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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEK: JANUARY 5, 1919.
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Daily 69,418 Sunday 63,095
Subscribers Uaviai tho city should bovo Tho Be moiled
to mow. Addroot changed a often oa requested.
Old Boreas still laughs at the weather man.
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- Mr. Wilson again lifted his glass at Rome.
Me may contract the habit.
.. A peace commission might find something
to do at the Omaha city hall.
We can think of a better use for a wash
tub than to contain a "signal fire."
Price of radiators has been cut, but most
folks are concerned over their heating capacity
iust now.
Even yet no excitement has developed over
the fact that the legislature is to meet on Tuesday.
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The question of control of prices for gas
has been put over for a month, but the meters
will click right along.
The call of the ice field is quite as loud as
that of any of the other justly celebrated and
well known fields just now.
Now let the company and the men get to
gether, adjust matters on the basis of the award
and givevthe citizens better service.
Semenoff says he would ' welcome United
States troops to Siberia, a fact easy to under
stand, for it weuld enable him to let go.
"Huns last!" is the order on food distribu
tion, and to this the world will say amen. Had
it not been for the Hun famine would not exist.
The coal man is not worried just now over
what to do with that surplus stock. If this
weather keeps on he will be even on his life by
April 1.
The Germans are turning over airplanes to
the Americans at a rate that promises to supply
our army with Fokkers, even if the home outout
Xdid fall short.
L-t As suggested by The Bee some weeks ago,
peace comes first on the program, and then a
league of nations. This is caring for the busi
ness in proper order.
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The president made the journey from the
Quirinal to the Vatican with such ease as sug
gests the hope the way may be cleared yet for
fcuch a trip by others.
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When the city commissioners finally got the
;Y udget adjusted it left a little balance of $14t,000
lannronriated. but do not worrv a nlace will
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i ' i Mr. McAdoo fears the railroads will be
" 5 fought into politics if his plan for a five-year
t yxtension of control is not continued. One is
cj pardoned for wondering where the roads have
vjy jcen for the last forty years.
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I V Mr. Wilson has been made a citizen of
V f,f lome, which, added to the honors conferred on
j", at rans, Mancnesrer, uuonn ana otner
h1 i yes, will give him some distinction, but he
n ; A probably continue to cast his vote in New
f ;rsey.
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The blessed bolshevik is spreading light and
V teace among the peasants of Galicia now, ac-
junts saying the reds are murdering, robbing
lJ "d burning at thev oass. Atilla's hordes never
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Vj Vpassed the outfit that does homage to
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f uF.rty-four farmers out of a total of 100
pjjnberi in the lower house of the Nebraska
I slature ought to ensure proper care for the
fijL I .rests of agriculture. One banker is listed
1 1 ng the members, and the question is how
I 'UJie get there?
ill the
bovs were finally removed from the
HJjhern Pacific, and the boat can remain on
tlielsandbar Indefinitely now. The shipwreck
and rescue provided an extra thrill for the sol
diers, most of whom had had enough of it be
fore they started for home.
Selling Utility Service
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American public utilities with few excep
tions have been fairly well organized to produce
service, but are amazingly unprepared to sell it.
Controlled almost wholly by financiers, lawyers
and engineers, the American utility group, rep
resenting approximately $10,000,000,000 of in
vested capital has tried to do business without
advertising. It has left the public it serves
Ignorant of the value, cost and fair price of
what it has to sell t .
It has permitted its political, assailants to do
99 per cent of its advertising. The daily papers
with singular want of self-interest, instead of
- teaching the utilities how to advertise usefully
, and intelligently, have lent their columns freely
to the adverse and destructive advertising gjven
the utilities by theorists who never put a nickel
into the public service and knew nothing of it,
; anil by shrewd political freebooters who used
' this means of retaining public office.
As a result the public in most American cit-
jiaturally fair and just when it knows the
appears to believe that a i-cent cartare
ensatory when bread sold at S cents a loaf
itirter at 30 cents a oound is still comoen-
Iry with bread at 10 cents and butter at 75
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It is not yet too late to apply modern mer-
dising methods to the public utility bast
, It is socially desirable that this be done
;at the business area subjected to wasteful,
whtaionary, incompetent political mismanage-
. tacM be no enlarged. It can be done only if
tl s?vef9 ot the 'Utilities will without loss of
hnt unlace merchants in charge of their orooer-
is abitith instructions to inform the public thor
I one wi through liberal and persistent advertis
1 1 - . the nature, scope, value, cost and fair
t fvt. her services. Frank Putnam in Public
WHERE IS THE LIMIT?
Congressman Green's criticism of the pro
gram looking to indefinite retention of Amer
ican forces in Europe for police duty brings up
the question of the limit to our responsibility
in this direction. When we entered the war it
was with an understanding that we would see
it to an end. After we got in conditions
changed somewhat, especially when we encour
aged the German people to overthrow their gov
ernment in favor of a more democratic form.
Did we then assume anything of an obligatory
duty to stand by until the new government was
on its feet? And how far are we bound to as
sist in the setting up of stable governments for
the new nations that are coming out of the
chaos into which European geography and pol
itics have been merged? Can we retire before
the Slovakian republic, Poland, Russia and the
other countries are on their way to prosperity,
with social and political institutions on a stable
basis?
These questions must have an answer. Mr.
Wilson said at Manchester that we have no con
cern in European politics as such. To this all
will agree, and for that reason it would seem
that we are not obligated to maintain order in
definitely over there. It would be convenient,
and in a sentimental sense desirable, that we
police Germany and other places needing over
sight until the people are ready to behave them
selves and go it alone in managing their own
affairs. We would thus relieve the established
governments of Europe of a duty that is both
costly and distasteful.
Our philanthropic impulse may nof carry
us that far. The young men who will be held
in the army service in Europe are needed at
home; the preservation of order over there im
plies some sort of responsibility for the future
as well as the present, and we are not ready to
assume over the affairs of any European coun
try such guardianship as we hold over Cuba.
Our experimental plunge into Europe's dis
putes shows a steadily widening vista, and it
may be well to determine just' how far we are
going in that direction.
Europe's "Hunger Map."
The statement made by Herbert Hoover at
Paris on food conditions in Europe gives the
situation a most serious aspect. More than
125,000,000 people face starvation, and must be
relieved for at least six months. Most of these
have no means wherewith to buy food, so it
must be given without charge or sold on credit.
Co-operation between the existing governments
of Europe, with aid from the United States, will
relieve this situation as far as possible, but
many must inevitably perish because of the
lack of transport. Huge quantities of food sup
plies are now piled up at Adriatic ports await
ing arrangements for distribution, these being
delayed by shortage of transportaiton and lack
of means for giving out the relief. Here is the
saddest picture of all the war, because the suf
fering mostly falls on the innocent and help
less. America must assume the big job not
only of providing the food, but sustaining the
credit that must be extended the new nations
and those that are destitute. Europe's "hunger
map" is of more importance than any political
map in the world right now.
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Felicitations and Facts.
President Wilson and King Victor Emman
uel exchanged felicitations at the Quirinal in a
way that bodes good for the continuance of re
lations between . the nations on an amicable
basis. But remember that for the moment
Italy presents the most acute phase of the com
ing peace conference. That country entered
the war on the terms of a convention ratified
at London in 1915, under which certain pledges
were made by Russia, England and France that
will be now redeemed only with extreme diffi
culty. These refer to Italia Irredenta. At the
time, before the dismemberment of the Austrian
empire, it looked feasible to favorably regard
the Italian claims on the Adriatic. A new ele
ment was injected when France first, and later
other belligerents, including the United States,
recognized the national aspirations of the Jugo
slavs. These proposed a union that will in
clude Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegr'o and Dalma
tia, with some disposition yet to be made of
Albania. Italy has made claim for a large por
tion of Dalmatia, under the secret agreement
made with its allies. Against this the Jugo
slavs vehemently protest and a feeling of bit
terness has come about that will not be easily
turned to harmony. As we have given some
thing of a promise to the one side, and are
bound by friendly ties to the other, our position
at the great conference is not going to be so
easy as might appear from the exchange of
compliments between the leaders.
Nebraska a Manufacturing State.
Considering Nebraska as an exclusively ag
ricultural state is due to the fact that stress is
placed on the crop output, because that is the
state's chief source of wealth. However, the
report of the state labor bureau will give a
pleasant surprise to many who are not familiar
with the facts. Detailed reports are given for
the year 1917 covering 1,449 manufacturing es
tablishments, in which4 were employed 29,842
hands, to whom were paid wages amounting to
$23,664,640.72, an average weekly wage of $17.82.
Capital invested is returned at $84,619,764.88;
value of stock used, $269,876,144.94, and value
of product $541,495,184.75. The report also sets
out that 67 per cent of the output of the state's
factories was consumed within the state. While
the figures for 1918 are not given, they will
probably sustain the showing made for the pre
ceding year, although the incident of the war
disturbed conditions to some extent.
The report of the compensation bureau
shows that for ten months of 1918, from Jan
uary 1 to October 31, cases of industrial acci
dent, in which effect of the injury continued for
more than one week, were 2,126, for which $90,
967.48 was paid in compensation, an average of
$42.31 per case. For Injuries lasting less than
one week 4,927 cases were reported, and $14,
311.58 was paid for hospital or medical atten
tion, the average per case being $2.90. A total
of 18,954 days of work were lost on account of
accident
These figures indicate that Nebraska has a
considerable manufacturing interest, and that
the people of the state are patriotic in the mat
ter of buying home-made goods.
Officers who have made good in service are
to have a chance to remain in the army under
reorganization plans, saya General March. This
is wisdom, and congress should recognize it
One Year Ago Today in the War.
Lloyd George restated the British
war aims to be the restoration with
reparation for Belgium, France,
Serbia and other occupied countries,
reconsideration of the Alsace-Lorraine
question, and the passing of
Arabia, Armenia, Mesopotamia,
Syria, and Palestine from the hands
of the Turks.
In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Kolteier
celebrated their silver wedding anni
versary at their residence on North
Twenty-third street with friends,
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music ana reiresnmenis.
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six-day bicycle race at the Coliseum.
Among the entries are Frank
Dingley, Jack Prince, "Senator"
Morgan, Tom Eck, Charlie Ash
inger, and Mile. Armando.
Charles Fanning, George Canfield
and Chstrles M. Kosters are at Hot
Springs.
The Third Congregational church
has issued a call to Rev. Dr. W. A.
Thain of Galesbtirg, 111.
"The Omaha Watchman"died with
the old year and in the future "the
Omaha Mercury" will take its place.
Jack Crooks says he won't play
ball any more. He's in the mail ser
vice and declares he'll stay there.
Harry Morford has decided to
join the regular army.
This Day in History.
The Day We Celebrate.
Maj. Gen. Frank Mclntyre, U. S.
A., chief assistant to General March,
chief of staff, born at Montgomery,
Ala., 54 years ago.
Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, U.
S. A., who commanded the Eight
ieth division of the national army
in France, born in New York, 58
years ago.
Rudolf Eucken, writer and philo
sopher winner of the Nobel prize
for literature in 1908, born in Ost
friesland, 73 years ago.
Asbury F. Lever, representative
in congress of the seventh South
Carolina district, born at Spring
field, S. C, 44 years ago.
Rev. Olympia Brown, pioneer re
former and equal suffrage advocate,
born at Prairie Ronde, Mich., 84
years ago.
William Bennett Munro, profes
sor of municipal government in
Harvard university, born in Ontario,
44 years ago.
This Day in History.
1757 Damien's attempt on the
life of Louis XV of France.
1806 Lord Nelson's body lay in
state at Greenwich hospital.
1858 Johann Joseph Radetzky, a
famous field marshal in the Austrian
service, died at Milan. Borfl in Bo
hemia in 1766.
' 1872 Overland mail first traveled
through the Mont Cenis tunnel.
1881 International Sanitary con
ference met in Washington, D. C.
1890 British government de
manded the immediate recall of the
Portuguese forces from the British
sphere in Africa.
1896 Cecil Rhodes resigned the
premiership of Cape Colony.
1915 United States settled its
own protest on detention of cargoes
by the British by certifying ship
ments. 1916 j-Austrians admitted partial
withdrawal from Czernowitz.
1917 Russian offensive spread to
sector between Baltic coast and
Tiga-Mitan road.
Timely Jottings and Reminders.
The week beginning today has
been designated as a week of prayer
by the Federal Council of Christ in
America.
The Methodist churches through
out the world have designated the
week beginning today for observ
ance as "Mobilization Week."
Owing to the live problems slated
for discussion, the 16th annual con
vention of the Federation of Zionist
societies of Canada, which is to be
gin its sessions today at Toronto, is
expected to be the largest and most
important convention ever held by
that organization.
Storyettes of the Day.
Former Secretary McAdoo told at
a Washington luncheon a loan story.
"A pastor in a New Jersey vil
lage," he said, "devoted a half h6ur
one prayer meeting night to a loan
appeal. His appeal was forcible.
It even touched the rich old deacon,
who hadn't subscribed to the loan
hitherto on the ground that he could
get a better rate of interest else
where. "'I'll take $50,' announced the
deacon solemnly from his pew.
"Then, as he sat down, a piece of
plaster fell from the ceiling, striking
him a pretty hard blow on the head.
He rose again hurriedly. He had a
scared, awed look.
" 'I mean $500,' he said.
"Then Brother Jimmy Connor
shouted lustily from the amen cor
ner: i
"0 Lord, hit him again!"
At an engineer's shop in the east
the proprietor had one man upon
whom he could rely for being punc
tual to his time. Just recently he
has fallen from his habit and on sev
eral occasions has been late.
He was behind time a few morn
ings ago and the proprietor called
him into the office.
"Can't you manage to get here at
your time, James, as you used to
do?" he said.
"I can't sleep at nights, now. sir,
and it makes me late sometimes, but
I will try and alter it," replied the
man.
4 "If it is sleeplessness you suffer
from, James, why don't you consult
a doctor and find out the cause?"
"Oh, I know the cause, sir; it Is
six weeks old." Chicago News.
When the Boys Come Home.
New York World: The Pennsyl
vania railroad is preparing to give
their old jobs or jobs equally good to
its 24,712 employes who were fur-loughe-1
for military service. That
is a pretty big army corps of lUelf.
But the essential fact is the prece
dent set by this great railroad not
only for other railroads, but for all
companies whose employes went to
the war Jn large numbers, and on
whom the moral obligation rests ot
taking iaem back on the old terms.
Views and Reviews J2i!tts.
Something About the Diet by
Which Mr. Taft "Reduces'
The visit to Omaha disclosed ex-President
Taft in particularly good humor. He said he
always liked to come to Omaha, and said it in
a way convincing that he means it. At the
dinner in his honor at the Omaha club he re
peated the sentiment with assurance that he
was specially glad to be the guest of the club,
as he had been on various previous occasions,
and particularly this time that it was made an
event warranting the presence of the ladies in
a men's club.
"Such an achievement alone," he added, with
that characteristic chuckle, "is worth traveling
two nights and a ride on the Rock Island."',
By way of emphasis of appreciation a post
script added by Mr. Taffs secretary to the let
ter to me arranging the details of his entertain
ment is conclusive evidence. It reads:
"P. S. I remember the Omaha club dinners
very well and wish I were coming out with Mr.
Taft."
In physical appearance Mr. Taft is appar
ently in what would be called "the pink of con
dition." He is down to 176 pounds, which for
a man of his height and large frame 19 down
some. Naturally, nearly everyone meeting him
remarks on his "reduced" appearance, and he
talks abotitNit with an engaging frankness and
gives credit to the strict observance of a diet
which he, lawyer-like, distinguishes from the
observance of a strict diet.
"I'm looking forward to that dinner tonight,
and I'll do justice to it," he joked on his de
barkation from the train, "for in anticipation I
ate no lunch."
Afterwards at the dinner table, however, he
disclosed the fact that going without lunch is
part of the diet.
"I eat a fairly hearty breakfast," he ex
plained, "and my next real meal is the evening
dinner. I eat no sugar or sweets at all, and
meat never more than once a day. I do not
restrict myself on meats or fish at all except
that pofk and salmon have too fat-producing
qualities. I do not eat potatoes or starchy
foods. Oh, yes, there are a lot of good vegeta
bles I can have all the time. No, it's just an
inherited disposition to take on flesh that I
have to guard against. My boy. Robert, while
at Yale weighed 185 pounds, and I said to him,
"That's just about what I weighed when I was
at Yale so you can see exactly what is ahead
of you."
So Mr. Taft ate the oysters, the soup, the
meat, the asparagus salad, as they were served,
and without any left over on the plate, but
passed up the potatoes, the ice cream, the cake,
the supar in the coffee. After it was all over
he walked back to his hotel notwithstanding
the below-zero temperature, replying to an in
vitation to ride in a limousine, "No, thank you,
I want the exercise."
Here's one that produced a Taft chuckle!
When "Bill" Gurley was presented to "Bill"
Taft as the man who would present him for his
after-dinner address, he said:
"Well, Judge, I hope you won't feel like re
peating what another distinguished orator ex
claimed under similar circumstances 'From
our traducers and introducers, Good Lord de
liver us!' "
I note the death of a long-ago friend of my
college days, "Nick" Murray, who presided over
the library at Johns Hopkins university when
I was a student there. Probably not many
hereabouts know or have heard of him, but
there are a few. At first he was assistant to
William Hand Browne, who combined in him
self the duties of library director and professor
of English, teaching the English literature part
of the first year course listed as "P-H-E,"
the other legs of the triangle being the
study of physical geography and history.
A corresponding follow-up course was labeled
"L-E-P," which translated meant logic, ethics
and psychology. I remember President Gilman
once likening these combinations to the famil
iar railway abbreviations such as the B. & O.
or C. B. & Q., and calling them "our short cuts
to knowledge." But to get back to "Nick"
Murray, he was a veritable human cyclopedia
and compendium of book knowledge, or, rather,
knowledge about books, and was a great help
to all of us who had to "look up" things in the
vast accumulation of volumes in his care. He
was an uncle of President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia university, as is indicated
by the name. It is some years since I last saw
him, but he was always cordial in harking back
to the Johns Hopkins days.
Any Tongue Will Serve Now
Away back in the dark days of last February
there was printed an Associated Press dispatch
from Berlin that would make strange reading
if it were to come across the water now. It
was to the effect that the members of the
Deutcher Sprachverein, or German Language
association, had adooted a resolution earnestly
advising the chancellor to decree that when the
time came tot establish terms of peace all the
negotiations should be conducted in the German
language. Only in that tongue were the rep
resentatives of the vanouished nations to be
allowed to say what little they would have to
say when their fate was decided.
That proposal was highly characteristic, and
there is no reason for supposing that if the
Germans had won they would have seen noth
ing unreasonable in adopting it, though to have
done so might have had its practical inconveni
ences, even for the victors.
But February is long ago. Much more than
11 months have passed since then it is a whole
era that has elaosed. and now the Germans are
thinking not of how to emphasize a triumph
but of how to escape from a few of the con
sequences of utter defeat. They woujd accept
mercy, no matter in what language it might be
expressed. They are asking for it. too, in all
the languages they know and, to give them due
credit, thev know, and know well, not a few.
Yet their linguistic abilities did not save them
from misunderstanding all their neighbors, near
and remote. Their learning was a snare, as
learning often is when its possessors make
wrong use of it. New York Times.
People and Events
Washington could furnish enough swivel
chairs for the peace conference without missing
the number. t
A lawsuit over a horse's kick delivered in
1907 is going the rounds of Indiana courts, and
promises to rival the celebrated Iowa calf case.
Luckily the horse got his kick in first.
A 14-pound sweet tater graced the festive
board of Champ Clark around New Year's.
Sweetness long-drawn-out. Wonder if any of
it will keep until delegate time in 1920? ,
Lucas Godic, 93, and his wife, Mary. 84 years
old, of Chicago, passed away within a few hours
of each other and were buried together as the
old year dropped to the rear. Together they
traveled life's highway for 65 years. Death did
not divide them. ,
Old Doc Tanner, 87, the famous faster, is no
more. Gone with the waning hours of the old
year. Thirty odd years ago the doc. pulled off
his record fast of 40 days, although the neces
saries were reachable without an extension
ladder. A like stunt nowadays might command
as much publicity, with the added advantage of
saving treble the money.
Down New York way the authorities think
they have theater ticket scalpers driven into a
hot corner. A new ordinance requires a license
fee of $250 a year and limits the scalping price
to 50 cents a ticket. As a further safeguard the
regular price of admission must be printed on
the face of the ticket. . Transients in the big
town now will have some chance of seeing a
show without forking over, a Liberty bond,
Sioux City's packeries last year
paid out $182,500,000 for live stock.
The aggregate business of the stock
yards increased $62,600,000 over
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Chicago plans to make the Wash
burn school, where young men and
women have been trained to become
skilled machinists for war produc
tion, a permanent industrial prepar
atory institution.
Boston is considering plans for a
memorial to its heroes of the world
war. The plan most favored pro
vides for a white marble arch with
a span of 80 feet, to be erected at
the intersection of two streets near
the Common.
St. Louis and Kansas City street
railway companies last spring were
tickled by an extra cent fare grant
ed -by the state commission. The
6-cent fare came easy and whetted
appetite. Bath companies are now
hustling for 8-cent fares.
Chicago patrons of the postofllce
last year made a new high record
of money turned in for stamps and
things, the total rising to $32,677,
000, exclusive of money orders
which amounted to $379,040,000.
netting $152,691 In fees.
Kansas City lost Its light in the
state supreme court against 6-cent
fares. The most interesting point
in the adverse decision is that a city
may grant the use of its streets for
traction purposes, but may not reg
ulate the charge for such use.
Philadelphia lets go a roar against
the plan of the police authorities to
impose a tax on automobile owners
for the trouble of recovering stolen
cars. Some quizzical Quakers want
to know what police are for, any
how, if not to chase thieves and re
cover stolen property.
The Commercial club of Toledo
traces with painful exactitude the
progressive rise of the cost of gov
ernment in that city. In a circular
from the club's publicity bureau a
10-column table shows that revenues
of the city In 1906 averaged $13.74
per capita and in 1919 they will
amount to $20.63. The club Inti
mates the speed exceeds the bounds
of safety.
A colony of wealthy cottagers
near Oyster Bay, L. I., propose to
secede from the town and flock by
themselves municipally. The burg
mapped by the colonel Is all right
as towns go, but the Oyster Bay tax
gatherers exercise a reach and a
touch that Is painful in regularity.
As a consequence the plutes will try
out the Wilsonian policy of self-determination.
HERE AND THERE
Glasgow was the first city to intro
duce women drivers and guards on
its street railway system.
Wages of building trade workers
in Germany have doubled since the
period preceding the war.
, A surgical tourniquet has been
patented that is made of rubber tub
ing that can be Inflated by an air
pump to tighten it.
Iceland counts farming as one of
her leading industries. She excels
in sheep-raising and in dairying.
Iceland exports about $270,000 worth
of butter In a year.
A Bath, Me., man had a cow to
sell, but could get no better offer
than $76. So he chopped the cow
up and, collectively, she then
amounted to $150.
Nearly 30,000 women registered
with the Bridgeport (Conn.) office of
the employment service recently, as
the result of a lively advertising cam
paign to enlist women for industrial
employment.
The countries of the world In
which earthquakes are most frequent
are Italy, Japan, Greece, South
America (the Pacific Coast), Java,
Sicily and Asia Minor. The lands
most free from the convulsions are
Africa, Australia, Russia, Siberia,
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Why la an old beau like a man giving
the finishing touchea to hta costume?"
"Why, Indeed?"
''Because he la alwaya buttonholing tho
buds." Baltimore American.
Mias Prittlkld But, father, ho la a man
yon can trust.
Her Pa Gracloua, girl! What I want
la one I can borrow from. Indlanapolla
Star.
"Much bothered with trampa out your
way?"
"I waa until I tacked up a sign on my
gate."
"Ah I 'Beware the dog,' I aupposo."
"Oh, no. Simply 'Farm help wanted.' "
Boaton Transcript.
"Charley, dear," said young Mr. Tor
kins, "have you a minute to spare?"
"Yea."
"Well, I wish you would tell me exactly
what 1 meant by a league of natlona
and freedom of the seas." Washington
Star.
Newlywed Have you never thought se
riously about marriage? ,
Singleton Certainly not No man ever
thinks seriously about marriage until
after it has happened. Life.
' I'd kisa you If I had a reasonable ex
cuse." "The family In the flat above is named
Mistletoe," coyly responded tho glrl.
Kansas City Journal.
"Why do you use such a long clgar
holdpr?" asked Smith.
"The doctor told me to keep away from
tobacco," replied Jones. Cincinnati En
quirer. It happened at a certain famous Amer
ican college. An old negro was sweeping
the front steps when a gentleman walked
up and said: "Well, uncle, soon will win
ter be here, and those trees will be as
black as you are."
Quickly the old negro replied:
"And spring will soon bo here and dem
trees will be as green as you are." Bos
ton Globe.
THE CRUCIAL YEAR.
K milestone passed upon the road that
leads
To that far future where our dreams
come true;
To that glad earth when man no longer
bleeds,
Nor God Is shocked by what His sons
will do!
A crimsoned path, as wa gate back today,
The years bavo hewn since ages first
began.
We see through tears for, lo! His chll.
dren slay
The ruin wrought when man makes war
on man.
A year lies dead, with shame upon his
face.
And shadows black that were by horror
drawn;
His life was lived with darkness on a race
That, as fat passed, saw promise of the
dawn.
A promise old that man has known be
fore. When he has paused to mourn a year
that dies;
The future to our fathers ever wore
A gleam of splendor lent by sunrise
skies.
The promise now cornea clearer to our
ears;
We hear a voice our fathers did not
heed;
The power Is ours to make the coming
years
White with atonement for an evil deed.
Can man be true to what ot God In him
Brings peace on earth- as this New
Year Is born,
Or, false again, must see the sun grow
dim
And midnight come ere It be fairly
morn ?
It rests with him to choose the path he'll
take
That leads away from reddened roads
he'a trod.
Shall man again bl ancient blunders
make.
And as of old, throw all the blame on
God?
K. 3. VanZlle In Now Tork Times,
Out of the Ordinary
The only democrat elected in Ful
ton county, Illinois, this year was
Corp. Itoy Tanner of Canton, a sol
dier who lost a leg In battle.
W. Naismith of the Esparto dis
trict, near Woodland, Cal., has
hauled to town with a tractor load
of 225 sacks of almonds, tor which
he will get $4,690.
An elderly man at Freeport, Me.,
Is expert at patchwork and has
made an all-silk quilt, in the sun
rise pattern, for which he has been
offered $300, but he is holding It for
a rise.
MV. and Mrs. Israel Brenner of
Evansville, Ind., who have just spent
two years making a 35,000-mile au
tomobile tour of the United States,
visited every state capital and every
army cantonment in states that have
cantonments and met Evansville sol
diers in almost every one.
Frank Teoter, a farmer of Enfield
Center, N. Y. is displaying a cab
bage stalk of the Danish bar variety
on which have grown 19 heads of
cabbage. The central and larger
head is surrounded and as firm as
the central head. The whole thing
weighs two ounces less than 12
pounds.
According to Prof. W. C. Kendall
of the United States Fish commis
sion, who has compiled a list of the
fishes of Maine, both salt and fresh
water varieties, fishermen who ap
peared to know what they were
talktng about and seemed worthy of
credence have reported 49 different
kinds of fish in the waters of the
state.
CENTER SHOTS
Washington Post: The trouble
with the balance of power Is that it
is so constantly getting out of bal
ance. Washington Post: When the kings
come to Washington and say "I raise
my glass," what "will be in them
the glasses?
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: This
world is a rich one. It has fur
nished $200,000,000,000 worth of
wealth to blow up and dissipate in
a four years' war.
Washington Post: Herb Hoover
told twb German food robbers In
Belgium to go to h with his com
pliments, and they promptly re
turned to Germany.
Minneapolis Tribune: Colonel
House is now reported to have orig
inated the phrase, "freedom of the
seas." Oh, is that so? Then maybe
he can tell what it means.
Minneapolis Tribune: Max Harden
wants to come to America to plead
the cause of Germany. That's It;
somehow we have come to be regard
ed in Germany as a friend. How
could that have happened?
Kansas City Times: Gertrude
Atherton says diplomacy Is still se
cret. Mrs. Atherton has evidently
called the roll of delegates to the
impending peace conference and,
like the rest of us, found no women
in it.
Baltimore American: Now Berne
torff pleads innocence of guilt in act
or intent for the war. The proud
slogan of Deutschland uber alles
has changed to the general whine
from the kaiser down of I didn't
do it!
Philadelphia Ledger: General
Pershing's rules for the government
of that part of the Rhineland occu
pied by the American army are strict,
but not too severe, it would De
highly disastrous from every point of
view to allow the people to get the
Impression that they were not really
conquered.
"Monday" Always
Serves as a Basis
for the whole week
Make a week of pleasure of it
by tending us your clothes to
be cleaned.
Do it the FIRST thing Mon
day a. m., and get that much
off your mind start out
CLEAN.
Phone Tyler 345
Dresher Bros.
DYERS DRY CLEANERS
2211-17 Farnam St. Omaha
If we look after the funeral ar
rangements they will be perfect in
every detail. We have devoted our
time and industry to the study of
the funeral problem, and if you
avail yourself of our services you
will have cause for no regrets.
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Parlor. (Established 1888)
17th and Cuming St. Doug. 1060.
Signposts oj Progress
iuefiiuc-raiup ill owm.rii a unue
unions last year totaled 186,146.
.Three bridges have been built
across the Suez canal at Kantara,
thus linking Egypt and Palestine by
railroad and road.
An English city is experimenting
with electric street cars as traveling
kitchens, on which meals are cooked
enroute and sold to the public.
Boot soles made from compressed
scraps of leather are said to be
waterproof and elastic. They can
also be made at little cost and are
more comfortable than rubber.
A Swiss company has spent a
large amount for road improvement
and equipment and plans to carry
passengers over some routes in the
Alps in electric automobiles.
No Industry In the t'nited States
has shown a more wonderful growth
during the war than that of chemi
cals. The exportation of chemicals
from the United States in the year
which ends with this month will
show a total of approximately $175.
000,000. against $27)00,000 in the
year Immediately preceding the war.
China's first pencil factory was
officially opened on Juno 26. 1918,
when the China Pencil company
threw open its new plant for In
spection. This company Is an Anglo-Chinese
enterprise, organized
and promoted by a few English and
Chinese business aien, and hopes to
obtain a large snare of the pencil
trade in the FaD East hitherto con
trol ea Dy me uerinaus mm auk-
trians.
SHE DARKENED HER
GRAYHAIR
Well Known Lady Tells Ho-v She
Darkened Her Gray Hair By m
Simple Home Made Remedy.
Mrs. E. H. Boots, a well known
resident of Buchanan County, la.,
who darkened her gray hair by a
simple home-made remedy, made the
following statement:
' Any lady or gentleman can
darken their gray or faded hair, and
make it soft and glossy with this
simple remedy, which they can mix
at home. To half a pint of wate
add 1 ounce of bay rum, one small
box of Barbo Compound and
ounce of glycerine. These ingre
dients can be purchased at any drug
store at very little.cost. Apply to
the hair every other day until the
gray hair is darkened sufficiently.
This is not a dye, it does not color
the most delicate scalp; is not sticky
or greasy and does not rub off. It
will make a gray haired person look
10 to 20 years younger." Adv.
V
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any or all the masters
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their inspir
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you. prefer the modern.
4nusic, it also is avail
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songs, dances, rag
time, or jazz!1
'aver-piano, shir-a
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jfivr sore ojeasant dsalin
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Bush & Lane Kimball
Cable-Nelson Hospe Pianos
Apollo and Gulbransen Players. ,
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1513 Douglas Street
Window Sale $5
It's Monday! At Hospe's.
Some Pictures up to $20.00.
Some Bric-a-Brac up to $10.00.
Some Vases, Lamps, Shades, etc., up to $15.00
All go on Monday for $5.00 Greatest Bargains Ever.
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