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A 12 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918. 4 I It J' . J C e iS. 11 If i li ; i The Omaha Bee DAILY MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY' FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER - , VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BE PUBLISH INQ COMPANY. PROPRIETOrT .Cotartt at Omaha poatoffiM m iteond-elaM matter. .TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 100 10 Dailf aaa Biadit. Bt MtM. tot t.ot too immi mna mnaar. Emiim without tundar.. ........... in4.. Am anl M M tMia kkic or abut oi aavm ot irranianu oawerf io uuuua Baa OroaUnoo DwrtcMnL . ( MEMBER OF . THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tba laoelitod fwaa, gf Mea ma R ta santar. tt aelumif ntltlMt la tht for Babltoattoa o all am diipatetm credited to tt m art MMnrin eraaitas la lU rr aa4 alio Ui lorai am oMltbaa mmb, 1 ail runt ot puduouiob ( an al lanrfil REMITTANCE Kaatt r dnft. mm er ratal artar. Onto l-ewt aUBM takas la Mrntabt af maU aooomu. rational eauca, aictpt sa vnaoa aaa aaM aiitianra. act aooaptad. OFFICES aha TM M nlldlni. t.hleafo PaiWi fti Bulldlnf. Council Brttfa-14 W. Halo Bt. Bt. ula-Naw B'k of Commerce. Uacol UUla Bulldlac . WiabiaMoa 1111 a St. CORRESPONDENCE AMtm anaflmateatlaii rautiut la am aad atBtortal matut la Oouaa Baa. Bdltorlal Dapartoaot . JANUARY CIRCULATION 59,964 Daily Sunday, 52,534 A Win etrml.ttun tot tat root, autantkaa aod amra to bt Dwlfht Wllllana. Cinmlailoa How. Subacribara laavlat tha etty akouuj aa Tba Bta aiallad la taare. Asdraaa chaof4 aa eltaa aa raquaataq. . . Time to be lookinj up seed catalogue. "It look a If the golden rule were not able to withstand the iron -fist ' , Idealist may observe in Russia what human ity has to expect from the Teutonic superman. ' It Mr.' McAdoo will just furnish the cars the west will send New England all the foodstuff needed there. . , Jericho has fallen again but this time with out th tooting of rams' horns or any extended march around, the walls. . Gram "gamblers have been feeling their oat of i late and Jhe.upshot of the matter is a rule fixing th prfcer it is high enough at that. f iState Treasurer Hall recommend that -bond interest rate be raised to Vt per . cent . The trouble 'the 'investor' beat him to it.. ru- ' j . - 1 Europe ii being fed on about one-third the American rate of meat consumption, but that does hot inean we are to cease to save. ,.. .... . . . .. : - . :' VhW8toiJ., doubt German control of the air along the American sector in France, but a good way to make ure is to hurry over a lot more of the Liberty airplanes. glutton i removed from the taboo list for meatless day and the sheep will substitute for the fcotton tail ion the "meatless" menu. Now watch the orice on mutton go soaring. v.. Statement that the packer have an average profit of around half a cent a pound on meats will Jiot greatly Impress the consumer, who is pretty well convinced that somebody is making more1 than that ' . Again bakir are ordered to regard the rule .equirinrf 20 per cent substitute. for wheat flour in making bread. At that they have the better of the hojisewife, who is compelled to take it 50-50 wheii she buys white flour. r . "Artie" Mullen's journey to Washington was not entirely, fruitless, for he" is to be charged with looking after enemy alien property in Ne braska, lit is not likely that this will keep him very busy, but it gives him a little place in the spotlight. ''-:: , .. . ! i; -.. ? '. General Allenby has finely passed the dis tance from Jerusalem to Jericho, and has many time followed the example of the good Samari tan. ? No single chapter of the war show a brighter contrast between methods of the armies of democracy atld those of allied autocracy than i does the advance of .the British troops through Palestine. T ' '- ' ' V ' i , "Acre Day" for Nebraskan. ' . ,' A! correspondent makes a suggestion that seems extremely practical. It is that the men and boy iri the mallef town of the state, who have condideraole spare time in the summer, mobilize into a brigade to help increase the food supply. Each of these is to be requested to plant an acre that might otherwise be idle and to devote one day a week to its care, "Acre day" could be . agreed upon and on that day the ordinary voca tions of, the town would be suspended for the time while effort would be expended on cultiva tion of .whatever : crop the individual had in charge. Our correspondent estimate that 50,000 men and boy will be available for thi work, without reducing the industry of the state by an hour; that is, all business customarily carried on will be done and 50,000 days a week now wasted aa be devoted to raising small crop, the out put of which will be added to the available sup ply of food. The idea ia a good one and the State Council of Defense, the unirerrity authori ties or ome other central agency ought to ee that it i put into practice. Government Responsibility to Railroads. - The decisive vote . by which the Johnson amendment was -rejected in -the senate wiH -end-for the time the talk of government ownership of the railroads so far as congress is concerned, but it does not dispose of the responsibility of the government to the owners of the railroads. It is beyond reason to think that the lines will be turned back to their owners under exactly the same conditions that prevailed when they were taken over. Extending experience with , trans-, portation problems already has convinced men of high standing-that post-war conditions will be vastly different from any hitherto known. It would therefore seem a wise course to provide for immediate needs of. operation, with a view to later formulating such legislation as -the les sons' we are learning teach us in wise. This is apparently what the senate has in view; the broad and deep questions, involved m, '.railroad operation are not such as will be settled off-hand, but it is well io know that the congress does not contemplate indefinite governmental opera tion of the roads. Prudent discharge of present responsibilities will occupy sufficiently the time that can te given to the problem aside from other important matters and the final disposition of the whole question may easily rest oh' the assurance that ultimately the roads "will be re turned to the stockholders. ' " ;' Glorified Highway Robbery... .. One must turn back many pages in history to find a parallel for the present German advance into Russia. It is not to be found in, the march of Genghis Khan nor even Attilla, 'to whom folks are so fond of comparing the "Teuton of today. Those Asiatics came up at the -head" of conquering armies, it is true, and devastated wide regions, but they had to overcome resistance at every step, and finally were stayed by valiant op ponents. " The kaiser' present march into. Rus sia has none- of the, elements of risk that at tended (he incursion of the Hun or the Mongol into Europe.'. Hfs troops are moving gainst people defenseless i and incapable of .defense, This feature is bad enough,- but the further tact is that loot is the Vole purpose-. ; ' ''';;';,.'" '.,'' It is idle to' talk of enforcing peace against--a-nonresisting peopter that" pretext "is 'as" empty of meaning as is the pretense .that . Germany was attacked in 1914. , Highway, robbery on the most stupendous scale is now gdlng on in Russia, lim ited pn.ly by the German military; conscience.' The : call .of the bolsheviki to i the ptppfe.'to resist to death", is the hopeles cry of. a, crushed and beaten faction. The kaiser'i supreme will is be ing worked Out in Russia and robbery beyond anything the world ever knew is the result. The only comparison is to be found fo he '"'record of the pillaging bands from the "fortsts of thi; Rhine who swept over the cultivated lands' of the weaktfr tribes and feasted on what omebody" :else had produced. A Indeed, it is difficult to distinguish between the way of the German of today' and his pro-' genitor of 2,000 years ago. Just , as civilization then had to put down the marauding barbarians, so civilization today is faced with the task' of subduing their descendants. Americans must realize this. It is a war for the perpetuation of right and justice against force we are fighting. " - How Peace Came to Us in 1865 Negotiations that Failed on Threshold of Surrender Henry S. Burrage, Historian of Maine, in Leslies. In our civil war, when it had lingered as long as the present world war, many well meaning men, weary of war with its suffer ings and sacrifices, insisted that something should be done to bring the war to a dose. One "of the mOst persistent of these peace men was Senator F. P. Blair, an astute poli tician, well acquainted with prominent ncn in the south. He had a scheme which he believed was workable if only he-could-get the ear of President Davis. To his request for permission to visit Richmond Mr. Lin coln gave consent, but secretly had his mind made up as to his own .attitude in the mat ter. This was in the winter of 1864-65. .On Mr. Blair's" return he informed Mr. Lincoln that he had found Mr, Davis willing for a conference "with a view to secure. peace, to the two countries.'1 ' At jonce. Mr; -Lincoln firmly made it known to Mr. Blair that such a conference could be held only "with the view of securing peace to the people of ,our one common country." -" .. - With a note from -Mr.-Lincoln to this effect Mr. Blair again-repaired to. Richmond, and, having shown the note to Mn Davis, he remarked that the part -about, "our. one common country" related to the part of Mr, Davis' letter about "the two countries." Mr. Davis said he so understood the reference; but without either accepting or declining Mr.. Lincoln's basis for a conference; he ap pointed peace commissioners -as 'follows:" Alexander 11. btephens. conieaerate vice president; Senator R. M. T. Hunter and John A. Campbell, assistant secretary of state. All were gentlemen or high character, and abil ity. i '; ' At Mr. Hunter's suggestion that the presi dent's terms meant unconditional surrender and submission, Mr. Seward replied that nothing importing or implying, humiliation to the people of the south had been said or intended. u Mr. Lincoln again reiterated his views a to the one .way in which peace could and sliould be sought and Mr-! Stephens, again brought forward his p1aft';! fpr. an armistice on the basis of a. Mexican' expedit tion.ajvd asked for its reconsider'atibn:.. '.'I wjlt. reconsider it," said. Mr. Lincoln,'. "bu J do-not think my mind will 'change."' W.'th these .vwords the cotfdrgnc' 'closed.'' V ' .!' .This -was February" 3, 1865 less than. two months, and a half before the surrender , at Appomattox. The result of the conference was a great disappointment to the commis sioners, who had hoped that somehow, in some way,-peace might be secured without unconditional surrender. ' But who now can fail to see that nothing could have been worse for the people of the south had the peace commissioners of the confederacy succeeded in their endeavors to secure terms of peace upon the basis of "two countries" as they desired? With no natural boundaries separating the confederate states from the states left in the union, and slavery still existing below Mason and Dixon's line, the most fruitful sources of international troubles would have been destructive of peaceful relations,' not .to mention other sources of hostility and strife. , Considerations like, these Have long been recognized in the south. General E.. P, Alex ander, Lohgstreet's chief of artillery, who fired the confederate guns at Gettysburg be fore Pickett'a charge, has stated the matter in the introduction to his "Military Memoirs of a Confederate:" "The world has not stood still in the year since we took up arms for what we deemed our most invaluable right that of self-government, We now enjoy the rare privilege of seeing what we fought for in the retrospect. It no longer seems desirable. It would now prove only a curse. .We have good cause to thank Gpd for our escape from it, not only for our sake, but for that of the whole country and even of the world." My own regiment was one of three Massachusetts regiments at Vicksburg. When the beautiful memorial of these regi ments was unveiled in the national park at Vicksburg November 13, 1903, Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee of the confederate armv was one of the speakers and referred, to the significance of the occasion in bring ing together "veterans who followed the flag of the union- and veterans who- followed the flapr of the dead confederacy alt taking part and loving this great reunited American country." On.' reading-his address-as pub lished in a Vicksburg paper sent to me by a friend. I wrote to General Lee, thanking him for his patriotic' 'words. In his reply, he said: "It is certainly gratifying to get such $ ..letter from a survivor who was-. on , the other side-r-now.we "are all on the- same side, glorying in the grandeur and prospective, fu ture of the' common country." ' UkraineOtitf Empire Section of Russia Which Made Peace With War Lords Co-ordination of War Effort. Mr. Hoover' statement a to the food supply situation is but one more proof of the . urgent -need of co-ordination of our" war efforts It is not expected that the eastern communities, now' run-' ning short Of food, will be permitted to seriously suffer nor is it conceivable that great quantities pf food will be permitted to decay1 in western granaries and torehouse for 'want of trans- portation. , It is necessary, however, that a more oraeny arrangement tor the , transportation -of various war material be arranged. Great dis turbance has been noted in the general transport tation system of the country incident to the un usual weather conditions, but not, all of it is .to be to excused. A month ago more than 2,000, 000 tons of freight of various kinds were piled up on the dock at New York awaiting shipment, while at New. Orleans several steamers half loaded, were Waiting for cargo. , At th,af time effort was being made, to clear the New York jam that more traffic might.be forced through ' "the neck of the bottle." Since then, it is. stood, more attention has been given to the fa cilities of southern ports and to some extent the -diversion of. traffic, necessary to. use them has taken place. Only this week the New ..England fuel administrator declined. to eclvsent to the re quest of General Goethals that more fuel be fur nished -New1 England factories; to the erid that they might speed up work on war orders. All these things combine to' indicate, what a Jam occurred when the several departments '.of' the. government . were - intejjt .each on,, its ' own. pro gram. Better understanding will bring .the .cdr operation necessary. American can meet tht needs of the war, but only, when effort is under, central direction. '':' ' :''." ; Driving wester mine t , top. speed .;tbrough the tprlng month i one; way:to avoid k coal hortage next winter. For the matter of that, it might do little harm to drive the mines at full time until the wr' I over,. The fuel will .be needed and ij; can be gotten at by the conumer much easier on the lurface of the ground. Ukraine, in English "frontier,", includes the provinces of Kharkoff, Kieff, Podblia, Pplta.v,a..'.and Volhynia. : In : the: days, of 'Charlemagne, Ukraine held sway as 'the greatest. Slav empire in the world.. Its capi tal, Kieff, was the largest and wealthiest city fii; easter"n'' Europe, its kings daughters mar ried the royal heirs of England and.France. and the voict of its ministers. was lond and powerful, - - Ukraine; or Little Russia, under the Rtf sian . empire, covered 850,000 square- kilo metre, an area greater than-that of-France, and only a little less than that'of Italy, Spain and Portugal togefther. Under-the jempirel it had;-of course, no political' frontiers, like those denned in the' peace-treaty. Careful estimates show that 29,000,000 Ukrainians live in the provinces named; the population is estimated more vaguely as about 19 per cent of that of all Russia. The number of Ukrain ians in the United State has been put varir ously at from 500,000 to 1,00.0.000. '' - The famous black soil: of Ukraine covers three-quarters of the country. To the. north are some 110,000 square kilometres of for ests. ..The agricultural soil covers 53 per cent of the entire territory of Ukraine and is 32 per cent of that of the whole of Russia, which is. six, times larger than Ukraine itself. Before the war the annual production of cereals in Ukraine was two-thirds of Russia's whole production and was-greater than that of Germany or France. ; , The exportation of. grains from Ukraine amounted to 27 per cent of the production, and of. all the wheat ex ported from Russia nine-tenths came from Ukrainian lands. ' i 'Wheat, rye and barley are the staple crops of Russia, and of these the annual product in Ukraine amounted to one-third of Russia's output, , Beet root was especially cultivated in . the Ukrainian provinces', which yielded five-sixths of the sugar beet production of all Russia (Ukraine produced Immense quanti ties of tobacco and had large and 'fine or chards and vineyards; 62 per cent of Russia's annual production of pig iron and 58 per .cent of her steel came from,,-Ukraine. - '.The province of Kharkoff lies partly in the basin of the Don and partly in that pf the Dnieper. Sheep, cattle and horses were bred in vast numbers; thousands of horses were bred for the arnir; the -yield of wool was of especial importance.- At one of the J four great annual tairs at Kliarkott, capital of the province, a business of -from'llS.OOOr 000 to $20,000,000 was done; at another, $4,000,000 worth of, wool was., exchanged: Kharkoff was an educational Center, for the highest and middle classes.; ;-, :'; . v ' The estimated population- of the" province of iCieff in 1906 was '4,200,000, of which the jews form?d one-tenth.- The Dnieper forms part of . Kicff's eastern boundary; The sugar works .irt .the province produced 1,500,000 tpns of . sugar and more than-50,000 tons of molasses annually. The factories include iron foundries and petroleum refineries. Kieff, the ' capital city, on the west bank Of the Dnieper, wa the center for Russia', sugar industry as well as for the general trade of the region.,, , v ' . After Moscow and outside of Poland, the province of Podolia was the most densely populated in Russia. Gardening as well as agriculture occupied its people. Its cattle "were famous; it produced vast quantities of fruits and wine; bee keeping was an impor tant industry. The Poles retained Podolia until the third division of their country, in 1793, when Russia took it. The government of Poltava had an esti mated population of 3,312,400 in 1906. Sixty per cent of. the total area is arable land. The main source of Poltava's wealth' was live stock breeding. The annual .fair at Poltava, .the .-capital town, was 'of great importance to the whole woolen trade or Russia: besides at theifair, merchandise worth $12.500,000.;was exchanged for goods imported from Great Britain. TheVe were several other great fairs at which tobacco, timber, corn, tallow, salt and sheepskins were sold, bringing mil lions of dollars. Poltava exported much corn! r Volhynia contains immense forests. Nev ertheless agriculture was well developed in the south. The exports of grain and timber, chiefly to Germany and Great Britain, were large. The population of the province was 3,547,500 in 1906; 13 per cent were Jews. Many Germans had settled in the province. That part of Volhynia now embraced in eastern Galicia was not yielded to Ukraine by the peace treaty. New York World. Status of Drafted Men The United States circuit' court of appeals ha3 affirmed the judgment of the United States district court of the eastern .district o( Missouri that a man who has been ac cepted under the draft hecomes at once sub ject to the laws and, regulations governing the regular army, including the articles of war, and, consequently, cannot appeal from a court-martial sentence to any court. Pro vOst Marshal General Crowder gave public warning, after the examination of. registrants, that every person who had been accepted for military service must hold himself in readiness to respond to the .call for service or run the risk of trial for a court-martial on a charge of desertion. Since the country is at war, the extreme penalty for desertion is death. It was easy to find lawyers, however, to take the view that a man did not become subject to military law until he had taken the prescribed oath and that the only remedy the government had was to prosecute for re sisting the draft. There we're still other law yers who considered the conscription act un constitutional, at least in so far as it permit ted the use of conscripted men in . foreign service. The supreme court of the United States upheld the validity of the conscription law and, if -the question of the. status of the accepted registrant be appealed,, it will in all, human probability affirm the judgment of the court of appeals. The unanimous de claration of the American Bar association should have had more weight with lawyers inclined to(Iook for technicalities. Returns on the recent questionnaire re veal that several thousand registrants, doubt less for various reasons, failed to make re sponse. " It is not the duty of the government to keep informed as to the whereabouts of registrants. The burden is on the registrants to notify the exemption boards of changes of addresses. Under the decision these men are deserterswho may be punished by court martial. If any registrant, through ig norance, carelessness or misapprehension as to his status, has failed to report, 'it will be to his advantage to get. into touch with his exemption board at once and throw himself on the mercy of the authorities. Any con tinued attempt to evade service will be most hazardous. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. I TODAY One year Ago Today In the War. Premier Lloyd George announced the British government had decided on draatie measures to Increase home production And -curtail imports aa a result ot the German submarine war fare. - The Day Wo Celebrate. Alexander P. Thomson of Parbridge ft Thomson company born In 1850. Herbert A. Doud, cashier In the United States revenue office, born In 16.'.. '';. Mrs. Margaret - Deland, a literary genius ot New England, now en gaged in relief work In France, born at Allegheny, Pa., 1 years ago today. Jonathan Bourne, jr., former United States senator from Oregon, born at New Bedford, Mass., 6S years ago today. - - Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, U. ' 8. N who has held one of the most important sea commands since the commencement ot the- war, born In New Jersey 67 years ago today. TliU Day in History. . 17S Lorraine reverted to France an the death of Stanislaus of Poland. ISIS General Jeremy F.-Gilmer, who served as chief engineer of the confederate states army, born In Guilford county, North Carolina. Died at Savannah, December 1, 1883. 192 -Senor Estrada Palma was chosen first president of the Cuban re-public. Just SO Years Ago Today Superintendent Smith of the horse railway company has returned after an absence ot about 30 days - in Florida. A horse almost Cltsy 'cd in the mud on N street.- lie v.as dug out and a danger signal will mark the spot until dry weather. Ticket Agent F. J. Knapp 1s now keeping a bachelor's hall, his Wife having gone on a visit to friends in Michigan. The South Omaha Savings -.bank filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk. The capital stock is $100,000 and the bank will begin busi ness April 1, 1888. The first board of directors is composed of the follow ing gentlemen: C W. Thomas, J. H. Millard, Charles II. Brown, H. II. Meday and Guy C Barton. Harry Merrlam, editor of the Pythian Spur, . was marrteC to Miss Hattie Elliott at the bride's residence, Twenty-third and Pierce streets, by Rev. J.. & Detweiler ot the English Lutheran church, , Right to the Point JlinneapoHa Journal: All together for a cherry-treeless Fcbrury 22. ' r-Wall Street Journal; rRported 2, 100,000 Germ na are now on western front, looking for more or less, hon orable graves. ' ?.- '' V ? Washington Pdst: Free seeds hav ing been stricken from the agricul tural appropriation bHl in the house, it ,1. again up to the senate to save the nation."' .'' " : New Yorlt Herald:- Stripped of all nonessentials, the testimony in the trial proved that Bolo took German money,' and to France that meant death for Bolo. Who has been taking German money in this untry? Brooklyn Eagle: Beer-making from rice is .to be tried. We get closer to the standards of the older Japan as the" years go on. But thej um is coming wneu. ina mewing oi anything but trouble 'will be a state's prison offense." - -v--' ..''r. Louisville- 'Courier-Journal: - ."The fundamental ''issue was never -more clearly defined," says the PaU Mall Gasette, of Wilson's latest speech. Aye, verily, but now let us consider the Issues defined and set to work to lick the enemy. . ' Louisville Courier-Journal: It took a French court-martial about IS min utes to sentence Bolo -Pasha to be shot. There are many German spies In this country, but not one of them has been shot. Very few of them have been dealt with as severely as they would have been if they had been convicted of sle&itag chickens. Twice Told Tales. , Her Work. Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin said in a Young Women's Christian association address; Charles Schwab married on 37 a week, and Chauncey Depew on $9. I have no sympathy with the girl who makes a devoted young man wait, till he can support her as luxuriously . as her old. father does. "My. sympathy all goes out io the young ' man who said Joyotisly,- us soon as he was accepted : " Then, darling, we'll get married, at once. Of course, at first, we sha'n't be able to keep a servant.' " 'Oh, Jack, hadn't we better wait, then?' she protested. 'What would the neighbors say if they saw me do ing my own work?' . "Jack looked puzzled?' ' . ' - " 'Why, sweetheart,' he said; v whose work do you want to do?" " Wash ington Star ". ' A Sufficiency. A caboose, Dorothy, is a utiHty- car attached to the rear of a freight train. By the way, Dorothy, your, question recalls a little story. One warm sum mer day Mrs. Murphy was sweeping off her piazza when Mrs. Carr, (he en gineer's wife, came aldtag carrying her latest baby, the tenth. "Arrah, now, Mrs. Carr," cried Mrs. Murphy, "and there ye are up and around again with another little Carr." "Yes, Norah," said the engineer's wife, "another little Carr it is, and as far as I am concerned I pray the Lord it'e the caboosa." Hoaton, Transcript Round About the State Silver Creek Sand deftly gandbags would-be grafters selling a cheap "in come tax record book" for big money in that section. Much "easy money" is secured by representing the book as an official publication, which it is not- . - McCook's new "Liberty hand" is coming to the front in the' very latest up-to-the-minute stylo of- uniform. Green cloth, trimmed with black braid and gold-corded caps to match. Just the right shade to start spring melo dies on the 17th of March. . ' Gothenburg's flagon of happiness lacks three fingers of Jts fulness-r-"a city hall,, a new railway depot and gravel to fill the mudholes on Win chelf street." The Independent is optimistic about-getting them, since "we already have a-park, stock yards and a curfew bell. , 1 . Unwavering confidence lri Nebraska as a wheat producing state garnishes the cpUimBs of .the Hastings Tribune. Recent snow falls all but clinches, the promise . of . winter-. . wheat eomlng through in' good condition.-' Whereat the' Tribune' chortles: "It rtafces wheat to mike the dough and it'takeSwrheat to get the -dough.'. ; ; - ;' v .Down in Plattsmouth, wttere fash ion platers decorate the scenery, mas culine styles harrow up the, artistic soul of the Journal and provokes this maddened scream: "Why not over throw a few style-makers and restore to the American his old trousers, in which he could sit down with perfect confidence?" Who swiped the - old pacta? A? A Against the Brewery. Genoa. Neb., Feb. 19. To the Edi tor of The Bee: In our conservation of food stuffs we can see inconsistency In its rankest form, when we are striv ing to save cereals for the sustenance of our soldiers, and let the brewers cpntinue to consume millions of bushels of grain in the manufacture of booze. The breweries should be prohibited from manufacturing beer in any form. We have permitted thousands of homes to suffer from cold on account of fuel shortage, while the German brewers smiled and consumed thousands of tons of coal in the manufacture of booze which does no man a particle of good. Nothing could be more consistently done than for President Wilson to take a hand in this question of national prohibi tion : especially for the duration of this war. V. A.,BRADSHAW. "AH is Not Gold That Glitters." Long Beach, Cal., Feb. 17. To the Editor of The Bee: Allow this to be widely known through your columns, that to the interest of the traveling public, and tourist who visit the so called sun kissed California, that not all fs gold that shines, and to them that might become so infatuated with the climate to want to locate some where in this sunny southwest. To such let this be a wor!. of advice. As at the present time, though the real estate and builders are 'putting up houses, three to five and six rooms, which they sell at exorbitant price, while the construction is of the cheapest quality, and as they refer to the tourist as their ready sucker always ready to bite at anything. So let this be to any one's timely warn ing to let the real estate agent and the builder as well be the would-be sucker, as they class this as the most up-to-date bungalows. Let after one year's use they will scarcely bring one-half the present sale price And again as quite a few boats are being built at the ship yards. They will try to, make it appear that labor is In ,great demand when their object is to sell their bungalows, while at present there are many more applicants than jobs, and as the present Indications are that as this southern part of Cali fornia has had to say no rains and the time for them have about passed. To date there has been Just one-half inch of rain, and all ranches are at a big loss, therefore living is bound to be very high before another winter is here. Hence this southwest country would be a great disappointment for any one to come either to work or live in. As before said, some little cheap building is going on at Sarf Pedro. Wilmington and Long Beach, which is by the real estate and builders con cerns. These are facts and to any one that goes to those places to live or buy, get a suitable lot-and engage some reliable builder to construct your home as you would most desire it to be, is the honest advice of one who knows. O. C. SULLER. For a Leaguo of Nations. Shelbyville;. Tenn., Feb. 19. To the Editor of The Bee: There can be no lasting peace among the nations of the world until the strong nations in this war form a compact as one na tion to stop all future wars among nations and also to command peace among nations, and these strong na tions to appoint representatives to a peace tribunal where all differences will be settled by arbitration and be final, and this peace tribunal to be housed in a building somewhere in continental Europe and would by the great nations who will control, and I would suggest the United States to represent the western continent (ex cept Canada), England to represent her colonies also France, and Italy, and Japan to represent the Orient, and Russia to be admitted when a strong government is formed, Ger many and Austria-Hungary to repre sent the central powers and Turkey and all these nations to represent the balance of the world. H. N. JEWETT. DOWN THE LANE. Clinton Scollard In Juape. Down the lane, aa I went humming, hum ming. Who should I see coming Buy May Marjory! ''What was that I heard you humming, humming, As you saw me coming? Prithee, tell!" Bald she. "Oh," I smiled, "1 was Just humming, humming-, As I saw you- coming Where boughs met above And the crickets kept on thrumming, thrum ming. As 1 saw you coming Something about love! Ah, her blush It was becoming coming. As I kept on humming While we walked along. And the crickets still were strumming, strumming, As I kept on humming That low strain of song. Dropped her eyes as i continued humming; Ah, 'twas jro becoming To May Marjory! Then she raised them, and my heart went thrumming. Though I kept on humming; "You're a dear!" said she. - MIBTHIXL REMAKES. "I don't think thia boy will do for a meV senger." "Why not?" "We need an older boy." "Send him out on a trial message. He'll bo older when ho gets back." LoulsvlUa Courier-Journal. Mrs. Bacon So your daughter made btt debut as a singer last night? Mrs. Egbert Yes. she did. "And was she successful?" "Oh, my, yes! She got six bouquets!' -j Yonkers Statesman. "Average Juries reminds me of self corklng revolver." , ; "In what way?" "They go off as soon as they're charged, but nobody knows where they're going t hlt."Ealtimor American. "Is your furnace controlled by a thermo stat, madam?" - "Well, we have a man come In to looK after it, but I don't think he's orte of thosa Greeks you mentioned because his skin la black." Biooklyn Citizen. , , Hubbubs What is your idea of the nlos: dsco:tive thins In llfo? u SuMubs '.V ill. just cf-hni)d. I . should, ray a five-minutes' walk Iroin tiie station. f Judge. ' yj: "Tommy, you shouldn't road those hor rible stories. They will make your hair stand on end." ." "Aw, hair won't stand on end. I. triad. I& with some of sister's on the bureau (he other dav." 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