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You should know that
Although only thirty-fourth in
population, Omaha is thirteenth in
bank clearings among the cities of
the country.
Out of sight price of pork.
The "Tiger of France" knows how to play
the game.
"Big Jeff" at least shows the courage of his
convictions in voting.
.v Of course, it was only a Chinaman, there
fore it is all right to rob him.
' A Sioux City "movie" man flew to Omaha
to get a supply of films. He might furnish one
himself.
" , The Omaha police force has dropped to sec
ond place. Washington's standing first in order
of incompetence.
One drawback to an exploded balloon is
that seldom is enough left of the remains to
encourage an inquest.
l . Secretary Lane's request for half a million
cu r . c u .v. u
uuitdre iu ugni iuic iocs uugm ij gu uiiuugn
congress without debate.
' War-time prohibition has been held good
in Connecticut. This ought to end the argu-
I inen.t but it probably will not.
; If Chairman Cummings finds in Nebraska
any indication of a democratic victory in 1920,
ne is welcome to tne discovery.
: The strike in the Leavenworth disciplinary
barracks has one merit. It is not likely to
spread in the form of sympathy strikes.
Europe's cry for aid will be heard with sym
pathy on this :ide, but it will be well for the
'folks over tljere to start to help themselves.
, It is good for that bank looter hiding in
'Omaha that he did not try to bring a pint of
whisky with him. He would have been un
earthed long ago.
The official call for the special session of the
legislature being out, lawmakers will turn their
feet towards Lincoln. Only woman's suffrage is
to be considered.
It is an old practice of umpires to "even up"
by offsetting one mistake with another. Maybe
that is why Japan got Shantung after Italy had
been denied Fiume. .
1 Reports say Chairman Cummings has a sense
of humor. He will need its support if he un
dertakes to get at the bottom of the demo
cratic trouble in this state.
The machinist who has sued a railroad com
pany because he was discharged is opening a
new trail in the labor world, along which much
bf interest to both sides of the question may
be found.
J- The national capital is reported calm, but
the disgrace of the last few days will last a
long, long time. No recent experience has been
go humiliating for Americans as the disorders
at Washington.
Democratic senators complain-that Mr. Wil
son and iiot the treaty is being criticized. This
is perlnps for the reason that frequently a
lawyer with a poor case directs the court's at
tention to himself. The president has invi'ei
criticism and must not complain if he gets it.
The democrats would like to get credit for
passing the Susan B. Anthony amendment, but
the records show that it was defeated by
democratic votes every time it was brought
before congress, Nebraska on at least three
occasions contributing the one vote needed to
beat it in the senate.
Misleading the Farmer
Farmers in the northwest are being misled by
the same sort of ignorance of fundamental
economic principles. Out in North Dakota the
Farmers' Nonpartisan league has started the
state in the banking business. We have be
fore us a cartoon used in their propaganda. It
shows a smiling farmer stepping up to a bank
window, shaking hands with the smiling cashier
and asking, "Am I good for a loan, Henry?"
The ejaculation of the farmer's wife "Land
sakes, can this be true?" and the smiling coun
tenances bf a large family indicate that the
farmer got his loan. Of course, the
farmer ought to know that a bank cannot loan
money on friendship, but only on security, and
that the money doesn't belong to the bank or
its officers, but to the depositors.
Millions were misled, after the Civil war, by
the Vag money" advocates, who said that all
the government needed to do was to print
greenbacks and pay its debts, forgetting that
back of the government's paper and credit
must be gold. As things are going now, farm
ers will not long need be borrowers. In 1914
the average value of crops was $970 per farm,
in 1917 more than $2,000, while in 1918 it was
$2,500, and in 1919 will probablybe $3,000. And
we are glad of it
Let the farmers and wage earners and all of
tts be happy and prosperous, but muzzle the per
sons Who are preaching the gospel of unrest to
world that is fast wandering from the eternal
truths of the gospel Leslie's.
PRESIDENT AND SHANTUNG.
The most astonishing admission that has
come from the White House in connection with
the conference at Paris is that of the president
taking full responsibility for the settlement
awarding Shantung to Japan.
In justification of his action, Mr. Wilson
presents the familiar argument that Japan's
great service in the war entitled that country
to special compensation. This had been agreed
to in advance, by England and France. It was
pliinly evident from the first that Japan had
cast its lot with the Allies, just as did Italy, in
expectation of gain. It has not yet been made
clear why this gain should be at the expense
of China, also an honorable ally, even though
a weak one. We would riot think of granting
compensation at the expense of Brazil or Costa
Rici, so why should China be mulcted?
Remember, too, that one of Mr. Wilson's
fourteen points was justice to weak nations.
In November, 1915, Baron Shibusawa made
a hurried visit to this country for the purpose
of consulting certain great financiers in New
York. As he was leaving for home he gave out
an interview, in which he proposed that the
United States provide the capital and Japan
would furnish the experts for management, and
the two countries should thus co-operate in the
exploitation of China. This may not have had
anything to do with the action at Versailles, but
it docs show the trend of Japanese thought.
Frrm Paris comes word that the notes made
of conversations covering the point are to be
written into the form of an agreement
definitely binding Japan to get out of Shantung
at a future date. It is hoped such, an arrange
ment will satisfy China and end the incident.
In its present status it is far from acceptable
to the American sense of justice to the weaker
nations.
Will Lincoln Try Municipal Street Railways?
The word from Lincoln that the people there
will soon pass on the question of taking over
the street railway system and operating it as a
municipal enterprise has a general interest and
a more particular interest for Omaha. If Lin
coln should embark in the municipal owner
ship of street railways and make a success of it,
the example would surely exert an influence in
Omaha only 55 miles away and, on the other
hand, failure of the venture to meet expecta
tions would have a bearing upon our treatment
of our street railway problem. Incidentally, it
is worth noting that in the hearing now in
progress before the Federal Electric Railway
commission at Washington, Dean Mortimer E.
Cooley of the University of Michigan advocated
municipal ownership as the best .and quickest
way to convince the public that it is not desir
able. Whether Lincoln is a good place to try
this experiment, whether conditions of traffic
and operation will present a far test for other
cities, will perhaps still be open to debate. Then
again, the people of Lincoln, vhen they come
to vote on the proposition, may possibly reg
ister against municipal street railways. For
ourselves, we should like to see Lincoln try
it out.
People and the Peace Treaty.
Special advocates of the ratification without
reservation of the Versailles treaty lay great
stress on the fact that it was adopted by the
British Parliament "almost without discussion."
These do not, however, disclose the fact that
the discussion was deep, earnest, and penetrat
ing. Nor do they make it plain that Lloyd
George, Lord Milner and others debated it in
public before many different organizations
through which British opinion may be shaped
Most important, it is not explained that instead
of making formal reservations, the British Par
liament finally ratified the treaty with a dis
tinct understanding that nothing in it affects
British sovereignty anywhere on earth. Premier
Hughes of Australia tersely put it: "We will
lie safe behind the shield that has protected
us through the war."
Americans ask only that it be made clear
that the sovereignty of the United States be not
surrendered to the decision of a council of na
tions, even though that decision to be effective
must be unanimous. On this point there can be
no compromise. The sovereign power of the
United States dwells in the people, and there it
will remain.
However anxious our people may be to
avoid war, they are not ready to enter in4o
any arrangement that may operate to involve
them in war without their consent. It is to
the credit of the man in the street that he is
fundamentally jealous of his responsibility as a
citizen. He is. not ready to yield his assent to
any program looking to limitation or modifica
tion of this responsibility.
Discussion of the treaty and its contents
will not be limited for no better reason than
that it was not fully debated in England or
France. In so far as it affects American rights,
now and for the future, it is to be dissected and
made clear, and any part of it that abridges the
freedom of action of the republic will be rejected.
Passing of George Primrose.
Men whose heads are tinged with silver will
learn of the death of George Primrose with
regret. His passing will recall to them days
when "negro" minstrelsy was a standard form
of entertainment, and Primrose was a king.
Americans of today scarcely can realize that
"Col. Jack" Haverly created almost as much
of a sensation by taking his famous band of
"50 count them 50" "black-face" entertainers,
around the world as Roosevelt did by sending
a fleet. The Barlow, Wilson. Primrose and
West company of forty years ago is a fragrant
memory to those who enjoyed the antics of
the endmen, the rattle of the bones, the clog
dancing, the "essence of Old Virginia," and the
famous "soft-shoe" steps of the man who has
just gone on, the last of a noted group. Min
strelsy of a sort is kept alive, but it is a sorry
remnant of the glory of that day. when Billy
West, George Primrose, Lew Dockstader, Billy
Kersands, George Coes, Luke Schoolcraft,
Hughy Daugherty and their lesser associates
were making millions laugh by their grotes
queries or charming them by their graces.
When Uncle Sam spends $3,000,000 on the
Omaha balloon school, the public will under
stand what Dan Lamont meant so many years
ago, when he refused to allow the fort site to
be put on the market. This is the natural lo
cation for a great aeronautic college, such as
the government must have, and its proper de
velopment is essential to the future of the air
service
Shantung
From the Villager.
The Shantung arrangement is not only an
imperfect arrangement; it is a shockingly bad
one. If the administration is going to attempt
to defend it as a very fair arrangement indeed,
beneficent for China, quite without menace to
the United States, then the administration has
a busy, busy time ahead of it. It is not of im
portance whether the disposition of Shantung
contravenes the 14 points or whether it can be
argued into some specious accord with them;
the thing transgresses the feeling of decency
and no amount of "interpretation" will mitigate
the fact.
The only argument, or better, explanation,
which an honest man may offer in regard to
the Shantung transaction is the explanation of
necessity. It costs something to defeat a na
tion like Germany, and we all have to pay, not
what we choose, but what it costs; the solution
of so great a'wrong is not so simple as merely
setting up good for bad; evil is no such
trifling thing as that. Shantung is a price paid,
as Mr. Lodge has well said in the senate, but
it is a price paid for something more important
than Japan's adherence to the League of Na
tions, as Mr. Lodge very well knows. The
adherence which has cost so much was not to
the League of Nations, but, if we may so dis
tinguish it, to the league of nations, that real
league which has been slowly rising as Ger
many lifted up its anti-western philosophy.
Japan may not be affirmatively anti-western; it
has not proved that yet. But it is certainly not
western; by none of its temperament nor ways
does it belong to our league. But is anyone in
doubt where our league would be now had
Japan broken out of it three years ago?
Who among us is to blame for this unwor
thy arrangement which bought Japan's adher
ence? England and France? Let us do a little
accounting. Germany overran France and
pressed hard on England. On the other side
of the world, Japan saw England's peril and
put on the pressure; it demanded its free let
us not euphemize it-its imperialistic way in
China as compensation for a pledge not to as-;
sist Germany. England had no choice. An im
perialistic Japan could conceivably menace Eng
land's safety, but it could not menace it as did
Germany, driving down on Paris.
Where were we in the meantime? While
England was miserably making miserable
promises about Constantinople and Smyrna and
Shantung, where were we? If the United States
had not been glorifying neutrality and lauding
the German people, if they had not been elect
ing a president to keep them out of the war,
if the administration they elected had not been
urging a peace between equals and protesting
angrily against the blockade it is now proposed
to make a world obligation, would England
have been pressed to quite all these desperate
pledges? If England and France had been sure
that America would come to the rescue in
1917. would they have capitulated so thor
oughly to those who are frankly more mer
cenaries than allies? Not only were the allies
not sure America would join them in 1917 or
at any other time; in March, 1916, they were
quite sure we were considerably too proud to
fight: a summer had passed, a winter had
passed; if America would not go to war on
an issue like the Lusitania, it would not go to
war at all. It would be extreme to say that
the United States is solely responsible for the
Shantung settlement. But we should feel highly,
uncomfortable were we among those of our
countrymen who are now denouncing the allies
for doing what, our delinquency considered,
they had to do, or are berating Mr. Wilson for
not saving China at Paris; perhaps China could
not have been saved, but if there was ever a
time to save it, it was considerably before the
peace conference.
It is fatuous to talk. about two wrongs not
making a right; who supposes they do? But
when you substract a wrong from a greater
good, you sometimes have a little good left.
Germany is, after all. defeated; that was the
first business. It took some bad pledges to do
it, but Paris could not revoke the pledges. Over
and above that, Paris could not leave China
free "to work out its own destiny," as the
irresponsibles say so lightly. One of our cor
respondents who is learned in the affairs of
the Orient, writes us the assurance that China
would rather have Germany in Shantung than
Japan. Paris knew that well enough. China is
not pro-German: it is merely helpless. No
nation has a right to be so weak as China;
so far we are willing to go with the German
philosophers. Belgium is strong and good
flows from its strength, but China's weakness
is the sort that makes for evil on both sides;
its only vigor is its hatred of Japan and it must
be admitted that at least the peace conference
lias not weakened that virtue in it!
But this leads us out of analysis into specu
lation. The Shantung affair is an evidence of
this; that the probability for the next great war
lias been shifted from Europe to our side of
the water. If the increase of Japan's power by
the cession of Shantung menaces anybody, it
menaces us first. If the present arrangement is
too monstrous, if some future arrangement
growing out of it shall prove intolerable, ours
is the business of the war that will settle it.
Japan is nearer our safety than Germany;
Germany was nearer England's safety than
Japan. England shifted the peril of war from
its front to ours. Who is to blame? England?
No. England looked after its own interests
at Paris as did ever other nation save ours.
We held it selfish and barbaric to look to our
own interests; our delegates did not represent
us but humanity, and so it has come about
that the potential danger of the next conflict
h;is been pushed over to us. If we are candid,
we must say it serves us right. But the after
thought comes that Mr. Wilson has served us
wrong, and that without any perceptible benefit
to anyone, least of all to China.
Not a Qualified Teacher
Henry Ford bears cheerful testimony on the
witness-stand to his profound ignorance of his
tory, including the causes of wars, and to his
satisfied belief that history is all "bunk" any
way, and not worth knowing.
Nobody can dispute Mr. Ford's right to hold
these views if they suit him, But no man who
does hold them can be considered a safe guide
or counselor on the subject of national defense.
Mr. Ford, in a crisis of this nation's history,
set himself up to be such a guide and counselor
and by the circumstance of his great wealth was
able to give his pacifist and antipreparedness
teachings a wide publicity.
Probably many persons who accepted those
teachings did so because they believed Mr.
Ford to be qualified, by knowledge and study
of the world's history, to pronounce with au
thority on such subjects. The danger, which
this sequel reveals, of assuming that the gift of
prophecy necessarily goes with the accumula
tion of a fortune, ought not to be lost upon per
sons seeking guidance in time of great national
:ril. Kansas City limes.
Friend of the Soldier
Replies will be given in this .
column to questions relating
to the soldier and his prob
lems, in and out of the army.
Names will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Answer
Strength of a "Division."
Soldier The figures given to The
Bee for the strength of the Ameri
can forces in Germany was a mis
print. It should have been 60,000
instead of 30,000 as printed. The
strength of an American division is
rather more than 28,000 men. or
nearly double a French or German
division. In April, last, the First
division had present 24,194 effectives
and the Third division 26,661. These
are the two divisions being held on
guard in Germany.
Discharges fop Drafted Men.
Mrs. H. A. V. You write: "In an
editorial in The Bee you mention
the service of 'Big Jeff' in securing
honorable discharge for the boys
who waited so long for the last
draft.
"Will you please tell me to whom
I should write in regard to this.
"My son was called in the last
draft first, in October that call was
postponed by Governor Neville; the
second call was for November IS.
Of course the armistice November
II stopped troop movements to
camps. Of course he is only one of
thousands. These boys were will
ing and anxious to go. However, the
fact remains that nearly all of them
gave- up good position, and some
young farmers disposed of their
stock and business interests and had
everything in readiness to go and
received notification the morning of
the 13th that the draft was called
off and of course could not report.
"I wrote Mr. Hitchcock and he
wrote me nothing could be done. I
then wrote Mr. Kinkaid; he wrote
discharges would be given these
boys and to write the local draft
board. I did this only to be In
formed that no orders of the kind
had been received.
"I still feel that these boys who
received their draft calls and were
as ready and anxious to go as any
who had gone should at least have
an honorable discharge to complete
their record. Much more worthy
were they than the men who have
received their honorable discharges
from Leavenworth prison for failure
to do their duty. Can you give me
any Iielp or further information.
These boy3 are not asking any pay,
simply honorable recognition."
Write to the adjutant general of
the army for further information as
to the honorable discharges, he hav
ing informed Congressman Jeffcris
that the young men who were called
but did not get to go would be given
this recognition of their service.
Many Questions Answered.
M. K. The Twenty-fourth bal
loon company is at Neuwied, Ger
many, A. P. O. 754. It is attached
to the American forces in Germany,
and no notice has been given of the
time it will be returned to this coun
try. J. M. B. Write to headquarters,
Marine corps, Washington, D. C,
for information concerning an in
dividual member of the corps. We
have no information as to the pres
ent station of company G, 13th ma
rines. Aunt AVrite to the bureau of
Navigation, Navy department,
Washington, D. C, for information
in regard to an individual sailor.
Your nephew is undoubtedly restor
ed to active duty, or you would have
had word from the hospital authori
ties. "Kid" As you were not of age
when you entered the navy, and
were discharged for that reason, you
are not entitled to the uniform or to
the $G0 bonus.
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Nelson C. Pratt, attorney-at-law, born 1862.
Nels P. Swanson, undertaker, born 1865.
William A. Johnston, chief justice of the
Kansas supreme court, born at Oxford, Ont.,
71 years ago.
William Gillette, actor and playwright,' born
at Hartford. Conn., 64 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Grading has begun on the old Military road
from the end of Cuming street to Fremont,
known in days gone by as the "Overland Trail."
The Sutherland Hotel' company has incor
porated with a capital stock of $150,000.
A large delegation o"f Lincoln men were in
the city to inquire into and inform themselves
on the working of electric motor railways.
Mrs. Col. G. V. Henry has gone to Clifton
Springs. N. Y., for the summer.
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ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"THE NEW BEE QUEEN."
(Pepgy and Billy are changed Into honey
beee through a wish given them by Hum
ble Bee Buzi. Peggy becomea a capttve
of the lady worker bees, and a revolt la
atarted to make her queen.)
PggJ Is Elected Queen.
fe'TTAlL! Queen Peggy Bee!"
X JL buzzed the worker bees a
second time.
"Hum! Hum! It's silly to make
her a queen just when I've got her
nicely trained as a nursemaid," ob
jected Fuzzyhum. "We can raise
another queen without much trou
ble, but it is hard to get a new
nursemaid."
"And it's silly setting up a new
queen and wasting time right in our
busy season," added Busybuzz, who
had Just arrived with a load of
honey. "I'm against it."
"We will have an election," de
clarey Honeydew. "All those in
favor of making Peggy Bee our
queen will say 'Buzz!' "
"Buzz-z-z-z-z!" went all Honey
dew's followers.
"All those not in favor of making
Teggy Bee our queen will make a
noise like Judge Owl," said Honey
dew. There was not a sound, though
the followers of Busybuzz wrinkled
up their faces like a boy trying to
whistle while sucking a lemon.
"I. hear no noise like Judge Owl,
so I declare Peggy. Bee elected as
our queen," said Honeydew.
"But we can't make a noise like
Judge Owl. We can make only bee
noises," protested Busybuzz.
"Then say 'Buzz,' " said Honey
dew, "Buzz-z-z-z," sand all the fol
lowers of Busybuzz.
"Good! Now everybody has voted
for Peggy for queen and she is
doubly elected," declared Honey
dew. "But we said 'buzz,' " objected
Busybuzz angrily.
"To be sure you said 'buzz.' And
as I had said 'All those in favor of
Peggy Bee as queen will say 'buzz,'
you've helped us elect her."
"Buzz! Buzz! We will not stand
for a trick like that. We will leave
the hive," blustered the followers
of Busybuzz, very angry over the
shrewd way in which Honeydew
had fooled them into voting for
Peggy.
"Leave it, then, and take your
old queen with you," laughed
Honeydew. And away went Busy
buzz and all her hundreds of fol
lowers to get ready to move.
"That wasn't a fair trick. I'll not
"What Shall 1 Do? What Shall 1
Do?" Buzzed Peggy In Despair.
IN THE BEST OF HUMOR.
"Why do you keep thia man? He
doesn't seem to know anything about
the business."
"He's our expert witness." Toledo
Blade.
The Knut It's simply absurd! What's
the use of showing me lowcut collars
like these? Do you mean to say that
you keep nothing taller?
Shop Girl I'm sorry, but our next size
la cuffs. Cassell's Saturday Journal.
Mrs. Grogan Wake oop, ye foghorn!
01 can't shlape a wink on account av
youre shnorin'.
Grogan Ye must thry an' get used to
it. the same as Ol hov. Oi niver notice
It mesilf, at all, at all. Boston Transcript.
"Oh. dear." sighed the movie star, "1
forgot something when I was down town
shopping."
"Wha,t was It?" Inquired her secretary.
"I mrtant to buy an automobile to match
my new hat. Film Fun.
Mr. Baccn How did you like my speech
at the dinner last night?
Mrs. Bacon It reminded me of the
time when you courted me, dear.
Air. Bacon How so?
Mrs. Bacon Why, I thought you never
would come to the point. Tit-Bits.
"Are they well mated?"
"I should say so. He seems to be
able to make money almost as fast
as 5he can spend It." Detroit News.
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thought Peggy, and she started for
the door. Before she reached there,
however, a figure appeared at the
opening, coming at her with .a
vicious buzz. It was the old queen.
"I'll not be put out!" buzzed the
queen. "I'll sting you to death. Then
they'll have to let me stay until they
can rear a baby queen bee."
I'eggy saw that she was in for a
duel. .She had to sting the old queen
or be stung herself.
But Peggy didn't want to kill the
queen, not even to save herself. Yet
she couldn't run away, and the
queen boe was coming at her. Sud
denly Peggy thought of a plan. She
began to sing a song like the bee
song, and the queen stopped to
listen:
"Once there was a silly bee.
Never idle, never free;
Always working hard, ah me.
What a silly, silly bee.
Till at last this .silly bee
Worked until it couldn't see.
Then it starved, oh mercy me,
What a silly, silly bee!"
The queen bee was so busy listen
ing to Peggy's queer song that she
didn't notice the bee guards enter-
' ing the room. Then, when she leap
: ed forward to sting Peggy, it was
j too late. The guards stopped her
and hustled her away.
Again i'eggy was left alone, but
her chance to escape whs cut off.
The guards, before departing, sealed
the door tiht with wax.
"What shall I do? What shall I
do?" buzzed Peggy in despair.
; "Cheer up," buzzed a muffled
voice. "I'm coming to the rescue."
It was Billy Bee. And I'eggy, list
ening intently, could hear him cut
ting a hole through the wall of the
room.
i (Tomorrow will be told how Billy Bea
gets badly stung and how tha stinging
has an unexpected result.)
What has Noodle drawn?
Draw from one to two and ao on to the end
be elected queen that way," pro
tested I'eggy, who was too honest
to profit by such queer bee
politics.
"You have nothing to say ahout
it. You're only the queen." buzzed
Honeydew. "do to your room until
we have cleared the hive of the old
queen and her crowd."
Not giving Peggy a chance to say
another word they hustled her into
a large room near by. The whole
hive was by this time in an uproar.
The followers of the old queen were
hurrying to get away and the others
were hustling them along. In the
confusion Peggy was left alone in
the room.
"Here's a chance to escape,"
"Business Is Cooo.ThankYou
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