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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. DECEMBER SO, 1918.
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t - Two days moVe of 1918, and then
, Tht Lincoln Traction company teems to
have had bad luck, alio.
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i k ' 1 Ramsay MacDonald it another who will get
less space in th newt from now on. v
John Dillon went down tinder the Sinn Fein
wave, but it it a safe guest his colors were flying
f v to the end.
, A Chitago dealer testifies that the price of
men't clothing isigoing down. Hurrah for even
that much!
Filling the "Winspear triangle" to make it
available for factory sites deserves a place on
the city's 1919 program.
Just why Togoland should be given to the
Czech republic is not at all clear, but if the
Bohemians want it, all right.
Attorney General Reed thinks the law gov
erning unexpended balances is wrong. He did
lot move fast enough in the first place.
The president didn't make any limericks in
London, but he did tell a funny story, and as the
after is an English classic, he got away with it.
i Time was ' in Omaha when any newspaper
; reporter could have written more than five lines
. about "Web" Seavey, and without announcing
hi death."
Nebraska's potash rs finally getting real
attention "at Washington, through the activity
if "Uncle Mose" Kinkaid, andlthe industry will
dc preserved as S result.
Herr von Hindenburg, who" is emitting pom
,pous proclamations abou. the unbeatable Ger
,nan army, is the same fellow who invited him
.self to dinner in Paris last April.
NATIONS IN ACCORD.
Mr. Wilson's speech at the Guild Hall recep
tion in London on Saturday is the most notable
of his utterances in Europe. " In this he, for the
first time, announces the, accord of the great
nations as to a program for the establishment
and maintenance of peace. This is to rest on a
concert of nations, the outworn principle of
balance of power being discarded. To give this
concert vitality, it must have the consenting
presence of the United States, Great Britain
and France as leaders, and this awakens curiqsity
as to what obligations each will assume. In
America the league of nations has long had sup
port, and now it is fast becoming a reality, but
so far the responsibilities membership incurs
are but hazily outlined.
All discussion, so far, has been in terms of
abstraction, but the hour when the peace con
ference opens its session will bring the time,
when concrete- statements must be given. Tha
is what we want to know. All are willing to
subscribe to the principle; even the Central
powers of Europe eagerly seized on the prin
ciple as a straw ttlat might save them from the
fate that engulfed their military autocracy. It
has developed that a wide difference of opinion
prevailed between England and Germany as to
the practical application of the theory.
It is gratifying, and encouraging as well, to
know that the great nations look ahead, with
unity of purpose at least, to the conference at
which all vagueness and uncertainty will be
dispelled.
s't A Chicago . judge finds that the crop of
"slacker" marriages of last' year is now bearing
its legitimate fruit in a host of abandoned wives
and babies. What elsevas ldoked for J
; The socialist who thought "Vic" Berger "too
slow a bird," is now serving a long sentence
In a penitentiary., This may check his speed to
a point where anybody can keep up with him.
Secretary Baker is now going to decorate
the draft board members. Not many of them
wanted a medal.to remind him of the service
he did, but itll of them deserve at least that
much recognition.
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An Omiha hoy writes from Europe the
Huns fulfilled their part of the armistice as to
e ammunition by the simple expedient of ' just
running away and leaving all 'material behind.
They were glad toet the chance.
A group of salesgirls in an Omaha depart-,
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- mem siuic auiuscu iiicmscivcs uuuug uai-
'gain day" rush tst week by placing fake pack
ages among the goods on sale Six disappeared
during the afternoon, and not one was returned-
ihis talejhas no moral. ..r ' ;
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- Stan Fein swept Ireland and will toon be put
"to its real" test. Ita leaders ought to remem
ber that they are not likely to be relieved) from
embarrassment, were , the- Ulstermen, tor
"whom a great world war intervened to save
.hem from the penalty of insurrection.
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- judge Woodroughha $100 bill that
appear! to be aa orphan, but if itsv ownership
it ever traced, it may open a wide vista at to
' methodt of both bootleggert and "booze
houndi.", The court will do well to 'inquire
'closely before that matter is, finally elated.
" The recommendation of the land coramisn
' sioner that the legislature take steps to repair
the permanent school fund for what happened
to it back ia 1893 it likely to revive Interest
in several items of unfinished business and may
$ven bring the famous cigar box into view again
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The Jolt of Silence
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When those tearful German ladies made
their appeal to entente womanhood for an ame
lioration of the armistice conditions no' women
of prominence on this side of the water troubled
to answer. But in France Madame Jules Sieg
fried, president of the National Council of
French Women, by way of reply, reminded"the
German women of a few bitter truths that had
escaped their memory. She pointed out that
when asked to protest against the violation of
Belginm and the sinking of the Lnsitania the
president of the Council of German Women re
plied: v V - ' . ' ,
"We are entirely in accord with our govern
ment and our people; the men who have as
sumed responsibility for Germany't policies are
jnst as dear to us as those who shed their blood
on the battlefield . . " ' v
To all, appeals for -help against deportation
of women and young girls, to all warnings that
a reversal pf fortune might leave German
women witnout the sympathy of their French
sisters, feminine Germany gave forth no reply.
"Why should we intervene now?" asks Madame
Siegfried. "Our pity, first of all, goes forth to
our own unhappy prisoners, cruelly decimated
by starvation and typhus; to our rescued popu
lations, shame'ully pillaged and maltreated. Let
Germany' wornca think, back a bit. ind then
they -will nnderttand 'our $ilece.'VNw York
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Education and Realities
Perhaps because so much of our national life
depends on the quality as well as the quantity
o? education we give to our youthr and for the
reason that all the springs of our existence have
been jarred by the war, our school system is
coming in for unusual consideration just now.
It began with the proposition, emanating from
the office of the secretary of interior, that the
schools be nationalized, in effect at least, by the
great extension of authority and powers of the
commissioner of the bureau of education. This
plan has encountered "serious opposition from
those who are wise enough to note the dangers
that would flow from federal control of all edu
cational effort.
Another and more persistent danger comes
from that group who find in the German system
of industrial education something extremely de
sirable. Its application will provide manufac
turers with well trained factory hands, and,
therefore, it should be adopted. Opposed to
the advocates of this system is the group that
devotedly clings to the purely cultural ideal of
school training, while a third division of educa
tors is honestly seeking the way by wjiich the
cultural effort of the one may be blended with
the practical of the other, and real .advance
made in the school work o the country.
- Observers who have the subject at heart are
agreed that much time is wasted at present in
American schools; too much is attempted, with
the inevitable result that not enough is accom
plished. This is pointed out by an eastern
writer, who believes that a method may be
worked out whereby industrial or vocational
training may be carried along side by side with
the purely cultural. He would go farther than
the Gary method by making the factories and
workshops serve as laboratories to supplement
the school room.
' While the production of wealth is not the
supreme aim of our life as a' people, earning a
living occupies most of us to the exclusion of
everything else. Therefore, the days spent at
school, which are short enough, should be so
occupied that the coming men and women be
fitted for the task of self-support, but even this
is secondary to the training that equips them
for the duties of citizenship. Sound and liberal
instruction in the responsibilities and amenities
of life should precede training in mechanical or
commercial routine if we are to realize our na
tional opportunity.. i
Right in the Spotlight.
Today is the 60th birthday of
Rachel Foster Avery, who, for many
years, was numbered among ihe
most active leaders of the women
suffrage movement in America. Mrs.
Avery was born in Pittsburgh, at
tended the schools in Philadelphia,
and later completed her studies at
the University of Zurich. In the
early '80s she gained a wide repu
tation as a reformer and advocate
of improved conditions for women.
She was made corresponding secre
tary of the National Suffrage asso
ciation, which post she held for more
than 20 vears. From 1891 to 1894
she was corresponding secretary of
the International Council of Wo
men. Mrs. Avery was also first
president of the Pennsylvania suf
frage association.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
British troops in'Talestine took
possession of Bireh.
British repulsed by Germans on a
front, of two miles south of Cam
brai. French forces on Italian front
stormed enemy positions in the
Monte Tomba region. '
In Omaha 30 Yean Ago Today.
Madame Camilla Urso, the great
violinist, gave a concert program at
the Boyd theater with an assisting
company of musicians.
While scuffling with Charlie Hunt
jn Leary's saloon on Sixteenth
Republican' Party to Settle
Railroad Problem
street, Mike McGrath, better known
as "Red Mike," broke his leg.
Trofessor Rigge of Creighton ob
servatory is all ready for the New
year's eclipse, which is to be a total
eclipse of the- sun and. visible at
this point. 1
Friends of Percye Ford are pleas
ed to know he has been promoted
to the position in the Omaha Nation
al bank, formerly filled by the late
W. S. Riggs. a
Owing to trouble with the power,
the bridge motor cars are running
only every 20 minutes instead of on
the 10-minute schedule.
Inland Waterway's Program.
All the agitation of recent years in favor of
utilization of the great water courses of the
country as commerce carriers has failed to bring
out the definite program .expected, and which
must be adopted, before success will attend the
effort. Until the federal aid gets beyond the
status of thelannual rivers and harbors "pork
barrel" the great necessity of the country will
be unrealized. Certain unrelated projects have
been pu into operation; the Ohio river im
provement, for example, and some similar work
done in the south, but theconnected system of
waterways that will supplement the railways
has not progressed beyond the dream' stage.
Its possibility is established, its desirability ap
parent and the benefits that would follow are
admitted. As a workable method for extending
federal aid to highway construction has been
found, with encouraging stimulation of state
L and local effort in construction, a solution for
the other elements of the national problem of
transportation must be forthcoming. Congress
will have to deal concretely with the railroads
very thortly, but it is not too much to suggest
that a great service can be performed by work
ing out a plan that may develop irtto a general
system whereby the highways, the waterways
and the railways may be co-ordinated into one
serviceable whole.,
State Hail Insurance Report.
Operations of the state hail insurance law,
as disclosed by the report just made for the cur
rent year, show that the experiment has not as
yet advanced far enough to determine its vaju
It is true that the sum collected for premiums
has been more thaiy enough to meet all ex
penses, including losses, abalance of $21,128.31
remaining in the state treasury. The Season
just passed was notable for its freedom from k
disastrous hail storms, and so jn favor of the
treasury to that extent. The comparison ofrisk
assumed with loss incurred is far more satisfac
tory as a basis for. insurance calculations than
the balance between premiums collected and
amount disbursed. Six thousand policies were
written and 714 losses, sustained." At the aver
age rate of loss120 more would have more than
exhausted the premiums collected, leaving a def
icit to be supplied from another source. The
fact that so few farmers took advantage of the
law shows that the men most interested are not
inclined to abandon their mutual or other pro
tection against hail-and storm losses for the
state plan. Time may settle the real value of
the state hail insurance law, but the mere fact
that its operations show a favorable balance-for
the year is not a proof of its entire stability or
usefulness. A bad year- may provide a better
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The Day We Celebrate.
Henry R Maxwell, attoruey-at-law,
born 1866.
T. A. Wells, attorney-at-law, born
1867.
Rudyard Kipling, regarded by
many as the foremost of present
day English authors, born in Bom
bay (of English parentage), 53
years ago.
Sir Sam Fay, w,Iio served during
the war as director of military and
ammunition train movements in
Great Britain, born 62 years ago.
Maj. Gen. Charles G. Treat, one of
the best known officers of the United
States army, born in Maine, 59 years
ago.
Stephen Leacock of McGill uni
versity, widely known as a humor
ist writer, born in England, 49 years
ago.
This Day in History.
1784 Stephen H. Long, the first
engineer to apply the rectangular
trussed frame to bridges for rail
roads, born at Hopkinton, N. H
'Died at Alton, 111. September 4, 1864.
1803 Francis Lewis, one of the
oldest signers of the Declaration of
'Independence, died in New, York.
Born in Wales in 1713.
1870 Marshal Prim, the famous
Spanish soldier who prophesied that
tht United States would become the
world's first military power, died in
Madrid of wounds received at the
hands of an assassin. Born Decem
ber 12, 1814.
1906 Baroness Burdett-Coutts,
the first woman to receive the
freedom of the City of London,
died. Born April 21, 1814.
1914 Fifteen persons killed in a
German air raid on Dunkirk.
1915 British passenger steamer
Persia sunk without warning in the
Mediterranean.
1916 Berlin announced that Pld
Marshal von Mackensen wat in
supreme command of the forces
operating in the Balkans.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is the fifteenth anniversary
of the Iroquois theater fire in Chi
cago, in which perished nearly 600
persons, the most of them women
and hildren. ,
President Wilson today is to re
ceive the freedom of the city of
Manchester, which function is ex
pected to mark the official conclu
sion of his visit in England.
St. Louis today will be the scene
cjf a notable v gathering of music
teachers from all parts of the United
States, the occasion being the open
ing of the annual convention of the
Music Teachers'- National .associa
tion. The Association of Railroad Ex
ecutives is to hold a meeting in
New York today to give final ap
proval to a plan to be submitted
to the senate interstate commerre
committee calling for prompt re
turn of the railroads to private own
ership and control after the passage
of remedial federal legislation.
Storyette of the Day.
Richard Le Gallienne said in. a re ¬
cent lecture: -
"Sincerity is the only thing that
will give a poet success. Technical
excellence. " such as Swinburne's,
counts for nothing with the public.
The public doesn't understand it.
''The public is a good deal like a
pretty girl I was talking to the othbr
day on the beach.
"'Of course,' I said Jo her, 'you
know what hexameters are, don't
you?' v
"'Sure,' she said. 'J guess I ought
to. I've ridden in thxm often
enough.'" ,
Large Loa'ns Listed.
Final sanction to a bill granting
a credit to France of 42.000,000 and
extending Great Britain's credit to
14,000,000 with the option of increase
by another 2, 000.000, has been iyen
'by the Uruguayan chamber. Ttresa.
credlta bear 5 per rent interest for
two yean and are renewable by mu
tual consent, ' v , -
George Harvey in North American War Weekly.
We were not of those whojeered when the
president confessed to congress that he was
stumped by the railroad situation. Indeed, we
found his frankness refreshing. It was his first
admission in recent years of inability to form
"a confident judgment" of his own mind, and,
as such, it constituted a disavowal of that omni
science, persistently claimed for him by his
sycophants and tacitly sanctioned by himself
which has proved so mischievous. His recogni
tion of the fact that it was a real problem
which could not be solved offhand, but "must
be studied, studied immediately and studied
without bias or prejudice" by those directly re
sponsible for its solution, was particularly en
couraging. So, too, was his consignment of the
whole matter to the legislative body, where
clearly it belonged. No matter if he did wish
to wash his hands of the perplexities involved
in order to free his mind for consideration of
the larger affairs which he had assumed as a
personally delegated delegation to the interna
tional conference; the net result of his passing
the buck to the, direct, representatives- of the
people was highly desirable. Hence our satisfac
tion. . . . , -.
And yet, during this busy week, he found
time to analyze the complexities which-he had
just pronounced insoluble and reached a definite
conclusion. How he did it and how he con
veyed the information to Washington can only
be imagined. It may have been by carrier
pigeon or by wireless or and this is by far hte
most likely supposition by telepathic tugges
tion. Perhaps it doesn't matter. In any case,
we have Director General McAdoo's word for
it , that "the president has given us, permission
to say that this (his own) conclusion accords
with his own views of the matter," thus evidenc
ing the intention of the administration to adhere
to the director general's quite rigid determina
tion, even after the director general himself
shall have retired to private life, presumably a
fortnight hence.
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Service Chevrons.
Union Station, Omaha, Dee. 26
lo tne Wdltor of The Bee: While
waiting for a train I happened to
react your reprint irom the New
lork Times under the title, "A De
tested Chevron.
Originally, the cold chevron, at
which so many cast longing eyes,
was to be worn only to designate
service iirtnc one or Advance or
fighting zone. The ruling extending
it to include all oversea: service
came as a direct result nf a howl
which went up from the "rear":
! and this new silver chevron Is the re
! suit of a further howl from still
j further to the rear.
Speaking from my own standpoint.
of a man beyond the draft a?e who
' enlisted as a private in April. 1917,
' leaving a business as well as an aged
mother and a fiance, I would like
to state me it ciian t require any
political pull, either lo got into the
army or to get to France. There
was no inoh at the recruiting office,
although there was quite a 1am of
applicants for officers' training
ca m ps.
This matter of chevrons in a pettv
affair. Decorate yourself with all
the gold chevrons and wound stripes
you can pile on. and if down deep
you know you don't deserve them,
all the army regulations in the world
won't make you enjoy them.
If you really faced the boche you
don't need any chevrons to remind
you of it. And don't let's hear so
many regrets. Look back and really
ask yourself whether you went after
these new specialties, aviation, motor
transport, artillery, etc., because you
really felt yourself peculiarly fitted
or whether your feet weren't a trifle
cool at thfl prospect of the infantry.
Keally a hum-drum existence, the
Infantry, but If yon want to fight yon
can usually find it in that branch of
the service, provided you don't wait
until th" show is welfstartefl before
yon dei-ide to become an actor.
And It Isn't ne'-essarv to label
yourself "officer." They'll find you in
due time if yon ct in the game early,
play It hard and forget promotion;
it will come fast enough.
You're the judge yourself as to
how you plaved your part; you can't
fool yourself with chevrons. Who
ant I? Just a first lieutenant that
served with soni" he-tnn in Alsace,
(he urcq, the Vesle, Juvlgny pla
teau and was ordered home as an
instructor Just before St. Mihiel.
Discharged the dav before Christmas
and on my way home. Forget it!
Keep your head and don't get nerv
ous If you fail to get your share of
hero-worship. When the army asks
for men again, just get Into the In
fantrv'lf you want to fight, for. after
all. the modern Improvements are
installed, it's still the old dnughbov
who does the real hand-to-hand
fiehting and he's the real hero of
this war. Mr. Buck Private Infan
try, who Is equally at home In the
trenches amidst mud. rats and coot
ies, In the wheat fields and woods,
nmonfr machine gun bullets or in
some village In the rear writing to
his sweetheart at home or speaking
French fluently to some charming
mademoiselle.
SOLDIER.
Sink the Ships.
North Platte. Neb-., Dec. 24. To
the Fditor of The Bee: I see by the
issue of December 23 Mr. Agnew is
'u-otestintr against the sinking of the
German fleet which has been turned
over to the allies. I take it he only
wants to save, as our food adminis
trator has asked us to do. but he
evidently fors-ets that our V. S. did I
not go Into this war for gain, but for
the saving of humanity. Now, if
we take over these ships for use or
for th purpose of giving to some
other country. It seems to me we
What this would mean, in view of the bil- d 2ZS Z
lions of railroad securities held by insurance i orders of the allies and sink every
companies, trust companies, savings banks, trust I ? of 'heln Live ? our s,t,a,na
, ' . .... , . . . ' arrt as Americans and there will be
tunas ana millions ot investors, one hesitates to nothing to regret.
contemplate. Depreciation in values, ot course, i
What, then, is the program so precipitately
evolved from the hitherto hidden recesses of
executive cogitation? Rut three courses, Mr.
McAdoo assures us, are open: (1) Government
operation of the railroads for one year and nine
months, following a proclamation of peace,
which would mean, in his judgment, government
operation for a period in no event longer than
two years and three months; (2) the prompt re
turn of the railroads to private control; or (3)
extension of the period of federal control to
five vears.
Although the director general strongly urge11
the adoption of course No. 3, continuing federal
control to January 1, 1924, the proposal need
not even be considered since congress has al
ready made plain the certainty that it will not
be entertained for a moment. So pronounced,
indeed, is the unanimity in opposition that no
measure to that effect is likely even to be intro
duced. Course No. 2, threatening immediate return
of the railroads to their owners without remedial
legislation, is equally unworthy of serious con
sideration upon both practical and moral
grounds. The increase in wages granted by the
director general total the huge sum of $700,000,
000, and, according to Chairman Sines of the
wage board, "tlier are remaining over 650,000
employes who will be included in orders to be
issued in the near future," thus making the "av
erage increase in wages" nearly, if not quite, 50
per cent. Dspite the increase in rates, now
incidentally in process of reduction, therefore,
present operation is producing an erfVirmous
deficit. Obviously the throwing back of prop
erties upon their owners under such conditions
would be disastrous beyond calculation. Prob
ably not one-fifth of the railroads would be able
to meet their fixed rharpes. to say nothing of
dividends, with the inevitable result that four
fifths or more would be plunged into bankruptcy.
her itruggle to free herself from
invader.
Toryism is already at work to dis
credit Ireland before the peace con
ference. This can readily be seen
In the tone of the articles now being
sent to American newspapers by cor
respondents In Europe. England is
financing this anti-Irish propaganda,
but it is doomed to fail of its pur
pose. President Wilson has gone
too far in outlining the purposes of
the war and no senator would hardly
risk his political career in ratifying
a peace treaty which still leaves Kng
land's talons clawing at Ireland's
vitals, even though Wilson declined
to carry Ireland's claim before the
peace conference.
J. E. CARLIN.
Full of .Meat.
Omaha, Dec. 25. To the Editor
of The Bee: Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year. I think this next
year will be a great, happy year,
don't you? We must all cct busy
and increase the supply of food
and clothes above the demand. One
reason there is so much bad health
is that people fail to realizo that a
craving for sweet stuff is only a call
for a kidney stimulant. About all
we need while on this earth is pure
food, pure water and why not music
and friendship?
I think in a year or two t lie pfo-
Oermans will be hack in Germany,
don't you? Did you ever notice how
manv real friends you have?
AN ODD FELLOW FRIEND.
upon a scale so vast that, almost to a certainty,
in the very time of its Rreatest possessions the
country would be engulfed in a panic such as
has never been dreamed of.
Whether the president, in even tentatively
approving such a proposition, appreciated its
gravity, especially in recollection of hispledge
of December 27, 1917, that "investors in railway
securities may rest assured that their rights and
interests will be as scrupulously looked after
by the government as they could be by the
directors," may well be doubted; but surely Mr.
McAdoo was awake to its dangers and probably
for that reason, it was taken none too seri
ously, but rather as a goading of congress into
action. . . .
There remains, finally, course No. 1, namely,
"Government operation for one year and nine
months following a proclamation of peace,
which would mean, in my judgment, govern
ment operation for a period in no event longer
than two years and three months."
Strange to say, Mr. McAdoo discards this
quite natural procedure, prescribed1, by the ad
ministration's own act, as wholly impracticable.
Why? Because, in the , first place, "less than
three months of the present congress remain"
an insufficient time for "providing permanent
solution." This, as a statement of fact, is unde
niable Most assuredly the present incapable
congress will expire on March ), greatly to the
relief of the whole country. But Mr. McAdoo
is laboring under an hallucination if, as it would
seem, he thinks the world is coming to an end
or legislation is going to cease simultaneously.
We. fully agree that a sane solution of this or
any other problem could not be expected from
this congress in three months, or in three years,
or ever. That is why the people took our
advice and booted it out of existence.
JFLTA M. SIEROLD.
1 Ireland and Knglnnd.
i York. Neb., Dec'. 24. To the Ed
I itor nf The Bee: There Is no com-
parison between Ireland and the
south, either during the civil war.
I since or now. The south helped
j form, and of their own free will and
with duly accredited representatives,
the United States. They were bound
I for all time to come by their action
i and not for a term of years or until
some time when they took the no
tion that they preferred to go by
themselves. Ireland, I mean of
course, Irish Ireland, had no part
in the act of union between England
and Ireland. Seven-tenths of the
Irish people were not represented in
the corrupt parliament that voted
away Ireland's liberty. English
statesmen from- Burke to Gladstone
and from Gladstone down to Lloyd
George have denounced the act of
union as one of the most damnable
and monstrous crimes against the
rights of a nation, the oldest In
Europe, ever perpetrated on any peo
ple. Mr. Wooster should bear in mind
that Ireland is not asking for any
"favors" of England. She is de
manding her rights, rights that were
paramount to the claims of any of
the allies, for she had been the
longest sufferer, had In the centuries
of brutal English rule, sacrificed
more, suffered more, lost more of
her sons and daughters through
murder, starvation and forced emi
gration, than Belgium, had as was
her lot under the heel of Germany;
pnd Ireland was justified, as Bel
ginm was Justified, in calling to her
aid whatever power she could enlist
" But there is another congress coming in on
March 4, when it should and probably must be
called into action. And that is the congress
which, Mr. McAdoo seems to have forgotten,
was chosen deliberately as a reconstruction
congress and charged by the country with the
responsibility of solving this a,nd all other prob
lems bearing upon readjustment. If it should
fail to straighten out the railroads within the
allotted time, neither Mr. McAdoo nor the presi
dent por the democratic party can be held in
fault. The blame will rest squarely upon the
republican party. Why not leave it there?
There is no better place in sight. Nor is there
anything more certain than that, if the repub
lican party cannot re-establish the railroads
upon a sound basis in two years, it cannot in
five
What we chiefly object to in Mr. McAdoo's
scheme is the same old pernicious thing of
perpetuating a war measure to engraft upon the
country a policy which the people have never
passed upon. He wants five years of experi
mentation in what? In anything to do with
war? Not at all. In government operation;
In government ownership to all intents; in gov
ernment socialism" in effect. And the wicked
thing 'about it is that government ownership
and government socialism is precisely what it
leads up to and would probablv render inevitable.
Foreign Languages In Nebraska.
Oxford. Neb., Dec. 26. To the
Editor of The Bee: After the war
la over and people had about for
gotten that Governor Neville had
ever appointed such a thing as an
Americanization committee, a part
of that committee has, over their
signatures, given to the public the
results of their cogitations for 14
long weeks.
Boiled down to plain English that
report means "Your committee dare
not at this time recommend the re-
enacting of the Mockett law or that
we should allow foreign language to
take the place of the American lan
guage in our schools. We make
bold, however, to crawl under the
cloak of religious freedom and rec
ommend that it is perfectly right to
use foreign language, especially
German, in any and all of our
churches where the preacher thinks
God can understand his prayers bet
ter in that language.
"We also slip in an extra recom
mend that children may be taught
foreign language In school where it
is round necessary, tnat they may
understand the foreign preaching.
We furtherrecommend that you be
tolerant and ' kindly persuaded to
ward any group of foreign language
spouters that may block your
streets or your places of business,
remembering they enjoy it and your
feelings don't count."
This committee takes an under
hand swipe at the State Council of
Defense by quoting some isolated
instance where their rules had been
misunderstood or misenforced, but
they give that council no credit for
making Nebraska a more patriotic
and a better state to live in during
the war. They point out a single
case where overzealous citizens
might have been a little too radical
in dealing with foreign language
preachers, but they never hint that
the council found many disloyal
preachers, and that our prison rolls
prove the Justice of their findings.
This committee met last Septem
ber and gave a hearing to the for
eign language propagandists of the
state at a time when we were in a
death struggle with the most bar
barous and cruel nation that ever
cursed the earth. That nation had
counted on those foreign language
propagandists to not only keep us
our of war with Germany, but to
embargo arms, ammunition and
food from the allies. This bunch
that the committee heard so pa
tiently at Lincoln was the same that
had smuggled through the damnable
Mockett law and the law to fleece
the taxpayers for publishing legal
notices in the foreign language press
and they bad been live wires in
getting results from these laws.
They were angry at the council of
defense for securing the ..repeal of
the former law and the submitting
of an amendment to our constitution
to prevent foreigners from voting.
They hated the council because it
had set about in a statesmanlike way
to Americanize those whose Ideas
were foreign to our country's wel
fare in that critical period by en
couraging them to use the Ameri
can language, think' American
thoughts and do American acts.
The council had exposed the fal
lacy of the foreign language wor
shippers' contention that this com
mittee seems to have swallowed as
true, I. e., that though citizens had
been here 30, and In some instances
40 years, and could do all kinds of
business and vote in the American
language, yet they could not under
stand a preacher or make God un
derstand their prayers only In a for
eign tongue. This committee plainly
wishes to make Itself solid with the
foreign language press as well as the
preachers; and recommend that we
do not worry, as the' government li
censes this press, hence weeds out
the bad papers. The reverse is true
and editors of these papers well
know that a thorough Americaniza
tion of our citizenry would kill their
trade. Is there any dupe In Nebraska
who believes this committee's report
that these editors are working for
Americanization? The preachers'
bread and butter rests on the same
foundation and like those ed'tors
spells forelgnizatlon of communi
ties. A. C. RANKIN.
GOLD
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ESEZBSS
WBSCSSaSSSSEK
Away with all such deceit 1 The people are
weary of restrictions, tired of autocrats and
sick of shams. The war is over and they want
a chance to get to work and regain enduring
prosperity for themselves and their children in
their own individual ways, as their fathers and
grandfathers did before them.
The republican, party was elected to give
them this opportunity. The democratic presi
dent is away. The democratic party is a wreck.
The republican party is potentially in authority
at this moment. It can appoint a committee to
take up the problem of the railroads as well now
as later. Let the republican party go to it and
prove itself I .
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Editorial Snapshots
Washington Post: The grown-up
nations will have to administer a
sharp box on the ears of the little
ones that are trying tgrab terrN
tory from one another. '
St. Louts Olobe-Democrat: It it
true, perhaps, that the world owes
every man a living, but it is neces
sary to find where the Jobs are given
out. i
Washington Post: Bill Hohenzol
lern now knows what the ancient
Americans were driving at when
they Inscribed on their flag, "Don't
tread on me!" ,
New York World: With niort
than 4,750,000 Prussian casualties
out of a total of fi,06ti,769 in all Ger
many, that former stronghold of ap
plied militarism pa(d a .staggering
price for its distinction.
Philadelphia l.edtrer: Whatever
the reason, those who have had oc
casion to write to t tie soldiers abroad
will agree that the Postoftice and
War departments have revealed
ama-'.intr incompetency In delivering
their letters.
Brooklyn Eagle: We trust Ameri
cans will carry olT no bric-a-brac
from- the kaiser's summer palace at
Coblenz, which they are occupying.
Teuton crown princes must be ed
ucated by example In the principles
nf the Decalogue.
Kansas Cltv Star: Germany has
delivered only 2.000,000 of the 2.500,
000 tons of shipping the armistice
terms required her to hand over to
the allies for the provisioning of that
country. But that shouldn't present
a very knotty problem to the allies.
Germany will merely get that much
less food.
New Tork Herald: Here in At.
torney General Gregory with an
opinion that the period of ten daya
after adjournment of congress, which
the constitution gives the president
In which to sign or veto bills, does
not begin to run until an engrossed
copy actually reaches him. This con
tributes to the comfort of an ab
sentee president. Who can say when
the official text of a bill may reach
him? Great are the Interpreters ot
the law!
FLAG SONG.
Oh. dark the nlcht and dim tha day,
Where first nur fin nrose;
It flti'ti-ri'd bravely In ths fray
To mpt oVrwlielnilnK fciei.
Our fath'Ma navr thn aplondnr ahlna,
Thy dnrcd and suffered all.
They won our freedom by the fltgn -The
brtly Hlsn, the radiant alien,
Of the ajar that never fall.
fhorus
All hall tn th.-e, Tonne Oloryl
Anions the flaps of earth
We'll ne'er forfrrt the story
rif thy heorle birth.
Oh. wild the later storm that ahoolt
The pillars of the state.
When brother against brother took
The final arms of fyte,
But union lived and p-are divine
Unfolded brothers nil:
The fins floats o'er them wlh the stpn .
The loyal sign, the equal slirn,
Of the stars that never fall.
Chorus
All hall to thee, Old (ilory!
(if thee our heart's desire
Foretells a golden story,
for thou hast eome through fi.-e
Sow flerrer than all wars before
That raged on land or sea.
The Ulant Robber's world-wide wsr
For the thlnt-s that shall not be!
Thy sister banners hold the Hue;,
To thee, dear flap, they call;
And thoti hast joined them with the rgn
The heavenly slpn, the vlc'or-sli?n,
Of the stars that never fall..
Chorus
All hall to thee, New Glory!
We fallow thee unfurled
To write the larger story
Of freedom for the world.
HKNTtY VAM DYKE In Phlla. Ledger.
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