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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.
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Let The Bee Tell You.
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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
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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."
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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.
LINES TO A LAUGH.
Jane Willie Tou look as tf you had
Iot your last frlnd. What ia wrong?
llarle Olllls I've Just discovered that
Harry la false to me. He wrote me from
France that he wasn't even looking at
any other girl and now I aea In the ap-t
that he hna Just been decorated for gal
lantry. Chicago Newa.
"Where are you olng, John?"
"To raise the wind."
"What for?"
"To meet a draft." Boston Transcript.
"Are you having; any speeches printed
In the Record?"
"No," answered Senator Sorghum. "I've
decided that Ifa a saving all 'round for
me to throw them Into th waatebaeket
myself." Washington Star.
"Who'a the stramrer over there?"
"De ye know SI Ellis, the gambler?"
"res."
"re ye know Kink Ellis, the burglar?"
"Yesl"
"Well, that'i Kb. their wayward broth
er.- urowninga Magazine.
A fellow snld to a famous sprinter: "I'll
race you and beat you If you'll let me
choose the course and glva ma a yard'a
stnrt."
"Fifty dollar to one that you don't."
aald the aprlnter, confidently. -Name your
course."'
"Up a ladder," aald tha challenger.
Boston Transcript.
Whatddaya Mean Peace?
Washington Post: "There is now
a reaction from the patriotic tension
of war times, says Walker Hines.
You don't call these peaceful times,
no you, v alker?
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