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IZ .THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1918. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWAfrER, EDITOR THK BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ibe Ajurutfd fnu. 01 whico Ttat tot K namtwi, is xclutlj entttled lo Uw um for publicities, of J amm diiuslefcs. ritl to K or not oUianrlM credtMd In this piptr. and tiro th locU sue published heroin. All rights of coliiestloa of cur opociai dlsaatchss m also mmL OFFICES! Cklouo Psonl.'t Ou Baildlna. uuiUi Tno Bt BM. Kr Yorl 24 Fifth An. South Omht 2318 N Bt BL Louis Now B"s of Comnuret. Council Bluff,-14 N. Mala 8t Wsskiaitoa 1JU O St. Lincoln Llttlo Bulldlnc. OCTOBER CIRCULATION . Daily 68,570 Sunday 60,405 Annn elrculttlon for tha month subscribed and aworo to by M, B. sUcso, Circulation Husier. , SnWcrlbere Iravinf tha city should havo Tho Bn mailed to thorn. Addresa changed a often requested. THE BF-'. FRV1TE Fl AO far 1 illiliilillllliili!illitilllililllllli Food also follows the flag. It'i too bad, of course, but the ouija board was wrong again. What a pity the kaiser did not have a ouija board back in 1914! "A lie well stuck to is better than the truth half told," according to some people. Back to Berlin for the peace envoys, and now the kaiser will know the worst in all its details. I. VV. W. prisoners complain that the sher iff' cook is no good, and ask fpr a more home like jail. What a world I Great was the fall of Sedan, for it ended Germany's hopes in J918 just as completely as it disheartened France in 1870. ' The kaiser has discovered that "de world do move," and later on he will note how well it moves without his interference. The ineluctable bolshevik is now following the? flu germ through Germany. The question is yet unsettled as to which is the less to be desired. - Governor McKelvie says his election is due to the pledges in the republican platform.' Yes, and the people know those pledges will be car ried into action. Russians are frantically appealing for help from America, which they will get. but In the meantime they might show good faith by help in; themselves a little. Revolting sailors of the German, navy are reported to have put to sea under the red flag. That will avail them nothing, unless they stick to the Russian waters. , Do we get the special election on the home -jjile charter, or will the matter be allowedj to lapse into somnolence again? Something ought !o be done on this point The Bee never received a higher compliment than when citizens called to learn if peace really had been signed. Folks who want truth in re tard to the news know where to apfily. .Reliable news reports from the front indi cate that the armies are paying no attention to peace, negotiations, but continue to speak the .anguage best understood by the Hun. Purveyors of the ouija board information overlooked Haig and Pershing when notifying folks of the end of the war, and that pair of well-meaning warriors went right on belaboring the Hun. Some relief is noted in the absence of vain glorious boasting from Germany of the invinci bility of its armies and the superior ability of its high and mighty generals. Both have been o foundry drubbed that silence is their only balm. for Omaha. This is a good plan, not only for , this, but for all future years. The blessings of J Providence are bestowed on all and may be well acknowledged without any divisoin as to creed or race. General von Ostrowski, commanding Ba varian troops retreating from Ghent, dined at a private home, and after dinner tore down cur taint with his own hands and appropriated as onvenirs articles that took his faltcy. All the Hun do not come from Prussia. Fighting along the Rio Grande between Mexicans and Texas rangers reminds us that the business down there was only adjourned, not finished. , Proceedings inEurope should im press the ebullient Greaser with a notion of Uncle Sam's readiness to take up the matter Just where it was left off in 1916. The Woods and the War j If you want to forget that the world is at war, accept the welcome of the hospitable woods and leave your troubles to the wind and the trees. There are no first-page headlines there; no talk of armistice;, no clamor for war; ao peace negotiations; no Transatlantic conver sations; no electioneecring; no politics; no ad- journment; no profiteering; no investigations; ao food and fuel conservations; no tirades from the president; no tirades from former presi dents; no rattle of sabers; no scratching of pens; no delays in the mails; no vain telephone calls; no crowded cars; no liquorless- bars. Just now autumn's gay robes are fading; gold and scarlet are turning to lemon and brown; the great beeches are already bare, but the royal oaks still flaunt their crimson vest ments; white caravels sail in the sapphire sky. Listen, and the whispering leaves will tell you of peace. The sunbeams wVl dance in the shadowy mazes to convince you that life real, free, fresh, open-air 4ife is still filled with rap ture. Your eye will sparkle and your heart beat higher; the air has the rich fragrance of sun kissed, purple Burgundy; the October tonic is a 1 sovereign specific for all the ills of mind and heart None here can be homesick or heart sick. The cool breezes will smooth the wrink led brow and quiet the feverish brain; no crowds; no haste; no worry. j No cure, no .pay. Washington Post, WHEN PEACE DOES COME. , Premier Clemenceau, addressing the Cham ber of Deputies, said it will be harder to win peace than to win war. This thought must be uppermost in the minds of all close students of economic and political conditions, and the two are bound together more closely now than ever. In all the great countries of the world the ef forts have been devoted so exclusively to war for the last four years that peace has had little, if any, consideration. France and Germany have made slight preparation; British statesmen have debated the future to some extent and ten tative programs have been formulated, but noth ing is definitely decided upon. In the United States the first step is to be taken. Political conditions in America will undergo the least change. Our form of government is determined by a written constitution, and be yond the proposed prohibition and possible suf frage amendments no modification in it is seriously contemplated. Economic conditions are not so fixed, and as a result of the dis turbance of the war are more than ever in a fluid state. Transition from peace to war was accomplished with greater facility than will likely mark reversal of the process. Lack of a definite program will foster disorder, and much jolting of the machinery will undoubtedly follow. Winning peace will be the task for the gov ernment from now on. The passage of the Weeks resolution might easily be a good start in direction of the final provisions. In view of the election result, it is even more desirable now that the great question be considered by a non partisan body. Whatever1 is done, our real trials in connection with the war are ahead of us, for it is yet to be settled if we have made democracy safe for the world. Chairman Hays a Champion. Six months ago a lot of experienced poli ticians were asking, "Who is this man Hays?" They know now. He is a live wire, carrying a tremendous voltage and discharging his revivi fying currents in all directions. He was set the task of reuniting the republican party of the nation, of smoothing out a lot of wrinkles, set tling factional disputes and getting the f6rces of the party organized for victory. How per sistently and energetically he worked no one can say better than those wheel horses of the party, who know what a mountain of labor he had. But there is about Hays something that inspires confidence, not only in the man himself, but in his plans. His enthusiasm caught up others, and the rank and file of the party re sponded to liis call. When the president pro posed that partisanship be made a test of loy alty Mr. Hays answered: "Mr. Wilson forces the republican party to lie down or fight. I say fight 1 Answer with your votes!" He got his answer in ah overwhelming republican victory. Chairman Hays has made good. The Bee's Slogan for Omaha. The Omaha Chamber of Commerce has wisely adopted The Bee's prize-winning slogan, "The Industrious East and the Productive West Shake Hands Through Omaha." It is terse and yet it tells just what Omaha stands for. Here is the gateway through which passes the richest commerce of an opulent nation. Here the buyer and seller meet, the manufacturer of the east and the farmer and stock raiser of the west, the raw material and the finished product all make up the industrial and commercial life of Omaha. To Miss Christiansen, who wrote the slogan and was awarded the prize, The Bee extends congratulations for having furnished a great and enterprising city with a brief and yet com prehensive motto, expressive of the true secret of its past, present and future prosperity. Congress Under Republican Control." Republicans will have control in both the senate and the house of the next congress. This means the complete reorganization of the work ing committees of congress, and while it is too early to dispose of the important places, it is certain that the sectional domination set up by the democrats will be readjusted. Two of the house chairmen will be retired with distinct ad vantage of the country. Dent of Alabama, suc cessor and disciple as head of the military af fairs committee to "Jimmy" Hay, the great apostle of unreadiness, and Kitchin of North Carolina, head of the ways and means commit tee, who announced that he would make the north pay for the war, will be removed. This alone is sufficient to warrant jubilation over the return of the republicans. In the senate chair manships will also change, and the most impor tant of all, that of foreign relations, will be given to a senator who is not tainted through his relations with and sympathy for the kaiser ites. Peace treaties must go to this committee, and it is vital to American interests that its chairman be 100 per cent American. This is another victory resulting from the election. It is scarcely probable an extraordinary session of congress will be called, so that the reorganiza tion will be postponed until December of next year,' but the fact that it is coming will reassure the country. To Save the Amendments. Returns from election so far received indi cate the failure of the secretary of state to comply with the law is having effect on the two constitutional propositions submitted. Voters, apparently relying on the belief that straight tickets of both parties would be counted for the amendments, did not trouble to specifically vote for them. In Douglas county, and perhaps in some others, instructions were so given to elec tion boards, but most of the county clerks ig nored these propositions, and now there is a likelihood of their being lost on face of returns. However, the legislature is charged by law with the duty of canvassing the returns, and it is within its power to open the ballot boxes and recount the votes. If such a course be followed, notice can be taken of the fact that the secre tary of state did not properly carry out the in structions of the voters at the primary, and all straight party ballots may be counted in affirma tive on the amendments. In this way they can be saved, and the "blunder" made at the state house redeemed. Remember that the war camp community service drive starts on Monday, and that its as sistance will be needed in prance and elsewhere with the American army for many months after peace is declared. Therefore, do not withhold your contributrpn just because cessation of ac tive hostility js immine , , .: : Downfall of the Hapsburgs Kansas City Star. It begins to look as if the latest perhaps the last of the ruling Hapsburgs of the ancient House of Austria is due for a diet of woolly worms at the next council table, and with it a new anthem to be entitled "Nobody Loves Me." After Hungary has cut its heart out and the Czecho-Slavs have decapitated it and the Jugo Sfavs made away with its pedal extremities and the new "German Nation" has lopped off one arm and the Roumanians and Ruthenians the other, there' will be nothing left of Austria but Papa KarJ and a little bunch of archdukes, who will have to join the kings in exile and look for apartments for the winter, with all signs point ing to a long, hard 'vinter. But what of the Austrian nation? There is no Austrian nation; there has never been an Austrian nation. Austria is a name, and it is nothing more. There is not a rood of ground in the so-called dual empire that could put forth a claim to an Austrian nationality. There is no Austrian race. There is and always has been only the Hapsburg family, which was sent over by Germany into that section of the coun try during the middle ages to look after Eu rope's back yard, to collect the odds and ends of unprotected nationalities, to be ready with its wide-open grab bag in the kitchen cabinets of nations, to carry off the troublesome parcels of territory that would not merge harmoniously into the schemes of the front parlor mapmakers. The name Austria is merely a corruption of "Oesterreich," or eastern realm, a term used as early as 976 by Emperor Otto II to designate the eastern frontiers of the holy Roman empire, which was Germany. Later on the "Oester reich" duchy was carved out of the country above and below the Enns and "conferred" on 'a new-made German duke and his heirs. This was the nucleus of Austria. It wasn't long before the new duke and his family grabbed off Styria and put it into the hopper. N The Hapsburg family began business in the thirteenth century with Rudolph of Hapsburg, who vanquished Ottakar, the son of the king of Bohemia, and gave the duchies of Austria and Styria to his sons, Albert and Rudolph. The national slogan of the Hapsburg family was divide et impera, "divide and rule," which meant to foment strife among the little nations and stand by with the grab bag. Inspired by the Hapsburg family policy, aided and abetted by Germany, Austria and the Hapsburgs waxed fat and prosperous for centuries. Far or near made no difference to these pickers-up of unconsid ered trifles of lands and peoples. They reached over into Switzerland and annexed a few can tons. Carinthia and the Tyrol were bagged in due time. The Netherlands were made to con tribute a bit to the Austrian pot. Venice and Bavaria were squeezed for a few contributions to the hodge podge. Alsace and Lorraine were picked up for trading purposes. Moravia was annexed, while other nations were busy else where. Then along came a Hapsburg with a real Hun helmet and mailed fist and made a big grab in the conquest of Bohemia, the land of the Czechs, and tried for three centuries to make it wear a German uniform, with what success events of this day are evidencing. It was in 1687 that Leopold I forced the Hungarians to make their kingdom hereditary in the Hapsburg familj'. At every council table where the nations met to cut the European melon the Hapsburgs, whether actively engaged in the warfare or not, were always on hand waiting at the back door for whatever the nations had to give or take. In the peace of Westphalia, 1648, they lost Al sace to France, but picked up a litlte territory adjacent to their dominions as an offset. At the peace of Utrecht, 1713, Austria obtained the Spanish Netherlands, Milan, Mantua, Naples and Sardinia, but Jater, at the peace of Vienna, 1735, the powers "frisked" the Hapsburgs of Naples, Sicily and Milan, but before they left the kitchen this time they picked up Parma and Piacenza. At the first pattition of Poland the Hapsburgs were there as usual, and as nobody else seemed to show any particular hankerings for Galicia and Lodomeria, they were picked up and thrown into the Hapsburg grab bag. And so the game went on down through the centuries. Many of its stolen possessions, Aus tria was forced to give up from time to time, always begging, however, for its quid pro quo. As a matter of fact, for a long time Austria was the national "goat" of Europe. If any of the big nations wanted a little chunk of territory to round things off nicely if took it from Aus tria. If there was a piece of troublesome coun try that didn't take kindly to the yoke and was likely to upset things, it was handed over to Austria to put on its charm string. All was fish that came into the Hapsburg net, but the trouble was they never became Austrian fish. As a sample of some of the "jobs" they handed it witness Bosnia and Herzegovina, which the congress of Berlin, after the Russo-Turkish war in 1877-78, "allowed Austria to occupy" an oc cupation that cost it 40,000 men and millions of money before these doughty nations were hrougbt under the yoke of the Hapsburgs in Today or at least at the outbreak of the present war the population of the Austro-Hun-garian monarchy embraces a greater number of races, distinct in origin and language, than that of any other European country, except, perhaps, Russia. The map of Austria is the crazy quilt of Eu rope. Though the German element has up to this time retained the ascendancy, the Slavs are the most numerous race, amounting to more tahn 47 per cent of the whole population. The Germans come next, with about 23 per cent, and then the Magyars, with about 20 per cent. The j iv,.are J,vided '"to a number of nationalities, o ffering In language, religion and customs. They form the bulk of the population of Bo hemia, Moravia, Galicia, Carmola, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia and the north of Hungary. Included in the Slav nationalities are the Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia, the Poles in Galicia, the Ruthenians in Galicia and Hungary, the Croats and Serbs in Croatia and Slavonia, the Slovaks in northwestern Hungary, the Slovenes in Carniola, Styria, Gorz and Gradisca, and the Morlaks in Dalmatia. The Germans are dispersed over the country, predominating in Upper and Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Styria and Carinthia. The Magyars constitute about 50 per cent of the Hungarian kingdom. Transylvania is peopled mostly by Roumanians. There are many Ital ians in the Tyrol, as well as in Istria, Triest and Dalmatia, and other Roumanic peoples, such as the Ladins and the Friauls, are scattered in settlements throughout the country. There are nearly 3,000,000 Jews in Austria-Hungary and a large number of gypsies, estimated at about 100,000. But there are no Austrians in Austria, ethnologically speaking. There are oply- Haps burgs, and the peoples of other nations that the Hapsburgs acquired. People and Events The wet belt of Kansas City, Mo., just across the street from the dry belt of Kansas City, Kan., is doing more business than ever before. Boozeries spread the notion that "whisky and quinine" are a combination the "flu" couldn't beat, so the drys line up two and three deep to get the medicine. Authorities assert the rush is a menace and a fruitful means of spreading the plague, yet calmly look on and do nothing. It's all off on the German toy business in New York. The importer whose shipload, bought and paid for in 1914, arrived from Hol land a week ago, charged off the loss and re fused to receive the goods. "American manu facturers of toys have succeeded so well," says the firm, "that today America does not need German-made goods." From this may be visioned the trend of trade in the immediate future. .. ' . , ;..,.... ...... ( . . '.'LLai:. Thirty Years Ago Today C. S. Mellen of the Union Pacific, and family have taken up winter quarters at the Murray. The liquor department of the Fort Omaha canteen has been closed in accordance with the order received from the War department, but the directors are making preparations to enlarge the lunch room. j A permit has been granted to the Metropolitan to open California street from Institute boulevard four blocks eastward for the purpose of building a cable railway. Mrs. Dr. Hopkins of Guthrie Cen ter, la., is the guest of Mrs. Dr. Hos tetter, of this city. N. D. Allen of the Patrick Land company has taken up quarters at the Murray for the winter. Henry A. Darrow and Miss Emma L. Jones were married in New York and will reach Omaha in a few days, where they will make their home at 518 South Twenty-second street. CENTER SHOTS. Detroit Free Fress: The next Ger man treaty will be a little more than a mere scrap of paper. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Added to "15 decisive battles of the world" might be that of Chateau-Thierry, where American troops proved that the outcome of the war was settled. ' Minneapolis Tribune: For the fur niture they have taken out of Bel gium the Germans may be able to get terms from the allies $3,000,000 down, 13,000,000 a month, 10 per cent off for cash. Washington Post: Abdicate, evac uate, disarm, dismantle, abandon, in demnity, demobilize, restore, suaran tee, mortKapre there are many pos sibilities in the words "unconditional surrender." Baltimore American: Germany may cry out asalnst the terms of a peace which will leave the nation helpless, disarmed and humiliated, but then the allies can retort that all the stern measures they will take are dictated by "military necessity." Brooklyn Eaerle: Stefansson speaks as one with authority when he says that the Pole is not the cold est place on earth. Any pacifist who has been on trial before a Jury of his peers has come out of the court room convinced that the explorer is wholly right. New Tork Herald: Adulation is all right in its place, but it is impos sible to Bee merit in Mr. Josephus Daniels' enthusiastic assertion that Mr. Wilson's "14 demands" rank with the historic utterances of Mr. Lincoln at Gettysburg. Some way we have never heard that Mr. Lin coln's address required amendment, amplification or interpretation. Complains of Food anil Portions. Omaha, Nov. 3. To the Editor of The Bee: Being one of the unfor tunate thousands who are compelled to lane their meals at cheap restau ranis ana nmcn rooms, 1 raise my voice In protest at the unjust dis crimination of the food administra tion against this large class of Oma ha citizens. Prior to the new ruling that went into enect October 21 we were din ing all too meagerly; every order of me rood administration had been eagerly seized on to reduce the amount of food served at restau rants until, yes, sir, many were ac many going hungry. Now our righteous and patriotic government further reduces the little food al lowed us by ordering less butter for us, , meat to be served In smaller amounts, bread and butter to be had only when ordered, and that In very meager quantities. But not one word do these patriotic law-makers say about the price of meals being reduced in proportion to the cutting down of the amount of food served, or of furnishing other food to make up for the shortag-e of the reduction. The regulation plays right Into the pocket or the dispensers of food ana, to say the least, it looks sus picious. This regulation is aimed at and strikes the most pitiful and helpless part of our population. Who that has a home patronizes these eating places lor more than an occasional lunch? Who that has a good In come and no home but boards at a place where, in proportion to the board money they can afford to pay, that "practical small cutting of the meat" takes on a monstrous propor tion compared to that served by our cnain restaurants and other "cheap" (?) eating houses? Where the writer dines the piece of meat served is about half the size of a dollar bill and Just about as thick. Every time I dine I see people eat their Rfanty meals, get up and, with Amer ican pride, walk uncomplainingly up, pay the bill and go away hun gry. I have worked hungry many days, and 1 have noticed many or dering and eating even less than I, so I know they are hungry. We have done "our bit" and we glory In it, but we'd like a square deal from the country we love so much. That order "to cut the portion of meat as small as practical" is too elastic of application to be Just. While crushing kai.serlsm abroad, have a care that discriminating in justice at home does not sow seeds of resentment thatjsome day may be more than a muttering of disap proval. A HOMELES3 WORKER. MIRTHFUL MOMENTS. "They say th way to a man'i heart through his Rtomach, 10 I'm making loms cake for Algy." "Poes he eat this stuff?" "Certainly. Why do you ask?" ''It's only because ha loves you. The way to his stomach Is through his heart." Louisville Courier-Journal. HOHENZOLLERN RUBAIYAT. Wake!" For the Hun 1 scattering in fllKht Before the onward push of allied might. WUhelm, awake! And In receptive mood Give ear to fate's decree, and then good night I ' Kultur Is slated for a long repose; And Schreckllchkelt upon toboggan goes, But still the Hohenzollern tumbles not To what the world, outside of Potsdam, knows. Come!. Stall no morel In Freedom's glowing stirlng Tour winter gnrment of dlvlne-rlitht fling. It's out of fashion by a hunded years; Come, Bill; get action; or It not, then Blng! A book (BernhardVs) on some desert Isle, IV pair of bracelets, p'llce headquarters style. And all around a watery wilderness I guess that that will hold yon for a while. fome In tha dungeons of this world, and some Their finish see tn endless hells to come; You're bmked for both. Bill; hers and also there; ! elf -doomed, four years ago, tn Belgium. I'or you. who drenched mankind In bloody rain, for you, to whom remonstrance was In vain. When once we've got you where we want you. Bill. Tou bet your life, you will not get loose again! A. K. Folwelt In Brooklyn Thnes. 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A selection of one of our Duofold Suites will solve the problem. Davenports and Duofolds . $39.75, $45.00, $57.50, $65.00 Library Tables to match, at $8.00, $10.50, $15.00, $22.50 The Arm Chair and Rocker to match in genuine leather, are true values at $8.00, $11.00 and $14.50 i These suites make splendid living room outfits. Values in Wood Beds j i VICT Q Wood Beds in Mahogany, Oak and Bird's-eye Maple; three-quarter and full size, in the Mission style. The stately Napoleon t: the Poster design. Odd pieces and discontinued patterns, each a value at $12.75, $16, $19.75, $22, $29.75 Values in Kitchen Cabinets What a help to the busy housekeeper is a good cabinet. See our big values at i $6.75, $13.50, W $17.50 up to $65 Our Stove Department is yet full of good Values and it is time you made your heater seleclion. Our Hot Blast is a fuel saver, and are values at $19.75, $27.50, $35 and $55 WtCOOMp President. AITY H. R. Bowen, RECTAL DISEASE GUARANTEE CURE No knif or tnttlnt opmtion. 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