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J THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY ED W ABO ROSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEB PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR ucuocdc rvF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aocitl J'rew, of whictl The Boo li member. I erclmtfely entitled to tb. uh tor puth-Etlon of " "" disuatoliw credited in it or not Miirwm crwiiUM in wis pit, nm imhlinlied herein. All runts ol publication of out nwtl dispatches are Ho reierfed. OFFICES! iHlesaePeorle'i !u Buildloi. Oroh-The Be i BIdj. .New YorK-HWi Fiftli Ave. Buih Omsha Ml i r it ft. Iil New B' of Commerce. Council HlutTe 14 N. Main BV. Washington 1311 G St. lioooln-Mtllt Butldins. DECEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 65,219 Sunday 62,644 Amur elrcuUtlon for the month subscrllwl and worn to E. n. fUgtn. urruiuion isaer. Subsrribera leaving th. city should hava Tha B n'4 to them. Addreii cnangea on -m---' Who will be the police goat this time? THe first duty of a policeman is not to 'hang one on" a prisoner. It would have been a wonder if a few "bone heads" had not been, found in the army. th When the peace council gets through wi Turkey not much will be left but the bones. All restrictions are off grain now but th price; will the government keep faith with the farmer? A place on the pay roll with permanent resi dence in Omaha looks good to ex-"Mayor Jim," even if he be listed in the secret service. A building program of $4,000,000 is a fair start for the post-war period in Omaha. It will be multiplied several times before the season is at an end. Those who sigh for the good old days, when "oil rooms" were plenty and busy during legis lative sessions, are wasting their time. Ne braska has progressed. While the state troops did their part nobly, it yet remains true that the heaviest casmlties were among those divisions which were formed from the "regular" army. The $6,000,000,000 tax levy has been agreed upon by congress and will soon be ready for the .president. You can commence to. figure row what your share will be. German officers who plan to come to Amcr- ja to make money and get out of paying taxes 'iad better take a look at the program ahead of the United States for the next few years. One threatened strike, that of the textile , orkers, ha$ been postponed. Workers are beginning to understand that what the country , reeds is not more protest but more production. Congressman Gallivan's war on the regular iriny may or may not save the National Guard, but the American people will some day demand an answer to the question as to why General Wood was sidetracked. A report on business for the month of Jan uary from the office of the register of deeds shows a very healthy increase over the month for a year ago. Omaha property is about the best buy offered nowadays. The mash that "worked" at the federal court house will never be introduced as evidence, but it has taught the revenue officers a lesson long familiar to their brethren in the regularly or dained "moonshine" business. Good weather and smooth roads are an irresistible invitation to pleasure driving, but the joy-ride too frequently, ends in death just because the riders give way to the exhilaration of the ride. Caution seldom costs a life. ' Paris is learning that everything that wears an American uniform is not a Yankee soldier. Shrewd criminals have adopted the khaki as a disguise, but It has been successfully penetrated, to the point of exonerating the boys who honor-v ably wear it. ' The county commissioners are inflating a very pretentious good road scheme for Doug las county, which is all very well. But the taxpayers will want some assurance that it dors not go the way of other road projects when 'left to the tender mercies of democratic political schemers. i Another "drive" begins in Omaha today, :,vhich is of great interest, as it has to do with local ' activities of two deserving institutions, the "Y. W." and the "Y. M." These have been much to the front in all the various works that have taken attention during the war, and now are seeking support for the work they must do in Omaha. Help them. Smokers, Watch Out. Not all smokers are convinced of the wicked ness of the use of tobacco. Because they like to seems to them good enough reason why they should smoke. But no matter what beliefs thy hold they are going to be rescued from sin.- A learned professor of Syracuse university has started a nation-wide movement to bring them to redemption, and the logical method, of course, is an amendment to the constitution of the United States. The Anti-Saloon league has just saved the American people from per dition by securing the prohibition of liquor. Why should not the Anti-Tobacco league save it over again by forcing total abstinence from the noxious weed? If you are a reformer and disapprove of most things that people do, you consecrate yourself to the cause of goodness by calling yourself a moral worker. If you are a person of superior virtue who knows no rule of private conduct except your own rigid code of pro priety, you are bound by your conscience to prescribe laws for all other people that 'shall make them as pure and moral as yourself. If you reach the dignity of a paid lobbyist, you are qualified to speak for the organized moral forces of the country, without revealing who they are or where the money comes from to pay your salary. After that, no individual, no community has any rights you need recognize. Another amendment to the federal constitu tion banning a neighbor's pipe and his son's cigar will mean the final routing of the 'devil. Then mankind will be forever happy and blessed until some other hideous form of vice is discovered that shall excite the horror of the moral force of the country. It may be ice cream sodas, it may be chewing gum, it may be .candy, it may be tea and coffee, and so on until tnis old world crumbles to dust. The" 18th amendment is a long step on the road to sal vation. With the 19th will disappear the curse of tobacco. New York World, OUR INTERESTS IN EUROPE. What business have we in Europe? This query is asked from the man in the street up to the United States senators. The answer is not always fair and square; mostly it is evasive, sidestepping facts and partaking of equivocation. f Our concern in Europe at the moment is direct as well as collateral. We were forced into the world-war to defend our rights at home and abroad. The end of that war did not come with" the collapse of Germany as a belligerent. Some things have grown out of it that are quite as menacing in their way as was the autocracy that has fallen. Bolshevism is as dangerous as militarism. Free institutions can not survive in the pres ence of its threat. This is not 3,000 miles away from us, but it must be quieted in Europe be fore it, can be quelled at home. We are pledged to secure recognition and national rights for small nations in Europe. This promise will not be redeemed until an un derstanding has beeen reached between Poles and Germans, Czechs and Poles, Jugo-Slavs and Italians, Greeks, Bulgars, Turks and Armenians, and all the seething, turbulent racial disputes have been brought to some sort of composition and such order set up as will shown signs of de veloping civilization. The "white man's burden" no longer con sists exclusively of the savage races; it has grown materially with the progress of the times. Unless we can assist European nations today, our part in the war has not been completed. We can withdraw, and let the little nations continue their age-old process of cutting one another's throats, but that will bring us no ad vantage," immediate or prospective. ,If we are to end war, we must do it by re moving as far as possible the causes of war. Disputes of the past must now be settled and new and better relations established, or peace is illusory, just as it has been for centuries. To accomplish this, we must make sacrifices, spend some money, and show by example as well as precept that we are in earnest. Peace on the Pacific. Decision of the Paris conference on the in ternational status of the prewar German co lonial possessions carries with it another matter of really more vital importance to the United States. In denying to Japan control of certain islands in the Pacific, the decision virtually restores" to China the province of Kiochau, seized by the kaiser as part of the loot in 1900, and claimed by Japan because of having ousted the Germans from it in 1915. ' China lias been extremely restless under the menace of Japanese penetration, and formally proposed bringing before the council the fifteen points on which the mikado's government in sisted when the Chinese were helplessly in volved in civil strife. Review of these may re sult in their modification, and with something of advantage to the great empire that is slowly arousing itself from the pacifist sloth of a full millenium and striving for a place in the active life of nations. Whether this will have material effect on the nebulous doctrine of Asia for the Asiatics need not be considered for the moment The League of Nations will very likely provide for such autonomous action as will protect any in its in ternal affairs, and may even recognize such con tinental groups as have existed under the "Con cert of Europe" and those undefined but potent relations that have grown up around the Mon roe doctrine. . Beyond this, however, is the removal of im mediate causes for dispute on either side and in the waters of the Pacific. Japan will come out of the war with all its rights preserved, but with no advantage that might lead to ambitious schemes containing elements of armed conflict. Death in Battle and in Peace. Practically complete reports on major cas ualties, sustained by American forces in Europe are now given out. The War department an nounces that 27,762 American soldiers were killed in action, 11,396 died of wounds, 14,649 are "missing in action," and 2,785 were taken prisoner, a total of 56,592 major casualties. The roll is impressive, but loses a .little of its terror on comparison. Actual number ot deaths in proportion to the combat troops engaged is well under 4 per cent. In the three days' battle at Gettysburg the Union losses in killed, wounded , and missing were 26,001, or almost half the total for the battle that lasted without cessation from June 14 to November 11, and in which we had many times as many men en gaged as were present at tire great struggle in 863. The total death loss from all causes' on trie Federal side" in the Civil war were 349,944, the total number . of troops in service during the "war being 2,772,408. In 1900 in the United States the deaths caused by tuberculosis alone, a preventable disease, totaled 111,059, while the death roll of the country for 1909 was 732,538. During the last four months the single scourge of "fluj' has claimed 90,000 victims in the United States. The grim destroyer is certainly present on the .modern battle field,- but he does not reap his greatest harvests there. Scientists and the'Flu" Germ." One of nature's little jokes on man came in the form of the "flu." It was not very pleasant, for the grim results of the visitation quite ef fectually destroyed any outward sign of htjmor. The doctors tackled the problem with vigor and determination, and worked heroically, not only to combat the scourge, but to discover its origin. Much was said about the disease being contagious, infectious, transmissible, etc., and all sorts of devices were adopted to prevent its being spread through personal contact. "Cover up each cough and sneeze" up fo quarantine and isolation were resorted to, and the people faithfully followed all advice in hope of mitigat ing the terror and avoiding the danger. And now, that the "flu" has subsided quite as mys teriously as it arose, the doctors admit that rigid tests have shown the malady is not trans missible. They are groping now, just as they did at first, in hope of discovering the secret nature has withheld from them. The new knowledge does not lessen the deadly nature of the "flu," but it does show that most of us were on the wrong track. The bolsheviki having abolished God, mar riage and a lot of other things, row propose to get rid of drunkenness by executing the drunkards. Go to it. A. bolshevik is bad enough, but one with a souse is about as unfit a thing to have around as can be imagined. The New Medicine. Medical Correspondent. London Times. It does not seem to be generally understood that during the last four years a new medicine has arisen in the world and ettectert a funda mental change in the whole attitude to disease, As this is a matter of vital importance, no apology is needed for tracing the steps by which the new medicine was evolved. Some years ago disease was supposed gen eraliy to De a nxed ana certain ining, iikc i tahle nr a chair. It was SUDOOSed to be a easilv differentiated as the larger mammals. It was supposed to be either acute or chronic, in- fectious or noninfectious, curable or incurable Doctors who failed to apply names to the mal adies of their patients were quickly brought to book, because people held that every malady had a name, just as every animal naa a name; an the doctor who did not know a camel when h saw it so to speak was unskilled in his pro This was a very satisfying faith, because once you had the name you could unlock all the secrets. If the name was "dyspepsia," for ex ample, you comforted yourself that there was no need to be alarmed unduly. You might die. but not for a long time; not. in fact, until vou had taken bottles and bottles of medicine "for your stomach's sake." If the name was "lumbago, again there was goocr nope; you could visit spas and be happy, more or less. On it.. t. 1 ' j .u- ,.,. "o, :!,,'.. ,i;. ItlC UlUCt lldllU, 11 LUC liauib wa3 uiifiiua uia ease," or "heart disease," things were bad in deed. These diseases were notoriously in curable," and bottles of medicine could do litt to alleviate them. It was not onlv the public which held th view; the medical profession held it also. Like everv view which has gained wide acceptane there was truth in it; and once upon a time that truth had been living and active. Great thinkers. Bright and Addison and others, seek ing for explanations of disease in post mortem rooms, had shown that m those who died in a particular wav particular changes were fcun after death: and thev had connected these changes with the symptoms noted in the living and so built up a science of pathology. But that science, depending upon the facts of death to explain the facts ot lite, was bound to be more or less ot a transitory charactei The facts of life mav be cast into relief by th facts of death: thev cannot thus be elucidated, It was well, perhaps, for the doctor to be able by means of one or other of a group of tests to declare that this organ or that organ was definitely diseased. As a general rule, however. all he was saying was that for some reason unexplained the organ had broken down in its work and become the seat of "fibrous change," just as the feet become the seat of "fibrous chance when corns grow upon tnem. indeed the differences between corns on toes and corn on 'heart valves or in kidneys and liver is merely a difference of location. From their more vital seats "corns cannot be dislodged. , The mischief was that this kind of medical thought led to the vision of trees and not of forests, the fibrous change was apt to be come, in that conception the whole disease. and not, as it certainly is, one of the results of the disease. Doctors thought in organs, hearfs and livers and lungs, when they should hav been thinking in great bodily changes due to assaults upon the whole organism. It wa necessary to remove the tight boots which caused the corns, and not only to deal with the corns themselves. ' Happily, a new wind was blowing across the dead bones. The science of bacteriology had come and it had teen shownhow, after infec tion with one germ or another? all these "fibrous changes, which were called disease, could arise The literature of tuberculosis was enormous be fore Koch discovered the tubercle bacillus; but that literature dealt in organs and fibrous changes. Since Koch these manifestations have been relegated to a seoond place their proper place. And the same applies to syphilis. ,As however, there were large groups of diseases in which no bacterial explanation of "fibrous changes" was immediately forthcoming, the old conceptions prevailed. Heart disease was still looked upon as a fact of life to be explained by the facts of death, and so were kidney disease and liver disease, and other conditions. And then the war came and, suddenly, life triumphed over death. For the war revealed young men with all the symptoms of heart dis ease, kidney disease and so on. J. he symptoms and the signs were present, but the "fibrous change had not appeared. In other words, the idea that it was the "fibrous change," and the fibrous change alone which caused the signs and symptoms could no longer be held. For here were the signs and symptoms without any fibrous change. "Sol dier's heart" "trench nephritis," and the rest of them, sounded the death knell of life-in-termS' . of-death explanations. The majority of these men. with the symptoms ana signs ot advanced and incurable disease, made good recoveries or. m other words, regained their usual powers. So it was necessary to look for a new ex planation .and to adopt a new conception. Hapr pily, there was not, in some instances, tar, to look. Dysentery, trench fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and other diseases were seen to be followed by heart troubles and other organ troubles with great regularity it was no new observation, but now it came with overwhelm ing force. The conception clarified that these diseases of organs were due to the invasion of the body by germs and that long, long before the "fibrous change" occurred, the body was engaged in a grim fight for life, with resulting impairment of function. The new medicine does not shake its head over the heart murmurs; it attempts to find the infection which is causing the trouble and to eradicate it. , The infection may be in the teeth or throaf or alimentary tract. The pioneer researcnes ot Mr ArDutnnot Lane nave already pointed the way in this direction. But 4 there are still weary miles to be traversed before the nation as a whole awakes to the possibilities presented. The shining truth, that, if we can prevent or stay infection, we can probably pre vent all the effects of infection that is to say, the bulk of disease has not yet been seen by all When it is seen it will no longer be necessary to conduct an A-l empire on a C-3 population. TOP AY The Day We Celebrate. Dr. Herbert E. King, dentist, born 1882. Rt. Rev. George A. Beecher, Episcopal bishop of Western .Nebraska, born 186a. A .C. Troup, judge of the district court, born 185.5. T. P. Hollister, attorney, born 1874. James G. McReynolds, associate justice of the supreme court ot the United states, born at Elkton, Ky., 57 years ago. .William J. Harris, United States senator elect from Georgia, born at Cedartown, Ga., 51 years ago. Porter J. McCumber. United .States senator from North Dakota, born -at 'Crete, 111., 61 years ago. Judson Harmon, former governor of Ohio and attorney general under President Cleve- land, born in Hamilton county, O., 73 years ago. Kev. William KFeirce, president of Kenyon college, born at Chicopee Falls, Mass., 51 years aS- . . . In Omaha 30 Years Ago. The well-known revivalists, Rev. D. W. Pot ter and Rev. E. F. Miller, began a series of meetings at the First M. E. church. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Joslyn and their niece, Miss Angie coice, left on a months visit to eastern cities, during which they will take in the carnival at Montreal and renew old friendships in Vermont. Hotel Dellone will be the next addition .to the first-class hotels of the city. It will be at the corner of Fourteenth and Capitol avenue. and will contain 100 rooms. Friends of Rev. J. W. Harris, former pastor of the First Baptist church, surprised him with a fine upholstered chair, presented as a testi monial, during his recent visit State Press Comment Beatrice Express: The prohibition question having been disposed of, where, oh where, will William Jen nings Bryan find a paramount Issue upon which to stump the country In 1920? Grand Island Independent: A couple of years In the penitentiary for one of two of our worst food profiteers wouldn't be bad. It might get it out of the heads of a few at least, that there Is, In America, an ideal still higher than to become a multimillionaire at the expense of the hungry men, women and chil dren of every large Industrial cen ter. Harvard Courier: "When the rail roads are under private control we can kick on the treatment they give us with some chance, slim It is true but still a chance, that our kicking will do same good. Now that they are under government control It does no good to kick. All there is for us to do Is take what we fan get and dig up enough taxes to make up the deficiency in the cost of their operation. Kearney Hub: The Nebraska state raiway commission is putting up an energetic fight against the extension of government control over tele phone systems. The commission makes some charges against 1 the postmaster general that are pretty stiff but are apparently warranted, for Instance increasing existing charges and making changes of rates without investigation. If there could be a public referendum on the ques tion we do not doubt that govern ment operation and control would end very abruptly. RIGHT TO THE POINT. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The telephone companies concealed their troubles' exceedingly well before Mr. Burleson took them over. Minneapolis Tribune: It can well be understood that It Is not easy to soive a aoume track transporta tion problem with a single track mind. Brooklyn Eagle: Some nennl think we are threatened with all the horrors of Russia If our vodka is cut off. Isn't that assumption an insult to our reputation for Ingenu ity .r Baltimore American: With the financial needs of churches on the increase, even the cost of getting to heaven has gone up! And as for going to hell, it takes a lot of money to get. mere in style. Washington Post: The. German national assembly, it Is announced, is expected to sit onlv two months And In that time all it has to do is to select a provisional covprnment and perfect a constitution Some Job tnai wun a ume limit handicap end ot women memDers to Ooot. New York World: Weimar, wher the German assembly is to meet, is a living proof of the fact that the smaller German states that did not aspire to "world power or downfall" once were fortunate. Home of Goethe, Schiller and Wieland, capital of art and music, Weimar represent ed a Germany that still has many ad mirers ana nas made few enemies. jfttite qos' (orn&r DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. (In th! story Peggy and Billy Bel glum restore many lost thing to their rigiurui owners.) CHAPTER I. The Bunny's Revenge. HOW Peggy and Billy Belgium got there they didn't know. All they remembered was that they were walking along a country road when a scurrying rabbit drew them into a gleeful game of hlde-and-go-seek. Bunny raced from one' brush pile to another and they chased merrily after him until with a farewell flip of his stubby tall, he dived into a hole beneath an old log, Then the children looked around GENIAL JABS. "What made you -a multi-millionaire?" "My wife." "Ah. her tactful help "Nothing like that. I w. .h.h lous to know If there she couldn't live beyond." Life. "A hundred years of neaca we're mini to have. Huh!" ,'VVho saya so?" said the frail little womanat the head of the table. "Yes; who said so?" said the big man at the other end of the table, in a hit nf an agate voice. Buffalo News. "Why not marry." said the henedirt , the misogynist, "and have a wife tn mhet ra your lot for better or for worse?" And the disgruntled one growled. "It sounds all right, hut nmA nf th shareholders blossom Into directnra!" Stray Stories. I heard Anna mutter to herself tht she was going to fauo the trouble and make it the subject of thorough reflec tlon." 'I guess yon heard her say that whan she was looking in the glass at an un becoming hat." Baltimore American. l "lict the plight of these children be a lesson to you." them and awoke suddenly to the fact that they were deep in a path less forest. "We are lost!" declared Pegjry. "It surely does look that way," admitted Billy Belgium after taking a careful look around, "I had so much fun chasing that rabbit I for got all about watching -where we were going." From the hole under the log came an odd squeaking. Turning that way Peggy and Billy saw the rabbit they had chased pointing them out to a large family Of big-eyed young rab bits. "Let the plight of these children be a lesson to you," the rabbit was saying. "Had Uiey attended to their own affairs and not chased nie they would be safe and souhd outside of the woods. Now they are lost, and it serves them right. I'm glad " This was more than Billy Belgium count stand. Why, you Impudent rabbit!" he cried, making a Jump for the hole. The Instant he moved, however, the whole rabbit family popped out of signt. 1'eRgy laughed at the way the rati on, had turned he tables on them, but her anxiety made the laugh very short. "What' are we going to do?" she asked. "Get out of here." answered Billy bravely. "My compass will tell us how to go straight." But when Billy looked for his compass he couldn't find it. In stead he found a hole In his pocket through which It had been lost. we win nave to try without a compass," declared Peggy. "It would be awful to be caught here by the dark." "How silly," squeaked the rabMt, bobbing up suddenly; the dark doesn't catch anything," and at that ha ducked quickly out of sight again. "Seems to me this should be th right way," said Billy leading Peggy toward an open part of the woods, Fear sped their feet and soon they were running. "HI yl, get out of my woods! Hurry along before I bite off your toes." Looking back Peggy saw the rab bit bravely chasing after them, and in his train were hopping all the little rabbits. "What nerve!" cried Billy Bel gium, and he halted long enough to send a stick whirling at the rabbit. Before it could land Mr. Babbit and all the little 'rabbits turned tall and raced home as fast as they could. Thicker and darker grew the for est the deeper they went Into It. Finally thoy came to a dark spot where they appeared to be walled in. There was no sign of an opening in any direction. Even above thorn the trees grew so thickly that there was no sign of the sky. "We can go no farther," said Billy in despair. Peggy at that moment felt some thing beneath her feet. Stooping down she picked It up. "Look!" she cried. "ITere's a golt ball! We must be near the edge of the woods." There came a queer chuckling Daily Dot Puzzle 20 21 19 18 II iO S 17 12 22 7R 16 26 IS 15 14 27 28 5 7 35. 3t 31 4 6 H Vfo IT Z .46 51. '5o 52. 7 -t 63 53 feo 71 To 62. Can you find Willie's sister? Draw from one to two and 10 on to the end. laugh from the shadows and a mold-covered Image half hidden amid the leaves stirred slightly. "v elcome to the Land of Lost Things," rasped a croaky voice, "Welcome for a long, long stay:" (Tomorrow will be told what Pegrr and Billy find In the Land of Lost Things.) ox. He Didn't you oromlse at the altar to love, honor and obey me? she Goodness knows what I nromlsed. 1 was listening to hear what you promised. Boston Transcript. Enthusiastic I won't marry for several years. I'm going to work hard and get aneaa first. , Sarcastic Won't she marry you without one juage. "Well, Steward, no more danger of being lorpeaoea now, is there 7" 'No, sir. No matter how much you may give me, you know it won't be wast ed." Life, i 'When that henpecked man's wife told him to beat it, he never moved a foot from where he was." "So he defied her?" "No; he kept on beating the carpet." Baltimore American. - - 1 BALLADE OF THE WEST WIND Over the vineyards that cover France, Brown In the cold December days Eddying, making the dead leaves dance; Parting the curtains in misty haze Rocking the boughs in the forest ways: Bringing a tang of the salty foam; Steadily, softly, a zephyr plays And the West Wind blows from Rome. Over the wastes where the war lord's lance Splintered and broke in furious trays; Over the ruins of Prussia's ehance, Scene of an Empire's hopeless -craze. The hate-made desert where Freedom's rays Shine on the shell-churned calk and loam; Sensing the breezes, a soldier oravs. And the West Wind blows from Home. Aiding a Riviera trance, Warm In the azure southern bays: Lashing Atlantic shores. Its glance Rolling the fog from the soaking clays: Touching the Rhine, through its chill dismays Tho saddened burgher, far may It roam; An army ip minded of whence It strays And the West Wind blows from Home. L'ENVOI. Prince, It Is little that serves to enhance visions of hearthstones In Key West or Why does a camp fire quicken and prance wnen me west wind blows from Home. Jack Barrows in Stars and Stripes. Daily Cartoonette. MV UJFE3 AiOAY,50 I.3UPPOSE I'll have toiww my own SOCK5. I rEn 1 nn I IE I I ' I - I Endorses Bee's Editorial. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 30. To the Editor of The Bee: "I read re cently your able editorial in the Is sue of the 17th inst. with reference to the peace conference. I want to express my high appreciation of it and only wish that more editors would take up arms for an open forum. I notice this encouraging senterce "Americans will be prompt to join with the British pub lic In protest against the policy of secrecy adopted for the peace conference." Secret diplomacy has hitherto worked Incalculable harm and we ought not now to repeat such an international, serious mistake. Wish ing you continued success, I remain, yours for Christian reforms. ' E. H. FAKKINSUaN. U. V.. v 2805 Park Ave. American Boys and Foreign txirls. Scalding. Neb.. Jan. 28. To the Editor of The Bee: I saw in The i Bee an article about Belgian and French girls being so much more charming and celf-centered than the American girls. Were not the United States soldiers' mothers, daughters of America? If so, why not come home and marry their own kind and have a wife whp will work side by sidg with him, instead or neing jea by him. A man will mighty soon grow tired of a woman who slaves and follows him. Instead ol worn ing with him. It's the .everlesting team work that helps. The French girls may be very charming, but let the boys think of their own mothers and sisters in the United States and how they await their homecoming. And if ihey have not any, let theml come back anyway. The United States is large enough for all the American boys to find a wife and If not let them return to France and marry the bright-eyed foreigners If they like them better than their own Ameri can girls. And if an American boy Is In love with a "Frenchie," let him bring her here, but, boys, remember, the country first and then your wife, Many an American girl encouraged him to join and If she only knew that he might forget her, she would have done so anyhow. So, remem ber, America first, and other matters afterward. M. F. Against Parochial Schools. Omaha, Jan. 31. To the Editor of The Bee: To say that I am sur prised at "Watchful Waiting's" ar ticle In tonight's paper would be rather mild. If the writer will take the trouble to read a few issues of the National Catholic P.ejrister, " he will find that Catholics are told that they must be real active in politics and go solidly with the party to fur ther the ends of the great church. In a great portion of f.his country today our schools are public in name only and in some districts aban doned entirely. General Grant, in a speech in 1865, said he did not think that the war would have been fought in vain If we continued and protected one school, a public school. What is the ratio of illiterates in a country dominated by parochial schools per thousand compared with a country with public schools per thousand? And thousands of peo ple, as you would say, insane, never theless earnestly desire the passage of this lll. Those in favor please let your legislators know your wants and that you are back if them, so we may remove the insidious influ ences that are undermining the bul warks of civilization, viz., the public school. G. B. THOMAS. For the Public School. Omaha. Jan. 30. To the Editor of The Bee. I have read most of the letters anent the parochial and public schools in the daily press lately, showing the state of public mind plainly; how one group is against the public school system and the other for this one great corner stone of our republic. These cham pions of the parochial, state-church system- should point to the fruits of their system In countries where it has prevailed for centuries, such as Mexico, Central America, southern Europe and like places, wljere it has had full swing and where education is so far behind that it is a joke. This is not saying that parochial schools in this country are as lnefll clent as in those countries, where they have flourished unhampered; they have to be better here. Further, it is the intent of these parochial schools to supplant the free, nonsectarian public schools, as witness those sections of our coun try now where they have the power. So, naturally, there is eternal, insid ious, if not outspoken, enmity be- tween the two systems. They (pa rochlal schools) are not in line with the Idea of religious freedom; yet they really, where they, get the pow er, want to supplant the American public schools. The two cannot exis in the same country indefinitely. I is well to keep this fact in mind. If the parochial schools were held only during the time that the public school is not in session there would not be the objection to them there Is now and the argument of religious liberty in their favor would hold good. Away with sham and camouflage If you are in favor of the American public school, the cornerstone of our nation, get behind the legislation proposed In the legislature at Lin coin, which outlaws the enemy of the public school. The public school is the great melting pot that is to make this country an Intelligent, tree ana enduring democracy. 13. M, we t ng C Control of the Schools. . Oxford. Neb., Jan. 31. To the Editor of The Bee: It Is to the credit of our legislators that "they are giving attention to the people's wishes that the foreign language evil should be blotted out. One of the most fertile fields for cultivating the foreign language propaganda was found during the war to be the par6chial schools and chnrches that supported foreign preachers. This has led to a Btrong advocacy for making the compulsory school law apply to all children alike, both on the grounds of justice and as a dis couragement of the parochial schools. I hardly think it absolutely neces sary to abolish those schools in or der to banish the, foreign language or educate the children in true Americanism, but if those schools are to be tolerated, they should be under our county and state superintendents, with teachers holding certificates just on par with our public school. The course of study should be the same and the superintendents should have reports of the grades, as is now required from public schools. On the other hand, no re strictions should be placed against their teaching their religion, except that the instruction should be given in the American language. It should also be made clear that no public tax shall be used for the support of these schools. The opponents of anti-foreign language legislation are getting busy and our legislators are to be tried out as to their courage and firmness. The hoax that such legislation conflicts with the con stitution and restricts religious free dom is absolute foolishness, yet that is one of the main arguments given by foreign language preachers and teachers why they should be allowed to silence the American lan guage. "By their fruits shall ye know them. No man can desire to supercede the American language in church or school by a foreign Ian guage, especially the language of the Huns, without publishing to the world that his heart is not right with the American cause. If you are an American speak the language, is a slogan adopted during the war that is still more appropriate now as a respect to the memory of the thou sands of our men who have given their lives to. prevent the foreign- lzation of America. A. C. RANKIN. men and Daniels Is yelling at con gress to appropriate $3,000,000,000 to build the largest navy In the world. What's the idea? Are we going to have peace or are we gel to fight? If we are going to light, who are we going Into next? We have licked the Hun and have established peace In Europe and now I am in favor of calling our boys home, and then if the ragtag and bobtail of Germany, Austria and Russia want to fight among them selves, let 'em fight and he damned. "Economist" has a letter in The Bee urging people to economize on meat consumption in order that we may send more rib roasts and sirloin steaks over to Europe. He says we can and should eat more liver, kid neys, melts, brains, pig's snouts and oxtails, etc., etc., and thus release) the better cuts for export, but he failed to mention the horns, hoofs .. , and hair. What's the matter with a nice hoof roast with curled hair fop garnishment? I have a picture in my mind of an American citizen eat ing boiled horns in order that we may send T-bone steaks across the water to feed that bunch of bolshev ik hobos. It was a democrat! theory that the government should take over the railroads in order to improve the transportation situation, so McAdoo steps out and grabs all the rail roads In sight, and the transporta- : tion system was never In such a de plorable condition as It is today. Ac cording to McAdoo's own statement, it is headed for the rocks, so he dumps the whole job on congress and gracefully resigns. I am won dering if there are going to be any more resignations; there should be. I felt fine when Bryan quit ." f Burleson Is the man who Is en- titled to the keys to the bakery. What does it matter If there ere tons and tons of letters to our boys overseas piled up In New York. Let ters that contain thousands and thou sands of dollars that represent the hard earnings of loving mothers who wished to send a little comfort to their dear ones In the trenched. Those that died on the battlefield couldn't read the letters anyway, and those who lived to come back could ' get the news when they got home, so - why bother about a small matter like that when we were busy taking . over the telegraph, telephone and cable systems as a war measure af ter the war was over. Some people never will resign. And now we read that the doors of the Fort Leavenworth neniten-' tlary have been thrown open and 113 "conscientious objectors' have been given a clean bill of health and an honorable 'discharge. Hurrah for the American eagle, she Is some bird. Then in addition to that, we ' are told that each man got a new suit of citizen's clothes and $400 back pay." Back nay for what?" I am wondering what our boys who went "over the top" and bared their breasts to the Hun bayonets will think of Mr. Baker's magnanimous act In turning this bunch of pro- German slackers loose t on decent society while they were fightins' and aying mat tney might have a decent country to live In. Is there a premi um on disloyalty in this country? t win tne mtrenea uermaiwget "back pay?" Charity covers a multitude of sins and the Lord knows that she has got to spread herself In some cases, but there is such a thing as becoming sentimentally crazy. JOHN CURTIS JENKINS. "Some Administration." Neligh. Neb., Jan. 29. To the Ed itor of The Bee: I am beginning to wonder what this country is coming to. 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