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The weather pian still is with the majority.
Nebraska's most important problem is good
roads.
Butter is slowly slipping down from its dizzy
height, but most of us will have to be intro
Portugal is cutting some fancy didoes just
now, but does not menace ' the peace of the
world.
"Herb" Hoover's office furniture in Omaha
has been sold, which may mean much or little
for food consumers. .
The soft-drink business is also getting into
disrepute, mainly because it is so easy for the
drinks to become hard.
Reparation and indemnity having been
agreed upon at Paris, Germany may as well get
ready to pay the piper.
If "Bill" Hohenzollern had started sawing
wood several years ago, the world would have
been spared lot of bother.
Another murderer has been sentenced from
Omaha to a life term in prison, which in Ne
braska meant about seven years.
"No soft, humane words for Germany," is
the advice of one who has had a close-up view
of the war. It sounds good to most of us.
County officers who are promised further ex
tension of their terms will probably not object
Those who do will be permitted to resign..
Mr. Wilson now threatens to stay in Paris
till peace is accomplished. He will probably be
there for a long time if he does.
While "the league of nations is growing in
strength, it is becoming clearer to all that
lasting peace can not be based on an improvised
platform,
"Pa" Rourke was disappointed in his. shop
ping trip for an American association franchise
but if he will buy up a good bunch of ball
players, the local fans will give him credit for
it least trying.
The suggestion that our president's plans are
popular with other nations because he controls
"the eats" is too silly to deserve thought. Peace
formed on that basis would last only till
Europe could raise another crop.
An Omaha horse has captured blue ribbons
at a Denver show also, a proof, if it were
reeded, that we still have some who are not ex
clusively devoted to the "gas buggy."
Now that the Russian question has been
settled by the peace conference, it might be
helpful if the correspondents will advise as to
just what took place and what is to be done.
"Charley" Pool's list of errors is still ac
cumulating, but none of the others outshine the
one he made when he thought he could uproot
"Uncle Mose" in the Sixth congressional district.
In July the secretary of war asked the pres
ident to inform Upton Sinclair that the slackers
in prison were getting all the consideration he
vv?d give them in the then state of public
opinion. Does he think the. cowards are any
more popular now?
?errero has asked one question that has
flitted through the minds of everyone who has
thought seriously. "With whom are we to con
chide a peace of any kind?" Something must
be settled in Europe before any sort of treaty
can be signed.
The Interstate Commerce commission an
nounces that the railroads earned $250,000,000
less in 1918 under government control than in
19! 7, when "corporate management broke
down," and $350,000,000 less than in 1916. Pay
roil expenses increased 37 per- cent, and other
outgo was in proportion. Not a very impressive
recommendation for the "economies" effected
by the government administration.
The Turk as Imitator
By Booth Tarklngton.
When the Turks won at the 'Dardanelles
they believed themselves safe to carry out the
scheme of exterminating the non-Moslems in
their dominions by the example of scientific
pan-German atrocities in Belgium; they deter
mined upon a pan-Turanian project with a sim
ilar system of planned rightfulness. The Ger
mans not only approved, but pointed the way.
They instigated first, the deporting of 500,000
Ijop!e from Asia Minor; then the de
portation of the Armenians and Syrians, with
accompanying atrocities which resulted in the
deaths of nearly 1,000,000 Christians, including
ail the ablebodied men. The most frightful
slaughter of defenseless peoples known in his
tory has ended in the scattering through Asia
inor, Palestine, Persia and the Russian Cau
casus of 4,000,000 old men, women and chil
dren starved, broken alnd diseased. All of
these are now accessible and appeal to Amer
ica for aid. Four hundred thousand are chil
dren without fathers, and many are without
mothers. If they are not succored at once
they will surely die. Then the Turks will have
succeeded in the scheme they have pursued for
v'-ars, beginning with the "Assassin" Abdul
i imid and ending with super-assassins, Enver
l and Talaat Bey.
The committee for Armenian and Syrian
rf ' f wants $30,000,000 from America. Before
1;7 America would not have known how to
do that. But going to war has taught us sev
er .1 things, and, among them, how to give. We"
ir? ; t not fcrpet not while these stricken mul-t'A-s
:t are dying. . '
AN INSULT TO THE UNIFORM.
This editorial from Uie Kansas City Star
9 relnfomee what The Bee tuts said
on the subject that we reproduce It.
Mr. Secretary Baker, you have ordered the
immediate release of 113 men who had been
mustered into the service of the United States,
but who had refused to fight.
Have you considered the significance of what
you have done?
The American people have just fought
through a great war. Millions of men have put
on the uniform and have risked their lives or
stood ready to risk their lives. A multitude
have come home maimed and blind. Other
tens of thousands have made the supreme sac
rifice and will never return.
These men have been fighting for all that
men hold dear. They have be?n fighting for
their homes, their women and children.
In contrast has been a little group of slack
ersof men who woufd not fight. If the i ation
had been made up of them, if they had con
stituted even a respectable group, Germany
would now be supreme in the world. A nation
of these conscientous objectors would never
have sent out the men who died on the Tus
cania, who stopped the German rush at
Chateau Thierry who fell in the Argonne.
You have ordered 113 of them returned to
the citizenship which they despised, whicn they
refused to lift a finger to protect. You have
ordered them given an honorable discharge.
An honorable discharge 1 The same dis
charge given the man who has bared his breast
to the German bullets. Under your order they
will come back to vote and enjoy the privileges
that others laid down their lives to save.
By this act you have put a premium on
cowardice. You have rewarded evasion of
duty. You are permitting these men to return
to their homes even in advance of the fighting
men of the camps.
Can you believe, Mr. Secretary, that in this
action you have correctly interpreted the spirit
of that America which has given its sons and its
all to the great cause of freedom?
Screw Loose Somewhere.
When a man with a criminal record is bound
over in police court, a heavy bail bond being
demanded, and later is found at large, with no
record of a bond having been given, the infer
ence k fair that a screw is loose in the police
machinery. We realize that quite a burden has
been put on the department by the unusual de
mands for the enforcement of laws and regula
tions against the bibulous and morally lax. But
pursuit of the "boot legger" and the scarlet
woman should not have the effect of abandon
ing the burglar, the automobile thief and
others, whose crimes may not be so heinous as
that of purveying to man's depraved appetites,
but, nevertheless, are recognized as offenses
against public weal. Several agencies exist for
the investigation of the case in point, and the
bottom ought to be reached without much
trouble. And when responsibility is fixed, the
remedy should be quickly applied. It is very
satisfactory to have our moral welfare care
fully safeguarded, but life and property should
be made equally secure.
Sidestepping the Russian Problem.
The peace council at Paris proposes to toss
a tub to the Russian whale, to amuse it while
other matters are given attention. This may
serve as a palliative, but will not solve the prob
lem. To advise the Russians to call a confer
ence and undertake to compose their own dif
ferences seems a natural thing to do, and af
fords a reasonable excuse for adjournment of
any consideration of that unhappy land's pre
dicament to a more convenient time, but it only
postpones the duty.
Bolshevism, even when confined to Russia,'
is yet an international problem, just as German
militarism was a menace to the tranquility of
all the world. It would be quite as reasonable
to, compound with the kaiser as with the
anarchists who have destroyed everything de
structible in Russia, and who now seek to ex
tend their devastating influence throughout all
lands. If the safety of democracy demanded the
overthrow of autocracy 'as represented by the
ruling class of Germany, does it not also re
quire protection from the misrule of the mob?
To compromise with the bolshevik! is to
discredit everything for which the peace council
has been called. No question of 'self-determination"
or other academic element should
be allowed to obscure the vision on this point
If order is to be restored to a troubled
world, it can only come when disturbance is
quieted everywhere. The bolshevik is a threat
against civilization, and not to be tolerated. It
may be for the moment expedient to set him
aside, but very soon he will have to be dealt
with and after a fashion that will make
democracy safe for the world.
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Seek Change in Court Practice.
The American Bar association has set abo.ut
to produce a reform in court practice, hoping to
remove at least one cause of popular irritation
and distrust of the judiciary. It is that when
examination of the trial record by an appellate
court discloses no error that would in , itself
prejudice the verdict, the decision will not be
disturbed. In simple words, no verdict will be
set aside on mere incidental technicality.
Lawyers who are concerned in this move, as
well as eminent judges, give it earnest support,
as tending to restore popular confidence in the
courts, admittedly forfeited by the hair-splitting
that so frequently has appeared to thwart or
turn aside justice. They do not apprehend that
confusion will result because of the liberal ap
plication of common sense- On the contrary,
they recognize that it is comparatively easy for
shrewd trial lawyers to provoke what is now
accepted as "reversible error," giving them that
much of a leverage on the future if the suit goes
adversely. It is to wipe out this practice that
the bar association is now pressing a bill in
congress to correct the rules in the federal
courts, with the belief that a similar reform in
state courts will follow. They want to clear
the way to justice of obstructions as far as pos
sible, and the public will watch, with interest
the process.
Dr. Karl Helfferich has changed his tune as
to German finances. It was only a little while
ago he was issuing glowing prospectuses, in
which the rosy future of the empire put to
shame the noonday sun. Now he sees only
national bankruptcy. The difference is, of
course, due to the fact that the Hun can not
levy tribute on the entire world.
A Logical Growth
Frederic R. Coudert In New York Times.
Many reasonably intelligent people, both in
and out of congress, assume that the league of
nations idea is rather a counsel of perfection or
a millenial hope than the culmination of a
process that has been going on in international
relations for a century. -Such people look upon
themselves as "realists" and believe that the
president's plan, while well intended, is unwork
able and valuable only as an unobtainable ideal
about which to discourse.
It is interesting to find that two of th lead
ing figures of the 19th century, one pre-eminent
for half a century in the world of French litera
ture and learning, the other one of England's
master statesmen during more than a genera
tion, were in accord with the view that the only
solution is to be found in confederative action
among the civilized nations. In 1870, during
the Franco-Prussian war, Ernest Renan. whose
political writings were of a very high order of
ability and in some instances reflected prophetic
vision as the events of the last 30 years have
shown, said:
"The principle of independent nationalities
is not one calculated, as many think, to deliver
the human race from the scourge of war; on
the contrary I have always feared that the
principle of the right 'of nationalities, substitu
ted for the gentle and paternal symbol of
legitimacy, would cause the conflict of nations
to degenerate into an extermination of races and
drive out of international law those conven
tional modifications and civilities which were
permitted by the little political and dynastic
wars of former years. We shall see the end of
war only when to the principle of nationality is
added that principle which is its corrective
that of a European federation superior to all
nationalities; when problems of democracy, the
counterpart of the questions of mere politics
and diplomacy, will resume their importance."
And again in the same article, he said:
"On the whole, the immense majority of
the human race has a horror of war; ideas of
kindness, of justice, of goodness will more and
more conquer the world. The bellicose spirit
no longer lives, except among professional sol
diers in the nobility of northern Germany and
in Russia. Democracy does not want and does
not understand war. The progress of democracy
will be the end of the reign & those men of iron
survivals from another age which our century
has witnessed with terror coming out of the
bowels of the old Germanic world. Whatever
may be the issue of this war, that party will be
vanquished in Germany; democracy has num
bered its days. I have certain apprehensions
regarding some tendencies of democracy, as I
have always said with sincerity, but surely if
democracy can limit itself to ridding the human
race of. those who for the satisfaction' of their
vanities and their hates cause the massacre of
millions of men, it will have my full approval
and sympathetic gratitude."-September 15,1870;
The "concert of Europe" has often seemed
little more than a phrase, and yet the history
of Europe since 1815 has indicated an ever
growing tendency toward co-operation -among
the larger nations in the common interest. The
shock which was sustained in August,. 1914,
when Germany threw down the gauntlet to civ
ilization and international morality must not be
allowed to obscure the fact that practical states
men in Europe believed in the possibility of an
ever-growing international co-operati'on of the
"powers" which was tending to create a Euro
pean legislature. The late Lord Salisbury was
surely no visionary, but a hard-headed states
man with little sympathy for impracticable
schemes hot consistent with human nature, or
squaring with the facts of history. Yet, in
speaking on the Cretan question in March, 1897,
he said:
"I do not take the integrity of the Ottoman
empire for a permanent dogma. , It was estab
lished by the legislature of Europe; it has been
modified by them; no doubt it will be modified
again what is to be done will be done by the
consent of all the powers by which the integ
rity of Turkey was made part of European law;
Much was said, not, I think, by the noble lord,
Lord Kimberly, but by those who stood the
him in condemnation of the powers of Europe
on this occasion. At Jeast it may be said, for
them that they are representing a continuity of
policy ahd that they are maintaining the law of
Europe as it has been laid down by the only
authority competent to create law for Europe.
They have been defied by a state which owes its
yery existence to the "concert of Europe." ' If
it had not been for the concert of Europe the
Hellenic kingdom would never have been heard
of. t I feel it is our duty to sustain the federated
action of Europe. I think it has suffered by the
somewhat absurd name which has been given to
it fthe "concert of Europe", and the intense im
portance of the fact has been buried under the
bad jokes to which the word has given rise, but
the federated action of Europe, if we can main
tain this legislature, is our sole hope of escap
ing from the constant terror and the calamity
of war, the constant pressure of the burden of
an armed peace, which weigh down the spirits
and darken the prospects of any nation in this
part of the world engagements into which it
enters must be respected they must not be
thrown over at the mere will of an outside
power."
. The president was wise not to commit him
self to" any detailed plan of an association of na
tions. The details must be the subject of con
stant modification as events demonstrate what
can and should be done; yet some real attempt
at federated action, in which the lead shall be
taken by the great powers that waged -war
against Prussianism, and in which participation
shall be refused to no nation whose institutions
are not incompatible with liberty and justice, is
absolutely vital. In insisting upon immediately
realizing this the president is working along
the only feasible and practical lines possible.
He is carrying out to its culmination a move
ment which has long been growing in Europe
and which, notwithstanding infinite difficulties,
attained a certain measure of success through
out the whole course of the 19th cen
tury. It is not a mere hope derived from the
lucubrations of speculative writers or moral
ists, but the application of a principle which
has been applied in practice during the past
with results of importance, which has the sanc
tion of leading statesmen, and without which
there an be no guaranty of any lasting peace
or any sound development of international law.
The Day We Celebrate.
Tom S. Lamb, deputy election commissioner,
born 1871. ,
Herman B. Peters, retired hotel man, born
1867.
Judge W. B. Rose of tit Nebraska supreme
court, born 1862.
Antonit Scotti, who is widely famed as an
operatic baritone, born in Naples, Italy, 53
years ago.
Charles Curtis, senior United States senator
from Kansas, born in Shawnee county, Kansas,
59 years ago..
Mrs. Marion Craig Wentworth, author of
"War Brides," born in St Paul 47 years, ago.
In Omaha 30 Yean Ago.
Prof. Charles Pontez, chemist for the Union
Pacific for over 20 years, died at his home", 1504
Webster street.
M. B. Williams, general freight agent of the
Wabash, with headquarters in Omaha, has ten
dered his resignation, to take effect Feb
ruary 1.
George Hart goes to Peoria as the Omaha
delegate to Tin, Sheet Iron and Metal Work
ers' national convention.
Then carloads of tin plate were received
through the custom house for the Armour
Cuflahy packing plant, which will put it to use
.for lard export
The Concordia society has appointed a com
mittee to arrange for its forthcoming mask ball,
consisting of L. Heimrtd, R. Engelman, I.
Sinhold, L. Grobibch, George Hantman, A.
Schaeffer, A. Ackerman and WyBoehl.
In the Wake of War
During the war the London
county council backed up the im
perial government with loans total
ing 150,000,000.
Austria treated British war pris
oners humanely. In recognition of
the fact the British army sent four
carloads of its own food to Vienna.
Berlin didn't get a smell.
History records surrenders that
have been little less glorious than
victories. When, for example, Oil
man Pasha, after holding the vil
lage of Plevna for five months with
a handful of troops against a quar
ter of a million of Russia's picked
soldier, was at last compelled to
hoist the white flag, he was greeted
by Czar Alexander with this well
earned tribute to his valor: "Sir, I
congratulate you on your fine de
fense. It was one of the most splen
did feats in the history of war."
When reviewers and historians
come to analyze the factors in the
victory of the allies one weight must
bo given to the expert opinion of
General von Kluck, the German
commander routed in the first battle
of the 11arne. "There is on reason
overtopping all others," says von
Kluck, reviewing the downfall of
the German arms, "and that is the
French soldiers' special gift of rapid
recovery. That is a factor you can
hardly translate Into figures. That
men who for ten days had retreated,
that men prostrate and half dead
with, fatigue, should be able to seize
rifles and attack to the sound of the
bugle that Is a thing we have
never learned to reckon with; that
is a possibility we have never dealt
with in our schools of war." He
was speaking from experience In the
first drive on Paris in the early days
of September, 1914, when the shat
tered French forces rallied arid
drove the Invaders from the Marne
to the Aisne and the Meuse. The
spirit shown on that occasion and
sustained throughout four years of
crucifying war had its roots in love
of homeland and the knowledge
that defeat spelled the extinction of
France. '
EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.
Baltimore American: Germany as
pires to a republic modeled after the
United States. Evidently it respects
and hopes to copy our punch.
Washington Post: Old Venus Car
ranza declares that politics is ad
journed in Mexico. Bobbery of for
eigners, however, is not barred.
New York World: Just oft Scylla
and Charybdis a French steamer
struck a mine and was destroyed,
600 persons losing their lives, The
twin guardians of the Messina Strait,
so terrible to the ancient world, are
less deadly now than man's contri
vances. Kansas City Star: The appoint
ment of German delegates to the
peace conference seems an unneces
sary trouble and expense. When
the conference decided what terms
Germany is to accept they can be
mailed to Berlin and all purposes
will be answered Just as well.
Brooklyn Eagle: There is one tax
that the French have which our tax
reformers have not yet thought of
and that is a tax on windows. The
man who lives in a suburban house
with light and air on all sides hopes
that nothing will be said here about
the French system. Some people
are saying that a tax on windows
would be un-American. Just what
is it to be American nowadays?
CHEERY CHAFFT
"Why do people gay, 'At dead as a
door nail ?' " asked the Boob. "Why la
a door nail any deader than a door?"
"Because It has been hit on the head,
I suppose," replied the Cheerful Idiot.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
"GHtliers said soma kind things about
you"
"Wer. they followed by - an 'if or a
buff i
"How did you guess ttf -' " I
"I know Ollthers. He's one ot those
qualifying knockers." Birmingham Age
Herald. "He's deuced close. He must have
the first dollar he ever earned."
"Well, no but he has the first dollar
that he'ever did 30 cents' worth of work
for." Boston Globe.
"I see they are going to tax talking
machines.''
"Well, my dear, that probably won't af
fect you, and If it does I'll cheerfully pay
the tax." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Blinkers What's the Idea ot a little
firm like yours with a massive safe like
that?
Chlnkers It helps the morale of our
creditors, Boston Globe.
"Why don't you like to play cards with
the colonel?" v
"Because he forces tha other players
always to make something trumps. He
(tmi to have the overseas idea that
I aey shall not pass." Chicago Post.
YOUTH.
I met Touth faring up the hill
'Twas thirty yaars ago
And he was singing with a will,
"To-ho, my lads, yo-ho!
For soon," said he, "I shall grow gray,
And life will lose Us song
So up the hill I sing my way,
I sing my way along."
I metYouth faring on the road
'Twas twenty years ago
Upon his back he bore a load,
Yet still he sang,- "To-ho!"
Tes. still "To-ho I" and still "Yo-he!"
Right merrily he sung:
"What matter ten brief years to ma
If still my heart la young?"
I met Touth on the mountain trail
'Twas just ten years ago
And he had breasted many a gale
And many a night of snow.
But still I heard above the storm
The carol ot his song: i
"For still with youth my heart Is warm
And still I sing alone."
I met Touth on the downward hill
'Twas only yesterday
And he was singing with a will
The old, accustomed way.
'Tor I have found," he said, said he,
(Now gray his hair of gold),
'Tor I have found," he said, "that we,
We never do grow old!"
DOUOLAS MALLOCH.
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ADVENTURE
By DADDY. '
(Balky Sam leads an army of mules Into
Germany to rescue Belgian horses from
their captors. He and a German war
horie meet In a duel.)
CHAPTER XI.
The Duel in the Snow.
"Hee-haw! . Ho! Ho!" brayed
Balky Sam, not a bit awed by the
size of the German war horse.
"Come on, old Goose-stepper, and
get what's coming to you." i
Fear Naught snorted angrily at
this taunt.
"Before we meet on the field of
battle, I must know your station.
I will not fight an inferior."
"You're not going to fight an in
ferior but a superior, as you'll find
mighty quick," brayed Balky Sam,
rearing up on his hind legs in circus
fa I
Fear Naught screamed loudly.
fashion. "I'm an American army
mule, and that means I'la better
than any German war horse."
"An army mule, oh dear me, I
wouldn't think of fighting any such
low crealura as that!" sneered Fear
ISaught -
"Well, you'd better be thinking of
It," retorted Balky Sam,' baring his
teeth in his fighting grin. "You've
accepted my challenge, and I'm go.
ing to sail into you aa soon as 1
count three. One, two"
But Balky Sam didn't get aa far aa
"three." Fear Naught saw that
Balky Sam really meant to fight, so
In the German way he tried to hit
first With a glgantlo leap forward,
he struck at Balky Sam fiercely
with his sharp shod front feet.
Balky Sam wasn't there to be
struck. He nimbly dodged aside
and as Fear Naught's hoofs fanned
the empty air, Balky Sam's hard
hind hoofs shot out and caught the
war horse right in the ribs.
"Umph! Ugh! Ow-ow!" grunted
Fear Naught, the breath knocked
out of him. Bearing up high on his
hind legs, he advanced In a mighty
rage. Balky Sam also reared up,
but he was so much smaller that
he looked like a bantam beside a
Plymouth Rock rooBter. Fear
Naught pawed the air like a boxer.
"Hee-haw! Ho! Ho! Look at the
dancer!" brayed Balky Sam mock
ingly. Fear" Naught struck at him
savagely, but again . Balky Sam
dodged. This time he tried a foot
ball trick, and threw his whole
weight against Fear Naught's hind
legs. Crash! Pown went the big
war horse with a thump that shook
the earth. Before he could roll over
on his feet Balky. Sam's hoofs landed
with machine gun speed on his ribs
and shoulders.
Fear Naught squealed and
screamed and struggled. He tried
to gain his feet, but each time he
got part way up, Balky Sam
hurled his weight against him and
toppled him over. And each time
he toppled over,Balky Sam's hoofs
beat a tattoo on his ribs. .
"Hee-haw! Hee-haw," cheered
the mule army.
"Whee-ee! Whee-ee!" cheered the
Belgian horses. $ '
Fear Naught acreamed loudly,
and finally his scream merged into
Just one word: "Kamerad!
Kamerad!" With that he rolled over
on his back and held up his hoofs
In surrender, just like a whipped
dog. Balky Sam braced himself for
one final kick, but held it back.
"You've rot enough. I guess," he
brayed. "And besides I don't want
ox
Government Ownership.
Seward, Neb., Jan. 17. To the
Editor of The Bee: While the dis
cussion Is on as to whether the rail
roads should be returned, to private
control or remain in the hands of the
government I would like to be per
mitted to express my opinion on th!s
important question that should be
settled rightly and in the best in
terest of all the people. During the
war it was best that the government
had complete control of all trans
portation, but now that the war Is
over the railroads should revert back
to private ownership. My experience
after 45 years in business, has been
that competition is the life of busi
ness and it always will be.
Several years ago I made a trip
to Europe, visiting England, Ger
many, France and Belgium and
learned that the American railroads
were the envy of all the old coun
tries because of the efficient service.
In one country I visited several,
counties had united and built a pri
vate railroad calling It the American
railway. This was a privately owned
road operated by farmers and busi
ness men who wanted service that it
was impossible to get from the pub
lic owned roads. That being an
agriculture and manufacturing dis
trict good shipping facilities were a
necessity. Sometime after my re
turn home two wealthy men from
Europe were making a tour of this
country and stopped at my home.
One of these men wag a railroad offi
cial and he seemed much impressed
with our railroads and remarked
that we had the greatest railroad
service in the world. This was made
possible because of the competition
between the different roads.
What is needed now Is to let the
roads go back to private 'ownership
and enact a law providing for mile
age freight rates, giving each com
munity, town and individual equal
rights, then see to It that the law Is
striotly enforced. By the prevention
of discrimination between the big
corporate industries and the small
industries everybody will get a
square deal, thus helping to build
up manufacturing and Jobbing in
dustries all over the country, Under
such a system all towns will have an
equal chance, and the towns with the
strongest boosters will get the fac
tories and employ labor which is the
backbone of all communities.
' This country Is just in Its Infancy
and Is full of raw material that
should be made into the finished
product where it Is produced.
It would be extremely wrong to
stifle competition. Let us so adjust
business in this period of reconstruc
tion that when our boys return from
the battlefields and camps that they
will have a chance in the business
world and can get employment or
engage in business on an equol'basis
with those who remained at home.
Again I say competition Is the life
of trade. Then let us have it in rail
roads as well as in other lines. This
will insure good service and that is
what the public demands. Along
with private ownership give us
strictly enforced laws to prevent
favoritism. A square deal f dr all the
people should be the reconstruction
motto. J. F. GOEHNER.
Unusual Meats.
Omaha. January tl. To the
Editor of The Bee: President
Wilson cabled from Europe, Jan
uary 2: '.The high mission of the
American people to find a remedy
for starvation and absolute anarchy
renders it necessary that we should
undertake the most liberal as
sistance to the destitute regions of
Europe. The situation is one oi'
extreme urgency, for ' foodstuffs
must be placed In certain localities
within the next fifteen to thirty days,
if human life and order are to be
preserved." Congress has been
asked to appropriate $100,000,000
toward feeding starving Europe.
It is of vital importance that the
people of Austria, Turkey, Poland
and Russia have an abundant sup
ply of meat to give them strength
for the task of bringing order out
of chaos. " . .
This is where qur every assist
ance is reauired.
How can the American housewife
and American hotel and restaurant
men render valuable service? By
adopting the free use in the. home
and all public eating places or sucn
meats as brains, liver, ox tall joints,
hearts, kidneys, melts, pork feet-
ox tails, pork snouts, pqrk lips, etc
etc. This would be a real service
as such meats are better adapted
for use in the United States for the
reason that they are delicate and
cannot be exported to as good ad
vantage as other cuts of meats,
Many think of meat only in terms
of steaks, chops, roasts, ham or
bacon, which results in a big de
mand for these primal parts, while
such wholesome meats as brains,
hearts, liver, etc. are neglected.
These meats, known to the trade as
"fancy meats," have been neglected
for so long by the American people
that they are now unusual to the
average housewife. The writer has
used these "fancy meats" in his
family for several years and has
found that very tempting dishes, at
low cost, can be made therefrom.
"ECONOMIST."
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Minneapolis Tribune: Apparently
the Swiss navy is trying to get out of
the Joke column, the president-elect
of that republio having declared
"one condition of a just and durable
peace, must be free Swiss access, to
the sea."
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to spoil your usefulness. You'll
make some Belgian widow a Lood
plow horca. Get up and join tht
parade." - r
And a rousing parade It was. Th
freed Belgian horses led the way.
Next came the German horses, and
they didn't seem a bit sorry to leave
Germany for quiet lives In Belgium.
Last of all came the mules, all walk
ing on their hind legs in imitation ol
Balky Sam. Behind them, like the
clowns at a circus, were Johnny Bui!
and Billy Goat, mounted on their
horses, and guarding Fear Naught,
who limped sadly along at the rear.
As the parade neared Belgium it
grew longer and longer, for at every
stable the mules kicked in the doors
to look for Belgian cattle. Lots of
cows were found cows taken rfrom
Belgium during the war and badly
needed there to feed the kiddies.
When the parade reached the
Belgian border, the mules hurried
off home, creeping quietly back into
their stables. They were busily eat
ing their suppers when the surprised
cavalrymen came, back and found
them there. 1 1
"Well, I can that some wkr and
a good Job done," brayed Balky
Sam to Peggy. "Tell them bacic
home that I'm a real fighter."
Before Peggy could answer, the
airplane buzzed loudly whisk-k-k!
it went, and there she was safely
back in her own snug room,, thou
sands of miles from Germany. ' . ,
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