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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued ImproTement of the Ne
braska Highway, including tha pave
ment of Main Thoroughfaroa loading
into Omaha with Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Government.
War Clouds Over Europe.
A real test for the League of Nations is now
being prepared. On the eve of the second ses
sion of the Assembly at Geneva the Silesian
situation has taken on such form as promises
renewal of the great war in Central Europe.
Minimizing the seriousness of the situation will
not aid in its settlement, nor does any phase
it offers present hope of an adjustment not
reached by force. France is hurrying troops
to Upper Silesia in response to a request from,
the commissioners for reinforcements, while the
Poles under Korfanty and the Germans under
Hoefer are strengthening their positions and
preparing for a struggle. Red Russia is re
ported to be preparing to attack Poland in the
rear, a move that will involve the Balkan states,
and thus the atage is set for a conflict that will
further add to the confusion of the world.
Primarily, the trouble traces back to the
failure of the Paris conference to utterly dis
cardthe old "balance of power" system for
maintaining peace in Europe. England and
France are to blame for this. When Poland
was permitted to emerge from the obscurity
of suppression, and set up again among the na
tions of the world, the delimitation of its boun
daries was accomplished at the expense of
other submerged nations that' also were clamor
ing for recognition. Among these were the
Ukrainians, whose struggle against Russia had
been persistent before the war, and with some
success. Portions of the Ukraine were awarded
to Poland, with little show of right; the rest
was left to the mercy of the bolsheviki. Now
the "reds" want it all, while the 3S.000.000 in
habitants of Little Russia, as distinct in lan
guage, customs, traditions and history as the
Poles, ethnically recognized as a separate branch
of the Slav race, are as insistent upon their right
to govern themselves as any of the racial groups
concerned in the new map of Europe attempted
to be outlined at Paris.
.Upper. Silesia was to have been left to a
plebiscite decision, and the vote was taken.
Neither the Poles nor the Germans are content
to abide the outcome. This affords a pretext
for the "rebellion" headed by Korfanty, and
which the Germans under Hoefer are resisting
as an invasion. Behind it all stands the figure
of France, seeking to set up a powerful Poland
to take the place of Russia in the "ring of steel"
that is to enclose Germany v
- Unless the League of Nations, the Entente,
the Supreme Council, or some other agency, In
tervenes with sufficient force to put down both
the Polish "rebels" and the German "defenders,"
and to check the bolsheviki, all the work done
at Paris so far as Central Europe is involved
may be undone. As a matter of protection and
service to the whole world, a great deal of it
should be done over. Until the Ruthenians are
accorded the same treatment as were the Poles,
the Lithuanians, the Serbs,' the Bohemians, the
Moravians and other race groups that were
brought up from the darkness of suppression
into which they had been thrust by Russia, Aus
tria and Germany, justice will not have pre
vailed. Ireland is holding attention of the world
today with demands that are no better founded
than those of the Ukraine.
Conditions in Poland today afford the best
possible justification for the United States in
keeping out of the League of Nations. That is
all the more reason why England and France,
chief supporters of the league, as well as chief
beneficiaries under the "balance of power" sys
tem, should engage at once to restore peace by
suppressing the row over Upper Silesia, with
the Ukraine as the capital prize.
through the contrast between the high temper
ature suffered by those who did not go to
church and the blessed absence of heat for those
who did.
Relief for Disabled Veterans.
Passage of the Sweet bill without dissent in
the senate signifies an earnest purpose on part
of congress to end a condition that has been a
national scandal. While the measure was
amended, it is expected the house will quickly
agree to the changes made, and that the presi
dent may move without delay to the organiza
tion of the bureau that is now to be under his
direction. This should result in part-redemption
of the promises made the soldiers when they
entered the service, that they would be cared
for to the extent of the nation's resources. In-,
adequate provision for carrying out the pledges
brought undue suffering to many men who are
entitled to the tenderest care, and extreme dis
appointment to others who seek to be restored
to usefulness through the training Bfforded by
the government schools. Under the Sweet bill
all this will be remedied, and the United States
will redeem its credit among those who wore
its uniform. President Harding has on several
occasions since entering his service as chief ex
ecutive pledged himself to do-all within his
power to relieve the situation and secure for the
victims of the war the care and- help they de
serve from the country. He may be relied
upon to carry out to the fullest the pledges he
has so made, and as he is to have the direction
of the work under the new law, the boys may
confidently expect a new deal. AH who suffer
from injury or disease are entitled to the best
treatment the American people can give them,
and the president will see that such treatment
is forthcoming. ' This is one victory on which
the A. E. F. can congratulate itself at home,
and its able-bodied members can rest now, feel
ing secure that the "buddy" who is incapacitated
for any reason incident to the war is not to be
neglected.
, What the "Air" Convention Means.
Enthusiastic members of the Aero Club of
Omaha have been working so quietly on their
j plans for a big aero convention in Omaha next
; November that comparatively few people realize
the magnitude of the undertaking. In some
"respects, it is the most notable step taken in
j Omaha in many years for the establishment of
an annual entertainment and the centering here
of a great industry. ,
f The Aero club proposes to hold in Omaha
,'the first aero convention scheduled in this coun
try. It will not ohly be a convention of air
pilots, with accompanying features of interest to
fall lovers of sport, but it will be also a meeting
of airplane manufacturers, with exhibitions by
.many of them. Already reservations have been
made for much of the space in the "show" de
partment of the convention.
It is the hope of those backing the enterprise
that Omaha may become a center of the air
plane industry. Today that may not man a
great deal. But the airplane is today as the
automobile was in 1900. None can forecast how
great its development is to be. Meanwhile, it
is well to remember that "the early bird catches
tha worm.
A Little Bit of Heaven.
i While the thermometer outside boiled and
. Lubbled in the heat, a minister in East St Louis
comforted his congregation spiritually and phys
ically. Back of the pulpit had been placed
half a Jon of ice, with a large electric fan waft'
ing cool breezes over the worshippers. It is
also reported that ushers scattered artificial
snow in the aisles.
This was a kindly deed, and might have
been mare a powerful appeal for repentance,
One More Organization Needed.
A mania for organization characterizes our
national life today. The general situation is
similar to that prevailing at one of the great
universities. whose campus is hemmed in by 40
fraternity houses and where scoffers remark
that it is a badge of distinction not to wear a
Greek letter. The reasons for joining together
are often praiseworthy and sometimes are jus
tified by .the results however, there are instan
ces when associations have been promoted with
the real, though concealed, purpose of enrich
ing the founders.
What a base betrayal of the confiding nature
of man is suggested by the arrest in Sioux City
of the secretary of an organization whose pur
ported object was to make legal the manufac
ture of light wines and beer. It is said that
250,000 arid or semi-arid citizens mailed in 25
cents for membership fees to this society for
the alleviation of thirst. With the ante so low
it might naturally be expected that no single
contributor would deem it worth his while to
demand an accounting.
The laws against using the mails to defraud
have stepped in to interfere with the adminis
tration of this fund of $62,500. If the court
finds the money has been expended in ways not
anticipated by the membership, there will be a
quarter of a million joiners ready to consider
organizing to refuse to organize.
A Scandal Out of Date.
The difference between 2 per cent and 7 per
cent on $10,000,000 is a cool half million a year.
If the state treasury of Illinois leaked at this
rate during the apprenticeship of Governor
Small and Lieutenant Governor Sterling in the
treasury department the taxpayers have been
the victims of monumental fraud.
Such incidents used to occur with much
more frequency than now, although most of
them were petty as compared to the one now
charged by a grand jury in Springfield." Few
states have been without betrayal of public
trust, even Nebraska having gone through this
sad experience. But that has been cleaned up,
standing now only as a warning. Although the
frauds alleged in Illinois occurred nearly two
years ago, appearing to have been exposed
through a split between factional leaders, yet
they sound more like echoes from past decades.
Czecho-Slovakia is building a merchant
marine of its own without any of the bobbles
noted 'in America's experiment. The new fleet
is for use on the Danube river, by which water
way 200,000 tons of freight were handled last
year, and the traffic will double this year. It
is a poor country in Europe which can't show
the United States considerable it doesn't know
about cheap waterway transportation.
The auto bus lines which have been running
between Wymore, Beatrice and Lincoln are
being extended to DeWitt, Wilber and Crete,
and the suggestion is now heard that the signs
at railroad crossings be altered to read, "Look
out for the motor trucks."
Lakes-to-Ocean Waterway
Why Canalisation of the St. Lawrence
River Is of Interest to Nebraska.
Premier Lloyd George is displaying a great
deal of confidence in the security of his cabinet
to announce that he will attend the disarmament
conference in November. There are some of
his enemies who claim he will not be in office
that long.
Canada, which will reduce its standing army
to 3,600 officers and men, seems to be almost
as free from worry as from expense. Of course
it has a militia of 70,000, but even so the Do
minion may be awarded the palm for disarma
Ord reports an Indian 147 years old and
eight feet two inches tall. Problem for the
class: how tall will old Rain in the Foot be if
he lives to be 200?
The Dial bill, which was aimed at Judge
Landis, has failed of passage, but if the senate
ever wants to know the time o' day the ;udge
will tell it.
If Hawaii is to remain a part of the United
States, bringing several thousand Chinese cool
ies to work on the plantations is no way to
strengthen the tie.
Mexico refuses to worry about the delay of
recognition and has gone right ahead and
bought an embassy in Washington.
Tear gas is now being brought into use to
. scatter mobs, but wouldn't it be better to use
4 laughing gas instead
This la the first of a aeries of articles
relative to the proposed deepening and canal
ization of the St. lawrence river from Lake
Ontario to the Atlantic ocean, designed to
make It possible for ocean steamships to
enter the Great Lakes. This will bring the
ocean 1,500 miles further Inland and will
make Chicago, Duluth, Toledo and other lake
cities virtual seaports. It means the avoid
ance of long railroad hauls to Atlantic porta,
elimination of double handling of export
shipments and consequent increased prices to
producers of agricultural products in the
middle west The data here presented was
gathered by the managing editor of The Bee
who recently Inspected the entire project In
company with leading financiers, engineers
and public officials. The question is up for
action -by the United States and Canada. Its
economic Importance to the people of Ne
braska and Iowa Justifies their deep interest.
By VICTOR B. SMITH.
Three questions occur naturally to those
middle westerners who may not have been in
formed as to the lakes-to-ocean improvement:
First What is proposed?
Second What effect will it have?
Third What will it cost?
The questions are far-reaching. Competent
engineers and economists have spent months in
preparing the complete answers. Stated briefly,
the answers seem almost unbelievable. But
proof can be given. Summed up. here they are:
First The project: It is proposed to deepen
present channels of the St. Lawrence river, in
part by dredging and in part by dams which
will back up the water. In some cases canals
will be built to permit passage around dams or
rapids. The work is planned to permit the pas
sage of ships with a length of 800 feet and a
draft of twenty-five or thirty feet, the exact
depth being dependent on final approval of al
ternate plans. Incidentally, hydro-electric
power will be developed to the extent of over
4,000,000-horsepower, one development alone
amounting to 1,800,000-horsepower and others
to an additional 2,500,000.
Second The effect: Ocean steamers except
a very few, will be able to enter the Great Lakes
and all their ports. Agricultural and other
products of the middle west can be shipped
direct to foreign ' countries by cheap water
transportation, without expensive railroad hauls
and without even more expensive handling at
congested Atlantic seaports, such as New York
and Boston. The saving on wheat alone is fig
ured at 10 cents a bushel from Chicago to Liver
pool. Inasmuch as the farmer now receives the
Liverpool price, less the cost of transportation
to Liverpool, this means an increase of that
amount in his sale price. The stupendous effect
of this feature alone is summed up as follows
by Julius Barnes, former director of the United
States Grain corporation:
"In the sixteen states whose farm price level
would inevitably be improved by a reduction
of the transportation cost, there is grown
3,664 million bushels of grain. If such a re
duction of 10 cents in the transportation could
be fully reflected to the farm price in this
area, there would be an improvement in the
farm position of $366,000,000 in a single year.
The same improvement in farm price position
in respect to western Canada's production of
440 million bushels would be a gain to Can
ada's farmers of $44,000,000. If we calculate
that the full measure of saving will not be re
flected to the farm, but that the farm position
will be improved by 5 cents per bushel, we
make a saving in the American farm income
of $183,000,000 and in the Canadian farm in
come of $22,000,000, all on a single year's
crop."
Former Governor Harding of Iowa states it
a bit differently. He says:
"When an Iowa farmer ships three car
loads of corn to New York at present prices,
the railroad takes two of the three for freight.
We must end that."
The hydro-electric power development is
equally important. Competent engineers esti
mate that power from the St. Lawrence could
be delivered at New York state cities, 200 miles
away, for a cost of 4.6 mills, less than half a
cent per kilowatt hour.
These are direct savings. Indirect savings
include the saving of millions of tons of coal,
now used for railroad transportation or genera
tion of electric power, with resultant loosening
up of the general demand for coali They in
clude also the relief of port congestion at New
York, which would check excessive port costs
on shipments which necessarily would continue
to move through New York.
Third The cost: The estimated cost of the
entire project is from $225,000,000 to $252,000,
000. A most interesting feature of the present
plans is that it is not proposed to raise any of
this amount by taxation. The rough plan now
receiving favor is to form a corporation, with
the governments of the United States and Can
ada owning the stock. This corporation would
issue bonds to finance the undertaking, .the bonds
being guaranteed by the respective govern
ments. It is figured that the revenue from the
sale of hydro-electric power would pay the en
tire cost of operation, of interest and all other
charges, with ample provision for a sinking
fund to retire the bonds. Such charges are in
cluded in the engineers' estimates of the cost of
power. In other words, the improvement will
be self-sustaining as a power project, the ship
ping advantages being "thrown in." Present
treaties provide that no tolls can be charged
on international waterways between the United
States and Canada, and it is assumed that this
arrangement would continue. Even on the as
sumption that only half of the saving would
reach the farmer, his saving in a single year
would equal the entire cost of the improvement.
(Further information relative to the Lakes-to-Ocean
project will appear in The Bee tomor
row and in succeeding issues.)
Women, Men and Jobs
Women, apparently, are finding it more dif
ficult to retun to prewar conditions than men.
Returned soldiers, for example, have as a rule
been willing to go back to the jobs they held
before donning khaki, but their sisters are far
from being eager to resume the occupations of
the ante-bellum days.
Consider the situation as to housework.
The Labor, department reports that there arc
thousands of girls in St. Louis out of jobs, yet
columns and columns of advertisements in the
newspapers for cooks, servants and maids go
unanswered. The wages offered are double
those prevailing in 1914 and all manner of con
cessions as to days off, living accommodations
and the like are made.
Of course, it is rather hard for a girl who
has been working in a factory for $25 a week
with every night off to return to the drudgery
of housework, but isn't it theoretically just as
hard for a decorated lieutenant to return to
driving a truck? Why the one will go back to
the truck whistling and why the other prefers
to tramp the streets jobless rather than return
to the kitchen and the mop is something for
the psycho-analysts to explain. St Louis Star.
Let Women Take the Blame.
One reason why a lot of men so strongly
favored woman suffrage was they did not care
to carry alone the blame of electing a lot of men
who managed to get into office. Galveston
Tribune.
He Made a Poor Investment.'
Senator France has bought 45,000 roubles
for $15, and this fact should convince him of
the superiority of American ways of doing
things. Boston Transcript.
v A Long Way From Fashions.
Long skirts are decreed at Chant llv. But
it is a long, ng way from Chantilly to Los
I Anueles. LoAntielcs Times. .
How to Keep Well
Bv DR. W. A. EVANS
Questions concerning hygiene, sanitation and prevention of disease, submitted
to Dr. Evn by readers of The Bee, will be aniwered personally, subject to
' proper limitation, where a stamped addressed envelope is enclosed. Pr Evans
will not make diagnosis or prescribe for individual diseases. Address letters
in care of The Bee.
Copyright, 1021, by Dr. W. A. Evsns
WHAT TO TAKE FOR
INSOMNIA.
Arrange a comfortable bed in a
quiet, dark, well-ventilated room.
Quiet oneself physieallyand mental
ly. Put out the cat and wind the
clock. Set the mind for sleep.
Crawl in bed. Start the dream ma
chine and He there and let her run.
The milk in the cocoanut is set the
mind for sleep. How can that be
done?
Here is the recipe for that: In
dulge in no emotions, think about
mildly pleasant things, preferably
monotonous and somewhat uninter
esting things, and now, read close
ly and be certain to catch the point
don't give a "continental damn"
whether you sleep or not. As soon
as you get genuinely in that frame
of mind you will sleep.
That's the story.
It is disordered thoughs, emotion
al urges and anxieties and fears
which prevent us from sleeping. In
somnia becomes a phobia with many
people. They are insomniacs. They
try so hard to sleep that they keep
themselves awake. Jjet them turn
loose and see how quickly the trick
is turned.
What not to take: First, fore
most and moBt Important is sleep
producing medicine. I am quoting
from Trldon's "Psyche Analysis
Sleep and Dreams." I wish the In
somniacs would read it and also the
little books on the same general sub
Ject of Bruce and Conat.
Trldon say? one of the chief ends
of sleep is that we may Indulge in
the soul luxury of dreams. Spend
ing some hours under the spell of
pleasant dreams is like drinking
f ii the fountain of youth. Not so
the dreams of sleep produced
I h ugs. He says normal sleep is
brother to life, but drug-induced
sleep is indeed akin to death. Hence
the horrible feeling which Is often
experienced when awakening from
drug-induced sleep.
Among his other don'ts are: Cof
fee, tea and cocoa, and even choco
late candy in quantities, lack of ex
ercise, indigestion, constipation, all
forms of competition or rivalry, phy
sical and mental, at night. All forms
of excitement after supper, exciting
novels and movies at night. Many
people go to bed too early, old peo
ple especially, who need compara
tively little sleep, are apt to doze
In their chairs for an hour or two
after supper and then go to bed
needing little additional sleep and
become worried because they wake
up and stay awake for several hours
of the night.
A quiet walk after supper or a
few hours of quiet conversation of
indifferent reading of a paper would
be a far better preparation for the
few hours of quiet conversation or
quire.
One of the novel statements made
by Trldon is that we do not need
a set number of hours' sleep. We
sleep to escape the trying realities
of life by spending a season in the
pleasant recreation of dreams.
Therefore a few hours of pleasant
dreams, dreams unvexed by worries,
nnxietles or fears, will rest our
brains more than 10 or 12 hours of
slumber which the brain spends in
fights induced by mental perturba
tion. It is not so mil (i the quantity as
the quality of sleep which counts.
Who Are the Heroes?
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Mr. Koutsky Explains.
Omaha, July 19. To the Editor
of The Bee: Under date of July 13,
1921, letter appeared in your "Let
ter Box," in the issue of July 18,
1921, referring to me regarding pub
lic improvements, and signed "A
Cititzen."
With your permission, I would
like to state that I have not, and so
far as I know up to this time, will
not, obstruct the improvements on
Dodge street. I admit that one time
I suggested that the bids be rejected.
and by re-advertlsing I could save
considerable money to the taxpayers
for that particular paving. The
council saw fit to overrule me and I
immediately turned in the award
with the recommendation, the prop
erty owners being allowed 30 days
by law to designate the kind of ma
terial they desire used on this dis
trict That time will not be up till
July 29. The city council cannot en
ter into contract for the paving of
this district until after that date,
and after the necessary ordinance
is passed designating the material
desired and directing the city engi
neer to prepare the necessary con
tract . So far as St. Marys avenue Is con
cerned, I will admit that I have been
doing everything within my power
to get this district completed, but
no more so than I have on Dodge
street.
If this gentleman, ,,who has not
enough backbone to "sign his own
name, will not come in to my office
and get the desired information con
cerning these different projects, I
think it .is hardly necessary for me
to waste any time on such "A Citi
zen:" but this, or any other citizen
to taxpayer in Omaha wishing any
information in regard to any or all
improvement districts in Omaha, is
welcome to our office and we will
answer any and all questions per
taining to any projects, to the very
best of our ability. We may not be
the wisest city officials in the coun
try, but we play our cards open and
our intention is to give all citizens
and taxpayers of Omaha a square
deal. Yours truly,
JOSEPH KOUTSKY.
Superintendent of Public Improve
. ments.
Rates on Hay.
Omaha, July 19. To the Editor
of The Bee: Your editorial in The
Morning Bee of July 18, entitled
"Hobbled by Freight Rates." covers
a situation which we all know exists
today, not only "with respect to the
producing end of the agricultural in
terests, but ultimately as affecting
the consuming end.
There Is one correction which we
desire to call your attention to, and
that Is, the present rafe on hay from
O'Neill to Omaha Is not $6 per ton
as you give it, but $3.40 per ton, and
the top quotation on No. 1 upland
prairie hay is $12 per ton, with cor
responding lower prices on lower
grades.
The average person is not aware
of the extent or scope of the hay in
dustry. Very little hay is consumed
locally In Omaha, the main consum
ing market at- present being Iowa,
Illinois and Wisconsin. When cars
are consigned to Omaha for sale, a
market must be found at points be
yond, and after a car has reached
Omaha, officially inspected and
graded, it is applied to an order
which may take it a good many
hundred miles from Omaha. '
Prior to decline In prices and in
crease in freltrht rates, Omaha
shipped a great deal of hay to points
in New York, Virginia, Georgia,
Florida and intermediate territory,
tut under present conditions it is
impossible to market hay at those
ponts, as the transportation charges
are considerably .more than the hay
is worth.
Take Stuart for instance, a large
hay shipping point. Under prewar
freight rate, charges on a 24,000
pound car to Omaha were $26.40;
present charges $46.80, an increase
per car of $20.40 or nearly $2 per
ton. If car was sent on to Chicago,
the prewar freight charges would
have been $58.50, present charges
$98.40, an increase per car of $39.60,
or $3.30 per ton. North Platte is a
big hay shipping station. Prewar
charges on a car from North Platte
to Omaha would have figured $39.60;
present $66, an increase of $26.40
or over $2 per ton. If car moved
to Chicago, prewar charges would
have been $61.20, present charges
$103.20, or $42 increase, nearly $4
per ton.
The difficulty is that the Increased
freight charges havo so localized
and limited the territory where this
hay could be put that the purchas
ing competition of the consuming
territory we formerly had under the
old rates Is lost, and as a result there
is not the buying competition activ
ity that keeps market prices up.
There are thousands of tons of hay
throughout the state carried over
from last year, due to inability to
profitably market same, this hay
having deteriorated to such an ex
tent that it Is now practically un
marketable, and we know of cases
where meadows have ben burned
in order to clea.n them up, the grow
ers feeling their hay is of no value.
Cost of hay, from cutting to actual
loading on cars, has decreased on an
average of 60 per cent over last
year; yet the actual cost of getting
this hay from loading station to
Omfhi Is away out of pronort'on
tu the value of the hay; this in turn
means that the hay Is not loaded,
the railroads are not hauling ton
nage that they might move and
would move under ordinary condi
tions without excessive rates all re
flecting back to inability of grower
to secure money out of his crop to
pay the merchants, and the mer
chants being unable to purchase
from the wholesaler, with resultant
loss of revenue to the railroads in
more than one way. A decrease
would extend the marketing terri
tory and permit a much better
movement of hay, create- better
times for the hay man, better busi
ness conditions in general, and Om
aha would again become the im
portant hay market it was before
the last advance in rates.
The Nebraska State Railway com
mission has advised they will take
part in a conference in Chicago this
week and at a hearing in Washing
ton next month where the question
of reduced rates will be considered,
and it is hoped some relief can be
secured In time to help out on this
year's crop. Very truly yours,
OMAHA HAY EXCHANGE.
By J. C. Ruttie.
Chairman Transportation Committee.
The New Peace
Treaty
(From the Montreal Star.)
It is most ardently to be hoped
that the personal convenience of
Mr. Hughes of Australia and of "Mi;.
Massey of New Zealand will not be
allowed to force a preliminary con
ference on Pacific problems in Lon
don. This would be a blunder of
colossal proportions in the reading
of American psychology. The Ameri
can people are thinking a great deal
of the fact that this is to be an
American conference. Their presi
dent has inaugurated it Other na
tions may hint that they were the
first in the field with kindred sug
gestions or diplomatic "feelers;"
but to the American man in the
street whether it be "Main Street"
Or Broadwav thi Is a nnllrv nt an.
preme world import, first urged by
senator jjoran in tne American sen
ate, then adopted almost unani
mously bv both houses, nf rnnirroa.
and finally put into operation by
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more important features of the
proDiems at issue, would be to rub
most Tf -the gilt off the gingerbread.
The Americans would feel that this
London conference had really set
tled everything, and then sent on a
cut-and-drled program for a purely
formal ratification in Washington.
Thev would imnclnn that their
being craftily flattered by the pre
tence inai tne omciai conference
was held in their capital, and by the
fact that It would bear in history
the name of that city, while the ac
tual business would have already
been done in London. Of course,
they would universtAllv
they would regard as a roaring
What American public opinion can
do. the failure of the Versailles
treaty showed. At nr-at if
Impossible, even to the enemies of
mr. wiison in wasnington, that the
senate would dare reject the only
peace treaty in sight But Ameri
can pupic, opinion, which Ignores
cv-Ducnio, inugiis m impossiDlll
ties" and would ronnnl tha Tan r
mandments if it came to think them
un-American," rose in its indig
nant might and insisted that the
Work of Six mnnth.) nnrl nil H
statesmen of Europe be tossed out
pi tne winaow. And It was.
Let this new "peace treaty" be
made in Washington by men who
go to Washington, unbound and un
schooled. Let the atmosphere be as
American as is possible. Then we
shall at least have the advantage
that as good an agreement as can be
got, will not be killed by a suspi
cious American senate.
THE SPICE OF LIFE.
Perkins (during neighborly quarrel)
By Jove, If you don't stop trying to
make me angry, I'll buy my wife a new
hat, and then you'll have to buy one for
yours! raMlng Show (London),
City Touth What's that the calf la
limning r
Cow Karmor That's rock salt, my boy.
City Youth do hon! I've often won
dered how corn-beef was made. Sydney
Bulletin. '
She Jack, T must have a Complete set
, i J w. t,ul"' i m sure me entire
neighborhood knows my present wardrobe
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He But er wouldn't It be cheaper to
move to a new neighborhood T Pawing
Show (London).
Charlotte Saw Joe at the movies with
Mabel Saturday night. Aren't you keep
ing company with him nowT
Gladys No. I asked him If he liked
her better than me. and be said yes so
I threw him ever. Life.
"Some men," remarked the admirer of
poetry, "go into politics with the Idea of
leaving footprints on the sands of time."
"Some do," replied Senator Sorghum.
"And others are lucky If they get out
without having their thumb prints taken."
Washington Star.
"My huaband has had Indigestion for
the past month."
"Really1 I'm so i sorry I hsd no Idea
you were without cook." Sydney Bulle
tin. , , .
(From the New York Evening Tost.)
Chief among the low-djwn out
rages of these aizillng days Is the
fact that a half dozen explorers
solze on them to announce their de
parture for the polar regions. Don
ald MacMillan has Just started to
go up the Greenland side of the Arc
tic. Stefansson, returning from the
Siberian side, announces he will set
out again soon. Amundsen has
chosen the same quarter. Shackle
ton Is to sail for the Antarctic next
month. These wretches put whole
continents of perspiring humankind
to the tortures of Tantalus. They
remind us that we hRve not really
felt cool since the Llbe Ian blhhop
landed here a few weeks ago and
said that 90 degrees wasn't a cir
cumstance to what he had to endure.
There Is a certain measure of re
venge in the thought that these
Polar explorers are sacrificing thoir
reputations for courage. The perils
of toppling Icebergs, of cold so in
tense that, as Mark Twain said, it
freezes your shadow to the deck, of
fierce blizzards who wouldn't rush
into them? The real hero is the man
who wraps his wilted collar about
him, staggers over the treacherous
floes of asphalt, smiles good-naturedly
if wanly whon his Jammed
train gets stuck In the subway hum
mocks,, and at 4:30 p. m. cheerily
shouts "Mush on!" to his fainting
stenographers and office force.
Financier's Advice.
At least try to live within the
means of your landlord. Wall
Street Journal.
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