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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1919. m i i 1 1 1 ' L I , I PfffVffVVTT BOwa vuui-wrai r uroiiur snrt T.l.f .T.f.T-T..T.T.T.- a III The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BY EDWARD BOSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THZ BEE PUBUSHIMo" COMPANY. PBOPRIETQB MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tb Anocl4Ud Prass, of which III to li I nnbr. It ex etwlnly nmll la tb. um for publication of ell news di.patchai cntbud u It or not oUurwl. credited la tbli paper, and alio ' Um local gtn pabUibtd hnu, All titbit of publtcaUoa ol out acial diipetchu are also raemd. BEE TELEPHONES i PrlnU Branch Eiehania. Aik for lb Trl 1000 DaperUMnt or Particulaf Peraoo Wanted. J I VW ' For NIfht or Sunday Sot-vie Call! Editorial Department ..... Trior 1000L. CtrcuUUon IMparUMot ...... Tylar 1008U AdiwtisHi' Dtprtment ..... Tjlr 100SJL OFFICES OF THE BEEi Bora, Offlot, Be Bulldlof. 17th and Branca unices Am 4110 Nona 14th Park Itanana til Military At. South Bid found Bluff! It N. Main Vinton Lak 1S1( North nth Walnut Out-oi-Town Office New Tork City m fifth At. I Wuhmston t'hlcao Dower Blag. I Lincoln Fama MIS Loaven worth. ' WIS N Bit l. J487 South 16th. 81 .North 40th. Hll a Btraat. ISM H Btraat JTJNE CIRCULATIONS Daily 64,611 Sunday 61,762 Arta clrrulaUon for th month subscribed and aworn to by ., B. Bagan, Circulation Manager. Subscriber leaving th city ahould hava Tb Be mailed ta thm. Address changed aa often aa raqu.sted. You should know that Omaha is centrally located, on principal railroads and has splen did banking facilities. "Jitneers" are up against the bond again. The president has had his own way on one thing the sundry civil bill. French women will not get the ballot, but they will keep right on having their way. It is not easy to justify robbery, even when committed by Japan under guise of a treaty. New wheat is coming to market steadily now, a harbinger of plenty to eat next winter. "Count" Hohenzollern is reported to be ex tremely nervous. His day in the dock looms very near. - Senatorial callers on the president remind one' of old Omar, who "evermore came out by that same door wherein I went." " Italy's claim for territory at Tien-Tsin has been refused at Paris, the conclave evidently thinking that one Shantung is enough. Henry Ford's explanation that he talked so much he could not remember all he said will fit a good many other men less prominent. v Preserving New England's forests is urged, but it might be well to include in this all the woods of the country. It will all be needed. Twelve times the Mexican border has been crossed by American troops in the last six months. Carranza had better beware of No. 13. The New York man who got his jaw broken for mocking a stammerer is in a position to ap preciate the judgment of the little boy in the story. ' , In Chicago a woman has been convicted for killing a man without any provocation. But she was past 60 and not very attractive in appearance. "Mike" Clark seems to have some definite ideas on what may be done in his bailiwick. He will get plenty of support in his present stand, too. The new Pacific fleet will put out from Hampton Roads for its station on the west coast today. This ought to quiet a lot of apprehension out there. Omaha is joining in a general movement to secure improved mail service. But Mr. Burleson says he has no intention of resigning, so where ;l j A :a unci (lie puutic tunic in: Jack Dempsey is reported to be about to sign a million-dollar contract with a moving picture company. If he gets even half of that, he wilt never need to fight again. Rocky mountain forest fires are doing tremendous damage, with but little chance for Stopping them. Here is another proof of our expensive carelessness as a nation. It seems Lieutenant "Hardboiled" Smith was not so hard after all, a prisoner at Camp Jay being accredited with having beaten him to a pulp. That doughboy ought to get the D. S. C. ' The permanent rank of generalof the army for. Generals Pershing and March and of ad mirals of the navy for Admirals Benson and Sirrs is asked of congress by ' the president. The country will readily agree that this is little enough recognition for the services of these men. Concerning Visions - I am afraid some people, some per-v sons, do not understand that vision. They do not see it. The President. -' A good many persons in this land believe that the time has come to talk of verities, not ' visions. They confidently expect the president to come out of the clouds and get down to earth, where the rest of us are compelled to ' dig and delve to meet the taxes levied by a benevolent government. The American people are called upon to give their approval to a scheme of world gov ernment that looks like a surrender of some thing which they have ever held precious Americanism. It may be that membership in . the league of nations would not mean such a " surrender. It is clearly up to the president to show that it would not. One thing also is that - the American people are not particularly inter ested at this time in anybody s dreams. The vision our forefathers saw was of a "more perfect union" of the people; of a nation fhich might expand and grow strong. A gov 1 ernmeni was formed, clothed with power to legislate, execute and decree, not for the world, but for the United States. If the vision of our - forefathers had been the. world vjsjon some -persons now imagine they see there would hava been no American revolution. If "inter nationalism" is the proper -perspective, if for ; eigrj interference in our affairs is desirable, the declaration of independence becomes a dead letter. 1 . The vision that makes strongest appeal to Americans is that which Washington, Lincoln and ..Garfield saw a nation brought x forth on t this continent dedicated to freedom, liberty and justice for Americans and becoming . a beacon light showing-the way to patriots of other lands to do foe themselves.- New York Herald ' TWO OMAHA PROBLEMS. The ice and garbage questions; are not new to Omaha's summertime program. ) In fact, they are with us always, but this is no reason they should be permitted to continue forever. At present householders are finding some difficulty, in securing all the , ice they need. Wholesale buyers do not experience this trou ble. The municipal plant, set up especially to serve the small consumer, finds it more con venient to sell to those who purchase in ton or more lots, so the little fellows have to wait. Housewives complain of the difficulty en countered in getting' the household refuse re moved. This business is so muddled that the casual citizen does not know where to put the blame, being aware only that the system of handling the garbage is far from satisfactory. The remedy in either case is simple enough. Extension of the municipal ice plant, that its benefits may be reliably enjoyed by the people as well as by the big concerns will help in the one case. No .objection is laid against the ef fort to earn proper return on the investment in the plant, but the general public should have preference in sales. The service should be organized on a' delivery' basis, also. A better way than prevails must be found for collecting and disposing of garbage. The contract system as it now exists has been ex perimented with for many years, and found in effectual. Some one of many workable plans for handling the problem should be adopted. Far more people will be benefited by the erec tion of a garbage disposal plant and the or ganization of a collective force to serve the homes than will be affected by the erection of a new city jail or the building of a riverside boulevard. If the commissioners will take hold of some of the homely problems of "city life, immedi ately pressing, and give over chasing visions of the future, they will find themselves in way of regaining confidence of the people who pay the bills. Money for Railroad Uses. On January 1, next, only five and one-half months away, the railroads will be restored to corporate management. This process involves some very interesting questions of detail. Chief among them are those of finance and rates, the one practically including the other. At present the government is carrying an item of almost a billion and a quarter ofdollars money advanced to the different lines, in addition to an operating deficit of $400,000,000, which may be swelled considerably before the end. This latter item Chairman Clark of the house committee on interstate commerce says should be written off as part 6f the war cost. It probably will be, although it will stand for ever as a monument to commemorate the blun der made when the roads were seized. Such action will not sofVe the greater and more pressing problem of how to provide money for the roads when they have been returned to their owners. Operating expenses may be met by increased rates and by economies in man agement federal control has overlooked. This does not, of course, contemplate a reduction in wages. Nothing definite has been brought for ward to show where the billions needed for im provements and extensions are to be raised. Loans by the federal treasury is one expedient proposed, but this will not furnish the steadily increasing flow of fresh capital needed to keep the great transportation system of the country up to its best ability to meet demands for service. No single phase of reconstruction is more important than that dealing with the railroads. It is the very key to the industrial, commercial and financial fabric of the country today, and must be so dealt with. On the solution reached by congress will depend the course of business in America for a long time to come. Poland Starts Right on Luxuries. The government of Poland has forbidden the importation of all luxurious articles of dress for personal use. If any extravagant display is to be made in the way of personal adornment or individual enjoyment, it muse be of material produced at home. This is starting right in the direction of the economic rehabilitation of the country, People can do without luxuries until they are able to supply themselves with necessities. It has beeen charged against the British,. by some of their leaders, that just now they are heading directly for ruin through extravagance, and that the empire is in greater danger at present because of the habits of the people in peace than it was at any time while the war raged. High wages and high prices, induced by a plethora of money, have had much the same ef fect in America, and here, too, may be noted a lavishness of expenditure for private as well as public purposes that scarcely seems war ranted by the needs of the moment. While America and England, with their great re sources may be able to withstand the waste incident to the riot of high living, Poland and others of the countries of Europe are facing poverty so dire they may not be reckless with their means. Poland's example will very likely spread, and the work of building up that stricken region will go ahead faster because of restraint the people and the governments put on themselves. Socialist Opposition to Treaty. Nothing could more perfectly illustrate the Insincerity of the socialists of Europe than their opposition to the peace treaty. While embrac tng all the doctrines of pacifism, making great pretense of utmost horror of war, because of its economic waste of wealth and life, they strenuously object to the compact outlined by the Paris conference because it will "suffocate bolshevism." Bolshevism is intended to suf focate existing order, to establish a world with out wealth of any kind, in which today's pro duction will be consumed today, and each morn ing will see a new start made because nothing has been held over from yesterday. Ignorance will share on equal terms with intelligence, and enterprise and initiative must divide with sloth and indolence 'in this new world. The Marxian doctrine, as. expanded by Lenine into the dictatorship of the proletariat, promises a commonalty of poverty and the end of prog res. One of the strongest arguments adduced in support of "the treaty is the attitude of the socialists. The drys are not content with driving the steam roller over the wets in congress, but are doing it crossways, to make sure of flattening all the bumps ia the way of a bone-dry country. The Shantung Settlement From the Baltimore American. It would be well for the people of this coun try to realize that the Shantung settlement by the Peace Conference bears importantly upon their interests, although the apparent injustice to China is sufficient reason for this country to act slowly in giving sanction to this clause of the peace treaty. Experts who arrived in this country before President Wilson have said in their private conversations that the United States would do well to scrutinize closely fea tures of the peace terms, especially the Shantung settlement, because it has much more import ance for the United States than the construction that may be placed upon several articles of the League of Nations. Japan's agents in this country have sought to gloss over the Shantung matter, saying that the actual territory into which Japan hCs entered is inconsiderable, being simply a matter of about 200 square miles around Kiaou Chow, and that the remainder of Japan's benefits are in the form of concessions held by Germany in Shan tung. This is little better than balderdash, as every one knows that the concessions held by Germany were in the estimation of Germany little less than actual possession of the province outright. It is claimed by Japan that the term Shan tung has been loosely and unfortunately used; that another name for a considerably lesser area should have been employed. If this were the case, it is clear that Japan permitted the use of the wider descriptve term, so that later on it might make claims under the language as employed in the article. Japan also claims, through its agents, that the majority of Chinese of significance are wholly agreeable to the set tlement. China's agents here brand this as ab solutely false. Moreover, he efforts made by Japan to keep China out of the war and out of the conference and to prevent publication of secret and forced agreements that it had with Ch ina; with the threat of war if these should be made public will be recalled. Enough came to light with regard to this coercion for the world to realize that Japan was seeking to com pel China to commit political hari-kari. When the Monroe amendment to the League of Nations was under consideration by the con gress, the Root article and the articles framed by others we're sent on to the American dele gation. Intimations came from Paris to the ef fect that Japan would need to be placated; that it had a Monroe claim of its own. It was argued to be unwise to press the American Monroe demand, inasmuch as the league in reality ex tended the Monroe Doctrine to the world. At that time Japan was holding in the background, making observations only in the direction of its own interests; and, in fact, it had nothing to say at the congress except upon matters affecting its own aims. The adoption of an article to cover the Monroe Doctrine was followed by an announcement somewhat later of the Shantung agreement. It was stated that Japan stood upon honor, and, as a highly sensitive nation, with traditions of conduct that were unimpeachable; it would not tolerate a show of lack of confi dence, such as would be implied in demanding a time limit in which it would be required to yield Shantung to China. Yet Japan had taken Shan tung from the Germans with British aid, which aid was resented announcing a clear purpose to pass it back to China, from which it had been ravished. In western usage, when a man refuses to make time the essence of a contract, he is looked upon as a trickster, a sharper or a rascal out right. There is no reason to apply any other standard of appraisement to, contracts between nations. Mr. Wilson has been represented as saying that Japan would fix a time limit. But that it not the point; Japan has at no time been other than a custodian of the territories in ques tion, in behalf of its allies, and these are under bonds to see that the ravished territory is given back to China. Here, then, is Japan with the Monroe Doc trine tied about the finger of the United States to remind it that the United States must dare not demand of Japan return of Shantung. Japan will set up a claim of trust for the east such as the Monroe Doctrhie covers for the United States in the Western World. Have not the allies in their Peace Congress, made of the claims of Japan a regional agreement? And did not the Lansing-Ishii agreement define Japan's relations of interest in China through contiguity and give recognition in essence to its later claim for a regional agreement? It is now said that Mr. Lansing and General Bliss and Mr. White made representations to President Wilson to the effect that in their opinion the Shantung agreement did violence to the spirit of the peace treaty; and this letter or memorandum will doubtless be brought to light before the senate committee, if it, indeed, exists. Let Japan have its way and the United States will be blocked in China; the open-door will be padlocked, China will be reduced to a satrapy of Japan and the United States will have lost the friendship of the Chinese. This Shantung agreement is a pandora box of ills for the United States; ills that have not been half covered in this comment. Mr. Wilson should first be interrogated upon this matter by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. It is vital. It should be cleared of all ambiguity. How Roosevelt Will Be Remembered In a club corner, just after Roosevelt's death, the question was asked whether his memory would not fade away, when the living man, with his vivid personality, had gone. But no: that personality had stamped itself too deeply on the mind of his generation to be forgotten. Too many observers have recorded their im pressions; and already a dozen biographies and memoirs have appeared. Besides, he is his own recorder. He published 26 books, a catalogue of which any professional author might be proud, and a really wonderful feat when it is remembered that he wrote them in the inter vals of an active public career as civil service commissioner, police commissioner, member of his state legislature, governor of New York, delegate to the national Republican convention, colonel of Rough Riders, assistant secretary of the navy, vice president and president of the United States. Perhaps in some distant future he may become a myth or symbol, like other mighty hunters of the beast, Nimrod and Orion and Tristam of Lyonesse. Yet not so long as "African Game Trails" and the "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" endure to lift the imagination to those noble sports denied to the run of mor tals by poverty, feebleness,, timidity, the en grossments of the humdrum every-day life or lack of enterprise and opportunity. Henry A. Beers in the July Yale Review. 7T The Day We Celebrate. Prince George of Greece, elder brother of King Constantine, born in Athens, 29 years ago. Rt. Rev. John J. Hennessy, Catholic bishop of Wichita, born in County Cork, Ireland, 72 years ago. Brig. Gen. John P. Wisser, U. S. A., re tired, born in St. Louis, 67 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Joseph Garneau, just returned from a southern trip, has been placed at the head of the committee on out-door entertainments for the Merchant's Week association. Scholars of the Decatur street Baptist church picnicked at Calhoun. Miss Genie Kountze has arrived home from a European trip. Mr. W. E. Aninn, private secretary to Sen ator Paddock, returned home accompanied by his sister, who will spend several months here. Friend of the Soldier Replies will be given in this column to questions relating to the soldier and his prob lems, in and out of the army. Names will not be printed. Ask The Bee to Answer. Soldier's Insurance. We mentioned recently that 2, ftOO.000 soldiers returning from France carried about $18,000,000, 000 of government life Insurance, which they should by all melons con tinue under the favorable terjms of fered by the government. Of course that applies equally to soldiers who were not sent overseas. Altogether the government insured the lives of nearly 4,000,000 young men. That insurance is a social asset. We can not afford to lose it. The men can not afford to miss the un usual opportunity that the govern ment now offers them. While they are on the government pay roll the insurance goes on automatically. When they are discharged from gov ernment service it will lapse unless tney take tne necessary steps to con tinue it. The rather cluttered and chaotic condition that prevailed in the bu reau of war risk insurance is an ob stacle. With something like 4,000, 000 policies outstanding, under which many claims arose, the bu reau fell considerably behind, and a great deal of dissatisfaction resulted. Government is proverbially slow, but in ine matter or paying its admitted debts it is equally sure. Its nolicy- holders should not let annoyance at aeiay Diind them to the real ad vantages of this Insurance. As the case now stands some 4, 000,000 young men can insure one anothers lives, the government handling the money jnd the details without cost to them. If they drop out of this government-managed as sociation nine-tenths of them will go uninsured until, later on, obligations to dependents cause them to enter some other insurance association. If they already have the insurance habit when they assume obligations to dependents most of them will take more insurance. The question Is whether some billions of mutual life insurance, supervised by the gov-ernirir-n. at cost, shall be wiped off the slate. The answer ought decid edly to be NO. DREAMLAND ADVENTURE By DADDY. "THE NEW BEE QUEEN." (In last week' atory Teggy and Billy were turned Into honey beea through a wish given them by Bumble Bee Buia. After narrowly escaping being cobbled up by King Bird, Peggy finds heraeif drawn by aoma atrang tore to Join th lady worker bees.) Many Questions Answered. G. Ij. Repair unit 309, motor transport corps, is attached to head quarters, Third army at Coblenz, and is in the service of supply. No men tion has been made for this organi zation being returned at once to the United States. S. A. S. Graves registration unit No. 307 has not yet been assigned a sailing date. Camp hospital No. 85 still is at LeHavre, and is not as yet mentioned in orders for Immed iate return. It is announced that all these units will be out of France within 60 days. Anxious Sister The Sixth engi neers still is with the Third division, A. P. O. 740, and no mention is made of its being returned. This di vision is scheduled to remain indef initely in Germany. Mother We have no word that Camp hospital No. 85 has left Le Havre. That is the last address we have for this organization, A. P. O. 760. A Poldier's Mother We are unable to give you the sailing date of the 18th company, 14th grand divisiony It was still at St. Nazaire at last re port, A. P. O. 701. These units are being removed as rapidly as possible. however, and this particular one may be sent home at any time. Inquiier Transportation company No. 143 at Camp Dodge, Iowa. Minnie Military police company No. 4, which has been with the Fourth division, has been released for return home. We cannot give you the date when it will sail. Oscar The exact cost of the war is not known, nor will ever likely be. Secretary Baker is authority for the statement that for the 25 months the United States was engaged as a combatant, the expense was more than $1,000,000 an hour. Treasury disbursements during this period amounted to $23,500,000,000, of which $14,000,000,000 was for the army. It is estimated that the total cost'to belligerents will reach $186, 000,000,000, a sum so vast the human mind cannot comprehend ft. THE TRIUMPH. the that the From that Arch of Triumph they took the chains, Which had symbolized defeat. That In this hour of victory Of time's revenge complete, The conquering forces might march through And Paris's heart entrance, The while that every nation' vote Was shouting "Vive la France!" 'Twa long delayed that victor hour. Long from the bitter past ' When the Prussian's Iron heel trod down The nation's heart; at last 'Tis come; the Prussian's humbled might The triumph doth enhance, His doom rings out In one great shout . Which rises, "Vive la France!" Here was the pain, the suffering, Humiliation dire; Tet never through the passing years Was dimmed her patriot fire; So now la hers the triumph won. Hers the victorious glance Thrown back on woe forever past As the world cries, "Vive la France!" Baltimore American. DAILY CARTOONETTE. th I I I'LL TRY MY NEW J t r PcgBy Joins the Workers. ALL was fair and happy In Bird land. Melody filled the air as the bird's sang In happy rejoicing because Peggy and Billy had es caped being gobbled up by King Bird, the fate to which Judge Owl had sentenced them, not "knowing that they had been changed Into honey bees. And the breeze was laden with sweet perfume perfume that told Peggy Bee's nose that honey was Waiting foy her in fragrant clover. But it wasn't the perfume drew Peggy racing through woods on her bee wings. It was something in the song hummed by the lady worker bees as they buzzed swiftly toward the clover field something that she couldn't resist. "Busy, busy, busy bee. Never Idle, never free. Busy, busy, busy bee." So sang the lady bees. In vain Peggy struggled against the charm of the song. In vain she tried to keep her mind on the warning of Bumble Bee Buzz that if she joined the worker bees they would make her a slave, never to be free again. The unseen force pulled her toward the workers, as a magnet pulls a needle. On, on she sped until she was in their midst, hurrying with them to the clover blooms. "Princess Peggy, where are you?" twittered the birds. ! "Peggy, come here. Judge Owl knows he made a mistake in sen tencing us to be eaten by King Bird," buzzed Billy Bee. But the calls of her friends were swallowed up in the humming song of the lady honey bees. When she did not answer them the birds grew The funeral of today should be one of dignified simplicity. The modern age tends not toward a dis clav of show, but a auiet wealth of details that are not costly. Such a funeral we plan and carry out. N. P. SWANSON Funeral Parlor (Established 1888) 17th and Cuming SU. Douglas 1060 1 She Was a Prisoner of the Bees, and They Were Hurrying Her To wards the Hives, alarmed and their search became more anxious. King Bird was bad-, ly upset, for he feared that in one of his snaps at Peggy he might have swallowed her without knowing it. He flew back and forth looking everywhere for her. "Here I am, King Bird, don't worry over me," buzzed Peggy, but King Bird never heard her, for her buzz was like the buzz of the hundreds of honey bees with whom she was flying. He didn't know her, either, for all lady bees looked alike to him, and he kept away from, them, for he knew they could all sting alike, too. In the clover field Peggy went joyfully to work, and soon had the sack in her throat filled to the brim with sweet honey. All around her were other lady bees filling their sacks, but so busy were they that none had a smile or a pleasant word for her. Instead of buzzing happily from flower to flower as Peggy and Billy had done in their jolly fun, the workers went at their task very seriously, not wasting a second in playing or looking around. Still they made a very pretty pic ture in the gaily colored clover and Peggy paused to enjoy the scene. "Buzz! Buzz! Why do you idle while others work?" demanded a frowning masterful lady bee, giving Peggy a very ugly look. Later she was to learn that this lady bee was Busybuzz, one of the leading work ers in the hive. "I was just enjoying the view. Isn't it pretty?;' said Peggy. "What nonsense!" sniffed Busy buzz. "Bees are too busy to waste their time with pretty views. Get to work." "But I'm a visitor. I don't have to work." "More nonsense! All lady bees have to work," buzzed Busybqzz. "Not all. Busybuzz. you forget the queen,'' spoke up a worker on the other side of Peggy . "Maybe this fair bee is a queen In dis guise." "Don't be silly, Honeydew. She is Just a lazy lady bee," sniffed uusyDuzz. "But we might make her a queen when we drive our old queen out," whispered Honeydew. "There you go plotting again," Honeydew. And it will get you into trouble. As for me, I'm on the side of the old queen. We will take this young upstart into our hive, but it will be as a worker, not as a queen." "I'll make you a queen yet," whispered Honeydew into Peggy's ears, as the bees, their sacks filled, winged their way toward the hives. "I don't want to be queen, and I don't believe I want to visit your hive." said Peggy, hanging back. - "Nonsense! You've been adopted into our swarm and you'l have to go along." sniffed Busybuzz. And Peggy soon found that what Busy buzz siid was true. She was a pris oner of the bees, and they were hur rying her toward the hives. (Tomorrow will be told how Billy finds Peggy, but cannot rescue her.) "BUSINESS IS COOD.THANK YOU" -WHY- m LV. Nicholas oil Company V. .. . 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