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to them. Addreis chanfed aa of tan aa requested.
Get into the garden game. It pays.
In plain words, the conditions at the Geneva
School for Girls are a disgrace to Nebraska.
Our navy is getting ready to start a cross
ocean flight. Where are the army birdmen? ,
Ak-Sar-Ben's determination to give an ex
position instead of a carnival indicates real
progress.
One of the great difficulties about bringing
down prices is that nobody wants to start
cutting first.
' Let us hope the mass meeting to discuss
the building situation gets at bottom facts with
breaking anything. .
The secretary 'of war will have the floor any
time he wants to give his version of the secret
slacker" instructions.
At that, the man who captured .first prize
for his definition of love has left the world, in
doubt as to what it really is.
Sir Horace Plunkett says the Irish question
must be settled in Ireland. This will strike
most people as being the right place.
English soldiers are marching in triumph
through street of London, but it would be more
impressive if they paraded down Unter-den-Linden.
Lumber dealers have met in Washington to
determine what may. be done in the way of let
ting down prices. This ought to encourage
Omaha folks.
it The Wilsonian democrats are- still busy,
reading Champ Clark out of the party, but the
old boy will take a lot of chasing before he is
wholly gotten rid of.
Income tax receipts so far are said to exceed
last year's collections by 25 per cent. Small
wonder, when the basic rate was increased three
tfmes, and all others raised. t
If that League of Constitutions is subject to
amendment by so many other nations, folks
will wonder why Americans could not have a
' word to say about fixing it over.
Thick and "thin supporters of the president
are having some trouble just now to keep, up
with the various turns of gossip from Paris.
It may be well to wait till the verdict is in, after
At any rate, no mistake exists as to the fact
i .that an army truck was being used to handle
contraband booze. This starting point ought
to make the rest of it easy for the military
' . authorities.
The democratic member of the legislature
who did not bring forward a bill during the
session has an opportunity to help the state
in other ways. He can help to kill some that
others brought in.
"Charley" Wooster and his Merrick Farmers'
Union have gone on record as opposed to good
roads, but this. will hardly stop the movement
and the men who voted for the resolutions will
share in ttie benefit that comes from improved
highways.
-. A Nebraska man proposes model farm com
munities as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt
Such a tribute would be appropriate for the
man who did to much as president to set on
foot the work of reclamation of arid lands and
extending the productive area of the United
States.-
' Paris newspapers are having their troubles
with the censors over the peace conference, but
the official blotter-out of thought can no' more
douse the spirit of the French editors than
could the kaiser daunt the poilu. Some day the
real history of this remarkable gathering will
be written, and it wilt be worth waiting for.
A group of "radicals" cheering anarchistic
"sentiment and clamoring against the govern
ment is not a sign that America is in the hands
of the bolsheviki, any more than it was true
thirty-odd years ago, when the Haymarket
rioters threw bombs among the police and the
bystanders. .It simply is continuing proof that
free government is inevitably accompanied by
lunacy. )
.An International Memorial
A new international bridge at Niagara Falls
as a memorial of peace and amity between the
United States and Canada is proposed by men
of influence in the two countries. A bill call
ing for an appropriation for the purpose is
pending in the. New York legislature, and the
project, which was agitated before the recent
war to symbolize a hundred years of peace, has
been revived on the Canadian side. Of the
proposal the Toronto Globe says:
"A bridge nobly designed connecting the
two countries, would be a singularly fitting
symbol of international amity and good
neighborhood, and' would be doubly dedicated
; to the cause of peace the peace of Ghent,
wiich put an end forever to war between the
United States and Canada, and the peace of
Paris, which may rid the whole world of war."
Such a bridge would be more than a ma
terial embodiment of sentiment, more than a
bond of friendship between two peoples with
kindred ideals. It would have utilitarian values
of great importance to the people of the two
countries." For mere traffic purposes the pro
posed connecting link is needed. The struc
ture should, of course, be beautiful, dignified
. and symbolic of the friendly relations and mu-
V tual sympathies of Canadian and .Yankee. The
bridge would be an added attraction for tour
ists who visit the falls and it would go far to
teep quick and vital the warmer fellowship that
a sprung out of a common effort for a com
mon cause. Minneapolis Tribune,'
ITALY AND THE ADRIATIC.
- All that Italy went into the war to obtain
is wrapped up in the issue between that coun
try and the Jugoslavs. To get the correct per
spective on this, certain historic facts should be
kept well in view. In 1861 Italy celebrated th
formation of a nation from the various princi
palities of the peninsula. This was more in
name than in fact, however. Rome did not
come under the rule of Italy's king until in
1870 the. French troops, who upheld the tem
poral power of the pope, were removed to join
in the Franco-Prussian war.
In .1866 Prussia deserted Italy, then her ally
against" Austria, and left a considerable part of
what is unquestionably Italian territory under
Austrian domination. Later, to protect herself
against possible French aggression, a result of
agitation in favor of restoring the papal king
dom of Rome, Italy joined the Triple Alliance.
This did not quiet the desire for a return of the
unredeemed parts of the Italian kingdom. Aus
tria noted this restlessness, and while Bismarck
and hisi successors connived to embroil Italy
and France, the arch schemers at Vienna thrust
a wedge of Jugoslavs into the region along the
east coast of the Adriatic, to racially overcome
the Latins there.
(This was the situation when Italy entered
the war. Germany and its allies offered to
restore that part of Venetia still held by Aus
tria if the Italians remained neutral. England,
France and Russia promised all of "Italia Ir
dedenia." The nation proclaimed in 1861 was
really about to become one, but did not feel the
impulse in all its force until after the) collapse
of Cadorna's army in the fall of 1917.; Then,
awakening to the danger of treachery within
and foes without, the , Italian' people became
really a nation, its aspirations clearly ex
pressed, and its determination fully established.
This is why no set of delegates or statesmen
dare return from Paris and tell the Italians
they have bargained away a portion of what
Italy went into the war to secure.
Case of the "Conscientious Objectors."
Major Foster, late member of the general
court-martial at Camp Funston, specifically
charges that Secretary of War Baker was party
to a pacifist movement which not only pro
tected slackers from doing military service, but
actually interfered with the progress of the war
for defense. .
In support of his charges the major cites
secret orders sent from the War department,
and withheld from public notice, that laws and
regulations governing the draft be stretched to
provide .loopholes through which "conscientious
objectors" might escape. This description was
so enlarged by the order from the secretary of
War that it enabled not only those of religious
faith who might properly be so classed to 'come
within its meaning, but made it easy for cow
ards, socialists, anarchists, I. W. W. agitators,
and all who wished to evade the draft to get
out by declaring "scruples" against war.
Secretary Baker's attitude was known when
he was appointed to his cabinet position." His
addresses in the campaign of 1916 showed the
trend of his mind; his remark, after America had
actually entered the war, when clamor was
made for speed in preparation, that "the war is
3,000 miles away," has been interpreted as indi
cating his indifference. ;
What will fathers and mothers say, whose
boys were taken for the service, and who con
soled themselves with the thought that it was a
sacred duty laid on all, when they learn thai the
secretary- of war had issued a secret order to
afford protection to slackers, pacifists, and
skulkers?
What benefit is it to try Eugene Debs, Vic
tor L1 Berger, and the other leaders of sedition
for boldly proclaiming their disloyal doctrine,
when their followers could find certain protec
tion in their secret practices by simply declaring
they had "scruples" against war?
Roll Call of "Lame Ducks."
Nothing of novelty is to be noted in the
provisions made by a beneficent administra
tion for the warhorses of its party who failed
to secure votes enough to hold them in their
jobs. New places are always provided, so that
the' connection between the faithful and the
payroll may not be entirely severed. In the
present instance, the war has been a godsend
to the democrats, who are enabled to line up
a very respectable "lame duck" parade through
situations or sinecures growing out of the
war. In one day last week, eight of these were
given new jobs, including Senator Shafroth
of Colorado, who has "voted at his party's call"
for lo, these many years. He draws a billet on
a commission to have charge of "paying losses
sustained by mining men in the production of
chrome, manganese, pyrites and tungsten for
war purposes." It will not be hard for a com
mission to find out who did and who did not
sustain such losses, but how long will it
keep 'up?
Then, Ed Keating of Colorado lands a job
on the commission to "begin" the reclassifica
tion of salaries in the District of Columbia.
This job pays $625 a month, and will last as
long as the commission can string out the work.
Hamlin of Missouri and Cooper of Wisconsin,
the latter a republican who won democratic
favor by his embargo amendment to the armed
neutrality bill, will share with Keating the
arduous work. Swagar Shirley of Kentucky
draws the prize plum, a $25,000 job with the
railroad administration.
Railroad Compensation Rates.
When the federal government assumed con-:
trol of the railroads at the end of 1917, a rate
of compensation was agreed upon, which now
appears to have been too high. This may be
explained by the fact that the cost of operation
of the lines showing a deficit has been enor
mously increased. Figures just given out in
Washington show that 70 per cent, or $150,000,
000 of the $214,000,000 net deficit, accrues on
eastern roads. In this group the Pennsylvania
system records a balance on the wrong side of
the operating account, amounting to $33,000,
000. When it is remembered that this great
railroad has been driven to the capacity of its
power, and beyond, during all the time it lias
been managed by the government, the showing
must challenge attention. Especially when the
Union Pacific returns a surplus of $12,000,000
for the,same period. That such a disparity
should exist ought to require explanation be
yond mere juggling of figures by expert ac
countants. The government's administration
of the railroads so far has been the most ex
pensive and unsatisfactory experiment under
taken in connection with the war. The sooner
the foolishness is ended, the quicker the people
will be 'relieved of steadily increasing cost of
finding out that the plan' is not producing good
results, . , .
Germany and Her War Debt
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, S As the time for the signing of a final treaty
with Germany draws closer various rumors and
estimates are heard of the amount of repara
tion which will be paid the allies and probably
apportioned the various associated powers. At
the same time come rumors of Germany's bank
ruptcy.
Dr. Schiffer, German minister of finance,
speaking before the national assembly at Wei
mar, said that the nine internal German war
loans amounted to lol billion marks or ap
proximately $35,000,000,000. There was no ques
tion, he said, of annulling the war loans or of
seizing savings of cash in banks to pay this sum.
Instead, he said, it would be paid by taxes in
keeping with the economic situation. Touching
briefly upon this significant phrase, "in keeping
with the economic situation.' he said that trie
war program of Germany had been fraught with
unfortunate and desperate financial and econom
ic measures which had brought the nation near
to financial disintegration. Accordingly he asked
the assembly for a credit of 25,300,000,000 marks,
the largest loan so far, to help get the nation on
its feet. Thus Germany has promised to pay its
people this tremendous sum of money and has
asked for even more credit while the allied bill
has not yet arrived.
Up until 1874 Germany had no real national
debt. In 1905 she owed $875,000,000, a sum quite
small as compared with the debts of other
European nations. In 1908, when she floated
loans of a quarter of a billion dollars and then
162 millions, England began to distrust her
financial state. Expenses increased and large
loans were floated! in 1910 and 1912 so that in
1913. while German commerce was progressing
on a large scale her financial state was not of
the best.
By April, 1917, the German gold reserve had
dropped to a point where it was scarcely able
to cover internal requirements. Her credit had
also depreciated to more than 37 per cent below
par on the marks. People began to hoard
money. At the beginning of 1918, hopes for
victory made the Germans believe they could
pay their. internal debts by indemnities forced
upon conquered nations. As the time passed,
however, these hopes were abandoned. Gen
erally speaking, the annual service of the loans
by the autumn of 1918 had reached a point
where it was double the amount ot the empire
and the federated states.
, The end of the war.found Germany with re
serves of a little more than a quarter of a billion
marks in gold and with a debt which needed
19,000,000,000 marks yearly to pay the interest.
Internal revolution gave her new problems,
abandonment of .work, high wages, strikes and
so on. Military defeat put, -her in a position
where she was entirely boycotted from foreign
trade.
While the loss of the Alsace coal and. ore
fields is important and may hold up production
within Germany, the really vital point in the
present situation is the blockade. If Germany
cannot trade or sell Jjer products, there will, be
no production. If there is no production, there
will be no money to pay the reparation due the
allies.
In the face of the evidence of Germany's
financial bankruptcy, how can she possibly pay
the debts?
A writer in the London Post, says:
"I am aware that international financiers and
hyphenated Britons are trying to convince our
rulers that Germany is bled white and cannot
pay, but this argument is on a par with the
reasoning of the same financiers that the war
could not last three months. These cosmopoli
tan millionaires do not want Germany to suffer,
because they think their interests will suffer
with her; but the facts are that almost the
whole of Germany's war expenditure has been
within the confines of the German empire,, and
has merely gone ont of one German pocket into
another German purse, and that Germany's
coal fields are at the lowest German Valuation,
worth 170,000,000,000, her' potash-. 20,000,
000,000, to which you can add her railways,
docks, canals and all the other great assets of
the German empire.
"She can pay the whole of the allies cost of
the war ten times over, and at the end of the
war she is the European belligerent which has
lost least of its wealth. To fail to exact the net
cost of the war would mean lifelong taxation in
the redemption of our loans and the paralysis
of industry, and since we have got 'the Germans
beat,' it would be an insult to our dead and a
crime against our- children to fail to exact the
cost of world defense to the uttermost farthing."
There is no doubt that certain resources in
Germany are extremely valuable, but there is
one great trouble with this method of payment.
Do the allied nations or the allied financiers
wish to take German estates and properties as
payment?
Unquestionably, many people in Germany
have amassed fortunes out of the war. The
present government of Germany has disavowed
confiscation so that the properties cannot be
taken away from these people. However, direct
taxes, heavy capital levies, income taxes and
inheritance taxes will force these people to dis
gorge. This money itself will be sufficient to
pay some debts.
As for the rank and file of the people, they
will be able to pay taxes up to a certain limit.
Most of these people bought issues of the first
five war loans with their own money and in
many cases used up their money. Then the
government said they could loan 9 per cent of
their bonds back to buy new bonds of new
issues. Thus their cash and capital is tied up in
bonds which have little chance of being re
deemed for many years to come. The economic
and industrial condition of Germany also puts
these people in a place where they are hardly
able to fit into the industrial scheme. -
America's delegates at the peace conference
believe that in order to allow Germany to pay
the debts, the blockade must be lifted and she
must be allowed to trade within limits set by
the allies. If industry is put on its feet again
the Germans will be able to pay taxes; only then
will they be able to live without outside help.
If commerce and trade are re-established the
gold resources will rise. The Germans will, in
fact, be working for the allies. Allow Germany
to get her share of raw materials, allow her to
produce goods and cash, allow her to have mar
kets to sell her goods and to buy other goods,
say the Germans, and she will be able to pay
her debt.
I I O I ) A V
The Day We Celebrate.
Rev. Edward Hart Jenks, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, horn 1862.
N. P. Dodge, real estate, born 1872. ,
Claude Kitchin, representative in congress of
the Second North Carolina district, born at
Scotland Neck, N. C, 50 years ago.
Charles A. Kennedy, representative in con
gress of the First Iowa district, born at Mon
trose, Iowa, 50 years ago.
Dr. Aven Nelson, president of the University
of Wyoming, born in Lee County, Iowa, 60
years ago.
Garrett P. Serviss, well-known author and
scientist, born at Sharon Springs, N. Y., 68
years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
The Newman M. E.' church on St. Marys ave
nue, was formally opened by Bishop Newman
and Rev. Ensign, who will be the pastor.
"Doc" Ware, "King of the Cards," enter
tained the Press club which expects to have Bill
Nye and J. Whitcomb Riley as its guests next
week.
Residents of North Sixteenth street secured
an injunction to stop the several street railway
companies from laying tracks on that
thoroughfare. 1 The companies had their men
all reacjy to start a midnight drive.
Dick O'Keefe and Pat O. Hawes have been
politicking in the South Omaha city election.
Herbert T. Leavitt offers a $50 reward for
the thief who stolishis horse and phaeton from
In front of the First Congregational church,
People You Ask About
V Information About Folks In
tho Public Ey Will Be Given
in Thta Column in Answer .
to Readers' Questions. Your
Name Will Not Be Printed.
Let The Bee Tell You.
"General" Jacob S. Coxey of Maa
silon, O., breaks into print occasion
ally, forming a few embers of the
fires of publicity which flamed about
him a quarter of a century ago.
Being a man of means, reputed to
be a millionaire and having visionary
victims on public questions, little
difficulty is experienced in getting
into print on dull days. Just now
the, "General" is projecting a cele
bration of the sliver anniversary of
the march of "Coxey's-army" on
Washington. The start was made
from Massllon, March 2B, 1894, and
finished at Washington, April 29.
Some time between these dates the
celebration will come oft, and no
sign of "keep off the grass" will mar
the "historic occasion." Eleven
years after the march Coxy went
through a bankruptcy court, wiped
out embarrassing debts and subse
quently "came back" with a fat
purse.
While "General" Coxey won the
spotlight all along the time of March
the real leader and manager of the
ragged army was Col. Carl Browne,
a picturesque agitator from San
Francisco, a pal and associate shout
er of Dennis Kearney of Sand Lots
fame. Browne affected the buck
skin costume of the stage western
and acted the part when his batal
lions kicked for better rations. It
was Browne who staged the ruse
which misled the national capital
police and enabled Coxey to reach
the steps of the building as planned.
Subsequently Browne married Cox
ey's daughter, took up his home in
California and became a prosperous
family man.
i Major General Sir Frederick Bar
ton Maurice of the British war of
fice, who is now visiting the United
States, rendered distinguished ser
vice in the world war as well as in
Britain's little wars in the past 25
years. Entering the army in 1892
he became a captain in 1899, a major
in '1911 and a lieutenant colonel in
1913. Promotion and medals came
to him for service in the Tirah cam
paign and in the Boer war. During
the world war he was chief director
of military operations in the British
war office and was rewarded "with
the Order of Knighthood.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who is
the principal figure at the Suffrage
Jubilee convention at St. Louis, is a
native of Ripon, Wis., and a grad
uate of the State Industrial college
of Iowa. Law was her first choice
of a profession and she studied law
for that purpose, but teaching open
ed more remunerative doors for her
talent. In a few years she rose to
the rank of general superintendent
of the schools of Mason City and
there laid the foundation of her
subsequent career as orator and or
ganizer. In 1890 she became state
organizer for the Iowa Woman Suff
rage association and two years later
was drafted into the national and
international organizations. She has
lectured in hundreds of cities in the
United States and Europe and sev
eral in Asia,
AIMED AT OMAHA
Hastings Tribune: Omaha girls
are marrying Japanese, Indians and
Hindus. The fair damsels of Ne
braska's metropolis seem to run to
color. v
Beatrice Express: Some facts
about Nebraska not generally known
are given in a booklet issued by the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce. The
booklet is one which should be in the
library of every school in the state.
Columbus News: Omaha has in
troduced, buffalo steak at a dollar a
pound. But wasn't the steak we
had high, old and tough enough?
Some folks would trade a wooden
leg for a good one if the latter was
expensive enough. -
York News-Times: The man who
wrote the new Omaha publicity
booklet says: "The efficient police
department of Omaha makes the
city a clean and safe place for the
rearing of children and is an im
portant factor in the commercial de
velopment of the city. Politics has
been eliminated under the commis
sion form of government"
Hastings Tribune: According to
information given out by the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce, Nebraska
has more banks than New York.
That certainly speaks well for this
state. But it Is equally true that
Nebraska has more banks than all
the New England states combined.
Is It any wonder that the people
refer to the fields of Nebraska as
the gold mines of this country?
CENTER SHOTS
Minneapolis Tribune: With a sal
ary of $250,000, It is no wonder
President Ebert of the German re
public puts up a stiff fight to hold his
Job.
St Louis Globe-Democrat: It is
worth the country's while to keep
the railroads from going into the
pork barrel with public buildings
and rivers and harbors.
Detroit Free Press: Important as
it may be at a later date the question
of the hour is not who caused the
war or what to do with William
Hohenzollern. The question is to get
a peace treaty signed so the world
can return to economic sanity.
Kansas City star: Nearly every
one in Washington, and nearly every
legislature in the United States, is
searching about for means to raise
more revenue. There are many is
sues abroad, but the one receiving
of "more revenue." A business con
cern would have tried reducing ex
penses long before this. The plan
may occur to the government
agencies some day.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
, By DADDY ;
(In thla story Peggy and Billy aolva
kidnaping mystery In which they find
old friends involved.)
CHAPTER I.
The Kidnaping.
SHRILL cries, coming from the
house next door, halted Peggy
and Billy in their evening play.
"Help! Police! Send for a de
tective!" shrieked various voices.
"What an awful row! The boy
who howls must be having a ter
rible tantrum!" exclaimed Peggy.
"He ought to be spanked!" declar
ed Billy Belgium. Then he listened
intently to the confusion. "But I
don't hear his howl In all that noise.
Something must be really wrong this
time."
Just then a servant rushed from
the house, nearly knocking over a
"He does, but he is lost," answered
Peggy.
policeman who was running up to
see what the racket was about.
"Oh, Mr. Policeman, come quick
kldnapplng mystery in which they find
ly," cried the servant. "Reginald
has been kidnapped."
That news startled Peggy and Bil
ly, Reginald Jones-Brown was the
right name of the Boy Who Howls.
But only his family called him Reg
inald. Every one else knew him as
"Howler."
They named him that because
Reginald was always howling over
something or other. He howled when
he had to go to bed and he howled
when he was called in the morning;
he howled when he had to take his
bath, he howled when his mother
served strawberry shortcake when
he wanted ice cream and he howled
when -the other children would not
play with him and he howled when
they did; he howled if his father
smiled and he howled if his father
frowned; he howled in the day and
he howled in the night. Altogether
the neighborhood regarded him as a
howling pest.
And now the Howler wa kidnap
ed. "Good!" exclaimed Billy at first,
thought: "The neighbors can sleep
in peace tonight."
"But think how badly his mother
will feel," replied Peggy. "And how
awful for the poor Howler to be
held by those Kidnapers."
"They'll let him go quick enough
when he gets to howling!" answered
Billy. But even though he talked In
that unsympathetic way about the
Howler he was prompt to give his
help in spreading -the alarm and
helping to organize searching parties.
All through the evening the neigh
bors and the detectives searched for
Reginald Jones-Brown. He could not
be found. He had vanished where,
when and how, no one knew. He had
gone howling toward the alley in
the morning, and that had been the
last of him.
"Maybe he howled on a strange
fence and somebody threw a shoe
at him thinking him a howling cat,"
suggested Billy.
"Whoo! Whoo!" said a voice and
down swoped Judge Owl. In his
claws he held a dirty paper. "Is
there a howler lives around here?"
asked the Judge.
"He does, but he is lost," answer
ed Peggy.
"Then this 1 the place, and you
can deliver my mesage," hooted
Judge Owl flying quickly away In
to the darkness.
Billy held the paper up to a street
light and this is what he found
scrawled on it. "If you want tho
Howler brought back, put 20 bushels
of oats, 30 cabbages, 13 plump mice,
and five Juicy beefsteaks behind
Farmer Dalton's barn before day
light." It was signed "The Black
Hoof," and at the bottom was the
print of a black hoof.
"He has been kidnaped by the
Black Hoof gang. We must tell the
detectives at onee," said Billy.
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Draw from one to two and so on ta en4.
"No,' cried Peggy. 'This looks
very suspicious to me. Some of our
friends may be mixed up in it We
must try to find who the members
of the Black Hoof are."
(Tomorrow will be told how Pegs? and
Billy so out Into the night to search for
the kidnapers.)
DAILY CARTOONETTE
I'LL BORN TMUS OLH BOX OF"
LSTO FF ,U P, I N TME STOVE
.
Let It Go At That.
Burwell, Neb., March 19 To the
Editor of The Bee: I rfotice in your
various editorials with reference to
the League of Nations you are given
to public doubting as to whether the
people believe in the constitution of
the League of Nations.
Well, next time you have a doubt
of that kind Just remember that here
at least is one person who has faith
in Wilson and Lloyd George. Who
does not believe that the Knox-Lodge-Penrose
bunch have the good
of the world in mind when they op
pose that constitution. M. C. MEAD.
Have Yon Investigated All?
Omaha, 4102 North Twenty
third Street, March 21, 1919. To
the Editor of The Bee: Possibly
there can be no good come from my
writing you concerning your wel-es-tablished
policy against law enforce
ment, but at any rate it will be a
relief to my pent up feelings in the
matter. I know that some of the
public believe asil do about your
policy and I have no doubt that a
very large part of the public, al
though readers of your paper are
absolutely disgusted because your
paper seizes every opportunity possi
ble to misrepresent and criticize the
police department or other law en
forcing body, while you, at the same
time, have not one word of condem
nation of the criminals who are the
object of capture. I need mention
only a few of the many "instances:
The capture by shooting of a des
perate young criminal night before
last, the capture of the soldier with
out leave and the Millard bootlegging
incident The misrepresentations in
your news columns are Indeed repre
hensible and seem to oppose law
enforcement. It seems you would
have the peace officer meet and cap
ture the desnerate criminals only
with soft words.
There is a new order of things In
Omaha and it stands for law and
order even though drastle measures
ntust be used. I know that there Is
general dissatisfaction by the people
in Omaha because It has no news
paper that is big and broad enough
to always be fair and square in its
news columns with the public. It
is not a matter of merely doing the
peace officers Justice, but it Is a
matter of being Just with the public.
I hope you will see it in this light
E. L. IRELAND.
Locating the Trouble.
Omaha, March 22. To the Editor
of The Bee: It is somewhat amus
ing to see the proposals from "cer
tain sources" for the "starting of a
building boom in Omaha."
It is not lumber, nor brick, nor
stone, nor lime and sand that com
prise ,the real raw material for the
construction of buildings. It is land.
The higher land goes, the fewer -ple
will own it, and the more diffi
cult it will be to employ labi r : '
capital in the erection of buildings.
Yet there are men so absurd as to
congratulate the people upon the
fact that business sites are selling
for $1,000 per front foot, and farms
at from $300 to $500 per acre. I
wonder if these same people would
felicitate the shoemaker on the in
crease of the price of leather, or the
carpenter on the high cost of lum
ber, or the bricklayer on the diffi
culty of finding bricks.
Land is the raw material from
which is drawn all the things that
go to satisfy human want. Land is
the raw material from which cities
are built, and on which all the in
stitutions of man must rest When
ever any man renders service to an
other man for the use of anything
which that other has not produced
and for which that other renders no
service in return he is a slave for
slavery is nothing more nor less than
the condition of one rendering to
another a form of- involuntary ser
vice for which he receives no return.
Let those who have the land on
which houses must be erected put
that land on the market at a figure
that will Justify it, and building will
follow. The contrary, however, is
the rule. The more building is at
tempted the higher will soar the
value of land. Yet this must be so
long as the people sustain a dis
honest tax system that punishes en
terprise and rewards indolence.
L. J. QUINBx.
Wake lp.
OmahH, March 21. To the Editor
of The lice: The world war is over
so far as guns ;iiifl ammunition go,
but the war for tlic freedom of man
kind has Just begun. The voice of
industrial autocracy is heard very
often in recent days. Its voicing
can be construed in but one way, and
that is that it intends to try for re
juvenation. x It had been badly bat
tered by the forces of Jnntice (luring
the war, and its t talus now is not
as powerful as it has been In the
past, but is not as yet given up the
fight, and still seeks to Impose its
will upon the American people. It
aim is to force upon the people the
intolerable conditions of the past, be
fore any organized effort was made
to break tta strangle hold.
In order that the efforts of the
plunderbund may result In harm
to the people It is necessary that the
people themselves should be awake
to the danger that confronts them.
Labor recognizes the value of free
dom and knows that freedom and
liberty can be maintained only by
constant effort and eternal vigilance.
Strength does not come by wait
ing and tomorrow offers no better
chance to advance the cause than
does today. It will be no easier to
make the necessary sacrifice at a
future time than to do it now. Every
moment of postponement weakens
the will to do and courage is lost
by delay. The time to do the work
required if the rights of the people
are to be preserved is now. This
should be the motto of the union
men of this city and can eb made a
winning motto ft we can Just wake
up.
All workers must realize that they
must be organized in order that ef
fective work man be done. He who
is smugly satisfied with his own in
dividual place in the organization
and is not concerned with the gen
eral welfare is a lagagrd. He must
wake up and help carry the gospel
of organization to those still without
the fold. He must impress upon the
unorganized worker his duty to the
movement for the betterment of the
workers as a whole. The critift and
complainer is merely a destruotion
lst and he who looks on wrong and
evil without protest cannot complain
if wrong and evil flourish over him.
For democracy the war was fought
and for this cause our boys fought
and died on the bloody battlefields
of western France. By the splendid
sacrifice 6f labor the war was won,
and the foundation was laid (or the
establishing of democracy through
out the whole world. The effort
made and the blood shed must not
be allowed to have been- in vain.
Democracy must triumph, and the
only true foundation for democracy
is Justice to the worker, for only by
this means can democragy endure.
For the sake of Buffering human
ity, Wake Up!
MILTON L. HUNTER,
Vice president, Hog Butchers
local 33. A. M. C. & B. W. of A.
Affiliated with A. of L.
SMILING LINES.
She Look at that sour-faced old matd
who has been sluing In one place trying
to find out what the couples coming near
her are saying. Isn't she a regular aport
spnlllng wallflower?
He I would call her rather a rub
ber plant. Baltimore American.
"Promptness Is essential."
"Then I know I can't fill the position,"
sighed the returned soldlrr, as he started
to leave the room. 'All the training I
Albert Cahn
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ever had was la ratting ant the United
States caaualty lists." Life.
"So this Is your famous Beacon street T"
aatd Mayor X, as ha strolled with his
friend along paat the atata house. "Frank
ly, I'm surprised. I had always heard
that It was a very exclusive street, you
know."
"Well, ao It la," aald the ether man.
"Eh. old chap, how can you aay aoT
Why It fairly vergea on the Common."
Boston Transcript.
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Jack wanta to visit Roma,
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But I have been In Flanders
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Shone a little pool of red,
I used to feel that father
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That mother might have understood
The longing to be free.
But when you've been through fighting.
And gas, and bomb, and shot,
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Mean a devil of a lot
So you can stay In Paris,
And Jack can visit Roma,
But I shall hit the highroad
For a place called Homa.
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