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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1919. REPORTS WOULD BE PREMATURE, SAYS PRESIDENT Officials of Peace Conference Are Servants of People, Not Masters, President Tells Crowd. (Ctatlnaed from Fa. On.) counsel, and I tried at every step of the work which fell to me to recall what I was lure would be your counsel with regard to the great matters which were under consider ation. Appreciates Reception, "I do not want you to think that I have not been appreciative of the extraordinarily generous reception which was given to me on the other side in saying that it makes me very happy to get home again. I do not mean to say that I was not very deeply touched by the cries that came from the great crowds on the other side. But I want to say to you in all honesty that I felt them to be a call of greeting to you rather than to me. "I did not feel that the greeting was personal. I had in my heart the evercrowding pride of being your representative and of receiving the plaudites of men everywhere who felt that your .hearts beat with theirs in the cause of liberty. There vwas no mistaking the tone in the voices of those great crowds. It was not a tone of mere greeting, it was not a tone of mrre generous welcome; it was the calling of com rade to comrade, the cries that come from men who say, 'We have waited for this day when the friends of liberty should come across the sea . and shake hands with us, to see that a new world was constructed upon a new basis and foundation of justice and right.' "I can't tell you the inspiration that came from. the sentiments that come out of those simple voices of the crowd. And the proudest thing I have to report is that this great country of ours is trusted through out the world. ' Has1 No Report "I have not come to report the proceedings or the results of the proceedings of the peace conference; that would be premature. I can say that I have -received very happy im pressions from this conference; the imression ' that while there are many differences of judgment, while there are some divergences of object, there is nevertheless a common spirit and a common realization of the ne cessity of setting up new standards of right in the world. "Because the men who are in con ference in Paris realize as keenly as any American can realize that they , are not the masters of their people; f that they are the servants of their people, and that the spirit ot tneir people has awakened to a new pur pose and a new conception of their power to realize that purpose, and that no man dare go home from that conference and report anything less noble than was expected of it. "The conference seems to you to go slowly; from day to day in Paris it seems to go slowly; but I wonder if you realize the complexity of the task which it has undertaken. It seems as if the settlements of this war affect, and affect directly, ev ery great, and I sometimes think every small, nation in the world, and no one decision can prudently be made which is not properly linked in with the great series of other decisions which must accom pany it. And it must be reckoned in with the final result if the real quality and character of that result is to be properly judged. Hear Whole Case. "What we are doing is to hear the whole case; hear it from the mouths of the men most interested; hear it from those who are officially commissioned to state it; hear the rival claims; hear the claims that affect new nationalities, that affect new areas of the world, that affect new commercial and economic con nections that hare been established by the great world war through which we have gone. And I have been struck by fche moderateness of those who have represented nation al tlaims. I can testify that I have nowhere seen the gleam of passion. , I have seen earnestness, 1 have seen tears come to the eyes of men who plead for downtrodden people whom they are privileged to speak for; but they were not the tears of Tlis proof of tatsifoats is both m the eating and the good health . that follows Makes its own sweetening requires no add ed sugar. A delicious, economical food "There's o Reason " anguish, they were the tears of ar dent hope. "And I don't see how any man can fail to have been subdued by these pleas, subdued to this feeling, that he was not there to assert an individual judgment of his own, but to try to assist tha cause of hu manity. "And in the midst of it all every interest seeks out, first of all, when it reaches Paris, the representatives of the United States. Why? Be cause, and I think I am stating the most wonderful fact in history because there is no nation in Eu rope that suspects the motives of the United States. "Was there ever so wonderful a thing seen before? Was there ever so moving a thing? Was there ever any fact that so bound the na tion that had won that esteem for ever to deserve it? i Clashed Many Times. "I would not have you understand that the great men who represent the other nations there in confer ence are disesteemed by those who know them. Quite the contrary. But you understand that the na tions of Europe have again and again clashed with one another in competitive interest. It is impossi ble for men to forget thoses sharp issues that were drawn between them in times past. It is impossi ble for men to believe that all am bitions have all of a sudden been foregone. They remember terri tory that was coveted; they remem ber rights that it was attempted to extort; they remember political am bitions which it was attempted to realize and while they believe that men have come into a different temper, they cannot forget those things, and so they do not resort to one another for a dispassionate view of the matters in controversy. They resort to that nation which has won the enivable distinction of being regarded as the friend of mankind. "Whenever it is desired to send a small force of soldiers to occupy a piece of territory where it is thought nobody else will be welcome, they ask for American soldiers. And where other soldiers would be look ed upon with suspicion, and perhaps met with resistance, the American soldiers is welcomed with acclaim. I have had so many grounds for pride on the other side of the water than am very thankful that they are not grounds for personal pride. I'd be the most stuck up man in the world. And it has been an infinite pleasure to me to see these gallant soldiers of ours, of w-hom the consti tution of the United States made me the proud commander. You may be proud of the Twenty-sixth division, but I commanded the Twenty-sixth division and see what they did under my direction 1 And everybody prais es the American soldier with the feeling that in praising him he is subtracting from the credit of no one else. Searches for Fundamental. I have been searching for the fun damental fact that converted Europe to believed in us. Before this war Europe did not believe in us as it does now. It did not believe in us throughout the first three years of the war. It seems really to have believed that we were holding off be cause we thought we could make more bv stavine out than by going in. And all of a sudden, in a short 18 months, the whole verdict is re versed. There can be but one ex- nlanation for it. Thev-saw what we did that (without making a single claim we put all our men and all our means at the disposal ot those wno were fighting for their homes, in the first instance, but for a cause, the cause of human rights and justice, and that we went in not to support their national claims, but to support the great cause which they, hold in common. "And when they saw that Amer- ica not only held ideals, but acte4 deals. thev were converted to Amer ica and became firm partisans of these ideals. I met a group of scholars when I was in Paris some gentlemen from one of the Greek universities who had come to see me, and in whose presence, or rather in the presence of those traditions of learn ing. I felt very voung, indeed. I told them that I had one of the de- lightful revenges that sometimes comes to a man. All my life I had heard men speak with a sort of condescension of ideals and of idealists, and particularly those sep arated, encloistered persons whom they choose to term academic, who were in the habit of entertaining ideals in the free atmosphere when they clash with nobody in particular Won By Inspiration. "And I said I have had this sweet revenge. Speaking with perfect frankness in the name of the people of the United states 1 have uttered as the oDjects ot tr.s great war BIIM!IMl!iWyiW EMail: ideals, and nothing but ideals, and the war has been won by that in spiration. Men were fighting with tense muscle and lowered head until they came to realize those things, feeling they were fighting for their lives and their country, and when these accents of what it was all about reached them from America they lifted their heads, they raised their eyes to heaven, when they saw men in khaki coming across the sea in the spirit of crusaders, and they found that these were strange men, reckless of danger not only, but reckless because they seemed to see something that mada that danger worth while. Men have testified to me in Europe that our men were possessed by something that they could only can a reigious . xerver. They were not like any of the other soldiers. They had a vision, they had a dream, and they were fighting in the dream, and fighting in the dream they turned the whole tide of battle and it never came back.. "One of our American humorists, meeting the criticism that American soldiers were not trained long enough, said: "It takes only half as long to train an American soldier as any other, because you only have to train him one way, and he did only go one way, and he never came back until he could do it when he pleased." - And now do yon realize that this confidence we have established throughout the world imposes a burden upon us if you choose to call it a burden. It is one of those burdens which any nation ought to be proud to carry. Any man who resists the present tides that run in the world will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem as if he had been sep arated from his human kind for ever. , Full of Hope. "The Europe that I left the other day was full of something that it had never felt fill its heart so full be fore. It was full of hope. The Eu rope of the second year of the war, the Europe of the third year of the war was sinking to a sort of stub born desperation. They did not see any great thing to be achieved even when the war should be won, They hoped there would be some salvage; they hoped that they could clear their territories of invading armies; they hoped they could set up their homes and start their industries afresh. But they thought it would simply be the resumption of the old life that Europe had led led in fear, led in anxiety, led in constant sus picious watchfulness. They never dreamed that it would be a Europe of settled peace and of justified hope. And now these ideals have wrought this new magic, that all of the peoples of Europe are buoyed up and confident in the spirit of hope, because they believe that we are at the eve of a new age in the world when nations will understand one another, when nations will sup port one another in every just cause, when nations will unite every moral and every physical strength to see that the right shall prevail. "If America were at this junction to fail the world, what would come of it? I do not mean any disrespect to any other great people when I say that America is the hope of the world; and if she does not justify that hope the results are unthinkable. Men will be thrown back upon the bitternes of disappointment not only, but the bitterness of despair. All nations will set up as hostile camps again; the men at the peace confer ence will go home with their heads upon their breasts, knowing that they have failed for they were bidden not to come home from there until they did something more than sign a treaty of peace. Nothing But Paper. 'Suppose we sign the treaty of peace and that it is the most satis- factory treaty of peace that the con- fusing elements of the modern world will afford and go home and think about our labors; we will know that we have left written upon the histor ic table at Versailles, upon which Vergennes and Benjamin Franklin wrote their names, nothing but a modern scrap of paper; no nations united to defend it, no great forces combined to make it good; no assur ance given to the down-trodden and fearful people of the. world that they shall be safe. Any man who thinks that America will take part in giving that world any such rebuff and dis appointment as that does not know America. "I invite him to test the senti ments of the nation. We set this up to make men free and we did not confine our conception and purpose to America, and now we will make men free. If we did not do that the fame of America would be gone and all its powers would' be dissi pated. It then would have to keep its power for those narrow, selfish, provincial purposes which seem so dear to some minds that have no sweep beyond the nearest horizon. I should welcome no sweeter chal lenge than that. I have fighting blood in me and it is sometimes a delight to let it have scope, but if it is a challenge on this occasion, it will be an indulgence. Think of the picture, think of the utter blackness that would fall on the world. Amer ica has failed 1 America made a lit tle essay at generosity and then withdrew. America said: 'We are your friends,' but it was only for today, not for tomorrow. America said: 'Here is our power to vindi cate right,' and then the next day said: 'Let right take care of itself and we will take care of ourselves.' America said: 'We set up a light to lead men along the paths of lib erty,' but we have lowered it. It is intended only to light our own path.. We set up a great ideal of liberty and then we said: 'Liberty is a thing that you must win for yourself; do not call upon -us,' and think of the world that we would leave. Do you realize how many nations are going to be set up in the presence of old and powerful nations in Europe and left there, if left by us, without a disinterested friend? s Believes in Poland. "Do you believe in the Polish cause as I do? Are you going to set up Poland, immature, inexperi enced, as yet unorganized, and leave it with a circle of armies around it? Do you believe in the aspiration of the Czecho-Slovaks and the Jugo slavs as I do? Do you know how many powers would be quick to pounce upon them if there were not the guarantees of the world be hind their liberty? , "Have you thought of the suffer ing of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Ar menians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer attain. peace canot stand a generation un less they are guaranteed by the united forces of the civilized world. And if we do Aot guarantee them, cannot you not see the picture? Your hearts have instructed you where the burden of this war fell. It did not fall upon the national treasuries, it did not fall upon the instruments of administration; it did not fall upon the resources of the nations; it fell upon the victims' homes everywhere, where women were toiling in hope that their men would come back. "When I think of the homes upon which dull despair would settle were this great hope disappointed, I should wish for my part never to have had America play any part whatever in this attempt to emanci pate the -world. But I talk as if there were any question. I have no more doubt of the verdict of Amer ica in this matter than I have doubt of the. blood that is in me. "And so, my fellow citizens, I have come back to report progress, and I do not believe that the progress is going to stop short of the goal. The nations of the world have set their heads now to do a great thing, and they are not going to slacken their purpose. And when I speak of the nations of the world I do not speak of the governments of the world. I speak of the peoples who constitute the nations of the world. They are in the saddle and they are going to see to it that if their present gov ernments do not do their will, some other governments shall. And the secret is out and the present govern ments know it. Harmony in Knowledge. "There is a great deal bf harmony to b got out of common knowledge. There is a great deal of sympathy to be got out of living in the same at mosphere and except for the differ ences of languages, which puzzled my American ear very sadly. I could have believed I was at home in France or in Italy or in England when I was on,the streets, when I was in presence of the crowds, when I was in great halls where men were gathered together irrespective of class. I did not feel quite as much at home there as I do here, but I felt that now at any rate, after this storm of war had cleared the air, men were seeing eye to eye every where and that these were the kind of folks who would understand what the kind of folks at home would un derstand and that they were think ing the same things. "I feel about you as I am re minded of a story of that excellent wit and good artist, Oliver Herford, who one day, sitting at luncheon at his club, was slapped vigorously on the back by a man whom he did not know very well. He said: "Oliver, old boy, how are you?" He looked at him rather coldly. He said, "I don't know your name, I don't know your face, but your man ners are very familiar." And I must say that your manners are very familiar, and, .let me add, very delightful. "It is a great comfort, for one thing, to realize that you all under stand the language I am speaking. A friend of mine said that to talk through an interpreter was like witnessing the compound fracture of an idea. But the beauty of it is that, whatever the impediments of the channel of communication, the idea is the same; that it gets regis tered, and it gets registered in re sponsive hearts and recptive pur poses. "I have come back for a strenuous attempt to transact business for a little while in America, but I have really come back to say to you, in all soberness and honesty, that I have been trying my best to speak your thoughts. "When I sample myself, I think I find I am a typical American, and if I sample 'deep enough and get down to what is probably the true stutt of a man, then l have hope that it is part of the stuff that is like the other fellow's at home. "And, therefore, probing deep in my heart v and trying to see. the things that are right without re gard to the things that may be de bated as expedient, I feel that I am interpreting the purpose and the thought of America; and in loving America 1 hnd 1 have joined the great majority of my fellowmen throughout the world." As the president concluded, Mayor Peters called tor three cheers, which were given, the audi ence standing. Immediately after the presidential party left the hall and drove to the south station for the tran which awaited them for Washington. Judge Fines Soldier Advising him that his fighting days were at least temporarily over, Judge Fitzgerald fined Aleck Lescovlck, a discharged soldier who had seen four and a half months of fighting In France, $2. SO and costs on the charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct All Optical Stores of this city will be closed all day WEDNESDAY, February 26 I in order to permit the OPTOMETRISTS OF OMAHA I to attend the 14TH ANNUAL CONVENTION of the Nebraska State Optical Ass'n which meets in . Lincoln, Nebraska. ttend to Your Optical Needs Tuesday. "VIRTUOUS WIVES' CHAPTER XXXVI. To go forward and find some glib, word of greeting, to master herself and hide the rushing consternation which swept over her seemed im possible, and yet she did it. lhe shock was too unexpected, the situa tion too inexplicable for her to com prehend it. What she did compre hend was that she was in the midst of 100 acquaintances who were watching her and that a false step meant a public scandal. She felt the leaping heat in her cheeks and her voice sounded strange to her ears, but she went on, and said cor dially, "Well, this is a surprise I" Then she added incoherently, "How are yu?" . , Irma Dellabarre was quite self possessed. "It looks terribly dramatic, doesn't it?" she said, smiling, "but it's quite simple. I came in, after all, and the first person I should meet was Andrew." "Of course, my dear!" She knew it was a lie, and, despite herself, momentarily she gave a note of scorn to the exclamation. But instantly she caught herself. Husband and wife looked at each other, each cut to the quick at the humiliation they had to stand and take unflinchingly before these sud den strangers. "I did not expect you," she said, to say something, and she looked at him in order not to look at Irma. "Are you coming out to Chilton?" "Perhaps," he said coldly looking at her steadily. "I thought you were in a party." "Yes, we are," she said slowly. To stay longer was humanly impos sible. "Well then, I may see you at Chilton?" She nodded and went down a ways to where the head waiter was standing at a table for two. , "Table for five, please," she said sharply, mistress of herself as she had been the night of the fete, when Tody Dawson had blundered in fhe minuet. She saw some one bowing to her .in the haze of things, and bowed with a smile in the general direction. "Sit down here," said Monte Bracken's voice. She took the chair he indicated, with her back to her husband, and drew off her gloves slowly, a mist before her eyes. The waiter stood at her side for his or ders. She was not aware of his presence. "Tea and buttered toast for two," said Bracken quickly. "Or no might as well make it for five, Philip," he added, summoning the head waiter, who knew him. "Leave word at the door where we are. Mrs. Lightbody will join us." Then he sat down. "Talk to me," she said. "Keep talking to me." Gradually, under thv pleasant sound of words which she did not comprehend, she regained her self control. "Thank you," she said, drawing a long breath, but her eyes remained on her plate. "It's strange Kitty iiialft late i (Copyright, 1918. by LHtl. Brown ft Co.) doesn't come. What time is it? "Half past five." Not for an instant had she the slightest doubt that Irma had lied to her. She had seen the truth n Andrew's eyes in that bitter mo ment of mutual humiliation. How long had it been going on? All her anger was directed toward the wom an. Yes; she had taken her revenge threefold I s "She wasn't embarrassed at all," she thought bitterly. "Quite de lighted, of course." "Tea now?" "I don't see why they don't come," she said nervously. , "Kitty never is on time, you know." "Yea; but I want them to come," she said dully. Andrew must see all the difference that existed between his situation and hers. "They may be waiting outside. Shall I see?" v "Pleas." She thought of the anger she had shown in the first shocked moment of recognition. That had been a mistake. It had only played into Irma's hands. She should have stayed and shown her indifference, treated the situation with lightness, covered up the wound to her van ity. What a delicious revenge she had given Irma I "What a fool I wasl" she said an grily. "But she shan't have him alone." To be forced to continue her lit tle game under the eye of the wife would be the last thing Irma would relish. "She shan't have things her own way," she said determinedly, and rose. The thing to do was to ac cept Irma's declaration that the meeting had been accidental, and force them, under appearance of cor diality, to join the party. To her consternation, when she turned their table was empty. She was still standing when Monte Bracken re turned. "I am sorry they haven't turn ed up." "It doesn't matter now," she re plied abruptly. He glanced at her brilliant eyes and feverish cheeks, wondering just what to offer. "I'm afraid they won't come at all," he said slowly. As a matter of fact, from the first he had never expected that they would turn up. "It doesn't matter," she said im patiently. "Curious thing," he said, frowning. "Do you know whom I thought I saw just now? Rudy himselfl" "But he's in Chilton," she said, answering him mechanically. "He was this morning," he replied thoughtfully. Her imagination was racing. At one moment, she repeated to her self what she should have said to them in the first moment of her sur prise. The next, it jumped to the future, constructing the scene of her reproaches to Irma the way she should demand an explanation from Andrew. The next moment, she switched to the past with feverish n, IVI "That model 16 at your new price is the cheapest truck in the world." ..' 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An drew Andrew of all ment She could believe all things but thatt "I'm afraid the others have gone off on their own boat," he repeated. "What do you want to do?" She passed her hand hastily over her forehead, touched her lips to a glass of cold water, and said. "If you don't mind, Monte, I think I'd rather have a bite to eat now and go right home. I'm sorry to be so stupid." "Do anything you like," ha said hastily, moved by the suffering in her eyes. "We can dine here and go back by the train?" "By the train?" she said, perplex ed. "And why not by the boat?" "I prefer not, Amy, he said kindly- "Oh, I see what you think," she said slowly. They ate their dinner rapidly. He saw her perturbation and refrained from addressing her. When the meal was ended, she said, out of a clear sky, "I prefer to return in tha yacht" He shook his head. "You are not in a mood to decide," he said gently. "I don't want you to do a thing you'll regret" "You don't understand the situa tion," she said, looking at him. "It has nothing to do with Andrew. My husband and I have been noth ing to each other for months." Are you sure?" he said gravely. "Quite. Yes; I am upset, morti fied, hurt, but it's not on his account. It's it's to be deceived by her." "Really, I had rather we did not go back alone," he said, frowning. "But if I wish it?" "Very well." She glanced at him. "You are not annoyed at me?" "I couldn't be." "Please don't be annoyed, Monte whatever I do." In the antechamber, an idea came to him. He stepped in the cafe for a quick glance. He" had not been mistaken. At a corner table, hud dled over his glass, was Rudolph Dellabarre. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) Western Casual Companies Arrive After Stormy Trip Newport News, Va., Feb. 24. The transport Huron arrived from France today with 2,898 soldiers. 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