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I TODAY I 4 B THE OMAKA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 27, 1919.' The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY , " FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COM PANT, PROPRIETOR ;V MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 9b Associated Frees, of which The Baa Is member. U ez hltlTlly entitled la the um for publication ef til inn dispatches credited ta U or not otherwise eredlied Id this paper, and also Mm local newa published herein. Ail rifhta of publication of our dssUI diepatckaa are alio mmd. BEE TELEPHONES! Meat Branch Exchange. Aak for th Tula. 1 AWi Department or Particular Person Wanted. I jrlCr 1 JJJ Editorial Department Circulation Department AdrerUslog Department For Nlhl or Sunday Sorvica Call Tyler 1001 . Tyler IBOSU Tyler 10081. OFFICES OF THE BEEt Roma Office, Baa Building, 17th and fernem. Braaeh Of flew: Benson I tilt Military Are. Mouth Bid 1318 N Street Council Bluffl II N. Main Ivinton J47 South 16th Lake Salt North 34th IWalnut 819 North 40th uut-of-lown omens t Fifth Are. Washington 1311 O Street Beeger Bids. ILlncola 1330 R 8 treat Je Tork W ChloafO JUNE CIRCULATION! Daily 64,611 Sunday 61,762 Ararat circulation for the month subscribed and inn to by C. R. Bagan, Clrsulation Manatar. Subscribers leaving th city should hava Th Baa mailed ta them. Address chanf ad as ofttn aa raquaaUd. You should know that Omaha is a city of comfortable homes over 50 per cent of our families are home owners. Come on with your thunder showers. How do you like the rule about ice on Sunday? Des Moines also will buy some of the bacon that is too coarse for Omaha's use. J. Laurie Wallace declines to pose as Parts. Advancing years bring wisdom with them. Calling the man who does not agree with you a "bolsheviki" does not end the argument. It ! too bad that "T. R." could not have 1 1 teen the New Mexico going through the Gatun ! locks. Hungary will keep it up until somebody steps in and gives the turbulent reds a real licking. I "Bolshevism" may develop into a healthy public sentiment against a lot of high-handed I incompetence. , , It took a wild steer to show that even a successful stage athlete can go too far when ' he tackles nature. N ' "Clarification of counsel" between the presi ! dent and his chief spokesman in the senate 1 might help a little. Alabama adds another argument in favor of the women voting the democratic ticket by j refusing to ratify the suffrage amendment American sugar needs are being met by a refinery output of 41,000,000 pounds a day, but the national sweet tooth persists in yearning. ( The Omaha man who asked the burglar to let him sleep felt himself entitled to the courtesies extended the police by the night prowlers. "S wallow-it-whole" democrats are at least making their present position clear. A little later they will explain they were for reserva tions all the time. ' Another bridge over the Platte river giving Saunders county farmers access to Omaha mar kets Is one of the best enterprises in which the county can engage. ' Nebraska's contribution to the food supply o! tht world this year is now figured at a bil lion of dollars. And the state is only putting out about half of what it might. i ' Our Justly celebrated "morals' squad surely can be "weal wufF when it goes into action. However, up to date it has shown remarkable judgment in picking its victims among the weak. British miners and American seamen have settled strikes, the big phone company walk outs are being adjusted, and Mr. Burleson says his mail service is flying again, so it looks like real activity is not to be postponed much longer. ,.: ' - Former Governor Foss of Massachusetts is of tht opinion that the street railways of the United States will be well on the way to municipal ownership "before snow flies." This may encourage the managers, who think they art now on the way to bankruptcy. The list of graduates from the summer school of the Nebraska university is an indi cation of renewed activity in the work of edu cational training. Nebraskans must feel genuine satisfaction in noting the recovery of life at the state's great school. 1 ' Tips as a Fixed Charge iv ? One swallow does not make a summer, but there is an ominous suggestion in the prece dent set bv a nearby seashore hotel of adding 10 per cent to the bill to cover the waiter's tip. Are tips to be made a fixed charge and the gratuity now voluntarily given on the the ory of good service transformed into an obr ligation? ....... j Aa tinm err 111 tiff PPtlt fit th hill IS A mOQ- -, : ri9 y J w " . - I est charge. It means only 10 cents for the ' taxicaD driver lor a nue 01 oruuiaiy icugiu w hotel or theater. For the waiter it represents '. under the present scale of restaurant prices the t mere trine ot iw per cent increase m mis iunn I of the higher cost of living. Most people i WOUla DC content to auuuui tu a cent tip tax, assuming that the rate were rig- -idly adhered to. - But what guarantee will. there be against excess tips? How much more than the nor mal tip computed in the bill will restaurant : patrons have to pay to obtain even bad service and avert a scowl? Unfortunately, the prece- ( 4 Vi nmmm tjr i rint rpassurinff. Whv ' - may not the 10 per cent addition to the bill become ZO at the proprietors pleasure, wra bonus besides for the waiter? The gratuity aspect of the tip has so gen erally disappeared that to standardize it will ido little violence to sentiment. The main ' .1.1 m. m ft TtrhAnAtA ie that in rnmmrrial. t LU 111 g p . ' - " ' - uing tips and making them a fixed charge their f - f 1 1 . . i j : priginai purpose win dc lorgoncn anu umcrs will be subjected to double taxation for the privilege of being allowed to pay for a dinn' New York Wli I . HALF-TRUTHS AND THE HEARER. .. Bishop Williams of Michigan, testifying on behalf or Henry Ford, shocked listeners by his statement that' Christ often spoke half-truths that he might gain rhetoricaremphasis. This was said in order to justify an unguarded ex pression of the great manufacturer. It may serve its purpose in that regard, but it must also stand as an illuminating sample of the half truth. For more than nineteen centuries able ex positors have been steadily at work, explaining what Christ meant. His simplest 'and most direct utterances have been the subject of most extensive discussions. Learned doctors, occu pying chairs of exegesis and apologetics, devote their lives to minute examination and analysis of the limpid language of the scriptures, and their disciples spend their days in passing along to the uninformed the conclusions reached in these laboratories of definition. Or should they be called workshops of obfuscation? For the learned exponents of religion do not agree among themselves, and the simple are confused through their disputations. Mr. Ford on the witness stand afforded an excellent example of how understanding is muddled between individuals. His definitions of words and phrases used in his name showed remarkable misconception of exact meanings, and clearly established that many things at tributed to him did not in even a broad, let alone a literal, sense express his real views. Dealing with half-truths is still the most dangerous form of deception ever practiced. Men are held responsible these days for what they say, even when their meaning is obscure. Those who are looked up to, therefore, should be circumspect far beyond their humbler fel lows. Even Bishop Williams' frank admission on the stand, something well understood by students, is apt to vex him and others sorely because of its misapplication by those who do not grasp or who deliberately distort its real significance. Even the whole truth is sometimes dangerous. The Malady and the Remedy. The Bee reproduces in another column on this page the perspicuous diagnosis of the po lice department made by our amiable demo cratic contemporary, of which we invite careful perusal. We are free to admit, barring the un warranted declaration that The Bee would like to boil Commissioner Ringer in oil which is farthest from our thoughts that the situation in which that gentleman has brought himself is here sized up to a turn. With customary partisan blindness, the democratic organ in sists that Mr. Ringer has merely turned out to be just the disappointment it warned the peo ple he would be when that paper refused to support him while The Bee was urging his elec tion. To this we might say, "tit for tat," with respect to Mayor Ed P. Smith, who has written himself down a failure, whose candidacy the World-Herald championed while The Bee op posed. It only goes to show that none of us are infallible in picking horses for the political race track and that the nag on which we lay our wagers may, after winning the first heat, be unable to keep up his speed. The kindly suggestion is offered that our misfit police commissioner is really a punish ment sent upon us for our sins and follies a sort of divine affliction, we suppose, like the yoke of the kaiser put upon the necks of the German people which we must bear with meek submtssiveness. Perhaps if Mr. Ringer were elected to the particular position of police commissioner and must remain there, willy nilly, until his term is ended. As a matter of fact, seven city commissioners were chosen simultaneously on one ticket and they assigned themselves to the different administrative de partments, the assignment being subject to change without notice whenever they conclude a change would be for the betterment of the municipal government. If our amiable con temporary believes what it says about the mis management of the police department, it should join in a demand for a redistribution of city hall duties not next month, nor next year, but now. Nebraska's Apple Crop. In the July number of Nebraska Horticulture is contained some information that is rather startling. It is an article by Secretary Weber of the Nebraska Horticultural society, in which he states that as an apple-growing state Ne braska is going back. The crop for this year, according to Mr. Weber, will be the least in fifty years, and some of the trees that bore well last year will never bear again. But there is no real cause to be fright ened, he adds, if we wake up and the proper interest be taken to learn how, what and where to plant, and how to care for trees in different localities of the state, for there is no better soil anywhere for grow ing good apples than along the Missouri river from Burt county to the southeast corner of the state. In support of this we may quote a letter from A. M. Shubert, one of the state's best known farmers, whose long experience gives him the right to speak with authority. He writes: I haven't an acre of orchard that has not produced in one crop enough to buy one acre of farm land adjoining. I have had only one failure in thirty years, which was caused from freezing, in all my commercial apple growing. j This same farmer states that for fifteen years his net profits from a ten-acre orchard have been greater than from the grain raised on seventy-five acres of adjoining land. The value of the commercial apple orchard in Ne braska was long ago established. It is rather discouraging to be told that the orchards are declining. Efforts to stimulate the restoration of the industry should be made by those in posi tion to do so, to the end that Nebraska will re tain the prestige it had established, and that the profitable and highly desirable crop be not lost to the state. Denver is going to have municipal markets to combat the cost of living. Nothing like that for Omaha, where, as the mayor says, the bacon offered by the government is only eaten by certain classes. Of course, these classes get as hungry as any, but that factdoes not trouble the city hall. Governor McKelvie meets the Board of Con trol half-way by declining to include in his call for a special session a recommendation that another quarter of a million be appropria ted for the support of the state institutions The board must cut its coat according to the cloth ' Views and Reviews Taft's Plan for Treaty, Com promise Mentioned When Here Mr. Taft's proposal for attaching reserva tions or interpretations to ratification of the peace treaty seems to have caught the country by surprise, but, as a matter of fact, the posi tion he has taken doesn't reflect a sudden change, as I happen to know from the tenor of his talk when he last passed through Omaha a month ago. On this trip he had delivered ad dresses at Schuyler, Lincoln and Wahoo and was sensing a growing opposition to uncondi tional ratification. He spoke very earnestly and voiced his belief that the treaty could be accepted without danger, and especially the League of Nations section, but was by no means overconfident. I asked him point-blank what, in his opinion, would be the outcome and he answered me frankly. "It looks to me," he said, "as if we would have a deadlock which will only be avoided or broken by a compromise. The friends of the league are assured they will command a ma jority of the senate sufficient to vote -down any motion to amend, but I fear they will fall short of the two-thirds majority necessary to ratify. Under such conditions, the two sides can get together by finding common ground in reserva tions of the nature proposed by Mr. Root not the precise phraseology, but a reformulation of the points that would be satisfactory to two thirds of the senators." I intimated that perhaps he was yet to be cast in the role of the great compromiser, but he laughed it off with a jocular remark that he doubted whether he was popular with either side. From the general tone of the whole con versation, it is fair to conclude that that last western trip is what determined Mr. Taft to propose a 4ompromise arrangement as the only j way our. Home Health Hints Reliable advice given in this column on prevention and cure of disease. Put your ques tion in plain language. Your name will not be printed. . Ask The Bee to Help You. My old friend, Al Sorenson, who was at the time a reporter for The Bee, and is unques tionably the best posted person alive on Omaha history, has been straightening out some facts relating to the donation of Hanscom park to the city of Omaha in 1872. He recalls that of the 80-acre tract, 20 acres were given by James G. Megeath, who deferred to A. J. Hanscom, as the contributor of the larger part, the honor of having the park named after him. Sorenson tells how he accompanied Joseph H. Millard, then mayor, and all the city councilmen, in cluding Councilman Jim Stephenson, the fa mous liveryman, to the park in the latter's tally-ho coach, - drawn by a handsome and sprightly four-hotse team to make an inspec tion of the ground and how the mayor and council "decided at once to accept the generous donation and to comply with certain condi tions." Sorenson does not tell what the conditions were, but they are set forth in the deed an record over in the court house and are in brief these: First, that the land be forever used as a public park; second, that it be designated as Hanscom park; third, that the city spend $3,000 for its improvement during the year 1873, $4,000 each year for the next three years, $5,000 each year for 1877 and 1878, and forever keep the premises in good order and repair; otherwise it was to be an Indian gift and be taken back by the donors. There is this further provision that an additional strip of land for an 80-foot space entirely surrounding the park is specifically conveyed for street purposes to be laid out and improved by the city as a public highway and forever kept in good order and repair. Failure on the part of the city to ob serve these conditions, would give the title of the street tract to the owners of the property facing on it and deprive the park of means of ingress and egress except by airship. There is some question whether the city lived up to its obligation and there was a con troversy once which might have been serious when the city sought to assess special improve ment taxes against abutting land owners who had bought with the understanding that the gift of the park exempted them from such pay ments, which contention, I believe, was upheld in the courts. Be that as it may, the city has this beautiful park, constantly becoming more and more serviceable and valuable to the com munity as the result, of the vision of these two pioneers, and, since it carries Mr. Hanscom's name, something ought to be done some day in a public and permanent way, to show ap preciation of Mr. Megeath's part in it. the Here is a good story which is going rounds as told by General Pershing: 'T was standing near headquarters tent when I noticed that a certain captain who was standing near by had fallen into the habit, every time a private saluted him, of answering the salute with military precision, but following it up with the words, 'The same to you.' Finally I called him over and asked, 'Captain, why do you say "the same to you," every time you return the salute of a private?' The cap tain grinned. 'It's this way, general; I was a private once, myself, and I know what they say under their breath every time they salute an officer.'" Police Department Diagnosis From the World-Herald. The World-Herald sees nothing to indicate that Omaha is all wrought up over the pro posed recall proceedings, directed ostensibly against four members of the city commission, but really against Superintendent Ringer. We think that if Ringer were running for re-election at this time he would be hand somely and decisively trounced, as he deserves to be. He probably means to act well, and acts honestly according to his lights, including the $3,600 navelgazer generously provided him by the "committee of 100." But he is not the type of man Omaha should have to direct its police department. He is narrow-minded, in tensely prejudiced, provincial, wholly lacking in the temperament, experience and ability that should be the attributes of a man in the diffi cult and responsible position he occupies. He is a "small town" man, not a big town man. He devotes himself not to building up for Omaha the best possible police protection, but to build ing up a personal police machine and using it to pry and spy into manners and morals and habits that do not accord with his conception of what manners and morals and habits should be. He is demoralizing the city, arousing un necessary antagonisms of race and creed and class, and planting resentment and bitterness to take the place of good will and harmony. His "election was a mighty expensive experi ment for Omaha. The World-Herald warned and urged the electorate against it at the time. But the moving pleas of our esteemed con temporary, 'The Bee, aided and abetted by the News, prevailed over sound logic and unan swerable arguments, and elected he was. Now that we have him, the question is what to do with him. The Bee would like to boil him in oil, thinking so ill of its own child. The World-Herald has striven patiently and lov ingly to educate him. to help make him a big ger, wiser and better man, but has been driven reluctantly to the conclusion that the task is about hopeless. The best this newspaper can see for it is that Ringer and Omaha both must fry in their own grease for yet awhile longer. J. Dean is a punishment sent upon us for our sins and follies an exasperating and annoying nest. The city will know better next time Beginnings of Disease. The medical correspondent of the London Times, writing under the above caption, (fives a new line of thought, as follows: Modern medical research is di rected. In Its most advanced aspects, to the discovery of the earliest signs of disease. The work has revealed all manner of unexpected facts, and It is time that some of these here, again, we are dealing with observation made very recently and still subject to sharp criticism should be placed before the public. One of the greatest of all original thinkers In medicine recently In formed the writer that, after long investigation, he had come to the conclusion 'thgt the first and earliest of all the signs of disease was ex haustion. His view corresponds to that reached by other workers In the same field. It is necessary, however, to define what we mean by exhaustion. What we do not rean is the Btate of complete mental and physical "emptiness" which fol lows great effort. The symptom we aro dealing with is far slighter than that it might be better to call it simply a lmiitation of the field of response to calls for effort. For ex ample, a man has been accustomed to walk up a certain staircase briskly and without any discomfort. But now he finds that he has to slacken his pace a little or other wise he will be short of breath when he gets to the top. Or, again, a man discovers that he is more than usually tired at the end of his day's work and that he tends, in this state, to feel a little giddy or a little nervous and irritable. Or, again, a person of even temper be gins to win a reputation for hasti ness. He does not concentrate so well as he used to do and small things irritate and annoy him. He is apt to lose his temper. These men are ill, and the limits set upon their endeavors, mental or physical, afford an indication of the extent of their disability. They are not suffering from muscular weak ness in the sense that their muscles are damaged. They are not suffer ing from heart mischief in the sense that they have any heart disease. They are not suffering from disease at all if by that term is meant a breakdown of a particular organ. But they are on their way to disease, nevertheless. In previous articles we attempted to show that the poisons of disease act specially on the nervous ssystem in a very great many cases. Recent research has shown that fatigue, though it is felt in the muscles, really occurs in the brain and spinal cord in other words, that the brain cells get tired before the muscles they control. This explains why a man who is tired out on one occupation becomes fresh and vigorous again when he changes to another and so employs a new set of brain cells e. g., a game of golf after business, even though the second occupation make greater demands on his muscles than the first. Now. If we realize that tiredness or fatigue or exhaustion occurs in the brain cells and nervous system and not in the muscles, and if we accept the view that the poisons of many diseases act primarily on this nervous sys tem, we see at once how it comes about that the very earliest presence of disease is shown by tiredness. The poisoned nervous system be comes played out' sooner than the healthy one. And the rate of ex haustion of the nervous system de pends on the amount , of poison present. This is really much better recog nized by the public than it has been by the doctors, because every one knows that the process of living produces poison in the bodily sys tem which have to be carried away and got rid of. Consequently after strenuous efforts more of these poisons are present than Is normally the case, and so, for the time being, the man will become exhausted more easily than usual. He will, in fact, be suffering from a normal degree of exhaustion occasioned by the poisons whicn resulted rrom nis period of work and which have not yet been got rid of. He win ten you that he "reels too urea to undertake any more efforts that day, and very soon he will go off to rest. During sleep tne nociy will gradually, in its own subtle ways, refresh his nervous system, so that he begins the new day on good terms with himself. This is the normal process, ins abnormal, the disease, differs from it only in the fact that tiredness and exhaustion come on sooner and are trot rid of with greater trouble. The doctor's business in the light of our new knowledpfi is to find out why this is so. If he cannot find out he fails to discover the real cause of the disease and will be forced to fall back upon treating the symptoms themselves he will have to give drugs which may "tonic" the patient, stop his palpita tions, and so on. This is equivalent to "doctoring up" a tired man with strong- tea In order to keep him awake a few hours longer. .Unhappily, it is by no means easy to get at the first cause of dis ease. We may know that disease is present, yet we may not be able to detect it. This merely means that our knowledge is faulty and should excite us to fresh efforts. It in no sense invalidates the truth of the view we have expreseed. For instance, a man may be suffering from exhaustion as a result of malaria acquired long before. The malaria organism can often be found and treated. He may be suf fering from tuberculosis in a very early stage. This can also bo found, perhaps. He may be poisoning himself from his own alimentary tract, and suitable attention to this may "make a new man of him." He mnv h addicted to drugs 01 alcohol. But there is a cause, and the cause is not in the symptoms. That is the cardinal fact. There is no such fundamental disease as "de-1 bility," "neurasthenia," "palpita tion," and so on. These are symp toms of disease. The treatment of symptoms is helful often, but it leads nowhere. The treatment of disease leads to a cure, and it also tends to focus attention upon what is still more important the prevention of disease. Once a man is infected with dysentery you cannot usually prevent him from becoming breath less. Breathlessness, in short, is not a preventable condition. But dysentery is. This is the problem in its essence. The Versailles Treaty Omaha, July 25. To the Editor of The Bee: If all that appears in the capitalistic and administration papers was to be believed it would lead to the conclusion that all the people, with the exception of a few senators at Washington, are in favor of immediately approving the Versailles treaty as a whole. Noth ing could be farther from the truth. If you doubt this take the trouble to Interview a few of your thinking neighbors and friends and I will wager my time against yours that, omitting those who have been or hope to be rewarded by political preferment, that you will find seven out of 10 oppose ratification as it stands, without amendment or reservations. That some form of a world treaty might be framed that would pre vent or even lessen the possibility of war is the heartfelt wish of every sane human being. But the present conglomeration of contradictions with the surrender of the sover eignity of the United States as a nation does not,. and never will, meet with the approval of the American people: and the Individual or party that stands for such a betrayal of America will sink into political oblivion as surely as time passes. The American people are neither blind or senile and cannot be de ceived like the patriarch of old. They will not say "the voice Is Jacob's voice but the hand is the hand of Esau," but they will recog nize that the hand and voice both belong to one and the same. There must be something In the treaty or in the history of its forma tion which the franiers are ashamed to tell the people or they would not so strenously have objected to it being made public. Are "open covenants openly arrived at" to pass into the discard along with "we are too proud to fight;" "he kept us out of war" and "peace without victory?" The most casual reader of his tory, even a Henry Ford, must realize that nothing of such vital importance to the life of this nation. as the ratification or rejection of this treaty, has occurred since the day that the progenitors of its chief sponsor fired on Fort , Sum ter. Republicans who oppose the rait flcation of the treaty are charged with being actuated by partisan motives but of course the papsuck ers, stool pigeons and apologists or tne aaminintration, wno are yell ing their lungs out In its support, are prompted only by the highest spirit of loyalty and patriotism. Draw your own conclusion, but do not place all those who favor ratifi cation in the same class. The most honest and sincere people make mis takes. Of all the assinine propositions yet suggested the most absurd is that for the United States to ratify the treaty and then immediately give the required two years' notice of withdrawal. If the United States does not Join the league practically in the form now proposed there will be none, and if they do Join there doubtless will be, as it is a case where we have everything to lose and nothing to gain, while the European nations have every thing to gain and nothing to lose. If we should join and withdraw at the end of two years there would then be a league of all the other nations ready to compel us to remain a member either by choice or force. This section providing for with drawal shows how loosely the whole treaty is drawn. It provides that a member may withdraw after giving two years' notice, provided it has "kept the covenants," but it does not say whether the covenants must be kept to the date notice is given or for the two years thereafter; if the member is immediately relieved on giving notice the whole league is a farce; if bound for two years thereafter the withdrawing member might be forced into a world war greater than the one just ended and be unable to withdraw. A care ful reading of the whole treaty will disclose many as absurd and am bigious provisions. By the terms of the treaty the province of Shantung is to be de livered over to Japan for exploita tion and robbery. By this act 40, 000,000 people, who had a civiliza tion, measured the stars and used the printing press when our Anglo Saxon ancestors were living in tents and caves, are to be delivered into the hands of the most cruel, treach erous and Indecent race of people that ever lived under an organized government. These same Japanese are now, today, committing atroci ties upon the Koreans that would put to shame the most cruel boche that ever invaded Belgium or the "unspeakable" Turk that raped Ar menia, And with this race of yellow degenerates we are asked to Join hands to enforce a peaceful and moral government of the world. I might appear to be far-fetched, but stranger things have happened. Suppose we Join the leage and wake up some morning and find that Can ada has decided to seperate from the mother country, as we once did. England notifies us that some "rebels" In Canada are trying to destroy "the territorial integrity" of the British empire and they de mand that we at once send our ar mies to subdue the "traitors," as we are so much nearer, can do it so much quicker and probably bet ter than themselves. How would you like to send your boy to fight our neighbors on the north to pre vent them from doing what we are so proud that our forefathers did. If we failed or refused we would be guilty of violating the solemn covenant of "Article X." To this some subtle lawyer, paid to defend the treaty, may repiy that we are only bound to defend against "ex ternal aggression," but if Canada succeeded In inducing the smallest nations in the world to come to its aid, we would then surely be bound to assist in its subjugation. Divine history records that One was offered "all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time" if he would fall down and worship a ceriain personage; the temptation Modern funerals furnished at honest prices. You pay us for what you get. We have mastered all the details that go toward the proper supervision of this ceremony. Prices furnished upon request. N. P. SWANSON Funeral Parlor (Establiihed 1888) 17th and Cuming Stt. Doug. 1060. was resisted and the title of the donor to the property offered has always been questioned. It re mained at a later date for another one to be offered "the presidency of the world," and he could not re sist the temptation and the title ot his conferees is certainly as bad as that of the personage of old. Germany has been conquered, at least for the present, and we have no more to fear from It in the long future than we have from some of the "allies." If a certain typewrit ing machine had been thrown into the Potomac river before it became worn out writing "points" the vic tory would have ben more com plete and a punishment inflcted to better fit the crime. It may sound well to say that we entered the world war solely to assist our suf fering allies, but we all know that that was not the motive that actua ted either the people or the sol diers. It was the realization of the fact that unless we took that oppor tunity to subjugate the Germans that later on we would be compelled to do It alone and unaided. We ac complished what we started to do, as is the habit of the American peo ple, and when we did it we should have brought our soldiers home, signed the treaty of peace com pelling Germany to indemnify aa far as possible the damage it had done, and then our duty ended. We are under no moral or legal obliga tion to continue to furnish police power for the world. If we are to join in a world treaty let It be so drawn that there can be no question of its meaning or ambiguity in its terms; let it plainly state that the congress shall have the sole right to declare war as provided in our constitution; that the Monroe doctrine shall remain unquestioned, as it has been for nearly 100 years, and that we, and not the European powers against whom it was promulgated, shall in terpret its meaning; that we shall have and must have the sole and absolute control over Immigration and emigration to and from our shores; that the question whether or not our land shall be flooded with anarchists from Europe is a ques tion for us alone to settle and not any league of which they them selves are members; none but our own congress shall question our right to levy importation and ex portation duties, when, where and upon whom we please. I hear some peace-loving Chris tian friend say that such a doctrine is founded in selfishness. I admit the charge, but selfishness to a de gree always has and always will rule the world. Without the selfish ness of your mother and mine, which prompted her to take care of her own first, neither you or I would be here. It is the selfish duty of every individual to first care for himself and those dependant upon him, then he should assist in caring for others to the extent of , his abilitly. The same rule must ; apply to nations that applies to In- 1 The Day We Celebrate. Frank C. Best, traveling for the Hlggins Packing company, born 18Ex-Prinee Oscar, V. son of the former German emperor, born at Potfdum, 31 years ago. Edith Marlon Patch, noted ento mologlst and educator, born r Worcester. Mass.. 43 years ago. Logan H'. Roots, Episcopal mis sionary bishop of Hankow. China born in Perry county, 111., 49 yean ago. . ., . John V. Lesher. representative In congress of the Sixteenth Pennsyl vania district, born in Union county, Pa., 53 years' ago. Harrison Fisher, noted artist and illustrator, born in Brooklyn, N. X., 44 years ago. Thirty Yours Ago In Omaha. About 100 school teachers from Harrison county, ' Iowa, visited Omaha, including the Bee building among the sights of their interest. Count Bozenta and his wife Madam ModJeska, who is playing at The Boyd, commented on the marked lnmrovement In Omaha during the past two years. The Bee , printed an editorial favoring annexation of South Omaha. , , . Sailor hats were declared to have popularltv. "so much that milliners here ami abroad are using these simple shapes for airy models in net and tulle." IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. Sirs, liruwn-With till "era war on. J (a u't affi'nl Hothta. Tlio Curate Don't l"t that keep you sway from thuroh, Jlra. Brown! Stray ftoiifn Tlmma Thiy tell ma that Sokclelgli ' as tinned the plt'dire. Tom ma Yt-s. He " aober at tna 'ime, and didn't know what ha waa do ' isr. Sydney Bulletin. Yea, In teaching atenoiraphy, wa ara strong on accuracy." "How are you on speed?" "Well, the last girl we graduated mar ried her employer In three weeka." dividuals. It Is our duty first tc preserve and protect our own coun try and then render to others such assistance as duty prompts and our power permits. In 140 years the United Stateb was engaged in four wars. During the same period of time 50 wan were fought on the eastern con tinent. Sign the league of nationi as now planned and It means tha where we have had one war we wit have a score. Let the senate re ject the league, reform the treaty tc comply with the decent demande of humanity, and if the other na tions fail to approve, then make a separate peace with Germany, and the war is ended. C. F. 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