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THE fcEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1918. The Omaha Bee Daily (Morning)-evening-sunday FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATER ; VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Aasnetafd ru, of whlcti Th R"ll a mambar. II aiclusltelj nutlM tg th una fur I'uliliralion of til nws dUpatchet credited in It or not ntliarwls credited In this paier, and alao tli lial nws puhlltltnl herein. All right of publication of our apeoial 'dUpatchcta ara also nwrtefi OFFICESi rhloaj Panpla'i On Rulldmf. Omaha Th Bra Bid. Jiaw York 28 Fifth Ave. KnuUt Ooiaha 231s N Bt. Ht Louie New H'M of Commerce, t'ouiicll Hluffe le N. Main Bt Washington i:U O Ht. Lincoln Llttla Bulldlm. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 69,41 8 Sunday 63,095 ftraran cirrulitlnn fur the month subscribed and ma to be E. R Itaim. Circulation Manaaer. JSubacribera leaving th city ihould hav Th Bt mailed ! to .them. Addreat changed at often at requested. if THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG rr I HUH ill Last' call for Santa Claus! Fort Omaha and Fort Crook boys will have a real Cnristmas this year. . ." ' K ; Old Man Winter stood around as long as he kould, but he just couldn't stay off altogether. j C Vice President Marshall is passing up the chance of his life to break into front-page free publicity. I . Yes, but the war is over and you will have Ito wear new things some day. Eventually, why not now? : It is all right to be a Spug, but it is not an easy thing to practice the fundamentals of the roticijr louay. The Santa Claus myth is today just as beau tiful and comforting to the little tots who be- ieve in it as it ever was. . " Flu ban goes on tight today. If you have pe disease you -will have to stay at home, and might a9 well be in bed. Pais socialists have discovered that Wood- row Wilson is bourgeois. Germany long ago classified him as nonpareil. The city commissioners are advised to use Imasks when dealing with the gas question. IGood counsel for the council. W. Hohenzollern is going to preach his own Christmas sermon. This will relieve the regu- ar pastor of an embarrassing duty. With the lid off on both luxuries and neces sities, grouches will be compelled to fall back Jn the weather as a topic for complaints. The "kiddies" have a kick coming if the park Commissioner has failed to prepare the skating iionds. But it 'is not too late to remedy this. j Barred zones itv America are abolished and liens' can move freely today Experience ought lo teach them to get American citizenship as -farly as possible The senate has agreed to eliminate the tax n luxuries. Now, if the dealers will get the iame notion into their heads maybe the wage llaves will have a chance. Thirty thousand American graves will be ecorated in France today, a ceremony in which 4n hundred million American hearts will have jt part. It is an honor rolf, indeed. ';- Mr. Baker wants to confer higher rank and permanent honors on some of the generals, so f vhy not let the promotions go further down the ine and preach sorue officers who have earned fhem quite as well as the leaders? The goods on the merchants' shelves are no pod to anybody except to be disposed of profitably to those who need them. The mer- hant who advertises is the merchant who moves his goods. The bolsheviki have established a school in Moscow to teach the weird tenets of the insti tution. Education of some sort is sadly needed by most of them, and if the leaders ever get the plasses to a point where they really think, the nd of bolshevism has been reached. The speaker vis supposed to have been ompletely shorn of his power and prestige fvhen the legislature took upon itself the ap- i . , .. ... ... Ipoiniment 01 tne committees, from the scram ble beginning for the speakership the competi tors evidently feel that the job is still worth iiaving. 1 . j - 'Tis ' the day before Christmas, and all through the stores is rushing and pushing and ramming of doors by crowds that are tangled find jumbled and. swirly because they neglected their chance to shop early. And when they :nterge from the strenuous game they will go o their homes and next year do the same. Record Fire Losses November figures on fire losses in the Lnited States and Canada are extremely favorable when ompared with the record of October, and are better than those of November of last year, but he showing of the last 11 months is the worst In the history of the country with the excention f-1906, when San Francisco was destroyed by artnquake ana tire, the November lqss of 12,333,750 is small; in October th damage was 75,412,300: in November. 1917. property worth more than twenty millions was burned. Thus lie improvement in the month just closed is most pronounced, and the December figures will indicate whether or not Americans and Cana dians at last are learning how to protect their trttlammabie property. ' A large proportion of the loss of over 5300,- 800,000 since last December lias been due to larelessncss, an unfortunate American charac teristic, and to general indifference to the sug gestions of the experts on fire prevention, who fiave been most assiduous in the work of telling )ple how to protect their inflammable prop erty. In 1919 the fire loss ought to be cut down t least one-halt, but the probability is that the figures again will prove that Americans fail to Ice how greatly the resources of the country fan be" conserved by following the simple and affective f ules in effect in the cities of Europe, M'cre costlv fires are almost unknown in time rtf peace. Providence Journal. . . i" I- ' ' . , . FORM OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Whatever of gravity may have attached to the Paris Matin's suppressed article dealing with a league of nations is in a measure removed by the publication of the article. It may be argued from this that whit the censor at first regarded as an unwise admission has on second thought been deemed harmless. At any rate, it is inter esting as showing the trend of French' thought, and perhaps something of the sentiment of British statesmen, who have been quite chary as to details. The simplicity of the program is its chief attraction.- The Entente Allies, and presumably the United States, will agree as to the principles on which the league is to rest. Compulsory ar bitration and disarmament are included in these. When these matters have been composed be tween the consulting nations the question of territorial divisions and indemnity will be con sidered. At the beginning of the second stage of the proceedings Germany will be approached with a request to accede tO(the principles laid down in the first, and when subscribed to by the Germans the conference will be open to the admission of. neutrals. Earl Grey's statement that the peace confer ence will itself constitute a league of nations, if it "does not commit suicide," is significant in connection with this French outline. This sim ply means that the nations that fought the Ger man power and conquered it are going toifiic the terms, and others will be taken in on agree ment to abide by the conditions. It was this thought that led The Bee to say that on England's navy, the French army and the army and navy of the United States must finally depend order and tranquility in the world and the advancement of civilization. This does not mean a menace of force, except as the might of law and the sanctity of liberty founded on, law is supported by force .that is always a menace to the wrong-doer. A league of nations so formed will Jia've for its basis the pledged honor of three nations whose power and pres tige is founded on justice, and whose aspirations are for the greater spread of enlightenment. Such a league alone is worthy of support. n New Day Begins for Bohemia. A brief dispatch announces the inauguration at Prague of Prof. Thomas G. Masaryk, first president of the Czecho-Slovak republic. In time we may be favored with more extended ac counts of his reception by the people and the progress of his administration. The govern ment was already fairly well established, Dr. Masaryk's election as provisional president hav ing been accompanied by the formation of com mittees necessary to administer the affairs of the new republic, to maintain order and set in motion the machinery on which its future will depend. In this progress the Bohemians have set a splendid, example for the other peoples of Eu rope, not undergoing changes in their political condition. America contributed to this result in a greater measure than is generally known. Through the presence of Bohemians who had long resided in this country, and by the assist ance and guidance of the committee formed here at the beginning of the war, an agency was at hand to set the new republic on fairly solid ground at the start. Thus transition has been marked by little or ho disturbance and none of the disorder that has prevailed in Russia or other countries where the old form of government has broken down. Part of this ia due to "the almost entire absence of German influence among the Czecho-Slavs, who have constitutionally and traditionally re sented efforts of the Teutons to penetrate their racial essence. -The pertinacity with which these people have clung to their own ideas and have refused to be denationalized is one of the high points in all history. Dr. Masaryk's home-coming is notable for another reason. Not such a long time ago, as history moves, he fled from Prague to escape persecution because of his political teachings and activities. He has actually returned in tri umph, to head the government he dreamed of for hs country.' Few patriots in all time have labored with tiiore of devotion and none with greater success than this man, whom the world will toonor for his ideals and his persistence. German Influence in Mexico. The reca by the German provisional gov ernment of Minister Eckhardt from Mexico is said to have been occasioned by a hint from the United States to Berlin." That the incident has occasioned something of a flurry at Mexico City is also significant. Eckhardt seemingly does not know that the war is ended, so4 far as Ger many is concerned, but wants to continue his intriguing with Carranza. Only because such a course would be inimical to the United States, to be sure, which suggests the malevolence of the man who has done so much to get Mexico in' bad with the rest of the world. Carranza undoubtedly commences to realize that his day of reckoning is nearing, when he or his succes sors must make settlement for the outrages committed during the years of turmoil and brigandage that ended only with exhaustion. Much of this carried on under German tutelage, and no doubt is entertained as to the influence of Germany at Mexico since Carranza has been at the head of affairs there. Americans are deeply concerned in this, as under the Monroe doctrine the United States is prattically sponsor for Mexico. It will be up to the government at Washington to see that the claims are settled. This is why the clearing out of Eckhardt from Mexico is important right now, for that will perhaps open a way along which the Mexican government can be made to see where it stands and what it is expected to do to set itself right with other nations. Great Britain's notice to Holland that the Scheldt will be used to transport supplies, for the army of occupation is a reminder that if the English had treated Dutch neutrality with as little consideration as the Germans showed for Belgium the , whole course of the war might have been changed. At any rite, the presence of British gunboats at Antwerp in August, 1914, would not have' facilitated von Kluck's advance. But the British showed a true regard for treat ies and did not involve Holland in the war, which was thereby greatly-prolonged, but'quite as certainly won. - ' I Omaha women are a long way from France, but 'they' are making this an oasis for wounded soldiers on their way to reconstruct'on hospi tals. No part of the local w',work is more notable or worthy than this.' Right in the Spotlight Leon Bourgeois, who is mention ed as one of the probable represen tatives of France in the peace con ference, is a man of great political experience. In addition to the pre miership, which he held in 1896, he has at various times and in various cabinets filled the offices of under secretary of interior, minister' 9f the interior, minister of public instruc tion, minister of justice nd minister of foreign affairs. He has been president of the Chamber of Depu ties and a member of the French Senate. M. Bourgeois is a native Parisian, born in 1851. Throughout his political career he has been iden tified with the radical party. His forte is everything that relates to superior education. In 1899 and again in .1907 he headed the French delegation to the peace conference at The Hague. One Year Ago Today in the War. Austro-German invaders pieVced Asiago front, but were successfully counter-attacked on Buso Monte Valbella. Allied war of reprisal against enemy supply depots began with the dropping of ten bombs on Mann heim, on the Rhine, with injury to bridge and grand ducal palace. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. E. G. Potter, local agent for Wells-Fargo company, 'was pre sented with a carving set as a remembrance of the employes. Chief Seavey made the policemen Germany1 s Power to Pay Philadelphia Public Ledger. The limit of Germany's power to pay or, rather, of the allies' power to make it pay is not its present wealth; it is only "election clap trap" to talk as if it were. To take much of that fixed wealth from it say, its industrial equip ment would be drastically to reduce its power to pay. The limit is: How heavy a burden can be safely laid upon the German people without risk of bolshevism and repudiation on the one hand or a naked war of liberation on the other? The facts of the situation may as well be faced. Germany has waged a war almost wholly on allied territory. Correspondents accompany ing the various allied armies into the Rhine country are struck with the poignant, stinging .contrast between the sleek, comfortable, un harmed German cities which sup into peace al most as easily as American cities and the burned, dynamited, tragedy-haunted French and Belgian cities. If there were no reparation to France and Belgium, Germany would have won the war. It would enter the profitable competi tion of peace with a heavy handicap in its favor. It would be as if one mill owner burned his rival's mill and was not asked to pay for it. He would soon get all the trade. Then Germany has fought a cheap war. It cost it less than it did Britain, and its indebted ness is to its own people. Britain, on the other hand, is heavily in debt to us, and has further more sent us some four or five billions in secur ities, "which," says, Winston Churchill, "had been gathered as a result of two generations of prosperous trade." The British must lose the interest on these and pay the interest on their indebtedness and then go out and compete with Germany in the markets of the world. Again, Germany wins the war, unless it is re quired to reverse this balance which is today in its favor. a Christmas present of a barrel of apples. Mr. and Mrs. Al Blaufuss, 816 South Thirteenth street, are rejoic ing over the arrival of a baby boy. The Creche elected Mrs. T. L. Kimball, president; Mrs. R. W. Walker, vice president; Mrs. W. L. Curtis, secretary; Mrs. Thomas Kil patrick, treasurer. Wallace Broatch, son of Mayor Broatch, is home from Yale col lege. P. S. Eustis, general passenger agent of the Burlington, with his wife, arrived to spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Grif fiths, parents of Mrs. Eustis. Ernest Rial has returned from an eastern trip. The Day We Celebrate. Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, born in Mecklenburg, 39 years ago. Maj. Gen. James N. McRae, U. S. A. born in Georgia, 55 years ago. J. Frank Smith, D. D., of Dallas, moderator of the General Assembly of the Prebysterian church of Amer ica, born at Gadsden, Tenn., 50 years ago. Bishop Richard G. Waterhouse, of the I. L. church, south, born in Rhea county, Tenn., 65 years ago. George McAneny, chairman of the Postal committee of the American Newspaper Publishers' association, bom at Greenville, N. J., 49 years ago. Emmanuel Lasker, one of the world's greatest chess experts, born at Berlinchen, Germany, 50 years ago. This Day in History. 1800 An attempt was 'made at Faris to assassinate Napoleon Bona parte by an infernal machine. 1805 The American exploring party under Lewis and Clark went into winter quarters near the mouth of the Columbia river. 1811 Two thousand persons per ished in the loss; of three British warships off Jutland. 1822 Matthew Arnold, the Eng lish poet, born. , Died April 16, 1888. 1914 British airmen dropped bombs on German aeroplane sheds in Brussels. 1915 Trainloads of Christmas gifts arrived in the trenches for the allied soldiers. ' 1916 French Senate voted unan imously that France could not make peace while enemy occupied French territory. Timely Jottings and Reminder. Viscout, Morley of Blackburn, for many years one of the decidely big nien. in English statesmanship and litrare eelebrates his eOth birth day today. Instructions have been issued to American naval commanders ashore and afloat to grant Christmas leave today as liberally as possible to all th men in the naval service. Today has been set apart for an official reception to be given by the city of New York to the officers of the United States battleship squadron recently returned from Eu- roPc- Storyette of the Day. "They're always got a flippant answer ready." The speaker was Representative King. He was conducting a suf frage argument. "Our opponents ;have always got a flippant answer ready," he repeat ed. 'They're like the waiter in the cafeteria. " 'Waiter,' said a patron, 'there's not a single oyster in this oyster soup.' "'Well, said the waiter flippant ly, 'what about it? You had cabi net pudding yesterday, but you didn't find Daniels or Newty Baker in it, did you?'" Washington EDITORIAL SHRAPNEL. Minneapolis Trlbue: Mr. Brisbane says that Mr. Hearst only pays him J2.000 a week. - How can a man keep loyal on that? Washington Post: If the Gsrmans get too gay with the American army of occupation, the allies will set the Czecho-Slovaks upon them. -Kansas City Star: The American legation at Bucharest has been rob bed of $109,000 worth of goods. And what do you thlnklX Germans are suspected of having stolen the stuff. , Brooklyn Eagle: Soldier wno did n't leave America will have silver chevrons instead of gold, but a six-teen-to-one ratio is not suggested even by Nebraska statesmanship now. , Baltimore American: General von Kluck says that he and other Ger man generals made a mistake in notunderstandlng the spirit of the French soldiers. Accustomed to command human machines, they failed to take into aecount what might be done by soldiers encourag ed to nave the spirit of mev The extent to which the allied nations have been compelled to run into debt is indicated very clearly by the figures given by Thomas W. La mont of J. P. Morgan & Co. Before the war American indebtedness abroad was approx imately four billions.. That has been reduced to one billion; and, on top of that, America has loaned allied Europe eleven billions. Europe owes us so much that it cannot hope to pay even the interest in goods. We shall have to buy more European securities to maintain the balance. Is Germany to shoulder none of this debt? If so, its late war was the most profita ble blood investment in history. We may as well make up our minds to the fact, however, that there will be preferred pay ments and deferred payments. Some claims are more pressing than others. Belgium and France, Italy and Serbia must be "restored" to use President Wilson's word at once; they cannot wait. If Germany lacks the ready cash, or if these decimated nations cannot profitably and promptely employ it, German labor could quite fairly be drafted to this superlatively just task of reparation. In the race for recovered pros perity we must give our devastated allies a good start. Lloyd George is pledged against permitting Germany to pay its debt to Britain by dumping "cheap German goods" into the British market. This is what he means by his third condition that the payment must not do more harm to him that receives than to him that gives. It is quite obvious here again that the British pre mier vVs making an election speech, with one eye on labor and the other on the fair trade men. But in any case it is not likely that either Ger man products or German immigrants will be welcomed in any allied nation for many a day. There will be a sentimental tariff against them, whatever the fiscal authorities do. The medley of rumors and reports coming out of Germany makes it impossible to tell how mucjli danger there Is of the social, economic and political fabric of the new nation collapsing dis astrously before either a bolshevik or a kaiserite uprising. But such facts as we do know point to stability. The Ebert government is still in power and the Prussian Guard has rallied to its support. The Chemnitz election went 78,500 for the majority socialists as against 6,600 for the reds, thus repeating the poll of a fortnight ago at Dresden, which stood. 117,566 against 8,440. Germany seems to be, still stolidly .German. Only the poor are hungry, and that is no new experience for them. There is every prospect that the peace conference will have a solid Ger man government to deal with, and that it can safely impose conditions which will leave no doubt in the German mind for a generation as to who won the war. U-Boat Fiction Punctured During the active period of the war the le gend of the German superman was fostered in various ways; in no way more strikingly than by wonder-tales of. U-boats gigantic in size, miraculous in equipment and boundless in po tentiality. All seas were to be swept and all coasts ravaged through these diabolic craft. No voyage was to be too long for these terrors of the undersea, no storm too fierce, no opposing iorce sumcienuy aieri ana poweriui. There were believers in these legends of an indomitable frightfulness on the main. We are forced to confess that also there were those who took the tales with grains of sea salt. To both kirids of listeners comes the verdict of British naval men who received and examined the U boats as they were surrendered. The expert word of John Bull's best sailors is that there were no marvels in all the German submarine fleet, save as any boats built successfully to pro ceed beneath the waves partake of a marvelous quality. So the boast and blare of frightfulness by sea perish even as the blare and boast of fright fulness by land. There were Teutonic prodigies of invention displayed in the war. These had their equals, in cases their superiors, among the fighting instruments of the allies. The only monstrosities in the great contest were human. Fortunately for civilization, they were with the vanquished forces. New York World. Easing Up a Bit , "If profanity will help win the war, I'm for it," declared a noted American preacher in the, thick of the cussword barrage, about Chateau Thierry last summer! ' Reinforced by that ex pert clerical opinion, all the'doughboys within nearing proceeded to trace more accurately and vociferously than ever before the alleged ances try of the ex-kaiser. They kept it up, "to be exact, right through the forenoon of the 11th of November in this year of grace. And the chaplains who over heard them simply smiled benignantly when they did not join in themselves. But the war may now safely be declared won. It will be the job of the historians of the future to decide what part the concentrated cussing of the 22 allied nations played in the winning of it. It is.our job now to take a little thought of pre paring ourselves for our more or less distant return to English-speaking civilization. Whatever else may be said of it, no one can ever call 'The Stars and Stripes a prude or a stickler for old maid diction on the part of fight ing men. But the Stars and Stripes shudders to think of dad being affectionately addressed as "You old . !" by his beloved son home from the war. Or of the dire consequences if little brother should attempt to repeat lispingly his hero's animadversions on the subjei of army slum. What co you say that we all including the staff of the Stars and Stripes try to ease up a bit? How about cutting down our profanity output at the rate of one damn a day? Stars and Stripes, France. Speeders in New York Courts. A progres'sive increase in the speed penalty, including jail and bread and water, put into effect by the traffic courts of New York, gen erates wholesome fear among' auto speeders. During August, September and October, arresrs for reckless driving were 1,700 less than the record for the same months last year. Manhat tan judges realize that fines hit the pocket only, whereas iron-barred windows bumps the aver age skull, . . t,. , - r ' '-'" ! - " Back Vp the Boys. Omaha, Dec. 23. To the Editor of The Bee: I read the article about the order of Secretary of War Baker 'denying the United States soldiers their promotions after the armistice was signed on November li, and also your editorial comment on the same. Then again today in The Bee on the soldiers' page I rind a moth er's letter (asking expression of opinion), which Deems to strike the right key. But I fear that mother was too modest and did not fully an swer your impartial criticism. I feel the same as this mother, that our heroic khaki boys should hfive every thing Justly due them, and it would not seem possible our dear old Uni ted States, which advocates justice for all, would let such an inequitable order stand against the very ones who, if any partiality were to be shown at all, should be the first to De considered. The editorial touch es upon "swivel chair favorites and political pull patriots who nailed down commissions at home," etc Everybody knows these latter men never saw the front nor endured any or tne soul-racking and body-wrecking hardshipsfnor performed untold acts of heroism like our splendid boys overseas did. No one is envi ous of the commissions the men over here received. They may have earned them, but I cannot see the justice of awarding our "stay-at-home" soldiers advancement and cutting off our overseas boys from their, promotions. The latter gave themselves to the cause their health, strength', vigor, brawn, brains, ability of all kinds their very lives if need be and left be hind them everything worth living for to fight in the great cause of justice. Have we parents, wives, sisters, brothers end others con cerned not gladly opened up our purses, our hearts, ejlven our time from home and other duties and our own fine boys to win the war? Do we not expect them (the boys) to at least get their earned deserts? Have we not all been just and fair? Then how can a great honorable and glor ious nation tfke our beloved United States let such a deprecable order of injustice stand and not reward the boys who have more than suc ceeded in fulfilling their part of the great contract and are still in the army of occupation with what is their very own by right of merit? AN INTERESTED PARENT. "Self-Determination" for Ireland. Silver Creek, Neb.. Dec. 17. To the Editor of The Bee; The self determination people of Omaha and elsewhere who are agitating in favor of the independence of Ireland would have more solid ground to stand on if in the late war Ireland had whole-heartedly upheld the cause of the entente allies, which was the cause of human liberty, in stead of sulking and even conspiring with their enemies for their destruc tion. Had they done so, ignoring for the time their own grievances, England today would undoubtedly have been quite ready to give them pretty nearly everything they might demand short of absolute indepen dence. Now they will not get, and, in my opinion, ought not to get, even that measure of home rule England before the war seemed ready to give, and probably would have given ex cept for divisions among Irishmen themselves. As for "self-determination," it is sound doctrine as an abstract prop osition, but is not, fairly susceptible or universal application to concrete facts. Take, for example, the peo ple of our southern states during the civil war: that doctrine would have given them their independence, just as it still might do some time in the future, if accepted, in the unfortu nate event that the republican party should undertake to force upon them negro rule. But, really, is it not quite absurd, quite ridiculing, that so many peo ple should connect Wilson's name with the phrase, "self-determination?" Just as though it were a su perhuman child of his supermun dane brain, and not merely, as it is, a high-brow tendering "interpreta tion" -of that part of the Declara tion of Independence which, in plain Anglo-Saxon words, says that "all governments derive their Just powers from the consent of the governed?" No, now, when after untold suf fering and sacrifice, Great Britain has established its right to be ac claimed as the greatest and most powerfully organized civil force on earth, is not the time for a people who tried to destroy it to come to it asking favors, or even what they may deem to be their rights. Ap peals to Wilson will be vain, even if he were disposed to accede. As I have all along heretofore said, and as I say now, the entente allies may pat Wilson on the back and tell him what a great and good man he is, but when they come to sit down at the peace table they will take what they want and refuse what they do ne-t want, no matter whether Mr. Wilson likes it or not. Irish independence will be one of the things the entente allies will not want. CHARLES WOOSTER. Around the State Last week's weeklies overflow with . Christmas sweetness. The rush of "ads" and general business brought forth the customary note of cheer and good will. In many in stances the bosses switched from the "ad cases" long enough to whis per "Merry Christmas." Friends of Editor Buck of the Harvard Courier cannot say, "I don't know what he wants," and get away with it. The boss scribe gently men tions that his favorite pipe has lost its pull after four years of faithful service. If that hunch doesn't pipe the Courier's Christmas tree, get an axe. A golden opportunity for a unique "monument to our soldiers" Is featured by the Crete Vidette, a veh icle of vision and progress. The monument sugTested consists of "25 or 30 blocks of new pavement," which will covtr up the mud and in sure the returning hrroes a real joy ride. Moreover, the liome folks .oan join In the ride, afoot or awheel, and win a larger measure of the Joy of living. Go to it. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. "It la all well enough to talk of demoe rary, but society will not swallow that cobbler grandfather of yours." "It would If he. were only a sherry cob bler." Baltimore American. "Your wife seems very busy over her Ct.nstmas shopping." t "Yea, she lias quite a number of folki to get even with." Kansas City Journal. "Is he a tight-wad ?" . "Is he? Say, listen; when he cam to propose to me he thought he'd have to get down on his knees, and, would you believe It, he came In the oldest pair of trousers ha had" Yonkers Statesman. "Just ona kiss," ha begged fervently. "Certainly not!" replied the girl cold ly. "I'd as soon kiss a snake as you!" "That's all right, then," said the man calmly. "I saw you kiss a snake yester day." "W-w-what!" "Yes, you kissed the bookkeeper and he's an adder, you know." Answers. London. CHRISTMAS EVE. Tha Joybells ara ringing, the children ara singing. The atmosphere radiates Joy: Delights o'er homes hover with hop run ning over. ' All's gladness without an alloy. From hlKh and low placea beam out happy faces; No room is to worry or grieve; All sorrow la banished, all trouble hae vanished, For today Is the glad Chrlstmaa Evel The children excited, expectant, delighted, Anticipate Joys of the morn; With no thought of mocking, each ra ceptlva stocking Is hung for rich freight to be born. With feelings quite creepy, the llttj ye sleepy, Of slumber they try to bereave, Just a peep to be snatching of Santa Claus sera tnhlng His sooty way down Christmas Eva, The Christmas tree glowing with bril liance of showing, Gold, silver and glittering lights, Stands bright with a beauty mad by a sweet duty, A mass of the lovllest slghta. Of love 'tis a labor, with Jest as its aavor, As fingers quick shining wreaths weave; The young folks may prove it, but th old folks just love It This tree-dressing on Christmas Evl Baltimore American. Best for Who is the Public? Omaha, Dec. 22. To the Editor of The Bee: Will some kind indi vidual tell me who the public is? This public whom the newspapers claim to be the goat during the re cent car strike? They holler and chant about the poor public, and the public must suffer, etc. They car toon the public as walking doggedly along lik a martyr, while employe and employer wrangle. During' the strike I walked, and those of the "public" whom I en countered enroute were men who were heart and soul in sympathy with the union men. They were Working men, laboring men, and their cause .was the Union man's cause. The rest of the said public rode in automobiles, which means of conveyance is not very goatlike, in my opinion. If some of these champions of the public would canvass the factories, workshops, mills, packing houses and department stores they would get a new idea of the public's opin ion on such matters. , If the public were the gajat in the recent quarrel, then the citizens of America who paid the tax on this war WArp thA e-nats nf flpmncMCV. But such is not the case, for like? during the strike, so also during the war, a principle was at stake, and the participants directly engaged were merely fighting for the rights of those at home. J. J. CLARKE, 3159 Jackson Street. JuniperTar Coughs. Colds. Sore mi I hPAQt Mrs. David Martin, VWt S07 8. 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