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It was some peace meeting.
It is put up or shut up for Germany now.
"Pa" Rourke's boys ought to take the home
grounds along when they travel.
Nebraska's crop of sweet girl graduates was
lot materially lessened by the war.
Cheer up, Omaha! Other Nebraska towns
are getting paving put down, and maybe we will
qet ours.
Ilerr Hoheuzollern is to be invited to return
to German. He will not be out of reach of
the international court, however.
German sympathizers in eastern Iowa have
received an impressive reminder that the treaty
of peace has riot yet been signed.
California flyers have survived a 1.000-foot
plunge, but their experience is not likely to
make that way of landing popular.
Germans who roar against the "slavery"
about to be forced on them should reflect that
the first hundred years always are the hardest.
Yaqui Indians are whooping it up again down
in Sonora. We will not run short of first-page
items until this outfit is finally "pacified."
Elsie Janis says she is "engaged" to the
whole A. E. F. Very likely, but she will prob
ably go the way of all attractive women in time.
Nebraska banks show an increase of
$11,000,000 in May over the report made in Jan
uary. That shows you how the state is going
along.
Commercial demand for the airplane is based
on the statement of a Chicago dealer that he
sold 40 in a week. ' Looks like the age of flight,
sure enough.
The Serbian crown prince has been offered
"Xhe vacant throne of Hungary. This shows how
complete the overthrow of the Magyar influence
has been.
Nebraska's new gasoline test law goes into
effect at once, and auto owners are looking for
some relief in quality whether they get any in
price or not.
Austria will get the "bad news" at noon
today. And the delegates need not disturb
themselves over the blank pages in the abstract.
They will all be filled out.
.The Kiwanis club has tackled a big job, but
is going about it in a big way. Raising money
to help babies who cannot help themselves
ought not to be so very difficult in Nebraska.
Methodists are planning a "sermon from the
air" stunt for an Ohio celebration, but what
would John Wesley say if he could get a chance
to give his view on the plan of attaching his
church to an airship?
Packers are talking about cheaper beef with
the coming of the grass-fed cattle. It is yet a
little early for the real run of "grassers," but any
excuse will be accepted if only the price of
steaks is brought down.
When Dame Nature puts on an electrical
show, she generally stages a display well worth
watching. The unpleasant part of it is so little
attention is paid to the works of man while the
performance is going on.
"Ma" Burkitt, champion pie-baker of the
A. E. F., has been awarded the Croix de Guerre,
but we will wager one of her doughnuts that
she puts far greater value on the , intangible
decorations conferred on her by the boys she
baked for.
Not the Way to Save Mooney
The Central Trades and Labor Union of St.
Louis adopted a sensible course in declining to
send delegates to a convention of the so-called
Mooney Defense league, which is committed to
the plan of a general strike throughout the coun
try to force the California authorities to release
Thomas J. Mooney, whose death sentence for
conviction of murder has been commuted to life
imprisonment by Gov. Stephens.. Some of the
members pointed out that the active backers of
the league are really more concerned about
strengthening the I. W. W. than about aiding
Mooney or advancing the general cause of labor.
Such a strike would be not only revolutionary
but anarchistic It would be a defiance of the
limitations of the constitution of the 'United
States, which respects the jurisdiction of the
states to try such, offenses as Mooney was
charged with committing. Without regarding
the injury that a general strike would inflict
upon the people not living in California and
upon persons with, whom the strikers have sol
emn contracts, it would be a sort of coercion
which California or any other state would be
compelled to resist, or cease pretending to have
an orderly government.
The leaders in the league movement prob
ably do not really know whether Mooney is
guilty or not. The Globe-Democrat, after ex
amining representations by both sides, long ago'
confessed its inability to pass on Mooney's
guilt and expressed the hope that he might be
tried on some of the other indictments against
him, involving the same general state of facts.
Should such a trial result in his acquittal, then
the governor of California would naturaly grant
jim a full pardon.
Whatever pressure may be exerted should
be to bring about this sort of arrangement. But
while there is enough doubt about Mooney's
guilt to justify his trial in one of the other
cases, these is no justification for the demand
:hat he be arbitrarily set free, merely because
ie has been a labor leader. It would seem that,
with all the pressure that has been brought and
with the lively interest the citizens of California
must have in the .case, the governor and the
local authorities could be trusted to do justice.
St Louis Globe-Democrat
AN END TOvTHE PARLEYING.
Premier Clemenceau has informed the Ger
man peace delegates that no more notes will
be received from them relative to terms of the
treaty. An end is thus put to parleying. The
Germans have occupied the time since the
treaty was handed them with fruitless debate
over points they hoped to have modified. As
surance has been given them that the Allies will
not recede. All that now remains is for the
Germans to sign, or finally to refuse.
Refusal to sign means the restoration of the
blockade of Germany. If cut off from the world,
deprived of communication, shut out from sup
plies, the German people will be brought to
realize the extent of the defeat they now appar
ently do not recognize. That this will be
needed is unlikely.
Evidence is not lacking that President Ebert
and his associates have been playing to save
their faces. While they have been reiterating
demands and making requests they knew would
not be granted, a powerful influence has been
developing among the people in favor of sign
ing the treaty. Germany has had quite enough
of fighting for one time. Whatever may the
plans for the future, dreams of revenge, of con
quest, and of dominion, just at the moment the
individual German knows the folly of further
resistance. If the kaiser deceived his subjects
in 1914, it was because they wanted to be de
ceived. They were as devoted as their leaders
to the purposes for which they went to war.
Going into it with their eyes open, they have
come out of its disillusioned. Self-pity may
uphold their pride, but they know they have
been beaten.
Junkers may bluster, and kaiserites snort in
indignation at the terms laid down for Germany,
but the time is right at hand for action. The
business before them is the signing of the
treaty, and that will soon be over with.
Smoking in Church on Sunday.
Somewhat startling is the information that
in England serious consideration is being given
a proposal that certain pews be set aside for
the use of smokers who want to go to church
on Sunday, but also wish to mingle with the
drippings from the sanctuary of solace of slowly
burning tobacco. Just how this will strike the
uplifters of America, who have pledged them
selves, tentatively, at least, to uproot the devil's
weed, both figuratively and literally, is hard to
imagine. Yet it will carry something of interest
to the contemplative mind, for it involves a
way to attract to religion men who might other
wise stray widely. When General Booth began
his Salvation Army work, he was generally con
demned because of the method he adopted.
Casual observers or hasty critics mistook the
symbol for its meaning, and heard in the Sal
vation Army only the, rattle of the tambourine
or the boom of the big bass drum. They did
not note that the noise was but the outward
show and that the inward purpose of the army
was denoted by its title. To the closer ob
server, however, the relation between the noise
and the work of the army soon was clear. Back
of the banging was the more definite program
of "soup, soap and salvation." Sinners were
first fed, then washed, and afterwards saved,
if possible. All the world now honors the Sal
vation Army, and understands its ways. May
it not be possible to bring real religion a
little closer to man through the mingling of
some tobacco smoke with the incense that arises
in front of the altar? The symbolism of the
one is not very much different from that of the
other.
Victories of Defeat
I hoped that either the senators would
change their minds, or that thp people would
change the senate, but instead they changed
me," is the way William Howard Taft tells of
the fate of his effort to secure the adoption of
arbitration treaties. To this he adds: "Any man
in political life learns that there are worse things
than defeat." And herein he sums up the whole
some philosophy of useful life. Defeat is not
easy to bear, but it brings with it realization of
weakness in method or principle, shows the
mistakes, and encourages greater effort if the
end sought is worthy of attainment. Not every
one is possessed of the well-tempered optimism
that animates Mr. Taft, but it is within the
reach of any. Self-discipline is the means by
which the victory to be found in defeat may be
achieved. The individual who can put aside the
disappointment of failure, and start on new
effort is the one who eventually succeeds.
"Sweet are the uses of adversity," for they bring
out the worthy qualities of the strong and
develope those elements of the soul which
might have slumbered had the goal been
reached with too little exertion.
Keep the Army Posts as Monuments.
Again the abandonment of the "frontier"
army posts is being talked of. While these may
no longer be needed to protect settlers against
possible Indian outbreaks, they have a senti
mental value, and may well be maintained be
cause of that. Secretary Baker's plan for estab
lishing great training centers will not seriously
be interfered with through the maintenance of
the little post whose existence was of such tre
mendous value in the days when the west really
had a frontier. If these posts are to be aban
doned by the army, they should be turned over
to the states, to be preserved as public grounds.
They are part of the history of the west and
deserve to be kept as monuments of the time
when life was not a "long, sweet song" to the
men and women who blazed the way for present
day prosperity and future greatness. The sol
dier and the pioneer should not be forgotten
because their work is done. Keeping the little
army posts as monuments to the trail blazers
will be little enough in way of an installment on
the debt the country owes them.
The Nebraska convention of the League to
Enforce may be taken as fairly well represent
ing the sentiment of the people of the state, who
are not too proud to fight, but who would pre
fer to be allowed to go about their daily busi
ness, feeling secure in amicable relations with
all the world.
Army estimates indicate that 200,000 Ameri
can soldiers will be required for the army of
occupation after September. How soon this
number will be reduced depends on how Ger
many behaves, but close watchers think it will
be over soon.
Nebraska soldier boys are getting home just
in time to help raise the biggest crop that ever
grew in the state, which is out to encourage
them mightily.
A City of Clacking Tongues
From the Literary Digest
One of the keenest journalists that ever vis
ited Athens wrote that "all the Athenians and
strangers who were there spent their time in
nothing else but either to tell or to hear some
new thing" This journalist, Dr. Luke by name,
was himself a Greek, and he recorded his im
pressions in the 17th chapter of the Book of
Acts, where they may still be read.
Supplementing this ancient comment is the
remark made a few weeks ago by a diplomat in
Athens. His view of the Greek habit of much
talking, which amounts to the same view that
was held by Dr. Luke, was expressed as tollows:
"The trouble with these Greeks is their cafe
habit. Thev soend too much time sitting in the
cafes talking, talking, talking about all sorts of
tnvialties, mostly political, lhat breeds in
trigue and seism. They are talkers and not
doers, and so are never content with whatever
order my be existent." 1
Thus the first century and the 20th coincide
in their judgment of the Athenians, comments
Dr. William T. Ellis, writing from Athens to
the New York Herald, and he continues:
"An epidemic of taciturnity would be the
greatest of boons to this volatile people. With
every man doing a task and nobody talking
about the other man's work, Greece would
quickly restore the glory of the older days.
Given a general visitation of silent loyalty, with
the nation resolute and diligent behind its chos
en course and leaders, it would quickly become
the dominant force in the near east.
"So far as a superficial investigation reveals,
Athens is more interested in the latest political
and social gossip than in the big problems of
the new era. thus vindicating the historic criti
cism with which this article began.
"Of paramount interest seems the question
of King Alexander's marriage. He is in love
with a young Greek woman of excellent family,
but the government will not let him marry
her. The demand is for a foreign queen. Rea
sons of state are given for this. It is said the
parents of the young lady in question are pro
German in sympathy; but this is indignantly
denied by Americans who know the family.
Also it is declared that the marriage would give
one Greek family great influence in politics.
Other observers say that the real reason is
that the Athenian ladies refuse to accept as
their leader and liege sovereign one whom they
formerly outranked.
"Now, while this discussion rages, an Eng
lish speaking Greek officer brings me the latest
tid-bit of gossip, which is that the loyal king
lover has transferred his interest and affections
to an American Red Cross girl. From young
American naval officers who met the king often
and have taught him American dances, Ameri
can humor and American good times, I learn
that while the king likes American girls he is
still true to his old love.
"Of more real interest is the growth of the
republican sentiment here. There is a 'roy
alist' party, favoring the return of King Con
stantine, but apparently it is actuated, like par
ties the world around, more by the zest for the
spoils of office than by any more abstract con
sideration. Also it is anti-Venizelos, although
prudently cautious in its opposition. Venizelos,
however, is as firmly in control as anybody
ever was in Greece. This is now a one-man
country, and Venizelos is the man. I wonder
what the young king thinks as he goes about
and sees 10 portraits of his prime minister dis
played to every one of himself. He knows, too,
that Venizelos openly promised Parliament that
if the present king is not a success no other
would be put forward; a republic would be the
next experiment.
"Behind and beneath all this external life
and politics lies the grim and gory Balkan
problem, which is working out in Greek villag
ers slaying and being slain, and in such vast
human misery as the western world simply
cannot know."
Food Costs on Congress
Mr. Wilson came into office upon a platform
that promised reduction in the cost of living.
Yet, even prior to the outbreak of the war the
living cost had been mounting higher and
higher. Unscrupulous advantage has been taken
of the distracted state of the country and of the
world demands upon the American larder, to
run up the cost of living to prohibitive figures.
It is a fact that wage increases kept petty nearly
with the pace of war prices for food. But the
case has been very different with salary earn
ers. The salaried class has not largely benefited
in the prosperity era.
The wage-earners cannot hope to have the
present grade of pay sustained, although there
will be no return to the former level. In some
industries wages will even advance further. The
problem for the present congress will be to
make searching and speedy investigation into
the bases for the high cost of living and to seek
to effect reductions that will provide a wider
margin between the outlay for absolute neces
sities and the wages and salaries that are re
ceived. Congress cannot itself cut food costs. But
congress can bring about amelioration of condi
tions, and congress can effect the publicity that
will result in squeezing some of the excessive
profits out of those articles of merchandise that
bear directly upon living costs. It will be look
ed to for such relief. Baltimore American.
The Colors of a Nation
If there really is a new Germany, there
must be a new German flag. That was natur
ally the first thing that should occur to the men
who are at the front in present German affairs.
It was a necessity if they were establishing a new
government; a policy if they were camouflaging
the old. So they changed the flag by substitut
ing for the white stripe a stripe of yellow. And
immediately they were in trouble.
Belgium's flag is not really red and yellow
and black, but red and gold and black. But yel
low and gold, on a flag, are with difficulty dis
tinguished. There is no law preventing new
Germany from adopting Belgium's colors, but
if Germany, new or old, had possessed "anything
approaching good taste, that thing would not
have been done at this time. Hbwever, they
claim that this is the flag of the old Germanic
federation, and there seems to be no ground for
disputing it. It has been well said that all the
old German flag needed to make it appropriate
was a streak of yellow, and surely the elimina
tion of white was justified. Hartford Times.
TOI )AV
The Day We Celebrate.
George Rasmussen, vice-president of the
Nebraska Bridge Supply and Lumber com
pany, born 1884.
Arnold S. Borglum of the Darlow Advertis
ing agency, born 1869.
Dr. Ewing Brown, physician, born 1858.
Thomas Hardy, who is generally considered
in England their greatest ljving novelist, born
in Dorsetshire 79 years ago.
Sir Edward Elgar, distinguished musician
and composer, born' in Worcestershire, England,
62 years ago.
Lulu Glaser, celebrated as a singer and act
ress, born in Alleghany City, Pa., 43 years ago.
Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife of the
former president of the United States, born in
Cincinnati 58 years ago.
Edward Penfield, celebrated artist and illus
trator, born in New York City 53 years ago. .
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Councilman A. H. Sander of Omaha is among
those reported missing in the Johnstown flood.
Rev. Dr. Patterson of Boston, in the city with
a view to gathering a Universalist church,
preached at Masonic hall.
Rev. William Rosenau has been chosen by
the Jewish congregation as their pastor to suc
ceed Rabbi Benson.
The Lefever Gun club held their regular
weekly shoot Billy Townsend carried off the
medal
People You Ask About
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the Public Eye Will Be Given
in This Column in Answer
to Readers' Questions. Your
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Let The Bee Tell You.
Mrs. Raymond Robins.
Where is Mrs. Raymond Robins at
present, and what is she doing?
WOMAN READER.
Mrs. Raymond Robins continues
in her work as social economist, par
ticularly as that subject relates to
working women. Just now she is in
Philadelphia presiding over the con
vention of the National Women's
Trade Union league, which is dis
cussing the new problems of women
workers as developed by the war..
A native of Brooklyn, her first efforts
were in connection with the New
York Women's Trade Union league,
of which she was one o the organ
izers and later president. Follow
ing her marriage to Raymond Rob
ins, also distinguished as a social
economist, she removed to Chicago
and there continued the work she
had begun in New York. Mrs. Rob
ins has served as chairman of the
industrial commission of the Illinois
Federation of Women's Clubs, as a
member of the industrial education
committee of the American Federa
tion of Labor, and on the executive
committee of the American Associa
tion for Labor Legislation.
An Immortal Name.
Information: The celebration on
May 27 which you ask about was no
doubt the Julia Ward Howe cen
tenary, that day having been the
100th anniversary of her birth. The
day was celebrated by women's or
ganizations and especially by suffra
gists throughout the country.
On her father's side, Julia Ward
descended from such men as Roger
Williams and Governor Samuel
Ward of Rhode Island, who was a
member of the First and Second
Continental congresses. Her father
was a man of wealth and influence
who took an active interest in re
ligious work and formed the first
temperance organization in America.
The home environment was one of
taste and refinement and Julia Ward
received her education largely from
private toutors. She married Sam
uel Gridley Howe in 1843.
During the course of her long life
she lived to be 91 Mrs. Howe was
at the very forefront of many move
ments which had to do with Ameri
can literature, philanthropy and the
emancipation of her sex. From the
early days of her womanhood, she
was a woman of consequence, a
woman of affairs, a woman who had
a very high conception of the duties
of life.
Mrs. Howe was a frequent contrib
utor to the best American maga
zines. She was also a poetess who
found a ready response in the hearts
of the people. Her famous "Battle
Hymn of the Republic" was writ
ten after a visit to the camp of the
Army of the Potomac during the
Civil war,' has made her name immortal.
The French Premiership.
Who is likely to succeed Clemen
ceau as French premier? M. L. K.
The successor of M. Clemenceau,
shi-uld he retire as premier at the
final conclusion of peace, is not now
a certain matter. Andre Tardieu
has been prominently mentioned,
however, and a survey of his record
furnishes evidence of his fitness for
such high position. For nearly two
years during the war he resided in
Washington as French high com
missioner in the United States. Pre
vious to his apointment to this post
M. Tardieu had visited the United
States, lectured at its universites,
studied its political life, interviewed
its statesmen and publicists, and put
himself on record in book giving his
impressions of what he saw, heard
and felt. In the early part of the
war he saw active service, especially
before Verdun, and was cited in
army reports for bravery. He is
known as a journalist, as former ed
itor of Le Temps, and as a diplomat.
IN THE BEST OF HUMOR.
"Hey. wotcher doing? Stealing a ride?"
"Ain't the railroads being run by the
government?" demanded the tramp.
"Yes." i
"Then stealing a ride Is merely a polit
ical crime, and political crimes don't go
In this kentry." Kansas City Journal.
"When I'm tired my wife reads to me
the news of the day."
"t tried that once."
"Yes?"
"But my wife couldn't see any news ex
cept news about marked-down diamond
necklaces and sales In furs." St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. ,
Physiology Teacher Robert, you may
explain how we hear things.
Bobby Pa tells them to ma as a secret
and ma gives 'em away at the bridge
club. Boston Transcript.
Church They tell me ws'rs going to
have a hard aummer?
Gotham I can't see how It can be any
thing else. The war Is all over, and we
didn't have enough snow last winter to
talk much about," Yonkers Statesman.
"Why do you wear that thin waist?"
"It'a stylish."
"You must be cold."
"I am."
"I should think you'd shiver."
"No, It Isn't stylish to shiver." Judge.
"FOR WITHOUT ARE DOGS."
Not very far without! Oh. let them be
Gathered beyond Heaven's door all hope-
ruiiy.
Waiting their lord quick summons or
command.
Dreaming they hear his voice, or feel his
hand.
And, wistful muziles to the threshold
pressed,
Ask, as of old, the chance to give their
best.
Thus may they wait, with homage In their
eyes,
Till the Great Master of the House arise,
And, flinging wide the door, their penance
ends
"Love Is Heaven's password. Come ye in,
my Friends"
ELEANOR DUNCAN WOOD In New
York Times.
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DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
LITTLE LAME LADDIE.
(When the Little' Lame Laddie wishes
to go to Btrdland. Peggy and Billy suih
mon the Mighty Bronze Genie, who car
ries htm there.
Judge Owl Tells a Secret.
ii'TJO, HO, it's a happy day!" sang
XI the Mighty Bronze Genie, run
ning and leaping and Jumping in
gladsome play.
"Hi, hi, it's a happy day!" echoed
Little Lame Laddie from the Genie's
shoulders.
"Chee, chee. It's a happy day!"
warbled Bob Olink from an orchard.
"Rap, rap, it's a happy day!"
drummed Reddy Woodpecker on a
hollow tree.
"Tweet, tweet, it's a happy day,"
twittered dozens of birds, as they
entered the forest. i
Lame Laddie, high on the Genie's I
shoulders, was delighted. His eyes
"Ho, ho. It's a happy day," sang
the Mighty Bronze Genie, running
and leaping and jumping in glad
some play.
sparkled gladly and his cheeks were
red with pleased excitement.
"See the birds, the birds, the
birds!" he cried. "I didn't know
there were so many beautiful birds
in all the world. And they all seem
to be singing, 'It's a hapy day,' just
as I am singing it."
"That's what they are singing,"
replied Peggy.
"Oh, can you understand them?"
asked Lame Laddie, his eyes grow
ing bigger and brighter than ever.
"1 winli I could."
"Blow, blow, blow in his ear!" ad
vised a deep, hollow voice, seem
ingly coming from nowhere.
"What's that?" asked Billy, look
ing all around.
"Blow, blow, blow in his ear!" re
pented the hollow voice. They
looked and they looked, but they
couldn't see where it came from.
Peggy, however, had learned from
experience that in BIrdland it is wise
to lake so such advice, even from
unknown sources, so she blew in
Lame Laddie's ear.
"Oh, oh!" he cried, clapping his
hands over his ears. "I can under
stand what the birds are singing.
Isn't it fine?"
"It would be fine if you would go
away and let me sleep," grumbled
the hollow voice.
"Why, it's Judge Owl," cried
Peggy. "Wake up, wake up, Judge
Owl, I want to introduce you to
Lame Laddie."
But the only answer was a snore
a mu tried snore that seemed to come
from nearby.
"I'll get him out!" screeched
Reddy Woodpecker, beginning to
drum vigorously on a tree. He
drummed a regular bugle call: "I
can't get him up, I can't get him up,
I can't get him up in the day time."
"Why should I get up in the day
time? It's a lot more fun roam
ing around at night learning se
crets," grumbled the muffled voice.
But now there was a scraping and
a fluttering and in a moment Judge
Owl's head popped out of a hole in
a tree right beside them.
"Hello," he said, putting on his
dark goggles. "Did you blow in his
ear?"
"Yes," answered Lame Laddie.
"And I thank you for telling 'em to,
for now I understand bird language,
and it is wonderful."
"Phoo, phoo, it's Just bird talk,"
said Judge Owl. "Why are you rid
ing on the Bronze Genie's shoulders?
Why aren't you running around on
your own legs? Are you lazy?"
"I can't walk," said Lame Laddie
sadly. "Something happened to my
legs when I was a tiny chap, and I
haven't walked since."
"How silly!" grumbled Judge Owl
sleepily. "How Filly to go without
legs when there is a new leg builder
close at hand."
"A new leg builder here in Bird
land?" asked Peggy in amazement.
"Right here in Birdland, camping
by the river," hooted Judge Owl.
"Who is he?" demanded Billy Bel
gium. "They call him 'Great Doctor.' His
being here is a secret, but I heard it
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while prowling around his camp last
night and having fun scaring his
negro servants into fits," hooted
Judge Owl. "He is in the woods on
a vacation."
"Ah, I'd heard a famous surgeon
was camping near here," said the
Genie. "If he is able to give Little
Lame Laddie new legs in place of
his useless old legs, we're going to
get a pair. Come on!"
(Tomorrow they seek the camp of th
Great I)octor. )
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Franklin on a League for Peace.
Omaha, May 31. To the Editor of
The Bee: "Observations of Benja
min Franklin in reading History."
May 19. 1731, 188 years ago, Benja
min Franklin wrote the following on
a "Party of Virtue" (or league of
nations) :
"The the great affairs of the
world, the wars, the revolutions, etc.,
are carried on and affected by par
ties. "That the view of these parties is
their present general interest, or
what they take to be such.
"That the different views of these
different parties occasion all confu
sion. "There seems to me at present to
be rreat occasion for raising a
united Party of Virtue (league of
nations) by forming the virtuous and
god men of all nations into a regular
body, to be governed by suitable,
good and wise rules, in which good
and wise men may probably be more
unanimous in their obedience to, than
common people are to common laws.
"I at present think that whoever
attempts this aright and is well
qualified cannot fail of pleasing God
and of meeting with success."
The league of nations is not a new
Wilsonian idea. Benjamin Franklin
had the same vision way back in
1731.
The sponsors and advocates of the
present plan of the league of na
tions have assured us that it is a
practical thing, a beautiful ideal,
that will do away with all future
wars and bring all the nations of
the world together in the cause of
justice. If this is true, then the
people of the United States want the
league of nations to become a reality
without any further unnecessary de
lays. On the other hand, those op
posed to the league of nations are
telling us that, as the league of na-,
tions now stands, it is impractical
that the United States cannot ratify
It unless it is changed in many re
spects. We hear cries of derision and
warning from many of our most Il
lustrious United States senators, both
against the league of nations as It
now stands and against the peace
treaty presented to Germany. Of
courso this opposition may be dis
counted, to some extent, as the
United States senate has been com
pletely ignored fh the ratification of
both the p6ace treaty and the league
of nations.
Somewhere in our constitution, I
believo you will find a clause to the
effect that treaty negotiation and
ratification are in the joint hands of
the president and the senate.
So far our senate has had no
share in the making of the peace
treaty. Our senate is not in the
habit of being dictated to, as the
majority of them are capable of
thinking for themselves. Nor do
they all agree with Mr. Wilson's at
titude that he is the one efficient
person able to carry out the peace
treaty and the league of nations
program.
The main trouble seems to be that
a great many of its former allied
supporters are now losing or havre
lost sight of the great principle in
volved and are scrambling for spoils.
rrobably a good suggestion would
be that Mr. Wilson and his foreign
associates should be furnished with
copies of Benjamin Franklin's plans
foi- a "United Party of Virtue." call
ing their attention to the following,
which Franklin seemed to think
most important:
"By forming the virtuous and good
men of all nations into a regular
body, to be governed by suitable
good and wise rules, in which good
and w!se men may probably be more
unanimous in their obedience to,
than common people are to com
mon laws. Whoever attempts this
aright, and Is well qualified, cannot
fail of pleasing God and of meeting
with success."
RALPH A. LEE.
Charles Sumner's Vision.
In connection the foregoing, the
following clipping from an Iowa
paper, sent to The Bee by a friend,
is of peculiar interest:
Through the courtesy of A. H.
Hoffman of the abstract office, we
were able to copy from a will which
has been on file there, the following
extract. It shows that Charles Sum
ner thought of the league of nations,
back years ago. and hoped that it
would come. Mr. Sumner owner!
considerable property in Monona
county at one time. The extract
from the will follows:
"Paragraph (9) of the will of
Charles Sumner, Boston, Mass.,
dated September 2, 1872.
"A transcript of which will is re
corded in Will Records '3' page '12'
in Monona County Frobate Records:
' "I bequeath to the President and
Fellows of Harvard College, one
thousand dollars in trust for
nual prize to the best dissentation
oy any student of the College or any
of its schools, under graduate or
graduate, on Universal peace and the
methods by which war may be per
manently superceded. I do this in
the hone of rlrawinrr the attention nf
students to the practicability of or
ganizing peace among the nations,
which I sincerely believe may be
done. I cannot doubt that the same
modes of decision which now pre
vails between individuals, between
towns and between smaller com
munities may be extended to na
tions.' "
which is now 4:30. And you cannot
reason with him. To tell him he
should get back to God's time does
no good. No, sir, you don't shift
time on baby.
So, I say, what if we do save a
few millions tons of coal a year, and
what if the man who works until
5 or 5:30 feels like he is getting a
half holiday each day since he quits
work with the sun so high. What if
he does have lots of time to work
his garden, go fishing, mow his
lawn, go for a picnic or play base
ball, etc. I say. are these thlngt
worth while if the parents of young
babies must have their sleep cut
from 11 to 10 hours thereby.
A. A. CUMMINS.
Baby's Feeding Time.
Superior, Neb., May 29. To the
Editor of The Bee: I have read with
interest the many comments In your
columns of Mr. Frank A. Agnew
concerning the daylight saving law.
The one about spoiling the morn
ing appeals to me. The dear old sun
no doubt thinks people are getting
up to see him dress and resenting It
simply knocks the morning's stem
winder, by gosh. The mornings sure
are punk. But, I think, however,
Mr. Agnew has overlooked one of
the greatest reasons why this law
should be repealed.
Now suppose a baby Is born after
the time has been changed in the
spring. He eats his breakfast earn
estly and with full faith in his par
ents every morning at 5:30. And
along comes fall and all at once you
turn the clock back an hour and
what was 5:30 becomes 4:30. But
what does baby know about clocks?
Time is time to him, whether it is
God's time or sham time, so he con
tinues to wake up at the usual time
BUS!NESSlS GOOD.THANKYtof
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Indicated by the Thumb.
It is a well-known fact anion;
nerve specialists that by an ex
amination of the thumb they can
tell if the patient is affected, or
likely to be affected, by paralysis or
not, as the thumb will indicate this
a long time before there is any
trace of the disease in any other
part of the sytem.
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