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J. THE BEE: OMAHA. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 23. 1021. 8-A British Troops Rushed to Quell Riotinjr at Cairo Tarty of Students Raids Gov ernment Office Street Lamps Smaohed in Alexandria. Cairo, Egypt, Dec 24-(By A. P.) 1) aordert m connection with the Fayptian nationalist agitation broke out today iu Gizcli. a nubuib o( Cairo, when a party of ttn!ruu raidfd thf government lurvrv tiflicct. Hritih troops were rushed from Cairo to cope with the situation. The atwlrnu were ultimately ejecte.l. The ! were Riven in the early re port m Cue killed and 2) wounded. hile the disorders were proceed tg in Gieh, Cairo itself remained quiet, and no disturbances from the provinces were reported with the ex ception of minor troubles at lanta. 50 m les northwest of Cairo. The authorities conveyed to Sue t day six followers of Said Zagloul Pasha, the nationalist leader forcibly if moved from the city yesterday, whom Field Marshal Allctibv, tin British high commissioner in Egypt liau ordered expelled Ironi Cairo. Rioting in Alexandria. Alexandria, F.gypt. Dec. 24. (By A. 1'.) More than 100 of the city s htreet lamps and some shop windows vcre smashed touav by small groups of demonstrants. Fohce forces and armored cars dispersed thorn. Other wise Alexandria remained jtiiet but with an undertone of excitement evi dent. Native Policemen Resign. Washington, Dec. 24. "Five hun dred native policemen at Calcutta recently sent in their resignations after pledging at a nationalist meet ing to brook; no further delay in cut ting off our connection with the government," according to a letter received here today by S. N. Chose, representative in this country of the 1 movement for self-government ' in India. Of the 294.W0 native troops in In dia, he asserted, "thousands have secretly enrolled in the national volunteers. Death Spilled From Side Car in Race r Chief of Legion Submits Plan to Aid Ex-Soldiers Colonel MacNider Urges Re gional Boards to Establish Ratings of Disabled Service Men. . . . - A Deatll rode ill the side car at tlii mnlnrrvi-lr rnee rerpullv lirlil at Uansfirlit. O.. hut tlie driver, coiner at 112 miles an hour, spilled the Krim gentleman out of the side car as he made the death-defying turn, as pictured. It is conceded that side car racing is about the most thrilling thing which the world of sport is engaged in. Is'ole curious eitect ot me dust clouds and you can gain an idea of the speed the machine is traveling at the Early Downfall - Of Socialism in Russia Forecast Being New Economic Policy Formed by Bolshevist Lead er?, Department of Com merce Report Says. Chieaco. Dec. 24.9Following visit to the Drexel hospital for dis abled ex-service men yesterday, Col. Kanford MacNider, ., national com mander of the ; American Legion, sent a message to Col. Charles- R. Forbes, director of the War Veter ans bureau at Washington, submit ting a plan tor lessening the financial worries of disabled soldiers. "The Christmas spirit of peace, and good will finds in virtually every hospital used by your veterans' bu teau war disabled men, who are not only physically' injured "but whose worries over financial difficulties growing out of unadjusted compen sations, prevents or retards their te covery," his message said. "The cleanup campaign conduct ed by youf bureau has left many of these cases of long standing await ing definite decision and rating. To cheer and reassure these men at this Christmas time, the American Le gion submits to you the following plan foi immediate action in the ds posal.of these neglected or suspend ed cases. "The plan is simply the immediate appointment in each regional dis trict of boards composed of neces sary personnel with one member in vested with authority to make bed side decisions and definitely estab lish ratings." ' In an address at the hospital Col onel MacNider cited several cases where he said recovery was made impossible because of financial wor ries. This is the o9th hospital Col onel MacNider has visited since be ing elected Legion head. He lett tonight for Mason City, la. ' Liquor Ring Exposed By Chicago Arrests Chicago, Dec 24. Exposure of one of the most thoroughly organ ized liquor rings ever operated in Chicago was accomplished here yes terday, according to federal prohibi tion agents, following the arrest of three men and the confiscation of 21 barrels of whisky. The men under arrest are Dr. I. Val Fredman, Samuel D. Fredman, bis brother, and David Blumfield, all of Chicago. The liquor ring was brought to light, according to federal authori ties, when an attempt was made to bribe Col. A. C Earnshow, chief of the intell:gence unit of the revenue department A fund of $100,000 had been raised for bribery purposes and $300,000 for the purchase of the en tire product of three distilleries. Alienists Declare Woman Who Shot Doctor Insane New York, Dec. 24. Upon re ceipt of a report from Dr. Charles Stoerrer. visiting jail physician, that Mrs. Lillian Raizen, under indict ment for the murder of Dr. Abram Glickstein.. Brooklyn dentist, has manifested "suicidal tendencies," As sistant District Attorney Edward V. Cooper last night rdered the woman kept tinder strict surveillance. This action followed the applica tion by Mrs. Raizen'a counsel earlier in the day for appointment of a com mission to inquire into her sanity. Four alienists employed by the de fense reported that she was mentally unbalanced now and when the crime was committed. ,- If the commission should find her insane, she would be committed to a state institution without facing trial the charges against her. Washington, Dec. 24. Abandon ment of socialism in Russia is pre dicted by recent changes in the economic policy of the soviet govern ment, according to a review of the situation in that country on the basis of statements in the soviet-controlled press issued lust night by the Com merce department. A new economic policy, the depart ment said, is being solved by the bolshevist leaders, lightening the re strictions of communism and aiming at the partial re-establishment of pri vate trade and industry and at in creasing the incentive to production. Communistic management of in dustry in Russia, it added, had re sulted in a great decline of production and a general disorganization economic life. Lenine, in a speech in October, recognized the defeat of communism, according to the depart ment, and is quoted as saying: -"The substance of our new eco nomic policy is dictated by the recognition of the fact that we have suffered a powerful defeat and com menced a systematic strategic re treat." The main features of this new policy, the department reported, in cluded the partial restoration or free dom of trade in agricultural products; abandonment of the practice of un restricted requisition of labor and the substitution of a fixed labor tax; abandonment of uniform wages for employes of the same grade iu en. lerprises operated by the state and the substitution of compensation ac cording to the service rendered; leas ing to private individuals of certain industrial establishments hitherto con trolled and operated by the state and enterprises still operated by the state are to adopt commercial principles, paying private producers and other state enterprises market value for materials and selling their products at market value. Appeal Is Made to Save Christians in Near East New York, Dec. 24. A plea to save the Christian inhabitants of the Near Fast from extermination was made by Melet'os Metaxakis, patri arch-elect of the Eastern Orthodox"; church, in an address at a luncheon given in his honor yesterday by the Clergy club. The prelate declared that more than 2,000,000 Christian. in the territory had been killed and the remainder were rapidly being ex terminated. The patriarch-elect praised the work "of the near east relief in suc coring the destitute m the devastated region. President Gives Debs Freedom As Xmas Gift Prison Wardens Notified of Commutation of Sentences Of 21 Convicted of War time Offenses. Alfalfa Meal Rates. Washington, Dec. 24. Alfalfa mral. ranp eppd nnrl rnffrtn cpprl raVp ?1 ! and dried beet pulp must all be classified to take the same railroad rates as corn and coarse grain in western trunk line territory, accord ing to a ruling today from the Inter state Commerce commission. The ruling operates to establish a 10 per cent lower freight charge on the cat tle foods named than the existing rates on wheat. . Coffee, Sugar, Cotton and Produce Exchanges Closed New York, Dec. 24. The coffee and sugar, cotton and produce ex changes are closed today. Washington, Dec. 24. Telegrams were sent out today by 'Attorney General Daugherty formally advis ing wardens of the various federal penitentiaries of the Christmas com mutation by President Harding of sentences of 24 persons convicted of war-time offenses, including Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader. The telegrams informed the war dens that the sentences of the 24 per sons had been commuted to expire Christmas day. All of them could be released at midnight tonight, the Department of Justice announced. Gates of Ellis Island Open for Over 1,000 Aliens Immigrants Released to Spend Christmas With Relatives ' Mut Return Within 90 Das. New York, Dec. 2.TThe gates of Fllis Island swung open yesterday, freeing more than 1,000 aliens, de tained under the immigration quota law, so that the might spend Christ mas with (tirnds and relative in the land of promine, Thry will be at liberty for 0 days under an order iued in Washing ton by Secretary of Labor Davis, but must return at the end of .hat time for deportation unlrs prom ised attacks on the constitutionality of the restrictive law have borne fruit or the government decides to make more exceptions in their cases. The order, arrived shortly after 3 o'clock, and two hours later 200 of the aliens had packed thrir belong ings and Irf t the island. Others de parted after nightfall, all the em ployes at the immigration station working late to hrlu the aliens get away. , Immigration Commissioner Tod said all of them would be re leased by tomorrow evening. Hungarians l'oles and Greeks outnumbered ether races in the! laughing, happy swaruu that signed the tirrctsary paprrs and ran with ex pectant BJ.vely toward the ferries that brought them to New York and to railway terminal on the Jeney there. Many of the foreigners immediate, ly boarded trains that would take them to loved ones in the wrst. Others Undcd at the Kattcry and scattered to the various foreign col onies in the polygot metropolitan area. The clieeiful tidings came from Washington so unexpectedly that the delight of the aliens became al most a freuy. Many had bren in downcast spirits at the prospect of a pcnned-iip Christmas, followed by deportation from the land to which thry had come with high hopes. Each was released on his or her own bond, all agreeing to make ar rangements for passage back home at the end of American soil. 90 days stay on Transit System Accidents Delay Roston Shoppers Boston, Dec. 24. Christmas shop, pin crowds were disaccommodated yesterday by. a series of breakdowns in the njpid transit system. A bliMvout of a high tension cable in the Cambridge tunnel stalled doi ens of crowded trains and resulted in a complete tietip of this line for two hours during which thousand of commuters were trapped iu jammed coaches. Traffic in the Cam bridge tunnd was stopped again in the afternoon when cars and two trains passing over the west Boston bridge caught fire from the third rail, making it necessary to cut off the power. 1 The Child Thought Hardwood Dealers to Ask Rehearing of Trust Suit Washington. Dec. 24. A rehear ing of the case' in which the supreme court of the -United States on Mon day held t'r open competition plan of the A mil an Hardwood Manu facturers' association to be in viola tion of anti-trust laws will be sought This was made known by L. C Boyle, general counsel of the associa tion, in a letter to the members. In particular Mr. Boyle declares that the decision fails to make it clear as- to whether the plans of Sec retary of Commerce Hoover for gather statistics with the co operation of trade associations can be carried out without violation of the law. li STORE . CLOSL.D ALL DAY MONDAY j Lm WATCH Monday Morning's Newspapers for Full Particulars AMERICA'S ORIGINAL Isilfi- frm Starts TUESDAY, December 27th MEiN 'S AND n WOMEN'S AND- . YOUNG MEN'S MISSES Suits and Overcoats Suits, Coats See the "I Will" Man's Advance Window Displays Today. : CORRECT APPAREL FOR MEN AND WOMEN: SrailffllTOIIrl I 20 ' : fsTr iN THE presence of all the good cheer and kindness prevalent during the umstmas season, it is worth while for men and wnmin tn ask themselves "why?" What is it that makes the pulses quicken, the heart beat faster, the good impulses dominant during this particular period? Wliy do f 'practical" mcui and women become so "impractical" as to forget self for tlie moment, giving first consideration to the happiness and comfort of others t "Why do the weak and the helpless, the father less and the destitute app.eal to us at this lime so keenly and so pathetically? Why do we, just now, see so clear ly the empty larder of our neighbor which has, in fact, been empty, lo, thesemany months? On Common Ground Meeting upon that common ground where Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant, Be liever and Pagan, Fearless and Fearful can un cover to the strains of "the still, sad music of humanity," we KNOW what it is. It is, indeed, the Child Thought otherwise that conscious ness of gentleness and kindness and love that is ever conspicuous in the nurseries of the world. It is, in Truth, that consciousness in which the real things of life are accomplished, whether it be the cement ing of a genuine friendship, the building of a successful business or the construction of a great empire. "As Simple as Truth" Analyze it and see for yourself whether this statement will not bear the test of thorough ex amination. You . cannot understand Magna Charta its power, its life, its truth and dis-j associate it from the Child Thought. -The pre amble to our Declaration of Independence was written under the inspiration of that thought. The Emancipation Proclamation '"as a mere matter of words or even of war could not have struck the shackles from four million slaves. It won its force from the conscious ness of simplicity and truth in which it was declared. The world's greatest war did not originate in that con sciousness. But the Child Thought, dominant in the Dis armament Conference at Washington, was likewise domi nant in the deliberations resulting in the practical settle ment of the Irish question. Moreover, it is dominant in every note that is sounded for the peace and order of the world. The mightier the problem the simpler the solu tion, for the child-like reason that there is nothing so sim ple as Truth. When Justice Reigns If, as most men believe, the world is stand ing at the threshold of history's greatest era of peace and progress, then it is the Child Thought that has brought it about the thought that pre serves empires as well as homes, and plays alike, at times, upon the heart of king and peasant. When that thought so grips the councils of nations that statesmen are brave enough to be simple and simple enough to be brave, then the world is safe and Justice prepares to resume once more her throne. . "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them." varying degree with the sages and philosophers, ths statesmen and publicists, the physicians and lawyers, tha musicians and inventors and business men. Some of them have attributed their success to so-called "practical" things, but the men who have built upon the rock hav worked in the consciousness that makes this period of time one of good cheer and love and kindness and con sideration for others. "The Greatest of These it 'The Bravest Are the Tenderest' The greatest men of the world have been dominated by the Child Thought and that's the thing that made them great. The kings and queens who have been loved by their subjects had it in marked degree and that's why they were loved. Our own Lincoln had it and held it so well and so true that for a time den laughed at him and scorned him. But under the inspiration of the Child Thought Lincoln grew so great that the ablest scorner of them all stood at his bed of "death and proclaimed to a grief-strieken world: "He belongs to the ages!" In all the history of the world it has .ever been true that, in th 1p t analysis, "the bravest are the tenderest, the lov ing are the daring." It has been so in all time and in The Child Thought is, in Truth, the real rather than the passing thing of life. It is the normal rather than the abnormal. It is the prac tical rather than the impractical. It is the thing to be cultivated for the whole year rather than to be indulged in for a holiday season. ' It is the Great Force which, entering the hearts of men and wom en in this bright Christmas time, should become theirs, "to have and to hold" for all time, for while Faith, Hope and Love have ever been "These Three," all the world knows that "the GREATEST of these is Love." . "The Kids Have Come In" Mr. Dooley gave us something to think about when he said: ' "A gran' rasslin' match is goin' on in ivery corner iv th civylyzed globe, ah' we're all in a tangle, fightin,' quarrelin,' robbin,' plundhrin,' or murdhrin,' accordin' to our tastes. It's what Hogan calls th' struggle f'r ex istence, an it'll always go on while there's a dollar in the wurruld, a woman or a ribbon to wear in our coats. But on the three hundred an' sixty-fifth day suddenly we hear a voice: 'Gintleraen, gintlemen, not befure th' childher.' An we get up an' brush th' dust off our clothes and shake hands, pretendin' it was all fun. Th' kids have come in." Christmas in the Heart Wouldn't things be changed if, after the truce observed December 25, the men and wom en of the world should refuse to renew the fight ing and quarreling? Wouldn't life be more than worth the living if, after keeping Christmas in the form, by filling the children's stockings on Christmas eve and exchanging gifts and salutations with friends on Christmas day, we kept Christmas in the heart for the balance of the year? Wouldn't it be great if in their every day relations men should speak and act alwavs under the influence of that softening admonition: "Th kids have come h&" In this view, then, we give this Yuletide wish: and ifamtpr . L. Brandeis & Sons