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desires. We have waived the issue of
the freedom of the seas. permitted the
British to annex the greater portion
of the German colonies. recognized q
looked with complacency upon Brit
ish possession of the largest part of
the Arab world. But II there has been
no clash as a consequence there ex-
lists in Great Britain a very consid-
cradle and very influential element
British foreign policy, which. in a
large measure, has supported America
in a long series Of conflicts with Eu-
ropean nations who were recently the
allies of Great Britain and may. as
consequence of recent events, be
driven into a new German alliance.
Moreover, as far as the league is con-
cerned, the British government has
accepted it only when it has been so
denatured as to carry no threat to
any special British interest.
On the part of the French. American
the start, with ever-increasing sus-
picion. American opposition. futile IN
the end to French demands for rep.
aration, American hostility to tho
French, occupation OF the Rhtne par
rier and the annexation OF the Sarre
ment, while more and more thought
full Frenchmen have viewed with
alarm the fashion in which France,
BY consenting to various American
decisions contrary to the desires OF
Italy. Rumania and Greece, has peen
piling up dangerous hostility to her
self on the part of these nations.
Meantime, the Rumanians, quitting
the Paris conference, have resorted TO
arms to enforce their claims and In
this course they have the tacit sym
pathy Of many Frenchmen, and the
omen approval Of the Italians.
We have, then, in eleven months,
during W eh we have endeavored to
impose upon Europe an American con-
ception of what just peace terms
-shouius sbe and OF how the word
should be reorganized to insure peace.
failed in the case Of Great Britain.
France, Italy and the japanese to
coerce the governments or persuade
the people to accept our views We
have surrendered completely to the
British and to the Japanese. We have
compromised with the French by un-
dertaking to send our troops to aid
in the defense of France at the Sarre
rather than permit Franco to defend
herself at the Rhine. and in the case
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vestment began to go wrong. he
worried about 1t, and part of the
time which he was being paid to
devote to the business in which
he was engaged would be expended
in worrying about his investment
in the business in which he was
not engaged; whereas il his money
were invested in the business in
which he was engaged. his desire
10 see his investment succeed and
bring him further profits would
be converted into efforts that
fit, not only to himself. but to the
stockholders and his co-workers.
In short. little real substantial
benefit comes from a prof1t-shar-
ing plan where the profits are paid
out in cash. except perhaps where
man uses the money toward
buying a home. There Is, there
fore. serious weakness some
weakness lies in the fact that
profit-sharing cannot be really
beneficial, either for employer or
employe, unless conducted on q
partnership basis and coupled with
proflt-sharing.
Objects to Be Accomplished.
Looking at it from the viewpoint
of capital, the object to be accom-
plished through the adoption of
profit-sharing is added interest in
the business on the part Of en-
ployes, which. in turn, brings
higher efficiency. Looking at it
from the standpoint of the en-
pioye. the object to be accom-
plished is a fairer remuneration
for services rendered. Therefore.
any profit-sharing plan that fails
to accomplish both of these re-
suits breaks down sooner or later.
In establishing profit-sharing it
is Of the utmost Importance that
the entire organization. the wage
and salary earners. know in adj
vance exactly what they are ex-
pected to accomplish. I mean by
this that. on entering a new year.
they should know exactly what
the preceding years accomplish
ments have been. The annual
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Outlines of a Plan.

A good many years of actual ex-
perience have made me very OPP
timistic regarding profit-sharing
plans worked out along the fol-
lowing lines:
First: Every business has, first
Of all. to earn operating expenses,
depreciation and fair returns on
honest capitalization.
Second: ] believe that every
business should consider that the
compensation paid employees Is for
the purpose of earning a sum Of
money sufficient to pay the above
mentioned items.
Third: believe that any profits
over and above such sum should,
on some percentage basis, be di.
vided between the capital used in
the business and the employees en-
gagged in the business.
case should these profits be I'm
mediately Withdrawn from the
business; that they should be left
in the business for a reasonable
length of time. to protect and in
crease its financial strength and
safety; that, in the case of capital.
its share Of these profits should be
carried to surplus; that in the
case of employees, their share Of
these profits should be distributed
to them in some form of, security
representing an interest in the
business. and that each employe
should be required to hold such
security for a reasonable length
OF time. say three to five years.
Fifth: ] believe that the en-
ployes' share of these profits should
be allotted to them as nearly as
possible on the basis of the COM
pensation they receive. Up to date
this has proved to be the best
method.
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preserve such relations with America
as would insure continuation OF
American assistance. But not even
the danger of losing this could per-
suade Europe to adopt all the Amer
lean principles.
Now it seems to me that Europe.
slowly struggling to her feet once
more. is both consciously and uncon-
sciously seeking to free herself from
the control of American policy and
more and more to get back to those
centuries of history and at least
working knowledge of the facts as
contrasted with the theories OF Euro
pean life.
Copyright, 1919. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
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Of Italy we confront . deadlock which
has existed for nearly half q year.
Resentment in Italy.

RESENTMENT IN 4I61y.
We have incurred bitter resentment
in Italy by refusing to recognise 1tAl-
ian claims. and whatever good will we
might have earned in Japan by our
surrender has already been de-
stroyed by the course Of the SEN
ate in questioning that Surrender.
Having refused to recognize the
French right to occupy the Rhine bar
rier, we shall now earn permanent
French distrust and worse unless we
agree to fulhll MT. Wilson's promise
TO give American armies In exchange
for geographical advantages If the
small peoples, the Rumanians and the
Greeks. and even the Serbs and Poles
one holding us responsible for the be-
stowal of Slovene lands upon Italy
and the others indicting US for the
Dantzig compromise-are denouncing
us.
On the other hand. can it be said
that the German feels more kindly to
us or is more willing. except under
duress, to accept the decisions Of the
treaty Of Versailles? Does he not. as
q matter of fact, indict us as q nation
for having failed to fulfill his concep-
ton Of the meaning Of the fourteen
points? Does he not hold us respon-
sible for having persuaded him to sur
ed his arms, allowed his enemies to
despoil him? AS to Austria, Hungary
and Bulgaria, dismembered, however
Justly. the two former reduced from
the condition Of really great states
to that Of pitiable principalities, is it
conceivable that they will either re-
gard the present settlement as per-
for the nation which. to all outward
appearance at least. dominated the
Paris conference and accepted respon-
sibility for it's decision?
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On Her Mettle.

From the Boston Transcript.
How did you ever come to marry
him.
"Why, he made me mad"
Mad? How"
He acted as if he didn't think
would, and rather hoped l wouldn't"
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An Unusual Method.

Many profit-sharing plans have
divided profits with employees on a
cash basis and turned the money
over to the employees every SO
often, usually once year. The
result has been that If a man
earning $1,000 q year received
$500 at the end Of the year from
a profit-sharing plan he promptly
lifted his living expenses from q
$1,000 basis to a $1,000 basis. and
began to look upon his income as
$1,000 rather than $1,000, and the
extra $500 did little to increase his
activity and efficiency or to pro-
mote his intellectual efforts in the
business concerned. Then, IL q
period came when business was
dull or poor and he did not get
the extra $500, he found fault with
the owners Of the business and be-
came grouchy and inclined to lose
interest in his work. II he did
not use the $500 for his living ex-
penses. he probably invested 1t In
. suburban lot, or in some stock
that was recommended to him, or
- something that he knew ltttla
H1ctAi1x about. Than. u his IN
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Failures in Profit-Sharing.

Close operation, coupled with
considerable experience. has con-
WINGED me that practically all the
many failures in proflt-sharing,
both in this country and in Europe,
have occurred because at bottom
the plans were not honestly de-
vised nor equitabiy worked out In
nine cases out Of ten. at some point
in the practical APPLICATION OF the
plans that have failed. the fact has
developed that they were not mu-
tually beneficial, they either did
not enhance the efficiency Of the
men in such q way Is to satisfy
the employer. OF else did not dis
to benefit and satisfy the employees.
are shared by two or q half dozen
partners could last any length Of
time unless mutually beneficial,
and the same rule holds good in q
larger partnership where the prof
its are shared among many part
ners. No man or frm or corpora
tion that is thinking of adopting
proht-shsring can hope for sue
cess. unles prepared to approach
the subject in this spirit and deal
with 1t in an absolutely honest,
open and hroadminded manner,
In the past the man who was
not educated or trained to think
Independently struck because he
wanted $2 q day II he was only
getting $1.75. and for quite q Pc
riod labor differences were set
tied on this basis. believe that
We are rapidly passing out Of that
period, for our laboring people are
so well educated and 40 ahle IN
think independently that. in many
cases. they are no longer strik-
ing for definite increase in
wages, but for what they regard
rs q fairer proportion Of the prof
Its of the business in which they
Are engaged. If ] am right about
this. then we are rapidly leaving
behind the period when labor dis
putes could be settled by q mere
Increase In wages and are entering
the period when profit-sharing in
some form must be practiced.
Therefore, the question Is. how
can it be practiced effectively?
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Impatisncs With America.

Meantime, with ever increasing
clarity, there was manifesting itself
In Europe an impotence with Ameri-
can policy which Is becoming enc of
the most significant and dangerous
circumstances in the European situs-
ton. So far az the British are con-
cerned, American policy has In each
separate instance yielded to British
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ity and made certain German effort
to escape by war whenever the oppor-
tunity came.
Following upon the French and
British examples came the Italian and
Japanese episodes. Italy positively
declined to permit the fourteen points
to be applied against her in the
Adriatic. pointing to her treaty with
Great Britain and France and calling
upon her British and French allies to
carry out their promises. Japan in
Shantung made similar demands with
a similar appeal to the same allies.
and in both cases France and Great
Britain signifed their intention to
stand by their written pledge, how
ever repugnant 1t might be to them.
Here again was irrefutable proof that
two more great powers had accepted
only with fatal reservations and limi-
tations the American policy in the
matter Of peace and world reorgani-
zation.
what the great powers had done
the smaller powers now proceeded
to initiate. The Serbs. went into AL
bania, the Rumanians into Hungary;
the Greeks gave unmistakable evil
dence Of an unwillingness to surren-
der age-long claims in Thrace at
American behest. Rumania went to
Budapest against an Americ4n-pro-
cured veto OF the conference OF Paris,
and stayed there 40 long a. she chose,
meantime mobiliEing other armies to
drive her Serb neighbors out OF that
portion Of the Banat awarded to the
Serbs at Paris. \
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In sum, it seems to me that the
course Of American foreign policy in
Europe between the signing Of the
armisttce and the present moment has
resulted in the creation Of q resent
ment. rising to bitter dislike in many
cases. in all European nations. We
are today as unpopular among our
recent associates. with the possible
exception of Great Britain, and for OBJ
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-03
Jury Trying O'Nein
Man for Murder Fails
to Agree on Verdict

West Plains, Mo-, Nov. 2-(Spe-
cial Telegram.)-A jury in the
Carter county circuit court at Van
Buren, Saturday failed, after several
hours elaboration, to agree on a
verdict in the case of Frank Welton.
who is charged with the murder of
his 25-year-old wife, Pearl Welton,
last January.
Mrs. Carrie Erickson Holland of
O'Neill, Neb., who for IS years lived
with Welton as his common law
wife at O'Neill and who twice had
confessed that she choked Mrs.
Welton to death and threw her body
into the cistern during a fit of
jealousy when she came to the We'll
ton home, denied her confessions
Saturday,, and, in her testimony
tried to blame the crime on Well
ton.
Mrs. Holland was brought to Van
Buren from Jefferson City where
she is serving a l0-year sentence IN
the penitentiary for the murder of
Mrs. Welton. What influence or
circumstance caused her to change
her story in which, until Saturday,
she steadfastly shielded Welton, is
a mystery. "
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-03

The proposed new police station
and city Jail has been designed in
the Italian renaissance style. 1t is
to replace the old city Jail, now 10
Gated on the southeast corner of
Dodge and Eleventh streets, and
will face on Eleventh street, with
the main entrance at the center of
the front.
The building is to be four stories
and basement high with the floor
of the first story on the level of
the Dodge street entrance. Pro-
vision is made in the rear Of the
Dodge street portion of the build
ing for fire company with &C
commodations for three pieces Of
apparatus. The entrance for po-
lice officers is also on Dodge street
The first story will contain an
assembly room for police, quarters
for captains. sergeants and desk
sergeants. A large vault, search
room and Store room. are provided
in connection with the desk ser
geant. and the fire department will
be housed on this floor.
There will be passenger elevat-
or for the public, and Jail e1e-
vator, both of which will pass
through and connect all stories. A
public staircase will be in the front
lobby and a Jail staircase in the
prisoners corridor.
The second story will be given
over to offices for the chief of po-
lice, detectives, an assembly room,
telephone operator, toilets, sleep
ing quarters for the firemen.
The third story will contain the
police court room, with offices for
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-03
Fixing Date for Final
Vote on Peace Treaty
Will Be Decided Today

Washington, Nov. 2.-The ques-
ton for fixing a date for a final vote
on the German peace treaty-a
question which involves incidentally
an approximate time for adjourn
ment of the present session of con-
gress-will come up for action Mon
day in the senate.
Possibility of agreement on the
order of the dominant question is
not viewed with optimism either by
republican or democrat leaders. Pre-
dictions were general tonight that
no agreement of any kind would he
reached and that the treaty's con-
sideration would proceed as usual.
Senate leaders generally desire an
adjournment of congress about No
vember 10.
The senate will resume debate to-
morrow on the motion of Senator
La Toilette, republican of Wiscon-
sin, to strike out the entire labor
section of the treaty. Other amend
ments to be acted on are that OF
Senator Gore, democrat of Okla
homa, providing popular referen-
dums on war declarations and that
of Senator Lodge to strike out the
Shantung clause.
In the house, attention will be
conferred on the railroad legislation,
which is to be reported from COM
mittec late this week if possible with
view to passage before adjourn
ment. ..l
Important measures in conference
between the two houses this week
are the oil and coal land leasing bill,
the Cummins bill restoring the in
terstate commerce commissions
rate making powers, and the Edge
bill authorizing foreign export
finance corporations.
Two new and important measures
to be launched tomorrow in the seii-
ate are the sugar control bill of SEN
ator McNary, republican Of Ore
gon, and shipping policy bills by
Chairman Jones of the senate COM
merce committee. IT,.
Although senator's and representa-
tives are greatly disturbed by the
coal and steel strikes and other in
dustrial disturbances, the general
feeling at the capitol seems to be
that at present there is little con-
gress can do.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-03
No General Strike in
Support of Steel Workers

Chicago, Nov. John Fitzpat-
rick, chairman of the national steel
workers committee, at meeting of
the Chicago Federation of Labor
said there would be no general
strike in support of the steel strike.
His statement was called forth by
an attempt to introduce resolu-
ton calling for a general strike.
Not even the American Fedora
ton of Labor could call strike Of
all workers." said Mr.. Fitzpatrick.
That is up to the international
unions. There is no hope or posi-
bility that a general strike can be
called. The committee in charge of
the strike has discussed every angle
of this matter but | cannot tell you
what our plans are now"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-03
New Building Proposed for
Police Station and City Jail
Designed to Be Four Stories and Basement High-Abso
utely Freproof- Offices Conveniently Arranged
to Care For All Divisions of the Department of
Public Safety.

| the judge, attorney, and clerk of the
court; also the Bertillion and tele-
graphic departments. There will be
rooms for male and female prison.
ers awaiting trial, witness rooms,
toilets, laundries and the like.
The fourth stor, will contain a
large cell room for men prisoners,
with accommodations for 100, also
women's and juvenile cells, prop
erly segregated; quarters for the
matron, surgeon, operating room
and infirmary. This story will con-
meet with the fourth story of the
present detention home, where all
cooking will be done for the pris-
oners.
The building will be constructed
according to the very latest require
ments of fire proof construction, of
reinforced concrete throughout,
with all standing finish of metal as
far as possible. The floors will be
hardened concrete, partitions of
hollow tile, and windows framed in
metal with wire glass. The present
heating plant, located in the base
ment of the garage, will be adequate
for the new building. Cell work
will be of the latest improved type,
with special regard for ventilation
and sanitation.
The first story will be Of Bed
ford stone, and the body of the
building above this of dark red
brick laid in white mortar. Plans
for the new building, drawn by
George L. Fisher, Omaha architect,
were designed to produce results
devoid of the severe character usu-
ally adopted for buildings of this
class.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-03
Country Folk Fear Lawyers
Nav MonopoIize Convention

Declaring that representatives at
the state constitutional convention
reed not necessarily all be lawyers.
John NJ. Anderson. from Irvington
Mill, writes the following as an ex-
preston from the country people of
Douglas county:
who is Charles Grau? God
made the country, man made the
town. is poetic and significant and
it is not best to wander far away
from the country, nor is it ever
just or wise to array one against
the other.
Needless to emphasize that the
constitution of the state of Nebraska
should be revised 1t should and
shall be done BY whom? Aye,
there's the rub. What should be
the personnel of the revisers? Must
they be lawyers, all of them, or
most of them? Not necessarily,
nay, verify! r'
Shall Omaha absolutely monopo-
lie the delegation? We country
people honestly protest against that
attempt and demand that we, too,
taxpayers and qualified citizens,
shall have representative part in
the delegation to the convention.
We glory in our candidate, Charles
Grau of Bennington. He is an old,
honored, constructive resident of
Douglas county, man second to
none of our citizens in essential
qualities and public qualifications.
Nor is he perennial office
seeker. Refreshing to state that in
this case the office seeks the man.
Politically he is democrat, but alb
solutely independent and impartial
in everything that concerns the pub
lie veal. If elected he will intelli-
gently and uncompromisingly repre-
Sent any man, woman and child with
every other interest within our
state. He will measure up most ia
vorably in knowledge and in the
ability to express that knowledge.
Il am sure that the delegation to
the constitutional convention will
not contain finer specimen of rep
resentative citizenship than Charles
Grau, the peoples candidate. Vote
for him..
pouder RI nreveut false teett, slim
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-03

The Ri. Rev. Monsignor Casimiro
Casimiri, conductor. of the Vatican
Choirs, which comes to the Omaha
Auditorium next Saturday night, is
considered the most sympathetic
leader of the present time by quail
fled judges who have been in close
touch with his work in Rome. He
has the power, they say, of bring
ing out every possible means of
expression in the people under his
direction, augmented by his native
talent in sensing values and COM
binations.
Omaha is fortunate in having the
opportunity to hear the singers of
the Vatican Choirs under the direc-
ton of such an eminent conductor.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-03

cheerful greeting. So here is "Chin
Chin" for you and for yours at the
Brandeis for two nights and mat
inee, starting next Friday.
primrose Semon, Show Stopper
is the way that little lady's calling
cards should read for at every per-
Torrance thus far during the en-
gagement of Joe Hurtig's "Burlesque
Wonder Show" at the Gayety the
big audience have positively and
firmly insisted that the balance OF
the program be temporarily post
poned until Miss Semon responds
to numerous encores. The question
is: How long will burlesque hold
Miss Semon? Ladies matinee at
2:l5 daily all week.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-03
Refuse $40 Wage.

Chicago, Nov. master butchers
announced they could not grant the
demands of journeymen meat cut
tiers for a minimum wage of $40 a
week as the increase would necessi-
tate an increase of from 3 20
5 cents a pound to consumers.
Several hundred meat cutters are
on strike. The employers offered an
increase from $50 to $33.