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    THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919.
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The, Omaha Bee
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rOVVDKO BY EDWARD ROSE WATER
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A'traga elrcalittaa tor lha auath lubacribed and nai tt ar
r.. K Rami. ClrcnUUoa alanastr.
Subcrihera Wavinj tba city ahauM hava Tka Bta maitad
to them. Address changed aa often aa reqmated.
Omaha had a chafr big enough to hold him,
too.
A few more labels, and autos in Omaha will
resemble billboards.
No matter what the cause, so long as the
fin has flown, let us all rejoice. ' '
Real estate deals are of a volume that show
the faith of investors in Omaha property.
Colonel,iJfouse says the peace conference will
be harmonious. That ought to end the suspense.
No doubt whatever that "Sunny Holy" is a
fine place to be just "about this season of the
vear. v 1 J
Wonder if Thomas Nelson Page v revived
"The Colonel's Christmas" for the president's
New Year? .
Etjsel ford will tiave $150,000 a year, but he
may also live to envy the boy who went across
for $30 a'imonth.
The legislature's about to convene, biut no
one seems to have taken noteVf the fact out
tide the members-elect. '
Thank you, but there is no demand on the
part of the public for a second serving out of
the street car strike dish.
Brevets for the draft board members are
all right; these men deserve more recognition
than they hava been given.'
Ford stockholders divide a profit of 200 per
-ent, a fair proof that all the gain of the year
as. not turned ove r to the government.
England's peace jdelegates have been selected
from among men whose names indicate at least
the earnestness with which the Britishers are
joing into the business. -
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Where to get he money to meet , the in
creased pay demands of firemen and policemen
stilt is undecided. It, looks as if a heavier tax
mav yet have to be levied. ' '
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; Mary Garden, who doesn'care fdr Omaha,
is back from Paris with four new bracelets and
i new "sweetheart." .This may be accepted as
sign that Calli-Curci is going on a concert tour.
It seems the irony of fate to be shipwrecked
on the home shores after passing the dangers
of y,-boats and the war, and the boys on the
Northern Pacific will have something to say to
the'navy later on. V .
f' Cutting the city budget to fit the revenue is
... always in order. The time will come when the
abolition , of "trading points" will vanish and
the business of getting full value for ever dol
lar expended will be paramount.
. Poland is giving the inhabitants of Hunland
a little taste of their own medicine. The pro
ceeding may be a bit irregular, but when the
Germans are called upon to defend Berlin from
the Poles, it will give the socialists something to
do besides talk. - . ' '
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With a $150,000,000 shortage of revenues-as
against total expense, government operation of
railways by a democratic administration is
simply t method of layjng a colossal tax on
transportation and its enforced collection from
shippers and passengers. " v
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It's likewise nepotism when a democratic sec
retary oLstate gets his brother-in-law appointed
; United States district attorney or when a,n army
promotion goes to the brother-in-law of a cer
tain democratic Unitedt States senator in de
ference to his influence as a member of the mili-
" tary affairs committee, , . , ....
Great Britain also comes forward with the
record of the greatest cash "turn over" for a
single year In history of the realm. But, like
that of the United States, much of the stupen
dous and impressive total is due to the enhanced
prices of all commodities and not to an increase
in the volume of business.
Peddling Paper Stocks
THE WAY TO STOP NEPOTISM.
The hyphenated democratic organ continues
to harp on the continued out-cropping of odious
practice of nepotism in public office despite The
Bee's year in and year out agitation against it.
It seeks to delude its readers with the sugges
tion that nepotism would be stopped if only
The Bee would call on the newly-elected re
publican state ' officers to reconsider the an
nounced intention to install their own relatives
in certain appointive positions. The Hyphen
ated knows that there is just as much reason
and" just as much prospect of compliance and
no more, in a call on democrats offending in
this respect, as on republicans and if it believes
khat method is efficacious, it might start it by
calling its own democrats to account.
Incidentally we are reminded that The Bee's
anti-nepotism principle was embodied in the de
feated Omaha home-rule charter which its edi
tor once helped to frame. Reference o this
docurflent discloses the following prohibition
in it with appropriate penalty:
No person shall hereafter be appointed to
any position who bears a relationship of the
first degree with the officer xharged with the"
appointment of such employe or with the wife J
of such officer.
This might be made stronger by making it
apply also to "trades" by which twd officers ex-
change payroll jobs for relatives. Such a law,
however, would stop nepotism and stop it for
democrats and republicans alike. We hope to
see it written on the statute books of Nebraska
it would not be a bad move for our demo
cratic United States senator to propose the
same thing for the federal government, too, and
see if ke can't push it farther than he did his
munitions embargo bill. s
Guesswork is Always Dangerous.
Whatever may have been his motive, and we
will admit he had only public good in mind; our
city health commissioner got in bad when he
permitted his zeal to betray him into making
some sweeping statements reflecting on the
morality of Omaha. Men of science as a rule
are chary of advancing opinions to support
which they can not readily produce facts, while
conscientious public officials usually hesitate
over assertions affecting the interests of the peo
ple unless they are certain of their grounds.
Dr. Manning has offended against discretion in
both regards. His "estimates" as to the num
ber of lewd men and women in Omaha, the
prevalence of social disease, and the conniv
ance of hotel-keepers at moral obliquity, are of ,
value only -as would be similar guesses on the
part of any; but when they are made by the
health commissioner of the city of Omaha, they
take on an official character that makes them
dangerous- unless accuracy can be established.
He certainly would not tolerate such laxity in a
student of medicine under his tutelage, nor is
it conceivable that he is guilty of guesswork in
his private practice. This makes" it the more
amazing that he should allow himself-to in
dulge in probable exaggeration officially. Some
thing should be done to curb. a lot of loosely
wigging tongues around the city hall.
Colonels to the Rescue. Come.
Two of America's best known and well
beloved colonels have, with praiseworthy ardor,
,paced theriselves before and behind the presi
dent to guard him from any untoward effect of
present or prospective criticism. These are
Colonel House of Texas,, New York and th
unWerse, and Colonel "Jimham" Lewis of Wash
ington, London, New York, the boulevards,
Pennsylvania avenue and .Illinois. Colonel
House has just soothed the tiger of France and
quie'ted his threatening growl into a contented
purr, so we are informed by ."a member of the
American delegation"- can it be Creel,- thus,
modestly masking his identity while shedding
the effulgence of his perspicacity? And Colonel
Lewis has taken to task those temerarious sena
tors who have dared to stand for the constitu
tional rights of the senate and thf limitations
that sacred document places on the executive.
Here is consolation and encouragement for us
all. We are uplifted by the knowledge that at
home and abroad our national interests are so
well watched, and that-not only is Mr. Wilson
thus preserved fron possible embarrassment,
but that dangers a'"d difficulties are removed
from his path - by the vigilant and faithful
colonels, who watch both his front and rear
lines. The palladium of Liberty is secure while
these are on guard.
In preparing to go out of business on De
cember 31, the capital issues committee, a war
adjunct of the Treasury department, announces
a purpose to get legislation from congress cal
culated to impose a permanent restraint upon
the issue and sale of worthless securities.
This is an old national scandal and involves
particularly the mining states of the west. It
lias'become an' especially 'flourishing form of
thievery since the floating of the Liberty loans
among great numbers of people unused to in
vestments and easily persuaded to exchange
tlieir government security, 'as good as gold but
yielding only 4'4 per cent, for mining or other'
stock of no value whatever but represented as
certain to pay fabulous dividends and reach a
fabulous value. Xo small part of the heavy cur
rent sales of Liberty bonds on the stock ex
change is beTieved, to be due to the cashing in
bytht swindlers of the bonds won from these
swindles. ,, ' ;
Perhaps congress can do something to stamp
out this evil. But the states can do more. They
are 'primarily responsible. No certificate of
stock rerrresestiqg at worthless or fraudulent en
terprise ever finds its way to a victim for his
good money that has not'beea issued under the
seal of some state which has blindly or knowing
ly chartered the corporation issuing it.
, This is the root of the trouble. There is
somewhere a, sovereign state which has made it
self an accessory before the fact to tbe swindle.
And if the evil is to be done away with at all
effectively we must strike at this root of it It
is another case of power tending to centralize at
Washington from the neglect of states to make
effective their own powers or to perform their
owa obvious dirties and obligations. New York
WorJ4 . a '
Treatment of Returned Wounded. : ,
Royal C. Johnson, congressman from South
Dakota, 'who Jias recently returned from France,
where heserved as an officer in the American
Expeditionary-Force, has set on foot an in
quiry that, means a great deal to the people.
It has to do with the reception of'wounded sol
diers on return to this country. Senator Chani
fetrtain made the assertion last week that the
War department was as unready to care for the
returning soldier as it was to send(him across
at the start of the war. Many examples of this
lack of preparation have been afforded. While
a great deal has been said in regard to recon
struction work, and plans for rehabilitation of
the wounded, more essential matters were lost
sight of. ' It was quite as important that the
sick and wounded men should be 're
ceived at the port of debarkation with
such care as. would insure their comfort
at least. This has not been provided. The par
ticular cases cited by Lieutenant Johnson may
or may not be typical, but seem sufficiently flag
rant to justify his demand that'eareful inquiry
be made, and responsibility for the condition be
fixed.
The "weird women" at Washington appear
to be wastirig their, time in picketing the empty
White House. Mr'. Wilson did all he could to
secure the adoption, of the Susan B. Anthony
amendment" It would be more, to the point if
the insistent sisters were to give attention to
some of the senators -who voted against the
measure. For example, .the democratic senator
from Nebraska, whose vote would have carried
the day for suffrage, had it been cast that way.
The, republican party has been re-instated in
power in Nebraska because of popular disgust
and disttust of the democrats. The only way to
keep republicans' in - power, however, in this
.State is fof the" republicans occupying official
position to make good and thus rivet down the
confidence of the voters.', - . :.-. V
' According to advices from the court house,
Oniaha'i's to be deprived of its regular mid
winter sport'of wonderirfg what the grand jury
wiil do. Hont is to be called until next fall
Right in the Spotlight
Rt. Rev. Peter J. Muldoon, whose
ecclesiastical friend at the Vatican
are urging his appointment as arch
bishop of St. Paul to succeed the
late Archbishop Ireland, is the' pres
ent head of the Catholic diocese of
Rockford, 111. For many years
Bishop Muldoon was one of the
most popular parish priests in Chi
cago, where he numbered among his
friends many men of wide influence.
He is a Californian by birth, was
educated in Kentucky ;.nd ordair.cd
priest in 1886. In 1889 he became
chancellor of the Chicago arch
diocese and secretary to Archbishop
Quigley. In 1901 he was made aux
iliary bishop of Chicago and seven
years later was named bishop of
Rockford. Bishop Muldoon is an
able writer as well as an eloquent
speaker, and has long been looked
upon in church circles as a young
prelate with a brilliant future. t
One Year Ago Today in the War. ,
i Official report , of first United
States draft: Registrations, 9,586,
508; examined, 3,082,949; certified
for service, 1,057,363; called to col
ors, 687,000.. ' j
In Omaha 30 Years Ago Toay.
A telegram from Chicago says,
"Webber S. Seavey, chief of police
of Omaha, is here to study police
methods, more particularly the
methods used in regulating the
liquor traffic."
First prize in the fox terrier class
at the bench show was awarded to
"Lieut. Will Wright" for his dog
"Rags." (He is now Majon General
Wright, commanding a corps in
France.) Among the. mastiffs Rev.
Father Colaneri's "Major" was first.
County board elected W. J.
Mount chairman to succeed ','Dick"
O'Keefe and . re-elected William
Moran as clerk of the board.
Charles O'Keefe, riding on the
dummy to South Omaha, insisted on
pulling thefbell rope, in conse
quence of which. Brakeman : Frank
Curtiss broke a perfectly good lan
tern in hinting him with it over the
head.
Union Pacific announced a 'educ
tion in pay Of section hands on the
Nebraska division of 15 cents a day,
making the wages $1.40. In-'Coun-cil
Bluffs it remains at $1.25.,
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. L. S.' Fields," born 1886.
Rex H. Morehouse, born 1881.
Ex-Governor Franklin Murphy of
New Jersey, born at Jersey City 73
years ago.
Jmes, A. Tawney, former. Minne
'sota congressman, born near Get
tysburg, Pa., 64 years ago.
Lee S. Overman, United States
-enator from North Carolina, born
at Si.iisbury, N. C, 65 years ago.
Rear. Admiral Albert Ross, U. S.
N.retired, born at Clarion, Pa., 73
years ago. '
This Day in History.
1803-Douglas Jerrold, who wrote
"Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures,"
born in London. Died there June
8, 1857. ... ' n
' 1869 Commodore William D.
Salter, U. S, N the last survivor of
the crew of the famous Constitu
tion, died at Elizabeth, N. J. Born
in New York City in 1794.
1879 General U. S. Grant was
presented with the freedom of the
City of Dublin. t C
1894 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,
who established the first public kin
dergarten in the United States, d;ed
at Jamaica Plain, Mass. Born at
Billerica, Mass., in 1804.
1909 American battleship fleet
reached Suez on its tour around the
world. . '
, 1915 British empire observed a
day of prayer for the success of the
allied cause.
1916 Russians, and Austro-Gcr-mans
began great battle for,Czcr
nowitz. v
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
' Today 'is the 100th anniversary of
the birth . of Thpmas Hill Watts,
who served as governor of, Ala
bama during the latter years of the
civil war."
The RtlRev. Alexander MacDon
ald today celebrates the 10th anni
versary of his consecration as Ro
man Catholic bishop of Victoria,
B. C.
The Illinois State Poultry Show,
one of the largest exhibitions of its
kind in the middle west, opens to
daytat Carbondale. k
Storyette of the Day. .
There is at least one old colored
man in AccomaC, Va., who will not
be fooled on his Liberty bond;.
Our good old Accpmac county
friend of 'a long and honorable' life
told a visitor how some "sharp boy"
came around the "diggings" and firs
offered him $95 for his second Lib
erty bond. , ;
Said the old man:
"Whiffoah Ah'ifj gwine sell $100
of. good guvment money for $95?"
iWhereupon the visitor said:
' "'WeJH Ma Boone, here's going
you belter. Here's $102 for vour
first Liberty bond."
"An whaffoah you gwine gi! me
$102 of good money foah $100 of
good' money?" replied the darkey.
"Man, travel on, foh youh all's ar
fisted wid counterfeit money on
you." Wall Street Journal.
RIGHT TO .THE POINT. '
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Detroit Free' Press: Frau Cosima
Wagner is dead. She was one of
the most consistent haters of Ameri
ca lo all Germany.
Minneapolis Journal: The turkey
and the cranberries are at the top
notch, 'whiqfi is one way to "keep
the home buyers squirming." v
Washington Post:' "I have no an
nouncement to make except to say
that I know nothing about it." says
Champ Clark. ' Double negative!
New York World: The man who
sells Liberty bonds to get 300 per
cent dividends In the Goose Creek
radium mine is at least serving as
an : illuminating example to others
of the fact that one such is born
every minute.
Philadelphia Ledger: It will be
surprising if the German govern
ment once it is established, omits
to take over the Hohenzollern prop
erty. The value Is estimated at
more than two hundred billions a
sum which Germany would find very
handy Just now. j
Freedom of the Seas
From an Address by Viscount Grey.
The question of the league of nations seems
to become daily more important, not only for
itself, but because it is becoming more and more
clear that'the subject is most closely bound up
with a question sure to be of the greatest im
portance in our foreign affairs, that of our rela
tions with the United States of America. I see
no reason whatever why the na.val policies of
the United States and Great Britain should not
only not come into conflict, but should not be in
close co-operation and conciliation. This ought
to oe comparativefy easy, provided the peoples
are perfectly frank on both sides and do not let
misunderstandings grow up as to what each
means.
We hear fromthe United States that there
is a greatamount of talk about the freedom of
the seas, that President Wilson attaches great
importance to it, and that it is anticipated or
feared that it will create difficulties between
himself and our government. I think it a great
pity that so much has been said about the free
dom of the seas without its being defined. It is
quite true that there is a considerable prejudice
against the phrase in this country, greatly due,
I think, to the fact that it is believed fo be a
German phase. Now it is not a German phrase.
It is an American phrase. It was made in the
LTnited States; and the Germans adopted it,
and used it -4or their own purposes, in a sense
and with an intention to which we never could
have agreed. Therefore it has never become
very popular.
What we have to consider is what the United
States means, what President Wilson means,
by the phrase "freedom of the seas." ? Until he
defines it, until he comes to discuss it with ."ur
government, there is no need to anticipate that
there will be difficulty about agreement. What
does it mean? Does it mean freedom of the
seas in time of peace? If so, we agree. Where
ever the British navy has been in a position to
exercise influence and power on the seas in time
of peace, there it has exercised that influence im
partially, for the freedom of the seas for all na
tions, without distinction.
I think that even in the United States they
have some rule that foreign ships are not al
lowed to carry goods between United States
ports and the Philippines. Some other coun
tries have lad a rule of the same kind. Well,
we have never had a rule like that. We have
been more completely for the freedom of the
seas in rimes of peace than any other nation, and
however strong our navy has been we have
never varied in recent times on that point, and
we have used our sea power, however great it
has been, for impartial freedom of the seas; for
every other nation, just as much as for our
selves, in times of peace. I think we ought to
receive a little more recognition than we do
receive for the fact that we have never used
Britjsh naval power in time of peace to make
the use of the seas more easy for ourselves
without .making it at the same time more easy
for others on the same terms. (Cheers.)
If the question is one of freedom of the seas,
not in time of peace, but in time of war, I would
say this. The United States in this war has
taken, as we all know as we all most gratefully
recognize a part in th last two years of the
war without which we could not have had the
success which the allies have now won. You
cannot emphasize that too much or express too
much appreciation of it. Since the United States
entered the war the United States has not only
acquiesced in, but, as I believe, has most strong
ly co-operated in carrying out the blockade of
uermany. in the early stages of the war it was
not so. Our blockade could not have been near
ly so complete, because the United States raised
many questions about it. But in the later years
of the war the blockade was maHe complete with
the co-operation of, the United States, and with
out that bjockade success in the war could not
have been won. Indeed, without the blockade,
Germany might have won the war.
Now supposing you had this situation over
again. Supposing you had again to 'fight a war
like this against a Germany which had behaved
in the same way. It is impossible to suppose
that the United States is going to say that there
is to be no blockade. It is impossible that the
United States should now take up the line that it,
you had to deal with Germany over again the
blockade, which was an essential jf success,
should not be allowed. Why that would stulti
fy everything that they have done in this war. I
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Him. ii is ausuiuieiv lirtDOSSlDie. 1 fhinlr it
In the Wake o War
The Palace of .Versailles, where
tne peace conference is to meet, cost
isvu,uuv, uoo to build.
In the original copy of the com
ins peace treaty it will be signed in
the alphabetical order of the various
countries' names, but the copy for
eacn country will contain the name
of that country first.
"The large number of guns cap
tured by the British from the Ger
mans are to be shown in all the
towns of England. The most Im
posing array of them will be in Lon
don, in the great road leading from
the Admiralty to Buckingham pal
ace. There some 600 guns will be
on v,iew. . !
One reason why Germany and
Austria were able to keep going dur
ing the war, and that in spite of the
blockade, is that they haae a greater
acreage of forest than any other
European country except Russia.
Twenty-six acres out of each hun
dred of Germany's area are forest;
and Austria has even more, its for
est covering 32 acres of each hun
dred. These countries, therefore,
had plenty of raw material for pit
props, railway ties, trench timber
and duck boards, as well as for pa
per and explosives.
Versailles, where the most historic
meeting the world has ever known
is soon to take place, is one of the
show cities of France, and is more
frequented by foreigners than per
haps any other French city, not even
excepting Paris, for Versailles is a
great city for pleasure, and has been
so for hundreds of years. It is about
11 miles to the southwest of Paris
and is one of the most regularly
laid out towns of Europe, its streets
nearly all being very wide and
straight and at right angles to one
another. H is a town of avenues
and squares, both being lined with
elm trees.
really an insult to suggest that the United States
would in future advocate any course in a war
such as is inconsisent with the line they have
taken in this war. and that is one of complete
blockade of the offending nation. If that be so
do not welcome to this, that probably what is in
President WilsonVmind is that freedom of the
seas should be secured to any nation which ob
serves the covenant of a league of nations; "and
should be denied to any nation which breaks
the covenant of a league of nations? (Cheers.)
If that be so, then a league of nations is the so
lution of the whole question. (Renewed cheers.)
Freedom of the seas is bound up with the ques
tion of a league of nations, and cannot be dis
cussed apart from it. On those grounds I be
lieve there may be complete agreement between
the twocountries only if a league of nations be
formed, or if, when it is formed, it fails to per
form its obligations, then of course the peoples'
hands must be free.
But what I want to see is a league of nations'
formed, not to make rules of war, but to prevent
all war (cheers); formed to insist that when dis
putes arise between two' countries those dis
putes should be settled by some means other
than that of war. If one nation is willing to set
tle these disputes other than by war. as it would
be bound to do by covenant with the league of
nations, and another refuses, then the whole
league sides with the nation which is willing to'
settle against the one which is not
I do not see why this country should not ac
cept the formula that if a league of nations is
formed there is complete freedom of the seas,
so long as the covenants of the league are ob
served, but if the covenant of the league is
broken then there is no freedom of the seas,
and every means is used against the power
which has broken the covenant. (Cheers.)
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Foch's Military Commandents
1. Keep your eyes and ears ready and four
mouth in the safety-notch, for it is your soldier
ly duty to see and hear clearly, but as a rule you
should be heard mainly in the sentry challanges
or the charging cheer.
2. Obev orders first, and, if still alive, kick
afterward if you have been wronged.
3. Keep your arms and equipment clean and
in good order; treat your animals fairly and
kindly and your motor or other machine as
though it belonged to you and was the only one
in the world. Do not waste vour smmimiiinn
your gis, your food yohr time, nor your oppor
tunity. 4. Never try to fire an empty gun nor at an
empty trench, but when you shoot, shoot to kill,
ana rorget not mat at close quarters a bayonet
beat? a bullet. '
5. Tell the truth squarely, face the music,
and take yqur punishment like a man; for a good
soldie- won't lie, he doesn't sulk, and is no
squealer . ' ,
6. Be merciful to the women of ycmr.foe and
shame them not, for you are a man; pity and
shield the children in your captured terrTtory,
for yru were once a helpless child.
7. 3car in mind that the enemy is ' your
enem and the enemy of humanity until he is
killed or captured; then he is your dear brother
or fellow soldier beaten or ashamed, whom you
should no further humiliate.
8. Do your best to keep your head clear and
cool, your body clean and comfortable, and yohr
feet in good condition, for yon think with your
head, fight with your body, and march with your
feet.
9. ;Be of good cheer and high courage;,
shirk neither work nor danger; suffer in silence,
and cheer the comrades at your side with a
smile. v
10. Dread defeat, but not wounds; fear dis
honor, but not death, and die "game, and what
ever the task, remember the motto of the di
vision, "It Shall Be Done." Trench and'Camp.
..AIMED AT OMAHA.
fbrk News-Times: The skip row
order has been lifted In Omaha. It
was unnecessary from the first. A
skip feat rule would have beeir more
logical. "
Minneapolis Tribune: Omaha
claims to be the greatest club town
of its size in the, country. No ex
planation is offered as to why the
men do not gohome.
Hastings Tribune: That $5,000 fed
eral Job that ex-Mayor James DahJ
man chased proved to be nothing
but. a phantom. But that isn't the
first time that Mayor Jim chased a
wlll-o'-the-wisp.
(Kearney Hub: The newly ap
pointed chief state officer fop en
forcement of prohibition in Ne
braska, Gus Hyers of Lincoln, makes
public declaration that he will en
force the prohibition law to tne
limit But he will find Omaha the
hardest proposition of all, the most
urgent and the most dangerous.
Fremont Tribune: For men to
smash each other under the chin
until one is knocked Insensible is not
"ideal sport" as claimed by prize
fighting advocates, and if the next
legislature enacts a bill to permit
it it will regret the blunder. It is
not surprising that the proposed bill
is to come from South Omaha, the
slaughtering cetiter of the west. It
will not fit Nebraska. ,
Hastings .Tribune: That Omaha
wife who brought suit for divorce J
against her husband because he
i kissed another woman two months
after he had said "I do" no doubt
was a little late. about making the
discovery. The average Omahan is
so fond of osculation that he seldom
waits two months after marriage
before he passes up his wife to kiss
a "peach."
LAUGHING GAS.
She Am I the first girl you ever kissed?
He Gosh, no! Wasn't I in France the
nav tne armistice waa signed? Stars and
stripea. j ,,
"Can't you give me something left from
.your last meal to eat. ma'am?" aaked the
tramp at the kitchen door.
"But, my man, you couldn't eat prune
pits,", aald the boarding house lady.
xonHera statesman.
licctnre to Laltorlng Men. 1
Seward, Neb., Dec. 22. To tho
Editor of The Bee: In looking over
The Bee's Letter Box. I noticed an
article written by J. J. Clark, 3150
Jackson street, Omaha. -Mr. Cliirk
heads his article by asking "Who are
tho public?" He seems to think that
the public does not Include the
laboring class, but that only they
who ride in automobiles are consid
ered to be the public.
I would ask Mr. Clark who was to
blame for the street car strike. You
sav you had to walk. Those of the
public whom you encountered were
heart' and soul with the strikers.
Mr. Clark, you b-ve no cause to com
plain; you upheld the carmen in the
striking, if you and other laboring
people had to walk four or five miles
to your work. You should take your
medicine the same as the rest of the
peonle had to" for nine days.
Wlmt did they strike for? What
was -their grievance? wny were
they not willing to arbitrate their
differences with the street car com
pany? The company was willing to
do this. But President Short of the
cnrrnen's union Is quoted as saying:
"We're going to win this strike. We
are not willing to submit this case
to arbitration, and if soldiers are
sent here, we are not afraid of them;
they won't fire on laboring men."
Now dear th's sounds to law-abid
ing fitizens. Doesn't this sort of
talk sound like "might makes
right?" Did they strike for higher
wages? No: they seemed to bo sat
isfied with their was-es. Then what
did they want? They wanted to
force the comnany to recognize their
union. Mr. Clark, do you think this
Is right? Do you think it is right
to place pickets around the com
pany property? By so doing you de
prive those men of their constitu
tional rights, as free American, citi
zens. Under our laws they have a
right to hire whom they please and
discharge whom they please. The
laboring man has the same rights
before the-law. He doesn't have to
work for any man against his will.
Now, I believe the laboring men
ha-e a right to organize for their
own interest and protection atrainst
greed and unfair treatment. But I
don't believe in the methods that
the unions use. I don't believe in
using force for this is the rule that
Germany used in Belgium and
France: "that rn'ht makes right."
This is what our hoys are fighting
against, and fighting against the
union Is wrong when they place a
premium on the lazy shirkers who
belong to the union. They tell the
employer that he must pay this man
as much wages as the man who
makes good. If he discharges this
man. the union will call a strike un
til the lazy man Is reinstated. Is
there true Justice Ui this?
Now I want to say in conclusion
that I am a friend of the laboring
man, and when I say this I mean
the man who gives value received
for the wages he receives from his
employer. But I have nothing hut
contempt for the lazy shirker. Now
want to say to Mr. Clark and all
other men who belong to a union.
that if you want to keep public sen
timent with you, you must keep
within the law: you must be willing
to arbitrate your - grievances: you
must get rid of those hot-headed ag
itators and put cool-headed men
with good judgment in their places.
Public sentiment is always with the
laboring man when he has a lust
cause. M. SI. CAMPION.
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nospe 5ay5-"
Ultimately
you will choose tit.
the world's finest
piano bar nonex
out wny fr-r
lose time. wny .
delay ( wn
it tvowf"
you brought your
Husband "Have
opera glass?"
She "Yes, but I can not use it."
Husband "Why not?"
She "I have left my bracelets at home.'
London Opinion.
"Do they really prefer the army mule
io motors t
"Sure, motor engines go dead some.
times, but whomever saw a dead mule?
Baltimore American.
say when hs
words,
"What did your father
roke his pipe, Walter?"
Shall I leave out the wicked
Bother?"
"Why, certanly, dear."
"Then ,1 don't believe there Is anything
to tell you, mother." Harper's Magazine.
"The worst part of the war Is over"
remarked the paper strategist
'So you think." returned the Gentle
Reader, "that the German towns and
rivers won t be so hard to pronounce as
ifce French ones?" Life.
ICELAND, NOT IRELAND.
I read It In the printed line
A' least. I thought so, sure.
Ah I wlrra! these old eyes of mine
Are growing mighty poor.
"Autonomy for Ireland,"
It seemed the paper said,
Autonomy for Ireland!"
It turned me poor old head.
But when I took another look
Me oath 'ud break a Bishop's 'crook!
"Autonomy for Iceland"
Sure, that was what t read.
Of course I was the dlvlrs fool
To think that thev. thn
Would let old Erin have Home Rule;
But could I doubt me eyes?
"Autonomy for Ireland!"
V l danced a Kerry, reel!
"Autonomy for Ireland!"
And then I thought I'd kneel.
But once again I read the word
And then me curse ye could have heard!
"Autonomy for Iceland"
I ground It with me heel!
Me tired old heart awoke and lepped.
As young love leaps at dawn.
Says I, -'And have the English kept
Their promise, colleen bawn?"
"Autonomy for Ireland!"
The sun laughed In the sky.
"Autonomy for Ireland!"
I saw a green flag fly!
But .as I cried. "At last, O Fin!"
i saw how blind I must have been.
, "Autonomy for Iceland"
And one more dream's gone by!
-fJOHN O'KEEFE, In N. T. World.
Boys of the Civil War.
Manley, Neb., Dec. 27. To the
Editor of The Bee: In The Bee of
December 28; it was with some
amusement- that I read Uhe letter
Bigneo -Anotner Mother." t am an
old soldier of three years' service in
the great civil war that raged for
four long years. Her first complaint
is that there shall be no more pro
motions. That surely brought a
smile to the old veteran of the long
ago sixties. We boys of the blue
never thought of such a thing as
that. Our term of service had ex
pired when the war closed, and what
we wanted , was home with mother
nnd father and friends. I cannot see
how he could have spent so much
time in the trenches and go to
school, and get no pay. I cannot
see how he could write home such
bitter letters. In all myNthree years'
service I never wrote home a bitter
letter.
We were always busy, and never
drew a dollar pay the last
nine months we were in the service,
nor got it when we were dis
charged: and I never heard one
word of complaint from the boys J
about not, getting it. If we were In
need of a little money, all we had
to do was to write home for it and
we soon got it. We expected to be
fed and clothed by the government,
and generally we were never disap
pointed. We got our hard-tack, got
our meat and coffee and took 4t
without complaint We never
heard of a Red Cross or K. C. or
Y. M. C. A. If we needed anything,
we had plenty of friends to send us
what we needed. We had nights
without sleep and 10 days , and
nights without a chance to change
clothes. Why. dear me, I have gone
weeks without a change, but when
we would stop to rest (as we did
some marching) we would wash
what clothes we could in some river
or creek nearby and hang them on
some bush to dry, and then take a
plunge if not too cold.
When I went into the service I
was but 19 years old and 80 per
cent , of my company and Regiment
were under 21 yearv We went into
the service pure and clean boys,
and those who were spared to come
home came home the same kind of
boys, and we did not need a V. D.
pamphlet No. 24 as sent out a few
days ago from the U. S. P. H. S. of
228 First street, Washington, D. C.
Such, I know, we did not need and
our people at home knew we did not
need. Now to close, I will say with
out fear of .contradiction that the
boys of the blue and the boys of the
grey made one of the greatest armies
the world had seen or ever will see.
W. B. ESSICK, Civil War Veteran.
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