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JOHN WANAMAKER: MERCHANT PRINCE.
A truly great man is dead in Philadelphia, John
Wanamaker, who made his name known in more
useful ways during his life than perhaps any man
who has lived in America since Benjamin Franklin.
In writing of him one finds it perplexing to decide !
w hich of his many activities was of greater impor
tance. The casual reader will think of him as the
"merchant prince,” and bracket his name with that
of A. T. Stewart, whom he succeeded. We have
had oilier merchant princes, however, who have
come to great success and a high place in public
esteem, but none of whom touched so many things
in an effective way as did Mr Wanamaker.
It was not vanity, but an intelligent business
policy that led him to adopt his systematic manner
of advertising. Not many newspaper readers can
recall a day when the Wanamaker store did not
have its full page in each of the Philadelphia papers,
telling in simple English of the bargains offered
that day in its several departments. Mr. Wana
inakcr always wrote some portion of those adver
tisements, a "store editorial," to which he signed
his name, and through which he made the public
acquainted with his business policies. Sixty-one
years of continually expanding business life found
its daily expression through the newspapers of his
home city, which is noted throughout the world for
the high character of its newspapers, having more
and better of them than any other American city,
principally because the example set by Mr. Wana
maker has been intelligently followed by his con
temporaries.
It will come as a surprise to most people to be
told that John Wanamaker was the first paid Y.
M. C. A. secretary in America; that to his skill as
an organizer much of the success of that great in- i
stitution may be traced He gave his talent to or
ganization work in connection with the Civil War, !
and he served the United States as postmaster gen
eral in President Harrison's cabinet, and brought to
the department the benefit of his organizing abil
ity. He found time to give much personal atten
tion to c hurch wot k and to politics, and through
his long life proved that a man may be a devout
Christian, an active participant in the civic affairs
of his community, his state and his nation, and a
success in business as well.
John Wanamaker heg-an at the bottom, an er
rand boy in a retail store; he rose to the very top,
ihrough patient industry, honest and approved
methods of enterprising merchandising. His career
has in it little of the elements of romance, but is
far from living a sordid tale of unremitting plod
ding. A man who could found so great a business,
and could actively engage in so many other ways
as filled the busy life of this man can not be looked
upon as a plodder. Rathe^, he deserves to he con- i
sidered a genius, and to have rank as such.
MORE POWER TO THE UNION PACIFIC.
No indication of intention to electrify any part
of its line is to be gleaned from the announcement
i hat the Union Pacific lias just placed another ordei
lor locomotives As these are to be of the heaviest
type, the presumption is fair that they will be used
on the western divisions, where the stifffest pulls are
encountered. Engines recently ordered are soon to
lie delivered These include 55 of the heaviest pas
senger locomotive ever built, designed on new lines
and intended to make long runs at high speed. It,
was announced at the start that some of these en
gines are to be placed in service between Omaha and
Denver, making the run from one terminal to the
other without change. This is an innovation in rail
road practice, and will he the longest single run on
which engines are regularly employed.
Other locomotives to he delivered shortly are 10
Mallet compounds, huge machines, with two cylinders
and eight driving wheels on each side, capable of
dragging immense loads of freight. The order just
placed calls for five more of these, which is evidence
that the Union Pacific is making preparations to take
, are of largely increased traffic. Fifteen of the big
•‘Mikado 2-10-2” freight engines also are expected
soon, and 73 more have been ordered.
Business conditions warrant the expenditure, for
the country served by the Union Pacific is growing,
and the probability of its outstripping the capacity
of the railroad is ever present. It is to he recorded,
however, that the policy of James J. Hill and E. H.
Harriman, to he ever ready to take care of business
has not been departed from by either of the great
systems they headed. ,
ALL ABOARD FOR OKLAHOMA
Governor-elect J. C. Walton of Oklahoma pro
poses to have an inauguration that ought to endear
him to the democratic heart, whether it does to
the rest of the world or not. He proposes to feed
free of charge 200,000 persons for two days, the
time to he spent in celebrating his advent as chief
executive of the state.
Not at the government's expense, however, for
he has called for donations of live stock, to be
slaughtered and barbecued, and of other provender
to be worked upto dainties for the populace who
will bhe present. The governor-elect expects to
ride a $5,000 horse, seated on a $10,000 saddle, in
the parade that wdll open the festivities. All the
notables of Oklahoma. Pawnee Bill. Col. Zaeh
Mulhall, Col. George Miller of the “101” ranch, and
Dan V. Lackey, prize fight promoter, will be in
charge ,
“It will be no pink tea party," says Mr. Welton,
and we may well believe it. The program sounds
more like the proceedings that followed the eleva
tion of a satrap to eminence under Constantine
and his successors, when the recipient of the ap
pointment was expected to ruin himself in paying
for the entertainment provided. He remembers,
also, the days of which Walter Scott recorded,
“A Christmas gambol oft would cheer
A poor man’s heart through half the year.'1
and wants to fix things so that Oklahoma’s people
may forget their other troubles for a time. It will
be some party, if the next governor of the great
•UU *f Oklahoma hia way.
"NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS."
A farce that has come down from the Seven
teenth century to the present day is an English
laugh at certain maneuvers of people to get even
with one another. Some memory of “A New Way
to Pay Old Debts" is suggested by the proposal
that the United States forgive France the war debt
owed, that England may do likewise, and that in
turn France will accept a readjustment of the
reparation terms and consent to a long-time mora
torium for Germany.
Germany literally can not pay under present
conditions. France has depended on reparation
payments for her own needs, and without them will
not make any sort of settlement with either the
United States or England.
It is certain that Germany will not be able to
pay France within a great many years, unless per
mitted to do so in kind, and this form of payment
has been rejected by France. Equally certain is it
that the United States will realize little if anything
from France in many years. While neither France
nor Germany has admitted or pleaded bankruptcy,
the facts are too eloquent to need exposition. A
creditors’ meeting might as well be called, and
something decided upon.
What the proposed course actually involves is
making the United States pay a portion of the war
debt incurred by the nations to be benefited. Such
a plan amoftnts to little less than requiring the
United States to pay the German debt to France to
the extent of three billions of dollars. As at the close
of business, August 3,1921, France owed the United
States $2,997,477,800, cash advanced and interest
France has repaid *46,714,861.81, but now seems
unable to go further.
The proposal made does not include forgiveness
of the debt owed to the United States by England,
but a fifty-year moratorium is suggested. How this
project will be accepted in the United States is
r.ot plain, but the sentiment of the people generally
has been against any forgiveness of these debts.
On the surface the whole scheme looks like a plan
to make the people of the United States pay bills
incurred by Europe during a war in which we were
unwillingly involved, and for the aftermath of
which we are in no sense responsible. Americans
have been at all times ready to help the Europeans,
when they get ready to help theemselves, but no
sign is at hand that that time has arrived.
ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE."
For a brief moment it is given to peer over' the
edge into the underworld. A girl has been slain
after a drunken spree. A dissolute character of the
cabarets and roadhouses endeavors to explain in his
broken English how the fatal shot was fired.
One more unfortunate
Weary of breath
Rashly Importunate,
Gone to her death.
Few can be so fastidious as to deny some sym
pathy for this girl who came from a country town
in Missouri only to fall into such a life and such a
death. Through what train of circumstance was
she drawn into the meshes of destruction? The hon
est life of poverty from which she sprung was not
half so hard as the tawdry existence into which she
plunged. The kerosene lamp on the table at home
gave a much clearer vision than the blight lights of
the midnight resorts. Untrained to cope with the
world, unskilled at any honest employment, she came
to the city and was reduced to companionship with
a deniaen of the underworld whose only grace was
his ability to sing and play the popular jazz airs.
There was not one line of honest sentiment or real
feeling in all this music—it was as shoddy as the
rest of her environment.
It seems unreal that this should be called a life
of pleasure, or that any other girl should follow
along these paths. There is but one end to it all,
whether the death be a living one or not. One can
not know with what longing she went back to the
home of her mother nor with what thoughts she
ieft after the occasional visits to her brother’s fam
ily out in the state. Such a simple, home and peace
ful life of domesticity might have been hers. There
is something about the underworld that saps the
courage of its victims and prevents them saving
themselves
Take her up tenderly,
Rift her with cave;
Fashioned so tenderly,
Young and so fair!
Her poverty-stricken mother now comes to the
city, scarcely able to understand the situation. She
suggests that the man accused of her daughter's
death help pay the funeral expenses. This form of
primitive justice, conceived perhaps through the idea
of expiating sin, does not draw an immediate proffer
' from the prisoner. She does not understand how
I lost to all honor is the world in which her daughter
} moved.
j The “soft drink" parlors and bootlegging joints
have claimed another victim—or two, if the rrtan is
worth counting. For a moment Omaha peers over
the edge of the underworld. A girl is dead, and her
manner of going may serve as a warning to others.
Before she is forgotten, too, some effort should be
made to clean up these sources of corruption.
It is not always easy to feel kindly toward
Medicine Hat.
The Buckner Controversy
f'ron) the Independent. ————
It is not nectssary to call names or to impugn mo
tives in discussing the action of Bishop 1100101' C.
Stuntz and his associates in the Nebraska Methodist
conference in retiring the Rev. J. D. M. Buckner, and
getting themselves disrespectfully talked about there
by. Mr. Buckner, like half or more of his fellow Meth
odists, denies the verbal inspiration of the Bible and
believes in "the historical interpretation." Me accepts
"the demonstrated conclusions of science in the fields
of geology and biology" and holds that religion "should
emphasize personal service to fellow men" rather than
"personal reward.”
From his own story, published in a pamphlet, en
titled "llow I Lost My Job as a Preacher," it appears
that he had protested against J>e!ng retired, and that
Ins demand for formal charges and a trial was denied.
The committee on conference relations "heard Mr.
Buckner repeatedly." says Dr. Clyde Clay Cissell, ex
ecutive secretary of the Omaha area of the Council
of Boards of Benevolence, in a telegram to Zion's Her
ald. and then retired him without “formal charges or
case against him." Zion's Herald is maintained by
the Methodist Episcopal church, and is, in that sense,
an organ of the denomination. It is therefore higjily
significant that the Herald, reviewing the case in its
issue of November R, says: "After studying tin* facts
in connection with the Buckner case we are convinced
that there is truth in the foregoing scathing indict
ment of Methodism, a*d we propose to face the issue
squarely."
The "scathing indictment” referred to was a pub
lished article which had characterized the action of the
conference as "despicable," and said that Bishop Stuntz
and his fellow committeemen "did not dare face tho
consequences which a public admission of their verit
able intention would bring down upon them." After
this it was nice of Zion's Herald to add, "these church
leaders may have made a mistake, hut they are not
dishonest; neither are they politicians.” Of course they
are not dishonest, and the evidence is strong that they
are no pllticians. at any rate not the kind that have
nothing further to learn . ,
“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from other newspapers—
The Electoral College and the Inter
regnum.
From the St. Joseph News.Freer
The first fruits of tlie new “pro
gressive" bloc in congress are two
proposed amendments to the federal
constitution, one doing away with the
electoral college, and the other short
ening tlie interregnum by advancing
inauguration day from March 4 to
the third Monday in January. It is
not improbable that favorable action
ran be obtained, In both houses of
congress. Approval by the legisla
tures of the required number of
states, however, is less certain.
As to the electoral college, there has
been a growing impression for years
that it has outlived its usefulness,
that it Is cumbrous and represents a
system that has been completely su
perseded by custom. The amend
ment would simplify the method of
voting for president and vice presi
dent. Names of the candidates them
selves would appear on the ballot, in
stead of the names of presidential elec
tors, as at present The ease of the
interregnum is less simple, for while
it has proved embarrassing at times,
some authorities contend that it serves
ft very definite purpose, and that its
utility «nore than outweighs any in
convenience that may arise from it.
The interregnum is generally un
derstood to mean the interval of about
four months between the election of
president and vice president in No
j vember and their inauguration March
, 4 of the following year. In 1860, ac
cording to some historians, this “hia
tus" nearly destroyed the union, for
it permitted traitors in the govern
ment to use the government's re
sources to build up the strength of
the secessionists. If Mr. Hughes had
won In 1916 we should have had a
serious situation, with our policy as to
•iermany suspended for four months.
In 1920 some embarrassment as to
<>ur relations with Mexico arose in the
\ interval.
The interregnum was handed down
to us from a time when news was
transmitted by messengers on horse
back and when the most rapid transit
known was the coach-and-four, but
there is reason to believe that the
tap was not wholly a concession to
the primitive modes of those days. It
might easily tide over a time of crisis
serving as a safety valve to let off
steam from a superheated electorate.
There are good reasons why a set of
newly elected officials, fresh from ihe
inflaming influences of a political
campaign, should have an interval In
which to cool off and get their bear
ing before assuming seats of power.
Thus the Interregnum would serve
ns a shock absorber. Plans for its
abridgement call for the best that
congress has of wisdom and foresight.
I.ose $.‘>0,000,000 a Year.
K IF. Smith in the Sclentlf.c American.
One dollar is stolen by the forger
and check raiser for every $8,000
cleared through the banks of the
I'nited States. The clearances in re
lent years have fluctuated in the vi
cinity of $400,000,000,000 yearly. Uu the
other hand, according to tlie estimates
of various experts, including some- of
ficials of bunkers* associations, the
yearly amount stolen through the
misused checks is now about
$50,000,000.
In 1880 tho loss was probably not
more than $2,000,000 a year and pos
sibly as low as $1,000,000. In 1013
Wllll&m J. Burns told lIn? American
Bankers' association the stealage had
been $23,000,000. The writer esti
mated the 1018 loss as $30,000,000,
casing his calculations on reports
which seem now to have been Incom
plete. It was more silkelv between
840,000,000 and $,’.0 000,000 yien. and
the best informed specialists in hank
protection believe that it has now
passed the latter figure.
Cheek manipulation is, therefore,
one of the commonest and costliest
forms of property crime. Only swin
dling by means of corporate issues,
which costs tlie American public see
oral billions a year, and embezzle
<nent or defalcation, which totals
more than $100,000,000, can be ranked
above it Bank burglary and robbery,
type* of crime which strike the aver
age imagination as much more dan
gerous because they are committed in
u more dramatic manner, probably
yield the thieves about $2,500,000
every year, one-twentieth the check
alteration loss.
Accordingly, there Is and lias been
)n progress a long-standing warfare
between the hanks and their support
ing police organizations on one side
and the cheek criminal on the other.
Into this fight the inventor and teeh
nirian has been drawn in more recent
limes and he has devoted untold en
ergy and Ingenuity to the tactful
problem of flrnking and routing the
larcenous forces. To date he has
achieved no victory. Indeed, the
mounting figures of check losses
would seem to indicate clearly that
the tide of battle is swinging to the
other side.
Ford and Street Cars.
From the York News-Times.
Henry Ford, always out for some
free advertising, is going to get some
more.
The Detroit manufacturer gives his
fellow citizens some advice about
managing tho municipal street rail
way.
Couzons is going to the senate and
there must be a new mayor and Mr.
Ford gives hint some advice that is
free as the air for the tires of his
cars.
Mr. Ford says to cut the street car
fare in two. If this is done he de
clares there will be a great increase
in street car traffic and the munici
pal-owned plant will pay big and
everybody be happy. Mr. Ford claims
the people who now ride down town
in their cars and pay for storage and
run the risk of having cars stolen
will take to the street cars If the fare
is made half of what it Is.
Probably he is right in his deduc
tions. At any rate tho experiment
can be tried easily.
The Itloc in Legislation.
From the Washington Star.
About this so-railed bloc business
Does anybody understand it? Have
those who have formed the blocs on
Capitol Hill, and arc employing them
in the legislative equation, thought
out the problem thoroughly? Is there
any assurance that in the end a sort
of chaos will not result and that we
shall not witness the amazing and
expensive spectacle of every bloc for
itself and devil take the hindmost?
The party system wo arc all fa
miliar with. That has been iu opera
tion from the beginning. It is by no
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means perfect, and hence does not
produce perfect results.
The fact is we should not know
what to do with perfect results if
they came our way. They might dis
organize us. Nothing is or could be
on a perfect basis in governmental
affairs.
But the party system in Its hun
dred-odd years of service has pro
■ lured many excellent results, and.
I operating with it, we have built up a
government which in world conditions
of appalling confusion and incertitude
is the strongest government In exist
erice. It is so strong the other gov
ernments are flirting with it for rec
ognition and favor.
Let us move cautiously, if furthei
at oil, in this bloc business. It would
ho most unfortunate and expensive if
we found that, after taking our party
system to pieces, we could not arrange
the pieces for effective service, and
had only produced a new sort of
Chinese puzzle, interesting enough us
a study, but without practical value
as a legislative agency.
Prospects for Potato (•rowers.
From the Lincoln .Star.
Many a farmer in Nebraska wht
raised a big crop of potatoes this year
only to find that he could not sell
them at a profit will throw up his
hands, say “Oh, what’s the use?’’ and
refuse to plant any tubers next
spring. Without taking the trouble
to figure things out he will conclude
that it doesn't pay to raise potatoes
and will put his land into other crops.
But the shrewd farmer who looks
ahead and makes thoughtful calcula
tions will be likely to conclude that
next year, above all others, is the
very time to grow potatoes. It will
occur to him that very many who
planted them this year will be dis
couraged and quit raising them, lit
will perceive that instead of being
produced in great abundance the com
ing season, potatoes are probably go
ing to he scarcer and in more de
mand.
So while other farmers are desert
ing the potato and going in far some
thing else, the far-seeing ones will
stick to it. They will start with a big
advantage—plenty of good seed on
hand for which no cash outlay is re
qulred. Their neighbors will he buy
ing corn, wheat and oats to seed down
former potato acreage, or perhaps
stdl mere expensive alfalfa seed.
The overproduction of potatoes this
year was the result of an unusually
large acreage, planted in anticipation
of high prices, and an exceptionally
large c-op raised all over the couu
try. For several years, potatoes had
been on a high price level, and farm
(rs thought they could make more
money by raising them than other
(rops. But the raising of an unpre
cedented crop completely changed the
Hluution, and the result was disap
pointment all around.
With the farmer as with everything
else, it is perhaps best not to put all
of one's eggs in a single basket. The
vise agriculturist diversities his crops,
raising some wheat, some corn, some
outs, some alfalfa, and some potatoes,
if he is in a potato growing district.
He will not abandon potatoes for the
mere reason that prices have been
l.eluw cost of production in one sea
son. The same thing may happen
to corn or wheat next year, or even
to live stock.
The fellow who sticks and goes
ahead in the face of adversities is the
one who wins out in the end. ,
Predicts Marriages in Parks.
From a New York Letter !n the Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
“Women used to make up in their
boudoirs: now they do not liestitate
to perform their toilets on Fifth avc
nue or nnv other street. Courting is
done iri tile parks or on busses, in the
streets, or elsewhere, in view of the
nubile. T predict that the lime is
•omlng when marriages will he per
formed in the public square. The
world's point of view has become
scientific end we have lost our sense
of (lie lltness of things."
These and other startling remarks
were made to members of the fash
ionable Contemporary club at New
ark hv Dr. Frank Alvali Parsons
president of the New York School of
Fine and Applied Art.
“The primitive woman on a day
like this.” said Parsons, "would wrap
up In a fur or rug to keep warm. Oil
July 4. the woman of today would
lake the same fur or rug and wrap
:'t around her nrek. going half naked
below.
“Then observe the home with lub
ber plants in green .iars at the win
dows. In earlier days people had
windows which could be opened.
“N*iw one needs a moving van to
get to the window. Did you ever read
of anything more hectic than life of
today?
“And, why, oh. why, do women
wear a skirt to the ground on one
side, and to the knee, fastened to a
tin plate, on the other?”
A Call to Library War.
From the Los Angeles Times.
Teachers and librarians who were
getting together at the convention of
the American Library association to
select a small library for us in
schools from the first to the eighth
grades all agreed in giving Louisa
Alcott's "Little Women" as their
first choice of books. "Alice in Won
derland.” "Robinson Crusoe." "Tom
Sawyer" and "Treasure Island" came
next in the order named After that
opinions divided over a wide field. It
is no easy task to agree on the fiO
best books for young folks.
j A Book oj Today \
"ROADS OF ADVENTURE.’* by Ralph
l>. Paine. Houghton-Mifflin company.
Host on.
This book of 452 pages, with 42 illus
trations from photographs, demon
strates that truth may be stranger
tl.an fiction when it is written enter
tainingly. Mr. Paine, as a war corre
spondent. had a varied and eventful
career on land and sea, from the time
he was a member of the winning crew
of Yale in 1592 until he visited the
i allied lleet in European waters during
I the world war. With this wealth of
1 experience to draw from, the author
lias given a charming account of his
J adventures. He has a talent of seeing
i tho bright side—tho humorous facets
I —even in tho grimness of war. He
takes the reader on a personally con
ducted tour over the roads of adven
tore which he traversed during a pe
rind of 25 years.
Mr. Paine’s narrative of his experi
cnees aboard the "Three Friends.” dur
ing the Cuban revolution and before
this country declared war against
; "pain, is about as delightful a bit of
reading as one could wish for. It
scintillates with a style of humor that
places the author in a class by him
self. There is nothing of the brag
gadocio in it. Mr. Paine under! mk
to deliver for W. R. Hesrst a J2.000
sword from the people of New York
to Gen. Maximo Gomes, Cuban revo
' lutionary leader. With Ernest Me
Oreadv, a New York correspondent,
be shipped from the port of Fernan
dina, Fla., on the Three Friends, a
large white towboat, carrying a
wrecking license, but technically at
that time a pirate vessel on a mission
of carrying men and supplies from
this country to Cuba. Captain "Dyna
mite Johnny" O’Brien was in charge
of this filibustering expedition.
Whose romance on the Spanish Main
was "served piping hot,” ns Paine
writes.
We read that: It impressed one,
this hold invasion by an unarmed sea
going towboat whose destruction with
all hands had been decreed In resound
ins phrases from the palace of ad
ministration in Havana. It had the
flavor of bygone centuries, of an era
when the little ships of England had
sailed to the West Indies and the
South Seas to singe the beards of the
viceroys of Spain and to laugh at the
tall galleons with their tiers of carron
ades and culvertns. Now was it far
fetehed to think of 'Dynamite John
ny' O'Brien ns a comrade in spirit to
Hawkins, and Dumpier and Edward
Davis?"
New York newspapers carried big
stories at the time of the exploits of
the Three Friends, against which this
government started proceedings. Mr.
Paine relates the circumstances of
McCready and himself meeting Rich
ard Harding Davis and Frederic Rem
ington in Key West, which was at
that time a whispering gallery of
revolutionary plots and the base of
secret comm’unieations with Cuba.
The book give close-ups of Theodore
Roosevelt in Cuba, of Admiral Stamp
son's flagship. Leonard Wood. Shaf
fer and others. The author takes his i
reader to the Boxer uprising in Pek
ing, to the gold Helds of Nevada, when
"Scotty" was in his heyday. In Haiti
lie introduces "the chief of staff of
tlie arrondissement of Mole St. Nirho
olns," otherwise identified as a man
who had served four years as a butler
in New Rochelle, N. Y.
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Editorial from roaderi of TM Marnln* Baa. Raadara of TM Moml«« §••
ara Invliad to B>a ttila column treat* for axproeetoa
on mattara of public Interact.
A Cynic on Politics.
Missouri Valley, la.—To the Editor
of The Omaha Dee: Oh my, oh my.
why all this fuss about poor Mr.
Daugherty? H« Is not to blame, and
it's a ten to one shot he'd like to
pack up his grip, extra collars and
socks, and get out of Washington In
a hurry, but he's just sport enough
to stirk it out and take a part In the
political carnival of film flam and
bunco which tho polltlcans are all
staging for us poor dam fool voters.
Convict a profiteer? That is out of
the question, and any mutt with
sense enough to button his shirt all
the way down ought to know it.
Daugherty or any other bird on the
job before him is chosen by the Wall
street gang and carefully taught just
how to behave. Why cuss the poor
hired man for doing as he is told?
Was Palmer any hettpr? The mess
you aro giving poor llarry the deuce
about started when our democratic
friend had the job. You couldn't pick
up a paper but what Palmer’s picture
was in it and a tine line of bunk about
him. Ever read about him now? He
was a good sport, too, and just did
his little act. made his bow and got
off the stage. Whenever Daugherty
or any other attorney general con
victs a profiteer and sends him to the
hoose-gow tile Missouri river "ill he
flowing backwards and the capital of
Heaven located at Council Bluffs.
jt s runny, too. i^ei some poor cuss
make a lead nirkel and there's more
special agents around than there’s
cooties In an army shirt. The bright
est minds .of the secret service are
turned loose on some fellow who does
the Dana Gibson stunt on a new one
dollar bill. Vet when it comes to get
ting some guy for stealing the United
States mint it is absolutely impossi
ble to get evidence if he throws it
over his shoulder and takes a rest in
Mr. Burns’ office. Everybody with a
badge or star walks on eggs.
It's all right though, brother.
Caesar had the same trouble with his
congressmen and governmental de
partments, too. Poor old Solomon
had his grafters to contend with.
Father Abraham had a hard time with
his sticky lingered henchmen. There’s
nothing new about the graft business
at all. They used to take the
profiteers out and chop olT their heads.
Now they get shot by a chorus girl,
or go to Europe and die of the jim
Jams from drinking too much whisky
all at once. It saves us the trouble.
If they’d put you or me in Daugh
erty’s job; slip a roll and tell us how
to act we’d do the same thing. It's
so, too—isn't it. brother? The trouble
is that all us little fry are so busy
trying to steal, rob and grab that we
get a ease of sour grapes when some
gink makes u big huul and gels away
with It. Our fault Is that we crab
among ourselvis Instead of getting to
gether and lauding on our congress
men fop not doing business. Nobody
but a few fanatical prohibitionist*
every hot-foot any of them. The
prohibitionists had a system.
If Congressman Keller Is giving
Harry the deuce, it is because Keller
is getting benefit from doing that par
ticular thing. He got his job from
saying he would. Why shouldn't he
put on an act? He'd probably gat
kicked out if ho didn't.
Oh. it's a great game, and until we.
the audience, who call themselves
citizens, wake up, all we "ill ever do
is clap when the curtain goes up and
when it goes down. The politicians
nut on the show. Next.
I. T. DUZZEN MATTER
Credit for Shantung.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The Oma
ha Bee: In the Evening World-Her
ald of the ‘.Uh appears a reprint or
an editorial from the Louisville Cour
ier-Journal purporting to prove the
vindication of Woodrow \\ ilson on Ills
position that Japan would withdraw
from Shantung, China, under the
terms of tile Versailles treaty, where
in is provided that Japan will with
draw from the Chinese province "at
the proper time."
Anyone with an ounce of common
sense knows that Japan is withdraw
ing from Shantung because such an
arrangement was required by Charles
E. Hughes at the Washington con
ference. and for no other reason.
Japan would never have with
drawn from Shantung by reason of
any provision of the Versailles treaty
simply because tlie "proper time"
would never come, according to her
own view.
Such rot as this clipping from the
I Louisville paper is quickly snatched
! up by the World-Herald.
JESSE FRAHM.
Thank* From a Democrat.
Omaha.—To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Kindly accept from a
humble democrat a word of apprecia
tlon for your splendid editorial in The
Omaha Bee in regard to our very wor
thy rx President Wilson.
The editorial was excellently writ
ten and conceived In as fine a spirit
of real sportsmanship as 1 have seen
in a long time.
Woodrow Wilson made his mis
takes, as have all preceding and as
will all succeeding chief executives,
hut out of the present chaos he cet
talnly will emerge another "Man for
the Ages.'' J. R. DEWEY.
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