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THE BEE : OMAHA; THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD BOSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOB , MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS She AamUtcd Prat, of which The Bw ! a memtwr, U sxelusliely ntltUd Is the tiM for rubliciuon of sll urns dttpatchM ondlud to tt or not otherwiM oradlud In tale pewr. Ml im tho local MM pub!1ih! herein. All rtjhtf of puDUesUoa of out Racial - ctnntnhM arc also memd. OFFICES: t Now Tort MB Fifth In. Omhe-The Bet - Blf. rhtoMo 1TS0-43 8t.er Bid. South Onuht 2318 N St. at. Loolo New B'nk of Comment Council Bluff 14 N. Mala St. wtahtniKn 1311 O 8U Unooln Little Building. J., - - APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65,830 Sunday 63,444 Atom circulation for th month tubnrlbta and swot to by H. B. Bacan. Circulation Manager. Subscribers leaving the city ahould have) Th Bee mailed ' to them. Add roe changed a ofUm a requeated. f Clemenceau is also some note writer. War-time prohibition promises to make a lovely muss yet. ' Germany will find the watch on the Rhine right on the job. According to von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Ger many is just as innocent as was Topsy. . : The president "passed the buck," but not to a congress that is too timid to tackle the big - job ahead. " Harry Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Grieve have been given up for lost, but their ex t ploit will live forever. The road bond issue will soon be up to the voters. Now is the time to do your talking, and lot after the vote is taken. The flag was their ideal, says Col. "Matt" 'Tinley of the gallant men he led through France. And they lived up to it. .' Fremont citizens who failed to help out on the Victory bond sale now know what the re turned soldiers think of them. The lone democrat in congress from Ne braska says the peace treaty will surely be rati fied. This ought to end the argument. .' -Germany's motion for a new trial will un doubtedly be overruled. The time for talking has passed, except to tell the Huns what to do. y Nebraska doctors are warned by a profes : sional brother to make ready against the day v When they will all be on the federal pay roll. gome have. "The German people's party," whatever that is, asseverates its loyalty to Herr Hohenzollern. In good time it may honor his memory, but not out in the open. " Kerensky now appeals for aid to Russia. As it was his order No. 1 to the army that led to Russia's complete collapse, his present attitude will get a lot of attention. Mayor Smith made a nice talk to the home builders, and a little later on he will get an .opportunity to explain to householders how to foejiappy without ice on a hot summer Sunday. The director of the mint discloses the fact that 265,000,000 silver dollars were melted and shipped to India in form of bullipn without loss of a single ounce. Nothing to brag of in the United States. . Chicago girls have selected gingham for gowns instead of geogette, but look up the prices asked for gingham before; you delude yourself into thinking this is a serious attack on the high cost of dressing. - i Uncle Sam's inquiry into the "dope" traf fic in the United States is not very cheering in ' its facts, but it ought to answer the assertions ' of a self-appointed whitewashing committee as regards condition in Omaha. . , Denmark now admits the kaiser made an offer for Danish aid to German arms. The only deal that , went through was the sale of the 'islands to the United States. The Danes were wiser than they knew at the time. Many weeks ago it was pointed out that the greatest menace to life and limb on Omaha's thoroughfares comes from truck drivers and taxicabs. Events have well substantiated this, and it is high time a curb was being put on the' boys who dash so recklessly about the streets. "No .damages will be awarded Dodge street property owners, if the report of the council's committee goes through, but this decision may not convince some of those affected that the proposed improvement will be of any particular service to them. Her Soul Goes Marching On : Of all the tragic incidents of the great war, none exceeded those that surrounded the un speakably brutal murder of Edith Cavell in Brussels. Every feature of her arrest, her sum mary , trial and conviction and her execution represented Prussian brutality at its worst Cer tain phases, such as the cynical and inexcusable official lying to the representatives of the United States ministry in Belgium, went beyond any thing known in centuries for cold-blooded in difference to the most primitive instincts of hu manity and common justice. There was jeering and leering all down the line, from the gover nor general's palace to the soldiery which fired the final shots. But, as in so many other cases, German, f rightfulness overreached itself to such a degree that the stain on Germany for this ju dicial murder will be ineffaceable. They killed Edith Cavell gayly, they were deaf to Brand Whitlock's appeals for mercy, the kaiser ap proved the execution arid German publicists re joiced at the fact that they had "made an exam ple" of this pestiferous English woman. But they reckoned without their host, the conscience of the world. They killed Edith Cavell, but her soul goes marching ont And, as her body reaches England and is given due honor in stately minsters and finds its last resting place under the nave of her beautiful home cathedral at Norwich, the world, honoring her memory with the British, will repeat as a liturgy the damning indictment of the frightfulness that failed. It failed just because they who invent ed it thought when they tortured the body that they could dominate the soul of the world. Never was a more colossal blunder made nor a greater crime committed. For the soul of Edith Cavell will go marching on for all time, an in- . spiration to all brave peoples and a reproach to Prussianism that can never be wiped out. Phil- . adtlaaia Ledger. ARE OFFICE HOLDERS ELIGIBLE? An opinion from the attorney general's office holds that in order to stand as a candidate for the coming convention to -revise Nebraska's constitution, a member of the legislature must first resign his office. This ruling is in direct contradiction of the section inserted in the con vention act by the lawmakers designed to make it possible for themselves to hold both positions at once, the clause reading: "Incumbency of any other office shall not dis qualify the person holding the same from being a member of the constitutional conven tion." The question involved is much more far reaching than the mere eligibility of legislative members to become convention delegates be cause, if based on constitutional limitation, it must apply also to all other persons holding lucrative office under either state or federal authority. If the legislature's idea is correct, we may expect to hafja constitutional convention made up largely of office holders. If the attor ney general's opinion is sound, no office holders need apply. A court decision authoritatively settling this point should by all means be had in advance before the convention ball starts a-rolling. Omaha and the Eighty-Ninth. Now that it has been definitely settled that two units of the Eighty-ninth division, com posed largely of Omaha soldiers, will stop in the city for three flours on the way to Camp Funston, preparations to give the boys a royal welcome must not lag. The 356th infantry and the 341st machine gun battalion are ours. Let us give them such a greeting that they will never doubt the place they hold in the hearts of the home folks. The Eighty-ninth was in the line of battle twice in the MeuserArgonne cam paign, where the strongest positions of the Ger man line were broken and the wav to Metz and Sedan cleared. What part this organization took in the fighting has been -told again and again. It was there the lads from the prairie states showed their mettle, and gave the world proof of their stamina. Many vacant "places are left in Nebraska home circles because of this, and many wrecked lives are coming out from the hell into which the division was '"plunged. But these contributions to the victory gained will not be forgotten in the joy of seeing the soldiers return. Omaha has its chance now watch us make good! Germany and the Fourteen Points. The German cabinet very much resembles a lawyer who is about to nonsuit himself. Having been caught on the wrong side of a very bad case, the cabinet now spars for time, setting up in its latest quibble: t A specific recognition of t!i right of Ger many and of the German people to 9 peace of right, justice and reconciliation, instead of the paragraphed song of hate whirb was writ ten at Versailles, is contained in the note of the American secretary of state, Lansing, of November S, 1918. In it the secretary of state notifies- the Swiss minister in Washington unconditionally that the established basis of President Wilson's fourteen points should be authoritative for the peace conditions. Secre tary Lansing announced further that the en tente governments, after careful considera tion, also were prepared to recognize the con ditions set up by President Wilson as the basis for the conclusion of peace. The language published in this country of Secretary Lansing's note of November 5, on the point, in question, reads: "Subject to the qualifications which follow, they declare their willingness to make peace with the government of Germany on the terms laid down in the president's address to con gress of January, 1918, the fourteen points and the principles of settlement enunciated in his subsequent addresses." This important stipulation is entirely ignored by the German cabinet in its special pleading. Secretary Lansing carefully enumerated the qualifications to which he referred, among them being reservations by the Allies as to the free dom of the seas and snecifie demands, fnr th restoration as well as the evacuation of all in-1 vided territory and indemnity for all damage done by land, sea or air. Mr. Wilson also had materially modified the fourteen points by his later utterance's, summed up by the secretary of state in the inclusive phrase, "the principles of settlement enunciated in his subsequent addresses." Among these principles are those on which the treaty sub mitted at .Versailles clearly rests. The Hun will gain nothing by his persistence in alleging that Germany has been trapped into a surrender that was inevitable, nor will he console anyone by charging bad faith to his conquerors. A rereading of the note sent by President Wilson on October 24 last may , enable Herr Ebert and his associates at Berlin to, reconcile themselves to the terms of a dictated fnstead of a negotiated peace. The difference is ' clear enough, even at Berlin, Help for the Trolley Lines. The president having approved a plan sug gested for assisting electric traction lines through federal governmental agencies, the work is to be taken up at once. In many cities the traction lines have been put in jeopardy by Veason of the war conditions. Enormous additions to operating costs were forced on these lines, and not always with relief in way of increased traf fic, enhanced fares or economies possible through reduced service. To compensate for such con ditions on the railroads, the government has assumed the burden and guarantees the owners return on their investment. To adopt such a policy toward the street railway systems may be considered straining public generosity. Some part of the present difficulty is unquestionably due to the general attitude of the public towards the service corporations, however. While it may be alleged that they have been financed after an, unscientific fashion, heavily overcap italized, and indeed charged with all manner of managerial unwisdom, it is true that exactions and restrictions laid upon them by law and rigid regulations prevented their protecting the in terest of their owners against the conditions so readily met by private business. A federal survey may .not restore the loss of the last two years, but it ought to afford something of a basis for definite action as to the future. Our local democratic contemporary finds reason to rejoice because the stock market responded at once to the president's message. It does not state, however, that this was be cause the president asked congress to undo a lot of damphool things the democrats did. One bill now before congress will meet gen eral approbation, and that is the measure to de port alien slackers. A man who Would not fight for freedom is unfit to enjoy it, under any flag. Responsibility for the War From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat The London Times of April 28, which has just reached us, contains an extended summary of the report of the Commission on the Respon sibility of the Authors of the War and on the Enforcement of Penalties, which was presented to the plenary session of the peace conference on that date, the same session at which the re vised covenant of the league of nations was pre sented and adopted. The greater interest in the covenant, we suppose, caused the reduction of the report of this commission to very brief dispatches in the American papers, and no ade quate account of its conclusions had come to us until 'the. receipt of this edition of the Times. The states represented on this commission were the United States. Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Roumania and Serbia, and Mr. Lansihg was its president. "The report as a whole," says the Times, "is a very valuable and conscientious piece of work, and provides in succinct form what is perhaps the best summary of the proof of the allied conten tion that the war was the result of a deliberate plot on the part of the central empires that has yet been made. In no case are statements made which are not supported by evidence of an of ficial nature, drawn either from the rainbow hued official papers published by the allies or from enemy state papers themselves." It is, in fact, an official indictment, bised upon evidence considered indisputable, and constitutes the first general arraignment of the central powers by a body of quasi-judicial nature. Reports have been made during the war by commissions ap pointed to investigate certain phases of con duct and responsibility, but this report presents the conclusions of a body representing all the principal nations engage! in war against the central powers and it covers the whole field. It is, therefore, of large importance, both in its present application and historically. The report takes up first the causes of the war and the responsibility of its authors, and the commission "determines that the responsi bility for it lies wholly upon the powers which declared war in pursuance of a policy of aggres sion, the concealment of which gives to the origin of this war a character of a dark con spiracy against the peace of Europe. This re sponsibility rests, first, upon Germany and Aus tria; secondly, on Turkey and Bulgaria. The responsibility is made all the graver by reason of the violation of the neutrality of Belgium and Luxemburg, which Prussia had herself guaranteed. It is increased with regard to both France and Serbia by the violation of their frontiers before the declaration of war." The reasons for this conclusion are set forth in de tail which clearly expose the great conspiracy. The report then takes up the violations of neutrality, of international law and of the com mon laws of humanity. The invasion of Bel gium is discussed, and it shows the hollowness of the German contention that they were com pelled to violate Belgian neutrality because they had certain knowledge that the French in tended to do so themselves. The commission draws up a list of 32 different categories of crime perpetrated by the enemy. "It consti tutes," says the report, "the most striking list of crimes that has ever been drawn up, to the eternal shame of those who committed them. The facts are established." The list includes murders and massacres, torture and deliberate starvation of civilians, rape, abduction of women for the purpose of enforced prostitution, depor tation of civilians, wanton devastation and de struction of property, destruction of merchant ships and passenger vessels without warning, bombardment of hospitals, and other offenses to the number of classifications stated. The com mission concludes that: "The war was carried on by the central empires together with their allies, Turkey and Bulgaria, by barbarous or il legitimate methods in violation of the estab lished laws and customs of war and the efemen tary laws of humanity." The offenses fall into two categories: First, the acts which provoked the world war and ac companied its inception; and, second, the viola tions of the laws and customs of war and the laws of humanity. The trial of all persons, however highly placed, for acts coming within the second category is recommended, but the commission does not advise that "the acts which provoked the war should be charged against their authors and made the subject of proceed ings before a tribunal." The commission holds that no criminal charge can be made against the responsible authorities for breaches of neu trality, but urges a formal condemnation by the peace conference. According to the Times, the American mem bers of the commission were not in accord with the majority on some points and signed the re port "subject to very important reservations, in which they pronounce against the trial of the ex-kaiser before an international tribunal on moral charges, holding that moral offenses can only be visited with moral sanctions." The American argument is not presented in the sum mary, and this brief statement is more mystify ing than informative. Ships for Foreign Account It is announced, with a flourish characteristic of the administration's press agents, that the chairman of the shipping board has taken up with President Wilson by cable, of course the question of permitting American shipyards to build ships for foreign account. Since there should be no question about it, Mr. Wilson is expected to give his consent to what may be presumed to be Mr. Hurley's judgment, that the han should be removed. The only question is, why have American shipyards been prohibited by the government, since the armistice, from sharing in the com petition for foreign orders? Ships, like wheat, or cotton, or safety razors, being commodities, there is no reason apparent why American pro ducers should not be permitted to produce for export, at this time, if they can get the orders. Just why the shipping board should have in tervened and, with Mr. Wilson's approval, or dered that the yards be kept closed to the world demand for ships has not been explained satis factorily. Experience has show that there are not domestic orders enough to kepe them busy. It may be forecast that the ton-price of ship building will come down, if the industry is to enter into competition with foreign shipbuilders. The effect, of course, would be to reduce. the book value of the shipping board's accumulated and nondescrip stock of ships which may sug gest one explanation of this curious example of the exercise of government authority over private industry. Providence Journal. The Day We Celebrate. . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famous novelist and playwright, born in Edinburgh, 60 years ago. Sir Aston Webb, the new president of the Royal acedemy, born in London, 70 years ago. Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cor nell university, born in Prince Edward Island, 65 years ago. Mme. Alia Nazimova, celebrated actress of the American stage, born in the Russian Crimea, 40 years ago. Charles H. Markham, former president of the Illinois Central railroad, born at Clarksille, JTenn., 58 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. , E. E. Bruce, W. A. L. Gibbon and F. P. Kirkendall have been appointed as a commit tee to draft plans for a merchants' carnival. VSam Small lectured at the Y. M. C. A. on prohibition. Workmen are excavating on Harney street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth for the foun dation of the Kennard Glass & Paint company building. ' The Second Ward Republican club met at Kasper's hall on South Thirteenth street; C. M. Donovan, president; P. O. Connell, secretary. Friend of the Soldier Replies will be given in this cdlumn to questions relating to the soldier and his prob lems, in and out of the army. Names will not be printed. Ask TheBee to Answer. Arrival of the 326th Infantry. Very Anxious The chiel reason why The Bee has not announced the arrival of the 326th Infantry is be cause thai Organization has not yet reached this side. It was part of the 8 2d division, which was on the sail ing list for April; wme units of the 325th and 328th infantry came across that month, but the 326th and 327th were delayed for some reason no.t given out on this side. On Friday of last week another bat talion of the 325th and detachments of the 326th and the 327th, includ ing seven officers of the first named and 24 officers of the second, reached New York, the number of enlisted men not being given. Other units of this division will arrive some time this month. The Bee publishes the news of the arrival of troops from France as it is announced from Washington. Orders are frequently changed or sailing schedules rear ranged without any notice being given the public. It will not help to scold the War department; if scolding would have done any good, the boys would have been home long ago. Pay for Drafted Man. C. E. B. You are entitled to re ceive the four days' pay, and the reason that you have not is undoubt edly due to the oversight in the of fice of the disbursing quartermaster of the Southern department, from whence your pay check would have come. If you will write to the chief disbursing officer, quartermas ter general's department, Washing ton, D. C, setting forth the facts in your case, giving your registration number, the date of your call, and other circumstances, you will un doubtedly receive the pay check to which you are entitled. All the rec ords of your case are now at Wash ington. V Insignia of the 89th. M. B. R. The insignia of the 89th division is a monogram "M-W," eh closed in a light-line circle, the whole being in army blue; the letters indicate the character of the di vision, standing for "Middle West," the division being made up of men from that section of the country; the pen drawing you have made is very like the insignia, which ought to be obtained at any department store.' Many Questions Answered. Miss M. W. We do not know of any address at New York or else where, to which letters may be ad dressed for delivery to returning sol diers on their landings. Troops are being landed at New York, Boston, Newport News, and occasion ally at other ports. It is therefore difficult to get word to them, unless notified from aboard ship by the soldier as to his port of debarkation. The camp to which the men are assigned for demobiliza tion is not always known in advance of their landing. Mrs. A. A. We can not de termine from your letter to which unit of the army you refer. If your son is in the Sixth infantry, he is now in the army of occupation. The headquarters of the Sixth infantry is at Loguyon, its address being A. P. O. 745. No time is set for its re turn. A Soldier's Sister The last ad dress we had for the 109th motor supply train was A. P. O. 912. It is in the service of supply, and some of its units are as far east as the German border. No time has been set for its return. Mrs. G. W. B. The Eighth veter inary hospital is not attached to any division, but is stationed near Paris, its address being Clay Souille, via A. P. O. 702. No time has been fixed for its return to the United States. Anxious Mother The 90th di vision is made up chiefly of Okla homa and Texas troops, and is on the sailing schedule for June. The order includes all its units, and this means the field hospital and sanitary train, although theee may be de layed because of incidental duties. Soldier's Mother The evacuation ambulance companies at Brest and other ports of embarkation in France are among the busiest units in the medical department, it being their work to care for convalescents who are being sent home. None of them have been designated for im mediate return home. This applies to evacuation ambulance company No. 28, now at Brest. P. E. M. Write to the personnel officers, Navy department, Washing ton, D. C, for Information concern ing an individual sailor. Anxious Sister The 69th infantry is part of the Eighth brigade. Fourth division, of the Third army, and is in the army of occupation. No time has been set for the return of any of these divisions. , Bess We can not give you the ad dress at present of the 104th engi neers; this organization was long ago assigned to early convoy home. M. M. H. The 309th infantry is part of the 155th brigade of the 78th division, and is on the sailing sched ule for May; it should reach home some time in June; headquarters of this division has been at Somur, A. P. O. 755. Discharged soldiers get their service buttons ' to wear with civilian clothes from the quarter master when discharged; those who did not receive them should apply to the quartermaster of the post where they were released from the service for the buttons. DAILY CARTOONETTE HE V U ! SL I N Gj. M j, CU P of coffee anh do it quick! I'm in a murry? 4 TOHEDID- DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. (Peggy and Billy meat a bojr tramp and sselc to aid him In capturing a band of robber tramps. While the tramp are In iwlmmlmr, Johnny Bull seta possession of their clothea.) CHAPTER V. Bocks Fly. FOR a moment there was scarcely 'a ripple on the surface of the water where the three tramps had vanished. Then there came a wild splashing and thrashing and up bob bed Blinky, Round Robert and Slim Jim, every one of them spluttering and gasping for breath. "Woof! Woof!" threatened Johnny Bull leaping into the shallow water. Kerplug! Splash! Gurgle-urgle-urgle! Down went the three tramps again. But this time when they rose to the surface they were further out and they hastily put a safe distance between them and Johnny Bull's snarling teeth. "Come out of there so that I can get a nip at you," snarled Johnny Bull. "I'd particularly like to take a nip out of that fresh young scamp who tied me up by the tail. Why doesn't he show himself?" That was Just what Peggy and Billy were beginning to wonder. They looked up and down the stream for Hal, the boy tramp, but he had vanished. v.y.v.-.v..y.7.vy.-.y.y.v.y.y..y... Billy picked up the stone and burled it at the approaching tramps. Oh, do you think he could have drowned?" exclaimed Peggy. "No, he was too good a swimmer," promptly answered Billy, who had been watching Hal's stunts in the water. "I wouldn't be surprised if he had swum under water around the bend, and then come ashore without being seen." As a matter of fact, that is Just what Harold had done, as they were soon to learn. Peggy and Billy didn't have much tlmo to worry over ihe boy's disap pearance, for just then the tramps, after whispering together, suddenly dipped down under the water. When they came im each held a stone in his hand. They drew back their arms ana threw their stones in quicK succession straight at Johnny Bull. Johnny Bull gave a startled yelp and dodged back into the bushes Just in time to escape being hit "Stones!" he growled. "That's one thing I can't fight." "Hurrah! Now we've sent that dog scooting," yelled the tramps, splashing in toward shore. Peggy's nimble wits jumped into action. "Run back there Johnny Bull, and bring me one of those stones," she ordered. Johnny Bull didn't like the idea, but he obeyed instantly. He picked up one of the rocks and Jumped back just as another stone came sail ing his way. "Now, Billy, throw the stones back at the tramps," said Peggy. Billy picked up the stone and hurled it at the approaching tramps. It skipped along the water and caught Round Robert right in his pudgy stomach. "Ugh!" grunted Robert In sudden distress. "Whoops!" yelled Slim Jim. "That dog can throw stones!" "And he can throw them mighty straight," cried Blinky. "Good shot!" cried a voice behind them, and there stood a pleasant faced chap, clad in a neat suit of clothes. "Ur-ur-urgh!" growled Johnny Bull, who was always suspicious of strangers. "Don't let your dog bite," said the boy. "I don't bite nice boys. I bite only tramps and other bad persons," growled Johnny Bull. "But this is a tramp Hal, the boy tramp," said Peggy, whose sharp eyes had made a discovery. "Not the boy tramp now. He has disappeared, so that these tramps will never know what has become of Giving the Taxpayers a Show. Omaha, May 19. To the Editor of The Bee: The World Herald of the sixteenth in an editorial de clares "there is no royal road to good government." Any newspaper that honestly reflects public opinion in stead of attempting to mould public opinion can help wonderfully in marking the guide posts on the "road to good government" and if those newspapers will be as careful in selecting the material (men) whose administration of the govern ment tends to increase good govern ment or the reverse as they are to cover up the errors of their pet of ficials, and make excuses for the mal administration of public offi cials, the "road to good govern ment" would be Jess congested and smoother. Every "royal road" is the product of autocracy and in order that good government shall have a "royal road" the W-H insists that the present officials be "given a show." There was never a more autocratic government than that now being ad ministered by "our Imperial govern ment" at the city hall. They are spending the people's money like drunken road agents, and give no excuses for extravagance and will listen to no voice except the voice of the "creator" of their first and it Is to be hoped, their last opportunity to hoodwink and exploit the tax payers. Who invented the idea of locating the new $1,000,000 Com mercial high school in the old ravine at Thirty-second and Burt streets? Who invented the idea of buying that strip of land on Center street to make a parkway to N. P. Dodge's cemetery? Did John Flack know in advance that the Ak-Sar-Ben Inter State fair was going to be located on West Center when he bought the old Ruser park property and platted it into building lots? Did F. D. Wead know that the present com mission would appoint a planning board that would listen to the Real tors association and the water board when buying property for the city? Did C. F. Harrison support the pres ent administration because he knew that they would buy every property that he recommended? Talk about being "given a show," this adminis tration has given everybody "a show" except the taxpayer. Why don't the W.-H. help The Bee give the tax payers "a show?" EXPECTANT. For General Wood. New York, May 12. To the Edi tor of The Bee: Various reasons have been advanced to account for the growing belief that Leonard Wood would make a good president. Yet all have been of a "Secondary" nature "derivatives." Qualities have been ascribed and perform ances dwelt upon according as they have appealed to the particular writer, yet no one has specified the primary attributes which underlie loyalty and endless patience. Every MUCH IN LITTLE. So-called Chinese rice paper Is made from the pith of a Formosan tree. More than 300 kinds of fish are known to produce noises audible to human ears. In some parts of England and in France and Italy also it is believed that a girl who buries a drop of her biood under a rose bush Will have good looks. One of the oldest survivors among the noted suffrage pioneers in Amer ica is Mrs. Olympla Brown-Willis of Wisconsin, who will be 85 years old next January. An Italian railroad is experiment ing with interlinked sleepers of rein forced concrete, so formed and used in conjunction with wooden blocks as to afford resiliency. -A Gardiner (Me.) man went fish ing and caught four brook trout and a rabbit. While he was fishing down a stream he saw the rabbit near him, and for fun let out his line and dropped the hook down in front of bunny; then he gave a little Jerk on the line, and the hook caught the rabbit in the lower Jaw. A cablegram, dated March 8, has een received from American Con lul Leonard in Colombo, announcing that the Ceylon import duty on passenger automobiles has been re duced from 100 per cent to 7 1-2 per cent ad valorem, effective im mediately. The rate of 100 per cent ad valorem was Imposed in 1917 in order to restrict the importation of passenger automobiles, and did not apply to motor trucks. act or course which has won ap proval has been palpably the off spring of these qualities. Loyalty to duty, to country, to associates and patience to comprehend, and thereby produce good result. That which alone makes efficiency, in soldier, executive, or servant of the people in any capacity is this trait of loy alty; but to accomplish it must be backed up by patience. We in stinctively recognize underlying traits and approve men upon them. Is not this then the reason why General Wood is looked on with con fidence and respect? He may, or may not be nominated in 1820. Whether he be, or be not, no one will doubt but that he will continue to be that which he has been. As we know a feeling of certainty as to the general relations of life and business arises when there is knowl edge that a chief executive is pos sessed of the qualities of loyalty and patience. If,- therefore, it come to pass that General Wood be nomi nated, we may assume that a justi fiable feeling of certainty and se curity will spread abroad. CHARLES STEWART DAVISON. 'Business Is Gooo.ThankYoiT -WHY NOT DAILY DOT PUZZLE .25 15, 4 21' e-e 9. 27 28 18 id V 32 a" 4 II . .ft 5 I ,7 47 50 ka 37 1. 42. Trace the lines to fifty-one See a Cashmere for fun. Draw from one to two and ao on to th end. . him. I am now Harold, the boy de tective, about to recover his father's money." "Woof! Woof! Get busy!" barked Johnny pull suddenly. "Here come the tramps." They turned to the river to see that the three tramps had separated. 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