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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, APRIL 22. 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) -1 EVENING SUNDAY FOUHDID ST COWARD ROSEWATKB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOI ,TH1 BII rUBLIIHUrO COMPANY, PBOriKTOX MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED MISS Ik ImiiIiIiI fnn af akin m IM 4. a naMr. la auhulMl lU M Ik aatfot pukUMttaa f tifaaw dlaMtckM credited t ft r tot attMnrt tragi la IM atr. aaf alao to loo mm mMUM hatrla. 15 ritfkia ! rWoUoa f ur as) , OFFICESi pltMflTI-tl Stager aid. 0Uh Ba Mid. K VniM B'bH of rinanim CauneU irr W n. iaia ft. Waimaam. till OH. Ltaaela L4U1 Bnlldlnf. MARCH CIRCULATION T" Daily 65,293 Sunday 63,450 yi iMvtaff the clt? kuM kav TIm smIM t .. A44r akaagaa aa ata u requaatad. Fini.h tha Job! . Buy Victory notei and make H iur. . Nebraska fields are getting their full ahare f moiiturt thii spring. The referendum taw it a double-edged waapon, and will eut on both aide. Tha German cabinet it said to be depressed. Wall, what did the highbrows at Berlin expect from Parte? "Billy" Sunday still hat a good word to say for Omaha, and the feeling of friendship is re Ciprocated. About tha only thing that can be said In behalf of those Chicago bandits is that they wara good, fast warkera. Easter Sunday wat not such a quiet day in Omaha, after all, but it it what must be ex pected in a growing community. An Omaha negro soldier and his razor helped make history in Prance, and he has the tazor with the nicks in tha blade to back up tits tory. City commissioners had better beware how that, Aramm nt almlnar That jtraam coma true, but they may get their constituents to thinking of something. Tha tories and tha' socialists are' uniting to toppla Lloyd George out of office in England. It will be a sad day for tha "tight little isle" if the combination suceeds. Pershing's "own" band is playing patriotism Into Gotham these days, but it was the tune they furnished for the kaiser to dance to that give Americans tha real thrill. - l ii v Mild and gentle though he be, Thomas Riley Marshall expresses a fervent hope that the bolshevik! ba exterminated. For once he is in line with the public, but not with the president. What France would like to have is not so much a guaranty that the future will be with out war as that it will not be necessary to main tain an army to protect against invasiyi from Germany. . 1 ; "r .'Italy went into the war not so much to make; tha world safe for democracy as to make I taly secure for Italians. Do not lose sight of this fact when trying to make up your mind s to the merits of the case. Southern cotton barons who are acting .to gether to restrict tha area to be planted this year are likely to run head-on into the anti-trust law. They need have no fear,, for the price will ba high enough to suit any who has to buy cot ton over the counter. 'Tha city commission has lined up for the patrons against the teelephone company in the rata fight. This is all right, but a little more pressure on the home rule line will eventually give Omaha residents tha right to settle these matters without going to Lincoln. " Omaha ministers are having quite as much trouble in getting together aa are the peace conference delegates. It might be well to let the matter of name forever until some of the more essential points have been put aside as set tled. , Most of the trouble in this world has come up over unessential. Austrian crown Jewel, have gone the same route as taken by the Russian. The proletariat will be recognised in the future as the great agents of dispersion, Just as they were in the past. Vessels from King Solomon's temple were found in Spain centuries after the Assyrians had carried them from ' Jenan to Babylon, mute evidence of the vicissitudes attendant on royal or holy treasure. And just as the Goths and Vandals who sacked ' imperial Rome preferred jewels and gold to other forms of wealth less portable, so do their modern proto types evince similar discriminatory judgment. What America Is Ours is a land in which more than 20,000,000 of I men, . women and children have just now subscribed to Liberty bonds. It js a land with more than 18,000,000 dwell ings occupied by about 21,000,000 families. It is a land in which fully 6,000,000 families own their -own homes without incumbrance, while 3,000,000 own their homes subject to mort ?age. , It is a land in which more than 12,000,000 persons are depositors in mutual, stock or pos tal savings banks, with total deposits amount ng to more than $6,500,000,000. It is a land in whi.ch there are nearly 6,500,000 farms having a. value, including their buildings and equipment, of more than $41,000,000,000, and yielding an annual product of a value of cnore than $8,500,000,000. It is a land with more than 266,000 miles of railway in operation, carrying in a year more mora than 1,000,000,000 individual passengers ni more than 2,225.000,000 tons of freight. ft is a laod in which schools for the people are maintained at a total expenditure of nearly $650,000,000, with an attendance of more than 20.000,000 children. It is a land in which there are more than 3,000 -public libraries, having on their shelves mora than 75,000,000 vobimes for the instruc tion and inspiration of the people. " It is a land whose total wealth is now not less than $225,000,000,000, and in which the dis tribution of that wealth i steadily becoming mora equitable and mofa satisfactory under the operation of the forces and principles that have sruided American life so lone and so well. Who is jt that has the temerity to wishi to undermine the foundations of so noble and so inviting a political and social structure as thitl Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, , - . .... , . JOLT FOR GERMAN PRIDE. The acid test is about to be applied to Ger man bumptiousness. For several weeks such of their leaders as were not giving their time to the propagation of boUhevism have been hard at work fostering the notion that Germany did not lose tha war; that it was not ended in col lapse of the army, but that the super-supermen discovered all of a sudden that Mr. Wilson's fourteen points were just what Germany had been fighting fori alt the time, and so they agreed to an armistice and returned unbeaten and unbowed to await the formulation of a treaty that would embody those points. This treaty, of course, to be presented in season to the councils of the empire, there to be studied, dissected, freed from its crudities and oddities, and eventually sent back to the Allies and the United States for ratification.- ' Notice has just been sent from Paris of a na ture that will doubtless dispel this dream. It is to the effect that no mesesengers need be sent to Versailles, for the conferees will deal only with plenipotentiaries who are duly authorized to sign a treaty for tha German peo ple. Moreover, these delegates are to be rested as enemies until after the treaty is signed. ' They will be emphatically reminded that tha war is not yet over, and that Germany did not win it. This raises the question as to whether Ger many has a government to make peace. The republic proclaimed at Weimar has not yet been superseded, nor has it been firmly established. Proceedings at Munich, Dresden and other capi tals may or may not be part of a gigantic farce.; at any rate, the brand of bolshevism thus far axbbited is tha sort that gives its attention al most exclusively to loot, and does not aim at permanence of government. i It may be, then, that the Weimar Crowd will ba looked on as the government of Germany, Its pride is no less than that of tha late aris. tocracy, but it will sign a peace treaty at Ver sailles, prepared and presented by a council in which tha Germans have no voice, If hs pride sustains thisjolt with safety, "we have hopes that in time Germany will come out all right. The Inflexible German Will . Files in tha Peace Ointment. Until the text of the peace treaty be given out, the world will be left to conjecture as to its contents and meaning. Our president says it is a guaranty pf peace, of a world that is safe for democracy, and that civilization will not again be menaeed by the militarism that has been overthrown. Realization , of such an out come will be a wondrous boon to humanity, but tome are not so sanguine as Mr. Wilson. Guglielmo Ferrari, historian and statesman himself of no mean position,- says the treaty as planned, together with covenant of- the League of Nations, will but postpone the war which soon must follow. France fervently hopes for a solution that will relieve her of worry as to Germany. Per statesmen seek an alliance that will 'be positive against another attack from her dangerous neighbor. England and America can give such protection, but Mr, Wilson is understood to be opposed to anything not contained in the League of Nations. Italy wants the Adriatic coast on both sides, and the Jugo-Slavs decline to recede from their claims. This question is no nearer solution than when it was first brought to the. front by the new nation, which suddenly expanded its aspirations under the influence of Mr. Wil son's well meant promise that he would see they got justice. No amount of diplomatic phrase-making can entirely cover up these elements of discord at Paris. They are potential sources of interna tional division, and unless they can be brought to adjustment the League of Nations will go down the ways handicapped by a cargo of dis sension that may give life to Ferrari's gloomy prediction. Making peace for the world is not the easiest job to which statesmen have ad dressed their energy. , From the New York Times. . " If we believe the flood of assertions pouring forth from Germany, the German delegates will never sign a treaty that gives Germany the worst of it. They may have lost the campaigns in the field, but they insist on winning the war. The national assembly demand; ''a peace based on understanding and reconciliation," a phrase which we learned to know under the Michaelis administration as meaning a peace that would give Germany the essentials of victory, if not everything that enthusiasts hoped when they first started out on the great crusade to Ger manize the world. President Ebert welcomes this "declaration of the inflexible will of the German people," sheds salty tears about the burden which Germany is called upon to en dure, and throws all the blame for certain vague "consequences which must follow" on the "spirit of hatred and revenge" manifested by the allies; just as the kaiser and his servants used to denounce the bloodthirsty allies for con tinuing the war when they could have had a I peace at any time by surrendering. I ' . r i rr . i - . . uoum wpn oerniiom aays mat ucrmany can pay nothing now. Prince Lichnowsky would reject a peace of violence, and declares that "nobody can recommence the war against us." The Vorwaerts says that such turns as are pro posed by way of indemnity can not be exacted "even if the last sheet is taken from our beds." The Lokal-Anzeiger regards the redintegration of Poland as a "shameless mockery of the 14 points," despite the fact that the Polish question was treated in that program more fully and ex plicitly than any other; and the Borsen Courier, somewhat strangely identifying Mr. Wilson's political future with German aspirations, says that the solution of the Sarre question is "the most tremendous political defeat that he could experience.' These are ominous words, if one believes them.. But we have good reasons, general and specific, for not believing them. We have learned of old that little that comes out of Ger many is credible, and this desperate attempt to frighten the policeman who is taking an offender to court is less credible than the rest. Part of it is quite obviously based on the German theory that the president came into the war to save Germany frpm the consequences of defeat, a view which even Germans can hardly any longer entertain seriously. Aa for the rest, the French statesman, quoted by Mr. Selden in yesterday's Times seems to have the right view. When the Germans come to Versailles and read the document that will be presented to them they will at first be filled with the wrath of outraged patriotism. They will re fuse to sign. The German newspapers will back them up and will declare that they must not sign. They will defy us; there will be talk of renew ing the war and dying in the last German ditch; or perhaps of passive resistance, of leaving the allies to the terrible, though undefined, "conse quences." All this will greatly promote the confidence of the German people in the government, the government press, and the government's peace delegation. Never, never, never will they sign away the people's rights. Then, German bun combes having been appeased; the delegates will scrutinize the treaty. They will raise objection to details; and where these details are of no great importance, where they deal with such matters of procedure as, for example, methods of collecting part of the indemnity, their views may be followed. Certain changes may be made, unimportant in content and short in a document of 150,000 words. And then the Germans will sign the treaty, and will go home to their peo ple, pointing out that on this, that, and the other point they saved the vital interests of Germany, despite their enemies' will to destruction: all of which will count heavily in the next election, on which political persons may be supposed to have an eye firmly fixed. Lichnowsky may think that the allied armies will not fight, but we think that if it were a question of fighting a little more to insure the fruits of victory they would fight. Aa for the Germans, their armies may be dangerous to Poland or Bohemia, but they could not stand up a week agains the allied troops on the Rhine. Nor will a nation whose industrial plant is still intact, but whose industries cannot be started until the blockade is lifted, destroy its own chances of. future prosperity by deliberately bringing on itself conditions such as now pre vail in Russia. The inflexible German will may be expected to prove flexible enough when the time comes. , Arbor Day and a State Duty. Because this is Arbor day, and because it is of Nebraska origin, its simple observance will forcibly remind the people that they have not yet dona what they might to bring it to its fullest realization' for public good. Millions of trees have been planted in Nebraska under the jnfluence of the spirit of J. Sterling Morton, and graceful groves now dot the landscape where early settlers saw only prairie grass and flowers. This ought to stimulate a deeper in terest in scientific forestry, the application of which hojdf great promise for this and every other state in the. union. Much indignation was expressed over , the ruthless and wanton "de struction of woods back of the battle lines by the marauding Huns, but the sympathy shown for France has not had a proper reaction here. For many years The Bee has periodically sug gested the afforestation of public lands in Ne braska, and the systematic cultivation of valua ble timber trees on the farms. We note a gradual awakening of public interest in this, and hope in time to tee Nebraskans merit as well as assume the title of "Tree Planters." Fu-V ture, generation! will bless the present if the work is soon commenced. Friend of the Soldier Replies will be given in this column to questions relating to the soldier and his prob lems, in and out of the army. Names will not be printed. . Ask T h B e to Answer. Supply Trains Needed. v A Soldier's Wits Bupply train No. 109 was detached from the 84th division at the time that organiza tion was sent home because it was needed in France. It has been en gaged in convoying supplies to the I army In Germany. Since the move ment or troops noma has com menced the work of supplying- the front is lessening, so that the urgent need for holding the service units is no longer as great as it was. This is permitting the command over there to send many of these detached or ganizations home, but no, date can. be fixed for any. Watch The Bee for word of this unit. Russia Nearing the End. Recognition of the Omsk government as that of Russia by the Allies may be a step nearer to the end of disorder in the unhappy land. Whether that is so or not, it is a step nearer the end of procrastination in our dealings with the situation. For two years the United States has been the leader in a hot and cold policy to wards Russia that so far has been productive of dissatisfaction on all sides. Able leaders felt that intervention was justified in 1917; the president waited, his Mexican policy being en tirely too close at hand. In 1918 it seemed that intervention was imperative, but it was under taken in .a half-hearted and wholly ineffective vay, and no benefit has, been derived from it. It is no fault of ours that Germany did not gain all it expected to obtain in Russia. What is to be done next does not yet appear. Offers of food to the hungry are accompanied by demands that fighting cease, to which Lenine and Trotxky have made no reply. The recognition of the Omsk government was announced along with the no-intervention policy. General Dene kine will be left to work out his own salvation. If he can make headway against the bolshevists who surround him, well and good, but the prob abilities are he will need much outside assistance before he brings order to his country. Just now tile best news that could come from over there would be that the peasants are preparing to seed their lands, that they may have food of their own by another winter. Emigration The savings bank section of the American Bankers' association is sending out letters of warning. The fool's paradise pictured in bol shevist propaganda is affecting the alien popu lation of the United States. It is estimated that 1,300,000 aliens will not be prevented from returning to lands where the dream of the com munist is supposed to have become tangible. With an innocense which is tragic they are taking their money from a land where property rights are upheld to lands where they are ig noredbut the are taking their money. The bankers find that they are averaging, as they now depart, takings of from $15,000 to $20,000 each. If the estimates of departures are set too high, and if the aliens continue to take as much money as-lhey are taking now, they will take ouf$4,000.000,000 and seriously disturb the cur rency of the country. There are two Tissues involved and they con flict. The people who are going are socially and politically the people of whom the United States would be well rid. They reveal that they have nothing in common with the social"and political organization of the United States. Their volun tary withdrawal would be a good thing for the country. We are deporting the violent ones and jailing some of them. -The money they take out cannot be taken from the currency of the country without pro ducing disorder. Therefore the bankers urge that the emigration be discouraged and the movement checked. It is a pity that to keep the currency we have to keep the aliens. Chi cago Tribune. ITUUAY The Day We Celebrate. Frank Stone, 1821 Corby street, is 68 years old today. Alexander Kerensky, a leader of the revolu tion which overthrew the morlirchy in Russia, born at Simbirsk, Russia, 38 years ago. ' Miles Poindexter, United States senator from Washington, born at Memphis, Tenn., 51 years ago. Bishop William 'F. Anderson of the Metho dist Episcopal church, born at Morgantown, W. Va.. 59 years ago. Oliver M. W. Sprague, professor of banking and finance ' at Harvard university, born at Somerville, Mass., 46 years ago. Ellen Glasgow, author of numerous popular novels, born at Richmond, Va., 45 years ago. In Omaha 30 Years Ago. ( Before a thousand spectators Omaha won its third straight base ball victory from Minneapolis. Efockstader's minstrels opened at the Boyd. Among the Omaha people who left to atr tend Arbor day exercises at Nebraska City were1 Dr.3eorge Miller. Hon. J. M. Woolworth, John Heth, Stockton Heth, J. C. Calhoun, jr., and a number of young ladies from Brpwnell Hall. Farnam school, seventh B grade, celebrated Arbor day with song and spoken word. Partici pants in the program were: Frank Thomson, Ross Towle, Thanie Anspacher, Carl Holtorf, Sadie Gibson, Charles Detwiler, Alice Andree sen, Marie Valentine,; Will Haney, Gretchen Crounse, Nannie Briggs, Georgie Chapman, Susie Colpetzer. Mabel Taylor. A fishing trip is the declared purpose of a party consisting of.T. O. Phillippi, general freight agent or the Missouri Pacific; Dr. Gal braith, surgeon of the Union Pacific: Erastus Young. J. H. McConnell and Rev. T. M. House, who left in a special car for Mankato, Minn. Record of Fallen Soldier. A Broken-Hearted Sister Tou can obtain the repord of your broth er's service and the circumstances surrounding his death by writing to the adjutant general of the army, Washington, D. C. If you will also write to the Bureau of Effects. Port Of Debarkation, Hoboken, N. J., you will be able to obtain his personal effects, and you may get a little in formation beyond what can be pro vided at the adjutant general's of fice. Securing Release of Soldier. A Reader of The Bee To secure the early release of a soldier in any branch of the service It Is necessary to make application to the officer im mediately over him, presenting affi davits setting forth the reasons for asking the discharge. This is the first step, and the rest follows through military channels. Now that the government is making all efforts to get the boys back home aa quickly as possible, not many are being discharged in France.1 The medical units you mention are both at Important stations, and yet they are likely to be released for convoy home at any time now. Fights of the Fourth Division. Soldier's Sister Briefly, the rec ord of the Fourth division from July 15 to the end of the war la this: On July 15 it was in reserve at Chateau Thierry; on the 18th it was moved into , the front line, taking part in the operations on the Orcq; then it rftlieved the 42nd', taking over the position at Chery-Chartreuve, on the Vesle; in August, it was in the front line forces at St. Mihiel; in Septem ber it went into the Meuse-Argonne fight, and was part of the American army there when the armistice was signed. It was part of the First army. I Many Questions Answered. R. Ii. Regret we can not tell you when base hospital No. 27 will leave Tours. Miss E. F. Z. The 14th balloon company is at Toul, A. P. O. 784; it is attached to the Sixth army corps, and no time has been fixed for its return. There is no reason why let ters should not reach or be received from this unit. A Mother The 69tht balloon com pany is part of the Fourth army corps, A. P. O. 776; no orders for its Immediate return. M. F. B. No ordera have yet been issued for the early return of butch ery company 844. M. R. Headquarters of the First division is at Hetzeroth, Germany; A. P. O. 729. Can not make out which machine gun battalion you want to know about, and therefore can not reply to your question. Write again and give the number of the battalion plainly. 5 Mrs. A. S. The 21st engineeers is engaged in light railway work in France; company K's address is via A. P. O. 703; this postoffice is at Gondrecourt (Meuse). Anxious Mother The 138th infan try is part of the 35th division, which is on the sailing schedule for April. J. B. L.- The provisional con valescent battalion, you refer to was a part of the 83d division, which di vision sailed for home some weeks ago. It was necessary to leave be hind temporarily a considerable number of men, ' among them the unit you mention. This will be re turned shortly, though no date can be now fixed for its departure; watch The Bee for the news. J. F. Li. The present address of labor battalion 342 is Luxy, via A. P. O. 706; this postofflce is at Chau mont (Haute-Marne). No orders for the early return of this unit. Interested Reader Veterinary mobile hospital No. 7 Is with the Seventh division and its return from Germany is uncertain. A Soldier's Sister The Fifth com pany, ordnance repair shops, is at Longuyon with the Fifth division, A. P. O. 745; how long these regular army units will be held in Europe after the peace treaty is signed is uncertain, as the probability for In definite occupation of portions of the rthine valley now seems good. Mrs. G. H. B. Regret that we can not tell you when motor truck com pany No. 321 will be ordered home. Mrs. F. D. McN. See answer to Anxious Mother, foregoing. A Soldier's Sister The 13th field artillery is part of the Fourth brigade of the Fourth division; its present address is A. P. O. 754: this unit will probably be held indefinite ly in Europe. Greater America. Brooklyn Eagle: Paderewskl, with his pockets full of American gold, rules the Poles. Masaryk, who mar ried in Brooklyn, dominates the Czecho-Slovaks. Clemenceau, four Tears an American resident, controls the French policy. Even Trotzky of Russia is a former Manhattan east sider. Reflections on a Greater America are in order. DAILY CARTOONETTE r J HA il HERE C6ME5 SOMEONE !? I'LL HIDE tiMBER THt H dcu: W1DHEDID- Nf r DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "THE POISOXED SWORD." (King Bird ehillencn tha Myitxrlouo Knlcht to maet th Knight of th Fotiontd Sword In knightly conibuL) CHAPTER IL i The Foe That Squealed. KING BIRD had chosen a splen did spot for the tourney he proposed to hold between the Mysterious Knight and the Knight of the Poisoned 8word. The hollow beside the oil mill had high, sloping banks on all sides except one, where it opened on the forest. In the cen ter was a level lawn. This was like the arena of a circus, while the slopes round about were like tiers of circus seats. The birds, eager to see the tour-, ney, quickly covered the slopes, re serving a fine place in the center for Peggy. Billy Belgium as the Mys terious Knight and Balky Sam, as his gallant steed, galloped around the arena, while the Knight swung his sword vigorously to show what he would do to an enemy if an en emy were there. "Hi, yi, King Bird, bring on your champion," he shouted defiantly. "Wait a minute," cried King Bird from the forest, and presently he "Trot Out Your Champion," Cried the Mysterious Knight. and his followers came in lucaln a targe pear-shaped lump of clay. This tney lined to the top of a stump, i King Bird grew vexed when he saw the big crowd of birds gathered on the slopes. "Here, you folka, you'll have to pay to see this show." he shrieked. "Admission is one fat tnsect for grown-ups and one lean insect for children." "Nonsense." exclaimed the Knight. "A tourney is an amateur sport. It'a ftlwftys free "Is It?" asked King Bird. "Well, all right, but it'a a shame I can't get a good meal out of managing it." "Trot out your champion," cried the Mysterious Knight. I want to see this Knight of the Poisioned Sword," "You'll see him soon enough," an swered King Bird. "And then you'll be sorry " There was a loud crashing in the woods, then a volley of grunts, fol lowed by an ear-piercing squeal. Something waa coming awiftly toward the arena. "Here he is the Knight of the Poisoned Sword," shrieked the Birds. They clustered closer together and prepared to take to their wlnga if danger came too near. The Mysterious Knight turned his gallant steed toward the woods and waited, sword in hand. The crashing drew closer, and then out from the forest dashed a glgantio pig a great boar. "HI, yi, 6n guard. Knight of the Poisoned Sword, for I'm going to cut a slice of ham!" shouted the Mys terious Knight Forward bounded his faithful steed, and then the faithful steed stopped short, for the boar gnashed his gleaming tusks and charged straight at the steed's legs. But the knight didn't stop. He went right on over the steed's head and landed on the back of the boar, his sword flying out of his hand.. "My! but there waa a mix-up then. The boar let out a terrible squeal and whirled around and around, trying to reach the knight with his tusks. The knight grab bed the boar's tail and hung on for dear life, twisting and twisting it. The boar ordinarily waa brave enough, but he wasn't expecting anything like this. Hie squeal rose to a shriek, and he galloped around so fast Peggy grew diesy watching For tho Amended League. York, April 19.-iTo the Kditor of The Bee: I want to commend The Bee for its sane, fair course in this confab on the league of nations. I have seen three of the state papers 'just partly state the facts or ' else actually mistake them for inference at least. Take, for instance, the debate of Senator Lodge and Pres ident Lowell on the League of Na tions. They all three intimate that the senator has come partially over for a league. Now that is not a fair way to state the case for the senator has not come over, but has been over all the while and today he asks just the same' as at first, no more, no less, and that is to make it workable. The wildest dreamer for it can not object to that and be at all con sistent, because he would be the gainer as well as the others. Some criticise him for having spoken In favor of a league two or three years ago, while now he is opposing it. Another mistatement. But he is statesman enough to want it done right if at all. And the Lodge reso lution declared in the outset for a league, but asked that it state in plain terms what it meant. Is there anything wrong in that the request of the Lodge resolution is the re quest of every thinking person, so that a league to promote peace be not a nest egg of disputes. If they think it would not be, let them read the divergent views already given on a number of the disputed clauses both here and in Europe. . Let us consider another case that gives a clear idea of what the Lodge followers want to avoid. In one of the large Cities a man took the con tract to put in a lot of storm sewers of the lateral or feeder type. On beginning he told his men he would give them so much a day or so much a footrunning measure, and they could have their choice. One man. finding he could make more by the foot brought his two boys and they worked early and late. When they came to settle the boss paid them by the day without overtime. When they protested he said: "I gave you your choice, but you did not say which you took and I am boss of the job. I will suit myself about that part of it. I have not time or space to tell of the tragedy that took place or the (feud) that grew out of a half made bargain, because it was to their own interest to Interpret it that way. Well, if . in a small way, we get such results, what is to be expected where the power, wealtlvor success of rulers or nations is at stake and all they have to do is to interpret that "scrap of paper" to suit their own interests. Think you they will overlook anything along that line. I tell ye nay, but if you do not play safe now you will suffer later. And the men that are crying "safety first" are the statesmen in this critical hour of the nation's life, while the swallow-it-whole bunch are the dangerous ones. The same ex planation as is here given for Lodge is just as true in the cases of Mc Cumber. Root, Lenroot and many others that are being charged with opposing a league to promote peace. A leaerue properly formed may be a great help In preventing wars, but bungled up would only Increase the APRIL SMILES Mn. Oushlnsr (t ' private view) I sunpos you r greatly Interested In the cubists and futurists, Mr. Maulstick? Mr. Maulstick My dPar madam. I'm a painter not an alienist. Buffalo Ex press. "This ousrht to make life easy from now on." remarked Noah as the ark landed. 'To what do you refer?" Inquired Japhet "Our monopoly of egsrs. butter, milk, beef, ate, with not a soial on earth to tart an Investigation." Vfcshlngton Star. Parker I though your dachshund wai longer. Qulnn Perhaps he was: but last night e left him In the kitchen and h ata all :he cook's shortening. --Judge. "There Is one original quality of that fib of Adam which has come down to the present day." 'What Is that?" "It has always been a bone of con tention." Baltimore American. "Here's a poet with a lament for the boy he used to be. Have you any re grets?" None. The boy I used to be would hava ieen In jail by this time." Judge. quality pencil m tpt wona 'American Lead Pencil Co. 119 riftlt Avmra Naw York I danger of them. Yet aome of the leaders on the other aide say, "I will Blgn it if it isn't just right so as to get it." How does that sound coming from men calling themselves statesmen? When the best of them admit its crude construction and of its need of redrafting to make it what it ought to be? Mr. Lowell, Mr. Taft, Mr. Byran and a score of others on that side say It is faulty and should be re drafted. p Now, who is at fault when that is all we are asking is to have it redrafted in workable shape. When certain clauses have been referred to as to what they mean one says it means thus and so then make it say so in plain words, then when fear is given of others as to what it might do for us they rush to the front and say so. It does not mean that, then say na. One of these twilight state ments Is in reference to the council of five's power to order their states to war with another power or an unruly member of the league. Now our old constitution aays that "con gress alone has power to declare war." Oh, yes, but they say it will not conflict with that Then let them say so. If they are unwilling to state In plain terms what they are aiming at it is open to charges of blundering or something worse. So that makes it plain we should ask it corrected o regret It. FRANKLIN POPE. Daily Dot Puzzle I 0 7 e IS 16 e 20 4 IS 21 ! 22.1 e ,v 4 II 24 25 4 10 2t 27 7 3 ' .26 ... 20 -3Z 37 3o - ?3I 4l a 44-4b 4 So 4 45 47 52. 51 4a When you've traced ta fifty-two, Jhen you'll see my- Sue. Draw from one to tw and so on to tha end. , him. Then as tha knight Jerked and pulled on tha boar'a atubby tail, trying to keep from falling off, Peg gy'a diziiness turned into wild laughter. 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