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THE EEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JANUARY 20,-1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY F.DWAED BOSEWATKR VICTOR KOSEWATEE, EDITOR THB HEE rllBLISHINO COMPANY, PROPBIETOB MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tlw AwrtitM Vrmt. of wM The Bet Is a nemtr. In eirliumtr ruinled to M u f.if piimtPttiun of mil news di.!rh credited to tl of not ,Yti..rwte etvoitwi tn Utls pt-f, sni slici tti locsl mwi lWll"l hmn, Alt lijhtl of publlcaUMt of out special r OFFICES! " rhlelp PeopVf Ots ButMIng. Oftih--Th rVe Bids. N VorK IfO Filth Aw. Smith OltiHii 18 N St. Ht. tiniR Nnw It'k of Cmjimcrre, t'oum-il H!u:r M N M&in SI. V)uiiMl 1111 t St. ljuiulu l.ltt; llulldlns. " DECEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 65,219 Sunday 62,644 Averr.fe rlmilitinn for tlw mnnlli sulcrlll (uid mm to Br K. R. Hacu. llrrulnloa Miiiilrr. Subscribsrs Wsvinf ths city should have Ths Bh mailed to them. Address chanftd s oftsn s rnussted. These are Dean-Ringer's busy days. Att $8 ptr -wilT never look good again in Nebraska. . FdJand':r&djGafs are against Paderewski's cabinet, whichis a big point in its iavor. . ' Representative Sears may discover his notions are too old fashioned for modern consumption. Poincare says the allies seek only justice. Agreed; but which one of the 57 varieties sug gested will be chosen? If Germany will listen attentively, she may soon hear the echo of the "terror gun" that bombarded Paris last spring. "Freedom of the seas" in the new American merchant marine means the best paid and most efficient sailormen afloat. ' London and Paris are going for air mail serv ice also. It has been done these last four years, but not for public convenience. Smoking may be permitted in Y. M. C A. buildings in deference to the boys who "went over the top," but look out for the flare-back. PEACE, AND PLENTY OF IT. All the world wants peace. Even the bol shevists seem to have enough of slaughter, and say they will give over if civilization will only surrender to their madness. But hyw is this universal desire to be gratified? The elder statesmen are g'athered in Tar's, solemnly to confer and gravely to de termine all things necessary to a general un derstanding. But from this multitude of wise men comes a confusion of expression akin to that which must have prevailed on the Plain of Shinar, when work on the Tower of Babel was interrupted. This may be but the prelimi nary tuning up of the instruments before the leader waves his baton and the full orchestra strikes the opening note of the international symphony. ' Just beyond this great gathering may be dis cerned the figure of Ferdinand Foch, himself a devotee of peace, but worshipping according to his own formula. He outlines for France a future of watchfulness over the Rhine. There she must stand, a sentinel to guard civilization against any untoward demonstration from the unrepentant Hun. Foch may be accused of hav ing the instinct of a professional soldier, but tie knows that safety depends on vigilance, Lloyd George will go into the conference pledged to preservation and perpetuation of the British empire. This carries with it the British navy. Canada, Australia, the South African Union dominions of today and princi palities of tomorrow stand back of the pre mier. India, Egypt and other dependencies of the empire will remain true. America, the third of the dominant powers, also has a future to protect. Its president has put forth a platform on which peace may be founded, if all nations may be trusted. To translate its idealism into terms that may be practically applied is the task. Peace and plenty, of it 5 in process of being made. Where will it rest on the Golden Rule, or the lex talionis? , Federal judges ought to be able to dispense justice with greater equanimity hereafter, con gress having added $1,500 a year to their pay. The weather bureau thinks it may have to end the "January thaw" with a snow storm this week. All right; we have had a right nice ;inie. Mr. Bryan points to the record as an answer to the Dickinson letter, but does that tell the whole story of what the women folks were doing? - ' The English language is quite popular in the legislature, and will be much better known throughout the state in the future, if signs count for anything. Nebraska lawmakers have started with mod eration in the matter of number of bills intro duced. We must wait for the finish before iirasging about them. Germany has instructed its "delegates" tp the peace council as to what iourse to follow. The, allies wilPtell them, als, and it "will be "Sign on the dotted line." Four million dollars ought to produce a pretfy fair sort of a state house building, even in these days of high prices. But the best is none too good for Nebraska. Nebraska teachers will meet in Omaha next November, when the cityvwill try to make up to them what they missed when the flu broke up their convention prospects last year. Federal control of the meat-packing industry might upsej some of the plans of the inde pendents for cutting in on a good business). Work of building will go right on; just the same. Now that the air mail service has again been saved for Omaha the people breathe easier. It would be more to the point, though, to have some improvement in the service as it now exists. . "Cur Dog or Woolly Sheep." This queston was put to the legislature by I the governor to decide.'. If the business of I sheep-raising is to be fostered in Nebraska, the raising of dogs will have to be curtailed; the two do not go together. So far, the governor's suggestion that dogs be taxed for the protec tion of sheep owners has not taken tlje form of a bill, but it doubtless will, for the sheep men are in earnest. TJiey have tried to get needed legislation on the topic from the last two or three assemblies, but were not able to convince the democrats of the validity of their claims. Better luck may come this time, because of the interest taken in the matter by the gov ernor(who understands the importance of the measure. Nebraska may well become a wool producing state, adding another element to its material wealth, but not until the cur dog has been done, away with in favor of the woolly sheep. Packers' Profits and the Experts. An expert accountant employed by the Fed eral Trade commission has. testified before the senate committee on agricubetre that the profits of the "Big Five" packers doubled and trebled during the war. 'However, he discredits, in dme degree, his- owtl-statement by asserting that no one can tell "accurately -what- the I packers' earnings are, because their methods of keeping ibooks have the effect of covering up their profits." His charge that one concern took a profit o'f 267.7 per cent in 1917, and another had 114.2 per cent in 1916 deserves attention. Strict examination of the accounts "of these con cerns should reveal the truth. Qualified experts can trace the course of the money received and paid out, and arrive at definiteyfacts. If this expert knows what he is talking about, the packers have not only deceived the public, but have defrauded the government, for it is certain that neither of them paid taxes last year on any such showing. Variations in the matter of expert opinion are not at alt uncommon,, but here is a difference between the Trade com mission and the packers that is shocking. Somebody has been trifling with the figures, and in all fairness to everybody the truth should be brought out. Champ Clark may have been looking to 1920 when he put his foot down on the salary grab last week. He knows the congressmen will be too busy with their own affairs to go utter him very hard. J r . : Mid-winter graduations, now a regular part of the local high school program, begin to take on something of importance when classes as large as the present one are coming out Our schools are growing. Francis Ileney will not find it easy to make the world think Herbert Hoover engaged in any crooked work in the food administration. Hoover aroused the American people to a point where they saved the day by saving food, while I k'ney failed to win the democratic nomination for governor of California. This may or may not mean anything. Breaking Hindenburg s Line What was apparent in field reports is now ;; adt real irra f&tmal official report made by Sir Douglas lliig covering all operations from :he beginning of May, 1917, until the day of armis.Ice. If our frequent admiring com ments on the performance of American troops in action, so far a they could be discerned from day to thy, in bulletins and map references, ere ever left to be over partial or enthusiastic, Ueir inerrancy is more than proved now. De tailing the operations along the British front of September 29, the day which brought the first t reach in the famed and snpposed-to-be im-l'S-egnahle Hindenburg line, the British field n-irshall reports: "North of Bellenglise the Thirtieth. American division, Maj. Gen. E. M. Lewis, having broken through the deep defenses iif the Hindenburg line, stormed Bellincourt and seized Nouroy." . - ,- , The first breach in the ITindenburg line is Innii-a to have been made at a point against which the British forces were operating. The report of the successful assault made by the Americans is the first rtfirence made in the report to that event. The London Daily News, !,i its comment on the field marshal's report, -.' hat it is a clear recognition of divisions according to their work. . - , It is that, ;ind something more. It is a re fection of the mind and heart of a great sol (i:er, incapable, in his official expressions, of u-ithholding any meed of merit from deserving ; :ca. St Louis Globe-Democrat, Humor from the Hospitals. Stories that have come back from the battle fields of France, telling of the superb valor of American boys, how magnificently they faced the awful terrors of modern war, will live in annals of the country, growing brighter as the days intervene. America will forever be proud of those lads, who so. gloriously upheld her best traditions. But other tales are coming through, whose tenderness and pathos bring a clutch at the heart. These come from the hos pitals, where the boys who felt the kiss of bay onet or bullet, the shock of shell or shrapnel, who inhaled the gas or were caught by the scorching flame, are winning back to health and strength. Wounds so terrible they shocked the surgeon and challenged his utmost skilljmd daring, are borneby these youngsters, not with patience and resignation alone, but are made the subject of light-hearted jesting among them selves. The humor of the boy who can joke under these conditions is proof of the spirit. Death holds no terror for such an one, and life no hazard he will not risk, no obstacle he can not surmount. While such a breed of men ex ists we need not worry about the safety of "human liberty in this world. ., . "Sliding" Scale for Policemen. Chief Eberstein's lucid explanation of the "sliding" scale on which Omaha's policemen are to be pajd may awaken some apprehension in timid minds. If the monthly pay envelope is to be stuffed proportionately to the number of arrests made by the individual "copper," Omaha will very likely be required to provide a numerous fleet of patrol wagons. Reason ably enough, the chief of police wants some method for rewarding efficiency, and better pay for the officer who 'has proved himself worthy is a good way by which to manifest approba tion. But service ought to have some other standard than the number of arrests made. merit is to rest on this alone, thensthe demand for downtown beats will be far beyond the sup ply, while the poor devil of a policeman who is banished to the outlying, purlieus of Dundee or Benson, for example, where trouble never occurs, maj starve to death on the pay he draws. We hope every man on the force earns and receives top wages, but through real service to the public, and. not 'for -the number of times he "calls the wagon," The White Man's Burden X- An advance synopsis of a booklet on "The World's War Debt." compiled by the Mechanics and Metals National bnk of New York City, outlines the size of the white man's burden which present and future generations must carry through to the finish. , According to the bank's figures, the gross indebtedness of the nations of the world has risen in four years from $27,000,000,000 to more than $200,000,000,000. The indebtedness of the seven nations which were chiefly engaged in carrving forward thp great war amounted to $194,000,000,000 on January 1. 1919. Great Brit ain and Germany have the largest debts of any of the belligerents. France being third, fol lowed by Austria-Hungary, Russia, the Uni,ted States and Italy. Securities now outstanding against the big seven represent a sum greater than the devel oped wealth of any single nation of the world, other than the United States. "They represent," the bank says, "a sum six times as large as the deposits of-all the hanks of the United States, 12 times as large as all the gold and silver mined since the beginning ol the world and 20 times as large as the value of our annual foreign trade." The statement continues: The indebtedness of Great Britain, wlu'ch, in the middle of 1914, represented a mortgage equal to 4 per cent of the nation's wealth," now represents a mortgage equal to more than 44 per cent of. that wealth. The indebtedness of Germany, which in 1914 represented a mortgage of 6 per cent of Germany's national wealth, now represents a mortgage of nearly 50 per cent of that wealth. For Austria-Hungary, the increase has been 60 per cent of the nation's wealth; for France and Russia to 45 per cent, and for the United States -8 per cent. Estimating -the indebtedness of -the nations on January 1, 1919, the figures are as follows, in comoanson with the natinm.l debt-figures as they stood at the outbreak of the war on August 1, 1914: Aug. 1, 1914. .$1,000,000,000 . 3,500,000,000 . 6,500,000,000 . 4,600,000,000 . 2,800,000,000 Gross Debt. United States Great Britain France Russia Italy Jan. 1.1919, $21,000,000,000 40,000,000,000 30.000,000,000 27,000,000,000 12,000,000,000 Entente .$18,400,000,000 $130,000,000,000 German Emmre and states .... 5.200,000,000 40,000,000,000 Austria-Hungary . 3,700,000,000 24,000,000,000 Teutonic nations$ 8,900,000,000 $ 64,000,000,000 Gross debt i I of all ... . . . .$27,300,000,000 $194,0.00,000,000 A gross total of $194,000,000,000 for the coun tries given acknowledges only the war indebt edness, as added Tb the indebtedness of 1914. It makes no allowance for obligations to be in curred for further military purposes. for the demobilizing of armies and for pensioning them. Nor does it allow for the restoration and re plenishment expenditures that will impose upon the nations the duty to incur turther loans. . There will be. beside the expense of de mobilizing the armies, the work of rebuilding and restoring, of housing on an unparaBeled scale, and of road-making. There will be the imperative need of agricultural development, shipbuilding and improvement ot transportation, to sav nothinof of schemes of economic and social reform that are regarded as absolutely essential to future national emciency. It is maintained by the bank that, if debts are notto be repudiated or scaled dovAi, it will ultimately have to be out of the people's income and savings that the nece.ssary funds are pro vided. "Taxes will have to wipe the slate clean," says the bank, "for, while public securities are a mortgage on the wealth of a nation, their security is really the right to share in the earn ing oower of that nation, and be redeemed out of that earning power. Ihe difficulty will be very great of adjusting the tax levies properly, for it is plain that thereis a maximum or tax ation beyond which any nation will not find it safe to go.' To make a tax too' extreme 'would be to kill initiative and incentive and thus di minish industrial and .commercial prosperity. If tax bills in any country were- hereafter to exceed the annual excess of the people's pro duction over consumption, the progress of that nation would stop. War Inventions That Last Another secret of the war is revealed in the Navy department s account of the use of under ground and underwater wireless. No reason any longer exists for withholding -from the public information that would have been' of value to the enemy. Of far greatersimportance today is the development of the Kogers system for nor mal purposes in the transmission of radio mes sages. ( For the last four years science has been en gaged in a match of wits. Military necessity In unexpected situations required that the enemy be circumvented in the employment of new de vices and outdone in the arts of destruction, To neutralize the deadly effects of the Ger mans' use of poison gas the gas mask was made part of the soldier s equipment. As an addeo protection against air-raids the British hit upon the idea of wire air screens suspended from bal loons. The depth bomb went far to reduce the effectiveness of the U-boat's operations. Against hidden mines the -paravane was invented by an officer of the British navy.. Tq produce a lght, high-power motor for airplanes, a machine gun capable of the highest rapidity o fire, a non inflammable gas for observation balloons, were achievements to which the United States was stimulated. But not all of the advances made in the laboratory and the workshop will cease to have practical value with the, restoration of peace. In mechanics, in chemistry and in surgery, with the unlimited backing of government, it has been feasible to attain a rate of progress in many directions, ordinarily denied to skilled in dividual investigators. On a scale never fore seen the world has been forced to meet prob lem? that have taxed its resources, but many of the lessons it has mastered under extreme pres sure will continue -to be applied with advantage o industry and science in the years to come. New York World. - rODAV. The Day We Celebrate. , John A. Kuhn, transportation manager for the Updike Grain company, born 1870. Dr.- Sanford Ringler, born 1876. . Josef Hoffmann, one of the world's most celebrated pianists, born in Cracow, Galicia, 42 years ago. Mischa Elman, widely famed as a violinist, born in southern Russia 28 years ago. Thomas N. Hart, Boston's oldest ex-mayor, born at North Reading, Mass., 90 years ago. Furnifold McL. Simmons, senior United States senator from North Carolina, born in Jones county, N. C, 65 years ago. - John William Cunliffe, professor of English in Columbia university, born in Lancashire, England, 54 years ago. v In Omaha 30 Years Ago. " . An Omaha turnverein party, "under Philip Andres and Henry Kummeron, went to attend a grand ball and exhibition given by the turn verein at' Plattsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gallagher entertained in honor of Judge and Mrs. J. W. Fitzgerald of Cincinnati, who have been the guests of R. C. Cushing for the past week. Eli Perkins, newspaper man and lecture humorist, is in the city registered at the Paxton under his own name, Melville D. Landon. The Little Church of the Good Shepherd at Nineteenth and Lake, was formally opened, Dean Gardner ajid Bishop Worthington par ticipating in the services. Rev. J. G. Detwiler in his sermon to Ijie Kountze Memorial Lutheran church, denounced the charity ball, State Press Comment Harvard Courier: Sooner or later Nebraska will have a new capitol building, it oufthtr to have one now. Hut the old building is still usable and should be used until WBr prices for material and labor are done away with. When a new building; is erected we all want a good one andJ it will cost enotiKh without paying an inflated price for it. Fremont Tribune: Both governors, the old and the new, advocate the teaching only of the English Ian iuage in the public schools, a wise mid patriotic thing to do. But if both of them recommended some thing else they could set down that the legislature would never follow their suggestions. It is plain that the sentiment of the legislature is overwhelmingly in favor of every method that will most effectually Americanize America. Nebraska City Press: Mr. Mc- Adoo's plans for government re tention of the railroads Include nearly every blessing imaginable except one. He makes no provisions for lower freight or passenger rates. But of course those are minor issues, in which the general public should not be interested. Being so used to increases in the cost of living the general public wouldn't know what to do with any sort of a reduction if it was handed to them. Blair Enterprise: Another boost in express rates occurred the first of the year; and the service Is rotten, And It's the same with the railroads. The roads are doing more than they ever did, the rates, both passenger and freight, are higher than before the president "gave the roads to his son-in-law,' McAdoo to manage, and the deficit is greater than before, Still you run across people ndw and then who are In favor of govern' ment ownership of the railroads. notwithstanding these objections. L& qJ9os Qom&r EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS. Minneapolis Tribune: . Four states ratified the dry amendment In one daftr. Pretty soon a camel will feel at home in this country. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: If the warring elements In Poland could hear the beginning of one of Pad erewskl's performances on the piano there would be Instant quiet. Detroit Free Press: One of the ox-kaiser's sons has taken a job with an automobile concern. We hope it's greasing rear axles, for that's the dirtiest Jo around an auto we can think of. Minneapolis Tribune: intoxica tion is now punishable inl Florida with a ?3,000 fine. At that rate a "jag" is piohibitive to nearly every body except those In the 20 per cent incomo class and up. Philadelphia Ledger: Some soft headed people argue against a heavy indemnity bill against Germany and speak of her mistake In "crushing" France In 1871. But France paid quickly, and so can Germany. Kansas City Star: As Mr. Ho henzollern follows events in Ger mcny, he may extract some com fort at least from the reflection that he did pretty well to hold a soft Job for thirty years In a country y like that Brooklyn Eagle: -Perhaps some foreign foe might raise Hades in Southern California, no other crop has any chance In that arid soil. But the proposition to buy this wilder ness from Mexico need not be seri ously considered. It's a 100 to 1 hot that Mexico wouldn't sell. New York World: According to the official report of Gen. Haig, the Thirtieth American division, which was composed of Tenesseeans, North Carolinians and South Carolinians, was the first, along with the New York troops, to break through the Hindenburg line. General Grant knew what he was about when he forced these men back into the 1 union. OUTDOOR SKETCHES. A Woodr Lake. Anions the grandeurs of th Great Divide, Created tn an oval frame or pine, A lake repose, near a silver mine. About hatt way upon a mountain side. With blended blue and (ray and green tried Ala beauties on the canvas to enshrine 'The sky and water, shadow, tree ana vine But with my picture was not satisfied. I strove to draw the silence of -the scene. Tne aanKisn coolness ana tne oaors quaint. The smile of Nature mirrored in the sheen: V But all my colors were too marked or faint, And yet, the lines 1 traced, I fondly ween. Suggest the raptures that I could not paint. A San Francisco Scene. High on a hill, a garden, roseate. With here and there a marble statue and A fountain, or a palm tree In the sand, liOoks out upon the gllst ning Golden Gate. The sunset s amber colors, animate. Reflected In the ocean near he strand Dartre minuets and sparkle, hand to hand. Upon the wavelets as they undulate, While slow the evening dissolves the light And shade across the harbor's double bar. The water fairies take fantastic flight; Then Luna, crescent-shaped, beside a star. Shines on the deep a lingering good-night. Ana sinks behind the sky-line, wide and tar. Katydid, When twilight tinges Into shadow deep, Around my cabin In Its peaceful lone. Within Its bungalow of leaves alone t hear the Katydid supinely peep. The motives of Its spell around me creep, Ana as 1 listen to Its xylophone Four forth Its nocturne in a soothing tone I slur Into a serenade of sleep. v I feel my over-weary spirit fling Its loan or care away and dlsaonear Above the moil and rival murmuring. Ana rest enrapiurea -nil i tntnk I hear The shouting sons of God begin to ring ine morning stars in Hallelujah clear, WILLIS HUDSPETH, DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "BALKY SAM'S DUEIi" (Tn this adventure Peggy and Billy Belgium again meet Balky Sam, the army iiiule. and Billy Goat and Johnny Bull, the army masoots.) CHAPTER 1. Balky Sam Kicks, FACE! Peace! Peace!" The glad song floated down to Peggy from the chuifch steeple far Above her. f "Peace! Peace with victory I Peace with safety! Peace with joy and happiness!". The chant grew louder as out from the steeple there poured an army of pigeon. "Hurrah!" cried Peggy. "The soldier birds are home from war!" Down-swooped the pigeons, lining up before Peggy In military forma tion. In front of them was a hand some young officer, who saluted smartly. "Princess Peggy, we have done our duty and helped to make th world mm "We are in Germany," said Billy. safe for every one. We thank you for sending us to war, and giving us a share in this noble triumph." Peggy looked closely, In pleased surprise. It was Airy Pouter, but not the snobbish, lazy, sneering Airy Pouter she had known of old. This was a snappy, soldiery, UK ibie pigeon of a very different sort. "Oh, I'm so glad you're back," exclaimed Peggy. "But where are Carrie and Homer Pigeon?" "They have remained behind to prevent Balky Sam, the army mule, from starting another war. They want you and Billy Belgium to hurry over there as fust as you can." "Goodness gracious! Why does he want another war, just when everyone is so happy over peace?' Before Airy Pouter could answer, another pigeon voice cried, "Hurry, hurry!" and Peggy looked up into the air to see Bronze Beauty darting toward her. Beside him was Hill Belgium's toy alrulane. with Billy himself, reduced to doll-size, In the pilot s seat. . "Come on, roggy. Here are Goliekty Leaves to wake you sinull and invisible," shouted Billy. Presto! Peggy became as small as the pigeons, and hopped Into the airplane. "Europe! BIngen on the Rhine!" shouted Billy, as if giving directions to a chauffeur. "Whir-r-r-! Whish-sh-sh-sh!" went the airplane for a dizzy min ute. Then It slowed up. Looking below, Peggy saw a large river. "We are in Germany. There's the Rhine." shouted Billy. Beslda the town was a huge mili tary camp, .over which flew the American flag. Straight for this camp headed the airplane. As they approched it, Peggy and BUly could hear a violent racket. Bang! Whack! Thump! Clatter! Bang! It sounded like a battle. "Has the war broken loose again?" cried Billy In wonderment. "It will mighty quick, if Balky Sam isn't headed off,' -shrilled a voice close at hand and there were Homer, and Carrie Pigeon flying be Bide the airplane. A bugle call rang just below, and a company of negro soldiers could be seen running toward a long wooden building from which the racket was coming. "What's doing?" shouted Billy Belgium. "Balky Sam's army of mules has taken possession of the stables," 'shrilled Homer Pigeon. "The negro troops are attacking them to prevent their beginning a new war on Ger many." - "Oh, oh. the soldiers will kill the mules!" screamed Peggy, horrified at the sight of the weapons In -the hands of the negroes these weapons being glistening pitchforks. "Wah! Wah! Wah!" shouted the negroes, rushing Into the stables. For a moment there was silence. Then bang, bangety-bang, bang! The racket rose louder - than ever. Above it sounded screams. "Oh, the poor mules!" cried Peg gy, covering her ears. Crash! Out through a window came flying a negro. Crash! Right through a splintered board came an other negro. Crash! Up through the roof came a third. Then crash, Daily Dot Puzzle t s t 3o A ' 5 I ) ' -4 4 15.-. ' Just look who's herel It is a Draw from on to two and so on to the end. crash, crash, followed a chorus, and with every crash a sprawling negro flew through window, side or roof. "Hee! HawV roared a familiar voice, and there was Balky Sam leading a troop of prancing, kicking mules, through a hole smashed in the side of ihe stables. , , "Hee! Haw!" brayed Balky TJam. "On to Berlin!" , "Stop him!" shrieked Hdmer Pigeon. "Stop him before the war begins all over again." (Tomorrow will ba told how Balky Sara advances against the (oe.) iees ox Daily Cartoonette. Pi Tl I 'o5h! HERE'S A TIM IN THE M1EEU.E s- 1-iac ktdcct I T 1 "Dirvi-r DP AND 5EE IFMYt-UCrT rT3?"3 riiautirl I rty DHEDDc 1 A Proper Memorial. Omaha, Jan. 17. To the Editor of The Bef: Seeing there is to be an open discussion for a memorial to the "Boys" who went into the great world war, I would like to suggesst A Bulding for Service. The thought of the world for months past has been service along every line. Through efficient service we have backed and won the great est war of all time. Service flags are in our home windows for the boys who responded to the eall of our country. They went . "over there;" they went "over the top" and when they fell - on "No Man's Land" before the guns of the enemy, they did not call for the stretcher bearer, but shouted to their comrades in seriveo to "carry on" -till this phrase of two words containing so much of the noble, so much of the sublime, has probably become the greatest expression of all time. As it was with men, so it was with nations. When the Germans storm ed at Belgium's gates, she withstood them as long as she could, then with a dying gasp she called on France and England to "carry on," and when the grey hordes of Huns came sweeping down through Serbia and Montenegro France and England called on America to "carry on." And America sprang to an 100 per cent efficiency, responding and help ing, and backing, and sending over? seas the flower and strength of her young manhood, who fought and bled and died, calling "carry on! America! Carry on!" Now that the guns have ceased firing, the excitement is past, and our "Boys" are coming home with their greater, broader views of life and service, fellowship and brother hood of man and memories of brave comrades who will never return, their patriotism will not find expres sion in monuments or galleries but through some channel to "carry on." In all departments of the great organized war work there were headquarters and central ' meeting places. We now have patriotic societies dating back through the years of our country. Our great Red Cross organization is in need of state head quarters. " The "Order of the Gold Star," with national headauarters in Omaha and the War Mothers will be in need of rooms. The Boy Scouts and Campfire fJIrla are the coming men and wo men who will "carry on" the work begun. The Soc ety of Fine Arts, musical clubs, Woman's club and other or ganizations bringing talent and con ventions require suitable meeting and assembly rooms to "carry on work which will broaden and grow for a newly awakened manhood ana womanhood of our city and state. The indolent lethargy indulged In before the war is a thing of the pint, and it is hoped Omaha men ana women, and he great state of Ne braska will stand togelher in the reconstruction period which we are entering, and build big and broad that we may be in a position to "carry on" a greater work and help our "Boys" who , are privileged to return to have a "headquarters in a Building for Service to "carry on," not only the work already begun, but to carry On the work of theli comrades who gave their lives on th battlefields of France and in the "service" of their country. MRS. EDGAR H. ALLEN, Regent Omaha Chapter, D. A. R. Up to the Proofreader. Omaha, Jan. 18. To the Editor of The Bee: One cannot but help notice the treatment in your columns as well as in other dailies not a thousand miles from Omaha, of the word "Protestant," referring to the particular group of churches not Catholic. You always use the capl tal "C" in Catholic (referring to the Catholic church.) but you use a small "p" in protestant. There is no valid reason for this not even the most rabid "down style" should jus tify it. No dictionary, unless It be a Catholic dictionary (which would put the word in the same class as "heretic"), has degenerated to the point of recognizing as proper the um of a lower case "p" in "protest ant," meaning the group of Christ ians protesting against the papecy at the time of the Reformation. And by the way, the word "reformation" is often treated in the same way. You can't make a "common" noun of these in any other way but by placing yourself with those who are distinctly opposed. Where is the writer, compositor or proofreader, who is responsible. . - , CRITICAL READER. v Case of "BUe,, Rice. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 17. To the Editor of The Bee: The Wom an a club did right not to listen to "Billle" Rice at this time, She is being cured for - a drug habit and other diseases and until she has been free fromthe drug at least six months or a year she would not be in condition to talk before an audience. Mrs. Hayes has the sym pathy of her friends - and- many would be willing to help her if she would go about things In a . more level-headed way. What good has it done to advertise this "Billle" Rice? Has it been wise to put her before the public and thereby call atten tion to her so that when cured and ready to go back to her profession that she will have the confidence of people who wish to employ her? What . did right-thinking people think of the action the Womans club took in this matter? Let us hear from someone else. A NURSE. Saya Pay Is Too Low. - Omaha, Jan. 17. To the . Editor of The Bee: I am a discharged sol dier and while I received ihe best of treatment when in the service, now that I am back, I fall to find the great opportunity and splendid pros perity I was told about by so many speakers. I feel that my family has-a right to good food, good clothing and a comfortable home, but that cannot be had on the pay that 95 per cent of the employers are offering us. That is not the brand of democracy we went out to shed our blood for, JAMES BLACK. Groh for Government Ownership. Sutton, Neb., Jan. 17. To the Ed itor of The Bee: A correspondent in The Bee wants the railroads re turned to the inefficiency of private control and exploitation because a rew picknickers could not get a through train stopped at Schuyler. Of course this was all wrong. Per haps the officials in authority are doing their bit to make government management odious. On page 4Q of the Burlington time table is the fol lowing: "There are many neople wno, ior partisan or seinsh purposes, wish government operation of the railroads to be a failure." True. and some officials could give the I. W. W.'s pointers in the practice of sabotage. If anything is wrong, why not report to headquarters in Wash ington? You are invited to do so if you have a. grievance. The superiority of federal over private control has been demon strated la one short year. Employes of ail grades. evn the section hands, have received in creased wages amounting to $650,- uwu,ouu per year, while fancy salar ies of useless officials have been cut out. A saving equal to 21,000,000 train miles has been made in . opera tion, etc. Best of all, government control won the war for the allies. Without it, the kaiser would have dictated terms of peace at Paris. , The writer talks about service. The following is a quotation from a standard magazine: "The railroads are no longer able to get their freight cars in and out of the yards and terminals of the larger cities. . . The business of the country has been, to a great extent, paralyced for weeks on account of what is called freight-car famine. Yet freight cars by the thousands are standing on side tracks and packed into freight yards, all in one welter ing chaos of- hopeless mismanage ment." This was in 1907 and has occurred several times since, yet a few people holler their heads oft because of a little persorial inconvenience. A. G. GROH. ' t False to His Master. Baltimore American: Count Bern storff says heartlessly and cynically of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm: "Where in h could we send him?" Truly are the days of lese majeste past beyond all recalling. There was a time when this same- Bernstorff, who speaks so carelessly of his ex-chief, was willing to soil his honor as a gentleman and his principle as a man at this same ex-chief's behest. He lacks even the dog's trait of fidelity to his master. . . -"VIlY-r hot OILS t IVK&t.as'b.t Prospect Hill Censtery Oldest Burial Ground in the city. Many of the first families own lots in it. A location of rare natural at tractiveness, well cared for. Readily accessible from all parts of the city. Lots or single interments may be had on reasonable terms. See the superinten dent. Phone Web. 2404. J Whenyou feel provoked if there are occasional defects in the telephone service, or feel that our policies or practices are wrong, we'll appreciate it if you will tell us fibout it and let us talk tbiiigfl over with you.