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End of Hunger Striking.
From the New York Herald.
Shortly after her recent arrest on a
charge of attempting to provoke sedition
la the British navy, Slyvla Pankhurst
wrote as follows to Lenin:
"X expect six months Imprisonment. 1
consider a hunger strike, but I am afraid
the weapon is destroyed now since the
government is letting the Irish hunger
strikers die.”
Probably Miss Pankhurst meant that
things are not as they were In the per
iod wtien a hunger striker was released
after a few days and went out glorying
In a victory over the government and
listening to the cheers of admirers. 1 u
hunger briefly end win wes one thing:
to hunger for 10 weeks arid die is quite
different
Hunger striking la no longer a novelty.
At last men have died of It. And in the
case of MacSwtaey. the first hunger
striker to attract the world’s serious a.
tentlon, the novelty of the means was
Anally overshadowed by the personal
ity of the striker. If at first the maj or
of Cork wraa regardei simply as a pris
oner who was trying to force his jail
ors to release him, at the last he was
viewed as a man who, utterly beyond
hope of a living victory, was striving
for a triumph in death itself.
As Sylvia Pankhurst says, hunger
striking is no longer a weapon—unless
the striker is prepared to go the whole
fatal way; and even then there will
never be a parallel, In public Interest, to
the MacSwlney case.
G. O. P. Campaign.
From the Omaha World-Herald.
Republican campaign was masterful
after its kind. It achieved wonders. It
confounded logic and reason, it allied
hosts of diverse and antagonistic ele
ments under a single banner and held
them—till election day. It cemented to
gether ‘‘Wall street" power and non
partisan league votes. It wrapped rad
icals and reactionaries In close embrace.
It appealed aliko to anti-league republi
cans, pro-league republicans and anti
league democrats—even to some pro
league democrats. Chamelon like,
among a host of conflicting interests and
classes and races and creeds and hates,
It took on In each instance the color ot
Its immediate environment. It agr-ed
wlth everybody, disagreed with nobody.
It put Bryan to bed with Penrose and
cavalier with covenanter, bestowing Its
benignant blessing on all alike. It prom
ised all things to all men -and today
awakens to Its morning of solemn res
ponsibility. Its notes of hand, flung
like leaves to the wind, tomorrow will
be coming due.
The Kansas supreme court, in a 1
decision handed down Saturday up- I
held the contention of a life insurance
company that it cannot be held liable
for the full amount of a policy bear
ing a military service waiver; fn case ;
the Insured died while engaged in
such service. The court ruled that .
“military service” could not be re- |
■trlcted to actual lighting, but that
such service begins with enlistment. |
The names of live millionaires j
are among the 100 names on the jury j
panel of the New York city sheriff’s
Jury for the coming year. They are:
John D. Rockefeller, jr.. Chauncey M.
Depew, Jr, Frederick W. Vanderbilt,
Bernard M. Baruch and Howard El
liot.
Because Mrs: Louise Peete can not
provide the funds necessary to defend
herself against the charge of murder
ing J. C. Denton, a wealthy California
mining broker, the county of Los
Angeles finds itself obliged to both
prosecute her, and defend her in the
same case.
Because of the spectacular rush of
hundreds of oil prospectors to the
far north, the Ottawa government has
found It necessary to revive the old
grub stakes law of Yukon days, and
require that only those In physical
condition to stand an arctic winter or
have enough "grub" to keep them,
will be permuted to go.
Miss Fannie Reid, of Hancock, N.
Jf., left a self imposed seclusion of 59
years last week to attend her broth j
er’s funeral. In 1861 her father Is said
to have broken her engagement to a
national guard officer, and she vowed
never to leave her room again. Sinco
then, not more than half a dozen per
slns outside her family, have o
her. She is still vigorous.
Two army trucks surrounded by a
large guard of troops recently passed
through the streets of Portland, Ore.,
and the general belief was that gold
was being shipped to Japan. It
turned out that the trucks contained
2,000 quarts of whisky for military
hospitals in California.
The first news of the world for two
sears will soon reach the island of
Rapa with the arrival olf a Fr.n.h
schooner now on Its way there. Tin
island is populated by 150 l’c’j.
nesians and one French official. . ..
inhabitants have not yet heard of tir•
close of the war.
The Irish peace conference, which
Is an association of moderate Irish
men of all parties seeking to solve
the homo rule problem, has written
to Premier Lloyd George, expressing
the view that parliament should os
tablish a constituent assembly
elected on the parliamentary basis of
proportional representation and that
Ireland be given complete linaneial
independence.
The town of Tralee, Ireland, is fast
approaching starvation in conse
quence of tlie recent polled order for
bidding carrying on of business un
til two missing policemen are re
turned by the townspeople.
• Although her name was not on the
ballot, Mrs. Grace B. L&mphirc was
elected mayor of Burns, Ore., last
Tuesday, her name being written in.
Her first knowledge that she was be
ing considered for the offlce came
' when she was notified of her elec
tion.
New York City egg eaters so much
prefer white eggs that the price of
1 them is considerably higher than that
■ of the brown egg. while In Boston, the
white are considered inferior to the
- brown, and are therefore considerably
cheaper in price.
After a careful investigation the
■ government has decided that 6,000
f lobsters which were transplanted
. from the Atlantic coast to Pacific
* waters were evicted ty pSetous crabs,
! and arc no'/ conducting the world's
' laas-Mit retreat yto.the Puijgpia canal, j
Minneapolis Man Finds Wife
and Daughter in Omaha
Held With Alleged Bank
Robbers.
Omaha, Neb./ Nov. 29.—His little
family decamped with suspected
bank bandits, was the sight that
greeted H. J. Ryan, railroad man, of
Fort Worth, Tex., when he returned
to his home in St. Paul, Minn., to
spend the Thanksgiving holidays.
Ryan was taken into custody by po
lice when he arrived in Omaha to
search for his wife and daughter, who
had been arrested with five alleged
safeblowers Monday evening by police
detectives.
Mrs. Dessie Ryan and her 16-year
old daughter, Lucille, wife and
daughter of H, J. Ryan, were regis
tered at the Flatiron hotel Monday
with a man giving his name as H.
Ryan, but whose true name is said
to be Frank Daly. Daly and his four
companions are said to have been
I identified as the men that robbed a
hank in Superior, Wis., November 16,
of $7,000 in currency.
"For six months I have been down
south trying to make a living," said
H. J. Ryan. “I had saved enough
money to take my family with me to
Texas in the meantime. They seemed
to suffer with the cold so much in
St. Paul.
“For weeks I had prepared for
Thanksgiving and after the holidays
I was going to take them to Fort
Worth where we were to make our
future home.”
When asked if he would take his
wife and daughter hack to St. Paul,
Ryan said, “I don’t know. This af
fair upsets me so I seem to have lost
what little reason I had. Perhaps
they are not guilty. I should not
have left them so long.”
A.
STUDENTS EXCAVATE FOR
NEW COLLEGE BUILDING
Hastings, Neb., Nov. 29.—As a sub
stitute for the Thanksgiving day
football game, called off by an elev
enth hour cancellation, students of
Hastings college commandeered the
equipment of a construction com
pany and celebrated the day by dig
ging the excavation for a new quar
ter million dollar college building.
The construction company head do
nated- his service as boss and the co
eds took charge of the kitchen, serv
ing meals to the boys. President
French was called home from Chi
cago and was here to witness the
completion of the work.
BANKERS PLAN PROBE
OF RYAN'S AFFAIRS
Deflation of Market Said to
Have Caused Big Reduction
in Values of Securities.
New York, Nov. 27.—Plans for the
formation of a committee of bankers
to inquire into the affairs of Allan A.
Hyan, capitalist, whose corner in
Stutx .Motor stock startled Wall street
I last April and resulted eventually in
his expulsion from the stock ex
change, after he had himself an
nounced ills resignation, were consid
ered today at a conference of bankers
and attorneys at the offices of the
Guaranty Trust Company.
Tlie recent depression of the stock
market is reported to have eon trail
ed the values of securities on which
i Mr. Ryan’s extensive loans were
I based.
Liabilities involved are reported to
approximate $19,000,000, wild- .Mr.
I Ryan's assets are given as Pen . \
I $20,000,000 and $25,000,000. He
contlned to his home by nine s.
The banking interests Inc’ude the
! Guaranty Trust Company and >ther
large banks. The Ryan Interns:a in
clude, in addition to the Stui- Motor
Car Company of America, the S:rm
berg Carburetor Company, Continen
tal Candy Company. Chicago Pneu
matic Tool Company and Hayden
Chemical Company.
GIRL HELD FOR JEWEL THEFT
Omaha. Neb.. Nov. 27 (H;:tcinl>
Miss Elise Bowman, 18-yoar old u
mestlo arrested for stealing $1,500 in
jewelry and clothing, told police- she
was to be married Christmas and
wanted the stolen things for 1- :
trousseau. Miss Bowman said her
fiance is a wealthy St. Paul, .Minn.,
mart, but refused to give his name.
The girl recently came here from
Norfolk, Neb.
Since the start of the "dry” era it
has become exceedingly difficult t i
persuade men not under the influence
of ulcohol to go into the silence of
the forests for a winter's stay. In
the "good old days," the lumbermen
say, the loggers would work all winter
for enough money to buy booze all
summer.
The Austrian government admits an
estimated deficit this year of about
1J,000,000,000 crowns hut allied inves
tigators and some of the newspapers
place it nearer 20,000,000,000
Turkish tax collectors spare noth
ing from levies except schoolbooks
and the assessments run so high that
10 cents a pound is exacted on ail
sugar while a tax of $229 recently was
demanded on an automiblo that sells
for $595 in the United States.
Thirty-two persons in the army
were sentenced to death by courts
martial duriag the last fiscal year,
but in no case was the sentence car
ried into effect, says MaJ. Gen. E. H.
Crowder. Twelve of the death sen
tences were disapproved. 19 reduced
to imprisonment ranging from life
terms to five years and one case was
pending on review wnen the report
was compiled. Only nine of the cases
were for military offenses. Eight were
found guilty of misbehavior in the
face of the enemy and one was sen
tenced a spy.
O'Neill, Nebraska, Merchant
Asserts Goods Sold Him
Contrary to Lasw of
Country.
O'Neil, Neb., Nov. 26—Special: The
John Brennan store has been closed
by Deputy U. S. Marshal W. A. Mor
gan who served a warrant of seizure
which was Issued by the federal court
after Brennan’s creditors had filed an
involuntary petition in bankruptcy.
The petitioners are O. Sommers &
Company, a wholesale house of St.
Paul, Minn.; Hicks, Fuller, Pierson
Company, of Sioux City, la.; Foote
Schulze Company, St. Paul, Minn.,
and Warfield, Pratt Company’ of
Sioux City, la.
In his answer, Brennan declares
that he is not indebted to the petition
ers in any sum, that they sold him
goods of all kinds in violation of the
laws of the United. States and all
transactions between him and the pe
titioners were in violation of the laws
of the United States and “which vio
lation was committed by the petition
ers and not by the defendant, that
they are guilty of profiteering under
the laws of the United States in the
sale of each and all of the articles and
goods for which claim is made.’’
_A_
PORTABLE STILL USED
BY NEBRASKA MOONSHINERS
Pierce, Neb., Nov. 26.—Special: Ir
vin Yates, of Norfolk was arrested in
connection with the operation of an
illicit booze still on the Peter Pellet
farm three miles west of Pierce. He
was brought to Pierce and later pa
rolled. Pellett is out on bonds, so is
W. E. Cochrane who was artosted in
connection with the case. G. W. and
N. Emery, of Norfolk, are being held
in the Pierce county jail pending
trial.
The-police say that they have infor
mation which will show that the 150
gallons of mash which they found on
the Pellett farm is the second batch
of moonshine material which was
manufactured there during the past
few weeks.
These details develop the fact that
a portuble still is being used in the
manufacture of liquor and that it is
being transported about the country
in automobiles. When the mash is
ready the still is loaded into an auto
mobile,- transported to the farm, the
mush turned into whisky and the
still removed to some other place of
operation.
ENRAGED MOTHER SOUGHT
TO GET VENGEANCE
< ivauhu. Neb., Nov. 26.—Armed with
a long butcher knife, Mrs. Alice Ross
threatened to kill W. E. Cage, coal
salesman, in the Monarch garden, for
the alleged seduction of her daughter
Holiie, IS, who is said to have .been
missing from her home for several
days, -according to police reports.
Following a continuous search for
her daughter, Mrs. Ross, after fre
quenting a number of questionable
resorts, entered the Monarch garden.
"They whirled past me locked in a
close embrace,” Mrs. Ross reported
to the police. “When 1 saw my girl
there 1 became almost insane. I
don't know what I said or tried to
do.”
The frantic efforts of Mrs. Ross
to secure possession of her daughter
and wreak vengeance on Cage were
stopped by Police Patrolman Joe
Zicli, who disarmed the mother, and
sent the daughter and Cage to jail.
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ANOTHER APPEAL MADE
TO RESERVE BOARD
Norfolk, Neb., Nov. 20.—Declaring
that fanners hi Madison county, Ne
braska, are facing bankruptcy if they
are forced to sell their products at
present prices, the Norfolk chamber
of commerce after consultation with
leading bankers and farmers have
j sent a telegram to the governor of
the federal reserve hoard at Wash
ington asking that an emergency be
declared and that credit extensions
be furnished farmers of Nebraska.
‘ The county is full of corn, oats, im
mature pigs, young cattle and feeder
stock Is only partially fattened, the
telegram states. ,
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CONVICTED BANKER IN
PTHETIC APPEAL
—
I Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 26. — (By the
' l'nltcd Press.)—District Attorney T.
S. Alien is in receipt of a pathetic
letter from M. L. Luebben, former
president of the Sutton, Neb., First
i National hank, now serving a term in
Leavenworth prison for violation of
the federal banking laws. Luebben
asks a pardon declaring it to be a
matter of life and death that he be
with his wife. He says she is suffer
ing intensely because of the tragic
death of their daughter in an auto
, accident at Long Beach, Calif.
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FIRE MARSHAL SAYS
INCENDIARY RESPONSIBLE
Columbus, Nob., Nov. 26.—Special:
j State Fire Marshal Charles Id. Hart
ford has completed an investigation
into the mysterious destruction by
tire of the Kozlowski general mer
chandise store at Duncan, Neb., Oc
tober 11. The fire marshal in a state
ni"nt following examination of wit
ness's says that he Is satislied that
the store was purposely destroyed.
MOB SEEKS MEXICAN’S LIFE.
• Eagle Pass. Tex., Nov. 24.—An at
t- mpt was made by n mob in Piedras
Negros, Mel., opposite Eagle Pass,
<;srly today to storm the Jail and
lynch Idl Pldio Ategraza, held on a
inunler charge. The military com
mandant, after promising that the law
would quickly take its course, ilnall
prevailed upon the mob to dis rs
Aiigraza was arrested ' ' .
death of dose Maria De I.
who was stabbed
l>■ '.
in MMtii
Federal Court in Nebraska
Sends Confessed Culprit to
the Leavenworth
Prison.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 23.—The federal
courts continue to “soak” automobile
thieves found guilty of having trans
ported cars from one state to an
other In violation of interstate com
merce. United States Judge Munger
has sentenced Jess Young and James
Black to the federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth, the former to three
years and the latter to one year and
a day. At least a dozen auto thieves
have been sent to the federal peni
tenitary in the past six months by
federal courts in Nebraska.
Young admitted that he had “bor
rowed” a car from a neighbor when
he lived in Santa Rosa, Cal. He told
Judge Munger that he had no notion
of stealing, but he kept it going until
he reached Salt Lake City, when he
sold it. But this was not the car for
which Young was sent to Leaven
worth. He pleaded guilty to stealing
a Hudson car from in front of a
moving picture show, in Cheyenne,
and he drove it to Kearney, Neb.
Jatnai Black said that Young told
him that he was the owner of the
automobile, but he had learned dif
ferently after the two young men
left Cheyenne headed for Nebraska.
Young took the blame for stealing
the machine.
A letter from Sheriff James A. Pe
tray, of Sonoma, county, Cal., to
United States Attorney T. S. Allen,
stated that Jess Young was wanted
at Santa Rosa for stealing an auto
mobile, for embezzlii g funds from an
employer and for wife desertion.
Armed with the letter of the sheriff
Judge Munger quizzed Young about
his former record. It was then that
he stated that he h^d borrowed a car
when he left Santa Rosa and had
gone away without bidding his wifo
farewell. He was asked if he had
ever written to his wife. He had not,
because he felt ashamed to do so.
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ALLEGED MURDERER FINALLY
RETURNED TO KANSAS CITY
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 23.—Den
nle Chester, charged with the murder
of Miss Florence Barton, a society
girl here and who was re-captured
near Oconto, Neb., Friday, after a
sensational escape from a train near
Broken Bow, Neb., was returned to
Kansas City Sunday. Chester at first
refused to eat food given him at police
headquarters. However, while no one
was present in the cell with him, the
food left with him disappeared.
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NEBRASKA FARMER IN
BATTLE WITH COYOTE
Burwell, Neb., Nov. 23.—A few days
ago Fred Meyer had an exciting ex
perience with a coyote. The first shot
from Meyer’s gun wounded th<j brute
only sufficiently to make it ferocious
and it attacked him. He struck at It
with the butt of his gun, but hit the
ground and the gun stock was broken.
It was then a hand-to-hand affair and
the animal was finally strangled, but
not before Meyer was badly scatched.
ALLEGED ROBBER IS
KILLED IN PISTOL DUEL
Fremont, Neb., Nov. 23 (By the As
sociated Press).—Edward Gust, 23,
alleged deserter from Fort Russell,
Wyo., was shot and killed in a pistol
fight between Gust and a companion
and three policemen who were at
tempting to capture the men after
they are alleged to have held up the
College bookstore and escaped with
about $50 takn from the cash drawer.
The shooting took place near the
Northwestern round house where the
police cornered the men.
NEBRASKA STUDENT DIES
SUDDENLY IN CHICAGO
Chicago, Nov. 23.—The police to
day began an investigation into the
mouth, Neb., who dropped dead early
Sunday after a fraternity initiation,
death of Morris Cook, of Platts
Ofiieials of the coroner’s office said
death probably was due to heart
disease superinduced by alcoholism.
Cook was being initiated into a se
cret inter-fraternity organization.
The students denied he had been
treated roughly in the initiation.
They said quantities of liquor were
served.
IS WELL KNOWN.
Plattsmouth, Neb., Nov. 23.—
Morris Cook, of this place, who died
at Chicago following an initiation,
recently graduated in the law course
of Northwestern university. He Is
well iMiown in Plattsmouth, where
he was reared. He was prominent in
the Masonic and Elks lodges here.
His father, one of the head physi
cians of the Modern Woodmen of
America, died recently.
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POST OFFICE IS LOCATED
IN GOVERNMENT BUILDING
Belle Fourche, S. D., Nov. 20 (Spe
cial).—The post office was opened
for business Monday morning in the
new building, Postmaster Rush Fel
lows having taken the quiet of Sun
day for moving.
This is a new budding 60x40 feet,
and at present a one-story brick
structure, with plans for a second
story in which the government land
' office ia to be housed when completed.
BIG REWARD TO CLEAR "
NEW YORK BOMB CASE
New York, Nov. 22.—A reward of
$60,000 was offered here Monday by a
private detective agency for exclusive
information leading to the identity of
persona responsible for the Wall
street bomb explosion, September 16.
More than $20,000 previously had
been ottered by the board of estimates
and an insurance company for evi
dence against the perpretatora
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A merica’s Role in Peace y
Drama.
' ...
In the following article, which appeared in La Revue de Tenere, reprint
ed in the Living Age, and which is continued on this page from Saturday,.
Guglielmo Ferrero, one of the most distinguished historians and political
thinkers of Europe, presents a very significant interpretation of America s
part in the peace conference. In Saturday’s article Ferrero stated that Amer
ica went to war to establish freedom of the seas in war time, but that after
the war it found England, as represented by Lloyd George, unwilling to go
to the heart of this question. Therefore, says Ferrero, “America’s interven
tion only added to the perils which threatened it on the ocean, by helping tm
alter to England’s advantage the naval equilibrium of the world. That is so
true, that America is now forced to restore that equilibrium by building a
powerful navy of its own to replace the Germany counterpoise. All It gained,
by helping crush Germany was the obligation to fill that country’s place upon
the ocean.” He continues:
In a word, when the peace conference opened at Paris, the tie binding
the United States to England, France and Italy was in reality already sev
ered, in spite of the wishes, and what is much stranger, without the knowl
edge, of the governments and the common people of those countries. He*
could such a great alliance be terminated without the fact being per
ceived? This paradoxical outcome, which has transformed Europe into
an enigma defying solution, was the result of numerous and complex
causes, of which the most curious is the position to which Mr. Wilson at
tained during the course of the war. As soon as England refused to dis
cuss the freedom of the seas, Mr. Wilson might have returned to America;
or at least have simply made peace with Germany, to the exclusion of all
purely European problems. The real question would then have been a very
simple one fo the United States. It would have remained difficult for the
other belligerents, but easier than under the conditions which subsequently
arose. However, an extraordinary complication intervened. Since the
armistice was signed with the explicit promise that the peace terms would
agree with the 14 points, Mr. Wilson became the natural guarantor for the
honest fulfilment of this promise. So he stayed. He was even regarded
and respected throughout the conference as its supreme arbiter and judge.
That deluded the whole world into the idea that America continued to be
the main prop and moving force of the victorious alliance. In reality
America was no longer one of the allies. It had no vital interest in any
question that subsequently came before it. The president remained at
Paris to insure the honest application of a doctrine which could not be
seriously applied unless America was, as the world still thought, the main
prop and most powerful moving force in the alliance. • • •
Everyone knows that the. Versailles meeting was a continual struggle
between Mr. Wilson on the one side, and Mr. Clemenceau and Lloyd George
on the other. But the fact is less appreciated that this strange struggle
was the more bitter and unsparing because each party was in a degree
disarmed in face of the other. Mr. Wilson had no effective way of forcing
his opponents to respect his principles, while they were constantly con
strained by the march of events to violate those principles. If England
had consented to give America freedom of the seas, America could have
been asked to shoulder part of the burden of restoring Europe. That would
have given America the right to moderate the peace terms, and authority
to impose its will in that matter. The share it took in helping Europe
’ would have been the measure of its right to interfere in the affairs of
Europe. But since America had no direct interest in reconstructing Eu
rope, Mr. Wilson had but two ways to defend his principles: the juristic
fiction of unanimity, which made the consent of the president necessary to
all the decisions of the supreme council; and the financial subsidies and
other material assistance which America still continued to give Us allies
after the armistice.
But of these two measures, the first had the defect of being purely
personal; of depending solely upon Mr. Wilson’s obstinacy or tenacity of
purpose. It iXmld not fail to result in distressing situations. The second
was in itself odious and transitory. In brief, Amesica’s ejection from the
alliance before the conference began made it impossible to enforce the 14
points. But Mr. Wilson’s presence at Paris made it impossible for Mr.
Clemenceau or Mr. Lloyd George entirely to discard them. The situation
was at heart beyond remedy. It^was smoothed over on the surface by
constant compromises of very trifling value, in which firmness and weak
ness capriciously alternated with each other.
Grounds for Confidence.
Bulletin National City Bank (New York).
There are good reasons for confidently
btlieving that this country is not going
into a long period of depression. Such
experiences in the past always have fol
lowed long periods of internal develop
ment, including extensive construction
work, such as railroad building, town
building, etc. Qur periods of prosperity
and credit expansion have been of this
character, and it has usually happened
that the movement has over run the
needs of the country at the time.'and a
period of growth was required afterward
to bring the country up to its new fa
cilities. This was the case in 1873 and
1S93, the two most important crises of
our recent history. In the period fol
lowing 1893 recovery was delayed by the
controversy over the money question.
The boom period which has been re
sponsible for the existing expansion of
credit and high prices was not due to
internal development or construction
work; on the contrary it interfered with
normal development and Improvements,
and the facilities of the country are be
hind its needs. Never before was there
so much work In sight needing to be
done, or so many opportunities in the
world outside. The immediate problem
is that of price readjustment. It is not
a case of exhaustion or . of waiting to
grow up to investments that haye been
made. The new work would not go for
ward upon the level of costs created by
the war, and regarded as abnormal and
temporary.
In this connection, however, we would
sound a note of warning which wo'have
often sounded before. The foreign ex
changes have been working lower, and
if they should break seriously enough to
compel a still greater curtailment of ex
ports the effect will be to pile up com
modities in the 'home market and de
press prices. Who can doubt that the
markets would be in better condition to
day if Great and France had mot been
obliged to pay the $500.0000,000 joint loan
in New York on October 15. They paid
with a renewal on the part,of France
of $100,000,000, but if they had not paid
$400,000,0000 they would have had that
much more with which to buy our
products. People cannot always pay
their debts and buy more goods at the
same time.
Use Your Head.
Cabinet Ladles.
From the Los Angeles Times.
Most of the talk about having a
woman in the president's cabinet cen
ters around the thought of creating a
new department In which the charac
teristics of the sex could find proper
expression. Senator Medill McCormick
is pressing his bill creating a department
of public welfare and Mrs. McCormick
Is already highly recommended for the
secretaryship. It will be fine when our
senators can create cabinet positions for
their ambitious wives. Departments of
health and education are proposed.
However, we do not believe that the
women themselves demand political re
cognition to the extent of insisting on
the creation of expensive departments
for the mere purpose of givir* them of
fice. They would prefer to come on
terms of equality. If there is a womat
in the country who would conspicuously
excel as secretary of state by all
means let her have the post, but there is
no call to create a department of parlor
diplomacy simply because some queen
U ambitious for recognition.
Why Shoe*?
From the London Chronicle.
Eve was reputedly barefoot and Nau
slca played ball all the better because
ahe went unshod. Helen of Troy at the
most wore sandals, and the sandal is the
compromise between che shoeless and
the shod. It is easier to make sandals
than to make boots. In Ireland and
Scotland the children have run barefoot
fo^ many a day. and the wit of one and
the enterprise of the other show that
there is nothing readily demoralising in
going without shoes and stockings.
I The Little Geishas.
Arthur Mills, In London Mail.
I cannot Imagine any foreigner who.
has traveled in Japan anporting the x
movement for the suppression of
i geishas. They are the most harmless
and delightful of little creatures that
| eveT flitted their way Joyously through
life. Some people suppose that a geisha
Is a young lady who is not over partle
I ular what she does. They confuse her
1 In their minds with a quite different type
I of Japanese girl (a type which, be It.
said, Is not peculiar to Japan alone or
desirable In any country).
This Is a complete error. A geisha Is
a class apart; she belongs to, a calling, a
or profession, Just as the stage Is a pro- "
fession In Great Britain. She loses no
more caste by becoming a geisha thaa A
young English girl would lose by Join
ing a musical comedy company. On the
contrary, lllte her European sisters, the
Japanese geisha very often makes a
brilliant marriage. Her role Is that of
official entertainer In Japanesce Ufa
Before she can become a gilsha a
Japanese girl receives long and careful
training In the art of making herself
agreeable and amusing. She h^s the op
portunity of rising to great distinction
In her profession.
I remember the first time I landed In
Japan, going to a famous art shop In
Yokohama Among the painted screens
| and prints, and porcelatni, I noticed a
, statuet In bronze of a very beautiful
girl. I inquired about it, and was told
that It was a statuet of O-San. "What
was O-San?” I asked. The proprietor
shrugged hie shoulders. It was as
i though I had asked a Frenchman, “Who
j Is Sarah Bernhardt?" Miss O-San, ha
! told me, was one ef the most famous
geishas In Tokyo. Perhaps If I went to
the capital I should see her. Chance
took me to the capital and chance fur
ther provided that I should see Miss
O-San. It was at a dinner parly given
by a Japanese gentleman.
I was not too over comfortable, as I
spoke no Japanesce and the other guests
I spoke little English. But life became
very pleasant when the geisha Joined us.
I can still remember the delightful little
i creature who sat by me and the white
I chrysanthemum she wore In *her hair.
I She showed me the best way to shell
I peanuts, and she taught me the game of
, "chinque” (properly a Chinese Same of
counting fingers, but sometimes played
by the Japanese). Altogether ,she made
the evening pass most pleasantly. She
spoke a little English. I asked her how
she came to have learned our language.
"I went down to the college at Hong
Kong,” she answered, “especially to.
learn.”
Cause of Gray Hair.
From the Milwaukee Journal.
“Gray hair is not due to worry hut to
accumulation of water in the hair'
fibers forming bubbles which reflect
white light," Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft
said in speaking of Bubbles, DrSps and
Grains, before the Milwaukee chapter of
the American Chemical society.
"White flowers are white for similar
reasons; they c»ntaln a large amount of
water which reflects white light. Somc
flowera turn brown or blue when thry
die. They lose the water. Blue bi.Ja
are blue because the pores at thetr
j wings contain drops of water rathe*
j than bttbblcs, which reflect blue light,
frbm which the bird derives its l ama
"All babies born In the northern hem
isphere at the time of birth heve btaa
eyes due to a peculiar formation of pig
ment in the eye which reflects bine light.
The varied lights cause the pigment to
change color, however."
8omottling Worth White.
From Judge.
"Tes, I have studied architecture amid
the palaces of Venice and the minarets
of Spain."
“Good enough. Bon. Now let's see
what you can do In the way of design
ing a tin garage"
Italian residents of Memphis,
Tenn., have been acquiring large
realty holdings In that city. The local
Italian population amounts to from
6,000 to 7,000, and 780 of them owik
real estate to the value of $10,945,
610.00,