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Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
DOING AWAY WITH CONGRESS.

Some extraordinary things are happening at
Washington. Congress is supposed to be en-
acting laws after due elaboration, but instead
it is carrying out the presidents orders. For
example, there is the Victory loan bill. 1t is
the duty of congress to determine the amount
of the loan, the interest rate and other details,
but all these powers are being turned over by
the law makers to the secretary of the treasury.
He will be given wider discretion than ever
was granted an administrative or ministerial
officer, because the president has demanded it.
This is only one of the singular actions that
characterize the close of the Sixty-ffth con-
gress as the most remarkable exhibition of par
tisan politics ever exhibited in Washington.
If the Sixty-sixth congress were to be con-
trolled by the presidents party, the call for
the extra session probably would have been out
long ago. AT any rate, the interim would not
exceed few days in length, and the new con-
gress would soon be grinding away at the tasks
the expiring body has so sadly neglected. That
is why the democrats are so energetically play
ing politics when they should be attending to
public business.
Mr. Wilson has dealt with the present con-
gress from the beginning as a submissive and
docile body, sending over orders for legisla-
ton, and receiving laws in return. He encom-
passed the defeat as far as possible of demo-
Gratis who objected to his domination, and
sought to influence the general result by his
astonishing personal appeal to the people, which
proved boomerang. Now he is insisting that
his will be done in the closing hours, and finds
his party eager to comply, regardless of cost
to the country.
The republicans have prudently determined
not to flibuster against the program, even
though it might have been patriotic course to
force an extra session. Full responsibility for
the blunder the Uniformed and indigestible legis-
lation now going through, must be accepted by
the president and his party, and the orgy of ex-
travagance, waste and Encouragement will end
as it begun with the Sixty-hfth congress, which
abjectly surrendered control of law making to
the White House.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
Outlook for Wheat Prices.

Sir lanes Wilson of Edinburgh, former
British commissioner to the international Lnsti-
tute for Agriculture at Rome, gives his opinion
that English wheat will sell at 40 shillings per
quarter by August, which is equivalent to Sl.lO
a bushel. He estimates that the wheat import
ing countries of the world will require but
100000 tons during the year ending with
Tuly. 1919, as against prewar average OF H.
100000 tons. To provide this he finds an ex-
portable surplus in the producing countries OF
24,700,O0O tons, available by the LIST OF August
next. Furthermore, as all wheat producing
countries are making great efforts to increase
sowings, the worlds wheat harvest in 1919 will
be larger than the worlds consumption for
19lo-20, with consequent increase in the carry
over of exportable surplus With the military
situation cleared up and the law of supply
and demand again in control, he feels confidence
in his putting the August price OF wheat in
British markets at not above the figure quoted
This is Of great interest in America, of course
for the domestic price of wheat has always de-
pended on the world quotation. While the gov
eminent has guaranteed $2.26 to the farmer for
the 1919 crop, the consumer ought to buy flour
at something near the price that prevailed in
1914. and the raisers be made whole through
the federal bounty. Another season should see
a better adjustment all the way around.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
MOVIE CENSORSHIP.

Hastings Tribune: There is about
as much excuse for the proposed bill
as there would be in a bill COM
polling every minister in Nebraska
t. submit his sermon to a board of
eensors.
Fairbury News: One of the follies
before the Nebraska legislature is n
bill to create another high salaried
board. This time it is a board of
censors for all movie reels, and the
proposed law provides that they
must have the 20. X" of this board
before they are exhibited in the
state. Such a law, if passed would
not only work great hardship and
loss upon the men who have their
money invested in the business, but
it would also result in depreciating
very materially the quality of pic
lures shown.
Norfolk Press: Some of the old
women-male and female-want
the movies censored. And there IS
not a city in Nebraska where the
pictures are more car efully censored
and by the movie houses them
selves. The old man has never seen
a "smutty" picture as mentioned at
the women's mass meeting Monday
in any Of the Norfolk picture houses
and we attend pretty regularly, too.
Occasionally there is a picture too
advanced for children, but when
one of these pictures Is shown the
parents should keep their children
aWay
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

About the only consoling feature to be
found in the scandal affecting the Third Naval
district is the fact that nobody connected with
the regular establishment has been implicated.
1t remains nonetheless, most miserable bust
ness intensely humiliatng to the navy and to
the whole country, for we have all liked to
think, and nearly all of us have thought, that
the wave of ardent patriotism that swept over
the country when the United States entered the
war had raised everybody except the members
of the irredeemably criminal class above the
possibility of participation in such peculiarly
sordid profiteering as has been revealed.
The one way to restore public confidence is
to have the investigation now in progress alb
solutely thorough and to have punishment ac-
cording to their deserts imposed on all who
have had any part in the sale of appointments,
safe positions and safe discharges.
Among the guilty, too, should be reckoned
not less those who paid the brides than those
who took them. In every case except
the few carried through for the sake of getting
evidence, the exploitation was that of scoundrels
by scoundreds, and the exploited should have
as little of either sympathy or immunity as the
exploiters. They both are birds of a feather,
and if there had been no towards and slackers
willing to buy exemption from the performance
of duty, there would have been no selling of that
exemption.
A fact that attracts attention at a time when
the severity shown by courts-martial to petty
offenders has shocked the public, the one sem
tence as yet imposed by a court-martal in this
matter was at once absurdly and outrageousy
lenient until sent back for revision by the sec
rotary of the navy. That fact deserves investi-
cation as much as, perhaps more than, do the
corruptions with which it was connected.-New
Wor
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
"AMnt Dalin."

aunt Della" Torrey, who is dead at the
age OF 90, had no such public career as DR..
Mary Walker, who preceded her to the beyond
few days, at the age of 81. One of our hui
morists called DR.. Walker Americas foremost
self-made man." Aunt Della was satisfied with
skirts. She never boosted that she kept Lin
coin from removing Grant" or that she had a
marriage proposal from President Arthur. She
had been keenly interested in public affairs, es-
pecialy after her sister, Louisa Maria, was mar
ried to Judge Alphonso Taft, secretary of war
and attorney general in Grants cabinet and la
ter minister to Austria and to Russia. But
she did not thrust herself into prominence.
Prominence was thrust upon her, owing to the
light that beats upon a president. 1t
was impossible to conceal the visits of Presi-
dent Taft to his aunt or Aunt Delia's visits to
him, II was only when some imaginative cor
respondent ascribed these visits to the presl-
dents fondness for Aunt Delia's apple pies that
she Indignantly broke her silence. She said
that boy" had not eaten one Of her apple pies
in forty years That was not why he visited
her and wrote her long letters, even when bur-
dened with all the cares of the presidency She
intended this as a defense of that boy" She
probably felt the same way toward the two
other boys, Henry, the great lawyer, and Hor-
ace the educator, who was at her side when the
end came. We can readily imagine her affec-
ton for Helen, the grandniece, who is dean Of
Bryn Mawr, and Charley her granddaughter in
France.
But Aunt Delias love Of her kinfolks did
not spring from the fact of their prominence.
The president was just that boy to her.
Louisa Maria's boy. She thought it shame
he was not reelected, but she was glad of if
when she discovered how happy he was as a
private citizen. 1t was the happiness and not
the honors of her "boys" that concerned her.
Without children or husband, Aunt Della did
not let her affections dry up. She poured them
out on her sisters children and was a source
Of strength and comfort to them. There are
many such delightful women, known only to
small circles whose influence on the lives Of
their kinfo1ks and intimate acquaintance is
beyond all power to reckon.-St Louis Globe
Democrat
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
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creatures, about as tall as Billy.
Some were fat and some were thin.
All were CARRIED in rainhow-like COLI
ors and wore jester caps and long,
pointed shoes.
But while their bodies and clothes
were much alike there was sharp
~ marked difference in their faces.
Half of them were agreeable look
ing-the other half were mean and
unpleasant in their appearance. 1t
took but glance to see that the
sprites were divided into two clans,
the agreeable sprites In one and the
mean sprites in another.
"Ho, no. ho!" laughed the fat
sprite of the mean clan. THAT was
a dandy banana peel. 1t caught two
tumblers at one time, The boy was
funny, but the girl was funnier,"
HE, he. hew jeered a long, thin
sprite;
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To get a pail of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after"
Billy had begun to laugh at him
self as he picked himself up, but
now he doubled up his fists. He was
willing enough to be laughed at in
a friendly way, but was quick to re-
sent jeers. Besides, he wasn't going
to have the strangers poke fun at
Peggy.
~ don't like to be laughed at by
strangers in Just that way" he warn
ed the fat and thin sprites.
"Ho, no, no! We people Of Fun
land have known you a long time"
laughed the fat sprite, pointing at a
blue sash he wore across his breast
Then Billy and Peggy noticed that
all the sprites wore sashes, the mean
ones having blue sashes and the
others wearing rose color.
on the sashes were printed the
sprites' names. Among the mean
sprites were Joker, Mocker. Grin,
Howl, Smoker, JolIity, IIilarity and
Wit. Among the agreeable sprites
were Glad, Gay, Humor, Chuckle,
Mirth, Smile, Laugh and Tickle. The
fat sprite was Joker and the thin
sprite was Mocker With Wit, cold
eyed chap, they were the leaders of
the mean sprites. Peggy wondered
at a sad look in the faces Of the
agreeable sprites,
"Jilly looked silly when she fol-
lowed Billy" jeered Mocker.
That was too much for Billy. He
wouldn't let any one call Peggy |
names.
Take that back" he ordered.
"Billy would fight for Jilly," jeer-
ed Mocker.
Out flashed Bil1y's fist straight at |
Mocker's nose with all the force Of
Billy's body behind it, The fist hit |
the nose-and went right through
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
' UIy q UIy 4VUIaI
CHARLES C. GEORGE, Chairman
value of Toreipn Tongues.

Omaha, Feb. 26.-To the Editor Of
The Bee: The attitude of a large
number who are so ardently advo-
eating the abolition of foreign Ian
guages from the schools reminds me
Of one of Mark Twain's characters
who said to his son: II can't read
nur write, yer mother couldn't read
nur write fore she died, and / amt
going to let you know more'n we
do"
The national educational director
advocates the teaching of foreign
languages in the American schools.
1t is an absolute fact, demonstrated
by years of experience, that a person
cannot learn to speak a language
like a native" unless he either
learns that language in childhood or
resides in community where that
language is spoken almost exclusive
ly.
Imagine a condition where the
ideas of the chauvinists prevails.
Only one language would be under
stood by the next generation. If we
should have another war with for
eign power (non- English) we would
have no native-born citizen who
would understand the language Of
the enemy-who could speak it prop
erly and be useful in the intelligence
department of the army. We must
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
Commissions Power to Fig Rates.

The supreme court has passed on two points
in connection with the power of the State Rail-
way commission to fix the rate of fare to be
paid on street cars in Omaha and Lincoln.
Published accounts are not clear as to the exact
terms of the courts decision, but it seems that
war conditions are not sufficient excuse for the
increase proposed in Omaha. Neither has the
commission authority to compel the straining
of water out of stock as was undertaken in
connection with the Lincoln case. On one
point the City of Omaha loses. It was contended
that the company had no right TO earn on ex-
tensions paid for out of earnings. Money set
apart to cover depreciation when renvested in
plant properly is considered as spent for repairs;
if however, earnings carried over to surplus
are used to extend the service, the company
clearly has right to earn income on such
investment. The ruling of the court will no
doubt be closely studied, for it affects not only
the railway commission, but intimately touches
on the relations between Omaha and the street
railway company.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
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then either be in ignorance of enemy
movements or depend upon foreign
persons for our information; either
that or we would have by that time
created a special class of the chill
dren of parents who have been able
to send their children abroad for
their education, thus making a
broad and deep line of demarcation
between the children of the rich and
of the poor. If it is the desire Of
Americans to create either of these
conditions the attitude of those who
would Danish all foreign languages
from the schools can be understood,
otherwise dense and self-satisfed
ignorance is the only excuse.
If we want to meet the world in
competition and are willing to take
our chances in the rough and tum-
BILE Of international business then we
must train our children in foreign
languages and the younger we begin
the better. We do not have to laud
the country of the foreign language
we can teach American ideas in
Swedish, Spanish, French, Bohemian
or even in German.
Let us use a little common sense
at Lincoln and not make a laughing
stock of Nebraska.
II. II. CLAIBORNE.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS

Detroit Free Press: Germany,
evidently. still has to learn that the
threat is a mighty poor weapon.
Washington Post: Carter Glass
can count on the unbridled pa
triotism OF the people in pushing
the loan over the top II he will only
put up some enemy that they can
hit.
Minneapolis Tribune: One of the
nearest approaches to a certificate
of character for the proposed
league of nations we have yet
heard of is that the German press
doesn't like it.
New York World: The fact that
nine of the 10000 foreign-born
residents of the United States have
rot been naturalized or taken out
first papers does not mean that they
spurn citizenship. Most of them are
children or women naturalized by
action of fathers and husbands.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
How The Bee Helped.

Omaha, February 24.-To the
Editor of The Bee: On behalf of
the Omaha Chamber of Commerce,
under whose auspices the Trans
mississippi Readjustment congress
was held in Omaha, l want to thank
you for the cooperation and vaIu-
able assistance rendered by yourself
and your paper toward making the
meeting a success, and for the mem
bers of your staff placed by you at
the disposal Of the committee.
The delegates from the twenty
two states who attended the con-
vention went away feeling that they
had received real benefit from the
addresses delivered here. Some Of
the delegates are already planning
for meetings similar in character to
the Omaha meeting in their respec-
tive states, thereby clearly indicating
that they caught the spirit and pur-
pose of the Omaha congress.
Very truly yours,
CHARLES C. GEORGE, Chairman.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
Courts and the Common People.

Judge Martin J. Wade's address on the func-
ton of the courts is but "a continuation of the
subject he approached in his talk to the stu
dents of Creighton Law school some months
ago, intended to acquaint the popular mind with
the function of the courts, in relation to and
its necessity for social existence. The pity is
that the exposition should be required among
freemen, and further that it can not be given
to ALL
Whether law be defined as "a rule of action, :"
or by some one of several other explanations as
terse and as inclusive, the fact is that law is a
fundamental of orderly life. Courts are the ma
chinery whereby the law is applied; they have
been thoughtlessly or maliciously denounced as
agencies of oppression, OF corruption, or of
tyranny, but nevertheless they exist for the
purpose of securing right and justice between
man and man, and in the future this may extend
to nations
In our country, where every agent or officer
of the court, from Judge down to juror, is
chosen for his position from among the people
and by the people, the courts ought to be recog-
nized as entirely of the people. We make our
laws and enforce them ourselves, and the in
struments through which they are enforced are
of our own choice and selection. No power in
tervenes between the common people and
the courts in this country, therefore the relation
should be better understood, and mutual regard
so established should be permanent.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

hurt. Before Peggy could ask him
a question her own heels slipped on
the banana peel, she turned an I'M
expected somersault, and there she
was on the sidewalk rubbing her
head.
what bump!" Peggy also cried
and then she, too, added: Il see-I
see" stopping right there.
1t was enough to make anyone
halt in establishment. The bumps
had opened the eyes of Billy and
Peggy to hidden things, and they
had suddenly found themselves sur
rounded by a score of queer spirits
that had a moment before been in
visible.
The sprites were shadowy. misty
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

Secretary Redfeld may have difficulty in
explaining the real estate deal, but as the
amount was only few thousands, it will very
likely be overlooked. When the millions that
disappeared at Hog Island and in the airplane
program are considered matter of ony $751;
600 seems too small to fuss about.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03
I oDAY
The nav We Celebrate.

DR.. Hays Gsanter, dentist, born 1877.
Fir Ernest Cassel, the English tinancier, who
has recently donated $2,5OO0O0 for educational
purposes, born in Cologne 81 years ago.
Alexander Graham Bell, perfector Of the
telephone, born in Edinburgh, Scotland u years
ago. 49,.
Rt Rev. Thomas F. Lillis, Catholic bishop
of Kansas City, born at Lexington, Mo, 81
years ago.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
The Omaha Base Ball club is complete ex-
cept one pitcher. The players so far signed
are: Clark and Maggie, backstops; Proesser
and Willis, pitchers; Andrews Canovan, Cleve-
land, Campana, Layton, Strauss and Messitt
for in and out field.
The Omaha Mortgage company has been in
corporated by Thomas Brennan, Ernest Squires,
Henry c. Boynton, Max Meyer, Erastus A.
Benson, John A. Wakefield, Jacob Sims and
John G. Stone.
DR.. Z. Soman and bride have returned from
their wedding trip.
Mr. and Mrs Frank Muir entertained at
their home on Spencer street
Mr.. Alfred Marschner and family are back
from Europe.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

Billy" McAdoo undoubtedly comedies the
palm to Carter Glass as a real manager of the
Treasury. McAdoo used to go to congress for
permission to do things, but Glass goes to the
White House
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

CHAPTER /.
A Bump-and What Followed.
OILY BELGIUM was running
Il along the sidewalk when one
foot CHANGED to land upon a banana
peel. Up flew his heels and around
he whirled like a pinwheel. his head
coming down kersmaek upon upon
the pavement.
What bumpi" cried Billy, sitting
he saw he didn't say, but a look
came into his eyes that scared Peggy,
who had run up to find If he were
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

The $4,000 allowed Herr Hohenzollern on
his expense account may be an indication of the
rising tide of democracy in Germany, but over
here it looks life waste of money.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

No matter what the price fixed for hogs
today, the public will not get any relief until
the packers get rid of the millions of pounds of
pork now held in storage
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

Senator Simmons says the Victory loan
must be sold on business basis" which
means almost anything. If it is business as the
democratic congress has expounded the same,
the loan viii afford some rich picking
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

Many projects in Omaha are all ready to
slide down the ways, just as soon as the water
looks right No season ever promised more
than the present and the active start can not
be long DELAYED
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

More shiploads of soldiers are arriving every
day, but it does seem longer coming back than
it did going over.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

The capitol will be quiet resort for time
if Senator Sherman makes good on his threat
never to return there. But some other "stal-
wart" will be found in time TO take his place.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

IT, When the blow failed to stop,
Billy lost his balance, and pitched
through Mocker's body to the
ground. Astonished at this, he look
ed up to see Mocker, unhurt, stand
ing over him, and leering into his
face.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

Tomorrow marks the halfway point on Mr..
Wilson's second term, an amusing reminder
of one of the planks in the Baltimore platform
on which he was elected.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

Your wife has imaginary ailments"
"Um."
"I'll Just give her some imaginary medi-
cine"
'Um. What kind Of q bill are you going
to render in this case, Doc 7"-PhlladelphIa
Bulletin.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

IT'S she his first wifeY"
well. as he married her again after
dlyorcing her, she Is what you might call
his first wife once removed Boston
Transcript
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

Mrs. Flatbush-Well. IL you caught such
a big fish as you claim, why didn't you
bring It home?
Mr.. Flatbush-What was the use dear7
7 never could have got It in this flat-
Yonkeu Statesman.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-03

If Mr.. Wilson can only make the world be-
have as well as he does the democratic con-
gress, the peace job would be an easy one.