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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY , FOUNDED BY EDWARD R08EWAHB " VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th AeMclated Praia, of which Tbs Bee U a Busbar. It z luihl entitled: to tha nw for publication of til ucl dlitntchM credited to It or not otherwise endlud In this paper, and also Um local newt published herein. All rifbts of publication of our sps slal dispatches srs slso resemd- , BEE TELEPHONES! Print Branch Iichanta. Ask for th T-.1- 1 000 . Department or ParUcular Ptnon Wanted. 1 ylCT 1 VAV Far Night or Sunday Sarvlca Call: Editorial Department lirmililloa Department AdtartUIni Dapartment Tyler 1000L Tyler 100&L Tyler 1008b OFFICES OF THE BEEi Horn Office, Be Bulldtnf. 17th and Femam. Branch Office Ames 4110 North Mth Benton 6114 Military Are. Council Bluffs 14 N. Main lake UK North 24th Park South Bid Vinton Walnut few Tork Cite Ouicaio Out-of-Towa Officaai JM Fifth Are. I Washington Seefer Bld. I Lincoln MIS Leavenworth S3U N Street 14S7 South 16th IM North 40th 1311 O Street 1U0 H Street APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65,830 Sunday 63,444 Avertie circulation for tha month iubacrlbed and iworn to by X. B. Bagan, Circulation Manager. Subscriber laavlnf tha city should hav Tha Bo mailed to thsm. Addrcas changed aa often as requested. Someone should send the weather man a calendar. Will the Germans sign the treaty? Will iron ink in water? A new auto racing record has been set with out killing any one. . Got your tax boost yet? Did our lynx-eyed county assessor overlook you? Looks as if the periodic footrace back and forth across the international bridge at El Paso were about to be staged again. "Showers are promised for the first part of the coming week," says a news item. "Prom ised" is hardly the right word. ' Altogether too much money in the Fair will case and too great a tempetation to cov etous lawyers to get a hand in it. "Look out for more bomb outrages!" is the warning of Secret Service Chief Flynn. Yes, look out but keep' out of their way. The Salvation Army only SO years oldl If it had nothing to its credit but its record of war work, it could boast of more than making good. , .Mr. Gompers' 'petition-in-boots failed to show up in Washington in expected numbers. People are evidently too busy to waste time on congress. The treaty will be signed in the Hall of Mir rors so the German delegates can see how they look when they sniallow the medicine they mixed for the other fellow. . ' Organization of the laundrymen and dry cleaners was urged at Denver last week. Judg ing by the prices they seem to do tolerably well with or without organization, : With all this new crop of college graduates abroad, in the land, the knotty problems should e solved forthwith and everything made to run smoothly in the twinkling of an eye. j Villa why, of course, he's our good bandit friend down in Mexico, who has been captured and killed so many times that-he has put it all over the feline with the proverbial nine lives. Omaha can't be the center of a network of g6od roads unless we vote bonds. And after We vote them we will have to stay on the job to make sure we get good roads without wan ton waste of the money. Notice is served on Germany that the allied armies are ready to march forward the moment the time expires for signing up. But they will not move when the Germans can rescind the marching orders by the use of a little liquid ink. However, those charged with responsibility for the management of city affairs might like to side step the police department break-down, the ostrich plan of hiding the head in the sand will not satisfy the people. A police force can not be made efficient by holding crooks and incompetents in it. , . Burleson's Defense In employing a press agent Mr. Burleson has adopted a custom which has become general in Washington. In former times statesmen were content to leave the advertisement of their vir tues to volunteer friends in 'the press. But vir tue' is so common at Washington nowadays ; that, leit to itself, it would be no more noticed than a buttercup in a ilower show. It must be. painted or gilded or bronzed. We presume that as a careful man the postmaster general pays his publicity promoter out of his own pocket, for the appropriation bill makes no men tion of any sum of money for the encourage ment of puffery. But at the risk of being con sidered cold-hearted we must insist that Mr. Burleson's personal characteristics have not the weight of a 2-cent stamp in the controversy which is raging about the Post Office depart ment. It makes no difference whether the "General" is or .is not headstrong, arbitrary, egotistical, little-informed; whether he did or did not coin money out of the sweat of con vict labor; whether he is a good leader for the democratic party or a fatally bad one. He is called to the bar to defend himself solely as administrator of the department of the govern ment which is nearest to the daily life of the public." The charges against him are that under his administration the postal service has de- tertorated and has become inefficient and slov enly; that it has been used tyrannically; that the poorest-paid and most competent employes have been ill-treated while the higher officials have been encouraged in the belief that they are outside the law and beyond control by pub lie opinion, and that in general the department has become a mere bureaucratic nest, incom petent, extravagant and arbitrary. These are the principal counts of the indictment Through his publicity promoter Mr. Burleson answers by telling what a pleasant man he is in his daily life and how cruelly his manners " have been misjudged. But the plea will hardly satisfy the public, which has sufferedifrom the scan dalous failure of the department to respond to the test of war times. Soldiers and others whose mail is not delivered promptly, if at all, and who receive their telegrams 24 hours after filing, are apt to be dissatisfied. Unfortunately for .Mr. Burleson, they have come to the con clusion that under his administration the de partment has not been operated to satisfy the public, but to please the officials in control. Collier' Wteklr.- SMOKE BARRAGE FOR THE POLICE. It is only a smoke barrage that the apologists for our police department that is in so bad are raising by crying "partisan politics." The smoke is not' heavy enough, however, to obscure the odious practices and flagrant in efficiency sought to be covered up. So far as The Bee is concerned, the sugges tion that our exposure of police corruption and rottenness is inspired by desire for political'con trol will impose only on the ignorant and un thinking. The Bee supported Police Commissioner Ringer for nomination and election and has commended him whenever he has done any thing commendable. . The Bee supported Mr. Ringer in the hope that he would make good as police commis sioner, just as it had supported his two prede cessors in that office, but refused to support them when they went wrong though all of them were republicans. The Bee besought a fair chance for Mr. Ringer's new chief of police to take hold and give us a creditable police force, and The Bee has never asked any special favor from the police. On the other hand, The Bee was waited on within two days by a good republican, who said he came straight from Mr. Ringer, to suggest as a friend that we were making a mistake in uncovering the police mismanagement because Mr. Ringer is a republican and interested as we are in republican' success in the coming political contests. It is because The Bee realizes that the city commissioners are chosen regardless of politics and sees no palliation for incom petency jn the fact that the misfit is a republi can, because of our acceptance of the principle of nonpartisanship in the municipal government, because we refuse to concede partisan politics any place at all in a police department. The other end of the smoke barrage is the clinching assertion that crime and vice condi tions in Omaha are better today than under previous police administrations. We refuse to debate that question. If conditions were not better after two years of closed saloons it would be a sorry indictment of all that was promised for prohibition. But good or bad, there is no reason that they should not be better. Pro tected gambling and bootlegging, police con nivance in dope peddling, bribe-taking detectives and brutal midnight invasion of homes without warrant of law by immoral morals squads men, should and must be stopped. "A turmoil has been raised because the police administration made a mistake and a very bad and inexcusable mistake" admits the principal organ of the defense. Then why is the very bad and inexcusable "mistake" persisted in and followed up with worse outrages upon the poor victims of police inbecility? Why are the per-, petrators of this inexcusable offense not even suspended from the force while the grave charges against them are looked into? No smoke barrage will hide the glaring de fects of police mismanagement, nor will ex posure hurt Omaha half as much as their un abated continuance. The thing to do is to clean up the police department and do it thoroughly. Reasonable Rates and Fair Return? Preliminary survey of the necessary con ditions for returning the railroads to their pri vate owners brings out a number of pertinent questions, one of them the question of reason able rates and fair retufn. Those who heard Director General Hines in his talk before the Omaha Chamber of Com merce will recall that he declared transportation rates had not been raised high enough, that even today, measured by the amount of the article taken to pay for carrying it, our freight rates were by far the cheapest in the world, and yet he was opposed for the present to raising rates higher, preferring to make up the deficit of railroad expenses over earnings by subsidies out of the federal treasury. Of course the director general fiid not say he would favor this as a permanent policy, for he expressed confi dence that gradually increasing traffic would eventually balance income and outgo. The issue is squarely presented when pro vision for capital invested in the roads is in question. Shall reasonable rates be fixed and capital be conceded all the profits it can earn? If so, some roads will be very remunerative and others run at a dead loss unless the rates are made high enough to pay a fair profit to the poorest line and by consequence excessive prof its to the strongest. Mr. Hines notion seems to be, that capital invested in the roads should be guaranteed a fixed rate of return, and the charges for transportation regulated according to the service. This would make the strong roads carry the weak roads or in a pinch make the federal treasury (i. e.. the taxpayers) carry them all to the extent of possible deficit. Along with government responsibility for the deficit would go, a share in excess profits if there ever were any something unlikely considering the constant demand for rate reduction which under this plan would be more insistent than ever. This is what is involved in the problem of reasonable rates and fair return. The problem invites most careful study and full and free discussion. In response to inquiry from Governor Burn quist, one Minnesota lawmaker wired that he favored the suffrage amendment but would vote against ratifying if the state were put to the ex pense of a special session of the legislature for that purpose. Some lawmakers can be peculiarly obtuse and perverse. - Secretary of Labor Wilson is still "investi The pact has become "impossible" in the language of a made-in-Germany proclamation. The Germans did a lot of things we all thought were impossible during the five years of war they inflicted on mankind. ' A court holds that shampoo is taxable as a cosmetic under the luxury tax. Well, if it's that kind of shanpoo, it ought to be taxed clear up to the prohibitive rate. For the other kind the government should place a bounty on its use in the interest of cleanliness and sanitation. If the "card" system of conducting a truck drivers' strike depends on violence upon vehi cles not displaying a card, it has no merit over the old rough-house method and will appeal no more for popular support The thieves who robbed a pest house in West Virginia, will probably explain that they were only trying to find out whether their in oculation would take. What of Paris? Christian Science Monitor. Perhaps the worst feature of the Shantung betrayal is the destruction of faith, caused by it, in the justice of the decisions of the peace coun cil. When a step has been taken manifestly so politically immoral, the ordinary man is apt to ask, What next? and the cynic to murmur sar donically, "I told you so." Every thoughtful person knew, of course, that the real troubles of the allies would come with the attempt to make peace, but few, it is to be imagined, be lieved that the sentiments fanned to keep the war flame burning would be snuffed out so un ceremoniously on the peace table. In the light, however, of what has occurred the veriest Chi nese rice-hoer might be forgiven for quoting an epigram from that quaint and delightful teacher, Lao Tzu, to the effect that the shamelessness of those who4reach duty to their neighbors is ordinarily shameless indeed: "Alas, they know not shame, nor what it is to blush!" An inkling of what all this means, too real istic to be quite pleasant, seems to have now penetrated the Armenian mind, which is begin ning to discover a most uncomfortable prece dent in Shantung. For a while the Armenians seem to have forgotten their old friends who stood by them when the opportunists and poli ticians were crossing the road in an endeavor not to be confronted by the body of the man who fell amongst thieves lying in the roadway. Paris seemed to be the center of the political heavens, and to Paris the Armenians turned their faces. What they -went out to see, how ever, if they had only known it, was not the driving force of Principle, but the riders in the diplomatic chariot. The diplomists never have yet done anything for Armenia, and, until the driving force of Principle becomes sufficiently strong they never will. A generation of mas sacres, while the diplomatists were writing notes, ought to have convinced the Armenians of that. They would have done far better to have devoted their attention to congress or to the parliament in London, certainly to con gress in particular. But no, the glamor and mesmerism of Paris seem to have been too strong for most people. The truth is that the situation in Paris is growing dangerous, and the- sooner this is recognized the better. Shantung was a great moral failure, Fiume a great political jolt, and nowt comes the heralded effort to whitewash the Turk at the expense of Armenia. Why! all the whitewash in London, Paris and New York could never change the political complexion of that immaculately villainous trio, Enver, Talaat and Djemal. That well-known authority on Armenia, Arshag Mahdesian, now resident in New York, told the readers of this paper, in a. recent interview, that the price of the support of the Ottoman empire iy certain American missionaries had been the safety of Robert College. That is to say, they had opposed the declaration of war by the United States in re turn for a promise by Talaat Pasha tlfat Robert College should be held inviolate. Talaat may have made that promise; Talaat would have made any promise. It was not in making, but in keeping promises, that Talaat showed his weakness. At the same time we do not believe that Washington played Robert College against the safety of the Christians in Turkey. Robert College may have been a pawn in the game, just as the attempt was made to thrust big bus iness into it. But the intent of the White House centered in the safety of the Armenians and Jews in Turkey generally, and of those in Thrace more particularly. People You Ask About Information About Folks in the Public Eye Will Be Given in This Columrf in Answer to Readers' Questions. Your Name' Will Not Be Printed. Let The Bee Tell You. A General of the Civil War. Confederate Soldier: Answering further your question as presented in The Bee on June 6: One of the last surviving generals of the American civil war is William .Henry Reward, who is 80 years old this month. Mr. Seward was born in Auburn, N. Y., the son of William H. Seward, who was secretary of state in Lincoln's cabinet. The younger Seward was in the banking business at the time of his appoint ment in 1862 to lieutenant colonelcy of the 138th New York volunteers. Subsequently he became colonel of the Ninth New York heavy artillery and saw service In many of the great battles in Virginia. In 1864 he was made a brigadier-general and as signed to a command in the Depart ment of the Shenandoah. He re signed from the service a few days after the grand review in Washing ton and returned to Auburn, where he is still engaged in the banking business. The Croix de Guerre to a Woman Is the Croix de Guerre ever given to a woman? T. B. Yes, and a very recent example is Mrs. u. Burdiek of Houston, Tex., Salvation Army worker. "For perseverance in baking pies ana conducting gospel services un der German fire," read the notifica tion from General Pershing's head quarters, received May 31. Mrs. Burdiek had been home three weeks then. The cross is on its way to Houston. She and her husband, known af fectionately as "Ma" and "Pa" Bur dick, served together in France for 17 months. By baking 342 pies in 12 hours, "Ma" won the pie-baking champion ship overseas. A Reader, Blair The company you ask about has organized and you may address them as follows: "American Live Stock Insurance Co.," World-Herald Bldg., Omaha. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. Nevertheless, it is doubtful if there has ever been a great desire to remove the sultan, least of all in London or in Washington. London anH Washinctnn havp (;ppn nuitp rlparlv what the dividing up of the "sick man's" inheritance j would mean. 1 he claimants were already sit ting, like the vultures, on the minarets of Con stantinople, the bazars of Damuscus and the rocks of the Cilician Gates. Therefore, to avoid the datfgers of the settlement, London and Washington were, it is to be imagined, will ing to leave the sultan still a sultan, but a sul tan under control. This is not exactly what the Armenians desired, but then the Armenians had decided to go to Paris, and they are finding it spelt Canossa. What London would like, what Paris and Rome would not be exultant over, but would agree to, would be the accept ance by the United States of the mandate for Turkey. If Mr. Lloyd George were at liberty to speak he would say, It is the best thing for the Turks, and so for everybody else. Of all the great powers the United States is the only one which, today, possesses the financial and other resources for the undertaking. Besides it will bring the United States into close per manent touch with the world problems, and that also will be all the better for the world. Fail ing such a decision the Ottoman empire must be divided up, and then ? So far Mr. Lloyd George, but unless Mr. Wilson is misreported, Mr. Wilson is against acceptance. Mr. Wilson, indeed, is in a position to estimate something which, perhaps, scarcely comes into Mr. Lloyd George's purview, and that is the possible opposition in the United States to such an arrangement. Certainly noth ing that has been said of late in congress shows a wealth of affection for it. What, indeed, con gress is going to be forced presently to decide is the great and broad question of the future relationship and attitude of the new world to the old. That really is the great issue as far as the United States is concerned. What is to be the destiny of the great republic? and what are its obligations to mankind and to civiliza tion? Mr. Wilson apparently thinks that the airship and the submarine have drained the At lantic and .the Pacific, and that the situation which will confront his successors is a very dif ferent one from the one which confronted George Washington. But that, as Mr. Kipling says, is another story. Meanwhile, what of Paris? Paris, justly or unjustly, is beginning to be received with shak ings of the head whenever it is mentioned. The glamour of the early days has passed away, and the man in the street listens to the remorseless ticking of the clock impatiently. The rumor factories are working overtime, and they have taken as their motto that simple couplet, "Defaming and defacing, till she left Not even Lancelot brave, nor Galahad clean." This would not so much matter if the dele gates had given no cause for criticism, or even if they had not given so much cause. Unfortu nately, Shantung is not a matter of opinion, it is a moral failure, and now the world is afraid of a repetition of Shantung in Armenia. Fiume, the Sarre valley, Danzig, all these may leave room for differences of opinion, but Shantung? No! The moral sense of the world has been outraged in Shantung, and sometimes the weary Titan wakes up and remembers that he has a moral sense. Prince Ange of Denmark. . C. A. S. It is reported that Prince Aage of Denmark will pay a visit to America. He is the eldest son of Prince Waldemar and the late Prin cess Marie of Orleans, and a first cousin of the Danish king. The prince has been described as a fine fellow, with charming unostentatious manners. He is an ardent sports man, a clever boxer and one of the best skaters in Europe. He inherits his good looks from his mother, an extremely beautiful princess, whom the duke of Clarence, eldest son or the late King Edward VII, was so desirous of marrying. Several years ago Prince Aage married the daugh ter of a plain Italian nobleman, in consequence of which he had to re nounce his rights to the Danish throne, and the titles of count and countess of Rosenberg were con ferred upon him and his wife. The Day We Celebrate. Robert Cuscaden," violinist, born 1879. . Gustav V, king of Sweden, born in Stock holm 61 years ago. Hon. Arthur Meighan, Canadian minister of the interior, born at St. Mary's, Ont., 45. years ago. Dj Joseph Swain, president of Swarthmore .ollege, born at Pendleton, Ind., 62 years ago. Rt Rev. Cornelius Van de Ven, Catholic ishop of Alexandria, La., born in Holland 54 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. The Ancient Order of Hibernians elected M. J. Clair president, Martin McKenna and M. ilillgallon secretaries, and James Douglas treas urer for the ensuing year. f A Universalist church has been organized with 86 members. Officers are: N. A. Taylor, moderator; Mrs. A. B. Hunt, clerk, and John Wilson, treasurer. City Treasurer John Rush has presented to St .Patrick's church a pipp organ costing $1,500. Nonpartisan Candidate for Mayor. Scottsbluff The nonpartisan can didate you refer to is probably Cass E. Herrington, who has announced his candidacy for mayor of Denver. He has become known throughout Colorado and the west for his con nection with large industrial and development corporations. He is a citizen of a distinct service-rendering type, and as such has filled impor tant posts of honor and responsibil ity in his home city. Mr. Herring ton is a native of Michigan and re ceived his education at the Michigan Agricultural college and the Univer sity of Michigan law school. After receiving his LL. B. degree from the last named institution in 1879 he re turned to his native city of Pontiac, where for 10 years he engaged in the practice of law. In 1889 he re moved to Denver and there formed connections as legal counsel for sev eral great corporations, which soon placed him among the most promi nent men of his profession. Military Record of Hullard What has been the military record of Robert Lee Bullard? Where is he at present? M. F. Lieut. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, speaker two days ago at the gradua tion exercises of the United States Military academy, was commander of the Second American field army in France, and since his return has been in command of the Southeast division. General Bullard is an Ala bamian, who prefaced his period of study and training at West Point with a course of investigation at the Alabama Agricultural and Mechani cal college. His career, prior to the Spanish-American war, was of the conventional type, tending, toward the last, to specialization in the sub sistence department. During the period, when he was on duty in the Philippines he showed marked ability as a civilian administrator. When the United States entered the world war General Bullard was se lected to go to France because of his distinct capacity for meeting new problems. He distinguished himself particularly at the battle of Chateau Thierry and was rewarded with pro motion to the rank of lieutenant general. MUCH IN LITTLE. "RED BEARD'S BOOTS." (Peggy, watching a movie show, sees Red Beard chasln Billy Belgium and the Brone Oenle. and finds herself suddenly drawn Into the picture.) Red Board Gets a Bump. Peggy certainly was astonished. Only a moment before she had been safely seated in the movie thea ter watching the show and now all of a sudden the picture had become real and there she was on the Bronze Genie's shouders in the wild flight before Rer Beard. "Remember Red Beard's power ful magic," warned Billy, who was racing on ahead astride of Balky Sam., "Cross your fingers so his spells will not work." Peggy apd Genie promptly obeyed They didn't want to be turned into Switzerland has a river called A, and there is an island in the Baltic called Zee. During the past year 1,000,000 acres of woods in England were felled for war purposes. A Dutchman who became Queen Elizabeth's coachman was the first to introduce coaches in England. DAILY CARTOONETTE r UM-M I5NT THRT PRETTY. T', . T-r j. u iru io fcHT ij r m HE DID 1ft Billy jabbed the point of his sword into the Turk's fat leg. stone statues, as had happened to the Genie when he had defied Red Beard in Peggy's defense. Coming down hill in his seventy foot boots, Red Beard gained speed, taking such powerful leaps that instead of covering 70 feet at a stride he was going 80. At that rate he quickly overhauled the fugitives, for he flew 15 times faster than the swiftest man could run. "Clank-whizz! Clank-whizz! Clank whizz!" they could hear his seventy foot boots hitting the ground sharp ly, then, sending him springing high Into the air. Whirr! Whirr! went his scimitar, as he slashed menacingly back and forth. Nearer, nearer, near er, then woosh! Peggy , felt the scimitar flash past her ear as Red Heard leaped within striking dis tance. "It's all over with' us," thought Peggy, and the Bronze Genie swung around fiercely to meet ts)e expected attack. But Red Beard Wasn't there to attack. He couldn't stop himself and his seventy-foot boots carried him 80 feet away at one stride. It took a dozen steps for him to slow up and by that time he was several Mocks away. Back he came as fast as ever, but now the Genie, Peggy and Billv were right in the middle of one of his strides, and he flew harmlessly over their heads. Again Red Beard turned around, his springy boots Bending him leaping back, and once more he went far over their heads. "Ho, ho, ho!" laughed the Genie. "Come down and catch us." "Yah, wait until I stop these plaguey boots, and I'll get you quicklv enough." grunted Red Beard, while his piggy eyes darted fiery glances at them. r.aVvk and forth flew Red Beard, apparently unable to step, but pres ently Peggy noticed that each step bacjc and forth was becoming short er. At first his strides over their heads were 80 feet long, then 75, then 70, then 63. Soon Red Beard would have them so shortened that he would be able to reach them with his gleaming scimitar. Billy, seeing this, jumped from Balky Sam's back and ran to where Red Beard s next striae wouia iana Back came Red Beard, raising his scimitar to. cut Billy in two. But Billy didn't intend to be cut in two. He dodged low and the instant Red Beard's heel crunched into the earth Billy jabbed the point of his swordl into the Turk's fat leg. "Oy-ee-ow-ow!" squealed Red Beart. The smarting surprise caus ed him to shove out hard with his leg, the result being that the springs of his seventy-foot boots Sent him bounding away nearly 90 feet. Red Beard was now mad all over. As he landed he tried to reach down to rub his smarting leg, but his springy boots sent him flying back toward Billy. Once more Billy was waiting for him, and once more the sharp point of Billy's sword was jabbed into the Turk's bulging calf. Red Beard tried to jerk his leg aside and the result was that he missed his footing. Wham! he land ed on his side, giving his fat body an awful jar. "Ho, ho, ho!" roared the Genie, but he laughed too soon, for just DAILY DOT PUZZLE UfwJZ lees ox Well Sounding But Meaningless. New York, June 12. To the Edi tor of The Bee: On Memorial day in the Cemetery of Suresnes. amid the graves of the men who gave up their lives for their country, Presi dent Wilson dedicated himself to his own cause. The address of Mr. Wilson is a characteristic argument in favor of his latest theory. There is the same enthusiasm for the pres ent covenant as there was for the first, though the first was declared to be perfect, and though there is little agreement between the two ex cept that the interests of Great Brit ain are equally safeguarded in both at the cost of the interests of the United States. The argument .that Mr. Wilson uses in this speech, as in so many other statements, is quite character istic of his single track and singular ly Indirect mind. "Posterity," says our presidential protagonist, "will acclaim my sentiments as the abso lutely right ones," a statement that Mr. Wilson has no more right to make than any one of the other 100, 000,000 of the citizens of this coun try. Every one of them knows ex actly as much about the future as he does. It is also a statement that shows how pitifully weak is his League of Nations when he is obliged to appeal to the citizens yet unborn while it is the present gen erations that will have to fight the wars in which the league will em broil us. This appeal to an impossible, or rather non-existent Judge, is truly typical of the feminine mind, and I have always insisted that Mr. Wil son's style shows the decidedly fem inine twist of his intellect. We have frequently heard people say that Mr. Wilson's success was due to his power of clear expression. This is not so, as one may see by a casual review of his writings. He is fre quently forceful but seldom clear, and as a matter of fact he has him self often admitted that he is un able to think out clearly matters that would require no enormous brain power. There Is never any evidence that Mr. Wilson appreci ates what Walter Pater calls the aesthetic charm of clear thought. In the matter of his literary com positions I would not for a moment think of denying that Mr. Wilson is a "fancy" writer. Conscious of his knowledge of a large number of words, he takes a very evident pleas ure in arranging them in pleasant sounding groups. It will be noted that the result is particularly pleas ing to people who are not accus tomed to much reading. It is like carrying the Atlantic Monthly they have the feeling of achievement without having the pains of under standing. Another reason for the success of Mr. Wilson's style among those who take literature and history as a mat ter of course, requiring no personal investigation, is that he turns out his compositions on a machine where he can see before hinj the exact type that will confront the reader. The type effects rather than the idea effects are therefore the more in sistent in his mind as he composes. This accounts for the many curious and impossible things that he has said "war without passion," "peace without victory," "too proud to fight," etc. Only a writer who has tried to compose on a typewriting machine can realize how easy it is to become enamoured of sentences that one turns out that look good, sound well and have absolutely no meaning. GEORGE HENRY CAIGTJE. 2969 Decatur avenue. 55 e ro 30 ' s (' v u a if, IS Z8 Ve'fc 17 X' Hi, When 38 lines have been made, You'll see an of finest grade. Draw from one to two and so on to the end. then there was a shout from far away and, looking up, they saw Red Beard's band of horsemen charging toward them at full speed. (In the next Installment will be told how Red Beard gets lassoed and takes harder fall.) TIME TO SMILE. Bacon Wouldn't you like to see the battlefields of Europe? Egbert Oh. I've seen 'em. "Why, you haven't been over since the war, have you?" "No, but I've been to the movies." Yonkers Statesman. "Are you not afraid your speeches will make you enemies?" "No," replied Senator Sorghum. "I ex pect it. In my line of public usefulness a man has to be careful in selecting ene mies as well as in choosing frlenda." Washington Star. "v $IKSEJ. ALE, X ' KIT ?""" '' firm " There are twobigglass fuls in every bottle of this cooling, quenching, prime quality ginger drink. Keep a case always on hand then there will always be a bottle or more for each member of your family. THE CLICQUOT CLUB COMPANY Millie, Mass., U. S. 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