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V. !.. , . v. '..'.'. .-t ' 4 D THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 24, 1920. ThlOmaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY THR BEK PUBLISHING COM PANT. NEL80N B. UPDIKE. Pqbh.aer. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The AnarlatMl Freea. of which The Bum MmlM, u' m eniiltelj entitled 10 the uae for publication si til aee alttolia credited to It nr Dot ottienriae eredlted In this paper, tod alen tee lucel em publliiMd herein, All rtghu at puolleetlua ot our tpeclii al.KtohH tr tlH imim BEE TELEPHONES Prltile Branch Kietiante. Aik for Twl 1 (VtO Um WerUatel ot ftnoa Wanted. IJTier 1 WJ Far NiiilCalU 'After 10 P. M.i Mitarlal Dtptrtnrnt .......... rtnmltlloi lrrur.ent AdmUtlaa' Department ......... OFFICES OF THE BEE ' Mtln Offle! lTlh tnd Feme Oonaofl Bluffl II Bault M. I South Side Out-af-Tewa Offices! um tmt Tyler 100IL Tjle 100L Sill II lb New Tort Chtceeo rim Am. I Weahlnitoe Mil 0 I Steter Bide I Parte freoee 4M ttu Ml. Holtore The Bee's Platform U 1. New Union Passeafer Station. 2. Coatinaea! improvement of the) Ne braska Highways, including the pave ment of Main Thoroughfares loading Into Omaha with Brick Surface. 3. A ihort, low-rata Waterway from the ( Cora Belt to the Atlantie Ocean. 4. Homo Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form of Government. t THE CHURCH AND THE LEAGUE. One of the interesting aspects of the discus sion of the League of Nations arises from the fact that it is being extensively considered bv .'the church. , ThaJ honest difference of opinion may exist as to its probable working out is evinced by the lack of agreernent among the ministers as to its desirability. On the general theme there is no division; all agree that t6 do away with war will be to bring a great boon to humanity. Yet ministers are far from being unanimous as to how this is to be accomplished. Able and experienced doctors of divinity, whose training and experience enables them to speak with ' something of authority, give their views contrary to the stand of the president. They do not believe that the proffered covenant will promote and maintain international peace. Dr. Cortland Myers, pastor of Tremont Temple, Boston, says: 1 The peace treaty and League of Nations documents were atheistic and do not deserve anything but failure. The name of God was not in them, and no prayer was ever offered at the sessions at Versailles. The pages of history all declare this as fatal. God will not be forgotten or ignored with impunity or without penalty, as already foreseen, and these agreements are not worth the paper they are written upon. This proves the Scrip i tures and all God's relations to men. There . , can be no peace for this world without the recognition of the Prince of Peace, who is still in the throne, and Divine judgment rests upon Godless nations. A distinguished Southern Baptist, and a democrat, Rev. Joseph Judson Taylor, has this to say of the league: The Bible is against the league, i Some par tisan politicians and preachers with partisan bias have had a good deal to say about the Christianity of the league. No one of them, whether politician ot preacher, has quoted a single passage from the league covenant in proof of what he has said. Voters, have you thought of that? The reason is plain. There is no such passage in either document. The thing cannot be done. Another Southern Baptist. Rev. John J. Wicker, pastor of the Lehigh Street Baptist church, Richmond, holds that the league is fore : doomed to failure because "at the peace table God was refused a seat, and in the text of the covenant He was denied recognition." Bishop Thomas Benjamin Neely of Phila delphia admonishes his Methodist brethren that the league is "a fighting mechanism, deliberately put together to fight, yet professing to be a peace making arrangement" Other eminent and able churchmen and mor alists have voiced their disapproval of the pact, aiming always at the weak spot touched by Elihu Root, when he called the president's attention-to the fact that the league made no provision for the establishment and growth of international law, that its settlements would be . those of expediency and not of right, and jus tice. America has always stood and must al ways stand for righteousness. Less than this is to deny our own government, which rests on God's eternal principles, and under which has grown up a mighty nation which humbly acknowledges God, and stands erect before all ' the world because of the justice of its cause. And the League of Nations covenant will not tand the full test of those principles. Underground -in China. A cable dispatch telling of the death under ground of 400 Chinese miners calls the attention of the world to the industrial growth of the far ' eastern republic. Progress, of course, is not measured by the number of men killed in coal mining, but this tragic occurrence, with grief stricken families gathering around the mine, serves to give the mind's eye a picture of the 'new China, teeming with modern business ex ploitation. The "Danish state railways recently ordered 10,000 tons of coal from China. This, with the announcement of the forthcoming delivery of 100,000 tons of Chinese coal at Marseilles, marks a fresh epoch in the history of the coal industry of the world. Not only is China supplying its own fuel needs, but it is now entering the ex port business. Its output is steadily growing, in contrast with the decline of production in all other countries since 1913, , A conservative estimate of the amount of Q coal underlying China is placed at almost 1.000 billion tons, as compared with about 2(XHillion tons for the whole of Europe. Accordingto one calculation, , jChina's total reserve supply has been set as high af 1,500.000 millions tons, or nearly enough to supply the world demand for coal for a thousand years. The British mine strike, shutting off supplies to foreign customers, will open new markets to the Orient. Whatever the present condition, it is reassuring to the world to know that we have plenty of coal in the ground for a long time to come. Food and Efficiency. In other days the serving of food was a worship, and eating was surrounded with many religious rites. In "most . modern homes the preparation of three meals a day is a drudgery, and some feminists are urging the abolition of the kitchen and the establishment of common dining rooms for whole neighborhoods. And yet the family table holds its place as an educational center inculcating the virtues of self-control. rerard for others, good manners and pleasing conversation. The crowds who are attending the Pure Food - show in Omaha this week demonstrate an actual interest in the problem of food. Ease of prepara tion, lightening the labor of the kitchen, is a development ranking in importance with the other elements of purity and economy. Knowl edge and skill in the purchase and preparation of food bring good results to both pocket and health, and this is one purpose that a food show serves. v Through the practice of conservation, to gether with the pressure of the high cost of living, it has been brought home that it is not the food actually eaten that costs so much, but it is that wasted by poor cooking, by excessive quantity, or by purchasing out of season. Half the cost of life is the cost of food, and any op portunity to learn to cut the size of these bills, and at the same time maintain human efficiency, is well worth seizing. ,v In the Case of the Theater t One of the signs of the hour, as detected by the New York Times, is deflation at the theater. "A death blow," says the Times, "has been struck to the monstrosity of charging $3.50 for tickets to dramatic productions a practice which, curiously enough, was begun by a pro duction of Shakespeare. If the rule pi sanity prevails, there will be an abatement also in the price of tickets for musical comedy." But this is hot all that is in sight. To quote from the Times again, "where there is a reasonable cer tainty that mediocrity will flourish side by side with - experience, the tendency is toward mediocrity." And in the manifestations of this tendency may be discerned what ails the theater. People went to the movies, not because thev preferred the shadows passing across the screen to the more solid and enduring pleasure of hear injar the spoken word accompanied bv the ani mated gesture; of seeing the thing in life rather than in a mere similitude of life. But the man agers, led astray by the promise of greater profit to be reaped from presentation of mediocrity, followed its light so far afield that at last they found themselves traveling alone. Moreover, ...k'.vau Ji uuuuiilg up auu lUllklUUlllg tuc giun- ous galaxy of real American actors, they have suostitutea the manager, and we have been "sold" the name of the producer, rather1 than that of the performer or even the olav. One man among all modern American managers at tained the distinction sought by so many, that of having his name stand as a guaranty for the quality of his play and its players. He did this Dy the simple process of giving only what had merit," of never allowing his name to be asso ciated with the mediocre or unworthy. Charles Frohman, however, left no successor. It is not going to be the easiest thing to win the public back to the sooken drama ht !,. the stage is restored to something approaching conawons mat prevailed a dozen or fifteen years ago, before the "star" craze had completely over shadowed all other elements of the theater, peo ple will find their way back to orchestra and bal cony seats. The drama has a great function in connection with our social life, but it fiat tiPrn swerved far from that through injudicious man agement. But, as the Times says further: The mere killing of time in the theater has become too expensive. Henceforth the bur den of proof will be shifted; an "attraction" will have to attract, an "amusement" will have to amuse. . , In Search of a Taxless Land. The age of adventure has been revived by the project of forty wealthy Englishmen who have bought a schooner and will sail to the South seas in search of a tax dodgers' paradise. At the head of this novel expedition is Rhodes Disher, a fellow of the Royal Geographic so ciety. In a vessel fitted with all the luxury of a London club, he and his companions propose to find an island unvisited by tax collectors and start a new community of their-own. fiown below the equator are many islands capable of development. Incidents have been reported of shipwrecked sailors making them selves so snugly at home on these coral isles that rescuing parties coming months afterward were indignantly repulsed. Where bountiful na ture provides food and shelter and makes small demand for clothing little remains for man to do. Suspicion of the benefits of such easy en vironment are called up, however,' by the show ing that the natives of this region, having no need for struggle, have never progressed toward civilization. These British clubmen, with . no children, will have no necessity for taxation to support schools. They will not require good roads, po lice protection, fire engines, governors, kings, presidents, pure food inspectors or even dog catchers; Living in primitive fashion, they will be without most of the advantages of modern life. That this renunciation of what we think of as progress has struck a popular chord is indi cated by the thousands of applications from men everywhere to accompany the expedition. The British government is said to frown on the plan, but Will have plenty of official representa tives at the pier to see them off. These will bl in the person of income tax collectors making sure that none of the fleeing pilgrims is going without a final tribute to the support of the na tion he is fleeing. I Youth's Precious Hours. The uses of leisure are not to be denied, and yet with most of us there is a margin of time spent in doing nothing that, rightly applied, might serve to put us forward in the world. To invest our time wisely is as much a part of thrift as the saving of money. The most precious hours, strangely enough, are not those toward the evening of life, but those of youth and early manhood. It is then that we are building our future and laying up the store of knowledge and habits of industry that are to last a full lifetime. The boy who loafs falls. into an environment far different from the one who applies himself, and thus also is hampering his prospects. A writer on thrift calls attention to this sub ject in the following way: The boy who spends two hours each eve ning lounging idly on the street corner wastes in a year 730 precious hours or more'than 80 working days a year which, if applied to Study, would familiarize him with the rudiments of almost any of the familiar sciences. If, in addition to wasting an hour or two leach eve ning in just loafing, he spends a dime for a smoke, which is usually the case, the amount that is more than wasted would pay for one or more of the leading periodicals each month, or would purchase the nucleus of a good stu dent's library. Play is necessary, but there" are forms of recreation higher than mere idleness, games that add to the health, and mental enjoyment not found in vacuity. ,t "Selling regardless of cost" does not sig nify the tame thing now that it did 'six months A Line O'Type or Two Hew to the Lin, 1st the eulps fall where they aur. TO A MORNING-GLORY. Bright morning flower, so wakeful still at eve There near the old elm's, foot, and by the wind Caressed at whiles as it were loth to leave Alone to twilight tears your gentle mind! All day your cheek beside the guardian tree Mas nestled close, and through his empty arms The sun has marked you, glowing, blithe, and tree, Not asking or suspecting gifts or harms. Know you It Is October, dear? Your friends The robins, butterflies, and warblers small Are nesting while you watch; the young moon bends Her frosty bow on yonder chimnied wall. Tou see and yet you smile, and your calm breath Is drawn unhurried by the thought of death. - A, B. FASHIONS in advertising change, with all other fashions. A commodity that once was "best" becomes different," and then "better," and so on. One very fuccessful but not yet common scheme is actual depreciation. Thus, everybody hastened to have a sight of an actress from abroad who was advertised as the plainest woman on the stage. , Another example is the London String Quartette which recently "scored heavily" (as the music journals say) in New York. English people visiting here damned it with inaudible praise, one Lunnoner remark ing, "You will hear four separate acts." One went to hear, therefore, chiefly out of curiosity, but with the first measure one sat up: here was the real thing. DESPERATE REMEDIES. Sir: We ' don't know how to get rid of cousjns, but we know how to keep. help. Dur ing a recent siege of diphtheria we arranged, with the aid of the attending physicians, to quar antine the laundress, who happened to be in the house. She proved to be a fine cook. M. E. B. IN fpite of "own your home" campaigns, family life in America tends more and more to the centrifugal. Frezzample, think of the thou sands of "Family Entrances" that have been boarded up since July of last year I Peaches and Raptures. , (From the Mills County, la.. Tribune.) ' The Tribune office desk was gladdened - Saturdayby a beautiful example ot what our soil and climate can do in the fruit line.1 "W. M. Glassburn brought In a peach limb ' burdened with the luscious fruit that is so much prized. As we look upon it what thoughts arise. No painter's brush could more than imitate that red-cheeked fruit. No palate was ever better tickled by any fruit. How marvelous and varied is nature. ' From the same soil, same sunshine, same moisture is evolved the mammoth corn, the useful potato, the succulent strawberry, and the delicious peach and apple. Then con sider their colors, shapes, and sizes.. None can surpass the peaches that smiled tn the sun from the. tree from which the sample Of Mr. Glassburn's gift came. ACCORDING to Mr. Tarkington of the Misr souri Pacific, that eight-cent meal which W. S. got .in Wichita isn't so remarkable. In a Gales burg restaurant, relates Mr. T., thirty-five cents obtained a large plain steak, two fried eggs, sliced tomatoes, piece of pie, and cup of coffee. PRICES KEEP TUMBLING. Sir: Nemo started for the ticket office to get me a coupla berths, but confusion brought him back. "If I can't get lowers," he asked, "should I get one higher and one lower or two hlghers?" "Get me half a dozen drawing rooms," said I, handing him $1,200 In bills. He did, and S2.85 in change. W. L. N. "THE more miles you ride on a Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tire, the greater your wonder grows that so many more miles of service are still left." Adv. , ' Pull up an easy chair, Watson. This is going to give us some trouble. By Gaddt ;' y (From Lousville, Ky., Journal.) Any one found In or about my chicken houses will be found there the next morn ing. Harry Gadd, R. D. 12. LAST week Mr, Godowsky played one of his latest works, thirty consecutive pieces in triple timel ,'Mondool" you exclaim. But there may be an idea back bf it. Perhaps he is beginning a crusade against 24 jazz. THE DEATH OF ROMANCE. (Arnold Bennett, "Our Women.") . Even today there are women, mothers of families, who cannot leave the house and take a taxi without previously asking for the money for the mad adventure, because they are never allowed the uncontrolled use of any money at all. These women are survivals from the grand romantic past, the past of which too many of us regret the disappearance. And if In their youth they had set about tbo business of acquir ing economic freedom, their guardians would have treated them as if they had set about to become dancers In a sailpr"' cafe. Romance, as is well known, has died, i Notions like economic freedom have killed it Could' an age in which maidens soil themselves by worldly contacts for more money and economic freedom be other than unromantic? Impossible! The great com plaint of the aged woman against the young is that the young are so "painfully" unromantile and matter-of-fact. The brazen creatures actually face facts; they actually hate to be de pendent idlers and ninnies that is to say, to be In economic slavery. And so they more than men, it seems have committed the mur der of romance. "CARL SANDBURG, one of the rare and rares-t poets of the mid-west . . ."Lecture announcement. Red blood stuff, do you mean? ' CORRESPONDENCE FROM JAPAN. Tokyo, Sept. 8. We have been infested with a persistent lady who has d one all the shrines from Nikko to Nagasaki in four weeks or leaps and is now going back to Niles or Carbondale to write a book on the Shinto religion. Running to earth every source of information she finally maneuvered a meeting with a prominent Japa nese Emeritus who has so many degrees as a Fahrenheit thermometer. "Do tell me. Doc tor," she breathed, "do the devotees of Shintoism enjoy full religious gratification in their strange faith?" "Well, madam," he exhaled. "I do not y?t feel qualified to answer that I have studied the subject only twenty-seven years." SIB. WHILE we do not doubt our correspondent's word, candor forces us to say that the Japanese emeritus was pulling a bit of old stuff. THE STORM SEA. The great gray clouds blow up out of the sunset, The white foam pours down the long waves, The strong gulls slide and sail along the winds, The fog catches here in the rough beach grass And slips away to dim the distant hills. BERTHA TEN EYCK JAMES. POSTED on the bulletin board: "With the exception st those who have work that is be hind the office will close at one o'clock tomor row." ANOTHER USE FOR THEM.. Sir: Ever since we put Saturday Evening Posts under the mattress to level up the sag ging bedsprlngs they have been great nights to sleep. E. M. R. "GIVE ME A TICKET TO PITTSBURGH." Sir: A "carry your lunch" circular gives the startling information that "Pittsburgh restaurants have had to cut their prices 50 to 1,000 per cent on various items." The town must be packed with week-end gadders. VERCINGETORIX. "SALESMAN High grade talking machine. 210 S. Wabash." Adv. Yes, Most of 'em. B. L. T. You Never Can TelL Political observers are wondering whether husbands and wives will vote" alike in the com ing election. Well, the old saying is "co Incidences" will happen in the best regulated families. Kansas City Star. How to Keep Well By DR. W. A EVANS QuMtioat concerning hyfUna, imita tion and pravantien of dltaaM, sub ilttod to Dr. Evani hy raadera of The Baa, will ho antwtrcd personally, aub. fact to proper limitation, where a tamped, addreaaed envelopa is en closed. Dr. Evani will not make diagnosis or prescribe for Individual diseaaea. Addreas letters in care of The Baa. Copyright, 1920, by Dr. W. A. Irani. Other Side of a Reform. The "carry your lunch" slogan may help to reduce the high cost of living, but how would "you like to be a housewife with seven lunches to put up every morning? Shoe and Leather Re porter. - . HI .III! I - I I Contented Cleveland. Cleveland is altogether satisfied. The city plugged along for 42 years without winning even a league championship. And then came the double glory. Cleveland Plain Dealer. BEWARE PAINLESS TUMORS We seem to be making some head way against cancer because the gen eral publio is better Informed. More people know better what symptoms should cause one to suspect cancer, to find out what the trouble Is and have it attended to. I think another reason is the bet ter knowledge bf the limitations of plasters as cures. We have no more "cures" than our fathers had. We do not even know what causes can cer. We are almost as Ignorant about It as we used to be. That Is, we, the doctors. The people have learned almost as much as the doctors know, and that is the cause of the gain. A study of 519 'ases cared for In the Massachusetts general hospital hospital, made by Drs. Simmons and Daland, showed that the average age of the group was 52.9 years. The cases ranged In age from 14 to 8S years. Accepting the statements of pa tients, the average length of time from the date when the cancer first was observed to the patient's entry into the hospital was a little over 12 months. It is agreed that that period must De greatly shortened if we are to make much headway In getting such patients well. On an average it was five and four-tenths months before these patients saw the doctors after they noticed the growth. After the doctor had taken his time to watch the tumor and make his diagnosis he told the patient what the trouble was and advised operation in most cases. It only took three weeks on the av erage for the patient to accept the advice and undergo operation. There is a lot for the public to learn from the explanations of delay given by the patients. The patients with cancer of the breast said they did not see the doctor earlier because the tumor "did not pain.' In can cer of the breast there Is no pain until the growth is advanced. A painless chronic ulcer of the tongue is almost Invariably cancer. , In spite of this 25 per cent of this group saia it was pain mat. ursi made them suspect cancer. A large proportion of them sus pected cancer first when they had a hemorrhage. "Every woman who flows subsequent to the change of life should suspect cancer and have an examination without delay. . Hemorrhage from the stomach is not an early sign of cancer. It Is not safe to wait for hemorrhage as a sign of cancer of the rectum. Whenever a person who has been constipated changes to regular bowel habits, or a oerson . with regular bowel habits develops loose bowels without explanation, cancer should be suspected. Most cases of cancer of the lower bowel are treated for hemorrhoids 'for months before, can cer Is suspected. Shake Up "Torpid Liver." X. T. writes: "1. What treatment, fs good for a bad or torpid liver? How should It bo treated or what medicine taken to keep the liver In good condition? "2. In what diseases should calo mel be taken ? How many grains at a time and how often? "3. What should be done for a bad, salty, bitter taste in mouth and tongue on awakening in the morn ing?" REPLY. ' 1. Tou are constipated. Eat bran bread, bran as a cereal, vegetables and fruit. Drink two or three times as much water as you now do. Be gin drinking it one-half hour before breakfast. Set aside some time each day for exercise. Horseback riding is good exercise for what you call torpid liver. Eat less. 2. Taking calomel for a torpid liver is about the last word in fool ishness. Calomel is a mineral purge and is Just as good. Just as bad as the other mineral pjjrges. The inevita ble after effect ' of every purge is constipation. Therefore, the surest way to keep up what you call torpid liver is to take calomel. Calomel has the same effect on the liver, no more, no less, as other purges. 3. This is a result of constipation. What to do Is answered in No. 1. Wilsonism's Bitter Fruits That's a Little Strong. ;. B. S. writes: "Will any bad re sults come from eating two or three pods of hot green pepper every day?" . REPLY. It Is not good Judgment to eat much condiments. Two or three pods of hot green peppers is a pretty stiff dose of condiments. ODD AND INTERESTING. Mrs. Arthur Meighen wife of the new premier of Canada, was a school feather before her marriage. A new wheeled table for serving meals in hotel rooms keeps the food warm as long as desired in an oven beneath the top which is heated by a hot brick. Italy claims to rank next lo the United States in the production of motion pictures, Its 82 companies turning out about 64,000,000 meters of films annually. This year's strawberry crop around Georgetown, Del., was small and, consequently, people around there have had a chance to buy 10 tons of sugar at 22 cents a pound from one of the preserving plants that decided to sell what it couldn't use. The first shipment of wood oil in bulk, that la, In ship's tanks, amounting to 958 tons, left Hankow for the United States in May. Prepa rations are being made for further direct shipments of this commodity, reports Consul General P. S. Heintz leman, adding that it is believed that this method will revolutionize busi ness In this line. Those who have studied the sub ject say that one-half gallon of gas oline per car Is-, wasted daily In Canada through carelessness, .the overuse of cars and needless mile age, which means 200,000 gallons wasted in the country, or 73.000,000 rallons per year. If all motor-cars were operated every day. THE COMING SILENCE. Hark how the crlrketa Are chanting unbidden The paeslng of aummerl Hy olouda overridden The Uv archea eadly A landscape forsaken Of color ana glamour Few fxulU hang unshaken. Just hear how the crlckete Persist In their strumming! ' ThfT drown In the garden The stray hoe'a deep humming. Thny shrill through the night air A chorus uneeaalng, And win from the alienee A vigor Increasing. An onslaught of rainstorms May hush their thin votcea; When sun-warmth returns Fach cricket rejoices. And chants to the passing Of year'a-noon, bright summer Chants bravely ot summer To hearten ua morula. , Oh. hear thee wee cricket! Their monorona lingers When Hahlt haa deafened Our ears with her fingers. But who la complaining A day Is fast coming So Icebound, so silent. We'll Ions' for their strumming! ,-MAR'H U JCGLINOTON la Ua Maw Tork Tlmee. (From the Boston Transcript.) The Haitian scandal Is surely the traditional "last stray." Even with out it the Wilson reoord In foreign affairs has been the most humiliat ing in all our history, dotted with the graves of our unavenged dead on land and sea. The mere mention of the names of Columbus, Tampioo, Vera Crus and Carrlaal, of Villa and of Carranza; ot Lenlne and Trotzky. and our soldiers who died in Russia without knowing why they were sent there or for whose cause they fought, is enough to make all Amer icans, "whe never fight," blush with shame and bitter humiliation. -nd now to these awful chapters must be added the Haitian chaptei- a scandal which the mendacious mal administrator of the Navy depart ment is now trying to whitewash by appointing his own Investigators to Investigate his own record after he has been "caught with the goods" and "smoked ut." It must be probed to the bone. It will be. But the congress must apply the probe. Mr. Daniels has been tried and found wanting. After the fourth of next March he will be chiefly remem bered In the navy for his contribu tion to Its slang ot a new synonym for a cunning falsehood. For on every man-of-war and at every shore station today, officers and men know that to tell a "Daniels" is to tell a falsehood with such cunning as to stand a good chance of not being caught. J Meantime all that can be done must be done to rid the nation of the bitter fruits of Wilsonism in Latin America. Our Carrlbbean troubles have been the subject of protest for many weeks In the Latin-American press. Our neighbors to the south knew before the American people were permitted to know some of the things that have been going on in Haiti and San Domingo. But long before the Haitian scandal devel oped, Mr. Wilson's Latin-American policy of high-sounding phrases and meddlesome praotices had been pro claimed and was alienating America's friends among the Latin-American republics. In Guatemala, for example, for seven years his administration main tained what was perhaps the most odious tyranny that any Latin-American country has known in the last three-quarters of a century. Medi eval cruelties marked the reign of Estrada Cabrera. The liberal ele ments sought in vain for relief. But for years every attempt at revolution was thwarted and the shadow of the Wilson administration was thrown over the effort of courageous Guata malans to overthrow their dictator by the only possible means, which was armed revolution. A few months ago conditions finally became Intol erable. The revolutionary forces succeeded in mobilizing, while Mr. Wilson's minister, acting under in structions from Washington, was seeking to effect a compromise which would have left Cabrera in power. Happily that tyrant Is now a prisoner and sooner or later will be called to strict account for his cruelties and, let us hope, will be made to pay the penalty In full. Guatemala has achieved at last a liberal government, not because of, but in spite of the meddlesome pol icy of the Wilson administration. All Latin America knows what Guate mala has suffered and the responsi bility that lies at the door of the Wil son administration for her suffering. Costa Rica received different treat ment A bloodless revolution there was unblessed by Mr. Wilson. The government which it set up main tained itself for two years, despite the disapproving frown of the Wilson administration, and sided with America and the allies against Ger many. Ultimately, however. Its In ability to obtain recognition from Washington resulted in its downfall. When the declaration that the Wilson administration would not rec ognize Latin -American governments that came to power through revolu tions was first made, those govern ments that were fearing revolution hailed it with satisfaction. The pol icy had hardly ben enunciated be fore Its enunciator promptly repudi ated It in practice. In the early "BUSINESS IS GOOD THANK YOlf LV. Nicholas Oil Company Vote for Robert W. PATRICK Candidate for Re-Election for Municipal Judge Judge Patrick Has Equalized the Poor Man and the Rich Man in the Administration of This Office months of 1914 a military coup d'etat in Peru deposed 1'reBtdent IUlllnghurst and sent htm Into exile. One of his cabinet ministers was killed. Bllllngnurst was the nearest approach to a popularly elected pres ident Peru ever had. He represented the proletarian element in its revolt against patrician rule. He was seek ing a arrangement with Chile for the settlement of the vexatious Tac-na-Arica controversy.. He was anti foreign, and the great American com pany which had '.nrge sums Invested In mining enterprises complained bit terly of his hostility. Whether Pres ident Wilson knew this or not. the fact remains tha before a report could reach the Department of State from the American legation in Peru, orders were issued from the White House to recognize'the military gov ernment and this was done. - Peru has had another revolution since then and the new revolutionary gov ernment has also been recognized in the person of President Legula. These experiences and the frclts of his military dictatorship in Haiti and Santo Domingo have subjected Mr. Wilson's administration to se vere criticism throughout Latin America. In Santo Domingo several well known writers, including a poet of note, were imprisoned for oppos ing the Wilson dictatorship. Under the strict interpretation of the mili tary rule prevailing they were liable to be shot. From Buenos Aires and other South American cities respect ful remonstrances were cabled to well known Amtrtran authors, and pleas, possibly a little Ironic, against their being shot. As concession. If you please, to Latin-American pro tests, the Wilson administration Issued statements to the effect that it was not at all certain that the In tention was to execute those Domini on n writers, and that President Wil son had freed them from the penal ties imposed upon them. But the question Latin Americans are asking today is: When and where did Prs Ident Wilson get his right to estab lish his military llctatorshlp in the Caribbean? Let Latin Americans possess their am.ia in notienno for a few months longer. They can be assured that after the 4th Of next March the meddlesome policy which the VVI'son administration ha pursued toward our neighbors to the south will be repudiated by President Harding. Not only that, but the,Hardlng ad ministration, with the assistance of a competent secretary of state and trained and experienced diploma tists, will at once set about the work of undoing the damage that has been done our relations with the other American republics. 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