Wells Says
Nation Will
Come Back’
tuLcgrity of German People
Has Not Waned, Despite
War and Its After
math.
May Turn to Communism
By H. G. WELLS,
Author of the Outline of History.
London, Nov. 3.—Will Germany
break into pieces, become a group of
divergent, mutually hostile states?
To some readers this will seem to
be an entirely useless question. They
will declare that thing is happening.
Germany is breaking visibly, they
will say. Germany has attempted a
democratic republic and failed. The
daily news is kaleidoscopic. It varies
with the day and the political blag of
one's paper. Sometimes Germany is
breaking in this way, sometimes in
that. But few people seem to have
much faith in the final emergence of
a united Germany from this sea of
disaster and misery in Central Eu
rope.
Perhaps I believe too much in
things of the mind and imagination,
In the language of writing and litera
ture as a link and sustaining power
in human affairs, but I do not share
this belief in the breakup of Ger
many. I believe she will keep to
gether as Russian speaking Russia is
kept together; will become again a
great nation, a great people playing a
leading part in the world's destinies.
Democracy Clumsy.
It Is true that her new democratic
Institutions have worked feefcly and
disastrously. But just at present
what we call democratic institutions
—our old. clumsy system of voting
and representative government, that
is—are not working particularly well
In ijany a European counto'- One
cannot congratulate Great Britain,
France, or Italy upon its triumphant
democracy just at the present time.
A duly elected British government
is unable to carry out its so-called
foreign policy effectively because it
is shouted down by a millionaire
newspaper owner suffering from a
Napoleonic mania, and in Fiance the
expression of public opinion is not
so much shouted down as battened
down under a centralized, all-power
ful press combine.
France behaves with the concen
trated vigor of monomania. Great
Britain with the self-regardfi# evas
iveness of the feeble minded, and the
common citizen of neither couaitry is
really justified in an attitude of su
periority towards the distraught and
leaderless German.
Distraught and leaderless the Ger
mans are, which is perhaps the great
est misfortune that can happen to a
people in the face of* a steudfast
enemy without a leading idea to
hold them together. We have to re
member that this great people, the
Germans, lost their way in 1818 and
have still to recover it.
At that time there was a reason
able prospect of a republican United
States of Germany. It was wrecked
by the habitual particularly of Ger
many, by the selk-seeking; treason
of the Hohenzollerns. Gern»ny was
unified later, but from atiove, not
from below; by crown and dynasty,
not by education and an educated
popular will. Germany Is sfcfll reap
ing the consequences of that misfor
tune.
Royalty Versus Achievement.
It Is not the least among tha end
less Inconveniences of monarchy that
it substitutes an unreal symbql for
real ideas- of unity. Instead of a
cult of brotherhood, instead of pride
In the achievements of one’s own
people in science, art, social progress
end service to tnanktnd, there is sub
stltuted more or less completely the
Hilly adulation of tho crowned head,
hts womankind and their offspring.
School children of a monarchist
country are trained up to Hilly wor
ship of these glorified Individuals, the
flag becomes the carpet beneath the
feet of their deities, their attentions
are diverted from their pride and
honor as future members of a great
community.
Many people never grow up out of
tho obsessions of a royalist training,
sa It is that the collapse of the
llohenzollern system has left great
masses of the German people Imagi
natively bankrupt, utterly confused.
Any people who had the same train
ing and the same experience would be
equally at a loss and helpless. The
idea 0/ a great German republic, one
and Indivisible, has to be built up
now in an atmosphere of unparal
lelled storm, confusion and disaster.
Anything May Happen.
If it cannot be built up all at
once, meanwhile anything superficial
In the way of separations may hap
pen in Germany. I will not attempt
to discuss the bubblings of sepa
ratisms and monarchist extremism
that are going on. But one probabil
ity is very present in mind. It is one
of the paradoxes of the Russian situa
tion that the communist government
at Moscow survives there very largely
because, under the stress of fore.gn
invasions and foreign subsidized de
vastations, the white adventurers have
become a patriotic government.
In Germany now neither the big
industrials, the old Junkers, nor the
ruling classes generally seem to have
the wit and generosity to think of
their civilization as a whole. The
communists do after their fashion. At
present the communists are showing
no overwhelming strength in German
affairs, but the time will come when
great numbers of the German people,
trained to hardship, ruined, desperate,
may turn to this one party which
tells the same story in the Rhineland,
Bavaria. Saxony, Prussia.
We have, I think, to count it among
many possibilities of the present situ
ation that the communist government
may presently be f ghting for German
integrity against foreign domination
in Berlin, that great masses of the
German people, like the Russians,
may prefer even communism to cer
tain shames and indignities of sepa
ratisqi. In which case Monsieur Poin
care will, I suppose, beat up his
armies of blacks and whites and
march to Berlin, with pn extension
trip to Moscow to follow.
Germany V\ ill survive.
Yet even after that Germany will
survive. Twice before in history Ger
many has arisen out of ijesolation and
defeat. I believe it will rise again out
of the present darkness and end at
last the leading central power, the
very keystone, it may be, of a re
constructed Europe, I believe in the
German schoolmaster, the German
Student, German persistency and pa
tient strength, the German brain. I
hated and hate that bastard imitative
I’ .-tintin'} German imperialism. Ger
man junkerism, and I believe that our
a- to shatter these things was a
necessary war. But I have never
faltered In my belief in the greatness,
the soundness of the German people,
in the appreciation of all that we
owe in intellectual, social, industrial
stimulus to Germany.
Her present situation is unparal
leled. Every attempt she makes to
get to her feet is thwarted by a piti
less, senseless foe. Our English
speaking peoples In our slow, oalish
way, ara looking on. are assisting at
the aaempt to waste and torment to
death a great community as civilized
'as our own. We never came Into the
war fog any such objective; I do not
believe tlhat we will stand by to the
end in the face of this Iniquity.
But, anyhow, I believe that Ger
many wtill come back. Her common
1 • gun"c, now her common miseries,
will kqep her one. She has many
en roll*, but on her side now is a
long peach. a long memory of the
printed! word. Bohemia, Gzecho-Slo
vakia. as we call it now, rose again
aftee an almost complete extinction
of 800 years. Dark years are before
Germany and a terrible winter, but in
two years or 10 years Germany will
have found her Mazaryk, her Benes.
will be on her way to recovery.
I would not like to be a German
separatist In the days to come.
Copyright. 1933
A Box of Flowers Exposes an Embar
rassing Subterfuge of Feminine
Economy.
"And Nora's out!" dismayed Helen.
“Dear, won't you go?"
Throwing down his paper, grum
blingly Warren rose to answer the
bell.
‘That stupid boy! I told him to
announce every one," darting to her
room. ,
Standing back of the door, she list
ened. ready to slip into another gown.
"You needn't doll up,” called War
ren a moment later. “Just some flow
ers.”
"Flowers?" Now in the hall. Helen
took the long florist box. ‘‘For me?”
"Guess nobody’s ‘saying It with
flowers' to me*1 shrugged Warren,
turning back to the library.
"I wonder who they’re from?" fol
lowing him in with the box.
"Might open it and find out,” iron
ically, taking up his paper.
But with feminine perverseness,
Helen prolonged the delicious uncer
tainty. There was no address on the
long, white box lid. only the gilt- let
tered, “A. Warendorff- -Florist."
The string and tag must have
slipped off. Yet without an address,
how could it have been delivered?”
The lid raised at last disclosed a
card beneath the waxed paper that
veiled the long-stemmed roses.
From Mrs. Armstrong! On her
card was the penciled message:
For Mrs. Curtis
In appreciation of
hei many kindnesses.
"Dear, look—from Mrs. Armstrong’
How nice of her. My ‘many kind
nesses.’ I suppose she means my
vacuum cleaner. Book, aren’t they
lovely?”
“Um-m," without glancing up.
“Why, these must’ve cost five or
six dollars! She can’t be so close at
they say. Wasn't it dear of her?"
Out In the pantry Helen took down
the tall, over-ornate cutglass vase
that she kept out of sight unless need
ed for flowers. A Christmas present
from Warren’s Aunt Amelia. The
gaudy cut design suggested a trad
ing-stamp premium.
As Helen filled the vase and
sprinkled a little salt in the water,
her thoughts revolved about Mrs.
Armstrong.
Repeated borrowing of the vacuum,
Instead of buying one, and the un
flattering stories circulated by Mrs
Armstrong’s maid, had confirmed her
reputation for painful economy. Yet,
surely, no one with parsimonious ten
dencies would order a dozen Ameri
can Beauties!
Lifting them out under the strong
glare of the sixty-watt pantry light,
Helen noticed that the outer petals
of the heavy crimsoned buds were
slightly wilted. And there were not
a dozen—only eleven!
Had one been extracted from the
untied box? But who would purloin
a flower?
’’No, I can’t play with you now,"
as l’ussy Purr-Mew, who had been
nibbling at a bit of fern,,crept into
the box und blinked up expectantly.
To curl up in an empty box and be
carried in to Warren, box and all,
to be admired and have her ears
tweaked, was always a favorite
frame.
But now, impatient at being ig
nored, mischievously she clawed the
tissue paper.
"Stop it! You mustn’t tear that
nice pnper!” scolded Helen, intent on
arranging the roses.
Cavorting to the end of the long
box which extended over the pantry
sink, Pussy Purr-Mew was suddenly
toppled out on the floor.
"Now, look what you’ve done!” as
ahe scampered away.
Taking the vase into the library,
Helen made room for it on the man
tel.
"Dear, does that look too heavy
there?" standing tack to view the
effect. "Would it look better on the
table?”
Warren's grunt was unenlighten
ing.
Deciding that the ornate modern
cutglass vase clashed with the an
tique candelstick and luster pitch
er, Helen finally placid it on th<
table.
Returning to the pantry, she pick
cfust lifcenetf!
XT TITH New Imfirmed RIT it is no
trouble to keep your dresses, waists,
sweaters, drapes, curtains, lingerie and children’s
clothe* looking like new. RIT is easy and clean to
use —no fuss, no bother, no special utensil* re
quired. You can’t make any mistakes with New
Improved RIT even though you have never dyed
before.
New Improved RIT hat been so highly perfected
that each of the 24 beautiful colors are now guar
anteed to perfectly dye or tint all fabrics — silk,
wool, cotton or mixed goods. Select your colors
from the RIT fabric color card displayed at your
dealers. See directions in every package for vari
out RIT color combinations.
Be sure you get New Improved RIT.
It is a wrapped cake.
WHITE RIT talus dye out of colored fabrics
up the box that Pussy Purr-Mew had
tipped over on the floor.
Gathering up the scattered paper,
she found a small card envelope. It
was empty and not addressed—but
plainly It had been sealed and broken
open.
With an undefined impuse, Helen
picked up Mrs. Armstrong’s card. It
was too large! It had never been in
that envelope!
In the next few seconds Helen
made swift and illuminating deduc
tions.
The untied box, minus an address
tag The slightly faded roses—11 in
stead of 12. The envelope which had
plainly held another card. And above
all, Mrs. Armstrong’s petty economic*
"Oh, that’s lovely! We mlght’vt
known!” gleefully catching up Pussy
Purr-Mew.
Her cheek against the soft fur,
and her gaze fixed on the misfFt
card, Helen’s min,d was working fast.
“That’s a clever idea. Why can't
wo pass it along?”
A purring approval from Pussy
Purr-Mew.
Darting back to the library, Helen
took up the vase. Warren, conveni
ently absorbed in his paper, would
never notice the depleted flowers.
Again out in the pantry, she re
lined the box with the tissue paper,
smoothing out the evidence of Pussy
Purr-Mew’s rumpling paws.
Soelctlng six roses, the more plausi
ble number, she wiped off the stems
and carefully replaced them in the
box.
Then addressing one of her own
cards to "Mrs. Alfred Benton— With
best wishes for your quick recovery,"
she tucked it among the flowers.
The box neatly tied with a bit
of pink string from the pantry “string
drawer," Helen viewed it approvingly,
and carried it ou to the elevator.
"Take this to Mrs. Benton on the
Hth floor,’ 'when the car came up
in response to her ring.
"Yes'm," the elevutor boy eyed
the bov w'th interest.
Back In the library Helen took up
her interrupted magazine serial.
But the story now failed to hold
her. Hhe was picturing the fluttered
reception of her flowers. A* Mrs. Ben
ton was convalescing from a slight
operation, it was a most timely offer
ing—and incidentally would pay for
those mangoes the Bentons brought
them from Cuba.
If Mrs. Armstrong could discharge
obligations with secondhand flowers,
why could not she/
Who had sent the flowers to Mrs.
Armstrong? Why had she not been
more 'discreet in her strategy? How
careless to have overlooked that en
velope—and how foolish to keep one
of the roses! Better to have kept x
Roses are ordered by the dozen or
half dozen—never 11. Nor does u
florist ever send out a box untagged
and untied.
But the flowers were finally for
gotten in the lurid serial of flapper
sensationalism.
It was after 9 when the door bell
rang again.
“Oh, surely no one this late!” tum
bling Pussy Purr Mew from her lap.
“Dear, do you mind going?”
Again Warren grum.uing.} threw
down his paper and stumped out to
the door. He came back with a note
which he tossed at Helen.
“What's the idea? Why all the
notes and flowers? Ringing in an
other birthday?"
With pleased expectancy, Helen
tore open the envelope. From Mrs.
Benton—probably thanking her for
iHe flowers.
“My dear Mrs. Curtis:
“It was sweet of you to send me the
Howe£S. Yes, 1 am much better. Quite
well enough to enjoy a very amusing
joke.
You see, less than an hour ago I
sent those roses (a dozen of them)
to Mrs. Armstrong! So I was some
what surprised when I opened the
box. But as fortunately I have a
sense -f humor, 1* p-erT,. ”v qUjle
r
.-kii Open Letter to
Mrs. Harvey Miliken
Dear Mrs?. Milliken:
The other day- when 27 women from the Firs'
'entral Congregational church made a tour of is.
pection of The Pantorium I understand it was
hrouph the influence of you and Mrs. W. R. Wood
that they decided to come here.
I hope you were all pleased with what you
aw, and that ail of you now have a better concep
i ion of what constitutes a really first class clean
ing and dyeing establishment, and what great care
and pains is taken with your garments.
The Pantorium always has done, and always
will do, the best work in Omaha, and we are glad
to welcome visitors to our plant at any time. One
of the best advertising stunts we have ever con
ceived was to have the women’s organizations of the
various churches visit our plant. Dozens of then}
have visited us during the last year and we feei
sure we have gotten many new patrons thereby.
Both the Milliken and Wood families have been
good patrons of ours for many years and I want
you all to know how much we affpreciate your
business and friendship.
By the way, I wish you would thank Harvey
for me for the nice page “writeup” he gave me
in lust month’s K.-B. Printer, that witty and inter
esting house organ of his.
Sincerely yours,
President for 2<5 years.
p. S.—Wish you would tell your radio fan friends
to tune in Thursday night on WOAW, as The
1 Pantor;um is putting on the program. G. L.
LV
r-*-■N
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1 of fabric bearing the
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H. T. Jones Tel. AT. 0478 M. Kahan
r->
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V._>
f Our Second Birthday Sale of Silks
HE pioneer Silk Shop of Omaha celebrates its second birthday. We have been prepar
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j finish; very special.1/
40-INCH SILK CHIFFON VELVET, splendid
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$0.95 value, per yard-.
f -1-'
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Quality $3.55 a Yard
An unusual sale of the better quality
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the newest colorings and weaves in noth
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Every yard of this season’s latest crea
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ynrd
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per yard . tI eJ L
a diversion in an otherwise tiresome
day. Yours,
"Luclle G, Benton.”
As a horrified exclamation escaped
her, Warren glanced up.
"Who's that from?” her crimson
mortification flagging his attention.
"Just a note from Mrs. Benton,”
she tried to say it carelessly.
"What about? You're red as a
beet. Bee here, you’re not having
any rumplis with anybody in the
house?”
With masculine dread of feminine
squabhles, Warren always admon
ished her against intimacies with too
close neighbors. "Make your friends
outside," was his sage motto. "Then
when you have a row you’re not al
ways bumping into ’em!”
And now, his suspicions aroused by
her confused silence, he threw down
his paper with a stern, “Let's see that
note!”
“Why, dear, it’s nothing—just
about something I sent her.”
"Let me see It!”
Knowing the inexorability of that
tone, reluctantly she handed it to
hint.
A scowling glance at the condemn
ing note. But instead of the dreaded
explosion, Warren threw back his
head and roared.
“Ha, ha, that's the time you got
stung! You're always passing on your
presents—and here's where you got
what’s coming to you. That's a
darned clever letter. She handed you
a knockout all right.”
"It's a hateful letter,” flamingly
trying to take it from him.
But holding her off, he tauntingly
read it aloud.
"That's the richest yet. You wom
en passing around those flowers—
paying off your debts on the cheap
Well, you were dumb. You knew
Mrs. Armstrong was a tight wad—
might've doped it out she didn't order
those flowers for you.”
"I did,” admitted Helen almost
tearfully. “I knew some one sent
them to her—that’s what gave me
the idea. But I didn’t dream it was
Mrs. Benton.”
"Huh, a rum mixup! Hereafter
when you pass on your present*—he
careful you don’t hand 'em ha«k
where they came from. Mrs. Ben
ton's a good sport. Glad she had the
nerve to show you up. jlfou'll feel
pretty small when you meet her In
the elevator.”
Then, with a chuckle, a* again set- «
tied down with hjs paper.
"But for all you know, she may ba
in the same boat with the rest of you
cheap skates—might've passed 'em on
herself. 11a, ha. those flowers were
hustled along pretty lve'y before they
wilted. Had quite a Jaunt around.
Bet they broke all speed limit* since
they left the florist.”
Next Week—An Unexpected Trip.
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At Brodegaard’s
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Extraordinary Half-Price
Pearl Necklace Sale
Save money and have one of these Pearl Necklaces
laid away for Christmas. A small payment down se
cures one of these Blue Bird Pearls, Deltah Pearls, La
Tausca Pearls, Orienta Pearls, Queen Isabella Pearls.
AH the very best and finest indestructible Pearls go on
sale at just Vs of regular prices.
FINEST QUALITY BLUE BIRD
INDESTRUCTIBLE PEARLS
Kegular sale
Price. Price.
24-inch Blue Bird 14-Karat White Gold,
Diamond Clasp . $55.00 827.50
20-inPh Blue Bird 14-Karat White Gold,
Diamond Clasp . 40.00 20.00
24-inch Blue Bird 14-Karat White Gold,
Diamond Clasp . 30.00 15.00
18-inch Blue Bird 14-Karat White Gold,
Diamond Clasp . 24.00 12.00
20-inch Blue Bird 14-Karat White Gold,
Diamond Clasp . 20.00 10.00
18-inch Blue Bird 14-Karat White Gold,
D'amond Clasp . 18.00 0.00
INDESTRUCTIBLE, PERFECTLY MATCHED,
HIGHEST GRADE ORIENTA PEARLS
Regular Sale
Price. Price.
30-inch and 24-inch Double Strand Pearl
Necklace, Diamond Clasp. $48.50 S24.25
24-inch Highest Grade Orienta Pearl
Necklace, Diamond Clasp . 50.00 25.00
20-inch Highest Grade Orienta Tearl
Necklace, 14-Karat White Gold
Clasp . 45.00 22.50
60-inch Highest Grade Orienta Opera
Necklace, small Pearl between
large Pearls . 45.00 22.50
24-inch Highest Grade Orienta Pearl
Necklace, Diamond Clasp. 42.00 21.00
36-inch Highest Grade Orienta Peart
Necklace, Diamond Clasp. 40.00 20.00
36-inch Highest Grade Orienta Peart
Necklace, White Gold Barrel Clasp. 24.00 12.00
36-inch Highest Grade Orienta Peart
Necklace, White Gold Barrel Clasp. 35.00 17.50
Deltah Pearl Necklace* for the Fir*t Time
at y% of Regular Prices
Regular Sale
Price. Price.
30-inoh Deltah Pearl Necklace, White
Gold Spring Ring . $25.00 $12.50
24-inch Deltah Penri Necklace, White
Gold Spring Ring . 22.00 11.00
30-inch Deltah Pearl Necklace, 14-Karat
Samend Clasp . 35.00 17 Jtr
Deltah Pearl Necklaca, 14-Karat
Diamond Clasp . 30.00 15.00
30-inch Deltah Pearl Necklace, De Luxe
Diamond and Saphire Clasp. 55.00 27.50
24-inch Deltah Pearl Necklace, Do Luxe
Diamond and Sapphire Clasp. 50.00 25.00
Each and Every Pearl Necklace in a Beautiful
Plush Satin Lined Case
Extra Special! Extra Special!
24-inch Isabella Indestructible Swell l'earl Necklace. Diamond
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Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Brodegaard Bros. Co.
S. A H.
Trading
Stamp*
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Mail Order* ptempUp
shipped AM postage.
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