Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1919)
7 - THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 10, 1919. ' 1 11 ' I I . I ' r . I . : i i i The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BT EDWARD BOSE WATER VICTOR BOSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TIM imlilid Vnm, ol whiea fl m mmnbtt. Is J jlmlwly ntuM to lh iim fur puhllrttloo of all nm dtmlcMs fronted to it or n otbenriM andlud In Uilt ppr. tnd alia lta local ten pablttlud brrain. ail rtfhu of publication of out portal dUpttetiM an alM rotund. BEE TELEPHONES i Print Branch Rtehani. Aik for tha Tvlf 1 OOO Dapaitaxnt or Particular Parana Wintod. Jrlr 1 WV For Nifht or Suodar Sarvica Calls tdltsnal Der(mu ..... I nasi. ... . Tjlar W0L. Tyler 16011. t'imilatioa Dapartottnt AdTarualnt Daiartmeat OFFICES OF THE BEEi Bom Offlca, Baa Bulldin'. lrti aad Faraaa. Branch Office: Amos 4110 North J4t Park Ks Uaruwnrth " lilt MlltUrj Ar. B,,uth Sid S31S N Stnt 1 1 ouM41 Bluff 14 N. M.m Ivintoii W South mh Ufc UltSmtb Mth Walnut sit North 40U Out-af-Toam Officaat Vow Tort Clt M Fifth At. IWuhinstoa 1511 a HtrcM , fhtoato Baaw Blda, luncoln 1330 H Strlrt JUNE CIRCULATION: Daily 64,611 Sunday 61,762 etrt-ulatlon for tha mnnih anbKrlbtd and avora to hi S. B. Raian. Clrrutitlon Manager. " Subacribara bavin, tha city aheuld hava Tha Baa nailed to thm. Addraa chantad aa oftaa aa requeatad. You should know that The population of the "Omaha Empire" is 2,850,000, with the buying power of 4,417,500 people. The mayor has started something at last. Seven-t'or-a-quaarter has taken reverse Eng lish in Omaha.. Pennies will go into the contribution box today, but not for the benefit of heathen in pagan lands. "Heaven will look after the poor woikin' goil," but who is taking care of the salaried man these days? Paying $18,000 for a boar does not look like a drop in the price of bacon were anticipated by the purchaser. Sugar took a neat little drop of 2 cents per pound at Chicago on Friday. Let's see how it affects us here. Yes, the strike of the street car men was averted, and Omaha is paying 40 per cent more for riding today as a result. A 17-year-old girl who has been married three times and now is in jail on a charge of forgery surely can not be accused of indolence. Railroad brotherhood leaders deny having threatened violence. No, indeed; their stop page of industry was to be accomplished pain lessly. One sound bit of advice given by the presi dent to his fellow citizens is to go to work. Production at utmost capacity is the only answer. , . , The government plans to seize, food when hoarded, but who is to distinguish between that which is simply "stored" and that illegally withheld? Icebergs and the like have been cleared from the path of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, showing what a grateful people will do for a iuture king. Omaha's "gentleman burglar" is in danger of getting himself seriously disliked. His activi ties, Jjowever, are not attracting much attention from the police. How high should a building go can not be answered by Abe Lincoln's formula for . the length of a man's legs, so the debate may be come interesting. The grain gamblers answered the president's message by pushing up the price of corn, oats and provisions. Evidently it takes more than -talk to influence them. Legal divorce mills grind along just the same as though there were no heated term or high cost of living or other social problems to vex of the late Colonel Mulberry Sellers' inven tainly ought to encourage the rest of the com munity. Railroad shopmen are getting back to. the work they dropped last week, and maybe within a few days they will realize how futile was their plan. Steady work will do more to stabilize the world of industry than any other thing right now. A Wyoming man announces a plan to store water for irrigation purposes by the simple ex pedient of allowing it to freeze as it falls in the winter. If he makes it work, he will have any of the late Colonel Mulberry Sellers' inven tions knocked endwise for profit. California's Wine Grapes It is said, and is probably true, that most of the sweet wine grape crop will be dried if the growers can gef the money to buy the trays and get the trays if they have the money. It is said that 11 cents a pound is offered by responsible parties in the San Joaquin district, where it is said that the sweet wine grapes will dry away at about three and one-third to one, at which rate there would be a profit at 11 cents for their dried product,. even including interest and depreciation on trays. Grapes which will dry away no more than that are quite likely to be bought by bakers as "raisins," to the intense disgust of the raisin association. That does not account for, the dry wine grapes of the northern and mountain districts. They are far more watery and are likely to dry away as much as the peaches, other than Muirs, which is around seven to one. That, however," eliminates the stone in the peach, while the grape seeds remain and are sold. We have seen no price quoted for dried dry wine grapes. They are pretty skinny things. Dried grapes, not sweet enough to go as bakers' raisins, are used for making wine. There is no law against raising, drying, trans porting or exporting them. It is darkly hinted, however, that many of .the dried grapes will never reach the border, for the revenue laws permit any one to manufacture 200 gallons of wine a year for his own use, which will serve fairly well if the family is not too large. It is also said, upon the authority of the State university, we believe, that an excellent syrup cin be produced from wine grape juice. And others say that wine for' domestic use can also be made from this syrup. We do not know how good the wide Is; but it is said there is no question about the kick. San Francisco - Chronicle. WHERE DOES THE PUBLIC COME IN ? Two points in connection with the local cost of living must have forced themselves on all citizens. First of these has to do with the adjustment of the dispute between the street railway company and its employes as regards the rate of wages, in order that the 7-cent fare may go into effect today. Under the protocol between the company and the men, to which the city commissioners subscribe, a working ar rangement is to continue for ninety days, dur ing which time it will be developed if the pres ent wage rate is fair. Nothing is said, how ever, as to whether similar effort will be made to determine if the rate of fare is reasonable or exorbitant. Likewise, the milk producers are organizing for the avowed purpose of contending with the milk distributors for a greater proportion of the added price of milk that is being extorted from consumers. In neither case is any apparent considera tion for the public shown. Both offer the" single aspect, that of a dispute as to how the extra money taken through increased charge for service is to be divided. Of course, Mr. Common People will have little, concern as to the outcome of either dispute. His sole inter est is that he be permitted to provide the spoil over which the wrangle takes place. He can not, however, escape the wish that some way might be provided to relieve him of the not at all enviable fate of always being the bone for possession of which the battle rages. President's Remedy for H. C. of L. The president's remedy for the high sost of .living is more law. To his single-track mind the situation presents only the one phase, that of necessity for concentration of greater authority in his control. This absolute de parture from the venerated traditions of his party must shock democrats who still hold to the tenets of state's rights and individual con trol of private affairs, but Mr. Wilson long ago set about smashing the idols of his party, and the sturdy blows he thus administers among the ruins of the temple and the dust of the demolished gods will -have little effect. It is questionable if the president's plan is either expedient or desirable. Ample power already is in his hands to proceed with dispatch against offenders whose guilt is apparent or suspected. Through the Federal Reserve board he can regulate public and private credit to such degree as will retard if it does not re move the speculative tendency to which he ascribes at least a portion of the trouble. The illegal and criminal acts he complains of al ready are within his reach. It is difficult, their, to determine how the addition of further laws to the list now on the book will help matters. The president's intimation that delay in ratifying the peace treaty is responsible for the situation may be considered a bit of inept special pleading. Americans will hardly over look the fact that six months were spent at Paris, mainly in framing a constitution for a league of nations which has little or nothing whatever to do with the settlement of peace with Germany. Connection between peace and profiteering is rather difficult to trace, par ticularly as the government has withdrawn from the market entirely as a purchaser and is now entering again to sell large stores of foodstuffs which were withhheld originally by the Waf department that the packers might be protected. The people will agree with Mr. Wilson that high prices are not justified, but they will won der how additional laws are to help when those existing are not invoked. Making a Great Mistake. If the call for a meeting of "people of Ger man birth and ancestry of Omaha and neigh boring towns" to form an organization to raise money to relieve suffering in Germany js well meant it will in our judgment prove a great mistake if it is merely a camouflage to revive the German-American Alliance or excuse to renew the cut of "kultur" in this country, it will be worse than a mistake. Charity covers a multitude of sins and is al ways a word to conjure with, but there is no more call for relief of suffering in Germany than of suffering in France, Belgium, Italy and other parts of the world. It is very well and highly praiseworthy for Americans of German or any other birth or ancestry to lend a help ing hand to relatives and personal friends in the old country but if, outside of this, the cry of humanity is to be answered, the war-devastated areas of Europe where what were thriv ing cities and towns are now rubbish heaps, where formerly fertile fields are nothing but shell holes and abandoned trenches, where everything has to be rebuilt and renewed, should have first claim next to suffering at home. The real mistake, however, of the . call referred to, lies in the danger of reopening the old hyphenism sore and inviting antagonism and suspicion of a divided patriotism from which burden the loyal American citizen of German birth or ancestry have been trying to get away. Charity yes 1 But let it go through the channels of the Red Cross or other strictly American organizations not built on lines of a foreign nationality. This war has shown the necessity for all of us to be Americans first and always, or its sacrifices have been in vain. Seven-Cent Fare for Omaha. Obedient to the decree of the State Rail way commission, Omaha will today enter on an era of 7-cent fare or four-for-a-quarter on the street railway. This order is understood to be but temporary, pending an examination by the commission to determine what if any relief the company is entitled to. However much the public is wedded to the traditional S-cent fare, none will deny that fairness requires that the company be allowed to collect such sums as wjll enable it to maintain its service, pay its em ployes living wages, and keep its credit at a point that will admit of its making needed ex tensions and improvements. The life of the city deplnds on having continuous and reliable service in mural transportation rather than on its cheapness. It can not afford to purchase low car fare at the expense of other features of this important factor in city growth. But there is an obligation on part of the company to deal fairly with the city, to make clear that it is entitled to have the increase in revenue, not merely to permit its retaining undue profits earned in fat days, but for meeting require ments of the present. Omaha will not grumble unduly at the 7-cent fare if it be shown just, but it will insist on being showr Views and Reviews Two Interesting Letters from Old Correspondence Files No one realizes what a mine of interesting reminders piles up in his accumulated corre spondence until he begins sifting out back files. As a result of going at this occasional job again I have turned up several half-forgotten letters that seem to have a renewed timeliness warranting putting them in print. Here is one from former Senator Manderson, written 'a little over 10 years ago in response to a message I had sent him at the time he was victim of an automobile accident: -Thank you fbr your letter. Although considerably bruised and cut over much of my body I am getting along as well as I could expect after that dreadful mishap. With this reckless driving of automobiles T)y the inexpert, there will come serious re sults and if by ordinance and statute the mat ter is not regulated, those who walk and use the old time methods of getting about will have to protect life and limb by drastic methods. No unlicensed person should be allowed- to run these ponderous and danger ous machines and no license should be granted to any but adult males, who have been able to pass a rigid examination as to their capacity, ability and knowledge. The fact that a man owns a machine gives him no right to run it and he should be compelled to pass the examination and obtain the li cense. Automobiles are more death dealing than revolvers and we protect Ourselves fronr the latter and allow the former danger ous liberty. The indignation the country over against the prevailing method of man aging the matter is great and is becoming intense. I have received numerous letters in the past six days that are most emphatic in their condemnation. I make this extract from one of my old associates in the sen ate: "I hope that the shock of the infernal ma chine may not bring you future trouble and the accident simply confirms my opinion as to the danger of the automobile. I don't know how the average citizen in the 'wild and wooly looks upon the machine as it rushes through the country, often with drunken or irresponsible operators, but be fore long it would not surprise me to read of formal action being taken by political parties to suppress what has really been in parts of the country a nuisance. At all events, something will have to be done to make certain the punishment of the thugs who race along with utter disregard of the rights of others." I hope The Bee will take the lead in de manding the passage of city ordinances and state laws that will remedy this evil now so pronounced. We all know the evil of reckless automo bile driving has in fact grown instead of dimin ished probably because of the multiplication of automobiles and that the lawmakers are still groping for the remedy. Whether they will ever adopt Senator Manderson's plan fof limiting their use to licensed drivers and whether this plan would accomplish the de ired result stil linvites to spepculation. Home Health Hints Reliable advice given, in this column on prevention and cure of disease. Put your ques tion In plain language. Your name will not be printed. Ask The Bee to Help You. Federal Building and Loan Bill Of more or less pertinence also is a ques tionnaire dating a few months later, sent out by Rev. Frank L. Loveland, then pastor of the First Methodist church, perturbed evi dently by the same old question why people are so worldly and churches so poorly pat ronized. Dr. Loveland wrote as follows: As a minister of one of the churches of Omaha I am desirous of obtaining the opin ion of some of the leading business and pro fessional men relative to the church and its work in this city. I am intensely conscious of the fact that oft times inSnisters have very indistinct, or at least vague ideas as to the real mind and attitude of the business world toward the churoh and ministry of our mod ern times. Personally, as a minister, I should like very much to have you give me a frank and open expression of your views upon certain questions that are vital to church problems in Omaha. I ask this of you for the reason that I desire to look at these problems from the standpoint of the business world as well as from the standpoint of the ministry. I assure you that I shall be deeply interr ested in any answers or suggestions you may give to my queries. 1 am writing to a num ber of the citizens of Omaha and their re plies, I am frank to say. will form the basis of a series of sermons which I hope to preach -during January and February. If it is not asking too much will you please give me a word or two on the'following questions: First Why do so few business, profes sional and laboring men belong to the churches of Omaha? Second What do you consider the most important work now being done vby the churches of this city? Third What do you consider the great est weakness of the modern church? Fourth What specific evils, if any, should receive attention from the pulpit? Fifth Are present day business and so ciety methods antagonistic to Christian piety and Christian propaganda? Sixth Is the modern church, in your es timation, fulfilling the office for which it was founded by Jesus Christ? Your replies will be considered strictly confidential and your name will not appear in any of the sermons which I may deliver from subjects suggested by these replies. Of course this was before Rev. "Billy" Sunday held his sinners' saving revival here and before the demon rum was driven out of business. Some of our up-to-date preachers, however, could probably ask these questions anew and secure data for another series of heart and throb sermons equally as inspiring and instructive. Jerusalem's First Mayor If Nathan Straus, New York's distinguished merchant and philanthropist, wishes to be the first mayor of Jerusalem, let us hope it will not be deemed an unwarranted intrusion in the politics of another community to express a wish for the gratification of his ambition. Mr. Straus, by a long life of service to this community, has earned a right to take a series of sabbatical years to devote himself to new usefulness, while being carried on our rolls as a citizen emeritus. In Jerusalem, which his benefactions long ago reached and where his name is deemed blessed by those who have suffered during the long night, he will surely be welcomed. It would be of good omen to have as the first magistrate of the new Zion one whose thought was not to- get something for himself or for hangers on. It has been the habit, and is still the habit, of some to "smile incredulously at the Zionist ideal. But its adherents were never as many as now. It is a fact of history that one group of the dispersed of Judea, even though living in plenty and honor in Babylon, were moved to go to the ancient site, then as much a mess of prostrate brick as Verdun, and did recreate the city and rebuild the temple. Thus was re buked the polite derisiveness of the best circles of Babylon. Even though Jerusalem becomes no great capital in commerce and population, it will have power as a spiritual capital of a sort much "ceded by an unquiet world. New York Tribune. Eugenics in the Jungle. Tribes we class as '''savage" may possibly be headed for eonie desir able things in a more direct fashion than we who call ourselves civil ized. This is the conclusion of a writer in Good Health (Battle Creek, Mich.), who describes some of the customs of the Caincang In dians of Brazil. We read: "In the interior of Brazil, in the midst of dense tropical vegetation and animal life, including swarming clouds of mosquitoes, dwell the Caingang Indians. They are a primitive tribe, coming into contact with civilization only casually and at intervals. But many of their cus toms compare, at least in results at tained, very favorably with those of peoples who pride themselves on their high civilization. They are a sturdy race, the Caingangs, al though their numbers have been greatly depleted by malaria and by certain of t)e white man's dis eases the comrtion head cold, for instance, and measles, etc., regard ed comparatively lightly by the white man. are invariably fatal to the Caingangs. "The most interesting feature of the Caingang tribal organization, from our point of view, are the curiously democratic manner of as sociation of the family units within the , tribe, and what can only be called a eugenic tendency mani fested in their custom of classifying their children at an early age in respect to their future matrimonial possibilities. The family unit ap pears to be the most stahlp link hn. tween individuals qf the Iribe. The I custom of polygamy obtains, as in I musi uaruarous (ana in not a rew so-called civilized) southerly peo ples, but the beginnings of a femin ist movement are not unknown to the Caingangs. Contact with the disturbing civilization of the white man supposed to be the cause of a certain turbulence among the In dian women that occasionally trou bles the calm of tribal married life. The women, perceiving that the Brazilian white woman is privileged to have a mate all to herself, have, in certain instances, rebelled at be ing compelled to share their hus bands. Ordinarily, when a Cain gang woman evinces dislike to the man chosen for her, to the extent of actually repelling his advances, she is chained inside a hut until she changes her mind. This is, as a rule, regarded as a good old tribal custom, by the women as well as the men, but recently an instance oc curred where a woman contamin ated, as we have said, by a realiza tion of the white woman's superior privileges actually committed sui cide rather than share her husband with another. This is said on food authority to be the first single instance of a manifestation of jeal ousv in the history of the tribe! "We are accustomed to thinking of Indian tribes as centering around a chief, primarily a war leader. The Caingangs acknowledge no ruler or leader, although they are no excep tion to other Indian tribes so far as being in a perpetual state of war with neighboring tribes is TDnoerned. They are really quite modern, not to say orthodox, in this respect. Their declarations of war are couched, in terms of extreme dis approbation of their enemies, who are sincerely considered by them as the lowest, most villainous of hu man creatures. Indeed, their method of declaring war, if adopted by civilized nations, would do away at one sweep with our widely con demned practice of secret diplom acy. The chosen emissary of war among the Caingangs, selected for his physique and powerful lungs strides forth into the forests and in loud and sincere accents cata logues the vices of those particular neighbors upon whom it has been decided to wage. war. If the enemy chances to be in the'immedi ate neighborhood, results follow rapidly. But if as not infrequently happens the objectionable tribe in pursuing its villainous course 10 miles or more in the distance, the performance has to be repeated at intervals until the words are at last overheard, or until the edge has worn off the Caingang anger, in which case the projected war lapses automatically. "When war actually takes place, however, the procedure, is no loss interesting and thought-provoking. The braves fight with long, polished poles, prepared especially for the purpose, until they are either ex hausted or extinct. At the psycholo gal moment the women of the tribes rush piors, and such as the vanquished o ie capame or so doing, depart. .So far as our informant a Brazil ian doctor, who spent some time among the Caingangs studying their customs knows, no prisoners are taken except the children. The em phasis on the children is what pri marily arouses our interest in this amazing Indian tribe. Thev are for ever recruiting th;- ranks from among the children of their enemies. J hey bring these 'foreign' children tl?e tril,e not after all s different from their own children, but sufficiently unlike to stand out distinctly among the regular Cain gang offspring, both as children and adults, even to the eye of the casual white observer and bring them up as their own. The small strangers are evidently .well treated by their abductors, for the latter seem . to have no difficulty in persuading them eventually to go into battle against their own relatives when the need arises. "This practice ofthe Caingangs of recruiting their numbers can not be considered as any sort of 'slave making.' It seems far more likely that the custom arises from a genuine concern for and interest in the future of the race. The classifi cation of children that we mentioned before supports this theory. All babies are looked over shortly after birth and placed in certain groups in regard to their future matings. Members of one favored group may marry a member of any of the other groups. But no individual may marry within its own group, in spite of the fact that the units are formed indeDendentlv of the familv relationships. Certain of the units are more restricted than others may seek mates from among one or two other groups only. Unfortun ately, the Caingang philosophy un derlying this interesting and unique classificattion is not understood. "Further study of these enter prising Indians is promised and we await its results .with the greatest interest. It would be of peculiar interest to ascertain Just what phases of heredity have appealed to them so stirringly as (6 initiate and maintain so enlightened a custom as the careful supervision of mat ings between individual members of the tribe." Omaha, Aug. 9. To the Editor of The Bee: , Hundreds of your readers will be Interested to know what was done at the national con vention of the building and loan as sociations. The paramount issue was the tentative bill introduced in congress providing for a Federal Building and Loan bank. It was prepared by a special committee, of which 1 was a member. The bill was the subject of a long debate, there being more or less opposition by members, some of whom did not understand its pro visions, but after the debate had covered the ground thoroughly sen timent radically changed and the vote of indorsement stood 164 in favor of the bill and 8 against. We had opposition in our state delega tion, which returned a divided vote of two for the hill and three against. It will be remembered that the state league in Omaha in May discussed the bill thoroughly as to its main principles, and decided neither to indorse it nor disapprove it. It was gratifying to me to have the convention vote to. continue in olliee the special committee which drafted the bill and which will work for its enactment by both houses of congress. It has bei introduced by Senator Calder of New York and referred to the sen ate committee on banking. Con gressman Nolan of California intro duced the bill in the house. Our special committee expects to be cited by both the senate and the house committees on banking to participate in a hearing on the pro visions of the bill which will give to the home owner the same privil eges enjoyed by the farmers through the operation of the Federal Iuid bank, in the sense that the securi ties of the loan and building associa tions that voluntary take member ship In the bank may, to a limited extent, be hypothecated with the government bank, which will in turn issue debentures, and it is thought that they will find a ready market In the big triist companies f the 6ountry, thus raising funds to meet the demand for money for building homes all over the United States. While in Nebraska we shall have no occasion to avail ourselves of the provisions of this law, owing to the fact that all associations throughout this section have plenty of money for meeting all loan re quirements, yet In many sections of the country the building and loan associations are unable to supply the demand for home loans. To meet this demand the bill was draft ed by our committee. Some associations not familiar with the provisions of the bill are apprehensive lest the law might af fect the operations of the building ing and loan associations of this state. There is no provision in the bill by which the federal govern ment will have any supervision over any member association. One of tho main principles involved in the bill will be that of standardizing building and loan methods in va rious states, and it is readily ad mitted by buildilT :nd loan ex perts that the Nebr.v i law on the subject is not surpassed by the laws of other states. The bill does not provide for an expensive organization. On the con trary, the governing board in Wash ington and the management of the regional banks will be organized along the simple lines of building and loan associations throughout he country. - W. R. ADAIR. When the Gas Failed The 7-Cent Fares America's Merchant Marine. Official returns of the bureau of navigation, Department of Com merce, for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1919, s'iow that on that date the American merchant marine comprised approximately 27,300 ves sels of 12,800,000 gross tons. De tailed returns of small craft frn minor ports not yet received will not materially change these figures. Omaha, Aug. 8. To the Editor of The Bee: If the street railway campany 'is to be allowed to raise fares to 7 cents, then" that company should be compelled to show a lit tle more consideration to the hun dreds of thousands of people "who ride on the street cars every day of the year. The cars should be stopped at every block for it is a sou.ee of great inconvenience to patrons of the company to be compelled to walk long blocks extra just to please some one with a silly fad. I have been told by numberless employes of the company that not one cent is saved by the skip-stop system and It is time the company was compelled to return to the old system of stops. Some of the mail carriers of Omaha have asked me repeatedly to knock on the sidp-stop system as I had done on the other silly war fad called the daylight system and I have told them I did not expect it would do any good as long as the members of the state railway com mission boss , the running of the Omaha street railway, in face of the fact that not one of the members of the state railway commission rides on the street cars once a year. It is time that the patrons of the street railway had the say and not a body of men who live in other parts of the state. If having a charter of our own will change the plan of the state railway commission in bossing our local affairs, then it is time a char ter was adopted so that the people of Omaha will have the say about the running of the street railway as they want it to be run. If the company needs the rai.se of fares so badly, then they should show the public a little more ap preciation of the patronage given them. There should be a demand by the general public of Omaha for a restoration of the old system of stops, and make the demand so strong that the unwilling state railway commission will have to listen to the demand. The people of Omaha have a good many votes and if the state railway commissioners will not heed the demands of the patrons of the street railway company, then we should remember them at the polls when they come to run again, no difference what -their politics may be. It is time the street rail way company was taught the les son that it has been riding the necks of the public long enough and that it is time they would show a little more consideration to the patrons of the company. FRAK A. AGNEW. AWAY OFF HERE. Awflv rtf K i . ... . -r tic, 0 iL ,sn t KOl . e way It Is In my homo town, j ,uat arouna a lot Anfl not feel guilty iiittin' down: lo those a-hustlln' 'way back there I may seem Indolent, I know, But now the time when I must sto,- And give my thoughts a chance i grow. All thro' the year T hustled hard. Hw hira, I can't begin to tell; il. " i y to wrk with morning sons'. fcarh night to rest with evening hell; There was no time, to think or feel, bo full my life of things to do, nut now away off here I paue And In my mind the soil renew. Th' ' the land of growing things. This Is the land of life and hioom, AnJ? upward, If you wish to soar. The air is always full of room; And way off here there is a chanr I m hoping go with all my heart That with thiae upward climbing things My sluggish thoughts may get a ftart. Away off here It's mighty fine Observing sunshine, rest and znl. But there are thoughts that now and then Into my inmost being steal; It is a wild ecstatic joy, A happiness beyond compare. A-thlnkln' of the approaching time "hen I'll be hustlin' way back there. BAVOI.I, NETRKLE. Hollywood, Cal, Aug. 3, 191 Omaha, Aug. . To the Editor of The Bee: As an old reader of The Bee since the evening of its first issue down in the old Red field building, I follow with pleas ure your Sunday column of "Views and Reviews" as they recall many incidents of a time we were all many years younger. Your account of the first balloon ascension in Sunday's paper was correct as far as it went, but as a pioneer historian, you will no doubt he glad to be supplied with the "missing link" as to why the bal loon failed to inflate and sail away to the Black hills as scheduled and as an old gas house workman at the time the following facts will explain the cuse of the failure of the contemplated flight. During the decade from 186S to 1878 the old gas house plant was a white elephant to the company and many old time citizens who con ceived the idea of operating it for profit, and if our time honored friend George Barks is as mentally active as he is physically vigorous on the golf links, he will recall the ludicrous circumstances on the gas house end of that balloon flight. Between the workmen and man ager, the late Frank Murphy, there existed a feeling of mutual confi dence and esteemjhat is too often lacking among workmen and em ployers; and fully realizing that un less provision was made in time for an increased output of gas to meet the increased consumption during fair week and the inflation of The Bee balloon, the writer conveyed a friendly warning to Mr. Bark, and Frank Murphy of what to expect if another bunch of retorts were not fired up. Mr. Murphy was disposed to act on the friendly suggestion, but was dissuaded from doing so by a newly imported superintendent, who posed as a modern Moses, but who really was lacking in skill to operate the old plant as he was in fact to gain the good will of the workmen. To crowd the retorts beyond capacity to extract all the gas from the coal resulted about the same as choking a threshing machine by overfeeding it, and the first night of the fair nearly exhausted the re serve supply, and during the next several nights the supply had to be shut off in the midst of the various ; TODAY The Day We Celebrate. Fred U Nesblt. president of the Standard Furnace and Surply Co. of Omaha, born 1861. Joel E Goodrich, president of the Goodrich Drug Co.. born 1862. It. c. Hoyt. clerk of the United States district court, born 1855. Associate Justice Joseph McKenna, oldest member of the supreme court of the United States in point of service, born in Philadelphia t years ago. Herbert C. Hoover, director gen eral of tho American relief adminis tration, born at West Branch, la., 45 years ago. , , Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark. U. S. N, retired, who commanded the battleship Oregon on its famous trip around the Horn, born at Brad ford. Vt "6 years ago. Thirty Years Ago In Oinalia. There was a cricket match at the fair grounds between All Saints church and Trinity cathedral congre gation. The swimming school recently opened on Howard street enjoys great popularity. Among the good swimmers are Misses Pollock, Nina Marshal, I.una Dundy, Agnes Reed Brandeis. l'undt, Bertha Meyers Lulu and Lydia Loring, Catherin Reynolds. Mrs. Kate Marsehner and Mrs. C. S. Poor.' Kountze Place Ijtwn Tennis club enjoyed a moonlight picnic at Lake Manawa. C. H. Salisbury of Chicago, one of the finest slide trombon.sta in the country, has been induced to Join the Musical Union orchestra and will hereafter play in Boyd's opera house. revelries to the confusion of all concerned and while the partial failure of The Bee balloon flight was a public disappointment it did not half measure up with the dis appointment and humiliation felt by the workmen, officers and mem bers of the old gas company at the stupidity of a boss with nothing to commend him but inflated egotism. In later years on meeting Mr. Murphy he never failed recalling this Incident, and on one occasion he informed the writer the failure of the gas supply on that occasion taught him the importance of get ting In touch with his workmen. WTT.T1AM TTENTON. 832 South Twenty-fourth street. tv every register, as tKrough? vM-u wic wiujie gamur or tone, transcervdenir pcxritv cwiu resortance is trie soul-satisfying gift of the ""JCMms ot Keenest and sSPSt most highly developed artistry Iu - .VA secret lies in the revolutionary ana epoch-maKinq "tension resonator" of this pianoforte. (axr an? en scJain 6o voce i 7- ' S mjraac or rone xrrouqM hyihis simple device? THE "TONAL RESONATOR" is on exhibition in our East Window. A call inside will enable you to receive full explanation. 1513 Douglas Street. The Art and Music Store. PARTICIPATING FIRE INSURANCE Liberty Fire Insurance Company, Old Line Stock Company, writes every known kind of fire, tornado, hail and automobile insurance at regular rates. After paying 7 dividend to stock holders, the policy holders participate in the profits of the company. Remember, it costs no more to insure your property in the Liberty Fire than in any other responsible company and you share the profits. $100,000.00 Liberty Bonds deposited with the Nebraska Insurance Department. OFFICES: Suite 606 Firtt Nat'l Bank BIdg., Omaha. Phone Tyler 3188. Fourth Floor First Nat'l Bank-Bldg., Lincoln. Phon B-4881.. AGENTS WANTED IN OPEN TERRITORY. T Safety First "Self -Preservation is the First Law of Nature." HE wise man not only protects himself, but with careful foresight, protects his loved ones by insuring hi Ufa in the Woodmen of the World n i Is Money alone will not buy life insurance. Good health is an absolute requisite to securing ib. No man has a mortgage en good health. INSURE TODAY TOMOROOW MAY BE TOO LATE! Call Douglas 4570 for full particulars. Jno. T. Yates, W. A. Fraser, Sovereign Clerk Sovereign Commander. Woodmen of the World Building Omaha, Neb. f MONEY LOANED on 1 OMAHA REAL ESTATE J Easy Re-Payment Terms Prompt, Courteous Service CONSERVATIVE SAVINGS LOAN ASSOCIATION 1614 HARNEY STREET Attractive Rate (Tbo Wo INTEREST NO COMMISSION
