Nebraska Newspapers

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A warning against Ule threatened ex
tinction ot the bald or American eagle,
the national btrd of the United State*. )
Is issued by the American museum of
natural history, which states that "more
than one-half and perhaps three-quar
ters of the entire specie* already have
been sacrificed,” Destruction of the ;
birds be attributed to hunters in Alaska, j
who are killing them for a bounty i>aid .
by the territorial government. Never .
numerous, the museum authorities say,
more than £.600 eagles were slain in a
few month* in their favorite breeding I
ground, the Alaskan peninsula. After i
declaring thp.t the American eagle prey*
chiefly on large rodent* harmful to farm j
crops, for the control of which the j
government annually expends large ,
■ums, the museum declares that "tales j
mf the American eagle's destructiveness
to game or domestic animals are for 1
the greater part pure fiction." The
bird. It say*, to migratory and therefore
no state or territory can claim the
right to destroy It, that right being
vested In the federal government.
A girl in her early Ms, Dr. J. L. Cross
ley-Batt officer of the Order of the
British Empire, bachelor of arts, and
doctor of science, to investigating Cana
dian trade possfbliities on a special mis- j
ston for the British government. She
recently spent nix months in Australia. I
After reporting the trade requirement* 1
of Canada and Australia she will go to i
China to study trade conditions there. I
Ireland, far from suffering English
"oppression," is prospering under pref- j
erential treatment, paying lower tuxes ■
than the rest of the British empire, and 1
It* Inhabitants are so little In sympathy )
with propaganda for an’ Independent \
government that they refuse to Invest j
any portion ot their $761.001),000 savings In i
bonds in the proposed republic, Dr. 1
Frederick K. Itarte, pastor of Donegal !
Square Methodist Episcopal church, in t
Belfast, told a New York city audience i
last week. 1
The skeleton of a prehistoric delno
don, calculated to be 00,000.000 years old. i
has been Installed in Dinosaur Ils.II at I
the American museum of natural his
tory, New York. Reptiles roamed the •
earth In those days, and save for tiny
opossum, like creatures in the trees. ,
there was none of the higher quadru
peds or mammals. It has been suggest
ed that the tiny tree dwellers helped
bring about the extinction of gigantic .
reptiles by Bucking the > ggs deposited
In the swamps.
A correspondent says of Georges Car- J
pentier: The Frenchman bears no marks ,
of his calling. His clean eul features
are unblemished by the slightest sear
for all his many battles In the ring. ;
Ho Is blond, brushes his hair straight
back from his forehead and dresses iu
the height of fashion. Altogether lie
looked far more like an actor than a
fighter."
An Increase of more than 11,000.000,000
to crop production was made by states
of the lower Mississippi valley In the
10 years from 1910, according to esti
mates by the Southern Alluvial Hand }
Association, of Memphis. The develop
meat Is attributed to the reclamation •
and cultivation of thousands of acres of !
low lauds, and to the fact that farmer*
are getting away from a one-crop i
•ystem. I
"”Orgajii/.Rtkm of a new company by j
the principal railroads cast of ’-tie Mis- t
eisslppt to acquire and operate aftor ,
May 1 the fruit growers' express cara !
now being operated by Armour & Co., ]
Is announced by 1L B. Spencer, prcsl- j
dent of the fruli grower*’ express ex- ■
change. i
An international chamber of commerce i
will bo organised tat Farts during the
week of June 21. Five countries—the j
United Staton, Great Britain, France,
Italy and Belgium—will have member- I
ship at the start, but later It Is planned ,
to tako In business organizations in the I
other principal countries of the world.
Five million dollars in bills found In
a sack in the corridor of the Simplon
express, Bucharest, have been seized
and confiscated at the Temesvar sta
tion on the Rumanian-Hungarian fron
tier. The owner of the money, It is
asserted, was expecting to make a trip
to F.ngland and the United State*
shortly.
Federal legislation providing compul
sory education of every alien In the
United States unable to road, write or
epcak Bnglish, 1s advocated by the pres
ident of ihejtew York city board of
education. ‘'Americanization.” he stat
ed. "is not & problem to be solved by
any agency other than that of the
United States government."
A full and complete Investigation of
the whereabouts of the police on the
night of the murder of the lord mayor
of Fork has proved that none was off
his beat or at his home at the critical
hour, and showed It to he Impossible
that the crime was committed by a
police officer.
:.ooiaiiHin is not only the concept <k
Jewish minds, but Its foremost theoreti
cians and exocutants are also Jews.
Whore there an> few Jews socialism Is
dormant; where there are most there
is persecution, as In Russia, and this
Jbrceds socialisms declares Austin Her
neon, an English writer.
- Astor urgs* nitration of tn*
marriage^ Ignuj* enabling a woman to
■narpr 'uer deoeased husband's brother.
3 J- it Is right for a man to be allowed
to marry his deoeased wife's sister, tn
-fnc interest of sex equality, It Is equally
- right that a widow should have the
right to marry her former husband's
brother, she argues.
The special commission appointed by
the national congress to inquire into the i
recent disturbances in the Punjab, finds I
Baron Chelmsford, viceroy and governor !
general of India incapable of holding I
bis high office and demands his recall, j
The reports declared that no conspiracy j
designed to overthrow the British gov- j
eminent has been proved.
Tiie labor unions and shopkeepers of {
Paraguay are In the midst of a "money |
strike." declared as a protest against i
the depreciation of Paraguayan paper 1
money. Exactly what a “money strike"
is lias not been explained.
Itonils and stocks to the amount of
•0.»),000 crowns were recently found In
a leather bag tn a Paris-Warsaw train
br a Polish customs official It Is be
lieved the bag was destined for bol
chevUt propaganda In central Europe.
Club centers ter industrial girls, a
summer vacation camp and nurses' rest
ami recreation rooms are to be estab
lished in Potand this year by the Y. W.
C. A., of America.
Tliefts from cargoes of vessels are so '
prevalent now tSat several meetings
have been held between representative
ship managers and merchants to devise
means of stopping It.
Provision for a 1240 per year bonus
for government employes in a bill re- 1
ported to tho House of Representatives 1
has led to redoubled efforts to have
the bonus Increased to 1480.
“Any hostility to business as busl
ness.” .says l>r. Harry Garfield, “is an
evil. Organized Industry and finance i
.must have fa'r treatment or the result
'VU! be ir 'u ious to everybody,” l
Presence of Funeral Home la
Fashionable Omaha Suburb
Has Depressing Effect,
Is Claim Set Up.
Uncoil}/ Neb., April 12. -Claiming
that the presence of W. C. Crosby's
funeral home in their section of the
city was a constant reminder of
death and resulted in nrnUl dcpr<-s
sion, terror and dread. 75 property
owners of Kountxc I'lare, a lashlon
able suburb of Omaha, secured an in
junction preventing its continuance.
The judge who heard t lie case
wouldn't give Crosby permission to
flic a bond that would supersede ihe
order to cease doing certain things
that meont closing il up. and his at
torneys applied to the supreme court
for permission to file one.
The complainants are all wealthy
persons, owners of big, fine residences
and they say that the sight of cof
fins and caskets being carried in
and out, the sound of funeral dimes
and the danger of contagion fiom
corpses of persons who died of in
fectious diseases has depreciated the
value of their property and made life
less enjoyable. Judge Sears, who
granted the Injunction, held the pres
ence of a funeral home to be an in- .
vaslon of rights and an assault upon
the community life.
Crosby says lie moved out into the
suburbs because patrons desired to
get away from the noise and bustle of
the big city for services. He insisted
that his establishment was no great
er menace to the peace and quiet of
the neighborhood than the autos with
their bumming motors, their horns
and their bright lights, and that the
garages of the rich marred their res
idence plots more than did his build
ing.
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ftLLtUtU LANU SWINULtn
STILL SEEKING LIBERTY
Lincoln, Neb., April 12.—The su
. prome court late Friday heard argu
j ments In a ease involving elements
on which attorneys claimed to be mls
pluced Justice. The case has to do
with John Barnhart, alias Henry (1.
Fisher, who was sentenced to a maxi
mum term of 20 years in Nebraska
penitentiary following conviction on
a charge of having swindled John
O'Connor, Fremont money lender, out
of $3,000 in January, 1910.
Counsel for Barnhart insists the
wrong man was taken into custody,
because ut the time the crime was
committed 10 years ago, Barnhart
was on his plantation in Arkansas
and that Barnhart was not given a
fair and impartial trial was further
held by his attorney.
Defendant was located In Wiscon
sin state prison last year, returned
to Nebraska upon completion of hiB
term there and sentenced under the
name of Henry G. Fisher.
AGED INDIAN GIVEN
UNUSUAL FUNERAL
Niobrara, Neb., April 12. — One of
the largest and most impressive
Indian funerals ever witnessed on the
Ponca Indian reservation was held
when Jack Peniska, 81 years of age,
an old Indian scout, veteran of the
civil war and one of the most promi
nent and widely known Ponca
Indians, set out on his long journey
to the "happy hunting grounds."
Both Indian# and whites came from
all over the surrounding country to
witness the lust rites of the old red
skin and the procession that followed
the casket to the grave was over a
mile long.
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CONDEMNED MAN’S APPEAL
COMES UP ON MAY 24
Lincoln, Neb., April 12.—The clerk
of the United States district court in
Lincoln has been advised that the
hearing on the appeal of Allen Vin
cent Grammar to the United States
circuit court of appeals will be had in
St. Louise on May 24. The appeal
raises the question of the regularitty
of Grammer’s trial in Howard county,
where he was convicted with Alson
B. Cole of tho murder of his mother
inlaw, Mrs. Lulu Vogt. Both Gr&m
mer and Cole are in the state peni
tentiary under death sentence.
CLAIMS KILLING OF HIS
VSUnG WIFE ACCIDENTAL
Lincoln, Neb., April 12. — Abundls
Morales, Mexican railroad laborer, la
In jail here until the authorities de
termine whether he accidentally or
purposely killed his young wife, to
whom he was married last October.
The shooting occurred In a bunk car,
and was witnessed by another Mexi
can couple. The latter say there was
no quarrel between the Morales. TheJ
had just come in from a walk, and
the next thing that happened was the
report of a revolver. Morales was
found with his wife In his arms, cry
TO INSTALL FINE PIPE
ORGAN IN HIS HOME
Fremont, Neb., April 12. —Frank
Fowler, vice president In charge of
the Ney, Schneider, Fowler Grain
Company, has ordered a pipe organ
Installed in his home, the most beau
tiful in Fremont, as a gift to Mrs.
Fowler, a talented musician and
composer. The keyboard of the organ
will be on the ilrst floor, the echo
organ on the third floor, and organ
in the basement.
OMAHA'8 MAYOR PLANS
TO SURRENDER OFFICE
Omaha, Neb., April 12.—Mayor Ed.
p Smith says he Is seriously consid
ering resignation of his office to ac
cept a business proposition. Comple
tion of the purchase of the gas plant
of the city, one of his campaign Is
sues, would make it possible for him
to retire soon, he said. Friends said
he plans to resume law practice. He
said his income since he has been
in office has been $10,000 a year less
than formerly.
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BUT IS NOT HURT
However, Fontanelle, Neb.,
Man Has No Recollection
of Accident—His Auto
Den •ashed.
Fremont, Neb., April 10.—Struck by
a Northwestern tlyer, F. W. GayiorU,
of Fontanelle is apparently uninjured,
but cannot remember the accident.
Us Fold au.omoblle was completely
demolished by the collision. Doctors
are watching (laylord at the Fre
mont hospital, fearing concussion of
tlie brain.
EVADED THE DRAFT;
MUST STAND TRIAL
I.ireolm, Neb., April 10.—G. T. Lig
gett. at present a resident of Cage
county, Nebraska, charged with mak
ing statements in violation of the se
lective draff law, will oe taken to
Hpokane, Wash., for trial. Federal
-Judge Munger yesterday made (he
order to iransfer on the declaration
of District Attorney Allen that the
alleged offense was committed while
Liggett was a resident of the state
of Washington. It is charged that
Liggett declared himself to be a nmr
xkwl man with a dependent wife, when
in reality he was single.
NEW PACKING COMPANY
OFFICERS HAVE TROUBLE
Omaha, Nt h., April 10—U. C. Howe,
president of the Skinner Packing
.Company, lias obtained a temporary
injunction restraining Llovd M. Skin
ner and others from removing him as
president. Paul Skinner, chairmun of
(lie hoard of directors, issued a state
ment saying Howe has attempted to
get control of the company and had
not worked for its interests. Howe
was manager of Armour & Com
pany's plant at Omaha when he went
to the Skinner firm January 1, of this
j car.
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IDENTIFY WOMAN WHO
WAS MURDERED AT ANTIOCH
Lincoln, Nob., April 10.-—A woman
found slain In her home at Antioch,
Neb., several days ago, has been iden
tified as Florence Fagin, of Grand
Island, according to a telephone mes
sage received here today from the
mayor of Antioch. Site had been
shot to death.
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NONPARTISAN LEAGUE
HAS SEVERAL CANDIDATES
Lincoln, Neb., April 10.—The Ne
braska primary election ballot to be
voted April 20, as finally made up
Thursday shows that 11 Nonpartisan
league members are candidates for
live state senate and 18 for the house.
All are listed as republicans. In ad
dition, tlie league has candidates for
congress In three districts. ^ '
START CAMPAIGN TO
RECRUIT TEACHERS
Omaha, Neb., April 10.—A recruiting
campaign for teachers starts in Ne
braska next week. It will be con
ducted by the state normal at Wayne.
Shortage of teachers in the state is
estimated at more than 1,000.
tract was wrong and the plaintiff and
owner, Bert L. Harris, was suing for
the wrong land. The land Is located
near Stella.
OMAHA—A committee of Yankton,
S. D. business men is in Omaha secur
ing subscriptions for a new railroad
bridge to be built across the Missouri
river at Yankton.
O'NEILL—The women of O'Neill
elected their two women candidates for
tire school board and secured one mem
ber of the city council in the election.
SAYS LABOR NOT PAID
ENOUGH ON PRODUCTION
Chicago, April 9.—J. W. Johnstone,
representing the live stock handlers’
union in their demands for increased
wages being heard by Judge Samuel
Alschuler as arbiter, declared in sum
ming up the evidence that, “American
laborers always are being asked to
produce mora but are not given any
thing more for producing more. ‘ Be
fore the WurJ’ hfi said, “the av erage
laborer, received 17 per cent of every
thing he produced. At present in
England they receive 20 per cent and
In Italy they receive as high as 25
per cent.”
COMPULSORY TRAINING
IS CERTAIN TO FAIL
Washington, April !>.—Failure of
the present session of congress to
enact legislation establishing a peace
time military policy for the United
States loomed today as a result of the
successful tight conducted in the
Senate by foes of the compulsory
military training.
There is a possibility that the
whole army regulation blii will be re
committed to the military affairs
committee with instructions to re
draft it without the training pro
visions.
CHARGE WIFE MURDER.
Wreay, Colo., April 9.—Direct In
formation was filed against Artie S.
McKee, a rancher, today, charging
him with the murder of his 23-year
oid wife last Monday. He denies
knowledge of the crime. The body,
with a wound In the back of the head
was found by a school teacher.
NO CONTE8T IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Harrisburg. Pa., April 9.—There
will be no contest on either the re
publican or democratic presidential
preference ballot In Pennsylvania at
the primary election May 18. The
time for filing petitions expired at
midnight last night and the records
show that A. Mitchell Palmer’s name
will be the only one on the democratic
ballot and that of Edward Randolph
Wood, a retired business man of
Philadelphia, will be the sole nominee
on the republican ticket.
Insist Railway Commission
Should Regulate Rates If
Business It to Be
Stabilized.
Lincoln, Neb., April 9.—The state
railway commission heard protests to
day from truckers and truck dealers
against its proposition to quit trying
to regulate rates in the eastern half
of 'he state. They said that it would
( be impossible to build up the truck
ing business unless the state protect
ed the men who have money enough
and vision enough to go into the busi
ness of running trucks on regular
routes they would not invest for the
reason that the occasional trucker
could cut their business to pieces.
They insisted that regulation was
not desired for the purpose of abol
ishing competition, because a monop
oly was impossible. The trouble with
roost t nickers is that they do not
know how to figure costs. Terminal
companies are being organized in Lin
coln and Omaha for the purpose of
running fleets of trucks, totalling see
eral hundred, on about 25 routes, to
outlying cities, the plan being to run
three a day each way. Contracts are
being made with merchants to haul
goods from the wholesale centers.
Return loads are to be made up of
farm produce, which the farmers are
to be educated to bring to their near
est market towns.
Unless the state continues regula
tion, however, this plan will not be
carried out. The commission finds
that few of the truckers are obeying
the rate schedule, either through ig
norance or because they think they
cannot compete with the railroads un
less they cut rates.
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HIGHLANDERS’ TANGLE
STILL IN COURTS
Lincoln, Neb., April 9.—Officers of
the executive castle of the Royal
Highlanders have filed their answer
to the suit recently brought hero to
enjoin them from putting into effect
the new table of rates that was
adopted last October to become op
erative April 1. They say that the
new rates were adopted without a
dissenting vote, that a referendum is
now impossible because mere than
three months have elapsed since
adoption, and that anyway the rates
fall upon all alike and are justified by
conditions.
The insufficiency of the old rates
are alleged to be the sole reason why
there Is now a difference of $9,000,000
between their liabilities and assets of
the order. A number of the first
members were given certificates that
became due at the end of a specified
.time, and these are now coming due.
The officers decline to pay because to
do so would so deplete the funds that
later members would either get
jess than their certificates or rates
would have to be raised so high that
no new members could be secured.
FIND VALUABLE CLAY
DEPOSIT NEAR AURORA
Aurora Nob., April 9.—A rich de
posit of Kaolinlte, ap lastlc clay suit,
able for making ornamental tile, ter
ra cotta, facing brick and other ar
ticles, has been found on the James
Bourlier farm, northwest of Aurora.
The bed underlies at least 40 acres of
the farm. The formation is Identical
with the kaolin deposits of Cornwall.
England, and the kaolins of Pennsyl
vania and North Carolina. Omaha
concerns ha'We notified the owner
that they will take all the brick he
can produce.
TWO WOMEN ELECTED
ON SCHOOL BOARD
Laurel, Neb., April 9.—In the most
hotly contested school election held
here in years, a woman's slate was
somewhat upset yesterday, and
Frank Westrand, Mrs. W. C. Sabin
and Mrs. Charles G. Jordan were
elected to the board of education.
In the municipal election held Tues
day, M. T. Sullivan, A. D. Felber and
O. A. Johnson were elected on the
Yillage board of trustees for terms of
two year? each.
NO POOL HALL OR SUNDAY
BASEBALL FOR LAUREL, NEB.
Allen. Neb., April 9.—At the village
election the pool hall was voted out
by a 100 to 79 vote. The question
of Sunday baseball for Allen was also
voted upon and defeated by 75 to 97.
The men elected for the village board
were: Councilmen for term of two
years; A. E. Bagley. H. C. Heckt and
H. Hallin; councilmen for a term of
one year, Fay Clough and S. L
Stewart,
HILL IS RE ELECTED
MAYOR OF RANDOLPH
Randolph, Neb., April 9.—-la the
City election W. P. Hill was re-elected
mayor over O. O. Reed by a plurality
of 137 votes.
WAYNSS—The North Nebraska Teach
ers’ Association was addressed by Miss
Olive Pound, of the high school of Lin
coln, on “Social Problems of the High
School" and by Supt. J. H. Beveridge,
of Omaha, on “Order Changeth." The
officers for next year are: President,
O. H. Binson. superintendent of the
schools of Oakland; vice president, Supt.
L. J. Surface, of Albion; secretary. Miss
Margery Parminter, county superintend
ent of Pierce oounty; treasurer. Prof. A.
F. Gulliver, of the Wayne Normal. The
•(tendance at the meeting was 468.
PROPOSED BOND ISSui
18 NARROWLY DEFEATED
West Point, Neb, April 8.—The
City election resulted as follows: For
mayor, John Clatanoff; for clerk, C.
E. Mead; for treasurer, Frank Miller.
The proposition for the Issuance of
$20,000 waterworks extension bonds
was lost, lacking seven votes.
FIERPONT—Patrons of the Pierpont
school district have voted favorably on
a bond issue of $35,000 for the purpose of
erecting a large addition to the present
school building.
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Kjne oj iwarure s jnysieries. j
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Whenever the bone* of a mastodan or a mammolh are unearthed, a.
frequent occurence in many parts of the Inited States and Canada, the event
raises the question why these powerful animals, so well equipped to survive
and so widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, disappeared,
from the face of the earth with no record in history that any man ever Sit\v
one alive. Though written history has no such record, it is certain that
man was contemporary with the mammoth, for there have been found in
Europe several palaeolithic carvings on bone depicting this giant of the
northern forests. But he disappeared from Europe *o long before written
history began that even the tradition of him has vanished. So fax, science
has no answer to the question. We know that the mammoth lived all over
- northern Europe, Asia and North America. We know precisely what he
looked like; we know the»very color of his hair, and even what grasses lie
ate, for several of his species have been found entire, frozen in th ice bogs
of northern Siberia. But we do not know and cannot conceive why lie
1 vanished so completely.
It would be easy to reason that in Europe increase of population crowded
the mammoth out. But apparently he died in the unpeopled forests of
Siberia and the empty wastes of North America as early as he did in
France and Germany, tie was a powerful animal, a little larger than the
elephant, too strong to be overcome by the carnivorous animals of his day.
He was furnished with a thick and heavy coat of hair and wool to fend
the northern cold, and he was habituated to a diet of the very same grasses,
mosses, and biretli and willow twigs that grow in Sibferia today. It used to
be suggested that the change from the warm climate that geological records
tell us once prevailed in the far north came as the result of some world
cataclysm. Even if that could be accepted it would have nothing to do with
the case of the mammoth; for it is certain that the mammoth lived success
fully in these regions long after the climate had become what it is now.
The evidence of his thick coat and the frozen food fornd in his frozen body
proves that.
The mystery is all the greater because we know so much of the great
creuture. We have found him in modern times so completely preserved
that his flesh, when thawed out, was eatable. Siberian bears and wolves
are well acquainted with the taste of mammouth flesh. This is not so
marvelous as it may appear at first sight. Much of northern Siberia is
boggy in the brief summer. So weighty a beast as the mammoth must
have been peculiarly liable to beTiig trapped in the marshes. The peat is a
natural presarvative, and in many cases the bog froze up in winter to be
burled by sand and gravel brought by a spring flood, never to be thawed
again for untold centunes until by some accident another flood in this, out
days, exposed it. This has been the usual course of events in the case o£
those frozen mammoths that have been found. Again, much of the Siberian
bog is underlain by glacier, Just as the great forest about the base of Mt.
St. Elias in Alaska grows on the Malaspina glacier. Mammoths occasionally
broke through into the crevasses. This had been the case with the com
plete mammoth found on the Bereskova river in 1900. The position of the
frozen monster told the story precisely. His body lay In the, crevasse just
as he died where he fell, with his broken hind leg doubled under him aani
the grasses he had been eating still between his teeth. And there he lay
in cold storage for perhaps 50,000 years while civilization after civilization
rose, blossomed and faded away, until in this day the shifting of the river
uncovered his head and a scientific man came and dug him out.
But it is not in reason to think that all the mammoths and mastodons
bogged down or fell into crevasses. There must have been, first and last,
Immense numbers of them. Shiploads of their teeth have been dredged up
by trawlers in the North sea. There are islands off the Siberian coast
wholly made up of sand and mammoth bones that have been swept out by
the rivers, and mammoth ivory is and nas been for centuries a regular
article of commerce. But why tney vanished so completely as living things
we are not even able to guess.
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4 YOUR FORGETTERY. 4
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4 Antonia Stemple, in Physical 4
4 Culture. 4
4 A good memory is a blessing 4
4 and should be cultivated. But 4
4 sometimes It may be more blessed 4
4 to forget than to remember, and 4
4 not infrequently it is a Christian 4
4 duty to cultivate and practice the 4
4 art of forgetting. There are peo- 4
4 pie who have a positive genius 4
4 for remembering all the disagree- 4
4 able facts and rumors they have 4
4 ever heard. Let a man make a 4
4 mlstep and commit some breach 4
4 of the conventions of which ho 4
4 thoroughly repents afterward, and 4
4 never repeats, yet persons who 4
4 have not cultivated their "forgot- 4
4 terics” remember the incident 4
4 and air it at intervals and tell 4
4 others about It, and so keep alive 4
4 the sinner's shame. Wouldn't it 4
4 be much better in cases like this 4
4 to allow bygones to be bygones? 4
4 If a person offers you a slight or 4
4 indignity, how much happier you 4
4 would be if you forgot it, than if 4
4 you remember it and cherish the 4
4 remembrance! 4
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M + tttTTTTT T T V
The Soldier Candidate.
From the Springfield Republican.
For Major General Wood to change
Into civilian clothes for the next two
months, as some of his astute political
managers advise, so as to minimize the
charge of militarism before his western
audiences, mignt not help him particu
larly. The very absence of his uniform
would now be conspicuous and would
arouse comment. When people go to
see a real general they like to see him
in uniform; they rather resent having
him paraded in unheroic civilian attire.
When Mr. Bryan in Spanish war days
appeared in public in the militaristic
habiliments of a colbnel, the people
laughed; they could never take the uni
form of William Jennings Bryan seri
ously. But General Wood presents a
different case. He has been a profes
sional soldier and nothing else for about
35 years, and he cannot dissociate him
self from his past if he tries.
The general is showing the right sort
of courage regarding the Issue of uni
versal compulsory military training for
all the youth of the land. Out in the
northwest he tells his audiences; "I
stand for universal military trainings.”
It is well for candidates to stand for
something, and that is what General
Wood stands for. More and more he
personifies this Issue before the Ameri
can people and he will personify it
all the better it he continues to wear
khaki—puttees and all—on the stump.
Americanism of Hoover.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
The letter of Herbert Hoover to Presi
dent Wilson. April 1. 1!'9, reached a
high mark of statesmanship and inde
pendent Americanism. Whether one
agrees with Mr. Hoover or not, he will
not fail to note that all the opponents
of the treaty In the Senate did not give
us anvthing half so instructive and far
seeing. Mr. Hoover’s letter is not an
argument either for or against the
League of Nations. It lias to do with
the effect of membership of the United
States upon the reparations and other
commissions created to enforce the
treaty. Mr. Hoover feared thatgthe co
operation of our government in treaty
enforcement measures would put us in
the position of lending our support to
an armed alliance engaged chiefly in
the attainment of European objects and
the suppression of European revolu
tions. Should American representatives
stand out against European governments
for a broad gauged policy of recon
struction, our government would lay it
self open to the charge of being a
"traitor to the common cause.” The
result, as Mr. Hoover saw it, would be
a series of compromises "fundamentally
at variance with our national convic
tions.”
What Mr. Hoover sought to build up
in objecting to American membership
in the enforcement commissions was the
moral influence which the United States
might exercise in the League of Na
tions if it were free from such en
tanglements. His conception of the
league does not differ from the presi
dent’s. It is that of a trlbnmd entirely
set apart and unhampered, by selfish
ft
national, allied or continental ambi
tions.
Though Mr. Hoover announces that he
has revised his opinions of last April,
It is not to be regretted that he ex
pressed them. They reveal him as a
man who acts straightforwardly upon
his convictions. But, more than ail
else, this letter completely disposes of
the charges that Mr. Hoover Is pro
British, pro-ally or pro-anythlng else
than pro-American. If the publication
of his letter accomplished nothing else,
it showed him thinking and speaking
only as an American.
Britain’s Liquor Bill.
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
In the house of commons Sir Donald
MacBean made the statement that the
British expenditures for drink In 1918
rose to £269,000,000 and that the
estimated expenditures for the same
purpose for the year ending March J1
next is £400,000,000. In terms of '
normal exxchange this last sum means
approximately $1,920,000,000.
A distinguished English financier has
been in this country to induce the ex
tension of vast credits to European
countries, including Great Britain, as an
aid to reconstruction and as a means
of bringing the world back toward nor
mal conditions of trade, exchange and
living.
Just before he retired from the secre
taryship of the treasury Carter Glass
expressed the official opinion that too
many demands were being made by
European countries on the United States
for credits. 11c ns much as said these
countries could go far, if not all the
way. in extending themselves from a
serious financial and economic predica
ment if they would only get down in
earnest to work, live thriftily and do
their level best at homemade recon
struction efforts.
This enormous British drink bill is
one of the things that tends to chill
American disposition to grant credits. Lf
that $1,920,000,000 had been spent for nec
essaries instead of for stuff that does
vastly more harm than good, Great Brit
ain would be considerably better Off to
day than she is. What is true of this
particular is true in lesser degree of
some other European countries.
Getting Ready.
From the Bos Angeles Times.
The thrifty French people are having
a lot of war souvenirs—such as shells
German helmets and the like—made in
Massachusetts and Connecticut factor
ies. They can have them manufactured
better and cheaper in this country and
at the same time their own industries
are operated on essential work. These
made-in-America souvenirs will he sold
to Americans who visit the war sons
this year and next and will be accom
panied by gruesome but piquant tales
of their capture from tho German
enemy. The American tourists simply
must gather souvenirs and the French
will see that they do not suffer in the
want therefor.
Unskilled Labor Goes.
From the Topeka St&t" Journal.
The commissioner of immigration re
cently issued a statement that the
amount of immigration to America wan
equal if not greater than the amount
of emigration from America. The in
ference was made that the shortage
of labor is not due to emigration. Vn
analysis of the last figures issued »y
the bureau of immigration for the sea
going months of July to Novembt r,
1919. Show that 124,970 immigrants cons*}
with the heaviest numbers coming in
in and 1.07,908 went out. leaving a bal
ance in our favor of 17,062. The races
were English (28.589). French (11,708),
southern Italian (14,691), and Mexican
(19.456). The first two contribute very
little to unskilled labor, the Mexican
met a local shortage in Texas and Hie
border states, and three times as many
Italians (43.473) left the country as cam
in. Studying the 15 races that furnish
unskilled labor in our manufacturing
states, it is found that in thes? fiv >
months 23.791 came into the country,
while 79.219 went out.
An Offer.
From the Dallas News.
Recently there appeared in the Mug
gleton Times the following advertise
ment:
“If John Jones, who deserted his wife
and babe some 20 years ago, will re
turn the said babe will knot:it the stuff
ing out of him/*