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'J.HE BEE: OMAHA, FKIDAY, AliGUol' 8, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY ( MORNING) EVEN INQ SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TBI BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR . MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ths Assormed Pitts, ol union Ta Be u a member, ta liutnly entitled to lb tin for Dubltcatton of ill news dispatches endued to It or not otnwwtM orrdlted In (felt paper, ud also the total sews pukliUM tamW. all risjua ol publication of our apeela) dispatches are alio mmil BEE TELEPHONES t Print Branch Rrcrunt. ilk for tb TvlV 1 flftTl Deparuneat or PartlcuUr Pers.ni Wanted A WW ma,. - r,.Far Nifht Sunday Sn-vlce Call: editorial Dei'anment ..... Trlar IOOoI (Mmilatloa Department iCE loSSt .d.tttniu Department Zt OFFICES OF THE BEEl 4110 North I4tb (part . S"""?. .. ,l" "tar ' Poutn Bid t JleuiMll Bluffi 14 N. Ula Ivtnton Ua Mil North itb Walnut , . Oul-of-Town Officw rJ7 TM at r"U Waaiilnitua -"'MQ Beeter Bid. lUncoln MIS liMranwortb 3318 N Street Htl South 18th 1 North 40th 1311 0 Street 1830 B Street JUNE CIRCULATION) Daily 64,61 1 Sunday 61,762 SBC"'u'i.l,on .,or "" subscribed ud mora to hi . B. Btisn. Clrculition Minager. w Sub.eribar. leavinf the city aheuM ham Th. Bm mailed to tbm. Address changed oftta as requested. You should know that Omaha is famed for its Ak-Sar-Ben fetes, historic homes, western frankness and hospitality. Too much prosperity also has its drawbacks Hunt down the hoarders, but bring down the prices, too. One thing Omaha can well do without is a Itreet car 'strike. "B. L. T." asks for a return to war prices. All in favor stand up. . No great principle or cause ever suffered permanent injury because of deliberation in its enforcement. Mr. Plum does not get anything for slating the railroads have been looted. Stockholders found that out long ago. Food stored in local warehouses is sufficient to keep us from starvation for some time, if it can be put on the market. Corn speculators show no signs of terror at the approach of the federal inquisitors. They know that people have to eat. The president will propose an extension of the Lever food control law, but when did ever human law restrain human greed? Omaha is now accredited with having ,the politest burglar operating at present. His cap ture is not momentarily looked for. Chairman Cummings ought to come back to Nebraska and count again. He would find his estimate on the treaty needs revision. - Senator Thomas characterizes the attitude of the brotherhoods at Washington as "near treason," although bolshevism might be the better substantive. .- r . N .'!! H Maybe that breeze from the north had something to do with sobering down the dis cussion. It certainly exerted a powerful influ ence on the temperature. Mr. Plum says his "tripartite" plan is economically sounut of course he will par don a few old-fsniont economists if they do not take his viefthc proposal. The presidenttV ;'kid himself into be lieving Japan iriteMfJrto shortly restore Shan tung to China, butiina would like something more tangible than a vague promise from Tokio. A cjty-owned street railway line to compete with the existing one would at least add variety to life in Omaha', but we. have some fifty-seven varieties now. Why complicate matters further? Roumania has been told that it can not loot Hungary just because the allies won the war. It is hard to keep the Balkan brethren from exercising their propensity for pillage, though. if I 'So far nothing has been mentioned about giving the "morals" squad a place in the feature film now being made in Omaha. No local comedy would be complete with that bunch left out. Foreign-born sojourner are getting ready to become citizens of the United States as fast as the courts can put them through. This lacks its old-time significance, for they can not vote on first papers in Nebraska any more. The latest bomb outrage in Los Angeles loses something of its general significance in view of the fact that it was but the effort of a defeated litigant to get even with the attorney who had conducted the winning side of the case. Such crimes are always serious, but this one appears not to have been a part of a nation wide plot. Amazing Figures According to the latest tabulations, the ' total cost of the war to the nations engaged was $203,000,000,000 and $171,000,000,000 in damages, an almost unbelievable total of $374, i 000,000,000. The figures are obtained from ; the departments at Washington, chiefly the ' Army and Navy bureaus. As the Balkan and some other states are not included, the sum ' mary is still incomplete. The casualties post ed are similarly stupendous. The killed num- bered 7,245,433. wounded 20,694,300. missing 3,598.753. a total casualty list of 31,538,486. The ; heaviest sufferer in casualties was Russia, fol lowed in order by France and Germany. France's total casualty list was 6,233,852 and Germany's 6,193,769. England stands fourth with 3.049,932, following Austria-Hungary's 3,600,000. Italy was fifth in casualties, 2,070,- ' 000. The United States, whose total is almost 1 complete and official, had 319,933 casualties. Great Britain leads in money expenditures, 1 $41,000,000,000. Then come Germany, $38,000, , 000.000. Russia $32,000,000,000. Austria-Hungary - $29,000,000,000, France $28,000,000,000, and the United States $24,000,000,000. Italy's expendi tures were $11,000,000,000. France is by far first ; in damage,. $118,000,000,000. England's damages !are placed at $22,000,000,000. In this list the " United States has no place as yet These fig ' ores, cast ,as they are, are but an approxima : tion. They cover only direct losses. To in : elude consequential losses would be an attempt in bottomless arithmetic' . , History will be staggered by the details of . the war of 1914-1919. St. Louis Globe-Demo-i, crat, ...... WAR ON HIGH PRICES. - The determination of the attorney general to begin suit against the packers is accepted as the first shot in the war on high prices. It is to be fervently hoped that the case be prose cuted with all vigor and thoroughness, that a final determination may be had, and the public have at the end information on which reliance may be placed as to responsibility of the meat packers for any undue increase in the cost of living. i Accompanying this suit, ts a move against the hoarders of food. In this category fall the speculators who are carrying large stores of perishable food articles in warehouses. It has been forced upon the world that the boon of cold storage has been distorted into a burden. Turned from its beneficient purpose of pre serving surplus food against a time of scarcity, it has been made the means of holding from the market supplies at time of need, in order that higher prices may be exacted. To what extent this practice prevails, and how far the legitimate purpose of the cold storage ware house is involved may also be developed through judicial inquiry. A serious and edifying debate in the senate last week turned on the effect of an inflated currency on the business affairs of the country. It is admitted that the present level of prices rests on the enormous volume of money in ex istence. The unsettled point is how to reduce the volume without undue disturbance to busi ness. Deliberate profiteering is alleged against certain lines, and the exterior facts appear to support this. Inquiry is to be directed to the end that the truth may be brought out. The president will, it is announced, again postpone his trip through the country that he may give assistance to the government agencies involved in the quest for the remedy. The investigation is to be made general, and if any virtue resides in official activity, relief ought soon to follow. Japan and Shantung Once More. The president expresses himself as entirely satisfied with Japan's "frank" statement of pur pose as to (Shantung. We fear he will en counter some difficulty in bringing his fellow countrymen entirely to his view. Article 156 of the Treaty of Versailles reads: Germany renounces in favor of Japan all her rights, title and privileges particularly those concerning the territory of Kiaochow, railways, mines and submarine cables which she acquired in virtue of the treaty concluded by her with China on March 6, 1898, and of all other arrangements relative to the prov ince of Shantung. And it is on this that Japan now pretends to rest its claim to the richest province in China. The treaties covering the concessions Germany extorted from China are yet withheld. Viscount Uchida, Japanese foreign minister, is quoted in current dispatches as declaring "that Japan does not intend to claim any rights affecting the territorial sovereignty of China in Shantung. He recalls that Japan by an ultimatum in August, 1914, demanded the surrender by Germany of the entire leased territory of Kiaochow with out condition or compensation, within a month, with a view of its eventual restoration to China. Its "eventual restoration to China" sounds good. What it means may be understood by an examination of the Japanese ultimatum to China, delivered on May 7, 1915, in which occurs the following language: From the commercial and military points of view, Kiaochow is an important place, in the acquisition of which the Japanese empire sacrificed much blood and money, and after the acquisition the empire incurs no obliga tion to restore it to China. In other words, the government at Tokio had as early as the spring of 1915 resolved to hold Shantung. . It did, however, propose the "twenty-one demands" to Peking, which in reply demanded the unconditional return of the territory, and drew out this comment from Tokio: Since Japan could not tolerate such de mands, the settlement of the other questions, however compromising it may be, would not be to her interest. The consequence is that the present reply of the Chinese government is, on the whole, vague and meaningless. Having thus disposed of China's protest and request that the property seized by Germany be restored, the Japanese ultimatum concludes: The imperial government hereby again offer its advice and hope the Chinese gov ernment, upon this advice, will give a satis factory reply by 6 o'clock, p. m., on the 9th dayvof May. It is hereby declared that if no satisfactory reply is received before or at the specified time, the imperiajl government will take steps they deem necessary. Under this open threat of war, China sub mitted to Japan, just as it had to Germany, and signed- secret treaties which conceded all the government to Tokio demanded and which the government at Peking was too weak to deny. And these enforced agreements are sought to be validated by the proceedings at Paris. Japan will get out of Shantung when it is forced out, and not before. High Rents in Omaha. "Property owners in Omaha are charging preposterous rents," says th United States dis trict attorney's assistant, who is commissioned to conduct an inquiry into the high cost of liv ing. He proposes to make a full investigation. The housing situation is serious here, as it is elsewhere throughout the country, and land lords have evinced a disposition to take advan tage of t situation. Rents were generally ad vanced last year, but very recently notice of another increase was given. Whether this is justified or not must be determined by the authorities. The demand for homes exceeds the supply locally, and within reason the own ers are entitledto gain through the condition thus presented. It is, to be seriously ques tioned, though, if they are warranted in placing rents at a point that amounts to extortion. It may develop that the view of the federal at torney as to what is right is subject to mod ification, but an inquiry will do no harm to any and may satisfy some. Idle railroad shopmen can console them selves with the thought that they have, as far as possible stopped production at a time when the world needs everything that can be pro duced. How they expect to aid their own cause by such procedure is beyond understanding. Indiana farmers propose to meet the rail road shop hands half way, and if the latter re fuse to keep trains moving the former will not try to send supplies to market. Pleasant pros pect for the city folks, who feel they must eat. Meat Publicity From the Washington Post. The various live stock associations are con ducting a national, general publicity campaign to persuade people to eat more beef and lamb, thus proceeding in a direction opposite to that of the eat-less-meat publicity drives of the food administration during the war. It will be interesting to see how far the present publicity campaign can tear down the results achieved by its predecessor. In fact, all these attempts to use publicity as a means of shaping mass policy are most interesting. It can hardly be expected that the stock men will succeed as well as Mr. Hoover did, While they have the advantage of urging a favorable response to appetite instead of seek ing to check it, the susceptibility of the public to appeals calling fora change in domestic economy has largely vanished along with the war. After months and even years of self denial for the general good or somebody else's good the average citizen now delights in hu moring himself. He willingly deprived himself of meat during the war as a part of his con tribution to the general good, but it is doubt ful if he will now spend more money for more meat in order that he may not have less meat a year or two from now. The theory of the stockmen is that unless demand can be increased, with resulting better prices to themselves, the meat producing indus try will decline, thus bringing an era of actual scarcity and higher prices. Doubtless the pub lic sympathizes with the farmers and ranchers who are receiving ruinous prices for live stock, while the public is paying ruinous prices for meat, but it would be more responsive to an appeal to its pocketbook instead of to its sym pathies. How would it be for the stockmen to con centrate their attention on the highly acquisi tive agencies between themselves and the con sumers, which prevent the latter from getting cheap beef when meat animals are cheap? A period of reasonable prices would do more to stimulate demand than all the appeals that can be made, so long as the latter are coincident with the existence of an appallingly efficient system of absorbing the public's pennies long before they reach their ostensible destination on the plains or in the feeding pens. People You Ask About Information About Folks in the Public Eye Will Be Given in This Column in Answer to Readers' Questions. Your Name Will Not Be Printed. , Let The Bee Tell You. JiUe tjtcrl&s' (om&r How Treaties Are Ratified The American method of ratifying treaties differs from the method in use in the European democracies. We have a more representative system than the British, but a less representa tive one than the French or Italians. The treaty making power in this country is vested in the president and the senate. The popular branch of congress the house of rep resentatives has no voice in the ratification of conventions with foreign powers. But, on the other hand, it can annul them in whole or in part by refusing to pass legislation carrying them into. effect or by passing legislation in conflict with their provisions. The senate is the only check on the presi dent in our scheme of treaty making. And the senate's influence on the process is enhanced by the fact that the draft of a treaty submitted by the executive must be approved by two thirds of the senators present instead of by a mere majority. According to British custom atreaty may be proclaimed by the government without the approval of either house of parliament. Lloyd George nevertheless submitted to parliament both the Treaty of Versailles and tripartite alli ance treaty recently signed by France, Great Britain and the United States. They were both approved, although they could have been pro claimed without such action. The French constitution requires treaties of peace and certain other classes of treaties to be laid before the senate and chamber of dep uties for action. The lower house, which is by far the more powerful branch of the French parliament, will take the lead in discussing the German treaty. A majority in either branch may amend or reject. The Italian constitution also provides for the approval of treaties by both legislative branches. The lower house at Rome greatly overshadows the senate. Much more than the French chamber it is the government. The Italian parliament will probably delay action on the treaty with Germany until after the Aus trian, Hungarian and Turkish treaties are com pleted. Italy's interests are only slightly af fected by the settlement with Germany. They will be vitally affected by the terms of the later settlements. In Japan, as in Great Britain, the treaty making power is vested exclusively in the crown. If the Japanese parliament is allowed to pass on the treaties ending the war it will be only as a matter of imperial courtesy. New York Tribune. Internationalizing Speech Nine of the 'world's principal languages are represented in the Marconi international cable and wireless code English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Japanese and Russian. The code represents the labors of a corps of business, legal, financial and lin gual experts, covering a period 'of three years, and it is said to cover every ordinary human need of readily understood and precise com munication among the nationalities subscribing to it. Here we seem to have, at last, a practicable means of breaking down those barriers of strange speech that so long have set men by the ears. The airplane, the wireless and the "flu" germ have made all men neighbors, brought them within talking distance of one another and inspired in them a yearning to talk over the back fence and establish borrow ing and trade relations. The one thing needful was a system of clear, concise international speech, and this the Marconi organization may have supplied. It is boldly asserted that this or some similar code will soon be in everyday use. Commerce demands it. When men begin to talk understanding to one another suspicions and jealousies, upon which autocracies and other abuses thrive, be gin to disappear. Here is, in fact, a 15th point to be added to Mr. Wilson's famous 14. Chi cago News. f AT The Day We Celebrate. Dr. R. D. Mason, physician and surgeon, born 1859. Dr. Paul H. Ellis, physician and surgeon, born 1876. Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., re tired, born at Westminster, Mass., 80 years ago. Dr. Henry F. Osborn, one of the foremost of American paleontologists, born at Fairfield, Conn., 62 years ago. 1 Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Messrs. Stenberg, Tukey and Flack, com mittee of citizens along the Military road, are working earnestly to secure the subscription of land and money necessary to induce the motor company to build its line to Benson. The Bee stated editorially that Omaha had made a gratifying exhibit in the pork packing returns for the first week in August. "Within a week Omaha will round out the number of hogs packed this season at a good half mil lion." The State Development association met with the following Omaha gentlemen present: George W. Lininger, A. W. Nason, H. T. Clarke, J. Francis, E. L. Lomax. William O. Judge, general secretary Amer ican Section Theosophical Society, spoke in room 205, Sheeley block, Daughter of Late Marshall Field to lie a countess. W. S. You are correct about the dausfhter of the late Marshall Field of Chicago marrying Admiral Beat ty, who will soon be made an earl for his services during the war. Submarine Inventor. T. O. S. It is Simon Lake who is attracting attention with his in vention of a submarine that per mits you to walk around the ocean bed in your street clothes, is a naval architect and a mechanical engi neer now resident at Milford, Conn., with his manufacturing headquar ters at Bridgeport. Mr. Lake was born at Pleasantville, N. J., 63 years ago, and received his education principally at Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. He is claimant for the title of first inventor of the even keel type of submarine, and in 1897, with the Argonaut, first operated a submarine in the open sea. His in ventive genius has been prolific chiefly in connection with mechan isms for locating and recovering sunken vessels and their cargoes, and for carrying on submarine in dustries. The United States govern ment and European nations have utilized his inventions, and he has been honored with election to mem bership in leading engineering and scientific bodies of America and Europe. i Charles Jonnart. Senator Charles Jonnart, who has been appointed to a place in the i trencn cabinet as minister of the liberated regions, has been governor general of Algeria since March of last year. M. Jonnart began his public career about 30 years ago as a member of the Chamber of Dep uties. He was a member of M. Casimer Perier's cabinet, which only survived for a short period, and in 1913 he became minister for fflr eign affairs in the Briand cabinet. It was in the early summer of 1917, however, that M. Jonnart stepped into the full glare of the European limelight, when he was deputed by the French premier to undertake the special mission to Athens to put a stop to the aid which Greece was offering to the central powers in the war. The success of that mission is a matter of history. Two days after M. Jonnart s arrival in Athens King Constantine abdicated and was suc ceeded by his second son, Alexander, whose sympathies were known to be on the side of the entente allies. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. DAILY DOT PUZZLE Constitution Day. Can you tell me something about the plans for "Constitution day?" Who has charge of the movement? The National Security league has announced plans for celebration in 29 states on September 17 next of the anniversary of the birthday of the constitution as part of its cam paign to combat bolshevism and stay the spread of un-American propaganda. Popularization of the constitution itself is a further pur pose of the planned celebration, and state directors, with the co-operation of county and local directors, are at work to make the day one of real commemoration. Many pa triotic societies of the country have Joined the movement, it is an nounced, and have affiliated with the National Constitutional Celebration Organization committee, headed by Dr. David Jayne Hill. Shells and Shekels. The life story of Sir Marcus Samuel, who has purchased from the earl of Berkeley for the sum of 125,000,000 a parcel of the fashion able residential section of London known as Berkeley Square, furnishes one of the real romances of the business world. Sir Marcus, in his early days, kept a little shop in one of the poorer quarters of the Brit ish metropolis, where he made and sold for a shilling or two orna mental boxes made of shells from the sea shore. Later he invested his savings in oil, made money and started a company called the "Shell," thus identifying his big new venture with his original struggling business. Since those days he has accumulated a fortune of many mil lions and has been honored with a baronetcy. And all from selling shells from the sea shore mixed with an abundance of brains and energy. MUCH IN LITTLE. During the winter a toad becomes torpid and takes no food for from four to six months. . Automobile tires made of coin fiber for use on brush tracks and overland routes have been invented in Australia. An inventor has patented a hand kerchief in the center of which is a receptacle for iace powder and a powder puff. Ten kangaroos escaping from bounds in Golden Gate park, San Francisco, played havoc with lawns and tennis courts. More than $360,000,000 is now invested in American shoemakins and more than 300,000 wage earn ers are employed. A new electrical call bell for hos pital patients' use gives a continu ous signal until a person answering it shuts off the current. Negroes of Memphis have formed a lodge named Western Benefit As sociation of North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Investigations In South Lapland seem to show that valuable copper veins have been found, especially In the upper part of the Vilhelmina district (Dikanar and Farmo-makke). DAILY CARTOONETTE. WHRTflFINE.VIEW! I'LL SIT 0NTHI5 Bl(q-ROCK AND rNTTVW IT - Ms ANDHEDIDM "THE CIRCrs BIRD." (Pegsy and Billy plant Judge Owl In a hothouse and hn grows into the biggest bird in the world. Me trlea to Join a cir cus, but the manfyrer, fearing that the cir cus tiger would bo Jealous, refuses to hire him.) The Rival Circus. POOR Judge Owl was much dis appointed when the circus manager said he couldn't have a job with the show because the tiger might be jealous of him. "Hoo! Hoo! Too! I've a no tion to eat the tiger," he hooted dismally. "You'd probably find him very tough meat," said Billy. "I've never yet seen a tender looking tiger." "If they don't want the biggest owl alive in this show, we will go on to the next circus," said Peggy. "Huh, the nearest circus is a thousand miles away," sneered the manager, looking out of the win dow of the ticket office, but dodging back quickly when Judge Owt hap pened to give a nervous yawn. "Then we'll set up a circus of our own," declared Billy. . "Huh! You can't get up a circus it costs too much money to get freaks and animals and acts," said the manager. "Well, we've got the finest kind of a circus freak in Judge Owl," ar gued Peggy. "And he is big enough to be a whole menagerie. And he can do acts, too. And Billy Belgium can turn handsprings and dance and sing. Why, we can give a show Just by ourselves." "And here's a place to give it," said Billy, looking through the gate of a high board fence that stood next to the circus grounds. Perched on the fence was a small, freckle faced lad who was staring with bulging eyes at Judge Owl. "Jiminy crickets, is that a circus "Jimlny Bird?" Crickets, Is that a Circus Asked the Freckled Lad. 17 ia 16 i 14 12- 15 19 2o '21 ' 22 11 10 4$ 50 4d t i 23 4 5 26 28 It 2o 6. 3b 34- .32 7 36 47 22 4o 4:, the manager. "Bumpety, bump, bump!" Judge Owl Jiggled th wa gon until the manager, the ticket seller and the money were all mixed up together. "Take your owl away. You can run all the shows you want to," yelled the manager. Peggy called Judge Owl off, al though he was having so much fun he didn't want to quit. "I'd like to bite that manager," hooted Judge Owl. "I'm hungry enough to eat a camel or an ele phant." By this time Peter and Billy had the backyard show grounds ready, and Judge Owl flew inside. Then Billy took up his place at the gate, and began . to yell like a show barker. "Klght this way, ladies and gen tlemen! Right this way to see the biggest owl alive for onlyflO cents!" In the midst of his tricks Judge Owl suddenly stopped short, lifted up his nose and sniffed the air. "Meat! I smell meat! It's supper time!" he hooted. Then, to the dismay of Peggy and Billy,- he rose into the air and sailed over the fence. An Instant later there arose a loud racket from the circus grounds, shouts, yells and the howls of beasts. In Its midst n Judge Owl came sailing back over the fence, and clutched in his claws were great chunks of meat. "Ow! O-ow! O-o-o-ow! I'm hungry!" screamed the tiger from the menagerie tent. "Gracious me!" exclaimed Peggy. "Judge Owl has taken the supper of the circus animals. What shall we do?" Next Noodle's may be seen With thirty-eight and then thirteen. Draw from one to two and ao on to the end. bird?" asked the freckled lad. "Yes, he is a circus bird, but he doesn't belong to this circus," said Billy. "Do you want to Join us in giving a show in your back yaard?" "That will be fun," answered the freckled lad, whose name was Peter. "I didn't have money enough to go to the big circus, but your bird is a good enough show for me." "You can't give a show here. I'll have my men run you out," blus tered the circus manager. Peggy frowned at him. "Judge Owl, I think a good shak ing would teach this manager better manners," she said. Judge Owl winked solemnly at Peggy, and seiz ing the wagon in his powerful claws lifted it a bit, then let it drop with a thump. "Yi. yl, yi! Help! Help!" shrieked (Tomorrow will be told how the tiger comes after his lost supper.) ox Social Justice How? Canton, S. D., Aug. 6. To the Editor of The Bee: Time and again the dictum of the world's judges has been set aside through public opinion, insomuch that the punish ments were not reformatory nor conducive of good fruit. Judge Lindsay, realizing the need of breaHth on the bench, recently placed sne of the indicted there to render his own sentence. Indeed this is one of the rarities of legal procedure, but we think the judge was on the right track when exalt ing leniency. We know of more good wrought through kindness and fair dealing than yards of jurisprudence. Law is for polished criminality as much as for the uncouth, hence despots and tyrants should alike be dealt with after a summary man ner, lest injustice break out in the ranks. However, Holy Writ must be fulfilled to the effect that justice is fallen in the streets and in con sequence incest has spread abroad. It is possible harsh measures might be used to quell strike orders, even to the drafting of labor by the state or nation, but this will surely bear some more bitter fruit, as we see in England. Alas! we see no solid hope of enduring peace until this selfish spirit has burnt itself out and the great Prince of Peace rides in on the scene witbr his regime of righteousness. Thenceforth is the promise that He will make truth flourish in the earth and the people will learn to do right when His judgments are in the earth. This is to begin at Jerusalem after Israel is restored there. Incipient error started at Nicea and has long mul tiplied the confusion of togues. JOSEPH GREIG. Auto Speeders! Beware! Omaha. Aue. 5. Tn thA TTflitn f The Bee: I am a peaceable man and will take a lot to keep out of trouble, but I have lost all patience with these fool automobile drivers which Omaha is infested with. Everv dav T h street intersections or as they come speeding around corners, and nearly cvcij uay i see a wreck or an acci dent. 1 am e-nine- tn Maoo .Vi nil as Prussians, and if one injures or nmo a. iiieinoer or my ramily, as has almost happened several times this year, I would have no mnrft mm. punction retaliating than I would with a burglar or dynamiter. If there is a street car strike this will make the thoroughfare streets positively dangerous. Why is noth ing done to educate criminally care less drivers or to keep them from menacing those who drive carefully and sanely ? I have been in a good many cities where the automobile traffic was large, but I have never seen such indifference to safety on the streets as Omaha tolerates. BELIEVER IN SAFETY. 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