THE O'NEILL FRONTIER
O M. CRONIN, Publisher.
C'NfclLL, NEBRASKA 1
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An increasing number of funeral
processions going across the Swiss
border into Germany. recently
aroused the suspicions of customs of
ficials, who halted one of them. It
proved to be a smuggler's parade. The
casket was a false bottomed affair
and a figure in the coffin was stuffed
with gold, silver and other contra
band.
Capt. W. W. Nutting, of New York
city, has just completed a round trip
across the Atlantic and back in his
46-foot ketch, Typhoon. He left the
United States on July 17 and at
tended She yacht races at Cowes, Eng.
He was 10 days behind schedule on
his return, owing to ripping off a sail
In a storm and running short of sup
plies.
Investigation of the naturalization
papers of Otto H. Kahn, well known
financier, proves that he has been
legally admitted to citizenship, it is
reported by District Attorney Ross,
at Brooklyn. Charges that Kahn is
not a legal citizen were made during
the recent presidential campaign,
When his right to vote was chal
lenged.
Girls are said to have taken a
prominent part in the Sinn Fein ra ids
In Dublin Sunday. One girl was ar
rested driving a motor car in which
was found a quantity of ammunition
and several rifles and pistols. Other
girls are said to have guided "murder
parties” to tho homes of intended vic
tims.
England has started inquiry into
the concessions of land in the form or
a lease secured by Washington D
Vanderlip, in Russia, it is officially
announced from Dondon. Under Sec
retary of State Davis has announced
the department is "convinced of the
soundness of tho American position
on Russiji.”
Four thousand laborers have been
thrown out of work by the closing of
the dominion steel corporation works
at Sidney, N. S. W. An ultimatum
of 125 railroad employes for a settle
ment of wage disputes before a cer
tain hour was met by the company
with orders to suspend all work and
bank the blast furnaces.
“Slight reductions in food prices
have had little effect lu reducing the
cost of living to Fae average wage
earner," says Ethelbcrt Stewart, com
missioner of labor statistics. "The
decline in prices has been largely on
articles not entering largely into their
living costs."
Washington considers that soviet
Russia lias gained a diplomatic vic
tory In negotiating a trade agreement
with Great Britain. The view of many
diplomats is that the soviets have ob
tained a.i opening wedge for their
long sought recognition by other gov
ernments of the world.
Despite official discouragement by
the United States government, Ameri
can trade with soviet Russia is in
progress. The volume exceeded, up
to a recent date, the amoufft which
Great Britain and all her dominions
were doing in the same territory, say*
the Milwaukee Journal.
Scores of counterfeit Polish pas* ■
ports have been issued in the last
few weeks to persons going to the
United States, according to the Paris
police, who say they were sold lor
from 590 to 1,000 francs to persons to
whom the authorized Polish consu
late refused to give vises.
Americans in Cuba have jointd
Cuban bankers and business men in
making fresh complaint of tire v
out paper money in circulation he
Except silver, the only currency .11
use, is American, it has been eh,ic
ing hands so often that it i; tat
tered almost beyond the point of re
ognition.
Nearly one-half of the disburse
ments of the shipping board emer
gency fleet corporation over a period
of 17 months, totaling over $2,000,000,
000 were unsupported by proper
vouchers, according to the audit or
the corporation's accounts.
Kansas whc. t is moving to market
very slowly, a report of the slate de
partment of agriculture for the Has'
week says. Corn is said to be selling
as low as 35 cents a bushel in the
contra! part of the stute.
All records for cattle receipts at the
Chicago stockyards were broken last
week when 111.-.•<'>G head were received
and sold, with 15,5sl calves. Alto
gether 407.000 animals were received
end sales totaled $15,934,000.
Massachusetts food prices declined
4 per cent, in October us compared
with September, it is reported by the
commission or necessities of life for
* tiie state. Cost of all necessities de
creased 2'j. per cent, in the same time,
the re]*ort says.
Saskatchewan, which celebrated <ita
fifteenth birthday us a self-govern
ing province on September 1, has had
an increase in population In the last
decade and a half of 439 per cent, it
has 833,0''^Inhabitants.
Many ex-army ofllcers of Germany
arc in her present army of unem
ployed, not a few of them working at
hard labor. They must work half a
day for the price of a pound of meat
am! all day for a pound i f butter.
‘.Vinter weather in Holland, Ger
many and Denmark has been Judged
too severe for commercial aviation.
Tiie daily aerial mail service between
Holland and England, and Holland
and Germany will be discontinued
until next spring.
People of North Dakota are being
urged to sell their fawin products and
coroe to the rescue of the hanks, sev
eral of which are already closed and
others are said to be in distress.
Complete returns indicate the state
constitutional prohibition enforcement
of Missouri—which includes St. Louis
—carried by a majority of more than
*0,000.
A new record for supreme court
proceedure was set a few days ago
■when a petition was received, con
ami red ar.d acted on in less than 15
minutes
Turkey is to cost from 50 to 5?
cents a pound wholesale In Chicago
UwS Thanksgiving time, and scare1
•al ihaL C...uper b run ar> in pros
*>*.t for Chris .m it is ciaimiv.'
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ED III GERMMIt
Three Children Finally Reach
United States and Will
•igain Live at Frank
lin, Neb.
Franklin, Neb., Dec. 6 (Special).— I
AHe: trying vainly for seven years to |
■ .nil to America, the land of their ;
1 th. the three children of the late !
( i.:i: Meyers have arrived in Frank
iin from Germany. Before the world
war started the orphan children were
taken by an uncle living in St. Louis
t" Germany. Although born here
they were unable to secure passports
until recently. There are two boys,
aged 19 and 17, and a girl of 11. They
will live here with their uncle, George
Meyers.
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MAKE SLIGHT CHANGE
IN CAPITOL PLANS
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Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 6 (Special).—
Harry C. Lindsay, state librarian, has
decided to call off his attack on the
new state capitol plans and will not
ask the Igislature for $400,000 to build
a separate structure to house the su
picmr court and the state library. As
the plans were drawn the reading
corn and the books* attached thereto
would have been inconveniently
l>:;»cod for the use of tho court and
the lawyers who are continually
lapping the reservoir of legal wis
<-'< m contained in the library.
Fhairman Hardy, of the capitol
commission, has succeeded in. so
changing the arrangement as to meet
tin objections of Mr. Lindsay and
will ask the architect to incorporate
them in the plans.
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PEOPLE OF WYMORE
TO USE REFERENDUM
Beatrice, Neb., Dee. 6.—At a spe
cial election held in Wymore Tues
day. voters by a majority of 324
adopted the referendum. A total of
625 votes were cast, the women tak
ing an active part in the argument.
It Is believed that as a result of the
adoption of the referendum the ques
tion of Sunday moving picture shows
will be brought up. The movies have’
hern operating on Sunday at Wymore
for several months and have been
drawing largo crowds. Opponents of
Sunday theaters were responsible for
the submission of the referendum
proposition.
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SAVED FROM PRISON
BY BARELY ONE DAY
Alliance, Neb., Doc. 6 —The mere
matter of one day saved Tom l-'urien.
former Alliance youth*, from being
sent back to the state penitentiary
to finish out a sentence imposed upon
him by the Box Butte county district
court on a forgery charge. Karlen
was recently arrested here for the
theft of an overcoat and hat. He was
lodged in jail and the prison authori
ties communicated with. It was
learned that his parole had been ful
filled and a pardon granted him one
day before his arrest here.
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SEVENTEEN WHEAT STACKS
ARE BURNED— INCENDIARY
Kimball, Neb., Dec. fl (Special). A
wave of incendiarism whiyh ia weep
ing Kimball county inis as it - latest
victim O. Baldwin when 17 ".tacks of
wheat, in three different group.: al
most a quarter of a mile atiarf, w. re
burned. Mr. Baldwin off"", a re
ward of $200 for the conviction of the
guilty party. This is the fourth fire
of the kind h uf within a short time.
PROPOSE SiORiAL.
AT THE UNIVERSITY
Nebraska Regents Ask State
Legislature toi $350,000
for Purpose.
L ncoln, Nub., Dec. 3 ;a!'>. -
The university of Nobras! a n ;;v‘uts j
have included in the budg 1 :i r .piest '
to the legislature for an appropriat'on '
of $350,000 toward the proposed nv'iTi - I
orial to Nebraska s*t a ••, on '
tion that an equal ho ra:-.d j
from ind‘viduuls in tin' shite.
The original plan, adopted laid |
spring, called for an \nmiditure of !
about $1,000,000 but, a ;•'>’!• ; to Huy !
K. Reed, chairman « i the memorial
executive committee, $300,000 of this
amount was Intended for a s... i in
and open thcal r for the athle' e
> rounds.
PUBLIC UTILITY RATES
TO STAY ELEVATED I
li'nroln. Neb., Doc. 8 (Special).- - J
No decreases in rales of public utlli- i
ties are in sight and the chances are |
that in tiie cast- of conn- of ihcin j
there will be still furllicr advances, t
This is the opinion of at least two j
members of the state railway com
mission, Mr. Taylor and Mr. Brown.
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SHERIFF QUITS OFFICE
UNDER HOT CRITICISM
McCook. Neb., Dec. it (Special).—
Sheriff Md Fllteiaft, of Bed Willow
county, has resigned his office and
the board of county commissioners
promptly appointed Deputy Sheriff
George McClain, his successor. Flit
craft has been severely criticized in
connection with the slack enforce
ment of the prohibition law.
ELECTION FRAUD8 CHARGED.
Pittsburgh. Pa., Dec. 3 (Associated
Press).—The federal grand jury here
Friday returned many indictments in
connection with the last primary
election in the 81st congressional dis
trict. Among the men indicted are.
Chu les Anderson, member of the
city council; Magistrate P. J. Sulli
van, republican cand ’ate for the
congressional n Mitward
W. Kenna anl ' una.
Among the ip
grand jury
COLESEEKINGft
Man Under Sentence of Death
Wants Another Judge to
Pass on Case—Another
Reprieve Necessary.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 4 (United
Press).—Alson B. Cole, convicted and
sentenced to death for murder, whose
case recently was remanded to the
district court of Howard county for
rehearing, has filed a motion asking
a change of venue. He asks that the
case be heard before a judge other
than .Judge B. H. Paine, who orig
inally tried him. The motion will be
heard in district court at St. Paul,
December 11.
Both Cole and Allen V. Crammer
will bo electrocuted at Nebraska
prison December 17, unless Governor
McKelvie grants another reprieve.
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PLOT TO USE GASOLINE
FOR BIG FIRE IN OMAHA
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 4. — Fire offi
cials are aghast at the arson plot
nipi>ed by Police Officer Triglia, who
found a cleverly set gasoline trap in
the store of the Italian-Am'eriean
candy kitchen and restaurant in the
Creighton block.
Half a hundred persons living in
the upper floors of the building would
have been caught in a seething mass
of flames in a moment but for Trig
lia's action in smothering a slow
burning fuse leading to the gasoline,
"X can remember no such cold
blooded effort to start a fire and one
which might have endangered so
many lives as this,” said Assistant
Chief Crager. Fire Warden John
Trouton, co-operating with police in
unraveling the fire plot, also ex
designs.
COUNCIL GENERAL FOR
CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 4.—Stanley Ser
pan has been appointed consul gen
eral by the Czecho-Slovak republic
for 13 western states. His headquar
ters will be in Omaha and his terri
tory comprises Nebraska, ICansas,
Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Mon
tana. New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada,
Utah, Idaho, North and South Da
kota. Ninety thousand Czecho
slovaks reside in these states, 10,
000 living in Omaha.
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ALLEGED BANK ROBBERS
BACK TO SUPERIOR, WIS.
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 4 (United
Press).—Herbert Ryan, John J.
Rohmer, and Charles C. Stewart,
charged with robbing a bank at Su
perior, Wis., of *7,500, were taken to
the Wisconsin city by Omaha detec
tives last night following granting of
extradition by acting Governor Bar
rows. Because of rumors that friends
of the alleged bandits would try to
free them the men were secretly re
moved from jail under heavy guard.
EX-KING’S MOTHER
REGENT OF GREECE
Queen Mother Olga.
Queen Mother Olga, mother of
ex-King Constantine, has succeed
ed Admir:' Coundouriotis as regent
of troubled Greece pending the out
come of the plebiscite November 28,
when the people will vote on the
question or returning Constantins
tc the throne.
• Rain Pools.
In the village the night rain
Sleeps in little pools
Scattered here and there.
Overcome with drowsiness
As they scampered about.
Some lying before
The wood-carver's hut,
< libers close to the silk dealer’s miwAn.
The first, by his art,
Has only a few coins;
. Out of worms.
The merchant made a million yen
Above the roadway
A sign, lettered In gold, states:
"Here lives Mojl Shuri,
An aristocrat of the first class."
Rut the pools In front 'of their doors
Are Just about the same size.
—Stanley Klmmel, In Asia Magazine.
Canal Pays Ita Way.
From the New York World.
For the first time since it was opened
to traffic the I’&naiiia canal during the
Iasi fiscal year earned Its full operating
expenses and a fair surplus. But If
Senator Harding persuades the next re
publican congress to adopt his personal
policy by exempting American vessels
from the payment of tolls, he will not
only succeed In bringing about the open
violation of a treaty of the United States
but in restoring the canal to the basis
of a losing investment tn order that Am
erican shipping interests shall be aa
clusivelj favored.
TO MOTORS
Mrs. H. H. Wheeler, of Lin
coln and Mrs. Draper
Smith of Omaha are the
First in the Country.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 3.—Nebraska
will be the only state to furnish
women electors when the time comes
' to cast the electoral vote for presi
j dent, according to Col. J. H. Presson,
I recording clerk in the office of Gov
! ernor McKelvie.
Colonel Presson sent out certificates
today to all of the electors selected
; by the republican orate convention.
The two women are: Mrs. H. H.
1 Wheeler, of Lincoln, and Mrs. Draper
Smith, of Omaha, who are the elect
ors-at-large.
The question now is who will carry
| the returns to Washington. Will the
! governor elect one of the women or a
i man? If il. Is a woman the governor
will have to show the wisdom of Sol
| omon in making the selection, for two
I have been called and only one can be
| chosen. The governor, with his
usual diplomacy, may pass tho thing
along to the delegation and ask them
to make the selection.
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ACTING GOVERNOR HEARS
REQUISITION PROCEEDINGS
Lincoln, Neb., Dec 3 (United Press).
—Acting Gov. P. A. Brows, Wednes
day heard requisition proceedings
against John J. Bohner, Charles E.
Stewart and Herbert Ryan, charged
with robbing the Superior, Wls., State
Bank of $7,500. Wisconsin agents tes
tified.
LAND FOR HOMESTEAD
IN KNOX COUNTY, NEB.
Lincoln, Neb. Dec. 2 (United
Press).—Announcement Is made at
the federal land office that 900 acres
of government land will bo open to
homestead entry at 9 a. m. January 7.
The land lies along the Missouri river
in Knox county.
Northbend City Official Sued
By Wife For Divorce at
Same Time Other Case
is Filed.
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 1.—Branding
his wife’s accusations as all ‘‘rot and
ridiculous,” Martin Rees, city coun
cilman and wealthy contractor of
North Bend, Neb., has issued a state
ment in regard to the suit of Mrs.
Clara Rees for divorce. Mrs. Rees,
North Bend society leader, is also
suing Mrs. Johnson, wealthy widow,
on a charge of alienation of affec
tions.
The two suits were filed in the dis
trict court here.
Mrs. Rees, who is president of the
North Bend Woman's club, alleges
that during the two years of friend
ship between the defendants Tong au
tomobile rides were enjoyed along
moonlit lanes. She charges her hus
band with crueltyt and asks $50,000
alleged personal damages from pretty
Mrs. Johnson, twice widowed and
mother of four children.
“The charges against Mrs. Johnson
and myself are all rot and ridiculous,”
Martin Rees said. ‘‘I will not fight
the divorce proceedings and will be
satisfied with a separation and giv
ing the child to Mrs. Rees. I am will
ing ot pay a reasonable alimony. As
far as Mrs. Johnson is concerned I
am very sorry that her name was
dragged into the case.
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BROKEN BOW MEN
ARE GIVEN REWARD
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 1.—Howard
McCutcheon, president of the law en
forcement association, gave Dr. Mar
lin Hanson, of Broken Bow. a check
for $2,500, the reward for the capture
of Dennis Chester, the accused slayet
of Miss Florence Barton.
The money is to be divided be
aween Dr. Hanson and E. L. Ham*
mond, deputy sheriff of Custer coun
ty, Nebraska, who recaptured Chestel
after his plunge from the stateroom
window of a moving train at Broken
Bow.
BLOOMFIELD—Miss Myrtle Darrow.
who disappeared from home last week,
was located at Wayne, and brought
home by her father, J. D. Harrow’. The
girl is 16 years old and is in the 9th grade
of the local high school. Her parents
live on a farm a mile arul a half south
of town.
LINCOLN—J. H. Frandsen, head of
the dairy husbandry department of the
state agricultural college, has resigned
his $3,600 a year position and taken one
at $6,000 a year as editor of the dairy
department of the Capper press. His
resignation was accepted by the board
of regents.
PERU—Thirty-five thousand fish were
transferred from the lake near Peru to
the lake near Fremont, by Chief Game
Warden George W. Koester. The fish
j consisted of small bullheads and crop
j pies, two to five inches long.
I CRESTON—Motor truck robbers rob
! bed the Strauss dry goods store and es
caped with merchandise estimated by
the owners at $10,000.
Real Question.
From the Irish World.
Contractor—A house on this plan can
be built for $10,000.
The Other Man—I have no doubt it can.
What I want to know is how much I’ll
have to pay you when It’s built?
Economy.
From the Birmingham Age-Herald.•
“Henry, an agent called this after
noon with a patented can opener?’’
“And I suppose you bought it?”
“No. but since we were going to have
srme canned fruit for dessert tonight
1 let him demonstrate It.”
J Europe Is Drifting.
Paul M. Warburg, in New York Times.
At the British trades union congress held at Portsmouth during the*
summer we find the joint committee on the cost of living submitting a report
on money and prices, in which occur the following passages: “As regards
the international aspect of the problem of high prices we think that: (a) the
re-cstablishment of peace throughout the world is a prime essential; (b)
war indemnities should be defined and reasonable in amount.”
It is interesting and most encouraging to find progressive capital in en
tente and neutral countries in practically complete accord with conservative
organized labor on these points.
British financiers were most outspoken in this respect. They are keenly
alive to the fact that every day the solution of this problem is postponed
means that Germany is sliding nearer the precipice. It is realized that to
day she is dangerously close to the brink, and that her plunge would with
out doubt involve others.
Individually and collectively the Germans are at the end of their tether.
JFhey are undernourished and tuberculosis is spreading at an alarming pace.
{Taxation in 100 different forms takes an amazing proportion of their capital
Cmd income, while the balance of their revenues command only a fraction of
Sfceir one time purchasing power. With all thaj, though the item of revenue
2rom taxes in the latest budget provides for an estimated increase from
1.500.000. 000 marks before the war to approximately 30,000,000,000 marks
per annum, a government deficit of some 60,000,000,000 marks still stares
them in the face, which is being met by constantly printing more notes and
treasury bills. Their ships, their colonies, the bulk of their foreign invest
ments and about one-third of their ore mines are gone; a scarcity of coal
bas laid many industries idle and keeps the people freezing in houses which
the rich have to share with the poor; their country is disorganized through
foreign occupation and internal troubles, their military protection against
3iots and insurrections is totally insufficient and unreliable. How, on top
(Hi that, are they to pay fabulous indemnities and avoid bankruptcy and
social disorder? /
The danger of such a situation is that if driven to desperation even tho
•mnest population might in the end surrender to the argument of the reac
tionary to the effect that if all hope for a brighter future is to be abandoned,
it might be better to open the doors of bolshevism, in spite ol; all its horrors,
which then would engulf all Europe and*give Germany a chance to start
'gain on an equal level with her unforgiving victorious enemies.
Europe is at the crossroads of her destiny, and the decision whether
will sink or rise lies largely in the hands of France. There are those
*n France wrho take the moderate and wise view that, if Europe and her
present form of social .order and civilization are to survive, countries must
cease to carry on a war after peace, that they must stand together in re
moving the wreckage and in trying to salvage what still can be saved.
V'Uch men are at one with England and Italy in wishing the indemnity ques
tion settled promptly and on a reasonable basis. As against this school of
thought, there are the “bitter enders,” who partly from hatred engendered
by the war and partly from fear—both easily understood—say that Ger
many muSt be so loaded down with debts and deprived of her coal to such
^ degree that she can never recuperate. This would imply the reduc tion of
60.000. 000 people to 40,000,000. I do not believe that the world wants to
shoulder the responsibility of seeing the fate of Austria duplicated. My
own feeling is that the moderate elements in France ultimately are bound
to prevail; her financial and economic difficulties and her genuine anxieties
?re, however, so real and so grave that it is most difficult for her to reach
hat conclusion.
No fair minded person would deny that France is entitled to the most
complete military protection against the risk oi a military attack by Ger
many and that she is entitled to special consideration for her industries
crippled by the destruction of war and as large an indemnity as the German
nation can possibly pay, but it is obvious that b ran- e stands in danger to
lose these benefits to which she is fairly entitled unless Germany is given
a chance to wTork and become reasonably prosperous.
Too Many Prophets.
From the New York Post.
There is an excess of minor prophets
'll literature, journalism and politics.
When our hopes are buoyed up by the
jro&ve promises of politicians, our emo
tions stirred by the forecasts of popu
lar Cassandras, and our ardor kindled
by the spells of social soothsayers—only
to meet the inevitable disappointment—
Surely we are entitled to compensation.
There is an excess of propheteering, and
the community, as usual, pays. Froph
etmaking and profitmaking are the un
welcome by-products of the great war.
K one is taxable, why not the other?
.Assessments should be graded and im
partial. and should fall alike on the har
bingers of M’.ucian millenniums and'
those who positively announce the de
cisive victory of the Kolchaks, Yuden
Itches and Wrangels of the moment.
We are exploited by the propheteers,
why should we not tax them out of ex
istence? Here is an opportunity for the
#elpful co-operation of our social theor
\its, who discourse so affectingly of un
earned increment and economic rent.
The reputation of the minor prophet
does not depend upon the intrinsic value
•f his utterances; its value is conferred
entirely by the credulity of the com
munity—a clear case of economic rent.
Let our economists devise a scheme for
appropriating this surplus value by
means of a tax on illusory prophets. As
the world is now situated, what we need
most is the production of ideas, not for
prophet, but for use.
Silly But Dangerous.
"War between the United States and
Japan Is almost certain within a few
years unless the United States deals
firmly with the situation as it exists (in
the orient) and builds and maintains a
navy in the Pacific surpassed by none.”
Thus Congressman Dyer, of St. Louis,
one of the tourists on the recent con
gressional junket to the far east, talks
Mr. Dyer follows with a long list of
the dangers he conceives exist. Japan
can take the Philippines any time, lie
says. True enough, and it has been true
for 22 years. Japan would never come
over here to fight, but her vessels would
dart out and sink ours as fast as they
got over. (Peculiar reasoning for a man
who wants us to build more vessels!)
And so on through the typical stock
in trade of the Japanese war alarmist.
All this shows not merely the
uselessness, but the danger of
sending men, wholly unfamiliar with
international matters and the east
ern nations on such an excursion as these
congressmen indulged themselves in as
guests of the American taxpayer. Con
gressman Dyer thinks these are new
things that one discovers from a first
hand investigation. But he does not
contribute to them an item that a reas
onably intelligent person could not have
learned at home from the study of an
atThis man comes back posing as an
expert He lias been there. He peddles
a line of alarmist "dope" that was "old
stuff’ in America years before the war
to Europe began. He is ready to rouse
hostility and ill-feeiing-the begetter of
all wars And ho becomes, even though
Ignorantly a real source of the dangers
h*1 predicts. If we needed real informa
ton about conditions in the far east,
we should never think of sending such
as Dver after it. But in our easy going
wav we permit him and a lot of other
congressmen to vote themselves a hoi -
dav trip in the orlent-which is a small
matter-and then to come back as ex
perts. specially fit to pass on great na
tional policies.
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4 THE RIGHT SPIRIT. 4
4 Independence is a success qual- 4
4- Ity. It imparts a definite magne- 4
4- tism which engenders respect and 4
4 admiration. *
4 By independence is not meant 4
4 that air of false prtde which chills 4
4 the atmosphere and excites ani- 4
4 moslty In others — not that 4
4 loftiness which becomes a prema- 4
■4 tuve obstacle to an easy mental 4
4 attitude, but that delicate firm- 4
4 ness which expresses an abiding 4
4 faith in your own powers—tern- 4
4 pered by tm appreciation of the 4
4 rights and opinions of others. 4
^ The truo spirit of Independence 4
4 Is always accompanied by a sub- 4
4 conscious jrecognition of the inter- 4
4 dependent which exists between 4
4 all men. T
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Italian Socialism.
From the Christian jgplence Monitor.
The noticeable feature of Italian so*
cfalism at the present time is its ten
dency toward division. * On the one hand
there are the moderates, under th©
leadership of such men as Mr. Turatl
and Mr. Trc-’es, who, during the recent
labor troubles in Lombardy, urged set
tlement by conciliation and negotiation,
and on the other, the bolshevist group,
which condemns the recent settlement of
the metal workers’ strike, and is prac
tically in favor of looking to Moscow
for its instructions. Tremenduous ef
forts are being made by Mr. Serrati, un
til recently editor of the "Avanti,” and
others to stem the tide, but so far, ap
parently, with little success. For th©
moment the bolshevist wing Is in the
ascendant. By a narrow majority of
seven .to live, in the directorate of 12
which manages the affairs of Italian
socialism, the extremists have secured
the acceptance of Nicholas Lenin’s re
cent demand for the expulsion of th©
moderates, and, unless something is
meanwhile done to bridge the widening
gulf, the definite cleavage will be ef
fective within a very short time. Th©
great hope of the party is that the pre*-,
ent wave of extremism is, in all prob
ability, only a passing phase, largely
due, in Italy as elsewhere, to the utter
unsettlement in trade and industry which
obtains everywhere. The Italian so
cialist is not naturally an extremist
Until the last election, all the socialists
in the Italian chamber belonged to the
middle* class, and were, many of them,
men of considerable wealth.
Bridegrooms' Souvenirs,
, From the New York Herald.
It has long been the fashion for brides
to wear gowns or lace or other articles
of feminine apparel worn on matri
monial occasions by their mothers ot
grandmothers. But it is unusual to hear
of a bridegroom wearing any of the wed
ding trappings of a forbear. Such an hlr
cident occurred recently in Illinois wheil
a man was married wearing the white
kid gloves that his grandfather hai
worn at his wedding 82 years before.
If bridegrooms adopt this custom,
granting they have grandfathers of a
saving turn of mind as well as a senti
mental, future weddings will afford va
riety in description hitherto unlinowa,
But to utilize grandfather’s wedding
garments may bring embarrassments.
An old fashioned dress coat may serve
very well, but a linen shirt with tall
collar attached, such as one’s grandsiro
wore with a bl..ck silk stock, woifld
scarcely be in the mode. An Andrew
Jackson high hat would lend an air of
distinction to almost any bridegroom,
but a stovepipe of the Hayes period
would be impossible. Grandfather’s tall
boots would be an embarrassment on a
wedding Journey owing to the short
sightedness of modem hotel keepers In \
not providing bootjacks.
But there is one thing of grandfath
er's that any and every present day
bridegroom might welcome. That is his
well tilled black puoketbook with a strap
around it. Any bridegroom with such a
tieasure left by grandfather could look
forward to his wedding journey with a
stout and grateful heart. Of cooraa^tn
have such a practical souvenir handed
down for weddings every bridegroom
must have the right kind of grandfather.
Still Over There. t
Yes, there is rest; yes. there Is rest ?
In the Infuntree, in the Infuntree;
Yes, there is rest; yes. there is rest;
In the Infuntree there is rest, sweet rest
Tossibly grater heights of sarenm*
than those recorded in the above i ..e»i
have sometime, somewhere, been at*1
tained, but if they were, nobody took I
the trouble to set them down in black
and white.
Their ironic triumph may be recalled
at this time with peculiar appropriate
ness. For this Is the season in which
we celebrate not alone the end of the
war. but also the beginning of the most
memorable hike in American history.
The Third American army, subse
quently the army of occupation, was
formed November 11. 1918. A month
later it was still on the march through
Luxembourg into the Coblenz are a. Now,
two years afterward, its heirs and as
signs, the American forces In Germany,
are keeping Old Glory flying over the
rocky eminence of EhrenbreitaK in.
They are the tangible embodiment,
these Yank of the A. E. in O., of Ameri
ca's determination to see a job through
—living evidence that the spirit which
flung back the boche at the Marne, at
St. Mlhiel, along the Krlemhildc Steil
tifjg. still lives. _ _—■
