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ir fhiti i-'"V RED OLOUD, KI1EAIKA, OII1F 'l irrir mki"riw?itomEmMZT2rwYGm!sm sm&wmaa m.? tisds-v!r7'r 1''',2 &-jsmimmismM?m3mx!mmm28zm 1 Colors or the famous First division that was led In parade by General Pershing In New York. 2 First public market opened In the square of Arras. France, amid the ruins. 3 Stnte troops with machine gun In ac tion against mobs during n race riot in Kuoxvlllc, Tumi. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Peace Treaty Reported to the Senate for Ratification With Alterations. MINORITY REPORT ALSO MADE president Wilson's Harsh Words Against Opponents Call Forth Re pliesTreaty With Austria Is Signed Fatal Strike Riots In Hammond and Boston. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Whether or not It wins to the cause of the trenty any supporters, President Wilson's tour already has had one Im portant result. It has induced the sen ate committee on foreign relations to release Its grip on the pact and report It to the senate for action. So the tight over the treaty is now transferred to the floor of the upper house. How long final action there will be delayed no mun can tell. The mnjorlty report of the commit tee, representing the views of Chulr mun Lodge and the other radical op ponents of the treaty and League of Nations the luti especially rec ommends the rallllcntkm of the treaty with four Important reservations, as et forth In these columns a week ago, and also it recommends the amend ments then mentioned. These amend ments and reservations nllke, says the report, "are governed by a single pur pose, nnd that Is to guard American rights and American sovereignty, the Invasion of which would stimulate branches of faith, encourage contilcts, end generate wars." That the adoption of amendments .would necessitate the reassembling of the peace conference Is denied In the report, since the conference probably will bo In session for six months more, nnd It is nlso asserted that the Gentian delegates could easily be brought back to Paris, nnd that, as Germnny Is not a member of tho league, she need not be consulted about changes in the cove nant. Illume for delay Is shifted from the committee to the peace conference itself, nnd the statement often made by the ndvocntes of unreserved rati fication, that trade cannot be resumed until such action Is taken, is char acterized as a "mere delusion." The report sarcastically calls attention to the fact that Premier Lloyd George in recent Important speeches failed to point out that acceptance of the league covennnt by Great Britain laid relieved the social, political and economic trou bles of that country and had not sug gested that prompt notion on the treaty by the American senate would Immedi ately lower the price of beef. As for the fears that other nations may not accept American amendments, the re port says: "That Is one thing that cer tainly will not happen . , . The other nntlons will take ns on our own terms, for without us "their league Is n wreck and all their gains from a victorious peace nrc Imperiled." Senator Hitchcock presented tho re port of the minority of the committee. Islgned by the Democratic members with the exception of Senator Shields of Tennessee, who hnd declared him self In favor of the Lodge reservations. This report was no whit behind that of the majority In forcefuhiess of inn 'gunge and argument, and declared that refusal to ratify the treaty us It stands would mean tho sacrifice by the United 'States of all concessions obtained from iGermnny under a dictated peace, would leave the Industrial world In ferment, the financial world indoubt and com merce halted. Concerning the pro jposed amendments the report snld: "We see no reason to discuss their icharacter nt length. In our opinion Ithey hnve no merit, but whother they (be good, bad or Indifferent their adop tion by the sennto can have no pos sible effect except to defeat the par ticipation of the United States In tho treaty. None of them could by any (possibility be accepted by oven the grent nntlons associated with the United States In the war, and none of them could by any possibility be dic tated to Germnny. To adopt any one of them, therefore, Is equivalent to re jecting the treaty." The report sets forth some of the concessions from Germnny which, It says, America would sacrifice. Most of these are acceptances by Germnny of action already , taken by the United States and which the most ardent ad vocate of the treaty would not suggest that the United States would recon sider even If Germany withheld Its as sent. The really Important point brought out In this connection was that unless we nre a party to the treaty we will have no membership on the reparations commission, which for years to come will have enormous con trol over the trade nnd commerce of Germany with other nations. President Wilson, moving stendlly toward the Pacific coast, Is striking telling blows In behnlf of the treaty and is meeting with enthusiastic re ceptions everywhere. Ills admirers, however, cannot fall to regret that he Is descending to rather undignified abuse of those who oppose his poli cies, and that ho resorts to specious argument In appealing to special In terests, as when he told the farmers of North Dakota that If the treaty were not ratified Europe would not buy their wheat. Mr. Wilson's harsh words ngalnt his opponents called forth instant re snonso from Senator Kenyon In the senate and from Senators Borah, John son nnd McCormlck, who opened the spenklng tour of the reservatlonlsts In Chicago. The president hnd called the senators who demand reservations In the treaty "contemptible quitters," and Kenyon heatedly declnrcd the "most contemptible quitters In the history of the world were those who assembled with high Ideals at the Paris confer ence nnd permitted Japan to take over Shantung." Johnson also took this as his text and to the noisy delight of a huge Chicago audience undertook to show that it was President Wilson who was tiie quitter, In that he had gone across the sea with high Ideals of open cove nants, freedom of the seas, removal of economic harriers, reduction of arma ments and self-detcrinlnntlon for all peoples, and had come home with just what was handed to him. Senntor Norrls of Nebraska took n whack at the president in a speech In the senate, bitterly attacking the ex penditures of the peace delegation. Ho said Mr. Wilson "spent money In Paris like a drunken sullor," culled attention to the payment of $150,000 to Bernard Baruch as a special adviser, and added : "Besides engaging an expensive re tinue of 1 ,500 people as advisers whose advice he did not take, the president had a glass roof put over tho Cieorge Washington and took musjichtns from the Hotel Blltmorn In New York to play for him while lie was going over to Europe." Dr. Karl Rentier, on behalf of Aus tria, signed the peace trenty with that now petty country, but tho signatures of Rniimanln and Czeeho-Slovnkla were withheld for the present. Roumaula objects to tho clauses guaranteeing equal civil rights to Jews and other, religious and racial minorities, ami the Serbians were waiting for the forma tion of a now .cabinet nt Belgrade. There was no indlcntlon of hard feel ings between the allied representa tives and Doctor Renner tit the cere mony, and the latter accepted the treaty with the hope that; before long Austria would be given ensler terms and perhnps the right of self-determination and permission to unite with the German republic. Germany, in reply to the peace con feienco's objection to tho article In the new German constitution providing fort Austrian representation In the relchs rnth, said tho article would remain In -effective. The conference answered that this was not enough, that the art We must be expunged; but this sec ond warning was not expressed so forcibly as had been Intended, owing to tho objection of Mr. Polk. However, Germnny cannot but yield. Tho gov ernment In Berlin evidently expects new Spartaclst uprising In the near future, for the Noske guards have been making secret preparations, nnd guns hnve been placed at bridges and other strategic points. Thla "revolution" hnd been scheduled for October but prob ably the date has been advanced. The latest news from Russln, which, however, comes from bolshcvlst sources, Is that 12,000 of Admiral Kol clink's men have been captured by the reds and the surrender of the re mainder of his southern army Is ex pected. In northern Russia the situ ation of the untlbolshcvlstB Is (ley pernte. The Americans have left and the British nre rapidly completing their evacuation of the Archangel re gion. A delegation from the munlclpnl nnd zemstvo organizations of that dis trict has reached London nnd made A pathetic appeal agulnst the withdrawn! of allied help. The Roumanians, nt Inst reports, had not yet withdrawn their troops from Hungary and their actions and lan guage continue to be dellnnt of the nl libs. They claim to be acting as a bnr rler to the waves of bolshcvlsm that threaten to flow over Hungary from the east. The Serbians, It Is reported, nre growing very bitter ngalnst Roil lunula and nre talking wnr and mov ing up their nrtillery to the frontier. An Interesting story comes from VIennn of the arrest In Prague of the leaders In n monarchist plot that Is be lieved to include Austria nnd Hungnry and with which the Archduke Joseph party is said to be allied. It Is rumored the Intention was to put former Em peror Charles back on the throne. General Pershing's return to the, United Stntes was tho occasion of a tremendous demonstration In New York, lasting over three days and cul minating In an Impressive parade of the First division, "first to enter the wnr and last to leave," led by the gal lant commnnder In chief. When Persh ing landed nt Hoboken he was present efi by Secretary Baker with his com mission as general, and on Thursday, September 18, he will he received by both houses of congress in Joint ses sion nnd will be told formnlly how much the country appreciates his dis tinguished services In accomplishing a grent task with all credit to tho Ameri can nation. The industrial sky was pretty dark last week, and indeed storms broke nt several points. In Hammond, Ind., the striking employees of the Pressed Steel Car works engnged In rioting nnd three of them were killed by the stnte troops and police. Then the members of the' police force of Boston, who nad joined n labor union In defiance of regulations went on strlko, and Imme diately the disorderly elements of the city began pillaging stores, attacking women and indulging In other riotous demonstrations. Tho loynl police were unequal to tho emergency nnd the mayor called for the assistance of the stnte militia. Several regiments were mobilized nnd went Into nctlon ngalnst the mobs, seven persons being killed In the fights. All other labor unions In the city threatened to go on strike In sympathy with the police. The liremen also said they would quit If the police men asked It. As Chairman Gary of the United States Steel corporation dlrectorato was obdurate In his refusal to meet with the advisory committee of the steel workers, despite tho efforts of Presi dent Wilson and others, Che commit teo called a strlko of all union employees of the corporation for Monday, Sei tember 22. Tho strlko order will go Into effect unless concessions satisfac tory to tho unions shall be ninde beforo that tlmo by the corporation or Presi dent Wilson shall succeed In persuad ing the workers to postpone It. Through Secretary Tumulty, tho president urged on Samuel Gompers the wisdom of put ting off the strlko until nfter tho Indus trial conference that Is to meet In Washington early next month. Mr. Gompers was 'In Dorchester, Mass., where ho was called by the death of his father, and at the tlmo of writing it was not known what would be his attitude In the matter. There wns Joy In Chicago over tho ending' of tho long tie-up in tho build ing Industry. The enrpenters, whoso refusal to work for less than $1 an hour caused tho trouble, agreed to re turn to their Jobs for the 02V cents nn hour offered by tho contractors, until next Mny, when there will be a re adjustment. Tho settlement permitted the resumption of building projects In volving many millions of dollars. CQRNHUSKER ITEMS News of All Kinds Gathored From Various Points Throughout Nebraska. OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS Wnltor Rrlggs, Noryal Chirk nntl Peter Pratt, throe Seward county bo,s who luil all boys as Judges at tlio state fair, will make tip the Judging ton in to represent Nebraska at the Sioux City Interstate fair anil throe Oniaha girls who won highest honors as a canning nu wii n-Kiii-ni, imimi.- u u . ( demonstration team at the slate fair j will constitute the canning team. Tho stock Judging and cunning teams will I compete for honors with eleven other states. According to W. II. Campbell of Mullen, district agricultural agent, representing the agricultural depart ment of the University of Nebraska, many thousand cattle from the drouth-stricken nreas of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado are finding both pasture and winter range lu western Nebraska. Four practical short courses will bo given by the unlorsity college of ag riculture at Lincoln this winter for the express benellt of Nebraska fann ers. Any one may enter any of the courses In tractors, trucks, automo biles, and farm shop, any Monday, be ginning September 20. A year ago the State College of Ag riculture, near Lincoln, purchased n Hampshire boar for $00. Just the other day tho same hog was sold for $1,000, It being the third nnlmal the college ha,s sold In the last two years for $1,000 or more. The state bureau of markets nnd marketing estimates Nebraska's corn crop nt 71 per cent normal, based on Sept. 1 conditions. Tills would Indi cate a yield of 172,402,000 bushels, compared to 125,OSO,000 bushels in 1018. Lincoln citizens and organizations nro making preparations for the coming visit of General Pershing, who wns a resident of Lincoln for n number of years. The date of arrival Is not definitely fixed. Otto Zumwlnkle of Utlca hns been ninde private secretary to Governor McKelvIe to succeed Phil Bross of Lincoln, who was advanced to the po sition of secretary of finuiitv, created by the code bill. Women were cntertnlnod nt the Ak-Snr-Ben den. at Omaha during Mer chants market week for the first time outside of a coronation ball, since the organization was founded twenty five years ago. Nebraska's footbnll team started training for the 1010 season last week with about 100 candidate for places on the first squad. The opening game will take place nt Iowa City, Oct. 4. A total of 28,000 head of sheep and 74,000 head of cattle were received at the South Omnha stock yards last Monday, breaking all previous records for a single day. Commission men arc said to be of fering farmers In the northwestern part of the state having nverngo yields $100 an ncro In the field for their potato crop. Reports from Washington- Indicate, that tho Nebraska potash Industry will not be affected In the least by the Im portation of a cheap product from Europe. The state banking burenu has re ceived application for charter from the Bnnk of Dlx, Kimball boun ty. The bank Is incorporated for $15, 000. A convention of the Nebraska Farmers' Co-operative Grain nnd Live Stock association will be held at Omaha from November IS to 20. t Fllley. Rockford and Virginia In Gage county plnn to build n transmis sion electric line front tho Ilolmesvllle plant for lighting the towns. Business men of Nebraska City have organized a company having for its purpose the building of an up-to-date hotel in the city. Rnllrond crop reports place Neb raska's potato crop at 0,500,000 bush els, about half a normal yield. Tho 1010 sugar beet yield In Ne braska Is expected to bo the greatest in tho stnte's history. Gago county farmers report that the ground Is so dry that fall plowing is almost Impossible. Work has begun on tho paving of n number of the streets of Mullen. South Omaha packers predict that retail prices of meat will bo 'decidedly lower In tho Imniedlato future. An effort is being mado to have Cardinal Merclor, Belgium's famous prelate, who arrived in this country n few davs auo. to visit Omaha and other Nebraskat cities. A controersy of 20 yenrs' standing between the north and south sldo of Columbus was settled by the voting of $1M),000 bonds for a site and n now court house. 'J. no slto will bo two blocks south of tho Union Pacific sta tion. Shelton has an unprecedented scarci ty of homes with no Immediate pros pects of Improvement In tho situation lu sight. By a majority of about 2,000 In n to tal vote of about 10,000, Richardson county defeated the project to removo the county sent from Falls City to Humboldt. Tho election marked tho end of a bitter fight. Tho court house nt Falls City burned to tho ground last May, and agitation wns at onco begun for removal of tho county seat to Humboldt. A G-mlll levy wns recently voted to rebuild tho structure. . The 1011) football schedule of tho Nebraska University, Just given out, Is n follows: October 4, Imvit at Iown City; October 11, Minnesota at Minne apolis ; October 18, Notre Dame nt Lin coln ; October 2.", Oklahoma nt Omaha ; November 1, Ames at Lincoln ; Novem ber 8, Missouri at Columbia; Novem ber 15, Kansas at Lincoln; November 22, Syracuse at Lincoln. A syndicate of eastern capitalists has taken over the Farmers Clay Products company plants at Tokn mah, and reports arc tlint the largest and most modern brick and tile plant In the et will be creeled near tho file of the present factories next spring. The new electric light plant at Mill- Iflll lU lflll..t.tl . .... ... ."...mi iiiiiikmioii ami citixcnn of the town are IooUIml- r.ii-ui-.i t.. .. ui lilt' MIWll atC lOOKIflg forWllI'll to II more elllclent lighting system than It has ever had. The old 'plant, which was privately owned, burned down last winter. Fire of unknown origin dost roved tho liiinhei'.yard of Nye-Schnelder-Fowler company, and completely gut ted the Northwestern railroad' sta tion at Hastings. The loss at the lumber yard Is estimated at StiO.OOO and the railroad station at $10,000. By a vote of two to one delegates to tho Methodist Episcopal conference at University Place, a Lincoln subuib. de feated a proposal to establish new boundaries for the conference, so as to apportion a larger number of delegates to the western Nebraska meeting. Victor I-J. Wilson, who resigned from the Nebraska railway cniumls slnn. will enter the practice of com merclal laws lu Lincoln after October 1, when his resignation becomes ef fective. Rumors In the northwestern part of the state are to the effect that tho Hord potash plant which was de stroyed by lire tit Lakeside will not bo rebuilt, duo to the uncertain condi tion of the markets. Hog prices at tho South Omnha market dropped more than $.1 a hun dred during the past week. Bottom price, $15 a hundred, was the lowest on the market In the past two years. The plant of tho American Potash company at Antloch, one of the larg est In western Nebraska, resumed op erations after having been closed nearly n year. From Washington comes tho report that the government equalization board hns arranged to have 10,000 tons of sugar shipped Into Nebraska to re lievo the present shortage. Enrollment lu public school through out the state this fall far exceeds that of a year ago. In some cities nnd towns the Increase In attendance ex ceeds 10 per cent. A now school building, an addition to the electric plant nnd a new munl clpnl Ice plant arc Improvements con templated for Plalnvlew In the Imme diate futures. Lincoln has been receiving but one fourth its normal supply of sugar dur ing the past few weeks. A good many other towns In the state are in tho same boat. The State Railway Commission hns ruled that airplanes used In carrying passengers are common carriers nntl are under Its jurisdiction ns to rates and service. Members of tho faculty of tho Mid land college at Fremont anticipate a very successful school year. Tho college opened Sept. 10 with an en rollment of 350. Warren Pershing, 10-year-old son of General Pershing, is back at home in Lincoln, after having spent two months overseas with his illustrious father. Tho annunl convention of tho Stato Association of County Commissioners, Supervisors nnd County Clerks will be held at Omaha December 2 to 4. A Minnesota non-partisan leaguo leader, II. E. Gaston, has brought suit against tho Lincoln Daily Star for libel, lie asks for $.10,000 damages. The postofflce at Tate, Pawnee county, has been ordered discontinue! because no ono can be found who wishes to "serve as'postmaster. With tiie opening of the school term last Wednesday the Nebraska Univer sity began the 51st year of Its exist ence. Guide signs for tourists over the Omtihu-Llncoln-Dcnvor highway across Nebraska have been renewed. The Beatrice volunteer lire depart ment recently celebrated the burning of the mortgage on Its building. Blue Springs' new school buildlm;, a contract for which has just been let, will cost $51,151. A movement Is on foot to erect n building nt Aurora, suitable for use as an auditorium. Nebraska's oat crops Is estimated at 74,:tS7,000 bushels compared to 50,18S, 000 last year. Continued agitation against tho high cost of living and cessation of tho eastern demand are given ns tho chief causes for sensational decreases In hog and cnttlo prices at South Omaha and other big markets. Because of an outbreak of pneu monia among swine exhibited at tho stato fair orders have been given by the stato live stock bureau that ani mals sold during the fair must not bo delivered for three weeks. President C. J. Miles of tho former Nebraska stato base ball league Is making an 'effort to form a league for 1020 with teams at Beatrice, Lincoln, Falrbury, Norfolk, Columbus, Hastings and York. Tho Stato Board of Health Is send ing Nebraska physicians copies of a circular letter from tho national public health service, requesting tho nnmes of 100 doctors In this state, who aro will ing to servo under tho direction of tho state nnd federal bureaus In the event of another influenza epidemic thla winter. . IMPROVED UNirOSH INTERNATIONAL ,SIY.S(IIIM Lesson By REV. I'. H. KITZWATKR, D. D., Teacher of English Illbto In the Moody Hlblo Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright. 1919. Wfufrn Nfvrpr Union) LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 28 REVIEW: JEGUS OUR SAVIOUR AND KING, OR PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM. The method of review should ho de termined by the grade, of tho class. For the Primary the review should center In the topic, "Jesus and tho Children;" the Junior, "Choosing ' Jesus it; Saviour;" Intermediate, "Ac cepting Christ's Program for Our Lives;" for the Senior and Adult grades the subject of the church, not ing Its membership, ordinances, wor ship, and service. A better way would be to study more fully tho parables of the kingdom as set forth In Matthew 1:1:44-50. I. The Parable of the Hid Treasure (v. 14). The usual Interpretation of this parable, making Christ the hid treas ure for which a sinner must give up everything In order to buy his salva tion, must be rejected for the follow ing reasons: (1) Christ Is not hid den in n field, but has been, lifted up and made a spectacle to the world. (2) Nobody has ever been obliged to buy the world n order to get Christ. (3) Salvation cannot bo purchased, for It Is God's free and gracious, gift. (4) No warrant Is ever held out to n man to conceal his religion after It 1b obtained. 1. The field. This Is the world (v. :tS). Fortunately this landmnrk has been mado by Christ himself. 2. The trensurc. In Psalm 135:4 wo nre told that Israel, the chosen people. Is his treasure. The same tmth Is set forth In different plnces and ways (Dent. 7:0-8; 14:2; 20:18; 32:8, 0). When Christ uttered this parable tho ten tribes were already concealed from human observation, nnd as to the rest of Israel it was n prophecy of that which was to follow. The kingdom hr to Its relntlon nnd bearing Is now hid den. Christ was primarily sent to the Jews; for their sake the field was bought. 3. The Purchaser: the Son of God (John 3:10). None but the Son of God hnd such resources to buy the world. 4. The purchase price. This was the precious blood of the Son of God, which Is worth Infinitely more than sliver aral gold nnd the treasures of the earth (I Peter 1:13, 10; Isa. 53). II. The Parable of the Merchantman Seeking Goodly Pearls (vv. 45. 40). 1. The merchantman. He Is ac tively engaged In search for pearls. In this search he discovers one pearl of great price. This merchantman Is none other than Christ himself. Tho whole nctlvlty of the Father, Son, nnd Holy Spirit, since the fall of man, has been seeking those who are lost. 2. The purchasing price. The mer chantman sold all Impoverished him self In order to buy the pearl. Tho poor lost sinner could not buy Christ. Ills salvation Is without money and without price. Christ did Impoverish himself, turned his hnck upon tho heavenly glory (Phil. 2:0-8) to pur chase the one pearl of great price by his own precious blood (Eph. 5:25; I Pet. 1 :18, 10). 3. The pearl of great price. This, Is the church. The merchantman will find other pearls of value, but tho peerless gem set above all others will be the church which he has purchased with his own blood. III. The Parablo of the Drag Net (vv. 47, 50). This gives us n picture of the com summation of the kingdom. No ono can mistake the meaning here. Note: 1. The sea. This word when used In a figurative sense denotes peoples nnd multitudes (Dnn. 7:3, Rev. 17:15). 2. The drag net. The word "net" In the authorized version Is properly translated "dragnet." 3. Tho net drawn to the shore when full. 4. The assortment made by tho nngcls. 5. The destiny of tho hnd fish, or wicked men. He Drawn Hearts of Men. On that day when our Lord Jesus Christ was lifted up, all sorts of peo plo were drawn to him. There wero those who loved hlin dearly at the foot of tho Cross. There were scribes, and learned men, nnd aristocrats, nnd priests nnd common people. There wero simple pensants from tho coun try, shepherds from tho hills, and n motley crowd from the city streets. There were Romnn soldiers and Gall lean pilgrims. It was a crowd repre sentative of all tho world's people, and today when he is lifted up even ns of old, he draws to himself tho hearts of men. The Work That God Appoints. I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do with cheerful henrt tho work that God appoints. Jean Ingelow. Pass That Day In Peace. You have only n' day to pass on earth; so act as to pass that day In peace. Do Lnmennals. To Live In Peace. Peace Is the fruit of love; for to live in peace, we must learn to Buffer many, things. Do Lamennals. i v y i i ft) r m Jt v