Teds Omaha Sunday Bee
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1917.
Comb Honey
By EDWARD BLACK.
Don't Get Excited.
"If yoa can keep your head, when
all about you are losing theirs and
blaming it on you" The man who
wrote those words lived many miles
from Omaha, but his thought was not
bounded bv any limitations of time
or tide.
Don't get excited. What's the use?
, An American colloquialism is, "Keep
vour shirt tn. which is more expres
sive than elegant, but, nevertheless, is
worth remembering every morning
when we start out on the day s work.
Getting excited is inimical to the
1 best interests of our physiological and
psychological welfare. It affects ad
versely the sensitive nerve centers,
.imoedes normal blood circulation,
clogs the mental machinery and other
wise puts the human system out 01
kilter. So what is the use of getting
excited?
If cur house is discovered afire, why
should we get excited? The thing to
do is to walk quietly to the telephone,
advise the ODerator that our domicile
is being consumed by the element of
incineration, then get onto th front
porch and tell inquiring neighDors
that our house is on fire and that the
" fire department is on the way to do
its perfect work of fighting the demon
which consumes with unrelenting fury
all cumbustible materials irl its path,
unless checked by deterrents known
to modern fire-fighting science. It is
not necessary to repeat all of that to
the neighbors, but it would indicate
a calm temperament and is good prac
tice in tbe art of being cool even on
heated occasions.
If we get excited over trifles or In-
consequentials, we will not be equal
to the occasion when the crises arise.
We must not allow irritations of the
day to excite us, because into each
day some irritations itnust come, and
all dsrs cannot be perfect days.
If fir neighbor's pup howls at 5
o'clock of a morning, we should not
open a window and yell at the clamor
ous canine. We should not We
should wait till the rose-tinted morn
kisses yon hilltops with the freshness
of a new-born day, and then calmly
advise our neighbor that his cur mur
dered sleep, and suggest that the cur
will have an untimely ending unless it
ceases to mobilize its vocal strength
at unseemly hours. Getting excited
at the fifth hour of the morning would
pot improve the situation. i
. We heard a woman say a cuss word
the other day when a flatiron fell on
her foot She got excited. Some wo
men are excited when they see a
mouse.
Don't lose your head. Keep your
shirt on. , Don't .get excited. Keep
cool and calm, count your change and
Remember there is another car com
mg right behind the one you missed.
(Jrcte History of Omaha
All flte truth and unlrnfli hate fit to know
Voluminous Volubility..
She That man speaks
Coesn t her
He Yes, he !s book agent
She Is he a book worm?
He Well, I observe that he
turned to go
She Do you mean the worm
turn?
He He may re-turn.
rolumes,
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By A. R
Chapter XXXV Manufacturing.
, As this great history now draws
toward a triumphant close (only three
or four more chapters), it is necessary
to devote some space to manufacturing.
The name of the first manufacturer
is "unhonorcd and unsung," as the
great poet, Milton, said. It is not
known. But at an early day some pio
neer decided that it would be a
boost for the town to do some manu
facturing here.
A party named Winchester started
a brickyard back in 1854 down near
Fourteenth and Leavenworth. He
GROH
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One of the pioneer m&imfaciurers
made a lot of nice bricks and was
getting ready to burn them. He had
his brickkiln covered with a canvas
and some Indians stole the canvas.
Then a heavy . rain came up and
turned the bricks into mud. Mr. Win
chester didn't "try it again," but gave
up in disgust.
The ext factory was a blacksmith
shop, which really isn't a factory ex
cept that this party made horseshoes
and so it might be called a factory.
Next, the city got a sawmill. .Then
Andy Simpson started his carriage
factory. There were a number of
other carriage factories in early days,
indicating to the reflecting historian
that carriage riding was one of the
principal forms of recreation of the
pioneers.'
I here were machine works, iron
works, tinware factories, etc. The
smelter is today one of the biggest
factories in Omaha. A great deal of
smelting, is done there. ,
In short, manufacturing in Omaha
has grown "bvi leaps and bounds" and
Omaha stands today on the proud
eminence and points with pride to its
factories, which are too numerous to
mention. They give employment to a
JV-VC Only 3 or
1 4- mere
cfiapiert !
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TMialdo yon iAiuk d (tot!
large number of c people, providing
them with the necessaries of life and
luxuries, many of them owning Fords
and talking machines and similar
things that our forefathers got along
without These are days of the full
dinner pail in spite of high prices, due
to the war.
Little did. Mr. Chester, or rather
Winchester, think when he started his
little brickyard back in 1854. that he
was the pioneer of a manufacturing
industry in Umaha which totals to the
magnificent total of many, many mil
lions.
; When' we reflect that the output of
putty-alone from Omaha factories last
year was worth $6,000, what must we
think? Fast manufactured here was
valued at $7,0001
Other food products from Omaha
factories include bread and bakery
goods Valued at nearly $1,000,000;
flour and mill products worth nearly
iJ.iuy.OUU; candy, $8JZ,UO0; cigars,
39,000; syrups and preserves, $300,
00; ice cream. $422,000. The output
of the packing houses of Omaha was
worth $150,000,000: smelter oroducts.
$47,000,000; roach 'powder, .$4,000;
creamery butter, $11,000,000; etc., etc,
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a uc iisi is endless. -
(The author desires to trive credit
for these figures to a folder entitled,
"Omaha, the Cityvldeal," put out by
the Bureau of Publicity.)
We may well point with pride to
the magnificence of the progress of
the manufacturing interests of the
city. :
Question's on Chapter XXXV.
1. Why was Mr. Winchester dis
gusted with the brick business?
' 2. Did the early pioneers enjoy
carriage tiding? Why?
3. What is the value of Omaha's
output of ice cream? Putty? Smelter
products? - ,
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Their Hobbies! What's Yours
will
Heard En Pasftant
"J noticed that Cieotte was wearing
ft mustache." 1 " ,
"Say it quick; I've got to leavt in a
jiffy. :
"Ialttboyor (rlrir
"How do yon like mj aw fall
fiat?". ' ' -. .
"I though, she would look I hole
through me. I wonder If aha know
me..
Take notice, yon athletic fans. If
you ever wish to know who is leading
in the list of batting averages or who
the big "mucks' in the-wrestling and
boxing games are, just inquire of
Harry Goldberg; who can always be
seen at the Sun theater. Harry is an
ardent admirer of all athletics, and
his greatest expectation is to see the
Omaha base ball team snag the pen
nant Day after day, during base ball
season, he occupies a seat in the grand
stand, rooting for the home team until
cough medicine is the only remedy
that will help him articulate his words
clearly. ' i , : ' .
A wrestling match interest Harry
greatly, and whether the favorite scis
sors hold is brought in play or the
half-nelson is used, he can be seen
bending forward,, watching with keen
interestevery move of the wrestlers.
He Is just as interested in the wrest
ling game . as a citizen of Dodge
county.
Now that, the foot ball season has
arrived, Harry will be a close ob
server of the . games in Omaha, and
he says nothing will prevent him from
seeing them. ; ;
Yes, he has other htsbbies, such as
enjoying the art of moving pictures,
but athletics play a -very important
part in his life.
W. F. Baxter is not exactly a "tired
business man," he is a busy business
man, but not so busy that he can't af
ford a hobby. His hobby is single
tax, which reminds us of Henry
George and the cigar signs of other
days reading, "I am for men."
In a communique indited bj Mr.
Baxter yestereve he confesses that he
is a single -taxer, believing that tbe
land Should be the source of taxation.
GmM ina
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By A. EDWIN LONG.
If E. V. Parrish hadn't accidentally
tuck his knee through a form in a
country print shop in Missouri, and
pied all the type in the middle of the
floor, he might still be down there
sticking type for a country news
paper.
Small pebbles change the course of
streams.-
A little slip of the fingers, a little
knee stuck through the face of the
type all ready for printing, changed
the course of this lad's career, and
He believes the single tax system is
the most equable of all' systems of
taxation and is ready to defend his
premises. ,
Just start Mr. Baxter- off on his
single tax theory and get a demon
stration of what a real hobby is.
When the Chicago -White Sox
copped the pennant in the American
league this year the happiest man
in Omaha was Fred Witte. Witte
has been aWhite Sox "nut," not fan
but "nut," ever since the South Side
park was built He was the only man
in Omaha who predated a White So
victory over tne luds in iyuo ana he s
been prophesying Pale Hose victor
ies ever since. He stuck it out fot
eleven years and finalfy they won
again for him. Witte can tell you
every game the White Sox ever won,
who they won it from and when, the
name of every player that ever wore
the Pale Hose, his nationality, extent
of education, religion and batting
average. .
Tom Hollister's hobby is the Corn-
huskers. Hollister is positive the
Huskers could clean up Yale, Har
vard and Princeton combined. Three
years ago Hollisteiswas the man in
the state who believed Nebraska
would win pver the Michigan Aggies,
and he proved to be the only man in
the -atate who was right Hollister
never misses a big Nebraska game
and he's always the most enthusiastic
rooter tn the stand. . .-. i
that is one ot tne reasons he is in
Omaha today, publicity manager for
the cityand convention boss for the
metropolis.
There were several pebbles that
kicked the current of his activities
about from channel to channel before
he finally began to cut a permanent
groove in Omaha.
Cafrying notes from the big boys
to their girls was his first salaried oc
cupation in life. That was down at
Queen City, Mo., where he was born.
He got a nickel for carrying a note
to the girls, and often another nickel
to carry the replyvback to the young
man.
Being ambitious to-own a pony he
saved V these nickels until they
amounted to $5. He bought the pony
and then "began to drag ha cocks to
the stack with a rope snubbed to the
horn of his saddle.
He got the magnificent sum of 25
cents a day for lassoing and dragging
tnem to the stacks, tor this" was
cheaper to the farmer than to hire a
man and team to sweet uo the hav.
Thus pony and boy together earned
$1.50 week throughout the sum
mer. . t v-
Later he quit, this and drove cows
in and out of town to pasture morn
ings and. evenings. He got 25 , cents
a week rer cow, and as :'iere were
several people in town trying to es
cape the tangs of the professional
milk man, the lad made as much as
$2.50sa week.'.
Money was1 rolling in upon him so
fast now that he became avaricious
for more. He hurried his cows to
pasture every morning and galloped
back to carry brick in the brick vard
at another 25 cents a day. '
Bricks and cows were tiresome
though, and he struck out for the big
roarinfr heart of Kansas City. He eot
a job' peddling books.
I starved for a couple of weeks
Until got on to how to handle the
game," says Parrish. "I finally got j
on to the scheme of going in to see I
k man a; i sking him to make me a
bid on my books. I quit Quoting!
prices to him. Soon I was selling a
set of books to one man for $10. and
to his next door business neighbor for
$6. I nearly-got my head shot off
that way, and it wasn t healthy to
stay around in one localityytpo long.
I didn't, ave to stay around, how
ever, for business was gor ' and I
knocked about all over Missouri,
Tex '' and Arkmsas selling these
books. Another fellow had to follow
me to deliver them. It wouldn't be
safe for me i j go back."
Having always had .something of a
nose for pinters ink, the ladi came
back, to Queen City and tool: a job
in the office of the Queen City Tran
script He swept the office, bossed
the cat around, and washed, type for
whue until he was promoted to
spreading ink on the forms. Soon he
was put to setting type. V
'Then came the tragedy. .One day
when the type was up, the form was
made all locked and ready, he started
to carry it across the room to the
press. It slipped out ot his ringers.
He jerked up his knee in an effort to
save the form from a fall.
Alas, he punched his knee clear
through the form, and the type flew to
tpe four corners of the print shop.
"That was all the type there was
in the little office," says Parrish. "If
took them forever to pick that type
up, sort it out, and get it back into
shape.
"I didn't stop to get fired. I blew
out of the back door and ran. I never
showed up there again, but I watched
tor the issue of the paper. It was
three weeks before the Queen City
Transcript issusd again.". ,
Well How Did You Come Out on Your
Speculation
On This Pictorial, Grain Exchange? They All Look
Different but Are Operating at the Regular Stand
When the lad had gained a good. 1
start on his run for life from this print ' 4ff
shop he didn't really stop his course
until he came to Kansas City.
There he cubbed on 1 the Kansas
City Times. That was before the
Kansas City Star took over the
Times. " !
He drifted about the country 'from
Missouri t6 the coast reporting on
newspapers, and eventually' worked
for years on the St. Louis Republic.
Here he interviewed everyone from
United States senators to outlaws, for
he frequently made trips to the old
Samuels homestead to interview the
notorious Frank James, and to drive
about the place with the oW outlaw's
blooded horses. ,
When he felt his health needed fix
ing he started for Colorado. Enroute
he stopped in Omaha 'for a fewtfays.
It was natural for him to, loaf in a
newspaper office, so he got acquainted
in the offices of The Omaha Bee and
was persuaded to stay here and work.
He worked a few months, when an
opening carte in the Bureau of Pub
licity and he jumped in as manager
of the bureau. That was six years '
ago, and since that time Omaha has
been hearing from him regularly The
cchintry at large has been hearing
from Omaha all, the time through his
efforts in spreading Omaha's favor
able publicity abroad. Every big con
vention iii the United States has been,
hearing from him also, for he has in
the past six years dragged in more
national conventions for Omaha than
the city ever had before. itf its his
tory.; - y '-.',
Next in ThU Brrle "How Omaha Got
George X. IVUson."
The Weekly
Bumble Bee
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, 1 OCTOBER 14, 4917.
HOW THEY ONCE LOOKED
1 i
HOW THEY LOOK NOW
TBE BCMBIJS BEE. '
A STINGER, EDITOR.
' Commonlcatloni on any topic
received, without postage or
la-nature. None returned.
NO ACS) AT ANT PRICE.
FARMING.
Farming would be a Joy It all
the farmer had to do were to
cart tile produce Into town and
haul the money home. Between
getting the seed Into the (round
and the fruit thereof out of It
Ilea a great deal of worry. When
the farmer Jan't troubled over '
where to get help, he haa other
things to think about, euch aa
the Income tax, the advancing
coat ot gasoline, the posalbe
failure in the supply of rubber,
and many little details of a sort
the city man knows nothing
about Happy city dweller, who
only need take thought of how
to get hold ot enough money to
pay the landlord and the
U batcher and the grocer, and the
coal dealer, ana wonder ir bis
old overcoat will go through an
other winter, and whether ahoes
will be down to where he can
buy a new pair, ' and what the
baker does with all the money
he is taking from the public
and some other Incidental!. The
-man in town knows nothing of
the farmers' trials! ,
V TJT1CAL.
Tommy" Allen Is new hav
ing the federal grand Jury in
quire into . who it was criti
cised tbe fmtoral diatiit t
torney for Nebraska. If he
goes deep,, enough, he might
ft"d cirtte'a aii'iiirt rf pel
lined up In front of the' court
j.iuse. However, his . camou
flage Is typical. - '''
. COMFORT.
No matter what the price on
spuds, the man who raised his
own la getting a lot of comfort
that can't ba bought at a gro
cery store.
It will do no harm, to keep
In mind that husking corn is
employment for fuli.-crown men,
and not for boys and girls.
Sid Omaha do Its duty on the
Liberty bonds T Not yet; we have
only made a good start. Watch
the finishing drive.
Travel to St. Jos la not as
brisk as It waa earlier in the
game, bat the trains stlU are
running.
The muny eoal yard went off
well for a start;, how long can
they keep It upr
plan your
ly ti
phig.
Chrlstmaa ahopp!
Try -our stings; they always
work.
DIFFER OVER DOGS;
LOCAL JiUCiSl'AKING
SIDES N QUARREL
Argument Waxes Fierce and
Shows that 'Neither Side
is Entirely Bight
tn Position.
They're at It again.
This time It Is dogs Instead
Ot squirrels and sparrows.
Tbe Bumble Bee can cheerful
ly 'Bay this time, "a plague on
both your houses!" Each sidp
la right and each Is wrong, and
neituer can sen is oil a l '
point at all. That is the cause
of most of the real trouble In
thla world the Inability or un
willingness to aee the ether fel
lows side of the case.
".'Tls sweet to hear the hon
est watch dog's bark bay deep
luouthru wniromu h we u aw
near home," wrote Byron, and
heMouohee a tender run. J in t e
bosom of -many a man. No
friend gives you heartier relv
come than your dos. None wtil
cling to you with more" of un
questioning dnvotlon.
fVt admit that 'there are dogs
and dogs; dogs of high and low
degree, as Goldsmith noted, and
so.no that !- Biisi hlff iv. :ni
repair. But the far better way
to control these Is to put a lit
tle of the responsibility on their
owners. No man should be per
mitted to maintain a dog or any)
other animal that la a menace
to ineV at." l . re. ot
our modern mistakes la too often
to accept the effect for the
cause, and act accordingly. Ip
stead of punishing the parents of
delinquent children, we punish
the -M'd. ad I ster.d rf . . -
tlng after the man who owns then
irouoiesorae aog,. we gei siier
the dog. If the course were
turned aroun, maybe the dog
no minee m.Kiit be im.v'l. .
Finally, we have an Idea that
Pudd'nhead Wilson also knew
what he waa talking about when
he said, "The more X see of some
men tbe better I like dogs."
PENDING.
Omaha has considerable of a
docket of unfinished business
tiend T The ;! t ia-. ny
franchise suit, the question of a
kss supply and a few little
things like that will be taking
up time In spite of he war be
fore long.
MISSED. 'j.
' Ed Black aays not to get ex
cited, for there's snother car
coming behind the one you
missed. Wonder if Ed ever waa
out-aa late aa 1:10 a. m. in
Omal)a ,
' CRAPES.
Wo are with the Commercial
club in Its efforts to get vine
yards replanted around Omaha.
Grapes are mighty fine fruit,
even it they are not alwaya put
to right use
WOMEN SHOW THEY
CAN HANDLE WORK
THAT PUZZLES MAN
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Organize Campaign to Sell
' IJberty Bonds and Make
Big Success, of
the Job.
The Bumble Bee takes off Its
hat to the Omaha women.
They certainly have shown an
example . for their sisters
throughout the country in the
matter of working for Liberty
bonds. -Without getting their
wires crossed and tangling the
Issue with others of any kind,
the women folks have Just got
busy on the bond drive, and
are making a real success of
their share' of It.
Maybe later on they will
point to this, achievement as an
evidence of their general ef
ficiency and capacity for doing
tfiings, and if they do. It Is sll
right with us. They hace es
tablished their-right. ,,
. REPARTEE. ,
"Say, Hack,' can you tell me
where I can get a drink f'suid
a comical friend to Prosecutor-
McGuire.
"No, I can't," answered .the
imperturbable T. i., "but I
know a chap who did have
some."- ' .
And tha regular order ot
business Was resumed."
TERROR.
War's terror has struck home
to- at least one young conscript
who marched awcy from
Onuha with tbe selects. He
wrrtes back to the borne folks
that he has to, take a ahower
bath every afternoon, and oh,
gee! the water's cold. He
should cheer up. . It , will be
colder before spring. .
FEAT.
A South Dakota ' paper re
ferred to a social affair aa "lira,
Overlook's Big Feet." Tbr edi
tor Is busy now trying to con
vince the lady he Intended to
cay "fete." Better stick t
English after this, and call It
feat.,
SAVING.
The revved Bee tells i a t-year-old
oh the South Side who
has invested in Liberty bonds to
the tune of 1100, ''the savings ot
a life time." We'll say he'a
some saver. It it's his lifetime
that is meant.
HOPE.
The downward slide of the
haughty hog has set In, aad
maybe, the day is not far oft
when tin ordinary man can look
a rasher of bacon or a pork chop
squarely in tbe face again.
.RECALLED. .
' Approbation given the weather.
man last ounoay u nereoy -recalled.
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-IN OUR TOWN.
Roy JIcKelvie was tip from
Lincoln.
John L. Kennedy expects .
make a speech In puhlle s:
Bill Murray also walks don
town each morning some morn
msa. .
"Ray" Abbott went to a danee
last week with his. nice new uni
form on. ; . '
Luther Drake gave a party
for some friends from upstats
last week. . -r
"VJc" Parish says he wishes)
somebody could think of some
thing for hlrato do this fall.
''Artie" Mullen reports every
thing running all right at Lin.
coin again, but admits It take
a lot of bis time.
I George Condra la still telling
folks about Nebraaka soli. What
Oeorge. doesn't know on this
toplo is burled below bedrock,
and that' some deep in this
atate.
" HURRAH.
Omaha firemen get tbe raise
in pay the legislature granted
them two - years ago. Forty
thousand dollars . Is quit a
chunk toy take out of the city
treasury. Just now. The Inci
dent la another unpleasant re
minder that Omaha does not
regulate its own affairs, but has)
to go to Lincoln from time to
time to find out what may be
done, Some day our home folks
will go out and take that homo
rule the icittslature put within
their reach.
' " -WHYf
' Two big Omaha schools Were
put out of commission because
steamplpea buret when heat
wss first turned on. Wonde
why these things were not tesU
ed during theAoag summer va
cation T
PCRITV.
What shall It profit a paper
!f it deodorize Its advertising
pages and persist in publishing
the pornographic biography of
a self-confessed thief end pros
titute T Some discrimination, eht
1 1LAG.
- Matt Greevey will be out at '
town when his old friend, W.
H. Taft comes tn. but the Taft
Hag will fly over the Greevey
lawn Just the same.
' , - POEM. .
She stirred our souls
The other night
. All went to go
, To Franc to fight,
V v . "
. Her Words wen warns. --
, ' Close ties to weld. ,
We'll follow on ' -Lead,
Ansa Held,
