1 13 f. THE BEE i OMAHA, ' SATURDAY, NOVEMBER - 16, 1918. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE W ATM , VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TBI BEK PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Anoewud frm, of wtiictt TM Km ii a nutter, u ucltnim, attlttot klMwl piblleMloa f til am titptusbw (raUtail H k tot otbenrtM credited la thli ppr, ul tl tlx lael im published tenia. All rtfhu ol pubiitttlea at rat (PMlal iltnalahi ar tl imniit OFFICES! Clieaao Pwjilrt Ou BnUdlna. Omit-Th Be Bid. Jfi York S8 Fifth An. South Omih 318 N Bt V Unl New B'k of ttoumwca. Council Ulufft-U N. Mill Bt ffuhlBfUn Ull O 8C Lincoln Lltti Bulldln. OCTOBER CIRCULATION Daily 68,570 Sunday 60,405 Attn etrculttloa for tht moath tutMrilNd tad iwoia U ft B. Bacan, CtMulaUon Mill. stlbatrlbara iMvtm th. city ih.uH fcv Tb. Bw IW la th.ra. Addrasa changed aa often aa raquaated. "7 THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG iliiliillllllilllllillll . Mil IMIIIIIIIIIIIIII'lllllllllllll pwif Hunger will tame even an anarchist Hungry women and children never call to Uncle Sam in vain. ' ' , What about that edict closing the soft drink places till the war-end came? " ' 11 Readjustment of the shipbuilding program is all right if it does not contemplate an aban donment of the industry. Those candidates' expense accounts, modest if they are, mtist represent more or less of heartfelt interest for the losers. Report has it that the crown prince "cried like a baby" while he signed his renunciation. Not like a Belgian baby, however. Pancho Villa is reported sick and likely to die in bed. And this is the man we were going to get at all costs a few months ago, Germany atood firm for a strong peace, and will get one strong enough to hold its most en trgetic warrior for a long, long time; s. ' : v. Timid persons who make complaint of last Monday! racket may be reassured. They will very likely never witness another like it One of the potent factors in the slump in cotton prices has been the refusal of consumers to buy at the extortionate figures quoted. The Nebraska grain belt, which includes the state as a whole, hat just had another good wetting down, increasing the promise for next year. Censorship has been removed from all wires. Does that mean that we are to say farewell to Creel, or does it open a wider opportunity for ;iis genius for fiction? v , INTfjA NEW WORLD. "Old Europe is dead and a. new world is slowly emerging," said 'General Jan Christian Smuts. This hard-headed Boer warrior has passed through such vicissitudes of military and political fortune as entitle his words to careful attention. That he voices a common thought is clear, but that he can give it added importance by an impressive warning is also to advantage to those who are willing to listen to wisdom born of experience. "There is danger of things going too far," he adds, "and giving Europe a setback from which she will not recover for generations." The danger that threatens Europe in this re spect it not confined to that continent. Relief from restraint of centuries is followed there by inch disorder as discourages the onlooker, but the hope it felt that soon the urgent- necessities of the situation will bring people to a realiza tion of their situation and a better understand ing of real responsibility. As the ferment works It it spreading generally, and while its ,effv . may not be so strongly, felt in the self-governing lands of the earth, the disturbance cannot be altogether avoided. .The beauty of the new world is likely to be' marred unless all classes join in one great effort to make ppssible the full fruition of the victory, The war was not fought to establish privilege for any, but to secure justice to all. Only when this is completely realized carl the world go ahead, and progress means only greater effort just ended is but preliminary to the greater one ahead, and progress" means only greater effort for us all.' Let Up on War Taxet. Secretary McAdoo has addressed to Senator Simmons, chairman of the senate's finance com mittee, a communication setting out what he conceives to be needs to be provided for by tax ation. The secretary suggests that the bill in tended to produce eight billions in revenue be cut to six, as the war program reasonably can be reduced from $24,000,000,000 to $18,000,000, 000. Careful observers are inclined to the opin ion that expenditures may be reduced even more than outlined by the secretary with no danger to our future plans. With hostilities definitely suspended, the most important item of military x expense is automatically removed. Termina tion of government contracts will dispose of others. This work already is progressing. In the month of our greatest endeavor in connec tion with the war the total expenditure was but a little more than $1,800,000,000, or well below the two-billion monthly charge anticipated. As only a little more than four months of the cur tent fiscal year had passed and in none of them did the expenditures reach the estimate, it is quite possible that the bills may be brought down to a point well below that accepted by Mr. McAdoo as the maximum requirement. Heavy taxes and aonther big loan are to be ex pected, but the people are entitled to have the pressure made as light as safety will admit. The weary drag of routine duty is now ahead )f our soldiers, and you can make it lighter for them by helping the war work drive. Give to the soldier boys as liberally now as if the fight-' ing were still going on. Generosity and magnanimity are becoming, but it is just T bit of fate's irony that supplies for the relief of Germany cannot-enter that "ovntry without crossing one that felt the op pression of the Hun at its heaviest. Secretary Daniels asks only $600,000,000 to carry on his peace program for the navy next rear, and he likely will get the most of it. What really interests us is to recall at thia time the txtreme opposition of the democrats eight years igo to the expenditure of any money on navy. Democratic politicians are going to make a fight for control of the senate by undertaking to overturn the senatorial vots in Michigan. Thia it strictly in accord with their doctrine of state's rights and letting he people rule. When mra atate votes tontrary to their views its choice must be questioned. A defunct" explosives concern paid over a million dollars on an agreement to pay $4,000,000 to an agent for securing contracts with the French government. The receivers ask that the amount bt returned, and tht process may open up some detailt of interest to the public. The profiteer is now coming in for a little delayed ittantion. The democratic Brooklyn Eagle demands that' republicans choose an eastern man to be speaker of the next house because "the interests of the east, the wealthiest states of the union, need protection more than any other section in tht exercise of the taxing power." The good , old Eagle, in its traditional bourbonism, ortr V looks the fact that the republican victory was largely secured at a rebuke to sectionalism. The next house will stand for America and not for any favored region. Willliam Must Be Tried The conduct of William Hohenzollern, after his abdication as king of Prussia and German kaiser, was surprising even to his worst en emies. He said, "It may be for the good of Germany." But his actions showed that hit sole concern wat to save his own skin. Even the pitiably weak Nicholas Romanoff showed less of a craven spirit than William. Instead of staying to try to help Germany in its hour of internal conflict, at risk of his life, he sneaked out of the land he had ruled for over 30 years, a fugitive from popular wrath. But he cannot escape. No nation will dare give him permanent asylum. He may not be turned over to the new government of Germany, but a demand from the allies for his surrender will be heeded. William must be tried for high crimet against civilization. There are two reasons for this. , 'One is firmly to establish the doctrine of personal responsibility of rulers; the other is to settle, once for all, in a high tribunal, on a full hearing of all the evidence, all the disputed questions as to responsibility for this war, and for the barbarous practices that have dis tinguished it from other modern wars. This will be the only certain way, while witnesses are yet living, and documents are available, for as certaining the historical facts. We owe it to the future to uncover all things that are hidden, to winnow official statements of their half truths and falsehoods and get at the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In this man ner we shall render it impossible for special pleadert to present their conflicting theories to toafaie the futgreSt. Lfiliil .Qlobf Democrat Lloyd George and the Election. Some democratic editors are trying to draw a parallel between Lloyd George and President Wilson in the matter of appeals to the elector ate. The comparison does not disclose the close resemblance they would have us admit. Lloyd George has asked that he be continued in office with a parliamentary majority suffi cient to enable him to carry out plans for peace already formed. But he hat not made support of his plans a test of loyalty. Party lines long ago all but disappeared in the United Kingdom, th$ several groups dis solving and different combinations now and then appearing, 'only to be dissipated as they accomplished a minor purpose or failed to im prest tht country with their plans. All through the turmoil, however, the insistent purpose of the government to. win the war had the unques tioning support-of all the people, even that rem nant of the Tory party which citing to the van ishing status of hereditary class privilege. Lloyd George overturned Asquith and came into power himself as' head of a coalition gov ernment, In which responsibility was shared by all the political groups, even the socialists hav ing a member" of the cabinet. This is directly opposite to the course pursued by our president,, who insisted on a partisan cabinet and on re taining men in his cabinet who were objection able to a considerable number of his own party. He did not reappoint any member of his cabi- The Great Reward New York Evening Jost To have lived to see this day fills up the measure of tht happiness of uncounted millions. The thrill which runs through the American people vibrates in the hearts of men everywhere. Even in Germany, the sense of a new day hav ing come for the broadest human rights must help to assuage the bitterness of humiliating deieat and abject surrender. For it it more than a great military victory that the world is celebrating. It is the majestic triumph of ideas. Two systems of government, rather than armies, have been locked in a death-grapple for four years, and the system which now lies in irre parable ruin had long been an anachronism and an offense in this modern world of which the breath of life is liberty and free self-expression. It is clear now that the subjects or victims of German military autocracy never really believed in it, though they were torced to submit to it, and the speed and joy with which they have seized the opportunity to throw off. its hated bonds are fresn proof of the terrorism in which they had been held, soul and body. So that it is not merely the crashing into the dust of the German military machine that we rejoice over today, but tht grinding into powder of German autocratic government. - We celebrate not alone the glory of our arms, but the greater glory of the unconquerable mind of freemen. - Standing today at the climax of our hopes, and with tne rich reward of all our sacrinces now in securt possession, wt cannot fail to summon our gratitude where it it due It Hows to. England, which endured a rain of terrible blows without a whimper, and witched out the dark hours with never a thought of quitting till the labor laid upon it was done. We are grate ful to the heroic Belgians and the dauntless French, who fought our tight for ut and kept the faith. Italy and Greece and Serbia come in for our unfeigned thanks. But Americans will naturally save their warmest gratitude for those of their own kin and country who took up the burden of battle for liberty, and who gave and worked and suffered that other nations might be free.- The wonderful outpouring of Amer ican youth, who bent their necks to tht yokt of discipline and made as fine soldiers as ever despised death in the murk of the battlefield- who that has witnessed this grand spectacle can ever forget it, or cease to thank bod for this proof ot the noble stuff of which our young manhood is made? As for the men and women, boys and girl, who devoted their brains and their wealth and their work to the supporting activities of the war, there isjio need to rise up and call them blessed, for they have felt them selves such all along in their forgetting self and wreaking themselves in willing labors for their country and for humanity. After all, our deep est gratitude must be collective. It is for the people as a whole, with their readiness, every man in his place, to do what was necessary to see the grim business through, and with their simple but sublime faith in democracy, which all through the struggle has shown no shadow bf turning , net until after Senator Hardwick of Georgia SS had introduced a resolution inquiring by what show of right the incumbent! pretended to dit charge the functions of the -positions they fill. Then Postmaster General Burleson's name was sent to tht senate as a reappointment, and con firmed, f All other membert of the group are holdovert. . ; . Herein are tome of the differences ietween Lloyd George and President Wilson, and they should not be overlooked. . "Stick for the Big Show." Workmen on a government job in Brooklyn, who struck because their hours of labor, and consequently wages, had been reduced, typify a spirit that is showing itself in many places throughout the country. It is the spirit of self and not of service; had it prevailed before the war America would not have entered the con flict and the victory might have gone the other way. If it prevails now, we are going to lose much of the fruits of that Victory. Most of the grumbling at home has been against the Un justifiable profiteering, and against the contin uation of (high prices protest is now vigorously made. All this was to have been expected, and rests on reasonf tut the impossibility of getting back at once to-peace -condition! must be ap parent to all.. "Therefore, all must exercise pa tience now as never before. The natural opera tion of trade laws will bring about th change sooner, perhaps, than is anticipated. Greed should have no place in our program, and indi viduals seeking undue gains from trade will soon realize this. Public opinion still is a mighty compelling force in America, and now as ever it will be directed, against those who seek un fair advantage; Its effect will be the more man ifest if it' is soberly applied, y- r The Chicago Tribune .earnestly hopes that when next Americans are called upon to cele brate a victorythey do it with more of order than prevailed last Monday.1 Directed foVce, it thinks, will engender more of real esthusiasm than did the frenzied proceedings 'of the day. Perhaps, and the next time we will try the plan of a definite program just to tee how it works. To individual leaders the full meed of praise will be given. Now that partisan jealousies and prejudices are temporarily extinguished, Amer icans of all parties will take an honest pride in their president, whom all the nations are ac claiming. Whatever else may be said of him, it cannot be denied that by him, at least during the last year and a half, the nations' hope and the world's desire have been given singularly apt and powerful expression. No American president ever entered in his lifetime into such a heritage of world-wide fame as has the man who, eight years ago, was simply an American teacher,, Woodrow Wilson. Fit to stand with him have been our commanders in the field and on the sea. Unpretentious, modest, but terri bly resolute and efficient, General Pershing has been an ideal head of our army in France. Nor will Americans soon forget the splendid quali ties shown by the British commander-in-chief, whom the hurricane could batter, but could not break. Of the supreme commander, Marshal Foch, it is only necessary to say that he has made for himself an immortal name. To the highest military genius he unites a mind and spirit that compel admiration to the verge of idolizing. The fact that not one vulgar or brag gart word has come from him in the course of his magnificent success shows the good taste of r true gentleman and the poise of a firm-set Soul. In Ferdinand Foch is surely realized the Vision of the Happy Warrior, whom every man in arms would wish to be. ' Over the other side, charity would be prompted to draw a veil. Autocracy dies igno bly. Even the tinsel Napoleon III cut a better figure after the first Sedan than the kaiser does after the second. Napoleon at least sought to die at the head of his troops. William II slinks away to exile. The swaggering monarch who .made the world tremble with his angry threats, and used to speak blasphemously of his being the vice regent of the Almighty, leaves the scene like a discharged hostler. What would the ac cusing spirit of Bismarck say today to the man .who has made fool't work of the splendid in heritance which the creator of German unity built up? ' Celebrate we will, rejoice we must, but in all the. outbursts of popular joy it is easy to detect a sobering note. We have attained our desired haven earlier than our fondest hopes, but we can sun tee stormy waters to be crossed. before us. It will tax our best statesmanshio and try the temper of our people. But we may rest calm and cheerful in the assurance that a nation capable of doing what .ours has done within the last two years will not be lacking in either the patriotism or the ability to front sue cessfully the giant difficulties which peace will bring in itt train, Lo, the Poor Cottpn Grawer! : - The south appears to be getting disturbed over the decline in the price of cotton. Gover nor Manning of Georgia recently called a con ference to discuss means of "holding cotton off the market until the price reaches a point that will at least cover the cost of production." This talk about the "cost of production" has a fa miliar ring, but it will not arouse much sym pathy among northern farmers, the price of whose products has been fixed, while cotton has gone up to unheard of prices without the slight est interference from the government. One de fender of the south wrote recently: "It is true that the present price of cotton seems a trifle high, but it is to be remembered that cotton sold for a little over 6 cents a pound four years ago. Then, too, an unduly low price tends to stimulate and benefit the infernal industry of munition making, which must have, cotton if it is to go on manufacturing explosives." O, they are public benefactors, those cotton growers I But we can imagine what a shout of protest would go up if northern farmers should get to gether to hold their wheat from the market to x force higher prices. We suppose the case is necessarily uinercni in inc iioriu. t-iutagu Tribune. v ' People and Events Florida voted to go bone dry by Jaw, but the state' Will remain, , as heretofore, supplied with water on three sides and some in the middle. The blowout staged in New York City on the strength of the Ouija hoax hit the public treasury for $80,000 in street cleaning. There is talk of sending the bill to Ouija. . , .Nebraska is trot, after all, the extreme north ern line of the goober belt. Montreal boasts of harvesting a crop of peanuts on the island in the St Lawrence bearing the city's name. Perhaps mark the saving clause perhaps the railroads will in due time absorb some of the glowing warmth of peace and infuse a little variety of color in their timetables and like traveling necessaries. The dreary black and white and cheap paper looks too much like the state of mind of the democratic congressional committee the morning after November S, and ought to be. banished as a paJafuJ &q4g.r? On. Year Aao Today In the War Viscount Cowdray. chairman of the British air board, resigned. , Premier Clemenceau of f ranee announced the formation of his min- ,S President Wilson cabled birthday greetings to King Albert of the Bel gians. j 2' In Omaha fo Yean Ago Today. The boys in the Armour-Cudahy packing houset have furnished the house at 1313 Virginia avenue in elegant style for E. E. Ryan, who was married some, day ago. i The new ammoth coliseum on Twentieth street near Lake will be opened tonight. : Post office Inspector Waterbury is visiting his family in Denver. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Logan return ed from the west. - C. L. Roberts of Red Oak, la., has purchased the flour and feed stock of Kelley Brothers south of Twenty- fifth street. Savings bank department has been opened in connection with the Union Stock Yards bank. The Day Wt Celebrate. Robert L. Carter, manager of the Carter Sheet Metal works, born 1864. Maj. Gen. William W. Wother spoon, U. S. A., retired, former chief , of the general staff corps, born in ' Washington 68 years ago. Dr. Lemuel H. Murlin, president of Boston university, born at Mer cer, O., 57 years ago. John H. Kirby, Texas lumber king and financier, born in Tyler county, Tex., 58 years ago. Stephen S. Gregory, noted Chica go lawyer, former president of the American Bar association, born in Otsego county, N. Y., 69 years ago. William F. Kirby, junior United States senator from Arkansas, born in Miller county, Ark., 51 years ago. This Day in History. 1811 Weavers' riots in Notting ham England, as a result of the in troduction of labor saving machin ery. 1885 Louis Riel, leader of the re bellion in the Canadian Northwest, executed at Regina. 1915 Premier Asquith, accom panied by four members of his cab inet, arrived in Paris. 1916 British continued Ancre bat tle, capturing several thousand. German prisoners and advancing on wide front. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Throughout Canada final rallies and demonstrations will be held to day to get the Victory loan "over the top." Boxing shows and athletic car nivals wuT be held in many of the principal cities of the United States today for the benefit of the United War Work fund. I , The season of live stock shows will be ushered in today with the opening of annual exhibitions in Kansas Ciy and San Francisco. The Pacific Northwest International show, to have opened today at Port land, Ore., has been postponed until next month. Storyette of the Day. In Bavaria, where the crown prince, and indeed all Prussians, are hated, they tell a story about a burglar. A burglar, the story runs, returned home in the dawn light in a dreadful temper. "What's the matter?" asked his wife. "Didn't you have no luck?" "Luck! Nawl" snarled, the burglar, "I made a mistake m the blackness and tried to burgle the palace where the crown prince lives. He was home, too." "Oh," said the burglar's ' wife, ( "what a misfortune I I was won derin how it was thai you come back with nothin' but your under wear on." Detroit Free Press. I jfavv 7 va x Price on Foodstuffs. Omaha. Nov. 16 To the Editor of The Bee: The federal food ad ministration la constantly abating the restrictions on the' use of food tuffe on the ground that the cessa tion of hostilities will lessen the Eu ropean demand, while-at the tame time the enormous crops In thle country have produced vast surplus stores. Nobody need be told that the urgent European demand will de cline from month to month, and thia fact coupled with the enormous stores held, ought to be enough to Induce federal and state food admin istrators to compel the profiteers in foodstuffs to reduce their prices. No longer can they say to the consumer the European demand compels the sky-rocketing of these prices. The prevailing prices of the necessaries of life In Omaha are shamelessly high. The situation Is one calling for drastic action, not only by the food administrators, but by the state and county councils of defense, the city council and every other . organized body of citizens. If profiteering in the necessaries ot life cannot be stopped in any other way, a few prison sentences such as those Im posed by England should be resorted to. It seems to me that this Issue it paramount to all others since the announcement of the cessation of hostilities. In mentioning organized effor'ta to suppress the profiteers let me ven ture the suggestion that the blatant suffragists might get busy along this line with some chance of being of real service to the consumers of this city and state. The Improvement clubs of this city are in a position to take this subject up and advocate the enforcing of drastic action at the hands of law officers whose duty it it to protect the people from these conscienceless profiteers. Let us not forget that profiteering is by no means confined to foodstuffs. We are living amid plentiful supplies of the necessaries of life, yet we are compelled to pay famine prices. The people have power to break up all combinations in restraint of trade, but it can't be done with feather dusters. J. B. H. v STATE PRESS COMMENT. Blair Enterprise: If "Big Jeff" has the say about it we have faith in his Integrity to believe that the appointment of Blair postmaster will not be declared oft to the highest bidder. - i Beatrice Express: Willie Hohen zollern now knows just how Arthur Mullen, Gilbert Hitchcock and Her bert Gooch felt when they received the returns from the Nebraska elec tion last Tuesday. Edgar Post: Before election a democrat told us the earth would be wet up with republican tears; The next day after election the ground around her was all wet, but it was not with republican tears.- Kearney Hub: Nebraska will have a united and exceptionally strong delegation in congress that will rink with the best from any state in the union. The addition of Jefferis and Andrews especially stands for the brainiest and the best. 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