THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. JANUARY 27, 1919.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
"Don't you think it would b. foolish for
mo to marry a girl who wa. my Intellec
tual Inferior?"
"Worse than foolish. Charles Impossi
ble." Browning's Magazine.
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