Tägliche Omaha Tribüne. (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, May 23, 1919, Page 7, Image 7
,Seite Omaha TriöUne-Frottag, ffcn 23. Mai 1919'. ; R f i i IIP IVliatAroVoConlingTor Toronto "Slatcsrnan" Asks $ipific2nt Qucsticn in Discussing Operation es Tenperanca Act. "The Statesrnan", püblishe'd weekly at Toronto, Canada, com plains bitterly of the miscarriage vof the temperance law in the, pro- vince of Ontario. Keternng to previous reports of the lament able results 01 the law and its concomitant evils, and reviewing condition as , they were at the time of the writing, the "States-: ,man" says editorially under the caption: "What are we coming to?"i x It must have been with amaze jnent, no less than with indigna Jion, that all whose minds are eet on those Ideals dcar to all who love good government, read the appalling disclosurcs resul tant frora the investigation into the aecounts of the Liccnse De partment in the Public Aecounts Committee of the Ontario Legis lature. It is difsicult to speak Hvtth Moderation of the sorry sind sordid and squalid tale that Wai there unfoldccL It is even more difsicult to imagine honor- able and high-minded men con templating with something ap parently like equanimity the hör rible condition of affairs which has resulted from the working ot the Ontario Temperance Act and its shameful System of espio- nage .... .Oppression, Korruption and Care lessness. Oppression in some quarters, Korruption in others ,and the lnost culpable carelessness in pthers have marked the conduct iof men ofsicially entrusted with jthe working of the System of jespjonage for which the Ontario iemperance Act is responsible, fWe are quite sure that the gene- xal body of citizens could have ffiad httle previous idea of the di jnensions which this detestable System of espionage has attained an this Province. As regards the oppressive conduct of many of pts degraded agents for. ihe (Professional spotter" seems to us ;io oe one 01 ine. most acspicaDie pl all the various ways in which men, or, rather, creatures in the f emblance of men, can earn a li '.elihood. Even Mr. J. D. Fla nelle .the chairman of the Onta-j-fo License Board, was con Mrained practically to admit this. He stated that, from time to jtime, he had had occasion to warn the ofsicers of the depart ment about arbitrary action." On .the 13th of March ,about a week lifter Col. Machin, M.P.P., had Made bis vigorous protest, rela tive to the "Sin Hounds" and their methods, in. the Ontario Le gislative, he had sent out an in fctruction to the "spotters", or pies, as we prefer to call them, couched in very plain terms, tel iing them that no person's bag gage was to be searched unless there was good ground for be Jieving that liquor was being car ried, and that, under no circurn fctances, should an official scarch person without a warrant. JTerrorizing of Citizens by Agents. 'Great Heavensl Are .we liv Ing in free Ontario, or in Russia, under the old regime, that such instructions should be necessary? (For it is quite plain that they .would not have been sent had not the bullying and bulldozingltreated in the most arbitrary and procedure of many of these o called "öfficials" amply warrant ed them. In fact, jt is common Knowledge that the tracking 'down and terrorizing of citizens by the stränge agents employed in the supposed interests of mo ral reform had become a flagrant scandal. And how is one to re fgard the specific Provision in the UTIL1ZE HANDIWORK OF The Bureau of Naturalization V es the Department of Labor, in tndu;r tn thft 'manv innuirie as ! to methods of raising emergency -jfunds for the education of for- eign born where no school funds re available, is advising, araong ther expedients, international bandiwork exhibits. Two incidents which occurred recently in Washington, D. C, will illustrate the possibilities of this movement. A young Greek girl, an enthusiastic Student in thenight school, made for her keif a rarely beautiful pure. She toolc it to a jewelef to have it mounted. Atf the counter was an American woman who was turn- 'ng over discontentediy some 4jurse of the iame populär bead ed work. Theom'. purse caught ter eye ; it was much Piore beau law prolecting the öfficials who buy drinks while securing evi denceä " According to Mr. Fla velle and bis Statement appears to be accurate thoje engaged in these subterranean Operation are not breaking the law in buy ing drinks in this way. Thus the law actually contemplatcs, and provides for in its own agents, what constitutes a heavily pu nishable offense if committed by other people. iWith regard to this, we want to say, quite unequivocally, that we consider such a state of things an absolute out rage. No good ever yet came of this base kind of dealing,' this laying of traps and all the rest of it, No good ever can or ever will come of it. And, even if some alleged good should be shown to result from it, we say that" it, would have "been purchased at tod high and too heavy a price. When the law itself implicitly Sanction? the resort to such dubious and de vious means, is it any wonder that normally law-abiding citi zens have scant reverence for such law? We say advisedly that these things are striking hard blows at populär respect for law, its sanctity and its sanctions, which are likely to have a most serious and sinister effect here after. ... The "Stand-In"' of a Detective Agency. Then, what is one to say of a detective agency being allowed a "stand-in?" It transpires that Ocorge L. J.Iornson, former Provincial License Inspector, was a share-holder in a certam detective agency, and that he was responsible for turning over to that agency a Janje amount of work. We regard this as thoroughly corrupt , proceeding. Moreover, it transpires that the License Board and the Govern ment trusted so thoroughly to the integrity of Morrison that bis aecounts, running in one year to over, $12,000, were paid without question and without an audit We regard this policy of the Li cense Board as a dereliction of duty of a very grave kind. It 5s all very well for Mr. Flavellc to deny that the Board should have used precautions, and to rely upon a section of the Ontario Temperance Act dispensing with the necessity of audited aecounts. Incidentally, we consider that Provision of the Act to be a scan dalous one and to open the door to the possibility, and even pro- babihty, of corruption of all Kinds. . . . No Record of Seizures. Then, again, it has come out that the License Board did not reeeive adequate and detailed re ports as to liquor seized under the Ontario Temperance Act, nor did it keep a record of such seizures. Seizures, in fact, were not ear-marked in any way, so that they could be kept track of by the .Board. This we. regard as v6ry culpable carelessness on the Board's part. .It is obvious that its Course opened the door to the possibility of all sprts of ir regularities. In short. it seems to have given a free band of the freest kind to its öfficials. On the other band, the public have been high-handed manner by mzny of the degraded spies that the latter have employed. Altogether, we consider the revelations have dis closed a shameful state of af fairs as having existed under the Operation of the Ontario Tempe rance Act, und we cannot believe that the general public will take any other view. FOREIGN BORN VOMEN. tiful than any of the others. She asked the girl what the pries was. Having no desire to seil it, Theoni put, as the thought, an entirely prohibitive price upon it. Without a mornent' hesitation the American lady pulled out a roll of bills and paid for it. The oni, $75 richer, is now making herseif another purse. The other story is also enlight ening." In a foreign . home a home teacher found dire poverjy snd very bad living condition, and crowded quarters, dirt, with all the sordid aecompaniments. Just as she was beginning to feel that the Situation was hopeless, that there was rithing there to which she could appeal as a source of uplift, the wornei) brought out. ernbroidery so ex quäske and so rtiflticalljr; t??3uti- ful that she could only marvel at it. ' What mutual benefit, we read in ä press letter ofthe Depart ment of Labor, might not arise were an organized effört made to do gcnerally and ' systematieally what chance brought about in the case of Theom ; that !s, to bring the bandiwork of the for eign women. to an eager market? The country would gain indus trially and therefore economical ly, and the gain to the caus of true citizenship would be incal culable, for the personal contact would have many and far-reach-ing results for good. Th tra gically isolated foreign wornan, THAT DEARtlJSORSHIP IF1 FRANCE. Strange And Somctimes Humorous Incidcnts, as Related by American Newspapermen . (From Collier's Weekly.) You must say one thing for the French censorship of their own press: it is open and frank. The American censorship has a sense of shame, but the French censorship proclaims itself to the world. It gives the most spectac ular Publicity to the fact that it has been at work. I don't know any other country where the cen sorship works that way. In other countries the censorship is a transaction only between the editor and the censor; the cen sored article is cut out, the edi tor makes bis paper over, and it appears witbout any sign of mu tilation. ' But in France the pu blic is permitted to sce the result. I don't know whether this- is iro ny on the part of the French editor or what it is. Maybe the frankness of it is one reason the French public is callous about it. The censorship of some of the ews is preciscly as, obvious to them as the Publication of the rest of the news. With Ameri cans and British I should expect it to work just the other way ; I should expect them to get excited at the repeated daily appearance of big blank spaces on the first page. Lvery day as you run through the French newspapers, the most conspieuous thing on any page is the blank of white rpace where the censor has done Ins work. To make the thing clcar to American readers with an exam- ple, one morning, in the 'Matin', the hopeful reporter wrote his headhnes thus: Around the Green Table. Transactions of the Peace Con - ference Yesterday. Then the reporter Starts off: "No one knows exactly what was decided yesterday. The de legates were reticent. We be lieve, however, that the Russian question.... "4 At that point the report b'rcaks off in the middle of the sentence, and then comes a long blank spac, in which the only words are: "32 lignes censur&s" (32 lines cut out by the censor). The trustful reporter resumes: "Perhaps the censor will per mit us to say that at the Confer ence yesterday afternoon. .. ," But the censor didn't, and there follows -another blank space marked as before "32 lignes censuröes" and the net total of the article remaining consisted of. the concluding words: "The ACERswIA Letter of the Soldiers' Council at Prisoners. Tlie following letter, printed in English ' and distributed by the Soldiers' Council at Ruh leben, was brought out of Ger many in the middle of January by a British prisoner Ort bis way to England from the Ruhleben prison camp: Gentlemen: In this historical mornent when you are regaining your freedom by the opening of the gates at Ruhleben, we are asking you to take these lines with you to bnglana ana to ia them be know to -your country men. Yoti are the crown wit- ncsses- of the revolution ; you are the first ones wno leave our ermntr- after it. Therefore vou are in the best position to an- nounce to tne wonu tne xrum about what is happening. Ex- amine justly what you have seen, the events in the camp as well as in Berlin latelv. iuehre im- partially, and we are convinced that you will act as our Speakers. It took four long years for the German people, the people them- eives, who never have nateci .ou. frt come into their own. It took four years. of endlesa tjriv-1 made to realize that the products of her artistic skill were prized, would be raised o a new digni ty in her own esteern and in that of the farnily where she is too Osten a rnere drudge, and hence in the eyes of the Community. Moreovcr, the mutual under Standing between tlie foreign wornan änd native American would be a more potent aid to the Naturalisation of all the di vergent elernents in our country than can be well estirnated. If we have rnttch to give them in many cases merely giving back öfter centuries what was first their own -they also have much to give us. preliminary Conference is expect- ed to finish its work tomorrow morning." Your Dispatch Has Not Been Sent. At that the French editor was better off than the American cor respondents. The French editor wrote his stuff and put it in the paper, and when his paper ap- pezred the next day he knew ex actly what had happened to it. At. least, the thing was off his smind. But the American corrc- spondent never knew. The Ame rican correspondent wrote his dispatch and took it to the Bourse Euilding (where the French telegraph Company and the French and American Cen sors have their combined offices), and stuck it in a little wicket and thereafter te had no means of knowing what had been its fate. He would not be able to see his paper for föur or five weeks. His editors across the Atlantis could not know whether or not any particular dispatch bad been censored. It might happen that ten days or. two weeks after tRe iilmg of the cablegram the. cor respondent would get a formal notjee. .This formal notice came, not frpm "the censor the censor was much too busy to bother with letting you . know that he had thrown your dispatch in the waste-basket. The notice cama from the telegraph Company tö teil you that . the dispatch hadn t been sent, and that you could come around and get your money back. For the purpose of Infor mation to the Amencans who are interestcd, it may be worth while to reproduce one of these notices. It comes on a printed torm, the blanks hlled . m with nandwnting. lranslated, it reads: ! Form 96. Telegraph and Postal Service of Paris. EourSe Office. Paris, Tan. 2L 1919. The Director of the Telegraph Bureau has the honor to in form Mr. Paul Hanna that his tele- grani. No. u 7 u 98 y w u i, datcd Jan. 8, addtessed, to "The Call", has not been sent. Reason for not sendingt Tele- gram entirely cut out by the Censor. (Signed) Le Receveur. It is to be observed that tlie date of the cablegram was Jan- uary 8, whereas the official notice that it bad never been sent is not datcd until January ZI, thirteen days later. APPEAL. Ruhleben to Released British ations and sufleniigs to make our people realize that they had been ill-guided and misled. By that you may realize the great strength of the party in power which had to be defeated, but yoit may also realize the great- ness of the disaffection among the people by the quickness and thoroughness of their action. By their disciplined ortranization the Conservative party, which is out of power now, has itself furnished the wcapön which the people turned against it for the deliverance of the nation, for the end of the bloodshed, and for the great German Repubhc. Tbe four years ' spent in this camp have lest their marks on some of you: some regret the loss of a friend, seme" have been losing their hcalth not to speak of financial losses. Do not hold the German people responsible for it; it has suffered more than you. For you the Enclish Gov ernment provided amply and you are able to realize the misery and sufierings of the population in oermany. Please remember low the fall i of the old Government was soll owed by the entryot a new epirit in the camp, the spirit of freedom which endeavored to alleviate as far as Possibis the last days you had to spend in the camp. You are leaving the camp with your beads high, bound for free dorn and home. History will rtcord the years you have spent in the camp, and how you have bravely borne your captiv ity. Freedom sind all it means follow four years of privations and sorrows. Vve congratulate you on your beanng, that noth mg ever broke your spirit or made you lose faith. The German people are now on the path to freedom. After four years of war into which it was dragged against its wish years associated with misery and privations the German people has liberated itself from internment, an internment which weighed very much more heavily cn the people than the fevv re strictions to which you were süb jeeted in Ruhleben. The people were the slaves vof a barbaric System without parallel in his tory, which enforced its dictates with brutal severity. Like you, the German people now Stands at the open door of liberty, al most blinded by the brightness of the light emanating from the sun of freedom which since No vember 9 illuminates all. The people are still amazed by the rapidity with which the change was effected, but even in the short time so much has been ac complished by the .German people. that even its enemies should not treat it with con tempt. Therefore,, leave without any 511-feeling or hatred, and do not hold t'he German people re sponsible for the deeds commit ted by its former autocraticl leaders For this reason we a&k you to i5 re iovn make known to all what you have seen when in Berlin and during the journey through Ger mahy. Teil your countrymen that the revolution was short and caused almost no loss of life, and for these very reasons was all the more thorough and complete. Teil V them at home that the former ruling classes are" utterly powerless, and the German people has taken firmly the reins of goVernmerit in its .German Business "-Amazing:, in Spife of Dsmsstic Difficuüies", Says ßutch Ccrrespcndcnt A correspondent in Holland of the Manchester, England, Guar dian recently undertook the task of investigating the es forts of the business world of Germany in neutral countries. In Holland he found that the Germans had quickly adapted thernseives to the new state of affairs and were prepared to meet the needs of the trade, even in competition with tngland. He reports his obscr- vations thus to the "Guardian"! It is no pleasure to travel to Holland at the present mornent The journey is long and tedious The crossmg takes twice the pre war time, the Dutch trains are not heated and scarcely lit on ac- count of , the serious coal shor tage, ana tney stop at every härmet. .,1 he gas supply in the towns is cut off for the greater part of the day, and most people light their fires only at four o'clock in the afternoon because they have so little fuel. On the whole the Impression one re ceives now in Holland is one of dullness and depression. Yet I do not regret having spent a few days in the country of the low lands, because I have been able to gatheü much jnteresting Infor mation which most likely would not have come to my knowledge if I had not crossed the North Sea. Activity of German Business Re- presentatives Amazing. I was espccially anxious to know whether the Germans were displaying any business activity in neutral countries now" that they are struggling with such tremendous domestic difsicnlties, and I must confess that I was amazed at the replies tny querics elicited in competent quarters. The bare truth is that German commercial travcllers are over running the adjoining neutral countries andj ofiering thousands of commodities for immediate de- livery. It is bardly believable, but they can even supply article, in copper, which they seil at cheaper prices than the coppered goods. The German travcllers! hands. Teil them that perfect Order prevails in Germany, in spitc of the upheaval, and this order is maintained by the in dividual citizen. Neithcf the konservatives nor the extremista show any signs of attemptin? a counter-rnovernent; all the sold iers, requested by their, dele gates, have placed thernseives at the service of the People's Gov ernment; and should any signs of terrorisrn appear, the people know they may reckon on the soldiers to deal effectively with its perpetrators. Tel them that the Social Democrats are proud of having brought about the re volution, and the whole nation 5s indebted to them for what they have accompHslied. The party does not intend to estab- lish & new autöcraey in the place of the one which it has swept away, but knows that it can appeal to the whole nation to decide, when the people re cord their votes on the most liberal electoral ' System in the world. - Teil them that you have your- selves experienced the privations that Germany had to suffer; it would be a grievous mistake to prevent the supply of foodstuffa merely because some excitement still prevails, but tlie proper Course would be to supply Ger many's wants as a means of allaying the tension Hunger dnves many 'into the ranks of the terrorists, hence an v ade quate supply of food is the best remedv. And now, gentlemen, good- bye. iGive our greetings to our comrades and brothers across the Channel. Teil our country men in England that now Ger many has cast off its chains that on their return they wil find a free, united Germany. The. new Germany appeals to all its citizens to place their best es- forts in the service of the com mon cause, for the welfare of the great German People's Repttblic, that it mav take its proper place in tne societv ot nation s. Long live our ncwly acquired free dom, long live the Republic, long hve the society of nations, long live peace I For the Soldiers' Council En laenderlager, Ruhleben. J (Signed) Zirwes, Plumer, Wolfs, Beer, Kieser, Schultze. Äctivlfy in Holland. of British Paper. seem to be very optimistic, and many of them express the hope "to visit their old friends in Eng land before three months have elapsed", It must be said that their work is singitlarly facilitat ed at present in neutral countries for various reasons, aniongst which must be cited the low rate of exchange of the mark and the absence of Allied competition. British and German Competition. It is a well-known fact that the blockade has very seriously depreciated the value of the mark, but at the present time this depreciation works "out en tirely to tlie advantage of the German expört trade, and pre vents, for instance, Great L ritain. from competing with German products in the neutral markets. One example which was quoted to me by a Dutch business man will clearly illustrate this pVopo sition. His firm is open to pur chase a big lot of "satjols", an agricultural implement which is exported in huge numbers to the Dutch East Indies. He wrote for a quotation to a German and to an English firm. The latter re plied in an untidy-looking band written letter I am using my infonnant's own words that they could supply a limited quan tity in about six months at 2s. 6d. per patjol, the acceptance of the offer to be telegraphcd with out delay. The German firm sent beautifully illustrated cata- logue and offered to supply im mediatcly hundreds of thousands of these ßatiols at ihi nnV r.f 2.5Ö marks apiece. The pre-war price of this article was one mark, or 6Q Dutch cents. But at the present rate of exchange f the mark in Holland, viz. 2-, the price of 2.50 marks, although 150 per cent higher than before the war, represents in Dutch money only 62 iz cents, or little more than the pre-war price. whereai 2s. 6d. at the present rate of ex change of, 11.50 is worth 144 Dutch cents. It will be easily un derstood that in these conditions British products cannot comocte. with the German stuff.... , "FAT SK1KME-?S l, .-.. 1 .) Tlir Itrew i '""" , - J --- h r -tm. k r ir. r . w- b mm - k w k $ riinai Mt m . y waiuiou' - SUCCESSOR ro METZGERS rAOt MAN mx-uamiMKfiwm AMEN getcrifa, Milo WaB, Sorghum, ßllfalfa Sa mm, Deutscher, Sibi. rischer, Münitoba und Japanischer Millet. 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Mit diesen, heilsamen Mikieralwalser, dom Jugendbrunnen tn geschickter und wissen scha Uicher Weise vngewendet. esreil es den Pallenle, o eurölgia, Mbema!isnlS und anderm konitiwtionellen miikbetten und Beschwerden in sicher Weise. Man schreib, um- iiSkimst. . Srnfionti & Slnaessek Wnd Epring K,nsaz ttlasstsizkerte Zlnzeigen! ns-mm Ein Mann in icbein Counti) als cfflufiüL'C Vertretcr. um ein nnfl. ständiges Lager von ; Waken an Konsumenten zu Verkäufen: Pro ven, Katalogs u. Fnftruktionm frei. ttin Myrweri haben und gute Empfehlungen: MO biS $00 mz. chenttich: Erfahrung Zcht otwcn. di?. Schreibt oder svreckit vor. Verkaufs' Manager, Nyan Co.. Harney Str. tf Bcrlangt-Weiblich. Tüchtige Z?raü unt Wafckcn hbm Dienstag Morgen. Telephone Dou,? las tt Gli alleinstehender Mann hiM SauShnlterZtt. einS ieufsdfii Rrrni oder Witwe ohne 5Nnder von AO 6x3 SO Jahren. Gute . Stelle, ctu erfragen: Omaha Tribüne, I. D. 6.17.19. . Z vermieten. Drei vollständig möblierte 5lm mcr, an ein achtbares Paar, zu er langen am 1. JUni. Keine Kinder. Empfehlungen verlanat. Ursache der Vermietung ist Wegzug de.S Eigentu mes. Für weitere Information! prech? man abends vor in 703 Na. 16. Strasie. is Zu vermieten. Möbliertes Zimmer mit separg. em Eingang, mit oder ohne Kost.' 2625 Lake Street. 1. JZtol. L Naumann. is Heiratsgesuch. Ein deutscher Farmer mittlere Alters wüiischt'zwccks Heirat die ?c anntschatt mit einem guten deut chen Farmer Mädchen im Alter voit ziuüche.l 25 und 10 Mahren. Würdö auch Witwe, mit Kinder itt Erwä gung ziehen. Adressiert: Vor .H. Z L.. Tribüne. 56-19 Monnmcate nd Marksteine. Erstklassige Monuments u. Mark. teine. A. Vratke h Co., 4316 Süd . Strafe. Tel. South 2670. tf Kost nd Logik. Tas preiswürdigste Essen Oei frtex Rnmp. Teutsche Küche. lWH Dodge Strafe. 2. Stock. tf Glück bringende Trauringe bei Vro dcgaardö. 16. und Touglaö Str. Möbcl-Nkparatur. 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