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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. JANUARY 27, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD EOSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOB MFMRTRq OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tti Ann-Mi'd I'"". " hi'-h Tin Um H member. Is eieluitwlr Milled a tt wt for puhhcttwiii of ill dvwi dl.Du-he crwlurf In II or not othenrlm cr.illte.1 in this rIr. nd ilw lh looil nm Miblii):M brrtm. Ail of publicitlin el out trac t) amiatcljes are &Jo resfrrfu. OFFICESi PhicafO People", (lu RulldlDg. )mh The B Btd. Nw Vork 2s8 rifttl A. Soulh Omh iW'.S N t. St. Iiuii Nw R'k of Commerce. I'uunril UluITt M N. Mala ot Wiililnstoo 1311 O lit. Lincoln Utile Building. DECEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 65,219 Sunday 62,644 Aternjj rliruliti fof Ins month subierlld and iworn to b K. R. tUgin. Clrrulatioo Mwiturr. Subscriber, leaving th city should bav. The Bn mailed to, Ihtm. Address chanted at olten requested. Chairman Wilson has some job on his hands. Just little cold weather to hold back overly-ambitious vegetation would not be amiss. Secretary Houston also sees prospects for an abundance of wheat. This makes it unanimous. Naval programs are expected to wait on the peace program. This is about the proper order. No one ever yet suffered severely because there was an over-supply of food in the world. Purified and glorified movies are all right in their way, but who doesn't like a little spice in life? Making the Russians pay their debts is about the direst form of punishment that could be in flicted on the bolsheviki. Some of the "higher-ups" among the auto mobile thieves. are falling into the clutches of the law. Let the good work go on. Presence of robins in this vicinity is encour aging, but do not let the bird's optimism mis lead you into neglecting the home fires. Reports from interior towns warrant the con clusion that all the contraband booze is not found in Omaha. Some comfort in this. - Auto truck freight lines are said to be1 serv ing Omaha so well that interurban trolleys are not needed. The two would work well together. This is "Bill" Hohenzollern's 60th birthday, and he will very, likely spend some part of it in reviewing the blunders of at least four sadly misspent years. The merchant tailors report they have dis covered the "perfect" man in the Yankee arrriy. i . r ... .1 , .1 IJ J' 1 1 i we win wager mat searcn wouia aisciose auuui 4,000,000 of him. Aj J I k 1 1 liaiiuiu niY v- v-1 a w J J " 1 v v 4eal by the big, and so are willing to go along with the game, which is to fix a foundation fcr justice in the world. All undeveloped city property will be avail able for gardens next summer. This rule ought to apply to private property as well, for Omaha will eat all that is produced. i The Interstate Commerce commission again mildly insists tlftt the war is over 'and that it has charge of railroad rates.' Its job will be to convince Walker D. Hines of this. , T aurtnalrere. at T.inrnln rnmnlain that too many "canned" bills are making their appear ance. Well, the bureau has to make some sort of showing to justify its existence. Nebraska bankers are again objecting to John' Skelton Williams as comptroller of the currency. That will very likely be accepted at Washington as justification for the appointment. Ogden Armour is willing to have the pack ing industry tinder close government super vision, whatever that may mean. If it will quiet endless suspicion it would be good for all. Why not try it? The president spent his Sunday looking over some of the devastated portions of France, getting a "close-up" of the Hun's work. This ought to help him make up his mind as to future dealings with the offenders. The democratic senator from Nebraska finis stale's rights a convenient bulwark between him self and the suffrage amendment. But votes for women scarcely can be any more distaste ful to some states than was prohibition to pthers. A movement is under way to revive the national guard, but it ought not to take the form of a restoration of the 49 little armies that ex isted where one general organization should have existed. State troops are all right, but they should fie under central control if they are to be effective for general service. , -x Value of Initiative When the officers of German battalions were slain in action the German morale notoriously crumbled. No man in the ranks dared take the initiative. The cog in the machine was not fit to become a driving wheel. The infantry turned out after a uniform pattern by the stamping mill of German militarism were con fused and scattered when their browbeating leadership was gone. This paralysis of the -individual initiative was one of the evil fruits of the German sys tem. The marching soldier was not a sentient participant; he was only a mite in a tremendous mass. V The American soldier was resourceful and adaptable. He was mot flurried by the over setting of a plan; his wits worked at high speed in a tight place. He did not wait to be told what to do when there "was none to tell him. Instead of waiting for destruction to overwhelm him he acted on his own best judgment. Countless instances come from the battle field of noncommissioned officers and private who stepped into the places of those who had ration rallirrl their pomradp anil turned the tide of disaster. The course of their previous education, though it had not taught them that an officer is the noblest Work of God, or that marksmanship is the chief end of man, or that the goosestep is the ideal gait, or that a blind reaction to an order is the paramount virtue, had bred in them a certain mental afacrty, a quick perception of the right thing to do and the right time to do it, that have made out of lovers of -peace the "first-class fighting man," whose nerve and mettle and fiery impetus met and overcame the flower of the troops put into the field by Germany. Philadelphia Ledger, BIRTH OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Unanimous adoption by the peace confer ence delegation of a resolution "that a league of nations be created to promote international obligations and to provide safeguards against war" practically assures the formation of such a body. The scope of its purpose is ample, and membership is open to "every civilized nation which can be relied upon to promote its objects." This is the first formal move of the great conference towards the end for which it was assembled. Other points in tht peace program are properly provided for through the establish ment of commissions to consider and report to the main body on the subjects referred to them. It may safely be assumed that a substantial settlement has been approached on all topics over which disagreement might have been ex pected or on which serious difference of opinion could arise. This is the expected outcome of the preliminary and informal conferences and conversations. Great importance will attach to the work of the high commission to whom has been en trusted the formulation of detailed plans for organization and government of the league of nations. Mr. Wilson is to be the chairman of this vital body, and will guide its deliberations and influence its conclusions. We may, there fore, expect that in the final report the ideas he has put forward will be embodied in prac tical form. It will not be easy to formulate any sched ule entirely devoid of ambiguity, clearly defin ing the rigTits and limitations of each power, and reconciling them with the rights and powers of the membership of the league, but it can be done. Some sacrifice must be made, not of any thing vital to the national existence of a people, but in the degree that the individual foregoes his natural rights ti some extent when he comes into communal relationship with others. One general family of nations may not yet be possible, but the "parliament of the world" is nearer at hand than it ever was before. Nebraska's Hospitals for the Insane. Word comes up from Lincoln that the legis lature is to be asked to provide for the exten sion of Nebraska's hospitals for the insane. No objection will be raised to this, if necessity for the action can be shown. This state has made humane provisions for the care of those unfortunates whose reason has been deranged, no matter what the, cause, and will continue to do so. ' It is somewhat startling, though, to be told that an emergency threatens us in the form of insane soldiers. To assume that 300 r any other considerable number of soldiers will come home with disordered minds is going beyond bounds. It is true that many have suffered from shattered nerves, incident to shell shock or other vicissitudes and hazards of military serv ice, but to tonclude that these are permanently affected is unwarranted. , The surgeon general of the army met a sen sational statement last week by announcing that of all the men invalided home suffering from nervous disorders, only two had been found insane to a degree that required their being taken to, a hospital for treatment. Others are tfiven care to restore them to usefulness, and generally with success. , Let us, if need be, ex tend the accommodations of the state hospitals, but do not predicate the move on the prob ability of a large number of insane soldiers be ing returned from France. Milling Industry in Nebraska. Nebraska millers are meeting in Omaha for the purpose of consulting as to the future of their business. They find a menace in the gov ernment guaranty as to the price of wheat, under which they expect to find themselves grinding wheat at a cost around $2.18 a bushel, at the same time selling flour in competition with millers who are able to buy Canadian or other wheat in the open market. Naturally, this rests upon the assumption that the price for wheat is going to fall well away from its present figure, and that the government will not take any of the loss on its guaranty. In some circles it has been contended that the government would be expected to absorb the margin between the assured and the actual market price, assertions having been made in congress that this will cost th public funds at least half a billion dollars. The danger to the millers is real, and how it is to be avoided is not plain A plan may be worked out under which the home industry will receive the consideration it deserves, and be well secured against loss, while the farmer and Householder alike will have some advantage from the fact that Ne braska wheat is made into flour within the state. In this connection it is encouraging to note that at present the milling capacity of Nebraska is above 221)00 barrels of flour per day. Such business is worth fostering. About the Municipal Auditorium. -The Music department of The Bee started something. It has to do with the municipal auditorium. The question is whether the city should finish the job begun so long ago, and set the structure before the public in complete and comfortable form. Its usefulness has been fully established, and its inconveniences are quite as well known. Since it was taken over from "the people," who failed to provide the money for its completion and brought under public owner ship, little attention has been bestowed on it other than to maintain it for service at the least possible outlay. It is the one place in Omaha where great indoor assemblages are possible. But inside and out it lacks finish. Commis sioner Zimman is charged with" oversight of the building, and might be induced to bring in a recommendation as to its future. The Constitution During the War and Afterward. By Henry Wollman in The Annalist IN THREE PARTS TART I. The United States may be said to have two constitutions, one made for times of peace and ope for wartime. The peace constitution m.Ty be said to be designed to protect the people against the government; the war constitution may be said to be designed to protect the gov ernment against the people. The question is asked: What laws did the United States pass and what measures did it adopt during this war that it would be well for the people to adopt in the era of peace, upon which we are about to enter? I would say prac tically none, for the reason that those laws were passed and measures undertaken to meet a tem porary crisis, and were practically all based wholly on actual military necessity, and had as a sole reason for their enactment the country's imperative demands, brought about by die ex istence of war. Tlijty were not .designed to solve, nor could theyi aid at all in solving, any of the governmental, economic or social prob lems of a nonwar era, but merely to find a way, regardless of , the rights of individuals, municipalities or states, of overcoming an en 'emy whose existence was an absolute menace to the existence of this nation. The constitution gives congress power "to declare war" and "to raise and support armies," and provides that "the president shall be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states when called into the actual service of the United States." While those provisions are in actual and active operation, nearly all1 of the remainder of the constitution that is, those parts with reference to the relation between government and citizen is temporarily put in the scrap heap. If it were not for the fact that pretty nearly anything and everything that the government does in time of war is constitutional, one would say that a large percentage of things that were authorized by congress to be done and were done were unconstitutional. Consequently, when the war provisions of the constitution again become inactive and peace puts the remainder of the constitution in operation, there would !e no way of sustaining the greater percentage of the so-called war measures. Under the constitutional provisions above quoted, practically every right of a citizen may, in time of war, be taken when the properly authorized officials deem it necessary that they should be taken. Courts, during the time of war, practically recognize no law, except the law of necessity, of which they permit the mili tary authorities to be the judges. United States Judge Hunt, who often holds court in this (New York) city, speaking for the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco, on July 1 last, in Pappens against United States, 252 Fed. 55, and referring to the power exer cised by the government during the wr, said: " It is obvious that, to Avoid calam ity to the nation, the powers referred to in their greatest strength must be upheld as indispens ably incidental to the power to declare wa:" In VVainwright against Pennsylvania R. Co.. 253 Fed. Rep. 466, United States Judge Trleber, on November 4 last, at St. Louis, sustained a ce--tain provision in the law, authorizing the .-iizu of railroads, on the theory that "the act and regulations may well be sustained upon the ground that 'salus populi suprema lex est,' the welfare of the people is the paramount law." The government in war time can lawfully tear up contracts between individuals, because it may require the material for the manufacture of which those contracts were made and the federal law then ends those contracts. It can, without a minute's notice, dispossess owners from their homes because it deems them neces sary for governmental use. The secretary of war is really given legislative power to silence state laws and municipal ordinances; he can say that this or that, which states or municipali ties only in time of peace have the power to prohibit, shall not be done in a certain terri tory, the boundaries of which may be one, 10 or even 100 miles in every direction from a military post, and which he, in his unappealable discretion, fixes. The government says to the citizens: "You cannot eat this": "you cannot use that"; "you cannot charge this and yon can not, pay that. rractically every country rec ognizes property rights of individuals, but in a free country the most cherished right is that of free speech and probably the most important right is the "freedom of the press," but during this war those rights were drastically curtailed. All of those thines. and many more, en croaching upon the peace-time rights cf the citizens, were regarded by everybody as lawful and right, because they were necessary to id in bringing victory. Nobody chafed. No right thinking man complained. No good citizen cared or asked whether these measures, takiiip, from him his prior constitutional rights, were valid. He neither argued nor reasoned. He knew it was necessary, and without one inotight of complaint, he gracefully bowed in amiable submission. Now. however, that peace, in effect, thouclh not technically, has been declared, and the ne cessity for the deprivation of the citizen of his constitutional rights has vanished or will van ish, he demands their fullest recognition and restoration. (To Be Continued.) x Webster and Omaha Art. A bunch of Omaha's upper tendom under the guise of "Friends of Art" are having an art exhibit at the Fonjenelle and they are all riped up" the back because the common herd fails to enthuse and would rather go to the movies. John Lee Webster, -one of Omaha's prominent attorneys, is particularly peeved and lie says: "The Huns, brutal as they are, valued the works of art in the cities they captured more than they did human life." John L. has his wires crossed, the liuns did value art treasures more than they did human life, but they didn't value human life at air. John L. should keep his history on straight. The Huns valued the art treasures that they could steal and carry away, but they destroyed all that they couldn't steal. And John L. calls that "love of art." Excuse me while I smile. Nor folk (Neb.) Press. 7 George Horace Lorimer sees in the elevation of Mr. Glass to the cabinet a recognition off the house of representatives and suggests the country might be better served if the practice were extended. He thinks it would bring the executive and the legislative departments closer together. The trouble has been, under the present administration, that all the executive required of congress was obedience. The Omaha girl who turned in a riot call, saved a woman's life, put out a fire, then went on to the dance she had started to attend is a good example of self-reliance without regard to sex. ' ' The packers at least have no cause to com plain that the knife,, was not unsparingly wielded at the "clinic." The Day We Celebrate. William Lampman, accountant in county treasurer s office, born 1872. George M. Bosworth. chairman of the Can adian Pacific Ocean services, born at Ogdens- burg, N. x., 61 years ago. samuel Gomners, president of the American Federation of Lab'or, born in London, 69 years ago. Rt. Rev. William Lenox Mills, Anglician bishop of Ontario, born at Woodstock. Ont., 73 years ago. Philip Joseph Doherty. whose services as a lawyer have been enlisted by the federal gov ernment in nmny important cases, horn at Charlestown, Mass., 63 years, ago. Bishop Thomas Nicholson, of the Mcthodint Episcopal church, born at Woodburn, Out., 57 years ago. In Omaha 30 Years Ago. Rev. T. M. House preached at the First M. E.-church on "Take No Thought for the Morrow." ' Capt. C. B.JRustin left for Mexico in con nection with his silver mine interests and will be joined by John A. McShane later. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road ran out its first vestibuled train from Omaha. Potter and Miller, the evangelists now labor ing at Kansas City, are coming to Omaha. P. H. Updike of Harvard, Neb., is stopping at the Millard. L. Mendelsohn, Paxton block, is adveitising for "a healthy wet nurse for a baby 6 months old at once. Poor Advertising for Oninha. Omaha, Jan. 25 To the Editor of The Bee: The lndisoriminate searching of baggage and passen gers at depots, bridges and on trains by "booza hounds" without legal warrant and often without due rea son for suspicion would not be tol erated even under the most auto cratic government and I hope that some citizen or citizens will have nerve enough to protest such search and sue for heavy damages in case it is carried out or an arrest is made. Some of these petty offleia's have an unduly large ojwnion of their im portance and authority and are driving away, to other routes, trav elers who would ordinarily pass through and perhaps stop at Omaha. The booze that comes into Oma ha in the grips of passengers is in finitesimal as compared with that which comes via the various night and underground routes by boat, freight and truck. if 50 passengers are searched and perhaps a lone pint found in one of the grips, far more damage is done than any resulting good, and every one of these passengers is "sore" at Omaha not at the officials or at the state, but at Omaha and these meddling officials seem to delight in an especial pick at Omaha, I have already found several of our customers who have avoided the Omaha gateway to the coast because word has gotten abroad that passen gers are searched, and not because they desired to carry- booze, but merely to avoid anv trouble or an noyance. GEO. H. LEE. Jobs for Soldiers. Omaha, Jan. 24. To the Editor of The Bee: I have seen several letters on the Biibject of giving re turning soldiers their old Jobs back, but as yet I have not seen any evi dence that anyone is trying to help the ones who have no position to return to. It seems to me that the men who were not anchored to any position and must now look for a new field are more in need of assistance than the ones who were in solid enough to even be promised their old places back. You must remember that ours is a young army and many of the men were students when they left; and you will find, if you care to investigate, that the offers these men are finding are a disgrace to this country of "Opportunity" for which they have been fighting. JAMES BLACK. A Returned Soldier. J&&e Qots ' Corner DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. (In thla atory Peggy and Billy B.'lirlum have a dcllKhtful adventure wits .Santa Onus and help him apread gladnesi over the land.) CHAPTKIt I. The) ltointleer. XGLE-TANtiLE! Tingle-tan gle!" Clear and Bweet the music of the sleighbells sounded through the swift falling snow, call ing resgy to the window to watch with eager eyes for what might be passing. "Tingle-tangle! Tingle-tangle Closer drew the melodious Jingling until it was right above her. Glanc ing upward, Peggy' eyes fell upon a most surprising sight there amidst the snow flurries was a rein deer. The reindeer was galloping through the air, and as it galloped it shook strings of sleighbells fast ened to its harness. These pealed out the merry tune which had first drawn Peggy's attention. Just then Packers and Butchers. Omaha, Jan. 24. To the Editor of The Bee: This man Francis J. Heney, who, no doubt, has done some very meritorious work in the past in prosecuting big grafting cor porations, is rapidly developing into a grandstander and a crank. I notice in one of his tirades against the big packing concerns the other day that he said the big packers had become a gigantic monopoly and hand shut out the local butcher. Per mit me to say that it has been a mighty good thing for the people of this country, both financially and from the standpoint of health, if tho big packing houses have shut out the local butcher. When I was a boy the local butch er used to ride out into the country and buy up any old kind of a cow or lumpy-jawed steer and drive them to the slaughter pen in the edge of town and butcher them. "Butcher" was the word, for half of them did not know or care how they dressed a beef or a sheep. There was no such thing in those days as .inspec tion by the government or anyone else, except the purchaser, of the meat at the butcher shop. . Who would want to go back to the old days of t!;j local butcher, even if ho could? Another thing: The big packing houses now pay more for a steer on the hoof than they get for the meat portion of the animal after he is dressed. How do they do this? By making use of every particlepf the noots, norns, nair, niue, intestines, blood and gall making all of their profits out of the by-products, most of whiclv were thrown away by the old-time local butcher. There was more waste and bad odor about the, old-time slaughter pens in the sub urbs of the town or city than there is now in all the packing houses of South Omaha, J. M. GILL.AN. Success for Books.' . Omaha, Jan. 23, 119. To the Ed itor of The Bee: Recent editorials in the World-Herald deprecate the fact that Governor McKelvie, along with other statesmen, recommends a work on popular psychology as a help to any aspiring person. What can be the motive of the writer in prejudicing the minds of the reading public against the ideals and worthy teachings of the popular book referred to? Thousands of earnest parents encourage their chil dren to habitually follow the prin ciples of conduct outlined in books of this character and business men have been benefited and have gained much of their present day efficiency by the inspirational character of books of this sort. If the writer was simply trying to pick the mote out of the governor's eye, he should surely take the advice of another good book and cast the beam from his own, for no one can benefit his weaker brother any bet ter -than to suggest to those who as pire toward higher things a certain means of attaining the greatest de gree of success, morally, physically and financially. ' To read beweeen the cynical lines of the editorial repulses the student of even the most elementary prin ciples of psychology and demon strates that the writer of that par ticular editorial is sadly in Heed him self of the $3 book on mind training. P. C. BOW-MAN. Daily Cartoonette. 1 , ' I'M CfOmCfTo A&KTHE B&sa For a Raise ! I u tET it- ' jT 7 r iii i it i 1 1 ii i Peggy's Eyes Fell Vpon a Most Sur. prising Sight. the deer saw her and came straight to her window. "Can you tell me, please, where I can find Princess Peggy?" cried tile reindeer. "I'm Princess Peggy," she hn swered, astonished that the reindeer should be seeking her. "Hail, Princess Peggy," cried the Reindeer, ringing a merry peal on his bells. "My friend, the King of the Wild Geese, once told me that if I ever got into trouble to come to you because you are wise and Kind. My nume is Prancer. "Praneer, oh, you are one of Santa Clans reindeers? exclaimed Peggy "To be eure I am," answered the reindeer, prancing uround so 'that the bells played un excited tune. "And we reindeer nre In awful trouble we've lost Santa Clans." "Lost Santa CIikis! Gracious! Where did you lose him?" cried Peggy. "Some place In this big, big world," cried Prancer. "He left home suddenly months and months ago. He hasn't returned nor sent us any word. Here It is the night before Christmas Eve and he Isn't ready with his toys and gifts. We've got to find him right away or there will be a lot of disappointed children on Christmas morning." Peggy felt a pang of dismay, Santa Claus lost what a tragedy. Supposing she should wake up on Christmas morning and find nothing in her stocking. Worse Kt ill, sup posing poor children who didn't have a nice comfortable home and plenty of toys as she had should wake up to find all their hopes of Christmas Joy ended In tearful sor row! Only that day she had seen wizened faces anxiously pressed against the store windows and had heard eager voices pitifully wonder ing if Santa Claus would find them or miss them that year. Yes. It would be a tragedy if Santa Claus did not come. "Jingle-jangle! Jingle-Jangle!" Other sleighbells chimed in with Prancer's "tingle-tangle," and a sec ond reindeer came dashing through the snow. On his back was Billy Belgium. "Oh, you've found Princess Peg gy," cried the second reindeer. "I asked this boy where she lived, and he was showing me the way. "Princess Peggy, this is Dancer," said Prancer, "and here comes Dasher, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Thun der and Lightning." Peals of chiming bells sounded from all directions as six other rein deer came galloping up. "Hail, Princess Peggy. What are we going to do?" they cried to her. It was too big a problem for Peg gy to solve all in a flash. "Perhaps if we could go to Santa Claus' home and look things over, we could figure "out how to find him," she said. Daily Dot Puzzle 2o. 22 2J ft. 23 G sri& 53. w 57! .So5"""- IB 16 9 -" 6 '2,1 43 4a -- 33 47, .36 3a 44 Now when you come to fifty-nine You'll see a on your line. Draw from on. to two and bo on to tho "Get on your hat and coat! We'll take you there in a JltTy," an swered Prancer. Peggy was nulckly ready. She mounted Prancer's back, and away they went on a Jingling, tingling, zippy ride toward the North. (In tomorrow', chapter Teggy visit. Santa Claus' workshop.) AROUND THE STATE. The attorney general's opinion that the governor does not have to live in the executive mansion draws applause from the Harvard Courier. "This means," Editor Buck observes, "that the governor doesn't have to tear vup and move in the middle of winter, which is a good thing. He has plenty to do nowadays without fooling away time putting up stoves and tacking down carpets," Plattsmouth reports the sale of 80 acres of Cass county farm land lo cated four miles from town at $300 per acre. To what extent improve ments figured in the sale price is not disclosed. Even with a liberal allowance for improvement the sale price goes far over the top of last year's record and sets a notable price for 1919. The high level of 1918 in the river counties was the sheriff's sale a year ago of the Hall tract of 320 acres in Douglas county at $265.50, an acre without improve ments. This and previous sales clearly point to a steady uplift in Nebraska land values. Government ownership may be all right for those on the payroll, but it doesn't command ordinary respect from the farmers of Hamilton county, shareholding owners of the Hamilton County Telephone com pany. Last week, after a brief ex perience with Postmaster General Burleson's methods of doing busi ness, the shareholders got together and expressed the right to conduct the affairs of a purely local co-operative company without federal In terference. In words of. restrained wrath Burleson was invited to quit his Job and go to Texas. Uh, huh! Just watch him give up a Job paying $12,000 per. . EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS. Philadelphia Ledger: . The water- wagon has became the most formi dable of road-rollers. Detroit Free Press: Winter is getting almost cold enough now to make the rich want to go south. St. Louis Globe Democrat: Berlin may be copying after Mexico, in tho manner of getting rid of disagreeable prisoners. i Minneapolis Tribute: "Watch your step" lp bully advice for the Versailles conferees, Including those from the United States. Washington Post: Now the doctors have ordered newspapers kept away from Bill Hohenzollern. What! Is he to have no tonic at all? Kansas City Star: The news that tho Germans have accepted the ad ditional armistice terms imposed by Marshal Foch probably is impor tant, but somehow everybody juet sort of felt that they would, and so the announcement is not expected to stir up much excitement. Brooklyn Eagle: The War board Is told by an expert that on $5 a day a workingman can provide only part of a corset for his wife. "When should I leave off wearing corsets?" asked a patient of Dr, Holmes. 'Two hundred years, before you were born, madame," he replied. Necessity is seen to be the mother of science. New Vork World: Leading pro tostant denominations will soon begin a co-operative national campaign to obtain $10,000,000 for after-war emergency needs of the churches. It is expected that a generous country will cheerfully respond and give an other example of a lavishness in pub lic subscription unparalleled in his tory. LINES TO A SMILE. T told th. minister to leave the word 'obey' out of the marriage ceremony." "You needn't to hav. taken the trouble. Ha 1. a man who doesn't believe In Wast ing words." Baltimoro American. "A .uccessful man must study the faults of other.." "Well. I don't know that It will make a man auccessful, but It oupht to be a delightful study." Kansa. City Journal. 'Pop, what', the ea of matrlmonyT" "Tour mother, .on, 1. a good example. Slio is undoubtedly the see of matrimony. She doesn't mis. a thing I do." Florida T'.mes-Unlon. "Te, the pedestrian ha. the right of way, but the motor vehicle ha. mora momentum." Youngstown Telegraph. 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