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    THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1919. .
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Old methods die hard in Europe.
Germans are finding out that General Persh
ing's orders are to be obeyed.
It's the "long, long trail" for King Alcohol,
as well as a lot of other kings.
However, the first robin has not yet been
sighted' so we may yet see a little winter.
What has become of the proposed memorial
tablet to Omaha soldiers has it been over
looked in the rush?
'Champ Clark headed off a congressional
salary grab very neatly, and thereby stopped
a considerable scandal.
The difference between "self-determination"
and "home rule" is that one is a phrase and the
other a disappointment.
The Omaha Hyphenated is inconsolable be
cause Governor McKelvie will not be guided
by its whim. Stoobadl
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Open forums are best, even when national
interests are at stake. It was secret diplomacy
that brought on the late war.
A course in mountain climbing will be
needed at Central High school after the Dodge
street grading plan has been consummated.
Millions spent to provide food for Europe's
hungry may never come back, but we will al
ways ' feel better for having furnished the
money.
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What matters it whether Nebraska was the
first or the thirty-ninth state to ratify the
amendment, so long as it is lined up with the
dry majority?
Secretary Baker says the situation as re
gards soldiers' mail is "improving." Perhaps
.after the war has been oyer a few years the
whole jam will have been straightened out.
Mr. Taft wants some authority to make de
cisions of the War Labor board effective.
Moral suasion and sense of justice alike are
wanting in cases where selfish interest prevails.
"Roosevelt National Park" will be the offi
cial designation of the giant redwood groves in
California hereafter, the trees themselves being
a tribute to the man for whom the reservation
has been named.
t While the United States is jubilantly voting
itself dry, Canada is taking up the matter of
modifying its prohibitory laws so as" to make
them less rigorous. This may induce consider
able migration across the northern border,
WPMWaMWaWWMaWM
The exploding tank of molasses at Boston
has added a new terror to modern life. When
such inert and unsuspected substances develop
deadly proclivities the path of life becomes
perilous indeed.
Buenos Aires reports everything quiet along
the Rio Plate, but it will be some time before
the damage done has ben repaired, while the
thousand or more dead will not know they
died in vain. Even so short a course in bol
shevism is instructive.
Some day a museum of considerable size will
be required to house all the museum plans that
have been proposed for . time to time for
Omaha, none of which have come to realization
for lack of somebody to come forward with the
money needed to establish and maintain such
an institution. '
Why the Red Flag Is Taboo
A great many people are doing a lot of loose
thinking in this matter of the very proper de
cision of most authorities the country over in
tabooing the red flag in parades and at meet
ings. One' does not need, perhaps, to quote
the vigorous final words of Roosevelt to know,
that the use of the red flag is in no sense a
privileged use and that it is either an open and
insidious attack on government as well as on
nationality. Most Americans ought to know
that flaunting the red flag has nothing to do
with freedom of speech, since it has been the
American habit ever sine revolutionary days
to assemble peaceably, under the national em
blem, however, and publicly discuss .all ques
tions of social and industrial grievance and gov
ernmental relationships and changes. 1
This is privilege, not a right, which has
never been denied the people, even aliens among
us, save in times of war. But this very free
privilege should be-exercised, as it has always
been, even to the extent of radical differences
over existing institutions, under the very pro
tection of the national emblemand it needs no
emblem of a denationalized cult to give such
discussions any wider latitude or any freer use
of the unrestrained tongue. The very ex
tremists, especially among the unnaturalized
aliens, who sometimes seem to find it difficult
to understand just why they can do pretty
much as they please in this haven of refuge,
know all this, and their mischievous persistence
in desiring to flaunt an anti-national emblem is
not because they do not have free speech, but
because they visibly wish to express their de
fire for their overthrow of all that the national
flag stands for by insisting on the forbidden
banner. .
Those who would give them this last privi
lege, therefore, in addition to a freedom of
tcech which amounts Jo license, are not unike
t ie fat-witted parents who let the pampered in
fant, that has gotten everything else, play with
the open razor. No; the fact is, denying pub
lic gatherings the use of the red flag deprives
no one of freedom of speech or freedom of be
lief, but does compel a recognition that in
America freedom of speech and freedom of be
lief of any one cannot be allowed to infringe
on the rights of others, or on the collective
rights of all .to orderly government and a stable
society. Philadelphia Ledger,
THE VOICE FROM CHICAGO.
The voice that is heard from Chicago is not
the cry of hunger, nor the moan of suffering;
it is the growl of discontent. Some of it is
honest, some of it is vicious, and all of it is
unwise. If the entire program advanced by the
so-called radicals at the present "labor" con
ference were put into operation, it would not
ameliorate the general condition of the workers.
Even Utopia rests on worki Effort to produce
must be put forth, for production is essential
to existence. "In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread, until thou return, unto the
ground," was not lightly spoken.
Assuming that all demands made by the
visionary agitators were to be granted, would
the social inequalities now existing vanish?
Would we be relieved from poverty and distress
on the one hand, and inordinate and arrogant
wealth on the other? dne answer to this may
be discovered by comparing men who work
side by side, similarly employed at a uniform
scale of wages and purchasing for their needs
in the same market. Often one of these will
be found walking to his place of employment
that he may save the car fare for some more
urgent need, while another will ride in ease.
One will own his home, comfortably furnished,
with eyen some luxuries of life, while the other
will pay tribute to the landlord as long as he
lives. Economic conditions are not responsible
for this, nor can the disparity be removed by
legislative enactment. Thrift will have its re
ward, and unthrift its penalty under any form
of government.
Russia is starving today because the peas
ants neglected to till the lands given them by
the bolsheviki, this failure induced by the
knowledge that they knew not who would reap
the harvest. Is the industrious American work
man ready to divide the fruit of his endeavor
that the indolent may live without exertion?
For some must work or all will starve,
When Home Rule it Needed.
Complications arising from the pressure of
firemen and policemen upon the legislature for
wage increases must bring home forcibly again
the dilemma in which Omaha has put itself by
failing to qualify for a home rule charter. Pay
of members of police and fire departments was
fixed by lawmakers years ago, in prewar times,
and they are unquestionably entitled to in
creased compensation, in some proportion to
what they would have if they were in private
employment. But to let them determine their
own earnings, or to have it done for. us by a.
lawmaking body at Lincoln, three-fourths of
whose members live on the farm or in small
towns, and who know nothing personally and
care less about the government of the state's
metropolis, is unfair to all concerned.
What the legislature should do in these
cases is to grant power to the municipal au
thorities to fix the pay of policemen and fire
men, the same as they have to fix the pay of
inspectors, clerks, or draughtsmen, subject, of
course, "to a tenure protected from arbitrary
treatment. The city commissioners could then
make necessary classifications and service
gradations, ascertain what other cities of
Omaha's size pay for similar service, and put
us and keep us on a par with other progressive
cities.
Nation Votes Itself "Dry.",
An epoch in human experience was marked
when Nebraska swung into line as the thirty
sixth state to ratify the constitution to the
federal amendment providing for prohibition,
thus completing the three-fourths majority
needed to make the amendment effective.
While the Koran forbids strong drjnk to the
faithful, it other nation has by law entirely ex
cluded the use of alcoholic beverages. There
fore the action of the United States is unique
in history. Naturally, the advocates of prohibi
tion are much elated at the victory, which has
come easier than many had looked for. On
the other hand, those who are opposed to ultra
prohibition have not yet abandoned hope of
stemming the tide. Various expedients for de
laying the operation of the amendment, which
is to become effective in one year after its final
ratification, are being considered, and resort to
the courts or opposition in other ways may
postpone the ultimate disappearance of the
liquor traffic. The event is illuminating as to
the change that has taken place in the public
attitude within the last quarter of a century.
Whether the pendulum has swung to the full
length of its stroke and will now recede only
time can determine. To the coming days also
must be referred the query that is uppermost in
most minds, as to how the new rule will operate
when the time comes to enforce it.
Secrecy at the Peace Conference.
Americans will be prompt to join with the
British public in protest against the policy of
secrecy adopted for the peace conference. It
had been the thought that the proceedings
would be open, that discussions would be frank,
and that the public would be fully informed as
to each step taken. It appears, however, that
the old practice of discussing state affairs in
camera is too strong to be immediately over
thrown, in Europe, at least. Until the curtain
is raised on the drama now being rehearsed at
Versailles, suspicion will attach to all its doings.
When President Wilson declared for open
covenants of peace openly arrived at, he was
applauded, and when, he supplemented this with
the statement that peace should be made on a
basis of justice to all without regard to the
selfish interest of any, he was accorded ap
proval by the world. How these principles can
be adapted to the processes of a secret conclave
is not plain. Peace is to be made for the good
of the people, and the people rightly insist on
being present while its foundations are laid. -
Franklin and War Stamps
Richard 0. Conover in New York Times.
From the scrolled center of the newly de
signed war savings stamps the face of Benjamin
Franklin greets you serenely wise, benignly
quaint, quizzically persuasive.
'On January 17, which is the 213th return of
the natal day of the sage of Philadelphia, the
United States treasury will launch a $2,000,000,
000 issue of these $5 aids toward the payment of
war costs. That's whv the eves of America's
I greatest diplomat and philosopher radiate- a
mutely eloquent appeal for loyal sacrifice and
support of the government. Only a stony
hearted, cynical citizen can openly meet the full
impact of that questioning, compelling glapce,
and refuse to each toward the wallet crypt.
It was the inspiration of genius that
prompted the selection of Franklin, that won
derful blend of the intellectual .and practical, to
be the pictured adjunct to governmental fund
raising. The dead Franklin was industry and
patriotism incarnate. His middle name was
thrift. Whnever he undertook a thing he saw
it through finished the job.
The issue of the new $5 war savings stamp
is in conformitv with the act approved Seotem
ber 24, 1918. The certificates of the $2000,000,
000 issue will mature January 1, 1924. The new
stamp is about 1 inches long and inches
wide, blue in color. It is designed to be attached
to war savings certificates holding place for 20
stamps.
Were Benjamin Franklin alive at this mo
ment of keen government appeal he might well
be imagined setting forth the following good
reasons for his countrymen buying the stamps
that bear his likeness:
"The United States has always raid its bills
and never yet smirched its credit. What invest
ment can you make with greater surety? How
can you better help to preserve your country s
financial good name?"
Franklin had to pay all the bills of the revo
lution pertaining to the governmental expense
abroad. At his headquarters in Paris he had to
negotiate at the Command of congress loans
reaching into the millions. He sustained . the
national credit with the French government
from 1777 to 1783. He religiously insisted upon
paying back at the time promised every dollar
due, remarking often that the honor of his
country was too precious a thing to run the risk
of tarnish. .
H saw to it that American ships arriving
in France with cargoes mortgaged by congress
to French creditors were punctiliously turned
over to these creditors, although he might
easily have tided his financial emergencies by
holding the vessels on quibbles and using their
contents to the commission's advantage. And
to John Paul Jones on arranging for a substan
tial sum for naval repairs to that valiant com
mander's ships, Franklin said: "I'll raise the
money. Let me repeat, for God's sake be spar
ing. Our country must pay its debts. Let tis
husband its credits."
And the searching eves of. Franklin, looking
out on you from his 1919 war savings stamps,
bring vividly to mind how he fulfilled these na
tional obligations. ,
, "Prosperity is coming. It is in the air. And,
although the neople of the United States have
helped valiantly and liberally with their money,
there are millions more to be earned. The op
portunity is already here."
Franklin always foresaw and always had
abiding faith in his country's prosperity. The
Philadelphia saize was an arch-optimist, and was
ever ready to demonstrate that his government
could and would surmount any financial diffi
culty barring its way. He prophesied prosper
ity when the colonies and later the young na
tion faced what seemed sure ruin. He could
always be depended upon to silence the croak
ers who never could see a ray of sunlight pene
trating the shadows of heavy war burdens. In
March, 1777, Franklin wrote a paper which was
widely circulated in Europe, in which he took
pains to prove that the honesty, industry, re
sources and prospects of the United States were
so excellent that it would really be'safer to lend
to them than to England.- -
And the impressive gaze of Franklin as it
issues from his war savings stamp portrait re
calls the patriotic , optimism that stood his
country in .such good stead:
"The war is not yet over, even though an
armtistice has been signed. ThereJs a moun
tain of war work yet to be climbed. Uncle
Sam must make the ascent. The job must be
finished. Patriots must and will see it through."
Franklin was never a man to abandon a
struggle before it had been fully ended to the
glory,. credit and honor of his country. t "
Presidents1 Fortunes
The estate of $500,000 left by Theodore
Roosevelt is a very moderate fortune by New
York standards, but for a president one of
unusual size. It ranks Mr. Roosevelt indeed as
probably the country's richest chief executive
since Washington, and the fact has a suggestive
interest. Many a ruler of a petty republic has
become a multi-millionaire, but no millionaire
has ever been president of the world's greatest
and richest republic, and this notwithstanding
the altered scale of personal wealth under which
the comparative magnitude of an accumulation
of $1. 000.000 has decreased.
The Roosevelt fortune was different, more
over, in being mainly an inherited fortune. Its
possessor may have added to it in his lifetime,
but, as in the case of other presidents, most
of his personal earnings in a period of 40 years
of public life were, absorbed in the support of
his family. No other president has ever en
joyed such advantages of remunerative pub
licity as Mr. Roosevelt, and besides his salary
from official positions his incotrie from his books
and from editorial work must have been large.
Yet, it is a fair inference that if these had been
the sole sources of his support, he would have
died a poor man, as Cleveland died, and also
most of their predecessors in the White House.
This has been the common financial fate of
presidents, and tHe example of Mr.- Roosevelt
probably merely proves the rule that the office
of president is not economically productive in
any logical proportion to its exalted state and
onerous political qualifications. Nw York
World.
The new schedule of taxes on amusement
tickets will require the presence of a lightning
calculator in the box office to figure the rate to
be levied and paid by the purchaser. However,
the government needs the money, and this is
one way of extracting it from the public.
Governor McKelvie will not be obliged to
move into the "mansion," but the state will
have an idle house to look after during his term
of office, unless some lawmaker can relieve the
situation by suggesting a plan to permit the
building to be used for purposes other than to
shelter the governor.
Big league base ball players are threatened
with a salary cut, but not a word is said about
letting the public through the gates at any
lower rates.
ITODAV
KThe Day We Celebrate.
Samuel F. Miller, general freight and pas
senger agent Chicago & Northwestern railroad,
born 1867.
David Lloyd George, Britain's premier, who
scored a victory almost without precedent in
the recent elections, born at Manchester 56
years ago.
Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, England's
famous "sea-dog," whose ceaseless vigilance
rendered the German fleet powerless, born in
Irelartd 48 years ago.
Col. Robert N. Getty, U. S. A., who retires
today for age, born in New York 64 years ago.
Francis Sayre, grandson of President Wood
row Wilson, born in the White House four
years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
The building at Eleventh and Farnam, oc
cupied by Max Meyer &, Bro., was destroyed
by fire.
The Omaha Subway company was incor
porated to build electric wire conduits. Incor
porators include A. M. Kitchen, W. ' W.
Keysor, F. B. Johnson. George E. Barker, E.
L. Bierbower, Max Meyer, F. F. Saville and
Ernest Riall.
The Omaha property of the Folsom estate,
valued at $750,000, of which Mrs. Grover
Cleveland is one of the heirs, is being appor
tioned by a commission consisting of D. L.
Thomas, John L. McCague and Byron Reed.
For the "Unknown" Jack Prince has ac
cepted the challenge of Knapp for a match
bicycle race.
Miss Irene R. Face is back from a four
months' sojourn in the' east much benefited in
health. ... .. .
i In the Wake oj War
A suit of clothes costs $400 in
Vienna. Still there are growls at a
$40 price tax hereabouts.
Janitors In Warsaw demand a
mark from every one who comes in
after 9 p. m. No wonder the war
sticks around in Warsaw.
The War department has- J. 700
tons of poison gas on hand and no
use for it Bolshevik agitators will
not buy, being already overstocked.
It is said Premier Clemenceau of
France kissed 24 stenographers the
.day tha armistice was signed. Some
peculation, that. But then, a man
of 78 years rarely escapes training
in that line, which comes in handy
in an emergency.
Marshal Joffre says: "It was the
weight of America, her moral and
material forces thrown into the bal
ance at the crucial hour that turned
the scales and won the victory. And
the Americans showed themselves
true soldiers and a military power
that counted tremendously in the
decisive conflict." The statement
is both comprehensive and accurate,
and is brief enough to blazon on fu
ture monuments.
Britain's venerable institution, the
coroner's Jury, solemnly upholds
the ancient dictum: "Guilt is per
sonal." Therefore different juries
have indicted the kaiser for bomb
ing raids on London, the officials re
sponsible for the death of Edith
Cavell and Captain Fryatt. More
recently a Fulham jury indicted
German prison officials for man
slaughter in causing the death of a
British prisoner of war. The next
task 'is bringing the indicted to
trial.
Just before starting for home
from the American naval station
somewhere near Cork, ' Ireland,
Pete Maguire, sailor boy from San
Francisco, concluded it was his
patriotic duty to kiss the blarney
etone. Pete did he job, all right,
and some over. In fact, he lost his
balance and tumbled from the bat
tlemented wall to the ground 100
feet below. Pete didn't bother about
his minor bruises, but cordially
thanked the keeper for the tree?
len broke tne ran. -
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"THE SLEEPY GXOMES."
(Pair? and Billy Belgium ara taken by
Prlnca Bonnia Blua Bell on a mountain
coasting trip. They ara pursued by Slaep
Onomca. Their boba overturn and Ihpy
ara burled deep In tha snow. A great dot
.helpa dls PtStT out.)
CHAPTER V.
In the St. Bernard's Flask.
"Woof! Woof!" barked the huge
dog, digging away the snaw from
around Pejfgy's head. V'Woof!
Woof! Woof!" he barked asiln, and
his barks seemed to Bay: "Take hold
of my collar!"
Peggy looked at his neck and saw,
half buried in his heavy fur, a large
collar to which was fastened a small
flask. Reaching up she seize the col
lar. The St Bernard pulled back
with all his strength and drew her
quickly out
"Help! Help!" came a muffled
voice from beneath the snow.
"It's Billy Belgium," cried Peggy.
"We must get him out, before he
mothers."
"Woof! Woof!" answered the
St. Bernard, sending the enow fly
ing in all directions as he dug after
Billy Belgium. Soon he had a great
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EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.
St Louis Globe-Democrat: It will
be lonesome, without the colonel.
Baltimore American: There would
not be half the fun in life were there
no struggle to make both ends
meet!
Kansas City Star: After the civic
honors conferred on President Wil
son abroad are all "reported it prob
ably will be found that Washington
Is the only capital he Is not a citi
zen of.
Minneapolis Journal: It is re
ported by way of the Naval Ob
servatory that Saturn and Jupiter
are stirring up a disturbance in ce
lestial circles by being in opposition
to the sun. This war spirit surely is
contagious.
Washington Post: If you see a
man with a long, unwholesome nose,
shifty eyes, flat-backed head, heavy
paunch, peculiar gait, powerful per
fume and gaudy Jewelry, you will
know he is former King Ferdinand
of Bulgaria, pal of Bill Hohenzol
lern, and wanted for several crooked
deals. When last seen he was be
lieved to be headed for the United
States.
New York World: Mr. McAdoo's
fear that the railroads', their money,
their men and their activities will
get into politics would be amusing if
it were not already a fact. There is
hardly anything in regard to the
transportation problem in the Unit
ed States that we can be sure of, but
one everlasting certainty is that we
have made it political, and by poli
tics, tor good or evil, It must be set
tled. ..
LAUGHING GAS.
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1 III lifT
I I'll
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"Don't drink! Kemember the Sleepy
Gnomes!"
hole opened and at th bottom of it
was Billy Belgium's cap. Peggy
grabbed the cap and at once there
came a howl from beneath the snow.
She had grabbed Billy Belgium's
hair with the cap and it was he who
promptly howled a protest
In a minute Billy's head and
arms were clear and -then he, too,
seised the St. Bernard's collar and
was drawn from the snow.
"Where's Prince Bonnie Blue
Bell?" gasped Billy first thing.
"Oh, he must be buried, too," ex
claimed Pesgy, beginning to dig.
"Stop! Stop! Cover me up and
leave me here." whispered a voice.
Peggy, startled, looked down, and
saw a pair of white lips peeking out
of the snow. She didn't know what
the warning meant, but like a good
soldier she instantly obeyed.
"Look over there," she cried,
pointing to a snow bank a short dis
tance away.
"That's right!" whispered the
voice, as the St. Bernard and Billy
began to dig at the place she indi
cated. "If the Sleep Gnomes don't
know I am here, perhaps I can res
cue you. Go away nulpkly."
Peggy thought fast. They were
still In danger. The Sleep Gnomes
miprht be there any minute.
"Its no good looking in all this
snow," she cried. "Let's go." Billy
Belgium looked up in quick protest
against thiB seeming desertion
of Prince Bonnie Blue Bell, but
Peggy winked at him. Instantly
Billy understood that she had some
reason for giving tip the search.
"I guess you are right" he said.
The St. Bernard quit digging and
now pointed with his paw to the
flask fastened to his collar.
"He wants us to open the flask
and take a drink," declared Billy.
"I wonder what'a In It?" Billy
quickly loosed the flask from its
holder and unscrewed the top.
"Why, it's hot tea. Isnt' that fine?
I'm chilled through and I know you
are, too. This will warm you up!"
He held out the flask to Peggy, who
took it, wondering how the tea could
possibly have kept hot in the chilly
mountain wind. It emelled wonder
fully good, and she raised the flask
to her lips.
"Don't drink! Remember the
Sleep Gnomes! Twenty years!"
Thus came a muffled warning from
Prince Bonnie Blue Bell in the
snow.
Peggy' brains worked nimbly.
This was a trap of the Sleep
Gnomes. The St Bernard was prob
ably a Gnome in disguise. He car
ried the flask Just to trick them into
drinking the potion that would put
them to sleep for 20 years. He
thought he was fooling her. Their
only chance of escape lay In fooling
him and the other Gnomes.
I She pretended to drink. As she
tilted the flask her eyes glanced up,
Peeking over a snow ridge was
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And looks for food from week to
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Draw from en. to two and eo aa U
tha and.
whole line of shadowy, grinning
faces. The Sleep Gnomes thought
they had her In their power.
Peggy passed the flask to Billy.
Under her breath she whispered:
"Don't drinkl Just pretend! Sleep
Gnomes!"
Billy understood. He tilted the
bottle up, but none of the tea ran
down hie throat On the contrary,
it spilled on the ground, as the St
Bernard suddenly changed into a
grinning Gnome and a whole band
of Gnomes swept exultantly down
upon them.
(In tomorrow's chapter Pecsy end Billy
a visit the home of tha Onomea.)
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Send In Yonr Name.
Will the writer of the letter criti
cizing the liquor traffic and defend
ing prohibition send his or her name
to the editor of The Bee not for
publication, but that we may know
with whom we are dealing.
The Sqnare Deal?
Camp Pike, Arkansas, Jan. 11.
To the Editor of The Bee: We
Americans have been taught from
the very beginning of our history
that the "Square Deal" is our birth
right. Today there are thousands
of men in army camps over the
country who are being denied what
they feel to be their rights. These
men belong to what it pleases some
authorities to call the "permanent
"Before eonaentinc to your marrylnc my ' organization."
daughter I want to warn you that I have I All that is asked
been accustomed to glv. her everything
aha aiiked for."
"That's alierisht air. I wouldn't hava
you chance ytur kablta for tha world."
Browning llafailne.
8hapeletgh I can't stand your extrava
gance any longer.
Mra. ShRpeleigh You're most unreason
able, my dear. No one could set alone;
with fewer clothea than I wear. To.i
Topics.
"Bo Bayboy la wall prepared against all
eventualities?"
"Yea; he'a .van removed aom. of the
coal blria to enlarge hla win. cellar." Life.
"Tha manager of that rait trust said
they would hava to keep their eyes open
and look around them."
"He had better be careful. That's the
way the first aalt pile was made." Balti
more American,
"Better quit laughing at that fellow."
"He'a a poor ahot at billiards."
"Mebbe so, but thst'a Plxen Pete, and
he'a an all-tlred good ahot wltb sun."
Kanaai City Journal.
"Give your command more clearly!"
said the colonel to the young lieutenant
"Yes, air."
"The other day one of your officers
cleared hla throat and the entire company
kbout faced." Detroit Free Press.
THE OLD PLATOON
Soft the nlgbt on the bleak field's face,
And under the lonely moon
The white cross marks your reatlng place,
Mate of the old platoon.
Hazards many ws both hava shared,
Enduring as men endure
With faith and fire all risks wa dared.
Knowing the end was sure.
"The cause la worthy," you often aald
too said, "Wa'ra out to win,"
As w looked to the great new day ahead
That uahered freedom In.
There's weapon less on the rifle rack
And gone from th. parapet,
Still you guide us now on cobbled track,
Tha mat. w can't forget
To tha hour ahead our way w wend.
Let It com lata or soon,
Wa know you're with us to th end,
Mat of the old platoon.
Rifleman Patrick MacGIll In Montreal
Star.
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Daily Cartoonette.
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in behalf
these men is that the thinking pub
lie be informed as to the conditions
now existing in parts of some
cantonments.
Thousands of men have served
their government on this side of the
Atlantic without complaint, but at
the conclusion of hostilities they
demand to know why some organiza
tions are discriminated against That
others may be demobilized; and that
in individual cases discharges are
granted, while others with similai
reasons are held in the service.
Among the branches of the service
now held in camp, and in which the
men feel that they are not being fair
ly treated, is the medical corps. The
men making up this organization
were not placed in noncombatant
service at their own request, but
through the fprtunea of the army
organization.
These men maintain that they
are entitled to discharge from the
army on the grounds of business,
professional or domestic need, on
the same grounds as the men in the
lines.
In these organizations are hun
dreds of married men whose fami
lies need their presence at home;
business men whose life savings are
being endangered because they are
not personally at the head .of thelt
business; professional men whose
former employers clamor for their
release. Men whose earning 'ca
pacity in civil occupation amounts
to several thousand dollars yearly
and whose value to business and so
ciety during the period of recon
struction cannot be estimated; yet
these men must remain in the serv
ice performing little or nq servlco
to the government at a monthly pit
tance of $30 at the expense of their
own success and the carrying on
efficiently of American business.
While this condition exists and
men's lives and talents are belnit
wasted, less efficient men are per
forming their duties at home. Is
this the new American version of
the "Square Deal?"
Meanwhile army regulations are
enforced more rigidly than before
hostilities ceased, without consider
ation of the rights and priveges of
American men wose freedom is be
ing denied them.
Will the friends, relatives, and
employers of meniallow present con
ditions to continue to exist or de
mand of the military authorities
that the American principle of the
"Square Deal" be impartially and
universally enforced.
"SOLDIER"
Under Government Ownership.
Schuyler, Neb., Jan. IS. To the
Editor of The Bee: It has been ar
gued that government ownership
and control of railroads would work
largely in favor of the people
that there would be fewer strikes,
less friction, better pay, and reduced
rates. The fact that this is to be
the state question for the state de
bates for high schools this year
lends Interest for we shall have the
solution to the problem.
Our service at present is not
comparable to the system as it was.
There may be fewer passes granted
now than under the old system but
it is doubted. Wages have been
raised but it is hard to find a rail
road man that is not anxious to go
back where his individuality may
find vent.
At Schuyler last week' effort was
made to have a fast train stopped
with the following success: Schuy-
I ler was to have a basket ball game
with her rival at coiumous. 'ine
agent was guaranteed 26, and he
thought at least 60 would go to
Columbus at o'clock and come
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back at 11:80 if the train could be
stopped. The agent telegraphed
the superintendent at Omaha and in
about three days he had a message
that the train would not stop. Later
the matter was taken up at the Co
lumbus end and the general ticket
agent at that place was informed
that the train would not stop for
60.
And thla is the servilpe we get
under the new system. Under the
old almost any fast train could be
stopped for 10 people. Why in the
name of finance and business could
a train like this not be stopped to
accommodate so many? Is this
service? As a matter of fact it was
known that the people would have
to take automobiles to the town
and nearly all of this money would
be saved from making government
control a success.. Who is at fault?
Is it the system? Is it obsessed of
ficials? Or is it a concocted scheme
of railroad private officials to make
the control unbearable?
IRA G. WILSON.
Religion In Ireland.
Upland, Neb.7 Jan. 14. To the
Editor of the Omaha Bee: Mr. Kent
says that I do not know the differ
ence between a political and relig
ious . argument. In Ireland the
Catholic priests are what we may
call in America political bosses. This
would not be if the Irish Catholics
did their own thinking. ' Mr. Kent
also says that the priests will not
give up their hold on the Irish peo
ple. In this he is quite rignt, as
long as there is a chance for these
priests to embarrass Protestant Enif
land you will find them as the lead
ers. It is more of a religious quarrel,
but Is camouflaged as a political
quarrel."
Why were the French Canadian
Catholics so afraid to enlist as did
their Protestant neighbors? Had it
not been for the refusal of th
French-Canadian Catholics to enlist,
conscription would neVer have been
used.
The thing for Catholic Ireland to
do is to quiet down, and the people
to think for themselves, as they
should. The sooner they do this
the more the English and rest of
the world will think of them.
CARL OSTERGAARD.
One Other View.
Omaha, Jan. 12. To the Editor
of The Bee: May I not thank you
again for your liberal policy of
permitting your readers to air their
opinions through yours, the best
Omaha newspaper. "Aitch," who eo
ably points out the Sinn Feiner
slackers, seems to have forgotten
the 600,000 English slackers who
tucked themselves away so fear
lessly in the United States, and left
the mamma country to battle the
kaiser alone until the conscription
law rounded them up. A few must
have escaped and are now making
amends by carrying on this propa
ganda so interesting: to Americans,
especially Catholics. Who would;
know we had such birds on our'
roosts if the newspapers did not let
them show their hand. Do print
the slackers' letters, and oblige your
readers. WATCHFUL WAITING.
Will Right Itself.
New Tork Herald: The treas-.
ury's committee appointed to devise
means to stop the falling production,
of gold appears to have reached the
sensible conclusion that with the re-,'
turn of normal conditions and fall
ing prices the situation with respect
to gold will right Itself, and is un
likely to recommend any unusual"
measures to stimulate mining. This
Industry is one that over -any con
siderable periods of time automatl-.
cally regulates itself.
And There is No Peace.
Philadelphia Ledger: The contin
ued fighting in Europe makes the
peace celebrations seem slightly
premature.
thers! '
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An Appeal For Your Children
Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the physic that mother insisted on aslo
oil, salts or cathartics.
How you hated them. How you fought them. HovJ
you dreaded their after-effects.
That was all wrong, but then nobody knew, better.
IWith our children it's different.
The day of hargji physics is over.
iVVe don't force the bowels now; we coax them.
jWe have no dreaded after-effects.
!Anc the dose is a candy tablet.
i
Mothers who cling to the old form of physic simptj
don't know what they do.
The children's revolt is well-founded.
Their tender bowels are harmed by therm
The modern way is to give a gentle laxative morjl
frequently. To keep the bowels always active.
The best method is Cascarets. . .
Cascarets are candy tablets.
Children love their pleasant taste.
They cost only 10 cents a box, with full directiont
or children's dosage at all ages. Babies too!
Give Cascarets, then don't worry they never disappoint.
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