THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1913.
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Chow dogs come high in California.
French women are also asking for the vote.
The leaven Uworklng.
Tacoma present! the itrange picture of a
seaport with too much water.
Wonder how many service stripes the secre
tary, of war will allow the "conscobs?"
Whether it is good business or charity,
America can not afford to let Europe starve.
It was not so far to Tipperary when it came
to putting soldiers on track of murderous
rioters.
Butter makers have found out that the war
is over, and say tjiat now it is up to the re
. tailers. ' '
"Boring from within" has long been the ac
cepted policy of the "reds," and they are busy
boring in America today.
Chemically pure tarpaulins are proposed for
Nebraska by a bill just introduced at Lincoln.
Life is getting simpler every day. ,
Another plan for a combination art and war
museum li laid before the people of Omaha.
All that is to be done now is to get the money.
Peace is promised to be signed in June, but
it will only be preliminary. - The issues of the
great war are not to be disposed of oflfhand.
Farnam street looks good to the home-coming
boys, and Omaha can return the. compli
ment with interest. The boys surely lotik good
to us. ' .
Champ Clark wants the Yankee soldiers re
moved from Europe. As a matter of fact, he
was not extremely solicitous to have them sent
there.
A mass convention of all living Russians
may be expected soon, as delegates of all fac
tions are called to meet at Prince's Island
within fifteen days.
A thousand homes were , opened in Omaha
to a little 4-year-old girl, but only one could
have her. War has not entirely deadened love
of children hereabouts. ' !
King Manuel cays he is in the "hands of his
friends." lie will save a lot of trouble by
Kicking to England, for his next expulsion from
Portugal might not be so gentle.
A Chicago "red" has just told the court that
lie regards the red flag above Old Glory. And
the secretary of war orders the. release of "con
scientious objectors" to prove that the "red"
is right. '
Generally when a staunch advocate' of "non
partisanism" is pursued to his lair and stripped
cf his camouflage, he is found to be a democrat
looking for an office he could not otherwise
hope to get.
A farmers' co-operative grain company
doing business in Nebraska with only $9,000 in
vested has declared a dividend of $9,000 for the
year 1918. And yet some folks say farming
does not pay.
General Leonard Wood talked good sense
to the Kansas legislators, just as he talked to
the American public before the war broke out,
but is the world any more ready to heed his
advice now than then?
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Washington is preparing to stage a celebra
tion for the president on his return that will
make ther European demonstrations seem tame.
If hotel prices go up accordingly, it will be no
place for the plain peepttl.
A congressman expresses surprise at the
Methods of the Federal Trade commission in
carrying on its inquiries. lie evidently does
not know that Mr. Heney. seldom hunts for
truth, but mostly for sensations.
The Springfield Republican finds in the mid
d! class substantial salvation for America
against bolshevism, but how long can the mid
i!e class sustain such shocks as have recently
been administered by the secretary oi war?
Holding Back Soldiers Pay
" Throwing up his hands in a cloud of red
tare. Secretary of War Baker proposes to pay
o'( discharged soldiers on their affidavit as to
!e amount of hack pay due them. This is a
belated recognition of a state of affairs that
would have greatly impaired the morale of our
atmies had it been noised about during the war.
!t already has attracted the attention of obser
mt congressmen. Representative. Mann has
called attention to the tact that several hundred
,;!.liers sent tJ convalescence at West Baden,
Indiana, received no pay for several months,
r ,th Representative Butler of Pennsylvania and
Walsh of Massachusetts have cited other start
lisiii delays in the pay of soldier and family al
lotments. Representative McKaddcn of Penn-
'vania has already introduced a resolution for
a congressional investigation of the war risk
insurance bureau. These delays impair the
soldiers' appreciation of the government's an
nouncement that war 'risk insurance will be
continued for five years alter the war. Secre
tary McAdoo, however, urged all soldiers with-t'.-awinsr
from the army to keep up their insur
; . p. The promise is held out that at the end
. i she five-year period the present policies may
: - oont erted into ordinary life,, twenty-payment
and endowment insurance, maturing at the
e of 62, Tt :s is the cheapest lite insurance
oer written. Provided it is efficiently adminis-
xd, it will prov a continuing benefit to the
hers w! !M--rr J fti faithfully in the national
Leslie's Weekly
COMMON SENSE OR BUNK?
Why all this silly hubbub, at this time, over
the method of electing delegate to the con
stitutional convention decreed by voters of Ne
braska at the last election?
True, the legislature is charged with enact
ing the needful laws to provide for the meet
ing of the constitution-makers, but the legis
lature is bound by the limitations in the present
constitution, and has little if any leeway or
discretion in the matter.
The constitution of Nebraska, in the lection
relating to amendment through constitutional
convention, says in so many words
"The convention shall consist of as many
members of the house of representatives, who
' shall be chosen in the same manner."
If the law-makers observe their oath of
office to obey the constitution of the state, how
can they provide for the election of members
of the constitutional convention in a manner
different from the methods observed in their
own election? ' . .
For ourselves, we would much prefer to
have a portion of the seats in the convention
filled by election of delegates to represent the
state at large, which is done, for example, in
New York state, rather than have them all
chosen by legislative districts, but to demand
that now, in the face of the constitutional
provision would be foolish, because useless.
To urge that the delegates to the conven
tion be presented as "nonpartisans" rather than
as party nominees ii nothing but a piece of
petty camouflage, unless its advocates are
ready to go the whole length of choosing mem
bers of the legislature without reference to
party affiliation. What difference is there be
tween making the laws and making the con
stitution in the matter of party responsibility
except in degree? i
And then, when we get that far, is there any
difference between the state legislature and the
national legislature, or any more or less reason
for electing congressmen or senators as repub
licans or democrats instead of , as pretended
nonpartisans?
The elimination of partisanship may be all
right' in judicial or purely administrative or
scientific fields, but give, us a rest on this "non
partisan" bunk for offices that are essentially
political, and therefore necessarily partisan.
Where "Democracy" Brings Confusion.'
Debate on the good roads bills before the 1
committee at Lincoln has developed that oppo
sition to the plans proposed for this greatly
needed legislation turns on the control of the
work. Reactionaries object to the state engi
neer or road commissioner being given power
to designate what roads may be improved, or
what character of improvement shajl be'made.
They contend that such a coiirse would take
away from communities any voice in the en
terprise, and prevent each road district fr6m
having what it deems best for its own needs.
If the idea of these obstructionists is allowed
to prevail, it will defeat the purpose of a gen
eral good roads measure; uniformity could not
be secured under such auspices, either in ma
terial, design or construction. Instead of Ne
braska's having a comprehensive system of
highways, constructed in pursuance of definite
plans, unless an unusual tfpirit of 'co-operation
among the districts were manifest, we will find
the money spent for a patch-work of roads, en
tirety lacking in co-ordination and of minimum
rather than maximum service. Those who are
interested in the project of proper highway con
struction for Nebraska must watch carefully
this move to defeat their efforts under the
specious guise of preserving local "democracy"
in road districts.
Case of the Meat Packers;
It was to have been expected that when the
meat packers came to give their side of the
story their statement would differ - at most
points from that presented by the Federal
Trade commission and Mr. Heney. The pack
ers are averse to government control; Mr.
Heney is ambitious to induce the people to en
gage in the provision business. In following
the proceedings the reader is bewildered be
cause of the wide divergence between the as
sertions made on either side. ' One essential
point has not been given especial attention.
That is the presence in . the meat busi
ness of others than the so-called "big five."
Independent packing firms, operate all over the
country, doing a business that in the aggregate
makes a most impressive showing, even when
set alongside the greatest of the big concerns.
These enterprises are surely entitled to some
consideration. No monopoly exists, and trad
ers at the stock yards know how often the in
dependent buyers take the price out of the
hands of the "big five" and buy animals to suit
themselves. If the public is to be asked to ap
prove of the government taking over the busK
ness of meat packing, it should be informed in
advance of all the facts in the case, and not be
given part truths after the. act, as was done
with the railroads, the telegraphs, telephones
and cables.
To Expedite the Count of Votes.
Senator Taylor has brought forward a meas
ure at Lincoln that will be of interest to all
who have to do with collecting and compiling
election returns in Nebraska. It is that "dou
ble election boards" shall be required to begin
the count, of votes as soon as twenty-five bal
lots have been deposited. Under such an ar
rangement the count of the vote cast at any
election should be complete within a very few
minutes after the last ballot has been deposited,
and the general result made known much ear
lier than under present conditions. The double
board was adopted for the purpose of lighten
ing the work of receiving and counting the
votesbut specific instructions as to process of
carrying out its work have not been made.
Under the Taylor proposal the board at each
polling place will be required under direction of
the law ' to keep the work of counting on a
level with that of receiving the ballots. The
advantages of this method are such as scarcely
to need explanation.
Dundee's predicament as regards a school
room is indicative of what may be expected
elsewhere in Omaha. The school board had
better hurry and get its High School of Com
merce out of the way of a lot pf Tgrade schools
that will soon be needed.
Australia is going to "survey" an air route
to the Far East It will not be long until
round-the-wtrld excursions by airship Viil be
regular summer outing trips.
Party Reconstruction
New York Evening Post (ind.)
Soldiers and sailors are not the only ones
who are in need of "rehabilitation", after the
war. The political parties are candidates for si
little reconstruction on their own account. They,
too, are more or less "war-battered veterans.
They do not expect congress to vote them land
or loans; no public sanitaria will be free to them
while they recuperate; volunteer committees
will not attend to their wants while they are
recovering their strength. But they admit the
need of building themselve up . and pulling
themselves together. Especially is this con
fessed in the case of the democratic party. The
republicans, under the skilled attention of
Chairman Hays and Senator Lodge and other
doctors and nurses, feel that they are now
something more than convalescent. They even
think that they are strong enough to suppress
their own annoying left wing the old progres
sives, who now propose to run things in the
house of their fathers to which they have re
turned, not exactly as prodigal sons. .With the
democrats, however, it, is very different They
are almost crying aloud for someone to reha
bilitate them. Looking down their lines, they
see too many bandaged heads and 'crippled legs.
Washington is full of democratic "lame ducks,"
with nary a crutch in the shape of a good
office to support them. ,
The resignation of Vance McCormick,
chairman of the democratic national committee,
is taken as a signal that the work of toning up
the party is soon to begin. It, is not that Mr.
McCormick was thought of as' a hindrance to
the work. But he has been called to France
to give technical advice to our peace delegates,
and it is felt that the choice of his successor
may be made the occasion of calling upon the
party to brace up. And the man who is to do
the calling is not left in the shadow. It is the
confident prediction of party leaders in Wash
ington that President Wilson, as soon as he
gets home, will take hold of the work of put
ting his party in fighting shape for 1920.
" , If Mr. Wilson does feel that this is a duty
laid upon him, the obligation is not hard to
understand. It is that of a man sumnjoned to
make good the losses he himself has Caused,
and to overcome, in one year, the difficulties
which he has created in six. Ths is not to
imply that President Wilson has not been a
remarkably successful leader of his party since
1912, In many ways, his record as such is un
precedented and brilliant. He made democrats
do a lot of things which were hateful to them.
Yet he kept them in power. There was no
gainsaying the authority of the man who won
for his party, largely by his personal efforts,
two presidential a,nd three congressional elec
tions. He was the master of the legions. But
he lost his latest battle. That might happen
to any leader; but the demoralized and des
pondent state of mind in which the democratic
party now finds itself is due in good part to
the peculiar kind of leadership which President
Wilson has exemplified. This is the Teason, as
we 'say, why it is now regarded as his peculiar
duty to help reorganize and cheer up his party
followers.
The root of the difficulty is that the presi
dent's leadership has been so nearly exclusive.
It is not simply that he has overshadowed
other democrats. They have almost ceased to
be visible to the public eye. With Wilson out
of the presidential campaign next year, whom
could .the democrats nominate with any hope
of success? This is a question to puzzle the
shrewdest. The "point is that Wilson's
methods, be they esteemed good or bad, have
not had the result either of strengthening old
democratic leaders or developing new ones.
There are no towering figures, next after the
president, to whom the party is looking. This
defective has often been commented upon, in
connection with Mr. Wilson's leading of his
party. He has not, as a rule, surrounded him
self with strong men. He does not appear to
have had a keen eye for rising talents in his
party. Some of the young men whom he
seemingly picked out to "go far," have on the
contrary, quickly fallen by the way. Never too
sound a judge of men, the president has had
some misfits and a large number of medioc
rities at his side. The result was inevitable
as soon as the party f.U on evil days. It could
not but feel that jt was in danger of being
left leaderless and disorganized.
There is something of a comic air about a
great party saying: "Go to, I will now re
habilitate myself." The process is not so
facile. Men have to be found. Policies must
needs be agreed upon. That takes time and
labor. Yet it will not do for the republicans
to lie back at ease in Zion. They have against
them a politician more adroit and formidable
than any their party has had to encounter since
Samuel J. Tilden; and with Woodrow Wilson
in command of the opposing army they will at
least know that they have had a fight.
Pity the Plight of Gold '
The country is askerl by a committee of
government experts in mining and geology,
reporting to the secretary of the interior, to
shed a few tears over the plight of gold and its
reduced output, which is viewed as a national
peril. Something must be done, is the conclu
sion, but while the committee is conservative
enough to advise against bonuses on gold pro
duction, it warms up to proposals of war-tax
exemptions and the like.
Gold is much in the position of fhe person
jiving on a fixed salary or income. Its price
is established by law and never varies. It is
prosperous when the living costs of its mining
or the value of labor and commodities in rela
tion to itself are low or falling, and it is in
hard times when labor and commodity prices,
as now, are high. Accordingly at present the
activities ot gold-mining companies are greatly
restrained for precisely the reason that the
amplitude of the fixed-salaried person's living
is greatly restrained. '
But we hear of no movement at Washington
to abate the war income taxes for that salaried
person or people generally who suffer from the
high costs of living; and until we. do, no great
amount of commiseration for the kindred pov
erty of the gold-miner is likely to be expted.
The gold-miner will.be asked to worry along
is most of the rest of us have to worry along.
And emphasis will attend this request from the
fact that a great revival in gold production
could not but aggravate the price conditions
which worry most of us. New York World.
i-r on AY
The Day We Celebrate.
Moses P. Kinkaid, congressman , Sixth Ne
braska district, born in West Virginia, 1854.
R. E. Schindell, physician and surgeon, born
1870.
Mrs. Edith Wharton, 'celebrated novelist,
who spent many months as a war relief worker
in France, born in New York City 57 years ago.
Beatrice Harraden, whose novels have found
equal favor in England and America, born at
Hempstead, England, 55 years ago.
Marcus A. Smith, United States senator from
Arizona, born near Cynthiana, Ky., 67 years
ago.
Charles H. Niehaus, one of the best known
of American sculptors, born in Cincinnati 64
years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
The Gate City Ice company was incorpor
ated by Benj. J. Benson, Peter D. Mattson and
Benjamin Melquist..
. ""Billy" Edwards of Kansas City is here to
arrange a fight with any 127-pounder in the
west.
The Cable company has placed several men
at work along its lines, opening the cable slots
which the cold weather has contracted below
the necessary width of five-eighth of an inch.
Fred M. Youngs, foreman of The Bee press
room, is passing the cigars on the advent pi
a 12-pound daughter at his house.
Talk has been started by certain councilmen
of legislating Mayor Broatch out of office.
Extra, Toy for Soldier.
rtrand Island. Neb., Jan. 22, 1919.
Vo the Editor of The Bee: En
closed find petition to ths secretary
of war, atffied by myself and Mrs.
Wool ley, requesting that soldiers be
Bent home with lx months' pay. Cer
tainly our government should do
nothing less for the men wh6 have
'offered their Uvea for their country.
There is another thing that I want
to refer to now, and I commend
your editorial on the subject, and
that is: I am heartily against the
order of the secretary of war dis
continuing the promotion of the sol
diers. There is no good reason what
ever why the soldiers, both officers
and private, should not be pro
moted when they are entitled to it.
I wish some concerted action might
be taken throughout the country
against this unfair proposal.
J. H. WOOLLEY.
Makes a Difference.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 19. To the
Editor of The Bee: The agitation in
favor of the disfranchised citizens of
the aouth la untimely. The presi
dent has his hands full in making
the world safe for the democracies.
It la perhaps an oversight, like the
omission of Ireland In the list of
small nations Blated for freedom.
However, we should be patient, the
disfranchised citizens in the south
live under the same laws the demo
crats make for themselves, while the
peoples of email nations abroad, live
under laws made for them by for
eign masters. Moreover, it' makes
quite a difference whose ox Is being
hooked, WATCHFUL WAITING.
.Delay la Soldiers' Pay.
Shenandoah, Ia., Jan. 20 To the
Editor of The Bee: I have been In
terested in articlen appearing recent
ly in the World-Herald, apologizing
for the aervice (or lack of it) in
handling the soldiers' and sailors' al
lotments. These articles show the
public Just what I and many others,
as victims found true, that everyone
places the "blame on some one else
and one finds It impossible to lay his
finger on the man who acknowledges
responsibility for the inefficiency, so
painfully apparent.
When bad cases were brought to
their attention there was no relief
and Hon. Sen. Hitchcock is too busy
handling corporation matters to
bother with the common gob's
troubles. He has not even replied to
my last letter, written some time ago,
and I am dependent on the efforts of
Congressmon Dallenger (republican)
of Massachuesetts, who reallly has
tried to have the matter straightened
out.
I was In the service as a sailor
from January 28 to December 6,
1918. At the end of nine months I
drew $40 through the efforts of
Representative Dallinger and our
chaplain at Cambridge. I took the
matter up three times with ex-Congressman
Dan Stephens of Fremont,
who sent the same kind of letters,
that Senator Hitchcock mailed me
excuses for delay. They did not make
any attempt to force the matter. I
wrote Senator Hitchcock several
times the last time about December
12, after my release and he did not
reply to this .letter at all. His other
letters were exedses, never any force
ful action. . pf course I was only a
gob and he was busy with big mat
ters. .
Mine Is only an example of thou
sands of others not a few. If It
were not for the Red Cross and other
organizations performing an obliga
tion that was properly the govern
ment's if they were properly attend
ing" to, what would many depend
ents have done? Mine, with
theirs, it seems to me, makes a very
large and important matter, which
Senator Hitchcock fails to see. My
former wife has never received jl
cent from the government in over a
year. , I asked to have the compul
sory allotment cut In. two when I
enlisted, because I could not afford
$16. . The allotment was for my boy
and I felt that $7.60 plus the $5
government allowance was enough,
for a boy 8 years old. They could
not decide. They were, supposed to
have decided September 17 to cut it
to $10 plus the government allow
ance, according to a letter writtenon
that date by Admiral McGowan, pay
master general of the navy to Sen
ator Dallenger, but nothing was ever
done.
Can't you stir up a republican In
vestigation of the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance? I mailed them a
moneyorder covering my Insurance
for January and February four
weeks ago and have not had I an
acknowledgement. Why not put
some one in there who would run
it? Organize it and run it. Why not
send a senator next time with some
pep and influence and a desire to
serve those who vote for him?
I drew $40 nine months after I
was in the service, $5 about 8 Weeks
later and $6.56 when released. I
drew $36 for my subsistence during
the last 19 days of my service, but
had to pay $30 for the board and
room that it covered, saving $6 for
myself. This $36 is not "pay." My'
pay for the period of my enlistment
was $51.66 and my former wife has
never received anything.
I wonder if Senator Hitchcock's
patriotism would keep him on the
Job nine months with no money
comine from anvwhere excent the
charity of relatives arid friends Tl
There were lots of cases like-mine.
The army and navy was not -entirely
ma.de up of boys who could
send home to father or mother for
"money. Some of us were grown
men, accustomed to support our
selves and others and we'll let such
men as Senator Hitchcock see, at the
next election, that we expected 're
sults from them (I think reasonably)
Just as they had a right to expect
results of us.
I don't care whether the govern
ment ever sends me the money due
Daily Cartoonette.
'THESE OUH RUBBERS ARE t
ALL WORK OUT.tfO I QuEsP
I'll burn 'em up in the
roRrCEf r- '
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
(Balkr Sam laada an army of mutta t
fraa Balglaa horaea and cowi hald captlra
by th Oermana. On tha advlca of Billy
Iialsium tha mulaa dlaxula thamialvta aa
ghoati and fly tha .Uarmaa urdi an
awrui actra.)
CHAPTER V.
I.ike Knlzhu of Old.
The Germans, scared stiff, stood
for a moment looking at the white
specters sweeping down from the
graveyard. They were too much
frightened to run.
Again came the roaring wall. At
the same time half-burned sticks
in the Are abruptly jumped out of
the) blazing heap and danced around
among the Germans' legs burning
and scorching here and there.
That was 'too much. With wild
shrieks the soldiers turned and lied
for their lives. They thought the
imps of darkness were after them.
The sergeant, one of the last to
run, slipped and fell In the snow.
Balky Sam whirled around at him,
and wham! he sent the sergeant
neaaroremost into a snowbank.
Johnny Bull rushed up and pulled
the sergeant out by the seat of his
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"I Am Fear Naught, the General's
War Horse," He Neighed.
trousers. Billy Goat, eager to get
into the fray, butted at the sergeant
but caught Johnny Bull instead and
sent both Johnny and the sergeant
back into the snowbank. Johnny
thought a German had kicked him
and he was mad all over aa he
climbed out of the snow.
One very pompous German officer
waa guarding the gate to the corral.
He was angry at the soldiers for
being scared. -Suddenly the key to
the corral was whisked out of his
hand, his hat was shoved over his
eyes, he was whirled around, a liv
ing battering ram landed on him
and a growling beast fastened Itself
to his coat tails. The German offi
cer suddenly concluded that place
wasn't a bit healthy for him, and he
set off for Berlin at a pace which
made Johnny Bull, 'clinging to his
coat, almost dizzy with the speed.
It was Peggy and Billy Belgium,
invisible to the Germans, who had
played the pranks which had helped
so much to frighten the soldiers.
Now Billy Belgium fitted the key
into the lock of the corral and
swung open the gate. In swept
Balky Sam and his ghostly army.
) "Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Come out
here, you German horses and fight,"
challenged "Balky Sam. But the
horses only crowded Into the fur
thest corner of the corral.
"We'll show you that an Ameri
can army mule Is better than a
me, but I would like my former wife
to receive the money due her as soon
as possible. This letter is written
for the aid of others In the navy. I
don't need the money, now. I did,
badly.
Those In authority should be
ashamed to make excuses for un
settled cases hanging fire after 60
days' time, let alone a year, and our
representatives at Washington should
be ashamed to accept them, well
get new ones next election, who
won't.
Are the boys' troubles and their
families, who gave up a great deal
in many cases, of less importance
than the railroads, telegraph com
panies and other's that our repre
sentatives find so much time to dis
cuss? They may be, but we boys are
going to show them at the next elec
tion. FRANK A. BROWN,
co Trimble Bros., Omaha.
SMILING LINES.
"I'va noticed thla alnca tha town went
dry."
"Whatr
"My wif lan't nearly as anxious to
smelt my breath, as she used to be." De
troit Frea Press.
"But, my dear what did I do at dinner
that made you so angry?"
"You've disgraced me forever by your
common manners. When the charlotte
russe was set befora you, you blew off the
foam!" Judge.
"Tou say you stood upT"
"I say I stood, Tour Honor. If a man
stands ha naturally standa up. Tou ean't
stand any other way."
"Is that so? Ten dollars for contempt
Stand down." Kansas City Journal.
"Tha escaping convict made such a
noise in getting over the prison wall that
they caucht him."
"Now, that la what I call criminal care
leaaness." Baltimore American.
"Is Scrlbson a successful author?"
"I presume so."
Why!"
lie seems to think magastna editors are
an Intelligent lot." Birmingham Age
Herald, v
Why has your landlord again started to
dun you for that back rent?"
"He caught ma buying a saw pair of
shoes today." Life.
"Our country should not boast"
"This country never bossts. Her an
nouncement of Intention Is always proved
by results to have been matters of eon
servatlva estimate." Washington Star.
A tough old bird was dying and tils wife
sent out for a preacher. The preacher
came and said to the dying sinner:
"Tou hsd batter renounce th devil, my
friend."
"Renounce th derlll" exclaimed ' the
dying man. "Why, I ain't In a poattlon
to make any anemia right now." Cincin
nati Enqultar.
THE PEACE TABLE.
They're gathering 'round th world's peace
table
Thee learned men, so Just and able,
And they would fain evolve a plan
To guide the future course of man.
Th fate ot nations, small and gnat,
Th destlnle ot Ships of State
Th welfare of th human rae.
Are problems they will have to face. ,
In answer to war's stern behest
Ten million souls have gon to rest:
While myriad heroes, maimed for life.
Are victims ot war's mortal strife.
In vain it must, It shall not b.
Thla saorlflc for Liberty:
The oppressed ot earth must never fel
Again th crush ot th -tyrant' heel.
Autocracy from earth must go
And Jake Its place In realm below;
Unrighteousness must psss away
Before the dawn of a brighter day.
In storm or calm, whate'er betid
May Justlc all their action guide;
And may w have wbes their labors
ceaea, ,
A thousand years and mor of ra.
LOIUN ANDREW THOMPSON.
Fremont, Kea.
dozen German war horses," boasted
Balky Sam.
"Are you American mules?" erled
a voice from among the horses.
"Sure we are. Come and fight,"
brayed Balky Sam.
"Welcome, American! Wa love
Americans!" cried the horses.
"Here, none of that Jtamerad
stuff," snorted Balky Sam, much
vexed. "We don't want any Ger
mans loving us.'
"But we are not Germans. . We
are Belgian horses, forced Into slav
ery by the Huns."
"Ah, shucks!" snorted Balky Sam.
"I thought we were going, to have
a real fight."
"Here are German war horses
hiding behind us," neighed the Bel
gian horses. "Fight them."
The Belgian horses opened up and
there In the rear were dozens of
strong, fierce looking steeds.
"We surrender," neighed all the
German war horses. "We've ' had
more fighting than we want."
"We don't want you to surrender.
We want to whip you," brayed
Balky Sam, but he brayed In vain.
The German horsea wouldn't giVe
battle.
Finally Balky Sam had an Idea.
"Let's settle this like the knights
of old," he pleaded. "Tou piek th
best among you as your champion.
I'll be the American champion. We
will fight a duel. If your champion
wins you are to go free and I be
come a German captive. If 1 win
you are to go into Belgium, there
to take the place of the farm horses
that will never come back."
The German' horses looked Balky
Sam over. He didn't seem large or
strong. They consulted among
themselves, then opened ranks, and
a huge, powerful horse stepped
proudly, forward.,
"I am Fear Naught, the general's
war horse," he neighed. "I am so
strong and beautiful all other horses
bow before me. I accept your chal
lenge." Peggy gave a gasp of dismay.
Balky Sam looked a midget beside
this monster steed.
(Tomorrow will be told th unexpected
outcome ot the duel.)
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People and Events
There's a good time coming for the
humiliated prune. It carries enough
alcohol to stimulate popular favor
by and by.
Old John Barleyoorn,' sporty to
the last, finally took the count.
Every chamipon wins a finish clout,
sooner of later.
Missouri was just 43 minutes too
late to beat Nebraska to the S6th
seat In the national water wagon.
Some speed, that, for Missouri.
The' executive staff of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit company takes
$319,000 a year in salaries, the
equivalent of 6,380,000 nickel fares.
The company's legal staff consists of
24 lawyers drawing from $25,000 to
$2,400 a year. Efforts to advance
fares In the face of this showing
draws a varied assortment of public
jeers.
An effort will be made to put
through the Missouri legislature a
bill for an act which will restore to
municipalities the exclusive right to
deal with franchise corporations in
accordance with the terms of the
franchise. In Missouri and other
states smooth workers succeeded in
switching the power to state com
missions, even going so far as to
nullify the rates specified In the
franchise.
A state income tax In addition to
the federal income tax looms up as
a revenue getter in New York state.
The loss of booze revenue strikes
hnth fltata n.nd mnnicinal treasuries
and tax gatherers think another
pinch of incomes is just the thing to
chase away the deficit. Whereat the
wise Brooklyn Kagle oats an eye
and remarks: "The suppression of
revenue producing vice without ex
pense to virtue is an economic im
possibility." Experience echoes,
"You've said It."
A hearing Into farm conditions In
Massachusetts revealed a large
amount of idle land in the state,
enough to make 2,000 farms. One
active farmer testified that his
acres paid him an annual salary of
$2,000 and 8 per cent on the invest
ment. His success is exceptional,
the bulk of the farmers lacking
energy, knowledge of changing con
ditions, and business get-up. Conse
quently much land is on the market
plus the idle farms reported. The
object of the hearing is to push New
England farms to the attention of
returning soldiers deslrlous of tak
ing up farming." -
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cultivation has evolved the
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