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The. Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THI BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TM AJSodlted Pku. of which TIM Baa It a oumbaf. It ticlutlrel; itltM to Um utt for miblloaUon of all Haws llpatolia eradltad i M or not othorwtM credited In till paper, and alto the local newt publlaned herein. AU rlihtt of publloation ot oar tpeclal UMiaMa era alto retenea. OFFICES Oileafo 17JO-S3 Bteter Bid. Omaha The Bee Bide. Kaw Tor JM Fifth Are. South Omaha Mil N St. H, Loala-Naw B'nk of Commerce Council Hlufft 14 N. Mala St Waahlnaton Ull O BU Maeoln Utile BuUdln. APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65,830 Sunday 63444 Avaraf circulation for the month tu beer! bed and I worn to by . B. fUm, circulation Manager. Subaeribera laavinc the) city ahouM have) Tha Baa mailed ta thara. Addreaa chanfed aa eftaa aa raqueatad. v One plane landed safe, enough for a' record. - The "lame ,duck" won the race, life's little ironies. V One of , Senator Burton also sees lower prices on the way. . Let 'em come, the land is waiting. Hard cider gets by the revenue office un scathed; there's hope at least for the toper. . An auto stage line linking up mountain re sorts ought to revive popular interest in the ! scenery. Bulgaria is giving bolshevism a practical test, but the craze ought to produce little "change there. ' "Matt" Tinley's boys can not complain that the home folks overlooked anything in the way, ,of welcome to' them. if Uncle Sam does take over Turkey, the people of that backward land may look for a new deal, and a square one. If Omaha does not grow this" summer, it will not be for want oPgreat projects involving the expenditure of public money. 1" Champ Clark says he will be proud to speak in defense of the democratic party. He may be i i :. .u- . r ' . General March finds the army only spent ;$14,000,000,000, which leaves quite a handsome margin for others who had access to the war funds. ' Efforts of the Omaha Hyphenated to camou Sage democratic worry by starting a fight among republicans are'either laughable or pitiful, most ly the latter. , .The flyers who lit in the sea have the con solation of knowing they were farther away from land than any birdmen ever ventured be fore, and that is some record. If Secretary Baker is really in e'arnest about universal training, he will find less trouble get ting his plan through the present .congress than ie did- in getting war legislation from the democrats. When, the San Francisco labor unions refuse to join in a Mooney strike, it is time for others , to consider carefully before starting anything. The men on the ground ought to know what r they are doing. ' : Winninear strikers, who orooose to furnish a food only to persons wearing union buttons would probably be the first to protest if the government undertook any form, of coercion against the workers. Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell i going to head another delegation of official "joy riders" in Europe, this time camouflaged as students of commercial aerial navigation. The object is laudable, but the disguise is very thin. , "Eddie" Rickenbacker's welcome will show him Omaha friends have not forgotten the boy who- used to tinker around motor cars while waiting his chance to win fame, and that they also appreciate the splendid way in which he went about to achieve jrlory for himself and the country. , l Omaha is hot ambitious to achieve distinc tion as k suicide centef, but some emotional persons seem bent on thrusting it upon the village. As it is the best place in the country in which to live, this may be accounted tor only by the supposition that the converse is "true, and it also is the best place to die. Out of that sorrowful tragedy at Council Bluffs shines one clear ray, that of the pure, unselfish courage of two of the boy viptims, who went without hesitancy to the rescue, one after another, only to be caught in the fate- they could not avoid. This quality of devotion is the noblest trait of man, and seldom has it been shone in brighter light than in this instance. Not all heroism is rewarded by crosses and medals won in war, but true courage is never mistaken. Shell Shock Is Neurosis The medical department of the United States army has found that the early conclusions re garding shell shock are not true. There is really no such thing as shell shock, although there are many cases of war neurosis. War neurosis is really not different from neurosis found be yond the war zone. Neurosis, whether found in the army or among; civilians, is a subconscious desire and the physical condition induced thereby to avoid a discomfort In the army, it is a subconscious desire to get to or to remain at the rear. How yer, it does not necessarily follow that the pa tient is lacking in courage, for there are many cases of war neurosis induced by the mental at titude oT the patient concerning promotions, leave, alleged favoritism, etc. Among otticers, neurosis is often induced by the responsibility occasioned by the demands at the front. Investigation has shown that shell shock or neurosis is unheard of among prisoners, al though they may be in fearful physical or men tat condition, just as it is almost unheard of among wounded, excepting those who are about to be returned to their commands. 1 Emphasis should be laid on the fact that shell shock or neurosis is a subconscious atti tude and a disease which must be cured. There are comparatively few cases of patients faking. . Many soldiers having neurosis will- remain uncured even after returning to civil life unless the disease is thoroughly understood so that proper treatment may be given. Scientific eUavksa. ' THE RECONSTRUCTION CONGRESS. The session of congress starting today will have before it the whole program of gettingS the country back from war to peace. The democrats failed absolutely and completely in meeting the requirements. It was made ap parent to the world in, July last year that the end of the war was not far away, and likely to be reached at any time. Instead of taking needed steps to anticipate the sudden coming of peace, the democrats got ready just as they did for war, by doing nothing at all. Even when the armistice was signed in No vember and it was made clear that the fighting ws over, no progress was made on the recon struction plans submitted, and when the Sixty fifth congress went out of existence in March, it left everything at loose ends, not even pass ing appropriation measures necessary to carry on tHe government. No record of incompetency ever made in America by a legislative body is more dismal than that of the democratic "war" congress. , . , The congress assembling today is controlled by the republicans, whom the p'eople have com missioned to deal with the momentous ques tions that must be settled. Laws for the future include those that were asked of the democrats', such as fixing a definite military policy, regu lating the control of oil and coal lands, reclam ation of waste areas, to promote water power development, immigration, and other measures needed for national security and prosperity These are definitely pledged and will be brought out in time. . , Early on the list for enactment are placed bills to restore the, telegraphs and telephone wires to their owners, to adjust the railroad sit uation and to submit the women suffrage amend ment to the states for ratification. Along with these will go the merchant marine, readjustment of revenue regulations, and such tariff legisla tion as will take part of the burden off the democratic consumer and put iPon the foreign producer. . ( The docket is afull one, yet the public is certain it will not be slighted in any particular, and the land will not be left without relief as it was by the democratic congress that died last March. Nebraska' Hydro-Electric Power. The report of a committee to the Omaha Real Estate Exchange on the possibilities of the so-called Columbus power project may stimulate a new discussion of the state's re sources in the matter of hydro-electric power. Little if anything new is brought out in the quoted report from the state "engineer unless it be the bringing up to date of the cost of deliver ing the power to the distributing system in Omaha. Many partial surveys have been made of Nebraska streams as to their flow and de pendability, and some examinations have gone much deeper, bringing out difficulties that will be encountered in construction and operation, and other points that must be considered by investors. These have generally been of a character to discourage private capital from undertaking the job of exploiting the water power of, the state. If what the state engineer says is true, it constitutes a serious indictment of the people of the state. He but repeats what has been said before, and in equally impressive language. What is to be settled by the proposed inquiry will . be the feasibility of developing, delivering and selling the power, not only in Omaha but elsewhere throughout the state. i Italy, Jugoslavia and the Future. I Italy has conceded the point as to Fiume and the Dalmatian coast; its policy seems to be to agree to almost anything in preference to defeating the great peace. This decided change in the Italian attitude is accompanied by a corresponding alteration in the Jugoslavian posi tion. Serbia 'and her associates in the new national comination no longer make requests now 'they prefer demands. As Italy has given way on point after point, the other side has been encouraged to ask more and more, showing no sign of moderation. It is now admitted that what was thought to have been disposed of with the Italian agreement to the plan for mak ing Fiume a free city has again become a source of danger. A proposal that the whole affair be laid before an American group for media tion was not acceptable to the Jugoslavs, who are apparently determined to push any advan tage they may have to the limit. They are mortgaging the future in this course, and instead of making a durable peace are really establish ing only a truce, an adjournment of the dispute to a time when it may be taken up and dis posed of between Latin and Slav, without in volving other great interests. Racial and religious differences do not vanish with political adjustments better now than at any other, time in history. The League of Nations will start business with plenty of work on hand, part of which will have to do with the question of the Adriatic. End of a Big Job In Sight. June 30 is fixed now as the date for the finish of America's big job of furnishing food tor hungry Europe. By that time it is now calculated we will have sent across enough of 'food stuffs to supply the people over there until they can harvest their own. For several months, almost since the signing of the armistice, we have been shipping 300,000 tons a month of all sorts of eatables, and have fairly well com pleted our share of the bargain. The Food administrator expects to wind up his business at once, put up the shutters, and allow Americans to get back to the old style of using all they want of their own raising. Exact amounts apportioned to the several coun tries we undertook to help are not yet announ ced, but the information is given that the $100, 000,000 appropriated by congress will be ex pended, and that of this perhaps $3,000,000 will have been given outright to people who could not help themselves. Abroad the administration has done some thing more than merely to allocate and direct the distribution of relief. It 'has arranged for a resumption of trade between the several cen tral countries, seeing that the surplus of one was sent to another, where payment could be made in kind if not in cash, and thus has de veloped a post-war interchange of commodities that is already having an effect on relations that may bring a much better feeling than has been known for a long time. Eventually the world may get some exact data as to the work done by the Food adminis tration, but it already knows that no phase of the war is more worthy of review than that played by Americans in giving up their own food that Europe might be saved from starvation. The War Indemnity From the New York Post It has been evident in all discussion of the indemnity to be imposed on Germany, that three separate questions were involved in it; all of them, more or less debatable. What requisi tion would be just and equitable? How much would Germany be able to pay without being economically crushed? In what way, could it taakepa,yments Q foreign governments of any sum running into the billions, and with what economic results?1 It is these questions with which, the committee on reparation has been wrestling ever since its appointment by the Paris conference in January. They are partly, Dut not wholly, settled by the terms ot the treaty. In various declarations during the war, punitive indemnity pure and simple has been discountenanced by the allied statesmen. Pre cedent in the settlement of great wars is rather strongly against it: such indemnities as those imposed on France after Waterloo, on Turkey after the war of 1878, and on China after the Boxer rebellion, having been based either on damage unlawfully done by the enemy or on the cost of the war to the victorious states. It so happens that Germany itself is the one gov ernment which, in the century past, has gone beyond that limitation. The indemnity of 5.000,- 000,000 francs, exacted from France in 1871, much exceeded the cosrt of the Franco-Prussian war to uermany, and it was imposed by a government whose own territories had not been invaded by the enemy. Lloyd, George last December publicly as serted the right and purpose of demanding from Germany the whole cost of the war to the en tente allies. The treaty does not make this de mand; on the contrary, all its specific provisions in the reparation section are directed towards the payment for damage done to individuals or property. . Merchant ships destroyed must be paid for in kind, ton for ton. Destruction of private property; levies or fines imposed on provinces or cities occupied during the war; per sonal injuries caused to civilians by air bom bardment, forced labot', maltreatment of pris oners, exposure at sea or cruelty on land all these, together with "pensions and separation allowances", for "damages to the allied peoples," must be paid for. These specific requisitions appear to account for the stipulated indemnity of 100.000,000.000 marks, or, in gold value, $23, 800,000,000. But the treaty does not expressly limit the indemnity to this sum. The total obli gation "is to be determined and notified to it after a fair hearing" by the reparation commit tee and within two years. This, however, may eventually mean decrease, not increase, of the total sum. Will Germany be able to pay this immense indemnity? There are several ways of judging. One thousand million pounds sterling, or ap proximately $4,760,000,000, must be paid within two years "in either gold, goods, ship, or other specific forms of payment." The rest must be paid in 5 per cent uerman government bonds with a 1 per cent annual sinking fund. Now, so far as concerns raising the first cash in stallment and paying interest and sinking fund on the others, it is to be observed that Ger many has been spending upwards of $10,000,000, 000 annually on the war, and raising $6,000,000, 000 to $7,000,000,000 annually in war loans, placed with its own people. From these enormous public expenditures, Germany will in the nature of the case be free hereafter; indeed, the very terms of the treaty will release it from the greater part of the $500,000,000 which it was spending annually on army and navy before the war. If the second installment of 40,000,000,000 marks were made in 30-year bonds, no greater annual burden would be created than was imposed on France in 1871, through requirement of cash payment of 5,000,000,000 francs within three years.: The resources for such payments are vastly greater today than they were ,48 years ago. J The immediate source of perplexity will con cern the initial payment in cash or its equivalent, within two years, of $4,760,000,000. Germany'3 gold reserve will not go fat towards meeting that requisition; the Reichsbank, which at pres ent holds practically all the gold in the country, has .barely $450,000,000, and much of this will have to be paid for food. Undoubtedly a part of this payment will be made; in securities of foreign countries held in Germany; as to which, the committee on reparation has undoubtedly made thorough inquiry. How much the total value of such holdings would run to, is a dis puted point. A dozen years ago, a German government report reckoned such holdings as more than 16, 000,000,000 marks, or $4,800,000,000. If that es timate was right, the present holdings should be larger, notwithstanding the heavy sales to foreign countries at the outbreak of the war. It was probably an over-estimate. But what ever the actual sum might be, it would be pos sible for the German government to require the exchange of all private holdings of the sort for government obligations, as the British govern ment did when arranging to put up collateral se curity for its American borrowings in 1916 and 1917. People" You Ask About Information About Folks In the Public Eye Will Be Given, in This Column In Answer ' to Readers' Questions. Your Name Will Not Be Printed. Let The Bee Tell You. Sir Harry Xauder. When did Harry Lauder first start coming to the United States? Was he born in Scotland? Interested. Harry Lauder first came to America in 1907, appearing on the regular vaudeville circuits. In more recent years he has headed his own vaudeville company. Yes, Lauder was born in Scot land. Portobello was his birthplace and August 4, 1870- the date. His parpnta were poor and he worked hard in youth and young- manhood in mills and mines. He began his career as comic singer in the Lon don music halls and gradually made his way upward. He composes most of his own songs and writes the music as well. In recognition of his services during the recent war, he was knighted by King George on January 1, 1919. Salvation Army, Control? Is the government in authority over Salvation Army drives? A. R. The Salvation Army has control of its own drives, just as the Y. M. C. A., or the Red Cross, direct their financial campaigns. Commander Eva Booth is in charge of the ble campaign conducted in the Salva tion Army this week throuehout the united states. Aside from the creditable nnsirlnn she and the organization she repre sents hold in relation to the war, she ranks as one of the notable wo men or the generation. The storv of her rise from the lowest rank to the position of commander of the forces pi the Salvation Army in the united states is little short of ro mantic. Though she is the fourth daughter of the late General Wil liam Booth, the founder of the army, she has won her way from the ranks on her own merits. While she was still a schoolgirl she began the work of the army, selling war cries on the London streets. In the course of time she rose to the post of field commander and was given charge of the international training home in London. Before taking charge of the organlzatiqn in the United States Miss Booth spent nine years as com mander of the forces in Canada, where she wrought splendid service in the work to which her abilities are consecrated. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. What the League Means A large measure of disappointment is ob viously the portion of those who expected the league of nations to rise in complete and har monious beauty on a perfectly levelled ground of principle, on a site cleared of all local and selfish preoccupations. No such disappointment awaits those who looked forward, not to the rise of a' beautiful architectural monument, but to the birth of a living thing, and like most new-born things, the features yet to take per fect form, the eyes a little weak to the sun, awk ward, red-faced, squalling a good deal but alive. Much more desirable than a lovely and com pleted monument for people to look at and leave out of the common reckoning is a living organism qualified to function. And it is func tions that are constantly being assigned to the league of nations. Thus far we know that it will have something to do in connection with Danzig, with the Saar Valley, with the German colonies, with Shantung, and not improbably with Fiume; and this is to leave out of account the broader problems of international food, shipping and finance, including the reparations and indemnities from the central powers. This i what Lloyd George meant when he said that the time spent on the covenant of the league was a saving of time in the business of making peace. It is what Mr. Wilson has had in his mind from the beginning. ITODAV The Day We Celebrate. Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon of the Meth odist Episcopal church, South, born at Spar tanburg, S. C, 50 years ago. Arthur E. Bestor, president of the Chau tauqua institution, born at Dixon, 111., 40 years ago. Major Waldorf Astor, M. P., parliamentary secretary to the British prime minister, born in New York City 40 years ago. Louis W. Hill, president of the Great North ern Railway company, born in St. Paul 47 years ago. L John W. Garrett, United States minister to the Netherlands, born in Baltimore 47 yearsxago. Thirty Years Ago In Omaha. The new Westminster Presbyterian church, Rev. John Gordon, pastor, was dedicated. Rev. W. J. Harsha preached the dedicatory sermon. Plymouth Congregational church, Kountze Place, was dedicated. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Duryea. Prof. G. C. Knopfel, an accomplished pipe organist, has accepted a position at Kountze Memorial church. A meeting was called by J. F. Stout, J. L. Houston and others, for the puroose of organ izing a travelers' club, Senator Borah. . M. J. If you wil refer back to The Bee of May 12, you will find the answer to your question about Sena tor Lodge. William E. Borah, who is actively opposing the league of na tions covenant, is the senior United States senator from Idaho and a noted leader of the so-called prog ressive section of the republican' party. Senator Borah is distinctly a product of the middle west. Edu cated in the public schools of Hi nois and at the University of Kansas, he chose the law as his profession and began practice in Kansas. Then he pioneered northward and west ward, settling in Boise when Idaho was a young state, and Ifet once at tracted attention because of his progressive and radical views. His reputation as a lawyer and his op position to the big financial inter ests that were exploiting the north west finally won -his election to the senate. He is a floor debater of more than ordinary legal ability and forensic eloquence, and at times has been regarded as "big enough tim ber" to be considered as a possible republican presidential candidate. Sweden's Socialist Leader. Hjalmar Branting, who is urging the allies to feed the larger cities of Russia as the "most effective means of combating the spread of bolshe vism, has long been famous as the leader of the Swedish Socialists. From the beginning of the war his sympathies have been on the side of the entente and from the outset he insisted that the defeat of the kaiser was essential to a lasting peace. Mr. Branting was swept into politics in the great Radical .Socialist move ment in Sweden in the eighties. Up till that time he had devoted him self principally to the study of math ematics and astronomy, but he gave up the prospects of a successful ca reer in this direction and threw him self Into the new political movement. Under his leadership the Swedish Social Democratic party has become a real power in the state. Mr. Branting Is a brilliant writer and a speaker of rare eloquence. LIFE IS WORTH LIVING. UU la worth l'vlnsr after all. In apite of its fever of vague unrest. The- sneers that mock and the teara that fall. The hearts that break and the souls oppressed ; For God, Who watcheth. He knoweth best And life la worth living after all. Like violet blooming under the snow, Hope still smiles after bitter pain; And under love's sorrowful, sweet refrain Are echoes of laughter, soft and low; Seeds that are scattered shall blossom again. And the sunshine come wfren the shadows go. Life Is worth living after all; Toll Is lightened by noontide rest, And baby Hps on the mother's breast Blot out the losses beyond recall; The robin sings as he builds his nest And life is worth living after all. For sweet are the greetings when day is done, And tender the hands that clings to ours. And after this world with its sun and its showers. And its ties that are broken one by one, Sound is the sleep under drifting flowers And life is worth living when life is done. Ida Goldsmith Morris in New York Times. (Peggy and Billy on a hike are attacked by a raggedy figure, who takes their lunch. Johnny Bull qraba the raggedy figure.) CHAPTER II. . One Surprise and Then Another f7"OW, yow! Oh, call off your X dog!" bgged the raggedy figure, but much to the surprise of Peggy and Billy he spoke in a very low voice almost a whisper. This was very strange, as he might have been expected to yell his loudest, with Johnny Bull chewing at his trousers seat. "Quick, he'll tear 'em," urged the raggedy chap. And indeed at that moment, there was a ripping and tearing as the seat of the trousers gave way and Johnny Bull dropped to the ground. The raggedy figure, still clutching Billy's lunch box, scrambled higher into the tree. There he Inspected the damage done to -his garments. Presently he looked down and grinned. "That shows how wise I 'am to wear two pairs of trousers," he chuckled. "While the outer casing has been punctured by your fero cious beast, I am still cla'd comfort ably and respectably." "Give us back our lunch." de manded Billy. "Are ju as hungry as I am? When did you eat last?" asked the raggedy figure. "Why, not since breakfast," said Billy. i "Fie on you then, for keeping food from one hungrier than yourself," scolded the raggedy figure with a grin. "I have not dined since yester day noon and feel now the need of a bite." "And I feel the need of a bite, too. I Walt until I tret hold of vnu." arrowl ed Johnny Bull, leaping up toward mo raggeuy ngure. "But I must dine in quiet," said the raggedy figure, taking from his pocket what looked like a flsliline. "and if you will not call off your i rausi uispose or mm. - ; . y.'.v -.... y ...v. .... . .v.v.v.-.-.v. "Yow! Vow! Oh, call off your dog!" With that the raggedy figure sudt denly dropped one end of the line downward. It fell over Johnny Bull's stubby tail, and before Johnny, or Billy or Peggy knew what the rag gedy figure was up to, he was pull ing on the line, and dragging John ny Bull up into the tree. Johnny Bull was taken entirely by surprise. He snapped and he growled and he twisted, but being lifted by his tail in that way he was helpless. He had only the empty air on which to use his claws and teeth. "Now we will dine in peace," re marked the raggedy figure, tying the string to a branch and opening the lunch box. "Ah, what a delicious re past is spread before us. Fair lady and kind sir, I invite you to my ban quet. A sandwich for beauty and a sandwich for bravery!" He tossed a sandwich to Peggy, and another to Billy, taking one himself. "And here is one for boldness. Ah, yum, yum!" Peggy and Billy were surprised that the raggedy figure should share their luneh with them, afler having robbed, them of it, but they were hungry'and they promptly ate the sandwiches he gave them. Johnnv Bull writhed and growled at the Mill of the string. "Ha, my good dog, you shall have the crumbs that fall from our ban quet table," laughed the raggedy figure, and he popped into Johnny Bull's mouth a piece of ham. John ny never had eaten upside down be fore, but he grabbed on to that meat and gulped it downor rather up. Hungry as Peggy and Billy were, the raggedy figure seemed hungrlor, but he shared the sandwiches, tho cookies, the cake and other goodies with them, all in equal portions, and he didn't forget Johnny Bull. When the last scrap was gone, he untied Johnny Bull and dropped him to the ground. . ".Now that my hunger has been ap peased, I hasten to apologize for not washing my face before our meal," he said. "Had I been myself I would have done so, but being in the role of Hal, the boy tramp, It would never hove done to spoil my make up and my reputation with water." When he said "boy tramp," Peggj and Billy looked at him in fresh sur prise, and even Johnny Bull ceased growling over his injured tall. On looking closely they saw he was Teally only a boy about the same age as Billy. "If I had known you were only a boy I'd have made it warm for you when you stole my lunch," muttered Billy. "I don t like tramps," said Pegg5 disapprovingly. "Aren't you ashameo of yourself?" - "Not a bit of it," laughed the boy tramp. "I enjoy it, and I'm enjoying it very particularly right iflw, tor he lowered his voice "I'm mori, than a boy tramp I'm a detectlv in the midst of a gang of robbet tramps. I want you to help me Rap ture them." (Tomorrow will be told how Peggy mni Billy Join forcea with the boy tramp.) ox Prohibition. Omaha, May 16. To the Editor of The Bee: By the way, have you noticed how prohibition has killed business inOmaha? Neither have I M. E. H. W Do Not Know. Holyoke, May 11, 1919. To the Editor of The Bee; Will you kindly tell me how many, motor trucks the United States owns at present. I have a bet up that they don't own 250,000 and if you wil let me know as soon as possible will be greatly obliged. ROY C. COOPER. Answer We have no information covering this point Liquor In Nebraska. Oakland, Neb., May 12 1919. To the Editor of The Bee: Please advise me if there is as much liquor In Nebraska at present as when the saloons were running wide open. C. O. B. Answer We do not know how much liquor there was in Nebraska when prohibition went into effect, nor how much there is now. As there were a number of breweries in operation prior to prohibition, as well as big distilleries and many wholesale houses and distributing warehouses were fully stocked then. but are out of business now, it is undoubtedly true there is less lifluor In Nebraska now than before the business was made illegal. DAILY CARTOONETTE QWRE.UfCnR l B0UQHTY0U fl 10VELY RAZOH FOR ?8CT5. TOU AY! r WISH YOU 'Jl TRY IT. lnm ' " Omaha's City Government. Omaha, Neb., May 17. To the Editor of The Bee: I read in the editorial in the World-Herald this morning and was surprised at the astuteness of Harvey. In compar ing the present city administration to a boy he has exceeded the fond est expectations of his intellectual guide. If there ever was a bunch of boyish city commissioners, we have them. Kid Towl gets mad at Kid Ringer and Kid Smith tells the teacher and the next day the kids all vote together to take away Kid Butler's toys. His sympathy toward boys has clouded his perception of the fact that there are several Oma ha doctors who sacrificed their pri vate practice and their personal con venience to serve their country for a salary much less than that offered to the health commissioner. In the national Service they received the identical training demanded by the present self-confessed incompetents at the city hall, and Harvey, and have the advantage over an "outside' man in that they will not be wholly under the influence of the "luminous' incompetent who, as Harvey said, "shone most brilliantly as a critic and assailant." To read the World Herald of three months ago and then see Harvey in the role of apolo gist for Kid Ringer makes people wonder at the mental acrobatics of the average editor. How does it feel to be on both sides of the fence? OBSERVER. Justice for the Negro. Greeley, Neb., May 14. To the Editor of The Bee: Mr. Agnew must have read my letter very carelessly or he never would have accused me of trying to "Justify the wholesale and criminal disfranchisement of millions of citizens of our country to aid a bunch of southern politicians to control the policies of our nation. If he will read that letter again he will find that I am as much op posed to the disfranchisement of our citizens as he can possibly be. My contention was and is that Ne braska should be slow to criticise Virginia after reading Judge Pat rick's ruling on that ice cream case. Dwellers in glass houses should steer clear of the rock pile. If Mr. Agnew would bend his IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. "Did the doctor know what you had?" "Seemed to have had a pretty accurate Idea. He asked for 10 and I had 111." Stray Shots. ' Willis The British plundered Washing ton in the war of 1812. Glllts Why didn't they get elected to congress and do It In a nice respectable way? Judge. "All I did," said the profiteer, "win to take advantage of an opportunity." "Well," answered the patriot, "that'p all (""until In Kldd nsed to do." Boston Eve ning Transcript. First Vacationist Why In the world are you crying? ' Funereal Vacationist I I sent word to John to send some money and the Jdlot moiled It! Life. energies to remedying the law that discriminates against some of our citizens because their skin happens 10 De oiack ne would be doing some thing for that much abused and little understood word democracy. But instead he tries to ridicule the black man's grievance by referring to it as "a 10-cent ice cream soda," as if the value of the purchase had any bearing on the case. He fails to see or admit that there is a principle in volved that is of greater moment to the negro than the value of that ice cream cone. Is it not something to a man to have his citizenship abridged to be made to feel that he lacks something that others possess. in this case a white skin, that, in fact, ne is not a man, out the semblance of one, a member of an Inferior race, whom we supercilious whites are willing to employ as servants, but will treat as equals in this land of the free and home of the brave. We admire the negro as a fighter, we laud Colonel Hayward and his black regiment, but our admiration will not carry a member of that gal lant organization through the door of our ice cream parlor in Omaha. except as a menial, and yet we shout for democracy, for the freedom of tho masses. What a senseless, reck less use of hot air. In the meantime we can rest easilv as to Virginia's future; she is quite capable of working out her own sal vation in her own way, even if she fails to obey the command of the sage of Cowtown. MICHAEL ' O'CONNOR. Mr. Taft is Nominated. Minden, Neb., May 15. To the Editor of The Bee: The available timber for president oh the repub lican ticket is now coming to the front. A few days ago an inspired and apparently syndicated article ap peared in the republican press which attempted to convey the idea that Major General We-od was the popular candidate for that office. The article assumed the existence of sentiment for him where every rea son suggested the opposite situation. Inquiry among the average voters' elicits the information that the, aver age voter is not for militarism In any form. The great war about to be closed was a death knell to mili tarism. The returning soldiers are not for militarism, nor for universal training. It was the slogan that we were to forever stamp out militar ism and its menace that enthused America. The slogan, "Wilson kept us out of the war," was what elected Wilson, because the voters were, against war and believed Wilson would keep us out of it. Ninety-five per cent of the people are for some league of nations, even if at its best may only be a promise or weak ef fort at preventing a recurrence , of war. America as a whole is not for war, and any person whose life and training savors of war or the mili tary will not be a popular candidate. On the other hand, any man who has shown himself to be a consistent advocate of any means to avoid war will appeal strongly to men of all classes and especially the new vot ers, the women, who are most great ly affected by the fortunes of war. Ask any woman if she is for a league and your answer Invariably will be in the affirmative. No one questions the sincerity of purpose, the greatness of mind, the highness of statesmanship in Wil liam H. Taft. He has always be- 'Business Is Coob.ThamicYou" -WHY .NOT IV. Nicholas oil Company MONEY LOANED on OMAHA REAL ESTATE Easy Re-Payment. 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