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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 11, 1917. 11 A AMERICANS HAVE THEIR FAULTS, TOO Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler Calls Attention to Some National Foibles. WHERE WE FALL SHORT Pittsburgh, Feb. 10. "When Amer ica speaks or when America acts, the whole world should know that it speaks and acts as a nation and not as a series of conflicting and antagon istic groups or sections," said Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, in an address at the annual dinner of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce here tonight. He was considering the question, "Is America Drifting?" and his answer was in the affirmative. It was drifting in respect to its foreign policy, and this was due in part both to the form of government and the temperament of the American people. Democracies find it difficult to en gage effectively in international in tercourse, he said, and the American democracy even more so than that of the French republic, or any other republic, because the division of power and responsibility between executives and legislature, between the nation and the constituent states, makes it difficult to formulate and execute a consistent policy. Live In Class House. "We Americans," he said, "live in far too much of a glass house to make it wise to throw stones at other na tions who refer to a treaty as a scrap of paper. "Our political habits make increas ingly frequent the modification or repeal of explicit treaty provisions by a subsequent act of congress without any notice to the other high contract ing power. Our form of government permits and our temperament encour ages the denial by a state legislature or other local authority of rights se cured to aliens by the solemn act of the treaty-making power. The gov ernment of the United States has bound itself by numerous treaties to give rights to aliens, but despite this fact the personal and property rights of aliens have been repeatedly vio lated, and our friendly relations with foreign countries have thereby been put in jeopardy. Within the memory of the generation now living there have been outrageous attacks on aliens who were entitled by treaty to our protection in Wyoming, in Wash ington, in Idaho, in Montana, in Ore gon., in Alaska, in California, in Louisiana, in Texas, in Colorado, in Mississippi and in Florida. It has been asserted that in the passage of the La Follet shipping bill more than twenty treaties were rudely violated. Loyal Nationalism Needed. "If it be asked how are conditions to be bettered, the answer is, by a tnore intense, a more thorough, and a more loyal nationalism. We must lie Americans first, and citizens of a state or residents of a particular community afterwards. We must give to the government of the United States the power which it does not at present possess, to protect the treaty rights of aliens through direct action in the federal courts. Americans must give up their increasing tendency to think in terms of classes, or groups, or sections, or states and learn to think f Green magic of the open! Is it to be yours when the young year's exhilarating wine fires the blood with a craving for new and wider horizons? A better car this season a car that will give the ut most, demand the least, and leave more freedom for the stimulating joys of the road! Why not? All the miles you can crowd into the day all the Ask. the Choice of twenty nationally in terms of the whole United States, its aims, its interests, and its honor. When America speaks or when America acts, the whole world should know that it speaks and acts as a nation and not as a series of conflicting and antagonistic groups or sections. When this comes to pass we shall have ceased to drift in our international policies and relation ships." Drifting in Other Ways. In other respects, Dr. Butler found America was drifting, one of them Deing wnn relation 10 inausinai proii- lems. "Our present habit," he said, "is to let things drift until some acute crises occurs and then to meet it by surrender or by compromise, without anv regard to the future but with eyes fixed only on the immediate pres ent, lhe greater par,t ot the public seems to be utterly oblivious to the critical position in which the great railway systems of the United States have been put, not by constructive reg ulation or governmental supervision, but by policies of competing, con flicting, and unrelated persecutions and pin-pricking. The great railways of the United States are national as sets and they constitute the arterial system of our commercial and indus trial life. They are asking, and they should quickly receive, single, con sistent, and well orderd constructive oversight and regulation from the na tional government and from the na tional government alone. It was local interference with commerce that led directly to the formation of the con stitution of the United States. It is local interference with commerce that now constitutes perhaps our most dif ficult domestic problem." Pleads for New Policy. Dr. Butler also referred in this dis enssion to drifting tendencies against considering great industries and cor porate undertakings as primarily something human, and not merely something mechanical, or material, or financial. He pleaded for a new policy to govern many of our economic and industrial relationships. In respect to national service, the country was also drifting. "No one can possibly hate the state of mind and the spirit that are militarism more than I do," said he. "And no one would resist more actively and em phatically any movement to change the peace-loving industrial spirit and temper of our people for any of the older forms of militarism that are now slowly going to their deaths, let ns hope never to be resurrected on the battlefields of Europe. Obligations and Opportunities. "But there is a call to national serv ice and a preparation for it which, so far from sharing the spirit of militar ism, are only the voice of democracy conscious of its obligations and its duties, as well as of its rights and opportunities. We speak in general terms of the obligation which every citizen owes to his country, but what have we done to make that obligation precise and to fit each citizen to dis charge it? What have we done to render more than lip-service to the democratic principle? Compulsion is not foreign to the spirit of democracy, although democracy uses it, sparingly. Democracy lays its hands on the child, and for its own protection as well as for its good, says that he and his parents must discharge a certain obligation through attendance upon the elementary school. Through such compulsory attendance, the state en deavors to protect itself and each in dividual citizen from the dangers and limitations that attend illiteracy and the lack of all intellectual and moral discipline. In the light of our present experience, why should not the na - 1 I ' WJlderlust! . Already the days are longer and winter-weary folk must soon respond to the call of tantalizing Spring speed that the highway will tolerate all the power that any road condition can de mand and the confidence that you ride in the best of form without excessive cost are yours if you drive a Twin-six. A Packard exactly to your liking now! YouTl want the model you want in the Spring. The days are longer and the time is short man who owns one Wy My 1m Moss, opes on, $3090 and Sm th Oft Motor Salts Company, Fortieth and Farnam Stt, Omaha. Branch at Sioux City, Iowa. 11 us injfur tion say to every youth approaching manhood, we believe it to be in your interest and in ours that you should be required tor a limited pe riod in one year, or in each of two successive years, to subject yourself to definite, intensive, continuous train ing under national supervision and control, in order that you may first gain a new and vivid sense of the meaning and obligations of your citi zenship, and in order that you may, in the second place, be physically and intellectually oreoared to take Dart in your country's service, physical or military, should occasion tor that use ot your powers ever arise f This Cannot Be Shirked. "This Question goes to the very roots of an effective and loyal and continuing democracy. It can be shirked if you will, it can be com promised if vou will, it can be post poned if you will, but it can be neither shirked nor compromised nor post poned without damage to the lite ot the people of the United Mates. "We are drifting, too, in matters of public administration. Taking it all in all, our government is probably the most incompetent and most, costly on earth. This is because it is so largely a government by those who talk and that we have been so successful in excluding from it those who think and those who do. We pay enough m taxes, and far more than enough, to get thoroughly satisfactory adminis tration of the public business; but we do not get this because competent administrators so rarely concern themselves with government or are chosen to responsible legislative or executive office. "We are so concerned with our per sonal affairs, with our personal under takings, and with our immediate in terests that we are letting America drift. Until every American feels his personal responsibility for the formu lation ot a definite public policy at home and abroad, and for the busi nesslike administration of public af fairs, America will continue to drift, and the rest of the world will continue to treat her as the spoiled child of the goddess of good fortune. Kansas City Ad Men Guests of Ad Club Here Monday Eve The Omaha Ad club will hold the first of a series of frolics at the Rome hotel Monday night, when a delega tion of Ad club members from Kan sas City will come to Omaha to visit. The Omaha club has been engaged on a heavy educational program during the winter months and it is intended that these frolics, which will be monthly affairs, will break the monot ony of study which has engaged the attention of the members. An Ad club side degree called "The Canners" will be introduced by a de gree team from Kansas City. It is said that this degree is a boost for the live stock industry of Omaha and Kansas City and aside from its im pressiveness provides a riot ,of fun for the members. Quite a program of entertainment features hive been provided for the meeting Monday night in addition to addresses by men from Kansas City and Omaha. Invitations have been extended to President Wilson, Pancho Villa, Annette Kellerman, Kaiser William, King George and others. It is expected that this will be the Jrst of a series of meetings where delega tions from Omaha and Kansas City Ad clubs will exchange visits. 4 13500, tt Dttrab TWTN-6 BUSGESS-NASH HAS NEW READY-TO-WEAR BUYER. w tK x Ok HARRY J. HEARNE. Harry J. Hcarne has been appointed by Burgess-Nash company as buyer and manager for their ready-to-wear sections on the ' second floor. Mr. Hearne comes -very highly recom mended, with years of experience both manufacturing and retail to his credit and was for many years associated with Charles Stevens & Bros., of Chi cago. 111. Over Two Hundred Aliens Take Oath To Serve America The record week at "naturalization desk" in the court house closed with a total of sixty-nine second papers is sued and 136 first papers, the majority of them having been taken out by for mer subjects of the central powers. News of the break with Germany precipitated a stampede on the cart of Teutons and Austrians to become citizens of the United States. Aliens who do not declare their intentions of becoming citizens of the United States are regarded in the eyes of the law as foreign enemies in case of war with the lands of their birth. Iowa State Uni Wrestlers Beaten. Ames, la., Feb. 10 (Special Tele gram.) Iowa university's wrestling team, holder of the western col legiate championship, was crushed un der a 33 to 7 score by Ames here to night before a crowd of 2,000. May ser's Cyclones had their own way save in the welterweight bout, which Jen sen of Iowa yon in twojaljs. 26,000 Men Join War Against Motor Wear and Friction Endurance Proved by Hudson Super-Six Let us not confuse the issues which stand uppermost today. It is not speed, not power, not hill-climbing ability which make the Super-Six supreme. Though it holds those stock-car records. It is the fact that those records were won against Sixes, Eights and Twelves by mini mizing friction in the motor. That is why the Super-Six invention stopped the trend toward V-types. It reduced friction vastly more than they did. That is why a Six holds ruling place today. A new basic principle, patented by Hud son, removed its limitations. It was to minimize friction that V-types were considered. But in that the Super-six outdid them. That is why it out-sped any other stock car. Why it won so many hill-climbs, including Pike's Peak. Why it broke all records for quick acceleration. Why it broke the 24-hour stock-car record by 52 per cent Why it twice broke the transcontinental record in one continuous 7000-mile round trip. It was all motor endurance, due to friction and wear reduced to a point which no other type has approached. Now makers of Sixes point to the fact that a Six still holds first place. But the top place is held by the Hudson Super-Six. No six, eight, twelve or car of any type has equaled it in any of the things which count It it a new type Six the Super-Six made under Hudson patents. It rules because it added 80 per cent to old-type Six efficiency. Because it ended the Six limitations vibration, friction and wear., The One Great Question The one great question in choosing a car is this: What motor type comes nearest to elim inating friction? That type will out-perform all others. It will wear longest, cost the least for upkeep, waste the smallest amount of power. K HUDSON m 1:563 WHERE FRENCHMEN AND BRITONS MEET Point Where Alliance Between British Tommy and Poilu Becomes Reality. NO BREAK IN THE LINE (Correspondence of The Aftioclated Pr. With the British Armies in the Field, France, Jan. 1J. There is a point on the western battle line where the British Tommy and French I'oilu meet where the alliance between Great Britain and France becomes a reality. There they are dg in, the man in khaki and the man in pale blue. There in the long watches of wintry nights in the front trenches they sit about a charcoal fire and smoke and think to gether, and make understandable signs and sounds, though it is seldom that either can speak the others tongue. It is not a show spot, this meeting place of the two great allied armies in France, nor is there a defi nite mark to show the dividing line. It is just a mingling point, not an ab rupt juncture. For perhaps 100 yards' at the joining sector the French and British soldiers fraternize and visit. No Break in the Line. There is no break in the line! any where along the front and from time to time the meeting place of the French and British armies is shifted, according to the plans and the agree ments ot the French and British staffs. Often the Germans are at a loss to know who is opposing them French or British and all sorts of ruses and subterfuges are resorted to in the attempt to gain information. It is considered of great importance on both sides to know just who the fel lows arc in the opposing trench, and when there is a relief, or change in the line, the world war resolves itself at least locally into a hazardous game of hide and seek. t Tommy and Poilu have the great est respect for each other and if Tommy has been over very long he generally knows a phrase or two of French, which, coupled with war slang that is common to both armies, gives a medium of communication mu tually enjoyed. In the front lines trenches they share and exchange their little belongings like so many school children swapping luncheon goodies at recess time. Cigarettes, tobacco and chocolate are traded back and forth and oftentimes the midnight meal for Frenchman and Englishman is heated over the same little stove, carefully concealed from the enemy lest a hand grenade should upset the supper plans. This stubborn, dogged, foot-by-foot warfare, with its mire and mud, its redoubts and dugouts and its intricate HUDSON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICH. S.s th. Supar-Six at Spae. 10, Auto Shew GUY L. SMITH - 65 Farnam St. geography of trench upon trench, sel dom lends itself to pictures of mar tial splendor, but without design or arrangement there occurred a few days ago a spectacle which will live long in the memory of the few out siders priveleged to witness it. Exchange Salutations. Two great contingents of the French and British armies met upon the road, exchanged salutations, and passed. One was "coming out," the other was "going in." Each column must have been at least seven miles long. And with each was all the para phernalia, the panoply and the im pedimenta of modern warfare. There was no studied display to the spec tacle, no full dress, no glinting steel nor burnished brass. The day was cold and gray and wet and every where was a grim realization of the business, the machinery of war war just over the horizon. When the two columns were fully abreast the military picture had at tained its fullest expression. From a point of eminence one could look down upon the undulating road and see for miles the two-colored ribbon formed by the marching men the British khaki on the right, the French blue to the left The columns were made up of infantry and field artillery horse artillery the Britsh call it. There were the famous French "75s" or "Soixantes quinze" the extreme of gun simplicity and effectiveness. Some were painted blue and other had a mottled coat to make them fade all the more vaguely into the landscape and thus cheat the prying eyes of hos tile airmen. Their smoke-stained muz zles and mud-splashed barrels were eloquent of the fact that these, were no novices at the game of war. They were out of the line now for a brief respite, only to go in again later. Opposite the "75s" were the Brit ish eighteen-pounders not so slim and graceful, perhaps, as their French prototypes, but just about all that a gun should be. British gun ners are willing to admit that the French gun is "rather some weapon," but they have a real affection for their own field piece which is abso lutely unshakable. Punctuating the blue and khaki ribbons now and then were little patches of smoke and steam, rising from the field kitchens, for dinner was being cooked "on the go." It was a little after noon that the two columns halted and there, mingled in a roadway lined with the gaunt re mains of shell-torn trees. Tommy and Poilu sat down and ate side by side. Sight for Frenchmen. It was the good fortune of the cor respondent of the Associated Press in the field with the British armies to motor through the entire length of the blue and brown columns. It was easy to see that the passing spec tacle of the opposite army was of in tense personal and professional in terest to Frenchman and Briton alike. . That is now the Hudson Super-Six. It prob ably always will be. No engineer can hope to come much closer to perfection. That is the reason for Hudson supremacy the wonderful performance of this motor. No maker oan approach this type in things that count for most. Until one does, men who want a great car must choose the Super-Six. ' With it he is master of every motoring situation. Now a Gasoline Saver Now another feature a great gasoline saver adds to the Super-Six attractions. And new body creations, in every style, attain the very limit in beauty and luxury. We have here now the models exhibited at the New York Show. Come see them. v "SERVICE FIRST" The French never cease to marvel at the Scotchmen in their khaki tun ics, plaid kilties and bare knees. The Scots, who were in the long, brown line on this particular day, had a small but vigorous pipe band with them and the Highland music delighted the passing Poilus. And to the British eyes the French soldier is magnificent. Tall and stal wart men rode and marched in the blue line that passed the brown. Many of them had been in the fighting since the first days of the German invasion, but the more than two years of the hardships of war apparently had made no inroads upon their magnificent physique. Strong and clean of limb they were, some of them fiercely bearded despite the serio-comic ukase of a few months ago that the beard of the Poilu must go. But without a beard a Poilu would cease to be a Poilu. All were spiashed with the inevitable mud of the broken battle fields. The horses, looking warm and happy in their long winter coats, were , fairly covered with mud as well. Something about the spectacle re minded one 'of the civil war days in America. 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