Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, June 11, 1919, Page 8, Image 8
THE BEE: OMAHA", WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, !,' - The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY . FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE W AUK ' VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR " MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a TIM AMoeUtcd PrM. of which The Bae ll a nwnlwr. la -liulnlr wlltlad to U uw for publleitlon of all ntw dliMlchM endued to U or ot Miienriat emliud IB thll paper, end alio the tone) newt tubUhd hnla. AU rlfhU of pubUoattoo of out apa cUl dupatcbte are alao weaned. ' " ' OFFlCESi Omaha The Bee Bide South Omaha i31S N St. Xrm fork IM Ftftk At. ' rKI.M lT9A.tt fltM Hilt. " tSt. Ixule New B'nk of Common Council Blufft 14 N. VUlB St WuhlBftos 19U O Bt. Lincoln uw niuiami. APRIL CIRCULATION DaUy 65,830Sunday 63,444 Annie circulation for the month nibecrlbed ul tworn to b? . R. Bull, Circulation Manacer. Subecribera leavinf tbe city ohould have Tha Boo mailod to thorn. Addreee changed el often m requeated. " Boost for Omaha and keep a-boosting. . Stilt it is a trite saying that the Nebraska prairies never suffer from too much rain. Airplane fliers must secure a license. Other kinds of high-fliers proceed as if they had a license, too. American arms saved the nations of Europe from ruin and American wheat will have to save them, from starvation. With a show of fixed, determination, any .United States senator can have anything printed in the record he wants. It is charged before congress that "machine politics" dominate Kansas City as if there were something sensational in that. '-' 4 aaaMeajeaajaaaeaaeaaeaaeaaa . ; Whether he holds Fiume for Italy 05 not, the Italian premier has achieved the pinnacle of fame that goes with having a cigar named after him." ' ' r Some one tells us that nearly all animals are better swimmers than men. Oh, come now: Ever see a hen watch a duckling it had unwit tingly hatched? The gold embargo is lifted, but the economic law that keeps gold out of circulation alongside - of less desired paper money will continue to operate with full force. One piece of bone-head work by the police might be overlooked, but when we have a con stant succession of police outrages and depart ment scandals, public patience ceases to be a virtue. . Note in passing that a $60,000 site for a resi dence lhas just been acquired in Santa Bar bara ,by a certain -Mr. McAdoo, who quit the cabinet a few months ago because he could not make ends meet. -1. Returning from . a study exploration m Africa, Prof. Garner proposes to train apes for farm hands If we do not miss our guess, the farmer will refuse to let the scientist make a monkey of him. It is not a question whether vice and crime is more or less rampant in Omaha now than heretofore. If we have crooks, brutes, or in competents wearing pdlice uniforms, they should be weeded out and shorn of police authority. J But , if our Omaha police would spend as much time and effort running down dangerous criminals and enforcing the law against vice and disorder as in cajoling victims into sifening white-wash statements, what wonderful things they might achieve. ' Our Nebraska senator, who was re-elected by votes furnished by the German-American Al liance in reward for his active co-operation in - the German propaganda in( America, denounces - those behind the treaty leak probe for .being in "co-operation with Germany." It is to laff. Pushed past his last line of patience, a ' Pennsylvania judge broke out in court to de nounce the long-drawn-out litigation of trivial . disputes, causing needless expense to public and parties to the suit. Too many judges, however, take it to be part of the judicial function to nurse along petty trials by which quibbling lawyers try to make a showing of earning their fees. Reform of court procedure is a will-o'- r therwisp. The Vastness a America , : Bryce's American Commonwealth. Foreign critics have said that Americans think themselves the special objects of the care of Divine Providence. If this be so, it is matter neither for surprise nor for sarcasm. They are. a religious people. Theyt are trying. , and that on the largest scale, the most remark able experiment in government the world has yet witnessed. They have more than once been surrounded by perils which affrighted the stout est hearts, and they have escaped from these perils into peace and prosperity. There is among pious persons a- deep conviction one may often hear it expressed on platforms and from pulpits with evident sincerity that God has specially chosen the nation to work out a higher type of civilization than any other state has yet attained, and that this great work will surely $e brought to a happy issue by the pro tecting hand that has so long guided it. Pessi mism is the luxury of a handful; optimism is the private delight, as well as public profession of 999 out of every 1,000, for nowhere does the in dividual associate himself more constantly and directly Tvith the greatness of his country. It is hard adequately to convey the impres- l ston which the vastness of the country and the swift growth of its population make upon the European traveler. I well remember how it once came on men after climbing a high moun tain in an eastern state. All around was thick forest; but the setting sun lit up peaks 60 or 70 miles away, and flashed here and there on the windings of some river past a town so far off as to seem only a spot of white. I opened my map, a large map, which I had to spread upon the rocks to examine, and tried to make out, as one would have done in Scot land or Switzerland, the points in the view. The - map, however, was useless, because the whole area of the landscape beneath me covered only two or three square inches upon it. From such a height in Scotland the eye would have ranged from sea to sea. But here, when one tried to reckon how many more equally wide stretches of landscape lay between this peak and the Mis sissippi, which is itself only a third of the way across the continent, the calculation seemed endless and was soon abandoned. No American can be familiar with more than a small part of his country, for his country is a continent And all Americans live their life through under the sense of this prodigious and "daily growing multitude around them, which seems vaster the more you travel and the more you realize its uniformity. DONT EVADE THE ISSUE. It is up to the city council to meet the issue of police mismangement squarely and without evasion. Efforts to side-step and postpone, in order to get away from an aroused public sentiment and perhaps give the police time to fix or drive out of town essential witnesses for any thor ough investigation, will not answer the purpose. While the last flagrant case of police outrage calls loudest for remedial action, ijis but the culmination of a series of revelations that indict the methods and impugn the integrity of the police department. It has been charged and not disproved: 1. That underworld women were permitted to escape from the Deten tion home by paying a price for the privilege. 2. That the dope traffic has been carried on unlawfully with the con nivance of the police authorities. 3. That a wounded soldier was wantonly shot by a police officer while arresting him. 4. That detectives, sent out of town to bring back an auto thief, are under accusation of letting him go for a consideration of $110. 5. That a traveling aggregation of "sure-thing" gamblers operated their gambling games for three days with the protection of uniformed po lice officers who were personally superintending the play and who stopped the game only when The Bee began to take photographs, but made no arrests. ' 6. Finally, that a woman long in high standing in the community had her room invaded without a war rant in the wee hours of the1 morning by police officers, who remained while she dressed, and dragged her off to jail, where she was treated as .the scum of the earth. In none of these cases, so far as we know, were the offending police officers even sus pended pending investigation, but, on the con trary, their superiors have been upholding and defending their outrageous acts. Police are supposed to be the guardians, of the law and to inspire respect for constituted authority, but it is this unrebukedTcutality and disregard of the personal rights of people who incur their enmity or fail to pay for immunity that makes anarchists and bolshevists of the victims. The council should realize that responsibility tor these condition's rest on them as a whole and that there are limits to popular endurance. The Jewish Massacres. .To offset the outcries rising from all parts of this country against the slaughter of the Jews in Poland and in other sections of eastern Europe, a campaign of propaganda is plainly under way. As evidence of such a campaign, one of the regular organs of propaganda printed not less than a thousand miles from Omahanow endeavors to shield the perpetrators of the Polish atrocities by declaring that "accusation and denial are equally explicit and seem equally trustworthy." Accusation and denial may be "equally ex plicit," but no one will say that they are "equally trustworthy" unless hired for the defense or blinded by bias and prejudice. It is indisputably established that the Jews residing in Slavic Europe have been almost continuous victims of massacres and pogroms since the beginning of the war. All, sorts of justifying excuses were invented to fit the particular occasion. First, they were accused by the Russians of being German spies, later when the country was over run by the Germans they were charged with profiteering, and now they are assailed by the bolshevists, who covet their property, and ac cused by trfe Poles of sympathizing with the bolshevists. The facts, however, are well es tablished by reports from authentic sources that thousands upon thousands of Jewish men, women and children, have been maltreated and brutally murdered without pretense of formal charges or legal trial, condemned without evi dence merely because they are Jews, and the bloody work is still going on. Protests are certainly in order, but protests should be followed up by official action that will make them heeded. A Dazzling Royal Wedding Charles Kingsley's Centenary. The centenary ofithe birth of Charles Kings ley, the celebrated author, is being observed by literary and other societies throughout the United Kingdom, with the chief public celebra tion centering in the little village of Eversley in Hampshire, for many years the home of Dr. Kingsley, and where most of his famous books were written, including "Westward Ho," "Hy patia," "Alton Locke" and "Yeast." The prin cipal demonstration is to be a three-day pageant inaugurated at Eversley, where the memory of Kingsley, as the beloved friend and rector, is still cherished. The pageant is to consist of scenes from the author's life and works, the producer being Arthur Eliot, who, with Bairns father, wrote the play now so' well known in America and England as "The Better 'Ole The centenary also will be featured by a pilgrimage to "Westward Ho," the town named for Kings ley's famous book, and which stands on a range of hills' overlooking Biddeford bay. Charles Kingsley was born at Holne Vicar age, in Devonshire, June 12, 1819. His educa tion was received at' Cambridge university. Six months after completing his studies he was set tled at Eversley, where the people were "heredi tary poachers on Windsort forest," and most democratic in character. ' It was while working at Eversley during the early years of his resi dence there that Mr. Kingsley began to realize the need of a Christiarusocialistn for England. Soon thereafter he had attained a prominent place in English life as a parson, a politician, an author and a strenuous. worker to save human souls. He wrote for the workingman under the title of "Parson Lot," and told him that he must free himself from the power of his own wicked inclinations before he could pass from under the cruel power of the bad social conditions of that time. Toward the close' of his life the author paid a visit to America to see his son, who had at tained success in the engineering profession In the western states, 'and extended his travels over a .considerable part of the country. Al ready worn and weary from overwork, the strain of the journey proved too much for him, so that he did not survive long after his return to Eng land. Hiseath occurred in his belovef Evers ley January 23, 1875. Nepalese Correspondence of London Times. The marriage of his majesty, the maharaja dhiraja of Nepal, was celebrated with suitable pomp and splendor. Following the ancient custom of the house, his majesty was married to two maharanis, both being daughters of an ancient pure Rajput family in India. The festivities extended over a number of days. A week before the wedding the brides-elect, resplendent in costly attire, garlanded the noble bridegroom, and every one was gay "against the Brydale day, which was not long." The saipata, or paper, giving the auspicious hour of marriage, accompanied by a print of the royal hands in scented vermilion and turmeric, to signify his high approval of it, was sent from the bridegroom's palace to the Singha Durbar, the residence of Maharaja Sir Chandra Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Rana, where the brides were. The procession ac companying it was gazed at in eager admiration by many thousands of people, who thronged the sides of the road from one end to the other. Elephants snd Music. On the wedding day the streets, well watered and decorated with triumphal arches covered with evergreen, and with gay pennons and streamers, were lined with troops. The proces sion, which was a "sight for the gods to see," began to move on the stroke of noon. It was headed by a detachment of troops with the national flags and others consecrated to the pre siding deities of the country. Then followed several learned pandits on elephants, and un melodious but auspicious music, consisting of toon, bheri, nrisingha, etc., lustily sounded with puffs from lungs which vied with a smith's bellows. Heralded thus came giant figures in paper and cloth, representing nearly all living creatures, man, bird, and ,beast. Then came a long train of men representing the country dancers nd musicians, who vhad come from .ail parts of the valley joyfully to take part in the marriage of their king. ' , Then troops and more troops, interspersed here and there with the royal and military bands, and with elephants and, horses all richly decked, some carrying the merchant princes of the country, others high officials, others again the feudatory chieftains hailing from all parts of the kingdom. A squadron of cavalry capered along a little ahead of the "kalas," the sacred vessel, covered in cloth of silver and gold and profusely adorned with flowers and garlands, under a huge beautiful umbrella, attended by maidens fair in a stream of carriages, some car rying the paraphernalia of royalty' and some singing melodious hymns. The Bridegroom. Then, bosomed high in a gold and silver howdah, mounted oh a big tusker marching to the merry jingle of the numerous silver bells with which it was festooned, came the youthful king, bright as the new-born day, the cynosure of neighboring eyes and there were myriads of them looking from every possible point of vantage, not excepting the broad slanting roofs of the several public buildings which stood by the side of the road. The sea of heads and their hum, which represented the noise of breaking billows, was indeed no less a striking feature amidst the "pomp and feast and revelry" at tendant on the occasion. Within a short, distance of the bridegroewn's elephant came the one carrying Maharaja Sir Chandra Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Rana, ac companied by Colonel O'Connor, the British representative at the court of Nepal. ' Some more elephants with their rich trappings canned the commander-in-chief in Nepal and the gen erals, all in full dress uniform, with their ele gant head-dresses, from the top of which grace fully curved back the many-colored bird of para dise feathers. The gurus and prohits, clad in clothes of gold brocade, preceded more troops and officers on horseback, and other civil offi cials, the procession closing with the Saldur jung regiment, the one which accompanied Prithvi Narain Shah in his conquest of Nepal. The head of the procession reached Singha Durbar long before the tail left the king's palace. Gratuities and khillats were largely dis tributed, which made the gay occasion gayer still. A royal salute was fired when his majesty got on his elephant, again when he got down from it, and still again :when he was carried to the place where the "homa" ceremony was per formed. Next day the return procession was about the same as that of the preceding day, except thaf the bridegroom with the two .queens seated one on each side of him, drove in an ele gant carriage' tastefully decorated with flowers and drawn by nine beplumed and beautifully caparisoned horses. 1 Paying Off the War, Debt The American people have never subscribed to the view that a national debt is a national blessing. They assumed and promptly paid off the colonial -debts of the Revolution and within less than 20 years they paid the War of 1812 debt. They began to pay Off the then appalling great debt of the Civil War (about $2,600, 000,000) with equal celerity, and were prevented from completing the job only by the fact that much of it had become tied up in the national banking system as the basis of the note circulation. When, thereforjs, Senator Smoot of Utah proposes an immediate start in paying off the nation's new war debt of over $20,000,000,000 he is not likely to meet with great opposition. His plan is feasible and sound. It calls for a permanent annual appropriation from tax reve nues equal to a certain percentage of the prin cipal of the debt. Whether this percentage should be 1, which wbuld sink the debt in 44 years, or as high as 2'A, which would sink it in less than 24 years, is an open question with the senator. , The lower percentage rate would seem to be high enough. It was the sinking-fund rate es tablished on the Civil War debt. It is only air that the payment of the debt should extend over a full generation and this would be the case with a yearly payment of 1 per cent on the principal. Moreover, a low rate which is stuck to is better than a high rate, which would more certainly be exposed to intervals of suspension. The new war debt is for the most part still selling well below par, where it can be bought for a sinking fund to the best advantage. The sooner a beginning is made along this line the better. New York World. DAILY CARTOONETTE The Day We Celebrate. w . Eduard David, who was chosen president of the. first German National assembly following the overthrow of the old regime, born 56 years ago. , Mrs. Humphrey Ward, famous English novelist, born. at Hobart, Tasmania, 68 years ago. Miss Jeanette Rankin, the first woman ever elected to the United States congress, born 39 years ago. v Kehyon L. Butterfield, president of Massa chusetts Agricultural college, born at Lapeer, Mich., 51 years ago: Rt. Rev. John L. O'Connor, Catholic bishop of Newark, Lorn at Newark, N. J., 64 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. C E. Yost, E. M. Morsman and E. P. New hall have filed articles of incorporation for the Nebraska Gas Fuel company. The capital stock is $500,000. Everything was life and beauty at Browriell Hall for the 25th annual commencement. Hon. A. J. Hanscom has offered to sub scribe $50,000 to a fund to erect a million-dollar hotel on Farnam, near Nineteenth or Twen tieth. Minot Terrell is in Chicago in the interest of increase iq the Omaha electric plant. . . . ' . .V WHEN I HD &0.ITU3IU BE WHERE ItOoNT 6 IN HflNfirFR IM? AUORKt I AhlT-l 1 If T"UT irvil J nt U JJV r ; s r I 1 a 3 X I I I Our Free1 Legal Aid State your case clearly but briefly and a reliable lawyer will furnish the answer or advise in this column. Your name will not be printed. Let The Bee Advise You , Forcible Entry and Detention. W. C. W. What process of law Is necessary to (take to remove a tenant from a residence for non payment of rent? How many days' notice is necessary before the tenant must vacate? I refer to city resi dence property. Answer Before an action for forcible entry and detention can be It is necessary to notfiy the party in possession that action is about to be brought which notice shall be served at least three days before commencing the action and must fix a definite time to vacate by leaving a written copy with the defendant or at his usual place of abode. Action may then be started by filing a complaint in writ ing describing the premises and set ting forth that the defendant is holding unlawful possession. Descent and Distribution. C H. B. Can children by first marri.ige claim equal rights where no will was made by the father? There is a mother and six children, five of them are living. One brother being deceased who left a wife and two children. What would each one's share be when two of the chil dren are by a former marriage? Answer In this state this law makes no distinction between chil dren of half blood and those with the whole blood, except in case where the inheritance came to the estate by descent, devise or gift of some one of his ancestors in which case all those who are not the blood of such ancestors shall be excluded from such inheritance. In other cases where the surviving wife or husband is not the parent of all the children and there being one or more children or the issue of one or more deceased children surviving, the wife or husband will take a one-fourth part of the property of the deceased and the remaining three-fourths descend equally to all of the chil dren whether of the half blood or full blood and the share of any de ceased child leaving issue will de scend to such issue. About Incorporations. Marsland. Neb., May 26. To the Editor 0 The Bee: I am sorry you thoughtwy questions pertinent. I did not ask in that spirit at all and the question I wanted to know you never answered, that is: Why are companies incorporated under one state's laws and have Its factory ana headquarters in another state? There must be some cause for this. If you will kindly answer this one question the rest of my letter needs no answer. , JOHN L. KAY. Answer The laws of the United States vary as to corporations, some being more favorable for one kind, some for another. Under what is known as comity between states, the privileges granted a corporation in one are extended to it in all. Thus, many corporations are formed un der the laws of New Jersey, or Iowa, or South Dakota, and have their real business far away. The plan . is legitimate and is generally followed. You are under a misapprehension as to how your first question was re ceived by The Bee. We considered it very timely and in order. It was entirely "pertinent" and in no sense "impertinent." n V 1 1 JL cifc 2c little stm, skirve into yoxxy Korcve ty getting tKe Vose & Sons Leatxtilul instrument will 5at isfy your lumger (ov music, and it will v enatle you lso to save a. Holy sctnv M compared witk the Kigrwr price of jectally good pianoj, trtfH(int'tm i4r mntjUmo 1513 Douglas Street The Art and Muiic Store. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. Peggy Is Chosen a, Bride, CINDERELLA and 'her sisters were quickly picked up by the horsemen and hustled before Red Beard. Cinderella was Indignant and pluckily spoke her mind to the fiery-whiskered Turk. "My husband will thrash you for treating me in this way. He will string- yeu up like a fat pig. He will fry you in your own grease. He will cut you into fine bits and feed you to the fishes." "And my husband, the Beast, will hang you from the castle turret, and leave you for the crows to pick your bones," added Beauty. "And my princely husband will lash you to a wild horse and turn you loose in the desert," declared Sleeping Beauty. "And our husbands will freeze you into a block of ice and throw you into the ocean," said Cinderella's haugh,ty stepsisters. Red Beard's piggy eyes glittered. "In half an hour your husband will love me more than any one else in the world, and will do all things that he can to please me," he grunted. "How silly: tney an exclaimed as one. ' Your don t know my hus band." "I know him better than any one knows him," sneered Red Beard, "for in half an hour I will be your hus band. "I'm going to marry you at once. "You can't marry us. Our hus bands will not let you," chorused the beautiful captives. '"Husbands are such nuisances! grunted Red Beard. "But they are easily removed." He rose to hip feet and drew his scimitar from a scab bard at his side. Its blade glistened in the sun. To try its sharpness, Red Beard plucked a hair from his whiskers and drew it across the edge. Instantly the hair was split in two. Then Red Beard, with aston ishing skill and vigor for such a fat, lazy-looking Turk, slashed and cut the air with the weapon, making It fairly whlzs back and forth. When he had finished this show he sank back into his chair, as sodden and pudgy looking as before. Again he squinted his piggy eyes along the line of charming captives, whose defiance had now given way to white-faced fear. "Humph!" he grunted. "I or dered 10 brides. I find here only nine. Who is missing?" "Who is missing?" cried the horsemen. "Who is missing ?" echoed the attendants. Every one looked at every one else and all around So did Peggy, for she was curious to see this 10th bride. She leaned far. out of the casement so that she could look, better. The piggy eyes of Red Beard lighted up on her. "Ah, there she is!" he grunted. "Princess Peggy, my 10th brideV' "Princess Peggy, the 10th bride of Red Beard!" cried the horsemen and the attendants. Instantly the slaves began to hurry Peggy toward the lawn. Peggy was shocked at Red Beard's declaration. She had no idea that she was intended as his bride. The worst that she had thought of was that she might be a bridesmaid. But the shock didn't rob her of her wits. Instead it sharpened them. As she passed through the hall sh saw a stairway leading . Into th tower. Gathering up her wedding finery eo that she could run the faster, she sped up the steps. The slaves were after her In an Instant Up, up, up she fled, but up, up, they followed. Peggy hoped that there might be a room at the top, and she did not hope in vain. In th very tip of the tower was a round chamber guarded by a door. Peggy slammed the door shut and barred it For a moment she felt safe. Then the slaves reached the door and bat tered upon it. The panels were old and flimsy. They shook under the blows. Peggy saw that they could not protect her long. "Coo, coo, what's the matter?" asked a soft voice. There in the window, looking at her, were Ho mer and Carrier Pigeon. "Red Beard wants to make me his bride. There 1b no one to save me. Go and tell BiUy Belgium!" gasped Peggy, as the door broke open and the slaves surrounded her. "Coo. coo. We will tell htm. Fear not!" cooed the pigeons, and' away they went at the speed ef the wind. DAILY DOT PUZZLE Si 23 3o 17 2o 28 2i 25 a34 ' alt 1- af 3. 5 7 ,4 6 14. 13 , st .56 iT ! 4c 53 .57 5 37 3ft e 5o j, i4 J 47 46 45 J Kt Trace to fifty-eight and see, What is on this page with me. Craw from one to two and o on to the end. VITAL You and your business in terests are vitally affected by the changes which are brought about as the work of business readjustment devel- That is why you can de rive unusual benefit from the service of the United States National Bank a bank which keeps pace with events and possesses the knowledge and resources to meeet any situa tion that may arise. Come in and talk over your problems with our offi cers. 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