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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY. MAY 24, 1919.
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APRIL CIRCULATION
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ta taeea. Aden- changed M alUa aa requested.
Bring on the Eighty-ninth boys!
T the weather meat Give 01 a new deal
Yankee soldiers along the Rhine begin , to
look Impressive to the natives.
Jane 24 will be good day to lay whether
; you are in favor of the country road paving pro
; gran.
Marine in Guam are playing bate ball by
the 'light of the noon. Here's a tip for Fa
Roiirke. 'f '
The superpoised Omaha Hyphenated might
not offend it readers were it to, quote Shakes
. spears correctly, t. . '('.-
Senator King has the right notion about recog
nising the bolahevik minion now at New York.
He proposei 'deportation. - , ;
': "Long Tom" O'Connor., and Clerk of the
Coarti Smith have the floor, and the taxpayer!
are correspondingly edified. "
If The Bee had kept - still, the gambling would
hart, continued- That is a good recommenda
tion lor The Bee, which did not keep stilL.
' The Salvation Army proposei to run "booze
less lalooni in New York. This will offset, to
some extent, the ealoonlesi booze that now runs
ia Nebraska.
- Seventy-nine men Of the Eighty-ninth di
vision have the distinguished service cross. The
outfit should have grabbed off ten more, so ai
to nuke the count balance.'
The house sent the deficiency appropriation
bill through in jig time, thus providing relief for
the soldiers and their dependents which the
democrats failed to' furnish. " r'
It is some comfort to think that operations
in northern Russia aoon will" be at an end. Thia
feeling ii heightened by 'the fact that the Allies
have just taken Medvyejyagora. .
More careful driving is the only solution in
light for the street traffic problem in Omaha.
Too i many attempts to maintain high speed
along crowded ' thoroughfares bring disaster.
I Unable to bullyrag or browbeat the world
any longer, the Germans now turn to hypocriti
cal whining to gain concessions they used to
' aeis They are not making much headway,
however ; ' '. .
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German delegates at Versailles evinced great
interest in the test of the great fountains that
. art to be used in the peace celebration. Prob
ably thinking what pleasure it would be to drop
a "Big Bertha" or something of that sort on
MheraV :'. ,
t The church elder who "feels stronger spir
itually" after having killed twenty of the enemy
in a single fight originally was a pacifist What
do you suppose he would be if the war had
lasted long enough for him to live down his
aversion to a scrap? ''.-''",. '
The Nebraska doctor who is using an air-
plane to make professional calls is up-to-date,
all right, but is he any more efficient than his
- predecessor, who rode horseback over the
prairies and dispensed Us potions and medica
ments from saddlebags?
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II all the blunders of omission and com
mission of the democratic administration during
s the last four yean are inquired into, the com
mlttee will not be ready to report before the
' end of the Sixty-fifth congress. A .better plan
would be to take the matter up a little at a time.
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s Steffanson is now looking over airplanes,
vwlth a view to taking a, flight to the north pole.
But Just what a man .who spent five yean in
that region, 'floating around on ice cakes and
living on aeal blubber, wants .with anything so
civilized as a flying machine paisea '.ordinary
understanding. , j v
Private Pete McCoy
Private Pete McCoy, late of Company B,
120th infantry, ia at, home with the folks at
Thomas, Ky., wearing a distinguished service
medal for extraordinary heroism near Bellicourt,
France, last September. According to the ci
tation announcement, Private Pete put in one
especially busy day there with these results: En
countering seven Huns, he, single-handed,
killed them 111 with his bayonet and a hand
grenade, Then he captured four machine gun
nests and took 17 prisoners from a nearby dug
out Advancing he found a wounded officer,
whom he sent back to the hospital, while he
"continued on the objective." :
: Private Pete wears'a fightin' name, and comes
from a fightin' state, and it will be conceded
that Upon this eventful September day in France
' he lived up to his family traditions. Wiping out
seven; German soldiers, capturing four machine
un nests, taking 17 prisoners and rescuing a
wounded officer, may be .said without suspicion
of flattery, to .constitute a fair day's work for
any Soldier, but Private Pete did not stop it
that - The official statement testifies that hav
ing accomplished these things, he "continued
pa the objective."," -. ' ' ' f ;
- What happened to McCoy during the re
mainder of the day is not stated, but it should
be. The record ought to be complete, for there
nq doubt that this was oneof the greatest
ndividual records made in the American army.
Few of our soldiers' had the good fortune to
duplicate or excel Private Pete's performance
upon , this occasion, but there were 4,000,000 of
them filled 'with the same spirit and ready to
meet a similar situation in the same effective
manner that he did. May he wear his medal
proudly ann may his descendants cherish it, for
Private Pete-McCoy is a typical fightin Yank
from Old Kaintuck- Washington Post,--
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GERMANY'S PLEA REJECTED.
The Teace conference at Versaillei has re
jected the German note, in which a special plea
for mercy was made. 'Terms laid down are
hard, but just. -That the Germans are asked
to endure but a part of -the want they brought
on the world through their devastating course
is set out very plainly in ,the note just delivered
to von BrockdorfJ-Rantzau and his associates.
The concluding paragraph of that note reads:
"All the nations of Europe are suffering
, from losses and are bearing and will continue
to bear burdens which are almost more than
they can carry. These burdens and losses
have been forced upon them by the aggres
sion of Germany. It ii right that Ger
many, which is responsible for the
origin of these calamities, should make them
good to the utmost of its capacity. Its hard
ship will arise not from the conditions of
peace, but from the acts of those who pro
voked and prolonged the war. Those who
were responsible for the war cannot escape
its just consequences."
, Claims of Germany for mitigation of the
terms with respect to food and fuel supplies,
raw materials, shipping facilities and the like
are categorically met, and the bad faith of the
delegates sent from Berlin is clearly exposed
in plain terms.
The peculiar workings of the German mind
never were more completely exhibited than in
the manifest attempt to cozzen the Allies in
making peace. Especially il this true in regard
to the matter of shipping, the German plea to
have the merchant marine left intact being
countered with the fact that 12,500,000 tons
of shipping was destroyed by German crime,
and to restore this the Hun is asked to surren
der now but 4,000,000 tons. .
Even the most stolid German statesmen must
begin to realize the debt incurred when the na
tion followed the kaiser on his course of con
quest. This does not make it any easier to pay
up. But the court is inexorable, though just,
and the greatest offender of all times must come
through clean in the settlement
Extension of Enterprise.
A correspondent has asked The Bee cer
tain pertinent questions in regard to the un
common activity in promoting various indus
trial undertakings through the selling of stock.
Primarily, this is a healthy sign, as it means a
needed extension of enterprise. Two strong
reasons support this.
For several years the normal development
of business in the world has been interrupted
by war. Our industries have been turned into
specialized channels, the product of which was
urgently needed for war purposes, but the de
mand was cut off as suddenly as it was sprung
upon the world. Enormous sums of new capi
tal were required to finance the war, but the
investment was not permanent, so far as the
industry is concerned. The transitory character
of the enterprise had to be taken into consid
eration, and that made the production of war
material many times more expensive than if it
had been produced under the slow and orderly
processes that govern in times of peace. This
accounts for the high prices .to a certain extent.
When the pressure of war had been removed,
(fthe industrial world found that it had not
grown as it should along the lines of normal
development The legitimate extension of en
terprise was several years behind its natural
program. With the unusual volume of money
in die country, hundreds of millions being un
employed and seeking investment, the outcome
is great activity in securing capital for the es
tablishment of new undertakings and for the
expansion of those already in existence. This
will account for the feverish endeavorto sell
securities and stocks.
It is perhaps true that some, even many, of
the promotion schemes are of a speculative na
ture. The prospective investor has ample op
portunity, however, to protect himself by ex
ercise of ordinary prudence. If he is skeptical
at all, it will be well for him to keep out. He
has a ready source of reliable information in
the person of his banker) who is skilled in mat
ters of finance, and will advise him as to any
investment. It is not wise 1o visit wholesale
condemnation on the effort that is being made
to extend old and set up new industrial ven
tures, for it is but the response of enterprise to
the growing demands of the world.
. United States in the Near East.
Not much has been said yet about the pro
posed mandate that will give the United States
oversight of the remnants of Turkey in Asia
and the new kingdom of Armenia.' This is to
be our share of the "white man's burden," as
parcelled out at Paris and Versailles. Just
what it will entail is not yet made plain. ' To
restore order there, to set up the arts of peace,
to train the half-civilized inhabitants in the
right ways of living, and to preserve the peace
against enmities that have burned for thousands
of years, is no mean undertaking, even for the
greatest power in the world today.
None of the other mandatories established,
by the peace pact carries with it administrative
difficulties of the kind that will here be encoun
tered. It will not be pqlitical and economic
questions alone with which we will have to deal,
but the subtler and more delicate and dangerous
differences that arise from religion. Already a
protest is going up from Mussulman sources
on behalf of the Turk, whose devotion to Mo
hammed has won for him a sympathy among
co-religionists who had cast their political for
tunes on the side of war against Germany.
These ' ask, and with some propriety, that no
measures be taken that will affect the conquered
in the exercise of religious rights. To what ex
tent this 'will involve territorial and political
rights is yet to. be disclosed. .
So far as Armenia is concerned, the mandate
amounts to a duty to lift up that nation and
make it whole. Its pursuance will involve not
only protection to this people in its social and
economic development, but its education along
lines thatfwjll enable it to become self-sustaining,
and capable of defense.
This job resembles what we undertook to do
in, the Philippines only in its general outlines.
n detail it will disclose many perplexities, o
that it may vex the nation mightily. However,
if it be finally wished on us as our share under
the League of Nations, we will show the world
again what can be done for backward nations.
' Owner-Patterson of the carnival company J
whose .gaming exploits were stopped here com
plains he got "a dirty deal in Omaha." The Bee
cheerfully accepts its share of responsibility for
heading off his gambling activities. As a mat
ter of fact, he says he would be running here
yet if The. Bee had not interfered. . . . . . .--v
Historic Post-War Plagues
From a Bulletin of the National Georgraphic
' ' . ' ' Society' I :
" ' Perhaps no barometer more surely indicates
our advancing civilization than the success of
efforts now being made to avert the hitherto
invariable handmaidens of war pestilence and
famine. .
One refutation of the "always has been, there
fore always must be argument for war is the
fact that civilized nations are emerging from
the greatest war the world has seen and avert
ing the two other consequences always deemed
inevitable plague and starvation. .True, na
tions which represent ancient civilizations also
exhibit the old phenomenon; hence those peo
ples more highly organized economically not
only must withstand' the shock for themselves,
but must -help feed other lands. , "' "
Ralph A. Graves of England, in a commu
nication to the Geoaraohic society, sives a pic
ture of the past famines in England, in striking
. contrast to its present condition after the ter
rible strain it has withstood. He says:
"The story of famines in England has been
a gloomy one from earliest times. At the be
ginning of the eighth century, a dearth,, which
extended to Ireland, drove men to canibalism.
It was not until the reign of Aethelred the Un
ready, however, that 'such a famine prevailed
as no man can remember,' from 1005 to 1016.
"Those chroniclers who were wont to see
bad conditions at their worst declared that half
the population of the larger island perished.
But it must be remembered that much of the
mortality of this period was occasioned by the
wars between Aethelred and Sweyn the Dane
the latter being forced by the famine- to retire
from England for a time. .
"Naturally, the era following the advent of
William the Conqueror was one of widespread
starvation and pestilence among the English
peasantry. Of the Jast 30 years of the eleventh
century nine were years of dire distress. ;
"So great was the dearth in 1069 that the
peasants f the north, unable longer to secure
dogs and horses to appease their hunger; sold
themselves into slavery in order to be fed by
their masters.
"There were sporadic periods of suffering
during fht succeeding reigns of William Rufus
and Henry I in the civil wars of Stephen's
times, and under Henry II. But the . next
dearth which especially quickens the sympathy
was that which befell the people in the days of
Richard Coeur de Lion, the Crusader. There
is a brief reference to the famine of this period
in 'Ivanhoe.' Starvation was followed by a pes
tilential fever. Ceremonial burial was omitted
except in the cases of the very rich. 1
"While backward seasons were contributing
factors, the responsibility for the two great
famines of Henry Ill's reign is to 'be laid at
the door of the government itself. In the first
of these (1235) 20,000 persons are said to have
died in London alone. The suffering in 1257-59
was even worse.
"It was during this famine that England for
the first time imoorted from Germany and Hol
land grain to alleviate the suffering of its poorer
classes. The' first ordinance in English history
designed to curb the greed of the middleman
was passed during this time of shortage in food
supplies.
"Few English kings have lived through
greater periods of distress than Edward II, who
was scarcely able to secure food for his own
immediate household when the heavy rains' of
1314 spoiled the harvests. Everything imag
inable was eaten dogs, horses, cats and even
babies. .
"With the exception of the world war per
haps no other calamity that ever befell the hu
man race can be compared with that of the
Black Death and the accompanying famine,
which afflicted all western civilization during
the middle decade of the fourteenth century.
Its toll has been variously estimated at from
one-fourth to three-fourths of the entire popula
tion of Europe. Certainly it was not less than
2,000,000 people.
"Out of the situation which resulted from
the impoverishment of the labor resources of
the kingdom grew the first great ciasn in Eng
land between capital and labor. The peasants
became masters of the situation. In some cases
they demanded double wages. ; v f ',
"Parliament hurriedly passed ' drastic laws
in an effort to meet the new condition. Anti
loafinsr statutes, which also fixed waees at the
scale paid a year before the first -appearance of
the plague were enacted. Runaway laborers
were to be branded with an "F" as a perpetual
sign of their falsity.
The McLean Baby
The death by accident Sunday of the "Mc
Lean baby" in Washington was an incident
which will call out wide sympathy and interest.
There is hardly a home in the country, it is
safe to say, in which there is not a peculiar
interest m the McLean baby.
From the time of his babyhood, Vinton
Walsh McLean has been known as the "million
aire babv." or the "200-million-dollar-baby." The
story of the rich gifts at his birth, his cradle ot
gold, his magnificent nurseries in five man
sions, and the fact that he was heir to the riches
of the late John McLean and the late Thomas
F. Walsh, both multi-millionaires, had aroused
great interest in the "McLean baby.
Then, a few years asro. there came the
story of the conspiracy to kidnap the child, and
of the extraordinary precautions to prevent it
It was a familiar story because every one read
all that the papers printed concerning it and
concerning the "McLean baby." In fact, from
his babyhood, the child had grown to be a lad
of 9 years, under the public eye.
The tnd of the romantic story was the
tragedy of Sunday afternoon when the boy, es-
.... lt! Kjsr4.rVi ir A ... intA ,1.
Cpiug III V uvuguaiu, iu i.nv itt
hiehway near the McLean summer home in
Washington and was run down by a Ford car.
Was. there ever a more striking and tragic in
stance of the contempt of fate for all our ore-
cautions? Not all the millions that awaited him,
not all the wealth lavished upon him. not all the
extraordinary safeguards thrown about the boy
to protect him from harm, availed the purpose.
Human nature with infinite pains builds the
hduse and then it is thrown down about our
ears. Our external life is at the sport of chance,
no matter what we.do. It is only in respect to
the inner life that we are the masters of our
fate, the captains of our soul. Kansas City Star.
Friend ot the Soldier
Replies will be given in thia '
- column to question! relating
i to the soldier and his prob- ,
lems, in and but of the army. .
; Names will , not be( printed. , J
Ask T h B e to Answer.
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The Day We Celebrate.
Sir Arthur Wing Pineroone of the most
successful of modern -English dramatists, born
in London 64 years ago. .
Richard Spencer Childs. noted as publicist
and student .of municipal government, born at
Manchester, luonn., J years ago. ,
1 Marquis of Milfordhaven (formerly Vice 'Ad
miral Prince Louis of Battenberg), born in
Austria 65 years ago.
' Dr. Maurjce F. Egan, former United States
minister to Denmark, born in Philadelphia 67
years ago.
George Grey Barnard, one of 'the foremost
of American scluptors, born at Bellefonte, Pa.,
50 years ago. - ,
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Miss- Bella Robinson's opera. . "The Smug
glers of Senovton," at the Boyd, " won high
praiscfor.the 19-year-old composer. Cast of
characters included Bertha Bayjess, Anna Mer-
kei tvans, i. ai. ireynor, tdward r. itch and
C. H. Judson. -
The Omaha Wheel club went to Lake Man-
awa in a body.
" Sidney Smith returned from Chicago, where
he attended a meeting of the board of directors
of the western architects, of which he is chair
man. ' ' :'.
Real estate transfers placed on record for
the day totaled $135,725, - - - - --;
Regular Army Coming Homo.
Thank You The ordera referred
to in the clipping, encloaed were an
nounced from Washington under the
date of May 19. "We have no further
Information, although It la .possible
that the movement may be delayed
Pjr reason of new developments in
the peace situation. The June sail
ing schedule was made up to Include
the 89th. 90th. 29th and 79th di
visions. The 89th already Mas reach
ed home, and the 90th Is reported
on the way, so that It is plain
the return movement Is proceeding
raster than was calculated when the
sailing schedule was made up In Feb
ruary. That the Fourth. ' Fifth.
sixtn and Seventh divisions of reer
uiars may be sent home in June is
now quite probable, If the peace sit'
uatlon permits. The supply trains
or uiese units will come with them
' Troop Left in Germany.
H. J. K. See forearolnar answer to
-manic you." Divisions not vet re
leased for return to America are the
first, Second, Third, 81st and 88th.
This latter division has been report.
ed as on the schedule several times,
out has not yet been ordered to pre
pare for movement to this side. The
91st division has been stationed in
Belgium. It was originally set down
for return in March, and some of
its units already have reached this
side. These troop movements are
supposed to include all units attach
ed to the division.
No Army Reserve.
M. B. M. There are no army re
serve for privates. Commissioned
officers may go on the reserve list
at their own request when released
from service. When a private soldier
gets his honorable discharge, he 1b
through with the service, unless he
wants to re-enlist or Join the Na
tional Guard. Until congress has
taken action there will be' no change
in this status. Officers on the re
serve list ar subject to call for limit
ed service annually while holding
such commissions. They will re
ceive the pay and allowances of
their .grade while on active duty.
Many Questions Answered.
B. The Fifth company, ord
nance reserve service depot, A. P. O.
741, is in the service of supply of
the army, and not under orders for
Immediate return. 1
A Soldier's Sister At last accounts
the Sixth cavalry still was at St.
Aignan, and not attached to any di
vision. Its postofnee address is A.
P. O. 727.
A Soldier's Sister The present
address of spur company. No. 762 is
A. P. O. 762. This organization is at
Le Mans, one of the great base sec
tion headquarters in France, and Is
not attached, to any division. No
time lms been fixed for Its sailing.
A Soldier's Mother Nothing has
yet been said about dismantling the
hospital for convalescents at Men
tone. This Is one of the most fa
mous and attractive spots on the
French Riviera. It is located ex
actly at the Italian line on' the
Mediterranean. The Initials "A. M."
stand for the name of the depart
ment in which Mentone ia situated,
Alpes-Maritimes.
Anxious Wife The last word had
of evacuation hospital No. 87 -was
that it had been dismantled when
the Second army had been" broken
up. It Is quite probable that some
of its men may have been transferred
to the service of supply and sta
tioned at Joinvllle. If your husband
has been so transferred, thev time
for his return is postponed, as the
service units will not leave France
until the combat troops are moved.
C. Mc. The 120th sanitary squad
still Is in service at Bordeaux; it Is
part of the hospital service there.
No orders have been issued for Its
return.
. A Soldier's Mother The Fourth
Infantry is part of the Fifth brigade
of the Third division. Its present
address 18 A. P. O. 740. It, is in the
army of occupation, with head
quarters at Osburg, and will be held
Indefinitely.
M. C. The Ninth army corps was
composed of the 33d and 35th
divisions; it-was broken up some
time ago, the 35th division having
sailed from France in April and most
of its units reached home some time
ago. The 33d is on the sailing
schedule for May. We have seen no
orders regarding the personnel of
the headquarters corps.
A Soldier's Friend The 35th bal
loon company arrived at Newport
News in April, and wai sent to camp
Lee for demobilization. The 37th
balloon company's last address was
Arcadia. Calif.
A. Soldier's Friend The Xllth
aero squadron was part of , the
American expeditionary force In
Italy: its last address was A. P. O.
901, which is at Mllano. These forces
were all ordered home - some .time
ago, and most of them have already
reached the United States, 'but we
have no record of the arrival of the
111th aero squadron.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE.
By DADDY.
(In this dvtntur Firy and Billy,
like fairy sodraothsrs, nlae poor widow
from poverty to rlcbea, blng aided by tb
Mighty Bronx Qnle.) . -
The Genie Appears.
A LACK! Alack! Oh. woe is-l
me this dayl Alack!
Alack!" .
Peggy and Billy paused as they
heard these sounds of woe coming
from a shady nook in the woods.
Peering within they first saw a flash
of red, and then the figure of a boy
sprawled on the ground. ' A closer
look showed them that the red was
the boy's hair.
"Why, it's Pat, fhe Widow Clan
cey's lad," exclaimed Peggy. "And
he is introuble."
"What's the matter, Pat? Is, your
family hungry again?" asked Blly.
"Worse nor that we're going to
lose our farm," wailed Pat
"Where's It going to V asked
Peggy. ' - '
"It's going to JUIser Jenkins- oh a
mortgage. Alack! Alack! Our fam
ily will be shelterless and our brave
soldier brother will have no home
to welcome him back."
"How can Miser- Jenkins take it?
Why don't you fight him? I'll help
you," said Billy.
"Tht's what I want to do, but
mother says he's got the law on the
farm and fighting will do no good,"
answered Pat. .
"How did he get the law on itv
demanded Peggy.
"Well, you see, when America
There Before Them Stood an Aston
ishing Creature.
got into war with Germany we were
doing so finely on our little place
that mother listened to Brother
Mike's pleadings to go. Be an honor
tp-your country, me boy.' she said.
We'll get along grand on the farm
with Pat and the girls helping me.'
' "So brave Mike went to war. Soon
he wrote that he was studying to be
an officer. Then he wrote that he
had been graduated as a lieutenant,
but he needed money for his offi
cer's clothes. The crops looked
good, so mother said to herself.
'I'll borrow $300 from old Mr. Jen
kins and pay It back when I sell
the crops.' -
"So she did. but bad luck came.
When we had gathered the crops the
barn burned and all our summer's
work went up in smoke.,' Mother
couldn't pay her 8300 and bad to
borrow $300 more, so Miser Jenkins
took a mortgage on the place. The
mortgage Is due at 6 o'clock this
afternoon, and mother has been hav
ing such bad luck with the tools
burning up and old Dobbin getting
sore feet that we have no money to
pay him. Miser Jenkins says that she
must have the $600 at 6 o'clock or
he will take the farm."
"Poor Pat! Poor Widow Clancey!"
said Peggy. . - .
"I wish I were a fairy god
mother," said Billy. "Then-we'd pay
your money in a hurry and send
Miser Jenkins kiting down the road
with his $600.".
"A fairy godmother! Wouldn't
that be great?". In his excitement
X Oik XUlKUb 1 1 ID ,JCb.
"Maybe rif we should wish very,
very hard-a fairy godmother would
come to our aid," suggested Peggy.
"Clasp your hands and close your
eyes and wish, wish, wish!"
Billy and Pat clasped their hands
and closed their eyes and wished
very, very hard, while Peggy, shut
ting her own eyes, repeated a
rhyme she had once heard.
"Wisherame, wlsheramy, may my
wish come true In the wink of an
eye." . v
For a moment there was silence.
Then a faint stirring in the bushes
caused all three to open their eyes.
There before them stood an aston
ishing creature. Startlingly tall,
brown as polished bronze, garbed in
the raiment of an Arabian pasha,
and wearing a scimitar at his side
he looked like a spirit from - the
Arabian Nights.'
"Wisherame, wlsheramy, your
wish has come true in the wink of
an eye," roared the stranger. "Who
called on .- the Mighty Bronse
Genie?"
(In tomorrow'! chapter th Oenl J flndi
untold rlchea on th farm of Widow
Clancey.) '
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Highest priced
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IN THE BEST OF HUMOR,
"Money lin't everything. t
"Maybe not. Jjnt rlcht now It'i the only
thing I can think of that I really need."
Detroit re rreaa. v ,
'figures won't lie."
They're not auppoeed to," laid Ananl
aa. "They're simply raw material In the
nana 01 to expert." London Answers.
"I often wonder about Methueelah."
"He lived to a rice old ae."
"Yea, but I could never learn that he
mad any statement as to, what he at
tributes, nil rip old as." Judge.
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MAKE MIMHROP IT?
WDHEDID
Thanks Omaha Police.
Fremont, Neb., May 21. To the
Editor of The Bee: Kindly let me
express, through the columns of
this paper, a hearty thanks to the
Omaha police department for the
assistance rendered and the courte
sies, shown us all through their
vigorous search for the merchandise
stolen at our store on Saturday
night or Sunday . morning of this
week. They have recovered the
largest part of the loot and returned,
it to us. Omaha ought to be proud
of their captain of detectives, Mr.
John Dunn, for he is surely the man
tor the job. And of his assistants.'
Mr. I O. Tolan and Mr. .Ed Brink
man, have especially proven them
selves in this case.
' E. WEINBERG.
Against the Daylight Law.
Farnam, Neb., ,May 20. To the
Editor oj The Bee: Poor Old Ben
Franklin! It seems to me it Is tak
ing unfair advantage of Benjamin
Franklin to try to cast reflections on
his memory and bring him into the
limelight as the original advocate arid
i presume hold him responsible for
the daylight eaving law. s
Ben was without doubt a wise
statesman and great man, yet If he
advocated such a law he must have
got off on the wrong foot, for it
seemed that it must have taken a
century and more before his plan
was adopted. And when it was
brought forth it seems to be one
or tne most unpopular laws ever
written. It will no doubt soon be
a relic of the past.
Nor do I think politics have any
thing to do with the unpopularity of
the law. Tou take it out through
tne state ana I venture to say 97
people out of every 100 will express
themselves as opposed to the law,
and In a great many towns they
have condemned it and run their
schools, and everything goes by the
standard time except depot' and
postofnee.
When the people want their
schools to commence at 7 or S
o'oiock a. m. there should be . a
way of accomplishing, this without
turning the clock up. I venture to
say that when the laboring men as
a body demand that their day start
an hour earlier . they can, have it
their way. While I admire our
friend's pluck for standing up for
so very unpopular a law, yet, like
the little Jersey bull that bowed
himself up In front of a moving lo
comotive, I think but little of his
judgment.
part of those who framed and issued
these' documents. And when we take
account of the fact that we have
been constantly plied with promises
of perfectly honest and open handed
dealing In this matter by citizens
occupying the highest positions of
honor that the nation Is capable of
bestowing, there could be no oc
casion for surprise that ' people
should fear the bacr effect 'of such
conduct upon public morals. -
"There is no desire to delay the
treaty of peace with Germany one
moment beyond the time necessary
to understand it, but we must have
It. before us in the official form. As
to the league of nations', the Ameri
can public must . know " Just what
they are ta bs asked to agree;to. By
that league they. are invited to take
the gravest. Step evertaken, by 'the
United'-. States, : . and ;,no -.organized
clamor, no manufactured pressure
of any kind will swerve the senate
from its high duty of laying before
the American people exactly what
the league involve and what It
means to the United States and to
tne luture peace or me worm.
This' is a. decidedly different
quality of music from any that has
been heard in the- halls of congress
for many a day. -
CYRUS D. BELLk
J. OTTO MARTIN.
likes Lodge's Views.
Omaha, May 21. To the Editor
of The Bee: The declaration , of
Senator Lodge, quoted in The. Bee's
Washington dispatch of the 20th
instant, encourages me quite a bit
I frankly admit that for a con
siderable while back I had almost
abandoned hope - that Uncle - Sam
could ever become disentangled
from the bewildering and bloody
meshes of European politics and
policies that have for a time taxed
his energy.
Senator Lodge says, in discussing
the proposed league of nations and
peace treaty, mat it is unacceptable,
and will not be accepted; that the
new league covenant, as Included In
the peace treaty, is distinctly worse
than the old, and more dangerous
to American rights and Interests.
The language of the senator
abounds with implications of dis
honesty and eharp practice on the
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