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The Names on Your Bond
From the American Magazine.
The next time you get to feeling onor
bld about your modept income and your
boastful expenses, go get your Liberty
bond and study it carefully. On the
face thereof you will find only two sig
natures one, that of Secretary of the
Treasury William G. McAdoo the other
that of Register of the Treasury Hous
ton B. Teehee. Behind the latter name
lies the story of an American Indian
and
hiB
Good for the People.
From Collier's Weekly.
Perhaps the most interesting feature in the "American" and
national periodicals whicli less than two years a^co were humbly
concerned with securing "justice for (Jermany" was the "Answers
to Readers column. "Anxious Inquirer" would write in to ask
whether it was true that members of the reiehstag are elected by uni
versal, direct, equal, and secret suffrage, whereas England had the
plural vote and property qualification and the editor was compelled
to admit, all candor, that it was so. A would bet that Woodrow
Wilson had more power over peace and war than "William'II, and
the editor agreed that A had won. And so in the course of this inno
cent, eyed search for information by countless readers it was brought
out that thn home of real democracy was somewhere between the
Rhine and tile Niemen, and that of all democratic institutions on
earth the German army was perhaps the most democratic—almost
bolshevist, on the whole.
The puzzle, therefore, is where, in this ultra-democratic nation
called Germany, the German governments of recent days found so
many things to democratize. For instance, a single Copenhagen dis
patch:
The democratization of Germany is spreading through the federal
states. At a meeting of the crown council at Dresden (Saxony) yes
terday the question of asking socialists to Join the government was
considered. The Baden government met at Karlsruhe to consider the
abolition of the three class franchise system and the introduction of the
proportional franchise. Wurttemberg also is said to be considering
whether that government's representatives in the federal council shall
not henceforth receive instructions direct from the representatives
elected by the people rather than from the Wurttemberg government.
The democratization of the first chamber there is also being con
sidered.
Less than a year after Napoleon crushed the Prussian army at
Jena in October, 1806, the anxious inquirers and the A's and B's of
the time discovered suddenly that there was room for improvement
in the admirably ordered Prussia of the day. To be sure, it was still
the blest above all countries the poor were protected against the
xich, and justice was strict, and education was plentiful, and by con
trast with the rank individualism of other countries the Prussian
people lived and died contentedly for the state. And yet, and yet
At any rate, in October, 1807, Frederick William III issued an edict
(we quote from E. F. Henderson's "Short History of Germany"):
From Martinmas, 1810, ceases all villainage in our entire states.
From Martinmas, 1810, there shall be only free persons.
For it had been suddenly discovered that two-thirds of the popu
lation of Prussia were serfs. And again:
Every inhabitant of our states is competent, without any limitation
on the part of the state to possess, either as property or pledge, landed
estates of every kind. Every noble is henceforth permitted,
without any derogation from his position, to exercise citizen occupa
tions and every citizen or peasant is allowed to pass from the peasant
into the citizen class, or from the citizen into the peasant class.
The German people may yet be as graceful for Chateau-Thierry
as the Prussian people had reason to be grateful for Jena.
A Chance Now for Free Poland.
Prom
the
It may be said by the doubters that
as Poland was unable to defend herself
In the Eighteenth century, there is little
liklihood of her being able to do so in
the future. But there 18* no reason to as
sume that a fatal weakness is inherent
in the Polish character. Poland was
broken up by her neighbors because she
had the worst constitution ever devised
by man. The nobility monopolized politi
cal power, the peasantry were serfs, and
there was no large middle class to give
cohesion to the social fabric. Even in
Poland's death throes the nobles de
clined to accord equal rights to the peas
ants, though the abortive constitution of
1791 promised them reforms. Kosciuszko,
fresh from America, astonished and dis
tressed his fellow nobles by calling upon
the peasantry to rise in defense of their
native land, and with these ill armed
countrymen he gained a victory over
the Russians before he was overwhelmed
by numbers. Until 1883 the alien con
querors were able, with no small success,
to play off the Polish peasantry against
their old oppressors, the nobles. It is
hardly surprising that a nation thus
sharply divided should have succumbed
for the time. But the abolition of serf-4
dom and the rise of modern industry
have transformed the situation, and the
resolute efforts of the Polish nationalists
struggle toward success which
should be an inspiration to -even the
humblest of us.
The name Teehee is not rightfully a
name at all. It is a nickname. When
Mr. Teehee's father fought for the union
in the civil war his companions had
difficulty in pronouncing his Indian name
"Dl-hl-hi" fcneonlng Killer), and so they
compromised by calling him "Teehee."
And this became the family name.
Hence we have Houston B. Teehee en
tering the world via the unpromising
•surrounding of a Cherokee Indian res
ervation in Sequoyah county, Oklahoma,
on October 81, 1874, with not much to
commend him to fortune but himself. Not
only was his very name picked up from
the patois of a battle field, but the
American government branded him, in
common with all his brethren, unfit and
Incompetent to manage his own affairs,
and set a guardian over him in the
guise of a commissioner.
When the boy got old enough to think
it over he resented this treatment, and
determined to show Ibe government
where, in his case at least, It was wrong.
He took all the schooling he could get
at the government classes in the old
Cherokee nation during the 18 years he
spent on his father's farm. There was
no English spoken on the reservation,
'and it was an extremely difficult study
for him to master, but young Teehee
stuck to his lessons and won his coveted
knowledge.
At 18 he went to the Cherokee national
•sale seminary, studied there two years,
then plunged into the English speaking
world about him via Fort Worth Uni
versity at Fort Worth, Tex.
London Spectator.
In UlO Teehee. informed the secretary
the Interior that he considered hlm
•f
,j»lf quite capable of getting along with
•lut a government .guardian, and, on pro*-,. Elisabeth of the
in* this-to the seeratary's satisfaction. studied medicine as a-strlV*
the restriction* the management of gmdu&ted With, (Jm degree
lib own affairs wars removed: aid with Lstpsic shortly before hs(.
to educate their people have borne fruit.
The peasants who now own their hold
ings haye become fervid patriots, and
1# their cooperative societies they pos
sess a formidable organisation. A Polish
middle class has arisen, especially In
Posen, and the old nobility, having lost
its fatal privileges, has begun to play its
true part in the affairs of the nation,
The new Poland, in contrast to the old,
is a democratic country, which will not
be wrecked again by the class division^
of the semi-feudal era. The presence
a very large number of Jews in the towns
may create difficulties. The Jews ex,
pel led from Germany in the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth centuries took refuge in
Poland, where they were patronized by
the nobility because they took no Interest
in politics. Their numbers have increased
out of all proportion because they werq
forbidden by Russia to spread at will
through the empire and were herded
within the pale. Mr. Kozlcki asserts,
however, that there is in Poland no anti
Semitism based on racial hate or religious
difference, as in Russia, and it may bo
presumed that when once the independ
ence of Poland is reestablished the Polish
Jews will free themselves from the sus
picion of being too friendly to the Ger
mans. Apart from the Jewish question,
the outlook for the free and united Po
land seems moet promising.
what result you may see by glancing
over your Liberty bond.
After holding minor local offices in hia
home village of Tahlequah, and serving
as its first mayor when it was made a
city of the first class, in 1908. Teehee
was sent to the Oklahoma legislature,
served later as county attorney, went to
the legislature again in 1912, and special
ised in constitutional law. In 1914 he
was appointed United States probate at-,
torney under the interior department,
which office he filled until he resigned
to take the oath at register of the treas
ury, March 24, 1915.
And that Is how the name of Houston
B. Teehee, a Cherokeen Indian, once a
ward of the government, happens to be
affixed to the Liberty bonds of the world
war, in 20,000,000 American hoptes.
is on
When peace has come, that boon
elating, and battle flags are furled, I
hope there'll be an end of hating
throughout this warsick world. Let
us get mad. if things demand it. and
raise a rumpus great but anger, as I
understand it, is different from hate. If
I am injured by my neighbor. I lie In
wait for him his swaybacke\ carcass
I belabor, and rend him limb from
limb but when our little scrap is ended
we are good friends once more, and he,
with sportsmaship that's splendid,
slides dow my cellar door. We have
no time for foolish hating, we have to
do our chores, that we may both main
tain our rating for credit at the stores.
It's hate that keeps the' world un
settled, and makes peace efforts vain
a lot of kings, stallfed and mettled,
have hatred on the brain. They don't
get busy cultivating or pruning grow
ing things they sit around their throne
rooms hating and cussing other kings.
One reason vfhy I hope the Teuton may,
meet a crushing fate is that he's al
ways at us shootin' his talk of death
less hat*. And vainly will the Tfut
endeavor our friendship to regain, un
til be cuts out hate forever, and shows
he's safe and sane.
D. at
WOMEN OF ITALY TO
GAIN MORE LIBERTY
New York—(by mail.)—Countess
Marls. LoschI, of Home, who, as the
gueat of the United States government
is on a six weeks' tour of this country
to survey social, educational and po
litical conditions relating to women
and report to the government of Italy,
declares that Italy's liberated woman
hood is preparing to take a big part
in the rebuilding oC the devasted nor
thern provinces. "It is the dawn of a
new day," she said, "in the develop
ment of our nations."
The Countess is a young woman,
dresses simply and speaks fluently
English as well as French and Italian,
•tie is a writer on sociological sub
jects. a teacher of French literature
in a college in Rome and, in addition,
is on the staff of a technical* school.
An ardent suffragist and one of five
women, representatives of the Italian
Feminine Patriotic league, appointed
to aid the government authorities in
devising a plan for the readjustment
of labor after the war, the Countess
Loach} says, "the future is bright with
promise for the women of Italy more
than fOO.OOO of whom are at work on
farms and in munition plants."
Unt|l the war started, she said, the
status of women in Italy was one of
"complete eclipse by men." She was
not ajlowed to handle her own money,
for Instance, without the consent of
her husband. Woman, as such, had no
standing in court except as the chattel
of a husband or father.
Now laws, said the countess, were
being drafted which would elevate
Italian womanhood to a plane as hifeh
as that enjoyed by the women of any
other country.
Tiite changed attitude toward women
in fcaly the countess attributed in part
to the great response made by her sex
to the appeals of the government for
war loans.
Taxation In Moderation.
From the New York World.
Sac rotary McAdoo's letter to Chairmen
Simmons and Kitchin upon needed modi
fications In the pending tax bill is dis
tinguished by breadth and moderation,
ffhs general policy he indicates should be
'followed.
The secretary desired—properly, as we
think—and the House enacted an $8,000,
000,000 tax bill on the assumption that the
'War might list at least until spring. The
Senate has cut the House provisions to
IMMl,000,000. Mr, McAdoo thinks we may
safely further reduce collections to $6,
000,000,000 now and $4,000,000,000 in 1920.
War loans should not be at an end
with the active war. "Some of the allies
must have working capital in the form of
credits" to get upon a peace basis, and
it will be good business to continue ac
commodation to them, since otherwise
they cannot buy of us. War taxation can
be reduced by gradations. "Initiative and
enterprise are entitled to know in ad
vance" about it.
These conclusions are unassailable. "De
finlteness and certainty," not only as to
retroactive demands upon the Income of
1918 but as to the calendar year 1919, will
"enable business and enterprise to pro
ceed with confidence and courage." The
larger items of taxation may well be
made payable in instalments. Above all.
the bill should be quickly passed.
The frame of the pending act .will re
quire little change to meet the needs so
ably stated. It has been under discus
sion more than seven months. Not many
more days should be necessary. Of war
taxation nothing need be asked but that
it be fair and as moderate as the condi
tions will permit—not forgetting prompt-
The Influenza.
Influenza, labeled Spanish, came and
beat at* to my knees seven doctors
pouldnt banish from my form that
pui^t)-dipeas« for its 'rtot among the
MjPftri: ThWjr doctors pour their blt
ailing human or It tecs they
and
Rich U. S. Girls Feed Soldiers
In France and Teach French
Mrs. Russell (nee Miss Harrimsn), at left, and Mrs. Vincent Astor, in rear(
waiting on soldiers in Bordeaux canteen.
Paris,—(by mall).—Two of America's I boys how to talk French, for both speak
richest young women are working eight it fluently.
or more hours a day in a Y. M. C. A.
canteen club in Bordeaux, feeding
American soldiers and in slack mo
ments they teach the United States
w-
The millionairesses are Mrs. Vin
cent Astor and Mrs. Russell, daughter
of the late E. H. Harriman, railroad
magnate.
my doctor, "I have tackeld every sort
of ill there is I have cured up people
shackled by the gout and rheumatiz
with the itch and mumps I've battled,
and my triumps have been tattled, so
I pause to say G. Whiz." I am burn
ing, I am freezing. In my little truckle
bed I am cussing^ I am sneezing with
a poultice on my head and the doc
tors and the nurses say the patient
growing worse is, and they hint around
of hearses, and of folks who should be
dead. Doom has often held the cleaver
pretty near my swanlike neck I have
had the chills and fever till my system
was a wreck I have had the yaller
janders, foot and mouth disease and
glanders,. and a plague they brought
from Flander on an old windjammer's
deck. *But this measly influenzy has
all other ills outclassed it has put me
in a frenzy, like a soldier who's been
gassed If the villainous inventor this
my lodge of pain should enter I would
use the voice of Stentor Jill he had been
roundly sassed. May the Influenza
vanish! Of all ailment* its the worst
but I don't believe it's Spanish—have
n't though so from th^ first on my
couch of anguish squlrmln', I've had
llesure to determine t&at the blamed
disease is German, which is why it is
accurst.
isrps War Makes T»\pm Big.
Hsl From the Pittsburgh Leader.
War brings into prominence many
places small and insignificant in them
selves, The names of tiny villages Uke
Given#hy and Messines. for Instance, will
live far all time in the history books of
the future, says London Tit-Bits.
Similarly, Blenheim, the scene of Marl
borough's most famous victory, is but a
hamlet of some Jialf dozen houses strag
gling along the Bavatfian bank of the
Danube.
Waterloo is a small place, with fewer
than 4,000 inhabitants. Austerlltz, where
Napoleon defeated th# combined armies
of Austria and Russia, falls into the same
category. Agincourt—or Azlncourt, to give
it the modern spelling*—is a mere hamlet
of a few hundred souU. So are Fontenoy
and Malplaquet.
Abu Klea, where, in 1885, 1,600 British
troops defeated 15,000 of the mahdi's
picked warriors, is a ramshackle collec
tion of Arab huts Mustered around a
group of wells. Mafeklng. Colenso, Storm
berg, Magersfontein and Paardeberg,
places famous in the South African war,
are quite unmportant villages apart from
the historical events associated with
then:.
THE CHOICE BEFORE MANKIND
From tfie Manchester Guardian.
The choice before mankind was
well described lu Prof. Gilbert
Murray's impressive speech.
Roughly, it is the choice between
a life without war or a life with
nothing but war. Rousseau said
that it was for o%r own good that
Nature kept her aocrets from us.
We have learned in the last four
years perhaps th.i most terrible of
her secrets—that anything that
can be used in poace can be used
for war. Simultaneously we have
abolished space, ^rui nations like
our own have ceased to live on Isl
ands. In such a world we must
either renounce war or never allow
ourselves to forget it. The mere
preparation that each nation would
make In order to be ready for
every kind of surprise would be
so costly as to leave us no time
or money for anything else. We
should all become the slaves of a
universal terror, giving it the serv
ice of our minds and our hands,
and heaping up our treasure for its
insatiable appetite. Some people
think the idea of a league of na
tions Is chimerical. What kind of
future do they imagine for the
world without it? The truth Is, as
Prof. OUbert Murray said, that we
have reached a stage when we
have to take great step-forward
'Hr lose what we-have gained In the
leog'and stew ettaggle of the raoe.
»f
"he Yank's Stang.
Frw.i the Llierary Digest.
"Sammy's" appearance, .serial conduct,
anil conversation, to say nothing of his
military prowess, have endeared him to
all classes in France and Kngland.
French newspapers tell of his chivalrous
attitude toward the fair sex generally,
and his kindly, paternal way with chil
dren in war racked villages: the Knglish
dailies print columns about hia alert,
military bearing, and the charm of his
native slant This last characteristic
draws forth the following letter on
"What Sammy Says," which is taken
from the London Daily Mail:
Sammy is In my ward, and I like
him. Ills face he describes as "one
of the sort that only a mother could
love," but somehow, lantern Jawed
and high cheeked as it is, it appeals
to me.
Even more than his face I .like his
conversation. His experiences during
the war are, I suppose, much the same
as those of other men his mode of
relating them is peculiarly lits own.
The picturesque imagery with which
he adorns his speech may be an old
story in "God's country"—to «ne It
is a thing of wonder and a joy forever.
He came over "the big drink" some
months ago. He had a pleasant voy
age, saw no "tin fish," and had
plenty to eat—"six meals a day, three
up and three down." On arrival at
the port they got Into "the dinkiest
little train ever. Before it started
the captain asked for a key to wind
it up with. Sammy says that per
sonally he Intends to take one home
as a charm to hang on his watch
chain.
They went Into camp, where they
spent their time "hiking" about the
countryside. The "eats" here were
not overgood. They were given tea
"which tasted like the last water
Noah kept afloat in" and fish "that
was never caught but must have given
Itself up." However, they made their
motto, "Work like Helen B. Happy."
and stuck it out bravely. The only
thing that really "got their goat"
was having to sleep on terra flrma.
That, Sammy says, is Latin for "ter
ribly hard."
The "War Movie."
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
Speaking about "miles of smiles," ther4
is a pretty good sort of "movie" in
progress just now in the late European
war zones. In some quarters fear Is ex
pressed that'the Hun still hopes to make
it "n.iles of wiles," but we may trust
to Messrs. Foch, Haig, Pershing. Petain
,and others of that lustrous clan not to
!let the enemy go far In that direction.
American troops, spick and span in new
uniforms and with accouterments pol
ished are moving eastward to German soil:
on a wide front and below Metz. They]
are taking no chances with German
treachery.
Germans have given way In Brussels
to Belgians, who belong there and the
colors that King Albert loves are float'
lng where the hated standards of the.
Hohenzollern marred the scenery so long.
General von Falkenhausen, late Hun
governor general of Belgium, has skulked*
.away to an unknown destination, and
Admiral von Tirpitc, evil genius who was
most responsible for German submarine
piracy and murder, Is a fugitive to Swit
zerland.
William Hohenzollern, in Holland, alter
nates the wearing of his late royal ha
blliments with the garb of civilian life.
There he waits his spouse—and his fate.
Somewhere are the "six uninjured
sons," hated, but shielded from the pos
sible wrath of revolutionists or mobB.
On the flagship Queen Elizabeth, Rear
Admiral Beatty. of the British grand
fleet, receives the German naval dele
gates and tells them, as a stern school
master talking to unruly boys, where
they get off.
Mr. Charles Hapsburg, stripped of
kingly insignia, keeps close to his board
ing house in Vienna.
Grand dukes and lesser fry quit their,
easy money haunts in Saxe Coburg and
Gotha, Mecklenburg-Schwerin and other
German territory.
Took No Chances.
From the New York Times.
That the British naval men have not
gained since the signing of the armistice
any confidence in the honor of the men
who so recently were conducting a ruth
less warfare against them was shown
plainly enough by the elaborate precau
tions taken by Admiral Tyrwhitt while
receiving the first flotilla of German
submarines to be surrendered. He elimi
nated all possibilities either of injury to
his own vessels and their crews or of
losing by a last piece of characteristic,
trickery and desperation the prizes that
were coming at last into his hands.
Instead, the British admiral met the
undersea boats with a force of British,
ships of overwhelming strength, and ha
compelled the German crews to remain
on board, with the engine room staff
at their itasts and the others on deck,
till they were well within Harwich har
bor. Guns had to be pointed fore and
aft—necessarily harmless, that is, to the
British convoy fleet—and it was not until
British officers had examined each sub
marine and found it in the good order
required by the terms of the surrender
that the German crews were allowed to
transfer to the destroyers that came
along to take them home again.
8oldiering.
It makes me tired wheiv men com
plain of sleet or mud or wrind or rain.
They look out from a cozy room and
see the skies enwrapped in gloom, and
groan because they may get damp
while going for a postage stamp. The
soldier has to fight out doors, however
hard the wtaer pours/ he cannot sit
beside the fire and make a brutal foe
expire he cannot be^r a parasol to
shield him from the waterfall. The
soldier stays outdoors to flght, the
weary day, the bitter night he hears
his comrades' dying groans, the cold is
crawling through his bones. Methinks
that when the boys come back from
streaming trench and muddy track.
they'll look with pity and disdain, on
gents who murmur and complain. A
roan will say, "Ding bust the sleet!
It puts rheumatics in my feet! The
weather is the limit nowi confound this
climate, anyhow!" And then some sol
dier who has slept on battlefields by
tempest swept, will say, "A grown-up
shouldn't bawl—go home and get your
rubber doll." Oh, when the boys come
home again, we'll see a lot of man-size
men, and they may teach us to forget
our tendency to whine and fret.
TO MAKE MAN HAPPY.
Ruskin.
To watch the corn grow, and the
blossoms set. to «lraw hard breath
over plow share or spade, to read,
to think, to lovs, t» hop*, to pray.
these are the htngs that ntSva men 4
happy. "r.
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