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THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, MAY 31. 1919- ALL OMAHA IS HOST TO HEROES OF FAMOUS 89TH Demonstration Unequalled In City's History Greets Re-, turning Men of "Fighting Farmers." (Continued From Pae On.) , charge of the train, wore the French Croix de Guerre. Three men of the 341s,t were ob served sitting under the shade of a tree along the north walk of the high school grounds. None had yet come to greet them, while all around were scenes of reunion and affec tionate greetings. Two small boys happened along, one with a bicycle. The sight of the three men alone under the tree impressed the young sters who stood in sirent eloquence. They scruntinized the trio of heroes and then one of the boys said to his chum: "Gee, I just wonder if they ain't got no folks at all." It was 10:05 when the second train ' bearing the first detachment of the 355th infantry pullea into the Union station, where relatives and friends had been waiting for more than two hours. A shout went up which was an swered by the khaki-clad figures that were "bursting" from every window. Flags were waved and the whistles of the city sounded the bass chorus 5f O An hour later the last section bear ing the rest of the 355th pulled into Union station. . "They came on the Rock Island. MUSIC? .WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE? Jazz foot-tickling, dance-impelling; waltz with its wonder ful, haunting melody j McCormacfe's glorious voice; Lauder; Gluck; stirring band music; what WOULD you like? It's ALL here for you the newest, finest,- most popular music. Do come and hear some of it. ' ' " Victor Records "Q.R.S." Rolls (List of 6) Little Old" Log Cabfn in the Lane $1.00 Just Blue (All-star Trio) 85c Hush-a-bye, Ma Baby . 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The march of the infantry in two separate parades up Tenth street, west on Farnam, past the reviewing stand and on to the high school grounds was in the midst of splen did ovations. Vast crowds lined the streets. Ev ery window and cornice was occu pied. From thousands of throats cheers burst and noise-making de vices of a hundred different kinds were used. As the men, headed by platoons of police reached the viaduct, 50 big firecrackers were touched off. The Chamber of Commerce fife and drum corps played. The viaduct had been kept clear Of the crowd, but at the foot of the viaduct the big "jam" waited. The Salvation army band greeted the parades at that point. At Tenth and Farnam streets sev eral of the fire department trucks were stationed with Chief Salter in charge. These "broke loose" with their bells and sirens. A big truck loaded with many many noise-producing devices was stationed at Fifteenth and Farnam streets. A "shotgun brigate" on the roof of a building near Sixteenth and Farnam streets discharged a volley' and from the , top of the court house came many rounds of shots. The soldiers, looking fine and. fit, marched without their guns or krlap sacks but wearing their cartridge Why Do People yisK Mr. Foster ? Why was it that more than a million people came to me last year with their questions about travel? Why do an increasingly larger number of people always go to an Ask Mr. Fofter office for any sort of infor mation about travel? It is because they always get what they seek reliable information courteously given. The questions are satisfac torily answered and the inquirers are made to understand that it is a pleasure to serve them. The man agers of Mr. Foster's offices enjoy their work and they are willing that everyone should know it. They are truly happy in serving you. 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HUNS MUST SIGN TREATY IN END, SAYS VIVIAN1 (Continued From Pago One.) storing all. the territory taken from her by German aggression. The Sarre basin was French terri tory for more than three centuries. It was stolen from us a century ago and even now it is not restored to us. The treaty merely gives us cer tain economic rights in it for IS years, after which control of the dis trict is to be decided by a plebiscite. This naturally will be made the basis for nasses of contradictory propa ganda and will become an active germ of conflict. As for indemnities, ideal justice demands only what is necessary to rebuild the ruined sections id pro vide material compensation for the lives lost. The value of each human life should be easy to fix' on an econ omic basis. We have lost 1,500,000 men. Such a frightful loss will have a retardirg effect on the work of economic reconstruction as well as on the welfare of the bereaved fami lies. Aside from the treaty itself, which, while undoubtedly open to criticism on some points, is on the whole an equitable document. The outstanding fact is the pledge taken by President VVilson and the British premier, Lloyd-George, to submit to their legislators a kind of treaty which would bind the United States end Great Britain to come to the aid of France in the event of future rggression by Germany. No Doubt of Acceptance. Will such a treaty be accepted by the United States senate? We do not permit ourselves to doubt that it will. The time is past for doctrinal allusions to the disinterestedness of the United States toward European affairs, as we have pointed out here tofore. There cannot be any war in the future, which through the inter locking relations of the various peo ples, would not become a world war. One after another, in the war just ended, we have seen the various nations compelled to intervene both for the general good and for the sake of their individual welfare. This treaty, therefore, is demon stration of the spirit of justice and a warning to the aggressor of the risks he will incur if he fails to keep the sword in its scabbard. The treaty will prepare the way for the establishment of the league of nations as a vigorous body able to settle future disputes, between the nations of the world and bring us in sight of the goal we have sought and for which so many noble men have sacrificed their lives the end of all wars. I - " " ' 1 '" 1 " ' ' 1 "' "' " ' ' - - 1 1 " L' 1 r' ' ' tMMMMMMM i i "Hail, Hail the 89th's Here" We're glad, you're glad and now let's talk shop a minute. The Value of Making Type Talk jfTHe value of making type talk is appreciated by the advertiser who uses type to promote his busiaess. TfThe ability to make type talk is recognized by such an advertiser as an extremely vital, but rather uncommon performance. Our suc cess in achieving this desired result enables us to offer a printing service of distinctive character. OMAHA PRINTING CO. "PEOPLES ARE IN SADDLE," AVERS U. S. PRESIDENT Private Councils of Statesmen Will No Longer Determine Destinies, Says Wilson in Memorial Address. (Continued from Pac One.) pathy, and I have no doubt that if our British comrades were here they would speak in . the same spirit and in the same language. For the beauty of this war is that it has brought a new partnership and a new comradeship and a new under standing into the field of the effort of the nation. "But it would be no profit to us to eulogize these illustrious dead if we did not take to heart the lesson which they have taught us. They are dead; they have done their ut most to show their devotion to a great cause, and they have left us to see to it that that cause shall not be betrayed, whether in war or in peace. It is our privilege and our high duty to consecrate ourselves afresh on a day like this to the ob jects for which they fought. It is not necessary that I should rehearse Jo you what these objects were. These men did not come across the sea merely to defeat Germany and her associated powers in the war. They came to defeat forever the things for which the central powers stood, the sort of power they meant to assert in the world, the arrogant, selfish domination which they meant to establish; and they came, moreover to see to it that there should never be a war like this again. It is for us, particularly for us who are civilized, to use our proper weapons of counsel and agreement to see to it that there never is such a war again. The na tion that should now fling out of this common concerd of counsel would betray the human race. Must Maintain Safeguards. "So, it is our duty to take and maintain the safeguards which will see to it that the mothers of Amer ica and the mothers of France and England and Italy and Belgium and all other suffering nations should never be called upon for this sacri fice again. This can be done. It must be done. And it will be done. The things that these men left us, though they did not in their coun sels conceive it, is the great instru ment which we have just erected in the league of nations. The league of nations is the covenant of gov ernment that these men shall not have died in vain. I like to think that the' dust of those sons of Amer ica who were privileged to be buried in their mother country will mingle with the dust of the men who fought for the preservation of the union and that as those men gave their lives in order that America might be united, these men have given their lives in order that the world might be united. Those men gave their lives in order to secure the freedom of a nation. These men have g'ven theirs in order to secure the freedom of mankind and I look forward to an age when it will be just as impossible to regret the re sults of their labor as it is now im possible to regret the result of the labor of those men who fought for the union of the states. I look for the time when every man who now puts his counsel against the united service of mankind under the league of nations will be just as ashamed of it as if he now regretted the union of the states. "You are aware, as I am aware, that 'the airs of a older day are be ginning to stir again, that the stand ards of an old order are trying to assert themselves again. There is here and there an attempt to in sert into the counsel of statesmen the old reckoning of selfishness and bargaining and national advantage, which were the roots of this war, and any man who counsels these things advocates a renewal of the sacrifice which these men have made, for if this is not the final bat tle for right, there will be another that will be final. Let these gen tlemen who suppose that it is pos sible for them to accomplish this return to an order of which we are ashamed and that we are ready to forget, realize they cannot accom plish it. "The peoples of the world are awake and the peoples of the world are in the saddle. Private counsels of statesmen cannot now and can not hereafter determine the desti nies of nations. If we are not the servants of the opinion of mankind, we are of all men the littlest, the most contemptible, the least gifted with vision. If we do not know courage, we cannot accomplish our purpose, and this age is an age which looks forward, not backward; which rejects the standard of na tional selfishness that once governed the counsels of nations and de mands that they shall give way to a new order of things in which only the questions will be, "Is it right?" "Is it just?" "Is it in the interest of mankind?" Do Not Realize Happenings. "This is a challenge that no pre vious generation ever dared to give ear to. So many things have hap pened, and they have happened so fast in the last four years that I do not think many of us realize what it is that has happened. Think how impossible it would have been to get a body of responsible statesmen seriously to entertain the idea of the organization of a league of na tions four years agol And think of the' change that has taken place! I was told before I came to France that there would, be confusions of counsel about this, thing and I found unity of counsel. I was told that there would be opposition and I found union of action. I found the statesmen with whom I was about to deal united in the idea that we must have a league of nations; that we could not merely make a peace settlement and then leave it to make itself effectual, but that we must conceive some common organization by which we should give our com mon faith that this peace wonld be maintained and the conclusions at which we arrived should be made as secure as the united counsels of all the great nations that fought against Germany could make them. We have listened to tha challenge and .that 1 is the proof that there shall never be a war like this again. Spirits Stiill Live. "Ladies and gentlemen, we all be lieve, I hope, that the spirits of these men are not buried with their bones. Their spirits live, I hope I believe that their spirits are pres ent with us at this hour. I hope that I feel the compulsion of their presence. I hope that I realize the significance of their presence. Think soldiers, of those comrades of yours who are gone. If they were here what would they say? They would not remember what you are talking about today. They would remem ber America which hey left with their high hope and purposes. They would remember the terrible field of battle. They would remember what they constantly recalled in times of danger, what they had come for and how worth while it was to give their lives for it. And they would say, 'Forget all the lit tle circumstances of the day. Be ashamed of the jealousies that divide you. We command you in the name of those who, like ourselves, have died to bring the counsels of men together and we remind you what America said it was born for. It was born, it said, to show man kind the way to liberty. It was born to make this great gift a com mon gift. It was born to show men the way of experience by which they might realize this gift and maintain it, and we adjure you in the name of all the great traditions of America to make yourselves sol diers, now, once'for all, in this com mon cause where we need wear no uniform except the uniform of the heart, clothing ourselves with the principles of right and saying to men everywhere, 'You are our broth ers and we invite you into the com radeship of liberty and of peace.' Better Than Life. "Let us go away hearing these un spoken mandates of our dead com rades. If I may speak a personal word, I beg you to realize the com pulsion that I myself feel that I am under. By the constitution of our great country I was the commander-in-chief of these men. I advised the congress to declare that a state of war existed. Shall I can I ever speak a word of counsel which is inconsistent with the assurances I gave them when they came over? It is inconceivable. 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