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to them. Address changed aa often at requeatod.
You should know that
The drainage of Omaha cannot be
excelled by that of any city in the
United States.
And from Lansing, too!
Mr. Bullitt's d'ary has become a bullet.
If it were all to do over, do you suppose the
president would go to Paris alone?
The senate committee on foreign relations
has had one good laugh out of its work.
Omaha bolshevists may not be numerous,
but man for man, they are as noisy as any.
Boston's experience with a police strike
ought to serve the whole country as an object
lesson.
Ofiicer Brigham is quite a bright light in
the police galaxy. He ought to have two stars,
at least.
It is only fair to remind the public that most
of the Omaha pci.ee force is not under indict
ment for murder or other crime.
Josephus Daniels pledges eternal friendship
to the Canucks. This will relieve a lot of
anxiety on both sides of the border.
''Sugaring off" time has come in the senate,
and as sentiment crystallizes the certainty of
reservations becomes more apparent.
Omaha is looming up bigger than ever as
a convention city. The way we treat our
guests has something to do with this.
A clothing man says that prices are coming
down. Now let the shoemaker get in, and it
will be glad tidings for the bread winners.
v -KeaL estate men differ as to a certain clause
in their standardized lease, but this does not
bring down the tariff the tenant has to pay.
' Berlin friends of "Count" Hohenzollern in
sist that he will not be brought to trial. It
. rvijl not be because of any of their activities.
Coeur d'Alene was able to restrain any im
pulse to jam the tent when the president came,
significant of how Borah stands in his home
; state,
1 The president's progress reminds one of the
refrain of one of the late Eugene Field's poems,
'"The paint keeps getting redder the further
out west you go."
As a co-ordinate branch of the government,
. tiie senate is quite within its rights when it
: exercises its constitutional function to advise
as well as consent to any treaty the president
proposes.
A French war decoration is waiting in
Omaha for a Yankee boy who can not be lo
cated. He will probably be found holding down
a job in some place and not worrying greatly
over the war.
Striking restaurant employes are affording
a strong object lesson as to the prices charged
in the regularly ordained eating places. The
contrast in the price list is likely to impress
itself on the mind of the patron.
A Roman paper wonders how we will get
along without sons of "Sunny It" who are
aow going home with their pockets well lined
. with American dollars. Well, they will be
jorely missed, but they, too, will be deprived
of something, principally pay day, which comes
with wonderful regularity over here.
Pershing's New Rank
With a eulogy well deserved and fittingly
supplemented by the president's written mes
sage. Secretary of War Baker presented Gen
eral Pershing on his landing a commission
carrying the highest rank known to the Ameri
can army. European states confer higher mili
tary titles than that of general, but not one of
Ihem carries honor more distinguished.
Although Washington was always general
by common consent, he was in fact "commander-in-chief"
by designation of the Con
tinental congress. The congress of the United
States created for him the rank of general in
1799, but he died before the commission was
issued. Thus, while we have had many lieu
tenant generals, beginning with Scott, Persh
fnjr is only the fourth to gain the full rank,
his predecessors being Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan.
; Of the appropriateness of this designation in
every respect there can be no question. It has
"been conferred, as always heretofore, in recog
nition of victoriors achievements in war. With
out disparaging any other soldier of the repub
lic, it is to be said in truth of Pershing that he
has commanded mightier armies than any
Other American, and that the operations suc
cessfully conducted by him thousands of miles
away have been on a scale so stupendous that
a few years ago they could hardly have been
. imagined.
In his acknowledgment of the approval of
his fellow countrymen as thus and otherwise
expressed, General Pershing, with characteris
tic self-effacement, accepts his honors as a
tribute to the American expeditionary forces
that he led to triumph, and that is another rea
son whv he is the hero of the hour. New
'York .World.
BEHIND THE SCENES AT PARIS.
Some glimpses of what went on back of
the closed doors at Paris are now being given
the American people. A former secretary, who
was not in an entirely minor position, testifies
that "there was very little contact between the
top of the delegation and the experts." He
further gives the startling disclosure that Sec
retary Lansing said last May "that if the senate
and the American people knew what-the treaty
meant, it would be defeated."
This remark was made at the time when the
president was withholding from the senate and
the public any information as to what the
treaty contained. The fact that definite knowl
edge of the document's contents finally reached
Americans through the office of a notable firm
of Wall street bankers has always been con
sidered significant.
From the president we have had the in
formation that the Shantung provision was the
subject of earnest protest from General Bliss,
Secretary Lansing and Mr. White. This was
not sufficient to deter him from submerging his
own doubts and misgivings on the point in
deference to what he explained in Omaha were
the solemn engagements of England and
France with Japan. He knew hW countrymen
would not assent to the injustice done China,
but he hoped in some way to put it over.
Robert F. Lansing's return from Paris,
leaving the unfinished work of the commission
to be carried on by Under Secretary Polk, oc
casioned some surprised comment, and the tale
of eclipse having overtaken Colonel House now
looms a little bigger. As the doors open wider,
"open covenants of peace openly arrived at"
grow dimmer and dimmer.
It is very well, perhaps, that "Germany
should be told where to sign and when to sign,
as the minority of the foreign relations com
mittee has pointed out, but the United States
is not in that predicament. Our people are en
titled to know what the treaty contains, and
whether any foundation exists for Secretary
Lansing's fear that it will not be accepted.
Brick Industry in Omaha.
Brick making is not a new or novel indus
try for Omaha, but has been carried on with
considerable success for many years. Hill
tops have been ground and baked and con
verted into noble piles for housing the activi
ties of city life, and still the process goes on.
Clamor has been raised by neighbors, who ob
ject to the smoke and grime that accompanies
the transmutation of the raw clay into the red
brick, and other evidence of the presence of the
kiln and its output may be had in plenty. This
should not operate to deter those enterprising
persons who now plan to set up a plant for the
further manufacture of brick, extending the
operation to include paving brick and drain tile,
A peculiar combination of clay is required to
meet the exigencies involved in vitrification.
This, it is reported, has been discovered within
a short distance of the city, and is to be
worked up in wholesale quantities. Douglas
county is in the process of expending some mil
lions of dollars for the paving of roads with
brick, r- 1 will expc other millions in the
future. ;e city, too, s laid many miles of
brick paving and material, and will go on
doing so, and it will be a great advantage if
this can hereafter be obtained from a home
owned plant, using Nebraska clay as the basis
for its product. Every such institution erected
and maintained is a distinct gain for the community.
Not Waiting for the Treaty.
Has peace been restored between the United
States and the world? The president is dis
posed to create an impression that the fact
awaits ratification of the treaty. Commissioner
Caminetti, who is at the head of immigration
affairs, acts as if peace were already ac
complished. He has ordered war restrictions
on naturalization removed, and courts may now
proceed to invest with the rights and privileges
of cit'izensip aliens coming from "enemy" coun
tries. Senator Hiram Johnson calls attention
to the fact that in December the president began
to demolish the war organization he had built
up, particularly that for controlling prices, and
with something of disastrous results. The army
has been demobilized, the navy recalled and dis
tributed on home station, and many other things
undone that were done in the name of war.
None of the activities of the government have
waited on the completion of the treaty negotia
tions. In face of a de facto peace, is it not a
little absurd to persist in maintaining the fiction
of war? '
On Safe Ground at Last.
The treaty will be ratified without amend
ments or reservations that will change or
modify its plain meaning and purpose or that
will require a re-submission of the treaty to
the nations party to it, including Germany.
World-Herald.
Just so. After many days of delirious
shouting for the treaty just as it came from
Versailles, the Omaha organ of the adminis
tration now points the way to the inevitable.
The treaty will be ratified, but with amend
ments and reservations. Whether these will be
of such a nature as to necessitate resubmission
of the treaty to the other nations is not in point,
so much as that they will be of a nature to pro
ject America's interests at all points. We con
gratulate our contemporary on having at last
reached firm holding ground for its dragging
anchor. No matter what happens, it is'at last
in position to say, "I told you so," for it has
fairly boxed the compass on this question.
The president is also eminently correct in
regard to policemen going on strike: "He is a
public servant and not a private employe, and
the whole honor and safety of the community
is in his hands. He has no right to prefer any
private advantage to the public safety. I hope
the lesson will be burned in so that it will
never again be forgotten."
Speak softly in presence of the Siberian crab,
for it is no longer the lowly thing that used
to be pickled and spiced by motherly women.
It is now elevated to the position of a real
fruit, selling for $6 a bushel on the local
market.
With its customary ineptitude, the War
department balled up the new commission is
sued to General Pershing. However, the act
of congress in this regard is not subject to
bureaucratic modification.
The New York girl who would not trade
one of Pershing's kisses for the cross of war
knows the advantage of possession. She had
the I -
Draining the Zuyder Zee
Holland has decided to drain the Zuyder
Zee, and in the next 30 years four-score Dutch
villages will be built upon what is now the bot
tom of the ocean, according to Hendrik Wil
lem Van Loon, a Dutch scholar and historian,
who was educated in America, and who writes
of the gigantic reclamation project in the
September number of The Century. The work
will require 30 years, but at the end of that time
Holland is assured of 400,000 acres of the rich
est kind of new agricultural land.
"Holland has made ready to join the ranks
of the annexationists," says H. W. Van Loon.
"It desires additional territory; it needs more
fertile soil. It is shortly going to conquer new
domains at the expense of the unsuspecting
herring and the slippery eel. The old Zuyder
Zee is going to be drained, and within 30 years
from now 400,000 acres of new and valuable
land will have been added to the Dutch king
dom. They will prevent a repetition of that
wholesale starvation which followed the out
break of the great war and the embargo of the
smaller nations of neutral Europe.
"The Zuyder Zee has been a good little sea
as such salty phenomena go. At times it has
drowned a number of villages and their inhabi
tants and Has killed thousands of cows and
sheep without a ripple of excitement. More
often it has put on a thick coat of ice to give a
whole nation a cheerful skating holiday. After
a very prolonged and extremely careful investi
gation the Netherlands parliament passed a
law authorizing the draining of this useless
stretch of water. As fishermen they could no
longer make a living; as farmers they have a
great future before them.
"The task of this inverted wrecking crew
will not be easy. But the inhabitant of the dry
land has now a new and powerful ally in the
modern electric pump. This handy contrivance
which can be placed upon any dike, within a
very few days can handle more than 1,000 cubic
feet of water per minute.
"After 33 years of constant work, if all goes
well, more than 400,000 acres of fertile clay will
have been annexed, and a new rural population
win De occupying tour-score villages Dum upon
the bottom of the ocean. A new population,
living from six to 10 feet below the surface of
the ocean, will be engaged in agricultural pur
suits. The fishermen of Edam and" Monniken
dam and Marken and Wieringen and Urkwill
will have moved to a new and greatly superior
habitat, and the next world war will find Hoi
land a self-supporting unit."
Preserving the Trees
The American Forestry association has ad
vised the mayor of Laclede, Mo., to plant a
memorial grove of trees in honor of Gen. John
J. Pershing, and expresses the hope that every
school in the United States will also plant at
least one memorial tree in his honor. It would
be a fine, a beautiful thing to do. it is in line
with the movement to have memorial trees
planted in honor of individual soldiers and to
bear their names so long as they weather tne
storms. In many instances this would mean
several centuries. This memorial tree idea is
not recommended to be confined to the names
of the dead, but of the living as well. It would
be a fine thing if every man who wore the uni
form were thus honored, tine not alone tor tne
sentiment expressed, in the object lesson in
patriotism and love of liberty it would convey
to the growing generation and other genera
tions to follow, but fine also in the influence
it would have in arresting the needless destruc
tion of our forests. When we give to trees
such intimate and loving associations, when
we endow them with personality, we shall think
more seriously and sensibly of all trees and
oppose their needless destruction.
The forests everywhere are being cut down
with a wasteful hand. The timber cutters take
just what they want from the tree, as a usual
practice, and let the remainder rot where it
lies. Right here in Missouri multitudes of trees
are being cut down for railroad ties. Often a
single tie is taken out of an oak tree it has
taken 20 years to grow, the actual value of
which to the cutter is about 10 cents. All the
rest of the price the railroads finally pay for
the tie is for labor and hauling. Destroying an
oak tree 20 years old for 10 cents seems the
height of wastefulness. This is but a sample
of what is going on in our forests everywhere.
Reforestation, the planting and culture of
trees to take the place of those cut down, is
practiced but little in this country. We face
a serious forest problem, resulting from the
waste of the ax and the fire. We need in this
country a greater realization of the value of
our forests, of the need of their preservation.
If this memorial idea serves to increase the
number of lovers of the trees, the movement
to preserve our forests for the future needs of
the country will make more rapid progress
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Is Imperial Japan Sincere?
Japan's new system of dogma, manufactured
chiefly since 1868, has since controlled the press,
dominated education and made a camouflage
of history, penalizing native scholars and critics
who have dared to speak their own mind con
cerning the new-fangled mikadoism. Worse
than all, this spirit and method have equipped
the hostile critics of Japan with new weapons.
This pseudo-mikadoism of the militarists has
done more to raise doubt as to' the real char
acter of the .progress of Japan, the sincerity of
her purpose and the purity of her political
ethics, than anything else. It has also raised
the serious question whether Dai Nippon, with
her barrier of autocracy, intends to stand in the
pathway of the world's democracy. While mak
ing an alliance with Great Britain, the men be
hind the throne were far from being Anglo
Saxon in spirit. It is notorious that Ito and the
constitution makers of 1889 took their ideas of
English political institutions, not directly from
English expounders, but from the German Von
Gneist's interpretation of them, in his Verfas
sung (History of the English Constitution).
William Elliot Griffs, in Asia for August.
The Day We Celebrate.
Gen. John J. Pershing, who commanded the
American troops in France, born in Linn coun
ty, Missouri, 59 .years ago.
Lieut. Gen.Sir William R. Birdwood, who
commanded the Australian and New Zealand
troops in France, born 54 years ago.
Maud Ballineton Booth, wife and co-worker
of the head of the Volunteers of America, born
in Surrey, England, 54 years ago.
Frank Lvon Polk, under secretary of state
at Washington, born in New York City, 48
years ago.
John H. Bankhead, United States senator
from Alabama, born in Marion county, Ala
bama 77 years ago.
Henry F. Ashurst, United States senator
from Arizona, born in Nevada, 44 years ago.
George M. Bowers, representative in con
gress of the Second West Virginia district,
born at Gerrardstown. W. Va., 56 years ago.
Walter Ruether, pitcher of the Cincinnati
National league base ball team, born at Ala
meda, Cal., 26 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Miss Arnold and Miss Rogers, teachers of
music in the city schools, have called a meet
ing of the grade teachers.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Montgomery have re
turned from a three months' tour through Eu
rope. T. W. Blackburn has gone to Washington
to take up his new duties in the Indian office.
The county is sodding the ground on Seven
teenth and Harney streets between the walks
and retaining wall of the county square.
Friend of the Soldier
Replies will be given in this
column to questions relating
to the soldier and his prob
lems, in and out of the army.
Names will not be printed.
Ask The Bee to Answer
Liberty Bonds for Sailor.
Gob -If you have not yet received
the Liberty bonds for which you
subscribed, and for which your pay
has been deducted, you should
write to the Navy Liberty Loan
Auditor, Bureau of Supplies and Ac
counts, Navy Department, Wash
ington. The matter may have been
overlooked, and It will do no harm
to call the auditor's attention to the
fact that you are still waiting for
the bonds.
Victory Button.
A. P. If you will write to The
Officer in Charge of Recruiting,
Army Building, Omaha, enclosing a
certified copy of your discharge
paper or the order discharging you
from the service, you will be given
by return mail the Victory button.
These are for all men who were
honorably dscharged from the army
since November 11, 1918.
Service Chevrons.
L. M. S. The gold service chevron
denotes six months complete service
abroad; the silver chevron denotes
six months complete service in the
United States. One chevron is worn
for each six-month period. It is not
permitted to wear them together,
nor snouid they be worn on civilian
clothing. If you served seven months
in France after 10 months in train
ins in this country, you are entitled
to wear one gold chevron on the
left sleeve of your uniform blouse.
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
"THE CHARMING MERMAID."
(In this adventure Peggy, Billy, Judge
Owl and Balky Sam help a handsome
young prince In hie wooing of a beautiful
mermaid.)
CHAPTER I.
Judge Owl's Bare.
OO, hoo! Princess Peggy, did
you ever see a mermaid?"
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Many Questions Answered.
Mrs. M. S. The last address we
have for balloon company No. 25 is
Army Balloon School, Arcadia,
Cal., and for balloon company No.
26 Army Balloon School. Lee Hall,
Virginia. Neither of these com
panies has yet been demobilized.
A Sister We have no word of
bakery company No. 11 being re
leased from service with the Amer
ican forces in Germany, The latest
address-is the one you have, A. P. O.
927.
A. B. C. Motor repair unit No.
No. 310 is assigned to early convoy,
and should reach the United States
some time this month. Can not
give you the date of sailing.
Sister Camp hospital No. 11 is
at Camp Sherman, Ohio. It had not
yet been demobilized.
A Mother The last address we
have for motor truck company No.
495 is A. P. O. 735. It has not yet
been released for return to the
United States. A general order is
sued before General Pershing left
France was to the effect that all
American forces would be out of
France by the end of September.
arotner Depot service company
No. 49 is not yet demobilized, but is
at Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Mary Only the first platoon of
company D, 53d telegraph battalion.
Is on service in Siberia. Mail to
Vladivostok will reach them.
Peggy was just dropping off to
sleep on a warm summer's evening
when Judge Owl's hoot made her
eyes pop wide open. The judge was
sitting on a branch of a tree Just
outside her bedroom window, his
form showing darkly against the
big moon Just rising over the east
ern hills.
"Hoo! Hoo! I'm asking you If you
ever saw a mermaid?" repeated the
judge as if he were in a great
hurry.
"No, of course not," answered
Peggy. "There are no mermaids in
these days. They lived long, long
ago."
"Hoo! Hoo! I've seen one!"
hooted Judge Owl.
"Nonsense! You shouldn't tell
fibs," scolded Peggy, who was Just
a bit cross over being awakened n
this way.
"What do mermaids look like?"
was the judge's reply.
"Why, part of them looks like a
beautiful girl and part of them looks
like a fish. And they sing songs to
lure sailors to their doom," prompt
ly answered Peggy, whose father
had told her about mermaids that
very evening.
"That's right and It proves my
mermaid is a mermaid," declared
Judge Owl excitedly. "Come and
see."
But Peggy held back. Her bed
was very comfortable, even though
things looked attractive outside.
The moonlight was shimmering on
the lake a short distance from the
summer cottage where she was
spending her late vacation days, and
the frogs in the bushes were singing
a Jolly song:
Why sleep at
Croa-ak! Cro-ak!
night?
Come out and play while
moon shines bright.
the
Tho Judge Was Sitting on a Branch
or a Tree Just Outside Her
Bedroom Window.
"I dare you, and double dare
you!" hooted Judge Owl, but Peggy
only snuggled down a bit more cos
ily in her bed. "Hoo! Hoo! You'll
be sorry if you don't see the hand
some young prince," added the
Judge. Peggy sat up straight.
"What handsome young prince?"
she demanded. "You were talking
about a mermaid."
,"The handsome young prince is
In love with the charming mer
maid," answered Judge Owl. "Come
quickly, and you will hear him play
his guitar while she sits on a rock
combing her hair and singing."
Peggy Jumped out of bed and in
a minute was. eagerly following
Judge Owl along the shore of the
lake. Suddenly she and the judge
stopped short. They had been
startled by a banging and crashing
In the military camp not far dis
tant. And following the last crash
came the sound of galloping feet.
Nearer and nearer drew the gal
loper, finally dashing into view and
hurling himself full tilt Into the
waters of the lake.
"Hee-haw! Hee-haw! I've broken
out of camp and am going on a va
cation. Hee-haw! What a dandy
swim!"
The fcalloper and swimmer was
Balky Sam, the army mule. Up and
down he sported in the water, like a
boy just out of school.
Now came the sound of other
running feet and out upon the
beach raced Billy Belgium.
"What are you doing here? Did
you hear that racket?" he asked all
in one breath.
"The racket was Balky Sam
breaking out of camp, and we're
going to hear the handsome young
prince play his guitar for the mer
maid who sits on a rock and combs
her hair that is, if there is a
mermaid," answered Peggy all In
another breath.
Hee-haw! Then climb on my
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An Opportunity.
The commander of a sunken and
doomed submarine kept a diary of
his last hours. Long afterward the
boat was salvaged and the record
found. In one sense it is tragic
enough, but in another it is full of
hope, for it contains facts that help
to show how similar disasters may
bo avoided. Every thorough story
of a catastrophe has a similar effect.
Our literature is beginning to take a
turn in this direction. Old-fashioned
accounts of our successful men de
scribed only their successes; now we
read of both the ups and the downs.
Readers feel that they are getting
the reefs in the ocean charted, and
learning where they can safely steer.
We learn as much from a shipwreck
ai from a prosperous voyage. Some
day a really energetic editor will
compel hundreds of unsuccessful
business men to supply accurate and
thorough accounts of their lives, and
from this material, as well as the
old-fashioned kind, he will be able
to publish more useful articles on
business success than the majority
of those we read. Collier's Weekly.
A Pleasant Variety.
"How would you like to hear
your children crying for bread?"
asked the presiding elder, who was
endeavoring to raise a fund for the
impecunious Armenians.
"I reckon it would be a pleasant
change," replied Gap Johnson of
Rumpus Ridge, Ark. "They are al
ways bellerin' fer terbacker now."
Kansas City Star.
The Wage Earners.
"What wages are mechanics get
ting In Houston?" asks the inquisi
tive subscriber of Wharton. Mechan
ics and laborers in Houston are not
cretting wages. They get salaries.
The wages are being drawn by the
school teachers, policemen and fire
men. Houston Post.
His Fatal Overslghht.
Bela Kun may attribute his fall
to his neglect to follow closely the
example of Lenine and Trotzky and
organize his dictatorship behind a
wall of German and red bayonet
and machine guns. Chicago News.
THE SILVER KING.
Ho! Te people in tne state,
To Omaha come and celebrate
With his majesty, the ktnff.
Such sights (or you he has In store
And treat you as he ne'er did before
King Ak-Sar-Ben.
The clty'a keys he'll give to you,
Whatever else goes with it, too
This ruler Ak-Sar-Ben.
A democratic king is he.
Full of fun and frivolity
King Ak-Sar-Ben.
His silver anniversary
He'll celebrate with victory
The reign of Ak-Sar-Ben.
Loyal to him we'll always be
Who has given our city celebrity
Our Silver King.
BELLVIEW.
Shantung Not a Poker Prize.
Fremont, Neb., Sept. 9. To the
Editor of The Bee: Your editorial
In Tuesday's Bee entitled "Japan's
Grab in Shantung," prompts me to
make this assertion: If the present
owners of the Bee building should
lose that property to "Doc" Tanner
in a poker game, the editor of The
Bee would have Just as much kick
coming as the Chinese have. China
ceded to Germany 21 years ago and
Germany in her gamble, lost to
Japan, and signed it over in the
treaty. Now where in the name of
common sense did Japan wrong
China? Yours truly,
WALDO WINTERSTEEN.
Precisely; only the facts are not
such as will warrant the conclusion
drawn by Judge Wlntersteen. Ger
many did not gain its holdings in
China nor lose them in a poker
game. in 1898 Germany forced
enma to grant a concession of cer
tain rights in Shantung, including
the port of Kiaochow; the German
government had exactly the same
right, and no more, to hold this
territory that It had to Alsace-Lor
raine, for which the French signed
a treaty under duress In 1871, or
to Prussian Poland, or that Austria
had to "Italia Irredenta," or to
Bornla or Herzogovinia. When .Ta
pan entered the war, it did not deal
with China for Shantung, but with
England and France and Russia,
In May, 1915, Japan sent an ulti
matum embracing 21 demands to
China, in which was included Shan
tung, and required a satisfactory
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of war. China went to Paris ask
ing justice, as did other small and
weak nations. Poland was liberated,
Bohemia redeemed, Jugoslavia set
up, Alsace and Lorraine restored to
France, Belgium given certain ter
ritory claimed from Germany, and
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China, however, was told "We can
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sire to placate and not to offend
Japan." So the richest province of
the great country, with its 40,000
inhabitants, its shrines and sacred
memories, its wealth of mineral and
other resources, was turned over to
the Japs, to have and to hold as
long as they will, and Americans
are asked to assent to this com
pounding of injustice, relying on
Japan's promise to retire, the latest
edition of .which contains the pro
vision that it is conditioned on the
"behavior" of China. A game of
poker contemplates an even break
in the run of the cards; study of the
Shantung affair will give a good
idea of what is meant by "a China
man's chance." Ed. Bee.
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