Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1915, Page 5

Preparedness and Efficiency. The New Republic draws a very pertinent | Indictment against our great captains of indus- try, and one to which only a plea of gullty can | be entered. Many excuses may be offered in extenuation or palliation, but none can remove the onus of the charge. It s simply that ordi- nary prudence has not been exercised by the TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. o mann | Men at the heads of the great institutions of the pflmfl;:‘h per year. | country. For example, it was inevitable that L 460, E an increased demand for iron and steel would follow any resumption of enterprise, thus mak- ing pig iron a staple of which any surplus aceu- mulation would find ready use when the busi- ness of the country took an upturn. Instead of proceeding along this lime and providing a re- | serve supply against the time when it would be needed, the blast furnaces were shut down and men thrown out of work. What is true of the iron makers s also true of the rallroad men. Instead of taking advan- tage of the lull in business to make Improve- ments and provide facilities for the increased traffic, all work here ceased until such time as swelling business rendered imperative exten- and sions needed to handle the traffic. This charge s i ‘ can be continued through and against all branches of industry. It is not a pleasant pic- ture, but it is characteristic and it shows a lack of any element of preparedness or efficlency in THE OMAHA DAILY BEE| FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER, VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor. —— s e BEBR BUILDING, FARNAM AND SEVENTEENTH. e e, Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class raatter. mp Cireulation REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Onl A two- mps received in payment of small a&o- Sounts. Peraonal checks, except on Omaha and castern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2318 N street. Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—2 Little Buflding. ago-on Hearst Bulding ‘ork—Room 1106, 2% Fifth avenue. Bt. Louis—58 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—72% Fourteenth St., N. W. CORRESPONDENCPE communications nlnla‘ to news edle | ‘Address torlal matter to Omaha Bee, NOVEMBER CIRCULATION. 53,716 by . ¥ r?lmf:;.c&‘:fil’fiznm,'& Bee | the general management of American industry. Pul company, bLeing duly sworn, says tl the Events have awakened the people of the United States to a better realization of the ex- tent to which they have neglected those things ROBERT Notary Publie. which In themselves are fundamental and vitally F e | pecessary t0 a continuance of prosperity. With 1] Bubscribers leaving the city temporarily the new spirit aroused by the ambition to par- - should have The Hee malled to them. Ad- ticipate as an important, if not dominant, factor dress will be changed as often as requested. in the business of the world will probably come BT such readjustment of home affairs as will cor- Bessmrer ov rect the condition on which the New Republie 1,.0“".‘ & ‘2 Day bases its indictment. Preparedness should not halt at merely making ready the defense of the Selected by Sapt. W. W. Stetson country, but should be engrafted onto the indus- Never strike sail to @ Come into the 16, IGHT WILLIAMS, Cireulation BT T2 ] e a circulation for the month of November, 1913, was D!g' §. lore T'HE iry and commerce of the pation, so that no port grandly or sail the seas with God. ~R. W. Emeveor. J = e ) A few more days to the filing finish. Come on in; primary running is great sport, —— Mr, Ford secured a vast amount of publicity cut of the venture, but its value as an asset is doubttyl. Sme——— Talk of scarcity of dyestuffs s open to sus- p'vion so long as aged beards fail to give the color signal of passing years, The advancing price of gasoline has no beas- ing on the speed of the waterwagon. The lattes moves on the dry steam of the occupants, y r———— Congratulations to the weather man. His brand of holiday weather is second only to the Christmas tree as a booster of joy and good will, S— Under the steady pressure of federal regu- Jution, state regulation recedes into the twilight uoee, State rallroad commissions have cause for worry. ; — Aviation scouting 1s & much more hazardous 4cb than battling in the trenches, Similar con- rrquences have been observed among high fliers In peace times. e ———— x . A touch of business foresight marked the ‘wetion of the lowa man who crowded the Bible out of his grip. Bibles are available at all times, Wall street’'s prosperity is the real article, the possible exception of the banks, nao Christmas tree bore a greater weight of fruitage. The beer Income of a year ago rned to the “large bottle and hot bird" former times, iz, ; fr Se—— band of women suffragists in New York desert the man-ridden east and mi- the “free states” of the west. The t deserves encouragement. It would the surplus in the east, sh the in the west and boost the joy of both it em——— ing the example of Waldorf Astor, - Drexel of Philadelphia has expatri- f, fieding it “impossible to live in # gentleman.” The action of & 4n awarding $50,000 a year all- will reconeile most Amer- il Elfg" to spirit of “Peace on to men" manifest it to the throme of grace mes- ulness for the bountiful favogs Providence bestows upon the American nation. The blessing of peace becomes all-pervading as we contemplate the misfortunes of other nations, S—— Secretary McAdoo and Floor Leader Kitchin disagree about the size of the treasury deficit The former says it amounts to $81,000,000 000, Disagreement as to the amount is of little con- i : earth, rightly in sending sages ' River Chase, W. J. Broatch, | of giving the relief the farmer needs. future time will find us blamable as at present. Land Loan Bill Not Remedy. A land loan bill is reported all ready to be presented to congress immediately after the holi- day recess, in redemption of the promise to pro- vide better means for financing the farms of this country, If the bill is to be judged by the meager outlines available, it will fall far short It seems 10 be framed on the supposition that the chiefest need for money in agriculture is to be met through the provision that will ‘permit the furmer to capitalize his operations by mortgag- Ing his plant, This {s the course followed in | other industries, in commerce, and therefore it scems but the ordinary thing to apply it to agri- culture. A mistaken idea has been fostered through the publication of government reports, showing the ingrease in the number of tenant farmers in the country. These reports do not emphasize the further fact that the condition noted is brought about through the owner of the farm moving into town, there to enjoy in quiet life the rest he has earted by years of hard work, stil]l holding the farm and relying on its rental for a portion at least of his own Iliving. Thus the rented farm is supporting two families, In- stead of one, and often the tenant farmer em- ploys help, so that the farm really supports three tamilies. This cohdition is not the werious menace to agriculture that some contend. About the surest way to reduce the farm to the point where it will support but one family is to reduce its area. If it is the purpose of the bill tc enable tenant farmers to become land owners instead of renters, then the measure i merely class legislation. The farmer pays a higher rate of interest for the money he must borrow to carry on his busi- ness than is generally charged any other In- dustry, and should be relieved from this condi- tion. It is doubtful, though, if the expedient proposed by the administration at thig time will have the effect sought. At any rate, we will hear more of this measure before it becomes law. Ireland’s Reviving Industries, War's crimsoned spurs are stirring the dor- mant manufacturing ginger of Irishmen, Ire- land in spots responds to the impulse in an en- couraging fashion, A spirit of reciprocity prompts the government to foster war industries | in the country in exchange for Ireland’s contri- Bution to the fighting forces of the empire. In Dublin and Belfast new factories are turning out blothing supplies for the army, Toy making end cigaret factories have sprung up in many cities and are actively competing for outside trade hitherto controlled by so-called “ememy countries.” Carpet making is another industry glass factory is projected in Dublin, In a way these industries are small begin- nings, holding the promise of bigger things. Their importance to Ireland cannot be over-esti- mated. The lack of industrial opportunities, outside of Belfast, deprived most of the youth of & chance of becoming skilled tradesmen, prac- tically restricting them to agricultural labor, and is the prime cause of continued emigration. Should this industrial spurt prove a permanent revival of Ireland's by-gone manufacturing skill, it may be truthfully sald that some good sprang out of evil, — Distribution of Labor. - The commissioner general of immigration in his report to the secretary of the Department of Labor, makes several suggestions as to possible improvement in distributing foreigners Who come here seeking opportunity to earn a Hving. Some of his ideas might be applied to the prob- lem of the labor already here. The better use of the government employment bureau can be Hartman, .'..uu-w. E. Rosewater, John 1. | achieved through closer co-operation on part ot J. 8. Richardson. union elected the following N, B. Mahon; vice by bis son, John, who 1s u student at ‘ state and oity authorities. This is an easily remedied condition. Another suggestion is that secretary, W. P. Cos; re- | rallroads be permitted to make such rates to ee Hartley; corresponding see- | laborers in transit as will enable them to et to s e places where work is offered. To do this will require legisiation, permitting the ratiroads to establish such rates. If it would relieve the Dodge street, | situstion that regularly occurs, when the jobless #y8em | man fs many miles from the manless job, the needed permission well be glven. At ‘any rate, it is worth » stimulated by war conditions, and a commercial | BEK: MONDAY, DECE OMAHA Boom in American Exports Now York Jourmal of Commerce. The true measure of the expansion of the export trade of the United States must be found in our sales to non-belligerent countries and In articles other than foodstuffs or munitions of war. To hav, nearly quintupled our exports to Russia, quadrupled them to France and Italy, and considerably more than doubled them to the United Kingdom will easily account for the addition of & billlon dollars to the | value of the exporfs for the first nine months of the calendar year 1915 over those of the year before. But the business {s abnormal because the conditions that make it possible are exceptional and transitory. Sc, too, with the still greater ratio of increase of exports to meutral European countries like Nweden, Norway and Denmark, and the 0 per cent increase to the Netheriands. Most of thia fs trade that fiiters through to Cermany and Austria-Hungary in spite of the Brit- | ish blockade, and which is equally abnormal in char- acter and equally lacking in the quality of perma nence, Leaving Europe out of the reckoning, there has been a positive decrease in our export trade with the other great divisions of the world. Accepting the nine months of 1913, rather than those of last year, | a8 the true standard of comparison, the gain in the value of our sales to Europe has been $550,828,74), while the galn In the export total nas been only $790,083,000. For the whole of North America, in- cluding Cuba and the West Indies, there has been 4 loss on the nine montha of §15,20,04, which is moce than accounted for by the drop in the exports to Canada of $72,630,98, and In exports to Mexico of 99,008,207, In the exports to SBouth America there has been a decrease of $6,710,1%. While our Aslatic exports show an increase of §13,3%,69, the gain i3 more than accounted for by the sudden rise in the value of ex- ports to Russia in Asia from $810,081 In 1913 to $22,820,579 in 1916—a rise almost solely due to munitions of war and military stores sent to Viadivostok. Perhape some allowance should be made on the same score to explain the ten million gain h‘fl" exports to Aus- tralla, mainly In virtue of wh the exports to Oceania have increased from $57,000,000 to $70,000,000. The exports to Africa show what is substantially a normal increase of 34,622,601 1t is, of course, in products that go to satisfy the exceptional and artificial requirements’of countries at war that our export gains have been almoat solely registered. For example, of live ‘animals, our exporta for the nine months in 1913 were 36,679,435, while for this year they have been $96,445,691. 8o aiso In the case of breadstuffs, the total for the nine months of 1013 was $166,848,067, while for 1815 it has heen 3423380972 The exports of meat and dalry products show the operation of the same kind of demand, having in- creased from §122,726065 In 1913 to $210.619,621 in 1915 Under the metal achedules there has been an increase in the exports of brass and its manufactures rrom $6,0010,46 to $31,51953; of billets, Ingota and blooms of stoel from $2,050.087 to $,134,534; In horseshoes from $70,197 to $2,646,075; in firearms from §2,928,278 to $9.47,- §71; in metal working @machinery from $11880,778 to $30,044,19, and in wire and its manufacture from 36,93, 821 to $17,7%,64. Owing to the closing of the German markets, which took $36,000,000 worth in 1913, copper ex ports have dropped from §107,522,865 to §79,118,361. But the value of explostves exported has advanced from $3,83,- 715 to $84,297,363 and of leather and Its manufactures from $46,354,779 to $124,403,319. All things considered, it must be reckoned a remarkable circumstance that the amount of raw cotton exported has advanced fron 4,350,008 bales to 6,001,049 bales—an increase of 5L4 per cent, although it should be noted that the value has advancd only 87 per cent. The exports of cotton cloths toll A somewhat mixed story, They have risen iIn value from '$24,069,214 to $25,246,208, but much of this is ac- counted for by the purely accidental demand from the United Kingdom, which registered for the nine months $2,660,468, against $307,422 for the same period in 1813 For the notable increase in the exports of wearing ap parel, mainly or wholly of cotton, war conditions must be given the chief credit, The figures are $5,670,68 for 1918 and $27,913,188 for 1915. . 1t is instructive to compare the present volume of our export trade with that of the United Kingdom. The latter is, of course, being conducted under highiy disadvantageous conditions, fully one-third of all the country's workers being under arms, But returns for the nine months ended with September show a shrink- age In the value of exports of less than 25 per cent as compared with the total of 1913, Against our own ex- port total of $2,490,774,164 for the nine months the Brit- ish shew a total of only $1,415,458,430. But this does not include goods taken from British government stores or depots or goods bought by the government and shipped on government vessels. In other words, it does not include the munitions of war and military stores made in the United Kingdom for the use of British armies at the front. Under the head of manufacturee the British exports show a total of $1,080,000,000 against our $1,204,000,000, Of these, under the iron and el ule, ti um of our exports for the nine monthe was §251,112,482 The British classification does not cor- respond exactly to our own, but, roughly speaking, it shows under this same head exports valued at 3252 084,390, To our own total there should perhaps be added the exports of agricultural implements and of brass and its manufactures, amounting in round figures to $42,000,000, But even then the total exports of the man- factures of the metals, of machinery, cutlery, imple- ments and electrical goods do not greatly exceed thoss of Great Britain working under circumstances of great disadvantage. In the matter of textile exports, the United States is distanced as usual, the total of British cotton fabrics sold abroad being $320,000,000 against sur $71,000,000, and of woolen fabrics being $119,000,000 against our $36,000,000, although the latter, under the impetus of war demand, has increased from $§3,600,000 in 1913 Twice Told Tales Slow Pay-—iast Driver, “What do you know of the character of the de- fendant? the judge asked & negro washerwoman sut- poenaed in an accident case. A white man had been arrested for careless driving of a second-hand car. “Hits tollable,”" Miranda said. “Have you ever seen him drive his car before™ “'Yes, sah.” “Would you consider him careless?’ “Well, jedge, es fer de car—dat little thing ain't gwinter hurt nuboddy, but being us is all here, I might es well tell yo' dat he sho' is keerless 'bout payin' fo' his wash!" A re Sign. Governor Locke Cralg was talking In Ralelgh about the difficulties of the profession or politics. “I am in hearty sympathy,” he sald, “with a ward leader who announced to his friends the other day that his new son—a nine-pound babe—bade falr to grow up & very succeastul politiclan, “*'How can you tell that already, asked him. ‘Why, ihe kid can't talk ye “‘No,’ sald Jake, ‘but he has already starteu trying to kick and shake hands at the same time.’ * ~Washington Star. Jake™ they People and Events A weastern benefactor, whose identity is not dia- closed, bequeathed $20,000 to Kate Claxton of “‘Two Orphans' fame. The bequest came as & pleasant Surprise to the actress. The Adironkacks contributed §1,000000 worth of young trees for the country's Christmas joys. The Christmas tree custom will not long escape indictment @3 an enemy of the forests. Doliar bargain day at Madison, 8. D, caught Frank Womleacher and Miss Jennie Nelson in the jam and AlMderman Milligan of New York City boasts of a marrying record of thirteen couples in thirteen min- utes. The performance monopolises the scoreboard Gotham's matrimonial speedway. Albert Bruder of St. Louls breaks into local print with & lementation on his wife, He clalms to have been Jiltad 150 times, though he has not yet attracted movies 5 MBER 27, 1915, | The Dees Pence Dreamers, Ford's | LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 24.—To the Bditor of the Bee: There is no other business man in the world whom I admire so | much as Henry Ford. In fact, he is my idol. Mr. Ford is a practical sociologist. But the peace dreamers have made a Inughing stock of him. In America as well as in Europe he has been given the mitten, officlally. The question will soon be asked by many Americans: “Is it possible that the | European nations cannot be influenced by money?’ In reply, I would say that Europe does not worship the golden calf, s it 1s done here, That wave has not caught Europe yet. The peace advocates of Europe may not be classified as sufferers from ‘‘de- lirfum tremens,” for the reason that | they know that talk of peace without a logical foundation is nothing but chaff thrown in the wind. We know that either the central or the entente powers will win, provided that the supply of shells can keep pace with the demand. Yet those peace | dreamers do not know where to find the disease. If they cannot locate the dis- ense, how In the world ean Mr. Ford and his visionaries find a remedy for the | same. Therefore it 1s mo wonder that | they are not wanted in Europe. | It Mr. Ford would send a shrewd dip- | tomat with millions of dollars to Japan | and buy up all the ammunition that Japan can produce, peace would come roon to every home of Europe. FELIX NEWTON, Ilow to Prepare. NORTH LOUP, Neb., Dec. 22.—To the Editor of The Bee: When the president advanced the issue of preparedness maybe he had not thought the matter over sufficlently to determine just where the dlscussion may lead to. It the sub- ject be thoroughly discussed we must soon arrive at a conclusion that pre- paredness is not in having on hand at a dozen different places guns of an out- of-date type and powder and battleships to match. The nation may be crippled by excessive taxation and within a pe- riod of ten years have very little to show for the taxes. The real and true road to preparedness is not the act of show- ing a lot of out-of-date guns and gold lace. [n modern timgs invention is the thing that has counted most to change the course of war and the fate of na- tlons. What we most need is the proper preparation for turning out equipment that Is of the most effective design. That can be accomplished by the equipment of three or four large plants, located in the districts where transportation may be best protected from invasion. = The management of the plants should try out every new device where improvement is possible. But, in addition to that, those plants should be kept up-to-date, by which the most advanced equipment Tips on Home Topics || Boston Transcript: Fortunately when | the Ancona note was sent to Austria there was nobody around the State de partment to slip a tip to the German am- bassador that Uncle Sam was bluffing. Indlanapolis News: The way thoss | diplomats think that they can fool the | plain people by a few unnecessary notes is almost as naive as the way the poli- ticlans think they can fool the plain people by a good deal of unnecessary talk. ' New York World: number of immigrant allens to this coun- try fell to 86,700 in the last fiscal year from 1,218,400 the year before, there is an | element of interest In the fact that 244,472 [ &7 were between the ages of 14 and 4 and only 29,246 above 4. That should mean the addition to the country of a good quality of productive immigration. Springfield Republican: Secretary Lane's plea for federal support of rural | schools in large sections of the Uhnited States whose educational facilities are in- adequate has a pitiful side. There will be preclous lttle federal support of rural | schools, probably, while an addit'onal | hundred millions of being used on a larger army and mavy, | Ctvilization even in this country, com-| paratively remote from the area of world conflict, is being checked by the war and its Influence so benumbing to all pro- gressive social and educational move- menta. MIRTEFUL REMARKS. Pedlar—This salve 1 am selling, sir, is a_splendid thing for sprains And bruises of all kinds. Business Man (savagely)—Then if you don't clear out you'll need a ton of it for personal use.—Boston Transcript. “How's prohibition getting along in Crimson Gulch?" “‘Fine,”” answered Three Finger Sam. “Crimson Gulch has needed a doctor and a drug store for years an' we never would have had business enough for either if we hadn't fixed it so we kin shut up the saloons once in a while." "~ Washington Star “The {dea of that upstart talking back, |as he did to a society favorite. And |they do say he was one time only a butler.” ~° Maybe that is why he was so quick to answer the belle. —Baltimore American Hub—Well, it takes two to make a quarrel, 80 T'll shut up. Wife—-That's just like a contemptible man, You'll sit there and think mean things.—Philadelphia lLedger. Clergyman—Do you mean to say that your wife goes,to church every Sum- | day without you? Husband—Yes, but it jsn't my fault Though the total | can't persuadg her to stay home.—Chi- cago Post “What is your occupation, Rastus?’ “I'se de manager ob a laundry, sah 1 makes a right comf'able livin' :'What is the name of your Ilundg.” “Hannah Maria Johnson, sah."—New York Times. LIGHT AT EVENTIDE Margaret Anderson in Southern Magasine. We ‘are too tired to work—put up the ools; Too tired for music—let the old harp rest Once, for such idleness, we had been ools, Now it is wisdom—now 'tis only best! dollars a year is Give us a little spot—out there in the sun; | A corner where the fire is warm and bright; A bit of bread and broth—and we are one, And ready for our journey in the night. No, no, we do not miss the labor now; "Tis strange, perhaps, but all the music's naught; We do not feel the snow that's on the - W, The trembling hand brings not a tremb- ling thought We like the little quiet, sunny spot; We chat and doze; we sometimes doze and dream The fireside’s good—-we never get tog hot— And very good our bread and lentils seem! And—no—we do not dread the trip to me: come One will go firet and see it—how it is; ‘Then wait nearby, to call the other home, And lend along the darker passages! LAST TRAIN ror FLORIDA LEAVING CHICAGO EVERY NIGHT Lv.CHICAGO 521 12.01AM Ar.JACKSONVILLE 8.45AM PENNSYLVANIA could be turned out in Immense quanti- tles within thirty days. The country should be divided into about four mili- tary districts, each having a plant. I would say that these plants located {n Missouri, Utah, Ten ‘West Virginia, with complete transporta- lifm facilities. WALTER JOHNSON. Women'’s Activities Mrs. Lucretia Roberts of Santa Crus Sounty, Arizona, probably is the only real live woman sheriff in the United States, that is, she 1s a deputy sheri She wears a wide sombrero, carrfes revolver and wears a deputy sheriffs badge. 2 Mrs. Addle F. Howle of the School of Agriculture of the University of Wiscon- sin, says cows have souls and respond to music when milked. If she had her way the cow stables would have lace curtains on the windows, and the feed boxes would be porcelain. Mrs. Norman Galt, financce of Presi- dent Wilson, was elected an honorary member of his class, '79, of Princeton, at & dinner given there last week. She is the second woman to recelve such an honor, the other being Mrs. C. C. Cuyler of New York, wife of a prominent mem- ber of the class. “Miss Alice McCoy won the baby pig contest in Louisiana, and Maude Phillips ‘was the winner in Georgla of the second prize, a boy having carried off the first prize. Miss MeCoy bought a pig with $10 which she had borrowed from the prin- cipal of the school. It cost ner $8 to feed it a year, and she then sold it for $50. Mrs. Ines Millholland Boisse-Vain, the suffragist, says that women should cer- tainly have the right to propose. and her husband agrees with her. And she adds, “I @ld It myself.” Her husband says he had never thousht of proposing to Ines Millholland, because he had never in- tended to marry. Patents taken out by women in the United Kingdom during 1914 Included: In- ventions connected with dress, i4; nurs- ing and medical, 3; mechanical, 24; household requisites, 20; games, 14; edu- cational, 12; cooking, 9; total, 8 motor cars and cycling, 7; bables’ requisites, 6; garden, 3; needlework, 3; aeroplrne, 1 | Editorial Siftings Washington Post: Two or tnree mil- lions having passed from slaughter to tasualities, they have now come down to the point where they are only recognis- able as statistios. Pittsburgh Dispatch: Secretary Lane phrases it finely when he says “The American instinct for improvement serves the whole world." Uncle Sam Is the world's pace maker, X Brooklyn Eagle: Beset by rebel chi- canery, Japan chicanery and Yuan Shih Kalnery, the case of China is a sad one, But what can be expected of the Orfent, where yellowness is universal® Philadelphia Laedger: Secretary Red- field's proposal to give the government power to conflscate foreign merchandise LINES Only Throu{h Train via Cincinnati and L. & N. R. R. Through Knoxvilleand Atlanta Over New Scenic Route B e Pt & Fherr ot H.RO ND, . Agt., 224-225 Cisy Nasional Building, bu-:hnm'c'numnn.c"' 3 . FLORENCE is to be given next and believe me she is a very pretty dolly. She has such sweet -~ winning ways that we would like to have her go to some little girl that didn’t get a doll for Xmas. She would make that little girl so happy. Put on your thinking caps little Busy Bees, and see if you cannot re- member some such little girl, and try to make her happy by collecting a few pictures to help her win Florence, Florence will be given free to the little girl un- der 12 years of age that brings or mails us the largest number of dolls’ pictures cut out of the Daily and Sunday Bee before 4 p. m., Friday, December 31. Remember, you must T send your pictures in e 4 B RRS I send your pictures in (LS POV this week, because Saturday is New Year’'s Day, so the it affered here in “unfair competition” is another fllustration of the extraordinary ravages which the bureaucratic idea can make in minds ordinarily capable of sane ratiocination. Baltimore Amerfcan: As the richest man in Detroit, Henry Ford migat medi- tate upon the fate of the richest man in Brussels, Mr. Solvay, “the Carnegle of Belgium,” who has just been sent to prison for insulting & Germen officer. The Carnegie of Belgium can have little fllusion as to what an individual million- alre can do to settle world problems. CONTEST WILL CLOSE AT 4 P. M. FRIDAY, instead of Saturday. Florence pictures will be in The Bee every day this week. Cut them out and ask your friends to save the pictures in their paper for you too. See how many pie- tures of Florence you can get, and be sure to turn them in to The Bee office before 4 p. m. Friday, December 31. You Can See Florence at The Bee Office