Peace, Sweetness, Light.
Won't Pay, Can’t Pay.
It’s a Latv, but Bad Law.
Unimportant Earthquake.
^ By ARTHUR BRISBANE j
Speaking of peace, sweetness
and light, you notice that our
neighbor, the Argentine republic,
plans to spend more than $147,
000,000 for an army this year.
Lloyd George says England has
just signed with Turkey the most
humiliating peace treaty that Eng
land ever signed.
The treaty allows ships of all
nations to go through the Dar
danelles. That isn’t important
The important thing is, what kind
of a fleet will Russia one day tend
through the Dardanelles—ships on
the water, submarines under the
water, flying machines above the
water.
George M. Reynolds, wise Chi
cago banker, returns from
Europe saying France won’t pay
its debt to the United States.
That’s true. France won’t for the
reason, among others, that it
couldn't if it wanted to.
It couldn’t pay us four or five
billions, interest excluded, and pay
the same amount to England with
out taxing the people as heavily as
the English and the American peo
ple are taxed. The French won’t
stand that kind of taxation; they
don’t like it. And when they don’t
like a thing, they have a way of
making their government know
they don’t like it. We haven’t
that here.
A Chicago judge upholds the
right of any man to disinherit his
wife and children. That is the law,
but it’s bad law.
If a man has a dog the law will
compel him to feed that dog, al
though the man isn’t the dog’s
father.
What a man must do for his dog,
he should be compelled to do for
his children. Napoleon knew it.
Frenchmen are not allowed to dis
inherit children that they have
created, unless for good reasons.
If a man’s children are worth
while, he should be proud not to
neglect them. If they are worth
less, his is the fault for he made
them, and he should be compelled
to support them.
Earthquake rumblings in Cali
fornia with nobody killed are
treated in eastern newspapers as a
combination of the world war and
the destruction of Pompeii. Cali
fornia quakes are not nearly as
dangerous as floods and lightning
in the east, and don’t collect one
tenth as many lives.
Out there the earth is just set
tling down, getting ready to sup
port and hold up about 60,000,000
more human beings.
In Toldo, by the way, there were
60 earthquake shocks, one after
the other, within two weeks, and
nobody paid any attention to that
—wisely, for they didn’t amount
to anything.
Steinach, brilliant surgeon of
Vienna, has undoubtedly changed
old men into apparently young men
by gland transplanting, and also,
according to good authority, has
made a person aged 20 suddenly
become 60 in appearance.
As between the two, the wise
man would says, “If you must
change me, make me older. Any
thing but a return to youth and all
its foolishness.”
The great empire of China is
crumbling. Anarchy is growing,
the opium traffic is opened up
wide for the sake of revenue.
Conditions are bad. But China
has always been crumbling more or
less, like the great Chinese wall
that began crumbling when it was
finished.
Like the dinosaur of old that
died off because of its very big
ness, China seems too big to man
age itself. That’s bad for China,
fortunate, perhaps, for the rest of
the world. If China developed a
genius able to control the five or
six hundred million Chinese, able
to feed and raise the babies to
swell the nation to 1,500,000,000,
more than all the other peoples on
the earth combined, it would be
dangerous for the others.
The Baptist World Alliance con
gress at Stockholm is told that only
Christianity, spread everywhere,
will prevent wars.
Christianity would prevent if
those in power paid any attention
to Christianity’s teachings. But in
the seven years’ war, the thirty
years’ war, the hundred years’
war, among 10,000 other wars,
were all perfectly good Christian
wars. And there are plenty more
to come.
And when Christians got tired
of fighting each other in the old
days, they started out all together
on their crusades to fight gentle
men in the east—who gave them a
series of good beatings, by the
way.
For Christianity to stop war, the
nations must become Christian,
actually, not merely in name.
In the last great war there were
hundreds of millions praying to a
Christian God convinced that He
undoubtedly would help each group
to beat the other group.
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Scores of Auto
Tourists Caught
by Flood Waters
Many Motor Parties Marooned
in Wyoming — Retreat
From Thermopolis Cut
off by Cloudbursts.
(Continued From Faso One.)
service. Three cloudbursts scattered
ovqr an interval of six hours swept
down the mountain passes carrying
tons of rock and dirt, cutting off from
the outside world 400 tourists and
completely demoralizing all forms of
communication.
Ranger stations, summer resorts,
lodges and other buildings were swept
into flooded rivers. Canyon creek
moved westward a quarter of a mile
and formed a new channel.
Debris 35 Feet Deep.
Absaroka lodge. Dude resort, is re
ported filled with debris and trees
35 feet deep. Mud three feet from
the overflow of Grinnel creek covers
the road for miles.
Boulders, trees and wreckage of all
description was strewn over an area
of more than half a mile when Clock
Tower creek went over its banks.
Hundreds of marooned tourists
worked feverishly with forestry serv
ice men in throwing temporary
bridges across the flooded streams,
and this morning had succeeded in
making a passable road from the
park to this city.
Shoshone dam reservoir is black
with a mass of wreckage washed
down by the flood of waters.
Woman Wlio Lost Arm and Leg
Found Alone in Her Home
Mrs. Ella Hampson, 50, who recent
ly suffered the amputation of her
right arm and leg at a Council Bluffs
hospital, has asked the county to
buy her an artificial leg.
She was found yesterday at her
home, 24P7 First avenue, by a county
official with no one to care for her.
She had been taken to her home
from the hospital only a few days
before.
She was removed to the home of a
daughter, Mrs. Fehr, at Twenty-fourth
street and Avenue N.
Koutsky Acts as Paving
Inspector for Few Hours
City Commissioner Joseph Koutsky,
head of the public Improvements de
partment, served for several hours
as paving inspector yesterday.
He was on the Job at Twelfth and
Bancroft streets at 6:58, and when
the whistle blew at 7 he was all set
for work.
Due to the death of the father of
J. W. Burns, city Inspector, Commis
sioner Koutsky took Bums' place as
inspector until a man could be ob
tained.
Hernberg Store Buyers
Make Trip to New York
A. Herzberg and staff of buyers are
In New York making purchase* for
the approaching season.
Ths buyers accompanying Mr.
Herzberg are Mrs. Linton. Miss Sofia
Fayman, Mrs. Bolzendahle, Mr.
Waterman, S. Lowensteln, Miss Hilda
Peterson, Maurisa Brownstcln and
Mrs. Irene Grey,
Mrs. A. M. Hall, buyer of furs. Just
returned from several weeks In New
York.
Men Charged With Auto
Theft Waive Hearing
Ed Shaddox and Paul Romano, ar
rested Monday on the Douglas street
bridge with a car stolen from the
garage of H. 8. Garisbe, Lakoina an
nex, Council Bluffs, waived prelimi
nary hearing on a charge of automo
bile theft In Council Bluff* police
court yesterday and were bound
over to the grand Jury on $2,000 bond
each.
Butler Says Illinois Man
Sent to Get “Goods” on Cops
Police Commissioner Butler charged
yesterday that E. A. Page of
Peoria, 111., who Is being held for
Illinois authorities on a charge of
bank robbery, was sent to Omaha to
endeavor to collect evidenc* against
the police department. H* charged
that Page was employed In an effort
to discredit his work since he became
police commissioner.
Exposition of Blessed
Sacrament to Close Novena
Exposition of the blessed sacrament,
closing the novena of 8t. Ann, will
be held In St. Anns church today,
lasting 14 hours, from 6 a. m. to S
p. m. The service will close with a
solemn benediction.
Through an error the date of this
service appeared as Wednesday In
stead of Thursday.
No matter where night over
takes you. when In Iowa, you are
within easy driving distance of a
Miller-operated Hotel. It Is al
ways worth while to plan your
day's drive so as to enjoy the
overnight stop at one of these
hotels.
Here you will find everything
to bo desired In hotel appoint
ments together with a service
personally Interested In your wel
fare and Insuring you the rest
you need after a day on the roads
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Flock to Park Spring
Have one on Joe Hummel, city com
missioner in charge of parks. He dis
penses nothing stronger than H-O at
the springs In Elmwood park, where
the proletariat and pleblans go for a
cooling draught.
"Some call It Adam's ale and others
refer to it as aqua pura,” Mr. Hum
mel said. "All I know is it's the best
water In this neck of the woods.”
Increasing numbers of motorists
who go with receptacles during the
evening hours this season have made
another parking problem for the com
missioner. This water service station
in Elmwood park is connected to two
springs, the second having been dis
covered last year when excavating
Roads Asked to Cut
Wheat Freight Rates
(Continued From l’uue Oar.)
export wheat from this country and
would thus tend to increase the price
of wheat that remains.
One grain man expressed the belief
that the operation of the proposed
reduced rate would have the effect of
grain men offering 5 cents more a
bushel on this terminal market. An
other grain man stated that the re
duction of the export rate would be
divided by the export buyers and the
farmer.
The committee received a message
from C. W. Mental, Industrial com
missioner of the Kansas City Cham
ber of Commerce, stating that the ag
ricultural department of the Kansas
City chamber Is taking cognizance of
the wheat and flour situation.
Ohioans Hear of Plan.
George A. Roberts of the Omaha
Grain exchange reported having met
a delegation of travelers from Marlon,
O., who stated that they had been
reading In eastern papers of the
movement launched In Omaha to
stimulate the wheat and flour mar
kets.
W. A. Ellis of the Chamber of
Commerce reported that co-opera
tion has been promised by the Mer
chants' market week committee.
Omaha clearing house. Associated
Retailers. Nebraska Manufacturers'
association and Nebraska Federation
of Retailers.
Randall K. Brown and J. M. Gil
lan attended meetings yesterday at
Sidney. Neb.
Former Omaha Man Writes
Mayor from Buenos Aires
A. M. (Tony) Easterling, former
member of The Omaha Bee editorial
staff, Is Identified with a Weekly
magazine In Bueno* Aire*, according
to a letter received by Mayor l)nhl
man. Since his work as Instructor
In the air service during the period
of the war. Tony has engaged in
newspaper work through Germany,
Russia and other European countries.
Kimhall Laundry Employes
to Pirn it- l Elmwood Park
Employes of the Kimhall Eaundry
company and their families will
picnic at Elmwood park Saturday
afternoon at 3.
There will be contests and stunts,
with prizes, and a hall game between
the salesmen and plant employes.
Basket dinner will be eaten at 6.
for pavement. There are two small
springs about 200 yards .away and not
as yet harnessed.
Commissioner Hummel looked over
the ground on Monday with a view
of moving the present outlet pipes to
a point about 123 feet northwest of
the present location, to improve the
accessibility. A contractor is now
working out the details of the plan.
The proposed new location would be
about 60 feet from a roadway.
Mr. Hummel has discovered that
the flow of the Elmwood springs is
more during spring and summer
months. He intends to determine the
amount of flow from these springs
during 24 hours.
Postman Allowed to Wear
Shirts in Hot Weather
Washington, July 23,—Postmaster
New in a ruling issued today author
ized carriers to wear shirts, prefera
bly of light gray or white, and belts,
instead of heavier blouses or shirt
waists. At ono time carriers were re
quired to wear coats and vest® te
gardless of the_ temperature.
Oklahoma Mercury Sizzle?.
Oklahoma City, Okla., July 25.—
Heat records for the summer were
smashed in Oklahoma City yester
day. Temperatures above the 100
mark were the result.
At Knid, the mercury sizzled up to
a new record of 106. Muskogee estab
lished a new ceiling of 105 and at
Tulsa the mark of 105 was reported
for the fourth time this summer.
Bartlesville reported 104 and Okmul
gee stood on par with Oklahoma City
with 101.
World Court Proposal
Ridiculed by Johnson
((nntlnutd From !'■•« One.)
Italy and Japan, have specifically de
clined to submit to its compulsory
jurisdiction."
Senator Johnson said tonight's meet
ing was without political significance
and his address merely was to give
his opinion on International affairs as
he had seen them during his visit to
Europe. "I was an ‘Innocent abroad’ "
ho said. “I went to Europe Just an
American. I return just an Ameri
can.”
Senator Johnson said he spoke
with neither "personal nor political
hostility to any man," but asserted
he could not "forgive the man who
decides this nation's future solely by
the present apparent necessity of par
tisan politics.”
Men Alike World Over.
"What we condemned under a
democratic administration, we will
not accept under republican adminis
tration" he declared. The senator
said he would refrain from any ex
tended discussion of domestic ques
tions, but pointed out that “men are
not unlike the world over.”
"Common humanity learned from
dread war It must bear the burden,"
he said, "but It learned too It could
wield the power. Discontent abroad
in our land, say our publicists? Of
course there Is discontent. It arises
not from dissatisfaction with popular
government but with the lack of It.
When we are so weak, our efforts so
futile, that we cannot frame laws
which will stand the test of the
courts, to prohibit child labor and
give women a minimum living wage,
the common man looks at us, he even
dares to look at the courts, with some
dotibt and mistrust.
Humanity Demand*.
"If one-tenth the effort now being
made to take u* into Europe were.de
woted to taking our own country out
of this distress and want, we would
have a happy, contented and pros
perous people. But of one thing be
certain. Humanity is determined to
have its own. It no longer begs; It
demands. It asks the right to life,
liberty and human happiness. It
will have it in full measure. I sug
gest to my conservative brethren
that recent events Indicate they must
choose whether progressive things
will be done In a conservative way
or in a radical way. You may have
to take progresslvism or radicalism
will take you.
“But upon these domeatlc ques
tions our peope will divide without
pretense or cant and they will be
decided in tho good old American
fashion, in fair atand up fight.”
I'nllke domestic politics. Senator
Johnson said, foreign policies could
not readily be changed, lie declared
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this fact made It Important that a de
cision lie reached on America's atti
tude toward Europe without haste,
passion, partisanship or prejudice.
Sums Up European Situation.
Senator Johnson summed up the
present European situation by declar
ing that England pursues the policy
of the commercial supremacy of Eng
land; France Is determined to main
tain Ita continental position and its
world power; Germany, disarmed,
sees Its fairest Industrial provinces
seized and dreams of a future day of
reckoning; Italy bluntly announces
the Italian policy of "nothing for
nothing; Italy for Italians,” w'hlle the
Balkan states retain their capacity
for Invoking their greater neighbors,
and with but one or two exceptions
still cling to the good old Balkan
method of changing ministries by
assassinating ministers.
On every hand, he asserted, there
are distrust, suspicion, hostility and
hatred; hostility and hatred of one
another and distrust and suspicion of
us.
"Europe must put her political
house in order before she invites
guests to cross Its threshold,” the
senator said.
Toronto Bank Bandits
Flee With $130,000
Toronto, July 25.—Six bandits en
gaged in a pistol battle yesterday
with a dozen bank messengers in the
heart of the financial district and the
bandits won.
The robbers fled in a stolen car
with about 1130,000, leaving three
messengers lying wounded on the
sidewalk. Two may die.
The messengers were walking along
Jordan street from the clearing house,
carrying pouches of money, when the
bandits drew up In their car. The
robbers Immediately opened fire.
In the fight David Campbell, mes
senger, Sterling bank, fell with bul
lets in his left lung and shoulder;
A. F. Duck. Union bank messenger,
crumpled with a wound In the ab
domen, and James V. Harris was
shot in the chest. Campbell and
Duck tonight were in a serious condi
tion.
Seizing what pounches they could,
the bandits fled In their car. The
money they took belonged to the
Bank of Nova Scotia and the Sterling
bank.
Thief Senteneed to Prison
48 Hours After His Arrest
Ceveland. O.. July 25—Within less
than 48 hours after his arrest in
Montreal on charges of forgery and
embezzlement. Michael M. Dugan, for
mer private secretary to James Corrl
When in Omaha Stop at
Hotel Rome
gan, millionaire steel man, was to
day sentenced to from 1 to 20 years
in the Ohio penitentiary following
hi* plea of guilty to embezzlement of
"more than 110.000” from hi* former
employer.
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August Fur Sale
Begins•
Monday, July 30
Watch for detailed announcement in Sun
day’s papers. No woman who contemplates
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stantial savings this event offers.
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