Today
Valuing a Dead Horse.
Amusing Two Women.
Roosevelt and Luther.
Ford and the Old
Bucket.
^By ARTHUR BRISBANE^
With Germany at the point of
exhaustion and collapse, the allies
will meet the United States to dis
cuss reparations—the amount of
money Germany can be made to
pay.
It’s like discussing the price that
a horse should bring as the horse
lies dying.
European nations, however, have
something more in mind than Ger
man reparations. They want to
learn what more can be got out
of the United States. They know
we have plenty of money. The
10 billions we lent them, the hun
dred billions we spent, directly
and indirectly, on their war, rep
resent a small fraction of what
we have.
How can our remaining re
sources be tapped to rebuild Eu
rope—while Europe continues to
fight and build war equipment in
the old way? That is the ques
tion.
The French, logical, persistent,
losing no time, go straight on with
their program for German disin
tegration, more important be
cause it means future safety, than
any amount of money. Frenth
officers are directing and French
money financing the separation of
the Rhineland from Germany.
English newspapers announce and
denounce it, but England can do
nothing about it.
It wants a peaceful, balanced
Europe, it fears French domina
tion on the continent, as it did
in Napoleon’s time, but above all,
England wants no more war. For
the present France may do as it
pleases.
Perhaps if the United States
can be brought into the affair,
persuaded to accept a sort of gen
eral European mandate and re
sponsibility, things would be bet
ter.
Americans seem to enjoy ship
ping their men in millions to Eu
rope, and their billions with them.
The last conference at Washing
ton worked very well, for Europe.
This conference may produce re
sults satisfactory for Europe,
also. '
The next question is, who shall
represent the United States at
this conference?
John Pierpont Morgan has been
suggested, but to send him would
be hardly fair to Mr. Morgan.
He would wish, if chosen, to rep
resent the United States with com- I
plete fidelity. It might be hard
for him to keep his London and
Paris banking houses entirely out
of his mind, for months at a time,
and think only of his New York
branch, and the country surround
ing it.
Mellon, secretary of the trea
sury, is the man to send. He
knows as much about finance as
anybody in Europe. His interests,
and he himself, are entirely Amer
ican. He ought to go.
Much more interesting than
reparations to 99 per cent of us,
is Miss Rebecca West, who comes
from England to lecture and be
gins with this: “Polygamy will not
solve England’s problem of too
many single women, without men
to marry them. No man is suffi
ciently interesting to keep two
women amused.”
Americans did not know that a
husband’s job is to keep his wife
amused. That's British. And
anyhow, the average American
husband, coming home with his
dyspepsia, his deep silence and
dullness, is not worrying about
keeping two women amused. He
would like Miss West to tell him
how he can keep one wife moder
ately well satisfied.
Saturday was the 65th anniver
sary of Theodore Roosevelt's birth
and Sunday was the 406th anni
versary of Luther’s revolt against
the church in which he had been
a monk. Protestant churches will
celebrate the day on which Luther
nailed his protest to the door of
the church at Wittenberg, in Ger
many.
If Luther could return, he
would find the Catholic church and
the pope still doing fairly well.
What would surprise him would
be to find so many of his Protes
tants no longer believing it hell,
or in that very personal devil, at
whose head Luther threw his ink
stand.
The pope reigning in Luther’s
day did not take him very seri
ously, saying, “I do not blame that
ignorant monk, as I do those that
inspired him.” Luther’s brother
hood, according to the story, had
been deprived, by the pope, of cer
tain lucrative collections, because
they lacked scrupulousness in re
porting proceeds, and they stirred
up the Lutheran trouble.
Four hundred and six years from
now, how much space will Theo
dore Roosevelt fill in a well writ
ten history? Hard as it is for us
to rewrite it, he will be men
tioned in the list of presidents—
who will probably be called “presi
dents of the early industrial era,”
and one line will be added: “Pana
ma canal constructed under his
administration.”
Of all the rest, words without
deeds, “Ladies, you should have
plenty of babies. Fine teeth, etc."
Nothing will remain. It takes
power to make a deep mark in
history.
Ford joins the old oaken bucket
brigade with the statement that
he is “for Coolidge strong,” if
Coolidge will make prohibition n
reality, the United States an alco
holic Sahara. If not, he may have
to run himself. Ford says women
don't want any kind of alcohol,
even light wine and beer. He may
be right, but in New Zealand when
women voted for prohibition, got
it, and found their husbands keep
ing a bottle of whisky under the
mattress, they voted the other
way.
'.Copyright. 1923)
First Snow of
Season Falls
in City at Noon
General Snowstorm Reported
in State; Temperature Drops
in Omaha With
North Wind.
Snow which was falling in North
Platte, Neb., Cheyenne, Wyo., and
Denver, Colo,, reached Omaha Mon
day noon.
A chilly, drizzling rain began to fall
at 11:15, which gradually turned to
snow. White flakes in abundance
were falling hy noon, accompanied by
a steady drop in temperature. The
thermometer registered 34 at 12.
At 1 the pnowfall had dwindled
down to a mere flurry, with a steady
north wind blowing.
"Mostly cloudy tonight, with snow
Tuesday morning,” is the official
forecast. The snow is general over
Wyoming, North and South Dakota,
central and western Nebraska, north
east Colorado and western Kansas.
Thirty-eight Here Last Night. _
Lowest temperature in Omaha last
night was 38. Minimum temperature
at North Platte was 26: at Cheyenne,
14, and at Rapid City, S. D., 20.
According to Mr. Robins, real win
ter is being spread over the region
about Calgary, Canada, and through
Montana, with rapidly falling tem
peratures.
Burlington headquarters reported a
four-inch snowfall at O’Neill, with
flurries extending south to Omaha at
noon.
At Union Pacific headquarters it
was reported that it was snowing at
all points on the road between Grand
Island and Omaha.
General Snow Storm.
Norfolk, Neb.. Oct. 29.—A general
snow storm Is in progress In north
Nebraska and southern South Da
kota this morning. About five
inches of snow is on the ground at
Winner, S. D., and about half an
inch in north Nebraska. A heavy
northwest wind is whipping the snow
In the Norfolk district, but the snow
here is melting as fast as It reaches
the ground. >
Snow at Grand Island.
Grand Island, Neb., Oct. 29.—The
f.rst snow of the season began fall
ing here at 9:30 today. The fall was
heavy and in large flakes. The tem
perature, however, remained above
40.
Miller Forgery
Hearing on Nov. 5
Former Sales Company Head
Charged With Signing
Stockholder's Name.
Moses Miller, formerly president of
the Master Sales company of Omaha,
appeared In municipal court Monday
morning on a charge of forging the
endorsement of W. L. Whitla of Long
Pine, Neb., to a *17.50 dividend check.
The forgery Is alleged to have been
committed January 10, 1920.
Whitla testified that he formerly
operated a garage with A. L. Best at
Norfolk, Neb. When they dissolved
partnership, Best turned over to him
five shares of stock which he held In
the Master Sales company. Whitla
said he did not receive his dividend
check for January. 1920, and thatj
later he turned in his stock, receiving
accessories in exchange.
Karl Kettleman, liquidating agent
for the defunct Master Sales company,
discovered the check had never been
paid.
The case was set over until Novem
ber 5, to be heard before Judge Pat
rick at the city hall.
Kettleman la the attorney who de
fended Miller several months ago
when he was arrested after the key
to a trunk containing several broken
bottles of Haig and Haig whisky In
the baggage room at Union station,
was traced to him.
Full Moon Meeting.
Board of directors and the member
ship committee of the Knights of the
Full Moon met at luncheon Monday
at the Orand hotel, Council Bluffs, to
discuss the membership campaign now
In progress.
Three Moores Arrested.
William Moorq. James Moore and
Daisy Moore were arrested Sunday
by Council Bluffs police on a charge
of disturbing the peace.
New General Agent for |
Northwestern Road;
fc.y. ‘Wall
G. W. Hall, new general agent of
the traffic department of the Chicago
Northwestern railroad, arrived in
Omaha Monday. He succeeds W. J.
Smith, who has become western divi
sion manager for the American Rail
road association.
Mr. Hall, a native of Nebraska, has
been for four years district agent for
the eastern division of the North
western railroad, with headquarters
at Norfolk, Neb. He expects to bring
his wife and family to Omaha from
Norfolk as soon as he can make the
necessary arrangements.
Omahan Back
From Europe
Germany Worse Off Than
Russia at Its Worst, Dr.
Gifford Reports.
Russia at Its worst doesn't compare
with Germany at this time.
This, briefly, is the message carried
to Omaha by Dr. Sanford Gifford,
who, with his family, returned Mon
day from a five-month trip in Ger
many, France, Austria, Switzerland
and England.
Worse Than Russia.
"We spent most of our time at Frel
berg while in Germany, and that is
an exceptionally quiet community,”
Dr. Gifford said. “Yet, even there we
saw rioting and shooting. I met a
physician who had been in Red Cross
work in Russia at the height of the
trouble there. He told me that con
ditions were worse in Germany than
they have ever been in Russia.
"Austria is nearly back to a pre
war basis. That country apparently
has settled back and made no re
sistance to French supervision of in
dustries, as managed through the
reparations commission.
Tourist Trade Slumps.
"Switzerland isn’t as prosperous as
formerly, chiefly because Germans
don't go there any more and that cuts
off much of the tourist trade. Travel
ing of Germans is confined to their
own country because their money is
accepted as nothing outside of the
German borders.
England Nearly Normal.
"England on the surface at least
appeared to bo more nearly normal
than any of the countries. France ap
pears nervous.”
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