The Omaha Sunday BEE OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, ; 1918. flCV;nf I -4 fe3gi V w -" looked ver the assembly, as if he TTJJTOT? AT V T J TU-TT l 1 VV . ' a - - ' .. vif rr.r.r a. 4 Some trhinss we hsLvetfrraom a usrate ' Comb Honey j By EDWARD BLACK. Home Life of the t-effingwells. Henry Leffingwell had posted on the kitchen walj a copy of the new meatless and pbrkless and wheatless and othef less days, and was pointing with pride to himself as patriot par excellence. He had added a smoke less day to. his weekly regimen and was speculating how he could further add to the domestic economies of the Leffingwell dispensary. Mrs. Leffing well was pondering over a letter she had received from a 12-year-old girl whose name is Florence ' and who lives in Indiana. Florence had always lived In, a small town, but her spirit was starving for the soul nourish ment she believed she would receive in the "big,. city,'? where her aunt lived. Her father was dead and her I lines the yearnings of the little girl stepfather did not have a kindly" ap- whose day dreams were of the city of preciation for 12-year-old girls whose, which she new onMy hearinir oth- souls had outgrown small towns.. riorence s a.unr, wnue on a recent visit to the small-town home, inspired the hope that the girl might some day go to live in the big city with her relative.' ' - ; -; ' In her letter, which Mrs. Leffjng well was reading, Florence wrote: "The other night I had a dream and I dreamed that I was out to your house and 'you got me a pair of brown shoes and stockings and a white yoille dress with ruffles and pink roses in it and a ribbon around u ana a riDDon on my nair ana 1 Al t. i. T W , . . thing,' and the teacher pretty near hadan" y Mr. Leffingwell read between the crs speak of it and by herreading. Mrs. Leffingwell wondered whether it was an opportune time to broach the subject of Florence's letter to the sachem' of her wigwam. Leffingwell appeared to be in one of his magnani mous moods, so much so that he ventured upon his own motion to buy his wife a new house-dress at a sale and he also proposed to make an appropriation for a new can opener. He was growing so prodigal that Mrs, .Leffingwell wai1 heartened to believe; that he might be so reckless as to buy her a wrist watch. This terms as dear daddie" and "kind father."' Willie thought he would ask him for the price of a thrift stamp and Mary was emboldened to apply, The Weeki & BtMBLE Bee OMAHA, SUNDAY " MORNING, . ItSBRUARY 3,' 1918. THE WXKKLT BUMBLE BEK. A. STINGER, EDITOR, ' , Communication en any tepli received, without , pootaga 'or signature, -Non returned. , NO AB8 AT ANT PaiCS. COVESXMENT SHOULD, CUT THE RED TAPE r AND LEARN THRIFT Mthl MOVIES. ; Th Bnmblo B thti wek tnururte dprlmnt of helpful bints to movlnc ptctur nrrio writeri., Knowing that i nrly vrybKr wrlt iccnar Vou nowdya, lh editor betlavoi thla department will b ppr iatd by v thoosanda, . Title week' hint: - Writ a marrtaf comedy In which the , bride groom cannot find the ring when the ceremeny U being per fontiod. -',"- 'i W eoniler Mae Mareh the punkt,. ow-actlnteet, unna . turaleat actrfu In the movie. Yet we know Intelligent, well meaning people I who .think a he ta tha greatest of crees tar. The old woman who klaa ed the cow satd JUi . 'XAtcoiOTOBT. A workman on army canton nenU boaeta that he made, MS a week "and ' loafed half the tlm.". We hope thla patriot gu twlndled -oot of hie blood money on a, gold brisk or ao ma th Inf. ' -;: baise. - Jerry Boward hag reetgned fcla 7-a-montl job aa night watchman l the city water plant to run for a, 37t-a-montb. job. aa city eommla stooer. . . .-- -. -OPEEA, '"Utatobed. ,"1. . r; . Late to rlae, Hdetle like h Tor alibis. " - Book and lyric by Emit Noa--beam: tnuaie by Oeorge Wilson; directed by Harry Watt. Germany had der Tag on - the first day of the war. W had "Ser tag" for patriotic eoej ehorela laet Wednesday, . f .Mr. Deir.'.t is a eitiaea of Bine Mennd, Kan. We don't know him, bat bave often heard th naaje her In Omaha, ' The great drawback to Car , manya brand of pace t that he we tits the biggest' pleoe. No ssubllc celebration of the kilter' birthday war held : In ; the. United State last Sunday. Tfll th income tax tnan tb troth' -or 4on't call yourself petfloHn. . Initanc of Wasteful ' TrawiBorttng Allen to Vtm for ' Tnternment. :' A sergeant and two private from rort Crook took one Ion alien enemy to Port ' Douglas. Utah, laat week. Tour other al. leged alien enemies ar in Jail here an t In Lincoln awaiting or dera from the attorney general Probably within a weok nr two another will be officially ordered Interned and will ha aent to rort Douglaa with, an other sergeant and two prlvatea as a. guard. It Is 1.608 mite rnunit Mn The government hea to pay railroad and aleeplng ear far for th toldlera, both wave. The same gaard would ba anfflclent to escort three or roar prisoners. Ths Dolnt of this is th.t n efficient adminletratlon would hold alien enefnlea In Jail here until three or four were ready fas' Internment Then all would be taken out at onoe, saving train fare, saving eongeatton on paesenger trains keeping th (oldler at their regalar duties at Fort Crook. Thl is tnerelv on Instance, typical of .many Othem, fc , . Whil th government waate money thue. It I no uncommon thing for officers her to re ceive letters, from red tana headbuartera ta i Washlnaton. atatlng, for Inatanco, that on leievram ao-and-so an : over- charg of 1 eent waa made to th government. Thla . la taken nn with th 1 telerranh company and. If all goa well,') in ceai ta returned and report of same la made to Washington. i ne -people are all learning thrift theee days. It th gov. ernment teara. thrift too and common aenee. the v.r,... Sld-faehloned. hardhtaded "horse KKXT. 'yf". "This agitation to etoe th pool halla," aays Shields, "re minds me of the darkey who aald he'd rather be killed In a railroad accident than In eteatnboat - ssnlnalan K..nu Ef yoMll am killed In rail road aceiaenv there yon a bnt f you -a 11 am killed In -epiooran, wnah am roar it a young man la In a rpcUbl poo)., hall then ha but If ha Isn't, where W ne 7 , - ... Early in the war a' prophecy was maae mat ar atrong man would arise to bring order out or chaos la Europe and that he would be "a writer.'' Trotsky was a newspaper writer in New lorn lees than a year ago. Did yon know that John U Kennedy'a rnlddls name i "lAnderd!?" Wall, It la. HOBSIES OF OMAHANS WHO ARE PROMINENT AH WAR ACTIVITIES Bumbl Boo Secure Scoop x AU Other Publications About ATocaUooe of LwU . : tog Men. 1 Th Omaha Be run a erle of "Hobble" very Sunday. Here ar torn that , It - has mined: i 4 Qurdoa W. Wattlos. atat food administrator, haa a hobby of running th Omaha A Council Blaffa Street Railway company and th United States National bank when ho isn't busy admin istering food. Ward Burgess, whan ho Isn't selling war . aavlnga atampa, help to operate a large depart ment ator and tb biggest Wholesal dry goods . house la th west, besides directing th Omaha National bank. , Frank Builta, . publicity man ager of th war saving etamp campaign, devotee his (par tlm to managing th publicity of th . Nebraaka, Telephone company. ; . .Harry Palmer, secretary of the war aavlnga a tamp cam paign, haa a hobby of prac ticing law. k. ' . . Frank Judaon. atat director for th Red Cross, devotes ht spar tlm to managing ' the local bualness of th Pittsburgh Plata Glass company. Th hobbles of John I Ken nedy, state fuel . administrator, ar managing large real eetate holding and running tor United States senator. . i- t : ' , PKOTERB. -j .-j ' If an 111 wind that blow nobody good.'! Lock what tfi war did for our ator clerka. The South Sid polio arrested Peter Hook, a runaway boy, last Tueeday. Up to data no news paper haa etated that th pollc 'got th H06k," . . ,llp IN OUR TOWN. What w need la a weather admrnlatratof. . ' , Loole Naah returned from New Yoyk. where he went on' business. ' r Dr. Qnlfley, who orgStnised the bareToot golf club, isn't practicing much in. that theso day. , , I Do yon remember the tlm when people uaed to put their automobile away .for th win terT . , .? - Captain MoGlons, formerly of the Bloody Seventh, -is dlitrib utlng blotters , boosting- bis candidacy, for city commis sioner, - " : .:'. ., Emmet " Qulnley, deputy United State marehal, haa "cut out" cigar for th dura tion of th war. II la confining himself to hi pipe and will apend 10 cents a day on war aavlnga . ataraps, -, ' , Clark Powell has returned from tho New York Auto show wearing an Immense fur cap. Ho says he created a regular sensation on Broadway, Be looks Ilk a Coseack or a whirl- dervish or something. r CANDIDATES, Bow litany petition have yon llgned to have aotnebody put on th ballot for city commis sioner T Did yon know any of tbemT Neither did we. But, hucka, let m ran If they want tO. .. -,; ' HORRIBLE, v , ' Jim Slinms, tho musician 1 perpetratea tho following: "My little dog I very fond of Bach, but his 'Bach Is wore than 'hi bite." Sentence ba not yet been pronounced on Mr. Blmma. v. "Does the IKorM-ferad Say So,?" , : ; (With apologia to tho World-Herkld.) . ; . . . Seece-Farnam etreet car. ', .',v: JUne IS p. av, Wednesday, January J0V f Eater Bowsbey with a wild hriekt "Extryt BandiU hoot poliosmaatr, ... Commotion among th pasicnger. Everybody reaches ' for a newspaper Noweboy ahove a paper with glaring head .' line to on man. Latter wave it back. ; , "Does th Werld-Herald say sof he demand. "Gir m a Herald r (Boy hand him a World-Herald.) , ... ' ' A moment' (Hence, tUen 't-'----,-.; " J' , "By Ceorge, there' net a Uno, about It in tho .World-. Herald. Hey, boy, gimm Th Boo." - (Tb World-Herald was not oat until two hoar later.) This I an actual occurrence It torplftee th thought that s grounded in the mind of every man, wonqan and child in Omaha: . WHEN YOU WANT THE NEWS WHILE ITS NEWS, REAJV THE OMAHA BEE ' new tooth brush.' Leffinrwell looked yover . the assembly, as if -he wanted a vote of confidence. He rap ped for order and a solemn hush fell over the tabernacle. ' "I have been thinking that one of the besetting $ins of the time is the sin of getting even, or , holding a grudge," began, the pilot of the Lef fingwell craft. "Did you ever stop to 'think of the folly of trying to get even, and did you ever realize that such acts return home to roost like chickens? Getting even is not, in ac cord with the old injunction about turning the other . cheek. In the neighborhood if one resident sets in motion a bit of gossip about another, the rule has been for .the second neighbor to rake up some bit of de cadent, gossip," dress it up in gro tesque manner and then launch it upon . the sea of. idle talk. I would suggest that tach neighborhood should have a clearing house of gossip,- where , neighbors might meet every moraing . and exchange bon mots of chatter. In this manner ev erybody could get even with every body else by '9 o'clock, and the dan gers of pneumonia from standing at the back fence would be lessened." -dad, did you-and ma ever postofficer asked Willie, whir a of ansrelic innocence. V'"' .-; Indians are said to hold a erudire and to hold to the old law about an eye for an eye .and an ear for an ear, but we who are civilized and have night schools and correspondence schools , should know better. Besides, getting even ' does not pay any re turns worth having," addedv Leffing well, imperiously, ., ' ,. bay. dad, was you ever a Profit eer?" was the next item on Willie' questionnaire. ' y "You meant. to ask if. daddie was ever a propheteer, ddn t you Wil lie?" was Mary's gentle intervention. Mrs. Leffineweir folded' Florence's letter carefully and placed it jn fbr apron 'pocket. She did not seem to have ; received a lasting impression ltm the man with whom she shared her joys and sorrows. She may have been impressed, but it was not last ing. She had been impressed to offer the last word, whereupon Lef findwell looked like anything except the super-man he suggested a few minutea before he subsided. Henry Leffinjrwclir she exclaim. edand Henry straightened up as if he was responding to the action of a pulmoter in the hands of an ener getic operator. "If I were to hold agaifTst .you all of the. little, vexations and irritations you have caused, I wouldn't be doing anything, else.- I, iook upon, suc.1 things at. the frail ties of human nature, and you even; had the audacity one day to telj.me that the other name, of frailty is wo man. When it comes to remember ing bygones and 'casting tup old scores I think you had.befter.do a littlevaweeping at -your own doorstep befpre you try to "be an apogtle of the Golden Rule. ' Leffingwell looked like ', horrible example; Mary" felt like 'commiser ating him, but instead she popped some corn ana, passed it around, and be t ween bites of the puffed cereal .Wil lie injected a bit of. levity by inquir ing: . v v" , ., I' ' ' T'Say, dad, can't yon and ma sing, 'When, Jenny Come Marching Home?' " Heard En Passant. - "I have a craving for some raw satierRraut." "We eat too muc,h meat, anyway." "I would think, she'd catch cold, wouldn't you?" , , "Thi is a choice day, isn't it?". "I think he is nice, don't you?" Somebody. Reads It , Abe Groh, the historian, said that on Sunday morning: when he gets his pape'r) the first thing he looks for is "Comb Honey.1 - V The Height of Gratification. . When a woman's cooking is praised by a man other ,than"her husband. .. - - .. . j,... 'A Stem Winder. . v- Smith had mt bought a sew dog and took Jones to have a look at It. They hang over the stable door and peeped at tb puppy, which was twisting round ana round In a trensied effort to catch Its own toil. - - - ' ' ' "What sort o dogr do yon call that I asked Jones. " "A .watch dog. replied Smith. . "Oh. I so!" res arked Jones. T suppose Be a winding aunaeiZ up now r" ITiUaaai phi ledger, , i. , GOT 1 1 r ' By A. EDWIN LONG. ' Because the teicher was waitinsr for him with a stack of willow switches. David Menagh refused to go to school one day. as a , boy,, back near Deni son, la. The teacher was not really sorry, for- Davy was not a model pupil. He. popped papejr pulp balls against the ceilinglurTtil it was posi tively freckled.- a When the ' teacher had her back turned hej wbuld snap chalk,5 corn' and " gravel at ' her ears with his - slingshot On -the play grounds he, iQrm"ented the giHs, fought with the boys,; and. swaggered around with a bloody nose or a limp Car. half the time. . - " So. when the teacher s nerves were all ravelled out at the ends one day she went into ( a willow 'grove with a hatchet, hacked out nearly ' half an acrVof saplings, came back with a glaWin her eye and issued -her ulti matum to Davy as he scampered for home.; , :f ' It was the next morning that he balked when his mother tried to start him off to school His father took a .hand in. the argument, harrvgssed a team,. and. sent the boy to plow corn. , , t, "If you won't go io, school, you'll plow corn," he said. ' " ' i And David plowed corn.' For' several days he plowed dili gently, and then over a distant hill came a wagon bounding along, behind a pair of galloping horses. The wagon was loaded with shooting and; sing ing boys. It was his old crowd from school going to a neighborhood town to play base ball ; : - v They halted where Davy was sit ting on the plow handles, and asked him how he liked plowing compared with playing base balL Then they all laughed and made faces, until Davy began te hnnt for. rocks to bounce off their Jieads -V ' . As he watched the wagon bound over the last distant hill,- and heard the shouting and singing of the bbys, he bit his lips till they, were -blue and vowed he would not spend his life straddling a corn row. -. He-told bi" father about this re solve. Yes,' he- told ; i to . him right straight,1 for Davy, always said things when -an idea began : to probe , and stab and spur around in his brain, i For a change of scenery Bis father made . him sweep out " the -old. mill, grease the wheels, and;sw. the belts with whang , leather.!,. : ... ' I Then he sent David and." some ; of his brothers to Denison and with $600 a capital sft up a' grocery, store for the boys. The other .stores Jiad, the business, though, so these -new boys could not make" expenses. ...-. y -BuDavid would-not be defeited "WfeVe got to do" some business,", he stormed when he came to the store. "I'll go and get some orders." Soon a smalr, dark and veryboyv ish chap began to appear 'at theback- doors ot the homes in XJenison. He would' pull a potato out of one coat pocket and an apple or head of cab bage, out pf the other, and show. them i as samples, tie would insist upon tak ing an-order: That was' David Men agh and soon he was aumoine orders .into - the little store -faster than the. deliveries could follow.-- - ..- When they could net get the fann ers' butter and eggs, David decided to pay cash for these products, where as the other stores were merely giv ing the farmers value in trade. The butter and eggs began to come to the Menagh place, you bet. Restlessness took possession of David, so he set his heart on Seattle? About that time the Menaghs chanced to trade for a Douglas county iarm a few. miles .north, of Benson.. When David began to build, pig fences and pound stakes here, he got acquainted with some Omaha businesnien, who told him Omaha was surely a splendid place for a' branch of the Denison store which had alreadv developed into a general store with a $60,000 stock. --' v f : David came to the city and looked around. That was four -.years ago. He established the Houseyof Menagh, an exclusive place for women's ready, to-wear apparel, which" has grown to b a popular Mecca for those of dis cernment. - Since- the; First National Priest' Praises Policemen Who FoughUBandits Funeal services for Frank Rooney, the detective killed in a battle with jewelry bandits, were held in the Church of the Holy Angels, yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.' Requiem high mass was . celebrated by Rev. P. A. Flanagan. - A detail of police escorted the cor tage from the home of Peter Rooney, brother, 1918 Fowler street, to the church and, to thexemetery. The church ' was crowded, with' friends and associates of the deaa po lice officer. . In his sermon Father Flanagan paid high tribute to the courage of Frank Rooney and his ass6ciateS on the po ; lice force. He compared thenv fa- ; vorably with the-' soldiers who haye enlisted for service in France and told ; how they are every day prepared; to battle for the protectionof the ciU- zens. ., - f ',. ) ' . "We must look at conditions as they are and as we know theffl to be, said Father Flanagan. "We were assured and led to believe by the reformer that occurrences such as jut here mourn would-be no more following the "enactment of prohibition., If ; newspaper, accpunts are to be believed, , there is more ', intoxicating liquorun Omaha today than before , we " had . prohibition. ' jt: i "And so it will always beThe first miracle performed was the changing . of water into wine." " :- V - The minister followed with a scath- . , ing arraignment of professional re..-; formers whom he referred to as men living by interfering with other-peo--, pie's business. --.!vV. ; ' 4 ' - Father Flanagan todk to task those whom he said were' endeavoring:. bring about' an impossible milleiiiurn and that their actions had made actual conditions worse, than before prohi bition by making the. people; sneaks in order to secure tljeir pteasures. 1 - ( ' Th pallbearers Were all associates , in police work of the dead detectiveii They were: John T.V Dunn, Frank Murphy, John Holden, Felix Dolan, Ben Danbaum, John Barta,' John Psrandwski and Peter Jolty. ' - - Interment was in -Holy Sepulcher cerhetery;- ;, ' 4 ,: " '.' Our Winged Submarine The gull seems to be cominghjo ff a lot of abuse, on the ground that jt robshTfisherman of his'prey and js of.no earthly use to anybody except for .its', feathers. ' - YVYV ;.' Up speaks Fradle H. Stewartpresi dent of the electrical company that tears his name, president, also, of one of the largest fishing clubs- on the coast the Ocean City Fishing club, vJiich has pushed a 29-foot pier out into . the Atlantic . for the benefit: of disciples of Izaak Walton; , ' ' " Mr Stewart is a real naturalist and nature-loyer, after the .order of "Sam", -Scoville or Prof. JohnvH. Har$hberg- -tr, of scores of others of bright mew He' says.: "I've fished, mthe surf both day and night". You can see. in , his office a historic fishing .rod tha,t has broken eight world's records in tasting, though these feats were not Mir. -Stewart's own, he modestly ex- ' plains.; .; .; ' . t y v. "I hive never seen a gull eat a crab, and only ,in cold weather have I seen a'hungry.guirtakft a clam 'aloft and dtop it; to break it open. . Af en't the gulls entitled to- an. occasional . stray clam on: the beach after" the:fish. have left for warmer waters? . ';, " "If is just as sensible to blame gulls for the high cost of fish as it vwdnld be to blame robin's for the high price of apples." . - '. ? ' "';". j.-.- -. .'; "Were a (bounty of 25 cents to ; be v put on each harmless gull, it would be .gouging thctaxpayers for .'easy money' "for thosse who; like target shooting. . "So far. as sport is concerned, it would be the same high plane with shooting barnyard chickens. - , " " "Every gull on our coast is an avia tor in our defense and worth-almost as' much as a soldier or a sailor for our protection. You see, -the gulls live chiefly on the fragments of. fish left by the hungry: tigers-of the sea feeding On- schooled : fishes. Evjry boy on the seashore , knows that" a diving, screaching flock of gulla indi- , cates a school of fish. , , v . "Like an aviator, they can see bel6)w the surface,1 but . they cannot freason , ' that all things under the surface are not fish. They, expect something -to appear on the surface of the water following- .a. commotion beneath.' That something is. food, ' ; ' , ; ;? ' .- "Whe'n gulls . detect a submarine they follow it like a school of fishand -if this nation is ever attacketl' byrfhe U-boats we shall be s6rry that we ' , haven't 10 gulls, for every ofie" we have ' now."Phila,delphia; Ledge " .'V;;-'t '. ' li Didn't Work. '.-. ' " ' '"Ow-'dl ltworkT" sld on 'raall-bor In the street to the other. - . j ! !" "Ow did you do lt? , " ' '.'Se,.t.h9 oId mn h "proppodTi ilxpenco, ' an I picked It up an' runned after htm, an'. I aya, 'Mister.' .. 'ere' a elxpenc- a y6n dropped," an' be put hi hand. In 'la pocket an h ears, Tou'r an ho4est'lHtls boy: her, a ahllling for you... Wat I dropped the (hilling In front of an old woman when h.had 'orpurs open, an" I -picks 4t tip " wiw uong, an iDiior er. and - says, "Here, mlseee. oroppea j ; Is a shilling you "We!. !j. takes ft ill nn rv.. little boy,' an', puts it to' her; pocket and 5sn- Tm a tuning oatf ixBdoa i Bank building has been built."aflran nef ?! h Hous of Menagh has been" established there, and the high-strung executive temperment of DavirMen-! agh is taxed to capacity to manage the growing business. . - .Today he divides his. time between" the stores and th farm A KBenson, He is not V club man. , He u luorc use ior a billiard cue th" " h h" for a red balloon,! A golf xlub -would be about as much use.to him as an all-day sucker. . But at his farm he takes his recrea tion. , WTien he. gets into . hia, torn and patched overalls, spikes down the fences where the hogs last rooted , their way out, when he gallops after the steers that get into the corn, .nen he squats on a stool, to milk the choicest Holstein cow on that farm ah, it is, then he. gets recrea tion that hes not in golf clubs, hockey clubs or even in social clubs where men lounge, in soft cushions to draw at strong cigars. . - ; ( WooMtxsjg,fvK?rnS :