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6 THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR ' 1 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PBOPRIETOB MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press of which The Bm to s member, la -eloatwlT entitled lo tht oae for publication of all news dlepatches mdiud to It or not other 1m credited In this paper, and alio tns local mm publlihtd brtln. All rights of publication of our sps olal dispatches an also reserved. ' BEE TELEPHONES! FrlTal Branoh Sicnanis. Aak for tha Trlf 1 000 Department or Particular Person Wanted. JrlCl AVW For Nifht or Sunday Sarvlco Call: tMltorlal Btiartmmt Trltr 1000L. Circulation liartment ..... Tyler 1008L. - Adtertlaini Department ..... Trier 1008L. - OFFICES OF THE BEEt Horn Of flea, B Bulldlnf. llth and Faream. Kraaoh Offices: im.i 4110 North 14 Park Henaon 1U Mllltarf Are. South Bide Ouncll Blulfi S4 N. Main I Vinton Lata Mil North Mta I Walnut Out-of-Town Omcesi New York CIV 189 Plfth Ara. I Washington Chicago Seeger Bid. I Lincoln J815 LeeTsnworth. 3318 N Street. J167 South 16th 81 North 40th. 1311 O Street. 1330 K Street. APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65, 830 Sunday 63,444 Ararat, circulation for the month subscribed and worn to by 2. R. Bagau. Circulation Manager. Subscribers leaving tha city should have) The Bea nailed ta them. Address changed aa often aa requested. June is all right, but may be too fervid. German honor got ample "vindication" at Scapa Flow. One good way to combat the weather is to v keep your temper. The American Legion is as loyal now as when its members were in the army. Gemenceau is inclined to gloat a little, but under the circumstances will be excused. Do not get excited. Germany ,will send someone to Versailles with full authority to sign. If the senate's plans go through, Uncle Sam will be able to provide his own flying machines in the future. It was. a man of course who said that woman delayed voting on account of the heat. As if that really mattered. "Yielding to superior force," the Germans accept the terms laid down by the victors, but how different it is from Brest-Litovsk. f , Dan Butler says the confidential letter does ' not refer to him, but he will reply, just the v t . i. i i i .1 j : same, at is guuu iiut wcaiucr mvcrsiuii. , Looks like congress will pass a bone-dry bill with teeth in it. "Booze-hounds" are assured of steady employment for some time ahead. Evidently the pigs have not yet been told that peace is about to be declared, as the sky ward mount of pork on the hoof continues. While we are voting money for extending the county's good road system, the city boule vards ought not to be permitted to run down. Now is the time for all good men to get in line with The Bee's fund for free ice and milk for the babies. It is more than Parity it is an obligation. ' Neither side to. the argument will get much consolation ' from the Fergus Falls disaster. While the tornado destroyed the churches, it also blew down the brewery. Premature Fourth of July celebrations have already given the firemen quite a little bit of work. Wonder when the police will get around to giving attention to real local issues? One thing about an extra session of the leg islature in July is quite certain in advance. The members will not stay in Lincoln any longer than is absolutely required to do the job. ' If it took four weeks to discover that the tragedy at Riverview park was caused by the little girls overloading their frail skiff, how long will it take to find out who was responsible for their being allowed to crowd into the leaky craft that capsized with them? Students at the dental college of the Uni versity of Nebraska who sought to lighten their examination for degrees by "cribbing" the ques tions have paid a penalty that should serve them well as a lesson. Nothing real is gained in this life through dishonesty. A female of the species some time ago de clared that nearly all men were bad, and now a male of the same genus comes out with the assertion that practically all women are un worthy. Merely proving that the fool-killer has overlooked two ripe ones right here in Omaha. Two thousand late residents of the United States are about to take an excursion to Ger many at the expense of Uncle Sam, whose guests they have been for the last two years. Perhaps after they have spent a few months in Germany under the new conditions, they will appreciate some of the advantages they have de liberately forfeited in America. Necessity of . Sunday Papers ' ' In the discussions recently concerning the Sunday newspapers a religious organization having proposed a resolution to oppose the Sunday paper one of the ministers cautioned ' the assembly against taking radical action upon ' the question. "Let us be sensible about this matter" he said. The Sunday newspaper is - just as necessary as the Sunday trolley, which you attempted to condemn years ago.? He went on to show that the necessity of the Sunday paper had been amply demonstrated during the war. s . The one thing which many people fail to recognize is the fact that the Sunday newspaper is made Saturday night and not on Sunday. , There would be more logic in opposing the Monday morning paper than opposing the Sun i. day morning newspaper, if one were thinking only of preventing labor on the Sabbath. But it really makes little difference about the discussions. The Sunday newspaper has v established its place nd it hasn't harmed the churches either. It is going to remain in its place, too, regardless of all discussions. It is now championed by many of the ablest as well as many of the most : religious minds in the world, and any organization that opposes it is ;in1 (ierhtina- the elements themselves or they might as well fight the elements. To be deprived of the news of the world for one day a week is to be one-seventh ignorant And to fail to read the great Sunday newspapers with their additional features besides the news is to be more than one-seventh behind in the matter of spirituality .-Columbus Dispatch, - PEACE AND THE NEAR FUTURE. Germany's expressed willingness to sign the peace treaty prepared at Paris ends the tension that was felt as to the outcome of the major negotiations. It was well understood from the date of the armistice that the German govern ment would in the end be compelled to accept whatever terms the victorious allies required. Whether this would come without further mili tary operations has not been so certain. Now the armies will be needed only for such time as will elapse before the German government has been put on a stable footing and the orderly processes of carrying out the obligations of the pact are fully established. How long this will take may not now be stated, but until it is brought to pass, the "watch on the Rhine" must be maintained for the safety of all. Other matters of serious import are crop ping out. The dissatisfaction of certain of the smaller nations with results attained is openly expressed. Certain of these threaten to form a coalition against the so-called "Big Five," in tending to resistin some way the settlements proposed. How serious this may become is a subject for speculation, but it will be more of an annoyance than a menace, because of the weak ness of the group involved. A combination resting solely on a foundation of unsatisfied selfish ambitions is not likely to make great headway agains the powerful nations of the world in their program for unity. Such tur bulence is not surprising, however, coming as it does as the aftermath of an upheaval so colossal. Interest in the peace treaty, so far as Amer icans are concerned, will now be transferred from Versailles to Washington. The document must be presented to the senate for formal consideration. As yet only one thing is fully settled. The American people want peace. They are willing to give a trial to anything short of actual surrender of national sovereignty that promises peace. On this feeling rests the strength of the president's position. Out of it will come a situation that may produce such a composition of views as will end in a treaty more completely satisfactory and serviceable than is offered. Steadying down is what the country needs just now, not the high-powered agitation that keeps all the citizens in a semi-frenzy of ap prehension. America is the 5nly strong gov ernment today whose stability may be relied upon. It is not a time to rock the boat. The "Sympathetic" Strike. Action by the American Federation of Labor on Monday is commended to the unions in Omaha. Delegates to the great labor con gress, by a'decisive majority, amended its con stitution to provide for the revocation of the charter of a city central labor union that calls a general or sympathetic strike without specific authorization from the great national and in ternationl unions interested. This is to prevent the interference with contracts made in good faith. Labor organizations that go on strike do so usually with the approval of the general union of which they are a part, but this does not carry with it the right to call on other unions, only indirectly or remotely involved, to violate working agreements or contracts by joining in the sympathetic strike. For the mat ter of that the general strike has been exploded by recent experience in Seattle, Winnipeg, and other places where it has been tried. The out come has been disastrous and without benefit to either side. Thoughtful leaders of laborv recognize this7 and therefore have put the ban on the general strike, save in the most extreme cases. Shorter Work-Day for Mother. Omaha housewives are brought to consider ation of the eight-hour day for domestic serv ants. All the well known arguments for the innovation are presented here, just as they have been elsewhere, and the experiment will very likely be tried. It leaves the greatest element of the problem untouched. Those who can af ford to keep servants may be able to adjust their household arrangements to meet the con dition proposed, but how about the households where no servants are kept? These are in the majority, and in them the housework, whether pleasure or drudgery, is dorie by mother. She still is required to be stirring long before the whistle blows in the morning, that her man may be sent away to his day's work with a good breakfast. And equally, after he has finished his eight-hour stint on the job, mother must greet him at home not only with a smile but with a well-cooked meal. It is not needed to recapitu late the endless round of little and big things that fill in her daily program. She is at work before the bread-winner starts his day, and she is .going after he has finished his evening meal and is taking his rest. No eight-hour schedule for her. When the day has-been reformed for all others, and everything settled to the suiting of the workers for wages, some consideration should be given to mother, who toils for her board and clothes, in addition to the joy ot seeing her home well kept and her loved ones happy. Sound Law on Ballots. The Nebraska supreme court has just ruled that names may be written on the primary ballot and such votes be counted. This de cision seems sound from all angles. To have held otherwise would have destroyed the pur pose of the law entirely. It must always hap pen that voters may prefer some one whose name has not been formally presentd to one who has, and these are clearly inside their legal rights when they give expression to their perfer ence by writing in a name. In the past real emergencies have arisen in Nebraska when the electorate would have been outraged had not the voters been accorded this opportunity to make a choice and select someone whose name had not been printed on the official ballot The purpose of the direct primary has been under stood to be that of giving the freest possible latitude in the nomination of candidates, whether on partisan or nonpartisan tickets. It is just and proper that certain regulations be made for the government of primary elections at which party tickets are being made up, but for the nonpartisan nominations no restrictions should be placed on the right of selection by the voters, least of all to confine them to a choice between names that happen to be printed on the ballot The odors from the East Omaha "hog ranch" have renewed their argument in favor of more efficient-means for disposing of the . city's garbage. - It is a strong argument, too. Unionism and Americanism From the Chicago Tribune. It is one of the most reassuring signs of these troublous times that bolshevism and anti American radicalism have been emphatically re pudiated at the convention of the American Federation of Labor. This body, representing the strongest element as well as the majority of organized labor, has dealt decisively with a number of proposals of the radical minority and has shown that it has as clear a conception of the fundamentals of American representative democracy and as firm a loyalty to them as any other assembly of American citizens. Organized labor, more conscious of its strength than ever, is also more confident than ever that the way forward for American labor is the broad way of American democracy. Organized labor, which has placed the American wage earner on the highest level of well-being of any labor in the world, is not likely to go wool-gathering for radical Utopias promising everything and yield ing only confusion and disappointment. It goes on. year by year, eaininsr ground steadily and gaining it without destruction, building, not tearing down. " The vote on the Mooney sympathetic strike was typical of this spirit, as was the speech of Secretary of Labor Wilson, in the course of ? , , ... r . , . wnicn ne analyzed tne meaning 01 tne siriice proposal, saying: "For organized labor to par ticipate in such a strike would simply mean labor was trying Mooney without the benefit of evidence. Very few of us are familiar with all the evidence, yet every workingman is asked (by the proponents of the strike) to make him self a juror. Justice cannot be obtained in that way." That was straight talk appealing to the good sense of every one who is not carried away by emotional partisanism. Justice cannot be ob tained in the Jong run by any such method. What would be obtained in the long run would be social disintegration and industrial paralysis. Suppose, for example, every time any class or group of men and women though the courts had done an injustice to one of its members it called a strike. Suppose all surgeons struck be cause a surgeor. was convicted of malpractice or of embezzlement or any other criminal offense. Suppose all grocers shut up shop when any grocer was condemned, or all Catholics or all Methodists when one of their faith suffered at the hands of the law. Why should they not, ,.if all wage earners stop work because some one has told them and they believe a man named Mooney, active in labor circles, was unjustly condemned in the California courts? Not justice but anarchy would result from the overruling of courts of law by factions of men and women. There is no class, if we must speak of classes, that has a greater interest in upholding the theory upon which all our liberty is based than the wage-earning class. This is not to say that courts are perfect. Being human, they have the imperfections of humanity. But so are the men who call and vote for sympathetic strikes. Courts are blamed for many things that are our own fault defective laws which are passed by ourselves. But certainly civilized man has not devised any better system for reaching toward justice than by law and courts to administer it. Our effort should be to perfect laws and their administration, but they cannot be per fected by appealing to the excited emotions of masses of people. The only safeguard of the in dividual is the establishment of a liberty founded on laws and a system of courts which shall respect the laws and apply them without fear or favor. Even then there will be injustice, but not the injustice of mobs, the blind folly of masses moved by factional emotions. We are living at a time when civilization has been shaken to its foundation. All society is being weakened by the disintegrating forces. We all need to think coolly and farther than the suspicions and passions of the moment and to hold fast to that which we have reason to know if we think sensibly is good. But the action of the convention in repudiat ing the strike was wise, the report on judicial construction, aimed especially at the use of in junctions and contempt proceedings in indus trial disputes, can hardly be thought well con sidered. Even if we concede that the powers of courts have sometimes been unjustly used or unduly extended, the remedy is not by disobedi ence but by legislation and, if necessary, by the ballot. DAILY DOT PUZZLE Thi Siom Age of Boys One of the chief joys in life is throwing stones it is not an adult joy. to be sure, but is there a man anywhere who did not once upon a time, in the dim years of the past, find pleasure in it? The younger generation is at it, exactly as ours was, back in 1882 or 1872 or whenever we were young enough to fling a pebble without getting a horrid kink in the right arm. By every brook and pond and along the sea shore, the small boys of 1919 take their stand and throw stones. Water for some reason is especially tempting to them in their exercise of this energetic art. It seems as if every harbor in the United States must need dredging by rea son of the stone-throwing propensities of Ameri-, can youth. To us, now that we are older grown, it ap pears a ridiculous, an irritating pastime. To the boy it is a perfectly normal and rational thing to do. What were the muscles of the arm made for if not for the swift flinging of "skippers" over the pond or bay. or the "shying" of small-sized rocks at telegraph wire to hear them ting? In our youthful days there were specialists in stone throwing, and we suppose they have their worthy and competent successors. These spe t'alists were far and awav more skilful than the ordinary run of boys. They seemed to be con tinually busy with their practice. There was never a moment of their progress along a coun try road when they were not induleina: in their amateur ballistics.-1 Providence Journal. Port the Prince Sailed From. The ancient town of Honfleur, population 9,600. Department of Calvados, at the mouth of the Seine, opposite to Havre, is ambitious to re cover something of the commercial and mari time importance which it enjoyed long ago, be fore its once spacious port silted up and de teriorated before the port of Havre rose into prominence. The Day We Celebrate. S. M. Sadler, abstractor, born 1854. J. H. Forrest, member of the Forrest & Meany Drug Co., born 1881. John Dillon, the celebrated leader of the Irish nationalists, born in Ireland 68 years ago. William H. Williams, president of the Wa bash railway, born at Athens, O., 45 years ago. Le Baron B. Colt, United States senator from Rhode Island, born at Dedham, Mass., 73 years ago. i Bishop William A. Quayle of the Methodist Episcopal church, born at Parkville, Mo., 59 years ago. Phil Brock, well known American light weight pugilist, born in Russia 30 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. The cost of sweeping the streets for the last month amounted to $2,494.81, more than has ever been paid previously. The new pumps of the water works com pany at Florence were placed in operation. Work will soon begin on the Walnut Hill reser voir. Delegates from 40 counties arrived for a meeting of the Board of Trade to consider the best means of settling up the state and at tracting the best people as settlers. City Physician Ralph is putting the members of the fire department through a rigid physical examination, . - . . , . 12 6 54 So 5 e 35 33 a 13 16.5 I7 n 24.-2S b5 28 'U, as 31 a 31 To thirty-six you trace from one, And you will see young Algernon. Draw from one to two and so on to the end. DREAMLAND , ADVENTURE By DADDY. "CINDERELLA'S RAUL." (Peggy snd Billy are Invited to Cin derella's ball, where the birds furnish the dancing music. Cinderella's princely bus band asks Peggy to dance with him.) The Dancing Eelephant. PEGGY gave a cry of Joy when Cinderella's prince showed her the beautiful glass slipper. It was so pretty she could scarely wait for the dance to end so she could try It upon her own dainty foot. When the final jazz notes had been chirped, the prince led Peggy away to a cozy nook, where he seated her on a soft cushion before sinking on one knee before her. "Fair, Princess Peggy, though you have come to late to be my first bride, still doth your beauty and your grace charm me," he whisper- Our Free 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. Contract W. E. C. Please answer through the columns of' your paper under the head of "Legal Aid" the follow ing question: I made an oral con tract with my father to remain on the farm at a nominal salary and he promised to deed me before he died 80 acres and let me share with the other children in the balance of the farm. Under this contract J stayed with him for nearly 10 years. He died without deeding me the farm. A lawyer told me that my contract, not being In writing, could not be enforced. Is he right, and have I no remedy? , Answer. Your lawyer misinformed you. You can bring an action and enforce the contract if the facts are as you stated, and you have competent evidence to establish your proof for what you claim your contract was. Fire Insurance. J. N. B. Kindly inform me whether a fire insurance policy Is Invalidated by taking out additional insurance without the consent of the company and placing a chattel mortgage upon the property? Answer. Under standard form of insurance policy it is necessary to get the consent of thev company for additional insurance, also notify the company before putting a chat tel mortgage upon the property covered. Landlord and Tenant. J. P. I rented a house for one year. I am going to move from the city and my lease has four months to run. I can sublet the place but the landlord refuses to give his per mission. Can he hold me for the four months' rent? Answer. The landlord cannot arbitrarily refuse to permit you to sublet the premises. Divorce. L. E. I have had considerable trouble with my husband as he ob jects to my going out with certain peoplt! that I consider perfectly re spectable. He insists that "he is go ing to sue me for divorce unless I choose other company. Can he di vorce me on these grounds? Answer. No. DAILY CARTOONETTE ed. "Tou rival my own Cinderella In beauty, lacking only her daintiness of foot. If you could wear the glass slipper " "Why, I'm sure I could," Inter rupted Peggy breathlessly. "It's not a bit smaller than my own slippers." The prince looked with pleased eyes at the tiny foot which she thrust out at him. - Then he took off Peg gy's own slipper, and tried on the glass slipper In Its place. It fitted as easily and as snugly as though made to measure. "Ah, you shall be my second wife when Cinderella dies," he cried en thusiastically. "She will wait a long time for that," laughed a silvery voice behind Peggy, and there stod Cinderella herself. "I'm going to live for ages and ages, so I'd advise Princess Peg gy to pick out some nice young prince of her own and marry him when she gets ready. As for you, my handsome prince, If I catch you flirting again I'll lock you up In your room and feed you on prunes and persimmons for a week." With that Cinderella, still laugh ing, but showing a disturbing Jealous gleam In here eye, lifted the prince by his ear and led him away. She left Peggy much embarrassed. Of course Peggy wouldn't for the wofld have flirted with Cinderella's prince, especially when she was Cinderella's guest, but the situation certainly did look bad. It was all the prince's fault, but then she certainly had wanted to try on that glass slipper. Peggy looked down at her foot, and there was the glass slipper still upon It And apparently the prince had carried her own slipper away with him. This caused Peggy to feel still more embarrassed, for how could she explain wearing one satin slip per and one glass slipper. A roar of laughter drew her at- HULLY rE6! LOOKA'TH'ROUll FOUND !xOSH I HOPE I TJONT WAKE' UP f I AMI 1 L II 111 IT f'j . f V I si I 'Jr rT7.-ZA I ' ' ' -- ''. r hor tkoye willing to pay the price piano value beyond compar ison is offered by the l!1;etnuli;niiliii It beauty tone it is recognized generally as having no equal. And its superb tone outlives that cf any piano bar none, Lt touch or action it is inimitably responsiw to any mood or emotior h ighe sf priced fft ana highest praised. Investigate and YOU will haxre none other. ' Collowinic la s llsf'of pianos which mT be s&en on our noon some of them we hart handled for 45 years: Krantch A Bach. Cable Nelson, Bush ft Lane. Kimball, B ram bach. Voso Soot snd Hoaps pianos. Grands and uprights at prices from $285 and better. rash prices or terms If desired. fcrsiPsS 1513 Douglas Street There .Was a Comical Elephant Cavorting Among the Dancers, tention to the center of the ball room. There was a comical elephant cavorting around among the danc ers. He looked decidedly out of place at such a party, but the guests though he was a surprise feature of the dancing program and they applauded loudly as he clogged and Jigged on his hind legs. Although he was big and clumsy looking, tha elephant was surpris ingly graceful, and when he Invited the ladies one by one to dance with him, they eagerly accepted. lis swung them around the ball room in .a Jolly, rhythmic romp that put every one In a merry mood. Finally he came to Cinderella. She was still a bit vexed at her prince husband, and as she danced with the elephant she began a pretty flirta tion. And the prince didn't like It a bit, for he chewed his thumb and fingered his sword as he glared at the odd pair. Peggy though he was silly to be Jeealous for, of course, the elephant was only an animal. Suddenly Cinderella gave a loud shriek, and drew back from the ele phant, staring at him with fright ened eyes. Then she broke away and fled wildly from the ball room. The elephant started after her, then apparently changed his mind, and seized Peggy, who was the near est to him. Before she had time to be alarmed he had whirled her into a mad, frolicksome, exciting dance that made her feet fairly fly. Then as he chanced to open his mouth, Peggy saw what had horri fied Cinderella. It was a mass of red hair hair that filled the ele phant's throat. In a flash of an eye Peggy realized the truth. The ele pant wasn't an elephant at all. It was a man in dlsgunsq and that man was Red Beard. (Tomorrow will be told how Red Be.M dances more than he intended.) 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