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The Omaha Sunday Bee OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1917. Comb Honey j By EDWARD BLACK. Camouflage. The art of confusing the enemy by tricks and artifices is being empha sized during this great war, the French having demonstrated their wonderful ingenuity. The art is known as "camouflage, a French phrase which is now English by adop tion. It is th art of deception, mak ing things appear what they are not. Camouflage, however, is not a new art Get out your Shakespeare and turn to the fourth scene of the fifth act of Macbeth, and read what Mal colm says to his men: "Let each soldier hew him down a bough and bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow "The number of our host, and make discovery err in report of us." And in scene vi: "Now, near enough; your leafy screens throw down, , "And show like those you are Thus did Birnam wood move toward Dunsinane. Shakespeare evidently knew something of camouflage when he wrote "Macbeth." For further evidence of ancient camouflage we might turn to the story of the wooden horse of Troy, the great wooden horse which was admit ted because of its innocent appearance and when once inside the city gates opened up and soldiers jumped out ac cording to plans. We read of the French changing the appearance of 10,000 soldiers to ap pear as 1.000 and blending all sorts of war paraphernalia into the scenery in luch a manner as to make the former Invisible at a distance. The thought occurs that the Americans would be overlooking a bet if they do not use the mule in their camouflage activ ities. We would suggest, for instance, that 1.000 Missouri mules be painted to resemble cows, and turn them loose o that they will get into the enemy lines, where the Boches will capture them. Milk is at a premium in Ger many. The Germans would attempt, to milk these pseudo-cows and the re sult would be worth "going over the top" to observe. This, however, might be carrying the cruelties of war to an unreasonable limit, but it has been said that all is fair in love and war. Thanks. "Vox Populi," one of the 100,000,000 readers of "Comb Honey," sends in this contribution: "I read in the news papers that Gilford Pinchot, special lieutenant to Food Administrator Herbert Hoover, made tnis statement t the Second National Swine show, at South Side: 'The hog wi win the war.' Does he mean, that we have a fat chance of winning the war? Stamped envelope enclosed lor reply ' Our Weekly French Lesson. 1 Our French word this morninfe is "faux. pas,' pronounced "faw paw," meaning false step, or misdirected iction or word. If yoii step on a bar uf soap in the bathroom, you should .say you made a faux pas. To illus trate further, the kaiser made a faux pas when he stepped on Uncle Sam's toes. You may all write a sentence with the word taux pas. Heard En Passant. , l ill cu uuiSKiy x t,an i ate Biiai(jiH, i "You just can't say a wrong word when my sister is around; she sure will correct you." "I irnneri mw mjn Irniurrs this, morning and did not know there was a dollar bill in a pocket. . . a "I would have given the world if I -ould have slept this morning. "He is handsome and he knows it." Grote History ofOmak All fiie Irutti and untrufli Ihafe fit io lenow T By A Chapter XXXVI Politics. The scope of this history is so broad that it cannot take in the nu merous men who were governor, sen ator, etc., of Nebraska. This can be left to small-caliber historians. It is interesting to note, however, the prominence that Omaha attained at an early date ii. national politics. Even back in 1892 the enterprising citizens attempted to get the national republican convention to meet here. The invitation was declined by the republican party leaders and they went down to defeat in the election which followed, perhaps seeing their mistakewhen it was too late. The large eastern cities were jealous of the young city, of the west. They had the power to keep the conven tion, but they could not swing the election, and Grover Cleveland, demo crat, was elected over William Mc Kinley, republican The next three years were marked by crop failures and in the fourth year Bryan descended upon the coun try. It was a most disastrous time, indeed. Mr. Bryan was not elected, but the shock of having him run was enough to paralyze the country for several years. , Omaha, not discouraged by failing to get the republican convention, went right out after another and was suc cessful in landing the national con vention of the people's party, which nominated Tames h: Weaver r( Towa R. GROH - shot and hung ci to him until assist ance arrived. Dixon was tried in the federal court at Omaha and found guilty. Judge Dundy sentenced him to "hang by the neck until dead,' but all sorts of things came up to save Dixon. He was the luckiest man alive. The judge sentenced hin to be hanged April 22, but the county commissioners dis played a verv self;sh snirit bv re f"s'ng Introducing Or. Oscar Putt We have with us tonight Dr. Oscar Putt, the famous tree surgeon of Vii- '.isca, la, He has never been known o eet out on a limb or bark up the wrong tree.' He may be something ITTTmim,!,' II ' -TO-ITT.T 111 I I II II -TTTne)1 Ike luckiest man alive ' for president. Mr. Weaver lacked only about 4,500,000 votes of baing elected when the ballots were counted. This year was marked also by the trial and hanging of Clinton E. Dixon at Omaha. While this is not, strictly speaking, a political event, it can be treated lierc. Dixon was a trumpeter in tne Sixtn unued states cavalry. He called Corporal John Carter out of his tent one night and shot him. Carter grabbed Dixon after he was of a trimmer, but he has nice folks. He set the style of carrying "tooth brush and comb in vest potket. The doctor is not a lounge-lizard, as his critics have charged. He cam clean trom Montgomery county, Iowa, to speak to you four minutes on, As the twig will grow, so tne tree is bent." - Whit did dte country sujfetna? to allow the Douglas county jaij to be used for the ceremonies. So the government postponed the execution until May 20. At that time the general conference of the Metho dist churchwas being held in .Omaha and it was 'decided that having a hanging here tlien would cast a sort of damperaon the conference. So the judge put it off again until June 17. but that happened to be the day when the grand lodge of. Masons of Ne braska met in Omaha and United States Marshal B. D. Slaughter was grand master. Naturally Mr. Slaugh ter djd, not want to superintend the hanging of Dixon that day. So the hanging was again postponed for one wccW, If his luck had held out Dixon might be living yet, but it did not .and he was hanged on June 24, 1892. Questions on Chapter XXXVI. 1. Why did Omaha lose out on the republican national convention in 1892? What was the result of the election? 2. What convention did Omaha se cure. 3. What did the country suffer from in 1893-95? In 1896? HoWO imallia Sapfy zDive in Illinois Prepares fot QfeaxeP X Til I BY. A. EDWIN LONG. As i meddlesome kid he fell in a well in Carthage, 111., and if his big unci hadn't been on the spot to man age the rescue, Browning-King com pany if Omaha would not have George T. Wilson as its manager to day. Refrigterators were hot so nu merous then, and Wilson's mother used to let the butter, and other dishes down into the jwell to cool dur ing the day. She kept a big broad ironing board lying over the well as a cover. When she sent George to the well t put the butter down, his thoughts were on the last game of shinny he had played at school, and he stumbled along looking up into a tree for a crooked branch that would make a choice shinny club. Stumbing along like a blind dog in tall oats, he kicked the ironing board aside, and stepped right into the well. Butter and boy went crashing to the bottom. There, was a mighty splash. The butter bobbed up and down silently in the water. The boy bobbed up and down gurgling for help. 'Mother and uncle responded. The uncle put his hands to his mouth, like a Kerensky in the field, and shouted down the well: "Hold on to the pump." So the boy clutched at the green; sltmy trunk of the old woode.. pump. Meantime uncle wedged his own heels into the curbing at the top, and sus pended himself down into the well as far as he could, endeavoring to reach the youngster. There was still much distance between the two, but young Wilson was' climbing the slippery trunk of the pump, "I know what the boys go up against on the Fourth of July in rural towns when they try to climb the greased pole," said Wilson, "for I was climbing worse than a greased pole that day. I would gain a foot or Everybody Has a Hobby! V hat's Yours? Ad Interim. Willie, perusing the theater pro gram, overheard his ma and pa com menting on an unusual wait between acts. "I know the reason," proudly in terposed Willie, "the program says four months elapse between the sec ond and third acts." Angels. , " ' j' ' 'She I read that they are disputing again over the sex of the angels. He-Whv, I thought all s women were angels. She That's what the men say be fore they are married. He Present company excepted. She Will you always think that I am an angel? ' . He Do you doubt me? Ernest Sweet plays golf. That, you probably say, is enough; if a man plays golf, golf must be his hobby. You're wrong, for Sweet's pet hobby is watching Sam Reynolds play golf. Sweet plays a lot of golf, and good golf, top; he's one of thx Field club cracks and generally gathers in quite a collection of trophies during the playing season.. But Sweet would pass up an opportunity to capture the niftiest trophy the Field cluB ever put out to follow Sam Reynolds around in a championship match. Sweet believes Reynolds is ie world's creatsst Kolfer and whenever Rey nolds is playing in a tournament he is always sure to have one supporter in the gallery. And when Sam gets trimmed, as occasionally he does, Sweet feels worse about it than Sam does himself. Even superintendent 6f public schools has time to have a hobby. Superintendent J. H. Bevcridge's hobby is corn. Whenever he gets into the country his"eyes unconscious ly turn to the fields of corn. He can ko into a corn field and estimate the yield within a close figure. Last year lie figured that his father-in-law's 100- acre field would yield 4,uuu busneis, or forty bushels per acre. The yield was 3,750 bushels, which was 6 per cent less than the Bevendge estimate. Omaha's new school superintendent makes a study of corn blight, growing conditions, selection of seed and adaptability of various soils to corn production. Mr. Beveridge declares there is mote genome interest in a corn field than' the average person believes. He looks upon a fine stand of corn as something majestic in the kingdom of cereals. J. W. Elwood, taxidermist extraor dinary, hasn't a, hobby; he's got a flock of them. Anything that can get a few lines on the sport page is one of Elwood's hobbies; he's a fiend for any and all kinds of sport. Whenever any big sport events are held in the neighborhood of the Gate City, the odds are twenty to one with no takers that Elwood will be there. Elwood's pet hobbies are boxing and wrestling, but he's strong for base ball, foot ball, shooting, golf and all the rest of them. He only draws the line when he gets down to checkers and chess. John Norberg, bailiff in the division of equity court, presided over by Judge Day, has a hobby of wanting everyone to have enough to 'eat. He could be called an epicure. Mr. Nor berg is forever inviting young people among them hungry newspapermen to his house for dinner. Both 'he and his wife are noted for their hos pitality and they both seemingly take great delight in watching guests stuff themselves with the array of inviting food that always is found on the Nor berg table. The Norbergs each year have one of the finest private gardens in Omaha. This year they raised more than twenty different varieties of vegetables. Their dinners table al ways grcans under the weight of homegrrjwn vegetables during the garden season. Several weeks ago they responded to the appeal to in vite .soldiers to dinner by asking a couple of homesick lads in khaki who hadn't had much home cooking in some time,.out to their house. When these soldiers left Omaha and went to training camps they wrote back to Mr. and Mrs. Norberg praising the dinner iney iiau caicu auu . t-uiupu-menting them on knowing how to trea a couple of lonesome, homesick boys. The Weekly Bumble Bee Get 'Em? They Are the Architects Who Design Our Big Buildings ,and Beautiful Modern Homes of Today HOW THEY ONCE LOOKED J ' HOW THEY LOOK NOW V , . . j (eo.Titsotti then slip 14 inches. ' and two br th -ee feet. And. mind you, I wasn't climbing for a pocket knife or a red balloon; 1 was climbing for life." When he had clawed all the moss off the wooden trunk, he got high enough in his climb, so that his uncle laid hold of him and boosted him out He was born on the banks of the Mississippi, in Warsaw, 111. When he was a baby he was taken to Carthage by his parents. Besides falling in the well, he used to play around the old Mormon jail in which Joseph Smith was assassinated. But that did not fire his imagination. There was no romance in this boy he wanted to go west, get into a business life,' and grow up with a mighty city like Oma ha. He wanted some one to give him a job, just to try him out. He just dared anyone to give him a job. Landing in Omaha with no funds in 1889, he stepped down to the Union Pacific and dared General Manager Ed Dickinson to give him a job. "I was a green country kid with roasting ears sticking out of my pockets," says Wilson, now that he recalls the in cident. "Why, what can you, do?" growled the railroad (manager, as he scowled over his glases. : ' "Anything that anybody else can do," snapped the boy. "You're hired right now." replied Dickinson, as he took' off his glasses back Hmd leaned back to contemplate th boy more closely. So Wilson became a clerk in the Qmaha Demurrage bureau. After a few years he began to sell clothing for the Browning-King company of Omaha at $6 a week, and before he quit, he was actually getting $15 a week, and had the position of cashier. But heflew the job in 1891 and re turned to Carthage. After inspecting the old well there, he engaged in the coal and ice business. Next he wrote insurance iji Quincy, 111., and soon found himself general agent for the company and stationed at Dallas, Tex. Then fate dragged him back, to Omaha.. His uncle, Lou W. Hill, of Omaha, died, andyoung Wilson was called here to look after the uncle's real estate and insurance- business. That was in 1907. For five years he followed this business, and in 1912, stepped back into the Browning-King establishment to become 'manager there. "I used to have 40 shinny clubs in . Carthage, of all different shapes and sizes, and each one dearer to my heart., it seemed, than the other," said Wilson, "and here I am in Oma ha popping golf balls around with factory-made clubs with brass tips. They don't look as good to me as the old shinny dubs did." . Next In This Strles How Omaha Cot H. R. Cre gory. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1917. THE BUMBLE BEE. A BTINQEK, EDITOR. Commuftlcatlona on any topic received, , without postage or signature. None returned. no Ads at axt trice. i Jo&xlaexser J.3f.CraJJci. IF.W.ClarJce SCOUTS. Whether the Boy Scouts jelpI materially or not In the tale " t Liberty bonds. It yet re nains trua they did something !or which they are entitled to treat credit and tor wnicn they will receivo but little. It lies In the fact that they went :ut on one of the most beauti ful fall Jays that ever called to a boy to come and play and gave their time to the service of their .country, Instead of seek ing their own pleasure. In this they set an example that might well be taken note of by some of their elders. BUSY. Alt the Nebraska senators and congressmen are home, save Dan Stevens. w-o has son o Eu rope, and they are all busy tell ing thetrronstltuents not to crit icise congress. Certainly not. but line ot th n. will be fai bust. y w.. .ni.il.,. next Sanson, it in- n.w . take to convince the voters tbat all congresi did wa well done. Especially those fellows, who stood for non-resistance up to the last dttch. LABELED. the baker knows where be stands on the bookB of k. fnort administrator, and ho Knight be surprised to learn how hany housewives tninit 01 nun . ,-onnectlon with the hign cost ot living. RECORD. Lieutenant Goodale holds at rord at the balloon school. He is the only one of ,h. in who has cone up ana walked back. Bet Ed Howard Iee! thank ful everv lime he wakes up flnrta that Keith Neville lasn't been ordered out during he night. r- iwklnEham's remarks on philosophy reminds us ot iav reason for a fat man's good na ture he ha to, be. Taft Is right on one point, il. We've got to win this war before we Ho any thing else. Mayor Jim is clever: watch him und the track for the tnuny coal yard. Rllmre doesn't Indlcato that folks have overlooked the ichool bonds. WHY DOES LANDLORD EXPECT TO BE PAID BY GUESTS FOR HIS GRUB Ancient Pistol's Maxim, for the Case Applies Today as It Djd In Falstaff'e Tlm. "Base Is the slave that pays,!" inno "ced Ancient Pis'o!. vhn the landlord presented him nls reckoning. And the bumptious captain has many ; disciples in this far-off day. Ot Is conceivable; nay. it I1I be admitted, that some must HOPE DEFERRED MAKES IOWA VOTE LOCK LIKE "MANNA TO FAMISHING Glimpse of Promised Draughts of Wild Cow's Milk is Cut Off by Sjhadow of Dry Xaw. 'Hope springs eternal In Uie human breast." but that is no reason for starting a boom over In East Omaha, Any -sort of oasis would be wel onm the tarnished, who saw a beautiful mirage east of the Missouri river' last weeK. aibs: pay. else the caravansary could-i Fondest hopes are soon blighted. not provide sustenance ana cue fnr thoso who do not. But it must yet be inststea inai soms are of such desree their very countenance snouia De sui flcient reward for whomsoever they favor with the privilege of ministering unto tneir nouny needs. These are they among whom Captain Pistol reckoned himself. Why should they pay? Does the Illy of the field settle lth a la"d!ord7 We trow not Then, prithee, why dots the landlord expect one who Is far hove the lily ot the. new in B'ate and person to' come across? Perish - the thouglit. Ancient Pistol was right. , ' ' LICK. Our esteemed Ministerial union seems to have had uncommonly bad luck In picking out its speakers this year. What's the matter with finding out where the talker stands before letting him talk? Free speech may easily become too free .these days. VERSATILE. ' One 'of the witnesses in the Chadron case has changed her mind, the unquestioned' right of any woman, and will testify for the other side a the present hearing. This Just makes It a standoff, and shows the young lady's versatility. CARELESS." K Trying to "camouflage' a'-ckr- load of coffin varnlsb to look like macaront comes pretty near being the limit of some Mn What about the sleuth who recognized the booze by its weight? Contract to construct the muny Ice plant has been let, and maybe when next summer's sun n-.rm thlnrs no the house holder will see whether the plan works as well as ioihs expecu ' TEST. Add public nuisances: the fellow who Jumps to get ahead nf von In the street car, and then stops to think where he had Intended to 6" Iowa may have aeenneu 10 adopt a constitutional amena ment fastening prohibition on ih.' i,i, u Dart of Its funda mental law. but in spite of this, it wHl yet remain an arid waste. Long, lone B. e llawkeye .lulutfirs rvised a Ha'vuylxed steel, fire and burglar proof law that il 'still on the books and ,tt to ka) the Bin m' 1 in iio itate of Innocuous desuetude. Many weajy days yet await the time when even a faint glimmer ef light will fhlne across the path or omj. i. m "" ever, the bootlegger, who has been doing business since 1881, will continue to iiounso. BLUJiDEB. That Wyoming school board Yt v 'ds 2 I' . lis -teachers on the Job hasjnade the mistake of .-thinking the school house a more attractive place-than the home. .It's hard to keep a girl tied down to at tending to other folks' children w " i r't " ' ' t, after her own exclusively, and maybe find a llttlo time to de vote to the. neighbors as well. ' 3 RESULTS. ' ' ' "The undisputed possession ot a setter dog for three months will make a liar out ot the no blest man living." wrote H. C. Bunnsc long ago. And we know a lot of fellows who have owned setter doge ,for years. V BUXK. Somebody Is always taking the Joy out of lKe. Dan Butler stands alone In effort to instruct the United States government on how to proceed. But Dan will always be able to refer voters to his motion. ' ' ; STEADY. Btory Is told that Walt Jar Alne walked to the edge of the roof on the Masonic temple and looked over without falling. But Walt can. get closer to the edee than that without dropping off. . - SAD. George Parks Is going to fiad out what Tom Flynn learned a long time ago that nature can not always be depended upon to 'lush the ctty streets In Ute (all. IN OUR TOWN. Norrls Brown had a party ovtr at the Fontenelle. Joe Barker was out last fiXel selling something besides Insur ance. Charley Black made a apeecfe at the Boyd between acts Thurs day night. Charley Sloan shook hands with tho boys, on Monday. He's tooklng well. Herb Shumway was down .rorn Wakefield last week. Herb isn't running for anything thia season. Mose Klnkaid stopped off be tween trains. He couldn't stay .ong. as he wanted to see how things look up In the Big Sixth. Our old friend, "Bill" Taft was in town Friday, looking after a bit ot business he Is interested in something to do with the war. Charlie Fairbanks was In Oma ha Thursday evening and took In most of the theaters, alonir with John L. Kennedy. They en Joyed the trip a lot. BONDS. Wo want to. endorse every word that has been said about the Liberty bonds, and to add a word of our own. The man who holds back his money and doesn't loan It to Uncle Sam Is in effect loaning It to the kaiser. We have two honor tolls In this country today one is the muster roll of the army, the other that of the LlbSrty bond subscription. ' Every man's name 'should be on one or tho other. FLIVVER. Al Kugel's stolen flivver was. found standing in the middle of the road. Al says the thieves worked oa it quite a while, and then 'said "What's the use I" . ' - HUSTLE. Cupid will have to keep stirring, even with war to help him out, if he is going to keep up with tho local divorce courts. GROWTp. Pa Rourke wants to get Omaha Into a blglfer league next year. He'd betterif he expects to do any business. UNCOUTH. A friend says that Lincoln landlord la uncouth. That pretty nearly expresses It. SONG. Every little Bond -you buy Helps knock the ' Kaiser high.