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The Omaha Sunday Bee Trench-Helmei: Bob me i OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1918. Before War France Was a Great, pay Spectacle . JOUP 8QWL Calligraph J. M. Gillen, manager of the Cham ber of Commerce industrial bureau, felt a thrill when he introduced type writers into The Bee editorial rooms in 1892. , . "I was reporting the Methodist conference in May of that year," he said, "and I had so much writing to do that my hand got .tired. I had to do something, so I rented a Calli graph, got some instructions from Mr. Van Zant, head of the Van Zant school at that time, and went to work. "There was only one other writing machine in the wtyIe Bee establish ment and that was in Edward Rose water's office. All the men on the staff laughed at me, but I kept on. "One day " .Edward Rosewater stopped as he passed through the room and looked at my work. He in quired about it and I said I found I could write taster and better than I could by band. "'That's fine.' he said, 'and I have heard the compositors say it is bet ter than hand writing. "He went,ove and spoke to Harry Hunter, city editor, and next morn ing there were six typewriters in the office, and the fellows who had laughed at me weren't laughing any more." . Mr. Gillen has other pleasant mem ories of Mr. Rosewater. "One day the managing editor told me I was to go down to Lincoln to be The Bee's correspondent there: I had , just bought my home and we were getting settled in it. I protested that I didn't like to pull up stakes and go to Lincoln. I went to see Mr. Rosewater. -. . -' ",'Mr. Rosewater,' I said, 'I un derstand that you always favored men owning their homes.' . ?'Yes, I do,' he said. I told him of being ordered to Lincotn. " 'Is that so?' he said, 'Is that so? Well, you stay right here.' Another time, when Mr. Gillen's wife was very sick, Mr. Rosewater saw him working in the office one evening. He told him to go home and not come to work in the evening un til his wife was well. H--1 Is Right Assistant City Prosecutor T, B. Murray's biggest thrill came in the middle of his first case in court after he was admitted to the bar. , "I was defending Charles Morley , and Charles Evans, who were accused of robbing the Walnut Hill pharmacy in 1910," said Murray. "Both men had sworn'themselves blue in the face assuring me that they had spent the entire night of the robbery asleep in their room at Seventeenth and Cuming streets. Of course I believed them The Weekly Bumble Bee OMAHA, TBS WEEKLY BUMBLE BEE A, STINOER, EDITOR. ! ! Communications on any toplo received, without posts ( or slrnsUr. Hon returned. -. NO AD AT ANT PRtCS , " . HIAWATHA. In to year ot Ills "When th awful war wai raging Aal of food there was a scarce- ... neas, . - t . . Than cam sundry regulation. Rules that ovrl neat and - augar. i Rio, potatoes, bread and buttar. All th thinga lhat wore In scarceness, Thest th regulation! covered; Told tha thinga that could, be . eaten ''.'-... On Wednesday, en' a Friday. Thinga that never must be eaten On a Tuesday or a Thuraday. Poatera then, and alio billboards Allied tha people and beaought them . ; To be careful of their eating, Not to waata and not to aquan- dor.- - Cook enough , and lav . none over, Bare tha wheat to fir 'be aeldler. , So . they lea reed tha thrifty leeaon. Bared the meat and eared th augar, Rlee. potatoes, bread and batter: Saved their clothea and aaved on alt things. .-.-. Men wore , half-soles on their troueera - And thus aaved enough of money To buy thrift stamps, help tha Red Cross - -Helped our army and our navy. Bo at last wo won the vict'ry. RIBVIAT. A piece ef beefsteak . (not ' on Monday, though); A slice of war bread, loyalty to show; . , . Ah, thus wo shoWd arrange our eating now, For thus w alt can help defeat .tha foe. -. Of augar. this we hold, one " lump's enough, , Tbeae are the days that call our eterneat stuff. Drinking our coffee, perchance but little sweet, . IV thue can help-o'arcom th kaiser's bluff. Beans w may eat, if for them we can pay, Food regulations we mast all obey -- . . . And when the war's objective achieved ,'... 'Will com an un-food-regulated day. '-V.."V OIRLW ANTED TO PRESS is a slgnS In a West Leaven worth cleaning astabllsbmeat t'lntfow. Among The and helped them sveure Witnesses to prove their alibi and frame their de fense. I confidently expected that both men would be acquitted. "All went well during the case until the final rebuttal testimony of the state, when the prosecuting attorney called on a 13-year-old boy. He swore that he had watched the robbery trom across the street and could identify Morley as one of the men whom he saw through the front window. "Just then Morley leaned over my shoulder and whispered in my ear: ' H -I. that kid's lying. He couldn't possibly have seen us; that window was full of magazines' "And this in the face of his alibi 1" Lamplighter Andrew B. McConnell. vice presi dent and secretary of. the Sherman & McConnell drug stores, has a hobby hich has always been with him. lhat hobby is a combination of a clock and an automatically lit gas light. McConnell believes that the Ameri cans are a nation of clock watchers. His idea is to have the clock work au tomatically, cause the gas to be ig nited by means of a piece of flint. In addition to the use of this machine both as a lamp Md as a clock, the plans specify that its usefulness shall be extended by means of the revenue which may be brought by an ad upon the dial of the clock. There are a mil lion dollars in the scheme if worked Out, according to McConnell. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY BUMBLE IEE GIVES INTERESTING1 FACTS ABOUT C. T. KOUNTZE Second la Great 8erieTThlch Is Attracting th Attention . Of th Fubll Hwty , Everywhere). Th terrlflo success of The Durable Bee's new series of arti cles giving Interesting facts about prominent people proves that this newspaper gives th pennt what they want. . We have not received thou sands of letter of commenda tion from our readers telling us how they enjoyed th first of the series, published In our 'est Isene. . Therefor we are continuing th terlea with Interesting facts about Mr, Charles T. Kountie, well known banker. Mr. Kountie wis born on nls birthday. He hss been In Omaha ever sine that time except during mch time as ha was absent from the isltv. - He did not will this war. He has never eaten -a, full meal composed exclusively of dill plokl.s. He -does not believe vessels should be spurloa versenkt. He spends much of hi time In th First National bank. : Tba khedlv of Egypt la not a personal friend of hie. He never mad a trip around th world In a 10-foot motor boat.. He doe not play th mouth organ. He. never made ft public neech beginning Aa I look Into this sea of unturned face." H seldom reads th "House hold Hints'" department of 'he newspapers. CALM. - 1 " Th shortage of hard-shell crab reported from Phllsdelohla doe not slsrm ns. W ere calm even under th report that "often not more than a doxen ar left alive In the barrel aft.r th long delay In ahlpment. bringing the, cost to nearly a dollar each." . F.VEXTS. T hre short but eventful years agovwe laughed at tha "dream era" who nredlcted that the na tion would be absolutely dry In I rears. And now lt looks a though It's going to be dry In sis months. SHOT. t am perfectly delighted. I HERE IS PROOF THAT (AIR SEX POSSESS A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR What Happened to Bold Man Who Tried to Kid 'Em with Sam Phoney Bargains In 811k Shirts. , Charlie Gould, manager of the Ford Motor company, la- a lover of tin shirts. He drapes his thanly form In th most exquisite creations of the ahlrt maker's art. He ransack the silk mills of ths world for new and startling deslgna In the moat exquisite fabrics. . And thereby hangs a tale. Recently certain visitors were at his home, whose names, (as Harper's Magazine would say) were Miss , Mrs. and Mrs. And In the course of th eve ning th flivver magnate went upstair and brought down an armful of shirts which he dis played before th admiring eyes of the visitors. They were heavy silk of beautiful colors (and exqulstta workmanship. On tha neckbands of each was a little label, marked "71 cents." "Look at those! Did you ever lee such bargains?' The ladles looked freely and admitted that. Indeed, they never had aeen such bargains. They estimated th shirts to, be worth about $10 oach. And when they departed they fixed up a pleasant little scheme. A few days later Mrs. (again quoting the revered Harper') called Mr. Gould by telephone. "Mr. Gould, perhaps yon won't Ilk what w hav done, but we went to . A Co. and In quired tor some of those silk shirts at 1i cents and tney said they never had any such bar gains. . So I went straight to Mr. and Just told him that I was a regular customer and I didn't propose to be froxen out of auch bargains and he de clared they never had any such shirts, even when I told him you had bought some for 76 cents. I waa ao put out about It." "Why why. gasped Mr. Gould, "that was Just a Joke. I changed those labels. 1 " - But Mrs. had hung up to hide her laughter. Speaking of shirts, much sym pathy la being, expressed for Messrs. Louis Meyer, Frank Bel by and George Knrler. it is re ported that their wives are making their shirts as a war economy measure. , ;,,;V' dry. v"-- Th whole world Is topsy-turvy. Nothing seems to run ac cording to th eld rule. The grocers' and butcher' picnlo was held last - Thursday and lt dldnt rain at all. at all. ' COIXCIL. . Th city commissioner by any other nam would b as sweet. am as proud aa can be," said Colonel Roosevelt when . In formed that hi on, Lleotenant Ouenttn. bad b-ought down his first German airplane. Bo rre th rest of us, colonel. WHY? ' th wonder of nature Is th way th gang of villains In th movies fall down when' th her pushes them. Dry a J Process 0 a Unanimous $10,000 The last and biggest thrill that M. G. Macleod of the office of the clerk of the district court has experienced came when a returned 'Highland Scotch countryman of his told him that out of three counties in the High land district where Macleod's ances try hail from, not a "Hielandmon" between the ages of 18 and 45 would return from the war. The district sent every one of its available men to the war in the early days of the struggle, and only a few are left of their contingents in the Black Watch and other famous Highland regi. ments. "And I used to be thrilled every time my old uncle and my father told me tales of the brave old days when the Highlandmen and the clans were in their prime," said Macleod. "My oeoo e all came from Visa, on the island of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland, and they were always in all the fishting that was jroing on." Macleod himself treasures highly a bit of scarf of the Macleod tartan, which has come all the way from the Highlands. He is a Highlander on both his father and his mother s side. Macleod's son, Lt. George C Mac leod. is in the balloon service. He is at present stationed at Fort Oma ha. Seven of his nephews from his birthplace, Prince Edward Island, have served with the Canadians in France from the early days of the war. - A niece also is a Red Cross nurse in France. 14, 1918. JEREMIAD. Let ths Omaha club beware 1 Jerry Howard Informs us that he has moved to th hous next door to lt "I don't llv at tha Omaha club, but I live right next door to It," eaye Jerry. Jerry lived lq Florence up un til hi appointment to a city hall position and he found various things tn Florence that didn't suit him particularly th naming of the streets and th S-cent rat of postage to Oma ha. Now he may want the Omaha club building removed because It shuta off the morn ing sun from his boudoir win dow. 5IENC. It has been observed that prices of food go up more easily than they come down. A long suffering restaurant hound In forms us that ths price of eggs at th popular-priced beanarlcs continue at 10 cents per egg, a price which was Instituted when eggs were SO cents a dozen and which has not been changed now that eggs ar less than shalf that price. We too have noted with indignation that the price of pie has doubled, while the else of the plecea hav been revised downward In the last year. ACA1X. The son of th former czar ot -Russia waa killed again 'ast week according to reports pub lished In Swedish newspapers and emanating from a Swede named Swen Swenson. who had lust returned from Moscow Swenson stated that the ex csar's aon waa killed by a bo), shevlk soldier by means of a bomb, ' ' Z.VHINATIONS. 'Chile Is a very cold coun try and th Inhabitants live In rude huts mad of Ice," an Omaha schoolboy Informs us In an examination paper. Another promulgates the Information that "Luther was born In ISO and at a diet of worms." NAMES. W vouchsafe the Informa tion that the first and real name of "Mogy" Bernstein, th noted mbney raiser, la Moses And Rom Miller Is named after one of th founder of Rome, his first nam being Romulus. ' ' AD. ' " Her la ft sampl of adver tising humor In th early days of Omaha which w ran across in an IsTJ copy of Th Be: Fellow Cltlxena and Slnnera: LARGEST STOCK OF UNRE DEEMED PLEDGES. MT PRICES ARB SO LOW THAT THE MEANEST MAN IN TOWN HAS PURCHASED A COMPLETE OUTFIT WITHOUT GRUMBLING, AND I DO NOT EVEN TAKE THE TROUBLE TO LOCK UP AT NIGHT. HENRY LAL'GHLIN, 1S1 Farnham, between Tenth nd Eleventh, i John Guild, former commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce, came near not getting a certain thrill which spelled success in life for him. Guild was then commissioner for the local chamber at a salary of $5,000 per an num. He had been making good right along and at the critical moment was shouldering the task of putting Oma ha m shape after the tornado of 1913, The mail had been accumulating for several days. When at last the rush was over and the thousands of pma hans had been assisted in starting lite anew, uuild began opening his mail. One envelope bearing the mark ot the National Lash Kesrister com pany contained a simple inquiry ask ing whether Uuiid would consider $10,000 a year sufficient remuneration for managing the affairs of the Day ton Chamber of Commerce. Need less to say, the offer was accepted and Guild went to work reconstruct ing Daytort" after its big flood. , Gangway! "He was coming straight for me; I had my gun but was too 'thrilled' to use it; 1 made a lunge for the near est shelter and he sped by me but he furnished the most thrilling moment in my life, acknowledged W. M. Pardee An the office of the clerk of the district court. " Pardee was a youngster at the time. He had never before been out of New York City and was taking his first I i ! ' . t , ' r , Hunting trip in mc mountains oi Cal ifornia. He and his-father had been shooting quails, and it was when Pardee had started to retrieve one of the dead birds that the "apparition" appeared. . "It looked as big as a buffalo, had ears evidently as large as an ele phant's and was an inspiring sight," Pardee says. He added: "But it was only the first jack rabbit that I had ever seen." Horse-car "One of the greatest thrills I ever had was when I locked Julius Meyer in a horse car," replied Dr. James Goetz in answer to an inquiry of when he had had a big thrill. "And I got the greatest licking for it that I ever got in my life," added the doctor with a reminiscent smile. "I was a young kid then with a great. liking to play tricks. I saw Jujius Ifeyer get on the old horse car which used to run from Twenty fourth and Farnam to Creighton col lege and there was no one else on the car save the driver. I tied Meyer in with some rOpe and when he found it out he was some mad. A person who saw me told my parents and I got it." The doctor had another thrill when sailing to Liverpool in 1911. The dock workers in England had been making conditions more than unpleas ant Wild rumors had come to the ship which culminated in a notice on the bulletin board that dock workers had set fire kO the docks and that no ships could land. Since it was well known that there was only enough food on the ship to sustain the pas sengers until they reached Liver pooVthe doctor got a nice cool thrill Three thousand miles to go and only one day's rations in the ship) When it was found that a young fellow on the ship was responsible for the notice on the toard, which proved false, that certain young gent got several thrills eeverytime he encoun tered a person on deck. - Another thrill recounted by the doctor was that which he got when therst group of those wounded in the Omaha tornado were brought to the hospital. Although he was not unused to wounds, the doctor wit nessed a sight which turned him sick. ' She Knew. Violet and Dorothy, 5-year-olds, were having a confidential conversa tion on the subject of seeing America first. ,,, ,.; "Wur you ever in Dei Moines?" asked Dorothy. . "My papa tooked me there once. That's where all the railroad tracks I TAis zs Jrour ti sfarfed HOW OMflHft G-QT By J. D. KUYKENDALL. While he probably did not formu late, the idea into any very definite statement of his purpose the real rea son that led Charles H. Pickens, gen eral manager of the Paxton & Gal- lager company, to come to Omaha, was because he wanted the fun of watching the marvelous development of the most wonderful country on earth. From his statements on the Subject he has enjoyed to the full this "passing show" for the last 52 years and is glad he came. It is a lot of fun, you know, if you happen to be a real, live, human person, to watch people evolve and towns and com munities grow. That the young lad who came with his father from Ohio was determined to make himself a factor in the de velopment of Omaha, and a success ful man, is demonstrated beyond anv question by the manner in which he started his business career. His first job in Omaha, after he had spent a few years in school here, was as a carrier on The Bee, when this paper was started by Edward Rosewater. with whom Mr. Pickens had a life long acquaintance. At that time The Bee was printed on a Washington hand press of those old backbreakers on which most of the literary lights of the land started their careers. The Bee at this time was circulated free and maintain ed by advertising. Shortly afterward it Decame a regular paper, circulating at a rate of 20 cents a week, which at that time was considered a very low rate. Nickels at that time were unknown and all business was on the basis of the dime as the minimum medium of exchange. Not that dimes were so numerous, either, but if a fellow had any money at all it was at least a dime. Mr. Pickens remembers manv nt the prominent men of that time and in his recollection they seem men of ouisianoing personality, holding a farger place in the eye of the public than do men of probably equal ability Big Catch The - distinction of catch inv ilia largest fish of the season out r,f th. waters of Carter lake has passed to nenry i. Bruce, "who lives out on the Prettiest Mile. Bruce made his ratrh during the morning of July 4, land ing a six-pound pike. Using a boat. Bruce was usincr an eight-inch rod and with a fly for a lure, was casting for bass. Out in the deep water along the north shore of the lake, in making a long cast, lie got a ferocious strike and he thought he had a whale. Giving the fish plenty of time, he tired it out and then reel ed it up to the boat. Slipping the dip net under the fish, he brought it over the gunwale of the boat and to his surprise, discovered that he had a pike weighing a bit over six pounds and a little more than 24 inches in length, ' as irvH lrLll today such men as Judge Briggs and Judge Savage in the legal world; Henry W. Stanley, the explorer, and Bill Nye in the field of journalism. Following his period of training, for life, as a Bee carrier, Mr. Pickens took a position with Clark Woodman in the linseed oil business in 1879. While employed here he "improved the shin ing hour," and helped to oil his way to future success, as it were, by burn ing the midnight oil kerosene, not linseed while studying stenography, an almost unknown art in the busi ness world at that time. John T. Bell, who is now basking in the sunshine of California, was court reporter and to him young fickens took his shorthand problems. Two other young men studied with him, Charles Woodman, now presi dent of the Colorado National bank of Denver, and J. B. Haynes, at a later time managing editor of The Bee. N Having perfected himself in stenog raphy Pickens took employment in 1882 with Paxton & Gallagher. He did not have exactly a white-collar job, however, as in addition to his clerical labors he was a sort nf gen eral utility man, his duties including cleaning up the store several evenings a week after closing hours. This was not as strenuous a job as it would be now, as the store was on a single floor 88x120 feet. The story of Mr. Pickens' rise from this lowly position to the general management of the business, which he assumed in895, is familiar to all the older Qmahans. The business has come to occupy a nine-story building and to employ 438 persons, with a trade extending over the greater part of the great west. 1 - Mr. Pickens has seen Omaha grow from a eputed (but probably ex aggerated) population of 6,500 in 1866 to its present population. He has seen the west become one of the most prosperous parts of America, one of the garden spots of the world in place of a sterile desert He has seen apparently unpromising lads grow into men of prominence and abilit. who have helped to build this com monwealth. He has seen the golden rule become the dominant law of progress operating in the lives of in dividuals and communities and if this isn't good fun, what is. And so he is glad he came to Omaha. Mr. Pickens has come through his half century of life in the west with a firm confidence in folks. He be lieves that 95 per cent of them are honest and want to do the right thing. He believes there is a lot of goodness in a world that is constantly becoming better, and he has tried to have a share m making it better by taking his place in the public and semi-public activities of the commun ity, which became his home so many years ago. While he enjoys looking back at the men and the movements of the last half century, he enjoys still more the activities of the present and the ever widening vista of opportunity of the future. And so he is glad he came to Omaha By REV. P. W. LEAVITT. On July 14, 1912, I sallied fortK from my little 2-francs room in th Rue de la Grande Charmiere, Latin quarter, and prepared to enjoy the Frenchman's "Fourth of July." Two days before I had alighted in London and bounced out as quickly, taking only time enough to get my mail at the American embassy, for the hand bills were advertising remarkably low round trip rates to Paris because of the French national holiday. Tha return limits were so liberal that I managed a two weeks' tour of Bel gium and the Rhine country before the expiration of that ticket The first meal in Paris was slim. The best I could find at 6 a. m., when I landed hun-jrj from the Calais boat and train, was a cup of strong, black coffee with milk and some hard rolls at a total tax of 8 cents. Later the Oxford Rhodes scholar from Ohio showed me a sweet little room where breakfasts of two fresh oeufs a la coque in other words soft boiled together with a variety of rolls and a , cup of chocolate or coffee could be , heartily enjoyed and all ior 12 centv American money. Didn't Hug Papa Joffre. The motor buses thhat carried Gen eral Gallieni's army to the salvation of us all at the Marne were loaded on that holiday morning with the multi tudes going to Longchamps, th. great race course, ihere all the armies gathered from about Paris paraded before the president of the republic and his gay turbaned guests, the Bey e of Tunis and his suite. With them were all the dignitaries of the capi tal. Doubtless Papa Joffre was on the reviewing stand with Foch and Castelnau and Gallieni, but I had no impulse to hug them then, as I do now. Every branch of the army marched by. rode by and flew over the 300,000 people that the papers declared to have watched the grand review. The sight must have heartened the fore boding spirits of the general start. We. the mob, had no forebodings. t It was v all an entertainment, a moving pic ture; and now, after so brief an inter val, those almost endless lines of the first French armies have marched to death or have come back to invalid lives. , - ' Holding my camera up at arm's ength I photographed the president and the Tunisian bey as they drove away, and again the splendid lanciers, as they galloped from the field. I Ionsred for some uood American hur- rahSi but there was no special excite ment until the dirigibles and the novel planes hummed over. But even then few cheered. The "French excit ability" is a myth that the French coolness in war has entirely de stroyed, i Paris Full of Music. s -The French soldier had not been to a French tailor. His uniform . flopped around him, and he marched loose-jointedly. The contrast in this ' respect with the German companies -was striking, as the latter marched with heels clicking sharply and in uni son on the pavements of Cologne. "What do you think of the slouchy poilu now? He has' the heart of a lion 1 At luncheon I sat at one of the sidewalk cafes, as usual, enjoying the stream of pedestrians flowing all about the tables. It was here I sprayed a casual companion with car bonated water from a fzz bottle, and the man's politeness permitted him not o much as a look of annoyance. Neither did he laugh, as an American might have done. Wonderful self control1 The Parisians were out in couples, always hand-in-hand, or else in charm ing family groups, papa, mamma and the children " -enjoying one another heartily around their lunch basket and the trees of every park and boule vard. In the evening there was a free performance of grand opera and a fa mous 'soprano sang the Marseillaise,' but before the long line brought me to -the door the Grand opera house was "complet," so I mounted to the top of a bus, then another and rode until near midnight all about the city. , In every open space a band was sta tioned and the people were dancing, be the pavement rough or smooth. The dancers had the right of way over all traffic. . f - The place of most romantic interest was the site of the great prison, the . Bastile, that was torn down on that ' July 14 when the popular revolution reached its climax and French inde pendence was begun. The towering column that commemorates that event was wound from top to bottom with electric lights in the tricolor of France, and all around the base the happy people were dancing. Shall , this generation see them happy again? How grateful we should be that this monumental city of the world has been saved from the hand of the van dal. God grant that the heroic people who bought their freedom so dearly and have defended it so valiantly may establish their liberties now upon an immovable foundation! , "Backward, Turn Backward, Oh Time in Your Flight." Do you remember the time when merchants gave fly swatters away for advertising purposes? He Was Interested. - She I understand that you are tak- ing a deep, interest in the war. He Yes, . I read everything I can - ' get hold of on the subject of undersea warfare. , Future Bliss. Two out-state monument dealers chanced to meet on th rear platform of-a atreet car, and they were soon talking shop. After they had discussed deslgna and Inscriptions for several blocks, on of th dealer hap pened to notice that a negro passenger was listening to tha conversation- with apparent Interest, Turning to th negro, th dealer aaked: "You seem to be interested In tombstone. What do you want on your grave?" "Say, boss," replied the negro, "I don't want none of them stone markers VFhen I die I want Vm to plant a watermelon vine on my grave and then let the glorloas Juice soak through." Indianapolis News. A
