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I'lim be: uMAHA. SUNDAY, NUVbAiUfciit 27. 1521. TheOmaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING-SUNDAY Till PEI rUL!8HINl COMPANY KtUOH B. VPDIEt. nUhr MEMBER Of TNC ASSOCIATED TRESS v ii.is tt tk m ta k t . t. .UM) miiM alMMlil iwmMimim 1 all a wirt ntiieS u M r num. ruu4 la UU . ' It 1 em kmti. Air st rjwMIMlaa M apIU neihM ' alas imrnt TIM OatM Stae J S mm ma Pmtl f Clrse bttesa, tk imM Mikanif a iiUi m. TV clrcuUtlea of The Omaha Bee SUNDAY, NOV. 20, 1921 71.717 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES 8. YOUNG, IuIhh M ELMER S. ROOD, Clrcalatlaa Maaeaar Sra hi tuk.crlb.4 before m thlt (24 tf el N.w-Wr. JSI w j QUIVEY. N.tary Futile ATUnlle 1000 BEE TELEPHONES Privet Branch Fwhsnii. Ak for the Iprtm.nt or Pr.oii Wanted, ror Ni.ht Cells After 10 P. M.I Mltorlal Department, AT lantle I0U or OFFICES Main Off'f 11th and .""' Co. Bluff.-15 "colt Ft. Ruh Sld.-48. B. 4th St. N.r York-J Fifth Av.. Wa.hlnston-Ull 0 HI. Chr.o--12l Wrigl.y Bldf. Pari., Kranc 420 Kut 8t. Honor The Bee'8 Platform 1. New Union Passenger Station. 2. Continued Improvement of the N brasba Highways, including tho pave, ment with a Brick Surface of Main Thoroughfare leading Into Omaha. I 3. A ehort, low-rate Waterway from the Corn Belt to th Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. Test of National Sincerity. .' Old-fasliioncd diplomacy, the sort that be gan with Machiavci'.i, and which was brought to its apogee by Talleyrand and Mettcrnich, is playing its part at Washington. Whether it can overcome and undo the "shirt sleeve" variety is to be determined. If the nations that are represented at that gathering are sincere in their professions, the days of thimblerigging in in ternational conversations is over. China promises to afford the acid test of the sincerity of the great powers. China's history is placid enoush, although not devoid of glory, even from a military standpoint. It is a matter of record that the aroused indignation and valor of the Chinese were sufficient to expel the Tatar invaders, and turn the tide ot their nomadic conquest to the west, where the decadent Romans were unable to check the oncoming flood. Nor is it particularly crcuuuuic iu wcsicm iivumiiuu that China got along very well in its own way until its supine devotion to pacificism aroused the cupidity of great but predacious nations, and "spheres of influence" were devised, under which the almond-eyed heathen might be exploited. . America, to her everlasting glory, has had no part in this. On the contrary, our relations with China have always been of the best and our presence there has been helpful. When John Hay interposed the "open door" policy, in the early years of the current century, it was to prevent the final dismemberment of the Chinese empire. That all was not accomplished which might have followed is no indication of failure on our part, in intention at least. Now China, relying on American friendship, is be fore the Washington conference, asking for a chance to restore its own control of its own affairs. If the Chinese requests are granted, it will mean that Great Britain and Japan especially, and France to a lesser 'degree, will have to let go of definite material advantages, acquired at the expense of China. No need to inquire too closely into the nature of these; possession of hcm arises from thcinability of China to ne gotiate with the powers on equal terms. Japan's last "concessions" were secured by this note, delivered at Peking on May 7, 1915: The Imperial Japanese government hereby PTain offer their advice and hope that the Chinese government, upon this advice, will give a satisfactory reply by 6 o'clock p. ni. on the ninth of May. It is hereby declared that if no satisfactory reply is received before or at the specified time the Imperial Japanese povernmcnt will take such steps as they may deem necessary. And China could not resist. The United States promptly served notice on Japan that it can not recognize, any agreement or under . taking which has been entered into, or which may be entered into between the governments of China and Japan impairing the treaty rights of the United States and its citizens in China, ' the political or territorial integrity of the Re public of China, or the international policy 'commonly known as the open door policy. Now it will be plain that efforts being made by Great Britain and Japan to retain their grip on China, and the manifest desire of the Japanese to avoid consideration of the questions involved, is not in keeping with either the letter or the spirit of the agenda for the discussions at Wash ington. A fairer test for international sincerity never was presented. It is idle to. talk about the square deal for oppressed or submerged peo ples, when China is to be denied access to justice. ' " "The American people are neither so soft hearted or so simple-minded as not .to see through the smokescreen being developed at Washington. European or Asiatic diplomats may undertake to steal the gold from the teeth of Hughes; if he permits it to be done, they will hare something to boast about. But they will do well not to mistake his straightforward com munication as the utterance of one who is not bright enough to know guile when displayed before him. Whatever agreements may be reached at Washington will be open. If the visiting brethren want to continue the status quo in China, it will be a disappointment to America, and no help to the settlement of world problems, - An Inclictment From the Pulpit It is to be wondered how many persons die a natural death, according to the standard set up by the Rev. Oliver D. Baltzly. Death brought on by wearing thin and scanty clothing for the sake of style he classifies as suicide. Presumably mortality caused by the insufficient clothing or food of porerty is murder or at least man slaughter. Long hours of labor, low pay and lack sjt safeguards were specifically placed in the category of killing. By such striking statements -- new conscience If being aroused in man. Responsibility for poverty and misery is no longer held entirely personal, nor is all human suffering accepted as be smtericms act of God, but as wrongs which i mutt be righted by the social conscience. If men love their neighbors ss themselves they will not wring what they can out of their fellows, but strive for the general good. The man who takes what he did not produce, the exploiter and the parasite, Is not in favor todsy. The teaching of religion requires the strong to bear the burdens of the weak. It is a heavy accusation whrth this clergyman levels at the folly and neglect which cause so much suffering on every hand, but strong words are needed to bring to each man and woman that personal conviction of sin which precedes repentance and right living. The Golden Calf of Efficiency. Commercial colleges and schools have their uses, but the great universities should not imi tate and compete with them. There is danger in the movement toward making many institu tions of higher learning mere annexes of In dustrial plants and business snd financial houses. In Detroit recently a group of manufacturers and business men conferred with the president of the University of Michigan and a professor of chemical engineering on plans for revolution izing the educational ideals of the colleges of the state. It is said that the movement begun there may result in shearing the courses of much of their theoretical aspect and fitting the students to slip more easily into places in the industrial machine upon graduation. "We contend, especially of state universities, that their guiding influence should be patterned largely to the industrial requirements of their state," said Howard E. Coffin, an automobile manufacturer. "For instance, today Michigan is a manufacturing state. Our great industrial con cerns are by far the biggest consuming agencies of graduates from the state colleges." The task of the universities is to teach young men and women how to think, rather than what to think. It would be interesting to know how many of the attendants at that conference had the backf.roiind of a . college education. Cer tainly Edsel Ford, who was one of them, did not. He has succeeded, not by virtue of any special training, but by following in the foot steps of his father. Others no ' doubt were graduated from technical schools, but under the old regime, and not under the severely practi cal methods they now propose. If they have been narrowed down in their outlook on life, it was not their college. that did. it, but their work. , No man who really studied in school will say that " he is not the better for it, or that he wasted his . time. It is the business of a university to broaden human knovvleoge and widen human spirit, not to confine instruction to a single narrow channel. The universities that are endowed by private fortunes are not thus limiting themselves, and the public, which supports the state universities, ought not to allow this worship of efficiency at the expense of the humanities to be set up. ' - ' The Art of Spelling. Complaint is frequently heard that the ability to spell is now regrettably low, and that boys and girls are graduated even from universities whose knowledge of orthography is weak. Es pecially is this a handicap in commercial life, for scarcely anything can be more irritating than the fantastic shape that words assume in care less hands. Yet it is scarcely to be upheld that spelling now is worse than in earlier times. .... Almost all of us misspell at one time or another. An unkind explanation of the prevail ing use of stenographers is that business men wish to avoid the necessity for the correct han dling of English. A debate on whether the stenographer or her employer is the more skilled in orthography might bring out some interesting testimony. Great emphasis was put on Spelling in former generations, yet one has only to look over any collection of family letters in order to discover that mistakes were made then as now. One of the hardships is that almost every letter in the language is silent in some word or other. Dr. Vizetelly classifies only j, v, y and z as always being sounded. Phonetic spelling has made little progress, and is not reliable so long as words are mispronounced. Dr. Way land of Philadelphia showed us several years ago what could be done with letter values in English when he produced ghoughphtheightteeau, which he explained was the word potato spelled accord ing to the following system: gh stands for p as in the final letters of hiccough; ough for o as in dough; phth for t as in phthisis; eigh for a as in neighbor; tte for t as in gazette, and eau for o as in beau. .Result: p-o-t-a-t-o. To be able to spell is an accomplishment worth while, and one that should be sought by all. There is evident a slow movement toward simpli ficationas is seen in the substitution of "airplane" for "aeroplane," just as in ' the change from "choaked" to "choked" since the time of our grandparents. But in general the old rules hold, and the knowledge of and respect for them should not be allowed to decline. : A New Experiment in Medicine. Leaving aside all questions of why it is so, the fact remains that expert medical attention is beyond the means Of a great many persons. For the very poor there are free clinics and dis pensaries, but for many other persons who can not' afford the fees of specialists there is only neglect. In recognition of this condition a model "pay clinic" providing treatment at cost has been opened in New York City by Cornell Medical college. Specialists in the main divisions of medicine and surgery will work there on a sal ary under the direction of the distinguished members of the Cornell medical faculty. One may visit any branch of the clinic for a fee of $1; get a thorough health examination, with ad vice on personal .hygiene for $2.50; cases re quiring consultations, special . study and written findings cost $10. X-ray photographs, drugs, eye glasses and other supplies are sold at cost In reply to the objection that all this cuts 'into the incomes of private practitioners, the public health committee of the New York Academy of Medicine pleads the necessity of adequate facilities for diagnoses and treatment The Sur vey magazine estimates that there are 2,000,000 persons in New York who fall into the small income class in need of such provision. This effort to establish a self-supporting pub lic health service will be watched with interest While pay clinics have been maintained for sev eral years in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Brook lyn and elsewhere, they have not offered general medical treatment but only that in special lines, as baby care and dentistry. The ordinary ob jection of state medicine is avoided here, and every high standard of the profession upheld. The Husking Bee It's Your Day Siart ItWithaLauah A NEW WEEK. The Sabbath Is t day of rest, A day the workers like the best And oft' of it we speak; For on this day of grace and praise We turn our backs on bygone days And start a brand new week. Let's, ere this Sabbath onward rolls, Tske inventory of our souls. And let our probe be true Then cast out evil, doubt and fear, Fill up our hearts with mirth and cheer, And take a start anew. No matter how much good we've done Let's make this week a better one, Let it from wrong be free; Let's help our fellows on their way, And this our practice every day Faith, Hope and Charity, 0 0 0 PHILO-SOPHY. ' Man who hasn't got a self-starter on his dis position is a crank. Most men think the sermon is directed at the other fellow. Many a society bud blooms into a wall flower. e 'Scientists were not without a sense of humor, mused the corner philosopher as he but toned his overcoat up under his chin. "They called this the temperate zone. ' A COUNTER PLOT. Yesterday we saw a coal wagon and an Ice wagon unloading at the same building. This pigmy world sinks into oettv insie. nificance when we read of astronomers who speak casually of a star with a diameter of 300,000,000 miles, as compared with the world's mere 8,000. : It isn't by comparison much of a world, but it is the only world we've got, so we might as well make the best of it. SWAT HIM. Of all the guinea ginks we know, That one should wear a shroud Who chews gum at the movie show And reads the words out loud. Money lost may sometimes be won back, but the time lost in games of chance is gone forever. BUT WHAT IS IT NOW? Douglas street hashery announces on its bul letin board "Been Soup." Will Hays has set the Postoffice department the task of searching out missing husbands. Will attempt to deliver the male, as it were. . Over 85 per cent of runaway marriages are failures, a pastor says. The remaining 15 per cent, we take it, have no difficulty in obtaining their divorces. A LITTLE ANXIOUS. Wife: I should think you would show a lit tle anxiety in regard to our household affairs. Hub: Well I do, dear just as little as pos sible. ' The more money a man gets the easier it seems to be for him to curb his generous im pulses. - Arbuckle is not wealthy, according to a re cent news item. And we used to consider Fatty one of the fixed stars. , UNIMPORTANT ITEM. In all Paul Jones' numerous naval engage ments he never sighted a submarine. Yes, Philbert, the clothes do make the man. If you doubt it try walking down Farnam street without any. For vears the old world hovered on the versre of war. Now it is hovering on the verge of peace. RIGHT. He is a model husband. So says a modern sage, Who remembers his wife's brithday But quite forgets her age. PERTINENT QUERY. "Remember, my boy, we are here to help others." ' ' - "And what are the others here for?" , When they take the tax off the movie tickets we shall know that universal peace is at hand. . FAIR EXCHANGE. ' Now the scientists chirp that even shakinir hands involves the exchange of millions of deadly germs. 'Sail right il we get rid of as many as we get. v w n One nroblem has been solved hv heatine- trie swords ino plowshares, but what are we going to beat the corkscrews into? Out in Montana school was dismissed for a week because of deep snow. Some kids have all the luck. When they flop the telephones over to the automatic system whom is a guy to blame it on when he gets the wrong number? SURE THING. "There are no sure things in this life," Declared the pessimistic pill, "Oh yes, there are," declared his wife. "You quite forget the grocery bill." One difference between war and peace in war time the government tries to run the rail roads and in times of peace the railroads try to run the government - . See where a meat market burned down and the flames spread so rapidly that the butcher had time only to take out one armful of goods. Just saved his bacon. He (about to propose): , I wish I could pho tograph your mind. She : Yes. In that way you- could see the negative. - WHY IS IT That when a reporter asks a woman for her picture to put in the paper she almost always produces one taken about 15 YEARS AGO? Airplane funerals are to be inaugurated by up-to-date morticians, it is said. Of course they come higher than the old fashioned undertaking. ISNT IT THE TRUTH? If you tell a girl she's pretty And beautiful and fair. That she is cute and witty And has such lovely hair; If while this line you're spilling, You look into her eyes, YouH always find her willing To forgive your other lies. AFTER-THOUGHT: Today is the tomor row we worried about yesterday, PHILO, How to Keep Well Bf OK W. A. EVAN J Qwetlea M.Mr.l. rlM, auH. IhM. aa4 prvvMiUa at .., eua nlH4 la Dr. Ea by rui The Be, arlll be aar4 aereaMUy, avkjact to praeet IUbIuiI, vaere a tM aiMrMMd eavlee la e claeeaV Dr. Eva will pet mtmh dUtsMl er areMrlk far iae'lvUJwe! . AMmi brtter la tare el CoDjrriebt. XSlt, bf Dr. W. A. Kvaaa, A WOMAN'S TRAGEDY. I have befors m a letter which I wish I eould And space to publlah In Its entirety, but there are 1,000 words In It and I can use leas than 400. It will lose much of Its force by beinir abitraeted. but even at that. I think the abatrnct will nrova iieiprui. It la the life story of an educated. refined woman ot middle axe, who calls herself an old maid. The daughter of parents of considerable means, reared as a gentlewoman Jn a home where there waa amDle eerv. Ire, guilty of no social tragedy, she Is now employed aa a cook, and ha been in service of this trade and type for a number of years. Being introspective, and navinc an analytical mind, she has diag nosed herself and the causes of her lanure. Judeed by social standards, tier life Is a failure. Bhe frankly admits the limitations of her "capacity, and acknowledges a considerable degree of unhapplness. The situation Is saved from utter loss by a considerable development of common sense, and the beneficent effects of a frank diagnosis. Start ing with this equipment, were she a girl In her teens, she could be trained into efficiency and happiness uy one wno Knew. But let us give the remainder of her story. . Here was a woman, the victim of emotional instability a nenrHi. nlc who might have been marta into a happy, efficient member of society had the teachers who edu cated, her and the parents who bore her given some attention to emo tional training;, while they were teaching; reading;, writing; and arith metic had they known and under stood the meaning; of certain types of personality and certain kinds of behavior and the risht treatment by training; of those who were peculiar in these regards. But let US srive the remnlrMor n this space to . extracts from the iaay a story. I am what Is usually called very nervous. I think you would call It emotional instability. T am In tensely seir-conscious and Introspec tive, conscientious nnrl oantlv timi by nervous strain, though jtfiysicaliy a am Biruil(. My great drawback Is that I cannot meet people and talk to mem witn ease. II I go to an even lng party I am so nervmmlv v hausted the next day that I can do no work. This Is due partly to a men or early social training, but also to a sort of sensitive vanity. I feel my inferiority, but I am apt to show u Dy an attitude that seems Just uiw opposite. I am acutely sensitive in trrltnt. lng noises. My eyes are sensitive to light. I usually wear mnlri glasses in the summer. I lack con centration. I find it difficult to read even an interesting article through. I like to change occupations. Quick ly get tired and discouraged. "I suffer agonies thinking of stu pid, awkward blunders. I eet an worked up thinking of quarrels and misunderstandings with my sisters. i am inciinea to be loolishly envious of the success of others in lines I can never hope to excel in. When I want to do a thinsr. I cannot want to do it methodically. When I want some pleasure. I want it at once. Putting off is one of my ciuei iaiungs, yet I nave gone into some situations in a hysterical fash ion without stopping to think. It was always a trouble for 'me to think and talk at the same time. I have had very vivid 'flying dreams all my . life. 'I am so much affected bv the personality of straneers that ntv mind is sometimes -put out of gear by meeting them. I am timid about meeting any one on whom I wanr to make a good impression. My will Is weak for long stretches, but strong for a spurt. I am intensely sensitive to disapproval, even when I know It 13 deserved. I am easily irritated. When I was a child thev tried to get me to clay with other little girls, but these children seldom came back after one or two visits. I remember hatine them and feeline- jealous when my father spoke to them." The parents saw there wn r.me. thing wrong, so they gave the child Parrish's syrup and cod liver oil. Pains In lilver. Inquisitive writes: "1. I have severe pains In the reeion of mv liver, often becoming sick and vom iting. What do you think would cause this? 2. Please tell me for what pur pose veronal is used and its effects." - REPLY. 1. Among the conditions which may cause pain in the liver, nausea and vomiting are gall stones. Infec tion of the gall bladder,, cancer, abscess and perhaps cirrhosis and heart disease. I can.not guess the trouble in this case, i'ave a physi cian examine you. 2. It is used as a sleep producer. Its use is never justified except un der a physician's directions, and seldom theft. Needs Plenty of Sleep. Mrs. L. W. writes: "My baby boy Is ZVt years old and weighs 31 pounds. Is he under weight? He weighed 33 pounds when 2 years old. He does not rest well, but is very active, is the loss of weight a danger signal?" REPLY. He weighs enough, but he should not have lost weight during the last six months. See that he gets a morning and afternoon nap as well as plenty of sleep at night. He should get a pint and a half of milk, about an ounce of meat or egg, plenty of vegetables, cereal and bread. Bolshevism and Education One Honor Left for Focp.. Apparently no college has yet made Marshal Foch a doctor of divinity. But as a. doctor of laws, civil and canon, he must now be the possessor of more academic insignia than of military ribbons. New York World. ON THE PLJ&TE. Out on th nndr. iria and .hallow Piatt A drirtlnr lor Bis lodced afilnat a hoU And form a mat alonr a flahln hoi Among- th lalanda. hlftln(. bar and flat. Tb war track widen from a water rat That paddle awlftlj to a ruhr knoll: A camper with a hook and lis and pol I eauiht Bpon th luring habitat. Her Coronado mar har been th fueit Ot omo brar Indian ot th peaceful rank: Explorer Clark and Lewis etopped to ret Beneath the' II ft lew tre that mark the banks. Or troubled Mormon, trailing- through the weat. i Camped n th beach and offered up their thauk. r WILLIS HUDSPETH. (from tk tUataa Trmjuerlpt.) Saron Ileien, former ambassador to the United States, whom many Bostonisns met at the rorUmouth peace conference, publlely takes H O. Wells to task for statins: juat as nuDiiciy mat tne montroua" car lat government "treated elementary education as an ofTenae SKOinat the state." As the baron puts the case there Is an Implication that autoc racy was not so black ss It Is uaually painted; Into the esse offered by air. wens there intrudes the sue geatlon that present conditions In Russia are far more favorable to educational Interests than were con dltions under crurlnm. What are the facts? It is undoubtedly true that progress was being made In the training of the Russian mnc riur. lng pre-war times, and that admis sion comes from the revolutionists themselves. Between 1880 and 1911 the primary schools In European iiussia increased in. number from 22.770 to 80.377. the total for the whole empire In the latter year be ing 100,295. with the number of pupils estimated at 6.500.000. Dur ing the five sessions of the third douma the appropriations for schools Increased from 6. 900. 000 roubles In 1908 to 9,000,000 roubles in 1912: during practically the same period the expenditure on all forms of public Instruction Increased from bS.000,000 to 170.000.000 annually. But much of this new seal for edu cation was referable to the advances made towards representative gov ernment, especially to the activities of the Zemstvos and rural com munes. .The government granted appropriations, yet remained sus picious of theeducators: the teach ers had to be "safe" from the offi cial point of view. Even long hair, supposed sign of Nihilism, was taboo, and when the Uusrlon edu cators 'organized a trip to western Europe in 1909 the authorities elim inated Paris from the itinerary as repuDiican- and therefore "danger ous." How much better does Russian education fare under bolphevism? The author and journalist, A. V. Amfltreatroff, who has Just arrived in London after four years' experi ence of the new regime, reports that the bolshevist schools form "one of the most terrible sores on the body of the soviet republic." The present-day rulers of Russia work on the principle that in order that the children may be won over to the cause" they must be separated as completely as possible from their families. In the schools a "bol shevist alphabet" has been intro duced, and the boy who masters It is granted unlimited privileges. In stead of A standing for "archangel" and B for "Bogoroditsa" or "Mother of God," as in the former church schools, now abolished, A means "autonomy," the slogan of commu nism, and B "barin," "master," or "employer," the instruction being to work for the former and suppress the latter. Any 13-year-old lad who has mastered the new alphabet, along with the teaching that goes with it, can take part in communis tic propaganda and Join the ranks of the active soviet workers. And in the disintegration of family life which has been wrought by soviet rule it often happens, Amfltreatroff asserts, that children, hearing crit icise of the bolshevists, inform against their parents, who are thereupon arrested and sometimes executed. The school premises at Petrograd are meanwhile in "a de plorable and insanitary state, the children are covered with vermin, and are dying so fast of hunger and disease that in the 'children's homes' a death rate of 500 per 1,000 is a normal occurrence." And these are only a few of the things that might be cited to show what education has become in bol shevist Russia. They are certainly pertiment to the controversy be tween Baron Rosen and Mr. Wells. Keep to the Main Question (from lbs ragrra(WulUI. Speak of It formally In whatever terms you will, the Washington eon ferenre Is a peace conference, As It rtroceed. the delegates should feel that peace Is Its main business aa constantly, as vividly, ss If every time they lifted their eyes they saw on the walla about tnem in snin lng letters, "Peace on earth, good will to men." We have not liked the tenor of some dlnpatche from Washington during the lost fortnight "The pub lic should not think," says one cor respondent, "that this conference expects to abolish war, but greatly to reduce the possibilities of it." That theory, if generally prevalent In the pnbllo mind, or In the minds of the delegates, might hold the conference back from the achieve ment of Its central purpose. Here Is a monster thot hns slnln within the last six years 7,000,000 of the (lower of the youth In many lands. The strongest nations are Joining their forces with a view to cnglng him beyond the possibility of his working further injury upon the the world. He la going to be treated as an outlaw, or aa two or three men would be treated who. In try ing to settle their private quarrels, start a conflagration that might burn up the whole town. This conception of the functions of the conference is not so Idealls tlo as to leave no room for discus sion of any number of economic or practical questions that must be given careful consideration. It leaves room also for the first lim ited steps that probably will have to be taken before complete dis armament can come. It Is far from conceiving of the Washington con ference as able in itself to usher In the millennium. There will be many International conferences after this, and no doubt some kind of associa tion of nations. But the decisions of 30 or 40 men must not fustrate the hopes of wait ing millions. If the delegates should prove sceptical or lukewarm con cerning the ultimate aim of the gathering, and slow-footed In mov ing strong! toward thnt gnnl. thejr would deniTV the rvliuke t.f riwlii minded men the world liver. This world hns simply gut t gt rid of the drag and f.Hr f war. If two or three nations, lurue or small, per sist In fluhtlng, they lnunt be re strained by ail the other nations. It cannot be at this srent hour, which may mark either a lapse Into practical barbarism, or a mighty ad vance in the history of mankind, that the Washington conference will do anything ele than stick to the main question. Heard Also at the Conference. "The bombs bursting In air" of "The Star-Spangled Banner" Is get ting to mean something to American diplomats abroad. St. Louis Star. New Kink In a Hotel. A New York hotel has Installed a "thinking room." Always catering to the out-of-town trade! Wash ington Tost. When in Omaha Hotel Henshaw "business s coop thank you' LY Nicholas oil Company Wool Shirts Pure O. D. Wool Wor sted, with dq nr double elbow... V).l7D Leather Vests All leather, with knit wrist, neck and waist band, wears smooth, doesn't flC 7C scuff .pj.j Army Blankets Both New and Like New, $4.25 and $4.39 Each Auto Robes. Reclaimed Blankets, $2.00 to $3.00 Each SCOTT'S Auto Tourist Store 1501 HOWARD Many Other -Cold Weather Wearables Tumulty as an Historian (I'rom the New Haven Journal-Courier.) While rather pleasant reading on the whole, Mr. Tumulty's record of his 10 years' Intimate association with Mr. Wilson as already lost its true value as a true record. It is clear that it will find a place on the shelves of the book collector by the side of other gossipy volumes of passing interest, but not of perma nent value. - The accuracy of the book has al ready been called into question In two Important particulars. The ver sion of Mr. Garrison's retirement from the cabinet because of his dis sent from Mr. Wilson's Mexican pol icy has been disposed of by that gentleman himself. It was not his insistence upon a policy of interven tion that cooled him toward his chief; it was the absence of any policy at all. The next break came in the Tumulty account of the Vera Cruz incident. So grossly inaccurate was the version that Rear Admiral Fiske felt called upon to Instantly correct It. An additional blemish came in the chapters printed on the very day when Mr. Hughes was the recipient of the world's praise for his naval holiday formula. Mr. Tu multy showed such a distorted un derstanding of the Hughes character as to bring into discredit his powers of character analyzation. What Is further in store for the record can only be Imagined. The impression thus far made by the chapters as they have appeared In the New York Times is that Mr. Tumulty set himself tho wrong task. 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