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8 THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1918. f. The Omaha Bee .DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY i FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THJt BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR t MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS lH IwcuihI I'rtw. ol hivn The kit it a aniuoer, is clull entitled 10 tbe un for publication of all news dlipttcbM credited fie It f aot otlierwlet credited In this vtr. end 1 the local etw published htrein. 411 rlfhu of subnotion 0 out specieJ fftllllttChM 4lH NMIWL " OFFICES: PTilraan . Pimnte't flu Rutldln.. Omaha The Bee Bid. JNw fori 14 fifth At. South Omn 1318 N 8t W. Louie New B'k of Commerce. Council Bluff 14 N. Mils It fVMBlBltOO Ull O 8u Lincoln Utile Building. OCTOBER CIRCULATION IDaily 68,570 Sunday 60,405 fareraie drmittloQ for Ui month subscribed tod sworn to bf ft, R. k4in. Circulation Manager. - . .. .1 I u . TL. Bu . Hut (IllMcrlMrm leaving u cuy nouia n i la them. Addr cnangea m" THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG !!!IW!!!!Ti ! IMI " r r r r7 T" t- t- . a a Mr. Wilson loves to ride down precedent, How that "sting of ingratitude" does rankle! r : At least one prominent German family has no gold stars on its service nag. , , Now the wireless can be run without poles, fjhowhtg what progress is being made. I "Pro-German propaganda is renewed" warns fWashington. When was it discontinued? I, Here'i your hat, Mr. Hohenzollern," says Iron crosses are offered in Berlin at a penny apiece, which is still much above the market quotation on scrap iron. The United States is big enough and strong enough to survive a short application of "Tom" Marshall in the executive chair. ; Congress has taken its final kick at old John Barleycorn, but the end of the war does not look so far away now as it did last summer. f : The Wessed bolsheviki dto not make much Vxheadway in Berlin, but may have made a deeper impression that is now apparent. Time will settle this point. Yankee Soldiers are finding back of the line J fmany evidences that the Huns believed they f fwere going to hold all they seized. The super- en made a lot of blunders in their calculations. v Herr Solf still fusses about the possible ef fect of the presence of alien troops on the banks lot the Rhine. He will get used to it long be- Ifore their "watch" is removed. Distilleries may be selling at 5 cents on the dollar, but bootleg booze commands a much higher price. However, that stuff does not de pend on a distillery, either, for production or distribution. if-; Paris is having a series of jubilations, or ather one continuous uproar, as one event after nother emphasizes the victory. Andfit is.no 'lace for a Yankee soldier who does not care bout being kissed. The Belt Line tracks come to the surface gain as the war wave recedes. What the citi zens want is that the tracks be elevated above ,he surface high enough to make them safe. his is imperative. WITH THE PRESIDENT ABROAD. Mr. Wilson, as was all along expected, has decided to attend the peace council in person. While this decision may start considerable dis cussion, serious question as to its propriety will hardly be raised. No good reason is put for ward against his going, while many may be cited for his personal presence in Paris, at least during the opening days of the council. Wood row Wilson is chief magistrate and executive head of the United States; he has been a prin cipal actor in the great drama of the war. The people followed him implicitly and confidently in his war plans, and all the nations gave heed to his words of wisdom and decision. For these reasons it is almost imperative that he attend the solemn conclave that will formulate the conditions on which the peace and tranquility of the world are to be secured. Any tradition with reference to the temporary absence of the president beyond the territorial boundaries of the country has become ana chronistic. Such objection dates back to a time when the traveler leaving the shores of his home land cut himself off from communication with it for the time of his voyage, or longer. Today it is possible for the president to be in touch with affairs at home every minute he is away. It is hardly likely that any public interest or business will suffer because the executive is not personally present at his office in Washington. That the visit of the president of the United States to France, England, and perhaps Italy, will be construed as an act of peculiar grace at this time can scarcely be doubted. It will be another guaranty to the world of our sincerity in support of our national ideals. i1 . Secretary Daniels started the war modestly rsnough, but he was getting into the regular democratic class, as his estimate of $3,000,000, j)00 for naval needs for 1920 shows. And this lithe same Daniels who could not see the good (bf a battleship three years ago. The proposed visit of the president to France recalls' the advice given by a sober-minded Z jrloosier to an Omaha friend a few years ago. r jTfiey were talking of "Tom" Marshall, and the Hoosier adjured his hearer to pray each night (hat Woodrow Wilson be permitted to live his term of office through. 'Vic" Borger, congressman-elect from Mil waukee, and under several indictments for sedi tion, told an audience of, 10,000 socialists in Chicago that the "international Flag," whatever that is, is above Old Glory in his estimation, feerger will keep on until he secures his martyr nom and a nice prison cell at the same time. . Congress is now arranging to leave the rev- :nue bill unfinished until the December session. In December last year it was faced with the idmitted necessity of amendment the existing law to cure its manifold imperfections, but post poned the job in deference to politics. Now, irith the election passed and the war at a cloje, tKt democrats want further time. Yet the lead ers wonder why the people have no patience with them. May Fix Food Prices, v It is the belief of high government officials hat with the ending of the war there will be inch a demand in Europe for foodstuffs and :ommodities from the United States that it will be necessary to fix prices in this country for taore articles of lite. 1 he tood control act, un- er which the tood administration now oper-e. tes, is not believed to give authority for this, nd probably it will be necessary for congress o enact additional legislation covering the sub-ect. Exceot in isolated cases the government has ot fixed orices during the war, but it is feared here will be a greater necessity for doing this t the close of the war. when the demand tor Ifood will be more general and not under the Jregulatory discipline of the military torces. l he ioou administration nas u . udugcmcui miu the food controllers of the allied countries un der which the United States is to supply neces- Isar fndd for the civil oooulations this winter seven if the war should end this fall. And, even jif. no such agreement existed this country would feel under a moral obligation to protect turope from starvation. v An iacreased demand for food in Europe upon the' cessation of hostilities would send vices skyward in the United States, especially if the repressive authority of the food-administration - stops with the war. Consequently it nay be necessary to take steps to protect the American people, both by controlling exports .nd by fixing prices. Washington fost What's the Trouble With the Police Force? If Police Superintendent Ringer is quoted correctly, that he cannot "fire" a bad policeman, then he indicts not the police, but himself and his associates on the city commission. The law requiring a hearing for policemen by the com mission before dismissal was wisely made to protect the men from possible oppression by an arbitrary superior, but not to weaken the effi ciency of the organization. At present Mr. Ringer has a chief of police selected by himself. It would be unfair to say Chief Eberstein was "hand-picked" when he was given the job because Superintendent Ringer wanted him. The chief of detectives is also a personal selection of the superintendent, and every captain and sergeant has been named by his direction or consent. All this being true, it sounds childish to assert that "bad" men on the force defeat enforcement of the law and cannot be gotten rid of. If Mr. Ringer will give more attention to speeding up his department and less to invent ing alibis to shift responsibility, he will proba bly make greater headway. It is not expected that he accomplish impossibilities. Is Omaha in the clutches of a band of crim inals because bootleggers ply their trade and vice in many forms persists despite the efforts of the police? We do not believe the head of the police department should make such admis sion unless ready to throw up the job. At any rate, charges against individual members of the force should come In the proper forum, where judgment can be rendered, rather than in sweep ing allegations reflecting upon the integrity of the whole organization. ' The Democratic Family Ruction. The savage attack on William Jennings Bryan by the paper that once "pointed with pride" to his name printed in its flagstaff as its editor is suggestive of the internal disruption of the once triumphant democracy of Nebraska. We hold no brief for Mr. Bryan, who is amply able to defend himself we never supported him for any office we seldom agreed with his views on public questions. It is interesting to read, however, in a paper which formerly lauded him to the skies this belated post mortem: "Fot twenty years" under that glittering oriflamme we "led the nation," we Nebraska democrats did. Led the nation to repudiate us in four succesive campaigns and the party to four successive Waterloos. First he went into the ditch for free silver at the anointed ratio of 16 to 1. Next we went over the precipice in oppos ing the "imperialism" that has brought free dom and civilization to the Filipinos and to the United States, a crown of glory as the most altruistic ofk nations. 7 Finally, we landed in the bottomless pit with "federal licenses for the trusts" as a new paramount under which interesting system 50 per cent monopoly was to be legalized. To use an expressive colloquialism, "just let that soak in." Think of a devoted in-season and out-of-season worshipper of the free coinage fetish ridiculing it as "the anointed ratio." Listen to this persistent monitor against "the menace of imperialism concede that failure to retain the Philippines would have lost us a crown of glory. Watch this self-vaunted enemy of monopoly smash the idol which it summoned us all to .worship as the sure promise of relief from op presions of the odious trusts. Oh, what an awakening I If all the panaceas prescribed by democratic platforms these many years are admittedly false nostrums, what faith can be placed in the democratic paramounts of the future? Germany's "Peaceful Development." Dr. Solf's persistent appeal for a modifica tion of terms of the armistice discloses finally something of its foundation. Underlying his statement that the "peaceful development" of Germany is involved, may be discovered some thing of the extent to which the kaiser and his crew were concerned in holding on to Alsace Lorraine and the mines of Belgium and north ern France. Without the regions west of the Rhine, the Germans lose control of iron, coal and potash deposits. These the foreign minis ter asks to be returned. Bismarck knew in 1871 the value of these deposits, and with utmost de liberation wrenched them from France. It was not sentiment then, but carefully planned rob bery; it will not now be sentiment, but even handed justice that will prevail. The peaceful development of Germany will be considered, but not at the expense of Germany's victims. Munich celebrates the downfall of the empire and the overthrow of the monarchy with much joy, but we may conclude from reports current while the war was on that the good old Culm bacher did not foam in the stein as of yore. Omaha will be content to have the balloon school continued through the coming years as a part of the great national army training work. Right in the Spotlight Friedrich, Ebert, who became the nominal head of the German provi sional government after the fall of the empire, has been vice president of the German social democrats, and president of the main committee of the Reichstag. He was by trade a harnessmaker and later editor of a socialist newspaper. He has been prominent in the party councils for many years. He became social ist member of the Bremen city coun cil in 1900 and in 1912 he was sent to the Reichstag from that city. A year later he was elected leader of the party to succeed August Bebel. Durng the greater part of the war Herr Ebert joined Herr Scheide mann and other socialists, who sup ported the war, against the small and persecited faction headed by Karl Liebknecht, who opposed it, with the result that Herr Ebert has been looked upon by radical social ists all over the world as a renegade from socialist ideals and an instru ment of German autocracy. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. Captain O'Donahue has sold his interest in the "Fire Reporter" to Delos Beard, formerly of Engine Company No. 1. A large-sized oil lamp exploded in horse car No. 49 at the corner of Ninth and Farnam streets, but no damage was done as the driver seiz ed the burning mass in his hands and threw it on the pavement. J. DShields, the genial, hog buy er, has returned from a trip to St. Louis. Hon. John N. Baldwin has re turned from an extended visit to Mexico. L. L. Rappel of the firm of Rappel & Co. left for Chicago to remain until next season. E. M. Brainard of the firm of Brainard, Richardson & Carpenter has returned from a visit to Buffalo, N. Y. One Year Ago Today in the War. British opened one of the greatest offensives of the year on west front. French chamber of deputies gave a vote of confidence to the new premier, M. Clemenceau. Official announcement of the sink ing of the United States destroyer Chauncey by collision with the transport Rose. The Day We Celebrate. Frank L. Haller, president of the Lininger Implement company, born 1861. Charles C. Troxell. manager of the Nebraska Moline Supply com pany, born 18S9. Sir Wlfred Laurier, former Ca nadian premier, born at St. Lin, Quebec, 77 years ago. Dowager Queen Marghefita, mother of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, born 67 years ago. Selma Lagerlof, the most famous of Swedish women writers, born in the province of Vermland, 60 years ago. - Kenesaw M. Landis. federal judge, born at Millville, O., 52 years ago. Rt. Rev. Patrick J. Hayes, suc cessor to Cardinal Farley as arch bishop of New York, born in New York City, 51 years ago. This Day in History. 1815 France ceded to the king dom of the Netherlands whatever it still retained of the Austrian Netherlands. 1843 Ferdinand Hassler, first su perintendent of the United States coast survey, died in Philadelphia. Born in Switzerland, October 6, 1770. 1894 Port Arthur was taken by the Japanese from the Chinese. 1899 The German emperor and empress and their sons arrived in Windsor Castle on a visit to Queen Victoria. 1914 Russians checked the Ger-Warthe-Vistula line. 1915 Vigorous- bombardment of Ostend by British warships. 1916 British announced capture of 6,962 prisoners in one week. Timely Jottings and Reminders. The eighth annual convention of the League of Compulsory Educa tion Officials meets in St. Louis today for a three-day session. .The tenth annual convention of the American Specialty Manu facturers' association, which is to open today in Cleveland, will be largely devoted to the discussion of trade problems arising out of the war. The question of providing perma nent relief for victims of the recent forest fires will be discussed at the annual meeting of the Northern Minnesota Development association, which is to begin its sessions today at Grand Rapids, Mich. Important problems confronting America with the end of the world war are to be outlined and discussed at the conference on American re construction problems, which is to assemble at Rochester today under the auspices of the National Munici pal league. ' Storyette of the Day. The unconquerable Pat, being one day in town, found his way into a barber's shop to get a shave. As it was near dinner time and the barber was feeling the gnawings of hunger he became rather hasty over the job and was unfortunate in ' inflicting several cuts of both of Pat's cheeks. The shave being concluded. Pat arose and, approaching a table on which was a glass of water, he took a mouthful and rocked his head from side to side. "Anything the matter?" asked the barber. ' "Not much," came Pat's reply. "I was only just trying to findi out whether my mouth would still hold water without leaking." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Some Helpmeet May Terry, the 10-year-old daugh ter of a Pike county, Missouri, far- poller, living ueo-i mo mti7 iwnw Annuua, naa araggeu unu imnuwcu 117 acres of land for her father, and has been given the product from one acre of this land for her' own use. This acre she will donate to the Red Cross. . Marshal Foch ' Floyd Gibbons in Chicago Tribune Belgium won the war by delaying the German hordes on her borders. . ... Great Britain won the war by blocking the road to the channel ports by the strength of her navy France won the war by her heroic sacrifices at Verdun and in the first battle of the Marne. -The United States won the war by producing the needed superiority of fighting strength to turn the uneven balance in the fourth year of the conflict. And after this has been said, it may be stated with equal decisiveness that the war was won by one man. His name is Ferdinand Foch. The man who outgeneraled and vanquished the greatest military organization that ever had been perfected in the history of war was born in the Pyrenees at the little city of Tarbes, where his father held a small political position. Foch was born August 4, 1851. He was born during a period of great martial disturbances in Europe. He was born in the freshest history of the great Napoleonic wars and at a time when France was to undergo the further conflicts in which the second empire tried to approach the warlike triumphs of the first. In this atmosphere of battle France produced the boy who was destined to save civilization in 1918. At Saint-Etienne, at Rodes, and later at Metz he received his early education by which there was inculcated in him habits of religious strictness. These influences of his in structors were responsible for some of the characteristics which later distinguished the man. During that fateful year of 1871, Foch enter ed the Ecole Polytechnique, where from the start he manifested a particular inclination to ward the precise studies. He readily applied himself to logic and geometry, but at the same time studied with avidity the fresh history of the previous half century. Foch as a teacher and theorist formulated his own theory of war. According to students who knew him as a teacher, Foch would first maintain that to estimate only material factors in war was a mistake. He held that war was not an exact science, but a terrifying and passionate drama. He held that between know ing and doing there was a great abyss, which could only be traversed if the start was made from knowledge and not from ignorance. At the outbreak of the war Foch was in com mand at Nancy. Located with his forces at that strategic avenue of entrance between the Vosges mountains and Luxemburg, he repre sented the best soldierly material that General Joffre could station at this vital point. The French commander's dependence on Foch was justified in the first battle of the Marne, when Foch, with his famous belief in the directness and decisiveness of an attack, reported to his commander that, with his left being attacked and his right suffering severe assault from the enemy, he was attacking with all he had in the center. That stroke won the first battle of the Marne. The enemy's terrific offensive upon which was based the German hope to conclude the war in six weeks failed signally. Thus did the allies receive the necessary breathing spell by which they were able to withstand successive enemy onslaughts until America's weight arrived in the fourth year of the war to turn the tide. It was in this year on March 29 that Foch was placed in command of all of the armies of the allies. This creation of the unified com mand came eight days after the launching of the terrific German offensive in Picardy where the enemy had succeeded in putting one entire British army to rout. Foch was the answer. That March 21 offensive of the enemy was a success in view of territory gained and prison ers and material captured, but for the allies it resulted in the greater victory. It brought the unified control. From that time on all allied effort, received direction from one head. On May 27 the Germans struck again, this time on the Chemin des Dames, and with a frightful expenditure of their reserves suc ceeded in advancing their lines thirty miles from the valley of the Aisne to the valley of the Marne. Foch threw in the Americans and stopped the enemy advance on the north bank of the river in the first days of June. On July 18 Foch was ready to strike with the long delayed allied counter' offensive. He struck in the yillers-Cotteret forest. The blow was directed It the right flank of the German salient. To strike that blow Foch needed three divisions of the hardest fighting soldiers he could obtain. With the influx of the American forces, the commander in chief's armies num bered 11.000,000 bayonets. Of all those veteran troops Foch selected three divisions to strike the blow on which the future of the world de pended. The first division he selected was a French colonial division from Morocco. The other two divisions were the First and the Second United States regular army divisions. t History will undoubtedly date the turn in the tide of the entire war from that minute of 4:35 on the morning of July 18 when those two American divisions and that one French divi sion went over the top in the Villers-Cotteret forest to execute the masterly plan of the allied commander in chief. History will relate how the German withdrawal started immediately, and history will not overlook the weeks that followed in August and September, when Foch began to take advantage of his successes, strik ing blow after blow all along the battle line from Flanders to the Alps until at one time this master of Hindenburg and Ludendorff was di recting simultaneously seven battles on as many different fronts. This was the type of a man, small, wiry, nervous, pious, who, on November 10, seated in the small compartment of a railroad train in the rear of the French front, received, under a flag of truce, the emissaries of the foe. People and Events A drive for raw material already marks the devolution, in Germany. Several statues of war lords have been pulled down. At last accounts the wets and drys in the Illinois legislature are about evenly matched and both sides claiming a sure thing. The con test involves the federal prohibition amendment which comes up for action. A narrow margin of votes insures a hot winter at Springfield. Some persons wonder how Uncle Sam man ages to blow in all the war money. ' As a minor exhibit it is stated that the American troops on the Verdun front, November 1, sent 8,700 tons of shells to the enemy in nine hours. Liberality in that line is your uncle's long suit. The promise of early resumption of the manufacture of pleasure automobiles provokes the "view-with-alarm" feeling among confirmed pedestrians. An automobile for every eight persons in Nebraska already, and more to fol low, suggests to the plodders the greater need of hugging the sides of the road. William J. Mulligan, chairman of the Knights of Columbus war activities committee in New York, announces there will be no change in the plan of dispensing free smokes and things to the men overseas. "Everything free," is the motto, which will be adhered to until the last soldier and sailor reaches home. The Winnebago division of America's first families pulled off their brand of scalp dance on the natal day of world liberty, November 11. Experts in the art terpsichore pronounce the performance equal in artistic finish to that staged by Charley Bryan and Edgar Howard five days before. That's going some. ' Former Governor David I. Walsh, United States senator-elect from Massachusetts, has the distinction of being the firs't democrat sent to the upper house from the Bay state since the republican party was founded. The new sena tor served in the recent state constitutional con vention and won praise as one of the ablest de baters in that body, Alsace-Lorraine France will not rece'.ve back the same Alsace-Lorraine which it was forced to give up, and the changes of a half century are mostly for the better. The patriotism of the citi zenry of the provinces, which has endured into the second generation, has been tried in the fire and found purest metal. There will be profit rather than loss in the repatriation of the German colonists which will reduce the population temporarily. And the natural resources of the provinces are immensely greater. The war now ended was called a I'raw material" war, and the subsoil wealth of the restored provinces was one of its prizes. The weapons driven into the heart of France were smeltedand the ores of Alsace-Lor raine, with the conquered coal of the Lens district. Only between the Meuse and the Rhine are coal and iron found so close together as to be worked advantageously. In 1795 France had all these de posits. In 1815 France lost half the coal. In 1871 France lost nearly all its coal and half its iron. In 1914 Germany struck for the other half of the iron. Germany's eco nomic power rests upon these facts. It could not have prolonged the war without the 21,000,000 tons of ore mined annually in the province now returned. The ores of German Lor raine alone are estimated to be worth $2,000,000,000. Part of them were sold to the Wendel syndicate for $65,000,000 on the ground that they belonged to French citizens. Another portion was sold to the von Raumer syndicate for 50,000,000 marks, the etate reserving the right of participation to the extent of 51 per cent. All these were developed by Ger many for itself, and they now fall to France without the destruction which has followed every German footstep in. retreat. If the results of the war went no further, this alone would reduce Germany to a second- rate nation in an economic sense, and to impotence in war, New York Times. ! . i CENTER SHOTS lees. s. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The return of Alsace-Lorraine will help Germans always to remember that war does not pay. Kansas City Star: A last chance for one more of those memorable message? from Berlin: "After a brave ilash the .family has arrived safe in Holland. God is with us." Baltimore American: The throne of Finland is still to let, but to date there have been no applicants since the kaiser's brother-in-law decided he didn't like the premises. Minneapolis Tribune: With Ger many's unavoidable consent the allies are winding up "The Watch on the Rhine," whereby a faithful old joke may now become obsolete for paragraph purposes. Brooklyn Eagle: The $500,000,- 000 stolen from Belgium in forced contributions should make her a preferred creditor in the great Ber lin bankruptcy c.vse. Modern money can be paid back, though medieval cathedrals cannot be reconstructed. Philadelphia Ledger: Doctor Solf's fear that the allies will let the German people starve is so un grounded that it is difficult to be lieve in its sincerity. He is a good deal more concerned lest Germany shall have to suffer the just penal ties of failure. New York World: In no place short of Berlin would the American troops rather have ended the war than in Sedan. Nowhere short of Berlin could the British arms hive been more fitly laid down than in Mons, scene in 1914 of a seeming some would say an actual miracle wrought in their behalf. LAUGHING GAS. Teacher Which Is the mot delicate of the senses? Scholar The touch. When you sit on a pin you can't see it, you can't hear it, you can't taste it, but It's there Pear sons. Mrs. Oramerev I wonder If the serv ant problem will ever be solved? Mrs. Parks I'm afraid not. Take a cook, for Instance it's as hard to keep a good one as it la to get rid of a poor one. People's Home Journal, "How did the shortage of gaiollna af fect you?" 'Well," replied Mr. Clugglna, "It was a kind of comfort to know oft-hand ex actly why the old machine wouldn't run." Washington Star. "I'm going to get a divorce. My wife hasn't spoken to me for six months." ."Better be careful. You'll never get another wife like that." Boston Transcript. Mies Gossip Mrs. Fewyeari tells me she wasn't IS when she! was married. Mies Telltale No, I should lay she iwas not. She was 21. Life. A rookie was reading an article about the kaiser which compared him with Nero. "Who was Nero, Bill? he asked of a fel- low-rookle. "Wasn't he a man that was always cold?" "Naur," was the reply, "that was Zero, another guy altogether." Boston Trans- script. An Asset for Omalia. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 9 To the Editor of The Bee: I wish to con gratulate The Bee on the new roto ..rnrnra fliinnlpmpnt. This wns the only thing lacking to put The Bee in tne -top-noicn ciuss oi me uig uclsrn nnnpra Drill I Am nrnud to show it to my friends here. It is a real asset lor umana. . ERNEST SWEET. Jerry Wants Instructions. Omaha, Nov. 18. To the Editor of The Bee: In this epoch, the world celebrating a great military victory or the majestic triumph of ideas, as one of the recently em ployed servants of the people I have an idea that the electors should de mand civic victory, too, thereby over throwing the kaiser's and their sat ellites who infest Lincoln, Washing ton and elsewhere. To accomplish the destruction of their nefarious work at Lincoln I would suggest a rmiss meeting at an early date in the citv hall or elsewhere where dele gates from the improvement clubs and other organizations would have an opportunity to air their griev ances and give instructions to their lawmakers. There is no necessity to tell any sane citizen how essential it is to discipline some of those lawmakers. As a servant of the people, if I diso bey orders I cannot assign any plausible reason why I should not be court-martialed similar to the military men. I believe .that the hanging of a few political traitors would be beneficial. JERRY HOWARD. Blue Sky Law. Omaha, Nov. 19. To the Editor of The Bee: One of the first duties upon the assembling of the Incoming legislature should be to order an in vestigation of the office of the etate railway commission. Too many per mits have been issued authorizing the sale of stocks in fake 'potash plants" that never produced a pound of potash; "rubber tire factories" that never have or never will pro duce a tire; "automobile factories" that never have and never will man ufacture a car; "oil companies" that are authorized to sell swamp and desert land by the square mile and that never did and never will pro duce oil; "investment companies" that promise a return on their in vestment that could not be made possible by any honest and legiti mate plan. The state has been flooded with agents who present to their prospec tive victims finely lithographed "per mits" from the ."state of Nebraska" as proof that they are entitled to the confidence of the public. In 1913 the legislature passed a blue sky law that had been care fully prepared by Senator Cordeal, assisted by other prominent attor neys and business men. This law would seem to be quite effective if enforced. One provision gives the railway commission power "to deny permits where, in the judgment of the commission when the securities offered for sale do not promise fair rgturn," thus leaving :the entire question of Issuing "perrtits" to the "judgment" of the commission. Un der this they should be. and must be. held responsible for any imposi tion upon the people. If, however, the members of the commission can come through an in vestigation with clean hands through any blame of the law, -then let the legislature immediately pass one that can and will be enforced, even if it requires the removal of anyone whose duty it is to enforce it. C. F. McGREW. Marks of Royalty. The late czar of Russia had a dragon tattooed on his ieft forearm, and quite a number of other Euro pean royalties, both past and pres ent, have been similarly "decorated." Over There and Here The German crusier Wiesbaden, reported sunk by the revolutionaries for refusing to hoist the red flag, takes its name from the "badhaus" resort on the Rhine. Wiesbaden is to Mayence what Excelsior Springs is to Kansas City, and about the same distance apart It comes within the armistice zone of neu trality, but the situation need not in terfere with the task of boiling out bad livers, of which the supply ap pears unlimited. Now and then the war profiteer gets his due. A milling concern at Leavenworth, Kan., in a thoughtless moment Imagined Uncle Sam whs not looking its way and overreached the schedule of prices sanctioned by Herb Hoover's staff. The penalty foots up $90,121.37. Of this amount $10,000 was paid into the treasury of the Red Cross as a guarantee of future good faith. The balance of the penalty goes to the food admin istration treasury. With keen relish and other feel ings Dutch papers recall the proph ecy of some unnamed seer regarding the fate and flight of William and Its fulfillment in the arrival of the jobless kaiser in Holland. "He shall be the last of his dynasty," said the seer. "He shall seek a sanctuary on Dutch soil, with no more followers than can stand under the shade of a good-sized tree." The last half is written into the history of the time. "Let them stew in their own Juice," said the blood and Iron Bis marck in the fall of 1870, when urged to mitigate the horrors of the siege of Paris. France is not for getting as a conqueror what hap pened when France was conquered 48 years, ago. "Let us not be too generous," says Stephana Lauzanne, "for sometimes generosity is under stood as weakness. It is ridiculous to speak of, the 'good' German peo ple the same people who shouted with glee in the streets of Berlin when the Lusltania was sunk with little American children. The Ger man socialists are noisy now. They were silent when Belgium was in vaded, when the Brest-Litovslt treaty was signed. Let them be si lent now." ' Seventy thousand of the exiled or self-exiled Alsatians signed the "Gold Book" which is to be pre sented to (President Wilson as a grateful tribute to American liber ators. The "Gold Book" consists of five volumns, beautifully Illuminated and the binding exquisitely tooled. RECAST. The common people walk today Their kings have slumped and run away The mastodon with stalking stride Again has shuffled off his hide; The untold ages of the past In newer crucible are cast; The alligator's tooth and claw Are working on a new re-saw. The segregated right! of men Have staggered under freedom's pen; The swaying system's boast and pride Is taking now its long, long slide; The shouts of free hearts rent the air In answering Pity's loving prayer; The rumbling roar of cannon cease To usher in an age of peace. Ah, slow the grind but find the grist. Since love upon this planet kissed; Since first the boiling heat became The steam's embodiment of fame; And painful to the conscious sense The fate of Love's first recompense; But ever as the ages meet From mollcule to toddling feet The stride has always been one way To usher in a happy day. And now as cannon cease to roar. The echoes cry, "No rich, no poor, . No kings, no queens, no potentates, But love's eternal happy state." So let the echoing of the heart, In every bosom love Impart That those who died may catch the strain, And in new blood return again To find the earth they left behind In mother love and tenderness twined. O. M. RITCHIE. Omaha. Picture Sale! A representative of a well known eastern firm begs to announce that an entire collection of Mezzo tint Engravings, Color Etchings, Etchings in Black and White, Copper Plate Facsimiles and Litho graphs, which represent the reproductions of the great masterpieces in the Louvre, Petite Palais, National Gallery, Tate Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum. This wonderful collection will be offered for sale at Dealers' Discounts at Hospe's Galleries, 1513 Douglas St. 1513 Douglas Street 1 1 f! m raUsW , i Quality Saved by Sacrifice of Quantity is the story of how Coca-Cola weathered the war, when the need came to make, a soldier of sugar and send half of our allotment to France. We cut down our output to keep up quality at whatever cost to ourselves. Preserving quality has been the salvation of our product and the public's safeguard against imi tators that have sought to take advantage of our war-shortage. . The inimitable quality of Coca-Cola insures a waiting public when peace 6hall have restored us to full production. It your suspicion is aroused by the first taste of what you are served with, put the question squarely up to the dealer. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY ATLANTA. GA. JiH Mum mm jBgllW si