THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1919.
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Daily 65,830 Sunday 63,444
Awes clrculatloa for Ik Mont subecribad aad nor hy
B. B, luu, CIkuUUob Manaser.
Buswtrihan leavlnf the city eheuld heve Th B aaailed
,. tm them. Addrees changed a itn a requeeted.
"Sure, we'll finish the job I" ,
Watch the price of steel now for a tip on
the market.
Come on with your warmer weather; the
' fields are waiting.
Silver is gradually crawling up to 16 to 1
mark, but the gold standard is not thereby
abolished.
- - If the police have time to spare from the
pursuit of bootleggers, it might be devoted, to
the gun-toters.
A French aviator almost reached the top of
the high cost of living, but he had to go up
five miles to do it.
: Attorney General Palmer finds the price fix
ing board to be illegal, but not until Secretary
Redfield had found it to be futile.
- The governor calls the arguments of, Fred
Ayers against the code bill "piffle," which well
describes the whole anti-movement.
With the "grandmother of the revolution"
in Omaha and the mother of the late czar in
London, a certain balance is established.
"Prussians are shouting "To arms," but
Bavaria, Saxony and the rest of the Teutonic
states have had enough of Prussia's leadership.
' Von Brockdorff-Rantzau's effort to gain
'audience with the president shows that Ger
man effrontery and impudence has not changed
much.
An "avalanche" of Victory" loan subscrip
tions on Saturday sustains the suspicion that
somebody was holding back, waiting for the
finish.
The Gould family row has been coming on
for a long time, and might as well be settled
now as later. ' It may provide some interesting
reading.
Peter the Great decided one lawyer was
enough to serve Russia; Lenine and Trotzky
have determined that Russia can get along
without any law.
Omaha's Liberty bond salesmen may now lay
aside their armor and go back to peaceful pur
suits, taking with them the knowledge that they
did their wort well. ?
The .St. Louis caucus of veterans was not
meally mouthed on the topic of pardons for
slackers. This ought to be a pointer for our
pacifist secretary of 'war.
Holland will surrender the Hohenzollern,
and the victors will pass on his fate. His own
views as to the ( mutability of human fortune
might be interesting to the curious.
A "week of mourning" has been decreed in
Germany. , It will be well, for the experience
may in a measure offset the week of rejoicing
that followed the sinking of the Lusitania four
years ago.
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The Saturday half-holiday at the state house
is encouraging to the employes, for it follows
a practice that is becoming general in the land.
Shorter hours and better pay do not exclusively
follow bolshevism. ' ":
May we not express the hope that the pres
ident's new world, to come through the League
of Nations, will succeed better than did his
"New Democracy," that was to flow from his
election to his present exalted position?
Sale of Hamilton county land at $175 an
acre not only affords a new view of Nebraska's
growth, but provides another basis for the cal
culation of farm costs. It means high prices
and maximum production if the venture is to
be profitable. 1 ' '
Organized society rests on law, and , Ameri
can liberties are safeguarded by law; and ex
periments that look to the substitution of a
new foundation for the whole fabric of our
social existence are not to be undertaken in a
lijjrht mood.
'No Place for Partisanship
There is reassurance in the intimation that
has been permitted to go abroad that the re
publican leaders of the senate will make no at
tempt to bind republican senators to a specific
course of action with respect to the league of
nations. To do so would be a serious mistake,
and if any caucus or conference is deemed ad
visable it should be understood definitely in ad
vance that those who attend are not com
mitted thereby to vote either for or against the
league.
As The Post has upon several - occasions
emphasized, the league of nations is not a
party question, and no attempt should be made
to give it a partisan tinge. It is purely a ques
tion for individual judgment If ever there was
an issue before the senate which demanded
careful and individual consideration, wholly
aloof from partisan influence, this is the one.
There are many party questions regarding
which a senator is justified in yielding his per
sonal preferences cr judgment to that of his
party caucus upon the theory that the collective
opinion is safer than, that of the individual. The
league oi nations is- not one of those questions.
No vote should be influenced by party politics,
by friendship for or prejudice against the presi
dent or by .any ulterior fact , It is among the
most important measures ever presented to the
, United States senate, holding for all the people
.'' of America a portion of good or evil. It is not
even a domestic question solely, much less a
party question. It is in essence a war and peace
question, to be dealt with strictly from the
standpoint of patriotism. No party can have a
moflopoljr si patriotism.Tg'WatbJpgtoa Post,
INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Mr. Wilson's tribute to international law,
expressed in his words to a group of lawyers,
may serve to reassure those who had almost
been driven to the conclusion that the presi
dent had decided to do -away with the Institu
tion. His references to its growth and applica
tion were not especially happy. To speak of
law as being left too much in the hands of
lawyers, who fear to venture on uncharted
courses, is not fair to 'the studious men who
gives to law its vitality and make it serviceable
to humanity. . v v
All will agree with him that "the heart of
the world is under very plain jackets," and
that "unless you know the pressure of life of
the humbler classes you know nothing of life
whatever. "These, though, are but beautiful
generalities, and mean little in concrete applica
tion. It is not supposed that Mr. Wilson will
leave either the framing or the interpretation
of international law to the uninformed, but that J
He will continue to insist that the impulses of
the humble hearts be in some measure con
trolled by the thought of well trained and bal
anced minds.
To allege that national systems of law are
outworn will convince only those who have
little or no knowledge of the law, of its origin,,
growth and symmetry. Law is crystallized
human experience; some of the law we follow
was laid down an hundred centuries or longer
ago. The very "law of love" on which Mr.
Wilson lays his greatest stress, was enunciated
by K'ung-fu-tsu 2,500 years ago, and teachers
antedating him by many certuries' are accredit
ed with similar utterances. The fabric of na
tional law is not rigid, as might be surmised
from a reading of the president's speech, but
is elastic and grows as the "minds of men are
broadened." ' . t
Elihu Root called attention to the fact that
k the first draft of the league of nations, which
the president brought home as a perfect produc
tion and on which he asked only favoring com
ment, made no provision in any way for the
growth and development of international law, or
for the settlement of disputes according to law.
If Mr. Wilson has felt the prick of Mr. Root's
criticism, and it appears he has, it will be ac
cepted as a sign of advance. However, the in
stitution that has grown with the human race
is not to be discarded at this time, when its
protective guidance is more needed than ever
in aU human experience. The bolsheviki found
the law outworn and abandoned it, but the civ
ilized people will not.
Back to Competitive Basis.
Director rimes' refusal to accept fixed prices
on steel has put an end to Secretary Redfield's
effort to adjust prices to facilitate the return
from war to peace levels. The head of the rail
road administration announces he will buy the
200,000-odd tons of steel immediately required
in the open market on competitive basis. On
this, the price-fixing board created by the sec
retary of commerce dissolves, and the basic in
dustries of the "cduntry go at once under the
law of supply and demand. How this will
operate can not be foretold. It may mean a
higher and it may bring a lower price level. No
great concessions are to be anticipated, al
though the underlying commodities may follow
the course of a few of the specialties. At the
beginning of the year certain of the leading
groups of manufactured articles announced
prices that showed reductions of 25 per cent or
more from war figures. This was not sufficient
to stimulate general buying, because other
prices were kept up. . Stagnation has followed,
and relief has lingered, waiting the outcome of
Secretary Redfield's efforts to help the country
back from war to peace. Now that this is over,
and without beneficial result, we may see what
business can do for itself. "
Ireland and the Peace Conference.
Our irascible correspondent, who challenges
The Bee's sympathy with Ireland and the Irish,
puts an unwarranted interpretation on the para
graph he quotes. What was aimed at was to
give the thoughtful Irish an idea of the hope
lessness of their appeal to the conference at
Paris. From the very outset it was plain even
to casual observers that Great Britain had no
thought of relinquishing any of its possessions,
least of all Ireland. American opinion or this
point was discounted long ago, and is of very
little weight now. The article in the league
pact that fixes forever the political boundaries
to be established in Paris dispous of Ireland
so far as outside interference is concerned,
and leaves with England the decision as to
whether complete autonomy will be granted
the Irish. If the United States ratifies the
treaty and enters the League of Nations, it will
be bound by this provision, and agitation of the
question in this country will nott only be of no
avail, but even may subject us to some sort of
penalty for failure to abide by the terms of
covenant. This is what The Bee had in mind
when it advised the Irish to take a squint at
what was going on in Paris.
Burleson and Burlesonism.
Are Creeds Credentials?
-, The critical comment of Rev. Mr. Kuyken
dall on the newly formed ministerial associa
tion in Omaha must challenge the attention of
thoughtful persons, regardless of denomination
or religious affiliation. He raises no objection
whatever to ministers forming themselves into
any sort of organization for the perpetuation of
a particular kind of religion. That privilege
is admitted. He does' properly object to an
association with restricted qualifications for' I
membership assuming to be the head and front
of religious undertakings for the community.
The impropriety of the situation should have
occurred to the organizers of the movement.
On this point Mr. Kuykendall tersely sums up:
"It practically declares that there is no room
in the religious life of Omaha for those who
are thinking, religiously, in terms of the
Twentieth century." Dr. T. DeWitt Talmadge,
many years ago, explaining why he could not
adhere to the Westminster Confession of Faith,
said he could not reconcile himself to the
thought of the Nineteenth century sitting at the
feet of the Seventeenth. This does not mean
that the fundamentals of religion are to change;
it does not raise sharply the question whether
the thought of the day, so infinitely expanded in
other directions, is to be "narrowed down on
the one vital point to the standards of 400 years
ago. Can our conception of God increase as
we gain in understanding of His works, or are
we to accept creeds as credentials? '
Nebraska school districts are being consoli
dated at a rate that must convince the objecto'rs
of the fact that the idea is growing. It nUans,
better schools for .the state, -
' From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Postmaster General Burleson has responded
to an offer of the New York World to open its
columns to him for a reply to the widespread
criticisms of his administration and of himself
as a' public official, and his defense is quite as
interesting for what it omits as for what it con
tains. In reviewing his reply, it is only just to
the accused that the indictment shall be con
fined to the truth, as his accusers see the truth,
and that the ground shall be cleared of all ex
traneous and confusing issues. Mr. Burleson
has just ground for complaint in that some of
his critics repeat charges which have been pub
licly proved as "without foundation, as for in
stance the allegations that he was the hirer of
convict labor, that he was an active instrument
in "fastening prohibition on the country," that
he interfered in congress to prevent an appro
priation for a certain channel improvement at
New York and that he was personally respon
sible for the super-serviceable and over-zealous
action of certain telegraph officials in New
York City in refusing" transmission over the
wires of an article criticizing him and his ad
ministration. All these things may be. dismissed as in the
main groundless and irrelevant for the popular
dissatisfaction with the Burleson regime is based
on other and more substantial complaints. Mr.
Burleson is obessed by the notion that that
wide-spread dissatisfaction has its origin solely
in he resentment of periodical and newspaper
publishers because of his .advocacy of the zone
system and increased postage for their publica
tions, in the enmity of the railroads because of
his action in reducing the compensation for the
carrying of the mails, and in the opposition of
the express companies to the growth and effi
ciency of the parcel post. All these things
the undoubtedly factors in the popular estimate
of Burlesonism, but it is puerile for Mr. Burle
son to pretend that the entire business com
munity of the United States has been influenced
by these specific grievances and that the almost
universal condemnation of the mail and wire
services under his management has no other
basis. f '
If Mr. Burleson's experts, who reported to
him "that by every test by which the postal ser
vice could be measured a high standard of effi
ciency was disclosed," had only resorted to the
sample and obvious expedient of consulting the
tusers of the mails they would have had a differ
ent story to tell. It is the everyday experience
in business circles, and in private use of the
malls as well, that deliveries are slow and un
certain and that the facilities afforded have been
notoriously curtailed. Every one will be will
ing to admit that the exigencies of the war
threw new duties upon the postoffice, that its
labors were enormously increased, but Mr.
Burleson was apparently more concerned to
make a favorable statistical showing than to
secure efficiency, and the results were that
might have been expected. The changes in the
railway mail service alone were all in the direc
tion of delay and a lowered efficiency, which no
"economies" can justify. Moreover, the des
truction of the tube service in several of the
principal cities of the country was accomplished
in) the face of the unanimous protests of the
business communities they served, and no mere
repetition by Mr. Burleson of his characteriza
tion of the service as an "incubus" will serve as
a satisfactory explanation or justification of his
arbitrary and autocratic method of dealing with
this question. Nor will his parrot-like reitera
tion of the charge, based on figures long since
proved to have been the wildest guesswork
that the users of the second class mails have
been "subsidized" to the extent of millions by
the government, carry conviction to the minds
of the people who have been benefited by a
policy which has yielded results of incalculable
value in the creation of a national unity of
thought and action.
Mr. Burleson's personality is the least im
portant feature of Burlesonism. He may be the
disinterested patriot he imagines himself to be,
but his influence as a politician upon the postal
service has been distinctly deleterious. It has
broken down the morale of that service to a
marked degree. It has led to the use of the
communications of the country for the purposes
of a propaganda for government ownership,
the results of which have been to convert the
people to the futility of that policy. Mr. Burle
son s contention that the conditions of the
present government control of the wires have
made a fair test of government ownership im
possible - will not be convincing to a people
who are suffering under a rule which has im
posed new burdens of inconvenience and cost,
and which has failed utterly to show any of the
benefits of co-ordination and economy claimed
for it. Mr. Burleson's defense, so far as con
cerns the main points of the popular indict
ment, is no defense at all.
The Figurehead
Such a spectacle as the ex-kaiser arraigned
before an international court to answer the
charge of "a supreme offense against interna
tional morality and the sanctity of treaties" has
been beheld rarely, if ever, before. Tamerlane
led Bajazet, the proud leader of the great Turk
armies, off the field at Angora chained to the
wheels of his chariot. Henry IV humiliated
himself to the earth before Hildebrand's castle
at Canossa. But William II of Hohenzollern,
stripped of the regalia representing the Teu
tonic imperialism is to be judged by the opinion
of a world which has felt the full weight of the
machinations of a class of which he was little
more than the tool.
The proposed trial is, however, not an un
mixed good. It will, to be sure, make known
to all ages this generation's condemnation
of ruthless aggression. Yet such a trial will de
generate into a colossal hypocrisy unless it is
borne in mind that the kaiser was not so much
the cause as the effect of German imperial am
bition. For it to. deal merely in personality
would rob the court of the dignity rightly its
own.
To try the kaiser, richly merited as that trial
may be, will not compensate the peoples' who
have suffered in the war nor wrest indemnities
from an all-but-bankrupt Germany. It is well
understood that the kaiser was a political figure
head in the former German empire. It is known
that the revolution has done away with virtually
all desire on the part of Germany for the kaiser's
return. Boston Globe.
I TO I AY
The Day We Celebrate. . .
R. W. Moore of F. P. Kirkendall & Co.,
born 1874.
Gurdon W. Wattles, born 1855.
William Alden Smith, late United States
senator from-Michigan, born at Dowagiac,
Mich., 60 years ago.
Rev. W. H. S. Damarest, president of Rut
gers college, born at Hudson, N. Y 56 years
ago. " '
John Henry Watson, chief justice of the
Vermont supreme court, born at Jamaica, Vt.,
68 years ago.
Joseph K. Toole, first state governor of
Montana, born at Savannah, Mo., 68 years ago.
Cleo Ridgely, widely known as a motion
picture actress, born in New York City 26
years ago.
Thirty Years Ago In Omaha.
The Swedish singers, who appeared at
Washington hall, were entertained by leading
Swedish citizens with a drive over the city,
a visit to Lininger are gallery and a reception
at the home of Mr. Bedell, 1128 North Sixteenth.
Mr. Gustave Andreen spoke and Julius Festner
gave zither selections. i
A syndicate has been formed in the east
for the purchase of the beautiful tract of land
known as Seymour park.
Major Butler has returned to Bellevue after
spending Sunday here with his family.
Miss Alice Foster won second price for a
rhyme about the Ragan lectures,
People You Ask About
Information About Folk In
' the Public Eye Will Be Given
In Thia Column In Answer
to Reader' Questions. Tour
Nam Will Not Be Printed.
Let The Bee Tell You.
Dorthy Dal ton's Address. '
Wilcox, Neb., "Please give me
the address of Mlsa Dorothy Dal
ton." Interested. '
Miss Dalton's address la 1209
Fourth avenue. Los Angeles, Cali
fornia. Miss Dalton was born Sep
tember 22, 1893, is 5 feet 3 Inches
in height and weighs 127 pounds.
Senate Floor Leader.
Who will be floor leader In the
United States Senate during the
coming session? M. J.
This matter has not been formally
decided, but it is conceded that
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa
chusetts, as chairman of the
foreign relations committee, will be
one of the most, if not the most, in
fluential member of that body, and
will doubtless occupy the position
about which vnn tnmilra On thin
very day, Senator Lodge enters upon
his seventieth year. He has
been a member of the upper house
of Congress since 1893, is a Harvard
graduate and an author of emi
nence. Just now he is conspicu
ous as a leader in the opposition to
the league of nations plan.
, Origin of the Boy Scouts
Canyou tell me anything about
the origin of the Boy Scout move
ment? A Social Service Worker.
The boy scout movement was
founded by Lieut. Gen. Sir Robert
Baden Powell in England in 1908
and has since spread practically all
over the world. Sir Robert Baden
Powell Is now in America to further
a plan for solidfying the movement
into an international organization.
He himself, is one of England's
greatest military men. Joining the
Hussars in 1876, he saw service in
India, Afghanistan and South Af
rica, and in 1890 became assistant
military secretary at Malta. He
was in command of the special na
tive levies during the Ashanti cam
paign of 1896, and held the position
of chief staff officer in the Matabele
campaign the next year. The most
famous incident in his military
career, however, was his heroic de
fense of Mafeking during the Boer
war.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Sale of British national war bonds
brought $8,002,960,275.
The first woman electric welder,
so far as known, is Miss Sara A. Er
wln, of Philadelphia, employed at
Hog Island.
Meat, milk, eggs, fish, cheeee,
beans, peas, nuts and cereals are
the foods which furnish protein in
quantity for the human body.
Every farmer should be his own
fire inspector rather than his own
fire chief, says a Department ofy Ag
riculture bulletin on fire prevention.
L'oulsiana has appointed a state
commission to study the labor of
women and children, with a view to
maximum hour and minimum wage
laws.
From the best information obtain
able, it is believed that the construc
tion of 5,000 working-class houses
will be undertaken in the near fu
ture by English municipalities, ap
portioned among them as follows:
Nottingham, 1,000; Leicester, 1,000;
Derby, 500; Lincoln, 500; Mansfield,
200; Newark-on-Trent, 100; Boston.
100; Granthom, 100; other towns and
villages, 1,500; total, 5,000.
SAID TO BE FUNNY.
"I see some scientist to trying to per
fect an edible cactus."
"These scientists mean wall, but they
are always In the clouds."
"Huh'?"
"Now, an edible ham sandwich would
mean much ta mankind." Louisville Courier-Journal,
Henry I've Just finished my day's work.
John How so?
Henry I set the calendar ahead to to
morrow. Stamford Chaparral.
(Persy nd Billy o with Bmlllnf
Teacher on a trip to the Sshara Desert,
aboard a geography-plane. When above the
desert their engine becomes overheated
and atops.) i
CHAPTER n.
The Runaway Camel.
THE geography-plane sailed along
ao swiftly, even though the en
gine had stopped, that the Hon was
soon left far in the rear. Peggy was
glad of this, for she didn't a bit like
his looks. A lion behind the bars or
a circus cage was one thing, and a
lion running loose in the desert seek
ing his dinner was another. She had
no desire for a closer acquaintance.
Billy turned closer to Smiling
Teacher: "We can't glide as far as
the oasis," he said. "We are dropping
fast"
' "Pick out a level place to land,"
she advised.
This warning seemed queer, for
from above the desert looked as
, "Huh I Whoever heard of a wild
camel?" grunted the stranger.
smooth as a floor, but when they got
close to the sand, Billy and Peggy
saw that it was broken up into ridges,
hiils, and hollows,' much like the
sand dunes at home. Billy brought
the airplane down to the most level
stretch he could And, but even at
that the plane finally came to rest
in a great pit of sand.
' I wonder how far away that lion
to, said Peggy glancing back.
I guess he la at a safe distance,"
answered Smiling Teacher. "How
long will h take your engine to get
cool, Billy?" "
"It's so hot here the engine may
not get cool until the sun goes
down," he replied. "Whew! This
place certainly is warm!" '
' Peggy had never been In such a
hot place. It was like an oven. Even
the wind was as torrid as the breath
of a furnace.
Smiling teacher glanced up to
ward the sun r.nd gave an exclama
tion of surprise,
"Why, the sun is sinking toward
the west," she said. "It will be dusk
in an hour or two. I had forgotten
that we were traveling toward the
east and that the sun goes down
in Africa while it is still early after
noon in the United States. We might
have time to walk to the oasis for a
drink and get back before dark."
"Let's do it," urged Peggy, "I'm
nearly dying of thirst."
Smiling Teacher opened the cabin
door and stepped out on what ap
peared to be a sand hummock.'As
her foot sank down, she gave a quick
shriek of alarm and jumped back.
At the same time a long, snaky neck
arose from the sand. At the top of
the neck was an ugly, bumpy head.
The head gave them a startled look,
and then a big. awkward body
heaved up almost from beneath the
plane.
"A camel!" shouted Billy. "A real
live, wild camel!"
"Huh! Who ever heard of a
wild camel," grunted the stranger.
1 m just a runaway camel."
"What did you run away from, a
circus?" asked Peggy.
"A circus? I never heard of such
a thing. I ran away from a caravan
that was attacked by Bedouins. And
if you take my advice you'll run
away too. Goodby."
"Hold on!" cried Billy. "Can't you
carry us to the oasis?"
"Well, wouldn't that blister your
feet," exclaimed the camel disgust
edly. "I Just told you I'm a runaway
camel and now you are ordering me
around. And the worst of it is that
I am so well trained that I have to
obey. Pile on, and in a hurry, too,
because unless I am mistaken, those
specks in the distance mean danger."
The camel knelt down, permitting
Billy, Peggy and Smiling Teacher to
mount his back. Then with violent
lurches heetaggered to his feet. He
lifted them so high they could see
the specks that he had said meant
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danger. The specks looked like
horsemen riding toward them.
"RAriniifnftt" irriintAri thA cnmAl.
"If they catch you they will make
you slaves." and away he started at
a queer, shambling run." .
(Tomorrow will bo told what they see
at th oasts.)
Mrs. Man Stupid! Why In the world
did you get seats for "Madame Butter
fly," when I distinctly told you I wanted
to hear "Pafrliaccl?"
Mr. Man To preserve my dignity, wom
an! When I reached the ticket window
I forgot how to pronounce that thing.
Buffalo Express.
Barbel- More soap, sir?
Victim Give me a chance to digest this
first, please! Answers.
Cop (to homing clubman) Where you
going at this time of the night?
Clubman I'm hlc going to a lecture.
Boston Transcript.
Suitor sir, I ask for your daughter
Imogen's hand.
Her Father Certainly, my hoy, cer
tainly take the one that's always In my
pocket. The Passing Show.
THE HOME COMING.
They come, th'ey enme In brave array.
With pomp and panoply of war;
These warriors who amid the fray.
The flag of Freedom proudly bore.
Now mothers their young heroes meet
And wives salute their soldier mates.
While kinsmen, reunited, greet
Yet, pale and pensive, some one waits.
A paean now the people sing,
As tales of victory unfold,
And plaudits to the welkin ring
In honor of these spirits bold.
The cup of Joy filled to the brim,
Is quaffed on this triumphant day,
Tet from the vessel's golden rim
Someone in sadness turns to pray.
Recedes the awful battle wrath
Before the glory and acclaim
That mark each young crusader's path
Along the corridors of fame;
Tet one who kept the torch ablaze.
In poppy fields far distant sleeps;
Now someone walks the lonely ways,
And broken-hearted, softly weeps.
Tet through the heavy clouds of gloom
That grief assembles o'er a soul
Whose Joys seem burled In a tomb
Enshrined on some embattled knoll.
The light of hope shall burst and gleam
Like sun-gold dropped from heaven's
dome,
For Just beyond the Stygian stream,
That soldler-salnt at last Is Home I
Louis M. Grice In Baltimore American.
So, Then, Now.
Tork, Neb., May 6. To the Editor
of The Bee: "Ireland still wants
all or nothing, but if its enthusiasts
will take a squint at what was hand
ed to Italy, China riYid Belgium, they
may get a notion of what is likely to
come to them."
Just what object the editor of The
Bee had in printing the above squib
in today's paper, or just what con
nection the question of "all or noth
ing" for Ireland has with the ques
tion of the claims of Italy, China or
Belgium is not apparent in the edi
torial, and the wish seems to be
father to the thought that this old
est and longest oppressed, robbed,
persecuted and crucified nation in
Europe in the eyes of The Bee editor,
should receive the same treatment
in the peace conference as the other
countries named 'by The Bee.
Ireland is not asking the land or
ports or people of any country, but
her own, and such being the case
why "squint" at any country of peo
ple for a comparison and especially
Italy? True. Ireland will ask at
the peace conference reparation In
the sum of about $4,000,000,000 for
damages done Ireland by England,
and whv not? Robbing Ireland has
for centuries been looked upon by
England as legitimate, and if Ger
many is made to pay, and she will
be made to pay, why should Eng
land, who has committed every
crime against Ireland and more and
worse than Germany committed
against Belgium, not be made to pay
for her wanton and murderous
crimes against Ireland? '
By the way, is your cartoonist,
Powell, acquainted with history?
Especially acquainted a lltle teenie
weenie bit with Irish history? I
think not or in line with the policy
of The Bee and some other pro
British papers in lampooning Ire
land, he would have left out the
cartoon in today's Bee. Maybe the
editor overlooked it, or maybe the
editor was and is as Ignorant of
Louvain's history as Powell is, but
it does not matter, the cartoon served
as an Indictment of England's rule
of hellflre in Ireland for centuries
and Louvain was a result of that
hideous rule.
Three hundred and three years ago
the foundation of Louvain was laid,
not by Belgium or Belgians, but by
Irish Catholics because the penal
laws of England in force in Ireland
would not permit a Catholic school
In all the land, and the history of
the reason for Ireland having to go
in ner poverty to a foreign country
to plead for a bit of ground on
which to erect a school in which
her young men might be educated
in a history of the more than seven
centuries of brute rule in Ireland.
I would recommend that The Bee.
all hands, read up a little on Irish
history before attempting to belittle
her. It will save their friend, Eng
land, from having her crimes more
exposed to the public.
J. E. CARLIN.
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Good Road Suggestions.
Florence, Neb., April SO. To the
Editor, of The Bee: In regard to
good roads for Douglas county and
the $3,000,000 bonds soon to be voted
on, I have this to say, viz: There
are several points to consider in
the bond proclamation, if our good
road enthusiasts wish for them to
carry by three-fifths majority. In
the first place, the proclamation
must be unrestricted, so if they
carry, the abutting property owners
can be assessed a certain amount in
the payment of said roads aside from
his annual taxes under the bond issue
which we all have to pay. The farm
ers of this county should know that
about nine-tenths of the voters live
in 'Omaha and country towns and
do not own a farm and do not get
the direct benefit out of said roads
or any unearned increment as the
land owners will who is going to be
lucky to have the road pass by his
farm, which makes it more valuable.
Senate File 68, 1919 Session pro
vides for paving districts which
carry the assessments two miles
back on the graduated scale, but
the per cent which the 'farmer and
the state is to pay Is not specified
by the law, but is left to be worked
out by the county commissioners
and the state highway department
and the parties who create the dis
trict and when all agree the county
commissioners have the authority
to create the district, whether or
not our bond proclamation calls for
this support. I am quite certain it
will have to call fo the land owner's
support up to a certain per cent in
some manner before the city voters
will approve of Its adoption.
In regard to the material to be
jjsej, the proclamation mus$ pall for
both brick and concrete, so as not
to give any manufacturer of each a
chance to hold us up on the mater
ial. I was in hopes our state con
victs or county prisoners could be
placed to work to manufacture said
brick, if there is clay in Nebraska
that would make vitrified brick.
This would solve the question of
hold-ups and sale rebates, etc., and
cut out the much-talked-of graft
to a minimum that many voters fear
In this kind of an undertaking.
That the Lincoln and Washington
highways to be first completed and
other roads to get a proportional
share each year thereafter which
will be fair to sill concerned.
The proclamation should call for
a 20-foot road, including the curb
or shoulder, as this is narrow enough
for a county that has the travel of
Douglas county. A 16-foot road
would be a makeshift and as big a
mistake as our county dads made
when our macadamized roads were
laid a few years ago.
Ail bridges should call for from
22 to 24 feet in width and made of
concrete so two autos traveling in
different directions can easily pass
eacn otner witnout stopping and
having to shift into low.
The curb or shoulder to hold the
brick or concrete is the one thing I
have never seen to suit my fancy.
I do not think the shoulder that will
be of concrete should bp flush with
the pavement, but should taper to
the outside bo as to be partially cov
ered with earth so when the auto
lsts get off the pavement he can
get back on said road very easily
without having to climb over the
sharp edge of the shoulder.
In regard to the concrete base, I
note our proclamation is only call
ing for a six-inch base. This will
never be satisfactory for the heavy
loads that are to travel over these
roads in the next decade. I suggest
at least a nine-inch concrete base
for our Douglas county roads, so If
the slogan is "Let's Do It Right" we
must not be afraid to give each
their say by calling another Douglas
county good roads meeting and in
vite delegates to be present from
each precinct. We will then get all
the good points in our bond procla
mation and It will carry by a large
majority. C. L NETHAWAY.
"Consistency."
Omaha, May 5. To the Editor of
The Bee: In Sunday's paper you
briefly allude to an address by
Senator Johnson of California,
wherein he "expresses astonish
ment that Mr. Wilson should have
turned down the secret treaty that
gave Italy what it asked, and then
assented to Japan having what
its secret treaty awarded." And
you conclude with the laconic
and rather bitter comment: "Evi
dently Hiram looks for consistency
where others expect only arbitrary
action."
The serious fault of inconsistency,
which has seemed to display itself
more conspicuously than any other
as a trait of Mr. Wilson's character
during his entire career as chief
magistrate, has doubtless been a
source of constant regrewto all
right-spirited citizens. It is as
serted without the slightest fear of
successful contradiction that no
former incumbent of the presiden
tial chair ever approached him in
the matter of prolixity of fair
promises of undevlating adherence
to right principles of conduct in the
performance of official obligations;
nor, on the other hand, is the as
sertion made with less confidence
of its impregnability, that no one of
his predecessors was ever less for
tunate than he in respect to the
fulfillment of such promises.
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Only under the stress of war did
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Penalty of Greatness.
Brooklyn Eagle: Nebraska sold
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ita, than any other . state. How,
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