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Show T H E C I T I Z E N 6 BOK'S DIVIDED LOYALTY. born in America of Poland parents wrote an essay on the United States for an Americanization society. He glorified in America, but in his home the Polish language still was obspoken and Polish traditions were served. In his essay he recited the hardships of his parents in Poland A youth and then reviewed the blessings of American life, opportunity and Inspiration. In conclusion he said: For this I would die for America and Poland. Edward Bok came to the United States when six years old. He was born in Holland. He has made more of American opportunities than all but a few Americans and still fewer foreign-born have made of them. Yet he raises the question. How long does it take to Americanize the foreign born In spite of his appreciation of American institutions, his understanding of Americans as shown in his success as a publisher, is Edward Bok, an American in the nationalist meaning of the word? Certainly there is a suggestion of a divided loyalty not in the fact that Mr. Bok believes in the League of Nations and the world court but in the fact that he is willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars forming and main- taining organizations for propaganda. An American has a right to his opinions, as everyone else has. He has a right to express his opinions to the peoples representatives in Congress. But is it American to organize and direct propaganda in mass, through paid organizations and agents, giving a false impression of public sentiment, in an effort to break the traditional foreign policy of the United States, This is what Mr. Bok has done. There are two sides to the world court debate. Mr. Bok is rich. He has European sympathies strong enough to lead him into a desire to entangle this country with European obliga? ions. He backs his sympathies with his enormous fortune. His agencies all but openly coerce members of the senate. And while Congress enters on the discussion of the world court, -- Mr. Bok presents himself in Washington to gauge the results of his costly enterprise. He declares himself well satisfied. He believes his money, indirectly, has influenced enough members to get the senates approval of the world court. Kansas City Star. HENRY CLAY WAS ANOTHER IRRECONCILABLE. aspirations for freedom, but added: You must allow me to protest against the policy you propose for us? speaking of the conditions in Europe, Clay added: "They give us an impressive warning not to rely on others for the vindication of our principles, but to look to ourselves, and to cherish with more care than ever, the security or our institutions and the preservation of our policies and principles. Far better it is for ourselves, for Hungary, and for the cause of liberty, that adhering to our wise pacific system, and avoiding the distant wars of Europe, we should keep our lamp burning brightly on this wrestern shore, as a light to all nations, than to hazard its utter extinction amid the ruins of fallen and falling republic in Europe. ' Clay added that "after abandoning our ancient policy of amity ana nonintervention in the affairs of other nations, the American republic vrould have justified European powers "In abandoning the terms of forbearance which they had and so far preserved toward the United States. Clay saw clearly, in other words, that our mixing In the arfalrs of the Eastern Hemisphere would justify the nations of Europe in demanding the right to interfere In the western part of the world, so scrapping the Monroe doctrine. ce non-interferen- INDIAN FLAPPERS LEARN SANITARY HOME LIFE. The old Indian civilization is gradually fading and the newer generation is taking up the habits of the white men, according to stories from the great Northwest, and if all of these are to be believed we may soon have Indian flapper who the will know more about jazz music than . the That the change is greatly for the full-fledge- d tom-tom- benefit of everyone is generally admitted by all except the old fashioned redskins. One of the largest government Indian schools is at Bismarck, N. D., and it is reported that a great deal is being accomplished among the Indian maidens there in uplifting the family life of the Indian. The Indians are acquiring knowledge of sanitary methods and substantial homes are beginning to replace the old time tepees. In the school 125 Indian girls are being taught domestic science and the latest household arts. The school is in charge of Clark B. Dickinson who has the following to say on what is being accomplished: e "It is hard to induce the Indian to sleep with windows open, but we teach the girls here to do it, some of them continue the practice after they have returned to their own people. "Of course, the tendency is for the girls to fall back into the ways of their people rather than for the old folks to adopt the methods which the white man has taught the new generation. Like white people, they are inclined to follow the line of least resistance. But by persistent training we will elevate them. "The Indian has come a long ways. Imagine the plight of the white man if the civilization in which he hadal- up-to-da- old-tim- Although Henry Clay is best known to Americans as the great pacificator his last warning counsel to Americans was beware of foreign entanglements and alliances, according to Frank P. Litscliert, who writes in the National Republic under the title, "Henry Clay, the Hated and Beloved. Clays warning came at the time Louis Kossuth, Hungarian patriot, came to America to secure aid for the people of Hungary. The. article continues: "Henry Clay had been one of the great advocates of South America In- Kossuth naturally dependence turned to him. Clay assured him of his lively sympathy with Hungarys and te ways lived were obliterated and he found himself forced to meet the conditions of an Indian civilization. The white man has expected too much of the Indian. I am sure that our red brother will eventually find himself and arrive at a place where he will be able to take care of himself, but it will take time. pees, which is equal to about $165 in American money. Mosul, a city of about 60,000 people, has telephones, but their use is almost entirely limited to the British military and the Irak government services. Basra as an automatic system which was " by the British army of SILENT PARTNER GIVES THE DIRECT PRIMARY. ih-stalle- d STABILITY. In a recent statement on public credits, Rollin P. Grant, vice chairman of the Irving Bank, Columbia Trust company, said: "Business safety may come from a number of sources. It may be found in the nature of the investment Itself or in its business backing. It may find its strongest expression In the men in charge. It may be in some unusually good plan of organization, or in the business methods employed. But after all of these have been considered and evaluated, it will be found that in practically every business venture, there remains a margin of uncertainty, of business danger, which, because human judgment is not infallible, must be covered by means outside of regular business management. "At this point insurance steps in, and by covering this margin of danger, becomes a very definite factor In everyday business life and a potent element in stabilizing business and giving to it the security necessary to its continuing success. A striking case in point is that of a concern in San Francisco, previously solvent, which was forced into bankruptcy, by a judgment against the firm in favor of a customer injured in its store by falling down a stairway. In this case public liability insurance would have saved the business. In the logic of things, the two should go hand in hand business and insurance, profit and safety. DEMAND FOR TELEPHONE OUTSTRIPS POPULATION. We wish that some man who has filled the office of governor would tell us how much it cost him to make his two races, and how much' poorer he was when he came out of the office than when he went into it. '' Not every man is willing or able to pay for so strenuous a ' campaign as is involved in running for th? ''office of governor or lieutenant governor or United States senator or any other of the higher offices!, We are here looking at the direct primary from a single angle irom that of what it costs in money and time to run for any office, whether it be that of legislator or governor or superintendent of public instruction. As we see it, the correct way of choosing public officials vrould be the method of the Methodists in choosing their bishops, there being no avowred candidate. But looking at the matter as :t now stands, what misgivings must come to any man when he contemplates me heavy expenditure of effort and money, and on top of that, the chance of defeat. Merely wishing to throw addltioal light on the direct primary that's all. Waco Times-Herald. Why doesnt some enterprising Yankee put on a debate between a bootlegger and a revenue officer on the question, "Is Prohibition a That Hollander who says America has nothing- to compare with Dutch windmills should see our cheer, leaders. Rutland Herald. - The telephone requirements of the people of the United States increase much faster than the population. Statistics show that during the last five years in September 1, 1925, the population of the country increased only 7.2 per cent while the number of telephones in the service of the public increased 26 per cent. There were 13,151,000 telephones in use in this country on September 1, 1920, and on September 1, 1925, there were 16,566,000, an increase of 3,415,-00over the five year period. This net increase is more than two and a half times the total number of telephones which comprise the entire telephone system of Great Britain. EVANS & EARLY Funeral Directors 48 8outh State 8treet Telephone Waaatch 6616 I FLOWERS I For 0 BAGDAD LEADS CITIES OF IRAK IN TELEPHONE USE. The only cities in Irak having telephone systems are Bagdad, Mosul and Basra. Of these, Bagdad has the most extensive and serviceable system. 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