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trif elrrulitln for tbi month iutiscnbed ami iworn to by
R. B. Rwtn, firculttion Manager.
Subscriber leavinf the city ahould have Tha Bea mailed
t them. Addraas changed aa often aa requested-
Line up now for the Victory loan.
Municipal home rule is a pretty gor.
to stick to.
logan
Berlinese shake their fists at Americans, hut
let it end there.
Goodby, congress I May we never see
your likes again!
At any rate the school board is doing its bit
to accelerate activity in real estate.
Josephiis Daniels says there is no danger of
unemployment. For once we hope he is right.
Note that the local German propaganda
organ is now busily disseminating Mormon
church propaganda.
The peace conference is preparing the "bad
news" for Berlin, the bill at present being to
taled at $120,000,000,000.
, Politics in an extra session? Oh, no! But if
the democrats had only been kept in control of
the next congress oh, yes.
Congress may quit today, but the legislature
is back on the job, and will afford us something
to look at for the next few weeks.
Most members of congress will be glad to
have a little breathing spell, although that is
all most of them have done breathe.
War-time prohibition also went down with
the ship, and the 1st of July does not look
nearly so blue as it did a few days ago.
Army recruiting has started again in Omaha
after a rrfess of almost two years. The boys
who want to go back now have a chance.
Charles Frohman made many another rich,
but left less money of his own than he paid
many an actor for a single night's performance.
His genius was for art, not finance.
Congressmen as ho were criticized by the
National Security league have evened up the
score by accusing the league heads of trying to
Influence elections. Take your choice.
. The Sixty-fifth congress has one record that
probably will stand forever. It appropriated
more money and levied heavier taxes than any
governmental agency that ever before existed.
.Omaha police pride themselves that only
forty-two autos were stolen here during Feb
ruary. This is a notable reduction in the fig
ures, but it is forty-two more than should be so
recorded.
Notice served from Lincoln that the private
wires betwen the governor's office and "Prince
Arthur's" Omaha headquarters are grounded
must have a sad reflection in the senate office
building at Washington, where help will be
needed in the not distant future.
The man who defends his home against law
less invasion is following the footsteps of his
sires. But a home sheltering a bootlegging
plant ceases to be a castle as against a search
warrant. No use trying to make a martyr out
of a booze runner.
Vardaman of Mississippi winds up his career
as senator by accusing the anthracite roads of
controlling the mining industry, and all the
while they are under government control.
Maybe it is just as well he is retiring from the
senate.
Thomas W. Gregory quits his office with a
recommendation that the disloyal whom he so
ardently pursued to conviction and sentence be
all pardoned. Mis view may have changed with
his attitude, but the people will generally be
lieve he was right the first time.
Some Minnesota and North Dakota espionage
sentences have been upheld by the supreme
court, which brings the greater fish closer to
the judgment The mistake Gene Debs, Vic
Berger and others made was in not taking an
appeal to the War department instead of to the
supreme court.
A Submerged Fame
Julian Story, who died in Philadelphia re
cently, was a man of distinguished lineage, be
ing the son of W. W. Story, the sculptor, and the
grandson of Chief Justice Joseph Story, one of
the greatest lawyers who has sat upon the bench
of our supreme court, and he had also achieved
a creditable, perhaps a distinguished, place in
his own field of painting, more especially as a
portrait painter.
Yet it is the irony of fate that for most of
his life this able artist was more vide!yknown
as the husband of Emma Eamcs than by his
own work. No other artist commands the pub
lic interest to any such degree as does the suc
ressful opera singer, in whose case interest
sometimes rises to adulation expressed in a sort
of blind fury like idol worship. When to an
exquisite voice and purity of style is added great
beauty, worship is easy. In the case of Mme.
Eames the' beauty was increased by the co-op-;ration
of her artist husband in designing gowns
for her. Mr. Story's art in the exquisite cos
tumes he planned for his wife as Elsa, Mar
guerite, Mrs. Ford in "Falstaff" and as Aida.
was admired by thousands for every dozen who
want to the galleries to see his pictures. That
is the fate of almost every man who hitches his
wagon to an operatic star, and Mr. Story was in
no way exceptional iii his submergence. When
the Story-Eames marriage' was dissolved the re
sulting publicity tended to fix the artist yet
more firmly in the public mind in his relation
to the singer. Now that he is gone it is his
due to emphasize'his achievement as a painter,
which has been officially recognized in Europe
and which had he been differently married would
have brought him a much wider recognition
here at home. Brooklyn Fial.
ANOTHER INVOICE TIME AT HAND.'
Noon today marks the half-way point of
Woodrow Wilson's second term as president
The two years that have sped since March 4,
1917, have been the most momentous in his
tory, and the part that America, has taken in
the proceedings has brought to the country much
of glory and credit.
The president's share in the work of the
world has been enormous. At home he has had
the support of an united people; his chief, and
almost sole, opposition in his war program
came from his own party. He must, therefore,
accept all responsibility for what was or was
not done. Just now the record-is incomplete,
but it will soon be time to give as much serious
attention to the costly mistakes as has been de
voted to approval of material achievements.
At the moment the president stands at a
height never before attained by mortal man.
The eyes of the world are on him, looking to
him for leadership. He seeks to induce his
countrymen to follow him in an experiment the
outcome of which is uncertain, but from which
he hopes to bring great good to mankind. That
he will finally have this plan tried is almost
beyond argument. Its present form will be
modified, but the germ will be unchanged.
At this time, also, it is clear that the presi
dent is looking ahead to yet another term of
office. The pledge of the Baltimore platform
has vanished entirely; his taste of power wiped
out completely his notions as to a single term
as president being all one man should aspire to.
From the apex of his greatness, he looks down
on a world, vocal in its unrestrained laudation
of him. He knows his country is devoted to
peace, and he confidently faces a future in
which all countries will accept his doctrines.
Will he ibe content to rest on laurels gained
by having kept us out of war, led us through
war, and finally into a haven where war is
pushed far back among the remote possibili
ties? It looks now as if no democrat would pre
sume to ask a nomination Woodrow Wilson
wants. His account with the country yet re
mains to be made up, and in the calm days that
are to come the people will give more careful
consideration to the record than is now possible.
Bolshevism and the Bible.
"Can you oppose bolshevism with the
Bible?" asks Ignace Jan Paderewski, provisional
president of Poland, somewhat nettled at the
suggestion that the Leninites can be talked out
of their lunacy. The direct answer to his ques
tion is no, but a more reasonable reply would
be that the Bible affords ample authority for
dealing with the bolsheviki as they deserve.
Bolshevism is distinctly and characteristical
ly atheistic. It has found its readiest and most
zealous recruits among those who had tired of
the repression of orthodox religion, of whatever
faith, and who find in the license of their new
life a strange zest in defiling all they were to'd
is holy. The Bible holds no traces of bol
shevism, nor does it justify the claims set up
by the so-called "Christian" socialists.
In Judges we are told: "In those days there
was no king in Israel; every man did that
which was right in his own eyes." But there
was law and order in Israel, and strong men,
such as Jeptha, Abimclech, Gideon and a long line
of champions, maintained that law, and the peo
ple obeyed it in letter and spirit.
The jubilee set up by the Mosaic code has
nothing in common with the program of the
bolsheviki. It was a system whereby the ex
tremes of wealth and poverty were averted
among the Israelites, but nothing in it served
to avoid the natural result of industry and thrift
on the one hand and idleness and waste on the
other. Tin's custom went the way of similar
institutions among the free tribes of the early
day. It has no counterpart now; the wittenage
mote of the Saxons survives in a manner in the
national assembly of the Swiss, but as the Jews
gave over the jubilee so did the Saxons suspend
their court, the cares of increasing prosperity
leading them to delegate authority to their
chosen representatives.
The moral obligations endured, and even the
bolsheviki can not evade them. As Jeptha dealt
with the Ephraimites, and as Barak smote
Sisera, or as Gideon routed the Midianites, even
so will the forces of right and justice deal with
tlie elements of disorder, anarchy and savagery
t'ovv grouped under the name of bolsheviki.
Paderewski is right.
Pocket Wireless Telephony.
London sends us word that it will not be
long until the pedesrian may be alarmed by
the ringing of a bell in his pocket, from which
he will exhume the apparatus and proceed to
hold wireless converse with whoever has called
him. The thought is entrancing, but the practice
would have its disadvantages. Such an ap
pliance would destroy the small opportunity left
for the busy man to escape the unwelcome at
tentions of those who consume his time to no
purpose. This would deter many from carrying
with them such instruments.
The imagination, however, easily carries the
thought a bit farther ahead, and envisages the
time when communication will be carried on
by the transmission of thought, without the in
tervention of words or wires. Why not a de
vice whereby one may challenge or arrest the
attention of another by simply taking thought.
And, with the minds thus brought into touch,
thoughts could be transferred, questions asked
and answered, arrangements made and agree
ments entered into, all in a twinkling, and with
no exertion greater than that of thought. Such
convenience might get in the way, of secret
service departments, for example, but it also
would hamper the designing plotters of what
ever degree.
The editor, the preacher, the president, and
others who guide and instruct the public would
thus be spared a lot of effort. Possibilities of
the plan are limitless. ' Let us have the wire
less pocket phone, but do not stop there; let it
be but a step to the greater boon, and the lazy
man's paradise will be at hand.
Omaha has itself to blame for the neces
sity of depending upon a legislature at Lin
coln for changes in the charter. W.-H.
Only in part, for the chief blame rests upon
the hyphenated in league with the public service
corporations that manufactured a false issue to
kill the home rule charter when presented for
popular approval.
The shipyard strikers at Seattle are finding
self-enforced idleness both costly and irksome,
and arc getting back to work. As an object
lesson that demonstration ought to serve Amer
icans for a long time.
Navy officers are vigorously pursuing the
petty grafters who broke into the service. The
navy is jealous of its personnel, if nothing else.
Problem of War Debts
New York Evening Post.
The cables of the past 24 hours show that
the European governments are now taking up
the grave problems of public finance which
the war has left. Our own Federal Reserve
Board lately estimated the total cost of the
European war at $179,000,000,000. Part of this
portentous sum was paid through taxes. But
in no belligerent country did taxation provide
for more than a third of the total war ex
penditure: in some countries, such as Germany,
only a trifling per centage of it was thus met.
The national debt of the leading belligerent
states before the war was something less than
$26,000,000,000; it is now not far short of $170,
000,000,000. Careful observers noticed, more
than a year ago, that the mere annual interest
on the debt of several belligerents exceeded
their total public revenue as reported be
fore the war.
As there was reason to expect, it is France
and Germany whose situation presents the
greatest difficulties. The financial burden left
on each is of appalling magnitude. This is not
only because these two nations were the main
protagonists, but because, in the case of
France, the fact of invasion and the enemy's
prolonged occupation of part of the national
domain crippled the country's economic power,
and because, in the case of Germany, the gov
ernment's overweening confidence in a short
war and a huge indemnity led to absolutely
unsound methods of war finance. As a re
sult, both nations have resorted on a large
scale to inflation of the currency for the direct
financing of the war. The paper money of
France represents today nearly five times as
great a sum as it did in July of 1914; $6,500,
000,000 is outstanding. In Germany including
the "loan bank" issues, more than $8,700,000,000
is outstanding, or 17 times as much as in 1914,
and it is even now increasing at the rate of
$100,000,000 weekly.
What is the prospect for the public finances
of either belligerent? M. Clemenceau lately
pointed out that the French are still large
holders of foreign securities, even aside from
the repudiated Russian bonds. Some hope is
based on expectation that the "tourist expen
diture," which formerly made up so great a
part of the country's national income, will
soon be resumed on a large scale. Moreover all
past experience has shown how rapidly the
thrifty and active French producer brings
about the recuperation of his country from the
losses of war.
But there remain the actual burden of in
terest on the funded war debt, the immense
floating debt not vet provided for (the Paris
estimate is $4,800,000,000) and the sum3
borrowed by France from the government of
her allies, exceeding $5,000,000,000. When to
these are added the great sums required to
reconstruct the area devastated by the Ger
mans, it is not strange that the French minis
ters are relying on the part which the "rep
aration indemnity" from Germany will play,
and at hinting at leniency on the part of the
foreign creditor.
But the case of Germany is worse; first
because of the unsoundness of her war fi
nance, but very largely because, in addition
to meeting existing obligations, her government
will have the war indemnity to pay. There is
evident, in the discussions of the fiscal situation
as reported from Weimar, a general reluctance
even to confront the problems which this in
ternational payment will create. The case is
bad enough, without that complicating consid
eration. Yesterday's review of the position by
the new finance minister, Dr. Schiffer, could
hardly have provided cheerful reading for the
German people. Germany's whole1 financing
of the war, he tells them, was "a program
of desperation." Paying for war expenses al
most entirely with bonds bearing 5 per cent
interest and sold at a discount, the government
will need $4,750,000,000 this year to meet in
terest payments alone. He asks for fresh bor
rowing powers in the sum of $6,325,000,000,
or $2,500,000,000 greater than the largest credit
granted by the Reichstag, even in war-time.
This, let it be observed, makes no pro
vision for such indemnity as may be assessed
on Germany, and the minister's own view of
the nature of the outlook may be judged from
his remark that "no one is yet in a position
to say whether Germany will be able to ex
tricate herself financially." There would, in
deed, appear to be no human possibility of such
extrication, all the circumstances considered, ex
cept through such a direct levy on the aggregate
capital and resources of her citizens as would
reduce her from a rich to a poor community.
Justice in Courts Martial
The senate in passing the house bill which
authorizes the commanding officers to mitigate
or remit sentences imposed by courts-martial
has met the almost universal desires of the
American people. Nothing, indeed, has so
shocked the sense of justice and American fair
play as the admitted facts about the extreme
sentences imposed by army courts for what
were, in some cases, trivial offenses. Under the
circumstances, public opinion being what it is,
it is not unlikely that congress will pass a stiff
bill revising court-martial procedure in general;
while it would not be surprising if the measure
of Representative Hayden, directing the secre
tary of war to cause a review to be made of all
courts-martial proceedings incident to the pres
ent war, were also favorably considered. It is
not that the public does not believe in the
strictest military discipline and the most pro
found sense of duty being set up during war
times for the good of the service. That it
does and did believe in military discipline being
met and lived up to is shown in the way in
which there was a universal sentiment in favor
of the draft and in the strict discipline of the
camps, that in so short a time trained raw re
cuits for active service at the front, where what
they did has again called for the most extreme
praise from the president himself on his landing
in Boston. But sound discipline is one thing
and unfair trials and grotesque and cruel ver
dicts and outrageous sentences are another.
And on this latter issue the country feels very
keenly and is not likely to change its opinion.
So if looks as if the bureaucrats of the War de
partment will gef small support from congress
or the people at large in any of these remedial
matters that have been raised in connection
with their hide-bounded adherence to old and
discredited procedures during the war. Phila
delphia Ledger.
The Day We Celebrate.
H. C. Nicholson, vice president Packer's
National bank, born 1879.
Alfred I. Creigh, realtor, born 1884.
Ralph R. Rainey, United States National
bank, born 1880.
Augustus F. Kountze, of Kountze Brothers,
bankers, born 1870.
Brand Whitlock, United States minister to
Belgium, born at Urbana, Ohio, 50 years ago.
Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, U. S. N.,
chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair,
born in Louisa County, Va., 55 years ago.
Rev. Dr. Arthur C. McGiffert, president of
Union Theological Seminary, born at Sau
quoit, N. Y., 58 years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Benjamin Harrison was inaugurated presi
dent of the United States. In the inaugural
party were Mrs. Russell Harrison of Omaha.
Miss Amy Fay gave "a piano conversa
tion." at Meyer's Music Hall.
Harry E. Moores left for Europe and a
visit to the Paris World's fair.
John A. McShane, Lew Hill, W. A. Paxton,
jr., Captain Rustin and Charles Balbach are
home from Mexico, where they looked into min
ing properties in which they were interested.
H. B. Allan fell through the scaffolding
at the new building of the Water company at
Florence and was severely injured,
Friend of the Soldier
Replies will be given in this
column to questions relating
to the soldier and his prob
lems, in and out of the army.
Names will not be printed.
Ask TheBee to Answer.
Kffecu of Defeased Soldiers.
Mrs. Eva May Humphrey, Elgin
If you will write to "Effects Bureau.
Port of KmbarUation, Hoboken, N.
J., you will probably receive word
c oneerning the personal effects of
your husband. This Is the bureau
formed by the War department to
take charge of the effects of soldiers
who have lost their lives, and to
communicate with relatives con
cerning them. The olHces of the
War department at Washington are
far behind with their work, which
may explain the delay and difficulty
you have encountered iu tHting in
formation as to your husband's
death. Would suggest you write to
hia company commander for information.
Deuth of a (Soldier.
Mrs. D. E. M. The confusion at
the War department, occasioned by
the enormous amount of work sud
denly thrust on the organization by
the end of the war may explain the
delay you have encountered in get
ting word concerning your son.
Would suggest that you write to the
captain of his companv, at A. V. O.
"46. On the 24th iff July the 59th
infantry was with the Fourth di
vision on the Ourcq; on July 31 this
division was at Chery-Chartreu.se;
from September 26 to November 0 it
was in the Meuse-Argonne cam
paign. Can not give you the loca
tion of any particular unit or the en
gagements it took part in. The ac
tion was practically one battle.
Write to the quartermaster general,
Washington, D. C, In regard to
your son's pay. Machine gun com
pany of the 13Sth infantry is sched
uled for return in May. The govern
ment has decided not to undertake
to bring home the bodies of those
who died in France.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY
(Hilly and Teguy find trimnaalv.a among
monn nr-rltt's ami agreeable sprltea. Two
of the moan aprltea Jeer at IVggy, and
Hilly flglua them.)
C'lI.UTKK II.
IiUiiglis Win it ISattle.
TT(), 1H, ho! That's a good
XI Joke on Hilly," roared Joker
as Billy picked himself up after
driving his tist right through Mock
er's airy head.
"And bore's one on you! shouted
Billv, aiming a hard punch ni
Joker's fat stomach. His list went
through Joker, just as it had gone
through Mocker's head. And Hilly,
carried along by the force of the
blow, tumbled through the misty
sprite, landing on the ground with
a heavy thud.
"Ho, ho, ho! He, he, he! laughed
all the mean sprites. "Here's a new
fun-miiker come to Funland."
Come on and fight." yelled Joker
and Mocker, but Hilly was wise. He
saw that he couldn't punish the
mean sprites with his fist. He would
have to trv something else.
"You'll have to use your brains,"
suggested Teggv.
"Whv suggest the Impossible?
asked Wit. leading the mean sprites
in another burst of laughter.
"He has lots of them, as you'll
find out," declared Teggy, coming
stanchly to Billy's defense.
"Silly Jilly likes her Billy." jeered
Mocker. Billy's fists tightened, but
he made no answer. He was study
ing the mean sprites so intently that
presently Mocker, Joker and Wit ap-
His ri-t Wont Through Joker.
peared to become uncomfortable and
their laughter grow a bit uneasy.
Then Billy began to chuckle, then to
snicker, then to laugh, then to roar,
then to shake and double up in a
regular gale of glee. And all the
time he kept his eyes fastened on the
feet of Mocker, Joker and Wit.
The mean sprites couldn't under
stand what Billy was laughing nt
and soon they stopped laughing
themselves and looked at him in
keen curiosity. Tears rolled down
Billy's cheeks and he laughed so
hard he could scarcely gasp.
"What's the matter?" cried Teg
gy, but it was some time before Bil
ly could stop laughing long enough
to tell her.
"Do you remember how you
fussed old King Crow by looking at
his feet?" whispered Billy between
laughs.
"Yes," answered Peggy.
"I'm giving these sprites the same
Glee's
VOX
Confusion In Reports.
C. P. F. H., Denver Your ex
perience shows the extent to which
the record offices of the War de
partment are confused, the result of
the large amount of work thrust
upon them. Your only recourse is
to write to the adjutant general of
the army, asking for accurate in
formation. You might gain some
news by writing to his company
commander, if you have the address.
Many Questions Answered.
Faye Barkus We have no infor
mation as to the whereabouts of any
of the marine corps units.
Miss L. E. The 109th supply
train is part of the 34th division yet
in France. No word as to when It
will be returned.
Mrs. "W. C. B. The 105th am
munition train is part of the 30th
division; A. P. O. 907, located at
Bar-le-Duc (Mouse). This organ
ization is under orders to sail March
27 for America.
A Soldier's Wife A. P. O. 912 is
stationary with the 34th division in
France; part of that division is in
America; can not say when rest
will be returned.
August Wiegand The 17th bal
loon company is under orders for
early convoy home.
E. J., Fremont Company H. 352d
infantry, is part of the SSth di
vision; A. P. O. 795, is stationary
with this division, headquarters at
Lagny.
A Brother The 36th division is
scheduled to sail home March 27.
O. C. P., Auburn The 40th di
vision is part of the Eighth army
corps, A. P. O. 931; it is not as
signed to early convoy, although the
order is out that all these divisions
are to be returned as soon as pos
sible. The 327th supply company is
in the service of supply; A. P. O. 702
is at Paris; not scheduled for early
return.
E. V. S. A. P. O. 702 is at Paris;
this section is not scheduled for ear
ly return; General Pershing reports
that the mail situation is now great
ly improved.
Mrs. C. S., Campbell See answer
to E. J., Fremont.
Mrs. L,. a. I See answer to "Sol
dier's Wife."
A Soldier's Worried Sister Bal
loon Company No. 20 is assigned to
early convoy home.
Mrs. E. jr. P.., Weeping Water
Base hospital No. 49 is at Allerey
(Saone-et-Loire), A. P. O. 785. No
word as to when it will be sent
home.
Mary B., Callaway The 67th
coast artillery was part of the 35th
brigade, C. A. C., A. P. O. 753,
which is at Limoges, (Haute Marne).
The War department reported that
this regiment was to reach New
York on February 22 on the trans
port America.
W. E. L. The 352d Infantry Is
part of the 176th brigade, 8Sth di
vision; A. P. O. 795. No word as to
time of return.
A Soldier's Sister The 137th in
fantry is in the 35th division. A. P.
O. 743; scheduled to sail for home 1
on April 26.
A Friend See answer to W. E. L.
The 339th machine gun company is
in the 176th brigade.
G. R., Ashland See answer to
Mrs. W. C. B.
F. M. W Sidney See answer to
Mary B., Callawav.
E. N., Genoa The 144th infantry
Is part of the 36th division. First
corps, Third army. A." P. O. 796. No
date set for Its return.
J- C. The 117th transportation
company is at Never (Nievre),
south of Paris; A. P. O. 708.
Mrs. A. B. The 312th infantry is
part of the 156th brigade. 78th di
vision, A. P. O. 755; under schedule
to return in May.
STATE PRESS COMMENT
Hastings Tribune: With wheat at
$2.26 per bushel the farmer is the
real "dough boy."
Fremont Tribune: The Nebraska
preacher who objects to skating be
cause it encourages people to back
slides forgets that skaters are going
forward most of the time, many at
a gait that beats the devil.
Kearney Hub: The reconstruction
congress at Omaha took a decided
stand against government ownership
of railroads, which we believe is In
accord with a rapidly growing senti
ment in the United States.
Harvard Courier: When the legis
lature passes the bill limiting the
number of banks it should also limit
the number of newspapers, drygoods
stores and other lines of business.
All of us would like to have our own
particular lines of business included
in such a law.
Hastings Tribune: Pictures of
William Jennings Bryan holding the
loving cup, presented to him bv the
prohibitionists, are now being
framed. But why should the pro
hibitionists select a loving cup? And
who ever heard of a loving cup con
taining grape Juice?
Aurora Sun: Early pasture will
be welcomed by all who have had
to buy high priced feed during the
winter months, although the mild
weather reduced the amount of feed
necessary by one-half. Yards anil
grassy plats have been green all
winter, and with the ground soaked
clear to the bottom at the opening
of spring it looks like a guarantee of
early pasture,
What Was Readjusted?
North Platte, Neb., Feb. 27. To
the Editor of The Bee: Wanted:
To know what it was that the recent
religious and business conventions
in Omaha "readjusted."
We are not responsible for what
was reported but wish some inter
ested party would give us one clear
and new idea that was expressed at
either convention.
in the religious convention we
noted the rather startling but not
exactly new idea of raising a stu
pendous amount of money. We have
learned, to expect this Idea of get
ting money to be the chief end of
man's existence, but when we looked
on to note what this might be for
we Bee this very shop-worn expres
sion "to take the world for Christ."
In view of the fact that we have so
recently emerged from the bloodiest
war the world has ever known in
which ecry nation was fighting as
they ostensibly claimed with and for
Christ, and in every nation the
church was lined up solidly with
their rulers while worshipping the
same God, it seems not too much to
inquire what might be meant by the
"world for Christ."
We see in the reports that the peo
ple came in for some acid rebukes
for their industrial and social activi
ties and evidences of unrest; this as
usual seemed a part of the religious
program, but as usual also we failed
to see any discussion of remedies or
cures, in fact no mention of child
labor, long working hours, low
wages, high living or danger
ous conditions. Nothing was re
ported as being considered to help
unemployment, or make good to our
returning soldier boys, nothing about
our vile prisons or the fact that sev
eral thousand are being tortured it
is claimed in these prisons who are
held, not for acts of crime, but even
now, while other nations are releas
ing political prisoners, we, in times
of peace, still persecute our citizens
WILSON AT THE COLISEUM.
Entablatures that knew an ancient day;
Huk8 columns prone in dust the aeons
ground ;
Seat piled by geatf and everywhere de
cay; Mass heaped on mass, and, over all,
no sound.
Whre shook the earth with hoarsply ut-
ttrf-d cries,
Whore virtora laughed and wounded
mun made moan,
Stands Ruin, mute beneath the changing
sides
Save when lome pedant aire hi book
ish drone.
And yet this pile would speak If but It
could
To him who sought Its duat from
western nhoros;
To him who pondering Its silence stood
Perplexed upon this site of mimic warts;
For eloquent of ancient lore it seems
To qunte for these, our days of doubt,
the Past:
Nauuht lives of what men build except
their dreams
ThouKh kingdoms perish, dreams for
ever last.
Where Caesar passed in state, the hoot
ing owl
Beneath the Roman moon makes
ghastly mock;
And driod-up fools with tape and measurt
prowi,
To catalogue each crumbling plinth and
block.
The mob that craved for blood, Its thumbs
turned down,
No longer fills with dread the fallen
slave;
The earth has yawned for all, and king
and clown
Have found what Time has dug for
both a grave.
But Virgil's page, though old, seems ever
new;
And Homer, new, to plodding lads. Is
old;
Still Socrates serves man his ancient
brew;
Still Aristotles laws and precepts hold.
Eternal truth atill thrills with golden
gleams
The trouble centuries, careering fast.
Naught lives of what men build except
their dreams
Though kingdoms perish, dreams for
ever last.
ELIAS LICHERMAN, In N. T. Times.
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for merely expressing political opin
ions. Nothing was reported aa to
concern expressed at the condition
of the negro in our midst. Does the
church still intend to forget that all
these things and many more bear
very directly upon, not only the "un
rests" of men, but also on the
chances of the church ever taking
the world for Christ.
The Business Men's congress also
roundly scolded labor In various
places for not being pacifies, and
throughout there seemed a rather
peculiar mixture of smiles and
frowns bestowed upon erstwhile la
bor, we here noted no new propo
sals; nothing new to meet any new
condition. The phrase, "getting
back to" something or other was
the commonest one we saw. J. O.
Armour, one of the biggest In the
biggest combines we know, was per
haps merely trying to be funny when
he insists we must get back to in
dividualism. And we becom mixed when our
governor proposes to suppress "op
position to laws" by legislative en
actment. Since the right to critlcizs,
oppose and repeal law Is the very
fundamental of democracy, we won
der if he didn't mean "resist" rather
than "oppose."
The particular cures for all social
and industrial troubles as expressed
by these men were Bummed up in
the time-old words of capital and
labor "shaking hands," "trying; to
understand each other, being un
selfish," in short being good with
special emphasis, of course, on labor.
All seemed especially determined to
give to labor its measure of oats and
its stall, and one radical among them
even went so far as to suggest that
where the oats had been piled a lit
tle high as a war measure that
they "proceed slowly" in reducing
the rations. We are hoping no one
will be mean enough to call this
thoughtful readjuster a bolsheviet,
MARY II. AXTELU
kind of medicine," whispered Billy.
"Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Peggy,
looking at the feet of the three
mean sprites. Sho knew this wasn't
polite, but it deemed the only way
to flpht their niramics.
Joker, Mocker and Wit grew very
uncomfortable. They lokcd down at
their own feet In a vain effort to see
what was wrong. Joker was so fat
that he could scarcely see his toes,
and his effort to lean over was fun
ny enough to cause the agreeaMo
sprites to forget their sadness and
burst into a gale of laughter.
"What are you laujliing at?" de
manded Joker, frowning darkly.
"I don't see anything funny," de
clared Mocker, with a scowl.
"is this a silly game?" demanded
Wll.
'Hn, ha, ha!" laughed Hilly and
Teggy In reply. "Ha, ha, ha!"
"Ha, ha ha!" echoed the agreeable
sprites, much moused at the bewil
derment of the mean sprites.
This fussed Joker, .Mocker and Wit
more than ever. lrom being puzzled
they grew fighting mad.
"We'll teach you to laugh at us,"
they shouted. "Come on clan!"
With that all the mean Fpritcs
rallied behind Joker, Mocker and
Wit and rushed nt liilly.
f
(In tha next rhnptor will be told how
Hilly mreta tha attack of the mrn
prltcs.)
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