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4 The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE NKE PTTiLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF 1 HE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ttos AMt-uitd I'reu. or whirl! Tlia ts a member. Is aii'lustrelt untied In us for I'USu-ition of all news ilistiatrtiea creltd to tt or not otnrwita erniitl In tlila lia;r, and also tha local nw r-uMiM'.fii hrin. All rtsiits or tmmiratiou or our speci duumb'riea ara also renwred. OFFICESi fhirairo PsnpV's C!n FillMln. tmsha Tfia Bw Wilir. Naw Vorlt ;. Fifth Are. 8011th Omaha li.J 1 9 N St. St. Lun New li'nk of Commercs, Omnnl lilutTa 14 V. Alain Bt Wihlr.ton 1311 O St. Linmln Llltla ltuilillug. DECEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 65,219 Sunday 62,644 Arrrtf rlrrulatlnn for tha month subscribed and sworn to bj E. R. Rsffan, 1 trculatlon Manner. Subscribers Ira v ins; the city should bava Tha Be mailed to them. Address changed aa olten aa requested. "Lame duck" jobs are now due. Politics will stand adjourned at 12 o'clock noon tomorrow. Get into the garden game, and start right by ordering the new Victory Garden Book. A moving picture of that "pajama parade' on the "prison special" would go big. Auto owners without their current year's liscense may have trouble explaining to the judge. At any rate, the new site for the proposed High School of Commerce was selected without undue noise. More shiploads of soldiers are arriving every day, but it does seem longer coming back than it did going over. If the dock strike is renewed in New York, the president may have to get permission from the unfon to sail on Wednesday. The plea that we give preference to American-made goods is best expressed in the old slogan, "Patronize Home Industry." If Mr. Wilson can only make the world be have as well as he does the democratic con gress, the peace job would be an easy one. The upturn in the stock market ought to in dicate what sort of a season it ahead of Ameri can industry. It surely looks like a big year. Tomorrow marks the half-way point on Mr. Wilson's second term, an amusing reminder of one of the planks in the Baltimore platform on which he was elected. No matter what the price fixed for hogs today, the public will not get any relief until the packers get rid of the millions of pounds of pork now held in storage. The $240 bonus to civilian employees of the federal government at Washington is all right, but a lot of them would feel better if they knew what the future holds. v The $120,000 allowed Herr Hohenzollern on his expense account may be an indication of the rising tide of democracy in Germany, but over here it looks life a waste of money. The capitol will be a quiet resort for a time if Senator Sherman makes good on his threat never to return there. But some other "stal wart" will be found in time to take his place. "Billy" McAdoo undoubtedly concedes the palm to Carter Glass as a real manager of the Treasury. McAdoo used to go to congress for permission to do things, but Glass goes to the White House. Many projects in Omaha are all ready to 'slide down the ways, just as soon as the water looks right No season ever promised more than the present, and the active start can not be long delayed. Senator Simmons says the Victory loan must be sold on a "business basis," which means almost anything. If it is business as the democratic congress has expounded the same, the loan will afford some rich picking. Secretary Redfield may have difficulty in explaining the real estate deal, but as the amount was only a few thousands, it will very likely be overlooked. When the millions that disappeared at Hog Island and in the airplane program are considered, a matter of ony $37, ('00 seems too small to fuss about. ''Aunt Delia.'1 "Aunt Delia" Torrey, who is dead at the age of 93, had no such public career as Dr. Mary Walker, who preceded her to the beyond a few days, at the age of 87. One of our hu morists called Dr. Walker "America's foremost self-made man." Aunt Delia was satisfied with skirts. She never boasted that she "kept Lin coln from removing Grant" or that she had a marriage proposal from President Arthur. She had been keenly interested in public affairs, es pecially after her sister, Louisa Maria, was mar ried to Judge Alphonso Taft, secretary of war and attorney general in Grant's cabinet, and la ter minister to Austria and to Russia. But she did not thrust herself into prominence. Prominence was thrust upon her, owing to the light that beats upon a president. It was impossible to conceal the visits of Presi dent Taft to his aunt or Aunt Delia's visits to him. It was only when some imaginative cor respondent ascribed these visits to the presi dent's fondness for Aunt Delia's apple pies that she indignantly broke her silence. She said "that boy" had not eaten one of her apple pies in forty years. That was not why he visited her and wrote her long letters, even when bur dened with all the cares of the presidency. She intended this as a defense of "that boy." She probably felt the same way toward the two other boys. Henry, the great lawyer, and Hor ace, the educator, who was at her side when the end came. We can readily imagine her affec tion for Helen, the grandniece, who is dean of Rryn Mawr, and Charley, her grandnephew in France. But Aunt Delia's love of he." kinfolks did not spring from the fact of their prominence. The president was just "that boy" to her, Louisa Maria's boy. She thought it a shame he was not re-elected, but she was glad of it when she discovered how happy he was as a private citizen. It was the happiness and not the honors of her "boys" that concerned her. Without children or husband. Aunt Delia did not let her affections dry up. She poured them out on her sister's children and was a source of strength and comfort to them. There are many such delightful women, known only to small circles, whose influence on the lives of their kinfolks and intimate acquaintances is beyond all power to reckon. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, DOING AWAY WITH CONGRESS. Some extraordinary things are happening at Washington, Congress is supposed to be en acting laws after due deliberation, but instead it is carrying out the president's orders. For example, there is the Victory loan bill. It is the duty of congress to determine the amount of the loan, the interest rate and other details, but all these powers are being turned over by the law makers to the secretary of the treasury. He will be given wider discretion than ever was granted an administrative or ministerial officer, because the president has demanded it. This is only one of the singular actions that characterize the close of the Sixty-fifth con gress as the most remarkable exhibition of par tisan politics ever exhibited in Washington. If the Sixty-sixth congress were to be con trolled by the president's party, the call for the extra session probably would have been out long ago. At any rate, the interim would not exceed a few days in length, and the new con gress would soon be grinding away at the tasks the expiring body has so sadly neglected. That is why the democrats are so energetically play ing politics when they should be attending to public business. Mr. Wilson has dealt with the present con gress from the beginning as a submissive and docile body, sending over orders for legisla tion, and receiving laws in return. He encom passed the defeat as far as possible of demo crats who objected to his domination, and sought to influence the general result by his astonishing personal appeal to the people, which proved a boomerang. Now he is insisting that his will be done in the closing hours, and finds his party eager to comply, regardless of cost to the country. The republicans have prudently determined not to filibuster against the program, even though it might have been a patriotic course to force an extra session. Full responsibility for the blunder, the unformed and indigestible legis lation now going through, must be accepted by the president and his party, and the orgy of ex travagance, waste and mismanagement will end as it begun with the Sixty-fifth congress, which abjectly surrendered control of law making to the White House. Commission's Power to Fix Rates. The supreme court has passed on two points in connection with the power of the State Rail way commission to fix the rate of fare to be paid on street cars in Omaha and Lincoln. Published accounts are not clear as to the exact terms of the court's decision, but it seems that war conditions are not sufficient excuse for the increase proposed in Omaha. Neither has the commission authority to compel the straining of water out of stock, as was undertaken in connection with the Lincoln case. On one point the City of Omaha loses. It was contended that the company had no right to earn on ex tensions paid for out of earnings. Money set apart to cover depreciation when reinvested in plant properly is considered as spent for repairs; if, however, earnings carried over to surplus are used to extend the service, the company clearly has a right to earn income on such investment. The ruling of the court will no doubt be closely studied, for it affects not only the railway commission, but intimately touches on the relations between Omaha and the street railway company. Outlook for Wheat Prices. Sir James Wilson of Edinburgh, former Rritish commissioner to the International Insti tute for Agriculture at Rome, gives his opinion that F.ndish wheat will sell at 40 shillings per nnart.r bv Aueust. which is equivalent to $1.10 a bushel. He estimates that the wheat import ing countries of the world will require but i?nnnnr tons durine the year ending with July, 1919, as against a prewar average of 17,- 000,000 tons. To provide this he tinas an ex- nnrf a hie surolus in the producing countries ot 24,700,000 tons, available by the 1st of August next. Furthermore, as all wheat- producing rnnntries are makine great efforts to increase sowings, the world's wheat harvest in 1919 will be larger than the world's consumption tor 1919-20, with a consequent increase in the carry over of exportable aureus. With the military situation cleared uo. and the law of supply and demand again in control, he feels confidence in his putting the August price of wheat in British markets at not above" the figure quoted. This is of great interest in America, of course, for the domestic orice of wheat has always de- oended on the woild quotation. While the gov ernment has guaranteed $2.26 to the farmer for the 1919 crop, the consumer ought to buy flour at something near the price that prevailed in 1914, and the raisers be made whole through the federal bounty. Another season should see a better adjustment all the way around. Courts and the Common People. Judge Martin J. Wade's address on the func tion of the courts is but, a continuation of the subject he approached in his talk to the stu dents of Creighton Law school some months ago, intended to acquaint the popular mind with the function of the courts, in relation to and its necessity for social existence. The pity is that the exposition should be required among freemen, and further that it can not be given to all. Whether law be defined as "a rule of action," or by some one of several other explanations as terse and as inclusive, the fact is that law is a fundamental of orderly life. Courts are the ma chinery whereby the law is applied; they have been thoughtlessly or maliciously denounced as agencies of oppression, of corruption, or of tyranny, but nevertheless, they exist for the purpose of securing right and justice between man and man, and in the future this may extend to nations. In our country, where every agent or officer of the court, from judge down to juror, is chosen for his position from among the people and by the people, the courts ought to be recog nised as entirely of the people. We make our laws and enforce them ourselves, and the in struments through which they are enforced are of our own choice and selection. No power in tervenes between the common people and the courts in this country, therefore the relation should be better understood, and mutual regard so established should be permanent No one viewing the record made by the democrats in congress will ever again accuse a drunken sailor of being the limit of looseness with money. The difference in favor of the sailor is that he is spending his own, while the democratic prodigality has dealt exclusively with other people' money. Good Times Ahead. New York Times. During the last few days the security mar kets have been buoyant, while the commodity markets have continued a moderate, orderly de cline. , The movements are logical, not contra dictory. Stocks rise on the prospect of profits. Commodities fall on the prospect of lower costs. Both movements are prophetic. The saying that the wheel does not grind with the water which has passed over it applies particu larly to calamity news. There is nothing alarm ing or depressing in the bad news of the past years of terror and destruction. That lies be hind. The future must be better, not only by comparison with the war conditions, but by comparison with the best before the war. We are not on the crest of prosperity. Rather we are rising fom the depth of calamity. It is true that the world never witnessed such destruction of capital. But it is also true that it never witnessed such increased capacity of production. The latter is more important. The destruction was temporary and has stop ped, while the increase of production is as per manent as we choose to make it, under the stimulus of world wants and American capa city to supply them. The world lacks food and clothes and materials to supply every want, to a total of uncounted billions. Here only is plenty in goods and capacity of quick produc tion. Every consideration of neighborly duty and self-interest constrains us to remove the obstacles in the way of bringing foreign buyers and our sellers together. It is not practicable to assemble all the facts in support of this statement of conditions. Only the broadest outline can be filled in here. The great bank clearings attest the activity of trade. The .suggestion that the volume is in prices ratnef tnan m goods is negatived by the ton nage passing over the railways. Never was there such a volume of business and never sounder conditions among traders, as the fewness of insolvencies proves. The largest foreign trade of 1918 was in its last month and the first month of 1919 registered above any other month in all time. The trade of January put the world in our debt $410,000,000. against $470,000,000 for the entire fiscal year 1914. Undeniably food is dear, but wages are high and give no sign of immediate fall. They need never fall if labor will earn them. High wages and cheap living are a contradiction only seem ingly. They are reconciled by quantity pro duction, capable of immeasurable increase if labor and capital meet with open hands rather than with clenched fists. "No true picture is without shadows, but the shadows only prove that there is sunshine. Living is too high for many, even with high wages. But the high prices have caused such accumulation of goods that it is almost a scan dal. We have taken from the soil in the last vear more money than we have raised in Lib erty bonds, and we are almost dreading the bounty of next year's harvest. How shall we pay for it, or store it, or move it from the farms? Never' was there in sight such a total of living or slaughtered food animals, although never did any people reap such profit from the sale of them. I here is so much cotton mat tne plant ers are planning to restrict production. Once we were to be ruined by Chinese cheap labor. Now some seem to think that we are cursed bv abundance. That is not ttue because forei.cn needs are greater than domestic supplies. The problem of brincine them tocether is far from insolu hie. A Produce Exchange meeting of the trade last week resolved that the embargo on exports of oils and fats should be removed, seeing that the present supply is 970.000.000 pounds, against 580,000,000 a year ago. In the House of Repre sentatives there were protests last week against the embargo on cotton exports, and against reouirements of licenses for trade with neutrals At this port there is an accumulation of $100,- 000,000 of goods awaiting shipping. there is in the American market a French buyer for Ameri can coal, on account of the check to foreign mining. Our boycotters may remark that the French buyer says that he will take American coal only until Germany undersells. The cable reports that France is negotiating for $40,001, 000 worth of machine tools, an equal vJue of farmers' machines, and $100,000,000 of raw ma terials. Another French inquiry is for 800 loco motives and 32.000 cars, additional to 27,000 to be taken over from our army outfit. Last week a svndicate of American bankers arranged a cred'it of $30,000,000 for Belgian bankers, all to be spent here, and $10,000,000 forthwith. It is only Americans who are waiting for. our prices to collapse. Foreign demands are exigent and instant. People You Ask About Information About Folks In the Public Eye Will Bo Given in This Column In Answer to Readers' Questions. Your Name Will Not Be Trinted. Let The Bee Tell You. 0?J Franco-American Georges Clem eneeiui, premier of France, nears the hnlf-mile post of his 78th year, born September 28, 1S41. In the wide ranpe of his studies and activi ties no man of his time, excepting Colonel Roosevelt, approached his record. Clemeneeau has been a physician and medical writer of dis- iinruon, a war correspondent, a soldier, a teacher in a young ladies' seminary at stamrord, Conn., a duelist, a critic, a playwright, and. amove an, a Journalist. His greatest and most premanent achievement has been the leadership of France during the last year of the war. The passing years have touched him lightly. Physically and mentally he snows tne working endurance, the staying power, the acgressiveness and quick grasp of affairs which dis tinguish leaders In their prime. It was his conspicuous vigor In the crisis of the war which prompted Lloyd George to salute him as "The grand young man of France." DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY Dr. Livingston Farrand, the new chairman of the central committee of the American Red Cross, is a well known educator who has devoted much of his time and talents to pub lic welfare movements. He has served aa treasurer of the American Public Health association and as ex ecutive secretary of the national so ciety for the study and prevention of tuberculosis. A native of Newark, N. J.. Dr. Ferrand studied In England and Germany after graduating from Princeton in 1SS8, and received his mediral diploma from Columbia uni versity three years later. Since 1914 he has been president of the Uni versity of Colorado. Humiliating and Shocking About the only consoling feature to be found in the scandal affecting the Third Naval district is the fact that nobody connected with the regular establishment has been implicated. It remains, nonetheless, a most miserable busi ness, intensely humiliating to the navy and to the whole country, for we have all liked to think, and nearly all of us have thought, that the wave of ardent patriotism that swept over the country when the United States entered the war had raised everybody except the members of the irredeemably criminal class above the possibility of participation in such peculiarly sordid profiteering as has been revealed. The one way to restore public confidence is to have the investigation now in progress ab solutely thorough, and to have punishment ac cording to their deserts imposed on all who have had any part in the sale of appointments, safe positions and safe discharges. Among the guilty, too, should be reckoned not less those who paid the bribes than those who took them. In every case except the few carried through for the sake of getting evidence, the exploitation was that of scoundrels by scoundreds, and the exploited should have as little of either sympathy or immunity as the exploiters. They both are birds of a feather, and if there had been no cowards and slackers willing to buy exemption from the performance of duty, there would have been no selling of that exemption. A fact that attracts attention at a time when the severity shown by courts-martial to petty offenders has shocked the public, the one sen tence as yet imposed by a court-martial in this matter was at once absurdly and outrageously lenient until sent back for revision by the sec retary of the navy. That fact deserves investi gation as much as, perhaps more than, do the corruptions with which it was connected. New York Times. The daylight saving law may or may not switch the hands of the nation's clocks again this year. It depends on the opposition putting through a repeal amendment or rider during the dying hours of con gress. Whatever happens the hand of horological fame will ever point to Senator William M. Calder of New York as the foster daddy of the law The senator is a native son, born in New York City, Just B0 years ago His education was had in the public schools and In Cooper Institute, and his early workaday life, that builder and contractor. From thi: vocation Calder slipped Into politics represented the Sixth New York dis trict In congress for five terms and then wron promotion to the United States senate. One of his first acts on entering the upper house was the introduction of his pet measure for "daylight saving." The death of George F. Edmunds of Vermont, at the age of 91, re moves a distinguished member of i group of national notables well be yond the fourscore milestone o life. The doan of the group is Lev P. Morton of New York, vice presi dent of the United States, 1889-93 who will soon celebrate his 94th birthday. Judge Charles Andrews formerly on the New York supreme bench, is just over 91. He was ad mitted to the bar 70 years aso. Next to Andrews in age. ranks Roger A Prvor. 90. a southern brigadier, who won distinction in the legal profes sion in New York. Among the nota bles in the 80's are President Emer itus Eliot of Harvard, 84; Cardinal Gibbons, who will be 84 in July; Uncle Joe Cannon, 82, past, and John Burroughs, the noted naturalist, go ing on 82. MOVIE CENSORSHIP. "FINLAND." (In the story Pftinjr and Billy Bflslum have an odd adventure In the realm ot King Fun.) CnAlTKIt I. A Biuni) ami What Followed. BILLY BELGIUM was running along the sidewalk when one foot chanced to land upon a banana peel. Up flew his heels and around he whirled like a pinwheel, his head coming down kersmack upon upon the pavement. "What a bump!" cried Billy, sitting up dizzily. "I see I see " What he saw he didn't say, but a look came Into his eyes that scared Peggy, who had run up to find If he were 1 ft AWr0 ' . A . v, Hastings Tribune: There Is about as much excuse for -the proposed bill as there would be In a bill conr pelling every ministor In Nebraska f submit hs sermon to a board of censors. Fairbury News: One of the fol'ies before the Nebraska legislature a bill to create another high salaried board. This time it Is a board of censors for all movie reels, and the proposed law provides that they must have the "O. K." of this board before they are exhibited in the state. Such a law, if passed would not only work a great hardship and loss upon the .men who have their money Invested In the business, but it would also result In depreciatin very materially the quality of pic tures shown. Norfolk Press: Rome of the old women male and female want the movies censored. And there is not a city in Nebraska where the pictures are more carefully cenore,1 and by the movie houses them selves. The old man has never seen a "smutty" picture as mentioned at the women's mass meeting Monday in any or the Norfolk picture houses and we attend pretty regularly, too, Occasionally there is a picture too advanced for children, but when one of these pictures is shown the parents should keep their children away. EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS Detroit Free Press: Germany. evidently, still has to learn that the threat is a mighty poor weapon. vvasnington Post: Carter Glass can count on the unbridled pa triotism of the people In pushing the loan over the top if he will only put up some enemy that they can hit. Minneapolis Tribune: One of the nearest approaches to a certificate of character for the proposed league of nations we have yet heard of is that the German press aoesn r. line it. New York World: The fact that nine of the 17.000,000 foreign-born residents of the United States have rot been naturalized or taken out first papers does not mean that they spurn citizenship. Most of them are children or women naturalized by action or ratners and husbands. DAILY CVPTOONETTE TODAY The Day We Celebrate. Dr. Hays Gsanter, dentist, born 1877. Eir F.rnest Cassel, the English tinaiicier, who has recently donated $2,500,000 for educational purposes, born in Cologne 67 years ago. Alexander Graham Bell, perfector of the telephone, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 72 years ago. Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Lillis, Catholit, bishop of Kansas City, born at Lexington, Mo., 57 years ago. In Omaha 30 Years Ago. The Omaha Base Ball club is complete ex cept one pitcher. The players so far signed are: Clark and Nagle, backstops; Proesser and Willis, pitchers; Andrews, Canovan, Cleve land, Campana, Layton, Strauss and Messitt for in and out field. The Omaha Mortgage company has been in corporated by Thomas Brennan, Ernest Squires, Henry C. Boynton, Max Meyer, Erastus A. Benson, John A. Wakefield, Jacob Sims and John G. Stone. Dr. E. Sloman and bride have returned from their wedding trip. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Muir entertained at their home on Spencer street. Mr. Alfred Marschner and family are back from Europe. I'LL WHISTLE FOR flKTJ UlfllTUNBER HE IlllMTIAliI fAn ili-n ' MB AND HEDIDf lEVrJF ... if: j is "" -s ' -'. i "I Surrounded by a score of queer sprites that had a moment before been invisible. hurt. Before Peggy could ask him a question her own heels slipped on the banana peel, she turned an un expected somersault, and there she was on the sidewalk rubbing her head. "What a bump!" Peggy also cried and then she, too, added: "I see I see " stopping right there. It was enough to make anyone halt In astonishment. The bumps had opened the eyes of Billy ami Peggy to hidden things, and they had suddenly found themselves sur rounded by a score of queer spirits that had a moment before been In visible. The sprites were shadowy, misty creatures, about as tall as Billy. Soma wore fat and some wore thin. All were garbed in rainbow-like col ors and wore Jester caps and long, pointed shoes. But while their bodies and clothes were much alike there was a sharp ly marked dil'teienoe in their faces Half of them were agreeable look ing the other half were mean and unpleasant in their appearance. It took but a glance to see that the sprites were divided into two clans, the agreeable spritm In one and the mean sprites in another. "Ho, ho, hoi" laughed the fat sprite of the mean clan. "That was a dandy banana peel. It caught two tumblers at one time. The boy was funny, but the girl was funnier." "He. he. he!" Jeered a long, thin sprite: "Jack and Jill went up the hill To get a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after." Hilly had begun to laugh at him self as he picked himself up, but now he doubled up his fists. He was willing enough to be laughed at in a friendly way, but was quick to re sent Jeers. Besides, he wasn't going to have the strangers poke fun at Peggy. "I don't like to be laughed at by strangers in Just that way," he warn ed the fat and thin sprites. "Ho, ho, ho! We people of Fun land have known you a long time," laughed the fat sprite, pointing at a blue sash he wore across his breast. Then Billy and Peggy noticed that all the sprites wore sashes, the mean ones having blue sashes and the others wearing rose color. On the sashes were printed the, sprites' names. Among the mean sprites were Joker, Moelier, Grin, Howl, Snicker, Jollity, Hilarity and Wit. Among the agreeable sprites were Glad, Gay, Humor, Chuckle, Mirth, Smile, Laugh and Tickle. The fat sprite was Joker and the thin sprite was Mocker. With Wit, a cold eyed chap, they were the leaders of the mean sprites. Peggy wondered at a sad look in the faces of the agreeable sprites. "J illy looked silly when she fol lowed Billy," Jeered Mocker. That was too much for Billy. He wouldn't let any one call Peggy names. "Take that back," he ordered. "Hilly would fight for Jilly," Jeer ed Mocker. Out flashed Billy's fist straight at Mocker's nose with all the force of Billy's body behind it. The fist hit the nose and went right through Daily Dot Puzzle 35 4o 3b 34 25 53 A2 4z 37 43 44 3o 23 8 33 . 1 . 3 6 4 JN 13 Si I5 . . .16 ; 17 .18 45 i racing forty-two will snow My old from Buffalo. Draw from ena to two and ao on to th end. It. When the blow failed to stop, Billy lost his balance, and pitched through Mockers body to the ground. Astonished at this, he look ed up to see Mocker, unhurt, stand ing over him, and leering Into his face. (In tha unit chapter Blllr proves bralna ara mightier than fiata.) that ox How The Bee Helped. Omaha, February 24. To the Editor of The Bee: On behalf of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, under whose auspices the Trans mississippi Readjustment congress was held in Omaha, I want to thank you for the co-operation and valu able assistance rendered by yourself and your paper toward making the meeting a success, and for the mem bers of your staff placed by you at the disposal of the committee. The delegates from the twenty two states who attended the con vention went away feeling that they had received real benefit from the addresses delivered here. Some of the delegates are already planning for meetings similar in character to the Omaha meeting in their respec tive states, thereby clearly indicating that they caught the spirit and pur pose of the Omaha congress. Very truly yours, CHARLES C. GEORGE, Chairman. Value of Foreign Tongues. Omaha, Feb. 26. To the Editor of The Bee: The attitude of a large number who are so ardently ado cating the abolition of foreign lan guages from the schools reminds me of one of Mark Twain's characters who said to his son: "I can't read nur write, yer mother couldn't read nur write 'fore she died, and I ain't going to let you know more'n we do." The national educational director advocates the teaching of foreign languages In the American schools. It is an absolute fact, demonstrated by years of experience, that a person cannot learn to speak a language like a native" unless he either learns that language in childhood or resides in a community where that language is spoken almost exclusive ly. Imagine a condition where the ideas - of the chauvinists prevails, Only one language would be under stood by the next generation. If we should have another war with a for eign power (non-English) we would have no native-born citizen who would understand the language of tne enemy who could speak It prop erly and be useful In the Intelligence department of the army. We must then either be in ignorance of enemy movements or depend upon foreign persons for our information; either that or we would have by that time created a special class of the chil dren of parents who have been able tn cend their children abroad for their education, thus making a broad and deep line of demarcation between the children of the rich and of the poor. If it Is the desire of Americans to create either of these conditions the attitude of those who would banish all foreign languages from the schools can be understood, otherwise dense and self-satisfied ignorance is the only excuse. If we want to meet the world In competition and are willing to take our chances In the rough and tum ble of international business then we must train our children in foreign languages and the younger we begin the bettor. We do not have to laud the country of the foreign language we can teach American ideas in Swedish, Spanish, French, Bohemian or even In German. Let us use a little common sense at Lincoln and not make a laughing stock of Nebraska. H. II. CLAIBORXE. of eubmarlne. oamouflara calf, bnrl me ai custard grenade. Boya' Life. "I can't aee that glvlnc the freedom ef the city to a fellow dnea him any good." "Didn't in the old daya. Mluht amount to anmathlng In the cnae of a man with m speedy automobile. Kansas City Journal. "Did you ever try to convince a mu that he la wron a-f" "Well, not exactly. I usually get him to bolleva that I am right, and let It go at that." Judge. Mrs. Flatbuah Well. If you caught auch a big flah as you claim, why didn't yoa bring It home? Mr. Platbush What was tha use, dearf I never could have got It In this flatt , Tonkera Statesman. 'Tour wife has Imaginary ailments." "Urn." "I'll Just glva her soma Imaginary medU cine." "Urn. What kind of a bill are you going to render In this case. Doc?" Philadelphia. Bulletin. "Ts sha hla first wlfeT" "Well, aa he married her again after divorcing her, aha la what you might call hia first wife once removed." Boston Transcript TART TRIFLES. "The old man la giving Bill a liberal edii'-atlon." "Yes. and Bill Is certainly giving the old man an education In liberality." Boston Transcript. Guest N'oodle soup, veal with tomato sauce and a cream puff. Walter (who had been at front.) Bowl "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin." American Owned, Entirely ! "Bayer Cross" on! gamine Tablets. Buy only "Bayer" packages. Aspirin !i t'.e trade mark of Bayer Manufac ture of Mrooaceticacidcster of Salicylicacid Pasf ports from Misery! Out of Pain to Comfort. 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