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12 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918. ffHE Omaha Bee pAlLY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY IDWAJU) ftOSIWATIR VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR Oil BXE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOR in i i i . L MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AeucUtad Piees. of wtaloh 1b Bat li maentwr. la exelwlTtlr Mlttes lo the um for puimoettco 1 til am dlipatclue endued It ot M oUurwlee credited IB this paper, tad also lk local tot pacllahed hereui. All tlfhti of publtcttloa o( ow spatial japeMMI lllD fW lid. T orncESi kef fePTVi Oti BaUfflat. Omasa ffce Bm Bide, law Io-18 Fifth An. Boats On It IS Jf M. M. LouleN.w B'k of Coauaerce. Council Blurt tH N. Main 8L ysablnetaa mi Q Bt. Lincoln Little Bulldlm. I NOVEMBER CIRCULATION Daily 69,418 Sunday 63,095 inrite eUcalatloa for the month aubeertbed sad avon te bj I n. nana, circulation bacrikera leaving the city should have The Baa mailed k than. Addrca changed aa often aa requested. THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG 1 i illiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiii More history was made at Brest. Now speed up your early Christmas shop- ling. The war-won freedom of the C's insures the afety of tht W. W's. Red Cross girls who did not get to the front ,?:now how a lot of soldiers feel. I Tht French seem as glad to see Wilson as hey were when Pershing landed. I Chile and Peru are now willing to arbitrate, tnd another war cloud disappears. Nebraska'! potash industry may be an in- int, but it certainly is a lusty one. "Great victory for the strikers," cries the EUbor agitator. Why the camouflage? If the president accepts all the invitations sent him he will be gone longer than six weeks. The Chilean officer who flew over the Andes rai just giving South Americans an object 'sson. Renewal of trade relations with Russia is a ffgn that the blessed bolshevik has nearly run ps course. fe v ? Wet, soggy days are hard on little unshod f)et, therefore The Bee's free shoe fund de firves attention. 1 1 Mr. Wilson's mind is reported to be clear as , nis pians lor peace, so mat au inai remains ior mm to maice mem puoiic. Pershing has a fairly steady stream of sol ders flowing homewards, making good on the foboken-by-Christmas prophecy. Help battle the flu by observing all the rules id down by the authorities and you will be ping something in an emergency. Tannarv 1 it in he relchratrH a a Vinlirlav in k Li:.. J ' ; r . 1 n i . inn, ana n is a saie guesi lucre win pe ghtylittle "hoching" of the kaiser. Germans who are jostling American soldiers they pass on the street might profit by re newing, the last year s history of their father 4ffnd. ' - While over there the president might locate ie culprit who perpetrated that ' premature lace armistice fake and see to it that he, too, Its "justice." ; The coat of that eight-day car strike will jure up into the hundreds of thousands of dol rs. And the money might as well have been imped into the Missouri river. s Three thousand delegates and assistants will vke part in the peace conference, a number that ems small enough when compared to the mil na who were engaged in the war. Establishing aerial mail between London hi India, will pretty nearly realize the legend I Solomon'a magic carpet, but many things most as strange have been brought to pass rte war. The shopper who can't find what he (she) mnti in the magnificent display of holiday fodl now offered by Omaha retail merchants last hire something ailing him (her) that eds looking after. The New York "nut" who formally abol- hed all laws, all debts and all responsibilities E a ! ? t t , ii runerit is wasting nis lime nere. ne snouia i to Petrograd or Berlin, where there Id for his sort of activity. is a Looking backwards, perhaps it was better at the company did not try to start cars in fiance of the threatened violence. To have few people killed or maimed in a riot would ve done Omaha incalculable harm. U Commission That Failed Among the many suggestions presented by Interstate Commerce commission in its faual report for the future control of the rail- ads some may be better than others, but none them will gain much in the importance to be ached to them because of the oarticular Jurce from which they emanate. After a long and patient trial of the adminis- ative methods of the Interstate commerce mmission it has been generally voted a fail le. Its merabershin chanses from time to time. lk raculatinns and fforicinne. that if iicn.i jjriodically undergo modifications, but after all fese years its character and its theory of opera Jns4 remain the same. It has made of itself a Actionary body; it ha proved a means of ob i'Bction in practice and a dead weight in the Sjvelopment of the railroads of the country, I id it has failed to justify itself as an agency I at works for the public good with the intelli ! ut end of getting the best results, i ,,Vhat ails the Interstate Commerce commis- q is not lack of powers or lack of laws but , k of an understanding of business conditions affecting the railroads and industries depen nt upon them. So far as it was designed for rtain definite purposes of regulation, it has ;ther met expectations by maintaining an atti It of judicial impartiality nor has it succeeded .suppressing the inclination to assume the role I ieat for the prosecution. I What is needed first of all is a radical change Ithe eemnfcsioa ftseH. New York World. . , ..NT.... j HOW THE OUTCOME WAS REACHED. While shaking hands with ourselves over the ending of the street car strike, let us not over look one important feature' that the termina tion of the conflict without "that ugly feeling," with all the men going back to work in their old jobs, with agreement fo settle remaining differences by arbitration of a disinterested tri bunal, is due chiefly to the unceasing efforts of Commissioner Zimman. It should be known that Mr. Zimman "got into the game" pursuant to his conception of the duty he, as a city official, owes to the pub lic and, with the confidence of the men who au thorized him to represent and speak for them, succeeded in bringing the strike leaders and the company heads face to face for an earnest at tempt,to get together. He induced the strikers to recognize the claims of the public and to withdraw their untenable demand for a closed shop through a union contract made in disre gard of the War Labor board's award, and he also persuaded the company to concede imme diate correction of the main condition com plained of. Irfa word, the well conducted nego tiations initiated by Mr. Zimman reached the point of strike settlement independently of ac tion or advice from Washington or Detroit; in truth, alone made it possible to prevail finally on the strikers to accept and follow the direc tion of their international president to resume their work and look to the War LaboT board for a re-hearing of the former case and inter pretation or modification of the award as justice to all concerned may require. Not that Commissioner Zimman has any claim to credit in which others do not share, but that the people of Omaha may understand how the outcome was reached and that it did not simply come about by itself. Great Britain's Election. Several features of the election in Great Britain, where the votes are being cast today, hold great interest. It is the first general elec tion since before the war, making the Parlia ment recently dissolved one of the longest in history. Party lines have almost entirely dis appeared under the attrition of war, and the issues presented in the campaign are mainly not such as would call for partisan alignment. In addition, the electorate has been greatly in creased, something like 12,000,000 voters having been added by extension of franchise to include women and soldiers under age. The temper of these first voters is uncertain, for they have few political landmarks to guide them. This as sures that the outcome will largely turn on per sonal preference. As to the issues involved in the post-war program, leaders of previous wide variance as to policy, such as Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and Arthur Balfour, are practically agreed. Generally speaking, the main thing to be settled by the voters whether Mr. George or Mr. Balfour will have a" sufficient personal following the next House of Commons to organize the government. Great problems of home policy will be set before that body, some of these already having had preliminary attention, but most of them yet are in an un formed stage as to" plans for treatment. . While the result of the voting today will be of deeper concern to the British than to the world out side, it will be heard with interest by all. ' Self-Government In Germany. A part of thcBritish press is inclined" 1o take umbrage at the foolish talk of Premier Ebert to the Prussian Guards, when he told them they had never been beaten by the foe. If the present head of affairs at Berlin finds it necessary to indulge in verbal camouflage that he may hold the fealty of the returning soldiers he should not be disturbed. The men who fol lowed the kaiser's fortunes on the field are as fully aware of what happened them in battle as anybody. The maintenance of some semblance of or der in Germany just now is of greater impor tance to the victorious Allies than to the Ger mans themselves. With Eisner at Munich talk ing of pure democracy, and Liebknecht at Ber lin preaching uncontrolled anarchy, the capacity of the German people for self-government is being tried to the utmost. It would have been a wonder, indeed, had they slipped from au tocracy to democracy without a jolt or jar, and it is not yet certain if the transition will be made and no extreme of disorder ensue. Ebert so far has made much better progress than did Kerensky when similarly placed in Russia, but he has not yet shown if he can hold the helm and guide Germany through the dangers that are observed on every side. Until order is com pletely established there, final peace is not pos sible, and the longer this is postponed the greater will be the task of the victors. Anything that will tend to get the disorgan ized country on a settled basis and provide the Germans with a responsible government will help all the world just now. Score One for the Home-Grown Spud. Potatoes grown in Nebraska and Wisconsin swept the prize platter at an exposition at Des Moines, where Iowa and other middle western states were competitors. This will serve as sufficient reply to the calumniators of the home grown spud, who undertook to discriminate against it a few weeks ago. It was asserted, on behalf of potatoes .from other states, that the Nebraska variety was lacking in the delicate flavor, or fell short in appearance, or in some other way did not measure up to the require ments dictated by a delicate discrimination. However, at that time the food administrator intervened and through his authority the tuber from the high ground was given a chance in the home market. Now that it has registered a vic tory in competition over its boasted rivals, maybe we will hear less of its unworthiness, and perhaps be asked to pay higher prices for the privilege of eating it. It is good, though, to know that we can raise potatoes worthy to be listed with the other champion food products of the state. Checking work on government housing con tracts uncovers further profiteering. This is chargeable to the haste with which we rushed into the side lines of the war, and if we can only apply the lesson maybe the money will not have been spent in vain. Signing the armistice is said to have almost immediately cured more than 2,000 American soldiers who were suffering from shell shock. It also took some of the swelling out of the Hun's head. Jobs for Maimed Soldiers r' By Samuel Harden Church, President of Carnegie Institute, in Carry On. I have often wondered what I would do if I were to find myself out of employment with the necessity confronting me of hunting a wage paying job in order to provide for my family. I cannot imagine any situation that would be more discouraging. I have always, therefore, been careful to receive every person who has ever called upon me in the search for employment, and if unable to find a position for him in any department under my own direction, I have re ferred him to others or made such suggestions as would lead these applicants into other prom ising fields of work. I have never found myself in sympathy with a tendency which has been developing in recent years in some of the industrial establishments, of the country, .whereby an age limit was set up against applicants for work. This age limit was at first made thirty-five years, and then, when it was found that a sufficient supply of men could not be obtained, it was raised to forty-five years. My feeling Is that there should never be any age limit at all, and I feel convinc ed that the social ideals for which we are all striving will never be accomplished until it be comes possible for every; man and every woman upon their own application to find employment suitable to their respective abilities, with a corresponding wage. The business men who are directing our great establishments have up to a recent time felt themselves impelled, as for example, is done in the army, to demand a physical perfection of one hundred per cent from their employes, and can readily see how such a policy will shut out from a livelihood many thousands of men and women who are physically defective in one way or another, or who have passed the arbitary age limit, and yet are capable of giving intelligent and devoted service in any tasks which might be assigned to them. Very recently I have had personal experience with two defective cases of this kind. The first was that of, a young man whose sight, through a disease in childhood, had been impaired by the loss of seventy-five per cent of his vision. He was unusually bright mentally and strong physically, and had completed the course in chemical engineering, which made him adapt able to some of the most important forms of in dustrial work. The oculists were able to supply glasses which corrected his vision so that with this aid it was almost normal, but when I sent him to one of our captains of industry with a letter of recommendation, the answer came, back that he had been put through an eye-test with out his glasses and rejected because of the possi ble risk of injury to his person which might ensue from his movements among the machin ery of the plant. When the war brought on a shortage of labor, however, this young man found employers who were eager for his services and he is now occupying a responsible position in one of the largest establishments of the country. The other case was that of a young man who when a child had been run over by a train, with the loss of both of his legs above the knees. He came into my office wearing artificial legs, which did not seen to fit him any too well, and walking more or less laboriously with a cane. He was just the kind of applicant whose physical appearance would cause nine men out of ten to tell him they had nothing for him to do, and yet he had in him a human heart, an intelligent brain, and a rightful ambition to suc ceed in life. I had no place for him but I kept him going the rounds until finally in this same shortage of labor he found employment as an engraver's apprentice, and he is now learning that trade. I have described these two cases because they illustrate a common attitude of employers toward the defective members of our race. It calls up Burn's piteous line, "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn." We are now face to face with the necessity of furn ishing immediate employment to increasing numbers of maimed and wounded soldiers who have had their bodies more or less destroyed as they have rushed into the war to defend their country. If my two young friends, the one with his defective vision, the other with his legless trunk, could be absorbed so easily in useful work, why is it not just as reasonable to call upon the employers of labor in every avenue of human industry to take their share of this de fective soldier labor and apply and develop it as far as it will go in each case? If the output is not up to the standard let the pay be so much for so much. But when your son when my son comes home with his body shattered in the hell and death of battle, let him never go beg ging for a job. Let the job be ready for him so many jobs for so many shattered men at so many shops, all the time. We must not reject them in an arrogant exercise of power, we must not debase them by the proffer of charitywe must give them the job. The maximum age limit must go. It has no right of existence in human society, and the old policy of rejecting all applicants except those who are physically perfect must give way to that higher sense of human responsibility where by every employer of labor must find himself face to face with the age-long cry of conscience that he is not the selfish master of the little field in which he finds himself for a short mo ment in charge, but that he is, indeed, that higher sympathetic and reciprocal being whose honorable relation to the business life of Ameri ca finds its full interpretation in the old phrase, "My brother's keeper." The Whole Truth A fine and generous tribute was the one re ported as having been paid by Marshal joffre to the United States in a recent conversation with a visitor from New York. He did not say, of course, that we had "won the war," as is sometimes said by our more thoughtless pa triots, but he did say that "it was the weight of America, her moral and material resources, and, surely not least, her very considerable army, thrown into the balance at the crucial moment, that turned the scales and won the victory." That is the exact truth, and its assertion in no degree detracts from the honor due to the nations that had been fighting so long and so heroically when we entered the great conflict. The weight we threw into the scale at the crucial moment would not have turned the scale if the scale had been less delicately bal anced when we did it. That is what the more thoughtless patriots so often forget and what some others who are neither thoughtless nor patriotic deliberately ignore. The American soldiers went fresh and eager to the battle lines, and naturally and inevitably there was a difference between them and the men who from three years and more of war had learned all about the difficulties and perils to be encountered there. It was not a difference of courage, however, and it is the everlasting glory of the Americans that after brief training from the veterans of England and France they equaled the achievements of the world's best and noblest soldiers. The victory followed, and promptly. . t In one sense the added weight won that victory, but in another sense, more nearly exact, the winning was done by all who participated in the Great Adventure, and certainly not less by those who were in it from the start than by those whose arrival was delayed by distance and circumstances. New York Times. Pershing's Politics. ' Middle west talk of General Pershing as the republican candidate for president in I920 cre ates little stir in Washington, because no one seems to know what the general's politics are, if he has any. The Washington Post says: "So far as known General Pershing never cast a vote in his life, which makes it a trifle difficult to get a line on his politics." The Post notes that he was born in the democratic atmosphere of Linn county, Missouri, in a congressional dis trict represented by a democrat. "All this is circumstantial evidence, but it is the best light obtainable on the subject in the absence of a definite statement from the onrl v,imi r t, from someone competent to speak for Kim." Right in the Spotlight David Lloyd George, whose po litical future is at stake in today's general elections in Great Britain, has just rounded out his second year in the premiership, to which he was called at one of the most critical stages of the war. Lloyd George, as he is popularly known, is the idol of British democracy. His ex treme radicalism has made him at times "one of the most hated men of England," particularly among the aristocracy, but on more numerous occasions he has loomed up as "the man of the hour." He is pre eminently the British government's man of r'push and go," energetic, determined and fearless. Though a little man, almost frail in physique, he has been such a successful fighter that he scarcely knows the meaning of defeat. A Welshman by blood, he knew the meaning of extreme pov erty in his youth and received only a limited education. His public career began with his election to Parliament when 27 years old. One Year Ago Today in the War. General Kaledine, leader of the Don Cossacks, reported to be under arrest. House naval affairs committee at Washington ordered an investiga tion into the Navy department's conduct of the war. Secretary Daniels announced the forming of an allied naval council, including representatives of Eng land, France, the United States, Italy and Japan. In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. Beach & Bowers' minstrels gave a real old-fashioned burnt cork per formance at the Boyd. Detective Dempsey has been pre sented with a life sized crayon of himself, made by Albert Rothery. Franklin S. Smith, for 12 years identified with the elite musical cir cles of Omaha, is going on the road as salesman for Max Meyer & Bros.' piano establishment. A man named Hansen, working at Editorial Snapshots Petrograd The puor hopelessly Twenty- the distillery, was gored by a steer and taken to his home at Sixth and Pierce. Cigarmakers are projecting a campaign to boost made-in-Omaha smokes. The Baltimore & Ohio is advertis ing "the only vestibuled train from Chicago to Washington." The Day We Celebrate. Preston B. Myers of the Myers Dillon Drug company, born. 1869. Ashley H. Robertson, recently promoted to be a rear admiral of the United States navy, born in Illi nois, 51 years ago. Brig. Gen. Charles G. Long of the United States marine corps, born in Massachusetts, 49 years ago. Prince Albert, second son of King George, bom 23 years ago. TheDrexelKid Says: "Any kid's dad that don't buy Steel Shods for his kid is only cheatin' him self. My dad says so." SATURDAY IS BOYS' DAY AT DREXEL'S On Saturday, when the boys are out of school, we give them the preference. Yon will be served promptly if you buy STEEL HOD HOES for your boy tomorrow. One pair of these shoes will out wear two pairs of ordinary boys' shoes. Boya' aizes 1 to S $3.25 Little Men't 9 to 13 H $2.75 DrexelShoeCo. 1419 Far nam St. Mail orders solicited. Parcel post paid. MOVING PACKING STORAGE Thoroughly equipped in every department. We are able to offer you the most efficient service at reasonable charges. Omaha Van & Storage Co. Phone Douglaa 4163. 806 So. 16th St Brooklyn Eagle: In regard to the railroads, the .president himself is at sea. 1 'Detroit Free Tross: again is in death throes, nine-lived cat has hppn outdone by the Russian capital In me last two years. Baltimore American: three million five hundred thousand dollars a month has been demanded from the German commission for the British and French troops of occu pation. The Germans, who inflicted such heavy fines and taxes upon the Belgian people, will now have a dose of their own medicine. Kansas City Star: The German newspapers express great indigna tion over the application of the terms of the armistice, and insist that the nation should "protest" against it. Apparently, the German newspapers had the idea that the terms of the armistice would be ap plied to suit Germany. New York World: Great Britain wants $40,000,000,000 indemnity from Germany, France may ask $65,000,000,000. Belgium and Serbia are more modestly expectant. As the total wealth of Germany, before the war hit It, was about $80,000, 000,000, some claimants may shade their demands. New York World: The apparent slight to the shipload of wounded men, who had been on the battle front, is easily explained The city had been forewarned about the ar rival of the hale and hearty soldiers from the training camps abroad, and so were ' prepared to cheer. But they had no information about the veterans of a hundred fights, who thus came into port in silence. All will be made right in time, however. Brooklyn Fagle: Postmaster General Burleson's report empha sizes his views in favor of govern ment control, permanent govern ment control of telephone, telegraph and cable systems. He goes farther. He wants "a government monopoly over all utilities for the transmission of intelligence" and asks that "steps be taken to make these utilities a part of the postal establishment." His language is very radical or badly chosen. Distinctly, a newspaper is a "utility for the transmission of in telligence." Does the Texan want to control all the newspapers from his Washington office? Does ho want to edit them all? Would he be satisfied to name the editors and tell them what they might say? Any one of these theories may be held without absurd misconstruction of his words. Accuracy in dialectics is not the long suit of Lone Star statesmen. NOT Out of the Ordinary Steamship Adonis, one of the Dutch freighters taken over by the American government, brought to Boston Friday 4,867.040 pounds of raw sugar. America's Answer, a war moving picture, has aroused such enthusias tic pro-American demonstrations at The Hague that the Dutch police were obliged to stop the perform ance. A new trial was awarded to a con demned murderer at St. Albans, Vt., because a Juryman had made a bet on the outcome of the case before he was drawn for duty. The California food administrator tells a story of a sheep herder in an isolated district in northern Califor nia who walked 20 miles to return some sugar when he found he had overdrawn his allotment. Mrs. Elizabeth Norris of New castle, Pa., to express her apprecia tion of the service of three Newcas tle boys. Invalided home 'from France, wounded, has given them checks for $100 each. The wife of an army officer living in Portland, Ore., didn't like the idea of paying a dozen dollars for a pair of pumps. So she Is wearing shoes made of wood, with black enamel finish. They look like patent leath er and wear like pig iron, and the lady says she is well pleased. When a tank car filled with 8,000 gallons of molasses was upset near Telford, Pa., and the molasses began to run out, people came by scores, on foot, In carriages and by automo biles, and salvaged some hundreds of gallons of molasses before the railroad men plugged the opening and left dozens of disappointed ones waiting to get at the outflow. 1X8 Ballads of the Day;?) PLAYER ROl Sentimental selections and love songs of today. Por ular favorites with good music by well known artists. And 1,000 Other Rolls "What a Wonderful Mes sage From Home" - "Roses" "Who Do You Love?" 1513 Douglas St The Christmas Art and ; Music Store. "ftuiaea is OoodIfcAak ya . v ran; oxnofr orthfl i Jwmd aa the dead We have respect for those who are atill in the land of the living, and If you put us in charge of the necessary funeral ar rangements we will see to it that none of your money is uselessly expended. 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