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tnfi BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919. sThe Omaha Bee I DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY I FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR ! THE BKK PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOK j MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th IwiiM I'roM, or wtiich The Km la a meailxr. U exclaaln!? nilUed to tbe aw for ruhUcaUoa of all newe diyat"bea c-taditad to it of not othnriae credited In tbta prr, am 1U0 the local iutU)d herein. All riOt or publication e( out apaotai aiKXh&M era alto raeerted. OFFICES I PMeaio fenrIe'aOae nalldlnf. Omlia The Bea B!d. Sew Inrtt 2 Fifth Ate. Bomb OmehaS.U8 N St M. tmiit N B-n oC Comment Council Bluffe U N. Mala M. WinbUittoa 1311 U St. Uoeola Unit Bulidtn. FEBRUARY CIRCULATION Daily 64,976 Sunday 63,316 Anr circulation for 4k month aubaerlbad and ewera to hr X. ft. Bum. Circulation Manatee. Subecriber leaving the city ahould have) The Bm mailed ta them. Addreee chanted aa often aa requeetcd. Paid your income tax yet? Better hurry. Now comes the real tug of war over the police pay roll. Reconstruction is on the way, but waiting, for it makes folks some nervous. Mayor Smith may not be a "jay walker," but he it strong for his personal rights. Booze-Sleuth HyersJ activities seem to dis turb the inhabitants of the editorial sanctum 1 down the street. - German editors decline in advance to sign the Treaty of Versailles. That will be hard on the rest of the world. Whatever else the legislature may or may not be doing, it is mercifully sparing the state i the infliction of a lot of freak legislation. When you have made your garden plans, you might fill in a little of the remaining days of winter by overhauling your fishing tackle. The Department of Labor says the price of building material will remain high. Most pros pective builders had already found that out. Secretary Baker regrets very much that he did not get the invitation in time to come to Omaha. Did he not know we have two army posts here? The senate has determined to give the cigaret bill a new trial. The vote to reconsider j indicates that several senators have changed 4 their minds. . 1 Sweden declined to provide an asylum for the fugitive Hohenzollern, a return doubtless for the many "kindnesses" shown Sweden during the frightfulness days. A "skip stop" survey is to be made of Omaha. If it will only be the means of get ting a few more trains put on the tramway lines, it will be time well spent. Signor Caruso comes across with $153,198.10 income tax, after he has taken out the exemp tion allowed him as a married man. These song-birds have their troubles. Herr President Ebert is still on the job, al though his place has been quite wobbly of late. Just now he has the Spartacans on the run, tliose who were hot killed or locked up. j Champ Clark is not to be permitted to "lead" f 1 1. - , 1 . , -1 I ImCa n ilia n.v hmiea K cause he does not bow down to the League of Nations. Can it be he "hates' Mr. Wihon, too? John Bull is turning to protective tariff, not directly, but in such fashion as to arouse all the tight that is left in the remaining Cobdenites. ? The war has changed a lot of things, but the free trader emerges unscathed. , Paris police, who have no hearts, interfered to prevent n aerial duel between two irate J aviators. They did suggest that the gentlemen s couia go. out to sea and tight to tneir nearts content. Why not send , them to Berlin, or Petrograd, where the free-for-all is so attractive? Chairman Cummings of the democratic na- .. T HnmtnlinA nrAtKi miiUa iraTitYari in Ilia denunciation of the republicans because the democratic congress failed to carry out the 1 president's program. He evidently has the old ; notion that if you yell it loud enough somebody will believe it. J . Debs should keep in mind that he is not 5 soing to prison because of the members of the : supreme court he so blatantly abuses, but be cause he violated the law, made in the name of Ibis fellow citizens and for the defense of the iand in which he has lived so many years by the I exercise of his tongue. Well, welt, well! The democratic hyphenated lias discovered that Senator Notris has been raying something "wickedly and maliciously false." That's pretty close to using the short and ugly word. t We suggest that Senator Hitchcock, who must take responsibility for the W.-H. accusations, call his colleague to account on the floor of the senate. The, performance would be worth going miles to see. Getting Rid of Surplus How to get rid of the vast accumulation of needless stuff which it owns is one of the ser ious problems of the government. On the first .lay of last month the War department alone had stocks of clothing, equipage, and textiles amounting in value to nearly $750,000,000. Of machine tools, drugs, foodstuffs, and other sup plies the quantity was proportionately as large if not larger. The totals run up in value to billions of dollars. If the materials were to be dumped on the market for what they would bring, there would be an all-around smash in values. Doling out the stuff would mean that . jr storage charges would be added to the gov ernment's expenses. Some slight success has een met with in disposing of certain articles to foreign government and to charitable agencies 'or relief purposes, and arrangements have been made to sell some things to state and city au 'lorities. But, when all this is considered, there vill still remain an enormous amount of super 'tious material that must be disposed of. Now t is proposed to try and have the sellers take ack what they can on some kind of an equit able basis, or, in default of this, to have others ;:t similar lines do so or to offer the goods to regular distributers. As long as these, vast reservoirs of material remain they will consti tute a menace, and until they are absorbed by, he trade and disposed of they will tend to re-' -i.-t further production and sales. Uncle Sam is discovering that it is harder to get rid of iui't than to acquire it. New York Times. V -A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY." - Council Bluffs furnishes the first reported case of an applicant for naturalization' being for ever barred from becoming a citizen of the United States because of his refusal to fight. The law was passed in 1918 and was intended to fit the case of foreign-born slackers who re fused to fight either for the United States or their native land. The justice of this, law will not be questioned seriously. By common consent a man is permitted to forswear allegiance to the land of his birth, ac cepting in lieu thereof the privileges and advan tages of citizenship in the United States. But with these he also must assume alt the respon sibilities of such citizenship. These include the duty of contributing to the national defense in whatever way public necessity requires. A man who has so far stifled his natural feel ings that he will not aid in defending the coun try of his birth or that of his adoption has no claim on either. That peculiar passion we call patriotism, love of home, or any one of several names, comes with birth, 'and ought to last through life. Volumes have been written within the last three lor four years about the question of transferred allegiance, and none has denied the enduring strength of love of country. The man who seeks citizenship by naturali zation must know that in expatriating himself he has severed ties that bound him only to as sume other similar obligations. He changes his citizenship only when the act is to his ad vantage, and can not expect to gain all and give nothing. He will properly retain a definite sen timent as to the land he has forsaken, the qual ity of which is for riim to determine, but the land that has accepted him has a right to re quire of him all the service he can give. The man who can not do these things, who does not respond to patriotic promptings or appeal, has no claim on the country whatever. More Work for the Peace Makers. v If the treaty of peace is rfcady for signature by March 20, which is less than a week away, the delegates at Paris will have to work lively. The ordinarily important matters that have been presented for settlement there have not yet all been adjusted, while each day sees additions to the list. ' Korea is the latest to present a claim for self-determination rights, and to ask that the yoke laid upon it by Japan be lifted. In all likelihood the late Hermit nation will be set alongside Ireland in the final adjustment, for it is not at all probable Japan will forego its claim of suzerainty over the people whose gov ernment it suppressed in a process of benevolent assimilation, any more than we may expect to see the Emerald Isle set adrift by England. Along with this latest of complications we hear France more insistently demanding the Saar coal fields, while neither the Jugoslave nor Italians have given an inch on the Dalmatian coast to the other. Here is matter enough alone to require the utmost care. It is possible these problems can be adjourned for future determi nation, allowing the main question to be closed at 'this time, but in them are contained the ele ments that have caused the great wars of the past. A peace such as Mr. Wilson pronounced for in New York last September, resting on justice to all and with no selfish interest of any, is what the nation desires. It is by no means certain such a peace will come out of Paris, for the contracting parties on the side of the Allies show some reluctance to minimize their own claims. Nor do the peacemakers incline with zeal to the work of piece makers in their task of rearranging the map of the world. Conscription and Consistency. Much praise is being lavished on Lloyd George just now for his demand that Germany be required to abandon conscription as a means of maintaining a military establishment. This is more readily joined in, because of the general antipathy to war, but the proposal deserves some consideration, A disarmed and impotent Germany is a guaranty of peace to its neighbors, and therefore desirable. But even such a Ger many may with propriety ask that it be ac corded rights inherent in self-governing peo ples, among which rights is that of requisition ing the man-power of the nation for defense of the nation. This power was invoked in Great Britain; it was resorted to in America, and without its application we may well doubt whether' the free nations of the world, would have been able to withstand the onslaught from the Huns. While conscription is not especially popular in either of the democratic countries, it may not be entirely safe to abandon it until some better provision for preserving public and private security has been devised. Standing armies may be founded on the basis of volun teer service, but national defense certainly should include the present right of calling on "every citizen for the service he best can per form, and this means conscription. Disarm Germany, break up the military machine, scat ter its bits, but be consistent in doing it. Justice 4n a Railroad Rate. While the victory is somewhat belated, aud may ,not be of any real service, the fact that Omaha has won against the unjust rate dis crimination in favor of Kansas City is satis factory because of the principle involved. Two years ago a cut rate was put into effect be tween Kansas City and Chicago, which gave that city an unfair advantage on the matter of through travel. Protests from Omaha were of no avail, and since the early summer of 1917 Kansas City has had a differential of $6.10 against Omaha. The injustice of this is now admitted, and the order has gone forth, not that Omaha's rate will be lowered to meet that from Kansas City, but that the latter will be increased. It is one of the logical work ings of the railroad administration, which always levels up and never down. The prin cipal fact is that an inequality has been re moved, and the Missouri river basing points again are on a parity. Assuming, for arguments sake, that all criti cism of the League of Nations in America arises from hatred of Woodrow Wilson, as our amia ble hyphenated contemporary insists, how are we to account for the attitude of France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan, all of whose delegates have expressed a desire to see the covenant modified in some particulars? Do, they, too, hate the president of the United States? A federal court in Kansas is about to com mence the trial of a big batch of I. W. W. agi tators, who failed to avait themselves of the im munity offered "conscientious objectors." This oversight may involve them in serious litigation. Evolution of the Typewriter (Reprinted from Belford's Magazine for April, 1892, by the courtesy of the publishers.) First Installment. , The first record of an attempt to produce a typewriter is found in the records of the Brit ish patent office. These show that on January 7, 1714, 178 years ago, a patent was granted to one Henry Mill, an English engineer of re pute, for a machine which was intended to do writing. The record does not describe it further than to say that it was a device in tended "for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after an other, as in writing, whereby all writings whatsoever may be engrossed in paper ' or parchment so neat and exact as not to be dis tinguished from print," to use the words of the inventor. Nothing is known of this machine, and the secret died with the inventor, as no sketch or more detailed description is known to exist. Henry Mill was recognized as a man of genius in his profession, and it is, therefore, probable that if his typewriter had amounted to anything some further record or description of it would be extant. His invention seems to have passed entirely out of mind. With the exception of a machine intended for embossing printed characters for the blind, said to have been invented in the year 1784, but of which nothing is now known, Henry Mill seems to have found no imitators for many years.. The first typewriter ever constructed in America was the invention of William Austin Burt of Detroit, better known as the inventor of the solar compass, who, in the year 1829, took out the first American patent ever issued for a typewriter. This machine, although a working typewriter, was exceedingly crude in design and of the roughest construction. The record of this patent, together with the only model of the machine, was destroyed by fire in the patent office in 1836. There is no reason to doubt that to Mr. Burt is due the honor of being the inventor of the first American typewriter. A Frenchman named Xavier Pogrin of Mar seilles is also said to have invented a machine for which he took out a patent in France in the year 1833. Of this machine but little is known. . The efforts of inventors to produce a tele graphic printing machine gave an impetus to the idea of a writing machine. In 1840 the British patent office records the application of Alexander Bain and Thomas Wright for a typewriting machine for use in connection with the telegraph. They were afterward bet ter known as the inventors of a telegraphic printer. It is. said that Bain was the first to use swinging typebars which converge to a common printing point. As a typewriter, Bain's device was of no utility, and scarcely deserves serious mention. It was not until 1843 that a really complete machine was in vented. In that year Charles Thurber, then a resident of Worcester, Mass., took out a patent (followed two years later by a second), for a typewriting machine, which, although very slow, was capable of doing good work. This model is interesting as effecting the letter spacing by longitudinal motion of a platen, a principle which is a feature of all modern ma chines.' The Thurber machine was never manufactured, and the only model in ex istence is now preserved by the Worcester Society of Antiquarians. In 1848 one Fairbanks took out a patent for a machine consisting of a series of vertical converging rods adapted to be pushed up to a converging center much like a piston rod. On the end of each rod a type was placed.' This machine was designed for printing colors on cloth, but was found to be impracticable and was never used. The next recorded invention is that of Pierre Foucalt, a blind inmate of the Paris in stitute for the blind. It printed raised letters for the blind very successfully. Several of these machines were made and gained the in ventor some applause at the World's Fair in London, in 1851,, where the machine was ex hibited. In the year 1850 Oliver T. Eddy of Balti more took out a patent. No model of this ma chine can be found, and none was ever placed before the public. It is said to have been very ingenious and to have performed nice work, but was exceedingly cumbrous and intricate. The inventor spent many years of labo upon the machine, and is said to have died in pov erty after a futile appeal to the government for assistance. Several patents were taken out in succeeding years. None of them was im portant, and none seemed to show much ad vance toward the construction of a practical typewriter, excepting the machine constructed by Mr. A. E. Beach in 1856. This was primarily -intended for the printing of embossed letters for the blindpbut could also be adapted to the general uses of a typewriter. It employed pairs of dies to impress the characters upon a narrow ribbon of paper. These were ranged about a circle, each pair swinging to a common center much in the same manner as a modern typewriter. This machine attracted great at tention when exhibited in New York, but it never emerged from the experimental stage. In 1847-Dr Francis, a wealthy medical man of New York, took out a patent for a typewriter, in which a motion similar to that of a piano hammer was employed to throw up the types, which were arranged in a circle, to a common center. It was bulky and intricate, and, al though capable of good work, was too costly for a commercial venture. So far as is known but one model was constructed, and no at tempt was made to place any of. them on the market. This machine also contained many of the salient features of the typewriter of today, such as the carriage traveling from side to side over the type basket, alaftn bell for indi cating encFof line, blank key for spacing, etc. After this several patents were issued in 1858, 1859, 1860 and so on, up to 1865 or 1866. but none of these inventions proved to be of much practical value, and none" of, them was productive of further progress toward the de sired end. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) Chinese Coat for Hurley. China proposes to decorate Edward N. Hur ley of the shipbuilding board with the Order of Chiaopo. It is all right, whatever it is, since the yellow coat doesn't go with it. AY The Day We Celebrate. Morris Levy, capitalist and philanthropist, born 1884. Dr. A. F. Tyler, physician, born 1881. Thomas R. Marshall, vice president 'of the United States, born at North Manchester, Ind., 65 years ago. William Graves Sharp, late United States am bassador to France, born at Mount Giliad, O., 60 years ago. Maxim Gorky, famous Russian novelist and reformer, born at Nijni Novgorod 51 years ago. Countess of Aberdeen, noted philanthropist and benefactor of Irish industries, born 62 years ago. In Omaha 3D Years Ago. Lydia Thompson and her burlesque company opened at the Boyd in "Penelope." "Madame Thompson looks as fresh and as active as ever and has a number of pretty girls in her organization, but, with one or two exceptions, they make rather a poor stagger at stage busi ness." . A new union passenger depot is being built (on paper) again. Mayor Broatch has issued a Sunday closing order, instructing Chief Seavey to notify saloon keepers to that effect. 1 Sergeant Matza and Officer Drummy are on the police sick list. A. Thompson is back from a business trip to New York j People You Ask About Information About Folks In the Publie Eye Will Be Given in This Column in Answer to Readers' Questions. Your Name Will Not Be Printed. Let The Bee Tell You. "Ijt&e qJ?o6s' Qom&r Typist The distinction of invent ing the typewriter, the main features of which are in use today, belongs to Christopher Latham Sholes, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1819. He was of riymouth Rock ancestry, his grandfather on the ma ternal side being a lineal descend ant of John Alden. Starting at the age of 14 to learn the printer's trade, at manhood's threshold he had ad vanced to the business of publisher. Subsequently the editor of various publications In the border settle ments of Wisconsin, to which the lure of the new west had called him. Mr. Sholes held various public of fices, from seats in the legislature to postmaster and collector of customs at Milwaukee. In 1866, while col lector of customs, Sholes produced a crude model of the typewriter, but it was not until 1873 that a manufac turer was found and the invention placed on the market. Sholes died In Milwaukee in 180V Inquirer The American ambassa dor to Japan is Roland S. Morris, 45 years of age, a native of Olympla, Wash., and of Philadelphia ancestry. He graduated from the law school of the University of Pennsylvania and practiced law in Philadelphia before settling in this native city. Mr. Morris and Vance McCormick were at one time legal and political chums and that relationship accounts for air. Morns' transfer from law to the oblique diplomacy of the Orient A quarter of a century of dis tinguished service as a member of the highest tribunal is the record of Chief Justice Kdward D. White, who took his seat on the bench as an associate Justice of the United States supreme court 25 years ago this week. The chief justice is a native of Louisiana, born in 1845, and comes from an old family of the Pelican state. He was admitted to the bar in 1868. In 1891 he was elected to the United States senate. Three years later President Cleve land appointed him to the supreme bench and in 1910 President Taft made him chief Justice, Thomas Riley Marshall, vice presi dent of the United States, turned his 65th birthday this week. Born in Indiana of Virginian ancestry, Mr. Marshall was not innoculated with the office itch as thoroughly as Hooslers of his class. His first ex perience at the scratch in 1880, when he sought the Job of county prosecutor, was a failure. Thirty years later he was elected governor and his record in that office blazed the way to the vice presidency. He is the only vice president to be re nominated and re-elected since the convention system of nomination was adopted in 1832. , 1 The late Hilary A. Herbert of Ala bama, secretary of the Navy during Cleveland's second term, shares with his immediate predecessors, William C. Whitney and Benjamin F. Tracy, the honor of modernizing the Ameri can navy. He stood with Cleveland against Bryanism and free silver in the '90's and did a southerner's share in making the first battle a rout. Before entering the cabinet Mr. Herbert was an influential mem ber of the house of representatives for 14 years. Though in feeble health for many years he rounded out four score and five. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY (Tha Wild Geese on their way north re chaaed by a Flying Ogre, who aeek to kill tha King and tha Beautiful Blue Goose.) AIMED AT OMAHA. . , ' Tork News-Times: The Omaha Common Chamber of Commerce booklet says Omaha has a dry and healthful climate. News indeed. Columbus News: The mayor of Omaha says some one is standing on his foot. Not so long ago it used to be customary for a mayor of Omaha to stand on most everybody's neck. Havard Courier: Last time Hig gins. was in Omaha he saw a big poster on a billboard showing a wo man in a bathtub. He stopped and sang the Star Spangled Banner but she wasn't patriotic and wouldn't stand up. Beatrice Express: An Omaha dis patch states that bootleggers are now using empty gun shells for boot legging purposes; loading the shells with a gallon of whisky and selling them as "war souvenirs." Will it be necessary to enact a special stat ute to punish these violators? Fremont Tribune: The Omaha Chamber of Commerce is carrying on a very energetic campaign of publicity regarding the advantages offered by that city in every line of business. Newspaper and .magazine advertising is being bought in large quantities and some very artstic booklets have been issued. Omaha is developing in a wonderful way and the city's promising future Is more easily discerned than ever be fore. It is a creditable business in dex of Nebraska and the other great states tributary to the city. ( Hastings Tribune: The Omaha Chamber of Commerce has just is sued a very neat booklet in wheh it calls attention to the fact that the metropolis of Nebraska ranks first in the sales of war saving stamps, leads all cities in per capita of Red Cross membership, that it oversub scribed 105 per cent in all war drives, and that while , it ranks thirty-fourth in population it holds the twelfth place in ank clearings. All Nebraskans are proud of Omaha, and the splendid showing she is making. 4 : Behind the Move. Baltimore American: And now a campaign has been started against so-called immodesty in women's dress. This must be a wet move to make life less joyful for the prohibitionists. CHAPTER V. The Gnnril Is Captured. "D ILLY quickly explained to Peggy why a keen scientist was as dangerous to the Wild Geese as a real Ogre. "You see an Ogre might only want to eat them and if It proved too much trouble to get them he would be satisfied to eat othe creese. But lh ar(amHat wonla srv,b t,a itl,i In vw .jv .v .....lb i . u , . .vino ll UIH1 specimen for his museum a speci men rarer or better than other naturalists have he will keep after it until he gets it And this Flying Ogre is evidently bound' to kill both the beautiful Blue Goose and the King." "The only way to save the Geese is to throw the Ogre oft the track," suggested Peggy. "And that will be hard, for you see he Is a wise Ogre and evidently ne Knows so much about their habits already that he eu.i figure Just what they are going to du." Billy's eyes glanced. over the airplane which had been drawn tlose to the camp. "I might disable the air plane not enough to really hurt it, but so that the 'Ogre couldn't fly for a few days." "That wouldn't be mischief, would It?" said Peggy, who knew that it was very wrong to meddle with the property of other persons. "No, because we would be saving life, and besides I would not do any actual harm," Billy assured her. "But how can I get to the airplane? See how closely they guard it." The two Ogres had finished their supper and put on their coats. Now the naturalist Ogre climbed Into tha airplane to sleep, while the aviator Ogre, with rifle beside him, sat up to keep guard. "Snuff! Snuff! Gr-a-n-rh!" said an animal voice behind Billy and he relt his coat grasped in strong Jaws, which gave a push that nearly sent him tumbling into the camp. "Stop, Lonesome Bear!" ordered Peggy, who promptly recognized the animal and saw that he was trying to get revenge on Billy for shoving him into the river. "We're trying to save the Wild Geese from the'two Ogres." "I'll scare "em." offered Lonesome Bear, dragging Billy back to safety. "And get shot," snapped Billy, who was too busy to enjoy the bear's rough fun. "See that rifle!" Lone some Bear saw it and was silent. But he had given Billy an idea. "If we could capture the guard and get his gun, we might frighten the Fly ins; Ogre away from camp long enough to let me disable the air plane," he mused. , At Billys belt was a long, stout rope with which he had been play ing cowboy. Billy's hand went to this. "I think I could lasso that chap. X wish I had a horse to pull 7 JTTA Red Cross Not Discharging Soldiers. 'Omaha, March 13. To the Editor of The Bee: We note in your eve ning paper of March 12, a letter, making the statement that the Red Cross workers of Omaha have been deciding who should be discharged from the army and who should be kept In the service. I want to advise Frank Agnew that this is not correct, and whoever gave him this information has been misinformed. The Red Cross has ynihnc nrViot- ever to do with deciding who shall be discharged from the army or navy. The home Service section of the Omaha chapter Red Cross has at all times helped our soldiers and sailors in mfl.klna- nn nnnltonHnn fnr discharge, and is doing everything puasiuiB io Hssisi mem. xney nave also investigated reports sent to them by the commandants of the different stations, regarding state ments made by men in service who were asking for a discharge, and in every case they have investigated these statements fully and .have given the information as nearly cor rect as it was possible to obtain it from Interested parties. The home service section, with offices in the court house, are offer ing assistance to all soldiers, sailors and marines. In every way possible, and do not attempt to dictate to any one, but rather to help in every emergency. , W. B. TAGG. Chairman, Omaha Chapter American Red Cross. Balance of Naval Power. Silver Creek, Neb., March 11. To the Editor of The Bee: In The Bee of March 11 in a.- dispatch from Paris, it is stated that the British government has receded from its position that the captured German war vessels be sunk, and will con sent that they be divided among the entente allies, at the same time an nouncing its purpose to destroy such vessels as may be alloted to her. And what is the purpose of Great Britain in sinking these ships? It is explained apparently on the au thority of Lloyd George in the fol lowing paragraph which I quote In full from the dispatch: "In this way, it la mid, Great Britain would relieve the United 8tatea of the necesalty of carrying out her projected great navat building program, which, It la underatood, waa baaed on the Intention to prevent any one nation' from having auch a predominant navy as would give her control of the aeaa againat the power of the league of nations." And so we can see, as thoughtful men have already seen, that . this precious league of nations scheme is a fraud and a farce on the very face of it. i And why? Simply this: That In face of the fact that President Wil son has declaimed against a balance of power as being a discredited thing of the past, and Insisting on a league of nations, which, he says, would make war impossible, he at the same time, by asking this very congress, that has Just expired, for the enormous sum of more than $700,000,000 with which enormously to increase our already great navy through fear of Great Britain, is try ing to establish a balance of power within the league itself, thus show ing that' notwithstanding all his high-flown, hifalutin phrases about establishing peace on earth and good will toward men, he, himself, has no faith in his league and does not himself believe what he is saying. I wonder if that man in Oregon' who was sent to prison for 20 years for saying that Wilson was a hypo crit, is still in confinement? ,' CHARLES WOOSTER. Cut Rates on Iron Cross. New York World: Apparently, the number of iron crosses sold to American soldiers on the Rhine by enterprising German tradesmen has tended to reduce the home supply of iron. But the example is interesting of the adaptability of German in dustry to the opportunity for profit DAILY CARTOONETTE I U10NHE 1H Y THAT JJYNAMITE 3JDE&NTEXPL0B.E UNI1ER TMflT ROCK! I'lXqo - OMTI CC' r- J ma LEMONS YIIITEI! THE COMPLEXION Any woman can make up this creamy beauty lotion for a few cents The juice of two fresh lemons strained into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white makes a whole quarter pint of the most remarkable lemon skin beauti fier at about the cost one must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams. Care should be taken to strain the lemon juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice i3 used to bleach a darkened skin and remove such blemishes as freckles, sallowness and tan and is the ideal skin soften er, whitener and beautifier. Just try it! Get three ounces of orchard white at any drug store and two lemons from the grocer and make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hands. Adv. EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS , Washington Post: Nature has not kept her assets in snow banks this season. t Minneapolis Tribune: Perhaps It is just as well to let the name of the North Dakota capital remain Bis mark after all. Baltimore American: One reason there are so few old-fashioned girls running at large is that discerning men marry them as soon as detected. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Or ganization of the middle classes is no longer a purely humorous conceit in England. Sir James Barrie, Sir Conan Doyle and Arnold Bennett are among the most active organizers of the "middle class union." Atlanta Constitution: "We Amer icans pay for what we get" is a boast you can make after you have mailed your income tax to the collector. An income tax receipt in the wallet is a full brother to the gold service stripe on the sleeve. It's a service decoration. Daily Dot Puzzle f u 15 w i 8. A J 3 V u 58 V I 25 Ss. e ' -.""I' 'ot. 37 sV. -to. 59 as f si u 32? 2& What does Willie dislike? Draw from one to two and an on to the end. II Wlil"WM " - J r i V ft ) J If sae loves beautiful musio make Her happwitk a. -live world's (ire$V; piano bar none T Its supreme beauty oP trorve tsnll not diminisn irv the years to come, wKicK cannot he said of aTY other piano. . Alao Repreaentativei of the Leading Make oi PIANOS Kranich A Bach, Voae aV Sona, Bramnach, Buab. A Lane, Kimball, Cable-Nelson, i u i i u . I New Pianoa, $285 Up. On 24 Monthly Payment Your Liberty Bond Makea the Firat Payment Tha Art and Muaie Store of Omaha 1513 Deugla Street MV ft,' 41 J, MS. wn F tR YrVV, A "Hey, What's tha Matter?" Shouted Uio Naturalist. him Into the woods' where we could tie him up." "I'll be a horse," grunted Lone some Bear, eagerly. "Come on then," said Billy. Bo all three crept down by the edge of the camp, hiding behind low bushes. The guard, his rifle resting against his arm, was reading ay paper by the light of the fire. Billy put one end of the rope around Lonesome Bear's neck. He made a noose of the other end and coiled the rope. "Run when I give the-word," he said to Lonesome Bear. "And, Peg gy. J'ou grab the ritle before the giy jng Ogre can see you." Billy whirled the lusso around his head. "Now," he shouted. Out flew the noose, right over the guard's arms and shoulders. Away raced Lonesome Bear into the woods, and as the rope tightened, the guard was Jerked from his seat. "Bang!" went the rifle as it fell over. Quick as a flanh. Peggy seized it and Jumped backrinto the woods. "Hey, what's the matter?" shout ed the naturalist Ogre leaping from the airplane, But the guard couldn't answer. He was flying through the air toward the wood. All that the naturalist Ogre saw before his com panion vanished, was a pair of sprawling legs and arms sticking out of a big furry coat and wildly waving an unexpected farewell. (Tomorrow will be tola trow the 0r hurriedly climb a tree and mlaae the Wild deeae.) Be Sure To See the ALLEN Illfi:!!:8!ll!!:i!!!i!!!i3!ll at the Auto Show Standard Motor Car Company Carl Changstrom, Pres. 2020 Farnam St., Omaha 1 - -r r- ill i iii. P ATTENTION! War Bonus For Soldiers and Sailors Every honorably dis- . charged soldier, sailor and marine, who has received his final pay, but has not already received one month's extra pay, under provisions of Section 9, Act of May, 1917, is entitled toa war bonus of $60.00.. We invite you to come into the First National, and ;all at Window 19, where we will assist you in mak ing out and forwarding your claim to the proper authorities in Washington. Be sure and bring with you, first, your discharge, or release, if no certificate . was issued, but both certifi cate and order, if both were issued, and the paper bearing endorsement of final payment. Second, a statement of all military service since April 6, 1917, showing place and date of reporting at first military station. Please have this carefully ! written out. , j We invite you to avail ! yourself of THIS SERV ICE OF THE FIRST, which we are glad to fur nish to our discharged sol- diers, sailors and marines. .Mist National
