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) . . : OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1918. Comb Honey Turns .big Deal rT rsL IT When C. C, George had been an tm ,. ployecf Potter & Cobb, real estate dealers, only a few months he felt the thrill that comes once in a lifetime. He told a lot on the northwest corner of Sixteenth. and Farnam streets for $72,000 and did it all by himself al though he was only a youngster, Both Mr. Potter and Mr. Cobb were out of the city when a stranger walked . into the office one day. Mr.- George was there. The stranger stated that he was from Philadelphia and that Oma ha looked like a town with a future. Mr, George told him that Omaha's future was like ' the future of Rome when Romulus and Remus were being nursed by the wolf, lie told him the surest way on earth to make money was to buy Omaha real estate. The stranger seemed interested and young George thought he mjght per haps sell him some inexpensive lots. , He began telling him of some good investments.' 'v..'Vv-v.-' v "Got anything down in the business district, brother?' asked the stranger, ' "Yes. here's a lot right on the main corners that's a bargain at $72,000," said C. C, George, half in a joke be cause it was such a big deal. , The Philadelphian was interested. Young George took him over and showed it to him. The stranger looked ii,: -.J down the street, 'j believe you're right, young man. Tliis is a good investment. I'll take it." And the young realtor got the thrill then and there that has never been equalled though he has turned many a Li'suer deal since then. i'otter & Cobb is now George & Co. Two for "Dad". "Only had two thrills in my life," admits ;Dad" Weaver. Ak-Sar-Ben secretary, "One was. when I woke up 10 'days after an auto smash-up and found (hat I had 137 ribs broken on my left side. I just had one long thrill for six weeks then; vv , , 'j "The ouly other thrill I jevef had was about 50 years ago when I. was The Weekly OMAHA, THIS WEKBLX Bl'MBMS BEE A. STINGER, EUITOn. Communications on any topic received, without - postage or signature. None returned.-' NO ADS AT ANT PRICB , J. Albert Holmes, of Con smictton, N. C. flips from the Hoston Tranacrlpt a clipping flipped by th Transcript from The Omaha Ba and tends It lo Th Ifumblo lies with five potent word of comment: . From too Omaha, Bee.) lira. Wilson's Indian ancestry stood her In good stead In making a choice of Indian name for tha new ships, but wander la how h came to overlook such musical "mon ikers" a ' Slemphremagog, Mooaemaguntle., NUhnabotna, Wapniplnlnoa. Oeonomowoc, MurhlkiBock, Keokuk or 'Kan Uakee. - - ' To y nothing , ,ot Chau tuuagungamaug. a S' A. XI. - HTTOTHITICAL. If man speaks of aauar kraut m "liberty, cabbage." of Herman fried potatoes aa "American fried potato" and of German measles as "victory measles." and If he la always yelping that,, ho would "Ilka to t a hanc to panto tbo kaiser rtsbt en fhe r.t ;" and It thla man fall to buy Liberty bonds or war sarins tamps or sub scribe to the Red Crosa or obey the food refutations, bow many such men will it tako to win tha wart DOIBT. 5 Resent developments, on the - Ttallaa front causa tbo kaiser V to wondar whether gott 1 really .' mit hlin. i The, future will givo ,' him more reaion to donbt. Ho will discover that Ood la new, as always, o tha aide of rlsht And Wilhelm Is, unfortunately for himself, on the side of ront. . ' : . TAVOHITE. , Ry. It. B. Farorlf ht waa elect ed moderator of tha Baptlat rhurchea In tho Omaha, district He waa his name In tbo elec tion. - v c:--' ' ' VITA. Taada played In Roma and . Hike Barta. kinr of Tbo Bee's newsboys, treated them to Ice cream In celebration of the Itat ta victory. . :, s. . HOT. In ths hot days not many l'copie are-seekinc "a place' In lis sun." Cohn I . 3f J I a- - . I 5C - - - ' V a young fellow. I was out hunting and was crossing a pasture when a big black bull came tearing after me. "I had thrills "all up and down my spine until I took the bull by the horns just figuratively speaking, you un derstandand shot out both his eyes. That settled Mr. Bull. It cpst me a nice little piece of change to settle up with .the farmer, though. . No bulling about that. ' "Dad" Weaver lay in bed for six weeks . last summer and fall after George Bratidcis' automobile, in which "Dad" and Mr. Brandcis were traveling to Des Moines, was smashed itt a. collision near Casey, la. Weaver's life was despaired of for weeks, but today he is boosting for Ak-Sar-Ben more vigorously than ever. y .. y ' , SUNDAY MORNING: JUNE fB'UMBLE'BEE BUMSLE til AXSWERS . SHAXESPEARH QUERY, "WHAF IN A NAME!" I'olnts to Benwrkabla Dlseov- MUTE, INGLORIOUS BARD WRITES AB OUT ' TRAFFIC POLICEMEN Touching ' room of Uterary Value Is rubllihed Eirlu Ively by Bnmble Bee (Bight Beserved) : ' To our study desk comes a poem which, . says John B. Kennebeck, waa found In th collection of Traffic Policeman N. O.' Hetland. He aays It Is not onoot the poems of Ser geant Sam Morris, "poet laureate ot the Omaha police force." It must be the work ot "iom mute, inglorious Mil ton.",. . We have omitted the third verse for the reason that It : contains a bad word five times repeated. Thla bad word appear also in the last line of each ot the two "stanzas pre sented herewith. We can stand this word once la a atansa without lowering the' high character of the Bumble Bee. But w draw the line 'at-having It repeated five tlmee. I rry Made by Its rhllosop leal Kxpni ta tho Kama of Ward Barges. . Let u phllosophli, friends. Let Us,, try to comprehend th Incomprehenalblo, to unscrew the Inscrutable. We are moved to this by an astounding fact which we have discovered In tha nam of Ward Burgess, stste director of war savings, Look) n qq LkfAKO BCBGtJ J The first, Jotter and the tkat double letter of his name form that abbreviation by which war savin ss stamps are best known W. 8. 8.1 Did this just happen t We trow not. 8orae myetlo force, working from the beglnntna; must have ordered It. Soma ve mtgnt state also all our acquaintance with cross ing copper, we have not once beard them utter th hyphen ated word In question.' unfathomable powers beyond tho compreherislon ot our earth mind must cava brought this about. No one can deny that It la re markable. For, not only Is Ward Burgess atate director of war saving stamps, but he originated a plan for aelllng theao stamp that put Nebraska at the head ot the list ot atatea with about three times aa many Listen how the muse -the lyre ot the 'Unknown post: CROSSING COFPEBS.' I've studied crossing or many weary Their habits and their Their sorrows and their feara. I know their eccentricities I know their language well; ' Their lexicon has lust fiv - .words. . 1 !. And n Is Wot-ths-hellt . I say, I've studied traffic- cops, Intensively and long; And I have heard that they are V. right, And I am always wrong. ' . " I've learned their manners and their speech, I know tha last too woll: It all constats of five small words,. And on Is Where-the-htll? .-;yiy CBtTL, Describing "Dave" O'Brien' Thermopak. a local paper says ot me stamps aold per capita as any other state. National Director Prank Van derllp came out here and called all the other state directors to come to Omaha and leam how to sell stampa. He' aald Jlr. Burgees "saved the national war eavlaga scheme." Then he took Mr, Burgess, Guy Klddoo, Harry Palmer and Frank Built, otf to Washington to teach the other 47 states how to aeU.W. 8. 8. . You can't make ss believe that It "Just happened" that Mr. Burgess name begin with "War" and ends with "Sav ins Stamps," There are more things la heaven and earth . than are dreamed ot tn our philosophy. And this la one of them, b'gosh. : We have spoken. WASTED. this "will enable the trenches to have palatable dishes to eat." W protest agalnat trying to force the soldiers to eat dirties and If a doctor would only open aa office on the southwest cor w don't believe they awe.'-. . . ner or Seventeenth and Cuming streets we could point out some, thing odd about that corner. The other three corners-are now occupied . by (1) a drug store, (J) an undertaker and (3) a tombstone concern. BOD-D-VOIB. Speaking of conservation, an Omaha woman recenUy made a boudoir cap out of a pair of her husband's wrnout B. V. Da. 1 OBSERVE. . Some , people - never . learn. There are thousand who don't know yet that they ahould stand a car-length back of the near-aide crossing la order to te la the right board th street car. ''';'!: ' . BREEZY. :! Some of these weltering days we envy me moiorracn. , .'-vr-;r- o : . ' : TZ - Wfie Me Saca Water a man's foh ew Speed Mark Kobert T Patrick, prominent race horse fan, had a big thrill when both he and Omaha were in their infancies Patrick was calmly jogging along homeward one cool spring evening when a roadside sniper took a shot at him.: Patrick claims that he hung up a record on the dash home which will never be equaled, 'v A big dog with an ugly disposition caused several thrills and chills to run down his back several ' years later when said dog decided that a piece of ratricK. i leg would be good eating, Patrick claims he cleared a 10-foot fence in his jump to safety." - 30, .1918. ' THOUGHTLESS. At' a patriotlo banquet which we attended recently, there were eight people at our table And five of them left a large amount of edible meat, potatoes, peas, etc, on their plates. The other three "licked the platter clean," It used to be a sign of "culture to leave some food on the plate. This sign ot culture wa probably promulgated by the eame person who decreed that the llttla finger should be bent gracefully while one is drinking a cup of tea. Nowa dare It is the nroner thing to eat up every bit ot food placed before one. ' 1 ' REALTORS. . ' Tou glv m a Payne," said Tukey. Th Smith took a Bampio of a certain weed and man a Dodge for th Beach over th Hill. But w.wa Haatlngso fsat that h tripped over a Reed. He erossed th Marsh and aat down In th Sholea along th .shore. Thomas. Vre a Wolf, bat you'd better 1st George do , If," he aald. Th writer of th abov will hav a hearing before th Looney commission tomorrow. BOSlC . ' "Th American soldier is A. 'that, in No. 1 all wool and a yard wide, but aoma.of the war correspond ent o'erleap themselves. On twangs ot th writer last week sent a dispatch telling how an Amer ican soldier killed 17 Germans single-handed. We don't believe It No one could do that except Douglas Fairbanks or- Bill Hart, coppers years: customs. LOVE. ':' Aa a small boy loves a shingle. Bv hla father's hand applied; As the donkey loves the tingle Ot a lash upon hi side; At a brewer love a preacher. . Or an editor a poet. Thus do I love Mr. Stinger, And rm glad to have " him ' know it. Ashur Edly Knott ' SAVE. W suggest thst a consider able saving could be effected by puttlnr only en straw in stead of i two In th loe cream snda and phosphate glasses. Why two, anyway If two. why not three? Or tn? Don't' get cold feet If you see Liberty bond a little ' be low par. Some day peace will com and you'll as them Jump over th ISO mark. - EASY. The -lot of sn Interned Ger man In thla country la pretty aoft-. Plenty of good food, no work and full pay. , ; , .""y v lees, ;' ' nomer, th bard of Ilium; has been dead for many centuries, but we often see his nam in 'tit bet reports today. , boys In the nice, warm, are palat- position to Plans Work for ' College Girls During Vacation Possible lines of war service, for college girls during the long sum mer vacation are suggested by the woman's committee of the State- Council of Defense. "Each girl should decide in what branch of work she has the mdTt ability. The home demonstration agent needs girls who have had tram, insr in home economics, public speak' ing, English and journalism. They need, also, girls who have ability to organize or arrange things attract ively for exhibits and fairs. . "To those who have nothing defi nite in mind I suggest that they hunt up the home demonstration office, usually found in the farm bureau, if they live in a rural community, or to find the urban agent, if they, live in a city. Should there be no- urban agent in her town, a girl should look up the woman who, represents the food administration. In almost every county of every state home demon stration agents are overworked and need help badly. , . "If in college a girl has shown any ability in research, she can help great ly in standardizing recipes ,whch are sent in by housekeepers and in assit ing the agent in preparations for dem onstrattons. No good agent ever goes out to give a demonstration without first having made tareful preparations. f . --, y; "If, a girl has any ability to write, there is a tremendous field for her to help with the publicity work in the country. If a girl is a good public speaker, she can be ot invaluable as sistance. Speakers are needed who can combine inspiration with facts on foods and diets. Here the college girl trained in home economics has an advantage over her associates trained along other lines. Jr or in stance, it is important that the house wife realize the danger of cutting down, the consumption of milk for her children, and that she be informed as to what substitutes for foods not plentiful she can safely use and pre serve the health of her family. If a girl has aristic ability and originality, she can be ot assistance in arranging exhibits. The preparation of exhibits takes a great deal of time, but be cause of the value as a means of teaching the conservation of food it is an important part of the work. "The girl who held offices at col lege is usually a good organizer. The ability to organize can be utilized in completing committees for food con servation. This community commit tee is the last link in the chain be tween the housekeeper and the federal food organization for conservation. If the college girl has the asset of being a good mixer, the value of any ourcr qualities is greatly enhanced. THE EFFICIENT CRANK "Sclentlflo management, or efficiency," said Victor Berger in a political address In Milwaukee "can be carried too, far. Some employers carry It beyond th Bounds of decency In fact, they go craiy over It I heard of an employer recently who lost bis wife, Th man was a sclentlflo management crank, and, at his poor wife's funeral, whea th six pallbearers stepped forward to take up the coffin, he held up his hand nd yelled in a loud vole that rolled ilk thunder through th church: "Hold on there! Two of y step ; beck! Four's enough for that Job!' "Washington Star. , V DONT FEED THE MOTHS !ft SCIAIL MOTH-THt iMOIAM-nEAL MOTH IDESTROYS DRIED FRUITS WO VEGETABLE mtiomi, wak OAnein conniMfON y Let 'cmstarv) rather than feed 'm on your dried Tftabl and fruits. Gel the drying book from th National War Garden ' Commission, Washmf ton, for 2 cnU lor postag. Hen) Canning I m Nacssry Home Cardraing. Readers 4f this paper may obtain free ' canning in trnction upon application to the National War Garden Commuaion, Washington, D. C, enclosing cent stamp for postagn. J J) I ' 1 ( ' HoS?VJiW5 OP WORKERS TOj COWSERyg GARDEN SURPtJUS. Ciiefqflolice Nickel J 3Deiti3sey , By WALTER A. PETERS. "Came across in the dummy," shot back Chief of Police Michael F. Dempsey to the query, "How did you happen to come to Omaha?" "Guess that was before your time, my boy," chuckled the chief. "It was in December, 1877, that I left the farm where I -was working near Walnut, la., and made a trip to Omaha," continued the chief rem- iniscently. lhe Union facihc train used to make trips about every hour those days ' from the Union Pacific, transfer to the old union sta tion at Seventh, and Marcy streets. A wheezy little engine drew a tram of 1 cars loaded with passengers, wacons. stock and freight." . Descended from Irish stock which had made its home in County Galway for generations, Michael t.'Demp sey was born near Pittston, Pa., July 30, 1857 . "Yes, I went to work in the coal mines when I was 8 years old," said the chief. My father was killed in the mines and all of us seven boys went to work. I used to pick the slate out of the anthracite as the coal came down the chutes. But 12 vears of that and tending doors and driving mules in the mines gave me the pleurisy and I came west for my health to some relatives in Iowa in 1877." His first visit to the future "Gate Cjty of the West" prepossessed the stocky Irish-American lad in , favor of Omaha, for within a few. months after his first visit he.madeanother trip across the old Union Pacific bridge on the "dummy" and settled here for good. The year on the farm had cured him of pleurisy and he was again ready for hard work. Various jobs in the smelter, in Dewey & Stone's old warehouse and in the "Union Pacific freight house occupied the years until October 22, 1885, when the future chief joined the police force. "I wanted the job as patrol driver," he said, "and Mayor Jim Buyd prom ised to give me the job. He had the appointment all ready in his pocket, but some politician got to him before he reached the old city hall at Six teenth andl Farnam that morning and someone el-- got the job. But I had the satisfaction of seeing the fire and police commission refuse to confirm the appointment of the man who had beaten me out of my job. I got my appointment a week later, but I never got the job of driving . the patrol wagon. But I have Jield every other job on the force at some time or 6ther except driving the w 35011 and riding a motorcycle. I guess that both of those jobs were too fast for me." Dempsey's life has been full of ex citing incidents. . In the mines as a boy he had several narrow escapes from death. Once he just escaped being crushed when the roof of his section . of the mine caved in. Another time when a blast of black powder failed to go off, I went up to look at it," said the chief, "but I saw that the fuse was stilt burning. So I took to my heels and just got far enough awa;- in time.' , Asked about his narrow escape 1 HI m since he has been on the force, Demp sey said: - "Oh, they are too many to remem ber.",.. -;v y- ry . But his first days on the force were marked by happenings stirring enough' for a new olhcer; "My first beat ran between Farnam arid Harney streets and Tenth and Sixteenth streets.. The first man I ar rested On my first night on the force had been 'engaged in a hooting scrape. The next, night I arrested a man who was armed with a revolver, a pair of brass knuckles and a dirk. Then I chased a man from Eleventh and Harney streets to the Burlington r6undhouse at . Gibson. The man who was armed with the knuckles I picked up in front of the building which is now the city jail. It was one of the city's finest school houses then. It isn't even considered good enough for a jail now." Chief Dempsey has always been in the best of health since he came to Omaha, he says. - "They just about took the sap out of me in the mines, but I'll be 61 July 30 next,"he says, ''and I guess I'm good for a long time yet. Lots of the men who werevm the force when I joined are gone now. John , Savage and I worked together at the Union Pacific freight house. .There we trav eled together as detectives for nine years. He died six years ago as chief of detectives." Five of the seven boys in the Dempsey family are still living. Cap tain Patrick F. Demspey is in the fire departmenfand is stationed at the Lake 'street barn Stephen Dempsey is in the employ of the Burgess-Nash company. One brother is in Colorado and the oldest brother is still in Penn- sylvania. Chief of Police Dempsey : is the second of the brothers. ' Demosev ioined the police force r October 22, 1885. In February, 1888, he was made a detective, and in 1901 he was made a sergeant. He was ap Dointed a eaotain in 1910. and assist ant, chief of police in August, 1917. Last April he succeeded Henry wunn as, chief of police. BURY YOUR CABBAGES is an important form of eparedness in the matter of ipply. The National War Garden Mission, of Washington, irsnes k on this subject teDing how' Jone. Write for it, enclosing Z HUH t TMEM'RE. A " 60NES-SAME ftVMEjT yf I V cabeJUes stored- roots up- IH 4 SANK OP EARTH. S WAtfttMe-fOfX O-C StoAf wintetf pi foods Corns! a boj it ill cents? By EDWARD BLACK. Home Life of the Leffingwells. - It was another red-lettef day in ths life of the Leffingwells. Henry, ths intellectual giant of the habitat, did not seem to be in a garrulous mood A stimulant would have been neces sary to have moved him to offer three cheers for anybody or anything. He carried his pipe and grouch around to the side of the house, where he sat on a box and wondered whether the folks at home would miss . hirh. ; His cup of joy was not running over. Mrs. Leffingwell was sitting on her kitchen porch, soliloquizing over the phenomenon of man, whom she verily believed was fearfully and ponder fully made, and she was beginning to believe that her Henry was the most fearsome specimen of the male electo rate. She wondered how she 'could interest Henry in promoting the ho mogeneity of their hut She believed there was something on his mind. Mayhap he had torn his trousers on a cherry tree, and had allowed false pride to stand between him and the woman who had been keepin house in order all through the long da She worried over the of funk into which he had lapsed, she resolved to conceal her domestic distress, particularly as 6he observed Mrs. Whats-Her-Name crossing the lawn like a debutante going to a fash ion show. ; The neighbor airily an nounced herself by stating that " her man" had suddenly exhibited such a renewed interest , in the welfare , of - their home that she was beginning to wonder whether his mind had been affected by the heat. : ' Psychology of Husbands. "I left my man over home cutting ; the lawn and I just figured that if I said anything to him, I might say the wrong thing and then he would, quit ; the job and tell me to shut my mouth v and to do the work myself. Did yoa ever stop to consider the psychology -of husbands? Don't you know that' when you get a man going, the best thing to do is to let him keep at it while he is in the mood? ,1 am get- ting my man trained," Mrs. Whats-Her-Name went on to say, turning around, with a pirouette to give Mrs.j Leffingwell the benefit of her new dress. " - I, ' Mrs. Leffingwell was loth to dis hearten her younger, married friend on the ancient and honorable pas time of training husbands.- She had been training her Henry for 20 years and had not yet reached the point where she was sure that he would g through a performance without balk ing. . y ' a vrr:' H" ' Henry Leffingwell. overhearinir the feminine colloquy where he reposed on the box, puffed vigorously at hit corncob pipe as evidence of mental stress. He wasN beginning to be aroused from his lethargy. His box- seat broke, precipitating him hi ar undignified manner without adding tu his elation. He concluded that Mrs r Leffingwell had placed the box there for -the particular purpose . which it had served so well, and the more, he thought tf it, the more 1 was "his choler.e He had been , silent - long enough, anyway, he thought, and his feelings lent themselves to the oc casion of letting Mrs, Leffingwell know who was boss of the rancho. He felt that he was slipping as gen-. eralissimo of his sector. ' The zert hour had struck to assert himself. , The autocrat of the Leffingwell pantry took up the line of march in to the house, followed by his wife and an ominous silence. Mrs, .Whats Her-Name escaped . across Nc Man'a land 'to her home where she arrived in time to hear the Leffingwe.il salvn of .scintillations. -; xt f , . ; Who is Boss?yv ! 'I want to know who is boss here," Leffingwell began, as Mrs. Leffingwell stood with her back against a wall of the conference room.' Across the lawn . Mrs. Whats-Her-Name pressed an ear against her listening post. Lef fingwell's face was forbidding as he -impressed his austerity upon the : scene. . ; '' y y v-'.O ';,'.. "We might as well determine here and now who is going to be the boss, who is going to assume the responsi-' bilities of the Leffingwell homestead s Henry continued, "If I am to be th monitor, then I want to knew it; but if you want to carry the flag, then I" will take a back seat and will be con tent to be a passive figure around the place." ' . ' "I kin get you another box to sit on, pa," shouted .Willie, who was . figuring how he . would spend hit money on the Fourth of July. - "You just imagine that you are the ' boss. You have imagined it so long that you. really believe it. It is a nice little mental diversion and I don't know that it does any particular harm," Mrs. Leffingwell replied. "Yoti could not boss a lemonade stand, al though I suppose that you feel com petent to run the city hall. It is all in your head, Henry, but if you real- ly want to know who has been boss around here, I would suggest, that you take charge of affairs for a few weeks while ' I go to Whatcheer to visit the home folks." ' J "Say pa, if you want to know who i$ boss around here, just start some- ' 'ting. That's what our teacher-told exclaimed Willie. 'Retires in Disorder. :.: ' - "Well, Mrs. Leffingwell, for the sake of our home and children, I am not going to oppose your little whim. It will be easier for me to submit to j your policy of imperialism. Just so ' that you do not lock my saxaphone up on Sunday, I will be satisfied tf be known as Mrs. Leffingwell's hus band," was Leffingwell's retort r He retired in disorder to the yari where he attached" himself to a lawn mower with good effect, while Mary played "The Heart Bowed Down," on her piano. ' y . 7 The sight ! of Henry Leffingwell cutting his lawn furnished a newmor- sel of gossip for the neighborhood. . "It is a case of work or fight, dad, was Willie's last word. . OLD AS YOU FEEL It wodld d seem that the phenomenon of crowing old has really sotblnr to do with tha number of years that an individual Baa lived, but depends principally on the. extent to which he has conserved his recuperative powers, says the Popular Science Monthly.' The human body wears out In two- ways. . L ., either by long-continued us or by long- -.'' contlnMd'dlsuse. In th former, case it If ' like bending a wire back and forth in one' place until it breaks, and in th second it la tb atrophy of organs or functions through disuse. The only way to stave off old ag 1 is to ellmlnats all forms of abase and live as Nature Intended us to live . . .. - . . - . y i ng4hia -.,( ie live- -J 1 he state i sed,but'- V I I- i OR ' tor postage. u 0