THE BEE: OMAHA? THURSDAY, MAY I, 1919.
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WaaklnjtOB Mil O 81. Llaooln L1UI. Bulldlns.
" MARCH CIRCULATION "
Daily 65,293 Sunday 63,450
TAMnta alrenlattoa for tt month subssribad aid eworo to to
B. E. Bataa. Ciroulatloa aUnam.
Subacribara laavinf the city shooM kava Tha Baa mallad
ta than. Addraaa chant aal aa eftaa aa raquaatad.
Omaha is no place for the I. W. W.
What the V-Ioan needs is more vim, vigor
and vivacity. .. . .
- ' Taxpayers will do well to attend the road
meeting at the court house this afternoon!
; Those earthquake shocks in the west were
not caused by anything happening in Europe.
Mr, Burleson says he can not hold the wires
because the coming congress is against him.
Fudge ! . , '
' Orlando gets all the support Italy can give
him, but what he most needs is a place to
head in.
Lenine andJTrotzky are now said to be look
ing for a place to hide. Berlin ought to be first
to claim them.
Many a man is taking a chance on going to
the hospital rather than walk a block under the
skip-stop plan!
Your "soda" , will cost you just that much
more after today, reminding you that it takes
money to run a government.
Wheat Administrator Barnes is going to end
profiteering in food, so he says, and the public
will say, "More power to himl"
Corn speculators, say the. market is steady
again, which is another way of advising the
world that the trap is set once more.
County commissioners should be very care
ful what sort of plans they adopt if they want to
see the road bonds voted. Taxpayers are not
in a mood to be trifled with these days.
"Treat 'em rough" tactics are landing a
good many couples in police and divorce courts
these days. Some of these folks ought to go to
Russia, where the war still is in progress.
I A New York judge has held the increase in
phone and telegraph rates 'ordered by the post
master general to be illegal and unjustifiable.
The public long ago admitted they were inconvenient.
One more deplorable effect of the break over
Fiume is noticed in the appeal of the Albanians
to ' Essad Pasha for aid against the Italians.
But the vacancy to be occupied by a future
mpret must be preserved. .
Herr Hohenzollern has just received an ad
dress of homage signed by 500,000 names. . He
v could probably collect quite as many more on
an address of different tenor, but neither will
have t great effect when he comes to say "Good
morning; judge!" '
Experience still shows that more men die
from disease than are killed in battle in the
American army, 51 per cent to 43 being the
ratio for the present war. Sqme day we may
be able to assemble large bodies of men and
maintain them in good health. We are making
progress, but the result is not altogether satis
factory yet
"Mike" Dempsey leaves the police force with
as good a record as any man who ever wore a
star in Omaha. His long years of clean, effi
cient service have won for him a high place in
the respect and affections of the citizens who
know him, and he has well earned the pension
that will be his. He won his way from patrol
man to chief, through the various grades of
the service on his merit, deserving every pro
motion that came to him and making good in
everyplace.
When the Lilacs Breathe
When the lilacs breathe, odors of Araby be
come fetid and astringent in comparison. When
-the lilacs breathe their odorous breath carries
the fragrance of ihs distillation of a generation
of life and love that they have gathered to
themselves, where they have bloomed by the
garden wall or against the porch pillar. The old
home wonderful in the vividness of its memor
ies and associations is created in the picturing
of beauty and tenderness, that the fragrance of
the blossoming lilacs bring to the mind. One
sees the path through the garden, winding down
to the clump of lilacs. The faces of other days
are framed in the pictures that fancy creates
through the magic of the lilacs. ' '
The panicles of bloom are in full flower and
' the blooms will be hailed with joy by,the mul
titudes who have in their feelings the sentiments
to which lilacs appeal They are a meditative
and reflective, kind of flower- They come so
quietly in the spring. They blossom forth so
abundantly and magnificently. They sing their
concert to the airs of April and cause the four
winds of the heavens to become their servitors
to the joy of mankind.
, The lilacs are of that softest and most per
suasive of all tints, those of lavender and pur-
; pie, with some of driven whiteness. How won
derful their beauty, the assembling of the blos
soms and their disposition upon the branch!
How full of art! How exquisitely Dresden is
the lilac as it swings in the breeze. And every
lilac bush is a product ot years of growth, and
that growth goes on perenially until one and
another generation is laid beneath the sod. and
the lilac has been entrusted with the cherished
memories of youth and maturity and of age
passed out ot Ine.
But the lilac has no place in mortuary an
. nals of man. It is not a flower for the grave
s yard. It is a flower for the freshening of
thought, the lightening of life and the creation
- of the ideals of living.1 It is the flower of , all
others that belongs to the home- and to the
heart and to the years that rre gone and the
years that are to be. Happy the wall where the
lilac blooms! Happy the window through which
is wafted the lilacs' fragrance! Brief the period
.of the flowering of this bloom of all others in
the liking of alt who love $at which is old-
tashioned and tnat 'is ever new! Baltimore
Aaicrican " '
NO -REVOLUTION" FOR OMAHA.
"An oun.ee of prevention is worth a pound
of cure," and Mayor Smith has properly moved
to prevent the advertised May Day demonstra
tion of the forces of "revolution."
Omaha citizens are thoroughly devoted to
free speech and all the rights of the people, in
dividually and collectively, that flow from the
existence of organized government. They are
jealous of their liberties, and will not quietly
see them assailed from any quarter whatever.
Socialists who have allied themselves with
the I. W. W. and frankly avow themselves bol
shevists, and enemies of . the republic, deserve
no consideration. To deny them the, right to
assemble in public and hold forth in their
doctrine, is not to infringe on the right of free
speech, but protects that right by preventing
its abuse.
Threats from the I. W. W. preceded the
preparedness parade in San Francisco, and a
bomb exploded on the sidewalk killed a num
ber of women and children. That was "direct
action." A bomb was sent through the mail
to Mayor Hansen of Seattle; a bomb sent
through thcmail exploded in the home of Sen
ator Hardwick at Atlanta; the home of the gov
ernor of California was partially destroyed by
a bomb; seventeen bombs were discovered in
the postoffice at New York, addressed to various
persons, including supreme court justices; the
"direct actionists" are busy spreading the "ter
ror" in America.
Nothing more despicable or cowardly can be
conceived than the tactics of the I. W. W., who
always strike in secret. Socialists who join
with them deliberately place themselves in the
same category.' They are not good citizens, and
have forfeited the privileges of.titizenship.
" Omaha is as near ready for the "revolution"
as it ever is likely to be. We want none of it.
The right of public assemblage must not be
prostituted to the propagation of sentiments of
assassination, arson, and malicious mischief,
done in secret, by poltroons who dare not come
out in the open and face the results of their
own acts and sentiments. ,
Douglas County Road Improvement.
The county commissioners are preparing to
submit to the voters a proposal to issue $3,000,-
000 of bonds, the object being to pave 150 miles
of country roads. Public opinion generally
favors the bond issue, and it will very likely re
ceive approval from the voters if set before
them in the right light.
Report has it that the county board is about
to give its approval to a preliminary project, the
practical nature of which is open to very serious
objections. It is proposed that the first work
done will be to pave a county road leading to
the Platte river at a point where no bridge
exists, thus establishing a "blind alley." Advo
cates of this plan have insisted the road in
question Will form a direct route to Wahoo,
and so enable the Saunders county farmers of
that part to reach Omaha with ease. Lacking
the bridge, this is true.
Saunders county quite recently has acquired
the bridge at Ashland by purchase from its
owners, and set it up as a free bridge. It also
has assisted in establishing the free bridge
across the Platte at Valley. This is about as far
as the taxpayers of Saunders county feel like
going at present. So the prospects of another
free bridge at the point in question are remote.
Alternative plans have been discussed, look
ing to the improvement of roads that will well
serve the people of Douglas county, as well as
affording access to the Omaha market for resi
dents of adjoining counties. These deserve con
sideration first. 1
The county board will make a serious mis
take and greatly increase the difficulty of car
rying the bond issue at the polls if it gives its
sanction to a plan that leads nowhere. A
definite program should be put alongside the
bond proposal, and this program should not be
weakened by inclusion of indefensible details.
Slackers After the War.
The new attorney general of the United
States' proposes to go out and round up all
slackers, to see that they are punished as de
serters as the law requires. This was under
taken by his predecessor while the war was on,
but was brought "to a sudden' stop, because of
the way in which the work was pushed. Legally,
the draft avoider, the man liable fo service who
did not respond, is guilty of desertion. ' It does
not matter that the war is over, for his offense is
continuing, and it would be obvious injustice to
the men who did go to allow any equally liable to
the call to escape. Mr. Palmer is on the right
track, and will do much to establish a higher
regard for the law and the federal government
if he carries his campaign through to the end.
But folks out this way will look at the Leaven
worth Disciplinary Barracks, from which a
large number of slackers, already convicted,
were pardoned by the secretary of war and sent
home as honorably discharged from the service.
In the Net Congress.
Our worried Hyphenated contemporary ex
pends a great deal of its very valuable space in
pointing out how control in the next congress
is going to pass into the hands of "reaction
aries." This urould be important if true. How
ever, we imagine the country will survive the
shock of, being lifted out of the clutches of
such eminent and progressive statesmen as
Claude E? Kitchin of Scotland Neck; Heflin, the
"gun toter" from Alabama; Dent of Alabama,
who could not report an administration measure
from the house military committee, because of
his opposition; Champ Clark, who said he could
see no difference between a conscript and a
convict, and . a lot of other unterrified, who
dominated the house as leaders of the demo
cratic party. They will be missed but not
mourned, and the enlightened leadership of
Frank Mondell ought to be a real relief to a na
tion that has so dearly paid for having to dance
while the ousted bourbons played the fiddle.
Mathias Erzberger also had a great plan for
a future Germany that did not come true. How
ever, he will get from Versailles a program by
following which the Germans can not only be
come self-respecting but may gain the( respect
of the world. 1 .
Uncle Sam has just slipped into the water
another "most powerful in the- world" battle
ship. Being a peaceably' inclined person, uncle
is collecting a nderful, 'assemblage of argu
ments in favor of. his position.": '
Mexico and Monroe Doctrine
From the New York Timet.
Mexico announces that "she has not recog
nized and will not recognize the Monroe doc
trine." Nobody has asked her to recognize the
Monroe doctrine. The enforcement of the prin
ciples enunciated by President Monroe does not
depend upon Mexico, upon nobody's recognition
or nonrecognition. The countries concerned in
the Monroe doctrine are the United Staets on
the one hand, and countries not of this hemis
phere on the other. The doctrine does not
establish a protectorate over Mexico or any
other country.
As set forth in President Monroe's message
of December 2, 1823, the doctrine rests on the
assertion that it is "a principle in which rights
and interests of the United States are con
cerned." No mention is made of any rights or
interests of Mexico. The doctrine declares that
the two American continents "are henceforth
not to be considered as subjects for coloniza
tion by any European power." No mention of
Asiatic powers was made, for the reason that
no Asiatic power was then in any condition to
colonize the American continents. The doctrine
further declares that, since it was desirable to
retain amicable relations between the United
States and those powers, it was only fair to tell
them plainly "that we should consider any at
tempt on their part to extend their system to
any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to
our peace and safety."
. To our peace and safety, mind, not to Mex
ico's. The purpose was not primarily altruistic
or humanitarian; we were loking out for, our
peace and security. Mr. Monroe went on to
say that, while we should not interfere with any
existing European colonies, any interference by
any European power with other American
countries would be viewed, "as the manifesta
tion of an unfriendly disposition toward the
United States."
Mexico, according to its official statement
just issued, regards this doctrine as one that
"attacks the sovereignty and independence of
Mexico." It is simply a declaration that no
power on another continent shall colonize or
annex Mexico or any other American country.
That, we think, does not "attack the sovereignty
and independence of Mexico."
Nearly 60 vears ago France invaded Mexico,
and the Mexicans were forced to declare that
they wanted an Austrian archduke for emperor.
Supported by French bayonets, Maximilian
took the throne in Mexico City. We were busy
at the time with a civil war of our own, and
we contented ourselves with warning the
French emperor that the Monroe doctrine ap
plied to this case. The moment) our war was
over President Johnson sent General Sheridan
with some 70,000 veterans to the MexJcan bor
der. The result was, in the language of Mr.
Depew, that "Napoleon III got out of Mexico
so fast that you could have played chess on
his coat-tails." In this proceeding we did not
consult Mexico; we did not ask it whether it
recognized or did not recognize the Monroe
doctrine. .
The case with which the League of Nations
chose its general secretary- suggests that the
persons who set up the pins knew their business.
Newark's Noble Ten
Ten Newark men, good and true, offered
themselves as willing sacrifices in the interest of
truth for the special purpose of testing the
mooted question as to whether or not 2Yt, per
cent beer is intoxicating. Each emptied 10 big
seidels during the course of his dinner and aft
erward submitted to tests made by a physician,
who certified that all came through with flying
colors and no evidence of a jag.
Men have accepted many risks in the interest
of science, but none ever undertook the estab
lishment of a scientific fact with grimmer de
termination than the noble 10 of Newark. Each,
it may be assumed, had a fair idea of his ca
pacity and felt competent upon this occasion to
prove it. The brewers now are certain they
nave established a case which will put an end
to much of this loose talk about the inebriating
effects of camouflaged beer.
After the physician had finished his exam
ination of the brave squad, some practical tests
were applied which clinched the matter. Close
attention was paid to their conversation to note
whether they said "thish" for "this" or any other
little evidence of a thick tongue, but none fal
tered. . Then they were asked to walk a crack,
and each succeeded splendidly. As a last resort
the acid test of sobriety was applied each was
called upon fof a speech, and not one responded.
There was nothing more to be said; the case
was closed. If that beer really had had a punch
in it, every one of the 10 would have risen to
the opportunity to make a 'speech. They were
cold sober, beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Washington Post.
Secretary Lane's Great Cause
The American Newspaper Publishers' as
sociation honored Franklin K. Lane, secretary
of the interior, with an enthusiastic hearing, but
it will honor itself throughout the country if its
members carry with them to their homes a de
termination to do all that lies in their power to
promote his plan to provide discharged soldiers
with farms in regions reclaimed by irrigation.
We have many patriots who want to give
every soldier a generous supply of money from
the national treasury, and there are cloistered
economists almost without limit who have other
attractive theories of reconstruction, but not
one of them has proposed anything so practical
or anything promising such substantial returns
to individuals and to the nation as the simple
and reasonable enterprise suggested by Mr.
Lane. . i
It is no wild and visionary experiment that
he -advocates. In all parts of what was once a
desert, homes of prosperous Americans have
been established and the products of these gar
den spots have enriched sturdy workingmen
and brought necessaries and luxuries to the ta
bles of many others. Millions of such acres are
to be had almost for the asking if there can be
governmental assurance of development, which
need not be costly.
Secretary Lane has not received the journal
istic support in this matter to which he is en
titled. New York World.
ITODAV
The Day We Celebrate. )
Joseph E. Willard, United States ambassa
dor to Spain, born in Washington, D. C, 54
years ago.
Dr. John F. Harmon, president of Kansas
Wesleyan university, born at Olney," 111., 61
years ago.
Maud Allan, widely celebrated as a classical
dancer, born at Toronto, Ont., 40 years ago.
Charles K. Harris, noted song writer and
publisher, born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 54
years ago.
William A. Gaston, Boston financier and
twice democratic candidate for governor of
Massachusetts, born in Roxbury, Mass., 60
years' ago.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
The Black Diamond Minstrel and Specialty
Home Talent company gave a performance and
dance at Washington hall.
The initial ball cf the George A. Custer post,
Woman's Relief cotps, was held at Exposition
hall.
C. G. Hulitt, clerk of the Millard hotel, spent
yesterday in search of game and fish at Missouri
Valley, bringing back 75 jack snipe and about
24 pickerel and btack bass.
Mayor Broatrh has returned from Platts
mouth, where he save a Washington centennial
address.
The Board of Trade returned from its trip
to the Black Hills. John S. Brady is quoted as
saying the trip would have a good effect on
Omaha,
Friend of the. Soldier
i 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 e to Answer.
Organization of the Army.
O. M. The organization ot the
American Expeditionary Force in
France Into the First. Second and
Third armies was for convenience in
handling-, as to command, supply,
etc. Combat divisions of the Ameri
can army consisted of four regi
ments ot infantry of 3.000 men each,
with three battalions to a regiment
and four companies of 250 men each
to a battalion, an artillery brigade
of three regiments, a machine gun
battalion, an engineer regiment, a
trench mortar battery, a signal bat
talion, wagon trains, the headquar
ters staff, military police, medical
and other units, bringing the numer
ical strength of an American di
vision up to something over 28,000
men. Each army corps consisted of
six divisions, four combat, one depot
and one replacement division, and
two regiments of cavalry, this bring
ing the strength of an army corps up
to about 175,000 men. The "armies"
were made up of from three to five
army corps each. The First army
was constituted in July, after . the
Americans had actually engaged in
the lighting; the Second army was
formed in October, and the Third
army after the necessity of occupy
ing a portion of German territory
was made necessary by the terms of
the armistice. The Third is the
army of occupation, the First and
Second having been practically
broken up by the demobilization
movements. The Ninth field signal
battalion, being part of the Fifth
division, is in the army of occupa
tion; division headquarters is at
Longuyon, A. P. O. 745. This unit
is not scheduled for early return.
Prisoner of War Escort Service.
Anxious No general order for the
immediate return of the soldiers en
gaged in the prisoner of' war escort
service has as yet been issiied. Re
ports have reached this country that
as soon as the peace treaty is signed
the repatriation of the German pris
oners held in France will be com
menced. As fast as they are re
turned to their own country, it will
be possible to release American
troops new guarding them. Watch
The Bee for announcement 'of the
date.
Many Questions Answered.
Mrs. J. R. The 16th field artillery
is part of the Fourth division, in the
army of occupation, and no orders
have been issued for its early return
to America, The 111th field artil
lery is attached to the 29th division,
and is. under schedule to sail for
home in June.
Alice The 29th division is on the
sailing schedule for June; this order
is supposed to comprise all units of
this division.
A Sister The 1105th aero re
placement squadron is in the service
of supply, and has not yet been as
signed a sailing date.
E. S., Scribner The Sixth sanitary
train is attached to the Sixth di
vision, and is now in the army of
.occupation; no orders have yet been
issued for its immediate return. The
340th machine gun battalion is on
the schedule to sail for home with
the 89th division in June.
Mrs. B. H. K. The headquarters
company, balloon group, with the
Third army corps, is not attached
to a division; no orders have yet
been sent out for its immediate re
turn, but it is likely to be released
at any time.
Anxious Mother The 341st
butcher company is not yet on
schedule for early sailing home; it
is stationed at Dijon (Cote d'Or),
A. P. O. 721, and is employed in the
service of supply of the army.
A Soldier's Wife We have seen no
orders for the jmmediate return of
base hospital No. 90; these medical
units are being sent back as rapidly
as possible, and the orders for this
one may come at any time; watch
The Beo for announcement.
Mrs. A. Company D, Second sup
ply train, is attached to the Second
division, and is now in the army of
occupation. Its address is A. P. O.
710; headquarters of the division is
at Pruni; no orders have yet been
sent out for the immediate return of
any units of this army.
Mrs. A. M. The 77th division was
on the sailing schedule for April, and
many of its units already have
landed in America. ,
Soldier's Love We have no map
showing the location of "Mars" in
France; is it possible you have mis
taken the name of this town, and
mean LeMans, which is the head
quarters of the Second division of
supply, and an important railhead,
southwest of Paris? This is one of
the most, important of American
centers in France. We have no
word as to when the 109th engineers
will return; the presence of this reg
iment on a ship now at sea has not
been announced.
QUAINT BITS OF LIFE.
For the first time a Methodist
Episcopal district conference was
held recently in Baluchistan.
"Taffeta," the stiff silken material
of which women's dresses are made,
gets its name from a street in Bag
dad, i
The case of the great Napoleon
was one of the few on record of a
person whose first finger was longer
than his middle finger.
The rickshaw, it is said, was in
vented by a missionary in Japan,
some 40 or 50 years ago. From Japan
the idea spread to India, China, the
Straits Settlements and South Africa,
and has had important consequences,
since it is estimated there are now
more than 1,000,000 men employed
in making, repairing or pulling rickshaws
DAILY CARTOONETTE
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DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
(Billy Belglum coca Into a fishing eon
taat with Kingfisher. Blue Heeron and
Lonttonw Bear. With Peggy and Pat. a
red-headed boy, ha la catching flan rap
idly when a great pull on hia Una threat
ens to drag him Into the river.)
CHAPTER IV.
The Fishers Are Fished.
THE fish, or whatever was on the
line, gave a tug so powerful It
Jerked Billy oft his feet. He tumbled
on his stomach, but still he clung to
his rod. Then, to the astonishment
of Peggy and Pat, he began to slide
toward the river.
"Grab me!" panted Billy. Pat
seized his legs and tried vainly to
hold him back. Then Peggy grabbed
Pat, and the three put all their
strength against the mysterious
force at the other end of the line.
They couldn't see what it was, for
the line ran around a bend Just be
low them, but they felt that must be
a monstear.
"G-g-gosh!" gasped Billy. "I
guess there is a whale in this river
after all." Peggy thought so, too,
for what other fish could pull so
powerfully!
Peggy and Pat braced themselves
against the roots of a tree, and for a
moment they held fast Then the
line suddenly slackened, and they
tumbled over backward. But Billy
still clung to his pole and Pat clung
to Billy, and Peggy clung to Pat.
Just as suddenly as it had slackened
the line grew taut again, dragging
the three over the grass, scooting
down the bank and into the river
with a tremendous splash.
Whoosh-sh-sh! roared the water
"And Some One Has Taken All Our
, Fish!" Added BiUy.
past their ears. Whlsh-sh-ih! it
rushed intothelr eyes and blinded
them. Gurgle-urgle-urglel it poured
down their throats.
Now they didn't dare let go, for
they would be left struggling In the
swift current. Where they were .go
ing they couldn't see, but they were
certainly on their way somewhere.
Swish, splash, they whisked across
the stream, around the bend, then
across another broad, deep stretch
of the river, so swiftly they didn't
have time to sink. Indeed, they
scarcely had time to be scared, but
the thought flashed into Peggy's
mind that perhaps when the fish. got
them into the deepest water 1 it
would turn around and swallow
them.
Instead of this happening, how
ever, they sped across the current
and up on the shore again, wallow
ing through mud and weeds. What
kind of a fish was this that Jumped
out of the water and ran over the
land? t
In among the bushes they
switched helter-skelter, their eyes so
filled with water and mud they
couldn't look ahead. Around stumps
and through the shrubbery they sped
to tho very hole where they had
been fishing, and then, splash, they
plunged into the river a second time.
But now the pull on the line ceas
ed abruptly. They began to sink
In the deep pool, but Pat seized
Peggy by the arm and swam with
her to the shore. Billy followed,
swimming with one hand while he
clung to his precious pole with the
other.
The first thought of all three when
they gained the land was to capture
the big fish that had given them such
a startling ride. Billy reeled in the
line rapidly, feeling only a light tug
ging at the other end. They could
see something swirling on the hook,
but it was not until Billy Jerked It
clear out of the water and out upon
the land that they discovered what
It was. Then all three gave a cry
of astonishment.
At the end of the line, firmly
hooked, was a tiny mud turtle.
"Gee whillickers, that turtle sure
is stronger than it looks!" gasped
Billy.
"It must be a charmed turtle, that
can become big or little at will,"
whispered Pat.
"Nonsense," said Peggy, very posi
tively. "That turtle couldn't drag a
little doll, much less three big chil
dren. Some one has been up te
shenanigans."
"And some one has taken all our
fish," added Billy, holding up their
empty baskets.
"The place surely is bewitched,"
declared Pat. -
(Tomorrow will be told the strange way
In which the fish come back.)
Soldier Protests Ebersteln's Order.
Brest. France, April 10, 1919 To
the Editor of The Bee, Dear Sir:
During my service with the Amer
ican expeditionary ; forces here in
France I have received many copies
of your splendid paper, and not until
now has there ever been a doubt
in my mind that the broad human
principles of the brotherhood of
man, indelibly impressed upon its
pages, by that super-man, the late
Edward Rosewater, been in any de
gree deviated from by the present
brilliant editor. Undergoing, as a
result of this doubt, great mental
unrest. I am appealing to you for
enlightenment; for it is difficult for
me to believe that the one daily in
Omaha which, when others were
pacifistic or openly in league with a
foreign enemy, uncompromisingly,
unwaveringly, daily preached and
breathed into Its editorials the very
meat of Stephen Decatur's words:
"My country in her intercourse with
other nations, may she ever be in
the right. But right or wrong, my
country."
Editions of your paper reaching
me today make note of the fact that
Chief of Police Eberstein warns the
colored people of Omaha that if
they do not help to ferret out their
criminals, who are molesting white
women, there will be a repetition of
the St. Louis riots. Turning, at once
to your editorials, I searched in vain
for a rebuke to this most unusual
threat.
Mr. Editor, I am still serving my
country, uncomplainingly, though
anxious to be relieved, and I have
still in Omaha a wife and son, and
sister. It is impossible for me to
give them, now, the protection which
my presence has materially given to
Mr. Eberstein, the editor of The Bee
and all other citizens of Omaha,
blaclc and white. I, sir, served with
the 349th field artillery, and while
Mr. Eberstein sat in his easy seat
in Omaha, amidst the serene beauty
of peace and quiet, my life was of
fered that he might be able to con
tinue in that peaceful attitude. Be
cause Mr. Eberstein believes in ease
and peo.ee first and his country last,
and I believe in country first and
peace and ease last, does he think
that I consider my life less dear
than he considers his life?
Knowing, sir, full well that riots
are caused by such talk from sup
posedly well balanced people, and
believing in that Americanism which
loathes a stain on the fair name of
America and of Nebraska in partic
ular, cherishing the Americanism of
Theodore Roosevelt, who bitterly
condemned such a riotous state of
affairs and agreeing with President
Wilson, who claims that no man
who ever condones such a condi
tion is fit to sit In the presence of
decent people, holding such views,
I ask you, Mr. Editor, if your silence
in condemning such a savage threat,
is to be taken as an acquiesence in
the published statement?
Have I not, sir, the right while
serving my country to have the
greatest assurance that all public
agenoies are likewise united in pro
tecting my family?
Of the alternative, in the pub
lished statement, sir, it is needless
for me to mention. Here in France,
where black men have performed a
herculean task, and in Germany, too,
if you please, where the greatest
hospitality was always accorded
them by the French people, where
the opportunities for licentiousness
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was great, what has been the record
of their conduct? Amazingly fine,
cry all in one accord. Superb, say
the French. Incomparable will the
records of the War department show.
I sat last night in a large Y. M.
C. A. hut There were present over
2,000 black boys. They laughed, they
cried, they hissed the villain, and
openingly sympathized with the un
fortunate. It may have grated upon
the ears of Mr. Eberstein and soun
ed harsh to the ladies of the "Pret
tiest Mile Club," and caused them
to arm themselves because of the
motlry crew; but to me it had one
and only one significance, great,
good natured smiling boys with the
feeling of human sympathy for their
fellow men; loving their country,
working for it, fighting for it; yea,
dying for it, that Mr. Eberstein and
the ladies of the "Prettiest Mile
Club" should continue to reap the
benefits of their sacrifice. Yours
very truly.
WILLIAM W. PEEBLES.
Captain, D. C, Camp "President
Lincoln," Base Section No. 5,
A. P. O., No. 716, A. E. F.
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