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1THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1918. The Omaha Bee DAILY. (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY .. FOUNDED BY EDWARD BOSEWATES , VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR TBE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR ' ' MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS l' nt Aaawtatad rrant. of hlch Thi Bat It t nambar. li aiduilwl, aniltlad to tha um lot publication of all nan dltpatcha endifol v In It or not ollwrwtaa credltfd In Ihla paper, tod aiM tha local na publlihtd Jiareia, All rLghu o( publication of out ipaclal ' 41pMcImi aro alio marred. ' ' . "" 1 . OFFICES i , Ckleaio Penpla'a Oil Building. Omaha Tha Bo BIdf. Km York 18 Fifth A?. ' South Omaha till N Bt i " Uu Louta NW B'k of Commerce Council Bluffa U N. Main SL Waabingtoa 1311 O Bt Lincoln Littla BuUdlnf. . '. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 6&.41& Sunday 63,095 ararag clreolatlon for tha month autncrlbed and iwon to b Jf.ll Ragan. Circulation Manager. " "' 1 t , " Subscribers laavinf tho city should hava Tha Baa mailed : la tnara. . Addraaa chanfad as often as raquaatad. . . THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG rfiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiii Mm Come on, boys, let's go! Shake, K. C; we know just how it is our selves. . Green River people still are somewhat in clined to be brusque at times. Do your part to help check the flu, and dan ger will be averted by just that much. t The "new era" does not appear to have hit some of the Omaha brethren very hard yet. 1 "When it comes to passing trie buck the War 1 board seems to know its business, too. t. w - - , . . . It nas been dfscovered that our aviators are . nearlyll musicians, but none of them carry the air. ., Atwo Turkish" army officers are to be ex ecuted for. their part in the Armenian massacres of 1915. - This is makingfguilt personal, all right. . "' Salvador also asks that American investors look, in that direction. They will, perhaps, when all the "blue sky" at home is capitalized. 'Much sympathy is expressed for William yG. McXdoo, who is to work two weeks without Salary, He will probably be the last one to complain. . , j London city and county authorities have an ticipated the peace council by placing an official inhibition on German-made goods. This is just j a'pointer.j, vIt has' transpired -that the Germans held .,Meti forty-seven years arid did not have -the keys to the city. The incident is. sentimentally instructive- . ' J Ts . . DirectorMcAdoo proposes tq take the halter r off and allow the great American gadder to re t suine his ramblings;. This is good news for , ; winter" resorts. :". ;., welve, and a quarter billions is set as the V December Lvalue of the principal crops of the United States for the yean Yet some folks say farming doesn't pay.; ' f ,Nowrit 5s charged that the Dutch govern - merit was .privy o the "kaiser's plan (to seek ' asylum, in. the Netherlands, but that will not materially aid in getting hinv out. New York's bolsh'eviki are going to cele brate FridayJhe 13th with a "mournful parade." The day that outfit will mourn will be the one on which it is forced fo go to work. , ' The brewers are going to remove their plants to China and leave, this country 'flat I on its back. That will bea long way to go for a : glass pf beer, but, sortie fellows will make the 'journey. ' r v ( . .... ' !i .' -.. I ' KTow Cataloliia wants to secede from Spain. Looks like a real break up in Europe, or at least the undoing of a Mot of things that' have been accomplished with grat pains through the, last 2,000 years. , ; ... , ' Profiteering seems to have reached the limit in Gotham, where' prices on jChristmas tre'es havebeen doubled. ' This sort of thing -will serve to help a lot 'pi people who have objected to the custom of having the trees. g ' TheWoman's Trade Union league very en ergetically resents a decision of the War Labor ..board, directing women to give up their jobs to men, Here is another question going.to be settled by resolutions. that is not ,i , J "American oil producers say Carranza's terms are too stiff to warrant further dealings with the, .Mexican government. The gentle pirates below the border wilt find some day what takes place when the goose that lays the golden eggs is dead. ; i - " ' Wilhelm as Accuser s v There is nothing especially new in ex-Kaisef i 1 Wilhelm's accusations against Bethmann-Holl-- a weg and others as having caused the war. Such 'statements, naturally not provable ana not to be taken now at the mere word of a monarch for sworn,.have often been made in his behalf. W1iat is new; is the pitiful spectacle he presents I in' the -character of state's witness. ; . So lately the war lord, the serene Most High, the mighty wielder of the Mailed Fist, now a fugitive to save his. wretched life, he turns to an outraged world mVurning its millions dead and whines, "They made me do itt" He peaches on his pals; he "comes through" with a confession. It wilt npprt n hp hirWr-d nrt with tli fart hut i it js ah interesting, possibly a valuable, clue. , j,' Out of uermany tsethmann-Hollweg is re- parded as a statesman s,omewhat more sane than the 1914 German- average, who feebly tried to mpke headway against militarism. ,At him the .M-kaiseR points his finger-; he and von Jagow ,"agaiqst my will made me go to Norway." The chancellor said to him, "Your majesty must take this voyage in order t(f maintain peace." But ' fhe" war-detesting emperor "learned from Nor- wteglan "newspapers" what was happening and "returned of his own accord,'' he tells the faith ful Dr. Wegener, to a fatherlandiiopelessly com mitted by Russia's sins to battle. ' A king can do o wrong. It is always the ; ' minister. Even an ex-king, and kaiser who was willing to be responsible for blood-stained sue y eess may play the familiar trick once more and plead irresponsibilitw for a charrel.' house of failure. Put what a contemptible figure, before Germany and before .the world." is Wilhelm as Aeii4erlNw,yik-.Wortd,i - .'T " , TAKING THE BRAKES OFF. . The first indication of actual return to peace conditions is given in notice from Washington that with the end of the year government con trol and price-fixing will terminate so far as the steel industry is concerned. As steel is the basic industry of the world, after agriculture, it must follow that the era of open competition is to be resumed. What will follow has been to some extent anticipated. Those who feel immediate need for steel will naturally seek to have orders filled early. Building, manufactur ing, railroad and in general every need for the article has been on short rations for steel for years, and will be ready to go after the supply at once. Whether the prices will be sent soar ing by unregulated competition, or whether users will realize ihe necessity of order in get ting material, will determine the possibilities of a "boom," or if the resumption of business is to be unattended by further inflation of prices. When the government has taken the brakes off the goad sense of the American business world wilt be the only safeguard against conditions that may easily become dangerous. All want to see industry on the upgrade again, but under such conditions as will be safe for solid growth; These can be had only with conservative action on part of all. Avoiding the Spanish Flu. One prediction made by the doctors with reference to the "Spanish flu" has been thor oughly verified. It was that the epidemic would not immediately vanish, but would likely persist for many weeks. Omaha underwent a four weeks' quarantine, with seemingly good results, buttjresent experience is not especially encouraging. While medical men are not as yet agreed as to the exact nature of the disease, or as to the most efficacious method of treating it, they are a unit on the value of prevention. This does not necessarily include the wearing of "flu masks," but it doe's contemplate ordinary precautions. Sneezing and coughing in public are two of the things chiefly to be avoided, but other" precautions are quite as important, Among these are attention to the person, keep ing the body clean inside and out, dressing .warmly, av6iding exposure and in other ways being careful. Each individual can by being careful make a considerable contribution to the safety of all, and with only the sacrifice entailed in making himself safe. Cutting Down War Expenditures. Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, has outlined a program of taxation contemplating' $1Q,000,000,000 in round figures for the current and succeeding year. The inad visaBility of determining the amount of revenue to be raised for the year 1920 already has been pointed out here. Beyond the fixed charges of the gqvernment, the so-called continuing appro priations, it is impossible to estimate at this time what the requirements for that period will be. Therefore, to bind the country' to the pay ment of taxes that far in advance is not only unwise, but dangerous, because it invites extravagance-Expenditures for the current year were fore cast on a 'basis of such magnitude as to be in comprehensible. Roughly, it was planned to provide for $25,000,000,000, a sum almost beyond understanding, and more, it was held by many authorities, that could be spent even on the ex travagant and wasteful basis of the war opera tions. November expenses were the highest of any month of the war, and , these fell under $2,000,000,000, so it ought to be accepted as cer tain that the corning seven months will not re quire the balance of., the original sum. Seven and a quarter billions of war contracts have been lopped off, but the entire process of spend ing money has not been sufficiently revised. The ljouse committee on appropriations has set on foot an inquiry, with a view to ascertain ing what sums already set apart may be cov ered back into the treasury, and the senate is relying on this to some degree, although Sena tor Martin, chairman of tfie appropriations committee, has expressed himself as willing to undertake a similar investigation if need be. The purpose is to check' some notable ex travagances. Considerable sums have been ex pended without apparent authority, and two in stances are cited where purchases involving the millions have been made after congress had re fused to appropriate money therefor. Through itall may be seen a Nearer approach to the budget system, the better way of managing governmentaexpenditures. Self-Determination for jthe Soldiers. . If self-determination is of value to a nation, it must in some vay apply to an individual. Admitting this, plans now tentatively put for ward by the administration for disposing of the returned "soldiers fall under a cloud, for they take on a paternal aspect that is foreign to the genius of our government. This especially re fers to the proposal of the secretary of the in terior, in which the secretary of labor joins, to settle in colonies on unused or idle lands the mn wholiave come back from the war. It is not contemplated y either of the cab inet officers that the xolony scheme be confined to reclamation of .waste land, but they ask laws passed that will enable the young men without capital tq acquire ownership of land that is now idle through jionuse by its owners. Mr. Lane rather sketchily outlines his plans, and Mr. Wil son gives it general endorsement, each seeming to build on the fact that a large part of the ara ble land pf the United States is not in service and that many millions of acres may be brought into use through' proper effort. The dther fac tor rests on the unproven assertions that the short experience of th "boys" in the army has unfitted them for anything but the outdoor life. This is hardly warranted. - ' s Here is where "self-detrminationwill come in, and we will very, likely find the aversion to agriculture as a life work quite as marked after as before the'war. Revivinglndurtry yill con tinually call for more and more men, and these will not be supplied in a never-ending stream from abroad. American exports in the future will be of finished products rather than raw ma terials, and our farms will find their markets at home. It may be that many of the returning soldiers will be ready to take on the inde pendence that tomes with a tract of ground big enough to support a family in decent style, but is not likely that such will content themselves long in colonies under government direction. , German and Austrian money is down almost to bedrock now in the w6rld markets, but this is not fatal if the folks there will just cut out pontics and get down to' hard work' 1 V; '" Right in the Spotlight. Senator William P. Dillingham of Vermont, one of the oldest mem bers of the upper house of the Unit ed States congress, both in years and service, is in line for congrat ulations today on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Before becoming a senator, in 1901, Mr. Dillingham had been governor of Vermont, as was his father before him. He was born at Waterbury, Vt., and after completing his schooling went to Wisconsin and read law for two years in'the office of Senator Matt H' Carpenter. He was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1867 and soon after began his public career as state's attorney. Before , his elec tion to' the governorship in 1888 he had served in both branches of the. legislature. Throughout his career Senator Dillingham has been especially prominent in the promo tion of education and temperance. One Year Ago Today in the War Cossacks and bolshevik troops en gaged in battle at Mohileff. British under Gen. Byng fepulsed a furious attack by the Germans west of Cambrai. , Germans reported to be massing every available gun on tne western front for great artillery Dattie. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. The circular appointing S. L. Charles to be purchasing agent of the Union Pacific, has been can celled, which leaves Mr. McKibben in charge. A great six-day's bicycle race is on at the Coliseum between Beards- l i : si ley, a cowboy, astride a brocho trying to Mat a bunch of wheelmen. The bikers are well in the lead. The Golden Seal club didn't dance as advertised. Only four couples showed up. A benefit for St. Andrew's mission was held at the residence of Mrs. John Epeneter. Two hundred and thirteen mem bers have been enrolled in the Y. M. C. A., including Mayor Broatch. The Day We Celebrate. Joseph' R. Wells, general agent for. the National Surety company born 1879. Urig. Gen. William A. Wite, who served during the war as official head of the British and Canadian recruiting mission in the 'United States, born 48 years ago. Rev. Charles S. McFarland, gen eral secretary of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ 'of America, born in Boston, 52 years ago. Arthur Brisbane, newspaper pub lisher, born in Buffalo, 54 years ago. This Day in History. 1887 Moscow university was closed because of rioting by the stu dents. 1894 Sir John Thompson, Cana dian premier, died suddenly at Windsor castle. 1911 At the durbar, at Delhi, King George was crowned emper or of India. 1914 Montenegrins Occupied Vis hegrad. 1915 President .Wilson's note to Austria on ncona matter made public. 1 ' 1916 Chancellor von Bethmann Hollwep announced that Germany and her allies proposed to enter forthwith into peace negotiations. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Centennial anniversary of the birth of Mary Todd Lincoln; wife of President Lincoln. Hearings are to begin before the house merchant marine committee in Washington today on an admin istration bill which provides for per manent government control of radio communication. Representatives of all elements of the grocery trade have been invited to take part-in a discussion of the nation's new food problem at a dinner to be given in Phibdelphia tonight hy the Association of Manu facturers' representatives. Storyette of the Day. Dr. Arthur N. Davis, the kaiser's dentist, said in New York the other day: "The German socialists poke a Rood deal of fun at the crown prince for his vanity. He's very vain, yon know. He still thinks he's a second Napoleon. "The Socialists tell a story about him. They say that at a banquet at general . grand headquarters, after the stolen champagne had been flowing a long while very freely, some one asked the crown prince who was the best German general. "'I am,' he answered promptly. "'Ah, but your royal highness,' r.aid the other chap, 'how are you Ifoing to prove it?' "'Prove itl' said the crowrl prince. 'We don't hie need to prove it. I admit it, don't I?' " EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS. Minneapolis Tribune: Remember the time when you thought govern ment operation of public utilities would mean cheaper service? Well, forget it. Washington Post: In all ports of debarkation the returning soldiers are greeted by that fine old song, "Let Me Kiss Him For His Mother." Philadelphia Ledger: It is rather discouraging to the hope of uni versal peace to have Peru and Chile ready for a scrap Just as the war Id Europe ends. . , Baltimore American: Germany Is o taken with the game of ninepins that now all her kings and grand dukes are gone, she ip getting up republics' to bowl over. Minneapolis Tribune: The Nobel peace prize wonldu't go far wrrn if it were distributed to the dough boys who started things at Bel.eau woods and Chateau-Thierry. Kansas City Star: William Hohen sollern, formerly well known in these parts as kaiser, "wears a dejected look," according to a report from Holland. In the language of the old home paper: ''Cheer up. Bill, the Worst is yet to come." New York Herald: The Belgian bill of damages as rendered against the people of Germany amounts to $1,200,112,000. But how about the things which cannot be reckoned In dollars and eents? A wrecked center of learning like Louvain must be paid for In scone other way. v The White House in Paris ' No. other spot in all Paris so fully com mands the 'spotlight of public life or affords more attractive surroundings than that chosen as the temporary American White House, facing Place de la Concorde. Every prospect pleases there. The central point of all that is grand and beautiful in the city, artistically planned and adorned "by famous artists, the Place and its neighboring recreation grounds comprise the most delightful and artistic civic center in the world. The Crillon building, a ducal palace of by gone days, which is to house the American peace mission, is one of two stone buildings of similar design stretching lengthwise along the nnrrh siHp Tvtir Rue Rivnli nnrl Rn Rovale intersect and merge with the Place. Both are three-story buildings with columned balconies, resembling in general outline the Farnam street front of the Douglas county court house, the columns, however, standing clear of the walls. Until recently the Crillon was occupied partly as a hotel and te offices of the ministry of marine, and is admirably fitted for the purposes of the new tenant, Uncle Sam, who foots the bill, said to be $400,000 for a year's lease. ' . , From the windows of the temporary White House the peace officials may look out upon vistas where history was made, and ease the strain of history in the making. The Place as now appears is comparatively modern, be gun in 1854, and improved as the years passed. Beneath all that charms the eyes of visitors lies a subsoil deluged with the blood of the revolu tion. A century and a quarter ago the guillotine first started business on this then a marshy spot and did more execution in the succeeding half a dozen years than any political headsman of the generation. Among the victims were: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Cor day, Duke of Orleans, Danton and, Robespierre. Lesser. victims of the knife ran the reddened score close to 3,000, giving the modern Place a fair start as a cemetery. Subsequent genera tions quickly forgot the horrors of the past. Better days had dawned, and the sunny spirit of Paris inspired and worked out the transforma tion of a graveyard into an artistic beauty spot. The Place measures 1,160 by 705 feet. Eight colossal statutes contributed by and represent ing the1 cities of Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Mar seilles, Lyons, Nantes, Lille, Brest and Rouen form a huge oval. In the center, between two magnificent fountains. stands the rose-colored obelisk of Luxor, 76 feet high, on the spot where the guillotine stood. On its four sides is traced in hieroglyphics a martial song of praise of Sesostric, an ancient Egyptian king otherwise smothered in the duty of 5,000 years. Sesostric was wiser than his successors who planned the Cleopatra needles, now in New York and London, as durable memorials. The Luxor obelisk is syenite marble and has with stood the assaults of Parisian weather without visible hurt for 82 years. The lighting plan is equally artistic and shadowless. Beyond the Place to the south flows the Seine,-, spanned by the Concorde bridge and further on the Chamber of Deputies and the esplanade and Hotel des Invalides, in which the first Napoleon rests. In this direction the view is unobstructed for a third of a mile and has for a background the Charnps du Mars, the Trocadero and the Eiffel tower. To the east is the garden of the Tuilleries, noted, for its beau tiful trees, flower beds and statuary a favorite resort of chaperoned babies. A few fragments of the walls of the Palace of the Tuilleries, burned down in 1871, recall the tragic activities of the firebugs of the Commune. Adjoining the garden is Place du Carrousal, formerly the site of royal cabaret, now a part of the general recreation scheme. A replica of the arch of Severus at Rome, built and decorated in honor of the soldiers of the first empire, stands here. Beyond are the Gambetta monument and the Louvre art palace. v Westward for a mile and a half stretches Champes des Elysees, the most beautiful of all avenues, where the elite of Paris burn gas every fair weather day and promenaders ' crowd double walks on each side. One-third of the length comprise park and avenue about 400 feet wide and the remainder probably 200" feet wide. Double rows of dwarfed trees on the sides brighten the color scheme and relieve the garish lines of stone palaces, hotels, cafes and resi dental castles of restricted height. Rows of cluster lights flank the sides and center and isles of safety afford pedestrians a halting place in a dash across between speeders. Most of the avenue rises gradually to the high ground on the crest of which stands the celebrated Napoleonic "Arch of Triumph of the Stars" projected in 1806. It is the largest of its class in the world and is profusely decorated. From this central axis twelve. streets radiate in every direction, one of 4hem, a broad boulevard, leads to the Bois de Boulogne railway station, where President Wilson is scheduled to arrive in Paris. -In these victorious days and nights, with joy unconfined and notes of triumph heard everywhere, scenes of animated life in this civic center no doubt surpass any witnessed before the war. The revulsion from the strain of four and a half years of war, is sufficient in itself to restore pleasure seeking and recreation. But Paris and France pulsates with a deeper and more heartening relief. Success in arms, the salvation of France, the redemption of Alsace Lorraine, and the tragic ignominy of 1870-71 wined away, open a new era of liberty and safety and compensates for the secrifices of war. Who has a greater reason to celebrate and make merry? And Place de la Concorde has the space and the attractions for the multitude. Looking backward four years and four months these joyful scenes make a bright back ground for the gloom of Place de la Concorde the first week of August, 1914. The deadening shock of war and the agony of the fam ilies separated by mobilization were visible in the strained and tearful faces. Pleasure vanished and duty filled the hours. Few people other than marooned tourists were seen. A mother accompanying her son called to the colors, or a wife and husband about to separate, perhaps forever, walked silently and hurriedly with bowed heads in the direction of the bar racks. Occasionally a child or two clung to mother or father, fortunately uncomprehending the coming trial and tragedy. Many young men, unaccompanied, paused awhile before the statue of Strasbourg still bedecked with wreaths and garlands of July 14; saluted and passed on. The action embodied the spirit of the men and was a silent pledge of consecration to France and the restoration. The figure of Strasbourg, beflowered annually and wearing the tri-color, symbolized the devotion of France to the lost provinces, and the hope of recovery. Thus the statute rose in popular estimation to the dignity of an altar of patriotism and the men hurrying to their stations, stopped and quietly offered their inspiring' pledge. A few strangers looked on, and, comprehending what it meant, reverently uncovered. A few days later, August 5. to speak ac curately, the Strasbourg statue was completely covered with fresh floral wreaths and the tri color and union jack entwined. .Great Britain had declred war the previous midnight. Paris then felt the allies could not fail. A lnrge crowd gathered around the base and a speaker declaimed and stirred the audience to cheers and flag waving. At the close the audience sang the Marseillaise. Never perhaps has the martial song of the Strasbourg poet been rendered with more heart and fervor as before that patriotic altar, narticularly the closing refrain: 'To armsl To arms, ye brave, The avenging sword unsheathe! ' March on I March on, all hearts resolved . On victory or death!" . " 'i Taxing Invisible Property. Under New York state tax laws millions of dollars have poured into .the treasury in the last few years from sources of invisible property beyond reach 4irecU.v. The law permits owners of stocks, bonds, and other intangible to pay a small fee and thus escape the larger state tax. The state controller reports the revenue from this source now amounts to $39,492,962 t ' ;.. '-. ", . " ;' " ' ' In the Wake o War German profiteers who'have been hoarding food are dumping their stocks on the market at half prices. Swedish bread two-thirds flour and one-third spruce-wood flour is said to well-tasting and digestible. The national debt of the United States figures up at 160: Great Britain's $600; France's $678, and Italy's $276 per capita. A British medical expert believes that smallpox will be a source of danger when peace comes and de mobilization of the great armies be gins. A soldier on the way to France, Joined the Methodist Episcopal church at Sellersburg, Ind., recently, by proxy, his wife going to the altar in his stead. .. Four of the Japanese ships char tered to the United States shipping board In exchange for steel ship plates and shapes for Japanese ship yards were found to be unseaworthy. In Germany recently of out 17,000 spinning and weaving mills, only 70 were running at high pressure; 1,400 boot and shoe factories had been amalgamated into 300; only 15 oil works were operating out of 720, and In the silk industry the spools had been reduced from 45,000 to 2,600. HERE AND THERE There were a boy of 9 years, a girl of 17 and a man of 79 in the recent Grand American Trapshoot ing Handicap in Philadelphia. A statistician says that only three men out of every hundred leave at death 410,000 or more; 17 leave es tates of from $2,000 to $10,000; 80 leave no assets. The invention of bells is attributed :o the Egyptians, who are credited with having made use of percussion nstruments to announce the sacred fetes of Osiris. ( The largest clock in the world f.dorns the tower of an insurance lompany's building in Liverpool. It lias four dials of 25 feet each in dia meter, and minute hands 14 feet in length. For the first time in 132 years no services were held Sunday, Novem ber 24, in the Mission at Santa Bar bara, Cal., established by the Fran ciscan Fathers In 1796. This was on account of the influenza. The first woman foot ball coach in the country is Miss Althea Brown, of Aladison, Wis., the first woman to enroll in the University of Wisconsin courses in the coaching of boys' ath letic teams who has completed her training during the summer and has accepted a position as physical direc tor in a Detroit (Mich.) high school. WHO CAN ANSWER THIS? Mister Editor: The piece I writ, How quitter Crown Sprints wept, He flat denlea! Press cabled It, Else I Just boozed, or slept. Now does he prove an alibi, By absence of the weep? Or is it a plain case of lie, While prnces are so cheap. Crown Sprints and Bill are on their Job, Sprints claims no abdicate. Now,' If he didn't sign an' sob What Is our treaty state? If Ebert body with no head. We signed up with the-trunk; A bodyless Crown mug Instead, ' Still makes our treaty Junk. A headless carcass signed with us. No mind, no will to act; Now. after we have dona It thus. The head denies the fact! Are we at peace, or still at war? All hoax, or armistice? Then what la Woodrow going for? Gosh! who can answer this? Let Woodrow climb the monkeyed throne, I'll Jump his claim, D. C. i Make you world Censor all alone. We'll be IT, you and me Tou dump the Crown Sprinti alibi, End head and body gibe; An' so we'll nail another He, Make Sprints, and all, SUBSCRIBE!! . Afton, N. T. LIT. B. CAKE. Reflections on the Jitney Fares. Omaha, Dec. 10. To the Editor of The Bee: The editorial squib, 'The Jitney has vindicated itself at last,'' which appears in the issue of the 9th inst, caused me some amuse ment Indirectly as I listened to the brief comment of a lady who labors constantly and hard to earn an hon est living. When I read the squib to her I had Just turned to the edi torial page of my paper aa she en tered the room from her day's work. She had to travel 20 blocks to reach home, and had the extra encum brance of a 12 dr 15-pound suitcase to carry. In trrfer to economize she undertook to walk, but had hardly covered half the distance before she became so completely Jaded that she was forced to decide on riding the remainder of the distance. The first Jitney man applied to proposed a charge of $2, and, strangely enough, he was a colored man. The next tackled proposed $1.50; the third one offered to do the Job for 75 cents; the fourth and last one ap plied to was a lady, who offered to make the trip of 10 blocks for 60 cents, but, as if to impart a touch of cruel Irony to this scene of the pjay, she carried in display the al luring and, as it proved to be, decep tive sign, "Free Hire," tacked on the sides of her vehicle. In the presence of this layout of facts, the .probability is that there are some people who would feel in clined to request The Bee to explain, at Its convenience, in what way "the Jitney has vindicated itself at last." There is another question which suggests itself in this connection that seems to me well deserving of free discussion and positive settle ment at the'earliest possible period. Is it true that the people of this city are without legal means of protec tion against such plainly unjust deal ing putting it mildly as they are having to endure at present? Are the seven commissioners of this city actually devoid of authority to enact laws and regulations for properly controlling the conduct of Jitney drivers, as well as other classes of public carriers, within the limits f this municipality? Or. is it true that, having adequate laws and reg ulations already provided, there is wanting the disposition to enforce them? .' I confess that I have a rather in definite conception of the meaning - S t. I W..4 ' T AWMAtMA tl..t what we are experiencing In Omaha Just now - bears some resemblance to it CYRUS D. BELL. GENIAL JABS. "Mr. Jigger did you aver belong to minstrel ahow?" i , ' "No, Willie; why do you ask m that?" "Because pa says you're alwaya rattling old bones. " Baltimore American. She T aeV fellow married a girl befoN he died so that aba could hava his rolllloni when he was gone. Could you love a girl like that? Ha (quickly Where doea aha lira? Pearson's Weekly. "Did yon say ah had a reputation tor making people uncomfortable?" "No. All I aatd waa that In her neigh borhood she holds tha record for knitting socks." Life; He Then you think men art ooncelted. Why? She They always sajy a girl hasn't any heart when they fall to win It. Toungs town Telegraph. " , "I waa held up by woman one who was too well supplied with arm for m to resist her." "Waa she a professional footpad?" . "No, ehe wa my nura when I waa a kid." Judge. INDIGESTION, GAS, UPSET STOMACH Hurry! Just eat one tablet of Pape'a Diapepsin for instant relief. No waiting! When meals don't fit and you belch gas, acids and undi gested food. When you feel indi gestion .pain, lumps of distress in stomach, heartburn or headache. Here is instant relief. Just as soon as' you eat a tablet ot rape s Diapepsin all the dyspepsia, indigestion and stomach distress ends. These pleasant, harmless tab lets of Pape s Diapepsin always make sick, upset stomachs feel fine at once and they cost so little at drug stores. Adv. -VHY- NOT Jewelry For Father This Christmas in ) Perhaps, in other Jtoars Father got a box of cigars and a silk tie for Christ mas But let's stop and reason for a moment A cigar is gone with a puff and Father's Christmas lias gone with it. Then, too, a cigar is nothing new for Dad. He cmofces day in and day out some say lie smokes too mr;ch. So let's give him a good Scarf Pin, t Cigar -Case, Lodge Button or King Walch, Cuff Links, Gold Pencil or perhaps a Wal deinar chain. Such a gift will make his a better Xmas and, re member, Dad is always the first to appreciate. Make This His Jewelry Christmas Greater Omaha & Co. Bluffs Jewelers J Forging Ahead During every month of 1918 the business of the Bankers Reserve Life. Company shows' an increase over the same month last year, and the prospect is that December yill break all previous records. The Success Thus Attained y v '' ' ' ' " ' is due to the attractive features of our policy contracts, which, ( to a degree unusual in life insurance, meet every , requirement of the pub lic. Full particulars for the asking. The Bankers Reserve Life Company Assets Over $8,000,000.00 , ROBERT L ROBISON, President . WALTER G. PRESTON, Vice-Pres. JAMES R.JFARNEY, Vice-Prea ( RAY C. WAGNER, Secretary-Treasurer Home' Office, Omaha, Nebraska WE HAVE OPENINGS FOR TWO GOOD GENERAL AGENTS