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THE OMAKA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 27, 1919.'
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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'
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. 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
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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.
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