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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1919,
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to them. Address changed a oiian aa requester.
The weather man still wears a smile.
Now is the time for all good men to pre
pare for the "war" garden.
France would like to see the peace council
show a little speed. So would all of us.
The "unloaded" gun is as deadly as ever,
and requires just as much care in handling.
Our county attorney has a splendid lot of
opportunity before him just now, if he will only
seize it.
The pest house was never designed as a
pleasure resort, but that is no reason why it
should not be decently conducted.
At any rate, the police shake-up has re
used in the arrest of one youth charged with
itcaling autos. Every little bit helps.
Girls keep up the traditions of the Central
High school, by leading the boys on the honor
roll. Some day this condition may be equalized.
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"Save the kaiser 1" is the cry raised by some
societies in Germany. It will be as empty as a
lot of other shouts sent up by the same crowd.
The "Welfare" board is not concerned in a
case involving the debauching of little girls, but
if it had been a public dance hall well, that is
different.
United States senators are disturbed by the
shadow of bolshevism, but still waste time in
talking about it. A little action in Washington
might help the matter.
French socialists who cheered President
Wilson will get themselves in bad with Ameri
can "comrades," who spend most of their time
berating the government.
" Secretary Baker is in bad with the senate
again, but the senators had better be careful if
they do not court the trouble that has befallen
critics of other cabinet officers.
"Bill" Hayward's outfit looks better every
..time the light is turned on it. The boys were
dark enough in color, but they could fight, and
the regiment certainly had a colonel!
. "Charley" Dawes is another Nebraskan who
will .come back from France with honor and
glory and medals 'neverything. This state has
a right to feel good over its share in the war.
, ' Putting an embargo on hog shipments does
not worry the producer a great deal, as he man
ages to keep the pens at the stock yards well
tilled with nice fat pigs to sell at a nice fat price.
Interest on Omaha school bonds may be
paid in any kind of coin, but what the taxpayers
would" like to know is why the bonds were sold
at all before any contracts were let for the
building.
Fifty-three thousand, four hundred fifty-three
Nebraska boys in the service! Some little army
in itself, even as armies go these days, and a lot
more who were ready to follow when the war
blew up. Nobody will ever ask where Ne
braska stood in '17-18.
Congress has just arranged to liquidate
S$2,?50.000,000 of contracts concerning the legal
ityyof which there is grave doubt, but argues
over making good to the farmer on wheat. Why
this favoritism? Is not the man who manufac
tures food stuff as good as him who makes
munitions?
Having decided that all the world shall be
a paradise and all men of one household and
brotherhood, the meek and lowly bolsheviki
are now raising an army to carry out their
beneficent designs. They have even recognized
the necessity of having trained officers, and 10
are forcing into the service all the intelligent
men they have not murdered. The "reds" are
long on consistency.
Railroad Revolving Fund
The bookkeeping of the federal railroad ad
ministration may or may not be intelligible to
the average citizen. But when Walker D. Hines,
the new director general, explains that the so
called revolving fund has failed to revolve back
and it practically exhausted and asks for an
additional revolving fund of $750,000,000 of tax
payers' money, one thing is clear to every man
and woman who can think at all.
The clear thing is that the 100,000,000 men,
women and children under the American flag,
on an average, have contributed or pledged
themselves to contribute $5 each and are now
asked to contribute or pledge $7.50 in addition
for the financing of railroads that used to
finance themselves and used to furnish better
service at least a third cheaper than that which
the government is furnishing. Hundreds of
millions in wage-raises and back pay have been
poured out to placate labor unions. Hundreds
of millions have gone to the railroad companies
or their stockholders for the use of the roads,
for direct loans, for improvement expenditures.
Among the direct loans is one of more than
$51,000,000 to the New York, New Haven and
Hartford system. The fund of $500,000,000
that is lost or in hiding represents only the
margin, not the bulk of the waste.
Descent into a certain place is easy, tut
getting back, if ever possible, is very, very
difficult. The practical problem before congress
is gravely puzzling. The Hines demand is made.
io say o naiiy means rauroaa cnaos, finan
cial chaos, conceivably industrial chaos, and
even a series of strikes against wages that ere
getting back to earth.' To choose this alterna
tive is a very serious responsibility for any
legislative body. Part or all of the Hines
requisition will have to be honored. But the
Appropriation bill should hedge about the ex
penditure of the money with safeguards not put
i ;to the former revolving fund bill. Brooklyn
KEEP CONTRACT WITH THE FARMER.
The federal government should keep its bar
gain with the farmers of America, and main
tain the price of the 1919 wheat crop on the
basis of l.2d per bushel.
No contract made by the government in
connection with its war activities is more bind
ing in its nature. The food administration, with
the consent of congress and under instruction
from the president, agreed in advance to pur
chase all the wheat the farmers of the United
States could raise, and to pay therefor at a
price per bushel stipulated on a basic rate of
$2.26. The emergency created by the war has
practically disappeared, the markets of ' the
world are once more open. Wheat from Aus
tralia, Argentina, India and elsewhere is now
available, and its presence will result in lower
ing the world price.
If American wheat is sold on the world mar
ket, the price will very likely drop to $1 per
bushel, or even below that. On the expected
crop of a billion bushels, this will mean that
the federal government will be required to as
sume a loss of $1,260,000,000 in order to make
good its pledge to the farmers.
But why should not faith be kept with these
as well as with others who have served the gov
ernment? Steps are being taken to make whole
other contracts, the completion of which was
interrupted by the sudden termination of the
war, so that investments in machinery, material
and partially completed output will not be lost
to manufacturers. Seventy per cent of the 1919
wheat crop was sown prior to November 1, and
therefore the manufacture of that great war es
sential was well under way when the armistice
was signed. It can not now be stopped, nor
is any salvage possible short of harvest.
No case could be clearer than that of the
farmers. If the government is to liquidate any
contract, it should be the one made for wheat.
Mr. Hurley talks of writing off a billion dollars
on the shipping undertaking; why not take the
other step, and write off a billion and a quar
ter, if need be, on the wheat? Let the con
sumer have his supply at the world price, but
make good to the farmer on the price fixed by
the government for the 1919 crop. The duty is
imperative. ,
One Appropriation for All Institutions.
In the absence of a budget system for the
state a plan has been proposed at Lincoln that
will fairly well operate as a substitute. It is
to have a single blanket appropriation covering
all the state institutions, to be apportioned by
the Board of Control. This will require that
the board work out a budget of its own, and
so regulate expenditures as to effect many pos
sible economies in management.
Under the existing system the manager of a
state institution continually feels at liberty to
go at least to the limit of his appropriation, and
most of them have shown slight hesitation in
going somewhat beyond. Authority to expend
a fixed sum of money for a specified purpose is
but slight incentive to economy at any time.
This is not said with intent to reflect on the
capacity or integrity of any of the heads of the
state institutions. They are hampered at times
by conditions they can not control, and fre
quently are given tough problems to solve in
executing the trust imposed on them by their
assignments. With the money in one control,
and expenditures made along plans that con
template the best service at all the institu
tions, better results are possible.
Common buying of staple supplies has been
found to be good policy, and this may easily be
extended a little further under the blanket ap
propriation plan. That will naturally lead to
the adoption of a genera! budget covering all
state expenditures, to the adoption of which the
republican party is pledged by its last state platform.
Long Distance Weather Guesses.
A learned professor of a well known col
lege has predicted continuance of mild weather
for the rest of the winter. He is in a measure
safe in this, as the time has passed for the most
severe storms, although the season is not vet
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so far advanced out some general and damaging
disturbance is possible. The sun is nearly forty
days on his journey to the north, or almost
half way to the vernal equinox, a fact that les
sens the probability of a lengthy spell of bad
weather. But long range weather guessing is
about the most unsatisfactory as well as the
most alluring indoor sport we have. Here is
an almanac, which for over two generations
has served Americans as philosopher, guide and
friend on weather. For the present days it pre
dicts "Very cold, snow, stormy." It does not
say where, however, and maybe some place,
northern Russia, for example, its guess is veri
fied. However, it has missed the mark in the
latitude for which its astronomical calculations
are made. Even the goosebone and the corn
husk went wrong this time, and the ground hog
yet has to be justified. So, while the venerable
college dignitary may be right, and we hope he
is, our suggestion would be to keep the coal bin
filled and the shovel handy for the next sixty
days. If you do not need them, you will be
just as well off.
The "General Strike."
Labor disturbances appearing in all parts of
the world may be symptoms of a deep-seated
unrest, but more than likely can be traced to
the reaction from the war strain. Production
had been checked by a cessation of military de
mands, and the transition to peace industry
scarcely was commenced when the strikes began
to intervene. Whatever the cause the demon
strations are being carried beyond all reason.
General stoppage of work entails hardships on
the strikers as well as on the public, a fact they
are quite likely to learn through experience.
Great political principles will not be in any way
advanced by economic disorder, and although
the agitator may have his inning for the present,
the good sense of the American workman is
bound to come to the top in the end. Strikes
in this country are not founded on hunger, or
any condition of hardship, and while they all
seem to be unnecessary, they are dangerous
only to the degree that the real work of re
construction is held back by them. Labor is
slowly learning that the general strike is a
delusion.
Lincoln correspondents are listing the old
familiar measures reappearing in the legislature.
Some of these have reliably served for many
sessions, and ought to be retired. Can not
their promoters think of something new?
Shall We Eat Our Drinks?
Brooklyn Eagle.
The proclamation of the Anti-Saloon league
amendment reads about like this: To all to
whom these presents shall come, greeting: On
and after January 16, 1920, it shall be unlawful
to use intoxicating liquors tor beverage pur
poses, but there is no limit to the ways in
which good cooks may prepare such liquors in
solid forms appropriate lor melting in the
mouth or to be eaten.
Take heart of grace. It is well known that
alcohol easily works up into shellac. Alcohol
fit to drink may as easily be turned into flakes
like dry shellac. The amendment simply elab
orates and extends the camouflage principle of
the old Raines Law sandwich. The new times
call for new modifications, that is all. Our
chemists will have no trouble m turning cock
tails of all varieties into chips that will rattle in
a bag like so much raw glue.
It is clear that the Anti-Saloon league did
not intend to interfere with our eating, only
with our drinking; the words for beverage pur
poses" stand out like a red cherry. To insure
domestic tranquillity a man's ice box may be
packed with beer, ales, wines and liquors in
wobbly gelatine or more compact caramels,
Trust our chemists. They know how. The
supreme court must decide if a cocktail in a
glass inside a suet pudding is a beverage if it
be ladeled out as gravy. Then there is a fine
line of rum omelets not within the purview
of the amendment.
But the chief point to remember is that the
smart people who put the amendment through
were not smart enough to prevent the people
of the United States from eating alcohol in
food. Perhaps the reform will work wonders
in saving space in beer kees and freight cars.
All the old drinks may as easily be eaten;
they may be Fletcherized or bolted, eaten
straight or chased down with water as a oro
hibitionist chases his simple meal of bran. A
dehydrated gin rickey added to a sufficient num
ber of fizz capsules will satisfy the most sensi
tive palate, lhere will be beers that can be
carved like a boiled ham: there will be rve
whisky that will look like a patent breakfast
tood. ihere will be other vest-pocket beers
that will look like yeast cakes or cream cheese.
Tell the American chemist what the need is
and he will turn every alcoholic drink into a
solid that may be eaten, just as nature turns
water into a solid that may be broken by the
teeth before it is swallowed. Undoubtedly the
supreme court will hold that if a substance can
be cracked by the teeth it is not a beveraee. The
amendment plainly does not prohibit the man
ufacturing of alcoholic foods; only alcoholic
beverages. To secure the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and our posterity it is hereby or
dained that the people shall drink nothing
stronger than water, although they may eat
anything they please. Done (and done good)
at the city of Washington this 29th day of Jan
uary, and so on.
Bureaucratic Treason
In the development of the new treason at
Washington we find that John Skelton Williams
is considerably in advance of Chairman Moon
of the house postoffice committee, who recently
laid down the doctrine that opposition to Post
master General Burleson amounted to the most
heinous of crimes. Mr. Williams not only ac
cepts this theory as to the comptroller of the
currency, which is himself, but proceeds at once
to orcanize a court for the trial of an offender
upon whom a summary sentence has been pro
nounced. The person who outraged the sovereignty of
John Skelton Williams was newspaper cor
respondent who ventured to suggest in his de
spatches that the successor to Mr. Williams
would be a gentleman of another name. To
this invasion of royal prerogative Mr. Williams'
response was a summons to the offender to
appear before him forthwith, and when it was
admitted that the culprit had actually given aid
and comfort to the enemies of the comptroller
of the currency, judgment was passed upon him
without delay. " He practically admitted his
guilt," says Mr. Williams in a formal statement
to the public.
With due respect to all officialdom and espe
cially all bureaucrats, have we not had more
than enough of this sort of thing? What is
there sacred about the persons or the office of
Albert Sidney Burleson and John Skelton Wil
liams? Is it too much to expect that in the
fullness of time some real American democrat
will appear at Washington with an oratorcial
club heavy enough to subdue these upstarts.
New York World.
Ancient Race Awakening
With a prince representing an Arab king
present as a duly accreditee and officially recog
nized delegate at the peace conference, mem
ories are revived of the days when the succes
sors of Mohammed ruled a vast empire, which,
after the fashion of the time, they had con
quered with their notably good swords. They
ruled it, too, for centuries, about as well and
wisely and justly as any empires were ruled
then, and much better than some of the other
empires were ruled.
The caliphs, however, showed the lamentably
human inability to stand prosperity, and the
hard-fighting Turks reduced them to a subjec
tion in which they have remained until now.
Gibbon tells magnificently the story of the Arab
rise and fall, and present events make him bet
ter than ever worth reading.
This hardly seems a propitious time for a
new king to set up in business, but the Arabs
probably know what they want, and of course
they are not to be deprived of "self-determina-tion"
any more than anybody else. They are at
least fortunate in occupying a country with few
or no attractions for other peoples, and if the
Hedjaz person will only develop a few' of the
picturesque qualities of his remote predecessors,
he will add a much-needed element of the ro
mantic to the grim happenings of this mo
mentous era.
But it is to be feared that Haroun-al-Raschid
is very, very dead. New York Times.
Friend of the Soldier
Replies will be given in this
column to questions relating
to the soldier and his prob
lems, in and out of the army.
Names will not be printed.
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Mle Qjtos' Qom&r
ITOHAV
The Day We Celebrate.
Carl C. Katleman, attorney, born 1891.
Mahlon Pitney, associate justice of the su
preme court of the United States, born at Mor
ristown, N. J., 61 years ago.
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, director of the Metro
politan Opera company of New York, born at
Ferrara, Italy, 50 years ago.
Rear Admiral Charles T. Hutchins, U. S. N.,
retired, born at Kingston, Pa., 75 years ago.
Prof. Lafayette B. Mendel of Yale university,
celebrated as an expert on nutrition, .born at
Delhi, N. Y., 47 years ago.
Maxine Elliott, a celebrated actress of the
American stage, born at Rockland, Me., 46 years
ago.
Simeon E. Baldwin, celebrated jurist, former
governor of Connecticut, born in New Haven
79 years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
In the special election on the proposed re
location of the city hall. Eighteenth, and Far
nam won out handily over Jefferson Square
almost 2 to 1.
An inquest is trying to settle responsibility
for the collapse of the wall left standing after
the fire in the old Max Meyer building, by
which several persons were killed.
The Plymouth club out in Kountze Place
has elected J. B. Carmichael president, H. H.
Miller vice president, J. A. Bollman secretary
and J. H. Conrad treasurer.
A. B. Snowden, pioneer druggist, died. He
had located in Omaha in 1872.
The Albright Methodist Episcopal church
was incorporated by T. C. Clendenning, L. H.
Edleblute, W. D. Luther, S. S. Hardy, Benton
Rice, Amos Spaulding and John W. Sals
Release of Soldiers.
Meadow Grove, Neb., Feb. 2. To
the Editor of The Bee: Have any
arrangements as yet been made fur
release of soldiers who are needed
at home by their dependents?
H. J. R.
Answer An order was issued in
America some time ago that any sol
dier actually needed at home on ac
count of dependents would be given
an immediate discharge on making
a proper showing of facts. A simi
lar order has Just been issued
abroad, giving General Pershing au
thority to discharge any soldier who
can make a satisfactory showing.
Premium on Insurance.
I.inwood, Neb, Feb. 1. To the
Editor of The Bee: I want to keep
my government insurance in good
standing; how shall I proceed?
R. 11. B.
Answer Checks for premiums
should be made payable to the treas
urer of the United States and sent
to the disbursing clerk, insurance
section, bureau of war risk insur
ance, Washington. Payments should
be made before the first of the
month, on the same basis as they
were made while in the service.
Missing Soldier.
Rainbolt, la., Feb. 2. To the Ed
itor of The Bee: How can I get
word of my son's present wherea
bouts in France? He was in an in
fantry company, but I have lost
number ot his regiment and division.
MOTHER.
Answer Write to the adjutant
general of the army, who will refer
the letter to the proper department.
It is a slow process, though, because
it will require search through the
entire roster of the army. You will
very likely hear from him soon, as
great efforts are being made to clear
up the Jam in the mail situation.
Telegraph Battalions.
Omaha, Feb. 3. To the Editor of
The Bee: When will the Omaha
boys who went out in the signal
corps battalions be sent home?
W. R. C.
Answer Some of the telegraph
battalions of the signal corps are
under orders to return now, but no
word has been had of the 408th, in
which most of the Omaha boys are
serving. These battalions are being
reorganized in France for occupation
service.
General Questions.
B. H. The 408th motor truck bat
talion is not a part of any division.
B. C. M. 6tands for "British Central
Militaire."
a. G. K. A. P. O. 731 is located
at Neuchateau, France. The Twelfth
service company must be stationed
near thai place if mail to the unit
is sent to this postoffice. The unit
is not attached to any division.
E. R. K. The Twenty-seventh in
fantry is one of the units in Russia.
u. M. G Base hospital 78 is sta
tioned at Toul, France. No mention
has been made about the return of
the units at this hospital.
Mrs. M. O. G. The tank corps is
not essential in any way to the army
of occupation and they will, there
fore, be returned at an early date.
The 309th machine gun battalion is
part of the 84th division.
Mrs. Wilson The 331st infantry
arrived January 2.
M. J. S. The Seventy-second
Coast artillery has been designated
for early convoy.
M. M. The 421st Telegraph bat
talion arrived on the Nebraska at
Newport News on January 27. . The
415th Telegraph battalion has not
sailed yet. The Thirty-fourth Serv
ice company is not attached to any
division.
Mrs. H. J. K. The 311th field sig
nal battalion of the Eighty-sixth di
vision arrived on the Nebraska on
January 27.
Mrs. J. C. The 149th infantry is
not in the army of occupation. It
is in the Thirty-eighth division now
at Le Mans, France. Probably you
nave in mind the 149tn field artil
lery, which is in the occupation
army. The 163d infantry is in the
Forty-first division, which is sched
uled to return in February.
G. Li. Evacuation hospital 17 is
with the American forces in Russia;
also the 331st infantry.
S. P. W. There is only one am
munition train in a division. The
313th ammunition train is attached
to the Eighty-eighth division. Noth
ing definite has been given out by
the War department pertaining to
their return. The division is not in
the army of occupation.
L. B. J. The 339th infantry is in
western Russia.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
CHAITKB III.
Au Old Friend Appears.
(tVRBy and Hilly H..Kiu,n. wnn(Wlns
In the l'Hnl of Lout Things, are askod to
rescue artiitee held captive there, but are
uname 10 una even their own way out.)
'T 'LL have to think this thing
over," declared Billy Belgium,
puckering his face into a frown.
"There surely is some way out of
here."
"When you've found It, tell me.
I'd like to know," chuckled Gloomy
i Nooks.
"I feel awfully frowsy. I'd like to
have a bath if I'm going back among
folks," said the first golf ball.
"And I. And I," echoed the otlief
articles.
"Here's a brook, I'll help you wash
up," offered Peggy. In a moment
RIGHT TO THE POINT.
Baltimore American: Let the
consumer see that his grocer is as
prompt to follow the reduction of-
wholesale prices as he was to put
them up.
Minneapolis Tribune: If it be true
that 13 is the president's lucky num
ber, he would better ditch one of the
14 points. Any one of several might
not be grievously missed.
Kansas City Star: The enjoining
of the new telephone rates in many
parts of the country may be taken
as a polite way the several states
have adopted of hanging up on Mr.
Burleson.
Chicago Post: Victor Berger
avows that he will never give up.
Oh, well, that's all right Many a
man who refused to give up has
been locked up for good, long
terms, too.
Brooklyn Eagle: Starving Ger
man children of whom Dr. von
Mach wept turn out to be fat and
rosy at Coblenz. The opportunity
which Dr. von Mach had to weep
for the emaciated children of Fland
ers he failed to improve.
Daily Cartoonette.
while it's ww tiiie, ill
LtftKE ft LITTLE fYflPON THIS
ROCK, J
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"Judge Owl!" shrieked Peggy, joy
fully. the golf balls, coins and pieces of
jewelry were getting rid of the mold
and dirt which made them look dull
and tramplike. Peggy was aston
ished at the effect of the bath. It
transformed the dingy golf balls inta
smart, white, swift-looking spheres
as classy as any seen in a tourna
ment. "Why, you are fine, new balls,"
she cried in surprise.
"To be sure we are I'm a Silver
King," boasted the first ball.
"And I'm a Dunlop. And I'm a
Witch. And I'm a Colonel. And
I'm a Dimple. And I'm a Homer."
And so the golf balls went on telling
their names.
"Why are you wasting your time
here?" asked Billy.
"Another foolish ball made us dis
contented," confessed Silver King.
"He said there wasn't any sense let
ting ourselves get banged around the
links when we could rest peacefully
in the woods. So I got lost and I
tell you I've been sick of it ever
since. It's no fun lying molding
when one is ninde for wild, exciting
rides on the links,"
"And I came here because my
muster was a beginner and was nil
the time banging me over the head."
spoke up the Dunlop. "Hut I'd
rather be banged over the ln'ud oil
the links thun sleep my head off
here."
"We all got tired of work and
wanted a rtst," confessed the coins,
the Jewelry and the other articles,
"but please, please get us out. ot
here and we'll never waste another
day of our lives."
"Can any of you remember which
way you came?" asked Hilly,
eagerly. Reeking a possible clue to
the path to the outer world.
"No, we've slept so sound we've
forgotten al labout that," admitted
the golf balls.
"Might as well give up and go to
sleep," chuckled Gloomy Nooks.
"You are bound to be my subjects
whether you want to be or not,"
"Who, who?" unexpectedly hooted
a voice from the tree over head.
"Judge Owl" shrieked Peggy Joy
fully. "It's Judge Owl."
"Who who wants Judge Owl?1
stuttered the Judge in a scared way,
sticking his head out of a hollow
tree.
"We want you Princess Pegi,-
and Billy Belgium."
"Oh, that's different," hooted tbe
Judge In a relieved tone as he
scrambled out of the tree and drop
ped 'down to the ground. "Welcome
to the Land of Lost Things."
"Is this where you have been keep
ing yourself?" asked Peggy, who
hadn't seen her feathered friena
since the night he went wooing .Wise
Snowy Owl. Miss Great Horned
Owl and Miss Screech Owl with such
unpleasant results for himself.
"You bet," said the Judge. "I've
been safe here even though lone
some. Have you seen those three
rampageous female owls lately?"
"Not since the night you ran awav
from them," laughed Billy Belgium.
"Good!" hooted Judge Owl. "Now
I guess I can go back home. I'm sla.l
you came after me. I'll go along
with you."
"Fine!" shouted Peggy and Billy
together, seeing their troubles about
to vanish. "Hurry up and show us
the way."
"Why, I don't know the way,"
hooted Judge Owl. "I came here so
fant that night I never noticed the
direction."
"I know the way," squeaked the
saucy rabbit which had been the
cause of their getting lost. He had
suddenly appeared from the woods.
"Follow me and you'll get out all
right." With that it whisked away
so fast through the underbrush that
their eyes couldn't follow it.
"Hee, hee! Better settle down to
a good long sleep, for you'll be here
a long, long time," chuckled Gloomy
Nooks.
(Pt'Klty and Billy Belgium rannot find
the way out of the Land of Lost Thinga
Daily Dot Puzzle
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Never when it is dark.
Draw from one to two and to en ti
the end.
where, with Judge Owl and many lost ar.
tlclee, they are held captive by the path
less woods.)
(Tomorrow will be told how the aauty
rabbit finds hla revenge turned against
hlmaelf.)
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Citizenship.
Scottsbluff, Neb., Jan. 31. To the
Editor of The Bee: A male child
was born in the United States of
America of German parents; if no
naturalization papers are taken out
for 21 years, of what country is the
son a citizen? H. G. M.
Answer Under the 14th amend
ment to the constitution of the
United States, a child born in this
country of parents who are subject
to the laws of this country, is a citi
zen, regardless of whether his par
ents are naturalized.
An Ex-Post Facto Kick.
Omaha, Feb. 3. To the Editor of
The Bee: If prohibition diminishes
crime: Why has Kansas 91.1 sen
tence prisoners, 100,000 population,
while wet Nebraska had only 65.1
per 100,000 In the year 1917?
If prohibition lessens disease:
Why has dry Maine a death rate of
15.3 per 100,000 population, while
in wet Wisconsin the rate is only
11.5 per 100,000?
If prohibition promotes education
Why are the school systems of wet
states of Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana
and Massachusetts so far ahead of
such dry states as Alabama, Geor
gia and Mississippi in the year
1917?
If liquor drinking is a crime: Why
not punish the man who drinks in
stead of the man who makes or sells
liquor?
If prohibition will abolish child
labor: Why has it not taken the
children out of the factories in
North Carolina, Georgia and Ala
bama? P. W. BULLACEK.
GENIAL JABS.
Orvllle Wright aatd at an airmen'! din
ner In Dayton:
"Here's to the armistice! Here'a to
peace! The world can eay now about
war. as the lunatic said when he was
discovered whacking himself on the head
with a hammer:
" 'It's so nice when you leave off!' "
Doctor The trouble with you aeema to
be that you eat too much.
Patient You must be mistaken, doctor.
I dine at the fashionable resorts. Life.
Patient I'm burning up with this fever.
What is that you are going to put on my
head?"
Nurse This is an Ice cap.
Patient Well, I must eay, that Is cold
eomfort. Baltimore American.
"I asked him to come down and talk
things over about the offer we made him.
Yon see, he is a hiKh-prieen1 man."
"Then you may be sure he won't come
down." Baltimore American.
REGENERATION.
Before I went to war I lived my life
In luxury and softness, seeing naught
Of the dnspalr and sad, unceasing strife
Of thousands with whose Uvea my ease
was bought.
Before I went to war I took no thought.
But heedless, careless dallied on with
sin;
Saw not the price at which a soul ts
bought.
Nor knew the souls men buy aa mine
own kin.
I wont to war tore out my dying roots
From the stagnant soil the flesh was
bedded In. .
I'd thought to find my comrades uncouth
brutes
Instead found men, and learned that
sin Is sin!
And Liberty I learned to know thy call
Is God's own call to help the world in
pain.
So, God, I pray thee not to pardon all.
But do not let me close my eyes again!
I.t John II, Binns In New York Times.
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