fHE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. .APRIL 10. 1918.
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'; The slate-makers will now start to get busy
gain.
Private Peat does not approve of the kaiser;
:liat much is plain.
At any rate, most of the rotten eggs were
brushed into the political rubbish heap.
The Hun time table was all right on paper,
jut it fell a little short of working when put into
iction.
A consoling thought is that the race was to
'lie swiftest, though noj necessarily to the
nost deserving.
It is also time to plan for your Arbor day
bservance. Do not let the tree planting lag oh
ccount of the war. , , . ; '
Nebraska has just achieved the incredible
legislative session without a corporation lobby
-but it is not likely to happen soon again.
Getting the riew army under way is much less
af -a job than assembling it was a year ago.
vVe have learned something by experience.
The Irisn convention's report, you know, is
before the Home of Commons in London, and
has not yet been submitted at Washington.
. Trance has cut the bread ration to two-thirds
the former amount. This simply means that each
of us must save even more tba ve have, for we
can not let the Trench go. hungry.
i Baltimore" nerves arc st little jumpy, but as
long as nothing worse than the explosion of slag
happens at Sparrow ' Point, the citizens may
keep their ...eyct on Fort McHenry and rest easy.
K The sixty-one "also rans," consumed with a
brrr.ing desire to help make.Qmaha a better place
tj live in. .will now resume their civic inactivity
-j-:uitil the ncxt',chance to connect with the pay
roll. " .yv '': -'A-- , !" -
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t An eight-hour day for department stores' is
.ap, innovation in Omaha business methods, but
i is a sign that big retail dealers are getting into
lihe with the times. The Bee ventures the pre
diction that the move will be a popular one
bufore the summer is over.- s' " !
WORK OF THE SPECIAL SESSION.
The Bee compliments the legislature on hav
ing concluded the special session with the en
actment of measures on all of the subjects be
fore it, and, in all but one or two of them,
strengthening or improving the proposals en
dorsed by the governor.
The legislature rejected the governor's sedi
tion bill and substituted for it ..another, making
its definitions sharper and more inclusive and
leaving out the fool clause limiting the crime
of sedition to the continuance of the present war.
The legislature also rejected the governor's
suggestion for a saving clause for present alien
enemy voters in the constitutional amendment
abolishing first-paper suffrage in Nebraska. This
was the real test of pure patriotism that draws
the line between unconditional loyalty to Amer
ica first and a divided allegiance to the German
kaiser. Striking out the "proviso" is a slap in
the face of the scaly democratic politicians pull
ing the strings on Governor Neville to preserve
the alien enemy right to vote in the 1920 presi
dential election.
The soldiers' voting law is probably as good
as could be improvised under pressure, though
how far it will prove workable is yet to be dem
onstrated. The potasli bill is still in questionable shape,
but puts it up to the state board to say whether
the state liouse pay roll gang shall keep its hooks
on the potash property belonging to our school
endowment through the stealthily gotten leases
which the supreme court knocked out.
The amazing thing is that patriotic measures
necessary to stamp out disloyalty in Nebraska
and help win the war should meet with opposi
tion even to the extent manifested in the extra
session.
Liberty Loan for the People.
Secretary McAdoo hits a bull's-eye when he
says that 20,000,000 Americans are expected to
subscribe for the Liberty bonds. This is not too
much to expect under the circumstances. As with
the first and second issues, every effort has been
made to place the bonds on a popular basis. The
reason is that the money is to be used for the
people, and it ought to come from the people.
Little doubt exists that a great combination of
financial interests could be formed, and the en
tire sum be floated among the 'group or under its
supervision. While this would result in securing
for the government the cash it requires, it would
defeat the sentiment involved, that of enlisting
the individual citizens in the undertaking. In
both the former issues the smaller subscriptions
have been filled first; in the present instance this
rule will be followed. If it were possible to sell
the entire lot in denominations of $50, the effect
would be that much the better. Large subscrip
tions will be made, and none' will be refused, for
the loan is to include all oversubscriptions as
well as the $3,000,000,000 set for the minimum
amount. This gives everybody a chance, and
the best news that can be sent abroad in connec
tion with the bonds wilj be the announcement
that many millions of Americans have crowded
to loan their money to their government. Let
this be the people's war- in every respect.
Crowning Glory of Amiens
Cathedral Twin of Rheims in Beauty and Danger
James Walter Smith in Boston Transcript.
death of Christ in greater detail and more
, "Boss" Murphy Censor. Democracy.
Big Chief Murphy of triumphant and militant
Tummany walked out of the dining room In which
t8e Young Men's Democratic league of New
York was holding its spread. The mighty man
of the unterrified was righteously indignant, for
the committee planned the table to have him
seated alongside Senator Robert L. Owen of
Oklahoma. Never in a million years would Mur
ray sit beside Owen, because the latter had villi
ficd Tammany. Assured that the senator would
not be present, the boss was not mollified, but in
formed the would-be hcts that they had more
than ever offended by presuming to invite a sen
ator from Oklahoma, even if he be a democrat,
to sit at the table with Mr. Murphy of Tammany
hall, All of which recalls that Mr. Murphy with
drew from the Denver convention with more or
less of objurgatory comment on proceedings,
there had in the name of democracy, and that
later on, at Baltimore, the same Murphy was
evicted at; the behest of the peerless commoner.
These episodes in the life of the head center of
rejuvenated Tammany, restored to power by fa
vor of the present? administration, may or may not
mean anything in conjunction, or even separately.
They do indicate, however, that Mr. Murphy doe
not forget and thatffor the present his mood is
not excessively magnanimous. An echo of the
incident may be heard in future democratic con
claves. It is interesting to note, however, that
Mr. Murphy's catalogue of outcasts from his
party is extending. j
"The Dollar of Our Daddies."
Melting 250,000,000 silver dollars now held
in the vaults of the. treasury, the bullion to be
exported, is proposed as' a measure to relieve a
credit condition that is- becoming acute. Demand
for silver abroad has been increased by the war
to such extent that the measure proposed will
begone of actual profit to the United States. It
will revive memories of forty years" ago, when
the Bland-Allison act was new, when "the i dol
lar of our daddies" was the idol of the plain
people, and the "shinplaster" currency of civil
war days was going into the discard before the
return of specie payments. Some thought of
the greenback craze, with the fiat money de
mands of the enthusiastic champions of the print
ing press as a basis of government credit, may
be brought back, also.
And a little further along we will come to
"Coin's School of Finance," and Mr. Bryan's
"cross of gold," with all the talk about seignorage
and Gresham's law, and the various other form
ulas of '96.NThe only fact will be that the gov
ernment has held on to a big stock of jsilver dur
ing the days of its depreciation, most of it pur
chased at an artificial price, and on' which a
tremendous actual loss 'was always apparent.
This has been possible because of the adoption
of the single gold standard, and the readiness
of the treasury to back its issues with gold. Now,
an unexpected turn in the affairs of the world
has brought about an opportunity for the treas
ury to dispose of a 1 considerable quanitity of
this silver at a rate that will put the country out
whole on its purchase. Any possible diminution
of the circulating medium will be met by other
issues, and "the dollar of our daddies" will go to
join other things of the dear old days that are
receding faster even than the flight of time.
Our bolsheviki friends object to the landing
of Japanese soldiers to protect property at
Vladivostok. When the proletariat starts out to
tear up things it simply can not abide any form
of interference, but here is one place where it
will encounter a considerable snag in the form of
well organized government.
Amiens, ancient capital of Picardy, now
the capital of the 'department of the Somme
and the present bulwark of freedom against
the Hun, has been called the "little Venice
of France." The name was given to it, not
because it looks like Venice architecturally
for it doesn't in the least but because the
River Somme, at this "point in its course, re
ceives the waters of the Avre and the Celle,
and breaks up into 11 little "canals." It is
these canals which make the visitor think of
Venice. For the rest, Amiens is generally
like otner catnearai cities ot France. It has
its straight and crooked streets, its cafes and
Hotel de Vine, its art museums and libra
ries, its statues and its slums. Its 90,000
people, in peace times, are just like other
people in the north of France. Except for
its thriving industries and its importance as a
railroad junction, it has little attraction for
a business man. Except for its cathedral, it
rarely draws attention from the tourist. It is
a place which' thousands of travelers go
through yearly by train and never stop to
see. What most of them do is to hurry
tnrougn irom Calais or couiogue to rans,
hunt for the cathedral from the coupe win
dow, and then say they've been to Amiens.
This is as it was before the war. Now
that the German emperor is throwing his
legions against the old city of Clovis, and
Caesar's before that time Amiens is in the
world's eye. Its dead past becomes revivi
fied in its historic present. Its nearness to
Paris the distance is only 81 miles by train
again compels the fear that, if the present
uerman objective is reached, Paris is again
in danger. Its position on the main route
from the capital to the channel coast and
Calais makes it of enormous importance to
the allied armies. And the fact that the su
per-Hun, although temporarily checked in
his advance, is nevertheless but 10 miles
away suggests that the city which gave birth
to Peter the Hermit may vet add a lustrous
chapter to its history.
1 he question in every mind at the mo
ment is, Will Amiens hold? Will it again
fall captive to the German armies as it did
under Von Goeben in 1870? And, last but
not least, will the Church of Our Lady at
Amiens become, as did the noble cathedral
at Rheims, a monument to vandalism? God
grant that this letter catastrophe may not
happen, that Amiens may triumph over at
tack and that the lustrous chapter in its his
tory may indeed be penned.
I he glory of Amiens is its cathedral
which is also one of the glories of the world.
It is not the first cathedral built in France
since Paris and Chartres and Rheims ore-
date it-rnor is it the largest in the world
since the Cologne Cathedral and St. Peter's
at Rome are larger but it is, in the opinion
of most experts, the crowning glory of
Gothic art. During the centuries since it
was built, art lovers have raved over its ex
quisite' detail, its majestic proportions, Viol-
let-la-Ducj called it the "Parthenon of Gothic
architecture," a nam that has since been
quoted in, nearly every treatise ' on the
splendid pile. Arthur Symons called it "the
greatest liouse made with hands;" Peter said
it was full of excitement. And when Ruskin
began his record of "What Our Fathers Have
Told Us," it was with, Amiens cathedral that
he began his story, 'r
One of the best general descriptions of
this! wonderful structure is that of Arthur
Symons, to be found in his "Studies in the
Seven Arts." "Within and without," he says,
"it is like a precious casket, adorned for some
priceless jewel. Every part has.the finish of
a tnmature, and there is something actually
dainty in this vast church, in which a singular
precision in its proportions never becomes a
mechanical regularity is never cold, but re
tains always the heat of that first excitement
out of which it was first created. The
facade is set up against the sky like a great
frontispiece of images to a printed book
the book which Ruskin has called the, 'Bible
of Amiens.' It is an immense stone page, as
if engraved on the sky, and it is at once
severe and sumptuous. It is alive with rich
ornament, full of grandeur, and with a kind
of heavy sweetness in its almost tropical
stone vegetation. . The front, too, has
daintiness, in its exuberance of vitality,
tempered to a pattern, and yet seeming as
spontaneous as a caprice. Inside the
whole church gives itself to you from every
point, open to the eye as it is open to the
light. There is an immense cheerfulness in
this daylight church, itself so warm with
light, the white stone as if just a little
browned by he sun."
The cathedral, which is very easy of ac
cess from the railway station, was started in
1220 by Robert de Luzarches, and took fid
years to build. In times not far distant it
was surrounded by low-lying houses, but
most of these have been demolished in order
to decrease the danger of destruction by fire,
and to supply visitors with a better view of
its proportions. Notwithstanding these im
provements, however, it is still difficult to
grasp its size and significance from a nearby
standpoint. Visitors who have the time to
spare usually walk out a mile or two into
the flat plains of the Somme country to se
cure the most satisfactory view.
Lovers of Ruskin will recall the enthu
siasm with which the famous old critic wrote
of Amiens and its remarkable church. He
paid several visits to the city in days when
the trip from England was much longer and
more tedious than it is today and used to
meet little parties of tourist friends at the
station, in order to guide them to the
cathedral place and to point out the beauties
of his beloved church. On the way it was
his custopi to treat his friends with maca
roons and other comestibles for which
Ainiens is famous, and always insisted that
the party should give a few coppes to the
beggars at the doors. Ruskin and his old
gray clothes, by the way, were known, it is
said, by every beggar in the city. As for the
church, it was the chief delight of the old
critic to point out how, in the sculpture of
the cathedral, the whole story of the Bible
was set forth, from the days of Adam to the
exquisitely than in any other church in the
world. He would spend hours with his
friends explaining these sculptures and then,
after exhausting his own powers of descrip
tion, would bid his listeners come back to
have another look at the church under the
evening sky I
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No one writing about the Amiens of the
immediate past ought to forget that Jules
Verne was an illustrious resident of the now
threatened city. It would have been a delight,
and at the same time a grief to this man, the
romancer of the submarine, the imaginative
chronicler of the airship, to have lived to be
a witness of the triumphs and misdeeds of
both. But that, in passing. What may now
be said is that the history of Amiens, in
which Verne always took a lively interest,
dates back to Caesar's day. Nevertheless,
the specific historic events with which the
city is associated are comparatively few in
number. It passed through many changes in
the Burgundian days. It was in the posses
sion of the Counts of Flanders, it was taken
by stratagem by the Spanish in 1595, the
story going that "A party of soldiers, dis
guised as peasants, were sent to the city by
the Spanish governor of Doultens with a
cartload of apples and walnuts. As soon as
the gates were opened the nuts and apples
were allowed to fall from the sack, and while
the citizens then on guard were eagerly
gathering them up, the disguised Spaniards
made good their entry, and being quickly
followed by the other troops, which had
been placed in ambuscade, soon made them
selves masters of the city."
To End a World Disgrace
New York Evening Post.
In a recent address on the work of the
medical service of the English army, the
speaker declared that the chief "aim of the
war was to remove "the disgrace to civiliza
tion." That disgrace he at once explained
as "the waste of labor and the waste of life
involved in nations maintaining great armies
for the purpose of destroying each other."
Who was this namby-pamby pacifist, this
man without red blood, this visionary living
in Utopia? Well, it happens to have been
none other than General Sir William Rob
ertson, till lately chief of staff of the British
army. A stout soldier, working his way to
the highest rank from humble beginnings, no
temptation to magnify his office, or to glor
ify his profession, blinds him to the mon
strous anomaly of militarism in the modern
world. In this respect, Sir William may be
classed with that American officer, a valued
member of our general staff, who said some
time ago to our Washington correspondent
that the American people ought to under
stand that they are fighting this war in order
to prevent universal military service from
being made compulsory in this country.
If doubts remained in any mind about the
nature of thtweal foe with whom we have
come to grips, they must have been removed
by the events of the past few weeks. The
kaiser and his armv chiefs and his subserv
ient civilian officials have at least given us
the complete definition of militarism. We
see it now as it is. Looking at its full dis
play, we all instinctively cry, "Voila l'enne
mi!" For it is militarism gone mad, and
bringing forth its perfect work. At the head
of the whole system is the megalomaniac
kaiser waving the sword in which alone he
bids the German people trust. Everything is
subordinated to the army. It is not only
that the moderate men like Prof. Delbruck
and Dr. Dernburg are silenced; not only that
the Reichstag is made no better than a dumb
dog, and the socialists are drugged with
promises of national booty. The whole na
tion is now at the mercy of the militarist
caste. Foreign secretaries, chancellors, dip
lomatists, representatives of the people, the
press all are pushed into the background.
Every national policy, whether domestic' or
foreign, is decided upon by the supreme com
mand of the army. The whole is a spectacle
of military absolutism.
And let no one think that the military
autocrats of Germany have the slightest no
tion of relaxing their power or changing their
system. Their thought is of nothing but
making it stronger and more tyrannical in
preparation for the next war. This is, per
haps, the most striking thing in the book of
Baron Freytag-Loringhoven, written for the
German, general staff on the lessons of the
war. He contemplates for the future nothing
but a piling higher of armaments, a greater
diversion of the empire's wealth and man
power to the purposes of war, a strengthen
ing of the aristocratic prestige of officers
no democratic nonsense to be tolerated in the
army and a larger and larger absorption of
the nation's energies by war. That is what
we come to when the militarist poison gets
into the veins of a whole people. From
earliest youth to old age the national thought
and effort are to be given increasingly to the
work of preparing to kill and be killed. This
is what General Robertson had in mind when
he said that free peoples were uniting in this
war in order to make an end of the disgrace
to civilization.
The final issue now fronts us concrete
and grim. Overweening trust in the sword
must be met and cast to the earth, so broken
that it can never rise again. Until the Ger
man government and the German people re
cover their reason, they must be dealt with
as beings whom an excess of militarism has
made mad. In the stern' business on hand
we have to put many things aside. We have
to adjourn cherished hopes. Temporarily we
give up privileges and bow our shoulders un
der sacrifices the spiritual ones hardest of
all to bear. But we do not lose sight of the
end which will crown all. It is to free the
world forever from the hideous nightmare
of militarism, and to insure to our children
liberty to work out unafraid their thoughts
and dreams in the lives of the men and
women of their generation.
r mJPmJ Kk Ik
n Year Ago Today in the War.
More than 150 Uvea loot in th
Sddystone munition explosion.
liritleh continued their offensive In
the region of Arras, capturing 10,000
prlRoneie, 100 guns and much other
war material.
TJie Day We Celebrate.
Max Sommer, grocer, born 1884.
Rear Admiral iYederick R. Harris,
chief of Navy'a Bureau of Yards and
Docks, born In New York, 43 years
ago.
Henry P. Fletcher, United States
ambassador to Mexico, born at Green
Catle, . Fa., 45 years ago.
Dr. Lansing Burrows, leader of the
southern Baptists, born in Phila
delphia, TS yean ago.
Eugen X' Albert, pianist and com
poser, born In Glasgow, 14 years ago.
Thin Day tn History. , -.
1780 jfolonel George Armistead,
who kept the flag flying at Fort Mc
Henry. which suggested "The Star
Kpanfrled Banner," born at. New Mar
; ket. Va. Died In Baltimore, April 25,
1118.
1827 General Lew Wallace, sol
dier, diplomatist, and author of "Ben
llur." born at Brookville. Ind. Died
st Crawfordsville, Ind., February 16,
t95. ......... i.
11865 General Sherman began his
tdvance through North Carolina ia
to-operation with General Grant -
1878 Brigham. Young resigned hla
temporal power over the Mormons.
Just SO Years Ago Today
A proposition for the paving of a
road from this city to Florence and
Forest Lawn cemetery will be laid be
fore the council and county commis
eloners at an early date. V. C. Lav
erty, H. C. Clark and other residents
of Florence propose to have a street
80 feet through their city and the
cemetery association will pave the
main drives and approaches.
The bank of dirt at Seventeenth
and Harney streets, which has been
Just rady to fall for some time past,
came down, burying the sidewalk to
the depth of four or live feet.
Of the 241 satoons in this city 223
have paid the required $750 license.
The annual election of officers of
the Omaha Gun club was held at the
sporting goods houne of John J.
Hardin. 1 W. H. S. Hughes waa re
elected president by acclamation; Dr.
H. Worley, vice president; John
Field, secretary, and O. Brucker.
treasure
"Over There and Here"
Dr. IT. D. Clapham, British medical
officer, asked the Board of Ouurdlans
of Ilutchln. England, that his annual
stipend ot 50 be reduced to 20 be
cause he had fewer cases to attend.
That is a sample ot the Bpirit abroad
in Britain.
Agents of the Department of Jus
tice have a merry time rounding up
1,000 or more draft slackers In Mln.
neapolis. Arrangement have been
made to erect a compound trimmed
with barb wire for the accomodation
of men who failed to register.
One of the draft boards of Chicago
turned down the exemption claims of
Joseph Sexton, known as the "Castor
Oil King," and gave him 10 days to
report for military duty. The board
reasoned that while his industry
might suffer from absence the good
he may do in administering his cele
brated treatment to the votaries of
kultur warrants the sacrifice.
Gertrude A. M. Tlgnol. teacher of
German In the manual training high
school of Greater New York, has been
suspended by the board of superin
tendent, pending trial on charges of
un-American - sentiments. Replying
to a series of questions asked by the
board, Miss Pignol said she did not be
lieve in war, that it was not necessary
for the United States to go to war,
that she would not help the third Lib
erty loan, and that "the government
of the United Slates is not a demo
cratic and representative govern
ment" The only thing that pleased
her is Uncle Sam's money and she was
"Gertrude-on-the-spot" for that
Pointed Paragraphs
Minneapolis Journal: The loyalty
of the strawberry shortcake has never
been impeached.
Washington Post: Sending German
spies and plotters to prison will be
rerardad as cruel and unusual pun-
fishment by the other inmates who
have to associate with them.
Baltimore American: In view of
the fact that the Five Civilised Tribes
have received 142,000,000 in a year,
the address of the redskins must be
altered to Lo, the rich Indian.
Brooklyn Eagle: "This war ! a
fight for world dominations," admits
Chamberlain von Oldenburg. He
doesn't need to tell us that now. We
have at last got it through our thick
heads.
New York Herald: The historic
Chinese puzzle has been supplanted
by the Ukraine puzzle, and the his
toric Shanghai Liar has had to sur
render his laurels to the artists of the
bolsheviki.
)iouisAille Courier-Journal: It
seems that the householder who has
a barrel of flour in his pantry may be
fined $5,000 and imprisoned for two
years. At least the criminal rich are
getting the ax.
New York World: Sergeant Major
Charles P. Tuft son of former Presi
dent William II. Taft who has been
for some time at the front." has been
recommended for promotion to a com
missioned officer. Like thousands of
other boys who are not president's
sons, he showed his fighting spirit by
starting in the ranks, and his rise on
merit is all the more creditable.
Twice Told Tales
Couldn't Corner Him.
An Irishman, passing a shop where
a notice was displayed 6aying that
everything was sold by the yard,
thought he would play a joke on the
shopman, so he entered the shop and
asked for a yard of, milk. The shop
man, not In the least taken aback,
dipped his fingers in a bowl of milk
an drew a line a yard long on the
counter. Pat, not wishing to be
caught in his own trap, asked the
price.
"Sixpence." said the shopman.
"All right, sorr," said Pat. "Roll it
up; I'll take it!" London Tit-Bits.
Mistaken Identity.
Trof. William Howard Taft was in
New York recently, and In the course
of hla short stay took an automobile
ride along Riverside Drive. At Nine
teenth street a young woman five
years old saw the big touring car
coming swiftly down the drive. After
one long look at the big person in the
rear seat she Jerked the nurse's apron
and screamed with delight.
"Alice! Alice!" asked the nurse, ex
citedly, "what is it?"
"Fatty Arbuckle's growd a mus
tache Just like papa's!" Argonaut
Frosting Hot Air.
"I would go through fire for you.
I yearn for the chance."
"In that case," she said, "I would
suggest that you select some occa
sion when you are not wearing a cel
luloid collar." Louisville Courler-JournaV
Wasting Time Studying Crerman.
Omaha, April 7. To the Editor of
The Bee: After a demonstration like
that of Saturday afternoon and the
great address of Dr. Violette in the
evening no real American but can
feel proud of his Omaha citizenship
and of the display of patriotism. To
look and hear the demonstration no
one would imagine that many things
were being done right in our midst
to perpetuate the German influence
which so many of us have come to
loathe. The writer is the father of one
of the boys in khaki and only a
father in like situation knows the
feeling of pride, but the longing to
look into his face again and how
we are ready to strike at anything
that savors of Hunlsm, and this leads
to the point I wish to make.
We also had a daughter In ti;e
high school who began the study of
German before their heillshness was
revealed. Now in order to receive any
credit for her work she must con
tinue this study until next February.
One of the "readers" brought home
for study during the last two months
contained one full page engraving of
Kaiser William, another one entitled
"The Five Great Germans." Von
Moltke, Bismarck. William I., Fred
erick and the present demon. One ar
ticle was "The Watch on the Rhine,"
another "The German Fatherland,"
"The Campaign in 1871" and so on.
Now, what we want to ask is this:
What are the members of the school
board thinking about? Do they know?
Do they care? Are they Americans?
Are they asleep? Something is wrong
surely. Had I my way I'd say to every
student in German, "we will give you
credit now, drop the study, burn the
books, and forget you ever heard
of it."
I would like to hear from other
parents and also some explanation for
the school board. CITIZEN.
Segregation Not an Issue.
Omaha, April 9. To the Editor of
The Bee: A recent contributor to The
Bee's Letter Box inquires whether
any of the aspirants for city com
missionership would if elected, favor
segregation. This citizen is a fair
specimen of a latter-day Rip Van
Wrinkle. It has been six months or
more since the United States supreme
court knocked hades out of segrega
tion, and obliterated the hope of
every cracker that had pinned his
faith to it.
I would suggest, however, as a
pointer, for this gentleman, that he
might find that some, if not all, of
the present commissioners would be
Inclined to go any length to win his
patronage. In justification of this
opinion I need simply commend to
him a brief review of their conduct
in dealing with that infamous cari
cature and libel upon American his
tory, yclept "The Birth of a Nation."
CYRUS D. BELL.
New Way of Voting Proposed.
Omaha, April 8. To the .Editor of
The Bee: It is quite possible with 74
candidates that the 14 highest will re
ceive the Votes of less than 8 ner rnf
of the citizens voting. Then at the
final election the malnrirv will n.
joy the exquisite pleasure of seleoting
mo seven iney 11K9 tne least of the
14 candidates of an insignificant mi
nority. The kaiser believes in exactly
that kind of democracy.
Sixteen countries enlnv n. avatam nt
voting for councils and similar bodies
wnicn aoes away with the necessity
for primaries, gives every citizen an
effective vote and produces a body
where every interest in the city is
fairly represented. The British Parlia
ment has recently declared in favor
of electing 100 members by this
method. It alone can be called really
democratic.
Ashtabula, O., was the first Amer
ican city to adopt it, two others have
copied it and many charter commis
sions are considering it.
It is to be hoped that the charter
commission to be elected will provide
a good workable initiative and refer
endum amendment clause to the
charter, so that when a majority of
Omaha citizens are sufficiently dis
satisfied with the undemocratio and
illogical method of electing the com
missioners, they may consider and
apply what is known as the single
transferable vote system of propor
tional representation.
WALTER J. MILLARD.
t LIVELY AND LIGHT.
"Th government! do not mm to b in-ulng-
those groan and bluo nd whit book
they used to bo io fond of getting out"
"No; tho governments do not tn to b
In one enother' good booko jut now."
Baltimore American.
Cuitomer And you guarantee that thli
parrot talks a lot.
Dealer Talke? Why. hie la.t mlatren
old hlrn because ih couldn't get a word
In .edgewayi. Boeton Transcript.
Mrs. Bacon Don't you think Emily sings
With a good deal of feeling?
Mr. Baoon Ym; but I hope aha don't
feel as bad aa It sounds. Tonkera Statesman.
Round About the State
South Sioux. Neb.. Duts Rev. J. I
Phillips on guard as mayor. Woe b
tide the bootlegger who attempts ti
cross the bridge with hot stuff.
Wakefielders are wide awake ant
ready for a mixup with the electri!
light people should they attempt tl
put over a rate raise. The first movi
in that direction will start something
A total of 141,950 automobil
licenses have been issued by the sLatl
during the past three months. Thi
is a ratio of one licensed car to ever)
nine persons, which indicates that Ne
braskans possesses a fine collection o
wheels and are going some.
Boldly and fearlessly, with an ail
of "don't-care-who-knows-it," Otoi
county announces that it has goru
over the top with every war drive u
to date and is ready to chew up mori
Just like Otoe doing the right thim
in the right way is a fixed habit ther
Once more the Grand Island Inde
pendent emphasizes the objection d
farmers to the frequently-discussei
plans of sending city boys to the coun
try as emergency helpers. Accordinl
to the Hall county authority, farmes
"do not take any more kindly to i
city business office directing the!
work than the captain of industry a
the roll top desk in the city takes ft
Farmer Jones coming in and tellini
him to increase the wages of the fao
tory hands." i
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