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A. B. fttfta, circuituoa uuiiitr.
Subaeribare leaving the city ahould have Tha Baa mailed
to them. Addrata chanced eftea aa rtqueated.
And thou, too, Bryan I
Peacs by March 20 will not b a minute too
toon. Conn on with the treaty.
The house at Lincoln contines quite "tetchy"
on the topic of lobbyists. Its immaculate purity
thus far is safe.
The president expects to land at Brest to
day and get away for Paris tonight, so that
things may commence to happen over there
again.
Sir Horace Plunkett perhaps knows as much
about the needs of Ireland and what is good for
its pepple as the Boston professor who chal
lenges him.
It will no longer be "the German Rhine,'
but the world Rhine if the report made to the
peace conference is adopted. That ought to
help both France and Holland.
What's this, our sugar rationing did not ef
fect any saving? Well, you try to tell that to
the careful housewife who had to make her
short allowance go around the family.
As a result of the failure of congress to act,
the railroads are back in Wall street trying to
borrow money to keep alive. But this will not
worry the democrats, who made the trouble.
Putting up a spite fence to hide a pretty wo
man's seductive ankles is the latest wrinkle
in New York court practice. If this is to be
come general, jury service will be duller than
ever.
Food Director Roberts of England is right
when he says we can not let the Hans starve,
but at the same time it is hard to overlook the
fact that they brought it not only on themselves
but the rest of the world.
Six thousand Yankee boys succumbed to
the allurements of as many French maidens
since the army went across, and have formed
a permanent alliance with them. , This sort of
thing is the real league of nations.
The story of the air raid on Berlin may be
a little overdrawn, but let us hope it was of a
nature to give the inhabitants of that delightful
city a notion of what London and Paris had to
put tip with for four years of frightfulness.
The "grandmother of the revolution" is too
' polite an old lady to say that Raymond Robins
'lied; she contents herself with the statement
f. that, Mr. Robins to the contrary notwithstand
ing, the bolshevik! did commit unspeakable
atrocities. I
Bills are falling under adverse votes at Lin
coln in a way that seems to promise the end of
a number of ambitious schemes for reform. But
smokers who do not care to roll their own still
may purchase the "tailor-made" cigarette In
Nebraska.
Free trade is re-established between the
United Kingdom and other parts of the British
empire, but that does not give Yankee makers
unrestricted entry to John Bull's market. Yet
our democratic wiseacres cling to their anti
protective tariff notions.
One good way to everlastingly end the
League of Nations would be to submit it to a
referendum of all the peoples of the world. By
the time the vote was taken and counted, the
oldest inhabitant would have forgotten about
the origin, and the whole thing would have to
be commenced anew.
Well, Omaha missed the secretary of war
again, but let us hope in the glad sweet days of
peace to come he may find it convenient to give
the once over to two of the prettiest military
posts under his jurisdiction, from which were
sent out many of the best equipped specialists
in the service of the late army.
The president has asked for the resignations
of all members of the Civil Service commission,
the only reason being that he wants to reor
ganize that body. A year or two back along
the trail will show this commission opposing
some of the political activities of the postmaster
general, and only a few weeks ago it was active
in opposing the plan to make the 1920 census
an exclusively democratic partisan affair. This
may explain a situation Secretary Tumulty says
he knows nothing about
How the Soldier I eels
The thing that concerns the soldier most to
day is what the morrow may bring. That means
home and a new mode of living. Some men
have a position awaiting their return. Others
have trades or training that they cart follow up
advantageously upon their return to civil life.
Then there is that great number of young
men who have no particular line of occupation
or knowledge. Men who only recently finished
school men who had put in the several years
before entering the army, at loafing. There
was always that type of young man in each
small town. Before going into the army he was
not considered an asset to anyone, himself in
cluded. ,
Today that young man, if he hasnt already
given the last full measure of devotion, is a valua
ble asset to any man or concern. He has broad
ened out in a large sense. He has tasted the
pangs cf hunger and fatigue and he has tasted
the fruits of victory. He has learned to obey,
a thing we Americans are prone to neglect
More than this, he has acquired the most valua
ble achievement ol all, he has learned to accept
responsibility.
With all these acquisitions the returning
soldier hardly needs charity nor does he need
the elaborate preparations a lot of well meaning,
but thoughtless people are making for his re
turn. All he wants is an even break and an op
portunity to make good. Leave the rest to him.
The Barrage, published by the 18th Field Artil
lery, Army ef Occupation,
WHAT ABOUT THE PUBLIC?
From Chicago we get a vague and not at all
reassuring announcement that a tripartite agree-
ment has been entered into between the live stock
growers, tha packers and the government,
whereby any difference between producers and
packers may be quickly eliminated. ,This is all
very fine, for it is expected to stop the ever
lasting allegation of discrimination, manipula
tion, and other excesses and abuses brought by
the stockmen against the great meat purveyors.
How will it effect the publicf That remains
to be seen. Experience with the food adminis
tration was not such as to justify expectations
of any immediate or extensive concession in
prices to the consumer. When the producer
agrees with the middleman as to what is right,
the presumption naturally is that they know
what they are doing. The outsider will event
ually find out
Price stabilization that goes no further than
this is not likely to help out on the cost of living.
"Passing the buck" will continue to hold its
popularity as the greatest of American sports.
The people had a right to expect something of
better service than this arrangement, which,
while it will bring peace to two elements of the
triangle, holds very little for the third.
Crowder and His Critics.
Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the mili
tary affairs committee of the senate in the last
congress, has joined the hue and cry against
the judge advocate general of the army and the
courts-martial. General Crowder has made a
temperate and Judicious reply to these, such as
must satisfy any reasonable individual, or one
not deliberately seeking for personal or par
tisan advantage.
Most of the appeal rests on the fact that a
number of sentences, seemingly unduly severe,
applied for what are alleged to be trivial of
fenses, were passed by courts-martial. Those
who indulge in the outbursts have not called
attention to the fact that a military offense
differs in character and gravity from an offense
against civil law, and also that a distinction ex
ists as between war and peace in the matter of
punishment. Disobedience in civil life is not
visited with summary punishment, but in the
army and in time of war, it is the gravest of
crimes, varying in degree, of course, but always
most serious, because it affects the entire fabric
of discipline, on which rests the purpose of the
army. This is true of desertion, and of many
of the offenses that are being paraded as minor,
but which really are of first magnitude in the
army service. General Crowder s?ys:
Considering the charges from the stand
point of the officers who assessed the sen
tences, let me see who they are. They are
men taken in a general draft throughout the
nation. They come from every walk in life.
There are 200,000 of them. They comprise a
faithful cross-section of our whole people and
our national life. .
What is this charge of severity by them?
I have seen that it can not be an indictment of
the system. It is simply a difference between
the opinion of well meaning and humane
critics, far removed from the scene of the of
fenses punished and with only a partisan, in
adequate and highly-colored statement of the
case to guide them, and the opinions of men
who considered the facts under the solemn
obligation of an oath to be honest, impartial
and fair; who lived in the environment of the
offense and were steeped in the reasons mak
ing it grave, and who assessed the sentence
on the performance of the highest civic duty to
man the defense of home and country.
The critics should keep in mind that the of
ficers who composed the courts-martial also led
their men in battle, and either time they were
engaged in defense of the flag and all its stands
for. Senator Chamberlain, Congressman Gal
llvan and others like them ought also to remem
ber that the Articles of War are enactments by
congress, not framed by the War department
or compiled by staff officers, and that the man
ual for courts-martial ' was revised in 1916, in
which work Colonel Ansell took part, and that
none of the objections now raised was then
presented.
The attack on the courts is directly an attack
on the gallant officers of the army, who have
been so ' loudly praised for their services in
other directions. What is the purpose behind it?
Bryan and the League of Nations.
Even the hardiest of commentators will
hesitate before accusing William Jennings
Bryan of lack of devotion to the cause of uni
versal peace. He is the original pacifist, and not
so very long ago was being generally scolded
because of his devotion to peace at any price.
Therefore, he might well be expected to consent
to anything that would tend to achieve the ob
ject of his fondest desire.
Admitting this, what are the champions of
the "swallow-it-whole" propaganda going to
say when Mr. Bryan takes his stand alongside
Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles Spalding Thomas
and other senators who have taken exception
to the draft of the constitution of the league
as given out at Paris? Especially when Mr.
Bryan cites specifically the same points of
weakness on which the senatorial critics lay
greatest stress.
It begins to look as if the desire for peace
were not going to be transmuted into unques
tioning support of a plan that may not promise
peace, and which will be better understood
when what it is said to imply is expressed
clearly and directly. Americans want peace, but
it is hard for them to forget how they were
buncoed in 1916 with the "kept us out of war"
battle cry.
Making a Farce of Prohibition.
The raid on the wine cellar north of Flor
ence, accompanied by all the spectacular fea
tures of flash-light photography and special
star reporters, may be an excellent bit of pub
licity work for the state "booze hounds," but
how does it help to enforce prohibition or make
for temperance and sobriety? No effort was
made to conceal the fact that the wine was
stored there; its existence has been a matter
of common notoriety. No charge is yet made
that illegal selling had been going on. It is
known that the stock was used for sacramental
purposes. Yet, assuming that its storage at
the winery may possibly be a violation of the
law, why could not the state agents wait until
they had determined that fact before removing
the wine to a store room djwn town? If the
court eventually declares their acts unwar
ranted, the state will have to pay again for hav
ing the wine hauled back and placed in the cellar
from whence it came. Would any public inter
est have suffered, had a guard been placed over
the cellar until the court had given a decision?
Under proper guard the stock would have been
as safely held where it was found as where
it is now stored, and at far less expense to the
state. Some of the movements of the liquor
sleuths are mystifying to tay the least
Keepsakes of Soldier Dead
New York Evening Post.
It mar have been a memento of his mother
a gift from his sweetheart, a keepsake dad had
slipped into his pocket when he left, or a bit
of fraternity jewelry, but whatever it was that
the 'young American cherished when he fell in
battle, his family cherish it a thousand times
more, simply because it wae his, and so a war
machine that cannot always t human estao
lished the effects bureau, port of embarkation.
at Hoboken.
It is the brain of a great system, a highly
sensitized system, whose nerves are rooted in
France. Italv. Belgium, in hospitals, ana every
where an American soldier paid his last full
measure of devotion. It recognizes no distinc
tion; the dead are without class, and as far as
this bureau is concerned a brass ring on the
finger of a dead private is worth as much at the
elaborate equipment of any officer.
Intrinsic value is nothing, associations are
everything. That is the spirit in which the
corns of workers set about their task of return
ing to relatives and friends the little keepsakes
that every life picks up In the stream of ex
istence. These workers do it with the care and
sympathy which they themselves would expect.
lo them the loss of the things a family cher
ishes is almost as great a tragedy as the other
of the battlefield, for it leaves a vacancy which
mieht have been filled.
For that reason there are card indexes, tags,
and files checking and rechecking at Hoboken,
so that not even the slightest trinket may be
lost. In the warehouse there is a nondescript
assortment of baggage, trunks, boxes, weirdly
shaped bags, every one a treasure of some
relative or friend, who expected the owner to
return, but who bows before the sacrifice, ana
accepts with mute gratitude the things that
have come to mean so much because they were
his. There are crutches and stretchers, too,
grim reminders, but precious.
There are small boxes, though size means
nothing. It may contain a pipe, a tobacco
pouch, a package of cigarets, perhaps a photo
graph, stained a little, but priceless. Or it
may contain souvenirs, trophies of battle, i
German knife, or a bit of shrapnel. The va
riety is limited only by the fancy of an Ameri
can soldier.
And this is the first war in which the United
States has been engaged that a concerted and
official report has been made to save the effects
of the men who died in battle. Effects they are
called in a sort of coldly official way, but to
those who are working to save them they mean
much more. Instead of becoming hardened to
the work, as might be expected where such de
tail and routine are involved, the staff at Ho
boken takes an increasingly personal interest in
restoring the belongings of those who died to
their relatives and friends.
Naturally, the work at Hoboken would be
futile were it not based on the work of others
on the battlefield and in hospitals, for some one
must be responsible for the collection of the
effects. Organization commanders in France
and commanders of hospitals everywhere were
ordered to collect and preserve the effects of
all. men killed in action or who, for any cause,
died within their jurisdiction.
After the belongings of a soldier are col
lected, they are sent to base sections. If he dies
in France, Italy, or with the army of occupation
in Germany, his effects are sent to Base Section
No. 1. If he dies in England, they are sent to
Base Section No. 3. After they are packed the
first time, they are inspected and rechecked
every time they are moved, and duplicate checks
are forwarded to the headquarters at Hoboken.
When the package or luggage containing the ef
fects arrives here, they are checked again, by
the list already sent, and joint record from both
lists is placed in the card index in the bureau.
The next step is to find the person who
should receive the effects, and this is often ren
dered difficult by the naming of persons other
than relatives on enlistment blanks. Many men
wishing to save the family from shock give the
names of friends as those who should be noti
fied in case of death, and then rely upon them
to make it as easy as possible. Letters are
written to the person named on the enlistment
papers, and they are not cold formal letters, but
individual letters. No stereotyped expressions
of sympathy or rubber-stamped tears clutter the
mail of the effects bureau. In many instances
the person addressed gives the address of those
to whom the effects should be sent If there is
any doubt as to who has legal claim to the
property of the deceased, a staff of lawyers em
ployed by the bureau settle all technicalities.
All of these are imbued with the spirit of
helpfulness, and whether it be a request for the
watch fob of one who sleeps in Flanders fields,
or a plea to straighten out an allotment tangle,
something is done about it, and that something
usually gets results.
There are two classes of mall which come
into the bureau, almost equal in size now that
the work has been going along so well One
class is made up of appeals for aid or requests
for the property of those who were killed in
action; the other, expressioni of gratitude for
the dispatch and feeling with which the request
has been fulfilled.
Another Illusion Vanishes
Among the not many things about which
there has been what seemed like . absolute
unanimity of opinion and belief was the proper
behavior ef a man caught out in a blinding
snowstorm and unable to find his way home or
to other shelter. Everybody has said, and it has
been printed innumerable times in innumerable
books, magazines, and newspapers, that he
should keep moving in order to keep warm
that if he sat down, and especially if he went to
sleep, that would be the end of him, for he
certainly would freeze to death.
And now along comes Vilhjalmur Stefanson
with the calm assertion that this belief is ut
terly wrongl The man caught out in a blizzard,
he says, should stop the moment he finds that
he has lost the sense of direction. He should
make himself some sort of a snow house if cir
cumstances permit; if they do not he should set
down with his back to the wind, rest his head
on his knees and go to sleep, and wait for the
storm to blow over. .
That, at any rate, is what the Eskimos in
variably do when they find themselves in such
a situation, and it is what is done by wise white
travelers in the arctic And when they are
correctly dressed they do not freeze to death
nor do they suffer any particular severe hard
ship from the cold. New York Times.
Friend of the Soldier
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column to questions relating
to the soldier and his prob
lems, in and out of the army.
Names will not be printed.
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otMte qos' Qom&r
ITQDAY
The Day We Celebrate.
Thomas P. Redmond of the Burgess-Nash
company, born 1869.
Noah E. Carter, architect and builder, born
1863.
Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Glass, Catholic bishop of
Salt Lake City, born at Bushnell, 111., 45 years
ago.
Jack La it, one of the most successful of
American short story writers, born 37 years ago.
Oswald G. Villard. New York editor and pub
licist, born at- Wiesbaden, Germany, 47 years
ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Bishop John P. Newman is back in Omaha
after a four months' trip to the south.
Madame Janauschek is playing in Shakes
pearian repertoire at the Grand.
The Woman's Christian association is 'pre
paring to put on a "Merchants' Carnival" with
30 to 40 popular young girls drilling in costumes
representing different business houses.
The Emerald Hand Ball court at Twelfth
and Chicago is completed. It has a gallery ac
commodating 150 spectators.
Councilmen Lee, Chaffee, Baily, Davis, Kas
per, Lowry( O'Connor, Saunders and Shriver
left for Chicago to inspect underground conduits.
Death of a Soldier.
Miss Bessie 8. The 102a Infan
try 1 part of the 26th division, Its
present address A. P. O. 709. This
division Is under orders to prepare
for return to the United States, It
sailing- being scheduled for April. It
waa In the Argonne-Meuse drive, be
ing twice on the front line; on No
vember I it waa on the right of the
American line, about 20 miles north
of Verdun, we have no way of locat
Inn the exact situation of a com
pany; the official maps and reports
deal with divisions. Would suggest
that you write to the captain com
mandlna- the company in which
your brother served, asking for par
ticulars of his death. Some In
formation may be gained writing to
tha adjutant general of the army,
or to "Erlects Bureau, Fort of Em
barkatlon, Hoboken, N. J."
Many Questions Answered.
Mrs. F. H. B "Write to "Effects
Bureau, Port of Embarkation, Ho
boken, N. J.," where you may fee
able to get th,e Information you seek.
B. J. The Third corps artillery
park is at Heippes (Meuse), A. p.
O. 814. Will probably be held there
for some time.
F. J. F. Ths 85th division Is
scheduled to sail In March; can not
tell what port It will be landed at
watch papers for announcement
M. F. W. The S27th supply com
pany Is In the service of supply, and
Its address Is A. P. O. 702. which
is located at Paris. No date set for
the sailing of any units of the 88th
division.
O. M. S. Write to the officer in
command of the air squadron with
which your eon Is serving; you
should have little difficulty In secur
ing his discharge from the army.
A. J. V. N. Headquarters of the
88th division are at Lagny; can not
tell you exact location of any of its
units; no orders for Its sailing. No
orders have been Issued for sailing of
camp Hospital No. 33.
Miss A. B. The present address of
tne 9tn balloon company la A. P. O.
764; it Is with the Third army corps.
and no orders for Its return have
been issued.
J. O. M. Most of the units of the
40th division have already reached
the United States.
Mrs. E. M. The present address
of aero squadron 638 la Lay (via
St. Remy), A. P. O. 784. It Is with
the Second army.
w. B. The 6th balloon company
is assignea to early convoy home. Do
not know what service It was In.
The 304th mobile ordnance repair
shop is with the 79th division, lo
cated at Is-sur-Tille (Cote d'Or), A.
x O. 71Z. This division Is scheduled
to sail for home In June.
Mrs. W. A. S. The Fouth Infan
try Is part of ths Fifth brigade of
the Third division, and is in the
army of occupation; A. P. O. 740 Is
stationary with this division. The
327th mobile laundry company la in
the service of supply, A. P. O. 717.
If your husband remains with the
Infantry he will be held for some
time In the army of occupation. No
date set for return of any of the
quartermaster units.
Abble B. The 145th machine run
company Is scheduled to sail for
home In March.
Mrs. C. H. C. No orders have
yet been Issued for return of the
unit you Inquire for. Watch The Bee
for the announcement
M. L. The 86th and 91st di
visions are scheduled to return in
March: can not give you exact date
of sailing of any unit
E. L. B. -The 22d engineers is
engaged in railway construction
work; at last report Company L
wae stationed Commercv
(Meuse), A. P. O. 747: no orders for
return of this organization.
E. F. D. The 27th division ts
now on its way across; the 26th is
under schedule to sail in April.
a iteaaer Tne istn balloon com
pany Is scheduled for early convoy;
the 26th division Is under schedule
to return in April. The 83d engi
neers is in the service of supply.
scattered from Brest to Nevers; no
orders for its return.
Judith The 313th engineers are
in the 88th division; no orders out
for its return. The 803d aero re
pair squadron Is In the servics of
supply, address A. P. O. 718A, at
Romorantin (Lolre-et-Cher).
Mrs. H. C. W. The 4th balloon
company Is assigned to early con
voy, t
A Soldiers Wife No orders have
been Issued for the return of the
88th division.
Mrs. J. E. P We have no word
as to the 72d engineers. The 468th
pontoon train la part of the Third
corps of the Second army; address,
A. P. O. 714; headquarters at
Longres.
E. W. The 24th battery, anti-air
craft artillery, is with the First ar-1
my; address, A. P. O. 774. No or
ders for return of Base Hospital No.
49.
A Mother Butcher Company No.
841 is in the service of supply; its
present address Is A. P. O. 721, lo
cated at Dijon (Cote d'Or). No
word as to when It will be sent home.
Anxious No word aa to when the
motor transport repair unit you ask
ror win oe sent home.
Mrs. C. No word as to time for
return of the hospital unit you ask
for. A. P. O. 798 Is at Mesves-sur-Lolrs.
-
Mrs. J. L. B. Both the B40th en
gineers and the J12th motor supply
train are in the service of supply,
and not attached to any division.
No time fixed for their return.
J. T. M. Base Hospital No. 10 Is
located near Commercy, and Its
proper address la via A. P. O. 747.
Omission pf this postofflce number
probably accounts for delay In de
livery of letters to your son. Add to
the address you have been using, "A.
U. 11, A. E. iT."
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY
Pri7 and Billy bid the Wild rjM
whs are chased by the Flying- Ogre, and
later encounter tha Ofre at tha edge cf
tha wood.)
CHAPTER IV.
The Secret of tb Ogre.
Tl HE Ogre carried a rifle. That
seemed queer to Peggy, who
had read about many ogres in her
fairy books, but never about one
armed with a gun. Nor had she ever
read about one who traveled in an
airplane. They usually appeared out
of clouds or something like that She
concluded that thla must be a very
modern Ogre, who, possibly, was all
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The Ogra Carried si Rifle.
the mors dangerous on that account.
The Ogre came directly toward the
tree behind which Petrcry and Billv
were hiding. Peggy felt Billy's fists
clench as he prepared to fight if the
Ogre should find them, and she
wondered what a boy, no matter how
brave, could do against an Ogre with
a gun.
But the Ogre didn't see them. He
went on Into the grove and they
could hear him aa he searched
around, evidently looking for the
Wild Geese. After a time the Ogre
came back past the children, and
they noticed that in addition to his
gun he carried an armful of dried
sticks. He walked down the hill and
turned Into a little valley. After a
few minutes, the children saw a red
light and heard the crackling of a
fire.
"He Is going to camp there."
whispered Billy. "Let's creep up
closer and take a look." Still hold
ing Peggy by the hand, he went cau
tiously forward until they came to
the top of the rock, overhanging the
valley. Lying on this rock they
could look down directly into the
camp which the Ogrs had pitched
Here they had a surprise, ths Ogre
waa not alone.
"There are two of them, Just
alike:" whispered Peggy, and her
heart sank. It .was hard enough to
try to save the Wild Geese from one
Ogre, but how could they outwit two
such monsters?
Then the first Ogrs did a funny
thing. He stretched in front
of the Ore, raised his hands,
and took his funny head
right off, goggle eyes and all.
And at the same time he opened up
his rurry skin and stepped out of It.
Peggy'a eyes nearly popped out with
amazement, and for a moment she
.was so stunned she couldn't breathe.
A surprised chuckle from Billy
caused her to take a quick second
look at the Ogre, and what aha saw
made her sink back with a giggle of
relief. The Ogre's head was just a
big aviators helmet and the furry
skin was Just a coat Out of them
stepped a shrewd-looking man,
whiskered and apectacled.
"I couldn't And the Wild Geese."
said the Ogre, "but we will surely
pick them up tomorrow, and then
I will kill that beautiful Blue Goose
for my collection."
The other Ogre waa now getting
out of his helmet and coat and he
proved to be the pilot of ths air
plane. "You seem awfully anxious to get
that Blue Goose, professor," he re
marked. "It Is a perfect specimen," de
clared the flying Ogre. "And so is
that handsome gander leading the
flock. Him, too, will I kill after he
has led his flock north and we have
learned all the secrets of its flight
Ah, ha! I Bhall be more famous
than ever after this trip. No other
naturalist before has thought to
study the habits of migrating birds
by following them with an air
plane no other naturalist has gath
ered so much knowledge for a thrill
ing book no other naturalist haa
secured so man? fine specimens as
I shall kill for my museum."
Billy looked at Peggy with startled
eyes.
"A scientist!" he whispered, "and
he wants to kill both the King of the
Wild Geese and the beautiful Blue
Goose for his museum. It will be
a harder job saving them from him
than if he were only a common
Ogre."
(In tomorrow" chapter I.oneinm Bear
takes part la a conspiracy agatnit the
Flying- Ogre.)
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Give Vs Peace First
Oxford. Neb., March 10. To the
Editor of The Bee: President Wil
son, speaking against criticism of
the league constitution, said "They
do not make any impression on me
because I know there Is no medium
that will transmit them." Did he
mean that the press was to be muz
zled that the peoples' voice could rot
be heard, or was he referring to the
fact that he had put the crimp on
congressional discussion of the
league? If the league is a good thing
for our people to enter into why all
thla hush business? Are we to have
no self-determination whether we
desire to put our government udder
the control of an International com
mittee?
There are thousands of good loyal
citizens who believed our president
erred when he left our capital to
make his abode in Paris. They hold
that when the 80 days' armistice was
signed that his first duty was to in
sist on an Immediate peace treaty
and the return to their homes of the
soldiers who were conscripted for
the one purpose of conqnerlng Germany.
Why should senators be con
demned and their honesty question
ed because they proclaim the dan
gers of the league as they see them?
Why should they be charged with
playing politics more than they that
are exerting every influence they can
Ming to bear to make the people
see the dangers that they believe
await them If they do not accept
tne constitution without question or ,
ucuaio . j3iBxiui xt lur uur govern
ment to Become godfather to all the
little governments that are, and are
to be created in the world. Is too
serious a question for political play.
It is also wrong to work upon the
peoples aversion to war for league
support which is on par with the
kept us out of war" slogan. This
constitution should never be tacked
on th,e peace treaty as a rider in
hopes of logrolling It through the
senate, but should have the careful
consideration of every citizen In the
union. It is not enough that Eng
land wants us to accept this consti
tution, or that France, Belgium and
Italy will be disappointed If we do
not sign It, neither should we accept
it because our two greatly admired
statesmen representing the two great
political parties are for it. The de
ciding factor should be, do the peo
ple thoroughly understand the obli
gations of this league and do they
wish to subscribe to it?
There should not be another
moment's delay In making a peace
treaty and releasing our soldiers to
their homes. They have written on
the scrolls of fame that Americans
are not too proud to fight and when
they do fight that the boys fresh
from the farms and the shops can
match the life trained war experi
enced soldiers of the greatest mili
tary government on the globe. They
have nobly performed the work they
were called to do and should be re
lieved at the earliest possible mo
ment A. C. RANKIN.
Stroug for the league.
Mlnden, Neb., March 8. To the
Editor of The Bee: I have two sons
yet in Germany and one who just
recently came from training camp
on this elde of the water, hence I
believe I should have a right to my
opinion of all such men as Borah,
Reed, Polndexter and Thomas.
It seems that certain congressmen
and senators are determined to
damn President Wilson If he does
or damn him if he don'.t, and there
has been Just such a bunch bobbing
up from the first of his administra
tion to date. I will not enter the de
tails, any sane man who has read the
daily workings of congress and the
senate knows all the pusillanimity
that Mr. Wilson has had, to contend
with from first to last.
Mr. Taft has made It plain that
the league has every chance to ac
complish what it is aimed to do, and
some of the wise ones simply abhor
Mr. Tart because he Is honest and
believes that we sent our boys over
there to fight for a permanent peace
and the freedom of all mankind.
Now, shall a few disgruntled
fellows that Mr. Taft said he would
not trust ovej night block the game
Just to spite the president and make
the grandchildren of these same sol
diers fight arlother war over again
because America sneaked out before
the finish, because they were misled
by a bunch of misrepresentatives
who seem to think war a Joke? If
they had any sons in this war, I bet a
dollar dog they had a "safety first
Job." My sons with dozens of other
neighbor boys were on the front
through the big drive and from the
letters they have written me I think
any man who would lay a straw In
the way of the league of nations
should be hung up by the neck.
Strong talk, but when you think of
all the misery caused by this war to
innocent people, as the Innocent suf
fer most in all wars, you must admit
the talk is none too strong.
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