THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1918.
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Start the cars, somebody!
The big problem next spring will be to find
a man for every job.
He is a poor sport who cannot "pay and
take with the same smile."
Get ready for the Red Cross membership
drive next week. Make it 100 per cent again.
The legislators will soon have ocular and
other evidence of the need for a new state house.
If the War Labor board's decision was good
in the summer, it ought to be good in the fall.
Life on the George Washington is reported
to be pleasant even if it is interrupted by life
boat drills.
Mr. Burleson has revised his telephone boost
downward, but the fees still look big enough
to the victim.
Quite a difference may be discovered be
tween a soldier on the battlefield and a striker
4,500 miles away.
Pacific coast earthquakes are breaking into
the news again, just to show how quiet other
things have become.
v Germany is giving up' art treasures and
money stolen from its victims, the last proof of
the downfall of the Hun.
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Passing the buck indicates the secondary
phase of the strike situation. The public will
soon have to take a hand.
; Nebraska now leads the union as a producer
of hay and alfalfa, a distinction that means
something at present prices.
"Vic" Berger's seat in congress is to be con
tested from Milwaukee, but Judge Landis may
eventually decide the issue.
Commencement of work on the erection of
a new packing plant in Omaha is one sign that
the industry is not entirely monopolized.
Another remarkable event in Omaha: A
juvenile auto thief made a full confession, and
investigation proved him telling the truth.
; It is interesting to note thaUan Omaha horse
! has just been awarded a blue ribbon at a Chi
cago horse show. The auto has not yet occu-
! pied the entire field.
The Dutch are to be given an opportunity
'4 to see what America did in the war through an
exhibition of moving pictures. This film ought
to go big in Berlin, too.
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The guaranteed price foj the 1919 crop of
j wheat will not be disturbed, but the govern
;j ment will no longer buy the cereal, which may
I make quite a difference.
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jt. , One of the two democrats who will sit in the
;j senate at Lincoln this winter is a man who was
'j most bitterly attacked by the ringleaders of
his party before election. What is the answer?
j Director McAdoo will not retire from con-
trol of tryt railroads without giving congress
J some pointers on how to proceed. He is ar
, ranging the case in a concrete form and will let
jj- the lawmakers fight it out.
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f The British admiralty is letting out some
4. bits of information as to how it worked wonders,
'i but the whole story is not likely soon to be told,
: so the world will have to be satisfied with know
Z ing the results and not the methods.
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"Andy" Jackson, riding on horseback from
' I the Hermitage to the White House, will be a fit
"X companion picture to go with the spectacle of
; the crossing of the Atlantic by the president.
Democratic simplicity is here coupled with ori
' ental magnificence such as even Constantine
' the Great might have envied.
New Date for Thanksgiving
It is inevitable that Armistice day should
henceforth be widely observed in 'this country
and in every other one of the countries allied
against the central empires. Its observance may
quite conceivably extend even to some of the
neutral countries. It will become an interna
tional holiday, if it does not become absolutely
a world holiday.
Under the circumstances why should not the
United States make a first move by declaring
the day a national holiday of thanksgiving in
substitution, if necessary, for the present
Thanksgiving day nbw celebrated on the last
Thursday of November? The shift in dates
involved would not be of material importance.
Thanksgiving was set late in November when
we were essentially an agricultural people, and
the housing of the crops was a matter of para
mount national significance. Of course, the
successful garnering of the season's produce is
really a matter of as vital importance as ever,
but comparatively few of the people of the na
tion think much about it on Thanksgtving day,
and those that do could be quite as thankful on
November 11 as . they could two weeks later.
We are inclined to the belief that a change in
date in recognition of an event for which we
will forever be most grateful would serve to
give new and vital significance to an annual oc
casion now too often- only perfunctorily ob
served or else made purely an occasion for
merry-making. Detroit Free Press.
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BAD LABOR LEADERSHIP.
The strike of the street car men in Omaha
is furnishing a conspicuous example of bad labor
leadership-leadership of the kind that is detri
mental to, if not subversive of, the real interests
of organized labor.
It was bad enough to call a walkout at
3 o'clock in the morning without notice or
warning to the thousands of fellow wage
earners depending on the street cars to take
them to their places of work.
It was still worse to flout the War Labor
board, to whom the men had previously ap
pealed and through whose hands they had se
cured substantial wage concessions which they
were enjoying.
Whatever sympathy that naturally goes out
to the laborer in all such cases might have been
with the men at the beginning is evaporating
because of this indefensible action. The sophis
try by which the international organizer seeks
to avoid responsibility is unworthy even of a
lost cause. That award was accepted m good
faith by the men who benefited through it. If
they later formed themselves into a union, they
did not thereby change their status, so far as
their moral obligation is concerned, and
it will take some tine hair-splitting to relieve
them of the legal obligation entailed. They
took the increase in wages and other forms of
relief, and are equally held to tlie provision that
requires continuous operation of the cars.
The Bee feels that it can speak thus plainly
as a friend of organized labor because we our
selves deal with labor in a collective capacity
and have no objection whatever to collective
bargaining with any union of skilled mechanics
fully able to furnish the competent workmen re
quired and proved responsibility for iiving up to
agreements. But how can any so-called union
hope to command the confidence needful for an
agreement to which both sides will be bound if
its leaders repudiate a finding such as the car
men secured from the War Labor board while
holding the other party to its terms? Would the
proposed union contract now demanded be as
worthless when it came to fulfillment of obliga
tions by them as the War board's award? Sup
pose car company officials undertook to violate
that award and to hide behind a quibble in doing
so, what a call would quickly come rightful
and righteous for discilpine or punishment?
In saying this, we hold no brief for the street
railway company. Whatever shortcomings may
be charged against it in its treatment of its men
should have prompt remedy whenever proved,
and the demands of the public, too, for better
service should be answered. To stop street car
service altogether, however, as the strikers have
done, regardless of every legal and moral obli
gation to carry out the war board's finding, is
sure to react on organized labor as a whole,
which in final analysis is always the chief suf
ferer from bad labor leadership.
Berlin and the Bolsheviki.
Allied and American troops are to be used
as police in Berlin in an effort to check disorder
there. It is of concern to the world that Ger
many be preserved if possible from the chaos
into which Russia has fallen. Ebert, Schiede
nian and their associates do not seem to be
strong enough to establish the republic they
aimed at, while Liebknecht is gaining new
strength for hig program of destruction each
day. What part the junkers are playing in this
is not clear. Each side accuses the other of
having the active assistance of that element
which would most advantage through the fail
ure to establish popular government. The one,
fortunate circumstance is that soldiers of strong
governments can be put on guard in time to
check any such outbreaks as followed the end
of the czar's government in Russia. Lenine
and Trotzky were out of reach at that time and
worked their will practically without interfer
ence. Liebknecht and his crew cannot achieve
such results unhindered. Berlin ought to be
saved from the bolsheviki, if for no other reason
than that the German people may be made not
only self-supporting, but placed in a position
to pay the fines that will be laid against them.
Wrecking the government would only post
pone the ends of justice.
Interstate Commerce Commission's Views.
The suggestions and recommendations con
tained in the report of theTnterstate Commerce
commission indicate a sane view of the trans
portation problem. Summed up, they admit
that the policy of the past was a mistaken one,
and whether the railroads be returned to their
former owners or be retained by the govern
ment, rules formerly laid down for their opera
tion should never again be enforced.
If a single year of experience, has been suffi
cient to convince the federal authorities of the
correctness of most of what the railroad man
agers asked for, the experiment has been well
worth while. It will not have the effect of
turning the country over to the tender mercies
of a greedy combination of corporations, but it
will prevent the commission of another such
blunder as that which required the Union Pacific
to withdraw entirely from ownership of the
Central Pacific, turning that line over to the
Southern Pacific, the court upholding the fiction
that the Union and Central lines were com
petitors instead of being integral parts of what
should be a unified whole.
Effects of that amazing decision cannot now
be overcome, but the commerce of the country
can be relieved from serious burdens by the
adoption of rules to continue in a more sensible
way the co-operation made ppssible under the
forcible pooling brought about by the federal
administration.
Right in the Spotlight.
Count Ottokar Czernin, mentioned
as one of those likely to be brought
to trial by the Vienna government
as having been responsible for the
war, held the post of foreign minis
ter under the late Austro-Hungarian
government. In the events that led
up to the war he played no inconsid
erable part, having acted as first ad
viser to the embassy at Petrograd
during the Balkan wars and direct
ing its business much of the time
during the absence of the ambassa
dor. Some three months after the
signing of the treaty of Bucharest
he was appointed to represent Austria-Hungary
in the Roumanian cap
ital and the role he played from that
time until Roumania's intervention
is now a matter of common knowl
edge. Count Czernin belongs to the
Bohemian conservative aristocracy.
He was numbered among the inti
mate friends of the Archduke Franz
Ferdinand and also enjoyed he con
fidence of Emperor Carl.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
United States declared war on
Austria-Hungary.
London reported the British
forces in Palestine had occupied the
town of Hebron.
Washington issued a general or
der giving preferential shipment to
food, fuel and government supplies.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago.
Ladies of the First M. E. church
opened a fair at the home of J. H.
McConnell on Cass and Twenty
second street for the sale of fancy
goods to swell the building fund.
The Loup City sod house reached
Omaha on its way east. It is built
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on a flat car and is 8x16 feet with !
walls 6 feet high. The interior is
filled with Sherman county vege
tables to supply the president's ;
household till next March. I
Carl Morton of Nebraska City and j
Joy Morton of Chicago, sons of J. j
Sterling Morton) stopped over for
the day, '
Mrs. Orpha C. Dinsmoor, wife of ,
Dr. Charles M. Dinsmoor, died sud- j
denly. She was the head of the I
Creche assocation and prominent in
all Omaha charity work.
The Day We Celebrate.
E. H. Crocker, assistant attorney
for the Union Pacific railroad, born
1862.
A. W. Jefferis, our new congress
man, born 1868.
Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, who
directed the war activities of the
Methodist Episcopal church abroad,
born at Moundsville, W. Va., 52
years ago.
Gen. Sir Bruce M. Hamilton, one
of the prominent British command
ers in thte great war, born 61 years
ago. ;
Cale Young Rice, well known as a
poet and dramatist, born at Dixon,
Ky., 46 years ago.
Hannes Kolehmainen, the world's
champion long-distance runner, born
in Finland 29 years ago.
This Day in History.
1787 Delaware was the first state
to ratify the federal constitution.
1804 Noah H. Swayne, President
Lincoln's first appointment to the
supreme court of the United States,
born in Culpepfter countv, Virginia.
Died in New York City June 8, 1884.
1835 The first railway in Ger
many was opened between Nurem
berg and Furtlu
1853 A statue was dedicated
to Marshal Ney in Taris on the spot
where he was executed in 1815.
1895 Italian force routed at Am
balagi by the Abyssinian army.
1914 Serbians inflicted heavy
losses on the Austrian army of in
vasion. 1916 David Lloyd George for
mally accepted the British post of
prime minister and first lord of the
treasury.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
Today is the first anniversary of
the United States' declaration of
war against Austria-Hungary.
David Lloyd George, the man who
piloted Britain through the darkest
days of the war, today completes
his second year in the premiership.
Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin,
Dr. Felix Adler and Dr. P. P. Clax
ton, United Stafes commissioner of
education, are scheduled to address
an important conference of the na
tional chuld labor committee in New
York City today.
Storyette of the Day.
Representative Reavis of Ne
braska was talking about his trip
to the front.
"I witnessed a mild quarrel at the
front," he said, "between two young
chaplains of different denominations.
The senior chaplain got the better
pf the quarrel.
" 'Let us bury the hatchet, my
brother,' he said. 'After all, we are
both doing the Lord's work, -are
we not?'
"'We certainly are, said the junior
chaplain, quite disarmed.
'"Let us, therefore,' said the sen
ior suavely, 'do it to the best of our
abilitv, you in your wav and I in
His.' "
In Process of Cooling Out.
The Bee is daily receiving letters, some
signed and some unsigned, all complaining of ;
one or another of the different phases of life.
One writer asks that the negroes be deprived
of all rights under the law, and finally be com
pelled to migrate to another land; another
roundly abuses The Bee because of its failure
to endorse socialism; a third goes after the au
thorise for permitting Germans to use the tele
phone, and so on through the pile. It is proba
ble that our experience is that of many other
newspapers. It is a manifestation of uneasi
ness on part of the people, which itself may be
accepted as indicating a "coolingKiut" process.
The whole nation was aroused to a higTl emo
tional pitch, and it is impossible to get back to
normal condition without providing some vent
for the heated passions. If this can be worked
off through the writing of letters to newspapers,
well and good. The relief is 'what is most
needed jusnow '
HERE AND THERE
A Russian is not of legal age until
he has attained his 26th year.
The black diamond, found in Bor
neo, is the hardest known substance
In the world.
London's 22,000 policemen guard
more than 4,000 miles of streets and
at least 1,250,000 houses and shops.
Woman's silk dresses sometimes
contain tin to make them rustle, and
only the microscope can detect its
presence.
Luxemburg is a little state
bounded by Germany, Belgium and
France, and with a population just
over 250.000 people.
It costs some of the big retail
stores In New York City from $5,000
to $10,000 a year for the cleaning of
their windows and metal signs.
The war-dogs serving with the al
lied armies in France received daily
rations consisting of a half-pound
of horseflesh and three-quarters of
a pound of broken biscuit.
John Ward, a negro of Goldsboro,
N. C, has 13 of his 18 sons in the
military service, while his 17 daugh
ters have been engaged In war work.
Washington Correspondent Philadelphia Ledger.
Washington's armchair army is anxious to
quit the job now that the war has been so gal
lantly won. Uncle Joe Cannon once said of
some of these officers that they wore spurs to"
keep their feet from slipping off their desks.
It is said no fewer than 1,800 officers in the
ordnance department stationed in and around
Washington have tendered their resignations
since the signing of the armistice last Sunday.
A great many of these officers, expert in their
line, gave up 1 igh-salaried positions to don the
khaki when the war was the only thing in life
worth considering and when the uniform car
ried with it the homage of a grateful people.
Now the men who make up the ordnance de
partment are desirious of getting back into
civil life as fast as they can go. But they are
up against a snag. None of the resignations has
been accepted and none will be until the con
struction plans have been thoroughly digested
and until the need for the officers no longer
exists.
In other words, no officer of the army is to
be allowed to quit at tins time just because he
wants to. Most of the officers taken on the
staffs here in Washington used every sort of
"pull" to get their commissions, and now that
they have them they are finding it not an easy
matter to let them go. The ordnance depart
ment has much 'work to do in 'the next six
months or a year. It is almost as difficult a
matter to get away from the routine of war as
it was to get into it.
Officers of the newly formed motor trans
port corps are likely to be among the very last
discharged from the army. Transport work is
in full swing in France today as the American
army sweeps forward to the Rhine to occupy
the territory given up by the Germans under
the terms of the armistice. The supplysupport
of the army must be maintained at a high state
of efficiency, not only while the men continue in
the field, but until the very last unit is em
barked for home.
Even then the motor transport corps may
hold a very large detachment of men and trucks
in France and Belgium for the reconstruction
period. France and Belgium are depending
upon the United States for physical as well as
financial assistance in rebuilding thosV devas
tated countries, and transport facilities will be
needed for a long time to come.
Many officers in other branches of the serv
ice applied only recently for transfer to the
motor corps, for they saw in it a chance to get
early service abroad. In this they were right,
but I hear now that some of them may be kept
in the army as long as four or five years after
the signing of the treaty of peace. There will
be many who wish to remain, however, and it
is probable the problem of letting the unwilling
go as early as possible will be worked out in
due time to the satisfaction of everyone.
There is no chance at this time, however, for
the blanket acceptance of resignations, espe
cially among the young men who were in the
first and second drafts and were commissioned
without serving any time in the ranks.
Senators, representatives, cabinet officials
and War department officers have been fairly
deluged the last few days with requests for the
early discharge of individual enlisted men from
the army, especially those who have seen ser
vice abroad.
Many requests are extremely reasonable.
They came from dependent mothers, fathers or
sisters, who for patriotic reasons waived their
dependency when they left the country needed
every available man to fight back the Hun and
bring victory to the American and allied peo
ples. But now the war is over they are anxious
to get their sons, husbands and brothers out of
the army and back into civil life, where they
can earn sufficient money to bring back some
of the pre-war comforts to their homes.
It is impossible, however, the War depart
ment declares, to grant these individual re
quests, for the moment such a policy was
adopted the pressure for discharges would be
come so great that units would have to bfi
broken up abroad and men brought home as
passengers on ships without any sort of organi
zation to keep them together. In bringing the
army home in orderly fashion it is necessary
that companies, battalions, regiments, brigades
and divisions be kept as nearly intact as pos
sible. This will mean an organized return of
the forces from overseas. To adopt any othef
program would mean. disorganization and dis
order. Every mother or father who has made a
request for the return of a son naturally re
gards it as a very small matter to grant their
particular request. It is true the early return of
one or two men would not disrupt the general
scheme. . But there are thousands of such re
quests already and likely to be thousands more,
and the department feels it would be folly to
embark upon such a practice.
The Kaiser as a Bluffer
The collapse of the German empire carries
with it a lesson that Americans can afford to
profit by, for a belief in the efficacy of bluff is
one of our besetting sins. Useful it may be at
the poker table and sometimes at the critical or
emotional turns of life, but to rely on it as a
regular means of livelihood is to court inevi
table disaster. And when we hear it said of an
expert bluffer that "he gets away with it" even
as the burglar with the plate we may be rea
sonably sure of that bluffer's finish.
For years the kaiser, to employ the idiom of
the unthinking, "got away with it" as has no
other bluffer, gentle or common, of allhis con
temporaries. The efforts of the various sover
eigns and statesmen associated with him in his
criminal career were transparent and ineffect
ive in comparison. On his own blasphemous
assumption that the Supreme Being was his
partner in crime, looking with the eye of ap
proval on his reckless violations of every one of
the divine commands, he erected the hollow
pyramid of vain pretense that came crashing
aown to earth wnen ne nimselt tied trom theU
vratli r,f n fprtrlA jtm , Vi m UiA kfifftliTAJ N
Among the ruins may be discovered the broken
fragments of his financial, food and "unconquer
able army" bluffs. The "divine right of kings"
bluff has been smashed to smithereens, to quote
from the Irish lexicon.
It is gratifying to know that our own nation
was instrumental in calling this monumental
bluff. We can profit still further if we take
heed of the serm that it preaches. New York-Herald.
People and Events
Hail the Sweet Tooth! Freedom's aurora
arches the Christmas heavens and loaded candy
counters beckon to all who possess the prices.
All restrictions are off. Go to it!
Illinois voters approved a bond issue of
$60,000,000 for good roads. Plans are made for
700 miles to be laid next year, a stretch of solid
highways which will demonstrate the advan
tages of getting out of the mud and staying out.
In the rush and crush of world events some
luminous names escaped the roster of political
graveyards. Due reverence for funerals on the
way require a scroll for J. Hamilton Lewis,
United States senator from Illinois. From date
to March 4 is none too long to arrange the
proper decorations for the obsequies.
The war is over abroad, but war persists in
some sections of the homeland. No sign of
peace appears in the theatrical "no man's land"
of New York. Ticket speculators continue
skinning pleasure-seekers as ruthlessly as Hun
invaders. Vocal big guns and legal barrages
touch them not. Fully 80 per cent of theater
tickets sold in the city pass through the hands
of middlemen.
Loyalists in Minneapolis narrowly escaped
a rout in the drive against the re-election of
Mayor Van Lear. Since the United States en
tered the war Van Lear has thrown ice packs
on every public manifestation of Americanism,
and narrowly escaped prosecution for pro-Germanism.
The balloting, shows the mayor broke
even on the home vote, but was knocked out by
the soldier, vote.
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I'l-b in the War.
Omaha, lv-. 5. To the Editor of
The Bee: It is possible, perhaps prob
able, but n..t cn-tain, that tho critics
or traducers ut the Irish race can
be convince,! that the Irish will
fight. The harne is preposterous,
nevertheless ou. assertion has been
made that the lighting rare did not
participate ! any extent in the war.
True, there were no Irish in the
(ierman and Austrian tirmies, al
though it was an old Kenian, John C.
Holland, who invented the submar
ine. The accusation is not made
against the Irish-American. The late
unpleasantness added another star
to his credit - an even half dozen,
towit: the Revolution, the War of
1812. Mexican war, eivl! war, Spanish-American,
r.uiopean war.
There is much in common between
the labor (lass and the Irish strug
gling for freedom, therefore, 1 will
cite a few extracts from statements
made to a writer in the Chicago
Labor News by Captain Thomas K.
McMahon of the Irish Cuards, who
has been throagh the hell of war
fare. As a memento of one of the
battles a piece of bis skull was torn
away. Recently he was with the
British and Canadian recruiting
mission at Chicago, lie said:
''It's a pity some of you Ameri
can newspaper men were not with
the forces m the first couple of years
of the. war, close up, where you
could diH the stories lirst hand, and
not after they had filtered through.
There would be something worth
writing about.
"When the war hesan Ireland sent
into the fighting zone some fifteen
regiments distinctively Irish from all
the four provinces. And as the war
developed there were tho London
Irish, Liverpool Irish. Tynesldo Irish
and in the Seoth, Welsh and Eng
lish regiments were many more
Irishmen."
"Then there came from overseas
some regiments like the Vancouver
Irish fusileers, the Quebec Irish, a
South African Irish regiment, and
from Australia came others, some
50 per cent of the men from there
being of that race; and we had
thousands in the navy.
"We raised the Tenth, the Six
teenth and the Thirty-sixth Irish
divisions, and we sent thousands
across to keep up tho strength of
our units. Yet a few days ago I read
in a paper that Ireland had contri
buted but 10 per cent of soldiers.
"Official figures available show
that up to January last Erin had
contributed 58 per cent of her avail
able man power. Now these figures
mean only the men who were listed
following a military census. It does
not include the men who were in
the English army and navy when the
war broke out.
"Nor does it include those Irish
men working in Britain who swelled
the ranks of the units across the
channel, men who if at home would
have gone into the Irish regiments.
And they were all volunteers."
Captain McMahon said, "All over
the Belgian-French field they fought.
In Italy they have been helping to
stem the Austrian tide. ThCy were
in the thick of the Dardanelles
Gallipoll slaughter. They foutrht at
Saloniki, helped chase the Turks
out of Jerusalem.
"The battle of Ypres has gone
into history, and because of their
dash and daring two Irish battalions
Whittled to a Point
Washington Tost: Instead of
plotting to regain his crown, Bill
ought to be glad to retain the place
where the crown used to be.
Brooklyn Eagle: The girls he
left behind him are watching the
casualty news anxiously and the hero
in France is thinking of them, also
with anxiety.
Minneapolis Tribune: A banquet
in an airplane 2.000 feet is some
thing new, but a lot of people have
been up in the air of late figuring
how to pay the bills for spreads
that were not baniiuets.
Baltimore American: The casual
ties of Austria Hungary include 4,
000,000 men. That the backbone of
one maieould have saved them, but
was too pliant to attempt it is no
argument for the divine right of
kings to continue on the earth.
Brooklyn Fagle: A favorite hymn
of the colored people says: "Co read I
de Fift oh Matthew, an' read lat ;
chapter Trough." And there Presi- i
dent Wilson will find one fine dtido- I
matic hint: "Let your communica
tion be yea, yea, and nay, nay; for
whatsoever is more than these com
eth of evil."
were practically wiped out for get
ting too far ahead without support.
They were the Second Leinsters and
the Royal Irish."
A while ago there was an editorial
in The Bee about the valor of the
Inniskillings. The foregoing sketch
about what the Irish have done
towards the freedom of others is
self-explanatory of the justice of
their own claim for emancipation.
Every thing is revealed by time
and in a little while it will he known
what recognition small nations are
going to receive at the peace con
ference. JERRY HOWARD.
33 Discbunt
on all Gas Domes, ronaDie
Lamps, Combination Gas ana
Electric Fixtures and Fancy
Glassware. We have only a few
on hand and want, to dispose of
them as soon as possible.
$25.50 Domes, complete with
lamp $17.25
$21!. 50 Domes, complete with
lamp $15.70
$21.30 Domes, completo with
lamp $14.20
$12.75 Portable Lamp, complete
with tubing $8.50
$10.25 Portable Lamp, complete
with tubing $7.50
$7.25 Portable Lamp, complete
with tubing $5.50
$25.00 Combination Shower (no
glassware) $16.50
$20.00 Combination Shower (no
glassware) $13.50
OMAHA GAS COMPANY
Douglas 605. 1509 Howard St.
The Most Joyful Christmas
Since A. D. 1 will be that of
A. D. 1918. Christmas gifts
should be personal and perma
nent. RYAN JEWELRY CO.
The DIE1
During
and Utter
The Old Reliable
Round
(tenable n ft p n
Package OrilCEC S
Malted Milk
Very Nutritious, Digestible
The KKAL food Drink. Instantly piepared.
Made by the ORU.INAI Horlick process and
from carefully ele"ted materials.
Used successfully over Vi century.
Endorsed by physicians everywhere.
Specify Horlick's The Original
Others Are Imitations
..
Jewelery
and
Christmas
Christmas couldn't be
Christmas without its
Gifts of Jewelry.
Jewelry is the lasting
Gift. Jewelry is never
thrown away, but travels
on through the years to
come as a muchly cher
ished family heirloom.
This Xmas particularly
Thrift Gifts are in order.
'What could be more
thrifty than the everlast
ing quality of good Jewelry?
NOT I
yisQonY) , 'iflYKjt Make This a
KB1SPY CACKESi JEWELRfe Jewelry Chtmas
FIak fkmm ! -ri. 1
Dainty. Rmmtf
Crisp. WMmp I Greater Omaha & Co. Bluffs Jewelers
ASK YOUB 6S0CE8 XjjS I
TIiq Best Spread Fop Broad
The Year Mound
Bqs TooMr Baking Cooking
NORTHERN COCOANUT BUTTER CO.
MANUFACTURERS - MINNEAPOLIS.
