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1 -THE BEE: OMAHA, .'.WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING ) EVENING SUNDAY FOUNDED BT EDWAKD EOSEWATEB VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEK PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETOB MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TM AsaeolaMd Press, of wbleh Tb Be I nbw. U o tlutlMlf aalltlad it Ik um for publication of U em dlapMche erariited to It w not otherwte -credlud In thii Dpw. ud lee tb local am pubUbl bmin. All rlfbta of pubUcatloa of our (MCial dlapaukw on Jto null. - T" BEE TELEPHONES i Prittta Branca Ekmhio. . Ask fee thTr1i 1000 , iHiartntnt or Particular Person Wuud. A J www For Night and Sunday Sarvko Call: Mltortil Dttwrtnwnt Circulation Department AdrarUalni Department ' Tyler 1W0L. Trior ivmu Tjlar 1M8L. OFFICES OF THE BEE Horn orrtct. Bet Higlldlat. lltk and rimin. Brucn times: Am 4110- North 24UI Part knwi 114 Military At. South Sid Council Bluffs II Scott St. ' Welnu Out-of-Towa Officaat N Tor. Ot J8 fifth At. I Washington Uhieago Seeger Bide I Lincoln 5815 UiTenwortn 5318 N Street 119 North 40th 1311 O 8tret 1330 H Street SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION: Daily 66,084 Sunday 61,893 Average circulation for the month subscribed and fwora to k R B Ratan, Clrcnlatloa Manner. Subscriber leaving th city ahauld have the to thorn. AdaVees changed aa aftaa I Boa aullad i required. You should know that Omaha grain receipts last year , aggregated 91,463,800 bushels. This year's record will show an increase. What The Bee Stands For: 1. Respect for,the law and maintenance of order. 2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime through the regular operation of the courts. 3. Pitiless publicity and condemnation ot inefficiency, lawlessness and corup- tion in office. 4., Frank recognition and commendation of honest and efficient public service. 5. Inculcation of Americanism as the true basis of good citizenship. The possible wet spell is shrinking fast. "Back to the mines!" is the order we are waiting to hear. . j Slowly the joys of life are receding; a deadly bacillus has now been found in ripe olives. ' Three goods things The Bee's shoe fund, Ak-Sar-Beu stock, and the school bouds push them all. " . , ,. Senator Borah says he is bewildered by the president's double-header on the end of the war. ' So are some others. i Mr, Wilson finds himself very much as did his .illustrious predecessor, Grover - Cleveland, with a congress pn his hands. . OUR ILLITERATE ALIENS. Returning to Washington after a visit of in quiry to Pittsburg, Senator Kenyon expresses sorrow and regret for the appalling conditions he unearthed there. He found thousands of aliens, ignorant of our language, our customs, manners, laws, government, and with no sym pathy for our institutions, employed there. This condition he says challenges attention, and must be remedied. Who is to blame for this condition? Surely not the illiterate aliens. Their presence has been known for many years. Long ago the "Pittsburg survey," familiar to all sociologists, developed the fact that in a region covering eighteen miles up and down the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio rivers a visitor speaking only the English language required an interpre ter to get about. This sodden mass of ignor ance has been increased rather than diminished in that line. Annually prior to the war . hundreds of thousands of illiterates were imported from Europe, to be employed In the great industrial centers, and no attention was given them by any one. They were left to herd in racial groups, to read, if at all, the papers printed in their native language, to preserve as far as pos sible native customs, and were worked on the old-time shifts of HI and 13 hours, with a 24 hour turn once a month. . A government inquiry reported on the situa tion of the foreign" laborer in America, giving official support to all that was brought out by the private inquiry. The effect of the prevailing system of employment, not in the steel indus try alone, but along the railroads, in mines, and wherever large bodies of unskilled labor was required, was plainly set before the people. And the people paid no heed. So long as these men did the drudgery for low wages, the pub lic, government, everybody, seemed content. I What effort was made to "Americanize" these newcomers, prior to the time we got into the war? If they are ignorant and do not un derstand our ways, whose fault is it? -Certainly not that of the 8,000,000 illiterates now in the United States, most of whom are centered in the states where the iron and steel industry is the leading factor of life. Americans have profited by their presence, have exploited them to the limit, and are alone to blame if the neglected element lias now assumed a menac ing aspect. Some better way of treating the foreign born coming to this country must be found. If the remedy entails a change in industrial prac tices, and it certainly will, the fact should not be permitted to , interfere with a reform that is for the general good of the nation. Omaha is not a bad place to launch a pies- i idential boom. Bryan aind Weaver both hopped off here. It is the finish that counts. Kingi Albert goes home with another dis tinction.V He is the only king ever permitted to address the congress of the United States. General Pershing is to inspect army posts and war plants, which is assurance that Omaha may as well begin preparing a welcome for him. Baby finger prints make a lovely wall deco ration, whether in dado or panel, or merely ap plied haphazard, but the Omaha landlords do not like them. t It will now be In order for somebodyito de mand the removal of Judge Wakeley, who has refused a request for an injunction against a floadRouse. 1 Omaha continues to lead as the premier "feeder" cattle market of the country. Exports from here in the last few weeks promise much juicy corn-fed beef for Christmas. " , Illinois high school students propose estab lishing a soviet to run the school, and the prin cipal plank provides for less work and more play. Why not cut out'all work and just. mon key around all the time? i. Even if relatives and friends did provide the $150,000 paid to free Consul Jenkins from the Mexican bandits, the fact that he is an Ameri can citizen and a representative of our States department ought to count for something. But will it? ' , It was the democratic senator from Ne braska who objected to a vote being taken on the passage of the prohibition law over the president's veto. His persistent misrepresenta tion of .Nebraska on the prohibition question has been consistent, at least. "As a result of several visits to Omaha," Sen ator Miles Poindexter has announced himself as a candidate for president, according to the veracious Washington correspondent of the W.-H. The scribe might have gone farther and added that as a result of several visits to Omaha, and for other reasons, his senatorial boss has, decided not to announce his candidacy for the high office. ' Ending Strikes ',' The difficulty of reaching any sort of com nrnmiao nr arlinermrnr in these intolerable in terruptions of industry is that the unions can not be depended upon to keep agreements; that . strikes have already carried wages up. and hours down till the employers are within sight ot the end ana ieei tnat every concession win be the occasion for demanding, more conces sions, and also, and probably chiefly the very ?eneral feeling that the present strike epidemic nas been fomented by the I. W. W-. the syndi calists, the anarchists and by every revolution ary element, and that the success of any of the larger, strikes would encourage further attacks upon industry, not merely for higher pay and shorterhours, but to expel the owners of the .plants. ' Of course, all demands cannot be complied with. The employers can afford to stop rather, than to run at a loss, and there is no use of making goods that are too expensive for peo ple to buy. The people show little disposition ' to economize, but it is evident that the point must be reached beyond which the employers :annot grant concessions, and they think that that point is very near. But besides the ques tion of what employers can afford to pay, there .s the question of the significance of these strikes. Are they revolutionary? The indica tions that they are are stiffening the resistance . . ,1..m Thmrm im at wirfoenraart tVplincr that if l 'I 1 1 1 V. 1.1. . . -. v. - ...... .. these strikes should succeed the results would go further than wages and hours. Philadelphia .Record. ' ' Disturbing Sir Isaac Newton. ' Having upset all the political, social and economic laws, theories, hypotheses and the like, as well as the sum total of human ex perience to date, the advance guard of the new world now hat extended its activity to the astral realms, and our relations with the uni verse are to be overhauled. An Italian scien tist, Prof. Maiorani, take up the law of gravi tation as a reasonable subject for revision, and goes about his moderate task with admirable zeal. Newton'i theory, he proclaims, is only an approximate hypothesis. It contains ele ments of truth, but falls far short of being exact. Without going into details or ' becoming dogmatic, we may congratulate Prof. Maiorani on having started something just as Sir Isaac did, that storied afternoon in the fall of 1665, when he wondered what made the apple fall and bump his nose while he was peacefully drowsing in his garden. Science has made some wonderful announcements, based on the New tonian theory, but may have to revise them, just as Plato's maps have been redrawn. The discovery of radium, predicted on a projection of the law of attraction to the development of the atomic theory of matter, resulted in a com plete revision of the theory and the practice of chemistry, but without disturbing the ratio of weights. Copernicus was derided, and Ga lileo had a very unpleasant experience, but it turned out that each was right as far as he had gone, and Maiorani may be absolutely correct An astute and experienced local, astronomer and mathematician summed up the case tersely and succinctly: "He will have to prove it" A Townley Bank Politics and Prohibition. The president has once more very deftly passed the prohibition buck to congress. His challenge was promptly accepted by. the house, and probably the senate will meet him half-way also. When the democratic congress determined to follow the lead of the czar of Russia and fastened a "war-time" prohibition rider onto a great appropriation bill, it was allowed to go I by, for the fervor with which people( entered the war led to a general resolve to do anything that might aid in winning it. No provision was made for enforcing the policy, and it was under stood that when peace was declared the amend ment would become inoperative. The drys zealqusly pursued their advantage, and an amendment to the constitution providing for nation-wide prohibition went through a-whoop-ing and was adopted by the states in a scramble as to which would be first to endorse. Then came the armistice and a possible hiatus between the ending of the temporary and the beginning of the permanent dry spell. The democrats allowed the situation to ride along, most folks believing that with demobil ization the president would proclaim a truce in the drouth, which was not to set in prior to July 1, almost eight months after the fighting had stopped. But Mr. Wilson liad other views. He asked a republican cpngress to repeal this portion of his party's legislation. So long as a state of war continues, the president is clothed with extraordinary power, which he appears loath to relinquish. The army has been de mobilized, the navy has gone out of . commis sion, commerce is, resumed with our late enemies, and everything points to peace save the technicality of ratifying a treaty. Therefore, a "state of war" prevails, and the drouth that set in sdme places on July 1 continues. The attorney general pleaded the need of proper statute law for the enforcement of the policy. This congress has undertaken to sup ply, but the president yet demands that it pass the repealing act he proposed in June. He will .thus be relieved of the necessity of proclaiming the war at an end, and a consequent termination of all the great extra-constitutional power he now wields. If the senate views the situation as did the house, the bibulous will have to look to the president, for relief, or go 'without egg nog on Thanksgiving, j ( ... From the New York Times. ' . Just three weeks ago the Scandinavian American bank at Fargo, N. D., was declared insolvent by the state banking board and was put into the hands of a receiver. This bank existed mainly for the benefit of Mr. Townley's Farmers' Nonpartisan - league and divers and sundry political-financial concerns jn which the aspiring genius of that illustrious socialist finds manifestation. The league and its subsidiaries owed the bank $432,060. The bank had liabili ties of $1,106,000, of which nearly $735,000 was lent in excess of its lawful capacity. Much of the collateral was of the queerest. In the case of the Nonpartisan league and its. units post dated checks, not in the keeping of the bank, were the insecurity. " "A vast, unwieldy, finan cial monstrosity unable to take care of itself," said the assistant attorney general. To the irrepressible . Mr. Townley, inex haustible in hope and resources, the closing of the bank was "just another attempt by our po litical enemies to ruin the farmers, this time through their pocketbooks, and it can't be done. The attorney general and the secretary of state, elected on the Nonpartisan league ticket, which they have since renounced, were responsible for the closing of the bank, against two ofvwhose officials criminal charges were made. The governor, like them a member of the banking board, called the closing an "effort to wreck and destroy al farmers organiza tions." That is the note which Mr. Townley is bugling to his still responsive leaguers. The bank has been closed by the wicked enemies of the league for the purpose, of ruining the league. The bank must be reopened. Mr. Townley proposes to restore it. It must have a capital of $300,000. a surplus of $300,000. He is sure that it will have $500,000 of deposits on the opening day. So he gathers the league farmers of North Dakota and Minnesota. Those fortu nate citizens flow into Fargo in automobiles and special trains. Like an army with ban ners they march through Fargo streets. Mr. Townley turns his eloquence, his passion, his contribution-compelling suasion upon the faith ful. Resolutions of support rain upon him,. The air trembles with cheers. After the rally stock salesmen are at work among the farmers, sell ing them reorganization stock. Other honeyed persuaders induce them to make deposits, in trust against the great and glorious day of reopening. i 4 Mr. Townley is said to' have raised from five to seven hundred million for various league enterprises. No doubt h can re-establish the Scandinavian-American bank, but how long can that bank, or any bank conducted in violation of the elementary principles of sound banking, keep on its feet? And how long will it take the prosperous farmers of the league to penetrate the necessarily visionary nature, and to foresee the inevitable collapse, of a combination of socialist schemes, of state owned enterprises? Political economy and finance are disowned -and defied while Mr. Townley's "unparalleled aggregation" of socialist-agricultural "talent" performs in the north west. If one cannot imagine,Mr. Townley ceas ing to crack the whip, it is not hard to foresee the time when the box office receipts will not be great enough to run a Townley bank. In deed, a Townley bank seems to be a pretty ex pensive institution for the depositors. Will Women Vote Next Year? I Will all the women of the United States have the privilege of voting for presidential electors next year? Seventeen states have now ratified the equal suffrage amendment, Utah -having done so within the last few days. Colorado's favorable and early action is also expected, so that 18, or one-half of the total required number, will be on record in the affirmative. The trouble is that not enough legislatures to put the federal amendment into effect in time for the national election are scheduled to meet next year, so that unless the woman suffragists are to be disappointed it will be nec essary for a considerable number of governors to call special sessions. "The question is whether a sufficient group of executives can be pre vailed upon to summon the lawmakers. J As woman suffrage is bound to come very soon, it would be a proper and gracious policy for governors and legislatures everywhere to acquiesce in the fact and give all the women of the country a chance to participate in the 1920 election. Twelve millions of them are eligible to do so, anyway, under state laws Providence Journal. Our Free Legal Aid State your, case clearly but briefly and a reliable lawyer will furnish the answer or advise in this column. Your name will not be printed. Let The Bee Advise You, Custody of Children. X. T. Z. The court in granting the custody of children takes into consideration solely the beet inter ests of the child, Irrespective of the wishes of the parents. . Marriage of Cousins. I. J. Please answer in your Fret Legal Aid column if marriage, be tween cousins is legal in- Iowa. If not, since when? . My cousins were married, last spring.. If it isn't legal, what can they do? Answer Marriage of first cousins is prohibited m Iowa. ' Federal Road. S. C. F. If a county don't build the federal road on the railroad right-of-way can it get its portion of the federal money and does the land have to be deeded to the government the federal road is built on? Answer A. It can. B. The land is not deeded to government Cfte VELVET t-K ivi ivi r u in A AA A. A 1. A A-J r. .' ' W B) JJrtfiur "Drooks Baker JOHN H. BEVERIDGE. The lessons which humanity has garnered from the past are predisposed to leaking and to leaking mighty fast. Old nature drilled her wisdom through the skulls of ancient men, but more than 99 per cent must all be taught again; for bangs upon a damsel's brow, methodically curled, are more attractive than the lore which underlies the world. The task we set the public schools is promi nent and tough. The intellect of juveniles is of contrary stuff. To mold it and promote it we require a man of parts, a Hannibal for strategy, an Angelo in arts. We find in John H. Beveridge a master of the tools for polish ing the infant minds which fill the public schools. For he's the chief and principal, the high and mighty head by whom the final verdicts of authority are said. He marshals the assistance of a thousand blushing ma'ams; he gives them tactful orders with obsequious salaams; he hands them fluff and flattery or mandates chaste and cold whatever they require to make them do as they are told. He wants to build a junior high; it is the modern trend among the horticulturists with human twigs to bend. To call a kid a sopho more when he is six or eight assists the spell ing of the word to settle in his pate. The kindergartens soon will ape the poses of the college, and four-year-olds will trmble under neath their weight of knowledge. v (Next Subject Everett Buckingham.) Will. E. L. R. Will you please tell through The Bee if one would make a will and have a notary public put their stamp on, would it hold in law and would that' be all' that would be necessary to be done? Answer The will would be void. Better secure the services of a reputable lawyer. Claim Against Government. H. A. Will you please answer in your valued . paper the following question of law: Two months ago, the 18th of this month, I ordered $68 worth of groceries from the government, through the postofflee here, and have never received them. How must I go at it to recover my money? Answer Write to the United States district attorney, Omaha. , Divorce Custody of Children. W. E. S. Kindly, answer the fol lowing at your earliest convenience: I. Can a man, whose wife has started suit for divorce, and for va rious reaHons wishes hearing of the case postponed, indefinitely, leave state . and get a j divorce from her wtihout tiling cross-petition in same state her suit is filed? 2. Can he compel suit to be tried sooner by filing cross bill? 3. If he has been ordered by court to pay temporary alimony and does not do so, can ail the back alimony be collected from him at a later date? 4. Has the mother or father the better chance of getting custody of a minor child? Answer 1. lio.. 2. Either party is entitled to an early hearing. 3. Yes. 4. Mother. , Artillery of the Plants. By ADELIA. BELLE BEARD. The bombardment is going on now, and if our ears were attuned to the finer sounds we could hear the boom of the guns, the rush of shells and the rattling of shrapnel as the artillery battalions of each plant army put down their barrage. Men did not really invent the gun. There were guns as. well as air- Various Questions. i L. F. F. Write to A. Shotwell, county attorney, of Douglas county, Nebraska. Ij. S. Impossible to answer your question without examining all the papers. : Ordinarily a provision of that kind is not binding. C. M. R. Write to United States district attorney, Omaha. DAILY CARTOONETTE. GfUE$5 I'LL PLAY WITH THE QLTJ CAT '3 TAIL1 n. r r ZD I I 1 J 3 L! ANDHEDIfl- WJTCM-MA2EL , MANQS our a or yKS TATTCReD, .' WlTCrt-HAML planes in the plant world long be fore humans had any idea of such things. And just as nations have fought to acquire land on which to start . colonies of their people, the plant armies invade territory where they cultivate new colonies of their ipecies. For that purpose there are artillery plants, which are supplied with guns that shoot. We call them seed-pods, or seed vessels, but why not seed guns, since they were the first guns on this earth? When you begin to investigate you will be surprised to find how many there are. As a child it was my delight to touch off the cultivated lady-slipper guns hi our garden, hear them pop I and be showered with their tiny seed shrapnel. All artillery plants do not need outside aid to fire their guns; many guns work automatically and, be fore ones eyes, they shoot out their seeds to an incredible distance. The wild bean gun (pod) bursts when fired and throws its ammuni tion into the air as the two halves coil and spring apart. The Chinese wistaria employes the same method with a wild scattering of seeds. But ' the witch-hazel,' blossom ing in the autumn woods, has guns that are veritable "Big Berthas in their long distance range. When the ragged battle flags of pale yel low blossoms are flung to the breeze the guns are ready for ac tion, and each little nut-shaped gun begins to open at the top. As it opens, its sides press in with such force that the smooth seeds are shot sometimes as far as 30 feet (Next week: "Moss Signs on the J rees. ) , Boys' and Girls' Newspaper Service Copyright, 1919. by J. H. Millar. FIGHTING H. C. OF V While hlnrh prices rul And profiteers pool. Unscrupulous they operate. How long must we stand It; Investigation we damand It; , 'TIs the people who "pay the freight." While congress dilly-dallies With argument and sallies. Great things they prognosticate. While they are still prating, The masses are waiting; 'yis the people who "pay the freight." Let there be n;w laws Without any flaws. No trusts, or no synilirate, U will stop this unrest And be for the best For the people who "pay the freight." BELLVIEW. The Day We Celebrate. H. H. Claiborne, attorney at law, born 1868. C. W. Britt,. judge of the municipal court of Omaha, born 1864. Queen Marie of Roumania, who has signi fied her desire to pay an early visit to America, born 44 years ago. Sir Conyngham Greene, the retiring British ambassador at Tokio, born in Ireland, 65 years ago . 1 Most Rev. ' Paul Bruchesi, Catholic arch bishop of Montreal, born in Montreal, 64 years ago. , . Maj. Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth, U. S. A., recently in command of Camp Bowie, borh in Lycoming county, Pa., 57 years ago. t Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, the new president of William and Mary college, born in Caroline county, Virginia, 47 years ago. George H. Tinkham, representative in con gress of the Eleventh Massachusetts district, born in Boston, 49 years ago. Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. Miss Clara Brown has returned to town. - Mrs. John L. Webster and Miss Webster have returned fronva four months'' stay abroad. R. H. Wicks, secretary of the State Land and Loan company, has gone to Pierre, S. The Misses Barlow of Colorado Springs are visiting Mrs. Arthur Remington.' Senator Manderson has left Washington for hii home at Omaha by way of New York. Established 1866 4 . . The Answer Leading Authori ties are agreed that the answer to our pres ent difficulties can be summed up in a single word-production. Greater produc tion in the factory, the shop, the office, and on the farm. Greater pro duction per man, per acre, per machine, per job. ; Greater produc tion spells plenty in food, clothes, rest and recreation. It also' spells more wealth and more happiness , arid the end of the pre vailing spirit of unrest. The Omaha XT ... 1 D 1 Famam at 17th Street Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000 ADVENTURES -THAT MADE-AN-AMEfUCAN DOT PUZZLE Stolen Ride on Mail Train. By R. S. ALEXANDER, Hunting Eye was standing at the railroad , station as , a mail train stopped. He had never seen an en gine or a train and was much afraid of this new monster. .But when he saw men moving about inside the cars he got back his courage and de cided to climb into a car and find out about the iron giant. v Barely had he crawled into the car and crouched down into a cor ner before the train started to move and he was borne rapidly out of the city. "Here, what are you doing in tins car?" asked a clerk as he pulled Hunting Eye out of his corner. "Don't you know better than ,to try to steal a ride on a mail trait??" "I got on to see what it was about and it started before I could get off." "Well, we'll put you off at the next ' town. Sit over there in the corner." The Indian boy watched the clerks as they storted the mail, taking the letters and parcels fr.om one sack and throwing them Into several others. k "What are those things?" he ask ed a clerk after the sorting was fin ished. ''Those arc letters. A person at one place wants to tell a person at another place something. So he writes it down, puts it into an en- tu'Hi 11 mil mi 'I li If lii jI Ffflwrln If i IX .' S II I I'M 26 . " ' 13 22 33 17. x u : It 36' 6 5 ' 7. 2. 4 6 I3 ! -. ICS Q 4B S3. 47 54 4a I'll not stop to tell a story, . Fifty-four brings ; Draw from one to rvo and so on to til end. x velope, puts a stamp on it and the government carries it where he wishes to send it. The government has a postoffice in each town where mail is received and sent out. "The sack of mail we sorted was taken on at the town where you got on. The other sackswill be thrown off at the towns along the way, They will either be sent on to" other towns or taken to the postoffice and the letters and parcels sent out from there. "Well, we are slowing down for the next town and you must get off." . ' : Much as he wished to stay on the train and hear more about the mail f-ystem, the little Indian boy had to get off and again take up the trail . 1 . 1 luvvaiu inc cast. 1. Who is at the head of the Post office department? 1 2. Do the states have any post office system? 3. How dors the government get paid for handling the mails? (Next week, "Hunting Eye Tries to Vote.") Boys' and Girls' Newspaper Servir. ; Copyright, 1819, By J. II. Millar. Boston Garter v &l 1 Yp O The Co-operation of Your Bank It is of the utmost importance to the growth and success of YOUR BUSINESS that you select a bank which will give you a great deal more than routine service. a bank whose officers and employees will show their ap preciation of your patronage by helpful, friendly interest and practical co-operation. i The United States National Bank of Omaha is an institu- W tion which strives to meet these vfh-. requirements and, as a result, our customers in variably receive the highest character of service that it is possible for us to give whether their business be large or small. 1 (fitL Hm-'MMA fix
