THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1919.
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Thrift is good practice on any day.
The colicc "shake up" does not look like a
"shake down."
Turkish terror is ended in Adrianople, but
the world wants to see it abolished everywhere
Poles and Czechs have reached an under
standing;, but this hardly applies to their hn-guage.
Shipyard strikers are beginning to realize
that they cut the limb between themselves and
the tree.
Taxing dogs in favor of sheep is one good
way to build up a wool and mutton industry In
Nebraska.
All the props have been knocked from under
high prices, but the drop seems to have been
postponed.
"Pancho" Villa bids fair to die of old age yet,
but he will keep his old friend Carranza busy
while he lives.
The president's typewriter is evidently try
ing to earn place in history alongside Colonel
"Johnny" Maher's.
Nebraska has more banks per capita than
any state in the union, and b'jinks, she has
more to put into them.
Karl of Austria is said to be seeking a di
vorce. Hope he doesn't blame Zita for what
happened to his empire. ,
Glasgow strikers resent the presence of sol
diers maintaining order. This sentiment has
not moved the authorities, however.
Dr. Grabski seems to have been adventi
tiously selected as a member of the commission
to determine the extent of the new Poland.
Five police stars are in temporary eclipse,
and may never shine again in Omaha. Let the
investigation go deep, and discover just where
the -trouble lies.
American gas regiments are now coming in
for their share of the glory of victory. They
certainly taught Fritz how to use one of the
weapons of "terror."
Nebraska farmers are calling for help al
ready, and the busy season is not commenced.
No need for able-bodied men to be without em
ployment in this state.
Portuguese politics never were well under
stood over here, and if it be true they have re
called a king when other nations are getting rid
of. theirs, the puzzle is deeper than ever.
Claims against Mexico may be taken to Paris,
but that is no sign the peace council will pass
on them. The probabilities are that these will
all be referred to Uncle Sam, it being much
easier to collect through him.
Corn improvers are looking ahead to a busy
session at their convention this month. The
discussion is all right, but the good comes from
putting it into practice. Nowhere does proper
feeding pay bigger profits than in a com field.
Aliens welcome the removal of the war ban,
nd hasten to get themselves clothed with
American citizenship, having learned to ap
preciate it through some very practical lessons.
The privilege will be more and more valued as
days go by.
Hitchcock to Legislature
t Senator Hitchcock has replied to the resolu
tion passed by the state legislature asking him
to change bis position in regard to the sub
mission of an equal suffrage amendment to the
states fer ratification or rejection as the case
might be. And he had much better kept still
and ignored the resolution entirely; it would
have been much better for his reputation as an
intelligent, reasoning human being.
In case you haven't read the reason given,
or lack of reason, here it is: He is so much of
a democrat that he couldn't bear to have equal
suffrage forced upon 12 states because only 36
voted for it. Now whaf do you think of that
for democracy, "pure and undefiled?" It cer
tainly wasn't such a democracy President Wil
son wanted to make the world safe for. But
then Mr. Hitchcock never has been very strong
for the Wilsonian ideas.
Three-fourths of the states have no right to
rule? Mr. Hitchcock didn't get three-fourths
of the votes when he was elected senator and
he didn't hesitate to force himself on the rest
of the voters as senator. Had he gotten just
one majority he wouldn't have refused to force
himself on half the voters of the state.
Mr. Hitchcock evidently counts himself much
better than suffrage, it being so bad that one
fourth the states ought not to endure it if only
three-fourths want it. What about the prohibi
tion amendment? Should three-fourths rule
there? Or any other amendment? Has it been
a mistake all these years to amend the constitu
tion by a three-fourths vote? It has, according
to Mr. Hitchcock. Is he so much wiser than
our forefathers who framed the constitution
or it is just the suffrage amendment that should
be adopted only by a unanimous vote of the
states? If it is wrong to force equal suffrage
on twelve states, it must be wrong to force it
on one. Then, how about one state being able
to hold up a national amendment that 47 states
passed? Nothing wrong or unjust about that,
we presume, in Mr. Hitchcock's eyes.
If ever a man opened his mouth and put
not only his foot but his whole leg in it, Gilbert
M. did it when he thus made answer to the
Nebraska legislators. But what boots it? The
senator is so dead politically he "already stink
eth." and, being dead, he doesn't know it. What
a pity it is we can't recall a senator who is such
a s'.ene.h in the nostrils of his constituents and
put a real, live man in his place. Blair Pilot.
"SPEND AND SPARE NOT."
The Bee's Washington correspondent has
sketchily outlined the riot of extravagance that
prevails at the national capital. "Spend and
spare not," he says, seems to be the motto. It
is noticeable in every report of congressional
activity that comes from there. The billion-dollar
congress of a few years ago has faded into
insignificance, and scarcely any bill carrying less
than a billion is considered nowadays. Waste
fulness rules in every department, and the only
rivalry noted is in the scramble to get to the
treasury. Senator Thomas of Colorado and
Senator Weeks of Massachusetts have solemnly
warned their colleagues against the certain ef
fects of this policy if continued.
For Nebraska, The Bee would suggest that
the legislature carefully scrutinize all appro
priation measures for whatever purpose. It is
already sure that two big expenditures will be
incurred, one for the good roads movement, the
other for the state house, but willingness to set
aside money for these objects does not excuse
prodigality in other directions. Economy is not
parsimony, nor does proper provision for the in
terests of the state require that unreasonable
sums be levied and spent.
The delirium of finance brought on by the
fever of war must soon subside, and the public
be brought to realize its situation. Wealth is
not created by fiat now any more than it has
been in the past. We are just now in the void
between the inflation incident to war and the
solid basis of peace-time business. The situa
tion is hazardous, and is not helped by the reck
lessness shown at Washington, where billions
are being expended for ends neither clear
nor always necessary.
"Spend and spare not" is leading us very
close to a dangerous gulf. It is time to call
a halt.
Motor Trucks for Postal Service.
Some one asks what The Bee meant in sug
gesting that the abandonment of the street rail
way mail cars in Omaha in favor of auto trucks
might not be progress, but a step backward. Of
course, no thought lurks anywhere that turning
from street cars to motor trucks for carrying
the mails is a step backward. It requires no
demonstration to prove that the trucks are
more speedy and more elastic in their use, that
with them mail can be collected from recepta
cles at any point of convenience to the public
on or off the car lines, that trucks can pass
other vehicles instead of dragging behind the
one directly in front, that they can deposit the
mail at the desired terminal with the least labor
of unloading or transfer. The one advan
tage the street car possesses lies in its use as
a railway mail car, permitting the working of
the mail enroute. That is what was promised
when the service was installed, but unfor
tunately under the penurious policy of the pres
ent postal administration has not been carried
out. Working the mails between collection sta
tions would be a great time-saver and efficiency
promoter, but it would call for additional clerks,
which the department evidently does not want
to employ. At the same time, it is wholly feasi
ble to equip the motor truck as a moveable
postofnee to permit the mail to be sorted as It
goes, and this, we believe, will be the next de
velopment. When that is done, the motor
truck postal car will be a big factor in reor
ganizing and speeding up our postal service
which all realize sadly needs improvement.
Immediate Case of the Railroads.
Walker D, Hines should be listened to, not
because he is head of the United States Rail
way administration, but because he is a prac
tical railroad manager. He presents to the sen
ate committee two plans: Either continue con
trol of the railroads as at present for the five-
year period, or return them without delay to
corporate ownership, not waiting for the ex
piration of the twenty-one month post-war
period.
Mr. Hines frankly declare himself as opposed
to government ownership. The five-year term
of control would, he thinks, permit advocates
of public ownership to present all their argu
ments, these to be answered by actual experi
ence. In lieu of this, it is only just to the cor
porations that they be given opportunity to
take advantage of reconstruction conditions and
move forward along with other industries com
ing out of the war disturbance.
These proposals touch the question very
closely. Ample reasons have been given why
the five-year term is none too long if the gov
ernment is to retain control until the wisdom
or unwisdom of the plan is determined. If the
experiment has progressed far enough to con
vince the public that it has been a failure, and
it seemingly has, then the sooner the roads are
put where they can stand on their own feet the
better.
Immense sums of money are urgently needed
to rehabilitate the roads. A repair bill, esti
mated at a minimum of $300,000,000, must be
met to keep the trains moving, for rolling stock
is nearly exhausted. Twice that much must be
put into road improvements. Neither of these
items contemplates any extension of service,
merely its maintenance. Half a billion dollars
was used in the "revolving" fund last year, and
$750,000,000 is asked for the current year, in ad
dition to the operating deficit of $240,000,000.
These are eloquent reasons for getting the roads
back into corporate control at a time when it
will be possible for them to recover along with
the other industries.
American delegates to the peace conference
will raise no objection to Count von Bernstorff
as a representative of Germany when it comes
to signing the peace treaty. Why should they?
They know all about him, and his part will
mainly consist in signing his name on the
dotted line, for peace is not to depend on Ger
man pledges but on the behavior of the Ger
man people in the hereafter. .
One district judge has declined to qelease a
pair of bootleggers, because their attorney dis
covered the omission of an unimportant word in
the information. This looks as if justice were
to rest on facts and not technicalities.
Removal of all grain embargoes did not
produce the prophesied upturn in prices, but
there is yet time. Supply and demand will
eventually win control in any market.
Facts Refute Fine Words
British merchants want the "Dora" ("Defense
of the Realm) acts repealed, but the imperial
government has a mind to wait on Pans before
it declares" war at an end. This is wisdom.
The National Republican.
Speaking at the Paris peace conference, on
January 25, President Wilson said:
"Gentlemen, the select classes of mankind
are no longer the governors of mankind. The
fortunes of mankind are now in the hands of
the plain people of the whole world."
Fine words, fitly spoken. But listen!
The only portions of the United States of
America in which this principle is publicly
spit upon, are those dominated by the politi
cal leadership xf which Mr. Wilson himself
is a part, and with which he is by tradition,
experience and belief closely associated.
There is not a republican state in the union
in which the people as a whole are not freely
and fully permitted to order their own govern
mental affairs by participation in the choice of
their representatives in authority.
i There is not a state in the union dominated
by the particular party leadership with which
Mr. Wilson is intimately identified in the United
States, in which mankind's destinies, or the
destinies of government, are directed by the
plain people. I his denial ot popular rights,
even rights established and guaranteed under
the American constitution, has been brought
about by the deliberate, public action cf the
political party over which Mr. Wilson at this
moment exercises absolute control, and of
which he has been the complete master for six
years.
In fact, Mr. Wilson is president today be
cause he, himself, as a candidate for president
in 1916, received more than 50 electoral votes
based upon the franchise of national citizens of
the republic, whose right to participation in
elections was denied by the force, fraud and
legal trickery of the leaders of Mr. Wilson's
party in the 11 old slave states.
Mr. Wilson is president and the spokesman
of this government at this time, in other words,
because more than 50 votes were cast for him
in the electoral college which were based upon
the ballots of citizens -whose right to exercise
the suffrage for themselves is denied by Mr.
Wilsons own associates in democratic party
leadership, who at the same time demand and
exercise the right to cast electoral votes and
occupy seats in the house of representatives
based upon the very votes they have invalidated.
Within sight of the windows of the White
House lies the natal state of President Wilson;
the state of Washington, of Patrick Henry,
of Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Bill of
Kights. In that state by the chicanery ot
President Wilson's intimate associates in party
leadership, such a status of political junkerism
has been brought about that five-sixths of the
men called to the colors under the conscription
act to save the world for democracy were at
the time they were summoned to this service
barred from the exercise of the rights of voters
in their own state and nation, although all of
them were citizens of the republic under the
terms of the United States Constitution.
In that natal state of President Wilson,
dominated by his associates in democratic party
leadership, 150,000 men only are eligible to par
ticipate in government, and at the last general
election on November 5, 1918, but 55,000 did
actually participate in the determination of the
affairs of two and a third millions of people.
Of the citizens denied by force, fraud and legal
trickery the right to participate in the affairs of
their own government, there are more than
100,000 more white than black. The men denied
the right to political freedom are the plain people
who most of all need the ballot to protect them
selves against the forces which President Wil
son so eloquently says seek mastery of affairs.
Of this, President Wilson, as leader of his
party and as chief executive of his country,
is not ignorant. He was born and reared in the
very state thus ground beneath the heel of
junkerism. A word from him would at any
time have started a movement for the reform
of these conditions, not made more agreeable
to men possessed of the true spirit of American
ism merely because they operate to the ad
vantage of democratic partisanship. His own
recently appointed secretary of the treasury
was a member of the Virginia constitutional
convention which fastened this junker system
upon President Wilson's natal state, in order
to save it for democracy with a big "D" by
throttling democracy with a small "d".
Listen!' In the several states of that union
the extent to which the plain people President
Wilson so eloquently spoke about at Paris on
January 25 participate in government is almost
exactly proportionate to the extent to which the
leadership of Mr. Wilson s party in the United
States has no control. The degree of popular
participation in government in the several states
is almost exactly in proportion to the size of
the normal republican pluralities. This is not a
mere theory; it is a statement based upon the
circumstances as they exist in the several states,
and as they are revealed in their statutes, their
practices and in their election returns.
Burleson Swings the Club
Alas, the poor telephone user! Mr. Burle
son says he must pay for toll messages accord
ing to a schedule of his own making, a schedule
that means higher rates in many instances
But the public service commission of Penn
sylvania and like authorities in other states have
decreed that this attempt to regulate rates is
an invasion of state rights not to be tolerated,
and the operating officials of the telephone com
panies have been ordered to stick to the old
charges. Whether the companies will obey
the , state or the postmaster general is some
thing for them to determine and at their own
risk; but if they decide upon the higher rates
of the Burleson schedule and bill the renters
of telephones accordingly, what are the latter
to dor l hey are assuredly twixt the devil
and the deep sea. For, if they refuse to pay
they are liable to have their service taken
away, tor these reasons, if for no other, it is
to be hoped that the dispute will be settled
as soon as possible, for however much it may
amuse the postmaster general to test the ex
tent ot his authority over the telephone, that
public facility is too important an element in
tne daily lite ot the people for the toleration
of a single hour's unnecessary interruption in
its operation. Philadelphia Ledger.
Around the State
Broken Bow Is about to staxe a
"fathers and sons banquet." Hail
the happy Innovation!
Restoration of motor service on
the Union Pacific In and out of Be
atrice sounds a welcome note and
stimulates business travel along the
line.
As the Press visions local needs,
Nebraska City should start two ir
restible drives, one for an up-to-the-minute
hotel, the other for Rood
roads north, south and west. Well,
whose holding back? Go to It!
With earnestness and vim charac
teristic of the town, Crete rallies tor
paving, and maps out an extensive
program of summer progress. Every
dollar put Into paving returns four
fold in cleanliness, comfort and
longevity, and tags the community
as a live one.
General Confidence is !n the saddle
and riding to the legislature with
saddlebags full of good suggestions.
One timely hunch from the Grand
Island Independent desorves atten
tion: "The present national road
statistics show Nebraska to be the
third lowest state In the union cn
good-surfaced roads. Stand up for
Nebraska!"
In words echoing sobs between
the lines, the Gothenburg Independ
ent remarks that President Wilson's
Parisian salute. "I raise mv elass."
is a regular Gothenburg habit. But
what's the use? "We all do it over
here a few times every dav with
out saying anything," says the scribe.
Let those in need of exercise fathom
the pathos of the words.
It should be noted In suite of the
pain that charming Beatrice is not
in love with the reformers cf Lin
coln. Not a little bit Even their
labors to hold lawmakers to the
straight and narrow trail and nr-
vent sinful contamination goes un
appreciated. "Tis pity 'tis true. All
because Beatrice dotes on certain
movie stars, by the reformers classed '
giddy, sinful things. Sneakins-1
ior .Beatrice, tne Express fears if
me stars rail rrom the screen the
emboldened nurlsts with haloa read
justed may swat "Uncle Tom's Cab
in, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," Fatty
Arbuckle and their like. Lawgivers
EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.
Washington Post: Again we in
sist that the mutual slaughter nf
irerinuus Dy uermans is not up to
ine wunu s expectations.
Brooklyn Eagle: President Wilson
could now speak on Mars Hill with
a rreedom St. Paul never knew. He
has been voted the freedom of
Atnens. Ills ancient Greek is ex
cellent, but whether the moderns
could understand him is a moot
question.
Baltimore American: If we am
to help police Europe there are many
ooys in KnaKi on tnis side who would
not mind going on Uncle Sam's ter-
sonally conducted tour and replace
the tired fighters on the other side.
Baltimore American: Italy has
been eloquently pressing its claims
for Austrian territory upon Presi
dent Wilson. Evidently, he is com
ing to be regarded as an Interna
tional Santa Claus, with any asked-
ror Doon in nis pack.
New York World: Senator LaFol-
lette's assertion that "the organized
weaun or all the countries of the
earth fears the principles that the
soviet government of Russia Is try
ing to establish" is one of those half
truths of demagogy which convey
falsehood. It Is not organized wealth
alone that fears bolshevlsm, but
wealth represented by personal
belongings and necessaries which
thieves purloin at will. More im
portant than all this is the peril in
wnien Human lire finds itself, with
no safeguards anywhere beyond the
caprice or the mob.
)je qJoAs' Qom&r
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"I
(Peggy and Billy Belgium become lost In
a dark. Impassable forest and are told by
a queer Image that they are In the Land
ot Lost Things. )
FrlUfher 172
CHAPTKK II.
AM Gloomy Nooks, King of
the Iand of Lost Things,"
spoke the queer image, "lou are
now my subjects. Bow down and
do me homage!"
Peerev. frightened by this odd
creature and the strangeness of the
place, started to obey when Billy
Belgium Jerked her back.
"This Is the United States. We
know no kings here. We are free
Americans." So answered Billy
proudly.
"Hurrah! Free Americans!"
echoed a chorus of sleepy voices
from- beneath the leaves in the
ground and the undergrowth all
around. The chorus came so unex
pectedly that Peggy was startled and
grasped Billy by the hand.
"If you are free, go where you de
sire," chuckled the husky voice of
Gloomy Nooks.
"Come!" said Billy, leading Teggy
back the way they had entered. But
it was easier said than done. There
was no way out The bushes, the
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Miss Laura M. Bradford has been appointed
assistant principal of the Dupont school.
An livening with the Irish was the enter
tainment and program at Park Place. Besides
unusual numbers, a debate called out the talents
of the Misses Lee, McHugh and Babcock.
January stamp sales at the Omaha post
office aggregated $14,493.69.
Billy Moran has gone to St. Louis in com
pany with Charlie Kosters.
Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Jones are reioicine over
the advent of a son.
Morgan and Ashineer have nosted a forfait
for a match bicycle race.
The Day We Celebrate".
Henry Monsky, attorney, born 1890.
Lieut. Phil M. Levey, physician, born 1890.
Ensign J. W. Marshall of the Otoe Gas com
pany, born 186Z
George Brandes, Denmark's foremost man
of letters, born in Copenhagen 77 years ago.
F. Wayland Ayer of Camden, N. J., president
of the Northern Baptist convention, born at
Lee. Mass., 71 years ago.
Dr. William F. McDowell, bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church, born at Millers
burg, O., 61 years ago.
Rear Admiral William L. Rodeers. U. S. N..
born in the District of Columbia 59 years ago.
John Mitchell, former president of the
United Mine Workers of America, born at
Braidwood, 111., 49 years ago.
LINES TO A LAUGH.
She (to her returned soldier) Tnu'v
been making love to those French girl.
n wny ao you think that?
8he--Because you've lmnraved mn New
lorn rosr.
i
1 don't believe they will ever milce
Europe Bone-dry."
"I don't either." rejoined Uncle Bill
Bottletop. "But EuroDe is a lone mvi tn
iravej just tor a annk." Washington Star.
Hub I don't believe In naradlnc mv
wire you couldn't anyway. It takes
quite a number to make a parade. Bos
ton Transcript.
il says nere mat a MlNumrl nan
boasts that he has an umbrella that has
Deen in nil possession for 20 years," said
amiin.
Well," replied Jones. "that". Ion
enough. He ought to return It." Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Bacon Who mi the noet who wrnt
aDoui me - unkind wind." do you know?
h.gbert--I reckon It was some fellow
who smoked and who only bad one
matcn. Honkers Statesman.
"Green, Watson, Brown and EldersDoon
Great Scott! What do you suppose they
want so many in the firm for?"
"I presume they figure that they had
to have at least one who would stay 8t
home and look after the business in the
winter while the rest of them go south
to play goir." Detroit Free Press.
"If you are going away from here,
will you please take me along?"
asked the golf ball very politely.
brambles, the trees made a solid wall
they could not get through.
"Free! Everybody is free here!"
chuckled Gloomy Nooks,
"Free to sleep and sleep and
crumble Into dust," spoke a tiny
voice und Peggy felt something
stirring in her hand. Looking down
she discovered that it was the golf
ball she had picked up when .hey
first entered the Land of Lost
Things. But now it was an oddly
numan looking golf ball. The top
of the hard, round shell had opened
and out of this had come a neck
and head. Down below legs, feet,
and arms had appeared through oth
er openings.
"Vh5 it's just like a turtle," ex
claimed Billy, stretching his hand to
ward it.
Click! The head and neck snap
ped back inside, the legs and arms
drew in, and there was the golf brUl
perfectly round and smooth again.
"How funny!" cried Peggy, for
getting the creepy feeling that had
come over her when she discovered
the ball stirring In her hand. "Come
out of your shell, little golf ball. We
will not hurt you.
Click! went the golf ball again
Its head popped out, its feet shot
down, and its arms came out of tho
sides. There it stood like a little
man, bowing and smiling at Pegpry,
and its hand to the helmet-like bit
of shell on the top of its head.
"If you are going away from here,
will you please take me alons?"
asked the golf ball very politely.
"And me, and me, and me'." rose
the chorus of sleepy voices from
down below and all around.
"Who are you all?" cried Billy
Belgium picking up a stick and pok
ing among the dead leaves, the
mold, and the tang'e of grasses. And
as he poked there came to light a
most astonishing collection of things
golf balls, gold and silver rings,
dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels ana
pennies-, lead pencils, buttons, stick
pins, pieces of jewelry, two golt
clubs, purses, knives, keya and all
sort of knicknacks.
"We are Lost Things," they
chorused. We are tired of resting.
Please, please, take us back to use
ful lives."
"To be sure we will," promised
Billy. Then he looked at the wall or
shrubbery and a tone of doubt came
into his voice. "If we can find the
way." '
"If? If?" taunted Gloomy Nooks.
"That word Is so little and yet so
big."
Daily Dot Puzzle
flees
ox
THE OLD FIRE HORSES.
Old pal, your stall Is empty,
You served us long and well:
Through storm and sleet, and winter Ice
nut we near tne parting knell.
I wonder with your good horse sens.
If you think you've come to grief,
Or whether optimistically,
You've found your soul's relief.
Now that good Mr. Flannlgan
(May the saints preserve his head)
I hope he's wearing a big star.
An' I hope that star Is red.
But when you're nearlng heaven,
May fate scire that durned "truck "
Croup seize the throttle tires bust.
And the worst dod gasted luck;
And as you enter the pearly gate,
(Let me whisper In your ear)
I hope you'll leave that measly truck
Full five lengths In the rear.
Omaha. ELIZABETH RIMA.
Daily Cartoonette.
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Parochial School Teaching.
Omaha, Jan. 30. To the Kditor
of The Bee: Monday morning's is
sue of the city s press carried a
criticism of parochial schools and
church practices by a Baptist cler
gyman as unjust as it was ill-timed
and as ill-bred as it was ill-in
formed.
While making due allowance for
the fact that the orator could not
make unmlndfulness of the audience
his chief characteristic, and for the
further fact that he could not utterly
forget his family, he owes it to his
neiEhbors and to the community at
lare-e that he give some study to tne
discussion of an important subject
and not simply preach what he
knows will be palatable.
If he had given five minutes hon
est thought to his subject he could
have seen hundreds of men in his
own calling competing with him
with fair success, notwithstanding
the handicap of a parochial school
start, and of his superior educational
advantages. And he could listen to
those men for a long life time and
never hear an uncharitable word
spoken in retort of the sensation
mongers, who insult and assail them
a lesson and restraint, by the way,
which is part of the parochial school
education.
He could have seen men and wo
men In the crafts, in business, in the
professions, in every walk of life,
graduates of parochial schools,
competing successfully with their
fellow citizens who were trained in
different fashion. And, If the evi
dence of the last two years Is not
sufficient to convince any mind capa
ble of digesting it of the loyalty and
morality of the parochial school
product, to Introduce further would
be a waste of time and energy.
When the gentleman undertakes
to discuss church practices he re
minds one of Henry Ward Beecher's
apology to his boy who heard him
preach in a very loud voice: "I al
ways preach that way, son, when I
have nothing to say."
It is not fair, it is not American,
and is in no sense a compliment to
the city that a body of its citizens,
doing their share of the commun
ity's work, should be compelled
periodically to defend themselves
against the rantings and ravings of
men whose chief stock in trade is
setting brother against brother, and
whose words ana works are a libel
on the God of Love they profess to
preach.
When the Nebraska legislature
A Wartime Recipe
for Gray Hair
Gray, streaked or faded hair can
be immediately made black, brown
or light brown, whichever shade you
desire, by the use of the following
remedlf that you can make at home:
Merely get a box of Orlex pow
der at any drug store. It costs very
little and no extras to buy. Dis
solve it in 4 oz. of distilled or rain
water and comb it through the hair.
Directions for mixing and use come
in each box.
You need not hesitate to use Or
lex, as a $100.00 gold bond comes in
each box guaranteeing the user that
Orlex powder does not contain sil
ver, lead, zinc, sulphur, mercury,
aniline, coaltar products or their derivatives.
It does not rub off, is not sticky
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fluffy. It will make a gray haired
person look twenty years younger.
Adv.
hears the evidence I can't believe
that it will condemn our grand state
with its proud and justly proud boast
of 99 per cent literacy, to the com
pany of Georgia and Florida.
M. J. GRADY,
4713 South Seventeenth.
'Speak the American linngiiasre,"
Council Bluffs, la., Jan. SI. To the
Editor of The Bee: During the war
"Speak the -American Language"
placards were conspicuously in evi
dence everywhere, and it was a
splendid Idea, because we have rea
sons to be very much Interested in
thoroughly Americanizing the
United States. But now etate legis
latures are in session and senators
and representatives are drafting bills
requiring the English language only
to be taught In all the schools. I
believe that now is the opportune
time to remain In the habit of desig
nating our language the American
language, Instead of the English
language. We are not a new coun
try any more, and while we did in
herit our language from England,
many changes have . been wrought
through the influences of other
European nations that have Im
proved the language during a pe
riod of several centuries. It has
been reported that our soldiers could
not understand the language as they
heard It spoken in parts of Eng
land, which indicates that there is
a distinction between their language
and ours. The United States is com
posed of a conglomeration of na
tionalities each having contributed
something to make us a strong na
tion. Let us continue to speak the
American language, as we were re
quested, or, rather, compelled to do
during the war.
ALMA C. WALTERS.
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"I could show you If I wanted to,
but I don't!" So squeaked the rabbit,
bobbing up out of the brus'.i and tu
promptly bobbing back again.
"If! If! Oh, if we could only es
cape." walled all the Lost Things,
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lessly at each other.
(Next will be told how hope comes tt
Peggy and Billy Belgium.)
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CONSERvAI
III
W. II. Kellev. a lumber salesman, cf
Omaha, found Ne5lin Soles so tough
and durable that one pair of soles
served on a second pair of uppers
after the first pair of uppers had worn
out in ten months ot nara walking.
And he says, 'Those same soles will
stand another ten months of constant
daily wear."
This is unusual service even for
Neolin Soles but Mr. Kelley's experi
ence should indicate to you a method
of cutting down those rising shoe bills
you have to meet. Simply make sure
the new shoes you buy are Neolin
soled and have worn shoes repaired
with these soles which are scientifically
made to be comfortable, waterproof
and exceedingly long-wearing. They
are made by The Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, who
also make Wingfoot Heels, guaran
teed to outwear any other heels.
Hecilin Sole
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Under a Misapprehension.
Kansas City Star: German news
papers are beginning to protest
against the attitude of the peace con
ference. The newspapers seem to
t e under a slight misapprehension.
In spite of the triumphant entry of
the German troops into Berlin Inst
November, Germany didn't really
win the war.
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