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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16
Watching Steps.

Congress is we'll advised in seeking
light from the best informed sources
on all questions on which it is expected
to legislate. Hearings are the order
of the day. Committees are proceed
ing with care. They want to feel that
they are right before drafting and
present ne measures.
This, of course. has always been
done. Hearings have always been a
feature of congressional procedure.
But the policy is especially impor,
tant now, since everything has been
more or less upset by the war.
Railroad men are soon to appear and
be Intercepted about land transpor
tation. That question has new in
terest and importance rs the result OF
government control and operation of
railroads for the first time. The ac-
ton taken was necessary, but has
proved very expensive. The amount
will be charged to the war. But we
may not have paid too much for our
experience if we can extract from II
with the aid of practical railroad men
q lesson about future railroad regula-
ton. The roads are to be returned
to their owners, but postwar govern
ment regulation will differ in some
things from pre-war regulation.
Tariff hearings are beginning. and
business observation-disclosures and dis
tributors alike-are invited to come
forward and give the ways and means
committee the benefit of their views.
Tariff revision this time will, first and
Hast. lie on more thorough and
searching scale than ever before. In
deed, the full scope of the revision
calls for time, and close noting as the
work progresses of what the European
nations are doing along the same lines.
AS we are to trade with them and
they with US, our rates and schedules
UtuSt tdhc lutO dCCOuuI thCii MAJ me-
as we'll as our own.
In many other matters Congress will
need. and will seek, all information
obtainable from sources entitled to be
heard. We are,entering on a new era
economical, political and social. In a
large sense we are living in a new
world, as the result of the recent I'M
paralleled CONFUSION, and must study
it closely in order to find and fully i'm
prove our place in it. That place
should be the leading place, and if
the opportunity is improved we shall
reach it.
In al things great deal depends on
the first step. If that is we'll and
wisely taken, other steps are taken
with less difficulty and more assur-
ance Reconstruction is a large order,
and the country has committed it to
the republican party. The first steps
taken, therefore. in filing the order
will count heavily, for or against, as
they are well or i'll taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

states. Had he qualified his state
ment by saying "decent peoples" and
proceeded to explain concisely in plain
words the repute in which Germany
has placed herself here and the road
she must travel to win back what she
has destroyed, he would have at last
performed high service to his coun-
try as an interpreter of American SEN
timent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

The Hungarian communists are ap.
parently conservatists to the extent of
desiring to preserve a situation which
may serve as the nucleus of a future
war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

No country is strongly ambitious to
have the ex-kaiser as a resident The
situation is necessarily a shock to a
person SO widely advertised as a super
man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

Bolshevism is so rapidly on the de-
cline that the Industrial Workers of
the World members may as we'll recon
cile themselves to the prospect of their
becoming actual workers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

The railroads have not so far dem
onstrated that government control is
Of any particular advantage to the
man who has invested his savings to
become a minority stakeholder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

A lack of coal is reported from so
many parts Of the globe that the fuel
shortage threatens to add itself to
the already numerous international
problems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

China is still searching the philoso-
plies of Confucius for some soothing
precept that will adequately apply to
the Shantung situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

American politics elings to certain
we'll recognized forms of procedure.
Predictions of new party are now
in order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

Secretary of State Lansing succeed
ed in transacting his portion of the
peace conference business by means
of one round trip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

In considering questions of sea con-
troll, England is not neglecting some
important experiments in air shipping.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

Whatever may happen, Senators
Hitchcock and Swanson are on record
as being in thorough agreement on
general principles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

The food situation has long been
one problem Of distribution" after
another.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16
Looking Upward.

Looking upward.
The airship gayly sails on high,
Beyond this earth so vexed,
And mortals wonder with a sigh
What's going to happen next.
It seeks q realm that seems to bring
A bliss beyond compare.
There is no charge for anything.
All is as free as air.
And yet, when roads are charted plain
Up yonder in the blue,
Will profiteering rise again
Our sorrows to renewf
Will there be an aerial host
To rival earthly worldly crowds,
With landlords hurrying to post
*Foz Rent" signs on the elolds,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Consistent.

Consistent.
care you in favor Of daylight saw
ing"
"Yep," answered Farmer Corntossel
'1'm so much in favor of it that Pm
against wasting any more time argu-
ing about it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16
Another Broken Home.

Another Broken Home.
"What's this" inquired the man
with q fastidious look.
Something 1 fixed up myself" an
swered his wife. otis liberty cab
bage.'"
"'Oh, liberty! What crimes are
committed in thy namev"
"De tiredest business man I ever
saw" said Uncle Eben, 'is one dat
tried to go to de races, play golf an
take in music show, all in de same
day"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16

I wonder why my woes should be
So very serious to me,
While such as other people bear
Seem mostly trifles, light as air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16
Proceeding With Caution.

"There are few things you ought
to explain in your next speech"
IT know it," replied Senator Sor-
ghum. "But it'll take time"
"Why the delayf"
Owe got to wait for somebody to
explain 'em to me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16
Damask
Tablecloths and
Napkins

knowing exactly what it
will cost us to replace any
Tablecloths and Napkins
we have for sale, and with
an absolutely firm belief
that all linen prices will be
higher rather than lower,
we suggest that you look
over your wants.
One of the directors of a
large Belfast factory re-
Gently made a tour of our
largest cities and at the end
made this significant state
ment:
THAT in view of the
prices he was compelled
to ask. he was astonish-
ed at the low prices goods
were being sold for in
America"
Today Tablecloths and
Napkins are lower in price
proportionately than any
other articles made of fax.
Linen Section, Second floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16
White and Colored
Lingerie Blouses for the Miss

Bouses exclusively designed for developing figures and
and trimmed to look the most becoming and youthful
White Lingerie Blouses Misses including white
with tucked fronts and white dmty handkerchief collars and
cuffs; finer hestitched models of organdie tailored styles
of dmity and voes dainty with tiny ucks and pleatngs
$3.50 S3S5.
Colored Organize Bouses for Misses, chiefly blue
and often with Buster Brown collar of contrast
tea and matching cuffs style with tucked 'front.' another
sipover model closing in MILDLY fashion and showing
combination with white organde; others with roll COL
lars and cuffs, plain enhanced with tucks $zs to $45.
Section.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-16
THEODORE w. MOVES. Editor
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Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
Salvation Army Work
Exemphfies Practical
Religion, Says Leader

New York, Feb. ls.-The story Of
the Salvation Arny's overseas huts,
which have no closing hours" was
told here today by Miss Evangeline
Booth, commander of the organiza-
non in America, who termed the
baking Of doughnuts and apple pies
for "doughboys" at the front an
example of practical religion.
The Salvation Army workers went
to France early in the war, she said,
with no guarantees but their ex-
penses and these made possible only
through loans from banks. The FIRST
was for S25,000, the second for
100000, flor our credit is good"
the commander asserted, adding that
the quality rather than the quantity
Of the work won the generous APP
prec:ation" Of the American people
and prompted the inclusion Of the
organization among the benehciaries
of the United War work campaign.
Service in the cold Flanders
fields" was nothing to an army
accustomed to hardship" Miss
Booth declared, adding that even
under fire "our workers did not tail. .
She quoted statements by Marshal
Foch and General Pershing, COM
mending the efficiency OF the Saliva
tionists.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
Battle Death Rate for
Expeditionary Forces
Is 81 Per Thousand

Washington, Feb. l5.-Battle
death rates in the American army
during the great war exceeded the
death rates from disease, General
March announced today in making
public statistics prepared by the
general staff. In past wars disease
killed many more men than lost
their lives under fire.
The battle death rate for the en-
tire American army in this war was
20 per thousand per year. In the
expeditionary forces it was 81 per
thousand per year. The disease
death rate was II per thousand per
year in the expeditionary forces and
is in the army at home.
Among the American forces, the
table showed, the battle death rate
was only half that Of the British eX-
peditionary forces, which was given
as ITO per thousand per year.
General March said that but for
the influenza epidemic, the disease
rate would have been cut in half.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16

experts ara members Of the boards
Of health, as we'll as by alienists, and
some Of them will have TO serve life
sentences for the crime Of being bad
eggs, evoluted from bad proto-
plasms."
Napoleon and Shakespeare Morons.
But the moron must gol Napol-
con was a moronl Shakespeare was
a moronl All great men whose
mentality approached the border
line were moronsl
II is within the range of possibil-
ity to iegislate the race to physical
fitness and respectable mentality
according to those behind the pro-
gram of legislation which is aimed
at the moron, and the Nebraska leg
islature is confronted with the task
of passing laws along this line,
II may be true that the members
Of the Nebraska legislature do not
know what moron is, but that they
will legislate against him, all the
same, is a safe bet
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
Anybody Can Attend
Pransmississippi Meet,
SAYS c. c. George

u I. George, chairman of the
Transmississippi Readiustment con-
gress in Omaha, February Is to 20.
announces that hundreds OF inquiries
are being received from business
men in the % states west of the
Mississippi as to requirements for
participating in the congress.
"We invite every business man,
farmer, or professional man west of
the Mississippi river to attend this
congress" says Mr.. George. They
owe it to themselves, their commun-
ity and the great west to attend if
possible.
The Transmississippi Readjust-
ment congress offers an opportunity
such as has never before been pre-
sented for all interests in the west
to join hands in formulating a con-
structive program and creating the
machinery to carry it out at Wash
ington and elsewhere.
The streets Of Omaha will be
especially lighted for the visitors to
the congress.
The Nebraska legislature will be
asked to adjourn and attend the
congress in body.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
Germans Insinuate
Occupation Was Not
Due to Superiority

Amsterdam, Feb. 15.-A note in
sinuating that the occupation Of
German territory was not due to
military superiority, according to
the Cologne Zeitung. was handed in
recently to the allied armistice COM
mission by the German delegates.
A French general, acting under in
structions from Marshal Foch, the
newspaper adds. refused to make an
answer to the note and declared it
would be examined only if it was
presented in more courteous form
General Won Hammerstein, the lead
ing German military delegate, de-
ferred a declaration in the matter
until the receipt of instructions from
the German government.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
Japan's Greatest Actress
Takes Own Life in Toxic

Toxic, Feb. 15.--A sensation was
created here when it became known
that Sumako, who had been regard
ed as Japan's greatest actress, COM
mitted suicide. The day and hour
of her death marked exactly
two months from the death
of Prof. Shimamuna of Wa
desa university. who had
given up all-his wife, children.
friends, and his chair in the uni-
versity-for love of the brilliant
actress.
Sumako had appeared as usual the
night before at the Yurakuza the
alter. 1t is said she hanged herself
with a scarlet silk sash,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
MAY PICK GRAF
TO Be MEMBER OF
CONTROL BOARD
HoIoomb Likely to Be Ap-
pointed Legal Advisor, PO-
sition to Be Created in
Bill. to Be introduced.
From . STAFF Correspondent.

Lincoln, Feb. 15.-(special.l y
Neither L. F. Langhorst, former
chairman of the democratic state
committee, nor Henry Gerdes,
present commissioner, whose term
expires next July, will be appointed
to the board Of control as the DEM
oeratic member of that body to sue
coed Ex-Governor Silas A. Holcomb,
who rendered his resignation. Gov
ernor McKelvie has not included
Gerdes in the list of men mentioned
to members of the state senate with
whom he conferred, and the sena-
tors themselves have eliminated
Langhorst from consideration.
Holcomb is to be taken care of
by appointment as legal advisor or
agent to the board, it is now under
stood. A bill will be introduced in
the legislature within few days, it
was said, making provision for this
Office. The salary will be between
$500 and $4,000 per year, it is I'M
derstood
The new man will come from the
Third congressional district, shrewd
political observers believe. Charles
Graf of Bancroft, a prominent Ne
braska farmer and pioneer, is count
ed upon as standing a good chance.
Graf, it is pointed out, belongs to
that faction Of the democratic party
which bolted Governor Neville and
aided Governor McKelvie in his
campaign. Langhorst. also bolted
the democratic candidate for gov
ernor.
Mr.. Graf was one of the three
men appointed to the board of con-
troll BY Governor Morehead in 1918,
but the state senate was politically
hostile to the governor and the
nomination was rejected. In Crafts
selection the governor would also
be recognizing the rural interests.
The names of two democratic
members of the legislature have also
been mentioned in connection with
the place. Governor McKelvie said
that he had presented the names of
Theodore Osterman, democratic
floor leader in the house, and w. F.
Crozier of Polk county, along with
L. F. Langhorst, to the senate MEM
bers with whom he conferred.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16

who are at the foundation Of this
new propaganda and its program
Of legislation, The next step will
be to eradicate from the blood of the
people the dangerous germs of So
cial diseases, all of which produce
bad protoplasm," and in the course
Of few decades produce a race Of
super-men and women, free Of
moronic tendencies.
Along this line laws have been in
PRODUCED in the legislature providing
for the physical examination OF indi-
viduals of both sexes affected with
sex diseases and providing for their
treatment or isolation.
More stringent laws are demanded
for the suppression of the scarlet
woman.
To deal with high grade defec-
tives, the most dangerous OF which
are women, a bill has been intro
duced in the lower house calling for
an appropriation OF 100000 for the
establishment of a custodial home
for females. The women who will
be segregated therein are the women
of the city streets and the small
town brothels. They will be treated
until physically we'll and then turned
loose. = ...
Another bill calls for an appropri-
alton of $l50,000 for the creation Of
a eustodial home for men. Into this
will be gathered the male morons
OF unfortunate estate. the petty Of
tenders who habitually fracture the
laws and those guilty of crimes be-
low felonies, They will be held for
a time either in the hope of curing
them physically or giving them
some mental impetus toward good.
Movie" Censorship Laws.
Laws which deal with mental n.y.
giene are the proposed moving pic
ture censorship law the law ere
ating the state board of child well
fare and the law permitting the es-
tablishment OF welfare boards in
communities Of the state outside of
Lincoln; also the law directing the
teaching of sex hygiene.
There are thousands of detectives
in the state, thousands of morons,
the new criminals, who do nothing
violently criminal, but who are Of
tensive to the experimenters in the
new realm of mental and social hy-
giene-those who are trying to de-
velop super-race by following the
principles Of the Mendelian laws,
and who will experiment on the
children of the poor and on the un-
fortunate derelicts who make up the
fiotsam and ietsam of Nebraska life,
When the new laws are amplihed,
elaborated and are working as the
promoters would have them, the new
will be filled with
class of criminals de jure new to the
state, They will be arrested, tried,
convicted and sentenced by social
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
STATE EMBARKS
ON POLICY TO
CHECK MORONS
Continued From PaEe onel

through its propagandists an effort
is being made to introduce them in
every state Of the union so that
they will become standard measures.
Their purpose is TO create a STU
per-raee of men and women, free
Of the physical and mental ills that
affiict the race today.
The thing that they seek to wipe
out is called a moron"
Salamander or Spanish Town.
Ask the average member of the
Nebraska legislature, upper or low
err branch of the assembly, what a
moron is and he will not be able to
tell you. II you insist on the infor-
nation and he goes to the diction-
airy he will tell you the definition
of the word is an animal of the
salamander type, or it is the name
of town in Spain.
He will be wrong. r-..
Yet the penitentiaries are filled
with morons and, according to those
who are striving to produce super
race, there are morons in the Ne
braska legislature, which will soon
be called upon to vote appropria-
tons for two state prisons for the
incarceration and treatment of NOR
ons and which, by the operation of
the new laws, will be eventually
filled with morons.
In order to ascertain the meaning
of the word moron as it applied in
its relation to mental and sex by
giene, we must go back to the Latin,
where so many of our perplexing
words come from. In Latin a moron
is a fool.
There are different grades of NOR
ons, the idiot who knows nothing
whatever and is as helpless as
new born baby is the lowest grade.
The next step up is the inbecile,
who has the ability to feed HIM
self and find his way about, and
then the real morons--the persons
who range from simpletons to the
subnormal or border line cases.
Innocent as he is of the knowl-
edge of mental hygiene and the ele-
ments that 60 to make up the NOR
on, the average member of the Ne
braska legislature is starting out to
open up a new scheme of law with
all the confidence he has in passing
a law relating to dog taxes. 1t does
not flaze him at bit what the pur-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16
American Regiment
Feted in Genoa on Its
Arrival From Front

Genoa, Italy, Feb. l5.-The Three
Hundred and Thirty-seeond regi-
ment Of the United States infantry
arrived here from the Italian front
yesterday and was enthusiastically
welcomed.
The streets through which they
passed were decked with flowers
and crowded with cheering throngs,
who threw bouquets to the passing
troups, Italian troops, which lined
the streets, presented arms as the
Americans marched by.
By order of the military COM
mander in Genoa the American soil
diers will be entertained as guests
at the Hotel Miramare until they
sail for New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-16

in the United States, the president
is already planning to begin his re-
turn journey to France Immediately
after the adjournment Of congress.
1t is expected that he will select q
successor to Thomas w. Gregory
in the attorney generalship OF the
United States, before the ship
reaches home waters.
Wallace Close Friend Of Wilson.
Washington, Feb. is-The wire
less dispatch tonight from the
George Washington was the first
public intimation that Hugh Wallace
had been selected by President VIII
son as ambassador to France,
Mr.. Wallace, who spends much of
his time here, is a close friend OF
President Wilson and often has par
ticipated in confidential conferences
at the White House. Soon after
this country entered the war he was
sent to London by the president on
a personal mission aud it is known
that the president has the utmost
confidence in his judgment and abil-
ity in handling important and deli
cate matters.
Except as a member OF the demo-
cratic national committee and an ae-
tive worker in presidential cam
paigns, Mr.. Wallace has not taken
an active hand in POLITICS. The only
public office lie ever held was re-
ceiver OF public moneys for Utah
by appointment Of President Cleve-
land, 1850. He was a delegate
at large from the state OF Washing
ton to the convention which nomi-
mated President Wilson and has
since been one of the presidents
most ardent supporters.
Mr. Wallace, a native of Lexing-
ton, Mo-, celebrated his s6th BIRTH
day this week. His wife is daugh-
ter of the late Chief Justice Melville
w. Fuller of the supreme court and
for a number Of years they have
maintained homes here and in Ia
coma, Wash.