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'.7 ' 10 B THE OMAHA SUNDAY ' BEE: DECEMBER 1$, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY - . TOUHDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATIB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TIB BBS PUBLISHING COMPANY, FROPRIBTOB MEMBERS OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS " the AjeocUUa Preee. ef wfelek The Bee la bbIm. M e Mntt eatlU te th a, for puhlirttloo of ell nm dltpatebei M to N idI otaerwn credited la ttali nw, and alee Dm leeai am sobliihea: herein. AU rUhta of pubUcadoa at our BEE TELEPHONES i t at PutMulu Pmoo i? Tyler 1000 ' MtoM 1 Caieiaeaea Alierttalas Far Nifht and Sunday Service Callt Trier 10001 TTlar leoib Trl.r 100U. OFFICES OF THE BEE om Ofttot, dot BnUdlnc, 17tk tad Fuaia. omeoi: . - - ... 4110 worw nia i rmrw wwiw 1U MUIIUT Am. South Side Mil N Mml Bhffl 15 Bcott it- I Wolnat 111 Norto 0th Uul-r-1 own umcin V Toik Offla IM Fifth in. I Wwhtnftoa 111 O Btnat rfit r ftwtg BMl. I UnoolB IMP H Street OCTOBER CIRCULATlONi Daily 66,315 Sunday 63,160 ' Amu elreiiletlan Mr th month mhicrlbid and laora at hr . B, I. Bacan. Clrculetlon Manaaar. Subacribara laavlnf th city ehould have The Baa ealM U that. AaMraaa chanted aa aftaa aa required. You should knbw that San Francisco is the only city west , of Omaha whose weekly bank elearings exceed those of this city. What The Bee Stands For: 1. Respect or the law and maintenance of order. 2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime through the regular operation of the "; courts. 3. Pitiless publicity and condemnation of ' inefficiency lawlessness and corrup lH tion in office. ,4 Frank recognition and commendation of honest and efficient public service. 1 Inculcation of Americanism at the true basis of good citizenship. Now for a regular come-back. You can do a lot of Christmas shopping yet if yoa only try. A few wallops like that on Wall Street may check the upward flight of prices. Oregon Roasts the Willamette is frozen over. v Thafs nothing; so is the Missouri. Emma wants to go with Alexander and . Unci Sam will see she is not disappointed. Baltimore is relieved from the pressure of "blue laws," held over, from the eighteenth cen tury. ' This is sensible. ; Lady Nancy Astor wants to come to Amer ica to set things right, but she will find plenty to keep her busy in England. Representative Dallinger is dead set on re Tiring the "daylight saving" law, but he yet haa Frank Agnew to reckon with. Wall Street complains that the Federal Re aervt board has put hobbles on the stock mar ket Something of the sort was needed. ' . A father has turned up in Lincoln, seeking a daughter he abandoned twenty-four years ago. Paternal solicitude is wonderful sometimes. Tolice and federal officers have located two n6re stills in Omaha, showing that the gentle art of moonshining is not entirely among the lost. - , Germany has forbidden the exportation of worioijOf art. .When it is recalled how the choicest of them were acquired, this may cause a sfhile or two. '-Chicago retailers hare put out a "fair" price liat'fbr clothing. It provides escape .from some -of the fancy figures heretofore quoted, but says nothing of the quality. ' ' I ' , Frugal, industrious and thrifty Canada also feels "the effectKof the cost of high living. "The cold'gray dawn of the morning after" is always a good, time for reflection. ' . If the drys want to hold their convention here? next year, they will find not only a cordial .'welcome, but the finest brand of drinking water . that: ever cooled a parched throat . A Jersey cow is recorded as producing more than hef weight in butter f6r the year, and, as you know what butter is worth you may be able to estimate the price of the cow. ;'The Chicago judge who telephoned a re- prieve as the condemned man was on his way "1c. the gallows has at least an eye to "movie" j dramatic values. We shudder to think what ' would have happened if he had had to depend on "central" in her ordinary mood. A church committee advises "extreme cau-v tion" in dealing with Carranza. What, we would "like to ask, aside from meticulous and solicitous consideration of the rarest tenderness, has this government employed in its dealings with the Mexican leader? ' Polk to Von Lersner With their ready assumption in favor of their own conceits, the Germans have seen fit to interpret the action, or lack of action by the United States senate, in the matter of the treaty aa indication of a favorable sentiment toward themselves. This is disabused by the entirely American and adequate warning given by Mr. Polkj-who heads the American delegation, to , Kurt von Lersner, who heads the German dele- gation at Versailles. v- . "If there can be in the United States several fwaytif understanding the treaty," Mr. Polk it quoted as telling Herr Lersner,- "there are not two ways of understanding the obligations incumbent upon Germany nor the affection bind ' ipg he United States and her allies." Former German Chancellor Scheideman says that Germany must stand by its bargain, that it agreed to the peace terms and must live up to them. The matter of the surrender of pris . oners of war is something that it contingent upon the good faith of the Germans in other re ; tpects. -The sooner the prisoners all prison erscan be returned to their hornet, the more : humane will the relations of the nations come to be. Surrender of those accused by the allies , -with crhnee that must be accounted for before an allied .tribunal is a hard condition. It is, in deed, hard for the Germans to arrest and deliver tip these men, but they are bound so to do, and . in the wider interest of civilization they should I do so with less reluctance than they are dis- flaying, galtimoit American. - ALL TOGETHER FOR OMAHA; A year of considerable turbulence, , but of progress at well, for Omaha 5a almost at an end.' The time for stock-taking it at "hand, for a measuring of achievements and planning for the future. Little good will come for the commun ity from the 'consideration of . mistakes made and . opportunities' wasted, other than at they indicate what not to do again. Some comfort and inspiration maybe derived from contempla tion of the material accomplishments of the year. . Chief among, the. big thingt that were put over in Omaha wat the fine subscription for the Ak-Sar-Ben exposition. This mutt take first rank because it embodiea the community spirit Then comet the $5,000,000 appropriation for, the extension of the public school system. Nothing could more fittingly exemplify the aspirations of the city than this liberal provision for the. chil dren in the way - of opportunity for getting the benefits of education. Omaha's thare in the $3,000,000 fund for improving county roads is another indication of the forward-looking at titude of the citirent. To these may be added many other notable enterprises, public and private, that sum up an immense total of invest ment tending to guarantee the future greatness of the city. Thus Omaha at the coming of a new year looks ahead to a period of activity and growth that promises greater results and more immedi ate benefits than any in its history. All of this promise may be realized if the citizens will take hold unitedly and pull to the one end. Personal and factional" differences may well be sub merged for the common weal. Individual am bition of any is less in importance than the progress of the whole, and group advantage ought to be set aside for the general good. Only through a closer union of all the citi zens, working to a single end, may Omaha se cure all that is contained in the splendid pro gram laid out for 1920. All together for Omaha should be the slogan. " The Hour, of Ireland". Good Work by the Chief: If the report that Chief of Police Eberstein has summarily dealt, with two police detectives who . ignored the rights of citizens is correct, The Bee. congratulates the community on his belated recognition of what is due from him as the responsible- directing head of the organiza tion. "It was coarse and boneheaded work." the chief is quoted as saying, and goes on: ' "I won't stand for this rough worki Citizens have rights that. I, will not permit to be violated." That is all The Bee ever asked of Chief Eber stein, that he prevent "coarse," "bonehcad" and "rough" work , by his policemen, requiring them to proceed with due regard for the rights of citizens. If he has come to understand this. The Bee's hard, disagreeable campaign has not beer, in vain. ' ; Allies and the Reservations. For several days Premier Clemenceau has been visiting in England, conferring with Lloyd George and other statesmen. This visit has given rise to several,, sorts of rumors, one of which has to do with a revival of "secret diplomacy." , A far more plausible explanation is that in the course of the consultations an agreement to accept the Lodge reservations to the Treaty of Versailles has been reached. Such aft outcome 'was7 not' entirely unanticipated. While, the leaders of Englani'and France have been silent, during, the ( entire debate in this country, delicately declining to do or say any thing that -might seem td be indicative of a de sire to interfereit" is just as certain that they were Acutely alert to all that was passing. . . If It be true 'that the great AlHes are. willing to accept the reservations Viade by the senate's foreign relations, committee and adopted by the body itself, the way, to early ratification's plain. The Lodge resolution,' which', wis finally voted down, provides that the ratification shall. not be complete" an effective '.until! the "reservations and understandings' adopted by the senate have been accepted by an Exchange: of notes as a part arid vc6ndition of siM resolution of ratification by at least three' of the four principal allied and associated powrs, to-wit: Great Britain, Frince, Italy. arid Japan." Should it be true that England and Erance"havfe agreed to accept the reservations, we-"rnay confidently .look for similar acquiese'nee "on part of both Italy and Japan. ' ' , ' : ' This brings the matterjback fairly to the White House. WilJ the president now make the concession .he 'has denied to the senate, or will he continue' to insist on having what he knows ,he can not get? He will get notice in the customary way of the result of the- confer ences between Lloyd . George and Clemenceau. and the world ought to know iomething about the matter very s6on. ' Relations With Distracted Russia. -Agitation in New York -for removal of the embargo against shipments to "soviet" Russia flows from humanitarian rather than political motives. Generous men and women are willing to make almost any sort of sacrifice in order that relief may be given the starving and help less women and children of the distracted coun try. If it were possible to assure that the food and clothing sent would reach those for whom it it intended, this kindly impulse would be well timed. Such assurance can not be given, and reason exists for thinking that any aid of the kind now sent there would have the effect of pr6longing the disorder. That it would go first to the uses of the radicals it almost morally certain, and these have shown very little con sideration for the weak. Offers of help'have been made, but have failed because of the im possible conditions demanded by the Lenine tni Trotzky elements. Civilization it now. hav ing a new experience, that of being compelled to look on while a great body of people1 starves because its members can not agree among themselves at to how the Golden Rule shall be applied. America is ready and willing to help, but can do to only when the Russians reach a point where they will try to help themselves. It is no longer a question of recogniziing the soviet government by organized nations, but of Russians recognizing that or tome other .form of government on their own . account Until they do, the' outside' world tan hilp them better by letting them alone. ' "-j ,,r"-i; . ..; . The BeeVFrW Shoe Fund, is 100 per cent service plus the help it gives In time of need. That is why it prospers.' You are invited to put in "whatever you' feel like .' giving. ' - v Washington say! the ittitude ef the Allies on the reservation! hat b"en. known for, tome time," but hat been withheld from t)ie president on account ofkh'is illness..' He, might have re covered ere thit had he been told. ; 5 - . Announcement from London on Friday wat that the proposed new Irish home rule bill had been again delayed at the request of Bonar Law. Its contenti are yet a profound secret save that it contemplates the establishment of two legislative bodies. Under the caption here used, the London Timet, in its issue of Novem ber 24, discusses the question after thit fashion: Our Washington correspondent's admonition latt Friday that "if our public men and the press desire really to help Anglo-American re lations, -ihe thing to do is . . . to attend unremittingly to the settlement of our own most pressing domestic problem," may serve as a reminder of the urgency of an Irish settle ment. Like him, we are convinced that "the solution of the Irish problem will do more to open up a new and practical era of Anglo American relation! and to cement the bonds formed by partnership in the war" than any expression of regret that the American senate should not have risen to the height of Presi dent Wilson's idealism. We trust and, indeed, believe that the government share this eonvie tion. The settlement drafted by the cabinet committee has been repeatedly under considera tion by the cabinet at a whole, and the govern ment scheme itself should thortly be produced. Save for one disclosure, the deliberations of the cabinet committee have carefully been kept secret. According to that disclosure, the basis of the forthcoming scheme was to be the estab lishment of two provincial parliaments one for Ulster, the other for the rest of Ireland wiyj a link between them in the form of an equal rep resentation of both of the provincial legisla tures. If this basis has been retained, it will be prima facie evidence that the cabinet committee have boldly faced the fundamental issue, and that the government are seeking a just and statesmanlike solution of the Irish problem. We should be glad to believe that, in regard to Ire land at least, the administration have been in spired rather by principle than by considera tions of apparent, but only apparent, expediency. It was never, and it is not now, to be expected that any scheme possessing the merit of true compromise would escape denunciation by those whose positions as political partisans prevent them from yielding, in advance, one jot of their maximum demands. Every Irish party standi in ttalemate. The failure of the Irish conven tion has precluded initiative from Irish quarters in the direction of .genuine concession. The government must be prepared for noisy oppo sition on all sides; and they will undoubtedly have to race the plausible barren argument uiai, in existing circumstances, notnmg can safely be done in Ireland. We believe, indeed, that in Ireland there are manv who would gladly lend force to that argument. The plain answer to it is that the present situation cannot safely be allowed to continue, either in Ireland or in regard to the bearings of the Irish ques tion upon our foreign relationships. We have from the outset insisted that the problem of Irish peace is essentially a British nay, an English problem, to be faced by Englishmen. Any suspicion of foreign pressure or of foreign interference would prejudice the ihope of a settlement which, if it is to possess and to re tain its. full virtue,; must be spontaneous; but none but fools can imagine that the foreign re lationships of this country, and the relations of the various parts of the British empire to each Other, are not also essentially a British , con-? cerhr and therefore to be taken fully and earn estly into' account in assessing the importance of the Irish issue, In truth, its importance is such that there could, be no justification for a government that should allow its resolution to waver on the eve of action for fear of displeas ing Irish malcontents on the one .hand and British and Irish reactionaries on the other. We assume that a scheme on the lines above indicated has been, seriously considered 'by the cabinet; , and, while recording our concurrence with its.aeneral idea, we confess our anxietv in regard to the nature of the link between the two'i provincial assemblies. That link should be some thing more than a symbol 6f Irish unity. As we have repeatedly1 urged, British statesmen should ami it laying sure foundations on which Irish men, themselves may, in course of time, build up a.'Uiiited system of Jrish self-government... We hold , that the present position of Irish affairs demands that special consideration be given to the peculiar circumstances and the just claim of -Unionist Ulster. We .believe that only bv recogniziug thesexircumstances and by conced ing theie claims," in so far as they are truly just, can an eventual union of Ireland be satis factorily achieved. Among the just claims of Unionist Ulster we number her right to a measure-of independence' within an Irish state. At the Irish convention John 'Redmond was pre pared to assent to a Virtual equality of repre sentation between . Unionists and Nationalists. It may be assumed that he" and his colleagues would not have faced the payment of such a price had they thought that their object could be gained at less cost. The object was to safe guard the essential unity of Ireland. Since the convention, the chance of securing stability in Ireland under a single legislature lias become more remote. Nevertheless, the government! should neglect no method of pushing open the door to the practical establishment and working of a central Irish parliament at the earliest pos sible moment. In other words, the link be tween the provincial legislatures must be real and must be susceptible of being strengthened by the action of Irishmen themselves. W.e shall judge the forthcoming proposals of the government lapgely by the promise they contain of the attainment of this end. The best, if not the only, hope of substituting Irish co-operation for the. present Irish discord lies in giving immediately to an Irish parliament both the op portunity and the means of doing constructive work for the benefit of Ireland as a whole, Home Health Hints Reliable advice liven la thit column on prevention and eure of disease. Put your quea tion in plain language. Tour name will not be printed. Ask The Bee to Help You. Death of the British Middle Claas. The "Medical Correspondent", of the London Time aete the end ef the Britlah "middle elusaa" near at hand, not because of bolshevlam or anything like that, but from re striction of birth rata, due to birth control and failure of young met) to wed. He discourses on the tople In the following fashion: J All over the country the decline In the birth rate appears to be pur suing Its course irrespective of the end of the war. The most recent report on this subject, that of the medical officer of health for Ches ter, states that In 19 IS there were ISt fewer births In Cheshire than in 1917. The rate for the country is now 15.9 per 1,000 of estimated population. That for England and Wales is 17.7, .and for London, le.l. When we compare these figures with the birth rate for the 10-year period, 1901-1910, we find that this latter was 27.2 per 1,000 persons living. In the period 1851-1910. It is true the death rate fell by 30 per cent. A large proportion of the fall is to be ascribed to the reduction of the Infant death rate and to mea sures of public hygiene. The result has been that, especially among the very poor, the falling birth rate has been to some extent compensated for. It Is this point which requires to be emphasized at the moment, for unless it be appreciated the true significance of the situation will be missed. Failing Dirtn rate nas Deen compensated for by falling death rate among the working and indus trial classes, In which, notoriously, the annual gain and loss were very high 30 years ago. But that state of matters does not prevail in the middle classes of the country. Their birth rate Is falling rapidly; their death rate, never very high, is not falling and cannot fall rapidly. Thus the middle classes are sinking In the matter of population. We are witnessing what can be described without, exaggeration as the death of the middle classes. . Statistics as between classes are not available. But the testimony of medical men forms a saf.e guide. That testimony is heavily in favor of the idea that during the past 10 years, and especially during the past three years, middle class births have been a rapidly diminishing quantity. The family of four, or five has be come the family of two or three, and is in process of becoming the family of one. A great number of young couples now openly declare that they do not intend to have more than one child, and, many . decide to have no children at all. ' Every medipal man is able to corroborate these' facts, and many medical men are consulted on the question of birth prevention. It is easy to blame these young people, but it Is very unprofitable to do so. The. fact is, that with the present cost of living, the present taxation, the present price of houses, a "family," as that -term used to be understood, is impossible. It' means not discomfort, but privation, with consequent deterioration of health. It Is, therefore, felt to be better to bring up one healthy child and af ford it a reasonable education than to attempt to bring tip three chil dren on insufficient food and .with out the hope of being able to afford them a training for their life's work. But the mischief, does not stop there by any means.' The marriage rate has also fallen!' In 1917 it was 13.8 per 1,000 of the popula tion at all ages. This rate was the lowest hitherto . recorded in this country, being- 1.1 below .that of 1916 and 2.6 below the average rate of , the quinquennluni 1911-1915 Early iu the war, ibi&. a maximum was reached at 19.' per 1,000. It is common knowledge that marriages, and especially middle, class mar riages, are being postponed at pres ent on account of housing and food difficulties, andthere can be no doubt that many: men are avoiding marriage altogether because of the severe financial strain which it imposes.- The wqrld ,1s in gay mpod; the Attractions of domestic life on a salary, barely enough for two are not conspicuous. , As a bachelor, a man may indulge his tastes, -preserve his freedom of action,, and can afford to amuse himself with his friends. He shrinks from the alternative of stern hard work, frugal living, a minimum of pleasure as that word One Way ta Settle o Strike - Osceola, Neb., Dee. 10. -To the Editor of The Bee: To my mind a quick,- concise certain and perma nent settlement of the coal strike Su,1,w.! ff,ctd e application of a little common grey horse sense reasoning. It to a wrong theory for any man to take the position that he won't mine coal at what the owner wanta to pay and at the same time say that he wont let another man have .U0?.: If man ta Bot "tisfled with the pay, his remedy is to simply quit and go Into some other oceupatlon, just aa thousands of other men have done, "it to a mis take for any man to lose confidence In himself to the extent of believing he can't do but one thing la thto In the next place It to wrong rea soning to think that mlnea can be owned and operated by the govern ment aa a remedy for settling any kind of labor trouble, and aa ex amples no man need look further than the case of mall carriers or any other employe outside of the heads of government departments, or If vou Dlease. taka Now 7inni or Australia and you will be forced to conclude that government own ershlD Drodncea low nam an im prices for the products of all labor ana u matters not, whether it be farming, mechanical or common labor. To mv mind arnvrnmnt ownership Is simply a stepping stone to socialism ana socialism to an autocratic form of government. It aDDeaxa to mn that nmhnhlv the greatest- stumbling block , we nave to contena witn on the start Is "the theoretical age which we are llvinz In." It annnara that nnr !. islators have largely got on the lead pencil tractc ana tne result is that laws nave Deen enacted which In terfere with all himlneaa nrlvot. nr corporate and business Is simply nmaerea in its progress so that ca pable men dare not and can not pro ceed, therefore we are not and can not keep abreast with the Increased demands made by the natural neces sity, produced by an Increased popu lation and natural demands. Take tne matter alone of railroads, look at the rolling stock alone and I be- ' ODD AND INTERESTING. A bee can fly much faster than a bird. ( The week of the ancient Egyptians contained 10 days. The water of the Antarctle ocean la oolder than that of the Arctic. Most spiders have poisonous fangs, but few are dangeroua to human be ings. WUh the exception of the dia mond, carborundum Is the hardest ef all known substances. Whan a fish haa lost any ef tto rales, by a wound or an abrasion, they are never renewed. Eskimo babies are seldom weaned Until they are 4 or S years old, but they are taught to chew tobacco, and to swallow the Juice, between the agea of 9 and 1 months. . A curious custom among the nobil ity of ancient Athens was to wear a small bell in the ear, of which a pearl formed the clapper. to understood la our cities, and a maximum of anxietv. Moreover, the age question has to be considered. The proportion of Daciieiors marrying during 1911-14 was about 39 per cent. In 1886-1890 It was 50 per cent. It was 37.6 In 1917. The proportion of bachelors marrying at ages over 35 has also Increased notably during 1916 and 1917. . Of spinsters marrying during the later eighties, about 63 per cent were under 5 years of age; of these marrying during the last few years, only ,55 per cent were under 25. The proportion in 1917 was 64.8. The war of course has proved a disturb ing factor In all statistics, but it is not to be doubted that among the middle classes marriages are becom ing not only fewer in number, but later in respect of the age of the contracting parties. This tendency affects, as we have suggested, the lower middle class most of all, that Is to say the class with incomes from 300 pounds per annum, to 800 pounds or 1,000 pounds. This class contributed a very. large number of officers to the army during the war-and lost a Very large number. It has often and rightly been described aa the "backbone of - the nation." From it are recruited our professions, a great number of our thinkers, or ganizers, administrators,- soldiers, and sailors. . In very many of its families a tradition of service ex ists - which Is of great value to the state, e. g., a medical tradition, a legal tradition, a clerical tradition, and so on.-' These families have made great sacrifices In the past to seep the - tradition going; but the limit of the 'possible has' been reached. The 'doctor may be able to make one son a doctor If his family consists of but one son, but on no other terms. He is faced with a choice which is really no choice at all. - Is this middle class to be allowed to die out or is it not?. Unless some steps are taken' the process must go on. We have to choose between leg islation which will make It profit able, or at least possible, to have children and the present policy of extinction. Other nations have found it worth whilo to put a pre mium on babies and have achieved their purpose. This nation puts a premium on bachelorhood, and its inevitable consequences, venereal disease and prostitution. Have your owa good Judgment will guide you right I believe If men were left free to manage their af fairs that we would have more rail- j roads and ample equipment to take 1 care of the demands. But 2 cent fares and about 90 per cent of the present regulation laws will have to be cut out. Competition Is the real , price adjuster and I believe that when we let up on our trying to run things with a lead pencil and live upon laws, that we will have found the solution. I have digressed somewhat, but In order to get to the bottom of a two-story building, one must either take the stair way or Jump. Getting back to the coal strike, my Idea of the correct solution would be to encourage and if necessary "the public has rights" force the strikers to go into other occupations and I want to say that the greater portion of miners are foreigners and that there are few Americans outside of the heads engaged. Why? Be cause the American finds an occu pation to follow which he likes bet ter. But we have a class of Amer icans in this country, who have shown their loyalty in time of need and who have never received the consideration aa a class, that we have accorded the foreign miner and who In my judgment are at least as oompetent or at any rate, can easily be made competent I refer to the American negro. Pro tect these mine owners and protect the negro miner. Bring the south ern negro to the coal fields, pay them a fair wage, not too much and not too little. But far less than the wage now paid. Do this and I believe our trouble in so far as coal mines go, are over. I might say that over in "Australia a few years ago, a dock strike was on, which demoralized the country for several weeks. The strikers would neither work nor allow others to work. Fin ally the farmers volunteered to set tle it. So one morning there -appeared upon the scene 10,000 husky farmers armed with American axe handles. They informed the strike guards that they had come down to help unload the waiting ships of their cargoes and to reload them with their wheat and other produots. That strike was all off In 24 hours. Let's do one thing at a time. ' BEN Q. HELLANDBOCK. The Day We Celebrate. Preaton B. Myers of the Myert Dillon company, born 1889. Irlnce Albert of Walea, the etc ond aon of King George and Queen Mary, born 14 years ago. Hon. Pierre Edouard Blondla, postmaster general of Canada, bora la Quebec. 46 years ago. Rt ReV. Frank A. McElwaln. Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, bora at Warsaw, N. T., 44 yeara ago. George Tyler, pitcher of the Chi cago National league base ball team, born at Derry. N. H.. 10 yeara age. Thirty Yeara Ago ta Omaha, Mrs. Guy Barton gave a dinner ta honor of Mr. and Mrt. Lyman. The sewing school of the Tenth Street mlssioa was attended by 188 acholara and 22 teachers. Twenty-four garments were finished and given out to the children. Mr. Edward Rosewater left Wash ington. D. C. for New York. At a masked ball given at Good rich hall one of the costumes repre sented The Omaha Bee. It was made of the daily and Sunday Is sues of The Bee with pictures of The Bee building. The cap was a bee hive. The costume was bora by Miss Lulu Voorhies. Mrs. Lowe and Mrs. Smythe wera visiting Mrs. Frederick Lowe. IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. Doctor Do you talk Id your aleap? Patlaot No; I talk Id other paoplaa. I'm clergyman. London Tit Blta. "So you advlaa ma to so and work a a fnfrn?" . ' . "Advli youT" aaJd tha man af tha houaa. "I dara you!" Tonktra-ttatta-maa. rarraar Want ta blra out for a tsontaT Hobo Ooh. no I I want ta Uvs today u it I expected to dla tomorrow. Houftoa Pdt. . Ho-How la it that roe major suffar from tht cold? She O, J'ra alwaya wrappe ta my work. Cornell Widow. DEMOCRACY. Aa I walk aolltary, unattended, Around me I bear that eetat af tfca warn politic, produce. Tha announcement af raaefataec thlnf eelenea, Tha approved arawth at ctttar, est the Spread ef Invention!. I sea tha ahlpe (they will lait a few rears) Tha vaat faetorlea with their feremea sad workmen Aid hear tbe tndoreemeat ef all, sad da not object ,U it But we, toe, announoe aelld thins. Science, ahlpe, politic, cttlee, faetoriea are nothlnt they aerva. They atand tor realltlea all Is as It iheald be. Then mv reallUea. ' What ele la o real aa miner Llberatad, and th divine average free dom to every alava en tha face af tbe earth. Tha rapt promt and lunrlne af aeert the aptrltual world thoea eenrnrlee laetlns eons. And our viiion. the vlalona af poets, the moit aolld announcements ef any. For we eupport all. After the rent la done aad fen, we re main, There la no final rellanea hot aa aa Democracy reeta finally upon aa (I, air brethren, begin It), And eur vlfloneeweep throush eternity. . Walt Whltaaa. U nele Sam as ' ' Uncle' ' to Europe Sir George Paisch says that France, Itary, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Rou mania, Serbia, Jugo-Slavia, and possibly Russia, must have in the next 12 months $8,000,000,000 of credit to meet the peril of the paper issues made by these countries. In no other way, he thinks, can Europe avoid bankruptcy and ruin. Financial adviser of the British government and international economist, he sees in the league of nations a means of providing this enormous credit, which, issued by the league, would, he believes, "afford security which the nations would accept at its par value." Undoubtedly financial conditions are des perate on the continent .and even Britain, al though by no means a financial bankrupt, is, through her war reactions and labor troubles, hard pressed to recover her normal status. This proposal, therefore, of Sir George is a cordial invitation to the United States, as practically the only member of the league of nations in a condition to lend credit, to assume the liability for thit enormous sum. This is one of the reasons why subscription to the league of nations covenant by our govern ment thould be attended with ample provisions for self-protection against possibilities not yet discovered and against liabilities which we would be obliged to carry practically alone. - When we contemplate responsibilities of thit character, we understand more clearly, perhaps, than be fore the wisdom of the reservation as to with drawal from the league on our own motion. America will always perform her thare of render ing assistance to distress everywhere the hit tory of the past four years demonstrates that but to enter into contracts to finance the world indefinitely and without ample provision for withdrawal when our : own interests compel' it would Have been the height of folly. Thit pro fiotal from Sir George Paisch, emphasizing the importance of reservation No. 1 as to withdrawal from, the league, should suggest to even the most casual and superficial student of the situation tne probable necessity of such other reservations as tne foreign relations committee have found it .proper to propose. It alto thows why "we should worry about the other ppwers objecting to any Yeservations to the treaty likely to pass the tcuate. Minneapolis Tribune, Piolins A source of infinite happiness lies in the power of being able to express your self in music. . 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