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9The Omaha Bee ; ^ MO R N I N G—E VEWIW G—S U N P A Y : THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Puhli.k.r N. B. UPDIKE. President ; BALLARD DUNN. JOY U. HACKLER. . , Editor in Chief_ Business Manager ", MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS * 1 ' The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member, * is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all : : news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches are ! '4 alsp .reserved. The Omaha Bee Is a member of the Audit Bureau of r Circulations, tho recognized authority on circulation audits, 'l . and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by » their organizations. Entered as second-cla^s matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 3, 1879. j BEE TELEPHONES 1 - . fh-irate Branch Exchange. Ask for |.n»U 1 AAA . *.«4 $her Department or Person Wanted. 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CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES * , „ Morning and Sunday.1 month 85c, 1 week 20c v 1/ « Evening and Sunday......1 month 66c, 1 week 15c * Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 6c ? *• t._-— -y : — Omaha Vhefe llieM'st is a| its Best 9 l«‘ * --- WORDS FOR WOODROW WILSON. . 7k The ceremonial session of congress was a fitting ~* testimonial to the memory of Woodrow Wilson, * former president of the United States. Yet it only served to add to the number of# words spoken in praise rather than appraisal of the life and labor of a great man. That is a misfortune that follows all who have stood out above the crowd in their day. On one side are arrayed those who sing loud the ’ praise of the one who has passed on, on the other those who carp at him dead as they did when he ~ was living. We are still too near to see the true I picture of Woodrow Wilson. Lack of proper per ! spective prevents anything like a correct judgment 1 • of the value of the man or the benefit of his efforts. Z Yet, lacking that and judging solely by standards that are defective, the world pays tribute today to I; the man who had a vision. How far he failed to I; realize that vision, how much he was disappointed * , by that failure, falls outside the consideration. Out I* of the welter of the World War President Wilson * —saw rising a World Peace. So clearly did he see it failed to discern what lay between him and the IlLzPGak on which he hoped to plant humanity. It was his fault that men were unwilling to go along Z j'-the road he pointed. He had divested himself of 2 ZZJthosa impediments that hold men back. Others were » —Dot villing, however, to abandon what seemed to be 1 forms. So the idealism of Wilson went .——down. 2. • » » It is known now what was hinted at when the Paris conference was in session, that the practical “Z politicians of Omaha were not ready to turn from J|J the traditions of their calling. All the ins and outs, -S:"The byways and cul-de-sacs of time-tried diplomacy . were practiced, and out of the conference came not , * the basis of a world peace, but the shape of a world . into which was carried over the burdens of a dead , age. War had rocked and shattered, but had not de stroyed those elements of human division. What Woodrow Wilson had planned would be the struc Z^~ture of a new temple of Liberty has become the 11 labyrinth in which the forces of destruction are now Z > playing hide and seek. His efforts to liberate and Z L^restore the submerged peoples, hoping that they would aid in establishing the ideals he presented, so ~ "/far have produced only added confusion. Z Z2 Yet it would be rash to say that Woodrow Wilson "■ ‘labored in vain. Pessimists regard his work as fu 2 tile, but some who are as well qualified to pronounce ZTjudgment on it believe he sowed seed that yet will Z bring forth good fruit. Causes of discord have not Z all been removed. They grow less and less, how !, ZZ-ever, as days go by. Nations are turning more and ~VTnr)orc to their own affairs, and are finding in them * Z**frccupation sufficient. World politics are diminish • ^mg in value, even if the international mind is no longer so much talked of. In the gratification of proper national aspirations may yet be found a ; _ remedy for what so short a time ngo was regarded * as an unmitigated evil. m * * . ~■ Woodrow Wilson’s work has found one goal at ’ least. It forced men to revalne their relations. New 7 ~ estimates have been put upon things that hold at teution, especially the contacts between nations out * ''of which war might come. If there is earnest effort ’ ‘ anywhere today to seek for security against war, it may be ascribed to the earnest effort of our great war president to so knit the world together that war will be impossible. The time may never come, but ■ • if it does, it will be largely for the reason that Woodrow Wilson worked for it, sincerely and ..earnestly. ON THE MAKING OF OMELETTES. If a reason for the existence of the bolsheviki were wanted, it might ,be found in the squabble now ' going on between the remnant of the Romanoff , "“ family over the succession to the throne. New York’s exclusive set is entertaining the Grand Duchess Cyril, whose husband has just proclaimed j -tvmjelf czar of all the Russia*. He is reported to be "living in luxury on the Riviera, while certain • » v ' other members of the imperial family are toiling for cakes and coffee in Paris or other places where ***Myalty on its uppers gets a chance to earn a living. . JUarie Feodorovna, dowager empress of Russia, re . *"** yards Cyril’s proclamation as premature, for she i linw to the hope that her son was not murdered by tne reds. Nicolai Nicolayevitch, grand duke him-, self, also advises the scattered members of the im perial family to pay no attention to Cyril's claims. Some cynical commentator once remarked that kt omelettes can not be made without breaking egg*. And a considerable smashing of eggs has taken place in connection with Russian affairs sinre March, lit 17. When the actual fate of the czar and his unfor ■'JJL tunate family was learned, the world lost most of " ’ its Interest in the Romanoff family. The sordid butchery of father, mother und children at Kkaterin ^ berk aroused a resentment against the bolshevik gov J ernrnt'M that has not and perhaps never will be re moved. Yet this does not mean that, there is any great demand for a restoration of the czaristic re T*. gime in Russia, The soviet government contains the elements of Its own destruction.' Unless modified it will surely pass. We may not be sure that another Romanoff will not in time again sit on the imperial throne at Petrograd. If such be the case, and he is true to the traditions of his tribe, there will likely be another making of omelettes in holy Russia. Indeed, many eggs will be broken before that. Th« red army is loyal to the red government. It is extremely im probable that any other nation will back a Cyril or a Nicholas in an endeavor to regain the imperial crown. The next of the Romanoffs will find his path to imperial power much more difficult than did the last of the Bonapartes. MISINTERPRETS THE PROGRAM. The Blue Hill Leader takes rather violent ex ceptions to the good roads program as outlined in The Omaha Bee and endorsed by the Nebraska Good Roads association. It will be evident to those reading the Blue Hill Leader’s criticism, published elsewhere, that the Leader does not understand the program. The program has not been outlined wholly by the “big cities,’’ as the Leader claims. It is not planned to “build paved roads to the cities,’’ but to build permanent roads in all directions. It is not true, as stated by the Leader that the proponents of the good roads program would oppose the move ment if the roads led to other than the big cities. Nor is it true that “they are not going to make better roads for the rural people of the state.” The truth is exactly the opposite. With these excep tions noted, and others not noted, the Leader has merely convicted itself of not grasping to any ex ! tent the real purpose of the association. The. Blue Hill publication line* up with the op position much as the Irishman lined up in opposition to the ditch-digging machine, and as men in other days lined up in opposition to labor-saving machinery. Pubic roads must be developed as lailroads were developed, by building main lines first, and branch lines later. The Nebraska Good Roads association has the rural roads matter in view. Its membership realizes that the so called rural roads are of im portance and must be taken care of as quickly as possible. But the whole good roads program of Nebraska, and of every other state, would be de feated at the outset by first building permanent loads in the isolated sections and lead them up to arterial highways still left to mud and bogholes. The business interests of Nebraska's largest cities do not get their business from the state highways; they get it over the state highways, but it originates in the sections back from those highways, and com mon sense dictates that what the Blue Hill Leader calls “roads for the rural people” are of prime im portance. The politics of the question has no interest what soever for The Omaha Bee. It is interested only in good roads and the best and speediest method of securing them. TWO PROMISING YOUNGSTERS. It-just so happens that the 15th day of Decem ber is notable because it is the birthday of two of Omaha's most promising young men. Isaac Walton Minor picked that as a good day to start from back in 1847. When it came James Charles Dahlman's turn, in 1866, he endorsed “Ike's” judgment, and took the 16th of December for his birthday, too. Other men and women have been born on the same day, and all have found it good, but probably none of them think as much of it as do Ike and Jim. What does it amount to? Well, what would the Omaha lodge of Elks have done for a secretary for lo, these many years, if had not been for the 15th of December bringing Ike Minor into the world? When you have solved that problem, give thought to the plight Omaha would have encountered for want of a mayor. Term after term one or another man was tried in that office, and none looked good enough to keep forever, till along came Jim Dahl man. A lot of people are not aware of the fact that he was picked for the place by “Doc” Brown of Lin coln. That is a fact. Brown named Dahlman for mayor of Omaha months before anyone else, much less the mayor, thought of such a thing. However, the Elks got an everlasting secretary and Omaha a durable mayor, just because the loth of December happens to be a good day on which to he born. These promising youngsters of 77 and 68 look ahead to further years of usefulness, and we, in company with their countless friends and admir ers, hope they will realize their ambition. Minor has a dread of growing old. while Dahlman doesn’t care. That is the difference between a republican and • democrat. When a man gets so he really cares, he vote* the republican ticket. They are digging up cross-word puzzles while excavating tombs in Egypt. Perhaps Moses over looked chronicling all the plagues visited upon Pharoah for the purpose of making him mad enough to let the Israelites go. We gather from the expressed opinions of a few that Chancellor Avery should be deposed because the parents of a lot of boys allow them money enough to join the university fraternities. The first cross-word puzzle that we know any thing about is the one Belshazzer sprung on Daniel on the occasion of a memorable banquet. Conan Doyle insists that everybody in heaven will work. That is going to make the work of the ministers increasingly difficult. Perhaps those New Yorkers are demanding better transit in order to make it easier for lambs to reach Wall Street. Elmer Thomas’ threat of an arid New Year cele bration should not be taken as a bit of dry humor. < Homespun Verse — By Omaha’s Own Post— Robert Worthington^Davic k_1_/ WINTER DAYS. Away lust summer there was hot So m/my things to buy; The dny* were long, the day* were hot. And so tit times wns I. My weekly wage looked bigger then Than now It Is. I swear. But winter days have mine again With much expense and care. The furnace hum* from morn till night. And with the smoke ascends Ho many dollars from my sight To those unmeasured ends. There’s overcoats and overshoes. And caps and glove* to buy; It makes a fellow get the blue*. And wish that he could die. And then, along with winter's needs Which are Indeed enough, A tiny, little skeezlx pleads T‘V>r toy* and trinket stuff, And t'hriatma* I* not far away. But I must hope rod sinIP Kor Ploumln*. Inexpenslxe Mac Will come back after while , Better Show ’Em to Papa Before Mailing to , Santa. Papa May Want to Add a Line Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Com munications of 200 words and lets will be given preference. V About a Raise in Street far Fare*. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: One Omaha city cominis sioner says: 1 think the people of Omaha are entitled to know why the street car company should get 7 per cent interest on the fourteen millions of valuation, which the railway com mission says their property I* worth, when ten millions of that amount is represented by 5 per cent bonds. Seven per rent on the fourteen million* will mean a net revenue of 1980.000 a year. Five hundred thousand dollars will pay the bond interest, leaving $480, 000 to pay a return on the other $4. 000,000 of valuation, or 12 per cent net. Reduce this by 5 per rent or $200,000, would only require $280,000, to pay 7 per cent on the actual stock investment and valuation, less bonds, or $4,000,000. If the street car company is re keyed of the occupation and paving tax, this tax would lie added to our already excessive taxes on our homes and other property, and If fares sre Increased the street car riders are the ones that will have to pay, not the automobile owners, who pay very lit tle revenue to the street car company. At least these latter should have very little to say as to Increase In street car fares unless they would consent to a tax of $5 to $10 a year on each one of their automobiles to help the street car company from going bank rupt. as represented by certain com mittee*. In San Francisco the fare is 5 rents and they pile lip millions In surplus Why not In Omaha? In my opinion the street car com pany is making good money, regard less If the forget to mention about their tremendous revenue from their Iiouglns street toll bridge. As to this eyesore to every traveler compelled to use it, 1 would suggest to those boosters for a Greater Omaha and Council Bluffs that they get busy and have these two cities buy It and make a free bridge out of It. Instead of Its being as now the only loll bridge on a main highway between Mew York and San Francisco. 1 am told a fair valuation of this bridge would lie around $1,000,000. It would not be a very great Job to And this money If the people of these two cities would sanction the condemns tlon and purchase of this bridge. A mllllon-doilar, JO-year f> per cent Imnd Issue, two-thirds payable by the city of Omaha and one third by the city of Council Bluffs, would do the Job. Th* Interest would be $50,000 yearly, and a yearly reserve fund of $15,000 f-> Abe Martin | > Squire Marrh Swallow hn* quit la*tin' evidence an’ i* u*in’ n guinea pig. Of all !h’ visitor* that come t' thix country from abroad we l»e llevp wr like th' vaudeville acrobat* th' beat. , (Cop)ii»ht. 1)1) ' f--- " N Opposes Good Roads Program V---' From the D!u« Hill (Neb) header: A whole page of Sunday's Omaha Bee was devoted to a cartoon that would make lngelskle patients laugh. It was a propaganda cartoon. One depicting Nebraska as floundering in mud. It was addressed to the Nebraska legislature. It was an In sult to that body. Nowhere in the world is there to be found such good dirt roads as are found in Ne braska. To depict it otherwise to the end of extracting $8,000,000 an nually out of the taxpayer s pockets for a period of six years, is to lie about Nebraska. Forty eight million dollars in six years is what The Omaha Bee is legging for. That is six times more than the capltol building will cost completed. A legis iature that passes any such a meas ure. will never legislate for Nebraska again. There is a limit to all things. There is a limit *> this good load pro gram. To load the people down with an intolerable burden of taxes, levied first one way and then another, means nothing more or less than con f scatloti of property. Whence comes this demand for such a colossal ex pendlture uia>n our highways’ It comes from the big cities of the state and nowhere else They are de sirous of paved roads leading from these metropolitan cities. If they led elsewhere, they would be opposed They are not going to make better roads for the rural people of this state. That isn't the Good Roads program. They insist on spending every dollar that will be spent, be tween the larger cities of the stnto to $;0.000 to pay off bonds when due. payable In proportion by thi two cities, would tie a small outlay com pared to the financial benefit* derived from the increase in business between the two cities and the pleasure of spending their money in the open gateway of the west by the many tour ist* and continental travelers R l ACTION. Tables Turned. Hy What caused the accident ? Cy -My flivver shied at a horse some city dud was riding—-Cincin nati Enquirer. W hen in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Baths—Rites $2 to $3 and for state roads alone. That is the program. It is an unjust pro gram. It is the program of big business and not the program of the little country merchant and the rural citizenship of Nebraska. It ought to l»e defeated. It will defeat the party that puts It over at the next electon LEAVES FROM THE BOOK. OF NEBRASKA rBy c „ the Light of ^ 1 Kerosene Lamps ONE of the daily tasks of the prairie mother of homestead ing days was cleaning and filling the lamps and polish ing the chimneys. It was pan of her endless round of work that brightened the home life of the prairie family. I For little sod or crude frame houses, out on the almost tree- / less plains, the mothers of Nebraska gave up old homes and conveniences of the longer-settled east to found new homes, far from old friends. Only the glow from kerosene lamps on distant claims cut the darkness and told of distant neighbors, j Then the transplanted cottonwoods began to give shade and f shelter. After a few crops, a new house. New conveniences for making living more pleasant -followed. The new school was nearer. Trips to town became more frequent. The bank account grew. Visits were exchanged between the old home in one of the big I s and the new home in Nebraska. The new railroad came and then the automobile. The pioneer life, the years of lonely isolation, ceaseless toil and monotony, became a memory. Nebraska has grown up—by the light of kerosene lamps. The lamp on the lonesome plain, the pump and back-break ing wash days were banished when the gasoline-dnven engine came w ith its electric apparatus which circulates water, runs the washing machine and supplies light in parlor, kitchen, bed room and barn. The improved oil cookstove makes the farm kitchen as comfortable in summer as any in the city right on the gas main. Serving Nebraska in town and country since homesteading days, and providing adequate and convenient supplies of gaso line and kerosene w here needed, the Standard Oil Company is an old settler. Organized and chattered under Nebraska law s, understanding Nebraska's requirements, doing business in practically no other state, directed and operated by Nebraska residents, the Stand ard Oil Company of Nebraska is a Nebraska institution. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEB*ASKA .Vm O/fut: OMAHA Off,*,: LINCOLN HASTINGS NORTH PLATT! V k CT'ms it m nf • mitt ✓ W J. trrtt’fmtmti t« n A»> Atrtnair it.rarnti in Stir*<ks *7 will At faiw/. If TM Jntrtn tt Itutfltti -.if f fAm, ;m*t lA/ StsndtrrJ < V (>«Ant V Nnirmiis nmJ tin ttmfUtt ttnn util in wiW tf tnnsj snm ns tin Utt sJtvtunmnt ku ntfnnrui. rt A . > A H RICHARDSON GEO M SMITH H. V. MERFONT CN HUMPHREY Prtiuinit Vttr-PrtnJmt S*r-TVma. ,<«f G*m. Mf ' ■■ --—-—J —————^ LSUNNY S®E UPI j Hake Comfort, nor forget , QhatSunrise ne^er/aUeduj^etr^ _—- — — We are voicing no man’i opinion but our own "'hel\'ve re mark that Dr, Pinto, health commissioner, is orating through his headgear about a matter on which he is either uninformed or misinformed. It is mighty easy for a mere man to talk about the glories of bearing children and sing about the *acr®”’ ness of motherhood. He doesn’t have to go down into the Valley of the Shadow to bring back the little body that Is to house the soul. It Isn’t his brow that Is beaded with the sweat drops of agony. All he has to do Is thrust his thumbs into the armholes of his vest and parade around. It is easy for him to prance off down town, swelled up like a poisoned pup, and buy Cigars for the gang to celebrate the birth of HIS son and heir, hut It is different with the pale, wan mother who cuddles rgainst her breast the babe she tiuffered the agonies of death to bear V\> don’t care three separate and distinct yvhoops v, hat l)r. Pinto thinks about chillies* marriage*, and even less about his suggested remedy. Hut we are willing to listen while the mothers express their views. j Acknowledging here some kindly words from L. D. Kieharda of Fremont. “Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise in« j deed!” Compliments, however undeserved, corning from pio neers who have contributed so much to the building of Ne braska. always go Into the old tin box containing the most val uable family treasures, and that’s where Mr. Richards' letter has been placed for preservation. We’ll let you into a little professional secret. The verso writers are not now engaged In writing their Christmas verses. , It is the Fourth of July verses that engages their attention. j The crippled newsboy—only he is a man—at Sixteenth and Farnam doesn't let his affliction interfere with his sense of humor. The other day we d splayed a nickel and pointed to a certain .magazine ‘'All right, here’s one 'Patrick Henry,”* he said, and handed us the periodical we wanted. We believe that the safetv tlrst Idea is carried to the nth degree by the man who wear* suspenders w.th his belt. He who worries about the Christmas bills loses all the joy __ of the Christmas time. Every now and then we hear complaints about the growing scarcity of girls who know how to keep house. The explana tion is simple. There is a growtng scarcity of young men who know how to provide the house. Among other things that make us smile Is hearing a fat man with a belted overcoat complaining about styles of femi nine wear. A sprig of mistletoe may be a good excuse, but we haven't much patience with the young fellow who puts his sole de pendence upon it. A Nebraska man who lias reached the age of 107 attributes his longevity to the fact that he "has always had access to plenty of good whisky." But think how much older he might ha\e been if he had been a teetotaler all hi? life. Besides, what does he mean by access? We lack about 40 years of his age, and we are interested. Speaking of I)r. Pinto and his proposal, we take occasion here to remark that while we admire his courage we cannot think highly of his discretion. Evidently mistaking the location thereof. "Anxious In oulrer" writes in to ask If this new epidemic among chicken* is "painter s colic.” He is mistaken in the chickene. WILL M MAUPIJf. i