Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-15
JUDGE ESTELLE
SAYS War WAS
ENDED TOO SOON
Tells Pioneers Kaiser Should
+ Have Been Made to Sing
the "Star SpangIed
Banner"

bot come until the kaiser was COM
Il PEELED to sing the Star Spangled
Banner until he was ready to have
acknowledged that he liked it. In
4 my judgment the war should not
have ended until the Glars and
1 Stripes were floating over Berlin"
y That was one Of the things that
,Judge Lee Estelle told the Douglas
County Pioneers at their midsum-
n Sner picnic held in Miller park yes
terday afternoon.
Prospects of rain kept large
humber of the pioneers away from
txheir annual midsummer picnic, but
Il What the picnic lacked in numbers
was made up for in enthusiasm. On
account of the threatening aspect
Il Of the weather the sport and ath-
4 letic features were dispensed with
and Immediately after the picnic
dinner the speaking program was
1 taken up, with Andrew Treynor pre-
siding.
Subject Worn Threadbare.
Judge Estelle, a pioneer Of 1871
III his introductory remarks in
4 formed the pioneers that talking Of
the pioneers Of Omaha and Nebras-
: - was pretty we'll worn threadbare
h and that in his judgment it was
" time ito let the past bury the past"
4 He was loudly applauded and then
X he launched out on discussion of
n @Americanism," saying, that Il am
+ tor Americans who are 100 per cent
\ American.
''In order to be an American"
/ laid the judge, 1t is not necessary
\ that = man, or woman should have
been born in America. for right be-
/ fore me / can pick out a number of
4 persons, who, though of foreign
birth, are 100 per cent plus Ameri-
can in every sense that the word
implies.
These men to whom / refer
came to America from foreign
kinds, took the oath of allegiance,
and have ever since been good, red
! hooded Americans, and really they
afe entitled to more credit than we
\ who were born here and could not
help being Americans.
Melting Pot Of World.
1--WE have taken great pride in
Ealing the United States the melt
Ing pot Of the world, and ! am glad
that it is, but we must see to it
that il is not made the boarding
house of the world.
s'It IL our duty, as American ctr.
Sens, to denouncc those who are
9fainst our government by word or
ekt. ] will 60 farther and say that
my man, no matter what his stand
I'M may be, who IS traitor to the
United States. or who maligns its
institutions, or people, should be
lined up against stone wall and
4 FLIED so full OF lead that he would
rot be awakened by the blowing OF
xExsricl's trumpet
States any han who has desire
AZ becofne an American, but would
\ hot make any place here for the one
who carries the red flag or breaches
Eboishevikism. These fellows / would
take to New York, dump them in
tiie bay and to them say, swim TO
H."
The Judge scored the conscien-
tious -objectors, adding that the
"man who says that they are the
equal Of our boys who went to war,
u just an ordinary liar"
Original American.
Al. Thomas Sloan. Nebraskan,
who is temporarily living in Wash
Eineton. where he is practicing law,
was introduced as pioneer Ne
bYaskan." Mr.. Sloan said, II an,
NOT only a pioneer, but lay claii1
~ being one Of the original Amcri-
4cAns, IS well as to being one of the
pioneers among the Nebraskans."
Recounting some of his family
history, Mr.. Sloan asserted that his
grandmother, the daughter of a
white trader was born on the site
( 81 what is now the village of Cal
houn, ITO years ago. His geand
uncle on his fathers side and whose
Indian name, translated into
Englisn, was Noise, was one of tine
Omaha indians who signed the
treaty, ceding to the whites the ter
ritory now included within the
Boundaries Of Nebraska. Conclut-
iug, Mr.. Sloan said, Il am proud OF
yuy ancestry and my Americanisnl
aud am Of the opinion that they will
both measure up to the standard
III requirements"
There were couple Of homoroos
feeitations by Mrs. Evans aud
music by an orchestra. Following
lie speaking, the Pioneers spent
The balance of the afternoon, visit