill hated looking at kids' pictures, but he
shifted his wooden leg over the chair and
grunted, "Nice kids."
. "What are you doing, Bill?" asked Pike.:
; "Running the elevator at Simmons'," said Bill.
"Don't have to stand up."
x And suddenly he started coughing, and blood
trickled from his lips, and they called an ambu
lance and took him to the hospital. The doctor
said it was 'T. B."
! On November 10, 1921, Bill White, ex-corporal
United States army, died in the hopeless
ward of a great hospital. For weeks he had lain
there, now fevered and racked with a paroxysm
of coughing, now silent, and, eyes fixed on the
ceiling, living, in the past. For instance, Hen
derson, who could still walk about, told him that
Foch had arrived in America, and for a whole
day Bill thought over and over the time the
little marshal had passed through the ward of
the hospital in Paris, and they had all tried- to sit
at attention, and the commander-in-chief had
said kindly: "Bon jour, snes enfantsl"
Last night Cohan was talking. Cohan al
ways talked a lot. He talked too much, and the
only thing that silenced him was another fit of
coughing. But Bill didn't mind. It was some
thing to hear.
They had heard a band playing, and cannon
booming slowly, and bells tolling.
"What's that for?"
"Aw. say, what's the matter with you!" It
was Cohan again. 'It's The Unknown Soldier.
They've brought him over here and they're going
to bury him tomorrow at Arlington." There was
silence. Then Cohan started up again. ."Gee,
ain't it funny," he said, "they make all that fuss
over a guy that lost 'is eye-dentificatton tags and
forget all about us!" Then he started to laugh
and to cough. It was an awful sound, coughing
and laughing at once. "Unknown!" gasped Co
han. "Unknown!" and he kept laughing and
coughing.'
Bill didn't laugh. But it was funny. Some
how it suddenly occurred to him the folks back
home had forgotten all about him. He thought
of Pike Sheridan and his French wife and the two
children. , . . "Unknown!" Perhaps it was
Denny Bryan. No one ever knew what happened
to Denny. . , . "Unknown 1" Funny if it
should be Denny having a big funeral. His chest
hurt suddenly, and he coughed and weakly fell
into a doze and dreamed of cannon booming and
bells tolling. At midnight the nurse found him
sleeping, and this morning when the bells tolled
again, he was still sleeping.
The Reel Ends.
' The stoppage of the war three years ago left
us dizzy and reeling with the momentum of it,
and we are only now beginning to find ourselves
again and to look at things once more through
the eye of sanity. New York Commercial
How to Keep
Bf DR. W. A. KVAft
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to Dr. taa a raaawa af Tha Baa, will h aatvaraa' aararaallr, awhu.1 if
araaar llailuilaa. vhar a alaaiBaa aaarataH aaralaaa hi taita iiS. Da,
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CapprWbt. ltili kr Dr. W. A. Ei. 1
..CONSUMPTION DECLINE
Ho rapid bus been the fall In the
consumption rate all over America,
and poall)ly ajl ovor northwaatem
Europe, since that there ar.
thoto who think Iba rt Influensit
wava of that year has had something
to do Willi It.
Dr. uritM Webb, d!ruliig thtw
decline In the Unliati titatea, ouia
Dr. . fMhbeni as anylng that there
wer many empty bed in etrn
aariiurla. Dr. YVehu aald tlmt In the
weal the miliaria ware nut empty,
but, on tha other hand, (hay ware
nut crowded, and thure ware not the
long walling Ut which had pre
viously bt-en so dlnturbliig.
The full In the cunnuiupllon fatal
lty rata began before tha are at Oc
tuber Influenza wave In It IS,
Tho rate of 14, prevailing- prior
to 391 P. full to 110 In Jl. In
It was 1X1.6. lt 120 It was lower
still. The Chicago heulth depart
ment reports that the rate for the
nret nine montlu of 1931 waa 71
much lower than Chicago or any
other forge city has ever had be
fore. Should the preaent rate of decline
pontlnue for 10 yeara, the prevalence
of the disease would be fuwerad to
the point When It would be erood
Judgment to make a determined
drive to end It in this country. Bucri
a drive to nd yellow fever In Ecua
dor has Just proven successful.
When we were finishing up the
Kreat 1118 epidemic and had taken
time to draw a long breath, we be
gan worrying about the after effects.
Heme of u remembered that an in
crease of consumption waa thought
to have followed the epldemio of
1M0-81,
The first hopeful word came from
Buffalo, In the spring of 119
Fronczak said his lnspectora report
ed that consumption, far from being
on the increase following the wave,
waa evidently declining.
A later report by Fronczak verified
the first one.
There came a series of reports
from consumption sanitaria that the
patients with consumption had been
In some degree Immune to influenza.
Next came reports that thi racial
stocks which suffered moat from
consumption had suffered least from
influenza.
Time went on',' and every section
reported a decline In Its consump
tion rate.
Three years have passed and the
decline keeps up.
Whatever the reason may be, the
-iidv
(The Bm offtra Its columns frwlr to It
reader who ear to diaruaa any public
qBMllan. It raqurtita that letter r
rrasonalilr brief, not over 3UO words. It
also inaiata that the name of the writer
accompany each letter, not necwaarlly
for publication, but that the editor mar
fcnow with whom ho ' dealing. The B
doe not pretend to endorae or accept
vlewa or onlnfona exDremicd by corre
spondents In the Letter Box.)
Wants the Bonne.
Genoa, Neb,, Nov. 18. -To the
Editor of The Bee: - permit, me to
say a few words bearing on the sub
ject of the ex-Tank soldier who re
turned his certificate that our legis
lature conferred on the ex-soldiers.
McMahon did exactly what every
ex-A. E. F, should do, We have our
honorable discharge papers, with
our war records on same, Issued by
the government, over the signature
of our old commanders, and any
other certificate would be superflu
ous. Governor McKelvie, In most
of his speeches, heralds the Ne
braska boys as great men in the late
war and yet, when it comes to the
bonus that all of our adjoining
states have given their defenders,
he evades the Issue, by keeping
mum.
Like McMahon stated,; .what
credit is it to any state to spend
$25,000 for a bunch of pretty paper
for the taxpayers to dig down to
pay for, when in reality these cer
tificates amount to naught? My
honorable discharge, which adorns
my wall, is something ajl am very
proud of and always will be. To
Governor McKelvie and our- state
legislative representatives: . You
have , stated in some of your re
marks on the bonus that you did
not want our state (Nebraska) to
be like North Dakota. You cited
the failure of banks as the chief
objection to the state bonus. Yet
we fee about as many banks in our
eiate bo 10 me wan as in rortn
Dakota and, as a reminder, North
Dakota has given its defenders a
125 per service month bonus, not
certificates.
An nonest omiganon is no dis
credit for any state to meet, and
the bonus for Nebraska ex-soldiers
is honorable and Just, and our state
solons have no excuse to shrink
from providing and paying the
bonus to its ex-Yanks, who have
records in history as great as any
other state for their gallantry and
heroic deeds. A. BKADSHAW.
fact Is that consumption all over
America Is declining at a very rupiu
rate, and there Is no evidence that
the durlln is about to he arrtettd,
This Is the time to strike against
the (!( the time when tha
offender is crippled, weak and
yielding.
Could there be a letter cause for
mi i , . i .. -
X IHtUlt"!' HIS I
ri((p stating;.
X. Y, writes: "1. Will you please
tell me tha nulrkast and bast way
to get thin and ty thin without
injuring my health T X would Ilk
to fall off about 10 pounds.
"2. In rolling harmful T
'. Unas It belli to do without
one meal entirely, and which one Is
the best to do witnuuir
"4, I am really in earnest, and
sm willing to try anything that is
not injurious.
REPLY,
1. Slop eating entirely. Total fast
ing rauss rapid reduction In weight.
It is not so bad after you get usud
to It. So much fur a lightning
method of getting thin. To amy
thin, eat barely a much as your
body requires for the work It dors.
Avoid especially sugars and starches.
No. It helps te get rid of fat
in the bust, abdomen and hips.
S, Theoretically, yes; practically,
no. The usual way It works is that
we get ravenously hungry and gorge.
You will And it easiest to do without
breakfast. 8ome business men eat
no lunch. Hupper Is the most fat
tening meal, uther things being
equal.
4. I wonder If - you thlnlt you
mean It. I wonder if six months
from now you will still think you
.were serious when you wrote,.
"birawhtTT)" Hives,
Mrs. G. M. P. writes that some
cases of hives are caused by eating
strawberries. She also writes of a
cure for soma cases of rheumatism.
It is having the teeth or tooth
extracted after X-rays have v1,nly
shown infection of the teeth, This
was lr. pi! lings' discovery, she says.
' " Good Beauty Treatment,
J? H. 8. writes: "About how many
hours of sleep do you think a young
girl of is requires? oh la snort
and rather thin, not weighing loo
pounds, going to business, and keep
ing house for father and self after
business."
'.... REPLY. ; . ,,
Nine..
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REPLY. .
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cept that the manufacturer needs
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- Three Crw Too Much.
P. H. writes: "1. Is drinking three
cups of coffee at a meal too much?
' z, is taking Sloan's liniment in
wardly harmful, a few drops on a
teaspoonful of sugar? .
HGrliY,
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try it?, ...
Friendship of France
Holt's Absurd Story
Lost Domestic Arts
(From the San Franeleeo Chronicle.)
The. expectation of life of tho
common broom is said to have in
creased 100 per cent in recent years
and naturally the broom makers
and the growers of broc:tx corn
don t like it. The quicker brooms
wear out the better is business in
their line. '
But aren't they a little disingenu
ous in charging the decay of the art
of sweeping to the movies and the
autemobile? We are inclined to
think the disuse of the broom is
due to no increase of housewifely
slatternness but rather to the vac
uum cleaner and the carpet sweeper,
corollaries of greater neatness.
The. lost art of sweeping is only
one of a long list of lost arts pro
duced by modern invention. Home
bread baking Is one of them. Reap
ing with the sickle is another.
Horseshoeing is rapidly approaching
that class. Rocking the cradle was
there long since. So was spinning,
and churning, and the writing of
longhand. In many of these In
stances we observe that the makers
of the old-time Implements saved
themselves by turning over to the
new inventions. The range manu
facturers got busy making gas
stoves, the churn makers began
turning out separators. What the
broom makers should have done
waa to have reached out for the
vacuum cleaner and carpet "weeper
patents.
However, we will give them a free
suggestion: Home brewing was one
of the lost arts, but the eighteenth
amendment revivified it. Let the
broom makers put through a consti
tutional amendment forbidding the
broom aa pernicious to the home
and brooms will be bootlg?d on
eTery corner.
(From the Hew York Berald.)
Returning from Washington
after the opening of tho conference
for ' the limitation of armament,
Hamilton Holt contributed to our
neighbor, the World, the subjected
flabbergasting remarks:
1 Hughes would never have dared
to deliver it (his epeech to the
conferees) if he had not been.
assured beforehand that he would
receive the support of England.
Until a few days before the con
ference there had been debate aa
to whether the opening speech
should be general or specific in its
nature, and a decision to make it'
general had finally been reached.
The night before the conference
opened, so I was informed by a
member of the British delegation,
Arthur Balfour had a two-hour
talk with Hughes.
Now, Balfour is no spring
chicken. You can be sure that
they talked about something be
sides . the heavy snowstorm he
. encountered on the ,. way down
from Montreal.
AVhen Hughes had finished his
speech Balfour went up to him,
shook his hand and said, "Well,
that was a great speech." '
Because of its absurdity It is un
necessary to discuss Mr. Holt's dec
laratljn that- Secretary Hughes
would not have "dared" to lay be
fore the conference the United
States program for limitation of
naval armament. It is sufficient
merely to characterise it as rot. An
examination of the facts of record
discloses the folly Mr. Holt has em
bodied in his other statements.
Mr. Holt says a decision had been
reached for Mr. Hughes to deliver
an address of generalisations, and
he implies that this decision was
changed on the evening of Armistice
day, after Mr. Hughes had talked
with Mr. Balfour for two hours.
But the facts are that the address
and program presented by Mr.
Hughes with their carefully pre
pared consideration of warship ton
nage afloat, on the ways and pro
jected in three countries, and the
references not only to fighting craft
by classes nut by name or number,
were not hurriedly compiled docu
ments, the fruit of inspiration de
rived from a two-hour talk with Mr.
Balfour. The explicit, succinct, ex
haustive proposal laid before the
statesmen in Washington by the
secretary of state of the United
States bore intrinsic evidence of
elaborate and painstaking prepara
tion, which is apparent to every
body who can read.
Moreover, one detail of the open
ing ression of tha conference re
futes Mr. Holt's implication that Mr.
Hughes' plans were reversed at the
eleventh hour because of Mr. Bal
four's intervention in behalf of spe
cifications where generalities had
been decided upon. The Hughes
address was composed in English,
translated into French, and printed
copies of It were distributed to the
delegates. It was the only utterance
made at the first session of the con
ference thus elaborately prepared; It
was the only utterance at that ses
sion which was not interpreted from
the language in which It originated
into French or English for the bene
fit of the delegates versed in only
one tongue. Mr. Holt Is a pub
lisher: his familiarity with the
printing, editing, setting ud and
printing of important documents
should enlighten him aa to the prac
tical imposMDuity ji meeting me
chanically the demands of the situa
tion he depicts when he says Mr.
Hughes reversed his purpose on Fri
day evening, as the result of a talk
with Mr. Balfour, scrapped an
address or generalities, and pre
pared the remarkable program of
action which on Saturday stunned I
the au?urt assemblage in Conrtittt-f
t'nnal Memorial, hall.
It-ram ike Ha .tea TraaeeflH.)
. Porsmuet among the heartening
features of tha first els days of the
confvnmes of Wsittlngton Is the sub
sum I I and miuiitaiUou evldenrs.
both at (he pulillu planary erwlun
and SI all of the raurutlvn aeaalmi
of the several rommittees, ut Hie
friendship of France for Ameilia.
At i-v.ry airp to dute tha Kiemh
delrgailun, under the leadership of
Premier Urlsnd, has kept in prrrvci
tei wltli the American delegation
under the Ivadnrshlp of Heeretary
Hushes. Th A merles n proposal for
the Hnillsiloii of naval arniamvtua
received the quirk and complete sc.
rrpiance of the Kreneh. "We are
buck of you. Mr. Secretary." said M.
Ilriand in his eloquent speaclt hint
Tueeduy, and the omnemneiui with
which he said it brought applause
from the gnllrrlr tinfura lha umclnl
Interpreter had rendered tho French
reply Into Unultah.
The proposed amendment In re
gard to submarines, which Mr. 1IM
four with great skill threw nut
"merely as a suggestion." and which
now appears In Its true light as a
serious British reHervmioii, hue met
with no mora favor among the
French than among the American
esperte, " lioulitleaa It had been by
both anticipated. The as me pro
posal from the same eourre appeared
at tho conference of Paris, It met
there, as It Is meeting here, with ihe
opposition of tha Amurtcans and the
Frnirh, To eliminate the submarine
until fly as an engine of naval war
fare would be to reduce Frunce
to a third -rate power snd bring
French ports under tho domination
of tho lirhlnh fleet; for Ihe sub
murine is even more msential to tho
defense of France than It Is'to tho
dnfenso of the United Ktatcv. To
the argument of the Biltlsli that be
cause tho submarine Is capable of
abuse In warfare It might well be
banlphed altogether, tho French, In
company with tho AmcrU-unx, reply
that with equal logic any other arm
of national defense, including even
the rifle. In which soft-nosed bullets
have been used, might also be nbol-lhed--a
reductio ad absurdum, alike
to French and American minds.
Bqt the accord that has developed
between our own delegation and tho
French is not limited to the son. It
stretches across the Pacifl'i, and nup
ports In general the )0 principles
submitted by China as a guide for
agreement among all tho raclflc
powers upon far eastern questions.
Speaking for his delegation, M. Bar
raut, the French colonial minister,
was quick to declare the earnest da
sire of Franco to aid China in real
izing her legitimate commercial,
political and territorial aspirations,
and as an evidence of good faith)
France has offered to give up
Kouang Tcheou, which she leased
from China in 1898, provided Great
Britain will give, up Wel-Hni-Wei
and Japan Shantung, which the Ger
mans leased at the same time, and
also the Fort Arthur peninsula. In
addition, France is willing to sur
render her extra-territorial privi
leges, )f tni when the other powers
do likewise. And, best of all, France
has taken a- firm stand for open deal-
ings of all the powers with .China
and against any secret negotiation.
America has no leases in China to
glvaup. The French offer for the
tnt pert aquiires Ph American
practice, and fhlsa iut look to
America and France and to the
power nf their Julnt, sasmpls l se-
ura for th Chine from Ur
ii.ii.i. ....i I .... .1, Mii.ra.n.ai
for hlh ihs Chliisss dsUgatlpn hs
appealed.
It Is tun Vly to estimate ts
rellent affect upon International re
Utions the world over which the
rapprochanisnt rvltd In the early
days of the conference between
Kreiice and America will eerriM
Hut the exprrlence in roneord and
the example In co-operation which
the Frvucli god the American dele
gation are enltyliig provides new
ground f"r Imps ttut Great Britain
and Jupan may soon ha brought r
see that this voluntary association
points the way to permanent peace
In the l'uclilc along which the other
nations with litiervst In the J'aririci
must travel. It runs at right angle
to the rough mad of offeitslva and
defensive military alliance and
secret agreements which, while they
may have been formed agalnM Rus
sia and employed against Germany,
can only be continued against
France, America? and Chln.
The French are practical Idealists.
They sny bluntly that to scrap naval
armaments without scrapping mili
tary alliances would net make for
peace or juailt-e; that the one is a
symptom of tho disease and the
oilier Iho reuse. And It is nut III
French way to deal with a symptom
uml Ignore the ruuae. Whether this
Is the position n( the American dele
gation or not. It Is, we venture to
any, tho poeltlun of the averag
Amtrlcun, and It marks another and
strong tie of friendship between
France nnd America In International
relationship.
How i:Im Could Hi f laid Her?
Audrey Mimaon, embarrassed, has
fled to a farm to csenpe the "per
fect man" tho would marry her.
But sho published her new address.
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