THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1917.
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A successful red revolution in Russia merely
emphasizes the blues beneath.
"Keep cool," say the fuel regulators. But will
they practice what they preach?
Every contribution to the soldiers' welfare
advances the winning of the war.
Even the esteemed Dr. Muck finds much in
spiration in the "Star Spangled Banner" as a cur
tain raiser. It makes for safety of the job.
The municipal pie counter of New York car
ries plain jobs totaling $20,000,000 a year. The
prospect explains the "smile on the face of the
tiger."
The suffrage leaders declare their New York
victory will in no way deter them from pushing
for a national amendment. The law makers at
Washington can't lose 'em so easily.
When a jury divides, not being hung by a
tubborn recalcitrant, it is fair to presume there
is a shadow' of a doubt. Remember the ancient
saw, "It is better ten rogues go free thn that
one innocent man be hung?"
Berlin papers announce a friendly reception
for the Bolshevik! peace overtures. That Is put
ting it mildly. Berlin can be relied on to give the
Bolshfjviki peace messenger the glad hand of a
hungry man. gripping a forlorn handout.
Impartial investigators pronounce Omaha
morals above the average and improving every
day. Omaha has been aware of the fact for some
time, but shunned publicity, preferring to let
strangers see for themselves and tell it. Thus is
native modesty rewarded.
Friction in the Anglo-French cabinets over the
new inter-ally committee may be justified on po
litical grounds. On the main proposition of
closer co-operation among all the allies there is
no room for argument Division t and discord
serve only the ends of the enemy. 1
Petitions signed by thousands of representa
tive citizens of St Louis urge tha Board of Edu
cation to' discontinue permits for use of the public
schools oa Saturdays for teaching German under
private auspices. The request It under consider
ation. It is significant because of its source and
as a growing sign of the times.
, Our self-virtue-parading contemporary, the
World-Herald whose delicate stomach sickens at
the very sight of a medical advertisement, regaled
the readers of its Sunday issue with a cut-price
offer of a constipation cure. Holy horrors! Send
for a" doctor, quick, quick, quick! Another
"Apology to Our Readers" is due.
Mrs. Theodore W, Youmans, president of the
Wisconsin Suffrage association, set forth a
gripping truth in an address to that body. "The
woman who can only see woman suffrage when
her country is at war," she declares, "is not
measuring up to a high enough standard either
as woman or as citizen." Think it over.
On the land side of Venice a new lake of shal
low water 12 miles wide interrupts the joyride of
the allied Huns. Gondolas are not to be had at
any price, and the moonlight serenades on the
shimmering bay and grand canal are hushed or
vanished. Should the invaders wade into the
queen city of the Adriatic, looting a la Belgium
will be the chief reward for wet feet, and that is
entertainment enough for professionals.
The Western Laborer editor endorses The
Bee's demand for responsible control of money
solicitation for the different war activities, adding:
''I hope The Bee will keep pounding on this un
til it brings home the bacon." The trouble is
that if people once lose confidence that their con
tributions will reach the desired spot there will
be nothing for the money-getters to bring home,
no matter how worthy the cause for which they
appeal
War Deaths, 7 Per Cent
-fin, York WorM-
. m One of the tricks of pro-Germans is to whisper
it about that for a soldier to be sent abroad is
his death warrant Fighting men sometimes un
thinkingly aid the deception by repeating inexact
trench gossip that this or that command is "shot
to pieces" with an incredible death list
Secretary Baker sets such stories at rest in his
. letter to Senator Saulsbury, stating that of the
. total number of British soldiers in the expedi
tionary forces about 7 per cent have been killed
in action or died of wounds up to June 1. "Im
proved tactics and the swiftly mounting Allied
superiority in artillery" are still reducing the
percentage of losses.
British losses in the retreat from Mons were
heavy, though four-fifths of them were in the
"wounded" and "missing" columns. Many French
regiments have fared as badly. The fate of the
Princess Patricia Canadians was a war tragedy
that will long be remembered, but it was an un
necessary tragedy. We have come to different
conditions, when commanders use artillery to
save their men and have it to use.
The American people, as Secretary Baker says,
are not children to be frightened out of the path
if duty." Yet no one need fear that the path of
fluty is the sure path of death. When at parting
the boy soldier says, "Don't worry. I'll get back
all right," the chances are unless the war lasts
, more than three years longer fourteen to one
that he wilL
Effect of War on Credit
Omaha, Nov. IS. To the Editor of The Bee:
There are two questions I would like to have
you discuss editorially. One is, Why is the
American dollar quoted at Copenhagen as worth
only 73 cents? Why should the American dol
lar be depreciated? Won't you please explain
this?
Another thing is: I am told that people who
bought Liberty bonds are not holding them,
but are using them as currency to pay their
debts. If the Liberty bonds are going to be
used as currency, aren't we going to have a
great inflation of currency, with the resulting
bad effects? AN INQUIRER.
Explanation of the fluctuation in rates on for
eign exchange is rather difficult and not always
satisfactory. Just now the Scandinavian coun
tries are the principal neutrals of Europe and as
such are in position to demand premium for
services rendered in way of business. The quo
tation of the American dollar at 73 cents in Co
penhagen is not to be taken as indicating that
our currency has depreciated to that extent in
value. It is rather to be considered an arbitrary
valuation, such as that established by Mexico a
few years ago, when our dollars were discounted
by from 15 to 25 cents in that country in retalia
tion for the discount placed on the Mexican
dollar on this side of the border. The act did not
affect the credit of either government.
Quotations for Liberty bonds will be subject
to market fluctuations and go up or down as the
demand for them swells or recedes. In June,
1914, the only government bond issue in the world
selling at par was that of the United States. No
cause for alarm exists in the slight discount now
carried against the Liberty issues by speculators,
for our government is borrowing money at a
lower rate of interest than any other. British
"consols," once the standard investment issue,
are selling around 55, while the British 5.per cent
war loan is going at 99, the lowest point touched
yet by the American 4 per cent loan. French 5
per cent war bonds are selling at 79 and Russian
bonds of the same rate are going at 61. German
and Austrian issues are not quoted.
The Liberty loan issue may tend to promote
inflation; it is not money, but is the basis of
credit, and as such capable of being introduced
into the channels of trade, with the same effect
as increasing the volume of currency.
Knights of Columbus War Work.
A "drive" is on this week, directed by the
Knights of Columbus to secure funds for carrying
on the war work of the society. This work is
similar to and connected with that of the Y. M.
C. A., providing for the needs of the soldiers in
their time off duty. Experience has shown that
the unoccupied hours of the soldier's day are the
most dangerous, for it is then if ever he comes
into contact with influences that undermine his
moral and physical forces alike. One of the de
parture from tradition in this great war is to
furnish the safe means for guarding against the
possible lowering of the army's morale, and to
give the men places where they can find oppor
tunity for rest and healthy amusement in hours
of idleness. The work' of the Y. M. C. A. and
the Knights of Columbus along these lines has
more than justified the effort Comforts and -conveniences
await the men back of the fighting line,
in the concentration camps, and wherever large
numbers are grouped, established under influences
that enable the boy fresh from home to, preserve
his manhood unsullied. Approval of the work by
those in high command, and earnest commenda
tion by air who have looked into the subject, or
have witnessed the actual workings of the plan,
Is the warrant for asking for the fund. The
Knights of Columbus should succeed in raising
their needed funds, just as have the Y. M. C. A.
leaders.
' Patriotic Before Wifely Duty.
The act of a New York woman in setting
government detectives on the trail of her criminal
husband will arrest attention momentarily. She
placed her patriotism above her wifely devotion,
and delivered him to justice because she felt her
first duty to be to her country. Her sentiment
will be applauded, as it should, but it does not
transcend the sacrifice already made by many
thousands of wives through tout the country,
Women of America hive with clear eyes and stout
hearts watched their husbands and sons march
away to war, making the sacrifice in sorrow, but
with sublime courage because it is duty that calls.
The New York woman joins her sisters, with
more of sorrow, because her husband has brought
shame and not honor to her. This war has put
love to the extreme test, and well has it been
met by our women. Above all sense of self they
have set that high obligation of duty, and nj
finer exemplification of devotion was ever given
the world than the wives and mothers of America
are showing now. And in the trenches hearts will
be stronger because the "boys" will know the
home fires are burning, and that mother, wife,
sister and aweetheart are working and praying
for their success.
Fighting in the Stokeholds.
Urgent request by the navy for recruits for
the fire rooms of trje battleships brings out a
point that has not been given enough attention.
We have been very busy talking of winning the
war in the wheat fields and elsewhere, overlook
ing one of the most important factors in all the
list Fighting in the stokehold is going to win
the war. Not on shipboard alone, but all through
every industry enlisted for the war the fireman is
the man on whom success depends. Ke must
boil the water to make the steam. His brawn is
the medium on which depends the energy that
moves the wheels of the world. "Down among
the Johnson bars" labors the "black gang," heroes
unsung, whose only knowledge of the battle's
progress is the call for more steam. Whether
four decks below the waterline or as many floors
under the street curb, on the snorting locomotive
or in the open boiler room, these men who sweat
and struggle with slash bar and ash hoe, with
shovel and poker, are winning the war in the
stokehold. The world owes a debt to the fireman
it has been slow to acknowledge.
Filled with the wine of victory and things
New York suffragists propose an early revolution
of empire state society. A dry state heads the
list of reform projects which the women promise
to bring about In view of the fact that New
York is the premier industrial state, containing
the largest urban population in the union, the
task of demolishing the trenches of the demon
promises a record endurance test
A contributor to our Letter Box has compiled
some interesting figures on real estate values de
signed to show the inequities of assessment at
four-year periods as applied to certain city lots
in Omaha's congested business district We would
like to see some similar figures .on Nebraska
farm lands involving the same amount of in
vestment It's our guess that the city lot owner
has not much on the farm owner.
Farms for Soldiers
By Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, Nov. 16. When the war is over,
and an army of somewhere between 2,000,000 and
5,000,000 is discharged, what will be done with
these men?
The man who is now leaving his job to go to
war may be told, with some assurance,, that when
he comes back his government wUl do its best
to help him make a living, and that in all jjr 'la
bility he will be offered an opportunity to get a
piece of land and become a farmer. At any
rate, the Department of Agriculture is unoffi
cially known to be studying the problem of how
to put the returned soldier upon the land.
Fifty and even 25 years ago the problem would
have been easy; for the American aoole ownc.1
an immense body of public land, most of which
was arable. There is a law which ..rovides that
if a soldier takes up a homestead, the time which
he serves in the army counts as time of occu
pancy toward living him ownership of the land,
provided he lives on the land one year. That law
will be of little benefit to the men who have been
drafted for this war. The only public lands re
maining are a few aril tracts in the '..r west. The
free land, which for many generations did more
than anything else tj make the American citizen
a free man, is a thing of the past.
The scientific experts in the employ of the gov
ernment, who commonly retain their places while
administrations come and go, have seen the flow
ing importance of the land que..jn for some
years, and have gathered some facts and figures
as to the amount and ownership of land in the
United States. This data now has a new signifi
cance and interest
There Is a widespread popular belie that a
"land monopoly" exists in the United States. It
is notable that the breaking of this1 monopoly
is a plank in the platform of a new political
party, more radical than either of the now
dominant ones, which was recently organized in
Chicago. .
The figures which have teen gathered show
that such a monopoly does not exist, in the sense
that is probably most , often imputed to it, in
that that there are few large bodies of land
held for speculative purposes ana not adequately
cultivated. But there is a monopoly in the sense
that nearly all of the arable land in this country
is now in private ownership, and is therefore to
be purchased only at competitive prices, which are
generally high. You can buy a .piece of land
in almost any part f the country, but you will
have tp pay a price which is based upon a specula
tion as to what the land will be worth in the
future, as well as upon what it will produce,
and you will have to take such a tract as you can
get, with such improvements as chance to be
upon it, rather than a tract of the size you want
and are able to pay for. In a word, you must be
something of a capitalist to become a farmer. This
means that the classes of people which have
most need for land cannot get it.
The land area of the United States is about
1,903,000,000 acres. Of this, 879,000,0C0 is in farms,
and 478,000,000 of the amount in farms is im
proved, according to census figures of 1910. An
estimate of the area actually in crops at about
the same time placed this area at 318,516,000 acres.
Of.the area which was in farms but not in crops,
about 291,000,000 was in pasture, including both
woodland and grassland. There remained, it will
be seen, large areas in farms that were not im
proved and large areas that are not included in
farms at all. Of course, much of this land i3 not
arable, but it is estimated that in 1910 there were
457,000,000 acres of arable land which had not been
improved.
The existence of this large area is the basis
of the charge that there is a land monopoly
that with the country facing a shortage of food
stuffs, millions of acres are held uncultivated for
speculative or other reasons. But a further
analysis shows that 30,000,000 acres of irrigable
land I .had not been placed under irrigation, that
80,000,000 acres of drainable land had not been
drained, that 127.000,000 acres of the arable land
were to be classified as "dry-farming" lands, the
cultivation of which is a somewhat uncertain
venture, and that 35,000.000 acres of this land is
included in cities and villages.
The total arable land remaining unaccounted
for is 185,000,000 acres. Some of this is held in
great tracts by railroads and lumber companies,
some of it in private estates; but the total con
trolled in all of these ways is not large enough
to be an important factor in the problem. Most
of the lumber companies are, offering their cut
over lands for sale, and if the sale is slow it is
generally not because the price is unreasonable,
but because the cost of removing the stumps and
brush is high. Most of the arable land not under
cultivation is in relatively small farms. Many
southern farms contain an undue proportion of
land lying fallow and of woodland, while many
western farms have large tracts of open land
that might be cultivated. So the arable land of
this country has not been developed to capacity,
but the increase of production, and of ownership
of land, must be an intensive rather than an
extensive process.
The outstanding fact is that our national wealth
in land is not as great as many of us have prob
ably imagined. The task which the government
will face in providing for its returned soldiers is a
difficult one, and nothing authoritative can be
said as to how the problem will he attacked.
It is know, however, that Secretary Houston be
lieves much might be done by the government
in helping the people to purchase land, and to put
their farms on a paying basis. It is further evident
that the lands which could be made arable by irri
gation and by drainage present an opportunity
for government reclamation, as perhaps do also
some of the stump and timber lands of the north
west and the south.
At any rate, the man who returns from war
is a government responsibility. He must be taken
care of. And if he knows what is good for him he
will insist that this care take the form of a
real share in the country which he has defended,
rather than of merely a job or a pension.
"Tied to the Post of Wrong"
-Ed(ar Howard' Columbua Telegram-
I do wish I might write something to induce
the Omaha World-Herald to sometimes look at
things from the Nebraska viewpoint, and not
always from the viewpoint of the big interests.
This war situation is serious. We shall need the
aid of all the interests in America to win the war.
I am not asking government to penalize any of
the big interests. All I ask is that the farmer
must not alone bear the burden of price-fixing.
But I fear my efforts to win the Omaha World
Herald to look at things through Nebraska eyes,
instead of Wall street eyes, will avail nothing.
Sometimes I think the World-Herald would be
right if only it had a chance. But it has no chance
to be right Its hands are tied to the post of
Wrong. In the springtime it covers the Nebraska
farmer with a sweet taffy spray. In the harvest
time it lures him to the lair of its own spoliating
masters. And so I must conclude that always
and forever as long as the orders from steel trust
copper trust and Standard Oil shall be sent as
far west as Nebraska, the farmers of this agri
cultural commonwealth may confidently rely
upon the promulgation of the orders through the
medium of the Omaha World-Herald.
People and Events
Overseer Voliva of Zion City developed a
unique method of punctuating a peroration which
will interest orators. Usually an audience watches
in jmute wonder, sometimes admiration, the un
winding of a peroration and reserves applause for
the finish. Voliva hit a new tack. "I'll tell you,"
he shouted at the conclusion of a food sermon,
there is a time a plate of hot soup tastes fine."
"Amenl" Hot and sharp came from an elder in
the front row. "That's the wav'to talk" an swered
Voliva, "I've been working a long time to get an
'ari!n' and now I know how to set it."
(1
Right In the Spotlight
Rev. "Billy" Sunday, the famous
evangelist, now conducting a great re
vival in Atlanta, today enters upon his
"5th year, having been born at Ames,
la., November 19, 1863. The death of
hl3 parents necessitated his leaving
school at an early age. At 14 he had
become self-supporting. At 20 he en
tered the field of professional base
ball, in which he won celebrity as a
player with the Chicago, Pittsburgh
and Philadelphia teams of the Nation
al league. It was a little band of res
cue mission workers on a Chicago
street corner that really brought Sun
day out from the listening group of
five or six ball players one evening,
and started him along the road in
which he has won world-wide fame.
For several years, after quitting base
ball in 1890, he was engaged in Young
Men's Christian association work.
Then he embarked on his career as an
Independent evangelist In 1904 he was
ordained to the Presbyterian ministry
In Chicago. During the last 15 years,
during which he has appeared In many
cities, he is estimated to have made
500,000 conversions. In this work he
has been greatly aided by his wife,
familiarly known as "Ma" Sunday, tar
whom he was married in Chicago In
1S88.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
Allied army in Macedonia entered
Monastir, the first city to be recon
quered from the Germans and Bul
garians. German troops completed their pas
sage through the Transylvanian Alps
and entered the plains of western
Roumania.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
A. U. Wyman and family left for
Washington, D. C.
The fourth annual ball of the Over
land lodge, Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen, was held In Exposition
hall.
A charming masquerade party was
given Friday night by Miss Amy Bark
er at her home, Twenty-second and
Davenpdrt streets.
Articles of Incorporation of the
Grammercy Park Loan and Invest
ment association were filed with the
county clerk. The Incorporators are
Albert Cahn, A. C. Woolley, S. Jo
naBen, C. Albee, S. Goetz, Louis J.
Nedd, Martin Cahn, R. J. Montgom
ery, D. A. Hurley, I. Kaufman, F. il,
Ellis, J. C. Woodward, C. O. Rlnehard,
Edward E. Howell, Frank L. McCoy
and S. Oberfelder.
The marriage of S. I. Dennis and
Mam I K. Green took place at the
bride's home, Rev. Mr. House of Beth
Eden church officiating.
The White Progressive Euchre club
met at the home of Mrs. Leonard at
1115 South Seventh street Mr. D. I.
Thornton Is president of this club, Miss
Hattie Byarly, secretary; Daniel Yates,
treasurer, and Miss Josie Leonard, su
perintendent Tills Day In History.
1811 Admiral John A. Winslow,
who commanded the Kearsarge in the
battle with the Alabama, born at Wil
mington, N. C. Died in Boston, Sep
tember 29", 187S.
1826 William C. Endicott, secre
tary of war under Cleveland, born
at Salem, Mass. Died in Boston, May
6, 1900.
1835 General Fltzhugh Lee, sol
dier and governor of Virginia, born In
Fairfax county, Virginia. Died in
Washington, D. C, April 28, 105.
1862 First general council of the
Protestant Episcopal church of the
confederate states assembled at Au
gusta. 1867 Fitz-Green Halleck, author of
the stirring martial poem, "Marco
Bozarris," died at Guilford, Conn.
Born there July 8, 1790.
1871 Tha Grand Duke Alexis ar
rived at New York, accompanied by a
fleet of Russian warships.
1904 Colonel William C. P. Breck
inridge, orator and statesman, died at
Lexington, Ky. Born near Baltimore,
in 1838.
1914 United States government
demanded explanation from Turkey
of Tennessee incident
The Day We Celebrate.
Hugh T. Cutler, paying teller of the
United States National bank, is 31
years old today.
Thomas R. Porter, newspaper cor
respondent, Is celebrating his 48th
birthday.
Brigadier General Robert K. Evans,
U. S. A., retired, who was recalled to
active service at the beginning of the
war, born at Jackson, Mils., 65 years
ago today.
Major General William H. Carter,
U. S. A., present commander of the
Central department, born at Nashville,
Tfenn., 66 years ago today.
J. M. Hannaford, president of the
Northern Pacific railway, born at
Claremont, N. H., 67 years ago today.
Henry N. MacCracken, president of
Vassar college, born at Toledo, O., 37
years ago today.
June Caprice, one of. the youngest
and most popular of photoplay stars,
born in Boston 18 years ago today.
Everett Scott, shortstop of the Bos
ton American league base ball team,"
born at Bluffton, Ind., 25 years ago to
day. Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The annual congress of the Amer
ican Prison association Is to have its
formal opening In New Orleans today,
the sessions to continue through the
week.
The trial of Mrs. Bianca de Saulles
for the murder of her husband, "Jack"
de Sauces, is scheduled to begin today
in the supreme court at Mineola, L. I.
Brigadier General Charles Austin
Coolidge, U. S. A., retired, and Mrs.
Coolidge, who were married at Talla
hassee, Fla., November 19, 1867, are
to celebrate their golden wedding an
niversary today at their home In De
troit. The Methodist Boards of Foreign
Missions and Home Missions are to
meet in Joint session in Philadelphia
today to confer on the celebration of
the 100th anniversary of the organiza
tion of the parent society, the Mission
ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, formed !n 1819.
Storyctte of the Day.
A parson in a country village sent
his lad of all work on Sunday morning
to the butcher, whose name was David,
to inquire as to the nondelivery of
some meat which ought to have ar
rived the previous evening.
When the lad returned his master
had gone on to church, so he went to
the sacred edifice, too. Just as he ar
rived the parson was giving out the
following text:
"What did David say?"
Great was his surprise and also that
of the congregation when the reply
came from the lad:
"He said that he won't let you have
the meat until you pay for the last lot"
London Chronicle.
Chanro for Fmo.
"Got a teles; ram from my husband now.
Every tlma I sat a talecram my band ahakrfl
o 1 eaa hardly opan It, whethar tbaro la
any bad newa or not"
"3ma with me," aal8 tha neighbor foa
alplnf ovar tba back fence. "It'a a wonder
theaa amart men wouldn't adopt taint; Usa
fronts for telcfrrama. aama aa they uae In
li-tiers. But they don't keer how they worry
aa wlmmen." LouUrlUe Couiiar-Jauroal.
uses
"Color Blindness and Total
' Disability."
Council Bluffs, la., Nov. 11.- To the
Editor of The Bee: In an editorial ot
; our Sunday issue the readers' atten
tion Is called to a recent decision ot
the Nebraska supreme court which
was that "color blindness was a com
plete and total disability."
I have, as yourself, no way of know
ing what line of reasoning the court
followed that led to such a ruling,, but
as I hold a policy issued by the same
union, the ruling does Interest me. And
If, as you state, it will probably affect
the insurance contract business as a
whole, It should be of interest to al
most everybody.
If there ever was a method of de
termining the extent of one's disabil
ity that is unjust it is the accepted
one of Impairment of earning ability.
It is obvious to anyone that when a
man's ability to discern or distinguish
colors becomes impaired he is totally
disabled so far as the transportation
department of a railroad is concerned.
This point you understand.
The brotherhood's membership con
sists of those engaged In that depart
ment exclusively. At least they were
all engaged in that department when
they made the contract of insurance".
You pass two physical examinations
before you ever can have a trainman's
policy Issued to you. One by the rail
way examiners, before you are em
ployed; another by the examining phy
sician of the lodge. Any who have
taken either in recent years will not
doubt that it would be impossible for
a man color blind to pass.
We will presume one passed both.
Ha is examined for service as a train
man. He pays a high premium for
his insurance, account of the hazard
ous nature of his occupation. Then if
he becomes disabled in such a degree
as makes him totally unfit for the
work he is engaged in, what line of
reasoning could you follow that could
lead you to an opinion different from
that handed down by the court? Un
der the "accepted method," I presume,
he could get a position as flagman on
a crossing and continue in that posi
tion until he was so stiff he could
hardly move and still he would not be
entitled to his insurance under the
total disability clause, from the fact
that other vocations were still open.
Keep his poor old body until spring,
then drive him in the ground and
make a whistling post of him.
I A. G.
Hope for Russia's Future.
Omaha, Nov. 15. To the Editor of
The Bee: Anyone who knows the
character of the Russian and under
stands his nature never had any mis
apprehension as to the outcome of the
struggle which Russia is undergoing
at the present No matter how many
revolutions or counter revolutions are
staged in Russia the outcome of the
first revolution, which resulted in the
overthrow of the monarchy, will be
the same; viz., a stable democracy, the
like of which Is not to be found any
where and which will take its place
in the foremost ranks of the democ
racies of the world. Just stop and
think for a moment. There is a na
tion of over 180,000,000 people with
out a government without a constitu
tion and without any fundamental
laws whatsoever and yet it is getting
along comparatively without any trou
ble, with very little disturbance and
with less lawlessness than in some
countries where stable government and
fundamental laws are in force. And
yet some doubt the capability of Rus
sia to govern itseif. The trouble in
Russia ties in Its Utopian and illusion
ary dreams, but as soon as the hard
knocks of realism will polish off the
raw edges of idealism Russia will be
more safe and sane than any other1
country in the world.
Kerensky's vacillating attitude in re
gard to the policies ot the Soviet,
council of soldiers' and workmen's
delegates, is a bitter lesson to him and
if there is any mettle in his makeup
he should profit by it When he as
sumed the office of pre mier and pro
claimed that a policy of b: -d and
iron would be promulgated and en
forced the world applauded him and
expected a rigid regime, which would
straighten out the anarchy of the mis
creants and the illusion of the dream
ers and bring the army back to its
fighting capability, but he did not
measure up to the expectations of the
world. He allowed such reprobates as
Lenine and the like of him not only
to live, but to spread treason anil
dissension in the ranks of the army
and civilians and the "crazyites" (the
Bolsheviki) had full k.vay and free
hand in the land, with tae result that
temporarily they got the upper hand
and are ruling Petrograd. Of course,
everybody konws that their rule is
only a short-lived one, that Petrograd
is not Russia and "the Bolsheviki" are
not the Russian people.
Let us hope that when Kerensky
comes back and re-establishes his au
thority that such men as Lenino will
be crushed out of existence . id the
people be given a chance to work out
their solution and - ..vatlon in an or.
derly and peaceful manner. That oisi
of the chaos, misrule and anarchy la
and order and a stable democracy
will rise no one who knows the char
acter, nature and temperament of Rus
sia will doubt.
The world hopes that when the
eternal strife is allayed and a sem
blance of order is again established
that Russia will take care of its ex
ternal enemy, the common foe, and
will again give good account of its
prowess as fighters for liberty.
DK. E. HOLOVTCHINER. p
Give Up Half Measures.
Omaha, Nov. 17. To the Editor ot
The Bee: Now that our boys are in
the trenches on the French front bat
tling for humanity and the right to live
in peace with the world, American
blood shed, and American lives taken
by the enemy of universal democracy,
the time has come for the "stay at
homes" to get busy and show that
our protestations of loyalty and fideli
ty to our government and the princi
ples for which it contends, principles
that have been so clearly enunciated
by President Wilson, are not as
"sounding brass and tinkling cym
bals." Let every "stay at home" get
on the firing line . at home and by
wrds and deeds uphold the hands of
our president, responding to our means
and abilities, to the calls made on all
of us by our beneficent government
Every effort should and must be put
forth to uncover sedition and treactv
erv. -whether in high or low places. 1
In this, I am appealing to the gen
uine Americans of our country, and X
can conceive of but one kind of Ameri
t"n in the United States. A man is
either an American by birth or by
acicption, or an alien. To my mind,
there is no such thing as a hyphen
ated American. A person cannot be
a German and an American at one and
the same time, he cannot be half of
one and half of the other. He must
be whole or nothing.
Some say we are not warring on
the German people, but on the Ger
man ccvernment. I insist we are fight
ing both, and will continue to fight
-iri fie German people arise
and, from their sense of right and
.n'stice, and in the cause of human
liberty, push from Its pedestal, Prus
sian military autocracy.
Newspapers whose editorial de
partments are given over to the writ-!
ing of apologies for the Insidious con
duct and writings of self confessed
enemies of our government and na
tion, whilst wearing the garb of Ameri
can citizenship, and who, in their
columns, try to mitigate the crime of
pro-Germanism, should be condemnild
by the reading and advertising public
who place patriotism, and sacrifice
above personal money gain.
ED WALSH.
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