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PRESIDENT SAYS
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.WORLD'S AFFAIRS
1 j In Address to Senate He Asks
Ratification of Agreement
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; Washington, July 10. President
Wilson in presenting the,' peace
treity and the league of nations to
the senate today spoke as follows:
"Gentlemen of the Senate: The
treaty of peace with Germany was
signed at Versailles on the twenty
eighth of June. I avail myself of
the earliest opportunity to lay the
treaty before you - fr ratification
and to inform ypu with regard to
' the work of the conference by which
that treaty was formulated. ,
"The treaty constitutes nothing
less than a world - settlement,' It
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July Clearing Sale Bring
v Unusual Savings as Well
as a Wholesotae Treat
une nunarea uouars in
Gold Will Be Distributed
to Customers of Store.
At the Jkikn Outfitting Com
pany the month of Jnly is to he
month of Hospitality as well as
one of greater values. Any day
when you are downtown shop
ping, you are invited to visit the
store for a big, cooling dish of
Delicia Ice Cream. '
Dellcia.Ice Cream is made from
ncn, wholesome Jersey .cream
flavored " with the choicest va
nilla, making it a nourishine. re.
freshing food that is good for
you these warm July days.
- .With the -Ice Cream there are
crisp, tasty Sunshine Biscuits
from the clean, sunlit Loose-
Wilea Bkrv; mnA fnr jASI.
dren big cones heaped high with
With the July Clearance Sale
in Droeress thera ia
thousands of dollars to those in
need of furniture, as all broken
lines, Samples and Discontinued
Patterns t in Furniture, v Eugs,
Stoves and Draperies are marked
10 to 6096 OFF.
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ity the Union Outfitting Com
pany is conducting a Gold Cou
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One Hundred Dollars in gold on
Me evening oi July 31. No pur
chess is necessarr to nartirinata
iaj any of these events. - v-
would not be possible for me either
to summarize or to .construe it:
manifold provisions in an address
which must of necessity be some
thing less than atreatise. My serv
ices and all the information I pos
sets will be at your disposal and at
the disposal of your committee ou
foreign relations at any time, either
informally or in session, as you may
prefer; and I hope that you will not
hesitate to make use or them, i
shall at this time, prior to your own
study of the document, attempt only
a general ' characterization of its
scope and, purpose.
Informed Daily of Events.
"In one sense, no doubt, there is
oo need that I should report to you
what was attempted and done at
Paris. You have been daily cog
nizant of what was going on there
of the oroblems with which the
peace conference had to deal and of
the difficulty of laying down straight
lines of settlement anywhere on a
field on which the old lines of inter
national relationship and the new
alike' followed so intricate a pattern
and were for the most part cut so
deep by historical circumstances
which dominated action where it
would have been best to ignore or
reverse them. The cross currrents
of politics and of interest must have
been evident to you. It would be
presuming in me to attempt to ex
plain the questions which arose or
the many diverse elements that en
tered into them.
I shall attempt something - less
ambitious than that and more,lear
ly suggested by duty to report to
the congress the part it seemed nec
essary for my colleagues and me to
piay as the representatives of the
government of the United States.
"That part was dictated by the
rc;le America had played in the war
and by the expectations that had
been" created in the minds of the
peoples" with whom we . had asso
ciated ourselves, in that great strug
gle. . ' ' '
i Entered War to End Tyranny.
"The VUnated States entered the
war upon a different footing from
every other nation except our asso
ciates on this side of the sea. We
entered it, not because our material
interests were directly threatened or
because any special treaty obliga
tions to which we were parties had
been violated, but only because we
saw the supremacy and even the
validity of i right everywhere put in
jeopardy, and free government like
ly to be everywhere imperilled by
the intolerable aggression of a
power which respected neither right
nor obligation and whose very sys
tem of government flouted the
rights of the citizen as against the
autocratic authority of his governors.
And. in the settlements of the,
peace we have sought no speciar
reparation for ourselves, but only
the restoration of right and the as
surance of liberty everywhere that
the cfiects oi the settlement were to
be felt. We entered the war as the
disinterested champions of right
and we interested ourselves in the
terms of the peace in no other ca
pacity.
Bouyed Allies Hope.
"The hopes of the nations allied
against the central powers were at s
very low ebb when our soldiers be
gan to pour across the sea. There
was everywhere amongst them, ex
cept in their stoutest spirits, a som
bre foreboding of disaster. The war
ended in' November, eight months
ago, but you have only to recall what
was feared in mid-summer last, tour
short , months before the armistice to
realize what it was that our timely
aid accomplished alike for their mo
rale and their physical safety.
, That first, never-to-be-forgotteu
action at Chateau Thierry had al
ready taken place. Our redoubtable
soldiers and marines had' already
closed the gap the enemy had suc
ceeded in opening for their advance
uoon Paris had already turned the
tide of battle back towards the fron
tiers of France and begun the rout
that was to. save Europe and the
world. ;
Thereafter the Germans were to
be alwavs forced back. back, were
never to thrust successfully for
ward again. ' And yet there was no
confident hope. Anxious men and
women, leading spirits of France,
attended the celebration ot the
Fourth of July last year in Paris
out of generous courtesy with no
heart for festivity.- little zest for
hope. But they came away with
something new at their hearts. They
have themselves told us so. me
mere sight of our men of their
vigor, of the confidence that showed
itself in everv movement of their
stalwart figures and every turn of
their swinging march, in their
steady comprehending eyes and
easy discipline, in the indomitable
air that added spirit to everything
they did made everyone who saw
them that memorable day realize
that something had happened that
was much more than a mere inci
dent in the fighting, something very
different from the mere arrival of
fresh troops.
A great, moral force had flung it
self into the struggle. The fine
physical force of those spirited men
spoke of something more than
bodily" vigor. They carried the great
ideals of a free people at tneir
hearts and with that vision were
unconquerable. Their very pres
ence brought reassurance, tneir
fighting made victory possible. ,
Recognized as Crusaders.
"They were recognized as cru
saders and as their goods swelled
to millions their strength was seen
to mean salvation. And they were
fit men to carry such a hope and
make good 'the assurance it fore
cast. Finer men never went into
battle: and their officers were
worthy of them. This is not the
occasion upon which to utter --a
eulogy of the armies America sent
to France, but perhaps, since I am
speaking of their mission, I may
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speak 'also 'of the pride I shared
with every American who saw or
dealt with them there.
They were the sort of men Amer
ica would wish to be represented
by, the sort of men every American
would wish to claim as fellow coun
trymen and comrades in a great
cause. " They were terrible in battle,
and gentle and helpful out of it,
remembering the mothers and the
sisters the wives and the little chil
dren at home. They were free men
under Arms, not forgetting their
ideals of duty in the midst of tasks
of violence. I am proud to have had
the privilege of being associated
with them and of calling myself
their leader.
Made World Love U. S. ..
"But I speak now of what they
meant to the men by whose sides
they fought and to the people with
whom they mingled with such utter
simplicity, as friends who asked only
to be of service. They were for-all
the visible embodiment of America.
What they did made America and.
all that she stood for a living real
ity in the thoughts not only of the
people of France, but also of tens
of millions of men and women
throughout all the toilinsr nations of
a world standing everywhere in peril
of its freedom and of the loss of
everything it held dear, in deadly
fear that its bonds were never to be
loosed, its hopes forever to be
mocked 'and disappointed.
And the compulsion of what
they stood for was upon us who
represented America at the peace
table. It was our duty to see to
it that every decision we toop part
in contributed, so far as we were
able to influence it, to quiet the
fears and realize the hopes of the
peoples who had been living in that
shadow, the nations that had come
by our assistance to their freedom,
It was our duty to-do everything
that it was within our power to do
to make the triumph of freedom
and of right a lasting triumph in the
assurance of which men might
everywhere live without fear.
Old entanglements of every kind
stood in the way promises which
governments had made to one an
other in the days when might and
right were confused and thepower
of the victor was without restraint.
Engagements which contemplated
any dispositions of territory, any ex
tensions ot sovereignty that might
seem to be to the interest of those
who had the power to insist upon
them, had been entered into without
thought of what the peoples con
cerned might wish or profit by; and
these could not always be honorably
brushed aside.
Fruits May Be Bitter.
It was not easy to eraft the new
order of ideas on the old and some
of the fruits of the grafting may,
I fear, for a time be bitter. But,
with very tew exceptions, the men
who sat with us at the peace, table
desired as sincerely as we did to
get away from the bad influences,
THE DISH THAT SATISFIES
Foods "thai please ihe palate are not always
nourishing or satisfying. Shredded Wheat
Biscuit with berries or other fruits is lelici
ously satisfying andiiourisliind: Tfe crisp
and tasty bakedwheat holds the juices of
fruit inHieir natural flavor- a dish for -the :
Summer days wlien flie appeti
the dicfestive powers are weak. Ready
cooked, teadyrto-eat
the illegitimate purposes, the de
moralizinc ambitions, the interna'
tional counsels and expedients out
of which the sinister designs of Ger
manv had sprung as a natural
growth.
It had been our privilege to for
mulate the principles . which were
accepted as the basis of the peace
but they had . been accomplished,
not because we had come in to
hasten and assure the victory and
insisted upon them but because they
were readily acceded to as the
principles to which honorable and
enlightened minds everywhere had
been bred. They spoke the con
science of the world as well as the
conscience of America, and I am
happy to pay my tribute of respect
and gratitude to the able, forward
looking men with whom it was my
privilege to co-operate for their un
failinir soirit of co-ooeration, their
constant effort to accommodate the
interests thev represented to the
principles we were all agreed upon.
Circumstances Altered Course.
The difficulties, which were many,
lay in the circumstances, not otten
in the men. Almost without ex
ception the men who led had caught
the true and lull vision oi tne prop
lem of oeace as an indivisible whole
a problem, not of mere adjustments
of interest, but of justice and right
action.
"The atmosnhere in which the
conference worked seemed created,
not by the ambitions of strong gov
mniAitti Vint Kv the hnnf and as
cuations of small nations and ot
peoples hitherto under bondage to
the power that victory nad snatter
ed and destroyed. Two. great em
pires had been forced into political
bankruptcy and we were the re
ceivers. Our task was not only' to
make peace with the central empires
and remedy the wrongs their armies
had done.
The central empires had lived in
open violation, of many of the very
rights for which the war nad oeen
fought, dominating alien peoples
over whom they had no natural
right to rule, enforcing, not obedi
erxe. but veritable bondage, ex
ploiting those who were weak for
the benefit of those who were mas
ters and over-lords only by force of
arms. There could be no peace un
til the whole order of central Eu
rope was set right.
Made New Countries.
"That meant that new nations
were to be created foland
Czecho-Slovaka, Hungary itself. No
part of ancient Poland had ever in
any true sense become a part of
Germany, or of Austria, or of Rus
sia. Bohemia was alien in every
thought and hope to the monarchy
of which it had so long been an
artificial part; and the uneasy part
nership between Austria and Hun
gary had been one rather of interest
than of kinship or sympathy.
The Slavs whom Austria had
chosen to force into its empire on
the south were kept to their obedi
encc by nothing but fear. Their
hearts were with their kinsmen in
the Balkans. These were all ar
rangements of power, not arrange
ments of natural union or associa
tion. It was the imperative task
of those who would make peace and
make it intelligently to establish a
new order which would rest upon
the free choice of peoples rather
than upon the arbitrary authority of
iiapsburgs or Hohenzollerns.
Freedom Given Roumania.
"More than that, great popula
tions bound by sympathy and actual
kin to Koumania, were also linked
against their will to the conelom
erate Austro-Hunganan monarchy
or to other alien sovereignties, and
it was part of the task of peace to
make a new Roumania as well as
a new Slavic state clustering about
Serbia.
"And no natural frontiers could
be found to these new fields of ad
jusiment ano redemption, it was
necessary to look constantly for
ward to other related tasks. The
German colonies were to be dis
posed of. They had not been gov
erned: they had been exploited
merely, without thought of the in
terest or even the ordinary human
rignts ot their inhabitants.
Turkish Empire Had Fallen.
"The Turkish emnire moreover.
had fallen apart, as the Austro-Hun-
garian had. It had never had any
real unity. It had been held togeth
er only by pitiless, inhuman force.
Its peoples cried aloud for release,
for succor from unspeakable dis
tress, for all that the new day of
hope seemed at last to bring within
its dawn. Peoples hitherto in utter
ASSETS $15,000,000.00
Hastings, Nebraska, June 3, 1919.
. Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Co.
'; Lincoln, Nebraska. ' -Gentlemen:
Fifteen years ago today, I bought a
$2,000.00, fifteen payinent life policy with your good
company, and today I was banded your check for the
cash value $1,497.34, by your Mr. Kohl, the man that
wrote me fifteen years ago. '
- I have had the satisfaction of $2,000.00 of the best
kind of protection, and a profit of $324.34 on the money
placed with you, and wish to both thank you for the
check, and to commend your ably managed company,
whose results are so satisfactory to policy holders.
This policy has been a valuable asset, and credit to
me during these yearsand your treatment of me as a
policy holder, shows a company interest that is admir
able. Wishing you the best of future success, I am, .
Very truly yours,
" ANDREW ANDERSON.
FIFTEEN PAYMENT LIFE POLICY
Matured ia tha
OLD LINE BANKERS LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY
of Lincoln, Nabratka 1
Nam and Insured. ...... .Andrew Andarson
Residence ............... Hastings, Nabratka
Amount of Policy . . 12,000.00
Total premiums paid Company 1,173.00
SETTLEMENT
Total cash paid Mr. Anderson.. ..$1,497.34
And 15 Years Insurance for Nothing.
Ameri?6?1? V&y-S ?re?ter dividends to policy holders with lower premium rates than any Company in
ff the Stat if ? glVe ? ?d.eason why anyone in the State of Nebraska should "buy life insurance outside
darkness were to be led out into
the same light and given at last
a helping hand. Undeveloped peo
pies and peoples readv for recoeni
tion, but not yet ready to assume
the full responsibilities of statehood
were to be fciven adequate guaran
tees ot trienaiy protection, guidance
and assistance.
"And out of the execution of these
great enterprises of liberty sprang
opportunities to attempt what
statesmen had never found the way
Detore to ao; an opportunity to
throw safeguards about the rights
of racial, national and religious
minorities by solemn international
covenant; an opportunity to limit
ana reguiaie military establishments
where they were most likely to be
mischievous; an opportunity to ef
fect a complete and systematic in
ternationalization of waterways and
railways wnich were necessary to
the free economic life of more than
one nation and to clear any of the
normal channels of commerce of
unfair obstructions, of law or of
privilege; and the very welcome op
portunity to secure lor labor the
concerted protection of definite in
ternational pledges of principle and
practice;
Numerous Tasks Overcome.
JThese were not tasks which the
conference looked about it to find
and went out of its wav to perform
They were inseparable from the set
tlements of peace. They were
thrust upon it by circumstances
which could not be overlooked. The
war had created them. In all quai
tcrs of the world old established re
lationsmps had been disturbed or
broken and affairs were at loose
ends, needing to be mended or
united again, but could not be made
what they were before.
They had to be set right by apply
ing some uniform principle of just
ice or enlightened expediency. And
they could not be adjusted by
merely prescribing in a treaty what
should be done. New states were to
be set up which could not hope to
live through their first period of
weakness without assured support
by the great nations that had con
sented to their creation and won for
them their independence.
Had to Protect Weak.
Ill-governed colonies could not
be put in the hands of governments
which were to act as trustees for
their people and not as their mas
ters if there was to be no common
authority among the nations to
which they were to be responsible
in the execution of their trusts. Fu
ture international conventions with
regard to the control of waterways,
with regard to illicit traffic of many
kinds, in arms or in deadly drugs,
or with regard to the adjustment of
many varying international admin
istrative arrangements, could not
be assured if the treaty were to
provide no permanent common in
ternational agency, if its execution
in such matters were to be left to
the slow and uncertain processes of
co-operation by ordinary methods
of negotiation
If the peace conference itself
was to be the end of co-ooerative
authority and common counsel
among the governments to. which
the wotld was lookine to enforce
justice and give pledges of an en
during settlement, regions like the
Saar basin could not be put under
(Continoed on Page Thne, Colnmn One.)
Sutphen Goes East
Joy Sutphen, business manager of
the Brandeis theater, has gone to
New , York City, wheTe he will get
in touch with all the biggest pro
ducers and complete practically the
entire booking of attractions for
the Brandeis theater for the coming
season. .
Leading French Ace Falls .
to Death Over Versailles
Paris, July 10. (Havas.) Sub
Lieut. Jean Navarre, one of France's
leading aces, fell in an airplane near
Versailles and died shortly' after
ward. '
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Thorn
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Summer Dresses are
Quaintly Victorian
Reminiscent of the fluffiest of Mid
Victorian days are the fanciful or-
; gandy, net' and voile frock3 of this
season.
Airy coolness is the motif upon which
gowns are built and ruffles, ribbons,
laces, French flowers, over-drapes,
tucks and the shortest of sleeves play
their part in the lovely ensemble.
One be-ruffled organdy frock even
has perky little organdy flowers
dropped at random over the flounced
skirt, and a crisp white organdy has
collar, cuffs and deeply scalloped
skirt, edged with a double row of
narrow Val lace.
A large group is priced
$11.75 and othermp to $65
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. y 'Zfaxt (prod cr&?
Kiddles will eat "piece-meal" between meals.
They have always done so and no. doubt always
will. So give them cookies, or cakes or a piece
of pie,. or a slice of real bread baked with
Omar flour.
Remember when you were a kid how your eyes " would"
snap when "Mumsey" was putting the finishing touches
on a good old slice of home-made bread, smeared
with plenty of molasses and enough dabs .of real
butter to put a snap into every second bite.
But in our "kid" days, we grown folks couldn't
get anything like the taste that Omar flour gives.
So the kiddies of today have a lot for which to
be thankful.
When you buy a sack of Omar flour, this guar
antee goes with it.
"If Omar doesn't bake the best bread you
ever baked-simply take the empty sack
to your -grocer, and'ftet your money."
OMAHA FLOUR MILLS COMPANY
Omaha, Nebraska
2500 Baml Daily Capacity
MAHAFLOURMIUSCa
Nn Omaha, nebr-
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