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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-24
BANK THIEVES GET
AWAY WITH 100000
Burn Way Into Old Vault; Plumber
Chiefly Bonds Deposited
by Farmers.

Washington, Pa, Dec. 24.-The pri-
vate bank of Jess F. Miller at Bealls-
VILE, Washington county, IL miles east
of here on the national road, was looted
Saturday night by thieves who got away
with booty varlously estimated at from
$50, 900 to $50 900, with indlcatilns that
the latter figure is more nearly correct.
Of the booty $4,000 was in cash and the
remainder in Liberty bonds and other
negotiable securities.
The thieves apparently had no difficult
ty IN gaming entrance to the bank build
ing, situated on the main street Of the
village which has practically no police
protection. lngress to the big old fash
loned vault was gained by means of an
acetyline torch which was used to burn
out the lock
The bank was closed at S o'clock Sat
urday night and no one was inside the
building until this morning when the
robbery was discovered by Mr.. Miller
himself, when he opened the bank for
business. News of the robbery was
concealed throughout the day while
Banker Miller was checking up on his
losses In bonds and securities. He said
tonight that he was still uncertain what
his losses would be.
The bank IN existence since the days
of the old stage coaches on the national
ruad. is used chiefly as a depository for
bonds and securities by the farmers of
the district Many of them had de-
posted all their Liberty Bonds there,
and some even had their family jewelry
in the sheet iron" safe which proved
easy prey for an experienced cracksrnan.
Miller, who is the sole owner and the
only member of the bank force. deposits
his cash each Tuesday in Washington
bank and the robbers last night found
full weeks accumulation OF deposits
Police think the cracksmen knew of
this circumstance and planned their
aid when they would find the greatest
possible amount in the safe
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-24

tion," the Postmaster General declares
that The Call has "persistenily and
nagrantly violated the Act of June Is,
1917, the Episonage Act as amended by
the Act of May l6, 1915 rs well as Sec
tion 2ll of the Penal Code, as amended"
both prior to the filing Of the applca-
tion for re-entry for second class mail
ing privileges and up to The filing of
the petition in the present suit, and num-
erous excerpts from articles in the news
paper covering the entire period involved
are Incorporated i'm the sixty-seven
type written pages of the answer The
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-24

editor Of The Call is quoted as having
said 30 one Of the assistants in the De-
partment on June 20, 1919, that ''Thc
Call hns not changed its policy one bit
since it was barred from the mails and
is not going To change"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-24
Letters on Estates.

Register of Wills Isaac r.. Brown has
granted letters Of administration on the
estate of Emma G. Quigley to Alice A.
Ferris andlet testamentary on the
estate of Anna Fradington to Henrietta
Schndler
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-24

with Mrs. Conklina brother, Capfain
J. w. Herard, Of the Motor Transport
CoTs.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-24
To Visit Por. Howard

Major and Mrs. John T. Conklin viii
spend Christmas at Fort Howard, Md,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
Etber5c PoeSg Or Prophecg9

great inventor, earth may yet do better than
hitch its wagon to a STAR. 1t may hold etheric
long-talks with its fellow-wanderers in> space.
The wizard of the wireless admits in an inter
view his belief in this possibility. He has al
ready received in the course Of his experiments,
he says, impulses which may we'll have been
attempted signals from other planets. 1t is, of
course, not the first time that scientist, hap
pening to be also something of poet, has had
this dream of interpanetary communications:
And not for the first time will some portion Of
the world laugh at the extravaganza of such a
dream Perhaps, nevertheless the laughter will
on this occasion be less general, less far-reach-
ing with its echoes. One remembers that since
the earlier jeering at Missionaries who spoke of
talking with the stars the radio telegraph and
telephone have come into being The air has
begun to give up its mysteries, to reveal its
hidden forces-New York World.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
WHAT is WRONG WITH oMAHA'S
POLICE?

With the mayor, the superintendent Of po-
lice the chief of police, the chief of detectives.
and the members OF the detective force busily
passing the buck" while minor crime is run
ming rampant the Omaha police force seems
sadly in need Of a complete overhaung.
Scandal of serious nature has surrounded its
operations for weeks, until now a situation has
developed that threatens the efficiency of the
force. Mayor Smith says he is waiting for a
report from Superintendent Ringer on charges
that we're made openly, rejecting on certain
unnamed members of the force. One officer
has been arrested on charge of soliciting and
accepting bribes The chief of detectives has
publicly asserted that other detectives are dis
honest, and that he "has the goods on them"
Such allegations deserve immediate and full
Investigation. Inquiry should be rigid and COM
pete, that the facts may be developed and the
innocence or guilt of all the men established.
Omaha can not afford to have the present con-
dition continued
When the present administration was
elected it was with the expectation that rumors
of graft incompetency, favoritism, and other
wrongs in connection with the police depart
ment would be cleaned up. Instead, the turmoil
has increased Efficiency is impossible when
the members of the force are at 1oggerheads
with the chiefs.
Something is plainly wrong. An effort to
locate the trouble and apply the remedy ought
to be made.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
The Air Route to the Pole

Doubtless the proposed aeroplane expedition
to the North Pole is feasible in these days of
long voyages through the air. The plans of the
Aero club have been well worked out, but the
purposes of the intended exploration are not so
clear. Henry Woodhouse, a member of the
board of governors, says that from a national
standpoint it is absolutely necessary to explore
and map all the land, island possessions and
waterways under the control of the United
States"
Most of the islands and waterways in the
Arctic north of the American continent are
classified as British possessions, and Greenland
belongs to Denmark. 1t is only further west,
between Beaufort sea and the pole, that the
explorers could expect to find new lands in the
uncharted waters north of Alaska that would
properly come under control of the United
States OF course, every bit of knowledge that
can be added to the store Of human knowledge
is worth while. but in some cases the attendant
hardships outweigh the advantages. GREET
Britain would hardly quarrel with US il we
should annex to Alaska some of the icebound
regions to the north, and the pole itself by
virtue Of Peary's discovery is already American.
But he found there only a vast floating ocean
OF ice with no land in sight.
A photograph of the North Pole might bear
4 resemblance to famous picture OF the Red
sea after the passage of the Isrselites It was
simply field of plain blue paint When the
artist was asked where were Pharaoh's chariots
re- replied that they had been submerged by the
Waters. And where were the lsraelites? They
had already passed over. Only in the present
case, the field would be likely to be pure white
instead Of blue.--New York Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
When the Packers Disagree.

One interesting phase of the meat packing
situation is disclosed in the accounts of hear
ings before the congressional committees. Mr.
Armour is reported to have prepared bill, en-
bodying his ideas of governmental control,
which will be presented to congress. Mr.. Nor
ris lays great emphasis on his opinion that the
government will do we'll to keep hands off. At
y the same time the food administration fixes a
basic rate for hogs Of $3.50 per hundred
weight for the month Of February. The pack
ers frankly admit they dread drop in prices,
as their storage rooms are crowded with meats
for which they have paid top figures. Here is
the only point of agreement between them on
the main topic In the meantime, the patient
public continues to pay for food at famine
prices with supplies in sight far beyond any of
late experience. 1t is not so much question
of what is needed as Of how to do it, but the
puzzle is made the denser by. the proceedings
at Washington.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
Public and Parochial Schools.

Much of the discussion of the public or
parochial school question at the moment rests
on a misconception of their relation to the
state and misapprehension of their relation
one to the other. The people of Nebraska,
in common with all patriotic citizens, are de-
termined that the first obligation of the schools
is to teach children to become good Americans.
They do not intend to risk renewal OF con-
ditons that prevailed before the war. To avoid
this it is proposed to safeguard the source of
instruction, by providing for such supervision
or oversight of the schools as is necessary to
make certain that nothing is taught which
might directly or indirectly pervert Ameri-
canism.
Many parents desire that their children be
given religious as we'll as secular instruction.
Some are Of the opinion that this can be carried
on simultaneously. Nebraska makes no dis
tincton in religions but permits the freest prac-
tice of any Denominatonal schools of many
kinds thrive here, and parochial schools of va
rious sects are numerous.
No sound objection can be made to these as
such. 1t is unfortunate that in not few in
stances schools were found that had departed
from their primary purposes, and in which dan
gerous doctrines were taught Such practices,
we are told have been corrected. 1t is plain
the people of Nebraska will never submit to
their being resumed.
Needed regulation of the schools should not
be undertaken in spirit of hysteria or bigotry.
1t is a political and not religious question.
The present legislature is made up of men of
vision sufficiently broad, of tolerant under
standing and sympathetic interest in the
schools to justify confidence in their approach
to the needed solution.
Vehement defamation on either side of the
question is not likely to sway the final judg-
ment Of the lawmakers, who will act for the
good OF the state, and not with view of aiding
or hampering one or another of the sects.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
Woes of the Paris Tradesmen.

Accustomed to the presence of visitors whose
wealth does not ask the price, Paris shopkeep-
ers are disappointed by the crowds attending
the peace conference. Four years OIL. stagnation
in all lines has whetted their taste for the we'll
lined purse and they are tiptoe in eagerness to
pounee upon the foreign bank roll and reduce
its dimensions after the fashion they know SO
well. They find hotels filled and streets
thronged with government employees, whose ex-
pense accounts are carefully and in some cases
parsimoniously regulated Instead of the ex-
pected munitions profteers the hotels entertain
stenographers, clerks and copyists. These may
long for, but will not purchase the wonderful
creations that await buyers. It is all they can
do to get enough to eat Soldiers and news
paper correspondents, who fringe the body of
peacenlakers, long ago learned the value Of
money by the simple process of earning it, and
they are not of the class that creates commo-
ton among dressmakers or similar enterprises.
1t is not poverty-sticken lot that Paris is en-
tertaining, but neither is it gathering of spend
thrifts. From the highest to the lowest they
are there on business, and are attending to their
own affairs Meantime, they occupy hotel rooms
and feed at cafes where other customers might
be more welcome, and the thrifty citizens of the
center of fashion and frivolity will speed them
on their way with some enthusiasm as they turn
to welcome the guests who come with ampler
purses on whose strings the knots are lax.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
OUR HEROES.

While shells were exploding, while heavens
were weeping,
Undaunted they followed our flag "Ovsr
there -
And ever defiant kept sweeping and sweep
10 ing
The foe to his doom in retreat through
the glare.
And then in the havoc Of mad desperation,
Our heroes, determined and fearless and
brave,
Swept on through the fight with renewed
conservation
gave. H.
Nor can we forget the heroic devotion
OF those who have died for humanity's
Who fell in the thick of the battles COM
And slumber in peace for the brave and
the free.
Our heroes have won in the battles con-
fusion;
The world shall give homage to deeds OF
the brave;
The Star spangled Banner, in freedoms
diffusion,
with honor and glory in triumph shall
wave
Americas laurels in splendor are cleaning
Far out Ger the seas and Ger bound
less, domain;
The folds of Old Glory are spread and are
streaming
To welcome our boys to their homeland
H. NJ. HoPEwELL.
Tekamah, Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.

Minneapolis Tribune: Columbia
to John Barleycorn-Here's your hat,
John; what's your hurry?
Baltimore American: Serious riot
ing marked the first German cleo
tons. They seem to be getting the
idea Of practical politics soon over
there.
Philadelphia Ledger: By provid-
ing for a simpEfed form of census
inquiry, the senate does its best to
diminish the number Of foolish
questions.
Kansas City Star: The fact that
Germany expects to get her colonies
back seems to show that one of the
serious injuries Germany received in
the war must have been to her head.
Washington Post: Americans who
are afraid that this country will con-
tribute more than its share to feed
ing the starving people of Europe
should look at the Belgian relief fig
ures. Americans made nearly as
much out of Belgium as they con-
tributed,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
lie 9oesH2
&6Sr8aW
Abont PnrochiaI schooIs.

Omaha, Jan. 27.-To the Editor
OF The Bee: In Mondays Bee
report of a sermon delivered by
Rev. A. A. DeLarme, Baptist min
| lister of this city, was given in which
| he stated six reasons why the bill
| introduced in the legislature to do
away with private and parochial
schools of this state should pass.
The main reasons given by him
have been stated and restated many
times, and as long as / can remem-
| Der have Just as often been refuted
/ and proven groundless. l have at
| tended both public and paroehial
| schools, and have children who have
attended both, and, after close con-
tact and associations with both
priests and parochial schools fon
more than I40 years, have never
known any of the ehargest made by
Rev. DeLarme to exist
Now, as to the part of some teach
ing being done in a foreign tongue.
While this is equally true of public
schools. but as is we'll known, that
wherever INDUCED in it is only a
small part Of the work, and we can
depend on the lessons of the late
war and public sentiment to make
the proper and necessary correction
in both parochial and public schools
in this regard, and a law will not be
necessary for that purpose.
AS to the patriotism of the paroch-
ial schools, they demonstrated
clearly in their war work that they
were second to none, as they have
also proven in efficiency in every
contest entered into with the public
schools
Now. I will give six good and suf-
not become law:
1. The bill is un-American.
2. It is unconstitutional.
8. There is and can be no good
nor reasonable excuse given for its
passage.
a. There is no public demand for
it by anyone interested sincerely in
the good of the children or the good
of the state.
5. 1t injects religion into the poll
tics of our state, which has been
bad for our state and our policies
whenever done.
g. 1t would attempt to deprive
parents of the state of Nebraska of
their God-giVen rights without good
or just cause.
Each of the above reasons could
be established in a court Of justice
by competent and legal evidence.
I can't understand how loyal and
true Americans can sit silent while
the sacred institutions of our gov
eminent are bombarded and an at
tempt is being made to tear up and
burn the constitution Of our coun-
try. ]. e. r.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
g. kz2zhzzs folks Co7mer 2

man He stood beside an airplane
close to the well. Around him were
clustered the children. Their hands
We're outstretched to him and he was
| giving them food from a huge sack.
The man had white hair and long
white beard. Somehow he looked
! familiar.
As she studied him the man passed
ont his last loaf of bread to the lasl
little eager hand stretched toward
him, and his face lit up with a beau
tiful, jolly smile He waved his hand
to the children and started TO put
on his hat and coat.
Then in a flash Peggy knew who II
was, 1t was Santa Claus himself.
She hadn't known him at once be-
| cause never before, not even in a
picture, had she seen him without
his fur hat and coat.
Santa Claus seated himself in the
| airplane and scared merrily away
There came a remarkable change
in the vision. The warm land faded
away and in its place was a country
buried in the SHOWS Of winter. II
was a country of ruins, but there
were children there, too-hungry
children streaming into a wrecked
school building. Within the school
they seated themselves at tables and
Santa Claus hustled in with a fresh
sack of food and great pail of
soup"
Look" cried Peggy to Billy Bel
gium.
ooh. OH" cried Billy jumping up
and down. "Belgiuml My school,
room. See my name on that old
desk, And my old comrades, but,
oh, So many are missing"
Peggy turned to the wondering
reindeer.
That's where Santa Claus is. He
is feeding the hungry children of the
war lands"
"Oh why didn't we think of that 2"
cried the reindeer. shaking their
bells in q loud peal: I'VE might
have known, 1t is just like him"
Look in here!" said Billy Belgium
to Prancer.
Gracious! He's just as jolly as
ever, but not so fat" cried Prancer.
All the other RENDERS took look,
and every one cried out: Gracious!
Isn't he awfully thinw
"Why didn't you ever look in these
glasses before?" asked Billy.
Because we are not wonderful
detectives like you" cried the REIN
deer.
at really was clever Of you, Billy"
added Peggy. st..
"But how are we going to get
Santa Claus back here for his Christ
mas work." asked Prancer
eve can't take him from those
hungry children" protested Billy.
maybe, if we could talk to him
he could tell us what to do for the
toy-hungry little ones of America"
suggested Peggy.
That's so. Hail, wise Princess
Peggy" cried the reindeer. 'But
how are you going to talk to him?'
Peggy and Billy Belgium looked at
each other. They couldn't answer
that, Peggy's eyes. wandering around
the room, came to rest upon the
great horn through which Santa
Claus heard the cries Of the bad chill
dren.
IF we could turn that horn
around and shout at Santa Claus"
she unused.
That's easy" cried Prancer. and
in a trice the horn was turned inside
out.
Now everybody shout" Peggy or
dered.
Santa Claus, come home, come
home" shouted the reindeer, iang-
ling their bells loudly.
"Hurrah! Hurrah! He has heard
you! He is coming!" shrieked Billy
Belgium, looking into the All-Seeing
glasses.
Tomorrow will be told how Santa
Claus comes home.)
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
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Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29

Mr.. Burleson, with charming frankness, says
he took over the wires to save them. A little
while ago he argued it was as war measure. The
facts will come out some day, and will probably
be found that the postmaster general made the
grab because he thought the grabbing was good
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
Both Individualism and Socialism.

Omaha, Jan. 27.-To the Editor
of The Bee: A correspondent to a
local paper, who is not aware that
socialism intends to socialize only
property that is public in it's proper
function, is afraid that private prop
erty and private rights would be in
vaded. After drawing frightful
picture of socialism controlling the
amount of candy the citizen shall
consume, following a dramatic sus-
pense so silent that we can hear a
gum drop, he inquiries:
"Shall we embrace as our political
faith of the future, democracy or So
cialism ?"
My answer to that question is: 1t
will be both individualism and So
cialism, if we know enough to attend
to our own business. 1t will be in
dividualism in all matters of just
personal liberty, and socialism in all
matters of just common interest.
Most of us have not learned to dis
tinguish clearly between public and
private property; some of us (com-
munists) want only public property,
probably on the theory that there is
no such thing as a private ANIMAL
and some of us (capitalists) appear
to see only private property, as
though they were aborigines, dig
ging everything they consume out of
the earth by themselves.
knowledge of civil government
has never been thoroughly collected
and classified AS President Wilson
stated in a recent Paris speech, poll
tics, and especially it's economic di-
vision, is still not scientifically de-
veloped. The reason for this may
lie in the influence of the worlds
kings and profiteers, on many of
the molders of popular education.
However, the development Of true
political ideas and ideals is public
work in which we all have a private
interest, and the humblest Of us
should add our bit TO the drive, re-
CARELESS of the Encouragement from
either autocratic leaders or back
number followers.
4 WILLIS HUDSPETH.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29

One hundred millions set aside to feed the
starving people Of the famine stricken regions
Of Europe and Asia sounds like lot of money,
but it is less than dollar apiece for those who
are in direst want
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29

foreign to Peggy. Yet in pictures,
surely, she had seen just such chill
dren.
'Who are they?" she asked Billy
Belgium.
"Armenians! Starving Armenians!
Cruel sufferers from the war;" he
answered. DO you see the man
near the airplane?"
Looking again, Peggy did see a
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-29
CHAPTER III.
Peggy Sees Santa Claus,

n EGGY jumped to see what Billy
Belgium had discovered in
- Santa Claus's All-Seeing
glasses. AS her eyes gazed into the
long tubes she gave a cry of wonder.
The vision she beheld was strange
and surprising. The glasses revealed
not Arctic snow and ice, but a warm
land of the east-a land of waving
trees, of sunbaked plains, of fruitful
valleys, of towering mountains.
In this land, gathered around a
well, were many children, hungry
looking. ragged, with long-suffering
marked on their faces. They were
brown Of skin and their cloths were