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6 B - THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEK: JANUARY 5, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUKDED BY EDWARD BOSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR fHK BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PBQPBIBTOB . MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS E?,!.,!,tI!,itd Pnm: " ' Th B U mam Mr. la MOIMMlf WUtMl to Its as, for publlcmttoo of all am dlipttchM eradlted ILi' 2'.,0l.?i'Jrw,M CMdlled m W uid !) Uu local Mm pttblltlud berein. All right of publloaUoo of ew special lipateius or olio resorted. a' 'i 'r, a S c OFFICESi ttlssio People's Gu Bulldin. Omtno Too Bee Bids. E,i0'-? Wfto Ate. South Omshs-MlS N 8t aT.ifll'.o.Pi i C""re. Council Bluff-) 4 N. Utln 8t ymiliHtoo-1311 O 8t UnooH-Httls Bulldlof. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 69,418 Sunday 63,095 Subscribers Uaviai tho city should bovo Tho Be moiled to mow. Addroot changed a often oa requested. Old Boreas still laughs at the weather man. ! . - Mr. Wilson again lifted his glass at Rome. Me may contract the habit. .. A peace commission might find something to do at the Omaha city hall. We can think of a better use for a wash tub than to contain a "signal fire." Price of radiators has been cut, but most folks are concerned over their heating capacity iust now. Even yet no excitement has developed over the fact that the legislature is to meet on Tuesday. I t ( J f The question of control of prices for gas has been put over for a month, but the meters will click right along. The call of the ice field is quite as loud as that of any of the other justly celebrated and well known fields just now. Now let the company and the men get to gether, adjust matters on the basis of the award and givevthe citizens better service. Semenoff says he would ' welcome United States troops to Siberia, a fact easy to under stand, for it weuld enable him to let go. "Huns last!" is the order on food distribu tion, and to this the world will say amen. Had it not been for the Hun famine would not exist. The coal man is not worried just now over what to do with that surplus stock. If this weather keeps on he will be even on his life by April 1. The Germans are turning over airplanes to the Americans at a rate that promises to supply our army with Fokkers, even if the home outout Xdid fall short. L-t As suggested by The Bee some weeks ago, peace comes first on the program, and then a league of nations. This is caring for the busi ness in proper order. I The president made the journey from the Quirinal to the Vatican with such ease as sug gests the hope the way may be cleared yet for fcuch a trip by others. f When the city commissioners finally got the ;Y udget adjusted it left a little balance of $14t,000 lannronriated. but do not worrv a nlace will X ffl r - - J 1 ..... t found to spend that. m tit i ' i Mr. McAdoo fears the railroads will be " 5 fought into politics if his plan for a five-year t yxtension of control is not continued. One is cj pardoned for wondering where the roads have vjy jcen for the last forty years. If ? I V Mr. Wilson has been made a citizen of V f,f lome, which, added to the honors conferred on j", at rans, Mancnesrer, uuonn ana otner h1 i yes, will give him some distinction, but he n ; A probably continue to cast his vote in New f ;rsey. ( The The blessed bolshevik is spreading light and V teace among the peasants of Galicia now, ac- junts saying the reds are murdering, robbing lJ "d burning at thev oass. Atilla's hordes never rv. y Vj Vpassed the outfit that does homage to f IL:.,. f uF.rty-four farmers out of a total of 100 pjjnberi in the lower house of the Nebraska I slature ought to ensure proper care for the fijL I .rests of agriculture. One banker is listed 1 1 ng the members, and the question is how I 'UJie get there? ill the bovs were finally removed from the HJjhern Pacific, and the boat can remain on tlielsandbar Indefinitely now. The shipwreck and rescue provided an extra thrill for the sol diers, most of whom had had enough of it be fore they started for home. Selling Utility Service I '-0 American public utilities with few excep tions have been fairly well organized to produce service, but are amazingly unprepared to sell it. Controlled almost wholly by financiers, lawyers and engineers, the American utility group, rep resenting approximately $10,000,000,000 of in vested capital has tried to do business without advertising. It has left the public it serves Ignorant of the value, cost and fair price of what it has to sell t . It has permitted its political, assailants to do 99 per cent of its advertising. The daily papers with singular want of self-interest, instead of - teaching the utilities how to advertise usefully , and intelligently, have lent their columns freely to the adverse and destructive advertising gjven the utilities by theorists who never put a nickel into the public service and knew nothing of it, ; anil by shrewd political freebooters who used ' this means of retaining public office. As a result the public in most American cit- jiaturally fair and just when it knows the appears to believe that a i-cent cartare ensatory when bread sold at S cents a loaf itirter at 30 cents a oound is still comoen- Iry with bread at 10 cents and butter at 75 .s. - It is not yet too late to apply modern mer- dising methods to the public utility bast , It is socially desirable that this be done ;at the business area subjected to wasteful, whtaionary, incompetent political mismanage- . tacM be no enlarged. It can be done only if tl s?vef9 ot the 'Utilities will without loss of hnt unlace merchants in charge of their orooer- is abitith instructions to inform the public thor I one wi through liberal and persistent advertis 1 1 - . the nature, scope, value, cost and fair t fvt. her services. Frank Putnam in Public WHERE IS THE LIMIT? Congressman Green's criticism of the pro gram looking to indefinite retention of Amer ican forces in Europe for police duty brings up the question of the limit to our responsibility in this direction. When we entered the war it was with an understanding that we would see it to an end. After we got in conditions changed somewhat, especially when we encour aged the German people to overthrow their gov ernment in favor of a more democratic form. Did we then assume anything of an obligatory duty to stand by until the new government was on its feet? And how far are we bound to as sist in the setting up of stable governments for the new nations that are coming out of the chaos into which European geography and pol itics have been merged? Can we retire before the Slovakian republic, Poland, Russia and the other countries are on their way to prosperity, with social and political institutions on a stable basis? These questions must have an answer. Mr. Wilson said at Manchester that we have no con cern in European politics as such. To this all will agree, and for that reason it would seem that we are not obligated to maintain order in definitely over there. It would be convenient, and in a sentimental sense desirable, that we police Germany and other places needing over sight until the people are ready to behave them selves and go it alone in managing their own affairs. We would thus relieve the established governments of Europe of a duty that is both costly and distasteful. Our philanthropic impulse may nof carry us that far. The young men who will be held in the army service in Europe are needed at home; the preservation of order over there im plies some sort of responsibility for the future as well as the present, and we are not ready to assume over the affairs of any European coun try such guardianship as we hold over Cuba. Our experimental plunge into Europe's dis putes shows a steadily widening vista, and it may be well to determine just' how far we are going in that direction. Europe's "Hunger Map." The statement made by Herbert Hoover at Paris on food conditions in Europe gives the situation a most serious aspect. More than 125,000,000 people face starvation, and must be relieved for at least six months. Most of these have no means wherewith to buy food, so it must be given without charge or sold on credit. Co-operation between the existing governments of Europe, with aid from the United States, will relieve this situation as far as possible, but many must inevitably perish because of the lack of transport. Huge quantities of food sup plies are now piled up at Adriatic ports await ing arrangements for distribution, these being delayed by shortage of transportaiton and lack of means for giving out the relief. Here is the saddest picture of all the war, because the suf fering mostly falls on the innocent and help less. America must assume the big job not only of providing the food, but sustaining the credit that must be extended the new nations and those that are destitute. Europe's "hunger map" is of more importance than any political map in the world right now. - ' wl thi Felicitations and Facts. President Wilson and King Victor Emman uel exchanged felicitations at the Quirinal in a way that bodes good for the continuance of re lations between . the nations on an amicable basis. But remember that for the moment Italy presents the most acute phase of the com ing peace conference. That country entered the war on the terms of a convention ratified at London in 1915, under which certain pledges were made by Russia, England and France that will be now redeemed only with extreme diffi culty. These refer to Italia Irredenta. At the time, before the dismemberment of the Austrian empire, it looked feasible to favorably regard the Italian claims on the Adriatic. A new ele ment was injected when France first, and later other belligerents, including the United States, recognized the national aspirations of the Jugo slavs. These proposed a union that will in clude Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegr'o and Dalma tia, with some disposition yet to be made of Albania. Italy has made claim for a large por tion of Dalmatia, under the secret agreement made with its allies. Against this the Jugo slavs vehemently protest and a feeling of bit terness has come about that will not be easily turned to harmony. As we have given some thing of a promise to the one side, and are bound by friendly ties to the other, our position at the great conference is not going to be so easy as might appear from the exchange of compliments between the leaders. Nebraska a Manufacturing State. Considering Nebraska as an exclusively ag ricultural state is due to the fact that stress is placed on the crop output, because that is the state's chief source of wealth. However, the report of the state labor bureau will give a pleasant surprise to many who are not familiar with the facts. Detailed reports are given for the year 1917 covering 1,449 manufacturing es tablishments, in which4 were employed 29,842 hands, to whom were paid wages amounting to $23,664,640.72, an average weekly wage of $17.82. Capital invested is returned at $84,619,764.88; value of stock used, $269,876,144.94, and value of product $541,495,184.75. The report also sets out that 67 per cent of the output of the state's factories was consumed within the state. While the figures for 1918 are not given, they will probably sustain the showing made for the pre ceding year, although the incident of the war disturbed conditions to some extent. The report of the compensation bureau shows that for ten months of 1918, from Jan uary 1 to October 31, cases of industrial acci dent, in which effect of the injury continued for more than one week, were 2,126, for which $90, 967.48 was paid in compensation, an average of $42.31 per case. For Injuries lasting less than one week 4,927 cases were reported, and $14, 311.58 was paid for hospital or medical atten tion, the average per case being $2.90. A total of 18,954 days of work were lost on account of accident These figures indicate that Nebraska has a considerable manufacturing interest, and that the people of the state are patriotic in the mat ter of buying home-made goods. Officers who have made good in service are to have a chance to remain in the army under reorganization plans, saya General March. This is wisdom, and congress should recognize it One Year Ago Today in the War. Lloyd George restated the British war aims to be the restoration with reparation for Belgium, France, Serbia and other occupied countries, reconsideration of the Alsace-Lorraine question, and the passing of Arabia, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine from the hands of the Turks. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Kolteier celebrated their silver wedding anni versary at their residence on North Twenty-third street with friends, . . 1 A music ana reiresnmenis. TTi7firli itirr !e rmAw (rr tVtt titfr bTVL J llllllg la BUJ aw. L six-day bicycle race at the Coliseum. Among the entries are Frank Dingley, Jack Prince, "Senator" Morgan, Tom Eck, Charlie Ash inger, and Mile. Armando. Charles Fanning, George Canfield and Chstrles M. Kosters are at Hot Springs. The Third Congregational church has issued a call to Rev. Dr. W. A. Thain of Galesbtirg, 111. "The Omaha Watchman"died with the old year and in the future "the Omaha Mercury" will take its place. Jack Crooks says he won't play ball any more. He's in the mail ser vice and declares he'll stay there. Harry Morford has decided to join the regular army. This Day in History. The Day We Celebrate. Maj. Gen. Frank Mclntyre, U. S. A., chief assistant to General March, chief of staff, born at Montgomery, Ala., 54 years ago. Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, U. S. A., who commanded the Eight ieth division of the national army in France, born in New York, 58 years ago. Rudolf Eucken, writer and philo sopher winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1908, born in Ost friesland, 73 years ago. Asbury F. Lever, representative in congress of the seventh South Carolina district, born at Spring field, S. C, 44 years ago. Rev. Olympia Brown, pioneer re former and equal suffrage advocate, born at Prairie Ronde, Mich., 84 years ago. William Bennett Munro, profes sor of municipal government in Harvard university, born in Ontario, 44 years ago. This Day in History. 1757 Damien's attempt on the life of Louis XV of France. 1806 Lord Nelson's body lay in state at Greenwich hospital. 1858 Johann Joseph Radetzky, a famous field marshal in the Austrian service, died at Milan. Borfl in Bo hemia in 1766. ' 1872 Overland mail first traveled through the Mont Cenis tunnel. 1881 International Sanitary con ference met in Washington, D. C. 1890 British government de manded the immediate recall of the Portuguese forces from the British sphere in Africa. 1896 Cecil Rhodes resigned the premiership of Cape Colony. 1915 United States settled its own protest on detention of cargoes by the British by certifying ship ments. 1916 j-Austrians admitted partial withdrawal from Czernowitz. 1917 Russian offensive spread to sector between Baltic coast and Tiga-Mitan road. Timely Jottings and Reminders. The week beginning today has been designated as a week of prayer by the Federal Council of Christ in America. The Methodist churches through out the world have designated the week beginning today for observ ance as "Mobilization Week." Owing to the live problems slated for discussion, the 16th annual con vention of the Federation of Zionist societies of Canada, which is to be gin its sessions today at Toronto, is expected to be the largest and most important convention ever held by that organization. Storyettes of the Day. Former Secretary McAdoo told at a Washington luncheon a loan story. "A pastor in a New Jersey vil lage," he said, "devoted a half h6ur one prayer meeting night to a loan appeal. His appeal was forcible. It even touched the rich old deacon, who hadn't subscribed to the loan hitherto on the ground that he could get a better rate of interest else where. "'I'll take $50,' announced the deacon solemnly from his pew. "Then, as he sat down, a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling, striking him a pretty hard blow on the head. He rose again hurriedly. He had a scared, awed look. " 'I mean $500,' he said. "Then Brother Jimmy Connor shouted lustily from the amen cor ner: i "0 Lord, hit him again!" At an engineer's shop in the east the proprietor had one man upon whom he could rely for being punc tual to his time. Just recently he has fallen from his habit and on sev eral occasions has been late. He was behind time a few morn ings ago and the proprietor called him into the office. "Can't you manage to get here at your time, James, as you used to do?" he said. "I can't sleep at nights, now. sir, and it makes me late sometimes, but I will try and alter it," replied the man. 4 "If it is sleeplessness you suffer from, James, why don't you consult a doctor and find out the cause?" "Oh, I know the cause, sir; it Is six weeks old." Chicago News. When the Boys Come Home. New York World: The Pennsyl vania railroad is preparing to give their old jobs or jobs equally good to its 24,712 employes who were fur-loughe-1 for military service. That is a pretty big army corps of lUelf. But the essential fact is the prece dent set by this great railroad not only for other railroads, but for all companies whose employes went to the war Jn large numbers, and on whom the moral obligation rests ot taking iaem back on the old terms. Views and Reviews J2i!tts. Something About the Diet by Which Mr. Taft "Reduces' The visit to Omaha disclosed ex-President Taft in particularly good humor. He said he always liked to come to Omaha, and said it in a way convincing that he means it. At the dinner in his honor at the Omaha club he re peated the sentiment with assurance that he was specially glad to be the guest of the club, as he had been on various previous occasions, and particularly this time that it was made an event warranting the presence of the ladies in a men's club. "Such an achievement alone," he added, with that characteristic chuckle, "is worth traveling two nights and a ride on the Rock Island."', By way of emphasis of appreciation a post script added by Mr. Taffs secretary to the let ter to me arranging the details of his entertain ment is conclusive evidence. It reads: "P. S. I remember the Omaha club dinners very well and wish I were coming out with Mr. Taft." In physical appearance Mr. Taft is appar ently in what would be called "the pink of con dition." He is down to 176 pounds, which for a man of his height and large frame 19 down some. Naturally, nearly everyone meeting him remarks on his "reduced" appearance, and he talks abotitNit with an engaging frankness and gives credit to the strict observance of a diet which he, lawyer-like, distinguishes from the observance of a strict diet. "I'm looking forward to that dinner tonight, and I'll do justice to it," he joked on his de barkation from the train, "for in anticipation I ate no lunch." Afterwards at the dinner table, however, he disclosed the fact that going without lunch is part of the diet. "I eat a fairly hearty breakfast," he ex plained, "and my next real meal is the evening dinner. I eat no sugar or sweets at all, and meat never more than once a day. I do not restrict myself on meats or fish at all except that pofk and salmon have too fat-producing qualities. I do not eat potatoes or starchy foods. Oh, yes, there are a lot of good vegeta bles I can have all the time. No, it's just an inherited disposition to take on flesh that I have to guard against. My boy. Robert, while at Yale weighed 185 pounds, and I said to him, "That's just about what I weighed when I was at Yale so you can see exactly what is ahead of you." So Mr. Taft ate the oysters, the soup, the meat, the asparagus salad, as they were served, and without any left over on the plate, but passed up the potatoes, the ice cream, the cake, the supar in the coffee. After it was all over he walked back to his hotel notwithstanding the below-zero temperature, replying to an in vitation to ride in a limousine, "No, thank you, I want the exercise." Here's one that produced a Taft chuckle! When "Bill" Gurley was presented to "Bill" Taft as the man who would present him for his after-dinner address, he said: "Well, Judge, I hope you won't feel like re peating what another distinguished orator ex claimed under similar circumstances 'From our traducers and introducers, Good Lord de liver us!' " I note the death of a long-ago friend of my college days, "Nick" Murray, who presided over the library at Johns Hopkins university when I was a student there. Probably not many hereabouts know or have heard of him, but there are a few. At first he was assistant to William Hand Browne, who combined in him self the duties of library director and professor of English, teaching the English literature part of the first year course listed as "P-H-E," the other legs of the triangle being the study of physical geography and history. A corresponding follow-up course was labeled "L-E-P," which translated meant logic, ethics and psychology. I remember President Gilman once likening these combinations to the famil iar railway abbreviations such as the B. & O. or C. B. & Q., and calling them "our short cuts to knowledge." But to get back to "Nick" Murray, he was a veritable human cyclopedia and compendium of book knowledge, or, rather, knowledge about books, and was a great help to all of us who had to "look up" things in the vast accumulation of volumes in his care. He was an uncle of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university, as is indicated by the name. It is some years since I last saw him, but he was always cordial in harking back to the Johns Hopkins days. Any Tongue Will Serve Now Away back in the dark days of last February there was printed an Associated Press dispatch from Berlin that would make strange reading if it were to come across the water now. It was to the effect that the members of the Deutcher Sprachverein, or German Language association, had adooted a resolution earnestly advising the chancellor to decree that when the time came tot establish terms of peace all the negotiations should be conducted in the German language. Only in that tongue were the rep resentatives of the vanouished nations to be allowed to say what little they would have to say when their fate was decided. That proposal was highly characteristic, and there is no reason for supposing that if the Germans had won they would have seen noth ing unreasonable in adopting it, though to have done so might have had its practical inconveni ences, even for the victors. But February is long ago. Much more than 11 months have passed since then it is a whole era that has elaosed. and now the Germans are thinking not of how to emphasize a triumph but of how to escape from a few of the con sequences of utter defeat. They woujd accept mercy, no matter in what language it might be expressed. They are asking for it. too, in all the languages they know and, to give them due credit, thev know, and know well, not a few. Yet their linguistic abilities did not save them from misunderstanding all their neighbors, near and remote. Their learning was a snare, as learning often is when its possessors make wrong use of it. New York Times. People and Events Washington could furnish enough swivel chairs for the peace conference without missing the number. t A lawsuit over a horse's kick delivered in 1907 is going the rounds of Indiana courts, and promises to rival the celebrated Iowa calf case. Luckily the horse got his kick in first. A 14-pound sweet tater graced the festive board of Champ Clark around New Year's. Sweetness long-drawn-out. Wonder if any of it will keep until delegate time in 1920? , Lucas Godic, 93, and his wife, Mary. 84 years old, of Chicago, passed away within a few hours of each other and were buried together as the old year dropped to the rear. Together they traveled life's highway for 65 years. Death did not divide them. , Old Doc Tanner, 87, the famous faster, is no more. Gone with the waning hours of the old year. Thirty odd years ago the doc. pulled off his record fast of 40 days, although the neces saries were reachable without an extension ladder. A like stunt nowadays might command as much publicity, with the added advantage of saving treble the money. Down New York way the authorities think they have theater ticket scalpers driven into a hot corner. A new ordinance requires a license fee of $250 a year and limits the scalping price to 50 cents a ticket. As a further safeguard the regular price of admission must be printed on the face of the ticket. . Transients in the big town now will have some chance of seeing a show without forking over, a Liberty bond, Sioux City's packeries last year paid out $182,500,000 for live stock. The aggregate business of the stock yards increased $62,600,000 over 1917. - Chicago plans to make the Wash burn school, where young men and women have been trained to become skilled machinists for war produc tion, a permanent industrial prepar atory institution. Boston is considering plans for a memorial to its heroes of the world war. The plan most favored pro vides for a white marble arch with a span of 80 feet, to be erected at the intersection of two streets near the Common. St. Louis and Kansas City street railway companies last spring were tickled by an extra cent fare grant ed -by the state commission. The 6-cent fare came easy and whetted appetite. Bath companies are now hustling for 8-cent fares. Chicago patrons of the postofllce last year made a new high record of money turned in for stamps and things, the total rising to $32,677, 000, exclusive of money orders which amounted to $379,040,000. netting $152,691 In fees. Kansas City lost Its light in the state supreme court against 6-cent fares. The most interesting point in the adverse decision is that a city may grant the use of its streets for traction purposes, but may not reg ulate the charge for such use. Philadelphia lets go a roar against the plan of the police authorities to impose a tax on automobile owners for the trouble of recovering stolen cars. Some quizzical Quakers want to know what police are for, any how, if not to chase thieves and re cover stolen property. The Commercial club of Toledo traces with painful exactitude the progressive rise of the cost of gov ernment in that city. In a circular from the club's publicity bureau a 10-column table shows that revenues of the city In 1906 averaged $13.74 per capita and in 1919 they will amount to $20.63. The club Inti mates the speed exceeds the bounds of safety. A colony of wealthy cottagers near Oyster Bay, L. I., propose to secede from the town and flock by themselves municipally. The burg mapped by the colonel Is all right as towns go, but the Oyster Bay tax gatherers exercise a reach and a touch that Is painful in regularity. As a consequence the plutes will try out the Wilsonian policy of self-determination. HERE AND THERE Glasgow was the first city to intro duce women drivers and guards on its street railway system. Wages of building trade workers in Germany have doubled since the period preceding the war. , A surgical tourniquet has been patented that is made of rubber tub ing that can be Inflated by an air pump to tighten it. Iceland counts farming as one of her leading industries. She excels in sheep-raising and in dairying. Iceland exports about $270,000 worth of butter In a year. A Bath, Me., man had a cow to sell, but could get no better offer than $76. So he chopped the cow up and, collectively, she then amounted to $150. Nearly 30,000 women registered with the Bridgeport (Conn.) office of the employment service recently, as the result of a lively advertising cam paign to enlist women for industrial employment. The countries of the world In which earthquakes are most frequent are Italy, Japan, Greece, South America (the Pacific Coast), Java, Sicily and Asia Minor. The lands most free from the convulsions are Africa, Australia, Russia, Siberia, DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Why la an old beau like a man giving the finishing touchea to hta costume?" "Why, Indeed?" ''Because he la alwaya buttonholing tho buds." Baltimore American. Mias Prittlkld But, father, ho la a man yon can trust. Her Pa Gracloua, girl! What I want la one I can borrow from. Indlanapolla Star. "Much bothered with trampa out your way?" "I waa until I tacked up a sign on my gate." "Ah I 'Beware the dog,' I aupposo." "Oh, no. Simply 'Farm help wanted.' " Boaton Transcript. "Charley, dear," said young Mr. Tor kins, "have you a minute to spare?" "Yea." "Well, I wish you would tell me exactly what 1 meant by a league of natlona and freedom of the seas." Washington Star. Newlywed Have you never thought se riously about marriage? , Singleton Certainly not No man ever thinks seriously about marriage until after it has happened. Life. ' I'd kisa you If I had a reasonable ex cuse." "The family In the flat above is named Mistletoe," coyly responded tho glrl. Kansas City Journal. "Why do you use such a long clgar holdpr?" asked Smith. "The doctor told me to keep away from tobacco," replied Jones. Cincinnati En quirer. It happened at a certain famous Amer ican college. An old negro was sweeping the front steps when a gentleman walked up and said: "Well, uncle, soon will win ter be here, and those trees will be as black as you are." Quickly the old negro replied: "And spring will soon bo here and dem trees will be as green as you are." Bos ton Globe. THE CRUCIAL YEAR. K milestone passed upon the road that leads To that far future where our dreams come true; To that glad earth when man no longer bleeds, Nor God Is shocked by what His sons will do! A crimsoned path, as wa gate back today, The years bavo hewn since ages first began. We see through tears for, lo! His chll. dren slay The ruin wrought when man makes war on man. A year lies dead, with shame upon his face. And shadows black that were by horror drawn; His life was lived with darkness on a race That, as fat passed, saw promise of the dawn. A promise old that man has known be fore. When he has paused to mourn a year that dies; The future to our fathers ever wore A gleam of splendor lent by sunrise skies. The promise now cornea clearer to our ears; We hear a voice our fathers did not heed; The power Is ours to make the coming years White with atonement for an evil deed. Can man be true to what ot God In him Brings peace on earth- as this New Year Is born, Or, false again, must see the sun grow dim And midnight come ere It be fairly morn ? It rests with him to choose the path he'll take That leads away from reddened roads he'a trod. Shall man again bl ancient blunders make. And as of old, throw all the blame on God? K. 3. VanZlle In Now Tork Times, Out of the Ordinary The only democrat elected in Ful ton county, Illinois, this year was Corp. Itoy Tanner of Canton, a sol dier who lost a leg In battle. W. Naismith of the Esparto dis trict, near Woodland, Cal., has hauled to town with a tractor load of 225 sacks of almonds, tor which he will get $4,690. An elderly man at Freeport, Me., Is expert at patchwork and has made an all-silk quilt, in the sun rise pattern, for which he has been offered $300, but he is holding It for a rise. MV. and Mrs. Israel Brenner of Evansville, Ind., who have just spent two years making a 35,000-mile au tomobile tour of the United States, visited every state capital and every army cantonment in states that have cantonments and met Evansville sol diers in almost every one. Frank Teoter, a farmer of Enfield Center, N. Y. is displaying a cab bage stalk of the Danish bar variety on which have grown 19 heads of cabbage. The central and larger head is surrounded and as firm as the central head. The whole thing weighs two ounces less than 12 pounds. According to Prof. W. C. Kendall of the United States Fish commis sion, who has compiled a list of the fishes of Maine, both salt and fresh water varieties, fishermen who ap peared to know what they were talktng about and seemed worthy of credence have reported 49 different kinds of fish in the waters of the state. CENTER SHOTS Washington Post: The trouble with the balance of power Is that it is so constantly getting out of bal ance. Washington Post: When the kings come to Washington and say "I raise my glass," what "will be in them the glasses? St. Louis Globe-Democrat: This world is a rich one. It has fur nished $200,000,000,000 worth of wealth to blow up and dissipate in a four years' war. Washington Post: Herb Hoover told twb German food robbers In Belgium to go to h with his com pliments, and they promptly re turned to Germany. Minneapolis Tribune: Colonel House is now reported to have orig inated the phrase, "freedom of the seas." Oh, is that so? Then maybe he can tell what it means. Minneapolis Tribune: Max Harden wants to come to America to plead the cause of Germany. That's It; somehow we have come to be regard ed in Germany as a friend. How could that have happened? Kansas City Times: Gertrude Atherton says diplomacy Is still se cret. Mrs. Atherton has evidently called the roll of delegates to the impending peace conference and, like the rest of us, found no women in it. Baltimore American: Now Berne torff pleads innocence of guilt in act or intent for the war. The proud slogan of Deutschland uber alles has changed to the general whine from the kaiser down of I didn't do it! Philadelphia Ledger: General Pershing's rules for the government of that part of the Rhineland occu pied by the American army are strict, but not too severe, it would De highly disastrous from every point of view to allow the people to get the Impression that they were not really conquered. "Monday" Always Serves as a Basis for the whole week Make a week of pleasure of it by tending us your clothes to be cleaned. Do it the FIRST thing Mon day a. m., and get that much off your mind start out CLEAN. Phone Tyler 345 Dresher Bros. DYERS DRY CLEANERS 2211-17 Farnam St. Omaha If we look after the funeral ar rangements they will be perfect in every detail. We have devoted our time and industry to the study of the funeral problem, and if you avail yourself of our services you will have cause for no regrets. N. P. SWANSON Funeral Parlor. (Established 1888) 17th and Cuming St. Doug. 1060. Signposts oj Progress iuefiiuc-raiup ill owm.rii a unue unions last year totaled 186,146. .Three bridges have been built across the Suez canal at Kantara, thus linking Egypt and Palestine by railroad and road. An English city is experimenting with electric street cars as traveling kitchens, on which meals are cooked enroute and sold to the public. Boot soles made from compressed scraps of leather are said to be waterproof and elastic. They can also be made at little cost and are more comfortable than rubber. A Swiss company has spent a large amount for road improvement and equipment and plans to carry passengers over some routes in the Alps in electric automobiles. No Industry In the t'nited States has shown a more wonderful growth during the war than that of chemi cals. The exportation of chemicals from the United States in the year which ends with this month will show a total of approximately $175. 000,000. against $27)00,000 in the year Immediately preceding the war. China's first pencil factory was officially opened on Juno 26. 1918, when the China Pencil company threw open its new plant for In spection. 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