THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 11, 1917.
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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
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craving for new and wider
horizons?
A better car this season
a car that will give the ut
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leave more freedom for the
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Why not?
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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
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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
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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
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BUSGESS-NASH HAS NEW
READY-TO-WEAR BUYER.
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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.
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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
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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. Perhaps it was the old lim
ber wagons in the line. They tried
other sorts of more modern wagons
at the beginning of hostilities in
Europe, but soon the old limbers
came back into their own.
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