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si IF- 2k saij COI V' CO . dy in 3 Pi sr at co 01! 3 to 3 I 3 cm '! TO' m I r 10 ft . -b I ft . UN." The Omaha 'Bee DAILY (MQRiNLNj?) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BT EDWARD HOBEWATEH - ' VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR BEK' PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tht Auocuted I'iw, u( whirli The lie U member. 1 excrutlfelf nUtled to tin tut for publication of M news dispatches credited o It or not'OthrwlM credited Id tots PUT, aud slao Um lorsl news puhlUhed herein. All rights of vubllcatlou of our speoiai dispatches art alio rpMrnd. '? " OFFICES : ' Ohicafo Penpte'l Gu Butlillns. Omaha The Bh Hide. Nw York SSI Plftb. Are. . But!i Onuiba UB N St. St. Loate Kit B'nk of Commerce, qpunrll Bmrfe it N. Main St. IV'aablafion 1311 U BL Uncoln Little Bulldlnc. FEBRUARY CIRCULATION Daily 64,976 Sunday 63,316 ' .Average circulation for the month lUbacrlbed ao4 sworn to rqr si. R. JUu. Circulation Manager. Subscribers leaving the city should have The Bee mailed te them. Address chanted as often as requested. And the price of pork still soars. Looks like an early spring, but you never can tell. ' ' . The tigarelte bill is a little disfigured, but it is on its way. ''' The house censored, the movie censor bill, and it is no more. ' ; , Somebody oughfc to remind the noisy Ger man politicians that it was they, not us, that lost the war. ; German potash producers expect to. dispose of their surplus stock to the United States. Not if Nebraska knows it. " - - All together, or none, say the lumber dealers, in regard to the matter of letting down prices., And there you have it. ' ; "Tay Pay" O'Connor sees a commanding anti-British sentiment! growing up in America. He ought to look again. , Cheyenne is pursuing bank robbers with aa tdmobiles. What has gone wrong in the last "stand of the 'wild" west?, . .. Twenty-four per cent of General Pershing's army is either at home or on the way, while the other 76 per cent is eager to get started. LET US CONCENTRATE OUR EFFORTS. '. Omaha is, 'entertaining a number of project just at the present time, some of them quite nebulous, none of them very far advanced, and a few at least of doubtful character as to feasi-" bility or desirability. The absence of a definite or fixed program renders discussion of any of the suggested schemes desultory or ineffective. The growth of the city is faster than most of its inhabitants can appreciate or understand. Rrovisons .that were considered ample a few years ago have bee outgrown, and those of the moment are being strained every day to meet requirements. This in itself has interfered with the realization of a great many dreams for pub lic improvement or the setting up of conveni ences for general accommodation. Experience ought to teach us something in this connection. Instead of scattering around with a multi plicity of alluring projects and getting nothing "done on any, would it not be wise to carefully consider all, determine what are most needed, what wjll be most useful and what we can best afford, and finally to decide on something and do it? . For illustration, the enthusiasm for a sol diers' memorial a little while, back was so gen eral that almost any sort of a plan would have had support had it been presented in a concrete form.' Tentative suggestions then made have been laid aside or forgotten, other proposals equally tentative have . been brought forward and we have made no nearer approach to a de cision than when the subject was originally broached. Would it not be well for our expensive city planning board, the city commissioners, the Chamber of Commerce and other public and quasi-public agencies to get together,, unite on some program and set the wheels in motion to accomplish something 'other"" than inconsequen tial debate? . . The booze-route through Iowa is not trav eled as easily as it used to be'.' But the runners are not" deterred by the loss of a cargo, and car. Uncle Sam is going to cut lo Ase some of the wool he holds in stock, and it may be possible in time to get a piece of real woolen, goods again. - i . . ' . One of the little ironies of the situation is the German government's being required to de posit money in a bank at Brussels to pay for f6od. ) k; ,.-- ' jl . ' The French aviator who was to start on a t Transatlantic flight did not, and blames a ! cracked cylinder. Recalls somehow - Walter ,!j VVellman's flight from Spitzbergen . that never i4 came off. ' . V . , Another Call From the Red Cross. Peace conference delays are accepted as a matter of diplomacy, the processes of which are generally those of delay. The naked women rand children pf tfye devastated districts of Eu: rope are not clothed by fine words and ringing proclamations from Paris. Neither do. well-worked-upv arguments for abstract principles provide shelter for sufferers turned out into the weather by war. Therefore, the American Red Cross again has appealed to our people for do nations of . cast-off clothing. Omaha is allotted the task of gathering 35,000 pounds of this lothing, and is'asked to have it ready at once. That is the proposition, stated in its simplest terms. A short, intensive "drive" is being planned, and the big-hearted people of the com munity are hereby adjured to , ransack their closets and wardrobes, i that they may locate 'anything left over from previous drives, or which' may have been ' lad aside since the last one, and have it ready for the workers, for the destitute ofyEurope need it, and there is. no other way to clothe them at the present time. Also, we have to go to Lincoln to' get per mission to finish the municipal auditorium. How J much longer will Opahi chafe under the leading ir strings, when it' can achieve home rule simply strings i . e 'J i; oy voting lor ir: ' Now that we know why' the late chairman 16 (by right bf seniority) of the senate committee ll on foreign relations supports the League of if Nations, we can take up trie next order of busi- ness. Will the peace conference also support it? r, A public bath house on Jefferson square will j add to the comfort and happiness of men who are now compelled ta go to ,the river when they t want a plunge. But it seems to a man up a 't tree as if Omaha had other more urgent needs ' than this. , ' - .. i 1 ' . i i Base balk being an essential industry, orover t Cleveland Alexander is on his way back from ; the front. A lot of farmer boys are still orr guard over the Rhine. This, bit of information will be appreciatgd in Nebraska, where Alex" . ! has his home. ' ' . ' 'm The British government is willing to leave ' the question of the captured German cables to 5 the ', decision of the peace council. Why would is that not be a good place to" take theiquestion of I the cables captured by Albert E. Burleson some , time after the war ended? v ,1 May we not congratulate William Jennings Bryan and hii .excellent wife on having recov-f ,, ered from recent illnesses, and further - to ; felicitate the great commoner on having, at-, J tained hii fifty-ninth birthday, even if the date J does bring him that much nearerthe Osjcrian ,i limit? ' ' " , v ' ! Bourgeois and Proletarian !J , The word bourgeois is the old French word for a citizen of a bourg, or city; we have the ,Isame word in' English as burgher Originally :Jit distinguishedthe towm dweller from the no !ble who lived in his castle or the peasant who, .dwet in the hamlet among the fields. Then, Jsince the bourgeois was likely to be a trades woman or a craftsman the word canie to have that J meaning, too. ' " a" .As noun it described the" thrifty, industri ,6us member of, the mercantile-or manufactur ing classes; as an adjective it described-the .'qualities, the Standards and the characteristics' "of those classes. In the most modern sense of alIthat employed by tHe socialist writers , "who t take their cue from Karl Marx the word is Ussed to mean those who -have accumulated sonie property, those who are in a position tci Vemploy- other people and o pay them wages. I he word proletarian comes from the Latin f understanding between officers and men in the u:firrf nrn1p Ynffnrino'l anI 7 flrtfl vari aor vas used by the Romans to designate the less . substantial and useful members of society, thce, : wlio had nothing except their children to dffer ' ito the support of the state. The word also has j; taken other shades of meaning until it has rom.e to be applied to a member f the fom inunity who has no other capital than the' strength of his hands; the laborer Or working "nian who lives, as it were, from hand to mouth, and who has no reserves to support him in, "'.ime of need. . , ' ;It is fair to say that until the great immi gration of the last 40 years and the consequent growth of great industrial establishments there ' was, among the white people of the United States, no cJaSs that could properly be called proletarian. The proletariat we have'today is. made up almqst wholly of recent immigrants who brought with them to ' this country the traditions, the prejudices and the suspicions of their European class. A great many of our foreign-bonj fellow citizens have worked out of that state of mind and of purse, and are to luy prosperous and independent, but there are millions who are still near enough to the con .ikioas that they grew up in to Sft'ord fertile wsoil "for the propaganda of proletarian social-iMi-.. Youth's Companion. ' ' Insured by Uncle am , , Miserable Peanut Politics. ( "A lie well stuck to is better than the truth half told," is the motto emblazoned on the ban ner of the Omaha Hyphenated organ of incom petent democracy. For example, ever since the late congress, in which the democrats controlled, both senate, house and all the committees, failed to make provision for carrying on the govern .rnent,' and, the democratic president preferred to let the government drift along in its helpless condition, rather' than call the republican con gress together, the Omaha Hyphenated has been, shouting "republican filibuster." On the front page of its Tuesday morning issue appears the headline: .'Congress' Failure .May Cut Funds for Soldier Families. Republican Filibuster Keeps Aid From Needy." , The purpose of this is obvious. Its. effect as well as its intent is made the plainer on reading the article it captions. This says: "There is no shortage in the funds for allot ments, since this is deducted from the soldiers' pay, but the funds available' for allowances added to the allotments are limited." Does this mean that the soldiers' families are to be allowed to suffer? The same article goes on: 'Cabinet mem bers have cabled the president reports of serious conditions in their respective departments caused by the failure of cohgress to appropriate funds." The president was well advised of these conditions before he sailed from France, but positively refused to call an extra session. How is it possible to put on republicans the blame for this colossal exhibit of democratic incapacity? Courtesy and the Man Below. You recall, the old story 'of the grizzled sea dog,, who pulled his foretop and answered the captain's question as to what was wanted with the statement: "Just a little common courtesy, and the commonest biankety-blank kind of cour tesy will do." A writer in the Railway Age, dis cussing "Decreasing the 'Man Mileage,' " des cants on the effect of the wording of messages from officers to subordinates.. He illustrates his point with some sample messages, each show ing something of petulance, impatience, or downright discourtesy. Against these he con trasts the sentences as they might have been framed to express the same ideas or convey the same meaning, yet without having the irritating quality of being hastily written,, carelessly framed communications that defeat their end by arousing antagonism and producing only per functory replies. His argument is that men all the way up or down the line are human, and that authority is best enforced when it is wielded with judgment ai well as firmness. His con clusion is commended to all who may be in -a position to give orders to others:, "A closer ranks will without doubt result in an improve ment in our man mileage." Just a little of the 'commonest kind of courtesy , helps a lot at times. It was quite complimentary to the Irish to remind them on St. Patrick's day that a lot of prize fighters and pluguglies had worn good old Irish names when carrying on their questionable trades. It recalls to old-timers the occasion when the same "paper referred to the" A. O. H. convention as a gathering of "Old terriers." The Postoflice .department, calls attention to the amount of workfthe dead letter office has to do, hut says nothing of the delay in delivering letters that are plainly and correctly addressed. It is this that most aggravates the public. The contest between the New York brewers and the collector of internal revenue is interest ing reading as an. abstraction, but out here we have the concrete fact of an air-tight, bone-dry desert New York Times. When Secretary McAdoo said in his bulletin of January 1. 1918, entitled "Uncle Sam's Insur ance for Soldiers and Sailors," that "the govern ment is making a liberal, an unprecedented of fer to the fighting forces," he may be said to have spoken with great moderation. Never was such a generous offer made to men going into battle on land or sea. About 4,000,000 men have taken advantage of it. The effect on morale must have been tremendous. Bravery was stimulated, devotion to duty intensified. If fate ordered that a man was to be killed, or even to die-, in a home camp or port while awaiting the call to battle, his beneficiary would never be an object of charity. If it was decreed that a sol dier or sailor was to be disabled, htj would re ceive from the government a certain sum of money every month as long as he livedin addi tion to separate compensation. In the old days the dependent relatives of a soldier killed in battle might have to beg their bread, and a soldier mutilated might exhibit his injuries to collect pennies in a tin cup. His grateful country in course of time provided a pension for him if his case were presented in the proper form by a lawyer who very often was not altruistic. But Uncle Sam changed all that when he drafted men to fight, took them from their work and, homes, willing or not, in doing which he recognized' an obligation to pro tect them and their families from thg hazards of war. The result was that an invincible army fought ori the fields of France. In June, 1918, 70 marines fell in battle i an attack somewhere near the Marne. All ,' had taken out the insurance provided bythe law of October 6, 1917. Fifty-seven of them had carried the maximum, $10,000; tme was insured for $8,000 and 12 for $5,000. The government obligation was $500,000. Earlier in the Same month f June, 1918, a young soldier who had been ill in camp at Wrightstown, N. J., died of pneumonia. Just before he went to the hospital he had taken out a policy for $10,000, naming his mother as beneficiary. Today, the war hav ing passed into history, several million soldiers and sailors, including officers, are insured with Uncle Sam; and unless they neglect to pay premiums they will carry policies to the end of life at rates' which , no private company could propose, rates so low that only a benevolent government could offer them. There were two reasons for the insurance legislation adopted early in the war the non insurability of risks incurred by! soldiers and sailors, and the forestalling of service pensions. Up to the end of 1918 the United States govern ment had paid out to veterans of the war of the Revolution, the War of 1812, Indian wars, the Mexican war, the civil war, and the war with . Spain the vast sum of $5,215,528,780 in pensions. It will probably be found that the war insurance legislation of October, 1917, was a good stroke of business on the part of Uncle Sam. It should be a deterrent to service . pensions. What politician will have the effrontery, in our titne at least, to ask that any veteran of the great war be helped from the public purse in spite of the optio'n he had to take out an insurance policy on terms that were the despair of the regular companies? The terms': Fr a soldier or sailor of 18, 63 cents a month for every thousand dol lars, .and an ascending scale for age up to 64, when the. rate was $3.07 for every thousand dol- i lars. ' i. . . The government pays all expenses of insur-1 ance administration, insurance is creditor proof; it canriot be attached. It is not the only protection provided by th6 government in the act of October 6, 1917. There is besides month ly compensation for death or injuries or disease "suffered in the line of duty." This is entirely independent of the insurance which the soldier or sailor takes out. Compensation, it must be admitted,, may open the door to near-pensions, as congress could decide to raise the compensa tion scale. As long ago as April, 1918, the insurance on the books of the war- risk bureau "was nearly four times as great as that of the largest com mercial life i insurance company in the yorld" and more than half the total amount of life in surance carried by private companies in the United States. It was then estimated , that "within a year probably between twenty and thirty billions of dollars of insurance will'have been issued." The total is now $36,000,000,000. About a week before the armistice was signed the war risk insurance bureau was carrying about 4,000,000 policies on the lives of American soldiers and sailors, the bureau having become the largest single establishment, of the government. Burleson's Telephone Pailure , Substantial popular support will be given to the appeal of the National Association of Rail way and Public Utilities commissioners that the telegraphs and telephones be restored to their owners.. The question is not whether there was any .justification for governmental seizure of these fines or whether there has been favoritism, as is charged, in the financial arrangements which the Postoffice department has made with them. What chiefly concerns the people at this time 'is the. matter of service. That it is poor and growing poorer and that there is no prospect of improvement willtbe very generally admitted. v It has been charged that the department took over these lines with a definite purpose to es tablish national ownership, a plan which post masters general' of both parties have advocated for several years. If that was the aim experi ence has not demonstrated the wisdom or the enterprise, 1 Under private management the telephone in New York was efficient and trustworthy. In the hands of the Postoffice department it has become in many cases an exasperating nuisance. Judging public operation by its own perform ances for six months past, it is a failure and furthermore it furnishes the worst possible recommendation for Postmaster General Bur leson's grand scheme of public ownership. New York World. ' i The Day We Celebrate. James G. Martin, live stock commissioner. born 1864. William J. Bryan, born at Salem, 111., 59 years ago. Duke of Westminster, the wealthiest peer in the United Kingdom, born 40 years ago. Sir Lomer Gouin, prime minister of Quebec, born at Grondines, Quebec, 58 years ago. Gen. George P. Harrison, former congress man, and commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, born near Savannah, Ga., 78 years ago. i Moorfield Storey, eminent Boston jurist and former president of the American Bar associa tion, born at Roxbury, Mass., 74 years ago. Rear Admiral W. McElroy, U. S. N., born in Illinois, 61 years ago. , In Omaha 30 Years Ago. Debate over the new postoffice location dis closes that the lots finally bought constituting the square between Sixteenth and Seventeenth and Dodge and Capitol avenue were owned by the Folsom estate (Mrs. Grover Cleveland), Dennis Cunningham, G. M. Hitchcock, William Fleming, Brown, Union National bank, Byron Reed. Mrs. 2. B. Knight. William F. Cody is the guest of George Can field. He is to take his Buffalo Bill show to Paris, sailing April 27,v with all his cowboys, Indians and ponies. f Twenty suits of Mother Hubbard unirorms were received far the county jail for female prisoners. - x J. B. J. Ryan, old time newspaper man, was on the street for the first time after a 12-weeks illness. Our, Free Legal Aid State your case clearly but ' briefly and a reliable lawyer -will furnish the answer or advice in this column. Your . name will not be printed. v ( Let The Bee Advise You Descent and Distribution. P. K. U. A man dies leaving a boy 10 years of age by a tormer mar riage, also a widow with no children of a second marriage. What is widow's share of estate there being no will? M Answer After the payment of debts and funeral expenses the widow will take a one-fourth Inter est. . t Should boy be supported and edu cated out of his share or step mother's? Answer The court will make an allowance to be used from the boy's share for his support. ' Can, widow sell any of the prop erty before boy Is of age? Answer Both the real and per sonal property can be sold for the payment of debts and cost of admin istration of the estate of the de ceased, or if necessary, to obtain funds for the support of the boy, or can be sold by partition suit -Insurance. Deceased's life insurance is mad payable to the' estate. Should debts be paid out of Insurance money be fore a division of the estate is made? tAnswer Insurance being made payable to the estate is a part of the assets to the same extent that money in the bank would be and all debts, funeral expenses, etc., should be paid before any division is made- If boy dies after father to whom does boy's share descend? Answer If the deceased shall leave no issue, nor father nor mother, the estate shall descend in equal shares to his brothers and sis ters and to the children of any de ceased brother or sister by right of representation. But if there be no father or mother or brother or sis ter, the estate shall descend, to his next of kin in equal degrees and those who claim through the nearest ancester should be preferred. Iowa Law Distribution. F. M. J. -If a resident of Iowa dies, leaving a widow and five chil dren, three children by a former marriage and two by the second marriage, how will the estate be di vided between the widow and the children, the property all being lo cated in Iowa? Will the children of the first marriage share equally with the children of the second mar riage and will the widow's share on her death go to her children or be divided between all the children? Answer The widow will take a one-fourth interest In all of the es tate after the 'payment of all debts of the deceased and the cost of ad ministration. The remainder of the estate' will be divided equally be tween all of the children, but upon the death ' of the widow her estate will be divided between her children. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY (The Flying Osre traps Lonesome Bear In a cave after tryNiB to shoot him.) CHAPTER III. Bulky Sum Comes Home. V OU'RB a nice one to get caught this way," . scolded Billy Belgium, as Lonesome Bear wept over his plight. "I don't want, to be stuffed ex cept with blueberries and acorns and nice things to eat," walled Lonesome Bear in answer. Billy walked up to the stakes which barred 'the entrance to the cave and tried to pull them out. He couldn't budge one of them. "We will have to get a saw to cut them," le declared. "Pon't leave me!" begged Lone Guardianship. J. T. W. I am guardian for aboy and girl 14 and 16 years of 'age. Their parents bought a lot on pay ments which is not all paid for. I want to pay out on the lot to save the children's interest therein. IIow should the deed be made out? Answer You have not Stated facts enough to answer fully, but the deed should no doubt be taken out in the name of the children. If you have any funds in your hands belonging to the children and it is for their best interests to complete the payment on the lot, the county court will give you an order to com plete the purchase, or will no doubt give you the right by order to mort gage the lot so as to complete the payments thereon. Lotteries. Postmaster I understand that there is a law in this state against the operation of slot machines and punching boards. In spite of this law there is a pool hall proprietor here who operates both and the city council refuses to make him quit. Are they liable to prosecution for noneriforcement of law, and, if not, who is supposed to enforce it? Answer It is the duty of the city officials to enforce the law. If they fail to do so they are subject to pros ecution for malfeasance in office. The county attorney, however, is the proper person for you to consult relative to the enforcement of the law in your case. Income Tax. J. G. C. I do not know whether I should make an income tax return or not. I had about 13,000 in re ceipts, but upon filling the farmers' schedule I find I have a small loss instead of a net gain, but am in doubt as to whether I should make a return. Answer Under the income tax law all persons who received a net income of more than $1,000 if a sin gle person, and more than 12,000 if a married person or head of family, are required to make a return, re gardless of whether or not the ex emptions allowed on account of loss or otherwise, would require them to i pay a tax. "Welcome home from war!" cried Peggy and Billy. some Bear. "The Ogre and the avi ator will, be back toon to smoke me out. Then they will shoot me." From the bushes across the river came a surprising bit of advice. - "Get a gas mask and they can't smoke you out." t Peggy and Billy whirled around to see the speaker. No one was in sight. Lonesome Bear was so wrap ped up in his troubles, that he hadn't heard the voice. He went right on with his wailings. , "I don't want to be shot! I don't want to be ehot!" "Then get a helmet!'' advised the unseen speaker. . Billy pushed Fegjry behind him. The speaker might be the Ogre. "Who are you, and what do you want?" shouted Billy Belgium. In inswer a head bobbed up from among the bushes a hend even more scary than that of the Ogre in his goggle-eyed helmet This head had a round top, big ears huge eyes, bulging cheeks and a trunk like that of an elephant. - "Gee whillikers!" exclaimed Bil ly, using one of the favorite words of the Giant of the Woods. "Golll klns!" said Peggy, peeking around his shoulders. ' ' Low down in the bushes, a second head poked itself out, a head just like the rlrsttone, only it had smaller ears. Then, over at one side, ap peared a third head one with horns Instead of ears. All three tftared at the children with unblinking eyes. Billy raised his bean shooter, and, "Puff!" a bean sped across the river, landing "bn the first head. Plink; went ihe bean, bounding off. An other shot sped right into the- eye of the second head. The shot hit and bounded off, but the eye didn't even wink. "Gee-whillllters!" said Billy again. "He-hiw; Get a cannon," advised the first head. - "Ha, I know yon now," cried Peg gy, leaping from behind Billy. "Balky Sam, you march right out of those bushes." i 1 "He-haw! Hee-haw r We fooled you just-like we fooled, the Huns," brayed, Balky Sam triumphantly, parading out of the bushes on his hand legs. On his head he wore a German helmet and over his face he had a gas mask. No wonder Peggy and Billy didn't repognlze him. And -out of the bushes, too, trotted Billy Goat and Johnny Bull, each wearing a helmet and mask. "Welcome home from war!" cried Peggy and Billy. - "What's the matter over there? Got some fighting to do?" brayed Balky Sam, shaking off his mask. "Lonesome Bear has been trapped in his den by the Flying Ogre," an swered Billy. "Hte-haw! We'll show you what we did to Hun traps in Europe," brayed Balky Sam. lie plunged into the river, with flees Democratic Incompetency, Fullerton, March 17. To the Edi tor of The Bee: To me It appears as though the late democratic congress placed itself so completely in the hands of Mr. Wilson and depended absolutely upon him to map out its legislative program and even then left it to the president to whip the obstreperous members into line, that when the chief executive left con gress to itself it was like a ship with out a rudder. No congress was ever so completely dominated by the White House as the last one. It ill becomes administration organs to now lay the blame for the failure of important and pressing legislation to be enacted upon the republican minority, this, too, in the face of the president's uncalled-for and unpa triotic request of the people to re turn a democratic congress in the late general election. Is this not another illustration of the democratic party's inefficiency and gross incompetency in the con duct of national affairs? It is also another illustration of that party's propensity to shift to other shoulders responsibilities. i The administration never has ex-s pressed or otherwise shown proper appreciation of the valuable and loyal assistance rendered the presi dent by republican congressmen and senators in putting over important war measures when certain of his own party opposed or refused to vote when important -war legislation was before congress for consideration. The democratic party is nothing if it is not inconsistent; it merited the defeat it received at the hands of the country In November, 1918, and, furthermore, it will get another one in 1920. J; W. W. Daily Dot Puzzle 20 JU 23 24 ID " . 7 lb ' Ao A H 23 5 4z 4s : 2. . v .4s - ? At 68 m : .' .4 Sixty lines and then you'll see , My old from Tennessee. Draw from one to two and a on to the end. bV !y Goat and Johnny Bull swim ming close behind. In tomorrow's chapter ths attempt to rescue Lonesome Bear leads into unex pected danger.) , Partncrsliips. Council Bluffs, la., March 17. To the Editor Of The Bee: Prudent busi ness men are cautious about part nerships. And it is well. This is especially true with successful men who have established large and pros perous intistutions. Your Uncle Samuel has been a very successful man of business; for more than a hundred years his various enter prises have grown iid prospered until today his domains are vast and peopled by a prospeious and happy people, and Uncle has managed his own' affairs, internal and external. Now it is proposed to form a part nership with the whole world, the white and the yellow man and the black man are to have places on the directorate. Your Uncle Sam s direc tor is to have the same voice as the "gentleman "from Timbucto." No more, no less. ( Maybe It's all right maybe it's all wrong. A league of nations may be the thing of all things, a panacea for all the ills flesh is heir to, but after all it's only a partnership deal and "too many cooks spoil the broth," and the whole meal, too, in many cases. Mr. Wilson may possess all the wisdom his most ardent admir ers give him credit of having; i ven so, the drawing of articles of incor poration for a world-wir'e institution is a herculean task and it would be well to call- in some other wise heads and go over the details carefully. This never was Intended to be a one man government and autocracy is repugnant to American Ideas and ideals. In Mr. Wilson's case one is tempted to say with Cassius: "Upon what meat does this our Caesar feed, that he is grown so great?" Let's look over that memorandum agreement with a good deal of care before going into this partnership deal, You know the story of the young fellow who "married in haste and repented at leisure." J. H. B. CENTER SHOTS Philadelphia Ledger: Among cer tain of the confreres at the peace table an armistice may be necessary. Minneapolis Tribune: One of the big problems of the day is that which has to do with keeping the railroads out of the bread line. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Since fighting stopped November 11, it is almost inconceivable that reports of men "killed in action" should he coming March 10. Washington Post: It's inconceiv able that the United States will be called upon to defend this hemi sphere against - outside aggression, but nowadays it's the inconceivable that happens. Kansas City Star: Vice President Marshall, defending the league plan, says America ought to be willing to eat a little dirt in order to avoid an other war. Waiving all other points of this curious doctrine, just how much is a little dirt? 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