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THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD KOSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tne Aatootttrd CreM, of wbicti The bee la a member, Is excluslfely entitled 10 Uio uie for publication of Ail news diipetrhft credited to II or not ntbnrwlM coined In toll rrr. and 1M the looel putl!tad riereia. All rtgbu of publication of on epecial cjikUcIim or alM resetted. OFFICES! sieeto People's Ou Building, omeli Th Bm Bids, hew York Sl Flflb, Aw. South Omihs 2318 N it Ht. Louie New B'k of Commerce. Council Bluff 14 N. Mela n. Wutingtoo 1311 0 8L Lincoln l.lul ttuildloi. ', DECEMBER CIRCULATION! Daily 65,219 Sunday 62,644 Areritt circulation for the month subscribed and twora to M K. B fUlut. Circulation Manager. Subscriber leaving til city ahould hava The Bm mailed to them. Address changed aa otten a requeeiea Rotary is going around, all right. "Freedom of the seas," however, remains un defined. It looks as if the United States were about to break out of the bush league class. The home owners would greatly appreciate a chance to give their views to the legislature. Eliminating private profit from war material ought to be easy, but it never has been prac ticed. 1 ' Secretary Glass asks a law to head off "shady" stock deals. He will have plenty of support in this. The Hun still inveighs against the terms o the armistice, but Is not eager to have it de dared off. Omaha has taken on a big job as hostess to the Transmississippi Readjustment congress, but watch her put it over. ' The fuss over the Grand Island and Milford soldiers' homes is also an argument in favor of the governor's code bill. 1 Our legislature might give a little attention to chinch bugs and pocket gophers, while on the job of ridding the state of undesirables. 4 Secretary Daniels answers Governor McKel- vie that the navy needs sailors. What is more to the point, it is quite likely to keep them. The president asks the senators to refrain r ,- - . t -c IT.: t irom aiscussmg me league 01 iauuns jjiii unm he gets a chance to explain it to them. But will they comply? 1 Two million books were sent overseas to the Yankee soldiers. ,Ve might name some that ought to be sent only half way across and then be jettisoned. California vineyards are to produce grape sugar, inltead of grape juice. Very well, just so they keep the vines. We may need them in some gladsome future. Students at Northwestern university are on strike against military drill. If they keep it up long enough, they may earn honorable discharge as "conscientious objectors." j The old, old complaint about $10,000 jobs going begging is again being made. Why not promote a few of the $2,S0O-a-year men and see what they can do with the new work? Iowa is also planning to trim the state-wide primary to a place where it will be neither so cumbersome nor so costly. Experience runs a dear school, but its lessons usually are effective. Some of the "war experts" are starting things all over again, as if afraid of losing their jobs. They should be patient. The world will afford them plenty of amusement in other ways. The royalist uprising in Fortugal is slowly but surely going to the bad before the govern ment troops. Its promoters picked atpoor time to try slipping the discarded king back into the Portuguese deck. The house at Washington unanimously agreed on items totaling $15,000,000 for the National Guard, which no longer exists, but can not make up its mind what to do about an army after the first of next July. Herr President Ebert's government is figur ing on a plan for paying off the German debt. It expects to begin by seizing all war profits, this to be followed in time by taking over all "swollen" fortunes. In effect, the new German scheme will not only levy high taxes for a time, but will virtually abolish inheritance., National ization of industry and socialization ,of wealth will provide means for settling with creditors, as well as removing a source of worry to the government. When no citizen has great wealth, the bolsheviki will have less to envy. "Lafayette, We Are Here!" It looks as if the traditional seven-league boots of the giants cannot catch tip with the fic tion that is being fixed forever on General Pershing. This was that, with admirable good taste and good French, too, inspired by his presence at the tomb of Lafayette on July 4, 1917, he said, "Lafayette, we are here!" (Lafay ette, nous voila!) The question of authenticity is all the more interesting in this matter, since, if the various publications assuming to give the occasion, the origin and the -authorship of the war epigrams now current everywhere are no more exact in the case of the others than they are in this so-called utterance of General Persh ing, historians of a later date will have a hard time separating fact from fiction. For, as to the Lafayette epigram, the facts are well known, they have appeared in book form in the shape of a report of the exercises before the tomb of Lafayette in Picpus cemetery, Paris, and the man who said "France came to us when Amer ica fought for its independence. We have not forgotten, Lafayette, we are here," was Col. Charles E. Stanton, Q. M. C, United States army, who hails from San Francisco, and who made the Fourth of July address in which he uttered the now famous phrase "In the name," as the French recorder put it, "of General Pershing and 10,000,000 American conscripts." It was probably this descriptive phrase, "In the name of General Pershing' that led to all sub sequent confusion, for while officially Colonel Stanton "spoke for General Pershing," the (senti ments he uttered were his own, and the first to acknowledge this would undoubtedly be Gen eral Pershing himself. The question now, how ever, is: Will the known fact in this case ever catch up with the error? For it is almost a matter of dogma these days to believe that the sentiment that General Pershing might have 5aid, but did not. is actually his utterance in the most personal and official sense. Philadel phia Ledger. LINING UP FOR PEACE TIMES. One of the most important gatherings of the year is to convene in Omaha this week, the Transmississippi Readjustment congress. Its name discloses its purpose. Representatives of commercial bodies, of business firms, of states and communities, from all the territory included in the great Missouri valley and from beyond, will meet to discuss among themselves the im mediate needs and future possibilities of the region. Men who are familiar with the problems of industry and commerce will make clear somo of the intpfcaeies and perplexities of business to the congress, that the greatest possible benefit may be received by all. How to readjust affairs in detail so as to meet the conditions of the new era is the prob lem of each individual firm. All realize the need of getting onto a different basis, that progress (be not retarded by persistence in methods that have been outlived. Obsolete practices are to be discarded,, and better ways of doing things adopted. To determine these things, to judge what will be helpful and decide on a forward- looking program is the prime object of this conference, just as it has been of other similar gatherings, held since the armistice was signed. American life swung a long way out of its course two years ago, and it is now desired to get it back, but without retracing any of the way that might have been forward. Men of affairs will exchange their views with others who are similarly situated or like-minded, and out of their counsels will come good for all. In this way the whole country will be served, be cause the debates must finally end in action. The War Tax Bill. Shall We Take On Turkey? ' While the whole proposition is yet in a liquid form, sentiment at Paris seems to be crystaliz- ing td the point that the United States be re quired to assume responsibility for Turkey, Ar menia, Syria, Palestine and a lot of other former sources of irritation and trouble around the head of the Mediterranean. Great Britain gen erously concedes that our dealings with the Filipinos mark us as eminently qualified for the work of handling backward nations. France, with equal magnanimity, admits that the assign ment will carry with it no suspicions that, as a nation, we are concerned in securing terri torial advantages in that region. No great European power is free from this disadvantage. For these and other reasons the assembled powers are1 inclined to thrust this honor upon us. TheNmost obvious objection is forestalled by the suggestion that the United States has led the way to the formation of a league of nations, fathering the plan for neutralization of certain of countries occupied by backward people, and so cannot reasonably forego the mandate. Having taken part in the dance, even to the extent of leading the grand march, we are naturally looked on as being willing to put in something to help pay the fiddler. It will mean the final casting away of our isolation and definite entry into European affairs. Not entirely localized, however, for the borderland between Europe and Asia is more international in its importance today than it ever was before, and Napoleon only echoed the views of a long line of soldiers and politicians when he said Constantinople could control the world. The question for Americans now is: Has destiny under Wilson led us to the western border of Asia, as under McKinley it led us to the eastern? As the greatest of the world's republics, are we ready to take on guardianship of other backward peoples and to aid in bring ing to real usefulness those who have missed the mark under influences centuries old and still powerful? If we do take on this job, where will it end? Do Away With the Chevrons. The army appropriation bill now before the house has in it a provision to do away with the service chevrons now worn by soldiers. For this a very good reason is given. An invidious distinction is set up between men by reason of the chance that sent them overseas or kept them at home. Many good soldiers have served since April, 1917, without getting out of Amer ica, while some who went into the army as late as September, 19J8, were in France when the armistice was signed. All of these men served, many thousands of them doing a soldier's duty on a home station, while eating their hearts out to get abroad. Many who asked for assign ments over there were turned down. To these the silver chevron is a perpetual reminder of bitter disappointment. The young man who volunteered in April, 1917, eager to give his country and the cause of humanity the best that was in him,- only torfind himself marooned in a training camp somewhere in America, has endured enough, in the way of humiliation, and does not like to advertise to the world that he did not get a chance to serve as he sought His uniform is enough proof of his connection with the army. The silver chevron is not a source of either satisfaction or pride to him. And those who went across and are permitted to wear the gold stripe have no desire to crow over the boys who were just as willing to cross the seas and face the German army. Let us have it so that the soldier will get credit for wearing the uniform, and that no lines be drawn by the government in its treatment of them. District School Boards. The Bee published a letter one day last week frotn'a school man of experience, who touched on one of the weak spots in the Nebraska pub lic school system. It is the makeup of the district school boards. According to the cor respondent, he has found many men who are unfit, by reason of mental bias, property inter est or lack of training, serving on these boards, to the detriment of the schools. While the sub ject of public education is so vividly before the people, it is well to give a little consideration to the point this man presents. The course of study, language used, or any other of the many ' things that are subject to regulation by law, will be of little service if not solidly backed up by the people themselves. We have invested millions in our school work and will spend mil lions more to support the institution, yet it is continually weakened whenever the district board is unfit or indifferent. Here is one place where watchfulness will pay bfg dividends. Sixty million dollars to be scattered through out the country is a fair bestowal of congres sional largess on towns that aspire to have pub lic buildings. The "pork" habit revived quite promptly when the war pressure was removed. New York Times. The1 country has come to lament, rather than ro Doasi tne; Digness or our muitiDiiiion war ac counts, inose wno are to provide tne ij-u.wu,-000,000 of loan and tax money which the treas- ury must have within the next few months fin no consolation in the fact that no other nation and probably no other two nations or perhap even any three nations, could do what they have to do. They would have accepted the burde with so much better temper and carried it so much more easily in the months behind than in the months ahead and the taxpayers have pre pared a poor reception for their work. Congress will not be surprised at that, for it has chosen to leave out the 'suggestions of business men and tax exports to make the taxes as few and fruitful as possible, and has preferred to persist with its own methods ot laying many taxes yielding protests more abundantly than dollars. The bill is 362 pages long, and so many word were necessary because, for one reason, of th multiplicity of taxes. There was no difficulty in finding two taxes, the war excess profits an income taxes, which together are expected to yieia almost nve oi tne six Diuions total. so other tax will yield even a half billion. For th sake of many comparatively small schedules there are levied taxes which will cause the most irritation for the smallest yield ingenuity could devise, it would seem. 1 The complexity of the taxes is worse than the multiplicity. Pinpricks in the pocket nerve are annoying, but intricacies of taxation cause evasion, both deliberate and unintentional. No business men with affairs of moderate or large proportions can make out their tax bills with out costly advice. It seems to them that this is imposed upon them almost maliciously, due to insistence upon original errors persisted in against both counsel and common sense. When congress passed its first income tax it was ad vised of the distinction between income and capital, but the sentiment was so strongly anti capitalist that deliberate attempt was made to tax capital as income. The attempt failed, for income taxes on capital, which the treasury, col lected, were refunded by order of court. The second income tax, instead of complying with the court's declaration of law, sought to evade the decision by declaring capital to be income and taxing it accordingly. The court annulled the second attempt as it did the first. And now the bill contains a third attempt, by laying taxes on stock dividends as income, to do what ought not to be done. The war excess profits tax shows the same persistence in error. When the second war ex cess profits tax was passed it was simply super posed upon the first, instead of being rewritten At the third attempt there is a single law, but there are impositions of schedules upon sched ules and alternations of methods which make the help of counsel and accountants indispens' able. At the very least, these calculations might have been made once for all. and the equivalent yields enacted in a single total, instead of adui tions making it prudent or often necessary to calculate the taxes in different ways to find which to pay. There is no complaint from the lawyers and accountants. Their advertisements fill the newspapers. It is thought that ZU.UW.UUU individuals must pay income taxes, jno corporation guilty or profits has been allowed to escape. Ihe more the angrier, but that is not a count against the bill. All ought to pay their share and never were taxpayers more ready than they were be fore the bill was made public, with its obnoxious and inexpedient qualities. The Steel corpora tion's tax appropriations for two years were $507,754,000, and other corporations 1 pay less onlv because their scale of business is smaller. Taxation which equals capital common stock- in two years is conscription of capital by halves instead of in a single operation. The objection is not that the money, is taken, but that it is taken in a manner so ' depressing to industry. Long ago railways were cured of enterprise, and now the remedy for excess of profits is ap plied to corporations and individuals generally. What inducement is thereto do business for the payment of taxes and wages? Never was courage more necessary, and never was there a more discouraging tax bill. All business is spec ulation in a good sense. Speculators of that sort calculate closely the- chances of their undertak ings. When wages and taxes take nearly all, few will venture and those who desperately ven ture under such conditions take a better chance of making conditions worse by their failure than of bettering conditions ef capital and labor by their success. Congressmen will receive no praise because they have taken so many months to do so bad a job, and have taken such pains with what might so easily have been better done. They know their fault, because there are preparations by themselves to annul some parts of it voluntarily. Stop Knocking. One of the most gratifying results of the religious and relief work which accompanied the war was the hearty fellowship and the in terchange of good offices between cha"plains and workers of different religious faiths. It has often been pointed out as an example of religious union and fellowship which ought to be imitated here at home. An echo of that spirit is found in the speech of Father James H. Eding, chaplain of the Fifty-eighth field artillery, in defense of the Young Men's Christian association. Father Eding is now a pastor in the Bronx, but he is well known in Brooklyn because he used to be a professor in St. Johns college here. "Stop knocking that organization" he told his hearers in referring to the Y. M. C. A., and added: "Every organization has done its bit. As long as human nature is human we are all bound to make mistakes. It seems to me the victory is so big there is glory enough for us all." That is a spirit which might profitably be cultivated, not, only among our diverse reli gious organizations, but especially in our civil and political life. It represents the broad and fine Americanism which has enabled the people of this country to' do big things in this war and elsewhere, and it offers a fitting rebuke to the pettiness which would tear down without replacing constructive work. Brooklyn Eagle. People You Ask About Information About Folks In the Publio Eye Will Be Given In This Column in Answer to Readers' Questions. Your Name Will Not Ee Printed. Let The Bee Tell You. ty2 (JcMs CoT72T South Slder: Ole Hanson, mayor; of Seattle and official strikebreaker, was a radical of radicals before pub lic responsibility toned down his ideas. Born in Wisconsin of Swedish ancestry, he quit money-making 20 years ago and bepan a career as a spellbinder asalnst political and in dustrial bosses. He is blue-eyed, slight of build, impulsive in tempera ment and an orator of rare ability. In dress Mayor Hanson Is a regular fashion plater and outshines Senator James Hamilton Lewis in the gayety and cut of sartorial equipment. Inquirer, Couneil Bluffs: George D. Herron, appointed a member of the American mission to the Rus sians, has resided abroad for several years, chiefly in Switzerland, and Is said to have been instrumental In exposing German ' plotters against American interests in the war. Her ron began his career at Ripon, Wis., later going to Burlington, la,, as a Congregational minister. While there he attracted the attention of a rich widow and her daughter. To gether they endowed the chair of Applied Christianity at Grlnnell col lege and Herron secured the place. Soon alter Mrs. Herron secured a di vorce and the professor married the widow's daughter. Dismissal from the college and expulsion from the ministry quickly followed and the Herrons left the States for foreign lands. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. (In thla atory Peggy and Billy Belgium go with tha Olant of th Woods on gold nuniing adventure.) I CHAPTER I. The Cave In the Mountain. m . i Kami, tramp, tramp, came heavy footfalls along the aide- walks In the stillness of the early morning. They stopped outside Peggy's window and a big voice roared out a rollicking songs: Gold, gold for those who are bold. That la the aong I alng, air. Oold, gold, oh, all I can hold, That la what I will bring, air. Oold, gold, dear precloua gold, Will buy ma anything, air. Oold, gold, with power untold, Will make thla giant a king, air. "It's the Giant of the Woods," ex- Katherine . Breshkovskaya, the "little grandmother of the Russian revolution," now in this country seeking aid for the thousands of or phans of her homeland, is 75 years of age. It is not surprising that she looks her years, having experienced life in Siberia and in the secret haunts of revolutionaries long before the autocracy fell. "My life," she told an interviewer, has passed in the same way as a bark thrown upftn the mercy of the sea, often stormy. But aa the ideal was there, present in my heart and in my mind, it guided me in my course." There is little rest for the weary leaders of the allied nations ' these peace-making days. Georges Clem enceau, premier of France, early in the year slipped away from the crowds and sought a quiet retreat for rest many miles from Paris. Vain effort! Quickly his absence was noted, a score of correspondents and cameramen found his trail and sur rounded the "Tiger" in his lair. Such is the price of fame. , The dubious distinction of being the first man to feel the Judicial road roller for neglecting to make an income tax return was achieved by Seymour Ij. Rau, a "security broker" of New York. Me. Rau plead ignorance and bad advice in vain. The trial court fixed the penalty at twice the amount of the tax of $162.25 that wasn't paid, two fines of $150 each and 30 days In Jail. Men: Don't fool with Uncle Sam's buzz saw. Sir Donald Mackenzie ' Wallace, whose death at the age of 78 is re ported in London, was the dean of the war correspondents at the Russo- Japanese peace conference at Ports mouth, N. H in 1905. He served on the foreign staff of the London Times for many years and later held the post of confidential secre tary to King George. He was es teemed the greatest living authority on Russian life. "It's the Giant of the Woods," said Peggy, "and BUIy Belgium Is with him." claimed Peggy, peeking through the curtain, "and Billy Belgium is with him." Slipping into her clothes, Peggy ran down to greet them. "We are going to hunt for gold," shouted the Giant when he saw her. "Do you want to come along, Prin cess Peggy?" Then Peggy noticed that they car ried picks, shovels and large cloth sacks. "Thank you, sir; of course I want to go along! " said Peggy promptly. Where is the gold? "That is where we will have to find out," answered the Giant. "They say there is a lot of it in Alaska. "Hut it takes weeks to get to Alaska," said Peggy, much dis mayed, for she knew her mother would not lot her go on such a long trip. "And I have to get back In time for the spring farm work." declared the Giant, "so we will have to hunt nearer home." "They say the miners find gold In the mountains and gulches," spoke up Billy Belgium. "I know where there are dandy mountains and gulches," shouted the Giant. "Climb on my shoulders and we will get there in no time at all." Peggy and Billy, with the picks, shovels and sacks, mado a heavy load, but the Giant waa very strong and didn't mind that a bit. He put Peggy on one shoulder and Billy on the other, and strode off as swiftly as an automobile would go. Soon they came to high mountains and began to climb a rocky pass. After a while the giant set them down while he paused to catch his breath. "This looks like the gulches In which moving ricture miners find gold," declared Billy. "Isn t it wild and beautiful, cried Peggyf sitting down to enjoy the view. But she no sooner sat down than she bounded up with a Shriek just as if she had sat on a tack. She had made her seat on something living which had stirred beneath her. Whirling around Peggy saw that what she had taken for a mossy rock was some strange breature which was now rolling and stretch ing as if struggling to awaken from sound sleep. "That was very rude very rude," muttered the creature, rubbing its eyes. Then, as it saw them, it leap ed to its feet in delight. "Hello, Princess Peggy! Hello, Billy Belgium! What are you doing here?" The strange creature was Prince Bonnie Blue Bell, the Wood land elf. He had been napping com fortably camouflaged as a rock. "We are hunting for gold, ex plained Peggy as soon as they had greeted the prince and Introduced the Giant. "Then you have come to the right place. I'll show you to hidden caverns of the" mountains, said Prince Bonnie Blue. With that he rapped on a large rock that Jutted Daily Dot Puzzle 15 lb. 13 14 .IS 17 10. 8 IZ 3. 22.20 6. S 2b 5 7 27 1A V 34 2 23 SO 4V 4b" 48 25 17 fc8 45 44 4 , ak A -to 52 53 .54. fc7 57 55 a W 63 .61 fez fe5 Trace from one to sixty-eight, See my he's very late. Draw from one to two and to on to tha end. out from the aide of the gulch. Tha rock swung back as If on hinges, disclosing the entrance to a huge, dark cave. (rn the next chapter will be told how they came upon a mystery In tha cave.) EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS. "AY The Day We Celebrate. Fred S. Hadra. formerly in insurance here. born 1856. I Romulo S. Naon. former Argentina ambas sador at Washington, born in Buenos Aires 44 years ago. David F. Houston. United States secretary of agriculture, born at Monroe, N. C, S3 years ago. Sir George Ranken Askwith. chief indus trial commissioner of Great Britain, born 58 years ago. Josephine Dodze Dasken Bacon, well-known author, born at Stamford, Conn., 43 years ago. Pete Herman, prominent bantamweight pugilist, born in New Orleans 23 years, ago. The supply of Russian grand dukei must be nearly exhausted by now. In Omaha 30 Years Ago. Eugene Carter, the celebrated billiardist. ac companied by C. F. Ives, both are now in the city. Morgan, the bicvclist. sends in a protest against the intimation that he fell deliberately in tne big au-miie race in order to lose out. The plumbers are aeifatine a strike. Some of them are now receiving as much as $4 and $5 a day, but they are asking for a $4 minimum. Dr. Charles Kahlmann has returned to Omaha after an absence of six months at Rush Medical college. The Bee prints an interview with Citv At torney .Webster makinsr disoaraeine reference to "an attorney in this city, a man who places his services at high figures, who stood before Judge Doane to make a motion in his great snaggy coat with the high collar turned up, with heavy overshoes on, hair all awry and forming as uninviting a picture as one could wish see." Washington Post: The revenue bureau is taking up the question of adjusting the government to prohi bition, when the country goes dry, the treasury goes dry, too. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Mr. McAdoo continues to assert that river transportation depends on five years' continued government control of the railways, but he haa never hown why it should. Kansas City Star: The bolshevist leaders show no disposition to ne gotiate with the allies, although thoy negotiated readily enough with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk. Is it possible the allies have neglected some necessary preliminary? ErooklyA Eagle: The express ompanies got under the government wing Just as the motor truck and irplanes heaved into view and the wires get under just as the aerial telephone appears. The southerners in congress seem to favor a moderate degree of protection as between states. Baltimore American: Count von Hertling predicted that under cer tain circumstances Prussia would disappear from the map and that It lroady was hated by the rest of Germany. The Prussians sowed the wind of hate aa a crop to be fruitful In power and prosperity, ana It JB already reaping the whirlwind. ROOSEVELT. Some aay th&t he waa kind of heart; Some aay that he waa fond of art; Some Buy that he waa at hla best When riding bronchoa In the wcat. As naturalist waa ho renowned; nd midst the famous hunters found; So likewise his true claim to fame Resta on the booka that bear hia name. Aa a "Rood follow" he waa known. In humble hat, on kingly throne; " While nil admire his daring skill Whon charging Cuba'a San. Juan hill. In atatesmanahlp he had no peer; n time or war he Knew no fear; In righteousness he stood four equare 'Gainst wlnda that blew from everywhere. Although wa try aa beat wa can, 'Twere hard to measure thla great man; But thla to me makes atrong appeal He always stood for "a square deal." LORIN ANDREW THOMPSON. Fremont, Neb." JfuM nJl f 0 r IT a aw M . m - . jr m CDC DAIT.Y CARTOONETTE I'll MAKE TMI5 cSNOu) MAN 10OK p-D&T JJrfE TEACHER ljj) 7 WlUther Are We Drifting? Omaha, Feb.- 14. To the Editor of The Bee: The parochial school bill, now before the house and sen ate, should It pass, will be a greater calamity than all the grasshopper or drouth troubles this state was ever afflicted with, for It will not only array neighbor against neigh bor, or friend against friend, but will upset the settled institutions of our government. I am of the republican faith in' polities and I sincerely hope that my party will never be accused of being the author of fanaticism or religious, prescription in this state. My cnildren are all graduated from the public school of Omaha. They are a credit to those schools, and in turn they are proud of the public, schools. Yet, remember that while they received their education from the public schools, the taxpay ing public, including those who at tended the parochial schools, were contributing their share of the ex pense incident to the education of my children and their own, and did it without protest. In addition to this, I furnished three sons who were engaged in this war that de mocracy may prevail throughout the world. Did one of those boys ever ask his bunk mate in that great con flict whether or not he attended Park, school or St. Peters parochial school? They drank from the same fountain and from the same bitter cup, em braced each other and bowed he fore the same God in their humble ditch. I venture the prediction that the man or men who introduced those bills never wore the uniform of a United States soldier, that he never felt the brunt of battle or the shock of colliding forces. The question might be asked when this condition of things will cease. Will answer that it never existed through all the legislatures from 1867 until 1919, until the evil spirit of intolerance and fanaticism and sham patriotism in this session of the legislature sought to make, it take root on the fertile soil of Ne braska. I will say to those of you who are representatives from this county, both in the house and senate, as well as every state officer, that I, by voice and pen helped to secure1 for you your representative places and that you need not command or expect me to ever again support you, should you so far forget yourselves as to be a party to an act that would have for lta purpose the abolishment of the parochial schools of Nbraska, thereby classing the republican party as ranting fanatics and dreamy im beciles of the sham patriotic order. If you want to so classify the par ty, then count me out aa dearly as I love the Grand Old Party. ED F. MOREARTY,, Religion In Schools. ' Omaha, Feb. 13. To the Editor of The" Bee: I have been raised in the Catholic faith up until my mar riage, 10 years ago, and have at tended both public and parochial schools. My education In th public school extended from the age of 6 to 12; after that I attended the Catholic school. I lost my own mother at the age of 4 years; she was a Protestant, as was my father until his second mar riage, my stepmother being a Cath olic. During the time I attended the pub lic school my stepmother forbade me arising when the Lord's prayer was said and also said for me to study mv lessons during the reading of the Bible. Why? If it's religion they want in their schools, why do they object to the public schools entering religion into theirs? And why did they demand the Bible be taken out of the public school? And why object to our Lord's prayer? A beautiful prayer and one that all should repeat at the beginning of their day's work. And they keep harping on the pa triotism of the Catholic boys; who has ever questioned their patriotism? O. K. ' Bolsheviki at Homei. Harrisburg, Neb., Feb. 11. To the Editor of The Bee: . I want to say a word regarding the bolsheviBts and the appropriation to feed them. In the place of giving them food, they should give them hell and lots of it. They are in a class by them selves and Just a little worse tnah the kaiser's army. They will not work at any price If they can pos sibly avoid it, and feeding them is like feeding a balky horse, the more they eat the more they will balk and the more trouble they will make. Now the government could use some of that money right here in the western part of Nebraska. This end of the state is full of bolshevists that can make the dirtiest work of the mob that betrayed Russia look lik eome kid pulled it They have been robbing th government for , years and grabbing everything they could get their hands on and get away with. Now this country has more to look after at home than J they know anything about. I have oeen a worKing man ail of my life and will go the limit to help a man if he looks like he . is worthy and will only half try to help himself. I pay 10 per cent on borrowed mon ey and buy bonds more cheerfully than some of the cattle magnate's that are able to do the trick with their own kale. Now if they use that to find bol shevists I want them no feed them on powder and lead and, as I said before, there are plenty of targets at home. We do 'not need to go to Russia. I have been a constant and admiring reader of your paper for a few years and think you always hew to the lino, regardless of where the chips fall. If you care to give this space in your letter column and think it will do any good, let her go. KB. DRAPER. Desirable Memorial to Soldiers. Omaha. Feb. 12. To the Editor of The Bee: This letter is inspired by the recent publicity in all Omaha newspapers of suggestions for this city's memorial to the brave soldiers who gave their all for the cause of numan liberties. First of all I admit the necessity for such a memorial and also that the popular demand is and will be for that memorial to take sucn practical shape that the treat est number of living citizens shall be enuieu ana benefited b it. I nave an appropriate, and, to me at least, satisfying nrooosal to mak for a suitable memorial to the sol diers ana it is one that will minister to every man, woman, and child in the community. For that reason it appeals to me. , I move that "community houses'- ne erected in strategic centers in Omaha where the returned soldiers ana sailors, their families, relations neighbors and friends may gather ior social functions every night in the week for ,the inspiration and pleasure that will come from such gatherings. This is only a continua tion of the "huts" of the camps, but maae permanent, it should be a composite house including all the de- siranie features or the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., K. of C, the Hostess Houses, the Jewish Welfare building, etc. Here would be an auditorium with adequate stage facilities and a (lancing floor, small library and reading room, gymnasium, swimming pool to De used as an Ice rink In the winter, a kitchen in which to pre pare the social lunches, which cannot be omitted and which grouchy prin cipals now prohibit at the social centers in their school houses be cause a few toothpicks and crumbs are left on the floor for poor mousle to locate. In short, I propose that the citv. when it appropriates Its $100,000 for this memorial shall spend it for five community hostess houses located In strategic centers of the city where the local citizens may gather as a family to enjoy mutual progress to ward human equality while practic ing fraternity. A. W. TONGUE. 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