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THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY S. 1919. AMERICA MUST ACT WISELY OR FALL LIKE ROME All Great Fallen Nations Ar rived at Point Where They, Seemed to Have All They Strove for. President Ernest M. Hopkins of Dartmouth college, preaching yes terday morning at the First Uni tarian church, declared that America today is at a point in history which, if unwisely met, "may lead to the greatest tragedy of nations the world has ever seen." "Greece, Rome, Egypt, all the fall en nations, arrived at this point ivnere an lor wnich they had strug gled seemed about to be grasped, and then, through self-sufficiency and self-indulgence they fell," said Dr. Hopkins. "We have fought to make the world safe for democracy. The task before us now is to make de mocracy safe for the world. That shall be accomplished through un selfish co-operation and a generous iiiusmeraiion or tne otner teuow and the other nation. It is not the spirit which says, 'I'm just as good, J -' m WUU H HIOi 1VU1C just as good as I am." It Can Be Done. "Don't be misled by the people who today are crying that the league of nations can't be formed. They made the sanfe fry when the 13 original colonies were bound to gether into a union. Throughout history it has been the same. And, strange though it seems, the ob vious has always been held up as tne impossible. When a certain fine action is mapped there is a mental process within us which says, 'If this were practicable it would have bffen done before; therefore, there must be some obstacle insurmount able." "But, put to the test, it is found that these things can be done and that the world is better after they are done. "The league of nations is the ob vious thing. Co-operation is the key note of all progress. Recently I visited the little Canadian town ot Ambleton, 40 miles from a railroad, where practically everything needed is raised or made without the out side world. Life is primitive and, at timeg, precarious, because these people are not leagued with the out side world. " "Each man in the civilized world today is a specialist in something and by his specialization he learns to. produce the maximum amount in a given time. By reason of his high production and through co-opera-tin with all the other specialists who make things that he needs he is enabled to enjoy these things which the non co-operative people in the little Canadian town cannot have. " 'Two are better than one," said the cynical philosopher who wrote the book of Ecclesiates, 'for if one fall the other shall raise him up.' And here is the philosophy which must guide us in making democracy safe for the world. We must be .on the lookout for what we can do for others. We have liberty in this country. That is usually conceived to be liberty from restrictions. But we should hold in mind that it is also a liberty for unselfish actions. If we move forward with this vision America and the world will enter upon an era such as they have only (dreamed of in the past." Frank Gaskill Tells Story of Spy Work During War Philadelphia. An interesting story of enemy spy work is told by Frank H. Gaskill, assistant chief of the Protective league, which rendered service during the war. The organization, Mr. Gaskill re lates, was responsible for the intern ment of a man caught spelling out dangerous messages with a trip hammer he was operating in a big industrial plant on the Delaware river. The messages were first de tected by a telegraph operator in Palmyra, N. J. He caught the ham mer spelling out: "Troop ship moving tomorrow morning." t The telegrapher notified the gov ernment authorities, wno caught the triphammer operator signalling: "Raid on fishing fleet complete surprise." This was several hQurs before the news dispatches brought word of the sinking of a fishing fleet by Ger man submarines off -.New England. The triphammer expert was found to 'be a former telegraph operator. Mr. Gaskill said the mystery of where the operator got his news or to whom he was signalling was never solved. Beekeeping in Forests. San Francisco, Cal. The pos sibilities of beekeeping in the na tional forests in southern California are being investigated by agricultur ists of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture in co-operation with the Forest Service. Dr. E. F. Phillips and Mr. George S. Demuth have gone to southern California to investigate the subject,, and while there will assist state authorities in conducting extension schools . e commercial beekeepers at San Diego, Davis, Visalia, and Riverside. Each one of these schools wilWie conducted for- six days, and three sions daily will be held. "Spend and Spare Not" Seems to Be U. S. Slogan Jim Mann's Wonderful Pre serves and Jellies May Pave His Way to House Speakership. First person, singular That's me wil w?fn I'm elcne with a (Mm or Coon) Washington Bureau of The Bee- February 2. By E. C. SNYDER. vNE of the best results of "ab- I I sent treatment that I can re- call is seen in the passage of the bill appropriating $100,000,000 tor the needy of Europe. It ha been the most grudging compliance with the executive demand since the war was declared. It will be re called that the president asked that the sum be given me, which called forth many sarcastic references while the bill was under considera tion. The republicans of the house almost unamimously voted to let the Red Cross distribute it. Then there were 73 votes against the grant ana the bill lett tne house with pro visions to make the distribution by way ot loans instead of largesses, When it came to the senate, in or der to get it through, it was made Clear that the Allied War Council was requesting it as a war measure instead of altruistic bounty to be conferred by our chief commissioner. Even then 18 senators were record ed against it. The one thing that put the bill across was a fear that the presi dent, having called for it and not granted, would 'seriously suffer in prestige at the settling table. One senator summed it up this way: "We'll let you have it this time. We do this to save you hu miliation. Next time you'll have the humiliation and no money. The Enfant Terrible, who asked for a dollar before the company got the coin that time but he never tried it again." The centrifugal forces have seized the treasury. Congressman Sloaii said recently on the floor of the house, "Every key in Washington and Paris opens the United States treasury, lhere are none fashioned to lock it." The war secretary is authorized to validate $2,750,000,000 in contracts entered into up to 24 hours after the armistice was signed, .which lacked legal formality and enforceability. One hundred million dollars are scooped out to Europe. Loans now totalling nearly $9,000,- 000,000, loaned to the allies, without a long time bond taken, as was ex pected and understood by a great many of the American people. One set of sentimentalists are saying, cancel the debt we hold against the foreign governments. Another says sell the due bills w have taken, while grim old Clemenceau suggests to Wilson that the United States pay its portion of war expenditures in curred before we entered the con flict. Another Lil Bill. A bill has just passed the house authorizing the ultimate expenditure of $26,000,000 for one-story hospitals throughout the country for the Pub lic Health service to care for ex soldiers, sailors, marines, civil ser vice sick and any other person in the United States. The secretary of the navy, while Eurooeans are discussing the sink ing of the. German fleet, asks for $900,000,000 to extend our navy. The house of representatives votes its members $1,200 additional clerk hire and the civil employes at Wash ington are given an increase of per year. "Spend and Spare Not." Above each department portal should be written "Spend and spare not." One department, 'agriculture, asked for $158,000 for rentals for necessary buildings. The agricul tural committee of the house found that there was sufficient empty space in public buildingse no longer infuse to house all these activities. The head of the department concedes it, but insists on the appropriation be ing mada anyhow, giving it out quietly that it will not be used. Meanwhile the sick ana wounaea soldiers in Walter Reed hospital in this citv have to do or pay for their own washing and not having receiv ed their own salaries they cannot In discussing the financial affairs of the country in the lobbies of both senate and house the most frequent quotation heard is that of Mme. Pompadour, "After us the Deluge." Jim Mann accepted a beefsteak, did he? I wonder how many, opponents of Jim Mann have accepted some thing better than a beefsteak from him," chuckled an old neighbor of Mr. Mann from Chicago. 'Did you ever see Jim Mann's garden? .Welt, it's worth seeing and Jim Mann in his garden is worth going some dis tance to see. Why, lie knows more about garden truck than old Doc Wiley and the secretary of agricul ture combined and he knows what he knows from experience in his garden and on his farm. Just Outside Chicago. That garden of Jim Mann,, out in the suburbs of Chicago, had been neglected for two or three years while Mann was down here helping U handle the war legislation, reve nue bills, food control bills and the like; but last spring when the peo ple down here were wondering if Mann would ever get out of the hos pital and back in congress to watch legislation, there was bustle and hustle in Jim Mann's garden, for Jim Mann was at home again to make that garden blossom and bear fruit and vegetables again as it did sev eral years ago. I went over to see him and he did not appear very husky. He had lost about 40 pounds and he looked sort of washed out, too. But. he had the same old Jim Mann grit that made him a leader in congress and he began to wrestle with plows, hoes, pruning knives and so forth just like one born to the soil. The old house and barn took on a familiar look and Jim Mann in a hickory shirt, overalls and cowhide shoes began to take on tan, healthy color and flesh. Why, lie's just like Antaeus, whose strength was renewed every time his feet touched the earth when he wrestled with Hercules; and Jim Mann in his garden always has re newed his strength and health. Broken Health Talk. While the papers were printing pieces about Jim Mann's broken health and laying plans for the suc cession in the house, his old Chicago neighbors knew that you would be fooled because Jim Mann was at work in his garden. He plowed that garden and planted peas and beans, radishes and lettuce, set out straw berry plants, trimmed ud the rasp berry and currant bushes and gave personal attention to the fruit trees He didn't call in any help for it was a labor of love with him and his neighbors knew that it was his recre ation and would make him strong and healthy again. He gave away lots .of early garden truck, but in the late summer and early fall there was smoke from the chimney of his little canning house and Jim Mann had changed his dress to white until he locked like a chief cook in a big hotel. He was cooking and canning fruit and corn and vegetables, mak ing jams and jellies and preserves and I wouldn't be surprised if he didn t use more sugar than the food administration parceled out to the rest of us, for he made some mighty fine preserves of a kind that was not on the market. I called on him one day and found him experimenting with cherry tomato preserves and a combination of pears and toma toes and some of the women folks who dropped in sampled these things and said they were. the finest pre serves they had ever tasted. Getting Stronger and Healthier. Well, Jim Mann was happy and getting stronger and healthier every day as he gathered his sweet corn, peas, tomatoes, berries and fruit, worked in his little canning factory and did 'all the work of preserving and jelling and canning, for it ap peared to be no more trouble for him to handle solder and seal , up his cans than it was, to prepare the stuff to go in them. We wondered if Jim Mann intended to put his canned vegetables, preserves and jellies on the market, and the wo men folks were ready to take the whole stock off his hands. But Jim Mann gave them all samples of his cooking and canning and packed away a lot more and shipped it down to Washington as though he ex pected to live all winter on canned goods. But since I came down to Washington and heard the wives of other leaders in congress talking about Jim Mann's delicious cherry tomato preserves, canned tomatoes and sweet corn, jellies and jams as though they had found something brand new in these lines, I began to suspect that' Mann had been giving as well as receiving on the old neighborly plan when we exchanged spareribs and new sausage, and the first fruits of the seasan without any though of an obligation. How About Competitors. I wouldn't be surprised if some of Jim Manns preserves and canned goods had found their way into the homes of some of the men who think they are his competitors for. the speakership, for I've heard their wives praising Jim Mann's cooking and preserving and 1 11 bet a beef steak that the women are for Jim Mann whatever their .husbands think about the election of speaker. So don't settle this little contest over the speakership until you find out how many of Jim Mann's cans of presences have been distributed among the wives of members, for there are more toothsome things than beefsteaks and when they are the product of Jim Mann's own in dustry; experience and skill in rais ing and handling garden sass, they count a lot more than any gift "from the store or the commercial factory. I'll bet on Jim Mann and his gar den to win. 100,000 IDLE ON CLYDE; TROOPS GUARD GLASGOW Strike Leaders Held in Jail; Trade Unions Pledge Sup port to 40-Hour . Weekx Movement. Alvin Wick Lands in Jail for Smashing Furniture Alvin Wick, who vas held at the police station in connection with the murder of Frank Glynn, Topeka, Kan., in Omaha on Christmas morn ing, was arrested early Sunday morning here, charged with mali cious destruction "of property. Wick received severe bruises of the face at the hands of Edward Hermansky, proprietor of the Millard hotel pharmacy, when Wick is said to have begun to smash the show cases and furniture of , the' store. Both men became embroiled over an arg ument and Wick was thrown out of the store, after which Hermansky locked the door and went to bed. Wick's injuries were dressed by the police sueon, and he was put in a cell. Glasgow, Feb. 2. Great crowds were about the streets all day, but there has been no disorder, follow ing up the grave situation created by the strike yesterday. Soldiers are guarding all the important parts of the city and officials arranged for calling in troops from outlying districts in case of emergency. High land regiments are euardinar the railway stations, bridges, electric power stations and gasworks. The strike leaders, Emanuel Ship- well, William Oallagher and David Kirkwood, were charged before po lice magistrates with inciting to riot and assembling for unlawful purposes. Gallagher was also charged with assaulting a police man, they were remanded until February 6, bail being refused. Minor leaders were dealt with similarly on about the same charges. Shipwell is an official of the Brit ish seafarers' union and a member of the town council. ' Demand Release of Prisoners, Fresh troops- were brought into the city today. The council of Scottish trade unionists protested against "the brutal behavior of the authorities" and demanded the re lease of the prisoners. A statement issued in behalf of the employers declared that the ex tremist party among the workmen had repudiated the bargain made by the trade union leaders, and chal lenged their authority. It is estimated that 100,000 men are idle on the Clyde, of whom one third are strikers. Bakers have given notice of their intention to strike unless they get a 40 hour week. One hundred and eighty-five dele gates attended a meeting of the trade union council which adopted a reso lution by a vote of 92 to 22 asking the government to embody the 40 hour week in a legislative measure. Refusal of the government to in tervene in the strike here and the non-acceptance by the employers of the lord mayor s invitation to con fer with the strikers, brought about a complete deadlock.. The men's leaders declare they will not give way and are devoting their energies to strengthen their position by ob taining co-operation of labor in other parts of Ireland. They say that the refusal of the employers to discuss the situation with them has aroused bitterness and resentment. Brother Says Lieut. Spalsbury Was Killed in Discharge of Duty Charles B. Spalsbury, brother of Lieut. Donald C. Spalsbury, whose death was caused by an automobile accident on the Dodge road, flatly denies the charges and imputations that women were in the party at the time of the accident. "My brother was engaged in the discharge of his duty when he met his death. He was pursuing some bootleggers who had been selling their stuff to men at the fort, when the accident occurred," the brother stated. "If they would look at the head of one of the injured officers they would find out where the hair comes from. "The charge is preposterous and without foundation," he further con tinued. Maj. M. J. O'Brien, post adjutant, corroborated tlie brother's state ments. . Remember "Thrift Day" February 3 No Person Ever Retired on the Money Spent Merchants, Manufacturers, Bankers, Real Estate Operators, All Credit Thrift for Much of the Business They Enjoy. Give Yourself a Thrift Credit Mark Today and Learn Its Many Advantages. Welfare Board Acoommodates Employes With Advance Pay The Welfare board issued 1,910 checks in payment of salaries of city employes in the last 14 months, says Superintendent Weirich. This was done as an accommodation to employes, who are in such circum stances that they cannot wait for the semi-monthly payments. "We also assisted a number of city employes, who are entering the service," said Mr. Weirich. "advanc ing the pay due them and then re? ceiving it back when it became pay able from the respective depart ments." A small fund .takes care of all this work, as the money advanced is never outstanding for more than two weeks.- Petition to the Secretary of War to Send Soldiers Home With Six Months' Pay Sign this petition, get your friends to sign it and forward it to The Omaha Bee. To the Hon. Newton D. Baker, ' Secretary of War: The undersigned respectfully urge you to return to their homes as soon as possible the soldiers who have ac complished so brilliantly "every object America had in the war. We urge, also, that you obtain the necessary authority to pay these men their military wages for six months, or for some sufficient period after their discharge from the army until they can obtain useful and remunerative em ployment. We urge this as an act of simple justice by a great na tion to its heroes. (Signed) WILL CONTINUE DRIVE TO SELL THRIFTSTAF.iPS Monday, February 3, Named as National Thrift Day; Made Holiday to Encourage Purchase of Stamps. "American industries are at the mercy of the man of small capital," said Lloyd H. Matson of the Conservative Savings, Loan - asso ciation. This is the fact that Americans must face Monday, February 3 Na tional Thrift day. A holiday in cbmmoration of the future looking forward 1j accomp lishments of ourselves, instead of celebrating deeds of the past that is the distinction in National Thrift day, and other holidays. ''The war took $70,000,000,000 of English, French and other EuroDean capital from the United States," continued Mr. Matson, this can not be depended on m another een eration." i When the foreign money was re called, at tne outoreak ot tne war, and the stock exchange closed down, dumping these securities, on the market the work of the man of small capital began. Capitalist have their surplus busy, Europe cannot supply money for in dustries and because the govern ment realizes the importance of the small savings they are continuing the war savings stamp and thrift stamp campaign. , Nebraska has saved $33,000,000 in small savings during the past year. "One-half of the 7,500 Liberty loan accounts last year are new," said Mr. Matson, "and now a large per cent of these are appearing at the other window to open savings accounts."' The conservation of wheat, and all food stuffs, of coal, platinum, steel and every staple commodity can be summed up in the word "thrift" and it is to impress the fact that this is not a war-time necessity only, that Monday, February 3, has been called the National Thrift day. The necessity of not relaxing into a state of carelessness and profligacy in the reconstruction period is more vital to American industries and prosperity than ever before. National Thrift day is a holiday; not one on which to stop work, but to get busy in plans for national and personal increase in thrift. . c . n ooviei ruissia vvi Revert to' Barbarism Says British Officer ' London. "Russia, that is soviet Russia, will revert to absolute bar barism within three years if assis tance is not offered from the out side," says a British officer who recently escaped from Russia. To the correspondent of the Associated Press he added: "Men and women of the better classes who have lived through the first year of bolsnevism, are don ning peasant garb in self-defense and dropping into the dull, monoton ous village life. There's nothing else for them to do. Russia will soon be as primitive as the Congo if allow ed to drift along under bolshevik control. It is hopeless to expect leadership in Russia which will save the country from reversion to medievalism. The bolshevik lead ers are not strong. Opposition leaders are so weak that Lenine ana his associates seem strong by com parison. They are merely better organized than any other group. 6 THRIFT The mental satisfaction of saving should be enough interest In Uaelf but Home Builders gives you 6. pay able twice a year, on all money invested In Us shares. You may invest from $1.00 to $3,000, payable as you please. Interest begins at once. i Call or write Home uilderS X INCORPORATED American Security Company, Fiscal Agents. 17th and Douglas Sts Omaha, Neb. G. A. Rohrbough, Pres. C. C. Shimer, Sec'y. 6 6c State Florists' Society to Hold Annual Meeting The annual meeting of the State Florists' society will be held in Lincoln during the meeting of Or ganized Agriculture, February 25 to 28. C. H. Frey of Lincoln is pres ident of the society and Lewis Hen derson of Omaha is the secretary. Way Back in 1883 We Began to Advocate the BENEFITS OF THRIFT Among the People of this Community and Have Kept It Up Ever Since. Our Success Is Measured by Assets Exceeding $11,000,000.00 Our Original Plan for Saving Money Promotes Thrift. During 1918 we Entered 2,500 New Savings Accounts. Our Shares Are Both Profitable and Safe We Lend Money on Improved Omaha Real Estate At Low Interest Rate; No Delay; No Commission. Ask Us for Full Particulars, Omaha Loan and Building Association W..R. Addir, Secretary. 15th and Dodge Streets, Omaha, Neb. f Real Estate r ' t wanted on Omaha PROPERTY easy re-payment terms, at tractive rate of lio interest no commission The Conservative Savings and Loan Association 1614 Harney St. DIVIDENDS PAYABLE -QUARTERLY 8 Thrift as Never Before! Thousands of men are suddenly being thrown back into civil life. Consider the vastness of the readjustment thkt will be necessary. Look back at the period of reconstruction after our own Civil War. - We may watch closely the large ex penditure; but the minor details the ' little leaks escape our notice and to such the THRIFT DAY movement will prove a boon, opening our eyes, as it were, to our petty extravagances. Capitalize your savings through an ac count with us which offers 100 SAFETY 6 DIVIDENDS , Occidental Building & Lo?in Ass'n. 322 So. 18th Street OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS John F. Flack, President t. R. A. McEachron, Vice President Geo. C. Flack, Treasurer E. N. Bovell, Secretary John T. Brownlee, Asi't Sec'y. Robert Dempster Assets, $7,167,806.80 Reserve Fund 285,000.00 DIVIDENDS PAYABLE QUARTERLY
