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12 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY. APRIL 28,1919. The Omaha Ree DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TBI BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR . MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ta Assoclattd Pra. of wlilek Th B I a tutBbr. It txolojlnly nlttltd to tb dm for publloatlai of all am dispatch eredlud to It m sot adwrwln aradlted In this p. per, ud alio th local uwi pubitihsd hanta. All rtfhu of publication of oux spartal dimtehas an alas Mmd, OFFICES i Cklcaa 1TJ9-II SUr Bid. Omaha-Th Bm Bid. Nn York SM fifth in South Onah la US St. L Lul Nw B'nk of Oomajaro. Council Bluffs 14 N. Main St Wahia1 0 St Llnoola LltUi Building. '' MARCH CIRCULATION " Daily 65,293 Sunday 63,450 Aran etraalttlon for th. month subscrlb.d tad sworn n fer C atacaa. Clroolulom Mmnt. SkbMribars baviag th city ibeuM have Tha Baa nulled ' AMi-MS c&aagM M ettaa u nvwmu VlttoHo Orlando also has a single-track mind. ! Recall If you can "S4-40 or fight," and do not bt too bard on the Italians. ; Where does self-determination come in, when somebody else decides for yon? I Nebraska ought to smile her prettiest for the Belgian guests who art with as today. i The Victory loan is reported to be lagging. This is wrong;, her and everywhere. Get behind it hard I "Beauty" preparations are to advance in cost, but this will not reduce the volume of sales greatly. ' ' Th economic boycott as an adjunct to moral suasion has several chances to make good right now. ' a No reason why yon should not get down on tb Victory loan today, if you have not already COM the limit on It No, you can not measure patriotism by dol lars, but you will sot be under suspicion while you arc behind a V-loan button. Self-control is a quality as admirable in na tions as in Individuals, so hold on to your feel ings till this crisis has reached an impasse. Pancho Villa made a very profitable call at Parrel As usual, the Mexican troops showed up about one day too late to overhaul the bandit A presidential campaign is in progress in Mexico, which may account for the renewed activity of the banditti down there. A more or less purposeful digger exhumes th Information that the original pronunciation os "wasps" was 'Srops," and suggests a possible parallel. Now th city council passes the building cost probe to the county, and that will just about com plete the circle. Passing the buck continues to be the great indoor sport War bread for Europe afforded a pretext for shooting prices higher in America. Wonder what we would be charged for something to eat if the people over there all starved? The Omaha man who is reported to have cleared $2,000,000 in a week on a corn deal will have a very mtereatlngr interview with Uncle Sam's revenue collector about this time next year. ' Americans, who have stinted themselves to save fod for hungry foreigners, will approve Herb Hoover's words to the bolshevistic Huns. They will behave themselves in Germany, or go hungry to bed. .Chairman Towner of the house committee on insular affairs returns from Porto Rico con vinced that the government ought to pay some attention to the Island. This is quite a victory, seejng that the people there have been trying to get congress around to that view for the last fifteen jjears. Uncle Sam is doing right well in some ways. He has sold his surplus war railway supplies for exactly what they cost him, his excess airplane material for 90 per cent of cost, and ordnance material for 57 per cent. This Is better than might have been looked for, judging from past experience. Th esteemed State Journal is getting out on thin ic when it makes an attack on the Omaha Chamber of Commerce in connection with the State Teachers' association. Folks have not forgotten how an effort was made to stuff th ballot box in favor of Lincoln a few years mgo, nor are they blind to the fact that the present move to divide the association is fostered by Lincoln interests who failed to in due the teachers to change their place of meeting. ' Lord Astor1 s Double Taxes ' ' When William Waldorf Astor. now Vis count Astor. renounced his American citizen ship and became a British subject he did not figure on war and taxes. His property being in the United States mainly, it was from the United States that his income was derived. In order to beat kaiserism, tax-gatherers everywhere were given extreme powers. On this side of the ocean Lord Astor was readily classed among those favored sons of fortune, no matter where resident whose in comes gained from domestic investments or , business are subject to super as well as normal tax levies. In England, where he now has his residence, -he is assessed in the same way upon his income from foreign invest ments, and it is said that between the two he is worse off than as if he had no income and that he may have to sell some part of his estate in order to meet his obligations. Possibly all this is true, but it is an extreme case. We are taxing all incomes, just as Great Britain does, and we do not hesitate on , the ground that they are received by citizens or aliens from foreign sources and may have been taxed elsewhere. Almost every day the authori ties hold up many emigrants at this port, not citixens of the United States, who are going to .Europe, without settling with the collector of internal revenue: We are taxing Lord Astor because his in come is strictly American. Great Britain is taxing him because his income is that of a Brit ish subject Between the two he is experiencing atl the inconveniences of property-holding in one country and home-making and citizenship in " another. The remedy is in his own hands. If he elects to dispose of his New York estate in order to escape taxation here he will find that , in spite of everything it has increased greatly in value, and so there is no reason to fear that be will become a public charge. New York World SERIOUS, BUT NOT AN IMPASSE. The situation at the Peace conference, de veloped through the action of President Wilson, is grave, but not beyond a satisfactory solution. At least representatives of other powers are apparently hopeful that some adjustment of the Italian affair may be reached which will bring the nations together again in harmony. The fact that an adjustment was almost reached when the publication of the president's address changed the outward aspect of the situation is taken as basis i for hope that the negotiations may be resumed where they were interrupted, and by slight concession and conciliation the rupture may be averted. Premier Orlando will have the support of the Italian government, and presumably the people, just as the president would have the support of Americans in a like situation. This is not enough. Italy has little stomach for fur ther fighting, although none could show more spirit than is evinced there now. Nor do the "big three" feel like exerting any material force against their ally. It is hinted that Lloyd George and Clemenceau were privy to the eon tents of the president's note, and aware of his intention to publish it. This being true, it is quite sure that France and England are not prepared to support the claims of Italy to Fiume. This leads the way to a possible com promise. Whatever bargaining is to be done in the way of settlement musf be in the open. Diplomacy must be brought up from its sub terranean courses into the light of day, and its operations and devices be in plain view. This will assure the world as well as the Italian and Jugo-Slavs of the honesty of those who are sin cerely striving to set up a real peace. If the Italians are seeking consolation of any sort, let them look at the spectacle of Japan at Portsmouth, when Witte replied, "Not a kopek!" to the request for Indemnity. Japan then, as now, was required to forego much deemed essential for its political and economic development, and yet has managed to thrive. Italy may do the same without Fium. Nebraska's Referendum Law. ' Several of our very good friends among the state editors have made a mistake as to the at titude of The Bee with regard to the referen dum. Notably is this true of the York News Times, who chargesthat The Bee is afraid the referendum will hurt the republican party. Far from that, The Bee realizes, that the republican party can suffer no harm from any law which rests on a solid foundation of justice to all and has the approval of the people. Agitation of the point at present is caused by the proposal to resort to the referendum to hold up the opera tion of the code bill and the primary law amendment No better reason to inveigh against this exists than might have been citejd in the case of any one of several laws that have been passed on by th voters after being enacted by the legislature The principal pur pose of the referendum is to give the opponents of any law a second chance to defeat it. They seldom spare effort while the measure is going through the legislature,, and when it has been enacted by that body, they take it up again with the people, hoping to turn it down. Efforts at reform in administrative ways are thus held back, and the people are deprived of any benefit that might come from the reform, while the evils sought to be remedied are given a further lease of life. The Bee has said that the refer endum is a two-edged sword, capable of cut ting both ways. Bnt this paper has not opposed the submission of any law to the voters for re view. Goat. Burleson to Be the Albert Sidney Burleson of Austin, Tex., is to be made the goat for the Wilson administra tion. On him will be laid the sins of omission and commission, the mistakes, blunders, crimes and what-not of the democratic apostles of in efficiency and partisan prejudice, and he will be chased into the wilderness with his unsavory load, when other sachems, priests and prophets of the wobbling national party will come before the people and say, "See, our hands are clean." Already he is charged with having misled the president, accused of bringing defeat on the party in the last election, and generally with being a liability. These things are not in any sense a recent discovery. Most of Mr. Burle son's undesirable attributes had been exhibited before he was elevated to the cabinet He had long before established himself as a tactless seeker for trouble, preferring always a row to peaceable procedure, and his first term as postmaster gen eral showed no inclination on his part to change. Mr. Wilson retained him in office, and virtually gave his executive endorsement to everything Mr. Burleson has done. This makes it just a little bit awkward for champions of the president, who scarcely can fail to see the humor of the (situation. The administration is sadly in need of a scapegoat, and it might as well be Burleson, but the sudden outburst of democratic ire against him is amusing. Ship Plans Undergo Change. Chairman Hurley of the shipping board has just announcedNthe cancellation of contracts for an additional 2,000,000 tons of steel ships, en tered into on a war basis. He also says that the board has in contemplation the abandon ment of all building of ships on which keels are not actually laid. This is not because Mr. Hur ley and his associates are not desirous of seeing the American merchant marine built up to the highest point, but because they are averse to paying the high prices for ships made necessary under war conditions, when these vessels must be maintained and operated under peace condi tions. In the sale of wooden vessels very re cently the government accepted a loss of $20 per deadweight ion, or approximately $100,000 per ship. This may be accepted as an indication of the loss impending in connection with the steel ships in event of their sale by the govern ment Mr. Hurley's proposal that a loss of not less than a billion dollars be written off on the ship building account was not welcomed with especial enthusiasm, yet it is certain to be realized. The action taken in connection with cancellation of uncompleted contracts will save quite a tidy sum of money to the public, and may eventually lead to just as many ships of a better type. A North Dakota judge has refused to grant citizenship to an applicant who admitted himself to be an I. W. W. That ought to be enough to deprive even a native of the privilege of voting. The Kansas City Times opines that if a war ever does start it will be over before the ex ecutive committee of the League of Nations can make up its mind what to da About The War in Europe New York Evening Post , More completely even than the German ar mies from the beginning of the war, the forces of th soviet have waged warfare along interior lines. Since the appearance of the Red army last summer, its main pressure has been sue cessively against the eastern or Ural front, the northern or Arctic front, the western front, and now the southern or Black sea front The soviet was hardest beset last summer when the Czecho slovak armies stood on the Volga and simul taneously peasant revolts broke out about Mos cow. The bolshevik regime was then in aire peril, and the resourcefulness with which it met tne crisis is a momt mm, organizing ability of the creators of the Red Guard. The Czecho-Slovaks and their Cossack allies were driven from the Volga and virtually out of European Russia. Thereupon soviet ac tivity turned towards Archangel and westward towards the Baltic and the Vistula. In the winter just past, Lithuania was invaded and its capital. Vilna, occupied, and the menace was felt in Poland itself, where an unsuccessful coup d'etat from within seemed for a few days to be the prelude to a bolshevist victory. Then the soviet tide in that direction slackened and ran back, while a steady movement set in to wards the south, which was completed only the other day with the occupation of the Crimea, closing the most impressive of the soviet cam paigns since the victories of last summer on the Volga. With the allies pledged to a with drawal from Archangel, the Red army has vir tually extended its flanks from the Arctic to the Black sea. - 1 Factors real and unreal have entered into the bolshevist victories. Real enough has been the growth of the soviet army in numbers, in leadership and in discipline. The Red army is now on a conscript basis., its officers have been largely recruited by various devices from the czar's armies, and its discipline is of the kind justified by an "iron" dictatorship of the pro letariat Wild estimates have been made of the numbv of troops at Lenine's disposal. Half a million men would be nearest the truth. One detailed account speaks of 17 "armies," each probably a couple of divisions strong. That Lenine ss yet has no unlimited resources in hand is indicated by recent developments in the field. As. the soviet armies have pushed north and south, they have been beaten back on the east and the west. This is precisely the re verse of the rubber-ball operation of last year when the soviet armies gave way on the north and south and made progress towards the Urals and the Polish frontier. The armies of Kol chak and Denikine, numbering perhaps 200,000 men, are still the most formidable of Lenine's opponents. Against them we may assume that half the soviet forces are concentrated. If these are now falling back we must suppose that they are not muchi superior numerically to the enemy, or, say. a quarter of a million men. That would make the total soviet armies the half million we have conjectured. The unreal factor in soviet success though real enough in the result has been the fact that on all fronts except the Ural the Red army has met with only perfunctory resistance, as around Archangel and against the allies in the south, or with partial resistance, as on the west ern front While the Poles were apparently in panic about the soviet danger from the east, Polish forces were in conflict with the Ger mans around Posen, with the Czecho-Slovaks around Teschen, and with the Ukrainians , in Galicia. When the Poles did turn eastward they seem to have had no difficulty in throw ing back the soviet armies to the original line of the German occupation running through the Pripet marshes and Pinsk. Similarly, the Uk rainians have been engaged for months in a struggle for Lemberg against the Poles, while the soviet was over-running eastern Ukrainia. Today Petlura's Ukrainian forces report vic tories stfuth of the Pripet and full in the rear of the soviet armies, if this were really a war in the grand style. As a matter of fact it is large ly a war of isolated bands or groups, and flanks, centers, rear, and lines of communication have comparatively little meaning. What if the allied invitation to a truce in exchange for food should meet with no better fate than Prinkipo? Opponents of the bolshe viki have argued that the recent soviet suc cesses are a final desperate effort that the front against Kolchak has been weakened in order to score on the northern and Black sea fronts, where the propaganda value is the highest Such interpretations have been made before and be lied by events. Yet they would be real enough if Kolchak's advance on the Volga should con tinue and Petlura keeps up pressure from the west. On the other hand, if war goes on with out interference by the allies on one side or the other,, we may expect a continuance of interior line operations by the soviet in the form of a withdrawal from the north and the Black sea and a new concentration against Kolchak and Denikine. As for the much-advertised soviet invasion of the west this spring, 3,000,000 men marching into Germany, Poland, Hungary and Roumania, that is pretty near nonsense. There are 850,000 allied troops in southeastern Europe today English, French, Serbs, Greeks, Roumanians and Italians. Of these the English and French alone number nearly 300,000. With the Czecho slovaks and Poles in the north a cordon of easily more than 1,000,000 men can be stretched from the Baltic to the Black sea. Farmers and Good Government Farmers are taking more interest in public affairs than ever before. This is fortunate, both for them and for the public. It is fortunate for them because it quickens their interest in affairs outside their own farms and gives them the inspiration which comes with the spirit of public service. It is fortunate for the public because we need the sane, clear thinking and the com mon sense which farmers bring to the solution of these public questions. We have had too much hasty, ill considered legislation, too much lawmaking by lawyers and other men whose viewpoint is that of some selfish interest. . Good citizenship and true Americanism are above selfishness and the interests of any class. In the degree that farmers are good citizens and real Americans will their influence be felt. It is to the credit of the new farmers' organiza tions that they are putting Americanism above class interest, and in so doing they are making of themselves a force which will be a powerful factor in guiding our nation along the right paths along the road which leads to better citizenship and higher ideals of living. Prairie Farmer. AY The Day We Celebrate. Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward, former prime minister of New Zealand, born 62 years ago. Charles Henderson, late governor of Ala bama, born in Pike county, Ala., 59 years ago. Henry. Morgenthau, former United States ambassador to Turkey, born at Mannheim, Ger many, 63 years ago. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. A capacity house greeted Edwin Booth, Law rence Barrett and their players in "The Mer chant of Venice." Booth's characterization of Shylock was said ito be "the most wonderful piece of work the 'theatergoers of this genera tion will see." Ninety-five Odd Fellows of this vicinity left on a special train for the state celebration of the seventieth anniversary at Beatrice. The Lefevre Gun club at their annual meet ing elected George W. Ketchem president, A. L. Perkins, vice president; W. E. Nason, treas urer, and W. D. Townsend, secretary and cap tain. Nearly 700 people attended the Union Pa cific shop employes' hop at Washington hall. Henry Dunn and Miss Hempel led the grand march. Proceeds will buy uniforms for the Un- ion Pacific shop boys' base ball nine, 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 e B to Answer. Twenty-Third Enarlnnerx. B Turke! Th Twenty-third en gineers is in the highway service and widely scattered. Headquarters, sanitary detachment, company . K and transportation, company No. 9 are at A. P. O. 914-A; companies A and M. and wagon companies 2, 3, 6 and 10 are at A. P. O. 774; com panies B and C, transportation head quarters, wagon companies 1 and 2, and transportation company No. 1 are at A. P. O. 747; companies D and F and transportation company 7 axe addressed via A. P. O. 714; company E. A. P. O. 904; company G, A. P. O. 784; company H and wagon company 4, via A. P. O. 907; company I, A. P. O. 7SS; company L and wagon company 6, A. P. O. 907; wagon company 3, transporta tion company 4, A. P. O. 769; trans portation company 6, A. P. "O. 744; transportation company 8, A. P. O. 742. No orders have been issued for the return of any of these units. Packages for Soldiers. Mrs. M. J. An order has been is sued within the week which per mits the mailing of small packages to soldiers overseas; your postmis tress should be apprised of this from Washington. Regulations are the same as for Christmas packages two years ago. The 838th macTilne gun battalion is part of the 88th division, which has not as yet been assigned a date for sailing for home. Caring for Shell Shook Patients. C. A. B. "Shell shock" cases are being sent to several different hos pitals, depending on the seriousness of the victim's condition; you are advised to write to the adjutant gen eral of the army, where a record of your brother's condition should be found, for information as to which one of the sanitariums he was ad mitted into. Many Questions Answered. 1 Mrs. C. D. S. Would advise you to write to the adjutant general of the army regarding any unit of the 15th engineers; this regiment was on the sailing list many weeks ago and we have no present address lor it Mrs. F. S. To secure the immedi ate release of a soldier from service overseas write to the commander of his company, setting out under oath the reasons for making the request. Many of the casual companies are being sent home from Lemana, it being the great central forwarding depot. It is not possible to give a sailing date for any, except that all are being assigned for passage as rapidly as transport is available. The soldier you ask about is in a company . not assigned to active service. Anxious Veterinary hospital No. 7 has not yet been assigned a date for sailing. Anxious Inquirer All divisions of the Second army except the Seventh have been ordered home; the 92d was first to come, most of its units reaching home in March; the 35th division Is on its way across now. and the 83d and 28th are scheduled to sail In May; the Seventh division will be attached to the Third army and remain in the army of occupa tion it.deflnltely. An Interested Header Veterinary hospital No. 1 is not attached to a division; its address is A. P. O. 714, located at Langres; no orders have yet been issued for the return of this unit An Anxious Sister The Seventh engineers, attached to the Fifth di vision, Is part of the army of occu pation; the address for this unit Is A. P. O. 745, which is at Longuyon; tnese organizations will be held in Europe indefinitely; the 109th engi neers is still waiting for transporta tion home, its present address being A. P. O. 788. An Anxious Father The 21st en gineers is in light railway service; company M is addressed via A. P. O. 703. this postofflce being at Gondrecourt (Meuse); no time has been fixed definitely for its return to America. An Anxious Mother The 644th engineers is in the service of supply of the army; D company has been with the Second army, now broken up; its aduress is via A. P. O. 914; this company very likely will be re united with the regiment now; no orders have yet been issued for its immediate return home. Miss M. R. Bakery company No. 365 is attached to the Fourth divi sion, now In the army of occupation, with headquarters at Remich. Ger many; it probably will be held there for some time, as no orders for the return of any of these units have been issued. Blonde and Brunette The 137th infantry is now on its way home; the 6th balloon company has been as signed to early convoy, and was wait ing for transportation at last ac counts. A Soldier's Mother At last ac counts aero squadron No. 829 still was at Ramorantln, A. P. O. 713-A; this unit is in the service of supply, and ,no orders have been issued for its immediate return. A Wife Motor transport unit No. 533 is part of motor supply train No. 426, and its address is A. P. O. 721-A; it is in the service of supply, and no orders have been Issued for its quick passage home; motor transport unit 694 is in the service of supply at London, England, and no date is fixed for its return. Anxious The Second army and the Second field army were the same; headquarters of the Second army has not yet been assigned a date for sailing, although it is likely to come home at any time. DAILY CARTOONETTE I'U RSK MflBEL FDR, HER HRNTi In SURE TO G,ET IT? ' ' " ' " U 'j -a U . IT- WD HEDID II DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. (Tb MysUrioua Knlcbt Is ohllnfd by Kins Bird to meet the Knight of tne Poisoned Sword to knightly combat.) CHAPTER VI. King Bird is Stung. PEGGT and the Birds looked with amazed eyes at the odd capers of the Mysterious Knight and his gal lant steed, and they wondered at the words of King Bird when he said, "I told you the Knight of the Poisoned Sword was a terror." Could It be that King Bird s cnampion was invisiDier Was he attacking the Mysterious Knight now and causing the latter to dodge and dance about and flay the air frantically with his arms? That must be It No wonder King Bird wss so confident he would whip the Mysterious Knight Who could fight against what he could not see? Suddenly the Mysterious Knight made a snatch at th air, and doubled up his fist. Immediately afterward he let out a shout of pain. Kl Yl! Ouch! Oh!" he yelled, shaking himself within his armor. He followed this by tumbling over on the ground, roll ing over and over, doubling up into knots like a contortionist, and throw ing a regular fit "Whee! Whee! Whee! The Knight of the Poisoned Sword has got into his armor. He is stabbing the Mys terious Knight. Whee! Whee!" ex ulted King Bird. "Oh-ee! I'm stabbed! I'm poisoned!" shrieked King Bird. Over and over rolled the Myster ious Knight until he reached th stump where King Bird was perched. Painfully the knight twisted to his knees, then to his feet "You're whipped! You're whip ped!" shrieked King Bird. The Mysterious Knight straighten ed up suddenly. He held up his clenched hand toward King Bird. Then he opened his hand. Out flew the black speck that had come from the lump of clay. With a buss that could be heard over the entire arena the upeck darted toward King Bird. "Whee! Oh, take it away!" shriek ed King Bird, dodging back. But the speck, buzzinr furiously, made for King Bird's head. King Bird, taken by surprise, did the only thing he could he opened his mouth and grabbed at th speck. But quickly as he grabbed the more quickly he let go, and out flew the speck. "Oh-eee! I'm stabbed! I'm poison ed!" shrieked King Bird, tumbling from his perch and flopping and whirling on the ground as crazlly as the Mysterious Knight had don be fore. The dark soeck. still bussing loud ly, darted toward Peggy and the Birds. They cowered away rrom k, but It didn't pay any attention to them, flying over their heads and out of the hollow. "A bumblebee!" cried Peggy. "That is the Knight of the Poisoned Sword!" "Hi yi, and King Bird got stung by that sword!" laughed the Myster ious Knight. "Oh-ee! But you got stung first," groaned King Bird. "Not me! I fooled you!" laughed the knight. I caught the Bumblebee in my gloved hand and held him until he was tearing mad, and then let him loose at you." "Then you weren't hurt when you threw that fit?" cried Peggy. "Not a bit!" roared the knight "I was just giving King Bird his laugh first so that our laugh would be all the better. Ho, ho, ho!" "Hurrah for the Mysterious Knight. Hurrah for Billy Belgium!" cried all the birds. "Hee-haw, hurrah for his gallant steed that's me!" brayed Balky Sam dancing around. "We fooled you all." "Whee! If I'd known the Myster ious Knight was Billy Belgium, I'd never have tried that Joke," wailed King Bird. "Whee-ee, but that Bum blebee had a hot stinger." "I forgive you, King Bird," said Daily Dot Puzzle OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. Married women live longer than unmarried women. And girl babies have more vitality than boy babies. A convent of Japanses nuns has been opened in Los Angeles. There are three times as many wo men centenarians as men in the United States. Lglslative action is pending in On tario to permit farmers' wives to be elected to school boards. Eleven women are to serve on the faculty of the" University of Cali fornia's summer session at Los An geles. Queen Mary uses small note paper, with "Buckingham Palace" stamped in dark blue at the head of it No crown is on the paper. In Hamilton, Ont., the city of her birth, Miss Julia Arthur, the cele brated actress,, was honored recently with a public reception. The champion woman trapshooter of the world is Mrs. C. E. Groat of Los Angeles, whose record of 1,074 out of 1,600 targets Is the best ave rage ever achieved by one of her sex. Mrs. Leonora Z. Meder did not succeed in her candidacy for mayor of Chicago, but she declares she Is satisfied with having "broken the ice" for a woman to become chief executive of the second largest city in America at some time in the fu ture. The United States Employment bureau has sent Miss Theresa A. Haley to Porto Rico to make an of ficial investigation of the working conditions in the island, especially as regards the women workers, who are said to be employed under de plorable conditions. Industrial demonstration centers, in which the knowledge gained by the industrial workers of the Young Women's Christian association dur ing the war as to the problems of working girls will be put into prac tice under peace conditions, are soon to be established in 10 of the larger cities of the United States. 7 . VI m. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. "It ! the unexpected that alwtyr, hap pen," observed the Sage. "Well," commented the Fool, "tf thla la true, why don't we learn to expect ltT" Cincinnati Enquirer. Mra. Flatbuah la your husband a good golfer? Mrs. Bensonhurst Well, he doesn't swear. If that's what you mean. Tonkera Statesman. "No doubt Kansas City seems to you like a veritable beehive," we said In our superior way. "Yep!" replied the gent from Jlmpson .Tnnrtlon. "I've been stung six times al ready since I got to town." Kansas Cltjt n . "I'm about to be Introduced to a fa mous beauty." . "Well? "I don't know what to say to her." "Let your eyes do the talking, man. If they express sufficient admiration you won't "have to say anything." Birming ham Age-Herald. Xuxurlous tastes Klchlelgh haa. He has a Corot In his office." "That'a nothing! I hava a whistler In mine." Boston Transcript. Ilkex your y?u Mra. Brown How do neighbors? Mrs. Black Very much. Tou can bor row anything you need from them. Portland Evening Express. Causes of Bolshevism. Omaha, April 23. To the Editor of The Bee: We are today face to face with a fact, that we are trying to ignore, and that is the spirit of bolshevism. The reason for the spread of bolshevism is because we give its adherents no hearing, be cause we refuse to stand toe to toe with its advocates. Instead, we kin dle the flame by offering that re sistance that has always made glori ous the path of missionaries. We must confess that the wealth of the nation is pitted against the cause of bolshevism, yet that very wealth fails to extinguish the ever growing fire. There must be some reason for this. Man is not so perverted even in his poverty that he Will swallow an entirely false doctrine. I am not a boleshevlst, but it seems to me that the eyes of the law are very sharp in detecting I. W. W. speakers, but very blind in round ing up sweat shop owners who pay girls $9 a week. Defeat bolshevism, not by casting its mouthpieces into prison, but by adopting some of their mighty sen- xihle a.rartimpntji. . J. J. CLARKE, 3159 Jackson Street Omaha. lb is 21 4 3 le I 32 . ',5i ' 5s S.-vVW a 1A vv 52, lie S7 Si 45 AS IS 4b 45 4 The I have is somewhat scary I Trace and see a fine Draw from on to two and so on ta th end. Billy. "Now. if you will put mud over the place where you were stung it will help take the poison out" "Ha, ha! Hurrah for King Bird' tourney," cried the birds. "It was worth the admission he wanted to charge. We will bring you all the in sects you can eat. King Bird." "Whee-ee! I don't think I'll ever be able to eat again," groaned King Bird. 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