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James Cardinal Gibbons.
A great churchman, a strong advocate of
right living and clean life for the nation as well
as the individual, James Gibbons leaves a heritage
to his country greater than can be measured in
terms of words. His was a singular privilege,
that of .occupying the elevated position of prince
in the Roman Catholic hierarchy, retaining his
residence in the town of his birth. Ordained a
priest in 1861, he gave almost three score years
to the propagation of religion and the service of
the church. His chief characteristic was the one
that most endeared him to. the public, in and
out of the Catholic church; his life Was simple
and dignified, no honor or elevation conferred on
him by the rulers of the church having the ef
fect of modifying his bearing or affecting the
kindly modesty of his relations with his fellow
men.
Early in his career as priest he exhibited
those qualities of mind that later brought to him
such distinction. He served well in many ways
the cause of the church, performing delicate and
important duties with such tact and discerning
judgment as won for him the confidence and ap
proval of his superiors as well as the people.
When he came to be archbishop of Baltimore,
and therefore primate of the United States, it
. was believed he had attained the highest place to
which he might aspire,, as it was not thought
. likely an American would be made a cardinal.
This honor, however, was bestowed on him by
r r t r rn s . , a f .a
j-eo aiu in leeo, a recognition not oniy 01 tne
ideserts of the cardinal, but a testimonial that
Rome appreciated the growing importance of the
church in America.
s . Unostentatiously but persistently, Cardinal
Gibbons pursued the path of duty, standing firmly
1'or.what he held to be right and for the good
of .mankind. . It would be interesting to follow
; him through a long and useful life, yet it may
be summed up in a few words. He could har
monize his religion with his devotion to the
" Vnited State's; he could foster Catholicism with-
. out waging vendetta against the Protestants who
held Views contrary to his; his "Faith of Our
dnu CApuaiirjii vi tiic vaiui'iii, ucuci 111 uui ,au-
' rruace. vet Tames Gibbons could and did mingle
.m,3u&iic ana appear on the same program witn
Protestant and Jew. Humble and devout, he
could appreciate the spirit of the land in which
he lived, and while holding firm to the tenets- of
the faith he earnestly espoused and ably de
fended, he still had love and tolerance for those
who worshiped God after another fashion.
, A prince of the church, his was the nature
and intellect of a man who would have thrust
himself upward through the crowd anywhere.
That he gave his life to religion ensures him. a
permanent place in the records of the great
church he honored by his labors, but American
history will give him enduring record because he
the plow and the machine plenty can. be secured
and happiness multiplied. At no 'period of his
tory have statesmen fully recognized this fact,
and they are far from this point of view even
today.
Simon Bolivar, Liberator.
The president of the United States is to head
a parade of unusual significance in New York
on April 19. On that day, the 146th anniversary
of the Battle of Lexington, an equestrian statue
of Simon Bolivar, presented by Venezuela is to
be unveiled in Central Park, New York. The
importance of the event lies not so much in the
fact that it will give to the United States a new
remembrance of the Liberator as it does in the
fact that it shows that a tie of common interest
still unites the republics. In spite of all that
has been said, of all the anti-American propa
ganda, the people of South America realize, as
our own must, that the bond of union between
the republics of the New World are more than
merely surface signs.
Simon Bolivar, born an aristocrat, educated
and trained among the exclusive scions of the
old Spanish nobility, imbibed in the United
States those notions of liberty that' led him to
battle for more than a dozen years, until he bad
freed his native country, Venezuela, and with
her Colombia, Bolivia and Peru from the Spanish
yoke, and had sowed the seeds that brought forth
finally the overthrow of both Spain and Portugal
in the Americas. Supported by the Monro"!
doctrine, the republics that grew up were made:
secure against encroachment from the monarchies
of Europe, the fate of Maximilian in Mexico
showing how sincere the people of the United
States are in their support of the principle laid
down in that statement, while Venezuela has
benefited to the extent of national existence be
cause of that stand.
Bolivar is called the Washington of South
America, and fittingly so, for he was indeed the
Liberator. The statue about to be dedicated is
the second in his honor to stand in Central Park,
but this one will be the more appreciated, as it is a
sign of friendship between two nations and an
abiding proof that we do have friends among the
peoples to the 'south of us, whose ideals are
sprung from the same root and flourish under,
the same nurture as do ours. -- .
Mr. Harding Rights a Wrong.
The forced resignation of Obadiah Gardner
from the international joint commission which
has been delving into the need and advisability
of the Great Lakes waterway project is one of the
inexplicable deeds of former President Wilson
which even his friends can not justify. An
nouncement that President Harding has' moved
to set the matter to right by securing the resig
nation of W. B. Wilson, who had been catapulted
into-the office, and thus opening the way for the
reappointment of Mr. Gardner, is reassuring to
all who hope for full and fair consideration of
this transportation plan.
Since 1913 Senator Gardner had been a mem
ber of the joint commission for settlement of
questions arising on the boundary waters be
tween the United States and Canada. His ex
perience there had made him exceedingly well
qualified to deal with the proposed canalization
of the St. Lawrence. In company with the other
members of the commission he had held hear
ings throughout the middle west and the Great
Lakes district. To have dismissed him so sum
marily, thus forfeiting the knowledge he had
brought to bear on the problem, in, order tp fur
nish a job for the retiring 'secretary of laBoriwho
is destitute of all practical acquaintance with the
problem, appears unjustifiable. Mr.' Gardner is
a rockbound Maine democrat, but President
Harding has done a splendid thing to restore him
to the service of the nation. .
Summer Truce in Packing Industry.
An armistice has been arranged between the
packers and the workers which is to last until
September 15. It contains elements that well
mayxbe made permanent.. Under its terms the
wage1 cuts announced remain effective as of date
of announcement, the basic eight-hour day with
' .ak..ull4M,A a.aMMaMaaa KAntlN a a 4 a 1ti trla Uftf.
j time agreement ends on September 15. On that
tdate. anew working agreement sho.uld be ready
for promulgation. Five months should afford
ample lime tor tne pacKers ana tne ouicners 10
j . . ' . . . . . TP. I
, get togeiner ana adjust ineir umcrcin.es. i
summer is merely employed on either side to
mjke ready for the contest that may come after
September 15, then the postponement is of little
value' to" the people. What is-most desired just
now is some assurance that industrial operations
may be carried on continuously for a consider
'.'able period, to the end that some of the waste
of war may be restored. This is not likely to
come about if such differences as exist m tne
" meat packing industry with regard to working
'conditions are left undisposed of. Adjournment
of the dispute from time to time does not afford
the assurance of stability that is essential to. ulti
'mate normalcy.
i v n . m m 1 XT ' .
. . . wnat makes a lxanon oreai.
, . The failure of Poland to obtain the allegiance
of Upper Silesia does not amount to disaster for
- ..n.it.nst. "matiftn T atin mmorpr fla Hie
played around the world in the annexations and
mandate of the last few years is not a beautiful
nor even a beneficial trait It is full time nations
..bethought themselves of their real reason for ex-J-
.. a! i t w.r..
reaching out Sot more duties.
jife, and nations are mad to seek land instead of
well-being;'' This is to point to the old truth
.that .the real wealth of a nation depends on its
s peace and welfare, and the number of persons
mere given useiui employment, iuc more
: faithful citizens V country has in proportion to
us. area, tne stronger u 15,
There is more hope for France in its effort
to encourage the increase of its native popula
thouffh it has to resort to bounties for
'those with large families, than in all hs terri
torial acquisitions. Instead of lusting for laads
across the'sea, or over the frontier, it is better
to devote attention to doubling the honest pep
j le who live within a. nation's borders. .
Nations are strong- as their people are con
tented and weak, as they are miserable. .With
The Quiet Path of Rectitude.
In the reaction, from the nervous strain of her
trial, Clara Hamon perhaps has no definite plans
for her future. Stories of various offers and sug
gestions have been made public, ranging from
the statement that she will sue for a share in
the Hamon estate to one that she has been of
fered a place in the motion pictures and that she
considers becoming an evangelist.
The associated writers of moving picture plays
have "protested the idea of her either writing or
acting for the films, and from the standpoint of
preventing damage to the reputation of the in
dustry by the exploitation of the sensational they .
are correct;, ' ' 7 .
The same consideration should operate m- the
matter of her becoming an evangelist. One need
not doubt the sincerity of her repentance to feet
that her appearance on the pulpit would cheapen
religion and do no good. If Clarra Hamon has
found a better faith, it is not for her to display it
in public, but to live it in private. There are
enough people now showing others the way,' and
none too many following it for themselves. In
order to enjoy a. useful and honorable life one
does not have to do otherwise than to live in
the quiet performance of good deeds.
The six sons of the former kaiser are said all
to be usefully employed, which, according to the
account of their doings,' means only that they
are keeping out of mischief. The former crown
prince, for. instance, spends his time playing his
violin, writing, memoirs and painting. Two
others are studying farm management at college,
another is an officer in a bank, another is a
director in a hotel company.
The latest entry for the questionable honor
of having first evolved the league of nations idea
is Tennyson, who dipped into the future in
"Locksley Hall," but as far as that is concerned
it might be claimed with equal authority that he
therein invented wireless telegraphy and aviation.
It is natural to object to having your wages
lowered, but a man has been found in New York
who refused to accept an increase of '$1,000 a
year in salary. Two explanations are given
he was a clergyman and already was .receiving
$fj,000 a year. .
Curious, how old customs will hang on after
the reason for them ceases; for instance, why did
those Oklahoma bandits wear masks? Surely,'
they were not afraid of being apprehended if.
identified.
A hat, according to the lexicon of high school
youth, is an article carried in a girl's hand in
order to display her neatly done up hair and not
disturb its symmetry.
Northwestern university co-eds who stood
their ground and killed 50 mice show that higher
education has changed womankind.
These open-work hose promise a busy season
for the mosquito, family, .......
Lansing's Book on, Paris
' Late Secretary of State Tells
r What Happened There.
(By The Associated Press.)
Boston, March 24 Robert Lansing, former
secretary of state and member of the American
peace commission, will reveal in his book on
"The. Peace Negotiations," which will be pub
lished by Houghton, Mifflin company, March 25,
how close he came to resigning from the com
mission because of differences with President
Wilson over the Shantung decision and his be
lie! that many of the terms of peace imposed on
Germany were harsh, humiliating and seemingly
impossible ot performance. .
X President, Wilson, according to Mr. Lansing's
beiiet,at one time during the peace conference
proposed to negotiate a preliminary treaty which
would start the League of Nations functioning
without laying the document before the United
states senate, and evidently was much perturbed
when his secretary of state told him that the
only way to change the status from war to peace
was by a ratified treaty or a joint resolution of
congress.
A profound coiiviciton that immediate peace
was the primary need of the world, Mr Lansing
implies, was all that kept him from resigning
trom the peace conference, because of funda
mental disagreements with . the president on
principles. The former secretary discloses that
in 1916, shortly before a meeting in Washington
of the League to Enforce Peace, at which the
president was to speak, Mr. Lansing wrote to
Mr. Wilson, objecting to the use of force to
settle international disputes. , In this letter he
pointed to the menace to the Monroe Doctrine
contained in such a plan.
How to Keep Well
By OR. W. A. EVANS
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to Or. Evana by raadara of Tha Baa, will ba anawarad paraonally, aubjact to
pro par limitation, wharo a atampad addraaaad onvalcpa ia antloaad. Or Evan
will aot maka dlagnoala or praacribe for individual dlaaaaaa. Addreaa lattara
ia car ot Tba Baa.
Copyright. 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evana
Alarmed at the complications of war and
foreign entanglements in the guarantee of terri
torial integrity and political independence of
members of the league, a guarantee that finally
was embodied in Article X of the Covenant, Mr.
Lansing savs that at Paris he tried to have sub
stituted a .negative pledge that the members
would not infringe upon each other's territorial
integrity or political independence. He became
convinced that Colonel Edward M. House, then
President Wilson's closest adviser, was com
pletely converted with regard to this question.
It is in relation to Shantung, Mr. Lansing
discloses the sharpest differences between him
self and President Wilson. Mr. Lansi nor o-ives
as his opinion that blackmail and bluff by Japan
impelled the president' to aeree to surrender to
that country such rights in Shantung as before
the war were held by Germany and automatically
.Mni.lli. J ...1 r-t; I 1
iiuuiicu wncn vnina aeciarea nosiiuties. it
his opinion only secret diDlomacv made it nns.
sible for Japan to threaten to leave the peace
conference unless its demands weri rrantpH a
threat Mr. Lansing believed would not have been
executed, because of the appreciation by Japan
that the benefits of a new and powerful world
position could be retined only by membership in
me j-eague 01 XNations.
That other members of the American mm
mission shared his view that the Shantunir rle
cision as rendered by the council of four was a
nagrant wrong and were prevented from resign
ing only, by the critical" conditions in the
situation is clearly implied by Mr. Lansing. He
describes the indignation felt by. himself and by
f"nry vvnue ana uenerai lasKer ti. Jjliss, and
in this connection publishes the letter written by
General Bliss to the nrptiHnk. in hiri, tr
Lansing and Mr. White concurred, statin? that
to -support the Japanese claim would be to
abandon Chinese democrarv tn dnminitinn
japdu s jTrussianizea -muiransm.
It was impossible, in Mr. Lansintr's nnininn
to make the 'League of Nations' covenant thi
greatest international compact ever written, as
was intended, in the 11 days given to the draft
ing, This is. established by the document itself,
he says, which provides for an oligarchy of four
trreat powers and a continuance of the policy of
the balance of-pow'er" against which the presi
dent spoke m England, but which he in effect
suDscnpea to m approving the covenant.
Relating the difficulties
to which three of the American
were subjected by failure of.the president to hold
a single conference with the American commis-
Kinn fin tht T ..mi. To,: x r . .
, auv j.awvii3 iiuui 115 nrsi meet
ing until its report was printed, Mr. Lansing
says the office force of Colonel House knew
more about the proceedings than the three
American commissioners who were not present.
Additional difficulties were caused by lack of an
American program, the fourteen, points of the
president being entirely insufficient for such a
purpose. Mr. Lansing tound the president in
disposed to consider the suhier nf bivinn -
gram. He asked the American legal advisers to
prepare a "skeleton treaty," but was told em
phatically by the president that the latter did
1101 imena 10 tiave lawyers draft the" treaty of
peace. . J
Mr. Lansing's idea was to secure adoption of
c r t acciannK, tne -purposes and nature
ot the League of Nations, providing for later
negotiation of a detailed plan, and in the mean
time to make peace at the earliest possible mo-
i Win 5". nc Iv0UBntt could be done by April
1 .D , y o Peace for the purpdse of com
pleting the league he considered an unwarranted
risk. The president, however, thought other
wise, and Mr. Lansing found it possible to infer
tun ine president was disposed to employ the
worm aesire tor peace as a means to compel
other governments to accept his plan for a
Self-determination was a phrase of the presi
"cms inat air. Lansing considered loaded with
uji.amue; Douna to cause impossible demands
and to stir up trouble in many countries. This
principle, he says, was discredited when Germany
was refused permission to ioin with Anctr
it was ignored in the president's policy toward
Kussia. That the proposed defensive treaty with
f i-ntc was Daa; .tnat. it would certainly be re-
jVr oyine American senate; and that it dis
credited Article X. lvfrirh Mr AVJlcrvn
yital to the;treaty(i,waf the opinion of Mr.
""""8 inc . peace conierence. He indi
cates his belief that Qemenceau insisted on the
league6 treaty Is : ,Price of support of the
Secretary Lansing finds the mandate system
of administering conquered territories a selfish
device benefiting .material interests of the mandate-holding
powers under cover of apparent
altruism. It was sought to take advantage of
the unselfishness of the American people to im-
"uraensome mandates on the United States
while giving profitable' ones to; European powers.
Mr. Lansing opposed the mandate system in
talking with Colonel House, but never knew
whether his objections were conveyed to the
president. In' connection with other problems
his communications sent directly to the president
were never acknowledged, according to Mr
Lansing, who found My. "Wilson" intolerant of
suggestions: irritated bv onnnit;r.n aj
ingly suspicious of the secretary's 'views after
a,ovCmuCr it, lyie, wnen Mir Lansing incurred
his displeasure by urging him not to go to Paris
personally. ..
Mr Lansing discusses the .testimony of Wil
liam C. Bulhtt before- the senate foreign rela
tions committee. Mr. Bullitt quoted Mr. Lansing
as saying that if the American people understood
what the treaty let them" in for they would defeat
it Mr. Bullitt entirely changed the meaning of
what had been said to him in Paris. Mr. Lansing
declares. The president at this time was cam
paigning for the League of Nations in the west
and Mr. Lansing telegraphed to him offering to
explain the interview with Bullitt, but, he says,
the president never answered his telegram.
r'Because of the pressing neetf of peace. Secre
tary Lansing, despite his differences with Mr.
Wilson, continued to favor ratification of the
treaty and covenant without reservations. This
he did as long as there was a chance a secure an
early peace by this method.
Our Language Again.
Ferriage is what you pay for riding on a
ferry, but salvage is -not what you spend for
salve riding, and the ,;money you pay for cab
riding is not cabbage. Railroad bonds are for
running railroads, but baby bonds aren't for
running -babies-Public-Ledger, Philadelphia. .
HERNIA.
Hernia is rupture and rupture is
hernia. Reyond this there 18 no
need to define the term for people of
the intelligence of those who read
this column. In hernia of the ad
domen some of the contents of the
cavity push out between layers of
muscle and fibrous tissue and come
to occupy a sac which is covered by
skin and sac wall and not much else
as a rule.
Why a hernia? Because there is
In the abdominal wall either an
opening or a weak place located in
a zone where the contents of th
abdomen are under a good deal of
pressure.
"Why the openings aM the weak
places? 'One way to answer the
question is by. saying: nature made
them so, but that answer is nothing
more than a string of words. As a
rule the weak places are those In or
near which something naturally
comes out or came out before birth
or soon after. For Instance navel
hernia is frequent because up to
birth all of the food, blood and air
supply went In and out through the
navel ring. There is not time after
that to build up a strong wall to
close the ring.
wnenever a person develops
hernia it Is because he was born
with an open hernial ring or with
one that was so loosely closed that
it was easily pushed up. But most
hernias are discovered Just after
some jerk. Jar or hard muscle strain
How Is that to be explained? The
hernia was theri all the time. The
soreness from the strain caused an
Investigation which revealed the
hernia. Or under the strain a small
hernia bulged out and became more
prominent or muscle strain caused
a congenitally weak drumhead stOD
ping a nerniai ring to give way, and
permit the hernial sac to bulee.
What the man was born with is
more blamable than was the acci
dent or strain.
How does a hernia do harm? The
herniated tissues mav strangulate
That very hazardous accident may
be suspected If colicky pain radiating
from the hernia region is felt. A
person with hernia who develops
ooucky pain, snock, ralntness, nau
sea, must get surgical help instantly.
To wait until tomorrow probably
will mean death. Leaving out this
hazard, the harm done by hernia Is
limited pretty much to the incon
venience caused and to limitation of
working power.
What is to be done about It? Some
cases can be cured by exercises to
develop the muscles of the abdom
inal wall. Some hernias of the navel
in children can be cured by wearing
binders. If a hernia incapacitates
one enough or causes enough trouble
of It or has a way of causing colic
occasionally it should be operated
on. But the average man with the
average hernia will wear a suitable
fitting truss and let It go at that.
For him that policy represents good
Judgment 1
Not Reassuring ' Symptom.
Mrs. H. R. writes:. 'la there such
a disease as delusion ' of the brain
that would make a man who loved
his wife ver dearly so turn against
her as to accuse her of wrongdoing,
and, if so, what would be the best
treatment of such a case? Would
it be best for him to be under medi
cal treatment away from her? Do
you think a sanitarium would be
advisable, or would he probably get
worse?"
1 :.EPLT.;
Delusions are ah accepted svmD-
tom of brain disorder. If wholly
without foundation and at the same
time believed In and fairly fixed, de
lusions are regarded 'as going a long
way toward establishing a diagnosis
of insanity. As a TUle a person with
delusions about members of his fam
ily will do better away from home.
I could not say what the outlook is,
Many persons with fixed delusions
and mentally disturbed become quiet
under, proper treatment and
environmental influences.
good
' ' You Have Tobacco Heart.
H. H. writes: "Does smoking
pipe cause one's heart to beat fast
at times? I am an habitual pipe
smoker, and at times, especially
when 1 smoke a lot, my heart seem
to stop a few beats and then beat
fast a few times. At'such times
have very little breath and cannot
take violent exercise at nil. Would
you advise quitting a pipe alto
gether?"
REPLY.
You have a tobaeco heart and will
recover entirely a few months afte
you Stop smoking. .
At Nature's Drug Store.
S. K. sends a cure for winter itch
Wash with good hot water, but no
soap, then apply cnrbolated vase
line. Wash and grease every eve
ning and you will soon have relief.
REPLY.
The vaseline is all ripht, but the
best remedy I know of is the nice
warm spring weather Just breaking
over the horizon.
GlaA8c or Operation.
M. K. writes: "is there a cure
for cross eyes?"
REPLY.
Yes. Glasses cure many cases.
The remainder can be cured by
operation.
Gastric Juice Kills 'Km.
CV F. D. writes: "You do a good
service in relieving our minds from
concern about swallowing the mu
cous secretions. Did we, however,
rightly understand that the pus that
comes from the catarrhal region
does little or no harm? Why should
it be any more innocuous than the
pun which comes from bad teeth
which, they tell us, produces a large
part of our national product of rheu
matism?"
... REPLY.'. .
The pus from pyorrhea which is
swallowed is dieested by the diges
tive Juice. The harm due to bacteria
in pyorrhea is the result of absorp
tion of bacteria directly into the tis
sues and blood stream. If the
stomach got a try, at, them the story
would be different.
Wliloh Do They Prefer?
H. T. writes: "i.. Kindly tell me
how to get rid of nits. I have tried
many things, but none have helped
"2. Please do not say kerosene and
sweet oil, as I cannot walk around
the office with my hair smelling of
kerosene..'
REPLY.
1. Hot vinegar and a fine tooth
comb. . - . V
It.- Which m3o your , offlceassociates
prefer- kerosene? jr" lice ? . There is
no reason for smelling of kerosene.
The kerosene can' be washed out
after one. hour. Dry partially and
then wash with hot vinegar for nits.
C. G. writes: "Kindly tell me
what causes warts, as I have one on
my face that I would like to get rid
of. I have taken it off several times,
but it always comes back."
; REPLY.
Warts are due to infection of the
skin. It has been shown that the
cause is a filterable. virus, the exact
nature of which is not known. Warts
can be burned off with heat or with
chemicals, tied off, removed with
X-rays, radium or carbonic snow. A
Chicago physician has. devised a
modification pf the high frequency
apparatus to remove warts' on : the
face without reaving a scar. .
American Rights at
Stake " I
(From the Minneapolis Tribune.)
American man power, plus Amer
ican money and food supplies.
turned the scale of war against the
central powers. Whether the Eu
ropean allies could have won if this
country had remained a noncom
batant is exceedingly doubtful. The
predominance of capable Judgment
appears to be that they never could
have done more than procure .1
draw. In any event, without Amer
ican forces to help, the bloody con
flict would have been further pro
longed, and the allies would have
suffered still more In loss1 of human
life and property.
When arms were laid down the
United States asked for nothing In
indemnity from the vanquished
Whatever compensation there might
be in material things was to go to
America s associates in tne war.
Their several shares would be the
greater because this country did not
elect to count itself in on "the
spoils."
There is an American post-bellum
equity, however, that the allies
abroad will readily recognize and
grant if they have any real sense
of fairness and right. That equity
is a reasonable share in the general
good to the world that flows from
the victory which the powers and
resources of this-country made pos
sible. In that share should be un
derstood the privilege of participat
ing in world trade on terms that
international comity and gratitude
dictate as Justified and fair.
Unless the new administration is
vigilant and firm-and we have full
faith it will be both America will
be deprived of that equity. There
are signs abroad that some of our
late allies in war have it in mind
to ignore their moral and economic
obligations to us in the peace that
ensues on war. In some of these
ungrateful quarters there is a subtle
cultivation of an idea "that this coun
try should cross off a debt of SlOi?
000.000.000 or so owing to it for
loans advanced; a spirit that would
overlook the fact of tens of billions
spent by' tbts country on Its own
war account:..and not only that, but
would foreclose important trade
channels of the world to American
commerce, r .
There is, of course, a limit to the
slights other powers may put upon
this country in their striving to pro
mote their own material interests.
The present administration may be
trusted to stipulate that limit and
to hang appropriate admonishing
signs upon it. It will not be accept
ed as an excuse for disregarding tne
equities of this country that it failed
to subscribe to the Versailles treaty.
There is a "dollar diplomacy" that
is eminently righteous from an
American standpoint. For It the
government Is In duty bound to com
mand a world respect and to compel
recognition by the allies, who seem
to think that the scratch of a few
pens in Versailles wiped out Ameri
can title to a fair standing- in the
marts of the esrth.
The United States can afford to
forego indemnities, but it cannot and
it will not afford the flouting of its
rights and dignity by self-servers of
other lands. . ,
Fore!
Now that our golf president has
teed ' off with a lusty swing the
country1 is trusting that he will make
more headway -with the 1 8 holes
than Wilson did. with the 14 point.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, i
Let I's Have Hergduil.
Omaha, .March 24 To the Editor
of The nee: Get Berxdoll!
What hus become of that slogan
which you emblazoned across the
front page of The Bee several Sun
days ago?
Is that notorious slacker going to
be permitted to sit on his haunches
in the lap of luxury over there in
Germany and laugh at Undo Sam
like a grinning hyena or jackal with
out being brought back here to pay
for his crimes?
Germany is crying out for "Jus
tice" against the indemnities set
down by the Paris peace conference.
It has even flaunted an energetic
"We won't," and yet In spite of the
terrible starving and nakedness of
war-suffering Germany, Bergdoll
has been made the emperor of his
own little province, .whers- he rules
with an iron hand, controlling every
thing from the food to the telegraph
wires with his American dollars.
Can a German court, with Ger
man testimony and the word of a
low down, sneaking, skulking traitor
to America send two sturdy Yankee
soldiers into a dirty German prison
without suffering for it? Has there
been any signing of peace between
America and Germany? Then why
not get Bergdoll?
I served my hitch in the A. E. F.
and laid in the mud up near Sedan
for months after the armistice was
signed. I'p there where beautiful
France offered mute testimony to
the world of the suffering it had
undergone through the terrible min
istrations of the German war ma
chines. But is France bewailing her
fate? Emphatically no! France has
gone back to work, every last "man
and woman of the republic, but Ger
many, where not a shot was fired and
not a building demolished or a town
ravaged by invading demons, is
whining and trying to sneak out
from the Just burden they must bear
for the war which they precipitated
upon the world. And they are mak
ing a hero out of a low-born, pseudo
hlghbrowed traitor to the land of his
birth.
Can Bergdoll get away with it?
Or is there some justice In the
world ?
Get Bergdoll!
His case is a direct insult to the
millions of boys that flocked to the
colors, thousands of whom even now
must be turning over in their graves
in Flanders fields at this stain on the
flag for which they gave their lives.
AN AMERICAN FOR AMERICA.
Rank in the Army.
Omaha, March 24. To the Editor
of The Bee: I saw several days ago
an editorial in The Bee which at
tracted my attention for several rea
sons. One was an erroneous state
ment that General Pershing was the
first man to hold the rank of general
in the army since General Grant
Surely the writer' must have known
or William Tecumseh ("Uncle
Billy") Sherman, who was appointed
general soon after General Grant as
sumed the presidency, and who was
commander-in-chief until he reached
the retiring age, and who was suc
ceeded by Lieut. Gen. Philip H.
Sheridan, who was appointed gen
eral a short time before his death.
Now, I want to scold a little about
the under-ranking of the men who
are In command in our army. It
looks ridiculous to me for a nation
f 105,000,000, with an army of 250,-
000, to have no higher officer than
major general for its commander-
in-chief. That was the case before
the World war and it looks as If
our congress intended it to be the
ease after General Pershing retiree.
There are so many men in authority
ith pin point minds that profess
their fears or "The Man on Horse
back" whenever any soldier rises to
pre-eminence in his profession that
they are not willing to give the pf-
cers in command the rank annro.
priate to the position they occupy
Uur army is 01 sucn size that ftj
should rave one general and at lea;
three lieutenant generals and H,,a"
able number of major general to
head the various corps and staff de
partments. But It took the War of the R
belllon to make a general In th
army and an admiral in the navy,
the Spanish war to make another
admiral and the World war to mak
another general, and even th splen
did services of our navy oould not
make an admiral. With a navy sec
ond only to the British we ought to
have an admiral at the top and a
vice admiral to every squadron. But
the awful bugaboo of "The Man on
Horseback" will not down In some
minds. 1 remember when some
folks were afraid that General
Grant, wtth 1,000,000 devoted men at
his back would turn . into such a
man.
The article referred to in the be
ginning of this letter mentioned thV
runirr of the possible appointment"
of ductal Pershing to ba the am
bassador to France. With a full ap
preciation of the enthusiastic recep
tion he would receive from Franca
and with a belief In his ability to
fully perform the duties of such an
office, I would rather not see him
appointed to It. He has reached
the top of his profession, and I want
him to enjoy it till he retires and
then pass a long and honorabla
evening of life as a citizen of Ne
braska. JONATHAN EDWARDS.
SHORT ARM POKES
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nlans in the Island of Yap? Savan
nah News.
Building may come down a little,
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terhouse. Minneapolis Journal.
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