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T V THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JlLY 2, 1919. The Omaha Bee ILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY t FOUNDED BT EDWABD ROSE WATER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR fjTHK BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TS. AuoCtaUd PrM of arhlrh Th. Ru t. - mmIm la ... nuUt1 " U u" for publication of all newt diiptu-hu credited to It or not otbrwiM credited to thli paper, and alio tt tafjj published Benin. All rights of Duplication of our spe cial dltpatcliet ata alio reserved. BEE TELEPHONES! frieaU Branch factum. Art for the T"irlia 1 rtflfl Department or Particular Penon Wanted. 1 jrlCT A UUU ' .... F Nlht or Sunday Service Call: Fmtortsl Departmuit ..... Tyler 1000L. PlreuUUoa Department ..... Tyler 100RL. Adi-artlalpa- IX pa run ant ..... Tjler 1008L. OFFICES OF THE BEEi Jtom Offloa. Baa Bulldlnj. 17th and raroam. Branch Offlcea: , 4am 4110 North 34 Banana (114 Mlttur. A.e. Council Bluffl 14 N. Mala Uka Silt North 24to New Tort Ctt Chicago Park South bide Vinton Walnut Out-of-Town Office i SM Fifth At. Washington bio, i unculn 3615 Letven worth. 3318 N Street. 3467 South Utti 819 North 40th. 1311 (i Street. 1330 H Street. 2J APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65, 830 Sunday 63,444 Ataru circulation for the month subscribed and aworn to b E IV Btftn. Circulation Manager. Subacribara leaving the city ahould hava Tha Baa mailed to them. Addraaa changed aa eftan aa raqueated. You should know that Only three other cities,, in the United States have larger bank clearings per capita than Omaha. J Make it safe and it will easily be sane, it The harvest hand is the man of the hour. "It blesseth him that gives." The Bee's ice !! nd milk fund. Everything is all right in Italy again; they ire having earthquakes. "Democratic objection" is holding up legis lation again. It's a gift. It seems Kelly may be seen but not cap . tured by the police almost any time. Japan, denies any secret pact with Germany. The little brown man is not wasting time on ;mpty dreams. If the R-34 pulls out on time today, its pas sengers ought to be in time to help celebrate the glorious Fourth on this side. It Kansas merchants are closing up their stores is to help in the harvest fields. Trade may wait, t5 but ripening wheat will not. The "Tiger of F.ance" warns his countrymen they must work as hard as they fought. This is good advice for everybody. ;1 French radicals are opposing ratification of the peace treaty, and thus afford another strong vj argument for its general approval. : Denver also reports a sufficient supply of "oil of joy" on hand to meet immediate require f. ments. A mile high, but not so dry. None of the Omaha "addicts" has surren- fij&ifrtA because of the advent of the so-called dry spell. What, do you think, is the reason? . If von Bethmann-Hollweg insists on being tried, he should be accommodated. His "scrap of' paper" speech entitles him to some obloquy. The human nuisance who tears through a quiet part of town late at night with his muf fler cut out deserves any punishment the law provides. Atlantic City saloons are going right along, but the price list in force there is the strongest argument yet presented in favor of total abstinence. Kentucky dealers came out with 40,000 gal lons of the old stuff on hand after everybody had laid in a supply. The future market will surely absorb this. '3 I t :j . i ;i in t. ;1 Pork on the hoof has just achieved a new altitude record, selling for $21.75 per hundred in Chicago. Bacon will soon disappear from the poor man's dietary. San Francisco saloons closed Tuesday, but not because the counrty had gone dry. It was election day. It is just such law "observance" as this that brought the prohibition wave to overwhelm the liquor traffic. A detective captain is punished for miscon struing rules laid down by the chief of police, while detectives are exonerated for violating the laws of the land and the practices of com mon decency. Is It any wonder the police force is demoralired? Mayor Smith says it will not be wise to submit all the projects to the people at once. 'Principal reason is the ballot would be so long no voter would stop to read it. However, if some definite project can be formulated for city improvement, it will get a respectful hearing from the public, as did the county road paving issue. Stop blowing bubbles and get down to business. "t if Domestic Help Problem "The women -who can not get servants seem to think that old times can be restored and not ) to 'realize that the cooks and housemaids who went into the factories or into the employ of . the subway or surface cars were demonstrating discontent with household service and the ex istence of a revolution in that line of labor; they do riot appear to understand that if the -women who went out of the service disliked it, f those who come in will soon be equally dissat isfied; that discontent is in the air and old con- ditions will not be again established. - The employing housekeepers should have the intelligence to see that the remedy lies with them through establishing a new system of domestic service which will give the employes ' the .same leisure and independence of action they enjoy in other occupations. English wo . men are reorganizing their system with some success by using a limited time service. Other experiments are being tried looking to a better understanding between mistress and maid. In - short, if cooks won't cook under the old condi- - tions, newarrangements must be made for them. For many years employers of men have wrestled with the difficulty of keeping their workmen -.contented. Housekeepers will have to take up their phase of this problem now and devise a : method of getting together with their helpers nt wilt be satisfying to all. Indianaoolis News. EUROPE'S FOOD PROBLEM. Signing of the peace treaty has .not brought the chief of European problems much nearer solution. Food still is scarce and prices range continually higher. Complaint is heard from all countries on this score, and serious danger threatens the existing governments because of the inability of hungry people to get enough to eat. World peace problems have overshadowed domestic affairs in most countries, where now the people are confronted with the impossibil ity of making depreciated currency stretch over war-inflated prices, especially when these are further aggravated by peace-time tendency to profiteering. Food is available for the allied countries and the neutrals, and with the lifting of the em bargo, Germany will be supplied again from the outside and Russia will receive much that has been held back by the embargo on ship ments through Germany. The United States wheat yield is now estimated at 1,256,000,000 bushels, one-fifth greater than the largest crop ever harvested. In the Volga valley, according to reliable reports, the Russian peasants have planted enough to ensure a supply for their own needs, while the Siberian yield is also ex pected to be nearly normal. This will not af fect western or central Europe, however, where dependence is mainly on the United States and Canada for floor. Starvation does not impend, but short ra tions will be the rule till prices' are readjusted sufficiently to enable the workers to provide for their needs from their earnings. Industry is slow in reviving in the lands just emerging from the war, and the gravest concern of the governments now is to care for their own peo ple. How to feed and clothe the masses is get ting serious attention, because on the method adopted will depend whether serious political upheavals are to be prevented. Food not only won the war, but it will greatly determine the course of peace. Allies' Debt to the United States. Many months ago a presumably generous impulse found expression in the suggestion that the United States remit the debt owed by the Entente Allies for money advanced to prosecute this war. This debt now amounts to almost ten billions of dollars, the greater part of which is loans to Great Britain, with France as the second largest beneficiary. No intimation has come from either of the European debtors that such remission would be acceptable, while the British and French have expressly made plain that they do not expect nor would they wel come any action looking to the forgiveness or what they consider a proper charge against them on the war ledger. Frank A. Vanderlip recently made a state ment before the foreign relations committee of the senate, in which he said: "There is a dis position in those countries to feel that it would be wise and just for us to forego our demand for the repayment of the large amounts of money we loaned." It has been contended this would offset in some degree the greater sacri fices made by the Allies and serve to balance the losses in the war. Back of it, however, is disclosed the effect it would have on the credit of the debtor nations. A group of American bankers is concerned in the rehabilitation of the credit of Europe, a process that would be facili tated by the remission of the debt. Comment ing on Mr. Vanderlip's statement, the London Times says: We believe that no idea of any remission of loans made to Great Britain by the United States has ever been entertained in this coun try. Heavy as our financial war burdens are, it is not beyong our strength to bear them. We are grateful for the great financial, and for the naval and military help given to us and to our Allies by the United States, but we neither expect nor have we asked to be re lieved of our full share of the obligations we incurred in orde"r to ensure the triumph of the common cause. French sentiment has found similar utter ance. The great free peoples of Europe are not insolvent, nor reduced to a place where they dare not face their debts. The rebuilding of Europe will be conducted on a business basis and not on charity. League of Nations and the People. Senator Borah, in retreating from position to position in his campaign against the League of Nations covenant, has made a stand onthe fact that the funds of the League to Enforce Peace are subscribed to in a great measure by business men. Just why these should not give in this way expression for their desire to end war does not appear. Industry and commerce thrive better under conditions of international tran quility, and it is natural that the business men of the country should prefer, the activity of peace to the disturbance of war. In this they are in line with the people of the land, who earnestly want something that will make war as- remote as possible. Even the most en thusiastic champion of the league covenant does not ascribe to its perfection in any sense, the utmost claim being that it is a step in the right direction. Academic discussion of technical points will avail little now. The United States can not return to its former isolation, and there fore will go ahead with the other nations of the world in any reasonable experiment to secure permanently the blessings of peace. Omaha's Garbage Nuisance. The city commissioners are reported to be considering a plan to make a five-year contract with some one for the collection of the house hold offal of the community. This merely means to continue that much longer a condition that has been a menace and a bother for many years. Each summer trouble ensues over the method of disposing of refuse from' the city homes. The system now in vogue has been given a thorough trial and its many unlovely features are well known to all. Its greatest drawback is that the contractor expects to make a profit, and to do so he does not hesitate to sacrifice efficiency. He puts a penalty on house holders, with the consent of the city, forcing them to comply with rules of his own making. This alone is enough to condemn the system. Omaha is plenty big enough to take hold of this vital feature of city housekeeping and carry it on in a way that will give satisfaction. That an individual finds in the plan now pursued a source of profit is not a reason for its perpetua tion. It may not be humanely possible to prevent drowning accidents, but it certainly is within the range of accomplishment to put better safe guards around the places where boys go swim ming on hot days. American Manufacturers By National City Bank of New York. The United States is now supplying ap proximately one-half of the manufactures en tering international trade. All of the non manufacturing sections of the whole world are looking to us for a large proportion of their supplies of manufactures. Prior to the war the United States was supplying about one-sixth of the manufactures entering international trade; in the year which ends with this month we have supplied about one-half. The total trade of the United States in the fiscal year ending with June will be the highest on record and may cross the $10,000,000,000 line. For the 11 months ending with May, for which official figures are now available, the grand total is $9,lll,000,000gainst $8,949,000,000 in the full fiscal year 1917, the highest record ever made for an entire fiscal year. Thus the grand total for the 11 months ending with May exceeds that of any full year of the past, and should the June figures equal the monthly average of the 11 months already elapsed the grand total for the fiscal year ending with June 30, 1919, would be over $10,000,000,000. Manufactures entering international trade in pre-war years averaged $7,000,000,000 per an num, but with the suspension of exports by cer tain of the great manufacturing countries of the world, notably Germany, Austria and Belgium, and the great reduction in exports by the other European manufacturers, Great Britain, France and Ttaly, the value of manufactures other than war materials entering international trade was temporarily reduced, and the total value of the manufactures entering world commerce in the fiscal year 1919 is probably little more than $6,500,000,000, of which the United States sup plied about one-half. Manufactures exported from the United States in the calendar year 1918 aggregated $3,395,000,000, exclusive of those sent to our own noncontiguous territories of Hawaii and Porto Rico, which are not included in the figures of foreign trade. A compilation by the National City bank of New York shows that the exports of manufac tures from the United States has averaged $265, 000,000 per month during the 10 months of the fiscal year for which figures are now available, and in the latest month, April, were $290,000,000, thus justifying an estimate of over $3,000,000,000 as the record for the fiscal year ending with June, 1919, of which' nearly two-thirds is in cluded in the period following the close of the war. Quantities of principal manufactures ex ported in 10 months ending April, 1919, com pared with the corresponding period in 1914: 1919. 1914. 10 months i0 months ending April, ending Apr. Autos (number) 38,165 23,762 Cottons (yards) 463,802,327 353,048,005 Lamps (number) 14,896,707 1,962,100 Bar iron ((lbs.) 164,702,380 21,520,534 Steel rod (lbs.) 1,162,621,734 369,999,521 Locomotives (No.) ... 712 338 Gas engines (No.) 63,857 28,205 Nails (lbs.) 199,867,706 98,889,862 Steel rails (tons) 478,578 309,793 Sheets (lbs.) 1,884,579,968 711,577,071 79,290,823 397,040,554 151,679,005 319,247,788 157,600,577 Tin plate (lbs.) 451,518,409 Wire, barbed (lb s.). Wire, other (lbs.) . . , Leather, sole (lbs.) ... 44,991,238 23,981,666 Shoes, men (pairs) ... 5,890,485 3,812,240 Shoes, women (pairs) .. 4,175,473 2,899,564 Shoes, child (pairs).... 2,715,978 1,631,560 Condensed milk (lbs.).. 537,547,409 13,564,519 Printing paper (lbs.)... 325.977,770 97,668,530 Sugar, refined (lbs.)... 719,333,915 43,072,510 The nonmanufacturing are of the world, which was prior to the war accustomed to draw its manufactures chiefly from Europe and the United States, consists of South America, Africa, Oceania, Asia, except Japan, and all of North America outside the United States. Man ufactures formed, prior to the war, about 66 of our exports to Asia; 85 per cent of those to South America; 85 per cent of those to Oceania; 75 per cent of those to Africa and 65 per cent of those to North America. With the fall off of available manufactures from Europe, our exports to all those areas have enormously increased. Our total exports to Asia increased from $115,000,000 in the last fiscal year, 1914, to about $550,000,000 in the fiscal year ending with June, 1919; to South America from $125,000,0000 in 1914 to nearly $400,000,000 in 1919; to Oceania from $54,000,000 in the pre war period to $190,000,000 in the current year; to Africa from $28,000,000 to $75,000,000. and to North America, which also takes its manufac tures chiefly from the United States, the in crease is from $529,00,000 in 1914 to approxi mately $1,275,000,000 in the year whch ends with this month, and most of these phenomenal gains occur in manufactures. Food Trees On the Road There is substantial merit in the new law of Michigan for the planting of nut-bearing trees along the public roads. The shortage of wal nut, hickory and chestnut, is indicated by abnor mal prices, and the time when the supply will be exhausted is! not far distant. The Michigan legislature did not pass upon the entire subject of forestry, but it made a good beginning; and if the work of the State Agricultural college and the State Highway commission is thorough ly done the" legislature probably will be called upon to establish large reservations for the growing of valuable timber. In Michigan seeds and young trees are to be supplied and planted by the state as a part of the general plan of highway construction. An issue of fifty millions of state bonds is to be supplemented by federal and local appropria tions to the amount of 150,000,000. What pro portion of this is required for tree planting has not as yet been determined, but a few millions will go a long way toward bordering the roads with ornamental and useful trees. The plan is so practical that other states need not wait several years for an official report from the highway department of Michigan before taking action. They should lose no time in getting the trees started, for a state that has hundreds of miles of shaded roads has a valuable asset In timber and a landscape feature that provides the most desirable kind of publicity to say nothing of the added asset provided by food-bearing trees alofig the highways. Providence Journal. The Day We Celebrate. Elmer E. Thomas, attorney-at-law, born 1864! Most Rev. George, W. Mundelein, Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago, born in Brook lyn, N. Y., 47 years ago. William Le Queux, one of the most popular of present-day novelists, born in London 55 years ago. Crown Prince Olav, heir to the throne of Norway, born in England 16 years ago. Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, late assistant secre tary of war, now director of foreign operations of the American Red Cross, born in New York 44 years ago. Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, noted suffragist, .professor of political economy in the University of Wyoming, born at Clinton, la., 58 years ago. Eugene Black, representative in congress of the First Texas district, born at Blossom, Tex., 40 years ago. Likes Butler's Stand. Omaha, June 29. To the Editor of The Bee: When Mayor Smith wrote the letter that the city com mission was a rank failure he cer tainly hit the nail on the head. All but Butler. Butler showed his pop ularity and his honesty to the peo ple of Omaha when they gave him the highest vote, and hte depart men has been very satisfactory since he took hold of it. He should have been the mayor and he would have been a credit to the town, instead of the present mayor. He sure put one over when he told our chief of police to turn Kelly over or turn in his badge. To think of Eberstein being chief of Omaha when we have a man like Henry Dunn, who was chief before him. You never saw or heard of any of these hold-up, boot legger and false arrests. Dunn has more honor and good judgment in his little finger than the present chief has in his whole body. The idea of the chief of police trying to get this man Hegg to tell a lie on the stand. This man (Hegg) should have the general support of the peo ple and they should not let him go. Hoping the people will soon recall Ringer and Eberstein and put in Henry Dunn or some other good man,' C. C. CONNOR. Real Missionary Work. Seneca, Neb., June 27. To the Editor of The Bee: Some time ago I saw an article in your paper of what was being done by some Omaha firm to Americanize the Italians working for it. I thought it might be of interest to know that this great work was being done in our little village, too. Last fall one of our christian women, Mrs. R. E. Sayers, organized a class of Mexicans to study English and at the same time to help them to become christian American citi zens. She was assisted in this work by Dr. D. M. Sayles, but soon the epidemic of influenza and other stress of business caused the burden to rest entirely upon Mrs. Sayers, who has worked on untiringly, hav ing classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoon. The writer, in talking to one of this class a short time ago, finds that although he couldn't speak a word of English last September, he can con verse with ease now, using good and correct "United States lan guage." He tells me Mrs. Sayers has done all without any pay from any one. This missionary and Amer icanization cause is a great one. May others help in It. A READER. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. DAILY DOT PUZZLE "THE QUEST OF JOYOl'SXESS." (Peggy and Billy pursue Joyousnen up it mountain. Frowning mil and W'anlll Mywuy Join in th chase.) Aii Invitation to Dinner. JOYOL'SNESS balanced herself on the tip of a jutting rock and called back an invitation to her pur suers. "Are you hungry? Come to my dinner party. It will be ready at 6 o'clock." Then Joyousness took the shortest way down the mountain, flitting from crag to crag and skipping boldly across cliffs and sharp slopes. As she was light as air this was not particularly dangerous for her, but Peggy and Billy shuddered when they gazed down the dizzy heights and thought what would happen if a human tried the same path. "Dinner! I hope she has fried chicken and pineapple ice," ex claimed Frowning Phil, greedily. "Toot! Toot!" sounded the lo comotive whistle, and Peggy, Billy. Hopeful ' Smiles and Cheer-up promptly jumped aboard the train. "Are you going back that same long, dull way?" asked Phil. "Of course. It's the only safe way," answered Hopeful Smiles. I 3a I e so 346 & . V; '44 "5. ' IO 16 6 49 ! 9 1 1 5A ' MUCH IN LITTLE. An act which has just passed the Nova Scotia legislature fixes 5 per cent per annum as the rate of in terest on judgement debts. A British naval officer has in vented a vertical compass to be set level with a navigator's eyes to save him from leaning over to read it. For home use an electrical device to ozonize water and remove all im purities, which can be operated from a light socket, has been invented. The 18,000 regularly established libraries n the United States contain more than 75,000,000. volumes, an increase of 20,000,000 in seven years. Canton is the chief Chinese ad ministrative and commercial city of South China. It is situated inland from Hong Kong 95 miles by water and 112 miles by rail, and is located in the fertile Canton delta country, in which converge the West, North and East rivers. In foreign trade Canton ranks third among Chinese ports, being exceeded in volume by Shanghai and Dairen. Welcome! You Are Just in Time," She Cried. "But Where Are Frowning Phil and Wantit .. .. Frowning Phil and Want it Myway?" , , . IN THE BEST OF HUMOR. "What's the matter with that fellow on the cracker barrel?" "Nothing-. Why?" "Hs never opens his mouth. Ia he dumb?" "No; but he used to do a lot of arguinx In favor of government ownership of everything." Louisville Courier-Journal. Noodle wishes you to finish this picture. Draw from -one to two and so on to the end. Hobson That burglar client of yours doesn't seem very grateful to you for ac quitting him. Dobson lie says I proved htm so In nocent that his pals won't trust him with a swell job." Judge. "There's one trouble to these soft drinks." "What Is It?" "1 find 1 can't drink more than two or three of them in succession without wanting to quit and go home." Detroit Fre Press. Briggs I see the anarchist who blew up part of the attorney general's house was killed because he stumbled and fell. Griggs Yes; that's the trouble with them they haven't learned how to enter a gentleman's house. Life. "Smith wants a decoration for valor." "But I thought he never "went out to the front." "No, he didn't; but he says It took no end of courage to turn up at the club every day in uniform." London Opinion. "There are wild beasts and many dangers on the short path." "Aw, shoot! I want to go straight down. We'll be late for din ner if we go crawling along on that awful train." "Zowie! There you go again!" wailed Wantit Myway, turning up side down. Frowning Phil, as usual, turned over with him. "Toot! Toot!" sounded the whistle a second time, and the toy train began to glide swiftly down the steep grades. Peggy was sorry to have Frowning Phil left behind, but it really was his own fault. If Instead of always kicking and scowling he would learn to make the best of things, even if they weren't Just as he had planned, he would have as good a time as she and Billy. And they were having a good time such a good time that they shrieked with glee. The train ran faster and faster, plunging down steep inclines, scooting up steep grades and swerving around ab rupt curves. It was like riding on a huge roller coaster, except that they went on and on and on for miles and miles. Looking back they saw Frowning Phil and Wantit Myway starting along the steep, short path. Phil evidently didn't intend to miss the dinner party. Perhaps he would get there ahead of them and eat everything up. "Well, even if he does we are hav ing a Jolly ride," cried Peggy. "And I guess Joyousness will save a few crumbs for us," added Hope ful Smiles. Faster and faster they went until Peggy wondered how they were go ing to stop. No ordinary brakes could hold the train at that speed. But she didn't need to worry, for as they plunged into the valley, they met a stiff wind, which blew and blew bo hard that it slowed up their speed and finally brought them to a stop right at the entrance of a beautiful house. Joyousness stood at the door. "Welcome! You are Just In time," she cried. "But where are Frowning Phil and Wantit My way?" "They took a short cut down the mountains. Aren't they here?" an swered Peggy., "No," said Joyousness, turning her eyes up the mountain. "There they are on the heights and they seem to be in trouble." ' Looking up the steep slopes Peggy and Billy saw Frowning Phil and Wanlt Myway far above. They were sliding down the face of a cliff and trying desperately to stop themselves before they reached a ledge at the bottom. And no won der thev wanted to stop, for on the ledge waiting for them were two hungry looking lions. (Tomorrow will be told how Frownlns i Phli bumps the bumps and mlssea his dinner. ) 1 .1 . 1 otner piano, bar none. leauckers of voice or or irxs trrcxme ntej music of?en firtel tkeir Jravoriie piano losing its original tone and Resonance. c any. iano, bar " ' we supreme does not Kave to eJ exchanged tor & new instrument every few yezcrs. WjtK proper care, its matcKless tone and resonance improve with. age. itfsA crS ifo sXourytxr urvy, Following; it a list of piano which may be seen on our floors some of them we have handled for 45 years: Kranich & Bach, Cable Nelson, Bush eV Lane, Kimball, Brambach, Vose eV Sons and Hoipe pianos. Grands and upright! at price from $286 and better. ' Cash prices or terms if desired. 1513 Douglas Street. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Bank clearings for the day were $824,653.33. The police have appeared in their new sum mer linen caps. Of the 3,000 Omaha consumers of city water, 1,800 have paid their semi-annual tax, thereby saving the 5 per cent penalty. City Treasurer Rush sold $22,000 worth of district paving bonds. Corporal Tanner, G. A. R., lectured at Good rich hall to a large audience. Gen. I. B Dennis presided. L. V. Nicholas Oil Company Fremont, Neb., Service Station is our first step in local distribution outside of Omaha. 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