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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 10, 1919.
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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.
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