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Any week ought to be baby week jn Nebraska.
Omaha divorce courts, are surely getting'
their share of business. ;
, Prices asked for eggs have taken' the ro
mance out of one good old Easter custom.
Josephus Daniels says h is astonished that
the army did such good work. Sq was Luden
' dorff. - " ' . ,
If the kaiser is to be exiled, we know two
or three places where he might be sent and
forgotten.'
The aviator who failed to fly from Liverpool
to Limerick is not a dangerous competitor in
the oversea contest.
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Another date has been set for the presi
dent's return. In the meanwhile home affairs
ar getting no better,
New York brewers are heading fo a bump.
If they get away with it, though, watch out for
a revival of the industry.
Mr. Taftjsees enough republican support to
ratify the leage of "ations covenant. That
hardly requires a prophet. '
German talk of "harsh terms" mustsdund
good to French and Belgians, not to mention
the Russian's and Serbians.
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Mr. Burleson's Job in Boston is not made
any easier by the view of how the railroad men
fared with Walker D. Hines. ' . '
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The Department of Labor has discovered
that the price ol foodstuffs advanced in March.
Housewives knew that long ago.
Recognition of- the Omsk government may
mean much br little, but it is an effort to pin
responsibility for Russia onto someone.
Notes have been exchanged over the clash
between the Yanks and Japs at Tientsin, and
the war clouds again dissolve. It is well.
Food not only won the war, but it appears
to bt the magic that will tame the bolsheviki,
who care not who does the work so long as he
is fed. 1
Alien enemies are leaking out of the Utah
internment camp at a rate that suggests the
need of more watchfulness there. The war is
'not tivtr? I
Senator Kenyoh says the American flag will
never be lowered in Porto Rico. If this is right,
the people there may took forward to full citi
zenship in time.
"Corned Willie" packed iff" Omana cheers
the soldiers in Germany, but a glimpse of Far
nam street would look much better than the
label on a corned beef can. "
It is not fair to Napoleon to cite his case as
precedent for exiling the Hohenzollern. Noth
ing tht Little Corporal ever didwarrants his
being coupled with the kaiser. i
' That Victory loan parade yesterday reminds
us how-joyful everybody was when the last big
victory parade was staged here 15 November.
Show that you meant it by helping the last
loan go over the top.
Nebraska legislators, just through with their
session, will take home one consoling thought.
If they had passed the bills they killed, and
killed the bills they passed; the Omaha Hy
phenated would have scolded and libeled them,
just the same.
When a soldier, of the great war gets himself
all decked out in the ribbons and medals and'
buttons he is to be entitled to wear hereafter
he will be a handsome spectacle. What used
to be the pomp and panoply of war is to be the
insignia of peace and plenty of it '
Yankees are credited with firing 5,000,000
shells in four hours at St. Mihiel. This was
just before .the French government notified us
we would have to furnish. our own ammunition,
uid brought down on General Pershing a re-
buke from Washington for being si extrava
gant. But it won the war.
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The Case of Debs
Convicted of sedition. Eugene V. Debs goes
to prison boasting that he is a flaming revolu
tionist, his head unbent, spirit untamed, soul
unconquered. -
Commiseration for the mart need n.ot neces
sarily imply sympathy with his cause. In time
of war he violated law deliberately. He put his
will against the will of millions. He opposed
: the highest purposes of his fellow citizens. He
would have brought defeat and shame instead of
victory and glory upon the republic. If he eould
have had his way all the sacrifices made for
right and justice would have been in vain. He
did not meet our armies in front He fired upon
them from the rear.
So far as the purpose of his utterances is
concerned-, nothing that Hindenburg or Luden
dorff could have said if they had been able to
i address the American people could have been
more treasonable. Unless we are to assume that
Debs is a lunatic and therefore irresponsible, he
has been appropriately punished for conduct
V which in most of the belligerent countries would
have brought him face. to face with a firing
squad. He has fought the United States as
truly as any German, and yet he suffers only
detention and silence.
t Except as men like Debs make, war upon
their own country, there is nothing in their po
litical creed that cannot be lawfully, advocated.
Thus Debs was cuiltv of more than sedition.
He betrayed his associates, most of whom have
respect for law and the duties of citizenship.
New York World, . : -
EASTER: AND A NEW WORLD.
EasUr finds a world today smiling through
its tears, really looking up to a new birth and
a new life. Four timet this supreme festival of
tht Christian church has dawned on a world
drenched in blood, where the gospel of love
seemed forgotten, and the mandate, "Bear ye
one another's burdens," never to have been
heard. All the agencies of eviPwere loosed
against mankind, and civilization fought des
perately to defend its light that it might not
go out under the weight of barbarism incarnate
in the army of the Hun. In no war was the
Struggle of the spiritual against the material
so perfectly symbolized as in the mighty strug
gle so lately over. S"
Justice and truth have triumphed, and might
will prevail again only when coupled with the
right. For this all nations are thankful.
Just as Easter typifies to the believer the re
birth of the soul, the resurrection and the life
beyond the grave, 10 does the outcome of the
war exemplify and emphasize the promise long
held forth of a world in which a better way of
living will be the boon to all; a world in which
the iron rule of force will go down before that
of justice, and where the weak may stand erect,
Conscious that no harm will follow on facing
the strong. For strength hereafter isto be used
to help and not to oppress; the powerful na
tions of the world will protect, and not devour
the lesser, and governments will tit- for their
peoples the example of doing unto others only
the things they would have done unto them.
No Easter since the first has held more for
humanity than does the one we celebrate today.
Out of the dreadful night of war the world has
come into the fuller light of a better day, and
chastened and humble, men look with cleaner
faith to Him on High Who ruleth all. Sin anc
sorrow will yet abide amongst us, for mankind
is not yet relieved of its frailties and infirmi
ties, but they will be lessened, because of what
has taken place, and because of the high re
solve the free peoples of the world have made
that they will, under God, be free forever.
So a new world will swell the Easter chant
today, a hymn of true rejoicing.
Better Life for the Babies.
Every baby brought into this world has a
right to proper care and treatment, to the end
that it be given a chance to grow up and be
come a useful member of the great human
family. Recognition of this truth is the im
pulse that moves the "Free Children's Health
Week," commencing with today. Instruction
in the care and nourishment of children in baby
hood and beyond will be given without charge
by experts who are especially qualified for this
work. This course includes every detajl of
dietary, clothing, exercise, treatment for ail
ments and in general instructions for the rear
ing of children. The federal government's
bureau is supporting and promoting the work,
although locally it is in the hands of resident
women who are concerned for the future gen
eration. Almost all mothers need bme instruc
tion along these lines, and it is to reacH all and
to assist all in the understanding of problems of
the care of little children that the work has
been undertaken. Old-fashioned notions may
be disturbed and new-fangled ideas substituted
for "grandmother's ways," but the benefit that
will come from training the mothers of today
wilt be shown in a stronger generation to
follow. "
Cornerstone oj American Life
Another Treasury Department Bungle.
. Government accountants have a genius, at
times amounting to almost inspiration, for mak
ing laws as burdensome as possible. Such a
thing has just come to pass in the Treasury
department, where a comptroller has ruled that
soldiers' are entitled to receive their travel pay
only to the point of mus'ter, and from there on
home must pay their own way and file a claim
with the War department for extra allowance.
Such a ruling, technically correct though it may
be, is so clearly at variance with the spirit of
the law as to be absurd. The government is
morally and legally bound to return the soldier
to his home, just as it took him from his home
to enter into the service. If this wiseacre were
to rule that the point of muster is the place
where the inducted men assembled at call of
the draft board, his decision might be sup
ported by reason. Many thousands of the men
were mustered in hundreds of miles from home,
however, and a large number of these will suf
fer great inconvenience under this ruling. If
it is the intention ultimately to make the re
turned sptdier whole on his travel expenses by
reimbursing him, for any deficiency amount in
his pay, the transaction might as well be made
one, and the full amount of travel pay to his
home allowed him at the start. It 'is not the
part of the United States government to be nig
gardly with the young men whose services it
requisitioned for the arduous business of war,
but a Treasury official is making it as hard as
possible for Uncte Sam to keep his end of the
bargain.
German Professors and tht World. -Only
a little while ago the faculty of the
Sorbonne and other great French schools pub
licly declined to renew scientific relations with
the professors of Germany, until repentance
has been shown and atonement made. Now
Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university
speaks similarly for America. Until the men
of science of Germany, who contributed so ex
tensively to the horrors of war, supported the
junkers of Prussia in all their scheming, taught
the superman doctrine, and by precept and ex
ample, did all they could to turn civilization up
side down, have shown contrition for their
crimes, they must stand with the rest of Ger
many outside the pale. No contribution they
could make to learning could offset the out
rages in- which they participated through the
use of their science in fostering the devilish
methods of destruction adopted by the German
high command. The world has waited for years
for a note of-orotest from these men of science;
even the destruction of the University of Lou
vain did not gain from them a word of disap
probation. Until they show a better apprecia
tion of their position, they must suffer the os
tracism that they have so well earned,
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Preachers of Walla Walla, Wash., who. pro
tested against a flying circus performing on
Sunday, are mollified by the assurance that the
exhibition will be given in the afternoon, and
not interfere with their sermons. Their con
gregations might welcome it were the program
reversed.
Some unfinished business is awaiting the Al
lies along the Baltic, where the Germans seern
to have forgotten that the war is over. The
'Lets may depend on it that their case will not
bt overlooked ia Pari, 7
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler.
The cornerstone of American government
and of American life is the civil liberty of the
individual citizen. ' The essentials of that civil
liberty are proclaimed in tht Declaration of In
dependence and defined in the constitution of
the United States. Ours is not a government
of absolute or plenary power before whose ex
ercise the individual must bow his head in hum
ble acquiescence. Our government is, on the
contrary, one of clearly defined and specifically
designated powers, and the constitution itself
provides that powers not delegated to the United
States by the constitution nor prohibited by it
to the states are reserved to the states
respectively or to the people. This means that
those powers which the people themselves have
not seen fit definitely to grant either to the na
tional or the state government are reserved to
the people to be exercised as they may indi
vidually see fit. More than this, there are
many things which the government is specific
ally prevented from doing, and the powers of
the courts are sufficient to protect even the hum
blest individual against the invasion of his rights
and liberties by any government whether of
estate or nation, however powerful or however
popular. We do not derive our civil liberty or
our right to do business from government; we
who were in possession of civil liberty and the
right to do business have instituted a govern
ment to protect and to defend them.
It is on this civil liberty of tfte individual as
a basis that all American life, tit American civ
ilization, and all American success have been
built We have offered tht individual an op
portunity to make tht most of himself, to seek
his fortune in what part of the country he would,
to enjoy the fruits of his own honest labor and
of his own just gains, and to hold whatever
social position his personality and his education
might enable him to command. Under this sys
tem we have not only prospered mightily, but
we have made a country that has drawn to itself
the ambitious, thclong-suffering, and the down
trodden from every part of the globe, in the
hope and belief that here in America they would
find the oppornity which conditions elsewhere
denied them. In 150 years we have not solved
al, the problems of mankind, and we have not
been able to make everyone prosperous ' and
happyjbut we have made immense progress to
ward those jnds and thereby have become the
envy and the. admiration of a ..watching world.
The millennium still remains ahead of us and all
lasting improvement Hill takes time.
Where there is individual opportunity there
will always be inequality. No two human .be
ings have precisely the same ability, the Same
temperament, the same tastes, or the same phy
sical power. Therefore, it is that when indi
viduals exert themselves freely some progress
more rapidly than others, some secure larger
rewards than others, and some gain greater
enjoyment than others. The only way in which
this inequality can be prevented is to substitute
tyranny for liberty and to hold all men down
to that level of accomplishment which is within
the reach of the weakest and the least well-endowed.
This, however, is false democracy, not
true democracy. Such a policy would deprive
men and women of liberty in order to gain a
false and artificial equality. Democracy has
begun to decay when it becomes a combination
of the mediocre and the inferior to restrain and
to punish the more able and the more progres
sive. The equality which true democracy seeks
to protect and preserve is equality of opportun
ity, equality of rights, equality before the law.
Any form of .privilege is just as undemocratic
as is any form of tyranny. Any exploitation of
the body or soul of one individual by another is
just as undemocratic as the Prussian military
autocracy. If men and women are to be free,
their bodies must be free as well as their souls
and their spirits. This cannot be done if they
are mere tools or instrumentalities in the
hands of another, whether that other be an in
dividual monarch or a despotfc majority. How
to bring about the protection of the individual
from exploitation and how to prevent the
growth of privilege without at the same time
destroying civil liberty, are the most difficult
and the most persistent problems which human
society has to face. Yet it is the price of prog
ress to face them and to solve them. The one
fact that is never to be forgotten is that pulling
some men down raises no man up.
Butvwe are now told that these inequalities
due to liberty have become so very great and the
disparity between individuals so marked, that
civil liberty and individual opportunity must be
displaced by the organized power of the state.
We hear it said that the conduct of our daily
lives, what we eat and drink, the conduct of our
business, what we do and gain, must all be under
strict governmental supervision and control. -
This is the first long and dangerous step on the
path back toward autocracy and militarism. Once
a state becomes all-powerful it easily thinks of
itself as unable to'do wrong, and so becomes
the unmoral state of which Prussia and the Ger
man empire have been the most perfect types.
The all-powerful and unmoral state can see
nothing higher than itself; it admits no princi
pie of right or justice to which it must give
heed; such a state is an end in itself and what it
chooses to do is necessarily right.
The most pressing question that now confronts
the American people, the question that underlies
and conditions all problems of reconstruction
and of advance as we pass from war con
ditions to the normal times of peace, is whether
we shall go forward by preserving those Ameri
can principles and American traditions that have
already served us so well, or whether we shall
abandon those principles and traditions and
substitute for them 4 state built not upon the
civil liberty of the individual but upon the
plenary power of organized government.
Our Army in Russia
The protest of a company of American sol
diers south of Archangel against returning to
the fighting front might have been technically
regarded as mutiny, but the circumstances jus
tified its being settled by argument and prom
ises instead of exercise of military authority.
The War department has issued only a para
phrase of the dispatches it received, but this
does not conceal the dissatisfaction of officers
and men who have been fighting in a tempera
ture of 32 degrees balow. zero, where the
wounded have died unattended in the frozen
snow. It is also known that there is dissatis
faction among the British and French troops,
but it has been kept in check because of what
their officers call morale, but which we might
give another name. There is no danger from
weather or weapons which Americans would
not uncomplainingly face if they felt it neces
sary. But the soldiers in Russia do not feel
that they are fighting for their country or for
any tangible cause. "Tie war with Germany
is over," they argue, "and why is it not over
here. What are we trying to do to the bol
sheviki?" Assurances that they will be with
drawn by June 1, without any possibility of mili
tary achievements of value in the meantime,
merely aggravate the dissatisfaction, for why
should -lives be lost 'in what is confessedly a
futile enterprise?
Intervention was a deliberately adopted al
lied policy, with the British given control, since
it was primarily a naval problem. The end was
then justifiable, but the means were obviously
inadequate. Whether the hope was that the
Czecho-Slovak army and the anti-bolshevik
Russians could, with such aid as the allies ex
tended, defeat the German-inspired and in many
cases, German-led bolsheviki or whether the
purpose was .gradually to increase the allied
forces has never been made clear, but for some
unaccountable reason the armistice terms failed
to guard against a complication which ought
vto have been foreseen. If our own troops can
not be made to understand the reason for .con
tinued fighting, how can we expect the Rtssian
masses to comprehend it? There is no problem
which more urgently callsfor diplomatic action.
St Louis Globe-Democrat
Home Health Hints
Reliable advice given In this
column on prevention, and
our of disease. Put your ques
tion in plain language. Your
name will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Help You.
Antitoxins in Disease.
I closed my installment last Sun
day with the statement that diph
theria antitoxin was the most suc
cessful of the curative antitoxins so
far produced. I mentioned tetanus
antitoxin as being of more value as
a prophylactic than as a curative
product, although it undoubtedly
does save, lives in a certain propor
tlon of cases. '
- The antitoxins for cerebro-splnal
meningitis, called in medical circles
antimeningms serum,- is another
wonderful saver of lives. In intro
ducing this cure to the world a new
method of injecting a serum into the
body was established that has led
to much good in other diseases than
meningitis. The method I refer to
was its introduction into the spinal
canal, where the antitoxin can act
directly upon the established focus
of the disease. Antlmenlngltis serum
has been our means of lowering the
mortality of cerebrospinal fever
(meningitis),- about 60 pes cent.
Credit for the work on meningitis
belongs principally to Dr. Simon
Flexner, head of tht Rockefeller In
stitute of Research, and it was the
latter foundation that made the
work possible and furnished the
funds whereby the serum was uni
versally introduced. I do not exag
gerate when I say that were It not
for the vast resources at the dis
posal of Dr. Flexner and his .co
workers antimeningitia serum might
still have to be discovered.
Anti-streptococcus serum, or the
serum opposed to erysipelas, is an
other very useful serum, also a life
saver, but there are still many prob
lems 'to unravel in infections caused
by the germ called streptococcus be
fore this serum will be a complete
success. At present all we can say
of it is that it has a beneficial influ
ence in about 25 per cent of the
cases.
With theee four serums we have
exhausted the true antitoxins or
curative serums. The other method
of curing Infections through injec
tions of bacteria is another story
that we will discuss in a later installment.
Necessity for a League of
Nations
. Complications.
You often read in the press that
a patient dies of a complication- of
diseases. Often this is simply a
cover for the Ignorance of the doctor
of the paper. Indeed the phrase
complication of diseases is an anach
ronism itself. Patients die of a com
plicating disease, not of a complica
tion of diseases. A complication is
a disease superimposed (so to speak)
upon a pre-existing one. This may
be an infection, but not necessarily.1
However, complications are usually
Infectious, and are then of course
due to infectious agents. The infec
tious agents are usually bacteria.
The source of the complicating infection-
depends upon circumstances.
It may happen that the infecting
agent has its natural habitat upon
the individual's integument (skin),
or within a cavity of the body lead
ing to the exterior. Thus pneu
monia, which is a frequent com.
plioating infection in every disease
and the most common cause of
death in most, is caused by a germ
that almost everyone harbors in his
mouth even In health. An Instance
of contamination from the skin is
afforded by bolls, a common sequel
to various infections during and
after convalescence.
A second source for bacteria
which complicate disease Is found
in objects, insects and persons that
come In contact with the patient.
Thus wounds soiled with earth ere
those ' in which tetanus (lock-jaw)
and gaseous gangrene are liable to
develop, because the bacteria which
bring about these infections have
their natural home in the ground. It
was these two complicating infec
tions, particularly the latter, which
caused so much death and suffering
among wounded soldiers during the
war Just passed, and in every war
of the past.
Tvwtlr Insects, such as flies, bed
bugs, mosquitoes, body lice, etc..
may be the means of conveying infections.
Adequate Medical Service.
In these lays of progress In pre
ventive medicine there In some ten
dency to spparste too sharply pre
ventive from curative medicine. It
should not be forgotten that an ade
quate medlcnl service to tm whole
people will do more to prevent din
ease end disability than any other
single measure to be considered. At
nresent the people of the United
States are naying out money suf
flflent for the maintenance of an
adequate medial service, but fall to
receive it. This money, however, is
"nent. in such hao-hazard manner
that the service Is not only often in
n.dwumte or wrthl, but at times
""ttnlly harmful, F"r one item
rtri," ne United States snend"
1500.009 a year. This sum p'nne, if
Torterly exnerded. would hi'v oil
the necessary drugs and add $2,000
a "par to the Income of each of the
135 000 ohvsie'ans in active practice
In tHe T'n'ted State. R S. "Warren,
M. t., Publio Health Reports.
Rneinl Factors in TuhereuloKK
The findings in the Framingham
demonstration as to racial factors
bear out previous experience else
where, namely, that the Italian race
stock presents a low tuberculosis in
cidence, in contrast to high rates in
French-Canadians, Irish and other
race stocks. On the other hand, ,the
von Pirquet skin reaction among
children shows a high percentage of
infection among Italian children,
with a correspondingly low Incidence
nf active disease. Bulletin, National
Tuberculosis Association.
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A letter recently publshed in
The Bee set us 'thinking be
cause the. writer assailed one of
the holiest Impulses of human
nature; that of living in peace
and harmony with each other
as nations as well as Individuals. Mr.
Thomas More -was quoted as a
dreamer, and he was an exceptional
ly good one. I wish that all who
have capacity for vivid imaginations
would have such henntifi,! fi-,.o be
thel! the long promised dominion of
peace on eartn would sooner be
realized. . Everybody with a future
vision is a spiritual dreamer; every
one with an ambition or an ideal,
dreams of its fruition or fulfillment
History tells of many dreams about
future glory and exaltation, if good
or bad depends on the truth and
utility or selfishness of the dream
er's ldsals. Alexander, the Great,
dreampt of world domination; he
succeeded in ruling the world for 12
years, then died of ambition fever at
the age of 32, leaving his kingdom
to the strongest He had sacrificed
thousands on the altar of his am
bition, a bad dream indeed.
Rome dreampt of world domina
tion, and had success for hundreds
of years, but when broken up by
barbario hordes from the north, its
fall was greater, and its humiliation
keener, because it had attained such
height of glory and power. And how
many millions of human beings did
this great ideal of strength crush
and enslave. A terrible dream, Indeed.
The Church of Rome and the
popes continue to dream of world
domination over men's consciences.
They prescribe what to believe and
what not to believe; what to do and
what not to do. It has enslaved
rulers and peoples in spiritual bond
age for a thousand years, and , it
aims to envelop the world in de
grading dogmas and practices.
Charles XII dreampt of Swedish
empire. He overran Poland, tried
to conquer Russia, impoverished his
own country, and was slain la war
when only 36 years old.
Napoleon, another dreamer of
world empire, had great success for
a time, but ended his life an exile
in misery and unhappiness.
On the other side, there have been
good and noble dreamers, but not so
notable or glorified in history. Every
humble human being who lived a
useful life, or died a martyr, for
elevating Ideals, has been a good and
useful dreamer. The prophets of
old tell us in the Bible of many fine
dreams about a coming era of uni
versal peace and happiness when im
plements of war will be transformed L
into userui maenmery; ine pae win
play at the lion's den and the Prince
of Peace will influence and regulate
the conduct of all to righteousness
and good living.
Our own president is a fine dream
er. If his ideals of world govern
ment are carried out, we have in a
few years, advanced further towards
universal peace than before in centuries.
It has been said that human na
ture is the same as it ever was, and
will remain so for eternity. No more
nnhonnv nnnollialnn WAS Vpr TTia.de.
UIl.K.J'J.J .... V. . ' " "
It means that civilization and broth
erhood have not advanced ana win
not advance. Let us see: Not furth
er v.opir n riisrnrv than the seven
teenth century, men had to go
armed, ana ever reaay 10 aemnu
themselves against the attacks of
lea Whpn w mincle In com
pany now-a-days, do we feel that we
need weapons or cjerense against as
saults of sane men? No. We have
twiilii arivflnnorl in cnnfldpnce and
civilization. The savage men in his
tory and now-a-days enjoy nouung
better than a fight to enhance
n..0HM -Rut Via rtinasAn nf intelli
gent and educated people now have
no innate ciesire 10 ngni meir iw
lows. Education teaches them to
i-oqIW. a hfittpr field for personal
elevation in co-operation than in
competition. As a consequence 01
general education, the number of
rational and peace-loving men are
vastly greater now than in any
period of the world's history, and
what Is true of individuals Is true of
nations. The peoples of Europe are
now thoroughly sick of war; the
olden glory of soldier life has de
parted forever, and they desire, with
all their hearts, some practical and
legal machinery to prevent wars in
the future. Are we (the United
loin with them in a
society of nations to enforce peace?
It rather seems tnai we are nui yet
sufficiently weary of war. Some
partisan representatives of our peo
ple and embryo statesmen contend
that we have some rights, privileges
or liberties in contradistinction from
other peoples, which It should be
our binding duty to defend, cost
what it may; and rather than to
give up any of these petty rights in
the interest of world peace, ws
should cheerfully face another world
war, and that is what this de
termined opposition to a league of
nations finally 'means if they sus
ceed in blocking the way for it now.
I agree with Mr. Bryan: "Let us
by all means have the league's con
stitution as plain and equitable as it
is possible to make it now, recogniz
ing and perfecting the Monroe doc
trine; also give ample room for fu
ture amendments as occasion , de
mands. But let us not lose sight of
the existing imperative necessity and
demand from the downtrodden
toilers of the world to create a
guaranty against unnecessary blood
shed and spoliation, in which they
can have some measure of confi
dence." , '
We have now practical wide
awake statesmen in Europe, such as
Lloyd George, Clemenceau, etc., and
then we have our own trio of peace
apostles; Bryan, Taft and Wilson.
They are in , this matter especially
worthy of our confidence; let us fol
low the.ir lead. -
If the world's statesmen at this
tuncture, when the world is more
thaw ever ripe for the proposed
changes, will fail to establish a
world government, controlling and
regulating international affairs, there
will be chaos and insecurity for an
other hundred years, with- its at
tendant devastating dozen wars, or
so Whereas, if the peace society Is
established, there will be minor
complaints from parties who will
feel aggrieved by the mandates of
the league; also stronger opposi
tion from the former war makers,
who will try the last straw to cir
cumvent the Just decisions of a peace
court, but there can be no organ
ized effort among nations to again
turn the best part of our glorious
world into a slaughter house.
If our best dreams In this respect
are realized, it will stave off for a
longer time the danger that the
principles and policies of bolshevlsm,
etc wiU take controFof mankind
before this movement is sufficiently
refined and purified to merit the con
fldouoe of a truthseeking community.
Such radical changes no sane man
can welcome until the soil for it is
prepared by education, until the
best intellectuals, as well as the
masses of humanity, are ripe for it
and will force an upheavel, over
turning the present social order, and
establish entirely different ideals in
religion, Industry and economics.
Finally: To assert that mankind
has no chance of improving and get
ting more fitted for the problems and
responsibilities of life, thereby in
creasing happiness, is the very proof
of short sightedness.
The educated and responsible in-
The Day Wo Celebrate.
. Joel Johnson, bookkeeper in city
engineer's otiice for past 10 years,
born in Sweden, 1867.
MaJ. Gen. Henry C. Hodges,Jr.,
who commanded the 17th division
at Camp Beauregard, born in Wash
ington, D. C, 69 years ago.
James D. Phelan, senior United
States senator from California, born
in San Francisco, 58, years ago,
John F. Hylan, the present mayor
of New York City, born vln preene
county, N. y., 51 years ago.
Daniel Chester "French, one efthe
foremost American sculptors, born
at Exeter, N". H.. 69 years ago.
Charles H. Brand, representative
In congress of the Eighth GeortrJa
district, born at Loganvllle, Ga., 58
years ago.
Dr. Arthur W. Gilbert, a leader In
agricultural education tn New Eng
land, born at West Brookfleld, Mass.,
37 years ago.
In Omnliu 30 Years Ago.
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Josiyn
leave for a tour through Mexico.
The Omaha Law LlRJary associa
tion elected directors for the ensuing
year as follows: George B. Lake,
Champion S. Chase. Herbert J.
Davis. Moses P. O'Brien. Isaac
Adams, James W. Carr, John L.
Kennedy, Frank E. McCoy, C. J.
Smyth, Arthur C. Wakeley, Charles
W. Haller.
Mrs. G. W. Loomis, 1014 South
Thirtieth street, is advertising for
a. rood elrl for general housework.
Mr. F. B. Kingsbury has returned
from a trip to New York and the
east.
QUAINT BITS OF LIFE.
It is a popular superstition in
England that winding one's watch
on the train means a safe Journey.
One thousand girl students at the
California Normal school at San
Jose look natural now, having been
allowed to discard their influenza
masks February 1. -
A maple tree 80 years old was cut
down recently at Hydeville, Vt. In a
orotch, 10 feet from the ground,
grew a black raspberry bush that
reached nearly to the ground and for
two years had borne an abundance
of fruit.
An American soldier in France,
taking refuge in a restaurant from
a rainstorm and wishing to order
some mushrooms, but not knowing
the French word for mushrooms,
.drew a picture of one and received
i nice umoreua.
John Gorin Franklin of Warren
county, Kentucky, is still active at
102. Last fall he covered a large
barn on his farm of-100 acres, and
after completing the work did not
feel any ill effects rrom u. lie
works on his farm all day, doing
various kinds of work and is not
natlsfied unless he Is kept busy.
The belief exists that a .fish can
not live out of water, but there are
known to be several species which
Can travel .overland for miles. For
instance, certain fish of the South
American tropics leave the small
ponds they have lived in to seek
larger and cooler stretches of water
farther afield when the sun threat
ens to dry up their late habitations.
They spend whole days and nights
upon their march, atyl travel by hun
dreds through the moist under
growth of the forests.
MERRY MOMENTS.
Mother When tie propoaed, did jrat
tall hljn to aat mat
Penary Tra, but ha aald ba'd you
xveral ttm. but that h loved ma Juat
til unit. Stray Stortea.
"Tou aeern able-bodied and haalthy; you
uht to be Htronr enough to work," aha
emnrked, ecrutlnlainfly.
"Tea, ma'am. I know. And yon lean)
beautiful enough to be on the atage, but
tvldently you prefer th simple life."
He got a maal without any further ref
erence to work. People'! Home Journal.
WHAT THE BRAKEMAN SAID.
I atoppM off I ho Pullman a moment
At Oeilrn, to hreatlia the cool air
And, HKklni? a time-honored queallon,
My HiiNwiT received, full and fair.
The rountry Is full of good railroad
You'll find them In llunt and In West
And overy last trainman you talk to
Will awour Unit hla line la the beat.
And that's all right too, when a fellow
Don't booat for hla road all he ran
He's .lust, In a manner of apeaklng, '
A fractional part of a man.
There's Lake 8hora ft Michigan Southern.
Th Pennay, the C. B. A Q ,
Rock Island and tlosena of others
All good ones I'm here to tell you.
They're all In the same Una of business
Important I know you'll allow
Each has Us own Job to attend to
And fines It the best-It knows how.
Bui this line, the one that I work for.
Stands blithest, to my mind at lesst
Because, tn a Union Pacific
It links up the West to the East., .
A
Pon't get me - Tou will In a second,
I Just read the words backward and sea
The beautiful, wonderful meaning
The name of ray road bat for mi..
It meant Just what every man longs for.
itistanas tor tn world t hlgnttt nee a.
A Union; Pacific; of Nations;
Untainted by blood-lust or greed.
And new that tht war drums art illtnt
With pennants and battle-flags furled
Men pray for a Union Pacific
To gird and tncompast th world.
Sir? Oh. Just an every-day brakeman
But sometimes a fellow like me
Will chance on a thought worth th
thinking
1 Passed up by men wiser than he.
CHARLES A. PERKINS.
dividuals' aim in life should be to
endeavor to live and-act in harmony
with God's and nature's Just laws
to the end that our associates, in
ever-Winding circles, may get more
inspiration to live well, love each
other, and strive for peaceful 'ad
justments of all differing claims be
tween individuals and nations. Only
so can the Bible prophecies from
sages of old be verified in a happy
and contented land.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called the children of
God." -
v "Be ye perfect as your Father in
Heaven is perfect."
BROTHER CARL.
Stromsburg, Neb.
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dignified simplicity. The modern asr tends
not toward a display of show, hut a quiet
wealth of details that are not costly. Such
a funeral we plan and carry out
N, P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor (Established 1888)
17th and Cuming Sts. Douglas 1060
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