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THE lilJE: OMAHA. FKIDAV. DKCBMIIKlt 10. IU21. The Omaha Bee OAILY (MORNING) EVENING fcUNDAY THE BIB PVBI.IXHTNO COMPA.NV bEUO.N . UID1KK. rubllib.r MEMBER Or THE ASSOCIATED TRUS 1 AaMiaUta4 Ptraa, rale Tka In II I Mwlw. U alut.l anuiia MiMutM wnihlimli of til Hn eueak-haa mbiM U I af R"i atkaraiaa iaait4 Ua lW. m alaa u Iml aaa Beams Sanie. All rtsata 0 rawibllcaikie at MT eraaiai aiapalaaae ei aiaa raaami. TM Omaha Sa to iMnrtwr el Audi! Bum ef Clan UtlHMb lb imtnKKl taUwntf M rlKHtauw audita Tha circulation ef The Omaha Be ' SUNDAY, DEC. 11, 1921 74,237 -' THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLU S. YOUNG, ButliMM Mui tXMIR S. ROOD, ClrcuUttea Mauftr warn te m4 aubacrlbael before in (hie 11th 4y f , DKwbK, IMI. (S..I) W. II. QUIVEY, Nelary FebUs j ! AT Unlic ' 1000 BEE TELEPHONES Privet Branch tichafiea. Aak for 'he Dapartmant or Parana Wantad. for Nllht CIU AfUr 10 P. M.I Mltnrlal 1 apartment, AT lantl 1021 or 1042. OFrtCES Main Offlro 17th and t'arnam Co. Bluffa 16 Scott flt. South Bid mi 8. 2 If h 81. Nw York t St Klfth Av.. Weahinaton 1111 0 At. ih(-iro 1 Z IS WHglty Bids. Parti, Franc 420 Sua St. Honor The Bee's Platform 1. New Union. Passenger Station. 2. Continued improvement of the Ne braika Highways, Including tha pave man! with a Brick Surface of Main Thoroughfares leading Into Omaha. 3. A abort, low-rat Waterway from the Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean. 4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. China's Case Before Conference. According to a dispatch from Mr. Philip Kingslcy, China is doomed to disappointment in its request that it he relieved from the treaties , with Japan embodying the "twenty-one tle mands." England and France in complying would be compelled to denounce certain of their acts, argues Mr. Kingsley, and therefore it is not at ail likely they will side with China against Japan. He also states that the United States is ready to support Japan, because of the assumed legality of .the actions of that government. We have here the meat of a most important matter. Japan is', present in China, in Man churia, in Mongolia, in Korea, and in Siberia as jan intruder, holding whatever it holds by the strong hand. The treaties now asked to be tip held as relates to certain concessions in China 'and Manchuria are infamous, because they were obtained by methods that fall short of highway robbery only because they were perpetrated by m great nation and not by a bandit. Six yean Sigo the United States sent word to Japan that ''it can not recognise any agreement or under taking which has been entered into, or which may he entered Into between the governments of i China and Japan impairing the treaty rights of ;the United States and its citizens In China, the political or territorial integrity' of the republic of China, or the international policy commonly known as the open-door policy." , . M ; China found the door ctosed at Paris, but will it not be opened at Washington? .England and France may have to recede from some acts of the past, but why not, when such retreat is in the interest of justice? Can the civiliied nations' .consent to the restoration of Poland, the eleva tion of Czechb-SloVakia, Jtigo-Slavia, Lctvia, a Lithuania, and view with complacence the sub-1 Hugation of China and Korea by Japan? 3 A naval holiday and an agreement to observe .'"rights" In the Pacific will hot establish peace in Hhe world if the Washington conference ends by '.confirming' Japan in its occupancy o! territory it holds by force of arms. It is idle to talk to 'Chinese people about the square deal when we ' even passively assent to the injustice that is now Enforced upon them by the militarists of Japan. ,A definite understanding should be reached at (Washington en this point. The moral leadership of the United States is at stake, as well as its ! material. We can show the way and lead the , world to peace, but we will not do it if we again r allow expediency to control where right should : "prevail. Poor Health No Excuse. .' The public has been more than kind to t Charles W. Morse. It is not every convict, nor . even all those released through pardon, that is i allowed to live down his past record and enabled Z to climb to a position of importance and affluence : without being reminded at every turn of his tpast Nearly ten years ago President Taft par. Fdoned Morse from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, where he was serving fifteen years' sen tence fof violation of the national banking laws. ! The surgeon general of the United States had reported that the banker could not live more than a month if kept in prison, and even though 'released probably would not live "six months. No -other influence than that of mercy opened the 'cell door, for less than a year before President iTaft had refused to intervene and declared Morse guilty of fraudulent and criminal disregard of ' trust. - Since the date of his release Morse has been living on borrowed time. Perhaps he would have died if he had not been able to afford a course of treatment in a great European health s resort There has been a certain amount of jest iing over this remarkable recovery, and the recent , voyage of Morse to consult foreign specialists ' just at the time he began ta be wanted again in court does not strike much of a sympathetic fnote with the public. He very probably is ill, but even though one American medical man gave him tip as good as dead a decade ago, surely . there are some here skilled enough to give him ' proper care. Merely because his health is deli cate is no reason why he should be spared the t necessity for a legal accounting. the gauge for measuring tin value of such ft. leruinment Wealth when ued merely for the purpose of idle display, such is tits at timet been proposed for the exhibition of "das" at school entertainments, it not only vulgar but positively harmful. Wealth is capable of being of great use in the world, but it mint Le properly administered or it becomes limply an agent (or harm. Ostentation at a high school function it to foreign to the purpose of the school that I's practice should never be permitted. Parents arc at much concerned in this at tl- faculty, and should co-operate in the work of keeping social snobbery out of a place whose very existence It dependent upon the maintenance of true rtVtno cratic tpirit. Santa Claus Will Survive. An Omaha clergyman, italoua, devout, and inspired by a lofty conception of hit holy calling, denounces the Santa Clans myth as an "infamous falsehood," and urges his hearers to desist from its perpetuation. From tlte standpoint of cold, unyielding logic, perhaps he is right. Yet, in his devotion to the rigid dogma of the creed he teaches, he has failed to take into cognizance one important fact. Santa Claus is the embodi ment of good to those immature minds that are incapable of assimilating the eternal, fundamental truths which are concealed in the more or less forbidding envelope of a narrow creed. The innocent prattler whose eyes sparkle with anticipatory delight on the night before Christ mas looks forward to the coming of Santa Gnus as the devout Christian expects the return of the Messiah. To each the symbol is tlte same, the bringing of good. No child has ever seen Santa, none ever will, but all hope to until they reach an dgc where they can understand the meaning of the myth, and rone was ever the worse in mind or spirit for having held to the simple faith of innocent babyhood. No fear that they do not early learn the story of the shepherds' vigil, of the angel's visit, or the scene in the manger at Bethlehem. Pious, God-fearing mothers teach the little ones the narrative of the nativity, and all It contains, but they do not disdain to talk also of Santa Claus, and for the time at least en hance the pleasure of the little one by permitting it to associate the one with the other, and so gain much earlier the notion that with Christmas came great good to the world. The significance of Santa Claus is not em bodied in the materia) pleasure of receiving a gift, but in the loftier thought that from a higher' source of good the world receives a blessing. No faith in God ever was disturbed by the earlier faith In Santa Claus, nor does the cause of religion suffer greatly when presented in a form the little ones can comprehend. . A New Deal in Politics. To the bred-hi-the-bone politician the all-important thing is to get in office, and slay there. It is slow and difficult work to become a states man ,and so it is that most office-holders place their reliance on flattering the public, appealing to racial prejudices and endeavoring to discredit all possible opponents, rather than on taking a stand for any definite set of principles. The ob servant citizen may watch the antics of these jack-ih-the-box public men and irt the Course of time find them reversing themselves often enough to have been on almost all sides of all national questions. x ..." , , .. '....' . . ' The humbug of running for office by raising nothing but political dust does hot fool the peo ple now as once. The present democratic sena tor from Nebraska is trying the old methods; but without attracting much, if any, interest or sup port. ""The demagoguery which won in 1910 by opposing woman suffrage and prohibition, and in 1916 by crying, "He kept us out of war," no longer lures. If ahy republican Candidates attempt to use the same, barnstorming tactics, they also "will find their oratory falling on deaf ears. Purely politi cal questions have lost their hold on popular at tention, The problems how foremost in every mind are concerned with such vital matters 6s employment, prices, housing, markets, wages, public health and all the numerous considerations which, to use a most expressive phrase, "hit the, people where they live." The issues which seem so momentous to the politicians are not those with which the men and women, at home and at work, are concerned. .. y,. The French chamber, in voting for the con struction of t submarines and 21 other war craft, seems a bit prodigal of its people's money, in view of the savings which might be ac complished through the disarmament conference. "Charlie" Wooster has made it very plain that he is not in favor of the grain growers' scheme as at present outlined. The difficulty in his path is that the rest do hot all agree with him, As a contribution to the present Irish situation come the bid Words of Edmund Burke, himself an Irishman: "All. government indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act is found on compromise." Pursuing the theory that if enough mud is thrown some will stick, our estimable democratic contemporary has unlimbered it3 jackass battery and is going the limit Real newspaper readers are buying The Bee. Th6 four-year extension of the right of re instating war risk insurance will mean a great deal to some of the veterans who have not yet found their feet or have not realized their op portunity. , A decline of 1 per cent in the cost of food in Omaha is not to be scoffed at If prices had gone up I per cent instead, that would have been considered enough to kick about High School Entertainment Costs. : The faculty of the Central High school has " taken a step that will have the hearty approval of all save those who have not given the point at tissue serious consideration. In setting a limit on the cost of the various entertainment enterprises in which the students plan to engage during the holiday season, the faculty has exercised a proper i though seldoni invoked power. Extravagance. 1 ? ostentatious display, the presence of luxury, have no place in our public schools. Any form of en- - tertainment that is'given in the name or under r the auspices of the schools should be simple la ' every way, pretentious, of course, but not costly. " Itv tin reason that merit and not cost should be - :i .' the New York lady who waited eight years to find out she had been wronged, was swift enough to act after she discovered the truth. She killed the man. Not even the bolshvist leader is without his flatterers, and how the proposal is made to have Petrograd renamed Leninberg. A mosquito, we read much to our surprise, has 22 teeth; this is not as many as its victims might think. ' If winter' must come, December is not such a bad month to have it in. Cutting down one tree will not stop all the lynchirg in Texas. Farm Financing Improves Condition! Such at Givf the , Eastern Markets Rati Hope. (From Daily Financial American.) Secretary Mellon save butinrtt ha greatly improved within a few days. Kugene Meyer, jr., head of the War Finance corporation, back (ram the live stock centers, tay the ctttle and sherp raiitrs are iMrlv past the criiit in their attain, turficleiit credit being provided. 1 he federal re serve board also calls attention to improved col lections in the south and southwrxt and agricul tural districts generally. Hutineit is not all it ought to he at home, and our exports of manufacturers and raw material are much below last year's value. Hut the Ameri can farmer continues production rle to normal, despite the greater reduction in the prire of his products than nine-tenths of the manufacturers or dralert in manufacturer! have accepted. The farmer by making larrifirra and practic ing severe economy has hren enabled to sustain America! otherwise declining foreign trade hy offering food, feed and other necessities to Kurope at low pricet. Our total exports of the five principal grains for niue months are JyO.OOO.OOO btuhcls, against 208,000,000 in the same period 120. Of meat and its products we have shipped 1,420 million pounds, against 1,240 million pounds. There is no decline in the volume of these exports. The price have been readjusted to the foreign buyer's pocket book and a reasonable amount of credit has been provided by the united efforts of producers, dealers, banks and exporters, aided by the War Finance and Edtre Law corporations. The result is the decrease of debt lit farm ing sections and in the country as a whole, while the manufacturing and mercantile east in creases debt and bankruptcies. Nearly half of the failures are in the apparel lines, with house furnishings held at high prices close behind. Food dealers also are holding and failing, while the fanner steps from under by liquidation. The credit barometer of the credit clearing house shows that in the east indebtedness is 9 per cent above that of a year ago, while in the agricultural sec tions it ranges from 4 above in the north to a little less than 2 per cent below that of last year in the south. Buying likewise is comparatively weak In the populous manufacturing east at 7 per cent less than last year, while in the agricultural sections its decline is from 3A to 6 per cent. The farmer has led the way. Other business eventually must choose between idleness and cost readjustment. Unnecessary Warning. The advice, emanating from Washington, to the householder to keep his eye on the furnace this winter, to avoid waste of coal, is timely and good, but with coal retailing from $14 to $15 a ton, it is almost superfluous. The average house holder in the north will have one eye concen trated on the furnace or boiler and the other on the coalbin for the next four months, without any special urging. Springfield Union. Day's Work a Week for Taxes. A highly forceful peace point is made by Grit, published in Pennsylvania. Government, says Grit national, state and municipal requires one-sixth the revenue of the United States. Which means that every man must work a day a week for the public. Had you ever thought of that? Capper's Weekly. A Suggestion to Mr. Ford. Now that Ford has settled disarmament by offering to buy the navies of the world as junk, maybe he will solve the Far Eastern tangle by leasing China from Japan. Dallas News. Letters to the Editor Thanks for Help. Omaha, Deo. 13. To the Editor of The Bee: Through your co-operation and splendid pub licity and the co-operation and assistance of the public, we have nearly reached our quota for the 1922 budget of the Y. W. C. A., and I, as finance chairman, wish to express my apprecia tion to The Bee and to the general public for their splendid assistance. MRS. H. R. BOWEK, Executive Finance Chairman. A world without Santa Claus would be dreary. Farmers and City Folks. Omaha, Dee. 13. To the Editor of The Bee: In Russia the peasants are refusing to sell the city dwellers any food or fuel because they can not pay the farmers enough to induce them to part with their produce. The farmers are get ting along all right because they exchange with each other such surplus as each happens to have. In Austria the peasants destroy their surplus of food and fuel by burning it up rather tnan let tne city people have it for the pittance It will bring. How long before the farmers of America will say to the parasites who live In the city: "Unless you can pay us what it costs to raise our foodstuffs you can starve. Maybe that will bring you down to earth on your charges as the middleman and on the extortionate demands for labor. In the meantime we farmers will grind our grain for ourselves, butcher our hogs and cattle, as our forefathers did, if necessary estab lish o'ur own looms and put the old village shoe maker to work. We will stop this penalizing the producer and rewarding the parasite." The city people have not yet come to earth. It is their turn next. Before this thing is ptraightened out the city people will have the choice between starving and going on the land and earning their living. CHARLES WEAVER. How to Keep Well Br DR. W, A. EVANS. QiMttaa ataralf fcrUa. Moll. it a1 eaiie at e(a, aua milt4 le !r, Eaa ky rwuUre al Tha Km. will k anwrd ptMlty, aubt I B4r ItailtalMa, kr a unpti, i1i4imm4 evl ta aa. rlM. Pr. i.vaa w 'I aot tlnla r arMcria (or Individual 'iihim, Atilrua IttUr In car al laa Ma. Capyrlaht. Uil. t Dr. W. A. Evans National Bankruptcy CROWD POISONS. Kiu.iiH'itn fnuntrli-a huv iU'Vh! oped the winter vacuilun Irtn na a cuiiip:iitiin tu the Kuninmr vacation to a far ren-r extent than Is the Ca In (hu country. In northern Kurop ilio custom of aiH-nitlnit Hiitur.lav afternoon and a part of Hmi'lay tn the neurby open simeia, aliailnir, ekllna-, unowahoultiK In tvlnUT la comi'Hriilile WiIrt the rttstoitt of koIii in (he iuikn ami the eouniry for (he name week Uuya in ttiH autiinnT. r'rom .Nowmhcr until April (he Alps are almost crowded with vihitora it tliry are In the mimmi-r aeitkun. l'eople no (here for a wer-k or two to Kt out of the hoimo und fxtrelMe in the .open, and in this way cluar the robwelm out of (he bruin and tuno up the heart. ACtt-r a week 'r two upr-nt in mid winter ri'la tht-y go home freed of their colils und ready to tackle bn Job Bk'iiln. Th railroad offer winter Virra tlon rate nml Din hotel, by moder ate adjustment, run all year round, Instead of on a four months' basin, aa In the olden time. Hut thoee who milliliter in mien reForts are not altogether satlntled with the hiiblla of thlr visitor Hero is whHt Dr. Hoget says and the thouxunds now wintering in KlorldH, California and Arizona will do well to heed his words: Within tha hotel pre mines -particularly in tho evening the guests surround themselves with the unsat Infartory health conditions from which thpy are supposed to be seek ing temporary relief. People should tnke to heart that wherever they go they determine their own Indoor cli mate and whether their abode la going to provldo a proper feeding ground for tha genus they bring along. Could not these hotels lie better ventilated? They should be.- But the precept is difficult to obey with out the concurrence of the hotel guests. If they object to fresh air, it they insist on lounging about tho publio rooms after midnight, leaving no time to throw open tho windows, clean out the air, and then get the place warm again before breakfast, what can be done? The only thing this self-indulgent publio seems capable of dreading Is contamination by water, while it is so much more important that they dread bad air and infection that comes from crowding In hot, stuffy places. It must be remembered that wherever there is a crowd there arises a subtly persistent crowd poison which it is extremely difficult to neutralize. ?Jow, this is all very well out of doors. The crowd poison cannot collect there. It is dispersed in the immensity of upace. - When a per son who has just had influenza in his town home elbows sedulously from the dinner hour to the end of a late dance a partner whose incip ient influenza of like origin ap proaches fructification what is the use of the Alpine climate that reigns royally and serenely outside the closed and heavily curtained windows? They have come out for out-of-door sports la the most sanitary air imaginable. They spend the day light hours on the hillside right enough. But in the evening, in stead of seeking repose in separate sleeping apartments with open win dows, they indulge in the tainted pleasures of the ballroom, bar, card room and restaurant. Why Kdncate at All? Gibbon, Neb., Dec. 10. To the Editor of The Bee: According to a recent editorial in The Bee, more than one-half of our state taxes are used in maintaining the .public schools. In other words, we might, say that more than one-half of our state taxes are used in teaching the rising generation that physical labor is a disgrace and a thing to be avoided. Of course that is not what our present educational sytem is supposed to do; yet that is what it is doing. If It accomplished what it is supposed to accomplish, the expense would be fully justified. There are many people Who deplore the fact that the young folks leave the farm; yet they are loud in their praise for the educational system that is doing more than anything else to draw them into the city. When the pernicious grade system was put into effect it was done for no other reason than to benefit the town and city schools. When the young folks of today graduate from the eighth grade country schools are they told to stay on the farm and make use of what they have learned? No; they are told to go on. When they have graduated from high school in town, are they then told to go back to the farm and make use of what they have learned? No; they are told to go on. After they have passed through a few more educational institutions should we blame them if they feel themselves above going back to the farm or doing other ordinary labor that is required to keep the world moving; No; for they are, in many cases, but innocent victims of a system that is not con cerned with their welfare, but only with that of its own upbuilding. - In the early settling up and development of our country, was it their college education that enabled the hardy pioneers to clear the forests from the eastern states and to battle with the Indians and the destructive forces of the ele ments on the western plains? No; for very few of them had more book learning than that which they had obtained in the little country school house, where the studies did not consist mainly of class parties and other social func tions. In those daye the object of .education seemed to be that all might obtain knowledge that would be useful in later years; while today the main purpose seems to be to keep the pupils ia school aa long as possible. The result is plain. GEORGE LUKENBILU What Mr. Carlln Says. York, Neb., Dee. IS. To the Editor of The Bee: Permit me to correct a mistake The Bee made in printing a communication of mine In Mondays paper. The article has me saying that the settlement of British occupation of Ire land appears to be "an act for the 'future' sub jugation of Ireland." What I wrote The Bee wa that the "settlement" should be entitled "An act for the 'further subjugation of Ireland," and such rt la and should bear the title as I wrote It. J. E. CARLIX. Try Rolls on Floor. J-i. P. writes: "1. Is grapefruit bad when one is eaten at breakfast and at night? i "2. Do they cause gallstones? "8. I work, but am trying to re duce. My meals are two rolls, cof fee, grapefruit, for breakfast; two rolls, coffee, for lunch; two chops and two portions of vegetables for dinner; grapefruit on retiring. "I am 4 feet 11 inches and weigh 118 pounds, no clothes. Want to lose 12 pounds. Lost two pounds In two months. I work in a bakery eight hours a day and eat one piece of cake dally 865 days a year." REPLY. 1. No. 2. No. 3. If you will eat fewer rolln and less cake you will lose faster. Lumps on the Ttrcasts. X. Y. Z. writes: "1. Do cancers ever appear before the age of 30? "2. What is the meaning or two painless lumps, one on each breast, of a 14-year-old girl? They ap peared about three years ago, one about eight months after tho other." REPLY. 1. Yes. 2. They may be ordinary mam mary gland tissue; they may be some benign form of tuenia, they may be cancer. Cancer is not prob able because of the age of the girl, the length of time the tumors have been there without growing ma terially or causing systematic disturbance. Mrs. stones than a Stones Still There. A. S. writes": ' "Can gall be cured by ' means - other surgical operation?" REPLY. No. However, in many cases where no treatment is given, as well as where any one of a score of treat ments is used, the pain -ceases, al though the stones are still in tha gall bladder, for the reason that the stones are "still" in the gall-bladder. Wish More Would. L. P. J. writes:' "Is the continu ous practice and playing of golf in jurious for a woman 50 years of age?" Have played for five years, and. so far as I know, I am in good physical condition." REPLY. ' v v Angina Pectoris. M.' W. O. D. writes: "Will you kindly give me the following infor mation: "1. Cause. "2. Symptoms. "3. Prognosis of angina pectoris." REPLY. The cause of angina pectoris is disease of the walls of the large blood vessels near the heart and of the small vessels which rise in the heart muscle. Tho symptoms are pain starting behind the breast bone and radiating down the arm; a sense of oppression; an irregular, rapid pulse, and frequent urination. The prognosis is poor. To Pay for Christmas. Christmas will come on Sunday this year and of course thafs too bad. But a lot of peoplw are giMng to be compensated by the fact that there are rive Saturdays in the month. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Over die Country. The gas meters are ticking like Waterbtiry watrhf. Boston Herald. (Ptum lit llutl) Traawrlpl.t Tho proposition. Indirectly made by former l'reniiuiit Pnim-nro of ! in i ue that tint (jermait republic he ptmej In u rerelverkhlp as n bank nipt, hrlutis up soma iiirloiin con Hili'i'MUuid. A hutikruiil'a nfTolia, It Ma creditors want to t tha bene fit t.f audi rfaounva aa liu hua, must he put iittu the bandit of a receiver. In the fane of n bankrupt who la a iiutlcn and nut tin Individual or a I'tirpKMttliin, who ia ti be the r evlvrr? In the ratio if Uerimtny, If she Ik bankrupt, the ullldd and aaso clutid nation uf tho war will be nt or.ee the creditors und the receiver. LnJer a proeiiiiurn whlrh would be eninpar.iblo with tliut of a proceed In In bankruptcy, thpy would have to take pnaaexalou of alt the Inaul vent debtor's property and divide It among (lie rredllnre in (he propor tion of (heir Just rlulnm. That U hot exsetly what they did under the reparation agreement, hecniwe In that fuse they Hint divided what Germany hud Hgreed to pay accord ing to hu arbitrary nrrangement of their own, and then they. trusted her In pay the claim. If alio dues not pay them, the real bankruptcy pro reeding will liavo to begin. The allies will have practically ti lake over the Herman republic and then divide win h resource na they can discover In proportion to tho debt that each can prove. What re sources or "property" of the Ger man republic will Hie rooelver in thin euKe bo able to discover? Cer tainly not ennuuli to pay the Just debts of n single one of the late enemy nations. Not even the fan tastic, league of tintlotm provides the. machinery for, such a process, and It would soon and simply resolve Itself Into a new war, in which the cred itors would newly waste their own resources, and perluips got nothing in return except palaces and olllces they could not occupy, a few rail ways useless to thctn, undoubtedly certain national obligations that they themselvcH have tn meet und a lot of future promises, in the case of which the whole process of en forcement might hnve to bo begun over again. It Is really a new situation In the history of tho world. This does not mean, of course, that nations have not been bankrupt before. Many na tions and governments have been bankrupt. Rome wus bankrupt after the Punic wars, and dishon estly escaped the consequences by reducing the "as" from twelve ounces of copper to two ounces, thus paying what it owed with the sixth part of the debt that it had incurred. France was bankrupt after the revo lution, and gradually scaled its obli gations down from "asslgnats" to "mandats," and then to nothing to all. Austria waa bankrupt after the Napoleonic and Turkish wars and had to legalize its bankruptcy with an offleial decree that left its cred itors whistling for the florins they had lent. 'But these bankruptcies were, so to speak, in the face of the countries' own" citizens. The debtors had no recourse. It was left for the new world openly to cheat its foreign creditors. Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and other Amer ican countries have repudiated their Just debts, and so, alas- have ell the American states south of the Mason and Dixon's line (exeept, we believe, Kentucky and Texas) and also Min nesota, and in the case of certain bonds, Indiana and Michigan also. Tho United States cannot coerce a state into keeping its pledges. The repudiated bonds of a large number of American states are kept as mel ancholy curiosities in many Euro pean counting-houses. And we have a notable instance of national bank ruptcy and repudiation in full prog ress in the case of Russia and no bankruptcy court at hand that is willing to assume the task of en forcing payment. Germany may well be bankrupt, but so far as can be judged she is' not the only European country that is or may be in the same condition. The debts owed by eertnin European governments to the United States appear quite hopeless of collection. And what do the debtor nations plead as an excuse for not paying even the interest on their acknowl edged debt? Virtually they plead insolvency, for a moratorium is at least temporary insolvency. If an international bankruptcy court is going to be set up. it may have busi ness with other national bankrupts than Germany. As the record of repudiation by American states shows, our coVititry could not go into such a court with entirely clean hands and plead its case against its debtors. But in international affairs of this kind it is rather hard to dis tinguish .between right and might. And in the case of Germany, there is nothing for tho creditor nations to do but get out of Germany what they can, by whatever means of pressure or force they find it prac ticable to employ. CENTER SHOTS. Think how America's heart would ache for the jobless If they were on the other aide of the AUnnilo. Hlr tiUiiKham New. lynmieii and aailntlont menace to act nlon toamhar all i im lit in Iihko b.tll, Why not In untlon? Iinlliuiapolla News. The man who any a sugar a the sweetest thins- known navtr slept until JO o'clock In the morning, 1'arkersburg News. A modern food provider la one aim brines home a new dance rec ord for the phonoarapli every nlht. Hartford Tlmea. , Harold T. Luck I listed aming the bankrupts In an Hi lo etiy. The "T" stands for "tough," we take It. lluffalo Expreits. Preserving peace will hot be fco difficult when we call In the women. Their experience In the kitchen will Ml Ashevllle Times. THE COLORS. Airca far iMta I trMih my ' An4, all low aklul. 1-B.1 1 y 4itn Thai oulllii, la Ih diatani haaa I a rainbow UiaUy (Imm. lint Ilk tha apavlrum'a ahai1a lu That navar muia shall va.i linuiia v. 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They disliked her after woman suffrage came, and they kept her out of conventions. The ardent woman suffragists disliked her. She was president of the Oklahoma Anti-Suffrage association. Yet she was elected to the house in 1320 from a district which usually gives 4,000 or 6,000 democratic majority. Presumably, any republican nomi nee in that district in 1922 will find hard sledding; but how can a stronger candidate than she be found? It is true that she has earned the hatred of some profes sional feminists by denouncing their attempt to introduce the sex' line into politics. She has alienated some other women, and probably some men. by her opposition to the Sheppard-Towner bill; but what ever may be thought of that meas ure, her district ought to be proud of having a representative who studies public questions, arrives at her own convictions deliberately, and can't be moved from them by organized clamor or pressure. 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